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

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

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* "Russia presses its offensive in Ukraine and issues new threats as the West tries to blunt the push:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/29/russia-ukraine-offensive-00165926

* "Russian air strike kills five in Dnipro, Ukraine says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-attack-ukraines-dnipro-kills-least-four-wounds-27-more-governor-says-2024-07-03/

* "Russian strikes leave thousands in northern Ukraine without power and water:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-energy-sumy-donetsk-b1e5557bde942ce74e68f33bdc8ba071

* "Missing Ukrainian journalist found dead in Kharkiv:" https://kyivindependent.com/missing-ukrainian-journalist-found-dead-in-kharkiv/




* "Russia Is Buying Politicians in Europe. Is It Happening Here Too?:" https://newrepublic.com/article/180630/russia-corruption-network-europe-buying-politicians-america

* "Starmer pledges to stabilise UK as Labour win huge majority:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-labour-win-massive-election-majority-exit-poll-shows-2024-07-04/

* "novelty political candidates:" https://www.huckmag.com/article/inside-the-wild-world-of-novelty-political-candidates-binface-buckethead-monster-raving-loony-party-elmo-protest-vote

* "Who are the LGBTQ+ allies in Keir Starmer’s new cabinet?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/06/labour-keir-starmer-cabinet-lgbtq-allies/

* "Gay Labour MP Wes Streeting becomes health secretary:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/gay-mp-wes-streeting-labour-health-secretary/

* "These inspiring trans and non-binary candidates stood for election – here’s how they fared:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/general-election-trans-non-binary-candidates/#page/10

* "50 LGBTQ+ organisations urge Keir Starmer to ban conversion therapy as he becomes prime minister:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/keir-starmer-conversion-therapy-letter-lgbtq-organisations/

* "Five things Keir Starmer’s Labour government must urgently do to help LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/five-things-keir-starmers-labour-government-must-urgently-do-to-help-lgbtq-people/

* "Ex-prime minister Liz Truss loses seat to Labour in humiliating election defeat:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/ex-prime-minister-liz-truss-loses-seat-to-labour-in-humiloating-election-defeat/

* "‘Gender-critical’ SNP politician Joanna Cherry loses seat to Labour:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/gender-critical-snp-joanna-cherry-loses-seat-to-labour/

* "Anti-trans Tory Miriam Cates loses seat to Labour candidate who champions equality:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/anti-trans-conservative-miriam-cates-loses-seat-to-labour-candidate-who-champions-equality/

* "Nigel Farage’s victory rally ‘thrown into chaos’ by hecklers accusing Reform of bigotry and racism:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/nigel-farage-press-conference-reform-uk-heckled/

* "Posie Parker’s Party of Women receives fewer votes than the Monster Raving Loony Party:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/posie-parker-count-binface-monster-raving-loony-party/

* "Kemi Badenoch wins North West Essex seat for the Conservatives:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/kemi-badenoch-north-west-essex-general-election/

* "Nigel Farage becomes MP at eighth attempt after winning Clacton seat for Reform UK:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/nigel-farage-reform-uk-2024-general-election/

* "Iran holds runoff presidential vote pitting hard-liner against reformist after record low turnout:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-presidential-election-runoff-jalili-pezeshkian-raisi-results-89bdb24e9074afaa9aa9b7556bf80983

* "Here are key takeaways from France's election round 1, where the far right prevails:" https://www.npr.org/2024/07/01/nx-s1-5025215/france-elections-2024-analysis

* "Massive anti-fascist protests erupt in Paris after far-right party’s election victory:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/01/massive-anti-fascist-protests-erupt-in-paris-after-far-right-partys-election-victory/

* "Go vote, parties tell French voters ahead of cliffhanger runoff:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/national-rally-fall-short-absolute-majority-french-parliamentary-elections-poll-2024-07-05/

* "France's election stokes far-right linked violence:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-election-stokes-far-right-linked-violence-2024-06-28/

* "In France, three-way election battles could bring more far-right MPs:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-three-way-election-battles-could-bring-more-far-right-mps-2024-07-05/

* "Maduro’s dirty playbook: How he’s rigging Venezuela’s election before votes are cast:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article289715814.html

* "Thousands of refugees in Indonesia have spent years awaiting resettlement. Their future is unclear:" https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-refugees-sudan-immigration-detention-center-b0bc00d0def8c3544c9251eef5a45a4f

* "White House statement on transgender minors’ health care sparks outrage by LGBTQ+ rights groups:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender-care-white-house-outrage

* "Justices send Florida, Texas social media laws back to lower courts:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/01/justices-send-florida-texas-social-media-laws-back-to-lower-courts-00166030

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* The Death of the Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy in the United States Occurred on 7/1/24

With a stroke of the pen, five unellected judges killed the rule of law. As of today, we are officially an autocracy in which it is legal for the president to order the arrest of not only all political rivals, but to order their assassination. It is now completely legal for the president to overthrow the government and do anything he likes to anyone in the country as no laws apply anymore to the leader.

The Republicans are Neo-NAZIs who've been pushing for a fascist dictatorship for most of a decade. The only thing preventing them is them not holding the Presidency. If they over hold it again, it's over. We will have lost, likely forever.

* People being far more systematic and clear about just how bad this is than I can be right now and also saying what we need to do about it: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/754896037362171904/take-it-from-me-someone-who-has-disliked-biden?source=share

* "Trump Is Immune:"

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* "Supreme Court Immunity Ruling Destroys Independent Justice Department:" https://newrepublic.com/post/183331/john-roberts-supreme-court-obliterates-independent-justice-department

* "Don’t Believe John Roberts. The Supreme Court Just Made the President a King.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/supreme-court-john-roberts-opinion-trump-immunity-nightmare.html

* "The Most Chilling Line in Supreme Court’s Trump Immunity Ruling:" https://newrepublic.com/post/183332/chilling-line-supreme-court-trump-immunity-ruling

* "The President Can Now Assassinate You, Officially:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-immunity-supreme-court/

* "“The President Is Now a King”: The Most Blistering Lines From Dissents in the Trump Immunity Case:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/sotomayor-jackson-blistering-dissents-trump-immunity-case/

* "Liberal justices say Trump immunity decision 'will have disastrous consequences' for the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/liberal-justices-say-trump-immunity-decision-will-disastrous-consequen-rcna159755

* ""Treasonous acts": Liberal justices say SCOTUS Trump immunity ruling a "mockery" of the Constitution:" https://www.salon.com/2024/07/01/treasonous-acts-liberal-justices-say-scotus-immunity-ruling-a-mockery-of-the-constitution/

* "Lessons from American history in the wake of the Supreme Court immunity ruling:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lessons-from-american-history-in-the-wake-of-the-supreme-court-immunity-ruling-214318661775

* "The Supreme Court Gave Trump a Stunning Gift — and Rewrote the Constitution:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/02/jan-6-trump-supreme-court-00166130

* "Now what? Here are the next moves for all the key players after the Trump immunity ruling.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/01/trump-federal-election-subversion-case-future-00166156

* "Biden says Supreme Court's immunity ruling 'undermines the rule of law':" https://www.npr.org/2024/07/01/nx-s1-5025769/biden-scotus

* "Biden Campaign Brushes Off Idea of Reforming the Supreme Court:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/biden-supreme-court-reform-trump-immunity-1235051044/

* "Wake up, Democrats, and fight back against SCOTUS by stacking the court:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/democrats-wake-up-fight-scotus

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* "New York City promised to build a shelter for trans people. Activists are demanding it follow through:" https://www.advocate.com/news/new-york-city-trans-homeless-shelter

* "Workers at two Atlanta-area Starbucks stores file for union vote:" https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/workers-at-two-atlanta-area-starbucks-stores-file-for-union-vote/3GZXOPMPWBGI7CHSCGB5J77MDY/

* "Pete Buttigieg once again leaves Republicans flustered by citing facts:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-ev-republicans

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

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

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

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

* "The Texas GOP's Bonkers Attack On Democracy: How'd you like to win an election with just 2% of the vote?:" https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-texas-gops-bonkers-attack-on

* "Giuliani is disbarred in New York as court finds he repeatedly lied about Trump’s 2020 election loss:" https://apnews.com/article/giuliani-new-york-disbarred-81b327f9ab1f98548cb888f8e652c9a8

* "THE MAN WHO MADE JANUARY 6 POSSIBLE:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/trump-johnny-mcentee-january-6-betrayal/620646/

* "Donald Trump and Mike Johnson just mixed two big lies together:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-mike-johnson-election-integrity-rcna147636

* "‘Start the Steal’: Trump Once Again Planning to Overturn an Election:" https://www.thebulwark.com/p/start-the-steal-trump-november-2024

* "Inside the Election Denial Groups Planning To Disrupt the Election:" https://www.wired.com/story/election-denial-groups-november-2024/

* "Trump campaign says it will deploy thousands of election workers to monitor poll sites:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/19/trump-campaign-election-monitoring-00153217

* "‘Georgia Is Our Laboratory’: Inside Trump’s Plan to Rig 2024:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-georgia-laboratory-rig-2024-1235034510/

* "‘Lawyers, Judges, Technology’: Roger Stone Touts Plan for Trump Win in Secret Recording:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/roger-stone-plan-trump-win-lawyers-judges-technology-1235041650/

* "Trump, allies are laying the groundwork to contest potential election loss:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-allies-are-laying-groundwork-contest-potential-election-loss-2024-05-16/

* "Abortion measures could be on Arizona and Nebraska ballots after organizers submit signatures:" https://apnews.com/article/arizona-abortion-ballot-petitions-83cb053919be342d7bbb60217129fe49

* "Raising the alarm about Nevada’s extremist anti-LGBTQ+ Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sam-brown-lgbtq-danger-nevada

* "SC voters poised to send a second Republican woman to Congress. She's pledged to Trump.:" https://www.postandcourier.com/news/sheri-biggs-trump-sc-congress-election/article_5b858592-33c9-11ef-98f2-2b7b5fc40d82.html

* "All Republican women in the South Carolina Senate lost their primaries — Here's why:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-women-south-carolina-senate

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

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

Tennessee (Congress): 8/1/24

Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Washington: 8/6/24

Hawaii: 8/10/24

Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin: 8/13/24


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

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

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

* CW: Sexual Assault. "RFK Jr. Doesn’t Deny Alleged Sexual Assault of Babysitter: ‘I Am Not a Church Boy’:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rfk-jr-sexual-assault-babysitter-response-1235052376/

* "Many Democrats panic after Biden-Trump debate highlights both candidates’ weaknesses:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/cnn-debate-trump-biden-panic

* "On Ageism:" https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/763438.html

* "Democratic Party turbulence calls to mind 1968, with important differences:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/democratic-party-turbulence-calls-to-mind-1968-with-important-differences-214203461925

* "Putin Is Banking On a Trump Win for His New World Order:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/putin-trump-yalta

* "Russian propagandists' hopes for America:" https://snyder.substack.com/p/in-their-own-words

* "Conservatives Plan to Ban Abortion and Cut LGBT Rights Starting Next January:" https://newrepublic.com/article/178848/ban-abortion-trump-lgbtq-project-2025

* "Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:" https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/

* "Trump World ‘panicking’ as Project 2025 gets on the radar of voters:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-world-panicking-as-project-2025-gets-on-the-radar-of-voters-214312005740

* "Project 2025’s ‘unhinged’ wish list: Criminalize porn, ban birth control:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/project-2025-s-unhinged-wish-list-criminalize-porn-ban-birth-control-214191685661

* "Every single one of you with Trumpy family or friends has to get through to them now:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1980918.html

* "GOP Heritage Foundation: Democrats must step in line with MAGA — or expect blood (video):" https://boingboing.net/2024/07/03/gop-heritage-foundation-democrats-must-step-in-line-with-maga-or-expect-blood-video.html

* "Here’s what the Christian right wants from a second Trump term:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/13/trump-christian-right-abortion-prayer/

* "Donald Trump shares stage with rightwing activist who’s discussing stoning gay people to death:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/06/donald-trump-shares-stage-with-rightwing-activist-whos-discussing-stoning-gay-people-to-death/

* "Trump vows to be ‘side by side’ with group that wants abortion ‘eradicated’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/10/trump-speech-danbury-institute-abortion/

* "Disturbing New Info Suggests Trump-MAGA Will Restrict Contraception:" https://newrepublic.com/article/182061/inside-secretive-trump-maga-plot-take-away-birth-control

* "Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-president-project-2025-33d3fc2999a74f4aa424f1128dca2d16

* "‘I Want To See Lists of Which Democrats Are Going to Prison’:" https://www.thebulwark.com/p/i-want-to-see-lists-of-which-democrats

And remember SCOTUS just gave Trump unlimited power to imprison or murder anyone he feels like, if trump gets into power again.

I do not know how to convey to you that it's absolutely the end for us if Republicans get into power again.

* "Trump says Biden will 'pay a very big price' for 'weaponization' of justice system as Bannon heads to prison:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-biden-pay-big-price-weaponization-justice-system/story?id=111596240

* "Trump’s covid response was even worse than you remember: In a sane country, it would disqualify him from ever again holding office.:" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-covid-response-revisited

* "LGBTQ leaders to Americans: Take a stand for gay rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/lgbtq-leaders-to-americans-take-a-stand-for-gay-rights-213978181650

* "Mississippi Passes Bill Allowing Cis People To Sue Over Trans Bathroom Usage:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/mississippi-passes-bill-allowing

* "Idaho Created A Book Ban Bounty. Now A Library Is Adults Only:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2024/05/23/idaho-created-a-book-ban-bounty-now-a-library-is-adults-only/

* "Oklahoma official Ryan Walters institutes Christian indoctrination in public schools:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ryan-walters-bible-indoctrination

* "Michigan set to become 20th state outlawing ‘gay panic’ defense:" https://www.mlive.com/politics/2024/07/michigan-set-to-become-20th-state-outlawing-gay-panic-defense.html

* "Several Pa. House Republicans boo officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/06/pennsylvania-house-republicans-capitol-walkout/

* "The ‘Profound Influence’ of Christian Extremists on Mike Johnson:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-profound-influence-of-christian-extremists-on-mike-johnson

* "Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets:" https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-consumer-protection-laws-political-targets

* "She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/anna-wolfe-pulitzer-mississippi-welfare-scandal-phil-bryant-rcna159936

* "'The rabbit has the gun': Reporter who exposed welfare scandal now risks jail:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-rabbit-has-the-gun-reporter-who-exposed-welfare-scandal-now-risks-jail-214192709865

* "Donald Trump Jr. weirdly claims that Hurricane Beryl is nonbinary name:" https://www.advocate.com/news/donald-trump-jr-beryl-nonbinary

* "Biden Convicted! (Hunter Biden, Sorry):"

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* "Supreme Court's immunity ruling will delay Trump's Jan. 6 case until after the election:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/supreme-courts-immunity-ruling-will-delay-trumps-jan-6-case-election-rcna159764

* "Former President Trump's criminal sentencing in New York is delayed:" https://www.npr.org/2024/07/02/g-s1-7860/former-president-trumps-criminal-sentencing-in-new-york-delayed

* "‘It’s Like Christmas’: Team Trump Stunned by Massive Supreme Court Immunity Win:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-team-stunned-supreme-court-immunity-christmas-1235051244/




* "Alex Jones Loses His Personal Fortune In Bankruptcy:"

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* "A journalist shot by police while covering the 2020 protests is dying of her injuries:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/21/nx-s1-5015030/linda-tirado-journalist-shot-police-2020-george-floyd-protests-hospice-care?

* "As governments demonize LGBTQ+ rights, children lose the most:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/governments-demonize-lgbtq-people

* "21 U.S. Reps. condemn Uganda's 'draconian' anti-LGBTQ+ law: 'State-sponsored violence':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/uganda-us-representatives-resolution-lgbtq

* "Georgia Parliament passes package of ‘unbearable’ anti-LGBTQ+ laws:" https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-parliament-anti-lgbtq-laws

* "Lesbian couple beaten by group of men after birthday night out:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/02/emma-maclean-same-sex-couple-assault-birthday-celebration-canada/

* "LGBTQ+ leaders explain why Pride in London is ‘more important than ever’ amid UK culture war:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/29/pride-in-london-culture-war-activists/

* "Accused neo-Nazi describes killing gay Jewish college student Blaze Bernstein in disturbing testimony:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/alleged-neo-nazi-describes-killing-gay-student

* "Body of trans activist and DJ discovered wrapped in bloody sheets in car after crash:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/01/trans-liara-tsai-murder-charged-iowa/

* "53 people arrested amid chaotic scenes following Chicago Pride parade:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/02/chicago-pride-parade-arrests/

* "Religious groups are protecting Pride events — upending the LGBTQ+ vs. faith narrative:" https://19thnews.org/2024/06/religious-groups-protecting-pride-lgbtq-events/

* "70 photos of NYC Pride 2024 that show New Yorkers know how celebrate queer joy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nyc-pride-2024-gallery#rebelltitem1

* "Poland’s first queer museum to open in Warsaw with support of city hall:" https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/06/29/polands-first-queer-museum-to-open-in-warsaw-with-support-of-city-hall/

* "From protest to progress in the global response to HIV/AIDS:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/winnie-byanyima-unaids

* "New Analysis Reveals Many Excess Deaths Attributed to Natural Causes Are Actually Uncounted COVID-19 Deaths:" https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/new-analysis-reveals-many-excess-deaths-attributed-to-natural-causes-are-actually-uncounted-covid-19-deaths/

* "The Woman Who Could Smell Parkinson’s:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/magazine/parkinsons-smell-disease-detection.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U0.Uik8.mfCRKOiBH2ib&smid=url-share

* "Strengthen mental health support for LGBTQ+ youth through public-private partnerships:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/beth-pausic-mental-health






* "25 years of research shows how to restore damaged rainforest:" https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/247220?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/247220

* "Circular food systems found to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, require much less agricultural land:" https://phys.org/news/2024-06-circular-food-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html

* "Peru puts endemic fog oasis under protection:" https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/peru-puts-endemic-fog-oasis-under-protection/

* "Indigenous people in the Amazon are helping to build bridges & save primates:" https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/indigenous-people-in-the-amazon-are-helping-to-build-bridges-save-primates/

* "Audubon and Grassroots Carbon Announce First-of-its-Kind Partnership to Reward Landowners for Improving Habitats for Birds while Building Healthy Soils:" https://www.audubon.org/news/audubon-and-grassroots-carbon-announce-first-its-kind-partnership-reward-landowners-improving

* "COULD TREATING INJURED RAPTORS HELP LIFT A POPULATION?:" https://wildlife.org/could-treating-injured-raptors-help-lift-a-population/

* "Iberian lynx rebounds from 'endangered' status:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/liberian-lynx-rebounds-endangered-status/story?id=111305152

* "What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?:"

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* "We're Bringing Back Europe's Lost Butterfly Meadows:"

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* I'm not sure I agree with everything in here, but it's worth pondering. "Internet Loneliness and Loss of Community:"

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* "Elon Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is.:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-didnt-want-his-latest-deposition-released-here-it-is_n_66133d2ce4b0d81853f9a766

* "Discovery of 4,000-Year-Old Structure in Greece Stumps Archaeologists and Threatens Major Airport Construction:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/discovery-of-4000-year-old-structure-in-greece-stumps-archaeologists-and-threatens-major-airport-construction-180984536/?utm_source=history&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&spMailingID=49872259&spUserID=MTMwNjUzNTc2OTA0MwS2&spJobID=2721986868&spReportId=MjcyMTk4Njg2OAS2

* "In 1964, the Klan killed three young activists and shocked the nation:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2024/mississippi-klan-killings-1964-impact-history/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzE5MDI4ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzIwNDExMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTkwMjg4MDAsImp0aSI6IjZjMmRjZDQwLWE5YmYtNDdjMy04M2IyLTZhMDk0NmY4ZjRlNCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb24vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyNC9taXNzaXNzaXBwaS1rbGFuLWtpbGxpbmdzLTE5NjQtaW1wYWN0LWhpc3RvcnkvIn0.IzMJQjC7pIiqQjY4grYrlwtPMQNVwwzkw0twzkBDmRA&itid=gfta

* "In a Greek jail, inmates find freedom in theatre:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/greece-prison-theatre/

* "Afro-Cuban drums, Muslim prayers, Buddhist mantras: Religious diversity blooms in once-atheist Cuba:" https://apnews.com/article/cuba-religion-diversity-communist-catholic-santeria-1a471b0c0100140d2f74c0ce1f6e03ac

* "France's own Excalibur-like legendary sword disappears after 1,300 years wedged in a high rock wall:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-excalibur-like-sword-durandal-disappears-after-1300-years/

* 7/4/24: I took Goth Millennial to the good (Cheap, employee owned) grocery store. We generally shop together and we both needed a lot of things. I need to restock a whole lot of stuff thrown out or given away in the Great Refrigerator disaster. So I'm zooping along in the riding cart because my hip joints hate me and my broken toe is healing extra slow and we kept having this thing where I was like, "Oh! We need to grab X." GM: but we HAVE X. Me: It was old and nearly empty, so I threw it out when we emptied the freezer. Them: sad face

The new refrigerator is a lot smaller and less disability friendly, It does, however, WORK and it's mechanisms are simpler so let's hope it doesn't break once every 1-2 years like the old one. A kind friend got me a new britta as we gave away our sink attachment, filter tank, and emergency jug when we moved here. The water is so cold and delicious, far better than the old fridge water. Finding anything in it is a drama, though, especially with the freezer. I was trying to get cheese for meds snack and spent ten minutes searching. I thought we'd saved emergency frozen broccoli for yesterday's dinner from the Great Fridge Disaster, but if we did, it was buried in my hurried restock, probably amongst the frozen fruit for smoothies. Sigh.

Related note: I searched every stir fry veggie pouch in the freezer section of the good grocery store and all of the mixed pouches had onions and/or carrots and/or cauliflower. Sigh. I do not like cauliflower except in a tiny number of things, stir fry emphatically not amoung them. I like carrots fresh in salads and in certain soups and restaurant dishes, but not homemade emergency from frozen sir fry. I can no longer digest onions properly and I don't like them enough to go through the unpleasantness unless it's something special like the good cheese and chives bakery bread or restaurant stir fry, and even then, less is more. (I cook with freeze dried or dried and powdered garlic which I'm fine with and frozen garlic i can digest, but normal onions are right out, even frozen. I can handle a small amount of powdered or freeze dried). I don't make the rules. My body does. So I guess I can no longer buy a frozen stir fry packet for emergencies. Sigh.

Somehow my Bay leaf is missing and I forgot to restock, dammit. Also, I've not had safe for me salsa since the fridge killed the last mostly used container, and I still haven't been to that store for that, safe cup of soups, cheese, and dried mango, which are staples. Fuck! There are too many things I can't enjoy without salsa, so it's either no emergency too sick to make food soups, or no dried fruit for a month. (I'm an old and mango is both vitamin rich and something I am always willing to eat and at my age… a little fruit is a good idea every day.

I have a bunch of good things for now. bagels and cream cheese, fresh fruit, mushrooms, etc.. My fridge is restocked. I do have some cheese that survived the disaster, but half of it is messed up from it's sojourn in Squirrel's little chest freezer (I feel like if I say chest freezer, people imagine something you can hide an adult body in, whereas this was a freezer I bought when we lived in the previous apartment because storing my stuff and Squirrel meat in the tiny apartment freezer won't work. I now rather wish it WERE hide the body size, but where the fuck would we put it in this over crowded postage stamp apartment?), which means it crumbles and doesn't melt properly. (We were very lucky. Usually squirrel's meat freezer is PACKED, but it had a third empty when disaster struck, which saved the ice cream and the more expensive stuff I had like assorted vegetarian burger meats, frozen fruit, and cheese. It also meant ice.) I thought I had swiss, but maybe we used it up fast early in the disaster before it could go over.

It keeps going like this. I burned the OTC mostly on medicine, but also some fresh fruit and veg. I'm still pissed they cut OTC nearly in half this year. I'm also angry about the paternalistic "Healthy Food" requirement, which is nonsensical because bagels aren't classed as "healthy food," but cream cheese, Count Chocula cereal, and frozen pizza is, which seems kind of bullshit to me. Goth Millennial thinks it has to do with FDA subsidies and not nutrition at all, which sounds likely to me. I am ALSO pissed that the OTC is designed as a subsidy for large chain grocery store and pharmacies and also I have to pay tax on it. Fucking capitalism. It didn't used to be. It used to be at cost, so more valuable. Instead of doing the food portion like EBT, so I could buy at farmer's markets and also get seeds and starts, I have to go to the second most expensive grocery store in town and have to buy from their limited "healthy foods" list which does not involve starts and seeds. side eye

So I'm likely fucked for paying bills because of the refrigerator, and will need to wait 'til next month to get the rest of the food, and all the fresh fruit and the best vegetables are coming into season, tempting me to burn toilet paper on money on what I KNOW, are luxuries. I live a block away from a market garden that gets fresh fruit and sundries shipped fresh each morning from other local family farms and they have fruit so fresh and good nothing that nothing I've ever tasted can touch the quality. I am sleeping on sheets so torn I struggle not to put my legs through the holes and the visit to a friend in another town I'd hoped to do this month is postponed, possible cancelled.

I know, I know, this is one lost Summer for me while people are literally dying of starvation in Gaza. I'm just exhausted from the heat and the physio and the constant barrage of disasters hitting my friends one after the other. Some friends caught COVID. Goth Millennial is still fighting the unjust firing and the same employer is threatening another of my Millennials over the same bullshit. Us: "You need to tell the Union. " And the housing department is foot dragging and there this whole thing going on with a bunch of other bureaucracy stuff, and, and, and….

I still have not heard back on them raising the housing rate in August, so I can't even plan properly. Did they not get quorum? Did the protest work? Who knows? It's weird they've sent no email, right?

* "How Does Art Tell Stories?: Crash Course Art History #7:"

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* "Why We Fall for Monsters:"

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* An in depth thing I wrote. "Interview with the Vampire: We Need to talk about the design of the so Called Rock Garden (Contains Spoilers through the Finale):"

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Seriously, I am this close to going absolutely feral over this show the way I did for Black Sails and for the same fucking reason.

* Two missed Red Flags on the road to the tragedy of claudia the Vampire: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/754979530732666880/there-is-a-moment-in-the-scene-with-armand-and?source=share

* "Emma:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/emma?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=146164251&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

* Hardware and craft store ecosystems (The Lore has been updated): https://www.tumblr.com/cleolinda/754845688540626944/onbearfeet-greatatuintheworldturtle?source=share

* "It always gets me that the name "Gandalf" literally just means "Wand-Elf" or "Stick-Elf". I'm imagining old Gondorians just being like::" https://www.tumblr.com/gallusrostromegalus/755052307040829440?source=share

* "Sunday Sweets For Summer Weddings:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-for-summer-weddings-2024

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* I have been in terrible pain for most of this week. I am doing my best, but it's kind of a mess.

