gwydion | Entries tagged with slavery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Comparing Every Version of Nosferatu:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

( More Links Underneath: )

* "Israel plans to build 3,300 new settlement homes. It says it’s a response to a Palestinian attack:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-settlements-hamas-gaza-war-netanyahu-smotrich-1d2306d55c24c8559b630d9f20db30e2

* CW: Rape. "U.N. report finds ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe victims were sexually assaulted Oct. 7:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/04/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine/#link-MVPCJFYKPVHJHIVS2GUXLG6WQQ

* "Gaza: Worst famine fears realised as 10th child reportedly ‘starves to death’:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147112

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

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

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

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* "Harris urges a Gaza cease-fire for hostage deal, presses Israel to ease aid delivery:" https://www.npr.org/2024/03/03/1235712368/kamala-harris-gaza-ceasefire-israel-aid

* "HOW ISRAEL QUIETLY CRUSHED EARLY AMERICAN JEWISH DISSENT ON PALESTINE:" https://theintercept.com/2024/03/03/israel-our-palestine-question-zionism-american-jews/

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* "In Ethiopia, a secret committee orders killings and arrests to crush rebels:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ethiopia-violence-committee/

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* "31,000 Ukrainian troops killed since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Zelenskyy says:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-troops-killed-zelenskyy-675f53437aaf56a4d990736e85af57c4

* "How one officer class offers a glimpse into Russia’s military amid Ukraine war:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-russia-officers/

* "Indians are unwittingly recruited into the Russian army:" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/29/indians-are-unwittingly-recruited-into-the-russian-army_6573586_4.html

* "How Russian officials and their collaborators spirit away Ukraine’s children:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-children/

* "Ukrainian veterans protest after church withdrawals gay soldier's medal:" https://www.advocate.com/world/ukrainian-gay-soldier-medal-withdrawn

* "With lives shattered by war, Ukrainian teens build new dreams:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-anniversary-teenagers/

* "Inside Ukraine’s Wartime Salons:" https://www.allure.com/story/ukraine-wartime-salons?utm_source=pocket_discover

* "Russia’s Wagner Group expands into Africa’s Sahel with a new brand:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/12/russias-wagner-group-expands-into-africas-sahel-with-a-new-brand.html

* "Yulia Navalnaya once avoided the limelight. Now she’s Russia’s newest opposition leader:" https://apnews.com/article/yulia-navalnaya-navalny-death-92efe8fa54fa6a6614fb3433c27e4878

* "Inside ‘The Game’: The dangerous new path migrants are risking to get to the EU:" https://inews.co.uk/news/world/refugee-europe-bosnia-asylum-seeker-2916539

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Inside North Korea's Forced-Labor Program:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/inside-north-koreas-forced-labor-program-in-china

* "Asylum-seekers risk lives to cross Rio Grande into US:" https://www.reuters.com/pictures/asylum-seekers-risk-lives-cross-rio-grande-into-us-2024-02-26/

* "A unanimous Supreme Court restores Trump to the Colorado ballot:" https://www.npr.org/2024/03/04/1230453714/supreme-court-trump-colorado-ballot

* "4 takeaways from the Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump and 14th Amendment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/04/takeaways-supreme-court-trump-ruling/

* "Amazon’s Big Secret:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/amazon-profits-antitrust-ftc/677580/

* "Republicans who say they support IVF backed a bill protecting life ‘at conception’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/25/ivf-republicans-legislation/

* 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 Republican War on Democracy continues. "Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/us/politics/trump-voter-rolls.html

* "It Can Happen Here: A new project tracking creeping authoritarianism.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/it-can-happen-here-trump-authoritarianism-fascism/

* "She’s a Prophet. She’s a Theocrat. She’s the Most Powerful Lobbyist You’ve Never Heard Of.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/abby-abildness-lobbyist/

* "'The Republican Party is going through some things': Maddow marvels at GOP veering into extremism:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-marvels-at-gop-veering-into-extremism-right-up-to-the-top-205461573974

* "U.S. voters face stark contrast in 2024 choices, with no 'magic wand' coming to help:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-voters-face-stark-contrast-in-2024-choices-with-no-magic-wand-coming-to-help-205463621504

* "Laverne Cox is begging all queer Americans to vote Democrat in the 2024 election:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/laverne-cox-election-2024

* "Black LGBTQ+ candidates still face bigotry — here's how they're fighting it:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/black-lgbtq-politicians-obstacles

* "Oregon mayoral candidate was involved in 1984 gay bashing but says he's changed:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/oregon-mayoral-candidate-gay-bashing

* "Missouri Republicans try to remove man with ties to KKK from party ballot:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-mark-robinson-mlk

* "Offensive comments by N.C. Republican stand out even in Trump’s party:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/03/02/mark-robinson-governor-candidate-north-carolina-offensive-comments/

* "Donald Trump endorses Mark Robinson, who said gays are ‘filth’ and ‘maggots,’ for NC governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-mark-robinson-mlk

* "Trump calls GOP's most toxic candidate 'Martin Luther King times two':" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/4/2227413/-Trump-calls-GOP-s-most-toxic-candidate-Martin-Luther-King-times-two

* Presidential Primaries are ongoing:

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

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

Hawaii: (Democrats): 3/6/24

American Samoa (Republicans): 3/8/24

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

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

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary (as it is in my state). Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

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

* "'Uncommitted' protest over Biden's Israel support heads to Minnesota:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/uncommitted-protest-aims-minnesota-over-bidens-israel-support-2024-03-04/

* "Biden says Trump wouldn't concede next time: "Losers are never graceful":" https://www.axios.com/2024/03/04/biden-trump-2024-election-concede

* "Nikki Haley wins DC primary, first victory for campaign:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/haley-dc-primary-results-00144502

* "Hungarian PM Orban to meet ally Trump on March 8:" https://www.reuters.com/world/hungarian-pm-orban-meet-trump-march-8-florida-2024-03-04/

* "At CPAC, Trump Invokes Clashing Visions of America’s Future:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/us/politics/trump-cpac.html

* ""Truly dystopian": Experts worry Trump's school vaccine plan will spark "public health catastrophe":" https://www.salon.com/2024/03/04/truly-dystopian-experts-worry-school-vaccine-plan-will-spark-public-health-catastrophe/

* ""He looks lost": Alarm after Trump's "mind blanks out" repeatedly during speech:" https://www.salon.com/2024/03/04/he-looks-lost-alarm-after-mind-blanks-out-repeatedly-during-speech/

* "Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/

* "Kentucky bill threatens to take custody of trans kids using ‘wrong’ school bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kentucky-bill-take-trans-children

* I think we all know why they want this and what they are going to do to the women. "New Oklahoma bill could allow state to create database of women who had abortions:" https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/02/15/oklahoma-abortion-law-kevin-west-bill-creates-database-women/72613836007/#:~:text=New%20Oklahoma%20bill%20could%20allow,of%20women%20who%20had%20abortions&text=A%20Democratic%20lawmaker%20expressed%20concerns,procedure%20and%20ban%20emergency%20contraception.

* "A bill protecting birth control access is headed to Virginia’s governor. Here’s why Republicans said they opposed it.:" https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/03/01/a-bill-protecting-birth-control-access-is-headed-to-virginias-governor-heres-why-republicans-said-they-opposed-it/

* "As Missouri lawmakers continue attacking LGBTQ+ rights, one city is taking a stand against hate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/columbia-missouri-lgbtq-safe-haven

* "Georgia Senate passes bill to create ‘America First’ license plate:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-senate-passes-bill-creating-america-first-license-plate/XHE3RYKTN5DLPAOJ6PKZRK3HH4/

Reminder: "America first" is a NAZI slogan broadly adopted by Trump and the Republicans for obvious reasons.

* "California Sen. Laphonza Butler reads Audre Lorde in protest of GOP book banning:" https://www.advocate.com/books/banned-books-laphonza-butler

* "Oklahoma superintendent’s ties to anti-trans influencer spark outrage in wake of Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ryan-walters-transphobic-influencer-ties

* "Oklahoma superintendent and Libs of TikTok celebrate bullying gay principal out of job for drag persona:" https://www.advocate.com/news/oklahoma-drag-principal-resignation

* "San Francisco prosecutors will seek a retrial in bondage and poppers killing of gay man:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/san-francisco-poppers-murder-retrial

* "Oklahoma High School’s atmosphere of bullying exposed in wake of Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/owasso-high-school-bullying-oklahoma

* "After Nex Benedict's death, 350 LGBTQ+ groups, activists, and celebs urge Oklahoma superintendent's removal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/activists-demand-ryan-walters-removal

* "Nex Benedict's death spurs student walkout at his Oklahoma high school over anti-LGBTQ+ bullying:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nex-benedict-walkout-lgbtq-bullying

* "Nex Benedict vigils are erupting across the country. Here are powerful photos from these memorials:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nex-benedict-vigils-gallery#rebelltitem71

* "Attackers yelled antigay, racist slurs during beach party stabbing of teen boy in California:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/antigay-slurs-teen-attacked-california

* "Colorado police looking for two men who attacked a man in potential antigay hate crime:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/colorado-police-2-men-looking

* "Teachers are tired of the culture wars — and many support LGBTQ+ curricula, Pew survey finds:" https://www.advocate.com/news/teachers-lgbtq-race-education-legislation

* Republicans are winning their war on Bodily Autonomy. "Texas quietly restricts gender-affirming care for trans adults: 'Canary in the coalmine':" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-gender-affirming-care-medicaid

* "Appeals court lets Indiana's gender-affirming care ban go into effect:" https://www.advocate.com/news/indiana-trans-care-ban-upheld

* "The fight to decolonize queer identity:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trinah-kakyo

* "Transgender rights are under attack not just in the U.S., but around the world: study:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-rights-attack-world

* "Ghana: UN and human rights groups condemn passage of ‘profoundly disturbing’ anti-LGBTQ+ bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/ghana-anti-lgbtq-bill-condemn-un-human-rights-groups/

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

* "Police raid ‘My Little Pony’ gathering and a gay night at a local club in Russia:" https://www.advocate.com/news/russia-my-little-pony-raid

* "Gay airline employee subject to 'torture' after arrest in Qatar, family says:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-airline-torture-qatar-grindr

* "The Czech Republic expands unions for same-sex couples but rejects marriage and full adoption rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/29/czech-republic-vote-against-queer-community/

* "Nepal must not move backwards on trans rights:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/manisha-dhakal

* "New South Wales Police commissioner vows to ‘do better’ for victims of LGBTQ+ hate crimes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/26/new-south-wales-police-report-lgbtqia/

* "Police find bodies of murdered reporter Jesse Baird and his boyfriend:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/jess-baird-murder-details

* "Sydney Mardi Gras comes to a halt as parade pays moving tribute to killed gay couple:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/02/jesse-baird-and-luke-davies-sydney-mardi-gras/

* "Trans woman Tiffany Scott dies in custody at high-security Scottish prison:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/trans-woman-tiffany-scott-dies-in-custody-at-high-security-scottish-prison/

* "MP praised for defending trans rights as conversion therapy ban debate turns into ‘garbled mess’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/02/conversion-therapy-bill/

* "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tells U.N. to 'go pound sand' after LGBTQ+ rights criticism:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-greg-abbott-un-lgbtq

* "Texas AG Ken Paxton can't get PFLAG's data on trans members and care: court:" https://www.advocate.com/law/ken-paxton-pflag-transgender

* "The sinister reason why the Texas Attorney General is demanding LGBTQ+ group members’ names:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/ken-paxton-pflag-national/

* "A pious Church and Cardinal Dolan trashes a dead trans woman who, like Jesus, helped the marginalized:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/cecilia-gentili-dolan-marginalized

* "Ohio man faces charges after urinating on LGBTQ+ Pride flag in porch while shouting ‘f**k the gays’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/28/ohio-man-pees-lgbtq-pride-flag-home/

* "Australian man awkwardly humps his way up a set of railings to avoid using ‘woke’ Pride stairs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/03/man-avoids-gay-stairs/

* "Love Lost, And Found:" https://storycorps.org/animation/love-lost-and-found/

* "Is this the future of PrEP?:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/prep/future-of-prep

* "The FDA Says This Group Can Now Use Biktarvy Safely:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/fda-new-group-biktarvy-safely

* Wrap it up and get tested regularly. "Queer men aren't the only ones affected by recent syphilis spike:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/women-babies-affected-syphilis-spike

* "Gender and sexuality in autism, explained:" https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/gender-and-sexuality-in-autism-explained/

* They are going to kill some kids, aren't they? "Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, telling parents it's fine to send unvaccinated kids to school:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-measles-outbreak-unvaccinated-kids-school/

* "There's a norovirus outbreak. Here's how to avoid it — and what to do if you catch it.:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/theres-a-norovirus-outbreak-heres-how-to-avoid-it--and-what-to-do-if-you-catch-it-224854240.html

* "Beyond the myths: ADHD explained in powerful comics:" https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/01/beyond-the-myths-adhd-explained-in-powerful-comics.html

* "Silent brain changes precede Alzheimer’s. Researchers have new clues about which come first:" https://apnews.com/article/alzheimers-dementia-amyloid-tau-b31db4ce15caf8b5c9c722b6240b2951

* "Why industry is blocking the push for more energy efficient homes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/21/homebuilders-energy-efficiency-climate/

* "In Cincinnati, redevelopment can mean artwork — and people — disappear:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/21/1231466640/in-cincinnati-redevelopment-can-mean-artwork-and-people-disappear

* "The Future of Silk:" https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-future-of-silk/

* "Apple’s Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-03/why-was-apple-car-canceled-the-hubris-in-apple-thinking-it-could-outdo-tesla-ltbke5ut

* "X/Twitter has ‘quietly restored’ a ban on misgendering and deadnaming trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/x-twitter-has-quietly-restored-a-ban-on-misgendering-and-deadnaming-trans-people/

* "Elon Musk sues OpenAI's Sam Altman for breach of contract:" https://www.advocate.com/news/sam-altman-openai-elon-musk

* "Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/magazine/mars-isolation-experiment.html

* "Twin Bell's turtles hatch during research project to repopulate the species in the NSW New England region:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-21/belles-turtle-repopulation-program-produces-twin-hatchlings-une/103485442

* "Getting that 'Moby Dick' — The first humpback whales to be seen having sex are both male:" https://www.advocate.com/news/humpback-whale-gay-sex

* "Charlotte, a stingray with no male companion, is pregnant in her mountain aquarium:" https://apnews.com/article/stingray-pregnant-charlotte-north-carolina-1da7d7ab06bf22169ef2c8e589db9cb4

* "Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds:" https://phys.org/news/2024-02-pythagoras-wrong-universal-musical-harmonies.html

* "Rediscovering Rome’s Female Merchants:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/antiquity-roman-female-merchants

* "A mysterious 2,000-year-old Iron Age warrior was female, a new study shows:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/old-iron-age-female-warrior-scilly-iburial-rcna96595

* "The Humour of Medieval Scribes:" https://www.medievalists.net/2024/02/humour-medieval-scribes/

* "Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855):" https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/earthquakes-in-japanese-woodblock-prints/

* "Recovering the Lost Aviators of World War II:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/recovering-lost-aviators-world-war-ii-180983690/

* "Meet the Boston native at the center of the Tuskegee Airmen mural at Logan Airport:" https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-02-29/meet-the-boston-native-at-the-center-of-the-tuskegee-airmen-mural-at-logan-airport

* "Rosalind Franklin was so much more than the ‘wronged heroine’ of DNA:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02144-4

* "What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/

* "The Endangered Languages of NYC:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/22/magazine/endangered-languages-nyc.html

* "The Black Women of Gee’s Bend Work Hard and Easy: The wonder world of quilt-making:" https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/the-black-women-of-gees-bend-work-hard-and-easy/

* "Some Museums Scrambled to Remove Native American Items From Display. These Museums Didn’t Need to.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/why-museum-of-us-history-colorado-didnt-scramble-meet-new-repatriation-rules

* "Pat Logue, Lambda Legal attorney who won landmark cases, has died:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pat-logue-lambda-legal-obituary

* Saturday physio still gave me the shakes, but it was the first time I made any real progress with the hardest Exercise.

Monday, the car fix was cheaper than expected, but they discovered the power steering is about to Go. I've already paid the housing tax, which ate most of my discretionary funds, and I blew the entire EBT on shelf stable easy to make things for while I'm laid up plus a few perishables and I still need to hit the other store for fresh veg and such.

The car fix is expensive, as there aren't that many places carrying compatible parts for a car this ancient, so the price is like twice what it would have been a decade ago. I made the appointment for mid-April, when I hope to be allowed to drive as it takes two of us to drop off and pick up the car. The hope is it can survive another week, as I shan't be allowed to drive for any of March past the 12th.

Sigh. Being Poor is so damned expensive.

I have decided not to worry about it now. Getting through March is going to be hard enough given the surgery stuff. If worse comes to worst I'll just not pay anything but housing next month.

On the up side, the completely immobilized arm for two weeks turns out to have been for the rather extreme and complex surgery we though i was going to need. I am getting the medium surgery instead, so I'll be able to move it a little. It won't be good for much, but can move it a little will be a bit easier than not at all.

I am still stressed out about trips to the toilet and the like, trying to manage one handed without practice. I know lots of people manage fine with one or no arms. I once had a lover who only had one part of one arm and he was the most graceful man I've ever seen including professional dancers. I have no practice though, and I'm not going to be in great shape the first few days.

* "Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Black writers share their favorite books to honor Black History Month:" https://www.advocate.com/books/black-writers-black-history-month

* "New Indigenous heist movie focuses on repatriation of belongings:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/the-great-salish-heist-1.7112633

* "A gender-bending Civil War soldier's tale comes to the musical stage:" https://www.advocate.com/theater/rosetta-project-civil-war-gender

* "Detectives - SNL:"

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* "Airbnb Design Commercial - SNL:"

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* "Sunday Sweets Sings It's Not Easy Being Green:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-sings-its-not-easy-being-green-2024

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Where Is Hamas Getting Its Weapons? Increasingly, From Israel.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-weapons-rockets.html

* "Gaza mediators and others warn Israel of disaster if it launches a ground invasion on crowded Rafah:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-10-2024-2d80dc890a5030757e2ae76684fa75da

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

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* "Netanyahu rejects Hamas cease-fire demands, vows to fight until ‘absolute victory’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/07/netanyahu-hamas-cease-fire-demands-00140182

* "Egypt steps up security on border as Israeli offensive in Gaza nears:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/egypt-steps-up-security-border-israeli-offensive-gaza-nears-2024-02-09/

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* "Russian missiles strike Ukrainian cities again, killing at least 7 and wounding dozens:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-kyiv-missile-kharkiv-7c360faaeec27ac169b2abf4865a4522

* "War cats: Ukraine enlists feline friends in fight against Russia:" https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-russia-war-cat-army-social-media/

* "Farmer protests spread across Europe:" https://www.reuters.com/pictures/farmer-protests-spread-across-europe-2024-02-06/

* "Indian workers seek jobs in Israel, undeterred by conflict:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-workers-seek-jobs-israel-undeterred-by-conflict-2024-01-18/

* "Rishi Sunak’s tax bill sparks outcry after it’s revealed he paid the same rate as a teacher:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/10/rishi-sunak-tax/

* "Brianna Ghey’s father demands apology from Rishi Sunak for trans jibe in front of late teen’s mother:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/08/rishi-sunak-brianna-ghey/

* "Ex-prime minister Liz Truss brands supporters of LGBT people ‘left-wing extremists’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/07/ex-prime-minister-liz-truss-brands-supporters-of-lgbt-people-left-wing-extremists/

* "Biden angrily pushes back at special counsel’s report that questioned his memory, handling of docs:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-hur-garland-classified-documents-836b99fe9cbef9ba7d32602f4928efec

* "'What the hell, man?': Hayes baffled by special counsel report on Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-what-the-hell-man-hayes-baffled-by-special-counsel-report-on-biden-203977797511

* "Karine Jean-Pierre defends Biden’s fitness in tense exchange with Fox News:" https://www.advocate.com/news/peter-doocy-karine-jean-pierre

* "EPA tightens rules on some air pollution for the first time in over a decade:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1229348646/epa-tightens-rules-on-some-air-pollution-for-the-first-time-in-over-a-decade

* "AI-generated voices in robocalls can deceive voters. The FCC just made them illegal:" https://apnews.com/article/fcc-elections-artificial-intelligence-robocalls-regulations-a8292b1371b3764916461f60660b93e6

* "The Supreme Court Has Itself to Blame for Texas Defying Its Orders: Greg Abbott is taking a stand to protect his state’s right to let children die in the Rio Grande, and four justices of the Supreme Court are encouraging him to do so.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/greg-abbott-texas-border-stunt-supreme-court/677267/

* "Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of effort to remove Trump from a state ballot:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/08/1229176555/supreme-court-trump-colorado-ballot

* "Trump’s Supreme Court Ballot Argument Posits That Jefferson Davis Wasn’t an Insurrectionist Either:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/trump-supreme-court-argument-jefferson-davis-insurrectionist.html

* "Meet the lawyers arguing the Trump ballot case at the Supreme Court:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/07/trump-supreme-court-lawyers-00139974

* "Senate GOP blocks border bill, Democrats shift focus to Israel and Ukraine aid:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/07/congress/senate-supplemental-ukraine-border-aid-00140187

* "Republicans ‘absolutely allergic’ to fixing border, says Sen. Murphy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-absolutely-allergic-to-fixing-border-says-sen-murphy-203824197878

* "House fails to pass standalone Israel aid bill as Senate package stalls:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-of-representatives-israel-aid-vote-mike-johnson/

* Extended Elizabeth Warren Interview:

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* "Ukraine aid bill inches forward in US Senate:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ukraine-aid-bill-inches-forward-us-senate-2024-02-10/

* "House fails to pass articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1229642634/house-fails-to-pass-articles-of-impeachment-for-homeland-security-secretary-mayo

* "‘Laughable’: AOC blasts GOP’s ‘craven’ bid to impeach DHS Secretary:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-laughable-aoc-blasts-gop-s-craven-bid-to-impeach-dhs-secretary-203827781561

* 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

* "Missouri Republican candidate burns LGBTQ+ books with flamethrower and posts the video online:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/missouri-gop-flame-thrower-books

* New Yorkers who live in the 3rd district, the last day to vote in the Special Election is Feb. 13! Don't sleep on it! We can flip a seat if enough of you vote for Tom Suozzi!!!

* "What to know about the special election to replace George Santos:" https://www.axios.com/2024/02/07/george-santos-special-elections-congress-new-york

* "Candidates clash and tempers flare at New York special election debate:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/08/candidates-clash-and-tempers-flare-at-new-york-special-election-debate-00140634

* "Santos sequel? Republican candidate in NY-3 special election raises eyebrows:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/santos-sequel-republican-candidate-in-ny-3-special-election-raises-eyebrows-203978309541

* Presidential Primaries are ongoing:

Republicans: South Carolina votes 2/24/24

Michigan: All vote 2/27/24

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

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

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary (as it is in my state). Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

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

* "Worse than you can imagine: Haley loses to ‘none of these candidates’ in Nevada:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/07/haley-wins-nevada-primary-that-nets-no-delegates-00140036

* "The anti-abortion plan ready for Trump on Day One:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/29/trump-abortion-ban-2024-campaign-00138417

* "Trump Says Jan. 6 Was an Insurrection:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-says-jan-6-insurrection-1234964730/

* "West Virginia's 'Women's Bill Of Rights' Criticized As An Effort To Suppress Transgender People:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/west-virginia-womens-bill-of-rights-criticized_n_65c56df0e4b0fb721d606684

* "New ‘Georgia Women’s Bill of Rights’ guts protections for trans women, eliminates gender identity:" https://www.advocate.com/georgia-womens-bill-of-rights

* "‘Patriotism Not Pride’ bill banning Oklahoma from spending funds on Pride Month passes key vote:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/patriotism-not-pride-bill-oklahoma

* Because Of Course. "Florida Republican lawmaker pivots from banning Pride flags — to protecting Confederate monuments:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-confederate-monuments-pride-flags

* "Ohio won't restrict gender-affirming care for adults but still goes after trans youth:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-transgender-rules-revised

* "Transgender Virginians can breathe a sigh of relief after Democrats defeat all GOP anti-LGBTQ+ bills:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/virginia-democrats-protect-transgender-rights

* "Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey nominates former partner for high court, raises GOP ire:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/maura-healey-nominates-former-partner

* "South Dakota tribe bans governor from reservation over US-Mexico border remarks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/04/south-dakota-us-mexico-border-00139485

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene pushes transgender care outrage with out-of-context, decade-old ‘Dateline’ clip:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-dateline-video-outrage

* CW: Rape. "Moms for Liberty co-founder speaks out for first time after threesome revelations:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/moms-for-liberty-co-founder-speaks-out-for-first-time-after-threesome-revelations

* "North Carolina Republican says trans people should ‘find a corner outside somewhere’ to go to the bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mark-robinson-trans-bathroom-nc

* "Trump’s Worst Lawyer Costs Him Millions (Carroll v. Trump):"

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* "Judge Engoron's Scathing Rebuke of Donald Trump's Lawyers:" https://www.newsweek.com/judge-engoron-scathing-rebuke-donald-trump-lawyers-1868348

* "Jack Smith Hits Back at Judge Cannon’s Dangerous Order on Trump Case:" https://newrepublic.com/post/178922/jack-smith-judge-cannon-dangerous-order-trump-classified-documents

* "“Awful and unethical”: Legal experts say Judge Cannon could face removal for “disturbing” order:" https://www.salon.com/2024/02/08/awful-and-unethical-legal-experts-say-cannon-could-face-removal-for-disturbing-order/

* "'Putting her on notice': Jack Smith losing patience with Judge Cannon in Trump documents case:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-putting-her-on-notice-jack-smith-losing-patience-with-judge-cannon-in-trump-documents-case-203985989629

* "Political Violence is Ruining Democracy:"

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* "Ripples of hate: A chance encounter at N.Y. playground leaves a father asking, ‘What is justice now?’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2024/hate-crime-israel-palestine-impact-justice/?itid=mr_1

* "Libs of TikTok creator accuses NBC News of stochastic terrorism after bomb threat investigation:" https://www.advocate.com/news/chaya-raichik-nbc-stochastic-terrorism

* "TO STOP A SHOOTER: Why would an armed officer stand by as a school shooting unfolds?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/parkland-shooter-scot-peterson-coward-broward/677170/

* "On live TV, Guardian Angels rough up a man in Times Square then misidentify him as a ‘migrant’:" https://apnews.com/article/guardian-angels-times-square-migrants-curtis-sliwa-dacb23b7cfe0679d12642bca116543d4

* "Fox News fearmongering backfires on live TV:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-news-fearmongering-backfires-on-live-tv-203975750001

* "The Juror Who Found Herself Guilty:" https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-juror-who-found-herself-guilty/

* "Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands:" https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

* "Tennessee city ordered to pay half a million dollars in damages after banning Pride and drag shows:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/09/tennessee-murfreesboro-damages-lgbt-ban/

* "What It’s Like to Celebrate Black History in a State Where It’s Banned:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/florida-desantis-black-history-month/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

* "Indiana launches anti-LGBTQ+ 'snitch line;' users flood it with memes in protest:" https://www.advocate.com/news/indiana-snitch-line

* "Kansas Attorney General demands schools out trans kids, with no law in place:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/10/kansas-attorney-general-schools-out-trans-kids/

* CW: CSA. "Federal lawsuit filed against former Olympian and figure skating ‘governing body’ based in Colorado Springs:" https://www.kktv.com/2024/02/02/federal-lawsuit-filed-against-former-olympian-figure-skating-governing-body-based-colorado-springs/

* "Kevin Spacey ordered to pay $1m amid House of Cards sexual harassment saga:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/09/kevin-spacey-charges/

* I was just explaining this to someone the other day. Trans Athlete Bans and anti-trans athlete rhetoric literally endanger children and teens both cis and trans. This is the second thing like this in Utah this year and it's only February. "Utah student athlete threatened after school board member implies she's trans:" https://www.advocate.com/news/utah-student-harassed-transgender

* "Gender-affirming care improves transgender lives, according to largest survey of trans people:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/us-transgender-survey-findings

* "Readers deserve better than misinformation about trans care; a response to Pamela Paul:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/misinformation-nyt-trans-care

* "The fascinating history of the lesbian slang terms ‘stud’ and ‘stem’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/11/lesbian-slang-stud-and-stem/

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

* "Houthi court sentences 13 men to public execution for gay sex:" https://www.advocate.com/news/houthis-persecution-homosexuality

* "Russian media watchdog investigating Duolingo over ‘LGBT propaganda’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/10/russia-watchdog-duolingo-lgbt-propaganda/

* "Pope Francis calls out ‘hypocrisy’ of same-sex blessing critics:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/10/pope-francis-hypocrisy-same-sex-blessing/

* "Delhi government announces free bus travel for trans community in capital city:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/09/delhi-free-bus-service/

* "UK government reportedly shuts down NHS Pride badge scheme in ‘gutting’ move:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/09/nhs-pride-badge-scheme-reportedly-shut-down-government/

* "Hundreds of transgender people stage dramatic ‘die-in’ protests at DMVs across Florida:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/10/florida-trans-protest/

* "Gay dog walker fatally shot by gunman who ‘hurled homophobic slurs’ and said ‘you’re going to die’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/11/john-walter-lay/

* "Soldiers from prestigious U.S. Army unit charged with stealing Pride flags in Virginia:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/soldiers-charged-pride-flag-thefts

* "Care, Out of the Closet:" https://thebaffler.com/salvos/care-out-of-the-closet-neumann

* "Buckle up, everyone: right-wingers are angry at Oreos now:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/09/oreo-lgbtq-support-criticised/

* I'd have been a lot harder on south Park than she is, but she's a much kinder person. ""Offensive" Comedy Isn't Offensive:"

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* "How I helped change the law that put me and other Black people with HIV behind bars:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lashanda-salinas

* Wear a condom, dammit! "Syphilis cases rise to their highest levels since the 1950s, CDC says:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/31/1228195107/syphilis-cases-soar-in-us-cdc-says

* "Long Covid is Now the Biggest Pandemic Risk for Most People:" https://www.metafilter.com/202210/Long-Covid-is-Now-the-Biggest-Pandemic-Risk-for-Most-People

* "The Myth of Panic:" https://www.palladiummag.com/2021/07/15/the-myth-of-panic/

* "The Forgotten Lessons Of Infectious Disease Control:" https://www.donotpanic.news/p/the-forgotten-lessons-of-infectious

* "‘If Exercise Could Cure This, I Would Have Been Cured So Quickly’: Striving for fitness is usually healing. But for most people with long COVID, it can be toxic.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/01/long-covid-exercise-post-exertional-malaise/677242/

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

* "The first at-home cervical screening device is under clinical trial, and it’s about time:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/08/at-home-cervical-cancer-screening/

* "Two families waited years for new kidneys. Then they found each other.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/01/28/strangers-kidney-paired-transplant-arizona-illinois/

* "I was Hypnotized as a Teen. Was it Dangerous?:" https://longreads.com/2024/01/25/i-was-hypnotized-as-a-teen-was-it-dangerous/

* "World Nears Dangerous Climate Tipping Point With Snow in Short Supply:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-snow-drought-climate-change/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcwNTQyODMwNCwiZXhwIjoxNzA2MDMzMTA0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTNzFaNEJUMVVNMFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzRDhGMEEzMTc2MDc0NUM5OTg4NkFCNzA1NDk2RUNEQSJ9.S2wF1RX63Z24vtPWlTsEaQvADjn7KRhnt0QuhhnOrdQ

* "Gold miners bring fresh wave of suffering to Brazil’s Yanomami:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/brazil-environment-yanomami/

* "This camel has a very important job:" https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2024/2/2/24052025/camel-seed-mojave-desert-joshua-tree-fires

* This is why we need external safety inspections. "How Boeing put profits over planes:" https://www.vox.com/money/24052245/boeing-corporate-culture-737-airplane-safety-door-plug

* "The Rooftop Solar Industry Could Be on the Verge of Collapse:" https://time.com/6565415/rooftop-solar-industry-collapse/

* "Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sand-mafias-are-plundering-the-earth/

* "Athleisure: Destroying Fashion & the Environment:"

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* "Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos:" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/metas-new-ai-image-generator-was-trained-on-1-1-billion-instagram-and-facebook-photos/

* "Texas cold leaves alligators 'frozen' underwater, but still alive. Here's how:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1226660910/alligators-frozen-underwater-brumation-explanation

* "Foul-mouthed parrots are unlikely stars at a British zoo:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1226911707/parrots-swear-profanities-british-zoo

* "These Parrots Use Their Beaks to Swing Across Branches Like Monkeys:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-parrots-can-use-their-beaks-to-swing-across-branches-like-monkeys-180983694/

* "Sighting of newborn great white shark ‘unlike anything we had ever seen before’:" https://www.science.org/content/article/sighting-newborn-great-white-shark-unlike-anything-we-had-ever-seen

* "Celebrate Winter in the Wild With 15 Photos of Animals Enjoying the Snow:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/celebrate-winter-in-the-wild-with-15-photos-of-animals-enjoying-the-snow-180983665/

* "Scientists Discover Stunning Evidence of Multiple Lost Prehistoric Societies:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3m5ye/scientists-discover-stunning-evidence-of-multiple-lost-prehistoric-societies

* "The Sensation Novelist Who Exposed the Plight of Victorian Women:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-sensation-novelist-who-exposed-the-plight-of-victorian-women-wilkie-collins-180983649/

* "Italy Returns Historic Plane to Ethiopia:" https://www.voaafrica.com/a/7463918.html

* "These Casual Snapshots Show What Kitchens Were Like in the 1960s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/kitchen-desgins-1960s/

* "THE U.S. SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/lavender-scare-gay-people-public-service-erasure/677236/

* "Doll Houses, 1983:" https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/doll-houses-1983

* "Cecilia Gentili, trans activist, actress, and author, has died at 52:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/cecilia-gentili-trans-activist-obituary

* "It was deemed extinct. But now pentl'ach has been declared a living language thanks to Qualicum researchers:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pentl-ach-officially-declared-a-living-language-added-to-b-c-list-of-first-nations-languages-1.7045803?cmp=rss

* "Los Angeles museum repatriates Asante artefacts to Ghana:" https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/02/05/fowler-museum-los-angeles-asante-repatriation-ghana

* "A pair of UK museums return gold and silver artifacts to Ghana under a long-term loan arrangement:" https://apnews.com/article/britain-ghana-museums-gold-colonial-theft-royal-e5aa77f9c07ab8952e507dd01e983c76

* "In South America, African-inspired religions gain more followers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/south-america-african-inspired-religions-gain-more-followers-2024-02-03/

* "Tell Me Why the Watermelon Grows:" https://www.switchyardmag.com/issue-2/watermelon?src=longreads

* My surgery will be March 12th. As my dominant arm will be immobilized for two weeks, odds are I won't be doing news aggregation during that period as I suck at mousing with my off hand and I am slow. If I'm on at all it will likely be reblogs, queue, and the like. It can be up to a month after I'm freed to get up to speed, but I have no way of knowing what I can manage when, until very late March.

I'm giving people the heads up now so y'all know what's going on, and I'll remind people when we're closer. I know people worry if I drop off all social media for two weeks.

* "Meanwhile… Stolen Polar Bear | Monkey On The Run In Scotland | The $1,780 Lemon:"

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* "California’s Rainpocalypse | Taylor’s GRAMMY Surprise | Biden: Trump Is A “Sick F***”:"

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* "Meanwhile… Disco Bathroom | Kid Stuck In The Claw Game | Transatlantic Pot Bust:"

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* "Speaker Johnson Gets Spanked | Nobody Wins Nevada GOP Primary | Trump’s Pick To Run The RNC:"

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* "A History of Chuck E. Cheese: Last Squeak Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "The Subversive Power of the Lesbian Cheerleader:"

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* "Sorry for adding to the Saltburn discourse:"

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This is pretty much where I was with this. I was low key obsessed with both Brideshead (Book and miniseries) and the Nureyev Nijinsky's Faun (and Nijinsky just generally. Also ballet) as a tween. I've seen talented Mr. Ripley any number of times.

On paper this was so exciting. The bones of something interesting were there. In practice? I kept thinking I'd rather be watching the Andrews/Irons miniseries of my youth.

* "Kwame Alexander Reads A Poem From “This Is the Honey: An Anthology Of Contemporary Black Poets”:"

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* "The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have finally been released – and we have questions:" https://corabuhlert.com/2024/01/21/the-2023-hugo-nomination-statistics-have-finally-been-release-and-we-have-questions/

* World Con Stuff. "McCarty, Standlee, and Others Censured or Reprimanded:" https://locusmag.com/2024/01/mccarty-standlee-and-others-censured/

* "Why You Should Watch Straight Jacket, the Lost Gay Rom-Com:"

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* "Meet the 'Feud: Capote vs. The Swans' cast & the real people they play:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/feud-capote-versus-swans#rebelltitem3

* "Lil Nas X has hilariously on-brand reaction to new single ‘J Christ’ charting at 69:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/25/lil-nas-x-j-christ-single-chart/

* "Donald Trump Has PACs For Days:"

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* "The Stakes Are High At Super Bowl LVIII:"

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* "Stephen Is Become Death, Destroyer Of Worlds:"

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* "Home Videos - SNL:"

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* "CNN Town Hall South Carolina Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Dune Popcorn Bucket - SNL:"

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* "Where Ought The Human Part of Pan End and the Goat Part of Pan Begin?:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/where-ought-the-human-part-of-pan?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=141165230&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&utm_medium=email

* "Sometimes reading Arthuriana feels like reading Alice in Wonderland.:" https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/740748424532623360/sometimes-reading-arthuriana-feels-like-reading?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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* 1/8/24: So where was most of the news for the first week of January? Basically a lot of stuff was happening out in the world while my body is still reading the beefed up daily physio routine as if it's an injury. Basically, I'd be just up to doing prep and then have to go rest. Or do more physio. Or my arm wouldn't be up to much. I have the links despite me thinking for about fifteen minutes I'd lost them in a computer problem at one point.

Trust me, I have been following the news. I'm going to try to at least get essentials from Gaza and some of the world election stuff out before I close out this aggregate edition. the Trump ball of worms is likely going to have to wait.

I will see how much I can wrangle before the Monday arm torture appointment.

* "Israel, Hezbollah trade fire across Lebanon border amid alarm over Gaza war spillover:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/heavy-fire-lebanon-targets-northern-israel-amid-concern-over-gaza-spillover-2024-01-06/

* "Top Hamas official Saleh Arouri, who headed West Bank operations, killed in Beirut blast:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/02/beirut-explosion-hamas-hezbollah-00133447

* "Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war:" https://cpj.org/2024/01/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/

* "An Al Jazeera journalist is the fifth member of his family killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-journalist-killed-jazeera-86db4604dde19caa9c29366225a6648e

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

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

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* "South Africa’s genocide case against Israel sets up a high-stakes legal battle at the UN’s top court:" https://apnews.com/article/un-court-south-africa-israel-gaza-genocide-71be2ce7f09bfee05a7cae26689ee262

* "Explainer: What is the genocide case against Israel at top UN court?:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-is-genocide-case-against-israel-top-un-court-2024-01-08/

* "The peace activists divided by October 7:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/magazine/israelis-palestinians-peace-forum.html

* "Jewish Voice for Peace calls on all people of conscience to stop imminent genocide:" https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/10/11/statement23-10-11/

* "Red Sea Attacks Leave Shipping Companies With Difficult Choices:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/business/red-sea-shipping-houthi.html

* "Maersk warns of major disruption as it diverts ships away from Red Sea:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/maersk-diverts-vessels-away-red-sea-for-foreseeable-future-2024-01-05/

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* "Russian troops are shelling the city of Kharkiv with missiles.:" https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3810322-russians-attack-kharkiv-with-missiles-at-least-three-explosions-reported.html

* "Rep. Crockett: We know Trump got more than $7.8 million from foreign governments:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-crockett-we-know-trump-got-more-than-7-8-million-from-foreign-governments-201494597674

* "Rep. Dean: Democracy is a fragile thing, I didn't realize it until Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-dean-democracy-is-a-fragile-thing-i-didn-t-realize-it-until-jan-6-201470021849

* "Fmr. DC Police Officer reflects on third anniversary of Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/fmr-dc-police-officer-reflects-on-third-anniversary-of-jan-6-201471557856

* "Sixth Grader Killed and 5 Others Injured in Iowa School Shooting:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/us/perry-iowa-school-shooting.html

* "Things to know about a school shooting in the small Iowa town of Perry:" https://apnews.com/article/perry-iowa-school-shooting-things-to-know-07b7d636e9ec1d3f1ca6be628aff6e8d

* "What Happens When Young People Actually Read “Disturbing” Books:" https://www.tcpress.com/blog/young-people-read-disturbing-books/

* "LGBTQ Fiction Sales Are Up, but We Still Urgently Need Creative Ways To Fight Book Bans:" https://www.autostraddle.com/lgbtq-fiction-sales-are-up-but-we-still-urgently-need-creative-ways-to-fight-book-bans/

* "Threats to medication abortion access drive U.S. women to stockpile pills:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/threats-to-medication-abortion-access-drive-u-s-women-to-stockpile-pills

* "Is LGBTQ+ too inclusive??:"

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* "Asexuality Is Finally Breaking Free from Medical Stigma:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asexuality-is-finally-breaking-free-from-medical-stigma/

* "Uganda stabbing victim Steven Kabuye blames LGBTQ+ attacks on politicians:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/08/uganda-stabbing-victim-lgbtq-attack/

* "Police release images of man after couple attacked in London Underground hate crime:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/07/london-underground-bank-homophobic-attack/

* "Black trans woman Amber Minor remembered after devastating Christmas Eve shooting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/07/black-trans-woman-christmas-eve-shooting/

* "A new COVID variant is dominant in the US: Know these symptoms:" https://news.yahoo.com/covid-variant-spreading-fast-us-014701360.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00

* "Vaccination Dramatically Lowers Long Covid Risk:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccination-dramatically-lowers-long-covid-risk/

* "Respiratory virus activity is high and rising across the United States, CDC data shows:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/respiratory-virus-activity-high-rising-192815114.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00

* "mRNA covid vaccines, citing debunked claim:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/01/03/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-covid-vaccine/

* "Philips Recalled Breathing Machines in 2021. Chemicals of “Concern” Found in Replacement Machines Raised New Alarm.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-recall-machines-chemicals-of-concern

* "The changing face of America’s favorite sport:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2023/football-participation-decline-politics-demographics/?itid=mr_1

* "Britain hit by flooding after heavy rain swells major rivers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-hit-by-flooding-after-heavy-rain-swells-major-rivers-2024-01-05/

* "Blizzard conditions bear down on central US, closing schools and highways:" https://apnews.com/article/winter-storm-weather-09d8e810fc5d80a34ef8bf008bfec7a1

* "Severe Thunderstorms and Likely Tornadoes Cause Damage in Florida:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/us/tornado-storms-georgia-florida.html

* "How safety rules ‘written in blood’ saved lives in Tokyo plane crash :" https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/travel/tokyo-plane-crash-safety-rules-analysis-intl/index.html

* "FAA orders grounding of certain Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after Alaska Airlines incident:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/06/1223296736/boeing-737-max-9-planes-grounded

* "Inside India’s Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/river-ganges-clean-up-india-modi

* "Drought-prone California OKs new rules for turning wastewater directly into drinking water:" https://apnews.com/article/california-recycled-wastewater-drought-8b476dc83652af43c6aad52070b9d992

* "After a Decade of Planning, New York City Is Raising Its Shoreline:" https://e360.yale.edu/features/new-york-city-climate-plan-sea-level-rise

* "The nation’s capital, built on water, struggles to keep from drowning:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/dc-low-lying-city-flood-risks/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzAzMTM0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA0NTE3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDMxMzQ4MDAsImp0aSI6IjJhMDE5Y2E4LTc0OTctNDM4OC05ZTEwLWI5MmI4ZDU5NjY1NyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50L2ludGVyYWN0aXZlLzIwMjMvZGMtbG93LWx5aW5nLWNpdHktZmxvb2Qtcmlza3MvIn0.ftwEQeIL-DQKqGE7C2Rpq12eEXSIop4bKI31feVa9ng&itid=gfta

* "From Austin to Anchorage, U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1221366173/u-s-cities-drop-parking-space-minimums-development

* "Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/manufacturer-deliberately-bricked-trains-repaired-by-competitors-hackers-find/

* "Making Transparent Wood:"

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* "Don't Use AI Viking Face Apps:"

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* "What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home:" https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-energy-heating-homes/

* "Google Settles $5 Billion Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking People Using 'Incognito Mode':" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-settles-5-billion-privacy-lawsuit-over-tracking-people-using-incognito-mode_n_65903bade4b0cd3cf0e57701

* "'New York Times' sues ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Microsoft, for copyright infringement:" https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221821750/new-york-times-sues-chatgpt-openai-microsoft-for-copyright-infringement

* "The Reach and Accuracy of Information on Autism on TikTok:" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37544970/

* "Try not to let moose lick your car, Parks Canada warns, as more salt-seeking animals flock to highways:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dont-let-moose-lick-1.7074587

* "Spy Octopus Helps Friend Hide From Shark:"

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* "The checkered history of the poinsettia’s namesake and the flower’s origins get new attention:" https://apnews.com/article/poinsettia-joel-poinsett-noche-buena-mexico-a5f4abea985e0f44523b2963ff435b56

* "The Truth About Arsenic in the Victorian Era:"

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* "This 50-Year-Old Footage Shows What Life in New York Was Like in the 1970s:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/vintage-video-new-york-city-1970s

* "Apo Whang-Od And The Thousand-Year-Old Tradition Live On:" https://vogue.ph/lifestyle/apo-whang-od-and-the-thousand-year-old-tradition-live-on/

* "Singapore's clandestine cats can soon legally call the city-state home:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapores-clandestine-cats-can-soon-legally-call-city-state-home-2024-01-03/

* "Single mother comes home to find driveway stolen:" https://local12.com/news/nation-world/single-mother-driveway-stolen-contractor-scam-real-estate-construction-replacement-cost-police-theft-investigation-home-value-sell-moving-contract-gofund-me-fundraiser-orange-county-florida

* For the first time since I moved up here in 1998, none of the neighbors set off fireworks. The laws got a lot stricter a few years ago, but the reservation is not that far, so people tend to have them all over town. My suspicion is, the complex has really beefed up surveillance, which i hate, but boomers are in charge, so….

I am glad there were no explosions. It's rough on veterans and animals and people with certain sensory situations, etc.. It didn't effect me much personally until this batch of cats, who are extremely sensitive. (The previous clowder ranged from indifference to curious.). The Imperial couple always find the explosions terrifying, especially as they are often a few feet from their windows.

This year, I failed to notice the turning of the year until 1:09AM, as i was busy with something. I only really drink for weddings and funerals or the equivalent. I am too old and tired for drunken parties, and my local friends are small gathering people. When I had a partner, we favored the large municipal fireworks displays, or small parties, or beach gatherings over large drunken things, but were just as likely to have a quiet romantic evening at home as go out to see explosions.

The cats entirely slept through it. They were crashed out so hard, they missed me padding about around 2ish, sprinkling fresh nip in there very beat up scratch and nap boxes. I literally accidentally sprinkled some on the emperor and he didn't stir.

This was so much nicer than them being terrified and running for the hides and needing hours of reassurance.

I still oppose the surveillance, etc., but I admit, it is pleasing not to have to worrying about the cats.

* There was a cleaner Tuesday, which was a huge help. Friday rescheduled to later Friday. We'll see if they actually come. I had another rough week with pain and exhaustion, but I'm finally starting to see results from the new batch of physio.

* Friday cleaner did come and took down most of the Gothmas decorations, mopped floors, etc.. We still need to stow the Halloween trees, and some miscellaneous things, but everything is much nicer with the dishes done and away and the floors clean. I think scheduling two this week was the right thing. The cats were delighted to see the window bench mostly devoid of Goth tchotchkes.

