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* "Dubai ruler abducted escaped daughters - UK court:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51756984

* "Child migrants sleep in pens at Lesbos port:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-51738546/lesbos-child-migrants-sleep-in-pens-at-mytilene-port

* "French lawmaker hospitalised as Macron warns coronavirus epidemic ‘inevitable’:" https://www.france24.com/en/20200306-french-lawmaker-hospitalised-as-macron-warns-coronavirus-epidemic-inevitable

* "Italian Grandparents Are Out in Force as Schools Close Amid Coronavirus Outbreak. Is That Safe?:" https://time.com/5797637/italian-grandparents-coronavirus-babysitters/

"But the emergency school closures put families in a bind. A small sampling of Roman playgrounds indicated that the measures had the unintended boomerang effect of sending the elderly out on duty at the nation’s sandboxes, swings and jungle gyms. Not to mention the fact that they were fully engaged with young children, those infamous germ carriers."

* "State Department blames ‘swarms of online, false personas’ from Russia for wave of coronavirus misinformation online:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/05/state-department-face-fresh-questions-senate-about-coronavirus-misinformation-online/

* "House swiftly passes bipartisan $8.3B coronavirus package:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/04/house-coronavirus-funding-121065

* "Trump’s coronavirus musings put scientists on edge:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/05/trump-coronavirus-scientists-on-edge-122121

“You never hear about those people. So you can't put them down in the category of the overall population in terms of this corona flu and — or virus. So you just can't do that," he said. "So if, you know, we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better, just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work but they get better.”

He is openly telling people to go to work to spread it further and likely harm or kill people who have less robust health. I have thoughts, but none of them are printable.

* "Coronavirus: Washington cases increase to 70; death toll increases to 11:" https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/coronavirus-washington-cases-increase-70-death-toll-remains-10/XIDPHMLVOJAAREQ5YCL75367PU/

* "Coronavirus Deaths Tied to Nursing Center Came Earlier Than Anyone Knew:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/us/coronavirus-washington-death.html

* "California announces first coronavirus death, bringing US fatalities to at least 11:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/california-confirms-first-coronavirus-death-bringing-us-fatalities-to-at-least-11.html

* "Criticized for Coronavirus Response, Trump Points to Obama Administration:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-obama.html

"It was not entirely clear what he was referring to. Health experts and veterans of the government during Mr. Obama’s presidency said they were unaware of any policy or rule changes during the last administration that would have affected the way the Food and Drug Administration approved tests during the current crisis. Moreover, if there were, Mr. Trump did not explain why his administration did not change the rules during its first three years in office."

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“They didn’t have to do it in the first place,” he said. “They’re reversing a decision that they themselves made.”

* "Coronavirus cases in New York state doubled overnight, as Gov. Cuomo confirms 11 new infections:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/05/coronavirus-cases-in-new-york-doubled-overnight-as-gov-cuomo-confirms-11-new-infections.html

* "Two patients in Nevada test presumptively positive for novel coronavirus:" https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/first-patient-in-nevada-tests-presumptively-positive-for-novel-coronavirus-through-va-health-system

* "Chris Hayes on Trump’s failing response to coronavirus:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-trump-s-failing-response-to-coronavirus-80031813741

* Well this is extremely alarming. "Quarantined nurse raises alarms over being denied coronavirus test:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/quarantined-nurse-raises-alarms-over-being-denied-coronavirus-test-80110149805

* "Ebola Czar to Trump: Put down the phone:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ebola-czar-to-trump-put-down-the-phone-80109637754

* I've been wanting war crimes investigations and trials since the early oughts. "Pompeo denounces probe of possible U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/05/mike-pompeo-afghanistan-war-crimes-probe-122080

* "Defense contractor charged with giving up military secrets:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/04/defense-contractor-charged-military-secrets-121251

* So this is what the cease fire looks like. "US conducted airstrike on Taliban fighters following attack on Afghan checkpoint:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/taliban-airstrikes-afghanistan-us/index.html

* "Judge cites Barr’s ‘misleading’ statements in ordering review of Mueller report redactions:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/mueller-report-attorney-general-william-barr/2020/03/05/3fa7afce-5f2c-11ea-b29b-9db42f7803a7_story.html

* Chris Hayes and Stephen Colbert discussing the election and Coronavirus under the cut:

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* "Donald Trump wants Pete Buttigieg to be ‘impeached’ after endorsing Joe Biden. There’s just one major problem:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/03/donald-trump-pete-buttigieg-joe-biden-impeached-democratic-presidential-nomination-amy-klobhuchar/

"Klobuchar is a sitting senator and cannot be impeached. Meanwhile, Buttigieg, while referred to as “Mayor Pete” by Trump, is actually a former mayor and is not in office."