* "WHO slams 'unimaginable cruelty' inflicted on Tigray:" https://news.yahoo.com/slams-unimaginable-cruelty-inflicted-tigray-161331782.html

* "I Smuggled My Laptop Past the Taliban So I Could Write This Story:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/afghanistan-evacuation-sisters-fall-of-kabul-taliban/670602/

* "‘They robbed me of my children’: Yemen’s war victims tell their stories:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/aug/25/yemen-war-victims-stories-they-robbed-me-of-my-children

* "‘Explosion of violence’: Sierra Leone picks up the pieces after protests:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/21/sierra-leone-protests-inflation-cost-of-living

* "Pakistan’s former PM Imran Khan charged under anti-terror law:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/imran-khan-pakistan-former-pm-charged-under-anti-terror-law

* "Latvia brings down Soviet-era monument's obelisk in capital:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-germany-soviet-union-denmark-riga-6b841105e8fb8bc8310b053ae1d9f40a

* "The Question Menacing Brazil’s Elections: Coup or No Coup?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/world/americas/brazil-election-bolsonaro-coup.html

* "Ex-Tory ministers slam Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak for 'pandering to bigots':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/26/liz-truss-rishi-sunak-tory-leadership-lgbtq/

* "An Islamic State member is sentenced to life in prison in the deaths of hostages:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/19/1118508089/islamic-state-isis-beatles-life-sentence-hostage-deaths

* CW: Child Murder "Second man arrested on suspicion of murdering Liverpool girl Olivia Pratt-Korbell:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/26/man-arrested-in-connection-with-killing-of-liverpool-girl-olivia-pratt-korbel

* "UK sales of The Satanic Verses surge after Rushdie stabbing:" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/23/uk-sales-of-the-satanic-verses-surge-after-rushdie-stabbing

* "Missing nurse Owami Davies found safe and well, say police:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/23/owami-davies-found-safe-well-police-say

* Of course the best solution would be to pay worker's fairly. "Edinburgh faces rat surge due to refuse workers’ strike, warn heritage leaders:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/23/edinburgh-faces-rat-surge-due-to-refuse-workers-strike-warn-heritage-leaders

* "Sturgeon accused of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ over bin strike:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/26/nicola-sturgeon-bin-strike-pay-dispute-schools-scottish-tories

* The pay structure is appalling. They aren't paid until the case is over even if they spent a couple years on it. The government offer means all the cases people have been working on are paid at the old, wildly indicate rate in the face of the cost of living crisis. "It tears barristers like me apart to strike, but the government has left us no choice:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/22/barristers-government-england-and-wales-criminal-justice-system

* "From barristers to refuse collectors, Britons strike en masse:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/26/economic-uncertainty-in-the-uk-lead-to-a-watershed-of-strikes

* "The gathering crisis:" https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/08/the-gathering-crisis.html

* "From barristers to refuse collectors, Britons strike en masse:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/26/economic-uncertainty-in-the-uk-lead-to-a-watershed-of-strikes

* It would be nice if something more than lip servic, but I trust Macron not at all. "Macron in Algeria announces new historians body to study colonial past:" https://www.euronews.com/2022/08/26/macron-announces-france-algeria-historians-commission-to-study-painful-colonial-past

* "Life Under “The Ghetto Law”:" https://thenib.com/life-under-the-ghetto-law/

* "Go-karting for French prisoners a mistake, admits Fresnes governor:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62659179

* "A toxic chemical was found in the bodies of 21 teens who died in a South Africa tavern:" https://www.npr.org/2022/07/19/1112310405/south-africa-teens-methanol-bar-deaths

* "In converted buses and tin-roof sheds, migrant students get a lesson in hope:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1118858805/mexico-migrants-education-school-tijuana-children

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* "Hospitalization, multiple symptoms linked to long covid in children:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/23/children-long-covid/

* "Could tiny blood clots cause long COVID’s puzzling symptoms?:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02286-7

* These are the new booster that targets Omicron variants, and I'm really excited for it. "Biden Administration Plans for New Booster Campaign Soon After Labor Day:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/politics/covid-booster-shots-biden.html

* "Anti-vax group in Europe thrives online, thwarts tech effort:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-technology-health-public-italy-9c2d261c7d73e0ba5dbb5c8adb50eefc

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* "Russian Orthodox patriarch to skip conference where he was to meet with Pope Francis:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-08-25/russian-patriarch-skips-meeting-meet-pope

* "Armed Forces of Ukraine force Russian troops to retreat on Bakhmut front General Staff report:" https://news.yahoo.com/armed-forces-ukraine-force-russian-041127794.html

* "Ukraine strikes administration headquarters in Donetsk, Russia-installed separatists say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-strikes-administration-headquarters-donetsk-russia-installed-separatists-2022-08-23/

* "'It's like sitting on a powder keg', say people near Ukraine nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/its-like-sitting-powder-keg-say-people-near-ukraine-nuclear-plant-2022-08-22/

* "Vast nuclear plant held by Russia disconnects from Ukraine's grid:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/both-working-reactors-occupied-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-shut-down-after-nearby-2022-08-25/

* "Ukraine’s independence day was always important. Now it is a matter of life and death:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/24/ukraine-independence-day-kyiv-russia-war

* "Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/world/europe/odesa-ukraine-putin-russia.html

* "Doctors stay in Ukraine's war-hit towns: 'People need us':" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-health-41582c3f96e162de962b865752c62a6a

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* "Biden is canceling up to $10K in student loans, $20K for Pell Grant recipients:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1118879917/student-loan-forgiveness-biden

* "'Bring it on!': Warren unbowed by GOP attacks on widely popular student loan debt relief:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-bring-it-on-warren-unbowed-by-gop-attacks-on-widely-popular-student-loan-debt-relief-146946629983

* "Black women, a key Biden constituency, carry highest student loan burden:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/black-women-a-key-biden-constituency-carry-highest-student-loan-burden-146950725606

* "White House points to growth in manufacturing jobs in tandem with student debt relief plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/white-house-points-to-growth-in-manufacturing-jobs-in-tandem-with-student-debt-relief-plan-147034181779

* "Not the White House Twitter account clapping back at hypocritical Republicans!:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/not-the-white-house-twitter-account-clapping-back-at-hypocritical-republicans-147108421881

* "IRS initiates safety probe after threats to workers:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-misinformation-health-care-reform-internal-revenue-service-fb835c1099dad4cca5ff893bfd07d466

* "Fauci to step down after decades as top US infection expert:" https://apnews.com/article/anthony-fauci-announces-retirement-7efdacac6a9ff7aa6e2f870b551fe508

* "Climate Law Gives Clean Air Act a Legal Boost After Court Rebuke:" https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/climate-law-gives-clean-air-act-a-legal-boost-after-court-rebuke

* "Electric Utilities Shut Off Power 3.6 Million Times While Increasing Payouts to Shareholders, Executives:" https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/report-electric-utilities-shut-off-power-36-million-times-while-increasing-payouts-to-shareholders-executives-2022-05-02/#:~:text=In%20September%202021%20the%20Center,year%20of%20the%20Covid%2D19

* "State Laws on Voting Rights/Time Off to Vote:" https://www.workplacefairness.org/voting-rights-time-off-work?state=TN

* "Women lead surge in new voter registrations since Roe overturned:" https://www.newsweek.com/women-lead-surge-new-voter-registrations-since-roe-overturned-1735346

* "Abortion rights motivates women voters as state restrictions spread:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/abortion-rights-motivates-women-voters-as-state-restrictions-spread-146951749944

* "Abortion rights concerns galvanize women voters christening 2022 the new 'Year of the Woman':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/abortion-rights-concerns-motivate-women-to-register-to-vote-boosts-democratic-candidates-147031621567

* "Tuesday brought more evidence abortion rights could help Democrats in November" https://www.npr.org/sections/2022-live-primary-election-race-results/2022/08/24/1119243085/abortion-pat-ryan-new-york-florida-primary-takeaways

* "Seven takeaways from primaries in Florida, New York and Oklahoma runoffs:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/politics/florida-new-york-oklahoma-election-takeaways/index.html

* "First openly gay Black congressman loses seat to multimillionaire Levi heir:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/25/mondaire-jones-loses-seat-daniel-goldman-democratic-primary/

* "Nadler topples Maloney, ending fellow House Democrat’s 30-year tenure:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/23/nadler-maloney-new-york-primary-00053435

* "Democrat Pat Ryan wins bellwether special election in New York’s Hudson Valley:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/24/pat-ryan-molinaro-new-york-special-00053458

* "The message that helped deliver this key election for Democrat Pat Ryan:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/the-message-that-helped-deliver-this-key-election-for-democrat-pat-ryan-146952261733

* "Special election results show voters increasingly rejecting GOP extremism:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/special-election-results-show-voters-increasingly-rejecting-gop-extremism-146941509899

* "Republican Who Praised Hitler Somehow Loses Congressional Primary:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/carl-paladino-loses-new-york-republican-congressional-primary-1234580459/

* This is why I beg people to vote in every single race. Education is at stake here, the future of our country. "DeSantis flexes influence with ‘anti-woke’ school board victories:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/24/florida-desantis-schools-election/

* "It's marketed as the nation's 'only Christian conservative wireless provider.' Now it's taking over school boards.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-christian-cell-company-patriot-mobile-took-four-texas-school-boards-rcna44583

* "Mobile phone company makes mission of Christian nationalism in schools:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/mobile-phone-company-makes-mission-of-christian-nationalism-in-schools-147032645586

* "Christian nationalists target school boards to advance agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/christian-nationalist-target-school-boards-to-advance-agenda-147033157895

* He is under investigation for sex trafficking under age girls. "Rep. Matt Gaetz beats primary challenger who suggested he was 'informant' in Mar-a-Lago raid:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/23/matt-gaetz-beats-primary-foe-who-called-him-informant-in-trump-mar-a-lago-raid.html

* "Democrat Charlie Crist to face Ron DeSantis in Florida race for governor:" https://www.npr.org/sections/2022-live-primary-election-race-results/2022/08/23/1119042390/florida-governor-primary-election-results-democrat-crist-desantis-republican

* "Representative Val Demings wins Democratic primary to run for U.S. Senate in Florida:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/representative-val-demings-wins-democratic-primary-run-us-senate-florida-2022-08-24/

* "After being compared to screen legend Pam Grier, Rep. Val Demings and the iconic actress talk politics:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-val-demings-democratic-candidate-for-u-s-senate-for-florida-and-iconic-actress-pam-grier-on-voter-motivation-146948165940

* "Gen Z candidate will win Democratic nomination in Florida's 10th District, CNN projects:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/gen-z-maxwell-frost-florida-democrat/index.html

* "Florida congressional nominee Maxwell Frost could be first Gen Z member of Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/maxwell-frost-could-be-first-gen-z-member-of-congress-as-democratic-nominee-for-florida-s-tenth-congressional-district-147030597877

* "Maxwell Frost: The new youngest member of Congress vs. the last one:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maxwell-frost-the-new-youngest-member-of-congress-vs-the-last-one-146943557884

* "J.D. Vance appeared with podcaster who once said "feminists need rape":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/jd-vance-appeared-with-podcaster-jack-murphy-who-said-feminists-need-rape/

* "Tim Ryan to JD Vance: 'Screw you, we’re not giving up on the industrial Midwest':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/tim-ryan-to-jd-vance-screw-you-we-re-not-giving-up-on-the-industrial-midwest-147026501731

* "Beto O’Rourke intensifies campaign on abortion rights as trigger law goes into effect:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/25/beto-orourke-abortion-texas/

* "O'Rourke says Abbott is ‘more beholden to NRA, gun manufacturers’ than those he is meant to serve:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/beto-o-rourke-democratic-nominee-for-texas-governor-on-the-failures-of-the-abott-administration-146859077558

* "Md. GOP nominee Cox deletes account on Gab, site known for hate speech:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/24/gab-dan-cox-maryland-governor/

* "Michigan's GOP Nominee for Governor: Giving Birth After Rape Is 'Healing' for a 14-Year-Old:" https://jezebel.com/michigans-gop-nominee-for-governor-giving-birth-after-1849438097

* "Arizona GOP Senate candidate attempts to soften anti-abortion stance in pivot to general election:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/politics/blake-masters-abortion-arizona-senate/index.html

* "Sen. Warren bullish on Democrats holding the Senate; cites litany of accomplishments:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/sen-warren-bullish-on-democrats-holding-the-senate-cites-litany-of-accomplishments-146947653598

* "The Q Queen's Crusade of Hatred: Marjorie Taylor Greene:"

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* You can tell what crimes Republicans are committing by what lying accusations they make against others. "Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/08/22/election-system-copied-files-trump/

* "Right-wing dark money gets $1.6 billion donation from one donor :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/right-wing-dark-money-gets-1-6-billion-donation-from-one-donor-146773061891

* "Trump Interior Secretary Zinke lied during casino investigation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/24/interior-inspector-general-finds-zinke-lied-during-casino-investigation-00053556

* "2 plead guilty in scheme to sell Biden's daughter's diary:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-new-york-government-and-politics-43eb5a9845aa633aa4e5ade7d16cb735

* "The DOJ under Barr wrongly withheld parts of a Russia probe memo, a court rules:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/20/1118625157/doj-barr-trump-russia-investigation-memo

* "Bill Barr lied about considering charging Trump with obstruction of Mueller, court says:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bill-barr-lied-about-considering-charging-trump-with-obstruction-of-mueller-court-says-146781253791

* "Trump White House exerted pressure on FDA for Covid-19 emergency use authorizations, House report finds:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/24/trump-white-house-exerted-pressure-on-fda-for-covid-19-emergency-use-authorizations-house-report-finds-00053428

* "The Final Days of the Trump White House: Chaos and Scattered Papers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/20/us/politics/trump-fbi-search.html

* "Feds Recovered 300 Classified Docs in 3 Batches From Mar-a-Lago: NYT:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/federal-agents-recovered-300-classified-documents-from-donald-trumps-mar-a-lago-estate-report-says

* "Documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago were among government's most classified, letter shows:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/23/national-archives-letter-trump-security-00053250

* "Mention of 'obstruction' in Mar-a-Lago search affidavit compounds Trump's legal peril:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/mention-of-obstruction-in-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit-compounds-trump-s-legal-peril-147115589809

* "Is that everything? Questions linger after Trump's brazen lying about returning documents :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/is-that-everything-questions-linger-after-trump-s-brazen-lying-about-returning-documents-147115589864

* "Human intelligence sources included in classifications of documents sought from Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/human-intelligence-sources-included-in-classifications-of-documents-sought-from-trump-147118661832

* "DOJ memo: Witness intimidation concerns ‘not hypothetical’ in Mar-a-Lago case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/doj-memo-witness-intimidation-concerns-not-hypothetical-in-mar-a-lago-case-147107397658

* "Trump, Without the Presidency’s Protections, Struggles for a Strategy:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/politics/trump-investigation-strategy.html

* They aren’t his. "Trump Tells His Lawyers: Get 'My' Top Secret Documents Back:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tells-lawyers-get-my-top-secrets-documents-back-1234580501/

* "FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search followed months of resistance, delay by Trump:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/23/trump-records-mar-a-lago-fbi/

* "Judge says FBI’s evidence for searching Mar-a-Lago is ‘reliable’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/22/judge-fbi-evidence-mar-a-lago-reliable-00053074

* "Trump's Bad Defenses and Bad Lawyering:"

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* "Gang of 8 wants to see Trump Mar-a-Lago search docs:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/22/gang-of-8-trump-mar-a-lago-search-00053118

* "They'll Let Just Anybody into Mar-a-Lago These Days:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41003284/mar-a-lago-rothschild-imposter/

* "Accused scammer's access to Mar-a-Lago highlights club's lax security:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/accused-scammer-s-access-to-mar-a-lago-highlights-club-s-lax-security-147116613981

* "Report: Woman posed as heiress to infiltrate Mar-a-Lago, Trump inner circle:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-woman-posed-as-heiress-to-infiltrate-mar-a-lago-trump-inner-circle-147108421797

* "Trump files suit demanding special master in Mar-a-Lago search case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/22/trump-files-suit-special-master-mar-a-lago-search-00053196

* "Trump special master filing merely a ‘PR document,’ says fmr. federal judge:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-special-master-filing-merely-a-pr-document-says-fmr-federal-judge-146852933818

* "'It's just insanity': ATF now needs 2 weeks to perform a routine gun trace:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/s-just-insanity-atf-now-needs-2-weeks-perform-routine-gun-trace-rcna39606

* "Ron DeSantis suspends 4 Broward County School Board members after a grand jury investigation prompted by Parkland massacre:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/us/florida-desantis-broward-school-board-suspensions/index.html

* "Uvalde school board votes unanimously to fire police chief Pete Arredondo:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/us/uvalde-school-police-pete-arredondo/index.html

* "Hundreds of kids witness parents shot to death. This is what it does to them.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2022/kids-witness-parents-shot-killed/

* "2 men convicted in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer:" https://apnews.com/article/elections-presidential-michigan-gretchen-whitmer-grand-rapids-9ad8f100d32e7d5883b1be9d6c4cb8d5

* "Ex-Louisville police officer pleads guilty to Breonna Taylor cover-up:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/former-louisville-officer-plead-guilty-breonna-taylor-cover-up-2022-08-23/

* "Officers won’t face any charges in Rayshard Brooks shooting:" https://apnews.com/article/rayshard-brooks-shooting-officer-no-charges-910f8d1812fc7775d621242aaccbad9d

* "3 charged with killing Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in 2018:" https://apnews.com/article/whitey-bulger-killing-men-charged-11072fae9deaad36a929080798802804

* "After the Zodiac Killer's '340' Cipher Stumped the FBI, Three Amateurs Made a Breakthrough:" https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a40601672/zodiac-killer-340-cipher-solution-fbi/

* "The Shortage Pushing Legal Systems to the Brink:"

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* This is some bullshit."Loved ones of prisoners banned from wearing #visitsmatter T-shirts:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/os-ne-visits-matter-prison-t-shirts-ban-directive-fdoc-20220813-jsf7xj6ycfbiln6nb5ht7526ka-story.html

* "Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy:" https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/caste-california-tech-giants-confront-ancient-indian-hierarchy-2022-08-15/

* "A Texas school district approved limits on books, critical race theory and gender identity:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/us/texas-grapevine-colleyville-school-district-policies-reaj/index.html

* "Texas school district reinstates an adaptation of Anne Frank's diary amid firestorm of controversy :" https://www.jta.org/2022/08/23/united-states/texas-school-district-reinstates-an-adaptation-of-anne-franks-diary-it-previously-removed-amid-firestorm-of-controversy

* "What does the new Grapevine-Colleyville schools policy mean for LGBTQ kids?:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2022/08/23/what-does-the-new-grapevine-colleyville-schools-policy-mean-for-lgbt-kids/

* "Grapevine High School students walk out to protest district’s policies on gender, pronouns:" https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article264958244.html

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Actor Gary Busey faces sex offense charges at Monster Mania Convention in New Jersey:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/20/entertainment/gary-busey-sex-offense-charge/index.html

* "Kevin Spacey Ordered to Pay Almost $31M to 'House of Cards' Company:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2022/8/10/kevin-spacey-ordered-pay-almost-31m-house-cards-company

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* "The Reason Anti-Abortion Activists Just Won’t Stop:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/why-anti-abortion-activists-want-fetal-personhood.html

* "Leonard Leo, the most powerful person in America you’ve never heard of :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/leonard-leo-the-most-powerful-person-in-america-you-ve-never-heard-of-146772037944

* People will die. "Biden administration can’t force Texas hospitals to provide emergency abortions, judge rules:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/24/emergency-abortions-joe-biden-ken-paxton/

* "Texans who perform abortions now face up to life in prison, $100,000 fine:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/25/texas-trigger-law-abortion/

* It’s only a partial stay, but better than nothing. "Judge blocks enforcement of Idaho's abortion ban in medical emergencies day before it was set to take effect:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/idaho-abortion-ban-doj/index.html

* "Michigan appeals court stops Legislature's legal effort to overturn abortion order:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/24/michigan-abortion-order-court-appeals/65418435007/

* "A South Carolina Republican’s sad awakening on abortion:" https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article264911724.html

* "Louisiana woman faces ‘horrifically cruel’ abortion choice over fetus missing skull:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/louisiana-abortion-woman-nancy-davis-benjamin-crump

* "‘Predatory’ and ‘dangerous’ anti-abortion clinics will expand in Indiana:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2022/08/22/indiana-abortion-law-crisis-pregnancy-centers-look-to-expand/65392111007/

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* "Explaining Hunter Schafer's Transmedicalism (& Why It’s a Problem):"

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* "Being Trans Is Not a Craze Among Youth, Study Finds:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/8/11/being-trans-not-craze-among-youth-study-finds

* Rightly so. "LGB Alliance Ireland labelled 'far right hate group' in new extremism report:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/23/lgb-alliance-far-right-extremist-group-gpahe/

* "'Don't Say Gay' Law Fuels Anti-LGBTQ+ Bigotry Online: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/10/twitter-and-facebook-fail-enforce-anti-lgbtq-bigotry-rules-report

* "Students Return to Florida Schools Now Under 'Don't Say Gay' Law:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/13/students-return-florida-schools-now-under-dont-say-gay-law

* "LGBTQ+ Books Given Warning Labels in Florida School District:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/09/lgbtq-books-given-warning-labels-florida-school-district

* "Anti-Trans Policy on Bathroom Access Considered by Va. School Board:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/8/10/anti-trans-policy-bathroom-access-considered-va-school-board

* "Wisconsin school board votes in favor of banning teachers from displaying pride flag and listing preferred pronouns:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wisconsin-school-board-votes-in-favor-of-pride-flag-preferred-pronoun-ban/

* "A Mich. library refused to remove an LGBTQ book. The town defunded it.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/24/michigan-library-defunded-gender-queer/

* "Gender dysphoria is covered by disability law, federal court rules:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/gender-dysphoria-covered-disability-law-federal-court-rules-rcna44781

* "Judge tells Arkansas it can't block trans youth from life-saving healthcare:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/26/arkansas-judge-block-trans-youth-healthcare/

* "Pennsylvania Governor Signs Anti-Conversion Therapy Order:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/16/pennsylvania-governor-wolf-signs-anti-conversion-therapy-order

* "Texas Realtor Helps At-Risk LGBTQ+ Homeowners Flee Texas:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/11/texas-realtor-helps-risk-lgbtq-homeowners-flee-texas

* "Gay Couple Violently Attacked and Called Monkeypox Slur in D.C.:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/8/09/gay-couple-violently-attacked-and-called-monkeypox-slur-dc

* "Monkeypox Can Be Asymptomatic, Two Studies Suggest:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2022/8/16/monkeypox-can-be-asymptomatic-two-studies-suggest

* "Experts Try to Understand Rare Cases of Monkeypox Deaths:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2022/8/15/experts-try-understand-rare-cases-monkeypox-deaths

* " Everything Monkeypox with Gay Doc - Doctor Carlton :"

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* CW: Eating Disorders "What Caused the Toxic Rebrand of Weight Watchers:"

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* "Proactiv to MLM: The Rodan + Fields Story :"

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* "The Most Prevalent Illness You’ve Never Heard Of! // Severe ME/CFS:"

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* "The Forgotten Virus: Zika Families and Researchers Struggle for Support:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/health/zika-children-research.html

* "US doctor issues warning of many undiagnosed polio cases:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62469534

* "More polio virus detected in upstate New York wastewater:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/polio-virus-detected-upstate-york-wastewater-88905004

* "London kids to be offered polio shot after more virus found:" https://apnews.com/article/health-london-473e92cf88201d7e7a92e6445498500f

* CW: Child Death. "Nebraska child dies from rare infection caused by brain-eating amoeba:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/19/nebraska-brain-eating-amoeba-child-dies

* "58% of human infectious diseases can be worsened by climate change:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/58-of-human-infectious-diseases-can-be-worsened-by-climate-change/

* "USDA getting tougher on salmonella in chicken products:" https://apnews.com/article/health-iowa-agriculture-food-safety-93664bd92422447542090e51f74101d7

* "Pigs Can Breathe Through Their Buttholes and So Could You, Scientists Say:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzxj4/pig-breathe-through-anus-study

* "The pigs had been dead for an hour. Scientists made their hearts beat again.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/08/04/yale-organex-dead-pigs-revived/

* "First Heart Transplant Performed Between HIV-Positive Donor, Recipient:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2022/8/01/first-heart-transplant-performed-between-hiv-positive-donor-recipient

* "To save children with cancer, doctors turn to new weapons:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/05/childrens-cancer-research-gains/

* "A Very Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant Is Getting Even Scarier:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-08-04/texas-pregnancy-care-worsens-as-maternity-wards-close

* "Camhs deaths expose child mental health unit pressures:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62294650

* "'Magic mushroom' psychedelic may help heavy drinkers quit:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/magic-mushroom-psychedelic-heavy-drinkers-quit-88795414

* This is a terrible idea. "Japan wants young people to drink more alcohol:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/18/asia/japan-tax-alcohol-competition-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Cigarette advertising aggressively targets kids in low- and middle-income countries, a new study finds:" https://theconversation.com/cigarette-advertising-aggressively-targets-kids-in-low-and-middle-income-countries-a-new-study-finds-186628

* I have concerns. "South Korea develops nanotech tattoo as health monitoring device:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/skorea-develops-nanotech-tattoo-health-monitoring-device-2022-08-02/

* "Conjoined twins separated with the help of virtual reality:" https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62378452

* "The Curious Afterlife of a Brain Trauma Survivor:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-curious-afterlife-of-a-brain-trauma-survivor/

* "Over-the-counter hearing aids expected this fall in US:" https://apnews.com/article/science-health-government-and-politics-9fba21c0cd4c417e14544e6966b5a298

* "Ugandan online TV bridges information gap for the deaf:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ugandan-online-tv-bridges-information-gap-deaf-2022-08-04/

* "New glasses for the deaf and hard of hearing display subtitles while people speak:" https://abc17news.com/news/2022/08/01/new-glasses-for-the-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-display-subtitles-while-people-speak/

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* "Thunderstorms are moving East with climate change:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/thunderstorms-are-moving-east-with-climate-change

* "Tibetan Glacial Melt Threatens Billions:" https://www.voanews.com/a/melting-tibet-could-threaten-billions-of-people/3075426.html

* "How climate change drives inland floods:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1115384628/how-climate-change-drives-inland-floods

* "Mapping the Coolest Spots Inside the World’s Sweltering Cities:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-city-heatwave-adaptations/

* "We built a fake metropolis to show how extreme heat could wreck cities:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2022/heat-infrastructure-transportation/

* "A new 'extreme heat belt' with 125 degree temps could cut through U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/us-see-new-extreme-heat-belt-2053-rcna42486

* "A ‘megaflood’ in California could drop 100 inches of rain, scientists warn:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/12/megaflood-california-flood-rain-climate/

* "As many as one in six U.S. tree species is threatened with extinction:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/23/extinct-tree-species-sequoias/

* "Five 1,000-year rain events have struck the U.S. in five weeks. Why?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/23/flood-united-states-climate-explainer/

* "The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet, new research shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/11/us/arctic-rapid-warming-climate/index.html

