gwydion | Entries tagged with drugs

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 News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

* "The US has quietly gotten into another war in the Middle East: With near daily strikes against Yemen’s Houthis, is there an end in sight?:" https://archive.ph/koLeC

* "Militants kill at least 26 tourists at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir:" https://apnews.com/article/kashmir-tourist-attack-dc7067a18899d9e7ff7726d4e05982c3?

* "Inside a City Swept by Roving Gunmen, Deadly Grudges and Fear:" https://archive.ph/ZZtGn

* "A massive explosion at an Iranian port possibly linked to missile fuel kills 25, injures some 800:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-explosion-fire-bandar-abbas-72637c6b3e152a30045275f57ace29ed

* "25 arrested across France after prison attacks:" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/04/28/french-prison-attacks-around-20-arrests-conducted-across-france_6740692_7.html

* "Large areas of Spain and Portugal hit by massive power blackout:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/large-parts-spain-portugal-hit-by-power-outage-2025-04-28/

* "Mark Carney's Liberals win Canada election amid Trump's 51st state comments:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-suggests-canadians-elect-making-country-51st-state/story?id=121241461

* "Full List of Seats Mark Carney's Liberals Flipped in Canada Election Win:" https://www.newsweek.com/list-seats-mark-carney-liberal-party-flipped-canada-election-2065569

* "Peter Dutton claims Aussie renters are ‘more inclined’ to vote Labor before their ‘views mature politically’:" https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/peter-dutton-claims-aussie-renters-are-more-inclined-to-vote-labor-before-their-views-mature-politically/news-story/f89f489a35b4c4be5191ab72fc986285

* Early voting has started in Australia. I wish you the best of luck.

* "Australia's young voters set aside disillusionment to keep out right-wing:" https://archive.ph/oExlt

* "Australia's last vote was all about Indigenous people - now they say it's 'silence':" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2v6zy2nyvo

* "Japan Buys First South Korea Rice in Two Decades As Prices Surge:" https://archive.ph/T7D29

* "Risk of global economic recession surges on US tariff shockwaves: Reuters poll:" https://archive.ph/ebT62

* "Consumer expectations crater to three-decade low amid Trump tariff chaos:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/consumers-confidence-tariffs-economy-inflation-00309521

* "Chris Hughes - “Marketcrafters" & The Art of Shaping the American Economy | The Daily Show:"

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* "Exclusive: US-China fentanyl talks hang by thread amid trade war:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-china-fentanyl-talks-hang-by-thread-amid-trade-war-2025-04-23/

* "Amazon is not planning to break out tariff costs online as White House attacks potential move:" https://apnews.com/article/amazon-tariff-prices-trump-white-house-8598569632263872a6c04f7ef330c0fd

* "White House unveils plan to ease tariff impact on US automakers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/29/white-house-automaker-tariff-relief-00315624

* "Retailers Fear Toy Shortages at Christmas as Tariffs Freeze Supply Chain:" https://archive.ph/ko8B1

* "'People will notice': Trump can’t bully and lie his way out of higher prices and empty shelves, says Hayes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-people-will-notice-trump-can-t-bully-and-lie-his-way-out-of-higher-prices-and-empty-shelves-says-hayes-238583877642

* "Tariffs may mean more US steel jobs. Will there be workers to fill them?:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/tariffs-may-mean-more-us-steel-jobs-will-there-be-workers-fill-them-2025-04-23/?

* "White House threatens to veto Senate measure nixing Trump’s global tariffs:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/28/congress/trump-tariff-veto-threat-00312199

* "California sues the Trump administration over the president's sweeping tariffs:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/california-sues-trump-administration-presidents-sweeping-tariffs-rcna201498

* "Nevada joins a dozen states in suing the Trump administration to stop tariff policy:" https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/nevada-joins-a-dozen-states-in-suing-the-trump-administration-to-stop-tariff-policy

* "Insider Trading From Trump's Tariffs?:"

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* "Many Canadian 'snowbirds' in US looking to pack up and fly north - for good:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/many-canadian-snowbirds-us-looking-pack-up-fly-north-good-2025-04-22/?

* "The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America:" https://theintercept.com/2025/04/22/trump-latin-america-bukele-el-salvador-prison/?

* "Airline that struck deal to operate deportation flights faces growing backlash:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-5375779/airline-that-struck-deal-to-operate-deportation-flights-faces-growing-backlash

* "‘Give her back’: Family rallies after Tampa mother suddenly deported back to Cuba:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/her-back-family-rallies-tampa-010530636.html

* "Trump staff puts immigrants' mug shots on White House lawn:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/trump-posters-white-house-arrested-immigrants

* "Non-profit says Venezuelan man arrested by federal agents in Whitefish was in U.S. legally:" https://montanafreepress.org/2025/04/28/non-profit-says-venezuelan-man-arrested-by-federal-agents-in-whitefish-was-in-u-s-legally/

* "Trump Readies Orders Targeting Sanctuary Cities, Police Reforms:" https://archive.ph/bBwtr

* "U.S. Citizens Keep Getting Caught Up in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tracking-us-citizens-children-detained-deported-ice-trump-updates.html

* "Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ice-immigration-detained-americans-congress-questions-unanswered

* Puerto Ricans are US Citizens. "Trump’s Deportation Dragnet Widens and Puerto Ricans Are Getting Caught in It:" https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-deportation-dragnet-widens-catches-puerto-ricans-american-citizens

* "Lawyers for Deported U.S. Citizen Kids Say Moms Were ‘Coerced’ Into Taking Them:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-rubio-deported-us-citizen-children-mothers-coerced-1235326214/

* "You Can't Deport US Citizens:"

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* "Victims of Trump's irresponsible anti-immigrant crusade include American citizens:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/victims-of-trump-s-irresponsible-anti-immigrant-crusade-include-american-citizens-238599749587

* "‘We’re citizens!’: Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren’t suspects:" https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/

Everything they had was stolen, they were terrorized, they weren't allowed to dress, including the children.

We said this was where it was going. Now it's here.

* "American mother, daughters terrorized by ICE in botched search for immigrants: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/american-mother-daughters-terrorized-by-ice-in-botched-search-for-immigrants-report-238599237825

* "Trump exploits loophole to militarize the border; Americans potential targets of military arrests:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-exploits-loophole-to-militarize-the-border-americans-potential-targets-of-military-arrests-238516805772

* "Congress Returns from Spring Recess to Draft Sweeping Budget Resolution Slashing Funding for Medicaid and Food Assistance:" https://nlihc.org/resource/congress-returns-spring-recess-draft-sweeping-budget-resolution-slashing-funding-medicaid

* "Fox News’ many justifications for extending Trump’s tax cut for the wealthy:" https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-many-justifications-extending-trumps-tax-cut-wealthy

* Republicans are planning to steal health care and food out of the mouths of children to pay for their tax cuts to the rich and corporations.

* "Katherine Maher - Why America Needs Public Media | The Daily Show:"

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* 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

* "A tax on credit unions is a tax on me.:" https://www.donttaxmycreditunion.org/

* "Democrats reintroduce Equality Act as Trump escalates war on LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/democrats-reintroduce-equality-act

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

* 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/

* 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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* "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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* "The Exorcist 2 (ft. Richard Pryor) - SNL:"

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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: )

* I'm doing better, but I still tire easily and the physio is already getting ugly. This means I'm going to run out of things like energy and pain resistance without much warning.

The pain has been and continues to be stunning this week.

* "Israel says it will send more troops to Rafah, as fighting also rages in Gaza’s north:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-hamas-latest-05-16-2024-c7318fc513e79580082c0a80ae6878b6

* "Strike kills U.N. aid worker, injures another in southern Gaza:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1251272912/gaza-united-nations-un-aid-worker-killed

* "‘Outrageous’ arson attack forces UNRWA to temporarily shutter East Jerusalem compound:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/05/1149586

* "Israeli activists attack Gaza aid convoy, drawing U.S. condemnation and highlighting risk to aid work:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-gaza-aid-west-bank-settlers-united-nations/

* "Gaza: Israelis Attacking Known Aid Worker Locations:" https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/14/gaza-israelis-attacking-known-aid-worker-locations#:~:text=As%20of%20April%2030%2C%20the,injuring%20at%20least%20one%20more.

* It won't be enough. "US establishes Gaza pier to try to boost aid to hungry enclave:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-establishes-gaza-pier-try-boost-aid-hungry-enclave-2024-05-16/

* "if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to palestine at this time:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750500230956564480?source=share

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

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* "U.S. report says it's 'reasonable to assess' that Israel has violated humanitarian law:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1250442216/u-s-report-says-reasonable-to-assess-that-israel-has-violated-humanitarian-law

* "Rep. Jayapal on Contradictions in State. Dept. Report on Israeli Conduct in Gaza:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-jayapal-on-contradictions-in-state-dept-report-on-israeli-conduct-in-gaza-210763333765

* "Army Officer Resigns in Protest of ‘Unqualified’ U.S. Support to Israel:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/army-officer-resigns-gaza-israel.html

* "Interior Dept staffer becomes first Jewish Biden appointee to publicly resign over war in Gaza:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/interior-dept-staffer-jewish-biden-appointee-publicly-resign-110272884

* "Member of Israel’s War Cabinet says he’ll quit the government June 8 unless there’s a new war plan:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-war-05-18-2024-3ac9d8e59198d5884d0faa6649a53e4f

* "Water cannon used to disperse anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv:" https://apnews.com/video/israel-hamas-war-protests-and-demonstrations-tel-aviv-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-14c6787047b940caa67d663c59c15702

* "Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-lindsey-graham-suggests-nuking-gaza-calls-hiroshima-the-right-decision

* "Republican Congressman Joins Lindsey Graham in Calls to Nuke Gaza:" https://newrepublic.com/post/181580/republican-congressman-greg-murphy-nuke-gaza

* "Pro-Palestinian protests continue on I-5 overpass in Bellingham:" https://mybellinghamnow.com/news/297792-pro-palestinian-protests-continue-on-i-5-overpass-in-bellingham/

* "Pro-Palestine encampment forms on WWU campus:" https://mybellinghamnow.com/news/297792-pro-palestine-encampment-forms-on-wwu-campus/

* "Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/

* "Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters Celebrated for ‘Moral Clarity’ at ‘The People’s Graduation’:" https://time.com/6979149/pro-palestinian-student-protesters-the-peoples-graduation/

* "50 powerful photos from ACT UP's pro-Palestine rally at the GLAAD Media awards:" https://www.advocate.com/news/act-up-glaad-media-protest

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* I can't cover Trump legal stuff in the detail I normally would. Physio ramped up and my arm isn't up to much right now. I am just to tired and in too much pain for blow by blows. Apologies.

* "IRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes

* "Trump Campaign Hid Settlements With Women, New Complaint Says:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-hid-settlements-with-women-new-complaint-says

* "'Utterly humiliating': Trump sycophants in matching suits audition for Trump outside trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-utterly-humiliating-trump-sycophants-in-matching-suits-audition-for-trump-outside-trial-210954309549

* "Trump sycophants parroting attacks on justice system risk further provoking MAGA extremists:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-sycophants-parroting-attacks-on-justice-system-risk-further-provoking-maga-extremists-211040325835

* "Maddow slams 'corrosive' rhetoric as spectacle of Trump's Republican cheering squad grows:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/maddow-slams-corrosive-rhetoric-as-spectacle-of-trump-s-republican-cheering-squad-grows-211113541653

* "GOP rep invokes Proud Boys at Trump trial: 'Standing back and standing by':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-invokes-proud-boys-at-trump-trial-standing-back-and-standing-by-211101765671

* "‘Bizarre’: Lauren Boebert says Trump ‘looks pretty while he sleeps’ in court:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-bizarre-lauren-boebert-says-trump-looks-pretty-while-he-sleeps-in-court-211169349830

* "Michael Cohen says Trump was concerned about election when he sought to bury Stormy Daniels' story:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/13/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/a-critical-line-of-testimony-00157625

* "Stunning lack of effort: Trump defense tepid in attack on Cohen's damning testimony:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/stunning-lack-of-effort-trump-defense-tepid-in-attack-on-cohen-s-damning-testimony-210952261967

* "Largest Year–Over-Year Gain in Keeling Curve Set in March:" https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/2024/05/08/largest-year-over-year-gain-in-keeling-curve-set-in-march/

* "A mountainous country loses its last glacier:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/15/venezuela-corona-glacier-humboldt/

* "I Was Scammed By Taylor Swift’s Boyfriend:"

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* "The Actual History of Pink for Girls and Blue for Boys:"

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* "Trans women discussed trans rights on the BBC over 50 years ago—here’s what it looked like:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/06/trans-history-week/

* "California political activist couple Peggy Moore and Hope Wood killed in car crash:" https://www.advocate.com/news/peggy-moore-hope-wood-killed

* "Black trans woman Kita Bee killed in hit-and-run in Kansas City:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-woman-killed-kita-bee

* 5/13/24: I meant to write a lot last week, but the weather has been very uneven and physio is moving into the two days to recover phase. By the time I was up to writing, I felt I really just needed to push the aggregate out.

Friday freaked me out a little. I was exhausted and in pain and not at my best. Now that I know the asshole agency app makes them fill out a form about me every time they come and that one of them snitched on me last month, leading to medical social worker trying to Hard sell a home visit I don't want or need, I am wary about every interaction with this one, even though it definitely wasn't her. Is the suggestion about organizing the tea station, something no one has been up to all winter and is on our when we have time list, just a suggestion or the beginning of the Asshole Agency/social services deciding they need to steal my autonomy because I'm disabled? Probably not, but it worries me she was here on a bad pain day in case she types something into the app they DO flag.

Fuck. We can't manage without the help as my primary purpose until Autumn is basically just physio and it eats most of my time, energy, and pain resistance.

Sunday, I had a visitor until 3ish in the morning, which is fine. I'm nocturnal.

Except today is bloodwork day, and they didn't say it was fasting, but this batch usually is. I was having some juice and a snack when I looked at the time. Fuck!

So I'll be staying up to do blood draw waaay later than expected. I am exhausted and hungry and I can't take the morning meds dose, including half the days arthritis pill until I get back because arthritis pill needs food.

And I have an online social engagement in the evening as I generally do on Monday and Tuesday.

On the upside, we went grocery shopping Sunday evening before dinner, and I now have pastry rising in the kitchen so I can have a special treat later.

Miles to go before I sleep. Sigh.

* 5/16/24: Wednesday, we went out to the prettiest local lake for a picnic dinner. We sat amoung the trees and looked out at the water. Later, We went down to the bay to watch sunset over water, seagulls circling and diving in front of salmon belly sky.

It is so beautiful here, still.

It is strangely cold, the coldest it's been in May since I moved up here. The plants will perk up and then the strange cold returns. The once reliable range of weather shattered a decade ago and each Spring brings surprises. I suspect we'll lose half the starts in the end. The marigolds are my fault. I accidentally weeded them.

The mint is finally bouncing back at least and I still have hope for the tomatoes. They are full grown and tomatoes respond well to a touch of mortality.

I got a new exercise and an upgrade to my home physio Wednesday. I was so exhausted I went to bed early and didn't even try any that evening, which is fine. I'm allowed to take physio evenings off. Thursday I managed ten of the upgraded exercise and did two other sets of regular. I only managed three of the new exercise before my shoulder hard vetoed. Sigh. I suspect the cold isn't helping.

The current goal is to rebuild enough strength for me to independently lift my arm above my shoulder and hold it for a five count.

* Looks like state election polling season has started. Long time readers will know I get polled a lot, being in possession of a land line, and I generally answer them unless there is a pressing need not to, because I'm a bit of a connoisseur.

I just (Thursday) got extensively polled on the Attorney general race in my state, which is unusual. They occasionally get folded into a governor or state legislature poll, but dedicated attorney general polls are rare. It started with the usual baseline questions and there were the usual demographic questions at the end, but 3/4 of the poll was attorney general stuff. It came off as legit as apposed to a push poll and was very issue oriented. I suspect one of the democratic candidate campaigns was funding it and I suspect they are working out ad strategies.

Usually, I'm more interested in biases and poll design, but this one had so much issues based stuff it left me legitimately weighing who I should vote for this summer. We're early enough in I haven't done the research yet. It's clear I'll need to do more than average. Of the people in the polls, it was the Republican I knew best and instantly dismissed. (On the Republican scale of conservative to nightmare, he's on the more reasonable end but there is no universe were I vote "back the blue.") One of the Democrats I've never heard of and the other I had a vaguely positive opinion, but neither did I know well. Both have some negatives but also really strong positives, hence the need to dig properly to see how much is real, how much is puff, and if there is anything disqualifying. Exciting!

* 5/17/24: So Thursday I was exhausted and in pain so I went to bed early. Alas, very little actual sleep was involved for reasons beyond my control. Livia got lots of pettins out of it at least, as one of her skills is responding to people waking me up my waiting for me to come back from the bathroom and climbing on while the emperor is elsewhere. This was good and important as Tavy's guarding me again, likely due to the obvious physical distress I've been in the last week and a half. When he gets anxious it's everyone's problem. Between Millennial outdoors adventure and the Emperor being the emperor she didn't get any really long bed pets Wednesday.

I had a very early telemedicine thing Friday morning. I had the cleaner scheduled for 10. Goth Millennial wanted to come over and work on some stuff of their own, which is a thing some of them do sometimes. I said sure, as I'd definitely be up all morning. Telemed was fine. Apparently one of my older vaccines is no longer good, so I need go get part one, preferably next week. It was also fast, so I offered to collect Goth Millennial. The Cleaner had a family emergency, which I believe, given things she's said about her circumstances. so I ordered an extra Tuesday because there is a lot needing doing and I barely used any hours the first three months of the year so there is plenty.

My original plan involved going back to bed noonish, but there were a bunch of phone calls and emergency errands and such so i accomplished very little of the things I had on my original agenda for today. Goth Millennial ended up doing some house and garden things as well as the stuff on their agenda, and i couldn't really do any uninterrupted thing until mid afternoon.

By which point my successfully completing my daily physio homework had become a serious liability to everything else because I felt like I was being attacked with knives. In physio's defense Tavy also managed to pin me in a stress position twice, including during lung time this evening, so some of it is Anxious Cat. By dinner time I gave up and took my emergency meds. no noticeable improvement occurred. Indeed as of 9:45PM it is escalating. O.o Which means I'm going to have to employ All the Techniques and home I can chip enough away to sleep.

So I'm trying not to scream and or cry. Still haven't finished the original three to four hours of stuff I was supposed to do today, though I have hopes of Before Midnight local time, and Friday morning aggregate is late again. Tomorrow maybe? Because no way can I push this out tonight.

* Techie Millennial came to Sunday dinner for the first time in ages. I missed them.

I continue to struggle with physio, exhaustion, and my shoulder screaming at me. Sigh.

* "Opioid Settlements: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "Jon Stewart Gives Sen. Robert Menendez a Corruption Lesson | The Daily Show:"

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* "The History of Museums: Crash Course Art History #3:"

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* "Gender Census:" https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GenderCensus2024

* "Summer of Trump Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Jane Austen's Persuasion, Part II:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/jane-austens-persuasion-part-ii?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=144622588&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

* "Sunday Sweets' Crowning Achievement:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-crowning-achievement-2024

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The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Gender Census:" https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GenderCensus2024

* "Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards:" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

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* I'm doing better, but I still tire easily and the physio is already getting ugly. This means I'm going to run out of things like energy and pain resistance without much warning. Posting may vary/

* "Federal judge rejects Donald Trump's bid for new E. Jean Carroll defamation trial, upholds $83M judgment:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-judge-rejects-donald-trumps-bid-new-jean/story?id=109634929

* "Donald Trump ordered to pay $9,000 for violating gag order in criminal hush money trial:" https://www.npr.org/2024/04/30/1244294199/trump-gag-order-hush-money-trial

* "Emails Reveal Top Trump Accountant Had Secret Campaign Role:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/emails-reveal-top-trump-accountant-allen-weisselberg-had-secret-campaign-role

* "Trump trial casts light on dirty side of celebrity tabloids:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-trial-casts-light-on-dirty-side-of-celebrity-tabloids-210179141774

* "Once praised, settlement to help sickened BP oil spill workers leaves most with nearly nothing:" https://apnews.com/article/gulf-spill-lawsuits-bp-health-chemical-exposure-f3845a3cb9da869d2689452a7dec0c9c?

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* "You Can Still Die From World War I Dangers in France’s Red Zones:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/red-zones-in-france

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* "Did London Have Segregation?: The London History Show:"

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* "Conjoined twins Lori Schappell and trans man George Schappell dead at 62:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/conjoined-twins-trans-man-schappell

* 4/28/24: A massive bureaucracy packet arrived Wednesday afternoon. Sigh. It is exhausting and on top of everything handwriting with my dominant hand is difficult and unpleasant. There is nothing for it. i need the packet finished and out so I can focus on the other bureaucracy that arrived Tuesday. and Physio. And Everything else. It's time sensitive anyway.

Thursday I was still recovering from physio and I had to stay up for the cleaner. (Two times in a row! Things are clean!). Friday I spent a couple hours doing phone bureaucracy, mostly on hold. It'd be faster if Social security voice bot believed in my weird foreign name. Sigh.

Saturday was the Great Sorting. Sunday should be Actual Paperwork. I need Squirrel to print a thing out for me too which is always a drama and requires carrying the printer around.

And then there's the waiting for Things to Arrive in the Mail and the field trip to turn things in which involves highway driving, which I can hopefully manage at that point. *fingers crossed*

My arm still emphatically does not want to go up. I have devised an extra low impact stretch for myself where I rest it on the desk podium where Klaus laptop used to set before the Emperor executed Aidan lap top. It seems small and stupid, but is clearly a lot less dangerous than the official upward arm stretch. I do it in small batches when reading longer things on the internet. I wish I could do it Instead of, but I know better.

Goth Millennial has been very busy in the garden, which is needful. They are moving soon and have decided that they won't need metal outdoor shelving they had been using indoors at their place. They are therefore constructing more plant shelving on the patio. Livia is pretty sure it is actually the zombie hoard coming to get her. The garden is going pretty well despite the weird chill that has persisted most of April despite the weird late March heat wave. Climate change is do weird shit to our weather patterns.

* 5/3/24:
Monday was fire inspection. This involves about an hour of teeth rattling sirens at random interval and a Stranger in Boots invading the cat asylum. As a result, the cats have been incredibly stressed out all week, though things were finally settling down as of Thursday.

Squirrel has been having an ongoing medical issue that got acute enough that on Tuesday they agreed to fit him in extremely early Wednesday morning. I was able to cancel my medical transport for arm torture, and took him. While he was in there I cashed a bunch of the May OTC at the pharmacy and took my bureaucracy packet in to the office where it goes. The timing was excellent. I was a few blocks away when they released squirrel and there was just time enough to take him to his referral for more testing and then drop him home before my appointment. (Everyone's being reasonable about the situation including his employer. I feel a lot better knowing they are checking properly to rule out more serious things.)

Arm torture is arm torture. The new PT is really nice and a delight. We are at the lots and lots of stupid little exercise phase still. (The exercises are correct and there is already noticeable improvement, but they are also emotionally unsatisfying. It is hard to explain. This is probably an ex-athlete psychology problem. In any case, I am being good and not pushing dangerously hard. I dropped stuff my body was not up to Monday evening like I'm supposed to. I am doing everything I reasonably can, which is all of it most days. I am working the program). He added two extra ones to help my arm with the doesn't want to go up issue.