* "Trump campaign to hold a rally at a church so homophobic it makes Franklin Graham look like Cher:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/03/donald-trump-homophobic-rally-solid-rock-church-ohio-lawrence-bishop-gay-lgbt/

* "Majority of queer voters favour the new kind of politics offered by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, poll finds:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/04/lgbt-voters-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-super-tuesday-nbc-news-poll/

* "Trump shifts his attention to surging Biden, stokes Sanders grievances:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/04/republicans-biden-super-tuesday-120697

* "Trump shifts his attention to surging Biden, stokes Sanders grievances:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/04/trump-weighs-in-on-bidens-super-tuesday-victory-120821

* I'm putting the massive sanders interview under the cut:

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* "Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Drops Out of Presidential Race:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-drops-out.html

* "Elizabeth Warren drops out of White House race, leaving two old white men to battle Donald Trump, an old white man:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/05/elizabeth-warren-presidential-campaign-suspended-democratic-nomination-bernie-sanders/

* "7 times Elizabeth Warren redefined what it means for a politician to be an LGBT+ ally:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/05/elizabeth-warren-lgbt-rights-democratic-nomination-presidential-election-trans/

* I'm putting the extended Warren exit interview under the cut.

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* "Antigay Politician Implies Buttigieg Is Accustomed to Groping:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/3/04/antigay-politician-implies-buttigieg-accustomed-groping

* It was a really pleasant surprise to see political ads that were not for Bloomburg or Steyer. They'd flooded the local markets for so long that seeing Bernie instead of that asshole transphobe Bloomberg was an actual shock to my system tonight. I didn't see any Bidens nor any for the usual slate of state candidates and issues that one usually gets this time of year, but wow am am I pleased not to be angry about billionaires completely forcing out everyone and everything that actually matters to people in my state politically every damned ad break.

* TW: Pedophilia "Antigay Roy Moore Suffers Humiliating Loss in Alabama Senate Race:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/3/03/antigay-roy-moore-track-humiliating-loss-alabama-senate-race

* "Sessions forced into runoff for Alabama Senate seat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/jeff-sessions-alabama-senate-runoff-120485

* "19 states sue the Trump administration over border wall money shift:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/states-sue-trump-administration-border-wall-119806

* "The ‘two most famous married lesbian priests’ will stand defiant against haters on eve of historic Anglican summit:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/04/anglican-lesbian-priests-lambeth-conference-justin-welby-archbishop-canterbury-marriage/

* "Trans teen who waited three years for puberty blockers reveals devastating impact of being denied the treatment:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/05/puberty-blockers-trans-teen-treatment-gids-tavistock-portman-nhs-mermaids-high-court-case/

* "Hundreds of feminists write to The Guardian rejecting argument that trans rights threaten women:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/05/the-guardian-anti-trans-editorial-feminists-letter-suzanne-moore-transphobia/

* "The Only Consistency in BYU's Treatment of LGBTQ Students Is Cruelty:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/3/05/only-consistency-byus-treatment-lgbtq-students-cruelty

* "Georgia School Yanks Trans Girl From Dance For Wearing Female Attire:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/3/04/georgia-school-yanks-trans-girl-dance-wearing-female-attire

* *sideeye* "Disgraced former congressman, who voted vehemently against LGBT equality, comes out as gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/05/aaron-schock-comes-out-gay-former-congressman-opposed-lgbt-rights/

* "Cross-party group of MPs condemn the NHS for ‘failing’ people with HIV:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/05/nhs-failing-people-hiv-mental-health-cross-party-mp-group/

* "HIV-Positive Airmen Won a Huge Victory Against Trump—and Stigma:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/3/05/hiv-positive-airmen-won-huge-victory-against-trump-and-stigma

* "On the Trail of America’s First Women to Vote:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/arts/first-women-voters-new-jersey.html?referringSource=articleShare

* "Meet the disabled suffragettes who fought for the vote :" http://enablemagazine.co.uk/meet-disabled-suffragettes-fought-vote/

