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* "Austria’s Sebastian Kurz charged with making false statements:" https://www.politico.eu/article/sebastian-kurz-charged-on-suspicion-of-making-false-statements/

* "Secret Messages Document Moscow Contacts with Staffer of Far-Right AfD:" https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-secret-messages-document-moscow-contacts-with-staffer-of-far-right-afd-a-0040e526-39d7-4f22-8bc1-6772bc2d840a

* "A top Russian general linked to the head of a rebellious mercenary group is reportedly dismissed:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-general-surovikin-dismissed-ukraine-wagner-036326ed0279a0c85600ef435e59a076

* "Russian mercenary chief and mutineer Prigozhin killed in jet crash, state media say:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-23/jet-crash-in-russia-kills-10-wagner-chief-prigozhin-passenger-list

* "'Revenge served cold' suspected in plane crash death of Putin warlord:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-revenge-served-cold-suspected-in-plane-crash-death-of-putin-warlord-191489605556

* "The new educational programme in Russia:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1932940.html

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* "Ukraine forces raise national flag in Robotyne in Zaporizhzhia region:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-forces-raise-national-flag-robotyne-zaporizhzhia-region-2023-08-23/

* "Turbulent Waters: How the Black Sea Became a Hot Spot in the War:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/world/europe/black-sea-russia-ukraine.html

* "Let's talk about Russia and who they don't want to face....:"

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* "Fox blames Biden for failing to stop Tropical Storm Hilary at the border: "they let it right in":" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/21/fox-blames-biden-for-failing-to-stop-tropical-storm-hilary-at-the-border-they-let-it-right-in.html

Remember when Republicans used to claim Obama had a time machine and super powers on the regular? Now they are claiming Biden controls the Weather.

* "Let's talk about government shutdowns, continuing resolutions, and more....:"

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* Republicans continue to wage their war on the American Economy that started with Reagan. "House Freedom Caucus rolls out demands to avoid shutdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/21/house-freedom-caucus-potential-shutdown-00112068

* "More than 31K Arkansans lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons in July:" https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/local-regional-news/2023-08-09/more-than-31k-arkansans-lost-medicaid-coverage-for-procedural-reasons-in-july

* "More than 82,000 Arkansans lose Medicaid coverage in July purge:" https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/aug/09/more-than-82000-arkansans-lose-medicaid-coverage/

* It's not just Arkansas. Check your Medicaid.

* "The Charitable-Industrial Complex:" https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-industrial-complex.html

* "UPS workers overwhelmingly approve a 5-year contract, ending a standoff between the company and the Teamsters union:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ups-workers-overwhelmingly-approve-5-year-contract-ending-102462116

* "House Republicans launch investigation into Fulton County DA after Trump indictment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/24/house-republicans-launch-investigation-into-fulton-county-da-00112769

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* 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/

* 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

* "Federal Judge Strikes Down Portions of Texas Voter Suppression Law S.B. 1:" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-strikes-down-portions-of-texas-voter-suppression-law-s-b-1/

* If Republicans succeed this is the end of rule of law and an independent judiciary. "Trump’s Georgia allies search for ways to punish Fani Willis:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/trumps-georgia-allies-search-for-ways-to-punish-fani-willis/LYUKIOKBJJBMBAXFD3JCWO2ZTQ/

* "Drag queen makes historic run for office to bring ‘voice to the voiceless’ in Florida politics:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/florida-drag-queen-politics-michael-travis-erika-rose/

* "Racist COVID Claims Spread by RFK, Jr., and Other Demagogues Are Deadly:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racist-covid-infection-theories-arent-just-wrong-they-are-deadly/

* "Hayes: How the ‘hermetically-sealed’ MAGA world views Trump vs. Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-how-the-hermetically-sealed-maga-world-views-trump-vs-biden-191383621713

* "Let's talk about negative turnout for Biden and Trump....:"

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* "Vivek Ramaswamy: LGBTQ+ People Created 'Tyranny of the Minority':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-lgbtq-people-tyranny

* How is this legal? "ND governor paying people to donate to his presidential campaign:" https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4089441-nd-governor-paying-people-to-donate-to-his-presidential-campaign/

* "The Ron DeSantis Slump:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-ron-desantis-slump

* "DeSantis eager to disclaim his elitist roots to curry favor with MAGA populists:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/desantis-eager-to-disclaim-his-elitist-roots-to-curry-favor-with-maga-populists-191484485546

* "The dog that didn't bark: Trump's calls for massive protests go unanswered:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-dog-that-didn-t-bark-trump-s-calls-for-massive-protests-go-unanswered-191308869503

* "Let's talk about Trump, Tucker, and skipping the debates....:"

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* "Michigan's Perry Johnson excluded from GOP presidential debate; claims 'corrupt' process:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/08/22/perry-johnson-michigan-gop-presidential-debate-candidate/70640396007/

* "Perry Johnson Also Plans to Sue RNC for Missing Presidential Debate:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/perry-johnson-also-plans-to-sue-rnc-for-missing-presidential-debate

* "'Mad, mad world': Republicans make a mockery of primary debate before it even starts:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-mad-mad-world-republicans-make-a-mockery-of-primary-debate-before-it-even-starts-191389765967

* "The GOP Debate Participants: A Look at Their Anti-LGBTQ+ Records:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-debate-homophobia-transphobia

* "The spiciest moments of the first GOP debate:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/23/first-republican-debate-highlights-00112617

* "Republican presidential candidates attack LGBTQ+ ‘indoctrination’ in schools during TV debate:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/24/republican-2024-candidates-ron-desantis-nikki-haley-donald-trump/

* "The GOP Debate: A Dumpster Fire, With or Without Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gop-debate-dumpster-fire

* "New Arkansas law now allows children under 16 years old to work:" https://www.kait8.com/2023/08/01/new-arkansas-law-now-allows-children-under-16-years-old-work/

* "MTG Baselessly Claims Georgia Prosecutor Is ‘Guilty of’ RICO Crimes, Not Trump:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mtg-georgia-prosecutor-guilty-rico-not-trump-1234809319/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to defend Proud Boys leader in social media post :" https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4159874-marjorie-taylor-greene-defends-proud-boys-leader-in-social-media-post-as-doj-seeks-33-year-sentence/?utm_source=press.coop

* "George Santos Aide Accused of Impersonating Kevin McCarthy Staffer Now Charged:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-aide-charged

* "Let's talk about Santos, fundraising, and another indictment....:"

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* "Trump attorneys guided false electors in Georgia, GOP chair says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/trump-indictment-false-electors-00112229

* "Meet the 34-year-old judge who will oversee Trump prosecution in Georgia:" https://www.ajc.com/news/meet-the-34-year-old-judge-who-will-oversee-trump-prosecution/BSRME6N2DJFYDGZ3OGBOJUFUKA/

* "Trump ex-chief Mark Meadows asks judge to protect him from arrest as he seeks to move Georgia case to federal court:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/22/trump-ex-aide-meadows-asks-judge-to-protect-him-from-arrest-in-ga-case.html

* "Indicted Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro demands speedy trial in Georgia:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/indicted-trump-lawyer-kenneth-chesebro-demands-speedy-trial-in-georgia-191470661865

* "Judge schedules Trump codefendant Ken Chesebro for October trial in racketeering case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/24/fulton-county-prosecutors-ask-judge-to-set-oct-23-trial-on-trump-racketeering-charges-00112816

* "Giuliani turns himself in on Georgia 2020 election charges after bond is set at $150,000:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-giuliani-georgia-election-indictment-fulton-county-203b1e69cbff227a0bf8cc59a6bb645f

* "Federal judge rejects bids to halt Georgia prosecution of Trump aides over 2020 election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/23/georgia-trump-racketeering-case-state-court-00112480

* "Long on bills, short on time: Trump co-defendants may consider their options:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/long-on-bills-short-on-time-trump-co-defendants-may-consider-their-options-191393349787

* "Judge approves $200,000 bond for Trump in Georgia election case:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-giuliani-georgia-election-indictment-fulton-county-203b1e69cbff227a0bf8cc59a6bb645f

* "Behold the First Ever Presidential Mugshot:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mugshot-released-georgia-election-meddling-arrest-1234812072/

* "Sen. Warnock (D-GA): We know who Trump is, but who are we?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sen-warnock-d-ga-we-know-who-trump-is-but-who-are-we-191309381982

* This is understandable and some of the most in depth stuff I've seen on the indictments. "It's RICO in Georgia:"

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* "Inside One ‘Egregious’ Mistake From Trump’s Florida Judge Aileen Cannon:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-one-egregious-mistake-from-trumps-florida-judge-aileen-cannon

* "Prosecutors: Trump Mar-a-Lago security aide flipped after changing lawyers :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/trump-witness-reversal-testimony-jack-smith-00112355

* "Key Mar-a-Lago witness flips after dumping Trump-aligned lawyer, court filings reveal:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/key-mar-a-lago-witness-flips-after-dumping-trump-aligned-lawyer-court-filings-reveal-191393349836

* "Bondsman Scott Hall released from Fulton Jail:" https://www.ajc.com/news/bondsman-scott-hall-released-from-fulton-jail/5U2LUVKRR5AZDPGVUNFQFUVYCU/

* "Justice Department objects to Trump’s proposed April 2026 date for DC trial:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-special-counsel-trial-justice-department-jan-6-d2648e51ddf2cdcebf74a197e4c547d7

* "How Trump (Allegedly) Tried to Steal the Election:"

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* "Secret Service Agents Were in Contact With Far-Right Oath Keepers:" https://newrepublic.com/post/175151/secret-service-agents-contact-far-right-oath-keepers

* "'Naive' Secret Service had blind spot for Oath Keepers ahead of Jan. 6: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-naive-secret-service-had-blind-spot-for-oath-keepers-ahead-of-jan-6-report-191481925893

* "Investigation underway after unknown white powdery substance found at Nevada FBI office:" https://katv.com/news/nation-world/investigation-underway-after-unknown-white-powdery-substance-found-at-nevada-fbi-office-reno-explicit-sign-cup-of-white-powder-federal-investigation-possible-hoax

* "‘Active’ hate groups made up of neo-Nazis growing in the US, experts warn:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/24/active-hate-groups-neo-nazis-us/

* "Bomb threats and ‘swatting’ campaign hits dozens of synagogues:" https://forward.com/news/557648/bomb-threats-and-swatting-campaign-hits-dozens-of-synagogues/?amp=1

* "Judge halts "religious-liberty training" order as Southwest argues it's unconstitutional:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-order-30-day-stay

* "Misconduct Complaint Filed Against Texas Judge in Hate Group Training Case:" https://www.advocate.com/law/southwest-airlines-judge-complaint

* "Kyle Rittenhouse’s new foundation is run by a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist and a gun extremist who appeared on a white nationalist program:" https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/kyle-rittenhouses-new-foundation-run-pizzagate-conspiracy-theorist-and-gun

* "One dead in Nudieland shooting at ‘safe space’ for queer punk community in Minneapolis:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/nudieland-shooting-death/

* "Minneapolis Mass Shooting Leaves Transgender Community Fearful of Further Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nudieland-minneapolis-trans-shooting

* "Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1190767610/ice-detention-immigration-government-inspectors-barbaric-negligent-conditions

* "DOJ sues Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott over Rio Grande barrier:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/24/doj-sues-texas-and-gov-greg-abbott-over-rio-grande-barrier-00107896

* "Lansing police detained a Black child who was in the 'wrong place, wrong time,' department says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-police-detained-a-black-child-who-was-in-the-wrong-place-wrong-time-department-says-4/

* "Trans man assaulted by police officer in car park to sue LA County for $10,000:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/emmett-brock-los-angeles-police-legal-action/

* "Lawsuit could be filed in death of Joan Meyer, who died day after police raid on KS paper:" https://news.yahoo.com/lawsuit-could-filed-death-joan-185938180.html

* "Authorities charge 10 current and former California police officers in corruption case:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/authorities-charge-10-current-and-former-california-police-officers-in-corruption-case

* "Let's talk about the FBI, California, and 9 cops....:"

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* "Greenpoint mystery solved: serial litterer was NYPD sergeant:" https://gothamist.com/news/greenpoint-mystery-solved-serial-litterer-was-nypd-sergeant

* "The War on Cities:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/the-war-on-cities

* "Sentenced to Life as Boys, They Made Their Case for Release:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/headway/prison-life-sentence-release.html

* "Did a Journalist Violate Hacking Law to Leak Fox News Clips? The Government Thinks He Did.:" https://zetter.substack.com/p/did-a-journalist-violate-hacking

* "The Black Panther Party is Back and They’ve Got Hormones:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/the-black-panther-party-is-back-theyve-got-hormones

* "Oklahoma’s high court will consider a reparations case from 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivors:" https://apnews.com/article/tulsa-race-massacre-survivors-lawsuit-2731bcc20ef66decf564eb4918460327

* "Texas Sued Over 'Unconstitutional' Drag Ban by ACLU:" https://www.advocate.com/law/aclu-sues-texas-drag-ban

* "Smithsonian Cancels Literature Festival Leaving Trans AAPI Community Disheartened:" https://www.advocate.com/news/aapi-transgender-smithsonian-festival-cancellation

* "Right-Wing Takeover of New College in Florida Seeks to Benefit More Men:" https://www.advocate.com/education/chris-rufo-new-college-florida

* "Moms for Liberty Wants to Make American Kids Oblivious to Sex Ed: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/education/sex-education-moms-for-liberty

* "North Carolina Lawmakers Override Governor's Veto of 3 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills:" https://www.advocate.com/law/anti-lgbtq-bills-north-carolina

* "Students banned from using nicknames under new anti-trans Orange County schools guidance:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/08/orange-county-florida-trans-schools/

* "California School District Will Make Staff Out Trans Students to Their Parents:" https://www.advocate.com/education/murrieta-valley-outing-transgender-students

* "“Racism pure and simple”: Arkansas rejects credit for AP Black History — but Europe history is fine:" https://www.salon.com/2023/08/16/pure-and-simple-arkansas-rejects-credit-for-ap-black-history--but-europe-history-is-fine_partner/

* It is not allowed to teach about the Little Rock Nine in Little Rock. Little Rock high schools say they will defy the law. "Historic "Little Rock Nine" school pushes back on Arkansas law limiting race studies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/historic-little-rock-nine-school-pushes-back-on-arkansas-law-limiting-race-studies-191307845936

* "PragerU co-host once condemned Martin Luther King Jr. and branded himself a white nationalist:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/prageru-co-host-once-condemned-martin-luther-king-jr-and-branded-himself-a-white-nationalist

* "ACLU Calls for Federal Probe of Anti-LGBTQ+ Actions in Texas Schools:" https://www.advocate.com/law/texas-schools-anti-lgbtq

* "Heartstopper, The Color Purple and hundreds more books set for Iowa school ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/03/heartstopper-the-colour-purple-book-ban-iowa/

* "Trump-supporting town could force local library to close over a book about trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/dayton-washington-library-lgbtq-books/

* CW: Sexual Assault "Sexual Assaults in the LGBTQ+ Community — A Survivor Finds His Voice and Speaks Out:" https://www.advocate.com/news/david-daniels-sexual-assault-schultz

* CW: Sexual Harassment. Christians insist their religion requires them to Sexually Harass queer people and the Us Government agrees that the Christian requirement to be cruel to people they hate is more important than the right of queer people to be safe. "Baylor University Gets Exemption From LGBTQ-Related Sexual Harassment Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/baylor-university-sexual-harrassment-lgbtq

* CW: Domestic Violence murder. "Florida Man's Husband Identified as Suspect in His Death:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/florida-man-husband-homicide-suspect

* CW: Elder Abuse. "Elderly gay man burned by cigarette and left bruised by staff in care home abuse:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/lgbtq-oap-care-home-abuse-report/

* "Mississippi School District Implements Transphobic Dress Code:" https://www.advocate.com/news/mississippi-school-district-dress-code

* "Campaigners call out ‘deep-seated stigma’ as period products are tested with blood for first time ever:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/period-products-blood-test-first-time/

