gwydion | Entries tagged with serial killers

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* This is actually the Sunday morning posting, but it was finish loading the aggregate or post, not both, and as it was I stayed up way too late.

* "Libya's rival authorities announce ceasefire:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53863627

* "Mali president resigns after detention by military, deepening crisis:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mali-security/mali-president-resigns-after-detention-by-military-deepening-crisis-idUSKCN25E1AF

* "Thousands celebrate Mali coup in capital:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53868236

* "Rare Israeli ruling against practice of demolishing homes of Palestinians accused of violence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/rare-israeli-ruling-against-practice-of-demolishing-homes-of-palestinians-accused-of-violence/2020/08/19/e1996e5e-defb-11ea-b4f1-25b762cdbbf4_story.html

* Looks to me like he’s trying to distract Belorussians from the protests and the likely illegitimate election with a bogus foreign threat. "Nato rejects Belarusian talk of border threat:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53877953

* "Don’t Drink the Tea: Poison Is a Favored Weapon in Russia:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/world/europe/navalny-poison-russia-kremlin.html

* "Comatose Russian dissident Navalny arrives at Berlin hospital:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/europe/alexey-navalny-germany-flight-intl-hnk/index.html
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* "Cloth masks do protect the wearer – breathing in less coronavirus means you get less sick:" https://theconversation.com/cloth-masks-do-protect-the-wearer-breathing-in-less-coronavirus-means-you-get-less-sick-143726

* "Still without a plan, Trump admin holding out for coronavirus 'miracle':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/still-with-no-plan-trump-admin-holds-out-for-covid-19-miracle-90457157711

* "Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19:" https://www.propublica.org/article/meatpacking-companies-dismissed-years-of-warnings-but-now-say-nobody-could-have-prepared-for-covid-19#989716

* I meant to post this last week, but it got lost in the shuffle. "Sturgis rally visitors not allowed through Cheyenne River Reservation checkpoints:" https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/sturgis-rally-visitors-not-allowed-through-cheyenne-river-reservation-checkpoints/article_ff7ead8d-ad7d-5130-b3ec-52426c2fa20e.html

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* "In every aspect of his life, Donald Trump is a cheater:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-in-every-aspect-of-his-life-donald-trump-is-a-cheater-90454085909

* "Appeals court sets September 1 hearing on deadline for Trump's financial records subpoena:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/politics/trump-motion-tax-records/index.html

* "Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to fraud charges related to border wall crowdfunding campaign:" https://www.axios.com/steve-bannon-charged-fraud-199c43c1-2e75-4535-8eb0-d96558c9f777.html

* "Bannon legal woes leave Trump scrambling for distance (again):" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bannon-legal-woes-leave-trump-scrambling-for-distance-again-90457669675

* "Kris Kobach claimed he spoke with 'enthusiastic' Trump three times about border wall project at center of fraud investigation:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/politics/kfile-kobach-wall-fraud/

* "Trump Jr. distances from Bannon group, says he attended 'single' event:" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512937-trump-jr-distances-from-bannon-group-says-he-attended-single-event

* "Biden finally has his big moment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/20/dnc-convention-thursday-399585

* "Top Republican National Security Officials Say They Will Vote for Biden:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/republican-national-security-biden.html

* "Trump offers rebuttal to Democratic convention, where Biden criticized Trump as sowing division:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/08/21/trump-biden-live-updates/?hpid=hp_no-name_elex-luf-8am%3Aprime-time%2Fpromo

* "Trump’s reelection effort has officially spent more than $1 billion, a record sum at this point in the campaign:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/21/trumps-reelection-effort-has-officially-spent-more-than-1-billion-record-sum-this-point-campaign/

* "Log Cabin Again Licks Trump's Boots But Ignores His True LGBTQ+ Record:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/8/20/log-cabin-again-licks-trumps-boots-ignores-his-true-lgbtq-record

* "Parents of Matthew Shepherd, who was brutally murdered by homophobes, help formally nominate Joe Biden:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/19/joe-biden-nominated-democratic-national-convention-roll-call-matthew-shepherd/

* "Bernie Sanders - Uniting a Coalition of Voters Against Trump:"

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* This is a whole mess of worms and I'd been toying off and on with untangling them, but given how sick I've been with the antibiotic, I simply wasn’t up to the delicacy required. This is the piece on it that comes closest to my position. Within a hairsbreadth I'd say. "When It Comes to Alex Morse's Sex Scandal, No One Comes Off Well:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/8/20/when-it-comes-alex-morses-sex-scandal-no-one-comes-well

* Meanwhile on Autocracy Watch: 45's now threatening to illegally send large numbers of police to "monitor" aka scare people from the polls and presumably illegally bar them from voting on election day, because why else do this? The only trouble at the polls we've had in the half century I've been alive has been Republicans literally doing what Trump is threatening to do. Like there used to be a injunction that right wing judges overturned this century on the grounds that it was working to prevent the republicans from doing this and therefore it was no longer needed to stop them doing it. there is no left wing problem this solves; all it does is illegally prevent people of color from voting. Like yes, there is already generally an officer there on duty to oversee, but there is a difference between a person there overseeing and an army of them trying to stop people of colour from voting. "While Democrats urged fair elections, Trump was threatening to send law enforcement to the polls:" https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/08/as-democrats-urge-fair-elections-trump-threatens-to-send-law-enforcement-to-the-polls/

* "Trump Sows Doubt in U.S. Election With Polls Showing Biden Leading:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-21/trump-sows-doubt-in-u-s-election-with-polls-showing-biden-lead?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Trump Team Fails to Cite Mail-in Election Fraud Cases in Court:" https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/trump-election-fraud-pennsylvania-court/

* "Pennsylvania AG: Trump 'suing us to make it harder for people to vote':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pennsylvania-ag-trump-suing-us-to-make-it-harder-for-people-to-vote-90448965558

* Don't hold your breath for McConnell allowing debate and the Senate then passing a veto proof majority. "House approves bill to send $25 billion to Postal Service and halt changes:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/politics/postal-service-house-vote-funding/index.html

* Still no explanation of how removing existing sorting machines, breaking them up, and throwing them out would make the mail more efficient instead of less. Also, he's going back to dismantling it after the election and there are reports he's still dismantling it now. ":" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/21/dejoy-postal-service-hearing-399659

* "Former top Postal Service official testifies Mnuchin and White House were involved in slowing mail:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-top-postal-service-official-testifies-mnuchin-white-house-slowing-mail/

* "Dems say evidence shows DeJoy was picked to lead Postal Service after 'highly irregular' process:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/20/democrats-louis-dejoy-postal-service-399489

* "Viewers tell 'All In' how mail slowdown has hurt their lives and businesses:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/viewers-tell-all-in-how-mail-slowdown-has-hurt-their-lives-and-businesses-90453061846

* It's part of trying to force them to go get infected at work. "White House formally declaring teachers essential workers:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/white-house-teachers-essential-workers/index.html

* "New York City Schools Face Strike As District Plans To Reopen Amid Pandemic:" https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904577530/new-york-city-schools-face-strike-as-district-plans-to-reopen-amid-pandem

* "Here's what we know about eight of the soldiers who have died this year at Fort Hood:" https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/25/us/fort-hood-soldier-deaths-trnd/index.html

* "'They rely on you being intimidated': Local elected officials in the US describe how police unions bully them:" https://www.citymetric.com/politics/they-rely-you-being-intimidated-local-elected-officials-us-describe-how-police-unions-bully

* "New York’s Most Virulent Opponent of Police Reform:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ed-mullins-sba-nypd-union.html#comments

* "When It Comes to Racism, We're Just Going in Circles:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/opinion/2020/8/19/when-it-comes-racism-were-just-going-circles

* This is the republican mainstream is becoming, utterly unreachable by reason and evidence. "The Republican Embrace of QAnon Goes Far Beyond Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/qanon-trump-republicans.html

* CW: Rape. "Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo sentenced to life in prison:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/us/golden-state-killer-sentencing/index.html

* "Veronica Chambers - "Finish the Fight!" & American Suffrage:"

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* "Katie Hill's Sexual Freedom Was Too Much for Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/8/21/katie-hills-sexual-freedom-was-too-much-congress

* CW: Self Harm "‘Tortuously long’ waiting lists for vital healthcare driving vulnerable trans kids to self-harm, charity warns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/21/nhs-trans-gender-identity-clinics-waiting-lists-four-years-self-harm-gendered-intelligence/

* "Police urge witnesses to come forward after two men stage ‘vicious’ homophobic attack in London:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/22/police-urge-witnesses-to-come-forward-vicious-homophobic-robbery-attack-stamford-hill-london/

* "Pensioner admits hurling homophobic abuse at gay lawyer and his partner when he saw them holding hands:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/22/pensioner-admits-hurling-homophobic-abuse-gay-lawyer-partner-holding-hands-glasgow-scotland/

* "Pride Banners Incite Furor in Utah Town and Are Effectively Banned:" https://www.advocate.com/pride/2020/8/21/pride-banners-incite-furor-utah-town-and-are-effectively-banned

* "Arizona has refused to pay for trans healthcare for almost 40 years. Two teens are trying to end the ban once and for all:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/21/medicaid-transgender-arizona-national-center-lesbian-court-case/

* "Was Newark Trans Woman's Death Really a Suicide?:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/8/21/was-newark-trans-womans-death-really-suicide

* "When the Misdiagnosis Is Child Abuse:" https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/08/when-misdiagnosis-child-abuse/615337/

* "This Limpet May Be Evolving to Avoid Humans :" https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/this-limpet-may-be-evolving-to-avoid-humans/

* "Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires?:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/why-does-california-have-wildfires.html

* He is claiming that even though he just hallucinated the forest raking thing in 2018 and Finland doesn't do that, California doesn't deserve disaster funds because they sensibly didn't waste massive amounts time and money on a scheme that experts say doesn't make sense and which common sese says isn't physically possible. "Trump blames California for wildfires, tells state 'you gotta clean your floors':" https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/20/trump-blames-california-for-wildfires-tells-state-you-gotta-clean-your-floors-1311059

