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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Hold Shell Accountable | Youth & Climate:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Story Corps - Still the One:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "April Ryan - "Under Fire" and Demanding the Truth from the Trump White House - Extended Interview:"

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* "John Kerry Wishes White House Aides Didn't Have To Resist:"

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* "Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited

* "Kavanaugh Hearings, Day 3: Booker Has His 'Spartacus Moment'; A Mulligan On Mueller:" https://www.npr.org/2018/09/06/645307229/kavanaugh-hearings-day-3-booker-has-his-sparticus-moment-a-mulligan-on-mueller

* Kavanaugh's email on Roe v Wade.: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/269-kavanaugh-email-re-whether-roe/e6dbbda94dd204fe02af/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

* "Democrats defy GOP, release confidential Kavanaugh documents in showdown:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/democratic-senators-say-they-will-risk-expulsion-fight-to-release-kavanaugh-documents.html

* "Kavanaugh stumbles when grilled on whether he discussed Mueller probe:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/05/kavanaugh-mueller-probe-hearings-809115

* "Documents on Kavanaugh's hidden views 'being withheld from public':" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/06/brett-kavanaugh-hearings-third-day-documents-leaked

* "Here's Another Brett Kavanaugh Email Republicans Didn't Want You To See:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kavanaugh-emails_us_5b917067e4b0162f472b242e

* "Senator Cory Booker blasts SCOTUS hearing:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/senator-cory-booker-blasts-scotus-hearing-1314642499664?v=railb&

* "Democrats aim for potential cracks in GOP support for Kavanaugh:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-aim-for-potential-cracks-in-gop-support-for-kavanaugh-1314744387947?v=railb&

* "Overlap in Kavanaugh nomination, Trump Russia probe becomes clear:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/overlap-in-kavanaugh-nomination-trump-russia-probe-becomes-clear-1314745411607?v=railb&

* "Swalwell: Kavanaugh 'the wrong judge at the wrong time':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/swalwell-kavanaugh-the-wrong-judge-at-the-wrong-time-1314745923519?v=railb&

* NOTE: The person who got to decide that Democrats were only allowed to look at 10% of the Kavanaugh documents and who got to decide which things are marked “Committee Confidential” is Steve Bannon’s lawyer, who is also defending some of the people in the Mueller investigation. It’s not, say, the FBI or any other official investigative organization. Just Saying.

* Hearings continue even though Republicans refuse to release the documents from his time in the executive Branch for review. Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have a centrist Democrat like Joseph Manchin, Joe Donnelly, and Heidi Heitkamp; or Republicans like Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. (For Scott and Rubio emphasize Kavanaugh's racism and support for racial profiling, for Collins and Murkowski emphasize the right to chose and the Jane Doe case where he tried to force a raped immigrant teen to carry against her will, With Murowski, you might also mention his opposition to programs benefiting Alaska Natives). Contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition.

Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, 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/

* "Kerry: Americans' best option is to vote:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/kerry-americans-best-option-is-to-vote-1314638403953?v=railb&

* "Jon Kyl sworn in as senator replacing McCain:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mccain/jon-kyl-sworn-in-as-senator-replacing-mccain-idUSKCN1LL2LR

* "Lyft to Offer Free and Discounted Rides to Voters on Election Day:" http://fortune.com/2018/08/23/lyft-free-ride-discount-election-day/

* "Trump admin hyped terror threat from refugees, former officials say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-rejected-report-showing-refugees-did-not-pose-major-n906681

* "New rule would allow Trump admin to hold migrant kids indefinitely:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-plans-hold-migrant-kids-indefinitely-defying-decades-old-n907006

* Our government is not only still holding 400 of the children they kidnapped, they are planning to defy the law by restarting the child kidnapping/internment camp program. We are also still violating international law regarding refugees.

