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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Another Sexual Assault Allegation for Brett Kavanaugh:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Fires in Greece: how to help:" https://medium.com/@theo.k/fires-in-greece-how-to-help-41ad32fc9232

* Practical ways to protest with scripts. "On the Helsinki summit, election integrity and Mueller:" https://medium.com/@Celeste_pewter/on-the-helsinki-summit-election-integrity-and-mueller-b8ed1acde2c0

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