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* Please tell the Whitehouse anything you want them to do while there is still time: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

* "Resources for helping Gaza, Sudan and Congo:" https://www.tumblr.com/swallowedabug/758070860436439040?source=share




* "Israel’s move into Golan Heights demilitarised zone:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/SYRIA-SECURITY/MAPS/myvmbxdgwpr/#israels-move-into-golan-heights-demilitarised-zone




* "An elaborate global system exists to prevent famine. It’s failing.:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/famine-response-overview/

* "Hundreds of arrests and mysterious beatings as Georgia cracks down on pro-EU protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hundreds-arrests-mysterious-beatings-georgia-cracks-down-pro-eu-protests-2024-12-11/

* "Women despair over Taliban rules, but many Afghan returnees don’t see it:" https://archive.ph/QbWSV#selection-494.0-494.1

* "Ayman: Why did it take this long for Assad’s regime in Syria to collapse?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ayman-why-did-it-take-this-long-for-assad-s-regime-in-syria-to-collapse-226786373533

* "A look at the political storm caused by South Korean president’s martial law decree:" https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-yoon-martial-law-impeachment-turmoil-timeline-336b2e3defa5c4e36221ca08ae75cbc7

* "South Korea opposition leader urges president's party to back impeachment over martial law:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-opposition-leader-lee-says-impeaching-yoon-best-way-restore-order-2024-12-13/

* "K-pop light sticks fire up Yoon's impeachment protests in South Korea:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/k-pop-light-sticks-fire-up-impeachment-protests-south-korea-2024-12-10/

* These are refugees. "Dominican Republic Is Deporting Haitians In Trucks With Built-in Cages In Immigration Crackdown:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dominican-republic-is-deporting-haitians-in-trucks-with-built-in-cages-in-immigration-crackdown/ar-AA1vCCDL

* "Chinese espionage campaign scooped up data on thousands of US mobile phone users, sources say:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/chinese-espionage-campaign-scooped-data-thousands-us-mobile/story?id=116439853

* "The Hawaiians Who Want Their Nation Back: In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government. What does America owe Hawai‘i now?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/hawaii-monarchy-overthrow-independence/680759/

* "Ex-Judges Join Push for Biden to Commute Federal Death Sentences:" https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ex-judges-join-push-for-biden-to-commute-federal-death-sentences

* As of this writing, it's not the death penalty cases yet, so now might be a good time to let Biden know. "Biden commutes sentences for 1,500 people. Some say he could do a lot more:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/12/nx-s1-5226683/biden-commutations-pardons

* "Interior Sec. Deb Haaland - Honoring Native American History & Gift to Biden | The Daily Show:"

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* "FBI informant accused of lying about Bidens agrees to plead guilty:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/12/smirnov-bidens-plea-agreement-00194004

* "US Supreme Court may limit environmental reviews in Utah railway fight:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-examines-utah-railway-environmental-review-fight-2024-12-10/

* "US v Skrmetti is a public health disaster:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/us-v-skrmetti

* "Trans Kids Are On The Chopping Block:"

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* "BREAKING: U.S. House passes defense spending bill with anti-trans provision:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-trans-defense-bill-advances

* "Gay Democrat is lone LGBTQ+ vote in Congress for anti-trans national defense bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/chris-pappas-supports-transphobic-bill

* "40+ senators oppose anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion provisions in spending bills:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/senators-oppose-anti-lgbtq-ndaa

Remember how we spent all last year and the early part of this one fighting this sort of thing where they slip anti-bodily autonomy stuff into must pass funding bills?

Here we are again. Please, call your critters in the Senate, whether Republican or Democrat. Democrats actually had our backs through these fights in the last few years, but it's not guaranteed given the scapegoating in the press, so call Democratic critters too help stiffen their spines. Thank them if they are standing up for bodily autonomy; tell them your opinion if they aren't. Express support for trans healthcare as well as abortion

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/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

* Women in the Open misogyny/Women should be subordinate and have no say in anything party shocked SHOCKED that the party is misogynist and won't let them have a say in anything. "Republican women annoyed GOP Congress won't let them run committees: report:" https://www.rawstory.com/republican-women-in-congress/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHISwVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdNfhvGLyRp5kBd98UrRP1ZhVjp2l_prDktsdkOxjaKP2d0ahXu54TmElw_aem_VSofeM4qZMNmHyTXyABnRQ&sfnsn=mo

* "Ocasio-Cortez launches bid for top role on Oversight, as some Dems predict she’ll win:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/06/congress/ocasio-cortez-prepares-oversight-bid-00193010

* "Donald Trump says he won’t debate trans bathroom use affecting ‘very small number of people’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trans-bathroom-ban-donald-trump

One. One person in particular. They singled out Sarah McBride to prevent her peeing safely at work.

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.


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

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/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

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

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

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

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* "North Carolina GOP lawmakers override veto of bill to strip power from incoming Democratic officials:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/north-carolina-republican-override-veto-democrat-governor-rcna183703

* "Elections board dismisses Republican protests in close North Carolina races:" https://abc11.com/post/elections-board-dismisses-republican-protests-close-north-carolina-races/15642973/

* "Texas City Council that targeted LGBTQ+ people gets voted out — and replaced with first gay member:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-odessa-first-gay-city-council-member

* "Nancy Mace gets prominent foster care activist arrested on assault charges that eyewitnesses dispute:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nancy-mace-disputed-assault-claims

* "Who is Scott Presler? The gay conservative even the RNC won't employ:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/who-is-scott-presler

* "Court ruling sends jolt through the core of U.S. conservatives, Fox News 'Trump staffing agency':" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/court-ruling-sends-jolt-through-the-core-of-u-s-conservatives-fox-news-trump-staffing-agency-226736197803

* "Sen. Bernie Sanders on Making Government Deliver:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sen-bernie-sanders-on-making-government-deliver/id1583132133?i=1000679319133

* "Free Idea: No Democratic Votes For Loyalty-Tested Republicans:" https://www.offmessage.net/p/no-democratic-votes-for-loyalty-test-republicans

* "‘Enraging’: Hayes slams lawmakers, billionaires for submitting to Trump in advance:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-enraging-hayes-slams-lawmakers-billionaires-for-submitting-to-trump-in-advance-226951749754

* "The triumph of anti-identity-politics identity politics:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-triumph-of-anti-identity-politics-identity-politics/ar-AA1vCC9Z

* "Conservatism in the Trump 2.0 Years with McKay Coppins:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conservatism-in-the-trump-2-0-years-with-mckay-coppins/id1382983397?i=1000678257096




* "Trump Invited Chinese President Xi Jinping And Other World Leaders To Inauguration—Here’s Why That’s Unprecedented:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/12/13/trump-invited-chinese-president-xi-jinping-and-other-world-leaders-to-inauguration-heres-why-thats-unprecedented/

* "Trump picks China hawk to be top State Department economic policy official: Jacob Helberg was a strong advocate for a bill forcing China’s ByteDance to sell its social media platform TikTok.:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/10/congress/trump-picks-china-hawk-helberg-to-be-top-state-department-economic-policy-official-00193683

* Trump continues to go after our traditional allies, presumably as part of the pivot to make us a Russian puppet state. "Trump calls Trudeau ‘governor’ of ‘the Great State of Canada’ in overnight posts:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/10/congress/trump-calls-trudeau-governor-of-the-great-state-of-canada-in-overnight-posts-00193442

* "Donald Trump Will Need a Police State to Implement His Agenda:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/biden-trump-federal-power-police-state/

* Yet he voted for him anyway. "Mitch McConnell Bashes Trump’s Entire Philosophy in New Interview:" https://newrepublic.com/post/189298/mitch-mcconnell-criticize-trump-america-first

* "Pete Hegseth really doesn’t like LGBTQ+ people in the military:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-hegseth-prefers-dadt

* "Elon Musk warns Republicans against standing in Trump’s way — or his:" https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-politics-trump-7e26c829af224a1f9d67c27cea085e68

* "MAGA pressure on GOP senators over Trump Cabinet picks shows signs of paying off:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/maga-pressure-senators-trump-cabinet-picks-shows-early/story?id=116652141

* "Republican Says Trump Is Warning GOP: Don't Get on 'Naughty List':" https://www.newsweek.com/republican-says-trump-warning-gop-dont-get-naughty-list-2000086

* "Trump moves to steamroll Senate Republicans in bid to build 'disruptive' administration:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-moves-to-steamroll-senate-republicans-in-bid-to-build-disruptive-administration-227063365869

* "Homan tells Democrats to ‘get the hell out of the way’ on immigration:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/09/congress/border-czars-tough-talk-00193416

* "Trump plans to scrap policy restricting ICE arrests at churches, schools and hospitals:" https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/trump-scrap-restriction-ice-arrests-churches-schools-rcna183688

* "Trump will use military for deportations up to 'maximum' legal level; pardons for J6 defendants 'in first nine minutes':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-named-time-magazines-person-year/story?id=116719244

Using the military for law enforcement on US soil is very illegal of course, but the Supreme Court officially ended rule of law and made him in essence an absolute monarch, so....

* "FBI Director Wray to resign at end of Biden administration:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/11/g-s1-33710/trump-fbi-wray-resigns

* "Trump's FBI pick to bring 'deep state' paranoia to organization he holds in contempt:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-fbi-pick-to-bring-deep-state-paranoia-to-organization-he-holds-in-contempt-226860101869

* "‘The bureau is in trouble’: J. Edgar Hoover biographer reacts to FBI director resigning:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-bureau-is-in-trouble-j-edgar-hoover-biographer-reacts-to-fbi-director-resigning-226840645845

* "Trump’s attempt to rewrite history of January 6 instead adds new chapter of corruption:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-attempt-to-rewrite-history-of-january-6-instead-adds-new-chapter-of-corruption-227066437752

* "Raskin reacts to Trump saying Jan. 6 committee members ‘should go to jail’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/raskin-reacts-to-trump-saying-jan-6-committee-members-should-go-to-jail-226843717556

* "Trump picks Kari Lake to lead Voice of America:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/11/congress/kari-lake-to-voa-00193921

She's spent the last 4 years lying and lying in public and she's going to destroy VOA by changing it from a balanced source of fact based news into a propaganda arm.

* "Trump promises expedited permits for $1 billion US investment:" https://www.axios.com/2024/12/10/trump-expedited-permits-1-billion-environment

* "What to know about Billy Long, the ex-congressman and auctioneer Trump wants to head the IRS:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-irs-billy-long-auctioneer-congressman-werfel-what-to-know/

* "Here’s Trillions in Federal Waste the DOGE Bros Could Actually Target: Because what’s more wasteful than giant tax breaks for people who don’t need them?:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/doge-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-department-government-inefficiency-waste-federal-spending-deficit-reduction/

* This is how you get the next Great Depression. "Trump advisers seek to shrink or eliminate bank regulators, WSJ reports:" https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/trump-advisers-seek-shrink-or-eliminate-bank-regulators-wsj-reports-2024-12-13/

* "Hayes: Trump and his billionaire friends have ‘amnesia’ about this issue:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-and-his-billionaire-friends-have-amnesia-about-this-issue-227057221859

* "Trump Is Starting to Walk Back His Vow to Bring Down Grocery Prices:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-walks-back-vow-grocery-prices-1235202052/

* "Trump already walking back core campaign promise on prices, inflation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-already-walking-back-core-campaign-promise-on-prices-inflation-226960453535

In fact, he's promised to dismantle Biden's anti-greedflation mission at the FTC and do everything possible to raise prices with his tariffs and other economic policies.

* "Donald Trump Controls a Publicly Traded Company. Now He Will Pick Its Regulator.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-media-truth-social-sec-securities-exchange-commission

* "77 Nobel Prize Winners Write Message To The Senate: Don’t Confirm RFK Jr.:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nobel-laureates-letter-senate_n_6757d39ee4b0012be3fdf074

He is going to kill so many people.

* Who knew Mitch McConnell had a limit? "McConnell decries ‘dangerous’ polio vaccine skeptics amid RFK Jr. report:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mcconnell-decries-dangerous-polio-vaccine-skeptics-amid-rfk-jr-report-227056709560

* "Exclusive: RFK Jr.'s secret push to prove CIA killed uncle:" https://www.axios.com/2024/12/11/rfk-jr-cia-jfk-kennedy-assassination-amaryllis-fox

* "Tech moguls Altman, Bezos and Zuckerberg donate to Trump's inauguration fund:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5227874/trump-bezos-zuckerberg-amazon-facebook-open-ai-meta-inauguration-fund

* "Musk weighs in on Meta after Zuckerberg’s company donates $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/12/congress/musk-and-zuck-00194010

Remember how Trump and his cronies were reported to have pocketed more than they spent on the inauguration last time? These are essentially legal bribes.

* "Billionaires courting Trump paint picture of oligarchy to come:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/billionaires-courting-trump-paint-picture-of-oligarchy-to-come-226975813860

* "A New George Santos Just Dropped. His Name Is Massad Boulos.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/massad-boulos-trump-mideast-advisor.html

* "Kimberly Guilfoyle is the latest Trump family ally chosen for an ambassadorship:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/11/nx-s1-5225390/trump-kimberly-guilfoyle-ambassador-greece

* "Trump’s energy secretary pick once drank bleach to defend fracking:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-s-energy-secretary-pick-once-drank-bleach-to-defend-fracking-226955845774

* It is so gross to use someone else's image without her permission to sell something, but Trump is notoriously against women having the right to consent. "Trump uses photo of himself with first lady Jill Biden to announce new fragrance line:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fragrance-jill-biden-fight-fight-fight-perfumes-cologne/

* "Donald Trump's lesbian niece Mary Trump slams him as 'deeply ignorant, cruel man':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mary-trump-donald-trump-birthright-citizenship

* "Manhattan DA urges judge not to toss out guilty verdict in Trump hush money case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/10/bragg-trump-hush-money-verdict-election-000314




* "FBI didn’t deploy undercover agents on Jan. 6, watchdog report finds, undercutting conspiracy theories:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/12/fbi-jan-6-undercover-agents-inspector-general-report-00194036

* "A leaked video of UnitedHealth CEO defending denial practices sparks more online backlash:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/leaked-video-unitedhealth-ceo-defending-183000779.html

* Well, fuck. "Bankruptcy judge rejects The Onion's bid for Infowars:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/10/nx-s1-5224170/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion-bankruptcy-judge

* "Warren on UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing: ‘People can only be pushed so far’: The Massachusetts lawmaker condemned the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but added that the visceral reaction online should be a “warning” to the industry.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/11/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-00193776

* "You Don't Need to Be Luigi Mangione to Hate United Healthcare:"

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* I remain furious about this. "Former US Marine found not guilty in fatal New York subway choking:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-marine-found-not-guilty-fatal-new-york-subway-choking-media-report-2024-12-09/
eacher suspended for LGBTQ+ books in her classroom sues school district:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ohio-teacher-lgbtq-books-lawsuit

* "Wisconsin man who killed girlfriend for having sex with another woman will now be tried for attacking guard:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/richard-stoka-wisconsin-new-charges

* "An Oregon teacher was chastised for supporting LGBTQ+ students. She sued and won $90,000:" https://www.advocate.com/news/oregon-steacher-whistleblower-lgbtq-lawsuit

* "Virginia Republicans vote to take control of local library after losing fight to remove LGBTQ+ books:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/samuels-library-front-royal-challenge

* Hint: TERFs are not feminists. They are anti-feminist racists. "JK Rowling Has Done it AGAIN!:"

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* CW: Sexual Misconduct. "PinkNews leaders Benjamin Cohen and his husband, Anthony James, accused of sexual misconduct: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pinknews-bbc-sex

* CW: Rape. "Former Texas park ranger charged with luring and sexually assaulting gay men:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/park-ranger-charged-assault

* Children will die because the UK government decided a biased TERF report biased on bad science over actual science. "U.K. bans puberty blockers for trans youth indefinitely:" https://www.advocate.com/news/uk-bans-puberty-blockers-indefinitel

* "Trans Kids Deserve Better:" https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/support

* "Supporting the Crick Kids:" https://chuffed.org/project/115124-supporting-the-crick-kids

* "Montana Supreme Court upholds block on gender-affirming care ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/montana-trans-care-ban-blocked

* "Judge approves settlement in landmark LGBTQ+ fertility case:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-fertility-case-settlement

* "Hospitals Gave Women Medications During Childbirth—Then Reported Them for Using Illicit Drugs:" https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2024/12/hospitals-gave-women-medications-during-childbirth-then-reported-them-for-using-illicit-drugs/

* "Teenagers are behind a rash of antigay crimes that have been tied to dating apps:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/antigay-crimes-sydney-australia

* "LGBTQ+ parents are rushing to adopt their children before Trump is sworn in:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-parents-adopt-children-trump

* "Hate crimes skyrocket in Los Angeles, especially targeting LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/anti-lgbtq-hate-crimes-skyrocket-la

* "Mistrial declared in case of missing Black gay Ole Miss student Jimmie ‘Jay’ Lee:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/jimmie-lee-murder-mistrial

* "A Washington city council cuts a pizza program for LGBTQ+ youth after concerns about turning kids transgender:" https://www.advocate.com/news/washington-community-lgbtq-youth-support

* "An Alabama city banned an LGBTQ+ Pride float from its Christmas parade. It marched anyways:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-pride-float-christmas-parade

* "Poland's first-ever LGBTQ+ museum opens: 'For you and about you':" https://www.advocate.com/world/poland-lgbtq-museum

* "Why LGBTQ+ youth have high rate of mental health struggles and how to address them:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-mental-health-tracker

* "Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV:" https://newrepublic.com/article/188772/big-pharma-greed-hiv-drugs

* "Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Detected in Sioux County, Iowa:" https://www.agriculture.com/highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-detected-in-sioux-county-8758078

* "Medicare Paid Insurers Billions for Questionable Home Diagnoses, Watchdog Finds:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/insurance/medicare-paid-insurers-billions-for-questionable-home-diagnoses-watchdog-finds/ar-AA1sP5jl

* "Eat What you Kill: Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-weiner-montana-st-peters-hospital-oncology




* "Is climate change lighting a fuse under Iceland's volcanoes?:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-glacier-volcanoes/

* "Death by water, burial by mud. Images of Spain’s floods of the century:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-spain-valencia-photo-gallery-af444afb79ad40dd4a01e9dcfa95d2ba




* "How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of Digging:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-a-team-of-gophers-restored-mount-st-helens-after-its-catastrophic-eruption-with-less-than-a-day-of-digging-180985459/

* "Appeals court upholds TikTok ban, declining to block law that would force sale:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-ban-appeals-court-congress/

* "Keeping Your Personal Data Safe in the Age of Trump:" https://www.wired.com/story/politics-lab-keeping-your-personal-data-safe/

* "Monarch butterfly proposed for listing under the US Endangered Species Act:" https://xerces.org/press/monarch-butterfly-proposed-for-listing-under-us-endangered-species-act

* "When Songbird Couples Split: A warming climate may cause more bird couples to break up.:" https://nautil.us/when-songbird-couples-split-1168056/?

* "Medieval Daily Life on Birchbark:" https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/medieval-daily-life-on-birchbark/

* "Self-Publishing and the Black American Narrative:" https://daily.jstor.org/self-publishing-black-american-narrative/?preview_id=320102

* "All about the nation's first gay rights group, the Society for Human Rights, founded 100 years ago:" https://www.advocate.com/news/first-gay-rights-group

* "Millions are reading a teen’s account of life and war. It’s from 1945.:" https://archive.ph/By0Rr#selection-476.0-476.1

* "The Soul of 1970s Harlem as Seen Through Jack Garofalo’s Camera:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/harlem-photographed-by-jack-garofalo/

* CW: Pedophilia. "Waco Primer:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/waco-primer/id1762494071?i=1000676606879

* "How To Lose A Rap Battle:"

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* The fundraiser is over. I want to tank everyone has helped since September. This has been a terrible year for all of us and it means so much to me that you are here.

* Amoung the Too Many Things that maid up my Wednesday, I went to get vaccinated. Yes, I know my Doctor suggested I should wait for February after my September COVID, according to current guidelines, but I am worried that that all vaccines may be banned by that point, if the Republicans fulfill their threats. I don't want to get caught in what I suspect will be a rush for boosters in January by people who are aware of the planned vaccine ban.

Sure, it might not happen, but this is one of the areas where they can move without Congress and there isn't much stopping them, so I decided on caution. I take vaccination seriously and there is a reason I was classed group 1B during initial vaccine roll out. I'm a medically fragile person who had to mask against things like influenza before 2020. I made it four and a half years before catching it, I'd rather not catch it again, as I am still tired from my first bout in September and I'd rather not lose any more function. I'd get an RSV vaccine if they'd let me. I have all my other shots.

So I was down at the poverty clinic pharmacy chatting with the guy giving me my shot, who has been there, I think, a couple decades, so I'm a familiar face. So I mentioned my worries about the public health policy situation to see how they were taking it at Poverty clinic.

He had a lot to say, not surprisingly. They are frightened and furious. They rely on grants and are absolutely essential to the healthcare infrastructure of the city. In my opinion, they are absolutely irreplaceable. They serve the poor and other marginalized communities. They've been essential to providing healthcare to the HIV+ population since the '80's, they are a hub for trans healthcare for several counties, they are queer friendly generally and safe, they have lots of immigrant services and translators, they do a lion's share of health care and dentistry for the homeless population. Him: We save lives here. I don't know what will happen if we lose our grants and close.

Me either, Sir. Me either.

* The asshole agency started sending cleaners again the back half of November. As they only sent one person for a two hour shift, not counting the lady who lied she was going to get gloves and drove away, between early June and then (The time we needed them most), I had a fuckton of hours that go away at the end of the year. I've been scheduling them twice a week and to my absolute shock they've been sending them. O.o I had five extra hours even so, so I scheduled a couple extra Mondays because of the holidays.

One of them is amazing, so I set it up so she gets first shot at my hours. Seriously, she's a delight. She's lonely and has hinted at maybe wanting to be friends outside of work. I'd invite her to join the friend group if she could bubble, but she has kids, so it wouldn't be safe, unfortunately. (Don't worry, we both mask for her visits). I sent her home with three full boxes of food forage sent us that neither we nor the Millennials could use, two boxes of which have been in my car since inspection because we needed to take them to donate. Better they go to a single Mom I know and like, I figure.

Part of why my original standard cleaner day for Friday morning is that the forage boxes usually arrive while cleaners are there and they can haul them inside and I can offer them things like the extra eggs (Squirrel isn't allowed to have them and I can only use whites in a baking context because my body can't handle an egg white omelette even so I never need more than one carton. I am always asking visiting Millennials if they want eggs.), or vegetables we are allergic to, or canned goods we have a surplus of or can't use for medical reasons, etc.. Some take them, some don't. My feeling is people who aren't poor don't take jobs like this. Poor people have to look out for each other.

The thing is, I needed to take a Millennial to a thing to sort out an ongoing thing left over from late last summer. The place closes at five which meant between 3/12- 4 Hours sleep for me. I am exhausted, but it was worth it. I do need to take them back a couple more times, but it is actually sorted out in a satisfactory way. We stopped at the good grocery on the way back and I got good tomatoes for sandwiches, which I had been wanting to do, but was too tired last couple of days what with the HOA drama and the booster shot. As Covid vaccine goes, this wasn't too bad and is noticeably less severe than this years flu shot was. I can live with extra tired, and slightly congested. I frequently do that without any vaccines. It's certainly better than a second bout of Covid would be.

I am not looking forward to figuring out how to get my flu and Covid boosters in Canada next year if they are banned. Sigh. That is next September me's problem, though.

I also had a Firefox crash and they no longer let you have access to a "restore session" button. I spent a couple hours reconstructing, but I suspect some news was lost and it is possible I may repost news items because I can't remember if they went out already. Apologies.

* "Meanwhile... Oregon's Controversial Googly Eyes | Drain Pipe Cat | Krispy Kreme Hacked:"

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* ""TV Ate my Family": Lance Loud & America's First Reality Show:"

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* "Fashion Doesn't Matter (like it used to):"

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* "Jane Austen - Sarcasm and Subversion - Extra History:"

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* "Horror Queers: Critters (1986):" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critters-1986/id1449041559?i=1000666871969

* "Hallmark Channel Targets Sad Singles:"

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* "The Anti-Holiday Rom-Com We Deserve After Surviving 2024 | The Daily Show:"

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* "A History of the Infant Christ Being Given Piggy-Back Rides in Western Art:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/a-history-of-the-infant-christ-being?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=152664256&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

* "Reelin’ In The Years – DORK TOWER 27.11.24:" http://www.dorktower.com/2024/11/27/19227/

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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.

* "Trans Kids Deserve Better:" https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/support

* "Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate to:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-donald-trump-charities

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

* "Buy Native List:" https://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

* Natural fiber fabric sources to buy from for sewing: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/768880596478984192?source=share

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Disaster Preparedness stuff from the US Government: https://www.ready.gov/publications

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* "The death toll in Gaza surpasses 10,000 as the conflict enters a second month:" https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1210831466/death-toll-gaza-israel-hamas-conflict

* "Israel-Gaza live updates: Israel fighting Hamas in 'heart' of Gaza City, general says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-says-it-is-open-gaza-fighting-pauses-aid-hostages-2023-11-07/

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* "Israel will keep bombarding Gaza with ‘all of its power,’ Netanyahu says after Blinken calls for pause:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/03/netanyahu-israel-hamas-war-00125225

* "The U.S. wants a humanitarian pause in Gaza, not a cease-fire. What's the difference?:" https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1210992532/israel-hamas-cease-fire-humanitarian-pause

* "WFP Chief makes urgent plea for humanitarian access to Gaza:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/wfp-chief-makes-urgent-plea-for-humanitarian-access-to-gaza-197152325619

* "U.S. diplomats slam Israel policy in leaked memo :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/06/u-s-diplomats-slam-israel-policy-in-leaked-memo-00125538

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* "Kenya could lose ‘billions’ if harsh anti-LGBTQ+ law comes into force:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/07/kenya-could-lose-billions-if-harsh-anti-lgbtq-law-comes-into-force/

* Let them eat cake. "Joe Lycett trolls Suella Braverman for depicting homelessness as ‘lifestyle choice’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/05/joe-lycett-suella-braverman-homelessness-lifestyle-comment/







* "Voter groups warn Biden his stance on Gaza could suppress youth turnout next year:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/voter-groups-warn-biden-gaza-stance-suppress-youth-turnout-year-rcna123932

* "The White House is working on a strategy to combat Islamophobia. Many Muslim Americans are skeptical:" https://apnews.com/article/islamophobia-gaza-muslim-biden-israel-antisemitism-a0b26f1e11ef5a1b80c2b6a05c3a63bb

* "Senate Judiciary Committee plans to subpoena GOP megadonors over SCOTUS gifts:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/senate-judiciary-committee-plans-to-subpoena-gop-megadonors-over-scotus-gifts-197151301901

* "UAW president defies skeptics (including Trump) to negotiate historic deal for union workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/uaw-president-defies-skeptics-including-trump-to-negotiate-historic-deal-for-union-workers-197264965759

* "Speaker Johnson on GOP plan to avert government shutdown: ‘Trust us’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/11/07/congress-shutdown-house-gop-plan/

Spoiler: I do not trust them even a tiny bit.

* "Republicans Introduce Bill To Expel Palestinians From The United States:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ryan-zinke-republicans-expel-palestinians_n_65454496e4b01b258583b5de

* "Republican Representative Directly Compares All Palestinians to Nazis:" https://newrepublic.com/post/176559/republican-representative-brian-mast-compares-palestinians-nazis

* "Democrat Pushes Censure Of GOP’s Brian Mast For Comparing ‘Palestinian Civilians’ To ‘Nazi Civilians’:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/11/06/democrat-pushes-censure-of-gops-brian-mast-for-comparing-palestinian-civilians-to-nazi-civilians/?sh=23ba1cf736c4

* "House votes to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her Israel-Hamas rhetoric in a stunning rebuke:" https://apnews.com/article/congress-house-censure-resolution-tlaib-8085189047a4c40f2d44ada4604aa076

* "Democrats in Congress Weigh Calls for Cease-Fire Amid Pressure From the Left:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/us/politics/democrats-cease-fire-israel-gaza.html

* Eeew. "Mike Johnson and son use anti-porn app to monitor each other’s web history:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/06/mike-johnson-covenant-eyes-son-web-history/

* "Gay Rep. Mark Pocan on Anti-LGBTQ+ House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican Leadership:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/equality-caucus-pocan-mike-johnson

* "Senator Tommy Tuberville's shameful military blockade:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/senator-tommy-tuberville-s-shameful-military-blockade-197152325640

* "Republicans and Democrats Clash on Book Bans in Congressional Hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republicans-support-book-bans-hearing

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* 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

* "Let's talk about talking to your representative and social media....:"

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* "Youngkin ‘purge’ removed nearly 3,400 legal Virginia voters from rolls:" https://www.axios.com/2023/10/31/youngkin-virginia-voting-felons-restore-rights-election

* "Top takeaways from 2023 election results — and what they mean for 2024:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/07/election-results-2023-takeaways/

* "Ohio votes to protect right to abortion in landmark pro-choice win:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/08/ohio-protect-abortion-landmark-pro-choice-win/

* "Virginians hand Democrats control of the legislature, blocking GOP efforts on abortion and trans rights:" https://19thnews.org/2023/11/virginia-state-legislature-results/

* "Danica Roem Makes History Again and Is Elected Virginia's First Transgender State Senator:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/danica-roem-wins-virginia-senator

* "Daniel McCaffery wins Pa. Supreme Court seat as Democrats increase majority to 5-2:" https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/daniel-mccaffery-wins-pa-supreme-court-seat-as-democrats-increase-majority-to-5-2/3689574/

* "Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear reelected to second term in Kentucky, overcoming state’s GOP dominance:" https://apnews.com/article/kentucky-primary-governors-race-election-2023-e8df45cd3978ce5a1691ba447c84bafc

* I hadn't much hope on this one, and there were real problems with Presley, though he was far better than the alternative. "Gov. Tate Reeves claims win in hard-fought race against Brandon Presley:" https://www.wapt.com/article/mississippi-governor-2023-general-election-results/45752346

* "Congress’ Progressive Israel Critics Face A Wave Of Primary Threats:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/progressive-congress-members-pro-israel-primaries_n_65445254e4b0cde80b8c57f1

* "Ron DeSantis refuses to apologize for saying he aims to start ‘slitting throats’ of federal employees:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/06/ron-desantis-federal-employees/

* "Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/05/trump-revenge-second-term/

* ""Nightmare scenario": Legal scholars alarmed over Trump's "plot to abuse his power" for revenge:" https://www.salon.com/2023/11/06/nightmare-scenario-legal-scholars-alarmed-over-plot-to-abuse-his-power-for-revenge/

* "Report paints ominous picture of early days of planned second Trump term:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/report-paints-ominous-picture-of-early-days-of-planned-second-trump-term-197265477713




* "Maddow: No accident Trump's courtroom chaos makes a mockery of the legal system:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-no-accident-trump-s-courtroom-chaos-makes-a-mockery-of-the-legal-system-197266501583




* "Man Avoids Jail Time For Threatening LGBTQ+ High School Students:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/brandon-moore-threats-nonbinary-prom

* "Suspect turns self in after 2 killed in shooting at Tacoma bar overnight:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/1-dead-3-injured-shooting-tacoma-bar-overnight/281-1e7b2808-50e1-482b-9ab9-26802d165f70

* "Black Trans Woman A'nee Roberson Killed After Being Assaulted and Hit With a Car in Washington, D.C.:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/anee-roberson-murder-dc







* "The most important deity you've never heard of: the 3000 years long history of Nanaya:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/733248794091749376?source=share

* My car broke yet again in late October. As I feared it was the hose that keeps the engine cool. Why feared? It's in the middle of all the gear under the hood. Hose and fluid replacements are cheap. an hour and a half of labor to take it all apart then put it back in is incredibly expensive. $280 worth in total. I have paid Squirrel back for the gas for the week and a halfish, I was borrowing his car, thanks to a donor. The repairs ate most of my bill money for the month. Yes, this is the forth repair this year. My car is about 25ish years old. I can't afford to replace it, nor can I do without it, being disabled: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. We can float bills a bit if we must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. They have already had a ton of interviews, and it is likely they will be offered a very good job if they can hold out until December when it starts. They are an old RL friend and my roommate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

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

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* "Millennial Women May Never Recover From The Romcom:"

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* "That Izzy line about Ed being "a complicated man" immediately put me in mind of the Wilson translation of The Odyssey:" https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/732988429215875072?source=share

* "My Arch Nemesis Cynthia:" https://ridinkskinned.com/post/188426780699/my-arch-nemesis-cynthia-is-of-course-at-the

* "Superhero Sweets For DragonCon:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/superhero-sweets-for-dragoncon-2023

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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.

* Where to donate for non-violent causes in Gaza and Israel: https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/867894.html

* "Games for Gaza:" https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/868099.html

* "If anyone wants to donate to Wadea Al-Fayoume's family then here:" https://www.tumblr.com/abigail-pent/731484616352989184/arab-mother-attacked-and-6-year-old-murdered-in?source=share

* My car broke yet again in late October. As I feared it was the hose that keeps the engine cool. Why feared? It's in the middle of all the gear under the hood. Hose and fluid replacements are cheap. an hour and a half of labor to take it all apart then put it back in is incredibly expensive. $280 worth in total. I have paid Squirrel back for the gas for the week and a halfish, I was borrowing his car, thanks to a donor. The repairs ate most of my bill money for the month. Yes, this is the forth repair this year. My car is about 25ish years old. I can't afford to replace it, nor can I do without it, being disabled: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. We can float bills a bit if we must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. They have already had a ton of interviews, and it is likely they will be offered a very good job if they can hold out until December when it starts. They are an old RL friend and my roommate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* Apply for Project 2025 so they have to pick through resumes, using their resources: https://apply.project2025.org/ords/r/p25/pub/questionnaire?p4_qid=1

* Want to help Andy Kim beat Bob Menendez? https://www.andykim.com/

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

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

* 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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* I posted about a third of what I intended too. Apologies.

* I get angry every time a government does this. "How slums in Delhi were flattened before the G20 summit:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/G20-SUMMIT/SLUM/zdpxrxoaypx/

* "Has India Changed Its Name? A G20 Invite Raises Eyebrows.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/world/asia/india-bharat-g20-summit.html

* "China’s Xi will skip G20 summit in India during a period of soured bilateral relations:" https://apnews.com/article/china-india-g20-xi-jinping-1540c1850f60edebc067ad430b968c00

* "Let's talk about China, G20, and explanations....:"

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* "Guatemala's top elections court suspends ban on president-elect Arevalo's party:" https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20230903-guatemala-s-top-elections-court-suspends-ban-on-president-elect-arevalo-s-party

* "Guatemala prosecutor seeks to strip electoral authorities of immunity after election:" https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-election-bernardo-arevalo-22fe6c74f3b4a7cd689517f15db6a060

* Terfs are lying when they claim to be feminist. "How do the Taliban, who ‘know what a woman is’, treat women in Afghanistan?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/05/julia-hartley-brewer-taliban-tweet-trans/

* "Chile will search for 1,000+ victims of forced disappearance by Pinochet dictatorship:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1197019905/chile-search-disappeared-victims-pinochet-dictatorship

* "New scheme to help LGBTQ+ migrants bring ‘cultures and experiences’ to cities as they settle in Europe:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/queers-beyond-borders-queer-migrants-europe/

* "Who are the LGBTQ+ allies in Labour’s new front bench?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/05/labour-keir-starmer-reshuffle-lgbtq-allies/

* "Romania Starts Sending Natural Gas To Moldova Through Pipeline:" https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-gas-supply-moldova-ukraine-war/32162977.html




* "Far-Right German Parliamentary Aide Tasked by Russia with Stopping Leopard Tanks to Ukraine:" https://theins.info/en/politics/264014

* "Musk says he refused Kyiv request for Starlink use in attack on Russia:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/musk-says-he-refused-kyiv-request-use-starlink-attack-russia-2023-09-08/

* "Russia amplifies right-wing influence campaign to undermine support for Ukraine by exploiting Hawaii's tragedy:" https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/russia-amplifies-right-wing-influence

* "Let's talk about Russia, a talking point, and the reality....:"

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* "What Were the Russians Doing in Chornobyl?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/09/russia-ukraine-chernobyl-disaster/675083/

* "Ukrainian intercepts show Russian soldiers’ anger at losses, disarray :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-intercepts/

* "How They Tried to Kill Me:" https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/




* "Chinese Intel Officers Interfered in U.S. Election:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/china-facebook-instagram-propaganda-campaign-1234813762/

* "Let's talk about Fox, a story, and context....:"

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* "How President Biden came to grips with Trump-era radicalism:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-president-biden-came-to-grips-with-trump-era-radicalism-192331334000

* "Biden blocks oil drilling on 10M acres in Alaska, including leases Trump sold :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/06/biden-to-cancel-trumps-oil-drilling-leases-in-alaskan-nature-refuge-00114243

* "Kamala Harris tour to inspire ‘critical generation’ of young people in fight for LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/kamala-harris-fight-for-our-freedoms-college-tour-lgbtq-rights/

* "Let's talk about Congress, confusion, and continuing resolutions....:"

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* "Let's talk about soft landings, recession, and Biden....:"

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* "This Is Public Housing. Just Don’t Call It That.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/affordable-housing-montgomery-county.html

* "How the twin crises of climate change and poor public housing are harming people’s health:" https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/29/climate-change-public-housing-health-consequences/

* That's sure what it looked like, but it's helpful to have it substantiated. "New probe confirms Trump officials blocked Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane aid:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-probe-confirms-trump-officials-blocked-puerto-rico-receiving-hurri-rcna749

* "Let's talk about Beshear, McConnell, Kentucky, and the constitutions....:"

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* Republicans are lying when they say they care about national security or our troops. "Republican Cowardice Is Creating a Mess for the U.S. Military:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/tommy-tuberville-military-department-of-defense-blockade.html

* "Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro accused Sen. Tommy Tuberville of helping the nation’s enemies.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/navy-secretary-tuberville-military-blockade-communists-00114115

* "Let's talk about Tuberville, poetry, and the military....:"

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* "Eight Things You Need to Know About the Navy’s Failed Multibillion-Dollar Littoral Combat Ship Program:" https://www.propublica.org/article/navy-littoral-combat-ship-takeaways

* Republicans continue to wage war on the Rule of Law in their pursuit of autocracy. "Jim Jordan and Wisconsin Republicans Know the Law—They Just Don’t Care:" https://newrepublic.com/post/175458/jim-jordan-wisconsin-republicans-conservatism-destruction

* "‘Offensive’: Georgia prosecutor excoriates Jordan for probe into Trump charges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/07/fani-willis-jim-jordan-offensive-00114583

* "Georgia DA eviscerates GOP Congressman, suggests he buy book on RICO law:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/georgia-da-eviscerates-gop-congressman-suggests-he-buy-book-on-rico-law-192496709613

* "Senator Admits "Kids Online Safety Act" Will Target Trans Content Online:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/senator-admits-kids-online-safety

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* 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

* "Court tosses Alabama congressional map after GOP refuses to draw second Black district:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/court-throws-out-alabama-gop-congressional-map-for-violating-voting-rights-act-00113962

* "Court decides Alabama Republicans can’t be trusted to draw congressional maps:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/court-decides-alabama-republicans-can-t-be-trusted-to-draw-congressional-maps-192327749981

* "DeSantis Florida redistricting map is unconstitutional and must be redrawn, judge says:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197452442/desantis-florida-redistricting-map-gerrymandering-unconstitutional

* "Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley criticized a colleague for not recusing from a case involving a donor. Six years ago, she helped kill a measure requiring those recusals.:" https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/09/02/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-rebecca-bradley-criticized-a-colleague-for-not-recusing-from-a-case-involving-a-donor-six-years-ago-she-helped-kill-a-measure-requiring-those-recusals/

* Republicans insist that acknowledging facts is utterly disqualifying for Judges. "State Republicans Try to Remove Top Jurist for Mentioning the Existence of Racial Bias:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/north-carolina-gop-anita-earls-ethics-case.html

* "Let's talk about Wisconsin and the GOP not getting the answer they wanted....:"

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* "‘Tennessee Three’ members blast GOP rules restricting speech in state House :" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4165033-tennessee-three-members-blast-gop-rules-restricting-speech-in-state-house/

* "Oregon Republicans barred from running for re-election after boycotting votes:" https://www.rawstory.com/oregon-gop-re-election/

* "Oregon Republican senators sue to run for reelection, saying walkout rule shouldn’t stop them:" https://apnews.com/article/oregon-republican-lawmaker-walkout-reelection-72dc264fc144539034ad2eb716eb208e

* "Backers blast approved ballot language for Ohio’s fall abortion amendment as misleading:" https://apnews.com/article/ohio-abortion-access-ballot-issue-election-2023-a628e9b323b8544847ace0a0504c5733

* I beg people over and over to vote in all the down ballot races in every election. This is why. "The GOP school boards making California Dems red in the face :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/21/gop-school-boards-california-00112084

* "Historic Win: Gay Candidate Triumphs in Mississippi Primary :" https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2023/09/historic-win-gay-candidate-triumphs-in-mississippi-primary/

* "Author of MS Care Ban Lost His Primary Because He’s Not Racist Enough:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/author-of-ms-care-ban-lost-his-primary-because-hes-not-racist-enough

* "Tennessee political candidate responds to homophobic smear campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/06/tennessee-eric-patton-smear-campaign/

* "Let's talk about Blake vs Lake in Arizona....:"

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* "Gay club owner faces backlash over nearly $10,000 in Republican Party donations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/michael-purdum-gop-donations/

* "Oliver Anthony Slams Republicans Using His Song 'Rich Men North of Richmond':" https://advocatechannel.com/oliver-anthony-slams-republicans

* "Republican presidential Project 2025 plans to define trans people as ‘pornographic’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/conservative-think-tank-project-2025/

For fuckssake take this seriously. They are trying to make it illegal for us to exist in public. We are already subject to the death penalty in Florida for existing. They are planning to nationalize this.

They are coming for us first, but they will come for the whole queer community next. Respectability politics and throwing us under the bus won;t save you.

* "A lawsuit seeks to bar Trump from the primary in Colorado, citing Constitution’s insurrection clause:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-constitution-2024-election-primary-ballot-19ca3f17881e8818302cb1260e7c2aed

* "‘Pro-baby:’ Republicans trying to rebrand the anti-abortion movement:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-pro-baby-republicans-trying-to-rebrand-the-anti-abortion-movement-192584261851

* "Environmental groups sue over Virginia's withdrawal from greenhouse gas pact:" https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/regional-greenhouse-gas-initiative-virginia-youngkin/article_f19e339a-4053-11ee-be13-2f3505af27d5.html

* "DeSantis appoints Moms for Liberty co-founder to board overseeing state employee conduct:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/06/desantis-appoints-moms-for-liberty-tina-descovich-florida-ethics-commission/70777620007/

Reminder: Mons for Liberty is a Neo-NAZI extremist hate group that openly admires Hitler and espouses his goals.

* "Impeachment trial begins for Texas Republican Ken Paxton:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/impeachment-trial-begins-for-texas-republican-ken-paxton-192327237660

* "Let's talk about why Republicans turned on Paxton....:"

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* "Trump White House official Navarro convicted of contempt after defying House Jan. 6 subpoena:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-navarro-contempt-congress-jan-6-a4ad58e1f590e5884fd347c86c121a8a

* "New York attorney general asks judge to fine Trump for ‘frivolous’ legal arguments:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/trump-civil-fraud-lawsuit-sanctions-00114054

* "Witness in Trump documents case reached deal with prosecutors, ex-attorney says:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/witness-trump-documents-case-reached-deal-with-prosecutors-ex-attorney-says-2023-09-06/

* "Is Judge Cannon preparing to kneecap Trump's Florida documents case?:" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-florida-documents-case

* "Lordy, more tapes! Trump lawyer's notes add details on lead-up to FBI search of Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/lordy-more-tapes-trump-lawyer-s-notes-add-details-on-lead-up-to-fbi-search-of-mar-a-lago-192418885579

* "Prosecutors race against Trump media's campaign to corrupt jury pool:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/prosecutors-race-against-trump-media-s-campaign-to-corrupt-jury-pool-192594501612

* "'His efforts fall short.': Judge stomps on Mark Meadows' bid to take Georgia trial federal:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-his-efforts-fall-short-judge-stomps-on-mark-meadows-bid-to-take-georgia-trial-federal-192592453609

* "Fani Willis lays out criminal case against false electors :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/fani-willis-criminal-case-electors-trump-00114149

* "All defendants in Georgia racketeering case, including Trump, have pleaded not guilty:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1197697531/georgia-racketeering-case-defendants-arraignment-trump-giuliani-meadows

* "Citing lumbering Young Thug case, Trump co-defendant seeks separate trial:" https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/citing-lumbering-young-thug-case-trump-co-defendant-seeks-separate-trial/LKEU6XM4AZBFBLBZH33VOGX33E/

* "Trump’s co-defendants are already starting to turn against him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/trump-cases-defendants-flipping-00113910

* "Trump, co-defendants scatter on strategy as legal heat intensifies:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-co-defendants-scatter-on-strategy-as-legal-heat-intensifies-192332357685

* "Let's talk about Trump, Georgia, Willis and the most important takeaway....:"

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* "Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194471162/trump-indictment-fulton-county-grand-jurors-threats

* "Trump Georgia election trial juror names should be secret, DA tells judge:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/atlanta-da-wants-trump-georgia-election-trial-juror-names-to-be-secret.html

* "‘The corruption of Lindsey Graham:’ Why the senator risked indictment for Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-corruption-of-lindsey-graham-why-the-senator-risked-indictment-for-trump-192586309563

* "Trump’s daily statements threaten to prejudice jury pool in D.C. elections case, prosecutors warn:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/05/trumps-daily-statements-threaten-to-prejudice-jury-pool-in-dc-elections-case-prosecutors-warn.html

* "'A new avenue of investigation': Jack Smith's grand jury that indicted Trump reconvenes:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-a-new-avenue-of-investigation-jack-smith-s-grand-jury-that-indicted-trump-reconvenes-192505413868




* "Here are the longest Jan. 6 prison sentences handed down so far :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/enrique-tarrio-prison-sentencing-proud-boys-00114104

* "Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy:" https://apnews.com/article/enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-da60222b3e1e54902db2bbbb219dc3fb

* "‘Wrong’ and ‘excessive:’ DeSantis, Ramaswamy criticize Proud Boys sentences:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-wrong-and-excessive-desantis-ramaswamy-criticize-proud-boys-sentences-192498245678

* "A Christian Crowdfunding Site Has a White-Power Problem:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/christian-crowdfunding-givesendgo-white-power-problem-1234809799/

* "Neo-Nazis Parade Around Florida Chanting "Jews Will Not Replace Us":" https://www.advocate.com/news/neo-nazis-gather-orlando-florida

* Reminder: Both Libs of Tik Tok and Leave Our Kids Alone are Neo-NAZI hate groups know for inciting violence in pursuit of anti-LGBTQIA+ exterminationist goals. "“Lynch them all!” Libs of TikTok incites death threats targeting Los Angeles Unified School District:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/lynch-them-all-libs-of-tiktok-incites-death-threats-targeting-los-angeles-unified-school-district

* "Sonja Shaw reshares threatening post against AG Rob Bonta: “you’re about to f- around and find out”:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/sonja-shaw-reshares-threatening-post-against-ag-rob-bonta-you-re-about-to-f-around-and-find-out

* "U.S. judge orders Texas to move Rio Grande barriers to embankment, siding with Biden:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-orders-texas-move-rio-grande-barriers-embankment-siding-with-biden-2023-09-06/

* "Busload of migrants, the 12th sent by Texas, arrives in Los Angeles:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-04/busload-of-migrants-12th-sent-by-texas-arrives-in-los-angeles

* "Thirteenth bus of migrants arrives at Union Station from Texas:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-09/bus-of-migrants-arrives-at-union-station-from-texas

* Police continue to murder people for sport. "New video shows Philadelphia Police officer shot Eddie Irizarry within seconds of getting out of patrol car:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/eddie-irizarry-philadelphia-police-shooting-mark-dial-family-lawyer-20230822.html

* "Video released in trooper's fatal shooting of Ricky Cobb II in Minneapolis:" https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ricky-cobb-ii-state-trooper-fatal-shooting-video-released-minneapolis/

* "White ex-officers in Mississippi plead guilty to racist assault on 2 Black men during raid:" https://apnews.com/article/rankin-mississippi-deputies-civil-rights-brutality-2c2154e67cc6cd3b9a28cb16686f2a5c

* "A Chicago Cop Is Accused of Lying Under Oath 44 Times. Now Prosecutors Are Dropping Cases That Relied on His Testimony.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-officer-kriv-perjury-prosecutors-dropped-criminal-cases

* "Sadistic California Cops Bragged About ‘Violating Civil Rights’:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/antioch-cops-morteza-amiri-eric-rombough-devon-wenger-1234812466/

* "Dallas cops laughed after disabled military vet was denied restroom, urinated on himself:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-safety/2023/08/16/dallas-cops-laughed-after-disabled-military-vet-denied-toilet-access-urinated-on-himself/

* "SPD illegally searched trunk after driver says he was stopped due to race, judge rules:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/spd-illegally-searched-trunk-after-driver-says-he-was-stopped-due-to-race-judge-rules/

* All this for exercising their first amendment rights. This is some bullshit. "61 Cop City Protesters in Atlanta Are Being Hit With RICO Charges. Dozens of activists have been indicted for opposing the construction of a massive police facility outside Atlanta.:" https://newrepublic.com/post/175382/cop-city-protesters-atlanta-rico-racketeering-charges

* "Kansas State Police Tell Court It’s Too Much To Ask For Troopers To Respect The Constitution:" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/31/kansas-state-police-tell-court-its-too-much-to-ask-for-troopers-to-respect-the-constitution/

* "New Proof That Police Use Civil Forfeiture To Take From Those Who Can’t Fight Back:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2021/10/25/new-proof-that-police-use-civil-forfeiture-to-take-from-those-who-cant-fight-back/?sh=25be27434e84

* "Racist abuse by Mississippi officers reveals a culture of misconduct, residents say:" https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-racist-abuse-police-culture-1feb54483e62bef53efe1a1a16be29f1

* "Woman forced to do her own detective work when an LAPD officer stole her debit card:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/31/woman-forced-to-do-her-own-detective-work-when-an-lapd-officer-stole-her-debit-card.html

* "Well-Funded Reactionary Police Unions Are Recalling Progressive DAs Who Hold Cops Accountable:" https://www.downwithtyranny.com/post/well-funded-reactionary-police-unions-are-recalling-progressive-das-who-hold-cops-accountable

* Sheriffs wage war on the rule of law. "IN THE SHERIFF WE TRUST:" https://azcir.org/cspoa/

* "Sheriffs Who Back the “Great Replacement” as the New “Big Lie”:" https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/sheriffs-who-back-the-great-replacement-as-the-new-big-lie/

* "NYPD will use drones to monitor private parties over Labor Day weekend:" https://www.engadget.com/nypd-will-use-drones-to-monitor-private-parties-over-labor-day-weekend-001909102.html?src=rss

* "Many big US cities now answer mental health crisis calls with civilian teams — not police:" https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-crisis-911-police-alternative-civilian-responders-ca97971200c485e36aa456c04d217547

* "A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth.:" https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-argues-fetus-doesn-t-right-life-new-18292079.php

* "Is This the End of Prison Phone Fees?:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/08/conneticut-prison-phone-fees-securus/

* "Texas drag ban: ‘I never dreamed I’d be in court fighting for the right to wear make-up and a wig’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/texas-drag-ban-lawsuit-injunction-brigitte-bandit-extragrams/

* "Iowa Mayor Blocks LGBTQ+ Group From Labor Day Parade, Citing ‘Safety’ Concerns:" https://www.advocate.com/news/iowa-mayor-lgbtq-labor-day

* "At a College Targeted by DeSantis, Gender Studies Is Out, Jocks Are In:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/opinion/columnists/gender-studies-ron-desantis-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=iXRmJv42iabGRCWy2uY4F-FYZ_ntHEV7YRICgRsdHsE_zKNrMgPf5LpB7FfwlGLPb0YMg30o8rP7TFuwQ-WmWl2fXJrjHqDzOj4DD-E14MRQ5vxziXzg88itfuIu-zAm817zINVHywwnzkFdkBFJFfygyvnDZ1i1LtpbwGIu-fBFOpbBkUDZVOsHC0Y4T9EoxJ3hPgtiLZ0N4_6TZdkjQ9wdnUR6agNTlwr9nGwWoK566TPLYobR5EDRHOP5_Y5c2yvNoaw271NGv4YncIiCY3xn3x0ZOmSwWjZ2dMGAZ9Bu5Diw4CyfsfPEntum2EHJP3YhNfOShZNUt2t4D8h_rIxiLG6LaOUK4Bw55l5cZEhLM_Iso6hK&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

* "Houston ISD Takeover, The Musical:" https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-isd-takeover-the-musical/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-5f5fbe19c0-34916046&mc_cid=5f5fbe19c0

* "Queer History Lecture Prompts Vengeance From Alabama GOP:" https://www.advocate.com/history/queer-history-lecture-alabama-gop

* "Florida school principal on leave after holding a Powerpoint session to tell Black kids they must improve:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/26/florida-school-principal-on-leave-after-holding-a-powerpoint-session-to-tell-black-kids-they-must-improve.html

* "PragerU’s ‘Propaganda’ Videos Infiltrate Another State’s Classrooms:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/pragerus-propaganda-videos-okd-for-oklahoma-classrooms-by-supt-ryan-walters

* "Conservative propaganda site targeting schools looks to expand state partnerships:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/conservative-propaganda-site-targeting-schools-looks-to-expand-state-partnerships-192332357883

* "How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis–Denial Empire:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p33j/fracking-farris-dan-wilks-prageru-climate-crisis-denial-shapiro

* "Follow the money: Fracking billionaires funding anti-renewable energy propaganda cartoons:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/follow-the-money-fracking-billionaires-funding-anti-renewable-energy-propaganda-cartoons-192512069824

* "Pennsylvania school district requires social studies classes to incorporate right-wing propaganda:" https://popular.info/p/pennsylvania-school-district-requires

* "Florida school board votes not to recognise LGBTQ+ History Month:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/07/florida-school-board-lgbtq-history-month/

* "School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books:" https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

* "California passes anti-book ban bill for schools: ‘The true freedom state’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/california-book-bans-lgbtq-race-inclusive-schools/

* "Conservative book ban push fuels library exodus from national association that stands up for books:" https://apnews.com/article/library-book-ban-association-withdraw-7f5743a9e464433a745697f9111d7f6b

* ""Detransitioner Wave" Fails To Materialize, Trans Regret Rates Remain Low:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/detransitioner-wave-fails-to-materialize?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

* "Why aren’t we all being offered an autumn Covid booster? We can’t let cost prevent us keeping Britain healthy:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/autumn-covid-booster-britain-uk-vaccine-long-covid-economy

I hate linking to the Guardian because they hate people like me, but the Tories making Eugenics against disabled people their official public health policy isn't well covered anywhere not blatantly transphobic, so I'm doing it.

* "COVID Booster Is Coming, but Here’s Why You May Not Get It:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-booster-is-coming-but-cdc-hasnt-decided-who-is-eligible

* I always ask them to do my left as a matter of course. I now feel lucky. "Which arm gets the Covid-19 booster may make a difference, study shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/health/covid-vaccine-arm-wellness/index.html

* "How Black autistic women and girls are excluded from conversations on resources and research:" https://19thnews.org/2023/06/black-women-and-girls-autism-data/

* "Is It Real or Imagined? Here’s How Your Brain Tells the Difference:" https://www.wired.com/story/is-it-real-or-imagined-heres-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference/

* This doesn't surprise me even a little, given my Uncle's experiences. "Largest study of brains of athletes younger than 30 finds early signs of CTE even in amateur players :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/28/health/cte-younger-athletes/index.html




* "Where dangerous heat is surging:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/extreme-heat-wet-bulb-globe-temperature/

* "This Brutal Summer in 10 Alarming Maps and Graphs:" https://www.wired.com/story/this-brutal-summer-in-10-alarming-maps-and-graphs/

* "Climate-linked ills threaten humanity:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/pakistan-extreme-heat-health-impacts-death/

* "Maui’s Wildfire Recovery Is Haunted by the Specter of Colonialism:" https://newrepublic.com/article/175209/maui-wildfire-recovery-haunted-colonialism

* "‘Everything was gone in minutes’: How queer people on Maui came together after devastating wildfires:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/05/lgbtq-support-impact-maui-wildfires-hawaii/

* "Morocco earthquake kills more than 2,000 and damages historic Marrakech:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/africa/morocco-6-8-magnitude-earthquake-intl-hnk/index.html

* "In a Place Shattered by War and Earthquakes, People Feel Forgotten:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/world/middleeast/syria-earthquake-rebuilding.html

* "The Burning Man disaster is ‘a teachable moment’ about climate change:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/09/05/burning-man-exodus-flooding-climate-change/




* "A Cooler Future Means a World With Less Pavement:" https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/asphalt-pavement-climate-cities/

* "The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/03/kiwifarms-website-offline/

* "More than 11,000 years in jail for crypto firm founder :" https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/08/more-than-11000-years-in-jail-for-crypto-firm-founder

* "Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

* "With Elon Musk, Free Speech Comes at a Price:" https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-free-speech-price-man-sentenced-death-1824155

* "Elon Musk Blames Anti-Defamation League for Destroying Website He Ruined Himself:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-blames-anti-defamation-league-twitter-advertisting-revenue-antisemitism-1234818503/

* "Elon Musk Agrees to Libs of TikTok Request for X ‘Data Dump’ on Anti-Defamation League:" https://www.advocate.com/news/elon-musk-defends-chaya-raichik

* "X/Twitter executives had a very bad day defending Musk's platform:" https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-linda-yaccarino-interview-illegal-content

* "“How is still being on Twitter, for whatever reason, actually ‘handing money’ to [Musk and his fascist project]?:" https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/04/23/how-is-still-being-on-twitter-for-whatever-reason-actually-handing-money-to-musk-and-his-fascist-project/

* "Elon Musk’s X sues California over law meant to tackle hate speech on social media:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/elon-musk-x-sue-california-law-hate-speech-social-media/

* "Enough! Advertisers and Governments Must Dump Elon Musk.:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/enough-advertisers-and-governments-must-dump-elon-musk?ref=home?ref=home

* "The truth about Elon Musk and anti-Semitism :" https://popular.info/p/the-truth-about-elon-musk-and-anti

* Free speech doesn't mean free of consequences."Hey Elon: The ADL Convincing Advertisers To Run Away From Your Site Is Part Of The Free Speech You Pretend To Support :" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/05/hey-elon-the-adl-convincing-advertisers-to-run-away-from-your-site-is-part-of-the-free-speech-you-pretend-to-support/

* "Civil rights groups attacked by Elon Musk are mounting a counteroffensive:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/civil-rights-groups-attacked-elon-musk-are-mounting-counteroffensive-rcna103579

* "Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome:" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

* I remember a similar campaign with vaccinated sandwiches decades ago. This is so much cleverer. "The Massive Campaign to Air-Drop Tiny Rabies Vaccines to Raccoons:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-massive-campaign-to-air-drop-tiny-rabies-vaccines-to-raccoons/

* "Viking Age Tools and the Mighty Mästermyr Tool Chest:"

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* "Who was the 1920s Moulin Rouge Drag Queen that inspired Man Ray and Cocteau?:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/02/15/who-was-the-1920s-moulin-rouge-drag-queen-that-inspired-man-ray-and-cocteau/

* "SOME LIKE IT HOT: Secrets, Scandals, and Marilyn's Mystique:"

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* "Tribe getting piece of Minnesota back more than a century after ancestors died there:" https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-native-american-land-back-b09c0dc8dd6289a1545684e04599f94f

* "Smash Mouth's Former Lead Singer Steve Harwell Dead at 56:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/smash-mouth-steve-harwell-dead

* "See the wild, customized creations of Indonesia’s ‘rebel riders’:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/see-wild-creations-indonesia-vespa-rebel-riders

* "‘Back to school’ means anytime from late July to after Labor Day, depending on where in the U.S. you live:" https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/25/back-to-school-dates-u-s/

* "Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg:" https://www.gotheborg.se/news/rescue-of-sailing-boat/

* Wednesday was errands. Thursday, they upped my dose. After I got my flu vaccine. Between the two I'm a bit low grade ick, but it is so worth it. This year's flu is extra nasty. I'll take a few days of low grade meh over a month of illness and the risk of the hospital any day.

You might want to get yours soon.

Pharmacy is strict on the RSV age limit and isn't doing medical wavers. Given my immune system, I have hopes of the doctor giving me one despite being too young.

I hope to get the new COVID formulation next week.

Friday was the dentist. No cleaner, but it was a nobody's fault thing. She called Thursday morning while I was getting my jabs and I didn't check until it was to late to call back. she tried the call box out front, which doesn't work 98% of the time. When it does work, it may or may not ring and if it does all we get is static. She was gone when I checked. I was too tired and discouraged to cope with reschedule.

Did I mention today's random draw dentist looked and low key sounded like Colin Robinson? Because he did.

* "Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun:"

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* "Midnight Pals: The Fourth Estate:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/727555012038885377/midnight-pals-the-fourth-estate?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Publisher Assassins:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/727637341777297408/midnight-pals-publisher-assassins?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: FUCK THIS HOUSE:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/727733292100681728/brian-asman-submitted-for-the-approval-of-the?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Tapeworms:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/728004145119903744/midnight-pals-tapeworms?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.

