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* As has been the case since January, the sort may be a little rough. News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

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* "Israel redraws Gaza map, limiting Palestinians to a third of the enclave:" https://archive.ph/5eN2N

* "Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 12 overnight in Gaza, including kids:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-airstrikes-latest-0f9a737e82458cf2e74259adab530749

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* "Ukraine, US sign minerals deal sought by Trump:" https://archive.ph/WVRyL

* "Russian drone attack kills two, injures 15 in Ukraine's Odesa:" https://archive.ph/7AozJ

* "Russian troops try to advance in Ukraine's Sumy region, governor says:" https://archive.ph/WmIdU

* "Russians fighting more intensely despite ceasefire talk, Ukrainian commander says:" https://archive.ph/3Tsny

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* "More than a dozen killed in sectarian clashes near Syrian capital:" https://archive.ph/Ekp9J

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* "Georgian police raid homes of activists providing financing to anti-government protesters:" https://archive.ph/IOumz

* "European court tells Serbia to ‘prevent the use of sonic weapons’ after protesters’ claims at rally:" https://apnews.com/article/serbia-sonic-weapon-human-rights-court-30de60760590703a457a896239e886e9

* "Serbian students, unions join forces six months into mass protest campaign:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250501-serbian-students-unions-join-forces-for-anti-corruption-protest

* "Black Sea may hold back world wheat supplies into 2026:" https://archive.ph/tDVpb

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* "The Senate votes down resolution to block Trump’s global tariffs amid economic turmoil:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-economy-7f81370d120d9529a354d2a4db32a7e5

* "Trump shrugs off shortage fears: Kids may get 'two dolls instead of 30’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-shrugs-off-shortage-fears-kids-may-get-two-dolls-instead-of-30-238666821858

* "Trump claims he 'could' have Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the U.S. His administration has said otherwise.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-claims-kilmar-abrego-garcia-returned-us-administration-said-othe-rcna203734

* "SOS: Migrants held in Texas fear notorious El Salvador prison:" https://archive.ph/JgmYi

* "‘Hands off our neighbors’: Protestors gather in Evansville after day of ICE raids:" https://www.14news.com/2025/04/30/hands-off-our-neighbors-protestors-gather-evansville-after-day-ice-raids/

* "Trump Administration’s ICE Immigration Raids Have Dairy Farmers on Edge:" https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/04/trump-administrations-ice-immigration-raids-have-dairy-farmers-on-edge/

* "Active duty military caught in immigration raid at makeshift night club in Colorado Springs, no criminal charges filed:" https://www.cpr.org/2025/04/28/colorado-springs-immigration-raid-no-charges/

* "He was sent to El Salvador; she was sent to Venezuela. Their 2-year-old is still in the US:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/el-salvador-venezuela-2-year-us/story?id=121296196

* "FAMILY SEPARATION upon Deportation; 40,000 Pets Reunified:"

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* "Homeland Security admits Oklahoma raid targeted wrong people:" https://kfor.com/news/local/homeland-security-admits-oklahoma-raid-targeted-wrong-people/

* "Protests erupt as border czar Tom Homan visits Rochester:" https://13wham.com/news/local/protests-erupt-as-white-house-border-czar-tom-homan-visits-rochester-police-locust-club-union-immigration-traffic-stop-trump-administration

* "'I am not afraid of you,' Columbia student says of Trump after release from ICE:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-columbia-student-detained-ice-seek-release-case/story?id=121317902

* "ICE Goes After US-Born Children:"

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* "'Historic debacle': Trump sets new standard for poor presidential performance; Americans displeased:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-historic-debacle-trump-sets-new-standard-for-poor-presidential-performance-americans-displeased-238684229542

* This terrifies me. "‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State:" https://archive.ph/aFMlT

* "Real mission of DOGE seen in new insights on federal data and privacy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/real-mission-of-doge-seen-in-new-insights-on-federal-data-and-privacy-238682181934

* "US CDC cancels science group workshop on preventing human bird flu infections:" https://archive.ph/KmB0Y

* "In visit to Texas, RFK Jr. said autism, diabetes deserve more attention than measles:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/29/texas-measles-robert-kennedy-autism/

It would be so much cheaper to just vaccinate people with measles then to let them get measles. It would also cut down on things like long term health effects, measles related disabilities, and children dying.

I'm not against diabetes research. I'm just saying we could have both.

Re Autism Disinformation from RFK Jr.: https://www.tumblr.com/hyperlexichypatia/781765301357379584?source=sha

* "The US has nearly 900 measles cases, and 10 states have active outbreaks. Here's what to know:" https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/measles-outbreaks-what-to-know/507-958f9508-c77b-474e-bae5-d0b1a960e9b6

* "Measles jumps borders in North America with outbreaks in Canada, Mexico and US:" https://apnews.com/article/measles-texas-mexico-canada-ontario-0956a30c043b030ae79bc9f67c6ce89c

* "‘Insane’: Workers who protect coal miners face termination thanks to DOGE:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-insane-workers-who-protect-coal-miners-face-termination-thanks-to-doge-238668869911

* "Can the Trump administration intervene on Colorado’s new gun-control law? Republicans hope so.:" https://www.denverpost.com/2025/04/17/colorado-gun-control-law-pam-bondi-legislature/

* "US, Kari Lake Must Disburse $12 Million to Radio Free Europe:" https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/us-kari-lake-must-disburse-12-million-to-radio-free-europe

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* "List of USA protests today:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3623856.html

I would like to thank all those protesting today!

* "Financial Services Republicans approve CFPB cuts for GOP megabill:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/30/congress/financial-services-republicans-approve-cfpb-cuts-for-gop-megabill-00320143

* RE: SAVE ACT "Do This Today: Call Senators:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2036106.html

If these are your Sewnators, please stop what you are doing and call now:

KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)

* This one is a super dangerous attack on the judiciary's ability to protect citizen's rights. "H.R. 1526: NORRA of 2025:" https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr1526

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

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

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

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

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

Some semi-organized snail mail campaigns:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

Script to complain about Elon Musk/DOGE. I also suggest contacting your AG about data privacy. "Introducing Red State Scripts, Vol. 1:" https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2025/02/10/introducing-red-state-scripts-vol-1/

* This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

* "The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

* "Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

* Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

* Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

* Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

* How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

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

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

* "ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

* Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

* Free Bystander training amoung other useful things. "Right to Be Training:" https://righttobe.org/upcoming-free-trainings/

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* " In ‘Partisan Effort to Steal a Seat on the Supreme Court,’ Ruling Gives GOP Control of NC Election Board:" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-court-state-election-board-republican-control/

* "Illinois governor says don’t blame trans kids for losses by ‘do-nothing Democrats’ in fiery speech:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jb-pritzker-defends-trans-kids

* "Wide-ranging crackdown on abortion pills passes Texas Senate:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/29/texas-senate-abortion-pill-bill/

* "Missouri Senate committee advances reinstating statewide abortion ban:" https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-04-30/missouri-senate-committee-advances-reinstating-statewide-abortion-ban

* "Poland's last 'LGBTQ-free zone' is no more:" https://www.advocate.com/news/poland-lgbtq-free-zone-abolished

* "Spokane City Council passes measure protecting LGBTQ+ rights and gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/spokane-washington-lgbtq-ordinance

* "Bacteria use ancient war trick to outsmart viruses—and it could help us fight superbugs:" https://phys.org/news/2025-04-bacteria-ancient-war-outsmart-viruses.html

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* "How 50 years of climate change has changed the face of the 'Blue Marble' from space:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-how-50-years-of-climate-change-has-changed-the-face-of-the-blue-marble

* "Countries agree to global carbon tax on shipping, opposed by Trump:" https://archive.ph/uYefp

* "Almost half of Americans are now exposed to unhealthy air pollution:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/air-quality-climate-change

* "Severe weather brings deadly storms and flash flooding across swath of U.S.:" https://archive.ph/0PMAQ

* "Myanmar quake: Ongoing aftershocks spread fear:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/04/1162711

* "Myanmar Earthquake Relief:" https://www.myanmarearthquakehelp.com/en/donate

* "Native Village of Tyonek, 40 miles from Mount Spurr, prepares for potential eruption:" https://alaskapublic.org/news/public-safety/2025-04-29/native-village-of-tyonek-40-miles-from-mount-spurr-prepares-for-potential-eruption

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* "Managing Our Forests Better:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JGNEdVhBw3w

* "Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing :" https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/

* "A Researcher Found Hidden Messages on an Obelisk. They Weren’t Meant for Ordinary Eyes.:" https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64565606/hidden-messages-obelisk/

* "Medieval tapestry’s penis count remains a bone of contention:" https://www.popsci.com/science/medieval-tapestry-controversy/

* "Selling Your Wife At Market: The London History Show:"

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* "The Unhinged Trials of Oscar Wilde:"

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* "The First Cat Memes: History of Cats 3 | World History | Extra History:"

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* "77 Colorized Images That Show The Roaring Twenties As It Truly Was:" https://allthatsinteresting.com/1920s-colorizations

* "These 27 new LGBTQ+ movies & TV shows are heating up May:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/upcoming-movies-tv-shows-lgbtq#rebelltitem1

* "Why Do I Love These VICIOUS Queens?:"

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* "What's the Difference Between Art & Design?:"

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* "Who Gets to Be a "Real" Artist? (Amateur & Outsider Art): Crash Course Art History #13:"

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* "How a Banana Sold for $150,000 : Modern Art:"

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* "Why Is Art So Expensive?:"

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* "True Facts: The Bizarre Magic of Water Walkers:"

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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.

* "United States Disappeared Tracker:" https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

* "Nationwide Economic Blackout: Boycott Dates for Target, Amazon, Others:" https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-economic-blackout-boycott-dates-target-amazon-others-2037986

* "Introducing Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network:" https://aflcio.org/2025/4/16/introducing-rise-federal-workers-legal-defense-network

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* News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

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* "Why Israel's having some of its biggest protests since the war in Gaza began:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339490/israel-protests-netanyahu-hostages-gaza-war

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* "Russian strike kills 14, including six children in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine says:" https://archive.ph/YhVc3

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* "Labor accuses Dutton of copying Trump with suggestion children being ‘indoctrinated’ at school:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/01/labor-dutton-trump-comparison-doge-school-curriculum

Please don't follow us into the dark, Australia.

* "Elections watchdog warned AI presents 'high' risk in current campaign: internal documents:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ai-elections-rules-1.7499383

* "Canada election debates will see these 5 party leaders participate:" https://globalnews.ca/news/11110269/canada-election-leaders-debates-lineup-qualify/

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* "Iran wants indirect talks with US, warns regional countries over strikes against it:" https://archive.ph/YISOu

* "Rep. Balint: Trump wants to 'flex his muscles as the tough guy' with threats against Iran, Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-balint-trump-wants-to-flex-his-muscles-as-the-tough-guy-with-threats-against-iran-russia-235823685542

* "Exclusive: Trump preparing executive order to increase weapons exports, sources say:" https://archive.ph/8eVEY

* "See Trump’s list: More than 180 countries and territories facing reciprocal tariffs:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-countries-chart-imports-united-states.html

* "US slaps 26% tariff on India amid ongoing bilateral trade talks:" https://archive.ph/7EdpD

* "China urges US to immediately lift tariffs, vows retaliation:" https://archive.ph/AIYKX

* "Trump tariffs pile stress on ailing world economy:" https://archive.ph/WTPAM

* "Dow futures tumble over 800 points on fear Trump’s tariffs will spark trade war: Live updates:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/stock-market-today-live-updates-trump-tariffs.html

* "US Senate passes bill aimed at stopping Trump tariffs on Canada:" https://archive.ph/udQis

Unfortunately, Mike Johnson is blocking it in the House because that is how much Republicans hate America and how much Republicans want to destroy our economy, probably for generations because of all the trading partners (and islands entirely inhabited by penguins) we have burned.

Everyone who ever told you Republicans are good on the economy was LYING to YOU.

That was last true when Nixon was President.

Ever since Reagan, I've watched Republicans crash the economy over and over, and Democrats start to repair the damage, then have Republicans voted in and yet again crash the economy.

It's what they do. They suck money out of the pockets of ordinary people while giving tax cuts to the very richest and making decisions that harm everyone but a handful of billionaires.

This time they broke the economy, the government, and Democracy, things they've been vowing to do since I was born.

They could literally stop the Trump tariff destruction TODAY but backing the Senate on ending Trump's authority to destroy the American economy by rescinding Trump's emergency declaration that gives him the Authority to do this to us.

IF YOU HAVE A REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE in THE HOUSE, CALL THEM NOW.

Make the phones ring off the hooks. I am begging you. Every hour that passes the harder it is to fix.