* "How are floods and droughts happening at the same time?:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23297362/kentucky-flood-lake-mead-california-arizona-drought

* "Record-breaking heat wave in Europe will be the norm by 2035, analysis shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/europe/record-heat-climate-analysis-summer-2035-intl-scli/index.html

* "Forest fires burn twice as many trees as two decades ago, report finds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/24/forest-fires-trees-burn/

* "Wildfires rage as China's Chongqing suffers unrelenting record heat wave:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/china/china-heat-wave-chongqing-wildfires-intl-hnk/index.html

* "China’s summer heat wave is breaking all records:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/24/china-drought-heat-wave-climate-change/

* "Firefighters battle the East Fire northeast of Glendora, California:" https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/08/25/firefighters-battle-the-east-fire-northeast-of-glendora-california/

* "The world has never seen a heat wave quite like China's 70-day streak:" https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/china-heat-wave-drought-unprecedented

* "Pakistan Hit by Deadly Floods of ‘Epic Proportions’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/28/world/asia/pakistan-flood.html

* "Wildlife under stress as dry spell shrinks rivers:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62465805

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* It looks like it wasn't a murder after all. Seriously, folks, be careful when out in nature. Just because it's pretty doesn't mean it's safe. "Human foot found in Yellowstone hot spring may be linked to July death:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/08/20/foot-yellowstone-hot-spring/

* "The Bigger This Fungus Gets, the Worse We’re Doing:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/08/humongous-fungus-climate-change-biggest-organism/671109/

* "Rising seas threaten the Gullah Geechee culture. Here's how they're fighting back.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/rising-seas-threaten-the-gullah-geechee-culture-heres-how-theyre-fighting-back

* "Eastern Kentucky's people looked for a fresh start after coal. Then came the floods:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/05/1116036174/eastern-kentucky-floods-recovery-efforts

* "Infrastructure damage hampers flood recovery in Kentucky:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-storms-kentucky-weather-emergency-management-6971f52cd2cc0cc79da8553dbc5d38f4

* "Barbados Resists Climate Colonialism in an Effort to Survive the Costs of Global Warming:" https://www.propublica.org/article/mia-mottley-barbados-imf-climate-change#1376580

* "America’s biggest financial threat isn’t government spending. It’s the cost of climate change:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90778129/americas-biggest-financial-threat-isnt-government-spending-its-the-cost-of-climate-change

* "These communities are trapped in harm’s way as climate disasters mount:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/08/these-communities-are-trapped-in-harms-way-as-climate-disasters-mount/

* "California air agency to ban sales of gasoline-powered cars by 2035:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/24/california-air-agency-to-ban-sales-of-gasoline-powered-cars-by-2035-00053547

* "We used to force oil companies to clean up their messes. Why is climate change different?:" https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3597154-we-used-to-force-oil-companies-to-clean-up-their-messes-why-is-climate-change-different/

* "Federal study: New climate law to slice carbon pollution 40%:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-science-united-states-pollution-climate-and-environment-2f4438895e15c8292aa37a987758d0e0

* "US to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-forests-trees-plants-de0505c965c198a081a4b48084b0e903

* "Saving the sequoias:" https://graphics.reuters.com/USA-WILDFIRES/YOSEMITE/zjvqkbqodvx/index.html

* "The race to reclaim the dark:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220614-the-crusade-for-darker-night-skies

* "How The Thames, Once a 'Zombie River,' Was Brought Back to Life:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/zombie-river-thames

* "Mexican Farmers and Scientists Share a Mission: Saving a Wetland:" https://undark.org/2022/08/01/mexican-farmers-and-scientists-share-a-mission-saving-a-wetland/

* "How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia:" https://hakaimagazine.com/news/how-indigenous-sea-gardens-produced-massive-amounts-of-food-for-millennia/

* "What's in a name? Illinois hopes to make invasive carp fish more palatable:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/whats-name-illinois-hopes-make-invasive-carp-fish-more-palatable-2022-08-10/

* "A sacred area for native Hawaiians is filling up with trash. Crews are 'fighting the onslaught.':" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/07/hawaii-papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument-debris-cleanup/10248143002/?gnt-cfr=1

* "Voyage of the Gross:" https://www.curbed.com/2022/08/nyc-trash-landfill-incineration-recycling-compost-voyage-gross.html

* "'The Sacrifice Zone': Myanmar bears cost of green energy:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-forests-myanmar-75df22e8d7431a6757ea4a426fbde94c

* "‘The Sun has changed my life’:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-62482251

* "How Los Angeles is Restoring its Ancient River System into an Urban Green Oasis:"

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* "A former employee accuses Twitter of big security lapses in a whistleblower complaint:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/23/1119071586/twitter-whistleblower-complaint-elon-musk-security-bots-fake-users

* "Facebook parent Meta posts first revenue decline in history:" https://apnews.com/article/meta-first-ever-revenue-decline-a7632a8ef1a970dc69753980e03c026b

* "Facebook misses misinformation in Brazilian election ads:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/facebook-misses-misinformation-in-brazilian-election-ads

* "Hawaii seeks end to strife over astronomy on sacred mountain:" https://apnews.com/article/astronomy-science-technology-cultures-mauna-kea-545c06092561df27421b6fe48d2985dd

* "Why We Need to Study Nothing:" https://nautil.us/why-we-need-to-study-nothing-22553/

* "Breathtaking New Photos Show Jupiter's Hypnotic Swirling Storms, And How Is This Real?:" https://www.sciencealert.com/stunning-storm-vortices-swirl-at-the-north-pole-of-jupiter-in-new-juno-pic

* "The Coziest Spot on the Moon:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/07/moon-lunar-pits-comfortable-temperature/670991/

* "Scientists discover "first of its kind" triple star system:" https://www.axios.com/2022/07/30/space-triple-star-system-astronomy

* "‘They said it was impossible’: how medieval carpenters are rebuilding Notre Dame:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-rebuild-medieval-carpenters-guledon

* "The Social, The History Of Women’s Body Hair Removal:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083x6t8

* "Hershey says it won't be able to meet Halloween demand this year:" https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/28/business/hershey-halloween/index.html

* Friday I discovered that I am now dangerously allergic to Cantaloupe. My throat didn't close all the way, so I didn't die, but the swelling in my mouth was scary and bad things happened in my throat. I appear to be also reactive to honeydew and cucumber, though not to that extent. Sigh. More beloved foods lost forever. I spent the weekend trying to recover. There is still a bad patch at the back of my mouth and I'm still tired and generally ick, butt this is nuisance level from a chronic pain perspective.

Monday was disability assessment, which I had completely forgotten. Luckily I had just gotten back from the bathroom as it's super long. Normally I like to be at my desk where I have better access for things like checking my meds, since I have the bottles there for the dailies instead of just presort med trays and emergency PRN bottles.

Tuesday, I spent a stupid amount of time at the Seelie dentist. We have a good mold, and they sealed my tooth, and replaced my temp with a preliminary. It is the same amount of be super careful what and how one eats, but now if I fuck up I don't get a second root canal (not covered), I just get pain and have to go in for a replacement preliminary. I'm going to try not to fuck up, but the stakes being lower is a huge fucking help. They kept remarking on what a good/easy patient I am. I have no anxiety and mostly just meditate unless they need me to do something.

Did I mention Seelie Dentist’s intake form had a section right under legal name for preferred name and pronouns and they were all super polite and seemed really competent. 10/10 would recommend and I’d make them my regular dentist if I weren’t already a patient at poverty clinic, where they also are super good with trans patients.
I got back just in time to see if Head Millennial wanted pick up. (I usually collect them downtown and we do errands on Wednesdays, but he was meant to take the bus as I had no clue how long crown preliminary would take). It was cool in the morning, but melting hot in the late afternoon, and we were dishrags by the time we got back to the air conditioning, so I told them to do bare minimum after their break and took them home.

* Techie Millennial and I hung out Thursday, which is something we haven't done much lately between assorted things going on in both our lives. We had a great time and got a lot of stuff done.

* A trans friend of a friend in Florida needs money for a few months while she deals with the bureaucracy to move in with relatives in Canada, and she are happy to move literally anywhere in the United states.

She has found temporary housing, but needs money for the move:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/trans-girl-needs-a-new-home?member=21261213&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/EllieDMox

* "The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman ruthlessly hits back at troll's moaning:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/24/the-sandman-neil-gaiman-woke-twitter-reply/

* "Go behind the scenes of "A League of Their Own" with trans actor Lea Robinson:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/go-behind-the-scenes-of-a-league-of-their-own-with-trans-actor-lea-robinson/ar-AA10wVUR

* "ALOTO's Lea Robinson on Queer Family and What Connects Us:" https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/alotos-lea-robinson-queer-family-164042937.html

* I hope this show sinks like a stone. "Stunt workers' fury over Lord of the Rings injuries:" https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/stunt-workers-fury-over-lord-of-the-rings-injuries/2IGAURQ4XGCS3FCBB2IGUI4WVU/

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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.

* A trans friend of a friend in Florida needs money for a few months while she deals with the bureaucracy to move in with relatives in Canada, and she is happy to move literally anywhere in the United states.

She has found temporary housing, but needs money for the move:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/trans-girl-needs-a-new-home?member=21261213&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/EllieDMox

* Fundraiser for a librarian under threat for Fighting Censorship: https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fees-for-librarian-amanda-jones

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* "Three Gay Friends Killed in U.K. Terror Attack:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/6/24/three-gay-friends-killed-uk-terror-attack

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* "Covid-19 news: UK health leaders warn of 'real risk' of a second wave:" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237475-covid-19-news-uk-health-leaders-warn-of-real-risk-of-a-second-wave/

* "Trump administration has considered ending coronavirus emergency, even as cases surge:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-06-23/trump-may-end-coronavirus-national-emergency

We are currently at the worst point of the epidemic. He’s still refusing to release several big chunks of COVID funds voted by Congress to address the pandemic in this country and keeps obstructing and/or rolling back measures designed to slow the epidemic even as hospitals all over the country are being overwhelmed. Instead he’s lying and instructing governors to lie that everything is fine and it’s over, bragging about slowing testing on purpose, and holding no mask hate rallies in enclosed spaces.

* "Trump admin failure on coronavirus threatens unity of the states:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-failure-on-coronavirus-threatens-unity-of-the-states-85962821953

* Since when is the executive branch not "civilian?" "Trump will not follow New Jersey coronavirus quarantine order, 'he's not a civilian,' White House says:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/24/trump-will-not-follow-new-jersey-coronavirus-quarantine-order.html

* "U.S. Sets Record for Daily New Cases as Virus Surges in South and West:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/world/coronavirus-updates.html

* "Seven states report highest coronavirus hospitalizations since pandemic began:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/23/coronavirus-live-updates-us/

* "California reports more than 7,000 coronavirus cases, biggest daily jump so far:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/24/california-reports-more-than-7000-coronavirus-cases-biggest-daily-jump-so-far.html

* "Abbott: Texas facing 'massive' COVID-19 outbreak, 5,000+ new cases for 2nd straight day:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/governor-greg-abbott-massive-outbreak-5000-cases-15363593.php

* "Counties struggle with consequences of rash Texas reopening:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/counties-struggle-with-consequences-of-rash-texas-reopening-85963845981

* "Beto O’Rourke: Texas COVID-19 surge is due to ‘defiance of science, facts, truth’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/beto-o-rourke-texas-covid-19-surge-is-due-to-defiance-of-science-facts-truth-85957189610

* "Virginia poised to create first pandemic workplace safety mandates in nation, as Trump labor agency sits on sidelines:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/24/virginia-safety-rules-covid/

* "Black Lives Matter protests have not led to a spike in coronavirus cases, research says:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/us/coronavirus-cases-protests-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html

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* "Appeals court orders judge to dismiss Michael Flynn case:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/politics/michael-flynn-dismiss/index.html

* "Attorney General Barr agrees to testify before House Judiciary Committee on July 28:" https://www.axios.com/bill-barr-testify-house-judiciary-committee-f5680a42-2069-4c38-ae96-ec3b3946e631.html

* "65 faculty members from AG Barr's law school alma mater say he has 'failed to fulfill his oath of office':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/politics/george-washington-law-william-barr/index.html

* "Dow drops more than 700 points in worst day since June 11 as virus resurgence concerns grow:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/23/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html

* "Here's Why The Advocate Is Endorsing Joe Biden for President:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/6/24/joe-biden-donald-trump-lgbt-gay-equality

* "HRC's Alphonso David: Trump 'Is Seeking to Destroy Our Democracy':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/6/22/hrcs-alphonso-david-trump-seeking-destroy-our-democracy

* "U.S. soldier plotted with a satanic neo-Nazi cult to stage ‘murderous ambush’ on his unit, feds say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/23/army-attack-ethan-melzer-satanic/

* "More than 13,000 federal workers face a possible furlough of 30 days or longer:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/more-than-13000-federal-workers-face-a-possible-furlough-of-30-days-or-longer/2020/06/23/d9bd5332-b596-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html

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* "Senate Democrats block GOP policing bill, calling it ‘irrevocably flawed’ and ‘partisan’:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-democrats-block-gop-policing-bill-n1232000

* "Officer fired in shooting death of Breonna Taylor, Louisville police say:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/us/breonna-taylor-shooting-officer-fired/index.html

* "Tarana Burke on the Connection Between Police Brutality and Sexual Violence:"

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* "An Open Letter to Young LGBTQ+ People on This Historic Pride Week:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/opinion/2020/6/24/open-letter-young-lgbtq-people-historic-pride-week

* "John C. Calhoun statue taken down from its perch above Charleston's Marion Square:" https://www.postandcourier.com/news/john-c-calhoun-statue-taken-down-from-its-perch-above-charlestons-marion-square/article_7c428b5c-b58a-11ea-8fcc-6b5a374635da.html

* "Confederate monument removals a mark of progress long in coming:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/confederate-monument-removals-a-mark-of-progress-long-in-coming-85963845781

* "Laverne Cox - "Disclosure" and Changing Public Perceptions of the Trans Community:"

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* "Gay doctor and his boyfriend who weren’t allowed to donate COVID-19 antibodies say ‘bigotry and laziness’ to blame:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/25/dillon-barron-gay-doctor-chicago-coronavirus-covid-19-plasma-blood-donation/

* "Three-time Paralympian, lesbian activist and Marine vet dies while attempting historic row across Pacific Ocean:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/25/angela-madsen-paralympian-lesbian-activist-marine-vet-death-deb-tribute-pacific-ocean/

* "Black Trans Lives Matter:"

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* "Violence Against Trans Women of Color:"

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* "Trump Halts Immigration, Apple Helps with Handwashing & The CIA Releases Its First TV Ad:"

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* "Why Are Black Americans So Underrepresented in the Workplace?:"

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* "AMC's Reopening Protocols & A More Macho Mask:"

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* "Trump's Disastrous Tulsa Rally:"

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* The Library reopened for curbside on a skeleton crew the Monday before last. I have a ridiculous number of holds. There was nothing I could do about it until the car was fixed. I dropped my accumulated returns off when we picked up the car Wednesday a week ago, but I was sick and trying to do curbside in that condition was dangerous and irresponsible. (Driving + dizzy=bad idea, and odds were high I was contagious anyway.)

By Monday, I thought I was in Aftermath from the flu. It's hard to tell given my AS meds and the strong af anti-nausea meds I'm always on. I still needed a lot of extra sleep, but my lungs were about as good as they get this time of year, and i was up, having gone to bed very early.

I don't own a cell phone. No really. Tiny buttons and arthritis fingers don't mix and it's lot of money for something I'd almost never use. A landline is four dollars a month. I can generally find a big buttoned replacement phone at Value Village when one dies about every five or six years.

The website and the person on the phone both aid it'd be fine. They come out periodically to check anyway. I told them I'd be there in about 15. They said that's perfect, it's about how long check out would take. I was skeptical; I was correct. It's a very good thing I had a book s they do not come out periodically to check. you have to wait for someone else with a phone to come to do curbside pick up. Various people turned up to drop off books, everyone carefully parking in every other spot for safety. I waited, and waited and waited.

Luckily someone turned up before they closed and I got my grocery bags of books. Apparently they are doing three day materials quarantine t either end, which according to current information is more than amply. Workers are gloved and masked. The nice man carried my stuff to my trunk, but waited for me to gimp far enough away for safety and the wind was brisk off the Bay. It's about as safe s they can reasonably make it.

ILL is still not taking orders, which isn't surprising, but my ILL returns checked back in after they left quarantine, so that's something. My library cancelled all fines at the new year which likely dramatically simplified the fuck out of post materials quarantine check in. I used to work there and I should know. It also means they don't have to fuss with nickel and dime fines in the middle of a pandemic.

Tuesday I had to get up early for an online thing. My body was logy, not responding well, which happens with AS. My lungs were worse, but they'd mowed the lawn that morning and it was muggy af with nothing much coming in off the Bay, so that's situation normal for lawn care day this time of year.

Wednesday? OMG. The pain is stunning and my lungs are what I consider bad. No fever, eyes fine, sense of taste intact. I am pretty sure it's the tail end of the partially covered influenza, plus high allergen count, plus I kept shifting out of safe position in my sleep.

I think. Chronic Illness: an endless game of medical detective, like House without the snark and the sexual tension.

I am pasted together with A LOT of Meds and moving carefully at a snails pace. I was supposed to change at lest one big tank today as they both desperately need it. I was supposed to full change living room litter. I did not happen.

If it's still bad tomorrow, I'll call it in. Squirrel's been alerted. He may be coming down with my pretty clearly slightly mutant influenza, so fun for him. Luckily, he is serous bout masks outside the house and his work both aggressive screens for COVID and gives free quarantine sick days. We'll see, but seriously don't panic. My money's on this one being my chronic stuff ganging up when my system's been stressed.

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

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

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

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

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

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

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

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

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Keep Me Safe! Help me get a gate organized by Briel Moore:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-me-safe-help-me-get-a-gate?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+expWdV

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
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* "Dr. Anthony Fauci says coronavirus turned 'out to be my worst nightmare' and it 'isn't over':" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/09/dr-anthony-fauci-says-coronavirus-turned-out-to-be-my-worst-nightmare-and-it-isnt-over.html

* "Surging Coronavirus Cases Push Latin America ‘to the Limit’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/world/coronavirus-us-usa.html#link-1f302e21

* "White House goes quiet on coronavirus as outbreak spikes again across the U.S.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/white-house-stops-talking-about-coronavirus-309993

* "14 states and Puerto Rico hit highest seven-day average of new coronavirus infections:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/08/14-states-puerto-rico-hit-their-highest-seven-day-average-new-covid-19-infections-since-june/

* "Trump blames testing for spike in COVID-19 cases. Experts fault reopening of states.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-trump-blames-testing-spike-covid-19-cases-experts-n1228671

* "Montgomery COVID-19 cases ‘alarming’ to hospital association:" https://www.wsfa.com/2020/06/09/montgomery-covid-cases-alarming-hospital-association/

* Inslee opened us up into phase 2 and announced heavily expanded testing. I was pleased to discover they are doing a full screening of nursing home employees. really, all nursing home staff and residents need screening, same with staff and residents of jails and prisons on a regular basis. Fingers crossed that they do that. i have reasonable faith in my governor doing the right thing and following best practices to the best of his ability, so here's hoping this is just the iceberg's tip.

* "Migrants say they were forced to clean COVID-infected ICE facility:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/detained-migrants-say-they-were-forced-clean-covid-infected-ice-n1228831

* "20 LGBTQ+ People Working to Save Lives on the Frontline:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/6/04/20-stories-lgbtq-people-working-save-lives-frontline

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* "Donald Trump Jr.'s Mongolia Hunting Trip Cost Taxpayers $77,000:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-mongolia-hunting-trip-endangered-sheep_n_5edf126bc5b6948cbc5c971a

* Over the weekend, I saw an ad so strange I kept waiting for the punchline. For some reason we are getting Campaign ads for 45that are so utterly oblivious of the death and misery and carnage he'd wrought that they seem to have come from another planet. The ad was boasting about how he'd made America great Again, as if he hadn't killed so many people by hindering the Covid response, as if he hadn't put kids in cages, killed trans women and children in ICE detention by having his agents refuse them medical care, been more corrupt than the Grant and Harding administrations put together by an order of magnitude, betrayed this country on every level, pursued foreign policy in Russia's interests instead of our own egged on police violence, praised and encouraged NAZIs and loaded his cabinet with them, dismantled systems designed to protect civil and human rights, deliberately packed the courts with incompetence, summoned soldiers and secret police to put down democracy in the capital, shredded the constitution, ripped up environmental protections, broken more laws than I can count, and on and on and on. The only mention of the economy was to brag about it as if we weren't in a recession with small businesses permanently shuttered all over the country and worse to come. I just... Can Republicans hear themselves? Do they have working eyes or ears or some other way to absorb information from the world around them. How is this hellscape of mostly self created disaster better than what we had four years ago?

And they are showing this in a college town in a blue state. O.o I legitimately thought it was a parody.

* "Scottish bailout puts Trump's golf resorts in line for £1m tax rebate:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/scottish-bailout-means-trumps-golf-resorts-in-line-for-1m-tax-rebate

* "White House Tells Bolton His Book Still Contains Classified Information:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/trump-john-bolton-book.html

* "'Everything about this is irregular': Ex-judge tapped to review Flynn case blasts Trump DOJ:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/gleeson-flynn-sullivan-barr-justice-department-311018

* "Interior to push drilling in Florida waters after November election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/interior-drilling-florida-waters-november-election-310595

* "The Real Economic Catastrophe Hasn’t Hit Yet. Just Wait For August.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomgara/economy-recession-coronavirus

* "Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/trump-campaign-cnn-poll/index.html

* "Joe Biden's LGBTQ Legacy, 10 Years After DADT Repeal:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/6/09/joe-bidens-lgbtq-legacy-10-years-after-dadt-repeal

* "Joe Biden - America's Policing Problem, Running Against Trump & Fighting Voter Suppression:"

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* "West Virginia Elects First Out Transgender Official:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/6/09/west-virginia-elects-first-out-transgender-official

* "Chris Hayes on why we should be worried that Trump is worried about reelection:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-why-we-should-be-worried-that-trump-is-worried-about-reelection-84800581943

* "Trump admin vote suppression plan seen in vote-by-mail hypocrisy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-vote-suppression-plan-seen-in-vote-by-mail-hypocrisy-84809285564

* "Iowa Senate Bill Could Limit Election Officials' Ability To Change Voting Process During Pandemic:" https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/iowa-senate-bill-could-limit-election-officials-ability-change-voting-process-during-pandemic#stream/0

* "Nevada polls close, long waits reported in Las Vegas:" https://news3lv.com/news/local/nevada-polls-close-long-waits-reported-in-las-vegas

* "‘A hot, flaming mess’: Georgia primary beset by chaos, long lines:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/georgia-primary-election-voting-309066

* "‘I Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/us/politics/atlanta-voting-georgia-primary.html

* "'It Was Very Chaotic': Long Lines, Voting Machine Issues Plague Georgia Primary:" https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/873054620/long-lines-voting-machine-issues-plague-georgia-primary

* "Kemp admin seems intent on keeping Georgia voting broken for 2020:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kemp-admin-seems-intent-on-keeping-georgia-voting-broken-for-2020-84808261552

* "Record turnout moves Iowa GOP to attack successful voting system:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/record-turnout-moves-iowa-gop-to-attack-successful-voting-system-84809285716

* "GOP returns to voting suppression playbook as November looms:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-returns-to-voting-suppression-playbook-as-november-looms-84806725793

* "Stacey Abrams slams Georgia leaders for ‘incompetence’ and ‘malice’ in election disaster:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-slams-georgia-leaders-for-incompetence-and-malice-in-election-disaster-84853317609

* The Georgia Primary: Oh look! Most of the voting machines in black areas weren't working and at least one place they only had one worker to check people in and sanitize. Hours of waiting in long lines, but not in white areas! After all there's a pandemic on! They also didn't give poll workers passwords to operate the machines so it took a couple hours after open to start the voting in some plces.

Oh and they didn't bother sending out a whole lot of the requested absentee ballots. Fucking Wonder if the applications for those are in the same drawer as the one where Kemp kept all those voter registrations from black majority districts instead of processing them so he could fix the election last time.

Oh and the new voting machines that don't work? Kemp overrode the non-partisan choice to give it to his campaign manager's company even though they weren't remotely qualified for the job.

Meanwhile, Iowa had record June primary turnout last week because it was all mail in. Republicans are moving to ban it so they can force people to vote in person in a pndemic in November.

* "Army reverses course, will consider renaming bases named for Confederate leaders:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/08/army-reverses-course-will-consider-renaming-bases-named-for-confederate-leaders-307594

"The unrest sweeping the country over racial injustice comes as incidents of white nationalism within the ranks appear to be on the rise. A 2019 Military Times survey found that more than a third of troops who responded have seen evidence of white supremacist and racist ideologies in the military, a significant increase from the year before, when only 22 percent reported the same."