* "Trump admin. wants to hold migrant kids indefinitely:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-admin-wants-to-hold-migrant-kids-indefinitely-1314635843746?v=railb&

* "The Deadly Incel Movement’s Absurd Pop Culture Roots:" https://medium.com/s/trustissues/the-deadly-incel-movements-absurd-pop-culture-roots-e5bef93df2f5

* "How does the literary canon reinforce the logic of the incel?:" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/04/incel-movement-literary-classics-behind-misogyny

* "Chicago Priests Caught Having Sex in Public on Ocean Drive:" https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/chicago-priest-caught-having-sex-on-miami-beachs-ocean-drive-10698424

* "Campaigners celebrate as India decriminalises homosexuality:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/indian-supreme-court-decriminalises-homosexuality

* "Are Social Media Companies Really Silencing Conservatives?:"

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* "So You Think You Can Judge - Kamala Harris Brings It :"

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* "The Reading Rainbow: Bob Woodward's 'Fear':"

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* "A Damning Op Ed Distracts Trump From A Damning Book:"

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* "Trump Rebukes 'Embarrassing' Protestors At Kavanaugh's Hearing:"

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* Adapting Shakespeare: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/177827927642/laughingacademy-gwydionmisha

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

* "Fires in Greece: how to help:" https://medium.com/@theo.k/fires-in-greece-how-to-help-41ad32fc9232

* Practical ways to protest with scripts. "On the Helsinki summit, election integrity and Mueller:" https://medium.com/@Celeste_pewter/on-the-helsinki-summit-election-integrity-and-mueller-b8ed1acde2c0

* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/

* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/

* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border

This has a call script to help you talk your Republican Senator into voting for the Keep Families Together Act: http://rockinhamburger.tumblr.com/post/175022988673/captacorn-marvelsmostwanted-heres-a-call

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

* 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? 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 swimsuits are being made from an ethical source. LGBTQIA+ swimsuits: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NerdyKeppie?ref=l2-shopheader-name§ion_id=24021616

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.comn

* "Values Voter Summit: Trump first sitting president to address:"

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* "Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands: Part of U.S.:"

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* "Firm Behind 'Fearless Girl' Statue Underpaid Female, Black Execs, U.S. Says:" http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/06/556058808/firm-behind-fearless-girl-statue-underpaid-female-black-execs-u-s-says?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202706

* So when I was training to be a teacher, they told us never, ever take a student anywhere in your personal car, no matter what the emergency. If you are alone in a room with a student, leave the door open if there are no hallway windows to let random passersby peer in. (With some students with severe disabilities needing to be taken to the bathroom this isn't always possible, but more than one life skills department I know of used to do pottying in pairs or groups whenever they could. In our profession, even the appearance that something is slightly off is enough to ruin a career so the sensible thing is to make sure there is never any occasion that is even slightly ambiguous regardless of the gender or age of the student. It was geometrically more important for male teachers especially in elementary, given the assumptions people tend to make, but we were all trained that way regardless of our genders and the ages we were teaching. Transparency was safer for them and safer for us. There is reason this is standard in my state. We could still have private conversation about things they might not want generally known like bullying, eating disorders, cheating, drugs, etc. but any one wandering past could see us having a conversation. The newest schools have hallway windows, which I adore as you can watch your kids when they are spread out for projects and admins can check to see if everything is okay without coming in and disrupting things. It seems to me that this would be a much better practice in a variety of industries. Particularly Hollywood. Just saying.

* In case it's not incredibly clear from the way I post: I believe the women. that goes for Oliver Stone as well as Harvey Weinstein.

