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* I'm cutting the aggregate off here, despite not finishing. Some of the sort may be rough because it's a horrible fucking week and I'm burning spoons I don't have endlessly moving things around the kitchen if i want to eat.

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* "if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to Palestine at this time:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750500230956564480?source=share

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

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* "UN Security Council adopts a cease-fire resolution aimed at ending Israel-Hamas war in Gaza:" https://apnews.com/article/un-us-security-council-israel-hamas-ceasefire-834734f606a5245cc46a2487a70ae3fa

* "Benny Gantz resigns as Israeli war cabinet member:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/g-s1-3634/benny-gantz-israeli-war-cabinet-steps-down

* "Two journalists harassed, assaulted and detained during Flag March in Jerusalem:" https://cpj.org/2024/06/two-journalists-harassed-assaulted-and-detained-during-flag-march-in-jerusalem/

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* "Jordan Bardella: where does Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National protégé stand on LGBTQ+ rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/10/jordan-bardella-lgbtq-rassemblement-national-marine-le-pen/

* "Starmer vs Sunak: How Britain's parties are addressing immigration concerns:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/why-immigration-is-major-issue-britains-election-2024-06-05/

* "What does the Conservative manifesto say on LGBTQ+ issues?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/conservative-manifesto-lgbtq-issues/

* "What does the Green Party manifesto say on LGBTQ+ issues?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/green-party-manifesto-2024-lgbt/

* "Under the Biden administration, family separations and other atrocities continue:" https://prismreports.org/2024/02/29/biden-family-separations-atrocities-continue/

* "Questions grow about how Biden’s border action will work without new funding:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/questions-grow-bidens-border-action-will-work-new-funding-rcna155750

* "Biden visits a military cemetery that Trump reportedly said was 'filled with losers':" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/nx-s1-4993699/biden-trump-aisne-marne-cemetery-losers-suckers

* "Will President Biden Pardon America's First Corporate Political Prisoner?:" https://stevendonziger.substack.com/p/will-president-biden-pardon-americas

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* "US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ANNOUNCES FINAL RULE ON CLASSIFYING WORKERS AS EMPLOYEES OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT:" https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20240109-1

* "Trump-appointed judge blocks expansion of Title IX rights for LGBTQ+ students:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/title-ix-blocked-joe-biden/

* "Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill mifepristone:" https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-mifepristone-ruling-abortion-pill-updates

* "How the Supreme Court is setting the U.S. up for a major transformation this month:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-the-supreme-court-is-setting-the-u-s-up-for-a-major-transformation-this-month-213045317614

* "Supreme Court says marketer is not entitled to a trademark for 'Trump too small' T-shirts:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/13/g-s1-2532/supreme-court-trump-t-shirts

* "New Audio: Alito Bashes ProPublica for Reporting on Supreme Court Ethics:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/samuel-alito-supreme-court-recording-propublica-windsor-1235037796/

* "Alito and his wife are captured in audio recordings talking about abortion leak, flag controversy :" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/alito-wife-supreme-court-recordings-00162610

* "Alito’s ‘Godliness’ Comment Echoes a Broader Christian Movement:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/samuel-alito-christianity-law-democracy.html

* "Exclusive: Hear new, secret audio exposing Justice Alito's media gripes:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/exclusive-hear-new-secret-audio-exposing-justice-alito-s-media-gripes-212781125507

* "Exposed: How Justice Alito was caught on tape making unguarded remarks:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/exposed-how-justice-alito-was-caught-on-tape-making-unguarded-remarks-212782149955

* "'MAGA pilled': As mask slips on Supreme Court bias, radical Christian agenda comes into focus:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-mask-slips-on-supreme-court-bias-radical-christian-agenda-comes-into-focus-212876869688

* "Supreme Court justice’s wife wants to swap Pride flags for shame flags – that she’s already invented:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/supreme-court-samuel-alito-wife-pride-flag-vergogna/

* "Neighbor who clashed with Justice Alito's wife reacts to undercover audio of her ranting about flags:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/neighbor-who-clashed-with-justice-alito-s-wife-reacts-to-undercover-audio-of-her-ranting-about-flags-212878405673

* This isn't a repeat; it's a different one from earlier in the week. "Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds:" https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet-flights-senate-investigation-scotus

* "Retired judge David Tatel issues a stark warning about the Supreme Court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/07/judge-david-tatel-supreme-court-memoir/

* "AOC: Supreme Court is ‘paving the path to authoritarianism’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/aoc-supreme-court-is-paving-the-path-to-authoritarianism-212779589821

* "Federal Reserve sees some progress on inflation but envisions just one rate cut this year:" https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-inflation-prices-interest-rates-cuts-4384e6b128915458aba2d178bf31ee1b

* "Eugene passes renter protection rules with compensation for some evictions:" https://www.klcc.org/politics-government/2023-07-25/eugene-passes-renter-protection-rules-with-compensation-for-some-evictions

* "70 per cent of LGBTQ+ employees still feel marginalised at work:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/70-per-cent-of-lgbtq-still-feel-marginalised-at-work/

* "Garland defends DOJ against attacks: ‘This must stop’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/11/merrick-garland-doj-attacks-00162674

* "House GOP holds Garland in contempt of Congress, escalating Justice Department feud:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/06/12/congress/house-gop-clears-garland-contempt-00163046

For those who haven't been following, Garland promptly turned the transcripts over when asked, but the Republicans need the audio to cut up for political attack ads. Garland points out that they don't turn over audio for closed investigations and the transcripts contain the same words as the audio. Releasing the audio would set a new precedent.