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

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

* 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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "Guatemala presidential election: Unraveling the final candidates’ platforms:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/14/guatemala-presidential-election-unraveling-the-final-candidates-platforms

* "Guatemala presidential frontrunner to keep same-sex marriage illegal and run country with ‘fear of God’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/guatemalan-presidential-campaign-candidate-sandra-torres/

* "Let's talk about 2 things falling in Russia....:"

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* "Asylum seeker explains why ‘inhumane’ rhetoric is so hurtful: ‘See the person behind the story’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/11/asylum-seeker-refugee-rishi-sunak-lee-anderson-bisexual/

* "How the ECHR has transformed LGBTQ+ rights in the UK, as Tories consider leaving it:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/echr-rwanda-lgbtq-rights/

* Doesn't undo the trauma of the police brutalizing her though. "Autistic girl arrested over ‘lesbian nanna’ comment to face no further action, police say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/autistic-girl-arrest-west-yorkshire-police/




* "Ukraine says two killed in Russian shelling of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia regions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-two-killed-russian-shelling-kharkiv-zaporizhzhia-regions-2023-08-12/

* "Ukraine briefing: Russian shelling kills 7, including infant, in Kherson; cargo ship fired on in Black Sea:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/13/russia-ukraine-war-news/

* "Crimea Bridge Strikes 'Continue To Disrupt' Russian Logistics: ISW:" https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-russia-crimea-bridge-chonhar-kerch-strait-logistics-1819386




* "Student Loan Bills Are Higher Than Mortgage Payments for Some Borrowers:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-16/student-loan-payments-restart-borrowers-will-pay-more-than-their-mortgage?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj

* "More than 800,000 student loan borrowers are getting billions of dollars in debt forgiveness this week:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-loan-forgiveness-income-driven-repayment-plans-president-biden/

* "Fed officials see ‘upside risks’ to inflation possibly leading to more rate hikes, minutes show:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/16/fed-meeting-minutes-signal-coming-rate-moves.html

* "U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 7.16%, highest since 2001:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-mortgage-interest-rates-jump-716-highest-since-2001-2022-10-26/

* "Let's talk about Colorado, Alabama, and a General's house....:"

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* "Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin blasts GOP senator's blockade of military promotions as 'unnecessary' and 'unsafe':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-blasts-gop-senators-blockade-military-p-rcna99759

* "LGBTQ+ Community Centers: Invaluable, Imperiled:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/republicans-target-lgbtq-community-centers

* "Number of Homeless Americans Rises at Record Rate:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/number-of-homeless-americans-rises-at-record-rate-wsj

* "Texas man ticketed for feeding the homeless outside Houston library is found not guilty:" https://apnews.com/article/houston-homeless-feeding-food-not-bombs-not-guilty-530a5e5931fc6db8f0ab7d51b2331492

* "Let's talk about Texas, definitions, and people....:"

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* "Grindr Accused of Union Busting: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/business/grindr-union-busting-accusations

* "Marvel VFX Artists Will Vote to Unionize:" https://www.wired.com/story/marvel-vfx-unionization-big-deal/

* "Unionizing the Skies with Sara Nelson:"

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* "Democrat-turned-Republican who's now pushing for a Biden impeachment inquiry once opposed doing the same for Trump because it lacked 'bipartisan support' and would 'divide the country':" https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-van-drew-democrat-republican-impeachment-inquiry-bipartisan-support-2023-8

* "Democrats call for hearing to ‘investigate attacks on democracy’ after DeSantis suspension of state attorney:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4148046-democrats-call-for-hearing-investigate-attacks-on-democracy-after-desantis-suspension-of-state-attorney/

* "Trans military bans undermine ‘very essence of the American Dream’, says Marine vet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/marine-corps-veteran-lgbtq-trans-inclusion-military-ban/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Groups Back New Kids Online Safety Act: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/law/kosa-anti-lgbtq-groups

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* 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

* "Judge calls new Texas election law unconstitutional but state says it will appeal ruling:" https://apnews.com/article/voting-texas-elections-harris-county-unconstitutional-2f0ee4a3a4bee1b673782544c39e36a9

* "Let's talk about the GOP trying again in Ohio....:"

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* "Let's talk about a GOP constitutional amendment....:"

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* This is terrorism. "Violent threats against public officials are rising. Here's why:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/12/1193463117/violent-threats-against-public-officials-are-rising-heres-why

* "The President touts "Bidenomics" as administration tries to sell economic message:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/the-president-touts-bidenomics-as-administration-tries-to-sell-economic-message-190735941627

* "Vivek Ramaswamy: LGBTQ+ People Created 'Tyranny of the Minority':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-lgbtq-people-tyranny

* "Mike Pence Runs Out of Gas:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/mike-pence-out-gas

* "Asa Hutchinson: I will prosecute Trump at the debate—whether he's there or not:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/asa-hutchinson-i-will-prosecute-trump-at-the-debate-whether-he-s-there-or-not-191148613887

* "Orlando Magic Donates $50K to Ron DeSantis Super PAC:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-orlando-magic

* "DeSantis replaces campaign manager as he struggles to catch up to Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/08/ron-desantis-replaces-campaign-manager-00110253

* "‘This belongs in the Smithsonian’: Inside the meme video operation that swallowed Ron DeSantis’ campaign:" https://www.semafor.com/article/07/31/2023/desantis-meme-factory

* "DeSantis’ leaked debate memo leads us to ask: Is this guy for real?

* "Ron DeSantis Instructed to ‘Show Emotion’ at GOP Debate: Leaked Memo:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-debate-memo

* "How Should DeSantis Handle Trump? Strategists Suggest Dropping Out or Becoming a Different Person.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/desantis-trump-campaign-primary-political-operatives-advice.html

* "How a weird McConnell video may explain the embarrassing leak of DeSantis' debate strategy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-a-weird-mcconnell-video-may-explain-the-embarrassing-leak-of-desantis-debate-strategy-191079493824

* "McConnell's Legacy in Flames as Trump Crime Show Swamps GOP:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/mcconnell-legacy-trump-crime-show

* "Spiraling Legal Bills Threaten Trump With a Cash Crunch:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/donald-trump-legal-bills-campaign.html

* "Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis is crowdfunding her Georgia indictment defense fees:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194133648/former-trump-attorney-jenna-ellis-is-crowdfunding-her-georgia-indictment-defense

* "Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak':" https://www.rawstory.com/trump-evangelicals-2663078391/

* "DeSantis’ ‘anti-woke’ bills are costing Florida millions of dollars in business:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/06/economy/florida-convention-business-cancellations/index.html

* Republican Matt Gaetz is openly calling for Republicans to violently overthrow the government so a Republican fascist dictatorship can put an end to the rule of law. They aren't even pretending that's not the goal any more. "Congressman Matt Gaetz declares only “force” can bring change in Washington as he defends Trump in Iowa:" https://www.msnbc.com/american-voices/watch/congressman-matt-gaetz-declares-only-force-can-bring-change-in-washington-as-he-defends-trump-in-iowa-190749765584

* "Florida Republican chairman wants ‘perverted’ parents of LGBTQ+ youth to leave the state:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/florida-republicans-ron-desantis-christian-ziegler/

* "Republican Reportedly Called Child 'F*g' Then Sued News Outlet for Covering It:" https://www.advocate.com/media/wisconsin-lawsuit-republican-antigay-slurs

* "Texas Republican Sarah Davis explains how she became a trans ally: ‘It was very simple’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/texas-republican-sarah-davis-trans-lgbtq-campaign/

* "A former fundraiser for Rep. George Santos has been charged with wire fraud and identity theft:" https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-fundraiser-indicted-congress-new-york-565b0a82e6ca2ceb6c69d1978254ac5b

* "Tennessee Republican with Anti-LGBTQ+ History Sentenced in Campaign Finance Case:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/tennessee-lawmaker-prison-campaign-finance

* "Police video shows Rep. Ronny Jackson swearing at Texas officers :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/14/police-video-shows-rep-ronny-jackson-swearing-at-texas-officers-00111204

* "Republican finds limit to his 'back the blue' stance in aggressive arrest:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republican-finds-limit-to-his-back-the-blue-stance-in-aggressive-arrest-190998597831

* "Canadian woman sentenced to nearly 22 years for 2020 ricin letter sent to Trump in White House:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/canadian-woman-sentenced-22-years-2020-ricin-letter-102348326




* CW: Sexual Assault "Trump counterclaim against E. Jean Carroll dismissed, DA can get deposition:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/07/judge-trump-deposition-in-e-jean-carroll-case-can-go-to-prosecutors.html

* "How Fani Willis oversaw what might be the most sprawling legal case against Donald Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-investigation-fani-willis-indictment-32bfdd2cca9d3184056836b208a78379

* "Special prosecutor will examine actions of Georgia’s lieutenant governor in Trump election meddling:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-investigation-burt-jones-willis-16e76d68ca32a9b705b440c0c5098ef0

* "Trump, allies charged with racketeering scheme over bid to subvert election in Georgia:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/14/fulton-county-trump-indictment-00111211

* "Trump is indicted in Georgia on charges of racketeering. What it means, what happens next:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/15/trump-indicted-georgia-explained/

* "Trump, Giuliani, Sidney Powell Among Many Indicted by Georgia Jury:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/trump-giuliani-powell-indicted-georgia

* "2 Chicago-area people indicted with Trump, accused of trying to overturn Georgia election results:" https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2023/8/15/23832765/trevian-kutti-stephen-lee-indicted-trump-overturn-georgia-election-results

* "DA seeks March 4 trial date for Trump Georgia election case:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/16/da-seeks-march-4-trial-date-for-trump-georgia-election-case.html

* "4 things revealed by Trump’s Georgia indictment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/15/takeaways-trump-georgia-indictment/

* "How Donald Trump tried to undo his loss in Georgia in 2020:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2023/trump-georgia-election-investigation/?itid=hp-more-top-stories_p005_f004

* "Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system breach:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump/index.html

* "Georgia State Sen. Elena Parent on Donald Trump's New Indictments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-indictments-georgia-elena-parent

* "A human face on the real victims: Georgia indictments offer some justice to maligned election workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/georgia-indictments-offer-some-justice-to-maligned-election-workers-190832197692

* "‘Ludicrous’: Hayes on GOP’s ‘painful’ defense of Trump after 4th indictment:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ludicrous-hayes-on-gop-s-painful-defense-of-trump-after-4th-indictment-190899269953

* "Former Kanye publicist named in Trump Georgia case; could mean justice for election workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/former-kanye-publicist-named-in-trump-georgia-case-could-mean-justice-for-election-workers-190907973608

* "Giuliani finds himself on the wrong end of his favorite anti-Mafia tool in Georgia case:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/giuliani-finds-himself-on-the-wrong-end-of-his-favorite-anti-mafia-tool-in-georgia-case-190908485946

* "Let's talk about how Trump's Georgia case is different....:"

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* "Authorities investigating threats to grand jurors who indicted Trump in Georgia:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-indictment-threats-grand-jurors-b489aea1bf8210224d1500895830528d

* "Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/names-addresses-grand-jurors-georgia-trump-indictment-posted-online-rcna100239

* "Distressing but unsurprising: Targets of Trump vitriol face real threats from his followers:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/distressing-but-unsurprising-targets-of-trump-vitriol-face-real-threats-from-his-followers-190998085969

* "Hayes: Trump is ‘obviously’ fomenting violence against judges, prosecutors:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-is-obviously-fomenting-violence-against-judges-prosecutors-191067717906

* "Mark Meadows seeks to move Georgia prosecution to federal court:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/15/meadows-georgia-case-federal-court-00111382

* "Mark Meadows seeks to move Georgia conspiracy case to federal court:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mark-meadows-seeks-to-move-georgia-conspiracy-case-to-federal-court-190902853685

* "Texas woman accused of threatening to kill judge overseeing Trump election case and a congresswoman:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-tanya-chutkan-judge-threats-texas-7d90ad3c8b552b49e269a3f842a6700c

* "With new indictments, things get real for Trump's fake electors:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/with-new-indictments-things-get-real-for-trump-s-fake-electors-190909509844

* "Special counsel obtained Trump DMs despite ‘momentous’ bid by Twitter to delay, unsealed filings show :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/15/special-counsel-obtained-trump-twitter-howell-00111410

* "Judge suggests Elon Musk withheld Twitter data to ‘cozy up’ to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/judge-suggests-elon-musk-withheld-twitter-data-to-cozy-up-to-trump-190992965683

* "Third defendant in Trump classified documents case pleads not guilty:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/15/trump-classified-docs-carlos-de-oliveira-00111252

* "Feds say Trump not entitled to ‘special treatment’ in documents case:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/14/feds-say-trump-not-entitled-to-special-treatment-in-documents-case.html

* "“Dopey and Constitutionally Dubious”: Legal Experts Blast Judge Aileen Cannon’s Latest Pro-Trump Rulings:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/egal-experts-blast-judge-aileen-cannons-latest-pro-trump-rulings

* "Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/04/feds-alert-judge-to-trumps-if-you-go-after-me-im-coming-after-you-post-00109944

* "Trump attacks special counsel Jack Smith and judge assigned to 2020 election case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attacks-special-counsel-jack-smith-judge-assigned-2020-election-rcna98518

* "Judge warns Trump: ‘Inflammatory’ statements about election case could speed trial :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/11/judge-warns-trump-speed-trial-00110870

* "Trump co-conspirator said plan was to use military to put down opposition to him staying in office:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/01/the-plan-was-to-use-military-to-put-down-any-opposition-to-trump-staying-in-office-after-election-loss.html

* "Let's talk about Trump revealing his emotional state....:"

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* "Trump seeks trial on election interference charges in 2026:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/17/trump-election-trial-date-proposal-00111775

* "Keeping Track of the Trump Investigations:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/trump-investigations-charges-indictments.html




* "Prosecutors seek 30-year sentences for Proud Boys leaders in Jan. 6 case :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/17/30-year-sentence-proud-boys-jan-6-00111796

* "Feds seek 30 years in prison for Philly Proud Boys president Zach Rehl’s role in Jan. 6 attack:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/zach-rehl-proud-boys-sentence-january-6th-capitol-riot-20230818.html

* "Prosecutors seek 33-year sentence for Volusia County Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs:" https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/courts/2023/08/18/prosecutors-seek-33-years-prison-for-volusia-county-proud-boys-leader/70617676007/

* "Pezzola sentencing set for Aug. 29, government recommends 20 years for participation in Capitol Riot:" https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/top-stories/pezzola-sentencing-set-for-aug-29-government-recommends-20-years-for-participation-capitol-riot-january-6-jan/

* "Top Proud Boys lieutenant thinks he should walk free for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy conviction, while feds want decades:" https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/top-proud-boys-lieutenant-thinks-he-should-walk-free-for-jan-6-seditious-conspiracy-conviction-while-feds-want-decades/

* "Proud Boy on house arrest in Jan. 6 case disappears ahead of sentencing:" https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-capitol-attack-proud-boy-1341d4596fb96ee2828b54d70ef7e126

* "Bomb threats and ‘swatting’ campaign hits dozens of synagogues:" https://forward.com/news/557648/bomb-threats-and-swatting-campaign-hits-dozens-of-synagogues/?amp=1

* "2 synagogues evacuated during livestreamed Shabbat services as wave of bomb threats enters 4th week:" https://www.jta.org/2023/08/14/united-states/2-synagogues-evacuated-during-livestreamed-shabbat-services-as-wave-of-bomb-threats-enters-4th-week

* "Fullerton synagogue evacuated during Sabbath service due to bomb threat:" https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/fullerton-synagogue-evacuated-during-sabbath-service-due-to-bomb-threat/3204919/?amp=1

* "Proud Boys, III%ers, and MAGA radicals target drag story hour in San Diego:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/proud-boys-iii-ers-and-maga-radicals-target-drag-story-hour-in-san-diego

* "Armed Neo-Nazis With Swastika Flags Disrupt Wisconsin Pride Event:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gays-against-groomers-neo-nazis

* "North Carolina Drag Show Postponed After Man Arrested Over Death Threats:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/north-carolina-drag-show-threats

* This is Terrorism. "Oregon Medical Clinic Received Bomb Threat After Libs of TikTok Spotlight:" https://www.advocate.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-oregon-bomb

* "Illinois to outlaw gun advertisements that appeal to children, pose safety threat:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/illinois-to-outlaw-gun-advertisements-that-appeal-to-children-pose-safety-threat

* CW: Child Death "Child shoots and kills another child with a rifle moments after they were playing with Nerf guns, Alaska troopers say:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-child-shoots-kills-child-with-rifle-after-playing-nerf-guns/

* "How Police Make Up The Law:"

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* CW: Rape and Torture. This is a really bad one, folks. Read at your own risk. "Mississippi “Goon Squad” Cops Plead Guilty to Racist Dildo and Taser Attacks:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/goon-squad-mississippi-police

* "All Charges Dropped Against Trans Man Beaten by Cop in Video:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-man-california-cop

* "Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones:" https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

* "The ‘Stop Cop City’ Movement Is Vandalizing Pro-Police Companies Across the US:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ak8xy/stop-cop-city-movement-bigger-than-atlanta

* "Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817

* "Ex-Denver Postal Worker Goes on Bizarre Rant at Target While in Blackface: Video:" https://www.advocate.com/news/racist-former-usps-worker-blackface

* "A Gay Conservative Wrote a Fawning Tome on Tucker Carlson. It Flopped:" https://www.advocate.com/media/gay-conservative-tucker-carlson-book

* "Texas Sued Over 'Unconstitutional' Drag Ban by ACLU:" https://www.advocate.com/law/aclu-sues-texas-drag-ban

* "DeSantis' Florida approves classroom videos that compare climate activists to Nazis:" https://www.rawstory.com/prageru-florida-2662923106/

* "Kids' Cartoon From Conservative University Claims That Slavery Was 'No Big Deal' :" https://www.comicsands.com/prager-university-cartoon-justifies-slavery-2663089717.html

* "Will Florida Teachers Still Be Punished for Teaching AP Psychology?:" https://www.advocate.com/education/ap-psychology-florida-ban-confusion

* "Ron DeSantis’ Attempt to Erase Trans People From Florida Schools Is Now Underway:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/florida-ron-desantis-attacks-trans-students-teachers.html

* "Florida School District Bans Trans Employees From Using Their Pronouns:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-employees-pronouns-ban-florida

* "Florida town, students fight to preserve record against state's war on Black history:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/florida-town-students-fight-to-preserve-record-against-state-s-war-on-black-history-191154757893

* "A Bill Proposed a New Way to Teach History. It Got the History Wrong.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/us/virginia-lincoln-douglas-debates-bill.html

* "Maryland Parents Ask Judge to Allow Students to Avoid LGBTQ+ Books:" https://www.advocate.com/law/maryland-parents-optout-lgbtq-books

* "Georgia Teacher Fired for Reading Gender-Inclusive Book Appeals Decision:" https://www.advocate.com/education/georgia-teacher-appeals-firing-book

* "Idaho ‘teacher of the year’ winner flees state after attacks on her pro-LGBTQ+ views:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/idaho-teacher-of-the-year-lgbtq-black-lives-matter-flees-illinois/

* "Question on Sexually Explicit School Library Books Upsets Virginia Parents:" https://www.advocate.com/education/sexually-explicit-book-question-spotsylvania

* "Far Right Attacks It Gets Better After Group Donates $600k to Students:" https://www.advocate.com/news/it-gets-better-project-grants

* "Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Targeting Books & Librarians:" https://www.advocate.com/law/arkansas-judge-blocks-librarian-criminalization

* "Longtime Wyoming Library Director Fired For Refusing to Scrap Shelves of LGBTQ+ Books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/wyoming-library-director-fired-lgbtq

* "Starting next year, child influencers can sue if earnings aren't set aside, says new Illinois law:" https://www.kcra.com/article/starting-next-year-child-influencers-can-sue-if-earnings-arent-set-aside-says-new-illinois-law/44802567

* "MAGA judge: Abortion pill robs doctors ‘joy’ of fetus pictures:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maga-judge-abortion-pill-robs-doctors-joy-of-fetus-pictures-191071301834

* "Let's talk about evil in a religious context....:"

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* "LGBTQ+ People Are Facing Increased Persecution, Violence, Ethiopian Activists Say:" https://www.advocate.com/world/ethiopia-anti-lgbtq-crackdown

* "UK government announces crackdown on gender-neutral toilets:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/13/gender-neutral-toilets-policy-kemi-badenoch/

* "UK crackdown on gender-neutral bathrooms could put trans people in danger – just look at the US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/bathroom-ban-use-gender-neutral-us-uk-trans/

* "Two Brewers staff praised for ‘exemplary’ work protecting customers after Clapham stabbing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/two-brewers-london-clapham-stabbing-lgbtq-gay/

* "Give us teachers more time to teach about LGBTQ+ lives – it could make all the difference:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/rse-relationships-sex-education-teachers-lgbt/

* "Transgender Woman Violently Attacked in Palm Springs, Video Shows:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/palm-springs-trans-woman-attacked

* "Chess regulator effectively bans trans women from competitive play for two years: ‘These are dark days’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/chess-regulator-fide-trans-women/

* "Right-wingers are threatening to boycott yet another brand – this time, it’s Skittles:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/skittles-boycott-black-lives-matter-pride/

* "What Are the New Guidelines for Gay and Bi Men Donating Blood?:" https://www.advocate.com/health/blood-donation-gay-discrimination-ends

* "Michael Oher, former NFL tackle known for ‘The Blind Side,’ sues to end Tuohys’ conservatorship:" https://apnews.com/article/nfl-movie-blind-side-michael-oher-tuohys-c2593f08f8788db5ee267b9a23007c6d

I avoided that movie because it reeked of white savior complex. The fact that it was all a fraud to steal from Mr. Oher, is unfortunately not a huge surprise.

* Hint for Florida: if you put someone who thinks demons cause disease, not pathogens, in charge of public Health for your state, horrible shit happens. If the party in charge is committed to killing constituents with contagious disease for political gain, horrible things happen.

* "Dengue is breaking records in the Americas — what’s behind the surge?:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02423-w

* "Let's talk about dengue in Florida....:"

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* "Dengue spreads to Broward County; 10 people in FL have gotten sick this year:" https://floridaphoenix.com/blog/dengue-spreads-to-broward-county-10-people-in-fl-have-gotten-sick-this-year/

* "In Florida's local malaria outbreak, forgotten bite led to surprise hospitalization :" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/26/1189852024/in-floridas-local-malaria-outbreak-forgotten-bite-led-to-surprise-hospitalizatio

* "Texas man diagnosed with ‘medieval’ illness after rash:" https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/texas-man-diagnosed-with-medieval-illness-after-rash/news-story/f180247bbfc5f3904b7344336c699e0b

* "Florida leprosy cases highlighted in recent report aren’t linked to COVID-19 vaccines:" https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-florida-leprosy-cases-cdc-covid-vaccines-352032756100

* "How leprosy arrived in Florida, and how it is spreading: New clues are emerging:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/08/07/how-leprosy-arrived-in-florida-and-how-it-is-spreading-new-clues-are-emerging/

* "Traveling to Florida or Texas? Here’s what CT experts say about reports of malaria, dengue fever, even leprosy :" https://www.courant.com/2023/08/14/traveling-to-florida-or-texas-heres-what-ct-experts-say-about-reports-of-malaria-dengue-fever-even-leprosy/

* "A woman with a severe peanut allergy says airline staff laughed at her and ignored her requests when she tried to fly to Costa Rica:" https://www.insider.com/woman-severe-peanut-allergy-says-airline-staff-laughed-at-her-2023-7?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&mibextid=2JQ9oc

* CW: Suicide. "US suicides hit an all-time high last year:" https://apnews.com/article/suicides-record-2022-guns-48511d74deb24d933e66cec1b6f2d545




* "Rising Temperatures Are Wreaking Havoc Year-Round:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-global-warming-impacts-data/?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Let's talk about heat, pavement, and Arizona mostly....:"

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* "Hawaii governor addresses sirens failure and 'grim' aftermath of Maui wildfire:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/hawaii-governor-addresses-sirens-failure-and-grim-aftermath-of-maui-wildfire-190735941609

* "Video puts scrutiny on possible cause of Maui wildfire:" https://abc7ny.com/maui-fires-hawaii-wildfire-hawaiian-electric-lawsuit-power-lines/13657819/

* "Maui’s emergency services chief resigns after facing criticism for not activating sirens during fire:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-wildfires-recovery-maui-lahaina-land-c8cfcacd2e63bdcd66ec13f2963cea8e

* "Left unchecked, Maui’s nonnative grasses turned into wildfire fuel:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/maui-wildfires-grass-overgrown-nonnative-flammable-hawaii-rcna99963

* "Maui wildfire crews continue to fight "flare-ups" in Lahaina and inland, as death toll rises to 93:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maui-wildfires-crews-flare-ups-lahaina-upcountry-inland-death-toll-rises/

* "How did the Maui fire start? What we know about the cause of the Lahaina blaze:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-did-maui-fire-start-cause-lahaina-hawaii-wildfire/

* "How Invasive Plants Caused the Maui Fires to Rage:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/hawaii-wildfire-factors.html

* "Fires and other disasters are increasing in Hawaii, according to this AP data analysis:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-fires-disaster-declarations-0344e3c954db7e0635cdaa8e87e25c92

* "Let's talk about Hawaii and theories....:"

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* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* "Lookout Fire ‘growing rapidly’ in Lane County:" https://www.koin.com/news/wildfires/lookout-fire-growing-rapidly-in-lane-county/

* "Rare New England tornado lifts car from a highway as strong storms damage homes and flood roads:" https://apnews.com/article/new-england-tornado-60bdefd4dda026f349c76f17faa29975

* "Powerful Hurricane Hilary heads for Mexico’s Baja. Rare tropical storm watch issued for California:" https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-hilary-baja-california-arizona-406a3f7474eacb6222cedc33993d4657

* "‘Rare and historic’: California under first-ever tropical storm watch:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-rare-and-historic-california-under-first-ever-tropical-storm-watch-191149125707




* "Montana judge sides with youth in historic climate trial:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/14/montana-judge-sides-with-youth-in-climate-trial-00107668

* "Let's talk about Held v Montana and a win....:"

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* "The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/12/climate/clean-energy-us-fossil-fuels.html

* "The first generation of solar panels will wear out. A recycling industry is taking shape:" https://apnews.com/article/recycle-solar-panel-circular-economy-sustainability-dc7284bab2180b5bd86ff5cb5c847652

* "It Gets Better Steps Back From Twitter/X Over Hate Speech Concerns:" https://www.advocate.com/business/it-gets-better-stops-twitter

* "Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law Taking Effect Next Month:" https://www.advocate.com/law/pornhub-lawsuit-texas

* "I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires):" https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/

* "Bot Therapy and Informed Consent:" https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/discords-kokobot-triggers-an-ethics-controversy/

* "Extreme Weather Is Coming. Someone Has to Tell the Chimps.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/science/extreme-weather-chimpanzees.html

* "Ailing and baby hummingbirds nursed to health at woman’s apartment-turned-clinic in Mexico City:" https://apnews.com/article/mexico-hummingbirds-clinic-3f8247ca7957416aa97ccbb7b2f1aca8

* "Why Do Archaeologists Rebury Their Excavations?:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-do-archaeologists-rebury-their-excavations-180982542/

* "The Canterbury Tales, or, How Technology Changes The Way We Speak: The London History Show:"

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* "On The Fairy Dog Petitcrieu, Who Cuts In Half All Sorrows:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/on-the-fairy-dog-petitcrieu-who-cuts?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=135893278&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

* "This book vanished when Anne Boleyn was executed. Now it reveals her secrets.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/anne-boleyn-book-of-hours-ultraviolet-hever

* "In Colonial Williamsburg, Thieving Rats Save History:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/colonial-williamsburg-bray-school-rat-nest-archaeology

* "Vintage Photos of Babies Learning to Walk Using Wicker Walkers, 1900s-1920s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wicker-walker-old-photos/

* "Heartstopper star Joe Locke wants people to ‘learn their boundaries’ after privacy violations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/09/heartstopper-season-two-joe-locke-people-need-boundaries-grandma/

* I am still catching up financially from the car repairs. I had a choice to buy 2 out of these three: cat little, kibbles, and gas. I chose the kibbles and gas as they were nearly out and necessary, and I had hopes of the litter lasting the month. It's not going to. If you could kick in a little for litter, it would cut down on Tavy getting creative which he has done three times this week: paypal.me/Gwydion

* "If Republicans Said the Quiet Parts Loud:"

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* "Warrior Nun gets resurrected as film trilogy after massive fan campaign: ‘We made history’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/warrior-nun-returns-film-trilogy-cancelled-netflix-fan-reactions/

* "Death on the Nile ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "Midnight Pals: Once Upon a Time in Delain:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725655545417252864/midnight-pals-once-upon-a-time-in-delain?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Chesssss:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725836407952785409/midnight-pals-chesssss?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: BBC:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725926403116236800/midnight-pals-bbc?source=share

*****
* 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.

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

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

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* 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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "Ethiopia just ended one war. Is another one beginning?:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopia-just-ended-one-war-is-another-one-beginning-2023-08-08/

* "The Taliban Won but These Afghans Fought On:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-resistance.html

* "Colombia begins a six-month cease-fire with its last remaining rebel group in hopes of forging peace-:" https://apnews.com/article/colombia-eln-guerrilla-peace-agreement-cease-fire-0a35f7f2e0e9b0818c8a2cd4b02ee3ff

* "German far right picks EU lead candidate, wants European anti-migrant ‘fortress’ :" https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-alternative-fur-deutschland-european-parliament-election-maximilian-krah-migration/

* "Thousands protest against Germany's far-right AfD party:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-protest-against-germanys-far-right-afd-party-2023-07-29/

* "UK government threatens asylum seekers who refused to board ‘barbaric’ Bibby Stockholm barge:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/08/government-stockholm-bibby-barge-asylum/

* "Tory Splits Erupt Over Calls For UK To Quit European Court Of Human Rights:" https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/tory-splits-erupt-over-calls-120152751.html

* "Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/10/west-yorkshire-police-lesbian-autistic/




* "Two dead after Russian attack on Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/three-dead-after-russian-attack-ukraines-zaporizhzhia-zelenskiy-says-2023-08-09/

* "Ukraine’s elite forces rely on technology to strike behind enemy lines:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/06/ukraine-special-forces-alpha-counteroffensive/

* "Ukrainian Troops Trained by the West Stumble in Battle:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/us/politics/ukraine-troops-counteroffensive-training.html

* "Land mines left by Russian forces in Ukraine pose a deadly threat to Kyiv's military - and civilians in liberated territory.:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/LANDMINES/myvmgnqbavr/index.html

* "The Kakhovka Dam’s destruction by suspected Russian sabotage has made the Ukrainian land itself a casualty of war.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/07/ukraine-kakhovka-dam-destruction-gallery/674806/

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Rising domestic violence is a hidden front in Ukraine's war:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/rising-domestic-violence-is-hidden-front-ukraines-war-2023-08-03/




* "USAID Releases Historic LGBTQ-Inclusive Development Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/usaid-lgbtq-policy

* "Biden sets new rules restricting U.S. investments in China:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/09/biden-investment-rules-hits-chinese-chip-ai-computing-00110488

* "Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant:" https://apnews.com/article/utah-biden-fbi-assassination-threat-ba3cc1d3b2f6cca8bd429febdcf04219

* "Biden to create monument around the Grand Canyon :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/08/biden-to-create-monument-around-grand-canyon-ee-00110197

* "Garland names special counsel in Hunter Biden investigation:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1193465237/hunter-biden-investigation-special-counsel

* "'Blinking red light' scandal of Kushner's Saudi billions looms as GOP faceplants on Hunter Biden :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-blinking-red-light-scandal-of-kushner-s-saudi-billions-looms-as-gop-faceplants-on-hunter-biden-190605381647

* "First Family scandals hardly unique to Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/first-family-scandals-hardly-unique-to-biden-190683205920

* "Right-Wing Think Tank Family Research Council Is Now a Church in Eyes of the IRS:" https://www.propublica.org/article/family-research-council-irs-church-status

* "Divided Supreme Court allows ‘ghost gun’ rule to take effect:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/08/supreme-court-ghost-guns-00110294

* "Let's talk about Alabama and SCOTUS....:"

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* "“Is Fish Meat?” One Justice’s Answer Shows Why the Supreme Court Is So Broken.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/is-fish-meat-scalia-supreme-court-broken.html#:~:text=The%20concept%20of%20identity-protective%20cognition%20helps%20explain%20Justice,to%20his%20group%20identity%20as%20a%20practicing%20Catholic.

* " Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel:" https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court

* "‘Shockingly corrupt’: Hayes shreds ‘kept man’ Clarence Thomas over megadonor deals:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-shockingly-corrupt-hayes-shreds-kept-man-clarence-thomas-over-megadonor-deals-190596677661

* "'Jaw-dropping': New report details extent of billionaires' luxury gifts to Clarence Thomas:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-jaw-dropping-new-report-details-extent-of-billionaires-luxury-gifts-to-clarence-thomas-190602309665

* "Inside the campaign to turn Justice Clarence Thomas into a 'cultural icon':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-inside-the-campaign-to-turn-justice-clarence-thomas-into-a-cultural-icon-190702661557

* "Houston just started enforcing a decade-old ban on feeding the homeless. Volunteers are fighting back.:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/housing/article/food-not-bombs-charitable-feeding-homeless-tickets-18108568.php

* "Texas Charity Workers Have Been Ticketed For Feeding The Homeless More Than 40 Times — For Up To $2K Each Time:" https://www.yourtango.com/news/texas-volunteers-ticketed-feeding-homeless

* "Laura Ingraham Says Finding 'Sufficient Proof' Against Biden 'Is Irrelevant'—And Yeah, That Tracks:" https://secondnexus.com/ingraham-biden-proof-irrelevant-archer?Mastodon

* If their cause is as just as they claim, why do they build all their arguments for it on lies? "Five Myths In The House Anti-Trans Hearing Against Gender Affirming Care:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/five-myths-in-the-house-anti-trans

* "GOP Declares War on HIV Program as Dr. Fauci Rings Alarm:" https://www.advocate.com/health/gop-war-hiv-fauci

* "Congress Amended KOSA, But It's Still A Censorship Bill:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/congress-amended-kosa-its-still-censorship-bill

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* 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

* "Reflecting on 58 years since the signing of the Voting Rights Act:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/reflecting-on-58-years-since-the-signing-of-the-voting-rights-act-190120005849

* "Warnock: We saw Jan. 6 ‘metastasize into voter suppression laws’ across America:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/warnock-we-saw-jan-6-metastasize-into-voter-suppression-laws-across-america-190394949964

* "Spotlight on Michigan:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/spotlight-on-michigan-190119493603

* "Michigan has charged its Trump ‘fake electors.’ What about the other 6 states?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/michigan-has-charged-its-trump-fake-electors-what-about-the-other-6-states-190595653873

* "Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights:" https://apnews.com/article/ohio-abortion-rights-constitutional-amendment-special-election-227cde039f8d51723612878525164f1a

* "Ohio Issue 1 fails in key victory for abortion rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ohio-issue-1-fails-in-key-victory-for-abortion-rights-190394949874

* "Abortion’s role as an electoral litmus test hasn’t faded a year after Supreme Court decision overturning Roe:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/politics/cnn-poll-abortion-electoral-litmus-test-supreme-court/

* "‘5-alarm fire’ for GOP: Abortion rights have won in every post-Roe election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-5-alarm-fire-for-gop-abortion-rights-have-won-in-every-post-roe-election-190488133584

* "Conservatives have already written a climate plan for Trump’s second term:" https://www.eenews.net/articles/battle-plan-how-the-far-right-would-dismantle-climate-programs/?utm_medium=email

* "Indicted ex-president celebrates America’s World Cup defeat in ‘deranged’ rant:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/indicted-ex-president-celebrates-america-s-world-cup-defeat-in-deranged-rant-190293061686

* "‘No, thanks’: GOP voters, major donors losing interest in the DeSantis ‘war on woke’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-no-thanks-gop-voters-major-donors-losing-interest-in-the-desantis-war-on-woke-190296133550

* "The ‘Death Star’ Bill Is About Kneecapping Democracy in Texas:" https://www.texasobserver.org/death-star-hb-2127-democracy/

* "DeSantis suspends elected Florida state attorney Monique Worrell, accusing her of being soft on crime:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/desantis-suspends-elected-florida-state-attorney-monique-worrell.html

* "Greg Gutfeld seems to think Nazis only killed useless Jews in the Holocaust:" https://boingboing.net/2023/07/25/greg-gutfeld-seems-to-think-nazis-only-killed-useless-jews-in-the-holocaust.html




* "The Trump fraud case you forgot about: Scammy scheme lawsuit unnoticed among big cases:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-trump-fraud-case-you-forgot-about-scammy-scheme-lawsuit-unnoticed-among-big-cases-190314053542

* "Trump valet pleads not guilty in classified documents case; property manager’s arraignment postponed:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/10/trump-walt-nauta-00110658

* "People Are Lying To You About The Trump Indictment:" https://popehat.substack.com/p/people-are-lying-to-you-about-the?sd=pf

* "Newly revealed memo details fake elector plot to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/secret-memo-details-trump-plot-to-overturn-2020-loss-to-biden-report.html

* "Maddow: As states take lead on fake elector probes, Trump's role a likely endpoint:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-as-states-take-lead-on-fake-elector-probes-trump-s-role-a-likely-endpoint-190316101988

* "Trump judge in docs case makes misguided argument curiously similar to Fox News guest: Weissmann:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-judge-in-docs-case-makes-misguided-argument-curiously-similar-to-fox-news-guest-weissmann-190400581847

* "Trump's Twitter habit comes back to haunt him; Here's what a search warrant might reveal:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-twitter-habit-comes-back-to-haunt-him-here-s-what-a-search-warrant-might-reveal-190497349925

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter Delayed a Search Warrant for Trump’s Account:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174936/elon-musks-twitter-held-search-warrant-trumps-account

* "The Trump Conspiracy Indictment in DC Is Bad:"

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* "Judge in Trump Jan. 6 case issues order limiting use of "sensitive" material:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-protective-order-january-6-case-judge-hearing/

* "Judge emphasizes Trump 'not commit a crime,' 'try to influence a juror' in terms of release:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-eye-popping-weissmann-stunned-at-judge-emphasizing-trump-not-commit-a-crime-try-to-influence-a-juror-in-terms-of-release-189940805938

* "'She knows who she is dealing with here': Judge sets limits for Trump; violation seems inevitable:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-she-knows-who-she-is-dealing-with-here-judge-sets-limits-for-trump-violation-seems-inevitable-190682693838

* "Trump objects to strict limits on sharing evidence in election interference case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/07/trump-protective-order-response-00110188

* "'Cold dose of reality': Judge requires lawyer oversight of defendant Trump; dismissive of candidacy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-cold-dose-of-reality-judge-requires-lawyer-oversight-of-defendant-trump-dismissive-of-candidacy-190684741921

* "Now it's serious: Special counsel's new focus could threaten Trump's piggy bank:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/now-it-s-serious-special-counsel-s-new-focus-could-threaten-trump-s-piggy-bank-190400069848




* "God’s Army Gathers in Fort Worth:" https://www.texasobserver.org/gods-army-gathers-in-fort-worth/

* "'Active club' hate groups are growing in the U.S. — and making themselves seen:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188111769/active-club-hate-groups

* "Attacks at US medical centers show why health care is one of the nation’s most violent fields:" https://apnews.com/article/hospitals-workplace-violence-shootings-aa6918569ff8f76ff8a15b9813e31686

* "Vile scenes as gun-touting neo-Nazis storm Pride event demanding 'blood':" https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/107061/wisconsin-neo-nazis-blood-tribe-pride-lgbtq-protest

* "Illinois fights gun lobby to ban marketing guns to little kids:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/illinois-fights-gun-lobby-to-ban-marketing-guns-to-little-kids-190317637765

* "Given Montgomery’s history, it was no surprise Black people rushed to defend the dockworker, locals say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/montgomerys-history-led-to-black-people-helping-dockworker-rcna98934

* "Let's talk about the Montgomery Docks....:"

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* "Trump judge orders lawyers to take ‘religious-liberty training’ from Christian ‘hate group’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/10/southwest-airlines-religious-liberty-alliance-defending-freedom/

* "Stephen Miller's group seeks to fight "racial preferences" with ... racial preferences:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/stephen-miller-america-first-legal-diversity

* "Hillsborough schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new Florida rules:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/08/07/hillsborough-schools-cut-back-shakespeare-citing-new-florida-rules/

* "Censoring Shakespeare in schools is ‘a form of indoctrination’, scholar says:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/11/shakespeare-censor-florida-schools-indoctrination/

* "Did Florida Education Dept. Approve Climate-Denial Content Comparing Climate Science to Nazism?:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/florida-education-prageru-kids-climate-denial/

* "World Bank cuts off finance to Uganda over ‘deeply repressive’ anti-LGBTQ+ law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/09/world-bank-uganda-lgbtq/

* "Venezuelan LGBTQ+ activists demand justice for 33 men arrested over sauna visit:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/venezuela-valencia-33-gay-men-detained-sauna/

* "Wearing a rainbow Swatch could land you with three years in jail in Malaysia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/11/rainbow-swatch-malaysia-lgbtq/

* "Pop fans report ban on rainbow clothing at concert in China:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/07/china-lgbtq-concert-rainbow-a-mei/

* "Iraq to ban the words ‘homosexual’ and ‘gender’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/10/iraq-homosexual-ban/

* I wish the straight liberals would stop pretending he's an ally. He's not. Slightly less horrible is still horrible. "Pope says Church open to LGBTQ+ people but ‘there are laws’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/07/pope-church-lgbtq-laws-world-youth-day/

* "LGBTQ+ Scots ‘don’t realise their rights are being breached’ – but Human Rights Bill could help:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/10/human-rights-bill-equality-network-scotland/

* "John Nicolson MP warns Scotland faces ‘explosion of imported transphobia from US’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/john-nicolson-mp-edinburgh-fringe-imported-transphobia/

* "Growing number of Brits view trans people negatively, YouGov study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/11/yougov-lgbt-attitudes-trans/

* Before you say "Duh," water is wet studies are essential for things like court cases and persuading lawmakers and people who are low information, etc.. "Almost no one who has top surgery regrets it, study says:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/10/top-surgery-study-regret-rate/

* "Trans people allegedly waiting up to 35 years for first appointment on NHS:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/07/nhs-wait-times-trans-healthcare-porterbrook/

* "Oklahoma Governor Orders State to Use Anti-Trans Definition of Gender:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gender-definition-oklahoma

* "Indiana Trans Students Will Continue to Access Appropriate Facilities:" https://www.advocate.com/law/transgender-restroom-rights-indiana

* "Pennsylvania Trans Man Wins Court Case Over Name Change:" https://www.advocate.com/law/court-grans-trans-name-change

* "Teen suspect in O’Shae Sibley killing pleads not guilty:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/o-shae-sibley-killing-suspect-pleads-not-guilty/

* "Former Minister Admits to Murder of Detroit Trans Woman Kelly Stough:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/kelly-stough-murdered-pleaded-guilty

* "Transgender Woman Violently Attacked in Palm Springs, Video Shows:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/palm-springs-trans-woman-attacked

* "Illinois Anti-Trans Teen’s Story Exposed as False:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/illinois-ymca-wheeler-protest-transgender

* "Lesbian officer awarded $2.6 million after decades of discrimination:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/lesbian-ohio-highway-patrol-officer-discremination-lawsuit/

* "History-making trans rabbi wants young people to find joy and ‘spiritual connection’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/06/trans-non-binary-rabbi-elliot-kukla-lgbtq-youth/

* "Badminton England bans trans women from female competitions:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/11/badminton-england-trans/

* "Good Omens star David Tennant praises show’s message of inclusivity following religious backlash:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/11/good-omens-david-tennant-religious-backlash-inclusivity/

* "Barbie banned in Kuwait and facing censor review in Lebanon for ‘promoting homosexuality’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/10/barbie-ban-kuwait-lebanon-promoting-homosexuality/

* "COVID-19 hospitalizations in the US are on the rise again, but not like before:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-cases-hospitalizations-increasing-9a831de37210c53c1ee48a30ad2ee611




* "Climate change made July hotter for almost every human on Earth:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-heat-cause-global-warming-3d7d0ee31e022aab535adf57b54618ac

* "In Phoenix Heat, Ice-Filled Body Bags Are a Life-Saving Technology:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-26/in-phoenix-heat-ice-filled-body-bags-are-a-life-saving-technology

* "Portugal battles wildfires as temperatures soar, more than 1,000 evacuated:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230809-portugal-battles-wildfires-as-temperatures-soar-more-than-1-000-evacuated

* "Out-of-control wildfires still burn in Quebec:" https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2023-08-08/out-of-control-wildfires-still-burn-in-quebec

* "Maui fires live updates: Death toll rises to 55 as Hawaii battles blazes:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/maui-fires-live-updates-lahaina-rcna99396

* "Some Fire Survivors Say Flames Reached Them Before Evacuation Orders:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/lahaina-maui-fires-evacuation-orders.html

* "Lahaina’s historic and cultural treasures go up in smoke:" https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/08/10/hawaii-news/lahainas-historic-and-cultural-treasures-go-up-in-smoke/

* "What was lost in Lahaina, a glittering jewel of the Hawaiian Kingdom:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/lahaina-maui-lost-cultural-history-hawaii-kingdom

* "How the history of Lahaina compounds the tragedy of the Maui fire devastation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-the-history-of-lahaina-compounds-the-tragedy-of-the-maui-fire-devastation-190602821670

* "Hawaii wildfires reduce parts of Maui to ‘smoldering, toxic mess’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hawaii-wildfires-reduce-parts-of-maui-to-smoldering-toxic-mess-190678085817

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html




* "The Other Greenhouse Gas:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/FOOD-WASTE/METHANE/gdpzwqwqovw/

* "It's hot out there. A new analysis shows it's much worse if you're in a city:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/1190071137/its-hot-out-there-a-new-analysis-shows-its-much-worse-if-youre-in-a-city

* "How concrete, asphalt and urban heat islands add to the misery of heat waves:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-CHANGE/URBAN-HEAT/zgpormdkevd/

* "Minnesota cities can no longer mandate turf grass lawns:" https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/minnesota-cities-can-no-longer-mandate-turf-grass-lawns/

* "Hold Shell Accountable | Youth & Climate:"

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* "Twitter threatens legal action against nonprofit group that monitors hate speech:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-threatens-legal-action-nonprofit-group-monitors-hate-speech-rcna97265

* "‘Yeah that was too far’: Private Facebook chats for Gavin Wax’s Liberty Conservative littered with racial slurs, Holocaust jokes:" https://www.dailydot.com/debug/liberty-conservative-leaked-chats-gavin-was/

* "News Corp beats profit estimates on cost cuts, touts AI boost to future sales:" https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/news-corp-reports-9-fall-quarterly-revenue-2023-08-10/

* "Devs casually expose far-reaching loading bar conspiracy: 'People just don’t trust one that's too quick':" https://www.pcgamer.com/devs-casually-expose-far-reaching-loading-bar-conspiracy-people-just-dont-trust-one-thats-too-quick/

* "The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries:" https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

* "The Brooklyn Boys:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/episode-2-brooklyn-boys-n1299377

* "The Civil-Rights Showdown Nobody Remembers:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/07/the-civil-rights-showdown-nobody-remembers

* "New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver Dead at 71:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/sheila-oliver-dead71

* "The Ones We Sent Away:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/disabled-children-institutionalization-history/674763/

* "Summer camp in California gives Jewish children of color a haven to be different together:" https://apnews.com/article/jewish-summer-camp-diversity-race-black-125bf76a5584890e981aa6ecb9d01e80

* "Saga Brief 21 – Interpreting the Past (Part 1) – Modern Perceptions of the Viking Age with Verena Höfig and Zachary Melton:" https://sagathingpodcast.wordpress.com/2021/04/18/saga-brief-21-interpreting-the-past-part-1-modern-perceptions-of-the-viking-age-with-verena-hofig-and-zachary-melton/

* "Story Corps - Still the One:"

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* "Everything Trans People Have In Common With The Knights Templar In The Public Imagination:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/modern-headline-about-young-trans

* I haven't written much about my doings lately. Enough has been going on, I forget what i've written and what I hadn't. The air outside is hot and muggy which is exhausting for me, and thus I've been even slower than usual about most things, needing more rest.

Friday a week ago, I learned that I've shrunk a full inch. I remember my mother shrinking. it was particularly obvious because while we spoke on the phone a great deal, we only saw each other every few years. They don't measure one often as an adult, so it was still a surprise. I had attributed my difficulty in reaching things to the deterioration of my arms. I think I also unconsciously associate shrinking with white hair, and the individual gray strands are still only visible in certain lights. I am fully aware of all the other deterioration. I started developing jowls this spring, for example, and I now am apt to fall over when i pick things up off the floor. I suspect i am ddeveloping the beginnings of a hump. Still, i hadn't thought about shrinking and an inch feels like a lot.

We are now two weeks in a row of no friday morning cleaner. Last time Tavy panicked when Forage delivery arrived because he KNOWS the cleanedr arrives first. He kept trying to enlist me to go search the bushes in case his cleaner was lost in there. This week, he took it more calmly.

We had a good time at the lake last Sunday, but made an essential error. We decided to try a different section and it was rockier and shallow for a much longer distance. My strategy is to hang on to a helper until in is just deep enough for me to drop down and move like one of those fish evolving to walk until it's deep enough to really swim. It took ages to get deep enough not to drag myself across rocks. The spot we'd picked for our base camp was nice though. Better sand, better view, better shade, less crowded. I'm never going in that way again, but we make keep picking it for picnics.

* Good Omens 2 Job and Buddy Holly: Spoilers, Obviously.

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* Dracula: How long did the captain suspect the first mate? https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/724662216121597952/there-were-two-lines-in-particular-that-stood-out?source=share

* Dracula and the SPCA: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/725257430383181824/yeah-the-animal-rights-thing-was-very-much-a-back?source=share

* "Middle-aged magical girl. She's been defending the Earth since the early 90s and she's very tired.:" https://www.tumblr.com/theabigailthorn/725164175075295232?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Delete the Data, Dan Backslide:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725116027143372800/midnight-pals-delete-the-data-dan-backslide?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Sting:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725212319794249728/midnight-pals-sting?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Pun Times:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725478420733214720/midnight-pals-pun-times?source=share

*****
* 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.

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

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

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* 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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "Israel Police Impose Restrictions on Protests Near Lawmakers' Homes:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-01/ty-article/.premium/israel-police-impose-restrictions-on-protests-near-lawmakers-homes/00000189-b1bd-d2ad-afb9-bfbdf4820000

* "Police Officers Threaten to Sue Israelis Over Posts Citing Violence Against Protesters:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-03/ty-article/.premium/police-officers-threaten-to-sue-israelis-over-posts-citing-violence-against-protesters/00000189-bb85-d20c-addf-fb87a6e10000

* "Netanyahu's Judicial Coup | Israelis Rally for 31st Week Amid Knesset Hiatus and Record Police Violence:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-05/ty-article-live/israelis-rally-for-31st-week-amid-knesset-hiatus-and-record-police-violence/00000189-c5d6-d821-afdd-dff6eb440000

* "International pressure mounts on coup leaders in Niger while hundreds rally in support of junta:" https://apnews.com/article/coup-niger-extremists-sahel-c4ff0bc653c8b73366705b19b8c74c3e

* "Opinion: President of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/03/mohamed-bazoum-coup-niger-democracy/

* "'Waiting To Be Arrested At Night' is the story of a Uyghur poet's escape:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1192374018/waiting-to-be-arrested-at-night-is-the-story-of-a-uyghur-poets-escape

* "Suzy Eddie Izzard announces bid to become Labour MP for Brighton Pavilion:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/04/suzy-eddie-izzard-labour-mp-brighton-pavilion/

* "Rise and Fall of a Russian Ultranationalist:" https://www.voanews.com/a/rise-and-fall-of-a-russian-ultranationalist-/7202060.html




* "How the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Can Still Succeed:" https://time.com/6300772/ukraine-counteroffensive-can-still-succeed/

* "66 engravings dedicated to Holodomor recovered from under rubble in Sumy Oblast:" https://news.yahoo.com/66-engravings-dedicated-holodomor-recovered-131754687.html




* "Ron DeSantis Invites Kamala Harris to Discuss Slavery Standards with Homophobe Who Wrote Them:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/slavery-florida-curriculum-william-allen

* "Lesbian and STI Expert Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo to Succeed Fauci at NIAID:" https://www.advocate.com/health/jeanne-marrazzo-niaid-fauci

* "Let's talk about Huntsville, Colorado, and Space Command....:"

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* "Senate OK's Defense Bill Without Anti-LGBTQ+ Provisions, Setting Up Fight With House:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/senate-ndaa-approval

* "Rep. Bonamici: LGBTQ+ Seniors and Youth Most Imperiled by GOP:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/bonamici-lgbtq-seniors-youth-gop

* "Voters Actually Oppose Anti-LGBTQ+, Anti-Abortion Amendments to Defense Bill: Poll:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/opposition-anti-lgbtq-amendments

* "The perpetual infantilisation of millennial women:"

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* "Justine Bateman on the Destruction of the Film Business:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/hollywood-ceos-greed-will-burn-the-movie-biz-down

* "Adam Conover Explains the SAG-AFTRA & WGA Strikes, Writing Residuals & Why He's not Scared of AI:"

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* "Cutting Down Trees To Hurt Protesters? (TREE LAW!):"

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* "At striking actors' hangout bar, tiny residual checks no longer a joke:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/striking-actors-hangout-bar-tiny-residual-checks-no-longer-joke-2023-08-02/

* "Disney Discontinues Physical Media Releases for an Entire Continent:" https://collider.com/disney-physical-media-release-discontinue-australia/

* "Tell Powell’s Books: Workers Deserve a Fair Contract with a Living Wage:" https://www.change.org/p/tell-powell-s-books-workers-deserve-a-fair-contract-with-a-living-wage

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene Blasted for Call for Decorum After Displaying Sexual Photos:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/marjorie-taylor-greene-decorum-photos

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* 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

* "Um, where are our voting machines? The bonkers details of the new MI election indictments:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/um-where-are-our-voting-machines-the-bonkers-details-of-the-new-mi-election-indictments-189868101865

* "Election deniers Dinesh D’Souza, Kari Lake highlight Michigan GOP fall conference:" https://www.mlive.com/politics/2023/07/election-deniers-dinesh-dsouza-kari-lake-highlight-michigan-gop-fall-conference.html

* "‘Everything has fallen off a cliff': Battleground state GOPs nosedive in Trump era:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/broke-state-gop-parties-across-the-country-00109387

* "Colorado GOP paid no staff in April while fundraising lags under new Chairman Dave Williams :" https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/24/colorado-republicans-dave-williams/

* "Minnesota’s Republican Party Is Totally Broke:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/minnesotas-republican-party-is-totally-broke

* Ohioans! Have you voted? If not, why not do it now! "The Critical Election Republicans Are Hoping You Won’t Notice:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/ohio-abortion-referendum.html

* "Mike Pence says he wants to ban trans people from the US military, again:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/mike-pence-says-he-wants-to-ban-trans-people-from-the-us-military-again/

* "Mike Pence trans military ban proposal ‘cruel’ and ‘inhumane’, says non-binary veteran:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/03/trans-military-ban-mike-pence-non-binary-lgbtq-dont-ask-dont-tell/

* "The DeSantis Campaign Made That Homophobic Video After All:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/desantis-campaign-homophobic-video-producers

* "George Santos Shocked at Ron DeSantis’s Homophobia, Says He Was Misled:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis

* "Kari Lake wants to do WHAT in response to Trump's indictment?:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2023/08/04/kari-lake-calls-trump-challengers-drop-out/70530227007/

* "Hayes: Mitch McConnell blew it with Trump impeachment acquittal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-mitch-mcconnell-blew-it-with-trump-impeachment-acquittal-190048837888

* "‘Look where we are now:’ Congresswoman rips Senate Republicans who acquitted Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-look-where-we-are-now-congresswoman-rips-senate-republicans-who-acquitted-trump-190049349995

* "Trump's mask slips further with choice of Alabama political event:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-mask-slips-further-with-choice-of-alabama-political-event-190060613647

* "“You Would Only Need a Week”: How the Next Republican President Could Ban Abortion Nationwide:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/04/mifepristone-comstock-abortion-medication-pill-texas-court-ban/

* "'Double talk': How the GOP is making white supremacy 'respectable' :" https://www.rawstory.com/white-supremacy-2662273994/

* "Republican Politician Urges Americans to Revisit Hitler and Stalin at Moms for Liberty Event:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/moms-for-liberty-read-hitler

* "In a California First, Lesbian Toni Atkins Signs Bills Into Law as Acting Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/toni-atkins-acting-governor-california

* "Lori Lightfoot on Defending the LGBTQ+ Community Against Republican Attacks:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-calls-on-allies

* "GOP Lawmaker Calls Teenage Senate Pages 'Little Sh*ts':" https://www.advocate.com/news/republican-lawmaker-curses-senate-pages

* "Mississippi Republican Called ‘Groomer’ Defends Pink Tutu Outfit:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mississippi-lawmaker-pink-tutu-groomer

* "Minnesota Senator Blames Pride for Mankind’s Impending Fiery Apocalypse:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/minnesota-senator-pride-apocalypse

* "George Santos Tried to Get Rich Through Political Connections: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/george-santos-business-schemes

* "Ex-Ohio GOP chair, lobbyist Matt Borges shows remorse, gets 5 years for role in $60M bribery scheme:" https://apnews.com/article/bribery-investigation-ohio-borges-sentencing-firstenergy-55ed095d2e6e83e820d9de514c85e96b

* "Ohio GOP Lawmaker Accused of Assaulting LGBTQ+ Protester Will Not Face Charges:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/protests




* "Subdued crowd gathers outside Washington courthouse where Trump was arraigned :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/03/trump-indictment-courthouse-arraignment-00109643

* "What to know about the Pennsylvania fake electors mentioned in Trump’s third indictment:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-indictment-pennsylvania-fake-electors-20230802.html

* "The Man With No Pants Is the Star of Donald Trump’s Latest Indictment :" https://theintercept.com/2023/08/02/trump-indictment-justice-department-jeffrey-clark/

* "‘Banality of evil’: Trump conspirator's path from 'unremarkable' to coup plotter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-banality-of-evil-trump-conspirator-s-path-from-unremarkable-to-coup-plotter-190050885595

* "‘They got him’: Chris Hayes says this Trump arrest is ‘biggest of all time’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-they-got-him-chris-hayes-says-this-trump-arrest-is-biggest-of-all-time-189957701949

* "'Extremely volatile situation': Trump could put himself in jail before a prosecutor does:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-extremely-volatile-situation-trump-could-put-himself-in-jail-before-a-prosecutor-does-190058565682

* "Trump's Bonkers Superseding Indictment: They Tried to Delete the Video!:"

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* "Trump’s new judge is a tough Jan. 6 sentencer — and has a history with him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/trump-judge-tanya-chutkan-00109342




* "St. Louis Cardinals mega-fan charged with joining Capitol riot in red face paint and Trump hat:" https://apnews.com/article/cardinals-fan-arrested-fbi-capitol-riot-trump-rally-runner-5a9dbaf3fce8750c38c1de40482884d2

* "Why can’t the right-wing bubble give up on Ray Epps?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/12/why-cant-right-wing-bubble-give-up-ray-epps/

* "MyPillow is auctioning equipment after a sales slump. Mike Lindell blames "cancel culture.":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-lindell-mypillow-auction-equipment-cancel-culture/

* "A School Bus Crosses U.S., Linking Families of Mass Shooting Victims:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/mass-shooting-bus-tour-oliver.html

* "Police Say Dogs Help Solve Crimes. Little Evidence Supports That.:" https://undark.org/2023/07/24/police-say-dogs-help-solve-crimes-little-evidence-supports-that/

* "California Could Soon Reform Solitary Confinement—Unless Gavin Newsom Intervenes:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/07/california-could-soon-reform-solitary-confinement-unless-gavin-newsom-intervenes/

* "My Neighbors in Solitary:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/prison-experiences-female-inmate-solitary-confinment-texas.html

* "Georgia National Guard Will Use Phone Location Tracking to Recruit High School Children :" https://theintercept.com/2023/04/16/georgia-army-national-guard-location-tracking-high-school/

* "Texas A&M reaches $1 million settlement with Black journalism professor:" https://apnews.com/article/texas-am-diversity-settlement-kathleen-mcelroy-9408f1196417e4cc554ffc74a19956e2

* "Faculty worry about Texas A&M’s future after controversies over higher ed politicization:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/27/texas-tamu-faculty-disappointment/

* "Montana's Drag Ban Blocked, Just in Time for Helena Pride Event:" https://www.advocate.com/law/montana-drag-ban-blocked

* "Ron DeSantis scraps all diversity and inclusion programmes from Disney World in Florida:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/02/ron-desantis-disney-world-florida/

* "DeSantis Faces Criticism For Black History Standards, Makes It Worse:" https://advocatechannel.com/desantis-black-history-standards-response

* "After clash over teaching on gender, psychology class may be available to Florida students:" https://apnews.com/article/college-board-psychology-florida-8735b41aff3086f35785efb0e7682cd1

* "Why a psychology curriculum can't ignore the people Republicans don't like:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/why-a-psychology-curriculum-can-t-ignore-the-people-republicans-don-t-like-190056517821

* "Let's talk about my last day teaching in Virginia....:"

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* "Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Targeting Books & Librarians:" https://www.advocate.com/law/arkansas-judge-blocks-librarian-criminalization

* "Chesterfield man charged with accessory to child kidnapping donated to anti-child trafficking movie:" https://www.kmov.com/2023/08/04/chesterfield-man-charged-with-accessory-child-kidnapping-donated-anti-child-trafficking-movie-newsweek-report-claims/

* "A Growing Share Of Americans Think States Shouldn't Be Able To Put Any Limits On Abortion:" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-increasingly-against-abortion-limits/

* "America’s Pediatricians Reiterate Support for Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/health-care/pediatricians-support-gender-affirming-care

* "Iran official in charge of ‘promoting Islamic values’ suspended over alleged gay sex video:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/iran-official-reza-tsaghati-gay-sex-video/

* "Malaysian official brands LGBTQ+ people ‘perverted’ after eight protestors detained:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/04/malaysian-official-brands-lgbtq-people-perverted-after-eight-protestors-detained/

* "Labour shift on trans rights is misguided attempt to win back red wall, says MP: ‘It’s patronising’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/labour-red-wall-conservative-lgbtq-trans/

* Fuckssake! "Court of Appeal dismisses legal challenge to years of NHS waits faced by trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/good-law-project-court-of-appeal-dismissed-trans-waiting-times/

* "Quakers pledge to stand by trans Brits: ‘A gold-standard for other faiths to follow’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/quakers-trans-pledge-britain/

* "What new journalism guidelines on reporting sex and gender means for UK’s right-wing press:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/02/ipso-guidelines-trans-news-stories-misgendering/

* "Judge throws out attempt to repeal trans anti-bullying policy in Ohio:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/04/ohio-bullying-trans/

* "17-Year-Old Suspect Arrested in Killing of O'Shae Sibley, Voguing Gay Man:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/oshae-sibley-suspect-arrested

* "O'Shae Sibley and LGBTQ Rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/o-shae-sibley-and-lgbtq-rights-190073925806

* "Fatigue Can Shatter a Person:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/07/chronic-fatigue-long-covid-symptoms/674834/




* "Gay British couple fleeing Greece wildfires with son ‘gobsmacked’ after being refused shelter:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/03/greece-wildfires/




* "Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren’t they widespread?:" https://apnews.com/article/solar-panels-irrigation-canals-climate-solution-c57cac43b71a0edf76e62c4adc0f3ff7

* "Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They’re not the only crop thriving in the shade.:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-beer-solar-panels-hops-germany-ee3d00a1877837eb85053335e3b68a00

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter threatens to sue anti-hate group over criticism of hate speech on the site:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/elon-musk-twitter-sues-anti-hate-group/

* "Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best. Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell.":" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/reddit-calls-for-a-few-new-mods-after-axing-polarizing-some-of-its-best/

* "See Stunning Images of Female Birds, Often Overlooked by Wildlife Photographers:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/see-stunning-images-of-female-birds-often-overlooked-by-wildlife-photographers-180982575/

* "Photos: London’s Urban Foxes:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/07/photos-london-urban-foxes/674870/

* "The Killer Whales of Eden and the ‘Law of the Tongue’:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/killer-whales-work-with-humans

* " X marks the unknown in algebra – but X’s origins are a math mystery :" https://theconversation.com/x-marks-the-unknown-in-algebra-but-xs-origins-are-a-math-mystery-210440

* "‘Hello America, this is Addis Ababa.’:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-6-hello-america-addis-ababa-rcna95868

* "Is nature a gigantic cat? An electrifying letter from Nikola Tesla :" https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/is-nature-a-gigantic-cat-0bf

* "Utopia to blight: Surviving in Henry Ford’s lost jungle town:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/28/fordlandia-brazil/

* "Carmen Xtravaganza, Paris Is Burning Star and Ballroom Icon, Dies at 62:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/carmen-xtravaganza-dead-62

* "12 bodies found under former Paiute Indian boarding school:" https://www.abc4.com/news/southern-utah/12-bodies-found-under-former-paiute-indian-boarding-school/

* Far to late, but given how unlikely even a small measurr of justice is, I am celebrating anyway. "Henrietta Lacks' Family Reach a Settlement Over Her Stolen 'Immortal' Cell Line:" https://www.sciencealert.com/henrietta-lacks-family-reach-a-settlement-over-her-stolen-immortal-cell-line

* "How the ‘groundbreaking’ Henrietta Lacks settlement could change research:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02479-8

* "Why the famed Appalachian Trail keeps getting longer — and harder:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/appalachian-trail-length-route-changes/?itid=mr_2

* "South Pole Signage:" https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-signage

* "Kidnapped at Birth:" https://nymag.com/news/features/carlina-white-2011-10/

* On Public Schools: https://www.tumblr.com/whovianuncle/724883379034734592?source=share

* "Meet Gay Bob, the Out and Proud Anatomically Correct Disco-Era Doll:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-bob-out-ken-barbie

*****
* 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.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

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

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* 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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "Supporters of Niger's coup march, waving Russian flags and denouncing France:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190969703/supporters-of-nigers-coup-march-waving-russian-flags-and-denouncing-france

* "West African leaders meet over Niger coup, junta warns against intervention:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/west-african-leaders-meet-over-niger-coup-junta-warns-against-intervention-2023-07-30/

* "As regional bloc threatens intervention in Niger, neighboring juntas vow mutual defense:" https://apnews.com/article/niger-coup-west-africa-use-of-force-mali-burkina-faso-0b951ec77a89033c84e6f0972cc21b5f

