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* I'm cutting the aggregate off here, despite not finishing. Some of the sort may be rough because it's a horrible fucking week and I'm burning spoons I don't have endlessly moving things around the kitchen if i want to eat.

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* "if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to Palestine at this time:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750500230956564480?source=share

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

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* "UN Security Council adopts a cease-fire resolution aimed at ending Israel-Hamas war in Gaza:" https://apnews.com/article/un-us-security-council-israel-hamas-ceasefire-834734f606a5245cc46a2487a70ae3fa

* "Benny Gantz resigns as Israeli war cabinet member:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/g-s1-3634/benny-gantz-israeli-war-cabinet-steps-down

* "Two journalists harassed, assaulted and detained during Flag March in Jerusalem:" https://cpj.org/2024/06/two-journalists-harassed-assaulted-and-detained-during-flag-march-in-jerusalem/

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* "Jordan Bardella: where does Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National protégé stand on LGBTQ+ rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/10/jordan-bardella-lgbtq-rassemblement-national-marine-le-pen/

* "Starmer vs Sunak: How Britain's parties are addressing immigration concerns:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/why-immigration-is-major-issue-britains-election-2024-06-05/

* "What does the Conservative manifesto say on LGBTQ+ issues?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/conservative-manifesto-lgbtq-issues/

* "What does the Green Party manifesto say on LGBTQ+ issues?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/green-party-manifesto-2024-lgbt/

* "Under the Biden administration, family separations and other atrocities continue:" https://prismreports.org/2024/02/29/biden-family-separations-atrocities-continue/

* "Questions grow about how Biden’s border action will work without new funding:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/questions-grow-bidens-border-action-will-work-new-funding-rcna155750

* "Biden visits a military cemetery that Trump reportedly said was 'filled with losers':" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/nx-s1-4993699/biden-trump-aisne-marne-cemetery-losers-suckers

* "Will President Biden Pardon America's First Corporate Political Prisoner?:" https://stevendonziger.substack.com/p/will-president-biden-pardon-americas

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* "US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ANNOUNCES FINAL RULE ON CLASSIFYING WORKERS AS EMPLOYEES OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT:" https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20240109-1

* "Trump-appointed judge blocks expansion of Title IX rights for LGBTQ+ students:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/title-ix-blocked-joe-biden/

* "Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill mifepristone:" https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-mifepristone-ruling-abortion-pill-updates

* "How the Supreme Court is setting the U.S. up for a major transformation this month:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-the-supreme-court-is-setting-the-u-s-up-for-a-major-transformation-this-month-213045317614

* "Supreme Court says marketer is not entitled to a trademark for 'Trump too small' T-shirts:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/13/g-s1-2532/supreme-court-trump-t-shirts

* "New Audio: Alito Bashes ProPublica for Reporting on Supreme Court Ethics:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/samuel-alito-supreme-court-recording-propublica-windsor-1235037796/

* "Alito and his wife are captured in audio recordings talking about abortion leak, flag controversy :" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/alito-wife-supreme-court-recordings-00162610

* "Alito’s ‘Godliness’ Comment Echoes a Broader Christian Movement:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/samuel-alito-christianity-law-democracy.html

* "Exclusive: Hear new, secret audio exposing Justice Alito's media gripes:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/exclusive-hear-new-secret-audio-exposing-justice-alito-s-media-gripes-212781125507

* "Exposed: How Justice Alito was caught on tape making unguarded remarks:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/exposed-how-justice-alito-was-caught-on-tape-making-unguarded-remarks-212782149955

* "'MAGA pilled': As mask slips on Supreme Court bias, radical Christian agenda comes into focus:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-mask-slips-on-supreme-court-bias-radical-christian-agenda-comes-into-focus-212876869688

* "Supreme Court justice’s wife wants to swap Pride flags for shame flags – that she’s already invented:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/supreme-court-samuel-alito-wife-pride-flag-vergogna/

* "Neighbor who clashed with Justice Alito's wife reacts to undercover audio of her ranting about flags:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/neighbor-who-clashed-with-justice-alito-s-wife-reacts-to-undercover-audio-of-her-ranting-about-flags-212878405673

* This isn't a repeat; it's a different one from earlier in the week. "Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds:" https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet-flights-senate-investigation-scotus

* "Retired judge David Tatel issues a stark warning about the Supreme Court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/07/judge-david-tatel-supreme-court-memoir/

* "AOC: Supreme Court is ‘paving the path to authoritarianism’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/aoc-supreme-court-is-paving-the-path-to-authoritarianism-212779589821

* "Federal Reserve sees some progress on inflation but envisions just one rate cut this year:" https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-inflation-prices-interest-rates-cuts-4384e6b128915458aba2d178bf31ee1b

* "Eugene passes renter protection rules with compensation for some evictions:" https://www.klcc.org/politics-government/2023-07-25/eugene-passes-renter-protection-rules-with-compensation-for-some-evictions

* "70 per cent of LGBTQ+ employees still feel marginalised at work:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/70-per-cent-of-lgbtq-still-feel-marginalised-at-work/

* "Garland defends DOJ against attacks: ‘This must stop’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/11/merrick-garland-doj-attacks-00162674

* "House GOP holds Garland in contempt of Congress, escalating Justice Department feud:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/06/12/congress/house-gop-clears-garland-contempt-00163046

For those who haven't been following, Garland promptly turned the transcripts over when asked, but the Republicans need the audio to cut up for political attack ads. Garland points out that they don't turn over audio for closed investigations and the transcripts contain the same words as the audio. Releasing the audio would set a new precedent.

* "Trump’s F-Bomb Rant to Mike Johnson Sparks Desperate GOP Moves:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182669/trump-hush-money-conviction-mike-johnson-desperate

* "AOC rips GOP for targeting Manhattan DA: ‘Outright abuse of power’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/aoc-rips-gop-for-targeting-manhattan-da-outright-abuse-of-power-212780613527

* "Like a baby on a plane: Republicans sidetracked by efforts to mollify cantankerous Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/like-a-baby-on-a-plane-republicans-sidetracked-by-efforts-to-mollify-cantankerous-trump-212967493519

* "Lindsey Graham Vows to Keep Supreme Court Corrupt:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182610/lindsey-graham-supreme-court-ethics-legislation

* "Six GOP senators vow to slow down Biden nominees to protest Trump's guilty verdict:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/six-gop-senators-vow-slow-biden-nominees-protest-trumps-guilty-verdict-rcna157009

* "Republicans jam up government business with tantrum over Trump's felony conviction:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-jam-up-government-business-with-tantrum-over-trump-s-felony-conviction-212966981767

* "GOP blocks IVF bill as Senate Dems plan to keep hammering reproductive rights:" https://www.dreamwidth.org/update

* "Rep. Robert Garcia: 'The Army that defeated Hitler and saved the world included drag queens':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-drag-ban-military

* "House Democrats launch group to respond to possible second Trump term:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/06/11/congress/new-democratic-trump-task-force-huffman-house-00162560

* Stop the government censoring queer and other minority voices off the Internet in the US : https://www.stopkosa.com/

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

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

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

* "Groups that register voters are feeling besieged by new state laws:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1251289736/voter-registration-drive-state-restrictions

* "1 in 10 eligible U.S. voters say they can’t easily show proof of their citizenship:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/11/nx-s1-4991903/voter-registration-proof-of-citizenship-requirement

* "Ron DeSantis’s Voter Suppression Machine Is Working:" https://newrepublic.com/article/180930/florida-voter-registration-suppression-desantis

* "Florida just got its first LGBTQ+ Latino state senator:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/carlos-guillermo-smith-florida-senate-2668531648

* "Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Calling for a Permanent Ceasefire, AIPAC Attacks, Reparations & Reelection:"

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* "Phonebank for Jamaal with Protect Our Power!:" https://www.mobilize.us/jamaalbowman/event/628179/

* "Sarah McBride on course to become first trans person in US congress:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/sarah-mcbride-on-course-to-become-first-trans-person-in-us-congress/

* "Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will always 'fight like hell' to protect LGBTQ+ rights (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-governor-pride-ivf

* Primaries are Ongoing:
Important! Remember to vote in all primaries!!!

NOTE: Important non-Presidential Primaries are also ongoing! Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket. Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state. This is how you push the party and the government left.