Here is a script for calling Congress Critters on tariffs: https://www.tumblr.com/errorschacha/779843646911643648?source=share

* "Top Republican leads bill to reassert Congress’ tariff power amid Trump trade war:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/03/congress/top-republican-leads-bill-to-reassert-congress-tariff-power-amid-trump-trade-war-00268710

There is now one for all the Tariffs in the Senate, so call your Senator NOW!

* "Trump Goes Crazy on Trade:" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-goes-crazy-on-trade

* "Trump's targets for 'reciprocal' tariffs include uninhabited islands but exclude Russia and Iran:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-targets-reciprocal-tariffs-include-uninhabited-islands-exclude/story?id=120445283

* "Launching the Economic Version of the Iraq War.:" https://fallows.substack.com/p/launching-the-economic-version-of

* "Will Malignant Stupidity Kill the World Economy?:" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-kill-the

* "President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc:" https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/04/03/president-trumps-mindless-tariffs-will-cause-economic-havoc

* "A third global recession in 20 years looms:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-cause-recession

* "It's the end of the world's economic order as we know it:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-canada-europe-allies

* "China hits back at Trump with 34% tariff on U.S. imports:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-hits-back-trump-34-tariff-us-imports-rcna199665

* "‘This Could Get Much Uglier’: The Fatal Flaw in Trump’s Trade War:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-manufacturing-confusion-00267945

* "Dow plunges 2,000 as sell-off for markets slams into a scarier gear following Trump’s tariffs:" https://apnews.com/article/market-rates-trump-tariffs-d86db525c370e9da834e6dfb76e23b86

* "‘Worst case scenario’ Hayes says Trump is waterboarding the U.S. economy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-worst-case-scenario-hayes-says-trump-is-waterboarding-the-u-s-economy-236286533786

* "Needless economic pain from Trump not even worth it if his tariff gambit works: Economist:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/needless-economic-pain-from-trump-not-even-worth-it-if-his-tariff-gambit-works-economist-236488261814

* "Lack of answers from Trump on tariff game plan leaves investors uneasy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lack-of-answers-from-trump-on-tariff-game-plan-leaves-investors-uneasy-236491333583

* And for bonus stupid that explains so much... "Critics suspect Trump’s weird tariff math came from chatbots:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/critics-suspect-trumps-weird-tariff-math-came-from-chatbots/

* "Trump is 'steering the Titanic towards the iceberg,' says CNBC reporter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-is-steering-the-titanic-towards-the-iceberg-says-cnbc-reporter-236596805514

* "The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-ridiculous-real-story-behind-the-tariff-plan-that-turned-donald-trump-into-a-global-disaster-236611653893

* "Amazon’s last-minute bid for TikTok comes as a US ban on the platform is set to take effect Saturday:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-amazon-bytedance-china-us-ban-19f62e2dba637a0d1a0b41102a2f351f

* Trump is openly disrespected our fallen soldiers again. "Trump Skips Honoring Soldiers Killed in Lithuania to Watch Golf:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-skips-transfer-soldiers-killed-lithuania-liv-golf-1235310901/

* "Donald Trump blows off dignified transfer of fallen U.S. soldiers for golf events:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/donald-trump-blows-off-dignified-transfer-of-fallen-u-s-soldiers-for-golf-events-236615749688

* "Appeals Court clears the way for Musk, DOGE to resume cuts to USAID:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/appeals-court-usaid-ruling-doge-00259154

* Cruelty is the point "A USAID worker's pregnant wife was denied an emergency medical evacuation after DOGE fired her:" https://www.advocate.com/news/usaid-pregnant-denied-medical-evacuation

* "Exclusive: Trump administration is pointing spy satellites at US border:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-directs-spy-satellite-agencies-surveil-us-mexico-border-2025-03-27/

* Everything about this is gross. "Donald Trump Reveals $5m Visa Gold Card With His Face On:" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-reveals-5m-visa-gold-card-his-face-2055171

* "The Trump DOJ Is Barreling Toward Contempt of Court. There’s Still One Way Out.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-doj-contempt-boasberg-salvador-prison.html

* "Most US Institute of Peace workers get late-night word of their mass firing:" https://apnews.com/article/us-institute-peace-trump-doge-mass-firing-746aa4fce9ad35fe17e8e22ce29417e3

They aren't part of the executive branch. I don't understand how any of this is legal.

* "DOGE Staffer Appointed to Lead U.S. Institute of Peace Founded Company That Sells ‘AI Workers’: Nate Cavanaugh, a 28-year-old college dropout, is steeped in the hypercapitalist ideology of Silicon Valley:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/doge-us-institute-of-peace-nate-cavanaugh-1235307495/

* "Trump administration takes $500M US Institute of Peace building for free:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/politics/federal-fallout/us-institute-of-peace-usip-500-million-dollar-headquarters-department-of-government-efficiency-trump-administration/65-b32203f0-ec4a-410f-b128-15484a282d3c

* "'This is bananas': DOGE looks to finagle a building the federal government doesn't own:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-this-is-bananas-doge-looks-to-finagle-a-building-the-federal-government-doesn-t-own-235941445573

* "Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”:" https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights

* Xenophobic Lies vs. Reality: "Risk Analysis of Mass Shootings Committed by Immigrants and Native-Born Americans:" https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/risk-analysis-mass-shootings-committed-immigrants-native-born-americans#

* "Maryland father sues U.S. officials after being deported to El Salvador prison:" https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-father-deported-el-salvador-abrego-garcia-us-immigration/

* "Wife of man mistakenly sent to El Salvador prison says she fears for his safety: "My husband's not a criminal":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wife-man-error-deported-to-el-salvador-prison/

* "‘Horrific’: Joe Rogan blasts Trump for sending innocent people to El Salvador prison:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-horrific-joe-rogan-blasts-trump-for-sending-innocent-people-to-el-salvador-prison-236093509538

* Now we find out if there is even a shred of rule of law left. "Judge orders the Trump administration to return man who was mistakenly deported:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-5352448/judge-orders-the-trump-administration-to-return-man-who-was-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador

* "ICE agents detain nearly 40 employees during morning raid at Whatcom County businesst:" https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/politics-government/article303349791.html

* "Protest emerges at Ferndale facility after ICE reportedly detains Whatcom County activist:" https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article302806399.html

* "The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating: ICE’s detention of a Washington state union organizer, alongside other threats to activists, raises the question of how far the Trump team will go to stifle dissent.:" https://newrepublic.com/article/193391/juarez-zeferino-ice-detention-activists

* If it is legitimate, why do it in secret and not tell the students? This prevents them getting due process, so they can be kidnapped. "Visas revoked, records terminated for more students at U of M, MSU Mankato:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/04/03/5-international-college-students-in-mankato-have-records-terminated-by-dhs

* "Ten Colorado international students – at least half Middle Eastern – have visas revoked:" https://www.cpr.org/2025/04/02/csu-cu-uccs-international-students-visas-revoked/

There were a bunch more of these as other colleges have started checking.

* "Colorado activist Jeanette Vizguerra's hearing delayed as legal team challenges deportation: "She was targeted":" https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/family-legal-team-colorado-activist-jeanette-vizguerra-press-conference-hearing/

* "Judge denies Justice Department's effort to move detained Tufts student's case to Louisiana:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-detained-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-case-vermont/

* I can't cover all the protests in all the places people have been kidnapped from, but I want to thank all of you doing it. Stay noisy.

* "Students walk out at Ballou to demand release of Rümeysa Öztürk:" https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/04/students-walk-out-at-ballou-to-demand-release-of-rumeysa-ozturk

* "WATCH: Video shows Alireza Doroudi being detained by ICE officers at his apartment near the University of Alabama:" https://www.cbs42.com/news/watch-video-shows-alireza-doroudi-being-detained-by-ice-officers-at-his-apartment-near-the-university-of-alabama/

* "University of Alabama students protest to demand ICE release international student Alireza Doroudi:" https://www.wvtm13.com/article/university-alabama-protest-doroudi-student-detained-ice/64342584

* Reminder of how bullshit the claims are that they are renditioning criminals and not innocent asylum seekers: "The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-immigration/the-makeup-artist-donald-trump-deported-under-the-alien-enemies-act

* "British Tourist Detained by ICE for 19 Days Warns Against All US Travel:" https://www.newsweek.com/ice-tourist-immigration-detained-2055805

* "‘Inhumane conditions’ and death at Miami’s Krome migrant detention center:" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-01/inhumane-conditions-and-death-at-miamis-krome-migrant-detention-center.html

* "Weekend protests in South Florida over Trump deportation program and Tesla:" https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2025-03-31/weekend-protests-south-florida-trump-deportation-program-tesla-doge

* "Protesters march through downtown Dallas for the Mega March 2025:" https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/thousands-march-through-downtown-dallas-for-the-mega-march-2025/

* I can't cover all the protests, but I like to remind people that they are out there: "Protesters in small New York village march to Trump border czar's home over family's ICE detention:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protesters-small-new-york-village-march-trump-border-czars-home-family-rcna199867

* "United States Disappeared Tracker:" https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

* "Huger man accused of posing as ICE officer in viral video excused from court Friday:" https://abcnews4.com/news/local/huger-man-seen-posing-as-ice-officer-in-viral-video-excused-from-court-friday-wciv-abc-news-4-sean-johnson-sullivans-island-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-kidnapping

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* "Russian punk band Pussy Riot pops up at Washington Square Park to issue warnings about authoritarianism in America:" https://www.amny.com/news/pussy-riot-washington-square-park-authoritarianism/

* "Hundreds of protests planned as Trump's abuses generate wide array of grievances:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hundreds-of-protests-planned-as-trump-s-abuses-generate-wide-array-of-grievances-236612677727

* "Angry protesters from New York to Alaska assail Trump and Musk in ‘Hands Off!’ rallies:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-protests-hands-off-472c574303260cbac315367cc808960d

* "Photos: See demonstrators around the country rally in 'Hands Off!' protests:" https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/04/05/g-s1-58479/photos-see-hands-off-protests-trump-musk

* "Anchorage demonstrators join ‘Hands Off!’ rally, part of national protests:"https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2025/04/05/over-1000-join-anchorages-hands-off-rally-part-of-national-protests/

* "Protesters mobilize across region for "Hands Off!" demonstrations:" https://6abc.com/post/protesters-mobilize-region-hands-off-demonstrations/16132025/

* "Demonstrators participate in "Hands Off" protests in South Florida, expressing frustrations with Trump administration:" https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-hands-off-president-trump-protest-elon-musk/

* "Big crowd for ‘Hands Off’ rally in heart of one of the most Trump supporting states in the country:" https://wvmetronews.com/2025/04/05/big-crowd-for-hands-off-rally-in-heart-of-one-of-the-most-trump-supporting-states-in-the-country/

* "See the photos as protesters gather in Eugene for the “Hands Off!” demonstration.:" https://www.registerguard.com/picture-gallery/news/2025/04/05/protesters-gather-in-eugene-for-hands-off-largest-nationwide-demonstrations-in-recent-years-over-110/82888339007/

* "Bellingham turns out for local version of national day of protest against Trump policies:" https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article303583746.html

* "'Bloodbath': Protesters meet Trump at every step as he butchers U.S. government agencies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-bloodbath-protesters-meet-trump-at-every-step-as-he-butchers-u-s-government-agencies-236123717533

* "'There's no other savior or option': Resistance to Trump mobilizes as Americans have seen enough:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-there-s-no-other-savior-or-option-resistance-to-trump-mobilizes-as-americans-have-seen-enough-235933765750

* "Chris Kluwe got arrested protesting MAGA. He's still protesting because 'it's the right thing to do':" https://www.advocate.com/news/chris-kluwe-pride-flag-arrest-update

* "Trump voters got exactly what they wanted — so why are people complaining?:" https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-voters-tariffs/

* "We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy: Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, describes how free and fair elections might end in America as soon as 2026.:" https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/senator-chris-murphy-this-is-how-democracy-dies-everybody-just-gets-scared

* "The frog of democracy is nearly boiled. We can still jump out of the pot.:" https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-dictatorship-universities-law-firms-20250323.html

* "Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Actions:" https://www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-related-to-trump-admin-executive-orders

* "Democrats sue Trump administration over elections executive order:" https://archive.ph/Zcelw

* "Satire Won’t Save Us: Power, Masculinity, and the Cult of Trump:"

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* "Trump moves to strip unionization rights from most federal workers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/union-rights-federal-workers-donald-trump-00257010

* "Trump Just Pardoned … a Corporation?:" https://theintercept.com/2025/04/02/trump-pardons-corporation-bitmex-crypto/

* "Several federal agencies launch a 'deferred resignation' effort to encourage workers to leave their jobs:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/federal-agencies-launch-new-deferred-resignation-effort-encourage-work-rcna199069

* "Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/02/trump-musk-leaving-political-liability-00265784

* "Musk might be on his way out, but what happens to all the destruction he wrought on the federal government?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/musk-leaves-destruction

* "Protests against Elon Musk’s purge of US government swarm Tesla showrooms:" https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-tesla-doge-protests-a07cb5f20d65d0fb4dcb3547e2b7879c

* "‘He’s a loser’: Tim Walz says Elon Musk’s ‘toxic personality’ repels voters:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-he-s-a-loser-tim-walz-says-elon-musk-s-toxic-personality-repels-voters-236279877905

* "The Tragedy and Comedy of Elon Musk:"

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* "Social Security: How to Prepare for Changes to Benefit Access:" https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-prepare-changes-benefit-access-2052895

* "A list of the Social Security offices across the US expected to close this year:" https://apnews.com/article/social-security-offices-closures-doge-trump-b2b1a5b2ba4fb968abc3379bf90715ff

* "Social Security demands that gay activist living with AIDS repay $200k in benefits:" https://www.advocate.com/news/social-security-demands-activist-repay

You know how I've been expressing concerns about targeted attacks on people the administration doesn't like. Do I know it's happening here? No, but I suspect it.

