gwydion | Entries tagged with abuse

* Thursday's news mostly isn't on here.

* "Trump returns to a New York courtroom for second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/16/1224523186/trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation-trial

* CW: Sexual Assault "Judge threatens to boot Donald Trump from courtroom over loud talking as E. Jean Carroll testifies:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-defamation-lawsuit-70d4477120399373934253c7e450643e

* CW: Sexual Assault "Trump dares judge to kick him out of court: ‘I would love it’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-dares-judge-to-kick-him-out-of-court-i-would-love-it-202140741790

* CW: Sexual Assault "The Donald Trump Doom Loop:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-donald-trump-doom-loop

* "'Fantastical narrative': Trump concocts DOJ, Biden conspiracy theory in new classified docs filing:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-fantastical-narrative-trump-concocts-doj-biden-conspiracy-theory-in-new-classified-docs-filing-202046533884

* "Violent political threats surge as 2024 begins, haunting American democracy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/09/public-officials-death-threats-swatting-surge/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzA0Nzc2NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA2MTU4Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDQ3NzY0MDAsImp0aSI6ImVhZmQ1MDgyLTMwYTYtNDg5Ni05YzA0LWE1ZWI2Y2MyNDI3YSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI0LzAxLzA5L3B1YmxpYy1vZmZpY2lhbHMtZGVhdGgtdGhyZWF0cy1zd2F0dGluZy1zdXJnZS8ifQ.PiUCh_5cfV5fR_rdKbvfV68TcQ2d54Q7FuXeZMMbuV4

* I don't understand how this is legal. "Texas Just Took Its Border Battle With the U.S. Government Up a Notch:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/texas-national-guard-shelby-park-eagle-pass-border-patrol-1234945639/

* "3 migrants drowned near area where Texas has denied entry to federal border agents:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/3-migrants-drown-near-shelby-park-eagle-pass-texas-soldiers-denied-entry-federal-border-agents/

* "Governor Says Texas Isn’t Shooting Migrants Because Biden Would ‘Charge Us With Murder’:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/greg-abbott-podcast-shooting-migrants-murder-charges_n_65a0b537e4b0fbd2bc062957

* "3 Tacoma police officers found not guilty in 2020 death of Manny Ellis:" https://www.kuow.org/stories/3-tacoma-police-officers-found-not-guilty-in-2020-death-of-manny-ellis?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=BOK062520&tier=&utm_id=774005&sfmc_id=133071869&sfmc_subkey=0034R0000463jY7QAI&utm_content=NL+BoK

* "There is little scrutiny of 'natural' deaths behind bars:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1219667393/there-is-little-scrutiny-of-natural-deaths-behind-bars

* "She risked her job to care for an incarcerated woman’s newborn. Now she wants to start a center to help others in need.:" https://mississippitoday.org/2023/08/11/roberta-bell-raised-baby-of-incarcerated-woman/#:~:text=Roberta%20Bell%2C%20a%2058-year-old%20grandmother%20who%20lives%20in,of%20a%20pregnant%20woman%20jailed%20at%20her%20workplace.

* "Things to know about Minnesota's new, non-racist state flag and seal:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/things-minnesotas-new-racist-state-flag-seal-106064631

* "IU suspends professor after Palestine Solidarity Committee event. Other faculty denounce the decision:" https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/01/iu-political-science-professor-sinno-suspended-psc-administration-palestine

* "In Texas, debate over school chaplains escalates school board culture wars:" https://religionnews.com/2023/12/14/in-texas-debate-over-school-chaplains-escalates-school-board-culture-wars/

* "Pornhub blocks access in two states after age verification laws take effect:" https://www.advocate.com/business/pornhub-access-north-carolina-montana

* CW: Domestic Abuse. "Gypsy Rose Blanchard released from prison early after serving time for the murder of her abusive mother:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gypsy-rose-blanchard-released-prison-early-serving-time-murder-abusive-rcna131423

* "Russian rapper who attended ‘almost naked’ party jailed for second time:" https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/06/russian-rapper-who-attended-almost-naked-party-jailed-for-second-time

* "Leonard Leo is at the center of dark money effort to limit medication abortion:" https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/01/04/leonard-leo-is-at-the-center-of-dark-money-effort-to-limit-medication-abortion/

* "Americans Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills…Just in Case:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/abortion-pills-advance-provision-mifepristone/

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

* When I looked outside at dawn Wednesday, there was a lot of snow, so I figured, "I'll just call when they open and cancel Friday's appointment." Bwahahaha! No. The callback option takes 3-5 days so is useless under nearly every circumstance including this one. Waiting on hold longer than fifteen minutes breaks the hold system, which means hours of calling back over and over while three days of other people try to cancel appointments at the same time as the snow comes down alarmingly fast and hard even to my East coast Snow country trained eyes. It's basically a lottery since you start at the back of the line every fifteen minutes. I still need to do another round of physio things and eat and lung, none of which I can do while on hold. Grrrr.

I got through twice over the next two hours. They couldn't hear me.

Squirrel lent me his phone. I've now got two phones in one hand hold crap moving in and out of sync.

Bonus: My fingers are badly burned because whoever put the turn table back in the mic last time half assed it and there was a hot spot on my plate.

* I finally got through to a live human on Squirrel's phone after 11AM. It was still snowing when i went to bed Wednesday. It was also still snowing when I went to bed Thursday. It rained some in the evening, then iced over. I am worried about squirrel who keeps having to commute in this.

Some water leaked out of the bathroom ceiling from the indoor waterfall getting inside the walls. I can see damage to the plaster over my dryer. The bucket didn't catch anything Thursday. IDK. Anyway, I reported it as a slow leak when I discovered it, saying we're low priority. I'll do an addendum if there's still no more drips tomorrow.

I am trying to get up to three sets of all 14 physio exercises at 15 reps each to be the routine. I managed it two nights in a row. It is, as usual exhausting me and chewing me up generally. The imperative remains to get as much function back before surgery as possible, since that's the ceiling.

Three cleaner cancellations in a row, but this time, it's entirely reasonable. They even called for two of them to tell me. 1. Extreme cold and expectation of snow which didn't come until this week, but everyone thought it would. Forage delivery cancelled. People were not doing unnecessary travel. I didn't expect them. 2. Cleaner called out sick. She's a good worker and knows I'm a lung patient with high infection risk. I WANT people to cancel if they are sick both for their health and mine. 3. Snow and ice. No one is travelling unless they are essential workers. Squirrel is an essential worker in the health care sector. I did not expect a cleaner to the point that I called in and scheduled Tuesday about 15 minutes before the agency called to tell me no one is coming.

I should post the aggregate, but I would like to go to bed. Decisions, decisions.

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

* To track more general LGBTQIA+ Legislation: https://www.lgbtmap.org/

* An organization for the parents of trans youths: https://transparentusa.org/

* "2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

* "Tell your Representative to Support Rep Tlaib's Resolution for a New Streaming Royalty:" https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-representative-to-support-the-resolution-for-a-new-streaming-royalty/

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

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* Duplications may occur for the next while due to laptop issue.

* "Number of Gazans Detained in Israel Jumps by 150% in a Month; Witness: Soldiers Abuse Detainees in Military Facility:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-03/ty-article/.premium/number-of-gazans-detained-in-israel-jumps-150-witness-soldiers-abuse-detainees/0000018c-ca0b-d6c4-ab8d-ebbf60380000

* "Editorial | Israel Must Stop Abusing and Humiliating Palestinian Prisoners:" https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-01-03/ty-article-opinion/israel-must-stop-the-beating-and-humiliation-of-palestinian-prisoners/0000018c-cbf7-dc35-adee-cbf7961c0000

* "Gaza Is Starving:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/gaza-is-starving

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544
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* "PALESTINIANS SUE BIDEN FOR FAILING TO PREVENT GENOCIDE IN GAZA:" https://theintercept.com/2023/11/13/gaza-lawsuit-biden-israel-genocide/

* "Judge says Donald Trump won’t give own closing argument at civil fraud trial after disputing rules:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-trial-closing-arguments-420997f889922423dbce8a0945f0c348

* "Judge preempts Trump ploy to turn New York trial into circus:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/judge-preempts-trump-ploy-to-turn-new-york-trial-into-circus-201734213956

* "Trump seeks dismissal of Georgia indictment, again claiming broad immunity:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/08/trump-seeks-georgia-dismissal-immunity-00134305

* "Filing alleges ‘improper’ relationship between Fulton DA, top Trump prosecutor:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/breaking-filing-alleges-improper-relationship-between-fulton-da-top-trump-prosecutor/A2N2OWCM7FFWJBQH2ORAK2BKMQ/

* "Trump’s immunity claim gets frosty reception at appeals court:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/09/trumps-immunity-claim-gets-frosty-reception-at-appeals-court-00134512

* "New report cites Trump aides' testimony on damning new details about Trump on Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-report-cites-trump-aides-testimony-on-damning-new-details-about-trump-on-jan-6-201658949634

* "Trump lawyer: Assassination of enemies covered under presidential immunity:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-lawyer-assassination-of-enemies-covered-under-presidential-immunity-201649221631

* "‘Ludicrous’: Hear the ‘strangest’ argument from Trump’s immunity hearing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ludicrous-hear-the-strangest-argument-from-trump-s-immunity-hearing-201650245821

* "Earth shattered global heat record in ’23 and it’s flirting with warming limit, European agency says:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-warming-heating-earth-europe-copernicus-60eb12d11b7e5f694848673bb58512d3

* "Snow loss pinned to human-induced emissions:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03993-5

* "U.S. Carbon Emissions Fell in 2023 as Coal Use Tumbled to New Lows:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/climate/us-carbon-emissions-2023-climate.html

* "The United States is producing more oil than any country in history:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/us-production-oil-reserves-crude/index.html

* "Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers:" https://apnews.com/article/chocolate-deforestation-cocoa-farming-nigeria-8813c4656635a4ae8b49c6fd7ced6d28

* "Ethical Questions Arise After AI “Completes” Keith Haring Painting:" https://hyperallergic.com/865291/ethical-questions-arise-after-ai-completes-keith-haring-painting/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=D010924&utm_content=D010924+CID_60293e60ec7f70af8338050e1e6e4210&utm_source=hn&utm_term=Ethical+Questions+Arise+After+AI+Completes+Keith+Haring+Painting

* "OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material:" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/openai-says-its-impossible-to-create-useful-ai-models-without-copyrighted-material/

* "JUST SAY NO TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN YOUR CREATIVE PURSUITS, PLEASE, JFC, WTAF:" https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2024/01/10/just-say-no-to-artificial-intelligence-in-your-creative-pursuits-please-jfc-wtaf/

* "Elon Musk criticized by civil rights groups over claim that diversity efforts make flying less safe:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-boeing-dei-diversity-x-posts-pilots-rcna133351

* "How these parrots went from the tropical jungle to the concrete jungle:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/los-angeles-flocks-wild-parrots-how-they-get-there

* "Ancient Romans lost these gemstones—down a bathhouse drain:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/ancient-romans-lost-gemstones-bathhouse-drain

* "Mysterious Section of the Great Wall of China Isn't What We Thought, Study Reveals:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7e5mb/mysterious-section-of-the-great-wall-of-china-isnt-what-we-thought-study-reveals

* "The American Soldier Whose Fear of Fighting in Vietnam Led Him to Defect to North Korea. He Stayed There for 40 Years:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-american-soldier-whose-fear-of-fighting-in-vietnam-led-him-to-defect-to-north-korea-he-stayed-there-for-40-years-180983530/

* "Happy Public Domain Day 2024!:" https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/public-domain-day-2024/

* I'm doing my best with Klaus, migrating functions. It's way less efficient this way and a bunch of other things I normally do on Klaus need to keep on happening, so there are zero promises about me getting any number of things done when I normally do them. Some friends have clubbed together and are planning to send something I can do some of my messaging, etc. on, which mostly effects my private life. (Important for me and my close friends, but no one else).

The power still hasn't drained from Aidan, so we can't tell if reboot would help. A Millennial may look at it next week to see if anything can be done. I don't have a lot of hope. This is infuriating. Aidan is only a couple years old and was in great shape.

There is a good chance of me double posting accidentally for a bit, as I'm not sure which news items were just prepped or posted.

* "Christie Drops Out | Trump: A President Can Assassinate Rivals | Celebs Ruin RFK Jr.’s Birthday:"

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* "Stephen Colbert’s Cyborgasm: Chatbots Run Wendy’s Drive Thru | AI Dating Apps | Robotic Third Arm:"

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* "Texas Library Association’s Excuse for Dropping Chuck Tingle Appearance Doesn’t Add Up:" https://www.themarysue.com/texas-library-associations-excuse-for-dropping-chuck-tingle-appearance-doesnt-add-up/

* Chuck Tingle explains the ableism of the TLA in refusing accommodation. "My Masks:" https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739177829397331968/my-masks?source=share

* "Antigone to go (Sophocles in 11 minutes, English version):"

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* "‘Our Flag Means Death’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Max:" https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/our-flag-means-death-canceled-max-1235866718/

* "A Quick Fix To Improve Your Historical Drama, Fast: The Thing About The Past Is People Still Liked Being Clean:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/a-quick-fix-to-improve-your-historical?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=140517747&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&utm_medium=email

* "That’s Ludacris!:"

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* "Prompt: After a lackluster 1st year as a Hero, you’re ready to go rogue. The problem is that the new guy in the team is definitely onto you.:" https://www.tumblr.com/caffeinewitchcraft/692435372447285248/that-nerdy-guy-knows-your-secret-you-scan-the

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help the Lenape Nation get recognition from Pennsylvania: https://www.lenape-nation.org/

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* CW: Animal Death. Fundraiser to cover costs of final treatment. "Dine's expenses for Olivier's last week:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/dines-expenses-for-oliviers-last-week

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* "Let's talk about Ukraine and when it will end....:"

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* "U.S. Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout With Secret Arms Deal for Ukraine, Leaked Documents Reveal :" https://theintercept.com/2023/09/17/pakistan-ukraine-arms-imf/

* "Ukraine finds new sources of aid to fight Russia as politics with Poland gets complicated:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ukraine-finds-new-sources-of-aid-to-fight-russia-as-politics-with-poland-gets-complicated-193428037981

* "Poland, with election looming, says it isn't sending new arms to Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-no-longer-arming-ukraine-says-pm-2023-09-21/

* "Ukraine’s counteroffensive may be painful. But its success is crucial to wider European security:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/europe/ukraine-counteroffensive-crucial-european-security-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Fighting ‘through hell.’ To reclaim Bakhmut, a Ukrainian brigade must first survive the forest:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-counteroffensive-bakhmut-684873be8aad1b1502ff8d67ea48afac

* "Ukraine breaches Russian defensive line on southern front:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/23/ukraine-breach-verbove-zaporizhzhia/

* "Transgender American Suspended by Ukrainian Military After Controversial Video:" https://www.advocate.com/world/trans-ukraine-spokeswoman-suspended

* "Giuliani’s former lawyers sue him for $1.36M in unpaid legal fees:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/rudy-giuliani-lawyer-trump-00116671

* "Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113

* "Georgia DA lists Trump ally Lin Wood as state witness:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/georgia-da-lists-trump-ally-lin-wood-as-state-witness-193419845977

* "Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-prison-conviction-trial-1234828231/

* "Phoenix hit 110 degrees on 54 days in 2023, setting another heat record:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/phoenix-hit-110-degrees-on-54-days-in-2023-setting-another-heat-record

* "Ravaged by floods and fires, Greece struggles on the front lines of our climate reality:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ravaged-floods-fires-greece-struggles-front-lines-climate-reality-rcna107985

* "In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, survivors of the quake take stock of all they've lost:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1199471923/morocco-earthquake-atlas-mountains-survivors-loss

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate

* "Wildfires are destroying decades of clean air efforts in the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/wildfires-are-destroying-decades-clean-air-efforts-us-rcna105140

* "Renewable energy is now cheap—what’s next?:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/renewable-energy-is-now-cheap-whats-next/

* "How to Cool Down a City:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/18/world/asia/singapore-heat.html?unlocked_article_code=HSk3tYP63honaw6JVn60sCk2OyUJmggqmzSIK7lP_OWn6_9pFszirIXkmTLXDcXyRjn3rb5O5MgeQVi_FaD3W02hlA7Jjpbtw97pHNa5YV4GcIulAYY-fRPWhu9E9aMgO-1r0POf8CiuB54APIMbIIZYdAhOfHfPAcTiqgtY1jzeaWyOebK9mwNnx4VByANdE3qQEuqwyWdHf2NVemqZIQl9rh7bQY1vavuSlJJbcXoUmLZPj-Aa9HEGdRpQw6njaDeR0D2fL41PXsa0i626uNbLUHYiBchPr_dJQo-WtHDqeajLOdJA23VKtxYKQ1l9dNmgCUq_SroOLzSmYhKjjwcTlVTJS0KV-6LG&smid=url-share

* "This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here’s what we can learn:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90952175/this-spanish-city-has-been-restricting-cars-for-24-years-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it

* "The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?:" https://grist.org/indigenous/transgenic-american-chestnut-indigenous-rights/

* "The Physics of Crowds: Why dangerous crowds behave the way they do.:" https://nautil.us/the-physics-of-crowds-388020/

* "Let's talk about Rand Paul and a billboard....:"

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* You know how I kept saying these were an obvious scam from the beginning? "Your NFTs Are Actually — Finally — Totally Worthless:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nfts-worthless-researchers-find-1234828767/

* "‘Game of Thrones’ creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement:" https://apnews.com/article/openai-lawsuit-authors-grisham-george-rr-martin-37f9073ab67ab25b7e6b2975b2a63bfe

* "Decoding racial bias in artificial intelligence:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/decoding-racial-bias-in-artificial-intelligence-193619013836

* "AI in schools puts LGBTQ+ students at risk, new study reveals:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/ai-schools-digital-surveillance-lgbtq-students/

* "xQc Is Stealing Content (and So Are Most Reaction Streamers):"

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* "Elon Musk accuses George Soros of wanting ‘destruction of western civilization’ a day before meeting Netanyahu over antisemitism on X:" https://fortune.com/2023/09/18/elon-musk-george-soros-antisemitism-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-twitter-x/

* "Why Some Animals Thrive in Cities:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/urban-animals-wildlife-biodiversity-traits-pigeons-reptiles-amphibians

* "What Made a 17th-Century Midwife Good at Her Job?:" https://juliamartins.co.uk/what-made-a-17th-century-midwife-good-at-her-job

* "Dead Reckoning:" https://magazine.atavist.com/dead-reckoning-honda-point-navy-disaster-1923/

* "Welcome to the Little Cuba of the Sahara Desert:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cuba-influence-western-sahara

* Wednesday's plans fell through for a bunch of nobody's fault reasons, but at least the annual curtain cleaning got done, along with a bunch of necessary errands and the like. I was exhausted and ended up going to bed for a few hours before the Thursday dose. (It went up again. I'm fine, but it takes a lot out of me). I had planned to get my COVID boosters, but there is a local distribution delay. I am rescheduled for Saturday the 30th, which is far less convenient, but there was nothing to be done. It'll be my first Moderna shot; I've had Pfiser every time previous, but apparently the Pfiser delay is a lot longer if I don't want to cross the mountains and do like an hourish of driving in my ancient car to a crappy little town I've only been to once and don't know my way around.