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

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* "The Wuhan Shake Inspires Other Coronavirus-Safe Personal Greetings:"

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* "Bloomberg Suspends Campaign After Biden Wins Big On Super Tuesday:"

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* "Trump Tries To Project Leadership As Coronavirus Spreads Across U.S.:"

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* "Have Yourself A Merry Super Tuesday! | Full Frontal on TBS:"

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* "Health Care Sharing Ministries ARE NOT Health Insurance! | Full Frontal on TBS:"

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* "Holding Out for a Super Tuesday Hero | Full Frontal on TBS:"

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* "'Ex-Wives' - West End Live 2018:"

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* "Taylor Swift - The Man (Official Video):"

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* "Beethoven's 5th Symphony on One Guitar - Marcin Patrzalek:"

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* So Wednesday, we had inspection and the window was literally anytime before noon. My initial plan was to try to nap in my clothes, but city liaison guy wanted to come over and take pictures. The result was that i was fading fst by the time the inspector showed up just before noon. Because of course.

Sleep was no good as the people above us apparently are doing yet more renovations, this time including them ripping out all the old carpets (They were throwing them off the balcony and workmen were carrying them away between 11-noon) and replacing them with who knows, but the result was, exactly when Squirrel and I were trying to crash power tools, hammers, random thumps, drills, etc. right over our heads, terrifying my cats. The hammers were the worst, because I'd drift off during the quiet gaps and then flail awake to three loud bangs, which my sleeping self would take for someone at the door, since I'm the one for the last three decades who was a light enough sleeper to hear delivery persons pounding on various apartment doors i've lived in with assorted people. Three loud bangs is right up there with unexpected person in my room to wake me from a sound slumber and have me on my wobbly pins before my brain has caught up. (I'm fine with cats going in and out. I've had roommates and lovers go in and out over the years and no problem, but if someone my sleeping brain doesn't expect wanders in, no matter how quiet? Up I go. No, it's not trauma, it my sensory wiring). Some of the machinery was right over my head and unbearable loud and the imperial couple couldn't figure out where to hide since it was everywhere: both bedrooms, both bathrooms, kitchen, living room. Except for that one day towards the beginning of our renovation, there was always a quiet room for beasties to hide in from invading monsters making scary sounds. Not Wednesday. They have been understandably clinging since.

By the time I managed to drag myself out of bed to do shreds time and take a good bath it was very late. The bath is super helpful with the pain, but wears be the fuck out, so I needed a rest and the Imperial couple needed reassurance. Then we had a major outage of everything but the electricity. No TV, Internet, phone. Fun! I still needed to feed cats (kibbles), the fish, and myself; take meds; do lungs; set up meds try, take more meds.... I felt crappy from the infection and was still tired and there was no sign of Internet etc. coming back, so I gave up and went back to bed.

Today Tavy went to great lengths to keep me in bed, but I needed to do pharmacy run, and change books and make photocopies at the library, and drop my bureaucracy packet off at the courthouse, where it turned out they were getting a steady drip of elderly and disabled people doing their tax freeze reup. They were very sweet and patient, which is good, because I literally couldn't work out how do do sections of the paperwork. I threw myself on their mercy. Apparently everyone does because no one knows what the fuck three of the questions are asking. Like seriously one line was referring to a line that does not exist on a modern 1040 tax return and two had multiple clauses with double negatives where I could think of more than one thing they might be asking.

Tomorrow is the blood work appointment, which is good because none of the usually tricks are working on the infection. So remember the list of things that could be going on with my body? It turned out it was the sinus infection I've had since late December/early January ramping way the fuck up and helpfully colonizing neighboring bits of me. So my lungs are back in play (wet cough and definitely bacterial), and I'm gearing up for a couple of ear infections which is annoying af. The right one is further along. I am not having much luck heading it off, though I suspect I've slowed it down.

So not coronavirus or at least not yet, which is good, because Squirrel and I re both in the 15% death rate or higher categories. On the upside, I had a chat with squirrel and his work is taking solid preventative measures. Odds are it'll get there anyway, because people have to go home, shop, etc., but they are trying which is honestly all I ask. If 45 had let the CDC handle things instead of over riding them in hopes it'll kill people like me off, I wouldn't be angry. Pandemic roulette is pandemic roulette. There is no safe, but what I want me government to do in an outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic is to take rational steps based on science to halt or at least slow the spread as much as possible and to provide accurate information. I am angry because Republicans decided to do the opposite of that on purpose. I am angry because slower spread is way the fuck better because it cuts down on shortages of equipment and materials necessary to save lives and allows for more pathogen specific training and planning.