* "Researchers find dinosaurs' unique bone structure key to carrying huge weight:" https://www.smu.edu/News/2020/Research/Researchers-find-dinosaurs-unique-bone-structure-key-to-carrying-huge-weight

* "Thousands of Rare Artifacts Discovered Beneath Tudor Manor's Attic Floorboards:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thousands-rare-artifacts-discovered-underneath-attic-floorboards-tudor-manor-180975578/

* "All the servants of a rich Gilded Age household:" https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2020/08/10/all-the-servants-of-a-rich-gilded-age-household/

* "The 2020 Democratic National Convention: Day One:"

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* "Dul-Sayin' - The 19th Amendment:"

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* "The 2020 Democratic National Convention: Day Two:"

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* "Conservatives Try to Disqualify Kamala Harris's Blackness :"

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* "The Young Delegates Coalition on Supporting Joe Biden:"

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* "The 2020 Democratic National Convention: Day Three:"

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* "Genetically Modified Mosquitos & Steve Bannon's Arrest:"

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* "Deniers, Dimwits, and Lies: How Governors Have Responded to the Pandemic Pt. 1:"

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* "Deniers, Dimwits, and Lies: How Governors Have Responded to the Pandemic Pt. 2:"

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* "From Hopeless to Hope-ish with Masha Gessen | Full Frontal on TBS:"

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* "Expect the Worst From This Election Season Pt. 1:"

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* "Expect the Worst From This Election Season Pt. 2 :"

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* "Broken News: There’s A Race Problem in Journalism:"

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* "Smash Mouth Kills It At Sturgis Biker Rally:"

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* "Fox News on 2020 DNC Speeches & Fox-Splaining Kamala Harris:"

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* "Quarantinewhile... A Selfie With The World's Most Dangerous Animal:"

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* "Uninformed Correspondent: Bootsie's Battle Against The Coronavirus:"

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* Friday: We now know what's wrong with my shoulder. my belief it is the AS colonizing another joint ad not a normal injury proved correct. In part. In the middle of the bad episode the last two months i stared getting what felt like tendinitis, I assumed in response to the whole trying to function with a fucked up shoulder. It looks like a tendon is sort of fucked now. Not normal injury fucked, so much as a year and a half of trying to cope with the weird ass bone and cartilage stuff happening in my shoulder causing slow secondary damage fucked.

This means neither of the likely treatments will work. (One for a normal injury; one for AS join damage).

She's trying to talk Medicare into some physio. We'll see. So this is basically my life now.

* Livia, who has never seen a real mirror because she doesn't go up on the bathroom sink, just had a fight with her reflection in the patio door. I've usually lowered the curtain by now. I don't think she's noticed her night reflection before. When I went over she meeped plaintively at me to let her out to kick mirror cat's butt. They are now having a staring content. That's literally the biggest cats she's seen since she was weened. That strange cat is on the patio where the human does weird things to plants! Clearly that is imperial territory.

In other cat news, yesterday she learned she can still just fit in the little bookshelf for a nap.

* The Historically accurate Sexism thread got resurrected again, and I added some comments to these two about how you got to pick who's in the story you write:

https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/627323593262514176/historically-authentic-sexism-in-fantasy-lets

This one also has why you can always have a racially diverse London at the bottom: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/627322048787693568/historically-authentic-sexism-in-fantasy-lets

* On a lesbian Irish folk tale: https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1297143608588619776

* "Personal Canons: The Books That Hate Us:" https://sarahgailey.substack.com/p/personal-canons-the-books-that-hate?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzgwMDYyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo4NjYzMDAsIl8iOiJFdnpyRSIsImlhdCI6MTU5Nzc5NDUwMCwiZXhwIjoxNTk3Nzk4MTAwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjA0NDMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.73S-qaYFLwUxXwyrrGt-CndMIGTRhdpvd59iVCoWGeM

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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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* "Why Hong Kong Is Rising Up:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3j9j/why-hong-kong-is-rising-up

* "Grandmother dies of Ebola in Uganda:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48622635

* "Mexico’s Militarized Response to the Migrant Crisis Is Starting to Look a Lot Like Trump’s:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mb8ke8/mexicos-militarized-response-to-the-migrant-crisis-is-starting-to-look-a-lot-like-trumps

* "The U.S. Army Is Painting Trump’s Border Wall. We Went to Find Out What Color.:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wkq8/the-us-army-is-painting-trumps-border-wall-we-went-to-find-out-what-color

* This expresses my wariness better than I could. "Pompeo constructs Iran narrative moving US toward war footing:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pompeo-constructs-iran-narrative-moving-us-toward-war-footing-61900357856

* "Trump takes US to uncharted territory with disregard for law:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-takes-us-to-uncharted-territory-with-disregard-for-law-61895749759

* "Trump’s company sells California mansion to firm linked to Indonesian billionaire, a business partner:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-company-sells-california-mansion-to-firm-linked-to-indonesian-billionaire-a-business-partner/2019/06/13/5d73206a-8de5-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0d9451d33202

* "Why the Trump campaign won’t pay police bills – Center for Public Integrity:" https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/donald-trump-police-cities-bills-maga-rallies/

* "Trump shows why presidents shouldn't be part of real estate deals:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-shows-why-presidents-shouldn-t-be-part-of-real-estate-deals-61901381743

* Do not want. "Trump shares mock-ups of a new Air Force One featuring colors remarkably similar to his private jet:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-shares-mock-ups-of-a-new-air-force-one-featuring-colors-remarkably-similar-to-his-private-jet/2019/06/13/945b9c50-8dc3-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6991725f2112

* "GOP Senator Blocks Bill Requiring Campaigns To Report Offers Of Foreign Help To FBI:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-foreign-help-marsha-blackburn_n_5d02a489e4b0304a120c191b

* "Bill against foreign campaign help exposes GOP's empty words:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bill-against-foreign-campaign-help-exposes-gop-s-empty-words-61900869743

* "‘Disgraceful’: 2020 Democratic candidates rip Trump for saying he’d take foreign intel on political rivals:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/13/trump-foreign-intelligence-warren-gillibrand-impeachment/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3ec77b26eb7f

* "Trump’s willingness to take foreign opposition research from a foreign goverment draws Democratic condemnation:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-cites-frequent-meetings-with-foreign-leaders-to-try-to-justify-comments-on-accepting-opposition-research/2019/06/13/c2514322-8ddb-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.caf2672994c0

* "Rice: Trump shows 'extraordinary disregard for our democracy':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rice-trump-shows-extraordinary-disregard-for-our-democracy-61900357813

* "Justice Dept. Seeks to Question C.I.A. in Its Own Russia Investigation:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/us/politics/russia-investigation-cia.html

* "House Intelligence Committee subpoenas Flynn, Gates:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/13/house-intelligence-committee-subpoenas-flynn-gates-1363096

* "‘This is Trumpistan, not the United States of America’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-trumpistan-not-the-united-states-of-america-61890117557

* "Mulvaney pushed judicial nominee over objections of White House lawyers:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/13/mulvaney-halil-suleyman-fifth-circuit-1362794

* "Sarah Sanders to leave White House after turbulent ride:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/13/sarah-sanders-to-leave-white-house-1364563

* "Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Sells Vulcan Stock Following Ethical Concerns:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/transportation-secretary-elaine-chao-sells-vulcan-stock-following-ethical-concerns

* "Chao sells off stock as attention on corruption allegations grows:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/chao-sells-off-stock-as-attention-on-corruption-allegations-grows-61900869673

* "Sen. Bernie Sanders makes the case for socialism:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-bernie-sanders-makes-the-case-for-socialism-61891653997

* "Donald Trump Jr. signals that he plans to campaign against Rep. Justin Amash, the Republican calling for his father’s impeachment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-jr-signals-he-plans-to-campaign-against-rep-amash-the-republican-calling-for-his-fathers-impeachment/2019/06/13/d330afca-8dd6-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4632cb79dec2

* "Beto O'Rourke: Let's Be Thoughtful About Impeachment:"

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* "Beto O'Rourke Gets Debate Prep From Stephen Colbert:"

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* "Tim Ryan - Running for President and Fighting for Forgotten Communities - Extended Interview:"

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* Look, I do this literally every day. I'm reasonably intelligent and above average informed. I still keep forgetting which nearly identical white guys are in the Democratic 2020 Primary race and which of them has done what and supports which things. If I'm stuggling to remember details on these guys, I wonder how people who don't follow things the way I do are managing.

* "Representative Duncan Hunter’s Wife Pleads Guilty in Corruption Case:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/us/duncan-margaret-hunter-corruption-guilty.html

* "Prosecutors Dismiss All Charges in Flint Water Investigation:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/flint-water-crisis-investigation-ends-charges-dropped.html

* "Charges in Flint water poisoning dismissed in odd legal reset:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/charges-in-flint-water-poisoning-dismissed-in-odd-legal-reset-61901381713

* "Mother Arrested for Defending Son Against Antigay Bullying:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2019/6/13/mother-arrested-defending-son-against-antigay-bullying

* TW: Suicide "Mother of Teen Who Died by Suicide Says School Failed to Help Him:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2019/6/13/mother-teen-who-died-suicide-says-school-failed-help-him

* "Man wins £17,000 in court after bosses called him "queer" every day:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/13/irish-restaurant-ordered-to-pay-over-17000-to-man-called-queer-by-bosses/

* "Nicholas Sparks tried to ban a LGBT club at the Christian school he co-founded:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/13/author-nicholas-sparks-legal-battle-ban-school-lgbt-club/

* "Caster Semenya can temporarily compete without medication, Swiss court says in surprise ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/03/caster-semenya-compete-without-medication-swiss-court/

* "Suspected serial killer charged with Muhlaysia Booker's death:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/13/dallas-police-arrest-suspected-serial-killer-muhalysia-booker/

* "Televangelist Pat Robertson predicts ‘atomic war’ if Equality Act passes:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/05/15/pat-robertson-atomic-war-equality-act/

* "Gay conversion therapies will soon be illegal in Germany:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/13/conversion-therapy-banned-germany-within-year/

"Medical experts consider interventions to change someone’s sexual orientation to be pseudo-scientific, ineffective and harmful, yet so-called gay conversion therapy persists throughout the world."