* "US appeals court backs abortion pill restrictions; Supreme Court appeal planned:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rules-restrict-abortion-pill-use-2023-08-16/

* "Nebraskans Ask State Supreme Court to Overturn Abortion, Trans Care Restrictions:" https://www.advocate.com/law/nebraska-abortion-transgender-lawsuit-appeal

* They are lying when they say they are "Pro-Life." "Texas Fights for the Right to Deny Women Life-Saving Abortion Care:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/texas-abortion-bounty-law-ruling-1234802301/

* "How the Cook Islands fought off the shackles of colonialism and freed its LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/cook-islands-lgbtq/

* "Attacker jailed after threatening man he thought was gay with AK-47 and bayonet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/jersey-bar-ak-47-bayonet-homophobic-incident/

* "Cis men are driving Britain’s anti-trans hostility – the data proves it:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/uk-trans-men-women-data/

* "LGBTQ+ people far more likely to face poverty in retirement, data finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/retirement-financial-hardship-lgbtq/

* "Government pushes ahead with Equality Act review, posting new job to ‘consider’ making changes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/government-equality-act-review-job/

* "Rishi Sunak slammed in postcard campaign for taking holiday instead of passing conversion therapy ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/rishi-sunak-stonewall-postcards-california-holiday/

* Gender-neutral Toilets are important for both some people with disabilities and trans people. This strikes to the heart of both groups being able to exist in public. "Government crackdown on gender-neutral toilets goes against findings of its own study:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/government-gender-neutral-toilets-plan/

* "Kemi Badenoch told to stop ‘obsessing over toilets’ by Labour’s Anneliese Dodds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/kemi-badenoch-anneliese-dodds-gender-neutral-toilet/

* "Rosie Duffield: What has the Labour MP said about trans people and trans rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/rosie-duffield-labour-mp-trans-views/

* "Clapham stabbing victim speaks out after horrific homophobic Two Brewers knife attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/clapham-stabbing-two-brewers-victim/

* "Police release CCTV image of man following homophobic Two Brewers knife attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/london-two-brewers-homophobic-attack-cctv-image/

* "Met Police accused of failing third queer man attacked outside Two Brewers:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/clapham-stabbing-two-brewers-met-police/

* "How queer people are hiding their identity in public as anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment grows:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/two-brewers-stabbing-queer-lgbtq-safety/

* "Eight in 10 LGBTQ+ Americans fear for safety as bigotry sweeps nation, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/17/americans-us-human-rights-campaign/

* "Military Veterans Sue to Reclassify Sexuality-Based Discharge Records:" https://www.advocate.com/law/military-veterans-lawsuit-reclassify-discharge

* "Laws banning gender-affirming treatments can block trans youth from receiving other care:" https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/072723_trans_care_laws/laws-banning-gender-affirming-treatments-can-block-trans-youth-from-receiving-other-care/

* "After Mississippi banned his hormone shots, an 8-hour journey:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/mississippi-youth-transgender-care-ban-aftermath/

* "Trans student was denied use of girls’ restroom at Platte County High, subject to verbal harassment:" https://www.kctv5.com/2023/08/03/lawsuit-trans-student-was-denied-use-girls-restroom-platte-county-high-subject-verbal-harassment/

* "New Hampshire Outlaws 'LGBTQ+ Panic' Defense in Homicide Cases:" https://www.advocate.com/law/new-hampshire-gay-panic-ban

* "Idaho's Anti-Trans Sports Law Still Blocked After Appeals Court Ruling:" https://www.advocate.com/law/idaho-trans-sports-ban-blocked

* "Idaho Bathroom Law Targeting Transgender Students Blocked by Judge:" https://www.advocate.com/law/judge-blocks-idaho-bathroom-law

* "U.S. Appeals Court Dismisses Suit Against Trans-Supportive School Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/law/anti-trans-lawsuit-dismissed-montgomery

* "Vanderbilt Medical Center Under Federal Scrutiny After Trans Patient Records Release:" https://www.advocate.com/news/vanderbilt-hhs-investigation-transgender-records

* "Diocese Issues Policy Regarding Sexuality and Sexual Identity in Schools:" https://worcesterdiocese.org/news/diocese-issues-policy-regarding-sexuality-and-sexual-identity-in-schools?utm_source=WBUR+Editorial+Newsletters&utm_campaign=1fdc1f8ca2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_18_11_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0781a0a0c-1fdc1f8ca2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D#menu

* "Students must use names, pronouns assigned at birth under new Worcester Catholic schools policy:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/17/metro/trans-students-must-use-names-pronouns-assigned-birth-under-new-worcester-catholic-schools-policy/?utm_source=WBUR+Editorial+Newsletters&utm_campaign=1fdc1f8ca2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_18_11_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0781a0a0c-1fdc1f8ca2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

* This is a different state. "Denver Archdiocese Sues to Deny LGBTQ+ Families Access to Preschool:" https://www.advocate.com/law/archdiocese-of-denver-lgbtq-discrimination

* "‘Remarkable’ woman shot dead after dispute over LGBTQ+ Pride flag:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/california-shop-owner-shot-lgbtq-pride-flag/

* "Suspect Identified in Killing of California Woman Shot for Displaying Pride Flag:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/travis-ikeguchi-lauri-carleton-flag

* "Suspect in killing over Pride flag had long history of anti-LGBTQ posts:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/suspect-in-killing-over-pride-flag-had-long-history-of-anti-lgbtq-posts-191387205747

* "Man Who Pulled Gun At Historic Gay Bar Gets 5 Years Behind Bars:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/19-bar-man-gun-sentenced

* "Lawyer for Alleged O’Shae Sibley Killer Claims Client is a “Good Christian Boy”:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/oshae-sibley-alleged-killer-christian

* "Anti-trans couple told they can’t foster children because of their views on LGBTQ+ kids. They’re suing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/10/catholi-couple-trans-fostering/

They are suing for the right to abuse foster children, as the rights of children not to be abused are less important than their right as Christians to abuse other people's children.

* "Florida LGBTQ+ Rights Groups Launch Parenting With Pride Program:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-families-parenting-with-pride

* CW: Suicide "Leave Our Kids Alone supporters tell LGBTQ+ youth to hang themselves:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/6/2185669/-Leave-Our-Kids-Alone-supporters-tell-LGBTQ-youth-to-hang-themselves

How to spot a hate group.

* "Federalist Author Calls for a New Satanic Panic:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/federalist-author-calls-for-a-new-satanic-panic

* "Gay GB News pundit clashes with colleague over bigoted rant comparing being gay to paedophilia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/gb-news-albie-amankona-bushra-shaikh-homophobia/

* "Hozier slams right-wing pundits for using LGBTQ+ folks as ‘scapegoats when things get difficult’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/hozier-lgbtq-trans-scapegoats-fear-mongering/

* "English Chess Federation ‘will not exclude trans women’ despite international ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/english-chess-federation-fide-trans-women-policy/

* "Target Sued Over Inclusion of LGBTQ-Friendly Merchandise:" https://www.advocate.com/law/target-sued-lgbtq-products

* "Stephen Miller-Backed Group Targets Kellog Over ‘Woke’ LGBTQ+ Inclusion:" https://www.advocate.com/business/stephen-miller-group-kellog

* "Harry’s razors backlash is ‘latest attempt to harass trans people out of public life’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/09/harrys-razor-trans-boycott/

* "Museum of Pop Culture REMOVES JK Rowling (& Why It Matters):"

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* "A Pill After Sex Could Help Slow STIs Among Gay Men:" https://www.advocate.com/health/stis-gay-sex-doxyprep

* "COVID Hospitalizations Now Up Nearly 22%:" https://themessenger.com/health/covid-hospitalizations-now-up-nearly-22

* "What Is Narcissism? Science Confronts a Widely Misunderstood Phenomenon:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-narcissism-science-confronts-a-widely-misunderstood-phenomenon/

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* "Queer environmental activists warn of LGBTQ+ people ‘suffering first’ from catastrophic climate change:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/24/climate-change-queer-activists-lgbtq-environmental-crisis/

* "Wishing you had more shade? Florida’s heat takes uneven toll.:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2023/08/22/floridas-heat-takes-toll-health-shade-provides-relief-not-all/

* "Extreme heat has killed 103 people in 2 Arizona counties so far in 2023:" https://www.azfamily.com/2023/08/08/extreme-heat-has-killed-147-people-5-counties-coroners-report-real-number-is-likely-much-higher/

* "Arizona Republicans Don’t Want to Hear About the Deadly Heat Wave:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/09/phoenix-heat-wave-republicans-00110325

* "Park officials still looking for stranded visitors in remote Death Valley areas:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/400-people-stranded-in-death-valley-after-hilary-18307664.php

* "Devastation in Death Valley as photos show flood damage; park to reopen in stages over weeks ahead :" https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/devastation-in-death-valley-as-photos-show-flood-damage-park-to-reopen-in-stages-over-weeks-ahead/

* "Rain from Tropical Storm Hilary lashes California and Mexico, swamping roads and trapping cars:" https://apnews.com/article/hilary-tropical-storm-flooding-california-mexico-f89aeddeb62d55c935699ac81ca85f1d

* "Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes Ojai area, rattling nerves as Hilary pounds Southland:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-20/5-0-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-ojai-area

* "Photos: See the aftermath of flooding, mudslides from Tropical Storm Hilary:" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/08/20/1194964251/photos-see-flooding-mudslides-tropical-storm-hilary-brings-to-southern-calif

* "Scorched Europe battles deadly fires, Turkey shuts shipping lane:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/scorched-europe-battles-deadly-fires-turkey-shuts-shipping-lane-2023-08-23/

* "How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires in Europe:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/how-climate-change-drives-heatwaves-wildfires-europe-2023-08-17/

* "Greece wildfires fanned by strong winds, killing one:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/firefighters-greece-battle-blazes-fanned-by-gale-force-winds-2023-08-21/

* "City empties as thousands flee wildfire burning near capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-northwest-territories-7b8c327876d86a483c8e25df7bc2c566

* "Amid Canadian wildfires, experts warn state of emergency could continue into fall:" https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/amid-canadian-wildfires-experts-warn-state-of-emergency-could-continue-into-fall/

* "Warming Set the Stage for Canada’s Record Fires, Study Finds:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/climate/canada-wildfires-climate-change.html

* "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slams Facebook for blocking Canada wildfire news:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-facebook-news-blocking-734a5bc05796e38a011c6c9a473efea8

* "Lookout Fire in Lane County expands closures to include Blue Pool, Sahalie Falls and other popular recreation areas:" https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/wildfire/lane-county-lookout-wildfire-closures/283-56604abb-8d12-49e2-832e-fa0efb6a8dec

* "Lookout Fire evacuation areas updated, visibility improves for aerial operations:" https://www.kezi.com/news/lookout-fire-evacuation-areas-updated-visibility-improves-for-aerial-operations/article_a621b392-41e8-11ee-8d4d-77150ec08332.html

* "Hawaii wildfires: More than 1,000 people reported missing in Maui weeks after blaze:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/hawaii-wildfires-more-than-1000-people-reported-missing-in-maui.html

* "In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged a barricade survived:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-fires-timeline-maui-lahaina-road-block-c8522222f6de587bd14b2da0020c40e9

* "Address on the Maui Wildfire Disaster:" https://governor.hawaii.gov/main/address-on-the-maui-wildfire-disaster-friday-august-18-2023/

* "‘The Devastation Is Overwhelming’: Biden Tours Wildfire Damage on Maui:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/us/politics/biden-maui-hawaii-wildfires.html

* "Immigrant workers’ lives, livelihoods and documents in limbo after the Hawaii fire:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-lahaina-foreign-workers-mexico-fires-ab24400f8e1c89ed099dbd3cd45fb890

* "Online posts spread misinformation about FEMA aid following Maui wildfires:" https://apnews.com/article/maui-wildfires-hawaii-fema-misinformation-8562e2e81e03626acc5be30700d73120

* "Let's talk about Hawaii, sirens, and changes....:"

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* "Lahaina used to be a wetland:" https://heated.world/p/lahaina-used-to-be-wetland

* "Let's talk about Hawaii and $700 payments....:"

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* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* "4 tornadoes hit New England, cause damage in Massachusetts, Rhode Island:" https://www.wcvb.com/article/4-tornadoes-hit-new-england-on-aug-18-2023-cleanup-continues/44858073

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* "Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon, ending operations in a protected area:" https://www.thestar.com/news/world/americas/ecuadorians-reject-oil-drilling-in-the-amazon-in-historic-decision/article_43ec3d1c-6d3b-5f83-b2bf-8933184bfd2b.html

* "Elon Musk is threatening to remove the ‘block’ button on X – here’s why it matters for queer users:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/21/elon-musk-block-x-twitter/

* "Far too many of Musk's followers and Twitter's users appear fake; advertisers may never return:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/18/far-too-many-of-musk-and-twitters-followers-appear-fake-advertisers-may-never-return.html

* "The Big List of Elon Musk’s Hyperbole, Evasions, and Outright Lies:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk-twitter-zuckerberg-lies-1234808808/

* "Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in 'victory cry of a new India':" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-counts-down-crucial-moon-landing-2023-08-23/

* "Ibis use 'stress and wash' technique to eat poisonous cane toads:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-23/ibis-find-way-to-eat-toxic-cane-toads/101683596

* "Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years:" https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/13/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered/

* "History Summarized: Malta – An Empire In Miniature:"

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* "Met Museum Acquires Rare 19th-Century Portrait of Enslaved Child :" https://hyperallergic.com/839231/met-museum-acquires-rare-19th-century-portrait-of-enslaved-child/

* "The Surprising Contents of an American POW’s Journal:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-surprising-contents-of-an-american-pows-journal/?preview_id=303822

* "He was killed in the Holocaust. His family just got back his book of scripture.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/08/08/holocaust-auschwitz-dov-forman-bela/

* "Vivid Kodachrome Photos Show the Bygone Manhattan of the Early 1940s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/manhattan-in-kodachrome-photos/

* "The struggle for land rights in Hawai’i.:" https://thenib.com/owning-an-island/

* "They wanted a Bollywood ending, not an arranged marriage. Their escape came at a cost:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/06/1188366128/india-arranged-marriage-love-commandos

* "Seaside screen brings magic of movies to Gaza years after cinemas closed:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/seaside-screen-brings-magic-movies-gaza-years-after-cinemas-closed-2023-08-16/

* "Meghan Buell, Founder of Indiana Trans Organization, Dead at 58:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/trans-activist-meghan-buell

* "Director William Friedkin's Controversial Gay Film Legacy:" https://www.advocate.com/film/william-friedkin-cruising-boys-band

* "Darcie Silver: British trans comedian dies in Thailand, aged 35:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/22/darcie-silver-trans-comedian-death-thailand/

* "Holocaust Monument for LGBTQ+ Victims Vandalized in Berlin:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/german-police-berlin-holocaust-memorial

* I am still struggling with the Asshole agency. I was awakened Sunday morning by a cleaner checking in on her way to my place. Fuckssake! I do not understand why it's so hard to grasp only send cleaners every Friday morning unless I say other wise. They tried to send a morning and afternoon cleaner last Tuesday. Every day i have the same conversation about me only wanting weekly care Friday mornings. Every day they cancel the next day's cleaner, but not the day after. I only get so many hours a year and we are saving the extras for Autumn when millennials are busy with Gothmas season and the like.

I did not cancel the morning cleaner Sunday, because she'd already been booked and if I cancel that's money she loses. It was hours of sleep I needed, but oh well. Asshole agency. I did have about two hours of work for her, but I've no idea what happens if the telephone operator lady didn't sort it and a surprise cleaner comes Monday, as the stuff that's left is either complicated or not in the cleaner's remit. She said she'd switched me from daily back to weekly. *Fingers crossed*

This cleaner was very quiet. Tavy liked her. She was so quiet, Livia thought she'd gone and wandered into my bathroom to use her personal litter box and there she was: cleaning! Livia: The horror! The horror! Quiet was good. it meant I could do some tumblr programming with only occasional interruption for directions.