* "Musk's claim Biden administration gave Social Security numbers to millions of noncitizens lacks context: The Enumeration Beyond Entry program grants Social Security numbers to successful applicants for U.S. residency, work permits and citizenship.:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/01/musk-biden-social-security-numbers/

* "Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-mills-social-security-maine-leland-dudek_n_67ed2d99e4b0b937ab8f135c

* "DOGE cuts stall Maine seafood business trying to go green:" https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/19/doge-cuts-stall-maine-seafood-business-trying-to-go-green/

* "Maine DHHS forced to end dozens of contracts due to federal cuts:" https://wgme.com/news/local/maine-dhhs-forced-to-end-dozens-of-contracts-due-to-federal-cuts-cdc-programs-president-donald-trump-doge-elon-musk

* "Children put at risk in Donald Trump's petty vendetta against the state of Maine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/children-put-at-risk-in-donald-trump-s-petty-vendetta-against-the-state-of-maine-236497989870

* "Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/waltzs-team-set-up-at-least-20-signal-group-chats-for-crises-across-the-world-00266845

* "Report: Waltz used Gmail for official work:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/mike-waltz-signal-gmail-security

* "Pentagon watchdog launches probe into Hegseth use of Signal chat ahead of Houthi airstrike:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-watchdog-launches-probe-signalgate/story?id=120458325

* "Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fresh-from-scandal-over-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-s-conduct-opens-him-to-ridicule-235934277935

* "One small part of Pete Hegseth's wardrobe is a big tell:" https://www.salon.com/2025/04/06/one-small-part-of-pete-hegseths-wardrobe-is-a-big-tell/

* He's doing another purge, this time based on a Neo-NAZI conspiracy theorist's suggestions. "Trump fires several national security officials over loyalty concerns:" https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/04/03/trump-moves-to-fire-several-nsc-officials-over-loyalty-concerns/

* "Laura Loomer Is a Warning: No one else with direct access to the president has been as outwardly bigoted.:" https://archive.ph/jnAjK

* "‘Absurd’: Sen. Kim on MAGA conspiracist Laura Loomer's White House influence:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-absurd-sen-kim-on-maga-conspiracist-laura-loomer-s-white-house-influence-236597829503

* "Pete Hegseth Moves to Replace Military’s Lawyers for Chilling Reason:" https://newrepublic.com/post/192695/pete-hegseth-replace-military-lawyers

Yet more purges of competent and ethical people. It's extra scary because they are essential to ethical conduct of our military

* "Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions:" https://archive.ph/YIl3Z

They are having to censor the naval academy library because the diversity ban bars them from having books about MLK or Jackie Robinson.

* "Appeals court denies Trump DOJ’s request to halt injunction on trans military ban — for now:" https://www.advocate.com/news/appeals-court-trans-military-ban

* "Meet the transgender Army lieutenant who is challenging Donald Trump's military ban \:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nicolas-talbott-transgender-soldier-plaintiff

* "Transgender Army officer Erica Vandal was born into military service. Now, she's suing Trump to stay in :" https://www.advocate.com/news/erica-vandal-decorated-transgender-leader

* "This trans Air Force recruit wants to jump out of planes to save others. He's suing Trump to serve:" https://www.advocate.com/news/clayton-mccallister-transgender-pararescue-recruit

* "Veterans, unions, top Michigan Dems gather to protest Trump VA order in Ann Arbor:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/03/29/veterans-unions-michigan-dems-protest-trump-va-order-in-ann-arbor/82721024007/

* "Thousands laid off as Kennedy and Musk take aim at health agencies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/kennedy-lays-off-thousands-across-the-health-bureaucracy-00262913

* "The CDC Has Been Gutted:" https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gutted-rif/

* For salt in the wounds of the illegally fired: "Fired health workers were told to contact an employee. She’s dead.:" https://archive.ph/DOKuM

* "Democratic-led states sue to block Trump from $11 billion health funding cut:" https://archive.ph/i9gGl

* "HHS firings undermine federal government’s ability to care for vulnerable Americans:" https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/hhs-firings-put-disabled-americans-at-risk/

* "HHS layoffs hit Meals on Wheels and other services for seniors and disabled:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-s1-57716/hhs-layoffs-seniors-disabled-liheap-acl

* "Alzheimer’s Association Sounding the Alarm Over the Threat of Elimination of Alzheimer’s Programs at HHS, CDC:" https://www.alz.org/news/2025/threat-of-elimination-of-alzheimers-programs-hhs-cdc

* "Exclusive: Trump health layoffs include staff overseeing bird flu response, source says:" https://archive.ph/PzkLw

* "Measles outbreak in west Texas continues while cuts on health agencies loom:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5343519/measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-continues-while-cuts-on-health-agencies-loom

* "50 canceled measles clinics, and other local impact from HHS cuts:" https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/hhs-layoffs-local-officials-react-rif-impacts-public-health/

* "Another child has died::" https://apnews.com/article/measles-texas-rfk-death-vaccine-4e28b0edf5cab47980b40b2d47f0ec50

* "Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH:" https://www.wired.com/story/doctor-breakthrough-parkinsons-research-nih-purge/

* This will bread more antibiotic resistant strains which is bad for everyone. Infectious disease know no borders. "Tuberculosis is the world’s top infectious killer. Aid groups say Trump’s funding freezes will cause more deaths:" https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/health/tuberculosis-impact-usaid-funding-intl-scli/index.html

* "Trump team guts AIDS-eradication programme and slashes HIV research grants:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00969-5

* "HIV Activists March in NYC to Protest “Death by 1,000 Musk Cuts”:" https://www.poz.com/article/hiv-activists-march-nyc-protest-death-1000-musk-cuts

* Trump admin cuts tens of millions from Planned Parenthood: The Title X funds were earmarked for birth control and other non-abortion services. "Trump admin cuts tens of millions from Planned Parenthood:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/trump-admin-cuts-tens-of-millions-from-planned-parenthood-00261763

It was already illegal to use federal funds for abortion. This is intended to prevent access to birth control and cancer screenings. They are lying when they say they are "Pro-Life."

* "FDA's top tobacco official removed from post in latest blow to agency's leadership:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/fdas-top-tobacco-official-removed-post-latest-blow-120366010

* "Donald Trump fired the man who likely saved his life: Former medical official:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/donald-trump-fired-the-man-who-likely-saved-his-life-former-medical-official-236335685814

* "Entire staff responsible for utility assistance included in HHS cuts, sources say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-admin-fires-staff-liheap-agency-utilities-assistance-program-rcna199177

* "Drugmakers sink after key FDA official ousted as Trump plans health overhaul:" https://archive.ph/JYyC0

* "PHOTOS: Crowd gathers to protest firings, budget cuts at CDC:" https://www.ajc.com/configsection/photos-crowd-gathers-to-protest-firings-budget-cuts-at-cdc/MUC3JE3AKVE4HNYOGESFJCEHGU/

* " In a week, RFK Jr. fat-shames the West Virginia governor, fires 10k HHS workers, and enrages Wall Street:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/rfk-jr-offends-everyone

* "Senate confirms Dr. Oz to lead Medicare and Medicaid:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/03/senate-confirmation-mehmet-oz-medicare-medicaid-00270913

* "National Park Rangers rebel against queer erasure on Trans Day of Visibility:" https://www.advocate.com/news/park-rangers-transgender-stonewall-erasure

* "K-12 schools must sign certification against DEI to receive federal money, administration says:" https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-school-discrimination-federal-funding-7d1025753b9bd924711ace4069fca399

* "Trump administration announces anti-trans investigations team to fight 'gender ideology' in schools:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-anti-transgender-investigations

* "Trump’s Latest Power Grab Threatens Free Expression and LGBTQ+ Voices in Smithsonian Institutions:" https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/trumps-latest-power-grab-threatens-free-expression-and-lgbtq-voices-in-smithsonian-institutions

* "ALA statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services :" https://www.ala.org/news/2025/03/ala-statement-white-house-assault-institute-museum-and-library-services

* "The White House press corps just caved to Trump, and that should terrify you:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/white-house-press-caves-trump

* "These universities are in Trump's crosshairs. Many don’t know why.:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/these-universities-are-trumps-crosshairs-many-dont-know-why-2025-03-27/

* "Trump administration halts dozens of research grants at Princeton University:" https://apnews.com/article/princeton-trump-federal-funding-9c32a996256849ac00792ef50dbdfb0e

* "Trump administration targets billions in funding to Harvard:" https://archive.ph/EP0gd

* "Judge dismisses Eric Adams case, denying DOJ an opportunity to revive it later:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/judge-dismisses-eric-adams-case-00265683

* "The Pathetic, Cowardly Collapse of Big Law: Trump’s actions are an attempt to tilt the scales of justice by using the raw power of government coercion—and they’re working.:" https://archive.ph/gvgpv

* "Another big law firm cuts a deal with White House to avoid sanctions:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/law-firm-cuts-deal-avoid-sanctions-00265285

* "Over 500 law firms sign brief backing Perkins Coie suit against Trump:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/500-law-firms-sign-brief-backing-perkins-coie/story?id=120499725

* "On a scale of 1-10, how freaked out is Eric Holder about the Trump admin so far?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/on-a-scale-of-1-10-how-freaked-out-is-eric-holder-about-the-trump-admin-so-far-236290117814

* "Truth Social filing would allow Trump's trust to sell up to $2.3 billion in stock:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/trump-truth-social-stock

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* "Trump increasingly asks the Supreme Court to overrule judges blocking key parts of his agenda:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-deportations-birthright-citizenship-0787cdf8bd36b964c7974ed032717ed4?

* "The LGBTQ+ Supreme Court cases to watch this term:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-supreme-court-cases-2025#rebelltitem1

* "What are 'Religious Freedom' laws, and how are they used against LGBTQ+ people?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/religious-freedom-vs-lgbtq-rights

* "Supreme Court wrestles with red state efforts to defund Planned Parenthood:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/scotus-wrestles-with-red-state-efforts-to-defund-planned-parenthood-00266466

* "Activists rally outside Supreme Court in DC ahead of Planned Parenthood funding case:" https://wjla.com/news/local/march-for-life-rally-planned-parenthood-funding-abortion-rights-anti-abortion-supreme-court-pro-life-choose-health-medina-south-atlantic-tax-dollars-washington-dc-motherhood

The one time I was able to go to a big DC protest it was in support of Abortion Rights when there was a case before the Supreme Court (on a date!) in 1989. That time, we won.

I want to thank all of you protesting out there.

* "Supreme Court sides with administration over Education Department grants:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-5345607/supreme-court-education-department

* "Some House Republicans voice opposition to the Senate's newly adopted budget for Trump's agenda:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-adopts-new-budget-trumps-agenda-gop-cracks-emerge-rcna199747

They are doing dramatic cuts to Medicaid to pay for tax cuts to Billionaires.

If this passes, people die.

They are sacrificing people for the billionaires that bought them.

It is essential to contact your Reps, especially if they are "Freedom Caucus."

I know this is counter intuitive, but they are challenging from the extreme right. Maybe try something like: the tax cuts are driving up the debt. IDK, I'm bad at working out how they think. You know your Congress Critter best.Seriously, call in to all republican reps. Make whatever argument works if they ask for one. For regular republicans try: cutting medicaid really hurts seniors on Medicare too, as a lot have both, or something similar.

