* Hardly any of the Sunday news made it onto this and i have a massive back up waiting to be scaffolded, but if I don't post it will get so much worse, so here we are.
* "Tensions flare as Chinese flights near Taiwan intensify:"
https://apnews.com/article/tensions-flare-chinese-flights-near-taiwan-02b30ed449f663cf53ef0782482e35e9* "Extremists target African village leaders in wave of assassinations:"
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/africa-islamists-sahel-leaders/* "An Asylum Seeker’s Wrenching Choice: Stay on the Run or Save His Child’s Life:"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/world/europe/poland-belarus-border-crisis.html* "Authorities call fatal stabbing of UK lawmaker terrorist act:"
https://apnews.com/article/europe-london-england-eda5b4786c84e68a59de9075efecbcf7* "ASEAN to exclude Myanmar junta chief from leaders' summit:"
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-does-not-want-myanmar-junta-leader-summit-if-no-progress-minister-2021-10-15/* "Beirut's worst street violence in more than a decade kills at least 6:"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/middleeast/lebanon-blast-gunfire-protest-intl/index.html* "Lebanese firefighters put out fire at fuel facility:"
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanons-al-jadeed-tv-reports-fire-near-zahrani-oil-facility-2021-10-11/* "It’s time to drop the curtain on Japan’s colonial legacy :"
https://lausan.hk/2021/japans-colonial-legacy/* "Justin Trudeau Tells International Conference Left-Wing ‘Extremist Groups’ Are ‘Pushing White Supremacy’:"
https://pressprogress.ca/justin-trudeau-tells-international-conference-left-wing-extremist-groups-are-pushing-white-supremacy/* "British football coach sentenced to 25 years’ jail in Dubai over CBD vape liquid:"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/13/british-football-coach-sentenced-to-25-years-jail-in-dubai-over-cbd-vape-liquid* "Australia's Daintree rainforest returned to Aboriginal ownership:"
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/amp/australia-daintree-rainforest-aboriginal-owners-intl-hnk/index.html* "Inside the manic race to replace Duterte as the Philippines' leader:"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/asia/philippines-election-president-duterte-marcos-dst-intl-hnk/index.html* "Help find this man wanted for BITING and assaulting Game Store Employees!:"
( Embed: )* "Australia ends migrants housing deal with Papua New Guinea:"
https://wtop.com/australia/2021/10/australia-ends-migrants-housing-deal-with-papua-new-guinea/* "Austrian Chancellor Kurz resigns amid corruption allegations:"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/austria-kurz-resigns-corruption/2021/10/09/fd58ac5a-2927-11ec-8739-5cb6aba30a30_story.html* "96-year-old German woman released after going on the run to skip Nazi war crimes trial:"
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/96-year-old-german-woman-released-after-going-run-skip-n1280876* "Calls for investigation after court finds Dubai ruler hacked ex-wife’s phone:"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/07/calls-for-investigation-after-court-finds-dubai-ruler-hacked-ex-wifes-phone* "Journalists who took on Putin and Duterte win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize:"
https://www.reuters.com/world/philippines-journalist-ressa-russian-journalist-muratov-win-2021-nobel-peace-2021-10-08/*********************************************************************************************************
* "Even Mild Cases of COVID May Leave a Mark on the Brain:"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/even-mild-cases-of-covid-may-leave-a-mark-on-the-brain/* "Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug:"
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58170809* "Merck asks US FDA to authorize promising anti-COVID pill:"
https://apnews.com/article/merck-asks-fda-to-authorize-covid-pill-e731ada126414396b402c4dfc3cf8d2c* "South Sudan: How to deliver Covid vaccines in a country with few roads:"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58911911* "New Zealand will phase out its zero-covid strategy, acknowledging it cannot eliminate coronavirus:"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/05/new-zealand-zero-covid-strategy/* "As Brazil passes 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, vaccines offer hope worst is over:"
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-nears-600000-covid-19-deaths-vaccines-offer-hope-worst-is-over-2021-10-08/* "Brazil pandemic probe to recommend Bolsonaro face 11 criminal charges, senator says:"
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-pandemic-probe-recommend-bolsonaro-face-11-criminal-charges-senator-says-2021-10-15/* "COVID Misinformation Has People Injecting Bleach:"
( Embed: )* "US to reopen land borders in November for fully vaccinated:"
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-covid-19-pandemic-air-travel-health-c3f7e2b8feca4c8cdaf4301ae9c81a79* "COVID-19 Vaccination:"
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-shot.html* "F.D.A. Panel Unanimously Recommends Johnson & Johnson Booster Shots:"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/health/johnson-johnson-vaccine-booster.html* "FDA panel endorses lower-dose Moderna COVID shot for booster:"
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-moderna-booster-shot-fda-2de19cdff021ad11b95c6b67fd5d8617* "J&J Covid vaccine recipients are better off getting Pfizer or Moderna booster, NIH study suggests:"
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/13/jj-covid-vaccine-recipients-are-better-off-getting-pfizer-or-moderna-booster-nih-study-suggests.html* "Big gap between Pfizer, Moderna vaccines seen for preventing COVID hospitalizations:"
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-09-17/study-finds-big-gap-between-pfizer-moderna-vaccines-at-preventing-covid-hospitalizations* "Getting a Booster Too Soon Could Cause This Serious Side Effect:"
https://bestlifeonline.com/booster-side-effect-news/* "Boosters and mixes: Health officials consider most beneficial combinations:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/boosters-and-mixes-health-officials-consider-most-beneficial-combinations-123695685898* "POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans support vaccine mandates for schoolkids:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/poll-support-vaccine-mandates-students-515657* "Florida is only state not to submit school Covid-19 relief funding plan, US Education Department says:"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/politics/florida-schools-covid-relief-funding-plan/index.html* "Florida trying to block money Biden sent to school districts fined for mask mandates:"
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/florida-working-block-money-biden-school-districts-mask/story?id=80419199* "Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried urges Florida to speed up distribution of federal COVID relief dollars:"
https://www.wptv.com/coronavirus/agriculture-commissioner-nikki-fried-urges-florida-to-speed-up-distribution-of-federal-covid-relief-dollars* "Texas school COVID-19 cases: How those with mask mandates compare to those without:"
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/texas-school-covid-19-cases-how-those-with-mask-mandates-compare-to-those-without/* "Texas order reflects growing GOP vaccine mandates hostility:"
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-nba-sports-business-aa6c30fa6270b735acafc69e2ce26766* "Texas Republicans spar over who is more pro-Covid:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/texas-republicans-spar-over-who-is-more-pro-covid-123393605771* "Study: Vaccines Helped Reduce COVID-19 Deaths in Oklahoma:"
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2021-10-05/study-vaccines-helped-reduce-covid-19-deaths-in-oklahoma* "Stitt: Oklahoma ready to ‘take President Biden to court’ over COVID-19 vaccine mandates:"
https://www.koco.com/article/kevin-stitt-oklahoma-president-biden-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/37963844* "48 hours to live: An Oklahoma hospital’s rush to find an ICU bed for a covid patient:"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/hospital-covid-patient/* "This Teen's Community Rallied As She Fought COVID. But Many Still Shun The Vaccine:"