Winds from the tropical storm in Mexico and California are sending air currents along the coast that bring us smoke from the fires between us and there. Air quality was bad all weekend as a result. Instead of swimming we gathered in my place and goth Millennial made their excellent lasagna.

* I would like to thank my donor for the gift of excellent litter. Things are so much less dramatic here as a result.

The Asshole Agency has not surprised me with a cleaner I did not ask for two days in a row. Yay!

* I had my shoulder situation investigated again Tuesday. It was painful, of course, and my shoulders are still recovering. The new doctor had not grasped how extreme the situation is. We will be doing another round of specialists as a result. I have just started a new med. I am not sanguine it will be to the point and I worry it will fuck me up, but having eliminated the best option, we are down to two less ideal classes. I thought the other option too high risk for extreme side effects, so here we are.

* I explain my process and give some likely inadequate advice on tumblr to someone who asks "How do you keep up with all these articles and websites?:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/726275476259241984/how-do-you-keep-up-with-all-these-articles-and?source=share

* "No Second Season for A League of Their Own:" https://www.advocate.com/television/a-league-of-their-own-canceled

A better take would have been: it won't happen now because Amazon Prime didn't care about its audience and the greedy rich people in charge hate paying writers, Actors, etc. fair compensation for their work.

* "True Facts: Fish That Suck:"

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* "First day as a second century warlord:" https://www.tumblr.com/jonquility/706918292384776192?source=share

* "Alexander the Great Explaining Proskynesis To The Boys:" https://www.thestopgap.net/alexander-the-great-explaining-proskynesis-to-the-boys/

* "Midnight Pals: Mexican Gothic:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/726203038247878656/midnight-pals-mexican-gothic?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Florence Balcombe:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/726470108741025792/midnight-pals-florence-balcombe?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* "Collection of links to trans & gnc related content that's free to read/ watch.:" https://translibrary.carrd.co/

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* I'm too tired to finish. Sorry.

* "Inflation is spiking around the world – not just in the United States:" https://theconversation.com/inflation-is-spiking-around-the-world-not-just-in-the-united-states-187678

* "Ugandan Asians recall the trauma of fleeing their homes 50 years on:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-62390725

* "How many people cross the Channel in small boats?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-53734793

* I forgot this had happened again!!! "UK authorities charge man arrested at castle with crossbow:" https://apnews.com/article/queen-elizabeth-ii-entertainment-arrests-royalty-178bb568c46c6abe431de4b41115af46

* "Prince Charles accepted £1m from family of Osama bin Laden, report claims:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/30/prince-charles-accepted-1m-from-family-of-osama-bin-laden-report-claims

* "Private Security in South Africa Comes at a Cost:"

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* "The curious case of the Covid-19 rebound:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/world/coronavirus-newsletter-intl-08-03-22/index.html

* "'Rebound' Covid infections after Paxlovid becomes focus of inquiry:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-rebound-covid-infections-after-paxlovid-becomes-focus-of-inquiry-145286725862

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* "Ukraine's army is waging its 1st major offensive against Russia to retake Kherson:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/02/1115267046/ukraines-army-is-waging-its-1st-major-offensive-against-russia-to-retake-kherson

* "Using Nuclear Reactors for Cover, Russians Lob Rockets at Ukrainians:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/world/europe/ukraine-south-counteroffensive-nuclear.html

* "Shells hit power lines at Ukraine nuclear plant, fighting in east:" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/shelling-hits-power-lines-ukraine-nuclear-plant-both-sides-trade-blame-2022-08-05/

* "Ukraine Builds a Case That Killing of P.O.W.s Was a Russian War Crime:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/world/europe/russia-ukraine-prisoners-killed.html

* "Russia’s ethnic minorities lament the war in Ukraine:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/2/racist-federation-russias-minorities-complain-of-racism

* "Ballet, busking, bathing: How Ukrainians are defying Russia by embracing 'normal life':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/30/europe/russia-war-ukrainians-embracing-normal-life-intl-hnk/index.html

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* "China cuts off vital US contacts over Pelosi Taiwan visit:" https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-china-asia-beijing-b252479810add6a225fa1e4a6d441983

* "U.S. Drone Strike in Kabul Kills Top Qaeda Leader, Ayman al-Zawahri:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/01/us/al-qaeda-leader-killed

* "What the killing of al-Zawahri says about U.S. capability and Taliban confidence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/what-the-killing-of-al-zawahri-says-about-u-s-capability-and-taliban-confidence-145287237558

* "Russia is ‘cranking up dial to extract as much as it can’ via Brittney Griner sentence expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/brittney-griner-being-sentenced-to-9-years-in-russia-slammed-by-fellow-wnba-player-layshia-clarendon-145523781914

* "Biden signs new executive order on abortion rights: 'Women's health and lives are on the line':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/politics/joe-biden-abortion-executive-order/index.html

* "US proposes to increase refund protections for air travelers:" https://abc7.com/air-travel-refund-government-airlines/12097796/

* "Pete Buttigieg - The State of U.S. Infrastructure:" https://www.cc.com/video/6701q5/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-pete-buttigieg-the-state-of-u-s-infrastructure

* "Christian flag in speech battle flies, briefly, over Boston:" https://www.pressherald.com/2022/08/04/christian-flag-in-speech-battle-flies-briefly-over-boston/

* We now have the jobs back lost under 45. "Massive jobs surprise: US economy added 528,000 jobs in July :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/economy/monthly-jobs-report-preview-july/index.html

* "The Haves and the Have-Yachts:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-the-have-yachts

* You can’t pay rent in chicken sandwiches. "Chick-fil-A store asks for ‘volunteers’ to work for chicken, not money:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/07/28/chickfila-volunteers-labor-drive-thru-chicken-north-carolina/

* "Rejected by courts, retirees take last shot to save pensions:" https://apnews.com/article/general-motors-co-congress-government-and-politics-703a3aa25278634996c0bc0414575767

* "Republican push to overturn Biden permitting rules passes Senate, with Manchin's support:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/04/manchin-republicans-biden-environmental-rules-00049911

* "Senate passes bill to help veterans affected by burn pits:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/senate-vote-burn-pits/index.html

* "Sinema says she will 'move forward' on economic bill, putting Biden's agenda on the cusp of Senate approval:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/chuck-schumer-economic-bill-saturday/index.html

* ...And they chickened out on taxing the rich. "With Sinema’s help, private equity firms win relief from proposed tax hikes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/08/07/inflation-reduction-act-sinema-private-equity/

* "Charles Blow: Republican opposition to climate bill is ‘purely partisan’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/charles-blow-republican-opposition-to-climate-bill-is-purely-partisan-145354821784

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "Michels goes after Kleefisch in Wisconsin governor's race:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-wisconsin-donald-trump-campaigns-presidential-fc116b84f2648e70152fa5eb41f787bb

* "Six takeaways from Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Arizona and Washington primaries:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/arizona-michigan-missouri-primary-election-takeaways/index.html

* "Kansas votes to protect abortion rights in state constitution:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/kansas-abortion-vote-state-constitution

* "Kansas voters rebuke anti-abortion rights amendment:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/kansas-voters-rebuke-anti-abortion-rights-amendment-145435717544

* "Joy Reid: Victory for reproductive freedom in Kansas should make GOP nervous about midterms:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kansas-voting-against-amendment-stripping-women-of-their-reproductive-rights-should-make-gop-nervous-about-midterms-joy-reid-says-145441861597

* "5 Takeaways From Ohio’s Primary Elections:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/elections/ohio-indiana-primary-elections-takeaways.html

* "Trump-endorsed Masters, Finchem win Arizona GOP nods for key races:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/03/masters-finchem-arizona-results-00049539

* "Election denier Kari Lake wins nomination in Arizona election she said was rigged:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/kari-lake-wins-arizona-election/

* "Racist former sheriff Joe Arpaio can't even get elected mayor of his own town:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/3/2114261/-Remember-racist-ex-sheriff-Joe-Arpaio-He-looks-headed-for-yet-another-electoral-defeat

* "Eric Schmitt’s dominating win and 6 other takeaways from Missouri’s primary election:" https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2022-08-04/eric-schmitts-dominating-win-and-6-other-takeaways-from-missouris-primary-election

* "Results from the top races of the Washington state primary:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/elections/results-washington-2022-primary-election-races/281-69a38705-eb53-4ad8-91eb-6ffe36f3e074

* "GOP's links to extremism surface in congressional primary:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-campaigns-race-and-ethnicity-be616cae0967ca6ee9c78ac1efee8e31

* "Herrera Beutler in trouble as Kent gains in WA’s 3rd District; Newhouse advances in the 4th:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/herrera-beutler-in-trouble-as-kent-gains-in-was-3rd-district-newhouse-advances-in-the-4th/

* "Indiana Rep. Walorski, 2 staffers killed in head-on crash:" https://apnews.com/article/indiana-legislature-south-bend-accidents-elkhart-31c849c90aff88a7cddc9e9a614a585f

* "Sen. Joe Manchin Demurs On Wanting Democrats To Stay In Power:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/07/sen-joe-manchin-demurs-on-wanting-democrats-to-stay-in-power

* "Young Black voters talk politics ahead of November's midterms:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/young-black-voters-talk-politics-ahead-of-november-s-midterms-145174597616

* "Stacey Abrams: ‘I am strongly pro-choice’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-i-am-strongly-pro-choice-145434181822

* "GOP candidate for Illinois governor said Holocaust ‘doesn’t even compare’ to abortion in resurfaced 2017 video:" https://news.yahoo.com/gop-candidate-illinois-governor-said-193953407.html

* "Hungary’s far-right PM Viktor Orbán speaks at CPAC summit – as it happened:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/aug/04/senate-sinema-climate-inflation-reduction-biden-democrats

* "As conservatives cheer far right messages at CPAC, Mehdi Hasan has another name for it: ‘Fascism’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/as-conservatives-cheer-far-right-messages-at-cpac-mehdi-hasan-has-another-name-for-it-fascism-145517125919

* "Joy Reid: Viktor Orban is a right wing dream for GOP trying to destroy our democracy from within:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/hungarian-autocrat-viktor-orban-receives-the-red-carpet-treatment-by-republicans-at-cpac-145522245758

* "The GOP is Viktor Orban’s party now:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/07/vicktor-orban-republican-party-cpac-dallas-new-fascism/

* CW: Sexual Assault "The FBI Confirms Its Brett Kavanaugh Investigation Was a Total Sham:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/brett-kavanaugh-fbi-investigation

* "Will Ivana help Donald Trump with tax breaks from beyond the grave?:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/31/donald-ivana-trump-cemetery-golf-course-taxes

* "Federal grand jury subpoenas ex-Trump WH counsel Cipollone in 2020 election probe, source says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/pat-cipollone-grand-jury/

* "Arizona Officials Warned Fake Electors Plan Could ‘Appear Treasonous’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/us/politics/arizona-trump-fake-electors.html

* "Rep. Mondaire Jones: ‘Our democracy is in crisis’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-mondaire-jones-our-democracy-is-in-crisis-145519173576

* "Jan. 6 text messages wiped from phones of key Trump Pentagon officials:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/defense-department-missing-january-6-texts/index.html

* "Homeland Security watchdog previously accused of misleading investigators, report says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/03/homeland-security-joseph-cuffari-watchdog-report/

* "Former White House ethics lawyer ‘strongly suspects’ orders to destroy texts came from White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-texts-of-secret-service-department-of-homeland-security-pentagon-officials-being-deleted-slammed-by-former-white-house-ethics-lawyer-145441861886

* "Sandy Hook lawyer: Jan. 6 panel asked for Alex Jones' texts:" https://apnews.com/article/shootings-austin-texas-lawsuits-75d521210f350d3e7c36c1a5aa6213dd

* "Jan. 6 rioter who wore jacket with his last name on it pleads guilty:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-rioter-wore-jacket-last-name-pleads-guilty-rcna41784

* "Alex Jones ordered to pay $49.3M total over Sandy Hook lies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/05/alex-jones-sandy-hook-damages-00050186

* "US to fill border wall gaps at open area near Yuma, Arizona:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us-to-fill-border-wall-gaps-in-arizona-for-safety-reasons/2022/07/28/1ae2f346-0ead-11ed-88e8-c58dc3dbaee2_story.html

* "Georgia authorities release body camera footage after woman dies following fall from patrol car:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/30/us/georgia-brianna-grier-body-camera-footage-reaj/index.html

* "Feds charge 4 police officers in fatal Breonna Taylor raid:" https://apnews.com/article/breonna-taylor-louisville-civil-rights-violations-merrick-garland-b137cccd940652c20e1294363cb01b72

* "Alec Karakatsanis - "Usual Cruelty":" https://www.cc.com/video/ratli7/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-alec-karakatsanis-usual-cruelty

* "New York prisons lift ban on book about Attica uprising:" https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article264093376.html

* "Life as a Trans Soldier:"

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* "Another Major Heat Wave Sweeps the U.S.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/us/heat-wave-northeast-records.html

* "August heat wave places nearly 80 million at risk from Texas to Northeast Megalopolis:" https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/tracking-heat

* "Man trying to burn spider with lighter sparked Utah wildfire, police say:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/02/utah-wildfire-police-man-burn-spider-lighter

* "As Western flames spread, California sees its largest 2022 fire:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/01/1114828739/california-klamath-largest-fire

* "Record floods strand 1K people in Death Valley National Park:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-nevada-weather-government-and-politics-7e823cb4ab832c8a69587020c3a4eb2a

* "Floods strike new blow in place that has known hardship:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-storms-kentucky-21d5f1915034fcf4e02c85e5ac73b78d

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* "People Are Moving (Back) to This Deadly Wildfire Site:"

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* "How Clean Energy Is Increasing Worker Exploitation in DRC:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiThCK0-_b0

* "Village Tackles Speeding by Planting Thousands of Flowers Because Drivers Slow Down as They Pass By:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/village-tackles-speeding-by-planting-thousands-of-flowers-after-noticing-drivers-slowed-down-as-they-passed-them/

* "Elon Musk Has Officially Lost $69 Billion This Year:" https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-lost-69-billion?utm_campaign=trueanthem_manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1XWvakA53op5H0o8wZinWq0YvF5D9IW0ie6-AGh8SEwzH2MsPqlJizoIc&fs=e&s=cl

* "Following the Black Soldiers who Biked Across America:"

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* "Nichelle Nichols, trailblazing 'Star Trek' actress, dies at 89:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/31/entertainment/nichelle-nichols-star-trek-dies/index.html

* "Wellington Paranormal's reluctant star:" https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/tv-guide/105744477/wellington-paranormals-reluctant-star

* "Mental Health Care:"

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* "Meanwhile... Grandma's NSFW Headstone | A Candy Lover's Dream Job:"

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* "Meanwhile... The Rise Of The Necrobots | The Bittersweet Merger Of Spirit And JetBlue:"

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* "Joe Manchin's Surprising Climate Deal:" https://www.cc.com/video/mya63k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-joe-manchin-s-surprising-climate-deal

* "Biden Resumes Border Wall & Ivana Trump's Golf Course Burial:" https://www.cc.com/video/7p75gr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-biden-resumes-border-wall-ivana-trump-s-golf-course-burial

* "CP Time - The Black Roots of House Music:" https://www.cc.com/video/7n2b9n/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-the-black-roots-of-house-music

* "Student Debt Is Following Americans to the Grave:" https://www.cc.com/video/oet983/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-student-debt-is-following-americans-to-the-grave

* "GOP Primaries, Kansas Protects Abortion & Alex Jones Trial:" https://www.cc.com/video/n41fe1/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-gop-primaries-kansas-protects-abortion-alex-jones-trial

* "Izzy/Ed / No Children / The Mountain Goats:"

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* So the tooth thing is a whole saga again. I went and got the root canal. After they were like, "We're putting in a temporary filling until you can get a crown." Me: When can I schedule the crown for? Them: We don't do that here and neither does your dentist. You can't chew anything until you get the crown as it's fragile and will crumble and we'll have to do another root canal. Good luck! Bye! Me: WTF!?!