* "Harvey Weinstein: New allegations emerge:"

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* "Charlottesville attack: Rally leaders now face lawsuit:"

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* "Charlottesville sues “Unite the Right” rally organizers:" https://www.avclub.com/charlottesville-sues-unite-the-right-rally-organizers-1819449377

* "When 20,000 American Nazis Descended Upon New York City:" https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/542499/marshall-curry-nazi-rally-madison-square-garden-1939/

* "Fossil footprints challenge established theories of human evolution:" https://phys.org/news/2017-08-fossil-footprints-theories-human-evolution.html

* "How Neanderthals made the very first glue:" https://phys.org/news/2017-08-neanderthals.html

* "Ancient cemetery dating back 18th dynasty unearthed in Luxor:" http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/21778/Ancient-cemetery-dating-back-18th-dynasty-unearthed-in-Luxor

* "Ancient Egyptian records indicate Philistines weren't Aegean pirates after all:" https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.802928

* "The real Ark of the Covenant may have housed pagan gods:" https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.809233

* "Confederacy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Weekend Update on Mike Ditka :"

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* "Weekend Update on Harvey Weinstein:"

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* "Kumail Nanjiani - SNL:"

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* "Kellywise - SNL:"

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* "Donal Trump Trucker Rally Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Customer Service - SNL:"

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* Bwahaha! "Tearful Anthropologists Discover Dead Ancestor Of Humans 100,000 Years Too Late:" http://www.theonion.com/article/tearful-anthropologists-discover-dead-ancestor-hum-51286

* "Van Helsing, Season 2, Episode 2: In Redemption:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/10/van-helsing-season-2-episode-2-in.html

* On Davos Seaworth: http://poorquentyn.tumblr.com/post/166396948233/care-to-give-your-thoughts-on-teh-last-davos

* This speaks for me. "If a teenager is at your door and they are wearing a costume:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166411903977/lastoneout-archdemonblood-dewyntersisters

* Re: Romeo + Juliet: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166411544992/thebibliosphere-heterofredburkle

* Next Saturday, 11pm
October 17, 2017, 10am
October 18 2017, 10:30am
October 19 2017, 10am
October 30 2017, 2am
October 31 2017, 3am
October 31 2017, 6pm
October 31 2017, 8pm
November 2 2017, 5pm
Next Saturday, 10:30am
Next Monday, 8:30pm
Next Tuesday, 12:30pm

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

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

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

* "Congress Wants to Change the Americans with Disabilities Act and Undermine the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165470116342/congress-wants-to-change-the-americans-with

* How to help Flood victims in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165235609582/woke-up-on-derse-f-f-f-fight

"How to Help Puerto Rico from the outside:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165733774359/how-to-help-puerto-rico-from-the-outside

* How to help Caribbean victims of Irma: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165240981876/hedaclara-hedaclara-hedaclara-guys-the

* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html

* "Disaster Relief and Support for Libraries:" http://www.txla.org/news/2017/08/disaster-relief-and-support-for-libraries

* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn

* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide

* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633

* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets

* List of places to donate to help trans service members and fight the planned attack on active duty trans soldiers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/163475550346/moonbian-hey-i-know-reblogging-posts-about-how

* Red Cross is taking donations for Western Wildfire Relief: http://www.redcross.org/local/oregon/ways-to-donate/wildfires

* (This is here as a reminder to me for later). "Can you recommend me some good books, essays, etc. about witches, witchcraft, witch trials in England?:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164664427028/dear-pauline-can-you-recommend-me-some-good

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Egypt: At least 28 dead as gunmen fire on bus carrying Coptic Christians:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/africa/egypt-shooting-coptic-christians/

* Yet more assholery during 45’s Bad Will Tour of Europe. " Trump in Brussels: 'The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad' :" http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Finternational%2Fworld%2Ftrump-in-brussels-the-germans-are-bad-very-bad-a-1149330.html&t=YmQxMWEzMDhlNzBhNGVhOWU2YjNjNTUyN2Y4NjI0Yjk2NTUzZTJkMixURjNlN3lmdA%3D%3D&b=t%3AGDjg2t7tT-TKY-uexqIT2g&p=http%3A%2F%2Fgwydionmisha.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F161115279202%2Ftrump-in-brussels-the-germans-are-bad-very-bad&m=1

