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* I'm Too Tired Too Weed things that aren't needed in the Debt ceiling section. i'm a little better tpoday, but not great.

* "Sudan military ruler seeks removal of UN envoy in letter to UN chief, who is ‘shocked’ by the demand:" https://apnews.com/article/sudan-war-un-envoy-military-rsf-f88097b73244a90a02158ce781a9e44f

* "Nearly 1.4 million people displaced in Sudan since civil war erupted, UN report says :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/africa/sudan-displaced-people-gender-violence-intl-hnk/index.html

* "‘As the night descended, they came and killed’: Sudan’s other war:" https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2023/5/30/as-the-night-descended-they-came-and-killed-sudans-other-war

* "Tens of thousands protest overhaul for 21st weekend, but turnout remains lower:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/tens-of-thousands-protest-overhaul-for-21st-weekend-but-turnout-remains-lower/

* "French unions plan June 6 protests against Macron and his pension law:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-unions-call-new-day-protest-against-pension-reform-june-6-2023-05-02/

* "What's next for French protesters?:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/29/1178747991/whats-next-for-french-protesters

* I didn't have much hope, but still it makes me sad. "Erdogan cements his power with a victory in Turkey's presidential runoff election:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/28/1178660299/erdogan-has-claimed-victory-in-turkeys-presidential-runoff-election

* "Türkiye’s president Erdoğan uses election victory speech to take aim at ‘LGBT forces’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/29/recep-tayyip-erdogan-lgbtq-gay-turkey/

* "Israel’s Far Right Government is a Gift to Settlers:"

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* "India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks — experts are baffled:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01770-y

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* "Ukraine says Russia plans to simulate accident at nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russia-plans-simulate-accident-nuclear-power-plant-2023-05-26/

Publicizing it makes it less likely they'll do it, I suspect.

Honestly, I've been expecting them to arrange an "accidental" meltdown since they seized the plant as it is easier to get plausible deniability than actually nuking Ukraine as they keep threatening to do as part of their genocide, but I limit the amount of speculation I do in print.

* "Russia, Ukraine fail to embrace IAEA plan to protect nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/un-nuclear-watchdog-asks-russia-ukraine-protect-zaporizhzhia-plant-2023-05-30/

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* "Supreme Court sides with 94-year-old woman who accused government of stealing her home equity:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-sides-94-year-mn-woman-striking/story?id=99600689

* "Let's talk about SCOTUS and checks and balances....:"

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* "Biden reaches milestone in judicial appointments:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/biden-reaches-milestone-in-judicial-appointments-177593413777

* "Biden signs debt limit bill, avoiding U.S. default:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-lifting-us-debt-limit-2023-06-03/

* "Here are the 6 must-know provisions of the new debt ceiling deal :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/28/6-pillars-of-the-debt-ceiling-deal-00099108

Republicans wanted to dramatically increase the national debt through credit default, by preventing the government from paying the bills, but have settled for a smaller increase in the national debt by increasing the military budget while lowering revenues through cuts to IRS enforcement targeted at billionaire and the major corporation tax cheats.

They are lying when they say they want to lower the debt. They always dramatically increase it when they are in charge and all the things they were demanding in exchange for not blowing up the world economy was designed to increase the debt and harm ordinary people.

Democrats, are far more fiscally responsible generally as the money they tend to want to spend is an investment in things like the economy, education, health care, while all republicans want to do is suck money out of the economy to give to the extremely wealthy and frittering it away on our massively bloated military budget while cutting anything that invests in the future or ordinary Americans.

Never buy the lie of Republican fiscal responsibility.

* Saying the quiet part out loud. "Grassley: GOP ‘not interested’ in whether Biden accusations are ‘accurate’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/grassley-gop-not-interested-in-whether-biden-accusations-are-accurate-179203141918

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene slays irony, stresses House ‘decorum’:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/marjorie-taylor-greene-slays-irony-stresses-house-decorum-rcna86223

* "Robert Garcia Counters Majorie Taylor Greene's Homophobia With Resolution Honoring All Families:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-garcia-families

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

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

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Minnesota lawmakers bring national popular vote one step closer to reality:" https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/05/24/minnesota-lawmakers-bring-national-popular-vote-one-step-closer-to-reality/

* "Zooey Zephyr & the Politics of Civility:"

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* If she doesn't pay attention to politics or the news, why the fuck is she in politics? "Nebraska senator who voted for anti-trans, anti-abortion bill says she wasn’t paying attention:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/nebraska-senator-christy-armanderiz/

* "New RNC Debate Rules Could Limit GOP Primary Field:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/new-rnc-debate-rules-could-limit-gop-primary-field-179734597857

* "Hayes: Biden delivering on 2020 promises makes for a strong 2024 pitch:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-biden-delivering-on-2020-promises-makes-for-a-strong-2024-pitch-178522693779

* "Republican Primary Field Expands as 2024 Approaches:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/republican-primary-field-expands-as-2024-approaches-177592901887

* "One-on-One with 2024 Republican Presidential Candidate Former Gov. Asa Hutchinson:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/one-on-one-with-2024-republican-presidential-candidate-former-gov-asa-hutchinson-177773125916

* "7 telling moments from Ron DeSantis’ 2024 Twitter launch: Hate, lies and reheated Trumpism:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/ron-desantis-twitter-president-bid/

* "Fox News mocks Ron DeSantis after ‘disaster’ presidential launch:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/fox-news-ron-desantis-disaster-twitter-2024-campaign/

* "Let's talk about DeSantis and a failure to launch....:"

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* "‘Disastrous position:’ The DeSantis bid to be the anti-vaccine candidate:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disastrous-position-the-desantis-bid-to-be-the-anti-vaccine-candidate-179577925819

* "Would Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis be worse for LGBTQ+ rights in the US?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/donald-trump-ron-desantis-president/

* "Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general who said trans youth care is ‘child abuse’, faces impeachment:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/ken-paxton-impeachment-texas/

* "Impeached Texas AG Ken Paxton tries out Trump defense playbook:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/impeached-texas-ag-ken-paxton-tries-out-trump-defense-playbook-178524741975

