* "Ailing orca J50 declared dead by scientist:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/j50-missing-concerns-scientists-1.4822671

* "Pakistan's Imran Khan skirts issue of Afghan refugees' citizenship:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/18/pakistan-imran-khan-afghan-begali-refugees-citizenship-passports

* "Clinton: Russian money to NRA should be investigated:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/clinton-russian-money-to-nra-should-be-investigated-1323836995662?v=railb&

* "Investigations show Russia's particular interest in Clinton:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/investigations-show-russia-s-particular-interest-in-clinton-1323837507767?v=railb&

* "Trump: ‘we probably have no choice’ but to put tariffs on all Chinese goods:" https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2164777/donald-trump-threatens-slap-tariffs-virtually-all-chinese-goods

* "Clinton expresses concern for future of US democracy under Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/clinton-expresses-concern-for-future-of-us-democracy-under-trump-1323818051699?v=railb&

* "Trump orders declassification of surveillance application, release of Comey texts:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/17/trump-declassification-fisa-documents-comey-texts-826304

* "Trump-proof aspects of Manafort deal rankle lawyers:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/18/manafort-deal-pardon-mueller-trump-827898

* Republicans are blocking the FBI from investigating Kavanagh's attempted rape of Christine Blasey Ford, and have barred all corroborating witnesses from testifying on the grounds that exuding evidence turns it into a he said/she said situation and evidence would just cloud the issue and would be incredibly unfair to the attacker. They also scheduled Dr. Ford to testify without asking her consent, which gives you an idea of how much attention Republicans pay to consent just generally. I mean, why should they bother asking her when they can just use force?

* "Kavanaugh accuser's call for FBI inquiry before testimony is dismissed:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/18/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-claim

* "GOP Rejects Kavanaugh Accuser’s Call for FBI Probe After Saying They Want Facts:" http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/republicans-fbi-probe-kavanaugh.html

* "Kavanaugh accuser 'faces death threats':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45568450

* "Clinton: W.H. should ask FBI to reopen Kavanaugh background check:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/clinton-w-h-should-ask-fbi-to-reopen-kavanaugh-background-check-1323818563647?v=railb&

* "Sen. Gillibrand: I believe Kavanaugh's accuser:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-gillibrand-i-believe-kavanaugh-s-accuser-1323726915738?v=railb&

* "Brock: Blasey Ford will face ‘full-scale smear campaign’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/brock-blasey-ford-will-face-full-scale-smear-campaign-1323732547698?v=railb&

* Hearings restart next Monday! There is still time to protest! 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, and Heidi Heitkamp; or Republicans like Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. (For Scott and Rubio emphasize Kavanaugh's racism and support for racial profiling, for Collins and Murkowski emphasize the right to chose, the nomminee 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). Contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition.

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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* "Senate approves $854B spending bill:" https://thehill.com/policy/finance/407218-senate-approves-854b-spending-bill

* "Don't Want Republicans Running The Government? You Need To Vote!:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/09/dont-want-republicans-running.html

* "Eric Holder Speaks at the 2018 HRC National Dinner:"





* "Trump administration to slash refugee cap:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/17/trump-refugees-limits-ceiling-826302

* "Cuban president backs same-sex marriage:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45546645

* "US Border Patrol Agent Serial Killer Victims Includes A Latina Trans Woman:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/09/us-border-patrol-agent-serial-killer.html

* "Number 21- Rest In Power and Peace Nikki Janelle Enriquez:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/09/number-21-rest-in-power-and-peace-nikki.htmlv

* "Cape Fear River crests higher than Hurricane Matthew:" https://abc11.com/weather/cape-fear-river-crests-higher-than-matthew/4257993/

* "Flood waters, death toll still rising in wake of Florence:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/flood-waters-death-toll-still-rising-in-wake-of-florence-1323869251698?v=railb&

* "Australian archaeologists dropped the term 'Stone Age' decades ago, and so should you:" https://theconversation.com/australian-archaeologists-dropped-the-term-stone-age-decades-ago-and-so-should-you-47275