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* "Trump Wanted to Fire Esper Over Troops Dispute:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-wanted-to-fire-esper-over-troops-dispute-11591728235?mod=djemalertNEWS

* "Barr contradicts Trump: 'The Secret Service recommended that the President go down to the bunker' for safety:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/politics/bill-barr-donald-trump-white-house-bunker/index.html

* "More than 1,250 former Justice Dept. workers call for internal watchdog to probe Barr role in clearing demonstrators from Lafayette Square:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/more-than-1250-former-justice-dept-workers-call-for-internal-watchdog-to-probe-barr-role-in-clearing-demonstrators-from-lafayette-square/2020/06/10/608827fe-aa73-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html

* "‘Disgusted’: Sen. Duckworth on unanswered questions about D.C. protest chain of command:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disgusted-sen-duckworth-on-unanswered-questions-about-d-c-protest-chain-of-command-84801605943

* "‘Ugh’: Republicans cringe after Trump's attack on 75-year-old protester:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/republicans-deflect-questions-after-trump-tweet-75-year-old-protester-309075

* "McEnany says Trump's baseless Buffalo protester tweet raised "questions that need to be asked":" https://www.axios.com/mcenany-trump-buffalo-protester-tweet-questions-asked-0cd06fc4-cf4f-4bbc-acf4-edfc6856cbe8.html

* The Fuck!?!?! "The Police Report on the Killing of Breonna Taylor Is Almost Entirely Blank:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/police-report-for-killing-of-breonna-taylor-is-nearly-blank.html

* "Police reform wasted without corresponding accountability:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/police-reform-wasted-without-corresponding-accountability-84809797754

* "Panel Discussion on Radical Police Reform:" http://www.cc.com/episodes/te9mhf/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-june-9--2020---panel-discussion-on-radical-police-reform-season-25-ep-25113

* "D.C. toughens officer hiring and discipline, as wave of police reform sweeps the U.S.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-police-reform/2020/06/09/c77ae6b0-aa49-11ea-a9d9-a81c1a491c52_story.html

* "Denver police ban chokeholds, require officers to report when they point gun at someone:" https://www.denverpost.com/2020/06/07/denver-police-ban-chokeholds/

* "New York lawmakers pass anti-chokehold bill named for Eric Garner:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-lawmakers-pass-anti-chokehold-bill-named-for-eric-garner-2020-06-08/

* "Federal judge orders partial ban on tear gas in Portland:" https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/469724-380220-federal-judge-orders-partial-ban-on-tear-gas-in-portland

* "The judge approved a restraining order against the Minneapolis police:" https://pressinsiderdaily.com/2020/06/the-judge-approved-a-restraining-order-against-the-minneapolis-police/

* "Minneapolis police department pulls out of union contract negotiations:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/minneapolis-police-department-withdraws-from-union-contract-negotiations

* "Legislating Healing and Justice with Ayanna Pressley :"

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* "‘Lightning striking’: The swift shift of public in favor of Black Lives Matter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-lightning-striking-the-swift-shift-of-public-in-favor-of-black-lives-matter-84854853741

* "‘Welcome to Free Capitol Hill’ — Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone forms around emptied East Precinct:" https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2020/06/welcome-to-free-capitol-hill-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-forms-around-emptied-east-precinct/

* "KY Senate candidate: Mitch McConnell 'couldn’t care less if we die':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ky-senate-candidate-mitch-mcconnell-couldn-t-care-less-if-we-die-84701765960

* Wouldn't it be easier to get people to do that if they stop behaving like Animals and Thugs? "N.Y. Police Boss: 'Stop Treating Us Like Animals and Thugs':" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/6/09/ny-police-boss-stop-treating-us-animals-and-thugs

* "Trump Campaign Aide Shared Praise for Racist With Chainsaw Who Assaulted Protesters:" https://theintercept.com/2020/06/06/trump-campaign-aide-shared-praise-racist-chainsaw-assaulted-protesters/

* "The Black Lives Matter movement must do more for murdered Black trans women, says leading LGBT+ group:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/09/black-trans-women-murder-lives-matter-movement-hrc-tony-mcdade-iyanna-dior-america-protests/

* "Adam Rippon Donates to Black Trans Cause in Anti-LGBTQ+ Skater's Name:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2020/6/09/adam-rippon-gives-1k-black-trans-charity-homophobes-name

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* "Anti-Asian Racism Is No Match for LGBTQ+ Activist Amazin LeThi:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/6/11/anti-asian-racism-no-match-lgbtq-activist-amazin-lethi

* TW: Sexual Assault, Torture. "Saudi authorities beat blogger, subject him to anal exam and demand he 'confess' being gay – all for supporting LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/10/saudia-arabia-mohamad-al-bokari-blogger-anal-exam-torture-lgbt-human-rights-watch/

* "This Japanese Region Just Made Outing LGBTQ+ People Illegal:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/6/09/japanese-region-first-make-outing-queer-people-illegal

* "Pose star Indya Moore says JK Rowling 'doesn't understand how much death and violence' are behind her 'stupid' opinions:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/11/pose-indya-moore-jk-rowling-trans-rights-dominque-jackson-mj-rodriguez/

* "54 Health Organizations: White Supremacy Fuels Black, Latinx HIV Rates:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/opinion/2020/6/08/54-health-organizations-white-supremacy-fuels-black-latinx-hiv-rates

* "The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name, Of A Beetle For A Beer Bottle:" https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/the-love-that-dared-not-speak-its-name-of-a-beetle-for-a-beer-bottle?fbclid=IwAR3-RKvCTBUrNIUjU82RLYsI2v4XWPl51HNheKd1GBu8IkH-NrqE0cezs-0

* "China removes pangolin scales from traditional medicine list:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/asia/china-pangolin-protection-medicine-intl-hnk/index.html

* "The Cherokee Chefs Bringing Back North America’s Lost Cuisine:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-was-native-american-food-like-before-europeans

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

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* "America’s Long-Standing Tradition of Police Brutality:"

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* "It’s Time to Defund the Police:"

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* ""Cops" Gets Canceled, HBO Max Pulls "Gone with the Wind" & Updated Racism Definition:"

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* He’s legitimately one of the best Juliets I’ve ever seen. "You Made Me Love You - Matt Doyle:"

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* There's no fighting it. The battery is no good. He used the external charger and it seemed fine, until I tried to start it a second time and it was fully drained. I am pretty sure we replaced it a couple of years ago, but here we are.

Wednesday I had to stay up for some phone bureaucracy. Thursda I need to stay up for the mechanic and to all the HOA because they senta form letter complaint about the patio garden. As it's the same stuff that hasn't bothered them for years and I'm following the rules, I don't know what they want us to change, which means live humans on the phone in their shitty short business hours. Plus food shipment may be coming.

I'm so tired.

On the upside, the food card came.

Update: They are having construction, but it's half the price of the other option and I hardly ever leave the house, so we're dropping it off for Monday. I'd already paid first bill, but not second. The other option is twice as expensive and this is an ancient car and I am poor.

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

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

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/619601461925625856

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

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

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

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Charles Booker: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-cb-dd-google?refcode=ads-dd-google-20200602-ad02&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq6SGian06QIVkxatBh0bFQVPEAAYASAAEgIjnPD_BwE

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

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
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* "Why Germany’s far-right AfD is blamed over racist violence:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51588602

* "IS supporter admits St Paul's bomb plot:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-51583815

* "Coronavirus spikes outside China show travel bans aren’t working:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/why-travel-restrictions-are-not-stopping-coronavirus-covid-19/

* "CDC has confirmed 35 cases of novel coronavirus in the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/21/health/cdc-coronavirus-update/index.html

* "U.S. Stocks Plunge as Coronavirus Crisis Spreads:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/business/stock-market-coronavirus.html

* "White House fears coronavirus could shape Trump's 2020 fortunes:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/21/coronavirus-trump-white-house-116650

* 45 made no mention of Kashmir. "India rolls out the MAGA carpet for Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/24/donald-trump-india-spectacle-117112

* How does he not know what that song was about? I was a kid when this came out and I knew what it was about. "Donald Trump arrived at a rally to the Village People’s Macho Man, to the confusion of pretty much everyone:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/24/donald-trump-village-people-macho-man-india-ahmedabad-rally/

* "Trump’s New Spy Chief Used to Work for a Foreign Politician the U.S. Accused of Corruption:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-new-spy-chief-used-to-work-for-a-foreign-politician-the-us-accused-of-corruption

* Meanwhile, in Autocracy news, the purges continue. "Trump wants fewer people on his team -- but more loyalists:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/24/politics/trump-administration-purge/index.html

* In yet more Autocracy news.... "Trump reportedly calls John Bolton a 'traitor' and wants to block his book:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/22/trump-john-bolton-traitor-book-marie-yovanovitch

* "Trump engaged in 'jury tampering on a mass, national scale':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-engaged-in-jury-tampering-on-a-mass-national-scale-79377989891

* "Trump, Barr imposition sets D.C. federal prosecutors on edge:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-barr-imposition-sets-d-c-federal-prosecutors-on-edge-79379013795

* "Dueling Narratives Emerge From Muddied Account of Russia’s 2020 Interference:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/us/politics/russia-2020-election-interference.html

* "Right-wing pundit Glenn Beck says Pete Buttigieg can’t cite the Bible because it supports the ‘stoning of homosexuals’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/23/right-wing-pundit-says-pete-buttigieg-bible-because-stoning-homosexuals/

* So Bloomburg is adding homophobia to his resume of racism, transphobia, sexism, and lying about the causes of the W. Bush financial crash. Fuck off Dino! "Bloomberg Campaign Tweets About Sanders Lusting After Putin:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/2/24/bloomberg-campaign-tweets-about-sanders-lusting-after-putin

* "Democratic Super PAC set to air new anti-Trump ads in key states:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democratic-super-pac-set-to-air-new-anti-trump-ads-in-key-states-79380037672

* TW: Rape. "Harvey Weinstein Convicted on Charges of Rape, Sexual Assault:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/2/24/harvey-weinstein-convicted-charges-rape-sexual-assault

* "No Scottish police officers have been trained to tackle LGBT hate crime in four years despite being a ‘priority’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/23/police-scotland-lgbt-hate-crime-equality-network-training-daily-record/

* "Government refuses to deny plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act have been scrapped:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/24/gender-recognition-act-gra-reform-government-equalities-office-transgender-theresa-may/

This sure looks like helping, not harming children to me, but the Tories insist outing them is better for them:

"Campaigners are calling for 16- and 17-year-olds to be able to access this process, so that trans teenagers do not gain school certificates and other documents in a name and gender that they will then have to use to apply for university. Lowering the age limit to 16 would protect these trans youth’s privacy – but it is merely an administrative change."

* "Effigy of Gay Couple With Child Burned at European Carnival:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/2/24/effigy-gay-couple-child-burned-european-carnival

* "SCOTUS to Decide Whether Foster Agencies Can Reject LGBTQ Parents:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/2/24/scotus-decide-whether-foster-agencies-can-reject-lgbtq-parents

* TW: Sexual Assault "Man details alleged sexual abuse by university doctor who treated ‘all the gay men’ 50 years ago:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/21/sexual-abuse-university-michigan-doctor-gay-men-robert-anderson/

* "Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For 'Hidden Figures,' Dies:" https://www.npr.org/2020/02/24/517784975/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-and-an-inspiration-for-hidden-figures-dies?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20200224

* "'I hated my homophobic stepdad, then he came out':" https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51566445

* "Frederick Koch, Subject of Brothers' Antigay Blackmail Plot, Has Died:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/2/13/frederick-koch-subject-brothers-antigay-blackmail-plot-has-died

* Thanks to a benefactor, we had enough money not only to reup my car registration for the year, but to pay the half tax on the apartment, which means our housing is safe for another six months. I sorted that out after forage today.

The weather's been early springish for about a week and I leave to window open a couple of hours in the afternoon so the wee beasties can enjoy it before the chill sets in. Elder Kitty really is warming up to Baby Girl, which is huge relief to Baby Girl who just wants to make friends and hang out peacefully as a clowder.

Get this. Livia was chilling on the sofa back, which this desk is pressed against. Elder Kitty went up on the desk on her way to the sofa nap spots and got within a foot of Livia. Instead of making a drama and chasing her off, she just went and napped on the left hand desk in that spot she likes. No hissing. No growling. No stress for Livia. Progress.

I am still living in renovation chaos, but it is helpful that the end really is in sight, and it is stupidly exciting that for the first time in my life, all the plumbing and appliances in he place I am living work and are in good shape. I am stupidly delighted every time I use the patio door handle and it remains sturdy and not broken.

Alas, more bureaucracy came in to day. It is lucky I still had another bureaucracy thing on my to do list and hadn’t disassembled the back pack ‘o bureaucracy stuff. It’s not quite as bad as end of the year bureaucracy, but is multi-stage and essential. I managed stage one, but I’m going to need to fine tooth it with the documentation assemblage, then make MORE copies of things, and, and... sigh.

* Humans and Aliens: Give a human a Screwdriver: https://thewightknight.tumblr.com/post/610891457213186048/gabriel-wolfe-wordsmith-callmebliss

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

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

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

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

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

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

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

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
gwydion: (Default)
* "‘Armageddon Is Here’: Australian Readers Share Their Wildfire Experiences:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/world/australia/fires-readers-escape.html

Australia is on fire. Want to help? https://www.abc.net.au/classic/read-and-watch/news/bushfire-donations/11823676

* "These American firefighters are heading to Australia to help battle the flames:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/us/california-firefighters-australia/index.html

* "Almost 2,000 homes destroyed in Australian fires:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51015536

* "Indian towns and cities grind to halt as workers stage 24-hour strike:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/08/india-towns-and-cities-grind-to-halt-as-workers-stage-24-hour-strike

* "Students In India Protest After University Attacked By Masked Assailants:" https://www.npr.org/2020/01/06/793906627/students-in-india-protest-after-university-attacked-by-masked-assailants

* "President of Taiwan, who helped legalise same-sex marriage, hit with wave of homophobic fake news ahead of election:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/07/taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-homophobic-fake-news-election-same-sex-marriage/

* "French strikes: Macron government enters crucial week of talks with unions:" https://www.france24.com/en/20200106-french-strikes-macron-government-prepares-for-week-of-crucial-talks-with-unions

* "Jakarta floods: recovery effort begins as city counts cost of worst deluge in a decade:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/06/jakarta-floods-indonesia-recovery-effort-begins-as-city-counts-cost-of-worst-deluge-in-a-decade

* "Crashed Iran plane 'tried to return to airport':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51044996

* "Plane crash in Iran shows signs of more than mechanical failure:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/plane-crash-in-iran-shows-signs-of-more-than-mechanical-failure-76319301598

* "Germany cuts troop numbers in Iraq after Suleimani killing:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/07/germany-cuts-troop-numbers-in-iraq-after-suleimani-killing

* "‘Launch, launch, launch’: Inside the Trump administration as the Iranian missiles began to fall:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-officials-knew-iranian-missiles-were-coming-hours-in-advance/2020/01/08/b6297b4c-3235-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html

* "More than a dozen missiles hit two bases in Iraq, Pentagon says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-live-updates/2020/01/07/896c70a2-30d5-11ea-9313-6cba89b1b9fb_story.html

* "Pelosi Announces Vote to Limit Trump’s War-Making Power Against Iran:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/us/politics/nancy-pelosi-trump-iran.html

* "U.S. House committee sets Iran hearing, invites Pompeo:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress-hearing-idUSKBN1Z62Q6

* So there was no evidence of an imminent threat and they couldn’t get their story straight. "Congress unimpressed by Trump admin explanation for Iran attack:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/congress-unimpressed-by-trump-admin-explanation-for-iran-attack-76318277991

* "Chris Hayes on the status of crisis in the Middle East post-attack:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-status-of-crisis-in-the-middle-east-post-attack-76312645924

* "‘Same lies I heard 20 years ago:’ Sherrod Brown on White House military briefing:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-same-lies-i-heard-20-years-ago-sherrod-brown-on-white-house-military-briefing-76314693916

* "Chris Hayes on the role of Trump's bagman in the Iran crisis:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-role-of-trump-s-bagman-in-the-iran-crisis-76317253662

* It must be huge. "Mnuchin seeks delay of proposed disclosure of Secret Service spending on presidential travel until after election:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mnuchin-seeks-delay-of-proposed-disclosure-of-secret-service-spending-on-presidential-travel-until-next-year/2020/01/08/8769ea28-30da-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html

* "Trump to drop $10 million on Super Bowl ad:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/07/donald-trump-10-million-dollar-super-bowl-ad-095623

* "If Trump Is Reelected What Will We Do?:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/1/08/if-trump-reelected-what-will-we-do

* "Growing body of impeachment evidence adds pressure on Senate GOP:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/growing-body-of-impeachment-evidence-adds-pressure-on-senate-gop-76319301789

* "'Apprentice' contestant's lawsuit against Trump goes to top New York court:" https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-zervos/apprentice-contestants-lawsuit-against-trump-goes-to-top-new-york-court-idUSL1N29C1AP

* "Amy Klobuchar Under Fire for Vote Confirming Anti-LGBTQ Judge:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/1/08/amy-klobuchar-under-fire-vote-confirming-anti-lgbtq-judge

"Stras’s record was so bad that Lambda Legal urged senators to vote against his confirmation. “Justice Stras’s record raises serious concerns about his willingness to adhere to the Supreme Court’s landmark LGBT rights decisions,” reads a letter Lambda Legal submitted to the Senate."

* TW: Sexual Assault. "Ronan Farrow - "Catch and Kill" and Accountability for Harvey Weinstein - Extended Interview:"

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* TW: Rape. "Harvey Weinstein's attorneys want judge off rape case over texting jabs:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/harvey-weinstein-s-lawyers-want-judge-rape-case-over-texting-n1112591

* TW: Rape. "Dad of ‘Britain’s most prolific rapist’ condemns his son saying he got what he deserved:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/08/dad-britians-worst-rapist-condemns-sons-crimes/

* "Gynaecology health charity drops ‘women’ from its name in trailblazing move to be more inclusive of trans and non-binary people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/08/gynaecology-health-charity-drops-women-name-trans-and-non-binary-people-cysters/

* "Poland opposition parties hit back at escalating homophobia by appointing gay candidate for presidential election:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/08/robert-biedron-gay-poland-left-coalition-homophobia-presidential-election-spring/

* "Queer men in Poland strip off to celebrate their sexuality and defy rising homophobia gripping the country:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/08/poland-queer-men-strip-elska-magazine-liam-campbell/

* "School reaches ‘amicable resolution’ with teacher who claims religion requires him to misgender trans kids:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/08/teacher-religion-christianity-misgendering-trans-kids/

* "Man ‘plotted terror attack on Pride in London parade’, court hears:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/08/terror-attack-pride-in-london-parade-mohiussunnath-chowdhury-woolwich-crown-court/

* "More than 13,500 trans and non-binary adults are on gender clinic waiting lists: ‘Life is pretty much hell’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/09/gender-identity-clinic-england-waiting-list-transgender-non-binary-nhs/

* "Lord Maginnis, who compared being gay to bestiality, claims MP reported his ‘abusive’ behaviour because she’s ‘queer’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/09/lord-maginnis-homosexuality-bestiality-abusive-behaviour-queer-hannah-bardell-snp/

* "‘Gender critical’ academic claims she was personally victimised by transgender flags put up to protest Donald Trump:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/07/kathleen-stock-gender-critical-transgender-pride-flag-university-sussex-donald-trump/

* "Non-binary activist Jamie Windust makes emphatic call for cis people to start showing up for the trans community:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/07/jamie-windust-ted-talk-non-binary-transgender-support-urgent-not-radical/

* "Man arrested for mailing fake anthrax to gay bar that kicked him out and wishing staff would ‘die of AIDS’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/07/gay-bar-anthrax-arrested-nowhere-ameen-keshavjee/

* "Transgender teen sues state of New York for refusing to let him correct his birth certificate:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/08/transgender-teen-lawsuit-state-of-new-york-birth-certificate/

* "Michigan Activists Prep Ballot Initiative for LGBTQ Protections:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/1/08/michigan-activists-prep-ballot-initiative-lgbtq-protections

* "Gay newlywed dies in hospital after clashing with bouncer at ‘LGBT-friendly’ bar:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/09/christopher-mckinney-death-gay-newlywed-nowhere-bar-louisville-kentucky/

* I keep poking at why I felt the way I did about those Buck Henry SNL sketches. TW Pedophilia: )

I think seeing it externalized like that, portrayed as creepy as it felt, helped me in my resistance. I have no idea how I'd rect to them now. They don't air those old episodes any more, so I likely last saw them at some point in my teens. I do know that it stayed with me, those images you'd never see on a modern TV.

* "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Step Back, Harvey Weinstein Texts in Court & A Parrot Causes a Panic:"

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* "War in the Middle East: This Time It's Persianal:"

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* "New Laws, Who Dis?:"

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* "President Trump: "I Like To Obey The Law":"

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* "John Bolton, Who Objected To Trump's Ukraine "Drug Deal," Says He Would Testify:"

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* If you are interested in helping with Livia's recovery, right now the Cat things we need are:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

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

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

Alternately: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* Vikings: Well, Bjorn never was too bright, was he. Still it was good seeing Lagertha be Lagertha one last time.

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

* Australia is on fire. Want to help? https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/190151259088
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/read-and-watch/news/bushfire-donations/11823676
Help Thirsty Koalas Devastated by Recent Fires: https://au.gofundme.com/f/help-thirsty-koalas-devastated-by-recent-fires
Mogo Zoo Fire Recovery: https://au.gofundme.com/f/mogo-zoo-fire-recovery
WIRES-Emergency Fund for Wildlife: https://www.facebook.com/donate/1386120504919105/10158318179549750/
Victorian Bushfire Appeal: https://www.vic.gov.au/bushfireappeal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
gwydion: (Default)
* "What you need to know about Australia's deadly wildfires:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/australia/australia-fires-explainer-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

* "State of emergency declared as Australia bushfires rage:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/02/australia/australia-fire-evacuation-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

* "Australia Fires Intensify: ‘It’s Going to Be a Blast Furnace’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/world/australia/fires.html

* "Three women suspected over deadly German zoo fire:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50971250

* "Senate staffer portrayed in ‘The Report’ responds to Pompeo:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/defense-secretary-says-iran-and-its-proxies-may-be-planning-fresh-attacks-on-us-personnel-in-iraq/2020/01/02/53b63f00-2d89-11ea-bcb3-ac6482c4a92f_story.html

* "Pentagon confirms 'decisive action to kill' top Iran general Soleimani:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pentagon-confirms-decisive-action-to-kill-top-iran-general-soleimani-75990085999

* "US strike on Suleimani 'extremely significant escalation' in US-Iran tensions:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/us-strike-on-suleimani-extremely-significant-escalation-in-us-iran-tensions-75990597796

* "McGurk on US strike on Suleimani: 'We need to presume that we are now in a state of war with Iran':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mcgurk-on-us-strike-on-soleimani-we-need-to-presume-that-we-are-now-in-a-state-of-war-with-iran-75992134002

* "Who was Qassem Suleimani?:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/who-was-qassem-suleimani-75994693527

* "New unredacted emails contain ‘clear direction from POTUS to hold:' report:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/unredacted-emails-contain-clear-direction-from-potus-to-hold-report-75988549672

* "Senate staffer portrayed in ‘The Report’ responds to Pompeo:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/senate-staffer-portrayed-in-the-report-responds-to-pompeo-75991109537

* "Castro allies lash out after his exit:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/02/castro-democratic-primary-093079

* "Julián Castro, LGBTQ Ally & Only Latino in Race, Ends Presidential Run:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/1/02/julian-castro-lgbtq-ally-only-latino-race-ends-presidential-run

* "Castro on dropping 2020 bid: 'I ran a bold campaign. I never compromised':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/castro-on-dropping-2020-bid-i-ran-a-bold-campaign-i-didn-t-compromise-75992133586

* "Castro: Caucus and presidential nomination process needs to change:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/castro-caucus-and-presidential-nomination-process-needs-to-change-75992133612

* "Trump Is Readying Some Kind Of Homeless Crackdown:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-homelessness-robert-marbut_n_5dfd3286e4b0b2520d0b0d25

* "Top UN official says there’s been a human rights ‘backlash’ in the last decade:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/31/human-lgbt-womens-reproductive-rights-backlash-un-official-2010s-decade-andrew-gilmour-putin/

* "The biggest wins for LGBT+ rights in the 2010s – and all the battles yet to be won:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/01/biggest-wins-lgbt-rights-2010s-all-battles-yet-won/

* "Colombia’s first lesbian mayor promises to end racism and xenophobia as she makes history by taking office:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/02/columbian-capital-first-lesbian-mayor-claudia-lopez-eradicate-racism-xenophobia/

* "Anti-LGBT Christian group threatens legal action over equal marriage in Northern Ireland:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/02/christian-institute-same-sex-marriage-norther-ireland-legal-action-anti-lgbt/

* "Man flogged 14 times in one day as ‘conversion therapy’ for being gay in Nigeria:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/31/nigeria-flogged-gay-conversion-therapy-same-sex-marriage-prohibition-act-goodluck-jonathan/

* "White evangelicals are terrified that liberals want to extinguish their rights:" https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/12/white-evangelicals-are-terrified-that-liberals-want-to-extinguish-their-rights/

* "Hair stylist Kevin Bacon murdered on Christmas Eve after meeting man on Grindr:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/01/hair-stylist-kevin-bacon-murdered-christmas-eve-killer-met-grindr/

* TW: Sexual Assault, Suicide. "Kevin Spacey sexual assault lawsuit dismissed after death of accuser:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/01/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-lawsuit-dismissed-death-accuser/

* Damn. "Number 1- Rest In Power Dustin Parker:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/01/number-1-rest-in-power-dustin-parker.html

* This is a really bad one too. "Gay man beaten to death in front of husband by gang on Christmas Day morning:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/02/gay-man-beaten-death-husband-christmas-day/

* "White Evangelicals More Likely to Support LGBTQ Discrimination:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2020/1/02/white-evangelicals-more-likely-support-lgbtq-discrimination

* "Fatal Shooting of D.C. Transgender Woman Under Investigation:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/1/02/fatal-shooting-dc-transgender-woman-under-investigation

* "Palau is first country to ban 'toxic' sun cream:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50963080

* "Mummers 2020 Fancy Brigade 01 Golden Crown:"

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* "Mummers 2020 Fancy Brigade 05 Avenuers:"

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* "Mummers 2020 Fancy Brigade 11 Spartans:"

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* Thursday I did paper bureaucracy. Now to get it together to do the in person portion.

* Mummer's Thoughts, pt. 3: Fancy Brigade Edition

Golden Crown: I really liked Golden Crown's Pirate/sea theme. Well rounded, well executed. Very mummery in the best sense.

Downtowners: The Owl back piece in the Downtowners was possibly the cleverest use of a back piece I've seen in one of these in years. Their prop use was excellent, but I think they were too reliant on their screen to the point that it wasn't sufficiently immersive.

Vikings: The use of the big and little screens were clever, but I think the results were to stark in practice in the modern art section. The Paint it Black concept was clever, but I wasn't sure what the second and forth sections were trying to convey.

Shooting Stars: I have concerns about the whole Portrayal of North Africans and Ancient Egyptian Religion Thing, but damned if they didn't make excellent use of both screes and large props to create something really impressive.

Avenuers: Excellent use of Poe as a mood setter and the costumes were unusual, while still Mummery.

Clevermore: Impressive use of set and moving backdrops/large props. The costumes were interesting, but not very mummer. Frankly the club felt small, despite the obvious effort they put into building things.

Satin Slipper: White People portraying indigenous people worshiping a big scary statue like it's the 1950's in Hollywood. *facepalm* Well executed, but...is that red face or just the lighting? Whatever it is? Nope. Nope nope nope. White people should not be doing a faux haka. It's not respectful. None of this is. And they came in second with it.

2nd St Shooters: Why O Fortuna in a Venice theme, I wonder? And the tonal change was jarring between the opener and the second and then third musical pieces. Visually lovely and lots of love for the big beautiful Harley Quinn they had pole dancing. One of the things I love about the Mummers is they cast for who can do the job, not for body type and this group had a lot of plus sized dancers of various genders doing an excellent job. Seriously, I'd have liked this a lot with better musical choices, because everything else was fine.

Jokers: I really liked their sets/large prop choices. Puppets/marionettes is a good classic Mummer theme, and the costumes were good. I think I saw a lot better dancing in some of the others, but they seemed to choreograph well for their level.

Saturnalian: An African theme. *head desk* Did anyone learn anything from last year at all? Anything at all? They did not, except they decided not to do full on black face this time. *bangs head on desk* Again, excellent production values, but I wish they'd invested them in something not racist. And they won with it, which just encourages them to keep doing it.

Spartans: Way to lean into their name. Okay, I have not seen a back piece like that in AGES. Props on committing all the way on that and learning to move in it. It amuses me that the subtext here is all of Zeus' monster babies are coming to Olympus to over through Daddy. Seriously, this whole thing is classic fancy brigade and I'm loving it. It's a well rounded performance with some of everything makes fancy brigades fun.