Both my dentist and the Endodontist knew I had neither a previous crown or root canal, but I was supposed to have guessed two months ago that I would need a crown and that I needed to start searching for a new dentist that both did crowns and took Medicare right then, since there are basically no dentists taking new patients in my area and the wait lists are full since everything is scheduled out four months. I don't understand why they didn't tell me this when they told me I needed a root canal? I'd heard of crowns, had zero idea what one is or what it's for. I'm still not clear on what a root canal is. (I asked assorted different dental personal what a root canal is, including both dentists. I asked every time they asked if I had questions. None of the answers made sense and i think I would have done better if they'd used, say a picture of a tooth and pointed at things, but that's not how it works, apparently? Instead they say a few vague and confusing things that convey no information so there was nothing for it.) How was I supposed to guess that I needed to ask questions about crowns under that circumstance? Wouldn't it have been logical for them to say "You need both a root canal and a crown. You will need to find an endodonist and a new dentist, here are two lists of practices that do those things" rather than wait for someone who has said repeatedly they don't know anything about root canals to know what questions to ask?

So I'm basically fucked. I literally an not allowed to chew. I keep hurting myself moving my teeth wrong. There was a speck of grit in my mouth this evening (Wednesday) which may be the start of the temp filling crumbling. I have called all the dentists on the tiny list I wheedled them into giving me of dentists they work with, one of which doesn't exist apparently. The one who answered their phone says I should call back in a couple of months to see if there is room on their wait list then as they are scheduled four months out right now and they don't know any other practices taking new patients.

Everyday I call the answwering machines of dentists fruitlessly, leaving messages with zero hope that anyone will take me even if they do have slots as I know full well most dentists reject medicare out of hand even though it pays cash and is easier to get advance clearance for these things because of reasons unclear to me. My Social worker is on vacation. I hope to enlist her help when she gets back as she's a bulldog and can argue the medicare billing which I don't know how to do, but really, I'm fucked.

I have x-rays. I have excellent records. I literally had a cleaning in the last month. I just want the frigging crown, not all the new patient exam and x-ray stuff. I can't chew until we do this. I don't see how I can go the projected four to six months without crumbling the temp.

All the dentists knew this would be the case. Seriously, why the fuck did not one of them tell me to start looking for a dentist that does crowns two months ago? I don't understand why that deliberately kept this information from me knowing that getting a crown in less than four to six months would require a time machine or a miracle and that I needed a crown ideally within a week of the root canal? Am I missing something here?

* Wednesday we were meant to swim, but there was a COVID exposure in our friend group, and Head Millennial and I decided to just do errands instead. Several hours after I took Head Millennial home, my body through one of the grand tantrums where a bunch of things go wrong at once. I ended up puttering around for a while, but giving up and going to bed without accomplishing much.

Thursday I felt terrible to an extent where I am now playing the sick or recovering from a body tantrum game. The joys of chronic illness. I had wanted to post the Tuesday election results Wednesday noight. I simply was impossible. I'm sorry.

* Friday: I am 90% sure I figured out what's going on with my body and that it's a perfect storm of things that periodically go wrong going on at once, plus tooth rfelated disruptions meaning I keep ending up swalowing things that weren't really chewed and the whole mostly only eating once a day because I'm simply not well enough to make whole meals multiple times a day at this trather high pain level.

Normally, I'd do a real, dinner equivalent meal once I make it out of my room, as that's when my spoons and pain rtesistance are best case for the evening. I have dried fruit and nuts, and if I'm really hungry maybe a granola type bar as a mid-awake cycle snack, and then something easy and fairly light towards the end of the awake cycle for optimum coverage on my AS meds while I sleep. There is literally nothing on the snack list I can have mid wake cycle so it gets skipped. If I skip the smaller, later meal, I don't get the second AS meds dose. Without the mid-cycle snack, I'm often too tired and queasy to make and eat Last Meal. Missing the second dose fucks with my sleep and builds the general overall pain level higher which makes it even less likely I can manage Last Meal.... you see the problem. Yoghurt is crazy expensive. I should probably try to buy some this weekend anyway.

Adding to the whole pain situation I had Spasms, Wednesday after I took head Millenial home, which makes the pain situation worse and I had to take a PRN that interacts with something else to add muscle aches. That effect is mostly worn off, but it likely contributed to the pain snowballing effect. Then there's the sinus headache from allergen exposure outside Wednesday. Headaches make queasiness. The muscular part of my chronic pain (TMj,extreme spasms) also can cause queasiness. My inability to chew food contributes to queasiness.... You see where this is going. Oh, and I was taking the wrong dose of something by accident for over a month which can cause queasiness. I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

So I think I'm not sick, just in a perfect storm of chronic illness and tooth nonsense.

There is light at the end of the tunnel on the oven at least. I want to thank everyone who's contributed so far. We are at a point where, say not paying most of our electric bill could solve it, for example, if we are lucky and the price hasn't gone up in a monthish.

* Fundraising Friday and Saturday went swimmingly. As of this writing, I am waiting for money to move into my bank account so I can buy the oven.

I want to thank everyone who helped not only with the oven, but with the whole series of disasters that hit starting last November., I couldn't manage without all of you.

Thank you.

* "I Pledge Allegiance to Roller Coasters:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/i-pledge-allegiance-to-roller-coasters?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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

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* "We Spoke to Queer People Hiding From the Taliban:"

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* "North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet:" https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/

* "A coconut seller and a day laborer reflect on life in astoundingly unequal India:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/12/23/1065267029/a-coconut-seller-and-a-day-laborer-reflect-on-life-in-astoundingly-unequal-india

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* "Omicron’s Radical Evolution:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/science/omicron-mutations-evolution.html

* "All of North Alabama remains in high or substantial risk of COVID-19 spread:" https://whnt.com/news/coronavirus/all-of-north-alabama-remains-in-high-or-substantial-risk-of-covid-19-spread/

* "Here’s Why Podcasts Are Ripe for Misinformation:"

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* "Russia invades Ukraine:" https://graphics.reuters.com/UKRAINE-CRISIS/zdpxokdxzvx/

* "NATO Response Force activated for first time:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/nato-ukraine-russia/index.html

* "Russia vetoes U.N. Security action on Ukraine as China abstains:" https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-vetoes-un-security-action-ukraine-china-abstains-2022-02-25/

* "Biden, Europe waiting on key SWIFT sanction against Russia:" https://apnews.com/article/what-is-swift-russia-financial-system-083a5935002c9d06ffd6ac39c13d3ce4

* "US to impose sanctions on Putin following Ukraine invasion:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/us-putin-sanctions/index.html

* "Street fighting begins in Kyiv; people urged to seek shelter:" https://news.yahoo.com/russia-presses-invasion-outskirts-ukrainian-054136506.html

* "Kyiv residential tower hit by missile as fighting rages:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/26/kyiv-residential-tower-hit-by-missile-as-fighting-rages-mayor

* "Russia says it's not hitting Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. Evidence suggests otherwise:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/ukraine-russia-videos-civilians-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Civilians take up arms in Ukraine, Russia’s attack on Kiyv continues:" https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/02/26/latest-from-ukraine-civilians-take-up-arms-to-defend-capital-from-russia/

* True Heroes. "Soldiers' defiant last words as Russian warship targets Snake Island:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/ukraine-russia-snake-island-attack-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

* "Pro-Russia Ukrainians resent being used by Putin to justify war: Engel:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pro-russia-ukrainians-resent-being-used-by-putin-to-justify-war-engel-134011461975

* "Putin's failure as a leader drives his resentment of Ukraine democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-s-failure-as-a-leader-drives-his-resentment-of-ukraine-democracy-134010437899

* "Ukrainian government hands out guns to citizens, encourages people to make Molotov cocktails:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-s-people-take-up-arms-against-russia-or-flee-to-defend-their-families-as-invasion-continues-134095941736

* "'I don't think there is a safe place': Kyiv residents fearful as Russian invaders close in:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-i-don-t-think-there-is-a-safe-place-kyiv-residents-fearful-as-russian-invaders-close-in-134101061947

* "Anticipating repression under Putin, Ukrainians fight for their lives:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anticipating-repression-under-putin-ukrainians-fight-for-their-lives-134101061806

* "EU shuts airspace to Russian airlines, plans to fund weapons purchases to Ukraine:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/eu-shuts-airspace-to-russian-airlines-will-buy-ukraine-arms

* "Australia to help send weapons to Ukraine via NATO:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-27/australia-send-weapons-nato-ukraine-war-russia/100865712

* "Oil tank on fire, gas pipeline blown near Kyiv as Russia continues missile attacks in Ukraine :" https://www.indiatoday.in/world/russia-ukraine-war/story/russia-ukraine-war-crisis-oil-tank-fire-gas-pipeline-kiyv-missile-attacks-1918392-2022-02-27

* "Russian convoy of ground forces, tanks moving toward Kyiv, Maxar says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-convoy-ground-forces-fuel-tanks-moving-toward-kyiv-maxar-2022-02-27/

* "Putin's fears of a unified, stronger Europe are fast becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-02-27/putins-unified-stronger-europe-ukraine-invasion

* "Europe and the U.S. move to isolate Russia as Ukrainians fight to hold off invaders:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/27/1083380718/europe-and-the-u-s-move-to-isolate-russia-as-ukrainians-hold-off-invaders

* "Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, escalating tensions:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-europe-moscow-2e4e1cf784f22b6afbe5a2f936725550

* "‘They were fooled by Putin’: Chinese historians speak out against Russian invasion:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/28/they-were-fooled-by-putin-chinese-historians-speak-out-against-russian-invasion

* "Ukrainians flee war, seeking safety across western borders:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-hungary-europe-slovakia-39a0abe9fcb9dd9e9fc7304aa2a9305b

* "At the Polish Border, Tens of Thousands of Ukrainian Refugees:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/world/europe/ukrainian-refugees-poland.html

* "At the Ukrainian border, a mother brings a stranger's children to safety:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-border-mother-brings-strangers-children-safety-2022-02-26/

* "Ukraine invasion: Kharkiv residents describe intense battle to defend city:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60543087

* "Eurovision bans Russia from 2022 contest after widespread outrage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/eurovision-russia-ukraine-ban/

* "‘Lot of determination’: Ukrainian Americans rally for their country:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/25/ukrainian-americans-solidarity-ukraine

* "Antiwar protesters take to the streets around the world in support of Ukraine:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/26/1083314709/protests-world-ukraine-russia

* "Prominent Russians join protests against Ukraine war amid 1,800 arrests:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/prominent-russians-join-protests-against-ukraine-war-amid-1800-arrests-putin

* "Russians hold anti-war rallies amid ominous threats by Putin:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe-arrests-moscow-cf5dda5528937de907f8916820cfab75

* "Anti-war protests in Russia test Putin's dictator privilege of disregarding public opinion:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-war-protests-in-russia-test-putin-s-dictator-privilege-of-disregarding-public-opinion-134011973534

* "‘No war’: High profile Russians speak out against Ukraine invasion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-no-war-high-profile-russians-speak-out-against-ukraine-invasion-134092357626

* "Russians reject Putin and his war on Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russians-reject-putin-and-his-war-on-ukraine-134106693697

* "War via TikTok: Russia's new tool for propaganda machine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-europe-media-nationalism-2186dbc533560cb666f59655ecf1ee8e

* Aka Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose. "Russian TV Uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to Sell Putin’s War:" https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/russian-tv-uses-tucker-carlson-tulsi-gabbard-sell-putins-war/

* "How the Republican Party has evolved on Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-the-republican-party-has-evolved-on-russia-134092357969

* "'I'm just so ashamed': Local Russians speak out against invasion of Ukraine:" https://www.kcra.com/article/russians-speak-out-against-invasion-ukraine/39244716#

* "Why the Republican Party just can't get enough of Vladimir Putin:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/why-the-republican-party-just-can-t-get-enough-of-vladimir-putin-134163013637

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* "Russia threatens 'military and political consequences' if Finland, Sweden try joining NATO:" https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/595853-russia-threatens-military-and-political-consequences-if-finland?rl=1

* "White House Press Secretary Talks Russia, State of the Union, Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/white-house-press-secretary-talks-russia-state-of-the-union-supreme-court-134164549579

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* "White House science office to hold first event on countering climate change denial and delay:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/24/white-house-science-office-hold-first-ever-event-countering-climate-change-denial-delay/

* "Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court:" https://apnews.com/article/Ketanji-Brown-Jackson-biden-supreme-court-nominee-32f77fe08d7cf64af95591668a0aaa41

* "With Biden's nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, a strengthening of democracy: Ifill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-biden-s-nomination-of-ketanji-brown-jackson-a-strengthening-of-democracy-ifill-134107205786

* "Republicans label Biden Supreme Court pick as "radical left":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/republicans-label-biden-supreme-court-pick-as-radical-left-134161477962

* "Black Farmers Fear Foreclosure as Debt Relief Remains Frozen:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/us/politics/black-farmers-debt-relief.html

* "What happens when Americans stay in the same house forever?:" https://www.vox.com/22939038/rents-rising-home-prices-americans-moving-residential-stagnation-stuck-mobility-freedom

* "First They Got Long Covid. Then, It Made Them Homeless:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-covid-homeless-chronic-illness-gig-economy-1312460/

* "This Is How Big Pharma Wins:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/this-is-how-big-pharma-wins.html

* "Congressional Stock Trading Is Shady As Hell, But Will It Get Banned?:"

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* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "North Carolina Court Imposes New District Map, Eliminating G.O.P. Edge:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/us/politics/north-carolina-maps-democrats.html

* "Texas’s primaries are happening on a legally disputed congressional map:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/texas-congressional-district-map/

* "The Fall of Papa Johns Pizza:"

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* CW: Pedophilia "The Problems with the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts:"

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* "Medication abortion now makes up the majority of US abortions, study shows for the first time:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/politics/medication-abortion-use/index.html

* "Republican-led states rush to pass antiabortion bills before Supreme Court rules on Roe:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/29/abortion-supreme-court-roe-texas-mississippi/

* "Alabama lawmakers advance bill to ban medication abortions:" https://www.al.com/news/2022/02/alabama-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-ban-medication-abortions.html

* "Oklahoma Advances Bill Banning Abortion 30 Days Into Pregnancy:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-abortion-ban-30-days_n_62154241e4b06e1cc5868284

* "At-home abortion medication requests soared after Texas restrictions:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/-home-abortion-medication-requests-soared-texas-restrictions-rcna17634

* "Florida’s 15-week abortion ban will have dramatic effects on patients and providers. Here’s what to expect.:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-ne-florida-abortion-bill-what-to-expect-20220227-uxu27ozvwzcplhtzevjrdpille-story.html

* "The Met Police has more than 33,000 officers, and just four are openly trans:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/26/met-police-officers-transgender-gay-lgbt/

* "Former Pride in London staffer who resigned over inaction on ‘racism’ says ‘nothing’s changed’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/26/pride-in-london-rhammel-afflick/

* "Abbott orders Texas probe of medical procedures for transgender children:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/texas-governor-orders-probe-of-abusive-procedures-for-transgender-children-00011057

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* "Florida House passes 'Don't Say Gay' bill:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/florida-house-passes-dont-say-gay-bill-rcna17532

* "Capehart: Why the LGBTQ young people of Gen Z give me so much hope.:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/capehart-why-the-lgbtq-young-people-of-gen-z-give-me-so-much-hope-134161477975

* "A record number of American adults identify as LGBTQ:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/a-record-number-of-american-adults-identify-as-lgbtq-134164549538

* "Breaking Down Texas & Florida Anti-Transgender Attacks:"

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* "The Strange Connection Between Mono and M.S.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/magazine/epstein-barr-virus-multiple-sclerosis.html

* "How medicine erased Black women from a 'white man's disease':" https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/21/ankylosing-spondylitis-diagnosis-black-women/

* "Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/19/1081263873/mental-health-art-therapy

* "Risking Their Lives, for Little Pay, to Guard India’s Forests:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/world/asia/india-forest-rangers.html