* "Tens of Thousands of Israelis Protest Netanyahu Government's Judicial Overhaul:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-29/ty-article/tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-protest-netanyahu-governments-judicial-overhaul/00000189-a306-d00f-a7db-b39f9dbf0000

* "Masked, Unidentifiable Cops Beat Israeli Civilians With Impunity – How Long Can It Go On?:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-30/ty-article-magazine/.premium/masked-unidentifiable-cops-beat-israeli-civilians-with-impunity-how-long-can-it-go-on/00000189-a835-d00f-a7db-b9bfb10c0000

* "Spain election repeat more likely after expat vote count:" https://www.politico.eu/article/election-repeat-spain-likely-expat-vote-tie-parliament/

* "Parish council denies homophobia after rejecting seats for two people with LGBTQ+ links:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/parish-council-denies-homophobia-after-rejecting-seats-for-two-people-with-lgbtq-links/

* "New Barbie-themed anti-Tory ads spotted in London: ‘This Barbie is gagging to deport your grandma’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/barbie-tory-mps-liz-truss-jacob-rees-mogg-kemi-badenoch-suella-braverman/

* "Saudi football ‘sportswashing’ and using multi-million-pound deals to distract from human rights issues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/saudi-arabia-lgbtq-jordan-henderson-allyship/




* "Let's talk about Putin, Russia, and Africa....:"

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* "How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride:" https://www.salon.com/2023/07/29/how-russian-colonialism-took-the-western-anti-imperialist-left-for-a-ride/




* "'Kill the gays' law in Uganda tests Biden admin with huge amounts of aid money at stake:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-kill-the-gays-law-in-uganda-tests-biden-admin-with-huge-amounts-of-aid-money-at-stake-189679685964

* "Kamala Harris Gives Fiery Speech About Florida Whitewashing History of Slavery:" https://www.advocate.com/history/kamala-harris-fiery-slavery-speech

* "Biden names CIA Director William Burns to his cabinet:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-director-william-burns-biden-cabinet/

* "Let's talk about Hunter, Archer, and an old video....:"

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* "Woman Who Brought Anti-LGBTQ+ SCOTUS Case Did Make a Wedding Website:" https://www.advocate.com/news/303-creative-website-previous

* "GOP's New MAGA: Make America Go Ass-Backward:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gop-new-maga-america-backward

* "Ro Khanna: Democratic Lawmakers Must Take a Stand for Transgender Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ro-khanna-democrats-trans-rights

* "House of Representatives debate on trans healthcare descends into pure transphobia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/house-of-representatives-debate-trans-healthcare/

* "Republican Lawmakers Look to Ban Pride Flags at Stonewall, Other National Sites:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pride-flag-ban-stonewall-republicans

* "The Kids Online Safety Act Would Harm LGBTQ+ Youth, Restrict Access to Information and Community:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-online-safety-act-lgbtq-youth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* 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

* Ohioans! Have you voted? If not, why not do it now? "Top 5 reasons to Vote NO on Issue 1 on August 8th:" https://www.acluohio.org/en/news/top-5-reasons-vote-no-issue-1-august-8th-0

* "From home rule to the initiative itself, Ohio would have never won many reforms under a 60% rule:" https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/07/31/from-home-rule-to-the-initiative-itself-ohio-would-have-never-won-many-reforms-under-a-60-rule/

* "Deacon: 'No' on Issue 1 to protect Ohio from greed, stop 1 county from blocking will of majority:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2023/07/29/reverand-ohio-issue-1-august-special-election-8-will-let-one-county-to-decide-for-all-others-vote-no/70440467007/

* "Tensions flare as California GOP gives Trump a boost by overhauling state primary rules:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-29/california-republican-primary-delegates-trump-desantis-presidential-election-2024

* "Let's talk about the Michigan elector claims getting strange....:"

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* "Let's talk about Rudy, truth, and the law....:"

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* "Arizona’s GOP Went All In on Trump’s Big Lie—Now It’s Broke:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizonas-gop-went-all-in-on-trumps-big-lienow-its-broke

* "Michigan Republican Party's bank accounts down to $93K, recording reveals:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2023/07/14/michigan-republican-party-bankruptcy-kristina-karamo-financial-problems-debt-clare-meeting-fight/70414759007/

* "'Exciting, blustering nutjobs': Money problems, chaos seen in state Republican Parties:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-exciting-blustering-nutjobs-money-problems-chaos-seen-in-state-republican-parties-189681221719

* "Julie Johnson Running to Be Texas's First Out Member of Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/julie-johnson-texas-lgbtq

* "California Voters to Decide Fate of State's Prop 8 Same-Sex Marriage Ban in 2024:" https://www.advocate.com/law/prop-8-california-voters-2024

* "Let's talk about Christie vs Trump....:"

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* "DeSantis's DiSastrous Campaign: Burning Cash, Firing Staff:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-disastrous-campaign

* "Ron DeSantis Attacks Trump for Promising to Protect LGBTQ+ People From Terrorists:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-donald-trump-ad

* "Ron DeSantis Campaign Staff, Supporters Allegedly Assault LGBTQ+ Activists:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-staff-assault-activists

* "Trump’s campaign finances are strained as legal peril mounts:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-legal-bills-pac-defense-fund-campaign-filing-2024-36fe10e4988a56de34f120cff38e1552

* "Louisiana Republicans Overturn Veto on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-louisiana-veto

* "Ohio Republicans Seek to Criminalize Drag Performers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-tries-criminalize-drag

* "Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Outlaws Conversion Therapy on Minors:" https://www.advocate.com/law/michigan-conversion-therapy-ban

* "Inside the Party Switch That Blew Up North Carolina Politics:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/us/inside-the-party-switch-that-blew-up-north-carolina-politics.html

* "'Betrayal:' North Carolina lawmaker who switched parties was courted by GOP before election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-betrayal-north-carolina-lawmaker-who-switched-parties-was-courted-by-gop-before-election-189670981895

* "Minnesota Mayor Told to Resign by LGBTQ+ Group Over ‘Sin and Brokenness’ Comments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-mayor-resignation-homophobia

* "North Carolina School Board Member Censured for Anti-LGBTQ+ Facebook Post:" https://www.advocate.com/news/censured-board-member-nc-airy

* "Ken Paxton doesn’t get to pick his jury:" https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2023/07/25/ken-paxton-doesnt-get-to-pick-his-jury/

* "Pro-Paxton group gives $3 million to impeachment trial judge Dan Patrick:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/18/ken-paxton-impeachment-dan-patrick/

* "Ken Paxton, impeached and suspended from office, raised $1.7 million in less than 2 weeks:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/17/ken-paxton-fundraising-impeachment/

* "Ken Paxton’s far-right billionaire backers are fighting hard to save him:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/24/ken-paxton-impeachment-dunn-wilks/

* "Ken Paxton will not testify at impeachment trial, defense attorney says:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/04/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-impeachment/

* "Gag order issued ahead of Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial after ‘inflammatory’ remarks:" https://apnews.com/article/texas-paxton-impeachment-c264530978d369c9a0fb4b7cbdc65305




* "Judge dismisses Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ lawsuit against CNN:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/29/judge-dismisses-trump-defamation-lawsuit-00108871

* "Georgia judge skewers Trump’s bid to derail potential charges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/31/georgia-judge-trump-charges-fulton-county-00108968

* "Georgia Prosecutor to Give Donald Trump the Label He’s Deserved for Years: Racketeer:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174504/georgia-prosecutor-preps-devastating-racketeering-indictment-trump

* "Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election and block transfer of power:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc

* "Rep. Zoe Lofgren of January 6 Committee on Donald Trump’s Indictment:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-indictment-zoe-lofgren

* "Maddow: History's judgment looms as citizen Trump faces accountability:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-history-s-judgment-looms-as-citizen-trump-faces-accountability-189771333594

* "Ex-NYPD Boss Handing Over Trump Records to Jack Smith:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-nypd-boss-bernie-kerik-handing-over-trump-records-to-jack-smith?ref=home

* "'They knew to count on violence': Trump indictment shows willingness to seize power by force:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-they-knew-to-count-on-violence-trump-indictment-shows-willingness-to-seize-power-by-force-189773893815

* "'Have your ducks in a row': What to know about the judge in the Trump 2020 case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-have-your-ducks-in-a-row-what-to-know-about-the-judge-in-the-trump-2020-case-189777477796

* This is the last week ones, but I couldn't remember if I posted them here. "Trump charged with new crimes in classified documents case :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/feds-add-new-charges-against-trump-in-classified-documents-case-00108667

* "Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows joked about Trump’s election claims:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/22/mark-meadows-georgia-election-results-2020-fraud-claims/




* "Mike Lindell’s Pillow Talk With Trump Ends in a Bad Dream:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/mike-lindell-pillow-talk-trump

* "Patriot Front members to serve just three days in jail for plan to storm Idaho Pride event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/23/patriot-front-sentenced-days-jail-lgbtq-pride-idaho/

* "United States tops 400 mass shootings in 2023:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/politics/us-400-mass-shootings/index.html

* "Lesbian Couple Gunned Down in Washington State Mass Shooting:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/lesbians-killed-washington-shooting

* "Translating the Language of the Border:" https://thebaffler.com/latest/translating-the-language-of-the-border-del-valle

* "‘I can’t die like this’: Video shows trans man beaten by deputy during stop:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-23/video-trans-man-beaten-la-county-sheriff-deputy

* "Tennessee Radio Station Owner Makes Racist Remark About Karine Jean-Pierre:" https://www.advocate.com/media/karine-jean-pierre-tennessee-radio

* "Texas A&M President Katherine Banks resigns amid fallout from failed hiring of journalism professor:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/21/tamu-president-resign-journalism/

* "Judge temporarily blocks Montana’s vaguely worded anti-drag bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/judge-temporarily-blocks-montanas-vaguely-worded-anti-drag-bill/

* CW: Antisemitism, Holocaust "Fox News Host: 'You Had to Be Useful' in Holocaust Death Camps :" https://advocatechannel.com/fox-news-greg-gutfeld-holocaust

* Remember to vote in all school board elections. "School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution:" https://apnews.com/article/missouri-school-board-drops-antiracism-resolution-9d857b0e316950b600684e0050b85229

* Republicans are winning their War on Education. "HISD to eliminate librarians and convert libraries into disciplinary centers at NES schools:" https://abc13.com/hisd-libraries-librarians-media-specialists-houston-isd/13548483/

* "Let's talk about Texas libraries....:"

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* They were going to round up librarians and charge them with felonies for having any books the fascist extremists in Arkansas did not like. "Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/29/arkansas-law-librarian-criminal-charges-00108883

* "Montana Libraries Divorce National Organization Over 'Marxist Lesbian' President:" https://advocatechannel.com/montana-libraries-marxist-lesbian-president

* "ACLU Warns New Jersey Library Not to Censor LGBTQ+ Book:" https://www.advocate.com/books/new-jersey-library-censoring-book

* CW: Rape. "Nonbinary Activist Says They Were Drugged and Sexually Assaulted:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/deni-todorovic-victim-sexual-assault

* CW: CSA. "Child rape charge for Alabama state employee who ran anti-abortion committee:" https://boingboing.net/2023/07/24/child-rape-charge-for-alabama-official-who-ran-anti-abortion-committee.html

* CW: Suicide, Domestic Violence. "Pregnant trans man killed by partner in ‘horrific’ murder-suicide in Florida:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/pregnant-trans-man-killed-by-partner-in-murder-suicide-in-florida/

* "More than 80 per cent of women working in football have experienced discrimination, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/women-football-discrimination-study/

* "Disabled lesbian explains why we all must come together to fight common enemy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/disability-pride-month-lgbtq-fight-future/

* "Police called after boy with autism used cinema toilet with mum, because manager thought he was trans:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/cinemark-trans-toilet-police-called/

* "Ohio Man Has Epic Meltdown at Petco Over Gender-Neutral Bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-neutral-bathroom-ohio-petco

* "Abortion providers sue Alabama to block prosecution over out-of-state travel:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/abortion-providers-sue-alabama-block-prosecution-over-out-of-state-travel-2023-07-31/

* "Why does Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor think your health information is his business?:" https://www.adn.com/opinions/editorials/2023/07/22/editorial-why-does-alaska-attorney-general-treg-taylor-think-your-health-information-is-his-business/

* "Kenya could follow Uganda as East African nations wage war on LGBT rights:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenya-could-follow-uganda-east-african-nations-wage-war-lgbt-rights-2023-06-22/

* "Anti-LGBTQ crackdown worsens in Tanzania:" https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/07/11/anti-lgbtq-crackdown-worsens-in-tanzania/

* "Russia: Putin’s sweeping new trans ban is latest attack in global war on LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/25/russia-trans-gender-affirming-healthcare-ban-lgbtq-rights-global/

* "Ghana High Court Tosses Challenge to Draconian Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/law/ghana-anti-lgbtq-bill

* "Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov accused of ordering torture and murder of missing gay man:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/zelimkhan-bakaev-ramzan-kadyrov-chechnya/

* "Trans men entering Miss Italy in protest demand apology amid ‘continuous transphobia’ across country:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/trans-miss-italy-protestors-fight-against-trasphobia/

* "‘Unapologetically trans-inclusive’ Belfast Pride Parade set to be city’s biggest to date:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/unapologetically-trans-inclusive-belfast-pride-parade-set-to-be-citys-biggest-to-date/

* "Canadian couple win case against right-wing party that used photo of their newborn son in an anti-LGBTQ+ campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/canadian-couple-win-case-against-right-wing-party-that-used-photo-of-their-newborn-son-in-an-anti-lgbtq-campaign/

* "Canada’s Unions are Organizing to Defend Workers From Far-Right Anti-2SLGBTQ+ Hate Groups:" https://pressprogress.ca/canadas-unions-are-organizing-to-defend-workers-from-far-right-anti-2slgbtq-hate-groups/

* "Investigation launched after two men stabbed by machete-wielding man in Australia’s LGBTQ+ mecca:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/investigation-launched-after-two-men-stabbed-by-machete-wielding-man-in-australias-lgbtq-mecca/

* "Labour attack on Scottish gender reform is ‘dishonest’ and ‘shameful’, say Scots politicians:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/25/labour-anneliese-dodds-gender-recognition-reform-scotland/

* "Rishi Sunak warned that trans schools guidance would put teachers in impossible bind and endanger children:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/rishi-sunak-trans-schools-guidance-psychologist/

* "Teacher and parent warn government must not ‘out’ trans pupils to unsupportive parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/teacher-and-parent-warn-government-must-not-out-trans-pupils-to-unsupportive-parents/

* "Estate agent jailed for vicious Birmingham attack on gay men with glass bottle and metal pipe:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/24/birmingham-usman-murtza-attack-gay/

* CW: Suicide. "Grimsby teacher’s inquest hears he took his own life after ‘vile homophobic abuse’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/inquest-finds-teacher-took-his-life-after-homophobic-abuse/

* CW: Suicide. "Helen Joyce Misquotes Bible, Suggests Rachel Levine Kill Herself:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/helen-joyce-misquotes-bible-to-say-rachel-levine-should-kill-herself

* "Kansas Republican AG Sues Democrat Governor Over Trans Drivers Licenses:" https://www.advocate.com/law/drivers-license-transgender-kansas

* "Tennessee Attorney General Obtains Confidential Medical Records of Trans Patients:" https://www.advocate.com/news/tennessee-ag-medical-records-transgender

* "Missouri Families Sue to Block Ban on Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/missouri-transgender-lawsuit

* "Idaho Families Scramble to Stop Ban on Trans Health Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/idaho-trans-youth-lawsuit

* "School Board Boots California Schools Chief From Meeting on Trans Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/news/california-superintendent-ousted-school-meeting

* "Texas Ag Dept. Shocked That Antidiscrimination Training Included Gender Identity:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-anti-trans-discrimination-training

* "Puerto Rican Afro-Latina Trans Woman Chanell Perez Ortiz Fatally Shot:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/trans-woman-killed-puerto-rico

* "Florida Gay Man Brutally Attacked by Two Men Yelling Antigay Slurs:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/antigay-attack-miami-florida

* "Florida Reverends, Rabbi Slam DeSantis, Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/florida-reverends-rabbi-slam-desantis

* "Christian College Fires Gay Soccer Coach Over Instagram Stories:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-coach-fired-christian-college

* "Indiana Catholic School OK to Fire Staffer in Same-Sex Marriage: Appeals Court:" https://www.advocate.com/law/catholic-school-firing-upheld

* Neo-NAZI group continues its War on Children. "Moms for Liberty Outnumbered by LGBTQ+ Supporters Outside Youth Center:" https://www.advocate.com/news/moms-for-liberty-youth-center

* "TWIBS: The Transgenders Are Ruining… Military Enlistment Rates?!:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/fox-military-story-doesnt-add-up

* "No, Inclusive Church Was Not Hosting Same-Sex Wedding When It Caught Fire:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/church-destruction-claim-debunked

* "First Transgender NFL Cheerleader Stands Proud in Face of Hateful Trolls:" https://www.advocate.com/people/nfl-cheerleader-transgender-first

* "Coming out… again:"

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* "How ADHD affects me:"

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* "Revenge of the gaslit patients: Now, as scientists, they’re tackling Ehlers-Danlos syndromes:" https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/12/ehlers-danlos-syndrome-patients-turned-researchers/

* "Some Humans Create This Temporary, Alien Organ Which Has Baffled Scientists Until Now:" https://www.inverse.com/health/humans-create-temporary-alien-organ-baffled-scientists-until-now




* "We are in an 'era of global boiling' as nearly half of all Americans are under heat advisories:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/we-are-in-an-era-of-global-boiling-as-nearly-half-of-all-americans-are-under-heat-advisories-189546053685




* "Empty Office Buildings Are Being Turned Into Vertical Farms:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/empty-office-buildings-are-being-turned-into-vertical-farms-180982502/

* "Why pedestrian deaths in the US are at a 40-year high :" https://www.vox.com/23784549/pedestrian-deaths-traffic-safety-fatalities-governors-association

* "The ‘Darting Children’ That Helped Japan Win Its War on Traffic Accidents:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tobita-kun-japanese-road-safety-signs

* "Self-healing metal? It's not just the stuff of science fiction:" https://www.reuters.com/science/self-healing-metal-its-not-just-stuff-science-fiction-2023-07-19/

* "Elon Musk took [profile] x Twitter handle from its original owner without asking:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/elon-musk-twitter-x-username-gene-x-hwang/

* "Rare ‘Trojan’ world may share the same orbit as another planet :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/world/exoplanet-trojan-sibling-pds-70-scn/index.html

* "‘Zombifying’ worms are evolutionary oddballs, missing genes all other animals have :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/world/horsehair-worms-parasites-missing-genes-scn/index.html

* "An extraordinary fossil captures the struggle for existence during the Mesozoic:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37545-8

* "Kitchen shrine serpents and more fascinating new Pompeii discoveries:" https://news.yahoo.com/kitchen-shrine-serpents-other-fascinating-234506478.html

* "How Homophobia Impacted the NYPD's Search for a Serial Killer:" https://www.advocate.com/television/last-call-serial-killer-gay

* "Gay Serial Killer Suspect's Estate Turns Up Two More DNA Samples:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/herbert-baumeister-new-dna-victims

* "Jonathan D. Lewis, Gay Activist Against Prop. 8 and DADT, Dead at 64:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/activist-jonathan-lewis-obituary

* "Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman Actor, Dies at 70 After Private Bout of Cancer :" https://variety.com/2023/film/news/paul-reubens-dead-pee-wee-herman-1235683504/

* "Pee-wee Herman Actor Paul Reubens Dead at 70:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/paul-reubens-pee-wee-herman

* "Meet a new generation of Black American ‘cowboys’:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/for-freedoms-american-history-black-equestrians

* "When is Dinner, By State:" https://flowingdata.com/2023/07/25/when-is-dinner-by-state/

* "True Facts: Elephants:"

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* It was a little cooler Sunday, so we went to the Waterfall park instead to wade and have a picnic, and then came back for proper dinner and cake for Nearby Millennial's birthday. I was really fun watching goth Millennial messing about in the water and Newest Millennial continuing to fall in love with the PNW, much as I did when I first came west.

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

* Contains Dracula Spoilers to the end of the book. "Four Times Jack Fakes a Death Certificate and One Time he Doesn't :" https://www.tumblr.com/animate-mush/724191083716820992/four-times-jack-fakes-a-death-certificate-and-one?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.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

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

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* 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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* "Niger coup widely condemned, countries urge return to order:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/niger-president-says-democracy-will-be-saved-following-coup-2023-07-27/

* "Can Israel's Supreme Court Disqualify the First Law of Netanyahu's Judicial Coup?:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-24/ty-article/.premium/can-the-high-court-block-the-new-law-that-limits-its-actions-against-israeli-government/00000189-88a1-d5eb-abcb-f9e725150000

* "Netanyahu Government's Vindictive Anti-democratic Campaign Becomes Law:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2023-07-24/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-governments-vindictive-anti-democratic-campaign-becomes-law/00000189-8821-d964-a789-9a2500390000

* "Protests rock Israel as it passes curbs on some Supreme Court powers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-discharged-hospital-reuters-witness-says-2023-07-24/

* "‘Blood Everywhere’: As Israel’s Protests Ramp Up, the Police Crack Down:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-20/ty-article-magazine/.premium/blood-everywhere-as-israels-protests-ramp-up-the-police-crack-down/00000189-6eb8-d7ac-ab8b-ffbaa0c20000

* "Huge Protest March Reaches Jerusalem After 5-Day Trek From Tel Aviv:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/world/middleeast/jerusalem-protest-march-israel.html

* "Spanish election's nail-biting finish makes hung parliament likely:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-heads-close-run-polls-marked-by-spectre-far-right-2023-07-23/

* "Government urged not to house LGBTQ+ refugees on ‘barbaric’ migrant barge:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/bibby-stockholm-lgbtq-migrants/

* "British Prime Minister Sunak narrowly avoids wipeout in local polls:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pm-sunaks-conservatives-win-boris-johnsons-former-parliamentary-seat-2023-07-21/

* "Susan Hall: Tory London mayor candidate is ‘hard-right’ Trump fan who wants trans women out of sports:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/20/susan-hall-tory-london-mayor-candidate-trump-gender-critical/

* "What the UK’s incoming flexible working laws mean for you:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/what-the-uks-incoming-flexible-working-laws-mean-for-you/




* "Russia attacks Danube grain export route vital for Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-attack-odesa-destroys-grains-depot-injures-four-ukraine-military-2023-07-24/

* "Sea drones and the counteroffensive in Crimea:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/CRIMEA/gdvzwrmrlpw/




* "Judge knocks down Biden’s asylum policy as illegal border crossings dip:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/biden-asylum-policy-immigration-00108074

* "Pressured by Joe Biden, AI companies agree to guardrails on new tools:" https://indianexpress.com/article/world/joe-biden-ai-companies-agree-to-guardrails-on-new-tools-8854274/

I'll believe it when I see dramatic improvement. I suspect they are just trying to duck the creation of strict federal regulation, but I'd love to be wrong.

* "Biden will designate a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/23/1189664409/emmett-till-national-monuments-biden

* "Don't let the black and white photos fool you, the historic fight for civil rights is still happening:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/don-t-let-the-black-and-white-photos-fool-you-the-historic-fight-for-civil-rights-is-still-happening-189280837843

* Regulations are written in blood."After decades of delays and broken promises, coal miners hail rule to slow rise of black lung:" https://apnews.com/article/black-lung-silica-dust-coal-mining-west-virginia-be722098fcf2a20b16bd73ca12c06c7e

* "Judge says she's not ready to accept Hunter Biden's plea deal:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/1190211798/hunter-biden-plea-tax-charges

* "White House shuts down possibility of Hunter Biden pardon:" https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-shuts-down-possibility-hunter-biden-pardon

* "Psaki on Hunter Biden probe: Biden values DOJ independence. I saw it firsthand.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/psaki-on-hunter-biden-probe-biden-values-doj-independence-i-saw-it-firsthand-189359173742

* "Trump vow to weaponize DOJ against Bidens trips up case against Hunter: Analysis:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-vow-to-weaponize-doj-against-bidens-trips-up-case-against-hunter-189369925589

* "Supreme Court clears path for Mountain Valley Pipeline construction to resume:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/supreme-court-clears-path-for-mountain-valley-construction-to-resume-00108076

* "This Is How Conservatives Manufactured an LGBTQ+ Rights Supreme Court Case:" https://www.advocate.com/law/303-creative-lgbtq-rights-scotus

* "McConnell’s Dream of a Segregated U.S. Is Being Realized:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/supreme-court-anti-lgbtq

* "SCOTUS Lets Trans Woman's Discrimination Suit in Virginia Go Forward:" https://www.advocate.com/law/supreme-court-transgender-woman-discrimination

* "US economic growth accelerated in 2nd quarter, exceeding expectations and quieting recession fears:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/us-economy-expected-grown-slowed-dispelling-recession-fears/story?id=101664985

* "The Fed's hot pause summer gets an ice bath: Interest rates rise again:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/1190093285/fed-federal-reserve-interest-rates-borrowing-inflation

* "One year old, US climate law is already turbocharging clean energy technology:" https://apnews.com/article/inflation-reduction-act-renewable-energy-policy-economy-d5b0a7f15659930c6c15f0d180b193e8

* "Jaime Colindres lived at the American Hotel in the 1990s and again for about five years in the 2010s.
LA Promised to Preserve Low-Cost Housing. These Tenants’ Homes Were Turned Into Hotel Rooms Anyway.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-people-uprooted-by-american-hotel-los-angeles

* "Hotel workers kick off third wave of strikes in Hollywood, Pasadena:" https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-07-20/hotel-workers-third-wave-strikes-hollywood-pasadena

* "For fast food workers, organizing poses extra challenges:" https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/traffic-filipino-protests/fast-food-strike

* "French Film Guilds Pledge ‘Full Solidarity’ With SAG-AFTRA and WGA Strikes; SFA Leader Hopes to Host Event by End of Summer:" https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/french-film-guilds-pledge-full-145927765.html

* They are determined despite not being able to to find a scrap of credible evidence. "McCarthy: GOP’s Biden probes ‘rising to the level of impeachment inquiry’ :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/kevin-mccarthy-impeachment-inquiry-biden-00107955

* "Inside Kevin McCarthy’s secret promise to expunge Trump’s record:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/20/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-impeachment-expunge-promise-00107236

* "‘These people look pathetic’: Pelosi slams McCarthy on expunging Trump impeachments :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/23/pelosi-slams-mccarthy-expunge-trump-impeachments-00107727

* "House Democrats Introduce Gender-Neutral Laws Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/democrats-push-gender-neutral-laws

* "LGBTQ+ Democrats push for America to stop funding Uganda over anti-homosexuality law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/lgbtq-democrats-uganda-funding-robert-garcia/

* "Democrats Introduce Bill to Make PrEP Available to More Americans:" https://www.advocate.com/law/prep-drug-protection-bill

* "US senator JD Vance moves to ban all gender-affirming care for trans minors across the nation:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/gender-affirming-care-ban-jd-vance/

* "House Republicans Schedule ‘Mean-Spirited’ Hearing on Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/house-republicans-bigoted-care-hearing

* "National Anti-Trans Bans Loom: Will Democrats Surrender Trans Rights?:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/national-anti-trans-bans-loom-will

Now is an excellent time to tell your Democratic Congress Critters trans Healthcare is important

* "Heritage Foundation Says That Of Course GOP Will Use KOSA To Censor LGBTQ Content :" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/24/heritage-foundation-says-that-of-course-gop-will-use-kosa-to-censor-lgbtq-content/

Some Democrats are siding with their effort to let the most conservative state censor us all for being queer on the Internet.

Please, please, please don't sleep on this.

* "Another action item, this one’s worse: KOSA:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1929643.html

* 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

* "Democrats say new Alabama congressional map shorts Black voters:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/alabama-lawmakers-clash-over-black-voters-redistricting-deadline-looms-2023-07-21/

* Republicans are strongly opposed to the rule of law. "Alabama Republicans refuse to draw a second Black congressional district in defiance of Supreme Court:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/alabama-gop-refuses-draw-second-black-district-supreme-court-order-rcna94715

* "Why Alabama Republicans may be plotting something bigger with defiance of Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-alabama-republicans-may-be-plotting-something-bigger-with-defiance-of-supreme-court-189197893875

* "Rudy Giuliani concedes he made false statements against 2 Georgia election workers:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/1190173929/rudy-giuliani-georgia-election-workers

* "'You can't lie in the court of law': Trump's Big Lie hits brick wall in court:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-you-can-t-lie-in-the-court-of-law-trump-s-big-lie-hits-brick-wall-in-court-189364293995

* "‘I have been indicted,’ says suspect in Michigan vote machine tampering probe:" https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/i-have-been-indicted-says-suspect-michigan-vote-machine-tampering-probe

* "A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve:" https://capitalbnews.org/newbern-alabama-black-mayor/

* "‘Manchin is dreaming:’ What the third-party push gets wrong about America:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-manchin-is-dreaming-what-the-third-party-push-gets-wrong-about-america-189361733734

* RFK Jr. is the worst. Please do not vote for him. "RFK Jr. Clashes With Sean Hannity, Says U.S. ‘Pushed’ Ukraine War:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-clashes-with-sean-hannity-during-fox-news-town-hall-says-us-pushed-ukraine-war

* "DeSantis lets go of more than a third of campaign staff as reset continues:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/desantis-lets-go-of-more-than-1-3-of-campaign-staff-as-reset-continues-00108046

* Well that's on brand. "Canceled Documentary Details DeSantis’ Time at Gitmo, Including Allegedly Overseeing Forced Feedings:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/desantis-guantanamo-force-feedings-canceled-documentary-1234793826/

* Republicans aren't even pretending they aren't NAZIs anymore. "Mask Off: DeSantis Staffer Reportedly Shares Video of DeSantis and Giant Nazi Symbol:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174555/desantis-staffer-reportedly-shares-video-desantis-giant-nazi-symbol

* "DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/

* "Dictator-wannabe Donald Trump praises Xi Jinping as a "perfect" leader who rules "with an iron fist":" https://boingboing.net/2023/07/19/dictator-wannabe-donald-trump-praises-xi-jinping-as-a-perfect-leader-who-rules-with-an-iron-fist-video.html

* "People Aren’t Facing Up to the Horrors a New Trump Term Would Bring:" https://newrepublic.com/article/174535/people-arent-facing-horrors-new-trump-term-bring

* "The Potential Danger of a Trump Second Term:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/the-potential-danger-of-a-trump-second-term-189092933676

* "Let's talk about Trump's angry new rhetoric....:"

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* "Rep. Paul Gosar promotes another antisemitic site that praises Hitler and denies the Holocaust:" https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/rep-paul-gosar-promotes-another-antisemitic-site-praises-hitler-and-denies

* "McConnell episode alarms Senate GOP:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/26/mcconnell-abruptly-leaves-press-conference-after-feeling-light-headed-00108318

* "Texas A.G.'s PAC makes 'amazing' donation to Lt. Gov. presiding over his impeachment trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ahead-of-texas-ag-s-impeachment-trial-his-pac-donates-millions-to-lt-gov-running-trial-189198917594




* CW: Sexual Abuse "Trump loses bid for new trial in E. Jean Carroll case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/19/trump-loses-bid-new-trial-carroll-00107025

* "Timeline: Manhattan DA's Stormy Daniels hush money case against Donald Trump:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-manhattan-district-attorney-case-donald-trump/story?id=98389444

* "Rep. Schiff on Trump's Potential Third Indictment:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/psaki-to-gop-candidates-defending-trump-what-is-your-endgame-189186629934

* "Trump grand jury hears testimony from aide who was with him on Jan. 6:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-grand-jury-hear-testimony-aide-was-jan-6-rcna94998

* "Let's talk about Trump's legal team being surprised....:"

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* "Trump court schedule puts rule of law on the ballot; Alabama GOP already rejecting courts:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-court-schedule-puts-rule-of-law-on-the-ballot-alabama-gop-already-rejecting-courts-189196869576

* "Feds sought surveillance video from State Farm Arena in Trump probe:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/exclusive-feds-sought-surveillance-video-from-state-farm-arena/TWLKTY4KGFB25DUPSPZXUEDFL4/

* "Trump Tried to Delete Mar-a-Lago Security Footage to Thwart Investigators:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-carlos-de-oliveira-mar-a-lago-classified-docs-1234796376/

* "Why Jack Smith waited until now to charge Trump for secret Iran document flaunted on tape:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/why-jack-smith-waited-until-now-to-charge-trump-for-secret-iran-document-flaunted-on-tape-189453893613

* "Prosecutors looking at meeting at which Trump expressed confidence in voting security:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/prosecutors-looking-at-meeting-at-which-trump-expressed-confidence-in-voting-security-189277765722

* "I served on the Jan. 6 committee. Jack Smith is vindicating our work.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-indictment-looming-jan-6-committee-zoe-lofgren-rcna96471




* "Six months. 28 mass killings in the US. That’s the worst yet, and all but one case involved guns:" https://apnews.com/article/mass-killings-record-gun-violence-0174103c37756fe4d247fd15cd3bc009

* "Derailing the defund: How SPD manipulated the media narrative around the 2020 protests:" https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2023/07/19/derailing-defund-how-spd-manipulated-media-narrative-around-2020-protests

* "Seattle police kept mock tombstone for Black man, Trump flag in break room, video shows:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattle-police-kept-mock-tombstone-for-black-man-trump-flag-in-break-room-video-shows/

* "Video Confirms that Officer Was Going 74 MPH, Did Not Have Siren Running When He Struck Pedestrian:" https://publicola.com/2023/07/20/video-confirms-that-officer-was-going-74-mph-was-not-running-siren-when-he-killed-pedestrian/

* "New Police Body Cam Data Exposes the True Scale of NYPD Violence Against Protesters:" https://www.wired.com/story/nypd-george-floyd-nyc-protester-settlement/

* "New York to pay $13 million to protesters arrested during George Floyd protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-pay-13-million-protesters-arrested-during-george-floyd-protests-2023-07-20/

* "A Trooper Issued More than 1,000 Fake Tickets. Connecticut Police Won’t Say Whether He Still Has a Job.:" https://archive.ph/jTv5E#selection-1661.0-1675.272

"A single state trooper logged 1,350 fraudulent traffic tickets into a Connecticut database meant to detect racial profiling. The finding is key to a damning new audit of the Connecticut State Police, which reveals pervasive trooper malfeasance, including at least 26,000 false tickets logged over seven years, that masked racial bias in the force’s policing. Now, the CSP refuses to discuss the audit — or even reveal if the most-prolific ticket faker still has a badge."

* "Why Do White Supremacist Groups Often Include Latinos? :" https://advocatechannel.com/white-supremacist-groups-latinos

* Don't forget to vote in school board elections, because they will remember. "Chaos at the School Board:" https://www.propublica.org/series/chaos-at-the-school-board

* "Florida Board of Education OK's Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies, Sanitized View of Slavery:" https://www.advocate.com/education/florida-schools-anti-lgbtq

"Among the new standards OK’d for teaching about slavery and racism is one that requires “instruction for middle school students to include ‘how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,’” CNN reports. The NAACP issued a press release calling this “a sanitized and dishonest telling of the history of slavery in America.”

A policy on racially motivated massacres, which occurred in Florida towns and elsewhere in the 20th century, mandates inclusion of “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans,” even though most of the violence was committed by whites against Blacks."

* "Florida tries to defend its revisionist history on slavery:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/21/2182564/-Florida-tries-to-defend-its-revisionist-history-on-slavery

* "Infamous right-wing online group's programming approved for Florida students:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/right-wing-online-group-s-programming-approved-for-florida-students-189279813581

* "Maxwell Frost rips new Florida curriculum as bid to ‘erase Black history’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maxwell-frost-rips-new-florida-curriculum-as-bid-to-erase-black-history-189270597974

* "School district approves materials mentioning Harvey Milk after governor threatens $1.5 million fine:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/22/california-school-district-materials-harvey-milk-approve-fine/

* "VA: Youngkin’s Anti-Trans School Rules Prohibit Uncommon Nicknames:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/va-youngkins-anti-trans-school-rules-prohibit-uncommon-nicknames

* "They Checked Out Pride Books in Protest. It Backfired.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/pride-books-library-protest.html

* CW: Child Sexual Abuse. "Why Do Neo-Nazis Keep Getting Arrested For Child Sexual Abuse Material?:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akvbw/why-do-neo-nazis-keep-getting-arrested-for-child-porn




* "Infant deaths surge in Texas after abortion ban:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/07/infant-deaths-surge-in-texas-after-abortion-ban/

"The new grim statistics are only expected to worsen. Abortion bans and restrictions are known to increase infant deaths, maternal deaths, and maternal suffering. And the US already has the worst maternal and infant mortality rates of any other high-income country in the world."




* "Gender-Affirming Care Bans Often Modeled by Anti-LGBTQ+ Groups: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gender-affirming-care-bans-bills

* CW: Suicide. "80% of Transgender Americans Have Considered Suicide:" https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-alarming-suicide-rate

* "Breaking Down Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria:"

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* "Lesbian mums in Italy ‘living in fear’ as government strips names from birth certificates:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/26/lesbian-mums-italy-birth-certificates-giorgia-meloni/

* "Yandex CEO Charged Under Russia’s Anti-LGBTQ+ “Propaganda” Laws:" https://www.advocate.com/business/yandex-ceo-russia-propaganda-lgbtq

* "Matty Healy’s gay kiss stunt is white saviourism that could harm LGBTQ+ Malaysians, says singer" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/26/matt-healy-malaysia-lgbtq-rufus-sivaroshan/

* "Peru court offers same-sex marriage hope for LGBTQ+ couples:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/22/peru-same-sex-marriage-court/

* "Teen Pleads Guilty to Brutal Attack on Lesbian Couple:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/lesbian-couple-attacked-dublin

* "Suella Braverman suggests ‘trans ideology’ book as summer reading:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/suella-braverman-helen-joyce-summer-reading/

* "Labour ‘placating gender critics’ with latest U-turn – and trans members have had enough:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/26/labour-trans-anneliese-dodds-keir-starmer-gender/

* "Keir Starmer repeats anti-trans dogwhistle, claiming a woman is an ‘adult female’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/26/keir-starmer-labour-trans-adult-female/

* "Brianna Ghey suspect pleads not guilty to murder of trans girl:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/20/brianna-ghey-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-of-trans-girl/

* "Gay man hits back at ‘disgusting’ decorator who refused work due to Christian beliefs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/bristol-gay-man-discrimination-painter/

* "The Right Is Using the Anti-Abortion Supreme Court Ruling to Attack Trans Care. Will It Work?:" https://www.advocate.com/law/dobbs-gender-affirming-care-transgender

* "In the war over transgender rights, Florida is ground zero. One woman’s battle to survive:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-20/transgender-laws-florida

* "Arlington Public Schools Say "No," Refuse To Comply With Anti-Trans State Policy:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/arlington-public-schools-say-no-refuse

* "Mum of 11-year-old at centre of trans bathroom ban case speaks out: ‘She’s just a person’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/20/wisconsin-trans-girl-mother-bathroom-ban-school-policy/

* "Judge blocks ‘hateful’ Arizona ban on trans girls playing sports:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/22/arizona-trans-girls-sports-ban-temporary-injunction/

* "What States Have the Most Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes? :" https://www.advocate.com/hate-crimes/hate-crime-lgbtq-states

* "Pro-LGBTQ+ church set on fire following video of visit by right-wing YouTuber:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/pro-lgbtq-church-firebombed/

* "Chris Rufo Claims Trans Acceptance Threatens Reality Itself:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/chris-rufo-claims-trans-acceptance-threatens-reality-itself

* "'Refugees in the USA': Transgender care bans cause families to pull up stakes:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/07/20/refugees-in-the-usa-transgender-care-bans-cause-families-to-pull-up-stakes

* "How Women’s World Cup players are defying FIFA’s Pride rainbow ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/womens-world-cup-lgbtq-pride-onelove-armband/

* "2023 Treatment Guide: Is it Time to Change Your HIV Regimen?:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment-guide/10-reasons-to-change-your-hiv-regimen

* "How Living with HIV is Criminalized:"

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* "Growing up gay with cerebral palsy: ‘Too gay for the disabled people and too disabled for the gays’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/25/emmett-de-monterey-cerebral-palsy-gay/

* "We are failing young people by not trusting them to be the experts about their own lives:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/young-people-experts-disability/

* "Colorado’s new right-to-repair law ensures tractor and wheelchair owners get the parts they need:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/25/colorados-new-right-to-repair-law-ensures-tractor-and-wheelchair-owners-get-the-parts-they-need/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jb251bHkuZHJlYW13aWR0aC5vcmcv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAp5W8XviPTARKL9KycaPqUgz-13Q0sIePzadxd_ULg8Y6Rbc1jutI4xxn8YVgOiIxogdxuRzqzdIOzRoZH5kityHg9tP7rLF8AbbYZtTbdJXMUYX9dmqjcitsttnkEVFFhf6y_8-B_p05FpQu0CYmLMpu7vth4pEBuii5SCvje2

* "How can businesses support disabled employees?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/how-can-businesses-support-disabled-employees/

* "Why our voices change as we get older:" https://theconversation.com/why-our-voices-change-as-we-get-older-208640

* "Reinventing the E.R. for America’s Mental-Health Crisis:" https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/reinventing-the-er-for-americas-mental-health-crisis

* I support harm reduction. "Harm Reduction: Young People in Appalachia and the South Are Addressing the Overdose Crisis:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/harm-reduction-young-people-overdoses




* "Climate Disasters Daily? Welcome to the ‘New Normal.’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/climate/climate-change-extreme-weather.html

* "Climate change role in July heatwaves 'overwhelming', scientists say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/climate-change-role-july-heatwaves-overwhelming-scientists-say-2023-07-25/

* "Gulf Stream shutoff could happen this century, scientists warn:" https://www.politico.eu/article/climate-change-gulf-stream-atlantic-ocean-global-warming-nature-ditlevsen-copenhagen/

* "What People With Disabilities Know About Surviving Climate Disasters:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-06-22/in-climate-disasters-people-with-disabilities-are-getting-left-behind

* "Let's talk about 80 million at 105 degrees....:"

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* "Maricopa County Medical Examiner at 106% capacity, bringing in coolers:" https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/maricopa-county-medical-examiner-at-106-capacity-bringing-in-coolers

* I mildly burned my feet on black top Tuesday a week ago in about a minute, and it's not nearly that hot here.

Be careful folks, and keep children and animals off pavement."Toddler receives second-degree burns to feet from hot playground in Castle Rock: "It's dangerous":" https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/toddler-receives-second-degree-burns-feet-hot-playground-castle-rock-dangerous/

* "Monsoon floods threaten India's Taj Mahal, but officials say the iconic building will be safe:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monsoon-floods-threaten-indias-taj-mahal-but-officials-say-the-iconic-building-will-be-safe/

* "Nova Scotia floods cause 'unimaginable' damage; four people missing:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/atlantic-canada-province-says-dam-could-breach-tell-residents-get-out-2023-07-22/

* "‘Concrete Coffins’: Surviving Extreme Heat Behind Bars:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/07/22/texas-heat-prison-louisiana

* "Texas charges prisoners 50% more for water as heat wave continues:" https://www.kut.org/health/2023-07-20/texas-charges-prisoners-50-more-for-water-for-as-heat-wave-continues




* "Tornado damage to Pfizer plant will probably create long-term shortages of some drugs hospitals need:" https://apnews.com/article/pfizer-factory-tornado-drugs-north-carolina-3ce4b4ee0be984f751e0173091a3cdd7

* "How Bricks Made From Invasive Seaweed Clean Mexico's Beaches:"

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* "Elon Sues The Lawyers That Forced Him to Buy Twitter:"

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* "X Isn’t a Super App. It’s Just Twitter:" https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-x-rebrand-elon-musk/

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter rebrand to ‘X’ is a total disaster. Here’s what’s happened so far:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/26/elon-musks-twitter-x-rebrand-disaster/

* "‘Mom, these bad men have me’: She believes scammers cloned her daughter’s voice in a fake kidnapping :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/ai-scam-calls-kidnapping-cec/index.html

* "Legends Summarized: The Epic of Gilgamesh:"

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* "Eating The Heart Of A King:"

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* CW: Child Abuse "The Dark Secrets Buried at Red Cloud Boarding School:" https://www.wired.com/story/marsha-small-red-cloud-boarding-school/

* "Clinging to the Enigma of Rock Hudson:" https://www.advocate.com/television/rock-hudson-documentary

* "Susan Love, Outspoken Lesbian Doctor and Breast Cancer Expert, Dies at 75:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/susan-love-dead-breast-cancer

* "Steven Pieters, Longtime HIV Activist Interviewed by Tammy Faye Bakker, Dies at 71:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/steven-pieters-obituary

* "Sue Johanson, Who Gave Witty Sex Advice, Dead at 92:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/sex-adviser-sue-johanson-dies

* "Cheri Pies, pioneering author of lesbian parent handbook, dies of cancer, aged 73:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/25/cheri-pies-lesbian-parent-handbook-dies-cancer/

* "Appreciation: Sinéad O’Connor was right all along:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-07-27/sinead-oconnor-dies-snl-catholic-church-protest

* "All the ways queer icon Sinéad O’Connor proved she was a fearless LGBTQ+ ally:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/sinead-oconnor-lgbtq-ally-irish-singer-dead/

* "Sinéad O’Connor risked it all to give voice to the powerless and call out the Catholic Church:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/sinead-o-connor-death-catholic-church-snl/

* Our movement must be intersectional. We must all have each other's backs. Leave no one's rights behind. "50+ Years Since Stonewall, 20 Years After Lawrence, We Still Fight Criminalization:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-criminal-justice-system

* "I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!):" https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

* Why people didn't come out in High School (Hate Speech, Bullying, Hate Crime, Child Abuse): https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/723812206710489088/i-figured-out-who-i-was-over-the-course-of-the?source=share

* "The Outsiders | Toxic Masculinity vs. Vulnerability:"

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* "The History of Gay Hollywood:"

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* "The Black Reclamation of the Body Snatchers:"

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* "RENT and the Mainstreaming of Queer Suffering:"

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* "Chuck Tingle Goes Mainstream...ish:" https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/92146-chuck-tingle-goes-mainstream-ish.html

* "“Horror Is Not a Celebration of Death, It Is a Celebration of Life”: Chuck Tingle Talks Camp Damascus:" https://www.tor.com/2023/07/11/horror-is-not-a-celebration-of-death-it-is-a-celebration-of-life-chuck-tingle-talks-camp-damascus/

* "Camp Damascus is a Hopeful Story of Queer Struggle and Survival:" https://gizmodo.com/camp-damascus-chuck-tingle-review-book-horror-queer-1850668427

* "The Foggy Dew - Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains, 1995:"

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* "Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U:"

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* "Sinéad O'Connor - I Am Stretched on Your Grave:"

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* Sunday was a trip to the Lake with Millennials. No rich children stole my crutch this time. We had a really good swim, but the current was above average strong and at some point I was like, "Oh shit! There's the swim boouy! We are in the middle of the boat lanes. We swam back. It was fine. They put in an outdoor shower this year, which is a huge help. After we showered we ate finger foods and chatted.

I stopped by the bathrooms on the way to my car and OMG! It was one of those things where there was a perfectly logical explanation from the perspective of the three of us already in the bathroom, but like opening a door into chaos for the other two people involved.

This bathroom is tiny. Three stalls on your left. Across from that a big metal communal urinal. The sink and mirror give an excellent view of the door and also a small bench they jammed in against the door wall. It's almost 6:30PM on a crowded hot weekend. it's a couple hours before sunset, so the park is less crowded than when we arrived 4ish, but people are still arriving and the bathroom is Trashed. The little beach strip is more mud then sand and people have been tracking water and black mud/sand in there for about ten hours and there is tp paper mache all over the ground and the toilets desperately need cleaning.

So I step out of the stall, just as a person is heading to the nasty ass urinal trench thing. Another guy is climbing up on the bench to change, because he understandably doesn't want to be barefoot on that floor and then put on shoes to drive home. Bench guy is soon full on pooh bear over my right shoulder as i wash my hands, which takes a while because the water keeps auto shutting off, so I have to stop and restart every few seconds. Perfectly framed over my left shoulder is the door, which swings open.

It's two gentlemen, one of whom beelines for the urinal. The other freezes in horror and starts yelling, "Wrong bathroom! Wrong bathroom!" I have very long hair. I am wearing a mask because I'm in a small, poorly ventilated place. I have on a black tee and my trunks look like goth shorts. My sandals are of an ubiquitous style worn my any gender in my region in good weather. I'm very androgynous. I think it was my hair causing the initial panic, but his head turned to follow his friend's trajectory to the 2-3 person piss trench and he saw bench guy crouched pantsless behind me like a downhill skier doing the streak, as if he was possibly about to pounce on my back, and his cries of wrong bathroom got a lot more shrill. In my head I'm picturing the Guy in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas who walks in on hippies liking a guy's jacket. His oblivious friend is doing his business, the other guy is about to leave. I turn and head towards the poor panicky guy and am like: It's the right bathroom. I have long hair.

We have accidentally traumatized a guy who was clearly not ready for the PNW weird.

A couple millennials came back for dinner. Once we arrived, I realized just how fucked I was. I'd swum too long and my arms were DONE. Luckily, I'd dropped off New Millennial to get their car and a take 'n bake, so I could just lung and rest up. They ended up staying very late talking. I closed down the apartment for the night and went to bed.

I could have gotten up nineish, but I decided to read Camp Damascus in between pettins and supplemental sleep all day, which turned out to be a good call. I have this thing where I promise the Millennials that if they are ever stranded at one of the further bits of town they can call me and if I physically can, I will come get them. Bus service is even shittier out there and there's a severe lack of shelters to wait in. It was pouring down at a rate that was threatening to flood low lying areas. A Millennial was trapped at the back of beyond with a long drenching slog to the bus. Of course I went, but it turned into a a much longer trip than intended for reasons that were no one's fault. I got them home and reasonably dry though, and I'm not sorry.

It did eat and extra chunk of evening though, and I'm really chewed up from swimming. I am very glad I got the aggregate out Friday, because I'm not up to much posting this evening.

We plan to do lake swimming on Sundays all August, which will effect posting schedule.

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* Secrecy in Dracula: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/724040479037161472/your-meta-made-me-think-that-secrecy-sealing?source=share

* "A princess died in the Snow:" https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/723388026724745216?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Little Longfellow War:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/723927370035265536/midnight-pals-little-longfellow-war?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Long Longfellow War:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/724022759803535360/midnight-pals-long-longfellow-war?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Escape Antics:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/724113850793869312/midnight-pals-escape-antics?source=share

*****
* 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.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

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

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* 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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* Not even close to all the news, but I need to cut off somewhere.

* "‘I will not stay quiet': Israel evicts Palestinian family from home after 45-year legal battle:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-jerusalem-old-city-evictions-east-c53ae70f2fa76e4b1f4b528bca4ff35e

* "French authorities ban protest against police violence in Paris:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230715-france-ban-protest-police-violence-paris-death-nahel-darmanin

* "Spain’s election could put the far-right in power – with disastrous consequences for LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/spain-general-election-lgbtq-vox-peoples-party-right-wing/

* "Tories’ brutal by-election losses prove anti-trans hate doesn’t win votes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/by-election-england-conservative-rishi-sunak-lgbtq/

* "Keir Mather: Labour’s out gay winner of Selby and Ainsty by-election is youngest MP in parliament:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/keir-mather-labour-selby-by-election-gay/

* "Laurence Fox stands in Boris Johnson’s former seat and loses his deposit … again:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/laurence-fox-uxbridge-by-election-result-deposit/

* "Government condemned for passing ‘racist’ and ‘inhumane’ migration bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/19/illegal-migration-bill-lgbtq-conservative-government/

* I'm furious. This is shameful. "Disability campaign group loses fight over Grenfell recommendations:" https://ca.style.yahoo.com/style/disability-campaign-group-loses-fight-115225897.html

* "New British Library report confirms Norfolk libraries are an engine of economic recovery and growth:" https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/news/2023/07/new-british-library-report-confirms-norfolk-libraries-are-an-engine-of-economic-recovery-and-growth

* "European Court of Human Rights strikes down Russia's claims against Ukraine:" https://news.yahoo.com/european-court-human-rights-strikes-101340048.html

* "IOC declines to give Russia and Belarus formal invitations to Paris Olympics 1 year out:" https://apnews.com/article/ioc-paris-olympics-russia-belarus-invitations-817a9e3f159fd97093ec27ed61241596




* "G7 signs declaration of security guarantees for Ukraine; Kremlin warns West is making a ‘dangerous mistake’:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

* "Wagner mercenaries not part of front-line fight in Ukraine, U.S. says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-ukraine-putin-pentagon-wagner-mercenary-prigozhin-rcna94223

* "Ukraine, Poland say Wagner fighters arrive in Belarus:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-poland-say-wagner-fighters-arrive-belarus-2023-07-16/

* "Locals near Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant brace for potential disaster: 'It would be the end of us':" https://kyivindependent.com/locals-near-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-brace-for-potential-disaster-it-would-be-the-end-of-us/




* "Kerry’s trip to China yields no breakthrough on climate :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/19/kerrys-effort-to-secure-climate-deal-with-china-falls-short-00107022

* "Let's talk about what the White House can learn from the commentators....:"

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* "U.S. Is Destroying the Last of Its Once-Vast Chemical Weapons Arsenal:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/us/chemical-weapons-stockpile.html

* "​Biden Announces New Student Debt Relief Plan, Says 'Republicans Snatched Away Hope'​ :" https://advocatechannel.com/biden-new-student-debt-relief-plan

* "Biden administration unveils $39B of student debt relief as part of income-driven repayment fix:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/14/biden-administration-student-debt-relief-00106366

* "You could still be eligible for student loan forgiveness under this plan:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1187545921/student-loan-forgiveness-save-repayment

* "Kamala Harris Makes Historic Visit to Stonewall Inn, Vows to Fight Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/kamala-harris-stonewall-visit

* "Manchin opposes Julie Su for Labor secretary, jeopardizing nomination:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/13/manchin-opposes-julie-su-for-labor-secretary-jeopardizing-nomination-00106237

* "A monumental LGBTQ rights case is barreling toward the Supreme Court:" https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/7/10/23789633/supreme-court-lgbtq-lw-skrmetti-transgender-health-care-jeffrey-sutton-sixth-circuit

* "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Clarence Thomas:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-self-fulfilling-prophecies-of-clarence-thomas

* "Supreme Court’s shift to right poses risk to LGBTQ rights:" https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4097224-supreme-courts-shift-to-right-poses-risk-to-lgbtq-rights/

* "Influential activist Leonard Leo helped fund media campaign lionizing Clarence Thomas:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/07/20/leonard-leo-clarence-thomas-paoletta/

* "How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises:" https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht

* Don't hold your breath. Republicans are strongly opposed to Ethics of any kind. "Senate Judiciary moves SCOTUS ethics bill forward — toward a dim future:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/20/supreme-court-ethics-congress-00107413

* "Biden Touts 'Bidenomics In Action' as Inflation Cools:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/biden-touts-bidenomics-in-action-as-inflation-cools-188569669907

* "Here are the 70 House Republicans who voted to cut off all US military aid to Ukraine:" https://www.businessinsider.com/which-house-republicans-voted-gaetz-end-military-aid-ukraine-2023-7

* "‘An ode to bigotry and ignorance': Democrats thrash defense bill loaded with GOP amendments:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/14/mccarthy-conservative-amendments-pentagon-bill-00106338

* "House blocks Pentagon abortion policy in defense bill, imperiling passage:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/13/kevin-mccarthy-defense-bill-deal-culture-wars-00106092

* "House Approves GOP Measure Banning Military DEI Initiatives by One Vote:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-approves-gop-measure-banning-military-dei-initiatives-by-one-vote

* "Human rights groups slam far-right anti-LGBTQ+ defence budget amendments after House vote:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/national-defence-reform-human-rights-campaign-aclu-erin-reed/

* "Arizona Republican refers to Black Americans as 'colored people' in House floor debate:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-eli-crane-refers-black-americans-colored-people-house-floor-rcna94200

* "House GOP Adds Culture War Amendments To Defense Bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/house-gop-adds-culture-war-amendments-to-defense-bill-188535877909

* "Republican lawmakers spark outrage with comments on race:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/republican-lawmakers-spark-outrage-with-comments-on-race-188569669913

* "House Republican ‘Terrorists’ Target LGBTQ+ Community Center Funding in ‘Unprecedented’ Move:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republicans-strip-lgbtq-funding

* I don't have kids. I will never have kids. I am 100% for making Child Tax Credit Permanent. It does so much good. "As Inflation Falls to Lowest in 2+ Years, Dems Consider Making Child Tax Credit Permanent:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/as-inflation-falls-to-lowest-in-2-years-dems-consider-making-child-tax-credit-permanent-188536389509

* I'm not holding my breath, but this is very much the right thing to do. "How the Child Tax Credit Became a Partisan Issue:" https://newrepublic.com/article/174275/republicans-made-child-tax-credit-partisan-issue

* "As Inflation Falls to Lowest in 2+ Years, Dems Consider Making Child Tax Credit Permanent:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/as-inflation-falls-to-lowest-in-2-years-dems-consider-making-child-tax-credit-permanent-188536389509

* "Teamsters president says he’s asked the White House not to intervene if UPS workers go on strike:" https://apnews.com/article/ups-strike-teamsters-biden-delivery-cb586d2f6160a92cda9318d6290ac8ea

* "UPS CEO’s Political Donations Boost Anti-Union Republicans :" https://theintercept.com/2023/07/14/ups-strike-carol-tome-anti-union-republicans/

* Don't Be a Scab! "UPS strike: Logistics company to train non-union employees ahead of possible disruption:" https://www.courier-journal.com/story/money/companies/2023/07/14/ups-strike-company-train-non-union-employees-ahead-of-possible-strike/70415447007/

* "Heat hits UPS drivers as potential strike looms:" https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/heat-hits-ups-drivers-as-potential-strike-looms

* "UPS pilots vow to not cross strike picket lines:" https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/ups-pilots-vow-to-not-cross-strike-picket-lines/

* "American Airlines flight attendants asked to authorize union to call a strike:" https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/american-airlines-flight-attendants-asked-to-authorize-union-to-call-a-strike/3298223/

* "California hotel workers on strike demand higher wages and a chance to live closer to work:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/california-hotel-workers-strike-demand-higher-wages-chance-live-closer-rcna93723

* "On the picket line, a telling alliance between hotel workers and screenwriter:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-14/strike-los-angeles-wga-unite-here-sag-aftra

* "Hotel Workers And Operators Resume Talks On Tuesday:" https://laist.com/news/hotel-workers-and-operators-resume-talks-on-tuesday

* "Fast Food Workers Strike in 100 Cities:" https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/fast-food-workers-strike

* "Actors’ Strike: SAG-AFTRA Releases List of Proposals and Studios’ Counterproposals:" https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/sag-aftra-strike-proposals-amptp-counterproposals-list-actors-hollywood-1234790077/

* "'Pay up!:' Hollywood actors, writers team on picket lines:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hollywoods-striking-actors-writers-walk-picket-lines-friday-2023-07-14/

How to donate to support the strikers: https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "Column: The studios thought they could handle a strike. They might end up sparking a revolution:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-07-18/sag-aftra-strike-bob-iger-fran-drescher-barry-diller-david-zaslav-revolution

* "Striking writers and actors throw shade over tree trimming at Universal picket line:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-07-18/sag-aftra-wga-nlrb-complaint-universal-pickets

* "Orange is the New Black stars speak out about ‘crazy and unjust’ pay for Netflix megahit:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/orange-is-the-new-black-cast-members-slam-netflix-pay-inequality/

* "'Power Rangers' Actor Says He Only Made $150 to Portray the Face of Zordon in Hundreds of Episodes:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/07/18/power-rangers-zordon-actor-pay/

* "IATSE averts strike, reaches tentative deal with Broadway League, Disney Theatrical:" https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/iatse-averts-strike-reaches-tentative-deal-with-broadway-league-disney-theatrical/

* They really need a Union. "Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Production Workers Launch Unionization Effort:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wb-animation-cartoon-network-production-workers-unionization-effort-1235540007/

* "Amazon hit with labor complaint over failing to bargain with Staten Island union:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/amazon-hit-with-labor-complaint-over-failing-to-bargain-with-union.html

* "Grindr Employees to Unionize Amid the Rise in Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation, Tech Layoffs:" https://www.advocate.com/business/grindr-union-layoffs-arison

* "McCarthy burned by reported promise to placate crabby Trump by expunging impeachments:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/mccarthy-burned-by-reported-promise-to-placate-crabby-trump-by-expunging-impeachments-188960325643

* "Republicans grill FBI Director During House Hearing:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/republicans-grill-fbi-director-during-house-hearing-188569669894

* "House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees as they move away from climate change denial:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-republicans-trillion-trees-01e455acce4397c0376e82bfa18b72c2

This would require roughly the entire continental United states to be turned into a forest and would only do half as much as needed. I'm going to assume this is trolling.

* 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

* "Alabama GOP invites court smackdown; defies order to draw fair map:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/alabama-gop-invites-court-smackdown-defies-order-to-draw-fair-map-189042245717

* Vote now! "Group opposing Ohio push to make changing constitution harder launches new TV ad:" https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/group-opposing-ohio-push-make-changing-constitution-harder-launches-ne-rcna93899

* "Michigan attorney general charges 'false electors' over efforts to overturn the 2020 election:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/michigan-attorney-general-charges-false-electors-efforts-overturn-2020-rcna94838

* "'The very center of the entire conspiracy': Raskin hails DOJ progress in Trump probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-the-very-center-of-the-entire-conspiracy-raskin-hails-doj-progress-in-trump-probe-188772933773

* "Shaker Heights attorney, a Trump supporter, tells judge he voted twice in last two elections by accident:" https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2023/07/shaker-heights-attorney-a-trump-supporter-tells-judge-he-voted-twice-in-last-two-elections-by-accident.html

He's a lawyer for the IRS, yet somehow he claims he keeps doing illegal stuff by accident. If Republicans are as against voter fraud ads they claim, why do they keep doing it? It's as if every accusation they make is a confession.

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene Praises Joe Biden in Viral Campaign Ad:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-praise-biden

* "How Biden can harness the anger behind the 'summer of strikes' to beat Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-biden-can-harness-the-anger-behind-the-summer-of-strikes-to-beat-trump-188961349800

* "RFK Jr. denies comments on ‘ethnically targeted’ Covid-19 were anti-Semitic:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-covid-19-ethnically-targeted-00106478

Spoiler: They were.

* "Right-Wing Websites Connected to Former Trump Lawyer Are Scamming Loyal Followers With Phony Celebrity Pitches:" https://www.propublica.org/article/right-wing-websites-scam-readers-phony-celebrity-pitches

* "Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html

Republicans have stopped pretending that the goal is anything other than overthrowing the government in favor of fascist dictatorship.

We are in the end game for democracy in America now.