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/03/1032665979/child-near-death-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-mis-c* "TN doctor warns of ‘death lag’ with younger people hospitalized for COVID:"
https://www.wate.com/news/tennessee/tn-doctor-warns-of-death-lag-with-younger-people-hospitalized-for-covid/* "Tennessee physicians who spread COVID-19 misinformation could now face disciplinary action:"
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tennessee-physicians-who-spread-covid-19-misinformation-could-now-face-disciplinary-action* "More than 20 Tennessee school staff members have died from COVID-19:"
https://www.wkrn.com/news/more-than-20-tennessee-school-staff-members-have-died-from-covid-19/* "Montana only state to ban vaccine requirements for employees:"
https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-montana-8c47ca9308494b678f41f41764094800* "Amid COVID crisis, Idaho health care workers grapple with burnout and misinformation: "I'm treating patients for their political views":"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/idaho-health-care-workers-covid/* This is in line with the findings from Brazil earlier in the year. "Pregnant women at risk with COVID-19:"
https://idahonews.com/news/local/pregnant-women-at-risk-with-covid-19* "COVID spike pushes Alaska’s health care system to brink:"
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-business-health-pandemics-18bd9ffb116ce59872451f11067e94eb* "Alaska reports 3 deaths, 871 COVID-19 cases as delayed monoclonal antibody shipments begin arriving:"
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/10/05/alaska-reports-3-deaths-871-covid-19-cases-as-delayed-monoclonal-antibody-shipments-begin-arriving/* "'Reckless': Parents sue school district for failing to protect kids from Covid:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-reckless-parents-sue-wisconsin-school-district-for-failing-to-protect-kids-from-covid-123396165875* "Anti-Vax Protesters Confront Parents About Masks Outside Beverly Hills School:"
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/10/07/anti-vax-protesters-confront-parents-about-masks-outside-beverly-hills-school/* A special place in hell. "10-Year-Old Died of COVID After Teacher Made Her Be ‘Nurse’ to Sick Kids, Parents Say:"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-year-old-teresa-sperry-died-of-covid-after-teacher-made-her-be-nurse-to-sick-kids-parents-say?ref=scroll* "'The mood is grim': Death threats and violence mark another pandemic school year:"
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-05/covid-vaccine-mask-fury-shakes-up-california-schools* "Masks burned outside Brevard School Board meeting; board passes final budget:"
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/09/09/covid-19-masks-burnt-protest-outside-brevard-school-board-meeting/8264824002/* "Cops Charge Zip-Tie Guys Who Ambushed School Principal Over COVID Rules:"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/men-charged-for-ambushing-mesquite-elementary-school-principal-with-zip-ties-over-covid-rules* "Marchers Attack Coronavirus Testing Station in Union Square:"
https://www.curbed.com/2021/10/anti-vaccine-mandate-protest-new-york-city.html* "Police unions across U.S. urge members to defy vaccine mandates:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/police-unions-across-u-s-urge-members-to-defy-vaccine-mandates-123688005985* "Death Threats, Trolling Common for Scientists Who Speak to Media About COVID:"
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-10-14/death-threats-trolling-common-for-scientists-who-speak-to-media-about-covid* "Man charged federally with threatening former Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen over COVID vaccine support:"
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-wen-threats-charges-20211012-iiiutjgxyfbslh2zmlpv3yntlu-story.html* "Republican lawmaker banned from Alaska Airlines over mask rules tests positive for COVID:"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/14/alaska-airlines-lawmaker-banned-flights-tests-positive-covid/8455352002/* "Hayes: How America is processing the trauma of living through a pandemic:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-how-america-is-processing-the-trauma-of-living-through-a-pandemic-123492421658* "Police Cite Anti-Vaccine Motive in Killing of Pharmacist and 2 Others:"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/jeffrey-burnham-pharmacist-brother-covid-vaccine.html* "Eric Clapton Isn't Just Spouting Vaccine Nonsense--He's Bankrolling It:"
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eric-clapton-vaccine-lockdown-racist-comments-1239027/* "Allen West, Texas GOP gubernatorial hopeful, has COVID-19:"
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-allen-west-texas-pneumonia-health-03839ff2547c8895fb0e4f155705322a* ""The tyranny of evidence-based medicine.":"
https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1806319.html* "Texas man sentenced to 15 months in prison for posting Covid-19 hoax on social media:"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/us/texas-man-sentenced-covid-hoax/index.html* "Fox News hosts deride vaccine mandates while complying with strict Covid policy:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-news-hosts-deride-vaccine-mandates-while-complying-with-strict-covid-policy-122842693795*********************************************************************************************************
* "Afghanistan: Deadly attack hits Kunduz mosque during Friday prayers:"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58842793* "Afghanistan: Taliban unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazara people, Amnesty says:"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58807734* "Global minimum tax effort moves forward as Ireland and Hungary join pact:"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/08/minimum-corporate-tax-oecd-biden/* "3 US-based economists win Nobel for research on wages, jobs:"
https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prizes-business-europe-3cbc672f994ae6f4f486a68b52c2bb32* "Maryland husband and wife arrested in nuclear submarine spy case:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/10/maryland-husband-wife-arrested-espionage-case-515761* "FBI: U.S. Navy engineer tried to sell nuclear submarine secrets :"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fbi-u-s-navy-engineer-tried-to-sell-nuclear-submarine-secrets-123297861573* "America Is Running Out of Everything:"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/* "Americans Have No Idea What the Supply Chain Really Is:"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/pandemic-supply-chain-nightmare-slow-shipping/620147/* "Grocery store shelves aren't going back to normal this year:"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/business/grocery-stores-food-supply-chain/index.html* "Biden tries to tame inflation by having LA port open 24/7:"
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-los-angeles-health-48ff262b882a37308e4a3f15934b2ee4* "Biden plan aims to untangle supply chain with focus on clearing backed up ports :"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-plan-aims-to-untangle-supply-chain-with-focus-on-clearing-backed-up-ports-123505221529* "US to restore full pension of FBI official fired under Trump:"
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-lawsuits-james-comey-jeff-sessions-2be69b9a619dcbeb64469edd485b1a1b* "Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump:"
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-utah-environment-and-nature-b763897fc47136339bd12360a90079c0* "New HUD rule aimed at preventing public housing evictions:"
https://apnews.com/article/public-housing-evictions-biden-ab3191da5dbb1bd0db5ae91856383be4* "Biden's Supreme Court commission is leaving everyone unhappy:"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/15/politics/biden-supreme-court-liberals/index.html* "Congress punts debt limit crisis into December:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/12/congress-debt-limit-december-515820* "Senate advances short-term debt limit hike after GOP scramble:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/senate-leaders-strike-deal-on-short-term-debt-limit-patch-515578* "Senate votes to extend debt limit after McConnell caves:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/senate-votes-to-extend-debt-limit-after-mcconnell-caves-123040837854* I admit, I’d hoped Manchin and Sinema would give up on the filibuster. Ah well.