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* "Complexities of a RICO case seen in wide-ranging Georgia investigation of Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/complexities-of-a-rico-case-seen-in-wide-ranging-georgia-investigation-of-trump-179619909811

* "Trump reportedly building revenge list against feds investigating him:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-reportedly-building-revenge-list-against-feds-investigating-him-178556485747

* "Lordy! Special counsel reportedly has audio of Trump talking about secret document he kept:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/lordy-special-counsel-reportedly-has-audio-of-trump-talking-about-secret-document-he-kept-178813509751

* "Hayes: New evidence points to Trump motive in documents case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-new-evidence-points-to-trump-motive-in-documents-case-179575877895

* "What the latest Trump tapes twist is all about and why it matters:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/what-the-latest-trump-tapes-twist-is-all-about-and-why-it-matters-179271237736

* "Lordy! Special counsel reportedly has audio of Trump talking about secret document he kept:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/lordy-special-counsel-reportedly-has-audio-of-trump-talking-about-secret-document-he-kept-178813509751

* "Trump's lawyers reportedly beginning to turn on each other:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-lawyers-reportedly-beginning-to-turn-on-each-other-178549829715

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* I am wondering what A.L. Milne would think about all of it. "DISD parents concerned about ‘run, hide, fight’ Winnie-the-Pooh book:" https://oakcliff.advocatemag.com/2023/05/winnie-pooh-run-hide-fight/

* "8 people killed, 71 injured in mass shootings over Memorial Day weekend:" https://www.axios.com/2023/05/30/mass-shootings-memorial-day-weekend

* "New Biden Asylum Policy Will Hurt LGBTQ+ Migrants and Others, Activists Say:" https://www.advocate.com/news/biden-asylum-immigration-policy-citicized

* "Transgender Woman Given Another Chance to Fight Deportation by U.S. Supreme Court:" https://www.advocate.com/law/supreme-court-trans-immigration

* "'Our governor is a job-killing moron': DeSantis immigration policy threatens state economy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-our-governor-is-a-job-killing-moron-desantis-immigration-policy-threatens-state-economy-179258437978

* The police decided to murder an innocent unarmed 12 year old for the crime of calling the police for help. It is lucky the child lived. "Mom demands answers after 11-year-old son allegedly shot by police officer at home:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/mom-demands-justice-after-11-year-son-shot/story?id=99598767

* "Why Cops Are Untouchable with Joanna Schwartz:"

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* This is an older piece, but I think relevant given the current Target stuff. "How Target Got Cozy With the Cops, Turning Black Neighbors Into Suspects:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-25/how-target-tgt-police-surveilled-black-neighbors-in-inner-cities

* "In New York Prisons, Guards Who Brutalize Prisoner Rarely Get Fired:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/05/19/new-york-prison-corrections-officer-abuse-prisoners

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Strip searches, trauma, isolation: Trans men describe life behind bars:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/strip-searches-trauma-isolation-trans-men-describe-life-bars-rcna6490

* "ESPN Anchor Under Fire For Mocking Indigenous NHL Player's Name:" https://advocatechannel.com/john-anderson-espn-under-fire-mocking-zach-whitecloud-indigenous-name

* "Don’t visit Florida if you’re LGBTQ+, Human Rights Campaign warns: ‘It’s dangerous’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/human-rights-campaign-equality-florida-ron-desantis/

* "'Don't Say Gay' Bill Signed in Iowa; GOP Gov. OK's Ratting on Trans Students:" https://www.advocate.com/dont-say-gay/don-t-say-gay-law-signed-in-iowa

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene, who calls drag queens ‘groomers’, thinks it’s fine for her boyfriend to do drag:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/marjorie-taylor-greene-drag-partner-hypocrisy/

* "As Predicted, Anti-Drag Laws Are Being Weaponized to Silence Trans People:" https://www.themarysue.com/montana-library-cancels-transgender-speaker-because-of-anti-drag-law/

* "How to Stop Neo-Nazis From Crashing Pride Month:" https://newrepublic.com/article/173096/stop-neo-nazis-crashing-pride-month

* "Florida Rejected Social Studies Lessons — You'll Never Guess Which Ones:" https://advocatechannel.com/florida-rejected-social-studies-lessons-youll-never-guess-which-ones

* "Lost Illusions: The Untold Story of the Hit Show’s Poisonous Culture:" https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/lost-tv-show-culture

* CW: Pedophilia, Domestic Abuse. Given how many of the people who think all queer people are pedophiles turn out to be pedophiles, maybe law enforcement ought to take a closer look every time a politician publicly announces they don't understand the concept of consent. "LGBTQ book ban proponent faces felony child molestation charge in Missouri:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/lgbtq-book-ban-advocate-faces-felony-child-molestation-charge-missouri-rcna14763

* CW: Pedophilia. "White nationalist pleads guilty in child porn case after arrest for trying to riot at LGBTQ pride:" https://lawandcrime.com/crime/white-nationalist-pleads-guilty-in-child-porn-case-after-arrest-for-trying-to-riot-at-lgbtq-pride/

* CW: Pedophilia. The far right's every accusation is a confession. "Andrew Hazelton, reputed neo-Nazi and son of Westford Select Board member Scott Hazelton, arrested on child porn charges :" https://www.lowellsun.com/2021/05/07/andrew-hazelton-reputed-neonazi-and-son-of-westford-select-board-member-scott-hazelton-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/

* "ITV ‘investigated’ rumours of Phillip Schofield’s relationship with younger employee:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/phillip-schofield-itv-affair/

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* "Hospitals in Two States Denied an Abortion to a Miscarrying Patient. Investigators Say They Broke Federal Law.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/two-hospitals-denied-abortion-miscarrying-patient-breaking-federal-law?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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* "Pansexual, intersex and transgender people worst represented in LGBTQ+ media, damning survey finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/just-like-us-lgbt-representation-media-young-adults-survey/

* "As a teacher, I’ve watched students learn misogyny and anti-LGBTQ+ hate from the internet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/teacher-misogyny-anti-lgbtq-schools-andrew-tate/

* "Uganda’s president Museveni signs Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law: ‘How many will die?’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/29/uganda-anti-homosexuality-act-signed-law-yoweri-museveni-lgbt/