* CW: Animal Death "Kristi Noem, Puppy Killer | Did Trump Fart In Court? | Why Pecker Wouldn’t Pay Stormy Daniels:"

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* "31,000 Ukrainian troops killed since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Zelenskyy says:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-troops-killed-zelenskyy-675f53437aaf56a4d990736e85af57c4

* "How one officer class offers a glimpse into Russia’s military amid Ukraine war:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-russia-officers/

* "Indians are unwittingly recruited into the Russian army:" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/29/indians-are-unwittingly-recruited-into-the-russian-army_6573586_4.html

* "How Russian officials and their collaborators spirit away Ukraine’s children:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-children/

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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

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

* The Republican War on Democracy continues. "Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/us/politics/trump-voter-rolls.html

* "It Can Happen Here: A new project tracking creeping authoritarianism.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/it-can-happen-here-trump-authoritarianism-fascism/

* "She’s a Prophet. She’s a Theocrat. She’s the Most Powerful Lobbyist You’ve Never Heard Of.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/abby-abildness-lobbyist/

* "'The Republican Party is going through some things': Maddow marvels at GOP veering into extremism:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-marvels-at-gop-veering-into-extremism-right-up-to-the-top-205461573974

* "U.S. voters face stark contrast in 2024 choices, with no 'magic wand' coming to help:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-voters-face-stark-contrast-in-2024-choices-with-no-magic-wand-coming-to-help-205463621504

* "Laverne Cox is begging all queer Americans to vote Democrat in the 2024 election:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/laverne-cox-election-2024

* "Black LGBTQ+ candidates still face bigotry — here's how they're fighting it:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/black-lgbtq-politicians-obstacles

* "Oregon mayoral candidate was involved in 1984 gay bashing but says he's changed:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/oregon-mayoral-candidate-gay-bashing

* "Missouri Republicans try to remove man with ties to KKK from party ballot:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-mark-robinson-mlk

* "Offensive comments by N.C. Republican stand out even in Trump’s party:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/03/02/mark-robinson-governor-candidate-north-carolina-offensive-comments/

* "Donald Trump endorses Mark Robinson, who said gays are ‘filth’ and ‘maggots,’ for NC governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-mark-robinson-mlk

* "Trump calls GOP's most toxic candidate 'Martin Luther King times two':" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/4/2227413/-Trump-calls-GOP-s-most-toxic-candidate-Martin-Luther-King-times-two

* Presidential Primaries are ongoing:

NOTE: There is now a call for people to vote "uncommitted" in the Democratic primary as a protest against Biden's Israel policy, I have voted that way in my up coming primary. The time to pressure Biden with your vote is now, not in November. The more of us who do this the more likely he'll actually do something.

Alabama, Alaska (Republicans), Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa (Democrats), Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, American Samoa (Democrats): 3/5/24

Hawaii: (Democrats): 3/6/24

American Samoa (Republicans): 3/8/24

Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary (as it is in my state). Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

It is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us.

* "'Uncommitted' protest over Biden's Israel support heads to Minnesota:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/uncommitted-protest-aims-minnesota-over-bidens-israel-support-2024-03-04/

* "Biden says Trump wouldn't concede next time: "Losers are never graceful":" https://www.axios.com/2024/03/04/biden-trump-2024-election-concede

* "Nikki Haley wins DC primary, first victory for campaign:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/haley-dc-primary-results-00144502

* "Hungarian PM Orban to meet ally Trump on March 8:" https://www.reuters.com/world/hungarian-pm-orban-meet-trump-march-8-florida-2024-03-04/

* "At CPAC, Trump Invokes Clashing Visions of America’s Future:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/us/politics/trump-cpac.html

* ""Truly dystopian": Experts worry Trump's school vaccine plan will spark "public health catastrophe":" https://www.salon.com/2024/03/04/truly-dystopian-experts-worry-school-vaccine-plan-will-spark-public-health-catastrophe/

* ""He looks lost": Alarm after Trump's "mind blanks out" repeatedly during speech:" https://www.salon.com/2024/03/04/he-looks-lost-alarm-after-mind-blanks-out-repeatedly-during-speech/

* "Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/

* "Kentucky bill threatens to take custody of trans kids using ‘wrong’ school bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kentucky-bill-take-trans-children

* I think we all know why they want this and what they are going to do to the women. "New Oklahoma bill could allow state to create database of women who had abortions:" https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/02/15/oklahoma-abortion-law-kevin-west-bill-creates-database-women/72613836007/#:~:text=New%20Oklahoma%20bill%20could%20allow,of%20women%20who%20had%20abortions&text=A%20Democratic%20lawmaker%20expressed%20concerns,procedure%20and%20ban%20emergency%20contraception.

* "A bill protecting birth control access is headed to Virginia’s governor. Here’s why Republicans said they opposed it.:" https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/03/01/a-bill-protecting-birth-control-access-is-headed-to-virginias-governor-heres-why-republicans-said-they-opposed-it/

* "As Missouri lawmakers continue attacking LGBTQ+ rights, one city is taking a stand against hate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/columbia-missouri-lgbtq-safe-haven

* "Georgia Senate passes bill to create ‘America First’ license plate:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-senate-passes-bill-creating-america-first-license-plate/XHE3RYKTN5DLPAOJ6PKZRK3HH4/

Reminder: "America first" is a NAZI slogan broadly adopted by Trump and the Republicans for obvious reasons.

* "California Sen. Laphonza Butler reads Audre Lorde in protest of GOP book banning:" https://www.advocate.com/books/banned-books-laphonza-butler

* "Oklahoma superintendent’s ties to anti-trans influencer spark outrage in wake of Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ryan-walters-transphobic-influencer-ties

* "Oklahoma superintendent and Libs of TikTok celebrate bullying gay principal out of job for drag persona:" https://www.advocate.com/news/oklahoma-drag-principal-resignation

* "Why industry is blocking the push for more energy efficient homes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/21/homebuilders-energy-efficiency-climate/

* "In Cincinnati, redevelopment can mean artwork — and people — disappear:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/21/1231466640/in-cincinnati-redevelopment-can-mean-artwork-and-people-disappear

* "The Future of Silk:" https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-future-of-silk/

* "Apple’s Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-03/why-was-apple-car-canceled-the-hubris-in-apple-thinking-it-could-outdo-tesla-ltbke5ut

* "X/Twitter has ‘quietly restored’ a ban on misgendering and deadnaming trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/x-twitter-has-quietly-restored-a-ban-on-misgendering-and-deadnaming-trans-people/

* "Elon Musk sues OpenAI's Sam Altman for breach of contract:" https://www.advocate.com/news/sam-altman-openai-elon-musk

* "Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/magazine/mars-isolation-experiment.html

* "Twin Bell's turtles hatch during research project to repopulate the species in the NSW New England region:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-21/belles-turtle-repopulation-program-produces-twin-hatchlings-une/103485442

* "Getting that 'Moby Dick' — The first humpback whales to be seen having sex are both male:" https://www.advocate.com/news/humpback-whale-gay-sex

* "Charlotte, a stingray with no male companion, is pregnant in her mountain aquarium:" https://apnews.com/article/stingray-pregnant-charlotte-north-carolina-1da7d7ab06bf22169ef2c8e589db9cb4

* "Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds:" https://phys.org/news/2024-02-pythagoras-wrong-universal-musical-harmonies.html

* "Rediscovering Rome’s Female Merchants:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/antiquity-roman-female-merchants

* "A mysterious 2,000-year-old Iron Age warrior was female, a new study shows:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/old-iron-age-female-warrior-scilly-iburial-rcna96595

* "The Humour of Medieval Scribes:" https://www.medievalists.net/2024/02/humour-medieval-scribes/

* "Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855):" https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/earthquakes-in-japanese-woodblock-prints/

* "Recovering the Lost Aviators of World War II:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/recovering-lost-aviators-world-war-ii-180983690/

* "Meet the Boston native at the center of the Tuskegee Airmen mural at Logan Airport:" https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-02-29/meet-the-boston-native-at-the-center-of-the-tuskegee-airmen-mural-at-logan-airport

* "Rosalind Franklin was so much more than the ‘wronged heroine’ of DNA:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02144-4

* "What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/

* "The Endangered Languages of NYC:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/22/magazine/endangered-languages-nyc.html

* "The Black Women of Gee’s Bend Work Hard and Easy: The wonder world of quilt-making:" https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/the-black-women-of-gees-bend-work-hard-and-easy/

* "Some Museums Scrambled to Remove Native American Items From Display. These Museums Didn’t Need to.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/why-museum-of-us-history-colorado-didnt-scramble-meet-new-repatriation-rules

* "Pat Logue, Lambda Legal attorney who won landmark cases, has died:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pat-logue-lambda-legal-obituary

* Saturday physio still gave me the shakes, but it was the first time I made any real progress with the hardest Exercise.

Monday, the car fix was cheaper than expected, but they discovered the power steering is about to Go. I've already paid the housing tax, which ate most of my discretionary funds, and I blew the entire EBT on shelf stable easy to make things for while I'm laid up plus a few perishables and I still need to hit the other store for fresh veg and such.

The car fix is expensive, as there aren't that many places carrying compatible parts for a car this ancient, so the price is like twice what it would have been a decade ago. I made the appointment for mid-April, when I hope to be allowed to drive as it takes two of us to drop off and pick up the car. The hope is it can survive another week, as I shan't be allowed to drive for any of March past the 12th.

Sigh. Being Poor is so damned expensive.

I have decided not to worry about it now. Getting through March is going to be hard enough given the surgery stuff. If worse comes to worst I'll just not pay anything but housing next month.

On the up side, the completely immobilized arm for two weeks turns out to have been for the rather extreme and complex surgery we though i was going to need. I am getting the medium surgery instead, so I'll be able to move it a little. It won't be good for much, but can move it a little will be a bit easier than not at all.

I am still stressed out about trips to the toilet and the like, trying to manage one handed without practice. I know lots of people manage fine with one or no arms. I once had a lover who only had one part of one arm and he was the most graceful man I've ever seen including professional dancers. I have no practice though, and I'm not going to be in great shape the first few days.

* "Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Black writers share their favorite books to honor Black History Month:" https://www.advocate.com/books/black-writers-black-history-month

* "New Indigenous heist movie focuses on repatriation of belongings:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/the-great-salish-heist-1.7112633

* "A gender-bending Civil War soldier's tale comes to the musical stage:" https://www.advocate.com/theater/rosetta-project-civil-war-gender

* "Detectives - SNL:"

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* "Airbnb Design Commercial - SNL:"

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* "Sunday Sweets Sings It's Not Easy Being Green:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-sings-its-not-easy-being-green-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.

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

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

* "How you can support queer and trans kids in Oklahoma after Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/how-to-help-trans-kids

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

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

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

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

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

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

* Help Queer Folks in Ghana: https://www.silentmajorityghana.com/donate

* "Library of Congress Launches New Website for Americans to Share COVID-19 Stories:" https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-launches-new-website-for-americans-to-share-covid-19-stories/s/d5739534-fec6-4e13-9f16-68d6117ee94b

* "We’re looking for English-speaking neopronoun users (aged 18+) to participate in a paid linguistics study.:" https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/741780492503990272/kirby-conrod-is-a-cool-linguist-whos-done-neat

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* Extremely Behind. Sorry.

* "What Israeli Soldiers’ Videos Reveal: Cheering Destruction and Mocking Gazans:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/world/middleeast/israel-idf-soldiers-war-social-media-video.html

* "Israel Has Created a Medical Apocalypse in Gaza:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fourteen-patients-evacuated-besieged-gaza-hospital-ministry-says-2024-02-19/

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

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

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

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* "The US vetoes an Arab-backed UN resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza:" https://apnews.com/article/un-israel-palestinians-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-vote-350c86ef261bf1a00a2515cf22764de5

* "UK parliament descends into chaos over Gaza ceasefire vote:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-parliament-descends-into-chaos-over-gaza-ceasefire-vote-2024-02-21/

* "Large Antigovernment Protest Returns to Tel Aviv, as Criticism of Netanyahu Mounts:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/world/middleeast/tel-aviv-protest-netanyahu-israel.html

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* "Analysis: A key withdrawal shows Ukraine doesn’t have enough artillery to fight Russia:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-avdiivka-war-063ab1bd47a500ad4a815b12f3d1386d

* "Ukrainian workers describe fleeing the Russian-occupied nuclear power plant:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1180030838/ukraine-s-nuclear-workers

* "The Danger Lurking Just Below Ukraine’s Surface:" https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-mine-problem/

* "Russian Chopper Pilot Who Defected to Ukraine Found Dead in Spain:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-chopper-pilot-who-defected-to-ukraine-found-dead-in-spain

* "Judge orders Trump to pay $355 million for lying about his wealth in staggering civil fraud ruling:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-civil-fraud-verdict-engoron-244024861f0df886543c157c9fc5b3e4

* "Trump Guilty of Civil Fraud in New York:"

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* "Concerns grow that legal losses could make Trump desperate, even more open to corruption:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/concerns-grow-that-legal-losses-could-make-trump-desperate-even-more-open-to-corruption-204523589929

* "Judge denies Trump's request to delay enforcement of $355M fraud case penalties:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-asks-judge-delay-penalties-civil-fraud-case/story?id=107433418

* "Trump's new legal debts could have catastrophic 'domino effect' on existing debts:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-faces-catastrophe-as-new-legal-debts-could-have-domino-effect-on-existing-debts-204765765975

* "'Trump would sell this country for a dollar': AOC highlights stakes of Trump's desperation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-trump-would-sell-this-country-for-a-dollar-aoc-highlights-stakes-of-trump-s-desperation-204844101882

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

* "Library of Congress Launches New Website for Americans to Share COVID-19 Stories:" https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-launches-new-website-for-americans-to-share-covid-19-stories/s/d5739534-fec6-4e13-9f16-68d6117ee94b

* "We’re looking for English-speaking neopronoun users (aged 18+) to participate in a paid linguistics study.:" https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/741780492503990272/kirby-conrod-is-a-cool-linguist-whos-done-neat

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* The last few editions, I've been tinkering with how to sort and group items. The changes are fairly minor and I hope won't cause too much confusion. Let me know if it does.

This should have gone out Monday A, but I was tired.

* "Costs divide rich, poor countries ahead of WHO pandemic treaty talks:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-pandemic-bats-treaty/

* "Guatemalan justice ‘being used politically’ against president-elect: OAS:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/1/guatemalan-justice-being-used-politically-against-president-elect-oas

* "Met Police deny targeting ‘woke’ issues after Mark Rowley interview in The Telegraph:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/met-police-woke-causes-mark-rowley/

* "The Culture War Funded by Russian Roubles:" https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/09/the-culture-war-funded-by-russian-roubles/

* "10-Year-Old Ukrainian Boy Thrown Off Bridge in Germany for Not Speaking Russian:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-year-old-ukrainian-boy-thrown-off-bridge-in-germany-for-not-speaking-russian

* "In wartime Ukraine, going back to school means preparing for air raids and huddling in shelters:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/europe/ukraine-war-back-to-school-intl/index.html

* "Judge rejects Navarro’s ‘executive privilege’ claim for defying Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/navarro-trump-privilege-ruling-00113486

* "Let's talk about Navarro and signs....:"

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* "Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming Georgia election workers, judge rules :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/judge-rules-giuliani-is-liable-for-defaming-georgia-election-workers-orders-sanctions-00113462

* "New York AG seeks immediate verdict in fraud lawsuit against Trump:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-york-ag-seeks-immediate-verdict-in-fraud-lawsuit-against-donald-trump

* "When Elon Musk Fought Jack Smith's Search Warrant for Donald Trump:"

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* "Trump pleads ‘not guilty’ in Georgia racketeering case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/31/trump-georgia-not-guilty-plea-00113612

* "Why Protestors Blockaded Burning Man:" https://advocatechannel.com/burning-man-protest-blockade

* "Tens of thousands at Burning Man told to conserve water and food after heavy rains leave attendees stranded in Nevada desert:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/02/us/burning-man-storms-shelter-black-rock-city/index.html

* "Mishmash of how US heat deaths are counted complicates efforts to keep people safe as Earth warms:" https://apnews.com/article/counting-extreme-heat-deaths-7125ad9a5289625bd9ca312945996399

* "How wildfires are threatening the Mediterranean way of life:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/02/greece-fires-2023-rhodes/

* "Greece sends 100 extra firefighters to a massive northeastern wildfire as it burns for a 13th day:" https://apnews.com/article/greece-wildfires-massive-blaze-europe-77c0e818372ab86f11f2196f07237c54

* "A heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago nearly 30 years ago:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/10/chicago-heat-wave-1995/

* "127-year-old water main gives way under NYC’s Times Square, flooding streets, subways:" https://apnews.com/article/water-main-break-times-square-a896d33258b86d4a77050b542413785b

* "America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html

* "The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet:" https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/the-secret-life-of-the-500-cables-that-run-the-internet/

* "Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/judge-tears-apart-republican-lawsuit-alleging-bias-in-gmail-spam-filter/

* "Instagram Is Blocking LGBTQIA+ Accounts:" https://www.advocate.com/business/instagram-shadowbanning-lgbtq-content

* "Elon Musk: A smart businessman or an ‘impetuous narcissist’?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/02/elon-musk-x-corp-twitter-bruce-daisley/

* "The Crane who Fell in Love with a Human:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2018/07/23/feature/the-crane-who-fell-in-love-with-a-human/

* "We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and Humans Are Increasingly Aware We Can Choose How Our Cultures Can Evolve:" https://www.pressenza.com/2023/08/we-did-not-evolve-to-be-selfish-and-humans-are-increasingly-aware-we-can-choose-how-our-cultures-can-evolve/

* "Göbekli Tepe: The Place That Rewrote History:"

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* "Karahan Tepe: The Mysteries of The Oldest Known Settlement:"

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* "Did Vikings Really Prefer Axes to Swords? A Brief Look at Some Blades:"

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* "History Summarized: The Splendor of Kyiv:"

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* "The largest mass sedition trial in American history churns on. One final twist calls into question whether the Justice Department will see the case to the end.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/episode-7-rinse-repeat-n1300745

* "In the wake of the sedition trial’s collapse, Justice Department prosecutor John Rogge travels overseas and uncovers a bombshell.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/episode-8-ultra-vires-n1300884

* "Bill Richardson, former N.M. governor who worked to free Americans held abroad, dies:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197430962/bill-richardson-former-new-mexico-governor-and-diplomat-dies-at-75

* Sometimes when other Olds are complaining about young people and their phones, I think about the Student Union at my first college in the days just before email happened to ordinary people.

It was a very small school and the student union was basically a very large basement, with an eatery, a mail room, and a bunch of seating areas. The mail room was central and four times a day they delivered mail. You might ask, "How was there enough mail to deliver four times a day, when the post office delivers once a day?" Most of it was junk. You got the real mail once a day and the rest was fliers and things for activities, messages from Profs or other students, that sort of think. Most of it went right into the conveniently placed recycling bins.

I admit, like everyone else, I'd turn up for the big distribution of outside mail as you had to catch package delivery when the window was open, and given the poor taste and nutritional value of the crap in the cafeteria, something edible from home was a Big Deal.

Four times a day though, the students would gather if they weren't in class in the seating areas closest to the mail boxes. Some benighted souls would hover, hover, right in front of their boxes, listening excitedly for the squeak of the sort cart and the rustle of the student workers on the other side, eyes fixed on the tiny box window.

These people knew perfectly well that the other three deliveries were 80-90% junk mail. They sat or stood, desperate as baby birds waiting for the worm anyway.

People haven't changed, they are just waiting for a ping instead of a squeak and rustle.

Human nature is human nature. I think a lot of people from before email and texts are forgetting that they too have run to the mailbox when they saw the USPS truck or mail person put stuff in, or dove for the letters lot hoping for something good, or hovered by a campus mail slot knowing odds were it was all or mostly trash. I try not to forget that, even though I stopped hovering after a week or so, even though if I check my email more than once a day it's a lot, even though I don't text. Who the fuck are we too judge? We've all done the analog version even if we aren't currently doing the digital and I feel like a lot of people who were email users but not frequent texters are pretending we all didn't refresh email like 8 times a day in the '90's.

* Saturday we wore ourselves out with necessary errands. I needed algae wafers for the plecoes and some special girl food to tide Livia over. They had her shreds but not her kibbles there. (As I bought the last two bags of kibbles at the local last month, she likely has about a month of kibbles left, but with today I think the bird flu may have fucked the cat food supply and for Livia, the choice is a small number of turkey dominant limited ingredient foods or going back on the even more expensive prescription stuff. There are three more places I could try left, but gas is low and two of them are further out and one is super expensive.

All this is made worse by Livia having what is likely a psychiatric crisis, but could be early signs that her renal system may be failing again. Let us hope it's psychiatric, because that won't kill her and I think she's doing a little better tonight. There have been a lot of visitors and schedule disruptions, plus me being sick. That's a lot of stress for a cat who super extra is bad at change and gets stressed easily. Her urine remains normal, but her high anxiety behaviors aren't that different from the behaviors the time she almost died when she was a little over a year old, so I worry. She was eating almost normally tonight, so I'm still in the likely stress camp. *fingers crossed*

Anyway, OTC was right next to the way too hot pet supply store. I somehow miscalculated the tax again and also forgot surgical masks, of which I have nearly run out. @$&#!

The good cheap ethical grocery is right there, so I used the motor cart because most of me wasn't working well at this point. Inevitably, I forgot some things, but there were tiny oranges on sale and I have partially restocked some essentials.

My nails are doing almost okay for the first time in ages, so Goth Millennial painted them a subtly sparkly purple for me, just in time for social stuff with some of the Millennials.

I'm still not really caught up from all the spring car repairs. I am already seeing way more things I can't not buy like gas, litter, and probably kibbles and we are moving into the super expensive part of the year (September-January), where I have a bunch of extra things I can't not do like the oil/radiator thing my car now needs every six months, tabs, housing tax, Gothmas season). I had such high hopes when the COLA went up in January, but between the car and the extra electrical costs... yeah.

I'm not drowning. Not yet. It's been two straight years of everything breaking. I could sure use a year of nothing breaking. This was the first summer since the start of the pandemic I didn't need surgery in the summer. Let's hope the car and apartment follow suit.

* Me watching remastered Frankenstein 1931: Elizabeth, why are you trying to marry a gay man with no interest in you even if he did propose when you have offers from men actually attracted to you?

Much Later, Elizabeth: Something is coming between us!

Me: It's his preference for playing with men's bodies!

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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.

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* I was sick this week so a massive number of things got prepped and didn't go in, including a massive amount of fascism watcha queer news. Apologies.

