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* "The Photos of Wildfires Raging Across Australia Are Devastating:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/11/photos-fires-australia-devastation/

* "Rebecca Solnit: Life Under the First Thousand Days of Donald Trump:" https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-life-under-the-first-thousand-days-of-donald-trump/

"My fear now is that people are getting tired and worn out. I am a person who the very moment I’m on the threshold of arrival often feels like giving up or assumes I’m lost and checks the directions. I worry that people are fading out or growing defeatist as redemptive possibilities draw near. It is, after these thousand days that felt like a thousand years, sometimes hard to imagine a return to a moderately ethical administration headed by an intelligent, informed head of state who can read a multipage briefing statement and who won’t spew playground insults on social media. But impeachment proceedings are underway at last, and the betrayal of the Kurds seems to have peeled away some of the support of Republicans and even if the base is tripling down, a majority of Americans want the president impeached and removed, according to the latest Gallup poll. Whether the Trump era ends because we elect someone else in 2020 or because of impeachment or resignation to avoid impeachment a la Richard Nixon, the end is in sight. If we stick with it. We have 384 days to go until the next election, and what happens in those days is both utterly unpredictable and partly up to us."

* If they really cared about doing this, they would have done this instead of dramatic cuts for the rich. They are counting on people to be so gullible they fall for the bait and switch a second time in four years. "Trump advisers exploring tax proposal that would lower ‘middle class’ rate to 15 percent:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/12/trump-advisers-exploring-tax-proposal-that-would-lower-middle-class-rate-percent/

* "Trump Tells Crowd Ivanka Has Created 14 Million New Jobs:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trump-ivanka-created-14-million-jobs-lie.html

"Over 200 percent of all new jobs under Trump have been personally created by Ivanka. Impressive."

* "In private speech, Bolton suggested some of Trump's policy decisions are guided by personal interest:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/private-speech-bolton-suggests-some-trump-s-foreign-policy-decisions-n1080651

* "Key feature of Trump impeachment witness testimony: expertise:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/key-feature-of-trump-impeachment-witness-testimony-expertise-73374277596

* If he is too mentally incompetent to form even a simple plan as Republicans are claiming, why do they want him to be President? Because that sounds disqualifying. "Republicans to argue Trump's "state of mind" on Ukraine precludes impeachment:" https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-impeachment-republican-defense-ukraine-bb469517-6b6f-45f9-979e-b7758ccb1a69.html

* "Stone previewed WikiLeaks bounty to Trump campaign in April 2016:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/12/roger-stone-trial-wikileaks-069831

* "Trump political adviser's trial overlaps impeachment hearings:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-political-adviser-s-trial-overlaps-impeachment-hearings-73373765590

* "Testimony in Stone trial suggests Donald Trump lied to Mueller:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/testimony-in-stone-trial-suggests-donald-trump-lied-to-mueller-73374277614

* "Trump Has Considered Firing Intelligence Community Inspector General:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/politics/trump-michael-atkinson-inspector-general.html

* "Trump allies received hundreds of thousands of dollars under federal health contract:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/12/federal-health-funneled-dollars-trump-allies-069638

* "E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/climate/epa-science-trump.html

* "Sen. Amy Klobuchar On Her Duty As A Juror In A (Potential) Trump Impeachment Trial:"

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* "Sen. Amy Klobuchar Lists Her Progressive Policy Goals:"

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* "Out Dem Strategist: This Is How We Beat Trump Next Year:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/11/12/out-dem-strategist-how-we-beat-trump-next-year

* "Michael Bloomberg Brings Mixed LGBTQ Record to Presidential Run:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/11/11/michael-bloomberg-brings-mixed-lgbtq-record-presidential-run

* "Skeptics Urge Bevin To Show Proof Of Fraud Claims, Warning Of Corrosive Effects:" https://www.npr.org/2019/11/10/777300611/skeptics-urge-bevin-to-show-proof-of-fraud-claims-warning-of-corrosive-effects

* "Jimmy Carter Surgery: 'No Complications' In Bid To Relieve Pressure On His Brain:" https://www.npr.org/2019/11/12/778473111/jimmy-carter-to-have-surgery-to-relieve-pressure-on-his-brain

* "Cummings ran House Oversight with energy, integrity:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/cummings-ran-house-oversight-with-energy-integrity-73313861928

* "Maya Rockeymoore Cummings to run for her husband's seat:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maya-rockeymoore-cummings-to-run-for-her-husband-s-seat-73311813652