Georgia (State Primary Run off), Oklahoma (Congressional), Virginia (Congressional): 6/18/24

Colorado (House), New York (Senate and House), South Carolina (Run Off), Utah (Several important primaries): 6/25/24

Arizona (Congress), South Dakota (Run off): 7/30/24

Tennessee (Congress): 8/1/24

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

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

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

* "Baltimore Sun republishes reports from new owner’s TV station:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/06/11/baltimore-sun-sinclair-fox-45-union-complaint/

* "Watch: Local Sinclair Anchors Read Same Shady Script on Biden’s Age:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182567/sinclair-right-wing-script-biden-age-local-news

* "The most important sentence you will read about the 2024 election:" https://i-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io/the-most-important-sentence-you-will-read-about-the-2024-election/

* "‘We Didn’t Get All The Way There On Jan 6’: Trump Booster Pledges to End Democracy in CPAC Rant as Bannon Cheers On:" https://www.mediaite.com/trump/welcome-to-the-end-of-democracy-trump-booster-jack-posobiec-vows-to-finish-what-began-on-jan-6-as-steve-bannon-cheers-on/

* "In Trump’s orbit, some muse about mandatory military service:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/10/trump-military-draft-mandatory-service/

* "Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/trump-all-tariff-policy-to-replace-income-tax.html

This will dramatically raise taxes on ordinary people while massively increasing prices, but would mean the rich will pay hardly anything compared to income.

The Rich continue to win their class war on the rest of us.

* "Chris Hayes: The Trump campaign’s ‘better off’ con game:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-trump-campaign-s-better-off-con-game-212867141736

* "Kamala Harris: Supreme Court mifepristone ruling doesn’t mean abortion is safe under Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kamala-harris-mifepristone-caution

* "Trump calls Jan. 6 rioters 'warriors' during scorching Las Vegas rally:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/scorching-heat-trump-rally-las-vegas-sends-6/story?id=110974299

* "All Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump:" https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/jun/12/all-donald-trump-cares-about-is-donald-trump/

"In former President Donald Trump’s speech Sunday at Sunset Park in Las Vegas, he sent a chilling message to everyone: “I don’t care about you? I just want your vote, I don’t care.”

* "Wisconsin Dems tear into Trump after he reportedly called Milwaukee ‘a horrible city’ :" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/13/trump-milwaukee-horrible-wisconsin-democrats-00163243

* "Republicans Have No Idea What Happened in That Trump Meeting Either:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182700/house-republicans-reaction-trump-meeting

* "Trump says Brittney Griner’s release from prison in Russia was ‘not the greatest trade’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/trump-says-brittney-griners-release-from-prison-in-russia-was-not-the-greatest-trade/

* "Trump’s Bizarre Moments With Dr. Phil and Hannity Should Alarm Us All:" https://newrepublic.com/article/182480/trump-dr-phil-hannity-bizarre-moments-alarm

* "Trump’s Shark-Phobia Gets the Best of Him During Meandering Rally Rant:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-shark-phobia-re-emerges-during-meandering-rant-at-las-vegas-campaign-rally

* "Trump Rails Against Broken Rally Teleprompters, Threatens to Stiff Contractors:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/unscripted-trump-broken-teleprompters-stiff-contractors-1235036263/

* "Trump cognitive decline increasingly difficult to conceal despite setting low bar:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-cognitive-decline-increasingly-difficult-to-conceal-despite-setting-low-bar-213045317515

* "‘Millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year for Massachusetts, blowing past projections:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/20/metro/millionaires-tax-massachusetts-generated-18-billion/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results

* "A welcome victory for more information during election season:" https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/a-welcome-victory-for-more-information-during-election-season/

* "New York’s Nassau County relentlessly advances more legislation to ban trans athletes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/nassau-county/

* "My Breakfast Club Interview with Eric Adams: RECEIPTS:"

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* "Republicans call for Colorado GOP chair to resign after abhorrent Pride Month email:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/colorado-gop-chair-resign-pride-email

* "Republican says ‘unpatriotic lesbian’ Brittney Griner should be ‘rotting in a Russian prison’ :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/brittney-griner-anti-american-valentina-gomez/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked after comparing Trump to Jesus: ‘Did Jesus pay off a porn star?’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/11/marjorie-taylor-greene-mocked-after-comparing-trump-to-jesus-did-jesus-pay-off-a-porn-star/

* "Hunter Biden found guilty on all counts:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/nx-s1-5001231/hunter-biden-guilty

* "Republicans stick to attacking criminal justice system, echoing Trump, after Hunter Biden conviction:" https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-conviction-republicans-reaction-trump-eb7fe08832905f14dd8c5bd48ef9c716

* "Former SDNY prosecutor speaks out after Hunter Biden, Trump convictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/former-sdny-prosecutor-speaks-out-after-hunter-biden-trump-convictions-212776517761

* "Trump's campaign was rooting for Hunter Biden to be acquitted. Now, it's changing tactics.:" https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-political-allies-hunter-biden-acquittal-report-2024-6

* "Hunter Biden Conviction Undercuts a Trump Narrative, and a Fund-Raising Pitch:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/politics/donald-trump-hunter-biden.html

* "Fox News Suddenly Loves the Justice System After Hunter Biden’s Conviction:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/fox-news-suddenly-loves-the-justice-system-after-hunter-bidens-conviction/

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* "Judge Aileen Cannon denies another Trump motion to dismiss classified documents case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-cannon-denies-another-motion-trump-dismiss-classified-documents-rcna156482

* "Trump attends probation interview as legal team prepares to fight hush money verdict:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/10/trump-probation-interview-hush-money-trial-verdict.html

* "Why Trump Is Guilty of 34 Felony Counts ft. Liz Dye:"

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* "Faith-Based Groups That Assist Migrants Become Targets of Extremists:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/us/migrants-charities-shelters-threats.html

* "Federal authorities are investigating attacks on transgender and Latino students in Virginia:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-latino-targeted-norfolk-school

* "Pulse shooting remains a grim moment in LGBTQ+ history 8 years later:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/pulse-shooting-8-years-ago

* "Remembering the 49 lives violently stolen in the Pulse nightclub shooting, eight years on:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/pulse-nightclub-shooting-anniversary-victims/

* "Christian group uses Pulse shooting anniversary to promote conversion therapy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/pulse-nightclub-shooting-christian-group/

* "A neighborhood approach to combating hate crimes in Los Angeles:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/combating-hate-crimes-in-la

* "Used paperbacks change lives behind bars, even with growing prison book bans:" https://archive.ph/535Pa#selection-454.0-454.1

* "‘They Slave Us’: Prison Workers on Life Behind Bars:" https://archive.ph/UXM9L#selection-1296.0-1296.1

* "For some incarcerated women, getting ahold of menstrual products is a nightmare:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-02/for-some-incarcerated-women-getting-ahold-of-menstrual-products-isnt-easy

* Justice Denied: This is a national shame. "Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit of last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations:" https://apnews.com/article/1921-race-massacre-tulsa-black-survivors-b7a4c83514ce79640a8490d49efb9006

* "Indiana’s school censorship law threatens a small bookstore's future:" https://www.advocate.com/news/brain-lair-books-indiana-threatened

* "If your kid just told you they’re trans, here’s what you should know:" https://www.advocate.com/health/supporting-your-trans-kid

* "A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal judge:" https://apnews.com/article/transgender-rights-children-florida-592b24b28e365ded336ca841f2ac90ac

* "Bogus Doctors Group Pushed By Elon Musk, Fox News Against Trans Care:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/bogus-doctors-group-pushed-by-elon

* "Why the Southern Baptists’ vote opposing IVF could change national politics:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/12/ivf-southern-baptist-convention-evangelical-00162994

* "This list shows most inclusive EU countries for LGBTQ+ professionals, and Ireland makes the top 10:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/13/most-inclusive-countries-to-work-in-europe/

* "A trans girl was assaulted at a Minnesota high school. Her family is demanding justice (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/crime/minnesota-trans-girl-assaulted-school

* "School district ordered to pay trans former student $4 million after barring him from male restroom:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/05/missouri-trans-rights/

* "Influencers promote raw milk despite FDA health warnings as bird flu spreads in dairy cows:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-flu-raw-milk-influencers-fda-warning/

* "New study finds most maternal-related deaths in the US happen after birth:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-study-finds-maternal-related-deaths-us-happen/story?id=110831141

* "Black Maternal Health Week shines light on alarming disparities, as CDC reports rising death rates:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/lynn-conway-obituary/

* "New drug to regenerate lost teeth:" https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2021-03-31

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* "New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-accelerating-record-hot-deadly-434881547b4585a32fa906cf5495d3f0

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* "The Floating Traffic Jam That Freaked Us All Out:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/business/economy/covid-pandemic-global-supply-chains.html

* "The carbon impact of artificial intelligence:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-020-0219-9

* "Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x

* "AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions:" https://theconversation.com/ais-excessive-water-consumption-threatens-to-drown-out-its-environmental-contributions-225854

* "Tickle vs Giggle: in a world where transgender people are under attack, this is a test case for Australia:" https://theconversation.com/tickle-vs-giggle-in-a-world-where-transgender-people-are-under-attack-this-is-a-test-case-for-australia-227702