* "Guatemala progressive’s presidential victory certified, but his party is suspended:" https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-0b8d5eb5dbc81fcb6a413f8212739b68

* "Venezuela: Arbitrary detentions continue as a tool of government control and repression:" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/08/venezuela-arbitrary-arrests-government-control-repression/

* "Cocaine cartels encroach on Unification Church’s Paraguayan paradise:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/paraguay-drugs-unification-church/

* "Inspired by Ukraine war, Taiwan launches drone blitz to counter China:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/us-china-tech-taiwan/

* "Let's talk about Taiwan, the US, and F-16s....:"

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* "Ukraine will speed up advance on southern front, commander says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-will-speed-up-advance-southern-front-commander-2023-08-26/

* "Ukraine says it liberates strategic settlement:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-it-has-liberated-southeastern-village-robotyne-2023-08-28/

* "Life in Kyiv may seem normal on the surface, but a closer look reveals the burdens of war:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-daily-life-kyiv-bombardment-fe82d9695f5294e513b3f77937f95b87

* "Hayes: Giuliani defamation ruling is ‘down payment on actual accountability’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-giuliani-defamation-ruling-is-down-payment-on-actual-accountability-191936581685

* "Mark Meadows takes stand in bid to derail Georgia criminal charges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/28/meadows-testimony-georgia-hearing-00113215

* "Trump and 18 others charged in the Georgia election case are set to be arraigned on Sept. 6:" https://apnews.com/article/georgia-indictment-arraignment-trump-giuliani-c5abbd260f44947a1c01211136108bfe

* "Rev. Stephen Lee from Orland Park church surrenders in Trump Georgia case:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-lee-turns-himself-in-st-0827-20230825-rfx4xxjc2bdntllgczgi4ppnbe-story.html

* "Rudy Giuliani and an Empty Bag of Cheez-Its:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/rudy-giuliani-cheez-its

* "You Can't Talk About Trump's Georgia Case Without Talking About Racism:" https://time.com/6307644/georgia-indictment-trump-fani-willis-race/

* "Trump’s federal trial for subverting election is scheduled for March :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/28/trump-trial-date-election-subversion-2020-00113186

* "'Like any defendant': Judge says Trump must ‘make the trial date work’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-like-any-defendant-judge-says-trump-must-make-the-trial-date-work-191776837679

* "Trump bid to put off federal trial for years falls flat; Judges consult on speedy trial schedule:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-bid-to-put-off-federal-trial-for-years-falls-flat-judges-consult-on-speedy-trial-schedule-191787589783

* "Ex-judge: Trump election trial judge should have ‘The Talk’ with lawyers:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ex-judge-trump-election-trial-judge-should-have-the-talk-with-lawyers-191854661770

* "Why it's wrong to assume a single gunman is a 'lone wolf' shooter:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-it-s-wrong-to-assume-a-single-gunman-is-a-lone-wolf-shooter-191787589707

* CW: Animal Death "Heavily Armed Man Kills Dog at Church, Returns to Menace Congregation:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/armed-kills-dog-church-texas

* "Let's talk about Memphis and scorpions....:"

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* "Covid Closed the Nation’s Schools. Cleaner Air Can Keep Them Open.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/health/schools-indoor-air-covid.html

* "Growing concerns for back-to-school as data shows rising COVID-19 cases in B.C.:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-variants-back-to-school-1.6949248

* "Johnston Column: COVID response confounds SARS expert:" https://www.thewhig.com/opinion/johnston-column-covid-response-confounds-sars-expert

* It's really bad here too, south of the border. The new vaccine formulation rolls out in a couple weeks. We all need to work together to stop spreading COVID by wearing masks indoors, etc.. Remember, each reinfection increases your chance of long term damage.

* As a kid who went to a high achieving school, it checks out. "Students in high-achieving schools are now named an ‘at-risk’ group, study says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/09/26/students-high-achieving-schools-are-now-named-an-at-risk-group/

* "Sam Champion Talks Extreme Weather and Climate Change:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/sam-champion-climate-change

* "Hurricane Idalia hits Florida with 125 mph winds, flooding streets, snapping trees and cutting power:" https://apnews.com/article/florida-hurricane-idalia-2136985ceea53f5deb600c43aeea1138

* "Residents pick through the rubble of lost homes and scattered belongings in Hurricane Idalia’s wake:" https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-idalia-tropical-storm-florida-carolina-georgia-6fcf457b3c1da43c208730bb998cdd0f

* "Tropical Storm Idalia hits North Carolina after leaving trail of devastation in Southeast:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/tropical-storm-idalia-hits-north-carolina-after-leaving-trail-of-devastation-in-southeast

* "Virginia Beach, Norfolk residents see heavy flooding from Idalia:" https://www.wtkr.com/news/virginia-beach-norfolk-residents-see-heavy-flooding-from-idalia

* "More than 600 firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft struggle to control wildfires in Greece:" https://apnews.com/article/greece-wildfires-evros-alexandroupolis-athens-parnitha-87ba978808ca9d836b733df6b5713083

* "Greece wildfire destroys area bigger than New York City:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/greece-wildfire-scorches-area-bigger-than-new-york-2023-08-29/

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* "America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html

* "Dirty air is biggest external threat to human health, worse than tobacco or alcohol, major study finds:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-pollution-biggest-human-health-threat-smoking-alcohol-study/

* "The true cost of climate pollution? 44% of corporate profits.:" https://grist.org/economics/true-cost-carbon-pollution-half-of-corporate-profits-climate/

* "Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/21/business/airline-safety-close-calls.html

* "Let's talk about how India's on the moon....:"

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* "Why does tumblr make so many random changes AND never give any forewarning or a reasoning for why they made it, AND never give any data on the feedback we send or the results they get from those changes? :" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/727249796852826112/i-know-you-arent-with-tumblr-anymore-but-idk-who?source=share

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

* "‘Large’ creature — with 20 arms — found lurking in Antarctic sea. It’s a new species:" https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article278094767.html

* "Takahē recovery: New wild home for birds on Ngāi Tahu whenua in Ōtākou:" https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/takahe-recovery-new-wild-home-for-birds-on-ngai-tahu-whenua-in-otakou/MMFSWNMCJJBWVKJAVV3XV6GI4E/

* "Members of Congress and the America First movement working to spread Nazi propaganda try to shut down reporting and a Justice Department investigation into their activities.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/episode-5-shut-it-down-n1300315

* "Justice Department prosecutor O. John Rogge isn't prepared for the pre-planned chaos that erupts as the most high-profile sedition trial in U.S. history begins.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/episode-6-bedlam-n1300515

* "The History of D&D Hasbro Refused to Learn From:"

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* "On National Grief Awareness Day, Remembering the AIDS Caregivers:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/national-grief-awareness-day-aids

* "How Native Hawaiians have been pushed out of Hawai'i:"

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* Every day I wake up hoping Tumblr will have fixed the tag system so it saves previous tags one has used as it used to. Every day I am disappointed.

I am so tired of zapping NAZI/TERFs and spam bots. Related question: why are so many porn spammers also Neo-NAZI TEERFs?

* I've been kind of sluggish and the cats have been extra clingy which I attributed to my system still being off from the meds experiment that failed. Tuesday, Livia tried to herd me back to bed three times. I caught squirrel coughing when he came out to eat. I reminded him to COVID test, which we're being extra careful about because it's bad here and ripping through nursing homes along with RSV and Influenza. They have it at his job, so he's being extra careful, but still.

Several hours later, I started coughing, and it escalated fast as these things do with me. We're both negative for COVID, so likely he brought a cold home and spread it. Honestly it feels like my standard respirator virus situation, not post vax crappy. I alerted the Millennials and called off Wednesday errands. This was clever as I was too ill to sleep properly and every time i drifted off the phone rang.

On the upside the people in charge of breathing meds have finally accepted my doctor's second attempt to renew my prescription after them calling me daily for a month and a half and me telling them that the doctor they keep faxing doesn't work their anymore and them prete5nding to put the new doctor's name in the computer only to call me the next day for an identical conversation in which I have to explain about the old doctor having left in February etc.. I know they talk to a lot of people but they only have three people calling and it was A MONTH and A HALF. It was like none of them had any memory of me having had this conversation before with them, often just the day before. Sigh. I try to be super polite to people with jobs like that because it's a rotten job, but I admit to getting a bit snippy towards the end.

Anyway, I can stop rationing lung meds now.

I did finally get reasonable sleep in the evening. If you are reading me on Tumblr, I didn't get to the posting news part of the evening. This is why.

* "The Comic Strip That Explains the Evolution of American Parenting:" https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/06/goofus-and-gallant-american-parenting-highlights/674536/

* "A Good Day To Join The Hittite Army, Chapter Five: A Quick Trip to the Underworld:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/a-good-day-to-join-the-hittite-army-bef?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=135632780&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

* "Midnight Pals: Cyclical Time:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/726919264925335552/midnight-pals-cyclical-time?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Happy Birthday:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/727104504329306113/midnight-pals-happy-birthday?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

( Links Underneath: )

* The aggregate went up late this week because of chaos detailed below. My body is still completely thrashed from the Friday uncleaning. I am doing my best, but only a tiny portion of news made it up.

* "Waterloo university stabbing was ‘targeted anti-LGBTQ+ attack’, police say as suspect charged:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/waterloo-university-stabbing-was-targeted-anti-lgbtq-attack-police-say-as-suspected-charged/

* "Bigots blame stabbing attack in a Canadian University’s Gender Issues class on trans people being too trans in public:" https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2023/06/29/bigots-blame-stabbing-attack-in-a-canadian-universitys-gender-issues-class-on-trans-people-being-too-trans-in-public/

* "Russia conducts tactical fighter jet drills over Baltic Sea:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-conducts-tactical-fighter-jet-drills-over-baltic-sea-2023-06-27/

* "Putin tells rebellious Russian fighters to swear allegiance or leave for Belarus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/26/putin-rebellion-troops-belarus-00103695

* "Some Russians welcomed Wagner mercenaries who appeared in their streets during brief insurrection:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/europe/russia-wagner-rostov-sympathy-ukraine-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Plot Thickens: Russian Generals Supported Wagner Mutiny but Backed Out – US Intelligence:" https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18817

* "Wagner’s Prigozhin Planned to Capture Russian Military Leaders:" https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/wagners-prigozhin-planned-to-capture-russian-military-leaders-805345cf

* "Putin Moves to Punish Prigozhin Allies:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/world/europe/putin-prigozhin-russia.html

* "Prigozhin May Be Gone, but Not the Failings He Ranted About:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/world/europe/prigozhin-shoigu-gerasimov-surovikin-russia-military.html

* "The poppycock of Myanmar drug suppression:" https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/the-poppycock-of-myanmar-drug-suppression/

* "SNP politicians accuse Tories of ‘rank hypocrisy’ for supporting devolution ‘where it suits them’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/snp-hannah-bardell-gender-recognition-reform/

* "Politician who allegedly said all white men should have Black slave is suspended:" https://thegrio.com/2023/04/14/british-politician-andrew-edwards-white-men-black-slave/

* "Ukraine spy chief accuses Russia of 'mining' cooling pond at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-spy-chief-accuses-russia-mining-cooling-pond-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-2023-06-20/

* This is a really helpful thing explaining why Biden's wanting bridges without weight restrictions is correct from a civil engineering perspective: https://www.tumblr.com/whovianuncle/721335205966823424/surely-this-is-a-good-idea-that-doesnt-have-the?source=share

* This win was essential for saving democracy and a huge relief. "Supreme Court denies state legislatures the unchecked power to set election rules:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/27/supreme-court-rejects-independent-state-legislature-theory-00103793

* "Hayes: Supreme Court has ruled against the right’s ‘slow-motion insurrection’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-supreme-court-has-ruled-against-the-right-s-slow-motion-insurrection-185338437718

* "Ketanji Brown Jackson Dismantles SCOTUS Conservatives in Blistering Dissent:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ketanji-brown-jackson-dismantles-scotus-conservatives-in-blistering-affirmative-action-dissent

* "US Supreme Court's two Black justices clash over affirmative action ruling:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-justices-jackson-thomas-illustrate-heated-us-debate-race-2023-06-29/

* "How Clarence Thomas ‘pulled the ladder up behind him’ on affirmative action:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-clarence-thomas-pulled-the-ladder-up-behind-him-on-affirmative-action-185974341842

* "Conservative justices welcome affirmative action—of legacy students:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/joy-conservative-justices-welcome-affirmative-action-of-legacy-students-185984069671

* "Battle for belonging: Steps toward racial progress in U.S. met with pushback: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/battle-for-belonging-steps-toward-racial-progress-in-u-s-met-with-pushback-book-185401925504

* "End of affirmative action checks another box on list of long term conservative projects:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/end-of-affirmative-action-checks-another-box-on-list-of-long-term-conservative-projects-186013253633

* "How the repercussions of affirmative action's end will reach far beyond college admissions:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-the-repercussions-of-affirmative-action-s-end-will-reach-far-beyond-college-admissions-186014277620

* "Supreme Court: Affirmative Action Is OK — If the Students Are Getting Sent to Die in Wars:" https://theintercept.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-affirmative-action-military-academy/

* "Biden slams SCOTUS affirmative action decision: 'Discrimination still exists in America':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-supreme-court-affirmative-action-decision-word/story?id=100491437

* "Why the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action matters:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1176715957/why-the-supreme-court-decision-on-affirmative-action-matters

* "Harvard 'legacy' policy challenged on heels of affirmative action ruling:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harvard-legacy-policy-challenged-heels-affirmative-action-ruling-2023-07-03/

* "Capitol Hill reacts to Supreme Court rulings:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/capitol-hill-reacts-to-supreme-court-rulings-186388549870

* "Naive emphasis on 'colorblindness' ignores racial reality in U.S.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/naive-emphasis-on-colorblindness-ignores-racial-reality-in-u-s-186697285583

* "Supreme Court rejects challenge to Jim Crow-era Mississippi voting law:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-jim-crow-era-mississippi-voting-law-rcna85633

* "Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s student debt relief plan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/30/supreme-court-strikes-down-bidens-student-debt-relief-plan-00104409

* "The Student Loan Case’s Unwilling Participant:" https://prospect.org/justice/2023-06-19-student-loan-cancellation-supreme-court-mohela/

The Republicans sued to end student debt relief on MOHELA's behalf against their will and against their best interests since the state government didn't have standing for the suit, and Republicans Supreme Court justices found for the state anyway because that's how much they hate poor and middle class students having access to college and want to punish them with crushing life long debt for daring to try to get an education.

All precedent and the legal requirement that the people doing the suing have an injury and standing have been thrown out.

* "Elena Kagan Has Had Enough:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/opinion/elena-kagan-dissent-supreme-court.html

* "What is the Higher Education Act —and could it still lead to student loan forgiveness?:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-the-higher-education-act-and-could-it-still-lead-to-student-loan-forgiveness/

* "US Supreme Court says Colorado designer can refuse LGBTQ+ customers: ‘License to discriminate’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/us-supreme-court-lgbtq/

* "The man named in the Supreme Court’s gay rights ruling says he didn’t request a wedding website:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-gay-rights-lgbtq-website-385ec911ce0ca2f415966078eddb66da

This doesn't say it invalidates all anti-discrimination laws in this country of any kind, but in effect, it does since there is no limit on who or why you can discriminate against in this ruling.

Bonus points for the woman they found in favour lying in her filings about nearly everything in them, basically. her business is hypothetical. The person she claimed asked for a website didn't and wasn't aware the case was happening or involved him until it was already in front of the Supreme Court, etc.

I don't understand how any of that is legal, but that's just how eager the Republican Partizans on the supreme court are to make all discrimination legal: They ruled in an entirely hypothetical lawsuit about a dispute that didn't exist based on perjured depositions and filings without even informing the other party they were in a lawsuit about a thing they didn't do.

* "Reactions to SCOTUS' major blow to LGBTQ rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/reactions-to-scotus-major-blow-to-lgbtq-rights-186388037861

* "Supreme Court rules for Christian mail carrier who refused to work Sundays:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-christian-postal-worker-refused-work-sundays-rcna84868

My assumption is they will use this precedent to allow EMTs, Doctors, hospitals, and pharmacists to deny trans people life saving health care, a thing that is already happening, but not currently legal.

I absolutely think hijabs etc. should be covered under the first amendment and anti-discrimination laws. I do think if Christians get their holidays off so should the rest of us.

it’s different if you say up front you can’t work certain holidays, but for me this is of a piece with the recent SCOTUS decision striking down all anti-discrimination laws.

The web designer one allows people and businesses to discriminate against any one for any reason. They deliberately put no limits on that.

This decision contradicts that, by saying that in the case of Christians, that previous ruling doesn’t apply, since Christians can’t experience any sanctions at all for signing up for a job they then refuse to do.

Sure looks like “rules for thee, but not for me.”

I’d love to be wrong, but I'd rather not bet my life on it next time I have to go to the Christian hospital where they group pray every morning, which is the only one servicing my small city.

* "John Roberts' Supreme Court rolls back civil rights one marginalized group at a time:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/john-roberts-supreme-court-rolls-back-civil-rights-one-marginalized-group-at-a-time-186273349702

* "'Galling': Hayes on the 'imperial mindset' of the Supreme Court conservatives:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-galling-hayes-on-the-imperial-mindset-of-the-supreme-court-conservatives-186215493589

* "Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez call for changes to the Supreme Court:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/02/pressley-aoc-changes-supreme-court-00104537

* "Writers Strike Messaging War Reshapes Standoff With Studios:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/writers-strike-messaging-studios-1235523786/

* "Elizabeth Warren, Susan Collins Introduce Tax Bill to Help Married Same-Sex Couples:" https://www.advocate.com/law/elizabeth-warren-refund-equality-act

* 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.

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

* "America's Family Secret:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/

* "Once a Trump target, arc of the moral universe bends for Yusef Salaam:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/once-a-trump-target-arc-of-the-moral-universe-bends-for-yusef-salaam-185706565996

* "Candidate turns lessons of public, personal struggle into winning platform:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/candidate-turns-lessons-of-public-personal-struggle-into-winning-platform-186699333718

* "RFK Jr. Claims ‘Vaccine Research’ Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/robert-f-kennedy-jr-does-vaccine-make-fork-stick-to-me.html

* "The MAGA right is going all in on RFK Jr. That could backfire.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/robert-kennedy-republican-super-pac-biden-rcna91176

* "DeSantis’s latest appeal to MAGA tops Trump in performative cruelty:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/27/desantis-immigration-border-plan-trump-maga/

* "Pete Buttigieg slams Ron DeSantis for ‘trying to prove his manhood’ with anti-LGBTQ+ video:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/pete-buttigieg-ron-desantis-anti-lgbtq-video/

* "Lindsey Graham booed, called ‘traitor’ at Trump rally in his home state:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lindsey-graham-booed-called-traitor-at-trump-rally-in-his-home-state-186648645849

* "Court upholds sanctions for some − not all − lawyers for suit to overturn Mich. election:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/06/23/court-upholds-sanctions-for-only-some-kraken-attorneys/69493140007/

* "Rudy Giuliani interviewed in DOJ probe into 2020 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-rudy-giuliani-interviewed-in-doj-probe-into-2020-election-185342533732

* "Giuliani, at center of Trump election subversion schemes, spoke with federal prosecutors:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/giuliani-at-center-of-trump-election-subversion-schemes-spoke-with-federal-prosecutors-185703493978

* "WSJ: Giuliani testified for 8 hours in DOJ probe, questioned on Sidney Powell:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wsj-giuliani-testified-for-8-hours-in-doj-probe-questioned-on-sidney-powell-186650693895

* "Stephanie Grisham: Trump showed secret documents to Mar-a-Lago diners :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stephanie-grisham-trump-showed-secret-documents-to-mar-a-lago-diners-186645573966

* "Senate report blasts intelligence failures ahead of Jan 6; bias, 'chilling effect' noted:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/senate-report-blasts-intelligence-failures-ahead-of-jan-6-bias-chilling-effect-noted-185394757922

* "Man wanted on Jan. 6 charges arrested with weapons near Barack Obama’s Washington home:" https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-insurrection-obama-weapons-857bad453191c67480b020ec0d1f980a

* "Drag Doesn't Kill People — Guns Do:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/drag-queens-guns

* "Baltimore mass shooting leaves 2 dead; half of 28 injured were children:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/baltimore-police-scene-mass-shooting-incident-media-2023-07-02/

* "In wake of deadly mass shooting in Baltimore, mayor decries ghost guns, trafficking:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/in-wake-of-deadly-mass-shooting-in-baltimore-mayor-decries-ghost-guns-trafficking-186686021667

* "The Disturbing New Face of Mass Incarceration:"

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* "Shipping containers used for Arizona's makeshift border wall are now for sale, but buyer beware:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2023/06/30/arizonas-shipping-container-border-wall-boxes-are-now-for-sale/70361464007/

* "Thousands more prisoners across the US will get free college paid for by the government:" https://apnews.com/article/prison-pell-grant-college-graduation-ff3f0b80b5bc0e44dde0408c3dedea19

* "Judge awards a Black church $1M over BLM banner burned by Proud Boys during protest:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/01/1185630152/judge-awards-a-black-church-1m-over-blm-banner-burned-by-proud-boys-during-prote

* "Georgia teacher faces termination after reading book about acceptance to class:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/georgia-teacher-faces-termination-after-reading-book-about-acceptance-to-class-185672261786

* "Reproductive rights battle especially poignant in context of Black maternal health:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/reproductive-rights-battle-especially-poignant-in-context-of-black-maternal-health-184461893607

* "Hundreds detained at banned Pride marches in Turkey: ‘They are aware of our strength’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/27/turkey-pride-arrests-istanbul-izmir/

* "Climate Central analysis shows that human-caused climate change is making the near-record heat forecast in large parts of Texas and Mexico at least 5 times more likely.:" https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert

* "Forest fire centre declares 2023 already worst year ever for Canadian wildfires:" https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/06/26/quebec-wildfire-smoke-causes-widespread-smog-warnings-grounds-some-water-bombers.html

* "Canadian wildfire emissions hit record high as smoke reaches Europe:" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/canadian-wildfire-emissions-reach-record-high-2023-2023-06-27/

* "Rainfall likely won’t be enough to extinguish Quebec wildfires causing US smoke, officials say:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-smoke-quebec-rain-a0e287ea5117cccadb9e6917304635ea

* "Air quality plummets as Canadian wildfire smoke stretches across the Midwest :" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184812177/chicago-detroit-pittsburgh-canada-wildfire-smoke

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

* "Brutal heat wave makes Texas among the hottest places on Earth:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/brutal-heat-wave-makes-texas-hottest-places-earth-rcna91584

* "Heat and smoke are smothering most of the U.S., putting lives at risk:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/28/extreme-heat-wave-texas-southern-states/

* Pro-Life Republicans act swiftly to cause more deaths because they believe people aren't dying fast enough. "Workers Die in Texas Heat as Greg Abbott's Water Break Ban Comes Under Fire:" https://www.newsweek.com/workers-die-texas-heat-greg-abbotts-water-break-ban-comes-under-fire-1808610

* "Critics Blast New Law After Dallas Postman Dies Amid Extreme Heat :" https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-usps-worker-dies-in-extreme-heat-critics-slam-hb-2127-16896591

* "35-year-old lineman dies after working to restore power in East Texas :" https://www.ketk.com/news/local-news/35-year-old-lineman-dies-after-working-to-restore-power-in-east-texas/

* "Teen and Stepfather Die on Hike in Near-Record Texas Heat:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/us/texas-heat-hiker-deaths.html

* "Inmates are dying in stifling Texas prisons, but the state seldom acknowledges heat as a cause of death:" https://www.kiiitv.com/article/news/local/texas/inmates-are-dying-in-stifling-texas-prisons/503-810c66fc-2bf2-4b7c-946f-c1cbac2ad58e

* What would Jesus do? Deny prisoners succor so that they die locked up in oven like conditions they can't escape. "Push to put air conditioning in Texas prisons fails:" https://www.corsicanadailysun.com/news/push-to-put-air-conditioning-in-texas-prisons-fails/article_257e94fe-0b00-11ee-a1ea-8bf9f4e3447f.html

* "Solar power proves its worth as heat wave grips the state:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/28/texas-solar-power-grid-heat-wave/

* "Gov. Greg Abbott vows to exclude renewable energy from any revived economic incentive program:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/01/chapter-313-texas-renewables-economic-development/

Solar Energy is saving Texas' butt right now and keeping their crappy proprietary grid afloat, but in March Republicans decided doubling down on the oil and gas industry while planning to make renewable energy harder to develop in order to make everything so much worse.

* "As Texans suffer in the heat, state Republicans play politics:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-texans-suffer-in-the-heat-state-republicans-play-politics-185722949628

* "Heat wave hits Southern California with a scorching Fourth of July weekend:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-30/heat-wave-southern-california-fourth-of-july-weekend

* "The Titan Submersible Was “an Accident Waiting to Happen”:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

* "It's Called Micro Metro:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O-ZiycBMULI

* "National Geographic magazine has laid off the last of its staff writers:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/28/media/national-geographic-magazine-staff-writers/index.html

* "We Cleaned Up The Ocean Floor At 40 Meters Depth:"

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* "Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI:" https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486

* "A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html

* He was incredibly talented. I loved him particularly in naked Lunch, Warlock and Impromptu, but he was in so many things. It's terrible he's gone, but at least the family have him back to mourn properly. In my experience, waiting is worse than knowing. "Julian Sands’ remains found in Mt. Baldy area, San Bernardino officials confirm:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-06-27/julian-sands-remains-found-mt-baldy-san-bernardino

* "Bonus 4: Queering the Gothic:" https://www.scribd.com/podcast/655892341/Bonus-4-Queering-the-Gothic-Stephen-interviews-Dr-Jamie-Bernthal-Hooker?irclickid=3kxxPHRpOzhvU%3A11aUXpLwX1UkF2jZSFRRYS3E0&irpid=2003851&utm_source=impact&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=affiliate_pdm_acquisition_Bing%20Rebates%20by%20Microsoft&sharedid=bing&irgwc=1

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* Tuesday I went to the Doctor and had a blood draw. She's mostly caught up. Nothing can likely be done about the allergy treatments unless I want to day trip to Everett every two weeks starting in September, but i am so tired and the pain meds make me even more so. there is concern about no meds causing heart palpatations, but we are going to try a pill twice a day anyway, so i can get coverage in my sleep. Let us all hope I don't start hallucinating.