* "Chris Hayes looks at the ‘red exodus’ as another Republican retires:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-looks-at-the-red-exodus-as-another-republican-retires-73307717626

* "No White Supremacists On My City Council:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/11/no-white-supremacists-on-my-city-council.html

* "Supreme Court again confronts Trump’s authority, this time over DACA recipients:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-again-confronts-trumps-authority-this-time-over-daca-recipients/2019/11/11/45acf492-03f6-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html

* "Stephen Miller's private emails just got leaked. And they're explosive.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/leaked-emails-show-stephen-millers-unfiltered-anti-immigrant-views/

* We are still illegally kidnapping children. "US held record number of migrant children in custody in 2019:" https://apnews.com/015702afdb4d4fbf85cf5070cd2c6824

* "Rodney Reed's execution approaches in Texas:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rodney-reed-s-execution-approaches-in-texas-73370181571

* TW: Pedophilia, Sexual Assault. "The scandal facing Trump defender Jim Jordan:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-scandal-facing-trump-defender-jim-jordan-73308741692

* "Man in Switzerland slashes his 17-year-old son’s throat for being gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/11/switzerland-iraq-slash-throat-son-gay-attack-homophobic-religion-muslim/

* "Ugandan Police Arrest 125 People During Raid of LGBTQ Bar:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2019/11/12/ugandan-police-arrest-125-people-during-raid-lgbtq-bar

* "School chaplain quits after saying LGBT people should remain ‘single and celibate’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/13/methodist-school-chaplain-quit-lgbt-single-celibate-kingswood-bath/

* "LGBTQ People Share Stories in Celebration of Veterans Day:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/11/11/lgbtq-people-share-stories-celebration-veterans-day

* "FBI: Hate Crimes Against LGBTQ People Rose in 2018:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/11/12/fbi-hate-crimes-against-lgbtq-people-rose-2018

* "Nixon impeachment was slow to unfold:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nixon-impeachment-was-slow-to-unfold-73373765576

* "Gordon Sondland, Fearing Perjury Charges, Amends His Ukraine Testimony:"

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* ""Read The Transcript" Is Trump's Latest Rallying Cry:"

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* "Lindsey Graham's Willful Ignorance Will Not Be Enough To Protect Trump:"

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* "Republican Support Collapses In The Suburbs, Democrats Win Big In Virginia:"

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* "Watchmen Episode 3: Every Easter Egg and Secret:"

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* The Odyssey in Limericks. https://twitter.com/emilyrcwilson/status/1181997025774260224

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

* "How 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 Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

Or possibly this: https://www.chewy.com/instinct-by-natures-variety-limited/dp/44654

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

* "Anger rises as toxic air chokes Delhi:" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/anger-rises-as-toxic-air-chokes-delhi/articleshow/61603209.cms

* "How to Hire Fake Friends and Family:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/paying-for-fake-friends-and-family/545060/?utm_source=atlfb

* "'These Are Not The Actions of an Innocent Man':" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/trump-putin-russia-election/545651/

* I have no words. "'I love France, I love your wine': Trump's bizarre first phone call with Hollande:" https://www.thelocal.fr/20171107/i-love-france-i-love-your-wine-trumps-bizarre-first-phone-call-with-hollande

* "Russia Threatens To 'Retaliate' As RT Says It Will Register As Foreign Agent In U.S.:" https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-today-rt-justice-department-deadline-register-foreign-agent/28844886.html

* TW: Pedophilia. "Lawrence O'Donnell on Roy Moore Sexual Misconduct Allegations:"

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* TW: Pedophilia. "Roy Moore denies sexual misconduct allegations:"

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* TW: Pedophilia. What would Jesus Do? There’s your answer. *shudder* "Roy Moore's brother compares sexual conduct allegations to the persecution of Jesus:" http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/359808-roy-moores-brother-compares-sexual-conduct-allegations-to-the

* TW: Pedophilia. "Women Recall The First Time A Man Masturbated In Front Of Them Without Consent:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/louis-ck-masturbation-women_us_5a05c227e4b05673aa58f4ba

* TW: Pedophilia. So there you have it, the Republican Mainstream in Alabama is so strongly pro-pedophilia that one of their reps is calling for the arrest and prosecution of the survivors of child molestation and the elevation of a pedophile to the United States Senate. "Alabama state representative says Moore's accusers are "guilty of allowing him to exist":" http://www.newsweek.com/alabama-state-rep-says-roy-moores-accusers-should-be-prosecuted-708125

"They are guilty of allowing him to exist for 40 years....Someone should prosecute and go after them." So the literal teenagers half his age or less were solely responsible for a grown man's decision to molest them, but by contrast the Pedophile deserves the honor and reward of being a United State's Senator.

