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* "Big increase recorded in Amazon region fires:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53626544

* "Strong quake in Philippines kills 1, damages houses, roads:" https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/strong-quake-jolts-central-philippines-damage-72431735

* CW: Torture "Belarusians accuse authorities of torture and humiliation during mass detentions:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/europe/belarus-torture-allegations-intl-hnk/index.html

* "'Breathing freedom' - Belarusians hope for change:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53796989

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* Well fuck. "Hundreds gather in Madrid for anti-mask protest:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-53802226

* "Victoria records fewest new infections in a month:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53806500

* "The FDA Authorizes a Cheap, Fast Saliva Test—and the NBA Is Involved:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fda-authorizes-a-cheap-fast-saliva-testand-the-nba-is-involved-11597508654

* This is somewhere between 45′s idea for people to take Hydroxychloroquine and his call for people to inject bleach in quality. "Trump eyes new unproven virus "cure" promoted by Ben Carson and the CEO of MyPillow:" https://www.axios.com/trump-covid-oleandrin-9896f570-6cd8-4919-af3a-65ebad113d41.html

* "White House warns of ‘widespread and expanding’ COVID-19 spread in Georgia:" https://www.ajc.com/news/white-house-warns-of-widespread-and-expanding-viral-spread-in-georgia/5DEVU3BSCZAIHCSI3A3KTTGGIY/

* "White House Staffers Pissed at a Top National Security Aide—for Wearing a Mask:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-staffers-pissed-at-a-top-national-security-aide-for-wearing-a-mask-in-front-of-them

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* "They Crossed Oceans to Lift Their Families Out of Poverty. Now, They Need Help.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/business/global-remittances-coronavirus.html

* "US intelligence indicates Iran paid bounties to Taliban for targeting American troops in Afghanistan:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/politics/iran-taliban-bounties-us-intelligence/index.html

* Clearly he needs to urgently meet with his handler. "Trump eyes Putin meeting before November election, say sources:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-eyes-putin-meeting-november-election-say-four-people-familiar-n1236861

* "Senate committee sought investigation of Bannon, raised concerns about Trump family testimony:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-14/senate-committee-sought-investigation-of-bannon-raised-concerns-about-trump-family-testimony

* "Trump administration announces plans to drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/politics/trump-arctic-wildlife-drilling/index.html

* The Republican Agenda at work. "Diseased Chicken for Dinner? The USDA Is Considering It:" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-11/diseased-chicken-for-dinner-the-usda-is-considering-it

* I argued strenuously against putting a batman villain who just wanted to watch the world burn in charge of the country back in 2016, but here we are.

* "GAO finds Chad Wolf, Ken Cuccinelli are ineligible to serve in their top DHS roles:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/14/gao-chad-wolf-ken-cuccinelli-ineligible-dhs-395222

* "Three of ten Americans laid off in coronavirus crisis worried about food, shelter:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/three-of-ten-americans-laid-off-in-coronavirus-crisis-worried-about-food-shelter-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN2581WH

* I don't have the patience to watch nominating conventions. (Debates are different if they are substantive and not full of nonsense.) I will watch specific speeches if they strike me as worthwhile. Michelle Obama had me in tears. If you watch one thing from Monday's convention coverage, watch that.

I did not get it together to put the speech and the Porter segment into the aggregate today, but they should be in the next edition.

* "Jim Clyburn - Kamala Harris & Saving the U.S. Postal Service:"

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* "Anti-LGBT+ Republican’s election bid descends into brazen bigotry as vile campaign materials take aim at trans people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/17/bob-good-central-virginia-house-representatives-transphobia-summit-pastor/

* "PLAN YOUR VOTE: How to vote by mail and register to vote in each state:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-state-by-state-guide-voting-by-mail-early-in-person-voting-election/

* "You don't need the U.S. Postal Service to deliver your mail-in ballot:" https://news.yahoo.com/you-dont-need-the-us-postal-service-to-vote-your-mail-in-ballot-210121973.html

* "Obama: Trump is trying to ‘kneecap’ Postal Service:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/14/obama-trump-postal-service-usps-395270

* "House Democrat files criminal referral accusing Trump of subverting election:" https://thehill.com/homenews/house/512135-house-democrat-files-criminal-referral-accusing-trump-of-subverting-election

* "State officials rush to shore up confidence in Nov. 3 election as voters express new fears about mail voting:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/state-officials-rush-to-shore-up-confidence-in-nov-3-election-as-voters-express-new-fears-about-mail-voting/2020/08/16/3d511144-df23-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_trumpvote-339pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

* "USPS won't say if decision by Western district to stop removing letter collection boxes is still in effect:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/15/politics/usps-letter-collection-boxes/index.html

* "‘These Are Felonies’: Lawyers React with Horror to Reports of Post Office Removing Mail Sorting Machines:" https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/these-are-felonies-lawyers-react-with-horror-to-reports-of-post-office-removing-mail-sorting-machines/

* "Trump’s postmaster general caught making cash off of post office contracts: report:" https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trumps-postmaster-general-caught-making-cash-off-of-post-office-contracts-report/

* "UPS, FedEx warn they cannot carry ballots like U.S. Postal Service:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-ups-fedex-exclusive-idUSKCN25B00I

* "DeJoy agrees to testify amid Dem fury over Postal Service changes:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/17/dejoy-testify-congress-postal-service-397082

* "Postal Crisis Ripples Across Nation as Election Looms:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/post-office-vote-by-mail.html