Given the hallucination risk I stayed at minimum for the Wednesday errands as the last thing I wanted was to start hallucinating while driving.

Some sort of blight has hit one of the garden tubs, but only one species of volunteer plant, which we removed in hopes it isn't in the soil and hasn't spread to the others. The other volunteers and the thing that actually is meant to be growing there look okay, but we are going to try to identify the species of ick, in case we need to sterilize and start over. I will be pissed if that's the case as it's one of the big whiskey barrel planters with the most expensive things in the garden in it. *fingers crossed*

Wednesday was the first day I woke up with bad collapsey legs since I started the new meds and on the scale of bad legs it was about medium. My arms we ironically less collapsey than average for the last week.

Bodies are weird.

* I think I need to tell you about the Cleaner, because OMG, but for that you will need context on my pain/meds situation.

So less pain does not remotely equal no pain. My hip joints were a mess Wednesday, and only a little better Thursday. My shoulder joints, and thus my arms, started to go bad Thursday. The fundamental things wrong with my body aren't fixable, but the new meds are doing a stellar job on what I think of as the secondary pain, IE: everything else not joint or tendon or in their immediate vicinity. It is far more effective than the muscle relaxants I've been using for decades at this since it's hitting the nerves and not just the muscles. It also adds to the tired. So much to the tired. Bonus: on the new dose, I get dizzy if I don't rest enough, and the heart palpitations hit longer and harder when they hit.

Dramatically better means for an extreme chronic pain/chronic illness perspective, not from a remotely healthy person's perspective, if you follow. I was into about a month of unbearable torment when we tried the one pill dosage. I'm still not sure my system can handle the two pills, and I plan to stick to this dose. They are supposed to last eight hours, but I get an extra four hours of partial coverage per pill, and like I said the side effects are scaling up on me.

So right now my balance sucks, I'm exhausted, and my shoulder joints scream at me if I try to do anything remotely strenuous with them, you follow?

So far I've had four different cleaners turn up, two of them twice. Three of those are hard and thorough workers. One of those will not wear her mask. I put up with it because I am wearing mine and turn on all the fans and I'm scared if I don't take her, no one will come. (see five skipped cleaning appointments in a row).

Cleaning is a hard fucking job and they are underpaid, get no benefits, no set hours, and have to pay their own travel costs including for the ferry if they are coming from the reservation and that is a lot of gas. I respect cleaners. I've done it, after all, amoung the many shit jobs I had over the years. I trust them to know what they are doing. This has been the case in three instances. Most of the conversation with those three cleaners has been things like: Where does this go? Where is (whatever) kept? What should i do next? I refuse to micro manage. In my experience, micro managing is dramatically less efficient and just insults the person doing the job. I know I hated it, when I was the person being micro-managed. This works great for Goth Millennial and for the other three cleaners on the other four occasions.

I'm sure you are sensing the big but here.

So the cleaner who came today, turned up the other time she was here high as a kite. I don't mean a little buzzed, which is fairly normal in this town and this state. Weed's been legal here for ages. People with shitty service jobs occasionally come to work a schootch high. It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things if, say, your barista's a little buzzed. I don't partake myself for a host of reasons, but most of my friends since... I'm going to say 1985, have/do. A little high is no big deal.

Orbiting Pluto without a suit is. She was way out of it girl at a party who's friends have to watch her like a hawk high. She was barely coherent high. She drove here. O.o. She drove home. This terrifies me. after some consultation with my friends including them seeing the mess she made and me acting out vignettes, our best guess is she must have dramatically misjudged an edible. (It had to be vape or edible. I would have smelled smoke. Edible makes the most sense for both the degree of Jesus fuck high and the thinking she was fine when she left home, but waaaay not fine when she got here. Surely she would have cancelled otherwise, right?).

So basically instead of my working away at the aggregate or tumblr queue programming or whatever, it was a lot like baby sitting a toddler who would not shut up, only the toddler would make more sense and the mess would have likely been confined to things in a toddler's reach. I had to go around after she left and actually use the forbidden to me for safety reasons ladder to save a bunch of my cups and glasses from the accident I could see happening the second Squirrel opened a dish cupboard because he had jammed them in their so precariously that the door was the only thing preventing them falling. Goth Millennial came the next day and had to take everything out and restack it. I could live with the fitted sheet being inside out, so we left that for today.

I did not turn her in to the asshole agency because 1. worker solidarity. I never went to work on a substance, but I've worked so, so many shit jobs and the Asshole Agency is terrible. 2. I was pretty sure it was a mistake involving an edible. 3. I was big on giving people another chance when I was teaching. On fuck up shouldn't lat for ever unless that fuck up was malicious or really damaging to other people.

Well, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me.

No, she was not noticeably high this time, though I couldn't rule a mild buzz out. She also had a shamefaced and subdued demeanor that clearly told me she knew how badly she'd fucked up last time. She said she'd signed up for me on purpose instead of her other option because I was really nice to her and my apartment was full of interesting things to look at while she cleaned. My apartment is full of interesting things to look at and I suspect she liked me because I was consistently kind to her when she was a mess last time and hadn’t turned her in. She really is sweet and nice and she is clearly trying her best but not remotely the sharpest tool in the shed. Which can be fine. I've known a lot of good workers over the years with significant developmental or accident related challenges and they did fine. She wasn't in that category, but I realized she'd need extra supervision compared to the others. I underestimated how much.

She did walk right up to Tavy and start petting him right away like last time which again confused and alarmed him. Sure, Squirrel and I and a couple of the Millennials can do that because we are his particular friends, but he barely knows her and and she would NOT stop doing that last time no matter how many times I told her he was a biter and apt to maul when he was worked up. I was so proud of him because he did not attack her the first three times, and honestly the forth time, I would have bitten her too in his place.

Tavy was noticeably wary of her. He did want to watch what she was doing, but he remembered her. (By contrast, the other cleaners he'd watch from a distance for a while, and then follow around and in a couple cases, get me to pick him up so he could get a better look. He really took to the GNC person who came once, and kept sniffing their legs). He did let her pet him without biting her, and she was together enough to stop when I told her he was down, and leave him alone for the rest of the two hours when I said he was in a mood to hang out and watch but not interact.

I got her through the linen change okay and last time she was so high she forgot we had a dishwasher after she'd emptied it and it took her most of her shift except the linen change, but the dishes looked and smelled clean, so I set her to that and did not remotely supervise her enough. This I did not discover until evening, but we'll get to that.

Then I set her to sweep and mop, which... Like I've worked a lot of restaurant jobs, often with people in a supported worker with severe intellectual challenges. I've never seen one who'd been doing it for years who couldn't do it correctly. She said she'd been doing this for several years.

Assuming makes an ass out of me, doesn't it?

Oh gods the mess she made! I should have known it was too hard for her when she started prepping for mopping before sweeping. So I told her to sweep first, which she did. I told her to dump the water in the sink, not the tub, which turned out to be very, very lucky. (The tub is the most expensive thing I own. A city program that remodels for elderly and disabled people paid for it. I will never be able to afford to fix or replace it. There are super strict cleaning directions for a reason, because the mechanism is delicate.) I told her to use the liquid all purpose cleaner under the sink. I should have got it out and prepped the bucket myself, but bending hurts and I was exhausted and dizzy and my arm situation was deteriorating. I should have done it anyway, because this is So. Much. Worse.

She used a ton of water. Like way, way to much water in a way that suggested she did not wring the mop and/or she was dumping puddles out of the bucket. It was a terrifying fall risk situation because this was the end of her shift and I really really needed to get ready for bed as soon as she left and forage delivery was late so I had to go drag it in, just as I'd given up and settled into bed. So I'm dizzy with unreliable legs, using both hands and going careful back and forth over this swamp of a floor with a weird gritty, soapy texture. Which is... not what you want in a cleaner for elderly and disabled people. I could fall and end up in the hospital under those conditions. And it;'s not like I could want a couple hours for it to dry. There was no point in washing my feet in the bathroom, so I kept using wipes on them before getting into bed.

Then I woke up to pee and realized just how bad it really was. *head desk* My best guess is she used Ajax, which is stored under a bookshelf in the bathroom, not under the sink. Like a TON of Ajax. The kitchen sink and nearby counter was caked with it and the floor was tacky and gritty and full of muddy footprints. I couldn't leave it like that. I cleaned the sink. I took the other mop with the disability friendly easy to wring it out attachment which had been to complicated for her head and wet mopped it all again, frequently rinsing and wringing it out, until my arms basically gave out and I had to wash up and take a nap.

It's still incredibly dirty. I feel like crying, because I can't feel clean unless my feet are. I've been skating around on damp towels, but though my hip joints are a lot better this evening, I wear out fast and it hurts quite a bit if I do it too much. I hate leaving a terrible mess like this for the millennial, but I simply can't mop any more with these arms. I'd have been so much better off giving her something else to do, but I couldn't think of anything else simple enough for her, and I know from last time she will not leave early no matter how much I tell her she can just clock out at the end of the hour.

At this point I was debating what to do. I had settled on calling Monday and asking them to put her on my no list without giving a reason, because I simply can't go through this again. It's too hard on my body and it's incredibly could seriously injure me dangerous.

Then I went to feed the Empress Livia and discovered something worse.

I'm medically fragile. Amoung so many other things, I have an immune system that is far more interested in own goals than fighting pathogens. I can and will catch anything you expose me too. Anything. I also have a dicey digestive system. Anything I use to prepare food or eat or drink needs to be really fucking clean. We prewash for grease and stuck on food then run them through the washer to make sure the soap and anything else is off. yes, I know this is bad for the environment as it uses extra water, but it’s a serious safety issue for me.

I was very, very clear on directions because I remembered last time. “Wash the dishes and then put the in the dishwasher. The dishes in there are dirty, so don’t put them away. I will run the washer after you leave.” Did she do that? No. Were the dishes cleaned and dried, which would be reasonably acceptable as an alternative? No. They were jammed in with the clean dishes, soaking wet and covered in soap bubbles six or seven hours after she left. We'll have to go through all the pans tomorrow. I pulled the pans and dishes I remembered were in the sink yesterday. I have no way of guessing with the glasses and flatware and I don't know which things Squirrel put in there.

I am exhausted and I hurt and I've been pushed way past the limit of what my body can handle in a day and I can't trust my dishes or the glass I'm drinking out of and I can't get the dirty Ajax grit off my feet. I'm going to go take a bath, but my feet will be dirty again the second I touch the floor.

She's another poor person. I feel like a class traitor just putting her on my no list, but she could theoretically kill an elderly person with her mopping, and I can't decide if I should say something, because anything I do will be a terrible option.

This person literally uncleaned my apartment. I just....

Look, I know it’s a free service, but this is so very much worse than when they don’t send anyone.

* Squirrel was horified because he works with elderly people and he knows better than anyone that falls kill. He insisted I call right away about her. Squirrel: Even I know not to use Ajax on floors!

It turns out they take calls on the weekends. I admit i broke down a bit. My arm was screaming at me and we are looking at weeks of cleaning to get all the Ajax up. It turns out they literally don't fire people for any reason so ethically I feel a lot better about calling, but at the same time she could literally kill an elderly person and also they could send someone even more dangerous because there is no check on that. O.o. so she's blocked on the app from seeing my jobs. I ordered an extra cleaner, but I don't really think they'll send one. IDK.

I spent hours last night trying to fix it last night. Goth millenial spent hours on it today. It still is incredibly dirty. I'm scared the cats are eating the Ajax dirt that clings to their paws. Tavy is really traumatized and wouldn't even let Goth millenial pet him today and he mostly avoided the other millenials who were here breifly. he keeps needing reassurance cuddles and held blerpfest last night in the living room. I don't blame them.

At lets cancelling five times in a row wasn't actively destrucxtive. This was. It was so very very destructive.

It is freaking me out that shge's out there driveing, that she's likely endangering other people and their pets with the uncleaning.

Bonus: She waited long enough to clock out after i told her to clock out that her five minute delay stoole a half hour of cleaning from me.

* Sunday I took some of the Millennials for swimming/picnic at the Lake for the first time this season. I got to watch New Millennial fall in love with the PNW landscape exactly the way I did more than thirty years ago.

You can really tell which of us grew up with cold Northern Ocean. Me: wading steadily deeper and deeper once I'm far enough in to keep my balance by my self on the rocks and the bottom gets a little smoother, then slowly swimming out a little deeper in search of the warmer tide. (It's a run off fed lake, and the mixing of the cold inflow with the water that's been in the lowlands long enough, makes these weird little temperature striations you can very much feel even after you cold adapt). Everybody Else: Wading crotch deep and thinking for a while about whether they want to swim after all, then going way slower and stopping a lot to rethink.

I love my Millennials. The other two each had one of the newest Millennial's arms to help them over the rocks because the rocks suck and I'd forgotten to warn them. Me, urging them on: Keep coming! I found the warm current! New Millennial: Looking concerned this might be hazing, followed by the moment of delight and surprise on finding I was not. Look, it's only like ten or fifteen degrees on a good day, but it does make a difference and the activity of swimming or treading water and the adaptation once you go up to your neck and then duck your head, all add up. You just need to get into a sweet spot.

I discovered on the way back that my fucked up arms really, really don;t want to do backstroke. I managed a lopsided curve towards shore until I was far enough in to pull along the rocks with my hands and kick. So Goth Millennial is hanging close on the way to the shallows, because I can't really get out safely by myself and need help getting up onto my feet and staying there until I'm reasonably sure they are working, at which point either Goth Millennial (or Techie Millennial, who couldn't come), would grab my crutch so I could use it and their arm to get out onto the "beach."

My crutch was not where I left it. My crutch was not anywhere nearby where someone might have moved it if it were in the way of say launching a jet ski from the wrong stretch of "beach" instead of the boat and jet ski launch area. I mention jet skis as their were two anchored in the swimming area where they were not meant to be we we arrived, one of which way out past the swim buoys where it was meant to be, and the other parked on the "beach" where it emphatically should not be, surrounded by mostly kids, obscuring view of the corner where the "beach hits the cit off with the higher land and grass. But I hadn't gone near that, and I needed the crutch to get out to look to see if the crutch was there.

I am still angry about that fad a decade or so ago when asshole able bodied art students would steal poor people's wheelchairs for shitty "art projects" and then brag about it on line as if stealing an expensive thing someone couldn't afford to replace and stranding them somewhere like a park or a bathroom or an inaccessible public building was something virtuous and clever instead of an incredibly cruel things to do to someone, as if their crap project was worth more than someone else's independence. My crutch is basically one of my legs. Someone's wheels are their legs.

Every time I go into the water anywhere, I know there is a chance someone will steal my crutch. This is the PNW, and I think someone leaving a mobility aid next to the water makes sense to the ableds, whereas someone leaving a wheelchair on the pavement in a park doesn't for some asshole shitty lack of empathy and imagination neurotypical reason, I guess.

So I'm starting to get really upset and Goth Millennial is really worried and we are having a loud conversation along the lines of Me: shit! I can you see my crutch anywhere? I left it right there. I think someone may have stolen !it! Millennial standing up and going to look across the bad rock stretch craning their head around to see if some asshole maybe put it on the grassy bit above the cut: I can't see it! It's not there!" Middle School age, glaring resentfully at one of the younger kids, stomps around to the other side of the illegal parked jet ski, where we had zero chance of seeing it, retrieves it and hands it to me. Me: you're very kind! Thank you! Goth Millennial hoists me to my feet while I use their arm and the crutch to just barely get my balance. This is a complicated and painful procedure, returning to gravity after freedom, and I need to stand their awhile like two or three feet away from Asshole Jet Ski Extended family. These kids just stare at me the whole time we are doing this. It is very, very obvious that my normally invisible disability is very, very real. Grumpy teen in charge to a younger kid: You better go apologize. No one apologizes. They keep staring at us hobble slowly and carefully up the shallow stairs. After I went to pee and wash lake water off my hands before eating, I went to set my crutch down by my chair and all this water poured out of it. I'd left it on dry land.

Asshole Family who was too privileged to use the boat and jet ski launch who thus had to drive their jet skis through the swim area had stolen my fucking crutch to play with in the water and the missing adults and the grumpy teen in charge had let them, and then they hid it behind their angled jet ski so no one could see it afterwards. They could have lost it in the lake. They could have kept it.

We found out when our friends came out of the water that they’d also stolen and hid our blind friend's flip flops, which they grudgingly had returned when it was clear they were hers.

Rich people are the worst.

So we go get dinner stuff at the grocery store and drop a Millennial off and I'm in my kitchen searching for my reusable straws, of which I own four. I have one I was using for lemonade which I put in the refrigerator last night. I had assumed the other three were in the wash or something up until now, but I searched the dishwasher and they weren't there. All the flatware are in the dishwasher except the chopsticks and some specialty use items, since we didn't know which the Asshole Cleaner hadn't cleaned properly before putting back. we’d emptied the trays. I search there and around there anyway. There are no reusable straws in the kitchen except the one I was drinking out of Friday when Asshole Stoner Cleaner was uncleaning the apartment.

The time she was here high as a kite she kept wiggling them and shouting "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle!" She was obsessed with them. They were a gift from Goth Millennial. I don't think they were that expensive, but they were cute and had a nice texture and are earth friendly. (Some people can't use reuseable straws for a bunch of reasons and we have emergency plastic straws here. This is not any sort of judgement on people who use single use. Let's ban fishing industry plastics which are most of the ocean plastic pollution before going after disabled people's straws, okay?)

I think the only reason she didn't steal the forth straw was it was right next to me so I could poke it up under the mask for brief sips. I'd left it and the cup in the fridge because I don't like to put them to wash until I see a new clean straw I can use in situations like this or when my arms are bad, and it's easier and safer to hold the cup low, or sometimes just because. They are reusable! It hurts nothing. I wanted a straw because my body wasn't working and I wanted to drink the juice I'd bought for dinner while lying down and waiting for things to stop hurting so much.

There is zero chance the other three are still here.

I had checked my bedroom right after she left for small, easily stealable things missing from the bookshelf where I put curios right after she left because the comment about my interesting things felt like something a person might say anyway, but also a things someone who might pocket once would say and I was already upset and wary of her because of everything. There are things it would be hard to check, like my BPAL Collection, but odds are she wouldn't steal those. She'd have had to climb on the bed and go through the little boxes and she was only unsupervised in there for a few minutes with the sweep and mop. I will need to see if she stole the bottle where I keep a few tramadol in case I wake up unable to get out of bet or occasionally, even roll over without an hour or more of slow, excruciating effort. While they clean, I'm sitting at my desk right next to the bottled meds collection that mostly feed assorted pill organizers, and the shelf above where the things I need to grab quick in an emergency are not surprisingly untouched. If anything had been stolen when I got up to go to the bathroom the parent tramadol bottle would be easiest to raid and the only really attractive thing to steal except throat pearls, and you'd have to know what they were and they are not recreational, just a little expensive and perscription. The altar and display shelf over the sofa seems fine, and she definitely didn't go in grabbing distance anyway.

When I went into the bathroom to bathe the lake water away, I noticed some small things missing. One of them I'd assumed was in the wash, but I have done a bunch of laundry over the weekend since the Ajax tainted clothes get washed separately and I don't want the dye to be leached by cleanser by letting them sit unwashed, and we have to wash the mop head by itself between uses to get all the ajax out. It's not in the wash. It's gone, a small, very useful thing. Nothing expensive is missing that I've noticed yet, but I haven't properly inventoried all the otc things and the prescription ointments and such, but I'm guessing those wouldn't be attractive. I doubt she'd steal books. She didn't strike me as a reader, but when I am in less pain and less exhausted, I'll inventory them better.

Asshole. Fucking asshole.

I know it could have been worse. Every little curio and most of the art except some things in the bathroom that are there because of the risk of steam or water damage have a story. They were given to me by friends or lovers or made by me when my hands still worked right or purchased at particular events or on particular occasions. These are memories and irreplaceable regardless because they are mostly hand made or limited edition from conventions.

We don't have money for replacing straws right now. They haven't paid Goth Millennial for a month and a half, not even for the supposedly paid training sessions. I owe money to the Honest Mechanic for the third time in three months and am about to burn two thirds of my bill money tomorrow on that, because you never ever fuck over a small business, just like you never ever fuck over another poor person. (I don’t steal, but I think ethically, stealing from a big chain to feed your kids is okay, and very much better than letting you kids starve, especially given the wage theft and lobbying against the social safety net and minimum wage those chains do. They steal from the poor, particularly their workers and if they hadn’t paid politicians to do things that prevent people from having enough to eat, then which is the bigger evil? Mom and pops? Family Businesses? Little micro businesses and artists and what have you? Never, ever okay. Small businesses are the life blood of a community online and RL, and letting me defer payment is a major fucking favor, so they are next after housing, whatever happens to my other bills. The other few things I spotted are replaceable if we had money for it.

I am so fucking angry anyway. I already felt my home was desecrated by her uncleaning it and distressing Tavy and the all over fuckery of it, but this small thing, this thing that wouldn't matter if I were a little better off or they weren't a gift, but feel like a big thing when added to all the rest.

It takes a lot to make me hate someone. We are not there yet, but if I do find something important I overlooked gone, I will, much like I still hate the ex-friend from first college who took three important things with sentimental value that were/are irreplaceable when he dropped out. This is how he became an ex-friend. He knew that the plaque was the last thing the artist my first freshman lover bought it from made and that it had a bunch of layered meanings in what was written on it. The things he stole from me and another friend were like that. Very personal and chosen with surgical precision to cause the most distress. (He did other, worse things, then made sure everyone thought, I’d done them and I was a monster. none of this we found out until he’d gone and we none of us could figure out why. Okay, the terrible things he needed someone to frame, but the rest... Sociopathy was the best guess for all of it really. Last I checked he was still working with children and there was fuck all provable we can do about it, but he really, really shouldn’t have been working with children). These things the Uncleaner stole were small, replaceable things, not something where there is no other one even if memories weren’t attached.

All the things missing I've looked for off and on since the time she was here high, under the belief they were misplaced or in the wash. I wouldn't be surprised if that's when she took them and that's part of why she was so embarrassed the second time, but if she were really embarrassed she could have brought them back then and I'd never have known. Like, she could have tossed them into one washer or the other, or tucked them around the sink, and I'd have just thought that was where they were.

I know the Asshole Agency will do fuck all, but I'm going to call them anyway. Goth Millennial said before we knew about the theft that she was the one who was a class traitor, because you don't do shit like this to another poor person. I have no idea when my apartment will actually be clean again. I'm doubting that an extra two hours this week even if someone turns up will do it.

We are still baffled by the thought process.

If she'd put the dishes into the dishwasher like I'd asked, it would have been fine and not tons of extra time and work cleaning everything. I still need to sit on the kitchen floor in the Ajax to go through all the pots and pans in case the extra cleaner does come. If she'd rinsed and dried them before putting them away, it would have been not ideal, but likely fine. She did neither for no reason we can understand. Putting them away wet and soapy was actually more work than racking them in the dishwasher like I asked.