Why do I say this is the mainstream of the Alabama Republican Party? Because multiple Republican officials are still endorsing and defending him on the grounds that pedophilia is a Christian value stretching all the way back to the virgin Mary, etc.. Because there are plenty of ordinary Republicans willing to defend him publicly over it. Because he’s successfully fundraising on it. If they aren’t pro-pedphilia, why the fuck would they do that? If it’s not mainstream, why are their so many of them and why do they put so many people with these odious views in charge? Why is 45 president if the Republican Party isn't enthusiastically pro sexual predator?

Go back and read the original claims. If a teacher did those things to students, trust me there would be no doubt that those things were illegal and the teacher would be locked up so fast the papers would be still settling on the desk. If a teacher did only the things Roy Moore has admitted to doing (supposedly consensual kissing), that teacher would be fired and license revoked even in states like Pennsylvania where the age of consent is ridiculously low. In my state, he’d have been arrested.

And I believe the women. All of them.

* "Anna Paquin Backs Up Ellen Page's Claim That Brett Ratner Outed Her :" https://jezebel.com/anna-paquin-backs-up-ellen-pages-claim-that-brett-ratne-1820358607

* TW: Rape. "Six actresses accuse Brett Ratner of sexual harassment:" https://pagesix.com/2017/11/01/six-actresses-accuse-brett-ratner-of-sexual-harassment/

* "Gal Gadot will only be ‘Wonder Woman’ again if Brett Ratner is out:" https://pagesix.com/2017/11/11/gal-gadot-will-only-be-wonder-woman-again-if-brett-ratner-is-out/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=P6Twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

* "Today in Conservative Media: The Texas Shooting Victims Were Praying to Be Killed:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/11/06/today_in_conservative_media_the_texas_shooting_victims_were_praying_to_be.html

“It may seem, on the surface, that God was refusing to give such protection to his Texan children,” he wrote. “But we are also praying that God would deliver us from evil eternally. Through these same words, we are asking God to deliver us out of this evil world and into his heavenly glory, where no violence, persecution, cruelty, or hatred will ever afflict us again.”

* "High Court Says Germany's Birth Registry Must Allow Third Gender Option:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/08/562885752/high-court-says-germanys-birth-registry-must-allow-third-gender-option?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202808

* "Happy Veterans Day 2017 Trans Vets!:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/happy-veterans-day-2017-trans-vets.html

* "Economic Development: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* Nothing points out to me how much our culture has changed for the better in my life time than watching stand up comedy from the '70's and early '80's. So much of it is flat out not funny anymore; not because of the references (which I am old enough to catch 99.9% of the time); but long strings of nasty, rambling, incredibly racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, etc. remarks no longer constitute jokes outside of certain specific venues, such as Trump rallies and FOX "News." It is oddly comforting in it's way.

* "Stop Celebrating Crumbs:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/11/stop-celebrating-crumbs.html

* "Landscape Unsettles the Journey to the Crossroads:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/landscape-journey-crossroads-lotr-reread/

* Catullus. Snerk: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/167396383787

* Snerk: http://the-alexandrian-alchemist.tumblr.com/post/167397042966/a-video-game-metaphor

* "The Walking Dead, Season 8, Episode 3: Monsters:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/11/the-walking-dead-season-8-episode-3.html

* "If a child is old enough:" http://frankiefan1993.tumblr.com/post/167397076167

* This is from a year ago, but it's still on point: https://boingboing.net/2016/11/11/leonard-cohen-wrote-the-perfec.html

* On Myrcella: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/167358193382/thoughts-on-myrcella

* December 24 2017, 11am
November 19 2017, 2pm
November 12 2017, 5pm
December 1 2017, 10am
December 12 2017 6pm
Next Monday, 8pm
Next Monday, 2:30pm
Next Saturday, 5:30pm

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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

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

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

* 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

To me supporting the troops means only putting them in harms way when the cause is worthy and the mission clear. It means not starting random wars for no real reason except the ego of the President. It means giving them body armour, and well armored transports, and sufficient supplies. It means a good support system, access to quality medical and care when they come home, and real help adjusting and dealing with all the crap they have suffered in our name. It means psychiatric help where needed. It means prosecuting the people who rape their fellow soldiers instead of punishing the rape survivors as is the current policy. It means the GI Bill. It means excellent health benefits, job placement help, and COL increases for disabled vets and the families of our dead. It means not taking away the free medical care we promised them when they agreed to serve and kicking them out into the for profit insurance market as is the current Republican plan. It means fixing the wait times for health care and disability processing. It means considering every drop of blood valuable and every person who has served, will serve, and/or is serving now as people deserving of the best we can offer them in exchange for the sacrifices they make.