* "Medicaid cuts would decimate Native American programs, tribal health leaders say:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicaid-cuts-native-american-health-programs/

* We'll see, I guess. "Trump’s Joint Chiefs Pick Throws President Under Bus in Confirmation Hearing:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-joint-chiefs-pick-dan-caine-calls-him-a-liar-at-confirmation-hearing/

* "A Democratic senator is putting holds on VA nominees to protest Trump’s plans to cut its workforce:" https://apnews.com/article/veterans-congress-gallego-trump-6236bbc77ff1a98f736b1cf134cab609

* "Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-nominee-u-s-attorney-in-d-c-ed-martin-blocked-adam-schiff/

* "Booker stages Senate filibuster to protest 'crisis' he says Trump and Musk created:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/booker-stages-senate-filibuster-protest-crisis-trump-musk/story?id=120365354

* "BREAKING: Sen. Cory Booker gives marathon speech to ‘disrupt’ Senate in protest of Trump, Musk:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/sen-cory-booker-filibusters-on-senate-floor-to-disrupt-the-senate-because-our-nation-is-in-crisis-235914309998

* "Cory Booker breaks a 68-year-old Senate record with a 25-hour speech:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech

* "Cory Booker Breaks Senate Speech Record in 25-Hour Rebuke of Trump Administration:" https://time.com/7273417/cory-booker-filibuster-speech-senate/

* "Cory Booker wipes away a racist's record, fires up lost Democrats, and eyes a presidential run in 2028:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/cory-booker-record-speech

* "Cory Booker Broke a Record — Now Let's Fix Democracy!:"

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* "House Democrats open probe into FCC media investigations:" https://archive.ph/DfLAR

* "Elizabeth Warren launches campaign to investigate Department of Education closure: 'I will fight it with everything I've got':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elizabeth-warren-launches-campaign-investigate-department-education-closure/story?id=120388078

* "Face-Off Between Trump Diehards Marjorie Taylor Greene and Anna Paulina Luna Gets Ugly:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/face-off-between-trump-diehards-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-anna-luna-gets-ugly/

* "Democrats introduce bill to expand gender-affirming care access to mark Trans Day of Visibility:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/becca-balint-trans-healthcare-bill

* "‘I promise I’ll behave’: Congress’ most mercurial Republican faces DOGE, Signalgate anger:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/town-hall-backlash-doge-signalgate-00005579

* "Charges dropped against trans advocate falsely accused of assault by Nancy Mace for giving her a firm handshake:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nancy-mace-handshake-charges-dropped

* "Sarah McBride: Trans visibility and proximity have never been more important than now:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/sarah-mcbride-opinion-tdov

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

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

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

Script to complain about Elon Musk/DOGE. I also suggest contacting your AG about data privacy. "Introducing Red State Scripts, Vol. 1:" https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2025/02/10/introducing-red-state-scripts-vol-1/

* This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

* "Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

* Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

* Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

* How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

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

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

* "ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

* Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

* Free Bystander training amoung other useful things. "Right to Be Training:" https://righttobe.org/upcoming-free-trainings/

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* "Trans and wanting to run for office? Danica Roem will help lead a training for transgender candidates:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/victory-institute-transgender-training

* "PSA: If you or people you know voted in North Carolina:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3612905.html

They are trying to invalidate ballots from last November to overthrow an important election. Please check and cure your ballot if it's one of the ones in the court case.

* Democracy held in Wisconsin. "Democrats’ win in Wisconsin court race also is a big loss for Elon Musk:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-81f71cdda271827ae281a77072a26bad

* "Jill Underly reelected as Wisconsin superintendent of schools:" https://www.wpr.org/news/april-election-dpi-state-superintendent-jill-underly-reelected-kinser

This is also a relief. I want to thank all of you who voted the whole ballot.

* "GOP retains two House seats in Florida, as Democrats claim 'historic' improvement:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5348089/florida-congressional-results-gop-patronis-fine

* "Louisiana voters reject constitutional amendments championed by Republican governor:" https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-constitutional-amendments-landry-c9a48606790251bdddb84978eea382ea

* "In Tuesday election, Aurora City Council incumbents appear to stay, except alderman at-large:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/aurora-alderman-at-large-election/

* Minnesotans! Don't Forget to Vote April 8! "Referendums on the April 8 special election ballot:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/04/01/minnesota-special-election-referendums-april-8

* "Minnesota Governor Walz Calls Special Election for Senate District 6 :" https://www.nfib.com/news/news/minnesota-governor-walz-calls-special-election-for-senate-district-6/

* "Gay U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas announces Senate bid:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/chris-pappas-runs-us-senate

* "Can Democrats win Michigan's 2026 U.S. Senate seat? Mallory McMorrow says yes. | Opinion:" https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2025/04/06/u-s-senate-mallory-mcmorrow-democrat-dnc-michigan-elissa-slotkin-gary-peters/82797095007/

* "Protester carried out after undocumented student bill passes TN committee:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/protester-carried-out-after-undocumented-student-bill-passes-committee/

* "Florida Senate pushes ahead with 'don't say gay at work' bill after seemingly brushing it aside:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-dont-say-gay-work

* "Utah becomes first state to ban fluoride in public water:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/utah-bans-fluoride-public-water-rcna193917

* "Utah bans Pride flags after “cowardly” governor avoids veto:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/utah-bans-pride-flags-after-cowardly-governor-avoids-veto/

* "Prosecutors seek 7-year prison sentence for George Santos in sweeping fraud case:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-sentencing-recommendation

* "FBI raids leader of gay furry hacking group that went after the organization behind Project 2025:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/project-2025-gay-furry-hackers

* "Everyone Loved a Colorado Prison’s VFW Post—Until a Popular YouTuber Heard About It:" https://www.5280.com/everyone-loved-a-colorado-prisons-vfw-post-until-a-popular-youtuber-heard-about-it/

* "a promise, a threat, and a proportional response:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2033252.html

* "Here are 11 major companies standing up for DEI :" https://www.advocate.com/news/companies-keeping-dei#rebelltitem13

* "Alabama community saves library after funding cut over LGBTQ+ books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/alabama-town-saves-library

* "Iowa State students hold 'funeral' for LGBTQ+ center shut down by anti-DEI bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/iowa-state-lgbtq-center-closes-dei

* "Goth Is White: Pallor, Prejudice and Purity:"

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* "Lesbian former police officer wins $10 million in sexual harassment lawsuit:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ashley-cummins-lesbian-harassment-lawsuit

* "A Disturbing Advance in Fetal Personhood:" https://www.thecut.com/article/why-a-georgia-womans-arrest-after-miscarriage-is-disturbing.html

* "Georgia's War on Reproductive Freedom:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JpN99TQPs8Y

* "If a Fetus is a Baby...:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9x0SnANrjEI

* "A Win for Repro Rights: Alabama Can’t Charge Activists Helping Patients Get Out-of-State Abortions:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/alabama-cant-charge-abortion-groups-for-helping-patients-out-of-state-criminal-conspiracy/

* "Hormones and surgery improve transgender men's quality of life: study:" https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-men-surgery-hormones-benefits

Water is wet studies are essential for things like persuading people and the courts.

* "World Athletics to require DNA testing of athletes in women's track and field:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/world-athletics-dna-testing

* "Montana judge blocks anti-trans bathroom law:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/montana-2671627321

* "Parents don’t stop fighting for their LGBTQ+ kids:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/parents-dont-stop-fighting-for-their-lgbtq-kids

* "‘World’s largest transgender flag’ unfurled at Utah State Capitol for Trans Day of Visibility:" https://www.abc4.com/news/politics/inside-utah-politics/utah-largest-trans-flag-visibility/

* "Trump signed away my identity, but forgot biology doesn't follow orders:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gender-diversity-in-nature

* "Ervianna 'Baydee' Johnson, Black trans woman, found dead in North Carolina:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/ervianna-johnson-transgender-woman-killed

* "Meet the transgender woman arrested for using a Florida Capitol restroom (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-woman-arrested-florida-bathroom

* "Outrage follows after Texas gay campground doubles-down on banning transgender men from property:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-men-banned-texas-campground

* "Transgender girl joins boys' track and field team in Virginia:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/transgender-girl-joins-boys-team

* "‘You picked the wrong one’: Texas transgender teacher resigns after Libs of TikTok prompts far-right harassment campaign:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-teacher-resigns-after-targeting

* "A Mississippi cafe made a discount for straight couples only. Now, other restaurants are hitting back:" https://www.advocate.com/news/mississippi-cafe-discount-straight-only

* "In Memphis, Kayla Gore is building homes — and a future — for Black trans people:" https://www.advocate.com/news/black-transgender-housing-leader-tennessee

* "Autism’s missing women:" https://aeon.co/essays/the-missing-women-of-autism-are-differently-different?

Water is wet studies are essential for things like persuading people and the courts.

* "Bird flu could be heading north this spring with fewer federal health officials working to stop it :" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bird-flu-heading-north-spring-fewer-federal-health-officials-working-s-rcna199607

* "Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk:" https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html

* "If You're Black, You Have Every Right To Be Paranoid About Where Your Genetic Data Is Going:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/23andme-genetic-discrimination_n_67eab84ce4b0b5d66dcfeb57

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* "Air pollution kills millions every year — where does it come from?:" https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution-sources

* "Without USAID, Myanmar Is Struggling to Recover From Its Massive Earthquake: “We have the capacity to save lives, and the choice has been not to use it,” said the former head of the agency’s Myanmar mission.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-usaid-myanmar-earthquake-response-aid/

* "Myanmar images reveal scale of quake destruction as death toll climbs more than 2,700:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/myanmar-images-reveal-scale-quake-destruction-death-toll-climbs-2700-rcna199005

* "Volcano erupts in southwestern Iceland after a nearby town and spa are evacuated:" https://kfor.com/science/ap-science/ap-authorities-in-iceland-evacuate-southwestern-town-and-blue-lagoon-spa-over-fear-of-volcanic-eruption/

* "Amidst signs of possible eruption, Alaska Volcano Observatory updates Upper Valley residents on Mt. Spurr:" https://ktna.org/2025/04/amidst-signs-of-possible-eruption-alaska-volcano-observatory-updates-upper-valley-residents-on-mt-spurr/

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* "Advocates cry foul after YouTube quietly removes ‘gender identity’ from hate speech policy:" https://www.advocate.com/business/youtube-scraps-gender-identity-protection

* "The Town That Went Crazy for Crypto: In San Pedro, Argentina, 16,000 people, a fifth of the population, signed up for a cryptocurrency exchange where everyone won. Until they didn’t.:" https://archive.ph/FCrti

* "Dora Richter: Lacemaker & Trans Pioneer:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FlgQhdOrT6c

* "These three gay men began dating in 1970. Here are 50 Polaroid photos from their lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/polaroid-images-polyamory-gay-men#rebelltitem51

* "Zine Archives Preserve Trans Survival and Storytelling:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/queer-trans-zine-archives

* "Actor Val Kilmer has died — a look back at his most notable roles:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-02/val-kilmer-death-film-role-retrospective/105129062

* "ACT UP member Nanette Kazaoka, a fierce activist for marginalized people, is dead at 83:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nanette-kazaoka-aids-activist-obituary

* Social Security call back last Monday was an obviously exhausted and beaten down sounding woman. I'm sure it's absolutely terrible over there with terrified and likely furious Seniors calling all day. I apologized for bothering her because the phone tree was gone. I was polite as it was possible to be and I also laced in appreciation for her hard work and all the hard work they do over there, sincerely meant.

At one point I gave a little cough as I was doing the thing where I slowly lower chest elevation in preparation for sleep. She started apologizing like I'd yelled. I felt terrible and told her she needn't apologize and it was just a cough. I reiterated that I new how slammed they must be and how difficult it all is. It really made me wonder how rough other callers were being with people who's livelihoods were threatened through no fault of their own, that she be so alarmed by a cough.

By the time I was thanking her for her public service and wishing her the best of luck at the end of the call there were a tiny bit of life in her voice.

It was a small thing, a tiny drop of the bucket, done in the same spirit that leads me to apologize to a customer service worker when the person ahead of me has been a dick because someone owes them a damned apology, and then crank up my politeness to eleven. Nobody deserves to be treated like that by a single asshole customer, let alone by their own government. I can't really fix that, but I can least do my best to convey that I see the other person as a human being and think they deserve better.

The treatment of government workers in this country makes me furious.

All I can do is signal boost and hope people keep fighting for them and for all of us.

* Tuesday I had one of my periodic mega torso muscle spasm things, which ate a couple hour until I could get it under control. Luckily is was after I ran a couple essential, time sensitive errands.

Wednesday I was still aftershocky, but at the minor inconvenience level. I did errands by myself as two Millennials were making their homemade lasagna on the grand scale. The lasagna was magical.

In other news, My Social Security didn't arrive. On two previous occasions when Republicans were dicking around with Social Security, it came a day or two late, but under the current circumstances it is extra concerning. Have I been declared dead? Deleted from the roles by a teenager who decided I was disabled enough? Or are payments just delayed by assholery, but not gone, gone? I actually have some hope it's just delay as I checked in with a friend on SSI who did get theirs.