* "Trump’s F-Bomb Rant to Mike Johnson Sparks Desperate GOP Moves:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182669/trump-hush-money-conviction-mike-johnson-desperate

* "AOC rips GOP for targeting Manhattan DA: ‘Outright abuse of power’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/aoc-rips-gop-for-targeting-manhattan-da-outright-abuse-of-power-212780613527

* "Like a baby on a plane: Republicans sidetracked by efforts to mollify cantankerous Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/like-a-baby-on-a-plane-republicans-sidetracked-by-efforts-to-mollify-cantankerous-trump-212967493519

* "Lindsey Graham Vows to Keep Supreme Court Corrupt:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182610/lindsey-graham-supreme-court-ethics-legislation

* "Six GOP senators vow to slow down Biden nominees to protest Trump's guilty verdict:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/six-gop-senators-vow-slow-biden-nominees-protest-trumps-guilty-verdict-rcna157009

* "Republicans jam up government business with tantrum over Trump's felony conviction:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-jam-up-government-business-with-tantrum-over-trump-s-felony-conviction-212966981767

* "GOP blocks IVF bill as Senate Dems plan to keep hammering reproductive rights:" https://www.dreamwidth.org/update

* "Rep. Robert Garcia: 'The Army that defeated Hitler and saved the world included drag queens':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-drag-ban-military

* "House Democrats launch group to respond to possible second Trump term:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/06/11/congress/new-democratic-trump-task-force-huffman-house-00162560

* Stop the government censoring queer and other minority voices off the Internet in the US : https://www.stopkosa.com/

* 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

* 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

* "Groups that register voters are feeling besieged by new state laws:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1251289736/voter-registration-drive-state-restrictions

* "1 in 10 eligible U.S. voters say they can’t easily show proof of their citizenship:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/11/nx-s1-4991903/voter-registration-proof-of-citizenship-requirement

* "Ron DeSantis’s Voter Suppression Machine Is Working:" https://newrepublic.com/article/180930/florida-voter-registration-suppression-desantis

* "Florida just got its first LGBTQ+ Latino state senator:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/carlos-guillermo-smith-florida-senate-2668531648

* "Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Calling for a Permanent Ceasefire, AIPAC Attacks, Reparations & Reelection:"

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* "Phonebank for Jamaal with Protect Our Power!:" https://www.mobilize.us/jamaalbowman/event/628179/

* "Sarah McBride on course to become first trans person in US congress:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/sarah-mcbride-on-course-to-become-first-trans-person-in-us-congress/

* "Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will always 'fight like hell' to protect LGBTQ+ rights (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-governor-pride-ivf

* Primaries are Ongoing:
Important! Remember to vote in all primaries!!!

NOTE: Important non-Presidential Primaries are also ongoing! Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket. Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state. This is how you push the party and the government left.

Georgia (State Primary Run off), Oklahoma (Congressional), Virginia (Congressional): 6/18/24

Colorado (House), New York (Senate and House), South Carolina (Run Off), Utah (Several important primaries): 6/25/24

Arizona (Congress), South Dakota (Run off): 7/30/24

Tennessee (Congress): 8/1/24

Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

It is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us.

* "Baltimore Sun republishes reports from new owner’s TV station:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/06/11/baltimore-sun-sinclair-fox-45-union-complaint/

* "Watch: Local Sinclair Anchors Read Same Shady Script on Biden’s Age:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182567/sinclair-right-wing-script-biden-age-local-news

* "The most important sentence you will read about the 2024 election:" https://i-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io/the-most-important-sentence-you-will-read-about-the-2024-election/

* "‘We Didn’t Get All The Way There On Jan 6’: Trump Booster Pledges to End Democracy in CPAC Rant as Bannon Cheers On:" https://www.mediaite.com/trump/welcome-to-the-end-of-democracy-trump-booster-jack-posobiec-vows-to-finish-what-began-on-jan-6-as-steve-bannon-cheers-on/

* "In Trump’s orbit, some muse about mandatory military service:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/10/trump-military-draft-mandatory-service/

* "Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/trump-all-tariff-policy-to-replace-income-tax.html

This will dramatically raise taxes on ordinary people while massively increasing prices, but would mean the rich will pay hardly anything compared to income.

The Rich continue to win their class war on the rest of us.

* "Chris Hayes: The Trump campaign’s ‘better off’ con game:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-trump-campaign-s-better-off-con-game-212867141736

* "Kamala Harris: Supreme Court mifepristone ruling doesn’t mean abortion is safe under Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kamala-harris-mifepristone-caution

* "Trump calls Jan. 6 rioters 'warriors' during scorching Las Vegas rally:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/scorching-heat-trump-rally-las-vegas-sends-6/story?id=110974299

* "All Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump:" https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/jun/12/all-donald-trump-cares-about-is-donald-trump/

"In former President Donald Trump’s speech Sunday at Sunset Park in Las Vegas, he sent a chilling message to everyone: “I don’t care about you? I just want your vote, I don’t care.”

* "Wisconsin Dems tear into Trump after he reportedly called Milwaukee ‘a horrible city’ :" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/13/trump-milwaukee-horrible-wisconsin-democrats-00163243

* "Republicans Have No Idea What Happened in That Trump Meeting Either:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182700/house-republicans-reaction-trump-meeting

* "Trump says Brittney Griner’s release from prison in Russia was ‘not the greatest trade’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/trump-says-brittney-griners-release-from-prison-in-russia-was-not-the-greatest-trade/

* "Trump’s Bizarre Moments With Dr. Phil and Hannity Should Alarm Us All:" https://newrepublic.com/article/182480/trump-dr-phil-hannity-bizarre-moments-alarm

* "Trump’s Shark-Phobia Gets the Best of Him During Meandering Rally Rant:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-shark-phobia-re-emerges-during-meandering-rant-at-las-vegas-campaign-rally

* "Trump Rails Against Broken Rally Teleprompters, Threatens to Stiff Contractors:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/unscripted-trump-broken-teleprompters-stiff-contractors-1235036263/

* "Trump cognitive decline increasingly difficult to conceal despite setting low bar:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-cognitive-decline-increasingly-difficult-to-conceal-despite-setting-low-bar-213045317515

* "‘Millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year for Massachusetts, blowing past projections:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/20/metro/millionaires-tax-massachusetts-generated-18-billion/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results

* "A welcome victory for more information during election season:" https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/a-welcome-victory-for-more-information-during-election-season/

* "New York’s Nassau County relentlessly advances more legislation to ban trans athletes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/nassau-county/

* "My Breakfast Club Interview with Eric Adams: RECEIPTS:"

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* "Republicans call for Colorado GOP chair to resign after abhorrent Pride Month email:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/colorado-gop-chair-resign-pride-email

* "Republican says ‘unpatriotic lesbian’ Brittney Griner should be ‘rotting in a Russian prison’ :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/brittney-griner-anti-american-valentina-gomez/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked after comparing Trump to Jesus: ‘Did Jesus pay off a porn star?’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/11/marjorie-taylor-greene-mocked-after-comparing-trump-to-jesus-did-jesus-pay-off-a-porn-star/

* "Hunter Biden found guilty on all counts:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/nx-s1-5001231/hunter-biden-guilty