Not only was the bottle of liquid all purpose cleaner right in front when I opened the cabinet under the sink to hand it to Goth Millennial Saturday when they decided wet mopping wouldn't be enough, there was a literal second full bottle behind it because I hate running out of things so I tend to buy two at once if I have enough cash for it and the trip to get the one I like that is effective but doesn't make bad smells is annoying if I don't want a big mark up. It was right there. couldn't have missed it if she'd opened the compartment. To get at the Ajax I use only for the toilet, she had to go past the dish soap for the sink and tub and the shampoo and conditioner I bought before the engine light went on last month. She could have used the dish soap and it would have been not ideal, but fine except for all the extra water. A wet mop after she left would have solved it. She had to go on her hands and knees and move things to get the Ajax. Following directions was Easier. Asking me to get it if she somehow couldn't recognize it as a bottle of liquid cleaner was easier. Getting about a third to a half of a big cylinder of Ajax out of those small holes was definitely harder than doing it properly.

WTF!?!

I get that stealing small stuff you don't need is actually a symptom of mental illness that requires therapy she likely can't afford, and given how high she was she really had no observable impulse control I could see, hence her repeatedly stopping work to pet a cat I'd warned her not to, and the 'wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, and all the many other things. This is the only explicable part of it. Like I get it. If that's all she'd done I would have been mildly miffed and reported and blocked her because I don't like people stealing my stuff and she might take something from someone else they couldn't eventually replace, but I wouldn't be this kind of furious. A compulsion to steal and/or walking away with something because one is borderline incoherent high and then going oops later are pretty easy to understand motivation wise.

Doing all this extra work to do so much damage to someone you barely know makes zero sense. I was nice to her! I sent her home with a big bag of food each time! We none of us think this was malice. It can't be laziness as this took so much extra work than not doing damage would. so seriously WTF, with the dishes and the Ajax? This question haunts us all.

UPDate: Asshole Agency now says they will file a ticket and investigate. I trust nothing they say, as they've lied to me before, most recently Saturday, when they claimed there was nothing to be done except blocking her from coming here. Today's guy says they weren't supposed to blow be off like that and their is a system. There is no way to tell which of them is lying. I hope the ticket system is not fictional like half of their cancellation calls and I hope there is an investigation system that is not made of bullshit and rubber stamps. That would be nice.

It really does scare me should could accidentally kill someone or their pets and it worries me she's out their in the homes of vulnerable elderly people who may not have a support system to handle the devastation. I'm still having trouble turning my head and lifting a full glass of liquid with my dominant arm above my shoulder. I don't know what long term health effects the Ajax will have on the cats. Livia's on a special diet for her urinary system. I did not fall and I could hide in my bed until all the water dried. The stuff she stole was small and that big a deal. I have Goth Millennial and to a lesser extent the others to help me clean up, but this is exhausting them. None of them have to do that and I appreciate that so much.

If I were older though? I could have broken a hip or had a serious head injury with no one to help.

It still freaks me out she was driving like that the previous time.

I've done a whole lot of shit jobs out of poverty. I have never harmed someone like she harmed me. I never would. I hate that I am harming her now, by reporting, but I had to try to protect whoever next after me. I hate the Asshole Agency. I hate them for the terrible way they treat the cleaners and whole fucking gig economy, and the predatory capitalism that makes this the business model now, and the shiftiness of it all. I wonder how many people before me tried to report her and how many gave up trying to get the asshole agency to care and just blocked her. Did she trash anyone's home before mine?

This was supposed to be extra help, but this is so much harm, so much extra pain, so much extra stress. Medicare pays them money to send untrained, unvetted people into the homes of vulnerable adults run by an agency who's first recourse is to lie to you if you complain about anything, and only calls you half the time to tell you the cleaner cancelled.

I am tired of being upset about all this. It will hard to be not upset about it until my apartment is clean and smells normal again. The chemicals give me a headache, which does not help either.

* On Monday night the extra cleaner I ordered for Tuesday called. They generally do this to check in. i tell them where to park and to call on arrival so I can pop out and wave them in and that they should wear a mask and headphones atre fine if they want to wear them. I began to hope a cleaner really would turn up despite the holiday.

An hour before the scheduled time of arrival, the Asshole Agency called, because they couldn't reach the cleaner. Me: she called last night. Everything seemed fine. Them: do you know how to reach her? Me: No. O.o

She was a couple minutes late, having taken the wrong entrance to my apartment complex, which happens a lot. It was fine. I explained the situation with dishes and floors. she did all the dishes and followed directions. She actually solved the floors with time to spare. O.o. i'll feel better with an extra mopping in the bathroom, but the Ajax spell is gone and she even got the caked crust around the edges in the bathroom. Then she took out the trash and organized the pots and pans, which have been a mess since the silverware drawer broke.

She was respectful of Tavy's space, which was a huge help, since the Uncleaner traimatized him to the point he's having his nightmares again. Livia hid of course, sensible girl.

Goth Millenial wanted to come hang out, so I went and got them. We had a nice dinner and watched Dark Winds. This is a rewatch for me, but they'd only seen the first episode. It's both worth a rewatch and the new season starts soon, so the timing is excellent. Tavy was so worn out from supervising the cleaner from afar, he slept through the visit.

After Lung Time Livia came out of hiding for a love and a snack, just in time for them all to be panicked by fireworks in the parking lot. They both Noped odff to their hides for hours. Livia only came out a couple hours later. She got a love and a snack, and then the fireworks started again, luckily not nearly as loud, so at least Tavy was okay.

The imperial couple decree no more fireworks ever, please.

The Ajax took the shiny protective layer off the flooring, which makes me sad, but I suspected this would be the case when I realized what she'd done to me.

Otherwise, things are normalish here at the cat asylum. It was almost midnight as I wrote this and the wind from Alaska is finally blowing the smell of Canada burning out of our little valley by the bay.

I would like to thank the donor who paid for the latest car repair and to anyone who chipped in in the last slightly over a year and a half when the catastrophic string of things falling apart including two appliances, an apartment electrical system, my teeth, A fire alarm, a tire, and.... Was it five car repairs on my aged and slowly failing vehicle?

I would like to thank you all for the kind words and support you all give me. I notice and it does matter.

* A thing I wrote for Tumblr on the evening of the 4th:

I have a lot of new followers who joined in the last year. You may have noticed that my 4th of July programming is not what one might expect from an American. It is deliberate. I think it is more valuable to see the country for what it is, what’s best and most important about it and fight for what it could be than to bellow self congratulatory platitudes wrapped in a flag.

The fight has gotten so much harder in the last 7 or so years, but it always was hard. Those of us who could never afford the rose colored glasses need to stick together, to have each other’s backs. To those who see the rising tide of fascism and are joining the cause and for those young enough that this is all pretty new, welcome.

We really do need to hang together or we really will hang separately. I said back in 2016 this was going to be a marathon and not a sprint and we have so very many miles to go. There is still time to save what is good about this country, and to build something new and better on part of the foundation that is still good. We can do it if we stick together and leave no one behind this time. We can do it if we don’t let them split us and get us all scrambling for the crumbs instead of insisting on pie for everyone.

This isn’t over. Not quite yet, though it might feel like it may be for some of us. Let us not go softly into that good night. Let us rage together at the dying of the light.

* "Midnight Pals: Jewish Noir:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/721215690590339072/midnight-pals-jewish-noir?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: A Fable:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/721521022058233856/midnight-pals-a-fable?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

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

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

( Links Underneath: )

* "Bombing of herders highlights pattern of deadly aerial assaults by the Nigerian military :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/nigeria-military-civilian-airstrikes/

* "A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished.:" https://apnews.com/article/rohingya-investigation-missing-boat-refugees-bangladesh-myanmar-migration-1b94b4472a42b26eb066bef47b7bcf7e

* "A pop-up restaurant in Kabul is run by women for women. The Taliban is watching:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/06/01/1179134749/a-pop-up-restaurant-in-kabul-is-run-by-women-for-women-the-taliban-is-watching

* "Nicola Sturgeon arrested in SNP finances investigation:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/11/nicola-sturgeon-arrested-in-snp-finances-investigation/

* "Blasts at major dam in southern Ukraine unleash floodwaters" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russia-blows-up-major-nova-kakhovka-dam-southern-ukraine-2023-06-06/

* CW: Animal Death. "Hundreds of Animals Killed After Dam Attack Floods Ukraine Zoo:" https://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-animals-killed-after-dam-attack-floods-ukraine-zoo-1804856

I have a particular horror of things like floods hitting zoos.

* "Nebraska Sued Over Law Restricting Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/nebraska-abortion-transgender-lawsuit

* "Vermont's GOP Governor Shock: Protects Trans Care, Abortion Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/law/vermont-protects-abortion-transgender

* "Marion County judge moves forward RFRA challenge to Indiana abortion ban:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2023/06/07/marion-county-judge-moves-forward-rfra-lawsuit-indiana-abortion-ban/70299401007/

* "36 Queer Pride Flags You Should Know:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/36-queer-pride-flags-know

* "LGBTQ+ Equality Support Is at Record High But Some Troubling Trends Exist:" https://www.advocate.com/news/glaad-accelerating-acceptance-2023

* "Transgender adults reflect on art they created as kids:" https://www.today.com/parents/family/transgender-kids-childhood-art-rcna87945

* "Russia wants to ban all trans healthcare and gender recognition:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/16/russia-trans-healthcare-ban/

* Our suspicions prove correct, unfortunately. "Government officials attempt to stop Pride festival set up in South Korea:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/17/queer-festival-daegu-south-korea-hong-joon-pyo/

* "The American Medical Association Has Strengthened Its Stance on Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/american-medical-association-strengthened-stance-165953501.html?guccounter=1

* "Sesame Street tweeted support for Pride Month. Take a wild guess how bigots responded:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/13/sesame-street-pride-month-twitter-backlash-boycott/

* We literally noticed their pride flag window displays Wednesday when we were out and about today. They had a really good selection of flags, including non-binary and genderfluid. We were driving slowly past to look at them, but it was clear they all had a placard underneath, presumably with information about them for inside customers. If we'd known there was controversy, wed have taken a picture. "Starbucks denies banning LGBTQ+ Pride decorations in stores:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/14/starbucks-lgbtq-pride/

* "FDA advisers back updated COVID shots for fall vaccinations:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/06/15/1182503195/fda-advisers-back-updated-covid-shots-for-fall-vaccinations

* "Human-caused climate change to blame for increase in California’s wildfires:" https://news.uci.edu/2023/06/12/human-caused-climate-change-to-blame-for-increase-in-californias-wildfires/

* "Denialists Are Blaming Anything but Climate for Canada’s Fires:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/08/air-quality-canada-wildfire-smog-fire/

* "Fox News is full-on denying the wildfire crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/wildfire-smoke-fox-news-climate-rcna88434?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=648481f0ab5b67000172cf67

* "How the train crash in eastern India unfolded:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/INDIA-CRASH/RAIL-INVESTIGATION/dwvkdwnbkpm/index.html

* "In a first, a climate lawsuit from young people is going to trial:" https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2023-06-11/youth-climate-trial

* "Rich nations say they're spending billions to fight climate change. Some money is going to strange places.:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-finance/

* "'Incredibly Disturbing' Docs Reveal Oil Giant Shell Knew About Climate Impacts Even Earlier :" https://www.commondreams.org/news/shell-fossil-fuels-climate-1970s

* "Virginia air board votes to leave interstate carbon-capping alliance opposed by Youngkin:" https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4039213-virginia-air-board-votes-to-leave-interstate-carbon-capping-alliance-opposed-by-youngkin/

* I am old enough to remember this. I don't want this to be our future too. "This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up:" https://www.popsci.com/america-before-epa-photos/

* "For the first time, more money is going into solar power than oil:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/solar-power-oil-investment-russia-invasion-energy-renewable-boom/

* "Liquid tree to combat air pollution in Belgrade:" https://balkangreenenergynews.com/liquid-tree-to-combat-air-pollution-in-belgrade/

* "Reddit says protesting communities crashed the site:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-down-private-blackout-goes-protest-took-subreddits-rcna88856

* "One of Reddit's largest communities is protesting changes to the platform by posting only photos of John Oliver 'looking sexy':" https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-community-is-protesting-by-posting-sexy-john-oliver-photos-2023-6?amp

* "Elon Musk’s anti-trans tweets continue with views on Megan Fox and her kids:" https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/06/12/elon-musk-anti-trans-tweets-continue-with-views-on-megan-fox-and-her-kids/

* "Tucker Carlson thinks he’s being ‘silenced’ after being ‘hit with cease and desist’ by Fox News:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/14/tucker-carlson-twitter-fox-news-cease-desist/

* "Fungi seem to 'sweat' to stay cool and scientists don't know why:" https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/fungi-seem-to-sweat-to-stay-cool-and-scientists-dont-know-why

* "David Attenborough fought to put transgender people on TV 45 years ago, secret BBC memo reveals:" https://inews.co.uk/news/david-attenborough-fought-to-put-transgender-people-on-tv-45-years-ago-secret-bbc-memo-reveals-180681

* "Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's ex-prime minister and media mogul, dies at 86:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/former-italian-pm-silvio-berlusconi-has-died-italian-media-2023-06-12/

* "Poland’s bus route 666: Farewell to the highway to Hel:" https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/06/16/polands-bus-route-666-farewell-to-the-highway-to-hel

* "Mary Trump and E. Jean Carroll Join Forces for Romance Novel:" https://www.advocate.com/books/mary-trump-e-jean-carroll

* "Kicking Out The Homophobe | r/AITA:"

( Embed: )

* "13 LGBTQ+ Books to Read and Enjoy Before Spring Is Over :" https://www.advocate.com/books/lgbtq-books-spring-2023

* "Questions You Wish You Could Ask A Gay Transgender Man: A tongue-in-cheek take on cisgender people’s frequently asked questions.:" https://johannestevans.medium.com/questions-you-wish-you-could-ask-a-gay-transgender-man-df6133d4bdb5

* "Building Full of Memories:"

( Cut for Sad Stuff: )

* Tuesday an actual cleaner arrived. The kitchen is very clean. When she was moping, Livia peeked out at the wrong time and the Stranger saw her glowy eyes in the shadowy depths of her fortress of Solitude. This was understandably distressing to Livia. Tavy, on the other hand, made me pick him up to get a better look at her and spent a lot of time staring at her while she worked.

I had the second bad fall in three days after she left, though it was not as bad as Sunday's during which I had nothing at all to grab on the way down and I nearly squashed Tavy. At least my bruising is fairly symmetrical now. The last week plus I've been having arms and or legs cut out at random when I'm trying to use them. The arm thing is super annoying and I keep dropping heavy things. Trips to the bathroom are terrifying. The pain is, as you can imagine, nightmarish even by my standards.

Wednesday we had important time dependent errands which meant an hour and a half less sleep and extra pain, but they were absolutely worth it. We got the essential things done. There was also frustration as I had given away my construction paper a couple of years ago since I wasn't using it, and apparently they no longer sell it locally, which is insane. It was all foam and/or felt mats and/or card stock in the usual places. This is insanity! It's kids home craft season!

Bonus horrible thing: The other Allergy Clinic decided they don't want any new Medicare patients, so I'm likely fucked. I am going to call my medical caseworker during business hours in case she can do the same magic the previous one did last year with dental care and I will see what new doctor can do when I meet them. Realistically though? Fucked.

Oh, and head Millennial isn't getting paid for another month for AID work which hurts both of us.

* Wednesday was productive but so exhausting I couldn't even. Friday they sent a cleaner, who was acceptable, but not as good as the previous three. It's free. She accomplished the main goals. That's all I can reasonably ask for.

Saturday, the engine light came on while I was driving the Head Millennial home. This will be the third trip to the shop in as many months, and I was only just finally catching up on bills. I don't know what I'll pay them with.

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

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* Me watching the Strange New Worlds Premiere, squealing with delight: Simka!

* "Midnight Pals: The Good Leaper:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/719855901413163008/midnight-pals-the-good-leaper?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Mr Sandman:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/720035495511556096/midnight-pals-mr-sandman?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

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

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

( Links Underneath: )

* "IMF warns of higher recession risk and darker global outlook:" https://apnews.com/article/business-economic-growth-international-monetary-fund-government-and-politics-1c893f6ed1dee8360d6467c2fbd9c7fe

* CW: Child Murder. "Thailand massacre: ex-cop kills 24 children in knife and gun rampage:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/least-20-people-killed-mass-shooting-thailand-police-2022-10-06/

* "Around the world, protesters take to the streets in solidarity with Iranian women:" https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1126603977/iran-mahsa-amini-solidarity-protests

* "Iran's Khamenei backs police over Mahsa Amini protests, may signal tougher crackdown:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-khamenei-says-protests-riots-were-planned-state-media-2022-10-03/

* "The Biggest Women-led Protest in Iran’s History:"

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* "‘Geniuses’ Versus the Guns: A Campus Crackdown Shocks Iran:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/world/middleeast/iran-protests-sharif-university-masha-amini.html

* "Burkina Faso coup fuels fears of growing Russian mercenary presence in Sahel:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/burkina-faso-coup-fears-growing-russian-mercenary-presence-sahel-north-africa

* "What you need to know about Brazil’s runoff election:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/04/brazil-2022-election-runoff/

* "Lula, Bolsonaro seek new allies for tight Brazil runoff:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lula-bolsonaro-court-new-allies-competitive-brazil-runoff-2022-10-04/

* Terrifying. "Brazil election: ‘We'll vote for Bolsonaro because he is God’:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62929581

* "Gay Tory MP Conor Burns sacked as a minister following misconduct complaints:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/conor-burns-sacked-as-trade-minister/

* "Nurses urged to strike for first time over pay:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63150632

* "Biggest rail strike in decades halts most trains in Britain:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/01/biggest-rail-strike-in-decades-halt-most-trains-britain

* "Met chief pledges to root out racists from police after further scandal:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/06/met-chief-pledges-to-root-out-racists-from-police-after-further-scandal

* "Belarus, Ukraine, Russia activists win Nobel Peace Prize:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63175334

* "UN body votes to establish Russia human rights investigator, Moscow protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/un-body-votes-establish-human-rights-investigator-russia-2022-10-07/

* "Russian ally cancels Russian-led military drill on its land:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/09/russian-ally-cancels-russian-led-military-drill-on-its-land-00061081

* "Many dead in two separate boat disasters off Greek coast:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/lesbos-boat-capsizes-greece-migrants-kythira

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* "COVID rebound after Pfizer treatment likely due to robust immune response, study finds:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/covid-rebound-after-pfizer-treatment-likely-due-robust-immune-response-study-2022-10-06/

* "How a Chinese Doctor Who Warned of Covid-19 Spent His Final Days:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/world/asia/covid-china-doctor-li-wenliang.html

* "Covid-19 boosters could prevent about 90,000 US deaths this winter, but only if more people get them, analysis suggests:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/health/covid-boosters-deaths-winter/index.html

* "Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-death-rates-higher-republicans-democrats-why-rcna50883

* Extended Fauci Interview:

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* "Biden compares nuclear risk from Russia in Ukraine to Cuban missile crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-compares-nuclear-risk-from-russia-in-ukraine-to-cuban-missile-crisis-150103621718

* "Head of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been released, IAEA chief says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/head-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-has-been-released-iaea-says-2022-10-03/

* "Putin asserts control over Ukraine nuclear plant, Kyiv disagrees:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zaporizhzhia-plant-operate-under-russian-supervision-after-annexation-ria-2022-10-05/

* "Russia appoints notorious general to lead Ukraine offensive:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/russia-appoints-notorious-general-sergei-surovikin-ukraine

* "Zelenskiy says Ukraine forces liberated Arkhanhelske, Myrolyubivka in Kherson region:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-says-ukraine-forces-liberated-arkhanhelske-myrolyubivka-kherson-region-2022-10-02/

* "Refuting annexation, Ukrainian forces push on from Lyman toward Luhansk:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/03/lyman-luhansk-annexation-ukraine-offensive/

* "Ukraine reports rapid push back of Russian troops on two fronts:" https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-forces-break-through-russian-defences-south-advance-east-2022-10-03/

* "Russian Troops on the Run:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/briefing/russia-ukraine-war-advance.html

* "Ukraine reclaims even more territory; 2 Russians seek asylum after reaching Alaskan island:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/06/live-updates-latest-news-on-russia-and-the-war-in-ukraine.html

* "A rare glimpse of daily life in occupied Ukraine:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63076570

* The Russians did this last time too. "Ukraine war: Tortured for refusing to teach in Russian:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63037713

* "Ukrainian advance brings city of Sloviansk back to life:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/ukrainian-advance-brings-city-of-sloviansk-back-to-life-lyman

* "A more strategic Russian retreat signals long fight ahead in Kherson:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/05/more-strategic-russian-retreat-signals-long-fight-ahead-kherson/

* "Frustration with Ukraine war spills out on Russian state TV:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-state-media-4cae428dd9d30d994e109ffde6f2ece1

* "Russian woman behind on-air war protest reportedly escapes house arrest:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/russian-marina-ovsyannikova-ukraine-war-protest-escape-house-arrest

* "Musk suggests Ukraine should cede Crimea, draws rebuke from Zelenskyy:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-suggests-ukraine-cede-crimea-draws-rebuke-zelenskyy-rcna50528

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* "‘Disaster:’ Connecting the dots between Brazil, Brexit and Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disaster-connecting-the-dots-between-brazil-brexit-and-trump-149810245513

* "Why the Far-Right Is Fawning Over Strongmen:"

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* "North Korea fires 2 missiles toward sea as U.S. redeploys carrier near Korean Peninsula:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-fires-2-missiles-sea-us-redeploys-carrier-korean-peninsula-rcna50950

* "US warships, with South Korea and Japan, train to shoot down North Korean missiles:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-warships-south-korea-japan-train-shoot-north/story?id=91109679

* "What the OPEC oil cut could mean for the midterm elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-the-opec-oil-cut-could-mean-for-the-midterm-elections-150007877685

* "Biden offers mass pardon for those convicted of marijuana possession:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/06/biden-marijuana-decriminalization/

* "Pulse Survivor & VP Harris Speak Out Against Hate-Fueled Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/16/pulse-survivor-vp-harris-speak-out-against-hate-fueled-violence

* "A shaken Supreme Court returns to chambers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/02/damaged-supreme-court-returns-00059911

* Brace yourself for an end to voting rights, LGBTQIA+ Rights, affirmative Action, and environmental protection. "Supreme Court case selection suggests aggressive conservative agenda in new term:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/supreme-court-case-selection-suggests-aggressive-conservative-agenda-in-new-term-149823045999

* "The Onion tells the Supreme Court -- seriously -- that satire is no laughing matter:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/politics/the-onion-novak-supreme-court/index.html

* "Hear Ketanji Brown Jackson Use Progressive Originalism to Refute Alabama’s Attack on the Voting Rights Act:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/ketanji-brown-jackson-voting-rights-originalism.html

* "Opinion | The Roberts court should end its assault on the Voting Rights Act:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/roberts-supreme-court-voting-rights-act-assault/

* "Voting rights faces 'existential' threat in new Supreme Court term:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/voting-rights-faces-existential-threat-in-new-supreme-court-term-149823557825

* "Supreme Court won't intervene in MyPillow CEO's defamation case:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-mypillow-mike-lindell-defamation-case/

* "Trump goes to Supreme Court over Mar-a-Lago search and seizure of documents:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/trump-supreme-court-mar-a-lago-appeal/index.html

* "What Trump's outreach to the Supreme Court is really all about:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/what-trump-s-outreach-to-the-supreme-court-is-really-all-about-149917765747

* "Why Black people feel Jackson's 'seat at the table' is ours, too:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/why-black-people-feel-jackson-s-seat-at-the-table-is-ours-too-150253637541

* "Justice Jackson begins work as the first Black Woman on the Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/justice-jackson-begins-work-as-the-first-black-woman-on-the-supreme-court-149706309874

* "Gas prices are starting to take off again. More increases are on the way:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/energy/gas-prices/index.html