* "Ted Cruz and John Cornyn opposed a debt-limit increase that will stave off economic catastrophe, but backed previous borrowing hikes:"
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/08/ted-cruz-john-cornyn-debt-ceiling/* "Progressives focus on key priorities to narrow BBB bill for Manchin, Sinema:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/progressives-focus-on-key-priorities-to-narrow-bbb-bill-for-manchin-sinema-122854981959* "Watch Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Supporters Confront Her in Restroom:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/04/watch-former-sen-kyrsten-sinema-supporters-confront-her-restroom* "Sanders offers rejoinder to Manchin's "entitlement society" word games:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-offers-rejoinder-to-manchin-s-entitlement-society-word-games-122964549966* "Sanders frustrated with lack of specificity of Manchin, Sinema objections to BBB bill:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-frustrated-with-lack-of-specificity-of-manchin-sinema-objections-to-bbb-bill-122963525955* "'It's not a 50/50 deal.': Sanders critical of Manchin, Sinema obstructing popular will:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-not-a-50-50-deal-sanders-critical-of-manchin-sinema-obstructing-popular-will-122964549928* "Chris Hayes to Kyrsten Sinema: What are you doing here?:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-to-kyrsten-sinema-what-are-you-doing-here-123595845509* "‘Biden agenda overwhelmingly helps working class White people’ Dem strategist says:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democrats-face-trouble-going-into-midterms-experts-say-123300933692* "Manchin pulls plug on U.S. clean electricity ambitions in Biden budget bill: NYT:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manchin-pulls-plug-on-u-s-clean-electricity-ambitions-in-biden-budget-bill-nyt-123694661824* "Climate Program Likely to be Dropped from Build Back Better Bill:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/climate-program-likely-to-be-dropped-from-build-back-better-bill-123786821627* "The reconciliation stalemate: when and how will this end?:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-reconciliation-stalemate-when-and-how-will-this-end-123787333579* "Museum Workers, Jolted by Pandemic Job Losses, Turn to Unions:"
https://web.archive.org/web/20211005070657/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/museum-workers-embrace-unions-after-pandemic-job-cuts* "Elizabeth Warren backs Deere strike, saying workers have gotten the short end of the stick 'for decades':"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/business/deere-strike-elizabeth-warren/index.html* "Workers at all of Kellogg's U.S. cereal plants go on strike:"
https://apnews.com/article/kelloggs-cereal-plants-strike-d9185eb8fa9054d34a078063c3db6c33* "American workers gain upper hand to demand better working conditions:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/american-workers-gain-upper-hand-to-demand-better-working-conditions-123693637949* "USPS pilot expands postal banking services after years of skepticism:"
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2021/10/usps-pilot-expands-postal-banking-services-after-years-of-skepticism/* "The ban on evictions has ended: Here's what to do if you're facing eviction:"
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/your-money/the-ban-on-evictions-has-ended-heres-what-to-do-if-youre-facing-eviction/* "ITT Tech: Profit Over Education :"
( Embed: )* "How This Recession Could Set Us Back 30 Years:"
( Embed: )* "Activists keen to keep voting rights bill in spotlight of Biden's attention:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/activists-keen-to-keep-voting-rights-bill-in-spotlight-of-biden-s-attention-122858053542* "Ending the Filibuster | Where Do We Go From Here?:"
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https://resistbot.io/* "Pennsylvania AG Shapiro vows to use ‘veto pen’ to protect state if elected governor:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pennsylvania-attorney-general-shapiro-running-for-governor-filed-motion-to-block-republican-election-investigation-123598917624* "Republicans eyeing upcoming votes stack local elections boards with Trump loyalists:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-eyeing-upcoming-votes-stack-local-elections-boards-with-trump-loyalists-123408453715* "In Dead of Night, Texas House Approves GOP's Gerrymandered Map:"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/13/dead-night-texas-house-approves-gops-gerrymandered-map* "Congressional Redistricting Taking Place Across the Country:"
https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/congressional-redistricting-taking-place-across-the-country-123205701796* "Joy Reid: We're still feeling impact of Voting Rights Act being gutted in 2013:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-passes-proposed-map-increasing-majority-white-districts-decreasing-latinx-and-black-majority-districts-123490885908* "Georgia ballot inspection case dismissed after no fraud found:"
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-ballot-inspection-case-dismissed-after-no-fraud-found/OUVOQ5I5ARHMBJ62CX3YBHRMYM/* "Judge stomps out Trump Big Lie case in Georgia; triggers Trump tantrum:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/judge-stomps-out-trump-big-lie-case-in-georgia-triggers-trump-tantrum-123505221632* "Once central to Trump's Big Lie, Arizona conspiracy theory fizzles into incoherence:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/once-central-to-trump-s-big-lie-arizona-conspiracy-theory-fizzles-into-incoherence-123148869589* "Why the Cyber Ninjas CEO Skipped the Oversight Hearing on His Own Audit in Arizona:"
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/cyber-ninja-ceo-skips-oversight-hearing-on-arizona-election-audit.html* "Rep. Steve Scalise repeatedly refuses to say 2020 election wasn't stolen:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-steve-scalise-repeatedly-refuses-to-say-2020-election-wasn-t-stolen-123205189966* "‘Stop the Steal’ Movement Races Forward, Ignoring Arizona Humiliation:"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/arizona-election-audit-analysis.html* "'Shut this fake investigation down': Clumsy Republican 'audit' stunt elicits blowback:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-shut-this-fake-investigation-down-clumsy-republican-audit-stunt-elicits-blowback-123608645850* "Joy Reid: The cancer of the Big Lie has spread through GOP ranks:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-polls-her-supporters-on-potential-national-divorce-123400773762* "Recap of the Trump-endorsed rally at the Michigan State Capitol:"
https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan/live-updates-from-the-trump-endorsed-rally-at-the-michigan-state-capitol/* "Trump Allies Call for 'Audit' of 2020 Results in Michigan:"
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2021-10-12/trump-allies-call-for-audit-of-2020-results-in-michigan* "Trump Tells Republicans Not to Vote in 2022 or 2024:"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-republicans-not-to-vote-in-2022-or-2024* "Trump suggests he will back primary challenges to Michigan GOP lawmakers:"
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/13/trump-suggests-he-back-primary-challenges-michigan-lawmakers/8435061002/* "Trump tells Republicans not to vote if his 2020 election loss isn't 'solved':"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-tells-republicans-not-to-vote-if-his-2020-election-loss-isn-t-solved-123504709941* "Head of GOP election inquiry compares Milwaukee newspaper to Nazi propagandist:"
https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/head-of-gop-election-inquiry-compares-milwaukee-newspaper-to-nazi-propagandist/article_82287223-b974-5877-a297-990531bde8dc.html* "Former Supreme Court Justice Gableman, head of Republican review of Wisconsin election, says he does not understand how elections work:"
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/06/republican-reviewing-2020-vote-says-he-doesnt-know-how-elections-work/6020978001/* "Gableman video puts a polished gloss on election nonsense:"