* "Tracing Trump’s Postal Service obsession — from ‘loser’ to ‘scam’ to ‘rigged election’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-post-office-mail-vote/2020/08/15/27a2ffd4-de5f-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html

* Want to bet Mitch McConnell blocks it in Senate? "House to vote on $25B infusion for Postal Service amid Trump attacks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/17/house-vote-on-postal-service-funding-397081

* "The Junk Science Cops Use to Decide You’re Lying:" https://theintercept.com/2020/08/12/blueleaks-law-enforcement-police-lie-detection/

* "Why Social Workers Cannot Work With Police:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/social-workers-police-collaborate.html

* "Facebook’s algorithm ‘actively promotes’ Holocaust denial content and conspiracy theories, experts say:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/16/facebooks-algorithm-actively-promotes-holocaust-denial-content-and-conspiracy-theories-experts-say/

* "For Doctors of Color, Microaggressions Are All Too Familiar:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/health/microaggression-medicine-doctors.html

* "Czech Republic 'in danger' of following in the homophobic, transphobic footsteps of Poland and Hungary:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/17/czech-republic-poland-hungary-homophobia-transphobia-equal-marriage-adela-horakova/

* I have serious concerns about having the trans passengers sit in special seats. It doesn’t sound safe, to be honest. Yes, better training for bus drivers. Yes more education and visibility in the media, but I’m just… picturing a lot of bad things with the special seating. "Bus operator launches pioneering new scheme to encourage ‘awareness and respect’ for trans passengers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/17/india-bus-trans-passengers-tridhara-joint-council-syndicates-west-bengal-hijras/

* "Arrest Made in Fatal Stabbing of Trans Woman Tiffany Harris:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/8/15/arrest-made-fatal-stabbing-trans-woman-tiffany-harris

* "Bishop forbids queer Catholics from meeting in churches and attending Mass – just like Jesus wanted:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/17/detroit-bishop-gerard-battersby-lgbt-catholic-dignity-detroit-fortunate-families-jesus/

* "Thousands demand 'justice for Alex' after video shows mother deadnaming, misgendering and humiliating her trans son:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/17/justice-alex-his-name-is-video-trans-son-deadname-misgendered-hungry-bear/

* "China just approved HIV-preventing drug Truvada for PrEP use – finally – in a stunning victory for activists:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/17/china-truvada-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-hiv-prevention-unaids-lgbt/

* "Solving a Medical Mystery With Oral Traditions:" https://daily.jstor.org/solving-a-medical-mystery-with-oral-traditions/

* "One of America’s most popular drugs — first aimed at schizophrenia — reveals the issues of ‘off-label’ use:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/one-of-americas-most-popular-drugs--first-aimed-at-schizophrenia--reveals-the-issues-of-off-label-use/2018/03/28/78a538ca-1e27-11e8-b2d9-08e748f892c0_story.html

* "28 Organizations Promoting Indigenous Food Sovereignty:" https://foodtank.com/news/2020/08/28-organizations-promoting-indigenous-food-sovereignty/?mc_cid=25d43e896b&mc_eid=bbdd51b06c

* "Facebook abandons broken drilling equipment under Oregon coast seafloor:" https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/08/facebook-abandons-broken-drilling-equipment-under-oregon-coast-seafloor.html

* "'Highest temperature on Earth' recorded in US:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53788018

* "Ancient Viking warrior given a hero’s burial may have actually been ‘transgender, non-binary or gender fluid’, researchers say:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/16/viking-warrior-woman-trans-man-non-binary-gender-fluid-sweden-neil-price/

* "Historical People of Color in Europe (and America): “It’s Not Historically Accurate!!” and Other Nonsense:" https://qqueenofhades.tumblr.com/post/165694767524/historical-people-of-color-in-europe-and

* "The Eastland Disaster Killed More Passengers Than the Titanic and the Lusitania. Why Has It Been Forgotten?:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eastland-disaster-killed-more-passengers-titanic-and-lusitania-why-has-it-been-forgotten-180953146/

* "Juries: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Backlash to Postal Service Cutbacks:"

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* "The Battle for Checkpoints at the Cheyenne River Reservation:"

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* "Karen, Please Just Wear A Mask:"

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* Two bits of good news: 1. I am now allowed to eat crackers with my anti-bioitic. it's still not pleasant, but much more manageable. I'm able to eat things that are not crackers at other times, which means the cracker supply will likely stretch until Wednesday at least. there is now a reasonable chance of me lasting through friday.

2. Thanks to assorted benefactors, I should be okay as long as things post across from Paypay some time tomorrow. Assorted money is in the pipeline. I just need it to land fast enough to both plug the leak and have enough for the car insurance autodraw at the end of month. (The issue was housing insurance draw. Same company, but they aren't synched. The housing insurance was required for the city to be willing to fix the apartment, so the unexpected extra fee zapped me at exactly the wrong time. Next year, I will plan for it.)

I will let y'all know if things don't straighten out at the bank financially by dinner time tomorrow, but I really do think it'll be okay.

Thanks again to all three of you. You have saved me.

