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* "Sri Lankan protesters demand justice for 2019 Easter attacks:" https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2022-04-17/sri-lankan-protesters-demand-justice-for-2019-attack-victims

* "Sri Lanka president expands cabinet amid economic crisis protests:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/18/sri-lanka-president-expands-cabinet-amid-economic-crisis-protests

* "LGBT+ Rwandans face bogus arrests and violent abuse in terrifying detention centre:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/15/rwanda-lgbt-rights-tom-pursglove/

This is where the Tories want to illegally deport queer refugees.

“The plan “will result in genuine gay refugees being deported to death. Rwanda’s human rights record includes forced disappearances and killings, and even today’s UK [Foreign Office] travel advice warns LGBT+ travelers of state-sanctioned abuse and discrimination,” Chelvan said.“

* "With war next door, Moldova faces a dilemma as Eastern Europe's most vulnerable state:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/15/1091998660/ukraine-russia-war-moldova-security-transdniester

* "Russians Are Fleeing to the Country Putin Invaded Before Ukraine:"

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* "2 months after Brittney Griner’s arrest, mystery surrounds her case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/21/brittney-griner-arrest-russia-00027045

* "Brazilian president puts records of Moscow trip under seal for five years:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/brazilian-president-puts-records-of-moscow-trip-under-seal-for-five-years-138200133889

* "Poland builds a border wall, even as it welcomes Ukrainian refugees:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/poland-refugees-wall-belarus/

* "Europe fears possible Le Pen presidency in France as a threat from within:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/19/marine-le-pen-russia-nato/

* "Macron and Le Pen go head-to-head in French presidential debate:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/macron-and-le-pen-go-head-to-head-in-french-presidential-debate

* "A Marine Le Pen presidency would be a dark, chilling time for LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/21/france-election-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen-lgbt/

* "Why Hong Kong’s prisoners of conscience deserve the Nobel Peace Prize:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/19/imprisoned-hong-kong-activists-deserve-nobel-prize/

* "The Maroons New Chief Richard Currie Says No Mining in Cockpit Country:" https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/caribbean-breaking-news-featured/the-maroons-new-chief-richard-currie-says-no-mining-in-cockpit-country/

* "This burning train is a symbol of the anger of India's out-of-work youth:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/03/16/1084139074/this-burning-train-is-a-symbol-of-the-anger-of-indias-out-of-work-youth

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* "This powerful Covid-19 mitigation measure is invisible:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/10/health/covid-19-ventilation-matters-wellness/index.html

I hope we get to keep good ventilation built into new architectural designs post pandemic. It will be so much better for everyone health wise. I fucking hated when they started doing things like no windows that open. I hate that windowless dorm design that is being pushed in California. We need good ventilation/filtration fans and lots of openable windows.

* "How long covid is accelerating a revolution in medical research:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/03/long-covid-research/

* "FDA authorizes first Covid-19 breath test:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/health/covid-breath-test/index.html

* "Shanghai’s covid siege: Food shortages, talking robots, starving animals:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/china-shanghai-covid-lockdown-food-shortage/

* "It's not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-infectious-diseases-4b298e5339d399572e8f70bec118bde0

* "TSA won't enforce mask mandate for travel, following Florida ruling:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/18/judge-strikes-cdc-mask-mandate-travel-00025900

The judge's ruling is full of lies about face masks propagated by right wing disinformation sites.

* "Trump judge's override of CDC on masks raises concerns for future public health measures:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-judge-s-override-of-cdc-on-masks-raises-concerns-for-future-public-health-measures-138106437550

* "Dr. Gupta: You should still wear a mask on public transportation as of now:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dr-gupta-you-should-still-wear-a-mask-on-public-transportation-as-of-now-138090565774

* "Trump-appointed judge voiding travel mask mandate raises danger of Covid surge experts say:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-appointed-judge-s-ruling-voiding-mask-mandate-on-planes-analyzed-by-experts-138095685652

* "Justice Dept. to appeal order voiding travel mask mandate:" https://apnews.com/article/health-travel-florida-public-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-918c37c5fc5e250f84f4f6cbf77bbcec

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* "Liberation Without Victory:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/04/zelensky-kyiv-russia-war-ukrainian-survival-interview/629570/

* "Zelensky says world should be prepared for possibility Putin could use nuclear weapons:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/tapper-zelensky-interview-cnntv/index.html