Waiting is simpler and cheaper as I need to make this half tank last, so I will wait.

no one was letting me sleep Thursday. It was that thing where I was having trouble sleeping because of the pain being so extreme, and when I finally started to drift off, the phone would ring. Rinse and repeat. One of them let me sleep a whole hour, which was exciting. By the time we got to the 5-7th calls, I had reached a state of grimly amused. Then I woke up choking, which hasn't happened for a while and is likely to do with the Thursday shot and me running out of a side effect mitigation med I can't afford to replace until the 1st, by which time there will be no more shots until the new clinic opens.

I can't remember if I wrote about the two doctors getting a new office in the new clinic that opens in October, but they aren't scheduling yet. Let's hope the gap isn't so big I have to start over.

I did finally get a little REM sleep, but not much. Then I completely borked the bad shoulder trying to do physio. The arm didn't want to and it's bad enough I had to break out emergency meds and use the sling. Grr.

* "Star Trek Doesn't Understand Eugenics:"

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* "The White Gaze of Hairspray:"

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* "15 Hunky Black and White Folsom Street Fair Photos by Chantis :" https://www.advocate.com/photography/folsom-street-fair-2022-chantis

* "Halloween 🎃 Outdoor Decor | DIY Halloween Decorations for Outside | Front Yard Halloween Decorating:"

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* "If "Pride and Prejudice" was a podcast:"

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* Dracula: Lucy and Jonathan Parallels: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/729285707782389760/with-lucy-gone-now-and-van-helsing-saying-that?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "COVID-19 Tests:" https://www.covid.gov/tests

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "‘She could be my sister’: Iranian activists on why Mahsa Amini protests are an LGBTQ+ fight too:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/17/iran-lgbtq-mahsa-amini-protests-year/

* "Netanyahu's Supreme Court overhaul effort seen by protesters as threat to Israel's democracy:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-supreme-court-60-minutes-transcript/

* "Gender reform law: Scottish and UK governments battle in court over Section 35 block:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/19/gender-reform-law-scotland-uk-governments-court/

* "The Serial Killer Hiding in Plain Sight:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epv54m/the-serial-killer-hiding-in-plain-sight

* "Biden urges UN: Stand united with Ukraine :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/biden-un-general-assembly-ukraine-00116739

* "Trump civil fraud trial in New York will last nearly three months, judge says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trumps-new-york-fraud-trial-will-last-nearly-3-months-judge-rcna104100

* "Let's talk about rhetoric and reality....:"

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* I don't like the ableism here, but most of the other coverage is worse in one way or another. "A Befuddled Trump Both Admits and Denies that He Was 'Waving Around' a Classified Document:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/14/2193353/-A-Befuddled-Trump-Both-Admits-and-Denies-that-He-Was-Waving-Around-a-Classified-Document

* "Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113

* "Trump co-defendant Jeffrey Clark seeks to move Georgia election case to federal court:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-co-defendant-jeffrey-clark-seeks-move-georgia-election-case-fede-rcna105555

* "Jack Smith seeks gag order on Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/jack-smith-seeks-gag-order-on-trump-00116366

* "Trump blasts special counsel Jack Smith for seeking gag order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/trump-blasts-special-counsel-jack-smith-for-seeking-gag-order-00116376

* "Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from Trump’s account to special counsel:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/politics/trump-twitter-direct-messages/

* "East Libya Strongman Keeps Tight Control Over Aid After Floods:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/world/middleeast/libya-flood-aid-khalifa-hifter.html

* "Libyan flood survivors weigh water shortages against landmine risk:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/libyan-flood-survivors-weigh-water-shortages-against-landmine-risk-2023-09-17/

* "Survivors of Libya's deadly floods describe catastrophic scenes and tragic losses:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/15/1199761659/libya-floods-derna-survivors-deaths

* "Moroccan earthquake shattered thousands of lives:" https://apnews.com/article/morocco-photos-earthquake-920c39947f895cdfc3448e5431df7562

* "Morocco's earthquake crumbled much of this adobe village nestled in the mountain:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1200132282/morocco-earthquake-atlas-mountain-village

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate

* "Today’s world requires vastly more copper than you could imagine, and the world of electric vehicles will require even more. That means finding new ways to find and extract copper from the earth’s crust and oceans.:" https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-discovery-of-copper

* "LGBTQ+ indie game developers hit back at ‘worrying’ new Unity fees for installs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/unity-development-fees-indie-games/

* "Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, could charge all users for access:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/x-elon-musk-charge-all-users-18374233.php

* "‘The Trumpian Playbook’: Mehdi unpacks the GOP and Elon Musk’s war on truth:" https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-the-trumpian-playbook-mehdi-unpacks-the-gop-and-elon-musk-s-war-on-truth-192472133703

* "Eclipse Records Pin Dates of 12th and 13th Century Eruptions:" https://eos.org/articles/eclipse-records-pin-dates-of-12th-and-13th-century-eruptions

* "Triboulet the Butt-Slapping Jester: Investigating a Historical Meme:"

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* "The London History Show: The Great Fire:"

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* "The Pub Where They Hanged Pirates: The London History Show:"

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* "Was Victorian modesty a myth? Fashion history mythbusting with sunscreen and school dress codes:"

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* "How Queer Communities Created Secret Languages:"

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* "The Remarkable Versatility of Cloris Leachman: From The Last Picture Show to Young Frankenstein:"

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* Saturday I "won" a game of "What am I allergic to now?"

Spoiler: sandalwood. It was sandalwood. Sigh.

* Thursday was likely the last of the good fruit from the market garden down the street as I can't afford more. They were plums. The oval ones with the dark purple skin and the yellowish interior, perfectly rich of flavour and sweet. I already miss them. Sunday I ate one of the tomatoes that hadn't developed right from the garden and it was like the whole flavour of what would have been a full sized heirloom was compressed into something a tad larger than a cherry tomato. It was still warm from the sun. I dislike summer, but I do love the fresh fruit and veg it brings.

Last Wednesday we started Gothmas prep stuff. The Gothmas season stretches from when the first leaves start turning until some time first week of January. It has many phases. I didn't used to count prep as a phase, but it really is. Last Wednesday was basically Adult Arts and Crafts and cleaning air-conditioner vents. Sunday was things like break down and drain the living room air condition. admittedly a risk with this humidity, but we can't move forward without putting it away. We are hoping to start interior decorating Wednesday.

As always, the goal is to have everything up but the exterior by the end of the 27th. Let's hope i remember to start the curtains in the washing machine before I leave for Wednesday errands. (I really shouldn't be taking the curtains down myself, but I can't put them back up myself, so the timing needs to be a thing that happens when I'm dressed for the day, but with enough time for wash and dry while the Millennials are here.

I am so ready for Autumn, which should be much farther along, but the wind patterns have been radically fucked for half a decade thanks to climate crisis.

The cleaner tricked poor Livia Friday into thinking he was Goth Millennial. He was very quiet and making familiar doing things in the kitchen sounds, so without checking his identity she trundled out of her hide so she could watch birds from her padded podium by my bedroom window. About and hour and a quarter later, he loomed into her doorway. Panic! Goth Millennial was a doppelganger! a Tricksey shape Shifting stranger!

Saturday, she hid from Goth Millennial in case they performed the same shape shifting trick again. Fool me once….

Sunday she was on my bed with Tavy when I brought Goth Millennial in, and we were mid-chat, so she decided Goth Millennial was not a Decepticon because that meant she could keep enjoying the pet I was giving her and a nap in her Spot instead of repairing to her Fortress of Solitude for the evening. it was fine. no shape shifting shenanigans ensued.

* I'd have been harder on Tarantino, but otherwise, perfection. "The Campy Queer Sensibilities of Barbie:"

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* Dracula Thought: So here is the question: Knowing what we know now, is the maids begging to watch by Lucy earlier in her illness touching or sinister?

* "Midnight Pals: Playground of Death:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/728732779485036544/midnight-pals-playground-of-death?source=share

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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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* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

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* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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* I probably lost some things in the crash, but I'm too tired to work it out.

* "Turkey gives green light to Swedish NATO membership bid:" https://www.reuters.com/world/turkey-sweden-locked-talks-break-impasse-over-nato-membership-2023-07-10/

* "Putin's war on Ukraine backfires as NATO set to expand again:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-s-war-on-ukraine-backfires-as-nato-set-to-expand-again-187430981956

* "NATO skirts final call on Ukraine membership, leaving unity-testing fight for later :" https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-skirts-final-call-on-ukraine-membership-leaving-unity-testing-fight-for-later/

* "Biden deems idea of Ukraine NATO membership as ‘premature’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/09/biden-deems-ukraine-nato-membership-premature-00105321

* "Israel May Have Committed War Crimes in Jenin Operation, UN Palestinian Rights Official Says:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-06/ty-article/.premium/israel-may-have-committed-war-crimes-in-jenin-raid-un-palestinian-rights-official-says/00000189-2a7b-dcb5-a5df-6f7f370a0000

* "New migrant tragedy at sea changes little as EU leaders forge ahead with tougher borders plans:" https://apnews.com/article/migration-eu-summit-libya-turkey-borders-refugees-eab33d5169ae1c147e0dc5b2dc1f8266

* Russia has been using them on Ukrainian civilians for some time. "U.S. approves cluster bombs despite humanitarian concerns:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/07/u-s-approves-cluster-bombs-in-latest-ukraine-weapons-transfer-00105234

* I am really alarmed. "One Ukrainian soldier had six extensively drug-resistant bacterial infections:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/07/ukraine-war-spurs-horrifying-rise-in-extensively-drug-resistant-bacteria/

* "A Boy’s Life on the Front Lines:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/26/magazine/ukraine-war-childhood.html

* "Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-prisons-civilians-torture-detainees-88b4abf2efbf383272eed9378be13c72

* "The Children Russia Kidnapped:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/07/russia-kidnapping-abducting-ukrainian-children/674535/

* "Disciplinary panel calls for Rudy Giuliani’s disbarment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/07/disciplinary-panel-calls-for-rudy-giulianis-disbarment-00105220

* "Attorney ethics case against Trump ally Clark moves forward in DC:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/attorney-ethics-case-against-trump-ally-clark-moves-forward-dc-2023-07-07/

* "DOJ won’t defend Trump in Carroll rape defamation case anymore:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/11/doj-trump-in-carroll-rape-defamation-case.html

* "A grand jury sworn in Tuesday could decide whether Trump is charged over Georgia’s 2020 election:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-investigation-grand-jury-0cfd32492da81697879b8c8ac00f8c83

* "Trump wants classified documents trial delayed until after 2024 election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/11/trump-classified-documents-trial-date-2024-00105565

* "New targets suggest new indictments likely in Trump cases: new reports:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-targets-suggest-new-indictments-likely-in-trump-cases-new-reports-188521029990

* "Let's talk about a judge's quotes at a hearing...:"

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* The republican mainstream and literal Neo-NAZIs Venn Diagram is a circle. "College Republicans Convention to Host White Nationalist Nick Fuentes:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174204/college-republicans-united-convention-antisemite-nick-fuentes

* "US citizenship test changes are coming, raising concerns for those with low English skills:" https://apnews.com/article/new-citizenship-test-naturalization-immigrants-immigration-c074aa1c92b226b4960485fb26d0f4fa

* "Immigration policies don’t deter migrants from coming to the US – Title 42 and the border rules replacing it only make the process longer and more difficult :" https://theconversation.com/immigration-policies-dont-deter-migrants-from-coming-to-the-us-title-42-and-the-border-rules-replacing-it-only-make-the-process-longer-and-more-difficult-200776

* "Domestic terrorism charges in Georgia are prompting concern over political repression:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184782128/cop-city-atlanta-domestic-terrorism

* "A Police K-9 Took This Man’s Eye:"

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* This decision is shameful. "Oklahoma judge dismisses Tulsa race massacre reparations case filed by last known survivors:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/08/us/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations-case/index.html

* "Judge dismisses Tulsa reparations case as California reparations task force unveils final report:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/judge-dismisses-tulsa-reparations-case-as-california-reparations-task-force-unveils-final-report-187273285822

* "'This isn't over': Demand for national reparations intensifies after dismissal of Tulsa lawsuit:" https://news.yahoo.com/this-isnt-over-demand-for-national-reparations-intensifies-after-dismissal-of-tulsa-lawsuit-201152753.html

* "With race-based admissions no longer an option, states may imitate Texas Top 10% Plan:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/29/texas-college-top-ten-percent-plan-supreme-court/

* The Republican War on Capitalism, Child Safety, and Free Expression continues. Note they are saying that a simple display of a rainbow constitutes pedophilia as part of their campaign to trivialize CSA. "7 Republican AGs write to Target, say Pride month campaigns could violate their state’s child protection laws:" https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/08/business/target-attorneys-general-pride-month/index.html

* "Inside Moms for Liberty’s summit: Big money and even bigger conspiracy theories:" https://www.mediamatters.org/moms-liberty/inside-moms-libertys-summit-big-money-and-even-bigger-conspiracy-theories?fbclid=IwAR1HHHab7Z60Hq7HA_-C_OsGM-8TR2FOU-Lzv0pJwXpAE5n8akFBisXzUZw

* This means libraries can't let children read e-books to get around government censorship. "HOOPLA, OVERDRIVE/LIBBY NOW BANNED FOR THOSE UNDER 18 IN MISSISSIPPI:" https://bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby-now-banned-for-those-under-18-in-mississippi/

* CW: CSA. "BBC suspends presenter alleged to have paid teen for sexually explicit photos:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/09/bbc-explict-photos-teen-presenter-suspended/

* CW: CSA "BBC presenter: Second young person comes forward with allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/bbc-presenter-second-young-person/

* CW: CSA "Huw Edwards named as BBC presenter suspended over sexual images claim:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/bbc-presenter-huw-edwards/

* CW: Abuse "Fans Built Her an Internet Empire. Now They’re Tearing It Down:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/colleen-ballinger-miranda-sings-youtube-fans-allegations-1234774947/

* "'Stop killing us': Polish women protest against strict anti-abortion law:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/stop-killing-us-polish-women-protest-against-strict-anti-abortion-law-2023-06-14/

* "It’s Almost Impossible to Get an Abortion in Poland. These Women Crossed the Border to Germany for Help:" https://time.com/poland-abortion-laws-protest/

* "Poland sees peril for women of extreme, ill-considered abortion bans:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/poland-sees-peril-for-women-of-extreme-ill-considered-abortion-bans-187296837924

* The Republican War on Freedom continues. "Most abortions now banned in Iowa after Gov. Kim Reynolds signs 'fetal heartbeat' law:" https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/14/iowa-abortion-ban-six-weeks-gov-kim-reynolds-signs-law-republicans-special-session-fetal-heartbeat/70398800007/

* For your own safety, I beg you not to give Meta's Facebook or Threads any of your data. "Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/teen-and-mom-plead-guilty-to-abortion-charges-based-on-facebook-data/

* "Scottsdale bans natural grass in front yards of new houses to conserve water amid Arizona’s drought :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/us/scottsdale-arizona-grass-ban-new-houses/index.html

* "A Building Made From Cannabis? Yes, Seriously - With Hempcrete:" https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/building-made-cannabis-yes-seriously-hempcrete/324521/

* "Drive-thrus are creating problems for cities and towns:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/business/drive-thru-fast-food-chick-fil-a-urban-planning/index.html

* "The ACTUAL Danger of A.I. with Gary Marcus:"

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* "Tax preparers that shared private data with Meta, Google could be fined billions:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/meta-wont-say-what-happened-to-taxpayer-data-it-may-have-illegally-collected/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

* "Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads:" https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/far-right-figures-including-nazi-supporters-anti-gay-extremists-and-white-supremacists-are

* "Meta’s vision for Threads is more mega-mall than public square:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/07/threads-shopping-mall-not-a-public-square/

* I stand by my avoidance of Facebook, Threads, and ChatGPT. "Hackers are increasingly using ChatGPT lures to spread malware on Facebook:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/03/malware-chatgpt-lures-facebook/

* "Facebook's Threads is so depressing:" https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing

* "Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend:" https://catvalente.substack.com/p/mark-fking-zuckerberg-is-not-your

* "Elon Musk wants ‘d**k measuring contest’ with Mark Zuckerberg:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/elon-musk-wants-dk-measuring-contest-with-mark-zuckerberg/

* "Elon Musk and the dominance space:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/10/elon-musk-twitter-threads/

* "Twitter’s death spiral and what it means for LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/13/twitter-death-lgbtq/

* "“How is still being on Twitter, for whatever reason, actually ‘handing money’ to [Musk and his fascist project]?”:" https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/04/23/how-is-still-being-on-twitter-for-whatever-reason-actually-handing-money-to-musk-and-his-fascist-project/

* "Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

* "Twitter Blue Accounts Are Spreading Misinformation About The War In Ukraine:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/07/10/twitter-blue-accounts-are-spreading-misinformation-about-the-war-in-ukraine/?sh=77065a6f320f

* "Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle:" https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle/

* "Pinanga Subterranea: New Species of Rare Palm Discovered to Flower Underground:" https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/44551/20230627/pinanga-subterranea-new-species-rare-palm-discovered-flower-underground.htm

* "Summer is here. Where are the Fireflies?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/firefly-summer-extinction/

* "Flowers pollinated by honeybees make lower-quality seeds:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flowers-pollinate-honeybees-low-seeds

* "After being swallowed alive, water beetle stages 'backdoor' escape from frog's gut:" https://www.livescience.com/beetle-escape-frog-butt.html

* "Dolphin moms use baby talk to call to their young, recordings show:" https://apnews.com/article/dolphin-mothers-baby-talk-calves-cc0c189aa1b8e1298155b1ea78c1002a

* "What Did Viking Town Houses Look Like? And Where Did They Poop?:"

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* "Reflections In The Shadow of Tahoma: Nettie J. Asberry:" https://www.tacomaartslive.org/terms/583-in-the-shadow-of-tahoma-nettie-j-asberry

* "A hundred years on from the 'cult of the clitoris' libel trial, let's remember that fake news is nothing new:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/oscar-wilde-maud-allan-cult-of-the-clitoris-black-book-first-world-war-a8369811.html

* "A fire destroyed millions of veterans’ records. 50 years later, families are still seeking answers:" https://apnews.com/article/military-records-fire-veterans-2f8337c58bc87c10179a2cf6ee54136a

* "My Aunties | Father Figures:"

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* "A Short History of Naughty Literature and Zane:"

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* "Steven Pieters: One of the longest-living HIV survivors in US dies after cancer battle:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/steven-pieters-hiv-activist-dies/

* "Fast fashion retailer Shein accused of racketeering and copyright infringement in lawsuit:" https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/shein-rico-charge-racketeering-lawsuit-b2375825.html

* "5-person refugee team competes at European Games in Poland:" https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/50021/5person-refugee-team-competes-at-european-games-in-poland

* Very early Sunday morning I discovered that I no longer need four pillows on top of the two elderly wheelchair cushions on my beat up second hand office chair. I can now manage with just the two wheelchair cushions thanks to my new meds. This may seem like a small thing, but it means I get my options back for leg and hip positioning at my desk.