One of my few remaining relatives sent me shirt money, so I ordered a plain purple and a fancier one that I likely will wear outside of the surgery context. This means I'm up to four shirts. My plan is to mostly not bother with shirts when I don't have to go out until my arm heals up some, so it should be all right. I'm still stressed about the whole logistics of recovery, because I'll be mostly helpless in a bunch of areas and I hate that.

Livia love selected a new Spot at some point in early December and has been living it up. She's also decided that New Millennial is Safe and is relaxed enough to let me rub the tummy in her room when the Millennial is on the sofa. It is a huge show of trust for her to be that relaxed when there are People in her Home. I am endlessly proud of her. Tavy spent a whole hour Thursday night asleep in the crook of my good arm, which he hasn't been calm enough to do for a while.

* Tuesday: I have not enjoyed anything my body has done in the last 24 hours.

* "I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_LW1PkmnY

* "Very Bad Publishers Part VIII:" https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/very-bad-publishers-part-ix?r=2hlocf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

* "Odyssey to go (Homer in 14 minutes, English version):"

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* "A Midsummer Nights Dream to go (Shakespeare in 12.5 minutes):"

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* "Trump’s Theory Of Magnetivity:"

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* "The five most important queer moments from the Golden Globes 2024:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/08/the-five-biggest-queer-moments-from-the-golden-globes-2024/

* References for various types of traditional dress: https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/738450685451010048?source=share

* A thing on how Americans tend to think of Calvinism as the default for Christianity in which we get into things like how very different Medieval Catholicism is.: https://www.tumblr.com/littlescratches/738868338146639872/a-good-way-to-get-a-vague-idea-with-how-it-used-to

* "A Letter from “Crawly” to Azirapil:" https://archiveofourown.org/works/19730593

* "My neoclassical New Year's Eve party dress: Ancient Roman, Regency, and historybounding lookbook!:"

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* "True Facts: The Rise of the Kitten Snake:"

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* "I assure you that I am a fully functional human with a backstory and everything.:" https://wilwheaton.net/2024/01/i-assure-you-that-i-am-a-fully-functional-human-with-a-backstory-and-everything/

* "Reverse Saltburn and The "Boy Kate Middleton" Genre:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/reverse-saltburn-and-the-boy-kate?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=140285062&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&utm_medium=email

* "Sentenced to death in a magical court:" https://www.tumblr.com/dycefic/656084683226038272/writing-prompt-s-you-have-been-sentenced-to-death

* "An old and homely grandmother accidentally summons a demon.:" https://jumpingjacktrash.tumblr.com/post/160598655019/fireandshellamari-gilajames

* "A daycare worker, watching over toddlers, when the imminent end of the world is announced. It becomes increasingly clear none of the kids’ parents are going to show up as the end inches nearer.:" https://bixbythemartian.tumblr.com/post/633183446892691456/writing-prompt-s-youre-a-daycare-worker

* "You were once the demon king.:" https://caffeinewitchcraft.tumblr.com/post/634539896857608192/writing-prompt-s-you-were-once-the-demon-king

* "Legolas and Gimli get married at least 5 times and here’s why:" https://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/696788010995417088/lenin-it-to-win-it-legolas-and-gimli-get-married

* Grandmother Beetroot: https://thestalkerbunny.tumblr.com/post/623514977716846592/times-are-troubling-and-hard-right-now-but-never

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help the Lenape Nation get recognition from Pennsylvania: https://www.lenape-nation.org/

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

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

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

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food. They just need $75 more.: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* CW: Animal Death. Fundraiser to cover costs of final treatment. "Dine's expenses for Olivier's last week:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/dines-expenses-for-oliviers-last-week

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Regulations are written in blood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* I meant to post this Saturday night, but kept getting distracted by other tasks. I meant to post it Sunday, but I was exhausted and went to bed. sorry. Odds are some things are out of date.

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* "'No place to go': Gazans stuck as fodder for Hamas guerilla tactics:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-no-place-to-go-gazans-stuck-as-fodder-for-hamas-guerilla-tactics-195296325881

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* "Opinion | Why Did Netanyahu Want to Strengthen Hamas?:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-11/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-needed-a-strong-hamas/0000018b-1e9f-d47b-a7fb-bfdfd8f30000

* "Hamas seeks Palestinian prisoners' release, calls non-Israeli captives 'guests':" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/former-hamas-chief-meshaal-says-israeli-captives-include-high-ranking-officers-2023-10-16/

* "Glimmer of hope as Hamas broaches subject of releasing some hostages:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/glimmer-of-hope-as-hamas-broaches-subject-of-releasing-some-hostages-195764805804

* "Israel Latest: Blinken Works on Gaza Aid as Biden Set to Visit:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-16/israel-latest-blinken-set-to-return-as-us-tries-to-contain-war?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Biden to Visit Israel Amid Gaza Crisis, as Fears Grow of Wider War:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/16/world/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza

* "Biden hopes to head off any regional expansion of war with trip to Israel: Rep. Himes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-hopes-to-head-off-any-regional-expansion-of-war-with-trip-to-israel-rep-himes-195766341815

* I saw print coverage of this, and decided not to publicize it for these reasons. "Let's talk about what didn't happen yesterday....:"

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* "Israel, White House condemn Trump for remarks about Hamas attack, 'smart' Hezbollah:" https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-israels-netanyahu-was-not-prepared-hamas-attack-2023-10-12/

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* "There Are No Rules: States and quasi-states are using extreme, uninhibited violence against civilian populations.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-war-hamas-terrorism-ukraine-russia/675590/

* "As Turkey intensifies war on Kurdish militants in Iraq, civilians are suffering :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/iraq-turkey-airstrikes

* "Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region’s Armenians:" https://apnews.com/article/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh-weapons-israel-6814437bcd744acc1c4df0409a74406c

* "French presidential candidate fined under hate-crime law after condemning lesbian mums:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/09/france-eric-zemmour-fined-lesbian-mums/

* "Polish opposition looks set to oust ruling nationalists in major political shift:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-opposition-eyes-power-after-ruling-nationalists-appear-have-fallen-short-2023-10-16/

This is a huge relief! I've been watching this one closely, but most of that coverage was out of date as of this writing so i deleted it. It's so important. It'll be an uphill climb for them as it is now still for us, but getting rid of PiS is an essential first step in fixing things. I really do wish the people of Poland luck and a better next year.

* "What happens next in Poland? 5 things you need to know after a landmark election :" https://www.politico.eu/article/5-takeaways-poland-election-donald-tusk-jaroslaw-kaczynski/

* "Poland’s LGBTQ+ community celebrates right-wing election losses: ‘We’ll fight for the future’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/poland-lgbtq-election-result-human-rights/

* "A Patois Revival: Jamaica Weighs Language Change as Ties to Britain Fray:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/world/americas/jamaica-official-language-patois.html

* This is how I've been reading that strategy. "Let's talk about 600 days in Ukraine and the kitchen....:"

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* "Volunteer Veterinarians in Ukraine:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/10/photos-volunteer-veterinarians-in-ukraine/675539/

* "Biden interviewed as part of the special counsel investigation into handling of classified documents:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-special-counsel-classified-documents-025f25d04a5c0e45d758fbaaa2f231b8

* "Rudy Giuliani sues Joe Biden for calling him a ‘Russian pawn’ :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/politics/rudy-giuliani-lawsuit-joe-biden-russian-pawn/index.html

* "Clarence Thomas Wants to Go After Freedom of the Press:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/clarence-thomas-challenge-landmark-defamation-ruling-1234850483/

* "U.S. inflation eased slightly last month as price increases extend slow descent:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/12/us-inflation-september-00121165

* Spoiler: AMPTP are being assholes. "SAG-AFTRA Strike Looks Bleaker Than Ever as Talks Break Down:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/sag-aftra-strike-looks-bleaker-than-ever-as-talks-break-down

* "SAG-AFTRA & Video Game Biz To Resume Contract Talks In Effort To Avoid New Strike:" https://deadline.com/2023/10/sag-aftra-video-game-contract-talks-1235575211/

* "Hollywood writers ratify 2023 tentative agreement with AMPTP:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/hollywood-writers-begin-voting-approve-contract-end-dispute/story?id=103654176

* A friend researched the story behind the corporate spin on the Disney waterslide lawsuit. It's pretty fucking horrific what happened to this woman.
https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/730207489393655808/woman-sues-disney-says-typhoon-lagoon-slide

* "SNAP recipients are denied hot food. These Penn grads found a hack with a new kind of corner store.:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/the-community-grocer-cobbs-creek-food-20230925.html

* "The mess in Congress, explained:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-14/house-republican-scalise-speaker-jordan-austin-scott-kevin-mccarthy-explained

* "McCarthy loyalists vow to draw out painful speakership battle:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/10/congress/mccarthy-speaker-vote-israel-math-00120720

* "Some House Republicans try to change the rules so losers become winners:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/14/jim-jordan-speaker-minority-rule/

* "Let's talk about the new GOP House situation....:"

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* "Hope fades that Congress can link Ukraine and Israel aid:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/11/congress-israel-ukraine-military-aid-00120974

* "Lauren Boebert Under Fire for Horrifying Transphobic Comments About Pentagon Official:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/lauren-boebert-transphobia-pentagon-official

* "Most US voters in favour of introducing more LGBTQ+ protections:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/12/us-voters-in-favour-pro-lgbtq-laws/

* "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

* "Dems file lawsuit challenging just-enacted, Republican-crafted North Carolina voting law :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/10/dems-file-lawsuit-challenging-republican-north-carolina-voting-law-00120773

* "California Sen. Laphonza Butler on Making Black Queer History and What Her Political Future Holds:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/laphonza-butler-makes-lesbian-history

* "Franklin mayoral candidate Hanson is running as the latest outgrowth of the Trump era:" https://tennesseelookout.com/2023/09/30/franklin-mayoral-candidate-hanson-is-running-as-the-latest-outgrowth-of-the-trump-era/

* "Tennessee Neo-Nazis Show Up to Support Far-Right Mayoral Candidate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/neo-nazis-franklin-gabrielle-hanson

* "Can Dave McCormick Go Home Again?:" https://themessenger.com/politics/can-dave-mccormick-go-home-again

* "Sylvia Swayne Aims to Make History as Alabama’s First Trans State Representative:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/alabama-transgender-candidate-sylvia-swayne

* Please don't be fooled into voting for him. "RFK Jr. says he's running for president as an independent:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/09/1204681962/rfk-jr-independent

* "Trump Shows Love To 'Hannibal Lecter' In Killer Blunder At Iowa Rally:" https://news.yahoo.com/trump-shows-love-hannibal-lecter-042941582.html

* CW: Suicide. Sen. John Fetterman Extended Interview:

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* "George Santos's Ex-Campaign Treasurer Implicates Congressman and Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charge:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nancy-marks-george-santos-plea

* "Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife struck and killed a pedestrian with her car in 2018, police records show:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/bob-menendezs-wife-killed-pedestrian-car-2018-police-records-show-rcna118876

* "The Shady Nonprofit Trying to Ruin Our Democracy:"

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* "Trump Gets the Corporate Death Penalty (And It's Getting Worse):"

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* "'I will not permit it': Judge throttles Trump's ranting to protect trial integrity:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-i-will-not-permit-it-judge-throttles-trump-s-ranting-to-protect-trial-integrity-195768389566

* "Let's talk about Trump, the docs, and an extra element....:"

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* I am furious. "No Charges Against Georgia Police in Death of Queer Activist Shot 57 Times:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/police-not-charged-activist-death

* "Denver's STAR set to expand amid tension over its future:" https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2023/05/03/denver-star-set-to-expand-amid-tension-over-its-future

* "California Just Became the First State to Declare a Transgender History Month:" https://www.them.us/story/california-transgender-history-month

* "77-year-old man from The Villages arrested after found with $1,800 worth of illegal erectile dysfunction pills:" https://nbc-2.com/news/weird/2023/10/05/77-year-old-man-from-the-villages-arrested-after-found-with-1800-worth-of-illegal-erectile-dysfunction-pills/

* "A Rant About Transphobia:"

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* "What a striking new study of death in America misses:" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23895909/angus-deaton-anne-case-life-expectancy-united-states-college-graduates-inequality-heart-disease

* "An epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/american-life-expectancy-dropping/

* "The long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on T cell activation: autoimmune disorders and endothelial cell dysfunction:" https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230801/The-long-term-effects-of-SARS-CoV-2-infection-on-T-cell-activation-autoimmune-disorders-and-endothelial-cell-dysfunction.aspx

* "Severe COVID-19 Can Alter Long-term Immune System Response:" https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/08/severe-covid-19-can-alter-long-term-immune-system-response

* "The Standard Advice for Concussions Is Wrong:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/10/concussion-brain-injury-treatment-recovery/675554/

* "Down syndrome families' fight for access to Alzheimer’s trials, treatments:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/down-syndrome-families-fight-access-alzheimers-trials-treatments-2023-10-10/

* "Rural America Is Losing Nursing Homes, and Small Towns Are Reeling:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-11/us-rural-nursing-homes-are-closing-hollowing-out-small-towns?cmpid=BBD101123_CITYLAB&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=231011&utm_campaign=citylabdaily&leadSource=uverify%20wall

* "World "less likely than ever" to meet Paris Agreement goal:" https://www.axios.com/2023/10/11/climate-paris-agreement-dnv

* "It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/08/1203950823/15-minute-cities-climate-solution

* "A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations:" https://www.wired.com/story/a-revelation-about-trees-is-messing-with-climate-calculations/

* "Millions of children are displaced due to extreme weather events. Climate change will make it worse:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-child-displacement-extreme-weather-87e933b1ee0d81f9345daa801f311ea6

* "‘Without water, there is no life’: Drought in Brazil’s Amazon is sharpening fears for the future:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/water-life-drought-brazils-amazon-sharpening-fears-future-103815545

* "More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, UN says:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-earthquake-death-toll-women-children-e9ef4fd77603f2203e3695194fbf7851

* "After Three Big Quakes, Too Scared to Sleep Anywhere but Outside:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/world/asia/afghanistan-earthquake.html

* Doctors without Borders Afghanistan Relief: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/afghanistan

* "New York City Is Not Built for This:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/09/new-york-heavy-rain-flooding-state-of-emergency/675505/

* "Your Sweaters Are Garbage: The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/sweater-clothing-quality-natural-fibers-fast-fashion/675600/

* "Americans know little about how their seafood is sourced. :" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/16/the-crimes-behind-the-seafood-you-eat

* "The AI Art Apocalypse:"

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* "Genetic tester 23andMe’s hacked data on Jewish users offered for sale online:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/06/23andme-hacked-data/

* "How a lonely mountain lion led to the creation of the world’s largest wildlife overpass:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/08/us/iyw-wildlife-overpasses/index.html

* "Man faces federal charges for allegedly killing hawks to protect squirrels on his property:" https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/man-faces-federal-charges-for-allegedly-killing-hawks-to-protect-squirrels-on-his-property-wild-animals-portsmouth-rhode-island-shooting-shot-to-death-pellet-guns-migratory-bird-treaty-act-red-tail-cooper

* "What is ‘kelping’? Why whales are making hats out of seaweed:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/kelping-whale-behavior-seaweed

* "Blacklight Studies Reveal That Most Mammals Secretly Glow:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fluorescent-animals

* "Basil the Opossum Has One Eye, a Big Heart, and a Job to Do:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/09/one-eyed-opossum-national-zoo-backyard-animals/675482/

* "Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans:" https://phys.org/news/2023-09-science-picture-ancient-kinds-humans.html

* "Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans:" https://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/06/17/interactive_map_loss_of_indian_land.html

* "American Dreams: Two families, one enslaved by the other. In many ways, their journeys since emancipation illustrate a broader truth about U.S. history: the lasting impact of discrimination on economic opportunities afforded Blacks and whites.:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-tennessee/

* "The surprising history of America’s ‘pick-your-own’ farms:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-surprising-history-of-americas-pick-your-own-farms

* CW: Suicide. "Somerton Man Charles Webb's true identity revealed in family photographs and divorce papers:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/somerton-manfamily-photographs-revealed-/101643524

* "Casting the Women of Valley of the Dolls:"

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* "The Making of Valley of the Dolls:"

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* "Matthew Shepard remembered by friends 25 years after brutal homophobic killing shocked the world:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/12/matthew-shepard-friends-life-and-death-25-years-on

* "Stop Firing Your Friends: Just make more of them.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/stop-breaking-up-with-friends/674540/

* "Hughes Van Ellis, youngest known survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 102:" https://apnews.com/article/obituary-tulsa-massacre-hughes-van-ellis-d63087c5a8fbe097e47d394394a4df3b

* "At Colorado funeral home where 115 decaying bodies found, troubles went unnoticed by regulators:" https://apnews.com/article/colorado-funeral-home-bodies-found-investigation-ee1089fab926042fda05fe5fa79ec7ce

* "Breaking News: The 'Return to Nature Funeral Home' Scandal:"

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* Last Sunday we got the interior ornaments up on the Halloween trees, but not the lights. It was just the newest Millennial and I. It was a really nice visit. At one point Livia came to the front of her room to give Newest Millennial blinky eyes, which is astonishing. She doesn't want to interact, mind, but this is Livia we are talking about and she usually doesn't like people who aren't me and Squirrel and to a much lesser extent Goth Millennial.

https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731111975430569984/gothmas-interior-decorations-about-half-done?source=share

* So remember how Peacehealth drove all the independent offices in four specialties out of business, thus forcing everyone to use their clinic, then closed those clinics to force everyone to go to their central clinic two counties to the south? And remember how both the Doctors who were running that clinic made a deal to operate out of a clinic a regional medical conglomerate was opening near the hospital? so instead of me spending all day on a sixty mile each way trek for my treatment I was using the last three months of skeleton crew treatment at old clinic which ended the last Thursday in September? Remember how they said we could all follow our doctors there?

Yeah, about that.

I've been dutifully calling ever two weeks to see if they were letting people schedule appointments yet. They sent out a letter saying they were open. I stayed up Tuesday to get in sorted. it was a whole drama because the automated maze to get to the scheduler was as much of a hassle as Peacehealth's and prone to dropping calls, forcing one to start from scratch each time. so that was frustrating and tine consuming.

Apparently they have no access to our health records, so it was a start from scratch situation. Me, mentally: Shit! This is going to be HOURS. Only it wasn't for all the wrong reasons. They take Medicare, but not Medicare Advantage. So if I want it covered I have to lose most of my benefits including having Medicaid pay my big Medicare copay. O.o. Or I can pay for expensive treatments myself as uninsured.

I was upset, but I remembered superstar medical social worker lady personally calling around town to talk dentists into taking medicare dental coverage for me thus opening up my small city so that medicare patients can now get root canals and crowns instead of learning to live without chewing.

So I still thought it was salvageable. Problem is she's gone and the woman replacing her is a busy supervisor who likes to call me two hours into my sleep cycle without warning and then gets angry at me for not being charming. Previous lady asked when was best to call and would schedule calls in advance for a time when I was able to be awake and functional. it is a lot easier for me to be charming when I wasn't just ripped out of REM sleep and am now being interrogated about something.

New lady is a supervisor and super busy with supervisor things and is made of no and is snippy. I can not make her understand that not only is a 120 mile round trip over mountain passes dealing with the traffic mess along the highway in the major metropolitan area where I once got caught in a four hour traffic jam and couldn't get off to pee, is an entire exhausting day for me and that plus a treatment would not only mean i could do anything useful that day, but the next day to. She can't grasp how much pain is involved in long car trips or how much treatments take out of me. She keeps hard selling me on this and then calling me resistant and recalcitrant like I'm the one being unreasonable for considering this basically insurmountable at my level of disability.

She did not fight the in town clinic for me. She did not try to argue them around.

Her, repeating a suggestion she has made over and over since the closing announcement: You should just get your GP to do it.

Me, explaining for at least the third time because we have this conversation every time we talk: I asked my GP last spring like you asked. They can't do it. It can't be administered by a GP. They'd need to hire a specialist and build new facilities for compounding and for special storage of medication.

Her: Well just ask you GP to give you a different treatment.

Me: There are no other treatments. I have medications to manage symptoms. These treatments are the cure. There is only one cure.

Her: You are being recalcitrant!

Me: There is literally only one cure. No new ones have been invented since last February. The cure is working. I'm getting better. i will get worse again with only symptom management.

But she kept arguing with me because I was being stubborn about facts being facts. My GP can't pull an entire brand new treatment regimen out of her ass. She would not let it go or let me go and I was exhausted because it was hours past when I would normally be asleep at this point and also what was the point of her hard selling me on demanding the imaginary alternative treatment or the 120 mile trip. I ended up giving and and saying something like, "I have to go now," which I know is rude, but we spent this entire conversation with her neither listing not understanding and basically acting like I was the asshole here.

So I'm fucked and I'm frustrated and angry. I was literally at the point where I was going to get better really quickly if I kept doing treatments, but if we stop now I'll be back to square one with it all to do again if another clinic opens.

And it's all like this because Obama and Biden didn't have the balls to stick to their universal free healthy care guns and decided to adopt the capitalist give away Republican health plan in pursuit of bipartisan buy in they did not get, which anyone paying attention told them they could not get, which Mitch McConnell vowed they'd never get as part of the project to make Obama a one term president at all costs. They burned all their political capital on a bullshit give away to insurance companies when they could have taken the same or less of a hit just giving up a developed country level health care system. No fucked up website needed for sign ups. No red tape or copays or catch 22 shit like I'm dealing with now.

* Tuesday, once I was allowed to sleep, people kept waking me up. Bonus, my legs weren't really working, so I just kept falling over. It's like this this time of year with the extreme temperature and barometric pressure changes. At one point during a food making attempt I managed to fuck up a toe on one side and the wrist on the other, Go me. This was an extra bad one though, and I really wasn't much functional just generally and everything was just incredibly hard to accomplish.

We did manage Wednesday errands, including the bit when I needed to get out of the car. Assorted Millennials puttered around with decorations and there was much chatting. Outside is started. The trees are mostly sorted inside, but not the rest.

At one point Goth Millennial was like, "did the barometer just drop?" and I was like, "I don't have a barometer, but according to my sinuses and joints, yes. It's the evening winds out of Alaska right on time. About five minutes ago right?" Them: "Yes. My shoulder just started hurting."

* When we were decorating Sunday, I was trying to explain to newest Millenial why the Weeping Angel tree topper horrifies Goth Millenial. "An image of an angel is an angel," etc., and they seemed really confused so I kept explaining the lore that makes them horrifying. Finally it became clear that they thought this was real angel lore, having no idea about either Doctor Who or Christian Mythology.

I love my friends.

* Saturday I got a few more things done inside (Window display stuff, more lights.) This Sunday I got outside to good enough but more to be done while Newest millennial made special pizza which was fascinating and delicious. Then Goth Millennial, New Millennial and I had floats and talked about history.

* The pictures of the Imperial couple from before that I promised. These are the best livia pics ever taken: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731382118597476353/the-empress-livia-spots-a-moth-the-moth-lands-on?source=share

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

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

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* "Trump Blabbed Nuclear Secrets at Mar-a-Lago | Election Lies Bring Down Mike Lindell:"

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* "War Misinformation Spreads on X | House GOP Therapy Session | RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Candidacy:"

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* "Meanwhile… Boston’s Annoying Accent | Drink Til You Puke at Brunch | Snoop Got Ed Sheeran High:"

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* "Scalise Nabs House Speaker Nom | George Santos Scammed His Own Donors | Bigfoot Found!:"

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* "Stephen Learns the Differences Between Hispanic and Latino:"

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* "McCarthy As Temp Speaker? | George Santos Channels Mr. T | Trump Threatens “Fire Hell” If He Loses:"

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* "Meanwhile… Shower in Your Jeans | Adopt Cheeto the Dog | UK’s Soggy Chestnuts:"

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* NOTE: Several Classic Who companions also quit, which may not be clear from the wording in this. Otherwise, I'm in complete agreement. "Martha Jones Deserved Better (And Other Correct Doctor Who Takes):"

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* "Playing Games with Classified Info:"

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* "Now You Can Bet on the House Speaker Race:"

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* "A Live Look at the Speaker Race:"

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* "I'm Just Pete - SNL:"

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* "Glamgina - SNL:"

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* "Get Out of Trouble the George Santos Way!:"

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* "Sir Gawain And The Green Knight:" https://the-toast.net/2015/06/03/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/

* "I grew up in a haunted house and I didn’t notice:" https://www.tumblr.com/cleolinda/730174032954212352/i-grew-up-in-a-haunted-house-and-didnt-notice

"My sister noticed:" https://www.tumblr.com/cleolinda/730177944968937472/my-sister-noticed

* They updated Stabby the Roomba: https://sepulchritude.tumblr.com/post/153838867333/on-the-topic-of-humans-being-the-intergalactic

* "Midnight Pals: Frankensexy:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/730721721632604160/midnight-pals-frankensexy?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: The Most Divorced Time of year:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/731355328295436288/midnight-pals-the-most-divorced-time-of-year?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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* The last few editions, I've been tinkering with how to sort and group items. The changes are fairly minor and I hope won't cause too much confusion. Let me know if it does.

This should have gone out Monday A, but I was tired.

* "Costs divide rich, poor countries ahead of WHO pandemic treaty talks:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-pandemic-bats-treaty/

* "Guatemalan justice ‘being used politically’ against president-elect: OAS:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/1/guatemalan-justice-being-used-politically-against-president-elect-oas

* "Met Police deny targeting ‘woke’ issues after Mark Rowley interview in The Telegraph:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/met-police-woke-causes-mark-rowley/

* "The Culture War Funded by Russian Roubles:" https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/09/the-culture-war-funded-by-russian-roubles/

* "10-Year-Old Ukrainian Boy Thrown Off Bridge in Germany for Not Speaking Russian:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-year-old-ukrainian-boy-thrown-off-bridge-in-germany-for-not-speaking-russian

* "In wartime Ukraine, going back to school means preparing for air raids and huddling in shelters:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/europe/ukraine-war-back-to-school-intl/index.html

* "Canada issues advisory to warn LGBTQ+ people travelling to the US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/canada-travel-advisory-travel-us/

* "Let's talk about Canada, the US, and red states....:"

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* "US regulators might change how they classify marijuana. Here’s what that would mean:" https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-federal-regulation-reclassifying-health-b0b5fc3d34a83d2c95db1665f8149d42

* "Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su: How Bidenomics is fueling union power:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/acting-labor-secretary-julie-su-how-bidenomics-is-fueling-union-power-192115269748

* CW: Rape "Hollywood's Toxic Underbelly with Maureen Ryan:"

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* "VFX Workers At Walt Disney Pictures Seek Unionization With IATSE:" https://deadline.com/2023/08/vfx-workers-at-walt-disney-pictures-seek-unionization-with-iatse-1235529565/amp/

* "Labor Strife Grows Ahead of Labor Day:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/labor-strife-grows-ahead-of-labor-day-192194117574

* "SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game Companies:" https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-seeks-video-game-strike-approval-1235711251/

* "Some Republicans seek retribution for Trump prosecutions:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/some-republicans-seek-retribution-for-trump-prosecutions-192157253787

* "‘Kids Online Safety Act’ will deliberately target trans content, senator Marsha Blackburn admits:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/kids-online-safety-act-target-trans-lgbtq-content/

* "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

* "Wisconsin’s new liberal Supreme Court justice hasn’t heard a case but Republicans may impeach:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-impeach-redistricting-0215233d279092e7236c992957bbe935

* "Let's talk about impeachment in Wisconsin....:"

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* "Republicans threaten to impeach Wisconsin justice before she has ruled on any case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-threaten-to-impeach-wisconsin-justice-before-she-has-ruled-on-any-case-192114757804

* "Gay Republican Richard Grenell Urges Texas GOP to Lift Ban on Log Cabin:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/richard-grenell-texas-log-cabin

* "Mississippi Poised to Elect First Gay Legislator Ever:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mississippi-first-out-legislator

* CW: Sexual Harassment "Vivek Ramaswamy Sued By Former Employees Claiming His Company Pressured Them Into Violating Securities Laws:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/08/18/vivek-ramaswamy-sued-by-former-employees-claiming-his-company-pressured-them-into-violating-securities-laws/?sh=c561a832dbd2

* "Vivek Ramaswamy enriched himself while costing small investors their life savings:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/31/vivek-ramaswamy-enriched-himself-while-costing-small-investors-their-life-savings-must-watch-5-min-video.html

* "Vivek Ramaswamy's "cold, cultural civil war":" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-ramaswamy-rise-explained

* "Pro-DeSantis Super PAC All but Gives Up on Nevada and Super Tuesday States:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-desantis-super-pac-never-back-down-ends-voter-canvassing-in-nevada-california

* "Ron DeSantis Is Afraid of Questions From a 15-Year-Old:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-president-candidate-ron-desantis-is-afraid-of-questions-from-15-year-old-quinn-mitchell

* It's a matter of standing not on the rights or wrongs of the case. "Federal judge dismisses Florida lawsuit seeking to have Trump declared ineligible for presidency:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/09/01/federal-judge-dismisses-florida-lawsuit-seeking-to-have-trump-declared-ineligible-for-presidency/

* "The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/29/michael-farris-homeschoolers-parents-rights-ziklag/

* "DeSantis tells Biden: Keep your IRA money :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/desantis-refuses-biden-climate-ira-money-00113397

* "Let's talk about Paxton, perks, and impeachment in Texas....:"

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* "Let's talk about Paxton's polling predicament prior to proceedings....:"

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* "Prosecutors seek hard time for Joe Harding, but also acknowledge mitigating factors:" https://floridapolitics.com/archives/632415-prosecutors-seek-hard-time-for-joe-harding-but-also-acknowledge-mitigating-factors/

* "Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America:" https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html

* "Judge rejects Navarro’s ‘executive privilege’ claim for defying Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/navarro-trump-privilege-ruling-00113486

* "Let's talk about Navarro and signs....:"

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* "Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming Georgia election workers, judge rules :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/judge-rules-giuliani-is-liable-for-defaming-georgia-election-workers-orders-sanctions-00113462

* "New York AG seeks immediate verdict in fraud lawsuit against Trump:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-york-ag-seeks-immediate-verdict-in-fraud-lawsuit-against-donald-trump

* "When Elon Musk Fought Jack Smith's Search Warrant for Donald Trump:"

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* "Trump pleads ‘not guilty’ in Georgia racketeering case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/31/trump-georgia-not-guilty-plea-00113612

* "US judge to sentence two more Proud Boys for Jan. 6 attack at Capitol:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-sentence-two-more-proud-boys-jan-6-attack-capitol-2023-09-01/

* "Two ex-Proud Boys leaders get some of longest sentences in Jan. 6 Capitol attack:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-proud-boys-sentencing-seditious-conspiracy-5c8bf8a8e5dc6381e7387e31e554cee6

* "Proud Boy who said he was ‘changed man’ shouted ‘Trump won’ after judge left:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/proud-boy-who-said-he-was-changed-man-shouted-trump-won-after-judge-left-192111173772

* "Holocaust denier Capitol rioter and Enrique Tarrio ally joins Leave Our Kids Alone:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/holocaust-denier-capitol-rioter-and-enrique-tarrio-ally-joins-leave-our-kids-alone

* "Leave Our Kids Alone calls LGBTQ+ community a “gay Jew mafia”:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/leave-our-kids-alone-calls-lgbtq-community-a-gay-jew-mafia

* "Leave Our Kids Alone promotes Nazi-style book burnings:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/leave-our-kids-alone-promotes-nazi-style-book-burnings

* "Shampoo king wants to become a war lord with a "quite sizable compound":" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/24/shampoo-king-wants-to-become-a-warlord-with-a-quite-sizable-compound.html

* "Political violence in polarized U.S. at its worst since 1970s :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-violence/

* "Neo-Nazi leader establishes training site in Maine:" https://wgme.com/news/local/neo-nazi-leader-establishes-training-site-in-maine-former-us-marine-christopher-pohlhaus-springfield-white-supremacists-camp-moores-road-bluttstamm-blood-tribe-physical-fitness-drills-weapons-training

* "Dozens of Miles City residents mailed CD containing 'neo-Nazi' propaganda:" https://www.ktvq.com/neighborhood-news/miles-city-custer-county/dozens-of-miles-city-residents-mailed-cd-containing-neo-nazi-propaganda

* "Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar responds to anti-Semitic flyers found in Macon:" https://www.41nbc.com/rabbi-elizabeth-bahar-responds-to-anti-semitic-flyers-found-in-macon/

* "LGBTQ-friendly restaurant defiant after Nazi graffiti and arson attacks: ‘We’re not going anywhere’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/la-restaurant-sorry-not-sorry-swastika-vandalism-attacks/

* "Tulsa School District Bombarded With Bomb Threats After Right-Wing Influencer Post:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tusla-school-district-bomb-threats-libs-tiktok-1234814986/

* "Democrats push for investigation of Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s firebrand schools superintendent:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ryan-walters-oklahoma-schools-impeachment-investigation-democrats-rcna102407

* "Library That Kicked Out Moms for Liberty Group Suffers Third Bomb Threat:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/davis-library-bomb-threats

* "Bomb threats made to north suburban, Lake County public libraries :" https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/wilmette/ct-wlm-bomb-threats-tl-0824-20230818-gbeszyadcjc57hzcgoxd4klgm4-story.html

* "Oklahoma School District Inundated With Bomb Threats After Libs of TikTok Tweet:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/libs-tiktok-oklahoma-bomb-threats

* "New Jersey Families Evacuated From Drag Queen Story Hour Event Amid Bomb Threat:" https://www.advocate.com/news/princeton-drag-queen-bomb-threat

* "In the last decade, an estimated 40 million Americans lived within 1 mile of a mass shooting:" https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/08/us/americans-living-near-mass-shootings-statistics-dg/

* "Man pleads guilty to hate crime charge after pledge to ‘slaughter’ LGBTQ+ people in US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/adam-michael-nettina-hate-crime-guilty-maryland/

* "Jacksonville shootings: What we know about the racist killings:" https://apnews.com/article/deadly-shooting-florida-store-race-bd2bf9591f40903a923dbd8a46d8fb97

* "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis booed at vigil as hundreds mourn more racist killings:" https://apnews.com/article/deadly-shooting-florida-store-race-washington-king-51edd341db7fe2374cb69970840ef76f

* "Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy uses racist Jacksonville shooting to talk about trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/vivek-ramaswamy-trans-jacksonville-shooting/

* "Two people killed Thursday morning in Peoria on heels of mass shooting:" https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/crime/2023/08/31/two-people-shot-in-peoria-il-after-mass-shooting-injured-six/70727834007/

* "Neo-Nazi group NSC-131 holds anti-immigration protest outside Woburn hotel:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/28/metro/neo-nazi-group-nsc-131-holds-anti-immigration-protest-outside-woburn-hotel/

* "3 of 5 former Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death want separate trials:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/3-5-former-memphis-officers-charged-tyre-nichols-102373137

* "How a small-town feud in Kansas sent a shock through American journalism:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/26/marion-county-newspaper-police-raid-what-really-happened/

* "A right-wing sheriffs group that challenges federal law is gaining acceptance around the country:" https://apnews.com/article/constitutional-sheriffs-5568cd0b6b27680a28de8a098ed14210

* "When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/dungeons-and-dragons-texas-death-row-tdcj

* "Savannah picks emancipated Black woman to replace name of slavery advocate on historic square:" https://apnews.com/article/savannah-square-renamed-calhoun-slavery-susie-taylor-8acd983fc1175f077c7162400890dc57

* "Texas anti-porn bill violates First Amendment free speech laws, judge rules:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/texas-anti-porn-bill-hb-1181-injunction/

* "Florida LGBTQ+ ‘safe places’ program under threat from Republican lawmakers:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/florida-safe-places-program-republican-lawmakers/

* "The GOP’s Drag Bans Aren’t Meant to Be Good Laws. They’re Meant to Cause Chaos.:" https://newrepublic.com/article/175296/gops-drag-bans-arent-meant-good-laws-theyre-meant-cause-chaos

* "Texas drag performances ban has been blocked by a federal judge:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/texas-drag-performances-ban-blocked/

* "Tennessee DA Threatens Pride With Unconstitutional Anti-Drag Law, Gets Sued:" https://www.advocate.com/drag/tennessee-drag-law-enforcement

* "Officials fail to shut down local Pride under Tennessee’s anti-drag law: ‘You can’t touch our Pride’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/tennessee-drag-ban-blount-county-pride/

* "Don’t Say Gay, or He, or She, or They Florida schools under DeSantis are in a panic over pronouns.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/dont-say-gay-or-he-or-she-or-they-in-florida-schools.html

* "A Queer Teacher in Edgewood Picked a Fight He Couldn’t Win:" https://www.texasobserver.org/a-queer-teacher-in-edgewood-picked-a-fight-he-couldnt-win/

* "School district cancels Batman book talks after author says the word ‘gay’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/batman-book-talk-cancelled-gay/

* CW: Child Abuse, Domestic Abuse "Proud Boy Adam Kiefer of Leave Our Kids Alone was convicted of willful cruelty to a child:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/proud-boy-adam-kiefer-of-leave-our-kids-alone-was-convicted-of-willful-cruelty-to-a-child

* CW: Child Abuse. "Maryland Parents Charged With Murder Over Death of Transgender Teenager:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-teen-death-neglect

* CW: Abuse "Why Would You Do THIS?! | r/InsaneParents:"

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* "Boston marriage licences no longer require gender identification:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/30/boston-marriage-licences-gender/

* Every time, I beg, please can we stop with these things? "Gender reveal party goes horribly wrong after stunt plane crashes, killing pilot:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/gender-reveal-party-plane-crash-mexico/

* "Texas highways are the next anti-abortion target. One town is resisting.:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/01/texas-cities-abortion-trafficking/

* "Gender-Affirming Surgeries Have Risen, Likely Due to Better Insurance: Study:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-affirming-surgeries-rise

* Republicans are using the same group of fake experts to steal our human and civil rights. https://genderanalysis.net/2023/08/florida-ahcas-anti-trans-expert-g-kevin-donovan-stated-in-deposition-that-hes-never-been-a-member-of-the-american-college-of-pediatricians-hate-group-the-groups-financial-records-indica/

* "Texas Is Now the Most Populous State With a Trans Health Care Ban: Here’s the Full List:" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-gender-affirming-care-ban

* "Alabama Trans Health Care Ruling Is a Worrying Omen for a Future SCOTUS Decision:" https://theintercept.com/2023/08/22/trans-health-care-alabama-supreme-court/

* "Challengers to Alabama's felony ban on trans care for minors will seek full appeals court review:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-trans-care-ban-en-banc-review-planned

* "Texas court passes ‘cruel ban’ on gender-affirming care for minors:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/texas-court-law-gender-affirming-care/

* "Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is officially in effect:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/missouri-ban-gender-affirming-care-minors/

* "Confronting a pair of dangerous arguments as trans people remain under attack:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/dangerous-arguments-and-anti-trans-laws

* "Andrew Bailey is Proud of Misleading the Public and Terrorizing Trans Kids:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/andrew-bailey-is-proud-of-misleading-the-public-and-terrorizing-trans-kids

* "Transgender patients sue the hospital that provided their records to Tennessee’s attorney general:" https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-transgender-patient-records-vanderbilt-f188c6c0c9714575554867b4541141dd

* "Gay doctor flees Louisiana due to anti-LGBTQ+ laws: ‘I don’t have a choice’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/gay-doctor-louisiana-anti-lgbtq-laws-jake-kleinmahon/

* "Evidence Undermines ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ Claims:" https://archive.ph/J2EyW

* "First Man Faces Death Penalty for 'Aggravated Homosexuality' in Uganda:" https://www.advocate.com/news/uganda-aggravated-homosexuality-death-penalty

* "Dozens Arrested for Attending Gay Wedding in Nigeria:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nigeria-gay-wedding-arrests

* "Trans women arrested and ‘forced to confess’ in India:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/india-trans-women-arrested/

* "Russian government unveils online form for users to report LGBT content:" https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/09/01/russian-government-unveils-online-form-for-users-to-report-lgbt-content

* "LGBTQ+ safety under threat in Sydney after hateful attack on Pride event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/sydney-pride-event-lgbtq-attack/

* "Activists take over Sydney’s Oxford Street to protest anti-LGBTQ+ attacks and demand queer-safe spaces:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/lgbtq-sydney-protest-queer-safe-spaces/

* "Australia’s first female PM calls for ‘love and respect’ when asked tired ‘what is a woman’ question:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/australia-julia-gillard-trans-question/

* "Man arrested over alleged harassment after anti-LGBTQ+ Cork library protests:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/cork-city-library-arrest-protest-harassment/

* "New Zealand mayor calls out groomer sign at Pride event as ‘bigotry masquerading as concern’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/new-zealand-groomer-graffiti/

* "Canadian parents rally against new anti-LGBTQ+ education policy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/saskatchewan-education-policy-lgbtq-students/

* "Grant Shapps: What is the new defence secretary’s record on LGBTQ+ rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/grant-shapps-defence-secretary-lgbtq/

* "Suella Braverman orders review to stop police ‘fraternising’ with LGBTQ+ people at Pride:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/02/suella-braverman-police/

* "Anti-trans activists target queer theatre company with ‘nasty’ abuse over new LGBTQ+ play:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/london-play-anti-trans-activists-jock-night/

* "Sarah Jane Baker found not guilty of inciting violence over ‘punch TERFs’ Trans+ Pride speech:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/sarah-jane-baker-not-guilty-punch-terfs/

* "Kansas judge rules trans people’s birth certificates don’t have to be altered:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/kansas-trans-birth-certificates/

* "Nebraska governor signs anti-trans bill defining men and women by reproductive organs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/nebraska-anti-trans-bill-sex-at-birth/

* "Florida and Texas universities excluded from list of LGBTQ+ friendly schools:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/florida-texas-universities-lgbtq-friendly-list/

* "Alaska board of education votes to limit trans girls’ participation in sports:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/alaska-trans-girls-sports/

* "Brigham Young University Adds Explicit Ban on 'Same-Sex Romantic Behavior' to Honor Code:" https://www.advocate.com/education/byu-anti-lgbtq-honor-code

* "Transgender Sorority Sister Wins in University of Wyoming Case:" https://www.advocate.com/law/wyoming-sorority-trans-lawsuit-dismissed

* "Hate Crime Charges in Stonewall Monument Flag Desecration:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/stonewall-monument-vandalism-arrest

* "Homophobia Rears Its Head at Chili Cook-Off at California County Fair:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/chili-cook-off-homophobia-california

* "Inside the New York Times’ trans coverage: ‘I wonder if people at the top fully believe in trans people’s humanity’:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/new-york-times-trans-18214925.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL29waW5pb24vYXJ0aWNsZS9uZXcteW9yay10aW1lcy10cmFucy0xODIxNDkyNS5waHA=&time=MTY5MzUxMDg0MjM4MQ==&rid=OGU4ZGRlMjAtYjIwMy00ZmU3LThmNDgtOWJhZGVkYjRlNjc1&sharecount=Mg==

* "Jamie Reed’s Allegations Are Not Even Partially Confirmed:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/jamie-reeds-allegations-are-not-even-partially-confirmed

* "Indeed offers trans employees $10,000 to help relocate to safer states:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/30/indeed-trans-employees-relocation-scheme/

* "WI: 3 Sets of Parents Attempt to Drive Trans Child Off a Sports Team:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/wi-3-sets-of-parents-attempt-to-drive-trans-child-off-hs-sports-team

* "Trans chess master found ‘home’ in the game and ‘a place for interacting despite our differences’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/trans-chess-player-morgen-mills-home-community-fide/

* "Why are so many disabled people gay?:"

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* "What to Know About the New Covid Variants:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/covid-variant.html

"The variant was identified in China in February 2023 and was first detected in the United States in April. It is a descendant of the Omicron variant XBB.1.9.2 and has one notable mutation that helps it to evade antibodies developed by the immune system in response to earlier variants and vaccines. That advantage may be why EG.5 has become the dominant strain worldwide, and it could be one reason Covid cases have been rising again.

That mutation “may mean that more people are susceptible because the virus can escape a little bit more of that immunity,” Dr. Pekosz said."

"Data released this week on X (formerly Twitter) by scientists in China showed that BA.2.86 is so different from previous versions of the virus that it easily escapes antibodies produced in response to earlier infections — even more than EG.5 does. The data (which have not yet been published or peer-reviewed) suggest that the updated vaccine will be less effective against it, too."

Wear your mask.

* "In a Decaying Queens Fortress, It’s One Man Versus 47 Kinds of Mosquito:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/nyregion/nyc-mosquitoes-west-nile.html

* "Giant worms go wandering in man’s innards, cause dangerous traffic jam:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/giant-worms-go-wandering-in-mans-innards-cause-dangerous-traffic-jam/

* I feel this in my marrow. "When I Was 6, a Doctor Botched a Routine Surgery. Here’s How It Changed My Life.:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/hernia-surgery-kids-complication-rate.html

* "Why Protestors Blockaded Burning Man:" https://advocatechannel.com/burning-man-protest-blockade

* "Tens of thousands at Burning Man told to conserve water and food after heavy rains leave attendees stranded in Nevada desert:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/02/us/burning-man-storms-shelter-black-rock-city/index.html

* "Mishmash of how US heat deaths are counted complicates efforts to keep people safe as Earth warms:" https://apnews.com/article/counting-extreme-heat-deaths-7125ad9a5289625bd9ca312945996399

* "How wildfires are threatening the Mediterranean way of life:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/02/greece-fires-2023-rhodes/

* "Greece sends 100 extra firefighters to a massive northeastern wildfire as it burns for a 13th day:" https://apnews.com/article/greece-wildfires-massive-blaze-europe-77c0e818372ab86f11f2196f07237c54

* "A heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago nearly 30 years ago:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/10/chicago-heat-wave-1995/

* "127-year-old water main gives way under NYC’s Times Square, flooding streets, subways:" https://apnews.com/article/water-main-break-times-square-a896d33258b86d4a77050b542413785b

* "America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html

* "The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet:" https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/the-secret-life-of-the-500-cables-that-run-the-internet/

* "Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/judge-tears-apart-republican-lawsuit-alleging-bias-in-gmail-spam-filter/

* "Instagram Is Blocking LGBTQIA+ Accounts:" https://www.advocate.com/business/instagram-shadowbanning-lgbtq-content

* "Elon Musk: A smart businessman or an ‘impetuous narcissist’?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/02/elon-musk-x-corp-twitter-bruce-daisley/

* "The Crane who Fell in Love with a Human:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2018/07/23/feature/the-crane-who-fell-in-love-with-a-human/

* "We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and Humans Are Increasingly Aware We Can Choose How Our Cultures Can Evolve:" https://www.pressenza.com/2023/08/we-did-not-evolve-to-be-selfish-and-humans-are-increasingly-aware-we-can-choose-how-our-cultures-can-evolve/

* "Göbekli Tepe: The Place That Rewrote History:"

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* "Karahan Tepe: The Mysteries of The Oldest Known Settlement:"

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* "Did Vikings Really Prefer Axes to Swords? A Brief Look at Some Blades:"

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* "History Summarized: The Splendor of Kyiv:"

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* "The largest mass sedition trial in American history churns on. One final twist calls into question whether the Justice Department will see the case to the end.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/episode-7-rinse-repeat-n1300745

* "In the wake of the sedition trial’s collapse, Justice Department prosecutor John Rogge travels overseas and uncovers a bombshell.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/episode-8-ultra-vires-n1300884

* "Bill Richardson, former N.M. governor who worked to free Americans held abroad, dies:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197430962/bill-richardson-former-new-mexico-governor-and-diplomat-dies-at-75

* Sometimes when other Olds are complaining about young people and their phones, I think about the Student Union at my first college in the days just before email happened to ordinary people.