* "Polish politician suggests LGBTQ-friendly schools are staffed by ‘paedophiles’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/poland-mikolaj-pawlak-schools-lgbtq-investigation/

* "Hong Kong: Queer teachers forced to hide their relationship say marriage equality would change everything:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/hong-kong-same-sex-marriage-lgbtq-2/

* "Woman carrying Pride flag shot in head with BB gun after Polish LGBTQ+ parade: ‘Attack on all of us’ :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/poland-lgbtq-equality-march-bb-gun-assault/

* "Malaysia seizes rainbow Pride-themed Swatch watches:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/malaysian-swatch-pride-watches/

* "Mexico unveils new non-binary passport: ‘Diversity enriches and flourishes’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/21/mexico-gender-marker-passports/

* "Overturning British colonial-era ‘buggery’ law ‘first step’ to protecting LGBTQ+ people in Guyana:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/21/guyana-lgbtq-rights-british-colonial-law-sasod/

* "EHRC suspends ‘bullying’ investigation into chair Kishwer Falkner:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/ehrc-investigation-suspended-baroness-falkner/

* "Anti-trans Tory MP Miriam Cates doesn’t want children ‘changing gender in school’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/miriam-cates-tory-trans-children-schools/

* "Tory MP Mark Jenkinson calls trans women ‘men’ in unprompted Twitter attacks:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/mark-jenkinson-twitter-trans-women-misgendering/

* "Rishi Sunak asked to condemn schools simply for supporting trans kids:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/rishi-sunak-schools-trans-guidance-pronouns/

* "Ex-Mermaids CEO shuts down suggestion Tavistock gender clinic links were inappropriate:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/mermaids-telegraph-susie-green-gender-affirming-healthcare/

* Don't ever kid yourselves. They want us all dead. That's the goal. "Sacked anti-trans teacher Joshua Sutcliffe claims ‘all sin deserves the death penalty’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/teacher-joshua-sutcliffe-piers-morgan-sin-death-penalty/

* "Oxford University dons back queer students opposing ‘gender-critical’ Kathleen Stock talk :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/oxford-university-kathleen-stock/

* "Drag queen expertly shuts down anti-LGBTQ+ protester at Birmingham Pride parade: ‘The only sin is you spreading hate’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/birmingham-pride-drag-queen-protester/

* "Pitiful turnout of anti-drag protesters countered with ‘joyful’ LGBTQ+ street party:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/turning-point-uk-drag-event-honor-oak/

* "Trans and non-binary participants in Gender Wars documentary accuse Channel 4 of ‘misleading’ them:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/gender-wars-documentary-channel-4-trans-non-binary-backlash/

* "So, a Top Guardian Editor Was Married to the Founder of Mumsnet:" https://judedoyle.medium.com/so-a-top-guardian-editor-was-married-to-the-founder-of-mumsnet-836cddf8fdc4

* "Many transgender health bills came from a handful of far-right interest groups, AP finds:" https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-model-legislation-5cc4a7cb4ab69150f670d06fd0f361ab

* "Florida's Trans Bathroom Ban Signed: Arrests To Follow Regardless Of Legal Gender Status:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/floridas-trans-bathroom-ban-signed

* The Republican War on Reality continues. "Montana signing bill defining sex as binary compared to legislating that Earth is flat:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/montana-bill-sex-binary-backlash-zooey-zephyr/

* "Georgia’s new anti-trans law also disparages autistic people like me:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/georgias-new-anti-trans-law-also-disparages-autistic-people-rcna76858

* Intersex people are now barred from all public restrooms as well and are classified as "disabled" under the new law. "Kansas now has some of nation's strictest anti-trans laws, banning bathroom access and ID changes:" https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2023-04-27/kansas-now-has-the-nations-strictest-anti-trans-law-banning-access-to-bathrooms-and-shelters

* Six Anti-Trans Bills in Hawaii: https://translegislation.com/bills/2023/HI

* "Cruel bill banning trans healthcare killed off in Louisiana – by just one vote:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/louisiana-fred-mills-matt-walsh/

* "Indiana governor signs cruel bill forcing teachers to out trans kids to their parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/indiana-governor-anti-trans-name-pronouns-bill/

* "Kansas City Is Now Sanctuary City for Those Seeking Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sanctuary-city-transgender-kansas-city

* "Kansas City, Missouri becomes an LGBTQ sanctuary city:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/kansas-city-missouri-becomes-an-lgbtq-sanctuary-city-179736133598

* "San Francisco DA Defends Decision Not to Charge Black Trans Man's Killer:" https://www.advocate.com/news/black-transgender-man-killed-walgreens

* "Mum of disabled son blames anti-trans law for being refused entry to public toilet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/anti-trans-bathroom-bill-kansas-disabled-cisgender-son/

* "Florida Publix Refuses to Write 'Trans' on a Cake, Citing Company Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/business/publix-florida-trans-cake

* "Enraged parents call for boycott of school Pride Day assembly to keep kids ‘innocent’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/29/anti-lgbtq-parents-call-to-boycott-la-school-over-pride-day-assembly/

* "Lil Nas X mocks fragile right-wing backlash to Target Pride collection:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/lil-nas-x-target-pride-backlash/

* "LGBTQ+ anti-bullying group receives violent threats amid Target backlash: ‘Dangerous lies’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/29/glsen-target-fox-news/

* "Trans youth hold their own joy-filled prom after teen excluded from graduation:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/trans-youth-prom-washington-dc/

* "Bud Light truck drivers targeted with homophobic abuse: ‘Gay beer salesmen’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/bud-light-truck-drivers-homophobic-abuse/

* "LA Dodgers issue grovelling apology to drag act after uninviting them from Pride event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/la-dodgers-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-pride/

* "British Cycling’s new ‘open’ category will put trans athletes at ‘major disadvantage’, says former racer:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/british-cycling-trans-women-ban/

* "Gay & Bisexual Men Now Eligible to Donate Blood Under New FDA Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/health/gay-men-donate-blood-new