Purple Magic: Oh hell no. nopenopenope.

I've noticed more PoC in the comics section of the parade has really helped on the lets stop doing egregiously racist stuff front. Ball's in your court string bands and fancy brigades. Time to step the fuck up on recruiting and diversifying.

* "13 Great Books That Show There’s Power in (Dis)ability:" https://www.advocate.com/books/2020/1/02/13-great-books-show-theres-power-disability

* "These LGBTQ Books Tackle Mental Health, Abuse, and Grief:" https://www.advocate.com/books/2020/1/01/these-lgbtq-books-tackle-mental-health-abuse-and-grief

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
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* "How murder, kidnappings and a miscalculation set off Hong Kong revolt:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/hongkong-protests-extradition-narrative/

* "Ethiopia's surveillance network crumbles, meaning less fear and less control:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-politics-surveillance-insigh/ethiopias-surveillance-network-crumbles-meaning-less-fear-and-less-control-idUSKBN1YL1C2

* "Here's what happens when you quit the Chinese military:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/15/asia/china-military-recruit-quit-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

* "A Surveillance Net Blankets China’s Cities, Giving Police Vast Powers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/technology/china-surveillance.html

* "My family are among those protesting. It shows how much Indians value secularism:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/28/indians-protesting-secularism-modi-muslims

* "India’s Prime Minister facing severe backlash over anti-Muslim citizenship law:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/india-s-prime-minister-facing-severe-backlash-over-anti-muslim-citizenship-law-75733573718

* "Netanyahu: Requesting immunity from prosecution isn't avoiding trial:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-netanyahu-even-if-i-request-immunity-from-prosecution-i-wouldn-t-be-avoiding-trial-1.8323732

* "At Japan’s Most Elite University, Just 1 in 5 Students Is a Woman:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/world/asia/tokyo-university-women-japan.html

* "Australia bushfire volunteers to get compensation:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50932729

* "U.S. considers cyber-retaliation against 2020 Russian intrusion:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-considers-cyber-retaliation-against-2020-russian-intrusion-75736133911

* 45 called the troops to rub it in that they are in a war zone for Christmas while he's playing at his golf club in Florida.

* "Trump gets back to 'work' at golf club resort:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-gets-back-to-work-at-golf-club-resort-75739717520

* "Fellow Navy SEALs call Edward Gallagher "toxic" and "evil" in never-before-seen interviews:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/edward-gallagher-members-of-navy-seal-team-7-say-chief-committed-war-crimes-in-interviews-with-investigators/

* "Shocking testimony about SEAL pardoned by Trump leaked to NYT:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/shocking-testimony-about-seal-pardoned-by-trump-leaked-to-nyt-75777093830

* "‘The guy was toxic:’ Navy SEALs called out accused war criminal, new video reveals:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-guy-was-toxic-navy-seals-spoke-against-accused-war-criminal-new-video-reveals-75775557598

* "Evangelicals and Trump: Facing a final split?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-evangelicals-split-discussed-by-rev-dr-william-barber-75799109704

* "Former Sen. on McConnell: Trial approach ‘fundamentally wrong’:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-touts-the-economy-amid-his-impeachment-but-will-voters-75794501996

* "Are Republicans afraid of Trump? Hell, no — he's destroying democracy and they love it:" https://www.salon.com/2019/12/17/are-republicans-afraid-of-trump-hell-no-hes-destroying-democracy-and-they-love-it/

* "Moderate GOP senator 'disturbed' by McConnell's coordination with White House:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/25/politics/lisa-murkowski-senate-impeachment-trial/index.html

* "Chris Hayes on Mitch McConnell’s ‘big tactical error’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-mitch-mcconnell-s-big-tactical-error-75735109830

* "Can some senators be swayed to support Trump impeachment trial?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/mcconnell-vows-total-coordination-with-white-house-on-trump-trial-75794501711

* "Trump bullying, scapegoating is decimating U.S. foreign service:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-bullying-scapegoating-is-decimating-u-s-foreign-service-75733573937

* "Democratic primary could come down to Biden, Sanders:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/biden-sanders-lead-2020-democratic-presidential-contenders-75797061924

* "Andrew Yang on his place in the Democratic Party:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/andrew-yang-on-his-place-in-the-democratic-party-75775557744

* "Andrew Yang explains his healthcare plan:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/andrew-yang-explains-his-healthcare-plan-75775557755

* "Chicago shooting incidents down sharply:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chicago-shooting-incidents-down-sharply-75775045795

* "Early reports warned migrant kids suffered from separations. Trump ramped up practice anyway.:" https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/immigration/migrant-children-family-separations/

* "A tale of 2 migrations: Before and after new Trump policies:" https://apnews.com/2a272a9a517747ab37777999e2ff5749

* "Texans on southern border promise to fight Trump’s efforts to take their homes for border wall:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/texans-on-southern-border-vow-to-fight-trumps-efforts-to-take-their-homes-for-border-wall/2019/12/06/ef7c1fa8-1525-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?arc404=true

* "Texas landowners fear losing property to Trump’s border wall:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-administration-to-take-private-land-for-border-wall-75798597771

* "‘It is beyond cruel’: Ice refuses to reunite girl with the only family she has left:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/21/it-is-beyond-cruel-ice-refuses-to-reunite-girl-with-the-only-family-she-has-left

* "Immigration judges quit in response to administration policies:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/27/politics/immigration-judges-resign/index.html

* "Houses of worship attacked with deadly frequency in 2019:" https://apnews.com/bab315d2e6851d2c118b838e0b1d1382

* "When A Prisoner Returns Home With A Brain Injury, Freedom Isn't So Free:" https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/788824775/when-a-prisoner-returns-home-with-a-brain-injury-freedom-isnt-so-free

* "‘We are sending more foster kids to prison than college’:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238206754.html

* TW: Pedophilia. He pardoned a man who repeatedly raped two girls under the age of ten because he doesn't believe in science and like most republican politicians doesn't consider pedophilia a real crime unless it's extremely violent. "Former Kentucky Gov. Bevin pardoned a child rapist. One of his reasons: The 9-year-old victim's hymen was intact:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/us/former-kentucky-governor-matt-bevin-child-rapist-pardon-trnd/index.html

* "FBI looking into pardons by ex-Kentucky Gov. Bevin: report:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fbi-looking-into-pardons-by-ex-kentucky-gov-bevin-report-75734085960

* "The film about gay love shaking up Georgia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50821544

* TW: Sexual Assault "Study finds homophobic teasing is the most common ‘violent behaviour’ among teenage boys:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/27/study-finds-homophobic-teasing-is-the-most-common-violent-behaviour-among-teenage-boys/

* "More than 150 people have sought compensation from UK military after being fired for their sexuality:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/27/more-than-150-people-have-sought-compensation-from-uk-military-after-being-fired-for-their-sexuality/

* "We regret to inform you that there is a person who thinks eating meat-free burgers ‘will make you female’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/29/burger-king-impossible-whopper-plant-trans/

* "Why LGBTQ People Should Vote in Their Home State:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2019/12/27/why-lgbtq-people-should-vote-their-home-state

* "This White House official took a free trip to an anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ summit:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/27/white-house-official-free-trip-anti-lgbt-hate-group-summit-donald-trump-jennifer-lichter-alliance-defending-freedom/

* "‘Straight’ men discuss their secret sexual relationships with other men:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/25/straight-men-discuss-secret-sexual-relationships-with-other-men/

* TW: Hate Speech "This homophobic pastor would rather smear s**t over himself than see his son marry a man:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/25/homophobic-pastor-smear-st-son-marry-man-gay-kevin-swanson/

* "Trans kids are as sure of their gender as cis kids at a young age, according to science:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/27/transgender-children-study-gender-identity-cis-children-washington-university/

* "Gay couple beaten and one left in a concussion by gang of men for holding hands:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/29/gay-couple-hands-taco-truck-beaten-gang-pasco-washington/

* CW: Pictures of snakes. "How to save a country from snakebite:" https://mosaicscience.com/story/snakebite-venom-indonesia-viper-cobra-bite-poison-snake/

* "One Million Cannibal Ants Trapped in Soviet Nuclear Bunker Have Escaped:" https://www.newsweek.com/cannibal-ants-soviet-nuclear-bunker-1469573?amp=1

* "The climate-change secrets of 19th century ship's logbooks:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-ice-shiplogs-specialre/special-report-icebound-the-climate-change-secrets-of-19th-century-ships-logbooks-idUSKBN1YF1Q7

* "The Tweety Bird Test :" https://daily.jstor.org/the-tweety-bird-test/

* "Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network:" https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-documents-show-how-amazon-chose-speed-over-safety-in-building-its-delivery-network

* "Alicia Keys Recaps 2019 w/ Her Piano:"

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* "Harry Styles Performs a Crosswalk Concert:"

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* Friday I spent more than n hour anda halfdealing with that thing where it feels like someone is poking me in the right eye, plus lots of extra AS trouble. The AS is really ramping up on me this Autumn/Winter. I made it out to forage anyway just in time and even found parking on the second pass. Problem was the line was very long and they moved the seating away in a key area so it was a whole lot of extra standing. By the time I was done my right foot was doing the little mermaid walking on knives thing and I could barely put weight on it.

I am forgetting the name of the diagnosis for the Little Mermaid foot thing. I know I had it bad the summer I was still working in the Public Library just before coming North for my advanced degree. It legitimately felt like my feet were broken that time. It mostly stopped being a problem after I retired because i no longer have to spend long hours on my feet, which is that causes the incidents. There is no cure, cure. There are techniques to help it along, but really, you just stay off them and keep them propped.

It had been so long I had mostly forgot this was a thing. I mostly focus on the constant and frequent intermittent pain sources.

I did the library run anyway and I hobbled around in extreme pain from the AS and the foot ganging up, trying to put away forage and deal with the inevitable messes that appear while I'm asleep. Feeding myself is a nightmare under these conditions, but forage was decent which helped. I'm still short on veg, but I have things I can make reasonably quickly around. I should probably make protein, but every second standing is a nightmare, so...makeshift foraged foods I can heat up in a couple minutes.

Tavy managed to blurp in the middle of my bed between me dropping off bedside water and coming back from brushing my teeth. Which meant stripping and changing the bed in the condition I was in. Oh gods the pain!

We did not migrate the fish today. It was probably just as well as the AS and foot thing are still tag team kicking my ass. Bonus headache on top of it was just icing, really.

I still haven't touched the bureaucracy and the clock is tic tic ticking away. Fuck! I simply couldn't bring myself to start under current conditions. I'm using all my will power up on things like the hobble to the bathroom.

I really need to medicine finger the Imperial couple, but catching them is a struggle on a good day. *facepalm*

* I am always behind on figure Skating. This is because the broadcast season starts in October when I am way too busy to spend much time on the sofa staring at the screen. That’s he reality I also like watching things in order, so instead of skipping ahead, I watch when I can.

A Figure Skating fter the Olympics, I decided I’d try watching pair skating again, which slowed me way down. It seems I still have an eye for it, which helped, and I identified some couples I liked, but I just couldn’t get that into it. Trying to watch made me further behind not only because I was adding an extra 4ish hours of taping for every event, but because I’d get bogged down and reluctant to watch even with me fast forwarding over routines that weren’t working for me and most of the fillers.

IDK, I may watch the big events like the grand Prix final I taped or World’s in the spring.

The result is I’m currently up to Men’s Free skates in the Russian Grand Prix event. (Seriously, no spoilers).

Someone needs to tell the people running cameras for this event and Cup of China that this is NOT Synchro. Look, I unironically love synchro (Go Marigold Ice Unity!), but they choreography is really different. In a synchro event, it totally makes sense to shoot from above sometimes to show what the patterns look like. You know were it 100% is the opposite of helpful? In single skating when the athlete is doing spins. Single skate spins look like nothing from the top. They are meant to be watched from the side. That’s how they look most beautiful and if you cut to the top you can’t see the position changes properly and that’s something people who are watching ice skating because they like watching ice skating are going to want to see, IE: the spin positions. Um, Duh! Who thought this was a good idea? Did they run it past anyone who’d seen ice skating before? It’s annoying and frustrating. I noticed they were doing it less in Russia, so lets hope it stops.

It was good to see Shoma Uno on an upward trajectory again. he really is one of the world’s best when his shit is together and that think in france absolutely made me weep for him. He’s still not together all the way, but he looks to be on the way.

Mostly I wanted to write about Nam Nguyen, who I never paid that much attention to before, but this year is starting to turn into a real Canadian style figure skater and I love it. He’s not where he needs to be yet, but he found the thing he was missing: his artistic voice. I actually guessed he’d been working with Kurt Browning before I heard them say it. He doesn’t skate like Kurt Browning, but the thing Browning was brilliant at besides technical excellence was speaking to the audience in his performances. There was always a lot of personality in his performances. The transformation is not as extreme as Jason Brown’s was last year, but it is of a similar type. Suddenly Mr. Nguyen skates like he’s enjoying it and he wants us to enjoy watching him. Suddenly there is something of himself in his skating. He’s still a little awkward and could use some dance training, but oh man, does he have a chance to be Amazing next year if he keeps at it. I very much hope he does, because I am interested in seeing what he can do.

I do have opinions about the three Russian teenagers doing quads on the women’s side, but I’m honestly trying to figure out how to explain them. I definitely have a favorite already, and one i don’t much care for based entirely on skating style, but explaining why is beyond me just now.

* "Are We Really Going to Pretend the Gay Kiss in The Rise of Skywalker Matters?:" https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/12/are-we-really-going-to-pretend-the-gay-kiss-in-the-rise-of-skywalker-matters

* Glorious deadpan nonsense: https://magnesiumflare.tumblr.com/post/189893626505/jenroses-facts-i-just-made-up-robo-libra

* Disturbing Neural Network Carols: https://aiweirdness.com/post/189845472982/the-ais-carol

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
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* TW: Torture "Former British consulate worker tells of torture by China over Hong Kong:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-protesters-police-enter-final-phase-of-showdown-as-china-slams-us/2019/11/19/6b571fb2-0b10-11ea-8054-289aef6e38a3_story.html

* "U.S. Senate passes HK rights bill backing protesters, angers Beijing:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-usa/us-senate-passes-hk-rights-bill-backing-protesters-angers-beijing-idUSKBN1XT2VR

* "U.S. breaks off talks with South Korea over costs of military alliance:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/us-breaks-off-talks-with-south-korea-over-costs-of-military-alliance/2019/11/19/949773d8-0a9b-11ea-8054-289aef6e38a3_story.html

* "Trump's pullout from Syria allowed ISIS to gain strength, intel agency reports:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/19/trump-syria-isis-071499

* "House moves to avert shutdown, but border wall fight dominates spending talks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/19/house-moves-to-avert-shutdown-but-border-wall-fight-lingers-071575

* "Bolton and Trump Met Privately Over Withheld Aid, White House Official Testified:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/us/politics/impeachment-trump.html

* "$35 million in Pentagon aid hasn't reached Ukraine, despite White House assurances:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-11-19/documents-show-nearly-40-million-in-ukraine-aid-delayed-despite-white-house-assurances

* "Ukrainian gas executive cooperating in US probe of Giuliani:" https://apnews.com/196b3007d9db4747b55f9019f0f9da91

* "Adam Schiff's opening statement at November 19 public impeachment hearing:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/politics/adam-schiff-opening-statement-impeachment-nov-19/index.html

* "Jennifer Williams' opening remarks at impeachment hearing:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/politics/jennifer-williams-opening-remarks-impeachment-hearing/index.html

* "Read Alexander Vindman's opening statement in the impeachment hearing:" https://www.axios.com/trump-impeachment-hearing-alexander-vindman-opening-statement-0de5fcec-7ffd-49e4-9359-05057958fd9f.html

* "7 takeaways from Tuesday’s impeachment hearings:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/19/early-takeaways-alexander-vindmans-jennifer-williamss-testimony/

* "'Improper' and 'unusual': White House aides criticize Trump's Ukraine call:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/19/trump-ukraine-scrutiny-officials-testimony-071395

* "Impeachment witness says Ukraine ‘gradually came to understand’ Trump’s desired investigation was tied to aid, meeting:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/impeachment-witness-says-ukraine-gradually-came-to-understand-trumps-desired-investigation-was-tied-to-aid-meeting/2019/11/18/b6dd2cc0-0a47-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html

* "Republican-requested impeachment witnesses do Trump no favors:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-requested-impeachment-witnesses-do-trump-no-favors-73731141640

* "Impeachment witnesses coalesce on core story of Trump wrongdoing:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/impeachment-witnesses-coalesce-on-core-story-of-trump-wrongdoing-73731141669

* "‘Devin Nunes has no credibility:’ Rep. Jeffries on GOP attacks at impeachment hearings:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-devin-nunes-has-no-credibility-rep-jeffries-on-gop-attacks-at-impeachment-hearings-73726533551

* "Pence was cautioned that Trump Ukraine scheme was boon to Russia:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pence-was-cautioned-that-trump-ukraine-scheme-was-boon-to-russia-73730629855

* "Public service, patriotism earns applause at impeachment hearings:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/public-service-patriotism-earns-applause-at-impeachment-hearings-73731141651

* "After White House meeting, Parnas said he was on a 'secret mission' for Trump in Ukraine:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/politics/parnas-trump-special-mission-ukraine/index.html

* "Supreme Court stops Trump financial documents from going to House on Wednesday:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/18/politics/trump-tax-documents-supreme-court/index.html

* TW: Sexual Assault "Judge denies Trump's request to dismiss Summer Zervos defamation case:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/politics/summer-zervos-trump-defamation-case/

* "Pete Buttigieg Slammed for 2010 Appearance at Tea Party Event:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/11/19/pete-buttigieg-slammed-2010-appearance-tea-party-event

* "The Brexit Party’s only Scottish MEP just quit over party’s selection of candidate who ‘declared war’ on LGBT community:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/19/brexit-party-louis-stedman-bryce-mep-scotland-resign-homophobia/

* "Brexit Party disown candidate who ‘declared war’ on LGBT community and wanted to bury ‘Christ-rejecting creatures’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/19/brexit-party-victor-farrell-candidate-glenrothes-disown-homophobia-general-election/

* "Tory general election candidate suspended after saying homosexuality isn’t ‘good for the human race’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/19/ryan-houghton-tory-general-election-candidate-suspended-homophobia-antisemitism/

* "Philippines senate president refers to Pride Month as one of the ‘seven deadly sins’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/20/vicente-sotto-philippines-pride-month-sin-rodrigo-duterte/

* "These Are the Trans People Killed in 2019:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/5/22/these-are-trans-people-killed-2019

* "20 Years Of TDOR's:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/11/20-years-of-tdors.html

* "American Medical Assoc.: Ban Conversion Therapy for Adults and Kids:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2019/11/19/american-medical-assoc-ban-conversion-therapy-adults-and-kids

* "Supporting Trans Youth Is Scientifically Good for Them:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/11/19/report-supporting-trans-youth-scientifically-good-them

* "Queer✨| Philosophy Tube:"

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* "Midwives, doulas could benefit births -- but not all women have access:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/16/health/midwives-doulas-every-mother-counts-wellness/index.html

* "Antibiotic resistant superbugs 'will kill 90,000 Britons by 2050':" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/07/antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-will-kill-90000-britons-by-2050

* "Mj Rodriguez & George Salazar: Suddenly Seymour:"

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* "Superbug Scare & Escalating Protests in Hong Kong:"

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* "Stephen Colbert: The Newest Zealander Visits PM Jacinda Ardern:"

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* "Lt. Col. Vindman Claps Back At Republicans During Impeachment Testimony:"

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* "Trump Holds Televised Cabinet Hearing While Volker And Morrison Testify:"

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* "Stephen Colbert Learns How To Act Like A Kiwi In Wellington, New Zealand:"

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* The cats are being sooooo labour intensive. Tavy peed in the middle of the sofa Monday night. We stayed up to get the car out of hock. When we got home, exhausted, someone had puked on my bed five times. luckily, Squirrel hadn't gone to bed quite, so I had help. we had to strip to the mattress and remake the thing. Tavy missed the box while I was asleep, then hit the sofa again while I was plating up my food. Three loads of laundry in like 24 hours. I've had to do so many this last week. The Imperial couple got the medicine finger and I've been watching the damned sofa like a hawk as I was out of clean and dry pee covers. I had to clean the bottom of the litter box even.

On the upside, the city received two bids for renovations, and they approved the project, so I am for real getting nearly everything fixed. I'm going to have properly working plumbing. I'll be able to stop worrying about the water heater. The doors are getting fixed. The dying microwave/hood and bathroom fans are going. The broken fake fireplace is leaving and i'm getting that space back.

It's going to be a nightmare moving and boxing up things to make renovation space, but it's going to be worth it. I love that I live in a city that invests in keeping elderly and disabled people in their homes.

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
gwydion: (Default)
* "The Photos of Wildfires Raging Across Australia Are Devastating:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/11/photos-fires-australia-devastation/

* "Rebecca Solnit: Life Under the First Thousand Days of Donald Trump:" https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-life-under-the-first-thousand-days-of-donald-trump/

"My fear now is that people are getting tired and worn out. I am a person who the very moment I’m on the threshold of arrival often feels like giving up or assumes I’m lost and checks the directions. I worry that people are fading out or growing defeatist as redemptive possibilities draw near. It is, after these thousand days that felt like a thousand years, sometimes hard to imagine a return to a moderately ethical administration headed by an intelligent, informed head of state who can read a multipage briefing statement and who won’t spew playground insults on social media. But impeachment proceedings are underway at last, and the betrayal of the Kurds seems to have peeled away some of the support of Republicans and even if the base is tripling down, a majority of Americans want the president impeached and removed, according to the latest Gallup poll. Whether the Trump era ends because we elect someone else in 2020 or because of impeachment or resignation to avoid impeachment a la Richard Nixon, the end is in sight. If we stick with it. We have 384 days to go until the next election, and what happens in those days is both utterly unpredictable and partly up to us."

* If they really cared about doing this, they would have done this instead of dramatic cuts for the rich. They are counting on people to be so gullible they fall for the bait and switch a second time in four years. "Trump advisers exploring tax proposal that would lower ‘middle class’ rate to 15 percent:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/12/trump-advisers-exploring-tax-proposal-that-would-lower-middle-class-rate-percent/

* "Trump Tells Crowd Ivanka Has Created 14 Million New Jobs:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trump-ivanka-created-14-million-jobs-lie.html

"Over 200 percent of all new jobs under Trump have been personally created by Ivanka. Impressive."

* "In private speech, Bolton suggested some of Trump's policy decisions are guided by personal interest:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/private-speech-bolton-suggests-some-trump-s-foreign-policy-decisions-n1080651

* "Key feature of Trump impeachment witness testimony: expertise:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/key-feature-of-trump-impeachment-witness-testimony-expertise-73374277596

* If he is too mentally incompetent to form even a simple plan as Republicans are claiming, why do they want him to be President? Because that sounds disqualifying. "Republicans to argue Trump's "state of mind" on Ukraine precludes impeachment:" https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-impeachment-republican-defense-ukraine-bb469517-6b6f-45f9-979e-b7758ccb1a69.html

* "Stone previewed WikiLeaks bounty to Trump campaign in April 2016:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/12/roger-stone-trial-wikileaks-069831

* "Trump political adviser's trial overlaps impeachment hearings:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-political-adviser-s-trial-overlaps-impeachment-hearings-73373765590

* "Testimony in Stone trial suggests Donald Trump lied to Mueller:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/testimony-in-stone-trial-suggests-donald-trump-lied-to-mueller-73374277614

* "Trump Has Considered Firing Intelligence Community Inspector General:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/politics/trump-michael-atkinson-inspector-general.html

* "Trump allies received hundreds of thousands of dollars under federal health contract:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/12/federal-health-funneled-dollars-trump-allies-069638

* "E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/climate/epa-science-trump.html

* "Sen. Amy Klobuchar On Her Duty As A Juror In A (Potential) Trump Impeachment Trial:"

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* "Sen. Amy Klobuchar Lists Her Progressive Policy Goals:"

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* "Out Dem Strategist: This Is How We Beat Trump Next Year:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/11/12/out-dem-strategist-how-we-beat-trump-next-year

* "Michael Bloomberg Brings Mixed LGBTQ Record to Presidential Run:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/11/11/michael-bloomberg-brings-mixed-lgbtq-record-presidential-run

* "Skeptics Urge Bevin To Show Proof Of Fraud Claims, Warning Of Corrosive Effects:" https://www.npr.org/2019/11/10/777300611/skeptics-urge-bevin-to-show-proof-of-fraud-claims-warning-of-corrosive-effects

* "Jimmy Carter Surgery: 'No Complications' In Bid To Relieve Pressure On His Brain:" https://www.npr.org/2019/11/12/778473111/jimmy-carter-to-have-surgery-to-relieve-pressure-on-his-brain

* "Cummings ran House Oversight with energy, integrity:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/cummings-ran-house-oversight-with-energy-integrity-73313861928

* "Maya Rockeymoore Cummings to run for her husband's seat:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maya-rockeymoore-cummings-to-run-for-her-husband-s-seat-73311813652

* "Chris Hayes looks at the ‘red exodus’ as another Republican retires:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-looks-at-the-red-exodus-as-another-republican-retires-73307717626

* "No White Supremacists On My City Council:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/11/no-white-supremacists-on-my-city-council.html

* "Supreme Court again confronts Trump’s authority, this time over DACA recipients:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-again-confronts-trumps-authority-this-time-over-daca-recipients/2019/11/11/45acf492-03f6-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html

* "Stephen Miller's private emails just got leaked. And they're explosive.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/leaked-emails-show-stephen-millers-unfiltered-anti-immigrant-views/

* We are still illegally kidnapping children. "US held record number of migrant children in custody in 2019:" https://apnews.com/015702afdb4d4fbf85cf5070cd2c6824

* "Rodney Reed's execution approaches in Texas:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rodney-reed-s-execution-approaches-in-texas-73370181571

* TW: Pedophilia, Sexual Assault. "The scandal facing Trump defender Jim Jordan:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-scandal-facing-trump-defender-jim-jordan-73308741692

* "Man in Switzerland slashes his 17-year-old son’s throat for being gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/11/switzerland-iraq-slash-throat-son-gay-attack-homophobic-religion-muslim/

* "Ugandan Police Arrest 125 People During Raid of LGBTQ Bar:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2019/11/12/ugandan-police-arrest-125-people-during-raid-lgbtq-bar

* "School chaplain quits after saying LGBT people should remain ‘single and celibate’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/13/methodist-school-chaplain-quit-lgbt-single-celibate-kingswood-bath/

* "LGBTQ People Share Stories in Celebration of Veterans Day:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/11/11/lgbtq-people-share-stories-celebration-veterans-day

* "FBI: Hate Crimes Against LGBTQ People Rose in 2018:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/11/12/fbi-hate-crimes-against-lgbtq-people-rose-2018

* "Nixon impeachment was slow to unfold:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nixon-impeachment-was-slow-to-unfold-73373765576

* "Gordon Sondland, Fearing Perjury Charges, Amends His Ukraine Testimony:"

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* ""Read The Transcript" Is Trump's Latest Rallying Cry:"

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* "Lindsey Graham's Willful Ignorance Will Not Be Enough To Protect Trump:"

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* "Republican Support Collapses In The Suburbs, Democrats Win Big In Virginia:"

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* "Watchmen Episode 3: Every Easter Egg and Secret:"

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* The Odyssey in Limericks. https://twitter.com/emilyrcwilson/status/1181997025774260224

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
gwydion: (Default)
* "Sir Lindsay Hoyle to replace John Bercow as Speaker of the House of Commons:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/04/sir-lyndsey-hoyle-speaker-house-of-commons-john-bercow-replacement/

* "Equalities minister Liz Truss says no one wants to be hired as a ‘token gay’, wants to rebrand department as Ministry of Freedom:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/31/liz-truss-women-equalities-minister-token-gay-julia-hartley-brewer-talkradio/

* "Trump ordered to pay $2 million to charities over misuse of foundation, court documents say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-ordered-to-pay-2-million-to-charities-over-misuse-of-foundation-court-documents-say/2019/11/07/b8f804e2-018e-11ea-9518-1e76abc088b6_story.html

* "Trump ordered to pay $2 million over scammy foundation 'charity':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-ordered-to-pay-2-million-over-scammy-foundation-charity-73104453667

* "Anonymous author depicts deep Trump admin dysfunction:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/exclusive-anonymous-author-depicts-deep-trump-admin-dysfunction-73093701889

* "Book: Trump recklessness sparked W.H. 'five-alarm fire drills':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/book-trump-recklessness-sparked-w-h-five-alarm-fire-drills-73095237949

* "Mueller interview notes obtained by CNN show Trump's push for stolen emails:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/02/politics/mueller-investigation-notes-trump-stolen-emails/index.html

* "Internal Mueller documents show Trump campaign chief pushed unproven theory Ukraine hacked Democrats:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/internal-mueller-documents-show-trump-campaign-chief-suggested-ukraine-hacked-democrats-during-2016-campaign/2019/11/02/cc8e461c-fd90-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

* "A Former Trump Campaign Aide Said The Campaign Was "Very Happy" About The Release Of Hacked DNC Emails:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmaloop/rick-gates-trump-wikileaks-clinton-email-hack

* "Intel officials want CIA's Gina Haspel to defend Ukraine whistleblower:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/intel-officials-want-cia-director-gina-haspel-protect-ukraine-whistleblower-n1077771

* "'Campaign of lies': What George Kent told impeachment investigators:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/07/george-kent-impeachment-testimony-067428

* "Witness worried Trump quid pro quo 'injurious to the rule of law':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/witness-worried-trump-quid-pro-quo-injurious-to-the-rule-of-law-73103941577

* "Impeachment probe turns to Pence adviser who heard Trump’s call with Ukrainian leader:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/impeachment-probe-turns-to-pence-adviser-who-heard-trumps-call-with-ukrainian-leader/2019/11/07/9fd51c7c-00dd-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html

* "New York lawyer is source of $500,000 paid to Trump attorney Giuliani:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-giuliani-idUSKBN1XH29L

* "Chris Hayes on just what Giuliani and Barr were willing to do to help Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-just-what-giuliani-and-barr-were-willing-to-do-to-help-trump-73091141574

* "NSC official who attended key Ukraine meetings to leave post:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/07/earl-matthews-nsc-ukraine-067363

* "Elizabeth Warren just promised to overturn Trump’s trans military ban on her first day in office:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/06/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-trans-military-ban-presidential-election/

* Please don't, Michael Bloomberg. We are tired and there are too many already. Also, your policies are objectively bad.