It was a very small school and the student union was basically a very large basement, with an eatery, a mail room, and a bunch of seating areas. The mail room was central and four times a day they delivered mail. You might ask, "How was there enough mail to deliver four times a day, when the post office delivers once a day?" Most of it was junk. You got the real mail once a day and the rest was fliers and things for activities, messages from Profs or other students, that sort of think. Most of it went right into the conveniently placed recycling bins.

I admit, like everyone else, I'd turn up for the big distribution of outside mail as you had to catch package delivery when the window was open, and given the poor taste and nutritional value of the crap in the cafeteria, something edible from home was a Big Deal.

Four times a day though, the students would gather if they weren't in class in the seating areas closest to the mail boxes. Some benighted souls would hover, hover, right in front of their boxes, listening excitedly for the squeak of the sort cart and the rustle of the student workers on the other side, eyes fixed on the tiny box window.

These people knew perfectly well that the other three deliveries were 80-90% junk mail. They sat or stood, desperate as baby birds waiting for the worm anyway.

People haven't changed, they are just waiting for a ping instead of a squeak and rustle.

Human nature is human nature. I think a lot of people from before email and texts are forgetting that they too have run to the mailbox when they saw the USPS truck or mail person put stuff in, or dove for the letters lot hoping for something good, or hovered by a campus mail slot knowing odds were it was all or mostly trash. I try not to forget that, even though I stopped hovering after a week or so, even though if I check my email more than once a day it's a lot, even though I don't text. Who the fuck are we too judge? We've all done the analog version even if we aren't currently doing the digital and I feel like a lot of people who were email users but not frequent texters are pretending we all didn't refresh email like 8 times a day in the '90's.

* Saturday we wore ourselves out with necessary errands. I needed algae wafers for the plecoes and some special girl food to tide Livia over. They had her shreds but not her kibbles there. (As I bought the last two bags of kibbles at the local last month, she likely has about a month of kibbles left, but with today I think the bird flu may have fucked the cat food supply and for Livia, the choice is a small number of turkey dominant limited ingredient foods or going back on the even more expensive prescription stuff. There are three more places I could try left, but gas is low and two of them are further out and one is super expensive.

All this is made worse by Livia having what is likely a psychiatric crisis, but could be early signs that her renal system may be failing again. Let us hope it's psychiatric, because that won't kill her and I think she's doing a little better tonight. There have been a lot of visitors and schedule disruptions, plus me being sick. That's a lot of stress for a cat who super extra is bad at change and gets stressed easily. Her urine remains normal, but her high anxiety behaviors aren't that different from the behaviors the time she almost died when she was a little over a year old, so I worry. She was eating almost normally tonight, so I'm still in the likely stress camp. *fingers crossed*

Anyway, OTC was right next to the way too hot pet supply store. I somehow miscalculated the tax again and also forgot surgical masks, of which I have nearly run out. @$&#!

The good cheap ethical grocery is right there, so I used the motor cart because most of me wasn't working well at this point. Inevitably, I forgot some things, but there were tiny oranges on sale and I have partially restocked some essentials.

My nails are doing almost okay for the first time in ages, so Goth Millennial painted them a subtly sparkly purple for me, just in time for social stuff with some of the Millennials.

I'm still not really caught up from all the spring car repairs. I am already seeing way more things I can't not buy like gas, litter, and probably kibbles and we are moving into the super expensive part of the year (September-January), where I have a bunch of extra things I can't not do like the oil/radiator thing my car now needs every six months, tabs, housing tax, Gothmas season). I had such high hopes when the COLA went up in January, but between the car and the extra electrical costs... yeah.

I'm not drowning. Not yet. It's been two straight years of everything breaking. I could sure use a year of nothing breaking. This was the first summer since the start of the pandemic I didn't need surgery in the summer. Let's hope the car and apartment follow suit.

* Me watching remastered Frankenstein 1931: Elizabeth, why are you trying to marry a gay man with no interest in you even if he did propose when you have offers from men actually attracted to you?

Much Later, Elizabeth: Something is coming between us!

Me: It's his preference for playing with men's bodies!

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "How queer people are hiding their identity in public as anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment grows:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/two-brewers-stabbing-queer-lgbtq-safety/

* "Eight in 10 LGBTQ+ Americans fear for safety as bigotry sweeps nation, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/17/americans-us-human-rights-campaign/

* "Military Veterans Sue to Reclassify Sexuality-Based Discharge Records:" https://www.advocate.com/law/military-veterans-lawsuit-reclassify-discharge

* "Laws banning gender-affirming treatments can block trans youth from receiving other care:" https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/072723_trans_care_laws/laws-banning-gender-affirming-treatments-can-block-trans-youth-from-receiving-other-care/

* "After Mississippi banned his hormone shots, an 8-hour journey:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/mississippi-youth-transgender-care-ban-aftermath/

* "Trans student was denied use of girls’ restroom at Platte County High, subject to verbal harassment:" https://www.kctv5.com/2023/08/03/lawsuit-trans-student-was-denied-use-girls-restroom-platte-county-high-subject-verbal-harassment/

* "New Hampshire Outlaws 'LGBTQ+ Panic' Defense in Homicide Cases:" https://www.advocate.com/law/new-hampshire-gay-panic-ban

* "Idaho's Anti-Trans Sports Law Still Blocked After Appeals Court Ruling:" https://www.advocate.com/law/idaho-trans-sports-ban-blocked

* "Idaho Bathroom Law Targeting Transgender Students Blocked by Judge:" https://www.advocate.com/law/judge-blocks-idaho-bathroom-law

* "U.S. Appeals Court Dismisses Suit Against Trans-Supportive School Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/law/anti-trans-lawsuit-dismissed-montgomery

* "Vanderbilt Medical Center Under Federal Scrutiny After Trans Patient Records Release:" https://www.advocate.com/news/vanderbilt-hhs-investigation-transgender-records

* "Diocese Issues Policy Regarding Sexuality and Sexual Identity in Schools:" https://worcesterdiocese.org/news/diocese-issues-policy-regarding-sexuality-and-sexual-identity-in-schools?utm_source=WBUR+Editorial+Newsletters&utm_campaign=1fdc1f8ca2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_18_11_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0781a0a0c-1fdc1f8ca2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D#menu

* "Students must use names, pronouns assigned at birth under new Worcester Catholic schools policy:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/17/metro/trans-students-must-use-names-pronouns-assigned-birth-under-new-worcester-catholic-schools-policy/?utm_source=WBUR+Editorial+Newsletters&utm_campaign=1fdc1f8ca2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_18_11_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0781a0a0c-1fdc1f8ca2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

* This is a different state. "Denver Archdiocese Sues to Deny LGBTQ+ Families Access to Preschool:" https://www.advocate.com/law/archdiocese-of-denver-lgbtq-discrimination

* "‘Remarkable’ woman shot dead after dispute over LGBTQ+ Pride flag:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/california-shop-owner-shot-lgbtq-pride-flag/

* "Suspect Identified in Killing of California Woman Shot for Displaying Pride Flag:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/travis-ikeguchi-lauri-carleton-flag

* "Suspect in killing over Pride flag had long history of anti-LGBTQ posts:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/suspect-in-killing-over-pride-flag-had-long-history-of-anti-lgbtq-posts-191387205747

* "Man Who Pulled Gun At Historic Gay Bar Gets 5 Years Behind Bars:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/19-bar-man-gun-sentenced

* "Lawyer for Alleged O’Shae Sibley Killer Claims Client is a “Good Christian Boy”:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/oshae-sibley-alleged-killer-christian

* "Anti-trans couple told they can’t foster children because of their views on LGBTQ+ kids. They’re suing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/10/catholi-couple-trans-fostering/

They are suing for the right to abuse foster children, as the rights of children not to be abused are less important than their right as Christians to abuse other people's children.

* "Florida LGBTQ+ Rights Groups Launch Parenting With Pride Program:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-families-parenting-with-pride

* CW: Suicide "Leave Our Kids Alone supporters tell LGBTQ+ youth to hang themselves:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/6/2185669/-Leave-Our-Kids-Alone-supporters-tell-LGBTQ-youth-to-hang-themselves

How to spot a hate group.

* "Federalist Author Calls for a New Satanic Panic:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/federalist-author-calls-for-a-new-satanic-panic

* "Gay GB News pundit clashes with colleague over bigoted rant comparing being gay to paedophilia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/gb-news-albie-amankona-bushra-shaikh-homophobia/

* "Hozier slams right-wing pundits for using LGBTQ+ folks as ‘scapegoats when things get difficult’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/hozier-lgbtq-trans-scapegoats-fear-mongering/

* "English Chess Federation ‘will not exclude trans women’ despite international ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/english-chess-federation-fide-trans-women-policy/

* "Target Sued Over Inclusion of LGBTQ-Friendly Merchandise:" https://www.advocate.com/law/target-sued-lgbtq-products

* "Stephen Miller-Backed Group Targets Kellog Over ‘Woke’ LGBTQ+ Inclusion:" https://www.advocate.com/business/stephen-miller-group-kellog

* "Harry’s razors backlash is ‘latest attempt to harass trans people out of public life’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/09/harrys-razor-trans-boycott/

* "Museum of Pop Culture REMOVES JK Rowling (& Why It Matters):"

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* "A Pill After Sex Could Help Slow STIs Among Gay Men:" https://www.advocate.com/health/stis-gay-sex-doxyprep

* "COVID Hospitalizations Now Up Nearly 22%:" https://themessenger.com/health/covid-hospitalizations-now-up-nearly-22

* "What Is Narcissism? Science Confronts a Widely Misunderstood Phenomenon:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-narcissism-science-confronts-a-widely-misunderstood-phenomenon/

* "Queer environmental activists warn of LGBTQ+ people ‘suffering first’ from catastrophic climate change:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/24/climate-change-queer-activists-lgbtq-environmental-crisis/

* "Wishing you had more shade? Florida’s heat takes uneven toll.:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2023/08/22/floridas-heat-takes-toll-health-shade-provides-relief-not-all/

* "Extreme heat has killed 103 people in 2 Arizona counties so far in 2023:" https://www.azfamily.com/2023/08/08/extreme-heat-has-killed-147-people-5-counties-coroners-report-real-number-is-likely-much-higher/

* "Arizona Republicans Don’t Want to Hear About the Deadly Heat Wave:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/09/phoenix-heat-wave-republicans-00110325

* "Park officials still looking for stranded visitors in remote Death Valley areas:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/400-people-stranded-in-death-valley-after-hilary-18307664.php

* "Devastation in Death Valley as photos show flood damage; park to reopen in stages over weeks ahead :" https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/devastation-in-death-valley-as-photos-show-flood-damage-park-to-reopen-in-stages-over-weeks-ahead/

* "Rain from Tropical Storm Hilary lashes California and Mexico, swamping roads and trapping cars:" https://apnews.com/article/hilary-tropical-storm-flooding-california-mexico-f89aeddeb62d55c935699ac81ca85f1d

* "Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes Ojai area, rattling nerves as Hilary pounds Southland:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-20/5-0-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-ojai-area

* "Photos: See the aftermath of flooding, mudslides from Tropical Storm Hilary:" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/08/20/1194964251/photos-see-flooding-mudslides-tropical-storm-hilary-brings-to-southern-calif

* "Scorched Europe battles deadly fires, Turkey shuts shipping lane:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/scorched-europe-battles-deadly-fires-turkey-shuts-shipping-lane-2023-08-23/

* "How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires in Europe:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/how-climate-change-drives-heatwaves-wildfires-europe-2023-08-17/

* "Greece wildfires fanned by strong winds, killing one:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/firefighters-greece-battle-blazes-fanned-by-gale-force-winds-2023-08-21/

* "City empties as thousands flee wildfire burning near capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-northwest-territories-7b8c327876d86a483c8e25df7bc2c566

* "Amid Canadian wildfires, experts warn state of emergency could continue into fall:" https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/amid-canadian-wildfires-experts-warn-state-of-emergency-could-continue-into-fall/

* "Warming Set the Stage for Canada’s Record Fires, Study Finds:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/climate/canada-wildfires-climate-change.html

* "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slams Facebook for blocking Canada wildfire news:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-facebook-news-blocking-734a5bc05796e38a011c6c9a473efea8

* "Lookout Fire in Lane County expands closures to include Blue Pool, Sahalie Falls and other popular recreation areas:" https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/wildfire/lane-county-lookout-wildfire-closures/283-56604abb-8d12-49e2-832e-fa0efb6a8dec

* "Lookout Fire evacuation areas updated, visibility improves for aerial operations:" https://www.kezi.com/news/lookout-fire-evacuation-areas-updated-visibility-improves-for-aerial-operations/article_a621b392-41e8-11ee-8d4d-77150ec08332.html

* "Hawaii wildfires: More than 1,000 people reported missing in Maui weeks after blaze:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/hawaii-wildfires-more-than-1000-people-reported-missing-in-maui.html

* "In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged a barricade survived:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-fires-timeline-maui-lahaina-road-block-c8522222f6de587bd14b2da0020c40e9

* "Address on the Maui Wildfire Disaster:" https://governor.hawaii.gov/main/address-on-the-maui-wildfire-disaster-friday-august-18-2023/

* "‘The Devastation Is Overwhelming’: Biden Tours Wildfire Damage on Maui:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/us/politics/biden-maui-hawaii-wildfires.html

* "Immigrant workers’ lives, livelihoods and documents in limbo after the Hawaii fire:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-lahaina-foreign-workers-mexico-fires-ab24400f8e1c89ed099dbd3cd45fb890

* "Online posts spread misinformation about FEMA aid following Maui wildfires:" https://apnews.com/article/maui-wildfires-hawaii-fema-misinformation-8562e2e81e03626acc5be30700d73120

* "Let's talk about Hawaii, sirens, and changes....:"

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* "Lahaina used to be a wetland:" https://heated.world/p/lahaina-used-to-be-wetland

* "Let's talk about Hawaii and $700 payments....:"

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* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

* "4 tornadoes hit New England, cause damage in Massachusetts, Rhode Island:" https://www.wcvb.com/article/4-tornadoes-hit-new-england-on-aug-18-2023-cleanup-continues/44858073

* "Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon, ending operations in a protected area:" https://www.thestar.com/news/world/americas/ecuadorians-reject-oil-drilling-in-the-amazon-in-historic-decision/article_43ec3d1c-6d3b-5f83-b2bf-8933184bfd2b.html

* "Elon Musk is threatening to remove the ‘block’ button on X – here’s why it matters for queer users:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/21/elon-musk-block-x-twitter/

* "Far too many of Musk's followers and Twitter's users appear fake; advertisers may never return:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/18/far-too-many-of-musk-and-twitters-followers-appear-fake-advertisers-may-never-return.html

* "The Big List of Elon Musk’s Hyperbole, Evasions, and Outright Lies:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk-twitter-zuckerberg-lies-1234808808/

* "Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in 'victory cry of a new India':" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-counts-down-crucial-moon-landing-2023-08-23/

* "Ibis use 'stress and wash' technique to eat poisonous cane toads:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-23/ibis-find-way-to-eat-toxic-cane-toads/101683596

* "Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years:" https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/13/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered/

* "History Summarized: Malta – An Empire In Miniature:"

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* "Met Museum Acquires Rare 19th-Century Portrait of Enslaved Child :" https://hyperallergic.com/839231/met-museum-acquires-rare-19th-century-portrait-of-enslaved-child/

* "The Surprising Contents of an American POW’s Journal:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-surprising-contents-of-an-american-pows-journal/?preview_id=303822

* "He was killed in the Holocaust. His family just got back his book of scripture.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/08/08/holocaust-auschwitz-dov-forman-bela/

* "Vivid Kodachrome Photos Show the Bygone Manhattan of the Early 1940s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/manhattan-in-kodachrome-photos/

* "The struggle for land rights in Hawai’i.:" https://thenib.com/owning-an-island/

* "They wanted a Bollywood ending, not an arranged marriage. Their escape came at a cost:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/06/1188366128/india-arranged-marriage-love-commandos

* "Seaside screen brings magic of movies to Gaza years after cinemas closed:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/seaside-screen-brings-magic-movies-gaza-years-after-cinemas-closed-2023-08-16/

* "Meghan Buell, Founder of Indiana Trans Organization, Dead at 58:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/trans-activist-meghan-buell

* "Director William Friedkin's Controversial Gay Film Legacy:" https://www.advocate.com/film/william-friedkin-cruising-boys-band

* "Darcie Silver: British trans comedian dies in Thailand, aged 35:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/22/darcie-silver-trans-comedian-death-thailand/

* "Holocaust Monument for LGBTQ+ Victims Vandalized in Berlin:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/german-police-berlin-holocaust-memorial

* I am still struggling with the Asshole agency. I was awakened Sunday morning by a cleaner checking in on her way to my place. Fuckssake! I do not understand why it's so hard to grasp only send cleaners every Friday morning unless I say other wise. They tried to send a morning and afternoon cleaner last Tuesday. Every day i have the same conversation about me only wanting weekly care Friday mornings. Every day they cancel the next day's cleaner, but not the day after. I only get so many hours a year and we are saving the extras for Autumn when millennials are busy with Gothmas season and the like.

I did not cancel the morning cleaner Sunday, because she'd already been booked and if I cancel that's money she loses. It was hours of sleep I needed, but oh well. Asshole agency. I did have about two hours of work for her, but I've no idea what happens if the telephone operator lady didn't sort it and a surprise cleaner comes Monday, as the stuff that's left is either complicated or not in the cleaner's remit. She said she'd switched me from daily back to weekly. *Fingers crossed*

This cleaner was very quiet. Tavy liked her. She was so quiet, Livia thought she'd gone and wandered into my bathroom to use her personal litter box and there she was: cleaning! Livia: The horror! The horror! Quiet was good. it meant I could do some tumblr programming with only occasional interruption for directions.

Winds from the tropical storm in Mexico and California are sending air currents along the coast that bring us smoke from the fires between us and there. Air quality was bad all weekend as a result. Instead of swimming we gathered in my place and goth Millennial made their excellent lasagna.

* I would like to thank my donor for the gift of excellent litter. Things are so much less dramatic here as a result.

The Asshole Agency has not surprised me with a cleaner I did not ask for two days in a row. Yay!

* I had my shoulder situation investigated again Tuesday. It was painful, of course, and my shoulders are still recovering. The new doctor had not grasped how extreme the situation is. We will be doing another round of specialists as a result. I have just started a new med. I am not sanguine it will be to the point and I worry it will fuck me up, but having eliminated the best option, we are down to two less ideal classes. I thought the other option too high risk for extreme side effects, so here we are.

* I explain my process and give some likely inadequate advice on tumblr to someone who asks "How do you keep up with all these articles and websites?:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/726275476259241984/how-do-you-keep-up-with-all-these-articles-and?source=share

* "No Second Season for A League of Their Own:" https://www.advocate.com/television/a-league-of-their-own-canceled

A better take would have been: it won't happen now because Amazon Prime didn't care about its audience and the greedy rich people in charge hate paying writers, Actors, etc. fair compensation for their work.

* "True Facts: Fish That Suck:"

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* "First day as a second century warlord:" https://www.tumblr.com/jonquility/706918292384776192?source=share

* "Alexander the Great Explaining Proskynesis To The Boys:" https://www.thestopgap.net/alexander-the-great-explaining-proskynesis-to-the-boys/

* "Midnight Pals: Mexican Gothic:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/726203038247878656/midnight-pals-mexican-gothic?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Florence Balcombe:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/726470108741025792/midnight-pals-florence-balcombe?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

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

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

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

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

* "Collection of links to trans & gnc related content that's free to read/ watch.:" https://translibrary.carrd.co/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Unionizing the Skies with Sara Nelson:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "How Police Make Up The Law:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "If Republicans Said the Quiet Parts Loud:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Hold Shell Accountable | Youth & Climate:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Story Corps - Still the One:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

( Links Underneath: )

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "The perpetual infantilisation of millennial women:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "‘Everything has fallen off a cliff': Battleground state GOPs nosedive in Trump era:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/broke-state-gop-parties-across-the-country-00109387

* "Colorado GOP paid no staff in April while fundraising lags under new Chairman Dave Williams :" https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/24/colorado-republicans-dave-williams/

* "Minnesota’s Republican Party Is Totally Broke:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/minnesotas-republican-party-is-totally-broke

* Ohioans! Have you voted? If not, why not do it now! "The Critical Election Republicans Are Hoping You Won’t Notice:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/ohio-abortion-referendum.html

* "Mike Pence says he wants to ban trans people from the US military, again:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/mike-pence-says-he-wants-to-ban-trans-people-from-the-us-military-again/

* "Mike Pence trans military ban proposal ‘cruel’ and ‘inhumane’, says non-binary veteran:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/03/trans-military-ban-mike-pence-non-binary-lgbtq-dont-ask-dont-tell/

* "The DeSantis Campaign Made That Homophobic Video After All:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/desantis-campaign-homophobic-video-producers

* "George Santos Shocked at Ron DeSantis’s Homophobia, Says He Was Misled:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis

* "Kari Lake wants to do WHAT in response to Trump's indictment?:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2023/08/04/kari-lake-calls-trump-challengers-drop-out/70530227007/

* "Hayes: Mitch McConnell blew it with Trump impeachment acquittal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-mitch-mcconnell-blew-it-with-trump-impeachment-acquittal-190048837888

* "‘Look where we are now:’ Congresswoman rips Senate Republicans who acquitted Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-look-where-we-are-now-congresswoman-rips-senate-republicans-who-acquitted-trump-190049349995

* "Trump's mask slips further with choice of Alabama political event:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-mask-slips-further-with-choice-of-alabama-political-event-190060613647

* "“You Would Only Need a Week”: How the Next Republican President Could Ban Abortion Nationwide:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/04/mifepristone-comstock-abortion-medication-pill-texas-court-ban/

* "'Double talk': How the GOP is making white supremacy 'respectable' :" https://www.rawstory.com/white-supremacy-2662273994/

* "Republican Politician Urges Americans to Revisit Hitler and Stalin at Moms for Liberty Event:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/moms-for-liberty-read-hitler

* "In a California First, Lesbian Toni Atkins Signs Bills Into Law as Acting Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/toni-atkins-acting-governor-california

* "Lori Lightfoot on Defending the LGBTQ+ Community Against Republican Attacks:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-calls-on-allies

* "GOP Lawmaker Calls Teenage Senate Pages 'Little Sh*ts':" https://www.advocate.com/news/republican-lawmaker-curses-senate-pages

* "Mississippi Republican Called ‘Groomer’ Defends Pink Tutu Outfit:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mississippi-lawmaker-pink-tutu-groomer

* "Minnesota Senator Blames Pride for Mankind’s Impending Fiery Apocalypse:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/minnesota-senator-pride-apocalypse

* "George Santos Tried to Get Rich Through Political Connections: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/george-santos-business-schemes

* "Ex-Ohio GOP chair, lobbyist Matt Borges shows remorse, gets 5 years for role in $60M bribery scheme:" https://apnews.com/article/bribery-investigation-ohio-borges-sentencing-firstenergy-55ed095d2e6e83e820d9de514c85e96b

* "Ohio GOP Lawmaker Accused of Assaulting LGBTQ+ Protester Will Not Face Charges:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/protests

* "Subdued crowd gathers outside Washington courthouse where Trump was arraigned :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/03/trump-indictment-courthouse-arraignment-00109643

* "What to know about the Pennsylvania fake electors mentioned in Trump’s third indictment:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-indictment-pennsylvania-fake-electors-20230802.html

* "The Man With No Pants Is the Star of Donald Trump’s Latest Indictment :" https://theintercept.com/2023/08/02/trump-indictment-justice-department-jeffrey-clark/

* "‘Banality of evil’: Trump conspirator's path from 'unremarkable' to coup plotter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-banality-of-evil-trump-conspirator-s-path-from-unremarkable-to-coup-plotter-190050885595

* "‘They got him’: Chris Hayes says this Trump arrest is ‘biggest of all time’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-they-got-him-chris-hayes-says-this-trump-arrest-is-biggest-of-all-time-189957701949

* "'Extremely volatile situation': Trump could put himself in jail before a prosecutor does:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-extremely-volatile-situation-trump-could-put-himself-in-jail-before-a-prosecutor-does-190058565682

* "Trump's Bonkers Superseding Indictment: They Tried to Delete the Video!:"

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* "Trump’s new judge is a tough Jan. 6 sentencer — and has a history with him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/trump-judge-tanya-chutkan-00109342

* "St. Louis Cardinals mega-fan charged with joining Capitol riot in red face paint and Trump hat:" https://apnews.com/article/cardinals-fan-arrested-fbi-capitol-riot-trump-rally-runner-5a9dbaf3fce8750c38c1de40482884d2

* "Why can’t the right-wing bubble give up on Ray Epps?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/12/why-cant-right-wing-bubble-give-up-ray-epps/

* "MyPillow is auctioning equipment after a sales slump. Mike Lindell blames "cancel culture.":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-lindell-mypillow-auction-equipment-cancel-culture/

* "A School Bus Crosses U.S., Linking Families of Mass Shooting Victims:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/mass-shooting-bus-tour-oliver.html

* "Police Say Dogs Help Solve Crimes. Little Evidence Supports That.:" https://undark.org/2023/07/24/police-say-dogs-help-solve-crimes-little-evidence-supports-that/

* "California Could Soon Reform Solitary Confinement—Unless Gavin Newsom Intervenes:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/07/california-could-soon-reform-solitary-confinement-unless-gavin-newsom-intervenes/

* "My Neighbors in Solitary:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/prison-experiences-female-inmate-solitary-confinment-texas.html

* "Georgia National Guard Will Use Phone Location Tracking to Recruit High School Children :" https://theintercept.com/2023/04/16/georgia-army-national-guard-location-tracking-high-school/

* "Texas A&M reaches $1 million settlement with Black journalism professor:" https://apnews.com/article/texas-am-diversity-settlement-kathleen-mcelroy-9408f1196417e4cc554ffc74a19956e2

* "Faculty worry about Texas A&M’s future after controversies over higher ed politicization:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/27/texas-tamu-faculty-disappointment/

* "Montana's Drag Ban Blocked, Just in Time for Helena Pride Event:" https://www.advocate.com/law/montana-drag-ban-blocked

* "Ron DeSantis scraps all diversity and inclusion programmes from Disney World in Florida:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/02/ron-desantis-disney-world-florida/

* "DeSantis Faces Criticism For Black History Standards, Makes It Worse:" https://advocatechannel.com/desantis-black-history-standards-response

* "After clash over teaching on gender, psychology class may be available to Florida students:" https://apnews.com/article/college-board-psychology-florida-8735b41aff3086f35785efb0e7682cd1

* "Why a psychology curriculum can't ignore the people Republicans don't like:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/why-a-psychology-curriculum-can-t-ignore-the-people-republicans-don-t-like-190056517821

* "Let's talk about my last day teaching in Virginia....:"

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

* "Chesterfield man charged with accessory to child kidnapping donated to anti-child trafficking movie:" https://www.kmov.com/2023/08/04/chesterfield-man-charged-with-accessory-child-kidnapping-donated-anti-child-trafficking-movie-newsweek-report-claims/

* "A Growing Share Of Americans Think States Shouldn't Be Able To Put Any Limits On Abortion:" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-increasingly-against-abortion-limits/

* "America’s Pediatricians Reiterate Support for Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/health-care/pediatricians-support-gender-affirming-care

* "Iran official in charge of ‘promoting Islamic values’ suspended over alleged gay sex video:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/iran-official-reza-tsaghati-gay-sex-video/

* "Malaysian official brands LGBTQ+ people ‘perverted’ after eight protestors detained:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/04/malaysian-official-brands-lgbtq-people-perverted-after-eight-protestors-detained/

* "Labour shift on trans rights is misguided attempt to win back red wall, says MP: ‘It’s patronising’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/labour-red-wall-conservative-lgbtq-trans/

* Fuckssake! "Court of Appeal dismisses legal challenge to years of NHS waits faced by trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/good-law-project-court-of-appeal-dismissed-trans-waiting-times/

* "Quakers pledge to stand by trans Brits: ‘A gold-standard for other faiths to follow’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/quakers-trans-pledge-britain/

* "What new journalism guidelines on reporting sex and gender means for UK’s right-wing press:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/02/ipso-guidelines-trans-news-stories-misgendering/

* "Judge throws out attempt to repeal trans anti-bullying policy in Ohio:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/04/ohio-bullying-trans/

* "17-Year-Old Suspect Arrested in Killing of O'Shae Sibley, Voguing Gay Man:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/oshae-sibley-suspect-arrested

* "O'Shae Sibley and LGBTQ Rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/o-shae-sibley-and-lgbtq-rights-190073925806

* "Fatigue Can Shatter a Person:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/07/chronic-fatigue-long-covid-symptoms/674834/

* "Gay British couple fleeing Greece wildfires with son ‘gobsmacked’ after being refused shelter:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/03/greece-wildfires/

* "Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren’t they widespread?:" https://apnews.com/article/solar-panels-irrigation-canals-climate-solution-c57cac43b71a0edf76e62c4adc0f3ff7

* "Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They’re not the only crop thriving in the shade.:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-beer-solar-panels-hops-germany-ee3d00a1877837eb85053335e3b68a00

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter threatens to sue anti-hate group over criticism of hate speech on the site:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/elon-musk-twitter-sues-anti-hate-group/

* "Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best. Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell.":" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/reddit-calls-for-a-few-new-mods-after-axing-polarizing-some-of-its-best/

* "See Stunning Images of Female Birds, Often Overlooked by Wildlife Photographers:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/see-stunning-images-of-female-birds-often-overlooked-by-wildlife-photographers-180982575/

* "Photos: London’s Urban Foxes:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/07/photos-london-urban-foxes/674870/

* "The Killer Whales of Eden and the ‘Law of the Tongue’:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/killer-whales-work-with-humans

* " X marks the unknown in algebra – but X’s origins are a math mystery :" https://theconversation.com/x-marks-the-unknown-in-algebra-but-xs-origins-are-a-math-mystery-210440

* "‘Hello America, this is Addis Ababa.’:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-6-hello-america-addis-ababa-rcna95868

* "Is nature a gigantic cat? An electrifying letter from Nikola Tesla :" https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/is-nature-a-gigantic-cat-0bf

* "Utopia to blight: Surviving in Henry Ford’s lost jungle town:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/28/fordlandia-brazil/

* "Carmen Xtravaganza, Paris Is Burning Star and Ballroom Icon, Dies at 62:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/carmen-xtravaganza-dead-62

* "12 bodies found under former Paiute Indian boarding school:" https://www.abc4.com/news/southern-utah/12-bodies-found-under-former-paiute-indian-boarding-school/

* Far to late, but given how unlikely even a small measurr of justice is, I am celebrating anyway. "Henrietta Lacks' Family Reach a Settlement Over Her Stolen 'Immortal' Cell Line:" https://www.sciencealert.com/henrietta-lacks-family-reach-a-settlement-over-her-stolen-immortal-cell-line

* "How the ‘groundbreaking’ Henrietta Lacks settlement could change research:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02479-8

* "Why the famed Appalachian Trail keeps getting longer — and harder:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/appalachian-trail-length-route-changes/?itid=mr_2

* "South Pole Signage:" https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-signage

* "Kidnapped at Birth:" https://nymag.com/news/features/carlina-white-2011-10/

* On Public Schools: https://www.tumblr.com/whovianuncle/724883379034734592?source=share

* "Meet Gay Bob, the Out and Proud Anatomically Correct Disco-Era Doll:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-bob-out-ken-barbie

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

( Links Underneath: )

* "Supporters of Niger's coup march, waving Russian flags and denouncing France:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190969703/supporters-of-nigers-coup-march-waving-russian-flags-and-denouncing-france

* "West African leaders meet over Niger coup, junta warns against intervention:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/west-african-leaders-meet-over-niger-coup-junta-warns-against-intervention-2023-07-30/

* "As regional bloc threatens intervention in Niger, neighboring juntas vow mutual defense:" https://apnews.com/article/niger-coup-west-africa-use-of-force-mali-burkina-faso-0b951ec77a89033c84e6f0972cc21b5f

* "Tens of Thousands of Israelis Protest Netanyahu Government's Judicial Overhaul:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-29/ty-article/tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-protest-netanyahu-governments-judicial-overhaul/00000189-a306-d00f-a7db-b39f9dbf0000

* "Masked, Unidentifiable Cops Beat Israeli Civilians With Impunity – How Long Can It Go On?:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-30/ty-article-magazine/.premium/masked-unidentifiable-cops-beat-israeli-civilians-with-impunity-how-long-can-it-go-on/00000189-a835-d00f-a7db-b9bfb10c0000

* "Spain election repeat more likely after expat vote count:" https://www.politico.eu/article/election-repeat-spain-likely-expat-vote-tie-parliament/

* "Parish council denies homophobia after rejecting seats for two people with LGBTQ+ links:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/parish-council-denies-homophobia-after-rejecting-seats-for-two-people-with-lgbtq-links/

* "New Barbie-themed anti-Tory ads spotted in London: ‘This Barbie is gagging to deport your grandma’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/barbie-tory-mps-liz-truss-jacob-rees-mogg-kemi-badenoch-suella-braverman/

* "Saudi football ‘sportswashing’ and using multi-million-pound deals to distract from human rights issues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/saudi-arabia-lgbtq-jordan-henderson-allyship/

* "Let's talk about Putin, Russia, and Africa....:"

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* "How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride:" https://www.salon.com/2023/07/29/how-russian-colonialism-took-the-western-anti-imperialist-left-for-a-ride/

* "'Kill the gays' law in Uganda tests Biden admin with huge amounts of aid money at stake:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-kill-the-gays-law-in-uganda-tests-biden-admin-with-huge-amounts-of-aid-money-at-stake-189679685964

* "Kamala Harris Gives Fiery Speech About Florida Whitewashing History of Slavery:" https://www.advocate.com/history/kamala-harris-fiery-slavery-speech

* "Biden names CIA Director William Burns to his cabinet:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-director-william-burns-biden-cabinet/

* "Let's talk about Hunter, Archer, and an old video....:"

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* "Woman Who Brought Anti-LGBTQ+ SCOTUS Case Did Make a Wedding Website:" https://www.advocate.com/news/303-creative-website-previous

* "GOP's New MAGA: Make America Go Ass-Backward:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gop-new-maga-america-backward

* "Ro Khanna: Democratic Lawmakers Must Take a Stand for Transgender Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ro-khanna-democrats-trans-rights

* "House of Representatives debate on trans healthcare descends into pure transphobia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/house-of-representatives-debate-trans-healthcare/

* "Republican Lawmakers Look to Ban Pride Flags at Stonewall, Other National Sites:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pride-flag-ban-stonewall-republicans

* "The Kids Online Safety Act Would Harm LGBTQ+ Youth, Restrict Access to Information and Community:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-online-safety-act-lgbtq-youth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* Ohioans! Have you voted? If not, why not do it now? "Top 5 reasons to Vote NO on Issue 1 on August 8th:" https://www.acluohio.org/en/news/top-5-reasons-vote-no-issue-1-august-8th-0

* "From home rule to the initiative itself, Ohio would have never won many reforms under a 60% rule:" https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/07/31/from-home-rule-to-the-initiative-itself-ohio-would-have-never-won-many-reforms-under-a-60-rule/

* "Deacon: 'No' on Issue 1 to protect Ohio from greed, stop 1 county from blocking will of majority:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2023/07/29/reverand-ohio-issue-1-august-special-election-8-will-let-one-county-to-decide-for-all-others-vote-no/70440467007/

* "Tensions flare as California GOP gives Trump a boost by overhauling state primary rules:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-29/california-republican-primary-delegates-trump-desantis-presidential-election-2024

* "Let's talk about the Michigan elector claims getting strange....:"

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* "Let's talk about Rudy, truth, and the law....:"

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* "Arizona’s GOP Went All In on Trump’s Big Lie—Now It’s Broke:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizonas-gop-went-all-in-on-trumps-big-lienow-its-broke

* "Michigan Republican Party's bank accounts down to $93K, recording reveals:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2023/07/14/michigan-republican-party-bankruptcy-kristina-karamo-financial-problems-debt-clare-meeting-fight/70414759007/

* "'Exciting, blustering nutjobs': Money problems, chaos seen in state Republican Parties:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-exciting-blustering-nutjobs-money-problems-chaos-seen-in-state-republican-parties-189681221719

* "Julie Johnson Running to Be Texas's First Out Member of Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/julie-johnson-texas-lgbtq

* "California Voters to Decide Fate of State's Prop 8 Same-Sex Marriage Ban in 2024:" https://www.advocate.com/law/prop-8-california-voters-2024

* "Let's talk about Christie vs Trump....:"

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* "DeSantis's DiSastrous Campaign: Burning Cash, Firing Staff:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-disastrous-campaign

* "Ron DeSantis Attacks Trump for Promising to Protect LGBTQ+ People From Terrorists:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-donald-trump-ad

* "Ron DeSantis Campaign Staff, Supporters Allegedly Assault LGBTQ+ Activists:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-staff-assault-activists

* "Trump’s campaign finances are strained as legal peril mounts:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-legal-bills-pac-defense-fund-campaign-filing-2024-36fe10e4988a56de34f120cff38e1552

* "Louisiana Republicans Overturn Veto on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-louisiana-veto

* "Ohio Republicans Seek to Criminalize Drag Performers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-tries-criminalize-drag

* "Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Outlaws Conversion Therapy on Minors:" https://www.advocate.com/law/michigan-conversion-therapy-ban

* "Inside the Party Switch That Blew Up North Carolina Politics:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/us/inside-the-party-switch-that-blew-up-north-carolina-politics.html

* "'Betrayal:' North Carolina lawmaker who switched parties was courted by GOP before election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-betrayal-north-carolina-lawmaker-who-switched-parties-was-courted-by-gop-before-election-189670981895

* "Minnesota Mayor Told to Resign by LGBTQ+ Group Over ‘Sin and Brokenness’ Comments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-mayor-resignation-homophobia

* "North Carolina School Board Member Censured for Anti-LGBTQ+ Facebook Post:" https://www.advocate.com/news/censured-board-member-nc-airy

* "Ken Paxton doesn’t get to pick his jury:" https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2023/07/25/ken-paxton-doesnt-get-to-pick-his-jury/

* "Pro-Paxton group gives $3 million to impeachment trial judge Dan Patrick:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/18/ken-paxton-impeachment-dan-patrick/

* "Ken Paxton, impeached and suspended from office, raised $1.7 million in less than 2 weeks:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/17/ken-paxton-fundraising-impeachment/

* "Ken Paxton’s far-right billionaire backers are fighting hard to save him:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/24/ken-paxton-impeachment-dunn-wilks/

* "Ken Paxton will not testify at impeachment trial, defense attorney says:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/04/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-impeachment/

* "Gag order issued ahead of Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial after ‘inflammatory’ remarks:" https://apnews.com/article/texas-paxton-impeachment-c264530978d369c9a0fb4b7cbdc65305

* "Judge dismisses Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ lawsuit against CNN:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/29/judge-dismisses-trump-defamation-lawsuit-00108871

* "Georgia judge skewers Trump’s bid to derail potential charges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/31/georgia-judge-trump-charges-fulton-county-00108968

* "Georgia Prosecutor to Give Donald Trump the Label He’s Deserved for Years: Racketeer:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174504/georgia-prosecutor-preps-devastating-racketeering-indictment-trump

* "Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election and block transfer of power:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc

* "Rep. Zoe Lofgren of January 6 Committee on Donald Trump’s Indictment:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-indictment-zoe-lofgren

* "Maddow: History's judgment looms as citizen Trump faces accountability:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-history-s-judgment-looms-as-citizen-trump-faces-accountability-189771333594

* "Ex-NYPD Boss Handing Over Trump Records to Jack Smith:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-nypd-boss-bernie-kerik-handing-over-trump-records-to-jack-smith?ref=home

* "'They knew to count on violence': Trump indictment shows willingness to seize power by force:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-they-knew-to-count-on-violence-trump-indictment-shows-willingness-to-seize-power-by-force-189773893815

* "'Have your ducks in a row': What to know about the judge in the Trump 2020 case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-have-your-ducks-in-a-row-what-to-know-about-the-judge-in-the-trump-2020-case-189777477796

* This is the last week ones, but I couldn't remember if I posted them here. "Trump charged with new crimes in classified documents case :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/feds-add-new-charges-against-trump-in-classified-documents-case-00108667

* "Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows joked about Trump’s election claims:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/22/mark-meadows-georgia-election-results-2020-fraud-claims/

* "Mike Lindell’s Pillow Talk With Trump Ends in a Bad Dream:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/mike-lindell-pillow-talk-trump

* "Patriot Front members to serve just three days in jail for plan to storm Idaho Pride event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/23/patriot-front-sentenced-days-jail-lgbtq-pride-idaho/

* "United States tops 400 mass shootings in 2023:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/politics/us-400-mass-shootings/index.html

* "Lesbian Couple Gunned Down in Washington State Mass Shooting:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/lesbians-killed-washington-shooting

* "Translating the Language of the Border:" https://thebaffler.com/latest/translating-the-language-of-the-border-del-valle

* "‘I can’t die like this’: Video shows trans man beaten by deputy during stop:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-23/video-trans-man-beaten-la-county-sheriff-deputy

* "Tennessee Radio Station Owner Makes Racist Remark About Karine Jean-Pierre:" https://www.advocate.com/media/karine-jean-pierre-tennessee-radio

* "Texas A&M President Katherine Banks resigns amid fallout from failed hiring of journalism professor:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/21/tamu-president-resign-journalism/

* "Judge temporarily blocks Montana’s vaguely worded anti-drag bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/judge-temporarily-blocks-montanas-vaguely-worded-anti-drag-bill/

* CW: Antisemitism, Holocaust "Fox News Host: 'You Had to Be Useful' in Holocaust Death Camps :" https://advocatechannel.com/fox-news-greg-gutfeld-holocaust

* Remember to vote in all school board elections. "School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution:" https://apnews.com/article/missouri-school-board-drops-antiracism-resolution-9d857b0e316950b600684e0050b85229

* Republicans are winning their War on Education. "HISD to eliminate librarians and convert libraries into disciplinary centers at NES schools:" https://abc13.com/hisd-libraries-librarians-media-specialists-houston-isd/13548483/

* "Let's talk about Texas libraries....:"

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* They were going to round up librarians and charge them with felonies for having any books the fascist extremists in Arkansas did not like. "Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/29/arkansas-law-librarian-criminal-charges-00108883

* "Montana Libraries Divorce National Organization Over 'Marxist Lesbian' President:" https://advocatechannel.com/montana-libraries-marxist-lesbian-president

* "ACLU Warns New Jersey Library Not to Censor LGBTQ+ Book:" https://www.advocate.com/books/new-jersey-library-censoring-book

* CW: Rape. "Nonbinary Activist Says They Were Drugged and Sexually Assaulted:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/deni-todorovic-victim-sexual-assault

* CW: CSA. "Child rape charge for Alabama state employee who ran anti-abortion committee:" https://boingboing.net/2023/07/24/child-rape-charge-for-alabama-official-who-ran-anti-abortion-committee.html

* CW: Suicide, Domestic Violence. "Pregnant trans man killed by partner in ‘horrific’ murder-suicide in Florida:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/pregnant-trans-man-killed-by-partner-in-murder-suicide-in-florida/

* "More than 80 per cent of women working in football have experienced discrimination, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/women-football-discrimination-study/

* "Disabled lesbian explains why we all must come together to fight common enemy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/disability-pride-month-lgbtq-fight-future/

* "Police called after boy with autism used cinema toilet with mum, because manager thought he was trans:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/cinemark-trans-toilet-police-called/

* "Ohio Man Has Epic Meltdown at Petco Over Gender-Neutral Bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-neutral-bathroom-ohio-petco

* "Abortion providers sue Alabama to block prosecution over out-of-state travel:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/abortion-providers-sue-alabama-block-prosecution-over-out-of-state-travel-2023-07-31/

* "Why does Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor think your health information is his business?:" https://www.adn.com/opinions/editorials/2023/07/22/editorial-why-does-alaska-attorney-general-treg-taylor-think-your-health-information-is-his-business/

* "Kenya could follow Uganda as East African nations wage war on LGBT rights:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenya-could-follow-uganda-east-african-nations-wage-war-lgbt-rights-2023-06-22/

* "Anti-LGBTQ crackdown worsens in Tanzania:" https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/07/11/anti-lgbtq-crackdown-worsens-in-tanzania/

* "Russia: Putin’s sweeping new trans ban is latest attack in global war on LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/25/russia-trans-gender-affirming-healthcare-ban-lgbtq-rights-global/

* "Ghana High Court Tosses Challenge to Draconian Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/law/ghana-anti-lgbtq-bill

* "Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov accused of ordering torture and murder of missing gay man:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/zelimkhan-bakaev-ramzan-kadyrov-chechnya/

* "Trans men entering Miss Italy in protest demand apology amid ‘continuous transphobia’ across country:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/trans-miss-italy-protestors-fight-against-trasphobia/

* "‘Unapologetically trans-inclusive’ Belfast Pride Parade set to be city’s biggest to date:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/unapologetically-trans-inclusive-belfast-pride-parade-set-to-be-citys-biggest-to-date/

* "Canadian couple win case against right-wing party that used photo of their newborn son in an anti-LGBTQ+ campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/canadian-couple-win-case-against-right-wing-party-that-used-photo-of-their-newborn-son-in-an-anti-lgbtq-campaign/

* "Canada’s Unions are Organizing to Defend Workers From Far-Right Anti-2SLGBTQ+ Hate Groups:" https://pressprogress.ca/canadas-unions-are-organizing-to-defend-workers-from-far-right-anti-2slgbtq-hate-groups/

* "Investigation launched after two men stabbed by machete-wielding man in Australia’s LGBTQ+ mecca:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/investigation-launched-after-two-men-stabbed-by-machete-wielding-man-in-australias-lgbtq-mecca/

* "Labour attack on Scottish gender reform is ‘dishonest’ and ‘shameful’, say Scots politicians:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/25/labour-anneliese-dodds-gender-recognition-reform-scotland/

* "Rishi Sunak warned that trans schools guidance would put teachers in impossible bind and endanger children:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/rishi-sunak-trans-schools-guidance-psychologist/

* "Teacher and parent warn government must not ‘out’ trans pupils to unsupportive parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/teacher-and-parent-warn-government-must-not-out-trans-pupils-to-unsupportive-parents/

* "Estate agent jailed for vicious Birmingham attack on gay men with glass bottle and metal pipe:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/24/birmingham-usman-murtza-attack-gay/

* CW: Suicide. "Grimsby teacher’s inquest hears he took his own life after ‘vile homophobic abuse’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/inquest-finds-teacher-took-his-life-after-homophobic-abuse/

* CW: Suicide. "Helen Joyce Misquotes Bible, Suggests Rachel Levine Kill Herself:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/helen-joyce-misquotes-bible-to-say-rachel-levine-should-kill-herself

* "Kansas Republican AG Sues Democrat Governor Over Trans Drivers Licenses:" https://www.advocate.com/law/drivers-license-transgender-kansas

* "Tennessee Attorney General Obtains Confidential Medical Records of Trans Patients:" https://www.advocate.com/news/tennessee-ag-medical-records-transgender

* "Missouri Families Sue to Block Ban on Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/missouri-transgender-lawsuit

* "Idaho Families Scramble to Stop Ban on Trans Health Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/idaho-trans-youth-lawsuit

* "School Board Boots California Schools Chief From Meeting on Trans Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/news/california-superintendent-ousted-school-meeting

* "Texas Ag Dept. Shocked That Antidiscrimination Training Included Gender Identity:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-anti-trans-discrimination-training

* "Puerto Rican Afro-Latina Trans Woman Chanell Perez Ortiz Fatally Shot:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/trans-woman-killed-puerto-rico

* "Florida Gay Man Brutally Attacked by Two Men Yelling Antigay Slurs:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/antigay-attack-miami-florida

* "Florida Reverends, Rabbi Slam DeSantis, Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/florida-reverends-rabbi-slam-desantis

* "Christian College Fires Gay Soccer Coach Over Instagram Stories:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-coach-fired-christian-college

* "Indiana Catholic School OK to Fire Staffer in Same-Sex Marriage: Appeals Court:" https://www.advocate.com/law/catholic-school-firing-upheld

* Neo-NAZI group continues its War on Children. "Moms for Liberty Outnumbered by LGBTQ+ Supporters Outside Youth Center:" https://www.advocate.com/news/moms-for-liberty-youth-center

* "TWIBS: The Transgenders Are Ruining… Military Enlistment Rates?!:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/fox-military-story-doesnt-add-up

* "No, Inclusive Church Was Not Hosting Same-Sex Wedding When It Caught Fire:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/church-destruction-claim-debunked

* "First Transgender NFL Cheerleader Stands Proud in Face of Hateful Trolls:" https://www.advocate.com/people/nfl-cheerleader-transgender-first

* "Coming out… again:"

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* "How ADHD affects me:"

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* "Revenge of the gaslit patients: Now, as scientists, they’re tackling Ehlers-Danlos syndromes:" https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/12/ehlers-danlos-syndrome-patients-turned-researchers/

* "Some Humans Create This Temporary, Alien Organ Which Has Baffled Scientists Until Now:" https://www.inverse.com/health/humans-create-temporary-alien-organ-baffled-scientists-until-now

* "We are in an 'era of global boiling' as nearly half of all Americans are under heat advisories:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/we-are-in-an-era-of-global-boiling-as-nearly-half-of-all-americans-are-under-heat-advisories-189546053685

* "Empty Office Buildings Are Being Turned Into Vertical Farms:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/empty-office-buildings-are-being-turned-into-vertical-farms-180982502/

* "Why pedestrian deaths in the US are at a 40-year high :" https://www.vox.com/23784549/pedestrian-deaths-traffic-safety-fatalities-governors-association

* "The ‘Darting Children’ That Helped Japan Win Its War on Traffic Accidents:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tobita-kun-japanese-road-safety-signs

* "Self-healing metal? It's not just the stuff of science fiction:" https://www.reuters.com/science/self-healing-metal-its-not-just-stuff-science-fiction-2023-07-19/

* "Elon Musk took

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* "Rare ‘Trojan’ world may share the same orbit as another planet :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/world/exoplanet-trojan-sibling-pds-70-scn/index.html

* "‘Zombifying’ worms are evolutionary oddballs, missing genes all other animals have :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/world/horsehair-worms-parasites-missing-genes-scn/index.html

* "An extraordinary fossil captures the struggle for existence during the Mesozoic:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37545-8

* "Kitchen shrine serpents and more fascinating new Pompeii discoveries:" https://news.yahoo.com/kitchen-shrine-serpents-other-fascinating-234506478.html

* "How Homophobia Impacted the NYPD's Search for a Serial Killer:" https://www.advocate.com/television/last-call-serial-killer-gay

* "Gay Serial Killer Suspect's Estate Turns Up Two More DNA Samples:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/herbert-baumeister-new-dna-victims

* "Jonathan D. Lewis, Gay Activist Against Prop. 8 and DADT, Dead at 64:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/activist-jonathan-lewis-obituary

* "Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman Actor, Dies at 70 After Private Bout of Cancer :" https://variety.com/2023/film/news/paul-reubens-dead-pee-wee-herman-1235683504/

* "Pee-wee Herman Actor Paul Reubens Dead at 70:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/paul-reubens-pee-wee-herman

* "Meet a new generation of Black American ‘cowboys’:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/for-freedoms-american-history-black-equestrians

* "When is Dinner, By State:" https://flowingdata.com/2023/07/25/when-is-dinner-by-state/

* "True Facts: Elephants:"

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* It was a little cooler Sunday, so we went to the Waterfall park instead to wade and have a picnic, and then came back for proper dinner and cake for Nearby Millennial's birthday. I was really fun watching goth Millennial messing about in the water and Newest Millennial continuing to fall in love with the PNW, much as I did when I first came west.