* "Apple iOS 18 to introduce hidden apps, and everyone is saying the same thing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/11/ios-18-features/

* "Elon Musk accused of selling $7.5 billion of Tesla stock before releasing disappointing sales data that plunged the share price to two-year low:" https://fortune.com/2024/06/03/elon-musk-tesla-insider-trading-lawsuit-board-directors/

* "Elon Musk says X hiding likes is to stop people being ‘attacked’ for what they engage with:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/13/x-hide-likes/

* "The Internet’s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/starlink-internet-elon-musk-brazil-amazon.html

* "Chatbot AI makes racist judgements on the basis of dialect:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00779-1

* "Duolingo removes LGBTQ+ references from app in Russia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/05/duolingo-removes-lgbtq-references-from-app-in-russia/

* "HER founder denounces ‘opportunistic’ new trans-exclusionary lesbian dating app:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/07/her-robyn-exton-lesbian-dating-app-trans/

* "The Collapse of the Roman Empire, or, Why were medieval people more primitive than the Romans?:"

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* "The Scandalous True History Behind "Mary & George":"

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I've never seen the show, but I've read quite a bit on this including a very well done book on the poisoning scandal. In other words, this tracks,

* "New ‘Rainbow Revolutionaries’ tour reveals Boston’s LGBTQ+ history:" https://www.advocate.com/news/rainbow-revolutionaires-boston-history

* "The Flapper Story - Roaring '20s Documentary:"

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* "Remembering Alan Turing, the gay British war hero who died after being persecuted by his country:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/07/alan-turing-gay-who-was-did-eingma-die-death-facts/

* "About 100,000 people are missing in Mexico. These mothers are trying to find them:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/nx-s1-4977451/will-mexicos-president-elect-help-relatives-looking-for-missing-loved-ones

* "The Scottie Scheffler Arrest (But It's a True Crime Documentary):"

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* "Lynn Conway, trailblazing trans computer scientist, dies at 86:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/lynn-conway-obituary/

* Refridgerator repair man came. It turned out buying an entire new lower end fridge would cost about a hundred less than fixing this one. Fuck! So we are going to have to buy a new fridge. It's just under $900 with installation. Fuck sake! If it could have gone another 18 months we could have got a free one from the city. Apparently modern refrigerators, like modern water heaters only last a decade. I am used to the ones from my childhood with the 20-40 year life spans.

UPDATE: It turns out we also need a housecall from a plumber for another 300.00. Fuckssake!

Want to chip in? https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* It's been an incredibly rough week. My arm is just terrible to the point where at Wednesday physio, he tried to start me on a new exercise after warm up, looked at what my arm was doing and his face fell. He scrapped the day's plans and we spent the rest of the session with him slowly, gently stretching my arm. So we're pulling back on expectations this week.

The dramatic barometer changes and extreme pollen situation are noticeably messing me up on a variety of levels. I get sicker when I leave my room with it's heavy filtration and outside is even worse. Standing and walking is a nightmare. I've gotten trapped on the ground three times in the last week unable to rise and there are so many problems I could solve if I could just lift things and move them instead of having to work around the blockages.

Then there is all the extra kitchen drama. It's really hard to make anything in there with the ongoing refrigerator situation and everything we have is going to deal with that both physically and financially.

It's just too many things right now on top of all the bureaucratic nightmare going on with the Millennials.

* Friday there was no real sleep. After I got back from helping with bureaucracy inflicted on Millennials. I kept having to get up to deal with things and answer phones. I am bad at sleeping in my clothes at the best of times and the bedroom air conditioner is not what it was. I am worse at getting back to sleep after being awakened over and over. Sigh. It took an hour to move enough things around in the kitchen to make a meal I could only half eat and I STILL had to attempt physio which is at a terrible and disappointing place. I don't really have spoons for the physio; all the extra spoons needed for just trying to eat and hydrate aren't helping at all.

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

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* "Jon Stewart Tackles The Trump Conviction Fallout & Puts The Media on Trial | The Daily Show:"

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* "Should We Separate Art from the Artist?: Crash Course Art History #5:"

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* "Armand called Lestat a clown in the most round about way:" https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/751769521007771648?source=share

* This Makes so much sense! "‘Interview With the Vampire’: Luke Brandon Field Reveals His & Eric Bogosian’s Shared Inspiration for Daniel:" https://www.tvinsider.com/1139840/interview-with-the-vampire-season-2-episode-5-daniel-molloy-luke-brandon-field-eric-bogosian/

* Me: Every pride I learn new words. This is not a complaint, just a statement that I am an Old.
Me: Oh look! New gender just dropped!
Friend 1: Listen, bigots, every time you complain about gender, a new gender drops.
Friend 2: Every time!
Friend 3: We got more genders than you got complaints, guaranteed!
Me grinning: You get me. you always get me!
Friend 3: Heck I have three in reserve just in case!"

* "Sunday Sweets In Summer:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-in-summer-2024

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Support a Global Plastics Treaty:" https://act.greenpeace.ca/en-ca/support-global-plastics-treaty

* "Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards:" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

* "Black Alliance for Peace’s Atlanta Citywide Alliance:" https://linktr.ee/bapatlanta

* Map of Cop Cities planned or being built: https://isyourlifebetter.net/cop-cities-usa/

* "if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to palestine at this time:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750500230956564480?source=share

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

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

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

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* "Families struggle to meet Kashmiris lodged in Indian jail:" https://www.apnews.com/81823b11dadf4a43b4ccca543e41d36b

* "Abortion decriminalised in NSW after marathon debate:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/25/abortion-decriminalisation-bill-passes-nsw-upper-house

* "The Dark Secret Of Lake Malawi: Trading Sex For Fish:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/06/28/736296041/the-dark-secret-of-lake-malawi-trading-sex-for-fish

* "The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/opinion/press-freedom-arthur-sulzberger.html

* "Trump warns of stock market crash if Dems impeach him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/09/26/trump-impeachment-stock-market-crash-002199

* 45 is calling for the execution of the whistleblower for acting patriotically in warning the country that 45 is breaking the law by pressuring a foreign country to illegally interfere with our election. Which threats constitute illegal obstruction of justice/witness intimidation.

* "Whistleblower's safety a concern as Trump makes veiled threats:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/whistleblower-s-safety-a-concern-as-trump-makes-veiled-threats-70043205595

* "Seven days: Inside Trump’s frenetic response to the whistleblower complaint and the battle over impeachment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/seven-days-inside-trumps-frenetic-response-to-the-whistleblower-complaint-and-the-battle-over-impeachment/2019/09/25/14ba426a-dfaa-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html

* "Trump’s other Ukraine problem: New concern about his business:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/26/trumps-other-ukraine-problem-new-concern-about-his-business/

* "Former Ukraine prosecutor says Hunter Biden ‘did not violate anything’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/former-ukraine-prosecutor-says-hunter-biden-did-not-violate-anything/2019/09/26/48801f66-e068-11e9-be7f-4cc85017c36f_story.html

* "Kurt Volker, Trump’s part-time Ukraine envoy, played role in Giuliani outreach:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/kurt-volker-trump-s-part-time-ukraine-envoy-played-role-n1058871

* "Trump ‘wants to root out the rats’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-wants-to-root-out-the-rats-70031941868

* The Unclassified Text of the Whistleblower complaint. https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf

* "Whistle-Blower Is Said to Allege Concerns About White House Handling of Ukraine Call:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/us/politics/trump-ukraine-whistleblower.html

* "'This is unprecedented': Intel chief defends withholding whistleblower complaint:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/26/joseph-maguire-testimony-trump-whistleblower-1514165

* "White House Knew of Whistle-Blower’s Allegations Soon After Trump’s Call With Ukraine Leader:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/who-is-whistleblower.html

* "Whistleblower tentatively agrees to testify, attorney say:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/politics/whistleblower-agrees-to-testify/index.html

* "IG points out counterintelligence risk of Trump's Ukraine scandal:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ig-points-out-counterintelligence-risk-of-trump-s-ukraine-scandal-70041669896

* "Whistleblower report exposes location of secret White House stash:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/whistleblower-report-exposes-location-of-secret-white-house-stash-70041669996

* "Uniqueness of whistleblower complaint tests reporting system:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/uniqueness-of-whistleblower-complaint-tests-reporting-system-70043205647

* "Revelation of W.H. use of secret server raises oversight quandary:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/revelation-of-w-h-use-of-secret-server-raises-oversight-quandary-70042181942

* "Majority of House supports impeachment inquiry:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/25/majority-of-house-supports-impeachment-inquiry-1512897

* "Anatomy of a cover-up: How White House officials intervened:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/anatomy-of-a-cover-up-how-white-house-officials-intervened-70031941572