* "Michael Bloomberg moves to enter presidential race:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/michael-bloomberg-moves-to-enter-presidential-race-73094725505

* "Sen. Sherrod Brown: Those Who Embolden Trump "Will Not Look Good In History":"

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* "Senator Sherrod Brown's Desk Was Once Occupied By A Kennedy:"

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* "Jeff Sessions plans Senate run – despite Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jeff-sessions-plans-senate-run-despite-trump-73093701597

* "Nearly 100 LGBT candidates win on US election day in continuing ‘rainbow wave’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/07/rainbow-wave-lgbt-candidates-us-elections-danica-roem/

* "Indianapolis Elects Four Openly Queer Council Members:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/06/indianapolis-elects-four-queer-council-members

* "Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump’s border wall:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

* TW: Sexual Abuse "Second Person Claims They Told Rep. Jim Jordan About Abuse by OSU Doctor: Lawsuit:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/second-person-claims-they-told-rep-jim-jordan-about-abuse-by-ohio-state-university-doctor-lawsuit

* "First billboards advertising same-sex marriage launch in Northern Ireland:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/06/northern-ireland-billboards-same-sex-marriage-gay-couples-humanists-uk/

* "Daycare centre rejected twin boys because they have two gay dads:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/05/twin-boys-gay-dads-swiss-daycare-rejected/

* "Woman punched in the face in ‘homophobic attack’ could suffer permanent damage to her sight:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/06/homophobic-attack-bournemouth-police-woman-sexuality-anti-gay/

* "Tory politician refuses to give money to Pride, says LGBT people are ‘misguided by a powerful ideology’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/07/tory-politician-wiltshire-pride-salisbury-mary-douglas-counsellor-lgbt-anti-gay/

* "Brexit Party candidate refuses to deny homosexuality is a sin in train wreck interview:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/04/brexit-party-timothy-vince-tim-farron-gay-sex-sin-bbc-sunday-politics/

* "Second Judge Voids Trump Rule Allowing Health Care Discrimination:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2019/11/07/second-judge-voids-trump-rule-allowing-health-care-discrimination

* "Buttigieg Slams Trump Adoption Decision as 'Huge Step Backward':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/04/buttigieg-slams-trump-adoption-decision-huge-step-backward

* "Nikki Araguz Loyd, Trans Rights Activist, Dead at 44:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/11/07/nikki-araguz-loyd-trans-rights-activist-dead-44

* The Neo-NAZIs are at it again. "We regret to inform you the straights are at it again… Alt-right Straight Pride parade will return this month:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/01/straight-pride-parade-alt-right-texas-supper-happy-fun-america/

* "The Politics of Caring for Our Queer Elders:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/10/30/politics-caring-our-queer-elders

* I’m not getting my hopes up just yet. "Researchers believe they’ve found the cure for HIV/AIDS:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/08/hiv-cure-aids-american-gene-technologies-food-drug-administration/

* "Trump's GOP Defenders Are Backed Into A Corner:"

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* "Trump's Border Wall Is Remarkably Easy To Penetrate:"

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* "Kevin Aymoz (FRA). FP. Int. de France de Patinage 2019:"

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* "Free Program Yuzuru Hanyu Skate Canada International 2019:"

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* "Shcherbakova's historic two quads win Skate America title:"

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* "Nathan Chen FS - 2019 Skate America"

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* "Jason Brown FS - 2019 Skate America:"

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* Trans lecture went really well. The group sent good, mostly next level questions, which meant we didn't have to spend much time on myth-busting and 101. We ended up chatting with one of the students for well over an hour after. I was too tired to forage and was up most of the day, but it was so worth t.

I didn't have time to post Thurday's Dreamwidth digest before I left. Ooops. I'm going to be out Saturday night with a friend. I'll do what I can catch upwise Sunday.

* Watching Shoma Uno at Internationaux de France was the most painful thing I've seen in figure skating since Debi Thomas at the Calgary Olympics in ‘88. He's one of the very best skaters in the world. I don't understand how someone at his level is working without a coach. He is so much better than that performance and I wept for him.

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
gwydion: (Default)
* "India’s losing battle against pollution: Delhi air quality reaches toxic levels, again:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/indias-losing-battle-against-pollution-delhi-air-quality-reaches-toxic-levels-again/2019/11/04/0901f378-fecc-11e9-8341-cc3dce52e7de_story.html

* "UK prime minister withholding report on Russia's role in Brexit:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/uk-prime-minister-withholding-report-on-russia-s-role-in-brexit-72912453798

* "Trump confirms Turkey's Erdoğan will visit White House next week:" https://www.axios.com/trump-turkey-erdogan-white-house-visit-7a186ca7-6bc7-430e-b063-216bbcf9e897.html

* These people are going to vote next November. Make sure you do to. "PA Voters Tell CNN They Would Still Vote For Trump If He Shot Someone:" https://www.mediaite.com/tv/pa-swing-voters-tell-cnn-they-could-still-vote-for-trump-if-he-shot-someone-youd-have-to-know-why/

* "Trump wanted Barr to hold news conference saying Trump broke no laws in Ukraine call:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wapo-trump-wanted-barr-to-hold-news-conference-saying-trump-broke-no-laws-in-ukraine-call-73005637621

* "Former US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker's House testimony on Ukraine investigations:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/volker-transcript-impeachment-doc/index.html

* "US Ambassador to the European Union House testimony on Ukraine investigation:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/sondland-transcript-impeachment-doc/index.html

* "Sondland reverses himself on Ukraine, confirming quid pro quo:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/sondland-reverses-himself-on-ukraine-quid-pro-quo-000318

* "5 takeaways from the Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker testimonies:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/05/takeaways-gordon-sondlands-testimony/

* "Sondland revises House testimony, now recalls Trump quid pro quo:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sondland-revises-house-testimony-now-recalls-trump-quid-pro-quo-72908357620

* "4 big takeaways from Bill Taylor’s full transcript:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/06/big-takeaways-bill-taylors-full-transcript/

* "'I sensed something odd': What William Taylor told Trump impeachment investigators:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/06/william-taylor-impeachment-testimony-066834

* "State Department official testifying before House impeachment investigators:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/who-is-david-hale/index.html

* "Trump officials wanted Ukraine to implicate Bidens:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-officials-wanted-ukraine-to-implicate-bidens-72900677587

* "Pence aide likely to testify in impeachment inquiry:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/jennifer-williams-impeachment-inquiry/

* "Impeachment investigators ask Mick Mulvaney to testify:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/impeachment-investigators-ask-mick-mulvaney-to-testify-000317

* "Giuliani associate Parnas offers to comply with subpoena:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/04/lev-parnas-giuliani-subpoena-065817

* "McConnell says Senate would acquit Trump if trial held today:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/mcconell-senate-acquit-trump-066103

* "Senate Republicans consider including Bidens in Trump impeachment trial:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-republicans-consider-including-bidens-in-trump-impeachment-trial/2019/11/06/bde22272-fff3-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html

* "Lindsey Graham says he won't read House deposition transcripts:" https://www.axios.com/lindsey-graham-gordon-sondland-ukraine-transcript-427b75e1-af3e-47bd-8590-8fb320738f78.html

* "Roger Stone leaves Day 1 of trial early over food poisoning:" https://apnews.com/bf3e43dc56f244bda7dd6c4308d38e1d

* "Prosecutor says Roger Stone lied ‘because the truth looked bad for Donald Trump’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trial-opens-for-roger-stone-accused-of-lying-about-wikileaks-and-trump-campaigns-interest-in-hacked-2016-democratic-emails/2019/11/06/647bd322-ff2b-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html

* "Stone trial opens new window on Trump's awareness of Russian help:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/stone-trial-opens-new-window-on-trump-s-awareness-of-russian-help-73014341650

* "Betsy DeVos Suffers Major Setbacks In Student Loan Lawsuits:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2019/11/06/betsy-devos-suffers-major-setbacks-in-student-loan-lawsuits/#6ffcfa60b5cc

* "Appeals Court Nominee Shaped DeVos’s Illegal Loan Forgiveness Effort:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/politics/steven-menashi-confirmation.html

* "Trump nominee worked on illegal plan to deny help to scam victims:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-nominee-worked-on-illegal-plan-to-deny-help-to-scam-victims-73014341674

* "Cory Booker - A White House Bid Based on Inclusiveness and Courageous Empathy - Extended Interview:"

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* "Julian Castro - A Bold and Fearless Presidential Campaign Against Trump in 2020 - Extended Interview:"

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* "3 takeaways from Tuesday's elections in Kentucky, Virginia and Mississippi:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/2019-election-takeaways-kentucky-virginia-mississippi/index.html

* "Kentucky Elects LGBTQ-Supportive Democratic Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/05/kentucky-elects-lgbtq-supportive-democratic-governor

* "Over 80 LGBTQ Candidates Win Elections as Rainbow Wave Continues:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/06/over-80-lgbtq-candidates-win-elections-rainbow-wave-continues

* "Danica Roem Is First Out Trans Person Reelected to a State Legislature:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/05/danica-roem-first-out-trans-person-reelected-state-legislature

* "Shelly Simonds, Who Lost Random Draw in 2017 Race, Wins Handily in Virginia:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/elections/shelly-simonds-virginia-house.html

* "Cyclist Who Flipped Off Trump Elected to Office in Virginia:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/06/cyclist-who-flipped-trump-elected-office-virginia

* "Virginia extends Democratic momentum in state legislatures:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/virginia-extends-democratic-momentum-in-state-legislatures-73014341560

* TW: Sexual Assault "Trump called woman who says he sexually assaulted her, phone records show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-called-woman-who-says-he-sexually-assaulted-her-phone-records-show/2019/11/05/d973b714-ffe2-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html

* "Innocent gay couple ‘traumatised’ after being falsely accused by vigilante paedophile hunters:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/06/gay-couple-traumatised-vigilante-paedophile-hunters-yorkshire-child-protectors-hull/

* "Trump Admin's 'License to Discriminate' Health Care Rule Struck Down:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2019/11/06/trump-admins-license-discriminate-health-care-rule-struck-down

* "Donald Trump Jr doubles down on shameless transphobia – and news host does nothing to challenge him:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/06/donald-trump-jr-cbs-this-morning-trans-athletes-transphobia/

* "Iowa Man Convicted of Hate Crime for Burning LGBTQ Pride Flag:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/11/06/iowa-man-convicted-hate-crime-burning-lgbtq-pride-flag

* "Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/29/climate/coastal-cities-underwater.html

* "New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z

* "A Blue Wave in Virginia and Kentucky, Emma Watson's Self-Partnership & The Shape of the Universe:"

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* "Elizabeth Warren Terrifies the 1 Percent:"

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* "Local Elections 2019: Thank you, Kentucky! We love you, Virginia!:"

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* "He’s Loaded: How the Trump Re-election Campaign Raised So Much Money:"

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* "Scaling The Border: The Not-So-Great Wall of America:"

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* "Why Is the Alt-Right So Angry?:"

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* "California's Inmate Firefighters:"

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* "NYC Bids Adieu To Donald Trump (In Song):"

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* When I got home from forage, I discovered experimental Livia food outside the door. I'd like to thank whoever sent it and the money.

It was definitely a bacteria, because the improvement has been pretty dramatic. I've been needing to lie down a lot and lots of extra sleep, hence the way behind on the news. Tech data entry got finished this evening, and Squirrel did the ladder work, so we got exterior Halloween decorations down in time this evening.

Squirrel’s inspection is in the morning, so I need to be up for that, plus I have scheduled afternoon phone bureaucracy, so tomorrow I’ll likely be brutally short sleeped.

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
gwydion: (Default)
* "Trump begins year-long process to formally exit Paris climate agreement:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/04/donald-trump-climate-crisis-exit-paris-agreement

* "Trump leaves door open to shutting down government before Thanksgiving:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-leaves-door-open-to-shutting-down-government-before-thanksgiving/2019/11/03/c16ec718-fe7e-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html

* "When facing a news deluge, take one story at a time:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/when-facing-a-news-deluge-take-one-story-at-a-time-72828485865

* "Impeachment Inquiry Transcripts: Excerpts and Analysis:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/us/politics/house-intelligence-committee-transcripts-released.html

* "Ex-Ukraine ambassador felt threatened by Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/04/house-impeachment-investigators-begin-releasing-closed-door-testimony-000315

* "Chris Hayes: The transcripts are as damning as expected:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-transcripts-are-as-damning-as-expected-72819781926

* "Previous Trump, Ukraine transactions mirrored later quid pro quo:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/previous-trump-ukraine-transactions-mirrored-later-quid-pro-quo-72828997822

* "Trump-favored Ukraine conspiracy theory traced to Russian intel:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-favored-ukraine-conspiracy-theory-traced-to-russian-intel-72829509981

* "Newly released interview notes from Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/02/politics/mueller-investigation-notes/index.html

* "Trump rejects offer of written answers from whistleblower:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/04/trump-written-whistleblower-065278

* "White House officials spurn demand to testify in impeachment probe:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/04/white-house-officials-testify-impeachment-065318

* "Mulvaney allies to try to stonewall Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, officials say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/11/03/mulvaney-allies-lead-stonewall-against-democrats-impeachment-inquiry/

* "Indicted Giuliani associate will testify for impeachment inquiry:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/indicted-giuliani-associate-will-testify-for-impeachment-inquiry-72829509845

* "Trump tax returns must go to grand jury, appeals court rules:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/04/appeals-court-rules-trump-must-give-taxes-to-manhattan-grand-jury-000314

* "Judges not buying DOJ rule barring indictment of a president:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/judges-not-buying-doj-rule-barring-indictment-of-a-president-72828997860

* "Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway defend Trump on Sunday shows:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/kellyanne-conway-spars-with-cable-anchors-bannon-slams-dems-72731717819

* "Mitch McConnell: ‘We're changing the federal courts forever’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mitch-mcconnell-we-re-changing-the-federal-courts-forever-72820805811

* "How a racist law could decide Mississippi's election:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-a-racist-law-could-decide-mississippi-s-election-72821829520

* "Initiative 976: A car tab decision and a referendum on Tim Eyman:" https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Initiative-976-a-car-tab-decision-and-a-14808534.php

* Don’t Forget to Vote!

* Ewww. "Children were told to ‘build the wall’ at White House Halloween party:" https://news.yahoo.com/children-were-told-to-build-the-wall-at-white-house-halloween-party-153024720.html

* "Trump is overwhelmingly abandoning vulnerable LGBT migrants to face abuse at Mexican border:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/04/migrants-trump-vulnerable-lgbt-abuse-torture-mexican-border-mexico-immigration-asylum/

* "How Subway Fare Evasion Crackdowns Hurt LGBTQ New Yorkers:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/11/03/how-subway-fare-evasion-crackdowns-hurt-lgbtq-new-yorkers

* "Colson Whitehead - Viewing Trauma Through a Personal Lens in "The Nickel Boys" - Extended Interview:"

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* TW: Rape. "E. Jean Carroll suing Trump for defamation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/04/e-jean-carroll-suing-trump-defamation-065423

* "Germany Considers Conversion Therapy Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2019/11/04/germany-considers-conversion-therapy-ban

* "Straight Man Is Gay-Bashed for Holding Pink Dog Carrier in Serbia:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/11/04/straight-man-gay-bashed-holding-pink-dog-carrier-serbia

* "Mark Zuckerberg Says Yes to Lying Politicians But No to PrEP:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/stigma/2019/11/01/mark-zuckerberg-says-yes-lying-politicians-no-prep

* "Buttigieg Slams Trump Adoption Decision as 'Huge Step Backward':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/04/buttigieg-slams-trump-adoption-decision-huge-step-backward

* "Frat Boys Still Have a Homophobia Problem:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/10/31/frat-boys-still-have-homophobia-problem

* "Queer Men Assaulted in Alleged Hate Crime at Boston Bar:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/11/04/queer-men-assaulted-alleged-hate-crime-boston-bar

* "Historian: New evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/historian-new-evidence-shows-fdrs-bigotry-derailed-many-holocaust-rescue-plans/

* "Trump's Wall-Themed Weekend:"

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* "Elizabeth Warren Reveals Her Medicare-for-All Plan :"

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* "The Trump Impeachment Trial Could Look A Lot Like The Kavanaugh Hearings:"

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* "Jane Fonda, Sam Waterston Urge Celebrities To Get Arrested:"

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* Sunday, I went for a short, extremely stressful swim. There was drama about lanes and I was too upset to do my hot tub stretches. I did go get perishables after and was totally wiped. By the time I got home, my lungs were deteriorating despite me medicating them just before going. I did another treatment and went to bed.

I had suspected I might be getting sick because of the persistent fatigue. By the Monday morning Doctor appointment it was obvious. I did what I came there for: Verified with my Doctor that neither of my degenerative genetic diseases were magically cured in the last three years and got the list of my last three appointments which she kindly filled in for me. While I was there the first attempt at blood pressure was a mess, as the machine froze mid cycle subjecting me to several extra minutes of pain and the reading was go to the ER high. Even how closely I've been monitored the last eleven yers and the fact that it was slightly high exactly twice, both when I was under physical stress trying to gimp there on time within an hour of taking meds that can short term spike pressure, and that generally I'm the low range of normal, I was pretty sure it was machine error. The nurse planned to come retake after the appointment, but the Doctor spotted it and got scared? Recheck? Normal, so really likely machine error. I was also pretty obviously sick, so she checked lungs and took symptoms. It was still the virus vs. bacteria ambiguous stage. We did the prescribe the meds and let me see if my lungs got worse before I took them phase.

I came home and had nap, then worked on data retrieval which was time consuming, but successful. The Emperor and I had another nap, and eventually I dragged myself out to eat, do small, sundry, necessary things. I took the antibiotics. Normally, I'd wait another day to be sure it's bacteria and not virus, but I was escalating fast and I was about 75% sure by this point. I'm up to 90% sure as of this writing, since I'm already breathing better.

I still haven't taken down the Exterior Halloween decorations, which is a problem, since the HOA tends to get shirty about these things, but I'm barely managing upright, I'm exhausted from the pathogens, and far too dizzy for ladders. I did do somewhere between half to a third of the data entry from the dying tech.

* We have about a week of Special Girl Cat gooshy food left. If you are interested in help with Livia's ongoing recovery, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

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

* "Bakin' Makes Me Feel Good! 11 Ghostbusters Sweets:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2019/11/3/bakin-makes-me-feel-good-11-ghostbusters-sweets

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
gwydion: (Default)
* "Iran’s Leaders See Threats in Iraq and Lebanon Protests:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/world/middleeast/protests-iraq-lebanon-iran.html

* "Chile protesters: 'We are subjugated by the rich. It's time for that to end':" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/30/chile-protests-portraits-protesters-sebastian-pinera

* "Why Chile Is Rising Up:" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxe3j/why-chile-is-rising-up

* "Iraq Demonstrations Grow, and Government Scrambles to Respond:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/world/middleeast/iraq-protests.html

* "Why the Streets of Barcelona Erupted in Flames Last Week:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/barcelona-catalonia-tsunami-protests-cdr.html

I know it's not the point of the article, but the sentence, "All the pacifists are in jail," haunts me.

* "China's leaders 'send message' to Hong Kong:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50261319

* "Protests toppled two governments in three days, but the fight is only beginning:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/02/middleeast/iraq-lebanon-political-change-intl/index.html

* "Amnesty International to Haiti president: End excessive force against protesters:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article236868528.html

* "Jeh Johnson on the shattered norms of the Trump White House:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/voters-think-trump-s-conduct-is-typical-of-politicians-72632901864

* "White House officials ramp up new tax cut talks, as Trump seeks sharp contrast with 2020 Democrats:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/10/31/white-house-officials-ramp-up-new-tax-cut-talks-trump-seeks-sharp-contrast-with-democrats/

* "Trump is changing his residence from NYC to Florida. ‘Good riddance,’ New Yorkers say.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/31/trump-is-changing-his-residence-nyc-florida-new-yorkers-said-good-riddance/

* "Testimony: White House lawyer told Vindman not to discuss Ukraine call:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/01/white-house-vindman-ukraine-call-063892

* "As Trump moves to bully witnesses and derail impeachment, Democrats see obstruction:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-moves-to-bully-witnesses-and-derail-impeachment-democrats-see-obstruction/2019/11/01/0ee6edb2-fbec-11e9-8190-6be4deb56e01_story.html

* "Chris Hayes presents 9 pieces of evidence of a quid pro quo:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-presents-9-pieces-of-evidence-of-a-quid-pro-quo-72630853679

* Extended Colbert intervuew with Nancy Pelosi:

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* "House Democrats release new rules for Trump impeachment inquiry:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-team-can-raise-objections-in-under-new-impeachment-rules-72670789519

* "Will some GOP Senators go against Trump over Ukraine call?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/house-republicans-stand-by-donald-trump-72671301794

* "Republicans warn impeachment could spark ‘civil war’:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/gop-house-impeachment-will-lead-to-civil-war-72672837666

* "What new documents in DOJ release of Mueller memos reveal:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/department-of-justice-releases-first-batch-of-mueller-memos-72727621607

* "Flynn play for Trump sympathy not well suited to fact-based court:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/flynn-play-for-trump-sympathy-not-well-suited-to-fact-based-court-72641605850

* "Giuliani associate charged in Ukraine-linked case denied release from house arrest:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-giuliani-idUSKBN1XB3XQ

* "Bad day in court for Giuliani associate Igor Fruman:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bad-day-in-court-for-giuliani-associate-igor-fruman-72641093978

* "Trump may have worked a previous Ukraine quid pro quo:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-may-have-worked-a-previous-ukraine-quid-pro-quo-wapo-72641605878

* "Fate of Trump's abettors may not be aligned with impeachment:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fate-of-trump-s-abettors-may-not-be-aligned-with-impeachment-72642629983

* "How Rudy Giuliani went from prosecuting corruption to dabbling in it:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/giuliani-is-dragging-down-trump-72632389696

* "Paula White, Trump’s Personal Pastor, Joins the White House:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/paula-white-trump.html

* "Trump says Chad Wolf now acting Homeland Security chief, adding to confusion about transition:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-says-chad-wolf-now-acting-homeland-security-chief-adding-to-confusion-about-transition/2019/11/01/dc81f0a2-fcf3-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

* "Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton - Cowriting "The Book of Gutsy Women" - Extended Interview:"

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* "Beto O'Rourke, Pro-LGBTQ Democrat, Leaves Presidential Race:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/11/01/beto-orourke-pro-lgbtq-democrat-leaves-presidential-race

* "Beto O'Rourke exits 2020 presidential race as momentum runs out:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/beto-o-rourke-exits-2020-presidential-race-as-momentum-runs-out-72642117880

* "Presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar pledged money for anti-gay ministry that thinks Pokémon is a gateway to drug addiction:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/01/amy-klobuchar-anti-gay-ministry-minnesota-teen-challenge-rehab-pokemon-harry-potter/

* "ICE Center Deleted Video of Trans Refugee's Treatment; Sens. Ask Why:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/11/01/ice-center-deleted-video-trans-refugees-treatment-sens-ask-why

* "ICE Is Indefinitely Detaining a Gay Asylum Seeker Despite Court Order:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/11/02/ice-indefinitely-detaining-gay-asylum-seeker-despite-court-order

* TW: Sexual Assault "Tory MP Ross Thompson quits after being accused of groping Labour’s Paul Sweeney:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/03/tory-mp-ross-thompson-quits-after-being-accused-of-groping-labours-paul-sweeney/

* "How Panama Sits at World’s Crossroads of LGBTQ Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/11/01/how-panama-sits-worlds-crossroad-lgbtq-rights

* "Gender Recognition Act, healthcare and sex work: What does the UK general election mean for transgender rights?:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/01/general-election-uk-transgender-rights-gender-recognition-act-boris-johnson-jeremy-corbyn/

* "Thugs storm gay club in Slovenia, smash windows and threaten to beat up ‘f****ts’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/02/thugs-gay-club-slovenia-hate-crime/

* "The Indian army wants to keep homosexuality a punishable offence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/03/indian-army-keep-homosexuality-punishable-offence/

* "Proud lesbian Kenyan pastor opens up about her attraction to women in emotional interview:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/03/proud-lesbian-kenyan-pastor-opens-up-about-her-attraction-to-women-in-emotional-interview/

* "Anti-LGBTQ Printer Wins on Technicality at Kentucky Supreme Court:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2019/11/01/anti-lgbtq-printer-wins-technicality-kentucky-supreme-court

* "The Trump administration says it’s OK for adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBT people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/01/trump-administration-adoption-agencies-fostering-discriminate-lgbt-people-law-health-hhs-children/

* "The Trump administration just scrapped healthcare protections for LGBT patients:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/01/trump-administration-healthcare-protections-lgbt-transgender-patients-discrimination-department-health/

* "Republican congresswoman Vicky Hartzler is not sorry for promoting gay cure therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/02/republican-congresswoman-vicky-hartzler-not-sorry-gay-cure-therapy-links/

* It's a massive advance, but the drugs are super expensive, so.... "Long-awaited cystic fibrosis drug could turn deadly disease into a manageable condition:" https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2019/10/long-awaited-cystic-fibrosis-drug-could-turn-deadly-disease-into-a-manageable-condition.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=theoregonian_sf&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR0bTQQBmybgG-sGj_2l6vYy9G73QUquVfdJqpUX-3kGSO9dTe_b5TtE1x4

* "Trump threatens to cut US funding for California wildfires:" https://www.kmvt.com/content/news/564317202.html

Republicans need to explain why cutting funding to State fire prevention is going to stop fires on Federal lands.