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

* Contains Dracula Spoilers to the end of the book. "Four Times Jack Fakes a Death Certificate and One Time he Doesn't :" https://www.tumblr.com/animate-mush/724191083716820992/four-times-jack-fakes-a-death-certificate-and-one?source=share

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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* Not even close to all the news, but I need to cut off somewhere.

* "‘I will not stay quiet': Israel evicts Palestinian family from home after 45-year legal battle:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-jerusalem-old-city-evictions-east-c53ae70f2fa76e4b1f4b528bca4ff35e

* "French authorities ban protest against police violence in Paris:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230715-france-ban-protest-police-violence-paris-death-nahel-darmanin

* "Spain’s election could put the far-right in power – with disastrous consequences for LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/spain-general-election-lgbtq-vox-peoples-party-right-wing/

* "Tories’ brutal by-election losses prove anti-trans hate doesn’t win votes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/by-election-england-conservative-rishi-sunak-lgbtq/

* "Keir Mather: Labour’s out gay winner of Selby and Ainsty by-election is youngest MP in parliament:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/keir-mather-labour-selby-by-election-gay/

* "Laurence Fox stands in Boris Johnson’s former seat and loses his deposit … again:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/laurence-fox-uxbridge-by-election-result-deposit/

* "Government condemned for passing ‘racist’ and ‘inhumane’ migration bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/19/illegal-migration-bill-lgbtq-conservative-government/

* I'm furious. This is shameful. "Disability campaign group loses fight over Grenfell recommendations:" https://ca.style.yahoo.com/style/disability-campaign-group-loses-fight-115225897.html

* "New British Library report confirms Norfolk libraries are an engine of economic recovery and growth:" https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/news/2023/07/new-british-library-report-confirms-norfolk-libraries-are-an-engine-of-economic-recovery-and-growth

* "European Court of Human Rights strikes down Russia's claims against Ukraine:" https://news.yahoo.com/european-court-human-rights-strikes-101340048.html

* "IOC declines to give Russia and Belarus formal invitations to Paris Olympics 1 year out:" https://apnews.com/article/ioc-paris-olympics-russia-belarus-invitations-817a9e3f159fd97093ec27ed61241596

* "G7 signs declaration of security guarantees for Ukraine; Kremlin warns West is making a ‘dangerous mistake’:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

* "Wagner mercenaries not part of front-line fight in Ukraine, U.S. says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-ukraine-putin-pentagon-wagner-mercenary-prigozhin-rcna94223

* "Ukraine, Poland say Wagner fighters arrive in Belarus:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-poland-say-wagner-fighters-arrive-belarus-2023-07-16/

* "Locals near Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant brace for potential disaster: 'It would be the end of us':" https://kyivindependent.com/locals-near-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-brace-for-potential-disaster-it-would-be-the-end-of-us/

* "Kerry’s trip to China yields no breakthrough on climate :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/19/kerrys-effort-to-secure-climate-deal-with-china-falls-short-00107022

* "Let's talk about what the White House can learn from the commentators....:"

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* "U.S. Is Destroying the Last of Its Once-Vast Chemical Weapons Arsenal:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/us/chemical-weapons-stockpile.html

* "Biden Announces New Student Debt Relief Plan, Says 'Republicans Snatched Away Hope' :" https://advocatechannel.com/biden-new-student-debt-relief-plan

* "Biden administration unveils $39B of student debt relief as part of income-driven repayment fix:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/14/biden-administration-student-debt-relief-00106366

* "You could still be eligible for student loan forgiveness under this plan:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1187545921/student-loan-forgiveness-save-repayment

* "Kamala Harris Makes Historic Visit to Stonewall Inn, Vows to Fight Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/kamala-harris-stonewall-visit

* "Manchin opposes Julie Su for Labor secretary, jeopardizing nomination:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/13/manchin-opposes-julie-su-for-labor-secretary-jeopardizing-nomination-00106237

* "A monumental LGBTQ rights case is barreling toward the Supreme Court:" https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/7/10/23789633/supreme-court-lgbtq-lw-skrmetti-transgender-health-care-jeffrey-sutton-sixth-circuit

* "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Clarence Thomas:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-self-fulfilling-prophecies-of-clarence-thomas

* "Supreme Court’s shift to right poses risk to LGBTQ rights:" https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4097224-supreme-courts-shift-to-right-poses-risk-to-lgbtq-rights/

* "Influential activist Leonard Leo helped fund media campaign lionizing Clarence Thomas:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/07/20/leonard-leo-clarence-thomas-paoletta/

* "How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises:" https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht

* Don't hold your breath. Republicans are strongly opposed to Ethics of any kind. "Senate Judiciary moves SCOTUS ethics bill forward — toward a dim future:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/20/supreme-court-ethics-congress-00107413

* "Biden Touts 'Bidenomics In Action' as Inflation Cools:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/biden-touts-bidenomics-in-action-as-inflation-cools-188569669907

* "Here are the 70 House Republicans who voted to cut off all US military aid to Ukraine:" https://www.businessinsider.com/which-house-republicans-voted-gaetz-end-military-aid-ukraine-2023-7

* "‘An ode to bigotry and ignorance': Democrats thrash defense bill loaded with GOP amendments:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/14/mccarthy-conservative-amendments-pentagon-bill-00106338

* "House blocks Pentagon abortion policy in defense bill, imperiling passage:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/13/kevin-mccarthy-defense-bill-deal-culture-wars-00106092

* "House Approves GOP Measure Banning Military DEI Initiatives by One Vote:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-approves-gop-measure-banning-military-dei-initiatives-by-one-vote

* "Human rights groups slam far-right anti-LGBTQ+ defence budget amendments after House vote:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/national-defence-reform-human-rights-campaign-aclu-erin-reed/

* "Arizona Republican refers to Black Americans as 'colored people' in House floor debate:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-eli-crane-refers-black-americans-colored-people-house-floor-rcna94200

* "House GOP Adds Culture War Amendments To Defense Bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/house-gop-adds-culture-war-amendments-to-defense-bill-188535877909

* "Republican lawmakers spark outrage with comments on race:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/republican-lawmakers-spark-outrage-with-comments-on-race-188569669913

* "House Republican ‘Terrorists’ Target LGBTQ+ Community Center Funding in ‘Unprecedented’ Move:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republicans-strip-lgbtq-funding

* I don't have kids. I will never have kids. I am 100% for making Child Tax Credit Permanent. It does so much good. "As Inflation Falls to Lowest in 2+ Years, Dems Consider Making Child Tax Credit Permanent:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/as-inflation-falls-to-lowest-in-2-years-dems-consider-making-child-tax-credit-permanent-188536389509

* I'm not holding my breath, but this is very much the right thing to do. "How the Child Tax Credit Became a Partisan Issue:" https://newrepublic.com/article/174275/republicans-made-child-tax-credit-partisan-issue

* "As Inflation Falls to Lowest in 2+ Years, Dems Consider Making Child Tax Credit Permanent:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/as-inflation-falls-to-lowest-in-2-years-dems-consider-making-child-tax-credit-permanent-188536389509

* "Teamsters president says he’s asked the White House not to intervene if UPS workers go on strike:" https://apnews.com/article/ups-strike-teamsters-biden-delivery-cb586d2f6160a92cda9318d6290ac8ea

* "UPS CEO’s Political Donations Boost Anti-Union Republicans :" https://theintercept.com/2023/07/14/ups-strike-carol-tome-anti-union-republicans/

* Don't Be a Scab! "UPS strike: Logistics company to train non-union employees ahead of possible disruption:" https://www.courier-journal.com/story/money/companies/2023/07/14/ups-strike-company-train-non-union-employees-ahead-of-possible-strike/70415447007/

* "Heat hits UPS drivers as potential strike looms:" https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/heat-hits-ups-drivers-as-potential-strike-looms

* "UPS pilots vow to not cross strike picket lines:" https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/ups-pilots-vow-to-not-cross-strike-picket-lines/

* "American Airlines flight attendants asked to authorize union to call a strike:" https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/american-airlines-flight-attendants-asked-to-authorize-union-to-call-a-strike/3298223/

* "California hotel workers on strike demand higher wages and a chance to live closer to work:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/california-hotel-workers-strike-demand-higher-wages-chance-live-closer-rcna93723

* "On the picket line, a telling alliance between hotel workers and screenwriter:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-14/strike-los-angeles-wga-unite-here-sag-aftra

* "Hotel Workers And Operators Resume Talks On Tuesday:" https://laist.com/news/hotel-workers-and-operators-resume-talks-on-tuesday

* "Fast Food Workers Strike in 100 Cities:" https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/fast-food-workers-strike

* "Actors’ Strike: SAG-AFTRA Releases List of Proposals and Studios’ Counterproposals:" https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/sag-aftra-strike-proposals-amptp-counterproposals-list-actors-hollywood-1234790077/

* "'Pay up!:' Hollywood actors, writers team on picket lines:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hollywoods-striking-actors-writers-walk-picket-lines-friday-2023-07-14/

How to donate to support the strikers: https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "Column: The studios thought they could handle a strike. They might end up sparking a revolution:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-07-18/sag-aftra-strike-bob-iger-fran-drescher-barry-diller-david-zaslav-revolution

* "Striking writers and actors throw shade over tree trimming at Universal picket line:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-07-18/sag-aftra-wga-nlrb-complaint-universal-pickets

* "Orange is the New Black stars speak out about ‘crazy and unjust’ pay for Netflix megahit:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/orange-is-the-new-black-cast-members-slam-netflix-pay-inequality/

* "'Power Rangers' Actor Says He Only Made $150 to Portray the Face of Zordon in Hundreds of Episodes:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/07/18/power-rangers-zordon-actor-pay/

* "IATSE averts strike, reaches tentative deal with Broadway League, Disney Theatrical:" https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/iatse-averts-strike-reaches-tentative-deal-with-broadway-league-disney-theatrical/

* They really need a Union. "Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Production Workers Launch Unionization Effort:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wb-animation-cartoon-network-production-workers-unionization-effort-1235540007/

* "Amazon hit with labor complaint over failing to bargain with Staten Island union:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/amazon-hit-with-labor-complaint-over-failing-to-bargain-with-union.html

* "Grindr Employees to Unionize Amid the Rise in Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation, Tech Layoffs:" https://www.advocate.com/business/grindr-union-layoffs-arison

* "McCarthy burned by reported promise to placate crabby Trump by expunging impeachments:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/mccarthy-burned-by-reported-promise-to-placate-crabby-trump-by-expunging-impeachments-188960325643

* "Republicans grill FBI Director During House Hearing:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/republicans-grill-fbi-director-during-house-hearing-188569669894

* "House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees as they move away from climate change denial:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-republicans-trillion-trees-01e455acce4397c0376e82bfa18b72c2

This would require roughly the entire continental United states to be turned into a forest and would only do half as much as needed. I'm going to assume this is trolling.

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Alabama GOP invites court smackdown; defies order to draw fair map:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/alabama-gop-invites-court-smackdown-defies-order-to-draw-fair-map-189042245717

* Vote now! "Group opposing Ohio push to make changing constitution harder launches new TV ad:" https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/group-opposing-ohio-push-make-changing-constitution-harder-launches-ne-rcna93899

* "Michigan attorney general charges 'false electors' over efforts to overturn the 2020 election:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/michigan-attorney-general-charges-false-electors-efforts-overturn-2020-rcna94838

* "'The very center of the entire conspiracy': Raskin hails DOJ progress in Trump probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-the-very-center-of-the-entire-conspiracy-raskin-hails-doj-progress-in-trump-probe-188772933773

* "Shaker Heights attorney, a Trump supporter, tells judge he voted twice in last two elections by accident:" https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2023/07/shaker-heights-attorney-a-trump-supporter-tells-judge-he-voted-twice-in-last-two-elections-by-accident.html

He's a lawyer for the IRS, yet somehow he claims he keeps doing illegal stuff by accident. If Republicans are as against voter fraud ads they claim, why do they keep doing it? It's as if every accusation they make is a confession.

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene Praises Joe Biden in Viral Campaign Ad:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-praise-biden

* "How Biden can harness the anger behind the 'summer of strikes' to beat Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-biden-can-harness-the-anger-behind-the-summer-of-strikes-to-beat-trump-188961349800

* "RFK Jr. denies comments on ‘ethnically targeted’ Covid-19 were anti-Semitic:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-covid-19-ethnically-targeted-00106478

Spoiler: They were.

* "Right-Wing Websites Connected to Former Trump Lawyer Are Scamming Loyal Followers With Phony Celebrity Pitches:" https://www.propublica.org/article/right-wing-websites-scam-readers-phony-celebrity-pitches

* "Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html

Republicans have stopped pretending that the goal is anything other than overthrowing the government in favor of fascist dictatorship.

We are in the end game for democracy in America now.

* "Trump, Republican allies make plan to concentrate power in Trump's hands: NYTimes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-republican-allies-make-plan-to-concentrate-power-in-trump-s-hands-nytimes-188688965630

* "Trump unveils new education policy loaded with culture war proposals:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/26/trump-unveils-education-policy-culture-war-00079784

* "A brief history of DeSantis comments — and dodges — on Trump and Jan. 6:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/desantis-jan-6-trump/

* "Christie pokes at DeSantis: ‘We don’t make our country better by continuing to rumormonger things’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/19/2024-campaign-christie-desantis-00107242

* "Private GOP Polling Data Reveals Why DeSantis’ Campaign Is Sputtering:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ron-desantis-donald-trump-covid-vaccine-polling-2024-1234789843/

* "The Humiliation of Ron DeSantis:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/ron-desantis-cnn-interview/674751/

* Women who voted for the Leopards Eating faces Party continue to be shocked when Leopards eat their faces. "Republican women learn the hard way: Complicity will not protect you:" https://www.salon.com/2023/07/11/women-learn-the-hard-way-complicity-will-not-protect-you/

* This is so destructively nonsensical I can't wrap my head around it. "Florida moves forward on radioactive road paving plan as Gov. DeSantis signs new law:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185280180/florida-roads-radioactive-desantis-signs-law

* "Why recruits are walking away from Ron DeSantis’ new State Guard:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/recruits-are-walking-away-ron-desantis-new-state-guard-rcna94636

* "Malaria Detected in Florida as Key Infectious Disease Positions Sit Vacant:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/malaria-detected-florida-desantis-public-health-positions-vacant-1234784402/

* "Secretive Furries Group Is Hacking Anti-Transgender State Governments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/furries-gay-hacking

* "Ron DeSantis rants about ‘indoctrinating children’ after seeing one single Pride flag:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/18/ron-desantis-pride-flag-presidential-2024/

* "State senator says Gov. DeSantis needs to ‘come home,’ call special session to address property insurance crisis:" https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/07/12/state-senator-says-gov-desantis-needs-to-come-home-call-special-session-to-address-property-insurance-crisis/

* "Oh, the Delusion: George Santos Compares Himself to Rosa Parks and Gets Dragged to High Hell:" https://www.theroot.com/oh-the-delusion-george-santos-compares-himself-to-ros-1850631514

* "Disney asks Florida judge to toss out lawsuit from DeSantis appointees:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/disney-asks-florida-judge-to-toss-out-lawsuit-from-desantis-appointees

* "Georgia Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to head off potential indictment :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/17/georgia-supreme-court-trump-indictment-00106710

* "Prosecutorial feeding frenzy takes shape around Trump's effort to subvert 2020 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prosecutorial-feeding-frenzy-takes-shape-around-trump-s-effort-to-subvert-2020-election-188682309857

* "Let's talk about Smith, Trump, and trial dates....:"

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* "Judge in Trump classified documents case tells prosecutors that a mid-December trial date would be too soon:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/politics/trump-classified-documents-hearing/index.html

* "Trump's court defense exposes insincerity of his public protestations:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-court-defense-exposes-insincerity-of-his-public-protestations-188774981697

* "Jared Kushner Testifies Before Grand Jury Investigating His Father-in-Law: Report:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jared-kushner-testifies-grand-jury-2020-election-1234788305/

* "Trump says he’s received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigators:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/18/trump-says-hes-received-a-target-letter-from-special-counsel-jack-smiths-jan-6-investigators-00106776

* "How to understand the federal statutes cited in Donald Trump's latest target letter:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-to-understand-the-federal-statutes-cited-in-donald-trump-s-latest-target-letter-188849733976

* "'The very center of the entire conspiracy': Raskin hails DOJ progress in Trump probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-the-very-center-of-the-entire-conspiracy-raskin-hails-doj-progress-in-trump-probe-188772933773

* "Justice Department appeals Jan. 6 prison sentences for Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/12/doj-appeals-oath-keepers-sentences-00106040

* "The QAnon Shaman's plan to get his guilty plea reversed is 'silly' — and might land him back in prison, ex-prosecutor says:" https://www.businessinsider.com/qanon-shaman-plan-guilty-plea-reversed-silly-former-prosecutor-says-2023-7

* "Ron DeSantis endorses 'deadly force' against migrants suspected of trafficking drugs:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-vows-send-military-block-drugs-reaching-mexican-ports-rcna91121

* "Releasing people pretrial doesn’t harm public safety :" https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/07/06/bail-reform/

* "KKK Flyers Protest Pride Celebrations at Virginia Elementary School:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kkk-virginia-pride-school

* "Hollywood Diversity Initiatives May Be Challenged After Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dei-supreme-court-affirmative-action-hollywood-1235532273/

* "Alabama lawmakers seek to slash funding from state archives after LGBTQ+ history lecture:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/alabama-lgbtq-history-lecture-archives-department/

* "'Poisoning the well': Florida middle schoolers to be dragged into DeSantis' war on history:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-poisoning-the-well-florida-middle-schoolers-to-be-dragged-into-desantis-war-on-history-188959813519

They are requiring schools to lie to children that slavery was for the benefit of the enslaved and that white people massacring black communities for trying to vote was really violence done by and too black people.

I have no words that are printable in my fury.

* "Obama Slams LGBTQ+ Book Bans in Open Letter to American Librarians:" https://www.advocate.com/news/obama-slams-book-bans

* "Arkansas Legislator Vows to ‘Eliminate All the Funding for Public Libraries’ Affiliated With the ALA:" https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/arkansas-legislator-vows-to-eliminate-all-the-funding-for-public-libraries-affiliated-with-the-ala/

* "South Carolina Library System Removes All Displays That Showcase LGBTQ+ Books:" https://www.advocate.com/books/lgbtq-books-greenville-county

* CW: Rape. "Singapore: Autistic trans woman faces being sent back to institute ‘where she was raped’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/singapore-lgbtq-queer-trans-asylum-attacks/

* "Love Your Rainbow Body: Pride in LGBTQ+ Body Positivity:" https://www.out.com/gay-lifestyle/love-your-rainbow-body-pride-in-lgbtq-body-positivity

* "'It’s a very short path': Is there a lesson for the U.S. in Poland's extreme anti-abortion law and the popular backlash it has provoked?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-4-s-short-path-rcna93352

* "Arizona governor greenlights over-the-counter birth control:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-governor-greenlights-over-counter-023816190.html

* "Judge temporarily blocks Iowa's 'fetal heartbeat' abortion ban as court challenge continues:" https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/17/iowa-fetal-heartbeat-abortion-law-court-ruling-temporary-injunction-kim-reynolds-pregnancy/70420027007/

* "Tennessee AG Skrmetti opposes rule change aimed at protecting abortion health records:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/17/tennessee-ag-skrmetti-opposes-federal-rule-change-on-abortion-records/70421514007/

* "Cameron wants Kentuckians' out-of-state abortion records to be available to authorities:" https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/17/kentucky-ag-daniel-cameron-opposes-proposed-hhs-privacy-rule-on-out-of-state-abortion-records/70420153007/

* "AG Lynn Fitch wants to make info on out-of-state abortions available to Mississippi authorities:" https://mississippitoday.org/2023/07/13/lynn-fitch-abortion-rules-change-track-info/

* "Arkansas attorney general wants to know about your out-of-state abortion:" https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/07/16/arkansas-attorney-general-wants-to-know-about-your-out-of-state-abortion

* "Republican attorneys general demand access to out-of-state abortion medical records:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-attorneys-general-demand-access-to-out-of-state-abortion-medical-records-188688453806

* "Russian lawmakers approve ban on gender-affirming medical care:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-gender-affirming-medical-care-surgery-ban/

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* As with the similar folks in Türkiye. I believe people who come out for these protests are heroes. "Thousands turn out for Budapest Pride in courageous protest of Viktor Orbán:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/17/hungary-budapest-pride-viktor-orban/

* "Hungarian bookstore fined thousands for not concealing Heartstopper graphic novel:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/hungary-bookstore-fine-heartstopper-lgbtq/

* "Alice Oseman slams decision to fine Hungarian bookshop for selling Heartstopper: ‘Sad and angry’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/19/alice-oseman-slams-fine-hungarian-bookshop-heartstopper/

* "Italy begins removing lesbian mums from their children’s birth certificates:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/18/italy-lesbian-mums-removed-birth-certificates/

* "Hundreds Marry as Mexico Celebrates Marriage Equality, Gender ID Law:" https://www.advocate.com/world/mexico-celebrates-marriage-gender-id

* "Ukrainian pop singer and refugee Natisa Gogol on using her music to fight for queer people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/natisa-gogol-ukrainian-singer-refugee-fighting-for-queer-community/

* "Civil servants slam draft gender policy for ‘centring anti-trans views’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/16/civil-service-draft-gender-policy-trans/

* "Kemi Badenoch issues chilling hint that UK government will force teachers to out trans kids to parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/17/kemi-badenoch-schools-trans-guidance/

* "Tories launch official ‘probe’ into sanitary products in men’s toilets at government office:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/19/government-probe-sanitary-products-mens-toilets-defra/

* "Rishi Sunak apologises to LGBTQ+ veterans, calling military ban an ‘appalling failure’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/19/rishi-sunak-lgbtq-veterans-independent-review-published/

* "Homophobic vandals cause thousands of pounds of damage in attack on local Pride event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/17/dewsbury-pride-vandals-fundraiser/

* "Investigation into school at centre of cat gender row finds ‘no serious concerns’ at school of ‘kindness’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/cat-gender-school-row-investigation/

* "“Safety Concern” Used to Justify Kansas Drivers License Restrictions:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/safety-concern-used-to-justify-kansas-drivers-license-restrictions

* "Utah Governor Justifies Bans on Trans Healthcare Echoing Conspiracy Claims:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/utah-governor-justifies-bans-on-trans-healthcare-echoing-conspiracy-claims

* "Glenn Youngkin Goes After Transgender Kids in Revised School Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/news/glenn-youngkin-transgender-students-safety

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas judge says Supreme Court ruling gives her the right to refuse same-sex weddings:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/texas-judge-dianne-hensley-same-sex-marriage/

* "Florida Reverends, Rabbi Slam DeSantis, Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/florida-reverends-rabbi-slam-desantis

* "Michigan Senate Passes Legislation Banning Conversion Therapy for Minors:" https://www.advocate.com/law/conversion-therapy-michigan-senate

* "Judges Block Tennessee, Kentucky Bans on Transition Care for Minors:" https://www.advocate.com/law/tennessee-kentucky-trans-bans

* "Montana Judge Rules Transgender Birth Certificate Law Unconstitutional:" https://www.advocate.com/law/montana-judge-transgender-birth-certificate

* "Judge sides with trans 6th grader in fight to get her school to treat her fairly:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/07/judge-sides-with-trans-6th-grader-in-fight-to-get-her-school-to-treat-her-fairly/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ hate and extremism spiked during Pride Month 2023, report finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/glaad-hate-extremism-hate-pride-month-2023/

* "Alabama Man Sentenced to Life for Killing Man He Lured on Grindr:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/grindr-murderer-sentenced

* "South Carolina Trans Teen Killed; Man He Met for Date Charged With Murder:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/trans-teen-jacob-williamson-killed

* "Cisgender woman killed by man who thought she was trans:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/indiana-michelle-dionne-peacock-trans-killed/

* "'He was a protector': Friends say Oregon man died while defending LGBTQ friend:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/14/man-stabbed-to-death-protecting-trans-co-worker/

* They attacked an autistic person in a wheelchair for the crime of shopping, then drove away. Bet their moms are super proud of these cowards. "Trans man hospitalised after being shot with pellet gun while shopping for groceries:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/17/trans-man-shot-pellet-gun-pontiac-michigan/

* "Pride Fireworks Attack Near L.A. Remains Unsolved:" https://www.advocate.com/hate-crimes/pride-fireworks-attack-near-la

* "Conservative Christian caught on CCTV flinging dead rat into gay couple’s restaurant:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/16/christian-couple-virginia-the-front-porch/

* "To Escape Bullies, Military ‘Forced to Move’ Families with LGBTQ+ Kids:" https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/06/escape-bullies-military-forced-move-families-lgbtq-kids/387214/

* "As bans on transgender care for minors grow, a migration of sorts is underway:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/14/business/bans-transgender-care-minors-grow-migration-sorts-is-underway/

* "Chi Omega Invalidates Nonbinary Sorority Sister's Membership:" https://www.advocate.com/news/chi-omega-sorority-nonbinary

* "Salon owner condemned for telling LGBTQ+ people to go to ‘pet groomer’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/16/salon-9-lgbtq-pet-groomer-michigan/

* "Brighton sees biggest ever turnout for 10th anniversary Trans Pride: ‘A beacon of hope’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/16/brighton-trans-pride-2023/

* "CNN apologises after journalists misgender Dylan Mulvaney in ‘unbelievably bad’ Bud Light report:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/dylan-mulvaney-cnn-bud-light/

* "The Black Maternal Mortality Crisis and Why It Remains an Issue:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/05/1186019422/the-black-maternal-mortality-crisis-and-why-it-remains-an-issue

* "World's 1st 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan:" https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230609/p2a/00m/0sc/026000c

* "Let's talk about warming waters in Florida....:"

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* "Europe battles heat and fires; sweltering temperatures scorch China, US:" https://www.reuters.com/world/record-heat-wave-grips-china-flood-toll-rises-south-korea-2023-07-19/

* "How Canada’s Record Wildfires Got So Bad, So Fast:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/18/climate/canada-record-wildfires.html

* "Record-breaking 10 million hectares of land burned in Canada's wildfires:" https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/record-breaking-10-million-hectares-of-land-burned-in-canada-s-wildfires-1.6481870

* "Canadian firefighter dies battling wildfire in Northwest Territories:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/canadian-firefighter-dies-battling-wildfire-northwest-territories-101327286

* "Extreme heat and wildfire smoke can collide in deadly ways:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/canada-wildfire-smoke-heat-wave-air-quality-record-temperatures-rcna94869

* "South Korea flood death toll rises to 40, Yoon blames botched responses:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-flood-death-toll-rises-39-yoon-orders-all-out-effort-2023-07-17/

* CW: Child Death "5 people were killed by raging floodwaters in southeastern Pennsylvania. 2 children are still missing:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/16/weather/northeast-storms-sunday/index.html

* "The 'Great Kentucky Flood' of July 2023:" https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/the-great-kentucky-flood-of-july-2023/article_0693b5d4-268e-11ee-bc6f-bb5f45531c66.html

* "Northeast floods devastate farmers as months of labor and crops are swept away:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-northeast-vermont-farms-crops-577818980a7c1db0e67ff1cf3df51156

* "Al Gore on Extreme Heat and the Fight Against Fossil Fuels:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/climate/al-gore-on-extreme-heat-and-the-fight-against-fossil-fuels.html

* "Phoenix breaks city record with 19 consecutive days of 110-degree heat:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/heat-torching-records-spreading-us-europe-rcna94851

* "Bangladesh’s historic heat wave is making work “living hell” for IT workers:" https://restofworld.org/2023/bangladesh-electricity-crisis-bpo-workers/

* "Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon drops 34% in first half 2023:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/deforestation-brazils-amazon-drops-34-first-half-2023-2023-07-06/

* "The Hidden Cost of Gasoline:" https://grist.org/accountability/gas-stations-underground-storage-tank-leaks-environmental-disaster/

* "Chinese scientists create edible food packaging to replace plastic:" https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-748532

* "We started an Underwater Forest - the results are insane:"

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* "‘Great news’: EU hails discovery of massive phosphate rock deposit in Norway:" https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/great-news-eu-hails-discovery-of-massive-phosphate-rock-deposit-in-norway/

* "OceanGate Is Getting Majorly Sued:"

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* "From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You:" https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you

* "Twitter claims hate speech is 30 per cent lower since Elon Musk acquisition. Experts disagree:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/20/twitter-hate-speech-drops-experts-disagree/

* "Ukraine's Botanists Risked Their Lives for a Priceless Collection:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ukraine-scientists-braved-shelling-herbarium

* "Apparently Magpies and Crows Are Using "Anti-Bird Spikes" to Make Their Nests:" https://www.audubon.org/news/apparently-magpies-and-crows-are-using-anti-bird-spikes-make-their-nests

* "No Longer Endangered: The Bald Eagle is an Icon of the USA:" https://dwr.virginia.gov/blog/no-longer-endangered-the-bald-eagle-is-an-icon-of-the-esa/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nftf&utm_content=nftf_all_esa_bald_eagles

* "The Underground Railroad Was the Ultimate Conspiracy to Southern Enslavers:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/underground-railroad-as-southern-conspiracy-theory

* "The Forgotten Housewife who Invented your Dishwasher:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/07/12/the-forgotten-housewife-who-invented-your-dishwasher/

* "Prop 8’s Sandy Stier & Kris Perry Mark 10 Years of Marriage at VP Kamala Harris’s Home:" https://www.advocate.com/news/prop-8-stier-perry-harris

* "Lilli Vincenz, LGBTQ+ Activist and Filmmaker, Dies at 85:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/lilli-vincenz-lesbian-activist

* "Morocco’s historic Women’s World Cup debut inspires girls even if some in the Arab world ignore it:" https://apnews.com/article/morocco-womens-arab-world-cup-debut-4e5aa560e22e36f2cc766aff995665e3

* "LegalEagle's Devin Stone Answers Law Questions From Twitter:"

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* "The History of Gay Hollywood:"

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* "The Black Reclamation of the Body Snatchers:"

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* "RENT and the Mainstreaming of Queer Suffering:"

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* "Right-wing media accuses Barbie of ‘forgetting core audience’ by ‘pushing’ LGBTQ+ stories:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/19/barbie-right-wing-media-lgbt-stories-characters-reactions/

* My heart did not take damage.

I am exhausted as people and robots keep phoning me and I had things like mandatory bureaucracy this week. Cleaners came though, both the replacement cleaner Tuesday to make up for none last week, who was another ex-teacher like me, and the Friday Cleaner. Like all but two of the cleaners (If you count the uncleaner), Friday Cleaner came all the way from the Reservation. The others were all my ageish or Millennials. I'm always super polite to the cleaners as it's hard work and the people doing it deserve politeness. If it's a Friday, I offer free vegetables, because they send more than we need from forage delivery.

This one was an Elder. I was raised with deference to older relatives, and I'm particularly aware of the kind of things her generation went through at the hands of the US government and white people in general as well as cultural stuff around treatment of elders. I felt very, very weird asking her to do anything because it went against pretty much every ingrained instinct in my body.

I was super extra polite explaining the cats and setting her up in the kitchen, then left her to it. She was so quiet as she worked that poor Livia thought she was gone and eventually came out for loves, only to discover after a snack and second pettins that the stranger was Still here. Tavy ended up really liking her. she had a very cat vibe and interesting smelling shoes and she talked sweet to him, but gave him space.

Her cleaning was excellent, very detailed. Apparently she was worried that I'd be distressed by how slow it went, because she was deep cleaning in there. Me: No really, we need that as no one has had time to do it in a while. My style is very ex-middle school teacher. I'd wander quietly over to get something or put something away, and take in what she was up to without looking like that's what I'm doing. I saw how in depth she was going and suggested an extra thing she might do in there. Last half hour I gave her a different meticulous in depth thing, and sent her home a few minutes early with a bag of food.

She was really cool. Apparently she and her friends were all at an outdoor music part party, all dancing together, and we just generally had a nice chat while she was getting ready to go about cats and things. I really liked her and would love her back. At the same time I'll never not be angry that economics means she's having to work. Elders should not be having to clean the homes of white people. Not even relatively vigorous ones.

* "7 Queer Historic Images from Lesbian Photographers Bolette Berg and Marie Hoeg:" https://www.advocate.com/photography/lesbian-norway-photographers-berg-hoeg

* "15 Unearthed Images of Pride, From 1969 to Now :" https://www.advocate.com/photography/history-of-pride-marches

* "21 Historic Photos of Queer Nightlife and Activism:" https://www.advocate.com/photography/photos-of-queer-nightlife-activism

* "This Is What It Looked Like to Party in Fire Island in 1999 :" https://www.out.com/nightlife/fire-island-pines-99-party

* "63 Photos of Kamala Harris's 2023 Pride Month Celebration :" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/kamala-harris-pride-photos-glaad

* "Mae Martin marks Non-Binary Awareness Week with proud topless selfie: ‘Trans joy’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/13/mae-martin-non-binary-awareness-week-topless-selfie-trans-joy/

* "Lucius as red and Frenchie as purple:" https://www.tumblr.com/johannestevans/723078428228812800?source=share

* "Thinking about "nocturnal existence" and Dracula's influence and Jonathan.:" https://www.tumblr.com/thegoatsongs/722674663032061952/thinking-about-nocturnal-existence-and-draculas?source=share

* Interpretations of Orpheus and Eurydice: https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/722605501548019712?source=share

* Lucy and Jonathan Parallels. Dracula Spoilers: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/723228213096153088/i-didnt-want-to-clog-up-your-post-about-being?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Italian Developments:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/723184559246688256/midnight-pals-italian-developments?source=share

*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
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 fruiends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

( Links Underneath: )

* "Russian mercenaries exploit a war-torn African nation as they lead Putin’s fight in Ukraine:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/africa/wagner-ukraine-russia-central-african-republic-gold-mine-putin-rcna86392

* "500 days of the Ukraine war – and scapegoating:" https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-500-days-of-the-ukraine-war-and-scapegoating/

* "US judge restricts Biden officials from contact with social media firms:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-blocks-us-officials-communicating-with-social-media-companies-newspaper-2023-07-04/

* "Trump-appointed judge rules against Biden admin in Facebook censorship case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-appointed-judge-rules-against-biden-admin-in-facebook-censorship-case-186910277802

* It's a high traffic area, and I have my suspicions, but we'll likely never know. "White House cocaine culprit unlikely to be found: Law enforcement official:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/white-house-cocaine-culprit-unlikely-to-be-found-law-enforcement-official-00104742

* "The fascinating and storied history of drugs and other substances found at the White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/the-fascinating-and-storied-history-of-drugs-and-other-substances-found-at-the-white-house-187093573756

* Thus opening the flood gates for all white juries sentencing black men to death. "Supreme Court backtracked on Black death row inmates’ racial bias claims, liberal justices say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-backtracked-black-death-row-inmates-racial-bias-claims-l-rcna87808

* "Pride Month ends as it began, with LGBTQ+ lives viewed as an imposition:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/30/supreme-court-gay-rights/

* "Christian bakers’ same-sex wedding cake case to return to the Supreme Court:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/christian-wedding-cake-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court/

* "U.S. job openings dip to 9.8 million but remain high, showing resilience in labor market:" https://apnews.com/article/job-openings-unemployment-economy-recession-f6811dfae03fcb14249a8937425a2838

* "The ‘Great Resignation’ Is Over. Can Workers’ Power Endure?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/business/economy/jobs-great-resignation.html

* "Average long-term US mortgage rate climbs to 6.81% this week to highest level since November:" https://apnews.com/article/mortgage-interest-rates-housing-loans-real-estate-94dd344bf67ded00f56e078a0fdec667

* I have real concerns about over-correction. "Fed sees more rate hikes ahead, but at a slower pace, meeting minutes show:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/05/fed-minutes-july-2023-.html

* "How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood:" https://archive.ph/2023.07.03-160323/https://www.gq.com/story/david-zaslav-warner-bros-discovery-ceo-tcm-max

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene booted from House Freedom Caucus :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/06/marjorie-taylor-greene-booted-out-of-freedom-caucus-member-says-00104997

* "Greene's attempt to play both sides of GOP split blows up in her face:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/greene-s-attempt-to-play-both-sides-of-gop-split-blows-up-in-her-face-187093061863

* "Republicans Want to Mandate a Single Style of Architecture in Washington:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/07/trump-conservative-federal-building-architecture-00104985

* "Republican opposition to LGBTQ rights erupts in backlash to Pride Month:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/30/republicans-pride-month-lgbtq/

Throughout June, many Republicans including presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis have sharply criticized Pride celebrations, and some have resurfaced fights over same-sex marriage

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Mondaire Jones, One of the First Black Gay Men in Congress, Seeks to Win Back Seat:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mondaire-jones-congress-candidacy

* "Trans candidate looks to make history as GOP is mired in anti-woke freak-out:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trans-candidate-looks-to-make-history-as-gop-is-mired-in-anti-woke-freak-out-187233349700

* "Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester discusses her historic Senate run:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-lisa-blunt-rochester-discusses-her-historic-senate-run-187245125982

* "Ex-Twitter leader Jack Dorsey endorses RFK Jr. for president:" https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4034584-ex-twitter-leader-jack-dorsey-endorses-rfk-jr-for-president/

* "Ron DeSantis bragged about sending help to Iowa — 10 hours after being told it wasn't needed:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-bragged-sending-help-iowa-10-hours-told-wasnt-needed-rcna92955

* "Ron DeSantis boosts a video that all but calls for eliminating trans people:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ron-desantis-ad-video-trans-lgbtq-rcna92392

They want us all dead. Here. Abroad. They want all of us dead and their aren't going to be exceptions for the L and the G. We're just most vulnerable because so many people made it clear they won't fight for us.

* "DeSantis Posts Deranged Ad Attacking Trump and Pride Month With ‘American Psycho’ Clips:" https://www.mediaite.com/politics/desantis-posts-deranged-ad-attacking-trump-and-pride-month-with-american-psycho-clips/

* "‘Peaky Blinders’ Denounces Homophobic Ron DeSantis Campaign Video: Cillian Murphy Footage Was ‘Obtained Without Permission’ :" https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/peaky-blinders-ron-desantis-campaign-video-1235662106/

* "Ron DeSantis defends video going after Trump on LGBTQ issues: ‘Totally fair game’:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-defends-video-going-trump-lgbtq-issues-totally-fair-game-rcna92791

* "Ron DeSantis’ pastor says gay people should be “put to death”:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/ron-desantis-pastor-says-gay-people-should-be-put-to-death/

* "Hayes: DeSantis flop is due to 'weird, alienating, hard-right campaign':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-desantis-flop-is-due-to-weird-alienating-hard-right-campaign-186905669584

* "Koch Network Raises Over $70 Million for Push to Sink Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/koch-network-trump-2024.html

* "Trump once said a president under felony indictment would grind the government to a halt and create a constitutional crisis:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/politics/kfile-trump-president-indictment-halt-government/index.html

* "‘Remarkable’: GOP voters not convinced by Pence's Jan. 6 defense:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-remarkable-gop-voters-not-convinced-by-pence-s-jan-6-defense-187075141817

* "Why Everyone Hates the Hunter Biden Plea Deal:"

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* "Republicans Target Minority Scholarships After Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-affirmative-action-minority-scholarships-republicans-1234783254/

* So very clever. "How Wisconsin’s governor bested the GOP and secured education funding for 400 years:" https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/7/6/23786064/wisconsin-governor-tony-evers-education-funding

* "Wisconsin governor uses clever maneuver to fund schools for four centuries:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wisconsin-governor-uses-clever-maneuver-to-fund-schools-for-four-centuries-187078725716

* "Pa. House OKs a $45.5 billion spending plan, as Gov. Josh Shapiro plans to veto his own school voucher proposal:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/pa-budget-school-vouchers-house-democrats-20230705.html

* "Josh Hawley Quotes White Nationalist Magazine to Celebrate Fourth of July:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174104/josh-hawley-posts-fake-quote-white-nationalist-magazine-fourth-july

* "Why Josh Hawley’s fake historical quote matters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/josh-hawleys-fake-historical-quote-matters-rcna92604

* "What a Former Republican Calls “The Conspiracy to End America”:" https://terikanefield.com/what-a-former-republican-calls-the-conspiracy-to-end-america/

* "More Mar-a-Lago search warrant information released in Trump classified docs case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-orders-release-mar-lago-search-warrant-information-trump-classif-rcna92676

* "Justice Department had video of boxes being moved at Mar-a-Lago before FBI search, unredacted document shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/politics/mar-a-lago-unredacted-search-warrant-affidavit/

* "How Long Will Trump Go To Jail?:"

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* "Walt Nauta, Trump aide indicted in classified documents case, pleads not guilty:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walt-nauta-pleads-not-guilty-trump-classified-documents-case/

* "Who is Walt Nauta?:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/who-is-walt-nauta

* "“Ominous sign”: Legal experts say Jack Smith "closing in" after piercing Trump’s “inner circle”:" https://www.salon.com/2023/07/03/ominous-sign-legal-experts-say-jack-smith-closing-in-after-piercing-trumps-inner-circle/

* "Will be investigated!: Feds probe meeting that spawned Trump's 'will be wild!' tweet:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/will-be-investigated-feds-probe-meeting-that-spawned-trump-s-will-be-wild-tweet-187235909644

* "This Zombie Law Could Threaten Abortion Access Nationwide: The GOP’s 2024 candidates don’t want to talk about it, but anti-abortion activists see it as a way to further restrict women's reproductive rights:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/comstock-act-threaten-abortion-access-1234781080/

* "Wisconsin judge: Lawsuit to repeal abortion ban can continue:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-wisconsin-ban-challenge-lawsuit-866eed85d2918113bfe644459e62171a

* Ohioans, don't sleep on this!!! "Ohio abortion rights groups submit signatures for ballot measure:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ohio-abortion-rights-groups-submit-signatures-ballot-measure-rcna92627

* "Ohio voters scramble to protect abortion rights as GOP legislature invents new obstacles:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ohio-voters-scramble-to-protect-abortion-rights-as-gop-legislature-invents-new-obstacles-186931781831

* "Iowa Republicans release information on proposed abortion bill:" https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-republicans-propose-new-bill-on-abortion/44478342

* "Mother charged in Northeast Nebraska illegal abortion case pleads guilty:" https://www.ktiv.com/2023/07/07/mother-charged-northeast-nebraska-illegal-abortion-case-pleads-guilty/

* "Nearly 10,000 more babies born in nine months under Texas’ restrictive abortion law, study finds:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-abortion-johns-hopkins-study/

* "Earth just set a heat record. It won't be its last.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/earth-record-heat-climate-change-prehistory

“This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life.”

* "Earth reaches hottest day ever recorded 3 days in a row:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/4th-july-breaks-record-highest-temperature-measured/story?id=100702850

* "World records its hottest days ever this week:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/world-records-its-hottest-days-ever-this-week-186912325902

* Before you say no duh, remember that we need studies like this to quantify things for planning, government policy, and court cases, and also to help convince people who's minds aren't already made up "Extreme heat 'disproportionately' impacts people with disabilities, report says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/extreme-heat-disproportionately-impacts-people-with-disabilities-report-2023-06-26/

I know I struggle to breath in heat like this, and hypoxia kills, especially when cars are involved.

Please remember many medications and medical conditions can make you extra susebtable to heat or direct sunlight. I was reminded that SSRIs are a super common one. Please be extra careful out there if this applies to you.