* If you do not vote for Democrats this year, you are voting for this. "Senate Republican bill would repeal Democratic drug pricing law:" https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3678314-senate-republican-bill-would-repeal-dem-drug-pricing-law/

* "Young and Homeless in Rural America:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/magazine/rural-homeless-students.html

* I still don't understand how stealing federal money earmarked to feed impoverished children to build sports facilities for the rich isn't an arrestable offense. "Brett Favre reportedly misused funds for yet another volleyball gym:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/brett-favre-reportedly-misused-funds-for-yet-another-volleyball-gym-149811269736

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "They Legitimized the Myth of a Stolen Election — and Reaped the Rewards:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/politics/republican-election-objectors.html

* "Challenges to U.S. democracy not unprecedented, but too big for quick fixes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/challenges-to-u-s-democracy-not-unprecedented-but-too-big-for-quick-fixes-149823557688

* "Disturbing, hateful rhetoric from right sign of resurgence of fascism experts say:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-saying-democrats-want-republicans-dad-slammed-as-hateful-rhetoric-149818437928

* "Eric Holder: Vote up and down the ballot for candidates who will be Democracy Defenders:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/voting-rights-under-assault-via-supreme-court-arguments-and-state-level-gerrymandering-slammed-by-eric-holder-149903429920

* "The GOP’s Hatred of Cities Has Hit an Ugly New Low:" https://slate.com/business/2022/10/republicans-cities-darren-bailey-jd-vance-tom-cotton-donald-trump.html

* "Kevin McCarthy's quest to become Speaker of the House:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/kevin-mccarthy-s-quest-to-become-speaker-of-the-house-149706821836

* "Republican support from this key voting group is in jeopardy. Abortion is to blame.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/06/abortion-gop-women-ads-00060507

* "Joy Reid: Perhaps the crime to the GOP is not so much abortion, but not being a man:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/herschel-walker-abortion-allegations-show-gop-has-contempt-for-women-not-abortion-joy-reid-says-150105669558

* "Rep. Swalwell on new ad exposing Kevin McCarthy's dismal record on crime:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democrats-fight-gop-midterm-scare-tactics-in-ad-exposing-kevin-mccarthy-s-dismal-record-on-crime-150103621791

* "Freedoms for LGBTQ+ Americans Are on the Ballot: Make A Plan to Vote:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/9/20/freedoms-lgbtq-americans-are-ballot-make-plan-vote

* "DeSantis asked the feds for hurricane relief. But he’s long used their cash.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/03/desantis-federal-relief-cash-fund-priorities-00060020

* "Charlie Crist: DeSantis talks about freedom yet wants to attack women’s right to choose:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democratic-florida-governor-nominee-charlie-crist-desantis-talks-about-freedom-yet-wants-to-attack-a-woman-s-right-to-choose-150007365839

* "Val Demings: Marco Rubio should pay a price for abstaining from vote on FEMA disaster aid:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-democratic-nominee-for-u-s-senate-rep-val-demings-slams-marco-rubio-for-being-absent-from-vote-on-fema-disaster-aid-150008901980

* "Rep. Val Demings buckles down in Florida's Senate Race:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-val-demings-buckles-down-in-florida-s-senate-race-150252613699

* If we lose, odds are that ends democracy in these states. "Republicans gain ground in Senate races in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/05/johnson-oz-gain-in-senate-polling-00060326

* "As TV doctor, Mehmet Oz provided platform for questionable products and views:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/03/mehmet-oz-senate-television-show/

* "Senate rival accuses Dr Oz of killing over 300 dogs as medical researcher:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/04/dr-oz-dogs-us-senate-pennsylvania-john-fetterman

* "John Fetterman's tattoos, under GOP attack, are memorials to his battle as mayor against gun violence he says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/john-fetterman-s-tattoos-under-gop-attack-are-memorials-to-his-battle-as-mayor-against-gun-violence-149907525893

* CW: Animal Death "Dr. Oz Follows Up Dog-Killing Report With Speech in Same Room as Hitler’s Car:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/dr-oz-adolf-hitler-car

* "Mehmet Oz’s ad dismays TV anchor Jim Gardner, while Doug Mastriano’s vision shows ... Russia?:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/clout/jim-gardner-mehmet-oz-campaign-commercial-doug-mastriano-ron-desantis-20221007.html

* "Moore “absolutely exhausted” by “getting lectured by Republicans on patriotism.”:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/moore-absolutely-exhausted-by-getting-lectured-by-republicans-on-patriotism-150252613738

* "Democrats Worry as G.O.P. Attack Ads Take a Toll in Wisconsin:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/politics/mandela-barnes-wisconsin-senate.html

* "Ron Johnson, Tim Michels won't unconditionally commit to accepting 2022 election results:" https://madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ron-johnson-tim-michels-wont-unconditionally-commit-to-accepting-2022-election-results/article_9ec68ac2-bfd5-531b-b41b-8597ac43ccf8.html

* "Wisconsin Dem. U.S. Senate nominee, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, slams incumbent’s abortion stance:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/wisconsin-u-s-senate-race-analyzed-by-democratic-nominee-mandela-barnes-149644357825

* "Five Takeaways From the Wisconsin Senate Debate:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/us/politics/wisconsin-senate-debate-johnson-barnes.html

* "Attorney general candidate Eric Toney doesn't rule out prosecuting abortion in cases of rape, incest:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/03/toney-wont-rule-out-abortion-prosecutions-rape-incest-cases/10389792002/

* "Abortion, economy electrify contest between Spanberger, Vega:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/28/spanberger-vega-virginia-abortion-economy/

* "Spanberger’s New Ad Attacks Her Opponent’s Abortion Stance:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/politics/spanberger-abortion-ad.html

* "Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger runs to keep seat in Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/virginia-rep-abigail-spanberger-runs-to-keep-seat-in-congress-149706821741

* "Budd, Beasley deadlocked in US Senate race as economic concerns weigh NC voters, WRAL News poll sho:" https://www.wral.com/budd-beasley-deadlocked-in-us-senate-race-as-economic-concerns-weigh-nc-voters-wral-news-poll-shows/20505174/

* "Cheri Beasley on her bid to flip a North Carolina Senate seat:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/cheri-beasley-on-her-bid-to-flip-a-north-carolina-senate-seat-150109765984

* "Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum backs Kelly over former aide Schmidt in KS governor race:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article266749341.html

* "Herschel Walker's gay son says he 'destroyed lives' amid abortion scandal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/04/herschel-walker-senate-trans-marriage-abortion-christian/

* "Walker’s team knew of an abortion allegation months before it surfaced:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/04/walker-campaign-abortion-midterm-election-00060312

* CW: Domestic Violence "Herschel Walker’s campaign in turmoil as adult son accuses him of violence, lying:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/herschel-walker-pledges-to-sue-over-abortion-claim/RLTO2CSSMJDS3MPG3SZEZLQAMM/

* CW: Domestic Abuse "New Attack Ad Targets Herschel Walker’s History of Domestic Abuse:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k84ze/herschel-walker-ex-wife-domestic-abuse-ad

* "Prospect of Senate control gives Walker special immunity from calamitous campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/prospect-of-senate-control-gives-walker-special-immunity-from-calamitous-campaign-149916741923

* "Chris Hayes: Herschel Walker abortion report lays bare GOP hypocrisy :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-herschel-walker-abortion-report-lays-bare-gop-hypocrisy-149904965802

* "Reporter who broke Herschel Walker abortion story details his receipts :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/reporter-who-broke-herschel-walker-abortion-story-details-his-receipts-149907525876

* "Woman who said Herschel Walker paid for abortion also has child with him :" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/06/herschel-walker-abortion-mother-children

* "Herschel Walker Urged Woman to Have a 2nd Abortion, She Says:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/us/politics/herschel-walker-abortion.html

* "Christian Walker, Warrior for the Right, Now Battles His Father:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/herschel-walker-son-christian.html

* "The Herschel Walker story keeps getting worse for Herschel Walker.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-collapse-of-the-republican-pro-life-charade-150096965617

* "'He was pro-choice, obviously,' new report quotes woman who says Walker paid for abortion:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-he-was-pro-choice-obviously-new-report-quotes-woman-who-says-walker-paid-for-abortion-150013509642

* "Another day, another not great headline for Herschel Walker:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/another-day-another-not-great-headline-for-herschel-walker-150188613522

* "Racial context helps explain confounding aspects of Georgia Senate race :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/racial-context-helps-explain-confounding-aspects-of-georgia-senate-race-150112325845

* "Conservatives stuck in 'zero sum' mindset see equality as white punishment: Heather McGhee :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/conservatives-stuck-in-zero-sum-mindset-see-equality-as-white-punishment-heather-mcghee-150196293976

* "GOP rallies behind Herschel Walker after abortion bombshell:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/gop-rallies-behind-herschel-walker-after-abortion-bombshell-150253637538

* "This GOP Senate candidate just flip-flopped on election denialism. Again.:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/politics/don-bolduc-election-denialism-flip-flop/index.html

* "This Gay Former Federal Prosecutor Could Unseat a Decades-Long GOP Rep:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/9/20/gay-former-federal-prosecutor-could-unseat-decades-long-gop-rep

* "Gay Democrat Seeks Congressional Seat in a Deep Red Kentucky District:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/9/09/gay-democrat-seeks-congressional-seat-deep-red-kentucky-district

* "O'Rourke "We need solutions, not stunts":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/exclusive-o-rourke-we-need-solutions-not-stunts-149706309867

* "Rep. Cori Bush on her new memoir ‘The Forerunner: A Story Of Pain And Perseverance In America’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-cori-bush-on-new-book-her-memoir-the-forerunner-a-story-of-pain-and-perseverance-in-america-150010437898

* "Cori Bush - "The Forerunner":" https://www.cc.com/video/dza056/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cori-bush-the-forerunner

* "Republican Co-Chair Spouts Blatant Homophobia Against Pete Buttigieg:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/9/11/republican-co-chair-spouts-blatant-homophobia-against-pete-buttigieg

* "Trump didn't trust the government he ran, and the government didn't trust him: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-didn-t-trust-the-government-he-ran-and-the-government-didn-t-trust-him-book-149917253778

* "Trump entitlement developed as rich kid, far from his new blue collar base: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-entitlement-developed-as-rich-kid-far-from-his-new-blue-collar-base-149918277802

* "The misguided rationale behind Trump’s lawsuit against CNN:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/misguided-rationale-trumps-lawsuit-cnn-rcna50824

* "Trump’s Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN May Be Ridiculous, but It’s Not Doomed:" https://newrepublic.com/article/168023/trump-defamation-lawsuit-cnn-singhal

* "National Archives says it still doesn't have all Trump White House records:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/01/politics/national-archives-trump-records-house-oversight-committee/index.html

* "Mar-a-Lago documents inadvertently published online — and undercut Trump’s privilege claims:" https://www.salon.com/2022/10/05/mar-a-lago-documents-inadvertently-published-online--and-undercut-trumps-privilege-claims/

* "‘What else might be out there at other properties Trump owns?’: Former CIA director on DOJ fears:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/department-of-justice-believes-trump-still-has-documents-he-should-not-have-150189637990

* "DOJ official has told Trump lawyers Trump has more documents: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/doj-official-has-told-trump-lawyers-trump-has-more-documents-nyt-150106693857

* "Trump lawyers deploy slow-down tactics but Trump's case doesn't improve:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-lawyers-deploy-slow-down-tactics-but-trump-s-case-doesn-t-improve-150012997793

* "Trump's Beatdown in the 11th Circuit (Cannon Rebuked):"

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* "Oath Keepers trial begins in highest profile Jan. 6 case to date:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/03/oath-keepers-trial-begins-in-highest-profile-jan-6-case-to-date-00060002

* "Oath Keepers trial, with rare charge and novel defense, focuses on intent:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/oath-keepers-trial-with-rare-charge-and-novel-defense-focuses-on-intent-149823045960

* "Oath Keepers caught on tape: Insurrection Act gave 'legal cover':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/oath-keepers-caught-on-tape-insurrection-act-gave-legal-cover-149806661747

* "Secret Service allegedly covered up details of Vice President Kamala Harris' motorcade accident:" https://www.salon.com/2022/10/06/secret-allegedly-covered-up-details-of-vice-kamala-harris-motorcade-accident_partner/

* "Ex-Oath Keeper Testifies In Jan. 6 Trial That Group Had Secret Service Contact:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oath-keepers-stewart-rhodes-secret-service_n_633f1957e4b0b7f89f49c761

* "Secret Service at center of several key unanswered Jan. 6 questions :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/secret-service-at-center-of-several-key-unanswered-jan-6-questions-150110789905

* "High-level Proud Boys member pleads guilty to Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy charge:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/high-level-proud-boys-member-pleads-guilty-jan-6-seditious-conspiracy-rcna51103

* "Rep. Jamie Raskin: This is what a violent insurrection looks like:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-jamie-raskin-this-is-what-a-violent-insurrection-looks-like-150187077635

* "Federal judge blocks key provisions of New York's new gun-control laws:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/06/new-york-gun-control-blocked-00060756

* "Infowars lawyer, manager barred from bankruptcy case over conflicts:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/infowars-lawyer-manager-barred-bankruptcy-case-over-conflicts-2022-09-21/

* "Sen. Chris Murphy: I'm furious that Alex Jones put these parents through misery:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/alex-jones-defamation-trial-sandy-hook-families-gun-safety-fundraiser-discussed-by-sen-chris-murphy-150189637832

* "These Migrants Face Violent Attacks and Can’t Escape:"

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* "Ex-US army medic allegedly lured migrants on to flights to Martha’s Vineyard:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/03/marthas-vineyard-migrant-flight-perla-huerta

* "Air charter company used to transport migrants has ties to DeSanits, Gaetz Florida official says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/identity-of-perla-who-recruited-migrants-for-martha-s-vineyard-flight-identified-by-new-york-times-149818949845

* "Migrants in U.S. struggle for survival despite added burden of GOP political stunts:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/migrants-in-u-s-struggle-for-survival-despite-added-burden-of-gop-political-stunts-150192709935

* "Alabama prison strike enters second week: Here’s what we know:" https://www.al.com/news/2022/10/alabama-prison-strike-enters-second-week-heres-what-we-know.html

* "What an Alabama Prisoners’ Strike Tells Us About Prison Labor:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/10/01/what-an-alabama-prisoners-strike-tells-us-about-prison-labor

* "At Least 50 Groups in the U.S. Advocated Banning Books This Year:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/20/least-50-groups-us-advocated-banning-books-year

* "Judge Accused of Homophobia, Racism Wants Her Job Back:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/13/judge-accused-homophobia-racism-wants-her-job-back

* CW: Sexual Harassment "Money Rich, Morally Poor: Elon Musk:"

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* CW: Rape, Pedophilia "The Devil Behind the Camera: Girls Gone Wild:"

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* CW: Child Sex Abuse "Churches defend clergy loophole in child sex abuse reporting:" https://apnews.com/article/sex-abuse-catholic-church-mormon-5d78129a2fe666159a22ce71323f6da3

* I believe Anthony Rapp. "Kevin Spacey's thinks he’s a 'victim' of 'resentful' Me Too accuser, court hears:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/kevin-spacey-thinks-hes-a-victim-of-me-too-and-a-resentful-accuser-court-hears/

* "This Teacher Lost Her Job After Starting an OnlyFans:"

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* "Thousands of Italians march to protect abortion rights after Giorgia Meloni's win:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/29/italy-abortion-protest-giorgia-meloni/

* "Judge who voided Minnesota abortion limits blocks appeal bid:" https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/judge-who-voided-minnesota-abortion-limits-blocks-appeal-bid/

* "Demand for abortions in Michigan doubles among out-of-state residents:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2022/10/05/abortion-michigan-out-of-state-residents-ohio-tennessee-texas-kentucky/69539316007/

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* "UN officials demand Iran halts its planned execution of LGBTQ+ activists:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/30/iran-lgbtq-activists-execution-united-nations/

* "Same-sex couples from China are getting married in Utah over Zoom:" https://restofworld.org/2022/chinese-same-sex-couples-married-zoom-utah/

* "Bulgaria told to urgently tackle anti-LGBTQ+ hate by European human rights group:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/08/bulgaria-lgbtq-hatae/

* "Owner of Gun Used to Kill Queer Journalist Lyra McKee Jailed:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/9/14/owner-gun-used-kill-queer-journalist-lyra-mckee-jailed

* "LGB employees more likely to be bullied in workplace, according to science:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/30/bullying-workplace-study-gay-lesbian-bisexual/

* "Tory Party conference LGBTQ+ party ends with 'disgusting' homophobic abuse:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/05/tory-party-conference-lgbtq-homophobic-abuse/

* "Scotland puts Tories to shame with incredible plan to ban conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/conversion-therapy-ban-scotland-uk/

* "Nicola Sturgeon responds after JK Rowling called her a 'destroyer of women's rights':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/nicola-sturgeon-trans-rights-jk-rowling-bbc-today-show/

* "Police confirms supplying or wearing a chest binder is not child abuse:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/30/met-police-chest-binding-binder-child-abuse/

* "No, offering breast binders to trans kids isn't 'child abuse':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/28/breast-binders-child-abuse-telegraph/

* "Equalities watchdog admits asking trans people to prove their sex could break law:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/ehrc-scottish-gra-legal-sex-trans/

* "Judge: Antigay N.Y. Adoption Agency Can Turn Away Same-Sex Couples:" https://www.advocate.com/family/2022/9/12/judge-antigay-ny-adoption-agency-can-turn-away-same-sex-couples

* "Baker who took anti-LGBTQ+ fight to Supreme Court in new court case:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/jack-phillips-masterpiece-baker-lgbt/

* "California Will Ease Benefit Process for Vets Discharged Under DADT:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/19/california-will-ease-benefit-process-vets-discharged-under-dadt

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* "Tropical Storm Julia, A Flooding Hurricane Danger To Central America :" https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2022-10-07-tropical-storm-julia-hurricane-forecast-central-america

* "Cuban protests after Hurricane Ian fade but anger over shortages simmers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuban-protests-after-hurricane-ian-fade-anger-over-shortages-simmers-2022-10-03/

* "Ian left a trail of destruction stretching from the Caribbean to the Carolinas. Here's a closer look:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/us/hurricane-ian-trail-destruction/index.html

* "Central Florida floodwaters rising after Hurricane Ian unleashed "unprecedented rainfall":" https://www.axios.com/2022/10/03/central-florida-floodwaters-rising-ian-record-rainfall

* "Nor’easter causes problems at Shore with more flooding and erosion expected through Wednesday:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey-philadelphia-noreaster-ian-flooding-shore-20221003.html

* "Death toll from Hurricane Ian surpasses 100 as the search for survivors continues in Florida:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/us/hurricane-ian-florida-recovery-monday/index.html

* "For flooded inland Florida, Hurricane Ian saved the worst for last:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/flooded-inland-florida-hurricane-ian-saved-worst-last-2022-10-06/

* "Why the Florida Fantasy Withstands Reality:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/hurricane-ian-florida-real-estate/671629/

* "Chile's Easter Island 'Moai' statues face irreparable damage after wildfire:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-easter-island-moai-statues-face-irreparable-damage-after-wildfire-2022-10-07/

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* "How food prices and the climate crisis brought famine to Somalia once more:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/first-edition-somalia-famine-climate-crisis

* "Where Protecting the Environment Gets You Killed:"

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* "Iraq's Dying Garden of Eden:"

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* "Facebook scrambles to escape stock's death spiral as users flee, sales drop:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/30/facebook-scrambles-to-escape-death-spiral-as-users-flee-sales-drop.html

* "Musk Twitter purchase would see return of Trump tweets to no one's benefit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/musk-twitter-purchase-would-see-return-of-trump-tweets-to-no-one-s-benefit-150019141742

* "The Navy Accused Him of Arson. Its Own Investigation Showed Widespread Safety Failures.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/bonhomme-richard-fire-safety-lapses

* "Sacheen Littlefeather, actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s Oscar, dies aged 75:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/03/sacheen-littlefeather-actor-and-activist-who-declined-marlon-brandos-oscar-dies-aged-75

* "Judy Tenuta, ‘Love Goddess’ comedian known for her brash routines, dies at 72:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/judy-tenuta-love-goddess-comedian-known-brash-routines-dies-72-rcna51097

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

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* "Biden's October Surprise: Marijuana Pardons | More Lies From Herschel Walker:"

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* "Weekend Update: Velma Comes Out as a Lesbian, Artist Sells Urine for $500 - SNL:"

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* CW: Animal Death "Weekend Update: Dr. Oz Experiments Killed 300 Dogs, Planned Parenthood Opens Mobile Clinic - SNL:"

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* ""No One F***s With A Biden" | Buttigieg Claps Back At MTG:"

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* "The Right Stuff Dating App & Introducing Hate F**k - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah :" https://www.cc.com/video/ma26un/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-right-stuff-dating-app-introducing-hate-f-k

* "Kim Kardashian's Crypto Fine & Putin's Ukraine Annexation:" https://www.cc.com/video/3y5zki/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-kim-kardashian-s-crypto-fine-putin-s-ukraine-annexation

* "Fringe-Watching - Herschel Walker:" https://www.cc.com/video/lmxs3o/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-fringe-watching-herschel-walker

* "GOP Pretends T**** Isn't Racist | Ukraine Takes Back Territory After Russia's Annexation:"

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* "Nicole Kidman AMC Ad - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update: Mitch McConnell and Herschel Walker on 2022 Midterms:"

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* "Herschel Walker's Girlfriend Kept Receipts | Is Elon Musk Doing Russia's Bidding?:"

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* "Gators Take Over Florida, Iran Protests & Musk vs. Twitter:" https://www.cc.com/video/3jzdov/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-gators-take-over-florida-iran-protests-musk-vs-twitter

* "Aaron Judge Breaks Record, "Best Before" Backlash & More:" https://www.cc.com/video/w392h2/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-aaron-judge-breaks-record-best-before-backlash-more

* "Herschel Walker's GOP-Backed Abortion Hypocrisy :" https://www.cc.com/video/bkfwvb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-herschel-walker-s-gop-backed-abortion-hypocrisy

* "So Much News, So Little Time - Biden Marijuana Pardon & More :" https://www.cc.com/video/5vlo8i/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-so-much-news-so-little-time-biden-marijuana-pardon-more

* "Tesla Has Revealed Its New AI-Powered Robot:"

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* "Hallmark Introduces: The Herschel Walker Collection:"

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* "Herschel Walker: It Wasn't Me:"

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* Last Sunday, we went shopping. By we I mean Head Millennial, Techie Millennial, Techie's New Roommate, and me. It was insanely hot and muggy, which we had no way of guessing when planning the expodition the night before when it was a perfectly reasonable temperature for mid-September in this micro-climate. Yes, I know it's October. *shakes fist at the Koch brothers and every other rich person who bought climate denial during my life time to boost their profit margins*

But it had been early September sane temperatures for a week. We'd already ripped out the living room air-conditioning the previous weekend so we could start Gothmas Phase I. (All I've managed is most of the ornaments on one tree.) We were not expecting Surprise late July in Alabama. This means not only was the trip to the Good Grocery (Excellent Prices, Solid selection, Employee run) sticky hot, exhausting, and full of human obstacles, but the apartment common area was oven hot when we got home. It is supposed to be cool, windy, and sporadically rainy. Fucking Climate change.

Now it is Gothmas Phase II, of which I've managed the easy stuff not involving string lights and ladders, but it's enough to start lighting of an evening outside. head Millennial helped me get the gear out of the storage closest, then focused on hand making us lasagna to eat while watching our beloved resident Alien and sipping nice cold floats.

I have already spent two thirds of my food budget for the month and I have my birthday party to get food for mid October. Sigh. I did score eight dollars of fruit from the Market Garden before they closed for the season in the morning of their very last day right after open. I really miss the other fruit and veg stand as they generally stayed open through Halloween, but I really don't blame two people in their '70's for deciding that organizing produce from a bunch of small farms was too damned much.