* "Sunday Sweets Mixes It Up:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/8/16/sunday-sweets-mixes-it-up

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

* "PLAN YOUR VOTE: How to vote by mail and register to vote in each state:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-state-by-state-guide-voting-by-mail-early-in-person-voting-election/

* Want to help people in Beirut? https://karolinadeaen.tumblr.com/post/625576504313741312

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and

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

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

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

* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

* Want to help Doug Jones defend his seat against a Trumpist homophobe? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/stand-with-doug?refcode=gaa1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8n4rdfT6gIVvxitBh0BfQmNEAAYASAAEgJSwfD_BwE

* Want to help Sara Gideon unseat Susan Collins? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/adopt-me-dem-susan-collins-seat

* 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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* "Keep Me Safe! Help me get a gate organized by Briel Moore:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-me-safe-help-me-get-a-gate?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+expWdV

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* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
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* "CDC suggests recovered COVID-19 patients have protection for 3 months:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-suggests-recovered-covid-patients-can-t-spread-virus-3-n1236782

* "Exponential growth bias: The numerical error behind Covid-19:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200812-exponential-growth-bias-the-numerical-error-behind-covid-19

* "New CDC guidance says Covid-19 rates in children are 'steadily increasing':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/15/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html

* "Exclusive: U.S. to make coronavirus strain for possible human challenge trials:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-challenge/exclusive-u-s-to-make-coronavirus-strain-for-possible-human-challenge-trials-idUSKCN25A1EL

* "CDC asks 4 states and a city to draft coronavirus vaccine distribution plans:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08/14/cdc-asks-4-states-city-draft-coronavirus-distribution-plans/

* Beto O'Rourke calls Trump's pandemic response an 'historic mismanagement'":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/beto-o-rourke-calls-trump-s-pandemic-response-an-historic-mismanagement-90097733647

* "Dr. Peter Hotez on the Federal COVID-19 Response and More:"

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* "Fear, language barriers hinder immigrant contact-tracing:" https://apnews.com/67d8c0778472c9c06bb5b1a0622375c2

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* "A Border Town Is Now Isolated From Both the U.S. and Canada:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/point-roberts-us-canada-covid-19

* "'Do you regret all your lying?' White House reporter's question startles Trump:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/14/do-you-regret-all-your-lying-white-house-reporters-question-startles-trump

* "Trump plans to deliver RNC speech on White House lawn:" https://nypost.com/2020/08/13/trump-plans-to-deliver-rnc-speech-on-white-house-lawn/

* "Appeals court nixes Hillary Clinton deposition on emails:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/14/hillary-clinton-emails-deposition-overturned-395361

* "Michael Cohen book claims Trump colluded with Russia and will ‘never leave office peacefully’:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/michael-cohen-book-claims-trump-colluded-russia-will-never-leave-n1236693

* "Trump Probe Not Limited to Stormy Daniels Payment, Manhattan D.A. Says:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-14/trump-n-y-probe-not-limited-to-stormy-daniels-payment-da-says?srnd=politics-vp&sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Not *not* updating on the FL eviction/mortgage moratorium for August:" https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/560764.html

* "‘This is our moment’ How Biden and Harris are bringing hope in the age of Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-our-moment-how-biden-and-harris-are-bringing-hope-in-the-age-of-trump-90103365511

* "Trump gives credence to false, racist Harris conspiracy:" https://apnews.com/841b2ae6f1b3bd7815a9a0b21c046e60

* "Zerlina: Let’s call ‘birtherism’ what it is—racism:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/zerlina-let-s-call-birtherism-what-it-is-racism-90101317825

* "Postal service warns nearly every state it may not be able to deliver ballots in time based on current election rules:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/politics/usps-warn-states-mail-in-ballot-delivery/index.html

* "Internal USPS Documents Outline Plans to Hobble Mail Sorting:" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkyv4k/internal-usps-documents-outline-plans-to-hobble-mail-sorting

* "New Postmaster Hasn't Yet Met Election Officials About Mail-In Ballot Concerns:" https://www.npr.org/2020/08/14/902545891/amid-fears-about-mail-in-ballots-election-officials-havent-met-with-new-postmast

* "Exclusive: Postal service inspector general reviewing DeJoy's policy changes and potential ethics conflicts:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/politics/postal-service-inspector-general-reviewing-dejoy/

* "Trump and first lady request mail-in ballots despite attacks:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/donald-trump-melania-florida-mail-in-ballot/

* This is an excellent summary of what's going on with links "I've never loved the post office more than I do now that it's being dismantled:" https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/560916.html

* "New Jersey will send ballots to all active registered voters for November election, governor says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-jersey-will-send-ballots-to-all-active-registered-voters-for-november-election-governor-says/2020/08/14/d7c5fb7e-de36-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html

* "Widespread public outrage halts Post Office removal of mailboxes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/widespread-public-outrage-halts-post-office-removal-of-mailboxes-90107461739

* "Outspoken worker brings national attention to Trump's postal service attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/outspoken-worker-calls-attention-to-trump-s-postal-service-attack-90107973861

* "'Constituent power' key to pushing Congress to protect Postal Service:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-constituent-power-key-to-making-congress-to-save-postal-service-90107461856

* "'Constituent power' key to pushing Congress to protect Postal Service:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-gop-does-not-care-the-destruction-trump-s-attacks-on-the-usps-have-inflicted-on-people-90096197956

* "Postal Service Inspector General investigating recent policy changes by Trump’s Postmaster General:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/postal-service-inspector-general-investigating-recent-policy-changes-by-trump-s-postmaster-general-90095685798

* "Mich. Sec. of State explains ‘two-pronged strategy’ to fight election sabotage:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mich-sec-of-state-explains-two-pronged-strategy-to-fight-election-sabotage-90100293746