* Griffins, Scythians, Fossils: A Plausible Theory: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/178245543157/big-bones-dont-lie-griffins

* "Coastal strip in Brazil sheds new light on early farming:" https://phys.org/news/2018-09-coastal-brazil-early-farming.html

* Suggestive, but not proved, alas. "Archaeologist completes long-stalled excavation at 1787 mansion in Georgetown:" https://thedcline.org/2018/09/06/archaeologist-completes-long-stalled-excavation-at-1787-mansion-in-georgetown/

* Henry Goodsir's hair! "Strands of hair from member of Franklin expedition provide new clues into mystery:" https://phys.org/news/2018-09-strands-hair-member-franklin-clues.html

* "Spiders blamed after broken siren played creepy nursery rhymes randomly at night to UK townsfolk:" https://boingboing.net/2018/09/17/spiders-blamed-after-broken-si.html

* "Mary and Jesus given garish robes in botched Spanish restoration:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/07/mary-and-jesus-given-garish-robes-in-botched-spanish-restoration

* "Nike's Pretend Wokeness:"





* "Jim's Amsterdam Police Ride-Along:"





* Today I really needed to finish the excellent Livia biography, so that's what I did all evening. When I did come out, I discovered a kind gift in my paypal. The ebay auction advert has been adjusted accordingly.

LM has been spending a huge amount of time with the door open and is now allowing Tavy within three feet of her nd Livia within about two. This suggests she's learned to tell them apart even with her poor eye sight. Monday night she not only ate 2/3 of a cat of tuna, but she shwed Liva away from the Junor Kitty plate to steal their meat juice. I also watched her scare Tavy off twice when he was clearly up to no good. She came for two longer pettins, has been wandering around the whole apartment when she's awake, and just generally seems more the way I remember her personality wise than the way she's been the last few years. I am calling this huge progress Livia the cat (As opposed to the historical figure) did figure out the person with the extra weird limp was also me at some point last night, so that was okay.

* Thought I woke up with today for no obvious reason: How would centaurs bath in a modern AU?

* I hate everything about the last several Elementary episodes.

* Something that is so often unsatisfying in media is the portrayal of scientists and skeptics. A friend once put his finger right on it. They aren't doing skepticism right. They are treating science like a strict religious dogma, when it's actually the opposite. Yes, one looks for logical explanations, but one doesn't reject facts because they don't fit a hypothesis, rather one changes the hypothesis.

I think about this often when I'm watching media or reading things with scientist or skeptical characters. Mira grant does a wonderful array of interesting and realistic characters, for example. A thing i read last week that annoyed me to no end did it exactly wrong: making the skeptic character rigid to the point of disconnecting from the reality around him entirely. his explanations for things were bad logic, so he was a straw skeptic. Ugh. It was a problem with the old X-Files. (I haven't seen the new ones; the transphobia in that movie made me too angry). I was rewatching the Night gallery, which I adored as a child and rewatch now and then. (It was incredibly pleasing to discover on the rewatch before this that Guillermo Del Toro loved them almost exactly the way I did, seeing the cheesey day or night photography and sub standard effects for what they were, but loving the stories all the same for the things that did work about them).

Anyway, over the weekend I saw the one where the witch is trying to steal the body of the Mathematician's wife, and they did the skepticism right. They established the Mathematician's logical nature and rejection of superstition in the first couple short scenes, but when presented with gradually building evidence that this particular supernatural thing was happening for real, he adjusted his views and took the peril as a serious one, used what lore he could gather and did his best to save his wife. The werewolf one is like that too. The psychiatrist assumes it's all delusion at first, but when presented with enough evidence, adjusts his world view and does his best.

When they do it right, it's so much more satisfying. (As is often the case in life in general). Every time I use my late friend's measuring stick to see if a character design lives up to the standard, I think of him.

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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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* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border

This has a call script to help you talk your Republican Senator into voting for the Keep Families Together Act: http://rockinhamburger.tumblr.com/post/175022988673/captacorn-marvelsmostwanted-heres-a-call

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

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

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