* "Boehner chides Trump administration 'disaster':" http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2017%2F05%2F26%2Fpolitics%2Fboehner-trump-kpmg-event-disaster-tax-reform%2Findex.html&t=MDMzMzFlZGM4YWU1NDAwYzdkMTE5YzljNWM1YmYzNjRiZjhmNzFhYyxuQ1hsQVczbQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AGDjg2t7tT-TKY-uexqIT2g&p=http%3A%2F%2Fgwydionmisha.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F161118238622%2Fboehner-chides-trump-administration-disaster&m=1

* "Jared Kushner Under Scrutiny in Russia Probe, Officials Say:" http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jared-kushner-now-under-fbi-scrutiny-russia-probe-say-officials-n764826

* "Sources: Comey acted on Russian intelligence he knew was fake:" http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2017%2F05%2F26%2Fpolitics%2Fjames-comey-fbi-investigation-fake-russian-intelligence%2F&t=ZWM4ZGM2ZDdlOWM1ODdiMzczNjdmZDVkNjFkMWUxYmJjZGU3NjQ2ZixtcWtNOXBFSw%3D%3D&b=t%3AGDjg2t7tT-TKY-uexqIT2g&p=http%3A%2F%2Fgwydionmisha.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F161115313062%2Fsources-comey-acted-on-russian-intelligence-he&m=1

* I had assumed Kushner was guilty of a variety of mostly corruption related crimes based on the previous reporting, It’s sure looking like treason as well with the new information about his brokering back channel collusion with the Russians during the election campaign. I had honestly assumed he was more competent than to do something so blatant.

* Montana Republicans are such terrible people that they decided to send a man to congress who violently assaulted a reporter for daring to politely ask him a question about the ACA Repeal and then lied about it being entirely the victim’s fault knowing full well that a recording and multiple witnesses all testify to it having been an entirely unprovoked attack. Congressional Republicans are such horrible people that they were out defending him after he chose to assault that reporter for no reason. They all did this on purpose, knowing what sort of person Gianforte is.

* "When they knock on your front door: Preparing for Repression:" https://antirepressionbayarea.com/when-they-knock-on-your-front-door/

* "United Airlines just apologized for accusing a gay father of groping his child:" https://mic.com/articles/178231/united-airlines-just-apologized-for-accusing-a-gay-father-of-groping-his-child?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=main&utm_source=policymicTBLR#.LWiRDMuAg

* "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged):"

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* "Elementary Delivers A Whammy of a Season Finale:" http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefandomentals.com%2Felementary-delivers-whammy-season-finale%2F&t=NDUwY2U4ODc4ZWI0NDNhM2UxMjAxMDA3NmE1OWNlODI4YWQ2YzMzMixDSWxnOWl1Yw%3D%3D&b=t%3AGDjg2t7tT-TKY-uexqIT2g&p=http%3A%2F%2Fgwydionmisha.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F161113392362%2Felementary-delivers-a-whammy-of-a-season-finale&m=1

* "Star Trek Inclusion & the Presumed SJW Narrative:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/05/star-trek-inclusion-presumed-sjw.html

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

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

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

Want to fight Climate Change? "Ready to Mobilize? Start Here!:" http://www.theclimatemobilization.org/start_here

* Distressed by the anti-gay genocide in Chechnya and the anti-gay laws in Russia? Donate here: https://lgbtnet.org/en

* The Rainbow Road and other ways to help Gay Refugees: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/160470723507/the-rainbow-railroad-is-helping-gay-men-escape

* This is a Real Life friend of mine. They do very much need the money and a number of people and beasts depend on him and his husband. They have been incredibly helpful and supportive of me. If you can kick in, it is a kindness.: https://www.youcaring.com/tod-788345

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

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* Exeunt, Pursued by a Bear: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/159145711537/sandovers-prokopetz-prokopetz-i-am-100

* It is so WEIRD to me that critics hated Velvet Goldmine. It's on my short list of my favorite films and is on of the most important movies I've ever seen.