* "Trump's White House knew he did something wrong and tried to cover it up:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-trump-s-white-house-knew-he-did-something-wrong-and-tried-to-cover-it-up-70033477835

* "EPA tells California it is ‘failing to meet its obligations’ to protect the environment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/epa-tells-california-it-is-failing-to-meet-its-obligations-to-stem-water-pollution/2019/09/26/b3ffca1e-dfac-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html

* "Immigrant Population Growth in the U.S. Slows to a Trickle:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/census-immigration.html

* "Activists call for ICE to release all LGBT migrants because they can’t provide proper healthcare:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/26/ice-release-lgbt-migrants-activists-complaint-trans-hiv-healthcare-mental-health-deaths/

* "Trump Slashes Refugee Cap to 18,000, Curtailing U.S. Role as Haven:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/trump-refugees.html

* "Human Rights Campaign Must Do More for People of Color, Leader Says:" https://www.advocate.com/race/2019/9/26/human-rights-campaign-must-do-more-people-color-leader-says

* TW: Rape. "3 Million Women Say Their First Sexual Encounter Was Rape — But That Number Is Most Likely Higher:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rape-first-time-sex-885874/

* TW: Sexual Harassment. "Trace Lysette: What the Media Got Wrong About the Tambor Accusations:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/9/26/trace-lysette-what-media-got-wrong-about-tambor-accusations

* "With Abortion Restrictions On The Rise, Some Women Induce Their Own:" https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/759761114/with-abortion-restrictions-on-the-rise-some-women-induce-their-own

* "Luxembourg’s gay prime minister makes impassioned plea against hate speech in historic UN address:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/25/xavier-bettel-luxembourg-gay-prime-minister-united-nations-hate-speech/

* "Patient tells nurse he can’t have a suppository because he’s ‘not gay’. Ok, then…:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/26/patient-tells-nurse-he-cant-have-a-suppository-because-hes-not-gay-ok-then/

* "Houses in Britain targeted with vile, homophobic and hateful leaflets just days before Pride:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/26/homophobic-hateful-leaflets-hate-crime-worcester-worcestershire-pride/

* "Vicar’s new church is already being accused of extremism and homophobia:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/26/church-england-vicar-gafcon-extremism-homophobia-christian-anglican-cornwall/

* "Jameela Jamil - "The Good Place" & Tackling Toxic Diet Culture - Extended Interview:"

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* "Disabled workers chase 'dream jobs' in tight U.S. labor market:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-labor-day-disabilities/disabled-workers-chase-dream-jobs-in-tight-u-s-labor-market-idUSKCN1VK12I

* Breaking Bad, but with Insulin: https://www.metafilter.com/183133/Breaking-Good

* "The case for raising kids in the city:" https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/9/9/20746436/raising-kids-in-the-city

* "A judge just blocked South Dakota's "riot-boosting" law, but anti-protest measures keep spreading:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/a-judge-just-blocked-south-dakotas-riot-boosting-law-but-anti-protest-measures-keep-spreading/

* "25 Facts That Prove You're Picturing History Wrong:" https://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-1446-25-facts-that-prove-youre-picturing-history-wrong/

* "Spain’s Attempt to Atone for a 500-Year-Old Sin:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/09/spain-offers-citizenship-sephardic-jews/598258/

* "The Fantastic, Absolutely Tremendous Road to Impeachment - Whistleblower Complaint Revelations:"

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* "Trump Can't Even Get Impeached Right:"

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* "Meanwhile... Navy Confirms Existence Of UFOs:"

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* "Mr. T's Advice For President T:"

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* "That Time Christie's Auction House Made Millions of Dollars by Winning a a Game of Rock, Paper Scissors:" http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/09/that-time-christies-auction-house-made-millions-of-dollars-by-winning-a-a-game-of-rock-paper-scissors/

* Good Omens: A Discourse on Tartan: https://cliopadra.tumblr.com/post/187978873397/a-discourse-on-tartan

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/natural-balance-ultra-premium-turkey/dp/33214?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=f&utm_content=Natural%20Balance&utm_term=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-uXqwqPK5AIVB9tkCh3a2wZmEAQYASABEgJuZvD_BwE

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

* "Suspending Parliament was unlawful, court rules:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49810261

* "Trump condemns globalism, touts nationalistic view of foreign affairs at U.N.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-touts-nationalistic-view-of-foreign-affairs-at-un/2019/09/24/e4a8486a-ded2-11e9-8fd3-d943b4ed57e0_story.html

* "Trump’s Abhorrent UN Speech Proves He Uses LGBTQ Lives as Pawns:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/9/24/trumps-abhorrent-un-speech-proves-he-uses-lgbtq-lives-pawns

* "Ukraine Likely to Reopen Probe of Hunter Biden Firm:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-likely-to-reopen-probe-of-hunter-biden-firm-sources?ref=home?ref=home

* "Whistleblower lawyers seek guidance on testimony:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-latest-freshmen-dems-call-trump-allegations-impeachable/2019/09/23/64e34de2-de6d-11e9-be7f-4cc85017c36f_story.html

* "Whistleblower wants to appear before Congress, Dems say:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/24/joseph-maguire-intelligence-senate-1509552

* "Trump changes story on withholding Ukraine aid:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/24/donald-trump-ukraine-military-aid-1509070

* "House begins Trump impeachment inquiry over call to Ukraine leader:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-whislteblower-idUSKBN1W91OP

* "‘Betrayal of his oath of office’: Pelosi opens impeachment inquiry:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/24/donald-trump-impeachment-congress-1509360

* "New York prosecutors reject Trump's immunity claim in tax returns case:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/23/new-york-trump-tax-returns-1763041

* "Trump Ukraine solicitation forces Pelosi's hand on impeachment:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-ukraine-solicitation-forces-pelosi-s-hand-on-impeachment-69815365531

* "Trump impeachment inquiry will 'move very quickly': Rep. Waters:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-impeachment-inquiry-will-move-very-quickly-rep-waters-69815365579

* "Yang on impeachment: At some point you have to do the right thing:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/yang-on-impeachment-at-some-point-you-have-to-do-the-right-thing-69803589899

* "Chris Murphy on why he shifted on impeachment:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-murphy-on-why-he-shifted-on-impeachment-69800517695

* "Freshman Congresswoman Hill on impeachment: ‘It’s the right thing to do’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/freshman-congresswoman-hill-on-impeachment-it-s-the-right-thing-to-do-69799493804

* "Schiff on impeachment of Trump: 'The big club has been brought out':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/schiff-on-impeachment-of-trump-the-big-club-has-been-brought-out-69800517959

* "Trump-adjacent legal cases take intriguing turns:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-adjacent-legal-cases-take-intriguing-turns-69814853851

* "Trump snubs Jared Kushner’s signature accomplishment:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/24/trump-kushner-criminal-justice-snub-1507285

* "Trump officials threaten to withhold highway funding from California for its ‘chronic air quality problems’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/24/trump-officials-threaten-withhold-highway-funds-california-its-chronic-air-quality-problems/

"Bill Becker, president of Becker Environmental Consulting, said in a phone interview that it did not make sense for the administration to punish California for not addressing air pollution in the state when it was simultaneously blocking its efforts to cut down on vehicle emissions."

* "Gavin Newsom - California's Emissions Battle with Trump & Paying NCAA Players - Extended Interview:"

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* "Elizabeth Warren: A Country That Elects Donald Trump Is Already In Trouble:"

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* "Elizabeth Warren: No President Gets To Declare War On Their Own:"

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* "He warned of 'mass shooting' at L.A. County Fair to avoid going with his parents, police say:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-15/threats-against-la-county-fair-avoid-going-with-parents

* "Activists drown out anti-trans group’s meeting at Labour Party Conference:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/24/trans-activists-chant-drown-out-transphobic-meeting/

* "Republican governor says it’s legal to discriminate against gay people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/23/arizona-republican-governor-gay-discrimination-civil-rights-doug-ducey/

* "Teen Threatened LGBTQ People, Minorities in White Lives Matter Rant:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/9/24/teen-threatened-lgbtq-minorities-white-lives-matter-rant

* These two have really different context reporting:

"The M.O.B. Strikes Again!:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-mob-strikes-again.html

"Marching band trolls anti-LGBT university in the best possible way:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/24/marching-band-trolls-anti-lgbt-university/

* "Mayor Pete, Don't Forget the Queer, Trans Radicals Who Got You Here:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/9/24/mayor-pete-dont-forget-queer-trans-radicals-who-got-you-here

* "How a ‘Sesame Street’ Muppet became embroiled in a controversy over autism:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/09/19/how-sesame-street-muppet-became-embroiled-controversy-over-autism/

* "We need to talk about vaccinations :"

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* "She spent more than $110,000 on drug rehab. Her son still died.:" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/3/20750587/rehab-drug-addiction-treatment-sean-blake-opioid-epidemic

* "Why Did the Victorians Harbor Warm Feelings for Leeches?:" https://daily.jstor.org/why-did-the-victorians-harbor-warm-feelings-for-leeches/

* TW: Eugenics. "Deaf, Blind and Awkward // Helen Keller :"

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* TW: Eugenics, Racism. "Alexander Graham Bell:"

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* "Greta Thunberg Blasts the U.N., Philly Gets the Hero It Deserves & Lenny Kravitz's Lost Sunglasses:"

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* "The Full Story - Trump Is Officially on the Road to Impeachment :"

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* "Trump's Unlikely 2020 Victory Plan: Wooing Hispanic Voters:"

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* "Elizabeth Warren Tells Crowd Of 20,000: I Am Not Afraid:"

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* We have 4ish days of prescription goosh left. High quality wet food that fits her veterinarian's specification in necessary to Livia staying healthy. Interested in helping with Livia's new Goosh?

