Nec Hoc Nec Ilud

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

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* "Russian gas era in Europe ends as Ukraine stops transit:" https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-halts-gas-exports-europe-via-ukraine-2025-01-01/

* "South Korean presidential guards prevent arrest of impeached Yoon after tense stand-off:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-authorities-moving-arrest-president-yoon-yonhap-says-2025-01-02/

* "Central American troops arrive in Haiti to fight gangs:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/central-american-troops-arrive-haiti-fight-gangs-2025-01-03/

* "150 Guatemalan troops and 8 Salvadorans join multinational mission in Haiti:" https://haitiantimes.com/2025/01/06/first-guatemalan-and-salvadoran-soldiers-arrive-in-haiti/

* "What will Syria’s future look like? The answer could lie in other Arab countries’ recent pasts:" https://apnews.com/article/syria-future-assad-arab-spring-lessons-51635b7aabc0760bb7841829586ede7c

* "Syria to include all sectors in new government, foreign minister says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syria-include-all-sectors-new-government-foreign-minister-says-2025-01-03/

* "Amendments to school textbooks by Syria's new authorities draw outcry:" https://www.voanews.com/a/amendments-to-school-textbooks-by-syria-s-new-authorities-draw-outcry/7922467.html

* "Trespassing For The Common Good:" https://www.noemamag.com/trespassing-for-the-common-good/

* "Biden honors LGBTQ+ trailblazers for marriage equality contributions at Presidential Citizens Medal ceremony:" https://www.advocate.com/news/biden-mary-bonauto-evan-wolfson

* I hate using the new York Times for anything, but I have no choice as to coverage on this, and it seems important enough to do. "Death on the Night Shift at Frozen Pizza Factories in Chicago:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/us/immigration-undocumented-workers-jobs.html

* "Republican Party messiness on full display after struggling to elect Mike Johnson as House speaker:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-congress-speakership-mess

* "Stacey Plaskett’s moment during the House speakership vote makes waves: ‘I have a voice!’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/stacey-plaskett-house-speaker-vote-virgin-islands-rcna186183

* "Republicans release top bill priorities in rules package. The No. 1 priority? Trans people:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republicans-release-top-bill-priorities-in-rules-package-the-no-1-priority-trans-people

* "Democrats can ‘exploit’ growing fractures in MAGA Congress, says Rep. Raskin:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/democrats-can-exploit-growing-fractures-in-maga-congress-says-rep-raskin-228457541734
This is really important right now.

* Urgent Action Item: Contact your Congress Critters about sticking together.

My experience is they mostly just log for or against whatever it is, but if it's a rare case where they want arguments, tailor them to your target critter.

Contact your Senators and make sure they stand firm against dangerous nominees like Gabbard, Hegseth, Patel, and RFK Jr.

(That goes double if, like John Fetterman, your Critter is talking about bipartisanship over what's best for constituents and the country.)

If you have a democratic senator try to convince them to hang tight as a party in opposition instead of giving ground that will hurt people or the country.

If your senator is republican give it a try anyway. Argue national security, law and order, or please don't bring back polio or the like as is appropriate.

Contact your House of Representative member and beg them to stand firm against bills such as the ones intended to gut social security and Medicare in favour of tax give aways for billionaires and corporations and anything attacking bodily autonomy. (If they are republican go hard right if you have to give an argument.)

We need our Congress Critters to did their heals in and make them fight for every inch.

* "Sen. Blunt Rochester is first Black person to serve in both chambers of Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/sen-blunt-rochester-is-first-black-person-to-serve-in-both-chambers-of-congress-228528709548

* "13 LGBTQ+ elected lawmakers join the 119th Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/119th-congress-lgbtq-members

* "History-making Sarah McBride sworn in as first out transgender member of Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sarah-mcbride-transgender-member-sworn

* "Nancy Mace’s anti-trans Capitol bathroom rules didn’t make the House rules package:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trans-bathroom-missing-house-rules

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

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

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

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

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

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

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

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

Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

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* It's hard to to, but possible, which is why we need to hold off on allowing a Constitutional convention.
"Why some states are afraid Trump will literally rewrite the Constitution:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-republicans-constitution-convention-rcna185464

* Not even a tiny bit surprising. "Kyrsten Sinema accused of misusing campaign funds for lavish travel:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kyrsten-sinema-funds-misuse-complaint

* "The GOP's collective amnesia on January 6th, four years later:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/the-gop-s-collective-amnesia-on-january-6th-four-years-later-228534853896

* "'Betrayal': Fmr. Capitol police officer reacts to Trump's victory:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-betrayal-fmr-capitol-police-officer-reacts-to-trump-s-victory-228530245846

NOTE: I am moving the Trump section up the page soon, but I'm waiting until the hand over on the 20th.

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* "The leopards are eating each other’s faces and I am thrilled:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2020532.html

* "Trump, Hegseth and the Honor of the American Military:" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/opinion/trump-hegseth-military-morality.html

* "'Kill our kids': Sen. Murphy warns of deadly consequences of RFK Jr. pick:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-kill-our-kids-sen-murphy-warns-of-deadly-consequences-of-rfk-jr-pick-228457029865

* We need to stop this one too. O.o "Rachel Maddow on Billy Long: Five things to know about Trump's pick for IRS commissioner:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rachel-maddow-on-billy-long-five-things-to-know-about-trump-s-pick-for-irs-commissioner-228484677733

* "Pete Buttigieg, first out gay Cabinet secretary, to be replaced by antigay former reality star & Fox News host:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sean-duffy-pete-buttigieg

* "Apple CEO Tim Cook joins other major business leaders with $1 million personal donation to Trump’s inauguration:" https://www.advocate.com/business/tim-cook-donates-trump-inauguration

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* "Colorado man accused of attacking TV reporter, saying ‘This is Trump’s America now’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/28/colorado-man-trumps-america-now-00196098

* Obviously not all veterans. "U.S. Military Service Is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence:" https://theintercept.com/2025/01/02/military-veterans-extremism-attack-new-orleans-vegas/

* "Gov. Roy Cooper grants clemency for 15 people on death row, including 3 in Forsyth County:" https://www.wxii12.com/article/gov-roy-cooper-grants-clemency-15-people-death-row/63313709

* "Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole:" https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-alabama-3b2c7e414c681ba545dc1d0ad30bfaf5

* "Costco is fighting to keep its DEI program as major companies roll back initiatives:" https://qz.com/costco-dei-program-walmart-john-deere-backlash-1851730064

* CW: Sexual Assault. "What the Most Famous Book About Trauma Gets Wrong: People kept telling me to read “The Body Keeps the Score.” I was shocked at what it actually says.:" https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/12/trauma-body-keeps-the-score-van-der-kolk-psychology-therapy-ptsd/

* "‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.:" https://archive.ph/wdWOV#selection-472.0-472.1

* "Florida gay man shot dead in his partner's arms on New Year's after stray bullet hits him, police say:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/florida-dead-nye-shot

* "Monthly fatal injuries in the US, pre and post covid:" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1873480277064106483.html

* "Dead family, lost friends: How the coronavirus changed one small town:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/01/how-covid-19-pandemic-reshaped-america/77181653007/

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* "Why seas are surging:" https://archive.ph/oUq3R#selection-272.0-272.1

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* "Another Study Shows Incredible Results of Pairing Solar Panels With Agriculture: ‘Getting more from the land’:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/another-study-shows-incredible-results-of-pairing-solar-panels-with-agriculture-getting-more-from-the-land/

* "Want to get a prescription for nature access in Canada? Here's how it works:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/nature-prescription-how-to-get-one-1.7421810?cmp=rss

* "Meta slammed for 'disturbing' AI profiles, including a fake Black queer mother:" https://www.advocate.com/news/meta-ai-profiles-black-queer-women

* "This week on the Advocates: The Cost of Deepfakes:" https://www.advocate.com/news/the-advocates-deepfakes

* "The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes:" https://archive.ph/EovD2

* "Meet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAI:" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/

* "The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905):" https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sutherland-macdonald-tattoos/

* "Letters Hidden in My Family’s Attic Reveal a 1910s Bank Con in Key West:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/key-west-bank-con-letters

* This! "The Case for Same-Sex Figure Skating.:" https://substack.com/home/post/p-154177649

* Skate at your own risk. "What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?:" https://defector.com/what-did-we-get-stuck-in-our-rectums-last-year-5

I beg of you to only use flared base toys made by reputable manufacturers and not random items from around the house.

* "Hundreds of Curious Cats Contemplated Ancient Egyptian Artifacts During a Series of ‘Meowseum Nights’ in China:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hundreds-of-curious-cats-contemplated-ancient-egypt-artifacts-during-a-series-of-meowseum-nights-in-china-180985612/

* I am not enjoying anything my body has done in the last two weeks, but here we are. If the pain level would even drop a couple notches everything would be a little more bearable.

I am emphatically not enjoying it looking like opaque black smoke is endlessly blowing in front of my eye or a there is a crack in a phone screen only in motion, but there is nothing to be done short of a dangerous eye operation. Once a floater happens, it's generally forever and this bastard is huge and placed in exactly the wrong place it what was my better eye, but isn't any longer. Sigh.

* "The Failure, Fear, And Frenzy around Luigi Mangione:"

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* "Comparing Every Version of Nosferatu:"

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This is extremely good analysis and her perspective is valuable. I grew up with the Murnau and have watched it countless times since I was little. I've seen the Herzog not nearly as often, but I did see it within a year of it's release and watch it periodically as well. I was a kid when the Herzog came out and didn't really appreciate it until some point in my 20's.

I don't agree with quite everything in here and I think the new Nosferatu has a lot of things to say, particularly in the way it is trying to talk about gendered violence. At the same time? I was very disappointed they lost the dance macabre like sequences from the Herzog, because those were important and I think would have been relevant to us for the reasons this commentator enumerated.

For the record, Goth Millennial and I really liked the new one, but the audience we saw it with reacted in a way that suggested a lot of people are deeply uncomfortable with what's on the screen and aren't willing to engage with the complexities and ambiguities. I particularly liked how the movie was both doing it's own thing, but also clearly in dialog with the other two versions, much like I experience the Herzog in relation to the Murnau.

All versions of Nosferatu have problems. Addressing one set can open up a new set. That is true here. It was true with the Herzog.

Honestly? When the commentator was discussing the ways people had trouble engaging with the Herzog when it was new, reminded me a bit of sitting in an audience where half the people were experiencing the film in a way completely different from the way i process it.

I am wondering if discomfort and debate are not things essential to doing Nosferatu right. I think it's part of why something so influential on future filmmakers rarely gets remade along with the whole antisemitism problem. (You can't remake Nosferatu without trying to decide how to handle the anti-Semitism of the original. It's a tricky, tricky thing. Same with Dracula. hundred plus year old media can be landmines.)

Anyway, this Nosferatu comparison piece is excellent and I really appreciated the perspective and context.

* "January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924!:" https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

* "Stunning Colorful Kodachrome Photos Show the Everyday Life in America during the 1940s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/colorful-kodachrome-slides-from-usa/

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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.

* "We have a right to safety, privacy, and protest. Say no to mask bans.:" https://www.stopmaskbans.com/

* Ethical Elephant sanctuary disaster relief: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/769847233453719552/emergency-flood-relief?source=share

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

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

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

* "LGBTQ+ Victory Fund:" https://victoryfund.org/

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

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

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

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

* "My husky’s fren needs your help:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/74raKUtbCKI

* Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

* Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Trans Kids Are On The Chopping Block:"

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

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

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

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

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

If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

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

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

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

*****

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He is going to kill so many people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "How To Lose A Rap Battle:"

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

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

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

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

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

Me either, Sir. Me either.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Hallmark Channel Targets Sad Singles:"

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Palestinians say Israeli troops fired at people seeking food. Israel says scene was deadly stampede:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-29-2024-f9b5a62a80d8b83eac4946d3c85af58b

* "Israel’s Cultural Genocide Is Destroying Gaza’s Very Memory:" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-cultural-genocide/

* "US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-airdrop-humanitarian-assistance-f8bc071193f89906abf21478bc70a084

* "'One step away from famine' for more than 500,000 people in Gaza, UN official says:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/half-million-people-gaza-one-step-from-famine-un-official/story?id=107630405

* "These babies were rescued from Gaza. What future awaits them?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/15/gaza-babies-shifa-hospital-egypt/

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

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

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* "Israel and Hamas indicate no deal is imminent after Biden signals Gaza cease-fire could be close:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-27-2024-e17abedeaf5a005fcd5e7095fecacb7a

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* "Two Years of War in Ukraine:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/02/photos-two-years-war-ukraine/677519/

* Republicans are playing politics with Ukrainian lives and freedom by siding with Russia. "Surprisingly Weak Ukrainian Defenses Help Russian Advance:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/world/europe/ukraine-defenses-avdiivka.html

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* "Billionaire politicians have become ‘shockingly common’ around the world, new study finds:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/billionaire-politicians-shockingly-common-study.html

* "Why the 2024 elections will be a turning point for LGBTQ+ rights all over the world:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/maria-sjodin

* "It’s official: Sweden to join NATO: Hungary finally lets Sweden into the military alliance, dealing a blow to Russia.:" https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-to-join-nato/

* "Russians embrace hope amid despair as Alexei Navalny says his final goodbye:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-alexei-navalny-funeral-c67cba86f99c0190cb3640c9e3fe67e8

* "US: Ex-FBI counterintelligence agent aided Russian oligarch:" https://www.kcra.com/article/ex-fbi-counterintelligence-agent-aided-russian-oligarch/42627263

* "A Canadian family moved to Russia to escape ‘wokeness’ and LGBTQ+ people. It did not go well:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/21/canadian-family-moved-to-russia-to-escape-wokeness/

* "An online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers a rare window into pervasive state surveillance:" https://apnews.com/article/china-cybersecurity-leak-document-dump-spying-aac38c75f268b72910a94881ccbb77cb

* "Something’s Fishy About the ‘Migrant Crisis’:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/asylum-seekers-migrant-crisis/677464/

* "Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants suspected of being in country illegally blocked by federal judge:" https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/29/texas-arrest-migrant-illegal-senate-bill-4-blocked/

* "FTC and 9 states sue to block Kroger-Albertsons supermarket merger:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/26/1232948796/ftc-lawsuit-krogers-albertsons-grocery-merger

* "Out State Dept. official Ned Price to be deputy to U.N. ambassador:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ned-price-deputy-ambassador

* "Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Texas and Florida social media laws:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/26/1233506273/supreme-court-social-media-laws

* "Supreme Court leaves sanctions in place against Sidney Powell and others over 2020 election suit in Michigan:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-sanctions-lawyers-sidney-powell-2020-election-michigan/#:~:text=Washington%20%E2%80%94%20The%20Supreme%20Court%20on,election%20was%20rife%20with%20fraud.