* "Republicans stick to attacking criminal justice system, echoing Trump, after Hunter Biden conviction:" https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-conviction-republicans-reaction-trump-eb7fe08832905f14dd8c5bd48ef9c716

* "Former SDNY prosecutor speaks out after Hunter Biden, Trump convictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/former-sdny-prosecutor-speaks-out-after-hunter-biden-trump-convictions-212776517761

* "Trump's campaign was rooting for Hunter Biden to be acquitted. Now, it's changing tactics.:" https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-political-allies-hunter-biden-acquittal-report-2024-6

* "Hunter Biden Conviction Undercuts a Trump Narrative, and a Fund-Raising Pitch:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/politics/donald-trump-hunter-biden.html

* "Fox News Suddenly Loves the Justice System After Hunter Biden’s Conviction:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/fox-news-suddenly-loves-the-justice-system-after-hunter-bidens-conviction/

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* "Judge Aileen Cannon denies another Trump motion to dismiss classified documents case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-cannon-denies-another-motion-trump-dismiss-classified-documents-rcna156482

* "Trump attends probation interview as legal team prepares to fight hush money verdict:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/10/trump-probation-interview-hush-money-trial-verdict.html

* "Why Trump Is Guilty of 34 Felony Counts ft. Liz Dye:"

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* "Faith-Based Groups That Assist Migrants Become Targets of Extremists:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/us/migrants-charities-shelters-threats.html

* "Federal authorities are investigating attacks on transgender and Latino students in Virginia:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-latino-targeted-norfolk-school

* "Pulse shooting remains a grim moment in LGBTQ+ history 8 years later:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/pulse-shooting-8-years-ago

* "Remembering the 49 lives violently stolen in the Pulse nightclub shooting, eight years on:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/pulse-nightclub-shooting-anniversary-victims/

* "Christian group uses Pulse shooting anniversary to promote conversion therapy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/pulse-nightclub-shooting-christian-group/

* "A neighborhood approach to combating hate crimes in Los Angeles:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/combating-hate-crimes-in-la

* "Used paperbacks change lives behind bars, even with growing prison book bans:" https://archive.ph/535Pa#selection-454.0-454.1

* "‘They Slave Us’: Prison Workers on Life Behind Bars:" https://archive.ph/UXM9L#selection-1296.0-1296.1

* "For some incarcerated women, getting ahold of menstrual products is a nightmare:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-02/for-some-incarcerated-women-getting-ahold-of-menstrual-products-isnt-easy

* Justice Denied: This is a national shame. "Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit of last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations:" https://apnews.com/article/1921-race-massacre-tulsa-black-survivors-b7a4c83514ce79640a8490d49efb9006

* "Indiana’s school censorship law threatens a small bookstore's future:" https://www.advocate.com/news/brain-lair-books-indiana-threatened

* "If your kid just told you they’re trans, here’s what you should know:" https://www.advocate.com/health/supporting-your-trans-kid

* "A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal judge:" https://apnews.com/article/transgender-rights-children-florida-592b24b28e365ded336ca841f2ac90ac

* "Bogus Doctors Group Pushed By Elon Musk, Fox News Against Trans Care:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/bogus-doctors-group-pushed-by-elon

* "Why the Southern Baptists’ vote opposing IVF could change national politics:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/12/ivf-southern-baptist-convention-evangelical-00162994

* "This list shows most inclusive EU countries for LGBTQ+ professionals, and Ireland makes the top 10:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/13/most-inclusive-countries-to-work-in-europe/

* "A trans girl was assaulted at a Minnesota high school. Her family is demanding justice (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/crime/minnesota-trans-girl-assaulted-school

* "School district ordered to pay trans former student $4 million after barring him from male restroom:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/05/missouri-trans-rights/

* "Influencers promote raw milk despite FDA health warnings as bird flu spreads in dairy cows:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-flu-raw-milk-influencers-fda-warning/

* "New study finds most maternal-related deaths in the US happen after birth:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-study-finds-maternal-related-deaths-us-happen/story?id=110831141

* "Black Maternal Health Week shines light on alarming disparities, as CDC reports rising death rates:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/lynn-conway-obituary/

* "New drug to regenerate lost teeth:" https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2021-03-31

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* "New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-accelerating-record-hot-deadly-434881547b4585a32fa906cf5495d3f0

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* "The Floating Traffic Jam That Freaked Us All Out:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/business/economy/covid-pandemic-global-supply-chains.html

* "The carbon impact of artificial intelligence:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-020-0219-9

* "Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x

* "AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions:" https://theconversation.com/ais-excessive-water-consumption-threatens-to-drown-out-its-environmental-contributions-225854

* "Tickle vs Giggle: in a world where transgender people are under attack, this is a test case for Australia:" https://theconversation.com/tickle-vs-giggle-in-a-world-where-transgender-people-are-under-attack-this-is-a-test-case-for-australia-227702

* "Apple iOS 18 to introduce hidden apps, and everyone is saying the same thing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/11/ios-18-features/

* "Elon Musk accused of selling $7.5 billion of Tesla stock before releasing disappointing sales data that plunged the share price to two-year low:" https://fortune.com/2024/06/03/elon-musk-tesla-insider-trading-lawsuit-board-directors/

* "Elon Musk says X hiding likes is to stop people being ‘attacked’ for what they engage with:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/13/x-hide-likes/

* "The Internet’s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/starlink-internet-elon-musk-brazil-amazon.html

* "Chatbot AI makes racist judgements on the basis of dialect:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00779-1

* "Duolingo removes LGBTQ+ references from app in Russia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/05/duolingo-removes-lgbtq-references-from-app-in-russia/

* "HER founder denounces ‘opportunistic’ new trans-exclusionary lesbian dating app:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/07/her-robyn-exton-lesbian-dating-app-trans/

* "The Collapse of the Roman Empire, or, Why were medieval people more primitive than the Romans?:"

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* "The Scandalous True History Behind "Mary & George":"

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I've never seen the show, but I've read quite a bit on this including a very well done book on the poisoning scandal. In other words, this tracks,

* "New ‘Rainbow Revolutionaries’ tour reveals Boston’s LGBTQ+ history:" https://www.advocate.com/news/rainbow-revolutionaires-boston-history

* "The Flapper Story - Roaring '20s Documentary:"

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* "Remembering Alan Turing, the gay British war hero who died after being persecuted by his country:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/07/alan-turing-gay-who-was-did-eingma-die-death-facts/

* "About 100,000 people are missing in Mexico. These mothers are trying to find them:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/nx-s1-4977451/will-mexicos-president-elect-help-relatives-looking-for-missing-loved-ones

* "The Scottie Scheffler Arrest (But It's a True Crime Documentary):"

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* "Lynn Conway, trailblazing trans computer scientist, dies at 86:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/lynn-conway-obituary/

* Refridgerator repair man came. It turned out buying an entire new lower end fridge would cost about a hundred less than fixing this one. Fuck! So we are going to have to buy a new fridge. It's just under $900 with installation. Fuck sake! If it could have gone another 18 months we could have got a free one from the city. Apparently modern refrigerators, like modern water heaters only last a decade. I am used to the ones from my childhood with the 20-40 year life spans.