* "Two trans women were marching for liberation. They were put in jail, misgendered and interrogated about their genitals:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/14/trans-women-dehumanising-treatment-miami-jail-officers-interrogate-genitals-miami-florida/

* "Rival protesters descend on Stone Mountain, Georgia, near country's largest Confederate monument:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stone-mountain-georgia-protests-confederate-monument-stone-mountain-park/

* "A man who was sentenced to life in prison for selling $30 of marijuana will be freed:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/us/man-freed-life-sentence-marijuana-trnd/index.html

* "Bigot admits to hurling ‘disgusting’ transphobic abuse at a trans woman who had the audacity to exist:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/14/annabel-forbes-transphobic-trans-abuse-southend-essex-seafront-magistrates-court/

* "Doctors dismissed her, but she turned out to be right after years of needless suffering:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/doctors-dismissed-her-but-she-turned-out-to-be-right-after-years-of-needless-suffering/2018/09/14/b5364c64-9593-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html

* "A new study finds that giving kids deworming treatment still benefits them 20 years later:" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/8/6/21354847/kremer-miguel-worms-deworming

* "Switzerland fights heroin with heroin:" https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2019/01/28/switzerland-fights-heroin-with-heroin/

* "What Scars Say About Sex and Stereotypes:" https://www.sapiens.org/culture/scarification/

* "Cedar Rapids and nearby Iowa communities, still in shambles days after destructive derecho, plead for help:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/08/14/cedar-rapids-iowa-derecho/

* "Getting to Know Dem - Kamala Harris:"

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* "Trump Targets Showerhead Rules & Belarus Election Protests:"

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* Saturday: The Antibiotic is working on my lungs and sinuses, but it's also making me very sick, as in spend all day throwing up sick. The problem is, I've burned through a lot of the supplies of things to eat when I'm that kind of sick since March and there are fundamental problems, like the people buying my food for me don't shop anywhere that they sell the two types of crackers can manage on days when it's this bad. Crackers were essential for stopping the cycle.

I burned the insurance autodraw money on things to eat when I'm throwing up. I know I shouldn't have, but I have nearly a week more of this and I can't keep meds down when I can't stop puking. I'd already paid everything but the car insurance, so there was no cushion.

Want to keep me from being overdrawn? Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

UPDATE: I am overdrawn. Apparently that confusing message from my insurer a couple days ago meant they were taking a brand new forty dollar annual fee out Sunday instead of just the usual amount at the end of the month. I am completely fucked. Some kind person chipped in 15.00 Sunday, but when I checked this morning I was negative 36.00 and the fees are going to accumulate daily. I am fucked. Please help, because except that 15.00, nothing is coming in until the 5th or so of September.

(I’d still have been overdrawn if i hadn’t bought the crackers etc., but i thought I’d have ‘til almost the end of the month before the autodraw. I think they are still doing the autodraw.)

* Sunday. The crackers have stabilized things enough for me to eat things like cheese and crackers (cheese also bought on Saturday's mission). It's still bad though. I don't know how I can make it until next Friday.

I forgot to mention, this is the best tomato crop I've grown since I left the East Coast. Some alchemy of sun and water has balanced things just right. Before I got too sick, I'd harvested four from the oldest two plants. One of the special gift plants has what looks like a full sized green tomato, another is in the early stages. The third gift plant is budding. Growing season is long here, so I have hopes they will all produce before frost takes them like most of last year's crop. (The plants matured late last year. It was heart breaking.)

Livia has clearly figured out that I hide the kibbles until she eats enough of her meat. I can tell, because she'll eat a few mouthfuls then come check to see if I put the bowls out. When I haven't she goes back, eats a little more, rinse and repeat until I feel like she's eaten enough. Me to Livia: If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any cookies. How can you have any cookies if you don't eat yer meat?

In other cat news, Squirrel got home from work the other night to find Tavy asleep on the same spot on the sofa as when he left. He was interrogating him about it while petting him and I was like, "The Emperor has recently discovered he's a middle aged Terror and that long naps between rampages are excellent." Squirrel was like "Middle Aged? What is he, three?" Me: Livia is three; Tavy is five. Squirrel: O.o Me: really shows one the passing of time doesn't it? Him: *sad sound of late middled aged regret*

* NOTE: I was never an English major and am certainly not an Austen scholar, nor have I studied any of these in a school setting since P&P in HS in the '80's. I just like the books.

Some of you may know that Persuasion is my favorite Austen book. I fell in love with it the first time I read it, and I just love it more each time I reread it. This may seem odd, given how much I dislike Mansfield Park. After all, Persuasion has some of Austen's sharpest social criticism along similar lines as Pride and Prejudice, but has a gentle, understated heroine, more like Fanny from Mansfield. It would surprise no one that I adore Eliza Bennent, but I also love Catherine from Northanger and Elinor Dashwood from Sense an Sensibility (The writing is a bit sluggish in S&S, which means I don't reread it often, but the bones are good). My point is, that these are three different character types who I am perfectly capable of enjoying. I would argue that my beloved Anne is another atempt at some of the things she was trying to convey with Elinor and to a certain extent with Fanny, only written at the height of her skill at the end of her life.

I have always had trouble explaining why exactly I adore Persuasion the way I do. I mean, sure, it's overtly feminist in spots. (I'd argue all her writing is feminist, it's just a lot of it is less overt, than say, the exchange in which Anne points out at that all the books being cited are by men and thus biased). Anne is far from the first heroine trapped in and constantly punished by gendered expectation and manners in her society, but Persuasion really brings that to the fore. This isn't exactly it though.