* "Farmers in Senegal learn to respect a scruffy shrub that gets no respect:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/20/1079777745/farmers-in-senegal-learn-to-respect-a-scruffy-shrub-that-gets-no-respect

* "Idaho Is Sitting on One of the Most Important Elements on Earth:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/cobalt-clean-energy-climate-change-idaho/621321/

* "TurboTax Maker Intuit Faces Tens of Millions in Fees in a Groundbreaking Legal Battle Over Consumer Fraud:" https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-maker-intuit-faces-tens-of-millions-in-fees-in-a-groundbreaking-legal-battle-over-consumer-fraud

* "Crypto Couple Steals $4 Billion Poorly:"

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* "It’s Been a Home for Decades, but Legal Only a Few Months:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/18/business/economy/california-housing.html

* "Embracing a Wetter Future, the Dutch Turn to Floating Homes:" https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-dutch-flock-to-floating-homes-embracing-a-wetter-future

* "How to fix the disaster of human roads to benefit wildlife:" https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-fix-the-disaster-of-human-roads-to-benefit-wildlife

* "The Incredibly Obvious Way to Reduce Road Deaths That Goes Ignored:" https://slate.com/business/2022/02/car-safety-department-of-transportation-transit-a-plea.html

* "Mechanics Ask Walmart, Major Bike Manufacturers to Stop Making and Selling ‘Built-to-Fail’ Bikes:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdgq9/mechanics-ask-walmart-major-bike-manufacturers-to-stop-making-and-selling-built-to-fail-bikes

* "Tiny robots made in Mexico to explore moon in scientific first:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/tiny-robots-made-mexico-explore-moon-scientific-first-2022-02-25/

* "Scientists are stunned by the discovery of the world's largest bacterium. It's the size of a fly:" https://www.zmescience.com/science/largest-giant-bacteria-3432/

* "Ticks survive for 27 years in entomologist’s lab:" https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3485/ticks-survive-for-27-years-in-entomologists-lab

* "Magpies outwit scientists by helping each other to remove tracking devices:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-22/magpies-show-cooperative-behaviour-by-removing-tracking-device/100851458

* "Hums, honks and boops? That’s just fish chatting about sex and food:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/feb/19/fish-acoustic-communication-sex-food-researchers

* "When Nazis Took Manhattan:" https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/20/695941323/when-nazis-took-manhattan

* "Voodoo Believers Explain What People Get Wrong About Their Faith:"

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* "MLMs & LDS: Why are so Many Mormon Women Involved in MLMs?:"

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* "Goodwill: Corporate Casket:"

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* "Jobfished: the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60387324

* "HIV Discoverer Luc Montagnier Dead at 89:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/10/hiv-discoverer-luc-montagnier-dead-89

* "Street life of Victorian London in rare historical photographs, 1873-1877:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/street-life-victorian-london/

* "Vintage photographs of Amsterdam streets taken by George Hendrik Breitner, 1890-1900:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/amsterdam-photographs-george-hendrik-breitner/

* "The Musical So Bad, They Sold the Theater to a Church.:"

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* "John Mulaney Stand-Up Monologue:"

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* "Subway Churro - SNL:"

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* "Cupid Shuffle - SNL:"

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* "Blue River - SNL:"

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* "Podcast Set - SNL:"

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* "I Am Not A Unisex | Pointlessly Gendered:"

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* "Florence + The Machine - King:"

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* Saturday, I taught Head Millennial a dish my family called Sauerkraut and Sweet Biscuits, but which is really more Sweet Dumplings in a glutinous sauerkraut stew. Me, warning the Millennial in advance: This is going to be extremely stinky, but delicious and full of Vitamin C. *Millennial sensibly turns the hood up fan up on high* This is something made on the stove top, so theoretically viable, but since the stove top is rapidly failing and heat is quite variable so things like boiling water and making pasta are still okay, but things like grilled cheese are right out, so I am not entirely sure this will work. Still we forge onward.

So explain how to set up the sauerkraut in water on medium heat while he mixes the batter. I give him the recipe. Me: You want to make this, but add an extra cup of sugar. Don't worry, the sour and sweet balance each other beautifully. Head Millennial: This says cold shortening? Me: It lies. It was written down in the '50's or '60's. Almost anything in this recipe set that says lard or shortening means butter or magazine unless there is an annotation that says no really use shortening. Use the same amount of butter. It will be fine. *Millennial gives me a skeptical look, but forges on.*

Millennial: What do I do with this batter? *Goes over there to help* Me: Okay, we turn up the heat now and stir the sauerkraut. Now we pour the batter on top. *Millennial gives me a concerned and skeptical look.* Okay, we let it heat for a bit, then put the lid on and put it on low. Come check it every ten minutes so so. Don't worry. It will be ugly. It is always ugly but very delicious. *I start wandering back to my sitting down project* I have no idea if this is German or Irish, but it is good, filling Winter food. Millennial: No wonder people think you are Polish. *I am amused*

As it turned out the Millennial did a bit of cleaning, but was tired. Me: want me to take you home? *Millenial casts a worried look back at the kitchen.* Me: It'll be fine. I'll cover it and turn it down. We could be gone half an hour and it would likely still be fine. If it burns a little on the bottom, no problem, but it likely won't.

Anyway, I took them home, which takes about fifteen minutes round trip that time of night. I adjusted the heat a little. Did a very careful stir to limit scorching at the bottom without damaging the dumplings to much. Covered it back up. Did a lung treatment. When I dished it out, it was perfect. Seriously. This is the best it's been in like three years. Neither over cooked or undercooked. Dumplings in the right size range and texture. Perfect mix of sweet and sour. Omnomnomnom!

* Thanks to incredibly kind donations, the immediate financial emergencies are at bay I should be able to cover the bill that is about to go critical and I think the housing tax. I will have a better idea how messed up March will be in about a week. I once again want to thank everyone for their support.

* Last Spring the head Millenial bought some hand sanitizer it turned out they didn't want, I'm assuming because of the offensively strong artificial smell. I can just tolerate it and it's otherwise good sanitizer, just really, really intense. I mostly only use sanitizer in the car, so this pump bottle doesn't get used that much. I did use it the other night and it finally hit me why it smells so familiar: It smells like priest. O.o

* Me, exclaiming to Head Millennial just how not heterosexual Word of Honor is: And then the guy who's been following the other one all over the countryside because of his "Beautiful Shoulders Blades" says the most heterosexual line ever spoken by one man to another in a Chinese homoerotic historical fantasy martial arts epic: "A Gentleman is willing to die for his soulmate."

Head Millennial: I don't think you understand what heterosexual means.

* "I was trying to translate two poems that make up a poetry battle between two sixth-century noblewomen, over their shared husband.:" https://twitter.com/kate_lingley/status/1494843033799434246

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

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

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

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

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

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

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

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Netanyahu is leading Israel into civil war between Jews and Palestinians:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-netanyahu-is-leading-israel-into-civil-war-between-jews-and-palestinians-1.9797672

* "Israeli seriously injured from rocket debris; IDF hits Gaza with ground, air strikes:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-israel-diverts-flights-rocket-barrage-palestinians-death-67-1.9796891

* "‘Morally shocking’: Inside the escalation between Israel and Gaza:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-morally-shocking-tension-between-israel-and-gaza-111920709846

* "Israel destroys Gaza tower housing AP and Al Jazeera offices:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-tower-housing-ap-al-jazeera-collapses-after-missile-strike-witness-2021-05-15/

* "Biden administration approved $735 million arms sale to Israel:" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/biden-administration-approved-735-million-arms-sale-israel-sources-2021-05-17/

* "Myanmar election: No evidence fraud in 2020 vote, observers say:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57144397

* "Myanmar jails local journalist, to free Japanese reporter:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/14/myanmar-jails-local-journalist-to-free-japanese-reporter

* "Myanmar army battles anti-coup rebels in northwestern town:" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/myanmar-army-battles-anti-coup-rebels-northwestern-town-2021-05-15/

* "Russia charges 19-year-old over school shooting:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/russians-pay-tribute-victims-mass-shooting-kazan-school-2021-05-12/

* "African Union mission urges return to 'constitutional order' in Chad:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/african-union-mission-urges-return-constitutional-order-chad-2021-05-12/

* "Man Accused of Promoting Extermination of Gays Says He's Queer Himself:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/5/11/man-accused-promoting-extermination-gays-says-hes-queer-himself

* "Colombia protesters: We're not scared anymore:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57105000

* "Ugandan Security Forces Deployed Ahead of Museveni Inauguration:" https://www.voanews.com/africa/ugandan-security-forces-deployed-ahead-museveni-inauguration

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* "Can't Get an Erection — This Could Be Why:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/5/17/research-reveals-link-between-covid-and-erectile-dysfunction

* "The Last Mile: Uganda’s Covid-19 vaccine struggle:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/uganda-covid-vaccine-struggle/

* "Brazil braces for renewed Covid surge as Bolsonaro faces parliamentary inquiry over pandemic response:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/14/brazil-fears-third-covid-wave-as-bolsonaro-faces-parliamentary-inquiry.html

* "How India's vaccine drive went horribly wrong:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57007004

* "The volunteer network sending oxygen to India's Covid patients:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/06/india/india-covid-srinivas-iyc-delhi-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

* "Misinformation surges amid India's COVID-19 calamity:" https://apnews.com/article/india-coronavirus-pandemic-misinformation-business-technology-c52d04de1c3b2332d572736ee069a495

* How to help India: https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

* "How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-covid-how-to-help.html

* "Biden announces US will share more vaccines globally:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/17/politics/vaccines-global-sharing-biden-administration/index.html

* "People vaccinated against Covid-19 can go without masks indoors and outdoors, CDC says:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/13/health/cdc-mask-guidance-vaccinated/index.html

* "Everything you need to know about the new CDC mask guidance for fully vaccinated people:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-on-what-fully-vaccinated-people-need-to-know-about-mask-guidance-111921733671

* "A Gay Doctor on Convincing Doubters to Get Vaccinated:" https://www.advocate.com/2021/5/11/gay-doctor-convincing-doubters-get-vaccinated

* "Without Including LGBTQI+ People, the Pandemic Will Not End:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/5/16/without-including-lgbtqi-people-pandemic-will-not-end

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* "USPS fills leadership ranks with new deputy postmaster general, 2 board members:" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2021/05/usps-fills-leadership-ranks-with-new-deputy-postmaster-general-board-member/

* "Hope for repairing Trump, DeJoy damage to post office as new board members are seated:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hope-for-repairing-trump-dejoy-damage-to-post-office-as-new-board-members-are-seated-111995973820

* "Piggy bank-filling payments for nearly 90 percent of kids will start July 15:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/17/child-tax-credit-payments-488969

* "John Podesta and other progressive leaders want Biden to drop the GOP's 'small-minded' infrastructure plans:" https://news.yahoo.com/john-podesta-other-progressive-leaders-161202273.html

* "Progressive groups caution Biden on weakening infrastructure bill for GOP bait and switch:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/progressive-groups-caution-biden-on-weakening-infrastructure-bill-for-gop-bait-and-switch-111927365847

* The Republican War on the Poor continues. "More than a dozen GOP-led states are ending federal unemployment benefits early:" https://www.axios.com/states-federal-unemployment-benefits-end-5ec90d27-4b43-4399-abaa-3a57925df671.html

* "Why stocks soared while America struggled:" https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/22421417/stock-market-pandemic-economy

* "Rising commodities costs hit Americans at home and on road:" https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-3af1bc787f3333bf89f5e9e91b92161a

* "Pulse nightclub could become national memorial to 49 'angels' murdered:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/13/pulse-nightclub-orlando-us-house-vote-memorial/

* "Stefanik voted in as House GOP's new No. 3 leader:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/14/stefanik-voted-in-as-house-gops-new-no-3-leader-488312

* "Rep. Greene aggressively confronts Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, causing New York congresswoman to raise security concerns:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-ocasio-cortez/2021/05/12/fd61d664-b37e-11eb-a3b5-f994536fe84a_story.html

* "Rep. Greene 'aggressively confronts' Rep. Ocasio-Cortez in halls of Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-aggressively-confronts-aoc-in-halls-of-congress-111919685641

* "Chris Hayes: GOP is moderating on policy, radicalizing against democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-how-republicans-are-moderating-on-policy-and-radicalizing-against-democracy-111991365660

* "America Needs a Sane and Functioning Republican Party:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/5/14/america-needs-sane-and-functioning-republican-party

* "Leaked video: Dark money group brags about writing GOP voter suppression bills across the country:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/heritage-foundation-dark-money-voter-suppression-laws/

* "Leaked video shows right-wing group bragging about drafting GOP anti-voter bills:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mother-jones-leaked-video-show-conservative-group-bragging-about-writing-voter-restriction-bills-111919173785

* Have something you want to tell Manchin? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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

* "While Republicans Cry About Cancel Culture, They’re Canceling Democracy:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/gop-cancel-culture-ending-democracy.html

* "Arizona makes it easier to purge some from early voting list:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-arizona-race-and-ethnicity-bills-elections-f66f8b032bd081092715f55dc1195134

* "Youngkin seeks to reverse Virginia GOP's Trump-era carnage:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/11/youngkin-trump-virginia-reverse-487300

* "Strap in, Virginia — the 2021 governor’s race is suddenly at full speed:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/glenn-youngkin-virginia-governors-race/2021/05/15/65caa178-b356-11eb-ab43-bebddc5a0f65_story.html

* "Caitlyn Jenner wants to bring the death penalty back to California:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/11/caitlyn-jenner-death-penalty-california/

* "POLITICO Playbook: How Palm Beach is preparing for a possible Trump indictment:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/05/13/how-palm-beach-is-preparing-for-a-possible-trump-indictment-492836?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f0ed-dd93-ad7f-f8edad790000&nlid=630318

* "Shielding Trump from extradition if he's indicted is an actual thing people are working on:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/shielding-trump-from-extradition-if-he-s-indicted-is-an-actual-thing-people-are-working-on-111925829964

* "Activists and Ex-Spy Said to Have Plotted to Discredit Trump ‘Enemies’ in Government:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/us/politics/mcmaster-fbi-trump-project-veritas.html

* "Rudy Giuliani: I Am Being Treated Like ‘Head of Drug Cartel’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-says-he-is-being-treated-like-head-of-drug-cartel-after-raid-on-home-office

* "House Lawmakers Reach Bipartisan Deal On Panel To Investigate Jan. 6 Attack:" https://www.npr.org/2021/05/14/996822835/house-lawmakers-reach-bipartisan-deal-on-panel-to-investigate-jan-6-attack

* "Fox News host confronted over election lies by defiant union boss live on air:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/12/fox-news-randi-weingarten-martha-maccullum-1619-project-misinformation/

* "‘Truth matters’: Rep. Cicilline moves to censure GOP reps ‘downplaying’ Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-truth-matters-rep-cicilline-moves-to-censure-gop-reps-downplaying-jan-6-111991365995

* "A Border Town Confronts the Reality of Police Surveillance:" https://www.wired.com/story/border-town-confronts-reality-police-surveillance/

* "Atlanta Spa Shootings Were Hate Crimes, Prosecutor Says:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/us/atlanta-spa-shootings-hate-crimes.html

* "How A Consent Decree Has Changed Policing In Newark, N.J.:" https://www.npr.org/2021/05/02/992846138/how-a-consent-decree-has-changed-policing-in-newark-n-j

* "LGBTQ+ People Receive More Scrutiny, Negativity From Police: Study:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/5/14/lgbtq-people-receive-more-scrutiny-negativity-police-study

* "Online trolls take anti-vaxx hate speech to new level, attacking Peter Hotez:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/health/article/Trolls-take-anti-vaxx-hate-speech-to-a-new-level-16160138.php

* "Gaetz associate agrees to cooperate in federal investigation:" https://apnews.com/article/greenberg-gaetz-investigation-sex-trafficking-596299907a6a4db09554cdf4a59d8ef7