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/09/21/gablemans-taxpayer-financed-video-puts-a-reasonable-face-on-election-fraud-craziness/* "Republicans seeking to discredit Wisconsin elections off to a bumbling start:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-seeking-to-discredit-wisconsin-elections-off-to-a-bumbling-start-123147333958* "Republican threat to Wisconsin elections no laughing matter despite farcical clumsiness:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-threat-to-wisconsin-elections-no-laughing-matter-despite-farcical-clumsiness-123310149663* "Impartial audit? Wisconsin Republicans tap Trump appointee, Trump lawyer:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/impartial-audit-wisconsin-republicans-tap-trump-appointee-trump-lawyer-123612229601* "Mike Lindell now claims he's found people as old as 850 years who voted in 2020 election: report:"
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-voter-fraud-2655251741/* CW: Domestic Abuse "Senate Republicans Shrug Off Candidates’ Domestic Abuse Allegations:"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-shrug-off-candidates-with-domestic-violence-allegations_n_615cb61ee4b06f0ef2897f2b* "Stacey Abrams: Youngkin ‘should be rejected’ for backing election audit:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-youngkin-should-be-rejected-for-backing-election-audit-122948677666* "Political Giants Stump for Terry McAuliffe:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/political-giants-stump-for-terry-mcauliffe-123786309783* "Joy Reid: Republican party has abandoned its once-lofty principles for Trumpism:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/virginia-governor-race-gop-embrace-of-trumpism-and-erosion-of-voting-rights-analyzed-by-politics-experts-123492933901* "Chris Hayes: What Chuck Grassley traded for Trump’s endorsement :"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-what-chuck-grassley-traded-for-trump-s-endorsement-123298373686* "AT&T funds rightwing channel One America News, Reuters reveals:"
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/07/att-source-revenue-one-america-news* "Hayes: What 25 years of Fox News ‘poison’ has done to America:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-what-25-years-of-fox-news-poison-has-done-to-america-123130437945* "Joy critiques GOP leaders cultivating an ‘Idiocracy’ normalizing stupidity:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republicans-conservatives-right-wing-extremists-slammed-for-cultivating-culture-of-stupidity-123138629986* "'Think about democracy as something which has a future': Snyder on hope in troubled times:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-think-about-democracy-as-something-which-has-a-future-snyder-on-hope-in-troubled-times-122963525615* "Idaho governor repeals political rival’s executive order:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/idaho-governor-repeals-political-rivals-executive-order-515542* "This governor and lt. governor duo are trying to out-Trump each other:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/this-governor-and-lt-governor-duo-are-trying-to-out-trump-each-other-122950725570* "Joy Reid critiques Idaho’s governor and lieutenant governor’s game of GOP one-upmanship:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/idaho-s-governor-and-lieutenant-governor-engage-in-game-of-gop-one-upmanship-122952773947* "Whistleblower testifies to Senate as patience with Facebook wears thin in Washington:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/whistleblower-testifies-to-senate-as-patience-with-facebook-wears-thin-in-washington-122858053507* "Expert: Why Facebook’s business model is ‘incommensurable with democracy’:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/expert-why-facebook-s-business-model-is-incommensurable-with-democracy-122847813728* This gets scarier the more we know. "New details on ‘democratic near-death experience’ of Trump election plot:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-democratic-near-death-experience-of-trump-election-plot-123038789931* "Questions yet unanswered suggest probe of DOJ misuse by Trump shift focus to White House:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/questions-yet-unanswered-suggest-probe-of-doj-misuse-by-trump-shift-focus-to-white-house-123056197607* "Senate report exposes 'a mini attempted coup d'état' within the DOJ under Trump:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-report-exposes-a-mini-attempted-coup-d-etat-within-the-doj-under-trump-123055685783* "Political hijacking of Justice Department by Trump raises cleanup questions for Garland:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/political-hijacking-of-justice-department-by-trump-raises-cleanup-questions-for-garland-123056197797* "Group files complaint with California bar association against John Eastman, lawyer who advised Trump on election challenges:"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/eastman-trump-bar-complaint/2021/10/04/26dc7d50-2535-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html* "Trump hotel lost $70M despite millions in foreign business:"
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-business-4203026146d39a3a2315eecd7fe79486* "Trump must give videotaped deposition in protest lawsuit, judge orders:"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-give-videotaped-deposition-protest-lawsuit-judge-orders/story?id=80579982* "State Department Investigating if Trump Officials Stole G-7 Gift Bags Meant for Foreign Leaders:"
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/trump-gift-bags-g7-missing-gifts-saudi-fake-fur.html* This is very 45. "White Tiger and Cheetah Furs: A Mess of Trump Gift Exchanges:"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/us/politics/trump-gifts.html* "Schiff book documents when Republicans gave up and gave in to Trump:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-book-documents-when-republicans-gave-up-and-gave-in-to-trump-123309637776* "Rep. Bennie Thompson: Merrick Garland has to do his job in a timely manner:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/bannon-defying-subpoena-what-garland-should-do-discussed-by-jan-6-select-committee-chair-thompson-123596358002* "Biden White House waives executive privilege for initial set of Trump-era documents sought by Jan. 6 panel:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/bannon-jan-6-subpoena-515681* "Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election:"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/politics/senate-judiciary-committee-investigation-trump-2020-election/index.html* "Trump tells 4 former aides to defy Jan. 6 committee's subpoena:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/trump-jan-6-committees-subpoena-515593* "Top Trump aides set to defy subpoenas in Capitol attack investigation:"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/06/trump-aides-capitol-attack-house-select-committee* "Jan. 6 Panel Threatens to Pursue Charges Against Bannon:"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/us/politics/steve-bannon-capitol-riot.html* "Schiff: Enforcing select committee subpoenas tests ‘principle no one is above the law’:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/steve-bannon-defying-jan-6-select-committee-subpoena-discussed-by-rep-adam-schiff-123691077812* "Rosen, former acting AG under Trump, appears before Jan. 6 committee:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/13/rosen-jan-6-committee-515910* "Jan. 6 panel moving swiftly as it sets Bannon contempt vote:"
https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-capitol-siege-subpoenas-bennie-thompson-9823b7d1c15eabd235cd3a9887b1f46e* "Capitol Police whistleblower delivers scathing rebuke to 2 of its senior leaders Jan. 6:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/capitol-police-whistleblower-rebuke-jan-6-515696* "Prosecutors: Capitol cop told Jan. 6 rioter to hide evidence:"
https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/capitol-police-officer-indicted-for-obstruction-after-riot* "‘Just looking out’: Capitol officer charged with telling rioter to delete evidence:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-just-looking-out-capitol-officer-charged-with-telling-rioter-to-delete-evidence-123686469722* "Judge holds DC jail officials in contempt in 1/6 riot case:"
https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-district-of-columbia-capitol-siege-b944fd79b8e132f633bfb0111adfaba8* "100 Capitol Rioters Have Pleaded Guilty. Here’s What They Did And What They’re Facing.:"
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/100-capitol-riot-guilty-pleas* "Capitol rioter admits to two new felonies while representing himself in bond hearing:"
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/capitol-rioter-brandon-fellows-admits-to-two-new-felonies-while-representing-himself-in-bond-hearing-judge-trevor-mcfadden/65-a40af9c2-9809-4adb-aaec-7e36ad12b308* "Capitol rioter represents himself, accidentally admits to more crimes:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/capitol-rioter-represents-himself-accidentally-admits-to-more-crimes-123491909794* "Gay Trump Supporter Brandon Stratka Pleads Guilty in Capitol Riot Role:"