Tonight I finally put my finger on it: It's a queer culture thing. Bear with me. I'm not claiming this is what Austen was intending. People have made arguments for queer subtext around certain of the men in Persuasion, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Anne and Wentworth. Yes, it's very clearly a straight relationship. I'm talking about a deeper resonance, and it's a struggle to put it into words.

Modern dating apps and social media and queer liberation and all the rest have made LGBTQIA+ dating easier, but it's a recent change and in some places it's still like it was. For a lot of the last millennium or so in European culture, courtship, seduction, etc., had to be underground. Subtle things conveyed in silences, in looks exchanged over innocuous sounding conversations with double meanings, in body language, in coded clothes and secret passwords. Outside of sex work, the way a lot of people connected was a careful, often slow business, involving feeling each other out and the suppression of more overt displays of interest while people tried to work out if the other person felt the ame. It's been pointed out that this is why the image of hands hesitantly touching and than grasping each other more firmly when the other person reciprocates is such a prominent image in queer cinema and now TV.

Touch is still so often dangerous. It can attract homophobic harassment and violence. Particularly for transfolk, though for queer folk in general there is always a chance that the person one reaches towards might beat or murder one.

Touch is dangerous, but it is so powerful. It is liberation, it is love.

So back to Anne, loving and desiring Wentworth so intently without any hope, being treated as sexless and a useful convenience by people who should value her. Back to Anne who is only really SEEN by the select few with the discernment to look. Most people only see the surfaces, and she is fundamentally at the mercy of those judgements from the undecerning for most of the novel. she has a fine appreciation of music, books, and poetry, that most people in her circle don't share.

Once Wentworth realizes he is interested in her, the courtship is done under everybody else's radar. They are at the mercy of other people's whims, of social constraints, of societal expectation. They snatch moments to exchange a few inadequate sentences and telling looks. They are in constant peril of never understanding each other becaue of gossip, because those snatched moments and cryptic messages are inadequate to convey what they feel. They are both deathly afraid of being rejected and irreparably hurt if they declare to the other one something of what the want too boldly first. What if they read the hints wrong? What if Wentworth believes all the gossip? What if Anne is reading him wrong in Bath? For how many centuries have queer couples danced this dance in one form or another. They are very straight, but this feels like a queer courtship. the dilemna is resolved because he overhears her in conversation with another character and reads the signals right. Finally. He declares his feelings clearly with his pen. Finally. When she's handed off to him casually in the street to take home and they finally, finally connect... Damn. It's earned, it's so earned, and it feels like magic.

I am nothing like Anne. My oldest continuous friend has referred to me in my heyday as Sexzilla, for fuck's sake. I did now and then play with subtlety because I could, but for the most part, I decided who I wanted and ethics and orientation permitting, I went hunting and generally caught who I aimed for. In my youth I didn't need much patience or finesse. I came from a place and culture and time where flirtation needed to do the heavy lifting of trading disease status and sexual interests, and I have likened it to contract bridge, though it also happened to be very sexy. there is no choice in waisting time with someone who wasn't serious about condoms and who didn't have enough overlap in taste to be worth the effort. Better to move on and find someone else. Now in the long twilight celibacy of my disability I have had to learn to bank my flames, but I was a bold thing once upon a time.

Anne still speaks to be on some fundamental level, some ancestral queer cultural resonance perhaps, or maybe it's a generational thing: the way plague shaped half of of us into people cautious of making that first move because the stakes were so high and the other half into risk takers trying to grab what joy we could before it all got snuffed out by bombs or virus. I was never an Anne, but we all have known some. Those pre-stonewall men I hung out with for a while still had a lot of those habits of carefulness, of slowly feeling things out, of flirtation that could be brushed off as no such thing if not reciprocated. They'd lived through more than one revolution, but you could see echoes of the terrible world before the year of my birth in their eyes, in their manners, in their references, in the way they flirted with me and each others. there was something similar in the late in life trans women I used to hang out with. It was so alien to the younger transfolk that the other Xer and I used to have to translate back and forth between the Boomers on one hand and Millenials on the other. Their cultures and frames of reference were so far apart it was like the divide between middle and modern English.

I have said often, I'm terribly glad we've moved on. I have always wanted something better for those coming behind us, but I come from a culture and a time and a place, and Anne has spoken to my heart from the first day i met her in the pages of Persuasion. I suspect she always will.

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* "Leo Varadkar just leapt to the defence of white, middle class men slap-bang in the middle of a global civil rights movement:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/13/leo-varadkar-ireland-white-middle-class-men-fine-gael-twitter-backlash-sinn-fein/

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* "U.S. reports highest number of covid-19 deaths in one day since mid-May:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-reports-highest-number-of-covid-19-deaths-in-one-day-since-mid-may/2020/08/12/4cafe146-dcae-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html

* "Trump adds coronavirus adviser who echoes his unscientific claims:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/politics/scott-atlas-donald-trump-coronavirus/index.html

* Can we stop forcing reopening now? "Rushing reopening could have devastating consequences, Dr. Fauci says:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html

* "‘This is no longer a debate’: Florida sheriff bans deputies, visitors from wearing masks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/12/masks-florida-ban-billy-woods/

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* "US proposes change to shower rules after Trump's hair-washing moan:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/12/us-shower-pressure-trump-hair-water