* "Ballad of the Bastards Part 3: Sansa, Interrupted:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/winterhell-s6-retrospective-part-3/

* 2016 as a horror movie: http://satyrday.tumblr.com/post/158840868966/localstarboy-nahhh-they-actually-made-2016-into

* "Sunday Sweets Gets Suspended!:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2017/4/2/sunday-sweets-gets-suspended.html

* "The Women of Penny Dreadful:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2016/06/the-women-of-penny-dreadful.html

* "Penny Dreadful, Season 3, Episode 8: Perpetual Night:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2016/06/penny-dreadful-season-3-episode-8.html

* "Penny Dreadful, Season 3, Episode 9: The Blessed Dark:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2016/06/penny-dreadful-season-3-episode-9.html

* Some of you may have noticed I'm doing National Poetry month. I am not at all an arbiter of taste here, as being a philistine, my taste in poetry was formed in high school. Feel free to scoff.

* "Aboard the Ship - Constantine P. Cavafy:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/159130928171/gwydionmisha-constantine-p-cavafy

* "Penny Dreadful and Race:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2016/06/penny-dreadful-and-race.html

* Me watching series finale of Black Sails last night: Well...Fuck.


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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Let me tell you a story about Hillary Clinton.:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/152855655477/so-if-i-understand-these-presidential-elections

* "US court rules that asylum seeker can’t be bisexual because he married a woman:" http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/08/20/us-court-rules-that-asylum-seeker-cant-be-bisexual-because-he-married-a-woman/?utm_source=PNFB&utm_medium=SocialFB&utm_content=FBJM&utm_campaign=PNFacebook

* The Hollow Crown, Season 2:
Like pretty much anyone with any kind of background in late Medieval English History, I have Feelings about the War of the Roses. Yes, I was a 14th century specialist, but frankly the 14th and 15th Century political and social history are particularly logical to clump together because of the way events fell out and long term stuff like Recurrent plague's effects on demographic trends and thus society, economics, art, the legal status of peasants, etc; the Hundred Years War (which was longer than that and more lots of little connected wars); and the whole complicated situation set up by Edward III having so many wives and descendants and the subsequent long term dynastic in fighting. (I used to occasionally be asked to explain the War of the Roses.
I could generally give a satisfying answer in about an hour, but I required paper, a writing utensil, and to start with Edward III and his children. I'd sketch out the family tree and with that as a visual aid could get us all the way to Henry VII in a coherent narrative that skipped details like battles, but explained the whys and the major players which is what most casual questioners want anyway).

Anyway, I've seen people descend to name calling and the occasional fist fights over the board game, Kingmaker. Emotions run high over York vs. Lancaster and nearly everyone who cares even a little bit about this stuff takes sides. You can generally tell which side a historian is on pretty easily, because Historians especially have Feelings about this. I have Feelings too. It's just mine are a bit above average complicated. I'm that weirdo who can simultaneously adore Eleanor of Aquitaine and be terribly fond of Henry II. I'm that oddball who has massive sympathy for Edward II AND Isabella of France. I am all about the open eyed embracing of problematic fave going way the hell back into my childhood, and I happen to be the sort of person who loves the historical Margaret of Anjou and Richard III both. No really. Because the historical personages are both pretty fucking amazing.

Which brings us to Shakespeare, who is writing these three plays under a Tudor sovereign. He is not writing about the historical Richard III who's fall was really mostly about him being a reformer who championed Justice and rights of ordinary people in a way that pissed of nobles who were used to riding rough shod over the land rights in particular of commoners. No, Shakespeare's Richard is based off some Tudor propaganda written long after the fact to justify their overthrow of a King who was at the time fairly popular with ordinary people. They had to blacken his image as part of the attempt to solidify their rule after literally decades of extreme turmoil that had killed off a lot of people, and because it was well above average deadly for nobles created a lot of political disruption on top of the usual economic and human misery levels. When I say based off the work of a Tudor apologist, I mean a specific dude writing on the payroll of a Tudor King as part of a very well designed propaganda campaign that also employed visual symbolism and pageantry. Tudors were very modern when it came to full scale multiple medium propaganda commissioned and designed to create and reinforce legitimacy, much as Louis XIV was to do later in 17th century France in response to a whole lot of problems and disruptions. This is one of the reasons why the accession of Henry VII makes a good place to put the start of the early Modern era in England, if one is assigning them. (Periodization is an arbitrary thing, but that's a whole other long discussion).