(I can't sit easily long term in a chair without propping my legs if I intend to use the legs for things like walking later. It's also uncomfortable to let them dangle. you know how starting ballet at a very young age changes the shape of your hip joints? Now add serious arthritic degeneration and what the current rheum thinks is hyper-mobility, but not the really obvious everyone notices it kind. Apparently they are in the process of changing diagnostic criteria based on more recent science. Apparently most ballet dancers and gymnasts would qualify under the newer guidelines, which makes sense to me.)

My shoulder is still completely fucked from the trying to clean up after the Uncleaner, but I am really noticing the difference in so many ways. Yay, new meds. I've mostly acclimated to the side effects so far. still no hallucinations and last night's test with combining with the emergency tramadol did not induce temporary psychosis, which is a really good sign. (For new readers a whole bunch of meds can induce hallucinations and paranoia in my family, including opiods, anti-psychotics, and SSRIs. At high doses we are talking full psychotic break, a thing I've seen now deceased older family members experience in the hospital. if someone is having an obvious psychotic break, they tend to administer anti-psychotics, which have a multiplying effect with the pain killers and thus make things way worse, so they administer more anti-psychotics instead of cutting the opiods and the anti-psychotics out.... you can see the obvious problem. I have only just started hallucinating with stronger opiods, but can still tolerate milder ones. They are still a little unpleasant for me at low doses. I don't use them too often because some time pain killers are necessary and due to allergies my only other options are Tylenol and my arthritis pill, which I can't take more often than every twelve hours for safety reasons. It's a whole thing. New med is a class none of us have taken before, so I'm a guinea pig). I am wary of going up to the standard for adult humans dose, however, as I am getting the weird intense dreams side effect, which for me can be a warning that a drug is about to turn ugly on me. Don't worry, everybody around me knows what's going on with my meds situation.

I other news, Tavy wants to hang out with his favorite Millennials and enjoyed watching the Friday cleaner, but still is only letting me and Squirrel touch him. he did want to be super close to goth Millennial Saturday and was interested in play, though tired easily in the heat. He also get upset when it was time for Goth Millennial to go home. It's looking like he's recovering from the Uncleaner traumatizing him. he still wants reassurance after sleep, but yesterday he didn't wake me in a panic after a bad nightmare and have trouble being soothed. I am still furious about the whole thing, but the cats are being more normal.

Goth Millennial put in the air conditioner/air filtration in the main area before they left, which is making a huge difference.

* Sunday: Tavy let Goth Millennial pet him. he’s still too distressed to sit on the sofa with Goth Millennial for TV time and pettins, but he did curl up behind us. The cats are still sleepy, I'm hoping from the heat and not the Ajax, but Tavy was himself enough to play what is a normal amount for him in summer.

Goth Millennial got some good gardening in and is starting to sort out things cleaners put away in odd locations. The air filtering in the main room is being a huge help. I worry about all the smoke injuring my cats and the Millennials. I know it's really been fucking me up, but ever running the machine for a few hours perks us all up. My room is filtered as always when I sleep, of course.

I blew through all the EBT and OTC in the first week of July and am way over budget on food already. Sigh. I gaze sadly at melons and cucumbers I can't eat safely and pass on.

* The new meds side effect wave hit hard and dangerous Thursday, but I'm not sure it didn't start a lot earlier.

Okay, so I had a vicious headache last Friday night for about three hours, which didn't particularly shock me, as my body just does stuff like that. Same Saturday. Normal. Sunday. Monday. I made a note to mention it to the doctor Tuesday morning, but forgot. I noticed Tuesday's headache at the same time was absolutely crushing for three hours, then shut off like a faucett as if it had never been. Which is creepy and wrong. So I'm now weighing if the new meds improvement is worth creepy three hour debilitating headache every day, and if I should call it in the next day.

So Wednesday I wake up to one of my body is very, very bad days. which is a thing that happens sometimes, especially if my body's been to far which between the uncleaner and the extreme heat and this being the worse time of year for my allergies and assorted RL commitments including the doctor is not weird. Plus I'm... I forget how many days in on struggling to type on Klaus Laptop because its hard to lift my arm the extra nine and a half inches, and I'm mostly having to drink with a straw because i go half my wake cycle not being ably to lift a full glass of water that high and I'm dropping things because my arms are fucked. which happens. All of it really stresses out my body though, you follow?

So sometimes the alarm goes off because I have to go somewhere and my body nopes out of it, or tries to. So I'm exhausted. I have the shakes. I end up way late to pick up Goth Millennial because it's just that hard to move. So I drive Goth Millennial around and wait in the car while they do errands. Goth Millennial goes outside to putter in the garden. I lung, then take a nap, all with Tavy glued to my chest, because it's sometimes better after a nap. Resets everything to a more acceptable level of crappy.

I make it all the way up to minimally functional by the time the other Millennials arrive for dinner. One of them had brought pre-marinated and cooked tofu. Me: I think we should make rice for it. With coconut milk and saffron and Turmeric. New Millennial: Oooo! That sounds delicious! Me: It's possible I'm edging up towards Indonesian happy rice except I don't have any lemon grass. But I do have Bay leaves.... So it ends up with New Millennial Making Rice and the two of us keep consulting on spices until I have to lie down again. The results we excellent.

Tavy is still clearly traumatized from the Uncleaner. He loves techie Millennial. Techie Millennial was the first visitor he let pet and play with him. He hid from the Millennials when they arrived after nap time. He did eventually come out and watch them for a bit and even rubbed against Techies legs, but ran if it even looked like someone might tough her. I'm still so angry about the Uncleaner traumatizing him like this.

Really, I just wanted to go to bed after they left, but I needed to stay up for the morning allergy treatment. My body was really not movi ng well, but I dragged myself there and back, which nearly did me in. I did manage to prep for bed and climb in, which really fucking hurt, at which point the first wave of hallucinations and fast heartbeat and arrhythmia hit. So that was fun. Me: Guess that's it for new Meds. They were amazing while they lasted.

They must have been really busy at the doctor because they didn't get back to me until afternoon. I left a message for my doctor's nurse, conveying that I was having severe side effects and needed to know if I should go to the ER. No one ever got back to me. The heart stuff got really bad for four or five hours, always with visual hallucinations. I thought about calling for help, but my right arm wasn't working and my left wasn't great either, and it's usually eight hours minimum to get seen at the ER and they yell at you if you bring in chest pains that turn out not to be a heart attack, and the pain only happened when I moved so it was likely just torso muscles screaming about my arms.

But the supper high irregular heart beat for hours can't be good. I wrote this waiting for receptionist call back Friday morning. I was 36 minutes in on the wait as I typed this sentence. I really think they should check my heart, but if they are this busy... Yeah. I'm assuming if it was really dangerous, they'd return my call from yesterday instead of continuing to ignore my message.

* It took about an hour and a quarter total, but we will find out if i had a heart attack or not on Tuesday. They I had to chase down the asshole agency as they had not called to tell me the cleaner wasn't coming, so it's now rescheduled for Tuesday. Then I waited on hold to try to schedule the mobility assessment, only to discover the number they gave was for central processing. They were going to transfer me when call waiting beeped, so i made them give me the direct line number and extension. (It was meds. Pharmacy was delivering meds and they only wait five minutes so that was the correct call on my part.) The making appointment direct line was faster by far, but I had no clue which wheelchair vender I was interested in. O.o apparently they have the vender in on assessment days, so that effects scheduling. I let her pick. She was like: We like this one better, but we have to offer both.

Forage delivery still hadn't arrived. It was now really hot and polleny outside. This is relevant. I can't leave food out there very long or it will spoil. Inside, I have air conditioning and extra filtering. I can breath inside, but not outside. I was exhausted and frustrated and really pissed off about the medical stuff. My chest was still tight. There is a band of intense pain keeping me from lifting my arms properly. I manage to drag the laundry basket to me room anyway, but I'm not remotely up to the pain involved in folding it. Livia wants her love. I climb into bed for Livia loves. My experience is, getting ready to sleep summons Forage Delivery somehow. Livia is done with her love. I've been in bed over an hour waiting. Tavy insists I should sleep with claws to my nipple, because health stiff makes him anxious.

The phone rings. We have the conversation where we double check which porch to put it on. I lie there a bit, working up to the pain of levering myself out of bed. I lumber out there. No food boxes. so I'm thinking did he think left instead of right? So I'm out in the mid day sun with my crutch and bare feet, struggling to breath because I can't breath in the heat on a good day and this isn't close. I have no idea how I will get the food boxes to my apartment. My best guess is crawl on the pavement pushing them ahead of me because there is zero chance of my arms even lifting them. It's not on the patios of any building facing the gazebo. Me: did they drive past and hit the wrong side of my building? So I hobble around the other side in baking heat and it's not on the logical patios. I have to then hobble all the way back to my patio, exhausted. I simply can't be out any longer or I will collapse. This is why I have forage delivery, so I don't have to seriously endanger myself getting the food. Which i am now doing and failing at miserably.

I try last call return. No one answers. Fuck! I restart the computer and look up forage delivery dispatch. I get a live human without a long wait on hold for the first time in two days. This is possibly a miracle. I am still struggling to breath when I explain and ask if they could at least give me a hint as to where the food is because I can't be out in the sun searching anymore. She puts me on hold and reaches them. She puts me on hold and reaches them. she says they will come back.

So I go lie down in my room where the air is best and wait. He’s like: I’m right here. The food is here. I go look. No man. No food. I used my stop a kid from across the playground below to see if we could get a Polo for my Marco. No dice. I had cleverly left the phone off the hook when I went to look on the grounds that the food was definitely not on my patio previously.

It turns out that they’d put it in the middle of the other side of the building, expecting me somehow to drag it all that way over carpeted halls. O.o I didn’t think to look there because we’d discussed patio locations in such a super specific way moments before he’d put it at the main entrance instead of a patio. He was nice enough to bring it around and drop it right inside my door.

I have recently learned Millennials generally don’t know the word “gazebo” and are afraid to ask or look it up because of the cleaners. I am now wondering if patio may also be too bougie to be familiar, but lots of apartments around here come with small patios if they are ground floor, even the shitty apartments I can generally afford, just like tiny balconies are super common on upper floors in this region. Surely jungle of plants and blue chair were hints though? IDK. We’ve lost a lot of delivery people in the decade we live here too. Something about the complex confuses people.

Forage delivery guy looked like a thirtyish Mr. Clean and really was very kind, just confused.

Goth Millennial was sweet enough to come in on their day off to work and extra two hours looking after me, and then we finished the back third of a movie we’d been re-watching together. I’m not great, but improving. I also have a new unexplored theory about what is wrong with my arms from the article about statins I linked in this space. I guess I’ll run it by the doctor when I see them.

* "Completely Neutral, Race-Blind College Admissions Questions:" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/completely-neutral-race-blind-college-admissions-questions

* "You drop a small piece of food on the floor, and decide to kick it under the oven/couch/whatever because you can’t be bothered to pick it up. As you’re walking away, you hear a very quiet “Thank you!” from under it.:" https://bixbythemartian.tumblr.com/post/183910148322/you-drop-a-small-piece-of-food-on-the-floor-and

* "Midnight Pals: Body Horror:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/722118655202181120/midnight-pals-body-horror?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share
* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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* (I made a small start on the queer news, but it's tiny compared to the prepped link. Very little after that point went up. The backlog is daunting and this coming week turns out to also be a monster scheduling wise, plus the election coverage about to hit. We are in the midst of all hands on deck cleaning for an inspection, for example. See below.).

* "As unrest grips Iran’s schools, the government is going after children:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/01/iran-protests-children-hijab-amini/

* "Cleric killed in restive Iranian city, protests rage on:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-human-rights-lawyers-criticise-clerical-leaders-amid-unrest-2022-11-03/

* CW: Child Murder "Children among 10 feared dead in Iran crackdown, Amnesty says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/middleeast/iran-protest-crackdown-amnesty-international-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Iranians defy crackdown with fresh protests, as president dismisses US vow to ‘free Iran’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/06/iranians-defy-crackdown-with-fresh-protests-as-president-dismisses-us-vow-to-free-iran

* "US and Saudi Arabia concerned that Iran may be planning attack on energy infrastructure in Middle East:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/us-saudi-arabia-iran-energy-infrastructure-middle-east/index.html

* Well, fuck! "Israel election final results: Netanyahu, Jewish far right win power, fiasco for left:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2022-11-03/ty-article/israel-election-final-results-netanyahu-jewish-far-right-win-power-fiasco-for-left/00000184-3e80-daf1-abc4-7f9a53f40000

* Re: Netanyahu

I’ve stated some form of this over the years any number of times, but in the current climate, I should reiterate it.

My dislike of Netanyahu and his ultra-right positions is specific to Netanyahu because of his ultra-right positions, his corruption, his policies, etc.. His party and allies have policies I oppose, much in the way I oppose Trump and the Republicans, Rishi Sunak (and Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, and every Tory PM back to the much hated Thatcher which was about when I started following UK Politics in real time), Viktor Orbán, Jair Bolsanaro, and a host of other horrible extreme right wing politicians the world over to numerous to list.

This does not and should not be taken for anger at the Israeli left or Jewish people the world over who did not vote for a right wing party in the recent Israeli election. There is a reason my coverage of Israeli politics mostly originates from left leaning Israeli news sources like Haaretz.

There is far too much violent antisemitism in the world right now, far to many politicians of every stripe happy to stoke antisemitism for personal power, far too many antisemitic movements and the like. In my country one of the two political parties with any power proudly embraces it.

This I am furious about and very much wish to fight against.

Please don’t take the recent election in Israel as an excuse to do or say something that harms real people who have nothing to do with it or were actively wanting a better outcome.

It is important to separate a dislike of a particular person for political reasons from a wider attack on a large group living in many countries famously holding a wide variety of beliefs and opinions.

I try very hard to do that in this space.

* A relief! "Denmark election result keeps Social Democrats at the helm:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/denmark-election-result-keeps-social-democrats-at-the-helm

* A massive relief!!! "Brazil election: Anti-LGBTQ+ tyrant Jair Bolsonaro beaten by leftist Lula:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/30/brazil-election-lula-beats-jair-bolsonaro-lgbtq/

* "Why Bolsonaro’s stunning loss should give humans a glimmer of hope:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/jair-bolsonaro-lula-brazilian-election-amazon-putin-ukraine/

* *digits cruciform* "We Might Finally Be Free From the Madness of Bolsonaro:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/opinion/brazil-election-lula-bolsonaro.html

* Let’s hope things go well for democracy. "Trucks, Protesters Block Brazil Highways After Bolsonaro Rout:" https://www.barrons.com/news/trucks-protesters-block-brazil-highways-after-bolsonaro-rout-01667224207

* "Steve Bannon says Bolsonaro can't concede as he rails against Biden and CIA:" https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-bolsonaro-brazil-election-lula-1755696

* "Brazil's Bolsonaro signals cooperation with transfer of power, but does not concede election defeat :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-elections-protests-intl-latam/index.html

* "Bolsonaro backers call on Brazil military to intervene after Lula victory:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolsonaro-backers-call-brazil-military-intervene-after-lula-victory-2022-11-02/

* "Rishi Sunak 'wants to gut trans rights from Equality Act':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/rishi-sunak-trans-equality-act/

* "New women's minister defends troubling voting record on women's rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/minister-for-women-maria-caulfield-abortion-clinic-vote/

* "Manston migrant centre like a zoo, says asylum seeker:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63481151

* "Dover petrol bomb attacker said he planned to ‘obliterate Muslim children’:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/02/migrant-centre-attacker-planned-to-obliterate-muslim-children-in-final-tweet

* "Russia’s security service works to subvert Moldova’s pro-Western government:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/28/russia-fsb-moldova-manipulation/

* "Russia Expected to OK Stricter 'Gay Propaganda' Law This Fall:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/17/russia-expected-ok-stricter-gay-propaganda-law-fall

* "Bi OnlyFans Creator Sentenced to Prison Over Using the Site:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/bi-onlyfans-creator-sentenced-prison-over-using-site

* "How Halloween revelry turned to disaster in South Korea:" https://graphics.reuters.com/SOUTHKOREA-STAMPEDE/CHRONOLOGY/zjvqjqmmlpx/index.html

* "North Korea fired the highest number of short-range missiles in a day, says South Korea:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/asia/north-korea-missiles-wednesday-intl-hnk

* "North Korea ICBM may have failed in flight, officials say; residents in Japan told to shelter:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-south-koreas-military-2022-11-02/

* "How Spain looked on as dozens were crushed to death at its border:" https://www.bbc.com/news/extra/z8i55dsu8w/spain-morocco-border

* "Czechs rally against rising extremism and voice support for Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czechs-rally-against-rising-extremism-voice-support-ukraine-2022-10-30/

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* "'Scrabble variants' now cause the majority of new Covid-19 infections in the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/health/covid-variants-dominant-bq/index.html

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* "For the first time, Iran acknowledges it sent drones to Russia:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/05/1134523148/ukraine-russia-war-iran-drones

* "Russia's hope for Ukraine win revealed in battle for Bakhmut:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russias-hope-for-ukraine-win-revealed-in-battle-for-bakhmut/2022/10/28/d81ceb7e-5692-11ed-ac8b-08bbfab1c5a5_story.html

* "Ukraine's 58th Brigade in the Heart of the Bakhmut Mire:" https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-s-58th-brigade-in-the-heart-of-the-bakhmut-mire-/6815660.html

* "Kyiv reels as 'massive' wave of missile strikes hit Ukrainian cities; wheat prices rise as grain deal stalls:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/31/ukraines-forces-repel-brutal-russian-offensive-in-donetsk-wheat-prices-rise-after-grain-export-deal-stumbles.html