* "Bump-stock ban comes before Supreme Court:" https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/02/bump-stock-ban-comes-before-supreme-court/

* "SCOTUS torn on 'shooting device so horrifying even Trump wanted it banned':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/scotus-torn-on-shooting-device-so-horrifying-even-trump-wanted-it-banned-205314629675

* End of April! Fuck!!! "Supreme Court agrees to consider Trump immunity claim in further delay of election interference trial:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-decide-trumps-immunity-claim-election-interference-case-rcna139026

* "‘The fix is in’: Coup trial delay reveals Supreme Court ‘in cahoots’ with Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-fix-is-in-coup-trial-delay-reveals-supreme-court-in-cahoots-with-trump-205146693530

* "‘This is B.S.’: Maddow shreds ‘cravenness’ of Supreme Court delaying Trump trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-b-s-maddow-shreds-cravenness-of-supreme-court-delaying-trump-trial-205144645897

* "'Historic proof': If the Supreme Court wanted to move quickly it could:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-historic-proof-if-the-supreme-court-wanted-to-move-quickly-it-could-205232709938

* "'Republicans in robes': Supreme Court critics see politics behind action on Trump immunity case:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-republicans-in-robes-supreme-court-critics-see-politics-behind-action-on-trump-immunity-case-205156933869

* "Chris Hayes Extended Interview:"

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* "Exxon, Chevron ask US Supreme Court to toss ruling in Honolulu climate change suit:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/exxon-chevron-ask-us-supreme-court-toss-ruling-honolulu-climate-change-suit-2024-02-28/

* "Republican states can't join appeal in abortion pill case, Supreme Court rules:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/republican-states-cant-join-appeal-abortion-pill-case-supreme-court-rules-2024-02-20/

* "145 GOP Members of Congress Ask Supreme Court to Slash Access to the Abortion Pill:" https://www.jezebel.com/145-gop-members-of-congress-ask-supreme-court-to-slash-access-to-the-abortion-pill

* "Justice Samuel Alito wishes homophobia was acceptable:" https://www.advocate.com/news/samuel-alito-supports-homophobia

* "Samuel Alito is afraid of being called a bigot? Jim Obergefell has heard far worse (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/people/alito-jim-obergefell-homophobia

* "The Scandal of Clarence Thomas’s New Clerk:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-scandal-of-clarence-thomass-new-clerk?utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=tny&utm_source=twitter

* "These are the regressive work culture trends currently fuelling the unfair LGBTQ+ pay gap:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/lgbtq-pay-gap-2/

* "Feds cite meatpacking cleaning company for 'oppressive child labor' practices:" https://abc7chicago.com/feds-cite-meatpacking-cleaning-company-for-oppressive-child-labor/14458692/

* "A Life Without a Home:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/21/opinion/homelessness-crisis-america-stories.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE0.FDQj.MKmUIJ2sijGj&utm_source=DamnInteresting

* "Congress passes stopgap spending bill, preventing a partial government shutdown:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1234679367/congress-spending-deal-government-shutdown

* ""The clue phone is ringing. Pick it up.": Rep. Balint hammers GOP for failure to draft long-term spending deal:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-the-clue-phone-is-ringing-pick-it-up-rep-balint-hammers-gop-for-failure-to-draft-long-term-spending-deal-205345349602

* "Russian Dolls Trump has finally remade Republicans into Putin’s playthings.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-republicans-vladimir-putin-puppets.html

* "Poland warns US House speaker: you're to blame if Russia advances in Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/west-must-help-ukraine-more-prevent-spillover-polish-fm-says-2024-02-26/

* "Nearly two dozen European parliament leaders urge Johnson to act on Ukraine aid:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/28/congress/international-plea-for-johnson-ukraine-aid-house-republicans-00143828

* Extended Bernie Sanders interview: https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-we-need-to-do-more-sanders-calls-for-increased-pressure-on-netanyahu-to-ease-suffering-in-gaza-205318213937

https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/where-sen-bernie-sanders-finds-optimism-amid-dismal-politics-205320773852

* "Ex-FBI informant will remain in jail while awaiting trial on charges of lying to FBI about Bidens:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/26/fbi-informant-smirnov-hearing-california-00143335

* "Mitch McConnell will step down as Senate minority leader in November:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1163447619/mitch-mcconnell-steps-down

* "Enabling Trump, distorting the Supreme Court define McConnell legacy as he exits leadership:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/enabling-trump-distorting-the-supreme-court-define-mcconnell-legacy-as-he-exits-leadership-205159493682

* "Hyde-Smith blocks Senate vote on federal IVF protections:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/28/congress/blocks-ivf-vote-gop-senate-protections-00143918

* "Pelosi rips GOP anti-IVF bill: They 'need a lesson in the bird and the bees’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/pelosi-rips-gop-anti-ivf-bill-they-need-a-lesson-in-the-bird-and-the-bees-205236293634

* "GOP spins in circles to reconcile anti-abortion zeal with public IVF support:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/gop-spins-in-circles-to-reconcile-anti-abortion-zeal-with-public-ivf-support-205322821774

* 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

* "New York Democrats reject bipartisan congressional map, will draw their own:" https://apnews.com/article/new-york-congress-redistricting-house-elections-4b8768b63e0ab7a05d184a52f8979968

* "The first trans voting centre in the US is set to open in Los Angeles:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/02/vote-centers-in-los-angeles-county/

* "Wisconsin ethics panel recommends felony charges against Trump committee, lawmaker:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-wisconsin-vos-ethics-7d5dd7fd8d2da6001634a747b683b748

* "Federal judge affirms MyPillow’s Mike Lindell must pay $5M in election data dispute:" https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-election-denial-arbitration-award-a9b27dd8d37eab1d0f22111566feba93

* "Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/politics/elon-musk-election-misinformation-x-twitter.html

* "Calls to 'fight' and echoes of Jan. 6 embraced by CPAC attendees:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/jack-posobiec-jan-6-2024-cpac-rcna140225

* "MAGA Republican Pledges “End of Democracy” to Rabid Cheers at CPAC:" https://newrepublic.com/post/179247/jack-posobiec-democracy-cpac-2024

* This IS the Republican Mainstream now. "Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335

* "Matt Schlapp: “We have to intimidate, in the nicest of ways, all these elected officials that continue to flout the law”:" https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/matt-schlapp-we-have-intimidate-nicest-ways-all-these-elected-officials-continue-flout

* "New Matt Schlapp Subpoenas Target Document-Shredding at CPAC:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-matt-schlapp-subpoenas-target-doc-shredding-at-cpac

* "Ohio Law Requires a Transgender Man to Use His Deadname on State Legislature Ballot:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/ohio-law-requires-a-transgender-man-to-use-his-deadname-on-state-legislature-ballot/

* "Republican Opposition to Birth Control Bill Could Alienate Voters, Poll Finds:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/us/politics/republicans-birth-control-ivf.html

* "Maddow: With each new election cycle, Republicans accept Russian help with greater ease:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-each-new-election-cycle-republicans-accept-russian-help-with-greater-ease-204987461939

* Presidential Primaries are ongoing:

NOTE: There is now a call for people to vote "uncommitted" in the Democratic primary as a protest against Biden's Israel policy, I have voted that way in my up coming primary. The time to pressure Biden with your vote is now, not in November. The more of us who do this the more likely he'll actually do something.

District of Columbia: (Republicans), 3/3/24

North Dakota: (Republicans), 3/4/24

Alabama, Alaska (Republicans), Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa (Democrats), Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, American Samoa (Democrats): 3/5/24

Hawaii: (Democrats): 3/6/24

American Samoa (Republicans): 3/8/24

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.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary (as it is in my state). 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.

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.

* "Magician says political consultant hired him to create AI Biden robocall ahead of New Hampshire primary:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/magician-says-political-consultant-hired-him-to-create-ai-biden-robocall-ahead-of-new-hampshire-primary

* "Biden's substantive border visit exposes hollow Trump stunt:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-s-substantive-border-visit-exposes-hollow-trump-stunt-205246021788

* "The push to vote 'uncommitted' to Biden in Michigan exceeds goal:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1234279958/biden-uncommitted-democrats-michigan-primary-election-2024-

* "Inside the Democratic rebellion against Biden over the Gaza war:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/inside-democratic-rebellion-against-biden-over-gaza-war-2024-02-27/

* "'He needs to listen to us': Gaza ceasefire activists make statement in Michigan Democratic primary:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/gaza-ceasefire-activists-make-statement-as-uncommitted-in-michigan-democratic-primary-205070917730

* I have already done this. "Push for WA Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ instead of for Biden in March 12 primary picks up steam:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/push-for-wa-democrats-to-vote-uncommitted-instead-of-for-biden-in-march-12-primary-picks-up-steam/

* "Washington state’s largest labor union endorses ‘uncommitted’ over Biden:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/washington-states-largest-labor-union-endorses-uncommitted-biden-rcna141139

* "Colorado "noncommitted" campaign launches Biden protest ahead of Super Tuesday primary:" https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2024/02/29/colorado-noncommitted-primary-vote-biden-protest-super-tuesday

* "Trump's 'rambling and incoherent' victory speech leads to Maddow bestowing new nickname:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-uncle-ramble-standers-see-maddow-shred-trump-s-messy-south-carolina-victory-speech-204867141905

* "Trump wins Missouri, Michigan and Idaho caucuses, CBS News projects:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-wins-missouri-michigan-idaho-republican-caucuses/

* "Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis rule out being US election running mates as their bickering continues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/27/donald-trump-ron-desantis-not-running-mates-2024-election/

* "Illinois judge rules Trump ineligible for Republican primary ballot over Jan. 6 riot:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/illinois-judge-rules-trump-removed-republican-primary-ballot-jan-6-rio-rcna141065

* "The Pro-life Movement’s Not-So-Secret Plan for Trump:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/02/donald-trump-abortion-limit-republicans/677540/

* "Inside Trump's plan for mass deportations: 'America is going to target people who are not white':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/inside-trump-s-plan-for-mass-deportations-america-is-going-to-target-people-who-are-not-white-204901957994

* "'Burn it all down': Rule-of-law stands as bulwark against Trumpian lies, so he attacks it:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rule-of-law-stands-as-bulwark-against-trumpian-lies-so-he-attacks-it-204991557767

* "An RNC member is trying to stop the party from paying Donald Trump’s legal bills:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-republican-national-committee-stop-legal-bills-ff51a7ae8b5d872344e64a9a18851350

* The Republican War on Bodily Autonomy continues. "An uptick in state personhood bills fuels growing fears over IVF restrictions:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/personhood-bills-ivf-restrictions-alabama-rcna140228

* "Alabama Senate and House pass bills to protect IVF after court ruling:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/alabama-senate-house-pass-bills-protect-ivf-rcna141184

* "The anti-trans legislation risk map: A state by state breakdown:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-trans-laws-by-state

* "Wyoming bill could take trans kids from parents:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/wyoming-bill-could-take-kids

* "Mississippi bill would let those incarcerated sue state over trans inmates:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mississippi-bill-trans-inmates

* "Florida LGBTQ+ activist is forcibly removed at a House hearing on gun laws:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-lgbtq-activist-removed

* "LGBTQ+ community marches to Florida capitol en masse in powerful protest against Trans Erasure Bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/29/lgbtq-community-marches-to-florida-capitol-in-powerful-protest-against-trans-erasure-bill/

* "Good news: Utah kills bill banning LGBTQ+ Pride flags in classrooms:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/27/good-news-utah-kills-bill-banning-lgbtq-pride-flags-in-classrooms/

* "Montana issues rule banning gender marker changes on birth certificates:" https://www.advocate.com/news/montana-bans-trans-birth-certificates

* The Republican War on Marriage and Freedom continues. "Tennessee GOP quietly overturns marriage equality by giving officials the right to refuse:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/tennessee-marriage-licenses-officials-lgbtq

* CW: Suicide "West Virginia Republicans want to prevent suicidal transgender youth from receiving care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/west-virginia-trans-care-suicide

* "Michael Whatley officially announces for RNC Chair:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/26/michael-whatley-officially-announces-for-rnc-chair-00143364

* "America's first Black gay statewide elected official on being authentic and confident:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/erick-russell-black-gay-trailblzer

* "Virginia lieutenant governor misgenders trans senator Danica Roem, calling her ‘sir’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/27/virginia-lt-gov-winsome-earle-sears-misgenders-trans-senator-danica-roem/

* "Fury as Oklahoma senator calls LGBTQ+ people ‘filth’ after being asked about Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/26/oklahoma-senator-tom-woods-lgbtq-filth-nex-benedict/

* "Utah governor condemns, censures transphobic school board member:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/utah-governor-condems-natalie-cline