Still, there is no way to fix it until my in person appointment and that will be too late for Housing auto-withdraw.

Let's all cross our fingers, shall we?

Update: Tim Walz's mom's check was late too.

Update 2: Check arrives.

* My sleep schedule is still messed up, but luckily the meds disruption was only one day. (On time is ideal, but I don't have to be the kind of strict a lot of people do. Approximate works okay with most of my stuff. That said, three hours off on an anti-nausea medication is a special kind of unpleasant.)

Saturday, we did errands in the morning, because I'm not the only one dramatically sleep disrupted. They are no longer shopping like a hurricane is coming, but the drivers are dangerous and there is a different kind of panicky going on at the grocery store, which is hard to categorize. We were at the big ethical grocery (The Employee owned one), and I noticed they had way more people on shift than is usual for even the first weekend of the month, which suggests they've adjusted to the panic buying and anticipated both in ordering staple foods and staffing how people were going to react to Trump crashing the economy this week.

I still need to hit two more stores this week for things about to be in short supply that are important and necessary. I am exhausted.

We did do a little errand each for me and Goth Millennial for which the other stayed in the car because we were exhausted. We were supposed to go downtown, but had very little left and both had groceries to put away. (Goth Millennial is being jerked around again and hasn't been paid in almost a month for aid work. Things are getting pretty gnarly here at the Cat Asylum, but nothing can be done just yet as we have to wait on things out of our hands. *gestures at Trump and Musk setting the government on fire*).

There was a big demo with thousands of people downtown proper near the courthouse/city hall, but we weren't up to it. There has been a regular Friday demonstration more central downtown for decades. We get a lot of other demonstrations on different days generally as well. This is a very left wing town. It's a small city, but we do love to demonstrate.

We did pass a small, separate demonstration on the was home, but they had hands off signs, so I waved and beeped.

I am double booked Tuesday for two time sensitive things that protect my benefits. (I tried to get wait listed. I tried to move the theoretically more moveable one. It is impossible, which doesn't surprise me. *gestures to the government being on fire* The appointments are 40 minutes apart on check in and about fifteen minutes apart for space. I am terrified I won't make it. My plan is to try to go very early for appointment one in hopes somebody cancels. I have already gathered the paperwork.

I am FUCKED if I miss either.

Then I get inspected on the 11th, a thing I am in no way prepared for, and can't get anyone to help with. *See Goth Millennial being not paid.* I have tried calling around for other help. No joy.

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* "MAGA Becomes TIT | Why Trump Wants A Third Term | J.D.'s Stupid Greenland Trip:"

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* "Trump's Tariff Spectacle | Good Climate Change? | Everyone Is At Risk Of Being Sent To El Salvador:"

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* "Trump Risks Historic Economic Damage | Musk Crushed In Wisconsin | Sen. Booker's Marathon Speech:"

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* "Trump Jets Off To Watch Golf After Triggering Global Market Meltdown | No Tariffs On Russia:"

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* "7 lesbian-coded characters who made history in Hollywood's pre-Code era:" https://www.advocate.com/lesbian/7-lesbian-coded-early-characters

* "A Liberation Carol:"

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* "The New Students- Woody Guthrie Cover - All You Fascists Bound To Lose:"

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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.

* "United States Disappeared Tracker:" https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

* "Nationwide Economic Blackout: Boycott Dates for Target, Amazon, Others:" https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-economic-blackout-boycott-dates-target-amazon-others-2037986

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*  I had more Millennials at once than we've had in months over Wednesday evening, which was fun.

After they left, I unfortunately left the computer open while I went to do lungs.  When I got back, I discovered the Emperor had done something mind boggling destructive to the aggregate scaffolding formatting, that could only be undone laboriously, by hand.

Luckily, I had taken an impression of the current naked scaffold Right after the Sunday post, so what I'm doing is putting things like the divider lines back in and then posting it without most of the news I have prepped as it will be much simpler to start over with a clean scaffold.

As a result, my plan to spend several hours doing news postings wednesday evening got bumped in favour of dealing with the mess the Emperor made of the Aggregate.

Apologies.

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* "Israel sends tanks into West Bank for first time in decades, says fleeing Palestinians can’t return:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-hostages-02-23-2025-1c2dc86afd2e05888d5d588f462e898b

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* "30 fact checks to mark 3rd anniversary of Russia's invasion in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/collections/ukraine-war-trump-putin-zelenskyy/

* "On the third anniversary of Russian invasion, Ukraine supporters march through Detroit:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2025/02/23/rally-for-ukraine-downtown-detroit-amid-trump-russia-putin-peace-talks/79847462007/

* "Photos: Hundreds rally in Boston to mark 3 years since Russia's invasion in Ukraine:" https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/02/24/boston-ukraine-protest-photos-russia-trump

* "Amid growing Russian, US pressure, world rallies in support of Ukraine:" https://kyivindependent.com/the-world-rallies-in-support-of-ukraine/

* There are plenty more protests and articles about them. I'm just posting a selection.

* This is shameful for my country. "UN passes resolutions condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine despite US opposition:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/24/united-nations-ukraine-resolutions-00205744

* "5 signs that a U.S.-Europe split is widening:" https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5307012/europe-nato-us-ukraine-russia-eu

* Rightly so. I am not a fan of Macron's just generally, but he is on the right side of history and we are on the wrong one on this issue. "Trump, Macron display stark differences on Ukraine despite friendly veneer:" https://www.reuters.com/world/macron-arrives-white-house-ukraine-talks-with-trump-2025-02-24/

* "A flawed peace deal would not end the war in Ukraine:" https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/24/a-flawed-peace-deal-would-not-end-the-war-in-ukraine

* Us asking this is disgusting beyond words. "US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters:" https://kyivindependent.com/us-threatens-to-shut-off-starlink-if-ukraine-wont-sign-minerals-deal-sources-tell-reuters/

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* "Syria's new president invited to emergency Arab League summit in Egypt:" https://www.reuters.com/world/syrias-new-president-invited-emergency-arab-league-summit-egypt-2025-02-23/

* "Merz's conservatives push for quick coalition talks after German election win:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/merzs-conservatives-push-quick-coalition-talks-after-german-election-win-2025-02-24/

* "International reaction to German election:" https://www.reuters.com/world/international-reaction-germanys-election-2025-02-23/

* "German reactions to election result:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-reactions-election-result-2025-02-23/

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* "U.S. slips to new low in international corruption index:" https://www.axios.com/2025/02/11/us-record-low-international-corruption-index

* "Trump says Canada, Mexico tariffs on schedule despite border, fentanyl efforts:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-mexico-step-up-fentanyl-border-talks-this-week-avoid-trumps-tariffs-2025-02-24/

This is an essential step in the Republican plan to destroy the US economy for the pleasure of harming ordinary people. There is no sense or reason for doing this beyond the joy of watching the country burn.

* "How Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum could hit you at the grocery store:" https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5300051/tariffs-steel-aluminum-cans-food-groceries

* "Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/trump-doj-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-pause.html

* "Trump rescinds order on rights abuses with US-supplied weapons, sources say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-rescinds-order-rights-abuses-with-us-supplied-weapons-sources-say-2025-02-24/

* "The Trump administration is putting USAID staffers on leave worldwide and firing at least 1,600:" https://apnews.com/article/usaid-trump-musk-foreign-aid-firings-a3af8ce6ef17878b718c8e2ed3bf98e4

* "How the U.S. is betraying LGBTQ+ communities worldwide:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/foreign-aid-freeze

* "USAID freeze opens door to Russian influence in Eastern Europe:" https://www.politico.eu/article/usaid-freeze-russia-influence-eastern-europe-georgia-ukraine-moldova-belarus-ngo-media/

* "Judge warns Trump administration to comply with court order on foreign aid payments:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/foreign-aid-funding-state-department-022736

* "ICE lets local officials stop immigrants on the streets as task force program is back:" https://newjerseymonitor.com/2025/02/24/ice-lets-local-officials-stop-immigrants-on-the-streets-as-task-force-program-is-back/

How do they know who is an immigrant? Sure looks like racial profiling to me.

* "The hidden world of Chicago ICE arrests:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/23/immigration-detentions/

* "Judge blocks Trump immigration policy allowing arrests in churches for some religious groups:" https://apnews.com/article/dhs-immigration-agents-churches-trump-7c12f2509966dadeba98e920578f24c2
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* I wish it were so. "Tesla Takeover: How the Protests Against Elon Musk Signal a National Turning Point:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/elon-musk-tesla-takeover-protests-1235276235/

* "Anti-Trump activists reach new heights, perform new feats (so to speak):" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-taunted-with-fake-video-of-him-kissing-elon-musk-s-feet-over-cuts-at-hud-232839749894

* "At town halls, Republicans feel the heat from Trump and Musk's firing and cutting spree:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/town-halls-republicans-feel-heat-trump-musks-firing-cutting-spree-rcna193164

* "Democrats not immune from voter wrath as pressure to impede Trump mounts:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-not-immune-from-voter-wrath-as-pressure-to-impede-trump-mounts-232839749757

* "Trump says he has directed U.S. Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost :" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-treasury-stop-minting-penny-rcna191421

* "Donald Trump Declines to Endorse JD Vance as 2028 Republican 'Successor':" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-declines-endorse-jd-vance-2028-successor-2029106

* "The Dunning-Kruger Presidency:"

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* "Liberal Redneck - More MAGA Madness (and the DOGE Problem):"

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* "Trump and Elon Musk are floating 'DOGE dividends.' Low-income Americans might not get the benefits.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/trump-elon-musk-doge-dividends-low-income-americans-rcna192994

* "Mass firings continue across nation’s health agencies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/16/mass-firings-health-agencies-00204570

* "Top FDA food safety official's resignation letter warns firings will backfire on RFK Jr.:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-james-jones-resigns-warning-rfk-jr/

* "Can RFK Jr. Really Take Away ADHD Medications?: The Trump administration is calling for a report “assess[ing] the prevalence of and threat" of several drugs, including stimulants like Adderall:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/adderall-adhd-rfk-jr-medication-ban-1235276940/

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* "These little-known bank accounts allow Americans with disabilities to save and invest:" https://apnews.com/article/able-account-disabilities-savings-439fe21204ff443a1c0d907a112b99a0

* "US House Republicans advance Trump's tax cut plan:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-republicans-set-vote-trumps-tax-cut-agenda-2025-02-25/

People like me will die. This is the goal, of course.

Republicans want to remind you that this extreme life threatening cruelty is essential to pay for the massive tax cuts they want to give a handful of billionaires.

If you have Democratic Senators, call to stiffen their spines and get them to stand firm in unity. If you have Republican critters focus on how it will harm their base. If you can get your Republican Congress person to vote against this budget, it will be incredibly helpful, as the margin is small. Say whatever you need to say to sway them.

Either way, tell them you will never vote for them again if they pass this budget.

* "House GOP narrowly passes Trump budget blueprint that threatens Medicaid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/house-gop-narrowly-passes-trump-budget-blueprint-that-threatens-medicaid-232923205765

* "Senate Republicans say House budget won’t fly with them:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/senate-republicans-reject-house-budget-00206244

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond

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

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

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

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

* Script to complain about Elon Musk/DOGE. I also suggest contacting your AG about data privacy. "Introducing Red State Scripts, Vol. 1:" https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2025/02/10/introducing-red-state-scripts-vol-1/

* This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

* "Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

* Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

* Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

* How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

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

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

* "ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

* Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

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* "Gov. Evers: “I want Wisconsin to become the first state in America to start auditing insurance companies over denying healthcare claims”:" https://www.wispolitics.com/2025/gov-evers-i-want-wisconsin-to-become-the-first-state-in-america-to-start-auditing-insurance-companies-over-denying-healthcare-claims/

* I am incandescent with fury. I also notice MSNBC refused to post Rachel Maddow's pointed comments about this. "New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bloodbath-of-non-white-anchors-after-joy-reid-forced-out/

* "Rachel Maddow calls out MSNBC for axing non-white hosts: ‘That feels indefensible’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/maddow-criticizes-msnbc-firing-anchors

* "Don Lemon tells 'racist' Megyn Kelly to 'go f**k yourself' for mocking Joy Reid's firing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/don-lemon-racist-megyn-kelly

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Wife accused of fatally stabbing fire captain was convicted of killing her first husband:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/fire-captain-stabbing-suspect-husband

* On people using small dicks as insults: https://www.tumblr.com/alatheacadabra/776299818992730112?source=share

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* "Fabric And Craft Retailer Joann To Go Out Of Business, Close All Of Its Stores:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joann-stores-closing-out-of-business_n_67bcddf9e4b0086412e16abd

Joann's is irreplaceable. Vulture Capitalism: Why we can't have nice things.