* CW: Rape. "4 Women Say Matt Gaetz’s Wingman Pressured Them to Have Sex:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/4-women-say-matt-gaetzs-wingman-pressured-them-to-have-sex

* "'It's not just Greenberg.': Prosecutors building thorough case around Gaetz associate:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-not-just-greenberg-prosecutors-building-thorough-case-around-gaetz-associate-111998533715

* "Good news and bad news for Gaetz as associate takes plea deal (and the good news is bad):" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/good-news-and-bad-news-for-gaetz-as-associate-takes-plea-deal-and-the-good-news-is-bad-111996997667

* "Shocking new allegations about how Matt Gaetz used campaign funds:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-allegations-about-gaetz-use-of-campaign-funds-after-a-gop-fundraiser-111990853746

* "Supreme Court will hear direct challenge to Roe v. Wade:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/17/supreme-court-abortion-case-roe-challenge-488983

* "They Told Her Women Couldn’t Join the Ambulance Corps. So She Started Her Own.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/us/ezras-nashim-womens-EMT.html

* "Cameroonian transgender women convicted of 'attempted homosexuality':" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/cameroonian-transgender-women-convicted-attempted-homosexuality-2021-05-11/

* "Ugandan LGBT+ activist urges world to speak out against brutal homophobic regime:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/pride-uganda-lgbt-yoweri-museveni-gay-queer-africa-same-sex/

* "UK slides even further down rankings of most LGBT-friendly nations in Europe:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/17/uk-europe-rainbow-map-ranking-ilga-idahobit-lgbt-rights/

* "Bishops urge lawmakers to ban ‘abusive and traumatising’ conversion therapy in Wales:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/17/bench-bishops-conversion-therapy-wales-uk-ban/

* "Conversion therapy survivor told to 'vomit up the evil inside her' during Christian 'exorcism':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/12/conversion-therapy-ban-christian-religious-jayne-ozanne/

* "'Notorious homophobe' Edwin Poots wins DUP leadership:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/dup-leadership-edwin-poots-new-leader/

* "Life-changing penis surgery for trans men currently unavailable on NHS:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/nhs-bottom-surgery-trans-men-penis-phalloplasty-st-peters-andrology-centre/

* "Serial killer to marry prison fiancée who gave her a ‘no more murders’ ultimatum:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/joanna-dennehy-serial-killer-wedding-fiancee-prison/

* "First non-binary mayor 'of any city, anywhere' wins landslide election aged 22:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/12/non-binary-mayor-bangor-wales-owen-hurcum-genderqueer-agender/

* "Thug denies rape after beating man and fleeing with his £700 cardigan:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/11/luke-burling-reading-crown-court-rape-robbery-cashmere-cardigan/

* "NCAA Allows Games in States With Anti-Trans Laws:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/5/17/ncaa-allows-games-states-anti-trans-laws

* "Unequal Access to Puberty Blockers Is Producing Two Classes of Trans Kids:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/05/puberty-blocker-access-trans-youth.html

* "2021 now worst year for anti-LGBT+ legislation in US history – we're not even half-way:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/11/anti-lgbt-laws-passed-2021-any-other-us-history-trans-hrc/

* "Alaska launches its own cruel, 'horrific' attack on trans girls playing sports:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/alaska-trans-school-sports-ban-girls-shelley-hughes/

* "Ban on abhorrent gay and trans panic defence unanimously passed by Oregon:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/oregon-house-representatives-lgbt-gay-trans-panic-defence/

* "Tennessee Governor Signs Anti-Trans School 'Bathroom Bill' Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/5/14/tennessee-governor-signs-anti-trans-school-bathroom-bill-law

* "Nonbinary Indigenous Person Killed During Robbery in Pennsylvania:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/5/11/nonbinary-indigenous-person-killed-during-robbery-pennsylvania

* "Two More Trans Women of Color Reportedly Killed:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/5/12/two-more-trans-women-color-reportedly-killed

* "University condemns 'horrific incident' after student mob ​'broke into' LGBT+ safe space:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/15/bucknell-university-frans-house-break-in-lgbt-safe-space-fraternity/

* "Transphobia is Not Equality | Reacting to Transphobic Ad:"

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* "Judge: Man Convicted of Sodomy Shouldn't Be on Sex Offender Registry:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/5/13/judge-man-convicted-sodomy-shouldnt-be-sex-offender-registry

* "A Gay Man Says He Was Tormented at Liberty University. Now He's Suing:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/5/13/gay-man-says-he-was-tormented-liberty-university-now-hes-suing

* "Evangelical Lutheran Church Elects First Transgender Bishop:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2021/5/10/evangelical-lutheran-church-elects-first-transgender-bishop

* "Christian School Reportedly Tells Teachers: Expel Gay Kids or Leave:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2021/5/10/christian-school-reportedly-tells-teachers-expel-gay-kids-or-leave

* "Legalization of MDMA as PTSD Treatment Speeds Ahead:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/5/11/legalization-mdma-ptsd-treatment-speeds-ahead

* "Paralysed man uses ‘mindwriting’ brain computer to compose sentences:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/12/paralysed-man-mindwriting-brain-computer-compose-sentences

* "They Told Their Therapists Everything. Hackers Leaked It All:" https://www.wired.com/story/vastaamo-psychotherapy-patients-hack-data-breach/

* "The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth:" https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth

* "People of Color Breathe More Hazardous Air. The Sources Are Everywhere.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/climate/air-pollution-minorities.html

* "A story of slavery — and space:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/brazil-alcantara-launch-center-quilombo/

* "When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked:" https://daily.jstor.org/when-the-push-button-was-new-people-were-freaked/

* "The Mysterious Murder of The Atlanta Math Teacher:"

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* "How ACT UP Shook the Straight Power Structure:" https://www.advocate.com/books/2021/5/10/Sarah-schulman-act-up-hiv-book

* "New designs unveiled for Marsha P Johnson State Park after controversial plans ditched:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/15/marsha-p-johnson-state-park-new-design-brooklyn-plan-complaints/

* "Fleeing a Modern War, Syrians Seek Refuge in Ancient Ruins:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/world/middleeast/fleeing-a-modern-war-syrians-seek-refuge-in-ancient-ruins.html

* "James Williams, American Gay Activist Working in India, Dies of COVID:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/5/05/james-williams-american-gay-activist-working-india-dies-covid

* "Lesbian penguins are this mating season’s hot new couple:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/12/lesbian-penguin-gentoo-couple-sea-life-london-aquarium/

* "The Most Frivolous Lawsuits Ever:"

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* "How Superhero Films Misunderstand Revolutionaries:"

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* "The Utopian's Code is BROKEN! (Jupiter's Legacy Netflix):"

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* "How Slash Fiction Saved Star Trek (Ft. Mary Chieffo):"

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* "IT'S BETTER BUT ALSO WORSE? Bonding Season 2 Review:"

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* "Rap Diss - SNL:"

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* "The Muppet Show - SNL:"

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* So here's what's going on: I can't remember if I told y'all they had an opening at the hospital, so they moved my exploratory procedure up to next week. This is a good thing, given how quickly I'm deteriorating. It is quite possible in two weeks I'll be properly medicated and feeling better, assuming I don't also have cancer. I'm going to have a bunch of medic al stuff next week just generally, just like this week.

In other news, my glasses were ready a week early, so I am adjusting to bifocals again. These lack the line and are disconcerting if I move my head wrong, but are a dramatic improvement over the emergency non-bifocals I've been wearing and today was easier than yesterday, so I've hopes of being adjusted soon. These are by far the nicest glasses I've owned ever.

In other news, three of the millennials came over for an outdoor chargen picnic, held in accordance with current CDC guidelines. At some point in June my local friends will all be out of COVID jail. (Currently Squirrel, one of the Millennials, and I are all completely done. The others are half vax).

* I kept getting awakened Friday. Except for another beg from the Police Union, they were all important calls, but having long conversations, fetching my calendar etc., is not good for quality sleep.

Saturday I was too uncomfortable to sleep much. We did go and buy way too much juice and restricted diet/sick people foods for me to eat. I'm already in restriction, but I go up a level Monday and it gets worse from there. I need to sort out transport to the hospital, which is meant to be free and easy on my health plan, but the 24/7 number didn't connect. Like no error beep or message. No Ringing. Just dead line. Mmmmm... thanks? I spent like an hour looking for the direction sheet to get the number that went nowhere. I then tried typing in the title from the direction sheet which led me to another non-working number. O.o I added more search terms, found more directions. The first number it listed tried to sell me direct TV. WTF!?! The second number sounded correct, but says they are only Monday through Friday which is clearly not correct. My options are now call them Monday and see if they can give me the correct number or call my Social Worker and see if she has it. I don't understand why they would send me a directiion sheet with the wrong number and why my health plan site also lists a fake number.

squirrel will collect me after the proceedure and is trying to get off work. Caregiver Millennial has agreed to come and look after me in the evening. We plan to make good lemonade and sweet tea to store in the fridge on sunday, amoung other things.

I apparently have two different medical appointments at opposite ends of the day Monday. Fun!

* Monday was a nightmare. a scammer woke me at 7:59, fifteen minutes before the alarm. I spent a stupid amount of time trying to straighten out medical stuff on the phone. I spent the morning on medical stuff and other errands, all involving long waits, most of it standing up in stunning pain. I do not resent the lady with the baby taking one of two waiting room seats. I do resent the other six able bodied people who monopolized them during my 45 minute wait to drop off my specimen. I am visibly disabled, with a crutch and was obviously in massive pain, but I guess those able bodied people needed those two chairs more.

I went home to eat and lung and the like, then went out again for more medical stuff. Luckily the pre-proceedure COVID testing was drive through and very efficient. I am exhausted and in terrible pain. I get to do more medical stuff tomorrow. Sigh.

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* How to help India: https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

* "How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-covid-how-to-help.html

* Mutual Aid Link Round Up: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/645696532415447040/popss-great-big-mutual-aid-masterpost

* Want to help the Asian Community?
https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-to-help-asian-communities-2021.html
https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate
https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org/

* What to help save bats, and essential part of our ecosystem? "Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation:" https://www.merlintuttle.org/

* My oldest continuous Real Life friend is doing this project. "Bed, Bath, & Behemoth: An Epic D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/bed-bath-and-behemoth-an-epic-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR2pA1NFVGG7aZyrLDC5h9Q0a_g7yMh_rY5rWxrnpZ3sJRSe6yO8gAAEq4M

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* I'm too queasy to go through and figure out what's no longer relevant. Sorry.

* "Charlie Hebdo: Fourteen guilty in 2015 Paris terror attacks trial:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55336094

* "Travel chaos, U-turns and a cancelled Christmas: it's Boris Johnson's worst week:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/21/boris-johnson-cabinet-uk-travel-ban-ministers-covid

* "For U.K., an Early Taste of Brexit as Borders Are Sealed:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/world/europe/brexit-covid-uk.html

* "Kidnap, torture, murder: the plight of Pakistan’s thousands of disappeared:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/dec/14/kidnap-torture-the-plight-of-pakistans-thousands-of-disappeared

* "Beijing may have built bases in the South China Sea, but that doesn't mean it can defend them, report claims:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/china/south-china-sea-bases-military-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Special Report-China launches 'gray-zone' warfare to subdue Taiwan:" https://www.reuters.com/article/hongkong-taiwan-military/special-report-china-launches-gray-zone-warfare-to-subdue-taiwan-idUSKBN28K1GS

* "As Mexico’s security deteriorates, the power of the military grows:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/mexico-losing-control/mexico-military-security-drug-war/?itid=sf_world

* "The World’s Most Important Body of Water:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/12/south-china-sea-us-ghosts-strategic-tensions/617380/
* "Indian farmers step up pressure with hunger strike against reforms:" https://www.reuters.com/article/india-farms-protests/indian-farmers-step-up-pressure-with-hunger-strike-against-reforms-idUSKBN28O0MC

* "The Arab Uprisings Never Ended:" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2020-12-08/arab-uprisings-never-ended

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* "People Thought Covid-19 Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/covid-deaths-young-adults.html

* "She was demoted, doubted and rejected. Now, her work is the basis of the Covid-19 vaccine:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/us/katalin-kariko-covid-19-vaccine-scientist-trnd/index.html

* "Why Restricting International Travel Probably Won’t Prevent the Next Pandemic:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/study-travel-bans-won-t-thwart-the-next-pandemic

* "What to know about new Covid strain spreading in U.K.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-to-know-about-new-covid-strain-spreading-in-u-k-98219077954

* "Netherlands ban flights from UK after detecting new coronavirus strain:" https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-netherlands-britain/netherlands-ban-flights-from-uk-after-detecting-new-coronavirus-strain-idUSKBN28U03A

UPDATE: Pretty much all of Europe is banning or limiting travel from the UK.

* "‘Out of control’ Covid strain makes UK a global pariah as countries impose travel bans:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/21/new-covid-strain-makes-uk-a-global-pariah-amid-travel-bans.html

* "Austria will go into third lockdown after Christmas, ending with tests:" https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-austria/austria-to-go-into-third-lockdown-after-christmas-media-report-idUSKBN28S16L

* "Spain to start vaccinations against Covid-19 on Dec 27: Health minister:" https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/spain-to-start-vaccinations-against-covid-19-on-dec-27-health-minister-120121900145_1.html

* "WHO was warned lives were at risk over yanked Italy report:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-europe-italy-coronavirus-pandemic-united-nations-36170835a5c7ca888894022f31a38c85

* "Italy to go into Covid lockdown over festive period:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/19/italy-to-go-into-covid-lockdown-over-festive-period

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 12/21/20 are 17,948,000. The official death toll is 319,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "A death every 33 seconds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/19/death-every-30-seconds/

* "FDA authorizes Moderna vaccine for emergency use:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/18/fda-authorizes-moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-448578

* "Experts applaud as Moderna COVID-19 vaccine goes out for shipment:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-now-out-for-shipment-discussed-by-health-military-experts-98118213959

* "Older People, Some Essential Workers Should Get Vaccines Next, CDC Panel Says:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/20/948606578/older-people-some-essential-workers-to-get-vaccines-next-cdc-panel-says

* Stay the fuck at home! "Millions Of People Flying Despite Public Health Pleas To Stay Put:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/20/948618133/millions-of-people-flying-despite-public-health-pleas-to-stay-put

* "‘Subpoenas are necessary’: House watchdog details extensive meddling with CDC Covid-19 reports:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/21/house-watchdog-cdc-covid-reports-449517

* "Stanford Apologizes After Vaccine Allocation Leaves Out Nearly All Medical Residents:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/18/948176807/stanford-apologizes-after-vaccine-allocation-leaves-out-nearly-all-medical-resid

* "Navajo Nation reports another 160 COVID cases plus 4 deaths:" https://kutv.com/news/local/navajo-nation-reports-another-160-covid-cases-plus-4-deaths

* "ICU availability in Southern California at 0%, and it's going to get worse, officials warn:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-17/southern-california-out-of-icu-beds-amid-covid-19-surge

* "Prisoners Have Been Excluded From COVID Vaccine Plans, and Health Experts Are Sounding the Alarm:" https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/business/money-report/prisoners-have-been-excluded-from-covid-vaccine-plans-and-health-experts-are-sounding-the-alarm/2510707/

* "New York Spent $1 Billion on Virus Supplies. Now It Wants Money Back.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/nyregion/new-york-ppe-refunds.html

* "The Santa who sounded the alarm:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/19/santa-claus-coronavirus-warning/

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* "EU abstains from UN vote on ‘Nazism’:" https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-abstains-from-un-vote-on-nazism/

* "Trump contradicts Pompeo in bid to downplay massive hack of U.S. government, Russia’s role:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russia-is-behind-the-broad-ongoing-cyber-spy-campaign-against-the-us-government-and-private-sector-pompeo-says/2020/12/19/8c850cf0-41b3-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html

* "Trump administration weighing legal immunity for Saudi crown prince in alleged assassination plot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/legal-immunity-request-mbs/2020/12/21/c2b87900-4150-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html