I'm looking at Natural Balance Ultra Premium Turkey & Giblets Formula Canned Cat Food, since it's cheaper than prescription, but within specs: https://www.chewy.com/natural-balance-ultra-premium-turkey/dp/33214?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=f&utm_content=Natural%20Balance&utm_term=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-uXqwqPK5AIVB9tkCh3a2wZmEAQYASABEgJuZvD_BwE

or Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion It's 47.00 with shipping looks like.

* "I Am The Horrible Goose That Lives In The Town:" https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/i-am-the-horrible-goose-that-lives?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxMzA2MjYsIl8iOiJINmxnVyIsImlhdCI6MTU2OTM3OTQ1NiwiZXhwIjoxNTY5MzgzMDU2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.4-Gfwztim7nsj1aNN5GuvrOzMSp2LNox9_CTVY2o-bY

* "A Middle English Translation of "Baby Got Back." https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/187933058758

* "How Scooby Doo Revived Gothic Storytelling for Generations of Kids:" https://crimereads.com/scooby-doo-gothic/

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

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

* Master Post For the summer of resistance: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108368.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat things we need most are:
https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-Deterrent-Activated-Repellent-Environmentally/dp/B0721735K9

And: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J669H65/?coliid=I1EUR00IM1I3P&colid=1EVWGXWUM3YU7&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

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

* "What we've learnt about Africa, freedom and security:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48050846

* "Bouteflika brother 'arrested' in Algeria:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48163031

* "Algeria’s Turmoil Adds New Obstacle to Saving the Historic Casbah:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/world/africa/algeria-casbah-preservation-plan.html

* "Sudan military want to keep Sharia law:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48196336

* "WHO issues warning as measles infects 34,000 in Europe this year:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-measles-europe/who-issues-warning-as-measles-infects-34000-in-europe-this-year-idUSKCN1SD0SA

* "Cyclone Fani: Anger boils over in hungry Puri:" https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/cyclone-fani-anger-boils-over-in-hungry-puri/article27061093.ece

* We did this terrible thing because as a society we oppose giving medical and psychological treatment to rape survivors no matter how badly injured they were in an attack. "How the US dealt a cruel blow to rape victims:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/25/opinions/how-the-us-dealt-a-shameful-blow-to-rape-victims-filipovic/index.html

* "China 'will not participate' in Trump's proposed three-way nuclear talks:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/asia/us-china-russia-nuclear-deal-intl/index.html

* "Trump pardons former US soldier who killed Iraqi prisoner:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-grants-pardon-man-killed-iraqi-prisoner-62864825

* "Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/07/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html

* "Chris Hayes: 'Trump colludes with Putin out in the open':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-trump-colludes-with-putin-out-in-the-open-59072069987

* "FBI director tells Congress he has no evidence of ‘spying’ on Trump campaign:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-director-tells-congress-he-has-no-evidence-of-spying-on-trump-campaign/2019/05/07/075e6f3a-70cc-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cc6ebaf6c214

* "White House invokes executive privilege to bar former counsel from turning over documents to Congress:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/white-house-invokes-executive-privilege-to-bar-former-counsel-from-turning-over-documents-to-congress/2019/05/07/bf106bc6-70de-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.64dcb8ab3cf1

* "Swalwell to McGahn: Put country above Trump lawlessness:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/swalwell-to-mcgahn-put-country-above-trump-lawlessness-59153989788

* "McConnell calls for end to investigations of Trump, says ‘case closed’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mcconnell-calls-for-end-to-investigations-of-trump-says-case-closed/2019/05/07/17d2bb28-70cc-11e9-b5ca-3d72a9fa8ff1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.70b198b912fc

* "Sen. Chuck Schumer calls McConnell speech 'despicable':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-chuck-schumer-calls-mcconnell-speech-despicable-59148357833

* "N.Y. Lawmakers Move Closer to Allowing Release of Trump’s State Tax Returns:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/nyregion/trump-ny-tax-returns.html

* "House Intel Committee 'going to go there' on Trump finances:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-intel-committee-going-to-go-there-on-trump-finances-59153477705

* "Inaugural Official Disputes White House Account of Her Departure:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/us/politics/trump-inauguration-stephanie-winston-wolkoff.html

* "Uber protest update: Drivers in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston and other major cities strike for better wages:" https://www.newsweek.com/uber-protest-update-drivers-new-york-city-los-angeles-boston-and-other-cities-1418804

* "The historic strikes and protests by teachers across the country aren’t over:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/04/10/historic-strikes-protests-by-teachers-around-country-arent-over/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d7a1995651a1

* "School Shooting in Colorado Leaves 1 Student Dead and 8 Injured:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/us/colorado-school-shooting.html

* "The Children of the Children of Columbine:" https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/20-years-after-columbine-survivors-are-parents-now/587224/

* "Abortions after six weeks will now be illegal in Georgia:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-abortion-law-governor-brian-kemp-signs-heartbeat-abortion-bill-into-law-today-2019-05-07/

* "UN environmental report: Humans are leading planet into sixth mass extinction:" https://www.salon.com/2019/05/06/un-environmental-report-humans-are-leading-planet-into-sixth-mass-extinction/

* "Lightsaber Fencing Is Now a Real Thing in France:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3de5/lightsaber-fencing-is-now-a-real-thing-in-france

* "Trump Still Faces 16 Known Criminal Probes:"

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* "Russian Trolls Are Fueling The Anti Vaxxer Movement:"

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* "It's All Smiles With Trump And Putin:"

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* "Biden's References Aren't Up to Date:"

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* "Mass Extinction Alert, Wendy's Spicy Nuggets Revival & Caster Semenya's Naturally High Testosterone:"

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* "Trump Officials Flirt with Contempt of Congress & Betsy DeVos Slams Striking Teachers:"

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* "America's Next Top Battle - Iran, China or Venezuela?:"

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* "Trump Is Making School Lunches Greasy Again:"

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* "Eddie Izzard - "Wunderbar" and Moving from Comedy to Politics - Extended Interview:"

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

* "Books for low-income kids who don't have enough books Needed:" https://delight.dreamwidth.org/156856.html

* Want to help LGBTQIA+ folk escapr repressive regimes? https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate

* Donate to HIAS to help refugees: https://act.hias.org/page/6048/donate/1

* 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

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

* Upset about the abuse of big cats by people who shouldn't be allowed to keep them? Big cat rescue is trying to change laws to protect wild animals. "Cat Laws:" https://bigcatrescue.org/cat-laws/

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the 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

* "New Zealand supermarket chain removes Australian strawberries after needles found:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/23/world/strawberries-new-zealand-australia/index.html

* "Charities plea for help after Aquarius migrant rescue ship's flag revoked:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/italy-blamed-after-aquarius-migrant-rescue-ships-flag-revoked

* "Surprise Victory Of Opposition In Maldives Elections, A Referendum On Democracy:" https://www.npr.org/2018/09/24/651157476/surprise-victory-of-opposition-in-maldives-elections-a-referendum-on-democracy

* "In Peru, Hitler runs for mayor despite threat from Lennin:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-politics/in-peru-hitler-runs-for-mayor-despite-threat-from-lennin-idUSKCN1M12NL

* "Trump bragged about his presidency and world leaders laughed:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/25/trump-united-nations-brag-839820

* "Hillary Clinton Never Had To Steal Things From Obama's Desk:"

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* "Hillary Clinton On Whether A President Can Be Subpoenaed, Indicted:"

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* "Justice Department drafted exit statement for Rod Rosenstein:" https://www.axios.com/rod-rosenstein-resignation-statement-white-house-8159e4b6-8222-4103-98b0-c393e3322772.html