* "Russia's Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk 'nightmare':" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-health-europe-accidents-edcd5bc0e6bde3cbf6d7300bebc9343f

* "Heedless Russian military risks catastrophe with Ukraine nuclear plants:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/heedless-russian-military-risks-catastrophe-with-ukraine-nuclear-plants-138199621509

* "Greece impounds Russian tanker as part of EU sanctions against Russia:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greece-seizes-russian-tanker-part-eu-sanctions-2022-04-19/

* "Yellen, Ukraine official walk out of Russia's G-20 remarks:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-janet-yellen-g-20-summit-92c835b394325bae670e3d37d36594ec

* "Pentagon Press Sec. Kirby: We want Ukrainian sovereignty to be respected by Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-forces-appearing-to-control-key-city-of-mariupol-ukraine-discussed-by-pentagon-press-sec-john-kirby-138278981688

* "Biden announces heavy artillery, other weapons for Ukraine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-biden-announces-new-military-aid-e78a7db76215a84f86586bb56122cd04

* "U.S. to start training Ukrainians on howitzers in coming days:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us-set-start-training-ukrainians-howitzers-coming-days-official-2022-04-18/

* "Explosions reported near Kyiv and Lviv; Mariupol’s fate in balance:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/16/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

* "Lviv sees first wartime deaths amid strikes, Ukrainian officials say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/18/lviv-missile-strikes-ukraine-russia-war/

* "“I’m done talking”: Nance on fighting in Ukraine with International Legion of Territorial Defense:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-s-fight-against-russia-joined-by-malcolm-nance-of-international-legion-of-territorial-defense-of-ukraine-137997381811

* "Ukrainians defy Russian surrender demand in Mariupol on 'Easter of war':" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-tells-ukrainian-troops-mariupol-lay-down-arms-0300-gmt-2022-04-17/

* "Odessa is Putin’s next target. It desperately needs our help.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/17/odessa-putin-next-target-needs-help/

* "What life is like in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/16/1093212488/what-life-is-like-in-the-ukrainian-city-of-mykolaiv

* "Residents of a devastated Chernihiv ponder their future after a Russian siege ends:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092407304/chernihiv-ukraine-russia-siege

* "Minesweeping dog helps clear Russian explosives:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61099213

* "Charred houses, cratered lawns and an epic clean-up on road to Chernihiv:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/chernihiv-ukrainians-territory-russia-occupation-kyiv

* "‘After Bucha, I’m afraid of Russian soldiers’: people in east Ukraine prepare for fresh assault:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/17/after-bucha-im-afraid-of-russian-soldiers-people-in-east-ukraine-prepare-for-fresh-assault

* "‘Very similar’: fears gateway city to Donbas will become another Bucha:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/bucha-izyum-fears-gateway-city-donbas-russia-ukraine

* "‘Thank You for Not Killing Us’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-occupation.html

* "Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander on Ukraine: ‘This is a genocide’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/vladimir-putin-s-invasion-of-ukraine-and-the-battle-over-the-donbas-analyzed-by-experts-138095173603

* "Another Russian General Has Been Killed In Ukraine:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2022/04/16/another-russian-general-has-been-killed-in-ukraine/?sh=2f162abb3d41

* "Ukraine’s past and present intertwine as a war historian seeks refuge:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-refugee-history/

* ""Where Should I Go?" Ukrainian Refugees Try to Find Their Way in Poland:" https://time.com/6167995/poland-ukraine-refugees/

* "Thousands Detained At Anti-War Protests Across Russia:" https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-1000-protesters-arrested-ukraine-invasion/31738786.html

* "Meet the activists who projected a giant Ukrainian flag on Russia's Embassy in D.C.:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092966576/ukraine-flag-projected-lights-protest-russian-embassy-washington-dc

* " History Summarized: Ukraine :"

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* "Russia’s ‘Satan 2’ missile changes little for U.S., scholars say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/20/satan-2-icbm/

* "US Army using lessons from Ukraine war to aid own training:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-us-army-training-54e76eba46f9bf79542dd3f872456e67

* "'Eliminationist rhetoric,' a fascist tool, gains alarming foothold in Trump-era politics :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-eliminationist-rhetoric-a-fascist-tool-gains-alarming-foothold-in-trump-era-politics-138007621574

* "How Coups Are Derailing the US War on Terror in Africa:"

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* "How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/how-democracies-spy-on-their-citizens