* "Catholic bishop slammed on Twitter for saying Pride month is "harmful" for kids:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/02/catholic-bishop-pride-month-harmful-children/

"Sue Perkins, of Great British Bake Off fame, said, “Investigate the paedophiles in your ranks who use their power to predate on the innocent. Send your countless riches, stored in vaults and crypts and offshore accounts, to those who starve and live in penury. Then come and tell me how to live my life.”

Actor and director David Schneider said, “As opposed to the Catholic church which has never been especially harmful to children. Get your own house in order before telling people how they should live.”"

* "If Billy Porter Wants To Wear A Dress, He's Wearing A Dress:"

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* "Earliest known signs of cannabis smoking unearthed in China:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/12/earliest-known-signs-of-cannabis-smoking-unearthed-in-china

* "Beer Archaeologists Are Reviving Ancient Ales — With Some Strange Results:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/05/26/723983713/beer-archaeologists-are-reviving-ancient-ales-with-some-strange-results

* "The Historic Treaty That Ended Navajo Imprisonment Has Been Returned:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/historic-navajo-treaty-returns-home

* "The Dangerous Game of Croquet:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-dangerous-game-of-croquet/

* "D-Day would be nearly impossible to pull off today. Here’s why.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/06/d-day-would-be-nearly-impossible-pull-off-today-heres-why/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c4e8169adf11

* "How much should the tooth fairy pay?:" https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/31/18644508/tooth-fairy-rate-kids-traditions

* "Queen - I Want To Break Free (Official Video):"

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* "Courtroom Sketches Of Don Jr.'s Closed Hearing:"

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* "What Happened To Weatherman Joe Crain?:"

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* I won a gift certificate to this site: www.nerdykeppie.com

OMG!!! I am getting new shoes! It was so hard to pick between skulls, spiderwebs, dice, and bats, in genderqueer or trans. I ended up with trans pirate sneakers after much deliberation. I've wanted shoes from there ever since they started making them.

The person who makes these is a long time friend, is a disabled queer artist, and all around good egg.

OMG!!! Shoes! I'm getting shoes!

* Elder Kitty has been stressed out and miserable since her recent illness. She's struggling to take her territory back, though she's making progress and has started sleeping on Livia's special chair, it being somewhere livia chose for her chair because Tavy doesn't bother her there. This is rather a loss for Livia, but i suspect Elder kitty will go back to the sofa and pettin throne once things have calmed down.

Elder kitty is a stress peer. She has always been a stress peer.

Today I discovered she'd soaked Tavy's favorite scratchy thing and her sofa cushion. I've spent hours trying to clean it and wore myself right the fuck out. I did the best I could and I'm going to try again over the weekend, but I suspect I'll never get the smell fully out. Damn it. The cushion cover needs a little mending anyway, so I'm going to try to address that before I put things back together.

She's old and very frail and stressed out. It's really not her fault.

* "Hunger Is the Beginning of Every Folktale:" http://the-toast.net/2014/10/09/hunger-beginning-every-folktale/

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

* They are changing the HUD rules to allow discrimination against trans folk. Here is how/where to complain: https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1643597.html

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "Ebola Epidemic in Congo Could Last Another Year, C.D.C. Director Warns:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/health/ebola-congo-cdc.html

* "For Syrians, 8 years of war leaves stories of loss and hope:" https://www.apnews.com/11f21859afef4041b85dbefb68a4f2b7

* "Chris Hayes on the lessons of the Iraq war 16 years after it started:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-lessons-of-the-iraq-war-16-years-after-it-started-1462032963655

* "For Trump, Brazil’s President Is Like Looking in the Mirror:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/us/politics/bolsonaro-trump.html

* "Trump Says Tariffs Will Stay Until China Complies With Deal:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-20/trump-says-tariffs-will-stay-on-until-china-complies-with-a-deal

* "Stephen's Heart Goes Out To New Zealand:"

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* "Trump’s Tax Cut Won’t Power the Growth He Predicts, Officials Concede:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/us/politics/trump-tax-cut-economic-forecast.html

* "Kellyanne Conway defends Trump after he attacked her husband:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/20/kellyanne-george-conway-trump-1229193

* "Judges lean toward Trump in hotel 'emoluments' case:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-emoluments-idUSKCN1R02M4

* "The Mueller Report Is Highly Anticipated. Here’s What We Already Know.:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/us/politics/mueller-investigation-people-events.html

* "Trump Lays Down Cover Fire Before Release Of Mueller Report:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-trashes-sessions-rosenstein-mueller-never-got-a-vote

* "Elijah Cummings accuses Trump administration of "unprecedented level of stonewalling, delay and obstruction":" https://www.newsweek.com/elijah-cummings-donald-trump-unprecedented-stonewalling-delay-obstruction-1368974

* "Lawyer: Prosecutors advise Gates not to cooperate with House probe yet:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/20/flynn-documents-house-judiciary-panel-1228630

* "Former Trump confidante to cooperate with House Democratic probe into Trump:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/politics/hope-hicks-house-democratic-investigation/index.html

* "Trump disregard for congressional oversight untenable in America:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-disregard-for-congressional-oversight-untenable-in-america-1462109763815

* "Federal judge demands Trump administration reveal how its drilling plans will fuel climate change:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/03/20/federal-judge-casts-doubt-trumps-drilling-plans-across-us-because-they-ignore-climate-change/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8feea3b557cd

* "Trump To Nominate Former Delta Air Lines Executive To Lead FAA:" https://www.npr.org/2019/03/19/704900992/trump-to-nominate-former-delta-airlines-executive-to-lead-faa

* "DeVos wants to cut budget funding for student loan forgiveness, again:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/politics/betsy-devos-student-loan-forgiveness-budget/index.html

* "Chris Hayes: Welcome To Twitter, Devin Nunes:"

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* "Jay Inslee - Running for President on a Platform of Fighting Climate Change - Extended Interview:"

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* "New Colorado law will give state's electoral college votes to national popular vote winner:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/16/politics/colorado-presidential-vote-electoral-college-law/index.html

* "Trump could be left off some states’ ballots in 2020 if these bills become law:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/20/trump-could-be-left-off-some-states-ballots-if-these-bills-become-law/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8016abec893e

* "Florida gave former felons the right to vote. Legislators want them to pay first.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/florida-lawmakers-weaken-amendment-four-felon-voting-rights/

* "Gillum to launch Florida voter-registration campaign to trip up Trump:" https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2019/03/20/gillum-to-launch-florida-voter-registration-campaign-to-trip-up-trump-923517

* "Florida Republicans try to restrict felon voting rights:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/florida-republicans-try-to-restrict-felon-voting-rights-1462034499631

* "America pays for the wall: thieves mock Trump by stealing border razor wire:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/20/mexico-trump-border-wall-tijuana

* "Trump wants to use a big banking settlement to help build his border wall:" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/trump-wants-to-use-a-big-banking-settlement-to-help-build-the-wall.html

* "House Judiciary Committee Planning Hearing on the Rise of White Nationalism:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-judiciary-committee-planning-hearing-on-the-rise-of-white-nationalism

* TW: Child Abuse "A Louisiana teen with disabilities needed help. Why was he accused of trying to kill a cop?:" https://expo.nola.com/news/g66l-2019/03/f565c699759760/a-louisiana-teen-with-disabilities-needed-help-why-was-he-accused-of-trying-to-kill-a-cop.html

* "Will Packer - Documenting an American Tragedy with "The Atlanta Child Murders":"

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* TW: Pedophilia "Mystery parties seek secrecy in Jeffrey Epstein-related suit:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/20/jeffrey-epstein-related-lawsuit-1229908

* TW: Pedophilia "New reporting bolsters case Epstein prosecutors misled judge:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-reporting-bolsters-case-epstein-prosecutors-misled-judge-1462136899717

* "A Judge Has Ruled That Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Can’t Take Effect Yet After All:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/trump-transgender-military-ban-still-on-hold-judge

* "Autism tips for teachers – by an autistic teacher:" https://www.tes.com/news/autism-tips-teachers-autistic-teacher

* "NY lawmakers propose bill to allow teens to get vaccinated without parental consent:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/amid-measles-outbreak-ny-lawmakers-propose-bill-teens/story?id=61628468

* "An Indigenous Critique of the Green New Deal:" https://psmag.com/ideas/indigenous-knowledge-has-been-warning-us-about-climate-change-for-centuries

* "How 'This Land Is Your Land' Roamed And Rambled Into American Life:" https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/702792467/woody-guthrie-this-land-is-your-land-american-anthem

* "Devin Nunes's Twitter Lawsuit, Robert Kraft's Sweetheart Legal Deal & The 1.4 Million-Dollar Pigeon:"

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* "Boeing's 737 Max Safety Debacle & Airplane Manufacturers' Power Over the FAA:"

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* "Who's Responsible for the Rise of Socialism in America?:"

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* "Joe Biden's Sloppy 2020 Talk, Bernie Sanders's Shower Injury & Beto O'Rourke's Apology Spree:"

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* "Students vs. Climate Change & Oil Companies vs. Oceans:"

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* "Ted Rye The Science Funding Cut Guy:"

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* "Trump Is Ready For A Non-Metaphorical Fight:"

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* "Netflix's Next 'Sexy Serial Killer' Documentary:"

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* "Mick Mulvaney Asks 'How Many Times?':"

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* "All New Zealand Asked Trump For Was 'Love':"

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* "Space Is Bad For Herpes Flare-Ups:"

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* "Poppy Frenzy in California, Mike Trout's Jaw-Dropping MLB Contract & Razor Wire Theft at the Border:"

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* "Guess Who's Running?:"

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* "The Muslim Ban is Still A Thing:"

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* "Black Future Month:"

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* "Public Shaming: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* Dishwasher guy was a nice older gentleman. He was, get this: on time at the start of the service window. We could not have fixed it ourselves. It was a small, fixable pump issue, plus a plug in the line.