* "Schiff: Failing to protect Mueller investigation invites a crisis:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-failing-to-protect-mueller-investigation-invites-a-crisis-1329368643943?v=railb&

* "Question of recusal could further complicate Mueller oversight:" "Question of recusal could further complicate Mueller oversight:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/question-of-recusal-could-further-complicate-mueller-oversight-1329379907656?v=railb&

* I am not sanguine. "Sex Crimes Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell Tapped To Question Christine Blasey Ford In Senate:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/supreme-court-confirmation-hearing-christine-blasey-ford-senate-female-prosecutor_us_5baaedfde4b07dc0b87ee57a

* "Trump dismisses second Kavanaugh accuser as 'all messed up,' says Dems playing ‘con game’:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/25/trump-kavanaugh-accusers-con-game-840065

* "NYT: Woman who signed letter supporting Kavanaugh calls yearbook revelation 'hurtful':" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/24/politics/new-york-times-kavanaugh-renate-high-school-yearbook/index.html

* "Brett Kavanaugh: third woman expected to make accusations of sexual misconduct:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/24/brett-kavanaugh-third-woman-expected-to-make-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct

* "Senate Judiciary Committee sets Kavanaugh vote for Friday:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/25/politics/senate-judiciary-committee-sets-kavanaugh-vote/index.html

* "Trump Unleashes on Kavanaugh Accuser as Key Republican Wavers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/lisa-murkowski-brett-kavanaugh.html

* Yet more proof Republicans are incapable of dealing in good faith. "Attorney: Republicans skipped call with second Kavanaugh accuser:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/attorney-republicans-skipped-call-with-second-kavanaugh-accuser-1329301571558?v=railb&

* "Republicans hire female prosecutor to question Kavanaugh accuser:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-hire-female-prosecutor-to-question-kavanaugh-accuser-1329348163692?v=railb&

* "Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Americans can still stop Kavanaugh:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-americans-can-still-stop-kavanaugh-1329298499697?v=railb&

* The Senate is not a court of law and therefore conformation hearings don't need to be held to the same standard, but setting that aside for the moment. Republicans keep insisting that their decision to block any impartial investigation or the use of any corroborating witnesses and evidence is on the grounds that these are unfair to the accused and that the only fair standard is for Grassley's staffers, who like their boss are already invested in getting him confirmed no matter what doing a pretend investigation and an artificial he said/she said situation is the only unbiased way to proceed. This is basically a concession that facts are not on their idea, but lets set that aside for a moment.

Imagine if we held trials based on what Republicans say is the only fair standard. imagine a murder trial in which the accused friends are the only ones allowed to investigate and in which the entire trial consists of an artificial he said/corpse said, all witnesses, evidence, and forensics results being excluded on the grounds that allowing them is unfair to the murderer.

This is the standard of fair Grassley is insisting on.

* 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/

* "Ted Cruz Leaves Washington Restaurant After Protesters Shout 'We Believe Survivors':" http://time.com/5405601/ted-cruz-brett-kavanaugh-protests/

* "Hillary Clinton: It's A 'Fair Request' To Ask FBI To Investigate Kavanaugh Allegations:"

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* As of September 20th our government was still holding 182 refugee children in violation of court orders that they kidnapped from their parents.

* "New memo shows DHS family separation policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-memo-shows-dhs-family-separation-policy-1329290819553?v=railb&

* "Bill Cosby And Brett Kavanaugh Are Both Victims of 'Sex War,' Publicist Says:" http://time.com/5406267/bill-cosby-brett-kavanaugh/

* "Pence is first VP to speak at anti-gay group's Values Voter Summit:" https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/pence-first-vp-speak-anti-gay-group-s-values-voter-n912641

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

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* "Republicans Force Brett Kavanaugh on Nation Against Its Will:"

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* "Ted Cruz's Restaurant Ouster, Bill Cosby's Prison Sentence & Nelson Mandela's U.N. Statue:"

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* "Brett Kavanaugh's Virginity Defense:"

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* "Republicans Need Jesus:"

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* "Batman Makes The Justice League Pants Optional:"

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* "Trump Wants To Build A Wall... In The Sahara Desert:"

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* "The State That's Removing Hillary Clinton From Textbooks:"

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* "This Week In Penises: Batman And Chip The Buffalo:"

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* Re Edmure: I submit in support that one can love a person very much and still be aware of their weaknesses. Catelyn Tully and her Siblings: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/178414575902/do-you-think-catelyn-is-a-shitty-sister-she-seems

* It's ebay time again. I am now I am about $120.00 behind on bills. About 1 and a half day left; 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

* "River Seine peaks in flood-hit Paris:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42856634

* "Fighting rages in south Yemeni city:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42858270

* "U.N. employees in Gaza demonstrate against U.S. aid cut:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-un/u-n-employees-in-gaza-demonstrate-against-u-s-aid-cut-idUSKBN1FI1G7

* "Russian jet flies within 5 feet of US Navy plane, Pentagon says:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/29/politics/russia-jet-us-navy-black-sea/index.html

* "Trump Tower Russian Lawyer Exposed in Swiss Corruption Case:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tower-russian-lawyer-natalia-veselnitskaya-exposed-in-swiss-corruption-case

* O.o "Trump interview: 'I'm very popular in Britain. I get a lot of fan mail':" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/29/donald-trump-interview-piers-morgan-im-very-popular-in-britain-get-a-lot-of-fan-mail

* "Deadline looms for Trump and Russia sanctions:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/28/trump-russia-sanctions-deadline-373106

* "Trump letter to African leaders: Tillerson to make 1st visit:" https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/trump-letter-to-african-leaders-says-tillerson-to-visit-soon-181087/

* "Trump’s foreign policy mishaps escalate:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-davos-speech-trump-booed-at-davos-1147977283766

* "Has Trump engendered the downfall of U.S. evangelicals?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-evangelicals-trump-evangelical-supporters-remain-1147968579989

* Music has always been political. "Hillary Clinton, Cher, Snoop and others read 'Fire and Fury' excerpts at 2018 Grammys:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/28/entertainment/hillary-clinton-grammys-2018/index.html

* "On Flight to Davos, Trump Erupted Over DOJ Role in Russia Probe:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-29/on-flight-to-davos-trump-erupted-over-doj-role-in-russia-probe

* "For Impeachment Referral, Mueller Would Need Rosenstein:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/for-impeachment-referral-mueller-would-need-rosenstein

* "FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepping down:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe-stepping-down-n842176

* "Trump’s complaints against McCabe included Comey's ride home:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-gripes-against-mccabe-included-wife-s-politics-comey-n842161

* "New emails reveal Scott Pruitt was personally involved in erasing climate data from EPA website:" https://thinkprogress.org/scott-pruitt-epa-webiste-0b4f50ef76c4/

* "Melania Trump’s Military Flights Before Her Move to Washington Cost More Than $675,000:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/melania-trumps-military-flights-before-her-move-to-washington-cost-more-than-675-000-1517221801

* He's such an extreme coward he hasn't met with constituents for more than a year. "Frelinghuysen won’t seek reelection:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/29/frelinghuysen-wont-seek-reelection-374133

* "Reality sets in DACA deal might not get done:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/29/politics/daca-deal-reality/index.html

* "Chelsea Handler leaves show to get women elected:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/chelsea-handler-and-emily-s-list-work-to-elect-women-1147553859830

* TW: Rape. "Will GOP return Wynn’s money amid abuse allegations?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/steve-wynn-accused-of-repeated-sexual-misconduct-1147515971871

* TW: Rape. Look, I absolutely support rape survivors of any gender. After all, a majority of our soldiers raped by other soldiers every year are cis men, and rape and molestation are no less harmful to people who aren't women. I want to make super clear this rant is not aimed at survivors regardless of gender. The last thing I want to be doing is trying to silence survivors of any gender cis or trans, binary or non-binary.

I've been watching the discourse in the last couple months around issues of rape, sexual assault, and sexual Harassment lately, and I just wanted to say that I am incredibly sick of cis men who've never been harassed or assaulted holding forth about how wrong people who have actually been harassed, assaulted, molested, raped, etc. should and should not be reacting to allegations of the same in the media. I am tired of cis men who've never experienced anything along these lines trying to police, tone police, and silence people (regardless of gender) who have experienced these things first hand.

Right now? Is time to shut up and listen if these issues have never effected you personally, because if it hasn't happened to you, you *gasp* aren't an expert. No really. Ignorance and privilege do not magically make you unbiased. Now is a good time to listen and thing and maybe expend a little empathy instead of trying to shut down a conversation that makes you uncomfortable. It should make you uncomfortable. You know who is way more than uncomfortable? A thirteen year old girl being chased by a pack of cat calling construction workers, for example. She is not merely uncomfortable, she is TERRIFIED, and even if she out runs them to safety the fact she wasn't physically harmed doesn't take the trauma away.