But for now I feel like crap and am a day behind on everything before I even started this evening, but I am not dangerously sick, just pain in the ass sick.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html

* "Brazil's answer to Donald Trump was stabbed at a campaign rally:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/7xjzkb/brazil-presidential-election-bolsonaro-stabbed

* "US-China trade talks stall amid tariff standoff:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/22/politics/us-china-trade-talks-tariffs/index.html

* "Rob Goldstone wishes he'd never set up that Trump Tower meeting:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/rob-goldstone-wishes-he-d-never-set-trump-tower-meeting-n911851

* "Roger Stone sought contact with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, email suggests:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roger-stone-sought-contact-wikileaks-julian-assange-email/story?id=58032438

* "Rep. Schiff: "A slow-moving Saturday Night Massacre":" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-schiff-a-slow-moving-saturday-night-massacre-1328304707632?v=railb&

* It looks like 45 has misidentified the source of the "lingering stench" he keeps smelling wherever he goes. "Trump wants to rid Justice Department of 'lingering stench':" https://apnews.com/59bd51fcd7bb4a979a9a4da2258c3d87

* "Klobuchar: Republicans rush Kavanaugh case at expense of fairness:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/klobuchar-republicans-rush-kavanaugh-case-at-expense-of-fairness-1328383555561?v=railb&

* "White and Male: Trump’s Ambassadors Don’t Look Like the Rest of America:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/17/white-male-trump-ambassadors-dont-look-like-america-us-state-department/

* "Kavanaugh tells Senate he won't withdraw:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/24/trump-kavanaugh-allegations-totally-political-837684

* "Kavanaugh accuser agrees to testify before Senate panel:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/23/kavanaugh-ford-hearing-837444

* "Graham: Ford’s testimony won’t change my vote:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/23/kavanaugh-ford-lindsey-graham-837391

* "Ladies! Get EMPOWERED By Losing Your Reproductive Rights And Being Groped!:" https://www.wonkette.com/ladies-are-you-ready-to-get-empowered-by-losing-your-reproductive-rights-and-getting-sexual-harassed

* O.o "Trump HUD Secretary Ben Carson claims Kavanaugh allegations are part of a centuries old socialist plot:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/21/hud-secretary-ben-carson-kavanaugh-allegation-is-part-of-a-socialist-plot.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar

* Re: Kavanaugh's calendars. Admittedly, I'm a bit younger, so high School was '84-'86, but the tech was the same. Excluding things like school dances of which I attended a total of three including less than an hour at Senior Prom, my calendars didn't show any of the parties I went to. Oh, you'd get work/sports/enrichment scheduling, but for the sort of parties where people were drinking? My boys would be like: Hey! There's a party after work or tonight or whatever. And I'd be like: Sure. Why don't I drive. (This was because I didn't drink or smoke and that way I could make sure my knuckleheaded friends/lovers would get home okay.) Why the fuck would I, an intelligent teenager, be leaving evidence lying around my parents house that I was about to be at a party where everyone else was going to be plastered and or high as fuck? And half the time they'd be telling me night of in person anyway and my calendar was at home because it was the '80's and calendars were all paper.

Anyway, my point is, as someone who was a teen in the time period before the World Wide Web and when cell phones were huge, just phones, and only for rich assholes, I find it way more likely that any drunken parties he was going to were word of mouth than otherwise. Just saying. like I never once saw one of my friends or one of the very Kavanaugh like assholes at my school whip out a physical calendar and write down when and where they planned to get drunk that weekend.

* "Hundreds Of Yale Students Protest Kavanaugh, Demand Investigation:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yale-students-protest-kavanaughs_us_5ba8fa09e4b0375f8f9f1e18

* "Avenatti: Kavanaugh accuser client may pursue criminal case:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/avenatti-kavanaugh-accuser-client-may-pursue-criminal-case-1328359491812?v=railb&

* So I don't even know any more. "Kavanaugh accuser's lawyer blasts Grassley for prejudging hearing:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kavanaugh-accuser-s-lawyer-blasts-grassley-for-prejudging-hearing-1328388163979?v=railb&

* Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have a centrist Democrat like Joseph Manchin, Joe Donnelly, Doug Jones, Jon Tester, and Heidi Heitkamp; or Republicans like Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. (For Flake, Corker, Collins, and Murkowski please call for a proper independent investigation by the FBI and a return to normal Senate procedure in cases like this. For Scott and Rubio emphasize Kavanaugh's racism and support for racial profiling, for Collins and Murkowski emphasize the right to chose, the nominee allegedly having attempted to violently rape someone, and the Jane Doe case where he tried to force a raped immigrant teen to carry against her will, With Murowski, you might also mention his opposition to programs benefiting Alaska Natives). Jeff Flake of Arizona may be softening! Please, if you are from Arizona, keep the pressure on! Contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition. It wouldn't hurt to demand your Republican Senators call for a proper FBI Background investigation. They won't, but pressuring them shows them there might be consequences.

Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, here are some other options:

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

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

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

* Republicans want to remind you that just because it's been ruled unconstitutional doesn't been they are legally required to stop. "Kansas officials told to keep enforcing voter ID law that was ruled unconstitutional:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/393309-kansas-officials-told-to-keep-enforcing-voter-id-law-that-was-ruledv

* "Arizona Family Calls Out Their Racist Congressional Brother:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/09/arizona-family-calls-out-their-racist.html

* "More Than 2,000 Puerto Ricans Applied For Funeral Assistance After Hurricane Maria. FEMA Approved Just 75.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/puerto-rico-hurricane-funeral-assistance-fema

* "Bill Cosby To Get Less Than Three Years Behind Bars For 2004 Rape, Says Judge:" https://deadline.com/2018/09/bill-cosby-sentence-three-years-likely-judge-says-1202470189/

* TW: Sexual Assault, Child Abuse, Suicide. "‘It’s Like, Who’s Next?’: A Troubled School’s Alarming Death Rate:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/nyregion/suicide-school-overdose-deaths-ny-family-foundation.html

* "Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows: Crash Course Theater #30:"

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* "How Midwestern Suffragists Won the Vote by Attacking Immigrants:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-midwestern-suffragists-won-vote-by-attacking-immigrants-180970298/

* "The FBI Plot to Bring Down the Gay Man Behind the March on Washington:" https://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-fbi-plot-to-bring-down-the-gay-man-behind-the-march-on-washington/89161

* "Another Sexual Assault Allegation for Brett Kavanaugh:"

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* Livia's no good very bad day: It started out fine. The Imperial couple realized I was bathing before bed and sensibly retired to my room for pre-Bedtime naps. I found them there: her cradled on the body pillow up near the head of the bed, him making a comfortable donut at the foot, just waiting for me to come to make him a leg mest for the real bedtime. They were so comfortable that thee was no milling about when I got into bed. Everyone had their back stroked and when back to dozing while i did things like reconfigure pillows and take the just beore sleep meds. I read a couple of chapter of Ms. McGuire, then I turned off the light. Tavy climbed on to my legs in expectation of hours of stillness. Livia pressed very gently against me. Peaceable Kingdom achieved. Minutes later? The phone.

It was the management company wanting to do an emergency fire inspection. This is no surprise. Last Spring the alarms all started going off when Squirrel showered if he forgot to turn on all the fans. I called, but nothing came of it and I did not want to press too hard as they might charge us for it instead of fixing it. We changed all the batteries and it happens less often, and it's yet another inconvenience we've had to learn to live with. Last Thursday it went off because I made pasta, even though the hood fan was on, which means the one right in front of my room with the brand new battery is now doing it too, in response to ordinary amounts of steam. Apparently every time the alarm goes off here to punish us for showering and cooking, it triggers something at the management company office. It's been getting way worse, so i bet it's happening all over my floor, the detector system all being the same age. Apparently the flashy lights went off so often this past week, they've decided to stop ignoring it.

So emergency fire inspection today, with a minimum one hour warning, but more likely in the afternoon. Somehow, the cats did not scatter despite the phone, and were still there when I was done warning Squirrel he had to clean his room for inspection Right Now. They did scatter in terror when he jiggled his dector to make sure it was properly seated after the last time he had to pull it when itwouldn't stop screaming about him taking a shower. Good bye peacable kigdom, hello hiding closet for cats. They called with a two hour afternoon window, which I went to inform Squirrel of. I cleaned the mess on the kitchen floor made by him taking out the garbage the night before. (This is fine and not a complaint. He does the carrying and lifting because I can't without seriously endangering myself. I clean because I'm the one notices what needs cleaning and knows how best to do it. I'm also the one with the list of cleaning supplies in my head and who knows what we have and what we need to buy next month. This division of labor is agreed on and very, very logical, being based on who is good at what. So again, not a complaint). I go back to bed and set the alarm so I will for sure be wearing trousers as they are like to hit us very early in the inspection window. I do get some crappy, interrupted sleep, and the beasts do eventually come back to the bed.

I get the clothes on and am lying there in the dusk of my room on an Autumn afternoon trying to decide if I should read or try to nap when they come. The Imperial Couple hides in the closet from the Strangers. Tavy will stay on the bed if the voices are familiar, but these were not voices he recognized, so from the perspective of the Cats, we were being Invaded by Cat Eating Trolls, some of them in Kitty Stomping Work Boots. *shudder*

I told them the saga of the smoke detectors. They decided they battery units need replacing, but the flashy light thing is probably fine, since it was getting triggered by the assholish detectors. They say they'll get back to me, likely with better warning. I went back to bed, talking in the comfort voice, so the cats would know it's over. Tavy came right out and got his pettin and went back to sleep in the leg mest. It took Livia several chapters to venture out for her pettin and her nap on the body pillow.

I missed forage of course, having opted for several hours of crappy sleep over getting dressed right then and going out. I had meant to go get meds, but I couldn't bear to disturb the beasts so soon. I did end up going for the library loop and to see if that case I ordered beginning of the month was ready to be picked up. It was not. Sigh.

I am worn thin like a tiny bit of butter on too much bread. The cats have mostly recovered from sirens and strangers, though there has been a degree of understandable extra cling. LM has been roaming the house between naps, cursing at kittens these days and soaking up short pettins. I suspect I will be low energy, but I will make an effort to address the latest firehouse of horror spewing out of D.C.

* "Yeah, so this theme of agency keeps coming up….:" https://lettersfromtitan.com/2018/09/24/yeah-so-this-theme-of-agency-keeps-coming-up/

* "Killjoys Takes a Field Trip Into the Green for the Season Finale :" https://www.thefandomentals.com/killjoys-takes-a-field-trip-into-the-green-for-the-season-finale/

* A useful collection of butch haircuts: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/178433679093/note-dont-know-who-these-are-for-the-most-part

* It's ebay time again. I am now I am about $120.00 behind on bills. 2ish days; 3 no bid as of this writing. If you'd like to chip in directly towards helping me pay my bills Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

The all items for sale link is here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/lethran/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

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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

* Russia is now claiming that Turkey's aggressive campaign to stop oil smuggling in the last year and their fighting against Daesh is all a clever ruse to hide them buying oil from Daesh. Meanwhile, Russian ally Assad is doing it openly, and in such quantity that he is their best customer. *side eye*

* So they found out what happened to that Air Asia flight. It seems that Air Asia refuses to do proper maintenance on their planes. The air rudder on this plane had gone out 23 times in the year previous to the crash, but rather than fix it properly, they kept bodging in back together badly. Pilots lodged repeated complaints that the plane wasn't safe to fly, which the company ignored.

So guess what happened? Yep, the air rudder failed yet again. The pilots, who didn't have the proper training for fixing it, were forced to attempt mid air repairs. In the process of trying to reboot it, they lost autopilot and the plane spiraled down into the ocean before they could stop it, killing all aboard.

I don't know anyone who was on that plane, but I know how angry I am at Air Asia executives just picturing it. I can only imagine how furious the families of the dead are. I wish the families all the best and I hope they get what revenge is available as justice isn't possible in a case like this.