* 45's rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic again. "Trump Makes Classical Style the Default for Federal Buildings:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/arts/design/trump-executive-order-federal-buildings-architecture.html

* "Trump pardons: 7 high profile people who may get one:" https://fortune.com/2020/12/18/trump-pardons-7-high-profile-people-who-may-get-one/

* "Barr says no need for special counsels to investigate election or Hunter Biden:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/politics/william-barr-hunter-biden-election-special-counsel/index.html

* "Trump's talk of martial law sends White House staffers rushing to the press:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/20/media/stelter-trump-martial-law/index.html

* "Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of special counsel, martial law as Trump advisers clash:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/trump-oval-office-meeting-special-counsel-martial-law/index.html

* "‘Disgrace to his uniform’: Col. Wilkerson on Flynn’s martial law election plot:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disgrace-to-his-uniform-col-wilkerson-on-flynn-s-martial-law-election-plot-98216517703

* No, it's a different suit. 45 keeps humping that dead horse. "Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-supreme-court-election-results-151f9a6ca176bd92bb67e4494fecc3c7

* "Feds probing Giuliani have broached making legal request for his electronic communications:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/feds-probing-giuliani-have-broached-making-legal-request-for-his-electronic-communications-98224197601

* "As Trump reportedly warms to pardon power, Giuliani focuses on reversing election for him:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-trump-reportedly-warms-to-pardon-power-giuliani-focuses-on-reversing-election-for-him-98231877686

* "Maddow: U.S. mired in '3-way split screen' of Trump crises:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-u-s-mired-in-3-way-split-screen-of-trump-crises-98231877672

* Extended Kamala Harris Interview: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kamala-harris-on-trump-s-refusal-to-concede-we-need-to-govern-98209861924

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kamala-harris-on-taking-the-vaccine-i-trust-the-public-health-experts-98209349580

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kamala-harris-we-intend-to-work-across-party-lines-98208837811

* "A huge study of 50 years of tax cuts for the wealthy suggests 'trickle-down' economics makes inequality worse:" https://www.businessinsider.com/tax-cuts-rich-trickle-down-income-inequality-study-2020-12

* "Paycheck-To-Paycheck Nation: Why Even Americans With Higher Income Struggle With Bills:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/16/941292021/paycheck-to-paycheck-nation-how-life-in-america-adds-up

* "Work (or, the 5 jobs I had before YouTube):"

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* "Lawmakers reach compromise over GOP proposal to rein in Fed’s powers, clearing path for a stimulus package deal:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/19/stimulus-talks-race-against-government-shutddown-deadline/

* "Sen. Coons says Senate COVID relief vote ‘still days away’:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/covid-relief-passage-by-the-senate-still-days-away-by-sen-coons-says-98072133783

* "Jayapal on widespread COVID economic issues: 'This is on us, the federal government’:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/covid-relief-package-in-congress-still-under-negotiations-discussed-by-rep-jayapal-98074181697

* "Congress passes massive stimulus package as virus rages:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/21/congress-verge-approving-massive-stimulus-449504

* Georgians! Go Vote Now!

* I added a little something to "Love, Gen X" for 2020: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/638078481235951616/dear-millenials-and-gen-z

* "Turner addresses Biden critique, pledges to work with all allies on economic issues:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/nina-turner-on-her-biden-critiques-running-for-congress-income-inequality-98074693985

* "Black And Up In Arms: Code Switch:" https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/12/09/944615029/black-and-up-in-arms

* "What Black People Really Think About the Police:" https://newrepublic.com/article/160532/what-black-people-think-police

* "Police officers are prosecuted for murder in less than 2 percent of fatal shootings:" https://www.vox.com/21497089/police-prosecutions-black-lives-matter-breonna-taylor-george-floyd

* "Black children are 6 times more likely to be shot to death by police, study finds:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/us/black-children-police-brutality-trnd/index.html

* "Why You Really Can’t Fight City Hall, At Least Over the Police:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/15/monell-rule-police-racial-justice-445308

* "Police Say Seizing Property Without Trial Helps Keep Crime Down. A New Study Shows They’re Wrong.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/police-say-seizing-property-without-trial-helps-keep-crime-down-a-new-study-shows-theyre-wrong

* "Right-Wing Embrace Of Conspiracy Is 'Mass Radicalization,' Experts Warn:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946381523/right-wing-embrace-of-conspiracy-is-mass-radicalization-experts-warn

* "Why Just 'Adding Context' to Controversial Monuments May Not Change Minds:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-just-adding-context-controversial-monument-may-not-change-minds-180976583/

* "A family got a racist note after putting up a Black Santa. Soon, neighbors began displaying their own Black Santas.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/12/03/black-santa-solidarity/

* "These Aren’t Laws:"

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* CW: Domestic Violence, Rape. "“No Choice but to Do It”: Why Women Go to Prison:" https://newrepublic.com/article/160589/women-prison-domestic-violence-survivors

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Hundreds of veterans rebuke Rep. Dan Crenshaw over claims he smeared sex assault victim:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Nearly-500-veterans-rebuke-Rep-Dan-Crenshaw-over-15808348.php

* "People have the ‘right to offend’ and to ‘abuse another’ without fear of arrest, UK court rules:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/18/freedom-speech-right-offend-abuse-kate-scottow-stephanie-hayden-court-appeal/

* "The Supreme Court Rejects Opportunity to Roll Back Marriage Equality:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/supreme-court-rejects-indiana-birth-certificate-case.html

* "Comedian Eddie Izzard Announces She/Her Pronouns: 'I Just Want to Be Based in Girl Mode':" https://people.com/tv/eddie-izzard-announces-she-her-pronouns/

* "How Kidney Failure Is the Perfect Storm of a Racist Health Care System:" https://features.propublica.org/covid-dialysis/for-years-jamarcus-crews-tried-to-get-a-new-kidney-but-corporate-healthcare-stood-in-the-way/

* "When Usually Solitary Octopuses Get Together, Odd Things Happen:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/octopus-behavior-metazoa

* "Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/asia/india-pollution-inequality.html

* "‘We are slowly being poisoned.’ How toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes:" https://www.latimes.com/projects/toxic-chemicals-planes-covid-19-travel-woes/

* "The Antikythera Mechanism: Evidence of a Lunar Calendar:" https://www.metafilter.com/189714/The-Antikythera-Mechanism-Evidence-of-a-Lunar-Calendar

* "Her Majesty’s Kidnappers:" https://daily.jstor.org/kidnapping-for-the-queens-choir/?preview_id=268821

* "Iconic Corpse: GRAM PARSONS:"

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* "Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214:"

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* "Votegasm 2020: The Awkward Days After - More Shower Power:"

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* "Pence Gets the Vaccine Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "A Teacher - SNL:"

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* "The Grinch - SNL:"

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* "Ask Your Doctor If Putonamasc Is Right For You:"

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* Saturday: Today I had an evening of Spasms, which is painful and exhausting and in this case gave me a headache, though that could also be the lung infection with resurged Friday. I stayed up to call about more antibiotics, but it wasn't sorted by Pharmacy closing time. I'll try again Monday. I'm not dangerously ill and the timing: sinus symptoms two days after the end of a course, the rest of the identical symptom set the evening after... yeah. normally we do a double course of z-pacs, but it wasn't my regular doctor and I forgot to tell her, so really my fault. I'm gnawing on news, but mostly vegging and watching youtube. Sorry. Spasms + infections is just a lot.

On the upside? So many gift cookies in the mail! Omnomnom!

* Monday: My antibiotics didn't come, despite the pharmacist saying they were in the bag. I'm not doing so well physically. Otherwise though? it's pretty good solstice. Went to a solstice zoom party, even though I stopped going to the physical version about 12 years ago because of disability. Some Millenials brought food today, including an excellent pecan pie. Another Millenial brought a ton of cookies in the evening. I have two gifts to open and a ton of cards. The cats wore them self out playing with toys the Millenials got, and we just need to survive another month before things start improving.

* Muslim Experiences Christmas: https://magnesiumflare.tumblr.com/post/638068935319863296

* "Sunday Sweets With Christmas Cheer:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/12/20/sunday-sweets-with-christmas-cheer

* "Sunday Sweets Savors The Moment :" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/12/13/sunday-sweets-savors-the-moment

* "Sunday Sweets Gets OVER DRAMATIC:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/12/6/sunday-sweets-gets-over-dramatic

* I am watching season 5 of The Expanse, and finally, I get why book readers feel that way about Amos Burton.

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "8 Overlooked LGBTQ Groups to Donate to for Giving Tuesday:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/02/8-overlooked-lgbtq-groups-donate-giving-tuesday

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* "How Denmark reopened its primary schools:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-52649919/coronavirus-inside-a-reopened-primary-school-in-the-time-of-covid-19

* "Amsterdam to embrace 'doughnut' model to mend post-coronavirus economy:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/amsterdam-doughnut-model-mend-post-coronavirus-economy

* "Ukrainian surrogate babies bound for U.S., Europe stranded by virus lockdown:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ukraine-babies/ukrainian-surrogate-babies-bound-for-u-s-europe-stranded-by-virus-lockdown-idUSKBN22Q380

* "Tens of thousands under lockdown evacuate as Typhoon Vongfong strikes Philippines:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/14/weather/typhoon-vongfong-philippines-landfall-intl/index.html

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* "Virus symptoms multiply as pandemic deepens:" https://www.afp.com/en/news/826/virus-symptoms-multiply-pandemic-deepens-doc-1rc8yt1

* "Yes, COVID-toe. A bizarre post-coronavirus symptom causes purple fingers, toes ... maybe even ears:" https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/coronavirus/article_b0053f48-951e-11ea-8d0e-e78ae0a625c4.html

* "The human eye is ‘susceptible’ to coronavirus infection, new study warns:" https://www.orthospinenews.com/2020/05/11/the-human-eye-is-susceptible-to-coronavirus-infection-new-study-warns/

* "Male blood has more coronavirus-growing enzymes, study finds:" https://nypost.com/2020/05/11/male-blood-contains-more-coronavirus-growing-enzymes-study/

* "Black light experiment shows how quickly a virus like Covid-19 can spread at a restaurant:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/health/japan-black-light-experiment-coronavirus-trnd-wellness/index.html

* "Third of patients develop dangerous blood clots:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52662065

* "‘Second-week crash’ is time of peril for some covid-19 patients:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/second-week-crash-is-time-of-peril-for-some-covid-19-patients/2020/04/29/3940fee2-8970-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html

* "'You think you're free, then it comes back': Doctors and patients explain what the coronavirus 'second-week crash' feels like:" https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-experience-a-coronavirus-second-week-crash-2020-4

* "Fever, fatigue, fear: For some COVID-19 patients recovering at home, weeks of illness, uncertainty:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fever-fatigue-fear-some-recovering-covid-19-patients-weeks-illness-n1197806

* "Man who has 'recovered' from COVID-19 explains how its impact goes far beyond death tolls:" https://www.upworthy.com/recovered-covid-coronavirus-not-what-it-seems

* "‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19:" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/finally-virus-got-me-scientist-who-fought-ebola-and-hiv-reflects-facing-death-covid-19

* "Children face risk for severe complications and death from COVID-19: Most of the children admitted to pediatric intensive care units had underlying conditions:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200511142153.htm

* "Kidney injury seen in more than a third of hospitalized COVID-19 patients: U.S. study:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-kidney/kidney-injury-seen-in-more-than-a-third-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-u-s-study-idUSKBN22Q0U7

* "The emerging long-term complications of Covid-19, explained:" https://www.vox.com/2020/5/8/21251899/coronavirus-long-term-effects-symptoms

* "Latin America’s Outbreaks Now Rival Europe’s. But Its Options Are Worse.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/world/americas/latin-america-virus-death.html

* "Deadly Rio police raid brings crowds into streets of quarantined favela:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-violence/deadly-rio-police-raid-brings-crowds-into-streets-of-quarantined-favela-idUSKBN22R3F4

"Several residents complained that the government was offering little aid to contain the novel coronavirus, but was still engaging in violent police operations that risked spreading the virus through low-income communities."

* "Brazil loses second health minister in less than a month as Covid-19 deaths rise:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/brazil-health-minister-nelson-teich-resigns

* "Yemen sees 'surge' in coronavirus deaths:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52669301

* "Young, Cardin Lead Effort to Continue Humanitarian Lifeline for Yemeni Civilians:" https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/young-cardin-young-lead-effort-to-continue-humanitarian-lifeline-for-yemeni-civilians

* "Total quarantine in Santiago de Chile after coronavirus spike -:" https://santiagotimes.cl/2020/05/14/total-quarantine-in-santiago-de-chile-after-coronavirus-spike-2/

* "Where are the bodies? Missing remains mean no peace for grieving families in Ecuador:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/07/americas/ecuador-coronavirus-missing-intl/index.html

* "Global report: Trump threat to cut trade ties over Covid-19 branded 'lunacy' by Chinese media:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/global-report-trade-deal-fears-after-trump-threat-to-cut-china-ties-over-covid-19

* "Lancet editorial blasts Trump’s ‘inconsistent and incoherent’ coronavirus response:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/15/lancet-editorial-trump-administration-coronavirus-response/

* "‘Trump death clock’ lights up New York’s Times Square with coronavirus death toll:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-clock-new-york-times-square-coronavirus-death-toll-a9512041.html

* "Trump names team to develop coronavirus vaccine at ‘Warp Speed’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/15/trump-coronavirus-vaccine-development-team-260678

* "Trump praises rapid coronavirus test despite FDA warning:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/15/trump-praises-coronavirus-test-despite-fda-warning-260759

* "Cuomo: The PPE shortage has now become a testing supply shortage:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/cuomo-the-ppe-shortage-has-now-become-a-testing-supply-shortage-83491909951

* "Cuomo not hopeful for stronger federal role if second wave comes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/cuomo-not-hopeful-for-stronger-federal-role-if-second-wave-comes-83492933629

* "When the U.S. president represents a global health crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/when-the-u-s-president-represents-a-global-health-crisis-83535941682

* "We need a radically different model to tackle the COVID-19 crisis:" http://www.defenddemocracy.press/we-need-a-radically-different-model-to-tackle-the-covid-19-crisis-by-james-k-galbraith/

* "McConnell says he was wrong on Obama pandemic playbook:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/mcconnell-obama-playbook-pandemic-259969

* "Doctors Without Borders, UC San Francisco send health care workers to Navajo Nation:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/05/12/coronavirus-navajo-nation-doctors-without-borders-uc-san-francisco-health-care-workers/3121198001/

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

* "67 new cases of COVID-19 reported in ND for May 13; total statewide is 1,712:" https://www.kxnet.com/news/state-news/67-new-cases-of-covid-19-reported-in-nd-for-may-13-total-statewide-is-1712/

* "‘It’s just cuckoo’: state’s latest data mishap causes critics to cry foul:" https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/just-cuckoo-state-latest-data-mishap-causes-critics-cry-foul/182PpUvUX9XEF8vO11NVGO/

"But among certain observers, the damage is done. Dr. Harry J. Heiman, a clinical associate professor at the Georgia State University School of Public Health, called the most recent mix-up “criminal” and said DPH has shown a pattern of reporting misleading data."