* "Trump, Republican allies make plan to concentrate power in Trump's hands: NYTimes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-republican-allies-make-plan-to-concentrate-power-in-trump-s-hands-nytimes-188688965630

* "Trump unveils new education policy loaded with culture war proposals:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/26/trump-unveils-education-policy-culture-war-00079784

* "A brief history of DeSantis comments — and dodges — on Trump and Jan. 6:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/desantis-jan-6-trump/

* "Christie pokes at DeSantis: ‘We don’t make our country better by continuing to rumormonger things’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/19/2024-campaign-christie-desantis-00107242

* "Private GOP Polling Data Reveals Why DeSantis’ Campaign Is Sputtering:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ron-desantis-donald-trump-covid-vaccine-polling-2024-1234789843/

* "The Humiliation of Ron DeSantis:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/ron-desantis-cnn-interview/674751/

* Women who voted for the Leopards Eating faces Party continue to be shocked when Leopards eat their faces. "Republican women learn the hard way: Complicity will not protect you:" https://www.salon.com/2023/07/11/women-learn-the-hard-way-complicity-will-not-protect-you/

* This is so destructively nonsensical I can't wrap my head around it. "Florida moves forward on radioactive road paving plan as Gov. DeSantis signs new law:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185280180/florida-roads-radioactive-desantis-signs-law

* "Why recruits are walking away from Ron DeSantis’ new State Guard:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/recruits-are-walking-away-ron-desantis-new-state-guard-rcna94636

* "Malaria Detected in Florida as Key Infectious Disease Positions Sit Vacant:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/malaria-detected-florida-desantis-public-health-positions-vacant-1234784402/

* "Secretive Furries Group Is Hacking Anti-Transgender State Governments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/furries-gay-hacking

* "Ron DeSantis rants about ‘indoctrinating children’ after seeing one single Pride flag:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/18/ron-desantis-pride-flag-presidential-2024/

* "State senator says Gov. DeSantis needs to ‘come home,’ call special session to address property insurance crisis:" https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/07/12/state-senator-says-gov-desantis-needs-to-come-home-call-special-session-to-address-property-insurance-crisis/

* "Oh, the Delusion: George Santos Compares Himself to Rosa Parks and Gets Dragged to High Hell:" https://www.theroot.com/oh-the-delusion-george-santos-compares-himself-to-ros-1850631514

* "Disney asks Florida judge to toss out lawsuit from DeSantis appointees:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/disney-asks-florida-judge-to-toss-out-lawsuit-from-desantis-appointees




* "Georgia Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to head off potential indictment :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/17/georgia-supreme-court-trump-indictment-00106710

* "Prosecutorial feeding frenzy takes shape around Trump's effort to subvert 2020 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prosecutorial-feeding-frenzy-takes-shape-around-trump-s-effort-to-subvert-2020-election-188682309857

* "Let's talk about Smith, Trump, and trial dates....:"

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* "Judge in Trump classified documents case tells prosecutors that a mid-December trial date would be too soon:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/politics/trump-classified-documents-hearing/index.html

* "Trump's court defense exposes insincerity of his public protestations:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-court-defense-exposes-insincerity-of-his-public-protestations-188774981697

* "Jared Kushner Testifies Before Grand Jury Investigating His Father-in-Law: Report:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jared-kushner-testifies-grand-jury-2020-election-1234788305/

* "Trump says he’s received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigators:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/18/trump-says-hes-received-a-target-letter-from-special-counsel-jack-smiths-jan-6-investigators-00106776

* "How to understand the federal statutes cited in Donald Trump's latest target letter:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-to-understand-the-federal-statutes-cited-in-donald-trump-s-latest-target-letter-188849733976

* "'The very center of the entire conspiracy': Raskin hails DOJ progress in Trump probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-the-very-center-of-the-entire-conspiracy-raskin-hails-doj-progress-in-trump-probe-188772933773




* "Justice Department appeals Jan. 6 prison sentences for Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/12/doj-appeals-oath-keepers-sentences-00106040

* "The QAnon Shaman's plan to get his guilty plea reversed is 'silly' — and might land him back in prison, ex-prosecutor says:" https://www.businessinsider.com/qanon-shaman-plan-guilty-plea-reversed-silly-former-prosecutor-says-2023-7

* "Ron DeSantis endorses 'deadly force' against migrants suspected of trafficking drugs:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-vows-send-military-block-drugs-reaching-mexican-ports-rcna91121

* "Releasing people pretrial doesn’t harm public safety :" https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/07/06/bail-reform/

* "KKK Flyers Protest Pride Celebrations at Virginia Elementary School:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kkk-virginia-pride-school

* "Hollywood Diversity Initiatives May Be Challenged After Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dei-supreme-court-affirmative-action-hollywood-1235532273/

* "Alabama lawmakers seek to slash funding from state archives after LGBTQ+ history lecture:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/alabama-lgbtq-history-lecture-archives-department/

* "'Poisoning the well': Florida middle schoolers to be dragged into DeSantis' war on history:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-poisoning-the-well-florida-middle-schoolers-to-be-dragged-into-desantis-war-on-history-188959813519

They are requiring schools to lie to children that slavery was for the benefit of the enslaved and that white people massacring black communities for trying to vote was really violence done by and too black people.

I have no words that are printable in my fury.

* "Obama Slams LGBTQ+ Book Bans in Open Letter to American Librarians:" https://www.advocate.com/news/obama-slams-book-bans

* "Arkansas Legislator Vows to ‘Eliminate All the Funding for Public Libraries’ Affiliated With the ALA:" https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/arkansas-legislator-vows-to-eliminate-all-the-funding-for-public-libraries-affiliated-with-the-ala/

* "South Carolina Library System Removes All Displays That Showcase LGBTQ+ Books:" https://www.advocate.com/books/lgbtq-books-greenville-county

* CW: Rape. "Singapore: Autistic trans woman faces being sent back to institute ‘where she was raped’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/singapore-lgbtq-queer-trans-asylum-attacks/

* "Love Your Rainbow Body: Pride in LGBTQ+ Body Positivity:" https://www.out.com/gay-lifestyle/love-your-rainbow-body-pride-in-lgbtq-body-positivity




* "'It’s a very short path': Is there a lesson for the U.S. in Poland's extreme anti-abortion law and the popular backlash it has provoked?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-4-s-short-path-rcna93352

* "Arizona governor greenlights over-the-counter birth control:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-governor-greenlights-over-counter-023816190.html

* "Judge temporarily blocks Iowa's 'fetal heartbeat' abortion ban as court challenge continues:" https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/17/iowa-fetal-heartbeat-abortion-law-court-ruling-temporary-injunction-kim-reynolds-pregnancy/70420027007/

* "Tennessee AG Skrmetti opposes rule change aimed at protecting abortion health records:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/17/tennessee-ag-skrmetti-opposes-federal-rule-change-on-abortion-records/70421514007/

* "Cameron wants Kentuckians' out-of-state abortion records to be available to authorities:" https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/17/kentucky-ag-daniel-cameron-opposes-proposed-hhs-privacy-rule-on-out-of-state-abortion-records/70420153007/

* "AG Lynn Fitch wants to make info on out-of-state abortions available to Mississippi authorities:" https://mississippitoday.org/2023/07/13/lynn-fitch-abortion-rules-change-track-info/

* "Arkansas attorney general wants to know about your out-of-state abortion:" https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/07/16/arkansas-attorney-general-wants-to-know-about-your-out-of-state-abortion

* "Republican attorneys general demand access to out-of-state abortion medical records:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-attorneys-general-demand-access-to-out-of-state-abortion-medical-records-188688453806




* "Russian lawmakers approve ban on gender-affirming medical care:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-gender-affirming-medical-care-surgery-ban/

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* As with the similar folks in Türkiye. I believe people who come out for these protests are heroes. "Thousands turn out for Budapest Pride in courageous protest of Viktor Orbán:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/17/hungary-budapest-pride-viktor-orban/

* "Hungarian bookstore fined thousands for not concealing Heartstopper graphic novel:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/hungary-bookstore-fine-heartstopper-lgbtq/

* "Alice Oseman slams decision to fine Hungarian bookshop for selling Heartstopper: ‘Sad and angry’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/19/alice-oseman-slams-fine-hungarian-bookshop-heartstopper/

* "Italy begins removing lesbian mums from their children’s birth certificates:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/18/italy-lesbian-mums-removed-birth-certificates/

* "Hundreds Marry as Mexico Celebrates Marriage Equality, Gender ID Law:" https://www.advocate.com/world/mexico-celebrates-marriage-gender-id

* "Ukrainian pop singer and refugee Natisa Gogol on using her music to fight for queer people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/natisa-gogol-ukrainian-singer-refugee-fighting-for-queer-community/

* "Civil servants slam draft gender policy for ‘centring anti-trans views’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/16/civil-service-draft-gender-policy-trans/

* "Kemi Badenoch issues chilling hint that UK government will force teachers to out trans kids to parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/17/kemi-badenoch-schools-trans-guidance/

* "Tories launch official ‘probe’ into sanitary products in men’s toilets at government office:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/19/government-probe-sanitary-products-mens-toilets-defra/

* "Rishi Sunak apologises to LGBTQ+ veterans, calling military ban an ‘appalling failure’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/19/rishi-sunak-lgbtq-veterans-independent-review-published/

* "Homophobic vandals cause thousands of pounds of damage in attack on local Pride event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/17/dewsbury-pride-vandals-fundraiser/

* "Investigation into school at centre of cat gender row finds ‘no serious concerns’ at school of ‘kindness’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/cat-gender-school-row-investigation/

* "“Safety Concern” Used to Justify Kansas Drivers License Restrictions:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/safety-concern-used-to-justify-kansas-drivers-license-restrictions

* "Utah Governor Justifies Bans on Trans Healthcare Echoing Conspiracy Claims:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/utah-governor-justifies-bans-on-trans-healthcare-echoing-conspiracy-claims

* "Glenn Youngkin Goes After Transgender Kids in Revised School Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/news/glenn-youngkin-transgender-students-safety

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas judge says Supreme Court ruling gives her the right to refuse same-sex weddings:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/texas-judge-dianne-hensley-same-sex-marriage/

* "Florida Reverends, Rabbi Slam DeSantis, Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/florida-reverends-rabbi-slam-desantis

* "Michigan Senate Passes Legislation Banning Conversion Therapy for Minors:" https://www.advocate.com/law/conversion-therapy-michigan-senate

* "Judges Block Tennessee, Kentucky Bans on Transition Care for Minors:" https://www.advocate.com/law/tennessee-kentucky-trans-bans

* "Montana Judge Rules Transgender Birth Certificate Law Unconstitutional:" https://www.advocate.com/law/montana-judge-transgender-birth-certificate

* "Judge sides with trans 6th grader in fight to get her school to treat her fairly:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/07/judge-sides-with-trans-6th-grader-in-fight-to-get-her-school-to-treat-her-fairly/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ hate and extremism spiked during Pride Month 2023, report finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/glaad-hate-extremism-hate-pride-month-2023/

* "Alabama Man Sentenced to Life for Killing Man He Lured on Grindr:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/grindr-murderer-sentenced

* "South Carolina Trans Teen Killed; Man He Met for Date Charged With Murder:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/trans-teen-jacob-williamson-killed

* "Cisgender woman killed by man who thought she was trans:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/indiana-michelle-dionne-peacock-trans-killed/

* "'He was a protector': Friends say Oregon man died while defending LGBTQ friend:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/man-stabbed-to-death-protecting-trans-co-worker/

* They attacked an autistic person in a wheelchair for the crime of shopping, then drove away. Bet their moms are super proud of these cowards. "Trans man hospitalised after being shot with pellet gun while shopping for groceries:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/17/trans-man-shot-pellet-gun-pontiac-michigan/

* "Pride Fireworks Attack Near L.A. Remains Unsolved:" https://www.advocate.com/hate-crimes/pride-fireworks-attack-near-la

* "Conservative Christian caught on CCTV flinging dead rat into gay couple’s restaurant:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/16/christian-couple-virginia-the-front-porch/

* "To Escape Bullies, Military ‘Forced to Move’ Families with LGBTQ+ Kids:" https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/06/escape-bullies-military-forced-move-families-lgbtq-kids/387214/

* "As bans on transgender care for minors grow, a migration of sorts is underway:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/14/business/bans-transgender-care-minors-grow-migration-sorts-is-underway/

* "Chi Omega Invalidates Nonbinary Sorority Sister's Membership:" https://www.advocate.com/news/chi-omega-sorority-nonbinary

* "Salon owner condemned for telling LGBTQ+ people to go to ‘pet groomer’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/16/salon-9-lgbtq-pet-groomer-michigan/

* "Brighton sees biggest ever turnout for 10th anniversary Trans Pride: ‘A beacon of hope’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/16/brighton-trans-pride-2023/

* "CNN apologises after journalists misgender Dylan Mulvaney in ‘unbelievably bad’ Bud Light report:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/dylan-mulvaney-cnn-bud-light/

* "The Black Maternal Mortality Crisis and Why It Remains an Issue:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/05/1186019422/the-black-maternal-mortality-crisis-and-why-it-remains-an-issue

* "World's 1st 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan:" https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230609/p2a/00m/0sc/026000c




* "Let's talk about warming waters in Florida....:"

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* "Europe battles heat and fires; sweltering temperatures scorch China, US:" https://www.reuters.com/world/record-heat-wave-grips-china-flood-toll-rises-south-korea-2023-07-19/

* "How Canada’s Record Wildfires Got So Bad, So Fast:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/18/climate/canada-record-wildfires.html

* "Record-breaking 10 million hectares of land burned in Canada's wildfires:" https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/record-breaking-10-million-hectares-of-land-burned-in-canada-s-wildfires-1.6481870

* "Canadian firefighter dies battling wildfire in Northwest Territories:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/canadian-firefighter-dies-battling-wildfire-northwest-territories-101327286

* "Extreme heat and wildfire smoke can collide in deadly ways:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/canada-wildfire-smoke-heat-wave-air-quality-record-temperatures-rcna94869

* "South Korea flood death toll rises to 40, Yoon blames botched responses:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-flood-death-toll-rises-39-yoon-orders-all-out-effort-2023-07-17/

* CW: Child Death "5 people were killed by raging floodwaters in southeastern Pennsylvania. 2 children are still missing:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/16/weather/northeast-storms-sunday/index.html

* "The 'Great Kentucky Flood' of July 2023:" https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/the-great-kentucky-flood-of-july-2023/article_0693b5d4-268e-11ee-bc6f-bb5f45531c66.html

* "Northeast floods devastate farmers as months of labor and crops are swept away:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-northeast-vermont-farms-crops-577818980a7c1db0e67ff1cf3df51156

* "Al Gore on Extreme Heat and the Fight Against Fossil Fuels:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/climate/al-gore-on-extreme-heat-and-the-fight-against-fossil-fuels.html

* "Phoenix breaks city record with 19 consecutive days of 110-degree heat:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/heat-torching-records-spreading-us-europe-rcna94851

* "Bangladesh’s historic heat wave is making work “living hell” for IT workers:" https://restofworld.org/2023/bangladesh-electricity-crisis-bpo-workers/




* "Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon drops 34% in first half 2023:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/deforestation-brazils-amazon-drops-34-first-half-2023-2023-07-06/

* "The Hidden Cost of Gasoline:" https://grist.org/accountability/gas-stations-underground-storage-tank-leaks-environmental-disaster/

* "Chinese scientists create edible food packaging to replace plastic:" https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-748532

* "We started an Underwater Forest - the results are insane:"

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* "‘Great news’: EU hails discovery of massive phosphate rock deposit in Norway:" https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/great-news-eu-hails-discovery-of-massive-phosphate-rock-deposit-in-norway/

* "OceanGate Is Getting Majorly Sued:"

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* "From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You:" https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you

* "Twitter claims hate speech is 30 per cent lower since Elon Musk acquisition. Experts disagree:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/20/twitter-hate-speech-drops-experts-disagree/

* "Ukraine's Botanists Risked Their Lives for a Priceless Collection:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ukraine-scientists-braved-shelling-herbarium

* "Apparently Magpies and Crows Are Using "Anti-Bird Spikes" to Make Their Nests:" https://www.audubon.org/news/apparently-magpies-and-crows-are-using-anti-bird-spikes-make-their-nests

* "No Longer Endangered: The Bald Eagle is an Icon of the USA:" https://dwr.virginia.gov/blog/no-longer-endangered-the-bald-eagle-is-an-icon-of-the-esa/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nftf&utm_content=nftf_all_esa_bald_eagles

* "The Underground Railroad Was the Ultimate Conspiracy to Southern Enslavers:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/underground-railroad-as-southern-conspiracy-theory

* "The Forgotten Housewife who Invented your Dishwasher:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/07/12/the-forgotten-housewife-who-invented-your-dishwasher/

* "Prop 8’s Sandy Stier & Kris Perry Mark 10 Years of Marriage at VP Kamala Harris’s Home:" https://www.advocate.com/news/prop-8-stier-perry-harris

* "Lilli Vincenz, LGBTQ+ Activist and Filmmaker, Dies at 85:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/lilli-vincenz-lesbian-activist

* "Morocco’s historic Women’s World Cup debut inspires girls even if some in the Arab world ignore it:" https://apnews.com/article/morocco-womens-arab-world-cup-debut-4e5aa560e22e36f2cc766aff995665e3

* "LegalEagle's Devin Stone Answers Law Questions From Twitter:"

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* "The History of Gay Hollywood:"

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* "The Black Reclamation of the Body Snatchers:"

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* "RENT and the Mainstreaming of Queer Suffering:"

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* "Right-wing media accuses Barbie of ‘forgetting core audience’ by ‘pushing’ LGBTQ+ stories:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/19/barbie-right-wing-media-lgbt-stories-characters-reactions/

* My heart did not take damage.

I am exhausted as people and robots keep phoning me and I had things like mandatory bureaucracy this week. Cleaners came though, both the replacement cleaner Tuesday to make up for none last week, who was another ex-teacher like me, and the Friday Cleaner. Like all but two of the cleaners (If you count the uncleaner), Friday Cleaner came all the way from the Reservation. The others were all my ageish or Millennials. I'm always super polite to the cleaners as it's hard work and the people doing it deserve politeness. If it's a Friday, I offer free vegetables, because they send more than we need from forage delivery.

This one was an Elder. I was raised with deference to older relatives, and I'm particularly aware of the kind of things her generation went through at the hands of the US government and white people in general as well as cultural stuff around treatment of elders. I felt very, very weird asking her to do anything because it went against pretty much every ingrained instinct in my body.

I was super extra polite explaining the cats and setting her up in the kitchen, then left her to it. She was so quiet as she worked that poor Livia thought she was gone and eventually came out for loves, only to discover after a snack and second pettins that the stranger was Still here. Tavy ended up really liking her. she had a very cat vibe and interesting smelling shoes and she talked sweet to him, but gave him space.

Her cleaning was excellent, very detailed. Apparently she was worried that I'd be distressed by how slow it went, because she was deep cleaning in there. Me: No really, we need that as no one has had time to do it in a while. My style is very ex-middle school teacher. I'd wander quietly over to get something or put something away, and take in what she was up to without looking like that's what I'm doing. I saw how in depth she was going and suggested an extra thing she might do in there. Last half hour I gave her a different meticulous in depth thing, and sent her home a few minutes early with a bag of food.

She was really cool. Apparently she and her friends were all at an outdoor music part party, all dancing together, and we just generally had a nice chat while she was getting ready to go about cats and things. I really liked her and would love her back. At the same time I'll never not be angry that economics means she's having to work. Elders should not be having to clean the homes of white people. Not even relatively vigorous ones.

* "7 Queer Historic Images from Lesbian Photographers Bolette Berg and Marie Hoeg:" https://www.advocate.com/photography/lesbian-norway-photographers-berg-hoeg

* "15 Unearthed Images of Pride, From 1969 to Now :" https://www.advocate.com/photography/history-of-pride-marches

* "21 Historic Photos of Queer Nightlife and Activism:" https://www.advocate.com/photography/photos-of-queer-nightlife-activism

* "This Is What It Looked Like to Party in Fire Island in 1999 :" https://www.out.com/nightlife/fire-island-pines-99-party

* "63 Photos of Kamala Harris's 2023 Pride Month Celebration :" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/kamala-harris-pride-photos-glaad

* "Mae Martin marks Non-Binary Awareness Week with proud topless selfie: ‘Trans joy’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/13/mae-martin-non-binary-awareness-week-topless-selfie-trans-joy/

* "Lucius as red and Frenchie as purple:" https://www.tumblr.com/johannestevans/723078428228812800?source=share

* "Thinking about "nocturnal existence" and Dracula's influence and Jonathan.:" https://www.tumblr.com/thegoatsongs/722674663032061952/thinking-about-nocturnal-existence-and-draculas?source=share

* Interpretations of Orpheus and Eurydice: https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/722605501548019712?source=share

* Lucy and Jonathan Parallels. Dracula Spoilers: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/723228213096153088/i-didnt-want-to-clog-up-your-post-about-being?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Italian Developments:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/723184559246688256/midnight-pals-italian-developments?source=share

*****
* 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.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
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* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

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

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some fruiends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* 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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* I probably lost some things in the crash, but I'm too tired to work it out.

* "Turkey gives green light to Swedish NATO membership bid:" https://www.reuters.com/world/turkey-sweden-locked-talks-break-impasse-over-nato-membership-2023-07-10/

* "Putin's war on Ukraine backfires as NATO set to expand again:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-s-war-on-ukraine-backfires-as-nato-set-to-expand-again-187430981956

* "NATO skirts final call on Ukraine membership, leaving unity-testing fight for later :" https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-skirts-final-call-on-ukraine-membership-leaving-unity-testing-fight-for-later/

* "Biden deems idea of Ukraine NATO membership as ‘premature’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/09/biden-deems-ukraine-nato-membership-premature-00105321

* "Israel May Have Committed War Crimes in Jenin Operation, UN Palestinian Rights Official Says:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-06/ty-article/.premium/israel-may-have-committed-war-crimes-in-jenin-raid-un-palestinian-rights-official-says/00000189-2a7b-dcb5-a5df-6f7f370a0000

* "New migrant tragedy at sea changes little as EU leaders forge ahead with tougher borders plans:" https://apnews.com/article/migration-eu-summit-libya-turkey-borders-refugees-eab33d5169ae1c147e0dc5b2dc1f8266




* Russia has been using them on Ukrainian civilians for some time. "U.S. approves cluster bombs despite humanitarian concerns:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/07/u-s-approves-cluster-bombs-in-latest-ukraine-weapons-transfer-00105234

* I am really alarmed. "One Ukrainian soldier had six extensively drug-resistant bacterial infections:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/07/ukraine-war-spurs-horrifying-rise-in-extensively-drug-resistant-bacteria/

* "A Boy’s Life on the Front Lines:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/26/magazine/ukraine-war-childhood.html

* "Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-prisons-civilians-torture-detainees-88b4abf2efbf383272eed9378be13c72

* "The Children Russia Kidnapped:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/07/russia-kidnapping-abducting-ukrainian-children/674535/




* "U.S. drone strike kills Islamic State leader in Syria, Defense Department says :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/09/drone-strike-islamic-state-leader-syria-00105334

* "Where Clarence Thomas Entered an Elite Circle and Opened a Door to the Court:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clarence-thomas-horatio-alger-association.html

* "NYT: Clarence Thomas gave elite group 'unusual' access to Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nyt-clarence-thomas-gave-elite-group-unusual-access-to-supreme-court-187414085847

* "Civil rights dominoes set to fall as conservative activists get Supreme Court's message:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/civil-rights-dominoes-set-to-fall-as-conservative-activists-get-supreme-court-s-message-188522053560

* "White House slams John Cornyn for infrastructure vote amid ‘Bidenomics’ push:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/cornyn-biden-broadband-funding-18175221.php

* "Biden laughs at Tuberville hailing Alabama broadband funds he voted against, reviving feud with senator:" https://www.al.com/politics/2023/07/biden-laughs-at-tuberville-hailing-alabama-broadband-funds-he-voted-against-reviving-feud-with-senator.html

* "US Rep. Nancy Mace endorses Charleston bus project. But she voted against its funding.:" https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/us-rep-nancy-mace-endorses-charleston-bus-project-but-she-voted-against-its-funding/article_687b1c16-15cb-11ee-b76d-277e7ee0749f.html

* "Buttigieg calls out opponents of infrastructure bill now trying to take credit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/buttigieg-calls-out-opponents-of-infrastructure-bill-now-trying-to-take-credit-187643973878

* "Read SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher’s fiery speech announcing actors’ strike:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-07-13/fran-drescher-speech-actors-strike-sag-aftra-strike-press-conference

* "'Complete disrespect': Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president, rages at media execs over impasse:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-complete-disrespect-fran-drescher-sag-aftra-president-rages-at-media-execs-over-impasse-188373061828

* Why the Actor's strike is important: https://www.tumblr.com/thirddoctor/722802911553437696?source=share

* "GOP’s Bombshell Anti-Biden Witness Has a Wee Credibility Problem Why does this keep happening?:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/gal-luft-gop-biden-witness-charged-china-justice-department-comer.html

* "'Failure': Raskin on missing GOP ‘informant’ turning out to be fugitive:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-failure-raskin-on-missing-gop-informant-turning-out-to-be-fugitive-187630661543

* "McCarthy claims indictment of GOP 'informant' only makes Biden case 'stronger':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mccarthy-claims-indictment-of-gop-informant-only-makes-biden-case-stronger-188365381745

* "As GOP works the law enforcement refs for Trump, important policing issues go fallow:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-gop-works-the-law-enforcement-refs-for-trump-important-policing-issues-go-fallow-188084293657

* 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.

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* 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

* Ohioans please vote! Early Voting has already started! "Ohio Republicans piling on in seeking closed primaries on top of Issue 1 affront:" https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2023/07/ohio-republicans-piling-on-in-seeking-closed-primaries-on-top-of-issue-1-affront-editorial.html

* "Ohio Issue 1 isn’t about any one issue — It’s about every issue and the power Ohio voters have:" https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/07/11/ohio-issue-1-isnt-about-any-one-issue-its-about-every-issue-and-the-power-ohio-voters-have/

* "‘Desperate’: Ohio Republicans pull ‘brazen stunt’ to undermine abortion rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-desperate-ohio-republicans-pull-brazen-stunt-to-undermine-abortion-rights-188514373750

* "WA transgender youth bill targeted in national culture war:" https://crosscut.com/politics/2023/05/wa-transgender-youth-bill-targeted-national-culture-war

* "Editorial: Ballot measure isn’t about parental rights:" https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-ballot-measure-isnt-about-parental-rights/

* "No, Washington Did Not Just Pass a Law Allowing the State to Kidnap and Transgenderify Children:" https://www.thestranger.com/news/2023/04/19/78955501/no-washington-did-not-just-pass-a-law-allowing-the-state-to-kidnap-and-transgenderify-children

* "Conspiratorial election denial bad for business pillow guy learns; GOP does damage control:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/conspiratorial-election-denial-bad-for-business-pillow-guy-learns-gop-does-damage-control-188084805617

* "Abortion complicates 2024 outlook as Republicans gear up for Iowa and primary season:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/abortion-complicates-2024-outlook-as-republicans-gear-up-for-iowa-and-primary-season-187636805929

* "GOP candidates court anti-abortion crowd; count on mass amnesia for general election:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/gop-candidates-court-anti-abortion-crowd-count-on-mass-amnesia-for-general-election-188084805859

* "We Investigated the Deepest, Darkest Corners of the Internet to Understand Ron DeSantis’ Bizarre New Video:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/08/ron-desantis-memes-lgbtq-ad-00105238

* He's targeting trans men specifically. "Why Ron DeSantis is emailing his supporters about men getting pregnant:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/30/desantis-campaign-cash-gop-voters-00104323"

* "The Sequel Will Be Worse. Trump’s former Justice Department officials fear a second term.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/trumps-ex-justice-department-officials-fear-a-second-term.html

* "‘Retaliation’: Why Trump’s former DOJ officials fear a second term:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-retaliation-why-trump-s-former-doj-officials-fear-a-second-term-187412037687

* "A Small Town’s Fourth of July: Flags, a 5K and Trump’s Attacks on American Institutions:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/us/politics/trump-pickens-independence-day.html

* "These are the 5 state driver's licenses no longer valid in Florida under new immigration law:" https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/these-are-the-5-state-drivers-licenses-no-longer-valid-in-florida-under-new-immigration-law/3066073/

* "Misfire’: Floridians already feeling economic effect of DeSantis immigration law:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-misfire-floridians-already-feeling-economic-effect-of-desantis-immigration-law-187412038002

* Who was it who said a gaffe is saying what you really believe by accident? "Tommy Tuberville reverses his claim that white nationalists are unfairly labeled racist:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tommy-tuberville-triples-claim-white-nationalists-unfairly-labeled/story?id=101095697

* "‘Embarrassing’: Ex-Alabama Senator rips Tuberville's white nationalist remarks:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-embarrassing-ex-alabama-senator-rips-tuberville-s-white-nationalist-remarks-188078661661

* "Ex-GOP Ohio House speaker sentenced to 20 years for role in $60M bribery scheme; appeal expected:" https://apnews.com/article/bribery-investigation-ohio-speaker-householder-sentenced-7ff5163a7d1fdbbfe6570ed34c7a7f67




* "Disciplinary panel calls for Rudy Giuliani’s disbarment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/07/disciplinary-panel-calls-for-rudy-giulianis-disbarment-00105220

* "Attorney ethics case against Trump ally Clark moves forward in DC:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/attorney-ethics-case-against-trump-ally-clark-moves-forward-dc-2023-07-07/

* "DOJ won’t defend Trump in Carroll rape defamation case anymore:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/11/doj-trump-in-carroll-rape-defamation-case.html

* "A grand jury sworn in Tuesday could decide whether Trump is charged over Georgia’s 2020 election:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-investigation-grand-jury-0cfd32492da81697879b8c8ac00f8c83

* "Trump wants classified documents trial delayed until after 2024 election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/11/trump-classified-documents-trial-date-2024-00105565

* "New targets suggest new indictments likely in Trump cases: new reports:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-targets-suggest-new-indictments-likely-in-trump-cases-new-reports-188521029990




* "Let's talk about a judge's quotes at a hearing...:"

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* The republican mainstream and literal Neo-NAZIs Venn Diagram is a circle. "College Republicans Convention to Host White Nationalist Nick Fuentes:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174204/college-republicans-united-convention-antisemite-nick-fuentes

* "US citizenship test changes are coming, raising concerns for those with low English skills:" https://apnews.com/article/new-citizenship-test-naturalization-immigrants-immigration-c074aa1c92b226b4960485fb26d0f4fa

* "Immigration policies don’t deter migrants from coming to the US – Title 42 and the border rules replacing it only make the process longer and more difficult :" https://theconversation.com/immigration-policies-dont-deter-migrants-from-coming-to-the-us-title-42-and-the-border-rules-replacing-it-only-make-the-process-longer-and-more-difficult-200776

* "Domestic terrorism charges in Georgia are prompting concern over political repression:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184782128/cop-city-atlanta-domestic-terrorism

* "A Police K-9 Took This Man’s Eye:"

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* This decision is shameful. "Oklahoma judge dismisses Tulsa race massacre reparations case filed by last known survivors:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/08/us/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations-case/index.html

* "Judge dismisses Tulsa reparations case as California reparations task force unveils final report:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/judge-dismisses-tulsa-reparations-case-as-california-reparations-task-force-unveils-final-report-187273285822

* "'This isn't over': Demand for national reparations intensifies after dismissal of Tulsa lawsuit:" https://news.yahoo.com/this-isnt-over-demand-for-national-reparations-intensifies-after-dismissal-of-tulsa-lawsuit-201152753.html

* "With race-based admissions no longer an option, states may imitate Texas Top 10% Plan:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/29/texas-college-top-ten-percent-plan-supreme-court/

* The Republican War on Capitalism, Child Safety, and Free Expression continues. Note they are saying that a simple display of a rainbow constitutes pedophilia as part of their campaign to trivialize CSA. "7 Republican AGs write to Target, say Pride month campaigns could violate their state’s child protection laws:" https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/08/business/target-attorneys-general-pride-month/index.html

* "Inside Moms for Liberty’s summit: Big money and even bigger conspiracy theories:" https://www.mediamatters.org/moms-liberty/inside-moms-libertys-summit-big-money-and-even-bigger-conspiracy-theories?fbclid=IwAR1HHHab7Z60Hq7HA_-C_OsGM-8TR2FOU-Lzv0pJwXpAE5n8akFBisXzUZw

* This means libraries can't let children read e-books to get around government censorship. "HOOPLA, OVERDRIVE/LIBBY NOW BANNED FOR THOSE UNDER 18 IN MISSISSIPPI:" https://bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby-now-banned-for-those-under-18-in-mississippi/

* CW: CSA. "BBC suspends presenter alleged to have paid teen for sexually explicit photos:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/09/bbc-explict-photos-teen-presenter-suspended/

* CW: CSA "BBC presenter: Second young person comes forward with allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/bbc-presenter-second-young-person/

* CW: CSA "Huw Edwards named as BBC presenter suspended over sexual images claim:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/bbc-presenter-huw-edwards/

* CW: Abuse "Fans Built Her an Internet Empire. Now They’re Tearing It Down:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/colleen-ballinger-miranda-sings-youtube-fans-allegations-1234774947/




* "'Stop killing us': Polish women protest against strict anti-abortion law:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/stop-killing-us-polish-women-protest-against-strict-anti-abortion-law-2023-06-14/

* "It’s Almost Impossible to Get an Abortion in Poland. These Women Crossed the Border to Germany for Help:" https://time.com/poland-abortion-laws-protest/

* "Poland sees peril for women of extreme, ill-considered abortion bans:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/poland-sees-peril-for-women-of-extreme-ill-considered-abortion-bans-187296837924

* The Republican War on Freedom continues. "Most abortions now banned in Iowa after Gov. Kim Reynolds signs 'fetal heartbeat' law:" https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/14/iowa-abortion-ban-six-weeks-gov-kim-reynolds-signs-law-republicans-special-session-fetal-heartbeat/70398800007/

* For your own safety, I beg you not to give Meta's Facebook or Threads any of your data. "Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/teen-and-mom-plead-guilty-to-abortion-charges-based-on-facebook-data/




* I admit, I wept when I realized some of the women were older than me. So few are still here, but there they are living their best lives. "Kristen Lovell, co-director of 'The Stroll,' knows sex work is real work:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/06/1186278193/kristen-lovell-co-director-of-the-stroll-knows-sex-work-is-real-work

* "Hollyoaks star Annie Wallace expertly breaks down why so-called ‘trans ideology’ doesn’t exist:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/hollyoaks-actress-annie-wallace-sally-st-claire-trans-ideology/

* "Polish judge backs ‘homosexuals molest children’ claim in ‘shameful’ ruling:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/poland-pride-van-lgbt/

* "Trans woman found ‘brutally murdered’ in her own home in Greece:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/trans-woman-murdered-greece-anna-ivankova/

* "EuroPride slams Georgian government ‘incompetence’ after Tbilisi Pride attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/europride-georgia-tbilisi-pride-attack/

* "US ambassador to host Pride party in defiance of Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ PM:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/david-pressman-hungary-us-viktor-orban-budapest-pride/

* "Nepal makes history as first South Asian country to recognise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/09/nepal-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court-ruling/

* "Latvia swears in EU’s first openly gay president:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/latvia-edgars-rinkevics-president-gay/

* "‘Straight pride’ photo lands Canadian politician Danielle Smith in hot water:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/straight-pride-photo-lands-canadian-politician-danielle-smith-in-hot-water/

* "Draft civil service gender policy would ban most trans employees from bathrooms:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/civil-servants-trans-guidelines-gender-critical/

* "Government’s job to decide the definition of sex in Equality Act, says EHRC boss:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/ehrc-sex-definition-women-and-equalities-committee-trans/

* "MPs blast government for ‘unacceptable stress’ caused to LGBTQ+ community by conversion-therapy ban delay:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/conversion-therapy-ban-conservative-government-lgbtq/

* "Appeal against spiralling trans healthcare wait times argues NHS ‘breached legal duty’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/court-of-appeal-good-law-project-nhs/

* "Oxfam, Samaritans and 100 other charities sign pledge to support trans and non-binary people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/oxfam-samaritans-charities-sign-trans-rights-pledge/

* Vanderbilt University agrees with Republicans that HIPAA doesn't apply to trans people as we have no legal or human rights so turned over unredacted medical records not only without a fight, but without telling them thus outing and endangering their patients. Medical ethics? What medical ethics? "Tennessee A.G. uses private medical records in Republican campaign against trans people:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/tennessee-a-g-uses-private-medical-records-in-republican-campaign-against-trans-people-187444805726

* "US hair salon refuses to serve some trans customers after Supreme Court ruling:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/hair-salon-refuses-trans-non-binary/

* "Thousands of congregations disaffiliate from national church over LGBTQ+ issues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/united-methodist-church-split-lgbtq/

* "Olympian Caster Semenya wins appeal at European Court of Human Rights over testosterone rules:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/caster-semenya-wins-appeal/

* "World cycling body bans trans women from female categories: ‘Impossible to rule out advantage’ :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/uci-cycling-trans-women-sports-ban/

* "The unspoken struggles of being a high masking Autistic:"

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* "The One-Shot Drug That Keeps on Dosing:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-one-shot-drug-that-keeps-on-dosing/

* "Maternal deaths in the US more than doubled over two decades. Black mothers died at the highest rate:" https://apnews.com/article/black-maternal-mortality-american-indian-hispanic-deaths-64da18fec80f8f1790aee2e9986a757e

* "Noise could take years off your life:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/09/health/noise-exposure-health-impacts.html?unlocked_article_code=VgkBNGRcsfA0ZGckA2c6C4_95DcpKhkw4NGIrwKX-8ptavShrG8nAVm2KYEtuEkcIfTq5KSxVQ8SY4pDMWDO3U2PRJW8ZgIxhMJXVUu1h-9Qz4UVcwLw01vCRBUvnD80w7hC0baJCGFht_zJz4PbfW3ErJ2PNSd-u-3Mug1C3_45_ryX7kOTGxpQ-1qc3GjUIF4r-1rpHSiHHXv3EaKPUtEJd82-nPycZ-jouwVlp5pnliNRTR5z77PB_-fCtzQVBH_5D-JLOrifP__okHrdkFaD8TnnPLWfAyNFJwItEoBYI2H-ccP7E10kPoS6smyQ91AinKUYyWRCIyOPZ3HefifY1p3r1yAsbYb8wzLB8dLnrgHwlWE&smid=url-share

* "They Followed Doctors’ Orders. Then Their Children Were Taken Away.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/magazine/pregnant-women-medication-suboxonbabies.html/




* "It’s even hot in Antarctica, where it’s winter:" https://www.vox.com/climate/23792828/antarctica-heat-wave-sea-ice-level-record-el-nino

* "Record-breaking heat scorches communities around the world:" https://apnews.com/article/heat-climate-change-global-warming-hot-recordbreaking-heat-b87a7cd3bb8f70692d433cb06877975b

* "Coast-to-coast heat dome sends temperatures soaring, threatens all-time records:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/13/heatwave-california-arizona-florida-texas-records/

* "Florida ocean temperatures at ‘downright shocking’ levels:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/10/florida-ocean-temperature-heat-records/

* "How Hot Is the Sea Off Florida Right Now? Think 90s Fahrenheit.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/climate/florida-ocean-temperatures-reefs.html

* "90 degree sea temperatures among 'most worrying signs’ of climate crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/90-degree-sea-temperatures-among-most-worrying-signs-of-climate-crisis-188366917660

* "Record-breaking North Atlantic Ocean temperatures contribute to extreme marine heatwaves:" https://climate.copernicus.eu/record-breaking-north-atlantic-ocean-temperatures-contribute-extreme-marine-heatwaves

* "El Niño is back: Surging temperatures bring extreme weather and threaten lives:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/07/07/el-nino-is-back-heres-what-it-means-for-extreme-weather

* "A meteorologist got threats for his climate coverage. His new job is about solutions:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1184461263/iowa-meteorologist-harassment-climate-change-quits

* "Canadian Wildfires Burn a Record 25 Million Acres With No End in Sight:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-15/canadian-wildfires-burn-a-record-25-million-acres-with-no-end-in-sight

* "Canada sees its farthest-north 100-degree temperature as wildfires rage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/10/canada-record-heat-wildfires-climate/

* "Campfire ban in place for most of B.C., state of emergency for Stikine announced as wildfire numbers spike:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-july-10-2023-1.6902150

* "Canadian wildfire dangers should prompt more proactive mitigation from government:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/canadian-wildfire-dangers-prompt-proactive-mitigation-government-experts/story?id=100478859

* "B.C. wildfire fighter, 19, died after being hit by falling tree while responding to blaze: RCMP:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/devyn-gale-bc-wildfire-fighter-dead-1.6907184

* "In fight against Canada fires, dancing South Africa crews are a familiar and uplifting sight:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-south-africa-firefighters-smoke-ea13e9377f4696a80f30c17f7ea959dc

* "For some remote Canadian wildfires, best and fastest option is sending in the smokejumpers:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-smoke-firefighters-smokejumpers-climate-ed33e70c86756119f631538becc9da29

* "The year of wildfire smoke: Why the U.S. faces a brutal season:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/year-wildfire-smoke-us-faces-brutal-season-rcna92453

* "Minnesota and Wisconsin issue air quality alerts amid a new round of Canada smoke:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/15/1187943437/minnesota-wisconsin-midwest-air-quality-alert-smoke

* "Fast-moving fires force evacuations, char thousands of acres in Riverside County as heat wave continues:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-14/fires-force-evacuations-char-hundreds-of-acres-in-riverside-county

* "Wildfire in southwest Oregon puts up huge smoke column, burning near Agness:" https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2023/07/15/large-wildfire-reported-near-oak-flat-in-southwest-oregon-agness/70417528007/

* "India's monsoon rains flood Yamuna river in Delhi, forcing thousands to evacuate and grinding life to a halt:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-monsoon-2023-delhi-flood-yamuna-river-record-water-level-deaths-evacuations/

* "Torrential rain, floods kill 22 across northern India:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/torrential-rain-floods-kill-22-across-northern-india-2023-07-10/

* "Flash floods hit Spain after heavy rainfall; cars swept away, people trapped:" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/flash-floods-hit-spain-after-heavy-rainfall-cars-swept-away-people-trapped-watch-101688868123707.html

* "Rare flash flood warning issued for New York as a woman dies trying to evacuate:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rare-flash-flood-warning-issued-new-york-woman-dies-trying-evacuate-rcna93346

* "Vermont faces a rare high risk for flooding. Here’s why these days are so deadly and devastating:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/weather/vermont-flooding-high-risk-new-york/index.html

* "Five key factors that spurred the historic floods in Vermont, New York:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/11/vermont-flooding-cause/

* "Landslides and floods kill at least 22 as South Korea battered by torrential rains:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-korea-weather-landslides-torrential-rain-flooding-north-korea-rcna94415

* "In pricey Palos Verdes, the ocean view is great — until your house slides into a canyon:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-13/rolling-hills-estates-landslide-cause-palos-verdes-peninsula

* "Northern Mexico bakes as residents try to beat scorching heat:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/northern-mexico-bakes-residents-try-beat-scorching-heat-2023-07-14/

* "What 120 Degrees Looks Like in One of Mexico’s Hottest Cities:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/world/americas/hermosillo-mexico-heat.html

* "One-third of Americans under heat alerts as blistering weather spreads from Southwest to California:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3398221.html#cutid1

* "The Southwest Bakes With More Heat on the Way:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/heat-southwest-arizona.html

* "New measures are being taken to reduce heat-related deaths in Phoenix:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/10/1186827280/new-measures-are-being-taken-to-reduce-heat-related-deaths-in-phoenix

* "Emergency room visits surge, Texans die amid dangerous heat wave:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-heat-wave-deaths-illness/

* "As summer heats up, impacts of drought begin to appear in northwest Montana:" https://montanafreepress.org/2023/07/10/flathead-lake-at-precarious-level-as-drought-comes-to-northwest-montana/

* "Nearly 62,000 people died from record-breaking heat in Europe last summer. It’s a lesson for the US, too:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/world/deadly-europe-heatwave-2022-climate/index.html

* "How the Western drought has increased carbon emissions:" https://grist.org/energy/western-drought-hydropower-emissions-study/

* "Maryland asks some residents to conserve water amid drought conditions:" https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/environment/bs-md-water-conservation-drought-mde-20230710-fgd73j6vsve73j2frjizqg5ucy-story.html

* "Drought and extreme heat burn through farmers' margin for error — and it's only July:" https://www.nbcnews.com/business/drought-extreme-heat-burn-farmers-margin-error-only-july-rcna93862

* "Coachella Valley Rescue Mission Provides Homeless Resources in Extreme Heat:" https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2023/07/12/coachella-valley-rescue-mission-provides-homeless-resources-in-extreme-heat/

* "In Phoenix, Heat Becomes a Brutal Test of Endurance:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/us/phoenix-heat-wave.html

* "Why is this city in the Keys the hottest spot in Florida? Weather service has answers:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather-news/article277277108.html

* "‘Bud Light of insurance’: Florida official blames insurer crisis on wokeness:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-bud-light-of-insurance-florida-official-blames-insurer-crisis-on-wokeness-188076101690




* "Scottsdale bans natural grass in front yards of new houses to conserve water amid Arizona’s drought :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/us/scottsdale-arizona-grass-ban-new-houses/index.html

* "A Building Made From Cannabis? Yes, Seriously - With Hempcrete:" https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/building-made-cannabis-yes-seriously-hempcrete/324521/

* "Drive-thrus are creating problems for cities and towns:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/business/drive-thru-fast-food-chick-fil-a-urban-planning/index.html

* "The ACTUAL Danger of A.I. with Gary Marcus:"

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* "Tax preparers that shared private data with Meta, Google could be fined billions:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/meta-wont-say-what-happened-to-taxpayer-data-it-may-have-illegally-collected/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

* "Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads:" https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/far-right-figures-including-nazi-supporters-anti-gay-extremists-and-white-supremacists-are

* "Meta’s vision for Threads is more mega-mall than public square:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/07/threads-shopping-mall-not-a-public-square/

* I stand by my avoidance of Facebook, Threads, and ChatGPT. "Hackers are increasingly using ChatGPT lures to spread malware on Facebook:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/03/malware-chatgpt-lures-facebook/

* "Facebook's Threads is so depressing:" https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing

* "Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend:" https://catvalente.substack.com/p/mark-fking-zuckerberg-is-not-your

* "Elon Musk wants ‘d**k measuring contest’ with Mark Zuckerberg:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/elon-musk-wants-dk-measuring-contest-with-mark-zuckerberg/

* "Elon Musk and the dominance space:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/10/elon-musk-twitter-threads/

* "Twitter’s death spiral and what it means for LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/13/twitter-death-lgbtq/

* "“How is still being on Twitter, for whatever reason, actually ‘handing money’ to [Musk and his fascist project]?”:" https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/04/23/how-is-still-being-on-twitter-for-whatever-reason-actually-handing-money-to-musk-and-his-fascist-project/

* "Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

* "Twitter Blue Accounts Are Spreading Misinformation About The War In Ukraine:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/07/10/twitter-blue-accounts-are-spreading-misinformation-about-the-war-in-ukraine/?sh=77065a6f320f

* "Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle:" https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle/

* "Pinanga Subterranea: New Species of Rare Palm Discovered to Flower Underground:" https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/44551/20230627/pinanga-subterranea-new-species-rare-palm-discovered-flower-underground.htm

* "Summer is here. Where are the Fireflies?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/firefly-summer-extinction/

* "Flowers pollinated by honeybees make lower-quality seeds:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flowers-pollinate-honeybees-low-seeds

* "After being swallowed alive, water beetle stages 'backdoor' escape from frog's gut:" https://www.livescience.com/beetle-escape-frog-butt.html

* "Dolphin moms use baby talk to call to their young, recordings show:" https://apnews.com/article/dolphin-mothers-baby-talk-calves-cc0c189aa1b8e1298155b1ea78c1002a

* "What Did Viking Town Houses Look Like? And Where Did They Poop?:"

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* "Reflections In The Shadow of Tahoma: Nettie J. Asberry:" https://www.tacomaartslive.org/terms/583-in-the-shadow-of-tahoma-nettie-j-asberry

* "A hundred years on from the 'cult of the clitoris' libel trial, let's remember that fake news is nothing new:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/oscar-wilde-maud-allan-cult-of-the-clitoris-black-book-first-world-war-a8369811.html

* "A fire destroyed millions of veterans’ records. 50 years later, families are still seeking answers:" https://apnews.com/article/military-records-fire-veterans-2f8337c58bc87c10179a2cf6ee54136a

* "My Aunties | Father Figures:"

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* "A Short History of Naughty Literature and Zane:"

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* "Steven Pieters: One of the longest-living HIV survivors in US dies after cancer battle:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/steven-pieters-hiv-activist-dies/

* "Fast fashion retailer Shein accused of racketeering and copyright infringement in lawsuit:" https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/shein-rico-charge-racketeering-lawsuit-b2375825.html

* "5-person refugee team competes at European Games in Poland:" https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/50021/5person-refugee-team-competes-at-european-games-in-poland

* Very early Sunday morning I discovered that I no longer need four pillows on top of the two elderly wheelchair cushions on my beat up second hand office chair. I can now manage with just the two wheelchair cushions thanks to my new meds. This may seem like a small thing, but it means I get my options back for leg and hip positioning at my desk.

(I can't sit easily long term in a chair without propping my legs if I intend to use the legs for things like walking later. It's also uncomfortable to let them dangle. you know how starting ballet at a very young age changes the shape of your hip joints? Now add serious arthritic degeneration and what the current rheum thinks is hyper-mobility, but not the really obvious everyone notices it kind. Apparently they are in the process of changing diagnostic criteria based on more recent science. Apparently most ballet dancers and gymnasts would qualify under the newer guidelines, which makes sense to me.)

My shoulder is still completely fucked from the trying to clean up after the Uncleaner, but I am really noticing the difference in so many ways. Yay, new meds. I've mostly acclimated to the side effects so far. still no hallucinations and last night's test with combining with the emergency tramadol did not induce temporary psychosis, which is a really good sign. (For new readers a whole bunch of meds can induce hallucinations and paranoia in my family, including opiods, anti-psychotics, and SSRIs. At high doses we are talking full psychotic break, a thing I've seen now deceased older family members experience in the hospital. if someone is having an obvious psychotic break, they tend to administer anti-psychotics, which have a multiplying effect with the pain killers and thus make things way worse, so they administer more anti-psychotics instead of cutting the opiods and the anti-psychotics out.... you can see the obvious problem. I have only just started hallucinating with stronger opiods, but can still tolerate milder ones. They are still a little unpleasant for me at low doses. I don't use them too often because some time pain killers are necessary and due to allergies my only other options are Tylenol and my arthritis pill, which I can't take more often than every twelve hours for safety reasons. It's a whole thing. New med is a class none of us have taken before, so I'm a guinea pig). I am wary of going up to the standard for adult humans dose, however, as I am getting the weird intense dreams side effect, which for me can be a warning that a drug is about to turn ugly on me. Don't worry, everybody around me knows what's going on with my meds situation.

I other news, Tavy wants to hang out with his favorite Millennials and enjoyed watching the Friday cleaner, but still is only letting me and Squirrel touch him. he did want to be super close to goth Millennial Saturday and was interested in play, though tired easily in the heat. He also get upset when it was time for Goth Millennial to go home. It's looking like he's recovering from the Uncleaner traumatizing him. he still wants reassurance after sleep, but yesterday he didn't wake me in a panic after a bad nightmare and have trouble being soothed. I am still furious about the whole thing, but the cats are being more normal.

Goth Millennial put in the air conditioner/air filtration in the main area before they left, which is making a huge difference.

* Sunday: Tavy let Goth Millennial pet him. he’s still too distressed to sit on the sofa with Goth Millennial for TV time and pettins, but he did curl up behind us. The cats are still sleepy, I'm hoping from the heat and not the Ajax, but Tavy was himself enough to play what is a normal amount for him in summer.

Goth Millennial got some good gardening in and is starting to sort out things cleaners put away in odd locations. The air filtering in the main room is being a huge help. I worry about all the smoke injuring my cats and the Millennials. I know it's really been fucking me up, but ever running the machine for a few hours perks us all up. My room is filtered as always when I sleep, of course.

I blew through all the EBT and OTC in the first week of July and am way over budget on food already. Sigh. I gaze sadly at melons and cucumbers I can't eat safely and pass on.

* The new meds side effect wave hit hard and dangerous Thursday, but I'm not sure it didn't start a lot earlier.

Okay, so I had a vicious headache last Friday night for about three hours, which didn't particularly shock me, as my body just does stuff like that. Same Saturday. Normal. Sunday. Monday. I made a note to mention it to the doctor Tuesday morning, but forgot. I noticed Tuesday's headache at the same time was absolutely crushing for three hours, then shut off like a faucett as if it had never been. Which is creepy and wrong. So I'm now weighing if the new meds improvement is worth creepy three hour debilitating headache every day, and if I should call it in the next day.

So Wednesday I wake up to one of my body is very, very bad days. which is a thing that happens sometimes, especially if my body's been to far which between the uncleaner and the extreme heat and this being the worse time of year for my allergies and assorted RL commitments including the doctor is not weird. Plus I'm... I forget how many days in on struggling to type on Klaus Laptop because its hard to lift my arm the extra nine and a half inches, and I'm mostly having to drink with a straw because i go half my wake cycle not being ably to lift a full glass of water that high and I'm dropping things because my arms are fucked. which happens. All of it really stresses out my body though, you follow?

So sometimes the alarm goes off because I have to go somewhere and my body nopes out of it, or tries to. So I'm exhausted. I have the shakes. I end up way late to pick up Goth Millennial because it's just that hard to move. So I drive Goth Millennial around and wait in the car while they do errands. Goth Millennial goes outside to putter in the garden. I lung, then take a nap, all with Tavy glued to my chest, because it's sometimes better after a nap. Resets everything to a more acceptable level of crappy.

I make it all the way up to minimally functional by the time the other Millennials arrive for dinner. One of them had brought pre-marinated and cooked tofu. Me: I think we should make rice for it. With coconut milk and saffron and Turmeric. New Millennial: Oooo! That sounds delicious! Me: It's possible I'm edging up towards Indonesian happy rice except I don't have any lemon grass. But I do have Bay leaves.... So it ends up with New Millennial Making Rice and the two of us keep consulting on spices until I have to lie down again. The results we excellent.

Tavy is still clearly traumatized from the Uncleaner. He loves techie Millennial. Techie Millennial was the first visitor he let pet and play with him. He hid from the Millennials when they arrived after nap time. He did eventually come out and watch them for a bit and even rubbed against Techies legs, but ran if it even looked like someone might tough her. I'm still so angry about the Uncleaner traumatizing him like this.

Really, I just wanted to go to bed after they left, but I needed to stay up for the morning allergy treatment. My body was really not movi ng well, but I dragged myself there and back, which nearly did me in. I did manage to prep for bed and climb in, which really fucking hurt, at which point the first wave of hallucinations and fast heartbeat and arrhythmia hit. So that was fun. Me: Guess that's it for new Meds. They were amazing while they lasted.

They must have been really busy at the doctor because they didn't get back to me until afternoon. I left a message for my doctor's nurse, conveying that I was having severe side effects and needed to know if I should go to the ER. No one ever got back to me. The heart stuff got really bad for four or five hours, always with visual hallucinations. I thought about calling for help, but my right arm wasn't working and my left wasn't great either, and it's usually eight hours minimum to get seen at the ER and they yell at you if you bring in chest pains that turn out not to be a heart attack, and the pain only happened when I moved so it was likely just torso muscles screaming about my arms.

But the supper high irregular heart beat for hours can't be good. I wrote this waiting for receptionist call back Friday morning. I was 36 minutes in on the wait as I typed this sentence. I really think they should check my heart, but if they are this busy... Yeah. I'm assuming if it was really dangerous, they'd return my call from yesterday instead of continuing to ignore my message.

* It took about an hour and a quarter total, but we will find out if i had a heart attack or not on Tuesday. They I had to chase down the asshole agency as they had not called to tell me the cleaner wasn't coming, so it's now rescheduled for Tuesday. Then I waited on hold to try to schedule the mobility assessment, only to discover the number they gave was for central processing. They were going to transfer me when call waiting beeped, so i made them give me the direct line number and extension. (It was meds. Pharmacy was delivering meds and they only wait five minutes so that was the correct call on my part.) The making appointment direct line was faster by far, but I had no clue which wheelchair vender I was interested in. O.o apparently they have the vender in on assessment days, so that effects scheduling. I let her pick. She was like: We like this one better, but we have to offer both.

Forage delivery still hadn't arrived. It was now really hot and polleny outside. This is relevant. I can't leave food out there very long or it will spoil. Inside, I have air conditioning and extra filtering. I can breath inside, but not outside. I was exhausted and frustrated and really pissed off about the medical stuff. My chest was still tight. There is a band of intense pain keeping me from lifting my arms properly. I manage to drag the laundry basket to me room anyway, but I'm not remotely up to the pain involved in folding it. Livia wants her love. I climb into bed for Livia loves. My experience is, getting ready to sleep summons Forage Delivery somehow. Livia is done with her love. I've been in bed over an hour waiting. Tavy insists I should sleep with claws to my nipple, because health stiff makes him anxious.

The phone rings. We have the conversation where we double check which porch to put it on. I lie there a bit, working up to the pain of levering myself out of bed. I lumber out there. No food boxes. so I'm thinking did he think left instead of right? So I'm out in the mid day sun with my crutch and bare feet, struggling to breath because I can't breath in the heat on a good day and this isn't close. I have no idea how I will get the food boxes to my apartment. My best guess is crawl on the pavement pushing them ahead of me because there is zero chance of my arms even lifting them. It's not on the patios of any building facing the gazebo. Me: did they drive past and hit the wrong side of my building? So I hobble around the other side in baking heat and it's not on the logical patios. I have to then hobble all the way back to my patio, exhausted. I simply can't be out any longer or I will collapse. This is why I have forage delivery, so I don't have to seriously endanger myself getting the food. Which i am now doing and failing at miserably.

I try last call return. No one answers. Fuck! I restart the computer and look up forage delivery dispatch. I get a live human without a long wait on hold for the first time in two days. This is possibly a miracle. I am still struggling to breath when I explain and ask if they could at least give me a hint as to where the food is because I can't be out in the sun searching anymore. She puts me on hold and reaches them. She puts me on hold and reaches them. she says they will come back.

So I go lie down in my room where the air is best and wait. He’s like: I’m right here. The food is here. I go look. No man. No food. I used my stop a kid from across the playground below to see if we could get a Polo for my Marco. No dice. I had cleverly left the phone off the hook when I went to look on the grounds that the food was definitely not on my patio previously.

It turns out that they’d put it in the middle of the other side of the building, expecting me somehow to drag it all that way over carpeted halls. O.o I didn’t think to look there because we’d discussed patio locations in such a super specific way moments before he’d put it at the main entrance instead of a patio. He was nice enough to bring it around and drop it right inside my door.

I have recently learned Millennials generally don’t know the word “gazebo” and are afraid to ask or look it up because of the cleaners. I am now wondering if patio may also be too bougie to be familiar, but lots of apartments around here come with small patios if they are ground floor, even the shitty apartments I can generally afford, just like tiny balconies are super common on upper floors in this region. Surely jungle of plants and blue chair were hints though? IDK. We’ve lost a lot of delivery people in the decade we live here too. Something about the complex confuses people.

Forage delivery guy looked like a thirtyish Mr. Clean and really was very kind, just confused.

Goth Millennial was sweet enough to come in on their day off to work and extra two hours looking after me, and then we finished the back third of a movie we’d been re-watching together. I’m not great, but improving. I also have a new unexplored theory about what is wrong with my arms from the article about statins I linked in this space. I guess I’ll run it by the doctor when I see them.

* "Completely Neutral, Race-Blind College Admissions Questions:" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/completely-neutral-race-blind-college-admissions-questions

* "You drop a small piece of food on the floor, and decide to kick it under the oven/couch/whatever because you can’t be bothered to pick it up. As you’re walking away, you hear a very quiet “Thank you!” from under it.:" https://bixbythemartian.tumblr.com/post/183910148322/you-drop-a-small-piece-of-food-on-the-floor-and

* "Midnight Pals: Body Horror:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/722118655202181120/midnight-pals-body-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.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

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

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share
* 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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* "Russian mercenaries exploit a war-torn African nation as they lead Putin’s fight in Ukraine:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/africa/wagner-ukraine-russia-central-african-republic-gold-mine-putin-rcna86392




* "500 days of the Ukraine war – and scapegoating:" https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-500-days-of-the-ukraine-war-and-scapegoating/




* "US judge restricts Biden officials from contact with social media firms:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-blocks-us-officials-communicating-with-social-media-companies-newspaper-2023-07-04/

* "Trump-appointed judge rules against Biden admin in Facebook censorship case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-appointed-judge-rules-against-biden-admin-in-facebook-censorship-case-186910277802

* It's a high traffic area, and I have my suspicions, but we'll likely never know. "White House cocaine culprit unlikely to be found: Law enforcement official:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/white-house-cocaine-culprit-unlikely-to-be-found-law-enforcement-official-00104742

* "The fascinating and storied history of drugs and other substances found at the White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/the-fascinating-and-storied-history-of-drugs-and-other-substances-found-at-the-white-house-187093573756

* Thus opening the flood gates for all white juries sentencing black men to death. "Supreme Court backtracked on Black death row inmates’ racial bias claims, liberal justices say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-backtracked-black-death-row-inmates-racial-bias-claims-l-rcna87808

* "Pride Month ends as it began, with LGBTQ+ lives viewed as an imposition:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/30/supreme-court-gay-rights/

* "Christian bakers’ same-sex wedding cake case to return to the Supreme Court:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/christian-wedding-cake-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court/

* "U.S. job openings dip to 9.8 million but remain high, showing resilience in labor market:" https://apnews.com/article/job-openings-unemployment-economy-recession-f6811dfae03fcb14249a8937425a2838

* "The ‘Great Resignation’ Is Over. Can Workers’ Power Endure?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/business/economy/jobs-great-resignation.html

* "Average long-term US mortgage rate climbs to 6.81% this week to highest level since November:" https://apnews.com/article/mortgage-interest-rates-housing-loans-real-estate-94dd344bf67ded00f56e078a0fdec667

* I have real concerns about over-correction. "Fed sees more rate hikes ahead, but at a slower pace, meeting minutes show:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/05/fed-minutes-july-2023-.html

* "How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood:" https://archive.ph/2023.07.03-160323/https://www.gq.com/story/david-zaslav-warner-bros-discovery-ceo-tcm-max

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene booted from House Freedom Caucus :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/06/marjorie-taylor-greene-booted-out-of-freedom-caucus-member-says-00104997

* "Greene's attempt to play both sides of GOP split blows up in her face:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/greene-s-attempt-to-play-both-sides-of-gop-split-blows-up-in-her-face-187093061863

* "Republicans Want to Mandate a Single Style of Architecture in Washington:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/07/trump-conservative-federal-building-architecture-00104985

* "Republican opposition to LGBTQ rights erupts in backlash to Pride Month:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/30/republicans-pride-month-lgbtq/

Throughout June, many Republicans including presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis have sharply criticized Pride celebrations, and some have resurfaced fights over same-sex marriage

* 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

* "Mondaire Jones, One of the First Black Gay Men in Congress, Seeks to Win Back Seat:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mondaire-jones-congress-candidacy

* "Trans candidate looks to make history as GOP is mired in anti-woke freak-out:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trans-candidate-looks-to-make-history-as-gop-is-mired-in-anti-woke-freak-out-187233349700

* "Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester discusses her historic Senate run:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-lisa-blunt-rochester-discusses-her-historic-senate-run-187245125982

* "Ex-Twitter leader Jack Dorsey endorses RFK Jr. for president:" https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4034584-ex-twitter-leader-jack-dorsey-endorses-rfk-jr-for-president/

* "Ron DeSantis bragged about sending help to Iowa — 10 hours after being told it wasn't needed:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-bragged-sending-help-iowa-10-hours-told-wasnt-needed-rcna92955

* "Ron DeSantis boosts a video that all but calls for eliminating trans people:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ron-desantis-ad-video-trans-lgbtq-rcna92392

They want us all dead. Here. Abroad. They want all of us dead and their aren't going to be exceptions for the L and the G. We're just most vulnerable because so many people made it clear they won't fight for us.