* "Mexico acknowledges 112 heat-related deaths so far this year, almost triple the figures in 2022:" https://www.news4jax.com/health/2023/06/29/mexico-acknowledges-112-heat-related-deaths-so-far-this-year-almost-triple-the-figures-in-2022/

* "A 65-year-old man is found dead in Death Valley National Park after apparent extreme heat death:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/us/death-valley-national-park-heat-death-california/index.html

* "‘Literally off the charts’: Canada’s fire season sets records — and is far from over :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/06/canada-fire-season-00104959

* "Wildfire in WA near Columbia River Gorge grows slowly, still at 5% containment :" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wildfire-in-wa-near-columbia-river-gorge-grows-slowly-still-at-5-containment/

* "Restaurants in New Orleans are recycling oyster shells to save precious coastline:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-louisiana-turns-discarded-oyster-shells-into-restored-coastline

* "What Media Leaves Below Decks:" https://popula.com/2023/06/27/what-media-leaves-below-decks/

* CW: Harassment. "More than 50 percent of Americans report facing online harassment, hate: survey :" https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4071697-more-than-50-percent-of-americans-report-facing-online-harassment/

* "What does Twitter 'rate limit exceeded' mean for users?:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-does-twitter-rate-limit-exceeded-mean-users-2023-07-03/

* "Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/twitter-outage-elon-musk-user-restrictions/674609/

* "Twitter's threat to the 2024 election is coming from inside the house:" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/elon-musk-empowers-twitter-misinformation

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter Threatens to Sue Meta Over Threads, Alleging Meta Hired ‘Dozens’ of Twitter Employees to Launch Copycat App; Meta Disputes Claim:" https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-twitter-legal-threat-meta-instagram-threads-1235663115/

* "Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads:" https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/far-right-figures-including-nazi-supporters-anti-gay-extremists-and-white-supremacists-are

* "Quitting Twitter? Here Are Six Alternatives, From Threads to Bluesky and Spill:" https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-alternatives-bluesky-spill-instagram-threads-1235660707/

* "Spill Is a New Black-Owned Twitter Alternative. Here’s What to Know About the App:" https://time.com/6292622/spill-app-twitter-alternative/

* "Rats sense the wind with antennae-like whiskers above their eyes:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rats-wind-antennae-whiskers-eyes

* "The horrors of Pompeii:" https://aeon.co/essays/what-pompeiis-ruins-say-about-its-enslaved-prostituted-women

* "What's the Deal with 18th Century Wigs? (and why Bridgerton really messed this up):"

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* "Celebrating the life and loves of Frida Kahlo, Mexico’s most famous bisexual and a global icon:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/frida-kahlo-birthday-bisexual-artist/

* "‘The meanest, dirtiest, low-down stuff’: Republican complaints about election integrity that actually hide a more nefarious goal are not unknown in U.S. history.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-3-meanest-dirtiest-low-stuff-rcna91078

* "A Short History of Everyone Who Confirmed Reagan’s October Surprise Before the New York Times:" https://theintercept.com/2023/03/24/october-surprise-ben-barnes/

* "Ballroom History: The 1960s, Paris is Burning, and Today:"

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* "Spain's Falleras Bring Historic Opulence to Life:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/falleras-tradition-parade-costume-spain-culture

* "What Even Is "Good" Queer TV?:"

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* "Preacher calls for ‘holy judgement’ on Barbie movie for being ‘full of transgender and homosexuality’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/barbie-lgbtq-kent-christmas-holy-judgement/

* "How Kids actually Played:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Er-8fEbozNg

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share
* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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* The aggregate went up late this week because of chaos detailed below. My body is still completely thrashed from the Friday uncleaning. I am doing my best, but only a tiny portion of news made it up.

* "Waterloo university stabbing was ‘targeted anti-LGBTQ+ attack’, police say as suspect charged:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/waterloo-university-stabbing-was-targeted-anti-lgbtq-attack-police-say-as-suspected-charged/

* "Bigots blame stabbing attack in a Canadian University’s Gender Issues class on trans people being too trans in public:" https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2023/06/29/bigots-blame-stabbing-attack-in-a-canadian-universitys-gender-issues-class-on-trans-people-being-too-trans-in-public/

* "Russia conducts tactical fighter jet drills over Baltic Sea:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-conducts-tactical-fighter-jet-drills-over-baltic-sea-2023-06-27/

* "Putin tells rebellious Russian fighters to swear allegiance or leave for Belarus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/26/putin-rebellion-troops-belarus-00103695

* "Some Russians welcomed Wagner mercenaries who appeared in their streets during brief insurrection:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/europe/russia-wagner-rostov-sympathy-ukraine-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Plot Thickens: Russian Generals Supported Wagner Mutiny but Backed Out – US Intelligence:" https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18817

* "Wagner’s Prigozhin Planned to Capture Russian Military Leaders:" https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/wagners-prigozhin-planned-to-capture-russian-military-leaders-805345cf

* "Putin Moves to Punish Prigozhin Allies:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/world/europe/putin-prigozhin-russia.html

* "Prigozhin May Be Gone, but Not the Failings He Ranted About:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/world/europe/prigozhin-shoigu-gerasimov-surovikin-russia-military.html

* "The poppycock of Myanmar drug suppression:" https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/the-poppycock-of-myanmar-drug-suppression/

* "SNP politicians accuse Tories of ‘rank hypocrisy’ for supporting devolution ‘where it suits them’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/snp-hannah-bardell-gender-recognition-reform/

* "Politician who allegedly said all white men should have Black slave is suspended:" https://thegrio.com/2023/04/14/british-politician-andrew-edwards-white-men-black-slave/

* "Ukraine spy chief accuses Russia of 'mining' cooling pond at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-spy-chief-accuses-russia-mining-cooling-pond-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-2023-06-20/

* This is a really helpful thing explaining why Biden's wanting bridges without weight restrictions is correct from a civil engineering perspective: https://www.tumblr.com/whovianuncle/721335205966823424/surely-this-is-a-good-idea-that-doesnt-have-the?source=share

* This win was essential for saving democracy and a huge relief. "Supreme Court denies state legislatures the unchecked power to set election rules:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/27/supreme-court-rejects-independent-state-legislature-theory-00103793

* "Hayes: Supreme Court has ruled against the right’s ‘slow-motion insurrection’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-supreme-court-has-ruled-against-the-right-s-slow-motion-insurrection-185338437718

* "Ketanji Brown Jackson Dismantles SCOTUS Conservatives in Blistering Dissent:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ketanji-brown-jackson-dismantles-scotus-conservatives-in-blistering-affirmative-action-dissent

* "US Supreme Court's two Black justices clash over affirmative action ruling:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-justices-jackson-thomas-illustrate-heated-us-debate-race-2023-06-29/

* "How Clarence Thomas ‘pulled the ladder up behind him’ on affirmative action:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-clarence-thomas-pulled-the-ladder-up-behind-him-on-affirmative-action-185974341842

* "Conservative justices welcome affirmative action—of legacy students:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/joy-conservative-justices-welcome-affirmative-action-of-legacy-students-185984069671

* "Battle for belonging: Steps toward racial progress in U.S. met with pushback: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/battle-for-belonging-steps-toward-racial-progress-in-u-s-met-with-pushback-book-185401925504

* "End of affirmative action checks another box on list of long term conservative projects:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/end-of-affirmative-action-checks-another-box-on-list-of-long-term-conservative-projects-186013253633

* "How the repercussions of affirmative action's end will reach far beyond college admissions:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-the-repercussions-of-affirmative-action-s-end-will-reach-far-beyond-college-admissions-186014277620

* "Supreme Court: Affirmative Action Is OK — If the Students Are Getting Sent to Die in Wars:" https://theintercept.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-affirmative-action-military-academy/

* "Biden slams SCOTUS affirmative action decision: 'Discrimination still exists in America':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-supreme-court-affirmative-action-decision-word/story?id=100491437

* "Why the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action matters:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1176715957/why-the-supreme-court-decision-on-affirmative-action-matters

* "Harvard 'legacy' policy challenged on heels of affirmative action ruling:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harvard-legacy-policy-challenged-heels-affirmative-action-ruling-2023-07-03/

* "Capitol Hill reacts to Supreme Court rulings:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/capitol-hill-reacts-to-supreme-court-rulings-186388549870

* "Naive emphasis on 'colorblindness' ignores racial reality in U.S.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/naive-emphasis-on-colorblindness-ignores-racial-reality-in-u-s-186697285583

* "Supreme Court rejects challenge to Jim Crow-era Mississippi voting law:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-jim-crow-era-mississippi-voting-law-rcna85633

* "Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s student debt relief plan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/30/supreme-court-strikes-down-bidens-student-debt-relief-plan-00104409

* "The Student Loan Case’s Unwilling Participant:" https://prospect.org/justice/2023-06-19-student-loan-cancellation-supreme-court-mohela/

The Republicans sued to end student debt relief on MOHELA's behalf against their will and against their best interests since the state government didn't have standing for the suit, and Republicans Supreme Court justices found for the state anyway because that's how much they hate poor and middle class students having access to college and want to punish them with crushing life long debt for daring to try to get an education.

All precedent and the legal requirement that the people doing the suing have an injury and standing have been thrown out.

* "Elena Kagan Has Had Enough:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/opinion/elena-kagan-dissent-supreme-court.html

* "What is the Higher Education Act —and could it still lead to student loan forgiveness?:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-the-higher-education-act-and-could-it-still-lead-to-student-loan-forgiveness/

* "US Supreme Court says Colorado designer can refuse LGBTQ+ customers: ‘License to discriminate’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/us-supreme-court-lgbtq/

* "The man named in the Supreme Court’s gay rights ruling says he didn’t request a wedding website:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-gay-rights-lgbtq-website-385ec911ce0ca2f415966078eddb66da

This doesn't say it invalidates all anti-discrimination laws in this country of any kind, but in effect, it does since there is no limit on who or why you can discriminate against in this ruling.

Bonus points for the woman they found in favour lying in her filings about nearly everything in them, basically. her business is hypothetical. The person she claimed asked for a website didn't and wasn't aware the case was happening or involved him until it was already in front of the Supreme Court, etc.

I don't understand how any of that is legal, but that's just how eager the Republican Partizans on the supreme court are to make all discrimination legal: They ruled in an entirely hypothetical lawsuit about a dispute that didn't exist based on perjured depositions and filings without even informing the other party they were in a lawsuit about a thing they didn't do.

* "Reactions to SCOTUS' major blow to LGBTQ rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/reactions-to-scotus-major-blow-to-lgbtq-rights-186388037861

* "Supreme Court rules for Christian mail carrier who refused to work Sundays:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-christian-postal-worker-refused-work-sundays-rcna84868

My assumption is they will use this precedent to allow EMTs, Doctors, hospitals, and pharmacists to deny trans people life saving health care, a thing that is already happening, but not currently legal.

I absolutely think hijabs etc. should be covered under the first amendment and anti-discrimination laws. I do think if Christians get their holidays off so should the rest of us.

it’s different if you say up front you can’t work certain holidays, but for me this is of a piece with the recent SCOTUS decision striking down all anti-discrimination laws.

The web designer one allows people and businesses to discriminate against any one for any reason. They deliberately put no limits on that.

This decision contradicts that, by saying that in the case of Christians, that previous ruling doesn’t apply, since Christians can’t experience any sanctions at all for signing up for a job they then refuse to do.

Sure looks like “rules for thee, but not for me.”

I’d love to be wrong, but I'd rather not bet my life on it next time I have to go to the Christian hospital where they group pray every morning, which is the only one servicing my small city.

* "John Roberts' Supreme Court rolls back civil rights one marginalized group at a time:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/john-roberts-supreme-court-rolls-back-civil-rights-one-marginalized-group-at-a-time-186273349702

* "'Galling': Hayes on the 'imperial mindset' of the Supreme Court conservatives:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-galling-hayes-on-the-imperial-mindset-of-the-supreme-court-conservatives-186215493589

* "Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez call for changes to the Supreme Court:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/02/pressley-aoc-changes-supreme-court-00104537

* "Writers Strike Messaging War Reshapes Standoff With Studios:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/writers-strike-messaging-studios-1235523786/

* "Elizabeth Warren, Susan Collins Introduce Tax Bill to Help Married Same-Sex Couples:" https://www.advocate.com/law/elizabeth-warren-refund-equality-act

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "America's Family Secret:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/

* "Once a Trump target, arc of the moral universe bends for Yusef Salaam:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/once-a-trump-target-arc-of-the-moral-universe-bends-for-yusef-salaam-185706565996

* "Candidate turns lessons of public, personal struggle into winning platform:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/candidate-turns-lessons-of-public-personal-struggle-into-winning-platform-186699333718

* "RFK Jr. Claims ‘Vaccine Research’ Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/robert-f-kennedy-jr-does-vaccine-make-fork-stick-to-me.html

* "The MAGA right is going all in on RFK Jr. That could backfire.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/robert-kennedy-republican-super-pac-biden-rcna91176

* "DeSantis’s latest appeal to MAGA tops Trump in performative cruelty:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/27/desantis-immigration-border-plan-trump-maga/

* "Pete Buttigieg slams Ron DeSantis for ‘trying to prove his manhood’ with anti-LGBTQ+ video:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/pete-buttigieg-ron-desantis-anti-lgbtq-video/

* "Lindsey Graham booed, called ‘traitor’ at Trump rally in his home state:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lindsey-graham-booed-called-traitor-at-trump-rally-in-his-home-state-186648645849

* "Court upholds sanctions for some − not all − lawyers for suit to overturn Mich. election:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/06/23/court-upholds-sanctions-for-only-some-kraken-attorneys/69493140007/

* "Rudy Giuliani interviewed in DOJ probe into 2020 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-rudy-giuliani-interviewed-in-doj-probe-into-2020-election-185342533732

* "Giuliani, at center of Trump election subversion schemes, spoke with federal prosecutors:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/giuliani-at-center-of-trump-election-subversion-schemes-spoke-with-federal-prosecutors-185703493978

* "WSJ: Giuliani testified for 8 hours in DOJ probe, questioned on Sidney Powell:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wsj-giuliani-testified-for-8-hours-in-doj-probe-questioned-on-sidney-powell-186650693895

* "Stephanie Grisham: Trump showed secret documents to Mar-a-Lago diners :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stephanie-grisham-trump-showed-secret-documents-to-mar-a-lago-diners-186645573966

* "Senate report blasts intelligence failures ahead of Jan 6; bias, 'chilling effect' noted:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/senate-report-blasts-intelligence-failures-ahead-of-jan-6-bias-chilling-effect-noted-185394757922

* "Man wanted on Jan. 6 charges arrested with weapons near Barack Obama’s Washington home:" https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-insurrection-obama-weapons-857bad453191c67480b020ec0d1f980a

* "Drag Doesn't Kill People — Guns Do:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/drag-queens-guns

* "Baltimore mass shooting leaves 2 dead; half of 28 injured were children:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/baltimore-police-scene-mass-shooting-incident-media-2023-07-02/

* "In wake of deadly mass shooting in Baltimore, mayor decries ghost guns, trafficking:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/in-wake-of-deadly-mass-shooting-in-baltimore-mayor-decries-ghost-guns-trafficking-186686021667

* "The Disturbing New Face of Mass Incarceration:"

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* "Shipping containers used for Arizona's makeshift border wall are now for sale, but buyer beware:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2023/06/30/arizonas-shipping-container-border-wall-boxes-are-now-for-sale/70361464007/

* "Thousands more prisoners across the US will get free college paid for by the government:" https://apnews.com/article/prison-pell-grant-college-graduation-ff3f0b80b5bc0e44dde0408c3dedea19

* "Judge awards a Black church $1M over BLM banner burned by Proud Boys during protest:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/01/1185630152/judge-awards-a-black-church-1m-over-blm-banner-burned-by-proud-boys-during-prote

* "Georgia teacher faces termination after reading book about acceptance to class:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/georgia-teacher-faces-termination-after-reading-book-about-acceptance-to-class-185672261786

* "Reproductive rights battle especially poignant in context of Black maternal health:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/reproductive-rights-battle-especially-poignant-in-context-of-black-maternal-health-184461893607

* "Hundreds detained at banned Pride marches in Turkey: ‘They are aware of our strength’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/27/turkey-pride-arrests-istanbul-izmir/

* "Climate Central analysis shows that human-caused climate change is making the near-record heat forecast in large parts of Texas and Mexico at least 5 times more likely.:" https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert

* "Forest fire centre declares 2023 already worst year ever for Canadian wildfires:" https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/06/26/quebec-wildfire-smoke-causes-widespread-smog-warnings-grounds-some-water-bombers.html

* "Canadian wildfire emissions hit record high as smoke reaches Europe:" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/canadian-wildfire-emissions-reach-record-high-2023-2023-06-27/

* "Rainfall likely won’t be enough to extinguish Quebec wildfires causing US smoke, officials say:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-smoke-quebec-rain-a0e287ea5117cccadb9e6917304635ea

* "Air quality plummets as Canadian wildfire smoke stretches across the Midwest :" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184812177/chicago-detroit-pittsburgh-canada-wildfire-smoke

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filte rDirections:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* "Brutal heat wave makes Texas among the hottest places on Earth:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/brutal-heat-wave-makes-texas-hottest-places-earth-rcna91584

* "Heat and smoke are smothering most of the U.S., putting lives at risk:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/28/extreme-heat-wave-texas-southern-states/

* Pro-Life Republicans act swiftly to cause more deaths because they believe people aren't dying fast enough. "Workers Die in Texas Heat as Greg Abbott's Water Break Ban Comes Under Fire:" https://www.newsweek.com/workers-die-texas-heat-greg-abbotts-water-break-ban-comes-under-fire-1808610

* "Critics Blast New Law After Dallas Postman Dies Amid Extreme Heat :" https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-usps-worker-dies-in-extreme-heat-critics-slam-hb-2127-16896591

* "35-year-old lineman dies after working to restore power in East Texas :" https://www.ketk.com/news/local-news/35-year-old-lineman-dies-after-working-to-restore-power-in-east-texas/

* "Teen and Stepfather Die on Hike in Near-Record Texas Heat:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/us/texas-heat-hiker-deaths.html

* "Inmates are dying in stifling Texas prisons, but the state seldom acknowledges heat as a cause of death:" https://www.kiiitv.com/article/news/local/texas/inmates-are-dying-in-stifling-texas-prisons/503-810c66fc-2bf2-4b7c-946f-c1cbac2ad58e

* What would Jesus do? Deny prisoners succor so that they die locked up in oven like conditions they can't escape. "Push to put air conditioning in Texas prisons fails:" https://www.corsicanadailysun.com/news/push-to-put-air-conditioning-in-texas-prisons-fails/article_257e94fe-0b00-11ee-a1ea-8bf9f4e3447f.html

* "Solar power proves its worth as heat wave grips the state:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/28/texas-solar-power-grid-heat-wave/

* "Gov. Greg Abbott vows to exclude renewable energy from any revived economic incentive program:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/01/chapter-313-texas-renewables-economic-development/

Solar Energy is saving Texas' butt right now and keeping their crappy proprietary grid afloat, but in March Republicans decided doubling down on the oil and gas industry while planning to make renewable energy harder to develop in order to make everything so much worse.

* "As Texans suffer in the heat, state Republicans play politics:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-texans-suffer-in-the-heat-state-republicans-play-politics-185722949628

* "Heat wave hits Southern California with a scorching Fourth of July weekend:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-30/heat-wave-southern-california-fourth-of-july-weekend

* "The Titan Submersible Was “an Accident Waiting to Happen”:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

* "It's Called Micro Metro:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O-ZiycBMULI

* "National Geographic magazine has laid off the last of its staff writers:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/28/media/national-geographic-magazine-staff-writers/index.html

* "We Cleaned Up The Ocean Floor At 40 Meters Depth:"

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* "How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-id-tracking-ios-and-android-and-why-you-should-do-it-now

* "Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI:" https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486

* "A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html

* He was incredibly talented. I loved him particularly in naked Lunch, Warlock and Impromptu, but he was in so many things. It's terrible he's gone, but at least the family have him back to mourn properly. In my experience, waiting is worse than knowing. "Julian Sands’ remains found in Mt. Baldy area, San Bernardino officials confirm:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-06-27/julian-sands-remains-found-mt-baldy-san-bernardino

* "Bonus 4: Queering the Gothic:" https://www.scribd.com/podcast/655892341/Bonus-4-Queering-the-Gothic-Stephen-interviews-Dr-Jamie-Bernthal-Hooker?irclickid=3kxxPHRpOzhvU%3A11aUXpLwX1UkF2jZSFRRYS3E0&irpid=2003851&utm_source=impact&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=affiliate_pdm_acquisition_Bing%20Rebates%20by%20Microsoft&sharedid=bing&irgwc=1

* "Good Omens Parody by The Hillywood Show®:"

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* Tuesday I went to the Doctor and had a blood draw. She's mostly caught up. Nothing can likely be done about the allergy treatments unless I want to day trip to Everett every two weeks starting in September, but i am so tired and the pain meds make me even more so. there is concern about no meds causing heart palpatations, but we are going to try a pill twice a day anyway, so i can get coverage in my sleep. Let us all hope I don't start hallucinating.

Given the hallucination risk I stayed at minimum for the Wednesday errands as the last thing I wanted was to start hallucinating while driving.

Some sort of blight has hit one of the garden tubs, but only one species of volunteer plant, which we removed in hopes it isn't in the soil and hasn't spread to the others. The other volunteers and the thing that actually is meant to be growing there look okay, but we are going to try to identify the species of ick, in case we need to sterilize and start over. I will be pissed if that's the case as it's one of the big whiskey barrel planters with the most expensive things in the garden in it. *fingers crossed*

Wednesday was the first day I woke up with bad collapsey legs since I started the new meds and on the scale of bad legs it was about medium. My arms we ironically less collapsey than average for the last week.

Bodies are weird.

* I think I need to tell you about the Cleaner, because OMG, but for that you will need context on my pain/meds situation.

So less pain does not remotely equal no pain. My hip joints were a mess Wednesday, and only a little better Thursday. My shoulder joints, and thus my arms, started to go bad Thursday. The fundamental things wrong with my body aren't fixable, but the new meds are doing a stellar job on what I think of as the secondary pain, IE: everything else not joint or tendon or in their immediate vicinity. It is far more effective than the muscle relaxants I've been using for decades at this since it's hitting the nerves and not just the muscles. It also adds to the tired. So much to the tired. Bonus: on the new dose, I get dizzy if I don't rest enough, and the heart palpitations hit longer and harder when they hit.

Dramatically better means for an extreme chronic pain/chronic illness perspective, not from a remotely healthy person's perspective, if you follow. I was into about a month of unbearable torment when we tried the one pill dosage. I'm still not sure my system can handle the two pills, and I plan to stick to this dose. They are supposed to last eight hours, but I get an extra four hours of partial coverage per pill, and like I said the side effects are scaling up on me.

So right now my balance sucks, I'm exhausted, and my shoulder joints scream at me if I try to do anything remotely strenuous with them, you follow?

So far I've had four different cleaners turn up, two of them twice. Three of those are hard and thorough workers. One of those will not wear her mask. I put up with it because I am wearing mine and turn on all the fans and I'm scared if I don't take her, no one will come. (see five skipped cleaning appointments in a row).

Cleaning is a hard fucking job and they are underpaid, get no benefits, no set hours, and have to pay their own travel costs including for the ferry if they are coming from the reservation and that is a lot of gas. I respect cleaners. I've done it, after all, amoung the many shit jobs I had over the years. I trust them to know what they are doing. This has been the case in three instances. Most of the conversation with those three cleaners has been things like: Where does this go? Where is (whatever) kept? What should i do next? I refuse to micro manage. In my experience, micro managing is dramatically less efficient and just insults the person doing the job. I know I hated it, when I was the person being micro-managed. This works great for Goth Millennial and for the other three cleaners on the other four occasions.

I'm sure you are sensing the big but here.

So the cleaner who came today, turned up the other time she was here high as a kite. I don't mean a little buzzed, which is fairly normal in this town and this state. Weed's been legal here for ages. People with shitty service jobs occasionally come to work a schootch high. It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things if, say, your barista's a little buzzed. I don't partake myself for a host of reasons, but most of my friends since... I'm going to say 1985, have/do. A little high is no big deal.

Orbiting Pluto without a suit is. She was way out of it girl at a party who's friends have to watch her like a hawk high. She was barely coherent high. She drove here. O.o. She drove home. This terrifies me. after some consultation with my friends including them seeing the mess she made and me acting out vignettes, our best guess is she must have dramatically misjudged an edible. (It had to be vape or edible. I would have smelled smoke. Edible makes the most sense for both the degree of Jesus fuck high and the thinking she was fine when she left home, but waaaay not fine when she got here. Surely she would have cancelled otherwise, right?).

So basically instead of my working away at the aggregate or tumblr queue programming or whatever, it was a lot like baby sitting a toddler who would not shut up, only the toddler would make more sense and the mess would have likely been confined to things in a toddler's reach. I had to go around after she left and actually use the forbidden to me for safety reasons ladder to save a bunch of my cups and glasses from the accident I could see happening the second Squirrel opened a dish cupboard because he had jammed them in their so precariously that the door was the only thing preventing them falling. Goth Millennial came the next day and had to take everything out and restack it. I could live with the fitted sheet being inside out, so we left that for today.

I did not turn her in to the asshole agency because 1. worker solidarity. I never went to work on a substance, but I've worked so, so many shit jobs and the Asshole Agency is terrible. 2. I was pretty sure it was a mistake involving an edible. 3. I was big on giving people another chance when I was teaching. On fuck up shouldn't lat for ever unless that fuck up was malicious or really damaging to other people.

Well, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me.

No, she was not noticeably high this time, though I couldn't rule a mild buzz out. She also had a shamefaced and subdued demeanor that clearly told me she knew how badly she'd fucked up last time. She said she'd signed up for me on purpose instead of her other option because I was really nice to her and my apartment was full of interesting things to look at while she cleaned. My apartment is full of interesting things to look at and I suspect she liked me because I was consistently kind to her when she was a mess last time and hadn’t turned her in. She really is sweet and nice and she is clearly trying her best but not remotely the sharpest tool in the shed. Which can be fine. I've known a lot of good workers over the years with significant developmental or accident related challenges and they did fine. She wasn't in that category, but I realized she'd need extra supervision compared to the others. I underestimated how much.

She did walk right up to Tavy and start petting him right away like last time which again confused and alarmed him. Sure, Squirrel and I and a couple of the Millennials can do that because we are his particular friends, but he barely knows her and and she would NOT stop doing that last time no matter how many times I told her he was a biter and apt to maul when he was worked up. I was so proud of him because he did not attack her the first three times, and honestly the forth time, I would have bitten her too in his place.

Tavy was noticeably wary of her. He did want to watch what she was doing, but he remembered her. (By contrast, the other cleaners he'd watch from a distance for a while, and then follow around and in a couple cases, get me to pick him up so he could get a better look. He really took to the GNC person who came once, and kept sniffing their legs). He did let her pet him without biting her, and she was together enough to stop when I told her he was down, and leave him alone for the rest of the two hours when I said he was in a mood to hang out and watch but not interact.

I got her through the linen change okay and last time she was so high she forgot we had a dishwasher after she'd emptied it and it took her most of her shift except the linen change, but the dishes looked and smelled clean, so I set her to that and did not remotely supervise her enough. This I did not discover until evening, but we'll get to that.

Then I set her to sweep and mop, which... Like I've worked a lot of restaurant jobs, often with people in a supported worker with severe intellectual challenges. I've never seen one who'd been doing it for years who couldn't do it correctly. She said she'd been doing this for several years.

Assuming makes an ass out of me, doesn't it?

Oh gods the mess she made! I should have known it was too hard for her when she started prepping for mopping before sweeping. So I told her to sweep first, which she did. I told her to dump the water in the sink, not the tub, which turned out to be very, very lucky. (The tub is the most expensive thing I own. A city program that remodels for elderly and disabled people paid for it. I will never be able to afford to fix or replace it. There are super strict cleaning directions for a reason, because the mechanism is delicate.) I told her to use the liquid all purpose cleaner under the sink. I should have got it out and prepped the bucket myself, but bending hurts and I was exhausted and dizzy and my arm situation was deteriorating. I should have done it anyway, because this is So. Much. Worse.

She used a ton of water. Like way, way to much water in a way that suggested she did not wring the mop and/or she was dumping puddles out of the bucket. It was a terrifying fall risk situation because this was the end of her shift and I really really needed to get ready for bed as soon as she left and forage delivery was late so I had to go drag it in, just as I'd given up and settled into bed. So I'm dizzy with unreliable legs, using both hands and going careful back and forth over this swamp of a floor with a weird gritty, soapy texture. Which is... not what you want in a cleaner for elderly and disabled people. I could fall and end up in the hospital under those conditions. And it;'s not like I could want a couple hours for it to dry. There was no point in washing my feet in the bathroom, so I kept using wipes on them before getting into bed.

Then I woke up to pee and realized just how bad it really was. *head desk* My best guess is she used Ajax, which is stored under a bookshelf in the bathroom, not under the sink. Like a TON of Ajax. The kitchen sink and nearby counter was caked with it and the floor was tacky and gritty and full of muddy footprints. I couldn't leave it like that. I cleaned the sink. I took the other mop with the disability friendly easy to wring it out attachment which had been to complicated for her head and wet mopped it all again, frequently rinsing and wringing it out, until my arms basically gave out and I had to wash up and take a nap.

It's still incredibly dirty. I feel like crying, because I can't feel clean unless my feet are. I've been skating around on damp towels, but though my hip joints are a lot better this evening, I wear out fast and it hurts quite a bit if I do it too much. I hate leaving a terrible mess like this for the millennial, but I simply can't mop any more with these arms. I'd have been so much better off giving her something else to do, but I couldn't think of anything else simple enough for her, and I know from last time she will not leave early no matter how much I tell her she can just clock out at the end of the hour.

At this point I was debating what to do. I had settled on calling Monday and asking them to put her on my no list without giving a reason, because I simply can't go through this again. It's too hard on my body and it's incredibly could seriously injure me dangerous.

Then I went to feed the Empress Livia and discovered something worse.

I'm medically fragile. Amoung so many other things, I have an immune system that is far more interested in own goals than fighting pathogens. I can and will catch anything you expose me too. Anything. I also have a dicey digestive system. Anything I use to prepare food or eat or drink needs to be really fucking clean. We prewash for grease and stuck on food then run them through the washer to make sure the soap and anything else is off. yes, I know this is bad for the environment as it uses extra water, but it’s a serious safety issue for me.

I was very, very clear on directions because I remembered last time. “Wash the dishes and then put the in the dishwasher. The dishes in there are dirty, so don’t put them away. I will run the washer after you leave.” Did she do that? No. Were the dishes cleaned and dried, which would be reasonably acceptable as an alternative? No. They were jammed in with the clean dishes, soaking wet and covered in soap bubbles six or seven hours after she left. We'll have to go through all the pans tomorrow. I pulled the pans and dishes I remembered were in the sink yesterday. I have no way of guessing with the glasses and flatware and I don't know which things Squirrel put in there.

I am exhausted and I hurt and I've been pushed way past the limit of what my body can handle in a day and I can't trust my dishes or the glass I'm drinking out of and I can't get the dirty Ajax grit off my feet. I'm going to go take a bath, but my feet will be dirty again the second I touch the floor.

She's another poor person. I feel like a class traitor just putting her on my no list, but she could theoretically kill an elderly person with her mopping, and I can't decide if I should say something, because anything I do will be a terrible option.

This person literally uncleaned my apartment. I just....

Look, I know it’s a free service, but this is so very much worse than when they don’t send anyone.

* Squirrel was horified because he works with elderly people and he knows better than anyone that falls kill. He insisted I call right away about her. Squirrel: Even I know not to use Ajax on floors!

It turns out they take calls on the weekends. I admit i broke down a bit. My arm was screaming at me and we are looking at weeks of cleaning to get all the Ajax up. It turns out they literally don't fire people for any reason so ethically I feel a lot better about calling, but at the same time she could literally kill an elderly person and also they could send someone even more dangerous because there is no check on that. O.o. so she's blocked on the app from seeing my jobs. I ordered an extra cleaner, but I don't really think they'll send one. IDK.

I spent hours last night trying to fix it last night. Goth millenial spent hours on it today. It still is incredibly dirty. I'm scared the cats are eating the Ajax dirt that clings to their paws. Tavy is really traumatized and wouldn't even let Goth millenial pet him today and he mostly avoided the other millenials who were here breifly. he keeps needing reassurance cuddles and held blerpfest last night in the living room. I don't blame them.

At lets cancelling five times in a row wasn't actively destrucxtive. This was. It was so very very destructive.

It is freaking me out that shge's out there driveing, that she's likely endangering other people and their pets with the uncleaning.

Bonus: She waited long enough to clock out after i told her to clock out that her five minute delay stoole a half hour of cleaning from me.

* Sunday I took some of the Millennials for swimming/picnic at the Lake for the first time this season. I got to watch New Millennial fall in love with the PNW landscape exactly the way I did more than thirty years ago.

You can really tell which of us grew up with cold Northern Ocean. Me: wading steadily deeper and deeper once I'm far enough in to keep my balance by my self on the rocks and the bottom gets a little smoother, then slowly swimming out a little deeper in search of the warmer tide. (It's a run off fed lake, and the mixing of the cold inflow with the water that's been in the lowlands long enough, makes these weird little temperature striations you can very much feel even after you cold adapt). Everybody Else: Wading crotch deep and thinking for a while about whether they want to swim after all, then going way slower and stopping a lot to rethink.

I love my Millennials. The other two each had one of the newest Millennial's arms to help them over the rocks because the rocks suck and I'd forgotten to warn them. Me, urging them on: Keep coming! I found the warm current! New Millennial: Looking concerned this might be hazing, followed by the moment of delight and surprise on finding I was not. Look, it's only like ten or fifteen degrees on a good day, but it does make a difference and the activity of swimming or treading water and the adaptation once you go up to your neck and then duck your head, all add up. You just need to get into a sweet spot.

I discovered on the way back that my fucked up arms really, really don;t want to do backstroke. I managed a lopsided curve towards shore until I was far enough in to pull along the rocks with my hands and kick. So Goth Millennial is hanging close on the way to the shallows, because I can't really get out safely by myself and need help getting up onto my feet and staying there until I'm reasonably sure they are working, at which point either Goth Millennial (or Techie Millennial, who couldn't come), would grab my crutch so I could use it and their arm to get out onto the "beach."

My crutch was not where I left it. My crutch was not anywhere nearby where someone might have moved it if it were in the way of say launching a jet ski from the wrong stretch of "beach" instead of the boat and jet ski launch area. I mention jet skis as their were two anchored in the swimming area where they were not meant to be we we arrived, one of which way out past the swim buoys where it was meant to be, and the other parked on the "beach" where it emphatically should not be, surrounded by mostly kids, obscuring view of the corner where the "beach hits the cit off with the higher land and grass. But I hadn't gone near that, and I needed the crutch to get out to look to see if the crutch was there.

I am still angry about that fad a decade or so ago when asshole able bodied art students would steal poor people's wheelchairs for shitty "art projects" and then brag about it on line as if stealing an expensive thing someone couldn't afford to replace and stranding them somewhere like a park or a bathroom or an inaccessible public building was something virtuous and clever instead of an incredibly cruel things to do to someone, as if their crap project was worth more than someone else's independence. My crutch is basically one of my legs. Someone's wheels are their legs.

Every time I go into the water anywhere, I know there is a chance someone will steal my crutch. This is the PNW, and I think someone leaving a mobility aid next to the water makes sense to the ableds, whereas someone leaving a wheelchair on the pavement in a park doesn't for some asshole shitty lack of empathy and imagination neurotypical reason, I guess.

So I'm starting to get really upset and Goth Millennial is really worried and we are having a loud conversation along the lines of Me: shit! I can you see my crutch anywhere? I left it right there. I think someone may have stolen !it! Millennial standing up and going to look across the bad rock stretch craning their head around to see if some asshole maybe put it on the grassy bit above the cut: I can't see it! It's not there!" Middle School age, glaring resentfully at one of the younger kids, stomps around to the other side of the illegal parked jet ski, where we had zero chance of seeing it, retrieves it and hands it to me. Me: you're very kind! Thank you! Goth Millennial hoists me to my feet while I use their arm and the crutch to just barely get my balance. This is a complicated and painful procedure, returning to gravity after freedom, and I need to stand their awhile like two or three feet away from Asshole Jet Ski Extended family. These kids just stare at me the whole time we are doing this. It is very, very obvious that my normally invisible disability is very, very real. Grumpy teen in charge to a younger kid: You better go apologize. No one apologizes. They keep staring at us hobble slowly and carefully up the shallow stairs. After I went to pee and wash lake water off my hands before eating, I went to set my crutch down by my chair and all this water poured out of it. I'd left it on dry land.

Asshole Family who was too privileged to use the boat and jet ski launch who thus had to drive their jet skis through the swim area had stolen my fucking crutch to play with in the water and the missing adults and the grumpy teen in charge had let them, and then they hid it behind their angled jet ski so no one could see it afterwards. They could have lost it in the lake. They could have kept it.

We found out when our friends came out of the water that they’d also stolen and hid our blind friend's flip flops, which they grudgingly had returned when it was clear they were hers.

Rich people are the worst.

So we go get dinner stuff at the grocery store and drop a Millennial off and I'm in my kitchen searching for my reusable straws, of which I own four. I have one I was using for lemonade which I put in the refrigerator last night. I had assumed the other three were in the wash or something up until now, but I searched the dishwasher and they weren't there. All the flatware are in the dishwasher except the chopsticks and some specialty use items, since we didn't know which the Asshole Cleaner hadn't cleaned properly before putting back. we’d emptied the trays. I search there and around there anyway. There are no reusable straws in the kitchen except the one I was drinking out of Friday when Asshole Stoner Cleaner was uncleaning the apartment.

The time she was here high as a kite she kept wiggling them and shouting "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle!" She was obsessed with them. They were a gift from Goth Millennial. I don't think they were that expensive, but they were cute and had a nice texture and are earth friendly. (Some people can't use reuseable straws for a bunch of reasons and we have emergency plastic straws here. This is not any sort of judgement on people who use single use. Let's ban fishing industry plastics which are most of the ocean plastic pollution before going after disabled people's straws, okay?)

I think the only reason she didn't steal the forth straw was it was right next to me so I could poke it up under the mask for brief sips. I'd left it and the cup in the fridge because I don't like to put them to wash until I see a new clean straw I can use in situations like this or when my arms are bad, and it's easier and safer to hold the cup low, or sometimes just because. They are reusable! It hurts nothing. I wanted a straw because my body wasn't working and I wanted to drink the juice I'd bought for dinner while lying down and waiting for things to stop hurting so much.

There is zero chance the other three are still here.

I had checked my bedroom right after she left for small, easily stealable things missing from the bookshelf where I put curios right after she left because the comment about my interesting things felt like something a person might say anyway, but also a things someone who might pocket once would say and I was already upset and wary of her because of everything. There are things it would be hard to check, like my BPAL Collection, but odds are she wouldn't steal those. She'd have had to climb on the bed and go through the little boxes and she was only unsupervised in there for a few minutes with the sweep and mop. I will need to see if she stole the bottle where I keep a few tramadol in case I wake up unable to get out of bet or occasionally, even roll over without an hour or more of slow, excruciating effort. While they clean, I'm sitting at my desk right next to the bottled meds collection that mostly feed assorted pill organizers, and the shelf above where the things I need to grab quick in an emergency are not surprisingly untouched. If anything had been stolen when I got up to go to the bathroom the parent tramadol bottle would be easiest to raid and the only really attractive thing to steal except throat pearls, and you'd have to know what they were and they are not recreational, just a little expensive and perscription. The altar and display shelf over the sofa seems fine, and she definitely didn't go in grabbing distance anyway.

When I went into the bathroom to bathe the lake water away, I noticed some small things missing. One of them I'd assumed was in the wash, but I have done a bunch of laundry over the weekend since the Ajax tainted clothes get washed separately and I don't want the dye to be leached by cleanser by letting them sit unwashed, and we have to wash the mop head by itself between uses to get all the ajax out. It's not in the wash. It's gone, a small, very useful thing. Nothing expensive is missing that I've noticed yet, but I haven't properly inventoried all the otc things and the prescription ointments and such, but I'm guessing those wouldn't be attractive. I doubt she'd steal books. She didn't strike me as a reader, but when I am in less pain and less exhausted, I'll inventory them better.

Asshole. Fucking asshole.

I know it could have been worse. Every little curio and most of the art except some things in the bathroom that are there because of the risk of steam or water damage have a story. They were given to me by friends or lovers or made by me when my hands still worked right or purchased at particular events or on particular occasions. These are memories and irreplaceable regardless because they are mostly hand made or limited edition from conventions.

We don't have money for replacing straws right now. They haven't paid Goth Millennial for a month and a half, not even for the supposedly paid training sessions. I owe money to the Honest Mechanic for the third time in three months and am about to burn two thirds of my bill money tomorrow on that, because you never ever fuck over a small business, just like you never ever fuck over another poor person. (I don’t steal, but I think ethically, stealing from a big chain to feed your kids is okay, and very much better than letting you kids starve, especially given the wage theft and lobbying against the social safety net and minimum wage those chains do. They steal from the poor, particularly their workers and if they hadn’t paid politicians to do things that prevent people from having enough to eat, then which is the bigger evil? Mom and pops? Family Businesses? Little micro businesses and artists and what have you? Never, ever okay. Small businesses are the life blood of a community online and RL, and letting me defer payment is a major fucking favor, so they are next after housing, whatever happens to my other bills. The other few things I spotted are replaceable if we had money for it.

I am so fucking angry anyway. I already felt my home was desecrated by her uncleaning it and distressing Tavy and the all over fuckery of it, but this small thing, this thing that wouldn't matter if I were a little better off or they weren't a gift, but feel like a big thing when added to all the rest.

It takes a lot to make me hate someone. We are not there yet, but if I do find something important I overlooked gone, I will, much like I still hate the ex-friend from first college who took three important things with sentimental value that were/are irreplaceable when he dropped out. This is how he became an ex-friend. He knew that the plaque was the last thing the artist my first freshman lover bought it from made and that it had a bunch of layered meanings in what was written on it. The things he stole from me and another friend were like that. Very personal and chosen with surgical precision to cause the most distress. (He did other, worse things, then made sure everyone thought, I’d done them and I was a monster. none of this we found out until he’d gone and we none of us could figure out why. Okay, the terrible things he needed someone to frame, but the rest... Sociopathy was the best guess for all of it really. Last I checked he was still working with children and there was fuck all provable we can do about it, but he really, really shouldn’t have been working with children). These things the Uncleaner stole were small, replaceable things, not something where there is no other one even if memories weren’t attached.

All the things missing I've looked for off and on since the time she was here high, under the belief they were misplaced or in the wash. I wouldn't be surprised if that's when she took them and that's part of why she was so embarrassed the second time, but if she were really embarrassed she could have brought them back then and I'd never have known. Like, she could have tossed them into one washer or the other, or tucked them around the sink, and I'd have just thought that was where they were.

I know the Asshole Agency will do fuck all, but I'm going to call them anyway. Goth Millennial said before we knew about the theft that she was the one who was a class traitor, because you don't do shit like this to another poor person. I have no idea when my apartment will actually be clean again. I'm doubting that an extra two hours this week even if someone turns up will do it.

We are still baffled by the thought process.

If she'd put the dishes into the dishwasher like I'd asked, it would have been fine and not tons of extra time and work cleaning everything. I still need to sit on the kitchen floor in the Ajax to go through all the pots and pans in case the extra cleaner does come. If she'd rinsed and dried them before putting them away, it would have been not ideal, but likely fine. She did neither for no reason we can understand. Putting them away wet and soapy was actually more work than racking them in the dishwasher like I asked.

Not only was the bottle of liquid all purpose cleaner right in front when I opened the cabinet under the sink to hand it to Goth Millennial Saturday when they decided wet mopping wouldn't be enough, there was a literal second full bottle behind it because I hate running out of things so I tend to buy two at once if I have enough cash for it and the trip to get the one I like that is effective but doesn't make bad smells is annoying if I don't want a big mark up. It was right there. couldn't have missed it if she'd opened the compartment. To get at the Ajax I use only for the toilet, she had to go past the dish soap for the sink and tub and the shampoo and conditioner I bought before the engine light went on last month. She could have used the dish soap and it would have been not ideal, but fine except for all the extra water. A wet mop after she left would have solved it. She had to go on her hands and knees and move things to get the Ajax. Following directions was Easier. Asking me to get it if she somehow couldn't recognize it as a bottle of liquid cleaner was easier. Getting about a third to a half of a big cylinder of Ajax out of those small holes was definitely harder than doing it properly.

WTF!?!

I get that stealing small stuff you don't need is actually a symptom of mental illness that requires therapy she likely can't afford, and given how high she was she really had no observable impulse control I could see, hence her repeatedly stopping work to pet a cat I'd warned her not to, and the 'wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, and all the many other things. This is the only explicable part of it. Like I get it. If that's all she'd done I would have been mildly miffed and reported and blocked her because I don't like people stealing my stuff and she might take something from someone else they couldn't eventually replace, but I wouldn't be this kind of furious. A compulsion to steal and/or walking away with something because one is borderline incoherent high and then going oops later are pretty easy to understand motivation wise.

Doing all this extra work to do so much damage to someone you barely know makes zero sense. I was nice to her! I sent her home with a big bag of food each time! We none of us think this was malice. It can't be laziness as this took so much extra work than not doing damage would. so seriously WTF, with the dishes and the Ajax? This question haunts us all.

UPDate: Asshole Agency now says they will file a ticket and investigate. I trust nothing they say, as they've lied to me before, most recently Saturday, when they claimed there was nothing to be done except blocking her from coming here. Today's guy says they weren't supposed to blow be off like that and their is a system. There is no way to tell which of them is lying. I hope the ticket system is not fictional like half of their cancellation calls and I hope there is an investigation system that is not made of bullshit and rubber stamps. That would be nice.

It really does scare me should could accidentally kill someone or their pets and it worries me she's out their in the homes of vulnerable elderly people who may not have a support system to handle the devastation. I'm still having trouble turning my head and lifting a full glass of liquid with my dominant arm above my shoulder. I don't know what long term health effects the Ajax will have on the cats. Livia's on a special diet for her urinary system. I did not fall and I could hide in my bed until all the water dried. The stuff she stole was small and that big a deal. I have Goth Millennial and to a lesser extent the others to help me clean up, but this is exhausting them. None of them have to do that and I appreciate that so much.

If I were older though? I could have broken a hip or had a serious head injury with no one to help.

It still freaks me out she was driving like that the previous time.

I've done a whole lot of shit jobs out of poverty. I have never harmed someone like she harmed me. I never would. I hate that I am harming her now, by reporting, but I had to try to protect whoever next after me. I hate the Asshole Agency. I hate them for the terrible way they treat the cleaners and whole fucking gig economy, and the predatory capitalism that makes this the business model now, and the shiftiness of it all. I wonder how many people before me tried to report her and how many gave up trying to get the asshole agency to care and just blocked her. Did she trash anyone's home before mine?

This was supposed to be extra help, but this is so much harm, so much extra pain, so much extra stress. Medicare pays them money to send untrained, unvetted people into the homes of vulnerable adults run by an agency who's first recourse is to lie to you if you complain about anything, and only calls you half the time to tell you the cleaner cancelled.

I am tired of being upset about all this. It will hard to be not upset about it until my apartment is clean and smells normal again. The chemicals give me a headache, which does not help either.

* On Monday night the extra cleaner I ordered for Tuesday called. They generally do this to check in. i tell them where to park and to call on arrival so I can pop out and wave them in and that they should wear a mask and headphones atre fine if they want to wear them. I began to hope a cleaner really would turn up despite the holiday.

An hour before the scheduled time of arrival, the Asshole Agency called, because they couldn't reach the cleaner. Me: she called last night. Everything seemed fine. Them: do you know how to reach her? Me: No. O.o

She was a couple minutes late, having taken the wrong entrance to my apartment complex, which happens a lot. It was fine. I explained the situation with dishes and floors. she did all the dishes and followed directions. She actually solved the floors with time to spare. O.o. i'll feel better with an extra mopping in the bathroom, but the Ajax spell is gone and she even got the caked crust around the edges in the bathroom. Then she took out the trash and organized the pots and pans, which have been a mess since the silverware drawer broke.