* "VA hiring jumps amid coronavirus crisis, but department opposes hazard pay for front-line staff:" https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/05/14/va-hiring-jumps-amid-coronavirus-crisis-but-department-opposes-hazard-pay-for-front-line-staff/

* "V.A. tries to hide supply challenges faced in coronavirus fight:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/v-a-tries-to-hide-supply-challenges-faced-in-coronavirus-fight-83536453512

* "Coronavirus deaths at Colorado nursing homes continue to grow; outbreaks at jails, prisons, meat plants worsen:" https://coloradosun.com/2020/05/13/coronavirus-deaths-nursing-homes-meatpacking-colorado/

* "Ricketts rejects calls to cancel TestNebraska contract, name nursing homes with coronavirus cases:" https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/ricketts-rejects-calls-to-cancel-testnebraska-contract-name-nursing-homes-with-coronavirus-cases/article_2fca6961-701b-51f8-a807-44ffcb3ced0c.html

* "‘Prison should not be a death sentence’: Chris Hayes remembers victims of COVID-19:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-prison-should-not-be-a-death-sentence-chris-hayes-remembers-victims-of-covid-19-83483717980

* "It's not about the meat: Cuomo cites worker crowding in outbreaks at food plants:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/it-s-not-about-the-meat-cuomo-cites-worker-crowding-in-outbreaks-at-food-plants-83492421729

* "Groups force Nebraska to release COVID-19 race data:" https://www.ketv.com/article/groups-force-nebraska-to-release-covid-19-race-data/32480352#

* "‘The best dancer in the neighborhood’: Rep. Maxine Waters remembers her sister who died of COVID-19:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-best-dancer-in-the-neighborhood-rep-maxine-waters-remembers-her-sister-who-died-of-covid-19-83529797562

* "Men are less likely to wear face masks because they’re ‘a sign of weakness’ and imagine how tired we are:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/14/face-mask-men-less-likely-coronavirus-pandemic-us-uk-research/

* "Chris Hayes to right-wing: Nothing is stupider than not wearing a mask as a 'badge of honor':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-to-right-wing-nothing-is-stupider-than-not-wearing-a-mask-as-a-badge-of-honor-83526725965

* "This Wasn’t The Apocalypse They Were Promised:" https://first-draft.com/2020/05/12/this-wasnt-the-apocalypse-they-were-promised/

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* "Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-company-has-received-at-least-970000-from-us-taxpayers-for-room-rentals/2020/05/14/26d27862-916d-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html

* "Appeals court greenlights emoluments suit against Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/appeals-court-green-lights-emoluments-suit-against-trump-257884

* "As coronavirus roils the nation, Trump reverts to tactic of accusing foes of felonies:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-reverts-to-tactic-of-accusing-foes-of-felonies-as-coronavirus-roils-the-nation/2020/05/12/2028bf88-9467-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html

* "Trump continues abusing power to punish ‘enemies’ and reward associates:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-trump-continues-abusing-power-to-punish-enemies-and-reward-associates-83486789571

* "Barr's track record makes questions about Burr probe unavoidable:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/barr-s-track-record-makes-questions-about-burr-probe-unavoidable-83492421574

* "How much trouble is Sen. Richard Burr actually in?:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/14/politics/richard-burr-fbi-subpoena-stocks/index.html

* "‘This should worry all Americans’: Fmr. CIA head on Trump unleashing DOJ on ‘enemies’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-should-worry-all-americans-fmr-cia-head-on-trump-unleashing-doj-on-enemies-83529797792

* "Court asks retired judge to oppose Justice Dept. effort to drop Michael Flynn case, examine whether ex-Trump adviser committed perjury:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/court-asks-retired-judge-to-fight-justice-dept-effort-to-drop-michael-flynn-case-and-examine-if-ex-trump-adviser-committed-perjury/2020/05/13/8c0deb0a-9567-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html

* "Trump finally succeeds in corrupting DOJ, U.S. intelligence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-finally-succeeds-in-corrupting-doj-u-s-intelligence-83535941709

* "Nonprofit run by Trump nominee to head U.S. media agency is under investigation, senator says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nonprofit-run-by-trump-nominee-to-head-us-media-agency-is-under-investigation-senator-says/2020/05/14/2afa07ca-962c-11ea-8107-acde2f7a8d6e_story.html

* "Pentagon fires its point person for Defense Production Act:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/coronavirus-defense-production-act-ouster-258578

* "E.P.A. Opts Against Limits on Water Contaminant Tied to Fetal Damage:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/climate/trump-drinking-water-perchlorate.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

“The decision by Andrew Wheeler, the administrator of the E.P.A., appears to defy a court order that required the agency to establish a safe drinking-water standard for the chemical by the end of June. The policy, which acknowledges that exposure to high levels of perchlorate can cause I.Q. damage but opts nevertheless not to limit it, could also set a precedent for the regulation of other chemicals, people familiar with the matter said. “

Republicans are arguing that preventing fetal brain damage is not in the Public interest, but causing it definitely is.

* "The Trump Administration Is Reversing Nearly 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html

* "Postal Service to review package delivery fees as Trump influence grows:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/14/trump-postal-service-package-rates/

* "36m Americans now unemployed as another 3m file for benefits:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/14/unemployment-us-data-coronavirus

* "The Bailout Is Working — for the Rich:" The Bailout Is Working — for the Rich

* "American billionaires have gotten $280 billion richer since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90494347/american-billionaires-have-gotten-280-billion-richer-since-the-start-of-the-covid-19-pandemic

* She misappropriated funds intended to help low income students and schools to help wealthy ones and religious schools. "DeVos Funnels Coronavirus Relief Funds to Favored Private and Religious Schools:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/betsy-devos-coronavirus-religious-schools.html

* "Private jet company founded by Trump donor gets $27 million bailout:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/14/private-jet-company-owned-by-trump-donor-gets-27-million-bailout.html

* "Company tied to Trump campaign manager gets PPP loan:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brad-parscale-trump-campaign-manager-cloudcommerce-paycheck-protection-program-loan/

* "Booker: Everybody knows Congress should take quick fiscal action:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-relief-demanded-on-bipartisan-basis-sen-booker-says-83549253867

* "‘Not an acceptable answer’: Trump rebukes Fauci’s concern over reopening schools:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/14/trump-fauci-school-coronavirus/

* "CDC releases scaled-back guidance on reopening after White House blocked earlier release:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/cdc-guidance-reopening-coronavirus-259565

* "Why it’s so difficult to safely reopen schools in the era of COVID-19:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-it-s-so-difficult-to-safely-reopen-schools-in-the-era-of-covid-19-83487301766

* "Ron DeSantis extends eviction and foreclosure moratorium to June 2:" https://floridapolitics.com/archives/332543-evictions-foreclosures-moratorium-desantis

* "Eric Garcetti - The Mayor of Los Angeles Discusses the Path to Reopening the City:"

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* "Scott Blubaugh - COVID-19's Devastating Effects on Food Distribution in the U.S.:"

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* "With Move to Remote Voting, House Alters What It Means for Congress to Meet:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/remote-voting-house-coronavirus.html

* "Study ties 'Obamacare' to fewer cancer deaths in some states:" https://apnews.com/2345422037f0f330f4a8b523048324ca

* "Democratic party must engage black communities to win:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/biden-s-vp-pick-discussed-in-viral-op-ed-by-black-women-activists-83550277587

* "Trump Administration Plans to Extend Virus Border Restrictions Indefinitely:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-border-restrictions.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

* "New refugees struggle to find footing in US during pandemic:" https://apnews.com/5099729e6aed4a412594a9a18ffa33a7

* "Prison Operators' Negligence Caused Trans Migrant's Death, Suit Claims:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/5/14/prison-operators-negligence-caused-trans-migrants-death-suit-claims

"She “arrived at Cibola in septic shock, dehydrated, severely tachycardic, medically starving, febrile, and in the early stages of multiple organ failure,” the suit continues, adding that she “was in no condition to be transported or temporarily detained anywhere.”

“Had Roxsana received the proper health care screening within 12 hours of entering custody as required by ICE policy and prevailing standards of medical care, she, more likely than not, would have had a greater chance of survival,” the document says. The failure to provide her appropriate care amounts to discrimination against Hernandez as a person with HIV, contends the suit."

* The Breonna Taylor murder sure looks premeditated to me. They had no evidence that the EMT had done anything illegal at all so they lied to get a no knock warrant for a search for a suspect they knew wasn't there so they could have the fun of violently breaking into the apartment in the middle of the night to spray it with bullets, murdering her and endangering people including a sleeping child in a neighboring apartment whom they narrowly missed murdering, then lied to the police about what happened in statements that contradicted multiple eye witness reports. Then instead of arresting the police assassins for the multiple felonies they commuted they arrested the victim's partner for standing his ground against people breaking into his apartment to murder them. They also grilled the victims mother in a way that suggested they were trying to pin the clearly premeditated police assassination of her daughter on the innocent partner.

* "Taylor family attorney: Do blacks have second amendment rights?:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/breonna-taylor-police-killing-update-by-family-attorney-ben-crump-83546693855

* "Breonna Taylor’s mother: She was sweet, hard worker, good friend:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/breonna-taylor-s-mother-on-her-daughter-s-police-shooting-death-83549253945

* TW: Rape. "A 20-year-old lost his job and couldn't make rent. His landlord 'said he'd gang-rape him every day until it was paid':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/15/landlord-gang-rape-tenant-sex-for-rent/

* TW: Rape. "ACLU sues Betsy DeVos over new campus sexual assault rules:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/see-you-court-aclu-sues-betsy-devos-over-new-campus-n1206981

* "This 9-year-old girl is living proof of what happens when you let trans kids live their truth:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/15/trans-girl-nine-haaretz-israel-supportive-parents-gender-affirming/

* "London’s oldest LGBT+ venue, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, needs your help to survive coronavirus:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/15/royal-vauxhall-tavern-lgbt-venue-london-crowdfunding-coronavirus-gofundme/

* "Aimee Stephens died fighting for trans rights but was repeatedly deadnamed in obituaries. This is why that’s never, ever OK:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/15/aimee-stephens-trans-rights-supreme-court-death-obituary-deadname-chase-strangio/

"Strangio, a trans activist and staff attorney at the ACLU who represented Stephens, wrote a piece for NBC News about why “deadnaming is a way to shame trans people for who they are”.

He wrote: “To write about a woman who is trans and remind the reader of her deadname under the pretence that what she was called at birth is important to understanding who she is today actually evokes the image of a man for readers and contributes to the insidious social understanding that ‘this person claimed to be a woman but was really a man’.

“The ongoing understanding that our identities are not valid is what every trans person sees and hears whenever someone insists on referring to a trans person by using their deadname.”"

* "This school district is making sure trans students will always – and only – be referred to by their true name and pronouns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/16/trans-students-philadelphia-virtual-classroom-misgendering-deadnaming/

* "Anderson Cooper: Being Gay Is 'One of the Great Blessings of My Life':" https://www.advocate.com/media/2020/5/15/anderson-cooper-being-gay-one-great-blessings-my-life

* "Post Viral:" https://feyandstrange.dreamwidth.org/1295768.html

* "Jerry Stiller, Comedian With Enduring Appeal, Is Dead at 92:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/arts/television/jerry-stiller-seinfeld-dead.html

* "A Ray of Sunshine - Justin Trudeau's Online Teaching, China's Viral School Video & NYC Soundscape:"

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* "Trump's "Obamagate" Raving, the Supreme Court on Trump's Finances & Anthony Fauci's Senate Testimony:"

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* "How the Coronavirus Can Wreak Havoc on the Body:"

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* "Richard Burr's Stock Scandal, Wisconsin's Lockdown Smackdown & Potential NYC Subway Reservations:"

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* "Trump and Fox News Push the "Obamagate" Conspiracy Theory:"

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* "Narcos in the Time of Coronavirus:"

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* "How Coronavirus is Starving The Nation Pt. 1:"

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* "How Coronavirus is Starving The Nation Pt. 2:"

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* "Reimagining The Nation Post-Pandemic:"

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

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* "Trump's Rose Garden Hissy Fit, Plus The Dumbest Thing The President Has Ever Said:"

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* "Trump Insists We've "Prevailed" As Dr. Fauci Refuses To Sugarcoat His Coronavirus Outlook:"

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* "Great Big Sea - Captain Kidd:"

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* Thursday: The car started again, so that's two days keeping a charge. I came back to deal with a collection of arrivals which required me to finally start the livingroom furniture move I've been dreading. The issue is that I want one of the benches where the fish stand is, bbut to do that I need to move the tank onto a bench (a two person job and it's squirrel's game night so no chance of help at all. i moved small furniture so I could move the squirrel's wall bench which involved moving all the under bench storage so I could move the under window bench into the corner against the front wall which involved space the other bench needed to fit. i put a living room chair and my office chair temporarily against the window which sort of fucks up cat access to the window, though Tavy's found a way.

Some friends had ordered a new office chair they needed for working from home using stimulus check, only when it arrived it was the wrong chair and returning it was a hassle to I'm trying it out tonight in my office. I may end up switching the chairs back because this one, while brand new, more stable, lighter, and hardier isn't as well padded, but we'll see how it does with wheelchair cushions.

Another friend had mailed me three glorious tomato starts, hence the urgancy to get the new chair off the porch, because no way could I reach the bit of the garden these starts needed to go to get the best sun access without me making space in the living room for an extra chair, hence the tetris.

I used all the spoons, bruised a cheekbone, got mauled by an over excited Tavy who launched himself at me in his excitement, and am in extra pain, but it needed doing and now is half way done, even if it's not sustainable without moving the tank.

* Friday: I needed to get a few things done first, so Squirrel and I agreed he'd go get some sleep and we'd move the twenty tank when he got up. Which turned out to be very early Saturday morning. Moving an inhabited tank is a nightmare process, but better than moving the fish into a back up tank. All the equipment needs unplugging and putting somewhere safe. All the fish furniture which is saturated and muddy, need to be put somewhere they won't get contaminated or ruin anything. As much water as possible needs to me removed as possible without removing any fish and with as little loss of life as possible. It's still a shock to them, but less stress than chasing them around and inevitably missing some or stressing them so much they don't make it. My experience is I lose fewer fry and bottom feeders this way. It is also less work, but still a lot of work and exhausted. Inhabited tanks are heavy.

We got it over there and I gave it a good cleaning, refilled it and put it back together. Phase two complete. Tomorrow's plan involves a lot of futzing. I may have to excavate the spare living room lamp from the closet where it went during the Great renovation, which is a project in itself, as I fear this lamp may be Done. We'll see.

* Saturday: I am covered in Spider bits and dust, but I am vindicated in my belief that the furniture all fit in this configuration. (Squirrel kept asking if I was sure I'd measured right and would things really fit. Ha! I am really good at furniture tetris.) Of course it involved moving the chairs and the stuff stored under benches out, recleaning the floors, moving the stand, putting storage into the stand cabinet which I can now access, cleaning the floor again, moving the bench, cleaning the floor yet again, then putting the chairs and things back. I switched lamps, which involved digging it out of the closet, but I was tired of fussing with the glitchy one and this one is taller and thus better suited, if not nearly as pretty. Next I need to do more measuring and switch pictures around again. Phase five involves the nightmare of moving the Big Tank out of the office, which is going to be a major fucking issue.

However, as of tonight, the living room is in a way more functional configuration than we've ever had in this place. It would be better if it was bigger, but really getting the broken fireplace out of the corner is a massive fucking improvement. This configuration means that after there's a vaccine, I won't be doing a used furniture scavenger hunt for a large bookcase as I'd hoped, but when the time comes, I'm going to take measurements and see if I can't find a tall skinny one in the right dimensions or a suitable equivalent. I really do need more shelving, even with selling off a third of the collection last move. I may get rid of a chair. Well see how I feel once I've had time to live with this.

In Livia news, by Friday she'd worked out how to access her windowsill, and y bed time she'd decided to forgo the usual two weeks of observation for any new object before interacting with it, and sat on the new chair. She likes it! She likes the familiar chairs better, of course. Familiar things are always better than new ones, but it is nap worthy and defensible. Both of the Imperials have tried out the window sill bench now that I've put it back and they are pleased with this development despite their real distress at a third evening of furniture moving. Livia's tumm seems better today and she ate all her meat. Elder Kitty was latte for dinner, but I saved it for her. Livia was rather put out that other girl was getting dinner when she wasn't, but she was consoled for the loss of a hoped for Second dinner with a treat treasure hunt on my desk, so we are calling it a win.

Update: Livia spent most of the evening on her safety chair watching fish TV between naps. Someone finally put her fish TV back almost where it was only better!

* Black Sails Season One Soundtrack Music Geekery: https://www.bearmccreary.com/#blog/blog/black-sails-season-one-thoughts/

* "Paw-den me: Polite cats line up, follow social distancing guidelines:" https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/good-news/2020/05/14/stray-cats-line-up/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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