* "DeSantis Posts Deranged Ad Attacking Trump and Pride Month With ‘American Psycho’ Clips:" https://www.mediaite.com/politics/desantis-posts-deranged-ad-attacking-trump-and-pride-month-with-american-psycho-clips/

* "‘Peaky Blinders’ Denounces Homophobic Ron DeSantis Campaign Video: Cillian Murphy Footage Was ‘Obtained Without Permission’ :" https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/peaky-blinders-ron-desantis-campaign-video-1235662106/

* "Ron DeSantis defends video going after Trump on LGBTQ issues: ‘Totally fair game’:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-defends-video-going-trump-lgbtq-issues-totally-fair-game-rcna92791

* "Ron DeSantis’ pastor says gay people should be “put to death”:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/ron-desantis-pastor-says-gay-people-should-be-put-to-death/

* "Hayes: DeSantis flop is due to 'weird, alienating, hard-right campaign':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-desantis-flop-is-due-to-weird-alienating-hard-right-campaign-186905669584

* "Koch Network Raises Over $70 Million for Push to Sink Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/koch-network-trump-2024.html

* "Trump once said a president under felony indictment would grind the government to a halt and create a constitutional crisis:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/politics/kfile-trump-president-indictment-halt-government/index.html

* "‘Remarkable’: GOP voters not convinced by Pence's Jan. 6 defense:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-remarkable-gop-voters-not-convinced-by-pence-s-jan-6-defense-187075141817

* "Why Everyone Hates the Hunter Biden Plea Deal:"

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* "Republicans Target Minority Scholarships After Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-affirmative-action-minority-scholarships-republicans-1234783254/

* So very clever. "How Wisconsin’s governor bested the GOP and secured education funding for 400 years:" https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/7/6/23786064/wisconsin-governor-tony-evers-education-funding

* "Wisconsin governor uses clever maneuver to fund schools for four centuries:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wisconsin-governor-uses-clever-maneuver-to-fund-schools-for-four-centuries-187078725716

* "Pa. House OKs a $45.5 billion spending plan, as Gov. Josh Shapiro plans to veto his own school voucher proposal:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/pa-budget-school-vouchers-house-democrats-20230705.html

* "Josh Hawley Quotes White Nationalist Magazine to Celebrate Fourth of July:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174104/josh-hawley-posts-fake-quote-white-nationalist-magazine-fourth-july

* "Why Josh Hawley’s fake historical quote matters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/josh-hawleys-fake-historical-quote-matters-rcna92604




* "What a Former Republican Calls “The Conspiracy to End America”:" https://terikanefield.com/what-a-former-republican-calls-the-conspiracy-to-end-america/

* "More Mar-a-Lago search warrant information released in Trump classified docs case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-orders-release-mar-lago-search-warrant-information-trump-classif-rcna92676

* "Justice Department had video of boxes being moved at Mar-a-Lago before FBI search, unredacted document shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/politics/mar-a-lago-unredacted-search-warrant-affidavit/

* "How Long Will Trump Go To Jail?:"

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* "Walt Nauta, Trump aide indicted in classified documents case, pleads not guilty:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walt-nauta-pleads-not-guilty-trump-classified-documents-case/

* "Who is Walt Nauta?:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/who-is-walt-nauta

* "“Ominous sign”: Legal experts say Jack Smith "closing in" after piercing Trump’s “inner circle”:" https://www.salon.com/2023/07/03/ominous-sign-legal-experts-say-jack-smith-closing-in-after-piercing-trumps-inner-circle/

* "Will be investigated!: Feds probe meeting that spawned Trump's 'will be wild!' tweet:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/will-be-investigated-feds-probe-meeting-that-spawned-trump-s-will-be-wild-tweet-187235909644




* "New book looks at the cycles of racial progress and white backlash:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/new-book-looks-at-the-cycles-of-racial-progress-and-white-backlash-187245126001

* "Jan. 6 defendant arrested near Obama's home had guns and 400 rounds of ammunition in his van:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-defendant-arrested-obamas-home-guns-400-rounds-ammunition-van-rcna92094

* "Gun Violence Widely Viewed as a Major – and Growing – National Problem:" https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/06/28/gun-violence-widely-viewed-as-a-major-and-growing-national-problem/

* "At least 17 mass shootings mark Fourth of July holiday weekend, data shows:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/least-9-people-child-teen-hurt-dc-shooting-fourth-july-celebrations-rcna92602

* "The wave of mass shootings over the Fourth of July highlights the challenges police face:" https://apnews.com/article/july-fourth-mass-shootings-block-party-e666444a2689210c0535289a2140385b

* "'An absolute crisis': Maryland governor calls on pro-gun states to help curb gun violence:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-an-absolute-crisis-maryland-governor-calls-on-pro-gun-states-to-help-curb-gun-violence-186935877880

* "3 dead, 8 injured after overnight shooting in Fort Worth:" https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/11-people-shot-overnight-in-fort-worth/

* "Philadelphia mass shooting suspect left behind a will, had been acting agitated: DA:" https://6abc.com/philadelphia-mass-shooter-identity-suspect-kimbrady-carriker-shooting-july-2023/13463565/

* "The Far Right Is Already Using the Philadelphia Shooting to Smear Trans People:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvpqj/philadelphia-shooting-suspect-far-right-transgender-false-claims

* "9 people, including 2 kids, are shot and wounded in the nation’s capital as violence mars July 4:" https://apnews.com/article/dc-shooting-nine-injured-july-fourth-holiday-b080938aa92551fb9a59991bd057a0dd

* "14-year-old boy dead, 6 wounded in mass shooting at July Fourth block party in Maryland:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salisbury-maryland-shooting-teen-dead-6-wounded-july-fourth/

* "Man killed, 2 women shot in apparent July 4 party in Brockton:" https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/3-shot-one-fatally-in-brockton-overnight/3082611/

* "Shooting leaves 3 dead, 6 wounded at July Fourth celebration in Shreveport, Louisiana:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shreveport-july-fourth-mass-shooting/

* "5 wounded overnight in Mattapan shooting; 3 in custody, officials say:" https://www.wcvb.com/article/5-wounded-mattapan-shooting-boston/44439465

* "Prosecutions of ‘Cop City’ protesters take an ominous turn:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/cop-city-atlanta-georgia-dekalb-chris-carr-rcna91231

* "What the Fight Over Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Reveals About Policing of Protests :" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/06/24/atlanta-cop-city-protest-police

* "He Tried to Save a Friend. They Charged Him With Murder.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/fentanyl-murder-charge.html

* "Texas Sets New Hate Crimes Record, DPS Data Show:" https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-sets-new-hate-crimes-record-dps-data-show/

* "National organization pulls conference out of Florida because of DeSantis' attacks on DEI:" https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2023/07/07/black-engineers-move-conference-from-florida-amid-desantis-dei-attacks/70391967007/

* "Fascist Moms for Liberty Convention in Philadelphia Leads to the Arrests of 6 Protesters:" https://jezebel.com/fascist-moms-for-liberty-convention-in-philadelphia-lea-1850601715

* "Moms for Liberty's media training session was a warning to the press:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/moms-for-liberty-conference-philadelphia-rcna92430

* "Moms for Liberty activist wants LGBTQ students separated into special classes:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/moms-liberty-activist-wants-lgbtq-students-separated-special-classes/

The openly fascist pro-censorship group is now pushing for the segregation of queer students in particularly ablest ways. That echo the sort of anti-trans laws the fascist Republicans are pushing.

I am using fascism as an accurate description, not a slur here.

* "How the ideology of Moms for Liberty is transforming my school district:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-loves-moms-for-liberty-and-pennsylvania-lgbtq-rcna91919

* "GOP censorship spreads as more education bans take hold:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/july-1-book-bans-florida-rcna92420

* "Judge blocks a Florida law that would punish venues where kids can see drag shows:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1184561373/hamburger-marys-orlando-anti-drag-law-blocked-florida

* "GOP censorship spreads as more education bans take hold:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/july-1-book-bans-florida-rcna92420

* "Oklahoma Bill Would Allow Removal of ANY Books That Contain Sex From Libraries, Right Down To Your Regency Faves:" https://www.themarysue.com/oklahoma-bill-would-allow-removal-of-any-books-that-contain-sex-from-libraries/

* "Viola Ford Fletcher, oldest living Tulsa Race Massacre victim, publishes memoir:" https://apnews.com/article/viola-fletcher-book-memoir-tulsa-race-massacre-0042fdce69750104e9dd6aef69f63de0

* "Oklahoma Superintendent Brazenly Claims Tulsa Race Massacre Was Not About Race:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174168/oklahoma-superintendent-brazenly-claims-tulsa-race-massacre-not-race

* "School administrator struggles to apply GOP anti-woke absurdity to factual history:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/school-administrator-struggles-to-apply-gop-anti-woke-absurdity-to-factual-history-187234374002

* "Florida school district considers ban on Billie Jean King biography after one parent complained:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/billie-jean-king-childrens-book-florida-school-ban/

* "Words Are Messy | A History:"

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* CW: Sexual Misconduct. "Tory MP Chris Pincher faces suspension after damning report on ‘egregious sexual misconduct’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/chris-pincher-parliament-boris-johnson/

* CW: Rape. "The Weight of Water: Women Mariners Abused at Sea Are Finally Breaking Their Silence:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/the-weight-of-water-women-mariners-abused-at-sea-are-finally-breaking-their-silence/

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Kevin Spacey accused of coming out as a gay to ‘disguise’ behaviour, as trial continues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/07/kevin-spacey-trial-coming-out-disguise/

* "Yes, They Are Coming for Your Birth Control:" https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a44290204/birth-control-laws-abortion-2023/




* "This Zombie Law Could Threaten Abortion Access Nationwide: The GOP’s 2024 candidates don’t want to talk about it, but anti-abortion activists see it as a way to further restrict women's reproductive rights:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/comstock-act-threaten-abortion-access-1234781080/

* "Wisconsin judge: Lawsuit to repeal abortion ban can continue:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-wisconsin-ban-challenge-lawsuit-866eed85d2918113bfe644459e62171a

* Ohioans, don't sleep on this!!! "Ohio abortion rights groups submit signatures for ballot measure:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ohio-abortion-rights-groups-submit-signatures-ballot-measure-rcna92627

* "Ohio voters scramble to protect abortion rights as GOP legislature invents new obstacles:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ohio-voters-scramble-to-protect-abortion-rights-as-gop-legislature-invents-new-obstacles-186931781831

* "Iowa Republicans release information on proposed abortion bill:" https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-republicans-propose-new-bill-on-abortion/44478342

* "Mother charged in Northeast Nebraska illegal abortion case pleads guilty:" https://www.ktiv.com/2023/07/07/mother-charged-northeast-nebraska-illegal-abortion-case-pleads-guilty/

* "Nearly 10,000 more babies born in nine months under Texas’ restrictive abortion law, study finds:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-abortion-johns-hopkins-study/




* "Average age of gender dysphoria diagnosis falls from 31 to 26, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/29/gender-dysphoria-diagnosis-trans-research/

* "Vast majority of trans people have experienced negativity at work in past 12 months:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/trans-gender-non-conforming-work-inclusion/

* "Why are so many young people lgbtq+?:"

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* CW: CSA. "Anne Heche: When Community Doesn't Show Up:"

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* "Iraq bill calling for homosexuality ban submitted to parliament:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/04/iraq-homosexuality-bill-ban/

* "Man destroys tribute to 18-year-old trans girl during candlelit vigil after death in Serbia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/07/belgrade-monument-dedicated-trans-teen/

* "Nepal ordered to recognise same-sex marriage by Supreme Court:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/nepal-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/

* "Greece PM vows to legalise same-sex marriage: ‘Society is much more ready’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/greece-same-sex-marriage-kyriakos-mitsotakis/

* "Singapore hosts first LGBTQ+ rally since decriminalisation of gay sex: ‘Everyone should stand in the sun’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/26/singapore-lgbtq-rally-gay-sex-decriminalised/

* "Hundreds march in solidarity with Cork library staff after vile abuse over LGBTQ+ books:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/cork-library-staff-march-lgbtq-books-abuse/

* "Rwandans explain what life is like for queer community: ‘Why would the UK send LGBTQ+ people here?’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/rwanda-lgbtq-gay-suella-braverman/

* "Record number of Brits support same-sex marriage, 10 years after historic vote:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/same-sex-marriage-support-record-yougov-uk/

* "UK government holding Wales back on LGBTQ+ rights, says Plaid Cymru politician:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/wales-sioned-williams-pinknews-summer-reception/

* "Young trans people invited to parliament to discuss ‘growing transphobia of Rishi Sunak’s government’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/05/young-trans-people-parliament-nadia-whittome/

* "Suella Braverman condemned for latest anti-trans attack in House of Commons:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/04/suella-braverman-house-of-commons-transphobia/

* "Tory MP Liam Fox’s anti-trans newsletter sparks constituent fury: ‘Why does he need to vilify us?’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/04/liam-fox-north-somerset-anti-trans-newsletter/

* "Rosie Duffield constituents and ‘older feminists’ urge MP to stop attacking trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/rosie-duffield-canterbury-constituents-trans/

* "Labour MP tables bill allowing Church of England to perform same-sex marriages:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/church-of-england-same-sex-marriage-bill/

* "Author ‘beyond angry’ as London children’s museum removes trans and queer books:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/04/rowan-ellis-young-va-lgbtq-trans/

* "Police investigate hate crime after cyclist abuses two men on a picnic date in Birmingham:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/birmingham-hate-crime-gay-men-picnic-date/

* "Anti-trans campaigners are reporting a trans mum to the NSPCC because she breastfed her baby:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/trans-mother-breastfeeding-nspcc/

* "Huge list of feminists, MPs and activists sign open letter in support of trans mum, cruelly attacked for breastfeeding baby:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/mika-minio-paluello-letter-solidarity-trans-mother-abuse/

* "‘Furious’ parents protest against LGBTQ-inclusive education outside Manchester school:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/07/manchester-school-lgbtq-protest-sex-education/

* "LGB Alliance retains charity status on technicality, but that doesn’t mean it won:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/lgb-alliance-charity-status-ruling-anti-trans-history/

* "SNP’s John Nicolson questions ‘disturbing’ decision on LGB Alliance charity status:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/john-nicolson-lgb-alliance-charity-status/

* "Pride in London: Protesters target government, polluters and dictators:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/02/pride-in-london-protesters-just-stop-oil-uganda-heartstopper/

* "London Trans+ Pride wants trans people to know they are valid ‘as all hell’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/07/trans-pride-london-2023-valid-as-hell/

* "Thousands march for trans freedom and equality at London’s Trans+ Pride:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/london-trans-pride-2023-march/

* "Munroe Bergdorf slams Tories for ‘inducing a moral panic’ over trans rights at London Trans+ Pride:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/munroe-bergdorf-london-trans-pride-tory-government-moral-panic/

* "The most joyful, hilarious and powerful placards at Trans+ Pride in London:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/trans-pride-in-london-best-placards-signs/

* "Anti-trans youths shoot BB gun at group celebrating Bristol Trans Pride picnic:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/bristol-trans-pride-south-west-bb-guns/

* "Navajo Nation lawmaker introduces bill to legalise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/navajo-nation-same-sex-marriage/

* "North Carolina governor vetoes ‘triple threat’ of three anti-LGBTQ+ bills targeting young people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/north-carolina-governor-vetoes-three-anti-lgbtq-bills/

* "Louisiana governor vetoes state ban on trans healthcare passed on ‘propaganda and misinformation’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/04/louisiana-governor-john-bel-edwards-trans-healthcare-ban/

* "'Gay Panic' Defense Ban Back on Track in New Hampshire:" https://www.advocate.com/law/new-hampshire-gay-panic-defense

* "Tell Me There Isn’t a Witch Hunt in Tennessee:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/opinion/tennessee-trans-lgbtq-health-records-vanderbilt.html?unlocked_article_code=Q_yV7BcVoYQNU1_OaxWNny0Z1zqJoEoJ5gxSQ3rkeL8OL_ND9zFNoiwu_Sksrd7ce5VSZZafLIglDXzjxg0acq0tbBMKAOY4eLCDRvRbAypZMSVzWWr9mTsS0dvF-GisUDQlYIALMtaOmLiOQhzejmaBlmkK1qRaA9tFdiMGXFd3xwymCmQMDUBWa_cAh4n0nG8lce7QyB4KmVtx7kYUGv6JU80HMBVQ_GiAASIilmo8IH9YDpcuvp159opgSlzt2bauUjbiS6BFnUBGwrfuZ8CC2hAv1yZZW1OSKljSjyWjeLgWZHfcrTb-6MVhkwLj4o9A43vaJSevbQINZh0Scf8wUhfpRmn9r8OUbnKPzPVz8PL2MvpjIM8q&smid=url-share

* "LGBTQ+ resources removed from state website after right-wing media pressure: ‘Craven and politically motivated’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-lgbtq-youth-services-remove-website/

* "New TN law requires the gender on your state ID match the gender on your birth certificate:" https://www.newschannel5.com/news/new-tn-law-requires-the-gender-on-your-state-id-match-the-gender-on-your-birth-certificate

* "Kansas to force trans people to reverse gender markers on birth certificates and driving licences:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/28/kansas-trans-law-birth-certificates-driving-licenses/

* "‘Fundamental right’: Judges rule against health care bans for trans youth:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-fundamental-right-judges-rule-against-health-care-bans-for-trans-youth-1872103096436

* "Trans teenager found dead after going on a date in North Carolina:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/07/trans-teenager-north-carolina-death/

* "Salt Like City police investigating series of LGBTQ+ flag burnings in homophobic attacks:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/05/salt-like-city-pride-flags-burned/

* CW: Child Abuse, Suicide, All the Things. "He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak.:" https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trans-son-of-anti-trans-influencer-tania-joy-gibson-speaks-out_n_649d7449e4b028e6472f1700

* "Right-wingers launch attack on clothes store over Instagram post with a bearded TikToker in a dress:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/05/son-de-flor-instagram-attacks/

* "Dylan Mulvaney Says Bud Light Hung Her Out to Dry in Textbook Case of Rainbow Capitalism:" https://jezebel.com/dylan-mulvaney-says-bud-light-hung-her-out-to-dry-in-te-1850595839

* "Two more malaria cases confirmed in Sarasota County:" https://www.mysuncoast.com/2023/07/06/two-more-malaria-cases-confirmed-sarasota-county/

* "Florida suffers consequences of DeSantis political games with public health:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/florida-suffers-consequences-of-desantis-political-games-with-public-health-187095621577

* Never forget that Antivaxxers have killed children with their lies before in Samoa 80ish miles to the west recently. "Measles outbreak in American Samoa declared public health emergency:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/measles-outbreak-american-samoa-declared-public-health-emergency/story?id=98826831

* "New Clues to an Old Mystery: Recent Gains in Endometriosis:" https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/993862#:~:text=A%20class%20of%20chemicals%20known%20as%20endocrine%20disruptors,of%20harmful%20to%20beneficial%20bacteria%20in%20their%20gu

* "America’s Most Popular Drug Has a Puzzling Side Effect. We Finally Know Why.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/06/the-gene-that-explains-statins-most-puzzling-side-effect/674542/

* "What is perseveration?:" https://www.understood.org/en/articles/perseveration-adhd-and-learning-differences

* "People with dementia are still able to learn new things, study finds:" https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/people-with-dementia-can-learn-new-things/

* CW: Suicide. "An Elite School, a Boy’s Suicide and a Question of Blame:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/nyregion/saint-anns-suicide.html?unlocked_article_code=JkLx66fpxRpJvaDGTnGy9a9EChYYB6H-SUsDI73l3NrUj2RkUyqgKEvlNcRX8se9XGMuYeBZx_nJhW-1vQyAyaiM7_LsvzwzNjBGJqtQ2fl3xdBB8Z5AnV-dofUhB8LjE9VLZcY1VmKHhT5Frw7lgvmRX9bwC0NA-hT0wIaAc3rfMH3Wu5vKlXwBJqtWW85mcEbF0YvjZC_-LfiyXDoLIRq9Ue4xPYCdtGJglpki7hcwivlq8ARaJYB-KD37lp5exQ4GfF0AdxAkSQ8ZSfa0kKIQAp-XyEYSJK9K-oNJq1fFQeLRG-4qI7Wur9R86ogOjvZUfBJKNf_RKvD9aQ&smid=url-share

* "Inside the Secretive World of Penile Enlargement :" https://www.propublica.org/article/penis-enlargement-enhancement-procedures-implants

* "WHO's cancer research agency to say aspartame sweetener a possible carcinogen:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/whos-cancer-research-agency-say-aspartame-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-sources-2023-06-29/

* "Queer Cambridge professor on why a lack of diversity is ‘unhealthy for science’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/29/cambridge-professor-queer-diversity-stem/




* "Earth just set a heat record. It won't be its last.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/earth-record-heat-climate-change-prehistory

“This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life.”

* "Earth reaches hottest day ever recorded 3 days in a row:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/4th-july-breaks-record-highest-temperature-measured/story?id=100702850

* "World records its hottest days ever this week:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/world-records-its-hottest-days-ever-this-week-186912325902

* Before you say no duh, remember that we need studies like this to quantify things for planning, government policy, and court cases, and also to help convince people who's minds aren't already made up "Extreme heat 'disproportionately' impacts people with disabilities, report says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/extreme-heat-disproportionately-impacts-people-with-disabilities-report-2023-06-26/

I know I struggle to breath in heat like this, and hypoxia kills, especially when cars are involved.

Please remember many medications and medical conditions can make you extra susebtable to heat or direct sunlight. I was reminded that SSRIs are a super common one. Please be extra careful out there if this applies to you.

* "Mexico acknowledges 112 heat-related deaths so far this year, almost triple the figures in 2022:" https://www.news4jax.com/health/2023/06/29/mexico-acknowledges-112-heat-related-deaths-so-far-this-year-almost-triple-the-figures-in-2022/

* "A 65-year-old man is found dead in Death Valley National Park after apparent extreme heat death:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/us/death-valley-national-park-heat-death-california/index.html

* "‘Literally off the charts’: Canada’s fire season sets records — and is far from over :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/06/canada-fire-season-00104959

* "Wildfire in WA near Columbia River Gorge grows slowly, still at 5% containment :" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wildfire-in-wa-near-columbia-river-gorge-grows-slowly-still-at-5-containment/




* "Restaurants in New Orleans are recycling oyster shells to save precious coastline:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-louisiana-turns-discarded-oyster-shells-into-restored-coastline

* "What Media Leaves Below Decks:" https://popula.com/2023/06/27/what-media-leaves-below-decks/

* CW: Harassment. "More than 50 percent of Americans report facing online harassment, hate: survey :" https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4071697-more-than-50-percent-of-americans-report-facing-online-harassment/

* "What does Twitter 'rate limit exceeded' mean for users?:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-does-twitter-rate-limit-exceeded-mean-users-2023-07-03/

* "Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/twitter-outage-elon-musk-user-restrictions/674609/

* "Twitter's threat to the 2024 election is coming from inside the house:" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/elon-musk-empowers-twitter-misinformation

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter Threatens to Sue Meta Over Threads, Alleging Meta Hired ‘Dozens’ of Twitter Employees to Launch Copycat App; Meta Disputes Claim:" https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-twitter-legal-threat-meta-instagram-threads-1235663115/

* "Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads:" https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/far-right-figures-including-nazi-supporters-anti-gay-extremists-and-white-supremacists-are

* "Quitting Twitter? Here Are Six Alternatives, From Threads to Bluesky and Spill:" https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-alternatives-bluesky-spill-instagram-threads-1235660707/

* "Spill Is a New Black-Owned Twitter Alternative. Here’s What to Know About the App:" https://time.com/6292622/spill-app-twitter-alternative/

* "Rats sense the wind with antennae-like whiskers above their eyes:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rats-wind-antennae-whiskers-eyes

* "The horrors of Pompeii:" https://aeon.co/essays/what-pompeiis-ruins-say-about-its-enslaved-prostituted-women

* "What's the Deal with 18th Century Wigs? (and why Bridgerton really messed this up):"

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* "Celebrating the life and loves of Frida Kahlo, Mexico’s most famous bisexual and a global icon:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/frida-kahlo-birthday-bisexual-artist/

* "‘The meanest, dirtiest, low-down stuff’: Republican complaints about election integrity that actually hide a more nefarious goal are not unknown in U.S. history.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-3-meanest-dirtiest-low-stuff-rcna91078

* "A Short History of Everyone Who Confirmed Reagan’s October Surprise Before the New York Times:" https://theintercept.com/2023/03/24/october-surprise-ben-barnes/

* "Ballroom History: The 1960s, Paris is Burning, and Today:"

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* "Spain's Falleras Bring Historic Opulence to Life:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/falleras-tradition-parade-costume-spain-culture

* "What Even Is "Good" Queer TV?:"

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* "Preacher calls for ‘holy judgement’ on Barbie movie for being ‘full of transgender and homosexuality’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/barbie-lgbtq-kent-christmas-holy-judgement/

* "How Kids actually Played:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Er-8fEbozNg

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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.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

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

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share
* 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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* The aggregate went up late this week because of chaos detailed below. My body is still completely thrashed from the Friday uncleaning. I am doing my best, but only a tiny portion of news made it up.

* "Waterloo university stabbing was ‘targeted anti-LGBTQ+ attack’, police say as suspect charged:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/waterloo-university-stabbing-was-targeted-anti-lgbtq-attack-police-say-as-suspected-charged/

* "Bigots blame stabbing attack in a Canadian University’s Gender Issues class on trans people being too trans in public:" https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2023/06/29/bigots-blame-stabbing-attack-in-a-canadian-universitys-gender-issues-class-on-trans-people-being-too-trans-in-public/

* "Russia conducts tactical fighter jet drills over Baltic Sea:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-conducts-tactical-fighter-jet-drills-over-baltic-sea-2023-06-27/

* "Putin tells rebellious Russian fighters to swear allegiance or leave for Belarus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/26/putin-rebellion-troops-belarus-00103695

* "Some Russians welcomed Wagner mercenaries who appeared in their streets during brief insurrection:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/europe/russia-wagner-rostov-sympathy-ukraine-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Plot Thickens: Russian Generals Supported Wagner Mutiny but Backed Out – US Intelligence:" https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18817

* "Wagner’s Prigozhin Planned to Capture Russian Military Leaders:" https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/wagners-prigozhin-planned-to-capture-russian-military-leaders-805345cf

* "Putin Moves to Punish Prigozhin Allies:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/world/europe/putin-prigozhin-russia.html

* "Prigozhin May Be Gone, but Not the Failings He Ranted About:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/world/europe/prigozhin-shoigu-gerasimov-surovikin-russia-military.html

* "The poppycock of Myanmar drug suppression:" https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/the-poppycock-of-myanmar-drug-suppression/

* "SNP politicians accuse Tories of ‘rank hypocrisy’ for supporting devolution ‘where it suits them’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/snp-hannah-bardell-gender-recognition-reform/

* "Politician who allegedly said all white men should have Black slave is suspended:" https://thegrio.com/2023/04/14/british-politician-andrew-edwards-white-men-black-slave/




* "Ukraine spy chief accuses Russia of 'mining' cooling pond at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-spy-chief-accuses-russia-mining-cooling-pond-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-2023-06-20/




* This is a really helpful thing explaining why Biden's wanting bridges without weight restrictions is correct from a civil engineering perspective: https://www.tumblr.com/whovianuncle/721335205966823424/surely-this-is-a-good-idea-that-doesnt-have-the?source=share

* This win was essential for saving democracy and a huge relief. "Supreme Court denies state legislatures the unchecked power to set election rules:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/27/supreme-court-rejects-independent-state-legislature-theory-00103793

* "Hayes: Supreme Court has ruled against the right’s ‘slow-motion insurrection’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-supreme-court-has-ruled-against-the-right-s-slow-motion-insurrection-185338437718

* "Ketanji Brown Jackson Dismantles SCOTUS Conservatives in Blistering Dissent:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ketanji-brown-jackson-dismantles-scotus-conservatives-in-blistering-affirmative-action-dissent

* "US Supreme Court's two Black justices clash over affirmative action ruling:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-justices-jackson-thomas-illustrate-heated-us-debate-race-2023-06-29/

* "How Clarence Thomas ‘pulled the ladder up behind him’ on affirmative action:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-clarence-thomas-pulled-the-ladder-up-behind-him-on-affirmative-action-185974341842

* "Conservative justices welcome affirmative action—of legacy students:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/joy-conservative-justices-welcome-affirmative-action-of-legacy-students-185984069671

* "Battle for belonging: Steps toward racial progress in U.S. met with pushback: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/battle-for-belonging-steps-toward-racial-progress-in-u-s-met-with-pushback-book-185401925504

* "End of affirmative action checks another box on list of long term conservative projects:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/end-of-affirmative-action-checks-another-box-on-list-of-long-term-conservative-projects-186013253633

* "How the repercussions of affirmative action's end will reach far beyond college admissions:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-the-repercussions-of-affirmative-action-s-end-will-reach-far-beyond-college-admissions-186014277620

* "Supreme Court: Affirmative Action Is OK — If the Students Are Getting Sent to Die in Wars:" https://theintercept.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-affirmative-action-military-academy/

* "Biden slams SCOTUS affirmative action decision: 'Discrimination still exists in America':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-supreme-court-affirmative-action-decision-word/story?id=100491437

* "Why the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action matters:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1176715957/why-the-supreme-court-decision-on-affirmative-action-matters

* "Harvard 'legacy' policy challenged on heels of affirmative action ruling:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harvard-legacy-policy-challenged-heels-affirmative-action-ruling-2023-07-03/

* "Capitol Hill reacts to Supreme Court rulings:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/capitol-hill-reacts-to-supreme-court-rulings-186388549870

* "Naive emphasis on 'colorblindness' ignores racial reality in U.S.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/naive-emphasis-on-colorblindness-ignores-racial-reality-in-u-s-186697285583

* "Supreme Court rejects challenge to Jim Crow-era Mississippi voting law:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-jim-crow-era-mississippi-voting-law-rcna85633

* "Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s student debt relief plan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/30/supreme-court-strikes-down-bidens-student-debt-relief-plan-00104409

* "The Student Loan Case’s Unwilling Participant:" https://prospect.org/justice/2023-06-19-student-loan-cancellation-supreme-court-mohela/

The Republicans sued to end student debt relief on MOHELA's behalf against their will and against their best interests since the state government didn't have standing for the suit, and Republicans Supreme Court justices found for the state anyway because that's how much they hate poor and middle class students having access to college and want to punish them with crushing life long debt for daring to try to get an education.

All precedent and the legal requirement that the people doing the suing have an injury and standing have been thrown out.

* "Elena Kagan Has Had Enough:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/opinion/elena-kagan-dissent-supreme-court.html

* "What is the Higher Education Act —and could it still lead to student loan forgiveness?:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-the-higher-education-act-and-could-it-still-lead-to-student-loan-forgiveness/

* "US Supreme Court says Colorado designer can refuse LGBTQ+ customers: ‘License to discriminate’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/us-supreme-court-lgbtq/

* "The man named in the Supreme Court’s gay rights ruling says he didn’t request a wedding website:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-gay-rights-lgbtq-website-385ec911ce0ca2f415966078eddb66da

This doesn't say it invalidates all anti-discrimination laws in this country of any kind, but in effect, it does since there is no limit on who or why you can discriminate against in this ruling.

Bonus points for the woman they found in favour lying in her filings about nearly everything in them, basically. her business is hypothetical. The person she claimed asked for a website didn't and wasn't aware the case was happening or involved him until it was already in front of the Supreme Court, etc.

I don't understand how any of that is legal, but that's just how eager the Republican Partizans on the supreme court are to make all discrimination legal: They ruled in an entirely hypothetical lawsuit about a dispute that didn't exist based on perjured depositions and filings without even informing the other party they were in a lawsuit about a thing they didn't do.

* "Reactions to SCOTUS' major blow to LGBTQ rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/reactions-to-scotus-major-blow-to-lgbtq-rights-186388037861

* "Supreme Court rules for Christian mail carrier who refused to work Sundays:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-christian-postal-worker-refused-work-sundays-rcna84868

My assumption is they will use this precedent to allow EMTs, Doctors, hospitals, and pharmacists to deny trans people life saving health care, a thing that is already happening, but not currently legal.

I absolutely think hijabs etc. should be covered under the first amendment and anti-discrimination laws. I do think if Christians get their holidays off so should the rest of us.

it’s different if you say up front you can’t work certain holidays, but for me this is of a piece with the recent SCOTUS decision striking down all anti-discrimination laws.

The web designer one allows people and businesses to discriminate against any one for any reason. They deliberately put no limits on that.

This decision contradicts that, by saying that in the case of Christians, that previous ruling doesn’t apply, since Christians can’t experience any sanctions at all for signing up for a job they then refuse to do.

Sure looks like “rules for thee, but not for me.”

I’d love to be wrong, but I'd rather not bet my life on it next time I have to go to the Christian hospital where they group pray every morning, which is the only one servicing my small city.

* "John Roberts' Supreme Court rolls back civil rights one marginalized group at a time:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/john-roberts-supreme-court-rolls-back-civil-rights-one-marginalized-group-at-a-time-186273349702

* "'Galling': Hayes on the 'imperial mindset' of the Supreme Court conservatives:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-galling-hayes-on-the-imperial-mindset-of-the-supreme-court-conservatives-186215493589

* "Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez call for changes to the Supreme Court:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/02/pressley-aoc-changes-supreme-court-00104537

* "Writers Strike Messaging War Reshapes Standoff With Studios:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/writers-strike-messaging-studios-1235523786/

* "Elizabeth Warren, Susan Collins Introduce Tax Bill to Help Married Same-Sex Couples:" https://www.advocate.com/law/elizabeth-warren-refund-equality-act


* 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

* "America's Family Secret:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/

* "Once a Trump target, arc of the moral universe bends for Yusef Salaam:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/once-a-trump-target-arc-of-the-moral-universe-bends-for-yusef-salaam-185706565996

* "Candidate turns lessons of public, personal struggle into winning platform:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/candidate-turns-lessons-of-public-personal-struggle-into-winning-platform-186699333718

* "RFK Jr. Claims ‘Vaccine Research’ Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/robert-f-kennedy-jr-does-vaccine-make-fork-stick-to-me.html

* "The MAGA right is going all in on RFK Jr. That could backfire.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/robert-kennedy-republican-super-pac-biden-rcna91176

* "DeSantis’s latest appeal to MAGA tops Trump in performative cruelty:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/27/desantis-immigration-border-plan-trump-maga/

* "Pete Buttigieg slams Ron DeSantis for ‘trying to prove his manhood’ with anti-LGBTQ+ video:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/pete-buttigieg-ron-desantis-anti-lgbtq-video/

* "Lindsey Graham booed, called ‘traitor’ at Trump rally in his home state:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lindsey-graham-booed-called-traitor-at-trump-rally-in-his-home-state-186648645849




* "Court upholds sanctions for some − not all − lawyers for suit to overturn Mich. election:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/06/23/court-upholds-sanctions-for-only-some-kraken-attorneys/69493140007/

* "Rudy Giuliani interviewed in DOJ probe into 2020 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-rudy-giuliani-interviewed-in-doj-probe-into-2020-election-185342533732

* "Giuliani, at center of Trump election subversion schemes, spoke with federal prosecutors:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/giuliani-at-center-of-trump-election-subversion-schemes-spoke-with-federal-prosecutors-185703493978

* "WSJ: Giuliani testified for 8 hours in DOJ probe, questioned on Sidney Powell:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wsj-giuliani-testified-for-8-hours-in-doj-probe-questioned-on-sidney-powell-186650693895

* "Stephanie Grisham: Trump showed secret documents to Mar-a-Lago diners :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stephanie-grisham-trump-showed-secret-documents-to-mar-a-lago-diners-186645573966




* "Senate report blasts intelligence failures ahead of Jan 6; bias, 'chilling effect' noted:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/senate-report-blasts-intelligence-failures-ahead-of-jan-6-bias-chilling-effect-noted-185394757922

* "Man wanted on Jan. 6 charges arrested with weapons near Barack Obama’s Washington home:" https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-insurrection-obama-weapons-857bad453191c67480b020ec0d1f980a

* "Drag Doesn't Kill People — Guns Do:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/drag-queens-guns

* "Baltimore mass shooting leaves 2 dead; half of 28 injured were children:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/baltimore-police-scene-mass-shooting-incident-media-2023-07-02/

* "In wake of deadly mass shooting in Baltimore, mayor decries ghost guns, trafficking:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/in-wake-of-deadly-mass-shooting-in-baltimore-mayor-decries-ghost-guns-trafficking-186686021667

* "The Disturbing New Face of Mass Incarceration:"

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* "Shipping containers used for Arizona's makeshift border wall are now for sale, but buyer beware:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2023/06/30/arizonas-shipping-container-border-wall-boxes-are-now-for-sale/70361464007/

* "Thousands more prisoners across the US will get free college paid for by the government:" https://apnews.com/article/prison-pell-grant-college-graduation-ff3f0b80b5bc0e44dde0408c3dedea19

* "Judge awards a Black church $1M over BLM banner burned by Proud Boys during protest:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/01/1185630152/judge-awards-a-black-church-1m-over-blm-banner-burned-by-proud-boys-during-prote

* "Georgia teacher faces termination after reading book about acceptance to class:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/georgia-teacher-faces-termination-after-reading-book-about-acceptance-to-class-185672261786




* "Reproductive rights battle especially poignant in context of Black maternal health:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/reproductive-rights-battle-especially-poignant-in-context-of-black-maternal-health-184461893607




* "Hundreds detained at banned Pride marches in Turkey: ‘They are aware of our strength’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/27/turkey-pride-arrests-istanbul-izmir/




* "Climate Central analysis shows that human-caused climate change is making the near-record heat forecast in large parts of Texas and Mexico at least 5 times more likely.:" https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert

* "Forest fire centre declares 2023 already worst year ever for Canadian wildfires:" https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/06/26/quebec-wildfire-smoke-causes-widespread-smog-warnings-grounds-some-water-bombers.html

* "Canadian wildfire emissions hit record high as smoke reaches Europe:" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/canadian-wildfire-emissions-reach-record-high-2023-2023-06-27/

* "Rainfall likely won’t be enough to extinguish Quebec wildfires causing US smoke, officials say:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-smoke-quebec-rain-a0e287ea5117cccadb9e6917304635ea

* "Air quality plummets as Canadian wildfire smoke stretches across the Midwest :" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184812177/chicago-detroit-pittsburgh-canada-wildfire-smoke

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filte rDirections:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* "Brutal heat wave makes Texas among the hottest places on Earth:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/brutal-heat-wave-makes-texas-hottest-places-earth-rcna91584

* "Heat and smoke are smothering most of the U.S., putting lives at risk:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/28/extreme-heat-wave-texas-southern-states/

* Pro-Life Republicans act swiftly to cause more deaths because they believe people aren't dying fast enough. "Workers Die in Texas Heat as Greg Abbott's Water Break Ban Comes Under Fire:" https://www.newsweek.com/workers-die-texas-heat-greg-abbotts-water-break-ban-comes-under-fire-1808610

* "Critics Blast New Law After Dallas Postman Dies Amid Extreme Heat :" https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-usps-worker-dies-in-extreme-heat-critics-slam-hb-2127-16896591

* "35-year-old lineman dies after working to restore power in East Texas :" https://www.ketk.com/news/local-news/35-year-old-lineman-dies-after-working-to-restore-power-in-east-texas/

* "Teen and Stepfather Die on Hike in Near-Record Texas Heat:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/us/texas-heat-hiker-deaths.html

* "Inmates are dying in stifling Texas prisons, but the state seldom acknowledges heat as a cause of death:" https://www.kiiitv.com/article/news/local/texas/inmates-are-dying-in-stifling-texas-prisons/503-810c66fc-2bf2-4b7c-946f-c1cbac2ad58e

* What would Jesus do? Deny prisoners succor so that they die locked up in oven like conditions they can't escape. "Push to put air conditioning in Texas prisons fails:" https://www.corsicanadailysun.com/news/push-to-put-air-conditioning-in-texas-prisons-fails/article_257e94fe-0b00-11ee-a1ea-8bf9f4e3447f.html

* "Solar power proves its worth as heat wave grips the state:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/28/texas-solar-power-grid-heat-wave/

* "Gov. Greg Abbott vows to exclude renewable energy from any revived economic incentive program:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/01/chapter-313-texas-renewables-economic-development/

Solar Energy is saving Texas' butt right now and keeping their crappy proprietary grid afloat, but in March Republicans decided doubling down on the oil and gas industry while planning to make renewable energy harder to develop in order to make everything so much worse.

* "As Texans suffer in the heat, state Republicans play politics:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-texans-suffer-in-the-heat-state-republicans-play-politics-185722949628

* "Heat wave hits Southern California with a scorching Fourth of July weekend:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-30/heat-wave-southern-california-fourth-of-july-weekend

* "The Titan Submersible Was “an Accident Waiting to Happen”:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen




* "It's Called Micro Metro:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O-ZiycBMULI

* "National Geographic magazine has laid off the last of its staff writers:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/28/media/national-geographic-magazine-staff-writers/index.html

* "We Cleaned Up The Ocean Floor At 40 Meters Depth:"

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* "How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-id-tracking-ios-and-android-and-why-you-should-do-it-now

* "Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI:" https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486

* "A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html

* He was incredibly talented. I loved him particularly in naked Lunch, Warlock and Impromptu, but he was in so many things. It's terrible he's gone, but at least the family have him back to mourn properly. In my experience, waiting is worse than knowing. "Julian Sands’ remains found in Mt. Baldy area, San Bernardino officials confirm:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-06-27/julian-sands-remains-found-mt-baldy-san-bernardino

* "Bonus 4: Queering the Gothic:" https://www.scribd.com/podcast/655892341/Bonus-4-Queering-the-Gothic-Stephen-interviews-Dr-Jamie-Bernthal-Hooker?irclickid=3kxxPHRpOzhvU%3A11aUXpLwX1UkF2jZSFRRYS3E0&irpid=2003851&utm_source=impact&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=affiliate_pdm_acquisition_Bing%20Rebates%20by%20Microsoft&sharedid=bing&irgwc=1

* "Good Omens Parody by The Hillywood Show®:"

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* Tuesday I went to the Doctor and had a blood draw. She's mostly caught up. Nothing can likely be done about the allergy treatments unless I want to day trip to Everett every two weeks starting in September, but i am so tired and the pain meds make me even more so. there is concern about no meds causing heart palpatations, but we are going to try a pill twice a day anyway, so i can get coverage in my sleep. Let us all hope I don't start hallucinating.

Given the hallucination risk I stayed at minimum for the Wednesday errands as the last thing I wanted was to start hallucinating while driving.

Some sort of blight has hit one of the garden tubs, but only one species of volunteer plant, which we removed in hopes it isn't in the soil and hasn't spread to the others. The other volunteers and the thing that actually is meant to be growing there look okay, but we are going to try to identify the species of ick, in case we need to sterilize and start over. I will be pissed if that's the case as it's one of the big whiskey barrel planters with the most expensive things in the garden in it. *fingers crossed*

Wednesday was the first day I woke up with bad collapsey legs since I started the new meds and on the scale of bad legs it was about medium. My arms we ironically less collapsey than average for the last week.

Bodies are weird.

* I think I need to tell you about the Cleaner, because OMG, but for that you will need context on my pain/meds situation.

So less pain does not remotely equal no pain. My hip joints were a mess Wednesday, and only a little better Thursday. My shoulder joints, and thus my arms, started to go bad Thursday. The fundamental things wrong with my body aren't fixable, but the new meds are doing a stellar job on what I think of as the secondary pain, IE: everything else not joint or tendon or in their immediate vicinity. It is far more effective than the muscle relaxants I've been using for decades at this since it's hitting the nerves and not just the muscles. It also adds to the tired. So much to the tired. Bonus: on the new dose, I get dizzy if I don't rest enough, and the heart palpitations hit longer and harder when they hit.

Dramatically better means for an extreme chronic pain/chronic illness perspective, not from a remotely healthy person's perspective, if you follow. I was into about a month of unbearable torment when we tried the one pill dosage. I'm still not sure my system can handle the two pills, and I plan to stick to this dose. They are supposed to last eight hours, but I get an extra four hours of partial coverage per pill, and like I said the side effects are scaling up on me.

So right now my balance sucks, I'm exhausted, and my shoulder joints scream at me if I try to do anything remotely strenuous with them, you follow?

So far I've had four different cleaners turn up, two of them twice. Three of those are hard and thorough workers. One of those will not wear her mask. I put up with it because I am wearing mine and turn on all the fans and I'm scared if I don't take her, no one will come. (see five skipped cleaning appointments in a row).

Cleaning is a hard fucking job and they are underpaid, get no benefits, no set hours, and have to pay their own travel costs including for the ferry if they are coming from the reservation and that is a lot of gas. I respect cleaners. I've done it, after all, amoung the many shit jobs I had over the years. I trust them to know what they are doing. This has been the case in three instances. Most of the conversation with those three cleaners has been things like: Where does this go? Where is (whatever) kept? What should i do next? I refuse to micro manage. In my experience, micro managing is dramatically less efficient and just insults the person doing the job. I know I hated it, when I was the person being micro-managed. This works great for Goth Millennial and for the other three cleaners on the other four occasions.

I'm sure you are sensing the big but here.

So the cleaner who came today, turned up the other time she was here high as a kite. I don't mean a little buzzed, which is fairly normal in this town and this state. Weed's been legal here for ages. People with shitty service jobs occasionally come to work a schootch high. It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things if, say, your barista's a little buzzed. I don't partake myself for a host of reasons, but most of my friends since... I'm going to say 1985, have/do. A little high is no big deal.

Orbiting Pluto without a suit is. She was way out of it girl at a party who's friends have to watch her like a hawk high. She was barely coherent high. She drove here. O.o. She drove home. This terrifies me. after some consultation with my friends including them seeing the mess she made and me acting out vignettes, our best guess is she must have dramatically misjudged an edible. (It had to be vape or edible. I would have smelled smoke. Edible makes the most sense for both the degree of Jesus fuck high and the thinking she was fine when she left home, but waaaay not fine when she got here. Surely she would have cancelled otherwise, right?).

So basically instead of my working away at the aggregate or tumblr queue programming or whatever, it was a lot like baby sitting a toddler who would not shut up, only the toddler would make more sense and the mess would have likely been confined to things in a toddler's reach. I had to go around after she left and actually use the forbidden to me for safety reasons ladder to save a bunch of my cups and glasses from the accident I could see happening the second Squirrel opened a dish cupboard because he had jammed them in their so precariously that the door was the only thing preventing them falling. Goth Millennial came the next day and had to take everything out and restack it. I could live with the fitted sheet being inside out, so we left that for today.

I did not turn her in to the asshole agency because 1. worker solidarity. I never went to work on a substance, but I've worked so, so many shit jobs and the Asshole Agency is terrible. 2. I was pretty sure it was a mistake involving an edible. 3. I was big on giving people another chance when I was teaching. On fuck up shouldn't lat for ever unless that fuck up was malicious or really damaging to other people.

Well, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me.

No, she was not noticeably high this time, though I couldn't rule a mild buzz out. She also had a shamefaced and subdued demeanor that clearly told me she knew how badly she'd fucked up last time. She said she'd signed up for me on purpose instead of her other option because I was really nice to her and my apartment was full of interesting things to look at while she cleaned. My apartment is full of interesting things to look at and I suspect she liked me because I was consistently kind to her when she was a mess last time and hadn’t turned her in. She really is sweet and nice and she is clearly trying her best but not remotely the sharpest tool in the shed. Which can be fine. I've known a lot of good workers over the years with significant developmental or accident related challenges and they did fine. She wasn't in that category, but I realized she'd need extra supervision compared to the others. I underestimated how much.

She did walk right up to Tavy and start petting him right away like last time which again confused and alarmed him. Sure, Squirrel and I and a couple of the Millennials can do that because we are his particular friends, but he barely knows her and and she would NOT stop doing that last time no matter how many times I told her he was a biter and apt to maul when he was worked up. I was so proud of him because he did not attack her the first three times, and honestly the forth time, I would have bitten her too in his place.

Tavy was noticeably wary of her. He did want to watch what she was doing, but he remembered her. (By contrast, the other cleaners he'd watch from a distance for a while, and then follow around and in a couple cases, get me to pick him up so he could get a better look. He really took to the GNC person who came once, and kept sniffing their legs). He did let her pet him without biting her, and she was together enough to stop when I told her he was down, and leave him alone for the rest of the two hours when I said he was in a mood to hang out and watch but not interact.

I got her through the linen change okay and last time she was so high she forgot we had a dishwasher after she'd emptied it and it took her most of her shift except the linen change, but the dishes looked and smelled clean, so I set her to that and did not remotely supervise her enough. This I did not discover until evening, but we'll get to that.

Then I set her to sweep and mop, which... Like I've worked a lot of restaurant jobs, often with people in a supported worker with severe intellectual challenges. I've never seen one who'd been doing it for years who couldn't do it correctly. She said she'd been doing this for several years.

Assuming makes an ass out of me, doesn't it?

Oh gods the mess she made! I should have known it was too hard for her when she started prepping for mopping before sweeping. So I told her to sweep first, which she did. I told her to dump the water in the sink, not the tub, which turned out to be very, very lucky. (The tub is the most expensive thing I own. A city program that remodels for elderly and disabled people paid for it. I will never be able to afford to fix or replace it. There are super strict cleaning directions for a reason, because the mechanism is delicate.) I told her to use the liquid all purpose cleaner under the sink. I should have got it out and prepped the bucket myself, but bending hurts and I was exhausted and dizzy and my arm situation was deteriorating. I should have done it anyway, because this is So. Much. Worse.

She used a ton of water. Like way, way to much water in a way that suggested she did not wring the mop and/or she was dumping puddles out of the bucket. It was a terrifying fall risk situation because this was the end of her shift and I really really needed to get ready for bed as soon as she left and forage delivery was late so I had to go drag it in, just as I'd given up and settled into bed. So I'm dizzy with unreliable legs, using both hands and going careful back and forth over this swamp of a floor with a weird gritty, soapy texture. Which is... not what you want in a cleaner for elderly and disabled people. I could fall and end up in the hospital under those conditions. And it;'s not like I could want a couple hours for it to dry. There was no point in washing my feet in the bathroom, so I kept using wipes on them before getting into bed.

Then I woke up to pee and realized just how bad it really was. *head desk* My best guess is she used Ajax, which is stored under a bookshelf in the bathroom, not under the sink. Like a TON of Ajax. The kitchen sink and nearby counter was caked with it and the floor was tacky and gritty and full of muddy footprints. I couldn't leave it like that. I cleaned the sink. I took the other mop with the disability friendly easy to wring it out attachment which had been to complicated for her head and wet mopped it all again, frequently rinsing and wringing it out, until my arms basically gave out and I had to wash up and take a nap.

It's still incredibly dirty. I feel like crying, because I can't feel clean unless my feet are. I've been skating around on damp towels, but though my hip joints are a lot better this evening, I wear out fast and it hurts quite a bit if I do it too much. I hate leaving a terrible mess like this for the millennial, but I simply can't mop any more with these arms. I'd have been so much better off giving her something else to do, but I couldn't think of anything else simple enough for her, and I know from last time she will not leave early no matter how much I tell her she can just clock out at the end of the hour.

At this point I was debating what to do. I had settled on calling Monday and asking them to put her on my no list without giving a reason, because I simply can't go through this again. It's too hard on my body and it's incredibly could seriously injure me dangerous.

Then I went to feed the Empress Livia and discovered something worse.

I'm medically fragile. Amoung so many other things, I have an immune system that is far more interested in own goals than fighting pathogens. I can and will catch anything you expose me too. Anything. I also have a dicey digestive system. Anything I use to prepare food or eat or drink needs to be really fucking clean. We prewash for grease and stuck on food then run them through the washer to make sure the soap and anything else is off. yes, I know this is bad for the environment as it uses extra water, but it’s a serious safety issue for me.

I was very, very clear on directions because I remembered last time. “Wash the dishes and then put the in the dishwasher. The dishes in there are dirty, so don’t put them away. I will run the washer after you leave.” Did she do that? No. Were the dishes cleaned and dried, which would be reasonably acceptable as an alternative? No. They were jammed in with the clean dishes, soaking wet and covered in soap bubbles six or seven hours after she left. We'll have to go through all the pans tomorrow. I pulled the pans and dishes I remembered were in the sink yesterday. I have no way of guessing with the glasses and flatware and I don't know which things Squirrel put in there.

I am exhausted and I hurt and I've been pushed way past the limit of what my body can handle in a day and I can't trust my dishes or the glass I'm drinking out of and I can't get the dirty Ajax grit off my feet. I'm going to go take a bath, but my feet will be dirty again the second I touch the floor.

She's another poor person. I feel like a class traitor just putting her on my no list, but she could theoretically kill an elderly person with her mopping, and I can't decide if I should say something, because anything I do will be a terrible option.

This person literally uncleaned my apartment. I just....

Look, I know it’s a free service, but this is so very much worse than when they don’t send anyone.

* Squirrel was horified because he works with elderly people and he knows better than anyone that falls kill. He insisted I call right away about her. Squirrel: Even I know not to use Ajax on floors!

It turns out they take calls on the weekends. I admit i broke down a bit. My arm was screaming at me and we are looking at weeks of cleaning to get all the Ajax up. It turns out they literally don't fire people for any reason so ethically I feel a lot better about calling, but at the same time she could literally kill an elderly person and also they could send someone even more dangerous because there is no check on that. O.o. so she's blocked on the app from seeing my jobs. I ordered an extra cleaner, but I don't really think they'll send one. IDK.

I spent hours last night trying to fix it last night. Goth millenial spent hours on it today. It still is incredibly dirty. I'm scared the cats are eating the Ajax dirt that clings to their paws. Tavy is really traumatized and wouldn't even let Goth millenial pet him today and he mostly avoided the other millenials who were here breifly. he keeps needing reassurance cuddles and held blerpfest last night in the living room. I don't blame them.

At lets cancelling five times in a row wasn't actively destrucxtive. This was. It was so very very destructive.

It is freaking me out that shge's out there driveing, that she's likely endangering other people and their pets with the uncleaning.

Bonus: She waited long enough to clock out after i told her to clock out that her five minute delay stoole a half hour of cleaning from me.

* Sunday I took some of the Millennials for swimming/picnic at the Lake for the first time this season. I got to watch New Millennial fall in love with the PNW landscape exactly the way I did more than thirty years ago.

You can really tell which of us grew up with cold Northern Ocean. Me: wading steadily deeper and deeper once I'm far enough in to keep my balance by my self on the rocks and the bottom gets a little smoother, then slowly swimming out a little deeper in search of the warmer tide. (It's a run off fed lake, and the mixing of the cold inflow with the water that's been in the lowlands long enough, makes these weird little temperature striations you can very much feel even after you cold adapt). Everybody Else: Wading crotch deep and thinking for a while about whether they want to swim after all, then going way slower and stopping a lot to rethink.

I love my Millennials. The other two each had one of the newest Millennial's arms to help them over the rocks because the rocks suck and I'd forgotten to warn them. Me, urging them on: Keep coming! I found the warm current! New Millennial: Looking concerned this might be hazing, followed by the moment of delight and surprise on finding I was not. Look, it's only like ten or fifteen degrees on a good day, but it does make a difference and the activity of swimming or treading water and the adaptation once you go up to your neck and then duck your head, all add up. You just need to get into a sweet spot.

I discovered on the way back that my fucked up arms really, really don;t want to do backstroke. I managed a lopsided curve towards shore until I was far enough in to pull along the rocks with my hands and kick. So Goth Millennial is hanging close on the way to the shallows, because I can't really get out safely by myself and need help getting up onto my feet and staying there until I'm reasonably sure they are working, at which point either Goth Millennial (or Techie Millennial, who couldn't come), would grab my crutch so I could use it and their arm to get out onto the "beach."

My crutch was not where I left it. My crutch was not anywhere nearby where someone might have moved it if it were in the way of say launching a jet ski from the wrong stretch of "beach" instead of the boat and jet ski launch area. I mention jet skis as their were two anchored in the swimming area where they were not meant to be we we arrived, one of which way out past the swim buoys where it was meant to be, and the other parked on the "beach" where it emphatically should not be, surrounded by mostly kids, obscuring view of the corner where the "beach hits the cit off with the higher land and grass. But I hadn't gone near that, and I needed the crutch to get out to look to see if the crutch was there.

I am still angry about that fad a decade or so ago when asshole able bodied art students would steal poor people's wheelchairs for shitty "art projects" and then brag about it on line as if stealing an expensive thing someone couldn't afford to replace and stranding them somewhere like a park or a bathroom or an inaccessible public building was something virtuous and clever instead of an incredibly cruel things to do to someone, as if their crap project was worth more than someone else's independence. My crutch is basically one of my legs. Someone's wheels are their legs.

Every time I go into the water anywhere, I know there is a chance someone will steal my crutch. This is the PNW, and I think someone leaving a mobility aid next to the water makes sense to the ableds, whereas someone leaving a wheelchair on the pavement in a park doesn't for some asshole shitty lack of empathy and imagination neurotypical reason, I guess.

So I'm starting to get really upset and Goth Millennial is really worried and we are having a loud conversation along the lines of Me: shit! I can you see my crutch anywhere? I left it right there. I think someone may have stolen !it! Millennial standing up and going to look across the bad rock stretch craning their head around to see if some asshole maybe put it on the grassy bit above the cut: I can't see it! It's not there!" Middle School age, glaring resentfully at one of the younger kids, stomps around to the other side of the illegal parked jet ski, where we had zero chance of seeing it, retrieves it and hands it to me. Me: you're very kind! Thank you! Goth Millennial hoists me to my feet while I use their arm and the crutch to just barely get my balance. This is a complicated and painful procedure, returning to gravity after freedom, and I need to stand their awhile like two or three feet away from Asshole Jet Ski Extended family. These kids just stare at me the whole time we are doing this. It is very, very obvious that my normally invisible disability is very, very real. Grumpy teen in charge to a younger kid: You better go apologize. No one apologizes. They keep staring at us hobble slowly and carefully up the shallow stairs. After I went to pee and wash lake water off my hands before eating, I went to set my crutch down by my chair and all this water poured out of it. I'd left it on dry land.

Asshole Family who was too privileged to use the boat and jet ski launch who thus had to drive their jet skis through the swim area had stolen my fucking crutch to play with in the water and the missing adults and the grumpy teen in charge had let them, and then they hid it behind their angled jet ski so no one could see it afterwards. They could have lost it in the lake. They could have kept it.

We found out when our friends came out of the water that they’d also stolen and hid our blind friend's flip flops, which they grudgingly had returned when it was clear they were hers.

Rich people are the worst.

So we go get dinner stuff at the grocery store and drop a Millennial off and I'm in my kitchen searching for my reusable straws, of which I own four. I have one I was using for lemonade which I put in the refrigerator last night. I had assumed the other three were in the wash or something up until now, but I searched the dishwasher and they weren't there. All the flatware are in the dishwasher except the chopsticks and some specialty use items, since we didn't know which the Asshole Cleaner hadn't cleaned properly before putting back. we’d emptied the trays. I search there and around there anyway. There are no reusable straws in the kitchen except the one I was drinking out of Friday when Asshole Stoner Cleaner was uncleaning the apartment.

The time she was here high as a kite she kept wiggling them and shouting "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle!" She was obsessed with them. They were a gift from Goth Millennial. I don't think they were that expensive, but they were cute and had a nice texture and are earth friendly. (Some people can't use reuseable straws for a bunch of reasons and we have emergency plastic straws here. This is not any sort of judgement on people who use single use. Let's ban fishing industry plastics which are most of the ocean plastic pollution before going after disabled people's straws, okay?)

I think the only reason she didn't steal the forth straw was it was right next to me so I could poke it up under the mask for brief sips. I'd left it and the cup in the fridge because I don't like to put them to wash until I see a new clean straw I can use in situations like this or when my arms are bad, and it's easier and safer to hold the cup low, or sometimes just because. They are reusable! It hurts nothing. I wanted a straw because my body wasn't working and I wanted to drink the juice I'd bought for dinner while lying down and waiting for things to stop hurting so much.

There is zero chance the other three are still here.

I had checked my bedroom right after she left for small, easily stealable things missing from the bookshelf where I put curios right after she left because the comment about my interesting things felt like something a person might say anyway, but also a things someone who might pocket once would say and I was already upset and wary of her because of everything. There are things it would be hard to check, like my BPAL Collection, but odds are she wouldn't steal those. She'd have had to climb on the bed and go through the little boxes and she was only unsupervised in there for a few minutes with the sweep and mop. I will need to see if she stole the bottle where I keep a few tramadol in case I wake up unable to get out of bet or occasionally, even roll over without an hour or more of slow, excruciating effort. While they clean, I'm sitting at my desk right next to the bottled meds collection that mostly feed assorted pill organizers, and the shelf above where the things I need to grab quick in an emergency are not surprisingly untouched. If anything had been stolen when I got up to go to the bathroom the parent tramadol bottle would be easiest to raid and the only really attractive thing to steal except throat pearls, and you'd have to know what they were and they are not recreational, just a little expensive and perscription. The altar and display shelf over the sofa seems fine, and she definitely didn't go in grabbing distance anyway.

When I went into the bathroom to bathe the lake water away, I noticed some small things missing. One of them I'd assumed was in the wash, but I have done a bunch of laundry over the weekend since the Ajax tainted clothes get washed separately and I don't want the dye to be leached by cleanser by letting them sit unwashed, and we have to wash the mop head by itself between uses to get all the ajax out. It's not in the wash. It's gone, a small, very useful thing. Nothing expensive is missing that I've noticed yet, but I haven't properly inventoried all the otc things and the prescription ointments and such, but I'm guessing those wouldn't be attractive. I doubt she'd steal books. She didn't strike me as a reader, but when I am in less pain and less exhausted, I'll inventory them better.

Asshole. Fucking asshole.

I know it could have been worse. Every little curio and most of the art except some things in the bathroom that are there because of the risk of steam or water damage have a story. They were given to me by friends or lovers or made by me when my hands still worked right or purchased at particular events or on particular occasions. These are memories and irreplaceable regardless because they are mostly hand made or limited edition from conventions.

We don't have money for replacing straws right now. They haven't paid Goth Millennial for a month and a half, not even for the supposedly paid training sessions. I owe money to the Honest Mechanic for the third time in three months and am about to burn two thirds of my bill money tomorrow on that, because you never ever fuck over a small business, just like you never ever fuck over another poor person. (I don’t steal, but I think ethically, stealing from a big chain to feed your kids is okay, and very much better than letting you kids starve, especially given the wage theft and lobbying against the social safety net and minimum wage those chains do. They steal from the poor, particularly their workers and if they hadn’t paid politicians to do things that prevent people from having enough to eat, then which is the bigger evil? Mom and pops? Family Businesses? Little micro businesses and artists and what have you? Never, ever okay. Small businesses are the life blood of a community online and RL, and letting me defer payment is a major fucking favor, so they are next after housing, whatever happens to my other bills. The other few things I spotted are replaceable if we had money for it.

I am so fucking angry anyway. I already felt my home was desecrated by her uncleaning it and distressing Tavy and the all over fuckery of it, but this small thing, this thing that wouldn't matter if I were a little better off or they weren't a gift, but feel like a big thing when added to all the rest.

It takes a lot to make me hate someone. We are not there yet, but if I do find something important I overlooked gone, I will, much like I still hate the ex-friend from first college who took three important things with sentimental value that were/are irreplaceable when he dropped out. This is how he became an ex-friend. He knew that the plaque was the last thing the artist my first freshman lover bought it from made and that it had a bunch of layered meanings in what was written on it. The things he stole from me and another friend were like that. Very personal and chosen with surgical precision to cause the most distress. (He did other, worse things, then made sure everyone thought, I’d done them and I was a monster. none of this we found out until he’d gone and we none of us could figure out why. Okay, the terrible things he needed someone to frame, but the rest... Sociopathy was the best guess for all of it really. Last I checked he was still working with children and there was fuck all provable we can do about it, but he really, really shouldn’t have been working with children). These things the Uncleaner stole were small, replaceable things, not something where there is no other one even if memories weren’t attached.

All the things missing I've looked for off and on since the time she was here high, under the belief they were misplaced or in the wash. I wouldn't be surprised if that's when she took them and that's part of why she was so embarrassed the second time, but if she were really embarrassed she could have brought them back then and I'd never have known. Like, she could have tossed them into one washer or the other, or tucked them around the sink, and I'd have just thought that was where they were.

I know the Asshole Agency will do fuck all, but I'm going to call them anyway. Goth Millennial said before we knew about the theft that she was the one who was a class traitor, because you don't do shit like this to another poor person. I have no idea when my apartment will actually be clean again. I'm doubting that an extra two hours this week even if someone turns up will do it.

We are still baffled by the thought process.

If she'd put the dishes into the dishwasher like I'd asked, it would have been fine and not tons of extra time and work cleaning everything. I still need to sit on the kitchen floor in the Ajax to go through all the pots and pans in case the extra cleaner does come. If she'd rinsed and dried them before putting them away, it would have been not ideal, but likely fine. She did neither for no reason we can understand. Putting them away wet and soapy was actually more work than racking them in the dishwasher like I asked.