For the record, the market garden is produce from one farm, super fresh, as it's harvested right there and placed on display throughout the day, but the selection is smaller than the one that was like a farmer's Market only every day and with one check out. Seriously, the Market garden is magical and really close to where I live now and they have a good selection given the size of their growing space. I just wish there were two options instead of one. It's not like there is any shortage of fresh fruit and produce in this place as we are a part off the country that supplies other areas with the same, so we are spoiled by good, reasonably cheap, fresh food. Also, the major artery for the west coast means more southerly fruit makes it up here quickly at reasonable prices.

I never forget we are incredibly lucky to be living were food is. I grew up in an area where the only biking distance food stores were a tiny corner store and a WaWa (convenience store). A real grocery store was an hour round trip not counting the actual shopping, and my Gran was living in a Germantown food desert because she wasn't willing to leave the neighborhood where she was born in 1889 and she had a bad arm, so my Mother and Grandmother took it in turn to take her grocery shopping once a week. I still measure food availibity in things like travel time and spoons and how much a person on foot could reasonably carry for how many miles, because those were the calculation of more than half my life and they still are for my Millennials.

Still, the tiny end of season selection and the last day sign made me sad.

Anyway, we have food. I've two meals worth of eggplant lasagna in my fridge and one in my stomach, and it's starting to look a bit Gothmasy around the Cat Asylum.

For those not used to the lingo, the Gothmas season starts September 1 and runs to Jan. 7. Phase one is interior Gothmas decorations like trees and Halloween Town. Phase 2 is exterior Halloween decorations, Phase 3: we leave everything up inside and pull the Halloween specific stuff from outside while leaving lights, gourds, etc.. Phase 4: yet more interior decorations and more lights everywhere. It is a disability friendly way to do things and is cheerful for the dark of the year. I got in the habit for my late longtime partner Skye as even though he was a happy atheist, the social bits of the winter holidays really mattered to him and he missed his family. It is all very, very Goth to look at since he only specifically theistic things were gifts from assorted relatives and these are black and purple Halloween trees decorated with things like science fiction and Halloween ornaments and Halloween Town stays up throughout. Phase 5: everything sorted and back in boxes, stowed away for next September.

We call it the Cat Asylum, because back just before the turn of the century, Skye and I took in two rescue cats with serious psychological and resulting behavioral problems. It is asylum both in the original sense of a safe place, a refuge; and in the sense that it could get pretty wild for the first few years. For the record, they both lived to their late teens despite health issues related to their abuse and abandonment. Mache recovered and was the best Queen I ever met and a wonderful, wonderful cat by every measure after the extremely rough first 2-3 years. hector suffered from nightmares, anxiety, panic attacks his whole life, but he got so much better and was loved his whole life after that first terrible year. his bad spells went from every day to only once in a while, and he had a really, really good life. It is still the cat asylum because the the current cats also have issues and this is a safe and supportive environment for them.

* Monday I was still exhausted and in pain from Sunday shopping and the weather changes. It was also still July in Alabama humid hot. Still we dropped of my car after squirrel's game so they'd have it Wednesday morning.

Tuesday, the temperature switched back to mid-September, which was much more manageable. The car... things were a lot worse than expected when they cracked the Beastie open. There is a small part that breaks about every half decade, one of many known design flaws for this make and model. So they did that and a few other small necessary things on top of the every ten month stuff that stops the engine from bricking itself. This car is in it's mid-twenties and was poorly designed to start with. Most of the important bits have been replaced over the years, but parts are harder and harder to find. Still we keep pasting it back together because I'll never likely have money for a replacement used car. This made the repair nearly twice as expensive as I expected.

Anyway, it turns out another system needs sorting out preferably in the next month or so before critical damage happens. This has been such an expensive year starting with last November car repairs and including things like the apartment electrical system, the oven dying, , other car repairs, my teeth, my surgery.... Sigh. I'll know how badly I'm fucked next week. I am sure I don't have 150 for replacing bits of the car's fluid system. I'm pretty sure I just spent the money for second Biggest bill on the extra bits and bobs today.

I really need this coming year to be both surgery free and less expensive. Could my body, my car, and my home stop falling apart for even a little while so I can catch my breath? I've had four surgeries in two years which i feel like is a lot.

If you would like to help: paypal.me/Gwydion

Bonus: My body threw a whole ass four hour tantrum which left me wrung out like a wet dish towel, but spasm aftershocks all night long meant there was no point in going to bed. Sigh.

* The barometer has been swinging wildly back and forth. The hot and humid is the worst thing for my lungs and general functioning. I remain exhausted and in a stupid amount of pain. My sinuses are a nightmare and need mitigation every couple of hours, my As is screaming at me. everything I eat makes me sick, which is a thing that happens when it is muggy hot. The trees on my street are very confused. some of them haven't started to turn, others have a few patches of orange, others are in full orange or red autumn mode, others still have already lost their leaves. We need a good cleansing rain from Alaska.

On the upside, I discovered I'd only spent half rather than two thirds of my food allotment for the month, and the third store actually had my special crackers. I think the global supply issues must be pretty bad right now what with Putin being the monster he is. Two of the four grocery stores in the last week had tons of empty shelves, and the better of them looked like pre-disaster panic shoppers had swept through some of the sections despite the only disaster here being the fact that we're a month into the rainy season, but it's barely even drizzled in couple of months. Oh and the wildfire smoke still blowing in over the mountains from the inland fires. We are protected here from the kind of disasters that destroy towns, but not from climate change itself, which is so obvious to anyone who's lived here a reasonable length of time that it is hard to grasp why it's not obvious to everyone.

* The air quality and extreme humidity remain a serious problem not just for me, but even people with properly working lungs. It often smells like burning and the sky is assorted shades of wrong still from inland fires. I know it's that and not a pathogen, because I am dramatically better when I'm under filtration for a while, but when I come out I start to stuff up again and itch. I can see a really dramatic difference in my lung function too. Something must have been burning very badly Saturday night. By morning it smelled like a tire fire.

Techie Millennial came over Saturday to visit and decorate trees. It was a good visit. Head Millennial called out, and was exhausted when they came in Sunday. I honestly think the air quality is a lot of the problem. We did not finish outside. There is still lighting that needs to go up inside and Halloweentown is all over the place, but it is so much more cheerful now, and we are getting people slowing down to look already.

Unfortunately, some of these people are dog walkers, to the Imperial couple's dismay. Sunday morning a fairly new to the complex German Shepard took serious exception to Tavy and the owner just let the dog stand there barking for a while. Sigh. Most of the dogs in this complex are really well behaved. People know how hard it is to find pet friendly housing in this town, so make an effort, but i feel like if your dog is that agitated because cats live in an apartment, maybe keep walking instead of standing around staring while you dog barks for seven minutes at a now empty window, while the cats that live there hide in terror. just saying.

I do not blame the dogs in these situations; I blame the humans.

* "Creepy Vintage Halloween Costumes From the 1900s to 1950s:" https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/creepy-vintage-halloween-costumes-1900s-1950s.html

* A cute Gotham thing: https://allaboardthecolumboat.tumblr.com/post/697395857179459584/you-fill-up-the-little-cup-youve-been-using-on

* A Different Riding Hood: https://unrealityshadow.tumblr.com/post/697414961664770048/sewickedthread-writing-prompt-s-little-red

* Duel with Lucifer: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/697248814868856832

* "The Second-String Sacred Band of Thebes:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/the-second-string-sacred-band-of?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=76457762&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

* "How to help Pakistan’s flood victims:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-to-help-pakistans-flood-victims

* "How to help victims of Hurricane Ian in Florida:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-to-help-victims-of-hurricane-ian-in-florida

* "A List of UK Trans Charities:" https://katymontgomerie.medium.com/a-list-of-uk-trans-charities-2e26fb4032fd

* How to help Puerto Rico: https://rubynye.tumblr.com/post/695979319094394880

* Important 2022 Senate Races and how to donate: https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/694338688722796544

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

* Fundraiser for final costs for a long time internet friend's mother: https://www.gofundme.com/f/annemarie-kergis

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* Headline Writer correctly anticipated my reaction. I'd love if there were progress, but I don't trust easily at this point. "Good news from Yemen! (Seriously.):" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/06/09/good-news-from-yemen-seriously-00037083

* "In Yemen, child soldiering continues despite Houthi promise:" https://apnews.com/article/politics-middle-east-sanaa-houthis-religion-5e62561f8070441412ed52d222c950e3

* "Brazil police: Items owned by missing men found in Amazon:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/backpack-laptop-found-pair-missing-amazon-85348983

* "Brazil: Suspect confesses to killing pair missing in Amazon:" https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-brazil-arrests-e0ea11382304677fa152d2e40268a49b

* "A British journalist's remains have been found in Brazil's Amazon, police say:" https://www.npr.org/2022/06/17/1105997564/british-journalist-remains-found-brazil-amazon

* "Nigerian Officials Say Terror Group ISWAP Behind Church Massacre:" https://www.voanews.com/a/nigerian-authorities-say-terror-group-iswap-responsible-for-church-massacre-/6612480.html

* "French far-left firebrand puts Macron’s majority on the line in parliamentary vote:" https://www.politico.eu/article/gains-for-france-hard-left-in-parliamentary-election-first-round/

* "Colombia's police on highest alert over election violence:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-police-highest-alert-over-election-violence-2022-06-15/

* "UK govt orders Julian Assange's extradition; appeal planned:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/uk-govt-approves-extradition-of-assange-appeal-possible/2022/06/17/68f518c4-ee1f-11ec-9f90-79df1fb28296_story.html

* "U.K. vows more Rwanda deportation flights after legal setback:" https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1105161913/u-k-cancels-first-flight-to-deport-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda

* "Congo official: Rwanda will have war if it wants war:" https://apnews.com/article/politics-africa-rwanda-uganda-e367c565d85e855f0b65d511c7bc8352

* "Congolese soldier killed in Rwanda, fighting with rebels picks up:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-soldier-shot-dead-rwanda-anger-flares-body-returned-2022-06-17/

* "Scraps of stale bread are keeping Afghans alive:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61805862

* "Danish-Canadian deal ends 49-year-old feud over Arctic isle:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/danish-canadian-deal-ends-49-year-old-feud-over-arctic-isle/2022/06/14/96921d18-ebc7-11ec-9f90-79df1fb28296_story.html

* "China Says It Has 'Zero Tolerance' for Racism Amid Malawi Fallout:" https://www.voanews.com/a/china-says-it-has-zero-tolerance-for-racism-amid-malawi-fallout-/6620798.html

* "How North Korea Cheats Their Sanctions for Absurd Profit:"

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* "Beijing warns of 'explosive' COVID outbreak, Shanghai conducts mass testing:" https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-reports-new-210-covid-cases-june-10-vs-151-day-earlier-2022-06-11/

* "The FDA authorizes COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers:" https://www.npr.org/2022/06/17/1105983004/fda-children-infants-covid-vaccine

* Sigh. "Florida only state not preordering toddler COVID-19 vaccines:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-florida-karine-jean-pierre-6b3272b50364855a58a5503aaf932b19

* "Fauci tests positive for virus, has mild COVID-19 symptoms:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-covid-science-health-infectious-diseases-c7773126776fe1ecaec8fb4a347544e7

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* "Leaders pledge arms and EU path for Ukraine in Kyiv visit:" https://apnews.com/article/eu-leaders-visit-ukraine-515075496ed9d6cfe3e4acde23b52f8e

* "Sanctions are hitting hard enough to hurt Russia, if not stop it:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/11/sanctions-are-hitting-hard-enough-to-hurt-russia-if-not-stop-it

* "Pope blasts Russian 'cruelty,' lauds Ukrainian 'heroism':" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-pope-francis-religion-nato-6e7e47890b64884ce5330bbfa39e8aea

* "Tough Questions for West as Ukraine Cities Teeter:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-eu.html

* "Russia is now in control of much of Severodonetsk, the epicenter of the battle for Ukraine's eastern Donbas region:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/11/europe/severodonetsk-control-mariupol-deaths-russia-ukraine-intl/index.html

* "Russia likely to seize all of Luhansk in coming weeks, U.S. official says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/11/ukraine-war-russia-luhansk/

* "Lysychansk bombarded by Russian artillery:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61774948

* "Zelenskiy says the battle for Sievierodonetsk is taking a ‘terrifying’ toll on Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/jun/13/russia-ukraine-war-russia-committed-war-crimes-in-kharkiv-amnesty-alleges-evacuation-routes-destroyed-in-sievierodonetsk-live

* "Ukraine war: Every bridge leading to key city Severodonetsk destroyed:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61786949

* "Ukraine war: Thousands of civilians trapped in Severodonetsk:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61816749

* "Lysychansk: Russia erasing history in Ukraine's 'dead city':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61785806

* "Air strike kills four civilians in Ukraine's Lysychansk, more feared trapped- governor:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/air-strike-kills-four-civilians-ukraines-lysychansk-more-feared-trapped-governor-2022-06-16/

* "Russia makes ‘marginal gains’ near Severodonetsk:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/18/russia-ukraine-war-putin-news-live-updates/

* "Ukraine's 'unicorn' LGBTQ soldiers head for war:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-unicorn-lgbtq-soldiers-head-war-2022-05-31/

* "On the edge of embattled twin cities, an uncovered mass grave for civilians grows.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/world/europe/lysychansk-sievierodonetsk-ukraine-civilian-deaths.html

* "Russian army ramps up recruitment as steep casualties thin the ranks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/16/russia-military-army-soldiers-recruitment/

* "What Relatives of Russian Troops Killed in Ukraine Think About the “Special Military Operation”:" https://slate.com/technology/2022/06/russian-soldiers-ukraine-families.html

* "Kremlin crackdown on dissent targets the Russians protesting Ukraine war:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russians-opposed-war-ukraine-face-battle-kremlins-crackdown-anti-war-p-rcna29981

* "Ukraine's besieged farmers fear war-time harvest 'hell':" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-besieged-farmers-fear-war-time-harvest-hell-2022-06-14/

* "Farmers in Odesa sound alarm over blockade: ‘It’s a question of survival’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/30/we-need-to-lift-the-blockade-ukraine-farmers-unable-to-export-grain

* "War isn't funny but humor helps Ukrainians cope with trauma:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-comedy-clubs-6c9ccdf5ee098cd22eaeffe7c811da69

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* "US has not fully investigated own role in Yemen human rights abuses, watchdog finds:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-yemen-human-rights-abuses-gao-watchdog

* "Charter business thrives as US-expelled Haitians flee Haiti:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-travel-caribbean-2e5f32f8781a06e74ef7ea7ec639785f

* "Biden seeks to counter 'legislative attacks' on LGBTQ rights:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-congress-government-and-politics-gender-identity-82982ffff0c91415e29f1bb08a5c2f8c

* "Joe Biden applauded for finally taking action on anti-LGBTQ+ bills:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/06/16/joe-biden-lgbtq-executive-order-2/

* "Court rejects Trump-era EPA finding that weed killer safe:" https://apnews.com/article/health-climate-and-environment-government-politics-cancer-e1d47c554bc97537880f22c26c2eb229

* "Recession fears grow as Dow closes below 30,000 and mortgage rates spike:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/16/stocks-today-fed-rate-hike/

* Don't hold your breath. "Expert reveals what President Biden and the Democrats can do about gas prices:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-and-the-democrats-attempt-to-address-rising-gas-prices-142213189558

* "This CNN Hero solves an often invisible problem by providing 'Undies for Everyone':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/us/texas-rabbi-underwear-dignity-cnnheroes/index.html

* "The Self Made Myth: Why You’ll Never Be a Billionaire:"

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* "Inside the Blockade of Joe Manchin's Coal Profits:"

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* "Mehdi Hasan: How on Earth is Ted Cruz still in the Senate?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mehdi-hasan-how-on-earth-is-ted-cruz-still-in-the-senate-142372421586

* "Senate negotiators announce a deal on guns, breaking logjam:" https://apnews.com/article/gun-laws-senate-bipartisan-agreement-59d553f3d1e35fdbe4930e4341e74efb

* ""If any measure can be taken to save one more life, isn't it worth it?":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/-if-any-measure-can-be-taken-to-save-one-more-life-isn-t-it-worth-it-141967941808

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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* "Competitive congressional districts are on the decline. New Hampshire bucks the trend:" https://www.npr.org/2022/06/10/1104025539/new-hampshire-redistricting-competitive-districts-sununu

* "Court blocks Louisiana congressional map saying it suppresses Black voters:" https://www.axios.com/2022/06/06/louisiana-redistricting-map-voting-black

* "The Texas Plan:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1837932.html

* "Election standoff ends in New Mexico county after false fraud claims threw primary certification into question:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/new-mexico-primary-results-otero-county-certification/index.html

* "New Mexico county commissioner who refuses to certify recent election results sentenced for role in January 6 attack:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/couy-griffin-capitol-riot-new-mexico-plea/index.html

* "El Paso County coroner race: Candidates lay out priorities, experience:" https://gazette.com/elections/el-paso-county-coroner-race-candidates-lay-out-priorities-experience/article_d73ce9fe-dc56-11ec-8135-373c1a8f3b89.html

* "Election Deniers Are Everywhere — Including Your Local Races:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k9SsCxcLEE

* "Game Over for the Log Cabin Republicans:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1837738.html

* "Lesser-known candidates struggle for spotlight in Missouri Senate primaries • Missouri Independent:" https://missouriindependent.com/2022/06/13/lesser-know-candidates-struggle-for-spotlight-in-missouri-senate-primaries/

* "Rep. Karen Bass joins Jonathan Capehart to discuss L.A. mayoral race:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-karen-bass-joins-jonathan-capehart-to-discuss-l-a-mayoral-race-141968965651

* "Florida GOP Candidate’s Bisexual Daughter Slams Mom in Viral Video:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/5/25/florida-gop-candidates-bisexual-daughter-slams-mom-viral-video

* "Mike Lee weathers intraparty attacks at Utah GOP debate:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-utah-mike-lee-mitt-romney-d6ec17c00386377e8cb416df492ca863

* "'Far too late': Judge dismisses Brnovich's complaint against Hobbs over Arizona elections manual:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/06/17/arizona-judge-rules-secretary-state-katie-hobbs-over-attorney-general-mark-brnovich-elections-manual/7666518001/

* I had a fascinating poll Saturday. My best guess is it was Republican funded for the August primary by the party rather than a particular candidate. From the questions, they were clearly trying to figure out how much sway Drumpf still has, and what part of him still appeals if any. This being a blue state, where they are running against a Democratic Incumbent, there are four republicans representing a wide range. (We have two non-November elections: the smaller one I voted in months ago, and the August one. They are open Primaries and the too two go on the November ballot. It's all mail in and not a hassle). They had a whole section that seemed to be gauging the popularity of pro-Russian invasion extremist candidates vs. more moderate ones.

It was the most interesting poll I've taken in years and was worth Tavy and I being startled awake for.

* "Trumpism and election lies are spreading, plus 2 more takeaways from Tuesday's races:" https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1105201132/nevada-south-carolina-primaries-takeaways-trump-laxalt-rice-mace-marchant

* "5 takeaways from Tuesday's elections in South Carolina, Nevada, Texas, Maine and North Dakota:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/15/politics/nevada-south-carolina-primary-takeaways/index.html

* "Black Gay Candidates Make History With Primary Wins in Texas:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/5/25/black-gay-candidates-make-history-primary-wins-texas

* "Lesbian Jamie McLeod-Skinner Wins Congressional Primary in Oregon:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/5/27/lesbian-jamie-mcleod-skinner-wins-congressional-primary-oregon

* "Trump gets a split decision in South Carolina as Rice is beaten, while Mace survives:" https://www.npr.org/2022/06/14/1105009105/south-carolina-rice-fry-mace-arrington-trump-endorsements

* "Democrats are voting in GOP primaries. Did they sink Madison Cawthorn?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/16/democrats-republicans-primaries-georgia-colorado-voting/

* "America’s Coming Age of Instability:" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2022-01-20/americas-coming-age-instability

* "The Road to Trump Began With Reaganomics & the Loss of the Middle Class, Economist Says:" https://today.duke.edu/2019/01/road-trump-began-reaganomics-loss-middle-class-economist-says

* "The definition of truth:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1837157.html

* "Sen. Warnock asks ‘all remain vigilant’ as America grapples with Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-and-his-new-book-discussed-by-sen-raphael-warnock-142297669985

* "Donald Trump to testify in New York investigation into his business practices:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/08/donald-trump-testify-investigation-children-new-york-ag

* "Key Trump lawyer sought presidential pardon after effort to overturn election failed:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/16/jan-6-panel-trump-pressure-campaign-pence-00039996

* "DOJ criminally investigating plan for alternate Trump electors with focus on lawyers, report says:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/16/doj-criminally-investigating-plan-for-alternate-trump-electors-.html

* "New email reinforces Trump team saw ‘wild’ Jan. 6 unrest as leverage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/16/eastman-chesebro-emails-january-6/

* "Panel sharpens focus on Trump's 'crazy' Jan. 6 plan:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-crime-presidential-elections-cdc64a3de7950e6f3291851b3c5d9b1a

* "It seems Eastman knew his plan was unconstitutional, illegal, unprecedented:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/testimony-confirms-eastman-plan-to-reject-election-results-was-unconstitutional-142298181811

* "There were no heroes in the Trump administration on Jan. 6:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/17/no-heroes-trump-administration-january-6/

* "Rep. Loudermilk should be ‘affirmatively sharing all the information he can’ expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-committee-tells-rep-loudermilk-man-he-gave-house-office-buildings-tour-to-threatened-democratic-lawmakers-142212165761

* "Jan. 6 panel calls Ginni Thomas to testify:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/16/jan-6-panel-leaders-prepare-to-call-ginni-thomas-00040208

* "Rep. Ilhan Omar continues to call for Justice Thomas’ impeachment:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-ilhan-omar-continues-to-call-for-justice-thomas-impeachment-142369861975

* "Chris Hayes: How ‘Team Normal’ enabled Trump and his Big Lie:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-team-normal-enabled-trump-and-his-big-lie-142126661873

* "Rep. Raskin on William Barr: Just telling the truth doesn't make you a hero:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-hearings-with-top-trump-aides-allies-providing-damning-evidence-discussed-by-rep-raskin-142132293914

* "Legal expert on why he believes Trump understood his actions were ‘illegal and corrupt’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-reportedly-pushing-doj-to-support-false-claims-election-was-stolen-discussed-by-legal-politics-experts-142133829675

* "Proud Boys document shows detailed Jan. 6 plan to occupy government buildings:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/proud-boys-document-shows-detailed-jan-6-plan-to-occupy-government-buildings-142205509603

* "Anti-vaccine doctor sentenced to prison for Jan. 6 trespassing:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/16/simone-gold-sentenced/

* "Patriot Front Member’s Mom: ‘Pack Your Stuff and Get Out’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/pack-your-stuff-and-get-out-of-my-house-says-patriot-front-members-mom

* "'Enough is enough': Thousands demand new gun safety laws:" https://apnews.com/article/congress-parkland-florida-school-shooting-gun-violence-shootings-public-opinion-06cd760edf8977716dba0c2b157a1a91

* This is a terrible idea. "Ohio’s new concealed carry law takes effect this week: What both sides are saying:" https://www.daytondailynews.com/crime/ohios-new-concealed-carry-law-takes-effect-this-week-what-both-sides-are-saying/WI6ERBQ3WZFNXK4Y7SGFKXODR4/

* "How We Can Stop Racist, Anti-LGBTQ+ White Supremacist Rage:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/5/24/how-we-can-stop-racist-anti-lgbtq-white-supremacist-rage

* "Police Fatally Shoot Armed Man at Duncanville Field House; Campers Unharmed:" https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/watch-gunfire-reported-outside-duncanville-field-house-campers-moved-to-rec-center/2990942/

* "Church shooting suspect was warned by ATF about missing guns:" https://www.al.com/news/2022/06/church-shooting-suspect-was-licensed-gun-dealer-warned-by-federal-agents-about-missing-guns.html