* "Top Democrats call for investigation into Jared Kushner’s $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jared-kushner-s-two-billion-dollar-investment-from-saudi-arabia-sparks-calls-for-criminal-investigation-138189381539

* "Secret Service fatally shoots man at Peruvian ambassador’s home:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/20/secret-service-shooting-peruvian-embassy/

* "This Is What Happens When Globalization Breaks Down:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/business/supply-chain-small-business.html

* "Biden administration announces it will resume onshore oil and gas lease sales with higher royalty rate:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/biden-interior-oil-and-gas/index.html

* How high was the court when they made this decision? "High Court upholds excluding Puerto Ricans from aid for disabled and blind:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/21/1094128297/high-court-upholds-excluding-puerto-ricans-from-aid-for-disabled-and-blind

* "The Supreme Court is broken. So is the system that confirms its justices.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/08/supreme-court-broken-jackson-kagan-bork/

* "The Dark-Money Group Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-slime-machine-targeting-dozens-of-biden-nominees

* "Republican smear operation exposed in new report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-smear-operation-exposed-in-new-report-138009157552

* "States scale back food stamp benefits even as prices soar:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-nebraska-iowa-des-moines-4ff5e0d51f61e6704f44dfc31279376a

* "How Your Shadow Credit Score Could Decide Whether You Get an Apartment:" https://www.propublica.org/article/how-your-shadow-credit-score-could-decide-whether-you-get-an-apartment

* "Bellingham renters grapple with health, safety risks:" https://www.cascadiadaily.com/news/2022/apr/13/bellingham-renters-grapple-with-health-safety-risks/

You know the terribly landlords I've had? I've rented from both of these. Landmark is the one that:

1. Tried to double cash my rent check, then charge me late and return fees because i didn't have enough money in my account to pay a second rent I didn't actually owe them on the grounds that "Once you give us a check there is no law stopping us from cashing it as often as we want. Luckily my bank was willing to fight them tooth and nail and in the end they had to pay my bank fees also. (Seriously I still do not understand how this is legal.)

2. Fought us over every repair then took our deposit because we had not paid an outside contractor to fix things like plumbing.

3. Never changed carpets on any units between tenets. They were nasty, torn, stained, and moldy. We noted this on move in sheets. They charged us to replace the carpets when we left, then didn't change them so they could pull the scam on the next tenets, which i discovered when i went to get a mis-delivered package from the second rental we had from them.

4. Black mold constantly bloomed on the walls, carpeting and ceiling.

5. The stairs were rotting wood and shaky. One day the railing came off in my hand. They reluctantly replaced it with naked, uncured wood. No weather coating or paint or shellac, just pine bits they bought at some hardware store. the same happened when my leg went through a rotted stair board.

6. a neighbor kid fell on some of the rusted rebar they had sticking up randomly in the front yard. A slightly different fall would have pierced something vital. They not only refused to pay medical bills, they refused to remove the rebar. Every time I tottered down the railing-less cement stairs where the kid fell I would look at the foot high rebar spike and wonder if my eye or neck or heart would be next.

7. The floor was spongy in the entry way when we moved in, something we expressed concern about and noted on the move in form. They said it was normal and nothing was wrong with it. The ceiling in the front wall leaked at that same second and last rental. We reported it and the electrical danger it was posing as the stair light out front was wired through it and it was a lot of water. This was because they improperly installed the balcony above, compromising the wall and ceiling. They insisted this was our responsibility to pay to fix even though it was preexisting and clearly nothing to do with us. They refused to fix it and threatened to charge us for it if we didn't fix the balcony in the upstairs unit, wall, leaks, and wiring for them. (I have no idea how this is legal, but here we are. We knew we weren't getting a penny of deposit back anyway.)

Remember the spongy floor? Right under the water rivulets coming through the ceiling. One day squirrel's leg went through. He could have died as it would have been an entire story drop onto the foundation if both legs went through. They refused responsibility for medical bills and tried to get us to pay to fix it, which we refused. The workmen came and were horrified. The reason the floor was spongy was there was no wood under it. I was impressed unsupported linoleum lasted the three or so years before it gave way. They said the entire underside of the building was rotting away similarly.

It took most of the week for them to replace the massive section of floor they had to remove, since they had to put in make shift pillars and such underneath and shore up the rotting floor, using our two man sized hole. we were terrified a cat would jump in there and get trapped. I couldn't get safely over the hole so I was trapped in the black mold riddled house with my failing lung patient lungs. Squirrel had to work, so he kept having to step carefully over it over and over. I am still amazed he survived.