I think about WWI a lot on Veteran's Day. It's the war most people forget. It's the war that took my mother's Uncle Billy's leg and ruined his lungs. Such horrific carnage and sacrifice to no good purpose really. Rich old men of power sat far back from the lines and ordered wave after wave of young men to die horribly, and those men went. A generation of young men were ground to hamburger because the men making the decisions were using a hundred year old+ tactics in an era of machine guns, poison gas, and flame throwers.

People liken Iraq and Afghanistan to Vietnam, and I think of that too, but I also think of WWI. It seems like we've learned nothing from either one and I suspect we're going to learn nothing from these either. We send young women and men off to horror, and we still really can't say what it's for and the rich men in power begrudge the survivors every penny.

I honor those who've sacrificed, and at the same time I wish we'd stop demanding it frivolously and honor our debt to those who've served.

As always, on these occasions, I give you And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFjToKuZQM



* My Grandfather's Service: http://gwyd.livejournal.com/903361.html

Here we are remembering the service of our veterans, on the Eve of our third invasion of Iraq.

To me supporting the troops means only putting them in harms way when the cause is worthy and the mission clear. It means giving them body armour, and well armored transports, and sufficient supplies. It means a good support system, access to quality medical and care when they come home, and real help adjusting and dealing with all the crap they have suffered in our name. It means psychiatric help where needed. It means prosecuting the people who rape their fellow soldiers instead of punishing the rape survivors as is the current policy. It means the GI Bill. It means excellent health benefits, job placement help, and COL increases for disabled vets and the families of our dead. It means considering every drop of blood valuable.

I think about WWI a lot on Veteran's Day. It's the war most people forget. It's the war that took my mother's Uncle Billy's leg and ruined his lungs. Such horrific carnage and sacrifice to no good purpose really. Rich old men of power sat far back from the lines and ordered wave after wave of young men to die horribly, and those men went. A generation of young men were ground to hamburger because the men making the decisions were using a hundred year old+ tactics in an era of machine guns, poison gas, and flame throwers.

People liken Iraq and Afghanistan to Vietnam, and I think of that too, but I also think of WWI. It seems like we've learned nothing from either one and I suspect we're going to learn nothing from these either. We send young women and men off to horror, and we still really can't say what it's for and the rich men in power begrudge the survivors every penny.

I honor those who've sacrificed, and at the same time I wish we'd stop demanding it frivolously and honor our debt to those who've served.

As always, on these occasions, I give you And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFjToKuZQM



* My Grandfather's Service: http://gwyd.livejournal.com/903361.html

Here we are remembering the service of our veterans, while our troops still fight in Afghanistan.

To me supporting the troops means only putting them in harms way when the cause is worthy and the mission clear. It means giving them body armour, and well armored transports, and sufficient supplies. It means a good support system, access to quality medical care when they come home, and real help adjusting and dealing with all the crap they have suffered in our name. It means psychiatric help where needed. It means prosecuting the people who rape our female troops instead of punishing the rape survivors as is the current policy. It means the GI Bill. It means excellent health benefits, job placement help, and COL increases for disabled vets and the families of our dead. It means considering every drop of blood valuable.

I think about WWI a lot on Veteran's Day. It's the war most people forget. It's the war that took my mother's Uncle Billy's leg and ruined his lungs. Such horrific carnage and sacrifice to no good purpose really. Rich old men of power sat far back from the lines and ordered wave after wave of young men to die horribly, and those men went. A generation of young men were ground to hamburger because the men making the decisions were using a hundred year old+ tactics in an era of machine guns, poison gas, and flame throwers.

People liken Iraq and Afghanistan to Vietnam, and I think of that too, but I also think of WWI. It seems like we've learned nothing from either one and I suspect we're going to learn nothing from these either. We send young women and men off to horror, and we still really can't say what it's for and the rich men in power begrudge the survivers every penny.

I honor those who've sacrificed, and at the same time I wish we'd stop demanding it frivolously and honor our debt to those who've served.

As always, on these occasions, I give you And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFjToKuZQM



* My Grandfather's Service: http://gwyd.livejournal.com/903361.html

* Honoring Trans Vets: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/11/happy-veterans-day-2012-trans-vets.html