* "Blockbuster PrEP Lawsuit: Gilead Wins Over U.S. Government:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/prevention/blockbuster-prep-lawsuit-gilead-wins-over-u-s-government

* "New mpox cases found in UK: ‘The infection has not gone away’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/mpox-new-cases-uk-london/

* Regarding the abusiveness of ABA: https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/718451358139826176/i-thought-i-had-already-posted-this-here-but-it?source=share

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* "Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says:" https://apnews.com/article/earth-environment-climate-change-nature-sick-2dded06915af4645253f5c29abff4794

* "Disappearing lakes, dead crops and trucked-in water: Drought-stricken Spain is running dry:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/europe/spain-drought-catalonia-heat-wave-climate-intl/index.html

* "Eastern Canada's Halifax declares emergency over wildfire, shutting schools:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/eastern-canadas-halifax-declares-emergency-over-wildfire-2023-05-29/

* "Across Canada, tens of thousands have evacuated due to wildfires in recent weeks:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/31/1179241527/across-canada-tens-of-thousands-have-evacuated-due-to-wildfires-in-recent-weeks

* "Avalanche kills 11 members of nomadic tribe in northern Pakistan:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/avalanche-kills-11-members-nomadic-tribe-northern-pakistan-2023-05-27/

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* "Climate-fueled insurance crisis hits California:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2023/05/31/climate-fueled-insurance-crisis-hits-california-00082767

* "‘Murderers’ and ‘criminals’: Meteorologists face unprecedented harassment from conspiracy theorists:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/27/world/meteorologists-conspiracy-harassment-abuse-climate-intl/index.html

* "AI Deepfakes of True-Crime Victims Are a Waking Nightmare:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/true-crime-tiktok-ai-deepfake-victims-children-1234743895/

This needs to fucking go. It’s incredibly exploitative. It is bad enough to see sensationalist coverage of someone you love who was murdered. It is fucking creepy to see fictionalized and/or thinly veiled versions of a crime that lives forever in your head. This is beyond the pale.

Those poor families.

* I am grumpy that I now know what knotting is because of AI coverage.

* "Combating Global Animal Extinction with Clones and Frozen Sperm:"

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* "Ray Stevenson, Actor in ‘Punisher: War Zone,’ ‘RRR’ and ‘Thor’ Films, Dies at 58 :" https://variety.com/2023/film/people-news/ray-stevenson-dead-punisher-ahsoka-1235621641/

* We've been getting whiffs of the wildfire smoke now and then in other parts of town, but it only reached us here in the cat asylum before dawn of May 26. My lungs have been doing above average well this spring, and when the tree I'm particularly allergic to started mating in earnest earlier this week, it mostly meant a runny nose and a bit of extra itch.

I can already tell, the fire's changing that. I'm starting to gunk up, my eyes are itching, and the smoke is giving me a headache. The smell got really nasty around 8ish AM. We should have put the livingroom filter in, but we've had such good breeze out of Alaska through the weird little wind tunnel where I live, that I was putting it off so the cats could enjoy the open window.

Canada is burning, burning, burning, and the only Republican response is to try to force the repeal of the infrastructure Law's climate measures in debt negotiation.

* Thursday I woke up in bad shape. I've been off an on extreme pain for the last month, and it's pushing my body to it's limits. The arm attached to my damaged shoulder is my dominant one, and it was barely functioning and startlingly painful. I'm struggling with stupid stuff like rolling over in bed and pouring tea. I keep giving myself scalds and small burns because some cooking tasks need two hands doing separate things, and my arm shakes or randomly loses power for tiny intervals. This kind of pain fucks with sleep, and I end up losing hours hear and there because I got a phone call or went to pee and can't get back to sleep which adds more strain to the system.

My arm was doing this and I had the shakes. I woke up exhausted and couldn't go back to sleep after. When I eventually dragged myself out of my room, it was really clear staying up for the Friday morning cleaner was going to be a nightmare, but I did it, and got things done. The aggregate had not nearly all the things in it I wanted to put in, but it went out. I even managed to do a little TUMBLR post programming, which I'd barely managed anything of in the past week. I haven't been this far behind in over a year. I am, in fact, so far behind that my PRIDE Month programming started half a month early. Which is fine, but it means there is very little leeway for me. I kept being to tired to do it.

The cleaner had called Thursday night to ask if they could come early, to which I readily agreed. I picked the time I did on the grounds it would be hard to get anyone to fill an earlier slot. The time they said they'd come passed. No call. No cleaner. The official start time passed. no call, no cleaner. I didn't want to get them in trouble, but I was shaking even worse with pain and exhaustion and with forcing myself to stay up 3-4 hours after my body wanted to go to bed, and also I'd pulled my bedding apart because I needed the sheet changed and my damaged arms really can't do it anymore. (My non-dominant shoulder is also messed up, just not as badly, and the mattress is too heavy for arms that go limp if you push them.).

At twenty past the hour, I call returned the cleaner. No answer. Then I looked up the number for the agency, and left them a call me back. Around the half hour the cleaner got back to me sounding terrible and telling me they'd cancelled. Apparently this is when the Asshole Agency got back to me leaving a message saying they couldn't reach me with a long robot survey thing on the end. This is the only message on the answering service and had a time stamp matching the cleaner call.

I am now furious and frustrated to the point of tears. Why did no one call my to tell me of the cancellation, preferably before I took the bed apart half an hour before the official start time? Why did no one call me at all, leaving it to me to call around? what exactly is the procedure with a cancellation? Do they send someone else? Reschedule? How the fuck am I putting a fitted sheet back on that mattress so I can sleep? I can hear Squirrel snoring. If they had called even ten to fifteen minutes after expected start time to tell me no one was coming, I could have got Squirrel to help.

Insert cursing here.

I still needed a lung treatment and to stay up for forage delivery, so I called asshole agency again and set up a call back. I moved the phone to where I could reach. I set up a treatment. Tavy curled up for lung time on top of me. About half way through the phone panicked him and he clawed the shit out of me in the scramble for safety. Let us hope he hasn't given me yet another staph infection. (I'm pretty sure the sore on my outer thigh that won't heal from last week is another staph infection from his claws as the normal antibiotic cream does nothing). I still have the cream from the January staph infection and had just scaled up to it for the leg infection, so I'm doing the deeper claw marks on my stomach with it, because I really don't want more staph infections on my stomach and I can do it when I'm treating my leg.