No word back on the lung motor. I left another message.

Apparently my Medicare Advantage provider made some sort of mistake there end and mass mailed patients at the clinic cancelling everybody with them. Clinic got the first wave of panic Thursday and has been deluged since. Apparently Medicare Advantage are meant to be personally calling people to calm us down, but my guess is, I'm late in the alphabet, so...

Bonus? I am getting some free OTC stuff I am out of or low on. I get to place one order every three months. So. Much. Epsom.

Since it was a high mobility day, I got gas, went to a chaotic and nearly useless forage, and then spent the usual several hours camped in the tax line. I pretty much used everything I had, but the sink is empty and my gleanings put away.

The bill is already coming due, physically. Ugh. The shakes are terrible and my body is working up to a serious tantrum.

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

* Trans Helplines: https://www.translifeline.org/

* Want to complaint about Betsy DeVos's plan to coddle college rapists? https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/29/2018-25314/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal#open-comment

* Donate to HIAS to help refugees: https://act.hias.org/page/6048/donate/1

* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/

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

* The Rainbow Road and other ways to help Gay Refugees: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/160470723507/the-rainbow-railroad-is-helping-gay-men-escape

* Upset about the abuse of big cats by people who shouldn't be allowed to keep them? Big cat rescue is trying to change laws to protect wild animals. "Cat Laws:" https://bigcatrescue.org/cat-laws/

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

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

* "Congo opposition leader vows to challenge election results in court:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/11/africa/drc-election-fallout-intl/index.html

* "Why Africa’s ageing leaders are keeping a close watch on DRC power struggle:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/democratic-republic-congo-africa-ageing-leaders-close-watch-power-struggle

* "Police use water cannon and teargas on Paris protesters:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/12/police-use-water-cannon-and-teargas-on-paris-protesters-gilets-jaunes

* "Pentagon Officials Fear Bolton’s Actions Increase Risk of Clash With Iran:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/us/politics/bolton-iran-pentagon.html

* "Backlash after networks give Trump primetime airtime for his border wall speech:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/networks-give-trump-airtime-for-border-wall-speech-not-obama-s-2014-immigration-speech-1425082947754

* "Trump Sold $35 Million Of Real Estate In 2018:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2019/01/11/trump-sold-35m-of-real-estate-in-2018/#c93e55b45b57

* "Trump is doing immense damage. He has a hidden helper.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/14/trump-is-doing-immense-damage-he-has-hidden-helper/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a5b7a2d7897e

* "Tiffany Cross: We have to challenge Republicans to confront this president:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/gop-senators-defend-trump-after-new-york-times-washington-post-reports-1425090627640

* "F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/fbi-trump-russia-inquiry.html

* "Exclusive: Trump team should be allowed to ‘correct’ final Mueller report, says Giuliani:" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/424871-exclusive-trump-team-should-be-allowed-to-correct-final-mueller

* "Trump 'a clear and present danger': former DOJ counterintel chief:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-a-clear-and-present-danger-former-doj-counterintel-chief-1425919555601

* "Senate Democrats force vote on Trump plan to ease Russia sanctions:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/senate-vote-russia-sanctions-trump/index.html

* "Rare chance for Senate Democrats to force Russia sanctions vote:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rare-chance-for-senate-democrats-to-force-russia-sanctions-vote-1425924163529

* "Embarrassment for Trump looms in vote on Russia sanctions:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/embarrassment-for-trump-looms-in-vote-on-russia-sanctions-1425923139675

* We need to fight this one Hard. "Trump's nominee to replace Kavanaugh wrote that date rape victims were partly responsible if they'd been drinking:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/trumps-nominee-to-replace-kavanaugh-questioned-date-rape-discrimination-and-climate-change/

* "Teachers take to the picket lines in Los Angeles:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/14/la-teachers-strike-education-1098889

* "Useful data from the Economic Policy Institute:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1600436.html

* "Farm Country Stood by Trump. But the Shutdown Is Pushing It to Breaking Point.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/farmers-trump-administration.html

* Let them eat cake! "White House economic adviser appears to compare shutdown to 'vacation' for furloughed workers:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/11/white-house-economic-adviser-shutdown-vacation-for-workers-1098380

* Reminder: The Government Shutdown cost the American economy $20 billion in output through 1/10/19 will cost approximately an additional $10 billion per week after that.

* If you have a Republican senator, especially one up for re-election in 2020, now is a good time to protest.

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/

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* "‘The story keeps changing’: Trump falsely asserts he never promised Mexico would directly pay for the border wall:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-story-keeps-changing-trump-falsely-asserts-he-never-promised-mexico-would-directly-pay-for-the-border-wall/2019/01/10/92ffee8e-14f5-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.857cecbb3189

* "Trump administration lays groundwork to declare national emergency to build wall:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-administration-lays-groundwork-to-declare-national-emergency-to-build-wall/2019/01/10/e8902698-14fa-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f0d6b78690b5

* "Hayes: Steve King's agenda has taken over the GOP:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-steve-king-s-agenda-has-taken-over-the-gop-1425856067645

* "Border Patrol agent accused of killing 4 in South Texas enters not guilty plea:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/10/us/border-patrol-agent-texas-killings/index.html

* "How to secure Mueller probe from Trump's AG pick, history's hint:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-to-secure-mueller-probe-from-trump-s-ag-pick-history-s-hint-1425920067781

* "Trump's Possible Russian Agent Role & Democratic Presidential Contenders for 2020:"

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* "Drunk History: Trump Edition:"

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* "Border Walls: The Medieval Solution:"

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* "Planet Washington: The Senate Majority Leader:"

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* "The Shutdown Is Bad For Anyone Who Eats Food:"

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* "Rep. Steve King: What's So Offensive About White Supremacy?:"

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* "Meanwhile... Look Up At The Super Blood Wolf Moon:"

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* You need to see the Episode List. "I’m gonna pitch a show as “like Game of Thrones but even more gritty and realistic” and then it’s nothing but a baron handling land estimates and organizing road repairs and stuff. There’ll be an entire episode about how a peasant gets brought to court for letting milk cattle graze on communal pastureland even though it’s supposed to be reserved for draft animals.:" https://qqueenofhades.tumblr.com/post/182016261199/cedrwydden-thetasteoffire-apricops-im

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

* Trans Helplines: https://www.translifeline.org/

* Want to complaint about Betsy DeVos's plan to coddle college rapists? https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/29/2018-25314/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal#open-comment

* Donate to HIAS to help refugees: https://act.hias.org/page/6048/donate/1

* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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

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

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* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

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

* "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.

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

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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:"

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* "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:"

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

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* 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.

* It's ebay time again. I am now I am about $150.00 behind on bills and can no longer cover insurance auto withdraw near month's end. If you'd like to chip in directly towards helping me pay my bills Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

The all items for sale link is here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/lethran/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

( Individual items listed below the cut: )

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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

* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/

* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/

* 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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

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

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.comn

* "Malaysia opposition wins historic election:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44036178

* "Iran targets Israeli bases across Syrian frontier, Israel pounds Syria:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-golan-rockets/iran-targets-israeli-positions-across-syrian-frontier-israel-pounds-syria-idUSKBN1IA3GF

* "Saudi Arabia set to pursue nuclear weapons if Iran restarts program:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/politics/saudi-arabia-nuclear-weapons/index.html

* "Three Americans freed by North Korea head home, thank Trump:" Three Americans freed by North Korea head home, thank Trump

* "The People Trump's War on Drugs Will Actually Punish:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/killing-drug-dealers-opioid-epidemic/555782/

* "Trump suggests pulling credentials from 'corrupt' media:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/09/trump-media-credentials-576798

* "Senate Intel: Russia waged ‘unprecedented’ cyber campaign on U.S. voting systems:" http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/386833-senate-intel-report-says-russia-waged-unprecedented-cyber-campaign

* I said in the beginning that my interest in the Stormy Daniels case was about the money angle. It's turning out it goes much deeper and more complex than I expected. I can see why they raided Michael Cohen's office. "Dubious explanations follow revelation of payments to Cohen:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/dubious-explanations-follow-revelation-of-payments-to-cohen-1229719107741?playlist=associated

* "Avenatti: Cohen selling access to the highest office in the land:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/avenatti-cohen-selling-access-to-the-highest-office-in-the-land-1229719107760?playlist=associated

* "Gina Haspel and our failure to reckon with torture:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gina-haspel-and-our-failure-to-reckon-with-torture-1229665859887

* "How Gina Haspel destroyed evidence of the CIA's torture program:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-gina-haspel-destroyed-evidence-of-the-cia-s-torture-program-1229739075848?playlist=associated

* "Troubling questions linger about Haspel's role in CIA torture:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/troubling-questions-linger-about-haspel-s-role-in-cia-torture-1229747779783?playlist=associated

* "John McCain calls on Senate to reject CIA nominee Gina Haspel:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/politics/john-mccain-gina-haspel-cia/index.html

Now is a good time to contact your Republican Senators (and Democrat Joe Manchin if you live in West Virginia). Here are some easy ways to do that:

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/
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* "Senate will vote to kill or keep net neutrality rules by June 12:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/senate-will-vote-on-killing-or-keeping-net-neutrality-rules-by-june-12/

Now is a good time to contact your Republican Congress Critters. Here are some easy ways to do that:

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/

* "White House requests cuts to CHIP funding:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/politics/white-house-chip-funding/index.html