* "Negotiators 'miles apart' on Covid funding, with little hope for deal until September:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/13/coronavirus-relief-talks-394829

* They aren't even pretending anymore. "Kudlow: Money for voting rights is a ‘really liberal left’ wish list item:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/13/kudlow-money-voting-rights-liberal-left-wish-list-394715

* "Nancy Pelosi on Trump’s executive actions: ‘What we’re seeing is illusion’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/nancy-pelosi-on-trump-s-executive-actions-what-we-re-seeing-is-illusion-89868869771

* "Rev. William Barber says Mitch McConnell, GOP have ‘disdain for the poor and low income’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rev-william-barber-says-mitch-mcconnell-gop-have-disdain-for-the-poor-and-low-income-89870917683

* "Sherrod Brown calls Republican inaction on COVID-19 relief ‘cruel, stupid policy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/sherrod-brown-calls-republican-inaction-on-covid-relief-cruel-stupid-policy-89869893563

* "Civil society is last line of defense to protect U.S. from Trump authoritarianism:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/civil-society-is-last-line-of-defense-to-preserve-u-s-democracy-90048069944

* "Rice: Overwhelming vote needed to end Trump threat to democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rice-overwhelming-vote-needed-to-end-trump-threat-to-democracy-89990213891

* "Booker on why Trump’s racist tweet to ‘suburban housewives’ is extra personal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/booker-on-why-trump-s-racist-tweet-to-suburban-housewives-is-extra-personal-90042949812

* "Biden calls for national mask mandate:" https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-13-20-intl/h_e18c953da1c7e03b79f3e2470cf32005

* Re: Kamala Harris. Given the givens, I think she's a solid choice. He needs someone with a national profile and he said a while ago he was picking a women. Stacey Abrams dropped out of the running herself, as she mentioned in an interview I saw about a week ago. (It doesn't surprise me. Given the level of voter suppression and out right cheating in the governor's race last time around, I'd bet real money she decided she needed to put her full attention into fighting for a fair election this time around. Like, I don't know, but that's ind of her thing.) The mayors on the likely list all had at least some national name recognition, but Lightfoot, and to a certain extent Bottoms, made some serious mistakes after George Floyd, and that's not a help right now. Klobacher would have been shooting himself in the foot, rather like Hillary did with Tim Caine last time only worse, because her prosecutorial record is palling enough to be a serious negative and her only positive is Biden gets along with her. They are about the same level of moderate, but she doesn't bring excitement or a new constituency with her. Honestly, Warren's better in the Senate, than as VP. Susan Rice was a solid option. Really bright, the right sort of stubborn and poise to stand up to the misgynoir that would be heaped on her, because she's weathered it before, and he'd worked well with her in the past, but she's not that charismatic, and turn out is everything right now.

Look folks, I am completely aware of her mixed prosecutorial legacy, but she's a lot better than Klobacher. She's shown a willingness to listen to criticism and learn from it. There's been an upward trend policy wise. She admits her mistakes. (Lack of flexibility was one of Bernie sander's weak points as a candidate. It's one of 45's worse traits. Both Biden and Harris have fucked up quite a bit over the years, but they actually learn and change positions based on new data. Don't discount it).

She's a little week in a bunch of policy areas, but she's incredibly fucking bright and motivated and I trust her to be able and willing to do the kind of work she'll need to do to get up to speed. Don't underestimate this quality either, because it's essential, especially given Biden's age. She has no shortage of mental and physical energy which she is going to need for both the campaign and if they (let us all hope) win. She was one of if not the most left of the moderate candidates in the primary cycle. In an ideal world, would I want more? Yes, but look out your window, we are living in the bad timeline, the one step away from apocalypse in our lifetime times line. Look at the first paragraph: This is as good as it was going to get after they way primary season shook out, and there's a reason she was on my VP short list once Biden looked likely.

I've seen her in debate and questioning witnesses in senate hearings. She will eat Pence (or any other VP 45 is likely to pick) for breakfast. One of the best arguments for her in the primary was that she would likely do the same to 45. The job of the VP is to fight. It's important in the campaign, but exponentially more important in governing. A lot of the vp job is running around behind the scenes and doing the carrot and stick to get votes lined up in congress to push the executive agenda through. (Does this sound like about half of what I said Nancy Pelosi's job was ina bunch of other posts? Yes. That's because most of the leadership jobs in Congress involve some mix of that and fundraising. The VP mostly does that and diplomacy, plus defend the president and show up for functions the President hasn't time for. A lot of real governing is sausage making). She's been senator long enough and has the right kind of relationships to make a kick ass vp as far as sausage making and she's excellent at thinking on her feet and being incredibly fucking tough with the kind of people we'll be up against in the campaign and the next five years. She has thick skin and will be up to handling the misgynoir already being dumped on her from the other side. I don't think the claims that she's a bolshevik are gong to stick, because, um, prosecutor, and a lot of the attacks I'm seeing are going to slide right off because they are about as mind numbingly out of touch with reality.

She can do this job, and she's the best we could reasonably have gotten at this point.

Please, please, let's the fuck elect them. We can push from the left after we get them in. They are rational people we can deal with, who actually think democracy is a good idea and don't want the world to burn, which puts them worlds ahead of what we have now. Don't let the perfect get in the way of good or better.

