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* I have halted working on this aggregate edition because of yet another HOA based emergancy and a time dependant action item for the military budget bill. No news from Wednesday is in here and very little Tuesday. Sorry. World news is super short because I didn't get to it. Apologies.

* Please tell the Whitehouse anything you want them to do while there is still time: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

* "Resources for helping Gaza, Sudan and Congo:" https://www.tumblr.com/swallowedabug/758070860436439040?source=share

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* "Biden administration announces nearly $1 billion aid package for Ukraine as Trump meets with Zelenskyy:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-administration-announces-1-billion-aid-package-ukraine/story?id=116562732

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* "Haiti gang massacres around 180 people, targeting elderly:" https://www.reuters.com/world/haiti-gang-massacres-least-110-people-cite-soleil-rights-group-says-2024-12-09/

* "Despite confusion, chaos in Syria, Assad's ouster hailed as an indisputably good thing:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/despite-confusion-chaos-in-syria-assad-s-ouster-hailed-as-an-indisputably-good-thing-226729541547

* A thing explaining the Canada Post Strike with good links to sources. I support the strike.: https://www.tumblr.com/thewynne/769397374327160832?source=share

* "Cancer-causing chemicals used in homes and workplaces banned by EPA:" https://abc7ny.com/post/epa-bans-2-cleaning-product-chemicals-both-known-potentially-cause-types-cancer/15635168/

* "USDA orders testing of milk for bird flu:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/usda-orders-testing-milk-bird-flu-rcna183212

I bet Trump rolls it right back like he did all those food safety regulations last time, given RFK and Mark MacAfee being invested in killing as many people as possible with preventable illness and MacAfee's financial stake in the quarantine on his infected cows being lifted so he can go back to selling infected milk.

Trump is broadly opposed to food safety and public health in general hence the RFK Jr. choice and the plans to dismantle our entire public health infrastructure.

* "These parents of transgender kids have a lot to say about the Supreme Court case on gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/news/parents-react-gender-care-case

* This is a win. "Supreme Court rejects chance to review challenge to transgender-inclusive school policies:" https://www.advocate.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-transgender-case

* "BREAKING: U.S. House passes defense spending bill with anti-trans provision:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-trans-defense-bill-advances

Remember how we spent all last year and the early part of this one fighting this sort of thing where they slip anti-trans stuff into must pass funding bills?

Here we are again. Please, call your critters in the senate. Democrats actually had our backs through these fights in the last few years, but it's not guaranteed given the scapegoating in the press, so call Democratic critters too help stiffen their spines.

* I suspect the Doctor is not wrong about weaponization. "Republican senators push for 'transparency' on trans youth care studies:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republicans-demand-puberty-blocker-findings

* Our job for the next two years is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.

Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

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

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

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* If you live in North Carolina, now is a really good time to protest. "Rev. William Barber calls bill removing power from Democrats a ‘legislative coup’:" https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article296843764.html

* "NC Democratic Party sues over GOP efforts to toss 60,000 votes. Race for Supreme Court seat hangs in balance:" https://www.wral.com/story/nc-democratic-party-sues-over-gop-efforts-to-toss-60-000-votes-race-for-supreme-court-seat-hangs-in-balance/21756693/

* "Meet the gay 19-year-old who made history as Utah's youngest elected official:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jackson-lewis-youngest-elected-official-utah

* "RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump to step down amid speculation about Florida senate seat:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rnc-chair-lara-trump-step-amid-speculation-florida/story?id=116590610

* "New Jersey just banned book bans with Freedom to Read Act:" https://www.advocate.com/education/new-jersey-book-bans

* "Ben Wikler - A Vision For the Future of the Democratic Party | The Daily Show:"





* "Air Force defers NGAD decision to Trump administration:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/aviation/air-force-defers-ngad-decision-to-trump-administration/ar-AA1vlB7V

* "Trump-era Justice Department subpoenaed congressional staffers, watchdog finds:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/10/g-s1-37644/justice-department-subpoenae-trump

* This is some serious autocrat shit. "‘This is a signal flare’: Swalwell reacts to Trump DOJ secretly seizing his phone records:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-a-signal-flare-swalwell-reacts-to-trump-doj-secretly-seizing-his-phone-records-226713669707