* "Ukraine’s War Is Leading to a Nervous Breakdown:"

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* "Lions Rescued From Ukraine Find New Home:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/17/lions-rescued-ukraine-find-new-home

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* "US Announces New Sanctions on Iran for Bounty on Rushdie:" https://www.voanews.com/a/us-announces-new-sanctions-on-iran-for-bounty-on-rushdie-/6809948.html

* "Biden sends a stark warning about political violence ahead of midterms: 'We can't take democracy for granted any longer':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/politics/biden-speech-democracy-dc/index.html

* "Seeing danger in GOP election-deniers, Biden appeals to Americans to support democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/seeing-danger-in-gop-election-deniers-biden-appeals-to-americans-to-support-democracy-152373317527

* "Dowd: Biden realized there isn't a sane GOP holding election deniers accountable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-s-speech-addressing-threats-to-democracy-particularly-from-maga-republicans-praised-as-midterms-push-152353861727

* "Rep. Raskin: ‘Joe Biden was trying to strike that tone as the leader of the whole country’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-s-speech-on-attacks-and-threats-to-democracy-responded-to-by-rep-raskin-152356421932

* "Biden administration to provide over $13 billion in aid to help American families lower energy bills:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/02/biden-administration-to-provide-over-13-billion-in-aid-to-help-american-families-lower-energy-bills.html

* "More LGBTQ+ Spouses to Receive Survivors' Benefits, VA Announces:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/more-lgbtq-spouses-receive-survivors-benefits-va-announces

* "Rachel Levine Elected to National Academy of Medicine:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/21/rachel-levine-elected-national-academy-medicine

* "Conservatives Spew Transphobia at Already Anti-Trans Federal Agency:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/18/conservatives-spew-transphobia-already-anti-trans-federal-agency

* "Elie Mystal: Supreme Court pretended arguments in favor of affirmative action didn’t exist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-weighs-race-based-college-admissions-don-t-seem-supportive-of-campus-diversity-152115269631

* "Supreme Court to Hear LGBTQ+ Rights Case Before End of Year:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/10/19/supreme-court-hear-lgbtq-rights-case-end-year

* "White House Press Secretary Sits Down for an Exclusive Interview:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/white-house-press-secretary-sits-down-for-an-exclusive-interview-151959621696

* I have concerns. "Fed hikes interest rates again, up 0.75 percentage points:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/02/fed-rate-hike/

* "'Ripped off': Katie Porter on how price-gouging companies are driving inflation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ripped-off-katie-porter-on-how-price-gouging-companies-are-driving-inflation-152360005651

* "Living Homeless in the Desert:"

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* "What I Learned Watching a Co-Worker Get Forced Out:" https://index.medium.com/what-i-learned-watching-a-co-worker-get-forced-out-2418ca86411

* "Pennsylvania court orders election officials to not count ‘undated’ ballots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/01/pennsylvania-court-undated-ballots-00064549

* "Arizona, Michigan GOP ask voters to mail in ballots and use drop boxes as candidates and officials blast the practice:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/29/politics/kfile-arizona-michigan-gop-encourage-mail-ballots/index.html

* "Kristina Karamo seeks court order that could impact thousands of Detroit voters:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/28/kristina-karamo-lawsuit-detroit-votes/69598090007/

* "Lawyer in Karamo lawsuit targeting Detroit yells at judge, cites debunked film:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/11/03/hearing-karamo-lawsuit-targeting-detroit-voters/69616706007/

* "DeSantis Voter Fraud Unit Defends Arresting Former Felons:"

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* If people like this turn up at your door, close and lock it. Do not interact. "In the hunt for voter fraud, Republican door knockers are intimidating residents: officials:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/republican-door-knockers-intimidate-voters-while-hunting-voter-fraud-say-2022-11-03/

* "Election Officials Say Efforts to Intimidate Voters Are Widening:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/politics/voting-intimidation-democracy.html

* "Voter intimidation, election worker threats part of voting climate ahead of midterms:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/voter-intimidation-election-worker-threats-part-voting-climate/story?id=92505277

* "North Carolina reports possible voter intimidation, threats ahead of midterm elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/north-carolina-reports-possible-voter-intimidation-threats-ahead-midterms-2022-11-04/

* "Stacey Abrams - Fighting for Voting Access in Georgia:" https://www.cc.com/video/2hwoe3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-stacey-abrams-fighting-for-voting-access-in-georgia

* "Justice Department says 'vigilante ballot security efforts' in Arizona are likely illegal:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/arizona-voter-intimidation-doj/index.html

* "Americans face voter intimidation at the polls:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/americans-face-voter-intimidation-at-the-polls-151960645695

* "Judge limits ballot drop box monitoring in Arizona after intimidation claims:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/arizona-ballot-clean-elections-liburdi/

* If Republicans actually cared about ending voter fraud they'd stop committing it instead of stealing people's right to vote. "Milwaukee Election Commission official Kimberly Zapata could face charges accusing her of fraudulently requesting military ballots:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/03/mayor-says-milwaukee-election-worker-fired-over-ballot-fraud/69616108007/

* "Obama says democracy ‘may not survive’ in Arizona if Republicans win:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/03/obama-says-democracy-may-not-survive-if-arizona-republicans-win/

* "‘Let's not pretend’ that Republicans and Democrats share equal blame for election denial, DCCC chair says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/sean-maloney-democrats-republicans-elections-00064138

* "The Five Scariest Statewide Republican Candidates You Haven’t Heard of:" https://newrepublic.com/article/168373/five-scariest-republican-candidates-statewide-office

* "In 5 key battlegrounds, most GOP state legislative nominees are election deniers, report finds:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/29/in-5-key-battlegrounds-most-gop-nominees-are-election-deniers.html

If they win, Democracy dies in those states.

Please, please, please vote the whole ticket.

* "GOP candidate Mark Finchem's lawyer proposed fake elector votes that "aren't legal.":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/gop-candidate-mark-finchems-lawyer-proposed-fake-elector-votes-that-arent-legal/

"And this guy wants to be in charge of Arizona's elections."

* I am terrified. Literally every governor and secretary of state race we lose in this election is likely a state that will lose the right to free and fair elections, probably for a generation, possibly forever.

I am terrified because not enough Millennials and Gen z are early voting. We can't save democracy without you. We pretty much need all of you. If we don't save democracy there is zero chance of fixing any thing else in this country.

Yes, things are terrible and most democratic politicians haven't enough spine, but they are legitimately trying to fix things. Republicans are out right promising to crash the world economy if they win the house of representatives to force an end to the social safety net. They are openly promising that if they win in the states, they will fix it so republicans can never lose there again. They are promising a national abortion ban and a repeal of civil and human rights for queer folks. Kiss any attempt to stop the planet burning goodbye.

Fuckssake get out there and vote! This may be your last chance for it to count if Republicans win in your state. Vote because our lives depend on it!

* "GOP floats Medicare changes while ducking details:" https://www.axios.com/2022/11/03/gop-floats-medicare-reform

* "Yes, some Republican senators really are talking openly about Social Security cuts:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/yes-some-republican-senators-are-talking-openly-about-social-security-cuts/ar-AA13K0K4?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b2fd7a3baaf5485b89016d7bbdf50c32

* "GLAAD Ads Remind LGBTQ+ Voters What's at Stake in Midterm Election:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/10/12/glaad-ads-remind-lgbtq-voters-whats-stake-midterm-election

* "Forward thinking, playing offense are opportunities for Democrats as midterms approach:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/forward-thinking-playing-offense-are-opportunities-for-democrats-as-midterms-approach-152243269571

* "Can Republicans fulfill their role in a multi-party democracy?:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/can-republicans-fulfill-their-role-in-a-multi-party-democracy-152370757778

* Elizabeth Warren Extended Interview:

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* "House GOP uses grade school trick to inflate pad report with 'filler and Fox News' :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/house-gop-uses-grade-school-trick-to-inflate-pad-report-with-filler-and-fox-news-152618053708

* "Chris Hayes: If Republicans win, Trump will be the ‘shadow Speaker of the House’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-if-republicans-win-trump-will-be-the-shadow-speaker-of-the-house-152597061618

* "Judiciary Republicans hint at investigation into FBI, DOJ if they retake the House:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134449665/republicans-investigation-fbi-doj-midterms

* "3 Lies Republicans Are Using This Election| Robert Reich:"

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* "Pro-LGBTQ+ PAC Targets Pa. Republican Candidates Oz and Mastriano:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/27/pro-lgbtq-pac-targets-penn-republican-candidates-oz-and-mastriano

* "Column: A speech-impaired John Fetterman is better than a fast-talking Mehmet Oz:" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-30/john-fetterman-mehmet-oz-aphasia-debate

* "Dr. Oz's Campaign Is Stocked With Jan. 6ers:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dr-oz-jan6-john-fetterman-donald-trump-1234620315/

* He doesn't even know where Pennsylvania IS! O.o "Pennsylvania by the sea: Mehmet Oz implies state has Atlantic coastline:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/01/mehmet-oz-pennsylvania-republican-candidate

* "Doug Mastriano ally Toni Shuppe has a plan to ‘stop the steal of 2022.’ It’s full of misinformation.:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/toni-shuppe-doug-mastriano-election-steal-pennsylvania-20221030.html

* "Exclusive with Josh Shapiro: "Our fundamental freedoms are on the ballot":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/exclusive-with-josh-shapiro-our-fundamental-freedoms-are-on-the-ballot-151960645652

* "Mehmet Oz’s medical research was rejected in 2003, resulting in 2-year ban:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/11/01/oz-senate-doctor-research/

* "Oprah says if she lived in Pennsylvania, she’d vote for Fetterman over Oz in U.S. Senate race:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/oprah-winfrey-john-fetterman-mehmet-oz-pa-senate-race-20221103.html

* "GOP candidate Mark Finchem's lawyer proposed fake elector votes that "aren't legal.":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/gop-candidate-mark-finchems-lawyer-proposed-fake-elector-votes-that-arent-legal/

* "How Democracy Is on the Line in 2022 & Beyond:"

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* CW: Rape "GOP candidate wants ‘community-level review’ on if rape victims can get abortions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-candidate-wants-community-level-review-on-if-rape-victims-can-get-abortions-152599109733

* "How Doug Mastriano ended up in a Holocaust film that troubles scholars:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/doug-mastriano-holocaust-film-agenda/

* "Endorsement: Please, don’t give your vote to Lauren Boebert:" https://www.denverpost.com/2022/10/29/opinion-lauren-boebert-vote/

* "Lauren Boebert posts particularly vile Tweet and the backlash is brutal:" https://www.queerty.com/lauren-boebert-posts-particularly-vile-tweet-backlash-brutal-20221103

* "Indiana's Democratic Candidates Sign Contract to Protect Abortion Rights:" https://advocatechannel.com/indianas-democratic-candidates-sign-contract-to-protect-abortion-rights

* "Republican says party ‘will never lose another election’ in Wisconsin if he wins:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/02/wisconsin-republican-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-michels

* "Editorial: Vote for Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes to defend our democracy. Here's why.:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2022/11/02/wisconsin-vote-for-mandela-barnes-and-tony-evers-to-defend-democracy/69588162007/

* "Ron DeSantis uses 'non-binary student' photo to push pathetic election campaign:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/03/ron-desantis-anti-lgbtq-non-binary-stock-photo/

* "Rep. Val Demings: Marco Rubio only likes to talk about crime when it is politically advantageous:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-u-s-senate-candidate-rep-val-demings-demolishes-marco-rubio-s-attempts-to-campaign-on-crime-152489541804

* "Midterms candidates Chris Jones in Arkansas, Charles Booker in Kentucky have impressive ground game:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/midterms-candidates-chris-jones-in-arkansas-charles-booker-in-kentucky-winning-voters-by-focusing-on-forgotten-152605765559

* "Charles Booker touts abortion rights in Kentucky Senate bid:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/charles-booker-touts-abortion-rights-kentucky-senate-bid-92607940

* "Leading election denier is on the verge of leading Nevada's election system:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/01/trump-aligned-jim-marchant-midterm-election-00064357

* "Nevada's MAGA secretary of state candidate appears to be blatantly ignoring campaign finance law:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/jim-marchant-nevada-secretary-state-maga-trump-citizens-united-campaign-finance/

* "This Bisexual Kansas Legislator Wants to Get Stuff Done:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/10/18/bisexual-kansas-legislator-wants-get-stuff-done

* "‘Emasculating Vance Is Actually Part of Tim’s Effectiveness’:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/11/03/tim-ryan-senate-ohio-00064670

* "Tim Ryan on finding "gettable voters" in his quest for a Senate seat:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/tim-ryan-on-finding-gettable-voters-in-his-quest-for-a-senate-seat-152240709776

* "Abortion Is on the Ballot. Will It Help the Dems?:"

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* "Chris Hayes: The stakes of the New York governor's race between Zeldin and Hochul:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-stakes-of-the-new-york-governor-s-race-between-zeldin-and-hochul-152107077663

* "Raphael Warnock - The Georgia Senator on His Midterm Race:" https://www.cc.com/video/8rlhtb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-raphael-warnock-the-georgia-senator-on-his-midterm-race

* "What makes Virginia’s most competitive congressional race so close?:" https://wtop.com/virginia/2022/11/what-makes-virginias-most-competitive-race-so-competitive/

* "Luria makes final case for democracy, vies for Black voters:" https://apnews.com/article/elaine-luria-2022-midterms-strategy-a36ffe96b8d1ec2654ed67cb93639a16

* "Democratic star Katie Porter fights against a conservative resurgence in O.C.:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-01/katie-porter-scott-baugh-california-congress-midterm-elections

* "Election Conspiracies Are Disrupting the Midterms:"

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* "N.J. Democrat once thought safe now in a close congressional race at campaign’s final week:" https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/11/nj-democrat-once-thought-safe-now-in-a-competitive-congressional-race-at-campaigns-final-week.html

* "GOP Candidate Said Elites Drink Blood, Sell ‘Baby Body Parts’ After Abortion:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzkdp/kristina-karamo-qanon-blood-body-parts

* "GOP rejection of democracy leaves force and violence as remaining governing option:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-rejection-of-democracy-leaves-force-and-violence-as-remaining-governing-option-152124997513

* "Paul Pelosi's alleged attacker charged with attempted kidnapping:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/31/justice-department-charges-depape-following-paul-pelosi-assault-00064282

* "Fears of Political Violence Following Attack on Paul Pelosi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/fears-of-political-violence-following-attack-on-paul-pelosi-151959621741

* "What we know about David DePape, the man accused in the Pelosi home invasion, attack:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/29/what-we-know-about-david-depape-the-man-accused-in-the-pelosi-home-invasion-attack.html

* An elderly man was beaten with a hammer in an act of political terrorism. They are LYING when they say they are Law and Order candidates. Cruelty is the point. "Arizona GOP nominee Kari Lake mocks attack on Paul Pelosi at campaign event:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960

* "Capitol Police cameras caught break-in at Pelosi home, but no one was watching:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/01/capitol-police-cameras-caught-break-in-pelosi-home-no-one-was-watching/

* "Fresh finger-pointing over Capitol Police's future after Pelosi home invasion:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/04/fresh-finger-pointing-over-capitol-polices-future-after-pelosi-home-invasion-00065064

* "Swalwell: Pelosi suspect’s social media looks like that of Ted Cruz, MTG:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/swalwell-pelosi-suspect-s-social-media-looks-like-that-of-ted-cruz-mtg-152105029931

* "The Facts About the Attack on Paul Pelosi, According to Prosecutors:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/pelosi-paul-nancy-attack-facts.html

* "Joy Reid: There’s a long history of gaslighting and toxic politics regarding Speaker Pelosi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/paul-pelosi-assault-spawning-far-right-conspiracies-about-attack-decried-as-deplorable-152113733729

* "‘This is not normal, moral, human behavior’: Psaki on GOP response to Pelosi attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-not-normal-moral-human-behavior-psaki-on-gop-response-to-pelosi-attack-152228933737

* "Right-wing resists facts about extremist violence to preserve identity of victimhood:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/right-wing-resists-facts-about-extremist-violence-to-preserve-identity-of-victimhood-152128069582

* "Trump joins growing GOP effort to whitewash, lie about Pelosi attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-joins-growing-gop-effort-to-whitewash-lie-about-pelosi-attack-152227909623

* "Elon Musk tweets anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-conspiracy-theory-gay-lgbtq/

* "Hate speech increased on Twitter after Elon Musk takeover, study finds:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/hate-speech-increased-twitter-elon-musk-takeover-study/story?id=92445797

* "Twitter reportedly limits content moderation ahead of midterm elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/twitter-reportedly-limits-content-moderation-ahead-of-midterm-elections-152243269649

* Do not trust twitter. "Elon Musk appears in over his head with purchase of Twitter:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/elon-musk-appears-in-over-his-head-with-purchase-of-twitter-152617541762

* "Musk's attempt at trolling AOC backfires | Boing Boing:" https://boingboing.net/2022/11/03/musks-attempt-at-trolling-aoc-backfires.html

* "Elon Musk to the Rescue: Big Lie Fanatic Escapes Twitter Ban:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizona-election-denier-mark-finchem-credits-elon-musk-for-overturning-twitter-ban

* "What changes has Elon Musk made at Twitter and what might he do next?:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/04/mass-sackings-monetisation-elon-musk-twitter-changing

* "Man pleads guilty to threatening to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell and staffers:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/swalwell-threat-plea/index.html

* "Adams County investigates white powder found on ballot as officials reassure voters the election is safe:" https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/adams-county-investigates-white-powder-found-on-ballot-as-officials-reassure-voters-the-election-is-safe

* "Barrack acquittal another blow to DOJ’s foreign influence crackdown:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2022/11/04/barrack-acquittal-another-blow-to-dojs-foreign-influence-crackdown-00065258

* "Supreme Court Rules That Lindsey Graham Must Testify in Georgia Inquiry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/politics/supreme-court-lindsey-graham-georgia.html

* "Trump files a suit against New York attorney general, and against advice:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/trump-files-a-suit-against-new-york-attorney-general-and-against-advice/

* "Judge rules in favor of assigning monitor to oversee Trump Organization:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/03/judge-rules-favor-assigning-monitor-oversee-trump-organization/

* "Key Trump insider given immunity to testify in Mar-a-Lago documents investigation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/key-trump-insider-given-immunity-to-testify-in-mar-a-lago-documents-investigation-152373829657

* "Litany of Trump legal entanglements grows ever longer as Trump Org criminal trial begins:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/litany-of-trump-legal-entanglements-grows-ever-longer-as-trump-org-criminal-trial-begins-152127557527