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s son arrested for alleged Colorado crime spree:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/28/anti-lgbtq-congresswoman-lauren-boeberts-son-arrested-for-alleged-colorado-crime-spree/

* "Watch Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik exposed in stunning, cringe-worthy interview:" https://www.advocate.com/news/taylor-lorenz-chaya-raichik-interview

* "PETITION: Remove Libs of Tik Tok (Chaya Raichik) From Oklahoma Library Board:" https://www.fightforthefirst.org/petitions/petition-remove-libs-of-tik-tok-chaya-raichik-from-oklahoma-library-board

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* "Appellate judge refuses to halt Trump’s $454 million fraud penalty while he appeals:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-james-appeal-bond-fraud-new-york-3093352e94274f9daba3d84f0c43467e

* "Architect of Trump's social media deal sues to block transaction:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/architect-trumps-social-media-deal-sues-block-transaction-2024-02-29/

* "Trump Wants a Break on $464 Million Judgment. The AG Says Trump Is Sneaking Assets to Florida.:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-a-break-on-dollar464-million-judgment-the-ag-says-trump-is-sneaking-assets-to-florida

* "Scrambling to keep his fortune from being stripped away, Trump may have gone too far:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/scrambling-to-keep-his-fortune-from-being-stripped-away-trump-may-have-gone-too-far-205246021886

* "Donald Trump’s team tries to prevent porn star Stormy Daniels testifying at hush-money trial:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/28/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-block-testimony-hush-money-trial/

* "“More indictments await”: Experts say Jan. 6 architect’s secret tweets may lead to "felony charges”:" https://www.salon.com/2024/02/27/more-indictments-await-experts-say-jan-6-architects-secret-tweets-may-lead-to-felony-charges/

* "True the Vote fails to reveal evidence of Georgia voting fraud claims:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/true-the-vote-tells-court-it-has-no-records-to-back-up-fraud-claims/77FJUQMWBZFYHEYVF6M54BUBDQ/

* "Listen to Fani Willis' fiery testimony: 'You lied':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/listen-to-fani-willis-fiery-testimony-you-lied-204455493616

* "Key Witness Against Fani Willis Completely Crumbles on the Stand:" https://newrepublic.com/post/179339/key-witness-georgia-fani-willis-crumbles

* "Judge: I may not need more evidence to decide:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/judge-i-may-not-need-more-evidence-to-decide/3PXR5GV2AZEEJKU35XOCJM4B6A/

* "Judge Cannon signals doubts about Jack Smith’s timeline for Trump trial in Florida:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/01/judge-cannon-signals-doubts-about-jack-smiths-timeline-for-trump-trial-in-florida-00144449

* "'Ice her': The likely scheme behind Trump's proposed start date for his classified documents trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-ice-her-the-likely-scheme-behind-trump-s-proposed-start-date-for-his-classified-documents-trial-205248069764

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* "More than 60 religious institutions have been targeted for supporting LGBTQ+ rights: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-religious-institutions-report

* This is from several years ago, but I've been thinking about it lately. "You’re My Line:" https://storycorps.org/animation/youre-my-line/

* "WHY THE MOST EDUCATED PEOPLE IN AMERICA FALL FOR ANTI-SEMITIC LIES:" https://archive.is/20240216133850/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/jewish-anti-semitism-harvard-claudine-gay-zionism/677454/

* "How American Gun Culture Fuels Anti-Immigrant Politics:" https://www.thetrace.org/2024/02/us-gun-culture-immigration-politics/

* "'It is historic': US poised to see record drop in yearly homicides despite public concern over crime:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/homicide-numbers-poised-hit-record-decline-nationwide-americans/story?id=105556400

* "Debunking the right-wing myth of the ‘migrant crime surge’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/debunking-the-right-wing-myth-of-the-migrant-crime-surge-205235269880

* "Man convicted in first federal hate crime trial based on gender identity for murder of Black trans woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/federal-hate-crime-gender-identity

* "Charges dropped against Florida family accused of blinding gay man in brutal assault:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/makarenko-family-charges-dropped

* "Watch alarming video of Nex Benedict explaining to police that they were bullied:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nex-benedict-police-video

* "Federal investigation opens into Owasso Public Schools after death of Nex Benedict:" https://www.advocate.com/news/federal-investigation-nex-benedict

* "In Oklahoma, a bathroom law and other policies endanger transgender residents:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/oklahoma-bathroom-law-dangers

* "Karine Jean-Pierre ‘absolutely heartbroken’ over Oklahoma teen Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/white-house-highlights-nex-benedict

* "How you can support queer and trans kids in Oklahoma after Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/how-to-help-trans-kids

* "Historic $1 Billion Donation to N.Y.C. Medical School Means Students Won't Have to Pay Tuition Anymore:" https://people.com/usd1-billion-donation-n-y-c-medical-school-students-are-tuition-free-8600732

* "West Virginia Republicans want to prosecute 'pedophile librarians' over 'obscene' material:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/west-virginia-obscene-matter-books

* "Texas high school faces backlash after cancelling upcoming LGBTQ+ play The Laramie Project:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/29/matthew-shepard-play/

* CW: Rape, CSA. "Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens ‘should never have been a police officer’, inquiry finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/sarah-everard-wayne-couzens/

* CW: CSA "Police officer quits after sending ’14-year-old boy’ Grindr messages: ‘Let’s see this skinny bod’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/anthony-french/

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Conservative anti-gay movement built on foundation of questionable credibility:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/conservative-anti-gay-movement-built-on-foundation-of-questionable-credibility-204988997940

* CW: Sexual Assault "Album producer accuses Diddy of sexual assault and forcing him to sleep with sex workers:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/27/sean-diddy-combs-accused-sexual-assault-male-producer/

* "Women take part in Japan’s Naked Man festival for first time in 1000 years:" https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/women-take-part-in-japans-naked-man-festival-for-first-time-in-1000-years/BG5RWUZ5HFE5VMO3TPRDKM6RTU/

* It IS work. "Most British people think that sex work should be legal, but is it ‘real work’?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/most-british-people-think-that-sex-work-should-be-legal-but-is-it-real-work/

* "World’s largest psych organisation says ‘damaging’ gender affirming care bans are wrong:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/29/gender-affirming-care-report-american-psychological-association/

* "Family planning and fertility services grind to halt in Alabama after devastating ruling:" https://www.advocate.com/news/fertility-services-alabama

* "‘Wake up, America’: Birth control, IVF in jeopardy under GOP, warns Porter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-wake-up-america-birth-control-ivf-in-jeopardy-under-gop-warns-porter-205312069829

* "A South Carolina woman was forced to leave the state for an abortion. Now, she's suing:" https://www.advocate.com/south-carolina-woman-abortion

* Help Queer Folks in Ghana: https://www.silentmajorityghana.com/donate

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* "Richard Lewis, Comedian and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Star, Dies at 76:" https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/richard-lewis-dead-comedian-curb-your-enthusiasm-1235925744/

* I have lost track of how many missed cleaning appointments there were. It's been weeks. I've been scheduling twice a week since November in hopes of getting one a month. Which is annoying, but not nightmarish right now, but gets ugly fast in March, when Goth Millennial is going to burn through all their hours fast taking care of me post surgery.

The Millennials are working out a cooking schedule between them, but this is a huge load on Goth Millennial's shoulders.

Basically the company Medicare is out sourcing to is falling apart because treating their contract workers like shit and lying to them about things like mileage compensation when hiring them is a terrible business model in this economy on top of being an incredible shitty way to treat humans. My decision to start calling them the Asshole Agency within a week or two of starting to deal with them continues to be vindicated. The workers there need a union since the company is devoted to it's assholery, but I get why it's easier to quit.

The system is collapsing, basically. The Medicare advantage people know this and are "discussing options."

So Friday I spent hours playing phone tag with local volunteer organizations trying to get six weeks of help, but those systems are already flooded with people who are supposed to be getting Medicare advantage help, but can't because the Asshole agency isn't sending people and hasn't been for months. Still, I was hoping a short term acute need might get me in. The secular one got right back to me. They are full up. No word yet from the Catholics and the group that coordinates a bunch of protestant organizations.

I have been told over and over to try to get a church involved, but I'm not Christian and it feels weird, especially since most of my contacts with Christian strangers in the last couple decades involve aggressive proselytizers. I have Christian friends who are cool. I have no beef with the Quakers or the Unitarians or the Episcopalians or the Catholics who are trying to change things from within (Nuns on a Bus, queer friends trying to push their parish left) or what have you. I do have a beef with extremists, which most evangelicals are and the more conservative strands of catholic, orthodox, and Protestantism and there are a lot of door to door Mormons, Jehovah's witnesses, etc. in my part of the country.

Look, a had late family members who were very involved in their churches who were decent people with reasonable views. I was a Queer Medievalist and I have some sexy late medieval saint pin ups to prove it mixed in with all my other art, some of which references assorted other religions, despite never having been Catholic. I have a Quaker friend closer to me than my own sister.

I just... Christian religious strangers in my house make me uncomfortable as a queer non-Christian in a country where Christo-fascists are trying to make me literally illegal.

I know it would likely be fine. I did fine and made lots of friends at University which doing a major that is mostly Catholics, Ex-Catholics, and people in the process of converting. I come from a debate culture. I can quote scripture like Satan. ;) I was in Philosophy before I dropped out and moved west and switched to History in one form or another. I can talk theology across a whole lot of denominations and the major "heresies." I just don't want to anymore and I haven't wanted to for a long time. That was long ago and far away when I wasn't so exhausted and in pain.

I should have started looking last August or October.

I am likely fucked because I waited too long.

Sigh.

In other news, I've been really doing well on the massive number of now mostly advanced physio things I have to do every day.

Sunday I was about a third of the way in when my arm noped out of about another third of Sunday's quota. I am trying to do all the remaining ones that don't move my arm that way, but I'm not sanguine.

I forgot to do my blood work Friday. I have an afternoon pre-op appointment Monday. Let us hope I remember then. I am so tired and it all hurts so much.

* Sunday the Millenials helped me make bread, as kneading's been beyond me for years, but I've been wanting fresh baked bread for weeks. I got started way later than intended, and then discovered my yeast was too old which added yet more delay so they went home before it was rteady, which saddened me, I was trying the recipe from B. Dylan Hollis's cookbook that went against every instinct in my body as someone who grew up poor and who's mom baked bread a lot. Like I've been involved in bread making since I was a toddler. The instinct is a well worn groove.

I made some small modifications because 1. I don't put that much salt in anything. (I put in some salt, just not as much as one is supposed to). 2. There was more yeast in it than intended as I added the fresh ayeast on top of the mostly exhausted yeast I'd already put in. 3. I wanted a round loaf rather than a loaf shape, so YMMV.

The yeast did not perform the way I am used to, which I theorize is do to the weird slurry situation they have going on instead of the classic water/sugar/yeast and wait situation I'm used to. As a result it is possible my yeast was mostly fine, but I didn't know that at this stage. Indeed, at no point did this bread rise the way I am used to bread rising, which both I and the Millenial who'd also grown up baking bread found vaguely unnerving. Like it did rise some, but not even close to our expectation.

This bread is dense. Super dense. Even knowing the ingredients and predicting it would be dense from the rise pattern, I was not remotely ready for the texture of the finished product. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad texture, just way closer to cornbread than bread bread despite the comparatively small amount of corn meal in it. I knew this was a molasses heavy bread and was expecting it to be slightly sweeter than normal bread. I don't think I had quite envisioned the particular way the molasses shifted the flavor profile. Again, not bad, just different and with the unexpected texture I took a while to adjust.

It's very filling to the point where I'm not convinced we can eat a whole loaf before it turns. Like armies could march on this. It is exactly a thing that would be good to feed people plowing a field with horse or ox. It's hearty in a way I associate with early modern and 19th century food. I need to think about what to pair it with besides the butter I already tried on it. I'm not sorry I tried it as it is interesting. I'm not sure I'd make it again as I like other breads I know how to make better.

* The Catholics are a no go on helping. I am now waiting on the Protestant Coalition to see if they will send anyone to help. In related news, the nice lady in charge of my disability aide stuff has put in for a bunch of extra hours for Goth Millennial for March, given how much help I'm going to need. We should here back from the supervisor soon so Goth Millennial can plan. I am thinking I'm going to up reservations with the asshole agency to four a week or so after my first forty eight post surgury in hopes of getting two cleaning sessions a month instead of one. I need to think about distribution for when we have our no one is coming again conversation Friday morning.

I have done my pre-op consult thingie. It looks like as the surgery is less extreme than what had initially been projected they won't need to completely immobilize the arm, just severely limit it. I am hoping "can move it slightly in an up and down fashion" will really help with the trousers on and off situation when I need the bathroom. It is a small thing making a massive difference. I will see if I will be able to type at all when we get there.

It took me three days, a ridiculous amount of time, energy, gas, and most of the oil in my car to get the blood work they wanted. It was an infuriating saga. Hospital won't take blood work from the normal easy to access lab. The one I was sent to consists of a collection of chairs and a sign directing me to what two hours of driving through the street maze north of a certain middle school suggests is a mythical location. waited an hour with an annoyingly loud loop blasting directions in a tiny windowless waiting room to be sent home to try again. That site had the wrong hours listed on the internet and was closing also indefinitely.

This left literally two open slots at the one remaining site, which was the basement of a very pretty craftsman house with no signage visible from the street. I parked in the right place, but the person in the building proper had no idea they had a phlebotomist in the basement, so I spent the next 20 minutes driving up and down and eventually systematically trying unmarked buildings on foot until a kind older gentleman led me to the secret vampire basement. Then I had to hobble up hill back to my car.

This could have easily been solved by a larger sign instead of a tiny one half hidden by landscaping, or one of those tent signs closer to the street. Just saying.