UPDATE: It turns out we also need a housecall from a plumber for another 300.00. Fuckssake!

Want to chip in? https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* It's been an incredibly rough week. My arm is just terrible to the point where at Wednesday physio, he tried to start me on a new exercise after warm up, looked at what my arm was doing and his face fell. He scrapped the day's plans and we spent the rest of the session with him slowly, gently stretching my arm. So we're pulling back on expectations this week.

The dramatic barometer changes and extreme pollen situation are noticeably messing me up on a variety of levels. I get sicker when I leave my room with it's heavy filtration and outside is even worse. Standing and walking is a nightmare. I've gotten trapped on the ground three times in the last week unable to rise and there are so many problems I could solve if I could just lift things and move them instead of having to work around the blockages.

Then there is all the extra kitchen drama. It's really hard to make anything in there with the ongoing refrigerator situation and everything we have is going to deal with that both physically and financially.

It's just too many things right now on top of all the bureaucratic nightmare going on with the Millennials.

* Friday there was no real sleep. After I got back from helping with bureaucracy inflicted on Millennials. I kept having to get up to deal with things and answer phones. I am bad at sleeping in my clothes at the best of times and the bedroom air conditioner is not what it was. I am worse at getting back to sleep after being awakened over and over. Sigh. It took an hour to move enough things around in the kitchen to make a meal I could only half eat and I STILL had to attempt physio which is at a terrible and disappointing place. I don't really have spoons for the physio; all the extra spoons needed for just trying to eat and hydrate aren't helping at all.

* "Indian Elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "Jon Stewart Tackles The Trump Conviction Fallout & Puts The Media on Trial | The Daily Show:"

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* "Should We Separate Art from the Artist?: Crash Course Art History #5:"

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* "Armand called Lestat a clown in the most round about way:" https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/751769521007771648?source=share

* This Makes so much sense! "‘Interview With the Vampire’: Luke Brandon Field Reveals His & Eric Bogosian’s Shared Inspiration for Daniel:" https://www.tvinsider.com/1139840/interview-with-the-vampire-season-2-episode-5-daniel-molloy-luke-brandon-field-eric-bogosian/

* Me: Every pride I learn new words. This is not a complaint, just a statement that I am an Old.
Me: Oh look! New gender just dropped!
Friend 1: Listen, bigots, every time you complain about gender, a new gender drops.
Friend 2: Every time!
Friend 3: We got more genders than you got complaints, guaranteed!
Me grinning: You get me. you always get me!
Friend 3: Heck I have three in reserve just in case!"

* "Sunday Sweets In Summer:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-in-summer-2024

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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 a Global Plastics Treaty:" https://act.greenpeace.ca/en-ca/support-global-plastics-treaty

* "Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards:" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

* "Black Alliance for Peace’s Atlanta Citywide Alliance:" https://linktr.ee/bapatlanta

* Map of Cop Cities planned or being built: https://isyourlifebetter.net/cop-cities-usa/

* "if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to palestine at this time:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750500230956564480?source=share

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

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

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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

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* 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/

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* "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.

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 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

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* "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

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* "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/

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* "'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/

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* 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/

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* "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

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* "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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* "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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Fresh Violence in Darfur Adds to Sudan’s Crises:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/world/africa/sudan-darfur-violence-protests.html

* "Sudan's Burhan Dismisses Senior Intelligence Officers, Sources Say:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-11-28/sudans-burhan-dismisses-senior-intelligence-officers-sources-say

* CW: Child Death "Girl, 12, Allegedly Stabbed to Death by Kids at Christmas Light Show:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ava-white-allegedly-stabbed-to-death-by-kids-at-liverpool-christmas-light-show

* "Burkina Faso: Tear gas fired at protesters decrying Islamist attacks:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59443521

* "No way out: The dangerous fields of India's impoverished sugar-cane cutters:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-11-08/india-sugarcane-cutters

* "Contending With the Pandemic, Wealthy Nations Wage Global Battle for Migrants:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/world/asia/immigration-pandemic-labor-shortages.html

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* "COVID variant spreads to more countries as world on alert:" https://apnews.com/article/omicron-variant-covid-africa-uk-netherlands-1b344a86ff359a552aa5a64899a57ff7

* "How vaccine makers plan to address the new COVID-19 omicron variant:" https://www.npr.org/2021/11/27/1059534796/covid-19-vaccine-makers-combat-omicron-variant

* "Even Health-Care Workers With Long COVID Are Being Dismissed:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/health-care-workers-long-covid-are-being-dismissed/620801/

* "In Peru's Amazon, 'forgotten' tribes discover COVID-19 as vaccines arrive:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-amazon-forgotten-tribes-discover-covid-19-vaccines-arrive-2021-11-02/

* "‘It's Coming': NY Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Potential Omicron Spike:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/omicron-variant-ny-declares-state-of-emergency-ahead-of-potential-spike/3421297/

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* "U.S. Military Training in Mexico Increased as Human Rights Waned, New Database Reveals:" https://theintercept.com/2021/11/17/mexico-military-pentagon-support-human-rights/

* "The Infrastructure Bill in Action:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-infrastructure-bill-in-action-127353925939

* "Republican Leader Backtracks on LGBTQ+ Outreach After Backlash:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/11/18/republican-leader-backtracks-lgbtq-outreach-after-backlash-ronna-mcdaniel

* "Gay Asian-American Lawmaker Sacked From Business Committee:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/11/23/gay-asian-american-lawmaker-sacked-business-committee

* "Republican says LGBT+ people 'choose' to be beaten up:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/21/montana-senator-theresa-manzella-gay-choice/

* "Rep. Maxine Waters addresses extremism in the GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-maxine-waters-addresses-extremism-in-the-gop-127354437798