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/08/gay-trump-supporter-brandon-stratka-pleads-guilty-capitol-riot-role* "U.S. Capitol Police arrest man who parked suspicious vehicle outside Supreme Court:"
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/capitol-police-says-it-investigating-suspicious-vehicle-front-us-supreme-court-2021-10-05/* "Maryland senior housing shooting kills 2; suspect held:"
https://www.khq.com/regional/gunman-held-in-shooting-of-2-staffers-inside-senior-facility/article_adb26ce1-aba9-50cb-b1b3-d8a254f771cf.html* "How Thousands of Haitians Became Trapped in Mexico:"
( Embed: )* "Reporting on the Humanity of the Immigration Crisis | Field Notes:"
( Embed: )* How is it legal to deport kids to Haiti when they aren't from there? Why would anyone deport anyone to Haiti right now let alone Brazilian and Chilean children? More than 40 children with non-Haitian passports deported to Haiti: IOM":"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americas/haitian-kids-deportees-intl-latam/index.html* "Biden administration canceling more border wall contracts:"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/border-wall-contacts-canceled-biden-administration/index.html* "At least 1,000 migrant children separated under Trump still haven't been reunited with parents:"
https://www.axios.com/migrant-children-still-separated-from-parents-92a72738-f295-410b-ac61-076c634eaaea.html* "Family Demands Surveillance Video After Alabama Woman Christina Nance Was Found Dead in Unused Police Van:"
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/family-demands-surveillance-video-after-alabama-woman-christina-nance-was-found-dead-in-unused-police-van/* "Feds won't seek charges against cop in Jacob Blake shooting:"
https://apnews.com/article/us-news-us-department-of-justice-rusten-sheskey-jacob-blake-kenosha-4f8493dd0776ef6046e052a538cd1460* "Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.:"
https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist#1133516* "‘County with staggering history of detaining children’ revealed in shocking report:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/tennessee-county-was-profiting-off-jailing-black-children-as-young-as-seven-123298885901* "A homeless man was arrested for a 43-cent ‘theft’ of a Mountain Dew. He could face 7 years in prison.:"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/21/pennsylvania-mountaindew-theft-joseph-sobolewski/* "Texas Board Recommends Posthumous Pardon for George Floyd:"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/george-floyd-pardon-texas.html* "FBI raids New York's police sergeants union offices and the union president resigns:"
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043567201/fbi-raid-new-york-police-sergeants-union-ed-mullins* "A look at track record of NYPD union head who resigned after FBI raid:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-look-at-track-record-of-nypd-union-head-who-resigned-after-fbi-raid-123042373581* "Derecka Purnell - "Becoming Abolitionists":"
https://www.cc.com/video/0w8kcq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-derecka-purnell-becoming-abolitionists * "How the nation's Chinese American communities grapple with systemic racism and gentrification:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/how-the-nation-s-chinese-american-communities-grapple-with-systemic-racism-and-gentrification-123205189953* "The Latest in Jussie Smollett's Ongoing Alleged Hoax Attack Case:"
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/06/heres-latest-jussie-smolletts-ongoing-hoax-attack-case* "Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then ‘Everything Just Imploded.’:"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/politics/maryland-superintendent-racism-black-lives-matter.html* "Texas school official says classrooms with books on Holocaust must offer ‘opposing’ views:"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/14/texas-school-holocaust-books-race-southlake* "Islamophobia: An Analysis | Philosophy Tube:"
( Embed: )* CW: Pedophila, Rape. "French clergy sexually abused over 200,000 children since 1950, report finds:"
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/report-finds-216000-children-were-victims-french-clergy-sex-abuse-since-1950-2021-10-05/* CW: Rape. "UK police won't act against Prince Andrew over abuse claim:"
https://apnews.com/article/prince-andrew-sexual-assault-allegations-jeffrey-epstein-f0e955fd2345884173ba1321bb105048* "NFL players attack ‘fraud’ Jon Gruden after racist and homophobic emails:"
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/oct/12/nfl-players-reaction-jon-gruden-emails-racist-homophobic* CW: Sexual Harassment "'Toxic culture': NFL cheerleaders demand release of full workplace inquiry:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-toxic-culture-nfl-cheerleaders-demand-release-of-full-workplace-inquiry-123494469775* CW: Sexual Harassment "'We feel invisible': Washington Football Team employees experienced decades of abuse, sexual harassment:"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/10/14/jon-gruden-washington-football-team-owner/8450505002/* "California Outlaws 'Stealthing,' Mandates Gender-Neutral Toy Sections:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/10/12/california-outlaws-stealthing-mandates-gender-neutral-toy-sections* "Appeals court puts temporary hold on judge's order blocking Texas 6-week abortion ban:"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/texas-abortion-appeal/index.html* "Biden administration: Texas abortion ban, in place despite constitutional questions, offers road map for other states:"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/texas-abortion-ban-appeal/2021/10/12/fd649804-2b60-11ec-baf4-d7a4e075eb90_story.html* "Justice Department to ask Supreme Court to block Texas abortion ban:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/15/biden-justice-department-supreme-court-texas-abortion-516093* "DOJ rips Texas abortion ban in new appeals court filing:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-rips-texas-abortion-ban-in-new-appeals-court-filing-123312197593* "DOJ will ask Supreme Court to halt Texas abortion law:"
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-health-texas-aeedf9630e395f9115909ce5fb63eea5* "Attacks on abortion rights already forcing women to dangerous 'back alley' alternatives:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/attacks-on-abortion-rights-already-forcing-women-to-dangerous-back-alley-alternatives-123409477923* "Fact check: Pennsylvania bill proposing restrictions on male reproductive rights is satirical:"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/07/fact-check-legislation-male-reproductive-rights-parody-bill/6032780001/* "A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath:"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/a-botched-circumcision-and-its-aftermath* "Justice secretary Dominic Raab thinks misogyny can be a 'woman against a man':"
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/06/dominic-raab-tory-misogyny/* "Daddy Issues, Misogyny, and the Pinnacle of Male Privilege:"
( Embed: )* "Gay couple’s son finally granted citizenship in landmark Namibian ruling:"
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/16/namibia-gay-couple-children-citizenship-win/* "Evangelist who backed death penalty for gays wants to run the National Trust:"
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/national-trust-christian-voice-stephen-green/* "Genderfluid Person in Dress and Heels Attacked, Left Black and Blue:"
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/08/genderfluid-person-dress-and-heels-attacked-left-black-and-blue* "Thug beats man with wine bottle for ‘holding another man’s hand’ near gay village:"
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/11/birmingham-homophobic-attack-kesseler/* "Birmingham announces major steps to combat spike of anti-LGBT+ violence:"
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/birmingham-homophobic-attacks-lgbt/* "Protesters demand the Guardian 'stop platforming transphobia' at newspaper's HQ:"
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/08/guardian-transphobia-protest-london/* "LGBT+ students demand university fire anti-trans professor: 'We've had enough':"