* "Republicans move to force DACA vote in defiance of Ryan:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/09/daca-congress-vote-republicans-577301

* "Trump accuser secures Democratic nomination for Ohio state legislature:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/politics/rachel-crooks-ohio/index.html

* "Special Counsel Mueller’s Team Questioned Blackwater Founder Erik Prince:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/special-counsel-muellers-team-questioned-blackwater-founder-erik-prince

* "A Black Yale Student Took a Nap in a Dorm Common Room. A White Classmate Called the Cops on Her:" https://www.theroot.com/a-black-yale-student-took-a-nap-in-a-dorm-common-room-1825893057

* "Off-duty police officer pointed a gun at man buying Mentos candy:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/off-duty-police-officer-california-pointed-gun-man/story?id=54956281

* "Washington NFL Cheerleaders Say They Were Required To Pose Nude, Act As 'Escorts':" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/redskins-cheerleaders-escorts-nude-photoshoot_us_5aea1e56e4b022f71a04a9dc

* TW: Pedophilia. "Police say suspected serial killer touted body count:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/2018/05/10/suspected-serial-killer-boasted-killings/595717002/

* "Bull sharks and bottlenose dolphins are moving north as the ocean warms:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bull-sharks-and-dolphins-move-farther-north-oceans-warm?tgt=nr

* "Brazilian team finds clue to congenital Zika syndrome:" https://www.ft.com/content/807ec1b0-0054-11e8-9e12-af73e8db3c71

* Anti-American Blowback in Iran & More Shady S**t About Michael Cohen":"

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* "Don Blankenship: The Trumpiest Candidate You Can Imagine:"

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* TW: Dead Animals "Cops Just Wanna Use Guns:"

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* "President Trump Pulls Out of the Iran Nuclear Deal :"

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* "Eric "Champion of Women" Schneiderman Falls to the Me Too Movement:"

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* "How the NFL Exploits Its Cheerleaders - Uncensored:"

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* "Checking In with #MeToo:"

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* "Art of the Iran Deal:"

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* "Return to the Rescue Farm:"

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* "Trump Says Giuliani Will 'Get His Facts Straight':"

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* "Melania To Today's Youth: 'Be Best':"

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* "Everyone In China Is Getting A 'Social Credit Score':"

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* "Trump Ignores U.S. Allies, Leaves The Iran Deal:"

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* "Eric Schneiderman's #MeToo Hypocrisy:"

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* Okay, judging from the current ebay bids and now that all but one bill with a reasonably predictable amount + insurance autodraw + money still owed Honest Mechanic at the end of the month have shaken out, it looks like I'm only going to be about 100-150 at most down. The 100 figure is more likely.

I did finally get proper sleep today, despite yet another autodialer at 8AM. In the last couple of weeks I've blocked 7 charity and scammer numbers, each one bumping an old scammer number off the list. I really do wish they let us block more than 25. I wish there was some way to get charities to stop calling, but as there exists no combination of words to make them stop calling, I'd guess half the currently blocked number are charities, as the police and cancer charities are super aggressive. Sigh.

Today I pulled some of the fans out of storage, as it's getting hot enough during the day in my bedroom that I'm on the bubble for needing a force multiplier for my air conditioner. I also set the two on top of the one I wanted out, as no point in putting them back in. Once it rises a few more degrees in the afternoons, I'll dive for the one at the bottom of the closet that is the primary livingroom fan, but no point in adding more things to the livingroom before I have to as it's still full of boxes as I wait for the forth storage column to come down for sorting.

* Humans are space Australia: The war God Queen: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/173756141902/joasakura-iridescentoracle

* I used all my money on housing and insurance March, and April it's all went to housing and car things. I need the car to get around as I am disabled. I need to raise about $150 to stay afloat. If you'd like to chip in: Paypal [email protected]

* I am still a half month behind due to a housing/car crisis. Ebay BPALs for sale, Ending tonight!: https://www.ebay.com/sch/lethran/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

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

* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

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

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* A true hero. "She Ran From the Cut, and Helped Thousands of Other Girls Escape, Too:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/world/africa/female-genital-mutilation-kenya.html?_r=0

* TW: Hate Speech. "Trump immigration policy ad decried as racist:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-ad-campaign-immigrants-linked-to-murder-1142114371983?v=a

* "Activists speak out against Trump’s immigration policies:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-immigration-ending-daca-and-push-to-build-wall-1142153795937?v=a

* For some reason 45 wants us all to believe he is so out of touch that he thinks the protest marches this weekend were celebrating him and his accomplishments.

* "Many Trump boosters are spawns of chain migration:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-immigration-policy-would-have-kept-his-family-out-1141639235647?v=a

* "Shutdown messaging war: 'Illegal immigrants' vs. Trump mayhem:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/20/government-shutdown-messaging-immigration-trump-chaos-353664

* "Government shutdown 2018: Trump's role explained:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/government-shutdown-2018-trump-role-explained-1141626435766?v=a

* "Barber on shutdown: To use these children… is just wrong:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/shutdown-2018-daca-chip-used-as-bargaining-chips-by-gop-1141666371802?v=a

* "Wisconsin win could see blue wave hit Midwest:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/wisconsin-polls-democrat-wins-special-election-1142169155799?v=a

* "Democrats Score Huge Special Election Upset In Wisconsin GOP Stronghold:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/patty-schactner-wins_us_5a5ec4e2e4b096ecfca88c03

* "What’s next for women activists after one year of Trump?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/women-s-march-2018-power-to-the-polls-promote-voter-registration-1141654595657?v=a

* "Taking the Women’s March movement to the next level:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/women-s-march-2018-nyc-dc-los-angeles-and-more-1142123587868?v=a

* "Nevertheless, She Persisted: A Year After The First Women's March, Energy Is Still High:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/womens-march-a-year-later_us_5a625f44e4b0e563006f8c98

* "It's better to be rich and mediocre than poor and bright in the UK, admits Education Secretary:" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pupils-rich-families-talented-poorer-children-education-secretary-justine-greening-equality-a7659346.html?cmpid=facebook-post

* People should start asking them, "Given your views on immigration when do you plan to self deport?" "How Would Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Have Affected His Own Team?:" https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/18/donald-trump-immigration-chain-migration-dan-scavino-tomi-lahren-216332

* "I’m a Transgender Peace Activist Who Converted to Judaism. I Wasn’t Expecting My Fellow Progressives to Turn on Me.:" http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/253507/im-a-transgender-peace-activist-who-converted-to-judaism-i-wasnt-expecting-my-fellow-progressives-to-turn-on-me

* "What We Know About the Toronto Man Charged With Murdering Two Gay Men:" https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/9knvqz/murder-charges-stoke-toronto-gay-communitys-serial-killer-fears

* "Why Do We Even Wear Pants?:" http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/01/09/why-wear-pants/#.WmWpJnlG2M-

* NWS. "Rare William Blake works to be exhibited in Sussex, where he lived:" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/10/rare-william-blake-works-to-be-exhibited-in-sussex-where-he-lived

* "Guy in Florida Loads Car With Frozen Iguanas, They Warm Up, Come Back To Life, Cause Car Accident:" http://www.whiskeyriff.com/2018/01/08/guy-in-florida-loads-car-with-frozen-iguanas-they-warm-up-come-back-to-life-cause-car-accident/

* "Aliens: Crash Course Film Criticism:"

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* I had hoped to set up auctions tonight as it really oughtn't wait any longer, but just changing the sheets not only wore me out, but I spent an hour coughing and trying not to throw up and/or pass out as a result and I couldn't manage it. I feel like such a scrotum. I did manage most of it without Tavy managing to maul me though he tried, oh how he tried. Squirrel turned up in time to help finish it, which was a massive help, but I had already mostly done it. Unfortunately, I forgot to put the padding on until it was nearly done and no way was I going to start over at that point. My tooth is scary enough, I think I shouldn't wait, which means staying up and camping all day at emergency dentist in hopes. I am going to be exhausted and there is o guarantee of me succeeding, so if I am uncharacteristically silent Monday, that is why.

* "Courtly Rhetoric in ASOIAF and The Courtly Lady:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/courtly-rhetoric-asoiaf-courtly-lady/

* "Sunday Sweets: Precious Metals:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2018/1/21/sunday-sweets-precious-metals.html

* I laughed so hard I literally required medication so as not to pass out. "The 1969 Easter Mass Incident:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/169956417317/the-1969-easter-mass-incident

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

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

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

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

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Protests over Jerusalem leave 4 dead, hundreds wounded:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/15/middleeast/jerusalem-protests-friday-intl/index.html

* "UN Security Council to weigh resolution on Jerusalem:" http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/security-council-weigh-resolution-jerusalem-171217191838743.html

* "Britain First deputy leader released on bail:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/15/britain-first-deputy-leader-jayda-fransen-released-on-bail

* O.o "National Butterfly Center Sues Trump Administration Over Border Wall:" https://www.texasobserver.org/national-butterfly-center-sues-trump-administration-border-wall/

* "Judge temporarily blocks new Trump rules on birth control:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-temporarily-blocks-new-trump-rules-birth-control-n830236

* "President Trump Lost a Fight to Allow Churches to Get More Involved in Politics:" http://time.com/5067035/president-trump-lost-a-fight-to-allow-churches-to-get-more-involved-in-politics/

* "Democrat Ruben Kihuen Won't Seek Re-Election Following Sexual Harassment Allegations:" https://www.npr.org/2017/12/16/571368835/democrat-ruben-kihuen-won-t-seek-re-election-following-sexual-harassment-allegat

* "Are police doing enough to find missing people in Toronto's Gay Village?:" http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/are-police-doing-enough-to-find-missing-people-in-torontos-gay-village/

* "New discoveries in Aswan including child burials, small Artemis statue:" http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/285343.aspx

* "Archaeologists uncover bittersweet end of 1,800-year-old Tiberias menorah:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-uncover-bittersweet-end-of-1800-year-old-tiberias-menorah/

* "Mexico Wipes Out Trump by Rolling Out ‘Trump’ Toilet Paper:" http://reverbpress.com/features/mexico-wipes-out-trump-trump-toilet-paper/

* The Empress Livia in her characteristic desk mest. The Emperor Octavian trying to figure out what she is playing with. http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/168664832927/the-empress-livia-in-her-characteristic-desk-mest

* As of Friday morning, Livia was comfortable enough to protest Tavy and I going to bed, by batting at my hand as I read as she wanted to play. Saturday morning her protest escalated to trying to knock the book out of my hand. We've started working on boundaries and social rules for both of them, since Tavy missed the ones that require more than one cat routinely sharing space. We actually got a good game of two cat wrigglers on even if Tavy is a little alarming to her in full on chase mode. I have started working on tailored versions of various cat games that take advantage of her play style. I think she'll grow into a first rate cat.