So they have their four vials of blood.

I've had my phone consult with the hospital about meds and things, during which I discovered that the intake lady at the formerly Extremely Catholic Hospital now owned by an Evil Corporate Conglomerating that has successfully enshitified healthcare across broad sectors in at least two counties knows nothing at all about gender confirmation surgeries, literally didn't understand what I was talking about without a five minute explanation, and had no way to enter such a thing into the computer so had to hand write it into my previous surgery list in vague terms because her google fu wasn't up to trans stuff and there was no medical code for it in the computer. O.o

And this is why I never feel safe at that hospital even though I'm pretty sure they stopped having everyone drop whatever they were doing including surgery prep for mandatory prayers when the Evil Corporate Overloard took over. I trust neither super Christian hospital not evil corporate hospital that fires whistle blowers, and wish we were doing this at the modern hospital one county south, but here we are.

I do have trust in my surgeon though. The person who did my swabs, BP, and med list at the surgeons place was clearly trans. I wasn't sure which direction they were going or if they were nonbinary, but it made me feel safer. They weren't weird about my botched surgery situation when I had to partially disrobe for swabs. He also has good recommendations for joint surgery from the physios because the outcomes are excellent without much in the way of complications. My interactions with him show he listens and takes problems seriously. I am comfortable with no nonsense, which he is.

I am going to hate being mostly helpless. The rehab will Suck, but it would be harder to suck more than physio already is. I am already thinking about maybe trying for a new hip next year or the year after. Best to start cycling through the process on big four since I've already started, and that left hip is deteriorating noticeably faster than the right.

My car needs to go in Monday. I need to make a mental note that oil is now three times a year. Sigh. And jiffy lube won't touch anything under my hood for liability reasons. I am trying not to stress out about housing tax, as right now I just need to focus on doing as much physio as my arm can take, laying in supplies for March, getting through what is about to be a terrible, terrible month.

I would like to thank the donor who sent some funds to allow me to order out a couple times while I'm laid up, and the Millennials who are organizing Batch Cooking so I will have things I can heat up to eat.

* Friday I kept being awakened by medical phonecalls, as has been the case all week, but it was 8 or 9 today, which feels like a lot. Nevertheless, I think I am actually getting a handle on the last two batches of advanced exercises, which is a relief.

I think I figured out why the Emperor has been so anxious and Livia's been extra cuddly. They think something is very wrong with me from how I'm moving, poor buttons. They spent most of the week trying to herd me back into bed every time I leave it.

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* "What’s Going On Over There? The Late Show's News From Around The World:"

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* "Trump Victory Party Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "The Republican Hip-Hop Task Force:"

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* "Call The Joe Biden Phone Sex Line:"

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* "Mitch McConnell Steps Down:"

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* Matthew Peary vs Matthew Henson: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=208

* "Sunday Sweets Brings You SKULLS ON PLATTERS:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-brings-you-skulls-on-platters-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.

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

* To track more general LGBTQIA+ Legislation: https://www.lgbtmap.org/

* "How you can support queer and trans kids in Oklahoma after Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/how-to-help-trans-kids

* An organization for the parents of trans youths: https://transparentusa.org/

* "2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

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

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

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

* Help Queer Folks in Ghana: https://www.silentmajorityghana.com/donate

* "Library of Congress Launches New Website for Americans to Share COVID-19 Stories:" https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-launches-new-website-for-americans-to-share-covid-19-stories/s/d5739534-fec6-4e13-9f16-68d6117ee94b

* "We’re looking for English-speaking neopronoun users (aged 18+) to participate in a paid linguistics study.:" https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/741780492503990272/kirby-conrod-is-a-cool-linguist-whos-done-neat

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* Thursday's news mostly isn't on here.

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* "Israeli Attack on Al Nasser Hospital Sends Displaced Families Fleeing:" https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/17/headlines/israeli_attack_on_al_nasser_hospital_sends_displaced_families_fleeing

* CW: Rape. "Israeli military chief rabbi-designate under fire over remarks on rape:" https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0ZS1Q0/

They are really making South Africa's case for them, aren't they.

* "Chaotic wave of attacks and reprisals in Middle East fuel worries of a broader regional war:" https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthi-rebels-missiles-iran-seizure-us-8112fbadd3b0689c71a92890895a9368

* "U.S. puts Yemen's Houthi rebels back on global terrorist list:" https://www.axios.com/2024/01/17/houthis-terrorist-organization-biden

* "Gaza death toll tops 24,000 as UN agencies call urgently for more aid:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-01-15-2024-966bd5a9375e7439dd3de5fc113a7e7d

* "Gaza Is Starving:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/gaza-is-starving

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544
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* "Netanyahu says he told the US that he opposes a Palestinian state in any postwar scenario:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-01-18-2024-73d552c6e73e0dc3783a0a11b2b5f67d

* And yet he still funds the war. "Biden "running out" of patience with Bibi as Gaza war hits 100 days:" https://www.axios.com/2024/01/14/biden-netanyahu-israel-gaza-war-tensions

* "Bernie Sanders: Netanyahu telling Biden, ‘Screw you’ on Gaza de-escalation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-sanders-netanyahu-telling-biden-screw-you-on-gaza-de-escalation-202149445947

* "US Senate rejects measure to force human rights report on Israel:" https://www.reuters.com/world/senate-rejects-measure-force-human-rights-report-israel-2024-01-17/

* To complain to your Congress Critters:
Senate: https://contactsenators.com/senator-phone-numbers/
Congress in General: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

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* "Home Office knew Rwanda was refusing LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in 2022, report claims:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/rwanda-refusing-lgbtq-asylum-seekers-home-office/

* "Labour candidate apologises for transphobia – then announces she is ‘gender critical’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/laura-pascal-labour-hackney-trans-suspension/

* "President Biden Signs Food Donation Improvement Act:" https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2023/01/president-biden-signs-food-donation-improvement-act/

* "Conservative justices seem poised to weaken power of federal agencies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/17/conservative-justices-seem-poised-to-weaken-power-of-federal-agencies-00136112

* "Maine court puts decision barring Trump from the state's primary ballot on hold:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/17/1225178547/trump-appeal-maine-14th-amendment

* "Sex-positive adult toy store employees file for unionization:" https://www.advocate.com/business/adult-toy-store-employees-unionization

* The music industry is fucking over smaller artists over streaming rights. Want to help? "UMAW aims to organize music workers to fight for a more just music industry, and to join with other workers in the struggle for a better society. :" https://weareumaw.org/

* "Tell your Representative to Support Rep Tlaib's Resolution for a New Streaming Royalty:" https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-representative-to-support-the-resolution-for-a-new-streaming-royalty/

* Democrats are trying to block funding to the propaganda clinics that try to trick pregnant people into entering to be barraged by misinformation in the guise of medicine. "GOP tries to block proposed federal rule that restricts funds for anti-abortion centers:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/gop-tries-to-block-proposed-federal-rule-that-restricts-funds-for-anti-abortion-centers

* "Elise Stefanik Targeted for Censure for Jan. 6 ‘Hostages’ Comment:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-rep-dan-goldman-plans-to-censure-elise-stefanik-over-hostages-comment

* "GOP Rep. Stefanik faces censure push for calling Jan. 6 rioters ‘hostages’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-stefanik-faces-censure-push-for-calling-jan-6-rioters-hostages-202148933871

* 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

* "Baltimore Sun’s New Right-Wing Owner Kicks Things Off by Insulting Everyone on Staff:" https://newrepublic.com/post/178181/baltimore-sun-new-owner-smith-sinclair-insult-everyone-staff

* "Right-wing executive's media empire exemplifies dangerous bias he warns against:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/right-wing-executive-s-media-empire-exemplifies-dangerous-bias-he-warns-against-202171973898

* "MAGA's sexy beer calendar scandal cracks up the Christian right:" https://www.salon.com/2024/01/12/magas-sexy-beer-calendar-scandal-cracks-up-the-christian-right/

* "Texas theocrats are a home-grown threat to American democracy:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/dunn-wilks-paxton-texas-theocracy-democracy-18380689.php

* "Republicans Are Making ‘Dark Money’ Even Darker for 2024:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-are-making-dark-money-even-darker-for-2024

* Mysterious crypto ‘dark money’ group ramps up lobbying efforts ahead of 2024 election:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/08/crypto-dark-money-lobbies-as-industry-aims-to-influence-2024.html

* "Ohio Republican Governor defends trans candidates who are being disqualified:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/ohio-governor-trans-candidates/

* Early voting has already started in a few places.

New Hampshire votes 1/23/24.
South Carolina votes 2/3/24

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.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary. 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.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

Remember, it is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us win.

* "Biden supporters urge NH voters to embrace unusual write-in campaign:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-supporters-urge-new-hampshire-voters-embrace-writein/story?id=106198673

* "Pranksters add insult to ignominy for Republican caucus losers:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/pranksters-add-insult-to-ignominy-for-republican-caucus-losers-202048581690

* "Iowa voting in popcorn buckets exposes GOP ‘election integrity’ hypocrisy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/iowa-voting-in-popcorn-buckets-exposes-gop-election-integrity-hypocrisy-202040901861

* Republicans are proudly and openly NAZI now. The people who weren't already left the party. "CBS News analysis: Most Republicans agree with "poisoning the blood" language:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-analysis-most-republicans-agree-with-poisoning-the-blood-language/

* "Trump leads GOP rightward march and other takeaways from the Iowa caucuses:" https://apnews.com/article/iowa-caucus-trump-desantis-haley-takeaways-d1b8be2d9f95969fd6d62f73fa95226b

* "Vivek Ramaswamy suspends his 2024 Republican presidential bid and endorses rival Donald Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/vivek-ramaswamy-ends-2024-presidential-campaign-4b794ed3fbb41cc7f2a6a95d20458843

* "How Vivek Ramaswamy Got Richer While Pumping Millions Into Failed Presidential Campaign:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2024/01/17/how-vivek-ramaswamy-got-richer-while-pumping-millions-into-failed-presidential-campaign/?sh=1af1a0f25e78

* "Asa Hutchinson drops out of 2024 GOP presidential race after last-place finish in Iowa:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asa-hutchinson-drops-out-2024-presidential-race-iowa/

* "'Sniveling coward': Once tough-talking Republicans waste no time capitulating to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-sniveling-coward-once-tough-talking-republicans-waste-no-time-capitulating-to-trump-202172997815

* "Trump again vows to be a day-one ‘dictator’ in Iowa town hall:" https://news.yahoo.com/trump-again-vows-day-one-035107839.html?guccounter=1

* ""Tectonic shift in power": How MAGA pastors boost Trump's campaign:" https://www.axios.com/2024/01/12/how-maga-pastors-boost-trump-campaign-2024

* "'A certain kind of religion': Trump's MAGA movement hijacks evangelicalism; leaves gospel behind:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-a-certain-kind-of-religion-trump-s-maga-movement-hijacks-evangelicalism-leaves-gospel-behind-202049605606

* "Trump, the ‘religious right’ and white Christian nationalism:" https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/01/05/white-christian-nationalism-rise-246538

* "Dr. Clarence Jones: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would call Donald Trump a 'moral fraud':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/dr-clarence-jones-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-would-call-donald-trump-a-moral-fraud-201916485532

* "Trump and the GOP are coming for you: Warren stresses reproductive rights at stake in 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-and-the-gop-are-coming-for-you-warren-stresses-reproductive-rights-at-stake-in-2024-202169413926

* "Stephen Colbert Chews Apart Trump's Brazenly Weird New Claim:" https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/stephen-colbert-chews-apart-trumps-brazenly-weird-new-claim_uk_65a8deade4b076abd7aa6b71

* "Trump just promised an authoritarian ‘task force’ to impose Christian ideology:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-2024-christian-right-truth-social-rcna132082

* "Former Trump national security advisor gushes over QAnon in leaked footage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/14/michael-flynn-donald-trump-qanon/

* "You Could Soon Be Fined for Defamation for Calling Someone Racist in Florida:" https://newrepublic.com/post/177920/florida-bill-fine-defamation-racist-discrimination?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter

* "Erin's 2024 Anti-Trans Legislative Risk Map:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/erins-2024-anti-trans-legislative

* "It’s only January and 2024 is set to break records with vile anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced in the US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/anti-lgbtq-bills-trans-2024/

* "Missouri Republicans to consider removing trans people from state law:" https://www.ky3.com/2024/01/16/missouri-republicans-consider-carving-trans-people-out-state-law/

* "House GOP lawmakers introduce bill imposing near-total ban on abortion in Kansas:" https://kansasreflector.com/2024/01/11/house-gop-lawmakers-introduce-bill-imposing-near-total-ban-on-abortion-in-kansas/

* "Lauren Boebert claims abortions are the reason why the US birthrate is so low:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/lauren-boebert-abortions-us-birthrate/

* "Abortion foes launch campaign against abortion rights ballot initiative:" https://www.azmirror.com/2024/01/11/abortion-foes-launch-campaign-against-ballot-initiative-spread-misinformation/

* "Massachusetts governor seeks IVF coverage for veterans in same-sex relationships:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/veterans-ivf-massachusetts-maura-healey

* "Republican who voted to ban trans healthcare now wants kids to drop out of schools to work on farms:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/joanna-king-indiana-child-labour-trans-healthcare/

* "Lawmakers in South Carolina approve ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/transgender-health-care-south-carolina/

* CW: Rape. "Moms For Liberty leader Bridget Ziegler still hasn’t resigned over sex scandal – and people in Florida aren’t happy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/17/bridget-ziegler-moms-for-liberty-resign-sex-scandal/

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* "Trump returns to a New York courtroom for second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/16/1224523186/trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation-trial