* "Trump asks Supreme Court to stop IRS from turning over his tax returns to the House:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/trump-supreme-court-appeal/index.html

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as 'only chance' to stop 2020 election certification:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-only-chance-to-stop-2020-election-certification-00064592

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as ‘key’ to post-election plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/emails-trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-key-to-post-election-plan-152356421588

* "Trump loyalist Kash Patel questioned before Mar-a-Lago grand jury:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/03/kash-patel-grand-jury-trump/

* "Despite Eastman appeal, Jan. 6 committee accesses 8 disputed emails:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/eastman-appeals-jan6-committee-disputed-00064166

* "House January 6 committee gives Trump more time to turn over subpoenaed documents:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/trump-january-6-subpoena-deadline/index.html

* "Capitol Police officer disputes claims that Oath Keepers were seen protecting him during Jan. 6 attack:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/capitol-police-officer-disputes-claims-oath-keepers-protecting/story?id=92432188

* "Oath Keepers spent over $400 at post-US Capitol riot feast at the Olive Garden, prosecutors say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/oath-keepers-olive-garden-january-6/index.html

* "New Report Sheds Light on Gun Violence in LGBTQ+ Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/11/new-report-sheds-light-gun-violence-lgbtq-lives

* "Chris Hayes: The myth of crime as a big-city, blue-state problem:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-myth-of-crime-as-a-big-city-blue-state-problem-152230981820

* "Polly Klaas’s murder fueled the 90s crime panic. Her sisters fear ‘we’re repeating history’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/22/polly-klaas-sisters-criminal-justice-mass-incarceration

* "Detectives in Breonna Taylor Killing Confess to Falsifying Warrant Evidence:" https://advocatechannel.com/detectives-in-breonna-taylor-killing-admit-to-falsifying-warrant-evidence-based-on-gut-feeling

* "Police Killed a Boy. His Friend Was Charged With Murder:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFjFze39Dcc

* "Video Shows Sheriffs Choking, Tasing Unarmed Transgender Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/24/video-shows-sheriffs-choking-tasing-unarmed-transgender-woman

* "Comedian Eric André Files Lawsuit Against Atlanta Airport Police:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/20/two-black-comedians-file-lawsuit-against-atlanta-airport-police

* "I Spent Over 40 Years Working in Corrections. I Wasn’t Ready for Rikers.:" https://mailchi.mp/themarshallproject/i-spent-over-40-years-working-in-corrections-i-wasnt-ready-for-rikers

* "Ezra Miller Pleads Not Guilty to Burglary Charges in Vermont:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/17/ezra-miller-pleads-not-guilty-burglary-charges-vermont

* "Bi Actor Andy Dick Arrested on Felony Burglary Charge:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/21/bi-actor-andy-dick-arrested-felony-burglary-charge

* "Sheriff's office says antisemitic messages in Jacksonville were not crimes:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/us/florida-georgia-game-kanye-west/index.html

* "Pa. School District Allegedly Discriminated Against LGBTQ+ Students:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/09/penn-school-district-allegedly-discriminated-against-lgbtq-students

* "How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level:"

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How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level

When this was passed teachers called it things like “children Left behind” because we could see it was designed to starve neighborhood schools so Republicans could close them, forcing busing to other schools and shifting funding even further away from the schools that need it into charter schools that can bar students who are poor, or not white, or who have limited English, or who have special needs.

This is about de facto segregation. It’s about starving public schools of funds. it’s about excuses to deprive the students with the biggest needs of an education.

All “Back to Basics” school “reforms” are about defending music, art, social studies, and sciences, because Republicans hate anything that keeps children from dropping out and/or teaches critical thinking. Science and social studies teach things like applying logic to real world problems, evaluating evidence, and thinking for yourself. The last thing they want is accurate history or modern science taught to children.

All Republicans want is to create an ignorant easily manipulable permanent underclass that votes for them. Quality Public education in anathema to them.

Republicans keep saying, “you can’t just through money at the problem,” yet never once in the history of this country have we tried funding the schools for the poor at the level we fund schools for the well off. we know objectively that 15-18 students is the sweet spot for class size at all grades. why not for once try paying teachers a living wage and hire enough of them to give every class room the same student/teacher ratios private schools have. How about instead of pennies per student per day we actually buy enough equipment and supplies so that all students get to do hands on science instead of only students who already have all the advantages? How about paying for proper maintenance on schools so the heating works and the pipes don’t bang and the roof doesn’t leak? How about money for computers and library books? How about desks and chairs so every student in every class gets one as well as a locker that closes and locks?

Can’t we try that just once?

Teaching pays about as well as Burger King and teachers owe student loans and need to pay for continuing ed and certification re-upping. They need supplies for themselves and students and a professional wardrobe and money for transportation and to pay off massive student loans, plus food, housing, medical stuff, etc.. out of what amounts to minimum wage.

Nobody goes into teaching expecting to get rich; they do it because they want to teach. Punishing them because the schools are falling apart and the textbooks are as old as they are is counter-productive. Actually funding the schools properly would let them do their jobs.

But no one ever ask teachers when they do “school reform.” It is nearly always imposed by people who’ve never taught based on ignorance and a deep refusal to look at the research.

* CW: Rape, Human Trafficking "Smooth Like Butter: The Slippery Underbelly of the Kpop Industry:"

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* "LGBTQ+ World Cup fans told hand-holding fine – but don't kiss:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/28/holding-hands-world-cup-no-public-affection-qatar-ambassador/

The World Cup should never have been held here. A whole lot of mostly guest workers literally died building that stadium, worked to death in the heat.

Their human rights record with LGBTQIA+ people is horrific and should be disqualifying.

* "Qatar journalist says LGBTQ+ people are ‘abnormal’ ahead of World Cup:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/qatar-journalist-lgbtq-abnormal-world-cup/

* "Wales footballers won’t be silenced when it comes to Qatar’s LGBTQ+ atrocities:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/wales-footballers-wont-be-banned-from-addressing-qatars-lgbtq-rights-record-officials-confirm/

* "Gay Qatari man won't let World Cup 'bury' LGBTQ+ atrocities 'in the shadows':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/05/qatar-gay-nas-mohamed-world-cup/

* "Gay men shot outside LGBTQ+ bar laid to rest as thousands take to streets:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/gay-men-shot-outside-slovakian-lgbtq-bar-laid-to-rest-as-thousands-take-to-streets-in-protest/

* "Czech MP comes out as gay after horrific Slovakia LGBTQ+ bar shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/czech-mp-gay-jiri-navratil/

* "Malaysia police detain 20 people at LGBTQ+ Halloween party for 'cross-dressing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/malaysia-halloween-party-raid-religious-police-sharia-law/

* "Irish law protecting trans people from hate crime 'too little too late':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/ireland-trans-hate-crime-violence-law/

* "Gay Palestinian Man Beheaded After Receiving Death Threats:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/07/gay-palestinian-man-beheaded-after-receiving-death-threats

* "Mexico celebrates as same-sex marriage becomes law of the land:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/same-sex-marriage-legalised-mexico/

* "Trevor Project Launches Services in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/10/11/trevor-project-launches-services-mexico

* "Former Cop Reveals Horrific Gay Bashings by Police:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/05/former-cop-reveals-horrific-gay-bashings-police

* "Gender law reforms pass first vote in Scotland with 'overwhelming' support:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/scotland-trans-gender-recognition-reform-vote/

* "Conversion therapy ban delayed by equalities minister Kemi Badenoch:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/conversion-therapy-ban-kemi-badenoch/

* "Grindr Faces Boycott After Gay CEO's Right-Wing Tweets Are Revealed:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/grindr-faces-boycott-after-gay-ceos-right-wing-tweets-are-revealed

* "Social Security Will Allow Users to Select Own Gender Marker:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/social-security-will-allow-users-select-own-gender-marker

* "South Carolina governor says he wants a statewide ban on same-sex marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/29/south-carolina-henry-mcmaster-same-sex-marriage-ban-supreme-court/

* "Men who violently attacked gay couple escape jail thanks to kindness of victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/miami-homophobic-attack-avoid-jail/

* "2022 U.S. Trans Survey:" https://www.ustranssurvey.org/

* Why you should fill it out "The biggest transgender survey in the US is underway. Here's why it's important:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/us-trans-survey-2022-cec/index.html

* "If I say "the queer community", I am referring to the community of self identified queers. If you're not a self identified queer, then I wasn't talking about you!:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/699776198583238656

* Rightly so!!! CW: Rape, Murder, Cannibalism "Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costumes banned by LGBTQ+ bars:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/jeffrey-dahmer-halloween-costumes-lgbtq-bars-wisconsin/

* "Heartstopper fans react to star Kit Connor being forced to come out as bisexual:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/kit-connor-bisexual-coming-out-fan-reaction/

It is wrong to bully people. It is extra wrong to bully teenagers.

No one owes you their coming out. People deserve to work stuff out without pressure.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

This isn’t a closeted anti-queer politician out to hurt us. This is a literal teenager who is just trying to live his life.

* "Kit Connor's coming out proves bi-erasure is rife even in LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/kit-connor-biphobia-bi-erasure-bisexual/

* "The Outing of Kit Connor:"

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* "Why we should be watching the sun, not the clock:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/11/watching-the-sun-not-the-clock-sleep-body-clocks-daylight-saving-time

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* "Philippine death toll from storm Nalgae rises to 98, disaster agency says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/asia/philippines-tropical-storm-nalgae-paeng-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Photos: The aftermath of tropical storm Nalgae in Philippines:" https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/11/1/photos-the-aftermath-of-tropical-storm-nalgae-in-philippines

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* "Greece: Dozens missing after boat carrying migrants sinks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/greece-dozens-missing-after-boat-carrying-migrants-sinks/2022/11/01/52543176-59b9-11ed-bc40-b5a130f95ee7_story.html

* "What we know about India's deadly bridge collapse:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/india/india-gujarat-morbi-bridge-collapse-explainer-intl-hnk

* "We Need To Talk About The Latest SHEIN Scandal:"

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* "First wild bison born in UK for millennia after surprise pregnancy:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/21/first-wild-bison-born-in-uk-for-millennia-after-surprise-pregnancy

* "The Gruesome History of Real Life Vampire Hunting:"

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* "Ghosts Are Legally Real:"

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* "Recalling LGBTQ+ Stories in Hispanic Heritage Month:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/10/14/recalling-lgbtq-stories-hispanic-heritage-month

* "Pioneering singer who recorded first gay country songs dies aged 78:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/patrick-haggerty-gay-country-singer-dies-aged-78/

* "Proud to be a Gay Icon: Angela Lansbury's Life & Legacy:"

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* "Bail Reform:"

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* "Stephen's Message To Young Voters | Dick Bigger, Jr. Is The Breakout Star Of This Election Season:"

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* "Dr. Oz Surfs PA's Coast | Taylor Swift Dominates The Charts | Elon Negotiates With Stephen King:"

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* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 1:" https://www.cc.com/video/q0462s/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-1

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 2 :" https://www.cc.com/video/rsdbd4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-2

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 3:" https://www.cc.com/video/9udze9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-3

* "Kosta La Vista Baby - Atlanta:" https://www.cc.com/video/3yu223/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-kosta-la-vista-baby-atlanta

* "Is Atlanta the Real-Life Wakanda?:" https://www.cc.com/video/ap288q/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-is-atlanta-the-real-life-wakanda

* CW: Self Harm, Eating Disorders. "The Harmful Drive for Queer Perfection:"

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* "Vlad the Impaler vs Count Dracula. Epic Rap Battles of History:"

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* More attempts at Gothmas Phase II pictures: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699602590803083264

* The emperor has been trying to break into one of the presents since it arrived, including an attempt to unwrap it the second I pulled it from the box. Turned out it was a massive bag of hand dried catnip. https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699682102668673024/gothmashalloween-2022-the-emperor-has-been-tryingfr.

* Since the Pandemic started, I put out bowls of candy. each bowl has a handful of things. Adults are welcome too, and I usually give out a lot of candy. This year one person stole the bowl itself, and no one else came. I think the three families with kids have moved out, since i haven't seen or heard them playing since summer. I've noticed that the other people that usually decorate in the complex didn't this year. It's sad.

I did get reverse trick or treated and Squirrel and I split the loot. Weirdly, it was not the bowl thief.

* October is always really hard on my body and particularly so in the back half. Halloween week takes everything I have really. Samhein is the most important holiday of my year and it takes everything.

Wednesday my body hard vetoed Wednesday errands. I called Head Millennial in time for them to get public transport and make evening arrangements. I could barely walk and had the pain shakes. One days like this, it's best to just take ones meds and go back to sleep and home a nap will reset things. This was correct. When I tried again later, I was a functional level of awful. We managed to take in the Halloween specific exterior stuff and box it all up. I'll need to tweek the "Harvest Display" and do a day time sweep to be sure we got everything before boxes go back into storage. Halloweentown is in chaos, but that's another day's problem.

Head Millennial went above and beyond today. I love how fundamentally kind and trustworthy they are. we had dinner together and watched a movie we'd started a week ago, geeking out together about the high quality lighting design and mourning the death of banter in modern romcoms as well as how few productions are willing to pay for really artistic lighting. (I sited Black Sails as proof the art isn't lost, even though we might think it was looking at the newest Halloween and Got/house of the dragon. Head Millennial is very grumpy about Halloween franchise in particular.)

It sounds like Visiting Millennial has decided to move up here, so at some point in the future they will be Newest Millennial. There is much rejoicing.

NOTE for newer readers: I like to use sobriquets to prevent people chain tracking through blogs. It was always my instinct and I got stricter after that reporter found me through the blog of a friend who wasn't as careful after Skye was murdered. It was fine. She was nice and professional and my friend changed the post in case of future accident. My point is that a determined swatter could find me, but I like to make them work for it if they want my friends.

* Another disabled Elder Goth friend suggested there should be a "Retired Goth Bat sanctuary" for people like us. This delights me.

There is talk of Tee shirts.

Possibly next week.

I already want one.

* Thursday was the blue beast's mechanic appointment. They are always booked for weeks out this time of year. This meant very little sleep, but the coolant situation is sorted and I should be okay on the engine not melting for a while. *Knock wood*

Friday I just wanted sleep, but of they woke me up trying to strong arm me into a home health assessment. Thing is, it's an excellent service and an important one. My mother used them in her last year of life when her health was failing. They assess the person; they assess the needs; they help organize complex meds schedules; they hook people up with services. I support the program and said so to the lady, but I do not want one.

Why? She wanted to know. I do not need what they are offering and I don't like strangers in my home it's invasive. I don't need a dementia test. I have a home health aid. My meds schedule is, indeed, complex, but it's logical. (Think of it as a logic puzzle. Pills needing to be taken on an empty stomach need to go first thing in the morning. Ppills needing to be taken with food need to be at least an hour after empty stomach pills, and need to work with meal scheduling. Some pills can't be taken within two hours of each other, etc.. Some pills need to be taken multiple times a day. For a while I had a pill that needed to go four times a day, at least two hours after eating and an hour before eating. It was a nightmare, but I did it.) I do not want people tampering with the schedule, because every adjustment is a hassle and a half, and I have it down. The point is, it's my body deteriorating, not my mind, and I handle things just fine within my physical limits and I hate all the invasive monitoring that comes with living in this complex and that comes with being disabled. I minimize it where I can.

So I go to the bathroom, give Livia a come for pettins offer, reset my pillow prop system, and settle back in to try to sleep.

The phone rings. It's the system that pay for my caregiver. Mandatory home inspection. *deep sigh* I managed to wiggle out of this one so far because of the pandemic. It's so intrusive and I fucking hate that I don't get to have privacy because I'm disabled. I can't manage without Head Millennial, so I guess we're doing that Monday, plus the already scheduled social worker call Tuesday.

* "Here are the Spookiest Cities in America:" https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2022/10/21/spookiest-cities-america

* "America's 15 Most Haunted Hotels:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/22/americas-15-most-haunted-hotels#media-gallery-media-16

* Events towards the end of Dracula from the viewpoint of the locals: https://uri59.tumblr.com/post/699674996605403136/random-sailor-at-the-sereth-river-this-night-is

* Ed as Blackbeard: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699813146114818048/ok-i-just-have-to-ask-did-you-notice-ed-as

* Arden Powell at the The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1585317897785647105

* Clive Barker vs JK Rowling at The Midnight Society : https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1586397640186466304

* Goblin detecting sword: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699816725716287488

* I feel this in my bones: https://xkcd.com/2692/

* "You’ve been sentenced to 400 years for multiple murders. It’s been 399 years and your jailers are starting to get nervous.:" https://www.tumblr.com/elidyce/688193708499320832/writing-prompt-s-youve-been-sentenced-to-400

* "God of Arepo:" https://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/699776328566800384

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Plan Your Vote: 2022 Elections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-2022-elections/index.html?language=english&state=WA

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Lebanon's soul has been eviscerated by its financial crisis. Not even the children want to play:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/middleeast/lebanon-crisis-children-cmd-intl/index.html

* "Russia lists Pussy Riot member, art collector and satirist as 'foreign agents':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/europe/pussy-riot/index.html

* "Lesbian Pop Star Denise Ho Arrested by Hong Kong Authorities:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/12/30/lesbian-pop-star-denise-ho-arrested-hong-kong-authorities-cantopop-china

* "The mob killing of a factory manager in Pakistan comes amid surge in anti-blasphemy violence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/24/pakistan-blasphemy-violence-labbaik/?itid=mr_world_4

* "“Meet a Jew,” Germany’s New Scheme to Convince the Country That Jews Are People:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/12/meet-a-jew-germany-anti-semitism-crime.html

* "‘My grandmother hid Jewish children’: Poland’s underground refugee network:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/dec/24/my-grandmother-hid-jewish-children-polands-underground-refugee-network

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* "WHO: global COVID cases up 11% last week, omicron risk high:" https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/12/who-global-covid-cases-up-11-last-week-omicron-risk-high.html

* "FDA: Antigen tests may have reduced sensitivity detecting Omicron:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/fda-antigen-tests-reduced-sensitivity-omicron-526217

* "You might get a breakthrough case of Covid-19 this winter. Here’s how to prepare.:" https://www.vox.com/22841985/breakthrough-covid-19-winter-positive-test-how-to-prepare

* "COVID cases surge in Lebanon ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/31/warnings-lebanon-covid-rising-figures

* "NHS trusts in England declare critical incidents amid Covid staff crisis:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/03/several-nhs-trusts-declare-critical-incidents-amid-covid-staff-crisis

* "U.S. sets new daily high for Covid cases:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/us-new-daily-high-covid-526223

* "US children hospitalized with COVID in record numbers:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-children-hospitalized-covid-record-numbers-82004052