* "Jury finds 'Unite the Right' organizers liable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/jury-finds-unite-the-right-organizers-liable-127355461568

* "How US gun culture stacks up with the world:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/26/world/us-gun-culture-world-comparison-intl-cmd/index.html

* "How Race Impacts the Self Defense Argument:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/how-race-impacts-the-self-defense-argument-127355461607

* "“If Everybody’s White, There Can’t Be Any Racial Bias”: The Disappearance of Hispanic Drivers From Traffic Records:" https://www.propublica.org/article/if-everybodys-white-there-cant-be-any-racial-bias-the-disappearance-of-hispanic-drivers-from-traffic-records

* "Student 'needs police escort' after horrific homophobic, racist 'hazing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/21/southern-illinois-university-edwardsville-hazing-racist/

* "School Opens Hate Crime Probe After White Student Hits Black Classmate With Water Bottle:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/monroe-high-school-opens-hate-crime-probe-after-white-student-bashes-black-classmate-with-bottle

* CW: Pedophilia. "No phones, laptops allowed at Josh Duggar child porn trial:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/phones-laptops-allowed-josh-duggar-child-porn-trial-81373853

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Police Arrest Woman Over Fatal Stabbing of Her Girlfriend:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/11/20/police-arrest-woman-over-fatal-stabbing-her-girlfriend

* CW: Abuse. "Many Older Queer Adults Face Abuse Yet Rarely Report It, Study Says:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/11/26/many-older-queer-adults-face-abuse-yet-rarely-report-it-study-says-oregon

* Orly? "Tory MP ridiculed for saying female lead in Doctor Who pushes young men into crime:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/26/tory-mp-doctor-who-crime-nick-fletcher/

* "Tanzania to lift ban on teenage mothers returning to school:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/nov/26/tanzania-to-lift-ban-on-teenage-mothers-returning-to-school

* "Why We Aren’t Monogamous…:"

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* "Russia to Consider Restricting Gay Love Scenes, 'As With Pornography':" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/11/24/russia-consider-restricting-gay-love-scenes-pornography

* "Australia wants to protect religious people from so-called 'cancel culture':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/28/australia-scott-morrison-cancel-culture-lgbt/

"In reality, the bill would allow religious Australians to legally discriminate against minorities, including LGBT+ people and people with disabilities, advocates have warned.

Australia’s Human Rights Law Centre explained in a release that it would “allow people to make derogatory, offensive and harmful statements of belief, including in workplaces, schools and health services, and that override federal, state and territory anti-discrimination laws, thereby denying victims an important avenue for justice”, and well as “grant unprecedented licence to religious bodies, including schools and charities, to discriminate against people of a different faith or no faith in a range of circumstances”."

* "Marriage Equality Rejected by Thailand's Constitutional Court:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/11/18/marriage-equality-rejected-thailands-constitutional-court

* "Teacher sacked from Christian school for 'being gay' issues grave warning:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/26/australia-teacher-gay-religious-discrimination-steph-lentz/

"The terrifying bill, the centre said, would “grant unprecedented licence to religious bodies, including schools and charities, to discriminate against people of a different faith or no faith in a range of circumstances”."

* "Thug terrifies staff with vile homophobic rant after being asked to wear a face mask:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/dublin-ireland-anti-face-mask-homophobic-rant/

* "Gay man 'thought he would bleed to death' after homophobic thug beat him at Pride:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/leeds-pride-james-withers-homophobia-gay/

* "Saving Two Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ+ Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/26/saving-two-spirit-and-indigenous-lgbtq-youth

* "Iowa Medicaid Program Must Cover Gender-Affirming Care, Judge Rules:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/11/24/iowa-medicaid-program-must-cover-gender-affirming-care-judge-rules

* "Straight People Are 'Superior,' Says N.C. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/11/22/straight-people-are-superior-says-nc-lt-gov-mark-robinson

* "Drag queen’s home stormed by police after troll files false report accusing them of murder:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/28/elix-drag-queen-police-murder-troll-twitch/

* "Trucks Took to the Texas Streets With Signs Supporting Trans Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/11/18/folx-health-trucks-took-texas-streets-support-trans-lives

* "Court Revives Lawsuit After Gay Teacher Fired From Catholic School:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/11/24/court-revives-lawsuit-after-gay-teacher-fired-catholic-school

* "Catholic Students Rally Around Schoolmate Punished for Pride Shirt:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2021/11/23/catholic-students-rally-around-schoolmate-punished-pride-shirt

* "For the Trump Family, LGBTQ+ People Are Nothing but a Joke:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/19/trump-family-lgbtq-people-are-nothing-joke

* "Dave Chappelle 'jokes about identifying as a woman' in new comedy show:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/dave-chappelle-trans-transphobia-madison-square-garden/

* "Trans Netflix Engineer Quits; Legal Case Against Company Withdrawn:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2021/11/22/trans-netflix-engineer-quits-legal-case-against-company-withdrawn

* "5 things to know about monkeypox after a new case appeared in U.S.:" https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/17/monkeypox-cdc-maryland-disease/

* "Egypt: Hundreds stung by scorpions after deadly floods in Aswan:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-59274686

* "Peru's president pledges support for those affected by 7.5-magnitude earthquake:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/28/americas/peru-earthquake-intl/index.html

* "In fast-changing Dubai, once-isolated village to be razed:" https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-dubai-united-arab-emirates-4f4b5bbe9cf6ebf9695b74101cd4f7c2

* "A Tree That Was Once the Suburban Ideal Has Morphed Into an Unstoppable Villain:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/us/bradford-pear-tree-south-carolina.html

* "Michigan city on edge as lead water crisis persists:" https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-environment-and-nature-michigan-poverty-12586348a94d5d57de7de6e15df23421

* "This Ink Is Alive and Made Entirely of Microbes:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/science/microbes-construction-bacteria.html

* "The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist:" https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-hacking-kytch-taylor-internal-emails/

* "The Early History of Human Excreta:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-early-history-of-human-excreta/?preview_id=279309

* "First they found a dead king's body. Now they've uncovered an ancient mosaic:" https://www.npr.org/2021/11/26/1059341809/leicester-england-archaeologists-ancient-roman-mosaic

* "Looking at the Dark Side of Jamestown & John Smith | Prism of the Past:"

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* "Fabergé’s Secret Garden:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/11/24/faberges-secret-garden/