* "Millions of popular granola bars sold across the U.S. recalled due to ‘potential presence of metal':" https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/millions-of-popular-granola-bars-sold-across-the-u-s-recalled-due-to-potential-presence-of-metal/3679069/

* "Colombian police catch a man smuggling packets of cocaine under toupee:" https://apnews.com/article/colombia-cocaine-wig-drug-trafficking-methods-213436a6d8a232058e692c2a1145f5f3

* "Student Sparks Fire While Trying to Hide His 'Inflatable Girlfriend' From His Roommate:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/student-sparks-fire-while-trying-to-hide-his-inflatable-girlfriend-from-his-roommate/ar-AA1zx5Gw

* I was exhausted, but stayed up anyway for phone bureaucracy Monday. It was good I did. I was able to score a cancellation doctor's appointment for a concerning thing that happened with my foot over the weekend. I did in fact need medication and it will be weeks of treatment, but solvable.

While I was waiting to go, I did some other calls and some aggregate stuff. All the people I left messages with actually called back in the course of about an hour in the afternoon, which never happens. I'm used to call backs being an average of three days, but occasionally with a couple weeks as outlier.

Both the appointment and calls were very worth the lack of sleep.

Laundry experiments continue. The human laundry load went without a hitch. I ended up spending Monday evening wearing boxers and a cape as the fifth disability friendly shirt had gone walk about and the rest were in the wash. Tavy had pissed the bed again, possibly as part of his too many things protest and/or upset over me getting ready to go to the Doctor, a thing he is anxious about for the last year. The big bed cover and two sofa pads cleaned up fine. The messier one he complete befouled on the sofa will need to run back through, but we have enough pads that should be viable as long as he doesn't do something outrageous.

I think we can hold out like this for a few months as long as the hot water doesn't start leaking.

The New used laptop is now in Pennsylvania, on it's second attempt. I am still pissed that UPs didn't even attempt to deliver it despite the address being correct. Sigh. I think we've been at this since early January, one way or another. My heart constricts every time the screen on Edward goes randomly black. I worry each time I reboot Klaus that this time he won't wake back up. I am at the batch deleting stuff off Klaus in hopes of getting him to last longer stage as memory shrinks with this kind of hard drive failure. Still, we are hanging on for now.

* "Content Moderation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* I do not approve of the rape "joke," but so much in there is well argued and important, I decided to offer it anyway. Skate at your own risk. "Jon Stewart Reworks Trump & Elon’s Sweeping DOGE Budget Cuts | The Daily Show:"

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* "Sassy Senators:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vD-xzhKfGss

* "Roman Senate:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RHN9mqPmiUo

* "Roman Emperors:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HayvQJ_tG08

* "Medieval Manliness:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8zNsAAYND1M

* "Medieval Melodrama:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UalUttUnylQ

* "The Hearty Hundred Years War:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kR2KmkJEWms

* "Pirates:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/54ogVscQhBA

* "Interview with a Vampire:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/68MMjU-oAe0

* CW: Rape. "I Did Not Enjoy Reading Wicked:"

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I read this book in the '90's when there was all the buzz, and I had pretty much this same experience. I tried to like it, but things like the tiger scene made that impossible.

Nothing against all the people who love/d it, but I had exactly these problems myself.

* "Macron Knows How To Talk To Trump:"

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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.

* What to do if you are an adult who is losing your gender affirming care from your physician: https://www.tumblr.com/anonymousalchemist/774948824033673217

* Help Lambda Legal Continue their fight: https://support.lambdalegal.org/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app30130a?df_id=6680&mfc_pref=T&6680.donation=form1&NONCE_TOKEN=D3311163DF16F06EEA5520010BAF90B5&_gl=1*n53ras*_gcl_au*MTMxNDYxNjc0LjE3MzgxODExMzg.*_ga*MTY0NDY4OTM4NC4xNzM4MTgxMTM4*_ga_290ZG8GMP3*MTczODE4MTEzOC4xLjEuMTczODE4MTIwMi41OC4wLjA.

* "Donate to the ACLU:" https://action.aclu.org/give/now

* "Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

* "Resources for California fire victims were scattered. So I created this site to help.:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/california-disaster-recovery-resources

* "Where your donations to L.A. fire victims will do the most good:" https://www.advocate.com/news/donate-los-angeles-fire-victims

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond

* "Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate to:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-donald-trump-charities

* Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

* "LGBTQ+ Victory Fund:" https://victoryfund.org/

* Where to protest the censoring and erasure of transfolk on the Stonewal Uprising monument if you can't go in person. Select no and leave a comment.: https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm

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

* ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

* Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

* "The Black Consumer Advisory:" https://naacp.org/campaigns/black-consumer-advisory

* "These little-known bank accounts allow Americans with disabilities to save and invest:" https://apnews.com/article/able-account-disabilities-savings-439fe21204ff443a1c0d907a112b99a0

( More Links Underneath: )

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

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* "Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza amid stepped up ceasefire push:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strikes-kill-dozens-gaza-us-pushes-ceasefire-2025-01-08/

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* "Why is my life considered more important than a Ukrainian life?:" https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-why-is-my-life-considered-more-important-than-a-ukrainian-life/

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* "Trudeau stepping down as Canada’s PM after rapid decline in public approval:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trudeau-stepping-down-as-canadas-pm-after-rapid-decline-in-public-approval

* "The UN says more than 5,600 people were killed in Haiti last year as gangs rampage:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/5600-people-killed-haiti-year-gangs-rampage-117418238

* "Key takeaways from Haiti’s multinational mission: progress, setbacks, and future challenges:" https://haitiantimes.com/2025/01/08/key-takeaways-from-haiti-multinational-mission/

* "U.K. leader Starmer slams 'lies and misinformation' after attacks from Elon Musk:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/g-s1-41296/starmer-attacks-elon-musk

* "Narendra Modi’s Populist Facade Is Cracking:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/modi-nationalism-demagoguery-limitations/681094/?

* "Biden signs bill boosting Social Security payments for millions:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/higher-social-security-payments-coming-millions-people-bill-117343285

Meanwhile, republicans are promising deep cuts to social security to pay for tax cuts for a handful of billionaires who already pay nothing even close to their share.

* "Biden bans new offshore drilling along most of the U.S. coastline:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/biden-bans-new-offshore-drilling-us-coastline-atlantic-pacific-trump-rcna186338

* "Trump promises to undo Biden lame-duck drilling ban:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/06/congress/donald-trump-drilling-ban-00196667

Biden should have done this four years ago, but doing it at all adds to things Trump has to remember to undo. Anything that slows Trump even a little is still something, given how lazy he is and the long list of things he has planned.

* "Fed officials are worried about the inflation impacts from Trump’s policies, minutes show:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/08/fed-minutes-january-2025.html

* "Watch Kamala Harris keep her cool on a day of contrasts at U.S. Senate with warm moments and not-so-warm ones:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kamala-harris-swearing-in-senators

* "Speaker Mike Johnson quietly enacts ‘cruel’ anti-transgender bathroom ban in U.S. House of Representatives:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-house-transgender-bathrooms

Asshole soaked up the good press for not doing it, then did it quietly, hoping no one would notice.

* "Republican Sen. Tuberville wants to ban trans girls from school sports...again:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gop-tuberville-transgender-sports

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

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

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

To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

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

Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

*****

* This is some bullshit. The Republican War on free and fair elections continues. They have no proof of fraudulent voting, but they are blocking it anyway because they want to illegally stack the court. "GOP-controlled N.C. Supreme Court blocks certification of Democrat as winner of close high court race:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/north-carolina-supreme-court-blocks-certification-democrat-winner-clos-rcna186662

* "Oregon swears in first LGBTQ+ treasurer, Dr. Elizabeth Steiner:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/oregon-lgbtq-treasurer

* "Idaho Republicans file resolution to repeal marriage equality:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/idaho-republicans-marriage-equality-challenge

* "George Santos wins sentencing delay in fraud case, but less than he asked for:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-wins-sentencing-delay

* "Judge finds Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court in defamation case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rudy-giuliani-resume-testimony-contempt-hearing-defamation-case-rcna186216

* "Why I'm quitting the Washington Post:" https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

* "Winning coalitions aren't always governing coalitions:" https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/how-the-sausage-gets-made/

NOTE: I am moving the Trump section up the page soon, but I'm waiting until the hand over on the 20th.

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* Consequences. "Honduras Threatens US Military Bases Over Trump's Mass Deportations:" https://www.newsweek.com/honduras-threatens-shut-down-us-military-bases-mass-deportations-2009110

* "Trump's anti-immigrant agenda ensures confrontation from day one as opponents prepare:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-anti-immigrant-agenda-ensures-confrontation-from-day-one-as-opponents-prepare-228633669599

* "Trump says he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. Can he do that?:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-gulf-of-mexico-bc438f4feca1234475a1adef99344da7

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene champions bill on 'Gulf of America' name change:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-champions-bill-on-gulf-of-america-name-change-228830277766

* "Trump Says America Could Use Military to Seize Other Nations:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-america-military-seize-greenland-panama-1235227860/

* "'Obviously ridiculous': Trump veers into bizarre fixation on adding neighboring countries as states:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-obviously-ridiculous-trump-veers-into-bizarre-fixation-on-adding-neighboring-countries-as-states-228743237795

* "'It ain't gonna happen': Himes blasts Trump's empire ambitions as distraction ploy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-it-ain-t-gonna-happen-himes-blasts-trump-s-empire-ambitions-as-distraction-ploy-228747845533

* "Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardon Promise Would Put Police-Assaulters Back On The Streets:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pardons-police-assaulters-jan-6_n_676d685de4b05de1fe06963c

* "After taunting Panama, Trump taps ambassador for the country:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/25/trump-cabrera-panama-ambassador-00196034

* In case you don't know the history and need a Trump panama lie debunking. "Yes, US Used to Own the Panama Canal. Here's the History:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/01/08/trump-panama-canal-history/

* I don't directly link the Washington Post lightly, but I thought some people might want to read the full text instead of a summary. "Joe Biden: What Americans should remember about Jan. 6:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/05/president-biden-jan-6-democracy/

* "Biden calls on Americans not to forget Jan 6 attack:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-calls-americans-not-forget-jan-6-attack-2025-01-06/

* "Four years later: The unapologetic nature of Trump's political renaissance is an ongoing menace:" https://www.slowboring.com/p/four-years-later

* "As Trump rewrites history, victims of the Jan. 6 riot say they feel 'betrayed':" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/05/nx-s1-5200594/jan-6-attack-capitol-riot-victims-violence

* "Trump’s Propaganda Victory: The Rewriting Of Jan. 6:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-jan-6-lost-cause_n_67786658e4b03c84a28dacd5

* "He Got Away With It: Donald Trump instigated a violent attack on the Capitol. In two weeks, he’ll be sworn in as president at the very same building:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-got-away-with-instigating-jan-6-capitol-attack-1235226493/

* "Maddow: January 6 becomes marker of Trump's degradation of wall between violence and politics:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-january-6-becomes-marker-of-trump-s-degradation-of-wall-between-violence-and-politics-228631621688

* "Our National Day of Shame: Four years later, the shock of that day is replaced by the shock of how that day has become accepted.:" https://www.thebulwark.com/p/our-national-day-of-shame

* "The Looming Danger of Trump’s January 6 Pardons:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/trump-pardons-january6-insurrection-congress-security/

* "Statement of Cardinal Robert McElroy on the announcement of his appointment as archbishop of Washington:" https://www.cathstan.org/local/statement-of-cardinal-robert-mcelroy-on-the-announcement-of-his-appointment-as-archbishop-of-washington

* "New D.C. Catholic archbishop is pro-LGBTQ+ and anti-Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pro-lgbtq-dc-archbishop

* "Donald Trump’s endless assault on our nation is exhausting. But complacency is not an option.:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/donald-trumps-endless-assault-on-our-nation-is-exhausting-but-complacency-is-not-an-option/

* "Donald Trump’s “Shock and Awe” Campaign:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trumps-shock-and-awe-campaign

* "Trump invites House Republicans to Mar-a-Lago ahead of inauguration:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-invites-house-republicans-mar-lago-rcna186296

* "Trump mulls economic emergency declaration to back universal tariff plans, CNN reports:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trump-mulls-national-economic-emergency-declaration-allow-new-tariff-program-cnn-2025-01-08/

* "A Complete Guide to Trump's Cabinet Appointees:" https://www.snopes.com/articles/468475/trump-cabinet-appointees/

* "Donald Trump nominates lesbian Fox News host Tammy Bruce, who said Democrats fund creating 'mutants':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-nominates-tammy-bruce

* The suspicions are true. "Trump's Team Was Fed Questions by Fox News Insider Before Town Hall: Book:" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-iowa-town-hall-fox-news-2012072