Are you registered to vote? Have you been illegally kicked off the voter rolls in the latest republican push to kill the right of ordinary people to vote? Go! Check now! While you are at it, order your absentee ballot so you don't have to breath Covid in a six hour line on November 3rd. If you haven't filled out your household census, do that too. It's like an extra five minutes and it does things like get money and congressional representation for your community. It also helps fight Republican gerrymandering.

Don't fuck around with this! Do it now if you haven't already!


* "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris put LGBT+ rights front and centre in first public appearance since becoming running mates:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/13/joe-biden-kamala-harris-lgbt-rights-black-lives-matter-presidential-election-delaware-speech/

* "Pose star Angelica Ross believes Kamala Harris ‘holds herself accountable’ on her uneven trans rights record:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-trans-rights-trangender-pose-angelica-ross-lgbt/

* "Kamala Harris blames Trump for severity of U.S. coronavirus outbreak: He failed to take it 'seriously from the start':" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-blames-trump-for-severity-of-us-coronavirus-outbreak-he-failed-to-take-it-seriously-from-the-start.html

* "Kamala Harris describes her incredible fight for marriage equality that changed LGBT+ history in America forever:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-marriage-equality-gay-lgbt-same-sex-prop-8-california/

* "Kamala Harris’ new chief of staff is proud Black lesbian and trailblazing political heavyweight Karine Jean-Pierre:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-chief-of-staff-karine-jean-pierre-black-lesbian-joe-biden-democratic-nominee-presidential-election-2020/

* "Right-wing lawyer takes a break from hating queer people to launch a ‘racist’ conspiracy theory against Kamala Harris:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/13/kamala-harris-joe-biden-vice-president-racism-birther-conspiracy-theory-newsweek-john-eastman/

* "Maxine Waters on Biden picking Harris: 'You can see that change is taking place':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/maxine-waters-on-biden-picking-harris-you-can-see-that-change-is-taking-place-89920581978

* "Cory Booker: Kamala Harris is my sister:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/cory-booker-kamala-harris-is-my-sister-90042949736

* "Howard U. President: Kamala Harris stood on the shoulders of those before her, now she clears a path:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/howard-u-president-kamala-harris-stood-on-the-shoulders-of-those-before-her-now-she-clears-a-path-89921093818

* "Joy: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris ticket belongs to 'the emerging America,' what Trumpism cannot stop:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-joe-biden-kamala-harris-ticket-belongs-to-the-emerging-america-what-trumpism-cannot-stop-89921605626

* "Rep. Karen Bass: Kamala Harris as the VP pick is 'exciting all the way around':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-karen-bass-kamala-harris-as-the-vp-pick-is-exciting-all-the-way-around-89975877764

* "Another QAnon victory and 2 other takeaways in key primary races in Minnesota and Georgia:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/11/politics/primary-runoff-highlights-minnesota-georgia/index.html

* "Trump embraces QAnon congressional candidate, calls her ‘a future Republican star’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-embraces-qanon-congressional-candidate-calls-her-a-future-republican-star-89980997827

* "GOP takes step towards dangerous conspiracy theory with a primary win by QAnon supporting candidate:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gop-takes-step-towards-dangerous-conspiracy-theory-with-a-primary-win-by-qanon-supporting-candidate-89976389776

* "When and how to vote in all 50 states:" https://www.axios.com/how-to-vote-by-state-2020-307c3d17-ee57-4a1b-8bad-182ca1cdb752.html

* "U.S. Supreme Court allows easing of Rhode Island voting restrictions:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-voting/u-s-supreme-court-allows-easing-of-rhode-island-voting-restrictions-idUSKCN2592BG

* "Trump says the USPS is too poorly funded to handle mail-in voting — while opposing additional funding for it:" https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-usps-lacks-funds-mail-votes-opposoes-more-funding-2020-8

* He’s open about this being an attempt to fix the election. "Trump Seemingly Admits Why He’s Blocking Postal Service Funding:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-postal-service-usps-mail-in-voting_n_5f3537a9c5b64cc99fe32d58

* "House Democrats demand Postal Service chief roll back changes ahead of Election Day:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/house-democrats-demand-postal-service-chief-roll-back-changes-ahead-n1236570

* "Judge orders Trump campaign to produce evidence of voter fraud in Pennsylvania:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/trump-campaign-voter-fraud-lawsuit-pennsylvania/index.html

* "Postal service changes pose threat to voting, says former USPS deputy:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/13/united-states-postal-service-trump-republicans

* The Republicans claim removing sorting machines, breaking them apart, and throwing them out without replacinng them is essential to both cost savings and efficiency. A toddler could see through it. "The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election:" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wk9z/the-post-office-is-deactivating-mail-sorting-machines-ahead-of-the-election

* "Mail sorting equipment being “removed” from post offices, leaving mail to “pile up”: union leader:" https://www.salon.com/2020/08/12/mail-sorting-equipment-being-removed-from-post-offices-leaving-mail-to-pile-up-union-leader/

* "U.S. postal service reorganization sparks delays, election questions:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-postoffice/u-s-postal-service-reorganization-sparks-delays-election-questions-idUSKCN258197

* "Financial disclosures reveal postmaster general's business entanglements and likely conflicts of interest, experts say:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/politics/postal-service-dejoy-conflicts-amazon-trades-xpo-stake/index.html

* "Trump's authoritarian leanings threaten to corrupt 2020 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-authoritarian-leanings-threaten-to-corrupt-2020-election-90047045846

* "Trump postmaster downgrading of political mail draws scorn:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-postmaster-downgrading-of-political-mail-draws-scorn-89992773598

* Things you can do to help save the post office: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/626472377433358336

* I'm not kidding folks. If we lose this election, I don't think we'll have another real one here.