Anyway, Asshole agency guy lied to my face that they repeated tried to contact me about the cancellation. I was sitting literally right next to the phone. The ringer is working. It never rang once except when the cleaner called back. They left no message about cancellation, only the one from when I was talking to the cleaner. If they'd tried to call and for some reason neither phone's ringer was working, the TV also puts a message announcing calls on screen which really fucking helps when the lung motor is going. He insisted it was a phone call and not a text. (I only have a landline, but people have trouble grasping that some people don't have text capability.) I can only conclude he lied about one or both of these things. Add white hot fury shaking to the my body is on the verge of cascade failure from being pushed to hard and being in too much pain for too long.

While I had him one the phone I did ask about if I could request the nice hard working cleaner from last week as a first choice. It is allowed apparently. I which there was some sort of instruction manual except for one poorly designed and probably deliberately uninformative web site. I have listed cool queer cleaner as preferred. I also now have answers about the rescheduling system.

Right at hang up they listed how many hours of service I have left for the year. (Things like this reset benefits at the end of the year without carry over). I did the math. I have two extra months of two hour service slots. Which will be great in the exhausting back half of the year, but which is concerning as hell for next year, because that is clearly not enough for a year of weekly two hour cleanings. O.o

But that is next year's problem.

By the time forage delivery came (right as lung time was finishing), and I'd sorted stuff and put away the perishables, and endured the torture of the fitted sheet replacement and putting the rest of the bed stuff back where it goes, I'd been up nearly as long as I would have been if a cleaner had come. I don't blame the cleaner who sounded genuinely awful on the phone. I do blame Asshole Agency. (The company name is so obnoxious and condescending and literally patronizing, that it makes me angry just thinking about it. It was no surprise at all that they exploit the shit out of the workers and lie about phone calls).

Last week cleaner said they were scheduled for next week. Assuming I haven't scared them off, that will be good.

* ....And no cleaner today. At least the Asshole Agendcy called. Twice. Once to reschedule later in the day; once to cancel. These were two of the seven phone calls in the five hour sleep period I had between deciding I was too tired to continue and the alarm for the second cleaner time. I actually missed the second call from Asshole Agency, as The call before them was one of those invasive mandatory health surveys they force Medicare people to do. This wasn't the actual medicare annual harrassment, but the agency the medical social workers work for. So that ate an hour of sleep between that and the not being able to get back to sleep after and then having to get up to sort out the laundry and forage box situation. I didn't think to check messages until the cleaner turned up late. I've tried rescheduling for Tuesday. at least Asshole agency was answering the phone.

I know it's generally considered reasonable and normal to wake up a disabled person in extreme pain six times in a five hour sleep, but I resent it so much. Especially today when even lying still in the safest position the pain was unbearable and trying to ewalk a dangerous nightmare. Plus, you know, my shoulder joint also being a trip to hell all by itself. I had to give in and take a stronger pain pill, always a risky prospect given how I respond to them. At least they all let me sleep after I finished with asshole agency.

Tavy jumping on my head from the upper shelf, where he is not allowed to be, was the blood icing on the pain cake, as he clawed the shit out of my scalp when he landed, and scalp wounds are famously bloody. I had no one to help clean the wounds and ended up getting rubbing alcohol in my eye, mostly becusse my arms are barely working just like my legs right now. He's a tiny terror, but his weight dropped from that height onto my head did not improve my headache either. It took three hours more to get everyone fed and my own dinner made.

This is all way too hard.

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

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* I'm still chugging along with the Babylon 5 movies as of this writing. I finished River of souls and moved on to the extras and JMS said something about the central dilemma of the movie that I think was wrong. I mean, yes, there is a debate built in to the Soul Hunter scenario, around what happens after you die, but he's missed the forest for the trees.

The actual debate is simpler than he thinks. The question is not, are the Soul Hunters right about their being no afterlife or reincarnation or what have you. No. The central issue is Consent.

Did the person being Collected consent to being collected? The answer is a pretty resounding no in both the original Soul Hunter episode and this one. The Membari did not consent to having the souls of their notables stolen. They resisted violently the attempt to steal the soul of Dukat. The Souls stolen in the original Soul hunter episode emphatically did not consent. The planet of souls stolen in River of Souls are furious about their imprisonment. The souls are capable of expressing consent or lack thereof, but the Soul Hunters didn't ask them.

It does not matter one whit if there is an after life or reincarnation or nothing at all. Even if the Soul hunters are correct that there is nothing after death in the objective sense, they are still not heroes saving people. They could ask the people they collect if they do or don't want eternal life in a whisper gallery. If they don't, imprisonment is cruel and unusual punishment on an unimaginable scale. If they do want it? Totally fine.

The thing is a character actually brings up that imprisonment against ones will for a million years or possibly forever is a pretty good definition of hell. characters definitely confront the soul Hunter with the consent issue.

It's textual. Death of the author and all that. I think JMS got distracted by the more theological debate and missed the underlying theme in his own work because he's so close to it. It happens. This is not remotely an attack on JMS. One of the many, many things I love about B5 is how important consent and free will are thematically to the whole series, whether you're talking Vorlons and Shadows, or Psy Corps vs. Rogues, or Centauri vs. Narns, or Fascism vs.Sheridan's and Mars's resistance, or individual episodes, like the one with the child that needed surgery or the plague episode or Epsilon 5 or Sinclair and B4 and tons of other things.

B5 is good anti-fascist and anti-colonialist science fiction because it asks hard questions about ethics and theology and government, but never ever lets go of that central championing of consent and free will. It can have all this ethical and cultural complexity because it's built on a foundation of resistance to the people trying to steal the choices away, and it never ever sides with people saying my choice is the only right one for you, even if you like the person trying to imposed their choice on someone else, even if you as an audience member thinks the choice being made is the wrong one.