* TW: Domestic Violence. "'My present to my mum was a blind eye':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039rm0x

* "Planned Parenthood a longtime target for attacks:" http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/29/planned-parenthood-a-longtime-target-of-violence.html

* "Cruz in questionable company, offers bizarre response to shooting:"

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* "Increased threats correspond to new Planned Parenthood bashing:"

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* "The Great Regression: Conservative Lies Terrorize 50 Years Of Progress:" http://reverbpress.com/politics/32783/

* "World AIDS Day 2015:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/12/world-aids-day-2015.html

* "Mount Horeb, WI Rebukes Transphobes, Schedules Public Readings Of 'I Am Jazz' :" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/11/mount-horeb-wi-rebukes-transphobes.html

* "Trans Bolivians Gain Ability To Change Gender On Identity Documents:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/11/trans-bolivians-gain-ability-to-change.html

* "Sophia Duleep Singh, Part 2: Suffragette Princess:" http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com/post/133945804423/missedinhistory-in-the-conclusion-to-our#notes

* "Drinking the Haterade - Attack on Planned Parenthood:"

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* On Luke Cage's Relevance: http://big-wired.tumblr.com/post/134074808018/luke-cage-was-created-in-1972-four-years

* Today I spent an hour changing the garden over. There are a couple of things i need to do when there is more light, but it was productive and satisfying.

* I watched the NHK men's final out of Nagano. It was mostly mid-ranked skaters, but Jin Boyang, who is just out of juniors and a little immature in his choreography, skated brilliantly and will likely be a God in a year or two, as he jumps like a young Pleshenko and has way better and more graceful everything else.

It was Hanyu who completely blew me away though. Yuzuru Hanyu skated the shit out of a brilliant routine based on 10th Century Japan. He's the total package: athleticism and aesthetics. I had chills. It may have been the most beautiful skate I've ever seen. He got the highest score ever in both his short and long program. I officially have a new favorite skater.

* "Some thoughts about Book vs Show Brienne:" http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/130735799887/some-thoughts-about-book-vs-show-brienne

* EBAY, 1 Day More, 1 no bid:

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* "Free Celtic knotwork coloring page:" http://thestorydragon.com/2015/11/free-downloadable-coloring-page-celtic-knotwork-wheel-by-owen-wills/

* 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

* Riot Police in Mexico clashed with student protesters headed to a protest of official corruption related to those students disappeared last year.

* All these left people crushing on the Pope make me a little queasy. Not one mentions his repeated virulent hate speech aimed at trans folk. Not one points out that nothing he has done is substantive. Sure, his words aimed at everyone but us are pretty, but he's not gone after the Bishops and Archbishops that protected pedophiles for example. There's a whole list of things like that. Birth control? Still not allowed. Denying women medical care for ectopic pregnancies and miscarriage so that they needlessly die slow horrible deaths even though there is no live fetus to protect? Still sanctioned, nay encouraged. Antigay policies? Still in place. Women Priests? No. It's all pretty speeches and no policy.

Fuck Pope Francis. I'm not a terrorist or a nuclear weapon, and fuck the left for pretending he's anything other than particularly good PR for a church that's just as hateful as it's always been. he's not a true reformer, merely a pretense of reform.

* "Hillary Clinton breaks silence on Keystone XL opposition, rail safety:"

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* "Trump competence in question as 'veterans' group' event exposed as illegal:"

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* "Carson doubles down on anti-Muslim position:"

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* "CEO who hiked drug price 5,000% backs down:"

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* "Fiorina had style...but what about substance?:"

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* "White House Goes There On GOP Racism:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/09/white-house-goes-there-on-gop-racism.html

* "Asian Suffragettes – Women Who Made a Difference.:" http://fwsablog.org.uk/2014/01/09/asian-suffragettes-women-who-made-a-difference/

* Today my body vetoed all non-bed related activity until 10:30PM. So: behind on everything. On the upside the largest ebay paid right away, so I've now enough for car insurance +postage in my account again. The rest is going to medical copays to try to stop my being sent to collections when it comes in. I won't have enough to cover all the medical bills, but there is enough for the most important one.

After lungs I did poke about in the Gothmas boxes I had out. I found the tree lights and the large pieces of Halloweentown, but not the ornaments or the small bits. More closet delving is required.

* The Black Sails XV garnered some really interesting commentary, particularly about missing mothers and Damsels in distress: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/129699115307/black-sails-rewatch-xv

* "Sunday Sweets Goes Art Deco... Again!:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2015/9/20/sunday-sweets-goes-art-deco-again.html

* This: http://cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com/491200.html

* Is it just me or is the Coke commercial where the woman wants to skin the man and turn him into a mansuit a little creepy?

* Ebay:

A Low Candle-Lit Room 2013 (LE, Yules): (Company says: Candle wax and waxen "skin," rotting leather and reeking damp wood, and the ashes of a yawning, cold fireplace.). 3/4 Full.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/301748365881?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

* 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 to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. 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