* "Karl I: The Last Emperor of Austria:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Seven Surprising Things You Probably Didn't Know about Josephine Baker:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/11/25/seven-surprising-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-josephine-baker/

* CW: Rape "Ivan Milat: Australia’s Most Notorious Serial Killer:"

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* "Close friend shares moving stories about 'force of nature' Freddie Mercury's final days:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/freddie-mercury-death-hiv-aids-mike-moran/

* "The cruel way newspapers treated Freddie Mercury's death will chill you to the bone:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/freddie-mercury-death-hiv-aids-newspapers/

* "Even Rainbows Have a Dark Side:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-at-rainbows-taboo

* "The Rwandan Genocide:"

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* "The Wounded Warrior Project: Corporate Casket:"

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* "He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/arts/design/toek-tik-cambodian-artifacts.html

* "Egypt restores ancient road linking temples of Luxor and Karnak:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/26/egypt-restores-ancient-road-linking-temples-of-luxor-and-karnak

* "Italian street artist battles racism by turning swastikas into cupcakes:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/italian-street-artist-battles-racism-by-turning-swastikas-into-cupcakes-2021-11-24/

* "End Times Preacher: A Reptile Alien Imitating My Husband Tried to Sleep with Me:" https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/11/23/end-times-preacher-a-reptile-alien-imitating-my-husband-tried-to-sleep-with-me/

* "A Bunch of People Just Rode Horses to a McDonald’s Drive-Thru:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb8dm/mcdonalds-drive-thru-horses-malaysia

* "What Is the 'Birds Aren't Real' Movement?:" https://www.snopes.com/articles/381287/birds-arent-real-movement/

* "Flynn, Powell Pushed The Military To Seize Control After T**** Lost The Election:"

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* "The Q Files: Q Faithful Are Still Waiting For JFK In Dallas:"

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* "Pfizer's Covid Pill Can Save Lives | Jon Batiste Stands Up For Big Bird:"

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* "Michael Cohen Is Kanye's Fixer | Roger Stone, Alex Jones In Hot Water For Roles In Jan. 6th Attack:"

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* "Billionaires, They're Just Not Like Us: Elon Feuds With Bernie, Bezos Would Turn Earth Into A Park:"

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* "Urinewhile... Singer Pees On Fan At Florida Festival, The Rock Pees In Water Bottles During Workouts:"

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* "C-SPANIME Covers The Censure Of Paul Gosar:"

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* "Love Crypto? Move To Bitcoin City:"

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* "Oh Christmas Lamp:"

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* "Sunday Sweets: Wedding Cakes in Chocolate:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/11/28/sunday-sweets-wedding-cakes-in-chocolate

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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.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* 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

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

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* "Myanmar's military disappearing young men to crush uprising:" https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-myanmar-technology-e5c0036949f7e7fb8ce1da5884f250a4

* "Three Months After Coup, Myanmar Returns to the ‘Bad Old Days’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/world/asia/myanmar-terror-military-coup.html

* "The Unbelievable Story of Europe’s Runaway Nazi:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8ekk/runaway-nazi-golden-dawn-christos-pappas-greece

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* "‘We’ve cried ourselves dry’: COVID overwhelms Manila hospitals:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/19/for-kate-patients-die-as-covid-overwhelms-philippine-hospitals

* "Vaccinating the Amazon:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-56949409

* "In this Indian state, one in every two people tested is positive for Covid:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/india/india-covid-goa-positivity-intl-hnk/index.html

* How to help India: https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

* "How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-covid-how-to-help.html

* "As COVID-19 rages in India, scientist warns further waves ‘inevitable’:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-posts-record-daily-rise-coronavirus-deaths-2021-05-05/

* "Why India's Covid surge matters to the entire world:" https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/why-india-s-covid-surge-matters-to-the-entire-world-111419973930

* "US backs waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines:" https://apnews.com/article/intellectual-property-coronavirus-pandemic-business-global-trade-health-c2f1ba1e6e150dc6c081b8eb6fe4f1e5

* "'Lives over profits': Biden backs Covid vaccine patent waiver; flexes U.S. leadership:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-lives-over-profits-biden-backs-covid-vaccine-patent-waiver-flexes-u-s-leadership-111423045507

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* "‘It’s who we are as a country’: Sen. Brown on push to vaccinate rest of world:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-it-s-who-we-are-as-a-country-sen-brown-on-push-to-vaccinate-rest-of-world-111473221950

* "Sen. Elizabeth Warren: ‘You want people to go to work? Then, invest in childcare’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/sen-elizabeth-warren-you-want-people-to-go-to-work-then-invest-in-childcare-111411269695

* Well, Fuck. "Federal judge rules national eviction moratorium exceeds the CDC's authority:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/federal-judge-rules-national-eviction-moratorium-exceeds-cdc-s-authority-n1266399

* "Signaling to base not to trust elections is key to GOP voter suppression strategy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/signaling-to-base-not-to-trust-elections-is-key-to-gop-voter-suppression-strategy-111480901742

* "Maddow: Republicans running against democracy not Democrats:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-republicans-running-against-democracy-not-democrats-111478853832

* "Joy Reid: Being a Republican today means parroting the ‘Big Lie’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-being-a-republican-today-means-parroting-the-big-lie-111345733920

* "Joy Reid: The Republican party is ‘in moral crisis’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-the-republican-party-is-in-moral-crisis-111408197886

* "‘Soulless’: Rep. Gallego on why he’s no longer friends with this congresswoman:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-soulless-rep-gallego-on-why-he-s-no-longer-friends-with-this-congresswoman-111473221634

* "Joy Reid on GOP’s push to oust Liz Cheney: ‘This is what total surrender to Trump looks like’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-on-gop-s-push-to-oust-liz-cheney-this-is-what-total-surrender-to-trump-looks-like-111469125576

* "Florida governor signs new restrictive bill in ‘blatant attack on right to vote’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/06/florida-restrictive-voting-bill-governor-ron-desantis

* "Gov. DeSantis signs Florida restrictive voting law while shutting out all media but Fox News:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gov-desantis-signs-florida-restrictive-voting-law-while-shutting-out-all-media-but-fox-news-111469637852

* "Texas lawmakers race against the clock to push through new voting restrictions:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/06/texas-voting-restrictions-access-lawmakers

* "Beto O’Rourke on new voting restrictions: Texas is ‘already the hardest in the country to vote’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/beto-o-rourke-on-new-voting-restrictions-texas-is-already-the-hardest-in-the-country-to-vote-111347269966