* On Sandor Clegane: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/168674264262/is-there-any-validity-to-any-aspect-of

* "Weird Science: A Guide to the Romance of Bunsen and Beaker:" http://www.toughpigs.com/weird-science/

* "The Cold Never Bothered Sunday Sweets, Anyway:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2017/12/17/the-cold-never-bothered-sunday-sweets-anyway.html

* The Exorcist. So the thing is, I'd be perfectly happy with Marcus/Peter, because I'd love to see an older gay male couple supporting each other through change and vulnerability and PTSD, especially outside of an AIDS context. That would be amazing and a sort of representation we don't get to see. I'd also be perfectly happy with Marcus/Tomas, because it really fits well with their arcs separately and together and let's face it, that would be incredibly sexy. Also, how many bi Latino men does one see in media in a starring role? So that would also be some representation we don't often see. I'm also completely cool with Bi/Pan Marcus if it's handled right. There is a shortage of good bi representation, and given how sensitively they've handled a whole host of things this season, I'm willing to give them a measure of trust not often afforded. I'd actually be there for Marcus/Tomas/Mouse if that's one of the choices, again, if they handle the bisexuality well. I am going to be incredibly fucking furious if I'm being queer baited.

I am going to miss the Kim family SO MUCH. I am mourning them as a group and not just the terrible loss they suffered. I want more Verity. I want more Rose. I want more Truck being a valued and loved part of the family. I want Shelby and Verity helping the younger ones heal. I am going to miss them.

And I really want to know what Father Bennet's been doing for the last three months, because Whoa!

I am also going to be furious if this ends here, because it's clearly perfect for a triptych and there are Waaaay to many unanswered questions.

* The Walking Dead. I was bored with the saviors from th supposed eeny meeny miny moe cliff hanger. I really needed that whole plot to be done ages ago and they have stretched it into the second half of a second year. 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.

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

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

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

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

* Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

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

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Bosnian Croat war criminal dies after taking poison in UN courtroom:" https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/nov/29/un-war-crimes-defendant-claims-to-drink-poison-at-trial-in-hague-slobodan-praljak

* "People for sale: Where lives are auctioned for $400:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/libya-migrant-auctions/index.html

* "Uproar as Bolivia lifts term limits:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42165258

* "Donald Trump attacks Theresa May over her criticism of his far-right retweets:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/29/donald-trump-theresa-may-tweet-uk-us

* "Trump pushed top GOP senators to end Russia probe: NYT:"

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* "Secret Service has spent nearly $150k on golf cart rentals since Trump took office: report:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/362489-secret-service-has-spent-nearly-150k-on-golf-cart-rentals-since-trump

* "Please Stop Giving Trump Supporters a Stupidity Pass:" https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/11/28/please-stop-giving-trump-supporters-stupidity-pass/

* "Trump's Counselor Kellyanne Conway Is Now Leading His Opioids Strategy:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/kellyanne-conway-is-opioids-czar?utm_term=.qka5rVMzX#.woP8WgAX1

* "Top Intel Dem: Sessions refused to say whether Trump asked him to hinder Russia probe:" http://thehill.com/homenews/house/362599-top-intel-dem-says-sessions-refused-to-say-whether-trump-asked-him-to-hinder

* "Mnuchin fails to deliver promised tax report:"

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* "GOP nearing vote on tax bill nobody has read:"

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* "Trump wrongly says he won't benefit from GOP tax plan:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-wrongly-says-he-won-t-benefit-gop-tax-plan-n825066

* "Senator Collins says not committed to tax bill, concerned about SALT:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-collins/senator-collins-says-not-committed-to-tax-bill-concerned-about-salt-idUSKBN1DU221

* "Republicans rewriting tax bill — and won’t vote tonight:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/30/mccain-to-vote-for-gop-tax-bill-270511

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.
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* Want to fight to save the Internet? http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/168047389295/yay-phan-since-this-post-got-deleted-here-it-is#notes

* "Why James O'Keefe isn't going away:"

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* "Garrison Keillor Accused Of 'Inappropriate Behavior,' Minnesota Public Radio Says:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/29/567241644/garrison-keillor-accused-of-inappropriate-behavior-minnesota-public-radio-says

* Re: Matt Lauer and the Shake up of Media and Hollywood. (TW: Sexual assault, Rape Culture)

I've hated him for decades, based entirely on his open racism and creepy sexist remarks as an Olympics commentator. It is no surprise to me that he is worse in his private life. It truly saddens me that it took him doing so much harm to women to finally get him fired. The Network is clearly lying that they didn't know. that tape of a female coworker complaining on air is pretty damned definitive even if you leave out all the women who tried to complain or were silenced.

To all those saying that if we fired everyone in news and entertainment who did these terrible things there would be hardly any men left, I say good. How many able women were chased out of the industry or had their careers destroyed? Why would we want dangerous criminals doing these jobs when people with far more merit could be doing them.

And while we're clearing out the rapists, let's clear out the racists too. How many truly talented people were blocked from achieving their potential by asshole racists in charge. Let's get rid of all the dead wood impeding far more able people and see what amazing art and reporting could result. Would we rather not see more projects like wonder Woman and Get Out? How about more folks like Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Melissa Harris-Perry heading news programs? Instead of yet another boring straight white male lead who is clearly less competent than the love interest inexplicable in charge, or more creepy sexist and racist old white men preaching old straight white guy perspective of what is wrong with the world.

Shaking shit up is good in this case. Why not make success on merit for once be the norm instead of the exception?

* Pedophilia is so wildly popular in Alabama that Roy Moore is up 6 points.

* Why is Woody Allen still making movies? It's creepy as hell watching all these stars doing press tours bubbling about how much they like a pedophile.

* "To all of my male friends in the wake of #metoo:" http://flowisaconstruct.tumblr.com/post/168072673898/to-all-of-my-male-friends-in-the-wake-of-metoo

* "Is there a serial killer roaming the streets of Chicago?" https://news.vice.com/story/is-there-a-serial-killer-roaming-the-streets-of-chicago

* Things that make me go hmmmmm.... "Murdered Baltimore cop was to testify in police corruption case, shot with own gun:" http://abcnews.go.com/US/murdered-baltimore-cop-shot-gun-set-testify-police/story?id=51341526

* "How a McDonald's food bag led Tampa police to alleged serial killer:" http://abcnews.go.com/US/cell-phone-tracking-shell-casings-place-alleged-tampa/story?id=51454854

* Henry VII mostly gets forgotten (except for things like The White Queen, which was terrible and didn't do him well at all). Look, I get it. He's sandwiched between a lengthy and destructive series of civil wars (The War of the Roses, like the hundred Years War, is actually a series of related wars with rests of varying lengths in between bouts of hostility. No one can fight continuously for 150 years. There would have been nothing left.), and that incredibly flashy Bluebeard of a King Henry VIII. He can be a bit of a cipher and it's easy to gloss over and forget him on the way to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I (just as it's easy to gloss over and forget Edward VI on the way to Mary and Elizabeth from Henry VIII). I get it, I really do. I never thought about him much until I did that massive paper on the use of symbolism and propaganda in Medieval and Tudor England back in the '90's.

He explains so much of what's going to happen in the course of the Tudor Era though. He was trying so hard to put a violently divided country back together after thirty three years of bloody civil war and the deep seated feuds it left in it's wake. He faced a long series of uprisings and a truly alarming number of political challenges foreign and domestic. He was doing this while part of a bastard line that was only legitimized with the agreement that they'd never rule England in a country where his Royal ancestor's double adultery was still a scandal a century later. It's honestly a miracle he managed anything near as well as he did.

What fascinates me about him is that while he used arms whenever necessary, his preferred weapon was narrative.

No really.

Henry VII's political genius is easiest to see in his use of symbolism, pageantry, and myth to try to heal his country and consolidate power in his dynasty. you can see it in his marriage to a Yorkist Princess and all the writing, art, pageants, etc. pushing the idea of united dynasty. He toured the country doing procession and pageants that were carefully designed visual propaganda pushing his narrative of unity and peace not only for the nobles at the carefully designed entertainments and feasts, but all those common folk watching the procession, many in parts of the country that hadn't seen a King in person in generations. You can see it in his open embrace of the King Arthur Cycle and his appropriation of it's images and narrative into his personal dynastic myth to the point of naming his oldest son Arthur. Imagine how clever that would have been, having feuding branches of English royalty unite in the partially Welsh Tudors and crowning a New King Arthur over a reunited country!

It's genuinely kind of brilliant.

Now imagine his sons being raised in that atmosphere (and his daughters, but the fate of his daughters is a whole other interesting story and this is already long.): Poor doomed Arthur, the embodiment of unity piece and renewal, raised to be the perfect Prince, the culmination of the British national myth; and Henry, the spare, raised to be the embodiment of the chivalric ideal as it had evolved by the tale end of the Middle Ages (The chivalric ideal had changed dramatically over the centuries, but that too would be a separate long post, Suffice to say that Chivalry at the time of the first Crusade and late medieval chivalry could only barely recognize each other, much as Tudor Era jousting in neat lists bears hardly any bears much resemblance to the wild team war games that ranged over the country side in the twelfth century beyond the existence of knights in armour with lances being involved in both. It's easy for use to forget that approximately as much time lies between the first crusade and Henry VIII as between the end of Louis XIV of France and us. Cultures change dramatically over that much time.).