Not only was the bottle of liquid all purpose cleaner right in front when I opened the cabinet under the sink to hand it to Goth Millennial Saturday when they decided wet mopping wouldn't be enough, there was a literal second full bottle behind it because I hate running out of things so I tend to buy two at once if I have enough cash for it and the trip to get the one I like that is effective but doesn't make bad smells is annoying if I don't want a big mark up. It was right there. couldn't have missed it if she'd opened the compartment. To get at the Ajax I use only for the toilet, she had to go past the dish soap for the sink and tub and the shampoo and conditioner I bought before the engine light went on last month. She could have used the dish soap and it would have been not ideal, but fine except for all the extra water. A wet mop after she left would have solved it. She had to go on her hands and knees and move things to get the Ajax. Following directions was Easier. Asking me to get it if she somehow couldn't recognize it as a bottle of liquid cleaner was easier. Getting about a third to a half of a big cylinder of Ajax out of those small holes was definitely harder than doing it properly.

WTF!?!

I get that stealing small stuff you don't need is actually a symptom of mental illness that requires therapy she likely can't afford, and given how high she was she really had no observable impulse control I could see, hence her repeatedly stopping work to pet a cat I'd warned her not to, and the 'wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, and all the many other things. This is the only explicable part of it. Like I get it. If that's all she'd done I would have been mildly miffed and reported and blocked her because I don't like people stealing my stuff and she might take something from someone else they couldn't eventually replace, but I wouldn't be this kind of furious. A compulsion to steal and/or walking away with something because one is borderline incoherent high and then going oops later are pretty easy to understand motivation wise.

Doing all this extra work to do so much damage to someone you barely know makes zero sense. I was nice to her! I sent her home with a big bag of food each time! We none of us think this was malice. It can't be laziness as this took so much extra work than not doing damage would. so seriously WTF, with the dishes and the Ajax? This question haunts us all.

UPDate: Asshole Agency now says they will file a ticket and investigate. I trust nothing they say, as they've lied to me before, most recently Saturday, when they claimed there was nothing to be done except blocking her from coming here. Today's guy says they weren't supposed to blow be off like that and their is a system. There is no way to tell which of them is lying. I hope the ticket system is not fictional like half of their cancellation calls and I hope there is an investigation system that is not made of bullshit and rubber stamps. That would be nice.

It really does scare me should could accidentally kill someone or their pets and it worries me she's out their in the homes of vulnerable elderly people who may not have a support system to handle the devastation. I'm still having trouble turning my head and lifting a full glass of liquid with my dominant arm above my shoulder. I don't know what long term health effects the Ajax will have on the cats. Livia's on a special diet for her urinary system. I did not fall and I could hide in my bed until all the water dried. The stuff she stole was small and that big a deal. I have Goth Millennial and to a lesser extent the others to help me clean up, but this is exhausting them. None of them have to do that and I appreciate that so much.

If I were older though? I could have broken a hip or had a serious head injury with no one to help.

It still freaks me out she was driving like that the previous time.

I've done a whole lot of shit jobs out of poverty. I have never harmed someone like she harmed me. I never would. I hate that I am harming her now, by reporting, but I had to try to protect whoever next after me. I hate the Asshole Agency. I hate them for the terrible way they treat the cleaners and whole fucking gig economy, and the predatory capitalism that makes this the business model now, and the shiftiness of it all. I wonder how many people before me tried to report her and how many gave up trying to get the asshole agency to care and just blocked her. Did she trash anyone's home before mine?

This was supposed to be extra help, but this is so much harm, so much extra pain, so much extra stress. Medicare pays them money to send untrained, unvetted people into the homes of vulnerable adults run by an agency who's first recourse is to lie to you if you complain about anything, and only calls you half the time to tell you the cleaner cancelled.

I am tired of being upset about all this. It will hard to be not upset about it until my apartment is clean and smells normal again. The chemicals give me a headache, which does not help either.

* On Monday night the extra cleaner I ordered for Tuesday called. They generally do this to check in. i tell them where to park and to call on arrival so I can pop out and wave them in and that they should wear a mask and headphones atre fine if they want to wear them. I began to hope a cleaner really would turn up despite the holiday.

An hour before the scheduled time of arrival, the Asshole Agency called, because they couldn't reach the cleaner. Me: she called last night. Everything seemed fine. Them: do you know how to reach her? Me: No. O.o

She was a couple minutes late, having taken the wrong entrance to my apartment complex, which happens a lot. It was fine. I explained the situation with dishes and floors. she did all the dishes and followed directions. She actually solved the floors with time to spare. O.o. i'll feel better with an extra mopping in the bathroom, but the Ajax spell is gone and she even got the caked crust around the edges in the bathroom. Then she took out the trash and organized the pots and pans, which have been a mess since the silverware drawer broke.

She was respectful of Tavy's space, which was a huge help, since the Uncleaner traimatized him to the point he's having his nightmares again. Livia hid of course, sensible girl.

Goth Millenial wanted to come hang out, so I went and got them. We had a nice dinner and watched Dark Winds. This is a rewatch for me, but they'd only seen the first episode. It's both worth a rewatch and the new season starts soon, so the timing is excellent. Tavy was so worn out from supervising the cleaner from afar, he slept through the visit.

After Lung Time Livia came out of hiding for a love and a snack, just in time for them all to be panicked by fireworks in the parking lot. They both Noped odff to their hides for hours. Livia only came out a couple hours later. She got a love and a snack, and then the fireworks started again, luckily not nearly as loud, so at least Tavy was okay.

The imperial couple decree no more fireworks ever, please.

The Ajax took the shiny protective layer off the flooring, which makes me sad, but I suspected this would be the case when I realized what she'd done to me.

Otherwise, things are normalish here at the cat asylum. It was almost midnight as I wrote this and the wind from Alaska is finally blowing the smell of Canada burning out of our little valley by the bay.

I would like to thank the donor who paid for the latest car repair and to anyone who chipped in in the last slightly over a year and a half when the catastrophic string of things falling apart including two appliances, an apartment electrical system, my teeth, A fire alarm, a tire, and.... Was it five car repairs on my aged and slowly failing vehicle?

I would like to thank you all for the kind words and support you all give me. I notice and it does matter.

* A thing I wrote for Tumblr on the evening of the 4th:

I have a lot of new followers who joined in the last year. You may have noticed that my 4th of July programming is not what one might expect from an American. It is deliberate. I think it is more valuable to see the country for what it is, what’s best and most important about it and fight for what it could be than to bellow self congratulatory platitudes wrapped in a flag.

The fight has gotten so much harder in the last 7 or so years, but it always was hard. Those of us who could never afford the rose colored glasses need to stick together, to have each other’s backs. To those who see the rising tide of fascism and are joining the cause and for those young enough that this is all pretty new, welcome.

We really do need to hang together or we really will hang separately. I said back in 2016 this was going to be a marathon and not a sprint and we have so very many miles to go. There is still time to save what is good about this country, and to build something new and better on part of the foundation that is still good. We can do it if we stick together and leave no one behind this time. We can do it if we don’t let them split us and get us all scrambling for the crumbs instead of insisting on pie for everyone.

This isn’t over. Not quite yet, though it might feel like it may be for some of us. Let us not go softly into that good night. Let us rage together at the dying of the light.

* "Midnight Pals: Jewish Noir:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/721215690590339072/midnight-pals-jewish-noir?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: A Fable:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/721521022058233856/midnight-pals-a-fable?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.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

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

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* 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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* "Escaping China with a spoon and a rusty nail:" https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/uyghur-thailand-escape-xinjiang-jail/

* "The Coup Is Over, but Putin Is in Trouble:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/06/putin-russian-coup-over-prigozhin-wagner/674522/

* "Ukraine Will Be the Big Winner of Prigozhin Turning On Putin:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-will-be-the-big-winner-of-prigozhin-turning-on-putin-in-russian-insurrection

* "Let's talk about Russia cooling off and stranger things to come....:"

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* "U.S. spies learned in mid-June Prigozhin was planning armed action in Russia:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/24/us-intelligence-prigozhin-putin/

* "Blinken on Russia crisis: ‘We haven’t seen the last act’ :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/25/blinken-russia-crisis-00103552

* "Biden says U.S. and allies "had nothing to do with" Wagner rebellion in Russia:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-wagner-group-russia-mutiny/

* "How a 'sad sack nutball' ended up at the center of the Russia crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-a-sad-sack-nutball-ended-up-at-the-center-of-the-russia-crisis-185201221916

* "Belarus starts taking delivery of Russian nuclear weapons:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belarus-has-started-taking-delivery-russian-tactical-nuclear-weapons-president-2023-06-14/

* "Lukashenko offers nuclear weapons to nations willing ‘to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus’:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/europe/lukashenko-nuclear-weapons-belarus-russia-intl-hnk/index.html




* "UN puts Russian forces on blacklist for killing children in Ukraine:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/un-puts-russian-forces-on-blacklist-for-killing-children-in-ukraine

* "Ukrainian Forces take control of several positions near Krasnohorivka, which Russia held since 2014
Ukrainian Forces take control of several positions near Krasnohorivka, which Russia held since 2014:" https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3727224-ukrainian-forces-take-control-of-several-positions-near-krasnohorivka-which-russia-held-since-2014.html

* "Ukraine war latest: Military reports advance on Bakhmut flanks; 2 Ukrainian teenagers reportedly killed by Russians in Berdiansk:" https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-june-25/

* "‘Pretending to live a civilian life’: How pro-Ukrainian residents of occupied Melitopol feel daily fear:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/11/europe/ukraine-life-under-russian-occupation-melitopol-intl-cmd/index.html

* "The Africans fighting on Russia’s front line in Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-russia-wagner-africa




* "Biden announces how $40 billion for high-speed internet will be used, as he pitches 'Bidenomics':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-announce-40-billion-high-speed-internet-pitches/story?id=100380154

* "Biden and Harris Reaffirm Backing for Reproductive Rights a Year After Dobbs:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/biden-dobbs-one-year-abortion

* "White House Mocks Fox News With Pride Cupcakes :" https://www.advocate.com/media/white-house-fox-news-cupcakes

* Shameful. "Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation in water rights dispute:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-navajo-nation-water-rights-dispute-rcna83584

* "U.S. Supreme Court allows Biden's shift on immigration enforcement:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-allows-bidens-shift-immigration-enforcement-2023-06-23/

* "The Supreme Court is making religion an all-purpose excuse for ignoring the law :" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-06-18/supreme-court-303-creative-colorado-gay-wedding-website-religious-liberty

* "Christian-Owned Business Can Discriminate Against LGBTQ+ People: Court:" https://www.advocate.com/law/christian-business-lgbtq-discrimination

* Shameful. "Supreme Court turns away veterans who seek disability benefits over 1966 hydrogen bomb accident:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-veterans-radiation-accident-disability-benefits-e541ded7f3d8a17d680a07fc2105a6df

* "Supreme Court rules in favor of Coinbase:" https://www.axios.com/2023/06/23/supreme-court-coinbase-arbitration

* "Supreme Court limits federal prisoners’ ability to bring some post-conviction challenges:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/prisoner-firearms-conviction-case-supreme-court/index.html

* "Supreme Court dismisses Louisiana’s appeal of ruling that found racial gerrymandering :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/26/supreme-court-louisiana-racial-gerrymandering-00103631

* "The Real Cause of Poverty with Matthew Desmond:"

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* "The Great Grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted:" https://apnews.com/article/pandemic-fraud-waste-billions-small-business-labor-fb1d9a9eb24857efbe4611344311ae78

* "Millionaires Are Begging Governments to Tax Them More:" https://www.wired.com/story/millionaires-begging-governments-tax-wealth/

* "Boston’s Leadership Brainery Opens Doors for Marginalized Students Seeking Advanced Degrees:" https://www.advocate.com/activism/leadership-brainery-advanced-degrees

* I kind of love that I have trouble telling the difference between Pride parade stills and Our Flag Means Death Actors on the WGA picket line.

* "‘We Never Stopped Applying Pressure’: Hard-Fought Success on Rail Sick Days:" https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

* "340,000 UPS workers are voting whether to authorize a massive strike:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/business/ups-strike-vote-authorization/index.html

* "Starbucks Employees to Strike Nationwide After Pride Decoration Controversy:" https://www.advocate.com/business/lgbt-starbucks-employees-to-strike

* "House votes to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183564794/schiff-censure-house-republicans

* "Democrats Introduce Bill to Support LGBTQ & Women’s History in Schools:" https://www.advocate.com/law/lgbtq-history-womens-bill

* "Equality Act, the Sweeping LGBTQ+ Rights Bill, Reintroduced in Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/equality-act-reintroduced

* "Anti-Trans Misinformation Spewed at Senate Hearing — But It Gets Countered:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/senate-judiciary-committee-trans-misinformation

* 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

* "Election workers are already being threatened. They're worried about 2024:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/20/1183289840/election-workers-are-already-being-threatened-theyre-worried-about-2024

* "Sarah McBride Is Out to Be the First Trans Member of Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sarah-

* Why isn't he running as a Republican? "Nepo Baby RFK Jr. Hates Vaccines, Poppers, and the Kennedy Legacy:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/rfk-jr-hates-vaccines-kennedy-legacy

* "‘Horrifying’ Republican 2024 race could be catastrophic for young LGBTQ+ Americans, activists say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/republican-presidential-election-race-anti-trans-rhetoric-hate/

* "Chris Christie Opposes Restrictions on Care for Trans Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/chris-christie-gender-affirming-care

* "Pence calls for 2024 GOP candidates to back a 15-week federal abortion ban:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/pence-calls-for-2024-gop-candidates-to-back-a-15-week-federal-abortion-ban

* "Ron DeSantis Tweets Lie About L.A. Dodgers Pride Night, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/los-angeles-dodgers-desantis

* The Republican War on the 14th Amendment continues. "DeSantis says he would seek to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants :" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/desantis-seek-end-birthright-citizenship-children-undocumented-immigrants/story?id=100377864

* "17,000 Australians Sign Petition to Prevent Donald Trump Jr. From Visiting:" https://advocatechannel.com/australia-petition-donald-trump-jr

* Republicans want you to know this diarrhea dribble of a man is the absolute best they have to offer in the year 2023. "Trump Receives ‘Man of the Decade’ Award at Republican Dinner:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-awarded-man-of-the-decade-at-republican-partys-lincoln-day-dinner

* "Trump’s “Final Battle” :" https://theintercept.com/2023/06/25/trump-communism-red-scare/

* "North Carolina Senate acts quickly to attempt to override 4 of Gov. Cooper's vetoes:" https://www.wunc.org/politics/2023-06-21/north-carolina-senate-attempt-override-gov-cooper-vetoes

* "New York Passes Bill to Shield Abortion Providers Sending Pills Into States With Bans:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/health/abortion-shield-law-new-york.html

* "My State Is Sliding Into Fascism. Here's How We're Stopping It:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/montana-sliding-into-fascism

* "New Jersey appoints ‘talented and inspirational’ trans cabinet official in historic first:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/new-jersey-trans-allison-myers-historic-first/

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* "Fake Trump Electors Strike Deal to Testify in DOJ’s Jan. 6 Probe: Report:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jack-smith-trump-fake-electors-immunity-testimony-1234777165/

* "Judge Cannon Will Control Trump's Prosecution:"

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* "Listen: Audio of Trump discussing classified documents published by CNN:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/listen-audio-of-trump-discussing-classified-documents-published-by-cnn-185190981958

* "Let's talk about the Trump recording....:"

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* "'This is some really powerful evidence': McQuade assesses the Trump Bedminster tape:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-this-is-some-really-powerful-evidence-mcquade-assesses-the-trump-bedminster-tape-185202245888

* "Five or six Secret Service agents have testified before Jan. 6 grand jury, sources say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/secret-service-agents-jan-6-grand-jury-trump-rcna91182

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* "The Woman Who Bought a Mountain for God:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/christian-movement-new-apostolic-reformation-politics-trump/674320/

* "Kansas Man Arrested for Threatening to Shoot Up, Bomb Nashville Pride:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nashville-pride-threatened-kansas-man

* "Neo-Nazi Arrested for Firebombing LGBTQ-Friendly Donut Shop:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/donut-shop-neo-nazi-firebombing

* "Anderson Lee Aldrich pleads guilty to 53 charges for Club Q shooting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/26/club-q-colorado-springs-anderson-lee-aldrich-pleads-guilty/

* "For many migrants being bused from New York City to other towns, hostility awaits:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/18/1181933592/for-many-migrants-being-bused-from-new-york-city-to-other-towns-hostility-awaits

* "Judge denies stay of trial for ex-police officer in motorist Patrick Lyoya’s killing:" https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2023/04/judge-denies-stay-of-trial-for-ex-police-officer-in-motorist-patrick-lyoyas-killing.html?outputType=amp

* "What Reparations Actually Bought:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/japanese-american-wwii-internment-reparations-redress-movement/674349/

* "Fort Polk is now Fort Johnson after US Army moves to honor World War I hero :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/13/politics/fort-polk-johnson-renamed-us-army/index.html

* "The Military Ignores Its History With Drag and Queer Vets:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/military-ignores-history-with-drag-and-queer-vets

* "Florida Transgender Veteran Kicked Out of VA Medical Center Bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-veteran-transgender-bathroom

* Moms for Liberty aren't even pretending not to be a Neo-NAZI group anymore. "Moms for Liberty Defends Hitler Quote in Newsletter Before Removing It:" https://www.advocate.com/news/moms-for-liberty-hitler-quote

* "School protesters clash with police in ugly row over LGBTQ+ teaching during Pride Month:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/glendale-school-california-protests-lgbtq-pride-month/

* "Authors of gay penguin book banned in Florida school sue over Don’t Say Gay law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/and-tango-makes-three-authors-sue-florida-book-ban/

* "Children’s author defends teacher set to be fired for reading inclusive book to class:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/26/scott-stuart-my-shadow-is-purple-teacher-georgia/

* "How torture, deception and inaction underpin UAE's thriving sex trafficking industry:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/uae-trafficking-sex/

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Conor McGregor Accused of Sexual Assault (Again):" https://www.advocate.com/crime/conor-mcgregor

* "Menstrual Health Education Taught For the First Time in U.S.:" https://advocatechannel.com/menstrual-health-education-washington-dc

* "Pose star Dominique Jackson opens up about sex work journey: ‘For years I struggled with my past’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/pose-dominique-jackson-the-stroll-sex-work-past/

* What would Jesus do? Be a grown man brutally harassing a nine year old for not meeting is stereotyped gender expectations. "Child, nine, says she was ‘crying and hurt’ after vile transphobic school sports day abuse:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/16/cisgender-girl-transphobic-sports-day/




* "One year without Roe: Data shows how abortion access has changed in America:" https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/dobbs-abortion-access-data-roe-v-wade-overturned-rcna88947

* "One Year After Dobbs: Keeping Up the Fight for Bodily Autonomy:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/dobbs-abortion-lgbtq-roe-wade

* "Taking Away Our Civil Rights Must Not Become the New Normal After Dobbs:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/abortion-rights-fight-back

* "Trans-led group helps people get safe abortions one year on from Roe v Wade ruling:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/roe-v-wade-supreme-court-year-trans-non-binary-abortion-bans/

* "What’s an Ex–Abortion Doctor in Alabama to Do? Fight for better pregnancies and births for those who have no choice.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/alabama-abortion-dr-yashica-robinson-roe-v-wade-dobbs-anniversary.html

* "After Roe v. Wade fell, this father-daughter duo left Texas to go on providing abortions:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-abortion-family/




* "Trans people are loved: Allies urged to take a stand in powerful new campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/21/trans-people-are-loved-campaign-uk-pride/

* "Oslo Pride targeted with threats following 2022 shooting which killed two people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/oslo-pride-police-warning-terror-threats/

* "Lesbian Mothers Targeted by Prosecutor Going After Children's Birth Certificates:" https://www.advocate.com/law/lesbian-mothers-italy-birth-certificates

* "Chinese diplomat claims trans people are a ‘deformity’ in abhorrent tweet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/17/china-xue-jian-japan-trans-deformity/

* "Trans woman pushed to the brink in Russia amid fresh Putin crackdown: ‘I’m scared s**tless’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/21/russia-trans-healthcare-ban-2/

* "More than 60 people detained at Istanbul Pride as thousands defy ban to march:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/25/istanbul-pride-turkey-arrests/

* "More than half the population of India supports same-sex marriage – where it is still illegal:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/20/india-same-sex-marriage-support-lgbtq/

* "LGBTQ+ Victories Did Happen in 2023:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-victories-did-happen-in-2023

* "Estonia Legalizes Marriage Equality:" https://www.advocate.com/world/estonia-marriage-equality

* "'More to Pride than celebration': Hamilton LGBTQ community calls for greater support:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/lgbt-pride-month-celebration-against-hatred-1.6866839?cmp=rss

* "Celebration and protest erupts during Canada’s largest Pride parade in Toronto:" https://globalnews.ca/news/9792508/toronto-pride-parade-2023/

* "MP injured at trans protest says he’ll ‘take a punch for queer and trans youth any day’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/13/joel-harden-canada-ottawa-trans-protest/

* "Olivia Blake MP: LGBTQ+ refugees suffer most in detention – it’s time to end this cruel practice:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/lgbtq-refugee-week-pride-month-immigration-detention/

* "UK government expected to enforce cruel ban on trans kids in school sports, reports claim:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/rishi-sunak-trans-schools-guidance-sports-parents/

* "Police apologise for three-year wait to deal with violent homophobic threats to gay man:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/21/dyfed-powys-police-homophobia-apology/

* "LGBTQ+ activist left bloodied after ‘punch from Met officer’ at anti-drag protest :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/met-police-honor-oak-turning-point-uk/

* "‘None of our pupils identify as a cat’: School shuts down widely-shared claims from right-wing press:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/23/pupil-identifies-as-cat-claims-denied/

* "Homophobic vandals invited to Gloucestershire Pride to ‘educate’ themselves after spate of attacks:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/homophobic-vandals-gloucestershire-pride-education/

* "Wickes faces boycott after boss says transphobes aren’t welcome in stores:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/17/wickes-fraser-longden-boycott/

* "Care homes host heartwarming Silver Pride events for LGBTQ+ elders: ‘I can finally be myself’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/silver-pride-care-homes-uk/

* "Federal judge turns Ron DeSantis’ own law against him to block Florida drag ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/florida-drag-ban-injunction-ron-desantis/

* "Walgreens refuses to give trans man his hormone prescription due to ‘religious beliefs’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/23/walgreens-trans-hormone-prescription/

I believe people should not sign up to do a job and then refuse to do it.

However, supreme court is consistently siding with Christians refusing services to Queer people. They literally just decided that the law against discrimination is trumped by the right to discriminate in the 303 Creative case.

I have a nasty suspicion that they will agree health care providers are allowed to let us die if they discriminator is Christian. After all, they are happy to let people who are pregnant bleed to death in front of hospitals or die of sepsis according to the Dobbs Decision.

I’d love to be wrong, I really would, but I don’t think we should bet our lives on SCOTUS deciding that Christian Pharmacists and doctors and EMT’s aren’t allowed to deny us care and make us die for their religion. After all they have decided pregnant people regardless of faith or lake their of should be forced by the state to die for it.

* "Fox News Accused of Altering AP & Reuters Stories to Incite Anti-Trans Rage:" https://www.advocate.com/media/fox-news-ap-reuters

* "These military sisters used to be brothers: 'Our situation is so unique':" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/military-sisters-used-brothers-situation-221757047.html

* "‘We are everywhere’: How rural queer communities connect through storytelling:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/country-queer-oral-history-connects-a-community-across-rural-america

* "How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-protects-itself-from-blood-borne-threats-20230620

* From earlier reporting I strongly suspected this was the case. "Australia's 'worst female serial killer' freed after her children's deadly gene mutations come to light:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/australias-worst-female-serial-killer-153528557.html

* "Voluntary Recall of Specific Frozen Fruit Products Due to Possible Contamination by Listeria monocytogenes:" https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/voluntary-recall-specific-frozen-fruit-products-due-possible-contamination-listeria-monocytogenes




* Looks like mass murder to me."‘If they had left us be, we wouldn’t have drowned:’ CNN investigation raises questions about Greek coast guard’s account of shipwreck tragedy:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/23/europe/greece-migrant-boat-disaster-investigation-intl-cmd/index.html

* "More Than 30 Feared Dead as Boat Bound for Spain's Canary Islands Sinks:" https://www.voanews.com/a/more-than-30-feared-dead-as-boat-bound-for-spain-s-canary-islands-sinks-/7147772.html

* "Four boats with over 300 migrants rescued in Spain's Canary Islands:" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/06/22/four-boats-with-over-300-migrants-rescued-in-spain-s-canary-islands_6035448_4.html




* "Turbulence on flights is getting worse because of climate change:" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2377658-turbulence-on-flights-is-getting-worse-because-of-climate-change/

* "How South Korea Puts Its Food Scraps to Good Use:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/world/asia/south-korea-food-waste.html

* "How ‘Daylighting’ Buried Waterways Is Revitalizing Cities Across America:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-daylighting-buried-waterways-is-revitalizing-cities-across-america-180981793/

* "NYC Sets Fines for Extra Forks, Ketchup and Soy Sauce Packets in Takeout Orders:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-20/nyc-sets-fines-for-extra-forks-ketchup-and-soy-sauce-packets-in-takeout-orders

* "If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later?:" https://theconversation.com/if-humans-went-extinct-what-would-the-earth-look-like-one-year-later-199737

* "r/Blind's Meetings with Reddit and the Current Situation Regarding Accessibility and API Changes:" https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14ds81l/rblinds_meetings_with_reddit_and_the_current/

* "Twitter accused of failing to pay millions in employee bonuses after Musk takeover:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/tech/twitter-bonus-lawsuit/index.html

* "Elon Musk’s ‘cowardly’ cisgender Twitter ban slammed by researcher who coined the term:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/elon-musk-cisgender-twitter-creator-response/

* "17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

* "Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke. Outspoken critic delivers sobriety check on EV maker’s Full Self-Driving mode:" https://spectrum.ieee.org/tesla-full-self-driving-critic

* "Trapped Under Trucks:" https://www.propublica.org/article/underride-crashes-nhtsa-dot-iihs-safety-cars-trucks

* "Humans traveled less during COVID restrictions. Animals traveled more:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1181043524/humans-traveled-less-during-covid-restrictions-animals-traveled-more

* "Nearly half of US honeybee colonies died last year. Struggling beekeepers stabilize population:" https://apnews.com/article/honeybees-pollinator-extinct-disease-death-climate-change-f60297706e19c7346ff1881587b5aced

* "Bees Get All the Love. Won’t Someone Think of the Moths?:" https://www.wired.com/story/bees-get-all-the-love-wont-someone-think-of-the-moths/

* "Poland investigating bird flu outbreak among cats:" https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/06/poland-investigating-bird-flu-outbreak-among-cats/

* "150 years of Masc Women causing a Moral Panic:"

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* "Florida’s first war on woke:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-2-floridas-first-war-woke-rcna89983

* "3 Black and Queer Trailblazers You Might Not Have Heard of:" https://advocatechannel.com/black-queer-trailblazers

* "50 Year Ago, the Fire at the Up Stairs Lounge Gay Bar in New Orleans Killed 32:" https://www.advocate.com/history/upstairs-lounge-fire-50-years

* "How the decriminalisation of homosexuality set Ireland on a rapid, awe-inspiring path to modernisation:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/25/ireland-lgbtq-rights-homosexuality-decriminalisation/

* "Senator David Norris: The man who overturned Ireland’s homosexuality ban, 30 years on:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/david-norris-decriminalisation-homosexuality-anniversary/

* "Equality Day: Why Is June 26 So Momentous for LGBTQ+ Rights?:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/june-26-equality-day-lgbtq

* Glenda Jackson meant a lot to me both for her acting and her politics. She will be so missed. "Glenda Jackson, Revered Actress, Politician, and LGBTQ+ Ally, Dead at 87:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/glenda-jackson-lgbtq-ally

* "Photos: Juneteenth celebrations across the US:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/photos-juneteenth-celebrations-across-us/

* On Biblical Translation around Eve: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VIXKQb1E22s

* "True Facts: The Curious Adaptations of Sharks:"

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* "The Matrix films are about Neo’s trans journey into becoming Trinity, author argues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/the-matrix-trans/

* Meds Update: My notorious super sensitivity to drugs is possibly working in my favour for once. After the first two nights I was able to adjust to the bits of side effects. It very much is working. sub-clinical my ambiguous ass. I notice it's kicked in because it peels out about a third of the pain. I get about eight ours of prime relief and about four hours of lesser coverage. I am considering letting them scale up with the second pill to cover sleep. I'm worried about side effects scaling up too to something I can't handle still, but we'll see when we get there.

* The car is a good news/bad news situation. I was legitimately scared it was going to be the transmission this time, which is a death sentence for the car. I am disabled. I need this car for transport. There is no chance of me saving up the kind of money I'd need for a new used car.

It was not the transmission. It was, get this, the speed sensor. Which needed replacing. I have no idea why the speed sensor going wonky was messing the gear lights. Let us hope that's not a separate problem. In any case, the parts and labor was $250. They know me and the guy running it is a sweetheart, so they let me down pay what I had which was the fifty dollars I'd intended for gas and a birthday present for my sister. all I have left in my account is just enough to cover car insurance auto withdraw. I can't touch it or I get cascading overdraft fees so that's right out. This leaves two hundred I still will need to pay them.

I know, it's asking a lot. This is four total car repairs between me and squirrel in three months and y'all bought me a replacement stove last summer when mine went kaput, but here we are again.:

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* "Pride in Makeup: Unleashing Your Artistic Expression:" https://www.out.com/gay-lifestyle/pride-in-makeup-unleashing-your-artistic-expression

* Listen to the end. It's worth it: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/721054948286169088?source=share

* "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn:" http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/steve-irwin-and-the-unicorn/

* "Midnight Pals: Raw Deal:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/721135161945751552/midnight-pals-raw-deal?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.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* 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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* "Gay Ex-Adult Film Star Antonio Moreno Elected Mayor of Small Town :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/antonio-moreno-mayor-elect

* "Russian opposition leader Navalny urges anti-Kremlin campaign as his new trial begins:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-navalny-trial-c1c5cb7936e2c4eebcb76c1289aadfd6

* "Russia bars media from new "extremism" case against Navalny:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-navalny-court-face-extremism-charges-2023-06-19/

* "A failed plot to assassinate a C.I.A. spy in 2020 in part led to expulsions of the agency’s chief in Moscow and his Russian counterpart in Washington.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/us/politics/russia-spy-assassination.html

* "Book shows Putin broke unwritten rule with plot to kill defector on U.S. soil:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/book-shows-putin-broke-unwritten-rule-with-plot-to-kill-defector-on-u-s-soil-nyt-183393349660




* "Russian mercenary boss accuses top brass of Ukraine battlefield cover-up:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-mercenary-boss-accuses-top-brass-ukraine-battlefield-cover-up-2023-06-22/

* Let's hope the people of the Crimea aren't left behind at the end of this. "Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to mainland in blow to Russian supply route:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-hits-bridge-linking-crimea-mainland-blow-russian-supply-route-2023-06-22/

* "Russia steps up aerial strikes on Ukraine, killing at least 6 amid Kyiv counteroffensive:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-odesa-f31bf4e312800e08803cc0190e28823a




* "Biden Rolls Out New LGBTQ+ Resources on Day of Historic White House Pride Celebration:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/biden-historic-pride-month-celebration

* "Biden Blasts ‘Prejudiced’ Lawmakers for Targeting LGBTQ+ Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/joe-biden-gop-lawmakers-prejudiced

* "White House Pride Flag Display Enrages Right-Wingers:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/gop-pride-flag-violation

* "Fox News Says White House Flew ‘Pedophile,’ ‘Groomer’ Pride Flag:" https://www.advocate.com/media/outrageous-fox-news-pedophile-pride

* "Kamala Harris: Our One-on-One With the Vice President:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/exclusive-vice-president-kamala-harris

* "Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court :" https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court

* "Alito didn’t recuse himself from case involving billionaire fishing friend:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/propublica-alito-didn-t-recuse-himself-from-case-involving-billionaire-fishing-friend-183940165990

* "As Texas swelters, local rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will soon be nullified:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers/

* "If Writers Lose the Standoff With Studios, It Hurts All Filmmakers:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/film-editor-view-writers-strike-1235511140/

* "VOCATIONAL AWE AND LIBRARIANSHIP: THE LIES WE TELL OURSELVES:" https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/

* "House GOP vows to continue Biden probes despite Hunter’s ‘sweetheart’ deal :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/20/house-republicans-hunter-biden-00102666

5 years of intensive partizan investigation and all they found were two minor tax misdemeanors that he already paid back, a fraction of what Roger stone owes and refuses to pay, and an addict in possession of a gun charge that they usually only pursue when there is other more serious crime involvement, that they are very likely only pursuing because he's the relative of a public figure.

Republicans are lying that this is a sweet heart deal. It's slightly more harsh than the average citizen. Meanwhile they are lying that Drumpf is somehow being persecuted unfairly for being investigated for a bunch of geometrically worse crimes related to various attempts to overthrow the US government where he either was caught on tape of publicly admitted them or where there is a mountain of evidence and where he doesn't get hand cuffed or mug shots or have to spend time in jail pending arraignment, and where the FBI and DOJ foot dragged and refused to even consider investigating for over a year, because those institutions don't believe that there should be equal treatment under the law for Drumpf. The Republicans agree with him that he should be allowed to shoot people in broad daylight with no consequences so even the most deferential treatment and mild consequences are unfair.

Yes, Hunter Biden made some bad decisions, mostly around his addiction, but this is penny ante stuff. He didn't kill anybody, or take bribes while in public office, or steal classified documents to compromise national security, or repeatedly try to overthrow the government. The disparity in the way Drumf is being treated vs any normal person doing similar things is massive, but Republicans are pretending that the scandal is that Hunter Biden is only getting slightly harsher than average treatment for the minor stuff he did and not being changed with the imaginary crimes they want him to have committed, and not Drumpf getting all these extra privileges.

* "‘Sheer sadism’: Hayes on the right’s fixation with Hunter Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-sheer-sadism-hayes-on-the-right-s-fixation-with-hunter-biden-183607877536

* "House GOP ponders action against DOJ in defense of Trump :" https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4054435-house-gop-doj-defense-trump/

* "Adam Schiff Gets John Durham to Admit Russia Helped Trump:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-schiff-gets-john-durham-to-admit-russia-helped-trump

* "Rep. Ted Lieu pulls no punches during Durham report committee hearing:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/21/2176745/-Rep-Ted-Lieu-pulls-no-punches-during-Durham-report-committee-hearing

* "Lieu blasts ‘dumb’ Durham hearing: Republicans focused on ‘stupid stuff’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lieu-blasts-dumb-durham-hearing-republicans-focused-on-stupid-stuff-183949381728

* "Democrats Push for Mental Health Support for LGBTQ+ Youth in Republican-Led House:" https://www.advocate.com/lgbt-youth/lgbtq-youth-mental-health-bill

* "Republican Dan Crenshaw Says Gender-Affirming Care Ban Is ‘The Hill We Will Die On’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/dan-crenshaw-gender-affirming-care

* 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

* "'Stay Woke Florida!' tour begins 15-city 2024 voter outreach effort:" https://www.wptv.com/news/political/stay-woke-florida-tour-begins-15-city-2024-voter-outreach-effort

* "No Labels Is Helping a Firm that Raises Money for Right-Wing Extremists:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/no-labels-is-helping-a-firm-that-raises-money-for-right-wing-extremists-anedot/

* "Poppers Cause AIDS, the Environment Makes Boys Trans Says Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-poppers

Remember how that Poppers caused AIDS not HIV rumor killed so many people in the '80's? RFK Jr. is pushing it as part of his Anti-Vax presidential campaign. I thought that died when Protease inhibitors came in! RFK Jr.: The Worst Kennedy.

He peddles that anti-Autistic people ableist bullshit. He tried to get as many people killed during the worst of COVID as possible. He's now trying to get Dr. Hotez killed by anti-vax terrorists as part of his presidential campaign.

Now with bonus transmisogyny and toxic masculinity.

* "RFK Jr's campaign of conspiracies: 'The leader of everybody’s brain worms':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rfk-jr-s-campaign-of-conspiracies-the-leader-of-everybody-s-brain-worms-183615557966

* "11 Republican Presidential Hopefuls and Their Awful Anti-LGBTQ+ Records :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2024-presidential-candidates-gop-lgbtq

* "Donald Trump Gives the Game Away on Conservatives' Transgender Panic:" https://advocatechannel.com/donald-trump-transgender-schools

* "GOP presidential candidates use trans bodies as political stepping stones:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/gop-presidential-candidates-use-trans-bodies-as-political-stepping-stones/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

* "Why aren’t LGBTQ people safe right now? Because Republicans want votes.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-2023-pride-backlash-polls-bud-light-rcna89564

* "'New level of hypocrisy': Why the GOP is wooing Muslims after decades of hate:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-new-level-of-hypocrisy-why-the-gop-is-wooing-muslims-after-decades-of-hate-183374405573

* "Miami GOP Mayor Francis Suarez jumps into presidential race:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/14/francis-suarez-president-mayor-miami-00102030

* "What a trio! The Florida men — Trump, DeSantis, Suarez — are a hoot to watch:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article276552331.html

* "Will Hurd, a moderate Texas Republican and Trump critic, announces run for president:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/22/will-hurd-presidential-campaign-2024/

* "Former Rep. Will Hurd jumps into 2024 race as Republican field grows:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/former-rep-will-hurd-jumps-into-2024-race-as-republican-field-grows-184204869811

* "DeSantis fixation on 'the woke' has a poor track record as a political strategy in Florida:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/desantis-fixation-on-the-woke-has-a-poor-track-record-as-a-political-strategy-in-florida-183396421714

* As if we needed more proof Ron DeSantis is terrible at even the most basic parts of his job. "Pete Buttigieg Can’t Reach Ron DeSantis to Talk Florida Transportation Projects:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-ron-desantis-calls

* "Tallahassee Mayor Nixes LGBTQ+ Advisory Council Meeting During Pride Month:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-tallahassee-lgbtq-advisory-council

* "How the Stain of Prop. 8 May Be Removed From California:" https://www.advocate.com/law/evan-low-scott-wiener-marriage

* "Trans Judge Appointed in New York, Makes History:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/transgender-man-new-york-judge

* "Rep. Judy Chu: I am a target of the right’s new McCarthyism:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rep-judy-chu-target-rights-new-mccarthyism-rcna73477

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene Revives Anti-Trans Bathroom Predator Myth:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/marjorie-taylor-greene-anti-trans

* "California Investigates School District After Board Members Call Harvey Milk a 'Pedophile':" https://www.advocate.com/news/harvey-milk-school-district-pedophile

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* This is from early May. I can't remember if I posted it then, but I think it's a good reminder due to developments in Michigan and Nevada. "Judge: Wisconsin fake electors complaint must be reheard:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-fake-electors-2020-trump-lawsuit-fb9cf9a5cdf109798fafc83cbaf1c72a

* "What ever happened to the federal investigation of Trump's fake elector scheme?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/what-ever-happened-to-the-federal-investigation-of-trump-s-fake-elector-scheme-183395397606

* "Eastman plan to keep Trump in power faces a reckoning, as authorities seek his disbarment :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/20/eastman-disbarment-trial-trump-election-plan-00102784

* "Trump’s promise of payback for prosecution follows years of attacking democratic traditions:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-retribution-indictment-documents-biden-american-democracy-5a8ec37b359fee85d0f0956139d79f51

* "The Next Big Lie:" https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-next-big-lie

* "U.S. judge sets Aug. 14 trial date for Trump in Florida documents case:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-sets-aug-14-trial-date-trump-florida-documents-case-2023-06-20/

* "Barr Says Documents Case Against Trump Is ‘Entirely of His Own Making’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/us/politics/barr-trump-documents-russia.html

* "Donald Trump's Legal Troubles Continue to Pile Up:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/donald-trump-s-legal-troubles-continue-to-pile-up-183135301973

* "Trump Indictment Raises Questions Over Possible Damage to National Security:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/trump-indictment-raises-questions-over-possible-damage-to-national-security-183135301994

* "Trump is not the first president special counsel Jack Smith has prosecuted:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-is-not-the-first-president-special-counsel-jack-smith-has-prosecuted-184200773818

* "FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/

* "DOJ resisted investigating Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 for over a year:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wapo-doj-resisted-investigating-trump-s-actions-on-jan-6-for-over-a-year-183369797838

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* "‘Bob’s Burgers’ Actor Jay Johnston Charged in January 6 Riot:" https://advocatechannel.com/bobs-burgers-jay-johnston-charged-january-6-riot

* "Is America Already in a Civil War?:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-far-right-brad-onishi-america-civil-war-interview-1234772017/

* "MAGA pastor: Christians need people who are ‘willing to strap bombs to their chest’ like the Muslims:" https://deadstate.org/maga-pastor-christians-need-people-who-are-willing-to-strap-bombs-to-their-chest-like-the-muslims/

* "Donald Trump and the party of political violence:" https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4049597-donald-trump-and-the-party-of-political-violence/

* "Unmasking Moms for Liberty:" https://www.mediamatters.org/critical-race-theory/unmasking-moms-liberty

* "Suspect arrested after FBI uncovers alleged mass shooting plot:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-arrested-after-fbi-uncovers-alleged-mass-shooting/story?id=100155442

* They want to murder him for the crime of saving lives. He's such a good, compassionate, and empathetic man and I am furious that Anti-vaxxer shit RFK Jr. is waging a vendetta against him for calling him on his deadly and ableist bullshit to his face. "Vaccine expert Dr. Peter Hotez harassed outside Houston home after weekend of online attacks:" https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/coronavirus/2023/06/19/454720/peter-hotez-harassed-houston-house-joe-rogan-rfk-attacks/

* "Florida says it’s responsible for transporting migrants to Sacramento:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-06/florida-migrants-sacramento

* "Migrants share their experience, say they were deceived when they were flown to Sacramento:" https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-migrants-florida-california-texas/44228637

* "Newsom calls DeSantis ‘small, pathetic man,’ implies kidnapping charges over migrant stunt:" https://www.kron4.com/news/newsom-calls-desantis-small-pathetic-man-implies-kidnapping-charges-over-migrant-stunt/

* CW: Lynching. "Was Rasheem Carter Lynched?:"

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* Kentucky Police side with a dangerous member of a terrorist organization because they don't believe Queer People are human enough to defend. "KKK Members in Kentucky Pull Gun on LGBTQ+ Activists — Police Let Them Off:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kkk-kentucky-lgbtq-gun-threat

* "Neo-Nazis Protest Outside Disney World With Swastikas & DeSantis Signs:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-desantis-nazi-disney-swastikas

* "Military Chief Defends Cancellation of Drag Show at Nevada Military Base:" https://www.advocate.com/news/drag-show-military-chief-cancellation

* "NH officials say they're looking into neo-Nazi incident outside drag story hour in Concord:" https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2023-06-19/nsc131-neo-nazi-teatotaller-drag-story-hour-concord

* "How the conservative Christian right is hijacking homeschooling:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/schools-are-under-attack-america-s-religious-right-n1295340

* "Most Americans OK Discussing Gender and Sexuality in Schools: Survey:" https://www.advocate.com/news/schools-gender-sexuality-okay

* "College Board says it won’t alter AP courses to comply with Florida’s laws:" https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4051993-college-board-says-it-wont-alter-ap-courses-to-comply-with-floridas-laws/

* "Ron DeSantis Objects to AP Course's LGBTQ Content, College Board Defends It:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-ap-college-board

* "Don’t Let Extremists Deny LGBTQ+ Students an Education:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/point-foundation-valencia-education

* "Florida School District Offers Refunds, Erasure of Yearbook's LGBTQ+ Content:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-lgbtq-yearbook-refund-censorship

* In a disaster, look for helpers. "High school English teacher makes a stand over book bans, erasure of LGBTQ+ students :" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/06/18/high-school-english-teacher-makes-a-stand-over-book-bans-erasure-of-lgbtq-students/

* "L.A. School Board President Gives a Lesson on LGBTQ+ Inclusion:" https://www.advocate.com/news/school-lgbtq-inclusion-la-board

* "Missouri's Largest Library System Boots Pride Displays in Kids, Teen Areas:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/missouri-library-bans-pride-displays

* "How Do You Fight Book Bans? GLAAD and EveryLibrary Offer a Guide:" https://www.advocate.com/books/book-bans-guide-glaad-everylibrary

* "Despite Book Bans, LGBTQ+ Fiction Sales Soar:" https://www.advocate.com/books/lgbtq-books-record

* "Queer Representation in Children's Books Is More Important Than Ever, Says Author Seamus Kirst:" https://advocatechannel.com/queer-children-books-seamus-kirst

* "'Maus' Author Art Spiegelman Deeply Concerned About 'Authoritarian' Book Bans:" https://advocatechannel.com/art-spiegelman-maus-authoritarian-book-bans

* "With 'The Little Mermaid,' young Black kids are more interested in the water than ever. What to know about swimming racial disparities.:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/the-little-mermaid-young-black-kids-swimming-racial-disparities-213941973.html

* CW: Human Trafficking "Romanian prosecutors change human trafficking charge against Andrew Tate:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/romanian-prosecutors-change-human-trafficking-charge-against-andrew-tate-2023-06-13/

* CW: Child Sexual Abuse. "Archdiocese provides District Attorney Jason Williams voluminous file on disgraced priest:" https://www.nola.com/news/courts/archdiocese-provides-jason-williams-file-on-disgraced-priest/article_9f0308da-0bc5-11ee-9e46-cf8ef429070a.html

* Bet his mama's proud of him. What would Jesus do? Harass and terrify a nine year old out of cruelty for fun, apparently. "Man Harasses 9-Year-Old at Field Day Event, Falsely Insists She’s Transgender:" https://www.advocate.com/news/canadian-field-day-transgender-girl

* "TikTok Star Barrett Pall Shares How Misogyny Hurts Men, Too:" https://advocatechannel.com/barrett-pall-tiktok-misogyny-hurts-men-too

* "Southern Baptists reject Rick Warren’s appeal to reinstate Saddleback:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/06/14/southern-baptists-rick-warren-vote/

* "Playing With Yourself Has Been Perfected Over Millions of Years:" https://www.advocate.com/news/masturbation-evolution-primates

* "Documents show how conservative doctors influenced abortion, trans rights:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/06/15/abortion-transgender-christian-doctors/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjMxNjY3NzkiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjg2ODAxNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjg4MDk3NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2ODY4MDE2MDAsImp0aSI6IjgzMWE2MmY0LTM4ZDEtNGY5NS1hYTcyLTM2ODRiMDk1MWYzOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvMjAyMy8wNi8xNS9hYm9ydGlvbi10cmFuc2dlbmRlci1jaHJpc3RpYW4tZG9jdG9ycy8ifQ.Z9BU0-uG1kom8puxLC9eIUHPUoxxNtpmqRTFcH9sBL8







* "Support for Same-Sex Relationships Plummets as Less Find Them "Morally Acceptable":" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-relationships-decrease-gallup

* "Without Self-Respect, There Is No Pride:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/without-self-respect-there-is-no-pride

* "Immediate access to gender-affirming hormone therapy eases distress, depression, suicidal thoughts for transgender adults, research finds:" https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/immediate-access-gender-affirming-hormone-130021402.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJ3DZb5dKhaU7JElIJ2zvo9piTp-qTv-k2BfF8SzC8VmSU6lC_jX829G_jM_rzgfxWgxIkv_XV7m9t_EpH4AoR06MsWbsW0zRZQmoLa_Y5njvgiLspkR0Ef-rFfx3__HxpLwexVQeyK_NfkhDub-p8zDWynfrTjLrWWfKf7QykTe

* "A Message to White Gays:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/message-to-white-gays

* "Queer Athletes on Competing in Countries with Anti-LGBTQ Laws:"

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* "31 Places Where Showing LGBTQ+ Pride Is Illegal :" https://www.advocate.com/world/where-is-it-illegal-to-be-gay-31

* "Qatar targeting LGBTQ+ people with ‘full blown force’ six months after World Cup, activist says:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/qatar-lgbq-world-cup/

* "Being LGBTQ+ in Malaysia: ‘You don’t know who to turn to’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/18/malaysia-lgbtq-persecution-non-binary-musician-moreofthem/

* "Baltic Pride knife assault victim recalls ‘pain and confusion’ of homophobic attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/baltic-pride-knife-attack-patrick-tianen/

* "Queensland passes new law allowing trans people to self-ID on birth certificates:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/15/queensland-birth-certificates-trans-self-id/

* "Man Who Murdered Gay American Scott Johnson in 1988 Is Sentenced Again:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/scott-johnson-murderer-sentenced-again

* "Right-wing troll charged with harassment of LGBTQ+ activist for posting selfie with dying dad:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/bubba-pollock-end-of-life-care-dad-ontario/

* "Growing up as a queer, masc woman in a small town wasn’t plain sailing – but it wasn’t all bad:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/18/queer-masc-lesbian/

* "LGBTQ+ refugees don’t feel safe in the UK: ‘Everything’s attacking us, we’re demonised’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/teslim-joel-refugee-week-nigeria-sierra-leone/

* "Gay Afghan who fled Taliban couldn’t claim LGBTQ+ asylum in UK, John Nicolson MP writes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/21/john-nicolson-mp-gay-afghan-asylum/

* "Tory government and US conspiracy theories to blame for anti-drag attacks in UK, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/anti-drag-us-uk-conspiracy-theory-research/

* "Activists blast Tory conversion therapy consent loophole: ‘This will cost many lives’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/21/conversion-therapy-rishi-sunak-boris-johnson-consent-loophole/

* "Electric Shock Treatment, Overt Homophobia in U.K. Armed Forces:" https://www.advocate.com/news/armed-forces-uk-homophobia-report

* "Royal College of Nursing members demand resources to better support LGBTQ+ hate crime victims:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/18/royal-college-of-nursing-hate-crime-lgbtq/

* "Rishi Sunak urged to drop ‘harmful’ trans schools guidance dubbed ‘new Section 28’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/rishi-sunak-trans-schools-guidance/

* "Rishi Sunak’s ‘disgusting’ anti-trans jokes condemned by MPs and LGBTQ+ charities:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/rishi-sunak-leaked-video-trans-reaction/

* "LGBTQ+ advocates shocked by Equality Act reforms debate: ‘Distressing and infuriating’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/13/westminster-debate-equality-act-sex-trans/

* "Bristol Pride calls for allyship after billboard advert is set on fire in ‘cowardly’ hate crime:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/bristol-pride-billboard-attack/

* "Lesbian couple ‘heartbroken’ by homophobic doormat attack supported by kind neighbours:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/pride-doormat-attack-bristol-lesbian-couple/

* "‘Let women speak. No not like that’: TERFs pile on female Guardian writer for pro-trans article:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/terfs-guardian-trans-allyship/

* "‘Gender-critical’ activists attempted to protest a Primark in Lincoln. Two people showed up:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/lincoln-primark-lgbtq-protest/

* "Bolt apologises after taxi driver leaves queer man stranded with ‘no gay boy’ insult:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/bolt-taxi-service-homophobia-manchester/

* "The Insidious Violence of Civility Politics:"

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* "LGBTQ+ Americans: Let's Take Back Our Flag:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-americans-let-s-take-back-our-flag

* "SARS-CoV-2 airborne infection probability estimated by using indoor carbon dioxide:" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-023-27944-9




* "Four alarming charts that show just how extreme the climate is right now:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/17/world/four-climate-charts-extreme-weather-heat-oceans/index.html

* "Greece finds no more survivors of migrant boat disaster with hundreds missing:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/greece-finds-no-survivors-migrant-boat-disaster-hundreds-missing-rcna89440

* "New accounts clash with official version of migrant shipwreck disaster off Greece:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230619-new-accounts-clash-with-official-version-of-migrant-disaster-off-greece

* "Titanic-bound submersible suffered ‘catastrophic implosion.’ The US Navy detected an implosion Sunday and told rescuers, an official tells CNN:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/us/submersible-titanic-oceangate-search-thursday/index.html




* "Live camera shows I-95 collapse repairs underway in Philadelphia:" https://abc7ny.com/i-95-collapse-philadelphia-i95-interstate-highway-road/13386149/

* "The Hidden Chemicals Destroying American Farms:"

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* "GLAAD: Social media companies are enabling real world violence:" https://www.axios.com/2023/06/15/glaad-social-media-companies-hate-speech-lgbtq

* Steve Huffman is vowing to send Reddit into the toilet after Twitter, looks like. "Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock the platform :" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

* "Despite widespread protest, Reddit CEO says company is ‘not negotiating’ on 3rd-party app charges :" https://thehill.com/business/despite-widespread-protest-reddit-ceo-says-company-is-not-negotiating-on-changes-to-data-access/

* "Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen:" https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/16/23763538/reddit-blackout-api-protest-mod-replacement-threat

* "Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview:" https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview

* "Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media:" https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

* "Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/14/twitter-is-being-evicted-from-its-boulder-office-over-unpaid-rent/

* "Twitter is the worst major social media platform when it comes to LGBTQ+ safety, says GLAAD:" https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-technology/twitter-worst-among-major-social-media-platforms-when-it-comes-to-lgbtq-safety-glaad-says/

* "Musk Incites Anti-Vaccine Conspiracists By Mischaracterizing Peter Hotez:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2023/06/19/musk-incites-anti-vaccine-conspiracists-by-mischaracterizing-peter-hotez/?sh=505b10e3108f

* "Elon Musk has made some disturbing comments about Jews. Here’s a list:" https://forward.com/news/550035/elon-musk-disturbing-comments-jews/?amp=1

* "Elon Musk’s promise to treat ‘cis’ as a slur will provoke more extremism:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jk-rowling-elon-musk-cisgender-trans-slur-rcna90632

* I often feel like reality has sailed on past the Onion these days. "Mark Zuckerberg agrees to fight Elon Musk in cage match:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-fight/

* "Neanderthal adhesives were made through a complex synthesis process:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/neanderthals-seem-to-be-the-first-humans-to-make-synthetic-materials/

* "Send beer!’ Life on the Roman frontier revealed by soldiers’ private letters:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/vindolanda-roman-fort-england

* "The First Self-Proclaimed Drag Queen Was a Formerly Enslaved Man:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-first-self-proclaimed-drag-queen-was-a-formerly-enslaved-man-180982311/

* "The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912:" https://thefatovamingusfiles.wordpress.com/2023/06/16/the-bread-and-roses-strike-of-1912/

* "Jane Addams: Chicago's Haunted Sapphic Icon:"

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* "14 Inspiring Queer Protest Posters in Days of Rage from ONE Archives :" https://www.advocate.com/activism/14-inspiring-queer-protest-posters

* "The Importance of Juneteenth - the Newest Federal Holiday:" https://www.advocate.com/news/juneteenth-importance-federal-holiday

* "Treat Williams, LGBTQ+ Ally in Gay-Themed Films, Dead at 71:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/treat-williams-lgbtq-ally-dead

* "Pride’s Bookshelf: Unveiling The LGBTQ+ Memoirs You Must Own:" https://www.out.com/gay-lifestyle/prides-bookshelf-unveiling-the-lgbtq-memoirs-you-must-own

* "13 Vintage Photos of Los Angeles Pride from ONE Archives :" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/vintage-photos-los-angeles-pride

* "17 Photos of the Trans Experience by Mariette Pathy Allen :" https://www.advocate.com/art/mariette-pathy-allen-breaking-boundaries#rebelltitem18

* "10 Iconic Photos of LGBTQ+ History From Getty Images:" https://www.advocate.com/photography/10-photos-lgbtq-history

* My garden makes me happy, tiny as it is. I love the way it smells of basil and tomato leaves and rosemary and spearmint. I love the lushness of it compared to the sterile looking landscaping management insists on. It feels like the glorious chaos of nature fighting back every time seeds blow out of my container garden and sprout amongst the deliberately barren patches beyond my porch border. I love being surrounded by green and all those vegetable plant flowers.

This is already shaping up to be the best year ever for my tiny strawberry patch. I likely would have been the best year for asparagus, judging from the early growth, but the compost sprouted such an abundance of other things that I fear the asparagus hasn't a chance. Maybe next year. The day after New Millennial brought over the Pride Pinwheel they painted, my beloved carnations started blooming. Some of the early tomatoes are already growing on the bigger plants, which gives me hopes of this year being as good as last year for tomatoes.

* Tuesday, I met the new, alas temporary Doctor. Today's medical theme was arthritis. For those following along, but medical records are on the scale of the complete unabridged writings of Aquinas, as it's impossible for anyone to get a handle on them quickly, so we are doing a series of appointments each centered on a major theme to help get things on track.

I have warned her about the opiods and anti-psychotics both artificially inducing hallucinations and paranoia in people of my family and how it happened to me post surpery in percacet last year so she'll know if I get in a car accident and start hallucinating so they give me an anti-pscotic which together may induce psychotic break. Brains are fun.

I have a new replacement referral for the wheelchair/mobility assessment. It turns out there is now literally one allergy doctor with a tiny practice left in the whole city, which is why we are all so fucked. Peacehealth closed two other essential specialties in which they had a monopoly, fucking over all those patients too, the bastards. she's going to check our county and the county just south for me. It's worth blowing my medical transport credits on. They just way upped the limit anyway.

Medical science has moved forward a lot in the last 10-15 years. One of the early rheums said I likely had fibromyalgia, but it wasn't worth pursuing as medicare didn't believe in it and the treatment would be the same as my way easier to document arthritis and visible to the naked eye spinal damage.

So we are trying a new class of meds to see if I can tolerate them without my brain and/or body flipping out, as so often happens when one introduces new meds to it. I'm at a sub clinical dose to test tolerance, but I can feel the difference. I also feel a bit peculiar, though I'm adjusting.

Long time readers know the drill. I am weird, but if you spot anything obviously weird for me, way off my usual sort of postings, nonsense, irrationality, that sort of thing, give me a heads up that new meds may be driving me off the rails. Squirrel and my usual chat buddies know the drill and I'll let the millennials know what to watch for. Odds are it will be fine. I'm more likely to get stopped by physical side effects on this one, but it's always good to have more spotters.

* Wednesday, Squirrel lent us his cat for errands and then we hug out. We are still looking for a better sobriquet for New Millennial. Head Millennial will henceforth be called Goth Millennial.

So Goth Millennial and I are on the sofa and Techie Millennial and New Millennial are on the chairs. The Emperor was understandably excited. Many of his personal Millennials were here. (As of this week, New Millennial is in the Clowder according to the Emperor, so he climbed onto me to enjoy, being part of the group. Pictured here, Tavy, the Tiny Terror himself, in the crook of my arm alertly participating in the group discussion.

https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/720889365153349632/wednesday-squirrel-lent-us-his-cat-for-errands?source=share

* The elderly car goes into the shop Friday for the third time in threeish months. I've no idea how expensive it will be, but I've a nasty feeling it will be bad. I have blown all my money on catching up the bills I didn't pay in April for the previous repair. If you want to chip in: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Cat Rescue fund raiser. They made a lot of money with the event, and the games will be used in recurring fundraisers.

* TNG: The Spot Centric Episode: https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/720868927245336576?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Dracula Sovereign of the Damned:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/720324019247792128/midnight-pals-dracula-sovereign-of-the-damned?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: this is so stupid:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/720767546126712832/midnight-pals-this-is-so-stupid?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: New Friends:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/720492487495630848/midnight-pals-new-friends?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.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* 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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* "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/




* "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/




* "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/




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




* "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/




* "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/




* "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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* (I made a small start on the queer news, but it's tiny compared to the prepped link. Very little after that point went up. The backlog is daunting and this coming week turns out to also be a monster scheduling wise, plus the election coverage about to hit. We are in the midst of all hands on deck cleaning for an inspection, for example. See below.).

* "As unrest grips Iran’s schools, the government is going after children:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/01/iran-protests-children-hijab-amini/

* "Cleric killed in restive Iranian city, protests rage on:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-human-rights-lawyers-criticise-clerical-leaders-amid-unrest-2022-11-03/

* CW: Child Murder "Children among 10 feared dead in Iran crackdown, Amnesty says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/middleeast/iran-protest-crackdown-amnesty-international-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Iranians defy crackdown with fresh protests, as president dismisses US vow to ‘free Iran’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/06/iranians-defy-crackdown-with-fresh-protests-as-president-dismisses-us-vow-to-free-iran

* "US and Saudi Arabia concerned that Iran may be planning attack on energy infrastructure in Middle East:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/us-saudi-arabia-iran-energy-infrastructure-middle-east/index.html

* Well, fuck! "Israel election final results: Netanyahu, Jewish far right win power, fiasco for left:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2022-11-03/ty-article/israel-election-final-results-netanyahu-jewish-far-right-win-power-fiasco-for-left/00000184-3e80-daf1-abc4-7f9a53f40000

* Re: Netanyahu

I’ve stated some form of this over the years any number of times, but in the current climate, I should reiterate it.

My dislike of Netanyahu and his ultra-right positions is specific to Netanyahu because of his ultra-right positions, his corruption, his policies, etc.. His party and allies have policies I oppose, much in the way I oppose Trump and the Republicans, Rishi Sunak (and Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, and every Tory PM back to the much hated Thatcher which was about when I started following UK Politics in real time), Viktor Orbán, Jair Bolsanaro, and a host of other horrible extreme right wing politicians the world over to numerous to list.

This does not and should not be taken for anger at the Israeli left or Jewish people the world over who did not vote for a right wing party in the recent Israeli election. There is a reason my coverage of Israeli politics mostly originates from left leaning Israeli news sources like Haaretz.

There is far too much violent antisemitism in the world right now, far to many politicians of every stripe happy to stoke antisemitism for personal power, far too many antisemitic movements and the like. In my country one of the two political parties with any power proudly embraces it.

This I am furious about and very much wish to fight against.

Please don’t take the recent election in Israel as an excuse to do or say something that harms real people who have nothing to do with it or were actively wanting a better outcome.

It is important to separate a dislike of a particular person for political reasons from a wider attack on a large group living in many countries famously holding a wide variety of beliefs and opinions.

I try very hard to do that in this space.