* "Major corporations come out against proposed voting restrictions in Texas:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/04/texas-voting-restrictions/

* "Arizona Is Holding Yet Another Trump 2020 Recount—and It Gets Worse:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/arizona-recount-cyber-ninjas-doug-logan-explained.html

* "Extending Arizona ballot recount past May 14 is 'not feasible', state fair official says:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2021/05/05/arizona-audit-fair-official-says-extending-recount-not-feasible/4960234001/

* How is this legal? "Maricopa County Senate audit observers forced to sign non-disclosure agreements:" https://www.abc15.com/news/state/maricopa-county-senate-audit-observers-forced-to-sign-non-disclosure-agreements

* "Arizona’s Republican-Run Election Audit Is Now Looking for Bamboo-Laced “China Ballots”:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/arizona-republican-audit-bamboo-ballots-china.html

* "Built on nonsense, Trump makes election fantasy the core of Republican doctrine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/built-on-nonsense-trump-makes-election-fantasy-the-core-of-republican-doctrine-111479877533

* "‘Bring in the pandas’: Election ‘audit’ continues to bamboo-zle onlookers:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-bring-in-the-pandas-election-audit-continues-to-bamboo-zle-onlookers-111473221815

* "‘A sham’: Arizona State Rep says GOP audit ‘destroying democracy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-a-sham-arizona-state-rep-says-gop-audit-destroying-democracy-111469125910

* "Virginia Republican Politician Sues Over Being Called 'Gay Democrat':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/5/05/virginia-republican-politician-sues-over-being-called-gay-democrat

* "Chris Hayes: How Republicans trade dignity to stay in Party of Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-republicans-trade-dignity-to-stay-in-party-of-trump-111413317672

* "Donald Trump's Facebook ban upheld – but he could be reinstated in months:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/donald-trump-facebook-ban-oversight-board-ruling/

* "Donald Trump launches 'communications platform' and it's basically a Tumblr blog:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/donald-trump-communications-platform-blog-social-media/

* "Judge orders release of DOJ memo justifying not prosecuting Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/04/trump-obstruction-justice-doj-485360

* "Rep. Val Demings on Barr letting Trump off the hook: If it was you or me, we’d be prosecuted:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-val-demings-on-barr-letting-trump-off-the-hook-if-it-was-you-or-me-we-d-be-prosecuted-111412293531

* "Supreme loser Donald Trump tried to sneak back onto Twitter – and failed miserably:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/07/donald-trump-twitter-ban-suspended-djtdesk-capitol-riots/

* "ICE deportations fell in April to lowest monthly level on record, enforcement data shows:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/biden-ice-deportations-record-low/2021/05/05/522ee35c-adb8-11eb-8109-f8ba1ea2eeab_story.html

* "Number of unaccompanied migrants drops—along with border media coverage:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/number-of-unaccompanied-migrants-drops-along-with-border-media-coverage-111412805873

* "DHS head on immigration: ‘We inherited a system that was entirely dismantled’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dhs-head-on-immigration-we-inherited-a-system-that-was-entirely-dismantled-111414853701

* "Prosecutors seek tougher sentence for Derek Chauvin in George Floyd's death:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/prosecutors-seek-tougher-sentence-for-derek-chauvin-in-george-floyd-s-death-111281733773

* "Derek Chauvin files motion for new trial in George Floyd case, alleging jury misconduct:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/derek-chauvin-files-motion-for-new-trial-in-george-floyd-case-alleging-jury-misconduct-111349317836

* "Firing of Atlanta officer who shot Rayshard Brooks reversed:" https://apnews.com/article/rayshard-brooks-shooting-664fefd79db05fdb3bfed1873bab04b5

* "One High School, Five Students Fatally Shot:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/us/knoxville-anthony-thompson.html

* More "frothy residue" from the mouth of Rick Santorum. "Don Lemon eviscerates Rick Santorum over non-apology for Native American comments:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/don-lemon-rick-santorum-chris-cuomo-cnn-tonight-native-americans/

* "‘Making America worse’: Joy Reid's mini-biography on Tucker Carlson's many failures:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-making-america-worse-joy-reid-s-mini-biography-on-tucker-carlson-s-many-failures-111282757981

* They voted to censor US History. "TN Legislature passes bill that would ban schools from teaching Critical Race Theory:" https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2021/05/05/debate-about-teaching-critical-race-theory-tn-classrooms-moves-conference-committee/

* "'Whitewashing history': State GOP reps seek to ban lessons on systemic racism:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-whitewashing-history-tennessee-gop-wants-to-ban-lessons-on-systemic-racism-111350853629

* "The GOP's culture war: 1619 Project and Transgender rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/the-gop-s-culture-war-1619-project-and-transgender-rights-111354437582

* "LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Index: 150 Countries Ranked Worst to Best:"https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2021/5/05/lgbtq-travel-safety-index-150-countries-ranked-worst-best

* "Elderly Christian kisses feet of Polish LGBT+ protestor in extraordinary video:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/poland-radio-maryja-lgbt-protest-christian-woman-kiss-feet-activist/

* "Lesbian stabbed to death as wave of homophobia washes over South Africa:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/south-africa-phelokazi-ndlwana-lesbian-stabbed-murder-hate-crime/

* "Judge throws out LGB Alliance founder's fight to ban trans women from women's spaces:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/06/lgb-alliance-ann-sinnott-judicial-review-fails-london-high-court-equality-act/

* "Tennessee Will Excuse Students From Lessons With LGBTQ+ Content:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/5/04/tennessee-will-excuse-students-lessons-lgbtq-content

* This one is Louisiana. "Cruel ban on trans athletes thwarted by single vote. Another bill is right behind it:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/louisiana-lawmakers-ban-trans-sport-one-vote-hb542/

* "Pointlessly cruel anti-trans sports bill fails to reach the finish line in Texas:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/texas-anti-trans-athletes-sports-ban-bill-sb29-senate/

* "Three More Trans or Gender-Nonconforming Americans Killed in U.S.:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/5/04/three-more-trans-or-gender-nonconforming-americans-killed-us

* "'Precious' Black LGBT+ teen found dead after being 'beaten by racist, violent' thugs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/06/mikayla-miller-death-racism-hopkinton-massachusetts-lgbt-police-investigation/

"One police official even “warned” her “not to go to the media” or else they would out her late daughter."