* CW: Sexual Assault "Judge threatens to boot Donald Trump from courtroom over loud talking as E. Jean Carroll testifies:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-defamation-lawsuit-70d4477120399373934253c7e450643e

* CW: Sexual Assault "Trump dares judge to kick him out of court: ‘I would love it’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-dares-judge-to-kick-him-out-of-court-i-would-love-it-202140741790

* CW: Sexual Assault "The Donald Trump Doom Loop:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-donald-trump-doom-loop

* "'Fantastical narrative': Trump concocts DOJ, Biden conspiracy theory in new classified docs filing:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-fantastical-narrative-trump-concocts-doj-biden-conspiracy-theory-in-new-classified-docs-filing-202046533884

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* "Violent political threats surge as 2024 begins, haunting American democracy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/09/public-officials-death-threats-swatting-surge/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzA0Nzc2NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA2MTU4Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDQ3NzY0MDAsImp0aSI6ImVhZmQ1MDgyLTMwYTYtNDg5Ni05YzA0LWE1ZWI2Y2MyNDI3YSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI0LzAxLzA5L3B1YmxpYy1vZmZpY2lhbHMtZGVhdGgtdGhyZWF0cy1zd2F0dGluZy1zdXJnZS8ifQ.PiUCh_5cfV5fR_rdKbvfV68TcQ2d54Q7FuXeZMMbuV4

* I don't understand how this is legal. "Texas Just Took Its Border Battle With the U.S. Government Up a Notch:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/texas-national-guard-shelby-park-eagle-pass-border-patrol-1234945639/

* "3 migrants drowned near area where Texas has denied entry to federal border agents:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/3-migrants-drown-near-shelby-park-eagle-pass-texas-soldiers-denied-entry-federal-border-agents/

* "Governor Says Texas Isn’t Shooting Migrants Because Biden Would ‘Charge Us With Murder’:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/greg-abbott-podcast-shooting-migrants-murder-charges_n_65a0b537e4b0fbd2bc062957

* "3 Tacoma police officers found not guilty in 2020 death of Manny Ellis:" https://www.kuow.org/stories/3-tacoma-police-officers-found-not-guilty-in-2020-death-of-manny-ellis?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=BOK062520&tier=&utm_id=774005&sfmc_id=133071869&sfmc_subkey=0034R0000463jY7QAI&utm_content=NL+BoK

* "There is little scrutiny of 'natural' deaths behind bars:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1219667393/there-is-little-scrutiny-of-natural-deaths-behind-bars

* "She risked her job to care for an incarcerated woman’s newborn. Now she wants to start a center to help others in need.:" https://mississippitoday.org/2023/08/11/roberta-bell-raised-baby-of-incarcerated-woman/#:~:text=Roberta%20Bell%2C%20a%2058-year-old%20grandmother%20who%20lives%20in,of%20a%20pregnant%20woman%20jailed%20at%20her%20workplace.

* "Things to know about Minnesota's new, non-racist state flag and seal:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/things-minnesotas-new-racist-state-flag-seal-106064631

* "IU suspends professor after Palestine Solidarity Committee event. Other faculty denounce the decision:" https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/01/iu-political-science-professor-sinno-suspended-psc-administration-palestine

* "In Texas, debate over school chaplains escalates school board culture wars:" https://religionnews.com/2023/12/14/in-texas-debate-over-school-chaplains-escalates-school-board-culture-wars/

* "Pornhub blocks access in two states after age verification laws take effect:" https://www.advocate.com/business/pornhub-access-north-carolina-montana

* CW: Domestic Abuse. "Gypsy Rose Blanchard released from prison early after serving time for the murder of her abusive mother:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gypsy-rose-blanchard-released-prison-early-serving-time-murder-abusive-rcna131423

* "Russian rapper who attended ‘almost naked’ party jailed for second time:" https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/06/russian-rapper-who-attended-almost-naked-party-jailed-for-second-time

* "Leonard Leo is at the center of dark money effort to limit medication abortion:" https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/01/04/leonard-leo-is-at-the-center-of-dark-money-effort-to-limit-medication-abortion/

* "Americans Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills…Just in Case:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/abortion-pills-advance-provision-mifepristone/

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

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* When I looked outside at dawn Wednesday, there was a lot of snow, so I figured, "I'll just call when they open and cancel Friday's appointment." Bwahahaha! No. The callback option takes 3-5 days so is useless under nearly every circumstance including this one. Waiting on hold longer than fifteen minutes breaks the hold system, which means hours of calling back over and over while three days of other people try to cancel appointments at the same time as the snow comes down alarmingly fast and hard even to my East coast Snow country trained eyes. It's basically a lottery since you start at the back of the line every fifteen minutes. I still need to do another round of physio things and eat and lung, none of which I can do while on hold. Grrrr.

I got through twice over the next two hours. They couldn't hear me.

Squirrel lent me his phone. I've now got two phones in one hand hold crap moving in and out of sync.

Bonus: My fingers are badly burned because whoever put the turn table back in the mic last time half assed it and there was a hot spot on my plate.

* I finally got through to a live human on Squirrel's phone after 11AM. It was still snowing when i went to bed Wednesday. It was also still snowing when I went to bed Thursday. It rained some in the evening, then iced over. I am worried about squirrel who keeps having to commute in this.

Some water leaked out of the bathroom ceiling from the indoor waterfall getting inside the walls. I can see damage to the plaster over my dryer. The bucket didn't catch anything Thursday. IDK. Anyway, I reported it as a slow leak when I discovered it, saying we're low priority. I'll do an addendum if there's still no more drips tomorrow.

I am trying to get up to three sets of all 14 physio exercises at 15 reps each to be the routine. I managed it two nights in a row. It is, as usual exhausting me and chewing me up generally. The imperative remains to get as much function back before surgery as possible, since that's the ceiling.

Three cleaner cancellations in a row, but this time, it's entirely reasonable. They even called for two of them to tell me. 1. Extreme cold and expectation of snow which didn't come until this week, but everyone thought it would. Forage delivery cancelled. People were not doing unnecessary travel. I didn't expect them. 2. Cleaner called out sick. She's a good worker and knows I'm a lung patient with high infection risk. I WANT people to cancel if they are sick both for their health and mine. 3. Snow and ice. No one is travelling unless they are essential workers. Squirrel is an essential worker in the health care sector. I did not expect a cleaner to the point that I called in and scheduled Tuesday about 15 minutes before the agency called to tell me no one is coming.

I should post the aggregate, but I would like to go to bed. Decisions, decisions.

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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.

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

* To track more general LGBTQIA+ Legislation: https://www.lgbtmap.org/

* An organization for the parents of trans youths: https://transparentusa.org/

* "2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

* "Tell your Representative to Support Rep Tlaib's Resolution for a New Streaming Royalty:" https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-representative-to-support-the-resolution-for-a-new-streaming-royalty/

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

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

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

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* Both Sydney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro have plead guilty in the Election Interference Racketeering case. I don't have time for proper coverage if I want to put this out today and it's a busy weekend for me RL.

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* "After blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital, Hamas and Israel trade blame as rage spreads in region:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah-e062825a375d9eb62e95509cab95b80c

* "Biden expresses outrage over Gaza hospital attack, directs team to investigate:" https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-expresses-outrage-over-gaza-hospital-attack-directs-team-investigate-2023-10-17/

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* "Israel-Hamas war updates: Israel and Egypt agree to let aid into Gaza:" https://www.npr.org/live-updates/biden-israel-gaza-hamas-palestine

* "Biden offers example of recent U.S. past in cautioning Israel on revenge:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-offers-example-of-recent-u-s-past-in-cautioning-israel-on-revenge-195941957697

* "Richard Madeley condemned for ‘racist’ question to MP Layla Moran about Hamas attack on Israel:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/richard-madeley-layla-moran-hamas-israel-palestine/

* "There’s no Jewish American consensus about the conflict in Israel and Gaza:" https://www.vox.com/23915948/jewish-american-israel-gaza-war-attacks-opposing-beliefs-progressive-movement

* "Muslim boy killed and woman wounded in Illinois hate crime motivated by Israel-Hamas war, police say:" https://apnews.com/article/muslim-boy-killed-chicago-landlord-will-county-5135dea218326d6e639a996564d9369e

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

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* "Saudi Arabia: Migrants workers who toiled in Amazon warehouses were deceived and exploited:" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/saudi-arabia-migrants-workers-who-toiled-in-amazon-warehouses-were-deceived-and-exploited/

* "Canadian Human Rights commissioner resigns over new school pronoun rule to out kids to parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/canada-saskatchewan-heather-kuttai-education-pronouns-trans/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Tory MP Peter Bone facing suspension over bullying and sexual misconduct allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/peter-bone-bullying-sexual-misconduct-suspension/

* "Anti-feminist, right-wing Manchester mayoral candidate makes trans ‘joke’ as part of campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/nick-buckley-manchester-anti-trans/

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* "Ukraine uses secretly shipped U.S. missiles to launch surprise strike :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/17/ukraine-uses-secretly-shipped-u-s-missiles-to-launch-surprise-strike-00121932

* "600 days into the war, Russia’s assault on a key eastern Ukraine city appears to be weakening:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-avdiivka-donetsk-counteroffensive-ae6a7dd33a43ae91bd9660aa5ca2b9a0

* "Russia destroyed 300,000 tons of grain since July in port, ship attacks, Kyiv says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-destroyed-300000-tons-grain-since-july-port-ship-attacks-kyiv-2023-10-13/

* "Ukraine claims a major strike on Russian airfields and thanks US for providing long-range missiles:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-avdiivka-attacks-8b5fd038c7e496dcb8f015b759b74666

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* "Supreme Court tells 5th Circuit to stop its defiance in ghost gun case:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206245991/supreme-court-ghost-guns

* Some of the speaker stuff may be out of date by the time you read it.

* "Jim Jordan lacks enough support on first House speaker round: Next vote scheduled for Wednesday:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206757302/house-speaker-vote-news

* "Republicans Say Jim Jordan’s Pressure Campaign for Speaker Has ‘Backfired’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-say-jim-jordans-pressure-campaign-for-speaker-has-backfired

* "What to know about Jim Jordan's role in Jan. 6 :" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jim-jordans-role-jan-6/story?id=104014959

* "House Republicans reject Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker of the House, again:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206757302/house-speaker-vote-news

* "‘Roomba stuck in a corner’: GOP infighting escalates as Jordan loses second speaker vote:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-roomba-stuck-in-a-corner-gop-infighting-escalates-as-jordan-loses-second-speaker-vote-195931205855

* "Jordan bully tactics backfire, provoke threats and harassment of fellow Republicans:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/jordan-bully-tactics-backfire-provoke-threats-and-harassment-of-fellow-republicans-195939397781

* "Let's talk about the Speaker options for Republicans....:"

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* "Republicans struggle to ignore half the country in speaker fight; Democrats stand by:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-struggle-to-ignore-half-the-country-in-speaker-fight-democrats-stand-by-196031045907

* "Dem rep: 199 Republicans voted for 'Insurrection Caucus' leader for speaker:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dem-rep-199-republicans-voted-for-insurrection-caucus-leader-for-speaker-195933253628

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

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

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

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

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

* "Kari Lake’s lawsuit over metro Phoenix’s electronic voting machines has been tossed out:" https://apnews.com/article/kari-lake-lawsuit-electronic-voting-machines-e8671f52c752946e1ec239df87a9d762

* "Arizona Republican Kari Lake launches 2024 Senate campaign:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204870164/arizona-republican-kari-lake-launches-2024-senate-campaign

* "Mike Pence heckled by man claiming they are both gay:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/mike-pence-heckled-gay/

* "Transgender Montana Legislator Zooey Zephyr Unsilenced and Unyielding at Equality Convention:" https://www.advocate.com/news/zooey-zephyr-equality-convention-interview

* "Menendez accused of acting as foreign agent for Egypt while helming Senate Foreign Relations Committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/12/menendez-accused-of-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt-while-helming-senate-foreign-relations-committee-00121225

* "Campaign of Rep. George Santos refunds more money than it raises :" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/16/santos-campaign-refunds/

* "The House GOP’s Crazy Week Gets Even Weirder With George Santos Tirade:" https://newrepublic.com/post/176239/house-gops-crazy-week-gets-even-weirder-george-santos-tirade

* "Embattled N.Y. Republican Congressman George Santos faces 10 new felony charges:" https://www.npr.org/ny-republican-congressman-george-santos-faces-new-felony-charges

* "'It wasn't me': George Santos says he won't take a plea deal:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/11/congress/santos-shaggy-defense-plea-deal-00120918

* "Republican lawmakers to introduce resolution to expel Rep. George Santos from Congress:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/new-york-house-republicans-introduce-resolution-expel-rep-george-santo-rcna119917

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* "Trump tells judge he will appeal gag order in federal election interference case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-files-notice-appeal-judge-issues-partial-gag-order-rcna120924

* "Let's talk about Trump's DC gag order....:"

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* "A school shooting left a 7-year-old terrified to go back.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/townville-school-shooting-survivor-ava-olsen/

* "How a California tribe won their ancestral land back and saved endangered salmon:" https://www.vox.com/climate/23906426/winnemem-wintu-land-back-run4salmon-chinook-california-indigenous-peoples-rights-sovereignty

* "Rappahannock Tribe’s buyback efforts are becoming a national model:" https://whro.org/news/local-news/39215-rappahannock-tribe-s-buyback-efforts-are-becoming-a-national-model

* About a thousand of the kidnapped children are still missing. "Settlement over Trump family separations at the border limits future separations for 8 years:" https://apnews.com/article/separated-children-trump-biden-border-immigration-f9a73685d0ddbcda86e5b69997f5f7dd

* "An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder:" https://apnews.com/article/innocence-project-wrongful-conviction-oklahoma-fbb59bbfb46d44a375704f172b6fc786