* "TRIASSIC KRAKEN: THE BERLIN ICHTHYOSAUR DEATH ASSEMBLAGE INTERPRETED AS A GIANT CEPHALOPOD MIDDEN:" https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2011AM/finalprogram/abstract_197227.htm

* "White House Intentionally Left Words Out Of The Trump-Ukraine Transcript:"

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* "Trump Pleads For "Rupublicans" To Defend Him Against "Infair" Impeachment:"

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* "It's The Great Impeachment, Charlie Brown:"

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* "Trump Impeachment Resolution Passes With Zero Republican Votes:"

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* "Twitter's Ban On Political Ads Is A Jab At Mark Zuckerberg:"

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* "Hero Dog Press Conference - SNL:"

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* Duolingo for Talking to Children - SNL":"

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* "Elizabeth Warren Town Hall Cold Open - SNL:"

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* Friday: I am have major technical difficulties. Like hours on the phone with tech support difficulties. Service may be spotty.

...And it's not fixable. I'm spending my evening hand copying data. @&%#!

...And most of my data's gone.

* I ended up staying up with tech stuff until it was time to do social stuff with Squirrel Saturday. I think stuff may be salvageable after ll on the dying tech, but frankly, I'm not up to it today. Today, I'm trying to just catch up.

* If you are interested in help with Livia's ongoing recovery, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

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

* "A Halloween Compendium From The DMO-L Archives:" https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/a-halloween-compendium-from-the-dmo?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNTkxMDksIl8iOiJINmxnVyIsImlhdCI6MTU3MjY2NzE4NSwiZXhwIjoxNTcyNjcwNzg1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.n0-LqrqqajQgpi-bCe-dRwzZxWOMPkPcUxQ9JsIIN3Q

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
gwydion: (Default)
* "Hong Kong Protestors Using Mesh Messaging App China Can't Block: Usage Up 3685% :" https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/09/02/hong-kong-protestors-using-mesh-messaging-app-china-cant-block-usage-up-3685/#48de246e135a

* "Soweto, Once Unified Against Apartheid, Is Now Divided by Wealth:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/29/world/africa/soweto-south-africa-inequality.html

* "Trump warns U.S. 'may have to get in wars':" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/21/trump-united-states-wars-iran-053341

* "Trump Reverses on Using Doral Resort for G7, Blames ‘Crazed and Irrational Hostility’ for His Change of Mind:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reverses-on-using-doral-resort-for-g7-blames-crazed-and-irrational-hostility-for-his-change-of-mind

* "Rep. Maxine Waters: Senate better not sweep impeachment under rug:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/maxine-waters-on-trump-impeachment-and-mcconnell-s-senate-71717445800

* "Many Republicans won’t stand up to Trump, but fewer defend him:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-reverses-on-hosting-g7-at-his-resort-after-bipartisan-backlash-71719493571

* "Giuliani pushed Trump administration to grant a visa to a Ukrainian official promising dirt on Democrats:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/giuliani-shokin-state-visa-george-kent/index.html

* "Justice Dept. confirms Trump Jr. and McGahn did not testify to Mueller grand jury:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/20/trump-mcgahn-testify-grand-jury-052591

* "State Dept witnesses make case clear in Trump impeachment inquiry:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/state-dept-witnesses-make-case-clear-in-trump-impeachment-inquiry-71799877645

* "Trump aides nix his picks to take over DHS:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/21/immigration-white-house-trump-secretary-053277

* "Will Trump release returns to end charges of family enrichment?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/donald-trump-jr-and-eric-trump-criticize-hunter-biden-71718469676

* "Beto O’Rourke: Constituents of GOP senators will demand justice:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/beto-o-rourke-on-tulsi-gabbard-trump-impeachment-and-more-71716421873

* "Klobuchar takes in $2 million building on strong debate showing:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/klobuchar-takes-in-2-million-building-on-strong-debate-showing-71801925939

* "Klobuchar touts advantages of public option built on ACA:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/klobuchar-touts-advantages-of-public-option-built-on-aca-71801925917

* "Facebook discloses operations by Russia and Iran to meddle in 2020 election:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/21/facebook-us-2020-elections-foreign-interference-russia

* "Facebook: Russian trolls are back. And they're here to meddle with 2020:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/tech/russia-instagram-accounts-2020-election/index.html

* "Trump wields DOJ as Russia, media reprise 2016 roles for 2020:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-wields-doj-as-russia-media-reprise-2016-roles-for-2020-71798853593

* Re: Hillary Clinton and Tulsi Gabbard.

This is Not Helping, Ms. Clinton. Way to take people's eyes off the frigging ball! Outright calling Tulsi Gabbard a Russian Asset leads us to a debate we did not need. I dislike Ms. Gabbard for a bunch of reasons, but it's not like her campaign is going to go anywhere. This feels very attention grabby about nonsense when we really need to be laser focusing on important stuff.

So I’m likely not going to post most on this unless something substantive occurs. I am irritated and disappointed that we are having this conversation at all. Trump-Ukraine, Trump-Turkey, the literal genocide we green lighted last week, etc. are all way more important, so that’s where I’m going to be looking.

* "Investigation of Clinton emails ends, finding no 'deliberate mishandling':" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/18/clinton-emails-investigation-ends-state-department

* "Has the media learned its lesson from 2016?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/hillary-clinton-cleared-of-wrongdoing-in-email-probe-71718469902

* "Asylum-seeking Mexicans are more prominent at US border:" https://www.apnews.com/927c17f223114b869eab01f4e931a722

* "An undocumented man was killed when cops went to the wrong home. The city claims he had no constitutional rights.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/27/ismael-lopez-southaven-mississippi-police-shooting-constitution/

* "‘It’s Not the Same’: Why War Refugees Who Helped Revive St. Louis Are Leaving:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/18/us/bosnian-refugees-st-louis-midwest.html

* "The real reason Amber Guyger was convicted:" https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/10/2/20895198/amber-guyger-botham-jean-verdict

* "I thought I knew about feminism – then I started work in a women’s prison:" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/17/feminism-working-womens-prison-inmates-sex-work-marriage

* "Looks like New Zealand is unlikely to ban conversion therapy anytime soon:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/20/new-zealand-is-unlikely-to-ban-conversion-therapy-soon/

* "Gay couple told to get ‘stabbed in the a**’ and called ‘b***y boys’ after kissing in London:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/20/gay-couple-told-to-get-stabbed-in-the-a-and-called-by-boys-after-kissing-in-london/

* TW: Extreme Homophobic Violence. "Lesbian’s skull cracked with an iron bar and her arms dislocated after Ugandan doctor discovers her sexuality:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/20/lesbians-skull-ugandan-doctor-kampala-mukwaya-hospital/

* TW: Rape "Asylum seeker who was beaten and raped for being gay in Uganda could be sent back by Trump administration:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/21/woman-beaten-raped-gay-uganda-trump-administration-denied-asylum/

* "Same-sex marriage will become legal in Northern Ireland in just a few hours despite DUP protests:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/21/northern-ireland-same-sex-marriage-stormont-assembly-reformed-dup-sinn-fein/

* TW: Rape, Torture. "Pakistan police arrest five after rape and torture of trans person at gunpoint:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/21/pakistan-transgender-rape-torture-arrests-sahiwal/

* "Around 1 in 5 trans patients are denied proper care by their GPs, according to this senior nurse:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/21/trans-patients-denied-care-gp-senior-nurse-gender-identity-clinic-london/

* "The Biggest Threat to Transgender Health Care Is the Supreme Court:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/10/21/biggest-threat-transgender-health-care-supreme-court

* "This health care ruling could endanger untold numbers of LGBTQ Americans:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/opinions/transgender-health-care-ruling-hope/index.html

* "One Million Moms Is a Secretive Antigay Group That Can't Stop Failing:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2019/10/21/one-million-moms-secretive-antigay-group-cant-stop-failing

* "Where you die can affect your chance of being an organ donor:" https://www.apnews.com/dbc0d75e5470407ca02f77b320acbb67

* "Pigs recorded using tools for the first time:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/10/first-tool-use-pigs-visayan-endangered/

* "Climate change is killing your low-carb diet:" https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/10/climate-change-is-pumping-your-food-full-of-carbs/

* "Trading tires: How the West fuels a waste crisis in Asia:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asia-waste-tyres-insight/trading-tires-how-the-west-fuels-a-waste-crisis-in-asia-idUSKBN1WX0LD

* "Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/climate-environment/climate-change-qatar-air-conditioning-outdoors/

* "The impossible fight to save Jakarta, the sinking megacity:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jakarta-sinking

* "The Disappearing Schools of Puerto Rico:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/12/magazine/puerto-rico-schools-hurricane-maria.html

* "New Orleans officials blow up giant cranes at site of deadly Hard Rock Hotel collapse:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/20/new-orleans-officials-prepare-blow-up-two-giant-cranes-site-deadly-hard-rock-hotel-collapse/

* "Why Americans Love Their Apple Pie:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-americans-love-their-apple-pie-180972852/

* "How a Band of Surfer Dudes Pulled Off the Biggest Jewel Heist in N.Y. History:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/nyregion/natural-history-museum-jewelry-heist.html

* "10 Spooky Sweets For Halloween!:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2019/10/20/10-spooky-sweets-for-halloween

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
gwydion: (Default)
* "Brexit: Johnson sends unsigned letter asking for delay, and second arguing against it:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/19/eu-will-grant-brexit-extension-if-johnson-sends-letter-says-brussels

* Me watching a BBC commentator referring to Boris Johnson need to do a "Charm offensive:" Offensive yes, but is he capable of charm?

* "Why Turkey's president may seek to influence U.S. foreign policy:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/turkey-syria-border-fight-continues-despite-ceasefire-71679557536

* "How The Trade War Crushed A Growing Chinese Market For U.S. Cranberries:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/06/763463639/how-the-trade-war-crushed-a-growing-chinese-market-for-u-s-cranberries

* "G7 leaders could skip Trump’s resort to avoid conflicts:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-awards-g7-summit-to-his-own-miami-resort-71679557780

* "Aftermath of iconic White House photos paints Pelosi as winner:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/pelosi-addressed-trump-on-syria-and-putin-in-white-house-photo-71682117524

* "Mulvaney can’t call ‘backsies’ on impeachment talk:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/mulvaney-admits-quid-quo-pro-with-ukraine-then-walks-back-71674949713

* "Giuliani’s foreign ties continue to raise legal questions:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/giuliani-tried-to-secure-visa-for-ousted-ukrainian-prosecutor-71674949849

* "Medicaid’s Dark Secret:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/when-medicaid-takes-everything-you-own/596671/

* "Democrats have lots of gun proposals. Why aren’t we talking about the most important one?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/09/democrats-have-lots-gun-proposals-why-arent-we-talking-about-most-important-one/?noredirect=on

* "After a Mass Shooting, Who Cares for the Coroners?:" https://www.gq.com/story/las-vegas-shooting-coroners-office

* "Immigration Officials Use Secretive Gang Databases to Deny Migrant Asylum Claims:" https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-officials-use-secretive-gang-databases-to-deny-migrant-asylum-claims

* "The Beltway Sniper is now the center of a debate about juvenile lifers:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/09/the-beltway-sniper-is-now-the-center-of-a-debate-about-juvenile-lifers/

* TW: Sexual Assault. "Coming Forward About Sexual Assault, and What Comes After:" https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/coming-forward-about-sexual-assault-and-what-comes-after.html

* "How Employers Make It Impossible For Working Women To Breastfeed:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-employers-make-it-impossible-for-working-women-to-breastfeed_n_5d7a45b2e4b0a938a42ef3f5

* "A transgender woman just made history in the ultra-conservative Muslim-majority Bangladesh:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/19/trans-woman-bangladesh-councillor-pinki-khatun/

* "Matthew Shepard's Parents Won't Be a 'Photo Op' to Hide Trump's Hate:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/10/19/matthew-shepards-parents-wont-be-photo-op-hide-trumps-hate

* "Police officer that slammed a gay man against a windshield and mocked him collects $100k a year:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/19/police-officer-that-slammed-a-gay-man-against-a-windshield-and-mocked-him-collects-100k-a-year/

* "Anorexia not just a psychiatric problem, scientists find:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/15/anorexia-not-just-a-psychiatric-problem-scientists-find

* "Why Some Doctors Purposely Misdiagnose Patients:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/08/when-doctors-purposely-misdiagnose-patients/596068/

* "The uninhabited island where the world's plastic ends up:" https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/the-uninhabited-island-where-the-world-s-plastic-ends-up-20190725-p52asi.html

* "Love Thy Neighbor: The Bible Belt Is Becoming a Dumping Ground:" https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/love-thy-neighbor-the-bible-belt-is-becoming-a-dumping-ground/93854/

* "These Cheeky Statuettes Were Part of Edo-Era Japan’s Answer to Pockets:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-netsuke

* "How Italians Became ‘White’:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
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* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
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* "Ecuador protests end after deal struck with indigenous leaders:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/14/ecuador-protests-end-after-deal-struck-with-indigenous-leaders

* "Rival unionists accuse DUP of catastrophic Brexit miscalculation:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/17/rival-unionists-accuse-dup-of-catastrophic-brexit-miscalculation

* "Exclusive: U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran in wake of Saudi oil attack: officials:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-military-cyber-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-carried-out-secret-cyber-strike-on-iran-in-wake-of-saudi-oil-attack-officials-say-idUSKBN1WV0EK

* "Trump helps Putin tick through Russia's world affairs wish list:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-helps-putin-tick-through-russia-s-world-affairs-wish-list-71535685646

* "Pence and Erdoğan agree on ceasefire plan but Kurds reject 'occupation':" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/us-delegation-seeks-syria-ceasefire-after-trump-undercuts-mission-turkey-mike-pence

"When asked, Pence remained silent on whether the agreement amounted to a second abandonment of the US’s former Kurdish allies in the fight against the Islamic State."

* "Turkish president 'threw Trump letter in bin':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50080737

* "Pullback Leaves Green Berets Feeling ‘Ashamed,’ and Kurdish Allies Describing ‘Betrayal’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/middleeast/kurds-syria-turkey-trump.html

* "Syrian troops enter key towns in northeast under deal with Kurds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/syrian-troops-enter-towns-in-northeast-as-erdogan-warns-of-wider-offensive/2019/10/14/3fe2c420-ee06-11e9-bb7e-d2026ee0c199_story.html

* "Abandoned by U.S. in Syria, Kurds Find New Ally in American Foe:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/middleeast/syria-turkey-invasion-isis.html

* "Yang: No easy answer to fixing Trump's disaster in Syria:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/yang-no-easy-answer-to-fixing-trump-s-disaster-in-syria-71530053786

* "Duckworth: ‘We have abandoned our allies’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/duckworth-we-have-abandoned-our-allies-71522373746

* "Chris Hayes: This is how bad things have gotten:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-this-is-how-bad-things-have-gotten-71431237632

* "Shrugging off allegations of self-dealing, Trump picks his Doral resort for G-7 summit:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/17/white-house-selects-trumps-doral-resort-as-site-of-next-g-7-summit-000289

* "Shock as Trump awards G-7 summit to his own resort:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/shock-as-trump-awards-g-7-summit-to-his-own-resort-71520837987

* "Trump ordered diplomats to work with Giuliani on Ukraine, Sondland testifies:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/17/gordon-sondland-testimony-trump-giuliani-ukraine

* "Sondland asked Ukrainians at White House about firm linked to Hunter Biden:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/sondland-asked-ukrainian-officials-during-private-white-house-talk-about-n1067861

* "Rick Perry spoke with Rudy Giuliani at Trump's direction about Ukraine:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/politics/rick-perry-rudy-giuliani-trump-ukraine/index.html

* "Mulvaney acknowledges Ukraine aid was withheld to boost political probe:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/17/mulvaney-confirms-ukraine-aid-2016-probe-050156

* "List of Ukraine characters keeps expanding:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/list-of-ukraine-characters-keeps-expanding-71429189827

* "Trump secretly and openly abuses presidency:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mick-mulvaney-admits-to-a-quid-pro-quo-with-ukraine-71520325914

* "Alex Wagner - Assessing the Fourth 2020 Democratic Debate:"

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* "Democrat Candidates Tell LGBTQ Youth on Spirit Day: 'You're Not Alone':" https://www.advocate.com/people/2019/10/17/democrat-candidates-tell-lgbtq-youth-spirit-day-youre-not-alone#media-gallery-media-1

* "Yang: Universal basic income should be in Democratic politics:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/yang-universal-basic-income-should-be-in-democratic-politics-71528517784

* I’m honestly having trouble processing this. He will really be missed. "Elijah Cummings, Baltimore congressman and civil rights leader, dies at 68:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/17/elijah-cummings-dies-baltimore/

* "Rep. Elijah Cummings, LGBTQ Rights Champion, Dead at 68:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/10/17/rep-elijah-cummings-lgbtq-rights-champion-dead-68

* "Elijah Cummings 'genuinely, humblingly inspiring':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-elijah-cummings-genuinely-humblingly-inspiring-71533637558

* "FROM 2015: Elijah Cummings on Baltimore:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/from-2015-elijah-cummings-on-baltimore-71518789589

* "Remembering Elijah Cummings:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/remembering-elijah-cummings-71523397735

* "Hours before passing, Cummings signed subpoenas directed to two US immigration agencies:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/politics/cummings-subpoena/index.html

* "New Jersey Church, Homes Tagged With Swastika, Antigay Graffiti:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/10/15/new-jersey-church-homes-tagged-swastika-antigay-graffiti

* "Prison guards are mocking trans inmates and sharing their personal information in private Facebook groups:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/18/trans-inmates-illinois-prison-facebook-groups/

* "Cyntoia Brown-Long - "Free Cyntoia" and Living Her Dream After Prison - Extended Interview:"

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* "House of Commons speaker John Bercow declares trans rights are human rights in passionate speech at PinkNews Awards:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/16/john-bercow-trans-rights-house-commons-pinknews-awards-2019/

* "Ann Widdecombe, who thinks homosexuality can be cured, confronted on live TV for ‘peddling’ hate:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/17/ann-widdecombe-brexit-debate-peddling-hate-anti-lgbt-jeremy-vine/

* "Labour's Dawn Butler condemns government in rousing, sweary and NSFW speech:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/17/dawn-butler-gender-recognition-act-delay-pinknews-awards-labour-mp-community-group/

* "Gay Icelandic minister unleashes on anti-LGBT Trump lackey who compared homosexuality to alcoholism:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/15/iceland-gay-minister-anti-lgbt-trump-homosexuality-alcoholism-rick-perry/

* It’s not over. "Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban on Anti-Trans Bias in Health Care:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/10/15/federal-judge-strikes-down-ban-anti-trans-bias-health-care

* "The History of GLAAD's Annual Spirit Day:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/10/17/history-glaads-annual-spirit-day#media-gallery-media-2

* They gave in to right wing terrorists. "Georgia school district reverses transgender-friendly bathroom policy after death threats:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/us/georgia-transgender-bathroom-policy-reversal-death-threats/index.html

* "Edward Thomas Trial Starts Today:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/10/edward-thomas-trial-starts-today.html

* "Transphobic Defense Attorney Andrew Wilkerson Found In Contempt Of Court:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/10/transphobic-defense-attorney-andrew.html

* TW: Sexual Assault "Gay man beaten and robbed in horrific attack after refusing to perform oral sex on a stranger:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/15/oral-sex-attack-gay-man-queens-new-york-city/

* "Mysterious "Blob" at a Paris Zoo, Ancient Coffins Found in Egypt & California's Roadkill Law:"

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* "So Much News, So Little Time - Trump and Pelosi's "Meltdown" Insults & Gordon Sondland's Bombshell:"

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* "Trump Is Trying to Get America to Break Up with Him:"

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* Hunter Biden, Trump's Kids and Cashing In on Family Connections":"

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* "Highlights of the Fourth 2020 Democratic Primary Debate:"

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* "Leo Deblin's Family Fill-In:"

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* "Rudy Giuliani's Shady Friends Get Arrested & Trump Sows Violent Chaos in the Middle East:"

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* "Trump Thinks He Bought America:"

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* Apparently I needed 14 hours of sleep. I'm still trying to figure out if I have a virus, if I'm just having a chronic illness thing, or if swimming really wiped me out this much. Add to the list: Do I have food poisoning? Some combination? All of the above? Who knows! Chronic Illness is full of these little mysteries.

I really was have a fairly productive evening once I escaped my room and even started some rp. Signs of trouble began to develop. I took extra pain meds and extra nausea meds. (Sometimes pain contributes to nausea. The head and neck ache were borderline for scaling up a level on my pain management, but with other assorted symptoms things were becoming intolerable. I waited for things to kick in be things were escalating too fast, so i bowed out of rrp, intending to take blankets and pillows to my bathroom to lie down.

Only it dawned on me a long, really hot salt bath might be the better option. This turned out to be the case. I was well enough to come back and work on the news eventually. Later on, i managed some nuts with my water, which helped. Things look stable for now.

I need them to be. It's my birthday and I have shit to do, including a party planned with secret pumpkins and the whole 9 yards.

*fingers crossed*

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

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

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

What he did was clearly racist and definitely widely known to be not okay in the early oughts. He is slightly younger than me, and I definitely knew better in the 80's. I was teaching when the incident happened too, and the local public school districts here explicitly banned black face, brown face, etc.. If a kid had come to school looking like that, they'd have been at minimum been stopped on the way in and given a choice of washing their face or going back home. I can't imagine a teacher doing it. Diversity and anti racism training existed in the '90's. So I call bull shit on any claims he didn't know better. He grew up in a political family.

He had to know the likelihood of this being a problem later if he went into politics. I at sixteen knew that a bunch of the sexual decisions I was making meant I could ever run for office and this was the age before the Internet. I knew for sure I was closing a lot of future doors when I started posing nude at eighteen. And these things aren't even wrong. The fact that he did something as wrong as wearing black face in the 21st century as a grown ass man and somehow couldn't predict obvious future consequences raises serious questions about his judgement.

At the same time, I'm going to reiterate what I always say on these occasions: The deciding vote needs to be with the people in the communities he's harmed.

When it is an offense to one of the communities ibelong to, I use the formula: quality of apology + words and actions over time. A. Is the apology sincere? Does it demonstrate a real understanding if the type and magnitude of the harm done? Does it show real understanding of and empathy for the community harmed? B. Has the person not only amended their behavior, but taken positive action to help the community harmed? how well are they listening to criticisms and advise from the community over time?

A non-apology or a half assed apology isn't enough. I need you to prove to me I can trust you and that you aren't doing a quick burst of cheap activism to make it look like you changed before falling back into old patterns.

Every person has to draw their own conclusions about what constitutes enough proof of change. If no one is ever forgiven, then there is no incentive for people to learn and improve. We all fuck up, now and then. I know I do, despite the amount of time and effort I put into reeducating myself and listening o the voices of a variety of communities. At the same time? No fucking way am I going to sit on my hands and let people like Mel Gibson or Gloria Steinem get away with their bullshit without showing any real remorse or amendment. I reserve the right NOT to forgive, just as I reserve the right to forgive people like David Levine and Joy Reid, who fit the above criteria. I get to decide how I feel about stuff that hurts people like me. It's my job to listen when people in a different community are harmed.

Justin Trudeau has not been a good leader of his country. There are a whole host of issues on which he is all talk and no action. He is actively terrible on things like indigenous right and environmental justice. There is reason to think he's somewhat corrupt based on a recent scandal.

At the same time, people of colour in Canada are faced with a similar issue that Governor Northam's constituents in the states were faced with. They need to decide if the alternatives are enough worse to stick with Trudeau, and whether his apology + record on issues that effect their communities cancel out the previous behavior.

That's not my job to decide. I'm not Canadian and I'm pretty fucking pasty. My job is to listen to what people of colour in Canada are saying. So that's what I'm doing.