You can see that image of himself Henry VIII absorbed growing up was part of the Tudor myth Henry VII spent his adult life deliberately shaping. Henry VIII was not a self reflective or self aware man for all his obvious intelligence. He carried that image of himself unchanged throughout his reign, regardless of actual reality and information to the contrary. He had a literal round table commissioned for fuckssake. It explains things like a middle aged monarch getting a massive head injury in a stupid joust, his bizarre behavior with Anne of Cleves when she first arrived, and his inability to understand how his behavior looked from outside right up to his death. He couldn't see what he'd become because in his head, he was forever a handsome young athletic troubadour Prince, the perfect courtly lover and knight, forever spotless in word and dead. People died because of it.

Poor Edward spent most of his reign dying, but one can see him trying so hard to do what was expected, to try to build an edifice that would last with what strength was left him. It's hard to judge because he hadn't much time and so much was swept away almost immediately.

Mary was her father's daughter, I think, both in pride and unshakable belief in the narrative she was raised to believe about herself. That narrative was her strength in those long, grim years between her Mother's divorce and her tragedy when she finally got into power and married the Prince she'd been promised as a girl. Her fairytale did not work out and getting what she wanted did not in the end make her happy. (It always seems a little unfair that she is remembered as "Bloody Mary," when her half sister Elizabeth burned so many more people, but the victor gets to right the history. My deep fondness for Elizabeth I doesn't blind me to her faults).

If Queen Mary was her father's daughter, I have often felt that Queen Elizabeth I was very much like her Grandfather. She had a similar political instinct: to use force where absolutely necessary, but to use diplomacy and narrative wherever possible. she used a lot of her grandfather's tricks: processions and feast entertainments starting the day of her coronation, everything carefully orchestrated to project the exact right image and symbolism. She paid poets and dressmakers and artists and eventually playwrights to make art that endlessly reflected the image she was trying to project at a given time. She used Gloriana instead of the Arthurian legend her father and Grandfather used, but it is the same instinct to use symbols and narrative as propaganda to shape how people reacted to her, a young virgin Queen coming to the throne after a period of religious dislocation, rebellions, and having had to fight her Kinswoman Lady Jane Gray for the throne. She would have ahead of her Rebellions, Wars in several countries, on top of various pressures and challenges unique to her as a reigning Queen in the early modern era. Over time her shaping of the narrative got more complex and harder to pierce to see the person under the image. It was always her best armour, her best weapon, just as it was for her grandfather.

That to me is fundamentally interesting, and it always makes me sad that popular images of the Tudor Dynasty tend to leave out Henry VII, because he is clearly an important part of the story, and most people forget he exists beyond having sired a king who had six wives.

* "A Courtroom Suicide & America's New Opioid Czar:"

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* "From the Tax Plan to Libya, Everything Goes Back to Trump:"

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* "The Threat Is Real: Trump's Islamophobic Tweets Spark Outrage:"

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* "Why Matt Lauer Wasn't On 'Today' Today:"

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* I miss counted. It was four strings of lights to scavange, so even with the dead lights, I could easily do four strings, though some of the oldest lights had died when I turned things on today. Really, I need way more purple C9's, though I can't see that happening this year, finances being what they are. Long tern, I'd like another white cluster garland, and two more blue icicle lights, but that isn't happening this year.

Last night Tavy eventually let Livia share the top of the cat tree with him, and I caught them napping in paw's reach of each other on my bed, the first time I saw her on there since she came. she follows him around nearly everywhere, they wear each other out playing, and we're only having one real (short) dispute per night. You should see them galloping around together, shoulder's bumping. She's still not willing to be touched, but she naps in the cat tree cave and frequently watches me work from close in, so I have hopes of soon.

It is hard to get pictures, as my moving the lap top, sends her fleeing. The lighting is terrible as I could not get up to solve it without startling her, but this is an actual photo of them both hanging out in the cat tree. That’s Livia half asleep in the cave with her head sticking out. The brown lump next to the blue toy on top is Tavy giving himself a clean: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/168073187052/the-lighting-is-terrible-as-i-could-not-get-up-to

I have been cleaning the last few days as there are people coming. I pulled myself out of bed on schedule, bathed, did more cleaning, did lung treatment, got dinner ready to go into the oven, and... no one came. They all decided last minute to bail. After I'd used most of my cheese. Sigh. As you've likely guessed, I spent what was left of the evening catching up on a bunch of writing I'd not gotten to what with the whole constant struggle with the updates requiring tons of reboots every evening thing.

On the way back from time traveling book drop, I got a good look at my lights. The white with dots of pink, blue, and purple in the front window is very me and lovely, I think. My Bedroom window is a wall of red, and the white, green, and blue draping up over the plant shelving when combined with the red window is a little more Christmassy than I like in Solstice decorations, but I think time will solve that given the age of some of those bulbs.

* As I was making dinner today, carefully spooning capers onto a pizza, I thought as I often do at this time of year of the boy who introduced them to me. He was my second to last virgin, beautifully long and lean, looking like an Alan Lee faerie. He was the most femme man I was ever with, so dainty it made me feel like a barbarian every time we ate together. We were together one Autumn and Winter. We took a December break trip to see his family, which strengthened the sense that he was a changeling switched at birth for a human child. They were these sporty, gregarious, bog standard upper middle class white people, of the type one sees in advertisements. Their house looked like a photo spread for some glossy magazine's Christmas issue, and their he was in the midst of them, this strange, quiet, artistic creature, fond of Gorey and in live with the Mountains from which he sprang.

And then he brings home his first lover, the first person he ever dated, a strange, intense Androgyne Goth, Buddhist and vegetarian, voracious in all sorts of ways. They took me in stride, used to not understanding him, I think. They made me up the guest bed in the study, and included me in things, but really it was as if he and I were half apparitions. I will never see the cliffs on the Oregon side of the Columbia gorge without remembering him fondly and wondering how his life turned out.

We went down with his family to the village, in perfect white snow flurries for a Unitarian Christmas party. the whole village looked like something out of a Christmas special with the lights and the flurries. Beautiful, perfect. The party was wildly awkward as I knew no one and he was an introvert, and I stuck out like a sore thumb with my high goth gear and mohawk. We had carried over the chairs from the church. at some point, they all decided to sing Christmas carols, and I went with them to the room where it was happening. Something to do at this incredibly awkward Christmas sweater bedecked party, and I liked singing.

They had no music. They had no song books or hymnals. So, a capella and trusting to the memories of random Unitarian party goers. I had been in choir pretty much the whole of my growing up, though I stopped went I went away to college and ultimately converted, so it had literally been years since I'd sung any carols, but these songs were ingrained. Someone would say, "How about" random carol. They'd all start out confident and trail off round the second verse, leaving me, the only non christian in the room, barreling on several more lines while they all stared at me, and then they'd try another. It was wildly awkward and quietly hilarious.

So I think of him this time of years when I eat capers.

* "5 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books That Treat Mental Illness with Compassion:" https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/5-sci-fi-fantasy-books-that-treat-mental-illness-with-compassion/?st=AFF&SID=BNB_DRS_Evergreen_20150928&2sid=VigLink_6172853_NA&sourceId=AFFVigLinkM000003

* "Coping with Destiny: The Chosen Children of Portal Fantasy:" https://www.tor.com/2017/11/28/coping-with-destiny-the-chosen-children-of-portal-fantasy/

* Dianda reads "Into the Drowning Deep:" http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/168047335890/hi-it-took-me-awhile-to-finish-into-the-drowning#notes

* "The Walking Dead, Season 8, Episode 6: The King, The Widow and Rick:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/11/the-walking-dead-season-8-episode-6.html

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

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

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

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

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

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

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* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

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

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.comd I

* Good. Can’t happen fast enough. "Uluru climb banned from October 2019 after historic vote:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/01/uluru-climb-banned-from-october-2019-after-historic-vote

* "Refugees 'scared' to leave Australia camp:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41812189

* TW: Suicide, Sexual Assault. "Japanese man killed and dismembered nine victims over two months:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/01/japanese-man-killed-nine-victims-over-two-months-say-reports--takahiro-shiraishi

* "Facebook, Twitter: Russian actors sought to undermine Trump after election:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/31/facebook-twitter-post-election-russian-meddling-sought-to-undermine-trump-244380

* "Twitter Offered Russian TV Network 15% Of Its Total Share Of US Elections Advertising:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-offered-rt-15-of-its-total-share-of-us-elections?utm_term=.jr6Vonrja#.wavzVAOZR

* "U.S. lawmakers release sample of Russian-bought Facebook ads:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-socialmedia/u-s-lawmakers-release-sample-of-russian-bought-facebook-ads-idUSKBN1D15GU

* 45 is nonsensically claiming that Chuck Schumer is somehow responsible for the Halloween attack in NYC. Sigh.

* "Trump vows even-more-extreme vetting:" https://www.axios.com/trump-extreme-vetting-nyc-terror-2504826608.html

* "Trump blasts "Diversity Visa Lottery Program" after NYC terror attack:" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/1/16590166/trump-tweet-diversity-visa-lottery-program

* It’s never too soon to politicize an attack as long as it’s a Republican doing it apparently.

* 45 wants to call the Republican Plan to rob the poor and middle class to give to the Rich the "Cut Cut Cut Plan." Seriously, is he three?