* "Watchdog group accuses RFK Jr. of voter fraud:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/rfk-voter-ny-accusations-00196984

* "Watchdog finds signs politics drove Trump DOJ’s probes of pandemic nursing home deaths:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/07/watchdog-finds-signs-politics-drove-trump-doj-probes-pandemic-nursing-home-deaths-002055

* It isn't her jurisdiction. If we still had rule of law she wouldn't have a say. "Cannon temporarily blocks release of Jack Smith report:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/07/aileen-cannon-blocks-jack-smith-report-release-00196863

* If they don't release it before Trump takes power it will likely disappear, hence the urgency. "Justice Department wants to release only part of its report on Trump cases:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/g-s1-41562/jack-smith-trump-appeal

* "Trump moves to cancel hush money sentencing on Friday:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/06/trump-moves-to-cancel-hush-money-sentencing-on-friday-00196589

* "Alito, Trump spoke a day before Supreme Court filing in hush-money case:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/g-s1-41551/trump-supreme-court-hush-money-case-sentencing

* "Trump frantic to slow wheels of justice until he is safe in the White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-frantic-to-slow-wheels-of-justice-until-he-is-safe-in-the-white-house-228746309609

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* "New Orleans gay bars feel impact of Bourbon Street terror attack:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/new-orleans-terror-attack

* "McDonald's ends some DEI practices, cites SCOTUS ruling and 'other companies' (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/news/mcdonalds-ends-dei-practices

* "More companies than ever have this DEI practice, despite anti-LGBTQ+ push:" https://www.advocate.com/news/companies-with-dei-hrc-cei

* CW: Child Abuse. "Former Virginia nurse charged with felony child abuse amid probe into NICU babies suffering 'unexplained fractures':" https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-virginia-nurse-charged-felony-child-abuse-amid/story?id=117425169

* "TERFs, Trans Mascs, and Two Steve Feminism:" https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/terfs-trans-mascs-and-two-steve-feminism/

* "Only 0.1 percent of youth receive gender-affirming meds: study:" https://www.advocate.com/health/gender-affirming-care-youth-rare

* "Hayes: The trans population is far smaller than the right would have you believe:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-the-trans-population-is-far-smaller-than-the-right-would-have-you-believe-228830277832

* "Russian man fined for joking that he started international LGBTQ+ movement:" https://www.advocate.com/news/russian-fined-lgbtq-propaganda

* "Defense Dept. reaches settlement with vets discharged under 'don't ask, don't tell' and earlier ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/discharged-troops-settlement-dadt

* "Eight California sheriff's deputies sacked for covering up a fellow officer's attack on trans man:" https://www.advocate.com/news/police-beating-trans-man-coverup

* "New Orleans activists fundraise to replace stolen plaque remembering an arson that killed 32 queer people:" https://www.advocate.com/news/upstairs-lounge-fire-plaque-fundraiser

Fundraiser here: https://www.eservicepayments.com/cgi-bin/Vanco_ver3.vps?appver3=tYgT1GfNxRUldiimjHMvOQ43yt9fYqgnnIoZwKBOirW1q4qJDDuf89STNCYkcYRM2evTpo0mld6BrVzd2nG0p0DFqXx82BKqCdJwvoK-S_8=&ver=3

* "Breaking down barriers in mental health equity:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-youth-mental-health

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* "Thousands flee as wildfires burn out of control in and around Los Angeles and homes are destroyed:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-southern-california-santa-ana-winds-b565a3bd043d6444820f1571b2307bf1

* "'So little water': California firefighters struggle as hoses run dry:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-so-little-water-california-firefighters-struggle-as-hoses-run-dry-228842565698

* "Photos capture how wildfires ravaged through Southern California:" https://apnews.com/article/california-pacific-palisades-wildfires-los-angeles-4b67b7f29d0d6eb7321a52ef60c17d60

* "It’s not really the right time for nasty California fires. What are the factors that changed that?:" https://apnews.com/article/fire-devastation-climate-change-santa-ana-winds-a46e2bb6785b1e325f6076fb22c8fcc5

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* "Meet the gay man helping FEMA fight misinformation during natural disasters:" https://www.advocate.com/people/fema-justin-knighten-gay-communication

* "How the Arrival of an Endangered Bird Indicates What’s Possible for the L.A. River:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-the-arrival-of-an-endangered-bird-indicates-whats-possible-for-the-la-river-180985390/

* "Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks:" https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/apple_enhanced_visual_search/

* "The danger of Meta’s big fact-checking changes:" https://www.vox.com/politics/393863/meta-mark-zuckerberg-fact-checking-trump

* "What LGBTQ+ people should know about Meta’s new rules:" https://www.advocate.com/news/meta-policies-lgbtq-attacks

* "Hayes: Zuckerberg and tech execs cozying up to Trump is chilling—but 'very clarifying':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-zuckerberg-and-tech-execs-cozying-up-to-trump-is-chilling-but-very-clarifying-228723781895

* "Meta blocked teens from seeing LGBTQ+ content on Instagram: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/instagram-blocked-teens-lgbtq

* "The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ocean-teems-with-networks-of-interconnected-bacteria-20250106/

* "Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/inside-the-hands-on-lab-of-an-experimental-archaeologist/

* "When Picasso Was Arrested for Stealing the “Mona Lisa”:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/13/when-picasso-was-arrested-for-stealing-the-mona-lisa?

* "Women’s Work: Fighting to Serve — Black Nurses in World War II:" https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/12/womens-work-fighting-to-serve-black-nurses-in-world-war-ii/

* Good news! "Jean-Marie Le Pen, French fiery far-right leader, dies at 96:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5251155/jean-marie-le-pen-france-obit

* "Sheldon 'Turner' Freeman, gay D.C. librarian and activist, dead at 64:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-librarian-turner-freeman-obituary

* "How Do Igloos Keep People Warm?:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/how-igloos-stay-warm

* "Cry about it: The tradition of town criers is slowly dwindling in Canada. But those who are left vow to cry to their last breath.:" https://archive.ph/9PCB6#selection-2685.0-2685.115

* I'm really struggling with the physio right now. My body insists it is injured from the eye thing, which is still giving me headaches when I read, etc., plus the weather is the kind of variable that really messes with my AS. I suspect Tavy wanting to sit on my shoulder for hours at a time is not helping.

Monday, Goth Millennial came with me to the eye doctor and the trip back was slow and dramatic because the fog was occasionally a real pea souper. The regular eye doctor is across town from where I live and we stuck to surface streets because the fog was so bad.

While it's nice they give us this big frame allowance rather than make us pick from six government frames as they used to, there is no world in which I'd use the whole frame allowance and if they'd let me use the extra for things like (required) bifocals and (required) ultra lights I absolutely need the glasses would be free instead of a major expense I struggle to cover. On the upside, a benefactor set an end of year gift that should cover them and the car tax this month, plus the stupid HOA fee they charged me because they fucked up payments in December. This is good as not being behind in Housing Tax season is essential and that comes next.

You may notice I posted very little on Monday if you were on Tumblr even by my Monday and Tuesday standards. That's because the headache was so bad I just gave up and went to bed early. I ended up staying there 15-16 hours and still being kind of crap Thursday evening.

On the upside I found the missing library books. It turns out I'd put them in a bag to go back and the one cleaner visit between June and November resulted in them getting moved on top of the cardboard boxes where I keep medium term document storage. (I don't want to move things to long term for a year because periodically a bureaucracy thing will require something and it's better to have it close to hand. Occasionally I need long term storage things, but it's rare. I actually need to clear out long term storage paperwork, but I can't physically do it by myself, so some boxes end up staying longer than seven years. Sigh. Boxes all get dates so I know when things are safe to get rid of).

Anyway, no wonder we couldn't find the missing books despite a couple months of searching. We were looking in logical places, like my car or my bedroom. If you combine camouflage with non-intuitive placement the things might as well have been invisible. I only worked it out because I did the math on when they had to have been lost and realized the could have been moved that one particular week while outgoing instead of incoming or in a reading location. I'd checked them off in my head when I bagged them and put them where I'd grab them on the way out the door, then assumed they were on the way back as i hadn't had time to read them what with everything that had been going on.

Sigh. I didn't make it out when the library was still open, but I did turn them in at the night drop so there's eighty dollars I don't owe after all.

I am so tired and everything hurts so, so much.

*****
* 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.

* "We have a right to safety, privacy, and protest. Say no to mask bans.:" https://www.stopmaskbans.com/

* "Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate to:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-donald-trump-charities

* Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

* "LGBTQ+ Victory Fund:" https://victoryfund.org/

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

* Disaster Preparedness stuff from the US Government: https://www.ready.gov/publications

* Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

* Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

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

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* "Gaza population down by 6% since start of war - Palestinian statistics bureau:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-population-down-by-6-since-start-war-palestinian-statistics-bureau-2025-01-01/

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* "Palestinian-American explains why he is suing the State Department over U.S. support for Israel:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/palestinian-american-explains-why-he-is-suing-the-state-department-over-u-s-support-for-israel-227711045998

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* "Two killed in Russian drone strike on Kyiv, Ukraine says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-launches-new-year-drone-strike-kyiv-officials-say-2025-01-01/

* "Russia’s War Economy Is Hitting Its Limits:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/14/russia-war-putin-economy-weapons-production-labor-shortage-demographics/

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* "U.S. strikes Houthi targets in Yemen after American warships attacked, CENTCOM says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-strikes-houthi-targets-yemen-warships-attacked/

* "Ceasefire between Turkey and US-backed SDF in northern Syria holding, Pentagon says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/ceasefire-between-turkey-us-backed-sdf-northern-syria-holding-pentagon-says-2024-12-30/

* "How Syria’s rebels overcame years of a bloody stalemate to topple Assad:" https://archive.ph/fT7tB#selection-504.0-504.1

* "An uneasy calm settles over Syrian city of Homs after outbreak of sectarian violence:" https://apnews.com/article/syria-homs-alawites-hts-assad-sectarian-6c8d534d9f93da13dc8629f2f2c49aae

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* "Venezuela opposition urges protests against Maduro's inauguration:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241231-venezuela-opposition-urges-protests-against-maduro-s-inauguration

* "Some missing residential school students disappeared into arranged marriages, report says:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/arranged-marriages-residential-schools-1.7396200

* "China-backed election raises fears of 'negative peace' in Myanmar:" https://www.voanews.com/a/china-backed-election-raises-fears-of-negative-peace-in-myanmar/7921313.html

* "U.S. Treasury says its computers were hacked by a Chinese 'threat actor' in a 'major incident':" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-treasury-says-computers-hacked-chinese-threat-actor-rcna185809

* "Biden unveils final $2.5B security aid package for Ukraine:" https://www.politico.eu/article/joe-biden-announces-his-final-2-5-billion-security-aid-package-to-ukraine-war/

* "Biden honors Liz Cheney, Bennie Thompson with top civilian award:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/02/g-s1-40817/biden-liz-cheney-presidential-citizens-medal

* It's to keep Trump from appointing extra partisan incompetents. "Biden vetoes bill that would have created dozens of new federal judge slots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/23/biden-vetoes-bill-federal-judge-slots-00195981

* "Biden administration scraps rules to expand birth control access:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/23/biden-admin-birth-control-rule-00195979

* "US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-blocks-biden-administration-net-neutrality-rules-2025-01-02/

* "Senate Democrats blast Supreme Court's 'ethical crisis' as investigation concludes:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-democrats-blast-supreme-courts-ethical-crisis-investigation-rcna184987

* "Yellen: US will hit debt ceiling in mid- or late-January:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/27/congress/yellen-sees-u-s-hitting-debt-ceiling-in-early-2025-00196091

* "How Much Tax Do America's Undocumented Immigrants Actually Pay? [Infographic]:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/10/06/how-much-tax-do-americas-undocumented-immigrants-actually-pay-infographic/

* "The Walmart Effect: New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/walmart-prices-poverty-economy/681122/

* "Strike Against Amazon Ends But Teamsters Warn "Stay Tuned":" https://www.nycclc.org/news/2024-12/strike-against-amazon-ends-teamsters-warn-stay-tuned

* "House ethics watchdog unfurls campaign finance allegations against two members:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/02/congress/house-ethics-violations-allegations-00196307

* "Trump endorses Johnson for speaker:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/30/congress/trump-endorses-johnson-for-speaker-00196113

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

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

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

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

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* "Ohio changes election forms to protect transgender political candidates:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-election-forms-transgender-candidates

* "Indiana Republicans target transgender people in one of new year’s first anti-LGBTQ+ bills:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/indiana-transgender-sports-ban

* "Florida Republican wants to ban Pride flags in public buildings:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-randy-fine-pride-flags