* "1,193 Quarantined for Covid. Is This a Successful School Reopening?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/georgia-school-coronavirus.html

* "New Jersey school district changes course on "fruitless" plan for in-person learning after over 400 teachers opt out:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-school-reopening-plan-new-jersey/

* "Rashad Robinson on How Everyone Wins When Black People Do:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/8/13/rashad-robinson-how-everyone-wins-when-black-people-do

* "Pramila Jayapal - How to "Use the Power You Have":"

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* "After the Blast: Lebanon’s Largest LGBTQ+ Group Picks Up the Pieces:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/8/12/after-blast-lebanons-largest-lgbtq-group-picks-pieces

* "Polish MP labelled ‘lesbian plague’ in threatening letter after powerful show of solidarity with persecuted queer community:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/14/poland-spring-mp-malgorzata-prokop-paczkowska-note-andrzej-duda-homophobia/

* "Trans woman demands to speak to the manager after being misgendered by staff – and it only gets worse from there:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/14/manchester-misgendered-trans-woman-restaurant-20-stories-spinningfields-jamie-rose-dee/

* "Trans patients are being forced to wait up to 193 weeks for vital healthcare. The NHS target is 18 weeks:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/13/nhs-trans-patients-laurels-gender-identity-clinic-south-west-waiting-list-yeovil-pride/

* "'Harmful and unethical' conversion therapy finally banned in parts of Australia. Meanwhile, the UK twiddles its thumbs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/13/conversion-therapy-ban-banned-australia-queensland-torture-new-law-steven-miles-boris-johnson/

* "Meanwhile, in Andrzej Duda’s Poland, a gay man was brutally attacked by drunk thugs in broad daylight. And nobody helped:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/14/poland-gay-man-homophobia-attack-warsaw-andrzej-duda-milosz-miklaszewski-police/

* "Ashlee Marie Preston on What’s Next for Black Trans Americans:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/8/13/ashlee-marie-preston-whats-next-black-trans-americans

* "Pandemic has driven Americans to depression and drinking, CDC says:" https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-is-devastating-americans-mental-health-cdc-says-170026332.html

* "Mississippi Says Including Giant Mosquito State Flag Redesign Was a Mistake:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/mississippi-giant-mosquito-emblem-state-flag-redesign-mistake.html

* "Beirut Explosion Sparks Protests & Biker Rally Draws Crowds:"

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* "Trump Signs Dubious Executive Orders:"

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* "Trump Tries to Sabotage the U.S. Postal Service :"

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* "How Is This Still a Law? - Citizen's Arrest Edition:"

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* "Kamala Harris Is Joe Biden's VP Pick:"

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* "Republicans Fumble Their Response to Kamala Harris VP Pick:"

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* Wednesday: Props to the Washington State medical System! I got my results back this evening, and I'm negative as expected. I have started my antibiotics as a result and am already queasy. This week and a half is going to suck, above and beyond the off the AS meds for the duration, but I can't afford to fuck around in a Plague Summer. I still have to go in for a doctor thing Friday for meds revision at the worst time of the day sleep wise, but this could all be much worse.

I got four phone calls today. I had just started to drift off when one of the usual scammers woke me. Unless there is a real emergency (someone in the hospital or dead) or a prior arrangement (like an airport pick up), no one legitimate phones at 7:09AM. About an our later a fucking Police PAC woke me up spewing robot generated hate and fear. Fuck those guys! Second number blocked. The other two were medical and completely reasonable. I was up, medicated, and dressed by the time the COVID test people called.

Alas, no cats came for bed pets. It's a work in progress.

* Friday: I very nearly finished the aggregate in time to go to my Doctor's appointment. Nearly is not did, alas.

She wants to make sure the rotater cuff isn't actually injured, before trying AS mitigation on the shoulder joint, so I had to go get rather a lot of x-rays. I get a shoulder ultrasound late next week, after which we'll see about sorting it one way or the other.

I am so used to things like this not having much that can be done beyond what I'm already doing, that it startled me when it turned out there actually might be things that could be done.

She wanted to double check some things before switching muscle relaxants, but odds are Monday or Wednesday, I'll have something I can use more often than every two or three days.

I had next to no sleep and an online social engagement that precluded me working as drugged as I need to be not to curl up in a ball and weep from the pain and nausea. The amount of holding my arm in extremely painful positions involved in the x-ray process really fucked up the shoulder again and I'm back in the sling. I'm going to post the aggregate, do bath and lungs and then go to bed. sorry about not doing any Friday news and the lateness of the Tuesday/Wednesday aggregate.

* "Alone Together Episode 2 - Alexander Siddig, Andrew Robinson & Cirroc Lofton:"

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* "Alone Together Episode 3 - Alexander Siddig, Andrew Robinson, Cirroc Lofton, Nana Visitor:"

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* "Alone Together Episode 4 - Alexander Siddig, Andrew Robinson, Cirroc Lofton, Armin Shimerman:"

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

* "When and how to vote in all 50 states:" https://www.axios.com/how-to-vote-by-state-2020-307c3d17-ee57-4a1b-8bad-182ca1cdb752.html

* Things you can do to help save the post office: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/626472377433358336

* Want to help people in Beirut? https://karolinadeaen.tumblr.com/post/625576504313741312

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and

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

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

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* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

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Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

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