* A relief! "Denmark election result keeps Social Democrats at the helm:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/denmark-election-result-keeps-social-democrats-at-the-helm

* A massive relief!!! "Brazil election: Anti-LGBTQ+ tyrant Jair Bolsonaro beaten by leftist Lula:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/30/brazil-election-lula-beats-jair-bolsonaro-lgbtq/

* "Why Bolsonaro’s stunning loss should give humans a glimmer of hope:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/jair-bolsonaro-lula-brazilian-election-amazon-putin-ukraine/

* *digits cruciform* "We Might Finally Be Free From the Madness of Bolsonaro:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/opinion/brazil-election-lula-bolsonaro.html

* Let’s hope things go well for democracy. "Trucks, Protesters Block Brazil Highways After Bolsonaro Rout:" https://www.barrons.com/news/trucks-protesters-block-brazil-highways-after-bolsonaro-rout-01667224207

* "Steve Bannon says Bolsonaro can't concede as he rails against Biden and CIA:" https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-bolsonaro-brazil-election-lula-1755696

* "Brazil's Bolsonaro signals cooperation with transfer of power, but does not concede election defeat :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-elections-protests-intl-latam/index.html

* "Bolsonaro backers call on Brazil military to intervene after Lula victory:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolsonaro-backers-call-brazil-military-intervene-after-lula-victory-2022-11-02/

* "Rishi Sunak 'wants to gut trans rights from Equality Act':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/rishi-sunak-trans-equality-act/

* "New women's minister defends troubling voting record on women's rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/minister-for-women-maria-caulfield-abortion-clinic-vote/

* "Manston migrant centre like a zoo, says asylum seeker:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63481151

* "Dover petrol bomb attacker said he planned to ‘obliterate Muslim children’:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/02/migrant-centre-attacker-planned-to-obliterate-muslim-children-in-final-tweet

* "Russia’s security service works to subvert Moldova’s pro-Western government:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/28/russia-fsb-moldova-manipulation/

* "Russia Expected to OK Stricter 'Gay Propaganda' Law This Fall:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/17/russia-expected-ok-stricter-gay-propaganda-law-fall

* "Bi OnlyFans Creator Sentenced to Prison Over Using the Site:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/bi-onlyfans-creator-sentenced-prison-over-using-site

* "How Halloween revelry turned to disaster in South Korea:" https://graphics.reuters.com/SOUTHKOREA-STAMPEDE/CHRONOLOGY/zjvqjqmmlpx/index.html

* "North Korea fired the highest number of short-range missiles in a day, says South Korea:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/asia/north-korea-missiles-wednesday-intl-hnk

* "North Korea ICBM may have failed in flight, officials say; residents in Japan told to shelter:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-south-koreas-military-2022-11-02/

* "How Spain looked on as dozens were crushed to death at its border:" https://www.bbc.com/news/extra/z8i55dsu8w/spain-morocco-border

* "Czechs rally against rising extremism and voice support for Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czechs-rally-against-rising-extremism-voice-support-ukraine-2022-10-30/

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* "'Scrabble variants' now cause the majority of new Covid-19 infections in the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/health/covid-variants-dominant-bq/index.html

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* "For the first time, Iran acknowledges it sent drones to Russia:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/05/1134523148/ukraine-russia-war-iran-drones

* "Russia's hope for Ukraine win revealed in battle for Bakhmut:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russias-hope-for-ukraine-win-revealed-in-battle-for-bakhmut/2022/10/28/d81ceb7e-5692-11ed-ac8b-08bbfab1c5a5_story.html

* "Ukraine's 58th Brigade in the Heart of the Bakhmut Mire:" https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-s-58th-brigade-in-the-heart-of-the-bakhmut-mire-/6815660.html

* "Kyiv reels as 'massive' wave of missile strikes hit Ukrainian cities; wheat prices rise as grain deal stalls:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/31/ukraines-forces-repel-brutal-russian-offensive-in-donetsk-wheat-prices-rise-after-grain-export-deal-stumbles.html

* "Ukraine’s War Is Leading to a Nervous Breakdown:"

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* "Lions Rescued From Ukraine Find New Home:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/17/lions-rescued-ukraine-find-new-home

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* "US Announces New Sanctions on Iran for Bounty on Rushdie:" https://www.voanews.com/a/us-announces-new-sanctions-on-iran-for-bounty-on-rushdie-/6809948.html

* "Biden sends a stark warning about political violence ahead of midterms: 'We can't take democracy for granted any longer':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/politics/biden-speech-democracy-dc/index.html

* "Seeing danger in GOP election-deniers, Biden appeals to Americans to support democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/seeing-danger-in-gop-election-deniers-biden-appeals-to-americans-to-support-democracy-152373317527

* "Dowd: Biden realized there isn't a sane GOP holding election deniers accountable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-s-speech-addressing-threats-to-democracy-particularly-from-maga-republicans-praised-as-midterms-push-152353861727

* "Rep. Raskin: ‘Joe Biden was trying to strike that tone as the leader of the whole country’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-s-speech-on-attacks-and-threats-to-democracy-responded-to-by-rep-raskin-152356421932

* "Biden administration to provide over $13 billion in aid to help American families lower energy bills:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/02/biden-administration-to-provide-over-13-billion-in-aid-to-help-american-families-lower-energy-bills.html

* "More LGBTQ+ Spouses to Receive Survivors' Benefits, VA Announces:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/more-lgbtq-spouses-receive-survivors-benefits-va-announces

* "Rachel Levine Elected to National Academy of Medicine:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/21/rachel-levine-elected-national-academy-medicine

* "Conservatives Spew Transphobia at Already Anti-Trans Federal Agency:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/18/conservatives-spew-transphobia-already-anti-trans-federal-agency

* "Elie Mystal: Supreme Court pretended arguments in favor of affirmative action didn’t exist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-weighs-race-based-college-admissions-don-t-seem-supportive-of-campus-diversity-152115269631

* "Supreme Court to Hear LGBTQ+ Rights Case Before End of Year:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/10/19/supreme-court-hear-lgbtq-rights-case-end-year

* "White House Press Secretary Sits Down for an Exclusive Interview:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/white-house-press-secretary-sits-down-for-an-exclusive-interview-151959621696

* I have concerns. "Fed hikes interest rates again, up 0.75 percentage points:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/02/fed-rate-hike/

* "'Ripped off': Katie Porter on how price-gouging companies are driving inflation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ripped-off-katie-porter-on-how-price-gouging-companies-are-driving-inflation-152360005651

* "Living Homeless in the Desert:"

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* "What I Learned Watching a Co-Worker Get Forced Out:" https://index.medium.com/what-i-learned-watching-a-co-worker-get-forced-out-2418ca86411

* "Pennsylvania court orders election officials to not count ‘undated’ ballots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/01/pennsylvania-court-undated-ballots-00064549

* "Arizona, Michigan GOP ask voters to mail in ballots and use drop boxes as candidates and officials blast the practice:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/29/politics/kfile-arizona-michigan-gop-encourage-mail-ballots/index.html

* "Kristina Karamo seeks court order that could impact thousands of Detroit voters:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/28/kristina-karamo-lawsuit-detroit-votes/69598090007/

* "Lawyer in Karamo lawsuit targeting Detroit yells at judge, cites debunked film:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/11/03/hearing-karamo-lawsuit-targeting-detroit-voters/69616706007/

* "DeSantis Voter Fraud Unit Defends Arresting Former Felons:"

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* If people like this turn up at your door, close and lock it. Do not interact. "In the hunt for voter fraud, Republican door knockers are intimidating residents: officials:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/republican-door-knockers-intimidate-voters-while-hunting-voter-fraud-say-2022-11-03/

* "Election Officials Say Efforts to Intimidate Voters Are Widening:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/politics/voting-intimidation-democracy.html

* "Voter intimidation, election worker threats part of voting climate ahead of midterms:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/voter-intimidation-election-worker-threats-part-voting-climate/story?id=92505277

* "North Carolina reports possible voter intimidation, threats ahead of midterm elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/north-carolina-reports-possible-voter-intimidation-threats-ahead-midterms-2022-11-04/

* "Stacey Abrams - Fighting for Voting Access in Georgia:" https://www.cc.com/video/2hwoe3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-stacey-abrams-fighting-for-voting-access-in-georgia

* "Justice Department says 'vigilante ballot security efforts' in Arizona are likely illegal:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/arizona-voter-intimidation-doj/index.html

* "Americans face voter intimidation at the polls:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/americans-face-voter-intimidation-at-the-polls-151960645695

* "Judge limits ballot drop box monitoring in Arizona after intimidation claims:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/arizona-ballot-clean-elections-liburdi/

* If Republicans actually cared about ending voter fraud they'd stop committing it instead of stealing people's right to vote. "Milwaukee Election Commission official Kimberly Zapata could face charges accusing her of fraudulently requesting military ballots:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/03/mayor-says-milwaukee-election-worker-fired-over-ballot-fraud/69616108007/

* "Obama says democracy ‘may not survive’ in Arizona if Republicans win:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/03/obama-says-democracy-may-not-survive-if-arizona-republicans-win/

* "‘Let's not pretend’ that Republicans and Democrats share equal blame for election denial, DCCC chair says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/sean-maloney-democrats-republicans-elections-00064138

* "The Five Scariest Statewide Republican Candidates You Haven’t Heard of:" https://newrepublic.com/article/168373/five-scariest-republican-candidates-statewide-office

* "In 5 key battlegrounds, most GOP state legislative nominees are election deniers, report finds:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/29/in-5-key-battlegrounds-most-gop-nominees-are-election-deniers.html

If they win, Democracy dies in those states.

Please, please, please vote the whole ticket.

* "GOP candidate Mark Finchem's lawyer proposed fake elector votes that "aren't legal.":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/gop-candidate-mark-finchems-lawyer-proposed-fake-elector-votes-that-arent-legal/

"And this guy wants to be in charge of Arizona's elections."

* I am terrified. Literally every governor and secretary of state race we lose in this election is likely a state that will lose the right to free and fair elections, probably for a generation, possibly forever.

I am terrified because not enough Millennials and Gen z are early voting. We can't save democracy without you. We pretty much need all of you. If we don't save democracy there is zero chance of fixing any thing else in this country.

Yes, things are terrible and most democratic politicians haven't enough spine, but they are legitimately trying to fix things. Republicans are out right promising to crash the world economy if they win the house of representatives to force an end to the social safety net. They are openly promising that if they win in the states, they will fix it so republicans can never lose there again. They are promising a national abortion ban and a repeal of civil and human rights for queer folks. Kiss any attempt to stop the planet burning goodbye.

Fuckssake get out there and vote! This may be your last chance for it to count if Republicans win in your state. Vote because our lives depend on it!

* "GOP floats Medicare changes while ducking details:" https://www.axios.com/2022/11/03/gop-floats-medicare-reform

* "Yes, some Republican senators really are talking openly about Social Security cuts:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/yes-some-republican-senators-are-talking-openly-about-social-security-cuts/ar-AA13K0K4?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b2fd7a3baaf5485b89016d7bbdf50c32

* "GLAAD Ads Remind LGBTQ+ Voters What's at Stake in Midterm Election:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/10/12/glaad-ads-remind-lgbtq-voters-whats-stake-midterm-election

* "Forward thinking, playing offense are opportunities for Democrats as midterms approach:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/forward-thinking-playing-offense-are-opportunities-for-democrats-as-midterms-approach-152243269571

* "Can Republicans fulfill their role in a multi-party democracy?:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/can-republicans-fulfill-their-role-in-a-multi-party-democracy-152370757778

* Elizabeth Warren Extended Interview:

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* "House GOP uses grade school trick to inflate pad report with 'filler and Fox News' :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/house-gop-uses-grade-school-trick-to-inflate-pad-report-with-filler-and-fox-news-152618053708

* "Chris Hayes: If Republicans win, Trump will be the ‘shadow Speaker of the House’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-if-republicans-win-trump-will-be-the-shadow-speaker-of-the-house-152597061618

* "Judiciary Republicans hint at investigation into FBI, DOJ if they retake the House:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134449665/republicans-investigation-fbi-doj-midterms

* "3 Lies Republicans Are Using This Election| Robert Reich:"

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* "Pro-LGBTQ+ PAC Targets Pa. Republican Candidates Oz and Mastriano:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/27/pro-lgbtq-pac-targets-penn-republican-candidates-oz-and-mastriano

* "Column: A speech-impaired John Fetterman is better than a fast-talking Mehmet Oz:" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-30/john-fetterman-mehmet-oz-aphasia-debate

* "Dr. Oz's Campaign Is Stocked With Jan. 6ers:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dr-oz-jan6-john-fetterman-donald-trump-1234620315/

* He doesn't even know where Pennsylvania IS! O.o "Pennsylvania by the sea: Mehmet Oz implies state has Atlantic coastline:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/01/mehmet-oz-pennsylvania-republican-candidate

* "Doug Mastriano ally Toni Shuppe has a plan to ‘stop the steal of 2022.’ It’s full of misinformation.:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/toni-shuppe-doug-mastriano-election-steal-pennsylvania-20221030.html

* "Exclusive with Josh Shapiro: "Our fundamental freedoms are on the ballot":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/exclusive-with-josh-shapiro-our-fundamental-freedoms-are-on-the-ballot-151960645652

* "Mehmet Oz’s medical research was rejected in 2003, resulting in 2-year ban:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/11/01/oz-senate-doctor-research/

* "Oprah says if she lived in Pennsylvania, she’d vote for Fetterman over Oz in U.S. Senate race:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/oprah-winfrey-john-fetterman-mehmet-oz-pa-senate-race-20221103.html

* "GOP candidate Mark Finchem's lawyer proposed fake elector votes that "aren't legal.":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/gop-candidate-mark-finchems-lawyer-proposed-fake-elector-votes-that-arent-legal/

* "How Democracy Is on the Line in 2022 & Beyond:"

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* CW: Rape "GOP candidate wants ‘community-level review’ on if rape victims can get abortions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-candidate-wants-community-level-review-on-if-rape-victims-can-get-abortions-152599109733

* "How Doug Mastriano ended up in a Holocaust film that troubles scholars:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/doug-mastriano-holocaust-film-agenda/

* "Endorsement: Please, don’t give your vote to Lauren Boebert:" https://www.denverpost.com/2022/10/29/opinion-lauren-boebert-vote/

* "Lauren Boebert posts particularly vile Tweet and the backlash is brutal:" https://www.queerty.com/lauren-boebert-posts-particularly-vile-tweet-backlash-brutal-20221103

* "Indiana's Democratic Candidates Sign Contract to Protect Abortion Rights:" https://advocatechannel.com/indianas-democratic-candidates-sign-contract-to-protect-abortion-rights

* "Republican says party ‘will never lose another election’ in Wisconsin if he wins:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/02/wisconsin-republican-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-michels

* "Editorial: Vote for Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes to defend our democracy. Here's why.:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2022/11/02/wisconsin-vote-for-mandela-barnes-and-tony-evers-to-defend-democracy/69588162007/

* "Ron DeSantis uses 'non-binary student' photo to push pathetic election campaign:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/03/ron-desantis-anti-lgbtq-non-binary-stock-photo/

* "Rep. Val Demings: Marco Rubio only likes to talk about crime when it is politically advantageous:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-u-s-senate-candidate-rep-val-demings-demolishes-marco-rubio-s-attempts-to-campaign-on-crime-152489541804

* "Midterms candidates Chris Jones in Arkansas, Charles Booker in Kentucky have impressive ground game:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/midterms-candidates-chris-jones-in-arkansas-charles-booker-in-kentucky-winning-voters-by-focusing-on-forgotten-152605765559

* "Charles Booker touts abortion rights in Kentucky Senate bid:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/charles-booker-touts-abortion-rights-kentucky-senate-bid-92607940

* "Leading election denier is on the verge of leading Nevada's election system:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/01/trump-aligned-jim-marchant-midterm-election-00064357

* "Nevada's MAGA secretary of state candidate appears to be blatantly ignoring campaign finance law:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/jim-marchant-nevada-secretary-state-maga-trump-citizens-united-campaign-finance/

* "This Bisexual Kansas Legislator Wants to Get Stuff Done:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/10/18/bisexual-kansas-legislator-wants-get-stuff-done

* "‘Emasculating Vance Is Actually Part of Tim’s Effectiveness’:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/11/03/tim-ryan-senate-ohio-00064670

* "Tim Ryan on finding "gettable voters" in his quest for a Senate seat:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/tim-ryan-on-finding-gettable-voters-in-his-quest-for-a-senate-seat-152240709776

* "Abortion Is on the Ballot. Will It Help the Dems?:"

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* "Chris Hayes: The stakes of the New York governor's race between Zeldin and Hochul:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-stakes-of-the-new-york-governor-s-race-between-zeldin-and-hochul-152107077663

* "Raphael Warnock - The Georgia Senator on His Midterm Race:" https://www.cc.com/video/8rlhtb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-raphael-warnock-the-georgia-senator-on-his-midterm-race

* "What makes Virginia’s most competitive congressional race so close?:" https://wtop.com/virginia/2022/11/what-makes-virginias-most-competitive-race-so-competitive/

* "Luria makes final case for democracy, vies for Black voters:" https://apnews.com/article/elaine-luria-2022-midterms-strategy-a36ffe96b8d1ec2654ed67cb93639a16

* "Democratic star Katie Porter fights against a conservative resurgence in O.C.:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-01/katie-porter-scott-baugh-california-congress-midterm-elections

* "Election Conspiracies Are Disrupting the Midterms:"

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* "N.J. Democrat once thought safe now in a close congressional race at campaign’s final week:" https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/11/nj-democrat-once-thought-safe-now-in-a-competitive-congressional-race-at-campaigns-final-week.html

* "GOP Candidate Said Elites Drink Blood, Sell ‘Baby Body Parts’ After Abortion:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzkdp/kristina-karamo-qanon-blood-body-parts

* "GOP rejection of democracy leaves force and violence as remaining governing option:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-rejection-of-democracy-leaves-force-and-violence-as-remaining-governing-option-152124997513

* "Paul Pelosi's alleged attacker charged with attempted kidnapping:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/31/justice-department-charges-depape-following-paul-pelosi-assault-00064282

* "Fears of Political Violence Following Attack on Paul Pelosi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/fears-of-political-violence-following-attack-on-paul-pelosi-151959621741

* "What we know about David DePape, the man accused in the Pelosi home invasion, attack:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/29/what-we-know-about-david-depape-the-man-accused-in-the-pelosi-home-invasion-attack.html

* An elderly man was beaten with a hammer in an act of political terrorism. They are LYING when they say they are Law and Order candidates. Cruelty is the point. "Arizona GOP nominee Kari Lake mocks attack on Paul Pelosi at campaign event:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960

* "Capitol Police cameras caught break-in at Pelosi home, but no one was watching:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/01/capitol-police-cameras-caught-break-in-pelosi-home-no-one-was-watching/

* "Fresh finger-pointing over Capitol Police's future after Pelosi home invasion:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/04/fresh-finger-pointing-over-capitol-polices-future-after-pelosi-home-invasion-00065064

* "Swalwell: Pelosi suspect’s social media looks like that of Ted Cruz, MTG:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/swalwell-pelosi-suspect-s-social-media-looks-like-that-of-ted-cruz-mtg-152105029931

* "The Facts About the Attack on Paul Pelosi, According to Prosecutors:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/pelosi-paul-nancy-attack-facts.html

* "Joy Reid: There’s a long history of gaslighting and toxic politics regarding Speaker Pelosi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/paul-pelosi-assault-spawning-far-right-conspiracies-about-attack-decried-as-deplorable-152113733729

* "‘This is not normal, moral, human behavior’: Psaki on GOP response to Pelosi attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-not-normal-moral-human-behavior-psaki-on-gop-response-to-pelosi-attack-152228933737

* "Right-wing resists facts about extremist violence to preserve identity of victimhood:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/right-wing-resists-facts-about-extremist-violence-to-preserve-identity-of-victimhood-152128069582

* "Trump joins growing GOP effort to whitewash, lie about Pelosi attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-joins-growing-gop-effort-to-whitewash-lie-about-pelosi-attack-152227909623

* "Elon Musk tweets anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-conspiracy-theory-gay-lgbtq/

* "Hate speech increased on Twitter after Elon Musk takeover, study finds:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/hate-speech-increased-twitter-elon-musk-takeover-study/story?id=92445797

* "Twitter reportedly limits content moderation ahead of midterm elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/twitter-reportedly-limits-content-moderation-ahead-of-midterm-elections-152243269649

* Do not trust twitter. "Elon Musk appears in over his head with purchase of Twitter:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/elon-musk-appears-in-over-his-head-with-purchase-of-twitter-152617541762

* "Musk's attempt at trolling AOC backfires | Boing Boing:" https://boingboing.net/2022/11/03/musks-attempt-at-trolling-aoc-backfires.html

* "Elon Musk to the Rescue: Big Lie Fanatic Escapes Twitter Ban:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizona-election-denier-mark-finchem-credits-elon-musk-for-overturning-twitter-ban

* "What changes has Elon Musk made at Twitter and what might he do next?:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/04/mass-sackings-monetisation-elon-musk-twitter-changing

* "Man pleads guilty to threatening to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell and staffers:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/swalwell-threat-plea/index.html

* "Adams County investigates white powder found on ballot as officials reassure voters the election is safe:" https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/adams-county-investigates-white-powder-found-on-ballot-as-officials-reassure-voters-the-election-is-safe

* "Barrack acquittal another blow to DOJ’s foreign influence crackdown:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2022/11/04/barrack-acquittal-another-blow-to-dojs-foreign-influence-crackdown-00065258

* "Supreme Court Rules That Lindsey Graham Must Testify in Georgia Inquiry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/politics/supreme-court-lindsey-graham-georgia.html

* "Trump files a suit against New York attorney general, and against advice:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/trump-files-a-suit-against-new-york-attorney-general-and-against-advice/

* "Judge rules in favor of assigning monitor to oversee Trump Organization:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/03/judge-rules-favor-assigning-monitor-oversee-trump-organization/

* "Key Trump insider given immunity to testify in Mar-a-Lago documents investigation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/key-trump-insider-given-immunity-to-testify-in-mar-a-lago-documents-investigation-152373829657

* "Litany of Trump legal entanglements grows ever longer as Trump Org criminal trial begins:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/litany-of-trump-legal-entanglements-grows-ever-longer-as-trump-org-criminal-trial-begins-152127557527

* "Trump asks Supreme Court to stop IRS from turning over his tax returns to the House:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/trump-supreme-court-appeal/index.html

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as 'only chance' to stop 2020 election certification:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-only-chance-to-stop-2020-election-certification-00064592

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as ‘key’ to post-election plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/emails-trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-key-to-post-election-plan-152356421588

* "Trump loyalist Kash Patel questioned before Mar-a-Lago grand jury:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/03/kash-patel-grand-jury-trump/

* "Despite Eastman appeal, Jan. 6 committee accesses 8 disputed emails:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/eastman-appeals-jan6-committee-disputed-00064166

* "House January 6 committee gives Trump more time to turn over subpoenaed documents:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/trump-january-6-subpoena-deadline/index.html

* "Capitol Police officer disputes claims that Oath Keepers were seen protecting him during Jan. 6 attack:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/capitol-police-officer-disputes-claims-oath-keepers-protecting/story?id=92432188

* "Oath Keepers spent over $400 at post-US Capitol riot feast at the Olive Garden, prosecutors say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/oath-keepers-olive-garden-january-6/index.html

* "New Report Sheds Light on Gun Violence in LGBTQ+ Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/11/new-report-sheds-light-gun-violence-lgbtq-lives

* "Chris Hayes: The myth of crime as a big-city, blue-state problem:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-myth-of-crime-as-a-big-city-blue-state-problem-152230981820

* "Polly Klaas’s murder fueled the 90s crime panic. Her sisters fear ‘we’re repeating history’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/22/polly-klaas-sisters-criminal-justice-mass-incarceration

* "Detectives in Breonna Taylor Killing Confess to Falsifying Warrant Evidence:" https://advocatechannel.com/detectives-in-breonna-taylor-killing-admit-to-falsifying-warrant-evidence-based-on-gut-feeling

* "Police Killed a Boy. His Friend Was Charged With Murder:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFjFze39Dcc

* "Video Shows Sheriffs Choking, Tasing Unarmed Transgender Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/24/video-shows-sheriffs-choking-tasing-unarmed-transgender-woman

* "Comedian Eric André Files Lawsuit Against Atlanta Airport Police:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/20/two-black-comedians-file-lawsuit-against-atlanta-airport-police

* "I Spent Over 40 Years Working in Corrections. I Wasn’t Ready for Rikers.:" https://mailchi.mp/themarshallproject/i-spent-over-40-years-working-in-corrections-i-wasnt-ready-for-rikers

* "Ezra Miller Pleads Not Guilty to Burglary Charges in Vermont:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/17/ezra-miller-pleads-not-guilty-burglary-charges-vermont

* "Bi Actor Andy Dick Arrested on Felony Burglary Charge:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/21/bi-actor-andy-dick-arrested-felony-burglary-charge

* "Sheriff's office says antisemitic messages in Jacksonville were not crimes:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/us/florida-georgia-game-kanye-west/index.html

* "Pa. School District Allegedly Discriminated Against LGBTQ+ Students:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/09/penn-school-district-allegedly-discriminated-against-lgbtq-students

* "How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level:"

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How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level

When this was passed teachers called it things like “children Left behind” because we could see it was designed to starve neighborhood schools so Republicans could close them, forcing busing to other schools and shifting funding even further away from the schools that need it into charter schools that can bar students who are poor, or not white, or who have limited English, or who have special needs.

This is about de facto segregation. It’s about starving public schools of funds. it’s about excuses to deprive the students with the biggest needs of an education.

All “Back to Basics” school “reforms” are about defending music, art, social studies, and sciences, because Republicans hate anything that keeps children from dropping out and/or teaches critical thinking. Science and social studies teach things like applying logic to real world problems, evaluating evidence, and thinking for yourself. The last thing they want is accurate history or modern science taught to children.

All Republicans want is to create an ignorant easily manipulable permanent underclass that votes for them. Quality Public education in anathema to them.

Republicans keep saying, “you can’t just through money at the problem,” yet never once in the history of this country have we tried funding the schools for the poor at the level we fund schools for the well off. we know objectively that 15-18 students is the sweet spot for class size at all grades. why not for once try paying teachers a living wage and hire enough of them to give every class room the same student/teacher ratios private schools have. How about instead of pennies per student per day we actually buy enough equipment and supplies so that all students get to do hands on science instead of only students who already have all the advantages? How about paying for proper maintenance on schools so the heating works and the pipes don’t bang and the roof doesn’t leak? How about money for computers and library books? How about desks and chairs so every student in every class gets one as well as a locker that closes and locks?

Can’t we try that just once?

Teaching pays about as well as Burger King and teachers owe student loans and need to pay for continuing ed and certification re-upping. They need supplies for themselves and students and a professional wardrobe and money for transportation and to pay off massive student loans, plus food, housing, medical stuff, etc.. out of what amounts to minimum wage.

Nobody goes into teaching expecting to get rich; they do it because they want to teach. Punishing them because the schools are falling apart and the textbooks are as old as they are is counter-productive. Actually funding the schools properly would let them do their jobs.

But no one ever ask teachers when they do “school reform.” It is nearly always imposed by people who’ve never taught based on ignorance and a deep refusal to look at the research.

* CW: Rape, Human Trafficking "Smooth Like Butter: The Slippery Underbelly of the Kpop Industry:"

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* CW: Rape, Abuse, Pedophilia "MLM to Cult of Horrors, The Complete Saga: NXIVM:"

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* "LGBTQ+ World Cup fans told hand-holding fine – but don't kiss:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/28/holding-hands-world-cup-no-public-affection-qatar-ambassador/

The World Cup should never have been held here. A whole lot of mostly guest workers literally died building that stadium, worked to death in the heat.

Their human rights record with LGBTQIA+ people is horrific and should be disqualifying.

* "Qatar journalist says LGBTQ+ people are ‘abnormal’ ahead of World Cup:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/qatar-journalist-lgbtq-abnormal-world-cup/

* "Wales footballers won’t be silenced when it comes to Qatar’s LGBTQ+ atrocities:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/wales-footballers-wont-be-banned-from-addressing-qatars-lgbtq-rights-record-officials-confirm/

* "Gay Qatari man won't let World Cup 'bury' LGBTQ+ atrocities 'in the shadows':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/05/qatar-gay-nas-mohamed-world-cup/

* "Gay men shot outside LGBTQ+ bar laid to rest as thousands take to streets:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/gay-men-shot-outside-slovakian-lgbtq-bar-laid-to-rest-as-thousands-take-to-streets-in-protest/

* "Czech MP comes out as gay after horrific Slovakia LGBTQ+ bar shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/czech-mp-gay-jiri-navratil/

* "Malaysia police detain 20 people at LGBTQ+ Halloween party for 'cross-dressing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/malaysia-halloween-party-raid-religious-police-sharia-law/

* "Irish law protecting trans people from hate crime 'too little too late':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/ireland-trans-hate-crime-violence-law/

* "Gay Palestinian Man Beheaded After Receiving Death Threats:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/07/gay-palestinian-man-beheaded-after-receiving-death-threats

* "Mexico celebrates as same-sex marriage becomes law of the land:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/same-sex-marriage-legalised-mexico/

* "Trevor Project Launches Services in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/10/11/trevor-project-launches-services-mexico

* "Former Cop Reveals Horrific Gay Bashings by Police:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/05/former-cop-reveals-horrific-gay-bashings-police

* "Gender law reforms pass first vote in Scotland with 'overwhelming' support:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/scotland-trans-gender-recognition-reform-vote/

* "Conversion therapy ban delayed by equalities minister Kemi Badenoch:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/conversion-therapy-ban-kemi-badenoch/

* "Grindr Faces Boycott After Gay CEO's Right-Wing Tweets Are Revealed:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/grindr-faces-boycott-after-gay-ceos-right-wing-tweets-are-revealed

* "Social Security Will Allow Users to Select Own Gender Marker:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/social-security-will-allow-users-select-own-gender-marker

* "South Carolina governor says he wants a statewide ban on same-sex marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/29/south-carolina-henry-mcmaster-same-sex-marriage-ban-supreme-court/

* "Men who violently attacked gay couple escape jail thanks to kindness of victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/miami-homophobic-attack-avoid-jail/

* "2022 U.S. Trans Survey:" https://www.ustranssurvey.org/

* Why you should fill it out "The biggest transgender survey in the US is underway. Here's why it's important:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/us-trans-survey-2022-cec/index.html

* "If I say "the queer community", I am referring to the community of self identified queers. If you're not a self identified queer, then I wasn't talking about you!:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/699776198583238656

* Rightly so!!! CW: Rape, Murder, Cannibalism "Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costumes banned by LGBTQ+ bars:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/jeffrey-dahmer-halloween-costumes-lgbtq-bars-wisconsin/

* "Heartstopper fans react to star Kit Connor being forced to come out as bisexual:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/kit-connor-bisexual-coming-out-fan-reaction/

It is wrong to bully people. It is extra wrong to bully teenagers.

No one owes you their coming out. People deserve to work stuff out without pressure.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

This isn’t a closeted anti-queer politician out to hurt us. This is a literal teenager who is just trying to live his life.

* "Kit Connor's coming out proves bi-erasure is rife even in LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/kit-connor-biphobia-bi-erasure-bisexual/

* "The Outing of Kit Connor:"

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* "Why we should be watching the sun, not the clock:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/11/watching-the-sun-not-the-clock-sleep-body-clocks-daylight-saving-time

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* "Philippine death toll from storm Nalgae rises to 98, disaster agency says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/asia/philippines-tropical-storm-nalgae-paeng-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Photos: The aftermath of tropical storm Nalgae in Philippines:" https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/11/1/photos-the-aftermath-of-tropical-storm-nalgae-in-philippines

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* "Greece: Dozens missing after boat carrying migrants sinks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/greece-dozens-missing-after-boat-carrying-migrants-sinks/2022/11/01/52543176-59b9-11ed-bc40-b5a130f95ee7_story.html

* "What we know about India's deadly bridge collapse:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/india/india-gujarat-morbi-bridge-collapse-explainer-intl-hnk

* "We Need To Talk About The Latest SHEIN Scandal:"

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* "First wild bison born in UK for millennia after surprise pregnancy:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/21/first-wild-bison-born-in-uk-for-millennia-after-surprise-pregnancy

* "The Gruesome History of Real Life Vampire Hunting:"

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* "Ghosts Are Legally Real:"

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* "Recalling LGBTQ+ Stories in Hispanic Heritage Month:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/10/14/recalling-lgbtq-stories-hispanic-heritage-month

* "Pioneering singer who recorded first gay country songs dies aged 78:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/patrick-haggerty-gay-country-singer-dies-aged-78/

* "Proud to be a Gay Icon: Angela Lansbury's Life & Legacy:"

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* "Bail Reform:"

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* "Stephen's Message To Young Voters | Dick Bigger, Jr. Is The Breakout Star Of This Election Season:"

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* "Dr. Oz Surfs PA's Coast | Taylor Swift Dominates The Charts | Elon Negotiates With Stephen King:"

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* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 1:" https://www.cc.com/video/q0462s/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-1

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 2 :" https://www.cc.com/video/rsdbd4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-2

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 3:" https://www.cc.com/video/9udze9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-3

* "Kosta La Vista Baby - Atlanta:" https://www.cc.com/video/3yu223/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-kosta-la-vista-baby-atlanta

* "Is Atlanta the Real-Life Wakanda?:" https://www.cc.com/video/ap288q/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-is-atlanta-the-real-life-wakanda

* CW: Self Harm, Eating Disorders. "The Harmful Drive for Queer Perfection:"

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* "DefunctTV: The History of the First Muppet Show, Sam and Friends:"

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* "5 Spooky Musicals That Are Totally UNHINGED:"

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* "Dr. Oz Is Surfin' PA:"

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* "Olive Garden Is The Perfect Place To Subvert Democracy:"

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* "This Is How Kari Lake's Comments Would Sound If They Were Actually Creatively Edited:"

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* "President Biden Midterms Address Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update: Tammy the Trucker on Gas Prices and Definitely Not Abortion - SNL:"

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* "Vlad the Impaler vs Count Dracula. Epic Rap Battles of History:"

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* More attempts at Gothmas Phase II pictures: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699602590803083264

* The emperor has been trying to break into one of the presents since it arrived, including an attempt to unwrap it the second I pulled it from the box. Turned out it was a massive bag of hand dried catnip. https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699682102668673024/gothmashalloween-2022-the-emperor-has-been-tryingfr.

* Since the Pandemic started, I put out bowls of candy. each bowl has a handful of things. Adults are welcome too, and I usually give out a lot of candy. This year one person stole the bowl itself, and no one else came. I think the three families with kids have moved out, since i haven't seen or heard them playing since summer. I've noticed that the other people that usually decorate in the complex didn't this year. It's sad.

I did get reverse trick or treated and Squirrel and I split the loot. Weirdly, it was not the bowl thief.

* October is always really hard on my body and particularly so in the back half. Halloween week takes everything I have really. Samhein is the most important holiday of my year and it takes everything.

Wednesday my body hard vetoed Wednesday errands. I called Head Millennial in time for them to get public transport and make evening arrangements. I could barely walk and had the pain shakes. One days like this, it's best to just take ones meds and go back to sleep and home a nap will reset things. This was correct. When I tried again later, I was a functional level of awful. We managed to take in the Halloween specific exterior stuff and box it all up. I'll need to tweek the "Harvest Display" and do a day time sweep to be sure we got everything before boxes go back into storage. Halloweentown is in chaos, but that's another day's problem.

Head Millennial went above and beyond today. I love how fundamentally kind and trustworthy they are. we had dinner together and watched a movie we'd started a week ago, geeking out together about the high quality lighting design and mourning the death of banter in modern romcoms as well as how few productions are willing to pay for really artistic lighting. (I sited Black Sails as proof the art isn't lost, even though we might think it was looking at the newest Halloween and Got/house of the dragon. Head Millennial is very grumpy about Halloween franchise in particular.)

It sounds like Visiting Millennial has decided to move up here, so at some point in the future they will be Newest Millennial. There is much rejoicing.

NOTE for newer readers: I like to use sobriquets to prevent people chain tracking through blogs. It was always my instinct and I got stricter after that reporter found me through the blog of a friend who wasn't as careful after Skye was murdered. It was fine. She was nice and professional and my friend changed the post in case of future accident. My point is that a determined swatter could find me, but I like to make them work for it if they want my friends.

* Another disabled Elder Goth friend suggested there should be a "Retired Goth Bat sanctuary" for people like us. This delights me.

There is talk of Tee shirts.

Possibly next week.

I already want one.

* Thursday was the blue beast's mechanic appointment. They are always booked for weeks out this time of year. This meant very little sleep, but the coolant situation is sorted and I should be okay on the engine not melting for a while. *Knock wood*

Friday I just wanted sleep, but of they woke me up trying to strong arm me into a home health assessment. Thing is, it's an excellent service and an important one. My mother used them in her last year of life when her health was failing. They assess the person; they assess the needs; they help organize complex meds schedules; they hook people up with services. I support the program and said so to the lady, but I do not want one.

Why? She wanted to know. I do not need what they are offering and I don't like strangers in my home it's invasive. I don't need a dementia test. I have a home health aid. My meds schedule is, indeed, complex, but it's logical. (Think of it as a logic puzzle. Pills needing to be taken on an empty stomach need to go first thing in the morning. Ppills needing to be taken with food need to be at least an hour after empty stomach pills, and need to work with meal scheduling. Some pills can't be taken within two hours of each other, etc.. Some pills need to be taken multiple times a day. For a while I had a pill that needed to go four times a day, at least two hours after eating and an hour before eating. It was a nightmare, but I did it.) I do not want people tampering with the schedule, because every adjustment is a hassle and a half, and I have it down. The point is, it's my body deteriorating, not my mind, and I handle things just fine within my physical limits and I hate all the invasive monitoring that comes with living in this complex and that comes with being disabled. I minimize it where I can.

So I go to the bathroom, give Livia a come for pettins offer, reset my pillow prop system, and settle back in to try to sleep.

The phone rings. It's the system that pay for my caregiver. Mandatory home inspection. *deep sigh* I managed to wiggle out of this one so far because of the pandemic. It's so intrusive and I fucking hate that I don't get to have privacy because I'm disabled. I can't manage without Head Millennial, so I guess we're doing that Monday, plus the already scheduled social worker call Tuesday.

* "Here are the Spookiest Cities in America:" https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2022/10/21/spookiest-cities-america

* "America's 15 Most Haunted Hotels:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/22/americas-15-most-haunted-hotels#media-gallery-media-16

* Events towards the end of Dracula from the viewpoint of the locals: https://uri59.tumblr.com/post/699674996605403136/random-sailor-at-the-sereth-river-this-night-is

* Ed as Blackbeard: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699813146114818048/ok-i-just-have-to-ask-did-you-notice-ed-as

* Arden Powell at the The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1585317897785647105

* Clive Barker vs JK Rowling at The Midnight Society : https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1586397640186466304

* Goblin detecting sword: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699816725716287488

* I feel this in my bones: https://xkcd.com/2692/

* "You’ve been sentenced to 400 years for multiple murders. It’s been 399 years and your jailers are starting to get nervous.:" https://www.tumblr.com/elidyce/688193708499320832/writing-prompt-s-youve-been-sentenced-to-400

* "God of Arepo:" https://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/699776328566800384

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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

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

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* "Thousands of detained Uyghurs pictured in leaked Xinjiang police files:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/24/thousands-of-detained-uyghurs-pictured-in-leaked-xinjiang-police-files

* "Escaping the Taliban: The Last Way Out of Afghanistan:" https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/escaping-the-taliban-the-last-way-out-of-afghanistan-a-d1f4132a-bfe0-4417-8b47-69227910dca0

* CW: Suicide. "Girl tried to kill herself after strip-search by Met officers, mother says:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/24/girl-tried-to-kill-herself-after-strip-search-by-met-officers-mother-says

They strip searched an innocent underage autistic girl, cutting off her underwear while she was on her period for the pleasure of watching adult male officers.

I don’t understand why this isn’t being prosecuted as sexual assault, but here we are.

* "Germany: Fake doctor gets life in prison for patient deaths:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/germany-fake-doctor-gets-life-in-prison-for-patient-deaths/2022/05/25/631a1040-dc1c-11ec-bc35-a91d0a94923b_story.html

* "New Australian leader Albanese makes whirlwind world debut:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-tokyo-japan-china-australia-b7c1a81270503250ab60019e29761fe7

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* "Brain fog after Covid: New research says neurological impact could last more than a year:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/brain-fog-long-covid-symptoms-can-last-year-study-finds-rcna29834

* "What's ailing long COVID patients? A new federal study looks for clues:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/24/1100505822/whats-ailing-long-covid-patients-a-new-federal-study-looks-for-clues

* "CDC: New Omicron Subvariant Takes Over as Dominant Coronavirus Strain:" https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2022-05-24/cdc-new-omicron-subvariant-ba-2-12-1-takes-over-as-dominant-coronavirus-strain

* "Scientists identify ‘trigger molecule’ for Covid-related changes to smell:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/25/scientists-identify-trigger-molecule-for-covid-related-changes-to-smell

* "1 Million Deaths, 13 Last Messages:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/20/opinion/one-million-covid-deaths-texts.html

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* "Along Ukraine’s northern border with Russia, fears of a new invasion:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/24/urkaine-russia-border-war-chernihiv/

* "Severodonetsk: Battle for key road as fighting reaches Ukraine city:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61578156

* "Former lawyer now a sniper on front lines in Eastern Ukraine along with other volunteer fighters:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukrainian-nationalists-izyum-1.6463544

* "Too late to evacuate civilians in face of Russian attack, says Luhansk official:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/24/ukraine-too-late-to-evacuate-civilians-in-face-of-russian-attack-says-luhansk-official

* "Ukraine: 200 bodies found in basement in Mariupol's ruins:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-0c74a0c16b834732b81e460450da3131

* "Ukraine war: Bodies of 44 civilians found as battle for Izyum rages:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61396800

* "Alleged Wagner Group fighters accused of murdering civilians in Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/25/wagner-group-fighters-accused-murdering-civilians-ukraine-war-crimes-belarus

* "Scars of war seem to be everywhere in Ukraine after 3 months:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-moscow-d01152d589a482b52f1072ce9886fbe1

* "The flow of Ukrainian refugees has changed direction in Poland. And so has aid relief:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/23/1100085358/medyka-ukrain-refugees-border-humanitarian-aid

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* New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern:

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* Federal only and an extremely minor reform. "Biden has a new executive order on policing, 2 years after George Floyd was killed:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1101080553/biden-has-a-new-executive-order-on-policing-2-years-after-george-floyd-was-kille

* "7 Million Bad Student Loans With No Way Out, for Anyone:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/business/student-loans-default-forgiveness.html

* "“I’ve Been Called Names, Sworn At, and Just SCREAMED At”:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/05/rude-hostile-customers-bad-behavior-public-rudeness-isolation-stress-why.html

* "Hard hit by COVID-19, Black Americans are recovering slowly:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/hard-hit-by-covid-19-black-americans-are-recovering-slowly

* This is part of a larger voter suppression bill. "Prepare to say goodbye to Missouri’s presidential primary election:" https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/prepare-to-say-goodbye-to-missouri-s-presidential-primary-election/article_c981dbea-1403-5baf-90e2-c4f14bf5c7d5.html

* "Kemp and Raffensperger will win Georgia GOP primaries, CNN projects, as voters reject Trump-backed challengers:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/politics/georgia-alabama-primary-election/index.html

* "Herschel Walker, Raphael Warnock to face off in crucial Georgia Senate race:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-face-crucial-georgia-senate-race-rcna30185

* "Katie Britt, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in Alabama Senate runoff:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-alabama-senate-primary-7ced0db0eba85c701ecfe098a2a1a47d

* "Sen. John Boozman clinches Republican nomination in Arkansas:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sen-john-boozman-clinches-republican-nomination-in-arkansas

* "Texas AG Ken Paxton defeats George P. Bush in GOP primary in bid for re-election:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ken-paxton-wins-re-election-defeating-george-p-bush-texas-ag-race-rcna30191

* "Seven years later, still no trial for Texas AG Ken Paxton:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-dallas-houston-ken-paxton-62273089acc4feb70dd64349bc398f5d

* "Why the Cuellar-Cisneros race is far from over:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/25/cuellar-cisneros-garcia-cruz-texas-00035145

* "Recount announced in Pennsylvania Senate race as Mehmet Oz’s lead over David McCormick narrows:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/live/pa-republican-senate-primary-recount-mehmet-oz-david-mccormick-20220525.html

* "Opinion: Colorado, stop rewarding fringe candidates:" https://coloradosun.com/2022/05/24/colorado-elections-misinformation-partisanship-opinion/

* "How Trump’s Fear of Getting Pied May Come Back to Cream Him:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-donald-trumps-fear-of-getting-pied-may-come-back-to-cream-him

* "FBI counts 61 'active shooter' incidents last year, up 52% from 2020:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-counts-61-active-shooter-incidents-last-year-up-52-2020-2022-05-24/

* "Ominous texts. An earlier shooting. What we know about the Texas elementary school massacre that killed 21 people:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/us/uvalde-texas-elementary-school-shooting-what-we-know/index.html

* "‘Why are we willing to live with this carnage?’ Biden pushes to tighten gun laws after Texas school shooting:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/24/biden-to-address-uvalde-texas-elementary-school-shooting.html

* "Kamala Harris on Texas shooting: "Enough is enough":" https://www.axios.com/2022/05/25/harris-texas-shooting

* "After Texas shooting, Conn. senator begs for gun compromise:" https://apnews.com/article/senator-chris-murphy-pleads-for-action-on-gun-violence-641fb7c7244ff497c7f9c4c1bc96366c

* "Will Congress act on guns after Sandy Hook, Buffalo, Uvalde?:" https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-gun-politics-0a290e15634cf11aa0faa53ed44caeb0

* "'You are doing nothing': O'Rourke accosts Abbott at press conference on shooting:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/25/beto-orourke-challenges-abbott-on-gun-violence-at-uvalde-press-conference-00035149

* "Just after Texas shooting, California Senate passes Texas-style bill targeting assault weapons, ghost guns:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Just-after-Texas-shooting-California-Senate-17196406.php

* "Guns are banned during Trump's upcoming speech at the NRA conference:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/25/1101181842/nra-trump-speech-guns-banned-houston

Republican politicians must be kept safe by gun bans, but 'pro-life' Republicans insist elementary children don't deserve the same safety.

* "Donald Trump and Fellow GOP Monsters Will Still Attend NRA Event in Texas on Friday:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/donald-trump-greg-abbott-ted-cruz-nra-texas-post-shooting

* "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls out ‘pro-life’ Republicans after Texas school shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/25/texas-school-shooting-aoc-buttigieg-gun-reform/

* "Why America's gun problem is worse than any other country, by the numbers:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-america-s-gun-problem-is-worse-than-any-other-country-by-the-numbers-140837957712

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Crtters? 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/

* "‘I feel powerless’: Asylum seekers lament Title 42’s extension:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/23/migrants-decry-title-42-as-absurd-excuse-as-it-stays-in-place

* "Why Juvenile Curfews Don’t Work:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/07/31/the-curfew-myth

* "Rural Texas official arrested, charged with stealing cattle:" https://apnews.com/article/texas-crime-arrests-theft-2bf54c441f9dbf13fe0e2e03d09d2f78

* "I Study the Online Spaces That Spawned the Buffalo Shooter. Here’s What People Misunderstand About Red-Pilling.:" https://slate.com/technology/2022/05/red-pill-buffalo-shooter-online-hate-groups-research.html

* CW: Pedophilia. "LGBTQ+ child sexual abuse survivors are being blamed for their own abuse:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/24/independent-inquiry-child-sex-abuse-report-lgbtq/

* CW: Sexual Harassment "Florida Democratic Leader Accused of Sexually Harassing Man:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/5/10/florida-democratic-leader-accused-sexually-harassing-man

* CW: Pedophilia, Incest. "Josh Duggar sentenced in child pornography case:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/entertainment/josh-duggar-sentenced/index.html

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* "Oklahoma governor signs the nation's strictest abortion ban:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-texas-oklahoma-ad37e8db8a0f3fd9f4fcd215f8a3ed0a

* "Ex-girlfriend says anti-abortion Oregon GOP House nominee paid for her abortion:" https://americanindependent.com/oregon-republican-house-nominee-primary-mike-erickson-abortion-6th-congressional-district/

* "Louisiana Senator: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/bill-cassidy-maternal-mortality-rates

* "An ex-priest, a flier and the arrest that legalized protests at Md. homes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/24/maryland-protest-law-berrigan-brothers-rumsfeld/

* "Mothers pass torch to daughters in abortion's forever war:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-politics-health-new-york-db506efe62562b9a44ab4b8377f6627a

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* "5 Things SCOTUS Justices Alito and Thomas Said About Marriage Equality:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/5/12/5-things-scotus-justices-alito-and-thomas-said-about-marriage-equality#media-gallery-media-1

* "Florida teen covertly criticized “Don’t Say Gay” law in graduation speech to slip by principal:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/florida-teen-covertly-criticized-dont-say-gay-law-graduation-speech-slip-principal/

* "The State Farm hatefest on Twitter tonight:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1834102.html

* Droplet transmission doesn't care about your sexual orientation. "Monkeypox found in three more countries as experts insist virus is not a 'gay disease':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/25/monkeypox-cases-gay-bisexual-men/

* "'They're not trying to die': How drug checking aims to protect users in a messy market:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-22/overdoses-drug-checking-aims-to-protect-users

* CW: Suicide "Desperate to leave: Sailors face lack of options when trying to quit the Navy:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/navy-desertions-doubled-suicide-concerns-sailors-feel-trapped-contract-rcna28516

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* "The town at the center of California’s climate refugee crisis:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/22/california-homelessness-climate-wildfire-refugee

* "Low-Cost Gel Film Can Pluck Drinking Water From Desert Air:" https://news.utexas.edu/2022/05/23/low-cost-gel-film-can-pluck-drinking-water-from-desert-air/

* "Last call: New York City bids an official farewell to its last public pay phone:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1100931534/last-pay-phone-new-york-city-public-nyc

* "Why are there continent-sized 'blobs' in the deep Earth?:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220510-why-are-there-continent-sized-blobs-in-the-deep-earth

* "Stop plucking the endangered 'penis plant', urges Cambodian government:" https://thethaiger.com/news/regional/cambodia/stop-plucking-the-endangered-penis-plant-urges-cambodian-government

* "Grunt, hoo, pant, scream: Chimps use complex vocal communication:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/grunt-hoo-pant-scream-chimps-use-complex-vocal-communication-2022-05-19/

* "Dolphins Recognize Each Other By Tasting One Another's Urine:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dolphins-recognize-each-other-urine_n_628bc86be4b0415d4d7adccd

* "In a faceoff with Elon Musk, the SEC blinked:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/24/in-a-faceoff-with-elon-musk-the-sec-blinked.html

* "Escape From the Gilded Cage:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/escape-from-the-gilded-cage-180980029/

* "Women, Men, and Classical Music:" https://daily.jstor.org/women-men-and-classical-music/

* "Herbalife: Shaken or Scammed:"

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* This is so cool! "Hot Wheels launches first remote-controlled wheelchair toy:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/07/business/hot-wheels-wheelchair-toy-trnd/index.html

* "Crypto Celebs Silent As Market Melts Down | Billionaires Get Ready To Trip At Davos:"

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* "Crypto Crash Drags Down Celebrity-Endorsed NFT Prices:"

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* "Meanwhile... Endangered Penis Plant Is NSFW | Kid Goes Viral For Tee-Ball Dance:"

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* "Fashion in the Age of Pirates (& making an Our Flag Means Death historically accurate cosplay):"

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* "Fox News Doesn't Understand Star Trek:"

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* CW: Eating Disorder ""Heartstopper" and Queer Optimism:"

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* "Crypto.com Made A New Matt Damon Ad:"

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* "True Facts: Sea Stars:"

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* "The Platypus Conspiracy:"

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* "Damselfly and Beetle:"

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* "Modern Classics Summarized: Stranger In A Strange Land:"

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Once during a long move that involved driving up and down the I-5 corridor in the late ‘90′s, my partner at the time wanted me to pick a sampling of 20th century Classic Science Fiction, so he could better understand the history of the field. (He liked science Fiction and fantasy, but he grew up with the mass market paperbacks of the ‘70′s and ‘80′s, whereas I was exposed to a much broader range through my father.)

We did okay with folks like Bradbury and Silverberg (They have their issues, but still are readable), but he insisted we tackle Asimov. I tried to talk him out of it. I didn’t know about the rapes yet at this point, but his short fiction, non-fiction, and essays were way better than his long form fiction where stiff writing and a refusal to even attempt to characterize women as whole people really make it tough going, but Skye thought he should at least read Foundation because it got referenced a lot. It... did not go over well.

He asked for Heinlein next.

Me: Are you sure? I mean really, really sure?

He was sure. I picked this one on the grounds that there were things in there still referenced in the culture at the time, and really, they are pretty much all offensive in the same ways to one degree or another. (I remember as a tween wanting to hit the author after I read Podkayne of Mars ).

At least I had an amusing time watching Skye’s face as he took in how utterly fucked up and gross the whole thing was.

As bad as the summary makes it sound, the book is so much worse. For years after all one of us would have to say was “Erect Nipples,” in response to something sexist and poorly written, and the other would either crack up or nod knowingly depending on context.

* "The Transphobes Can’t Transphobe:"

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* "It's A Baby | Gender Reveal Fails:"

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* Tuesday night was my last AS pill until after surgery. Sigh. Wednesday was day two of people waking me up for long, necessary medical conversations. i also had to stay up for an appointment. The pollen count was high and there was much cleaning here at the Cat Asylum in advance of next week. There will be very little quality asleep until this is over.

* We are trying to get a working oven. I am disabled and medically fragile. Not having a working oven is messing with my nutrition. I need about 600.00ish:

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

* I love this movie so much. "John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus Still Stimulates After 15 Years:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2022/3/03/john-cameron-mitchells-shortbus-still-stimulates-after-15-years

* Sumerian dog jokes: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1505646738627088389.html

* "Hollywood’s No 1 penis-maker: ‘Chris Hemsworth keeps his next to Thor’s hammer!’:" https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/28/hollywoods-no-1-penis-maker-chris-hemsworth-thors-hammer-prosthetic-schlong

* "Indiana Jones and the Porcelain Throne:" https://nowiknow.com/indiana-jones-and-the-porcelain-throne/

* "Every Batman Movie And The Real-World Fears They Highlight:" https://www.slashfilm.com/807028/every-batman-movie-and-the-real-world-fears-they-highlight/

* "Blackbeard's No Kill Rule In Our Flag Means Death Might've Been Real:" https://screenrant.com/our-flag-means-death-blackbeard-no-kill-rule/

* On Mary Bonnet in Our Flag Means Death: https://notebooks-and-laptops.tumblr.com/post/685188736318865408/you-know-there-are-so-many-ways-they-could-have

* "Let Me Save You Some Time: On Transitioning Like You're Opening A Candy Bar In A Crowded Movie Theater With A Really Loud Wrapper:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/let-me-save-you-some-time-on-transitioning?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1NjUyNDU5NiwiXyI6IlFhcSt1IiwiaWF0IjoxNjUzNTI4MTEwLCJleHAiOjE2NTM1MzE3MTAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.viIbzQGFiV4JDC66JcM2VguSDFfrsCiGMEXS1bdk3XY&s=r

* "33 Men Represent Their Country's National Dress in Male Beauty Pageant:" https://mymodernmet.com/mister-global-pageant-costumes-2022/

* "Idyllic vintage photographs capture the rustic rural life in Victorian England, 1857:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/rural-victorian-england-photos-william-grundy/

* "Photographer's 3,200 Undeveloped Film Rolls Hold History of Rock 'n' Roll:" https://petapixel.com/2022/03/20/photographers-3200-undeveloped-film-rolls-hold-history-of-rock-n-roll/

* "This Life-Size Crochet Skeleton Is So Intricate, The Stomach Even Has Half-Digested Food In It:" https://www.boredpanda.com/life-sized-anatomically-correct-crocheted-skeleton-shanell-papp/?utm_source=conuly.dreamwidth&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic

* "Artist Uses Leaves And Flowers To Create Mesmerizing Bird Portraits:" https://www.boredpanda.com/plant-flower-birds-hannah-bullen-ryner/?utm_source=conuly.dreamwidth&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic

* "You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions.:" https://caffeinewitchcraft.tumblr.com/post/679083663093383168/writing-prompt-s-you-are-the-chosen-one-the-dark

* Gene O’Neil at The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1510291264805085191

* JK Rowling's Failed movie at The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1514352150209445888

* Stephen King of The Midnight Society Checks on Rowling: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1510732633369575427

* On that Antisemetic Potterverse Game: https://twitter.com/della_morte_/status/1504943008650829834

* "JK Rowling's Antisemitic Game at The Midnight Society:" https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1505219831829708804

* "I Know What It Sounds Like But My Liege Lord Just Happens To Be Exemplary In Form and Countenance:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/i-know-what-it-sounds-like-but-my?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MzYwMjc4MSwiXyI6Im1CaDVoIiwiaWF0IjoxNjUxODIwNDg5LCJleHAiOjE2NTE4MjQwODksImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.7QXqToks_SA9Gsdk0EOhYTOROEYxB8ItYeSmSdrqf0g&s=r

* "Sunday Sweets In Black & White :" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/4/10/sunday-sweets-in-black-amp-white

* "Sunday Sweets: Fun and Fondant Free:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/3/27/sunday-sweets-fun-and-fondant-free

* "Sunday Sweets: Stained Glass:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/4/3/sunday-sweets-stained-glass

* "Sunday Sweets: Flowery Praise:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/5/1/sunday-sweets-flowery-praise

* "Sunday Sweets Finds A Rainbow:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/4/24/sunday-sweets-finds-a-rainbow

* "Spring Sweets:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/3/20/spring-sweets

* "Sunday Sweets Kicks It Old School :" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/5/14/sunday-sweets-kicks-it-old-school

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.


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

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

* How to Support the Women's Reproduction Protection Act: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/684465183144476672/womens-health-protection-act

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want to help Charles Booker beat Rand Paul? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/pccc_2022_charles_booker_only

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

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* "Sri Lankan president ‘Gota’ clings on to power despite violent protests and new PM:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/14/sri-lankan-president-gota-clings-on-to-power-gotabaya-rajapaksa

* "Israel begins demolition in contentious West Bank village following court ruling:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-begins-demolition-in-west-bank-village-following-court-ruling-1.10793859

* "An independent probe points to Israeli gunfire in the death of a journalist:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1099078960/independent-probe-points-to-israeli-gunfire-in-death-of-journalist

* "Turkey says it is ready to discuss NATO membership with Finland, Sweden:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220514-live-fighting-rages-in-donbas-russian-forces-appear-stalled

* "Why Politics is Toxic for Australia’s Women:"

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* "Lebanon election: Hezbollah and allies lose parliamentary majority:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61463884

* "A tale of two Sao Paulos:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-27440864

* "COVID-19’s hidden, heartbreaking toll: millions of orphaned children:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/covid-19-hidden-heartbreaking-toll-millions-of-orphaned-children

* "Gas theft on the rise as prices continue to increase:" https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2033032771823

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* "4 questions about long Covid experts wish they could answer:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23057643/long-covid-symptoms-treatment-definition-test-diagnosis-research-common

* "Shanghai to end Covid lockdown and return to normal life in June amid economic slowdown:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/shanghai-to-end-covid-lockdown-and-return-to-normal-life-in-june-amid-economic-slowdown

* "North Korea’s Covid outbreak continues to spiral.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/world/asia/north-korea-covid.html

* "COVID Positivity Tops 20% in Hot NYC Neighborhood as 5th Wave Intensifies:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/covid-positivity-tops-20-in-hot-nyc-neighborhood-as-5th-wave-grows/3678355/

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* "Ukraine has won the battle of Kharkiv, analysts say, as Kyiv warns of ‘long phase of war’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/14/ukraine-has-won-the-battle-of-kharkiv-analysts-say-as-kyiv-warns-of-long-phase-of-war

* "Russia shells frontline positions as fighting focuses on Donbas city:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/russians-and-ukrainians-battle-around-izium-as-sweden-joins-finland-in-nato-bid

* "Ukraine says mission at Mariupol steel mill is complete:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-kyiv-moscow-6dc968ea8d353132bd8b8cb58b04734c

* "Inside Mariupol’s besieged steel plant, a symbol of bravery and terror:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/12/ukraine-mariupol-steel-plant-last-stand/

* "‘I’m too old for this’: the harrowing flight from Donetsk’s perilous border towns:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/15/im-too-old-for-this-the-harrowing-flight-from-donetsks-perilous-border-towns

* This is Child Abuse and Ableism. "Disabled children 'dumped' in Ukrainian institutions:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61325277

* "Ukraine refugees staying with UK hosts not cleared by criminal record checks:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/14/ukraine-refugees-staying-with-uk-hosts-not-cleared-by-criminal-record-checks

* "The War in Ukraine, as Seen on Russian TV:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/06/technology/russian-propaganda-television.html

* "Ukraine's Jewish Community Fights Back Against Russia's Invasion -- and Against Putin's Lies:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ukraine-jewish-community-russia-invasion-resistance-1351070/

* "After escape from Moscow, Pussy Riot begins tour to support Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/12/pussy-riot-tour-escape/

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* "Former AG Eric Holder's new blueprint to win the voting rights fight:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/former-ag-eric-holder-s-new-blueprint-to-win-the-voting-rights-fight-140049477625

* 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/

* "GOP tries to downplay draconian abortion bans ahead of midterms:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gop-tries-to-soften-messaging-on-abortion-140069957695

* "Leading GOP candidates in Pennsylvania were in Washington on Jan. 6:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/15/leading-gop-candidates-pennsylvania-were-washington-jan-6/

* "Pennsylvania Senate race rocked by late twists, from John Fetterman's stroke to Kathy Barnette's meteoric rise:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/pennsylvania-senate-race-faces-late-twists-john-fettermans-stroke-kath-rcna28925

* "Trump Endorses Far-Right Gubernatorial Candidate Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania GOP Primary:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-endorses-doug-mastriano-pennsylvania-gop-primary-1353250/

* "Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Barnette marched alongside Proud Boys on Jan. 6, report says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-us-senate-hopeful-barnette-marched-alongside-proud-boys-jan-6-report-2022-05-16/

* "Doug Mastriano aide who blocked media at campaign event was at Capitol on Jan. 6:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/doug-mastriano-aide-blocked-press-campaign-event-was-capitol-jan-6-rcna29014

* "State invalidates Georgia Senate candidate’s Republican primary run:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/judge-moves-to-invalidate-georgia-senate-candidates-republican-primary-run/H4OUSIMDUFGHJORHJAZW7DR3UI/

* "After Roe leak, abortion becomes hot election issue in N.H. and elsewhere:" https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/05/13/maggie-hassan-new-hampshire-nh-abortion-election

* "A Fracture in Idaho’s G.O.P. as the Far Right Seeks Control:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/us/idaho-republican-primary-little-mcgeachin.html

* "Idaho Republicans reckon with extremism in political spectacle primary:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/idaho-republicans-reckon-with-extremism-in-political-spectacle-primary-140159045675

* "Missouri Senate primary highlights rise of violent rhetoric on the right:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/13/missouri-republicans-violent-rhetoric-eric-greitens

* This is terrorism. "Mass shooting at Buffalo supermarket was a racist hate crime, police say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/15/us/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-sunday/index.html

The shooting occurred in a food dessert and the grocery store will be closed for some time. Want to help the people living there?

https://rootedinloveinc.com/donate-to-our-cause/
https://donate-usa.keela.co/mental-health-and-food-support

* "Buffalo Shooting: Suspect Lied to Evade a State Red Flag Law:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/16/nyregion/shooting-buffalo

* "Site of Buffalo shooting a community hub with deep roots:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/site-of-buffalo-shooting-a-community-hub-with-deep-roots-140159045860

* "Buffalo massacre: How racist messaging became mainstream on the American right:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/buffalo-massacre-how-racist-messaging-became-mainstream-on-the-american-right-140143173990

* "Buffalo gunman cited same racist ideology pushed by right-wing media:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/buffalo-gunman-cited-same-racist-ideology-pushed-by-right-wing-media-140146245848

* "Violent, terroristic racists are a recurrent problem with no simple solution:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/violent-terroristic-racists-are-a-recurrent-problem-with-no-simple-solution-140160069588

* "Reporters tread carefully with attention-seeking racists, extremist online communities:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/reporters-tread-carefully-with-attention-seeking-racists-extremist-online-communities-140160581547

* "California churchgoers detained gunman in deadly attack:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/15/church-shooting-california-00032598

* "Border Patrol disbands units accused of covering up abuse:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/12/border-patrol-disbands-critical-incident-teams/

* "San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars as Mobile Surveillance Cameras:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dw8x/san-francisco-police-are-using-driverless-cars-as-mobile-surveillance-cameras

* "U.S. police trainers with far-right ties are teaching hundreds of cops:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-extremism/

* "Who Writes the Rules for Cops?:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a38941594/lexipol-bruce-praet-police-policy-guidelines-handbooks/

* "How 5 Convicted Murderers Banded Together to Get Out of Prison:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/nyregion/sing-sing-prison-exoneration.html

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* "GOP Is Wasting No Time Pushing Dystopian Post-Roe Laws:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-are-wasting-no-time-pushing-dystopian-post-roe-v-wade-laws

* "Abortion rights are in peril in Kansas and the U.S. Shock and outrage won’t change that. - Kansas Reflector:" https://kansasreflector.com/2022/05/11/abortion-rights-are-in-peril-in-kansas-and-the-u-s-shock-and-outrage-wont-change-that/

* "After Roe decision, Idaho lawmakers may consider restricting some contraception:" https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article261207007.html

* "With fear and fury, thousands across U.S. rally for abortion rights:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/14/dc-bans-off-our-bodies-protest/

* "Abortion rights protests take place across the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/14/us/gallery/abortion-rights-protest/index.html

* "Negative Shapes:" https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/930891.html#cutid1

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* "Texas court rules state can investigate trans kids' parents for 'child abuse':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/13/texas-trans-child-abuse-supreme-court/

* "Judge blocks Alabama restrictions on certain gender-affirming treatments for transgender youth:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/14/politics/judge-blocks-alabama-transgender-law/index.html

* CW: Suicide. "Nearly half of LGBTQ youth seriously considered suicide, survey finds:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096920693/lgbtq-youth-thoughts-of-suicide-trevor-project-survey

* CW: Suicide. "Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/08/health/emergency-rooms-teen-mental-health.html

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* "AP analysis finds growing number of poor, high-hazard dams:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-environment-san-diego-dams-d0836a1fdfc46a5f1ea6c6a4a8b8df96

* "The Scientists Fighting for Parasite Conservation:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-scientists-fighting-for-parasite-conservation/

* "Birds Are in a Tailspin Four Years After Fukushima:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/birds-are-tailspin-four-years-after-fukushima-180955134/

* "Michigan profs push 'pee for peonies' urine diversion plan:" https://apnews.com/article/science-sports-michigan-flowers-ann-arbor-0429300defa54cbade3d73c294d47e4b

* "Where anonymity on Twitter is a matter of life or death:" https://restofworld.org/2022/where-anonymity-on-twitter-is-a-matter-of-life-or-death/

* "The Constitution Doesn't Say That!:"

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* "Fashion Cafe: The Failure When Fashion and Food Collide:"

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* CW: Suicide. "The Heaven's Gate Cult: Truth and Tragedy:"

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* "The Scientology Scammer: Reed Slatkin:"

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* CW: Rape, Pedophilia. "Modeling Schools: The Nightmare Before Runway:"

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* "Avon: Makeup, Bribery, and the Beginning of the End:"

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* CW: Elder Abuse. "The Truth Behind Timeshares and Travel Clubs:"

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* "The Wild Life of Alan Kippax and His MLM Business in Motion:"

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* "Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Was it Preventable?:"

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* "Obama and the Myth of Black Excellence:"

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* Tyra Banks:

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* CW: Sexual harassment, Hate Speech "Abercrombie and Fitch's Disturbing Secrets:"

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* "What We Know About North Sentinel Island:"

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* "A Deeper Look at National Parks and Their Conspiracy Theories:"

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* "More than 300 languages are spoken along this NYC street:" https://archive.ph/1Vynv#selection-4444.0-4444.1

* "Grenada: Confronting my family’s slave-owning past:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61315877

* "Artifacts seized from US billionaire returned to Israel:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/artifacts-seized-us-billionaire-returned-israel-83602117

* "Spain probes private taxidermy museum with 1,000 animals:" https://apnews.com/article/oddities-spain-taxidermy-museum-investigation-6a35dc2e4570b0d83f6a18d4123ea429

* "Dog allegedly abandoned at shelter after owners decided he was "gay":" https://www.newsweek.com/dog-allegedly-abandoned-shelter-after-owners-decided-he-was-gay-1690037

* "Baby giraffe born with leg disorder is fitted with orthotic at San Diego Zoo Safari Park:" https://abc7.com/baby-giraffe-fitted-with-brace-san-diego-zoo-animals/11847286/

* "Meanwhile... Taco Bell's Mexican Pizza Returns | Florida's Gators Are Thirsty:"

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* "Weekend Update: Ukraine Wins Eurovision, 7,000 NYC Rat Sightings Reported - SNL:"

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* "Dracula to go (Stoker in 7 minutes):"

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* "Three Daughters - SNL:"

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* "Irish Play - SNL:"

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* "Old Enough! Longterm Boyfriends! - SNL:"

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* "Are You Hardcore With Your Salads? Try The Slayer Spring Mix:"

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* "Circus Mircus - Lock Me In - Georgia 🇬🇪 - Official Music Video - Eurovision 2022:"

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* "Citi Zēni - Eat Your Salad - Latvia 🇱🇻 - Official Music Video - Eurovision 2022:"

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* I was recently discussing how conservative TV Shows are when it comes to abortion and have been for some time, and I referenced how when I was a kid the sit-com Soap aired a scene where three women sat around a kitchen table in the middle of the night having an adult conversation about whether one of them should have an abortion.