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/07/kathleen-stock-university-sussex/* "Biden Calls Out Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation on National Coming Out Day:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/11/biden-calls-out-anti-lgbtq-legislation-national-coming-out-day* "Black Trans Man Mel Groves Shot to Death in Mississippi:"
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/13/black-trans-man-mel-groves-shot-death-mississippi* "The Queer Tax on LGBTQ+ Women Who Partner With Women:"
https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/10/07/queer-tax-lgbtq-women-who-partner-women* "Trans writer cuts ties with Netflix over 'transphobic' Dave Chappelle special:"
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/07/dave-chapelle-netflix-the-closer-criticism/* "The Complex Transphobia of Dave Chappelle:"
( Embed: )* They used her name without her consent, the bastards. "Hannah Gadsby slams Netflix boss over Dave Chappelle: ‘F**k you and your amoral algorithm cult’:"
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/hannah-gadsby-netflix-dave-chappelle-the-closer/* "Trans Worker Who Criticized Netflix's Chappelle Special Is Suspended:"
https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2021/10/11/trans-worker-who-criticized-netflixs-chappelle-special-suspended* "The Bye Line: Jonathan Capehart calls out Tucker Carlson's homophobia:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-jonathan-capehart-calls-out-tucker-carlson-s-homophobia-123784773952* "Sally Ride and Nina Otero-Warren to Be 1st LGBTQ+ Faces on U.S. Coins:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/10/12/sally-ride-and-nina-otero-warren-be-1st-lgbtq-faces-us-coins* CW: Suicide. "Texas Removes Access to Youth LGBTQ+ Suicide Hotline, Resource Page:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/13/texas-removes-access-youth-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-resource-page* "Trans-inclusive cervical screenings aren't a debate. They can be life-saving:"
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/09/trans-cervical-cancer-screenings/* "Why Do We Have Fewer Outbreaks? Epidemiological Transition: Crash Course Outbreak Science #3:"
( Embed: )* "The Weaponization of Outbreaks: Crash Course Outbreak Science #5:"
( Embed: )* "The Spanish Flu: The Greatest Pandemic of the 20th Century:"
( Embed: )* "BSE: Britain’s Deadly Disease Scandal:"
( Embed: )* "NHS England to offer breakthrough treatment for sickle cell disease:"
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/05/nhs-england-breakthrough-treatment-sickle-cell-disease* "WHO backs malaria vaccine rollout for Africa's children in major breakthrough:"
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-experts-back-using-malaria-vaccine-african-children-2021-10-06/* "COVID is changing medical fly-in missions — and it might be for the better:"
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/10/07/1041862629/covid-is-changing-medical-fly-in-missions-and-it-might-be-for-the-better* "Maddow: Look past conspiracy nonsense and weirdos to appreciate modern medical science:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-look-past-conspiracy-nonsense-and-weirdos-to-appreciate-modern-medical-science-123411013592* "‘This is a crisis’: Tens of thousands of children affected by pandemic-related deaths of parents:"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-is-a-crisis-tens-of-thousands-of-children-affected-by-pandemic-related-deaths-of-parents/ar-AAPdH5o?ocid=msedgntp* "Valley Fever Is Spreading Through a Hotter, Drier Western US:"
https://www.wired.com/story/valley-fever-is-spreading-through-a-hotter-drier-western-us/************************************************************************************************************
* "Pope, other religious leaders issue pre-COP26 appeal on climate change:"
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-world-religious-leaders-issue-pre-cop26-appeal-climate-change-2021-10-04/* "Climate change: Carbon emissions from rich countries rose rapidly in 2021:"
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58897805* "At least 15 dead after heavy rainfall and flooding in northern China:"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/china/flooding-china-shanxi-ntl-hnk/index.html* "China floods: Nearly 2 million displaced in Shanxi province:"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58866854* "Torrential rain follows summer wildfires, flooding homes across Greece:"
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/torrential-rain-follows-summer-wildfires-flooding-homes-across-greece-2021-10-15/* "Flash flooding in parts of Alabama kills at least four, prompts dozens of rescues:"
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rescues-underway-after-flash-flooding-parts-alabama-2021-10-07/* "Elite Firefighters Have a Secret Skill:"
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/smokejumpers-wildfires-sew-their-own-gear/620323/* "More flee as Canary Island eruption continues, creates 'lava tsunami':"
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/more-flee-canary-island-eruption-continues-creates-lava-tsunami-n1281690* "'Catastrophic' California oil spill kills fish, damages wetlands:"
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/major-oil-spill-washes-ashore-california-killing-wildlife-2021-10-03/* "At least 2 dead in California plane crash that torched homes:"
https://apnews.com/article/san-diego-california-plane-crashes-fires-suburbs-44a0451856e261b5314fb9528d9fa644* "Strong earthquake in southwest Pakistan kills at least 23:"
https://apnews.com/article/science-pakistan-earthquakes-bd2be7e2982a44a0f02ecb4f12e9d0e3* "City in Michigan urged to use bottled water due to lead risk:"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/city-michigan-urged-bottled-water-due-lead-risk-80444860* "Majority Black city in Michigan faces water lead levels higher than Flint’s at height:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/michigan-tells-majority-black-city-of-benton-harbor-not-to-drink-lead-laced-water-123401797648* "How economists helped Big Oil obstruct climate action for decades:"
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/10/economists-helped-big-oil-companies-obstruct-climate-action-benjamin-franta-stanford-university/* "Masai Woman Builds Beautiful Off-Grid Homestead in the African Bush:"
( Embed: )* "In Kenya, An Inspiring Maasai Man Creates Change Through Permaculture:"
( Embed: )* "How Dying Gas Wells Are Making One Company Rich:"
( Embed: )* "Climate change is killing the world's coral reefs as oceans warm, study shows:"
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-change-is-killing-worlds-coral-reefs-oceans-warm-study-2021-10-05/* "Inside the Indigenous Fight to Save the Amazon:"
( Embed: )* "Fast fashion: The dumping ground for unwanted clothes:"
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58836618* "What It's Like to Document the Death of Ecosystems:"
( Embed: )* "Mathematicians Prove Melting Ice Stays Smooth:"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-melting-ice-stays-smooth-20211006/* "A Centuries-Old Physics Mystery? Solved:"
https://scitechdaily.com/a-centuries-old-physics-mystery-solved/* "Planet with iron rainfall is even more extreme than scientists thought:"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/05/world/iron-rain-exoplanet-scn/index.html* "Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less:"
https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html* "If Social Media Can Be Unsafe for Kids, What Happens in VR?:"
https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-virtual-reality-metaverse-safety-children-jakki-bailey.html* "The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along:"
https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-archaeology-the-white-sands-discovery-only-confirms-what-indigenous-people-have-said-all-along* "Scientists solve the mystery of the Etruscans’ origins:"
https://www.livescience.com/origins-of-etruscans-discovered* CW: Lynching, Sexual Assault "Ida B. Wells: Crash Course Black American History #20:"
( Embed: )* "Jailbreak! The International King of Escapes:"
( Embed: )* I was angry about what happened to Monika Lewinsky while it was happening. Everyone else in the scandal was absolutely vile. The media and the comics decided to completely destroy her life. It was very there but for the grace and I had huge empathy for her. I love the person she grew up to be, and every time I see her out and about doing activism it makes be happy. She not only survived the terrible thing our whole society did to her; she took that trauma and made something beautiful and powerful out of it.