I fucking love this show. I'll never stop being angry that season 4 ended up too dense because of cancellation, leaving season 5 a bit light. I'll never not be furious Crusade got cancelled after one season. Wear their flaws and problems? Hell yes, but it's still the best TV made in the '90's as far as I'm concerned. (I loved other shows from the '90's deeply, especially the brilliant Deep space Nine, but B5 wins. It just does).

It is heartbreaking that the generations after mine have mostly forgotten it or never have heard of it.

* Van Helsing gives; Dracula takes: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/718338134745677824/i-like-the-contrast-to-pointed-out-with-the-loving?source=share

* "Jonathan Harker and Doomed Bride imagery:" https://www.tumblr.com/anony-geist/718672560043311104/jonathan-harker-and-doomed-bride-imagery-lenore?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: What a Deal:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/718958767502491648/midnight-pals-what-a-deal?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.

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

* A resistance website for organizing and publicizing anti-censorship pro-education etc. rallies/protests/walkouts. "Walkout2learn:" https://www.walkout2learn.org/

* New Indivisible Guide! "A Practical Guide to defeating MAG:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* A very old friend and all around stand up guy wrote this. "Safest Family on the Block: 101 Tips, Tricks, Habits, and Hacks to Protect Your Family at Home, at School, and in the World:" https://www.amazon.com/Safest-Family-Block-Tricks-Protect-ebook/dp/B0C4JZ1QRX

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

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* 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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* Every time they claim they are ‘illegal aliens” remember that the Rohingya have been there since the 12th century. "Rohingya children among 19 dead, more than 50 missing after boat capsizes near Bangladesh:" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-29/rohingya-children-among-15-dead-after-boat-capsizes-bangladesh/8999552

* "Exclusive: Russians Impersonated Real American Muslims to Stir Chaos on Facebook and Instagram:" http://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-russians-impersonated-real-american-muslims-to-stir-chaos-on-facebook-and-instagram

* "Extra Trump inauguration money shrouded in mystery:"

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* "Trump pitches tax cuts for rich as Puerto Rico languishes:"

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* Remember 45 bragging about how much money he saved by not properly staffing FEMA and how much better off we are as a result and how he congratulated himself about the great job he is doing for Puerto Rica in this crisis? Is anyone surprised that he is making W. and "Heckofajob Brownie" look competent by comparison? "Puerto Rico Mayors Cry for Help: ‘They Should Know Better!’:" http://www.thedailybeast.com/puerto-ricos-mayors-forced-to-drive-hours-to-san-juan-and-beg-for-help

* "U.S. Army Takes Over Massive Mission to Save Puerto Rico:" http://www.thedailybeast.com/us-army-takes-over-massive-mission-to-save-puerto-rico

* "Trump’s Belated Jones Act Waiver for PR Is A Sham, Here’s Why :" https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/09/28/trumps-belated-jones-act-waiver-for-pr-is-a-sham-heres-why/

* "State not requiring Puerto Rico evacuees to pay transportation costs:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/352824-trump-administration-forcing-puerto-rico-evacuees-to-pay-for

* "Kushner didn't tell senators about email account:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/politics/jared-kushner-personal-email-account-senate-intelligence/

* Price is only paying a tiny fraction of the taxpayer money he wasted because of his laziness and sense of entitlement. He needs to pay back every penny. "Price says he’ll repay taxpayers for his private jet travel:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/28/tom-price-private-charter-flights-reimburse-243267

* How strongly are Republicans in favor of Russian intelligence picking our elected officials instead of letting voters do it? Glad you asked. "Republicans to put Russian bank lawyer in coveted DoJ position:"

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* "CT Sen. Murphy reacts to Roy Moore's Newtown comments:"

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* The Republican Tax plan raises taxes on the working poor so they can lower taxes for the 1%. It is expected to cut 45's taxes personally by at least 10s of millions of dollars every year and likely 1.1 billion dollars over all. Republicans insist that it is unfair that minimum wage workers who need multiple jobs for subsistence only pay a quarter of their pay checks in taxes, whereas the very rich are paying a much as 10 or 12% in taxes after deductions, which is completely unfair since the rich shouldn't have to pay at all and minimum wage workers don't deserve the pittance they are inexplicably allowed to keep and therefore the damage to the economy this tax bill will do is worth it to give the rich much needed relief and to justly punish the poor for choosing not to be born with trust funds.

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* "Honduran Trans Woman Running For Seat In Honduran Congress:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/09/honduran-trans-woman-running-for-seat.html

* How Australia teaches young Children consent: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/165762463060/turtle-pride-ofthemoonandsea-i-want-to-get#notes

* In honor of the Gothmas season. "The Real Dracula: Vlad the Impaler:" https://www.livescience.com/40843-real-dracula-vlad-the-impaler.html

* "Corporate Consolidation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Alabama Votes for Trumpism Without Trump:"

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* "Ugandan Parliament Turns Into Fight Club:"

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* "It's Time to Pay Back Puerto Rico:"

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* "Trump Performs a Tax Miracle (Allegedly):"

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* "DeRay Mckesson - Talking About Justice Wherever We Can:"

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* "'Lock Her Up' Now Applies To Some Trump Officials:"

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* "Graham-Cassidy: The Latest TrumpCare Fail:"

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* Last night I had a dream that ended with Student/Teacher mutual cannibalism. (That bite to the kidney really hurt). The narrator ended with, "Not long after, the anti-depressant was recalled do to several unfortunate "Incidents" involving patients in a fugue state. God my brain is a weird place.