* "Will American democracy follow Joe Biden into the sunset in 2025?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/will-american-democracy-follow-joe-biden-into-the-sunset-in-2025

* ""This is Trump’s America now!": MAGA diehards jumpstart a new year of political violence:" https://www.salon.com/2024/12/30/this-is-trumps-america-now-maga-diehards-jumpstart-a-new-year-of-political-violence/

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* ""President Musk" And The Dangers Of Plutocracy:"

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* "Why Does Elon Musk Want to Kill Wikipedia?:"

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* "Trump weighs in on H-1B visas amid legal immigration fight:" https://www.semafor.com/article/12/29/2024/trump-fails-to-clarify-stance-on-highly-sough-h-1b-visas-wanted-by-silicon-valley

* "Trump tech bros spar with MAGA loyalists online:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-tech-bros-spar-with-maga-loyalists-online-228053573772

* "Elon Musk ‘melts down’ after underestimating wrath of MAGA trolls:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/elon-musk-melts-down-after-underestimating-wrath-of-maga-trolls-228186181734

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Court rejects Trump appeal in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation case:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/30/nx-s1-5243228/federal-appeal-trump-e-jean-carroll

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* "Former D.C. police intel chief found guilty of tipping off Proud Boys leader ahead of Jan. 6 attack:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/former-dc-police-intel-chief-guilty-tipping-proud-boys-leader-ahead-ja-rcna185206

* "Suspects in Vegas explosion, New Orleans attack served at same Army base, police confirm:" https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/suspects-in-vegas-explosion-new-orleans-attack-served-at-same-army-base-sources-tell-denver7-investigates

* "Victims of Bourbon Street attack in New Orleans include former Princeton football star, aspiring nurse, loving dad:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-orleans-deadly-attack-new-years-victims/

* "Trump Stokes Hate With False Insinuations About New Orleans Truck Attack Suspect:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-anti-immigrant-new-orleans-attack_n_67765370e4b0a27885b4a456

* "Republican Steve Scalise bizarrely blames 'DEI' and 'wokeness' for New Orleans terror attack:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/steve-scalise-dei-new-orleans

* "‘Dangerous’: Trump and MAGA falsely link New Orleans attack to the border:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-dangerous-trump-and-maga-falsely-link-new-orleans-attack-to-the-border-228370501607

* CW: Child Sex Abuse. "Survivors seek a reckoning as FBI investigates child sex abuse in little-known Christian sect:" https://apnews.com/article/christian-sect-child-sex-abuse-scandal-a94073c27168a7998c1a225f72672a3d

* "Judge rules against gender-affirming care for transgender prisoners:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-upholds-anti-trans-policy

* "Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-bans-deaths-state-maternal-mortality-committees?

* "Abortions are up in the U.S. It's a complicated picture as women turn to pills, travel:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/12/28/abortions-are-up-in-the-us-its-a-complicated-picture-as-women-turn-to-pills-travel

* "Man arrested under Russia's 'international LGBT extremism' law dies in custody:" https://www.advocate.com/news/russia-law-man-gay-travel

* There have been rumors for a while that reached even me. "China is arresting writers for posting fanfiction and gay erotica:" https://www.advocate.com/world/china-writers-arrested-fanfiction-gay-erotica

* "J.K. Rowling falsely claims 'there are no trans kids':" https://www.advocate.com/jk-rowling-says-no-transgender-kids

* "Here are the victories for transgender people's rights in 2024:" https://www.advocate.com/news/victories-transgender-rights-2024

* "Illinois police say 11 teens brutally beat men they targeted using a gay dating app:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/illinois-teens-attack-gay-men

* "A small town's 'Pride Wall' was vandalized and taken down. They built it back even better:" https://www.advocate.com/news/photo-gallery-duvall-pride-wall

* "Dengue fever cases reach record-high in the Americas amid climate change:" https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/12/11/dengue-fever-cases-reach-record-high-in-the-americas-amid-climate-change

* "COVID-19 Turns Five Today. The Next Pandemic Is Lurking:" https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/12/31/COVID-19-Turns-Five-Next-Pandemic-Lurking/

* "Why protective antibodies fade after COVID-19 vaccines:" https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/why-protective-antibodies-fade-after-covid-19-vaccines

* "Accelerated kidney function decline seen with COVID-19 versus pneumonia:" https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-kidney-function-decline-covid-pneumonia.html

* "Prevalence of Thyroid Dysfunction During and After COVID-19 Infection:" https://www.physiciansweekly.com/prevalence-of-thyroid-dysfunction-during-and-after-covid-19-infection/

* "Paxlovid tied to lower risk of hospital stay, heart problems, death in adults with kidney disease and COVID:" https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/paxlovid-tied-lower-risk-hospital-stay-heart-problems-death-adults-kidney-disease-and

* "Many long COVID patients adjust to slim recovery odds as world moves on:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/many-long-covid-patients-adjust-slim-recovery-odds-world-moves-2024-11-14/

* "Who wants a pig organ? Patients sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant:" https://apnews.com/article/pig-organ-transplant-kidney-xenotransplant-revivicor-egenesis-92c378d867f6e1ed8e1587c050daf0f8

* "A Hospital Scandal That Properly Reflects our Warped New Health-Care Reality:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a63240620/boston-investigation-steward-health-care/

* "“I Can’t Afford My Oxygen”: The Human Toll of For-Profit Insurance:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/toll-health-insurance-industry-profits-claim-denials-delays-care-brian-thompson-unitedhealth-luigi-mangione-physicians-national-health-program/

* "The ones who need little sleep:" https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2024/genetics-of-people-who-need-little-sleep

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* "South Korea to inspect Boeing aircraft as it struggles to find cause of plane crash that killed 179:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/south-korea-to-inspect-boeing-aircraft-as-it-struggles-to-find-cause-of-plane-crash-that-killed-179/ar-AA1wH0UX

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* "Chile's giant 'living fossil' frog faces threat from climate change and humans:" https://www.reuters.com/science/chiles-giant-living-fossil-frog-faces-threat-climate-change-humans-2024-12-18/

* "Bird flu has killed 20 big cats including cougars at a U.S. wildlife sanctuary:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/26/nx-s1-5239841/bird-flu-kills-20-cats-washington-sanctuary

* "Hungry or horny? Whale makes record swim halfway across planet:" https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/record-humpback-whale-migration/

* "A Homeowner Found Huge, Fossil Teeth While Mowing the Lawn. Then, Excavations Revealed a Complete Mastodon Jaw:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-homeowner-found-huge-fossil-teeth-while-mowing-the-lawn-then-excavations-revealed-a-complete-mastodon-jaw-180985703/

* "Archaeology news: New Polish Viking Sword!:"

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* "Vlad the Impaler | Extra History Complete | European History:"

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* "The Black Dinner - Scottish History - Extra History:"

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* "When the United States Tried to Get on Top of the Sex Trade:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/16/empire-of-purity-eva-payne-book-review

* "Disney's Animatronics: A Living History:"

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* "Tragedy Lingers Inside Chornobyl’s Abandoned City:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abandoned-chernobyl-disaster-ukraine

* "the Sham Legacy of Richard Feynman:"

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When I got to my first college to be a philosophy monk, guys were all abuzz about "Surely You're Joking."

I intended to read it eventually, but I kept shying away instinctively. I think I subconsciously picked up on what time of guys were into Feynman.

(There was an exception, who used to also tell his dad's Feynman stories from when they were working together. These stories were amusing in a way that the Feynman Bros quoting the book weren't. He wasn't a Feynman cultist, but rather someone with stories to contribute about Feynman in Feynman based conversations, if you get my meaning.)

This piece was illuminating and helpful to me.

* "Why we will never have another president like Jimmy Carter again:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/jimmy-carter-remembered

* "President Jimmy Carter dead at 100 — here's his history as an LGBTQ+ ally:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jimmy-carter-dead-100

* "Pete Buttigieg remembers warmth and kindness of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-praises-jimmy-carter

* "Stacey Abrams honors Jimmy Carter: He ‘remade Democratic politics’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-honors-jimmy-carter-he-remade-democratic-politics-228186693960

* "11 Rare Old Words for the Heinous and Villainous:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/83472/11-rare-old-words-heinous-and-villainous

* At bedtime Monday morning I noticed some weird things with my vision in my right eye. I looked them up and it sure sounds like a retinal tear. (I know, don't trust Web M.D., but shit is sudden, extreme and weird. I thought of alternate explanations, but I liminiated all of the non-medical ones. Fuck! Of course when everyone's off for holidays.

I have a scheduled appointment, I think for Monday. I should likely wait up and hope they are open today because it's getting worse.

* I was so exhausted I completely missed the Mummer's this year. :(

For those following the Special Assessment Saga, it was a good thing I raised and paid rent on top of what they took. Assholes still charged me a hundred dollar late fee because they fucked up December accounting. If they had taken rent instead of the third special assessment chunk without my knowledge or consent causing overdraft fees, then everything would have been paid to them on time, but I didn't know they were doing it until it was too late to fix, so here we are down an extra hundred for January with car fees and things coming due later in the month.

It will likely be all right. I will need to talk to Squirrel about it, but it will probably be all right.

I hate how extreme the punishment for doing nothing wrong has been in 2024, and it just keeps happening.

* I had so much fun with the dead podcast the back half of December. I ran out of episodes and find myself craving more.

It's an anthology series via Bloody Disgusting and the George A. Romero Foundation, so zombies.Like any anthology, so are more to my taste than others, but they were all worth listening to. They are shared universe, and do occasionally reference each other, but they also jump in time between stories and you could pretty easily listen to each story in any order. (A story is four episodes). The cast is diverse as one would expect given who is making these. The sound design fills me with horror and delight as is expected from Bloody Disgusting. For real, the zombie eating people sounds are far more awful than seeing gore on screen would be, even knowing how they were made.

Something I wanted to mention is the zombie sounds. Walking Dead is such a big thing and has been since the first episode debuted that their rattling hiss zombie vocalizations tend to be what zombies sound like now. Older media did other things: Moans, silence, even words. I have even heard a roar in one fascinating low budget one. These days though? Rattling hiss tends to be what one hears even in a lot of non Walking Dead Properties.

I like how human they made their zombie vocalizations in The Dead. I like the slow transition from a human sounding sick and in pain getting less and less articulate to what sounds a lot like me levering myself out of bed on a bad pain day and hobbling around. I like that it reminds one how human the newly turned look and sound. I like that it sounds like they could start speaking again at any moment, that the sound design of the intro encourages one to strain to catch words that never come during the episodes proper.

This thing is beautifully done and addicting, even when I know exactly how things are going to go. (This isn't a dis. Most twists in anything I will see coming).

Anyway, if you like zombie stories, I suggest checking this out.

* "Video Games & the Sexy Gender Binary:"

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* "Horror Queers: Re-Animator (1985):" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/re-animator-1985/id1449041559?i=1000643633533

* "The 25 Best Queer Films of the Century So Far :" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/the-25-best-queer-films-of-the-century-so-far

* "19 LGBTQ+ movies & TV shows coming in January 2025 & where to watch them:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/lgbtq-movies-tv-shows-january-2025

* "Horror Queers: Strangers on a Train (1951):" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/strangers-on-a-train-1951/id1449041559?i=1000649018428

* "39 Amazing And Thought-Provoking Sculptures You've Probably Never Seen Before:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/39-amazing-and-thought-provoking-sculptures-you-ve-probably-never-seen-before/ar-AA1tHmuz

* "Riding Through Time: Vintage Motorcycle Photos of People Posing with Pride, 1920s-1950s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/people-with-motorcycles-vintage-photos/

* "Stunning Black-and-White Photos That Capture the Spirit of 1980s Hong Kong:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hong-kong-photos-1980s/

* "“The Council Requires Snackies”: 50 Hilarious Pics Of Cats Grouping Together Interview With Expert:" https://www.boredpanda.com/council-of-cats-pics/

* "Sunday Sweets: Jen's Happy Cakes:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-jens-happy-cakes-2024

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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.

* "We have a right to safety, privacy, and protest. Say no to mask bans.:" https://www.stopmaskbans.com/

* Ethical Elephant sanctuary disaster relief: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/769847233453719552/emergency-flood-relief?source=share

* "Trans Kids Deserve Better:" https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/support

* "Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate to:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-donald-trump-charities

* Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

* "LGBTQ+ Victory Fund:" https://victoryfund.org/

* "Buy Native List:" https://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

* Natural fiber fabric sources to buy from for sewing: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/768880596478984192?source=share

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

* Disaster Preparedness stuff from the US Government: https://www.ready.gov/publications

* "My husky’s fren needs your help:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/74raKUtbCKI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

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

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*Long pause*

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

* Disaster Preparedness stuff from the US Government: https://www.ready.gov/publications

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