"Monica Lewinsky - "15 Minutes of Shame":"
https://www.cc.com/video/6of5s5/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-monica-lewinsky-15-minutes-of-shame* "‘Do right by Henrietta Lacks’ family attorney of Black woman whose cells are commercialized by pharmaceutical company asks:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/henrietta-lacks-family-member-discusses-suit-filed-over-black-woman-s-cells-sold-to-advance-medicine-science-122849861560* CW: Suicide mention. "The Disappearance of Elisa Lam:"
( Embed: )* "Gentrification Is Erasing Philly’s Black Horse Stables:"
( Embed: )* "Two men arrested for alleged illegal smuggling of Kentucky Fried Chicken:"
https://www.yahoo.com/now/two-men-arrested-alleged-illegal-171700302.html* "Thank Me Later - Crusade for Clitoral Awareness:"
https://www.cc.com/video/6bwz5l/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-thank-me-later-crusade-for-clitoral-awareness* "Facebook Hearings Cold Open - SNL:"
( Embed: )* "Misinformation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"
( Embed: )* "PFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"
( Embed: )* "TikTok Challenge Incites School Vandalism:"
https://www.cc.com/video/l5foji/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tiktok-challenge-incites-school-vandalism* "Coronavirus Deaths Surpass Spanish Flu:"
https://www.cc.com/video/hk1pbh/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-coronavirus-deaths-surpass-spanish-flu* "The Rise of Water Witches in California:"
https://www.cc.com/video/qr1e8g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-rise-of-water-witches-in-california* "New Zealanders Smuggle KFC & Man Faces Prison Over 43 Cents:"
https://www.cc.com/video/biv64w/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-new-zealanders-smuggle-kfc-man-faces-prison-over-43-cents* "Climate Week - Trickle-Down Effects of the Global Crisis:"
https://www.cc.com/video/3a9x5k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-climate-week-trickle-down-effects-of-the-global-crisis* "Ongoing Crisis at the U.S. Border:"
https://www.cc.com/video/jshkgv/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-ongoing-crisis-at-the-u-s-border* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - Anti-Mask Rally:"
https://www.cc.com/video/dxm2d3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse-anti-mask-rally* "Booster Shots Approved & 46% of Americans Believe in Ghosts:"
https://www.cc.com/video/53kjvm/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-booster-shots-approved-46-of-americans-believe-in-ghosts* "Switzerland OKs Same-Sex Marriage & Kids Face Climate Woes:"
https://www.cc.com/video/6ig1jw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-switzerland-oks-same-sex-marriage-kids-face-climate-woes* "CP Time - Black Fashion Models:"
https://www.cc.com/video/2vcs6m/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-black-fashion-models* "Can We Convo? - Reporting on Missing White Women:"
https://www.cc.com/video/sp35bc/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-can-we-convo-reporting-on-missing-white-women* "Keeping Up with the Congressians - Capitol Hill Crunch Time :"
https://www.cc.com/video/2on71h/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-keeping-up-with-the-congressians-capitol-hill-crunch-time* "Amazon Unveils $1K Robot & Man Traps Alligator in Trash Can :"
https://www.cc.com/video/ghjlcw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-amazon-unveils-titlek-robot-man-traps-alligator-in-trash-can* "Pandora Papers Expose Wealthy Tax Dodgers:"
https://www.cc.com/video/52gnv2/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-pandora-papers-expose-wealthy-tax-dodgers* "Black Family vs. Racist Neighbor & Meghan Trainor's Toilets:"
https://www.cc.com/video/vyqduj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-black-family-vs-racist-neighbor-meghan-trainor-s-toilets* "Red, White and Broken - Religious Exemptions for Vaccines :"
https://www.cc.com/video/05hv1g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-red-white-and-broken-religious-exemptions-for-vaccines* "Remotely Educational - How Hollywood Works:"
https://www.cc.com/video/2o4rhr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-remotely-educational-how-hollywood-works* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Right to Repair:"
https://www.cc.com/video/iv0hvu/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-right-to-repair* "Freedom of Speech Battle in New Jersey:"
https://www.cc.com/video/fpz5ow/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-freedom-of-speech-battle-in-new-jersey* "Back in Black - Hollywood's De-Aging Problem :"
https://www.cc.com/video/wr6ipp/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-back-in-black-hollywood-s-de-aging-problem* "Getting Back to Normal-ish - America's Great Resignation:"
https://www.cc.com/video/26ld3k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-getting-back-to-normal-ish-america-s-great-resignation* "Ladies Night Song - SNL:"
( Embed: )* "End Of Iris - El Tango De Roxanne (Moulin Rouge Cover):"
( Embed: )* Wednesday I spaced a Doctor's appointment. (In my defense, I was very aware of it Monday and planning to go, but they never sent a reminder call and scheduling on Tuesday and Wednesday was tight, so it just fell out of my head with all the other stuff I needed to remember). I remembered it about an hour too late. Sigh. The reschedule and the long wait times between nurse and doctor because they were squeezing me into cracks meant I only got a few hours of sleep.
Add to this that all the gimping about Wednesday led to my dicey left hip joint trying to dislocate itself later that night, which is a thing it just sort of does periodically, but hadn't for several years. The pain of even a failed dislocation is stunningly painful and means the leg stops being load bearing sporadically. Luckily, Thursday it waited until I was parked at home to make another series of attempts to escape it's socket. (This has to do with my AS made worse by things like the distance running and ballet in my youth. My cartilage is under constant attack by my immune system. Yes, I know this isn't a problem most people have. It was always the left hip joint that used to pop out. I think I must have done extra damage to it in my teens somehow). The weather being changeable enough to ramp my arthritis pain level way up is not helping either and is likely contributing though I can't prove it. I just know when I dislocate, it tends to be in autumn or Winter.
Also, I needed head Millennial for an essential project, which meant I needed to bail the tanks myself (Nearby Millennial is the best at all the other tank cleaning components, which I flat out can't do since the AS started gnawing that shoulder joint which sent the fragile right shoulder joint. Normally Head Millennial does the bailing when things are running smoothly, as it's something Nearby Millennial absolutely can't do), into it's own exciting pain Wednesday night. Luckily this is more remediable than the hip joint thing, and the measures I took Wednesday night moved it make into the unpleasanter end of functional, which is really all I could ask for given the givens.