Me: in the end she decided to keep it, which turned out to be a mistake.

Millennial *makes a perfectly reasonable guess about how it might have been a mistake.

Me: Oh no! Nothing like that. The baby turned out to be possessed because the father was this priest she was in in an on again off again relationship with and the whole thing turned into an Exorcist parody for a bit.

Millennial : !!!

Me: Yeah, the plots on Soap were Just Like That.

Millennial: O.o

* We are trying to get a working oven. I am disabled and medically fragile. Not having a working oven is messing with my nutrition. I need about 600.00ish:

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

* I did not have “half of Dracula Daily thinks Stoker was writing about sentient boobs and not their “gentle breasts” as in their tender hearts because usage has changed in a century and a quarter” on my bingo card for May 16th, but here we are.

I get it, I really do. Most people do not get read 19th century lit as bedtime stories from the age of three. I grew up weird. I automatically switch idiom, but for people who don’t have eccentric teachers for parents, this is bizarre and hilarious.

I am mostly just boggling that something about the reread surprised me as much today as things have been surprising the new readers all along. I am filled with delight in the unexpected and real amusement at the pictures their reading of it has put in my head.

* "Eurovision fans blown away by San Marino 'cowboy stripper' same-sex kiss:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/13/eurovision-san-marino-gay-kiss/

* "All the iconic and mind-blowing moments from an unforgettable Eurovision:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/14/eurovision-best-moments-italy/

* "12 mind-blowing facts about the Eurovision Song Contest you probably never knew:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/14/eurovision-song-contest-history-facts/

* "Trans Heartstopper star Yasmin Finney joins cast of Russell T Davies' Doctor Who:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/16/yasmin-finney-heartstopper-doctor-who-russell-t-davies/

* "Old photos of daredevil bikers racing in motorcycle chariots, 1920-1930:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/motorcycle-chariot-races-photos/

* Our Flag Means Death: People like us: https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/684490133624569856

* "How it actually turned out.:" https://twitter.com/PossumTV/status/1524744593908301825

* "Discworld Pushed Me Left:" https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/684204398190231552

* "Pride and Prejudice Two: Elizabeth Has A Gun:" https://magnesiumflare.tumblr.com/post/684466081064173568

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Sri Lankan protesters demand justice for 2019 Easter attacks:" https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2022-04-17/sri-lankan-protesters-demand-justice-for-2019-attack-victims

* "Sri Lanka president expands cabinet amid economic crisis protests:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/18/sri-lanka-president-expands-cabinet-amid-economic-crisis-protests

* "LGBT+ Rwandans face bogus arrests and violent abuse in terrifying detention centre:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/15/rwanda-lgbt-rights-tom-pursglove/

This is where the Tories want to illegally deport queer refugees.

“The plan “will result in genuine gay refugees being deported to death. Rwanda’s human rights record includes forced disappearances and killings, and even today’s UK [Foreign Office] travel advice warns LGBT+ travelers of state-sanctioned abuse and discrimination,” Chelvan said.“

* "With war next door, Moldova faces a dilemma as Eastern Europe's most vulnerable state:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/15/1091998660/ukraine-russia-war-moldova-security-transdniester

* "Russians Are Fleeing to the Country Putin Invaded Before Ukraine:"

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* "2 months after Brittney Griner’s arrest, mystery surrounds her case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/21/brittney-griner-arrest-russia-00027045

* "Brazilian president puts records of Moscow trip under seal for five years:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/brazilian-president-puts-records-of-moscow-trip-under-seal-for-five-years-138200133889

* "Poland builds a border wall, even as it welcomes Ukrainian refugees:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/poland-refugees-wall-belarus/

* "Europe fears possible Le Pen presidency in France as a threat from within:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/19/marine-le-pen-russia-nato/

* "Macron and Le Pen go head-to-head in French presidential debate:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/macron-and-le-pen-go-head-to-head-in-french-presidential-debate

* "A Marine Le Pen presidency would be a dark, chilling time for LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/21/france-election-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen-lgbt/

* "Why Hong Kong’s prisoners of conscience deserve the Nobel Peace Prize:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/19/imprisoned-hong-kong-activists-deserve-nobel-prize/

* "The Maroons New Chief Richard Currie Says No Mining in Cockpit Country:" https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/caribbean-breaking-news-featured/the-maroons-new-chief-richard-currie-says-no-mining-in-cockpit-country/

* "This burning train is a symbol of the anger of India's out-of-work youth:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/03/16/1084139074/this-burning-train-is-a-symbol-of-the-anger-of-indias-out-of-work-youth

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* "This powerful Covid-19 mitigation measure is invisible:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/10/health/covid-19-ventilation-matters-wellness/index.html

I hope we get to keep good ventilation built into new architectural designs post pandemic. It will be so much better for everyone health wise. I fucking hated when they started doing things like no windows that open. I hate that windowless dorm design that is being pushed in California. We need good ventilation/filtration fans and lots of openable windows.

* "How long covid is accelerating a revolution in medical research:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/03/long-covid-research/

* "FDA authorizes first Covid-19 breath test:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/health/covid-breath-test/index.html

* "Shanghai’s covid siege: Food shortages, talking robots, starving animals:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/china-shanghai-covid-lockdown-food-shortage/

* "It's not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-infectious-diseases-4b298e5339d399572e8f70bec118bde0

* "TSA won't enforce mask mandate for travel, following Florida ruling:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/18/judge-strikes-cdc-mask-mandate-travel-00025900

The judge's ruling is full of lies about face masks propagated by right wing disinformation sites.

* "Trump judge's override of CDC on masks raises concerns for future public health measures:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-judge-s-override-of-cdc-on-masks-raises-concerns-for-future-public-health-measures-138106437550

* "Dr. Gupta: You should still wear a mask on public transportation as of now:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dr-gupta-you-should-still-wear-a-mask-on-public-transportation-as-of-now-138090565774

* "Trump-appointed judge voiding travel mask mandate raises danger of Covid surge experts say:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-appointed-judge-s-ruling-voiding-mask-mandate-on-planes-analyzed-by-experts-138095685652

* "Justice Dept. to appeal order voiding travel mask mandate:" https://apnews.com/article/health-travel-florida-public-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-918c37c5fc5e250f84f4f6cbf77bbcec

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* "Liberation Without Victory:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/04/zelensky-kyiv-russia-war-ukrainian-survival-interview/629570/

* "Zelensky says world should be prepared for possibility Putin could use nuclear weapons:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/tapper-zelensky-interview-cnntv/index.html

* "Russia's Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk 'nightmare':" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-health-europe-accidents-edcd5bc0e6bde3cbf6d7300bebc9343f

* "Heedless Russian military risks catastrophe with Ukraine nuclear plants:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/heedless-russian-military-risks-catastrophe-with-ukraine-nuclear-plants-138199621509

* "Greece impounds Russian tanker as part of EU sanctions against Russia:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greece-seizes-russian-tanker-part-eu-sanctions-2022-04-19/

* "Yellen, Ukraine official walk out of Russia's G-20 remarks:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-janet-yellen-g-20-summit-92c835b394325bae670e3d37d36594ec

* "Pentagon Press Sec. Kirby: We want Ukrainian sovereignty to be respected by Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-forces-appearing-to-control-key-city-of-mariupol-ukraine-discussed-by-pentagon-press-sec-john-kirby-138278981688

* "Biden announces heavy artillery, other weapons for Ukraine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-biden-announces-new-military-aid-e78a7db76215a84f86586bb56122cd04

* "U.S. to start training Ukrainians on howitzers in coming days:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us-set-start-training-ukrainians-howitzers-coming-days-official-2022-04-18/

* "Explosions reported near Kyiv and Lviv; Mariupol’s fate in balance:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/16/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

* "Lviv sees first wartime deaths amid strikes, Ukrainian officials say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/18/lviv-missile-strikes-ukraine-russia-war/

* "“I’m done talking”: Nance on fighting in Ukraine with International Legion of Territorial Defense:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-s-fight-against-russia-joined-by-malcolm-nance-of-international-legion-of-territorial-defense-of-ukraine-137997381811

* "Ukrainians defy Russian surrender demand in Mariupol on 'Easter of war':" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-tells-ukrainian-troops-mariupol-lay-down-arms-0300-gmt-2022-04-17/

* "Odessa is Putin’s next target. It desperately needs our help.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/17/odessa-putin-next-target-needs-help/

* "What life is like in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/16/1093212488/what-life-is-like-in-the-ukrainian-city-of-mykolaiv

* "Residents of a devastated Chernihiv ponder their future after a Russian siege ends:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092407304/chernihiv-ukraine-russia-siege

* "Minesweeping dog helps clear Russian explosives:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61099213

* "Charred houses, cratered lawns and an epic clean-up on road to Chernihiv:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/chernihiv-ukrainians-territory-russia-occupation-kyiv

* "‘After Bucha, I’m afraid of Russian soldiers’: people in east Ukraine prepare for fresh assault:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/17/after-bucha-im-afraid-of-russian-soldiers-people-in-east-ukraine-prepare-for-fresh-assault

* "‘Very similar’: fears gateway city to Donbas will become another Bucha:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/bucha-izyum-fears-gateway-city-donbas-russia-ukraine

* "‘Thank You for Not Killing Us’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-occupation.html

* "Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander on Ukraine: ‘This is a genocide’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/vladimir-putin-s-invasion-of-ukraine-and-the-battle-over-the-donbas-analyzed-by-experts-138095173603

* "Another Russian General Has Been Killed In Ukraine:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2022/04/16/another-russian-general-has-been-killed-in-ukraine/?sh=2f162abb3d41

* "Ukraine’s past and present intertwine as a war historian seeks refuge:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-refugee-history/

* ""Where Should I Go?" Ukrainian Refugees Try to Find Their Way in Poland:" https://time.com/6167995/poland-ukraine-refugees/

* "Thousands Detained At Anti-War Protests Across Russia:" https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-1000-protesters-arrested-ukraine-invasion/31738786.html

* "Meet the activists who projected a giant Ukrainian flag on Russia's Embassy in D.C.:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092966576/ukraine-flag-projected-lights-protest-russian-embassy-washington-dc

* " History Summarized: Ukraine :"

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* "Russia’s ‘Satan 2’ missile changes little for U.S., scholars say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/20/satan-2-icbm/

* "US Army using lessons from Ukraine war to aid own training:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-us-army-training-54e76eba46f9bf79542dd3f872456e67

* "'Eliminationist rhetoric,' a fascist tool, gains alarming foothold in Trump-era politics :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-eliminationist-rhetoric-a-fascist-tool-gains-alarming-foothold-in-trump-era-politics-138007621574

* "How Coups Are Derailing the US War on Terror in Africa:"

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* "How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/how-democracies-spy-on-their-citizens

* "Top Democrats call for investigation into Jared Kushner’s $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jared-kushner-s-two-billion-dollar-investment-from-saudi-arabia-sparks-calls-for-criminal-investigation-138189381539

* "Secret Service fatally shoots man at Peruvian ambassador’s home:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/20/secret-service-shooting-peruvian-embassy/

* "This Is What Happens When Globalization Breaks Down:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/business/supply-chain-small-business.html

* "Biden administration announces it will resume onshore oil and gas lease sales with higher royalty rate:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/biden-interior-oil-and-gas/index.html

* How high was the court when they made this decision? "High Court upholds excluding Puerto Ricans from aid for disabled and blind:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/21/1094128297/high-court-upholds-excluding-puerto-ricans-from-aid-for-disabled-and-blind

* "The Supreme Court is broken. So is the system that confirms its justices.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/08/supreme-court-broken-jackson-kagan-bork/

* "The Dark-Money Group Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-slime-machine-targeting-dozens-of-biden-nominees

* "Republican smear operation exposed in new report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-smear-operation-exposed-in-new-report-138009157552

* "States scale back food stamp benefits even as prices soar:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-nebraska-iowa-des-moines-4ff5e0d51f61e6704f44dfc31279376a

* "How Your Shadow Credit Score Could Decide Whether You Get an Apartment:" https://www.propublica.org/article/how-your-shadow-credit-score-could-decide-whether-you-get-an-apartment

* "Bellingham renters grapple with health, safety risks:" https://www.cascadiadaily.com/news/2022/apr/13/bellingham-renters-grapple-with-health-safety-risks/

You know the terribly landlords I've had? I've rented from both of these. Landmark is the one that:

1. Tried to double cash my rent check, then charge me late and return fees because i didn't have enough money in my account to pay a second rent I didn't actually owe them on the grounds that "Once you give us a check there is no law stopping us from cashing it as often as we want. Luckily my bank was willing to fight them tooth and nail and in the end they had to pay my bank fees also. (Seriously I still do not understand how this is legal.)

2. Fought us over every repair then took our deposit because we had not paid an outside contractor to fix things like plumbing.

3. Never changed carpets on any units between tenets. They were nasty, torn, stained, and moldy. We noted this on move in sheets. They charged us to replace the carpets when we left, then didn't change them so they could pull the scam on the next tenets, which i discovered when i went to get a mis-delivered package from the second rental we had from them.

4. Black mold constantly bloomed on the walls, carpeting and ceiling.

5. The stairs were rotting wood and shaky. One day the railing came off in my hand. They reluctantly replaced it with naked, uncured wood. No weather coating or paint or shellac, just pine bits they bought at some hardware store. the same happened when my leg went through a rotted stair board.

6. a neighbor kid fell on some of the rusted rebar they had sticking up randomly in the front yard. A slightly different fall would have pierced something vital. They not only refused to pay medical bills, they refused to remove the rebar. Every time I tottered down the railing-less cement stairs where the kid fell I would look at the foot high rebar spike and wonder if my eye or neck or heart would be next.

7. The floor was spongy in the entry way when we moved in, something we expressed concern about and noted on the move in form. They said it was normal and nothing was wrong with it. The ceiling in the front wall leaked at that same second and last rental. We reported it and the electrical danger it was posing as the stair light out front was wired through it and it was a lot of water. This was because they improperly installed the balcony above, compromising the wall and ceiling. They insisted this was our responsibility to pay to fix even though it was preexisting and clearly nothing to do with us. They refused to fix it and threatened to charge us for it if we didn't fix the balcony in the upstairs unit, wall, leaks, and wiring for them. (I have no idea how this is legal, but here we are. We knew we weren't getting a penny of deposit back anyway.)

Remember the spongy floor? Right under the water rivulets coming through the ceiling. One day squirrel's leg went through. He could have died as it would have been an entire story drop onto the foundation if both legs went through. They refused responsibility for medical bills and tried to get us to pay to fix it, which we refused. The workmen came and were horrified. The reason the floor was spongy was there was no wood under it. I was impressed unsupported linoleum lasted the three or so years before it gave way. They said the entire underside of the building was rotting away similarly.

It took most of the week for them to replace the massive section of floor they had to remove, since they had to put in make shift pillars and such underneath and shore up the rotting floor, using our two man sized hole. we were terrified a cat would jump in there and get trapped. I couldn't get safely over the hole so I was trapped in the black mold riddled house with my failing lung patient lungs. Squirrel had to work, so he kept having to step carefully over it over and over. I am still amazed he survived.

Eventually, they put naked plywood over the hole and we never saw them again. We could lift the plywood plank with our fingers it not being nailed down. It would stake as I walked over it. They tried to charge us thousands of dollars to replace it even though we pointed out none of this was in anyway our fault. Odds are it's still dragging my credit store down.

8. They did replace the balcony eventually and plug the holes, but they never touched the wall with the wiring that was sodden through every time it rained until they did. I never trusted that light switch, so we simply had no porch light. Want to bet it is all black mold inside?

Families are still living there.

All of this is completely legal as there is no authority anywhere that stops it.

* "John Oliver Just Found A 'F**king Creepy' But Legal Way To Blackmail Lawmakers:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-oliver-data-brokers_n_6253db8ae4b066ecde08a5f8

* 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/

* "Post Politics Now: On Tax Day, the White House takes aim at GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s tax plan:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/18/biden-rick-scott-easter-egg/

* He’s running openly on heavily taxing the poor. "Rick Scott tax plan bad news for retirees:" https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/2022/04/18/senator-rick-scott-plan-would-force-seniors-pay-more-taxes/7333900001/

* "Texas gov. candidate Beto O’Rourke slams Gov. Abbott for border truck inspections costing millions:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democratic-candidate-for-governor-of-texas-beto-o-rourke-slams-gop-incumbent-for-truck-border-inspections-costing-millions-137843269545

* "Trump-endorsed candidate booted from ballot by state GOP amid cringey campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-endorsed-candidate-booted-from-ballot-by-state-gop-amid-cringey-campaign-138200133824

* "What Marjorie Taylor Greene will be asked when she testifies under oath:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-marjorie-taylor-greene-will-have-to-answer-when-she-testifies-under-oath-138181189954

* "Rep. Gallego: Democrats must use 'offensive strategy' to win midterms:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-gallego-democrats-must-use-offensive-strategy-to-win-midterms-137996357712

* "Trump-Endorsed Candidate JD Vance Once Said Trump Might Be ‘America’s Hitler’:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn4b8/jd-vance-trump-messages

* "Mar-a-Lago Machine: Trump as a Modern-Day Party Boss:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago.html

* "How Trump became the GOP’s modern-day party boss:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nyt-how-trump-became-the-gop-s-modern-day-party-boss-137993285944

* The Republican War on democracy continues. "Trump Allies Continue Legal Drive to Erase His Loss, Stoking Election Doubts:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/us/politics/trump-allies-election-decertify.html

* "New developments reported in criminal probe of Donald Trump in Georgia; subpoenas planned:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-developments-reported-in-criminal-probe-of-donald-trump-in-georgia-subpoenas-planned-138103877751

* "New book exposes duplicity of Republican leaders toward Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-book-exposes-duplicity-of-republican-leaders-toward-trump-138283077736

* "GOP Leader McCarthy wanted Twitter to suspend other Republican members of Congress: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-leader-mccarthy-wanted-twitter-to-suspend-other-republican-members-of-congress-report-138281029546

* "DOJ adds prosecutor to investigate January 6th beyond the Capitol attack: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-adds-prosecutor-to-investigate-january-6th-beyond-the-capitol-attack-nyt-138286661824

* "Lee worked hard to overturn election, keep Trump in power, texts show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/15/mike-lee-trump-2020-election/

* "Texts show Oath Keepers discussed protecting GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson on Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/texts-show-oath-keepers-discussed-protecting-gop-rep-ronny-jackson-on-jan-6-138092613825

* "2 house parties, an Easter fete and a mall were among the sites of at least 10 weekend US mass shootings:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/us/us-shootings-easter-weekend/index.html

* "Who fired guns in Sacramento mass shooting? New documents detail gunfight, minute by minute:" https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article260465242.html

* "Alex Jones' InfoWars files for bankruptcy in U.S. court:" https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alex-jones-infowars-files-bankruptcy-us-court-2022-04-18/

* "As Execution Looms, Mounting Evidence Points to Melissa Lucio’s Innocence:" https://theintercept.com/2022/04/17/melissa-lucio-clemency-execution/

* "Ed Buck jailed for 30 years for injecting gay men with fatal overdoses:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/15/ed-buck-donor-activist-gay-victims-sentence-prison/

* "Florida rejects math books with ‘references’ to critical race theory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/16/florida-rejects-math-textbooks-prohibited-topics/

I am having a hard time believing ANY Math books intended for K-12 contain second year law school legal theory let alone this many. Still Republicans are now basically banning Math for being too Woke.

* "Florida rejects 54 math textbooks over ‘prohibited topics’ including critical race theory:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/17/florida-rejects-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory

* "Woke math? Florida rejects math textbooks, citing critical race theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/woke-math-florida-rejects-math-textbooks-citing-critical-race-theory-137994821717

* "A look inside the math textbooks rejected by Florida:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-look-inside-the-math-textbooks-rejected-by-florida-138274885664

* "Anti-abortion, anti-trans, anti-CRT bills spreading sign of fascism, hyper-masculinity on rise:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/anti-abortion-anti-trans-anti-crt-bills-sweep-country-as-right-wing-accuses-democrats-of-trying-to-feminize-america-137997893936

* CW: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault. "How American Apparel Fell From Grace:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Kevin Spacey Asks Judge to Toss Anthony Rapp's Sexual Abuse Lawsuit:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/4/11/kevin-spacey-asks-judge-toss-anthony-rapps-sexual-abuse-lawsuit

* "Red and blue states race to reshape abortion access:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/red-and-blue-states-race-to-reshape-abortion-access-137904197622

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

* "NHS guidance for pregnant trans people is inclusive, fair and just common sense:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/18/nhs-trans-pregnant-sussex-brighton-daily-mail-vagina-piers-morgan/

* "Joy Reid on DeSantis: Baby MAGA is mad that Disney opposes his "Don’t Say Gay" law:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/desantis-moves-to-strip-disney-of-self-governing-status-as-it-opposes-his-don-t-say-gay-law-138188869556

* "Families and Doctors Sue Over Trans Health Care Ban in Alabama:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/4/12/families-and-doctors-sue-over-trans-health-care-ban-alabama

* "Alabama bans medical care to transgender youth:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/alabama-bans-medical-care-to-transgender-youth-137904709507

* "'We will not let hate win:' Lawmaker’s viral takedown of right-wing culture war:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-will-not-let-hate-win-lawmaker-s-viral-takedown-of-right-wing-culture-war-138183237659

* "Women's cycling race loses main sponsor over 'unacceptable' trans athlete suspension:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/15/womens-cicle-classic-emily-bridges-british-cycling/

* "Tucker Carlson's documentary is a bizarre, homoerotic fever dream nobody asked for:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/19/tucker-carlson-end-of-men-documentary-balls-tanning-gay-homoerotic/

* "Yes, trans women can get prostate cancer too – but they're being failed by doctors:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/18/trans-prostate-cancer-symptoms-heather-peto/

* "Meningococcal Disease Spikes in Florida:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2022/4/11/meningococcal-disease-spikes-among-gay-and-bi-men-florida

* "Does getting a mobility aid mean you’ve ‘given up’?:"

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* "She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter:" https://www.wired.com/story/she-was-missing-a-chunk-of-her-brain-it-didnt-matter/

* "DNA-spiked gel heals the skin wounds of ‘butterfly children’:" https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-spiked-gel-heals-skin-wounds-butterfly-children

* "What really happens when babies are left to cry it out?:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220322-how-sleep-training-affects-babies

* "The secrets hidden in sewage:" https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/23006184/covid-wastewater-surveillance-opioids-tuberculosis

* "Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lead-gasoline-blunted-iq-half-us-population-study-rcna19028

* "The Insidious Idea About “Safety” That Keeps Putting Us in Danger:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/risk-compensation-debunked-masks-rapid-tests-vaccines-safety.html

* "Communities are divided over Rhode Island's plan for safe drug injection sites:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092785414/communities-are-divided-over-rhode-islands-plan-for-safe-drug-injection-sites

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* "South Africa launches relief for Durban flooding; 448 dead:" https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-figure-vampire-blood.html

* "In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/in-a-world-on-fire-stop-burning-things

* "Video shows tornado damage in Kentucky after severe storms:" https://www.kentucky.com/news/weather/article260426152.html

* "Container ship stuck in Chesapeake Bay for more than a month is free:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/17/cargo-ship-ever-forward-chesapeake-bay-stuck/

* "The Missouri Ghost Town Poisoned By Toxic Waste:"

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* "How Japan Built Cities Where You Could Send Your Toddler on an Errand:" https://slate.com/business/2022/04/old-enough-netflix-do-japanese-parents-really-send-toddlers-on-errands.html

* "‘Everything’s going to pieces’: how a port took over a Black US neighborhood:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/port-freeport-texas-east-end-historically-black-neighborhood

* "How a Forgotten Bit of Infrastructure Became a Symbol of Civic Pride:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-a-forgotten-bit-of-infrastructure-became-a-symbol-of-civic-pride

* "How the Dorze in Ethiopia make ‘beehive’ houses from bamboo that last a lifetime:" https://aeon.co/videos/how-the-dorze-in-ethiopia-make-beehive-houses-from-bamboo-that-last-a-lifetime

* "6 Times We Tried to Extract Gold from Seawater:" https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/6-times-we-tried-to-extract-gold-from-seawater

* "2 monster black holes are headed toward a collision that will rock the fabric of space-time:" https://www.livescience.com/supermassive-black-hole-merger

* "Mysterious 'odd radio circles' seen in space, new image shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/world/odd-radio-circles-space-scn/index.html

* "Photographer Shoots 2 Million Photos to Show the Moon's 'Wobble':" https://petapixel.com/2022/03/31/photographer-shoots-2-million-photos-to-show-the-moons-wobble/

* "The Long Goodbye to Saturn’s Rings:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/03/saturn-losing-rings-nasa-moons/629391/

* "How tall will Mount Everest get before it stops growing?:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220407-how-tall-will-mount-everest-get-before-it-stops-growing

* "'Impossible' chemistry may reveal origins of life on Earth:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/impossible-chemistry-may-reveal-origins-of-life-on-earth

* "Why evolution is not a tree of life but a fuzzy network:" https://aeon.co/essays/why-evolution-is-not-a-tree-of-life-but-a-fuzzy-network

* "For the first time, wild dolphin observed 'talking' with harbor porpoises:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dolphin-speaks-porpoise-communicates-with-other-species

* "Bear hibernation: More than a winter’s nap:" https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2022/bear-hibernation-more-winters-nap

* "‘It’s astonishing’: endangered bat not seen in 40 years found in Rwanda:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/bats-endangered-hills-horseshoe-bat-rwanda

* "Fungus-ravaged bat proposed for endangered species listing:" https://apnews.com/article/health-environment-wildlife-traverse-city-bats-7e6c05b5b291633c5bc80e608007de1d

* "Scientists figure out how vampire bats got a taste for blood:" https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-figure-vampire-blood.html

* "Meet the 10-armed, 325-million-year-old octopus fossil named after President Joe Biden:" https://phys.org/news/2022-03-armed-million-year-old-octopus-fossil-joe.html

* "Why Don’t All Lions Climb Trees?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/science/lions-trees.html

* "SpaceX launches 3 visitors to space station for $55M each:" https://apnews.com/article/spacex-nasa-axiom-space-launch-f184f3c36fa10a969c7faadd6e25a4d2

* "NFTs: Scamming Art into the Digital Age:"

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* "Bored Ape Yacht Club: Monkey Business on the Open Sea:"

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* "Seat Belt History: The Patent That Was Given Away:" https://tedium.co/2022/03/18/seat-belt-history/

* "EU agrees on new digital rules to rein in Big Tech dominance:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eu-agrees-digital-rules-rein-big-tech-dominance-83667180

* " Why Elizabeth Holmes Was Convicted (and Also Acquitted) :"

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* "Tesla CEO Elon Musk won't join Twitter's board after all:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-elon-musk-board-of-directors-217a2c041b13e7f647c5275ef29a6394

* "Twitter investors sue Elon Musk for failing to promptly disclose the size of his stake:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/13/twitter-investors-sue-elon-musk-for-failing-to-promptly-disclose-stake.html

* "Elon Musk Should Have Been Stopped Long Before He Came for Twitter:" https://time.com/6168452/elon-musk-should-have-been-stopped-long-before-he-came-for-twitter/

* "Study Suggests Venus of Willendorf Originated in Italy:" https://www.archaeology.org/news/10387-220301-limestone-venus-willendorf

* "Largest Human Family Tree Identifies Nearly 27 Million Ancestors:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/largest-human-genomic-family-tree-identifies-nealy-27-million-ancestors-180979657/

* "History Summarized: Minoan Greece:"

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* "The Empress of China: Wu Zetian:"

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* "Why a Medieval Woman Had Lapis Lazuli Hidden in Her Teeth:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/the-woman-with-lapis-lazuli-in-her-teeth/579760/

* "A Manuscript Made From Sin: Codex Gigas:"

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* "Plague — History Hijinks:"

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* "The Drama of Point d'Alençon Needle Lace:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-drama-of-point-dalencon-needle-lace/

* "A Day in the Life of a Free Black Pepper Pot Woman in Philadelphia:"

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* My instinct is to wonder if it was a grad student. "2 missing Charles Darwin notebooks are mysteriously returned more than 20 years later:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/1091010338/charles-darwin-notebooks-cambridge-library

* "How America Became Enamoured with Octagon Houses:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/04/12/how-america-became-enamoured-with-octagon-houses/

* "The Myth of the Mad Hatter - Making a Victorian Top Hat:"

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* "The Women Behind the First Black Music Magazine:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-black-music-magazine

* "Rube Waddell: Literally One of the WEIRDEST Guys in History:"

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* CW: Genital Mutilation. "Siblings, Sugar, and Strikes: The Story of Kelloggs:"

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* Both my Gran (Great Grandmother) and Gran got caught up in the craze when it was new and were still doing them until almoat the end of their lives. "A Century Before Wordle Went Viral, Crossword Mania Swept the Country:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-century-before-wordle-went-viral-crossword-mania-swept-the-country-180979858/

* "How The Radium Girls Changed How We Work:"

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* "Troubling Stereotypes and False Narratives: The History of Hemp:"

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* "Why Tallulah Bankhead Never Became a Movie Star:"

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* "Marie Curie and Polish Resistance - JSTOR Daily:" https://daily.jstor.org/marie-curie-and-polish-resistance/

* "A Socialite’s Plot to Assassinate a Corrupt Official in Occupied Shanghai:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/zheng-pingru-spy-shanghai

* "The Mitfords: Communism Vs Fascism In The English Aristocracy | Tale Of Two Sisters:"

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* "Tastefully Simple: The Modern Day Tupperware Party:"

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* "No One Even Watched Rudy Giuliani’s ‘The Masked Singer’ Abomination:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-one-even-watched-rudy-giulianis-the-masked-singer-abomination

* "Police Interrogations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Kyrsten Sinema: A Tragedy of Her Own Making:"

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* "The Sleep Wellness Industry Is Trying To Sell You The Weirdest Shit:"

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* "This Manipulative Midterm Email Scam Already Hit Your Inbox:"

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* "The Angsty History of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson:"

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* "Why Spock’s Sexuality is so Dang Controversial:"

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* "Trivia Game Show - SNL:"

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* "Food and YouTube ft. Lizzo - SNL:"

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* "Throne Room - SNL:"

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* Sunday, I made the mistake of absentmindedly lifting some things after the head Millennial went home. I realized what I was doing fairly early and started icing right away. I likely would have been okay if Tavy hadn't kept insisting he was allowed to sleep with his whole weight on my wound. I kept trying to discourage this and redirect him to less damaging positions. He kept pretending to comply and then creeping back onto the non-load bearing area of my body the moment I'd drift off. I'd catch him mid-creep and redirect him back to safe, bonier areas like my ribs.

Eventually, he "won." He landed with his whole weight on one paw directly to my wound. I woke up just early enough to anticipate the pain, but not prevent it. I yelled because it really fucking hurt, terrifying him, so it was a pyrrhic victory for the Emperor.

I iced it, but it was bad. I just managed to stay out of the ER and I'm a bit better, but still a mess.

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

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

* JK Rowling vs Gretchen Felker-Martin at the Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1516995869681209344

* Stripper Picketline where they dressed as the OSHA Violations they are protesting: https://twitter.com/janusrose/status/1516776595025018885

* D&D and Greek Myths: https://twitter.com/deathbybadger/status/1516712889800925187

* "I know the joke about Izzy is “human dropped into a muppets movie” but the tragedy is that he’s a queer-coded character from some 1940s or 50s popcorn flick dropped into a pride parade in a floating gayborhood & he flat out has no idea how to deal with it.:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682208231414710272/i-know-the-joke-about-izzy-is-human-dropped-into

* Izzy Hands: Mascochist: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/swords-n-spindles/680892159977766912

* The Radical Diversity of Our Flag Means Death: https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/682005575395115008

* "Hidden love of New Brunswick men documented in early 20th-century photographs:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/havelock-len-cub-exhibit-fredericton-1.6410583

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "‘We’re finished’: Sri Lankans pushed to the brink by financial crisis:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/09/sri-lanka-financial-crisis-protesters-call-for-gotabaya-rajapaksa-resignation-please

* "What Ukraine Can Learn From Finland’s Stand 80 Years Ago:" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-20/russia-invades-ukraine-lessons-of-finland-s-winter-war-against-soviets

* "War with Russia? Finland has been making a plan for that:" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/war-with-russia-finland-has-been-making-a-plan-for-that-1.4839071

* "Putin's bullying backfires as Finland and Sweden edge closer to joining NATO:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/europe/putin-finland-sweden-nato-backfire-cmd-intl/index.html

* "Could Moldova be next on Putin’s hit list?:" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/could-moldova-be-next-on-putin-s-hit-list-1.4849758

* "Washington Post contributor arrested in Moscow after criticizing Putin:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/04/12/kara-murza-arrest/

* "Kremlin critic Kara-Murza reportedly arrested in Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kremlin-critic-kara-murza-reportedly-arrested-in-russia-137536069991

* "Wife of detained Russian opposition leader: Putin has been killing his opponents for years:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-has-be-killing-his-opponents-for-years-wife-of-detained-russian-opposition-leader-vladimir-kara-murza-says-137685061600

* "Putin lashing out at NATO backfires as interest in membership grows:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-lashing-out-at-nato-backfires-as-interest-in-membership-grows-137613893633

* "The Guardian view on Britain’s Rwanda deal: a cruel, cynical pretence:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/14/the-guardian-view-on-britains-rwanda-deal-a-cruel-cynical-pretence

* "UK prime minister Boris Johnson could get three more fines over lockdown breaches:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-prime-minister-boris-johnson-could-get-three-more-fines-over-lockdown-2022-04-13/

* "Benefits and state pension increase outpaced by rising prices:" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61040694

* "Hong Kong activist jailed for 16 months for organising banned ‘Reclaim Yuen Long’ demo in 2019:" https://hongkongfp.com/2022/04/13/hong-kong-activist-jailed-for-16-months-for-organising-banned-reclaim-yuen-long-demo-in-2019/

* "The Wet’suwet’en are more united than pipeline backers want you to think - Macleans.ca:" https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-wetsuweten-are-more-united-than-pipeline-backers-want-you-to-think/

* "Pakistan: Shehbaz Sharif chosen as PM after week-long uncertainty:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61063386

* "Explainer: Macron or Le Pen: why it matters for France, the EU and the West:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/macron-or-le-pen-why-it-matters-france-eu-west-2022-04-10/

* "After the French presidential election, the deluge:" https://www.politico.eu/article/after-france-presidential-election-deluge/

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* "Covid News: World Exceeds 500 Million Known Virus Cases Amid Testing Concerns:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/12/world/covid-19-mandates-cases-vaccine

* "German government drops plan for Covid vaccine mandate:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/german-government-drops-plan-for-covid-vaccine-mandate

* "A German State Is Last in Almost Everything. But It’s No. 1 in Vaccines.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/world/europe/germany-covid-vaccine-strategy.html

* "U.S. renews COVID-19 public health emergency:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-renews-covid-19-public-health-emergency-2022-04-13/

* "Dr. Anthony Fauci: I recommend you go and get the fourth shot if you are over 50:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/dr-anthony-fauci-on-covid-cases-fueled-by-omicron-subvariant-ticking-up-across-the-country-137527365760

* "Philadelphia to restore indoor mask mandate as cases rise:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-philadelphia-d7f5dacf0ae4ac004e5b15dd58362360

* "72 people at high-profile D.C. dinner test positive for Covid:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/67-attendees-test-positive-covid-high-profile-dc-dinner-rcna23763

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* "Russia already has nuclear weapons in the Baltic region, says Lithuania:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-already-has-nuclear-weapons-baltic-region-says-lithuania-2022-04-14/

* "Russia is jamming U.S.-provided GPS signals in Ukraine, U.S. general says:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/russia-jamming-u-provided-gps-232724920.html

* "Ukraine economy seen being slashed in half; Austrian leader will meet Putin in Moscow on Monday:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/10/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

* "Even with sanctions, Russia can afford to feed its war machine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/even-with-sanctions-russia-can-afford-feed-its-war-machine-2022-04-12/

* "Clint Watts: President Zelenskyy needs air power, this could be ended quickly:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-offensive-s-new-commander-gen-alexander-dvornikov-called-butcher-of-syria-137528389696

* "German lawmakers call for EU ban on Russian oil after Ukraine visit:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-lawmakers-call-eu-ban-russian-oil-after-ukraine-visit-2022-04-12/

* "High stakes challenge in Ukraine: How far to push Putin:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/high-stakes-challenge-in-ukraine-how-far-to-push-putin-137845829557

* "Ukraine seizes 55 homes, 26 cars and yacht from Putin ally Medvedchuk:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/14/medvedchuk-ukraine-property-seized/

* "Ukraine seizes assets of Putin ally in crackdown on Russian corruption :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ukraine-seizes-assets-of-putin-ally-in-crackdown-on-russian-corruption-137775685959

* "Russian warship sinks; Ukraine says its missile is responsible:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-flagship-black-sea-fleet-badly-damaged-by-blast-2022-04-14/

* "Why the sinking of Russia's 'Moskva' battleship matters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-the-sinking-of-russia-s-moskva-battleship-matters-137776197800

* "Putin vows to press invasion until Russia's goals are met:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-ap-top-news-europe-7d747ae240e9abbfb1951fd4ad27882a

* "UK expects fighting to intensify in next 2-3 weeks; West working to confirm reports of Russian chemical weapons attack:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/11/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

* "Battles may be tougher for Ukrainians as war shifts to wide-open terrain in east:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/09/ukraine-battle-east-shift/

* "Russian convoy heads toward eastern Ukraine as new Mariupol death toll emerges:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/11/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

* "Putin appoints new general to lead military action in Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/putin-appoints-new-general-to-lead-military-action-in-ukraine-137426501963

* "Clint Watts: President Zelenskyy needs air power, this could be ended quickly:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-offensive-s-new-commander-gen-alexander-dvornikov-called-butcher-of-syria-137528389696

* "In eastern Ukraine, Russian military razing towns to take them over:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/07/izyum-eastern-ukraine-razing-towns/

* "Samantha Power on Russian atrocities and 'genocide': 'The facts are plain as day':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/samantha-power-on-russian-atrocities-and-genocide-the-facts-are-plain-as-day-137614405655

* "Ukraine says fighting rages in Mariupol, blasts rattle Kyiv:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/powerful-explosions-heard-kyiv-after-russian-warship-sinks-2022-04-15/

* "Western leaders pledge more military support as Russian troops reposition in east:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/russia-ukraine-war-news-live-updates/#link-VLPJFDDV4BD7BAFKNNERMN2UC4

* "Mykolaiv region on edge amid fear of a new Russian offensive:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/09/mykolaiv-nervous-russia-military-moves-south/

* "Chernihiv: Are these Russia's weapons of war?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61036880

* "Doctors in Chernihiv bear witness to their hospital's fate after Russian shelling:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/04/07/1091333939/doctors-in-chernihiv-bear-witness-to-their-hospitals-fate-after-russian-shelling

* "In eastern Ukraine, Russian military razing towns to take them over:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/07/izyum-eastern-ukraine-razing-towns/

* "Fmr. Amb. Prosper: "War crimes are being committed.":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/fmr-amb-prosper-war-crimes-are-being-committed-137428037943

* "Russian rockets destroy Dnipro airport, Ukraine officials say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/shelling-hits-school-apartment-building-ukraines-sievierodonetsk-governor-2022-04-10/

* "Message on missile at Ukraine train station is part of a long history:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/09/missile-writing-kramatorsk-train-station-ukraine-russia/

* "Escape from Mariupol: the man who swam to safety from Russian terror:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/07/ukraine-escape-from-mariupol-man-swam-eussian-terror

* "Bucha’s Month of Terror:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/11/world/europe/bucha-terror.html

* "How many Ukrainians have fled their homes and where have they gone?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60555472

* "Homes for Ukraine: Visa silence unwelcoming, Cardiff peer says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-61057170

* "Homes for Ukraine: Don't match female refugees with single men, UN says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61099131

* "The network in Romania to help Ukrainian refugees:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/09/1091902352/the-network-in-romania-to-help-ukrainian-refugees

* "From New York to Tokyo, Ukraine war protests continue:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/09/ukraine-war-protests-photos-global/

* CW: Rape. "Protest held outside Tallinn`s Russian embassy against women raped in war:" https://www.euronews.com/2022/04/13/protest-held-outside-tallinn-s-russian-embassy-against-women-raped-in-war

* "Ukraine supporters outnumber pro-Russians in German protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pro-russian-protesters-germany-outnumbered-by-ukraine-supporters-2022-04-10/

* "Russia: feminist activist could be jailed for ten years for putting anti-war slogans on supermarket labels:" https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/russia-feminist-activist-could-be-jailed-ten-years-putting-anti-war-slogans

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* "US agencies: Industrial control system malware discovered:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-north-america-malware-300f886c2757a9e6bd96f1ee20a8f5db

* "Threat of cyberattack on U.S. infrastructure takes more serious turn:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/threat-of-cyberattack-on-u-s-infrastructure-takes-more-serious-turn-137691717553

* "Greatest threat to future of NATO may be the U.S. under Trump-led Republicans:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/greatest-threat-to-future-of-nato-may-be-the-u-s-under-trump-led-republicans-137693765565

* "Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-fund.html

* "Report of massive Saudi payout to Kushner raises new questions about Trump admin policies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/report-of-massive-saudi-payout-to-kushner-raises-new-questions-about-trump-admin-policies-137532997515

* "How Jared Kushner and the Trump admin traded U.S. foreign policy for $2 billion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-jared-kushner-and-the-trump-admin-traded-u-s-foreign-policy-for-2-billion-137524293846

* "Biden waiving ethanol rule in bid to lower gasoline prices:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-business-iowa-campaigns-elections-227e09a39aed1680e1f4813334aeae64

* Now is a good time to put pressure on him. "Biden seems 'more open' to canceling student debt broadly 'than ever before,' Chuck Schumer says:" https://news.yahoo.com/biden-seems-more-open-canceling-175827010.html

* "Biden picks a former federal prosecutor to lead the ATF as it targets 'ghost guns':" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/11/1091955028/biden-atf-nominee-ghost-guns

* "Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Historic Confirmation to the Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-s-historic-confirmation-to-the-supreme-court-137430085549

* "US jobless claims rise but remain near a half-century low:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-business-health-economy-unemployment-ad888c523c00ad93e2a82735a226cf77

* "The expanded child tax credit briefly slashed child poverty. Here's what else it did:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1075299510/the-expanded-child-tax-credit-briefly-slashed-child-poverty-heres-what-else-it-d

* "Labor Secretary Marty Walsh on the State of the Workplace:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/labor-secretary-marty-walsh-on-the-state-of-the-workplace-137430085578

* "It's a deal! | Sacramento teacher strike comes to an end:" https://www.abc10.com/article/news/education/sacramento-teacher-strike-comes-to-an-end/103-bf8c18a4-1217-4c8e-bf92-64fe9354ed20

* "John Oliver Just Found A 'F**king Creepy' But Legal Way To Blackmail Lawmakers:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-oliver-data-brokers_n_6253db8ae4b066ecde08a5f8

* 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/

* "Federal judge dismisses Republicans’ effort to block unaffiliated voters from Colorado’s primaries:" https://coloradosun.com/2022/04/08/unaffiliated-voter-lawsuit-colorado-dismissed/

* "It's always, without fail, a cishet white dude:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1828932.html

* "Primaries are the real elections now:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1828854.html

* "Herschel Walker Claims to Own Companies That Don’t Exist:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-claims-to-own-companies-that-dont-exist

* "Stacey Abrams win in Georgia will lead to ‘cold war’ with Florida, DeSantis says:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/09/stacey-abrams-georgia-florida-cold-war-desantis

* "Republican party withdraws from US Commission on Presidential Debates:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/14/republican-party-withdraws-commission-on-presidential-debates

* "Republican candidates in battleground states skip debates:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-candidates-battleground-states-skip-debates/story?id=83785574

* It’s cowardice combined with autocratic hatred of free exchange of ideas. "What's behind the RNC's decision to quit presidential debates:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-s-behind-the-rnc-s-decision-to-quit-presidential-debates-137766469645

* "Feinstein defends herself amid new questions about her capabilities in Senate job:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-04-14/feinstein-defends-herself-amid-new-questions-about-her-capabilities-in-senate

* "Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks trans people 'deserve to be beaten up':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/18/marjorie-taylor-greene-trans-alex-jones-infowars/

* "Mark Meadows removed from N.C. voter rolls amid fraud investigation:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/13/mark-meadows-north-carolina-removed-voter-rolls/

* "Race hard to ignore in sentencing differences in voting cases:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/race-hard-to-ignore-in-sentencing-differences-in-voting-cases-137847365786

* "State Department unable to provide full account of foreign gifts given to Trump and officials :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/09/politics/state-department-trump-administration-foreign-gifts/index.html

* "Donald Trump compares ‘far-left gender theories’ to ‘child abuse’ in hate-filled rant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/10/donald-trump-trans-rights/

* "New texts show GOP lawmakers’ desperate attempt to steal 2020 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-texts-show-gop-lawmakers-desperate-attempt-to-steal-2020-election-137837125750

* "New texts reveal Republican's openness to dump democracy to keep Trump in power: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-texts-reveal-republican-s-openness-to-dump-democracy-to-keep-trump-in-power-report-137845829667

* "Liz Cheney disputes report January 6 panel split over Trump criminal referral:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/10/liz-cheney-disputes-report-january-6-panel-split-trump-criminal-referral

* "Top Trump White House lawyers scheduled for Jan. 6 interview:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/12/trump-lawyers-jan6-interview-cipollone-philbin-00024868

* "In Conference Call Before Riot, a Plea to ‘Descend on the Capitol’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-riot-sullivan-trump.html

* "‘Smoking rifle’: Trump Jr texted Meadows strategies to overturn election – report:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/09/trump-jr-texts-mark-meadows-white-house-election-result

* "Ex-Roger Stone aide reportedly urged Trump supporters to ‘descend on the Capitol’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ex-roger-stone-aide-reportedly-urged-trump-supporters-to-descend-on-the-capitol-137678917680

* "Stephen Miller meets virtually with January 6 committee:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/january-6-stephen-miller/index.html

* "Proud Boys leader admits plan to storm Capitol and will testify against others:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/08/donohoe-pleads-guilty-proud-boys-jan6/

* "Man who said Trump’s ‘orders’ caused him to steal liquor from Capitol on Jan. 6 found guilty:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/14/jan6-trump-presidential-orders-thompson-capitol/

* "'Groomed:' Attorney argues Trump to blame for his client storming the Capitol:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-groomed-attorney-argues-trump-to-blame-for-his-client-storming-the-capitol-137682501511

* "DOJ reaches settlement in 2020 cases involving Lafayette Square protesters:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-reaches-settlement-2020-cases-involving-lafayette-square-protester-rcna24325

* "Gretchen Whitmer: Michigan governor kidnap plot case collapses:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60999431

* "Rep. Neguse: New crackdown on ghost guns is ‘basic common sense step’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-neguse-new-crackdown-on-ghost-guns-is-basic-common-sense-step-137525829950

* "Suspect in Brooklyn subway train shooting called in the tip that led to his arrest, sources say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/13/us/brooklyn-subway-shooting-wednesday/index.html

* "Suspect sought as shooter in Sacramento gang gunfight has long history of gun violations:" https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article260365245.html

* "2 people killed and 5 wounded in shooting near Los Angeles:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/people-killed-wounded-shooting-los-angeles-84012490

* "Man facing murder charge in Cedar Rapids mass shooting:" https://www.kcrg.com/2022/04/12/cedar-rapids-police-make-arrest-taboo-nightclub-shooting/

* "One man dead after West Dundee shooting that could be related to Elgin party murders:" https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20220413/one-man-dead-after-west-dundee-shooting-that-could-be-related-to-elgin-party-murders

* "'Data shows states with stricter gun laws have less gun crime': expert Frank Figliuzzi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/brooklyn-subway-shooting-possible-right-wing-response-slamming-gun-control-analyzed-by-crime-expert-137606725552

* "A Look into the Life of Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones:"

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* "Texas Border Operation’s Largest Share of Arrests: Trespassing On Private Property:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/04/04/texas-border-operation-s-largest-share-of-arrests-trespassing-on-private-property

* "Video shows a Michigan police officer on Black man's back before he fatally shot him:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092733100/video-shows-a-michigan-police-officer-on-black-mans-back-before-he-fatally-shot-

* "Former police chief: There are two levels of police service for the affluent vs. the marginalized:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/michigan-traffic-stop-ending-in-deadly-police-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man-renews-calls-for-police-reform-137770053821

* "The Rise and Fall of Kat Von D:"

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* "A History of Misogyny and Sexual Harassment: Victoria's Secret:"

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* CW: Rape, Torture, Domestic Violence. "Marilyn Manson: Documentaries, Defamation, and Deceit? :"

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* CW: Pedophilia "Gay Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan found guilty of sexually assaulting teen boy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/11/imran-ahmad-khan-tory-mp-sexual-assault-teen-boy/

* CW: Pedophilia "Crispin Blunt quits as LGBTQ+ group chair after Imran Ahmad Khan comments:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/12/crispin-blunt-urged-to-apologise-for-comments-on-imran-ahmad-khan-case

* "Texas Will Dismiss Murder Charge Against Woman Connected to ‘Self-Induced Abortion’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/texas-self-induced-abortion-charge-dismissed.html

* "Joy Reid: Will women be punished for abortions If Roe v. Wade is overturned by Supreme Court?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/abortion-rights-under-threat-as-woman-in-texas-charged-with-murder-in-connection-to-self-induced-abortion-137528901815

* "Oklahoma governor signs bill to make abortion illegal:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-oklahoma-law-87880e9f3c7bde2ae634cb2f02839e6e

* "Abortions stop in Kentucky as groups seek to block new law:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/groups-sue-restore-abortion-services-kentucky-84080520

* "New law puts immediate end to abortion access in Kentucky:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-law-puts-immediate-end-to-abortion-access-in-kentucky-137776709787

* "‘We’re under a five alarm fire,’ political strategist says of new anti-abortion laws:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kentucky-becoming-first-state-to-end-abortion-access-could-backfire-on-gop-expert-says-137768517782

* "Leo Varadkar warns Ireland can't take LGBT+ progress 'for granted' as Britain backslides:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/09/leo-varadkar-ireland-britain-lgbt-progress/

* "Murder arrest after two gay men 'mutilated' in suspected homophobic killings:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/13/murder-arrest-gay-sligo/

* "Vital charity fights homophobic, transphobic violence against refugees in the UK:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/13/micro-rainbow-ukraine-lgbt-queer/

* "Boris Johnson urged to listen after 'phenomenal' trans conversion therapy ban petition:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/11/trans-conversion-therapy-ban-petition-boris-johnson/

* They want to completely erase trans people. "Tory government wants police to 'misgender' most trans crime victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/13/trans-police-crime-victims-data-statistics-home-office/

* "Women's cycling race loses main sponsor over 'unacceptable' trans athlete suspension:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/15/womens-cicle-classic-emily-bridges-british-cycling/

* "Distraught over orders to investigate trans kids’ families, Texas child welfare workers are resigning:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/11/texas-trans-child-abuse-investigations/

* "Gov. Abbott’s anti-trans order is child abuse:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-gov-abbott-s-anti-trans-order-is-child-abuse-137524805976

* "Story DeSantis Uses to Support 'Don't Say Gay' Is 'Just a Lie':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/07/report-story-desantis-uses-support-dont-say-gay-just-lie

* "Moms for Liberty cry when ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill gets turned against heterosexual parents:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/1/2089558/-Moms-for-Liberty-cry-when-Don-t-Say-Gay-bill-gets-turned-against-heterosexual-parents

* "Florida Republicans Threaten Disney For Condemning 'Don't Say Gay':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/11/florida-republicans-threaten-disney-condemning-dont-say-gay

* "Bill Criminalizing Gender-Affirming Care as a Felony Passes in Alabama:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/4/07/bill-criminalizing-gender-affirming-care-felony-passes-alabama

* "Kidd Creole Convicted of Stabbing Death of Homeless Man in 'Gay Panic':" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/08/kidd-creole-convicted-stabbing-death-homeless-man-gay-panic

* "How is HIV Impacting Young People in 2022?:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/youth/2022/4/10/how-hiv-impacting-young-people-2022#media-gallery-media-1

* "UK officials investigating total of 74 child hepatitis cases:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61085870

* "Number of people on NHS waiting lists in England at record high:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/14/number-of-people-on-nhs-waiting-lists-in-england-at-record-high

* "New part of the body found hiding in the lungs:" https://www.livescience.com/new-body-cell-discovered-in-lungs

* Things I wish I didn't know about. "Man's eye infested with over a dozen fly maggots while gardening:" https://www.newsweek.com/man-eye-infested-over-dozen-fly-maggots-gardening-oestrus-ovis-sheep-bot-fly-1696315

* CW: Animal Death "Rabid fox bites nine people on US Capitol Hill:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61031683

* "A report on violence against kids with disabilities is sobering — if not surprising:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/04/12/1091679303/a-report-on-violence-against-kids-with-disabilities-is-sobering-if-not-surprisin

* "Matt Gaetz Says Overweight Folks Responsible for High Insulin Prices:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/4/07/matt-gaetz-says-overweight-folks-responsible-high-insulin-prices

* "States look for solutions as US fentanyl deaths keep rising:" https://apnews.com/article/fentanyl-deaths-keep-rising-states-look-for-solutions-d3ccd6edfdc6516b3ea07943c7e46544

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* "The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/04/un-ipcc-1-5-degree-report-global-warming/629486/

* "South Africa floods: deadliest storm on record kills over 300 people:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/south-africa-floods-deadliest-storm-on-record-kills-over-250-people

* "South African flood victims search for bodies of lost loved ones:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/15/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

* "More than 57 billion tons of soil have eroded in the U.S. Midwest:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/soil-erosion-rate-us-midwest-unsustainable-usda

* "California utility to pay $55 million for massive wildfires:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/california-utility-pay-55-million-massive-wildfires-84016390

* "Manhole fires in New York's Times Square sent crowds fleeing. No injuries were reported:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/10/us/new-york-times-square-manhole-fires/index.html

* "Few Americans see race as key factor in environmental inequality:" https://phys.org/news/2022-04-americans-key-factor-environmental-inequality.html

* "This school wasn't built for the new climate reality. Yours may not be either:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/21/1084912552/climate-change-schools

* "Ancestral Homeland Returned to Rappahannock Tribe After More Than 350 Years:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancestral-homeland-returned-to-rappahannock-tribe-after-more-than-350-years-180979863/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily-list&fbclid=IwAR2oIQUeDBAiUPMGxrH4NgMKcKxz3iWbwW_eJX_hvmeq_aBJXfEaoBzcWBw

* "The gardens that have survived for centuries:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220328-how-long-can-a-garden-last

* "Amtrak Is Streaming an Empty Railroad on Twitch to Beef With Freight Rail Companies:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7w9n9/amtrak-is-streaming-an-empty-railroad-on-twitch-to-beef-with-freight-rail-companies

* "The Yuxi Circle: The World’s Most Densely Populated Area:" https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/the-yuxi-circle-the-worlds-most-densely-populated-area/

* "The Schism Breaking Apart the “Prepper” Community:" https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/reddit-preppers-sub-women-splitting-off-twoxpreppers.html

* "MIT Engineers Create the “Impossible” – New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic:" https://scitechdaily.com/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic/

* "Herodotus lied about famous Greek battle against Carthage, new study finds:" https://www.livescience.com/herodotus-lied-about-greek-battle.html

* "These 400-Year-Old Rings Unfold to Reveal Spheres Used for Astronomical Calculations:" https://mymodernmet.com/armillary-sphere-finger-ring/

* "Gay Journalist Thom Senzee Is Dead at 54:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/4/10/gay-journalist-thom-senzee-dead-54

* "Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Russia's War Machine Slowed By Cheap Gear, Expired Rations | Ukraine's Ballerinas Join The Fight:"

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* "Tucker Carlson Is Russian State Media's Newest Correspondent:"

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* "Meanwhile... Florida Man Calls Cops For Help Testing His Meth | Cursed Painting For Sale On eBay:"

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* "Stephen Colbert Presents: "NFT Heist" - The First Blockbuster Movie About NFTs!:"

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* "Clothing Time:"

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* Sunday the pain from the wound woke me up, which meant getting an ice pack and starting over with the increasingly complex propping system required to protect the deteriorating shoulder, hip, and lesser joints while also coddling the wound and doing what I can to de-emphasize the constant sensory overload the wound causes. (My theory is that given it's placement and nature, the displacement tickles the nerve endings in a part of my body really prone to set off sensory overload. So I'm always in low level overload and it gets super bad periodically when things ramp up. This also makes it incredibly fucking hard to sleep even when the pain is not that bad.) Remember, if I move even a centimeter off postilion, my right shoulder is completely fucked for at minimum the next day. Now imagine what happens if any of a rapidly increasing number of pillows and smaller props moves or my torso shifts, or... yeah. Luckily, I've been holding my spine in the correct position since at least 1992.

Anyway, Head Millennial has a list of regular things needing doing, and projects and is perfectly capable of self supervising, plus directions to let me sleep if I'm napping as likely I very much need it for pain reasons. 7:45ish, he did check in as he needed a thing from the store to continue and was planning to walk. The ice had worked and I was like wait five minutes and we'll go together so I can get one that will last a couple decades instead of breaking in six months, it's not that much more expensive. So we went. Bonus, I got juice, which I couldn't get the last few stores we checked as they hadn't the right kind, and I need the extra nutrients right now. then there was the waiting in line and the rest of the stuff HM was doing, and we ended up searching for a book that had been missing since Summer I use all the time for reference, and then dinner, and finishing the show we were watching and dinner and taking them home and my lung treatment and, and...

It was well past Midnight when I logged on only to discover I'd lost data because I hadn't posted the aggregate fast enough. I could replace most of what was lost, but I literally couldn't remember some of the older things so ooops. Invisible to y'all, I'd lost a bunch of other data I use for Tumblr management which I could recreate if I was willing to invest the time in sorting things out. Aggregate posting/recreation/scaffold cleaning plus getting that back cost about two hours. Guess how much is likely to get done tonight?

At least I am drinking vitamin c as I type.

* In the middle of the recent medical emergency, Tumblr raised the queue limit to 1000 from the wildly inadequate 300. Given my post rate, 300 is about two days of advance loading for day posting most of the year for me. it means I can take a night off in an emergency, but some thing start thinning way out fast. 1000 gives me so much more freedom. I wrote this on 4/11. The lowest queue category is 4/17. I have most of my national Poetry month Poetry posting sleeve filled. Odds are I will reach early May in the fuller sleeves tonight.

It may seem a small thing, but it's the first time since I joined the site that an official "upgrade" has been an improvement if you don't count them changing the shade of blue being slightly easier on my eyes. Every other upgrade that hadn't already been one of my xkit setting made things worse, somethings much worse.

I just keep being startled that staff would ever do anything that benefits rather than harms me. Now if they'd roll back the three "improvements" from the last few years that made the site less accessible for me as a disabled person on things I do there pretty much every day.

* Thursday the friends who are moving needed transport. I had a rather nice visit with them in the middle of it.

Friday Squirrel accidentally started a fire in the kitchen, which resulted in me really pissing off both my lungs and torso muscles plus wound area. It was a drama.

* JK Rowling Goes Wild at The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1513943506317848579

* The Moon is Made of Cheese: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/681119988837433344/the-moon-is-made-of-cheese-is-obviously-a-myth

* Our Flag Means Death Genre Jumping: https://fuckyeahisawthat.tumblr.com/post/681119219029573632/while-we-like-to-joke-about-izzy-being-in-the

* The Billionaire Plague: https://captainsuke.tumblr.com/post/681200256434716672

* "The Stages Of "I'm Really Trying" To Be Cool About Your Transition:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/the-stages-of-im-really-trying-to?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MjAwODg5MSwiXyI6ImtZbnVRIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ5NzQyOTExLCJleHAiOjE2NDk3NDY1MTEsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.TH2nEIRkvZRJCmDerjXbtufZmA47X4EDjVumXuYZnuo&s=r

* "‘Fantastic Beasts’: How Scandal and Controversy Have Derailed the Wizarding Franchise:" https://variety.com/2022/film/news/fantastic-beasts-franchise-controversies-harry-potter-jk-rowling-johnny-depp-1235226541/

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

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

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