* "'Positively Orwellian': Bombshell report reveals Trump DOJ spied on members of Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-positively-orwellian-bombshell-report-reveals-trump-doj-spied-on-members-of-congress-226716229621

* "Autocratic Legalism:" https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archive/autocratic-legalism

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* "Big Lies and Small Lies: How the Right Controls the Narrative:"





* "Maddow: Shambolic transition inspires little confidence in Trump's coming term:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-shambolic-transition-inspires-little-confidence-in-trump-s-coming-term-226626629694

* "'Watch what they do': Maddow points out loopholes in new Trump FBI vetting agreement:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-watch-what-they-do-maddow-points-out-loopholes-in-new-trump-fbi-vetting-agreement-226626629775

* "Read the full transcript: President-elect Donald Trump interviewed by "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-interview-meet-press-kristen-welker-election-president-rcna182857

* "Trump details sweeping changes he’ll carry out on day one and beyond in an exclusive interview:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-details-sweeping-changes-ll-carry-day-one-exclusive-interview-rcna182858

* "Trump says he will end birthright citizenship:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/08/trump-end-birthright-citizenship-00193184

* "Trump's Terrible Reason for Banning Birthright Citizenship:"





* "Trump focuses on tariffs, immigration in first network TV interview:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/08/g-s1-37377/trump-meet-the-press-tariffs

* "Trump Plans To Pardon Jan. 6 Rioters As Soon As He Returns To Office:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pardon-january-6-rioters_n_6755e17de4b06b50ac930ba9

* "'Vengeance tour': Panel reacts to Trump's interview with NBC's Kristen Welker:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/trump-vows-vengeance-against-former-rep-liz-cheney-226510917621

* "Reality stubbornly resists Trump's January 6 narrative:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/reality-stubbornly-resists-trump-s-january-6-narrative-226626629530

* "Trump names ICE chief and makes another round of immigration announcements:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/05/congress/trump-ice-chief-rodney-scott-00192974

* "Blake Masters under consideration to become Trump’s top gun regulator:" https://www.semafor.com/article/12/06/2024/blake-masters-under-consideration-to-become-trumps-top-gun-regulator

* "Trump announces new role for his administration, names PayPal co-founder 'White House AI and crypto czar':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-announces-new-role-administration-names-paypal-founder/story?id=116509911

* "Elon Musk funded a super PAC comparing Trump’s position on abortion to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s:" https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-rbg-pac-abortion-349e66f50b2cd08f6bcebed56f941a3e

* "Elon Musk's Mom Makes Multiple Controversial Statements About Her Son:" https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/elon-musk-mom-multiple-controversial-statements-about-son-1992579

* "Trump suggests he shares some of RFK Jr.’s concerns about childhood vaccines:" https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/08/trump-suggests-he-shares-some-rfk-jr-concerns-childhood-vaccines-autism/

* O.o. "I Took the Test RFK Jr. Is Using to Determine Who Should Work at His Health Department:" https://slate.com/life/2024/12/rfk-robert-kennedy-trump-health-human-services-job.html

* "Trump Picks Another One of His Personal Attorneys to Join Administration:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/alina-habba-trump-white-house-adviser-1235197669/

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* "Trans inmates in Florida claim prison officials conducted breast checks, forced haircuts in lawsuit: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-trans-inmates-lawsuit

* "Why conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID are still so mysterious:" https://www.salon.com/2024/12/08/why-conditions-like-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-long-are-still-so-mysterious/?lh_aid=126167&lh_cid=dxlolurdg7&lh_em=markalanix%40gmail.com&di=3a6fba894977f509e6a218562781652f

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* "Nikki Giovanni, poet and literary celebrity, has died at 81:" https://apnews.com/article/nikki-giovanni-obit-e2232d5a003442afb76f084fe7c1b4a3

* So we are still waiting for Medicare to decide if I get more physio. In the meantime, the agency that pays for Goth Millennial and till the end of this year Asshole Agency cleaners as part of Medicare Advantage offered me "holistic" physio. She comes to your house. it's Mondays, looks like.

I was skeptical, but her suggestions look sound, target what needs targeting, and her credentials are excellent, so I'm going to try working this program.