So I've been a serious mess physically for a couple of days, add in the lack of sleep and the way the need to get to the appointment on short notice threw my meds schedule into chaos and basically, I'm just trying to stay up late enough that Friday will still work and doing stuff that doesn't require too much eye focus.
* Over the weekend we managed to nearly finish decorating for Phase II, and on Sunday a friend came to visit. Livia is still full of complaints about the lack of live mice in food deliveries, but there is nothing to be done.
* I've been having a particularly bad chronic pain week, made worse by the nobody will let me sleep thing. I'm getting Police union auto-dialers from at least three different zip codes and as between them they have about twenty and I can only block 25 numbers, every time I block one another one wakes me up later. I wish there were a do not call list for police unions, but... America. they called twice today. It was so bad Thursday and Friday that after call five Friday, Tavy stood on my hip and complained angrily until I hung up. There were four more calls to come in the next couple hours including two separate calls from my dentist reminding me of the same appointment, one live and one robo.
I'm also getting daily harassment from a robot claiming to be a pharmacy, which insists on calling me every morning between 9-9:30AM wanting me to get up, find pen and paper and in the short time it takes for the robot to read the number, and write down their number and call them back, you know, exactly the way scammers trying to steal your social security or credit card numbers like to do. I haven't blocked them on the grounds that I haven't heard from lung ampule people for a while and it's just possible they subcontracted out. Medicare advantage does the same thing some times, you see. They like to wake me up once or twice a day with a rambling generic robot message that doesn't properly identify themselves and what they want in the thirty seconds before I hang up. Eventually they give up and have a live person call and properly identify themselves. So I tend not to block medical type things that behave like that on the off it actually is Medicare being too lazy to properly contact me. I hoping if that's what's going on here, do that before I have to start a game of phone tag with the wildly incompetent folks at lung medicine head office. which took most of a month last time my machine died.
* I voted Saturday. Yes, it's election season again. I know people have trouble caring about off year elections, but state and local elections have a massive effect on your quality of life. My ballot had a ton of initiatives and common sense tax stuff needing affirming. Turn out matters. My ballot had a ton of local and county offices that very much mattered for issues like affordable housing and environmental measures.
Don't sleep on this election. Republicans are pushing hard most places to take over state election positions with partisan extremists who want to end democracy. They are packing school boards with people who want to censor history and thing that you need to teach "The other side of the holocaust." Who your sheriff is can make the difference between mental health and drug diversion vs. Stop and frisk.
Don't sleep on this, I beg you. People sleeping on state level elections is why so many states are getting extreme racial gerrymandering next year.
* I am worried about Tavy. He slipped past Squirrel when he came home from work a few days ago, and I didn't notice until after lung time. Late Saturday, he got diarrhea. He slept most of Sunday and was still ill. He's drinking lots of water and is behaving normally while awake, but not eating much and is low energy for him. I'm worried he ate something he shouldn't while he was lose in the pre-dawn or caught a paracite from one of the complex dogs, since a lot of the owners are too lazy to toss their feces in the receptacle.
I'll see how how is tomorrow. I definitely can't afford the vet and squirrel is skint this month. *digits cruciform*
* "AI improves your Halloween costumes!:"
https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/665293325032669184* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:
- 3.5: Is There in Truth No Beauty?
They are escorting the Medusan ambassador to the Federation home. Humans can't talk to the Medusans face to face as sight of the Medusan driving them insane. Spock must wear a visors, though there is concern about his human half. The Medusan is traveling in a future tech cat carrier apparently with Larry and Miranda. The cat carrier opens. Spock flinches, but gazes on the entity for a while. He tells Miranda, the woman assisting the Ambassador that he envies her assignment. The Assistant tries to touch his mind. She seems to project her envy on Spock. Clue number one. Apparently he telepathy is why he studies on Vulcan. She wishes she could see the Medusan.
They have a dinner party where they discuss Vulcan telepathy and the need to block out other's thoughts. Miranda takes a badge he wore in honor of her as a taunt. Clue number 2. Bones argues that Vulcan is boring and that the Medusans must be evil because they are ugly. Spock keeps gently rebuking McCoy instead of slapping him. Spock is a better man than I. Kirk calls beauty the last prejudice, but then toasts Miranda's beauty. Bones is racist and paternalistic. Miranda rebukes him on the racism. Miranda says she senses someone thinking about murder, but can't say who. She rebuffs Bones' attempt to escort her to her room. Scotty invites the other guy that came with the Medusan to go drinking, but he too turns down the offer. Bones says she's 'disturbing' possibly because she doesn't want to fuck. *side eye*
Larry has a deep crush on Miranda and is losing his shit because she's going to live with the Medusa instead of having sex with him. He kisses her. she is not into it and tells him to leave. She now knows the murdery feelings and envy are from Larry. The Creep. He goes to murder the Medusa out of sexual jealousy, thus seeing the Medusa and going violently mad. He runs around attacking people. Miranda tells the feds about Larry.
Larry the Incel turns up at engineering. Scotty gives him the controls before the announcement of Larry's homicidal insanity comes over. He knocks out Scotty and starts driving the Enterprise dangerously fast. He sends them beyond the galaxy boundaries before they subdue him. He is raving about dreams. Only Miranda can calm him. He thinks about the Medusa, they calls her a liar and tries to kill her, but he dies instead. Everything just stopped.
So now they are lost in space. (Danger Will Robinson). It's a void. they can't recross the barrier in sub-light and the sensory distortion in warp makes navigating impossible. The only solution is a mindlink with the Medusan which Spock suspects Dr. Miranda Jones won't allow. Kirk volunteers to distract her with a date to the arboretum. *side eye* Kirk tries to talk her out of her asexuality. *side eye* She doesn't enjoy other people's violent emotions and finds the Medusans restful. Kirk keeps trying to seduce her anyway, insulting her Medusan friend. Asshole.
Miranda works out what Spock is planning and tries to take his place. he points out she doesn't know how to pilot the ship. Bones points out a blind person can't fly the ship. (He'd been keeping her blindness private because ethics, but he couldn't let her endanger the ship). Her dress contains a sensor web. Kirk works out she hides her blindness to avoid pity. She insists. Kirk says to ask the Medusan, who says no.
Spock mind melds with the Medusan and the two become one. The blend quotes Byron at Uhura and the Tempest at Miranda. They navigate back to entry point, at which point the Medusan waxes poetic about the wonder of being embodied but also the intense loneliness of it. Spock goes to put the entity back in the cat carrier, but forgets his visor. He goes berserk and Kirk has to stun him. Nimoy's performance in this scene is really beautiful, with all the switches back and forth in both personality and emotion.
Miranda is Spock's only hope, via Mind Meld. Kirk gets impatient and finds her in there without her net. Kirk thinks she should wake him with a kiss then accuses her of trying to kill Spock. She goes all the way down, risking them both. Spock recovers. Kirk gives Miranda a rose and she goes off to live with the aliens. She and Spock respect each other now.
The men (except Spock are just really gross in this one.
*****
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