She was respectful of Tavy's space, which was a huge help, since the Uncleaner traimatized him to the point he's having his nightmares again. Livia hid of course, sensible girl.

Goth Millenial wanted to come hang out, so I went and got them. We had a nice dinner and watched Dark Winds. This is a rewatch for me, but they'd only seen the first episode. It's both worth a rewatch and the new season starts soon, so the timing is excellent. Tavy was so worn out from supervising the cleaner from afar, he slept through the visit.

After Lung Time Livia came out of hiding for a love and a snack, just in time for them all to be panicked by fireworks in the parking lot. They both Noped odff to their hides for hours. Livia only came out a couple hours later. She got a love and a snack, and then the fireworks started again, luckily not nearly as loud, so at least Tavy was okay.

The imperial couple decree no more fireworks ever, please.

The Ajax took the shiny protective layer off the flooring, which makes me sad, but I suspected this would be the case when I realized what she'd done to me.

Otherwise, things are normalish here at the cat asylum. It was almost midnight as I wrote this and the wind from Alaska is finally blowing the smell of Canada burning out of our little valley by the bay.

I would like to thank the donor who paid for the latest car repair and to anyone who chipped in in the last slightly over a year and a half when the catastrophic string of things falling apart including two appliances, an apartment electrical system, my teeth, A fire alarm, a tire, and.... Was it five car repairs on my aged and slowly failing vehicle?

I would like to thank you all for the kind words and support you all give me. I notice and it does matter.

* A thing I wrote for Tumblr on the evening of the 4th:

I have a lot of new followers who joined in the last year. You may have noticed that my 4th of July programming is not what one might expect from an American. It is deliberate. I think it is more valuable to see the country for what it is, what’s best and most important about it and fight for what it could be than to bellow self congratulatory platitudes wrapped in a flag.

The fight has gotten so much harder in the last 7 or so years, but it always was hard. Those of us who could never afford the rose colored glasses need to stick together, to have each other’s backs. To those who see the rising tide of fascism and are joining the cause and for those young enough that this is all pretty new, welcome.

We really do need to hang together or we really will hang separately. I said back in 2016 this was going to be a marathon and not a sprint and we have so very many miles to go. There is still time to save what is good about this country, and to build something new and better on part of the foundation that is still good. We can do it if we stick together and leave no one behind this time. We can do it if we don’t let them split us and get us all scrambling for the crumbs instead of insisting on pie for everyone.

This isn’t over. Not quite yet, though it might feel like it may be for some of us. Let us not go softly into that good night. Let us rage together at the dying of the light.

* "Midnight Pals: Jewish Noir:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/721215690590339072/midnight-pals-jewish-noir?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: A Fable:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/721521022058233856/midnight-pals-a-fable?source=share

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

( Links Underneath: )

* Protests can work. "Clashes between police, protesters in Tel Aviv after Netanyahu pauses judicial overhaul:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-03-26/ty-article-live/senior-likud-members-hint-at-opposing-judicial-overhaul/00000187-1c81-d4ca-afff-1d89ee5b0000

* "Police using ‘excessive force’ at France protests, rights groups say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/26/france-police-violence-protests-retirement/

* "French police counter protest violence; garbage strike ends:" https://apnews.com/article/france-macron-protests-pensions-retirement-police-3b441f92ebac633c89207e7dbd5fe697

* "South Korea has the world's lowest fertility rate, a struggle with lessons for us all:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/19/1163341684/south-korea-fertility-rate

* "Hong Kong's 'villain-hitting' ritual draws crowds:" https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-villain-hitting-whacking-tradition-cdc90e423d73ffbdb8872ea55f0d5ae4

* "Belarus says it will host Russian nuclear weapons to counter NATO:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belarus-says-it-decided-host-russian-nuclear-weapons-after-nato-pressure-2023-03-28/

* "Why the Journalist Arrested in Russia Won’t Be Another Brittney Griner:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/31/russia-journalist-magazine-interview-00089877

* "Bolsonaro Returns to Brazil, Ending Self-Imposed Exile:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/world/americas/bolsonaro-returns-brazil.html

* "Oscar Pistorius, South African Olympian, is denied parole in his girlfriend's murder:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1167450979/oscar-pistorius-parole-denied-south-africa-reeva-steenkamp

* "Tory immigration bill could be ‘death sentence’ for refugees with HIV, MPs warn:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/illegal-immigration-bill-small-boats-hiv-lgbtq/

* "Homophobia, racism and misogyny rife in England’s fire services, report finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/fire-and-rescue-service-england-homophobia-racism-misogyny/

* "UK's controversial voter ID law – what it means for trans and non-binary people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/voted-id-trans-non-binary-uk/

* Good News! "Humza Yousaf winning SNP leadership is a 'relief', say queer members:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/humza-yousaf-snp-leadership-lgbtq/

* "New SNP leader Humza Yousaf promises legal challenge against Tory gender block:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/snp-leader-humza-yousaf-gender-recognition-section-35/

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* "Ukraine shuts 'post-apocalyptic' battlefield town to civilians:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-slams-putin-rhetoric-nuclear-weapons-belarus-2023-03-27/

* "Ukraine hits Russian-held city deep behind front as talk of counteroffensive grows:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-forces-making-no-headway-bakhmut-avdiivka-ukraine-says-2023-03-28/

* "Queer Ukrainian soldier makes desperate plea for same-sex marriage to be legalised:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/ukraine-same-sex-marriage-demand/

* "Separated by war, a Ukrainian family balances safety, duty and love:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/ukraine-war-anniversary-families-frontline/

* "Soils of war: The toxic legacy for Ukraine's breadbasket:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/soils-war-toxic-legacy-ukraines-breadbasket-2023-03-01/

* "The 'Ukrainian Banksy' has remained in Kharkiv despite Russian attacks:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/25/1166093764/the-ukrainian-banksy-has-remained-in-kharkiv-despite-russian-attacks

* "How Russian Journalists in Exile Are Covering the War in Ukraine:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/how-russian-journalists-in-exile-are-covering-the-war-in-ukraine

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* "Can Harris’s Visit Shore Up U.S. Relations With Africa?:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/29/kamala-harris-africa-ghana-tanzania-zambia-visit-us-china/

* The guards decided to walk away, leaving people to burn to death rather then unlock them before leaving. As far as I'm concerned that's murder. "A deadly Mexico immigration center fire shows just a sliver of the abuse migrants see:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1166947456/ciudad-juarez-detention-fire-conditions-migrants-treatment

* "He came to D.C. as a Brazilian student. The U.S. says he was a Russian spy.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/29/russian-spy-brazilian-student-washington/

* "Reclaiming U.S. Industry:" https://prospect.org/economy/2023-01-24-biden-american-industrial-policy/

* "Activist group led by Ginni Thomas received nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/03/28/ginni-thomas-crowdsourcers-anonymous-donations/

* "The Silicon Valley Bank Contagion Is Just Beginning:" https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-fallout/

* "How Gen Z's changing priorities are changing the face of work:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/23/how-gen-zs-changing-priorities-are-changing-the-face-of-work/

* "30 People Tell Us What Homelessness Is Really Like:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/10/headway/homelessness-mental-health-us.html?unlocked_article_code=MMNnOmLwwCB0dGHQJjPQ06R6r7StFi73JHHnu7YKrLYOGUUr9C6E1Jg7olVznjw9l37B99MtDqufRe9omEm01Mx7hMfiGWxKKB1ZCfG7DqIETtU0mhEUm3BFSPUnv5IFOXblCr3k5G_9GNWGI4nPJ2NFV7tC6k4lr7ZRaAoCWfW9Y1hFNkgXF7768EsNWz2-RYdl2du6HmfRIO8FNIHkYADUA9CQy3TqTegpMOapAEd9NFlgLvCdRDSYevL3QCsadmEmHYrvMLqwrZn9tTr83W-UV1XC2qbNelcUnNLtviRg5QsDZM-gyATpiu9s2tHfLTEOZFYodHy9EXSZHbTNmSu3LFqsH78ggaw7tNNkOQhcgHdGIYVp3g&smid=url-share?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=emai

* The Republican War on Health Care continues. "Texas judge invalidates ACA promise of free preventive health services:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03/30/affordable-care-act-judge-oconnor/

* "In clash with Bernie Sanders, Starbucks' Howard Schultz insists he's no union buster:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166277326/starbucks-bernie-sanders-howard-schultz-union-hearing

* "Sanders on Starbucks union busting: Even billionaires have to obey the law:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sanders-on-starbucks-union-busting-even-billionaires-have-to-obey-the-law-167098437792

* "Senate votes to repeal Iraq War authorization:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1165581083/aumf-iraq-war-senate

* "McCarthy demands meeting with Biden. White House: Show us your budget.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/28/mccarthy-biden-budget/

* "In Congress, little urgency to address gun violence with legislation:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/29/congress-little-urgency-address-gun-violence-with-legislation/

* "McCarthy dodges questions about assault weapons ban after Nashville school shooting:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-leader-dodges-questions-assault-weapons-ban-after/story?id=98236644

* "Rep. Jamaal Bowman confronts GOP colleague on guns:" https://www.salon.com/2023/03/29/theyre-all-cowards-rep-jamaal-bowman-confronts-colleague-on/

* "Biden won't veto Republican-led bill ending COVID emergency:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-biden-senate-national-emergency-bill-f0e08810c28cc648a9b778a86d2dc7e1

* The Republican War on the Environment continues. "House Republicans pass marquee energy bill in rebuke of Biden:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/30/house-republicans-marquee-energy-bill-00089529

* 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

* "Texas GOP Proposes Bill To Allow Sec Of State To Overturn Election Results In State’s Largest Blue County:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-gop-proposes-bill-to-allow-sec-of-state-to-overturn-election-results-in-states-largest-blue-county

* "Ex-Fox News Producer Asks To Correct The Testimony She Gave In Dominion Case:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ex-fox-news-producer-asks-to-correct-the-testimony-she-gave-in-dominion-case

* "Here's what Fox News was trying to hide in its Dominion lawsuit redactions:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/dominion-releases-previously-redacted-slides-fox-news-lawsuit-rcna77257

* "New Fox emails: CEO says Trump fact-checks are ‘bad for business’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-fox-emails-ceo-says-trump-fact-checks-are-bad-for-business-167096901719

* "DeSantis’ Culture Warrior: ‘We Are Now Over the Walls’:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/24/chris-rufo-desantis-anti-woke-00088578

* "Three TikTok users go viral for their prank trolling Truth Social app:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tiktok-users-viral-prank-truth-social-app-rcna76371

* "A Trump rally, a right-wing cause and the enduring legacy of Waco:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/a-trump-rally-a-right-wing-cause-and-the-enduring-legacy-of-waco/

* "Trump 'Went to Waco to Bring Back Visions' of Cult Leader David Koresh, Democratic Rep. Says:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-waco-rally-david-koresh-cult-1234703923/

* "Trump, facing potential indictment, celebrates Jan. 6 insurrectionists at Waco rally:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-03-25/trump-invokes-jan-6-at-waco-rally-ahead-of-possible-charges

* "Donald Trump launches chilling attack on trans rights at Waco rally:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/donald-trump-trans-rights-2024-campaign/

* "Trump starts Waco rally with song by Jan. 6 prison choir :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-starts-waco-rally-with-song-by-jan-6-prison-choir-166950469655

* "Disney's Middle Finger To DeSantis Was A Love Note To Lawyers:" https://www.wonkette.com/disney-s-middle-finger-to-desantis-was-a-love-note-to-lawyers

* "Gay congressman Mark Takano on his global fight for LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/20/mark-takano-gay-congressman-lgbtq-japan/

* "George Santos Finally Admits He Is a Fraudster in Brazil:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-santos-finally-admits-hes-a-fraudster-in-brazil

* "Republicans let gay thirst trap lawmaker keep job after Instagram scandal:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/randy-mcnally-gay-instagram-thirst-trap/

* "Florida's ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Author Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charges:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/dont-say-gay-author-guilty

* "Leaked Emails Show GOP Lawmaker, Anti-Trans Activists Discuss Holy War:" https://www.advocate.com/news/north-dakota-anti-trans-emails

* "Gay Republican accused of encouraging paedophilia by GOP over same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/gay-republican-chris-sander-same-sex-marriage/

* "Republican Lawmaker Asks Lesbian Colleague if She’s a Pedophile:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/rhode-island-republican-lesbian-colleague

* "AOC shuts down LibsOfTikTok founder in six epic seconds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/aoc-chaya-raichik-libs-of-tiktok/

* "Utah Republicans Try To Accuse Romney Of Treason In Upcoming Censure Vote:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/utah-republicans-try-to-accuse-romney-of-treason-in-upcoming-censure-vote/ar-AA19hgwP?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a82419441e73440599fefba0decd9d1d&ei=8

* "Prosecutor oversight bill headed to Kemp; local control concerns dismissed - Georgia Recorder:" https://georgiarecorder.com/2023/03/27/prosecutor-oversight-bill-headed-to-kemp-local-control-concerns-dismissed/

* "Georgia bill is latest GOP effort targeting prosecutors:" https://apnews.com/article/georgia-prosecutor-district-attorney-remove-discipline-dd06c56d0d0672e38ef11f4c63dda468

* "OPINION: Fani Willis blasts GOP move to rein in local prosecutors:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/opinion-as-republicans-move-against-local-das-fani-willis-fights-back/XOGOZNJDHJDI3JFKKZVZOFOQWY/

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* "Trump hush money probe ends day without voting after appearance from ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/27/politics/david-pecker-national-enquirer-trump-hush-money-investigation/

* "Donald Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury on more than 30 counts related to business fraud:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/donald-trump-indictment/index.html

* "Sen. Rand Paul says Manhattan DA leading Trump investigation should 'be put in jail':" https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-rand-paul-says-manhattan-191533879.html

* "Right-wing host calls for military to execute Obama if Trump is indicted:" https://www.salon.com/2023/03/20/right-wing-host-calls-for-military-to-execute-obama-if-is-indicted/

* "Donald Trump facing criminal charges and Stormy Daniels is sipping champagne:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/donald-trump-indicted-stormy-daniels/

* "Hayes: Why Trump's indictment isn't actually some 'crazy departure from reality':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-why-trump-s-indictment-isn-t-actually-some-crazy-departure-from-reality-167327813552

* "‘Karma’: Exonerated Central Park 5 member reacts to Trump indictment:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-karma-exonerated-central-park-5-member-reacts-to-trump-indictment-167327813954

* "Trump's Lawyers Keep Crime-Fraud-ing:"

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* "Mike Pence must testify about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, judge rules:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/politics/mike-pence-grand-jury-testimony/index.html

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* "How Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt became a MAGA martyr:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-jan-6-rioter-ashli-babbitt-became-a-maga-martyr-167027269719

* "Two More Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters Have Fled Charges, Bringing Total to Six:" https://theintercept.com/2023/03/10/jan-6-capitol-riot-fugitives/

* "How the AR-15 became a powerful political, cultural symbol in America:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-america-gun-culture-politics/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001

* "Gun advocate Tucker Carlson furious at trans people carrying guns:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/25/gun-advocate-tucker-carlson-rants-about-tran-people-carrying-guns/

* "After Mass Shootings, Republicans Expand Access to Guns:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/us/nashville-gun-laws.html

* "Permit to buy handgun no longer required in North Carolina:" https://apnews.com/article/pistol-permit-veto-override-north-carolina-b9d0ee55bf658ca72043bd3f706b128f

* "Nashville shooter who killed 6 drew maps, surveilled school:" https://wtop.com/national/2023/03/suspect-dead-after-shooting-at-nashville-private-school/

* "4 big questions about the Nashville school shooting (and what we know so far):" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166804786/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-hale

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed for transphobic Nashville school shooting comment:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-nashville-school-shooting/

* "The right exploits Nashville shooting to escalate anti-trans rhetoric:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03/30/nashville-shooting-transgender-shooter/

* "Republican Keith R Swank mercilessly trolled after inane school shooting tweet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/keith-r-swank-arsewank-twitter/

* "'Pissed off at cowards and profiteers': Outrage grows over gun safety inaction:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-pissed-off-at-cowards-and-profiteers-outrage-grows-over-gun-safety-inaction-166957125535

* "Prevalence of mass shootings extends reach of gun violence across communities:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prevalence-of-mass-shootings-extends-reach-of-gun-violence-across-communities-166959173767

* It’s only going to keep happening more often since people who were in school after the assault weapons ban lapsed, dramatically increasing the number of deaths, are now covering the mass murders. "Prevalence of mass shootings extends reach of gun violence across communities:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/slotkin-gun-views-are-changing-and-lawmakers-are-the-last-to-realize-167026757608

* "Hayes: The new attitude of GOP lawmakers is ‘American life is cheap’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-the-new-attitude-of-gop-lawmakers-is-american-life-is-cheap-167026757836

* "What do race and ethnicity mean? The US government is asking:" https://apnews.com/article/race-ethnicity-census-mena-hispanic-jewish-black-d25d02d3ec3e5f75aaa3ad8e6da331fe

* "Ron DeSantis Wants to Make It a Felony to Have an Undocumented Person in Your Home or Car:" https://newrepublic.com/post/171137/ron-desantis-florida-bill-felony-undocumented-person-home-car

* "TSA confirms plans to mandate mug shots for domestic air travel – Papers, Please!:" https://papersplease.org/wp/2023/03/15/tsa-confirms-plans-to-mandate-mug-shots-for-domestic-air-travel/

* "Irvo Otieno’s last days: How a mental health system ‘completely failed’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/25/irvo-otieno-mental-health-system-failures/

* "Idaho GOP Channels Trump With Plan to Bring Back Firing Squad:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/idaho-death-firing-squad-1234701499/

* "How one city ended prison gerrymandering:" https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/how-one-city-ended-prison-gerrymandering/

* A Cop City news round up with ways to help resisters: https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/713102785183383552?source=share

* How does this make sense let alone work? "Twitter now allows "non-toxic slurs" as long as the slurs are not hate speech:" https://boingboing.net/2023/03/24/twitter-now-allows-non-toxic-slurs-as-long-as-the-slurs-are-not-hate-speech.html

* "Church hosting drag event firebombed with Molotov cocktail by 'pathetic Nazis':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/community-church-chesterland-drag-queen-story-time-bomb-attack/

* "Neo-Nazis threatened a drag show at a Cookeville bar. Now the bar is facing eviction.:" https://wpln.org/post/neo-nazis-threatened-a-drag-show-at-a-cookeville-bar-now-the-bar-is-facing-eviction/

* "Book Sanctuary Cities Like Chicago Are a Response to Book Bans, Censorship:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/book-sanctuaries-chicago-toronto-libraries

* "Florida fears Don't Say Gay could remain for decades:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/dont-say-gay-florida-lgbtq-one-year/

* "Opinion | The anti-LGBTQ lies at the core of Florida's newest law:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/desantis-signs-don-t-say-gay-law-built-anti-lgbtq-n1293471

* "Opinion | A Florida School Banned a Disney Movie About Ruby Bridges. Here’s What That Really Means.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/opinion/florida-school-disney-ruby-bridges.html

* "Arkansas House approves bill to hold libraries accountable for ‘obscene’ material:" https://arkansasadvocate.com/2023/03/15/arkansas-house-approves-bill-to-hold-libraries-accountable-for-obscene-material/

* "Library defies bigots who tried label LGBTQ+ kids’ books ‘criminal’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/29/louisiana-st-tammany-lgbtq-library-book-ban/

* "Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton song ‘Rainbowland’ banned by school:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/miley-cyrus-dolly-parton-rainbowland-wisconsin-school-ban/

* "TERFs and the Fascist Roots of Anti-Trans Movements:"

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* CW: Sexual Assault "Marilyn Manson Harmed MINORS? New Lawsuit & Case Updates:"

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* "Nation Convicts Man of 'Stealthing' Partner During Sex:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/law-crime/nation-convicts-condoms

* "Alabama 5th Grade Girls Basketball Team Denied Title After Beating Boys' Team, Sparks Outrage:" https://www.ibtimes.sg/alabama-5th-grade-girls-basketball-team-denied-title-after-beating-boys-team-sparks-outrage-69326

* "In India, These Trailblazing Female Stunt Bikers Rule the Road:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/india-female-woman-stunt-bikers

* "UK Athletics confirms ban on trans women on Trans Day of Visibility:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/uk-athletics-ban-trans-women/

* "Young Afghan women train as midwives for out-of-reach villages:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/womens-day-afghanistan/

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* "Idaho Is About To Be The First State To Restrict Interstate Travel For Abortion Post-Roe:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-abortion-bill-trafficking-travel_n_641b62c3e4b00c3e6077c80b

* "Idaho set to restrict interstate travel for abortions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/idaho-set-to-restrict-interstate-travel-for-abortions-167095365802

* "How Florida uses a little-known law to punish abortion clinics:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/26/florida-abortion-law-ban-00088815

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* "UN urges Ugandan president to block 'disturbing' LGBTQ+ bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/23/uganda-lgbtq-bill-gay-law-ban/

* "White House suggests Uganda could face sanctions if LGBTQ+ ban becomes law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/23/white-house-uganda-lgbtq/

* "Uganda passes bill making LGBTQ+ lives illegal and punishable with jail time:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/22/uganda-homosexuality-new-bill-illegal/

* "LGBTQ+ Ugandans ‘shaken, worried and scared’ after terrifying gay ban passes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/24/uganda-lgbtq-anti-homosexuality-bill/

* "MPs urge government to help LGBTQ+ Ugandans fleeing anti-homosexuality bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/24/uganda-lgbtq-bill-uk-asylum-refugees/

* "LGBTQ+ Ugandans ‘shaken, worried and scared’ after terrifying gay ban passes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/24/uganda-lgbtq-anti-homosexuality-bill/

* "Uganda's anti-LGBTQ+ bill result of insidious global push:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/25/uganda-lgbtq-bill-evangelical-christians/

* "Kamala Harris backs Africa's LGBTQ+ community in wake of cruel Uganda bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/kamala-harris-uganda-lgbtq/

* "Transgender Man's Killer Ordered to Rehab:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-killer-germany

* "Australian MP who spoke at Posie Parker rally suspended – but avoids being sacked:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/moira-deeming-australia-liberal-mp-posie-parker-kellie-jay-keen-minshull/

* "New Zealand minister won't apologise for saying 'white cis men' cause most violence:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/new-zealand-male-violence-marama-davidson-posie-parker/

* "Report attacking trans 'ideology' in schools could 'put kids in danger':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/policy-exchange-trans-schools-report/

* "Man Convicted of Killing Boyfriend Over Grindr DMs Sentenced to Life:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/man-murder-grindr-messages-boyfriend

* "Homophobe found guilty of murdering gay man with hammer in cemetery:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/23/erik-fled-ranjith-kankanamalage-london-cemetery-hammer-murder/

* "Lesbian Project's first meeting met with joyful pro-trans protest: 'We are one community':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/26/the-lesbian-project-the-dyke-project/

* "New poll confirms what trans people already knew about transitioning:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/26/majority-of-trans-people-are-happier-after-transitioning-survey-finds/

* "Idaho governor signs 'stigmatising' anti-trans bathroom bill into law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/26/idaho-brad-little-bathroom-bill-anti-trans-law/

* "State Lawmakers Want to Ban Health Insurance for Trans Care:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/health-insurance-for-transgender-care-at-risk-in-tennessee-florida-wyoming-kentucky-and-arkansas

* He's declared gender affirming care illegal without any process because he's decided to lie that puberty blockers are somehow experimental, despite decades of them being in wide use. "Missouri AG seeks to restrict gender-affirming care for minors :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/politics/missouri-gender-affirming-care-trans-restriction/index.html

* "Conversion Therapy Ban Fails in a Missouri County Held by Democrats:" https://www.advocate.com/news/conversion-therapy-ban-fails-missouri

* "Iowa Gov. Signs Transphobic Gender-Affirming Care Ban and Bathroom Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gender-care-bathroom-ban-iowa

* "Kentucky forces through 'worst anti-trans bill in the US' – but the fight continues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/kentucky-trans-healthcare-bill-ban-veto/

* "Colorado emerges as a refuge for transgender children and their families:" https://coloradosun.com/2023/03/25/transgender-children-colorado-health-safety/

* "Sarah Huckabee Sanders Signs Trans Bathroom Ban Bill Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/arkansas-transgender-bathroom-ban

* "Utah Governor Signs Conversion Therapy Ban Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/news/conversion-therapy-utah-ban-governor

* "Buster Murdaugh Says He Wasn't Involved in Gay Student's Death:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/buster-murdaugh-stephen-smith

* "Georgia County Pays $1.2 Million to Fight Gender-Affirming Care Suit:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-affirming-care-lawsuit-deputy

* "Matthew Shepard’s father warns of history repeating itself with anti-trans hate:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/matthew-shepard-dennis-shepard-anti-trans-hate-warning/

* "It’s 1992 in Seattle, and it’s already about eradication :" https://solarbird.net/blog/1992/11/11/its-1992-in-seattle-and-its-already-about-eradication/

* "Transphobic Christian School Banned From Vermont Sports League:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/vermont-transphobic-christian-school

* "Women’s World Cup row brewing over pro-LGBTQ+ OneLove armbands:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/fifa-womens-world-cup-july-onelove-armband/

* "Mae Martin explains why they call out Dave Chappelle in new Netflix special:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/29/mae-martin-netflix-special-sap-dave-chappelle-trans-jokes/

* "NHS outed HIV service users in ‘distressing’ data breach:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/hiv-data-breach-nhs-highland/

* "ME/CFS: The Neglected Pandemic:" https://theotter.ca/me-cfs-neglected-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR3bKosyhfHX0aKiuP2HgPmLwnWoxUTy8emkHbPM_KV5JsPBC5Mi88b2GoQ&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

* "As African kids died, doctors fought for ban on toxic Indian syrup:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coughsyrup/

* "FDA approves first over-the-counter Narcan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/29/fda-otc-narcan-spray-approval-00089376

* "How People With Dementia Make Sense of the World:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/03/dementia-caregiver-imposter-delusion-paranoia/673308/

* "Long Covid is associated with significantly increased risk of death, heart and lung problems, study finds:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/health/long-covid-health-consequences/index.html

* "The knowns — and known unknowns — of long Covid, explained:" https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2023/3/13/23627229/long-covid-science-symptoms-treatments

* "COVID-19 made pulse oximeters ubiquitous. Engineers are fixing their racial bias : Short Wave:" https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1156166554/covid-19-pulse-oximeters-racial-bias

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* "Snow has been a no-show for some traditionally wintry cities:" https://apnews.com/article/snow-winter-east-coast-climate-warm-0e20875c070df8c57a5f04f29749b9d0

* "Before disastrous flood, officials knew Pajaro River levee could fail but took no action:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-12/authorities-knew-the-levee-could-fail

* "Another storm is expected to bring more snow and flooding to California:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166720998/california-storm-snow-rain

* "Rolling Fork, the birthplace of Muddy Waters, has faced tornado and flooding concerns for years.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/us/rolling-fork-tornado.html

* "Philadelphia Monitoring Water Supply After Chemical Spill:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/us/delaware-river-latex-chemical-spill.html

* "The Mexican Firefighting Crew That Saves Lives Across the Border:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-mexican-firefighting-crew-that-saves-lives-across-the-border

* "Scientists fear a Great Toxic Dustbowl could soon emerge from the Great Salt Lake:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/us/utah-great-salt-lake-dust-pollution-weir-wxc/index.html

* "A train carrying ethanol derails and catches fire in Minnesota, evacuation lifted:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1166998646/minnesota-train-derailment-evacuation-fire-ethanol

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* "Facing floods: What the world can learn from Bangladesh's climate solutions:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/03/26/1165779335/facing-floods-what-the-world-can-learn-from-bangladeshs-climate-solutions

* "Hit With Extreme Weather, Texas Cities Debate Cost of Adaptation:" https://undark.org/2023/02/07/hit-with-extreme-weather-texas-cities-debate-cost-of-adaptation/

* "Opinion: Don't call it a comeback: California's Tulare Lake never really went away:" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-29/tulare-lake-california-floods-storms

* "How Climate Change Is Making Tampons (and Lots of Other Stuff) More Expensive:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/climate/climate-change-cotton-tampons.html

* "Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them in Indonesia:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-plastic-dow-shoes/

* "The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big Deal:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-electron-is-having-a-magnetic-moment-its-a-big-deal/

* "Scientists complete first map of an insect brain:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/insect-brain-first-map-complete-b2297867.html

* CW: Animal Death "In a Famed Kenyan Game Park, the Animals Are Giving Up:" https://undark.org/2023/01/04/in-a-famed-kenyan-game-park-the-animals-are-giving-up/

* "An Icelandic Town Goes All Out to Save Baby Puffins:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/icelandic-town-goes-all-out-save-baby-puffins-180981518/

* "Is There an Ethical Way to Kill Rats? Should We Even Ask?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/science/rats-rodents-trapping.html

* "Dwarf elephants? Giant rats? Strange island creatures at high risk:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/dwarf-elephants-giant-rats-strange-island-creatures-high-risk-2023-03-09/

* "First evidence for horseback riding dates back 5,000 years:" https://apnews.com/article/horse-horseback-riding-archeology-5caf7da564dbafad6aa50379b0927220

* "Were These Beetles Once as Valuable as Gemstones?:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/beetle-jewelry-status-symbol

* "Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-scrolls-are-being-read-new-xray-technique-180969358/

* "Did Christians Hate Vikings? Part Two: Crosses, Archaeology and Runes:"

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* "Michelangelo’s Illustrated Grocery List:" https://www.openculture.com/2023/02/michelangelos-illustrated-grocery-list-2.html

* "The Untold Stories of the Women Who Led Slave Revolts:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/women-led-slave-revolts

* "For the Enslaved Potter David Drake, His Literary Practice Was His Resistance:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/dave-the-potters-resistance-was-his-literary-practice-180981707/

* "NOT brothel candles:" https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2023/02/26/not-brothel-candles/

* "Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron, confirming tragic story:" https://apnews.com/article/great-lakes-shipwreck-discovery-ironton-91f6db8e3c42d37b2f8ade7b4df0a4bb

* "History’s Oldest Color Photos Show How The World Looked Like in the Early 1900s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/oldest-color-photos-in-the-world/

* "Found: An 80-Year-Old Wedding Cake With a Tragic Past:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/historical-wedding-cake-topper

* "Chilean circus has fought LGBTQ discrimination for 54 years:" https://apnews.com/article/chile-circus-diversity-lgbtq-c608be081d6e2ca44e168c6c5af7bb8b

* "First trans man to medically transition became a monk after his heart was broken:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/laurence-michael-dillon-trans-man/

* "The incredible life of Roberta Cowell: Trans innovator, war pilot and racing driver:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/roberta-cowell-trans-woman-uk-history/

* "The Heroes of ACT UP Are Dying:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/heroes-act-up-are-dying

* "Paul O’Grady wanted police to apologise for 'homophobic' 1987 arrest:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/29/paul-o-grady-arrest-police-apology/

* "Suzy Eddie Izzard explains how Paul O'Grady helped her come out as trans:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/suzy-eddie-izzard-paul-ogrady-trans/

* "The Bizarre Origin of Florida Man:"

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* "A duo of 81-year-old women are on the adventure of a lifetime: Seeing the world in 80 days:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-81-year-old-women-are-on-the-adventure-of-a-lifetime-seeing-the-world-in-80-days/

* "In New York City, a Ukrainian Dance Company Finds Strength in Tradition:" https://www.vogue.com/article/the-ukrainian-dance-company-that-finds-strength-in-tradition

* "Pence Ordered to Testify | School Bans Dolly Parton’s “Rainbowland” | Gwyneth’s Rectal Ozone Therapy:"

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* "Fewer Guns Equals Fewer Shootings | DeSantis Steals T****’s Best Lines:"

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* "The Last of Us: The Tragic Potential of Queer Zombies:"

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* "Starship Troopers ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "10 musical set pieces that went WAY TOO HARD:"

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* "Doctor Who casts trans actor Pete MacHale in new season:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/doctor-who-new-cast-pete-machale-trans/

* "The January 6th Prisoners Choir Had It Comin’:"

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* "True Facts Animal Awards: Best Worst Jumping and More:"

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* "Kevin Aymoz skated the performance of his life at the 2023 World Championships.:"

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* I am still on a weird sleep schedule and dealing with assorted bodily inconveniences. Monday, my medical social worker patched me through to the lady the state pays to sort out that thing where you are on Medicare and medicaid and your health care is meant to be covered, but they send you bills anyway. I was up to two bills as a second came over the weekend from my trip over the mountains in February. I was on hold long enough to bake a veggie roast, but she fixed it. (I had put it in just before sitting down to make phone calls. Luckily I had it on cooking timer which turns the oven off automatically. The timer went off right when she came back on the line. It was fine. I had stuff to do on the computer).

Seriously, Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage) is magic. I have no idea how to fight these things myself and it's all exhausting.

All the filters have been cleaned except on the big air conditioner that stays in it's closet until it gets really hot, which I’m pretty sure I cleaned at end of season.. The dishes are all done except the one that held the roast leftovers I had for dinner. Mr bedding is clean and fresh. The Head Millennial is off and away. The cats had a great afternoon today watching birds and dog walkers with the window open. We are already into two of their favorite shows: Gazebo Birds and new fan favorite Mrs. Robin's neighborhood. The season premieres of other favorites such as The Hummingbirds, Butterflies, and that perennial crime drama: Murder of Crows. seriously cat TV is excellent here.

* I was worried enough about the state of my lungs to call it in first thing Monday morning. I was still testing negative for COVID, but my immune system can't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag and I catch anything and everything. I got the usual lung doctor, which is a massive help, on Tuesday morning, which was when they could squeeze me in. My file is basically the medical equivalent of war and Peace and having a person up on it who had been in close contact with my much missed already GP is a huge help. I get treated like an adult who is an expert on my own body instead of having to fight foe the basics. She knows how seriously I take antibiotics. Trusty me, it was a relief to see her.

So we did the usual routine tests. I am negative for COVID and the currently dominant strains of Influenza which is very helpful to know, but not surprising with my vaccine status. I was actually feeling better at this point. We set up the standard contingencies. We generally do this 4-6 times a year. I'm hard to diagnose because of the stunning collection of things wrong with me as a baseline.

They also took five vials of blood as part of my routine monitoring, which I need for the new GP In April. new is a relative term here. If I am remembering names correctly, I think he's the guy who's been subbing in for emergencies when my doctor ius off for years, but I am bad at names, so it's possible I'm wrong. Anyway, they need to test a tone of things every year unless my numbers are bad and then i do an extra three vials at the half year.

This literally took all morning and I was running on about 3 1/2 hours sleep, plus the draws always take a lot out of me. I got another 3-4 hours sleep before the alarm. The trip to the bathroom at that point was so debilitating, that there was nothing for it but to rest and try again in another hour. My body really, really thought lying still all evening was a good idea, but I'd promised squirrel laundry, assorted plants and animals rely on me to look after them, and I'd an online commitment that was important, plus other assorted things needing doing like eating, lungs, and assorted small household things.

I did all those things, but getting up was very much a mistake. I basically spent all evening struggling and mostly failing to keep water and meds down, so that was.... not good. As of Wednesday evening, I'm still futzing with laundry from yesterday. *fingers crossed that my body is stabilizing*

* The Pevensies’ trauma: https://www.tumblr.com/nsuenn/712999444920057856/ok-we-all-talk-about-the-pevensies-trauma-at?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Hot Takes:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/713065506943434752/midnight-pals-hot-takes?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.

* "You can now sponsor refugees yourself. Here’s how.:" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23569848/how-to-sponsor-refugees-welcome-corps-biden

* "LGBTQ Refugees Welcome campaign:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/lgbtq-refugees-welcome

* There's a new 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

* This is a long time friend of mine. They have secured future housing, but have spent everything in the previous fundraiser on gofundme to survive to this point and they need They need $5000 over the next couple months until their move in date.

Gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/hdykv-housing-crisis?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

You can also support them via their Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Kandrinchae/shop?fbclid=IwAR0E1PRHlG45LWhBfDtVpGigD1YUk9Njm-__SviL4W7C8JZUCppFc1oG9Gs%22

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. :

SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

They are also trying to GM for pay. They are an excellent GM. Here's where to sign up: https://startplaying.games/gm/1617744454089x564714756631343740

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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* My body is very difficult for the last week and a half and no one is letting me sleep. (Pharmacy called me twice friday, for example, and I think that was the fifth or sixth pharmacy call waking me up in the last wee. Ilost track for obvious reasons. Every medical appointment requires three robo calls now and one appointment per week is a minimum for me. Plus all the car stuff and all the other calls waking me up, and Tavy's nightmare Monday and all the other things... No sleep. My eyelid is twitching right now.

* "Climate advocates urge World Bank overhaul as leader exits:" https://apnews.com/article/politics-climate-and-environment-world-bank-david-malpass-donald-trump-8e5da6c379e8452cc75f6b919a463889

* "Iranians are protesting their government on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution:"`https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1156305970/iranians-are-protesting-their-government-on-the-anniversary-of-the-islamic-revol

* "Despite Khamenei's amnesty, most protesters in Iran won't go free, advocate says:" https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156115697/iran-amnesty-protests-arrests-khamenei

* "Death toll from Islamic State attack in Syria at least 53:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/death-toll-islamic-state-attack-syria-53-97306662

* "Insecurity threatens Nigeria's democracy as voters elect a new president:"`https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/insecurity-threatens-nigerias-democracy-voters-elect-new-president-2023-02-17/

* What Netanyahu is trying to do is terrifying. "100,000 Israelis gather in Jerusalem to protest judicial overhaul amid mass strike:"`https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-02-13/ty-article-live/as-nationwide-strike-launches-across-israel-protesters-block-airport/00000186-495d-d80f-abff-6bdd90c30000

* "Israelis set to protest Netanyahu's judicial overhaul for seventh consecutive week:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-02-17/ty-article/.premium/israelis-set-to-protest-netanyahus-judicial-overhaul-for-seventh-consecutive-week/00000186-5e99-dba0-a5c6-5efd92720000

* "France braces for protests as Macron pushes forward with pension reform:" https://www.politico.eu/article/france-emmanuel-macron-braced-for-protests-pushes-forward-with-pension-reform/

* "South Africa invokes disaster law to tackle energy crisis:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-president-declares-state-disaster-over-power-crisis-2023-02-09/

* "Explainer: How will South Africa's 'state of disaster' resolve power crisis?:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/how-will-south-africas-state-disaster-resolve-power-crisis-2023-02-10/

* "Brazil pushes illegal miners out of Yanomami territory:" https://apnews.com/article/brazil-government-climate-and-environment-indigenous-people-a902ff2529068ccb7965e505f250f0f7

* "Ukraine to summon Hungarian envoy over 'unacceptable' remarks by Orban:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-summon-hungarian-envoy-over-unacceptable-remarks-by-orban-2023-01-27/

* "Moldovan prime minister announces government resignation:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moldovan-prime-minister-announces-government-resignation-2023-02-10/

* "Moldova names new pro-EU prime minister after government falls amid Russian pressure:" https://www.politico.eu/article/moldova-government-resign-pro-european-union-natalia-gavrilita/

* "What is happening in Moldova, Ukraine's tiny European neighbor with a pro-Russian movement?:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/17/what-is-happening-in-moldova-is-it-putins-next-target-after-ukraine.html

* "Facebook ran ads in Moldova for oligarch sanctioned by US:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-politics-united-states-government-us-department-of-the-treasury-russia-6277b515a552c980c262c72731dccdbe

* "India tax officers search BBC offices weeks after critical Modi documentary:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-income-tax-department-conducts-searches-bbc-offices-sources-2023-02-14/

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* "Government risks undermining plans to ban ‘no fault’ tenant evictions, say MPs - Committees:" https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/17/levelling-up-housing-and-communities-committee/news/186104/government-risks-undermining-plans-to-ban-no-fault-tenant-evictions-say-mps/

* "Tory MP Who Said Foodbank Users 'Can't Budget' Appointed Deputy Party Chairman:" https://ca.style.yahoo.com/tory-mp-said-foodbank-users-141545922.html

* "Nicola Sturgeon to resign as Scotland's first minister:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/15/nicola-sturgeon-resigns-quits-lgbtq-trans/

* "SNP 'frontrunner' Kate Forbes has a troubling record on abortion and trans rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/16/kate-forbes-snp-trans-church-abortion/

* "UK strikes hit a 30-year high as inflation erodes pay:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/economy/uk-strikes-wages-inflation/index.html

* "Tory crackdown on gender reform suggests government might ‘take away rights altogether’, trans dad fears:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/10/freddy-mcconnell-trans-gender-recognition-act-grc/

* "Tory government would block Welsh gender recognition reform:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/10/tory-government-block-welsh-gender-recognition-reform/

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* Please, please, wear your mask! "The COVID-19 pandemic in 2023: far from over:" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00050-8/fulltext

* Republicans continue to try to criminalize life saving medical care. "Idaho lawmakers introduce legislation to criminalize those who administer COVID vaccines:" https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/capitol-watch/idaho-lawmakers-introduce-legislation-to-criminalize-those-who-administer-covid-vaccines-legislature/277-2436a514-e7da-4b31-9762-f9be10300075

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* "Ukrainian president addresses UK parliament:" https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/02/08/volodymyr-zelensky-addresses-parliament-sot-intl-vpx.cnn

* "Romania says Russian missile flew over Moldova just outside NATO airspace:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/10/romania-moldova-russia-missiles-ukraine-nato/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: U.S. Says Restocking Ukraine With Ammunition Is Urgent to Allies:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/14/world/russia-ukraine-news

* "Russian diplomat says ties with US in 'unprecedented crisis':" https://apnews.com/article/politics-russia-government-united-states-moscow-cbc9e5e628564a6ac36caae94a082eb6

* "United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/united-states-tells-citizens-depart-russia-immediately-2023-02-13/

* "Zelenskyy predicts Russian loss and warns Belarus against attack:" https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-predict-russia-loss-warn-belarus-attack-munich-security-conference/

* "Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant:" https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155761686/russia-is-draining-a-massive-ukrainian-reservoir-endangering-a-nuclear-plant

* "Russian forces strike Ukraine, air raid sirens wail across the country:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-forces-strike-ukraine-air-raid-sirens-wail-across-country-2023-02-10/

* "Russia's rare thermobaric rocket launcher taken out by Ukraine, video shows:" https://www.newsweek.com/russia-thermobaric-rocket-launcher-destroyed-ukraine-video-1781454

* "Russia may have lost an entire elite brigade near a Donetsk coal-mining town:" https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-may-have-lost-an-entire-elite-brigade-near-a-coal-mining-town-in-donbas-ukraine-says/

* " On the road from Donetsk, evacuation ends in heartbreak :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-evacuation-picture/

* I’m so glad she escaped. "Russian TV Journalist Who Protested Ukraine War On Air Added To Wanted List:" https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-journalist-ukraine-protest-ovsyannikova-wanted-escaped/32063391.html

Want to help Journalists without Borders? https://donate.rsf.org/us/donate/~my-donation

* "Opinion | They clicked once. Then came the dark prisons.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2023/political-protest-new-generation-faces/

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* "US intercepts Russian bombers off Alaska for 2 straight days:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-intercepts-russian-bombers-off-alaska-2-straight/story?id=97260923

* "North Korea displays enough ICBMs to overwhelm U.S. defense system against them:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/08/north-korea-missile-capability-icbms-00081993

* "What we know about the unidentified object shot down over Alaska:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-object-alaska-military-latest/index.html

* "U.S. declassifies balloon intelligence, calls out China for spying:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/09/chinese-balloon-surveillance-program/

* "Congress unites to condemn China — but splits again over Biden — after spy balloon incident:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/09/house-passes-measure-condemning-china-for-spy-balloon-419-0-00082038

* "Chinese Spy Balloon: Legal To Shoot Down?:"

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* "Did the Pentagon use a jet to shoot down a hobby group's balloon?:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/did-the-pentagon-use-a-jet-to-shoot-down-a-hobby-group-s-balloon-163535429550

* "Biden says objects shot down over North America last week appear to not be part of China's spy balloon operation :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/politics/president-biden-downed-objects

* "Outside of balloon spotlight, Chinese hacks threaten U.S. infrastructure, security:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/outside-of-balloon-spotlight-chinese-hacks-threaten-u-s-infrastructure-security-163391045627

* "After helping prince’s rise, Trump and Kushner benefit from Saudi funds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/12/after-helping-princes-rise-trump-kushner-benefit-saudi-funds/

* "Democrat seeks documents about $2 billion Saudi investment in Kushner fund:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/15/democrats-jared-kushner-saudi-investment-documents/

* "Raskin calls for investigation into Kushner’s $2 billion Saudi deal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/raskin-calls-for-investigation-into-kushner-s-2-billion-saudi-deal-163456581726

* "New details on how Trump, Kushner continue to profit off Saudi ties:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-how-trump-kushner-continue-to-profit-off-saudi-ties-163301445596

* "Apparent cyberattack forces Florida hospital system to divert some emergency patients to other facilities:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/03/politics/cyberattack-hospital-tallahassee-memorial-florida/index.html

* "Exclusive: Former top FBI official involved in Trump-Russia investigation under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for his own ties to Russia:" https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-fbi-charles-mcgonigal-trump-russia-grand-jury-oleg-deripaska-2022-9

* "New report raises questions about indicted former FBI spy chief's Russia contacts:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-report-raises-questions-about-indicted-former-fbi-spy-chief-s-russia-contacts-163531845694

* "Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s strange ‘woke’ rant reveals a big GOP problem:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/08/sarah-huckabee-sanders-sotu-response-biden-woke-ron-desantis/

* "One-on-One with Karine Jean-Pierre:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/one-on-one-with-karine-jean-pierre-163207237765

* "Biden to name Fed's Lael Brainard as top economic advisor, source says:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/14/biden-to-name-feds-lael-brainard-as-top-economic-advisor-source-says.html

* "Black History Flag Flies Over Federal Building For First Time:" https://advocatechannel.com/black-history-flag-flies-over-federal-building-first-time

* "Supreme Court justices discussed, but did not agree on, code of conduct:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/09/supreme-court-ethics-code/

* "String of scandals prompts push for Supreme Court code of conduct:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/string-of-scandals-prompts-push-for-supreme-court-code-of-conduct-163067461908

* Some Republican Supreme Court justices insist that they are Lawmakers, not judges and the importance of their rulings means they can't be constrained by any ethical rules when changing law in accordance with their political beliefs.

My suspicion is the ethical constraint that most would chafe is an end to them being allowed to take bribes for access.

* "The Supreme Court Could Destroy the Internet. Really.:"

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* "Inflation eases again, but bringing prices further down will take work:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/14/inflation-easing-cpi-january/

* "Rick Scott pivots on Social Security Medicare after bipartisan backlash:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rick-scott-pivots-on-social-security-medicare-after-bipartisan-backlash-163605573683

* And yet they don’t examine the massive tax cuts they gave the rich. "Republicans take aim at food stamps in growing fight over federal debt:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023/02/16/food-stamps-gop-proposed-cuts/

* "Ohio train crash crisis highlights need for safety net GOP seeks to cut:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ohio-train-crash-crisis-highlights-need-for-safety-net-gop-seeks-to-cut-163614277858

* "582,462 and Counting:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/business/economy/us-homeless-population-count.html

* "Striking HarperCollins Workers Reach Tentative Agreement With Publisher:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/books/harper-collins-strike-tentative-agreement.html

* "Temple University cuts tuition and health benefits for striking graduate students:" https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155762537/temple-university-grad-strike

Graduate student workers do a lot of the things professors do (grading, some teaching, particularly discussion sections, etc.), and being a grad student is incredibly expensive. Tuition is astronomically higher, and not always covered by grants, scholarships, etc.. The cost of books is massive even compared to undergraduates in the more expensive disciplines. (The books you need for things like advanced language classes and history cost almost as much as housing did for me in grad school per term). The same housing shortages and skyrocketing housing prices effect them as they do everyone else and on campus graduate housing tends to be super limited, especially if you have a spouse or family, which means dealing with expensive city housing markets).