* Gender Affirming Care is Healthcare. "Trans convicts must have access to gender-affirming care in Washington prisons, landmark ruling finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/19/washington-prisons-gender-affirming-care-trans-inmates/

* CW: Self Harm. "The “Miserable Spectacle” of Executing People With Serious Mental Illness:" https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/andre-thomas-execution-death-penalty-mental-illness.html

* "Video shows US professor ‘assaulted’ by Turning Point members over Drag Queen Story Hour links:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/video-shows-us-professor-assaulted-by-turning-point-members-over-drag-queen-story-hour-links/

* "Inside the anti-LGBTQ effort to put Christianity back in schools:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christianity-evangelical-schools-anti-lgbtq-grapevine-podcast-rcna118114

* "Publisher denies ‘bigot button’ allegations after flagging queer books for school exclusion:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/publisher-scholastic-bigot-button-queer-books/

* "Moms for Liberty accused of ‘taking over’ school board to ban LGBTQ+ and inclusive books:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/moms-for-liberty-school-board-takeover/

* "Heavily persecuted, highly influential: China’s online feminist revolution:" https://restofworld.org

* "Some GOP-led states are chipping away at sex education in K-12 schools:" https://apnews.com/article/sex-education-us-laws-kentucky-florida-mississippi-bd6fffcb3a9a25babc32a143001f4ae1

* "India Supreme Court fails to legalise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/india-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/

* "India’s LGBTQ+ community ‘must demand’ equality, following crushing same-sex marriage blow:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/india-supreme-court-marriage-equality/

* "Man jailed in France for protesting drag queen story time event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/france-protest-drag-story-time-event-lgbtq/

* "Turkey: 90 per cent of LGBTQ+ people facing digital violence:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/13/turkey-lgbtq-digital-violence/

* "Japan: Family court rules it’s unconstitutional to require surgery for gender change:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/japan-surgery-gender-change-unconstitutional/

* "This Indian state’s groundbreaking initiative is helping trans community get into higher education:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/15/india-trans-higher-education-kerala-literacy-mission/

* "Canada school trustee says ‘holy spirit’ made her post anti-LGBTQ+ meme:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/school-trustee-holy-spirit-anti-lgbtq-meme/

* "Angela Rayner slams ‘dangerous’ anti-LGBTQ+ Tory rhetoric: ‘We can’t go on like this’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/angela-rayner-pinknews-awards/

* "Phyll Opoku-Gyimah calls on UK government to stand up for LGBTQ+ rights across the world:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/03/phyll-opoku-gyimah-kaleidoscope-trust-lgbtq-rights-uk/

* "Protestors warn government has ‘run out of time’ to fulfil vow to ban conversion therapy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/government-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Same-sex couples hit with ‘gay tax’ in over 90 per cent of NHS England trusts:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/same-sex-couples-ivf-nhs-england-gay-tax/

* How to tell someone is a terrible person. "Jacob Rees-Mogg says ‘you can’t offend the dead’ in GB News LGBTQ+ hate-crime discussion:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/jacob-rees-mogg-gb-news-hate-crime/

* "Brighton police hunt for gang of men who hurled stones at women in homophobic attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/10/brighton-police-homophobic-beach-attack/

* "LGBTQ+ groups protest gender critical conference hosting JK Rowling as a speaker:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/lgbtq-groups-protest-gender-critical-conference-hosting-jk-rowling-as-a-speaker/

* "Black trans choreographer Chyna Long shot and killed: ‘They took a piece of our joy’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/chyna-long-black-trans-woman-killed-milwaukee/

* "Three charged in alleged anti-LGBTQ+ hate-crime attack on 72-year-old man:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/10/three-charged-in-alleged-anti-lgbtq-hate-crime-attack-on-72-year-old-man/

* "Trans woman wins fencing tournament, anti-trans campaigners are inevitably raging:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/trans-woman-wins-fencing-tournament/

* "Operation Warp Speed: The Untold Story of the COVID-19 Vaccine:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/operation-warp-speed-covid-19-vaccine

* "‘Flying syringes’ and conspiracies: The far-right battle for a mosquito control board:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-06/la-me-rural-california-vector-control-conspiracy-theories-far-right

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* "When It Comes to Urban Trees, More Isn’t Always Better:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-09/what-mapping-every-tree-in-new-york-city-reveals

* "How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices:" https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-10-11/historic-redlining-bird-biodiversity

* "Decades Later, Closed Military Bases Remain a Toxic Menace:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/us/military-base-closure-cleanup.html

* "X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet:" https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/

* "Division of labor in ants, wasps, bees — and us:" https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2023/evolution-of-division-of-labor

* "Female frogs fake their own death to avoid unwanted attention from males: Study:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/female-frogs-fake-death-avoid-unwanted-attention-males/story?id=103859698

* "Black bears in the backyard: Why they’re everywhere, and what to do:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/10/10/black-bears-backyard-sightings/

* "Feast Your Eyes on the Most Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur of All Time:" https://mossandfog.com/feast-your-eyes-on-the-most-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-of-all-time/

* "When Lions Were King: Across the ancient world, people adopted the big cats as sacred symbols of power and protection:" https://www.archaeology.org/issues/522-features/11637-lions-ancient-world

* "‘Egyptian blue’ found on Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum:" https://www.cnn.com/style/greek-parthenon-sculptures-painted-egyptian-blue-scn/index.html

* "Scientists Have an Audacious Plan to Map the Ancient World Before It Disappears:" https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-have-an-audacious-plan-to-map-the-ancient-world-before-it-disappears/

* "1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-history-archaeology/1700-year-old-sock-spins-yarn-about-ancient-egyptian-fashion-180970501/

* "Ninth Victim of Suspected Gay Serial Killer Herb Baumeister Identified:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/herb-baumeister-ninth-victim

* Tuesday I stayed up all morning with frustrating phone bureaucracy. Wednesday I managed to sort out the bare minimum on the extreior decorations. Thursday, I was frankensteining around because my legs were bad. I know I have a bunch of C7 bulbs somewhere, but I put thhem away somewhere clever last January. I also need a C5, apparently. I saw some Wednesday, not knowing I owned anything needing a C-5. Sigh.

Friday late, my oldest continuous friend arrives for the birthday celebrations. everything is a mess, but I did get most of the boxes back in the closet, except for the light boxes I still need to search. I strung the house lights for halloweentown Wednesday, but all the figurines are randomly located as no one was up to making it pretty, which means I can't finish garlands and lights in time for party weekend. Ah well.

I did at least wrap presents for my birthday. For new readers: we do a halloween party for my birthday and we do secret pumpkins and take turns opening presents. I think birthday parties are more fun if everyone gets something to unwrap, and I am an Old, so this is how we do.

If I am scarce over the weekend, this is why.

* More Gothmas Decorations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731563061736062976?source=share

* Squirrel (https://www.facebook.com/mike.hutton.16/) has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

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

* "Food Safety: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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Regulations are written in blood.

* "Took my tiny child with me to the Halloween store.:" https://www.tumblr.com/cleolinda/731352627145818112/deadmomjokes-took-my-tiny-child-with-me-to-the?source=share

* A thing on Our Flag Means Death and what's going on with ed and stede: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731696319921602560/i-think-stedes-doing-a-lot-of-running-away-from?source=share

* OFMD: Izzy hand's Leg: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731697031851245568?source=share

* Black Sails and Our Flag Means Death Agree; Ned Low is a nasty, violent psychopath who needs to go.

* Cinderella after the Prince: https://batneko.tumblr.com/post/171036276147/cinderella-marries-the-prince-and-its-fine-the

* "Midnight Pals: The Dorsai:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/731536960132448256/midnight-pals-the-dorsai?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.

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

* Squirrel (https://www.facebook.com/mike.hutton.16/) has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Austria’s Sebastian Kurz charged with making false statements:" https://www.politico.eu/article/sebastian-kurz-charged-on-suspicion-of-making-false-statements/

* "Secret Messages Document Moscow Contacts with Staffer of Far-Right AfD:" https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-secret-messages-document-moscow-contacts-with-staffer-of-far-right-afd-a-0040e526-39d7-4f22-8bc1-6772bc2d840a

* "A top Russian general linked to the head of a rebellious mercenary group is reportedly dismissed:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-general-surovikin-dismissed-ukraine-wagner-036326ed0279a0c85600ef435e59a076

* "Russian mercenary chief and mutineer Prigozhin killed in jet crash, state media say:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-23/jet-crash-in-russia-kills-10-wagner-chief-prigozhin-passenger-list

* "'Revenge served cold' suspected in plane crash death of Putin warlord:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-revenge-served-cold-suspected-in-plane-crash-death-of-putin-warlord-191489605556

* "The new educational programme in Russia:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1932940.html

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* "Ukraine forces raise national flag in Robotyne in Zaporizhzhia region:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-forces-raise-national-flag-robotyne-zaporizhzhia-region-2023-08-23/

* "Turbulent Waters: How the Black Sea Became a Hot Spot in the War:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/world/europe/black-sea-russia-ukraine.html

* "Let's talk about Russia and who they don't want to face....:"

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* "Fox blames Biden for failing to stop Tropical Storm Hilary at the border: "they let it right in":" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/21/fox-blames-biden-for-failing-to-stop-tropical-storm-hilary-at-the-border-they-let-it-right-in.html

Remember when Republicans used to claim Obama had a time machine and super powers on the regular? Now they are claiming Biden controls the Weather.

* "Let's talk about government shutdowns, continuing resolutions, and more....:"

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* Republicans continue to wage their war on the American Economy that started with Reagan. "House Freedom Caucus rolls out demands to avoid shutdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/21/house-freedom-caucus-potential-shutdown-00112068

* "More than 31K Arkansans lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons in July:" https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/local-regional-news/2023-08-09/more-than-31k-arkansans-lost-medicaid-coverage-for-procedural-reasons-in-july

* "More than 82,000 Arkansans lose Medicaid coverage in July purge:" https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/aug/09/more-than-82000-arkansans-lose-medicaid-coverage/

* It's not just Arkansas. Check your Medicaid.

* "The Charitable-Industrial Complex:" https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-industrial-complex.html

* "UPS workers overwhelmingly approve a 5-year contract, ending a standoff between the company and the Teamsters union:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ups-workers-overwhelmingly-approve-5-year-contract-ending-102462116

* "House Republicans launch investigation into Fulton County DA after Trump indictment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/24/house-republicans-launch-investigation-into-fulton-county-da-00112769

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

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

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

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

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

* "Federal Judge Strikes Down Portions of Texas Voter Suppression Law S.B. 1:" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-strikes-down-portions-of-texas-voter-suppression-law-s-b-1/

* If Republicans succeed this is the end of rule of law and an independent judiciary. "Trump’s Georgia allies search for ways to punish Fani Willis:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/trumps-georgia-allies-search-for-ways-to-punish-fani-willis/LYUKIOKBJJBMBAXFD3JCWO2ZTQ/

* "Drag queen makes historic run for office to bring ‘voice to the voiceless’ in Florida politics:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/florida-drag-queen-politics-michael-travis-erika-rose/

* "Racist COVID Claims Spread by RFK, Jr., and Other Demagogues Are Deadly:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racist-covid-infection-theories-arent-just-wrong-they-are-deadly/

* "Hayes: How the ‘hermetically-sealed’ MAGA world views Trump vs. Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-how-the-hermetically-sealed-maga-world-views-trump-vs-biden-191383621713

* "Let's talk about negative turnout for Biden and Trump....:"

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

* How is this legal? "ND governor paying people to donate to his presidential campaign:" https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4089441-nd-governor-paying-people-to-donate-to-his-presidential-campaign/

* "The Ron DeSantis Slump:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-ron-desantis-slump

* "DeSantis eager to disclaim his elitist roots to curry favor with MAGA populists:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/desantis-eager-to-disclaim-his-elitist-roots-to-curry-favor-with-maga-populists-191484485546

* "The dog that didn't bark: Trump's calls for massive protests go unanswered:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-dog-that-didn-t-bark-trump-s-calls-for-massive-protests-go-unanswered-191308869503

* "Let's talk about Trump, Tucker, and skipping the debates....:"

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* "Michigan's Perry Johnson excluded from GOP presidential debate; claims 'corrupt' process:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/08/22/perry-johnson-michigan-gop-presidential-debate-candidate/70640396007/

* "Perry Johnson Also Plans to Sue RNC for Missing Presidential Debate:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/perry-johnson-also-plans-to-sue-rnc-for-missing-presidential-debate

* "'Mad, mad world': Republicans make a mockery of primary debate before it even starts:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-mad-mad-world-republicans-make-a-mockery-of-primary-debate-before-it-even-starts-191389765967

* "The GOP Debate Participants: A Look at Their Anti-LGBTQ+ Records:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-debate-homophobia-transphobia

* "The spiciest moments of the first GOP debate:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/23/first-republican-debate-highlights-00112617

* "Republican presidential candidates attack LGBTQ+ ‘indoctrination’ in schools during TV debate:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/24/republican-2024-candidates-ron-desantis-nikki-haley-donald-trump/

* "The GOP Debate: A Dumpster Fire, With or Without Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gop-debate-dumpster-fire

* "New Arkansas law now allows children under 16 years old to work:" https://www.kait8.com/2023/08/01/new-arkansas-law-now-allows-children-under-16-years-old-work/

* "MTG Baselessly Claims Georgia Prosecutor Is ‘Guilty of’ RICO Crimes, Not Trump:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mtg-georgia-prosecutor-guilty-rico-not-trump-1234809319/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to defend Proud Boys leader in social media post :" https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4159874-marjorie-taylor-greene-defends-proud-boys-leader-in-social-media-post-as-doj-seeks-33-year-sentence/?utm_source=press.coop