* "FDA Expands Pfizer Boosters for More Teens as Omicron Surges:" https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-01-03/fda-expands-pfizer-boosters-for-more-teens-as-omicron-surges

* "Omicron makes up 95% of sequenced Covid cases in U.S. as infections hit pandemic record:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/04/omicron-makes-up-95percent-of-sequenced-covid-cases-in-us-as-infections-hit-pandemic-record.html

* "Hospitalizations spike amid rocketing Covid case counts; threat to hospitals renewed:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hospitalizations-spike-amid-rocketing-covid-case-counts-threat-to-hospitals-renewed-130067013845

* "Intimate portraits of a hospital COVID unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/26/1066395049/intimate-portraits-of-a-hospital-covid-unit-from-a-photojournalist-turned-nurse

* "White House issues a warning to unvaccinated Americans as concerns about omicron grow:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/17/1065312060/white-house-issues-a-warning-to-unvaccinated-americans-as-concerns-about-omicron

* "Chris Hayes: How omicron’s contagiousness is changing the pandemic normal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-omicron-s-contagiousness-is-changing-the-pandemic-normal-129800261794

* "Pfizer pill becomes 1st US-authorized home COVID treatment:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-pfizer-medication-f5f65e7e61d6aa9c7dfa193053e8878a

* "US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID & SARS Variants, Researchers Say:" https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/12/us-army-creates-single-vaccine-effective-against-all-covid-sars-variants/360089/

* "‘This was the moment’: CDC defends altered guidance amid Omicron surge:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/29/cdc-defends-new-covid-guidelines-526234

* "Omicron is latest blow to pandemic-weary front-line workers:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-pandemics-london-7004e1f1b1847b9831623e6adcedb5f3

* "Covid-19 surges spark chain reactions that strain US hospitals everywhere:" https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22849829/covid-omicron-variant-cases-surge-us-hospitals

* "Florida breaks state record for COVID-19 cases again, for 4th time in 7 days:" https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/florida-breaks-state-record-for-covid-19-cases-again-fourth-time-in-7-days/

* "Orange Mayor Demings blasts DeSantis, expands COVID-19 testing, requires masks for employees:" https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-orange-update-12-28-20211229-3xmrumwt45gllkym5su6jz26nq-story.html

* "Dem Florida gov. candidate Nikki Fried calls out DeSantis’s lack of visibility as Omicron surges:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-gov-ron-desantis-appears-to-be-missing-in-action-as-omicron-sweeps-across-his-state-129803845777

* "Activist claims DeSantis ‘decided to just sit back, do nothing’ as Covid surged in Florida:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/desantis-largely-missing-from-public-from-december-17-through-new-year-s-eve-as-covid-surged-130060869600

* "Despite vaccines, more Texans died of COVID-19 in 2021 than in first year of pandemic:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/coronavirus/article/Despite-vaccines-Texas-COVID-deaths-35-higher-16722967.php

* "Omicron is sidelining even health care workers as it rips through Texas:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/28/omicron-texas-covid-19/

* "Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations rise more than 11% in a day:" https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/hospitalizations/texas-covid-19-hospitalizations-rise-more-than-11-in-a-day/

* "R.I. health care system ‘is currently collapsing,’ emergency doctors warn :" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/18/metro/ri-health-care-system-is-currently-collapsing-emergency-doctors-warn/

* "Frustrated emergency doctor says R.I. isn’t doing enough to address health system ‘collapse’:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/21/metro/frustrated-emergency-doctor-says-ri-isnt-doing-enough-address-health-system-collapse/

* "Covid-19 patients at this hospital are dying 'at a rate we've never seen die before' -- and it's taking a toll on health care workers:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/us/hospital-covid-19-deaths-michigan/index.html

* "Surge in COVID-19 cases overwhelms Indianapolis hospitals:" https://www.wishtv.com/news/vaccinecentral/surge-in-covid-19-cases-overwhelms-indianapolis-hospitals/

* "'There's going to be opposition': Indiana lawmakers prep to fast track vaccine mandate bill:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/17/covid-indiana-lawmakers-prep-fast-track-vaccine-mandate-bill/8925925002/

* "Nearly two-thirds of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in New Hampshire unvaccinated, report says:" https://www.wmur.com/article/nearly-two-thirds-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-in-new-hampshire-unvaccinated-report-says/38628992

* "Inside a New Hampshire hospital overwhelmed by COVID:" https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/12/20/covid-cases-overwhelm-new-england-hospitals

* "About 25% of Ohio coronavirus tests are coming back positive. Gov. Mike DeWine says actual positivity is higher.:" https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/12/about-25-of-ohio-coronavirus-tests-are-coming-back-positive-gov-mike-dewine-says-actual-positivity-is-higher.html

* "Ohio hospital saw pediatric COVID-related hospitalizations triple in the last week:" https://www.10tv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/ohio-hospital-pediatric-covid-related-hospitalizations-triple-in-the-last-week/530-3228dfd1-2f0b-4a15-9956-de0267ca8fdd

* "More Ohio hospitals postpone surgeries as COVID cases rise:" https://www.10tv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/more-ohio-hospitals-postpone-surgeries-covid-cases-rise/530-4c8f04ca-8fe4-4125-8250-a71c16e970b3

* "‘We’re begging you’: Ohio hospitals have more COVID-19 patients in emergency rooms than ever before:" https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/12/20/were-begging-you-ohio-hospitals-have-more-covid-19-patients-emergency-rooms-than-ever-before/

* "'Nurses are at a breaking point': Union sounds plea as healthcare workers face continuing COVID-19 surge:" https://www.kare11.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/nurses-breaking-point-minnesota-nurses-association-pleas-healthcare-workers-covid-19-surge/89-1dd21ed7-fa65-4926-8432-0ab1860471ed

* "Mississippi in 5th wave of COVID-19, state health official says:" https://www.wapt.com/article/msdh-issues-updated-guidance-on-omicron-covid-19-treatments/38635488

* "COVID-19 cases to climb even higher as students return to school, health officials say:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2021/12/28/mississippi-covid-cases-rise-sharply-going-into-new-year/9035370002/

* "COVID-19 hospitalizations up dramatically in Missouri:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-st-louis-kansas-city-missouri-44e8dc99f89b812fecbe01c7b9c5a3ba

* "COVID cases surge in Kansas City as the new year arrives: here are three key takeaways:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article256930162.html

* "Alabama adds 5,900 new COVID cases, positivity rate hits all-time high:" https://www.al.com/news/2021/12/alabama-covid-positivity-rate-at-all-time-high-nearly-6000-new-cases-reported-wednesday.html

* "COVID-19 hospitalizations, school cases increasing in Alabama:" https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2021/12/22/covid-alabama-coronavirus-cases-hospitals-schools-omicron-variant/8998336002/

* "COVID-19 cases continue to rise in New Jersey:" https://abc7ny.com/covid-in-new-jersey-gov-phil-murphy-restrictions-coronavirus-updates/11361136/

* "NJ's Largest Hospital System Expects Hospitalizations to Exceed Worst of 2020 Soon:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/njs-largest-hospital-system-expects-hospitalizations-to-exceed-worst-of-2020-soon/3473230/

* "Inmates at NYC's Rikers Island jail in the midst of 'emerging crisis' related to Omicron surge:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/us/omicron-surge-rikers-jail/index.html

* Why are cruises still a thing? "3rd Florida-based ship has outbreak, state cases hit record:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/3rd-florida-based-ship-outbreak-state-cases-rise-81932406

* "People should avoid cruise travel regardless of their vaccination status, the CDC says:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/12/30/1069253312/cdc-cruise-ship-travel-covid-19

* "Fauci on Fox’s Jesse Watters: He ‘should be fired on the spot’:" https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/fauci-on-foxs-jesse-watters-he-should-be-fired-on-the-spot/

* "Extremists shifting attention to influencing local governments expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/u-s-sets-global-record-of-one-million-covid-cases-reported-monday-130145349717

* "Anti-vaccination protesters targeted a Cheesecake Factory — 6 were arrested:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-vaxxer-protesers-cheesecake-factory-arrests/

* "Congress' doctor urges lawmakers to work remotely and upgrade masks as omicron rages:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1070037412/covid-congress-house-senate-omicron

* "Congress' attending physician says there are "unprecedented" cases of Covid throughout the complex. :" https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/01-3-2022/omicron-swamps-the-hill/

* "Pentagon Chief Austin Says He Has Tested Positive for COVID:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-02/pentagon-chief-austin-says-he-has-tested-positive-for-covid

* "Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker test positive for Covid amid US Omicron surge:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/19/elizabeth-warren-tests-positive-covid-omicron-surge

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* "Alexander Vindman supports arming Ukrainians to make Russian attack ‘less palatable’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-joe-biden-spoke-to-vladimir-putin-as-russian-troops-remain-stationed-at-ukrainian-border-129874501741

* "No surprise, Donald Trump just endorsed Hungary homophobe Viktor Orbán:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/donald-trump-viktor-orban-hungary-election-lgbt-rights/

* "The Human Toll of America’s Air Wars:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/19/magazine/victims-airstrikes-middle-east-civilians.html

* "Hundreds of Afghans denied humanitarian entry into US:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-immigration-massachusetts-kabul-taliban-8ea41eef2c1e1735d748fcb796faccab

* "Biden to speak with Putin on Thursday at Russian leader's request:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/politics/biden-putin-call/index.html

* "Dems fight back against GOP accusations of being weak on Russia: "That dog won't hunt!":" https://www.salon.com/2021/12/06/smacked-down-on-senate-floor-for-calling-dems-soft-on-russia-that-dog-wont-hunt_partner/

* "How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken):"

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* "White House unveils plan to replace every lead pipe in the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-unveils-plan-replace-every-lead-pipe-u-s-n1286079

* "Biden’s Pick for Banking Regulator Pulls Out After ‘Inappropriate Personal Attacks’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/saule-omarova-bidens-pick-for-banking-regulator-withdraws-after-inappropriate-personal-attacks

* "Biden finishes 2021 with most confirmed judicial picks since Reagan:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/biden-finishes-2021-with-most-confirmed-judicial-picks-since-reagan-2021-12-28/

* And yet Manchin insists we can’t afford the infrastructure Bill. "Biden signs $768B defense policy bill that supersized his original Pentagon request:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/27/biden-signs-defense-policy-bill-526171

* "Manchin says he won't vote for Build Back Better Act:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/19/politics/joe-manchin-build-back-better/index.html

* "Corporate donations to Sen. Joe Manchin's PAC surged as he fought President Biden's agenda:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/joe-manchin-pac-saw-surge-of-corporate-donations-as-he-fought-biden-agenda.html

* "As Congress fails on climate (again), focus turns to executive options for Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-congress-fails-on-climate-again-focus-turns-to-executive-options-for-biden-129880645576

* "They Are Essential Workers. They Pay Taxes. But They've Been Largely Excluded from Pandemic Aid.:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/12/15/essential-but-excluded

* "The Undercover Anarchists’ Secret Construction Collective:" https://narratively.com/the-undercover-anarchists-secret-construction-collective/

* "Hostile Architecture: The Fight Against the Homeless:"

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* "Supply shortages and emboldened workers: A changed economy:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-health-business-prices-66e5f5612c0a56c18ac218425e2cd20a

* "The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?:" https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22837830/covid-pandemic-climate-change-great-resignation-2021

* "Senate parliamentarian rejects latest Dem proposal on immigration:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/16/senate-parliamentarian-rejects-latest-dem-proposal-on-immigration-525195

* "Senate Democrats renew focus on voting rights as domestic policy bill stalls and filibuster changes are considered:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/voting-rights-filibuster-manchin/2021/12/15/3492c0b0-5de5-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html

* "Politics expert asks: Will Democratic leaders really listen to voters in 2022?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/senate-majority-leader-chuck-schumer-has-promised-a-vote-on-the-build-back-better-bill-in-2022-129873989697

* "'This is it': Swalwell warns 2022 could be last election if GOP wins majority:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-it-swalwell-warns-2022-could-be-last-election-if-gop-wins-majority-130056261886

* "Historian: We must protect democracy in 2022, or lose it forever.:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/historian-we-must-protect-democracy-in-2022-or-lose-it-forever-129969221954

* "How Out Texas Rep. Celia Israel Put Voting Rights First in 2021:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2021/12/16/how-out-texas-rep-celia-israel-put-voting-rights-first-2021

* "Schumer tries to jump-start Dems with rules change threat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/03/schumer-threatens-vote-on-senate-rules-change-in-january-526394

* "Sen. Schumer on Manchin, Sinema: We've got to keep pressing them on voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/sen-chuck-schumer-vows-vote-on-senate-filibuster-rules-changes-to-advance-voting-rights-legislation-130058821956

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely 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.

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

* "Lincoln County, Georgia, Where The Population Is One-Third Black, Proposes Closing Down All But One Polling Place:" https://www.theroot.com/lincoln-county-georgia-where-the-population-is-one-th-1848257870

* "Washington redistricting commission sued over transparency issues as behind-the-scenes dealings emerge:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/lawsuit-washington-redistricting-commission-violated-open-meetings-law/

* "Political stakes are high as trial begins in NC gerrymandering lawsuit:" https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article257010887.html

* "Congressional redistricting hits the Ohio Supreme Court:" https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/12/29/congressional-redistricting-hits-the-ohio-supreme-court/

* We still have a fighting chance if we all turn out next November. "Democrats Are Doing Weirdly Well in Redistricting:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/democrats-are-doing-weirdly-well-in-redistricting.html

* "Republicans hit snags deploying gerrymandering strategy to strengthen grip on power:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-hit-snags-deploying-gerrymandering-strategy-to-strengthen-grip-on-power-129879109973

* "'Slow-motion insurrection': How GOP seizes election power:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-united-states-elections-electoral-college-election-2020-809215812f4bc6e5907573ba98247c0c

* "Colorado Election Fraud Group Is Training Conspiracists in Other States to Knock Doors in Search of 'Phantom Ballots':" https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/10/colorado-election-fraud-group-is-training-conspiracists-in-other-states-to-knock-doors-in-search-of-phantom-ballots/39935/

* "A Utah group is going door to door looking for election fraud. But they don’t want you to know about it:" https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/12/06/utah-group-is-going-door/

* "Amid Texas GOP’s effort to question electoral integrity, attorney general tried to indict Travis County elections chief:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/20/texas-ken-paxton-travis-county-elections/

* "‘A real conflagration’: Wisconsin emerges as front line in war over the 2020 vote:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-2020-vote-battle/2021/12/16/6c585248-5931-11ec-9a18-a506cf3aa31d_story.html

* "Most threats against election workers, stoked by Trump's Big Lie, go unpunished: Reuters :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/most-threats-against-election-workers-stoked-by-trump-s-big-lie-go-unpunished-reuters-129878597732

* "Trump aide admits he was behind meeting with Kanye West publicist and Georgia election worker:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2070502

* "Eric Adams becomes New York City's 110th mayor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/eric-adams-becomes-new-york-city-s-110th-mayor-129969733747

* "‘National divorce:’ Congresswoman openly advocates end to American democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-national-divorce-congresswoman-openly-advocates-end-to-american-democracy-129871429742

* "Dominion Voting wins key decision in lawsuit against Fox News:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/media/fox-news-court-dominion/index.html

* "Twitter Bans Personal Greene Account for COVID-19 Misinfo:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-02/twitter-bans-personal-greene-account-for-covid-19-misinfo

* "GOP Candidate Claims Colorado Gov. Jared Polis Not Gay, Is Abuser:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/16/gop-candidate-claims-colorado-gov-jared-polis-not-gay-abuser

* "Herschel Walker stumbles badly on John Lewis, voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/herschel-walker-stumbles-badly-john-lewis-voting-rights-n1286559

* "3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/eaton-taguba-anderson-generals-military/

* "GOP blows off Trump’s bid to oust McConnell:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/gop-trump-oust-mcconnell-525207

* "Trump sues NY attorney general, seeking to halt civil probe:" https://apnews.com/article/business-new-york-lawsuits-donald-trump-albany-8cd1fd3c9dc206a5b563116f3966f2a4

* "GOP agrees to pay up to $1.6 million of Trump’s legal bills in N.Y. probes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-party-trump-legal-bills-new-york-probe/2021/12/16/08af4524-5c3f-11ec-9c0e-a955f8a009c1_story.html

* "New York attorney general subpoenas Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/03/donald-trump-jr-ivanka-trump-new-york-attorney-general

* "Subpoenas for Ivanka, Trump Jr suggest NY AG investigation entering final stages:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/subpoenas-for-ivanka-trump-jr-suggest-ny-ag-investigation-entering-final-stages-130065477932

* "The U.S. military men spreading Trump’s baseless fraud claims:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/

* "Cheney: January 6 committee has 'firsthand testimony' that Ivanka asked Trump to intervene during insurrection:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/politics/bennie-thompson-trump-capitol-insurrection/index.html

* "Capitol panel to investigate Trump call to Willard hotel in hours before attack:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/27/capitol-attack-panel-investigate-trump-call-willard-hotel-before-assault

* House panel asks Supreme Court to say by mid-January whether it's taking Trump's January 6 records case":" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-records-january-6/

* "Why the ‘consensus opinion’ during and right after Jan. 6 is worth remembering:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-the-consensus-opinion-during-and-right-after-jan-6-is-worth-remembering-130056773581

* "House committee seeks to interview GOP firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan about January 6:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/jim-jordan-house-select-committee-january-6/index.html

* "Michael Flynn loses his legal challenge to the House January 6 probe, one day after filing it:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/michael-flynn-january-6-lawsuit/index.html

* "Trump ally Straka has provided potentially significant information:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/trump-ally-brandon-straka-information-525272

* "January 6 committee sends letter to GOP Rep. Scott Perry, asking to interview him:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/scott-perry-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Trump ally Roger Stone pleads the Fifth in deposition with January 6 committee:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/roger-stone-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Capitol rioters' tears, remorse don't spare them from jail:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-rioters-prison-95bdc863812cab48be3d98ada67bd582

* "Judge: Lack of charges for Trump over Jan. 6 is no basis for leniency for others:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/judge-lack-charges-trump-jan-6-525277

* "Remembering the Jan. 6 insurrection: What it was like inside the Capitol:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/remembering-the-jan-6-insurrection-what-it-was-like-inside-the-capitol-129968709883

* "Proud Boys member pleads guilty for role in Capitol riot:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/22/1066944829/matthew-greene-proud-boys-jan-6-capitol-pleads-guilty

* "Capitol rioter told FBI he was "in the bathroom pooping when the violence occurred":" https://www.salon.com/2021/12/03/capitol-rioter-told-fbi-he-was-in-the-bathroom-pooping-when-the-violence-occurred_partner/