* "Snakebite 'like hammer smashing my hand':" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48281557

* "Growing up in Kosovo: I’ve never met a Serb:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-49727501/albanians-and-serbs-remain-divided-after-the-war

* "China, Solomon Islands establish diplomatic relations:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/china-solomon-islands-establish-diplomatic-relations-190921111348417.html

* "As Amazon Smolders, Indonesia Fires Choke the Other Side of the World:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/world/asia/indonesia-fires-photos.html

* "Protesting Climate Change, Young People Take to Streets in a Global Strike:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/climate/global-climate-strike.html

* "Africa’s cities face the harshest outcomes of climate change and its young people know it:" https://qz.com/africa/1712980/climate-strike-protests-in-africa-nairobi-cape-town-lagos/

* "Global climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead climate crisis protest – as it happened:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2019/sep/20/climate-strike-global-change-protest-sydney-melbourne-london-new-york-nyc-school-student-protest-greta-thunberg-rally-live-news-latest-updates

* "Students taking lead on protesting climate crisis:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/students-taking-lead-on-protesting-climate-crisis-69533765787

* "Climate strike brings millions around the world into the streets:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/climate-strike-brings-millions-around-the-world-into-the-streets-69538373607

* "Al Roker sees ‘devastating’ effects of climate change in Greenland:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/al-roker-sees-devastating-effects-of-climate-change-in-greenland-69533253647

* "Trump sending troops to Saudi Arabia; military funds sent to wall:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-sending-troops-to-saudi-arabia-military-funds-sent-to-wall-69538373534

* 45 is threatening genocide against civilians. "Trump says he could end Afghanistan war quickly but ‘tens of millions’ of people would die:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-could-end-afghanistan-war-quickly-but-tens-of-millions-of-people-would-die/2019/09/20/016fdd9c-dbcb-11e9-a688-303693fb4b0b_story.html

* "Trump Announces Sanctions on Iran Central Bank for Saudi Attack:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-20/trump-says-u-s-sanctioned-iran-s-national-bank-for-attack

* "Trump administration reaches deal to send asylum seekers to El Salvador in an effort to deter migrants from entering the United States:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-administration-reaches-deal-to-send-asylum-seekers-to-el-salvador-in-an-effort-to-deter-migrants-from-entering-the-united-states/2019/09/20/17350a16-dbbd-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html

* "Trump admin ignored evidence of climate change's impact on migration:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-ignored-its-own-evidence-climate-change-s-impact-n1056381

* "Trump admin. ignored own report on climate impact on Guatemalan migration:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-admin-ignored-own-report-on-climate-impact-on-guatemalan-migration-69531205621

* "Whistleblower complaint about President Trump involves Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/whistleblower-complaint-about-president-trump-involves-ukraine-according-to-two-people-familiar-with-the-matter/2019/09/19/07e33f0a-daf6-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html

* "Ukrainian Official: Trump Looking for Dirt ‘To Discredit Biden’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-is-ready-to-investigate-bidens-sonbut-only-if-theres-an-official-us-request

* "Giuliani denies asking Ukraine to investigate Biden -- before admitting it:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/19/politics/rudy-giuliani-joe-biden-ukraine-cnntv/

* "Trump pressured Ukrainian president to investigate Biden's son, reports say:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/20/trump-ukraine-biden-election-help-hillary-clinton-claims

* "New details emerge as Trump fights to quash whistleblower report:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-details-emerge-as-trump-fights-to-quash-whistleblower-report-69440581783

* "Schiff slams DOJ for isolating intel community whistleblower:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-slams-doj-for-isolating-intel-community-whistleblower-69431365984

* "Trump corruption mars U.S. relationship with Ukraine: McFaul:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-corruption-mars-u-s-relationship-with-ukraine-mcfaul-69540933808

* "Whistleblower process breaks down against covering for Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/whistleblower-process-breaks-down-against-covering-for-trump-69540421782

* "Former CIA chief of disguise weighs in on whistleblower case:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/new-details-on-whistleblower-complaint-against-trump-69568581805

* "Legal expert says probe needed into Pence on Ukraine allegations:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/pence-possibly-implicated-in-trump-ukraine-allegations-69570117975

* "Pelosi backs changing the law to allow a sitting president to be indicted:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/20/pelosi-president-indicted-trump-1506664

* "Hayes presses top Dem on White House delight in impeachment woes:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-presses-top-dem-on-white-house-delight-in-impeachment-woes-69316677781

* Seriously, this is scary autocrat stuff. "Trump lawyers argue Trump can't be investigated or prosecuted:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-lawyers-argue-trump-can-t-be-investigated-or-prosecuted-69439557815

* "12-year-old activist: science-based climate plan needed:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/12-year-old-activist-science-based-climate-plan-needed-69532741955

* "Climate crisis affecting young people:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/climate-crisis-affecting-young-people-69532741995

* "Zero Hours left to address climate crisis:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/zero-hours-left-to-address-climate-crisis-69533253707

* "Work on climate change can lead to abundant future:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/work-on-climate-change-can-lead-to-abundant-future-69532229934

* "White House to withdraw Trump's nominee to head FEMA:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/politics/jeff-byard-fema-nominee-withdraw/index.html

* "California and 23 other states sue Trump to stop ban on auto emissions standards:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/20/california-and-23-other-states-sue-trump-to-stop-ban-on-auto-emissions-standards

* "Trump admin. sabotages California and automakers’ efforts to reduce emissions:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-admin-sabotages-california-and-automakers-efforts-to-reduce-emissions-69530693811

* "Exxon knew about climate change long ago:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-long-ago-69425221832

* "Al Gore: Changing light bulbs is important, but not as important as changing laws:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/al-gore-changing-light-bulbs-is-important-but-not-as-important-as-changing-laws-69426757781

* "Al Gore on bringing honesty and determination to the climate fight:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/al-gore-on-bringing-honesty-and-determination-to-the-climate-fight-69427269865

* "Sen. Schatz: ‘We just have to beat” Republicans in 2020 to fix the climate:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-schatz-we-just-have-to-beat-republicans-in-2020-to-fix-the-climate-69317189651

* "2020 candidates take action on the climate crisis:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/2020-candidates-take-action-on-the-climate-crisis-69424197633

* "Bernie on climate crisis: ‘I would use all the executive powers that we have’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-on-climate-crisis-i-would-use-all-the-executive-powers-that-we-have-69425221673

* "LGBTQ Presidential Forum: Where the 10 Candidates Stand:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/9/19/lgbtq-presidential-forum-where-10-candidates-stand#media-gallery-media-11

* "The Advocate's LGBTQ Presidential Forum: Top 10 Moments:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/9/20/advocates-lgbtq-presidential-forum-top-10-moments#media-gallery-media-11

* "Joe Biden Denies 1994 Crime Bill Increased Incarceration Rates:"https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/9/20/joe-biden-denies-1994-crime-bill-increased-incarceration-rates

* "Joe Biden called out at LGBT forum for saying Mike Pence is a “decent guy”:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/21/joe-biden-lgbt-forum-mike-pence-decent-democratic-candidates-2020/

* "Why Bill de Blasio’s Campaign Failed (Hint: Nobody Liked Him):" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-bill-de-blasios-campaign-failed-hint-nobody-liked-him/

* "Meet the queer pro-gun veteran who’s running for Congress:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/19/janessa-goldbeck-pro-gun-queer-military-veteran-congress-california/

* "In reversal, McConnell backs new money for election security:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/in-reversal-mcconnell-backs-new-money-for-election-security-69439045949

* "Trump admin reverses course on deporting ailing immigrant kids:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-reverses-course-on-deporting-ailing-immigrant-kids-69439045935

* "Gay Cuban Journalist Granted Asylum in U.S.:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/9/20/openly-gay-cuban-journalist-granted-asylum-us

* "Jackie Kay on growing up gay in 1960s Scotland: ‘I really did think I might be the only black lesbian in the world’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/19/jackie-kay-scotland-poet-laureate-black-lesbian-coming-out/

* "Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey - "She Said" & Breaking the Harvey Weinstein Story - Extended Interview:"

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* "'He might go on to hurt someone else':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-he-might-go-on-to-hurt-someone-else-69443141804

* "Rigorous journalism stopped Harvey Weinstein, started a movement:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rigorous-journalism-stopped-harvey-weinstein-started-a-movement-69443141844

* They need to fire a whole lot of people starting at the top. "‘How can you be lesbian and Christian?’ Home Office using religion against LGBT asylum seekers, says report:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/20/home-office-asylum-lgbt-religion-study-metropolitan-community-church-london/

* "Indonesia’s ‘gay sex ban’ is a ‘human rights disaster’ for LGBT people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/20/gay-sex-ban-indonesia-human-rights-disaster-lgbt-joko-widodo/

* "Hospital receptionist refused to acknowledge woman's same-sex partner: 'I'll just put friend':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/20/healthcare-lgbt-women-barriers-report/

* "Gay couple had the absolute best response to religious protesters who targeted Rocky Horror Show:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/19/gay-couple-rocky-horror-show-religious-protesters/

* "‘You f**king queer p**fs’: Gay bakers sent hate-filled homophobic letter:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/21/you-fking-queer-pfs-gay-bakers-sent-hate-filled-homophobic-letter/

* "Man fired and made homeless for being gay in South Korea:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/21/south-korea-gay-man-abuse-mother-fired-homeless/

* "Betsy DeVos to promote school that bans trans students and gay teachers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/19/betsy-devos-education-secretary-trump-harrisburg-catholic-school-anti-trans-gay/

* "Antigay Florida Church Can Be Labeled 'Hate Group,' Judge Rules:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2019/9/20/antigay-florida-church-can-be-labeled-hate-group-judge-rules

* "Duke University Rejects Student Group Over Homophobic Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/9/20/duke-university-rejects-student-group-over-homophobic-policy

* "We Are Not Being Sensitive, You're Being Obtuse .:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/09/we-are-not-being-sensitive-youre-being.html

* "High school students staged a walk-out protest over trans-inclusive bathroom policy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/20/bathroom-policy-trans-north-buncombe-high-school-protest-north-carolina/

* "We’re Fighting a New 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' All Over Again:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/9/20/were-fighting-new-dont-ask-dont-tell-all-over-again

* "Why industry is going green on the quiet:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/08/producers-keep-sustainable-practices-secret

* "Historic Midwest floods expose fragile ecosystem:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/historic-midwest-floods-expose-fragile-ecosystem-69534789763

* "US and Canada lose 3bn birds in 50 years:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49744435

* "North American bird population down billions over 50 years: study:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/north-american-bird-population-down-billions-over-50-years-study-69541445777

* "Sold for a song:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/sold_for_a_song

* "Two years on: a photographic tribute to Standing Rock:" https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/two-years-on-a-photographic-tribute-to-standing-rock/

* "Trump's Border Wall Visit, Dirty Drinking Water on Planes & A Government Admission About UFOs:"

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* "Justin Trudeau's Blackface Scandal:"

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* "Tensions Flare Over the Saudi Oil Attack:"

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* "We've Got Your Back-2-Congress Supplies:"

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* I forgot to set an alarm, but still made it outside in time to forage Friday. Go me!

I owe my Dreamwidth readers an apology. I'm going through one of those periodic things where I get too tired to continue all at once. I spend all night prepping these and I keep reaching point where there's a huge link backlog, the browser is slowing to a crawl, and my eyelids keep flipping inside out. I need to reboot and I know by the time I have I won't have energy to close out a posting properly. It'll pass, but until then, I'll keep missing days and ending up with massive multi-day posts.

* We have about a week of prescription goosh left. High quality wet food that fits her veterinarian's specification in necessary to Livia staying healthy. Interested in helping with Livia's new Goosh?
I'm looking at Natural Balance Ultra Premium Turkey & Giblets Formula Canned Cat Food, since it's cheaper than prescription, but within specs: https://www.chewy.com/natural-balance-ultra-premium-turkey/dp/33214?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=f&utm_content=Natural%20Balance&utm_term=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-uXqwqPK5AIVB9tkCh3a2wZmEAQYASABEgJuZvD_BwE

or Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion It's 47.00 with shipping looks like.

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

* Master Post For the summer of resistance: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108368.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat things we need most are:
https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-Deterrent-Activated-Repellent-Environmentally/dp/B0721735K9

And: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J669H65/?coliid=I1EUR00IM1I3P&colid=1EVWGXWUM3YU7&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html
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* "Israel election results: Netanyahu's bloc fails to secure majority as 91% of votes counted:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-israel-election-exit-polls-netanyahu-gantz-1.7854652

* "Hayes: Trump is ready to dispatch the U.S. armed forces at the direction of a foreign prince:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-is-ready-to-dispatch-the-u-s-armed-forces-at-the-direction-of-a-foreign-prince-69094469677

* "Air Force crews stayed at Trump’s Turnberry resort for days at a time:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/17/trump-scotland-turnberry-1499298

* "Trump Wants the Government to Investigate Obama’s Netflix Deal:" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxa7b/trump-wants-the-government-to-investigate-obamas-netflix-deal

* "White House tells Lewandowski not to answer questions and asserts immunity for Dearborn and Porter:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/16/politics/lewandowski-white-house-asserts-immunity/index.html

* "Dems see Lewandowski’s combativeness as Trump impeachment fuel:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/17/corey-lewandowski-impeachment-hearing-1500023

* "Combative Lewandowski begrudgingly affirms Mueller report's truth:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/combative-lewandowski-begrudgingly-affirms-mueller-report-s-truth-69205573977

* "8 Years of Trump Tax Returns Are Subpoenaed by Manhattan D.A.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/nyregion/trump-tax-returns-cy-vance.html

* "Democrats Keep Their Trump Tax Whistleblower A Secret For Now:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-trump-tax-returns-whistleblower_n_5d78011ee4b0432f8173b8d2

* "Intel chief escalates standoff over secret whistle-blower report:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/intel-chief-escalates-standoff-over-secret-whistle-blower-report-69206085837

* "The latest on the emoluments lawsuit against Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-latest-on-the-emoluments-lawsuit-against-trump-69099077998

* "House Democrats pursue Sessions for testimony in impeachment probe of Trump:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-democrats-pursue-sessions-for-testimony-in-impeachment-probe-of-trump/2019/09/13/e2925316-d58d-11e9-ab26-e6dbebac45d3_story.html?arc404=true&noredirect=on

* "Is a Consumer Protection Exec Quietly Dismantling LGBTQ Protections?:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/9/18/consumer-protection-exec-quietly-dismantling-lgbtq-protections

* "Trump Wants a Torture Proponent to Lead U.S. Human Rights Policy. The Senate Should Say No:" https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/17/trump-billingslea-torture-human-rights-228112

If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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

* "Trump administration to revoke California’s power to set stricter auto emissions standards:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/trump-administration-to-revoke-californias-power-to-set-stricter-auto-emissions-standards/2019/09/17/79af2ee0-d97b-11e9-a688-303693fb4b0b_story.html?noredirect=on

* "House probing Chao on questions of conflict with family business:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-probing-chao-on-questions-of-conflict-with-family-business-69111365570

* "Warren targets 'corruption right at the heart of our government':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/warren-targets-corruption-right-at-the-heart-of-our-government-69199429644

* "Warren: Trump is dangerous and we need a new president:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/warren-trump-is-dangerous-and-we-need-a-new-president-69198405850

* "Harris: Trump White House choreographed 'sham' Kavanaugh hearing:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/harris-white-house-choreographed-sham-kavanaugh-hearing-69101125835

* "Harris: Trump military conflict with Iran 'completely avoidable':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/harris-trump-military-conflict-with-iran-completely-avoidable-69103685524

* "Harris makes case against Trump's long political rap sheet:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/harris-makes-case-against-trump-s-long-political-rap-sheet-69103173802

* "This is the first gay man to run for governor in the home state of Mike Pence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/17/mike-pence-josh-owens-indiana-governor-nomination/

* "Nearly 50,000 auto workers strike against GM:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nearly-50-000-auto-workers-strike-against-gm-69097541974

* "White House intervenes in General Motors strike:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/17/white-house-general-motors-strike-1735740

* "Congressman Yoho Introduces Ag Guest Worker Bill:" http://vscnews.com/congressman-yoho-introduces-ag-guest-worker-bill/

* "Border fence construction could destroy archaeological sites, National Park Service finds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/border-fence-construction-could-destroy-archaeological-sites-national-park-service-finds/2019/09/17/35338b18-d64b-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html?noredirect=on

* "The Trump Administration Wants To Charge Immigrants Nearly $1,000 To Appeal Deportation Cases:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/trump-administration-immigrant-fees-increase-court-appeals

* "Sonia Sotomayor - "Just Ask!" & Life as a Supreme Court Justice - Extended Interview:"

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* TW: Sexual Assault "Senator told FBI last fall of new information about Kavanaugh:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senator-says-fbi-did-not-investigate-allegation-against-kavanaugh/2019/09/16/a881f584-d883-11e9-adff-79254db7f766_story.html?noredirect=on

* TW: Sexual Assault "Democratic candidates demand Kavanaugh’s impeachment after new allegation in Times piece:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/democratic-candidates-demand-kavanaugh-impeachment-after-new-allegation-in-times-piece/2019/09/15/3bdc160e-d7ce-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html?noredirect=on

* TW: Sexual Assault "Calls for Justice Kavanaugh’s impeachment are mounting. Here’s how it could work.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/15/calls-justice-kavanaughs-impeachment-are-mounting-heres-how-it-could-work/?noredirect=on

* "Trump stands up for Brett Kavanaugh over ‘liable’:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/15/trump-brett-kavanaugh-1496181

* "Unhealed wounds of Kavanaugh confirmation reopened by new report:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/unhealed-wounds-of-kavanaugh-confirmation-reopened-by-new-report-69108293880

* "‘It’s like being on the edge of dying’: Chechnya man arrested and tortured for being gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/16/chechnya-man-arrested-and-tortured-for-being-gay/

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

* "Brexit and social media behind rise in anti-LGBT hate crime, police chief claims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/17/brexit-social-media-anti-lgbt-hate-crime-west-yorkshire-police-crime-mark-burns-williamson/

* "Arizona High Court Grants Stationery Shop License to Discriminate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/9/16/arizona-high-court-grants-stationery-shop-license-discriminate

* "Trans woman says she was ‘on the ground bleeding’ after suspected transphobic attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/18/trans-woman-attack-transphobic-portland-police-bureau-atlas/

* "Gay Man Says He Was Held Down, Assaulted at Homophobic Church:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2019/9/17/gay-man-says-he-was-held-down-assaulted-homophobic-church

* "Milo Yiannopoulos tried to join the furry subculture but it backfired spectacularly:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/16/milo-yiannopoulos-tried-join-furry-subculture-backfired-spectacularly/

* "This is what not to say to somebody who is HIV-positive:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/17/hiv-what-not-to-say-gateht-thomas-lizzie-jordan-think2speak/

* "What No One's Saying About Cokie Roberts: She Was an LGBTQ Ally:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2019/9/17/what-no-ones-saying-about-cokie-roberts-she-was-lgbtq-ally

* "Legal Immigration:"

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* "A Tale of Two Rallies: Elizabeth Warren Tackles Wealth Disparity & Trump Rambles About Hispanics:"

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* "Felicity Huffman's Lax Sentence, Mike Pence's Horse Bite & Lou Dobbs's Ass-Kissing Trump Tribute:"

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* "Brett Kavanaugh Faces Yet Another Sexual Assault Claim:"

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* A long dead lover and I used to have this whole thing about Ric Ocasek being an alien from the same planet David Bowie came from. I vaguely remember us trying to derive details of their home world culture based on '80's videos.

The Cars were such a part of my teens.

* "The Cars - Magic :"

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* "The Cars - You Might Think:"

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* "The Cars - Drive:"

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* The autodialers have been particularly aggressive the last couple of weeks. Monday there were five calls in the last hour before the alarm, plus I think three others earlier in my sleep cycle. Why don't I turn off the phone while I sleep? Because two of those calls were real. (A time sensitive medical one and the Coop telling me that my gravy will never come). The gravy thing is really distressing. It was the perfect vegetarian gravy: ideal taste and texture, super easy to use. Sigh. I went in and we switched the order to some other strange gravy. Let's hope I like it.

The really infuriating thing was three of the eight calls Monday was a robot from my medicare advantage that could not understand my voice calling to demand I self accuse for skipping a dose on one of my meds. 1. I haven't been skipping doses of this particular drug so WTF. 2. A bunch of my other meds allow some variable dosing. For example, I usually take one rantidine to smooth over the patch towards the end of my Omneprazole dose before the next dose kicks in, but I am allowed a second if there's break through nausea. Or I take three doses of my lung ampule when my lungs are bad, but I usually only need two a day and I'm allowed to do that because, you know time consuming and side effects. Why take more than I need if it's gong to raise my blood pressure and give me heart palpitations? Or I stop taking my AS meds when I'm on antibiotics. I'm a competent adult and I know the difference between things like simvastatin and levithyroxine where you don't want to skip and things where my Doctor trusts my judgement and lets me take what I need.

Look, I get why you want meds tracking for say, patients with serious psychiatric or heart conditions or dementia, but that's not me. I feel like one size fits all is a terrible idea. This should be opt in for patients who are able to manage their own affairs. Also, I really, really resented the accusatory tone of the recorded message, especially since I hadn't missed any doses. There was no opt out option. I was forced to block the number, thus freeing another scammer to start the harassment cycle again.

Apparently they only have one autodialer, because a live human woke me up to harass me over my simvastatin again on Tuesday (one of five calls to wake me up.) even though I still hadn't missed any doses. Luckily my grumpy rant caused the live human to opt me out which they actually can do. I

This nanny bullshit makes me hostile. I'm a mentally vigorous person who juggles 21-25 meds on an elaborate schedule every fucking day. My brain process large quantities of information on a regular basis. I do not need constant interference just because my disability means I am extremely fucking poor. I want to be left the fuck alone unless they are offering me something that actually helps like better benefits. Stealing my sleep so a machine can scold me is not helping.

Anyway, Tuesday I went down to do a DNR form with my Doctor nd a nice lady she was training. I have very strong views about things I do not want done to me when I'm unconscious or incoherent because I have a realistic view of what, say a feeding tube or ventilator are really like and what my likely end of life is going to look like given my assorted degenerative genetic diseases. My family has always been like that: realistic about the facts of dying, prone to choosing quality over quantity, rejecting the fucked up denial of American death culture. I come from a loooong line of people who make jokes on their own death bed and emphatically reject heroic measures when it's clearly time to just let go. Like a lot of health care workers, they too had their own DNRs and had a similar attitude towards the whole thing, so we chatted and did up the form and sent me on my way. Next on the list: make an appointment with Law advocates to get the legal end sorted.

Don't worry, gentle readers, this does not signal my imminent demise. It's just that I've been meaning to get around to this stuff for several years, but you know: chronic illness.

* The other day a very old friend used the phrase "Vegetarian Libertine" to describe me in a story about something that happened over a decade ago and the phrase has stuck in my mind ever since. Certainly it did describe me in my heyday, but there was something fundamentally pleasing about it that goes deeper.

See, the "liber" in "Libertine" means freedom. In the original early modern usage it meant free thinker. This meant of course atheists and agnostics, but also people with a variety of unorthodox thoughts on a wide range of topics like ethics, government, natural history, etc.. Of course given the tenor of the times freedom from conventional religious morality implied in a lot of minds an embrace of things like heavy drinking, debauchery, theater going, etc., and so you get the more earthy meaning that carries forward to us. Wine was never my thing, but oh did I love sex and I was definitely a free thinker on a variety of topics, for all I am a Buddhist. I did live a wild, wild life full of wit and philosophy and free love.

Of course I live a rather monkish life now. I am too ill and tired and poor to go hunting for lovers, but those old libertines often ended up in bodies as ruined or more ruined than mine. John Wilmot, lord Rochester died in his thirties, incontinent and his face literally rotting away from the syph, and he was a Libertine's libertine. So I guess it fits still in a way.

I burned so fast and bright and I don't regret it. I am still a free thinker, here in these long days of my ruin.

Vegetarian Libertine. Yep.

* "Orson Welles Should Have Played Harry Mudd On Star Trek:" https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/orson-welles-should-have-played-harry?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxMjU5OTgsIl8iOiJINmxnVyIsImlhdCI6MTU2ODc3NzU3OCwiZXhwIjoxNTY4NzgxMTc4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.T3utl9RyPQshQbr6IC0FZQstX1jej_k9YVSDi24XhKc

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

* Angry at 45 for his plan to steal food from 3.1 million people who need it including stealing lunch from 500,000 children? Here is a big activism resource for fighting back. "USDA SNAP Rule Opposition Campaign - Comments Due September 23, 2019!:" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hGBajjsAwdueJFfXospFnUo89wAWR2HHPxNt8heUUIE/edit?fbclid=IwAR0GoYF521ASlr9Nwm6xfTxBsPVhyqLmVlkjbOjLCjnJ4Iblv6OI8Kzufao

* Master Post For the summer of resistance: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108368.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat things we need most are:
https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-Deterrent-Activated-Repellent-Environmentally/dp/B0721735K9

And: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J669H65/?coliid=I1EUR00IM1I3P&colid=1EVWGXWUM3YU7&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html
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* "Russia asks Interpol for help over alleged CIA mole's whereabouts:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/12/russia-cia-suspected-spy-us-kremlin-cia-interpol

* "Schiff says whistleblower complaint could implicate White House:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/house-intel-chair-subpoenas-acting-director-of-national-intel-68993093528

* "Administration finalizes repeal of 2015 water rule Trump called ‘destructive and horrible’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/administration-finalizes-repeal-of-2015-water-rule-trump-called-destructive-and-horrible/2019/09/11/fddfa49a-d4aa-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html?noredirect=on

* "Three Bolton aides submit their resignations at White House:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-bolton-aides/three-bolton-aides-submit-their-resignations-at-white-house-idUSKCN1VW24P

* "Ivanka tells donors she got her moral compass from her dad:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/13/ivanka-trump-donors-1488704

* "Jamelle Bouie - Assessing the Third Democratic Primary Debate:"

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* "Examining Biden’s remarks on race after debate backlash:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/biden-delivers-remarks-on-race-in-alabama-church-68997189760

* "Trump's plan to use Air Force funds for border wall poses national security risks:" https://www.axios.com/trump-border-wall-divert-air-force-funds-national-security-risks-2b49e2e4-9c91-451c-a0c3-fc2d94a9b8f1.html

* "Supreme Court says Trump administration can begin denying asylum to migrants while legal fight continues:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-says-trump-administration-can-begin-denying-migrants-asylum-while-legal-fight-continues/2019/09/11/94b90da4-d017-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html?noredirect=on

* TW: Sexual Assault "Analyzing new Kavanaugh allegation reported by The New York Times:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/new-kavanaugh-sexual-misconduct-allegation-reported-by-new-york-times-68996165526

* "New York City Council Plans to Repeal Conversion Therapy Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/9/12/new-york-city-council-plans-repeal-conversion-therapy-ban

* "Greta Thunberg - Inspiring Others to Take a Stand Against Climate Change - Extended Interview:"

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* I am still grumpy about Voltaire's treatment of Émilie du Châtelet, but she really seemed to love him, so.... "The Enlightenment: Crash Course European History #18:"

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* "Highlights of the Third 2020 Democratic Primary Debate:"

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* "Candidate Rehab:"

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* "Companies Pay for Their Role in the Opioid Crisis :"

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* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Trump Makes the World Safer for Trophy Hunters:"

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* "Sunday Sweets: Sew Much Fun:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2019/9/15/sunday-sweets-sew-much-fun

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

* Angry at 45 for his plan to steal food from 3.1 million people who need it including stealing lunch from 500,000 children? Here is a big activism resource for fighting back. "USDA SNAP Rule Opposition Campaign - Comments Due September 23, 2019!:" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hGBajjsAwdueJFfXospFnUo89wAWR2HHPxNt8heUUIE/edit?fbclid=IwAR0GoYF521ASlr9Nwm6xfTxBsPVhyqLmVlkjbOjLCjnJ4Iblv6OI8Kzufao

* Master Post For the summer of resistance: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108368.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat things we need most are:
https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-Deterrent-Activated-Repellent-Environmentally/dp/B0721735K9

And: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J669H65/?coliid=I1EUR00IM1I3P&colid=1EVWGXWUM3YU7&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

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