* "George Santos Aide Accused of Impersonating Kevin McCarthy Staffer Now Charged:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-aide-charged

* "Let's talk about Santos, fundraising, and another indictment....:"

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* "Trump attorneys guided false electors in Georgia, GOP chair says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/trump-indictment-false-electors-00112229

* "Meet the 34-year-old judge who will oversee Trump prosecution in Georgia:" https://www.ajc.com/news/meet-the-34-year-old-judge-who-will-oversee-trump-prosecution/BSRME6N2DJFYDGZ3OGBOJUFUKA/

* "Trump ex-chief Mark Meadows asks judge to protect him from arrest as he seeks to move Georgia case to federal court:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/22/trump-ex-aide-meadows-asks-judge-to-protect-him-from-arrest-in-ga-case.html

* "Indicted Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro demands speedy trial in Georgia:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/indicted-trump-lawyer-kenneth-chesebro-demands-speedy-trial-in-georgia-191470661865

* "Judge schedules Trump codefendant Ken Chesebro for October trial in racketeering case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/24/fulton-county-prosecutors-ask-judge-to-set-oct-23-trial-on-trump-racketeering-charges-00112816

* "Giuliani turns himself in on Georgia 2020 election charges after bond is set at $150,000:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-giuliani-georgia-election-indictment-fulton-county-203b1e69cbff227a0bf8cc59a6bb645f

* "Federal judge rejects bids to halt Georgia prosecution of Trump aides over 2020 election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/23/georgia-trump-racketeering-case-state-court-00112480

* "Long on bills, short on time: Trump co-defendants may consider their options:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/long-on-bills-short-on-time-trump-co-defendants-may-consider-their-options-191393349787

* "Judge approves $200,000 bond for Trump in Georgia election case:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-giuliani-georgia-election-indictment-fulton-county-203b1e69cbff227a0bf8cc59a6bb645f

* "Behold the First Ever Presidential Mugshot:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mugshot-released-georgia-election-meddling-arrest-1234812072/

* "Sen. Warnock (D-GA): We know who Trump is, but who are we?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sen-warnock-d-ga-we-know-who-trump-is-but-who-are-we-191309381982

* This is understandable and some of the most in depth stuff I've seen on the indictments. "It's RICO in Georgia:"

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* "Inside One ‘Egregious’ Mistake From Trump’s Florida Judge Aileen Cannon:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-one-egregious-mistake-from-trumps-florida-judge-aileen-cannon

* "Prosecutors: Trump Mar-a-Lago security aide flipped after changing lawyers :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/trump-witness-reversal-testimony-jack-smith-00112355

* "Key Mar-a-Lago witness flips after dumping Trump-aligned lawyer, court filings reveal:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/key-mar-a-lago-witness-flips-after-dumping-trump-aligned-lawyer-court-filings-reveal-191393349836

* "Bondsman Scott Hall released from Fulton Jail:" https://www.ajc.com/news/bondsman-scott-hall-released-from-fulton-jail/5U2LUVKRR5AZDPGVUNFQFUVYCU/

* "Justice Department objects to Trump’s proposed April 2026 date for DC trial:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-special-counsel-trial-justice-department-jan-6-d2648e51ddf2cdcebf74a197e4c547d7

* "How Trump (Allegedly) Tried to Steal the Election:"

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* "Secret Service Agents Were in Contact With Far-Right Oath Keepers:" https://newrepublic.com/post/175151/secret-service-agents-contact-far-right-oath-keepers

* "'Naive' Secret Service had blind spot for Oath Keepers ahead of Jan. 6: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-naive-secret-service-had-blind-spot-for-oath-keepers-ahead-of-jan-6-report-191481925893

* "Investigation underway after unknown white powdery substance found at Nevada FBI office:" https://katv.com/news/nation-world/investigation-underway-after-unknown-white-powdery-substance-found-at-nevada-fbi-office-reno-explicit-sign-cup-of-white-powder-federal-investigation-possible-hoax

* "‘Active’ hate groups made up of neo-Nazis growing in the US, experts warn:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/24/active-hate-groups-neo-nazis-us/

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

* "Judge halts "religious-liberty training" order as Southwest argues it's unconstitutional:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-order-30-day-stay

* "Misconduct Complaint Filed Against Texas Judge in Hate Group Training Case:" https://www.advocate.com/law/southwest-airlines-judge-complaint

* "Kyle Rittenhouse’s new foundation is run by a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist and a gun extremist who appeared on a white nationalist program:" https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/kyle-rittenhouses-new-foundation-run-pizzagate-conspiracy-theorist-and-gun

* "One dead in Nudieland shooting at ‘safe space’ for queer punk community in Minneapolis:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/nudieland-shooting-death/

* "Minneapolis Mass Shooting Leaves Transgender Community Fearful of Further Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nudieland-minneapolis-trans-shooting

* "Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1190767610/ice-detention-immigration-government-inspectors-barbaric-negligent-conditions

* "DOJ sues Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott over Rio Grande barrier:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/24/doj-sues-texas-and-gov-greg-abbott-over-rio-grande-barrier-00107896

* "Lansing police detained a Black child who was in the 'wrong place, wrong time,' department says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-police-detained-a-black-child-who-was-in-the-wrong-place-wrong-time-department-says-4/

* "Trans man assaulted by police officer in car park to sue LA County for $10,000:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/emmett-brock-los-angeles-police-legal-action/

* "Lawsuit could be filed in death of Joan Meyer, who died day after police raid on KS paper:" https://news.yahoo.com/lawsuit-could-filed-death-joan-185938180.html

* "Authorities charge 10 current and former California police officers in corruption case:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/authorities-charge-10-current-and-former-california-police-officers-in-corruption-case

* "Let's talk about the FBI, California, and 9 cops....:"

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* "Greenpoint mystery solved: serial litterer was NYPD sergeant:" https://gothamist.com/news/greenpoint-mystery-solved-serial-litterer-was-nypd-sergeant

* "The War on Cities:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/the-war-on-cities

* "Sentenced to Life as Boys, They Made Their Case for Release:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/headway/prison-life-sentence-release.html

* "Did a Journalist Violate Hacking Law to Leak Fox News Clips? The Government Thinks He Did.:" https://zetter.substack.com/p/did-a-journalist-violate-hacking

* "The Black Panther Party is Back and They’ve Got Hormones:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/the-black-panther-party-is-back-theyve-got-hormones

* "Oklahoma’s high court will consider a reparations case from 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivors:" https://apnews.com/article/tulsa-race-massacre-survivors-lawsuit-2731bcc20ef66decf564eb4918460327

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

* "Smithsonian Cancels Literature Festival Leaving Trans AAPI Community Disheartened:" https://www.advocate.com/news/aapi-transgender-smithsonian-festival-cancellation

* "Right-Wing Takeover of New College in Florida Seeks to Benefit More Men:" https://www.advocate.com/education/chris-rufo-new-college-florida

* "Moms for Liberty Wants to Make American Kids Oblivious to Sex Ed: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/education/sex-education-moms-for-liberty

* "North Carolina Lawmakers Override Governor's Veto of 3 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills:" https://www.advocate.com/law/anti-lgbtq-bills-north-carolina

* "Students banned from using nicknames under new anti-trans Orange County schools guidance:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/08/orange-county-florida-trans-schools/

* "California School District Will Make Staff Out Trans Students to Their Parents:" https://www.advocate.com/education/murrieta-valley-outing-transgender-students

* "“Racism pure and simple”: Arkansas rejects credit for AP Black History — but Europe history is fine:" https://www.salon.com/2023/08/16/pure-and-simple-arkansas-rejects-credit-for-ap-black-history--but-europe-history-is-fine_partner/

* It is not allowed to teach about the Little Rock Nine in Little Rock. Little Rock high schools say they will defy the law. "Historic "Little Rock Nine" school pushes back on Arkansas law limiting race studies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/historic-little-rock-nine-school-pushes-back-on-arkansas-law-limiting-race-studies-191307845936

* "PragerU co-host once condemned Martin Luther King Jr. and branded himself a white nationalist:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/prageru-co-host-once-condemned-martin-luther-king-jr-and-branded-himself-a-white-nationalist

* "ACLU Calls for Federal Probe of Anti-LGBTQ+ Actions in Texas Schools:" https://www.advocate.com/law/texas-schools-anti-lgbtq

* "Heartstopper, The Color Purple and hundreds more books set for Iowa school ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/03/heartstopper-the-colour-purple-book-ban-iowa/

* "Trump-supporting town could force local library to close over a book about trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/dayton-washington-library-lgbtq-books/

* CW: Sexual Assault "Sexual Assaults in the LGBTQ+ Community — A Survivor Finds His Voice and Speaks Out:" https://www.advocate.com/news/david-daniels-sexual-assault-schultz

* CW: Sexual Harassment. Christians insist their religion requires them to Sexually Harass queer people and the Us Government agrees that the Christian requirement to be cruel to people they hate is more important than the right of queer people to be safe. "Baylor University Gets Exemption From LGBTQ-Related Sexual Harassment Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/baylor-university-sexual-harrassment-lgbtq

* CW: Domestic Violence murder. "Florida Man's Husband Identified as Suspect in His Death:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/florida-man-husband-homicide-suspect

* CW: Elder Abuse. "Elderly gay man burned by cigarette and left bruised by staff in care home abuse:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/lgbtq-oap-care-home-abuse-report/

* "Mississippi School District Implements Transphobic Dress Code:" https://www.advocate.com/news/mississippi-school-district-dress-code

* "Campaigners call out ‘deep-seated stigma’ as period products are tested with blood for first time ever:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/period-products-blood-test-first-time/

* "US appeals court backs abortion pill restrictions; Supreme Court appeal planned:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rules-restrict-abortion-pill-use-2023-08-16/

* "Nebraskans Ask State Supreme Court to Overturn Abortion, Trans Care Restrictions:" https://www.advocate.com/law/nebraska-abortion-transgender-lawsuit-appeal

* They are lying when they say they are "Pro-Life." "Texas Fights for the Right to Deny Women Life-Saving Abortion Care:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/texas-abortion-bounty-law-ruling-1234802301/

* "How the Cook Islands fought off the shackles of colonialism and freed its LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/cook-islands-lgbtq/

* "Attacker jailed after threatening man he thought was gay with AK-47 and bayonet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/jersey-bar-ak-47-bayonet-homophobic-incident/

* "Cis men are driving Britain’s anti-trans hostility – the data proves it:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/uk-trans-men-women-data/

* "LGBTQ+ people far more likely to face poverty in retirement, data finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/retirement-financial-hardship-lgbtq/

* "Government pushes ahead with Equality Act review, posting new job to ‘consider’ making changes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/government-equality-act-review-job/

* "Rishi Sunak slammed in postcard campaign for taking holiday instead of passing conversion therapy ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/rishi-sunak-stonewall-postcards-california-holiday/

* Gender-neutral Toilets are important for both some people with disabilities and trans people. This strikes to the heart of both groups being able to exist in public. "Government crackdown on gender-neutral toilets goes against findings of its own study:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/government-gender-neutral-toilets-plan/

* "Kemi Badenoch told to stop ‘obsessing over toilets’ by Labour’s Anneliese Dodds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/kemi-badenoch-anneliese-dodds-gender-neutral-toilet/

* "Rosie Duffield: What has the Labour MP said about trans people and trans rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/rosie-duffield-labour-mp-trans-views/

* "Clapham stabbing victim speaks out after horrific homophobic Two Brewers knife attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/clapham-stabbing-two-brewers-victim/

* "Police release CCTV image of man following homophobic Two Brewers knife attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/london-two-brewers-homophobic-attack-cctv-image/

* "Met Police accused of failing third queer man attacked outside Two Brewers:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/clapham-stabbing-two-brewers-met-police/

* "How queer people are hiding their identity in public as anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment grows:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/two-brewers-stabbing-queer-lgbtq-safety/

* "Eight in 10 LGBTQ+ Americans fear for safety as bigotry sweeps nation, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/17/americans-us-human-rights-campaign/

* "Military Veterans Sue to Reclassify Sexuality-Based Discharge Records:" https://www.advocate.com/law/military-veterans-lawsuit-reclassify-discharge

* "Laws banning gender-affirming treatments can block trans youth from receiving other care:" https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/072723_trans_care_laws/laws-banning-gender-affirming-treatments-can-block-trans-youth-from-receiving-other-care/

* "After Mississippi banned his hormone shots, an 8-hour journey:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/mississippi-youth-transgender-care-ban-aftermath/

* "Trans student was denied use of girls’ restroom at Platte County High, subject to verbal harassment:" https://www.kctv5.com/2023/08/03/lawsuit-trans-student-was-denied-use-girls-restroom-platte-county-high-subject-verbal-harassment/

* "New Hampshire Outlaws 'LGBTQ+ Panic' Defense in Homicide Cases:" https://www.advocate.com/law/new-hampshire-gay-panic-ban

* "Idaho's Anti-Trans Sports Law Still Blocked After Appeals Court Ruling:" https://www.advocate.com/law/idaho-trans-sports-ban-blocked

* "Idaho Bathroom Law Targeting Transgender Students Blocked by Judge:" https://www.advocate.com/law/judge-blocks-idaho-bathroom-law

* "U.S. Appeals Court Dismisses Suit Against Trans-Supportive School Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/law/anti-trans-lawsuit-dismissed-montgomery

* "Vanderbilt Medical Center Under Federal Scrutiny After Trans Patient Records Release:" https://www.advocate.com/news/vanderbilt-hhs-investigation-transgender-records

* "Diocese Issues Policy Regarding Sexuality and Sexual Identity in Schools:" https://worcesterdiocese.org/news/diocese-issues-policy-regarding-sexuality-and-sexual-identity-in-schools?utm_source=WBUR+Editorial+Newsletters&utm_campaign=1fdc1f8ca2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_18_11_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0781a0a0c-1fdc1f8ca2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D#menu

* "Students must use names, pronouns assigned at birth under new Worcester Catholic schools policy:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/17/metro/trans-students-must-use-names-pronouns-assigned-birth-under-new-worcester-catholic-schools-policy/?utm_source=WBUR+Editorial+Newsletters&utm_campaign=1fdc1f8ca2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_18_11_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0781a0a0c-1fdc1f8ca2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

* This is a different state. "Denver Archdiocese Sues to Deny LGBTQ+ Families Access to Preschool:" https://www.advocate.com/law/archdiocese-of-denver-lgbtq-discrimination

* "‘Remarkable’ woman shot dead after dispute over LGBTQ+ Pride flag:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/california-shop-owner-shot-lgbtq-pride-flag/

* "Suspect Identified in Killing of California Woman Shot for Displaying Pride Flag:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/travis-ikeguchi-lauri-carleton-flag

* "Suspect in killing over Pride flag had long history of anti-LGBTQ posts:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/suspect-in-killing-over-pride-flag-had-long-history-of-anti-lgbtq-posts-191387205747

* "Man Who Pulled Gun At Historic Gay Bar Gets 5 Years Behind Bars:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/19-bar-man-gun-sentenced

* "Lawyer for Alleged O’Shae Sibley Killer Claims Client is a “Good Christian Boy”:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/oshae-sibley-alleged-killer-christian

* "Anti-trans couple told they can’t foster children because of their views on LGBTQ+ kids. They’re suing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/10/catholi-couple-trans-fostering/

They are suing for the right to abuse foster children, as the rights of children not to be abused are less important than their right as Christians to abuse other people's children.