I heard a certain privileged cis male asshole make the case on TV this last week or so that we shouldn't take things like this seriously and just focus on the violent rape. I've heard a lot of cis male celebrities and pundits make variations on the theme of we shouldn't include certain things they want to carve out in the discussion. I say we can focus on *gasp* more than one thing at a time, and the last people who should be deciding what things we should discuss and protest are the people who've never once feared for their safety walking down a street, on a date, in a bathroom, at work, etc., who've never been attacked by a friend, a family member, a partner, a date, a stranger.

Maybe just shut up and listen for once and let people who actually know what they are talking about hold a debate.

* "Wonder Woman 2 will be the first production to adopt new anti-sexual harassment guidelines:" https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/22/16918368/wonder-woman-2-producers-guild-america-pga-anti-sexual-harassment-guidelines

* "RNC finance chair Steve Wynn resigns after sexual harassment allegations:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/27/steve-wynn-resign-rnc-finance-chair-sexual-misconduct-accusations-373768

* "Dem senator calls for probe into USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal:" http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/370583-dem-senator-calls-for-investigation-into-us-gymnastics-sexual-abuse

* "11,000-yr-old baby tomb found in SW China:" http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/19/c_136909114.htm

* "Iron age discovery at housing site sheds new light on history of town:" http://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/iron-age-discovery-at-housing-site-sheds-new-light-on-history-of-town-1-5361316

* "Ancient tripartite-city of Xiongnu a special religious and meeting site:" http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/16/c_136900293.htm

* "Ancient Cliff Tombs Discovered in Southwest China:" https://www.archaeology.org/news/6285-180118-china-cliff-tombs

* "18 tombs unearthed in North China:" http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201801/16/WS5a5d6468a3102c394518f7de.html

* "Possible Remains of ‘Lost’ Monastery Discovered in Scotland:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/possible-remains-lost-monastery-discovered-scotland-180967838/

* "Headless body is not C18th Scottish clan chief, say experts:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/19/headless-body-is-not-scottish-clan-chief-simon-fraser-experts

* "18th Century inn abandoned during Clearances is unearthed:" https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/18th-century-inn-abandoned-during-clearances-is-unearthed-1-4666340

* "The evidence for the Tasmanian genocide:" https://phys.org/news/2018-01-evidence-tasmanian-genocide.html

* "Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/obituaries/naomi-parker-fraley-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-96.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=

* "Paris zoo shut after 50 baboons escape:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/26/paris-zoo-shut-baboons-escape

* "Cable News Chyrons Tell The Bizarre Story Of Trump's First Year In Office:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cable-news-chyrons-captions-trump-first-year_us_5a60fd2de4b0b3f7fa12fc33?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000313

* "Selma: Crash Course Film Criticism #3:"

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* "Chucky Lee Byrd - SNL:"

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* "Flight Attendants - SNL:"

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* "Next: For Men - SNL:"

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* "George W. Bush Returns Cold Open - SNL:"

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* So Sunday, the viruses and my chronic stuff ganged up on me all at once. I gave myself permission to skip forage, but as it turned out, my sleep quality was so low I went anyway, as not going would have involved me not being much more rested and then having to go Wednesday. It was not a good forage, alas. I was also literally the second day of free tax prep and my paperwork came end of last week. They'd moved it from the library to a mazelike church which I approached from the wrong side to get accessible parking so stairs, so many stairs. I did read more than a hundred pages of the new John Guy Elizabeth, detailing the later years of her reign, which tend to get short shrift, while I waited. So that's more bureaucracy gone, but it also meant I had to carry all the forage in myself, Squirrel having left for game hours previously.

When I got home there was a package full of exciting experimental candied orange rinds from a friend and a lovely card. Thank you. :)

* Poison Ivy Salad: http://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/170292162973/please-i-have-to-know-how-the-hell-did-you

* It just occurred to me that Cassian from Rogue One is the kind of man Han Solo is pretending to be in A New Hope.

* "Okay, but imagine Sam Vimes in the Avengers Universe.:" http://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/170265898964/okay-but-imagine-sam-vimes-in-the-avengers

* People reacting to being asked who the President is to check brain function: http://satyrday.tumblr.com/post/170251228891/epaulettes-wildlyannoyingdoofus-these-kinds

* "Sunday Sweets: The 10 Cutest Cakes Of All Time*:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2018/1/28/sunday-sweets-the-10-cutest-cakes-of-all-time.html

* Star Trek, The Animated Series:

- 1.8 The Magicks of Megas-Tu. They get caught in an "Energy tornado" in a vaccuum which somehow works like a terrestrial tornado and basically takes them to meet what looks an awful lot like Lucifer, "Lucian." *side eye* McCoy just called Spock "not very natural." WTF?!? Is it just me, or is cartoon McCoy a suppurating asshole? He seems to be constantly insulting Spock for no reason without even the excuse of a disagreement. I think Spock has a good basis for a hostile work environment claim. There follows an infomercial for "Magic." Lucian's hiding them from something, apparently. At which point Spock starts doing magic, which attracts the thing Lucian was hiding them from, who turns out to be Asmodeus.... Frankly, the plot isn't making all that much sense outside of Spock working out that the local physical laws are based on belief and thus being able to work magic himself. Anyway, they get sent to the stocks in Salem, where they discover these aliens were twined with Earth history. Sigh. Anyway, they are pissed about the persecutions. So Spock gets to be lawtyer for the defense at the trial of the human race. They decide they are likely safe from humans based on the records of how they got here, but the now revealed Lucifer is to be condemned to eternal solitary and the humans take up for him, so Kirk has a magic fight with Asmodeus which the animation is not up to portraying with cheesey results. Kirk's willingness to die for Lucifer is a test, so they are all friends now. This episode was a mess. There were some nice little bits of dialog in there but it was a mix of rehashed plot and incoherence.

- 1.9 Once Upon a Planet. They return to that planet they found where whatever one imagines turns up in robot form, only they get attacked by Alice Through the Looking Glass characters even though no one imagined that, and they get trapped down there. It turns out the Planetary AI is rebelling and thinks Uhura and the others are slaves of the Sky Machine (the Enterprise). The machines are trying to use them as hostages, but more than one is redundant so they plan to "turn them off" IE: kill most of them. Uhura understandably objects. The Keeper is dead and buried under a monument, so he's no help. They order a phaser bore to try to get through the core alloy, but the ship is malfunctioning so no dice. The main party gets attacked by Pterodactyls and a giant cat and their phasors are dead. The main group incapacitates Spock to take advantage of the injured guest transportation system. Meanwhile, the Planet is taking over the ship, causing havoc. Kirk hitches a ride and they find Uhura and the AI, who is tired of being a slave and has aspirations of travel via the "Sky Machine." Scotty is not even a little amused by the computer being assembled by the Starship computer in the Computer bay. They explain that they aren't slaves and that if it stops attacking people, then visitors could come to it, thus saving the need to travel. The AI agrees. They have Shore leave after all. This one is so much better than the previous one.

- TW: Rape. 1.10 Mudd's Passion. Ugh. They catch Mudd selling a mind control rape drug to miners. Luckily is a scam and he's not actually raping people. Spock exposes him and he has a choice of being lynched by the locals or letting the federation arrest him. He chooses arrest. He's been traveling around scamming/poisoning people. He sexually harasses Nurse Chapel, then offers her a bribe of the rape drug for her to use on Spock. All this seems rather advanced for a children's cartoon. Weirdly, it doesn't work on gay people for some reason according to the sales pitch. Nurse Chapel takes the rape drug to "analyze," but he talks her into using it to rape Spock as a test. Riiight. Of course, when she breaks the ampule it makes her all suggestible so he sends her to go rape Spock while he uses her badge to escape. Spock doesn't let her rape him, as the drug takes longer to work than she expected, so she goes to complain and realizes Mudd's escaped. The effects of the rape drug on Spock lead to him being humiliated in front of the bridge crew. Mudd releases the rape drug into the Enterprise air system and takes Chapel hostage, escaping in a shuttle. They showed this to children!!! I WATCHED this as a toddler. Eeeeew!!! Seriously, Star Fleet needs waaaay better HR. The planet Mudd fled to is full of monsters, chaos ensues. The rape drug effects Kirk and Spock, making Kirk jealous and Spock verbally affectionate, but they start to resist. Meanwhile, back on the Enterprise, everyone is under the sway of the rape drug. As a kid, I liked ToS McCoy, though not as much as Spock (I was a Spock/McCoy shipper as a child. Don't judge, we all have our odd parings when we were small). I have been liking him a lot less on the rewatch because he's mean and racist. I've come to quietly loathe him thanks to the Animated Series. They consider using the rape drug on the monsters to escape. Everyone gets a rape drug hangover which makes them all hate each other. Look, everyone on the enterprise can't be held responsible for what they did while drugged, but Chapel chose to try to rape Spock while sober and the fact that she failed to consummate for reasons beyond her control shouldn't be considered to mitigate the fact that she made a premeditated rape attempt on a coworker. Why don't they arrest her? Where is the Court Martial panel? Mudd gets sent off for "rehabilitation" again.