* "“You Can’t Go Any Lower”: Inside the West Wing, Trump Is Apoplectic as Allies Fear Impeachment:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/the-west-wing-trump-is-apoplectic-as-allies-fear-impeachment

* Republicans are insisting that somehow opposition research is a crime, even though it's not and is common practice. Republicans keep claiming that bipartisan funding of an investigation into treason means it is inherently tainted and illegitimate and that investigating treason is somehow a far worse crime than literal treason, which is somehow not. I do not understand how they can say these things with a straight face let alone live with themselves afterwards, yet there they are every day, out making the case that Hillary Clinton should be jailed, and some are starting to demand her execution, while they go on allowing literal traitor to infest our White house and the Russians keep hacking our election data bases. Republicans insist that persecuting a private citizen over a thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory is far more urgent than the continuing damage collusion with a hostile foreign power, obstruction obstruction of justice, and wide spread corruption infesting our executive branch. Have they not even a drop of decency or patriotism left?

* "Looks like Jeff Sessions perjured himself.:" https://newrepublic.com/minutes/145614/looks-like-jeff-sessions-perjured-himself

* "Papadopoulos Claimed Trump Campaign Approved Russia Meeting:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-31/papadopoulos-claimed-trump-campaign-approved-russia-meeting

* "Manafort and Gates pose 'serious risk of flight,' Mueller says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/manafort-gates-pose-serious-risk-flight-says-mueller-n816246

* "House GOP will delay releasing tax bill:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-gop-will-delay-releasing-tax-bill-sources-say-n816251

Please keep protesting in person or through other means.

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
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* "Gitmo Judge Convicts U.S. General—Because He Stood Up for Detainee Rights:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/gitmo-judge-convicts-us-generalbecause-he-stood-up-for-detainee-rights

* "Senate Confirms Judicial Nominee Who Questioned Roe v. Wade Decision:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amy-coney-barrett-abortion-rights-federal-judge_us_59f87abde4b0aec1467ac111

* "The Relationship Between Domestic Violence And Mass Shootings:" http://www.npr.org/2017/10/07/556405489/the-relationship-between-domestic-violence-and-mass-shootings

* "Kenneka Jenkins' death photos 'raise more questions,' lawyer says as police close case:" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-kenneka-jenkins-hotel-freezer-lawyers-photos-20171020-story.html

* "These are the victims of the New York terror attack:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/01/us/new-york-terror-attack-victims/index.html

* "Number 22- RIP Candace Towns:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/number-22-rip-candace-towns.html

* "2017 US Trans Murders List:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/2017-us-trans-murders-list.html

* This mentions the antisemitism and NAZIs towards the bottom and rightly so. "Catholics And Protestants Mark 500th Anniversary Of Martin Luther's Reformation:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/catholics-and-protestants-mark-500th-anniversary-of-martin-luthers-reformation_us_59f88f45e4b09b5c25693365

* Warning: this may count as a jump scare. "Lights Out:" https://vimeo.com/82920243

* "Playing with the Devil (Award Winning Short Horror Film based on Japanese Ritual Hitori Kakurenbo):"

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* "Alma:"

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* "Star Wars duel on Fencing World Championships.:"

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* It looks like paypal managed to beat Student loans today, so no fees and all will be well for now. My Sister's present for my birthday came today. It was a Gashlycrumb Tinies shower curtain. My bathroom doesn't use shower curtains, but I do have a zombie horror shower curtain that helps form my cat friendly bedroom airlock. I have added the Gorey one to the rod, as it is aesthetically pleasing. At some point, I'll save up for a curtain rood and maybe hang the bloody palm prints in front of the bathroom door.

I managed to take down two big boxes of exterior and window Gothmas decorations today, which is an exhausting task, plus do a little rearranging of the things sticking around for the next two phases of Gothmas. I need to peel off the window clings and do some other small rearranging for the Harvest Display phase, but I feel really productive. I've also noticed an improvement in my lungs this week. I suspect that one of the allergens in my neighborhood went out of season, but I'm needing one less lung ampule every two days and a those are one of the more expensive of my meds, I am happy to rearrange my meds schedule to cut back.

This past week, Tavy has taken a sudden interest in Outside. He has started escaping while I'm I'm trying to do things out there. He is still terrified of strangers and comes right back, but he's a year too old and it is the wrong season for leash training, so I am not best pleased. Today he knocked over an broke the zombie gnome, which is the one people tend to break. More fragments shattered off the edges, so now there is a big hole in the back of the hat after the latest gluing. I suspect next time or the time after I'll have to give up and toss the thing. Sigh.

* A delightful inclusive fairytale. "Princess Princess :" http://strangelykatie.com/princessprincess/

* Antisemitism and claims of "It's just a Joke." http://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/167011767619/footballintuxedos-trashgender-neurotica

* "The Door in the Kitchen:" http://www.terror-town.com/stories/4

* Daenarys' choice: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/159965317162/so-this-occurred-to-me-while-i-was-scrolling

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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 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

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* TW: Torture. "The Big Book of Female Killers, Chapter 1: "The Blood Countess":" http://thehairpin.com/2014/05/erzsebet-bathory-the-blood-countess

* "Medicare Lifts Blanket Exclusion On Covering Transgender Surgical Procedures:" http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/05/30/3441305/medicare-transgender-health/

Exactly too late for me, but helpful for so many others.

* "FACT SHEET ON MEDICARECOVERAGE OF TRANSITION-RELATED CARE" http://transequality.org/PDFs/MedicareFactSheet.pdf

* il_volpe and I went to Saturday Market. Later we all hung out and socialized. Tomorrow is the grand tea.

* "Misty Copeland on Love, Life, and Leaps of Faith:" http://www.elle.com/life-love/society-career/misty-copeland-interview

* "Are You In A Jane Austen Novel?:" http://the-toast.net/2014/05/27/tell-jane-austen-novel/

* I've got circular swaps with openings.
Just Tea: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83424-just-tea-spring-circular-swap/
Hot drinks: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83154-spring-drink-swap-open/
Scented Products: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83239-spring-scented-products-kitchen-sink-circular-swap/

Crossposts: http://gwyd.livejournal.com/1498151.html

* Another storm moved in on the Philippines today, making it hard to get safe water, food, and temporary shelter in to places that need it. Projections at dinner time suggest that they should be able to bring more in tomorrow.

I am still trying to get my head around what it means for that many people to die suddenly in a place.

Want to help?

Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org.ph/donate
World Food Program: https://www.wfp.org/donate/typhoon
Doctors without Borders: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/overview.cfm?ref=main-menu

Yes, I keep posting the links. I'll likely repost them periodically for the next while as the scale of this is just so big.

* In last week's chaos, I forgot to congratulate the Indian Space Agency on their successful launch. I'm glad someone is still looking towards the future instead of doing everything to give up on science, technology, and educational infrastructure. Unfortunately, it sounds like there was an engine misfire. They are saying they can still get the probe to Mars with an additional thrust burst. *fingers crossed* on it turning out okay.

* I have been following the Yasser Arafat death investigation since the tests of the clothes last year. It sounds some that the findings are suggestive, but inconclusive. Given the sorts of questions that linger about the clothes tests, I have a whole bunch of questions I'd like to ask. Alas, I am not up on this area of science/medicine, so must rely on coverage that is contradictory and doesn't address my concerns. Basically, I am going to wait for more information before I express a strong opinion.

* Yet More evidence of the Police cover-up of the murder of Kendrick Johnson:

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* "Lead Benghazi whistleblower`s story implodes:" http://americablog.com/2013/11/lead-benghazi-whistleblowers-story-implodes.html

* "Do serial killers tend to be bed-wetters?:" http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3134/do-serial-killers-tend-to-be-bed-wetters

* "Spark in Darkness: Remembrance Day:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2013/11/remembrance-day.html

This is how I feel about Memorial Day.

* "Happy Veterans Day 2013 Trans Vets:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/happy-veterans-day-2013-trans-vets.html

Yes, I'm posting this despite it's contradiction with the above, because I think we also need to remember living veterans, especially those that get forgotten, especially since Remembrance Day is more like our Memorial day, despite the dates being mis-matched.

* I have no words. "Houston LGBT Hater Dave Wilson Masquerades As Black Person To Get Elected:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/houston-lgbt-hater-dave-wilson.html

* "Gay rights? NO! Immigration reform? NO!:" http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/jay-bookman/2013/nov/07/gay-rights-no-immigration-reform-no/

A tiny minority vetoes what the majority of Americans want.

* "Report On The Human Rights Situation Of Afro-Brazilian Trans Women:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/report-on-human-rights-situation-of.html

* "Andrey Bridges Found Guilty Of Killing Cemia Dove Acoff:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/andrey-bridges-found-guilty-of-killing.html

* "Transpeople of Color Don't Get The Luxury of Ignoring Race And Class:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/11/transpeople-of-color-dont-get-luxury-of.html

* My day of rest got vetoed by phone calls. Sigh. The painting is very close to done. My instinct that Snugglepus Purple and Dancing Blue were the "right" colors was correct. The apartment looks like I imagined it, rather than my lower expectation of how it would actually look. The colours are bright, bold, friendly, and cheerful without being too dark or light or too intense. When the bedroom doors are open, the blue looks brilliant with the purple in the common areas. I'm leaving the bathrooms, closets, and two of the ceilings as is. This isn't ideal, but they are good enough. My ceiling turned out to be just primer, so we are painting it blue with the left over paint. He still had the delicate work, sundries, and touch ups to do, but I'm really happy with it. The place was so depressing with the nasty carpets and ugly walls. Now I'm happy just thinking about the walls. I can't wait to see it with the new floors. I've got most of the unpacking done, with a few things needing sorting left, which I should finish by bed time.

Tomorrow I have the Doctor, errands, paying off the painter, and setting up the floor guys for Wednesday. Wednesday I have a trans education thing I'm hoping to help with (Representing the non-binary if there are questions. Then there is letting in the painters and, and.... Yeah. So real sleep maybe Thursday?

Crossposts: http://gwyd.livejournal.com/1427597.html

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