* "Proud Boys member pleads guilty for role in Capitol riot:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/22/1066944829/matthew-greene-proud-boys-jan-6-capitol-pleads-guilty

* "'Jesus Christ Superstar' actor, an accused Capitol rioter, claimed 'divine' authority in court hearing:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/politics/january-6-jesus-christ-superstar-sovereign-citizen/index.html

* "‘Q’ Has Been Quiet, but QAnon Lives On:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/technology/qanon-conspiracy-movement.html

* "Defense seeks dismissal of indictment for Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/26/defense-dismissal-indictment-gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-plot-michigan-governor-coronavirus-covid

* "Since Jan. 6, the pro-Trump Internet has descended into infighting over money and followers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/03/trump-qanon-online-money-war-jan6/

* "Police: Gunman in Denver who killed 5 targeted some victims:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article256898017.html

* " Why Alex Jones Lost the Sandy Hook Lawsuits :"

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* "North Carolina 3-year-old who accidentally shot herself on Christmas Day has died:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/us/north-carolina-christmas-shooting-toddler-dies/index.html

* "How a bloody land feud in Honduras is stoking migrant flight to U.S.:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/honduras-migration-land/

* "Ex-officer Kim Potter found guilty of two counts of manslaughter for fatally shooting Daunte Wright:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/us/kim-potter-trial-thursday/index.html

* "A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard:" https://theintercept.com/2021/12/18/little-rock-police-chief-keith-humphrey/

* "How Paid Experts Help Exonerate Police After Deaths in Custody:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/police-deaths-in-custody-blame.html

* "A Rogue Climber Running From the Law Was Fleeing His Own Trauma:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/isaac-wright-driftershoots-ptsd.html

* "5 teenagers charged in armed carjacking of US Rep. Scanlon:" https://apnews.com/article/congresswoman-mary-gay-scanlon-carjacked-teens-charged-3b17b2cc9d2dc00f0782f0f937e960d0

* "'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski moved to prison medical facility:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-moved-prison-medical-facility-81916720

* "Rocker Rod Stewart, son resolve Florida hotel assault case:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-florida-rod-stewart-3ffb512ae758f75593d0cc8f1ab5ecb1

* "Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbbey/prison-phone-companies-are-recording-attorney-client-calls-across-the-us

* "Behind the Violence at Rikers, Decades of Mismanagement and Dysfunction:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/nyregion/rikers-island-correction-officers.html

* "The Injustices of the Private Prison System:"

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* "Far-right using COVID-19 theories to grow reach, study shows:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-race-and-ethnicity-europe-1952ea369c0f4afdb6d23c7706aaadc8

* "Debunking the right-wing’s shoplifting freak-out:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/debunking-wing-shoplifting-freak-015411156.html

* "Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on four out of 11 federal charges:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/tech/elizabeth-holmes-verdict/index.html

* "He wore a wire, risked his life to expose who was in the KKK:" https://apnews.com/article/florida-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-veterans-ku-klux-klan-fa0ec4120b1457f56c527108074795b5

* "Claudette Colvin: Civil rights pioneer has record cleared:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59688404

* "OK bill would pay parents $10K each day their nominated banned books remain in libraries:" https://www.newsweek.com/ok-bill-would-pay-parents-10k-each-day-their-nominated-banned-books-remain-libraries-1663511

* "Some school librarians fed up with book bans are organizing and fighting back:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/us/texas-school-librarians-book-challenges/index.html

* CW: Psychiatric Abuse, Domestic Abuse. "The Rise and Fall of Dr. Phil, Part One:"

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* CW: Child Abuse, Torture "Dr. Phil's Involvement with Turnabout Ranch is Uncomfortable :"

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* "Pushed to Perform: How Reality TV Became About Kids:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Joshua Bassett's childhood sexual abuser was a family member who groomed him for years:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/28/joshua-bassett-sexual-abuse-coming-out-zach-sang/

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1066219689/ghislaine-maxwell-verdict-trial-jeffrey-epstein

* CW: Sex Trafficking, Rape, Pedophilia. "What Medieval Women Who Trafficked Girls Can Teach Us About Ghislaine Maxwell:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-history-of-female-complicity-in-sexual-abuse.html

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "Prince Andrew accuser’s 2009 deal with Jeffrey Epstein made public:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59861831

* CW: Sex Trafficking, Pedophilia"A QAnon con: How the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kids:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/wayfair-qanon-sex-trafficking-conspiracy/

* "Child grooms are often overlooked in the fight to stop child marriage:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/02/1066099271/child-grooms-are-often-overlooked-in-the-fight-to-stop-child-marriage

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Chris Noth: Two women accuse Sex And The City actor of sexual assault:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59689064

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Chris Noth Is Dropped From ‘The Equalizer’ Amid Sexual Assault Allegations:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/us/chris-noth-the-equalizer-fired.html

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Prosecutor drops groping charge against former NY Gov. Cuomo:" https://apnews.com/article/new-york-andrew-cuomo-albany-david-soares-24c140df57e2cf65bea8e576bf427f74

* CW: sexual Misconduct "Chris Cuomo, newly fired from CNN, faces an allegation of sexual misconduct:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/05/1061639233/chris-cuomo-newly-fired-from-cnn-faces-an-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct

* "Bryan Singer accused of 'controlling, abusive' relationship with young assistant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/bryan-singer-x-men-director-abuse-allegations-blake-stuerman/

* "Alex Jones' wife arrested on domestic violence charge:" https://news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-wife-arrested-domestic-204930217.html

* CW: Domestic Abuse "Dubai ruler must pay ex-wife $700M in divorce settlement:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/dubai-ruler-pay-wife-700m-divorce-settlement-81873513

* CW: Domestic Violence "Students walked out before ‘transphobic’ Rod Liddle speech 'over assault caution':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/08/rod-liddle-durham-assault-caution/

* "Death of pregnant woman ignites debate about abortion ban in Poland:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/death-pregnant-woman-ignites-debate-about-abortion-ban-poland-2021-11-05/

* "Tennessee Planned Parenthood destroyed in early morning fire:" https://apnews.com/article/health-fires-tennessee-knoxville-planned-parenthood-524edc1a8bd12e46774c1fcdf37c6c72

* "US groups behind bid to outlaw abortion linked to global attacks on human rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/07/homophobic-groups-fund-abortion-case-us/

* "Abortion bans 'certain' across America if Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/abortion-supreme-court-roe-v-wade/

* "For Young LGBTQ+ Folks, Emergency Contraception on Campus Is Essential:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/29/young-lgbtq-folks-emergency-contraception-campus-essential

* "Vladimir Putin uses annual four-hour speech to attack trans people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/24/vladimir-putin-russia-trans-coronavirus-pandemic/

* "Hungary’s cruel anti-LGBT+ law breaches basic human rights, say legal experts:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/hungary-anti-lgbt-law/

* "Kiss-A-Thon Held at Six Flags Mexico After Queer Couple Reprimanded:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/1/03/kiss-thon-held-six-flags-mexico-after-queer-couple-reprimanded-kissing

* "Same-Sex Couples in Israel Will Soon Have Access to Surrogacy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/04/same-sex-couples-israel-will-soon-have-access-surrogacy

* "Majority of Scots think trans people should be 'free to express their identity':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/17/trans-scotland-self-id-survation-poll/

* "All historic gay sex convictions to be pardoned: 'The UK did so much wrong':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/gay-sex-pardon-turins-law-priti-patel/

* "Crucial appeal against anti-trans LGB Alliance’s charity status to be heard in 2022:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/23/lgb-alliance-charity-appeal/

* "Tories should give non-binary people legal recognition by 2024, say MPs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/non-binary-legal-recognition-inquiry/

* "The real-life stories of Grindr serial killer Stephen Port's tragic victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/stephen-port-victims-anthony-walgate-daniel-whitworth-gabriel-kovari-jack-taylor/

* "America's LGBT+ population could be twice as big as previously thought, study says:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/19/usa-lgbt-population-census-pulse-survey-trans/

* "Black Trans Woman Ke’Yahonna Stone Shot Morning After Christmas:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/12/31/black-transgender-woman-keyahonna-stone-shot-morning-after-christmas-indiana

* "21-Year-Old Black Trans Woman Amarey Lej Killed in Pittsburgh:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/04/21-year-old-black-trans-woman-amarey-lej-killed-pittsburgh

* "'Angry' students take stand after school targeted in racist, homophobic attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/homophobic-racist-slurs-san-dieguito-academy/

* "Billionaire Mormon quits church over relentless attacks on LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/22/jeff-t-green-mormon-quit-lgbt-gay/

* "Their fears are mirrors of what they desire:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1814418.html

* "Game-changing injectable PrEP taken every other month to be rolled out in US:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/22/prep-injection-fda/

* Child Death "They Lost Three Daughters to Sickle Cell. Can They Save a Fourth?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/health/sickle-cell-nigeria.html

* "The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier:" https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/13/whitest-specialty-as-medicine-strives-to-close-diversity-gaps-orthopedic-surgery-remains-stubborn-outlier/

* "New Zealand's unique cigarette ban may be a model for other countries:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064212737/new-zealands-cigarette-ban-model

* "The Problem With the Myers-Briggs Personality Test:" https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-problem-with-the-myers-briggs-personality-test

* "US population growth at lowest rate in pandemic's 1st year:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-immigration-health-us-census-bureau-covid-19-pandemic-d224035ee70e805f1e42da6c1a9c079c

* "Alyssa always wanted to be a doctor. Then her dad died of covid and her dream fell apart.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/father-covid-grief/

* "Children, Coping With Loss, Are Pandemic’s ‘Forgotten Grievers’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/us/politics/children-lost-parents-caregivers-covid-grief.html

* "Fentanyl number one cause of death for adults 18-45, recent government data says:" https://www.abc12.com/news/fentanyl-number-one-cause-of-death-for-adults-18-45-recent-government-data-says/article_ed0bfe28-5f79-11ec-8aa0-af3f6cbff03c.html

* "States target Sackler family for opioid crisis justice after judge dumps bankruptcy deal:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/states-target-sackler-family-for-opioid-crisis-justice-after-judge-dumps-bankruptcy-deal-129812037758

* CW: Suicide "Hazmat incident from suspected suicide closes Main Street in Springfield:" https://news.yahoo.com/hazmat-incident-fire-police-officials-023532091.html

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* "‘Our house was gone, it was sea and sand’: life on the vanishing coasts – in pictures:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2021/dec/29/our-house-was-gone-it-was-sea-and-sand-life-on-the-vanishing-coasts-in-pictures

* "Boulder County wildfires: How to help those impacted by the disaster:" https://www.denverpost.com/2021/12/30/boulder-county-wildfires-how-to-help/

* "Alaska records all-time December high of 67 degrees:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/alaska-records-all-time-december-high-of-67-degrees-129871429768

* "‘Doomsday glacier’: Experts raise alarms about cracking Antarctic ice shelf:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-doomsday-glacier-experts-raise-alarms-about-cracking-antarctic-ice-shelf-129872965776

* "3 people missing, nearly 1K structures scorched in Colorado wildfire, officials say:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/01/colorado-fire-boulder-county-2-people-believed-missing/9067357002/

* "Drivers fret about food and fuel while stranded on highway :" https://apnews.com/article/snow-storm-weather-195-virginia-660346cff578c655186ac517fb45f17f

* "The Next Disaster Coming to the Great Plains:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/kansas-aquifer-ogallala-water-crisis-drought/621007/

* "The rising threat to businesses in 2022? Water.:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-flooding-businesses-2022/

* "Trash for rice: Bali recycling scheme gives families pandemic lifeline:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trash-rice-bali-recycling-scheme-gives-families-pandemic-lifeline-2021-12-29/

* "Inside the Chicago-area factory aiming to end US overreliance on Asia's PPE production:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/us/medical-gloves-ppe-chicago-factory/index.html

* "The First Dynasty of Egypt: The Birth of a Civilization:"

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* "The Great European Famine: The First Catastrophe of the 14th Century:"

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* "Syphilis: The Disease that Changed Europe:"

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* CW: Rape, Torture. "François L’Olonnais: The Most Savage Pirate of the Caribbean:"

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* "Emiliano Zapata: Mexico’s Greatest Revolutionary:"

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* CW: NAZIs, Holocaust, Torture. "Bayer's History is a Hard Pill to Swallow :"

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* "The Black Cop Who Infiltrated the KKK: Ron Stallworth:"

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* CW: Pedophilia, Child Murder "Inside the hunt for Christine Jessop's real killer:" https://torontolife.com/city/inside-the-hunt-for-christine-jessops-real-killer/

* "Betty White defended a Black dancer on her 1950s variety show:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/01/betty-white-show-arthur-duncan-black-tap-dancer-racism/

* "Betty White Understood Gay Men, and We Loved Her for It:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/12/31/betty-white-understood-gay-men-and-we-loved-her-it

* "Gay Olympic Diving Star Ian Matos Is Dead at 32:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/12/24/gay-olympic-diving-star-ian-matos-dead-32

* "A Quick Memory of Harry Reid:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1815738.html

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* This latest crisis is of course happening in that weird liminal space between end of year holidays, so the fact that I got any call backs on my Wednesday round of message leaving as various social service agencies was all by itself impressive.

Thursday morning at 7AM, the phone rang. This is an alarming time for anyone to call anyone, and we are far enough north it's not yet dawn. With Squirrel's slightly longer commute to his new job (He'd have been home by then from his old job, if he hadn't stopped for groceries or gas or the like, but at 7 he's often still commuting these days) and the whole melted snow freezes into dangerous ice overnight thing, I was worried it was Squirrel having had an accident on the way home.

It was not. It was a very nice man filling in for someone on vacation at a long shot agency I called the previous day. The answer was the expected no, but he had two more leads to try.

Poverty is very time consuming. I have been poor most of my life, including all my adult life. Phone tag, the endless time consuming search for hidden little programs that might help one with whatever nightmare poverty has tossed at you this time. I fish and I wait. There is noting else to do sometimes.

It was very sweet of him to call first thing, and really kind to try to help the only way he could.

Want to help with the bills/wiring crisis? paypal.me/Gwydion

* The roads are so bad, the security guys coming to fix the fire system cancelled. Really there is nothing to be done until after the new year.

Head Millenial came in on his day off. We've got white fairy lights strung up in the kitchen and an extension cord running to the bathroom with a bedroom lamp attach. The beta now has light and heat. The lighting is dimmer than ideal but we can now see what we're doing at night and the small space heater is attached to the most stable of the household circuits, the one that is also lighting the bathroom. It's not ideal but the safety issue is abated and I have a stomache with protein in it as I typed this.

Addendum: The temperature dropped fast tonight, so it was very good we sorted out the space heater power supply.

* Friday, I'm awakened by some guy yelling about water leaking outside the interior door. So I throw on some clothes and go and answer it. It's an inspector needing to take moisture readings of his wall that connects to the neighbor on his side. So I wake squirrel up.

He hit us first, so I don't know the results of the inspection, but he had information that may be a game changer. He said that the fire suppression sprinkler cracked due to the weather, and was leaking into next door's apartment. I told him about our fire suppression and electrical issues and he said likely next door's water leak zapped us too.

If this is the case, odds are I can leverage that into getting management to pay to fix the electricals, since weather damage in another apartment leaking into ours and doing massive damage sounds a lot like the time I called in water coming out of the ceiling in the bathroom and they had to fix it for me. the Inspector said it sounded as crazy to him as it did to us that they wanted us to pay a massive repair bill caused by weather damage in someone else's apartment.

So Monday, I'll call around and verify if this is the case, and if it is, I have a good case for this being someone else's problem. Which leaves us with the bills I didn't pay so I could fix my brakes and the medical bill. I've got a few donations, including one that means I can cover the one that flips into fines on the 7th. I need to wait for money to shift around and for the electrical situation to get settled one way or another, at which point I an give an update on my level of fucked, but odds just shifted from this is my life now I guess to solvable by Spring.

In other news, the cats and I are still holed up against the cold and snow and spending a lot of time napping in a group. I am adjusting to the dim emergency lighting we've strung up and still have the battery lanterns for close work. What did I do for New Years? Pet assorted cats and read Medieval history between naps. Oh, and had spasms. So many spasms. I spent the last couple of days trying to head them off, and lost.

But we are all fed and warm and that's more than a lot of people have right now.

* The Mummer's Parade got postponed to Sunday, so I stayed up to watch it live streaming. you could see the effects of the pandemic particularly in the Comics, I think, and in some of the string Bands. Most of the parade did pretty well on the whole racism, appropriation problem. There was one thing in each section before the fancy brigades if i remember correctly, plus a really bad one by a DJ in the fancies, but trust me this is progress. It used to be so much worse.

The Fancy Brigades though? Jesus fuck! It was like some sort of racism/cultural appropriation Olympics. There were always problems in the fancies division, but this is by far the worst it's been since the '90's. no wonder the my agish black man doing the cultural sensitivity training for Mummers sounded so damned tired.

The fuck!
Anyway, money has moved around and the immediate personal financial crisis that started with the brakes on the car is under control thanks to donors. The wall I was going to hit on the seventh has been removed. If I can talk property management into fixing the electricity, it will be tight for January and possibly ugly in February, but the immediate oh shit has become a next month problem. I should know in a week or two how fucked we will be next month. I'll let you know then.

* Monday I spent all day doing bureaucracy and errands. A half an hour's argument with management rendered a hard no. Luckily, the City called and is willing to put me on the expedited waiting list. The form required me to spend two hours on hold to get a single number from an agency, but I filed the application for the city to fix the electricals the same day via email.

Going out to get the application packet turned into more of a saga than hoped, as one of my tires was on the rim flat. Luckily squirrel was awake and lent me his car. Also, I was exhausted, barely mobile and in a lot of pain. Still, the essential adulting got done.

Tuesday I spent most of the morning on more phone bureaucracy (tracking down more leads, etc.). apparently if I had 2500 I could get the electricals fixed myself. Might as well wish I had a million. I then drove on the rim to the tire store. It took two hours, which was no surprise. The line is always long there, and it was worse because of the whole people snowed in and new year thing, plus they were having computer issues which was slowing check in considerable. I couldn't not replace the tire and waiting for a better day would not make things any easier.

Apparently, the tire was under warranty, which surprised the hell out of me as I didn't know i had a warranty. I certainly hadn't paid for one. My assumption is is came automatically with the tires. As I bought these tires in February a year before the pandemic, my suspicion is if the tire had punctured say a month and a half from now, it would have expired. As it fell out, I got a free replacement tire, so that's a win.