* "Florida LGBTQ+ Rights Groups Launch Parenting With Pride Program:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-families-parenting-with-pride

* CW: Suicide "Leave Our Kids Alone supporters tell LGBTQ+ youth to hang themselves:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/6/2185669/-Leave-Our-Kids-Alone-supporters-tell-LGBTQ-youth-to-hang-themselves

How to spot a hate group.

* "Federalist Author Calls for a New Satanic Panic:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/federalist-author-calls-for-a-new-satanic-panic

* "Gay GB News pundit clashes with colleague over bigoted rant comparing being gay to paedophilia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/gb-news-albie-amankona-bushra-shaikh-homophobia/

* "Hozier slams right-wing pundits for using LGBTQ+ folks as ‘scapegoats when things get difficult’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/hozier-lgbtq-trans-scapegoats-fear-mongering/

* "English Chess Federation ‘will not exclude trans women’ despite international ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/english-chess-federation-fide-trans-women-policy/

* "Target Sued Over Inclusion of LGBTQ-Friendly Merchandise:" https://www.advocate.com/law/target-sued-lgbtq-products

* "Stephen Miller-Backed Group Targets Kellog Over ‘Woke’ LGBTQ+ Inclusion:" https://www.advocate.com/business/stephen-miller-group-kellog

* "Harry’s razors backlash is ‘latest attempt to harass trans people out of public life’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/09/harrys-razor-trans-boycott/

* "Museum of Pop Culture REMOVES JK Rowling (& Why It Matters):"

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* "A Pill After Sex Could Help Slow STIs Among Gay Men:" https://www.advocate.com/health/stis-gay-sex-doxyprep

* "COVID Hospitalizations Now Up Nearly 22%:" https://themessenger.com/health/covid-hospitalizations-now-up-nearly-22

* "What Is Narcissism? Science Confronts a Widely Misunderstood Phenomenon:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-narcissism-science-confronts-a-widely-misunderstood-phenomenon/

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* "Queer environmental activists warn of LGBTQ+ people ‘suffering first’ from catastrophic climate change:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/24/climate-change-queer-activists-lgbtq-environmental-crisis/

* "Wishing you had more shade? Florida’s heat takes uneven toll.:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2023/08/22/floridas-heat-takes-toll-health-shade-provides-relief-not-all/

* "Extreme heat has killed 103 people in 2 Arizona counties so far in 2023:" https://www.azfamily.com/2023/08/08/extreme-heat-has-killed-147-people-5-counties-coroners-report-real-number-is-likely-much-higher/

* "Arizona Republicans Don’t Want to Hear About the Deadly Heat Wave:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/09/phoenix-heat-wave-republicans-00110325

* "Park officials still looking for stranded visitors in remote Death Valley areas:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/400-people-stranded-in-death-valley-after-hilary-18307664.php

* "Devastation in Death Valley as photos show flood damage; park to reopen in stages over weeks ahead :" https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/devastation-in-death-valley-as-photos-show-flood-damage-park-to-reopen-in-stages-over-weeks-ahead/

* "Rain from Tropical Storm Hilary lashes California and Mexico, swamping roads and trapping cars:" https://apnews.com/article/hilary-tropical-storm-flooding-california-mexico-f89aeddeb62d55c935699ac81ca85f1d

* "Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes Ojai area, rattling nerves as Hilary pounds Southland:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-20/5-0-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-ojai-area

* "Photos: See the aftermath of flooding, mudslides from Tropical Storm Hilary:" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/08/20/1194964251/photos-see-flooding-mudslides-tropical-storm-hilary-brings-to-southern-calif

* "Scorched Europe battles deadly fires, Turkey shuts shipping lane:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/scorched-europe-battles-deadly-fires-turkey-shuts-shipping-lane-2023-08-23/

* "How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires in Europe:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/how-climate-change-drives-heatwaves-wildfires-europe-2023-08-17/

* "Greece wildfires fanned by strong winds, killing one:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/firefighters-greece-battle-blazes-fanned-by-gale-force-winds-2023-08-21/

* "City empties as thousands flee wildfire burning near capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-northwest-territories-7b8c327876d86a483c8e25df7bc2c566

* "Amid Canadian wildfires, experts warn state of emergency could continue into fall:" https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/amid-canadian-wildfires-experts-warn-state-of-emergency-could-continue-into-fall/

* "Warming Set the Stage for Canada’s Record Fires, Study Finds:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/climate/canada-wildfires-climate-change.html

* "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slams Facebook for blocking Canada wildfire news:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-facebook-news-blocking-734a5bc05796e38a011c6c9a473efea8

* "Lookout Fire in Lane County expands closures to include Blue Pool, Sahalie Falls and other popular recreation areas:" https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/wildfire/lane-county-lookout-wildfire-closures/283-56604abb-8d12-49e2-832e-fa0efb6a8dec

* "Lookout Fire evacuation areas updated, visibility improves for aerial operations:" https://www.kezi.com/news/lookout-fire-evacuation-areas-updated-visibility-improves-for-aerial-operations/article_a621b392-41e8-11ee-8d4d-77150ec08332.html

* "Hawaii wildfires: More than 1,000 people reported missing in Maui weeks after blaze:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/hawaii-wildfires-more-than-1000-people-reported-missing-in-maui.html

* "In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged a barricade survived:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-fires-timeline-maui-lahaina-road-block-c8522222f6de587bd14b2da0020c40e9

* "Address on the Maui Wildfire Disaster:" https://governor.hawaii.gov/main/address-on-the-maui-wildfire-disaster-friday-august-18-2023/

* "‘The Devastation Is Overwhelming’: Biden Tours Wildfire Damage on Maui:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/us/politics/biden-maui-hawaii-wildfires.html

* "Immigrant workers’ lives, livelihoods and documents in limbo after the Hawaii fire:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-lahaina-foreign-workers-mexico-fires-ab24400f8e1c89ed099dbd3cd45fb890

* "Online posts spread misinformation about FEMA aid following Maui wildfires:" https://apnews.com/article/maui-wildfires-hawaii-fema-misinformation-8562e2e81e03626acc5be30700d73120

* "Let's talk about Hawaii, sirens, and changes....:"

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* "Lahaina used to be a wetland:" https://heated.world/p/lahaina-used-to-be-wetland

* "Let's talk about Hawaii and $700 payments....:"

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* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

* "4 tornadoes hit New England, cause damage in Massachusetts, Rhode Island:" https://www.wcvb.com/article/4-tornadoes-hit-new-england-on-aug-18-2023-cleanup-continues/44858073

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* "Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon, ending operations in a protected area:" https://www.thestar.com/news/world/americas/ecuadorians-reject-oil-drilling-in-the-amazon-in-historic-decision/article_43ec3d1c-6d3b-5f83-b2bf-8933184bfd2b.html

* "Elon Musk is threatening to remove the ‘block’ button on X – here’s why it matters for queer users:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/21/elon-musk-block-x-twitter/

* "Far too many of Musk's followers and Twitter's users appear fake; advertisers may never return:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/18/far-too-many-of-musk-and-twitters-followers-appear-fake-advertisers-may-never-return.html

* "The Big List of Elon Musk’s Hyperbole, Evasions, and Outright Lies:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk-twitter-zuckerberg-lies-1234808808/

* "Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in 'victory cry of a new India':" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-counts-down-crucial-moon-landing-2023-08-23/

* "Ibis use 'stress and wash' technique to eat poisonous cane toads:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-23/ibis-find-way-to-eat-toxic-cane-toads/101683596

* "Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years:" https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/13/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered/

* "History Summarized: Malta – An Empire In Miniature:"

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* "Met Museum Acquires Rare 19th-Century Portrait of Enslaved Child :" https://hyperallergic.com/839231/met-museum-acquires-rare-19th-century-portrait-of-enslaved-child/

* "The Surprising Contents of an American POW’s Journal:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-surprising-contents-of-an-american-pows-journal/?preview_id=303822

* "He was killed in the Holocaust. His family just got back his book of scripture.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/08/08/holocaust-auschwitz-dov-forman-bela/

* "Vivid Kodachrome Photos Show the Bygone Manhattan of the Early 1940s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/manhattan-in-kodachrome-photos/

* "The struggle for land rights in Hawai’i.:" https://thenib.com/owning-an-island/

* "They wanted a Bollywood ending, not an arranged marriage. Their escape came at a cost:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/06/1188366128/india-arranged-marriage-love-commandos

* "Seaside screen brings magic of movies to Gaza years after cinemas closed:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/seaside-screen-brings-magic-movies-gaza-years-after-cinemas-closed-2023-08-16/

* "Meghan Buell, Founder of Indiana Trans Organization, Dead at 58:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/trans-activist-meghan-buell

* "Director William Friedkin's Controversial Gay Film Legacy:" https://www.advocate.com/film/william-friedkin-cruising-boys-band

* "Darcie Silver: British trans comedian dies in Thailand, aged 35:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/22/darcie-silver-trans-comedian-death-thailand/

* "Holocaust Monument for LGBTQ+ Victims Vandalized in Berlin:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/german-police-berlin-holocaust-memorial

* I am still struggling with the Asshole agency. I was awakened Sunday morning by a cleaner checking in on her way to my place. Fuckssake! I do not understand why it's so hard to grasp only send cleaners every Friday morning unless I say other wise. They tried to send a morning and afternoon cleaner last Tuesday. Every day i have the same conversation about me only wanting weekly care Friday mornings. Every day they cancel the next day's cleaner, but not the day after. I only get so many hours a year and we are saving the extras for Autumn when millennials are busy with Gothmas season and the like.

I did not cancel the morning cleaner Sunday, because she'd already been booked and if I cancel that's money she loses. It was hours of sleep I needed, but oh well. Asshole agency. I did have about two hours of work for her, but I've no idea what happens if the telephone operator lady didn't sort it and a surprise cleaner comes Monday, as the stuff that's left is either complicated or not in the cleaner's remit. She said she'd switched me from daily back to weekly. *Fingers crossed*

This cleaner was very quiet. Tavy liked her. She was so quiet, Livia thought she'd gone and wandered into my bathroom to use her personal litter box and there she was: cleaning! Livia: The horror! The horror! Quiet was good. it meant I could do some tumblr programming with only occasional interruption for directions.

Winds from the tropical storm in Mexico and California are sending air currents along the coast that bring us smoke from the fires between us and there. Air quality was bad all weekend as a result. Instead of swimming we gathered in my place and goth Millennial made their excellent lasagna.

* I would like to thank my donor for the gift of excellent litter. Things are so much less dramatic here as a result.

The Asshole Agency has not surprised me with a cleaner I did not ask for two days in a row. Yay!

* I had my shoulder situation investigated again Tuesday. It was painful, of course, and my shoulders are still recovering. The new doctor had not grasped how extreme the situation is. We will be doing another round of specialists as a result. I have just started a new med. I am not sanguine it will be to the point and I worry it will fuck me up, but having eliminated the best option, we are down to two less ideal classes. I thought the other option too high risk for extreme side effects, so here we are.

* I explain my process and give some likely inadequate advice on tumblr to someone who asks "How do you keep up with all these articles and websites?:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/726275476259241984/how-do-you-keep-up-with-all-these-articles-and?source=share

* "No Second Season for A League of Their Own:" https://www.advocate.com/television/a-league-of-their-own-canceled

A better take would have been: it won't happen now because Amazon Prime didn't care about its audience and the greedy rich people in charge hate paying writers, Actors, etc. fair compensation for their work.

* "True Facts: Fish That Suck:"

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* "First day as a second century warlord:" https://www.tumblr.com/jonquility/706918292384776192?source=share

* "Alexander the Great Explaining Proskynesis To The Boys:" https://www.thestopgap.net/alexander-the-great-explaining-proskynesis-to-the-boys/

* "Midnight Pals: Mexican Gothic:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/726203038247878656/midnight-pals-mexican-gothic?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Florence Balcombe:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/726470108741025792/midnight-pals-florence-balcombe?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

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

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

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

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

* "Collection of links to trans & gnc related content that's free to read/ watch.:" https://translibrary.carrd.co/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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