* Cersei Lannister's Finances: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/165851537767/do-you-think-that-littlefingers-financial-house

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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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* How to help Flood victims in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165235609582/woke-up-on-derse-f-f-f-fight

"How to Help Puerto Rico from the outside:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165733774359/how-to-help-puerto-rico-from-the-outside

* How to help Caribbean victims of Irma: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165240981876/hedaclara-hedaclara-hedaclara-guys-the

* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html

* "Disaster Relief and Support for Libraries:" http://www.txla.org/news/2017/08/disaster-relief-and-support-for-libraries

* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn

* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide

* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633

* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets

* List of places to donate to help trans service members and fight the planned attack on active duty trans soldiers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/163475550346/moonbian-hey-i-know-reblogging-posts-about-how

* Red Cross is taking donations for Western Wildfire Relief: http://www.redcross.org/local/oregon/ways-to-donate/wildfires

* (This is here as a reminder to me for later). "Can you recommend me some good books, essays, etc. about witches, witchcraft, witch trials in England?:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164664427028/dear-pauline-can-you-recommend-me-some-good

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

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

* "California Becomes First State To Make Sexual Consent Lessons Mandatory In High Schools Beginning Next Year:" http://www.ischoolguide.com/articles/28325/20151006/california-state-sexual-consent-lessons-mandatory-high.htm

* "A Woman Was Threatened With Handcuffs After She Refused to Remove Her Hijab in a Library:" http://mic.com/articles/138969/a-woman-was-threatened-with-handcuffs-after-she-refused-to-remove-her-hijab-in-a-library?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.nzqPvCpTX

* O.o! "Historically Authentic Sexism," got a "Useful" and a reblog from Ellen Kushner! No wonder there's been a ton of activity! Just under 500 notes in the last few days. O.o

* Tavy spent the rest of the night exploring and running back for attention. Eventually, squirrel let LM out and there was much excitement. You see, my bed, the sofa, the cat cave, my chair, and the pouf are all non-conflict zones. That means first come first serve seating and people are not allowed to fight there. (I do allow a hiss and a bat in situations where a cat has been startled or another cat accidentally jumps on or encroaches on the other cat). Outside of the limited self defense clause, the rule is very strictly enforced. LM knows this. She knows crossing me over this means she will lose. So there were a series of sporadic encounters with her trying to scare him out of common areas and him mostly resisting my running to a different common area segment. In one of the lulls, he was on the pouf for pettins when she spotted him there and was outraged! Only she knows better than to go after him there. He of course has no idea he's on the equivalent of a base in baseball. So I give him support, making sure she saw that I as clowder head, think he has a right to be there. So she sat and growled at a distance, until she got bored and wandered off. he thought he'd won, and made an exploratory foray into her room, before darting off to do more sniffing about the living room. He tried it again later and must have run into her, as he was out like a shot seconds later and off to my room. By the end of the night he was running to hide in the cat cave or on the pouf next to me when there was conflict, complaining vociferously to me about the world in general, and periodically demanding I pick him up for a cuddle and purr. Seriously, he's already a cuddle monster.

I think he's going to be just fine.

* "The Economics of Westeros:" http://www.tastefullyoffensive.com/2016/03/the-economics-of-westeros.html

* The Crash Course Philosophy series is hard for me. I was a Philosophy monk for just over two years and there is a reason I dropped out and moved west. Oh, I learned a lot there, one way or another, more outside class than in, and it was a necessary step to me ending up where I needed to be, but a lot of bad shit went down there and some of it left scars. Trauma is far too strong a word, especially when you compare it to the nearly a decade of my Grim little war that proceeded it. Joy said something like, "St. John's wasn't kind to you." It certainly was not. It wasn't just the bullshit with admin that lead to us having to threaten a discrimination lawsuit, using the the letter they sent threatening me with housing discrimination to punish me for wanting them to turn the heat on in my half of the dorm in Winter (There was heat on the other side of the hall and other buildings. Meanwhile, our toilets would freeze overnight and we had to pile all our clothes on the bed for warmth), or them turning off the water for weeks at a time but refusing to give us portapotties, or the endless rounds of me generally getting the short end of the stick educationally, or the creepy ass prof who openly wanted to fuck me in a way that made everyone else in that particular mandatory class hate me while I waited for the inevitable point he'd push far enough I'd have to refuse at which point he would pretty clearly turn on me (We were not allowed to change classes), and all the other official bullshit of which these are tip of the iceberg examples. There was a lot of incredibly ugly stuff that went on privately as well. Again, It's not as bad as nearly a decade of institutional abuse punctuated by psychiatric abuse. It's not as bad as that biker gang putting us on trial my senior year for how we loved. Way worse things had happened to me than my first college could level, but going from one incredibly abusive educational institution to a second slightly less abusive educational institution was likely not ideal. Add in things like being ostracized by nearly everybody my second year because of some things beyond my control, or that guy that was mutilating animals and turned out to be a rapist who managed to convince people I'd done it despite having clear alibis (part of how I got ostracized. The animal mutilation, not the raping, which didn't come to light until he was gone), or the two year slow car crash relationship where Vaneleanor like we couldn't leave each other the fuck alone like sensible folk, so we'd get sucked into each other's orbit periodically and hurt each other good before careening off again, or the upper classman stalker I could do nothing about, or a million other bits of ugly that made up my experience of that place and time. A person doesn't have a recurrent nightmare for literal decades that they have in a fit of what really only could be madness, re-enrolled at my first college. It's not a fear of being unprepared for school dreams, which aren't a thing for me. (I am rl really good at faking tests on topics I know little to nothing about. They are amusing challenges to me, not anxiety producing things.) It is a dream of being trapped on the wrong cost in that place and it's endless escherlike circular logic and hypocrisy, the dreariness of always knowing what everyone is going to say because everything has been chewed and rechewed so often that there is nothing new to think or say.

I used to love philosophy. I can do philosophy type things when I need to and did repeatedly at my second and third college when I needed to, but I stopped enjoying it, despite have a brain that tends to enjoy things like formal logic, much as my school as a child did everything possible to make me hate math despite my brain really enjoying doing things like geometry and algebra. (I have often described the school where I went K-12 as a massive aversion therapy program for math). To me, philosophy is like being stuck in quicksand, endlessly sucking one down into suffocating darkness and the more one struggles the more trapped one is.

I am watching them anyway. It's good for me to have a refresher and Crash course is coming at it from an entirely different angle. Also, one of the deals I made with myself long ago, is to periodically do desensitization when I can and am up to it. They are small doses, after all. they don't actually hurt. It's just watching them, there is always a piece of me flailing about for fear of being sucked into a bog I escaped two and a half decades ago.

For the record, I know St. John's was good for a whole lot of people. It just happened to be unhealthy for me.