So what we have is not an Historical Richard III, but one designed to please the Tudor monarch who's good graces were required if Shakespeare wanted to keep writing and acting in plays, and the Henry VI (pt 1 & 2) plays need to both work as plays, but lead to a place where Henry VII was a good and necessary end to all these troubles under the Houses of Lancaster and York. The dissonance between the people I know from history and the characters in the play can make these a little hard for me to watch.

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* Stalin thought this was perverted. I think it is marvelous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWR0awymyY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMs1EHYTWN4

* "Sunday Sweets: Light & Airy Wedding Cakes:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2016/11/6/sunday-sweets-light-airy-wedding-cakes.html

* Doctor Who Hartnell rewatch: The Keys of Marinus: The Velvet Web" is actually rather good,I've started enjoying this, to my surprise.

* Walking Dead (Spoilers, Abuse, Torture):
I've written before about Carol and Darryl as abuse survivors and how that informs their responses and survival strategies in the post apocalyptic world. There are a whole lot of things the walking dead fucks up, particularly lately. I think their abuse survivors isn't one of those. I looked at Carol in Alexandria wearing her Junior League Homemaker Mask and I saw resilience and a re-purposed survival skill. My skill set is rather different given the nature of my abuse and the way so much of it was interrogation and psychologically based, but I look at that sort of adaptation and deliberate and intelligent use of survival techniques and I admire the hell out of it. It's why Carol is one of the few threads still holding me to the show after the latest debacles.

I think it's time to talk about it again in the case of Daryl in light of this week's episode. ( TW Discussion of Torture and Abuse: )

Darryl is a Survivor and one I can believe in, the way Carol is a survivor and one I can believe in, and I think it is with these characters that some of their strongest writing and characterization lie. So I think I'll stick with it a little longer even though I have no fucks to give for Rick Grimes and I'm still pissed at the twin botches at the end of last season and start of this.

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* "List of Standing Rock Resources:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/152671392633/list-of-standing-rock-resources

* Hurricane Matthew has been catastrophic for the people of Haiti. 800 or more are dead and 60,000 or more displaced. Want to help?

Haitian local charities: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154561836757433&set=a.84340697432.97916.713622432&type=3&theater
Doctors Without Borders: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/country-region/haiti
Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/donate/disaster-relief?donationProdId=prod12750029&scode=RSG00000E017&gclid=COnZ5tmJys8CFRBEfgodzWoPXQ

* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Shit in High School That Actually Matters:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/143276100057/shit-in-high-school-that-actually-matters

* "David Tennant & Company - A Line Of Hamlets :"

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* My lungs ramped up enough to require near future antibiotics, luckily early enough for me to phone it in, though the doctor won't see the note until Monday most like. The important thing is that the notes will be there first thing when she gets in Monday morning.

* "After the Changeling Incantation by John Philip Johnson:" http://wordsofastory.livejournal.com/547690.html

* "October 18, 1990 by Michael Broder, God loves an expiration date. —Jason Schneiderman:" http://wordsofastory.livejournal.com/547208.html

* "EDO- Big Surprise:"

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* Want to help Equador in the wake of their Earthquake? http://www.ifrc.org/en/news-and-media/news-stories/americas/ecuador/ecuador-red-cross-responds-to-deadly-earthquake-72129/

* Zimbabwe has joined Ethiopia in disaster level drought People and animals are dying. Want to help? https://www.wfp.org/help

* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Donate to help refugees: http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com