I absolutely support the strikers. Universities use grad students and adjunct professors as a way to avoid paying for tenure track and tenured professors in the quantities they need. Seriously, given the geometric tuition inflation in my lifetime, most universities can afford to pay all their workers properly, they just chose not to.

* "Uber, Lyft drivers announce strike across Pittsburgh region:" https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/uber-lyft-drivers-announce-strike-across-pittsburgh-region/T7SE5T7GHJB7VOD4LG3J4VF34A/

* "Actors strike at California medieval-themed dinner theater:" https://apnews.com/article/california-los-angeles-business-strikes-409905e3e61b5611da872f4f25be8e96

* "Starbucks: A Grande Union Busting With Two Pumps of Racism:"

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* "Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins' parents, sister sue Alec Baldwin over 'Rust' shooting:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/cinematographer-halyna-hutchins-parents-sister-sue-alec-baldwin/story?id=97006332

* "Chris Hayes: The real reason behind the Republican Party infighting:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-real-reason-behind-the-republican-party-infighting-163162693902

* "Plaskett: GOP using ‘weaponization’ panel to air conspiracy theories ahead of 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/plaskett-gop-using-weaponization-panel-to-air-conspiracy-theories-ahead-of-2024-163164229889

* "Specificity key to advancing goals of public safety, police reform: Rep. Horsford:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/specificity-key-to-advancing-goals-of-public-safety-police-reform-rep-horsford-163170885872

* "Gay Dem Blasts Marjorie Taylor Greene for Going After Drag Shows at Hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-robert-garcia

* 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/

* "Democrats look for opportunities to secure democracy against GOP election deniers:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/democrats-look-for-opportunities-to-secure-democracy-against-gop-election-deniers-163463237813

* "Fox knew vote rigging claims were false, Dominion says, as network defends coverage:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/dominion-voting-systems-says-fox-knew-vote-rigging-claims-it-broadcast-were-2023-02-16/

* "Mehdi: Bombshell text evidence confirms Fox 'is not a news channel':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mehdi-bombshell-text-evidence-confirms-fox-is-not-a-news-channel-163603525730

* "On air vs. off air: How Fox News lied about the 2020 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/on-air-vs-off-air-how-fox-news-lied-about-the-2020-election-163603013893

* "Court brief exposes Fox News fear of fickle, Trump-supporting audience:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/court-brief-exposes-fox-news-fear-of-fickle-trump-supporting-audience-163611205944

* "Fox News exposed for disingenuous coverage of Trump's Big Lie:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/fox-news-exposed-for-disingenuous-coverage-of-trump-s-big-lie-163613253706

* "Who knew a far-right election denier would do Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs' bidding?:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2023/02/07/gov-katie-hobbs-ally-in-election-denier-rep-liz-harris/69881091007/

* "Nikki Haley Launches Her Campaign Beside Doomsday Antisemitic Pastor:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/nikki-haley-launches-her-campaign-beside-doomsday-antisemitic-pastor-john-hagee

* "Trump attacks Nikki Haley from the left on Social Security, Medicare:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-attacks-nikki-haley-from-the-left-on-social-security-medicare-163455557771

* "Nikki Haley stumbles over federal abortion ban issue:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nikki-haley-stumbles-over-federal-abortion-ban-issue-163527749727

* "Trump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White House:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-death-penalty-firing-squad-executions-1234679447/

* "Trump Vows to Gut Transgender Rights if Reelected:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-transgender-rights

* "Big GOP donors plot to replace Trump in 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/big-gop-donors-plot-to-replace-trump-in-2024-163050565957

* "California's Rep. Lee files to seek Feinstein's Senate seat:" https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-2022-midterm-elections-dianne-feinstein-barbara-lee-82e9988882c50b6514b7ee22f946a884

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* "'This is a lie': Sinema's office denies Santos' account of friendly exchange during State of Union:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/politics/sinema-santos-state-of-the-union/index.html

* "FEC orders Santos to formally declare his 2024 candidacy or 'disavow' post-midterm fundraising :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/politics/fec-george-santos-campaign-fundraising/index.html

* "George Santos Reportedly Hires Lawyer Convicted of Brazilian Gang Killing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/george-santos-lawyer-gang-execution

* "Santos was charged with theft in 2017 case tied to Amish dog breeders:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/09/santos-charged-theft-2017-dog-breeders-00082091

* "House Democrats file resolution attempting to expel George Santos from Congress:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-santos-house-democrats-resolution-remove-from-congress/

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* "The First Gen Z Congressman Has Landed in Washington:"

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* If this is what he needed then I am very glad he was willing and able to do it. My thoughts are with him. "Fetterman checks into hospital to seek treatment for clinical depression:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fetterman-checks-into-hospital-to-seek-treatment-for-clinical-depression-163527749542

* White lawmakers are planning to end democracy for a majority black city so they can have their way with the city, much as happened in Flint Michigan only worse. "Controversial Bill in Mississippi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/controversial-bill-in-mississippi-163208261638

* "Unnerving authoritarian patterns seen from right-wing U.S. governors:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/unnerving-authoritarian-patterns-seen-from-right-wing-u-s-governors-163312709674

* "First step to authoritarianism: attack the free press:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/first-step-to-authoritarianism-attack-the-free-press-163311173811

* This is terrifying in every country where it’s happening. "Authoritarian style attacks on judiciary expected as potential Trump indictment looms:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/authoritarian-style-attacks-on-judiciary-expected-as-potential-trump-indictment-looms-163312197935

* "Feds bust company using child labor to clean meatpacking plants:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/feds-bust-company-using-child-labor-to-clean-meatpacking-plants-163611717920

* "Portions of Georgia grand jury report cite suspicions of false testimony:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/portions-of-grand-jury-report-cite-suspicions-of-false-testimony-163534917814

* "FBI removes one document marked classified from former Vice President Mike Pence's home:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/politics/mike-pence-house-fbi-search/index.html

* "Trump team turns over additional classified records and laptop to federal prosecutors:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/politics/trump-classified-records-laptop/index.html

* "Trump lawyers turn over more classified material, including digital copies:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-lawyers-turn-over-more-classified-material-including-digital-copies-163170885625

* "Trump legal spotlight increasingly difficult for Pence to avoid:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-legal-spotlight-increasingly-difficult-for-pence-to-avoid-163169349927

* "Mark Meadows subpoenaed by DOJ special counsel in Jan. 6 probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-mark-meadows-subpoenaed-by-doj-special-counsel-in-jan-6-probe-163455045531

* "Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows received DOJ subpoena in January: reports:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-received-doj-subpoena-in-january-reports-163464261634

* "What the DOJ special counsel might hope to learn from Mike Pence under subpoena:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/what-the-doj-special-counsel-might-hope-to-learn-from-mike-pence-under-subpoena-163067461596

* "‘He’s going to lose this’: Mike Pence’s chance of challenging DOJ subpoena:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-he-s-going-to-lose-this-mike-pence-s-chance-of-challenging-doj-subpoena-163049029764

* "Schiff: No excuse for Pence to do anything but cooperate with DOJ subpoena:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/schiff-no-excuse-for-pence-to-do-anything-but-cooperate-with-doj-subpoena-163161157968

* "'Wrongheaded on many levels': Lofgren knocks Pence foot-dragging on DOJ subpoena:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-wrongheaded-on-many-levels-lofgren-knocks-pence-footdragging-on-doj-subpoena-163391045695

* "Rep. Goldman: Pence is trying Trump's delay strategy in subpoena fight:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-goldman-pence-is-trying-trump-s-delay-strategy-in-subpoena-fight-163526725796

* "Four Takeaways From the Proud Boys Jan. 6 Sedition Trial So Far:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/politics/proud-boys-jan-6-sedition-trial.html

* "Elon Musk Is An Idiot (and so are Zuck and SBF):"

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* "Joe Rogan Can’t Figure Out Why People Think Elon Musk Is a ‘Right-Winger’ Now:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-rogan-cant-figure-out-why-people-think-elon-musk-is-a-right-winger-now

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses gay former Twitter exec of sexualising children:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/08/marjorie-taylor-greene-yoel-roth-twitter-hunter-biden-hearing/

* "Extremist influencers are generating millions for Twitter, report says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/09/twitter-ads-revenue-suspended-account/

* "FBI says Baltimore County woman plotted to 'shoot up' BGE electric substations:" https://www.wypr.org/wypr-news/2023-02-06/fbi-says-baltimore-county-woman-plotted-to-shoot-up-bge-electric-substations

* "Molotov Cocktail Thrown at New Jersey Synagogue:" https://advocatechannel.com/molotov-cocktail-new-jersey-synagogue

* "Florida could soon have permitless carry. It’s not enough, some gun owners say.:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/02/07/desantis-permitless-carry-bill-gun-open-constitutional/

* "LGBTQ+ Activists Speak Out as Florida Considers Loosening Gun Access:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/permitless-carry-lgbtq-florida

* "New push for assault weapons ban, nearly five years after Parkland shooting:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/new-push-for-assault-weapons-ban-nearly-five-years-after-parkland-shooting-163206725800

* "Maxwell Frost: Gen Z is the 'mass shooting generation’ :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maxwell-frost-gen-z-is-the-mass-shooting-generation-163380805669

* CW: Suicide. "Suspect has died of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after mass shooting at Michigan State University left 3 dead and 5 injured, police say:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/13/us/michigan-state-university-shots-fired/index.html

* "Suspect killed former partner, five others in Mississippi shootings, sheriff says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/17/mississippi-shooting-tate-county/

* "White House struggles to explain the fate of Title 42:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/06/public-health-emerdency-title-42-00081390

* "Lawsuit can proceed against Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse:" https://apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-legal-proceedings-kenosha-lawsuits-shootings-3bdc03586a45f1ebee16a3df8a5a4f63

* "How True Crime Exploits Victims:"

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* "Missouri man who killed 4 executed despite innocence claims:" https://apnews.com/article/missouri-state-government-california-homicide-94fe2fefa47faa618d3826c7f32e6f1d

* "Are Inmates Being Sentenced to a Painful Death?:"

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* "Yale Honors Black Girl Reported to Police For Spraying Lanternflies:" https://advocatechannel.com/yale-honors-black-girl-reported-to-police-for-spraying-lanternflies

* "Who’s Afraid of Black History?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/opinion/desantis-florida-african-american-studies-black-history.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Opinion

* "Gov. Greg Abbott tells state agencies to stop considering diversity in hiring:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/07/greg-abbott-diversity-equity-inclusion-illegal/

* "New College of Florida board trustee wants to replace president and fire all faculty and staff to eliminate ‘dogmatic wokeness’:" https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/new-college-of-florida-board-trustee-wants-to-replace-president-and-fire-all-faculty-and-staff-to-eliminate-dogmatic-wokeness-33448774

* I was super skeptical of the guy from the college board I saw interviewed recently claiming there was no contact and they just decided to gut the course independently. I feel vindicated in my skepticism. "Florida Officials Had Repeated Contact With College Board Over African American Studies:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/us/florida-college-board-african-american-studies.html

* "DeSantis retrograde war on education, social progress stirs protest in Florida capital:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/desantis-retrograde-war-on-education-social-progress-stirs-protest-in-florida-capital-163463237757

* "200 students stage walkout at Hillcrest High School in protest over Black History Month program:" https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/200-students-stage-walkout-at-hillcrest-high-school-in-protest-over-black-history-month-program/

* "North Dakota Bill Would Jail Librarians for Not Removing Certain Books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/north-dakota-library-jail-books

* "Right-Wing Group Targets LGBTQ+ Existence in Michigan Schools:" https://www.advocate.com/news/right-wing-targets-lgbtq-michigan

* "Libs of TikTok Targets 'Kinky Boots' Event:" https://www.advocate.com/news/chaya-raichik-unaware-kinky-boots#rebelltitem1

* "Former Mayor Pleads No Contest in Grindr Child Sex Crime Case:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/robert-jacob-child-sex-crime

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Male Staffer Who Accused CPAC's Matt Schlapp of Groping Sues GOP Operative:" https://www.advocate.com/news/matt-schlapp-gop-operative

* "Gay Man Sues Canada Over Sperm Donation Restrictions:" https://www.advocate.com/news/sperm-donation-canada-gay-men

* For Republicans, the Handmaid's Tale is aspirational. "Florida Wants Teen Athletes to Report Periods — Why?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-teen-athletes-periods

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* I’m not holding my breath for this Supreme Court to side with the constitution and civil and human rights over their theocracy agenda. I’d love for this to work though. "Federal judge says constitutional right to abortion may still exist, despite Dobbs:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/06/federal-judge-constitutional-right-abortion-dobbs-00081391

* "Biden administration braces for ruling that could ban abortion pills:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/09/court-ban-abortion-pills-nationwide-00081946

* "Texas judge could end access to abortion medication mifepristone nationwide:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/texas-judge-could-end-access-to-abortion-medication-mifepristone-nationwide-163068485515

* "TX lawsuit could pull abortion drug off the U.S. market:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/tx-lawsuit-could-pull-abortion-drug-off-the-u-s-market-163206725797

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* "Focus on the Family Hates Your (Non-Straight) Family:"

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* "Egyptian Police Entrapping Queer Men Through Dating Apps: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-egypt

* "Photographer Charged With Murder of LGBTQ Activist, Model Edwin Chiloba:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/edwin-chiloba-murder-suspect

* "India could legalise same-sex marriage. It would change these couples' lives:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/09/india-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court-ruling/

* "Slovenia becomes first eastern European country to recognise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/02/slovenia-same-sex-marriage/

* "Church of England votes to offer blessings to same sex couples:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/09/church-of-england-synod-votes-to-offer-blessings-to-same-sex-couples/

* "Protesters face off with bishops over paltry same-sex marriage blessings proposal:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/08/protestors-rally-against-church-of-englands-same-sex-marraige-law/

* "Doctors warn 'NHS is failing trans people' amid row over Tavistock gender clinic:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/09/tavistock-gender-clinic-closure-staff-open-letter-trans-healthcare/

* "91 Percent of Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Failed in 2022:" https://www.advocate.com/news/anti-lgbtq-bills-failed-2022

* "Democrats kill off anti-trans bills targeting life-saving healthcare and trans kids:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/05/virginia-senate-democrats-trans-bills-healthcare/

* "Here Are the 21 States Trying to Ban Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/what-states-trying-ban-gender-affirming-care

* "Utah Gov. Signs Bill Banning Most Gender-Affirming Care for Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gender-affirming-care-utah-ban

* "North Dakota Bill Targets Nonexistent Trend of Students Identifying as Animals:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/students-identifying-as-animals-bill

* "Queer Prom Targeted by Far-Right Influencers and Lawmakers:" https://www.advocate.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-queer-prom

* "Trans pharmacist asked if she 'has a penis' during senate hearing speaks out: 'Dehumanising':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/17/gwendolyn-herzig-trans-pharmacy-doctor-arkansas/

* "Baker Jack Phillips Loses Appeal in Trans Woman's Discrimination Suit:" https://www.advocate.com/news/jake-phillips-loses-appeal-transgender

* "Two men charged over tragic 2019 killing of Black trans woman Pebbles LaDime Doe:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/04/pebbles-ladime-doe-death-south-caroline-black-trans/

* "Gay Man Robbed, Beaten Beyond Recognition in San Francisco:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/gay-man-robbed-beaten

* "FBI Investigating Threats Against 3 LGBTQ+ Bars:" https://www.advocate.com/news/fbi-investigation-lgbtq-bar-threats

* "School District Rallies Behind Superintendent Targeted by Antigay Letter:" https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-school-district-superintendent

* "Trans employee wins $20K settlement against Shake Shack:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/02/trans-employee-wins-20k-settlement-against-shake-shack/

* "World Athletics Seeks Stricter Rules for Transgender Women:" https://www.advocate.com/world/world-athletics-transgender-women

* "Feds Seek Input on National PrEP Coverage:" https://www.advocate.com/news/feds-seek-prep-coverage-input

* "Mpox Is Almost Gone in the US, Leaving Lessons & Mysteries Behind:" https://www.advocate.com/health/mpox-monkeypox-numbers-down-lessons

* "Ex-Mormons Have Started a Magic Mushroom Church:"

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* Yet more proof insurance companies are evil and we need free universal healthcare. "Trans doctor forced to spend life savings to keep clinic open and treat patients:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/09/trans-doctor-tiffany-najberg-life-savings-to-keep-clinic-open/

* "Seizure Drug Can Reprogram Donor Hearts to Last Longer Until Transplant:" https://www.laboratoryequipment.com/594420-Seizure-Drug-Can-Reprogram-Donor-Hearts-to-Last-Longer-Until-Transplant/

* "900% increase in babies born with syphilis in Mississippi may be part of nationwide trend:" https://www.livescience.com/900-increase-in-babies-born-with-syphilis-in-mississippi-may-be-part-of-nationwide-trend

* "An 82-year-old woman was found alive at a New York funeral home after she was pronounced dead hours earlier, police say:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/us/new-york-woman-found-alive-funeral-home/index.html

* "Opioid Tapering Disrupts Healthcare and Worsens Doctor-Patient Relationships:" https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2023/2/8/opioid-tapering-disrupts-healthcare-and-worsens-doctor-patient-relationshipsnbsp

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* "How search and rescue teams pull survivors from rubble:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/TURKEY-QUAKE/SEARCH/klpygdjoapg/

* "Turkey-Syria quake: Death toll tops 41,000; First U.N. aid convoy enters Syria via new border crossing:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/14/turkey-syria-earthquake-updates-deaths/

Link to help Turkey: https://www.tumblr.com/star-burp/708846519515774976?source=share

White Helmets Syria: https://www.whitehelmets.org/en/

UN help for both countries: https://donate.unhcr.org/int/en/turkiye-syria-earthquake-emergency

Queer relief fund for the 6 February Earthquake LGBTQIA+ and/or SW survivors: https://gogetfunding.com/queer-relief-fund-for-the-6-february-earthquake-lgbtqia-and-or-sw-survivors/

Doctors without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate?_gl=1*659c3c*_ga*NzkzMjQ0NzgxLjE2NzU4MzgzMzk.*_ga_C7EW6Q0J9K*MTY3NTgzODMzOC4xLjEuMTY3NTgzODQyMC4wLjAuMA..&_ga=2.197021998.387868859.1675838340-793244781.1675838339&_gac=1.52586970.1675838340.CjwKCAiAioifBhAXEiwApzCzthT21ylvvR7E5iLT-s-1Ob5DuAW4jst5eWVg1o0d89Pq6HwlGqUEPRoC-K0QAvD_BwE

* "Turkey’s Earthquake Response Is as Political as the Conditions That Increased the Devastation:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/turkeys-earthquake-response-is-as-political-as-the-conditions-that-increased-the-devastation

* "Devastation, loss and hope in Antakya after earthquake:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/earthquake-levels-city-antakya-southern-turkey/story?id=97034631

* "Syrian refugees starting over in Turkey are hit hard by the earthquake:" https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155632055/syrian-refugees-starting-over-in-turkey-are-hit-hard-by-the-earthquake

* "Three people rescued from Syria rubble 110 hours after earthquake:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/three-people-rescued-syria-rubble-110-hours-after-earthquake-state-media-2023-02-10/

* "Survivors ever fewer in earthquake rubble of Turkey and Syria:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/survivors-ever-fewer-earthquake-rubble-turkey-syria-2023-02-12/

* "How Syria's war has hindered earthquake relief:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-syrias-war-has-hindered-earthquake-relief-2023-02-13/

* "Rescues dwindle in Turkey after earthquake as aid trickles into Syria:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/teenager-rescued-rubble-turkey-10-days-after-quake-2023-02-16/

* "A Crisis Within a Crisis in Syria:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/podcasts/the-daily/syria-turkey-earthquake-aid.html

* "A Dramatic Rescue From Turkey's Earthquake Epicenter:"

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* "What to know about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio:" https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157333630/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment

* "Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment:" https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156567743/health-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-chemicals

* "Ohio train derailment prompts evacuations, uncertainty:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ohio-train-derailment-prompts-evacuations-uncertainty-163303493603

* "Republicans use Ohio train disaster to pursue culture wars, ignore solutions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-use-ohio-train-disaster-to-pursue-culture-wars-ignore-solutions-163379781729

* "Ohio Governor DeWine, FEMA Regional Administrator Sivak issue joint statement on East Palestine:" https://highlandcountypress.com/Content/In-The-News/Headlines/Article/Ohio-Governor-DeWine-FEMA-Regional-Administrator-Sivak-issue-joint-statement-on-East-Palestine/2/73/88183

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* "“Potential Environmental Nuclear Bomb”: The Disappearing Salt Lake:"

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* "When AI Art Becomes Exploitative and Unethical:"

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* "How Humans Domesticated Just About Everything:"

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* "19th century register gives glimpse into lives of free blacks in Pittsylvania County:" https://www.chathamstartribune.com/news/article_48c8c108-a88d-11ed-a5bc-a31f47080ded.html

* "How Robert Smalls sailed his crew and family to freedom during the Civil War:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-robert-smalls-sailed-his-crew-and-family-to-freedom-during-the-civil-war

* "First Black combatant of Civil War to be honored in Loudoun Co. battlefield cemetery:" https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2023/02/first-black-combatant-of-civil-war-to-be-honored-in-loudoun-co-battlefield-cemetery/

* "History Thread: Robert Elliott and the Rhetoric of Liberty:" https://the-avocado.org/2023/02/14/history-thread-robert-elliott-and-the-rhetoric-of-liberty/

* "Boston’s only Black hospital was founded in 1908 — in the South End apartment building where I lived:" https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2023/02/09/historic-boston-plymouth-hospital-cornelius-garland-lisa-gordon

* "How Hollywood was Born Gay:"

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* "Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust:" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939

* "The Little Known History of World War II's All-Black, All-Female Battalion:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/all-black-women-battalion-wwii-6888th?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a57267612e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-a57267612e-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=a57267612e&mc_eid=5723490053

* "James Dean: The Bi Hollywood Icon We Lost Too Soon:"

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* "50 Black Women in STEM You Should Know About:" https://medium.com/rediscover-steam/50-black-women-in-stem-you-should-know-about-f74bd23503fd

* "Jo-Raquel Tejada wanted to make it in Hollywood. She had to become Raquel Welch.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/raquel-welch-stealth-latina-tejada-changing-times-rcna71174

* "George Santos: Bring On The Ethics Investigation:"

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* "Meanwhile… Subway Is For Sale | Japan’s Monkey Mermaid Mummy | Pizza Delivery Squirrel Attack:"

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* "Rihanna Wins! | Are The Balloons Sent By Aliens? | George Santos Stole Puppies:"

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* "The Last of Us EP4: Building a Bond — Therapist Reacts!:"

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* "The Last of Us HBO EP5: The Importance of Great Role Models — Therapist Reacts!:"

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* "How Glass Onion Calls Out Capitalism:"

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* "Hogwarts Legacy release prompts more antisemitism allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/10/hogwarts-legacy-antisemitism-goblin-artefact/

* "The Queer Joy of Everything Everywhere All At Once:"

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* "Everyone Everywhere Needs Waymond Wang:"

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* "I Don't See Color: Where Bucky's Apology Fails:"

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* "Boyz II Men (ft. Stephen Colbert) -- "I'll Make Love To You (But We Don't Have To)":"

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* "Captain Kirk Has A New Enemy In Space:"

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* "Vladagra Will Help You Launch Your Missile:"

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* "The Bright Side of Dylan's Journey:"

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* This is a long time friend of mine. They have secured future housing, but have spent everything in the previous fundraiser on gofundme to survive to this point and they need They need $6800 over the next three months until their move in date.

Gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/hdykv-housing-crisis?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

You can also support them via their Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Kandrinchae/shop?fbclid=IwAR0E1PRHlG45LWhBfDtVpGigD1YUk9Njm-__SviL4W7C8JZUCppFc1oG9Gs%22

* Thursday was really bad mobility wise. Bonus points for hours of intermittent Internet connection. Monday was astonishingly difficult physically as well for no apparent reason. Tuesday was a touch better. We have dropped off the car for the procedure. Let's hope Medicare transport goes okay.

* The car ended up being $450.00. When they lifted the assembly out, they discovered the spark plugs were close to the end, so they just charged parts to replace them. I vaguely remember this being what happened more than a decade ago, last time they redid this part of the car, so was rather expecting it.

I have raised 100ish towards the bills I didn't pay in order to fix the car. I'll need to sort out the exact size of the hole once everything settled..

My chronic illness stuff remains stunningly bad. I was going to explain what's going on, but frankly, it exhausts me. We are at the trapped on the kitchen floor weeping because I couldn't find the safe for me spaghetti pot and then discovered I couldn't get up level Wednesday. Thursday was supposed to be full rest after I got the car back in the morning, but Ha! No! People kept calling me, and then it turned out I'd forgotten to sign my check so I had to go back to the mechanic before the 5 O'clock close.

(One of the things I love about Honest Mechanic is their super strict business hours. They are opened 8-5 weekdays. Everyone gets a full hour of lunch and is paid what they deserve for their skilled labor. Everyone is treated decently and they are never asked to work even a minute early or late. No bothering people when they are off the clock. Work/life balance encouraged. I will weep when the owner retires, though it will likely be okay with his son in his footsteps. I noticed tonight his son is about the age the father was when I first went there, and looks so like him they could almost be clones. I love when businesses are ethical in every respect).

As I'd already spent the gas to go downtown, I forced myself to do pharmacy and library, since medicare transport only does to and from doctor's appointments, so no errands happened Wednesday. I am already weepy tired, and in pain. We have one week of special girl cat food left, and I have concerns. I think there may be enough gas to last the month. We'll see.

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* A thing on Shaw Deadnaming Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Picard: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/709591413032189952/i-want-to-state-right-off-that-i-cant-speak-for?source=share

* I only agree with about 80% of this, but a lot of it is very good and the rest worth mulling and debating.
Contains Locked Tomb spoilers: "John is Ra and Alecto is Mehet-Weret:" https://chaos-has-theories.tumblr.com/post/686969277229727744/part-1-the-eye-of-john

* "What's happening to your body book for lyctors :" https://www.tumblr.com/yuck-pfaugh/709602095818571776?source=share

* "International Snow Sculpture Championships 2023: See the Incredible Winning Creations:" https://nicenews.com/culture/2023-international-snow-sculpture-championships/

* "In world where there is two types of tower-dwellers, a Princess is locked in a tower.:" https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/708978195414859776?source=share

* I'd like to take a moment to appreciate how good the young actors are/have been on The Last of Us. So good and real and natural I never questioned it until listening to the creators talk about it.

* Alfred orients the Wayne Manor Staff: https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/709087024924278784?source=share

* Time travel cop, fish & wildlife division: https://www.tumblr.com/magnesiumflare/709291424936607744?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Fuckenstein:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/708804745928802305/midnight-pals-fuckenstein?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: The Protocols of Hogwarts:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/708894743941300224/midnight-pals-the-protocols-of-hogwarts?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: A Field So English:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/709004466549129216/midnight-pals-a-field-so-english?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Legally Binding:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/709268715375558656/midnight-pals-legally-binding?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: The Real Victims:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/709340610840182784/midnight-pals-the-real-victims?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: more of this shit:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/709438054266552320/midnight-pals-more-of-this-shit?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Penguins on Parade:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/709619008102711296/midnight-pals-penguins-on-parade?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.

Earthquake Relief:
Link to help Turkey: https://www.tumblr.com/star-burp/708846519515774976?source=share

White Helmets Syria: https://www.whitehelmets.org/en/

UN help for both countries: https://donate.unhcr.org/int/en/turkiye-syria-earthquake-emergency

Queer relief fund for the 6 February Earthquake LGBTQIA+ and/or SW survivors: https://gogetfunding.com/queer-relief-fund-for-the-6-february-earthquake-lgbtqia-and-or-sw-survivors/

Doctors without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate?_gl=1*659c3c*_ga*NzkzMjQ0NzgxLjE2NzU4MzgzMzk.*_ga_C7EW6Q0J9K*MTY3NTgzODMzOC4xLjEuMTY3NTgzODQyMC4wLjAuMA..&_ga=2.197021998.387868859.1675838340-793244781.1675838339&_gac=1.52586970.1675838340.CjwKCAiAioifBhAXEiwApzCzthT21ylvvR7E5iLT-s-1Ob5DuAW4jst5eWVg1o0d89Pq6HwlGqUEPRoC-K0QAvD_BwE

* Want to help Journalists without Borders? https://donate.rsf.org/us/donate/~my-donation

* Where to order your free COVID tests. "COVID Home Tests:" https://special.usps.com/testkits

* "LGBTQ Refugees Welcome campaign:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/lgbtq-refugees-welcome

* Want to help Lucas Kunce beat Josh Hawley? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/pccc_2022_lucas_kunce_only

* "Alternative Library ~ New Home Fundraiser, organized by Alternative Library:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/alternative-library-new-home-fundraiser

* This is a long time friend of mine. They have secured future housing, but have spent everything in the previous fundraiser on gofundme to survive to this point and they need They need $6800 over the next three months until their move in date.

Gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/hdykv-housing-crisis?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

You can also support them via their Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Kandrinchae/shop?fbclid=IwAR0E1PRHlG45LWhBfDtVpGigD1YUk9Njm-__SviL4W7C8JZUCppFc1oG9Gs%22

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. :

SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

They are also trying to GM for pay. They are an excellent GM. Here's where to sign up: https://startplaying.games/gm/1617744454089x564714756631343740

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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Watch on YouTube

* Seriously, let's fill this thing out. "The Biggest Trans Survey in the U.S. Is Under Way; Why It Matters:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/07/biggest-trans-survey-us-underway-heres-why-it-matters

* "Tory government cuts hundreds of millions in HIV funding:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/14/hiv-funding-tory-cut/

* "Disabled Americans Are Punished for Getting Married:"

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* "Greta Thunberg Says UN Climate Conference Is Failing the Planet:" https://advocatechannel.com/greta-thunberg-says-un-climate-conference-is-failing-the-planet

* "UN Climate Talks Reach Halftime with Key Issues Unresolved:" https://www.voanews.com/a/un-climate-talks-reach-halftime-with-key-issues-unresolved-/6832137.html

* "Zelensky Says Russian Invasion Threatens Global Climate Change:" https://advocatechannel.com/zelensky-says-russian-invasion-threatens-global-climate-change

* "Reeling from floods, Pakistan seeks climate compensation, debt relief:" https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/reeling-floods-pakistan-seeks-climate-compensation-debt-relief-2022-11-07/

* "COP27: 'We'd never seen this much water' - Pakistan flood survivors:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63218139

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* "Deadly Collapsed Bridge in India Had Recently Reopened After Repairs:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/31/deadly-collapsed-bridge-india-had-recently-reopened-after-repairs

* "19 Dead After Passenger Plane Crashes Into Lake:" https://www.outtraveler.com/safety/2022/11/07/19-dead-after-passenger-plane-crashes-lake

* "Tributes paid to gay Batman actor Kevin Conroy, tragically dead at 66:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/12/kevin-conroy-batman-animated-series-voice-actor-gay-death/

* "DefunctTV: The Final Jim Henson Hour:"

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* "How One Man Kept Water Cremation Illegal:"

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* "Naval Aviators Draw Giant Sky Penis Pointed at Russian Military Base=:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/11/07/naval-aviators-draw-giant-sky-penis-pointed-russian-military-base

* "The Monarchy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Meanwhile… Don’t Lick Poisonous Toads! | Americans Slim Down Thanksgiving Plans:"

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* "Fox News Calls T**** A “Loser” | Is Meta Totally Zucked?:"

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* "GOP Points Finger At T**** For Disappointing Midterms | Warnock-Walker Race Goes To A Runoff:"

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* "CP Time - Black Governors:" https://www.cc.com/video/a8eojx/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-black-governors

* "Louisiana Votes Against Banning Slavery:" https://www.cc.com/video/zhaebp/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-louisiana-votes-against-banning-slavery

* "Votedemic 2022 - Midterm Results:" https://www.cc.com/video/8qn7qy/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-midterm-results

* "So Much News, So Little Time - Legal Shrooms & More :" https://www.cc.com/video/wqpa5c/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-so-much-news-so-little-time-legal-shrooms-more

* I do not approve of the Ageism in here, but the topic doesn't get much coverage, so I'm posting with that caveat. "Ronny Chieng Teaches You About Asians - Veterans :" https://www.cc.com/video/q4ovhs/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-ronny-chieng-teaches-you-about-asians-veterans

* "CP Time - Black Superheroes:" https://www.cc.com/video/ngl36x/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-black-superheroes

* I remember how angry I was when I saw the Stepford remake. "Why Don't Worry Darling Doesn't Work ...:"

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* "You're Wrong about Black Panther (2018):"

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* "The Traumatic Camp of "Mommie Dearest":"

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* "99 Unused Red Balloons:"

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* "Doug Mastriano’s Supporters Are Waiting For God To Intervene:"

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* "Starr Andrews GPF Skate Canada Free:"

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* Wednesday a week ago, I did extended errands with Head and Techie Millennial. One of the many, many things I appreciate about Head Millennial as a companion besides obvious things like high quality of conversation, is things like the following.

So we had to change plans at the last minute to pick up Techie Millennial at their place instead of the downtown bus station, which meant we were doing our downtown errands first, then going North to pick up techie for errands up that way. Techie's errand was time dependent and normally we would have been able to do our stuff in half an hour or so and even with the bit of commute, we'd be fine. It was one of those days though, where everything took two to three times as long as it ought to for reasons out of our control. Short errands that should be five minutes stretched and stretched. I ended up having to do a lot of extra standing. There was no close parking at forage, which burned time and spoons for me with the extra hobbling. (Luckily there was medium parking.) all this meant we hit rush hour on the highway going north. Sigh. Luckily the place Techie needed to go was open til 5:30, and we picked them up just before 5. It was fine.

So we get to the Ethical Grocery aka the good general grocery store. (Employee owned, excellent for workers, fair prices, Good selection.) I was fine, mostly, pain wise. My legs were okay, but I was tiring, since I blew my energy on things like standing in line and medium distance parking. I could shop free. Me to head Millennial: I'm trying to decide if I should use the electric cart. Head Millennial, a person who knows my level of stubborn and stoic: If you are even thinking about it, you need one. Me: sigh.

They were right, of course. I had very little left by the time we got home, and miles to go before I slept.

We had a great time after they finished working, eating frozen pizza and watching what We Do in the Shadows.

...and this is why election things didn't post Wednesday. I was exhausted. I had other online things I needed to do. There wasn't enough left for links to go up, only yet more link prep on breaking news. Thursday, I was so exhausted I kept falling back asleep and didn't make it online until well after midnight. Election results keep rolling out.

I am sorry.

* Monday: So what’s happening here is I’m trying very hard to get as many of last week’s results up as possible. Obviously, I don’t know local papers in every state, nor am I granular on state and local politics outside of the states I follow most closely.

The slowness on posting this stuff, is because I’ve been having the kind of week where my body keeps vetoing things and imposing naps.

I’m going to have to sleep sometime, so I don’t expect to finish or have the aggregate up today, judging from the volume I still need to plow through.

Again, one disabled person in fragile health doing this as a hobby. hard physical limits are hard physical limits.

* We stepped outside to take Head Millennial home Monday evening, and the air smelled weird and wrong. I was breathing like a fish out of water by the time we got to the car. The sky was the wrong colour. It didn't smell like Wildfire though it was definitely Fire.

We turned a corner and a pillar of smoke came into view. It was massive, but it didn't move ore spread noticeably at the base the whole time we could see it. My guess was something at the port, either a large ship or a building. We were close enough to see it was likely too close to the water to be any of the non-port things. It was still closer to Head Millennial's place than i like.

Nothing was on the print news, but the local paper is a rag with a strong bias and they make up quotes, so.... IDK. maybe we'll find out tomorrow.

It was disturbing, a pillar that big and high against a bright orange sunset with the darkening sky above an eerie greenish blue.

I am, at this point, pasted together with caffeine. I only had a couple of hours sleep and the pain is impressive. I will do what I can before the crash comes.

* "These Creepy Abandoned Churches Are Strangely Beautiful:" https://www.outtraveler.com/virtual-travel/2022/10/28/these-creepy-abandoned-churches-are-strangely-beautiful#media-gallery-media-8

* This place was still famous for being proverbially bad when I was growing up. Like used as a reference to mean the worst place you could possibly sent right up there with an infamous asylum in Norristown. On a lighter note, I learned a children's song about Willie Sutton as a kid. I still have no idea what his crimes were, but I can sing a song still about his skill at escape. "A Virtual Tour of Spooky Eastern State Penitentiary:" https://www.outtraveler.com/virtual-travel/2022/10/24/virtual-tour-spooky-eastern-state-penitentiary#media-gallery-media-6

* "‘A Perfect Coach’: Indigenous Actor Josué Maychi Taught Mayan Language To ‘Wakanda Forever’ Cast :" https://wearemitu.com/wearemitu/entertainment/josue-maychi-mayan-actor-language-wakanda-forever/?utm_source=facebook_wam&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=44879_josue_maychi_wakanda_forever&utm_term=&utm_content=new_article&fbclid=IwAR0uSyZakr7rd7wLfZ-4yBLyObp_dyJP4m-F5HdrpEI2i7Qq_8GXRPL7Szk

* Tumblr and Twitter as Mythology: https://nkjemisin.tumblr.com/post/700648661820014592

* The Late Traveler: https://dycefic.tumblr.com/post/679283678211375104/the-late-traveller

* Hob and the Baby Dream: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/700865395815596032/hob-holding-the-baby-nightmare-everybody-look

* Hob notices humans are frightened of Morpheus: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/700423623004078080/i-saw-your-comment-on-ao3-about-dream-knowing-hes

* The Midnight Society: JK Rowling hunts Daniel Radcliff: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1588195667666644992

* The Midnight Society: JK Rowling Hears Bad News: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1590462510368690176

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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.

* List of educational, diverse, and/or long term playable toys for things like Toys for Tots. High value toys for 20 dollars or less.: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/44WV8EVUP1Y

* On SCOTUS possibly repealing the act that prevents white people from stealing native babies, robbing them of their culture. contains how to help links at bottom: https://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/701035342837547008

* How to help HarperCollins strikers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/700611167247368192/waterhobbit-shaelit-we-interrupt-this-lovely

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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* What is going on with the news postings? Basically, between the War and my health stuff, I not managing to post fast enough and I've got a ridiculous amount of the non-war links piling up. I am doing my best to rectify it, particularly where it comes to election, legislative, coup attempt, and LGBTQIA+ news, bit it always comes down to a race between the stuff already scaffolded, the stuff prepped, and the stuff coming in. I'm going to have to cut off the aggregate without most of the LGBTQIA+, science etc. news, but I am too tired to do that as of 4/1. I must sleep sometime. Anyway, that's why there is an above average amount of older stuff tucked in here. Apologies.

* "Taliban cancels higher education for girls despite pledges:" https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/asia-and-australia/taliban-cancels-higher-education-for-girls-despite-pledges-1.10693832

* "Taliban hard-liners turning back the clock in Afghanistan:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-70bf3af0a3ee5d7e876b1f1e35f71682

* "World Bank freezes Afghan projects after Taliban bans girls from high school:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/world-bank-freezes-afghan-projects-after-taliban-bans-girls-high-school-2022-03-29/

* "Jamaica PM tells royal couple island will seek independence:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/jamaica-pm-tells-royal-couple-island-seek-independence-83630705

* "No 10 lockdown parties: what do police fines mean for Johnson and Tories?:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/29/no-10-lockdown-parties-what-do-police-fines-mean-for-boris-johnson-and-tories

* "Britain to force ferry firms to pay minimum wage after P&O row:" https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uk-force-ferry-operator-wage-changes-after-po-row-2022-03-28/

* "Boris Nemtsov: Murdered Putin rival 'tailed' by agent linked to FSB hit squad:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60878663

* "Russia Navalny: Putin critic given nine-year jail sentence in trial branded 'sham':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60832310

* "Putin's Support of JK Rowling Highlights Anti-Trans Movement's Harm:"

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* "Chinese Court to Try Chinese Australian Journalist Next Week:" https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-court-to-try-chinese-australian-journalist-next-week-/6503659.html

* "Suicide vest of Paris attacks defendant was faulty, expert tells court:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/30/paris-attacks-2015-defendant-salah-abdeslam-trial-suicide-vest-questions

* CW: Torture, Rape "Beatings and forced abortions: Life in a North Korea prison:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60870739

* "Singapore appeal court upholds death sentence for intellectually disabled man:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/29/singapore-appeal-court-upholds-death-sentence-for-nagaenthran-k-dharmalingam

* "Indigenous tell pope of abuses at Canada residential schools:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article259850460.html

* "‘Kill more’: Report finds Facebook still failing to detect hate against Rohingya:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/kill-more-report-finds-facebook-still-failing-to-detect-hate-against-rohingya/

* "Dozens of Bodies in Kenyan River Shed Light on Epidemic of Police Murders:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dnmx/police-brutality-kenya

* "Kenya's Police Killing Epidemic:"

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* "Moderna says its low-dose COVID shots work for kids under 6:" https://apnews.com/article/moderna-low-dose-vaccine-children-c7702f93e863d74b712791b55e54bdc1

* "Why Kids’ COVID Vaccines Aren’t Performing Like Adults’:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/how-effective-are-kids-covid-vaccines/629419/

* "Omicron is trouncing the argument for “natural immunity” to COVID:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/omicron-is-trouncing-the-argument-for-natural-immunity-to-covid/

* "Scans reveal how Covid may change the brain:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-60591487

* "Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-business-health-europe-778444506a72e8f9c3be327640b1929d

* "WHO says several European countries lifted Covid-19 measures too ‘brutally’:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220322-who-says-several-european-countries-lifted-covid-19-measures-too-brutally

* "Shanghai rules out full lockdown despite sharp rise in Covid cases:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/26/china-shanghai-rules-out-full-lockdown-despite-sharp-rise-in-covid-cases

* "Hong Kong to ease strict COVID curbs after business backlash:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-leader-says-covid-flight-ban-9-countries-no-longer-necessary-2022-03-21/

* "Germany hits record Covid infection rate since start of pandemic:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/germany-hits-record-covid-infection-rate-since-start-of-pandemic

* "US opens second COVID boosters to 50 and up, others at risk:" https://apnews.com/article/fda-authorizes-second-covid-booster-33e81ee1daddd9ff04c136db620aa1ae

* "A new federal website aims to solve a key COVID problem: where to get antiviral pills:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/30/1089608854/covid-gov-new-website-offers-a-single-stop-for-covid-info-tests-and-treatment

* "The pandemic has been deadlier in red states:" https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-pandemics-politics-masks-vaccines-deaths-2644f22b-fa77-4e34-a6fe-8b492172dff2.html

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* "U.S. formally accuses Russian military of committing war crimes in Ukraine:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/23/us-accuses-russian-military-war-crimes-ukraine-00019746

* "Biden pledges new Ukraine aid, warns Russia on chem weapons:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-biden-business-g-7-summit-9f6705e72533496f513c3540881d348e

* "Biden’s game plan in Brussels: Punch Putin and hug the West:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/24/biden-russia-removal-g-20-00020169

* "U.S. announces new Russia sanctions over Ukraine invasion:" https://www.reuters.com/world/g7-eu-announce-measures-stop-russia-avoiding-sanctions-us-official-2022-03-24/

* "Leaders add sanctions on Russia, warn against chemical weapons:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/24/biden-nato-europe-russia-ukraine-war/

* "Amna Nawaz: If there’s concern about use of chemical weapons, where is the line?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-warned-by-biden-against-using-chemical-weapons-we-will-respond-136186437504

* "Lavrov’s stepdaughter targeted as UK announces 65 new Russian sanctions:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/24/uk-widens-russian-sanctions-list-to-target-key-industries-and-individuals

* "Russian supply chains next in line for sanctions:" https://www.reuters.com/business/us-allies-aim-sanctions-more-russian-sectors-supply-chains-treasurys-adeyemo-2022-03-29/

* "Russian Weekly Oil Exports Drop 26% as Buyers Look Elsewhere:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-28/russia-weekly-oil-exports-drop-26-as-buyers-look-elsewhere

* "Putin misled by 'yes men' in military afraid to tell him the truth, White House and EU officials say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-advisers-too-afraid-tell-him-truth-ukraine-us-official-2022-03-30/

* "U.S. intelligence reveals Putin’s military advisors fear telling him about Ukraine failures:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russia-s-pledge-to-scale-back-military-operations-in-kyiv-met-with-skepticism-by-ukrainian-u-s-officials-136622149581

* "Biden says of Putin: 'For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power':" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/26/1089014039/biden-says-of-putin-for-gods-sake-this-man-cannot-remain-in-power

* "Putin spokesman refuses to rule out use of nuclear weapons if Russia faced an 'existential threat':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/europe/amanpour-peskov-interview-ukraine-intl/

* "Ammonia Leak Contaminates Area in East Ukraine:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-03-20/live-updates-zelenskyy-suspends-parties-with-russian-links

* "Russian forces are occupying city housing Chernobyl workers, mayor says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/26/slavutych-chernobyl-occupied-ukraine-russia/

* "Russians leave Chernobyl site as fighting rages elsewhere:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-united-states-nato-5863ad1d740cdd04ba42a25de0d31449

* "Chernihiv mayor urges Zelenskiy not to swap captured Russian pilots for Ukrainian PoWs:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/29/chernihiv-mayor-captured-russian-pilots-ukrainian-pows-zelenskiy

* "More Russian Mercenaries Deploying to Ukraine to Take On Greater Role in War:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/us/politics/russian-mercenaries-ukraine-wagner-group.html?referringSource=articleShare

* "NATO: 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops dead in Ukraine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-europe-nato-e35e54b40359e52f3ffd4911577b669a

* "Russia begins to mobilize military reinforcements for Ukraine as casualties mount, Pentagon says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/25/russia-reinforcements-georgia-ukraine/

* "Russian troops’ tendency to talk on unsecured lines is proving costly:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/27/russian-military-unsecured-communications/

* "Counteroffensive in Ukraine Shifts Dynamic of War:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/24/world/russia-ukraine-war

* "Kyiv suburb Irpin now 80% under Ukrainian control, mayor says:" https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-23-22/h_002c58c0274484214f4750382a367581

* "Russia Abandons March on Kyiv, Focuses Embattled Troops Instead on Donbas:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2022-03-25/russia-abandons-march-on-kyiv-focuses-embattled-troops-instead-on-donbas

* "The drone operators who halted Russian convoy headed for Kyiv:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/the-drone-operators-who-halted-the-russian-armoured-vehicles-heading-for-kyiv

* "Inside a Ukrainian town's bloody battle to keep Russian invaders away from a nuclear plant and the vital port of Odesa:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-voznesensk-battle-mykolaiv-defend-nuclear-plant-odesa-port/

* "With front lines on 3 sides, Ukraine's Dnipro sharpens its focus on the war:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/29/1089146927/russia-war-ukraine-dnipro

* "Multiple rockets hit Lviv city in western Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/three-powerful-explosions-heard-near-ukraines-western-lviv-city-says-governor-2022-03-26/

* "Ukraine’s Mykolaiv has held off Russian forces. Bodies are piling up anyway.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/23/mykolaiv-bodies-ukraine-war/

* "Missiles hit Ukrainian military unit near Dnipro, governor says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/missiles-hit-ukrainian-military-unit-near-dnipro-governor-says-2022-03-25/

* "Russian forces cut off Ukraine's Chernihiv city, mayor says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/ukrainian-city-chernihiv-cut-off-by-russian-forces-regional-governor-2022-03-25/

* "In Chernihiv, civilians are trapped as hospitals and schools attacked:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60860197

* "Twelve killed in Ukraine's Mykolaiv as rocket blasts hole in regional HQ:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-rocket-blasts-hole-mykolaiv-administration-building-southern-ukraine-2022-03-29/