I am trying not to freak out about the money for the third payment of the "Special Assessment" taking forever to transfer from Paypal. I am running out of time. I won't be able to raise a replacement if it fails to land and then I'm fucked as they will overdraw my account to take it.

* Paypal claims they sent the money for the special assessment on dec. 4th to my bank. It never made it there. HOA will try to draw the money beginning of next week regardless. If it's not there I am screwed. fees on both ends mounting exponentially into a debt I can never pay, until it threatens my housing.

Tuesday was four business days. I don't know what I'll do if it doesn't appear shortly. If I fuck everything for the month including insurance auto-withdraws. I still only have Squirrel's bit and my bill money and what the Millennials can scrape together short notice. Not enough, not enough.

We raised the money. This is terrifying that I'm still looking at being completely ruined over an illegally levied special assessment because either paypal or my bank made it disappear.

* So good news and bad news on the illegal "Special Assessment" all wrapped up together. For those following on Tumblr, I'd been waiting for the money for the third payment to arrive at my bank account after I transferred it on the 4th, so I could pay the third installment. I couldn't transfer it until the monthly housing auto-withdraw went past or risk my benefits because that would exceed the $2000 limit. My bank said paypal hadn't sent it when I called them. I got a live person at paypal who said it would be sorted today.

There was still only bill money in the account. This time my bank was able to go back further for me. (They were limited database when I'd called before).

HOA stole the whole third installment instead of taking the regular housing payment without informing me or sending a receipt. as of last Friday, their obnoxious customized "Portal" did not have any category for Illegal special assessments, nor did it show the payments for it in the regular legal housing payment category. (I discovered this evening it now does both.) My Social security in toto is significantly smaller than the third installment of the illegal special Assessment. This massively overdrew my account, wracking up fees, none of it anything anyone let me know about.

The operative word here is "Instead of." The Math doesn't add up. They did not take monthly housing. The email they sent threatening to auto-withdraw all accounts owing said it would pull on the 17th, whether we wanted it to or not. By my Math I now owe them the housing payment they did not take last week.

I would need $300ish more to cover the rest of housing I don't have, plus the auto-insurance autowithdraw.

This leaves nothing for bills at all, with is likely to be another 300-400, as I just had to over extend credit for gas for errands and medical stuff this month. I think I can float this part a little while, but January is also a month with extra bills in it and February is the other big semi-annual housing bill, so it's just going to keep getting uglier.

This is so cruel and exhausting and none of it didn't need to happen if the Boomers hadn't been set on (allegedly) wasting the emergency fund on a non-functional security theater fence they put up without asking anyone instead of doing necessary repairs to the buildings with the emergency funds, or if the HOA would just have taken what they were supposed to take and waited until I transferred the third payment as we agreed they would do.

So here I am stuck again, because I'm pretty sure they will overdraw me next Tuesday, causing cascading overdraft fees at the bank.

I hate to do this, but it's been one disaster after another this year, in large and small ways, and this absolutely blind-sided me. Twice.

If you can help: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* In other news, I had a really interesting poll this evening. They took standard demographics, then asked me to summarize 2024 in one word.

*Long pause*

Me: Sorry, I was trying to think of an answer that isn't profanity. I'll go with "Horrifying."

Then they asked a few of economy questions about now versus my expectations for 2025. Terrible now, worse next year.

Most of the rest of the poll was about abortion, birth control, IVF. It wasn't just policy in general questions and candidate questions, but in the middle of the section they asked some clarifying things like when did I think life began, should the law be based on science or religious belief. FASCINATING. No one asks questions like this in issue polls usually. If you have this kind of information you would have a better idea of what the polling around abortion timing and birth control types would actually mean. It would give you a better idea of what the person answering meant instead of what the poller thought they meant. I was for real impressed.

I wished they'd been asking about bodily autonomy broadly as well because I have Opinions.

Another notable thing to me, a connoisseur of political polls who gets polled A LOT because I have a landline and am willing to answer them, is how carefully everything was worded. Very neutral, very even handed, not a hint of push.

This poll was art if any poll can be said to be. Someone or someones really wanted this poll to elicit useful information instead of confirming a bias. It wasn't lazy or broad. It was finely detailed. *chef's kiss*

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The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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