I'm really disgusted.

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* 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

* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

* 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/

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

* 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.com

* "Sri Lanka: five steps to vaccine success:" http://www.vaccineswork.org/post/133290012222/sri-lanka-five-steps-to-vaccine-success

* At least 34 people in one attack and 15 in another (with two bombers) are dead in Nigeria. Boka Haram, being cowards, has been turning little girls into suicide bombers, likely the ones they've been kidnapping, though it's not proved yet. Boko Haram has killed more civilians than any terrorist group, including ISIS.

* So a pretty alarming thing just happened in Mali. I'm going to give you a little background first. There's been long running trouble between the people in the North of Mali and the government in the South. Over time, people who got exiled or were wanted by the government, particularly Tariq people went north across the Algerian desert to Libya, where many of the men signed up to serve in the military. Remember that tank convoy and various military transports spotted going South during the overthrow of Kadafi? Those were deserters taking weapons an vehicles back to Mali, where they formed the core of a Tariq separatist uprising in northern Mali. The more secular wing of the uprising quickly got overwhelmed by the religious extremist wing and it became one of those monstrous extremist nightmares that goes around destroying cultural treasures, burning books, killing moderate Muslims, etc.. Some of you will remember the heroic efforts of the people of Timbuktu to hide and smuggle out irreplaceable and unique early Islamic manuscripts.

Mali's government wasn't up to a challenge of this magnitude and French and Pan-African forces have been helping them fight. The pro-government forces have been doing well. The French being there is a thing that is politically complicated because of their history of colonialism in Mali, which I'm not going to get into in depth, but their plan to pull out in the near future was a bit of a relief to pretty much everyone in the region, who given many of the neighboring countries' history with colonialism and French colonialism in particular, is not surprising.

At 7AM local time (my last night), the extremists took a large hotel frequented by international travelers hostage. Government forces with help from french special forces were taking it back floor by floor when I went to bed. It is thought they had over a hundred hostages at one point. Reports continue to be a bit chaotic and contradictory. It is thought the attackers are dead. It is thought approximately 20 hostages were killed. The French withdraw has been cancelled.

* The UN approved a resolution calling on the world to unite against Islamic State.

* "Texas Women Are Inducing Their Own Abortions:" http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/11/texas-self-abort/416229/

* A response to the complaint "women don’t know how much rejection hurts:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/133523850002/inkskinned-women-dont-know-how-much-rejection

* Trump is calling for a Nazi-style mandatory National registry of Muslims with required religion specific identification they and only they would have to carry. O.o For pretty fucking obvious reasons, the Anti-Defamation League and several other Jewish groups are condemning this Trump policy.

* "More Universities Move To Include Gender-Neutral Pronouns:" http://www.npr.org/2015/11/08/455202525/more-universities-move-to-include-gender-neutral-pronouns

* Misleading headline alert. It's about adding genetic data to linguistic and archaeological data to try to figure out where the Indo-European language group likely originates. "DNA reveals the origins of modern Europeans:" http://phys.org/news/2015-03-dna-reveals-modern-europeans.html

* "How did the chicken cross the sea?:" http://phys.org/news/2015-03-chicken-sea.html

* In which I talk about the Wycliffe Bible and the backlash in the notes. "Society despairs of the Modern Woman, 1915 style:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/133587535367/questionableadvice-progress-1915

* "Victorian Nipple Rings:" https://www.bodyartforms.com/blog/victorian-nipple-rings-part-one/

* "The schoolboy sailors who died at Gallipoli:" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31712158

* "Ponds and their toads cured of dreaded disease:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ponds-and-their-toads-cured-dreaded-disease?tgt=nr

* "Tragedy in Paris: The Three Stages of Political Grief:"

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* "Hey, Huddled Masses: Get Lost:"

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* "Sesame Street: Game of Chairs (Game of Thrones Parody):"

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* My scheduled thing got moved, so today was supposed to be a bureaucracy day, but Hector wouldn't stop hurting me when I was sleeping so I couldn't do it. He's pretty manicky today just generally but I got him to eat, so i attempted some experimental baking even though he was way too interested in what was going on. I put the experimental pie in the oven, cleaned up, and went to write up events in Africa. He WOULD NOT leave things in the kitchen alone. I kept having to go in there to do things like fish him out of the trash can. He knew I was making a bread smell in there and he wanted whatever I was making RIGHT NOW! He eventually flung a glass flour canister off a shelf, managing to break one of my Great grandmother's plates in the process. Glass everywhere. It's likely too damaged to glue together and I'm not up to trying tonight.

I want to make clear, I am not feeding this cat pie, but that doesn’t stop him throwing a tantrum on the off chance.

* I watched The Hollow Crown: Henry IV pt. 1. The Henry IV's are amoung my least favorite Shakespeare plays, but I was promised Hiddleston and they did such a brilliant job with the very difficult to do well Richard II, that I gave it a try. I am not sorry. My fundamental problem with IV pt.1 I it is full of pointless cruelty with a particularly nasty clsss based underpinning all framed as if it is funny. It's not something I find funny. Seriously, that thing where they torment the pot boy, who's poverty is extreme by offering him a huge sum of money then making him say anon... Incredibly, pointlessly cruel.

I think one of the reasons this adaptations works for me is that the people making it clearly get how appalling this is. Most Shakespeare adaptations re so full of reverence for the Author, that there is a portentousness and exaggeration to the acting. There is so often an air of trying a little too hard about the comedic bits and it's a little too easy to overact the dramatic bits. This production treats the dialog like dialog, if that makes sense. They speak the lines as if they were modern instead of as if they were poetry. This makes a huge difference in the feel of the thing.

What Hiddleston does with Prince Hal is kind of brilliant. Hiddleston's charisma really helps, but the genius is in the way he plays the horrible pranks. It's rather like the "Loki'd" short he did a few years ago. He plays his Hal a little bit dorky, as a likable, but awkward doofus who isn't quite sure how far is too far and keeps trying anyway to be the class clown so that the cool kids will like him. He plays his Hal in such a way that it's clear the jokes don't quite work because they are sort of childish and aweful and nearly always a little too much. The result is that instead of a callous brute, you get a significantly more subtle character study of a rich kid trying too hard to fit in with a rough crowd.

The performance also really invites you to think about what his childhood and relationship to his father must be for him to run around behaving like this. The little playlet section is pivotal for this. When Falstaff plays the King, he is playing A King. When Hiddleston's Hal plays the King, he is very distinctly playing Jeemy Irons playing Henry IV. It is unnerving and uncomfortable but it really sucks you into the psychology of it. The scene goes from a mocking jest to ouch rather quickly as a result, which is perfect.

There are lots of clever little moments in the acting all over the cast like that. Hotspur's much put upon wife repeatedly punching his arm in exasperation under witch there is an obvious affection. Little moments where Fallstaff's expression suggests that under the bluster there is both self awareness and a deep vulnerability. The moment where Hal and his brother simultaneously realize their father is mortal in an imminent rather than abstract sense.

Look, I'm never going to like watching either Henry IV, but this was riveting and the performances are brilliant, even though the battle scene suffered rather from budgettary limits. This interpretation really works for me in a way that no other version I've ever seen did. (Yes, that includes My Own Private Idaho. I love all the Rent Boy bits in it, but the explicitly Henry IV parts are excruciating, and I mostly skip those when I watch so as to get back to River Phoenix). This is the Henry IV made for people who don't like Henry IV. I am excite to see if they can manage to make pt. 2 interesting which would pretty much be a miracle).

* Mad Max is Not the hero: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/133584243892/potofsoup-bookshop

* A good criticism of the star trek reboot: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/133527809982/well-heres-the-thing-that-i-try-to-explain-to

* Marina Sirtis, Sexism, and TNG: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/133516791352/webgeekist-colonel-kira-nerys

* "Photographer Unearths Vivid Images From 1980s NYC:" http://gothamist.com/2015/11/05/revisit_1980s_nyc.php

* I want the real Sam back. "Book 2 vs. Season 2: Sam Tarly’s Love Life:" http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/133395490597/book-2-vs-season-2-sam-tarlys-love-life

* Story Dragon Store: http://thestorydragon.com/?product_cat=owens-art

* 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