* "Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello -- The Devil Went Down to Georgia (on Bassoon):"

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* Zimbabwe has joined Ethiopia in disaster level drought People and animals are dying. Want to help? https://www.wfp.org/help

* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan

* Want to help finance my meds/medical co pays? Paypal [email protected]

* Donate to help refugees: http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

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

* "Teen Atheist Facing Three Years in Prison for “Wounding Religious Feelings” Online:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/06/20/teen-atheist-facing-three-years-in-prison-for-wounding-religious-feelings-online/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

* "What If We Treated All Consent Like Society Treats Sexual Consent:" http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/06/how-society-treats-consent/?utm_source=SocialWarfare&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare

* "Claim details why family faults Wichita police in Marine veteran’s shooting death:" http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article24677797.html

* "Read Michael Brown Sr.'s Emotional Father's Day Letter:" http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a35864/read-michael-brown-srs-emotional-fathers-day-letter/?src=spr_TWITTER&spr_id=1456_198910633

* "Why I Can’t Forgive Dylann Roof:" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/opinion/why-i-cant-forgive-dylann-roof.html?_r=1

* "Transparent Policing: Law Targets Anti-Trans Harassment :" http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/transgender-malia-cohen-police-sfpd-profiling/Content?oid=3747348

* We have joined the ranks of countries with Marriage Equality. Finally. First canada, then Mexico, now us!

* "High court finds gay couples have fundamental right to marry :" http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_GAY_MARRIAGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-06-26-10-09-45

* "Transgender woman on personal woes:" http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-23277-Transgender+woman+on+personal+woes/news.aspx

* "Youths create trouble at transgender colony:" http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/youths-create-trouble-at-transgender-colony/article7344270.ece

* "Black Trans couples share their inspiring love stories:" http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2015/06/24/black-trans-couples-share-their-inspiring-love-stories/

* "'Passing to Survive,' a Transgender Latina Talks About Life on the Fringe:" http://www.ryot.org/passing-survive-transgender-woman-seen-two-different-people-society/936222

* "Inside A Dallas Clinic For Transgender Kids:" http://keranews.org/post/inside-dallas-clinic-transgender-kids

* "The Invisibles: Moving Vintage Photos of LGBT Couples in the Early 20th Century
by Maria Popova:" http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/19/the-invisibles-sebastien-lifshitz/?utm_content=bufferb7b36&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

* "O'Blivious - Bill O'Reilly's All-White Debate on Racism:"

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* "Popeular Science:"

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* "Flagdance:"

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* "Sext Message Errors:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/122541708370/butlerbookbinding-missmho-stucky-sext

* Ebay Time:
AUTUMN FANCIES 2013 (LE, Halloweenies): (Company says: Dry grasses bathed in amber light, muted by gentle shadows.) Top of label.:http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301667294922?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

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

* My RL oldest continuous friend is doing a fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/x9g7q2k

* Trying to stay afloat until August: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or [email protected]

* They believe the catastrophe in Quebec was caused by sabotage. The are still looking for people, but five are confirmed dead and many of the survivors have lost everything when the town burned. You can reach the Canadian Red cross here to donate: http://www.redcross.ca/who-we-are/contact-us/quebec

* There has been the largest bombing in Lebanon in years in a Hezbollah controlled area of Beirut. It sounds like fifteen wounded. There is a lot of finger pointing going on, and I am not sure what is most credible.

* Ron and Rand Paul's White Supremacist problem is a general GOP problem as well:

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* The GOP stands in the way of enforcement of laws to help workers and consumers because they hate people who work for a living just that much:

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* Civilization crumbling away in Detroit as we aren't willing to pay for basic services:

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* The War on Women Continues:

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* "Revealed, the house-proud Neanderthals:" http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/revealed-the-house-proud-neanderthals-1.1542483#.Udysl21nB_Q

* This needs more substantiation, but it could lead to a major revision of human origins within Africa: http://phys.org/news/2013-07-dawn-trees-cradle-disease.html

* "Medieval tower and paintings discovered by Polish archaeologists in Sudan:" http://www.naukawpolsce.pap.pl/en/news/news,396057,medieval-tower-and-paintings-discovered-by-polish-archaeologists-in-sudan.html

* It makes me sad he killed it. "Man catches 200-year-old fish in Alaska:" http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/07/200-year-old-fish-rockfish-alaska/

* I know I recently told someone about the Killer Rabbit, but I'm not sure which of you it was. In any case, here is the Straight Dope's version. "What was the deal with Jimmy Carter and the killer rabbit?:" http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/950/what-was-the-deal-with-jimmy-carter-and-the-killer-rabbit

* "New Abortion Restrictions Reignite Culture Wars:" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/07/new-abortion-restrictions-reignite-culture-wars.html

* On ruling party politics, "A Bad Dream:" http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/07/a-bad-dream.html

* "Dallas Observer LBGT Movers And Shakers List Has No Trans, Bi Or Lesbian People On It:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/07/dallas-observer-lbgt-movers-and-shakers.html

* "Brazil's Transwomen Are Catching Hell:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/07/brazils-transwomen-are-catching-hell.html

* "Still Aiming Higher:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/07/still-aiming-higher.html

* "I Repeat: White People Doing Blackface Drag Is Not Acceptable, Period!:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/07/i-repeat-white-people-doing-blackface.html

* I am not okay with gendered food. I have never been okay with gendered food. "The Weird New World of Girl Cheese:" http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/07/03/the-weird-new-world-of-girl-cheese/

* "Costumes are not consent. What does that mean for you?" http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/520130.html

* "11 Harsh Realities About The World Of Harry Potter:" http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/harsh-realities-about-the-world-of-harry-potter

* Armie Hammer persists in sounding like someone's porn name to me.

* Greenwick found, "I saw The Lone Ranger so you don’t have to:" http://nativeappropriations.com/2013/07/i-saw-the-lone-ranger-so-you-dont-have-to.html

* "Steampunk Watch Part Sculptures:" http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/07/steampunk-watch-part-sculptures-by-sue-beatrice/

* My Scented Home Products Circular Swap is looking for people to sign up: http://www.bpal.org/topic/81082-summer-scented-home-products-circular-swap/

* The Clutch: