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* As has been the case since January, the sort may be a little rough. News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.




* "The US has quietly gotten into another war in the Middle East: With near daily strikes against Yemen’s Houthis, is there an end in sight?:" https://archive.ph/koLeC




* "Militants kill at least 26 tourists at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir:" https://apnews.com/article/kashmir-tourist-attack-dc7067a18899d9e7ff7726d4e05982c3?

* "Inside a City Swept by Roving Gunmen, Deadly Grudges and Fear:" https://archive.ph/ZZtGn

* "A massive explosion at an Iranian port possibly linked to missile fuel kills 25, injures some 800:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-explosion-fire-bandar-abbas-72637c6b3e152a30045275f57ace29ed

* "25 arrested across France after prison attacks:" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/04/28/french-prison-attacks-around-20-arrests-conducted-across-france_6740692_7.html

* "Large areas of Spain and Portugal hit by massive power blackout:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/large-parts-spain-portugal-hit-by-power-outage-2025-04-28/

* "Mark Carney's Liberals win Canada election amid Trump's 51st state comments:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-suggests-canadians-elect-making-country-51st-state/story?id=121241461

* "Full List of Seats Mark Carney's Liberals Flipped in Canada Election Win:" https://www.newsweek.com/list-seats-mark-carney-liberal-party-flipped-canada-election-2065569

* "Peter Dutton claims Aussie renters are ‘more inclined’ to vote Labor before their ‘views mature politically’:" https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/peter-dutton-claims-aussie-renters-are-more-inclined-to-vote-labor-before-their-views-mature-politically/news-story/f89f489a35b4c4be5191ab72fc986285

* Early voting has started in Australia. I wish you the best of luck.

* "Australia's young voters set aside disillusionment to keep out right-wing:" https://archive.ph/oExlt

* "Australia's last vote was all about Indigenous people - now they say it's 'silence':" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2v6zy2nyvo

* "Japan Buys First South Korea Rice in Two Decades As Prices Surge:" https://archive.ph/T7D29




* "Risk of global economic recession surges on US tariff shockwaves: Reuters poll:" https://archive.ph/ebT62

* "Consumer expectations crater to three-decade low amid Trump tariff chaos:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/consumers-confidence-tariffs-economy-inflation-00309521

* "Chris Hughes - “Marketcrafters" & The Art of Shaping the American Economy | The Daily Show:"

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* "Exclusive: US-China fentanyl talks hang by thread amid trade war:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-china-fentanyl-talks-hang-by-thread-amid-trade-war-2025-04-23/

* "Amazon is not planning to break out tariff costs online as White House attacks potential move:" https://apnews.com/article/amazon-tariff-prices-trump-white-house-8598569632263872a6c04f7ef330c0fd

* "White House unveils plan to ease tariff impact on US automakers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/29/white-house-automaker-tariff-relief-00315624

* "Retailers Fear Toy Shortages at Christmas as Tariffs Freeze Supply Chain:" https://archive.ph/ko8B1

* "'People will notice': Trump can’t bully and lie his way out of higher prices and empty shelves, says Hayes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-people-will-notice-trump-can-t-bully-and-lie-his-way-out-of-higher-prices-and-empty-shelves-says-hayes-238583877642

* "Tariffs may mean more US steel jobs. Will there be workers to fill them?:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/tariffs-may-mean-more-us-steel-jobs-will-there-be-workers-fill-them-2025-04-23/?

* "White House threatens to veto Senate measure nixing Trump’s global tariffs:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/28/congress/trump-tariff-veto-threat-00312199

* "California sues the Trump administration over the president's sweeping tariffs:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/california-sues-trump-administration-presidents-sweeping-tariffs-rcna201498

* "Nevada joins a dozen states in suing the Trump administration to stop tariff policy:" https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/nevada-joins-a-dozen-states-in-suing-the-trump-administration-to-stop-tariff-policy

* "Insider Trading From Trump's Tariffs?:"

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* "Many Canadian 'snowbirds' in US looking to pack up and fly north - for good:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/many-canadian-snowbirds-us-looking-pack-up-fly-north-good-2025-04-22/?

* "The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America:" https://theintercept.com/2025/04/22/trump-latin-america-bukele-el-salvador-prison/?

* "Airline that struck deal to operate deportation flights faces growing backlash:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-5375779/airline-that-struck-deal-to-operate-deportation-flights-faces-growing-backlash

* "‘Give her back’: Family rallies after Tampa mother suddenly deported back to Cuba:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/her-back-family-rallies-tampa-010530636.html

* "Trump staff puts immigrants' mug shots on White House lawn:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/trump-posters-white-house-arrested-immigrants

* "Non-profit says Venezuelan man arrested by federal agents in Whitefish was in U.S. legally:" https://montanafreepress.org/2025/04/28/non-profit-says-venezuelan-man-arrested-by-federal-agents-in-whitefish-was-in-u-s-legally/

* "Trump Readies Orders Targeting Sanctuary Cities, Police Reforms:" https://archive.ph/bBwtr

* "U.S. Citizens Keep Getting Caught Up in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tracking-us-citizens-children-detained-deported-ice-trump-updates.html

* "Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ice-immigration-detained-americans-congress-questions-unanswered

* Puerto Ricans are US Citizens. "Trump’s Deportation Dragnet Widens and Puerto Ricans Are Getting Caught in It:" https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-deportation-dragnet-widens-catches-puerto-ricans-american-citizens

* "Lawyers for Deported U.S. Citizen Kids Say Moms Were ‘Coerced’ Into Taking Them:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-rubio-deported-us-citizen-children-mothers-coerced-1235326214/

* "You Can't Deport US Citizens:"

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* "Victims of Trump's irresponsible anti-immigrant crusade include American citizens:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/victims-of-trump-s-irresponsible-anti-immigrant-crusade-include-american-citizens-238599749587

* "‘We’re citizens!’: Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren’t suspects:" https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/

Everything they had was stolen, they were terrorized, they weren't allowed to dress, including the children.

We said this was where it was going. Now it's here.

* "American mother, daughters terrorized by ICE in botched search for immigrants: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/american-mother-daughters-terrorized-by-ice-in-botched-search-for-immigrants-report-238599237825

* "Trump exploits loophole to militarize the border; Americans potential targets of military arrests:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-exploits-loophole-to-militarize-the-border-americans-potential-targets-of-military-arrests-238516805772




* "The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide:" https://verfassungsblog.de/the-authoritarian-regime-survival-guide/

* "‘I Run the Country and the World’:" https://archive.ph/0rjX1

* "Trump: ‘I’d like to be pope’:" https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-us-president-pope-francis-catholic-church/

* "Trump’s first 100 days are the worst for the stock market since Nixon:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/trumps-first-100-days-are-the-worst-for-the-stock-market-since-nixon.html

* "Trump’s Polls Decline Near 100-Day Mark, Raising Tax-Plan Stakes:" https://archive.ph/p8dJn

* "Trump Melts Down Over Plummeting Popularity, Says Pollsters Are ‘Criminals’:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-melts-down-poll-numbers-investigations-1235326327/

* "‘The American people are onto Donald Trump’: Van Hollen on Trump’s sinking popularity:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-american-people-are-onto-donald-trump-van-hollen-on-trump-s-sinking-popularity-238582341873

* "Senate Democrats to mark Trump’s ‘100 days from hell’ with marathon speeches:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-crypto-coin-white-house-tour/

* "100 days of erasure: Connecting the dots of Trump’s relentless war on LGBTQ+ lives:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-100-days-lgbtq-erasure

* "Loud, proud, and persistently fabulous: The art of resistance in Trump's transphobic era:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-100-days

* "100 days and 100 of the most hilarious, horrific, and heinous things done by the Trump administration:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/100-days-donald-trump-worst

* "Watch thousands protest President Trump outside Michigan rally:" https://www.mlive.com/politics/2025/04/watch-thousands-protest-president-trump-outside-michigan-rally.html

* "Baltimore County senior living facility residents protest Trump administration policies:" https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/baltimore-county-senior-trump-charlestown-protest-maryland-medicaid/

* "Trump Crypto Coin Buyers Offered VIP Tour of White House:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-crypto-coin-white-house-tour/

* "Memphis environmental justice groups speak out against air pollution caused by Elon Musk's xAI, gas turbines:" https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/local/memphis-environmental-justice-groups-speak-out-against-air-pollution-caused-by-elon-musks-xai-gas-turbines/522-64a71bd6-3fd1-4717-bf39-d10feaab80c5

* "What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too:" https://archive.ph/nzSW6

* "Local civil rights leaders arrested after protesting in D.C. :" https://www.wral.com/news/state/civil-rights-leaders-arrested-protest-washington-dc-april-2025/

* "Hegseth cancels Pentagon program. It was signed into law by Trump.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/29/hegseth-women-peace-and-security-program-00315226

* "The Trump Administration’s War on Children:" https://www.propublica.org/article/how-trump-budget-cuts-harm-kids-child-care-education-abuse

* "How cuts at the National Institutes of Health could impact Americans' health:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-layoffs-budget-cuts-medical-research-60-minutes/

* "RFK Jr.'s cuts to CDC lead poisoning team bring efforts to help tribes, health departments to a standstill:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-hhs-layoffs-cdc-lead-poisoning/

* "RFK Jr.’s cuts to CDC eliminate labs tracking STIs, hepatitis outbreaks:" https://archive.ph/OVYrE

* "Trump cuts threaten free vaccine program for kids amid measles outbreak:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-cuts-threaten-free-vaccine-program-kids-amid-measles-outbreak-2025-04-23/?lctg=6121ad345013e8587f23974f

* This is hands down the best and most cogent response to RFK Jr.'s attack on Autistic People: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/782258870669180928?source=share

* CW: Suicide. "Advocates and health experts worry Trump's suicide prevention hotline cuts will increase LGBTQ+ youth deaths:" https://www.advocate.com/news/988-crisis-cuts-catastrophic-consequences

* "Activists hold 'die-in' at HHS to protest Trump health care cuts: in photos :" https://www.advocate.com/news/hrc-protests-trump-health-cuts#rebelltitem1

* "White House anti-gender-affirming care post is full of lies:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/white-house-transgender-care-lies

* "Trump's DOJ withdraws support for trans woman incarcerated in Georgia:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-prisoner-georgia-trump-doj

* "Trump's DOE orders University of Pennsylvania to erase trans athletes' records:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/university-pennsylvania-erase-transgender-records

* "Trump May Soon Offer a Motherhood Medal, an Idea Popularized in Nazi Germany:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-motherhood-medal-pronatalist-nazi/

* "US dismisses all authors of National Climate Assessment, email says:" https://archive.ph/3sJmG

* "Trump touts ‘clean coal’ — but cuts programs that protect miners:" https://archive.ph/e5YW4

* "Destroying endangered species' habitat wouldn't count as 'harm' under proposed Trump rule:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5366814/endangered-species-act-change-harm-trump-rule

Here's where to let them know what you think of it: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/17/2025-06746/rescinding-the-definition-of-harm-under-the-endangered-species-act

* "May Day protesters rally in downtown Dallas against Trump policies on labor rights:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2025/04/27/may-day-protesters-rally-in-downtown-dallas-against-trump-policies/

* "Justice Department nixes Biden-era protections for journalists in leak probes:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/justice-depatment-journalists-leaks-investigations-00311515

* "Looking to Trump’s next 100 days: DOJ tees up process for jailing journalists:" https://www.salon.com/2025/04/29/looking-to-trumps-next-100-days-doj-tees-up-process-for-jailing-journalists/

* "'Absolute insanity': Outrage as right-wing activist asks If Trump will suspend Habeas Corpus:" https://www.alternet.org/trump-habeas-corpus/

* "Justice Department Guts Voting Rights Unit: Report:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/justice-department-guts-voting-rights-unit-1235326589/

* "DOJ Inadvertently Files Attorney Client Memo (That Says Their Case Sucks):"

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* "3 federal prosecutors assigned to Eric Adams case resign, say they won't admit to 'wrongdoing':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/3-federal-prosecutors-assigned-eric-adams-case-resign/story?id=121053687?

* "Trump-controlled Kennedy Center cancels all WorldPride events:" https://www.advocate.com/news/worldpride-kennedy-center-events-cancelled




* "Congress Returns from Spring Recess to Draft Sweeping Budget Resolution Slashing Funding for Medicaid and Food Assistance:" https://nlihc.org/resource/congress-returns-spring-recess-draft-sweeping-budget-resolution-slashing-funding-medicaid

* "Fox News’ many justifications for extending Trump’s tax cut for the wealthy:" https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-many-justifications-extending-trumps-tax-cut-wealthy

* Republicans are planning to steal health care and food out of the mouths of children to pay for their tax cuts to the rich and corporations.

* "Katherine Maher - Why America Needs Public Media | The Daily Show:"

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* RE: SAVE ACT "Do This Today: Call Senators:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2036106.html

If these are your Sewnators, please stop what you are doing and call now:

KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)

* This one is a super dangerous attack on the judiciary's ability to protect citizen's rights. "H.R. 1526: NORRA of 2025:" https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr1526

* "A tax on credit unions is a tax on me.:" https://www.donttaxmycreditunion.org/

* "Democrats reintroduce Equality Act as Trump escalates war on LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/democrats-reintroduce-equality-act

* "Some semi-organized snail mail campaigns:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html




* 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.


* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

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

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

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

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

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

Some semi-organized snail mail campaigns:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

Script to complain about Elon Musk/DOGE. I also suggest contacting your AG about data privacy. "Introducing Red State Scripts, Vol. 1:" https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2025/02/10/introducing-red-state-scripts-vol-1/

* This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

* "The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

* "Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.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/

* Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

* 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

* "ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

* Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

* Free Bystander training amoung other useful things. "Right to Be Training:" https://righttobe.org/upcoming-free-trainings/




* "Lesbian Minnesota Congresswoman Angie Craig launches historic U.S. Senate bid:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/angie-craig-announces-senate-run

* "Who is John Reid, the gay MAGA Republican that Virginia’s GOP governor wants off the statewide ballot?:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gay-maga-republican-john-reid

* "Class emerges as a key factor in who gets sent to prison:" https://phys.org/news/2025-02-class-emerges-key-factor-prison.html

* "An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/tiger-algorithm-louisiana-parole-calvin-alexander?

* "Starved in Jail: Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/21/starved-in-jail

* "Bad Behavior: How prison disciplinary policies manufacture misconduct :" https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/discipline.html

* Water is wet studies are useful. "Study: bigots who hate one marginalized group increasingly hate all of them:"https://boingboing.net/2025/04/21/study-bigots-who-hate-one-marginalized-group-increasingly-hate-all-of-them.html

* "It starts with words: Censoring books in schools is the new book burnings:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/it-starts-with-words-opinion

* "University of Louisville caves to anti-LGBTQ+ forces twice this week:" https://www.advocate.com/news/university-caves-anti-lgbtq-forces

* "Their LGBTQ+ book is the most challenged in America. Here's why they aren't giving up :" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/most-banned-book-lgbtq-black

* "Insurer illegally discriminated by denying trans teens coverage for top surgery, court rules:" https://www.advocate.com/news/insurer-illegally-discriminated-transgender-teens

* "Abortions are resuming at a Wyoming clinic after judge suspends laws:" https://apnews.com/article/wyoming-abortion-law-court-injunctions-f5f865b9e40b670d72bf7fbb7b83ac1c

* "People in states with abortion bans are twice as likely to die during pregnancy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/abortion-bans-death-rates

* "WA budget slashes abortion access funding by $8.5 million, largest cut in state history:" https://komonews.com/news/local/wa-budget-slashes-abortion-access-funding-by-85-million-largest-cut-in-state-history-bortion-pill-laws-rights-washington-idaho-abortion-trafficking-texas-federal-judge-conservative-roe-v-wade-florida-abortion-law-bob-ferguson-fda-approval-department-of-c

* "Hungary's parliament bars opposition lawmakers over protest against Pride ban:" https://archive.ph/mfdHA

* "Baltimore Catholic charity violated gay man's rights by not paying spousal benefits, court rules:" https://www.advocate.com/news/catholic-charity-gay-spouse

* "S.C. attorney general tells state's capital city to drop its conversion therapy ban:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/conversion-therapy-sc-columbia-ag

* "Ohio Supreme Court hears pivotal LGBTQ+ parental rights case:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ohio-lgbtq-parental-fertility-rights

* CW: sexual assault. "Police look for suspects in string of vicious hate crimes against 61-year-old trans woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-hate-crime-police-la

* "Bird flu, feared as a possible pandemic, poses growing risk to people as pathogen spreads, scientists warn:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-flu-risk-as-pathogen-spreads-60-minutes-transcript/

* "Scientists Found Bird Flu in Dairy Cows – Here’s Why That’s Terrifying:" https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-found-bird-flu-in-dairy-cows-heres-why-thats-terrifying/

* "The Long Quest for Artificial Blood:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/10/the-long-quest-for-artificial-blood?

* "99% Effective: First Hormone-Free Male Birth Control Pill Enters Human Trials:" https://scitechdaily.com/99-effective-first-hormone-free-male-birth-control-pill-enters-human-trials/

* "New pill is effective against gonorrhea as antibiotic resistance surges, study shows:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/new-antibiotic-drug-resistant-gonorrhea-treatment-study-rcna201053

* "Why Has America Ignored Its Best Addiction Treatment?:" https://archive.ph/LORHV

* "“Masking Is Life”: Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults:" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8992921/






* "Earth’s landmasses lost trillions of tons of water this century:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-water-loss-21st-century

* "Almost half of Americans are now exposed to unhealthy air pollution:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/air-quality-climate-change

* "“When you design roads, that is public health.”:" https://harvardpublichealth.org/policy-practice/vision-zero-aims-to-reduce-traffic-deaths-through-better-road-design/

* "In Sprawl We Trust:" https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/in-sprawl-we-trust

* "Zuckerberg Doesn't Want you to See This:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cKUR2GEa1pA

* "Meta Oversight Board rules anti-transgender videos don't violate hate speech rules:" https://www.advocate.com/news/meta-transgender-hate-speech

* "ClickFix: How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps:" https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/clickfix-how-to-infect-your-pc-in-three-easy-steps/

* "The teeming life of dead trees: Rotting logs turn out to be vital to forest biodiversity and recycling organic matter:" https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/rotting-logs-mini-ecosystems-habitat-and-food?

* "Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/lichens-can-survive-almost-anything-and-some-might-survive-mars/

* "The Secret Lives of Moths:" https://nautil.us/the-secret-lives-of-moths-1202648/

* "Bone collector caterpillar adorns itself in insect body parts:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/bone-collector-caterpillar-adorns-itself-in-insect-body-parts/

* "Return of the California condor:" https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2025/california-condor-reintroduction

* "In research, ignoring female birds harms scientific understanding:" https://phys.org/news/2025-01-female-birds-scientific.html

* "On the Origin of the Pork Taboo:" https://archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2025/letters-from/on-the-origin-of-the-pork-taboo/

* "Forgery and fiscal fraud: New papyrus from Israel reveals a spectacular criminal case from the Roman empire:" https://phys.org/news/2025-01-forgery-fiscal-fraud-papyrus-israel.html?

* "Why Being a Medieval Priest Wasn’t as Easy as You Think:" https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/being-medieval-priest/

* "History Check: How Barring Immigrants Backfired in 1880s America:" https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/history-check-how-barring-immigrants-backfired-in-1880s-america

* "When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/when-an-american-town-massacred-its-chinese-immigrants

* "44 Photos That Show The Materialism And The Misery Of The Gilded Age In True Color:" https://allthatsinteresting.com/gilded-age-colorizations

* "Before Modern Swimsuits: Vintage Photos of Early 1900s Swimwear Styles:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/swimwear-styles-of-1900s/

* "Inside the renovated Frick museum are intimate remnants of the family (and servants) who lived there:" https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/inside-the-renovated-frick-museum-are-intimate-remnants-of-the-family-and-servants-who-lived-there/

* "The Spy Who Exposed the Secrets of the Black Chamber, One of America’s First Code-Breaking Organizations:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-spy-who-exposed-the-secrets-of-the-black-chamber-one-of-americas-first-code-breaking-organizations-180985947/

* "A painter who lived in Depression-era Williamsburg captured the struggle of the neighborhood around him:" https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/a-painter-who-lived-in-depression-era-williamsburg-captured-the-struggle-of-the-neighborhood-around-him/

* "44 Eye-Opening Colorized Photos That Show The True Extent Of The Damage Done By The Dust Bowl:" https://allthatsinteresting.com/dust-bowl-colorizations?

* "The ‘Exciting Business Opportunity’ That Ruined Our Lives: Amway sold my family a life built on delusion.:" https://archive.ph/WaOa9

* "In the first Italian town hit by Covid five years ago, a lasting trauma and an entire generation lost:" https://archive.ph/AHl1P#selection-2016.0-2016.1

* CW: CSA, Suicide. "Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/virginia-giuffre-one-jeffrey-epsteins-prominent-abuse-survivors-dies-s-rcna203027

* "‘America, América' with Greg Grandin:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/america-am%C3%A9rica-with-greg-grandin/id1382983397?i=1000704422834

* "Hunting the Wild Mushrooms of New York City:" https://archive.ph/PbMKb

* "A Guide to the Cardamoms of the World:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-use-cardamom

* "The End of Chicken-Breast Dominance:" https://archive.ph/uInIw

* "RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Jon on Trump's First 100 Days: Destroying America's Reputation, Economy, & Leverage | The Daily Show:"

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* "Our Historically Unpopular President | Trump's Sub Deals | DOGE Done? | Celebrating Pope Francis:"

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* "Trump Hits 100 Days & Canada Celebrates By Electing the Anti-Trump | The Daily Show:"

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* "Meet the DOGE Layoff Victims That Elon Musk Deemed Wasteful | The Daily Show:"

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* "Hidden Sapphic gems: Discover these 20 overlooked lesbian movies:" https://www.advocate.com/film/underrated-lesbian-movies-2671844518

* "Bodacious Bible Tales:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TRROEvTj7Zg

* "Gallivanting Greek Gods:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4LthMetS9yA

* "Roman Rizz:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PcQUbaRe1q0

* "A Case for Pompey Magnus:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EZMtUdCsGl4

* "Clever Cleopatra:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D47zJoU56lk

* "Angry Anglo-Saxons:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ps3W_9QSefo

* "Nefarious Norse Myths:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gQLR1QLsr9s

* "Haughty Henry IV:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pn7FGL-XFzw

* "Graffiti, Street Art & Murals: What We Learn from Public Art:"

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* "Footage Of Trump’s Trade Talks With China’s President:"

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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.

* "United States Disappeared Tracker:" https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

* "Nationwide Economic Blackout: Boycott Dates for Target, Amazon, Others:" https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-economic-blackout-boycott-dates-target-amazon-others-2037986

* "Introducing Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network:" https://aflcio.org/2025/4/16/introducing-rise-federal-workers-legal-defense-network

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Why We Aren’t Monogamous…:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "The Rwandan Genocide:"

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* "The Wounded Warrior Project: Corporate Casket:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Love Crypto? Move To Bitcoin City:"

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* "Oh Christmas Lamp:"

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

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

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* "Russian authorities open new criminal case against Alexei Navalny:" https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-authorities-open-new-case-against-kremlin-critic-navalny/

* "Jitender Maan Gogi: India gangster shot dead in Delhi court:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58674452

* "Mozambique militant attacks: 'So much destruction':" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58671942

* "Rwanda genocide 'kingpin' Théoneste Bagosora dies in prison:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58695094

* "Parties Vie for Power After Election Shakes Up German Politics:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/27/world/german-election-results

* "Freezing to death on the edge of the EU:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-58671941

* "China Declares All Cryptocurrency Transactions Illegal:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040381774/china-cryptocurrency-transactions-illegal-bitcoin

* "Hungarian PM aims to restore extra pension payment faster:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarian-pm-aims-restore-extra-pension-payment-faster-2021-09-24/

* "1.9m UK homes lose supplier after two more gas firms go bust:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/22/19m-uk-homes-left-without-supplier-after-two-more-gas-firms-go-bust

* "Tory equalities minister Kemi Badenoch: 'I don't care about colonialism':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/kemi-badenoch-colonialism-whatsapp-messages/

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* "Anti-Vaccine Protesters Clash With Police In Melbourne, Australia, For The 2nd Day:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039301977/anti-vaccine-protesters-clash-with-police-in-melbourne-for-the-second-straight-d

* "Unvaccinated and defiant, Bolsonaro pushes back against criticism in his U.N. speech.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/world/americas/bolsonaro-covid-vaccine-un.html

* "Covid-19: India health workers' families fight for compensation:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58621933

* "Desperation, misinformation: how the ivermectin craze spread across the world:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/24/ivermectin-covid-peru-misinformation

* "Singapore migrant workers are still living in Covid lockdown:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58580337

* CW: Domestic Violence. I hope they catch him. I'm worried about his wife's safety. "Man punches nurse in the face multiple times after his wife is vaccinated for Covid:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americas/covid-vaccine-assault-nurse-canada-trnd/index.html

* "Pfizer booster now available to older Americans and those at higher-risk, including on the job, as CDC chief partly overrules panel:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/23/covid-booster-shots-cdc/

* "Red Covid:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/briefing/covid-red-states-vaccinations.html

* "The anti-vaccine-mandate cult keeps putting lives at risk:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/21/magas-indefensible-anti-vaccine-mandate-cult-keeps-killing-people/

* "Joy Reid: There are two Americas, with vaccinated and unvaccinated spaces:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pfizer-says-its-covid-vaccine-is-safe-for-children-5-11-amid-pandemic-culture-wars-121562181708

* "As racial disparities in vaccination rates even out, partisan gap remains glaring:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-racial-disparities-in-vaccination-rates-even-out-partisan-gap-remains-glaring-122254405636

* "Mobile military ICU training for use with beleaguered U.S. hospitals:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mobile-military-icu-training-for-use-with-beleaguered-u-s-hospitals-121761349902

* "Florida's new surgeon general opposes mandates, calls COVID-19 vaccines "nothing special":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joseph-ladapo-florida-surgeon-general-covid-19-vaccine-desantis/

* "Florida’s new surgeon general ‘is a prop’ serving DeSantis’ interests doctor says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-s-new-surgeon-general-being-used-desantis-for-right-wing-agenda-doctor-says-121856581505

* Because the children aren’t dying fast enough for the pro-lifers, apparently. "Florida Students Are No Longer Required To Quarantine After Being Exposed To COVID:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/22/1039907024/florida-quarantine-optional-for-students-exposed-covid

* "Amid a sharp rise in COVID-19 deaths this summer, more Texans under 60 are dying:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/24/coronavirus-texas-deaths-under-60/

* "Doctors Say Texas Leaders Failed To Stop COVID-19 From Spreading:" https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2021/09/03/407791/doctors-say-texas-leaders-failed-to-stop-covid-19-from-spreading/

* "Mississippi Governor Announces Bold Plan to Do Nothing to Stop COVID:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/mississippi-governor-announces-bold-plan-to-do-nothing-to-stop-covid

* "COVID deaths surge in Alabama, after state reports more deaths than births in 2020:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-deaths-surge-alabama-state-reports-deaths-births/story?id=80157191

* "‘It’s a tragedy’: State health officer responds to Alabama now leading the country in COVID-19 death rate:" https://www.cbs42.com/news/health/coronavirus/watch-live-state-health-officer-provides-update-on-covid-19-across-alabama/

* "Tennessee sees decrease in COVID cases, but deaths sharply rising; doctors say remain vigilant:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-sees-decrease-in-covid-cases-but-deaths-sharply-rising-doctors-say-remain-vigilant/

* "Physicians fire back at Tennessee governor's COVID policies:" https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2021/sep/28/physicians-fire-back-governors-covid-policies/555019/

* "As Oklahoma’s COVID-19 toll hits 10,000, 'it’s OK to ask for help,' grief experts say:" https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2021/09/24/oklahoma-covid-grief-experts-advice-coping-state-deaths-hit-10-000/5799837001/

* "“An Unprecedented Event In Modern Medicine”: What Happens When A State Fails To Flatten The COVID Curve:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/idaho-covid-crisis-standards-care

* "Idaho morgues are running out of space for bodies as covid-19 deaths mount:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/25/idaho-funeral-homes-coronavirus/

* "1144 new COVID-19 cases in Montana:" https://nbcmontana.com/news/coronavirus/new-covid-19-cases-in-montana-09-23-2021

* As far as I'm concerned they killed those people on purpose. "9 vaccinated nursing home residents die after Montana lets healthcare workers go unvaccinated:" https://www.newsweek.com/9-vaccinated-nursing-home-residents-die-after-montana-lets-healthcare-workers-go-unvaccinated-1632673

* "A Montana VA medical center has opened beds to non-eligible patients to help relieve nearby hospitals during Covid-19 surge:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/25/us/montana-va-beds-hospitals-covid/index.html

* "Hospitals flooded by the unvaccinated forced to curb care even for some non-Covid patients:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/non-covid-patients-receiving-reduced-care-at-hospitals-overwhelmed-by-the-unvaccinated-121764421871

* "Documents show influence of Trump White House adviser on bizarre Covid policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/exclusive-documents-show-influence-of-trump-white-house-adviser-on-bizarre-covid-policy-121865797681

* "Hayes: How GOP is making money off ‘morally obscene’ anti-vax grift:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-gop-is-making-money-off-morally-obscene-anti-vax-grift-122241093739

* "Anti-vaxx NBA players generate fallout for teams, fans as city-level mandates kick in:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/anti-vaxx-nba-players-critiqued-by-journalists-jemele-hill-matt-sullivan-122145349901

* "Georgia Governor Touts AIDS 'Vaccine':" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/9/18/georgia-governor-touts-aids-vaccine

* "Knox County Cancels School After Anti-Mask Advocates Threaten Disruptive Protests:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/knoxville-school-canceled-anti-mask-protest_n_6151def0e4b01dff4b70c164

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* "Taliban official: Strict punishment, executions will return:" https://apnews.com/article/religion-afghanistan-kabul-taliban-22f5107f1dbd19c8605b5b5435a9de54

* "Afghanistan: Taliban Abuses Cause Widespread Fear:" https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/09/23/afghanistan-taliban-abuses-cause-widespread-fear

* "The Women Burning Their Degree Certificates:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/09/afghanistan-brain-drain/619959/

* "Afghan Women Are Fighting Taliban Rule Despite Violent Suppression:"

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* "Return of the Taliban: A VICE Special Report:"

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* "The US Airlifted Over 100K Afghans as Kabul Fell, Now What?:"

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* "EPA rule sharply limits HFCs, gases used as refrigerants:" https://apnews.com/article/epa-hydrofluorocarbon-rules-hfcs-greenhouse-gases-043715b9ee50d5a42ce0364ed28ffdff

* "U.S. mail service due to degrade further as DeJoy's tenure as postmaster general persists:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-mail-service-due-to-degrade-further-as-dejoy-s-tenure-as-postmaster-general-persists-122254405795

* "Dems may drop debt fight to avoid shutdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/27/republicans-block-bill-shutdown-debt-ceiling-514405

* "The Byeline: Don't let the U.S. government crash through the debt ceiling:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-byeline-don-t-let-the-u-s-government-crash-through-the-debt-ceiling-122026565798

* The Republican argument is that costing taxpayers trillions of dollars for no gain, destroying the ability of the government to do anything much for a generation or two, crashing the American and the world economy for fun are all a small price to pay to protest a democratic plan to get the rich to pay a small part of their share of taxes. Crashing the debt ceiling cost money the way not paying any of your bills costs money.

Tell your Democratic Senators the Filibuster needs to die now when it can do some good. Tell your Republican Senators to save the American economy by voting to raise. Tell both your senators to abolish the debt ceiling.

* "Pelosi steers Dems toward infrastructure vote, without spending bill in tow:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/27/pelosi-house-democrats-infrastructure-514359

* "'It can't be a pinkie promise': Progressives not falling for games; insist on Biden agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-can-t-be-a-pinkie-promise-progressives-not-falling-for-games-insist-on-biden-agenda-122159685720

* "Rep. Jones to those opposing lowering drug prices: who are you looking out for?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kyrsten-sinema-opposing-reconciliation-bill-s-drug-price-reforms-draws-scrutiny-121854533661

* "Sinema courts donors opposed to bill Democrats are trying to pass: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sinema-courts-donors-opposed-to-bill-democrats-are-trying-to-pass-nyt-122159173560

* "Manchin, Sinema contradict constituents in obstructing Build Back Better bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manchin-sinema-contradict-constituents-in-obstructing-build-back-better-bill-122254917824

* "Sen. Sinema raising money from groups opposing Biden budget bill :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-sinema-raising-money-from-groups-opposing-biden-budget-bill-122240581828

* "American Gentry:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/trump-american-gentry-wyman-elites/620151/

* "This stark visualization proves it: You should be making a lot more money:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90671506/this-stark-visualization-proves-it-you-should-be-making-a-lot-more-money

* "COVID-19 creates dire US shortage of teachers, school staff:" https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-education-california-b6c495eab9a2a8f1a3ca068582c9d3c7

It's almost as if the decision to make being a teacher more expensive every year while paying teachers about the same as we pay fast food workers and eroding their benefits while for decades there has been a serious teacher shortage has so hollowed out the system so badly that one disaster could completely collapse the system.

To be clear support staff are treated even worse.

You know how for decades we've been saying we need to properly fund schools while republicans have been slashing funding? Yeah.

* "Massachusetts Calls On The National Guard To Mitigate A School Bus Driver Shortage:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037307027/massachusetts-calls-national-guard-school-bus-driver-shortage-baker

* "Amid driver shortage, students ride party bus with stripper poles on field trip:" https://www.masslive.com/boston/2021/09/amid-bus-driver-shortage-boston-students-ride-party-bus-with-stripper-poles-and-neon-lights-on-field-trip.html

* "America Has a Healthcare Crisis, and It's Hurting Rural Towns:"

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* "How the US made affordable homes illegal:"

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* "Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All:"

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* "These Single Moms Are Forced to Choose: Reveal Their Sexual Histories or Forfeit Welfare:" https://www.propublica.org/article/to-get-public-assistance-these-single-mothers-are-forced-to-share-intimate-details-about-their-families

* "‘We’re all fighting the giant’: Gig workers around the world are finally organizing:" https://restofworld.org/2021/gig-workers-around-the-world-are-finally-organizing/

* "“It’s Time to Turn This Tortilla Around”: El Milagro Workers Walk Out, Demanding Fair Treatment:" https://inthesetimes.com/article/el-milagro-walkout-lockout-chicago-labor-tortilla

* "Sweeping George Floyd police reform bill stalls as talks collapse:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/22/us-police-reform-bill-congress-bipartisan-talks

* "Rep. Karen Bass on police reform, possible mayoral run:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-karen-bass-on-police-reform-possible-mayoral-run-122025029734

* "House passes bill to create statutory right to abortion as a battle over Texas law heats up:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/abortion-house-texas-supreme-court/2021/09/24/d5e731be-1ca2-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html

* "Jennifer Rubin: Dems must get Manchin to realize ‘this is not ‘50s version of GOP’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gop-refusing-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling-slammed-by-politics-experts-121750085964

* 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.

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

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

* "Stuart Stevens: The Republican Party is an anti-democratic, autocratic force:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/america-is-in-a-constitutional-crisis-right-now-due-to-republican-party-ploys-122150469650

* "Eric Holder on battling gerrymandering and GOP voter suppression laws:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gerrymandering-and-how-it-could-lead-to-gop-minority-rule-nationwide-discussed-by-eric-holder-121218117592

* "Election law expert: How to prevent subversion of democracy in 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/election-law-expert-how-to-prevent-subversion-of-democracy-in-2024-122144325710

* "Joy Reid: Democrats must protect free and fair elections to preserve our democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/big-lie-continuing-to-flourish-among-republicans-critiqued-by-joy-reid-in-the-absolute-worst-121563717586

* "What's The Status Of GOP-Backed Election Investigations In Wisconsin?:" https://www.wpr.org/whats-status-gop-backed-election-investigations-wisconsin

* "Arizona ballot review commissioned by Republicans reaffirms Biden’s victory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/arizona-ballot-review-draft-report/2021/09/24/7c19ac08-1562-11ec-b976-f4a43b740aeb_story.html

* "Arizona 'audit' flop fails Trump; furthers Republican degradation of democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/arizona-audit-flop-fails-trump-furthers-republican-degradation-of-democracy-121954885665

* "Joy Reid calls Arizona vote audit one of many 'fake fraudit gaslighting exercises':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/partisan-arizona-vote-audit-of-2020-election-confirms-biden-won-121947717562

* "Pennsylvania A.G. moves to protect voter data from state Republican 'audit' stunt:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pennsylvania-a-g-moves-to-protect-voter-data-from-state-republican-audit-stunt-121862725762

* "Hayes: Texas is latest in Trump's ‘50 state strategy’ to undermine democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-texas-is-latest-in-trump-s-50-state-strategy-to-undermine-democracy-121847365718

* "'Texas is being run from Mar-a-Lago': Abbott drags Texas into 'audit' circus for Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-texas-is-being-run-from-mar-a-lago-abbott-drags-texas-into-audit-circus-for-trump-121952325811

* "Wave of Republican candidates endorsing Trump's Big Lie threatens future elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wave-of-republican-candidates-endorsing-trump-s-big-lie-threatens-future-elections-121764933923

* "Schmidt: Republicans are driving chaos, promising order with easy scapegoats:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schmidt-republicans-are-driving-chaos-promising-order-with-easy-scapegoats-121953861736

* "GOP congressman's bizarre rant embodies Republican Party's animating force:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-congressman-s-bizarre-rant-embodies-republican-party-s-animating-force-122254917892

* "Bernice King, MLK’s daughter, called race profiteer by GOP senate candidate:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/bernice-king-mlk-daughter-called-193608734.html

* "Joy Reid critiques prominent GOP leaders using ‘Great Replacement’ theory rhetoric:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-lt-governor-patrick-spews-racist-great-replacement-theory-rant-on-fox-news-121217605781

* "Chris Hayes takes apart the racist right-wing immigration theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-takes-apart-the-racist-right-wing-immigration-theory-121943621608

* "Matt Gaetz openly embraces racist right-wing theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/matt-gaetz-openly-embraces-racist-right-wing-theory-122141765750

* "How Ted Cruz embarrassed himself at a hearing he didn’t even attend:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-ted-cruz-embarrassed-himself-at-a-hearing-he-didn-t-even-attend-122241605901

* "Rep. Lauren Boebert paid rent, utilities with campaign funds, filing shows:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-lauren-boebert-paid-rent-utilities-with-campaign-funds-filing-shows-121852485509

* "Joy Reid critiques Lauren Boebert for using campaign funds to pay rent, utility bills:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/lauren-boebert-critiqued-for-using-campaign-funds-to-pay-rent-utility-bills-by-joy-reid-121919045895

* "Judge orders Trump Org. to address subpoenas by New York attorney general for company records:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/24/politics/trump-organization-taxes-new-york/index.html

* "'Case-by-case basis': White House clarifies position on Trump records and Jan. 6 executive privilege:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/24/biden-privilege-trump-jan-6-514249

* "Jan. 6 committee subpoenas 4 from Trump’s inner circle:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/23/jan-6-committee-subpoenas-four-from-trumps-inner-circle-513989

* "Here's why the media is ignoring the violent Republican crime wave that no one is talking about:" https://www.rawstory.com/republican-crime-wave/

* "'They morphed into terrorists': Judges question meager charges against 1/6 rioters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-they-morphed-into-terrorists-judges-question-meager-charges-against-1-6-rioters-122254405575

* "Bannon, Meadows, other Trump insiders receive subpoenas from January 6th Committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bannon-meadows-other-trump-insiders-receive-subpoenas-from-january-6th-committee-121861190001

* "FBI: Killings soared nearly 30 percent in 2020, with more slayings committed with guns:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-murders-2020-data-homicides/2021/09/27/062a1e4e-1f9c-11ec-9309-b743b79abc59_story.html

* "Tennessee grocery store attack: 'He kept on shooting':" https://apnews.com/article/media-shootings-tennessee-memphis-961847d59e0befbbf814073116410fb8

* "U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigns, says he will not be associated with ‘inhumane, counterproductive’ deportations of Haitians:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/haiti-biden-deportations-envoy/2021/09/23/c8304424-1c6c-11ec-8380-5fbadbc43ef8_story.html

* "Haiti Protests Mass U.S. Deportation of Migrants to Country in Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/world/americas/us-haitian-deportation.html

* "Mexico urges Haitians at US-Mexico border to give up and head south:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mexico-urges-haitians-us-mexico-border-give-up-head-south-2021-09-24/

* "Former ambassador ‘respectfully disagrees’ with DHS Sec. over repatriating Haitian migrants:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/haiti-is-not-capable-of-repatriating-migrants-former-ambassador-patrick-gaspard-says-121947205553

* "Rep. Omar: Atrocious images from border should make Americans’ skin crawl:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/haitian-immigrants-gathered-at-southern-border-advocated-for-by-rep-ilhan-omar-121562181571

* "DHS Sec. Mayorkas: I’m horrified at images of Border Control corralling migrants:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/border-control-corralling-haitian-migrants-on-horseback-under-investigation-dhs-sec-mayorkas-says-121652293503

* "The Sound Off: Haiti and the Right:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-sound-off-haiti-and-the-right-122026053743

* "Biden administration takes new steps to preserve DACA:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/politics/daca-biden-immigration/index.html

* "Louisiana state trooper charged in pummeling of Black man:" https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-race-and-ethnicity-civil-rights-violations-death-of-ronald-greene-a2f88ffbeea43c6acfc4e9f490ced8f8

* "US police departments clamoring for de-escalation training:" https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-police-new-york-new-york-city-maine-a85463f8955fcf4be53e7b66287c1a87

* "Gay Man Dies at Rikers While Held Under $1 Bail; Family Seeks Answers:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/22/gay-man-dies-rikers-while-held-under-1-bail-family-seeks-answers

They wouldn’t let him out without appearing before a judge, but refused to let him make any of his court dates because setting up teleconferencing would have taken a minimum of effort, then ignored an increasingly dire medical emergency until he died at which point they lied to cover it up.

* "Monument honoring abolition of slavery unveiled in Richmond two weeks after Robert E. Lee statue was removed:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/us/virginia-emancipation-statue-trnd/index.html

* "Famed cathedral names artist to replace Confederate windows:" https://apnews.com/article/religion-race-and-ethnicity-james-marshall-kerry-james-marshall-4f3ef320f410c9090acb540fa925bc2e

* "First Black principal at Texas school suspended after being accused of promoting critical race theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/critical-race-theory-promotion-accusation-made-against-first-black-principal-at-texas-high-school-before-his-suspension-121217093762

* "Jelani Cobb: Tulsa just one of many places race massacres targeted Black Americans:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/100-years-after-tulsa-race-massacre-survivors-make-case-for-justice-reparations-122244677823

* "Math Is Personal:" https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2021/09/bias-math-sexism-racism/620207/

* "Sabina Nessa killing suspect ‘tried to hide reflective red item’:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/25/sabina-nessa-killing-suspect-tried-to-hide-reflective-red-item

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Federal arrest warrant issued for Brian Laundrie, fiance of Gabby Petito, on fraud-related charge:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/23/brian-laundrie-warrant/

* "Maybe Cops Shouldn’t Handle Domestic Violence Calls:" https://www.thecut.com/2021/09/gabby-petito-body-cam-cops-fail-domestic-violence-victims.html

* "As the Petito case grips the nation, families of color say their missing loved ones matter, too:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/22/missing-persons-families-seek-help-after-gabby-petito-death/?itid=lk_inline_manual_11

* "Daniel Robinson’s father calls for all missing persons cases to be treated equally:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/father-of-missing-black-man-daniel-robinson-asks-for-more-police-accountability-121948741621

* "AOC on Texas governor’s ‘disgusting’ abortion remarks: ‘He is not familiar with a female body’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-greg-abbott-texas-abortion-ban

* "'Architect' of reviled Texas abortion ban is now taking aim at crucial LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/21/jonathan-mitchell-texas-abortion-lgbt-rights-supreme-court/

* "How China’s Queer Youth Built an Underground Ballroom Scene:"

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* "Leo Varadkar hit with appalling homophobic abuse by 'intimidating' far-right mob:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/20/leo-varadkar-home-protect-homophobic/

* "Church of England candidates told to talk threesomes when grilled on inclusion:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/church-of-england-evangelicals-general-synod-candidates/

* "U.K. Appeals Court Overturns Puberty Blockers Ban for Youth Under 16:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/9/17/uk-appeals-court-overturns-puberty-blockers-youth-under-16

* "Not a single trans young person has been referred to a hormone specialist in 2021:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/trans-young-hormone-specialist-referral-nhs/

* "Government condemned over latest delay to conversion therapy ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/25/conversion-therapy-public-consultation/

* "Biden: We Must Defend Rights of LGBTQ+ Individuals to Love Openly:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/9/22/biden-we-must-defend-rights-lgbtq-individuals-love-openly

* "Trans Woman Brianna Ulmer Fatally Shot in Chicago:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/22/trans-woman-brianna-ulmer-fatally-shot-chicago

* "Gay Man Brutally Beaten, Left Unconscious in Alleged Hate Crime:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/20/gay-man-brutally-beaten-left-unconscious-alleged-hate-crime

* "Videos Show Florida Students Yelling Anti-LGBTQ+ Slurs:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/20/videos-show-florida-students-yelling-anti-lgbtq-slurs

* "Coach Fired for Being Gay Was Told He's a 'Danger' to Kids:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/17/coach-fired-being-gay-was-told-hes-danger-kids

* "Colorado governor weds longtime partner in first same-sex marriage for a sitting governor:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/us/jared-polis-colorado-governor-wedding/index.html

* If Simu Liu can’t tell the difference between pedophilia and consensual sex between adults, perhaps he shouldn’t be allowed near children. "Shang-Chi's Simu Liu: Pedophilia Is 'No Different Than Being Gay':" https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/9/17/shang-chis-simu-liu-pedophilia-no-different-being-gay

* "Chicago Winning Battle Against HIV Among Older People:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/9/20/chicago-winning-battle-against-hiv-among-older-people

* "Syphilis - The Great Imitator - Extra History:"

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* "Britney Spears court filing says conservatorship should end:" https://apnews.com/article/britney-spears-conservatorship-7e627b77247844e0926429d4863fda3a

* CW: Abuse. "Beyond Britney: Abuse, Exploitation, And Death Inside America’s Guardianship Industry:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/heidiblake/conservatorship-investigation-free-britney-spears

* "One Mozart Song Calms The Brains of People With Epilepsy, And We May Finally Know Why:" https://www.sciencealert.com/listening-to-mozart-somehow-helped-people-with-epilepsy

* "Barnacle Glue Inspired MIT Scientists to Make a Paste that Can Stop Heavy Bleeding in Seconds:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/barnacle-glue-inspired-a-paste-that-can-stop-heavy-bleeding-in-seconds/

* "What Is the 20-Second Bladder Rule?:" https://www.wellandgood.com/20-second-bladder-rule/

* This surprises me not at all. "Fifteen years of research shows that sleep training for babies can cause them more distress:" https://inews.co.uk/opinion/sleep-training-babies-cause-distress-research-1199132

* "How a Single Gene Could Become a Volume Knob for Pain:" https://www.wired.com/2017/04/the-cure-for-pain/

* "The school that created a city for the blind:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210916-the-school-that-change-a-city-into-a-place-for-the-blind

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* "‘Tipping point’ for climate action: Time’s running out to avoid catastrophic heating:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1099992

* "Every season except summer is getting shorter, a sign of trouble for people and the environment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/09/22/longer-northern-hemisphere-summer-climate/

* "How Record Rain and Officials’ Mistakes Led to Drownings on a Subway:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/world/asia/china-floods-subway-train.html

* "Fire breaks out near Sonoma, smoke cloud seen across Wine Country:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/Fremont-Fire-California-wildfire-Sonoma-16480227.php

* "Woman arrested on suspicion of starting California blaze:" https://apnews.com/article/fires-california-wildfires-evacuations-redding-66a00bdfc6747392f7dfd1d4a6587281

* "PG&E Is Charged With Manslaughter In A California Wildfire That Killed 4:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040630538/pacific-gas-electric-manslaughter-charges-california-wildfire-zogg

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* "Spanish volcano activity in La Palma island intensifies, suspending flights and forcing more evacuations:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/la-palma-island-intensifies-suspending-flights-intl/index.html

* "Strong quake hits Greek island of Crete; 1 dead, 20 injured:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-greece-athens-earthquakes-crete-6627c212e4f69081ce67969574b24f84

* "Amtrak train that derailed was going just under speed limit:" https://apnews.com/article/business-montana-amtrak-d33d78d5aa0da2abf8124162ed6b678f

* "Chinese scientists complete starch synthesis from CO2, revolutionary for agricultural production and promoting carbon neutrality - Global Times:" https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1235013.shtml

* "This is the whitest paint on Earth and it could eliminate need for air conditioning:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/world-whitest-paint-climate-change/507-7bb294b8-f29b-40de-b7cc-5c435ba0cdc0

* "Ford to make huge electric car investment, challenging Washington to keep up:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ford-to-make-huge-electric-car-investment-challenging-washington-to-keep-up-122159685637

* "Millions of iPhones, TVs and other devices could go offline next week — here's why:" https://www.tomsguide.com/news/internet-disconnect-sept-30

* "Facebook puts Instagram for kids on hold after pushback:" https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/instagram-pausing-instagram-kids-eyes-80257066

* "Great Wall of Lights: China’s sea power on Darwin’s doorstep:" https://apnews.com/article/china-oceans-overfishing-squid-294ff1e489589b2510cc806ec898c78f

* "New Zealand's Slow-Moving 'Living Fossils' Have the Fastest Sperm Among Reptiles:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tuatara-sperm

* "Basta! Romans say enough to invasion of wild boars in city:" https://apnews.com/article/oddities-elections-environment-and-nature-local-elections-rome-dfd52b91e75a6a7863cae244ee3c4bda

"Wild boars can weigh up to 100 kilos (220 pounds), reach 80 centimeters (2.6 feet) in height and measure 150 centimeters (5 feet) long, a not-insignificant threat especially to the elderly and young children."

* "'Exciting' Stone Age discoveries in the Cairngorms:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-56661834

* "Ancient tablet acquired by Hobby Lobby going back to Iraq:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/ancient-clay-tablet-assyrian-king-back-iraq-80185396

* "Unearthed at a British Golf Course: A Log Coffin From the Bronze Age:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/world/europe/bronze-age-coffin-golf-course.html

* "King John: How England's Horrible Monarch Ended Up Granting Human Rights to the Western World:"

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* "Jewish Pirates:" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5CKygjg_eqcqTdJBCx1KgiD

* "Buckingham Palace May Have Been Site of Gay Brothel in the 1600s:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/20/buckingham-palace-may-have-been-site-gay-brothel-1600s

* "Who was the Real Man in the Iron Mask?:"

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* "The Absolute Legend That was Lord Timothy Dexter:"

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* "Is Ring Around the Rosie Really About the Plague?:"

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* "Cholera: Love in the Time of Pandemic:"

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* "500 Years of Women's Hoops, Crinolines, Bustles, & Bums (aka the history of the skirt):"

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* "The Greatest Last Stand You've Never Heard Of:"

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* "Newly Digitized Freedmen's Bureau Records Help Black Americans Trace Their Ancestry:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-database-helps-descendants-enslaved-research-their-ancestors-180978522/

* "Trove of Unseen Photos Documents Indigenous Culture in 1920s Alaska:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trove-of-unseen-photos-documents-indigenous-culture-in-1920s-alaska-180978713/

* "Polio: The Disease that Paralyzed the World:"

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* CW: Eating Disorders, Torture, Medical Abuse. "The Doctor, the Mortician, and the Murder:"

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* "The Crazy Crystal Meth Adventure of a Finnish Soldier:" https://medium.com/exploring-history/the-crazy-crystal-meth-adventure-of-a-finnish-soldier-1cae54a1238f

* CW: Rape. "How Do the Japanese Teach About WWII?:"

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* "The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/may/25/chinese-merchant-seamen-liverpool-deportations

* "When Pepsi had 6th largest navy in the world:" https://medium.com/history-in-bytes/when-pepsi-had-6th-largest-navy-in-the-world-4612708b70d2

* "Birmingham Church Bombing survivor lived with rage at sister’s death in 1963 White supremacist attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/birmingham-bombing-survivor-sarah-collins-rudolph-commemorates-58th-anniversary-of-attack-by-white-supremacists-120983109532

* CW: Rape. "Little Red Riding Hood On Campus: Women & Public Space:" https://daily.jstor.org/little-red-riding-hood-on-campus-women-and-public-space/

* "Doris Duke: The Murder at Rough Point:"

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* CW: Rape. "Peter Sutcliffe: Fake Notes, Bad Assumptions, and the Yorkshire Ripper's Reign of Terror:"

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* "Joy Reid slams Tucker Carlson’s comparison of current COVID patients vs. '80s HIV patients:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/tucker-carlson-compares-treatment-of-people-with-covid-today-to-hiv-positive-people-in-the-80s-122243141991

* CW: Rape. "Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer:"

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* "LGBT+ troops discuss the 'hurtful' legacy of 'don't ask, don't tell' 10 years on:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/20/dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal-anniversary/

* "Biden on DADT Repeal Anniversary: 'A Tremendous Weight Was Lifted':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/9/20/biden-dadt-repeal-anniversary-tremendous-weight-was-lifted

* CW: Rape, Torture. "The Amazon Review Killer:"

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* "The Titanic PCP Incident:"

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* "Croatian police identify woman found with memory loss:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-ireland-croatia-slovakia-d7ea323234fcfc0fc6e42ec80ed9ffae

* "Tributes flood in for tireless defender of LGBT+ rights after his sudden death:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/20/jonathan-cooper-human-rights-lawyer-lgbt/

* "Beloved Sex and the City actor Willie Garson dies aged 57:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/willie-garson-dead-sex-and-the-city/

* "Melvin Van Peebles, godfather of Black cinema, dies at 89:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-movies-race-and-ethnicity-5c0a123a8238776ce96e0ea378e4dff5

* "Autopsy: Actor Michael K. Williams died of drug intoxication:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-tv-arts-and-entertainment-new-york-new-york-city-16cd9a96af9010ddcb2357e6d7b50a29

* "Mwazulu takes objects from French museums and live streams it to his followers:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-09/mwazulu-diyabanza-taking-africa-looted-treasures-france-museums/100441386

* "How Language Classes Are Moving Past the Gender Binary:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/crosswords/gender-language-nonbinary.html

* "What We Should Learn From the California Recall Election:"

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* "The Midterms are Only 411 Days Away: Holy Sh*&%$#!:"

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* "Climate Change’s Dirty Little Secret: Sewage:"

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* "Voting Rights:"

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* "Count on It with Dulcé - What's Behind the Sperm Recession?:" https://www.cc.com/video/llachu/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-count-on-it-with-dulce-what-s-behind-the-sperm-recession

* "Histhery with Desi Lydic - Men vs. Women Bearing Children:" https://www.cc.com/video/vhxhzi/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-histhery-with-desi-lydic-men-vs-women-bearing-children

* "Scientists Are Potty-Training Cows:" https://www.cc.com/video/pl7zwr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-scientists-are-potty-training-cows

* "Instagram Is Damaging for Teens:" https://www.cc.com/video/49tuxn/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-instagram-is-damaging-for-teens

* "U.S. Drone Strike Kills Aid Worker:" https://www.cc.com/video/1fc6hn/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-u-s-drone-strike-kills-aid-worker

* "Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Swollen Testicles:" https://www.cc.com/video/ip63m3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-nicki-minaj-s-cousin-s-friend-s-swollen-testicles

* "Terrence Deyalsingh - Trinidad's Health Minister Speaks Out:" https://www.cc.com/video/udi869/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-terrence-deyalsingh-trinidad-s-health-minister-speaks-out

* "Black Men and Colorism on Screen:"

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* "Loki, the MCU, and Narcissism:"

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* I have often felt I was watching an entirely different movie than a big chunk of other viewers, especially when it comes to things like Fight Club and the Crow. I feel like this commentator was watching more the way I watch. "Edgelord Movies and the Men who Love Them:"

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* Wednesday I had an old Archer om in the background wile we were all working in the common area of the house. The Millennials were in the kitchen, I was in my office area. Malory Archer was claiming she could do everything the image consultants could do to market their company.

From the kitchen comes, "Okay, Boomer!"

I laughed my ass off.

* Saturday and Sunday assorted millennials and I worked on Gothmas phase one. Here are the results: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/663528395516346368/gothmas-phase-92621

Tavy and Livia: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/663541625688145920/livia-and-tavy-92126

* "John the Baptist, Melchizedek, and the Tom Bombadil Problem:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/john-the-baptist-melchizedek-and?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MTg2OTM2MiwiXyI6InR5SGdyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjMyODIzNTU1LCJleHAiOjE2MzI4MjcxNTUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.C1Z47GItrHV2O2tiBp1GHYOFZ9VDQ6zTinxIQfVBNwk

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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.

* 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

* How to help Louisiana: https://auressea.tumblr.com/post/661189695761530880

* "How You Can Help LGBTQ+ Afghans in Crisis:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/8/17/how-you-can-help-lgbtq-afghans-crisis

* Hey! Want to propose Washington State geographical features to be renamed? "Committee on Geographic Names:" https://www.dnr.wa.gov/about/boards-and-councils/board-natural-resources/committee-geographic-names

* My oldest continuous friend's next project. "Goblingrief: A D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/goblingrief-a-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR0jBz9AdmIPSOk4KiCxiykxktX_ePCGTI0iCv9YFcnN2ENmdj5zna3LZnk

* Want to help Maxwell frost go to congress? https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/119806

* Want to help Val Demings unseat Marco Rubio? https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/117824

* Want to contribute to Morgan Harper's campaign? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads_ms_mh_gs_202109_dd_launch?source=ads_ms_MH_20210903-DD-GS-Launch-National_mhkywrds-Natl-1865U-MF_a003-MH-ad3-gstxt-txt&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqKuKBhCxARIsACf4XuGuQ_qm_8NW3mAhIySgB61jwTijPejfpvU6Gkt_JHp3b5YG4E75aWAaAhwTEALw_wcB

* Want a say in Washington redistricting? "Draw Your WA | Washington State 2021 Redistricting Commission:" https://www.redistricting.wa.gov/

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* "Homophobic, racist and sexist bullying at power plant so pervasive it prompts nuclear safety fears:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/03/10/sellafield-nuclear-site-bullying-racist-homophobic-sexist-abuse/

* "Uganda's missing: Hundreds of families fear for those taken away:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56321791

* "Syria war: 'This is the price we had to pay for freedom':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56154584

* "Myanmar coup: 'We were told to shoot protesters', say police who fled:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56343982

* "Myanmar: Urgently Investigate NLD Official’s Death in Custody:" https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/09/myanmar-urgently-investigate-nld-officials-death-custody

* "Myanmar coup: Protesters flee after being 'trapped' overnight:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56329220

* This amounts to a pay cut given the inflation rate. After everything medical staff went through this year the Tories decided to cut their pay while giving themselves massive pay cuts. "Anger grows at offer of 1% pay rise for NHS staff:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/05/anger-grows-at-offer-of-1-pay-rise-for-nhs-staff

* "Tory who wants more rights for straight men joins women and equalities committee:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/03/04/ben-bradley-mp-women-equalities-select-committee-straight-white-man/

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* "Brazil Study Suggests AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Effective Against Brazil COVID-19 Variant:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-03-08/brazil-study-suggests-astrazeneca-vaccine-is-effective-against-brazil-covid-19-variant

* "Covid-19: Why are Palestinians behind in vaccine efforts?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/55800921

* "Brazil hits new daily COVID deaths record as crisis escalates:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/10/brazil-hits-new-daily-covid-deaths-record-as-crisis-escalates

* "Brazil’s growing coronavirus outbreak poses a threat far beyond its borders:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazil-virus-cases-global-threat/2021/03/08/3de3f488-7e82-11eb-8c5e-32e47b42b51b_story.html

* "Poland's Lake District Sees Sudden Spike in COVID Cases:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-03-03/polands-lake-district-sees-sudden-spike-in-covid-cases

* "Russian disinformation campaign working to undermine confidence in Covid-19 vaccines used in US:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/07/politics/russian-disinformation-pfizer-vaccines/index.html

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 3/8/21 are 29,034,000. The official death toll is 526,000. Fully Vaccinated: 9.4%.

* "Biden to order 100M more doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/10/biden-100-million-doses-johnson-johnson-vaccine-475054

* "CDC cuts travel advice from guidelines for vaccinated people:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/08/cdc-guidelines-vaccinated-people-474355

* "Fauci says vaccine supply will be "dramatically increased" in weeks ahead:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthony-fauci-coronavirus-vaccine-supply-face-the-nation/

* Extended Interview with Dr. Rochelle Walensky: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pending-research-on-spread-variants-could-alter-guidance-for-vaccinated-people-102837829979

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-the-cdc-isn-t-yet-ready-to-green-light-travel-for-those-already-vaccinated-102834245538

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-in-vaccination-race-against-rapidly-mutating-covid-virus-102828613728

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/covid-relief-bill-offers-welcome-boost-to-u-s-public-health-infrastructure-102842437666

* "Biden puts U.S. on path to global Covid vaccine leadership; sharp pivot from Trump failure:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-puts-u-s-on-path-to-global-covid-vaccine-leadership-sharp-pivot-from-trump-failure-103861829962

* "Dr. Ashish Jha expects more vaccine supply in ‘Late March, Early April’ but ‘we have to make it easy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/dr-ashish-jha-expects-more-vaccine-supply-in-late-march-early-april-but-we-have-to-make-it-easy-103119941733

* I think they are deliberately sabotaging the attempt to stop COVID for the pleasure of Pwning the libs at the expense of their voters’ lives. "U.S. hits record daily Covid vaccinations but health officials warn against loosening restrictions:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/07/covid-us-vaccinations-hit-record-officials-warn-against-easing-restrictions.html

* "Workers worry for their safety as more states lift mask mandates:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mask-mandates-workers-health-safety-concerns/

* "‘It can absolutely kill you’: Joy Reid calls anti-mask bullies the absolute worst:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-it-can-absolutely-kill-you-joy-reid-calls-anti-mask-bullies-the-absolute-worst-102711877558

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* "Biden signs executive order expanding voting access:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/07/politics/voting-access-executive-order/

* "Biden Establishes A Gender Policy Council Within The White House:" https://www.npr.org/2021/03/08/974655385/biden-will-establish-a-gender-policy-council-within-the-white-house

* "Biden Endorses Female Generals Whose Promotions Were Delayed Over Fears of Trump’s Reaction:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/us/politics/female-generals-promoted-biden.html

* "Merrick Garland finally got his Senate vote. Now comes the hard part:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/10/politics/merrick-garland-attorney-general-challenges/index.html

* "Marcia Fudge confirmed as first Black woman to lead HUD in more than 40 years:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/10/hud-secretary-marcia-fudge-confirmation/

* "Joe Biden stays true to his word by appointing senior advisor on LGBT+ issues:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/03/04/joe-biden-white-house-senior-advisor-lgbt-reggie-greer-victory-institute/

* "House gives final OK to Biden’s $1.9T Covid aid plan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/10/house-final-passage-wednesday-covid-aid-plan-475047

* "Here's what's in the Covid relief package:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/10/politics/whats-in-the-covid-relief-bill/index.html

* "COVID bill to deliver big health insurance savings for many:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-health-care-reform-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-medicaid-69773575cabcb7af79eadea3ecdb5c81

* Because unlike Republicans, Biden believes helping Americans is more important than his ego. "Biden's name will not appear on 'memo line' on stimulus checks: White House:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-stimulus-signature-idUSKBN2B12HU

* "Covid relief: What's in the bill, and why the ‘working class’ party won't back it:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/covid-relief-what-s-in-the-bill-and-why-the-working-class-party-won-t-back-it-102739525655

* "‘Pinching myself’: Nobel Prize-winning economist on scale of Covid relief bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-pinching-myself-nobel-prize-winning-economist-on-scale-of-covid-relief-bill-102741573592

* "‘Social security for kids:’ Chris Hayes on historic child credit in Covid bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-social-security-for-kids-chris-hayes-on-historic-child-credit-in-covid-bill-103136325993

* "Clyburn: Covid relief package is most ‘transformative’ bill of his career:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/clyburn-covid-relief-package-is-most-transformative-bill-of-his-career-103141957787

* "Maddow: Biden has a lot to boast about in new Covid relief bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-biden-has-a-lot-to-boast-about-in-new-covid-relief-bill-103185989664

* "White House Press Sec. Psaki affirms Biden’s commitment to $15 minimum wage:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/biden-s-commitment-to-15-minimum-wage-affirmed-by-white-house-press-sec-psaki-102230085888

* "Economics in Brief: Results From Stockton’s Basic Income Experiment:" https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/economics-in-brief-results-from-stocktons-basic-income-experiment

* "Stockton’s Basic-Income Experiment Pays Off:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/stocktons-basic-income-experiment-pays-off/618174/

* "California Program Giving $500 No-Strings-Attached Stipends Pays Off, Study Finds:" https://www.npr.org/2021/03/04/973653719/california-program-giving-500-no-strings-attached-stipends-pays-off-study-finds

* "Moms Drop Out of Work Most in States Where Kids Learn From Home:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/moms-drop-out-of-work-most-in-states-where-kids-learn-from-home?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Rep. Clyburn vows John Lewis Voting Rights Act will be on Biden’s desk by August:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/biden-to-have-new-voting-rights-act-on-desk-by-august-clyburn-vows-102235717828

Want to tell your Republican Senator how important this is to you? Here are some options:

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

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

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

* "Georgia Senate approves sweeping election bill that would repeal no-excuse absentee voting:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/08/politics/georgia-senate-no-excuse-absentee-voting/

* "In Georgia, Republicans Take Aim at Role of Black Churches in Elections:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/us/politics/churches-black-voters-georgia.html

* "'The bills target everything': Georgia Republicans target voting from many angles:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-the-bills-target-everything-georgia-republicans-target-voting-from-many-angles-102848581596

* "Iowa governor signs controversial law shortening early and Election Day voting:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/08/politics/kim-reynolds-voting-iowa/index.html

* "Iowa Hispanic group files lawsuit challenging new voting law:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/iowa-hispanic-group-files-lawsuit-challenging-voting-law-76343301

* "Iowa Republicans spurn past election success, pass new voting restrictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/iowa-republicans-spurn-past-election-success-pass-new-voting-restrictions-103184453940

* "'Pay attention to this': Republican voter suppression effort unprecedented since Jim Crow:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-pay-attention-to-this-republican-voter-suppression-effort-unprecedented-since-jim-crow-103184453815

* Extended Stacey Abrams Interview: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-the-pieces-are-in-place-abrams-calls-on-congress-to-pass-voting-rights-bills-103872581550

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-use-every-lever-at-our-disposal-abrams-not-counting-on-courts-to-defend-voting-rights-103875654001

* "Sen. Roy Blunt won't run for reelection in latest blow to GOP:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/08/gop-sen-roy-blunt-will-not-run-for-reelection-474342

* "America, I am an angry Black woman. I’m OK with that. You should be too.:" https://www.goerie.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/02/25/anger-injustice-making-itself-heard/4554031001/

* "POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Trump sends legal notice to GOP to stop using his name:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/03/06/scoop-trump-sends-legal-notice-to-gop-to-stop-using-his-name-492021

* "RNC brushes back Trump team on cease-and-desist demand:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/08/rnc-trump-cease-and-desist-474412

* "Fulton DA overseeing Trump investigation hires top RICO expert:" https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/fulton-da-overseeing-trump-investigation-hires-top-rico-expert/2IHWNVR65NCZ7BKQWGOHYGIBVU/

* "NYC prosecutors' probe into Trump finances expands to include millions loaned for Chicago skyscraper:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/08/politics/trump-chicago-subpoena/

* "Supreme Court rejects final Trump election challenge:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-final-trump-election-challenge-n1260023

* "F.B.I. Finds Contact Between Proud Boys Member and Trump Associate Before Riot:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/us/politics/trump-proud-boys-capitol-riot.html

* "FBI arrests 2, including Roger Stone bodyguard, in Capitol riot:" https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/3/8/22320383/fbi-arrests-2-including-roger-stone-bodyguard-capitol-riot

* Says the man who says he will enthusiastically support the man who made those precautions necessary by trying to overthrow the government and lynch it's members. "McConnell: Capitol security measures are ‘overreaction’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/10/capitol-security-mitch-mcconnell-475123

* "Biden administration grants Venezuelans temporary protected status:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/08/biden-venezuelans-temporary-protected-status-474424

* "Biden administration ditches Trump plan to limit immigration for financially dependent:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/biden-administration-ditches-trump-plan-limit-immigration-financially-dependent-n1260239

* "Immigration arrests have fallen sharply under Biden, ICE data show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ice-deportations-immigration-arrests/2021/03/09/af27b164-80fa-11eb-bb5a-ad9a91faa4ef_story.html

* "Record number of migrant children held in Border Patrol custody as cases climb overnight:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/09/politics/immigration-border-patrol-children/index.html

* "Biden administration tells facilities for migrant children to reopen to pre-pandemic levels:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/05/politics/immigration-border-crowding-covid/index.html

* "Exclusive: Unaccompanied migrant children staying in Border Patrol facilities an average of 107 hours, internal records show:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/10/politics/migrant-children-border-patrol/index.html

* "Jury selection begins in Derek Chauvin's trial in the death of George Floyd. Here's what to expect:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/08/us/derek-chauvin-trial-jury/index.html

* "George Floyd’s brother on the Derek Chauvin trial: ‘I believe a conviction is possible’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/george-floyd-s-brother-on-the-derek-chauvin-trial-i-believe-a-conviction-is-possible-102702149562

* "Far-Right Misinformation Is Thriving On Facebook. A New Study Shows Just How Much:" https://www.npr.org/2021/03/06/974394783/far-right-misinformation-is-thriving-on-facebook-a-new-study-shows-just-how-much

* "Capital Punishment (& Prison Abolition):"

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* I believe Meghan and Harry and seriously fuck you BBC commentator who mocked them for "complaining and moaning."

* "No, I don’t deserve to be violently attacked in a queer space just because I’m fat:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/03/04/scottee-world-obesity-day-federartion-fatphobia-queer-gay-lgbt/

* "Archbishop of Canterbury condemns Nigerian primate’s description of gay people as a ‘virus’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/03/07/archbishop-of-canterbury-nigeria-primate-gay-virus-anglican-henry-ndukuba/

* "Government LGBT+ adviser quits over fears Tories are ‘returning to days of Section 28’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/03/10/jayne-ozanne-government-lgbt-advisory-panel-kemi-badenoch-liz-truss-conversion-therapy/

* "New Jersey Passes Landmark Bill Protecting LGBTQ+, HIV+ Seniors:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/3/08/new-jersey-passes-landmark-bill-protecting-lgbtq-hiv-seniors

* "Mississippi, South Dakota Send Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills to Governors:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/3/03/mississippi-south-dakota-send-anti-lgbtq-bills-governors

* "Homeless Trans Woman Jenna Franks Found Dead in North Carolina:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/3/09/homeless-trans-woman-jenna-franks-found-dead-north-carolina

* "Houston Bakery Facing Two Anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination Lawsuits:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/3/10/houston-bakery-facing-two-anti-lgbtq-discrimination-lawsuits

* "President Biden, Immediately Allow Gay and Bi Men to Donate Blood:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/3/10/president-biden-immediately-allow-gay-and-bi-men-donate-blood

* Fuckssake wear a condom! "'Outbreak' of HIV, Syphilis in Minnesota:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/3/08/outbreak-hiv-syphilis-minnesota

* "After 400 years away, England's beavers are protecting the landscape from flooding:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/03/europe/beavers-devon-flood-spc-cte-intl/index.html

* "Philippines reef littered with PPE face masks:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-56322369

* "How Lawyers Fight Climate Change:"

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* "The artists who outwitted the Nazis:" https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210223-the-artists-who-outwitted-the-nazis

* "How the Government Works with Dulce Sloan:" https://www.cc.com/video/s939s8/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-how-the-government-works-with-dulce-sloan

* "Bruce Springsteen - Ghosts:"

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* My Vaccination Saga: )

Short version? I got my first Pfizer shot. Second is already scheduled. If you X out the chronic stuff, the actual side effects were mild, it's just adding extra to a pile of Jesus Fuck I've been dealing with a weekish. Second dose will likely suck a lot more, judging from Squirrel and lots of vaccine related news coverage, but it is nothing next to getting covid, and I would gladly take Vaccine side effects rather than the AS and CF stuff I deal with every day. Trust me.

So get the damned shot, whatever shot when they offer it. (The ones that aren't working so well as not in the US. Seriously, just get the shot when your number comes up. I'd have taken whatever they gave me).

And don't be That Lady. Be nice to your provider because they are working their asses off to try to save your life.

* Update: Despite having no fever, I had the sort of dreams I normally have with a high fever. Just before bed, I'd developed a headache. It was dramatically worse between 4 and 7PM of the second day. My lungs had a really rough hour starting around four thirty, but they are almost back to where there were before yesterday morning's shot as of 9:30PM Tuesday. The muscle aches are almost over. Right now I'm dealing with chronic stuff plus general ick and the remains of the headache. Still totally worth it. It isn't even a question.

* "Sunday Sweets: No More Tiers:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/3/7/sunday-sweets-no-more-tiers

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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.

* Ways to help people in Texas: https://spockvarietyhour.tumblr.com/post/643435770019987456
https://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/643431809724628992

More Texas how to help links: https://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/643431809724628992

* "You Can Buy Girl Scout Cookies From Troop Of Girls In NYC Shelter System:" https://www.scarymommy.com/troop-6000-girl-scouts-nyc-shelters/

* More Girl Scout Troops in Particular Need: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/643247412337639424/girl-scout-cookie-time

* Cat Rescue Fundraiser: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/642429918533304320/design-a-tea-where-tea-leaves-dream-custom

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* "Joe Biden: Trump Put The Country In A Terrible Spot By Failing To Act - EXTENDED INTERVIEW:"

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* "Pa. House Democrats say they were in the dark for a week about Republican’s positive coronavirus test:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/spl/pennsylvania-legislator-positive-coronavirus-20200527.html

* "Gay Pa. Rep. Brian Sims Blasts GOP for Hiding COVID-19 Exposures:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/5/28/gay-pa-rep-brian-sims-blasts-gop-hiding-covid-19-exposures

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* "NSA warns of ongoing Russian hacking campaign against U.S. systems:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-usa-russia-idUSKBN2342RE

* "Trump threatens to pull Republican convention out of North Carolina:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/25/trump-republican-convention-north-carolina-278779

* "Trump extends National Guard's coronavirus deployment following outcry:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/28/trump-extends-national-guard-coronavirus-deployment-287434

* Meanwhile in Autocracy news, 45 attempts to entirely overthrow Federal Law via Executive order because he decided to lie that fact checking is somehow censorship. "Trump to sign executive order on social media amid Twitter furor:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/27/trump-executive-order-social-media-twitter-285891

* "Trump’s ‘big action’ on social media rests on limited legal powers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/28/trump-social-media-legal-powers-287751

* "Defying Trump, Twitter Doubles Down on Labeling Tweets:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/technology/trump-twitter-fact-check.html

* "Trump attacks Twitter employee while defending fact-checked tweets on mail-in ballots:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/28/trump-attacks-twitter-employee-while-defending-fact-checked-tweets.html

* "As Trump removes federal watchdogs, some loyalists replacing them have ‘preposterous’ conflicts:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-removes-federal-watchdogs-some-loyalists-replacing-them-have-extensive-conflicts/2020/05/24/8dad46a4-9b89-11ea-a2b3-5c3f2d1586df_story.html

* "Graham urges senior judges to step aside before November election so Republicans can fill vacancies:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/graham-urges-senior-judges-to-step-aside-before-november-election-so-republicans-can-fill-vacancies/2020/05/28/4b014d78-a0fc-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html

* "U.S. economy shrank at 5% annual rate in Q1:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/28/us-economy-shrank-at-5-annual-rate-in-q1-287717

* "Breaking precedent, White House won’t release formal economic projections this summer that would forecast extent of downturn:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/28/white-house-coronavirus-economic-projections/?utm_source=reddit.com

* "‘Still Catching Up’: Jobless Numbers May Not Tell Full Story:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/business/economy/coronavirus-unemployment-claims.html

* "Secret Service unearths overseas fraud ring stealing millions in unemployment benefits:" https://thehill.com/homenews/news/498160-secret-service-unearths-overseas-fraud-ring-stealing-millions-in-unemployment

* "U.S. taxpayers' virus relief went to firms that avoided U.S. taxes:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-companies-tax-excl-idUSKBN2341ZE

* "Pence Chief Of Staff Owns Stocks That Could Conflict With Coronavirus Response:' https://www.npr.org/2020/05/28/860927054/pence-chief-of-staff-owns-stocks-that-could-conflict-with-coronavirus-response

* "Coronavirus postcard that featured Trump's name cost struggling Postal Service $28 million:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/28/coronavirus-post-card-trump-cost-post-office-28-million/5274034002/

* "Donald Trump’s homophobic press secretary Kayleigh McEnany caught out in spectacularly blatant lie:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/28/kayleigh-mcenany-donald-trump-press-secretary-election-fraud-homophobia-lgbt/

* "Seven States Restrict Mail-In Voting for Younger Adults. That’s Unconstitutional.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/26th-amendment-texas-absentee-ballots.html

* "RNC sues California to halt vote-by-mail for November general election:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/24/politics/republican-national-committee-california-vote-by-mail-lawsuit/index.html

* "George Floyd killing: two officers involved previously reviewed for use of force:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/28/george-floyd-killing-officers-derek-chauvin-tou-thao-investigated

* "Minneapolis Man: Cop Who Kneeled on George Floyd ‘Tried to Kill Me’ in 2008:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/minneapolis-man-alleges-derek-chauvin-tried-to-kill-him-before-he-kneeled-on-george-floyd

* "State police arrive at deserted police precinct set ablaze by crowds protesting George Floyd's death:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/minneapolis-george-floyd-friday/index.html

* "Chicago Superintendent David Brown condemns police actions that led to death of George Floyd as protesters march on South Side:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-george-floyd-police-protest-20200528-feeoz7qiincjxnc3ixjxmqpjwe-story.html

* "Lansing protest addresses hate, violence directed at people of color:" https://www.wxyz.com/news/lansing-protest-addresses-hate-violence-directed-at-people-of-color

* "Protesters take to Memphis streets over death of George Floyd:" https://www.newschannel5.com/news/protesters-take-to-memphis-streets-over-death-of-george-floyd

* "Foley Square protest planned Friday following George Floyd police custody death:" https://abc7ny.com/foley-square-protest-planned-today-over-george-floyd-death-/6218834/

* "Shots fired during Denver protest of Minneapolis man's death:" https://www.startribune.com/shots-fired-during-denver-protest-of-minneapolis-man-s-death/570851982/

* "Birmingham protesters demand justice over George Floyd’s death:" https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/birmingham-protest-following-george-floyd-death/

* "Minneapolis mayor: 'We need a charge of the arresting officer':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/minneapolis-mayor-we-need-a-charge-of-the-arresting-officer-84060229987

* "Minneapolis no stranger to protests against police violence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/minneapolis-no-stranger-to-protests-against-police-violence-84064837796

* "'We're reeling. We're in deep pain.': Minneapolis city council VP:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-we-re-reeling-we-re-in-deep-pain-minneapolis-city-council-vp-84063813521

* "Black trans man shot dead by white cop in Florida’s third fatal police shooting in two months:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/29/tony-mcdade-florida-police-kill-black-transgender-man/

* "Black Trans Men Face a Constant Threat of Police Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/5/28/black-trans-men-face-constant-threat-police-violence

* TW: Sexual Harassment "'Criminal Minds' Team Sued For Unchecked Male Sexual Harassment:" https://www.advocate.com/television/2020/5/27/criminal-minds-team-sued-unchecked-male-sexual-harassment

* TW: Sexual Harassment "EasyJet passenger jailed after squeezing an air steward’s bottom and called him a ‘gay boy’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/27/easyjet-arrest-jail-sexual-assault-homophobia-gay-gavin-capps-iceland/

* TW: Domestic Violence "Elizabeth Warren Still Has Plans For America:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/5/26/elizabeth-warren-still-has-plans-america

* "These Catholic bishops really want you to know that same-sex love comes from God:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/27/god-catholic-benediction-same-sex-gay-love-archdiocese-salzburg-austria-ewald-vollger/

* "Lesbian German MEP warns the UK's 'hateful' transphobic rhetoric is spilling into other EU countries:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/28/terry-reintke-lesbian-german-mep-anti-trans-european-union-mermaids-transphobia-liz-truss/

* "Zambia’s president Edgar Lungu pardons two men jailed for having gay sex after fierce diplomatic row:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/26/zambia-gay-men-pardoned-president-edgar-lungu-daniel-foote/

* "The NHS coronavirus contact tracing app could put LGBT+ rights in danger, experts warn:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/24/contact-tracing-app-nhs-coronavirus-covid19-lgbt-rights-danger-data-centralised-bluetooth/

* "Trans man jailed in women’s prison after threatening to kill his ex with a kitchen knife:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/28/trans-man-jailed-womens-prison-jay-lee-layton-durham/

* "Nearly a Dozen Men in Turkmenistan Were Arrested For Being Gay:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/5/28/nearly-dozen-men-turkmenistan-were-arrested-being-gay

* "One year on since being trans was declassified as a mental disorder, here’s 75 times trans rights took a step backwards:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/26/trans-rights-world-health-organization-gender-identity-disorder-lizz-truss-viktor-orban/

* "Alt-right homophobes are using 4chan to plan a terrifying cyber attack on the LGBT+ community during Pride month:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/26/4chan-alt-right-operation-pridefall-pride-month-cyber-attack-starbucks-amazon-homophobia/

* "Betsy Devos's Education Dept. Threatens Funding for Pro-Trans Schools:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/5/28/betsy-devoss-education-dept-threatens-funding-pro-trans-schools

* "Same-Sex Spouses Win Equal Access to Social Security Survivor Benefits:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/5/28/same-sex-spouses-win-equal-access-social-security-survivor-benefits

* "'Never Have I Ever's Dino Petrera on Being Gay and Hearing Impaired:" https://www.advocate.com/television/2020/5/27/never-have-i-evers-dino-petera-being-gay-and-hearing-impaired

* "Queer elders on lessons they learned during the AIDS crisis, which are helping them through coronavirus:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/24/queer-elders-lessons-aids-crisis-epidemic-coronavirus-pandemic-covid19/

* "Report: Current Pandemic May Be Fueling Syphilis, Chlamydia Outbreaks:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2020/5/26/report-current-pandemic-may-be-fueling-syphilis-chlamydia-outbreaks

* "Brown University researchers say Adderall and Ritalin don’t improve focus in surprising study:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90480897/brown-university-researchers-say-adderall-and-ritalin-dont-improve-focus-in-surprising-study

* "Older women are needlessly going blind. Why isn’t it a national scandal?:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/01/older-women-going-blind-giant-cell-arteritis

* "The myth of meritocracy leads the rich and powerful to see themselves as productive geniuses:" https://scroll.in/article/956459/the-myth-of-meritocracy-leads-the-rich-and-powerful-to-see-themselves-as-productive-geniuses

* "Internet access hangs by a thread for hundreds of millions:" https://www.techradar.com/news/internet-access-hangs-by-a-thread-for-hundreds-of-millions

* "Warren Harding Tried to Return America to 'Normalcy' After WWI and the 1918 Pandemic. It Failed.:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/warren-harding-back-to-normalcy-after-1918-pandemic-180974911/

* "Decolonization: Crash Course European History #43:"

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* "Who threw the first brick at Stonewall? A final and definitive answer to the internet’s favourite question:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/27/who-threw-the-first-brick-at-stonewall-uprising-riot-pride/

* "MJ Rodriguez Has Only Just Begun:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/5/27/mj-rodriguez-has-only-just-begun

* "Larry Kramer, Towering Figure of Aggressive AIDS Activism, Dead at 84:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/5/27/larry-kramer-towering-figure-aggressive-aids-activism-dead-84

* "‘40 million infected is a f**king plague': Larry Kramer’s furious, impassioned HIV speech is essential viewing 30 years on:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/28/larry-kramer-dies-dead-hiv-aids-speech-1991-plague/

* "Leaders in Health, HIV, LGBTQ+ Rights React to Larry Kramer's Death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/5/27/leaders-health-hiv-lgbtq-rights-react-larry-kramers-death

* "Our Positively Negative President Says "We'll Put Out The Fires" Of Any Second Waves Of Infection:"

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* Wednesday, I gave myself food poisoning. I'm pretty sure how, and it shouldn't be a problem going forward.

Thursday: I woke to find someone had horked up a hairball on the bed, so I had to change sheets before proceeding.

I ended up muddy and soaked armpit to crotch from moving the 30 Gallon. I made a mess of the floors, which needed cleaning after and smashed a couple toes bringing in a chair from the patio. One of the toes is swollen and impressively bruised and hurts a lot, but doesn't feel broken as it was a more robust toe rather than the fragile one. It's done, and Livia has forgiven me enough to come watch Fish TV from the safety chair.

Fish corner: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/619436257353908224/fish-corner-is-now-officially-a-thing-yes-the-20

I still have a massive amount of cleaning and sorting to do and the usual anal retentive fussing about. I still need to decide what to do about the altar stuff, still in boxes. I am seriously considering removing the table in the office the 30 was on with shelving in a couple of years when it's safe for me to go out and visit used furniture stores, but there's a lot of time to think about it and for now having somewhere to stack bits and bobs displaced by the project and the library things I can't return is valuable in itself.

So not over, but all the urgent things are done.

I did not even sit down to sort med trays until after 1AM, so you can imagine how productive I'm being.

* "Summer of Sleaze: The Little People:" https://www.tor.com/2014/05/30/summer-of-sleaze-the-little-people/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
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* "Australia bushfires: two NSW volunteer firefighters killed and up to 40 properties destroyed:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/19/australia-bushfires-20-structures-destroyed-as-nsw-firefighters-hospitalised-with-severe-burns

* "Modi Makes His Bigotry Even Clearer:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/opinion/india-citizenship-bill-muslims.html

* "Terrorists tried to blow up plane carrying their gay brother:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/18/terrorists-tried-blow-up-plane-gay-brother/

* Ya think? "Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-white-house-officials-say-they-feared-putin-influenced-the-presidents-views-on-ukraine-and-2016-campaign/2019/12/19/af0fdbf6-20e9-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html

* "Trump belief in bogus Ukraine conspiracy theory started early:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wapo-trump-belief-in-bogus-ukraine-conspiracy-theory-started-early-75477061803

* "Shocking new documents in Trump-Ukraine scandal emerge:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-ukraine-docs-show-concern-withholding-aide-was-illegal-75545157799

* "Facebook says a pro-Trump media outlet used artificial intelligence to create fake people and push conspiracies:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-says-pro-trump-media-outlet-used-artificial-intelligence-create-n1105951

* "Russia working social media to manipulate American voters (again):" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russia-working-social-media-to-manipulate-american-voters-again-75485765668

* "Facebook bans massive fake pro-Trump network as election looms:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/facebook-bans-massive-fake-pro-trump-network-as-election-looms-75485253955

* "Maloney: No confidence in Facebook's moral compass:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maloney-no-confidence-in-facebook-s-moral-compass-75487301533

* He's claiming the conservation evangelical magazine founded by Billy Graham is somehow far left. "Christianity Today, an influential evangelical magazine, says Trump ‘should be removed from office’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/12/19/christianity-today-an-influential-evangelical-magazine-says-president-trump-should-be-removed-office/

* 45's handler weighs in. "Putin says Trump won’t be removed on ‘trumped-up charges’:" https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-says-us-president-donald-trump-wont-be-impeached-on-trumped-up-charges/

* "Durham Is Scrutinizing Ex-C.I.A. Director’s Role in Russian Interference Findings:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/us/politics/durham-john-brennan-cia.html

* "Historian discusses Trump’s ‘meanspirited, petty’ letter to Dems:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-s-legacy-and-impeachment-weighed-by-historian-75509829770

* "The Republicans Failed America and the Nation's Founders:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/19/republicans-failed-america-and-nations-founders

* "Was Manafort’s work in Ukraine the real start of Russiagate?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/-black-ledger-shows-payments-to-manafort-from-pro-russia-ukraine-75545669985

* "Former Republican criticizes McConnell for stacking the courts:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/senate-confirms-187-trump-judges-mcconnell-vows-for-more-75508293966

* Random debate observations: I really missed Kamila Harris, Corey Booker, and Julian Castro. My opinions on the policies of these there are complicated, but something important was lost this time around. I think this i hands down the best performance Andrew Yang has had at these things. It's a clear improvement. the women were both really solid today, this despite the occasional hit scored against them, and my not being all that fond of Klobacher generally. I feel like both gave better than they got. Steyer still clearly doesn't understand how government works on a practical, above high school civics level, and I wildly resent himself basically buying his way in. Bernie was awkward and kept not properly answering the question in favour of going off on a rant about what he wanted to rant about. Biden was Biden bland, but occasionally eloquent enough to remind me why other people like them. They really went for Buttigeig, which is not surprising, given the polls, and honestly he still strikes me as not quite ready for prime time and too narrow of experience in a host of key areas.

It was good to see them directly addressing the slow motion genocide against trans women of colour, but I with there had been more people answering that one and more concrete things. At the same time, I'm not sure anything in the small slice of allotted time would have satisfied me.

There were a bunch of things that have been in every debate and I am tired of the rehashing. I feel like the time would be better spent on topics that were lightly, barely, or not at all covered.

O.o, that last question was cruel. I do like particularly Buttigieg’s let’s all vote for whoever wins one.

* It was thin. "Finally, LGBTQ Issues Get Attention in a Democratic Debate:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/12/19/finally-lgbtq-issues-get-attention-democratic-debate

* "Democratic debate divides candidates on healthcare:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/democrats-hold-first-debate-since-trump-s-impeachment-75511365597

* 45 got them to strip out the language requiring prompt aid to Ukraine. "Congress sends spending deal to Trump, ending shutdown threat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/19/senate-moves-to-avoid-shutdown-with-passage-of-spending-deal-087898

* "Lindsey Graham’s challenger: His ‘word is like mud’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lindsey-graham-s-challenger-his-word-is-like-mud-75478085781

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

* "Senate removes phrase 'white nationalist' from measure intended to screen military enlistees:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/19/politics/us-military-white-nationalist-ndaa/index.html

* "As Washington Rep. Matt Shea refuses to resign following accusation of domestic terrorism, Ammon Bundy challenges House report:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/as-washington-rep-matt-shea-refuses-to-resign-ammon-bundy-challenges-house-report/

* "Washington State lawmaker engaged in ‘domestic terrorism:’ inquiry:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/washington-state-lawmaker-engaged-in-domestic-terrorism-inquiry-75478085840

* "Doctors with flu shots for migrant children turned away from Calif. facility; 6 arrested:" https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2019/12/11/doctors-with-flu-shots-migrant-children-turned-away-calif-facility-arrested/?fbclid=IwAR0Y-U5TRjMEa8VIBtZqsiq75nYJpwhGG1mzIM01emra-IpQdQ1KgKFBm2Y

"People die of the flu, but the people who have died of the flu in CPB custody, it was completely preventable,” Dr. Julie Sierra said. “Keeping people in hygienic conditions and not overcrowding them and giving them soap and access to showers, that can help prevent illness. But nothing prevents the flu like a flu vaccine.”

"At least three children in U.S. immigration custody died from flu infections during the 2018 flu season. That’s nine times the mortality rate of the general pediatric population, according to Doctors for Camp Closure."

* TW: Pedophilia. Confessional seal stays intact. "Pope lifts 'pontifical secret' rule over sex abuse:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50824842

* "Let's Talk About (Gay) Sex:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/20/lets-talk-about-gay-sex

* "Boris Johnson has passed his Brexit deal. This is what it could mean for LGBT rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/20/brexit-deal-withdrawal-agreement-bill-passed-lgbt-rights/

* "European Parliament Condemns Poland's LGBTQ-Free Zones:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2019/12/20/european-parliament-condemns-polands-lgbtq-free-zones

* "The Home Office told this man he wasn’t ‘gay enough’ to stay in the UK. Now, he’s been given asylum in time for Christmas:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/21/home-office-asylum-christmas-malaysia-gay-man-liverpool-echo/

* "Bouncers told two men who were abused for kissing in a club that ‘homophobia isn’t a crime’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/22/button-factory-dublin-homophobia-hate-crime-laws-ireland/

* "Teen who targeted same-sex couple in brutal London bus attack avoids prison sentence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/19/teen-prison-court-same-sex-couple-brutal-london-bus-attack-referral-order-melania-geymonat-christine-hannigan/

* "If you’re feeling sad about JK Rowling, here’s a heartwarming story about Buffy’s Anthony Stewart-Head going out of his way for a young trans fan:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/20/jk-rowling-anthony-stewart-head-trans-fan/

* "Golden Globes Host Ricky Gervais Goes on Transphobic Tweetstorm:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/12/20/golden-globes-host-ricky-gervais-goes-transphobic-tweetstorm

* "These Are the Trans People Killed in 2019:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/5/22/these-are-trans-people-killed-2019#media-gallery-media-2

* "Utah Child Shamed by Teacher for Gay Dads Speaks Out After Adoption:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2019/12/20/utah-child-shamed-teacher-gay-dads-speaks-out-after-adoption

* "Number 24- Rest in Power Yahira Nesby:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/12/number-24-rest-in-power-yahira-nesby.html

* "New Jersey just took a huge step forward in banning the gay panic defence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/18/new-jersey-gay-panic-defence-senate-house-vote/

* "Australia Sees Outbreak of Drug-Resistant Shigella Among Gay & Bi Men:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2019/12/19/australia-sees-outbreak-drug-resistant-shigella-among-gay-bi-men

* "Scientists are baffled about a ‘female’ skeleton found in a male-only Greek mountain despite the fact that trans people literally exist:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/17/female-skeleton-trans-mount-athos-guardian/

* "Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood 2019 - SNL:"

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* "PBS Democratic Debate Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Boyz II Menorah: 'A Week and a Day':"

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* Poor elder kitty is arthritic and was never a much of a jumper anyway. She now has a road that goes floor -> pettin throne -> onto my chair and over my butt -> the left hand desk where cats are not supposed to be, but I let her because she's old and reasonably careful -> over the snack cauldron where I keep dried fruit, granola bars, and nuts when I have them -> across the computer desk -> Back of the sofa -> arm of the sofa -> sofa. She goes back the same way instead of going the long way around.

It's strategically valid. She doesn't have to go past my bedroom door and risk ambush from there and her eye sight is not good, but she can tell pretty easily if any part of the sofa is occupied (high contrast, doesn’t have to peek over the top and risk Tavy being above her) before she commits all the way. It still is amusing to watch.

* It turned out we did not need a new part; he could fix it with the tools he had, but we need to fully defrost it over the weekend.  I used half the money set to pay my share of his fee and half to buy a really big cooler to put all my frozen goods and some perishables in. It's on the porch.  Let's hope no one steals it.  I only got a few hours sleep, but I needed to bake so that I can turn perishables into the things I need for Sunday before they go bad.

It was literally hours of carrying things outside and throwing stuff out and clean up. I also did phone bureaucracy. I still have more baking and pies tomorrow. I get to spend tomorrow baking and cleaning for company and I'll need to get up and test the fridge Sunday and if it's live restock it, before people show up.

I told them pot luck and that I was doing desserts. It could be worse: I could also be trying to make dinner with all my fresh veg turned to slime. Softened butter I have. Ingredients for company main courses not so much. Squirrel has a mini-fridge and took in a few refugees like my cheese, extra butter, some lettuce for tomorrow's dinner, eggs for if the cooler didn't save the ones for pavlova, but my milk and the picante I just opened are sitting on top of the cooler hoping for a cold snap.

I did listen to the debate while working, but I’m stupid tired and I don’t think there will be news tonight.

While I was gimping to the register from the garden center past the Christmas display area, dragging the monster cooler, I overheard a guy talking to a worker bout his need for C9 bulbs.

Me, silently in my head, with genuine empathy: Oh you poor bastard. C-9 buying season is the first half of November and super dicey post-Thanksgiving, and it's too late for amazon to ship them mostly likely. I have to my Halloween bulbs a year in advance when I buy them for a reason. You're hosed. I'm so sorry.

Her: I'm sorry, but we sold out right after Thanksgiving.

Me, in my head: I know waaaaay to much about specialty light bulbs.

* Saturday I managed to make three pies, but not the intended forth. The cooler seems to be holding up really well, the eggs were definitely cold wen I pulled them out for pavlova and shoofly making.

I really, really hate not having ice, but I have hopes of a working fridge tomorrow night. *Fingers crossed* I am dead exhausted, but there are things I need to finish.

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

* I feel validated in my instinctive dislike of Ricky Gervais.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
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* "Gran Canaria Fire, Spain’s Worst This Year, Forces Evacuation of 9,000:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/world/europe/gran-canaria-fire-spain.html

* "Syrian migrants face deadline to leave Istanbul:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49404739

* "Al-Bashir Is on Trial in Sudan. He’s Not the First Dictator to Land in Court.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/world/africa/bashir-trial-dictators.html

* "August explosion not Russia's first nuclear incident this summer:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/august-explosion-not-russia-s-first-nuclear-incident-this-summer-66542661601

* "Nuclear monitoring stations fall silent after Russian explosion:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nuclear-monitoring-stations-fall-silent-after-russian-explosion-66542149679

* "Massive crowds flood Hong Kong streets protesting for democracy:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/massive-crowds-flood-hong-kong-streets-protesting-for-democracy-66541125947

* "Facebook and Twitter Say China Is Spreading Disinformation in Hong Kong:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/technology/hong-kong-protests-china-disinformation-facebook-twitter.html

* "United States descends into new nuclear arms race with Russia:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/united-states-descends-into-new-nuclear-arms-race-with-russia-66541637698

* "Trump confirms he’s interested in buying Greenland:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kudlow-says-white-house-is-looking-at-trying-to-buy-greenland/2019/08/18/ab367b6c-c1bb-11e9-b5e4-54aa56d5b7ce_story.html?noredirect=on

* "'I promise not to do this!': US President posts photo of Trump Tower in Greenland:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-20/donald-trump-tweets-image-of-trump-tower-on-greenland/11432120

* "In Denmark, Bewilderment and Anger Over Trump’s Canceled Visit:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/world/europe/greenland-denmark-trump.html

* "Trump Expected to Nominate Pompeo Deputy to Be Ambassador to Russia:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/politics/john-sullivan-trump-russia-ambassador.html

* "Pro-Trump conspiracy theories pay off for anti-China group:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pro-trump-conspiracy-theories-pay-off-for-anti-china-group-66712645854

* "Anti-China group hired GOP strategist in pro-Trump shift:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-china-group-hired-gop-strategist-in-pro-trump-shift-66703429539

* "Trump Inflating Scottish Golf Resorts' Value By $165 Million, Per UK Filings:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-scotland-golf-courses-inflating-value_n_5d5c1ccce4b05f62fbd5f559

* "Amid failure to topple Maduro, Trump privately proposes a naval blockade of Venezuela:" https://www.axios.com/scoop-inside-trumps-naval-blockade-obsession-555166b0-06f9-494c-b9fb-9577a589e2ac.html

* "Trump, top officials play down recession risks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/18/top-trump-officials-downplay-recession-risks/?noredirect=on

* "White House officials eyeing payroll tax cut in effort to reverse weakening economy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/white-house-officials-eyeing-payroll-tax-cut-in-effort-to-reverse-weakening-economy/2019/08/19/4cab28ec-c2bd-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html?noredirect=on

"But payroll tax cuts can also add dramatically to the deficit and — depending on how they are designed — pull billions of dollars away from Social Security."

* "Trump confirms he’s considering a payroll tax cut amid mounting economic concerns:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-confirms-hes-considering-a-payroll-tax-cut-amid-mounting-economic-concerns/2019/08/20/2c97e500-c37a-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html?noredirect=on

* "Trump calls on Fed to cut rates by 100 basis points amid recession fears:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-calls-on-fed-to-cut-rates-by-100-basis-points-amid-recession-fears/2019/08/19/289f192a-c292-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html?noredirect=on

* "'I'm not happy with it': Trump hits Fox News over poll results:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/18/trump-fox-news-polls-not-happy-1467182

* "'Facts matter': FEC chairwoman challenges Trump's voter fraud claims:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/19/fec-chairwoman-challenges-trump-voter-fraud-claims-1467224

* "Trump stumbles onto a new justification for losing the popular vote: It’s Google’s fault:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/19/trump-stumbles-onto-new-justification-losing-popular-vote-its-googles-fault/?noredirect=on

* "U.S. Steel plans to lay off hundreds of workers in Michigan:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u-s-steel-layoffs-idUSKCN1V91XQ

* "Trump’s Pittsburgh Speech Was a Paying Gig for the Audience:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/trump-shell-workers.html

* "Trump’s Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules Shows Signs of Disarray:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/climate/trump-auto-emissions-rollback-disarray.html

"Several analyses by academics and consumer advocates have questioned the administration’s claim of benefits to the public. An Aug. 7 report by Consumer Reports concluded that Mr. Trump’s proposed rollback would cost consumers $460 billion between vehicle model years 2021 and 2035, an average of $3,300 more per vehicle, in car prices and gasoline purchases. It also found the rollback would increase the nation’s oil consumption by 320 billion gallons."

* "Trump again appears to back away from gun background checks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-two-more-mass-shootings-trump-again-appears-to-back-away-from-gun-background-checks/2019/08/19/ddbf75e4-c2af-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html?noredirect=on

* "Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Trump’s reversal on background checks:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-on-trump-s-reversal-on-background-checks-66536005940

* "Protesters call for gun reform, end to white-supremacist rhetoric after deadly violence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/protesters-call-for-gun-reform-end-to-white-supremacist-rhetoric-after-deadly-violence/2019/08/06/a021eb00-b877-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html?noredirect=on

* "Americans in every state rally for gun reform as Trump waffles:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/americans-in-every-state-rally-for-gun-reform-as-trump-waffles-66541125987

* "Gun reform activist warns McConnell to act now or pay in 2020:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/gun-reform-activists-rally-in-all-50-states-for-congress-to-act-66417733725

* "Stephen Miller’s Anti-Immigrant Plan Deemed Too Racist to Be Legal:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/stephen-millers-ban-immigrant-children-public-school-racist

* "How Stephen Miller took the lead on immigration:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/stephen-miller-s-role-in-trump-white-house-scrutinized-66419269893

* "Alan Dornan has walked the last 530 days for undocumented immigrants. Last week, he was arrested by Homeland Security officers during a protest.:" https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2019/07/02/alan-dornan-arrested

* "Proud Boys deemed hate group 'masquerading' as something else:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/proud-boys-organize-rally-of-far-right-protesters-in-portland-66416197661

* "Video surfaces of high school students singing Nazi song and giving Hitler salute:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/20/video-high-school-students-singing-nazi-song-giving-hitler-salute/

* I know, but this is a different apology than the one from awhile back. "Democratic hopeful Warren apologizes for Native American ancestry...:" https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-warren/democratic-hopeful-warren-apologies-for-native-american-ancestry-claims-idUKKCN1V91QI

* "Warren tells Native Americans: ‘I have made mistakes’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/elizabeth-warren-tells-native-americans-i-have-made-mistakes-66536517506

* "Daniel Pantaleo, Officer Who Held Eric Garner in Chokehold, Is Fired:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/nyregion/daniel-pantaleo-fired.html

* TW: Pedophilia. Pope Francis continues to proudly support convicted pedophiles. "Pope Refuses to Condemn Pedophile Cardinal Pell, Even After Losing Sex-Abuse Appeal:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/cardinal-george-pell-will-stay-in-prison-after-losing-appeal-for-clerical-sex-abuse-in-australia-19

* "Planned Parenthood pulls out of family planning program over Trump abortion rule:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/19/planned-parenthood-trump-administration-1468561

"Vermont's health department also gave notice Monday that it is quitting Title X. The agency relied entirely on Planned Parenthood clinics to provide services under the program. And Maine Family Planning, the sole Title X provider in the state, informed HHS that it is withdrawing over the rule."

"Johnson declined to answer questions about the precise financial impact of pulling out of Title X, but said the outcome will be "devastating" for low-income women unless the organization can raise enough private funds to make up the loss."

* "State budget limbo putting STD treatment in jeopardy, providers say:" https://www.concordmonitor.com/New-Hampshire-budget-limbo-STD-treatment-on-hold-27730579

* "Gay man who fled Morocco says LGBT asylum seekers’ claims are ‘not being taken seriously’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/20/gay-asylum-seeker-fled-morocco-home-office-claims-taken-seriously/

* "Mayor of Canada's Capital Comes Out as Gay in Emotional Op-Ed:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/8/18/mayor-canadas-capital-comes-out-gay-emotional-op-ed

* "Woman’s vile ‘homophobic’ rant at pub landlord caught on camera:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/20/homophobic-rant-video-pub-landlord-viral-video-staffordshire-poice/

* "Memorial to gay victims of Nazis vandalised:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/20/memorial-gay-victims-nazis-vandalised-holocaust/

* "Man reports vile ‘homophobic’ abuse after hanging Pride flag from window:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/20/man-reportedly-vile-homophobic-abuse-hanging-pride-flag-window/

* "Owen Jones is using his suspected hate attack to platform minorities:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/20/owen-jones-attack-minorities/

* "Anti-gay preacher condemns Westboro Baptist Church for being too homophobic:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/19/anti-gay-preacher-condemns-westboro-baptist-church-for-being-too-homophobic/

* "Trans Republican: Log Cabin Lost All Credibility by Endorsing Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/8/19/trans-republican-log-cabin-lost-all-credibility-endorsing-trump

* "Man who murdered six gay men in 1994 to be executed this week:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/20/serial-killer-gary-ray-bowles-murdered-six-gay-men-1994-executed/

* "A LGBT church has been vandalised six times in two weeks:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/20/lgbt-church-vandalised-six-times-two-weeks/

* "Gamal Palmer: On Being Black, Gay, And Jewish in America:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2019/8/21/gamal-palmer-being-black-gay-and-jewish-america

* "Trump just claimed that gay people 'like the job' he's doing. Yes, really:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/21/donad-trump-gay-lgbt-job-log-cabin-republicans/

* TW: Suicide "Man Bullied for Being Open About Trans Relationship Dies By Suicide:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/8/21/man-bullied-being-open-about-trans-relationship-dies-suicide

* "Hate Group: Cis Man's Alleged Sex Crime Is Why We're Boycotting Target:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2019/8/21/hate-group-cis-mans-alleged-sex-crime-why-were-boycotting-target

* I loved Popeye's back when I ate meat. Go get 'em, Popeye's! "Popeyes' Sandwich v. Chick-fil-A's: More Flavor, Less Homophobia:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2019/8/19/popeyes-sandwich-v-chick-fil-more-flavor-less-homophobia

* "Happy 20th Anniversary Trans Pride Flag!:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/08/happy-20th-anniversary-trans-pride-flag.html

* "Dutch Golden Age: Crash Course European History #15:"

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* "Iceland mourns loss of glacier destroyed by climate change:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/iceland-mourns-loss-of-glacier-destroyed-by-climate-change-66539589630

* "Move Over Trade War, We're In A 'Straw War' NowTrump's Trade War is Trashing the U.S. Economy:"

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* "Trump's Trade War is Trashing the U.S. Economy:"

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* "As Trump Ignores Hong Kong Protests, Steve King Sinks to a New Low in Iowa:"

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* "Meanwhile... Little Penises Discovered:"

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* Monday I combined my foraging and errands with taking a friend on hers. It was a good visit and a productive trip, but it copletely thrashed me physically. Among other things after I got home I coughed so long and hard I burst a blood vessel in my eye and nearly passed out few times. The pin is also winning and I'm having trouble using my right arm amoung other pain related and AS function related problems. I'm struggling with subsistance basics despite heavy medication.

I tried going with out sofa foil Monday night, but she peed all over the sofa, so we're back to foil plus litterbox. The elder kitties are now using the sofa litterbox too and have taken to mesting in the foil.

I'm supposed to forage Wednesday if I'm well enough to drive. We'll see.

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

* Master Post For the summer of resistance: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108368.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html
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* "Markets are all about the timing – and Argentina got clocked:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/30/markets-are-all-about-the-timing-and-argentina-got-clocked

* "Alex Salmond resigns from SNP after sexual misconduct claims:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/29/alex-salmond-resigns-from-snp-after-sexual-misconduct-claims

* "Trump threatens to withdraw from World Trade Organization :" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/30/trump-threatens-to-withdraw-from-world-trade-organization.html

* "Trump to Back $200 Billion China Tariffs as Early as Next Week, Sources Say:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/trump-said-to-back-200-billion-china-tariffs-early-as-next-week

* "Trump Says China To Blame For Hurting U.S.-North Korean Relations:" https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/643219155/trump-says-china-to-blame-for-hurting-u-s-north-korean-relations

* "Man charged with making death threats over Trump editorials:" https://apnews.com/4f9fc2487e8c4c9a94703e32029bd91c/Man-threatened-to-kill-newspaper-staff-over-Trump-editorials

* You can tell they are lying that this is about balancing the budget, because if they did care, the first thing they would do towards that is repeal the tax cut for the rich they just passed. "Trump cancels pay raises for almost 2 million federal workers:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/30/trump-cancels-pay-raises-federal-workers-804574

* "Trump cancels raise for federal workers, adds to GOP midterm woes:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-cancels-raise-for-federal-workers-adds-to-gop-midterm-woes-1310339651973?v=railb

* "Trump seeks to backtrack on 2017 comments on Comey firing:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/trump-without-evidence-says-nbc-altered-2017-interview-on-russia-idUSKCN1LF19Q

* "Trump personally lobbying GOP senators to flip on Sessions:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/29/trump-sessions-firing-senators-white-house-803922

* "Trump presses Supreme Court chief justice for action on Russia dossier:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-dossier/trump-presses-supreme-court-chief-justice-for-action-on-dossier-idUSKCN1LF06A

* Is it just me, or did 45's Thursday tweetstorm look an awful lot like Muppet armed panic over the Mueller probe?

* "Trump and Cohen planned to buy decades of damaging tabloid stories:" https://www.axios.com/trump-michael-cohen-buy-stories-national-enquirer-3df09f4c-f26f-41f0-a843-9d380403187e.html

* "National Enquirer's favors for Trump were bad for business: AP:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/national-enquirer-s-favors-for-trump-were-bad-for-business-ap-1310338627722?v=railb

* "A president exposed to blackmail:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-president-exposed-to-blackmail-1310254147504?v=railb

* "Papadopoulos accepts plea deal with Mueller after weeks of uncertainty:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/weeks-uncertainty-papadopoulos-decides-accept-plea-deal-mueller/story?id=57483474

* "W.H. ethics lawyer Passantino leaving administration:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-ethics-lawyer-stefan-passantino-leaving-administration-n905031

* "Trump laments Sessions accent and pedigree:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-laments-sessions-accent-and-pedigree-1310253635814?v=railb

* I am furious about this. "Questions linger on release of candidate's private documents:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/questions-linger-on-release-of-candidate-s-private-documents-1310341187517?v=railb

* Please, please vote in November. "What will happen if Republicans retain the House in November?:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-will-happen-if-republicans-retain-the-house-in-november-1310256707882?v=railb

* "Big oil asks government to protect it from climate change:" https://apnews.com/4adc5a2a2e6b45df953ebcba6b63d171

* "Tofurky and the ACLU Are Teaming Up to Defeat Missouri's 'Fake Meat' Bill:" http://fortune.com/2018/08/28/tofurky-aclu-missouri-fake-meat-bill/

* "Justice Department sides with group suing Harvard over use of race in admissions:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/30/justice-department-sides-with-students-suing-harvard-over-use-of-race-in-admissions-804156

* "California Becomes First State To End Cash Bail After 40-Year Fight:" https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642795284/california-becomes-first-state-to-end-cash-bail?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180829

* "Trump raises bar on dissonance with 'fantastic job' claim on P.R.:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-raises-bar-on-dissonance-with-fantastic-job-claim-on-p-r-1310340163651?v=railb

* They are also deporting American citizens and demanding they apply for entry as Aliens. "Washington Post: US denying passports to Hispanic Americans in South Texas:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/30/politics/us-denying-passports-to-american-citizens/index.html

* "Washington Post: Americans being denied passports:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/washington-post-americans-being-denied-passports-1310251075973?v=railb

* "Louis C.K. Put Me in a Lose-Lose Situation:" http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/louis-c-k-put-me-in-a-lose-lose-situation.html

* "This 12-year-old girl is being driven out of her town because she's transgender:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/3ky94k/this-12-year-old-girl-was-driven-out-of-her-town-for-being-transgender

* "Number 17- Rest In Power Dejanay Stanton:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/08/number-17-rest-in-power-dejanay-stanton.html

* "California Just Became The First US State To Condemn Surgeries On Intersex Children:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/california-intersex-surgeries

* "Why STD Rates Are Higher Than They’ve Ever Been:" http://time.com/5381625/std-rates-funding/

* Thursday evening was social night, and one of the guests brought shockingly good gluten free brownies. Unfortunately, though I opened the door for LM to come out to see the guests, she stayed in Squirrel's room. He says she's a bit under the weather, which may account for it.

I have mentioned three cats, but I usually only write about the two younger ones. This is because LM is elderly, in frail health, and her eyesight is failing. Squirrel is her primary human, so she mostly stays in his room. It has a full attatched bathroom and thi is plenty of room for a cat who really does spend most of her time sleeping. We let her decide for herself the extent of socialization with the other beasts. Some weeks, she bangs for me to open the door, usually when Squirrel is asleep or out, and when she signals she's had enough, I shoo any junior beasties out of her room and close it back up. Some times the door is only open for an hour. Sometimes it is open all evening and/or all night. Sometimes she goes several days not wanting to interact at all; sometimes she really wants company. I generally open the door on nights we have guests, as Tavy, who is the main stressor for her generally spends that time sleeping on my bed, and Livia generally spends it in her hide. (Tavy can best be described as aggressively social with other cats and rather intense; Livia shares LM's interest in hanging out peacefully in the vicinity of other clowder members, but it's not entirely clear she can see the difference between the two. Generally there is a little hissing when I first open the door and the junior kitties run over to see LM, but they all settle in fairly quickly unless Tavy is in one of his hyper moods, in which case I remove him). LM likes to come out and check out guests once they've settled down and stopped moving. She's not outgoing with guests the way Mache was up until the last few years she was alive, but she likes to hang out and the vicinity and see who is there.

I want to make clear that even though I don't write about her as much since Tavy came, I do love her very much. The arrangements currently in place are ones we made to allow her to spend her sunset years in comfort and to give her as much control over her interaction level as possible in order to limit both the stress of isolation and the stress of socialization, if that makes sense.

* So here's where I am on the Preacher. I was someone who read the comics starting from the original release. They were cool for their time, but they don't age well and my tolerance for things like the ubiquitous casual homophobia, the ableism, the fatphobia, rape as a running joke, and the two dimensional smurfette not like other girls version of Tulip have dropped dramatically in the intervening time. I literally just took my whole collection of originals to the comic store to sell on Monday because I can't imagine ever wanting to reread them despite the bits that do remain interesting in them, like the design and deconstruction of Cassidy, or Jesse Custor's relationship to God.

The show is kind of a hot mess too, but I significantly prefer it despite it's faults (the mess they made of Tulip in season two, the fatphobia, the ableism, the treatment of the characters of colour who aren't Tulip). I really love the Tulip redesign. This version is a real improvement despite some problems. I am fine with the way they changed up things like the Eccarius interlude. I really appreciate them going with a bisexual Cassidy, though I rather wish they would go further in exploring that, and I have some worries that they may be too in love with the character to show the darker aspects from the comics. I liked what they did with the angel and demon duo. I have serious concerns about the use of Hitler as a character, but apparently Tulip beating up and killing NAZIs was a thing I very much needed to see even though I had no idea that was a thing I desperately wanted until they were all on a bus to hell.

So basically, the show is problematic as hell and I don't really trust it, but I keep watching it because the things it does well it does really well. I watch it warily, sometimes wincing, but damned if this wasn't my favorite season even if I disliked a whole big storyline (Allfather, Humperdoo) that was ironically too much like the original characters despite the changes in sequence within the narrative and most of the plot.

So I keep watching for Tulip and for the bits of brilliance like the Eccarius plot and out of curiosity to see how they will make the pieces they kept from the original fit with the different story they are often telling, if that makes sense.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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

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

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

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

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

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.comn
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* "Trump supporters attack Russia story as hoax:"

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* I love that she wouldn’t let him get away with lies and logical inconsistencies. "Trump takes credit for economic growth:"

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* The Trump legal team is now arguing that it is inherently unfair to have a Grand Jury in D. C. because black people are allowed to serve on it.

* "Why Trumponomics cannot make America great again:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/04/why-trumponomics-cannot-make-america-great-again

* "Women seeking abortions in Arkansas now need permission from men:" http://www.independent.co.uk/News/world/americas/women-arkansas-abortion-men-permission-male-us-pro-choice-life-planned-parenthood-termination-a7834861.html?amp

* "Ceasefire volunteers undeterred as calls for end to violence mix with familiar sound of gunfire:" http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-ceasefire-day-two-20170805-story.html

* "U.S. Citizen Who Was Held By ICE For 3 Years Denied Compensation By Appeals Court:" http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540903038/u-s-citizen-held-by-immigration-for-3-years-denied-compensation-by-appeals-court

* "5 big myths about affirmative action in colleges:" https://mic.com/articles/183223/5-big-myths-about-affirmative-action-in-colleges#.NozDUdnE1

* "The Men Who Never Have to Grow Up:" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/opinion/sunday/donald-trump-jr-boys-sexism.html

* "NAACP Warns Black Travelers To Use 'Extreme Caution' When Visiting Missouri:" http://www.npr.org/2017/08/03/541382961/naacp-warns-black-travelers-to-use-extreme-caution-when-visiting-missouri?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170803

* "Tee Tee's Funeral Go Fund Me Page:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/08/tee-tees-funeral-go-fund-me-page.html

* "I Don’t Want to Watch Slavery Fan Fiction:" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/opinion/hbo-confederate-slavery-civil-war.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-3&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

* "Ella Dawson has genital herpes, and she wants to tell you about it.:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/163851447093/lepetitenoirmarkie-ithotyouknew2-capacity

* "Bloody Death Skull – The Gong Show:"

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* "Balancing Family – The Gong Show:"

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* "Men’s Lives Have Meaning, Part 6: Father, Why?:" http://poorquentyn.tumblr.com/post/163751458811/mens-lives-have-meaning-part-6-father-why

* "Uptight Ottawa Catholics outraged that Archbishop allowed giant robot spider on cathedral roof:" https://boingboing.net/2017/08/02/nation-of-scottish-bankers.html

* "How I Set About Queering Jane Austen:" https://www.themarysue.com/queering-jane-austen/

* TNG Rewatch, Season 6:

- Chain of Command (parts 1 & 2 Combined). How to undermine crew morale and battle readiness. It is particularly hard watching TNG Ferengi in the current political climate. I had somehow misremembered this as being in season seven, so wasn't emotionally braced for it, Picard's torture and interrogation being strongly reminiscent of my childhood interrogations, because it was the first thing I ever saw that got that it is fundamentally about getting the victim to agree to the lie, a that is how they break us. At the same time this episode was much of the impetus for the rewatch, as a quarter of a century late it still haunts me. This time I am thinking about how this trauma interacts with his earlier violation at the hands of the Borg. I had honestly forgotten how philosophical this is. I do appreciate the ethical discussion. The mind games are always the hardest to watch for me. Picard's defiance and cleverness speaks to me on the deepest level. When this first aired, this was not a thought I was capable of having, but now I am pleased that he voluntarily went for therapy at the end.

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

* "What can I do to help Syria?:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/161385222607/what-can-i-do-to-help-syria

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is my oldest continuous Real Life friend. She is disabled and really needs the money for herself and beasts. To buy jewelry from her: https://www.etsy.com/shop/karjack

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

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
gwydion: (Default)
* "At least 28 dead after brutal gang fight in Mexico prison:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/06/mexico-prison-riot-acapulco-deaths

* We would be pitching in too if we had an ounce of decency. "Europeans vow more help to stem Libya-Italy migrant flow:" http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/europeans-vow-stem-libya-italy-migrant-flow-48411150

* "After a Revolution:" http://uncannymagazine.com/article/after-a-revolution/

* "Trump and Chinese president discuss North Korea:"

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* "Maxine Waters: Keep eye on sanctions:"

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* "Trump meeting with Putin sparks controversy:"

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* "The ethics chief who took on the White House:"

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* "States reject White House demand for voter information:"

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* "Lawsuit demands election results thrown out for Georgia's 6th Congressional District:" http://www.cbs46.com/story/35812893/lawsuit-demands-election-results-thrown-out-for-georgias-6th-congressional-district

* "The Brown, Queer, And Poor Are Not The Ones Holding The Left Back:" https://theestablishment.co/the-brown-queer-and-poor-are-not-the-ones-holding-the-left-back-f727e7bf55ed

* "Texas Republican Blocks State's Bathroom Bill: "I Don’t Want The Suicide Of A Single Texan On My Hands":" http://www.newnownext.com/joe-straus-suicide-texas-bathroom-bill/07/2017/?xrs=synd_facebook_Name+of+Brand

* "The Bootlegger, the Wiretap, and the Beginning of Privacy:" http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-bootlegger-the-wiretap-and-the-beginning-of-privacy

* "Leah Gordon photographs the Freemasons of contemporary Haiti:" http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/leah-gordon-freemasons-in-haiti-photography-290617

* "Zoot Suits: A Fashion Movement that Sparked Mexican American Resistance:" http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/zoot-suits-a-fashion-movement-that-sparked-mexican-american-resistance-20170609

* "Sabotage Your Way to Success!:" https://www.calibrepress.com/2016/10/sabotage-way-success/

* "Oral sex spreading unstoppable bacteria:" http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40520125

* "Turns Out, Snakes Can Hunt in Packs, So Let's Just All Move to Antarctica:" https://www.sciencealert.com/researcher-discovers-that-snakes-work-together-to-trap-their-prey-in-pack-hunts

* "Canuck the crow's attacks halt Vancouver mail delivery:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40436177

* Tavy is officially wise to the medicine finger and fought hard for the first time today.

* "Killjoys, Season 3, Episode 2: A Skinner Darkly:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/07/killjoys-season-3-episode-2-skinner.html

* "The Philosophy Force Five vs the Scientismists:" http://existentialcomics.com/comic/190

* "The Dark Morality of Fairy-Tale Animal Brides:" https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/03/marrying-a-monster-the-romantic-anxieties-of-fairy-tales/521319/

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

* "What can I do to help Syria?:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/161385222607/what-can-i-do-to-help-syria

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

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

* "So, what can people do?*:" http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/161640495373/so-what-can-people-do

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

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

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

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

* This is my oldest continuous Real Life friend. She is disabled and really needs the money for herself and beasts. To buy jewelry from her: https://www.etsy.com/shop/karjack

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

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
gwydion: (Default)
* I have been wondering for some time what he'd do next. This really needs doing and it's not glamorous. This is technocratic and requires high intelligence and patience, so it's sort of perfect for him. "Obama to fight back on redistricting for Democrats:"

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* "Sen Elizabeth Warren breathes fire beside Hillary Clinton in NH:"

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* "Why Trump's call for poll watching terrifies the RNC:"

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* "White Dudes, Trump, and America:" http://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/10/20/white-dudes-trump-and-america/

* I think the purest expression of the Trump Agenda is the Latino Veteran who served eight tours of duty and his wife and children being driven from their home by racist who broke in, ransacked their house, poured gasoline on their daughter's crib and left racist death threats and a promise to burn their house down next time if they didn't get out. It really is exactly what he's calling for down to the violence, racial animus, and the deliberate persecution of a war veteran. And really what can be more modern Republican than terrorizing children?

* "I Went to a Wells Fargo Branch, this is What Happened Next:" http://wolfstreet.com/2016/10/23/i-went-to-wells-fargo-branch-this-happened/

* "Texas May Be Denying Tens Of Thousands Of Children Special Education:" http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/21/496943376/texas-may-be-denying-tens-of-thousands-of-children-special-education

* The supposed "Pro-life" movement did this by closing clinics and slashing funding. "STD Infections Rise To New Highs After States Close Health Clinics:" http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/10/20/498719092/std-infections-rise-to-new-highs-after-states-close-health-clinics

* The gift polish turned out to be a metallic pink instead of gold as I’d thought, so I added polka dots.: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/152278966547/the-gift-polish-turned-out-to-be-a-metallic-pink

* Today I also had the dinner il_volpe kindly gifted to me. Indian food: veggie sampler and eggplant.

* "New safeguards agreed for world's most trafficked mammal:" http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37494823

* "Two disabled friends build a forest around their village:" http://siz.io/two-disabled-friends-build-a-forest-around-their-village/?src=tum

* Yesterday I glued together the skeleton men Tavy broke, voted in the general election, voted in the building election (no rent increase. Yay!), did the rest of the paper bureaucracy, changed a tank, took books back. I did not change my sheets, alas.

I wrote this long beautiful thing on why you should vote, and vote early if you are in an early voting state, but it got erased. Instead I will simply say: Please, please, please vote your whole ballot. We need progressive Congress critters who will do what’s right. You need a Governor and state legislature who believe in health care, clean tap water, and bodily autonomy. You need a city government who believe in education and infrastructure spending. You need a School Board that believes in science. You need judges who think rape is a crime and mental illness isn’t. You need a compassionate Sheriff’s Department that wants to protect and serve, not murder innocent people. Initiatives are important. In my State we are voting on minimum wage and campaign financing. In my City we are voting on EMT and school bus funding. I know some of the initiatives are a little confusing, but it’s worth a couple of minutes reading them and looking them up if you still aren’t sure.

To get these things you need to VOTE!

* That's not who we are: https://thenib.com/that-s-not-who-we-are

* "11 More of the Scariest Stories We've Ever Heard:" http://jezebel.com/11-more-of-the-scariest-stories-weve-ever-heard-1653038439

* Walking Dead the Ennui continues:

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* Snerk: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/152244276817/curlicuecal-curlicuecal-curlicuecal

* ToS Rewatch:

- Space Seed. Ah the eugenics wars of the 1990's. I remember them well. We are a year and a half away from warp technology! I know, I know it's mean to tease, but given Richardo Montelban is born in 1920, his character would have been in his teens when the episode was made in order to be forty something when he was put in suspended animation in the 1990's.... So all star trek is guessing that some secret government eugenics lab already was raising a dangerous multi ethnic cohort of future attempted world conquerors. Using 1950's genetic tech. O.o. And I have to ask which country would do this in the '50's. It would have to be a rich country with advanced science, "selective breeding would have taken a lot of generations, which would push inception back to the 19th Century or earlier and that makes the whole thing less probable the further back you go. So I'm thinking it has to be some sort of early gene splicing Manhatten Project sort of thing, which means money and a large base of scientists to draw from. We're ruled out along with most of Europe on the grounds of racism. India had only gotten it's independence, so despite his mode of dress and supposed ethnicity, that seems awefully fast for India to have secretly built a future tech genetics program. Japan was rebuilding, dealing with shortages particularly early in the decade and not yet the powerhouse they became late in the century. So Russia or China, probably? Look, I am fond of Richardo Montelban, but there are definitely flaws, like him being made up with dark skin to be a Sikh, and the gender dynamics just generally. Amoung the racial types is listed "oriental." *wince* Problems, definitely problems. it says a lot of dark things about the historian, McGyver, that she finds Khan's creepy, controlling behavior on their first meeting awake sexy rather than gross, and that she finds his eugenics ideology attractive. I do enjoy Spock and kirk bating Khan into giving himself away, though it does say something about Khan that he falls for it. The scene where Khan gets McGyver to help him take over the ship is really scary, like domestic violence scary, with some negging tossed in. She is going with her abuser into an isolated situation where her abuser is the sole authority after she betrayed him into exile, and this is somehow meant to be a happy ending. *shudder* Seriously, there is nothing at all romantic in the McGyver/Khan interactions. They were chilling. I know she chose this but I am legitimately scared for her. Did no one think this through? I now have a lot of questions about whether Khan is lying about what happened to her in the Wrath of Khan movie.

Watching the bickering between Spock and McCoy early in this episode, I am reminded that as a child I thought they were competing for Kirk's interest when they did this. *ahem* That Khan vs. McCoy vignette when Khan

Wait a minute, If we get warp drive in 2018, does that mean the governmental and partial societal collapse in the First Contact movie is caused by Trump and the 2016 Presidential election? *shudder*

- A Taste of Armageddon. I actually agreed with Kirk on his objection in the beginning on being ordered to violate the standing order. Will wonders never cease. This whole situation just seems really sketchy right from the start. The mat painting really doesn't blend, but it's a nice change from the usual Styrofoam rocks. Once they started talking to the first local, I remembered which one this was, the computer war one, where they commit suicide when "hit." A lot of people have argued one way or another if this is clever or heavy handed, so I'm not going to rehash that. What I kept thinking of is Rachel Maddow's excellent book Drift, and how prescient this episode was regarding the post-Vietnam evolution of out military and attendant political structures. No, we don't walk into disintegration, but we have arranged for only 1% of our population to serve in a forever war that demands no sacrifices from the rest of us, and the relative bloodlessness back home makes it easy to pretend there isn't an endless war that has gone on for most of a generation, unless someone we love is actually in it or has been wounded or died. Her argument is that by shifting the burden to such a small minority and isolating the effects, it makes it so much easier for the wars to go on and on without any thought to the human costs. I think that the Star Trek version of that is less exaggerated than we like to think. Just saying. Do I think people on two planets would disintegrate themselves for 500 years without serious rebellion? No, but it sure looks like isolating the population at large from the real costs of war sure does wonders at prolonging it.

The thing that really surprises me about Tos is how few actual aliens there are. Nearly all the "aliens" are white humans. You get the Gorn that one time, and the ears on the Romulans and Vulcans, the green dancer, two episodes with big headed aliens, and the salt eater back in episode One, but mostly, they land on planets populated entirely by white humans with no attempt to explain why all the aliens look and act exactly like white people.

*****

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
gwydion: (Krampus)
* "The spycops and their supervisors who remain accountable (fraud, abuse, rape...):" https://undercoverinfo.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/the-spycops-and-their-supervisors-who-remain-accountable-fraud-abuse-rape/

* "Michigan Repubs pass last-minute bill creating longer voting lines — to stifle turnout:" https://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/michigan-repubs-pass-last-minute-bill-creating-longer-voting-lines-to-stifle-turnout/

* "Preserving Disorder: On Being Held at Gunpoint by Chicago Police:" https://medium.com/@erikcameron/preserving-disorder-on-being-held-at-gunpoint-by-chicago-police-956ed825e35d#.cxusfpbop

* "Why Texas Isn't Seceding:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-texas-isnt-seceding.html

* "Tamara Adrian Elected To Venezuelan National Assembly:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/12/tamara-adrian-elected-to-venezuelan.html

* "Trans Undocumented Immigrants Also Look Like Us:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/12/trans-undocumented-immigrants-also-look.html

* "911 Call Proves Taylor Was Arrested For Existing While Trans:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/12/911-call-proves-taylor-was-arrested-for.html

* "Your Honest-to-God Guide to STDs:" http://markmanson.net/std-guide

* "Men Explain Lolita to Me:" http://lithub.com/men-explain-lolita-to-me/

* "The Skywalkers are Martells and kindly no one touch me:" http://www.fandomfollowing.com/the-skywalkers-are-martells-and-kindly-no-one-touch-me/

* George Blagden, who was Aethelstan is Louis XIV in Versailles! Please tell me they are broadcasting it over here too.

* Historical Accuracy in ASoIaF fic (Game of Thrones show is clearly fic; it surely isn’t an adaptation)... D & D's idea of adding historical accuracy: add more way rape, make characters more sexist. My idea of adding historical accuracy: pose a character as scratching at lice and fleas in his clothes. Mention that the embroidery on the wedding mantle spent a team of women a year or so to do in a wedding pose....

* Want to help finance Hector's cat food and my meds/medical co pays? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

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

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

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

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