I turned out one of the bills I didn't pay because brakes had acquired and extra 25 or so of fees; the other was the amount expected. I'll need to pay this month's bills, of course, plus the 70.00 medical bill, plus whatever they are going to charge me for car tabs later in the month, so I'm still some degree of fucked, but this could have been so much worse.

I also bought a grocery sandwich on EBT, because while it's not as bad as yesterday, my body is really not doing well at the basics. I turned in the hard copy of our application on the grounds that trying to read my arthritis handwriting on Squirrel's cell phone picture sounded dicey to me. I actually have faith that the city will help since both of the people involved in that decision are very invested in getting it sorted. It's more a matter of how long until my waiting list spot rises to an open slot and then about a three month process after that. We may even get them to replace the unreliable refrigerator and fix my broken kitchen drawer in the process.

It's going to be unpleasant, but if we can make it to April financially, we'll be okay.

* Wednesday, we didn't forage. Nearby Millennial was trapped at home because the compacted ice made her hill too dangerous. Head Millennial could make it, so we worked on stuff in the living room, while the snow invisibly piled up outside. Luckily, Squirrel took Head Millennial home before he went to work.

He called me from work. They have an outbreak and it's bad. Really, really bad. He's working directly with COVID patients. He is taking all precautions at work and is masking when he has to leave his room for food or work, but our risk just went way up.

In other news, I packed up Halloweentown today as a preliminary to taking down the interior Gothmas display. The cats had an exciting time exploring the cleared space and sitting together to stare out at the snowy landscape and occasional dog walker.

Did I mention the previous Wednesday, Head Millennial brought in a dish of snow for the cats? neither of them have much outdoor experience. (Livia escaped once and was deeply traumatized. Tavy has escaped more often, usually to the bushes in front of our patio to check for hidden Millenials). They've never been out in snow and seeing it fall only happens once or twice a year in the normal course of things, so they are fascinated and a bit alarmed whenever it happens.

The dish of snow blew the Emperor's mind. He finds snow both fascinating and alarming at the best of times. He'd never seen it indoors or been close to it. It really freaked him right out. he'd approach the bowl cautiously, tail lashing, then skitter away sideways. He did eventually sniff it, at which point he recoiled in horror. Livia basically gave it the side eye and would skirt around it.

Imperial opinion is united: It was not a hit. Snow belongs Outside, with noises and strangers.

* Since 2016, I've tried to write up a thing in the dark of every year, but this year, I didn't find the words. Looks like the Mountain Goats guy found them for me. :https://star-burp.tumblr.com/post/672168512356237312

* "Sunday Sweets For Roy G. Biv:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/1/2/sunday-sweets-for-roy-g-biv

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Populist party backs Draghi as Italy’s new PM in online vote:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/populist-party-backs-draghi-as-italys-new-pm-in-online-vote/2021/02/11/47fe1eca-6c9f-11eb-a66e-e27046e9e898_story.html

* "UK government will fine universities for canceling hateful speakers in new ‘war on woke’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/14/universities-fined-cancel-transphobic-speakers-free-speech-champion-government/

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* "WHO grants emergency use listing for Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine:" https://www.politico.eu/article/who-grants-emergency-use-listing-for-oxford-astrazenca-vaccine/

* "81-person orgy broken up by police for breaking coronavirus rules:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/04/81-person-french-orgy-paris-police-covid-coronavirus/

* "Coronavirus in Zimbabwe: Nick Mangwana apologises for 'medical assassins' slur:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55797903

* "Zimbabwe receives 200,000 doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/15/africa/zimbabwe-sinopharm-vaccine-china-intl/index.html

* "South Africa in shock after AstraZeneca vaccine rollout halted:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55999678

* "Half of coronavirus deaths were in the winter:" https://flowingdata.com/2021/02/10/half-of-coronavirus-deaths-were-in-the-winter/

* "New, Daily Coronavirus Cases Drop Below 100K For First Time In Months:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/02/15/968005388/new-daily-coronavirus-cases-drop-below-100k-for-first-time-in-months

* Ya think? "As States Expand Access to Vaccines, Supply Isn't Keeping Up:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/world/coronavirus-vaccine-access-supply.html

* " The U.S. Bought Rapid Covid-19 Tests to Help Control the Virus. Now Many Are Unused:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-bought-rapid-covid-19-tests-to-help-control-the-virus-now-many-are-unused-11613397601?mod=hp_lead_pos6

* "Inside the Worst-Hit County in the Worst-Hit State in the Worst-Hit Country:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/inside-the-worst-hit-county-in-the-worst-hit-state-in-the-worst-hit-country

* "Thousands of Covid-19 vaccines wind up in the garbage because of fed, state guidelines:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thousands-covid-19-vaccines-wind-garbage-because-fed-state-guidelines-n1254364?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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* "As Biden Reopens ACA Enrollment, Are You Eligible To Sign Up Or Switch Health Plans?:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/15/967366282/as-biden-reopens-aca-enrollment-are-you-eligible-to-sign-up-or-switch-health-pla

* Good riddance! "White House deputy press secretary resigns after threatening reporter over story about him:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/media/tj-ducklo-resigns/index.html

* "Hard-hit restaurants feed COVID doctors, nurses to survive:" https://apnews.com/article/hard-hit-restaurants-feed-covid-doctors-5914100cccb1c14859e73c0e7930ba49

* "'This is not justice.' Tenant activists upend U.S. eviction courts:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-evictions-insi/this-is-not-justice-tenant-activists-upend-u-s-eviction-courts-idUSKBN2A8112

* "Amazon faces biggest union push in its history:" https://apnews.com/article/amazon-workers-union-c8493c24dabe7609de8fec8716460737

* I support the Fast Food Workers strike and the Amazon Strike.

* "Democrat Mckayla Wilkes comes out as bisexual during fight to unseat house leader:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/12/mckayla-wilkes-bisexual-steny-hoyner-democrat-congress-lgbt-sexuality/

**** Impeachment ****

* So there you have it: only 7 Republicans ion the senate are in favor of keeping democracy. The rest hate America so much that they are all think violently over throwing the government in favour of a fascist autocracy is a good idea.

* "Senate acquits Trump of inciting deadly Capitol attack:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/trump-impeachment-trial-day-5-468985

* "LGBTQ+, Other Civil Rights Groups Enraged by Trump Acquittal:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/2/13/lgbtq-other-civil-rights-groups-enraged-trump-acquittal

* "There are no more checks on Presidential power.:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1790762.html

* "Capehart asks Democrats to eschew impeachment cynicism to ‘save our democracy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/trump-s-acquittal-in-second-impeachment-trial-analyzed-in-capehart-s-bye-line-101020229750

* "Sen. Klobuchar applauds House managers for most bipartisan impeachment trial vote in history: https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/trump-s-second-impeachment-trial-vote-celebrated-as-most-bipartisan-in-history-by-klobuchar-101022277560

* "Rep. Plaskett says impeachment trial needed ‘more Senators with spines’ not more witnesses:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/trump-impeachment-trial-managers-not-calling-witnesses-addressed-by-house-impeachment-manager-rep-plaskett-101021253509

* "Some Republicans who shirked impeachment responsibility pass buck to law enforcement:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/some-republicans-who-shirked-impeachment-responsibility-pass-buck-to-law-enforcement-101080645577

* "Who is Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, whose tweet upended Trump’s impeachment trial?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/13/jaime-herrera-beutler-impeachment/

* "Rep. Lieu on why Democrats chose not to call impeachment witnesses:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-lieu-on-why-democrats-chose-not-to-call-impeachment-witnesses-101072965962

* "Impeachment secret ballot may have been possible, but not likely:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/impeachment-secret-ballot-may-have-been-possible-but-not-likely-101076549977

* "Expectation of litigious delay tempered interest in calling impeachment witnesses:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/expectation-of-litigious-delay-tempered-interest-in-calling-impeachment-witnesses-101078597531

* "Impeachment manager mystified at Pence's silence after targeting by Trump for mob attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/impeachment-manager-mystified-at-pence-s-silence-after-targeting-by-trump-for-mob-attack-101079621518

* "One Legacy of Impeachment: The Most Complete Account So Far of Jan. 6:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/us/politics/capitol-riots-impeachment-trial.html

* "Trump Celebrates His Acquittal, Says The Impeachment Was Part Of A 'Witch Hunt':" https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-trial-live-updates/2021/02/13/967700796/trump-celebrates-his-acquittal-says-the-impeachment-was-part-of-a-witch-hunt

* "Trump escapes conviction but even his allies say he’s damaged:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/trump-impeachment-witch-hunt-469001

**** End Impeachment ****

* "Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mob-failure/2021/01/11/36a46e2e-542e-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

* "Pelosi announces plans for '9/11-type commission' to investigate Capitol attack:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/15/politics/pelosi-capitol-attack-commission/index.html

* "New York Prosecutors Investigating Trump’s Manhattan Properties:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-prosecutors-investigating-trumps-manhattan-properties-11613241198?mod=djemalertNEWS

* "Fmr. Trump attorney Cohen wants next AG to ensure Trump faces NY state charges:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/trump-impeachment-trial-acquittal-analyzed-by-trump-s-former-attorney-michael-cohen-101017669524

* "Graham’s post-election call with Raffensperger will be scrutinized in Georgia probe, person familiar with inquiry says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lindsey-graham-georgia-investigation/2021/02/12/f12faa82-6d6b-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html

* "Backlash against January 6 insurrection drives new interest in running for office:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/backlash-against-january-6-insurrection-drives-new-interest-in-running-for-office-101079109934

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

* Dejoy is still destroying the Post Office. "Postmaster general’s new plan for USPS is said to include slower mail and higher prices:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/12/dejoys-new-plan-usps-slower-mail-higher-prices-sources-say/

* CW: Abuse, Pedophilia. "Eliza Dushku becomes latest Buffy cast member to speak out over ‘toxic’ Joss Whedon controversy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/14/buffy-vampire-slayer-eliza-dushku-toxic-abuse-joss-whedon-controversy/

* CW: pedophilia, sexual abuse, animal abuse. "We Need To Talk About Armie Hammer.:"

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* CW: pedophilia, sexual abuse, animal abuse. Re: Armie Hammer. I do think it's important to make distinctions between what is and isn't acceptable. Vore not my thing, but that isn't the problem here. Again Consensual non-consent is way not my thing, but it can be done ethically. I'm not judgey about things done ethically. Fantasies aren't an issue either.

The issue here is the creeper stuff (sending people unsolicited threatening sexual material, boundary pushing, lack of after care), and the out right not okay stuff like grooming underage people, animal abuse, rape, doing particularly extreme kinks without a safe word and the real risk of traumatizing, physically harming, or killing some one. Breath play can literally kill someone. Doing it to someone without enthusiastic consent and then going way further than promised is right the fuck out.

Some people want Consensual non-consent, but you absolutely have to stick to negotiated limits, do safe words and after care, etc.. Ethical standards have to be highest in more extreme kinks.

I couldn't do CNC or breath play. I wouldn't want to do it, but I feel that way about shit play and adult babies and I don't judge them either as long as it's done ethically. (Ex: I had a friend who was in Germany and thought he'd signed on for mild BDSM and had it turn out to be surprise Scheisse after things got going. Not okay.)

But if you are into it? Fine. Just negotiate it properly and pursue it ethically.

Acceptable mid sex surprises are things like: One time a guy and I were going at it so hard we fucked right off the edge of the bed and ended up doing it upside down and it was amazing. Surprise Scheisse or choking is a hard no.

So enjoy your fantasies and if you are into varsity level type kinks definitely pursue them consensually and ethically with adults who want to be there, but don't be creepy or abusive. Use safe words. Don't surprise people. Stick to negotiated limits and if you aren't sure either check or don't do it.

It's not the ethical kinksters who are the problem, it's an abuser trying to use kink as cover for terrible behavior that's the problem.

* "DUP education minister falls over himself defending colleague who shared ‘ex-gay’ propaganda:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/15/dup-peter-weir-nelson-mccausland-gay/

* "Bills Restricting Trans Student Athletes Advance in Three States:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/2/12/bills-restricting-trans-student-athletes-advance-three-states

* "Bigoted Republican scores own goal with bill to stop ‘trans men from competing in girls sport’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/12/trans-school-sports-bill-florida-republican-anthony-sabatini-lake-country/

* "'Immoral' Republican condemned for shamefully comparing non-binary people to animals:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/12/john-fillmore-arizona-republican-trans-non-binary/

* "13-year-old girl banned from riding the school bus after declaring she's a lesbian:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/12/izzy-dieker-coming-out-lesbian-americus-school-kansas-homophobia-bus/

* "Devious sperm 'poison' their rivals, forcing them to swim in circles until they die:" https://www.livescience.com/mouse-sperm-poison-t-haplotype.html

* "Why Rhinos Fly Upside Down Over Namibia:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-move-rhinos

* CW: Animal death. "A Group of Orca Outcasts Is Now Dominating an Entire Sea:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/01/orcas-killer-whale-resident-transient/617862/

* "Frozen wind turbines contribute to rolling power blackouts across Texas:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/15/us/power-outages-texas-monday/index.html

* "One day, your home could be made with mushrooms:" https://www.theverge.com/22257120/mushroom-bricks-mycelium-sustainable-building-materials

* "In Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-violation-of-einstein-black-holes-might-have-hair-20210211/

* "Researchers Levitated a Small Tray Using Nothing but Light:" https://www.wired.com/story/researchers-levitated-a-small-tray-using-nothing-but-light/

* "Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass :" https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/scientists-develop-transparent-wood-that-is-stronger-and-lighter-than-glass-1.5902739

* "Conch shell in French museum found to be 17,000-year-old wind instrument:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/conch-shell-in-french-museum-found-to-be-17000-year-old-wind-instrument

* Infrastructure matters. "How Early Megacities Emerged From the Jungles of Cambodia:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-cambodian-megacities

* "Deathbed confession from an 18th-century highwayman reveals a surprising failed gay hookup:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/13/horsham-museum-thomas-munn-highwayman-deathbed-confession-gay-hookup/

* "Kickass Women in History: Queen Nanny:" https://smartbitches-feed.dreamwidth.org/2781205.html?style=mine

* "American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/voting-rights-act-democracy/617792/

* I love this. I hope they keep doing it. "The pandemic has cancelled New Orleans’ Mardi Gras parade. So thousands are creating ‘house floats.’:" https://www.inquirer.com/life/new-orleans-mardi-house-floats-gras-coronavirus-pandemic-parades-20210213.html

* "The Rise and Fall of Britain's Biggest Pram Collection:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/jack-hampshire-pram-collection

* "Meet the people fighting to keep a language alive online:" https://restofworld.org/2021/bringing-urdu-into-the-digital-age/

* "Malaysia Has Turned Lion Dancing Into a Gravity-Defying Extreme Sport:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lion-dance-competition-malaysia

* "The life and death theatre of espionage | Jonna Mendez | TEDxBermuda:"

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* "The Scarlet Witch and Marvel’s Gay Power Couple:"

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* "The Next Pandemic: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "The Magical, Wonderful Road to Impeachment - Trump Acquitted:" https://www.cc.com/video/30y9c9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-magical-wonderful-road-to-impeachment-trump-acquitted

* "New COVID-19 Variants in U.S. & Cuomo's Nursing Home Scandal:" https://www.cc.com/video/vdh5xj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-new-covid-19-variants-in-u-s-cuomo-s-nursing-home-scandal

* "Second Impeachment Trial Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Gorilla Glue - SNL:"

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* "What’s Your Type? - SNL:"

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* "Women’s Theater - SNL:"

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* "Pelotaunt - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update: Stephanie Green on Conspiracy Theories - SNL:"

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* "The Negotiator - SNL:"

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* "Marjorie Taylor Greene's Conspiracy Theories, In Song:"

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* "Harriet Tubman Will Finally Become The Face Of America's $20 Bill:"

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* "Kevin McCarthy Is Playing Both Sides Of The GOP's Civil War:"

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* Snowing Day 2: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/643121384584855553/21421-1040amstill-snowing

* Tavy in his snow watching spot: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/643146578417385472/tavy-in-the-comfy-bed-he-inherited-from-elder

* I wanted to go to bed 4AMish, but I stayed up for the specialist appointment anyway. I called at8AM sharp to check for snow cancellation. It was not cancelled, so we suited up and Squirrel brought his car around to the door where the overhang means I only had t take one step in snow and none on ice. It was fine once we left our neighborhood and even there it was fine mist drizzling. It was also noticeably lot warmer. I watched it rain gently but steadily the whole appointment, slowly melting the roof snow.

I don't like being indoors with humans, but mask and distancing were excellent. The specialist was charming. I was very on with my charm the doctor humor routine, which is always useful in getting them to take my medical stuff seriously Once upon a time I held small crowds mesmerized without a microphone. Now? I bring it out almost exclusively for nurses and doctors. Sigh.

Anyway, it looks like the mechanical joint damage isn't quite as bad as it originally sounded. The real issue is the extreme fucking pain and the atrophy (in response to the extreme fucking pain). He decided it was safe to do the treatment after all. I had this in my hips before. The needle was still comically large, though not right out of a cartoon large. It hurt even more than I remember.

I did not get to bed until noonish and it was ages to get to sleep with the pain. You know how when my lungs are bad I have the ICU oxygen dream? When the pain is extreme even for me it tends to get translated into things like stabbings or what have you. In this case I dreamed I was in hospice dying of advanced cancer (Every thing above my mi thigh was horrific and I felt terrible whenever I woke, so it's not much of a stretch), and people kept trying to kill me so I kept having to fight off or charm the assassins.

By the third bathroom break I could feel the improvement though. I am still I a lot of pain just generally, but this is the rough edge of manageable. We'll know how well it actually worked in a few days, and I need to keep an eye out for infection, but I remember when we did my hips and the ground glass in the joint feeling going away. They still fucking hurt, especially in this weather, but trust me no ground glass was a big fucking improvement over ground glass. If it goes from pain scale 7-10 down to four to 7 for my dominant arm? That would be a game changer.

* Covid Vaccine Star Wars Analogy: https://xkcd.com/2425/

* "Let’s discuss what’s going on with American Gods Season 3 (and as a whole):" https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/643265933926924288/lets-discuss-whats-going-on-with-american-gods

* That's Not a Deer: https://aqua-luxe.tumblr.com/post/643251258381271040/what-do-you-mean-by-thats-not-a-deer-in-the

* "Carved Paintings by Hannah Jensen:" https://www.neatorama.com/2021/01/24/Carved-Paintings-by-Hannah-Jensen/

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "You Can Buy Girl Scout Cookies From Troop Of Girls In NYC Shelter System:" https://www.scarymommy.com/troop-6000-girl-scouts-nyc-shelters/

* Cat Rescue Fundraiser: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/642429918533304320/design-a-tea-where-tea-leaves-dream-custom

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