* "A Woman Who Spent Years Telling Sandy Hook Parents Their Kids Were Never Killed Explains Why She Did It:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/06/shooting-school-texas-uvalde-sandy-hook-conspiracy.html

* "Texas shooting records could be blocked by legal loophole:" https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-investigation-legal-loophole-68215709d6ee722466d225b7013cdec1

* "Why Black people are afraid of ‘crazy’ White people:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/why-black-people-are-afraid-of-crazy-white-people-141968453716

* "Buffalo Is Still Reeling From Racist Massacre:"

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* "Supreme Court rejects AG Brnovich's effort to restore Trump-era 'green-card' rule:" https://tucson.com/news/government-and-politics/supreme-court-rejects-ag-brnovichs-effort-to-restore-trump-era-green-card-rule/article_aa194a8a-ecc3-11ec-9b30-47e55b72c8ed.html

* CW: Suicide "Entertainment Media's History of Mistreating Young Women:"

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* CW: Domestic Violence "If I go back to Iran, my husband will kill me:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-61722849

* CW: Rape. "Former Myers Park HS student sues district for failing to prevent her sex assault:" https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/former-myers-park-hs-student-sues-district-failing-prevent-her-sex-assault/IA7WMO3CTNEGFM4AFH5M32NS5E/

* CW: Sexual Assault "Inside the Alleged Sexual Assault Cover Up in Charlotte Schools:"

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* CW: Rape. "New SBC President commits to move sex abuse reforms forward:" https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article262549262.html

* CW: Sexual Assault. "His lawyer says Kevin Spacey strenuously denies sex charges:" https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105458176/kevin-spacey-denies-sex-charges-bail

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein faces two indecent assault charges in UK:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/uk/uk-cps-harvey-weinstein-charged-intl-gbr/index.html

* I support the right of women to wear whatever the fuck they want. "French burkini ban challenged by Grenoble in top court:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61796421

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* "Lawmakers urge Google to fix abortion searches suggesting ‘fake clinics’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/06/18/google-abortion-clinic-searches-fake/

* "Abortion rights advocates blockade intersections near Supreme Court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/13/abortion-rights-protest-supreme-court/

* "Florida abortion ban violates Jews' religious freedom, lawsuit says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/florida-abortion-ban-violates-jews-religious-freedom-lawsuit-says-2022-06-14/

* "Wyoming authorities search for a suspect believed to have set an abortion clinic on fire :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/11/us/casper-wyoming-abortion-clinic-arson/index.html

* "Supreme Court: Rifts divide abortion views in Mississippi:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61803062

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* "Gay man stabbed to death because he wanted to use the men's bathroom:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/06/17/gay-man-killed-south-africa-bathroom-emmanuel-mouers/

* "Lesbian Murdered & Her Body Mutilated in Alleged Hate Crime:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/5/31/lesbian-murdered-her-body-mutilated-alleged-hate-crime

* CW: Child Abuse "Teen Savagely Beaten by Uncle for Wearing Rainbow Bandanna:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/5/23/teen-savagely-beaten-uncle-wearing-rainbow-bandana

* "Labour and Tory MPs unite to demand trans conversion therapy ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/06/13/trans-conversion-therapy-ban-debate/

* "Indian royal knows exactly what he'd say to Liz Truss about conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/06/15/indian-royal-amar-singh-conversion-therapy-liz-truss/

* "Gay Couple Attacked & Beaten for Cuddling Are Now Afraid to Leave Home:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/5/20/gay-couple-attacked-beaten-cuddling-are-now-afraid-leave-home

* "Children: The Victims of Broken, Bigoted, and Useless Laws and Rulings:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/5/25/children-victims-broken-bigoted-and-useless-laws-and-rulings

* "Oklahoma Governor Signs Anti-Trans 'Bathroom Bill' Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/5/26/oklahoma-governor-signs-anti-trans-bathroom-bill-law

* "Arizona Dept. of Education Attacked Over Resources for LGBTQ+ Students:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/5/26/arizona-dept-education-attacked-over-resources-lgbtq-students

* "Right-wing extremists ramp up anti-LGBTQ hate:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/right-wing-extremists-ramp-up-anti-lgbtq-hate-142206533870

* "How ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Diminishes Same-Sex Parents and Their Children:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/learning/dont-say-gay-parents-children.html

* "Ron DeSantis’s drag show comments foretell a vile trend:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/13/ron-desantis-weaponize-child-protective-services-over-drag-shows/

* "Lesbian Mom Removed From Child's Birth Certificate Fights Ruling:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/5/23/lesbian-mom-oklahoma-removed-childs-birth-certificate-fights-ruling

* "Mass. Senate Passes Bill Benefiting Victims of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell':" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/5/26/massachusetts-state-senate-passes-bill-benefiting-victims-dont-ask-dont-tell

* "Judge: Tennessee Can't Require Warnings on Trans-Inclusive Restrooms:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/5/19/judge-tennessee-cant-require-warnings-trans-inclusive-restrooms

* "Same-Sex Marriage Is Supported by More Americans Than Ever Before:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/6/01/same-sex-marriage-supported-more-americans-ever

* How to help Queer a youth center bigots burned: https://www.gofundme.com/f/warehouse-505-rebuild-after-fire-damage

* "Drag Queen Story Hour Isn't Going Anywhere -- But It's Getting Serious About Safety:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/drag-queen-story-hour-proud-boy-safety-1368900/

* "Ellensburg High School takes precaution against threats towards LGBTQ+ students:" https://cwuobserver.com/22140/news/ellensburg-high-school-takes-precaution-against-threats-towards-lgbtq-students/

* "A Gay Oral Roberts University Graduate's Painful Story:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/5/26/gay-oral-roberts-university-graduates-painful-story

* The Christians are calling for genocide again. "Pastor Who Wants Death Penalty for Gays Rails Against Pride Month:" https://www.advocate.com/pride/2022/5/27/texas-pastor-jonathan-shelley-who-wants-death-penalty-gays-rails-against-pride-month

* "Trans cyclist Emily Bridges speaks out after new rules bar her from racing:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/06/17/emily-bridges-trans-cycling-rules/

* "Meet Our 50+ Champions of Pride From Around the U.S. for 2022:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2022/6/02/meet-our-50-champions-pride-around-us-2022

* We weren't imaging it. "Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and gender diversity:" https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/largest-study-to-date-confirms-overlap-between-autism-and-gender-diversity/

* CW: Disordered Eating "Optavia: The Truth About the MLM Diet That's Dangerous:"

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* "Authors Behaving badly: Baycon edition:" http://shelfreflections.com/authors-behaving-badly-baycon-edition/?fbclid=IwAR0Vv9cwD5BGD0TGv6T_GqGekflNbAZsJWjmsCy8t05gCDc0XPptaacLFSI

* "Dolly Parton donated $1 million to help fund the fight against infectious diseases in children:" https://abc11.com/dolly-parton-vanderbilt-university-medical-center-disease-research-covid-vaccine/11961832/

* "Covid is making flu and other common viruses act in unfamiliar ways:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/06/13/covid-flu-rsv-viruses/

* CW: Suicide. "Africa Daily, Does Kenya’s police force have a problem with suicide?:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cbps6s

* "Falklands War: 'I thought I was the only one like this':" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61787269

* "Canada Moves to Decriminalize Possession of ‘Hard’ Drugs:" https://www.wired.com/story/canada-moves-to-decriminalize-possession-of-hard-drugs/

* I am angry and have a lot of questions. "Parents say calls came too late after children drank floor sealant at Juneau summer school:" https://www.ktoo.org/2022/06/15/juneau-summer-school-floor-sealant-parent-calls/

* "A 3D printed human ear has been successfully transplanted in a world-first:" https://interestingengineering.com/3d-printed-human-ear-transplanted

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* "Spain and southern France hit by second extreme heat event of year:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/13/spain-and-southern-france-hit-by-second-extreme-heat-event-of-year

* "India Isn’t Ready for a Deadly Combination of Heat and Humidity:" https://www.wired.com/story/india-deadly-combination-heat-humidity/

* "Deaths of 3 women in early heat wave raise questions, fears:" https://apnews.com/article/politics-chicago-heat-waves-climate-and-environment-a654df09a9598220bd5978e4f6dce4cb

* "Qatar accused of under-reporting heat deaths:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-61711468

* "Spain battles wildfires as it swelters in heatwave:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-battles-wildfires-it-swelters-heatwave-2022-06-18/

* "Flagstaff wildfire forces evacuations, steadily grows:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/flagstaff-wildfire-forces-evacuations-steadily-grows-85350021

* "Record flooding and mudslides force closure of Yellowstone national park:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/13/yellowstone-national-park-closure-flooding-mudslides

* "Yellowstone flooding forces 10,000 to leave national park:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-travel-montana-obituaries-evacuations-3753caa39435d9f3f45d8b582381a0c6

* "New satellite imagery shows flooding in Yellowstone altered the river's course:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/weather/yellowstone-flood-satellite-before-and-after/index.html

* "From the Field: Ethiopia’s worst drought threatens ‘deadly consequences’ for women:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/06/1119512

* "'Only God can help': Hundreds die as Somalia faces famine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-health-africa-84b52bd508b9aa7a01a7976423d67a27

* "Key US baby formula plant closes again as ‘torrential storms’ cause flooding:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/16/us-baby-formula-plant-closes-again-flooding-abbott

* "Global food crisis looms as fertilizer supplies dwindle:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/global-food-crisis-looms-as-fertilizer-supplies-dwindle

* "The U.S. Drought Situation Is Getting Increasingly Desperate:" https://gizmodo.com/the-u-s-drought-situation-is-getting-increasingly-desp-1849022991

* "A drought so bad it exposed a long-ago homicide. Getting the water back will be harder than ever:" https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-05-06/climate-change-makes-it-harder-to-get-water-needed-to-end-california-megadrought

* "As California's big cities fail to rein in their water use, rural communities are already tapped out:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/us/california-rural-groundwater-crisis-climate/index.html

* "Drought-stricken US warned of looming 'dead pool':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61669233

* "As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces An ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/climate/salt-lake-city-climate-disaster.html

* "Joshua Tree park closes trail so bighorn sheep can get water:" https://apnews.com/article/travel-trees-national-parks-9dd197db1ae2876ec1783535864e3696

* "UN: Climate shocks, war fuel multiple looming food crises:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-politics-health-db55f62bceef70e7cb06f5395563f7be

* "The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators

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* "Energy Crisis Makes Green Transition an ‘Unprecedented Challenge’:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-24/energy-crisis-makes-transition-an-unprecedented-challenge

* "Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/single-use-plastic-chemical-recycling-disposal/661141/

* "How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?:" https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source

* "Slow water: can we tame urban floods by going with the flow?:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/07/slow-water-urban-floods-drought-china-sponge-cities

* "Foaming at the mouth: the superworms making a meal of polystyrene waste:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/10/foaming-at-the-mouth-the-superworms-making-a-meal-of-polystyrene-waste

* "Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia:"

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* "When Cars Kill:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/when-cars-kill-pedestrians

* "Judge gives initial OK to $1B deal in Florida condo collapse:" https://apnews.com/article/miami-florida-surfside-building-collapse-8a963a33562a041e011baf0da7fe871c

* "Supreme Court blocks Texas law on social media ‘censorship’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/31/texas-social-media-censorship-scotus-00036146

* "The U.S. Army’s Best Recruitment Tool Was a Video Game:"

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* "Firefox and Chrome are squaring off over ad-blocker extensions:" https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request

* "Regulators receive more than 750 complaints of faulty braking in Teslas:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/regulators-receive-more-than-750-complaints-of-faulty-braking-in-teslas

* "Facebook fails again to detect hate speech in ads:" https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/facebook-fails-detect-hate-speech-ads-85282119

* "EU lawmakers endorse ban on combustion-engine cars in 2035:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-european-parliament-union-and-environment-336524fead81e58eb755ba004880f201

* "One plug and done: E.U. to require common way to charge phones:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/one-plug-done-eu-require-common-way-charge-phones-rcna32282

* "India's mysterious gateway to the stars:" https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220530-jantar-mantar-indias-mysterious-gateway-to-the-stars

* "European star survey reveals celestial treasure trove:" https://apnews.com/article/science-business-3bf3e0a3e0c18cfd18397a8dc22b50cd

* "Reshuffled Rivers Bolster the Amazon’s Hyper-Biodiversity:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/reshuffled-rivers-bolster-the-amazons-hyper-biodiversity-20220607/

* "Plants Appear to Be Breaking Biochemistry Rules by Making 'Secret Decisions':" https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-are-making-decisions-about-how-much-carbon-to-release-breaking-biochemistry-rules

* "World's largest plant is a vast seagrass meadow in Australia:" https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/worlds-largest-plant-vast-seagrass-meadow-australia-85112313

* "San Diego Zoo welcomes 1st aardvark birth in years:" https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/san-diego-zoo-welcomes-1st-aardvark-birth-years-85442458

* "New restrictions on ships to protect whales coming soon:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-restrictions-on-ships-to-protect-whales-coming-soon/2022/06/10/53ef57f6-e8c9-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html

* "How Animals Perceive the World:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/light-noise-pollution-animal-sensory-impact/638446/

* "Cockroach Reproduction Has Taken a Strange Turn:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/science/cockroach-sugar-sex.html

* "Bronx Zoo elephant named Happy isn't a person, court rules:" https://apnews.com/article/happy-the-elephant-personhood-ruling-e87eacdfa08ed4057255bf4b7623aaf4

* "Egypt displays trove of newly discovered ancient artifacts:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/egypt-displays-trove-newly-discovered-ancient-artifacts-rcna31091

* "A 3400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River:" https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/press-releases/press-releases/article/a-3400-year-old-city-emerges-from-the-tigris-river/

* "Miscellaneous Myths: Medea:"

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* "The Stargazers:" https://www.science.org/content/article/what-did-ancient-maya-see-in-stars-their-descendants-team-with-scientists-find-out

* "The Truth Behind Spain’s Mad Queen | Juana la Loca:"

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* "Renaissance synagogues being restored in Venice's ghetto:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-travel-italy-museums-religion-30e8f2f78572c62a6cdb6bebd837133d

* "The Social Contract:"

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* "The Life and Death of Julie D'Aubigny:"

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* "The former slave who became the world's first drag queen:"

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* "This forgotten women's prison helped cement Greenwich Village's queer identity:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1098786259/hugh-ryan-queer-history-womens-house-of-detention?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews

* "Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina:" https://gazette.com/ap/freedom-riders-1947-convictions-vacated-in-north-carolina/article_b33c4c3c-90a3-52da-b64f-a805c8390206.html

* "Politics and the Star Persona of Katharine Hepburn:"

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* "The History of Kink and Pride:" https://thequeer-menace.tumblr.com/post/687150049100185600/the-history-of-kink-and-pride

* "Tech Monopolies:"

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* "January 6th Hearings Episode 2 Recap:"

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* "Sam’s Take: Rudy! A Documusical:"

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* "The Hell and Horror of Giving Birth While Black:"

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* "Meanwhile... Will iPhone Switch To USB-C? | Diners Lick A Restaurant Wall In Arizona:"

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* "Proud Boys Face Prison Time For Sedition:"

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* "January 6 Hearings: Investigating the Thing We All Saw:" https://www.cc.com/video/mhqgqh/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-january-6-hearings-investigating-the-thing-we-all-saw

* "Stocks Enter Bear Market & Kimberly Guilfoyle's $60K Speech:" https://www.cc.com/video/udg35v/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-stocks-enter-bear-market-kimberly-guilfoyle-s-usd60k-speech

* "The Daily Showography of Rudy Giuliani:" https://www.cc.com/video/pujuhd/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-daily-showography-of-rudy-giuliani

* This movie fascinates me and the talk of body horror and illness in there was particularly evocative to be given the recent medical stuff. "Annihilation - I'm So Sorry That You Have to Have a Body:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZKsltnGcZE

* "Vintage Sex Ed is CRINGE (but so are we):"

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* "Trope Talk: Space Horror:"

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* "The Robbers to go (Schiller in 10 minutes, English version):"

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* "CBS Has A New Smash Hit Sitcom: The Insurrectionists:"

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* "Timon And Pumbaa Know You Don't Need Assault Rifles:"

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* "The Muppets Introduce "The Jan. 6th Show":"

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* "Plizzanet Earth with Snoop Dogg – Iguana vs. Snakes:"

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* "Gay Bar (an OFMD fanvid):"

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* Tuesday was wild an exhausting. I got about two hours sleep. It was worth it though because they did the covered by Medicare stop gap filling replacement. This does not solve the I still need an expensive out of pocket root canal issue, but it buys a little time, and also lets me chew more things. Like a lot of things I still can't eat at all and others I have to chew carefully with only the other side of my mouth, but it means every meal isn't a game of pain roulette in which I am always the loser with a bonus chance of permanent damage that could eventually kill the tooth. Seriously, this is a win.

My social worker is calling around to see if there is a specialist who takes Medicare within the range of travel my car can handle, which just manages to include another town big enough for a decent hospital and similar amenities. I do not like risking taking it so far, as there is always a risk that it will be one trip too many for the elderly beast, but I also need that tooth.

I am not sanguine she will succeed in her mission. Still no word back from the local specialists about cost, sliding scale, and payment plans. It is likely going to be significantly more expensive than the oven if sliding scale isn't an option.

In other Tuesday news, I am healed enough from the surgery to safely bathe. I can not express how happy I am to be truly properly clean. It's another three weeks before I can restart physio or lift things much heavier than the tiny terror, but not having a dangerous infection and being able to do hydrotherapy for the pain is a big quality of life improvement.

Last Friday, the management sent a packet with revised complex rules, some of which were clearly aimed specifically at me. Sigh. The most prominent of these was a total flag ban. If they are willing to ban American Flags for Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, and July 4th, they can pretend they aren't singling me out for my Pride Flags. I hadn't hung them this year because of all the medical stuff. I was barely managing oatmeal making by the beginning of June. I think I will wait 'til next year to play Pride Flag chicken with Management, since I'm still not managing or barely managing a lot of basic things.

I am determined to test their resolve next year though, and I plan to take a flag spotting tour around the complex at the beginning of July this year with Head Millennial to take pictures.

Wednesday, we did the usual Wednesday errands, plus went to the... Okay, it's like a farmer's market, except it's a store without walls and some of it open air run by hippies that sells mostly local produce from small farmers, plus some stuff from small farms further south that don't grow up here and the like. Anyway, they sell a lot of plants and plant starts in their open air section. Also I rechecked the Co-op garden section in hopes of finding the three plants I haven't seen yet this summer that I like.

Because of the new rules, Head Millennial needed to take down some things he put up to make Gothmas season lighting easier to install that are now outlawed. He also needed to plant some starts we bought, and the thing about container gardening is, you move stuff around a lot depending on which things need more or less light and moisture, which things are in producing right now, etc.. I can't lift the planters without risking another trip to the surgeon, so he has to be the one doing it. Since he was moving stuff anyway.... The patio looks great. I did not get as much weeding done as I hoped, but that is clearly another day's problem.

According to my Social Worker 70-80% of the people in my small city who are cleared for an aid don't have one or don't have all their hours covered. I knew there is a serious world wide aid shortage, but wow! I'd probably feel guiltier, but I literally have no idea how I'd have managed the last couple weeks before surgery plus the week after at all without him. I'd likely have been subsisting on crackers, for example. Also, the reason my hours were immediately filled was because I hired out of my friend group. He wouldn't be working as an aid if I hadn't offered him a job, and he very much likes working here. He is thinking about maybe signing up for another client in addition, but I'm not stealing an existing aid from someone who otherwise wouldn't have one.

If you are reasonably able bodied and need a job, I'm willing to bet wherever you live there is a shortage too. Just saying. Some of these jobs are harder than others, but given how tight the labour market is, you can likely set firm conditions about commute distance, hours, and what level of care you are able to give. (Care giving jobs have a really wide range as far as how demanding they are physically.) Just make sure you stand firm on limits and boundaries. Don't get talked into an hour each way bus commute, for example.

Anyway, we are still playing catch up on all the things that didn't get done when I was so ill, because a whole bunch of extra things got added and I was able to do so little for myself, but the progress is visible.

* I apparently need a root canal if I want to save a middle molar I need for chewing on the more functional side of my mouth so that has to go ahead of the oven fundraising wise. I've no idea how much that will cost until the specialists can get back to me. We are still trying to save for a working oven, but it's less important than being able to chew. I don't know how much I actually need there as the price fluctuates. we were $5-600 short when it was on sale. I am disabled and medically fragile. Not having a working oven is messing with my nutrition, but again being able to use that side of my mouth is worse:

If you would like to help: paypal.me/Gwydion

* A word about Becoming Elizabeth, because there are things you probably ought to know before you decide to watch it. I'm too angry to watch a second episode, and here's why.

CW for a discussion of pedophilia, history, and why what STARZ decided to do here is incredibly disgusting

I was excited at the idea of a show that started with the reign of Edward VI, because most Elizabeth centric things start with the reign of her half sister Mary, and there is a lot of really interesting stuff in that bit of history that could make a cool show in the right hands. At the same time, I was wary because there are so many ways to really screw up an Elizabeth narrative and I get shirty the way I do about things like the movie Troy, and Braveheart. Like really, I have rants.

I was particularly wary, because a narrative starting here requires the writers to make some difficult decisions as to how they handle Thomas Seymour's behavior to Elizabeth. There are things we are fairly certain of and things we simply can't know for sure.

( Cut for RL Thomas Seymour's Molestation Situation: )

Yeah, so I won't be watching anymore of this pro-pedophile propaganda. I'm disgusted that I got tricked into watching it at all. If the casting had been age accurate it would have been obvious to everyone how gross this is.

* Friday I had a massive sinus headache. There were hardly any spoons to start with, plus it was forage delivery day. I managed to spill a whole glass of lemonade everywhere. while cleaning it up a jabbed a hard pointy corner into my wound. This was one extreme pain too many. I gave up an took a tramadol. No hallucinations, luckily, just normal opioid nastiness.

* The white nectarines we got Wednesday started to ripen and the first two were heavenly.

* "Unlearning the Ableism of Cookbooks and Kitchen Wisdom:" https://catapult.co/stories/gabrielle-drolet-minced-words-unlearning-ableism-cookbooks-kitchen-wisdom-cooking-accessibility-disability

* "Five Gay Picture-Book Prodigies and the Difference They’ve Made:" https://www.hbook.com/story/five-gay-picture-book-prodigies-and-the-difference-theyve-made

* "“I bet most of the people flipping out about drag queens and kids have no idea that their favorite classic children’s books were written by queer people 🧵”:" https://twitter.com/lindzamer/status/1534557941248020481

* "The 5 Weirdest Changes Demanded by Comic Book Editors:" https://www.fromsuperheroes.com/post/the-5-weirdest-changes-demanded-by-comic-book-editors

* Stede and the Thanatos Drive: https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/687082851766845440

* Can hobbits declare Bilbo Baggins dead twice: https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/686901664138051584/prokopetz-silver-tongues-blog

* "We Need A Third Size For Vitamins:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/we-need-a-third-size-for-vitamins

* "What We're Allowed To Say We Know About Venus Figurines:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/what-were-allowed-to-say-we-know?s=r

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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.

* "War in Ukraine! Support LGBTQ people.:" https://secure.wayforpay.com/payment/s047412e502b6

* "DONATE TO EMILY'S LIST:" https://win.emilyslist.org/a/donate-to-emily

* How to Support the Women's Reproduction Protection Act: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/684465183144476672/womens-health-protection-act

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* Donate to Abortion funds: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/685542978922692608/seacollectsrivers-theegoldfinch-theegoldfinch

* "Supporting Abortion Funds in the South:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682207036936732672/supporting-abortion-funds-in-the-south

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* Want to help Charles Booker beat Rand Paul? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/pccc_2022_charles_booker_only

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

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