* "Weight Lifter Laurel Hubbard Likely to Be First Out Trans Olympian:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/5/06/weight-lifter-laurel-hubbard-likely-be-first-trans-olympian

* "America's new normal: A degree hotter than two decades ago:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-science-environment-and-nature-414a77846631e50d3c528204b8beb3d9

* "Then and now: Restoring coral reefs in Indonesia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-56985594

* "At Clemson, unmarked slave graves highlight plantation past:" https://apnews.com/article/clemson-unmarked-slave-graves-plantation-past-e893ad1edc60d51706e0dc6f6ff8240d

* "'Beautiful' actor remembered by husband after losing battle with COVID-19:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/paulo-gustavo-dead-covid-19-brazil-queer-comedian/

* "TRICK-OR-TRAUMA: The Complex Ethics of The Haunted House Industry:" https://www.shopkalma.com/post/trick-or-trauma-the-complicated-ethics-of-the-haunted-house-industry

* "Stranded giraffes in raft rescue:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-55238533

* "Bonding s1 + Bondage Gear | Kat Blaque:"

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* "Hasn't Star Trek Always Had Transgender Characters?:"

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* "2021 Oscars, Gender Reveal Blast & Rioter Caught via Bumble:" https://www.cc.com/video/lid9b9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-2021-oscars-gender-reveal-blast-rioter-caught-via-bumble

* "Keeping Up with Coronavirus - India's in a Bad Place & More:" https://www.cc.com/video/658k7o/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-keeping-up-with-coronavirus-india-s-in-a-bad-place-more

* I remember how Exciting Roxanne's Revenge and Ladies First were the first time I heard them. "Dul-Sayin' - Pioneering Women Rappers:" https://www.cc.com/video/sl86fc/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-dul-sayin-pioneering-women-rappers

* "State of Black S**t 2021:" https://www.cc.com/video/rjgo17/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-state-of-black-s-t-2021

* "Vaccine Incentives Get Creative:" https://www.cc.com/video/hvzjk1/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-vaccine-incentives-get-creative

* My glasses broke back in April. I tried gluing them together, but it wouldn’t hold and they were giving me a headache from the wobbles, so i reverted to the previous, non-bifocal pair, which was annoying, but the top prescription was very close, so I could do things like drive and watch TV, which matters. It took a few weeks for an optometrist opening.

I didn't get to bed until noon and the Millennial came sat three, so I am a mess, but today was super productive.

OMG, though, they dramatically improved vision coverage since last time! They more than doubled the frame allowance, so instead of crappy ones that break in a year that must be constantly repaired, we can get really nice sturdy ones and they added a bunch of discounts for things that were wholly out of pocket like bifocals. I couldn't do progressive lenses as they more than doubled total cost, but I got everything else for less than I paid last time for bare minimum I could get away with. (I need bifocals like whoa, and they do not make my prescription without doing the ultra light style, so that was always out of pocket and I usually buy scratch resistance because at my level of clumsy it’s counter productive not too.)

They had a trainee so two very excited ladies helped me pick frames. (They liked my polish and wanted to talk me into these kicky very Zoomer ones, but I'm like orange is no good. here's why, and I put my hand next to the frames and they visibly winces at what it did to my completion. we are getting black with lapis blue pointings. These may be the cutest glasses I've ever owned. (I had contacts all through my teens to whenever in my thirties I stopped being able to afford them).

Apparently, my eyes no longer align right and are just sort of doing their own thing, so add “prism” to astigmatism. Sigh.

I am used to glasses being 2-3 weeks to a month at the outside to replace as they have to special order materials because fucked up eyes. They were all apologetic about it being two.

I am really excited for these glasses. When i first started getting Medicaid glasses they had six ugly styles in cheap frames that broke about a year in. Medicare advantage eventually switched from government produce frames to a very low frame allowance that was usually the eight cheapest frames in the store which also broke a year in and my optometrist while in network for exams was out of network for frames so it was a whole other drama going to the one store in town that was in network. apparently they are back in network again, so I could just get them there which was also a massive help.

So in two weeks I’ll be able to read ingredient lists on boxes again without taking off my glasses and holding them right up to my face.

Both Caregiver Millennial and I were wiped so I’m like want to go home after errands? And he’s like “I’ll do dishes after putting away groceries,” so he went home. I’ll be going to bed super early once I’m done some necessary things.

The poor thing asked me a small question about the British monarchy and made a comment about bathing culture that lend to me giving the poor guy a wide ranging lecture on English parliamentary development, the constitutional monarchy, and medieval-early modern western European comparative attitudes around sex work and bathing....

I am a monster, but I ramble when I’m tired. Or you ask history questions. Or encourage me to roast the house of Hanover/Windsor

* My plan for the stimulus went all to hell. I had intended to blow 2-3 hunfdred on things like food and gardening stuff and things needed around the house, plus a special treat for me. The rest I was going to use to get ahead on bills and hopefully save for either air conditioning in the common area or the next emergency.

Ha!

Rupert Laptop died and needed replacing, poor fellow. (This was one of the emergencies I was expecting and Aidan laptop is so much brighter and faster than poor Rupert who tried his best. It was going to happen eventually, and best it happen when i was in funds). The car needed repairs. (The car is ancient and this was one of the three big emergencies I was imagining). I rather desperately needed more bedding, as the padded liner gave up the ghost and I was on emergency back up bedding that interfered with sleep. I may have gone a little berserk with garden things. One thing after another happened. Things broke or ran out or.... The glasses were also on my list of expected emergencies. Let's hope the TV (second hand and likely even older than my car) survives, as the glasses ate the last of the cushion from the stimulus.

* I really appreciate that Debris made me hate the alternate timelines almost as much as the protagonists do.

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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.

* How to help India: https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

* "How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-covid-how-to-help.html

* Mutual Aid Link Round Up: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/645696532415447040/popss-great-big-mutual-aid-masterpost

* Want to help the Asian Community?
https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-to-help-asian-communities-2021.html
https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate
https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org/

* What to help save bats, and essential part of our ecosystem? "Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation:" https://www.merlintuttle.org/

* My oldest continuous Real Life friend is doing this project. "Bed, Bath, & Behemoth: An Epic D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/bed-bath-and-behemoth-an-epic-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR2pA1NFVGG7aZyrLDC5h9Q0a_g7yMh_rY5rWxrnpZ3sJRSe6yO8gAAEq4M

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