* "In Kyiv Suburb, Ukrainian Military Claims a Big Prize:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/world/ukraine-russia-kyiv-irpin.html

* "Almost 5,000 killed in Mariupol since Russian siege began, mayor's office:" https://www.reuters.com/world/mariupol-mayor-fears-humanitarian-catastrophe-says-city-must-be-completely-2022-03-28/

* "Parliament member says Ukrainian forces won't surrender—including her own family:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/parliament-member-says-ukrainian-forces-won-t-surrender-including-her-own-family-136276549564

* "Putin is being humiliated on the battlefield in Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-generals-warned-invading-ukraine-would-be-pointless-dangerous-new-york-times-reports-136089669916

* "Ukraine's zoos: what is happening to all the animals:" https://theconversation.com/ukraines-zoos-what-is-happening-to-all-the-animals-179147

* "Russian generals are getting killed at an extraordinary rate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/26/ukraine-russan-generals-dead/

* "Mutinous Russian troops ran over their own commander, say western officials:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/russian-troops-mutiny-commander-ukraine-report-western-officials

* "Ukrainian sailors tried to block a Russian oligarch's yacht from docking in Turkey:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/23/1088210977/russian-oligarch-yacht-turkey

* "Ukraine reports 300 dead in airstrike on Mariupol theater:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-europe-moscow-b56759e5d40db18e94bef8e42db23e47

* "Deadly shelling in Ukraine’s Kyiv flattens shopping mall:" https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/3/21/photos-smouldering-scenes-of-shelling-close-to-central-kyiv

* "Lady Anastasia's chief engineer decided to sink the yacht: 'I tried to sink the boat as a political protest':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/business/ukrainian-crew-member-sabotaged-russian-oligarch-linked-yacht-invs/index.html

* "Once the Children Got Hungry, ‘the Fire Was Gone From Their Eyes’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/world/europe/mariupol-ukraine-russia-war-food-water.html

* "Putin’s climate envoy steps down from his Kremlin post, reportedly over the Ukraine war.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/world/europe/russia-anatoly-chubais-quits.html

* "Russian soldiers release Ukraine town’s mayor and agree to leave after protests:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/26/russian-soldiers-release-ukraine-towns-mayor-and-agree-to-leave-after-protests

* "Ukraine says Russian forces violently disperse Kherson protest:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/21/ukraine-says-russia-shoot-at-protesters-in-occupied-kherson

* "Thousands of Russians in Prague protest against war in Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-russians-prague-protest-against-war-ukraine-2022-03-26/

* "Russian activists sign open letter calling for end to war in Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/russian-activists-sign-open-letter-calling-for-end-to-war-in-ukraine

* "Tanya’s Sister Was Trapped in Mariupol. This Is Their Story.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/26/opinion/ukraine-russia-war-family.html

* "March in support of Ukraine in London: everything was turning blue and yellow:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/27/march-in-support-of-ukraine-in-london-everything-was-turning-blue-and-yellow

* "Gay Russian man 'ashamed' of his country says Putin 'disconnected from reality':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/09/russia-ukraine-war-lgbt-gay/

* "Biden meets with U.S. soldiers in Poland as refugee crisis intensifies:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/25/biden-poland-ukraine/

* "Ukrainian refugees from Moldova arrive via air bridge in Germany:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-refugees-moldova-arrive-via-air-bridge-germany-2022-03-25/

* "Macron: France, Greece and Turkey to attempt Mariupol evacuation plan:" https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/25/ukraine-war-latest-zelenskyy-tells-eu-sanctions-came-a-little-late

* "Ukraine Refugees Near 4 million. Will Exodus Slowdown Last?:" https://news.wttw.com/2022/03/28/ukraine-refugees-near-4-million-will-exodus-slowdown-last

* "Holocaust survivors flee from Ukraine to Germany for safety:" https://apnews.com/article/holocaust-survivors-flee-ukraine-to-germany-55fae67ceebbe88e8edf04ce387d374b

* "'It is terrible': For Ukraine's Jews and Roma, war revives old traumas:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60613433

* "Refugees in Quebec will have to learn French within 6 months:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-96-quebec-refugees-french-1.6355756?cmp=rss

* "How Polish & Hungarian Activists Are Helping Queer Ukrainian Refugees:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/3/12/how-polish-hungarian-activists-are-helping-queer-ukrainian-refugees

* "Brave Polish activists helping LGBT+ Ukrainians flee Putin's cruel and barbaric war:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/09/poland-ukraine-russia-war-lgbt-warsaw-pride/

* "Steve Bannon Praises Putin and Texas for Anti-LGBTQ+ Actions:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/2/24/steve-bannon-praises-putin-and-texas-anti-lgbtq-actions

* "ABC’s James Longman on Russia Bringing Back the Iron Curtain:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2022/3/03/abcs-james-longman-russia-bringing-back-iron-curtain

* "Head of Russian Orthodox Church blames Ukraine war on 'sinful' Pride parades:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/08/russia-ukraine-war-orthodox-church-kirill-lgbt-pride/

* "A familiar plot but truth may never be known about latest ‘Russian poisoning’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/truth-may-never-be-known-about-latest-russian-poisoning-roman-abramovich

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* "Putin’s war is the first conflict in a new global era:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-putin-s-war-is-the-first-conflict-in-a-new-global-era-136175685819

* "Ukraine is canary in the coal mine in battle between tyranny and liberty Marie Yovanovitch says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-s-trip-to-europe-over-ukraine-crisis-analyzed-by-marie-yovanovitch-john-brennan-136280645852

* "NATO set to boost forces on its eastern flank, chief says:" https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-ukraine-russia-stoltenberg-summit-forces-eastern-flank/

* "FCC says Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky poses risk to U.S. national security:" https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/03/26/fcc-says-russian-cybersecurity-firm-kaspersky-poses-national-security-risk/8901648337432/

* "American freed from Venezuela says his ‘nightmare’ has ended:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-venezuela-caracas-daae694f5984d418627cbb3cb1885c43

* "US trial for member of Islamic State group begins in Virginia:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/30/the-beatles-trial-isis-terror-group-virginia

* "Paul Manafort stopped from boarding plane to UAE over revoked passport:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/manafort-passport-revoked/index.html

* "The Supply Chain Crisis Is About to Get a Lot Worse:" https://www.wired.com/story/supply-chain-crisis-data/

* "Vice President Harris on Russia: We are not into regime change, period:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/vice-president-kamala-harris-interviewed-on-crisis-in-ukraine-and-more-by-joy-reid-136813126001

* "Vice President Harris "experienced great joy" as Judge Jackson "cut through political gamesmanship":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/vice-president-kamala-harris-praises-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-s-supreme-court-hearings-testimony-136814149928

* "Biden eyes using wartime powers for minerals needed in clean energy push:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/30/biden-expected-to-use-wartime-powers-for-minerals-needed-in-clean-energy-push-00021693

* "Biden requests Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker resign from presidential council or be terminated:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/biden-requests-resignations-mehmet-oz-and-herschel-walker/index.html

* "Justice Clarence Thomas Discharged From Hospital, Court Says:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/us/politics/justice-clarence-thomas-hospital-discharged.html

* "Manchin says he'll back Jackson for Supreme Court, likely assuring confirmation:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/manchin-says-hell-back-jackson-for-supreme-court-likely-assuring-confirmation

* This means we have the votes even if someone buys off Sinema. "Collins says she will back Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/susan-collins-ketanji-brown-jackson-vote/

* "Explaining Lindsey Graham’s Many Interruptions of Ketanji Brown Jackson:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/lindsey-graham-interruptions-ketanji-brown-jackson.html

* "Blackburn to Jackson: Can you define ‘the word woman’?:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/22/blackburn-jackson-define-the-word-woman-00019543

* "Sen. Padilla on Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: "She deserves better":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/sen-padilla-on-supreme-court-nominee-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-she-deserves-better-136343109909

* "GOP Senators seem to pander to QAnon base in Judge Jackson hearings:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-senators-seem-to-pander-to-qanon-base-in-judge-jackson-hearings-136178245971

* "Expert hopes ‘sorry excuse for confirmation hearing’ sparks conversation on Jackson’s treatment:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-confirmation-hearings-end-with-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-remaining-poised-despite-gop-maltreatment-136091717711

* "Why Ketanji Brown Jackson's Work History Matters to LGBTQ+ People:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/3/08/why-kentaji-brown-jacksons-work-history-matters-lgbtq-people

* "SCOTUS Nom Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Nearly Flaw-Free LGBTQ+ Record:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/25/scotus-nom-ketanji-brown-jackson-has-nearly-flaw-free-lgbtq-record

* "Biden will tap oil reserve, hoping to push gasoline prices down.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/business/energy-environment/biden-oil-strategic-petroleum-reserve.html

* "Biden's budget plan: Higher taxes on rich, lower deficits:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/bidens-budget-plan-hhigher-taxes-rich-lower-deficits-83720420

* "Vice President Kamala Harris visits Greenville in support of small businesses:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2022/04/01/harris-said-small-business-like-ones-greenville-deserve-support/7247112001/

* "Bipartisan deal struck 'in principle' on $10 billion Covid-19 aid package, Romney says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/politics/covid-relief-negotiations-congress-mitt-romney/index.html

* "Ukraine crisis could derail drive to limit U.S. defense spending:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ukraine-crisis-could-derail-drive-limit-us-defense-spending-2022-03-23/

* Don't hold your breath. Manchin's been paid to vote against this sort of thing. "Biden administration announces new funding to make homes energy-efficient:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/03/30/biden-energy-efficiency-homes-climate/

* "Community college enrollment is down, but skilled-trades programs are booming:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1086454046/2-year-skilled-trades-programs-booming

* "A battle over schools rages in Michigan — and Betsy DeVos is at the center of it:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/betsy-devos-private-school-vouchers-michigan-rcna21384

* "Sacramento teachers strike as Minneapolis walkout continues:" https://www.kttc.com/2022/03/24/sacramento-teachers-strike-minneapolis-walkout-continues/

* "Email Prompts Several Applebee's Managers To Walk Off the Job:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/25/applebees-managers-walk-off-job/

* "Amazon Labor Union wins historic election at New York City warehouse:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/amazon-labor-first-union-win-warehouse-staten-island-historic-smalls-jfk8/

* "Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to form company’s first U.S. union:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/amazon-workers-on-staten-island-vote-to-form-company-s-first-u-s-union-136815173740

* "Joe Biden signs landmark law making lynching a hate crime:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/29/emmett-till-anti-lynching-act-biden-signs

* "Violence Against Women Act Expands Services to LGBTQ+ Survivors:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/17/violence-against-women-act-expands-services-lgbtq-survivors

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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* "DeSantis vetoes new Florida congressional map and calls for special session:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/politics/desantis-vetoes-florida-congressional-map/index.html

* "Supreme Court Sides With Republicans in Case on Wisconsin Redistricting:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/politics/supreme-court-wisconsin-redistricting.html

* "Judge strikes down parts of Florida election law; cites race:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-florida-voting-elections-tallahassee-b0c486301fd6c22eeea6af7e55225c5a

* "Reporting on Conspiracy Theorists Trying to Take Over Elections:"

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* "Cawthorn’s ‘orgies’ line shows how right-wing politics can boomerang:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/29/madison-cawthorn-orgies/

* "Rep. Cawthorn’s ‘cocaine’ and ‘orgies’ remark finally too much for GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-cawthorn-s-cocaine-and-orgies-remark-finally-too-much-for-gop-136621637630

* Re: Cawthorn's Orgies: 1. Madison Cawthorn is a known and frequent liar. That being said, 2. He has corroboration from admittedly very shady roger Stone.

3. This is from the '80's and I have zero ways of knowing if it is still the case, but I knew a guy who used to do gigs as a bartender/sex worker at DC Parties involving lawmakers and the claims Cawthorn is making. Before you ask, no, I don't know which lawmakers of the period went to these parties as he never named names. He just said Republicans and democrats hired him. Again, hearsay from the late eighties, so take it with a grain of salt. I'm just saying that it is possible that Cawthorn's claims are at least partially true. This is not the same as saying they are, just that I wouldn't be surprised.

4. I admit that the way the republicans are reacting looks more like panic at getting called out on something at least partially true than innocent people reacting to lies, but again, this is a subjective response.

5. The contrast between this total freakout, whatever the veracity of the claims, and their lack of reaction reaction to literal Nazi and Nazi adjacent statements and behavior within their caucus is in itself a kind of indictment. Just saying.

* "His Record: Fla. Sen. Baxley Is a Notorious Anti-LGBTQ+ Lawmaker:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/10/florida-senator-dennis-baxley-anti-lgbtq-record-history-bill-law-dont-say-gay#media-gallery-media-5

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests Pete Buttigieg wants to use girls' bathrooms:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-pete-chasten-buttigieg-donald-trump-save-america/

"One Twitter user wrote: “I’m a woman, and honestly, I’d rather Pete Buttigieg in the bathroom with me than Marjorie Taylor Greene.”"

* "Buttigieg Slams Rep. Greene's Taunt to 'Stay Out of Girls' Bathrooms':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/30/buttigieg-slams-rep-greenes-comment-keep-out-girls-bathrooms

* "GOP Candidate Sought Russian Help to Unseat Gay Rep. David Cicilline:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/23/gop-candidate-sought-russian-help-unseat-gay-rep-david-cicilline

* "Watch: Anti-Trans Jeff Younger Heckled as "Fascist" by Students:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/03/watch-anti-trans-texas-politician-jeff-younger-heckled-fascist-college-students

* "Gay Democrat Challenges GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert With Vow to End 'BS':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/08/gay-democrat-alex-walker-challenges-gop-lauren-boebert-vow-end-bs

* "GOP Lawmaker Retracts Claim Students Were Self-Identifying as Cats:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/31/gop-lawmaker-bruce-bostelman-retracts-claim-students-were-self-identifying-cats

* "Nebraska Rep. Jeff Fortenberry is found guilty in contributions probe:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1088715862/nebraska-rep-jeff-fortenberry-is-found-guilty-in-contributions-probe

* "'Revenge': Georgia GOP primaries test Trump's power, voter fraud lie:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/revenge-georgia-gop-primaries-test-trumps-power-voter-fraud-lie-rcna21354

* "How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics:" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-white-victimhood-fuels-republican-politics/

* "‘Old-school bigoted’: Why Republicans seem to be regressing on LGBTQ issues:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-old-school-bigoted-why-republicans-seem-to-be-regressing-on-lgbtq-issues-136719429508

* "White House rebukes Trump after he calls on Putin to smear Hunter Biden:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/30/white-house-trump-claim-putin-hunter-biden

* "Trump committed ‘numerous’ felonies, said resigning New York prosecutor – report:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/donald-trump-crime-accusation-prosecutor-mark-pomerantz

* "White House staffer says her gay teen son was 'ashamed' she worked for Donald Trump:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/10/stephanie-grisham-donald-trump-gay-son-florida/

* "Judge says Trump ‘likely’ committed crimes in bid to block Biden victory:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/28/john-eastman-trump-lawyer-capitol-attack-emails

* "Ted Cruz's efforts to keep Trump in office went far deeper than we knew:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/ted-cruz-january-6-trump-election/

* "8-hour gap in Trump's Jan. 6 White House phone records:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-dd00501687003ec2ad3b4929a80ba83a

* "Rep. Luria: Missing Jan. 6 phone logs have ‘overtones’ of Nixon cover-up:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-luria-missing-jan-6-phone-logs-have-overtones-of-nixon-cover-up-136531013658

* "Trump used White House phone for call on January 6 that was not on official log:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/30/trump-used-white-house-phone-call-capitol-attack-jan-6-not-official-log

* "Jan. 6 panel votes to recommend contempt charges for Trump aides Scavino, Navarro:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jan-6-panel-votes-to-recommend-contempt-charges-for-trump-aides-scavino-navarro-136447045503

* "Garland could be creating 'biggest failure of an attorney general in American history' expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/former-trump-aides-dan-scavino-peter-navarro-face-criminal-contempt-of-congress-charges-136450117652

* "Donald Trump’s disloyalty may finally come back to bite him:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/24/mo-brooks-turns-on-donald-trump-endorsement-jan-6-committee/

* "Mo Brooks: Trump asked him to ‘rescind' 2020 results, hold new election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mo-brooks-trump-asked-him-to-rescind-2020-results-hold-new-election-136087621920

* "Jared Kushner expected to appear before Jan. 6 committee this week:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/jared-kushner-expected-jan-committee-week/story?id=83723385

* "Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/

* "Texts show wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged election overthrow to Mark Meadows:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texts-show-ginni-thomas-urged-election-overthrow-to-mark-meadows-136186949823

* "Ginni Thomas actively tried to install losing candidate as president legal expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ginni-thomas-sent-29-texts-to-trump-s-chief-of-staff-to-justify-overturning-2020-election-136281669678

* "Warren: Justice Thomas must recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/warren-justice-thomas-must-recuse-himself-from-jan-6-cases-136532037995

* "Impeach Thomas? House Dems can go there, but most won’t.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/29/clarence-thomas-congress-fallout-00021167

* "Cult expert claims this never-seen-before footage features Ginni Thomas discussing Lifespring experience:" https://www.rawstory.com/ginni-thomas-lifespring-cult/

* "Justice Dept. expands Jan. 6 probe to look at rally prep, financing:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/30/jan-6-fbi-subpoena-justice/

* "Threat assessment experts highlight danger posed by 'involuntarily celibate' men | CNN Politics:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/politics/tallahassee-hot-yoga-shooting-misogynistic-extremism-report/index.html

* "Alex Jones faces fines for skipping Sandy Hook deposition:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/alex-jones-faces-fines-skipping-sandy-hook-deposition-83769130

* "Initially Rejected by the US, Russians Are Secretly Hustled Over the Border:"

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* "Biden administration plans to end pandemic border restrictions in May, sources say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/immigration-title-42/index.html

* "How Putin's war in Ukraine can advance immigration policy in the United States:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/how-putin-s-war-in-ukraine-can-advance-immigration-policy-in-the-united-states-136343109884

* "More than half of the Texas House wants to stop the execution of Melissa Lucio, convicted of killing her toddler:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/24/texas-legislature-melissa-lucio/

* There remains no proof that any crime was committed at all. "‘Only the hand of the Governor can halt’ Lucio’s execution, judge says:" https://www.valleycentral.com/news/state-news/only-the-hand-of-the-governor-can-halt-lucios-execution-judge-says/

* "California Assembly advances involuntary servitude amendment:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-22/california-assembly-advances-involuntary-servitude-amendment

* "Prison Labor: Inmates Exploited for Profit:"

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* "The real story about crime Republicans won’t tell you:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/22/crime-murder-rates-republican-cities/

* "Study: states with high murder rates more likely to be Republican:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/study-states-with-high-murder-rates-more-likely-to-be-republican-136344645535

* "83-Year-Old Trans Woman Indicted Over Killing and Dismembering Victim:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/3/11/83-year-old-brooklyn-trans-woman-harvey-marcelin-indicted-over-killing-and-dismembering-victim

* "The Murderer's Little Boy:" https://www.texasobserver.org/the-murderers-little-boy/

* "'Black Panther' director Ryan Coogler speaks out after being mistakenly suspected of attempted robbery:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/entertainment/ryan-coogler-arrested-bank-robbery-mistaken/index.html

* "Can Kyle Rittenhouse Sue Everyone Who Called Him a Murderer?:"

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* "Washington OKs 1st statewide missing Indigenous people alert:" https://apnews.com/article/united-states-washington-jay-inslee-4ecb8e8b8dd600861307b0a176d0dfee

* "How the Atlanta Spa Shootings—the Victims, the Survivors—Tell a Story of America:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/how-the-atlanta-spa-shootings-tell-a-story-of-america

* "It Never Seems to Be a Good Time to Talk About Teachers’ Racism:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/03/teacher-racism-in-classrooms-and-curriculum.html

* "5 Christian School Staffers Charged Over Alleged Sex Abuse Cover-Up:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/18/5-christian-school-staffers-charged-over-alleged-sex-abuse-cover

* CW: Extreme Child Abuse. "Mother Confesses She & Her Girlfriend Starved Her Daughters to Death:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/3/18/mother-confesses-she-her-girlfriend-starved-daughters-death

* CW: Abuse "One in three LGBT+ Brits abused by their family, disturbing report finds:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/01/lgbt-family-abuse-galop/

* "Gay Ex-Amazon Employee Claims He Was Hit On by Female Boss, Then Fired:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2022/2/23/gay-ex-amazon-employee-claims-he-was-hit-female-boss-then-fired

* "Guatemala Moves to Ban Same-Sex Marriage, Increase Abortion Penalties:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/3/10/guatemala-moves-ban-same-sex-marriage-increase-abortion-penalties

* "While red states restrict abortion, blue states are voting to protect access:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1088238619/legislation-abortion-bans

* "Arizona governor signs 15-week abortion ban into law:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/arizona-governor-signs-15-week-abortion-ban-into-law-2022-03-30/

* "Kentucky legislature approves sweeping abortion bill, sending it to governor's desk:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/kentucky-omnibus-abortion-bill/index.html

* "DC Police Find 5 Fetuses In Home Of Anti-Abortion Activist Lauren Handy:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-police-fetuses-anti-abortion-activist-lauren-handy_n_6245e9a5e4b068157f749d7f

* "The many, many countries that have banned conversion therapy – no ifs or buts:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/01/conversion-therapy-bans-countries-uk-boris-johnson/

* "Plan to criminalise gender 'fraud' dubbed 'licence to harass trans people':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/09/scottish-gender-recognition-bill-fraudulent/

* "Boris Johnson slammed for ‘despicable betrayal’ after dropping conversion therapy ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/31/conversion-therapy-boris-johnson-betrayal-ban-leak/

* Them not being able to find housing in the town where they are mayor is a perfect symbol for something fundamentally wrong with the housing market for anyone younger than a boomer really. "World's first non-binary mayor to stand down after 'change of circumstances':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/15/owen-j-hurcum-not-standing-re-election/

* "Wales and Scotland vow to press on with trans-inclusive conversion therapy bans:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/01/wales-scotland-lgbt-conversion-therapy/

* "Man stabbed outside of queer bar in 'targeted' attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/12/bar-stabbing-sheffield-anti-lgbt/

* "'Whistleblower' says her life was destroyed after exposing 'homophobic abuse':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/10/sellafield-nuclear-homophobia-racism-sexism/

* "US confirms X gender markers for passports to be rolled out imminently:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/31/x-gender-markers-neutral-passports-antony-blinken-joe-biden/

* "SCOTUS: Bisexual Lawyer's Suit Against Christian Group Can Go Ahead:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/22/scotus-bisexual-lawyers-suit-against-christian-group-can-go-ahead

* "Iowa High Court Recognizes Anti-Trans Discrimination in Historic Win:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/4/01/iowa-high-court-recognizes-anti-trans-discrimination-historic-win

* "More Than One-Third of Trans Kids Are at Risk of Losing Care:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/22/more-one-third-trans-kids-are-risk-losing-gender-affirming-care

* "Justice department issues stark warning over attacks on trans rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/01/department-justice-anti-trans-healthcare-bills-federal-law/

* "Arizona, Oklahoma Governors Sign Anti-Trans Bills Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/30/arizona-oklahoma-governors-sign-anti-trans-bills-law

* "Kansas Senate Passes Anti-Transgender Sports Bans:" https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/kansas-senate-passes-anti-transgender-sports-bans

* "Utah Lawmakers Override Gov.'s Veto & Pass Anti-Trans Sports Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/25/utah-lawmakers-override-govs-veto-pass-anti-trans-sports-bill

* "Fla. Gov. DeSantis Signs Historic 'Don't Say Gay Bill,' Enabling Hate:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/28/fla-ron-desantis-signs-historic-dont-say-gay-bill-enabling-hate

* "FL gov's office said those opposing “Don’t Say Gay” bill complicit in pedophilia activist says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-don-t-say-gay-bill-passed-in-florida-despite-widespread-opposition-to-desantis-bill-136536645660

* Sigh. "Gay Republicans Call DeSantis Press Sec. 'Gay Icon' After Homophobia:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/16/gay-republicans-call-desantis-press-sec-christina-pushaw-gay-icon-after-homophobia

* "A Gay Florida Educator on the Terror of What's to Come:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/3/25/gay-florida-educator-terror-whats-come

* "First Federal Suit Against Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' Law Filed:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/31/first-federal-suit-against-floridas-dont-say-gay-law-filed

* "GOP Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb Vetoes Anti-Trans Sports Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/23/gop-indiana-gov-eric-holcomb-vetoes-anti-trans-sports-bill

* "Texas Superintendent Pulls 130 LGBTQ+ Books from District Libraries:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/24/texas-superintendent-pulls-130-lgbtq-books-district-libraries

* "Texas AG Ken Paxton Says LGBTQ+ People and Allies Are 'Predators':" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/28/texas-ag-ken-paxton-says-lgbtq-people-and-allies-are-predators

* "Prosecutor Says Kidd Creole Killed Man in 'Gay Panic'; Rapper Says No:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/3/30/prosecutor-says-kidd-creole-killed-man-gay-panic-rapper-says-no

* "Chicago Trans Activist Elise Malary Found Dead on Lakeshore:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/3/21/chicago-trans-activist-elise-malary-found-dead-lakeshore

* "Trans Woman Tatiana Labelle Found Dead in Trash Can in Chicago:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/3/21/trans-woman-tatiana-labelle-found-dead-trash-can-chicago

* "Police: 19-Year-Old Trans Woman Kathryn Newhouse Killed by Father:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/28/police-19-year-old-trans-woman-kathryn-newhouse-killed-father

* "Gang Savagely Attacks Three Gay Men Leaving Drag Show:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/01/gang-savagely-attacks-3-gay-men-leaving-drag-show

* "Texas AG Ken Paxton says Austin schools' Pride Week is "immoral" and "illegal":" https://www.salon.com/2022/03/25/texas-ken-paxton-says-austin-schools-pride-week-is-immoral-and-illegal/

* "What Being Black Has Taught Me About Being Nonbinary:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/3/31/what-being-black-has-taught-me-about-being-nonbinary

* "Ex-GOP Candidate Calls for ‘Firing Squads’ for Trans Rights Supporters:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/29/ex-gop-candidate-robert-foster-calls-firing-squads-trans-rights-supporters

* "Christian University Allegedly Fires Professor for Hosting Gay Speaker:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/15/christian-university-allegedly-fires-professor-hosting-gay-speaker

* "Seattle Pride Cut Ties With Amazon Over Anti-LGBTQ+ Donations:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/24/seattle-pride-cut-ties-amazon-over-anti-lgbtq-donations

* "Stephen Fry opens up about terrifying homophobic attack by 'furious skinhead':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/09/stephen-fry-homophobia-attack-wembley-celibacy/

* "Trans cyclist Emily Bridges barred from major championship in last-minute U-turn:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/31/emily-bridges-uk-cycling-trans-ban/

* "Why a White-Led LGBTQ+ Org and a POC-Led Queer Group Are Teaming Up:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/4/01/why-white-led-lgbtq-org-and-poc-led-queer-group-are-teaming

* "Transgender Adults Face Disproportionate Food Insufficiency:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2022/3/29/transgender-adults-face-disproportionate-food-insufficiency

* "Doctors learned how to save premature infants’ lives. They forgot about pain.:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22949159/nicu-babies-pain-treatments-podcast-unexplainable

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* "Louisiana twister carved destruction in mere moments:" https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-storms-new-orleans-hurricanes-weather-1b01d30a0719a44489b159cd6ba92a45

* "Searchers in China find wing, engine parts after plane crash:" https://apnews.com/article/china-6b7c4a15978ff73c82c59f5c32cc6730

* "Planned Obsolescence: The Right to a Product:"

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* Do Not Want. "The Plan to Put Bitcoin in Mouse DNA With a Genetically Engineered Virus:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dg5az/the-quest-to-put-bitcoin-in-mouse-dna-with-a-genetically-engineered-virus

* "The bizarre deep-sea creatures living on the Endurance shipwreck:" https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022/3/9/22969054/endurance-shipwreck-deep-sea-animals

* "A 40,000-year-old Chinese stone tool culture unlike any other:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/a-40000-year-old-chinese-stone-tool-culture-unlike-any-other/

* "A Struggling Actress’s Greatest Role Was as a Real Civil War Spy:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pauline-cushman-spy-american-civil-war

* "The Truth About the Winchester Mystery House:"

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* "Kirby Vacuums Suck:"

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* "Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of state and feminist icon, dies at 84:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-secretary-state-madeleine-albright-has-died-family-2022-03-23/

* "Tireless campaigner George Montague, the ‘oldest gay in the village’, dies aged 98:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/19/george-montague-oldest-gay-village-brighton/

* "Concerns about Bruce Willis' declining cognitive state swirled around sets in recent years:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-03-30/bruce-willis-aphasia-memory-loss-cognitive-disorder

* "Russian figure skaters banned from world championships but not for reason we expected:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2022/03/01/russian-figure-skaters-banned-world-championships-putin/6981404001/

* Here's an idea: Don't hold major sporting events in countries where being queer is an imprisonable offense. "LGBT+ Pride flags could be confiscated at 2022 World Cup in Qatar:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/02/qatar-lgbt-world-cup-2022-pride-flags/

* "Va. Antique Store Posts Bizarre Anti-Trans Screed — Hundreds Respond:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2022/3/27/va-antique-store-posts-bizarre-anti-trans-screed-hundreds-respond

* "Will Smith punches Chris Rock and Wanda Sykes says 'gay': Biggest Oscars moments:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/28/oscars-2022-will-smith-chris-rock-wanda-sykes/

* "Ariana DeBose makes Oscars history as first queer woman of colour to win:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/28/ariana-debose-oscar-west-side-story/

* "In Alaska, Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Traditional Face Tattoos:" https://www.vogue.com/article/in-alaska-indigenous-women-are-reclaiming-traditional-face-tattoos

* Is that a snake in your pants or.... "Border authorities find 52 lizards and snakes hidden in man’s clothing:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/border-authorities-find-52-lizards-snakes-hidden-mans-clothing-rcna19270

* "Gay Couple Adopts Dog Abandoned for 'Being Gay':" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/23/dog-abandoned-shelter-because-owners-say-hes-gay-adopted-couple

* "Harm Reduction:"

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* "The Spy Who Called Me: Alexander Vindman and the Call That Sparked the Russian War on Ukraine:"

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* "What Recent HBCU Bomb Threats Say About the State of Racism in America:"

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* "The Postmodern Horror of TikTok's Encanto Discourse:"

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* "Dumped By Your Accounting Firm? Call Manston & Manston:"

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* ""Fight Club" Isn't The Only Movie China Altered:"

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* "Taboo: White Fragility Edition:"

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* "This Is Why Kanye Is Beefing With Peppa Pig:"

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* Our best reconstruction of what happened was the injury Wednesday caused serious inflammation, which caused bits to pop out again. I iced it and when the Doctors offices opened, i phoned in my symptoms to the surgeon. They ordered me to the emergency room. By the time they'd imaged me my bits had popped in again.

This is likely to keep happening if I'm unlucky or careless until the surgery sorts it. Sigh.

The cats were terrified, poor things. I kept seeing Livia's panicky face popping up over or around furniture to stare at me. Tavy was in the rarest of modes, the Angel Mode. He guarded from a distance for the three hours of the really bad stuff, and once things calmed down, very carefully stepped onto me, avoiding the damaged areas, made pillow biscuits instead of clawing my chest and stomach in hopes of milk, and settled sweetly in for a cuddle nap while I waited for phone time. he didn't hurt me even accidentally once.

I basically needed to spend about 36 hours in bed, only getting up for essentials like food, meds, and hydration. I still need to lie down at random with little warning, but I'm recovering.

* What with various emergencies, disruptions, and most of a month lost to quarantine, we got pretty far behind on myriad things here at the cat asylum. As of Sunday evening, the Head Millennial's pay is sorted, they have caught up on the back log of essential things to keep the household running, and they have gotten things cleared and planted so that the container garden is ready for spring.

They really went above and beyond this week, coming in for short shifts on more days to make sure I was all right during the medical emergency.

I tire easily, and for safety's sake am not bending or lifting, but my shift is considerably more together. I hate this, but I think the time bomb could have gone off at any point in the last couple of years. It just happened to be at the end of a particularly shitty two years medically. Ironically, none of my medical stuff was COVID which is absolutely a miracle of science and kindness on the part of the Millennials. Let us hope things improve and we can avoid further excitement until my surgery slot opens.

* Me explaining on Tumblr why so much Secondary school teaching of history is bad in the US:

The real answer is English Teachers. They hire English teachers to teach Core instead of hiring English Teachers to just teach English and Social studies teachers to teach History in a lot of places in the US school system.

English teachers are not trained how to teach History well; they are trained to teach English. A lot of them don’t like or care about history, so they just teach whatever often ancient text book the underfunded school system hands them in a half assed way.

If you are hiring one teacher to teach both subjects, see, you hire the English teacher because Republican “Back to Basics” school reform is designed to emphasis English and Math and do everything possible to fuck up Social Studies/History and Science teaching because the last thing they want is an educated electorate well versed in things like research, evaluating evidence, analysis, and critical thinking.

They’d abolish both disciplines if they could in public schools. They are actively trying right now with the wave of censorship laws that make it illegal to teach students anything factual about US history. see also the endless attempt to ban evolution being taught and “teach the controversy” bullshit intended to give parity to religious texts in science classes. It’s all part of the same thing.

People who are dual certified in Social studies/History and English are rare and most of those come from an English Literature academic background instead of having a bunch of history degrees like I do. Those of us who really love teaching Middle School History/Social Studies have an extremely hard time getting hired, since we aren’t getting hired for core positions no matter how good we are, which leaves those schools that separate their English and History. My strong academic background in history made me a less attractive and more expensive hire than a mediocre English teacher with no teaching experience for those core jobs.

So there’s the real answer.

English teachers are not the villains here by the way. They need to eat and pay back student loans too. It’s just they are trained to teach English. That’s where their passion is. I’m angry at the policies that fuck over generation after generation of students.

* Me watching Moon Knight: Seriously? He can't get a date? Trust me the leg restraint Would Not Stop Me.

“I'll help you rise from the dead Osiris!!! “

* "Street Photography by Juri Nesterov Documents Ukrainian Life Across Decades:" https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/03/juri-nesterov-photographs/

* NWS "The Art of Felix d'Eon:" https://felixdeon.tumblr.com/post/680261091522215936/its-international-transgender-day-of

* I feel this in my Medievalist bones. "Medievalists HATE Him: What Is Your Field's "A World Lit Only By Fire"?:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/medievalists-hate-him-what-is-your?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MTIyOTk0MCwiXyI6InM0WDU5IiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ4NjM0MjIyLCJleHAiOjE2NDg2Mzc4MjIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.mk8DJTt6FA5iDSw0f-C-pbAezVky025RcFNLr9vQNto&s=r

* "How To Tell If You're In A Folk Horror Film:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/how-to-tell-if-youre-in-a-folk-horror?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MDY5NTQxMSwiXyI6InM0WDU5IiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ4MDAzMzQ1LCJleHAiOjE2NDgwMDY5NDUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.R6aDIrC99a0TbQfoJhn0rzXmCRdw9XdD51rONo2Yeks&s=r

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Hong Kong mortuaries hit capacity as Covid-19 deaths climb:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/01/hong-kong-mortuaries-hit-capacity-as-covid-19-deaths-climb.html

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* "Ukrainian intel suggests Belarus is prepared to join Russian invasion and US suspends operations at embassy:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/politics/belarus-ukrainian-invasion-american-embassy-suspended/index.html

* "US is expelling 12 Russian UN diplomats:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/politics/us-expels-russian-un-diplomats/index.html

* "Hayes on ‘unprecedented global consensus' of resistance to Putin’s invasion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-on-unprecedented-global-consensus-of-resistance-to-putin-s-invasion-134268485662

* "Russia faces financial meltdown as sanctions slam its economy:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/business/russia-ruble-banks-sanctions/index.html

* "US cutting off Russia's central bank from US dollar transactions:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/politics/sanctions-russia-putin-rainy-day-fund/index.html

* "Russia closes its stock market as the ruble plummets:" https://www.axios.com/russia-stock-market-moscow-exchange-closed-4d55c6f1-35cb-4053-8e56-09433a94e9af.html

* "Switzerland says it will freeze Russian assets, setting aside a tradition of neutrality.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/world/europe/switzerland-russian-assets-freeze.html

* "Singapore to impose sanctions on Russia, including bank transactions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-impose-appropriate-sanctions-restrictions-russia-2022-02-28/

* "Japan joins sanctions on Russian central bank, says 'Japan is with Ukraine':" https://www.reuters.com/business/japan-govt-cbank-executives-meet-ukraine-crisis-jolts-markets-2022-02-28/

* "Joining Sanctions on Russia, Italy Risks More Than Most:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-russia-italy-sanctions.html

* "Russia eyes sanctions workarounds in energy, gold, crypto:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-cryptocurrency-technology-business-d6a6d1bb3f664a555a2871eef3cd0e8c

* "Why sanctions may be the West's most powerful weapon against Putin and his oligarchs:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-sanctions-may-be-the-west-s-most-powerful-weapon-against-putin-and-his-oligarchs-134284357783

* "Ukraine War Tests the Power of Tech Giants:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/technology/ukraine-russia-social-media.html

* "Apple to pause product sales in Russia as tech firms feel pressure over Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/01/apple-russia-ukraine-facebook

* "Ukraine wants to join the EU. Here's how that would work:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083528087/ukraine-european-union

* "Zelensky assassination plot foiled, Ukrainian authorities say:" https://www.axios.com/zelensky-assassination-plot-foiled-7bea049b-2308-4801-b75a-93104c17b82b.html

* "Russian attacks increase on civilian areas in Ukraine:" https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/3/1/22957031/russian-attacks-ukraine-civilian-areas-kharkiv-kyiv-zelensky-belarus-putin

* "Russian forces close in on Ukraine's capital as death toll mounts:" https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/russia-ukraine-news-kyiv-war-putin-invasion-talks-today/

* "Russia bombards Ukraine urban areas as armed convoy stalls:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-isolation-intensifies-ukraine-fighting-rages-2022-03-01/

* "Ukraine conflict: Russia bombs Kharkiv's Freedom Square and opera house:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60567162

* "One battle in Kharkiv shows how Ukraine is fighting back against the Russian invasion:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/europe/kharkiv-street-fight-russia-ukraine-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Ukrainians return from abroad to fight Russian invasion:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-poland-migration-8de0893dfcf7db46e6a6acf9911104a4

* CW: Child Death "Ukraine accuses Russia of killing 16 children and injuring 45 more in its invasion: 'Russia has shown what it has become':" https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-says-russian-invasion-killed-16-children-injured-45-more-2022-2

* "With roadblocks, rifles and Ukrainian flags, Kyiv residents brace for arrival of huge Russian convoy:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/01/europe/ukraine-russia-kyiv-war-zone-intl/index.html

* "Ukraine's Mariupol under heavy shelling, Kherson surrounded:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-mariupol-under-heavy-shelling-kherson-surrounded-officials-2022-03-02/

* "Here's how Kharkiv looks after Russian bombing:" https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-01-22/h_f743b88a246db94565ad3ecc32dfd37e

* "Ukrainians Prepare Molotov Cocktails in Kyiv:" https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000008230394/ukraine-molotov-cocktails.html

* "Russian Cluster Munition Hits Hospital:" https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/02/25/ukraine-russian-cluster-munition-hits-hospital

* CW: Child Death. "A shelling, a young girl, and hopeless moments in a hospital:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-a8bb96288aaf70f9a7f70e9a4fac8160

* "Ukrainian Parliament MP on her 61-year-old dad saying he’ll ‘crawl’ to defend Kyiv:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukrainian-parliament-member-on-returning-to-kyiv-and-preparing-to-defend-capital-134273093972

* "With roadblocks, rifles and Ukrainian flags, Kyiv residents brace for arrival of huge Russian convoy:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/01/europe/ukraine-russia-kyiv-war-zone-intl/index.html

* "Morale remains high in Kyiv despite concerns about food supply, basic needs:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/morale-remains-high-in-kyiv-despite-concerns-about-food-supply-basic-needs-134281797504

* "Malcolm Nance: Zelensky was an improbable character who showed his character when Russia invaded:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/zelensky-s-decision-to-remain-in-ukraine-s-besieged-capital-kyiv-catapults-him-into-global-hero-134271557748

* "Keir Simmons: Putin reportedly believed Ukrainians would welcome Russians with open arms:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-puts-russian-nuclear-forces-on-high-alert-as-its-ukraine-invasion-sparks-tougher-sanctions-134270021889

* "‘I had no idea he was there’: families’ shock at video of captured Russian soldiers:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/ukrainian-officials-upload-videos-of-captured-russian-soldiers-on-telegram

* "Some Russian troops are surrendering or sabotaging vehicles rather than fighting, a Pentagon official says.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/world/europe/russia-troops-pentagon.html

* "Thousands of Russians are protesting against the war with Ukraine. Putin’s not likely to listen.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/01/thousands-russians-are-protesting-against-war-putins-not-likely-listen/

* "Nearly 6,000 detained across Russia after fourth day of anti-war protests:" https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-28-22/h_a3d861845b789787436d012fdae47595

* "Ukrainians chant 'go home' at Russian troops in defiant protest as Putin continues offensive:" https://inews.co.uk/news/ukraine-war-locals-chant-go-home-russian-troops-moscow-invasion-latest-news-1489321

* "Ukrainian sailor in Majorca tried to sink yacht of Russian boss:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60553124

* "As the crisis in Ukraine continues, Biden quietly gets it right:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/crisis-ukraine-continues-biden-quietly-gets-right-rcna18110

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/
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* "Here's How the Global Respect Act Will Fight Anti-LGBTQ+ Abuse:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/2/10/heres-how-global-respect-act-will-fight-anti-lgbtq-abuse

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* "US Rep. Taylor-Greene slammed for addressing white supremacist gathering:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-rep-taylor-greene-slammed-for-attending-white-supremacist-gathering/

* "Rep. Greene & Rep. Gosar attend white nationalist, pro-Putin event :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-greene-rep-gosar-attend-white-nationalist-pro-putin-event-134268485740

* And yet the Party is full of them. "McConnell says no space in GOP for ‘white supremacists or anti-Semitism’ after two House Republicans participate in white nationalist’s conference:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-white-nationalist-conference/

* "Tireless justice advocate becomes Kentucky House's first LGBT+ representative:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/keturah-herron-kentucky-house-representative/

* "California ‘freedom convoy’ headed to DC disbands after just one day:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/california-freedom-convoy-dc-quits-b2024824.html

* Fuckssake! "Months after hate crime hoax guilty verdict, Jussie Smollett calls for new trial:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/27/jussie-smollett-hate-crime-trial-sentence/

* "Sleepy Time Tea's Weird Cult? :"

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* CW: Rape "Mormonism: Cleansing More Than Just Your Sin (It’s your Skin Color):"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Airing Out This Christian Organization's Dirty Laundry: The IBLP and ATI:"

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* CW: Slavery, Pedophilia, Torture, Disordered Eating. "NXIVM. What the Media Won't Report.:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAyqGCEIFGU

* CW: Pedophilia "Cheer's Jerry Harris Pleads Guilty to Sex Crimes, Faces 50 Years:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/11/cheers-jerry-harris-pled-guilty-sex-crimes-faces-50-years

* "Lesbian asylum seeker told she could look 'less mannish' to avoid persecution:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/lgbt-asylum-seekers-refugees-nationality-borders-bill/

* "Most Anglicans back same-sex marriage despite Church of England's archaic stance:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/01/church-of-england-same-sex-marriage-ozanne-foundation/

* "NHS failing trans patients across the board, report finds:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/01/trans-nhs-london-assembly-health-committee-sadiq-khan/

* "Cambridge student hospitalised in suspected homophobic attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/27/cambridge-university-wolfson-college-homophobia-attack/

* "Gay Wetherspoons chef accuses co-workers of bullying him with gherkin:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/26/wetherspoons-chef-brentwood-essex-employment-tribunal-homophobia/

* "Pete Buttigieg Explains Damning Impact of Florida 'Don't Say Gay' Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/2/11/pete-buttigieg-explains-damning-impact-florida-dont-say-gay-bill

* "Education Dept. Says BYU Can Discriminate Against Queer Students:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2022/2/11/education-dept-says-byu-can-discriminate-against-queer-students

* "Teenager accused of trying to beat gay neighbour, 60, to death with a wrench:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/27/illinois-attack-homophobia-gay-ethan-dickerson/

* "Frances Haugen - A Facebook Whistleblower Speaks Out :" https://www.cc.com/video/of42ay/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-frances-haugen-a-facebook-whistleblower-speaks-out

* "Meet the 'Most Important' Jewish Woman in Medieval England:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-the-most-important-jewish-woman-in-medieval-england-180979486/

* A history of Roma in Ukraine: https://twitter.com/InclusiveLucie/status/1497554987014049795

* "The American Revolution of Private Jacob Francis:" https://allthingsliberty.com/2018/03/american-revolution-private-jacob-francis/

* "Nurse, Spy, Guerrilla Leader - Remembering First Lt. Manuela Orquejo:" https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/remembering-manuela-orquejo.html?fbclid=IwAR2OYQKHcbc3dVcgNQsEnkcCn_OrVLgd3NMq7bULxZ83kPl2XQF1pvidctg&chrome=1

* "Cutco: The MLM Selling Knives and Lies:"

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Way back in the early ‘90′s my lover needed a job and Cutco was hiring. He worked so hard at it. he did the presentations for everyone he knew and his divorced parents could rope in among their friends. He made absolutely nothing. It was heartbreaking. We used that knife all the time in the kitchen though.

So in the oughts I wasn’t making enough teaching to live on let alone pay student loans, because that is how we pay teachers in this country. I’m looking for work. I answer an ambiguous sales ad and get invited for an interview that evening, only when i get there i think I have the wrong address because it’s in this super sketchy portable park where people mostly sell things like retooled car parts and the like.

The building is unmarked, but lights are on and the door is open, so I park and approach warily. It’s the right place, but there are a bunch of people and it’s a “group interview” which is adding to the red flag collection since I’d never heard of such a thing, but it doesn’t seem physically dangerous, so I decide to see where it’s going.

The “Interview” is basically a sales pitch only without them saying right away what they’re selling. More read flags. Eventually the dude mentions knives and I’m like, “Wait. Is this Cutco Knives?” You could see the man’s demeanor change like he’s been slapped. He is forced to admit it is. This is a state that prohibits door to door selling, which means you really can only sell to friends and people at work. So I start gathering my things, “I can’t do this. I’m not allowed to sell at work and i don’t have the kind of contacts you need for this.” And all at once the 40ish lady next to me starts gathering her things, “I can’t do this either.” I basically started a stampede. Ruined that Cutco guy’s evening it did.

Seriously, not only did they lure us their under basically false pretenses, he wasted all those people’s time. he likely would have futzed around for who knows how long before telling them what was going on. It was cruel and deceptive and just ick.

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Racist History of Highways:" https://www.cc.com/video/yx3hbl/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-racist-history-of-highways

* "Dul-Sayin' - Celebrating Black Romance Novelists:" https://www.cc.com/video/8h9x9m/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-dul-sayin-celebrating-black-romance-novelists

* "Feds Seize $4.5 Billion in Bitcoin:" https://www.cc.com/video/1ioc63/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-feds-seize-usd4-5-billion-in-bitcoin

* "Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill & Trump's Document Flush:" https://www.cc.com/video/lgg7qh/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-florida-s-don-t-say-gay-bill-trump-s-document-flush

* "CP Time - Black Winter Olympians:" https://www.cc.com/video/z3ffqq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-black-winter-olympians

* "Culture Wars: Moral Kombat - Book Bans on the Rise :" https://www.cc.com/video/eqtjsr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-culture-wars-moral-kombat-book-bans-on-the-rise

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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