Eventually, they put naked plywood over the hole and we never saw them again. We could lift the plywood plank with our fingers it not being nailed down. It would stake as I walked over it. They tried to charge us thousands of dollars to replace it even though we pointed out none of this was in anyway our fault. Odds are it's still dragging my credit store down.

8. They did replace the balcony eventually and plug the holes, but they never touched the wall with the wiring that was sodden through every time it rained until they did. I never trusted that light switch, so we simply had no porch light. Want to bet it is all black mold inside?

Families are still living there.

All of this is completely legal as there is no authority anywhere that stops it.

* "John Oliver Just Found A 'F**king Creepy' But Legal Way To Blackmail Lawmakers:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-oliver-data-brokers_n_6253db8ae4b066ecde08a5f8

* 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/

* "Post Politics Now: On Tax Day, the White House takes aim at GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s tax plan:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/18/biden-rick-scott-easter-egg/

* He’s running openly on heavily taxing the poor. "Rick Scott tax plan bad news for retirees:" https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/2022/04/18/senator-rick-scott-plan-would-force-seniors-pay-more-taxes/7333900001/

* "Texas gov. candidate Beto O’Rourke slams Gov. Abbott for border truck inspections costing millions:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democratic-candidate-for-governor-of-texas-beto-o-rourke-slams-gop-incumbent-for-truck-border-inspections-costing-millions-137843269545

* "Trump-endorsed candidate booted from ballot by state GOP amid cringey campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-endorsed-candidate-booted-from-ballot-by-state-gop-amid-cringey-campaign-138200133824

* "What Marjorie Taylor Greene will be asked when she testifies under oath:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-marjorie-taylor-greene-will-have-to-answer-when-she-testifies-under-oath-138181189954

* "Rep. Gallego: Democrats must use 'offensive strategy' to win midterms:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-gallego-democrats-must-use-offensive-strategy-to-win-midterms-137996357712

* "Trump-Endorsed Candidate JD Vance Once Said Trump Might Be ‘America’s Hitler’:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn4b8/jd-vance-trump-messages

* "Mar-a-Lago Machine: Trump as a Modern-Day Party Boss:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago.html

* "How Trump became the GOP’s modern-day party boss:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nyt-how-trump-became-the-gop-s-modern-day-party-boss-137993285944

* The Republican War on democracy continues. "Trump Allies Continue Legal Drive to Erase His Loss, Stoking Election Doubts:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/us/politics/trump-allies-election-decertify.html

* "New developments reported in criminal probe of Donald Trump in Georgia; subpoenas planned:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-developments-reported-in-criminal-probe-of-donald-trump-in-georgia-subpoenas-planned-138103877751

* "New book exposes duplicity of Republican leaders toward Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-book-exposes-duplicity-of-republican-leaders-toward-trump-138283077736

* "GOP Leader McCarthy wanted Twitter to suspend other Republican members of Congress: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-leader-mccarthy-wanted-twitter-to-suspend-other-republican-members-of-congress-report-138281029546

* "DOJ adds prosecutor to investigate January 6th beyond the Capitol attack: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-adds-prosecutor-to-investigate-january-6th-beyond-the-capitol-attack-nyt-138286661824

* "Lee worked hard to overturn election, keep Trump in power, texts show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/15/mike-lee-trump-2020-election/

* "Texts show Oath Keepers discussed protecting GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson on Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/texts-show-oath-keepers-discussed-protecting-gop-rep-ronny-jackson-on-jan-6-138092613825

* "2 house parties, an Easter fete and a mall were among the sites of at least 10 weekend US mass shootings:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/us/us-shootings-easter-weekend/index.html

* "Who fired guns in Sacramento mass shooting? New documents detail gunfight, minute by minute:" https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article260465242.html

* "Alex Jones' InfoWars files for bankruptcy in U.S. court:" https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alex-jones-infowars-files-bankruptcy-us-court-2022-04-18/

* "As Execution Looms, Mounting Evidence Points to Melissa Lucio’s Innocence:" https://theintercept.com/2022/04/17/melissa-lucio-clemency-execution/

* "Ed Buck jailed for 30 years for injecting gay men with fatal overdoses:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/15/ed-buck-donor-activist-gay-victims-sentence-prison/

* "Florida rejects math books with ‘references’ to critical race theory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/16/florida-rejects-math-textbooks-prohibited-topics/

I am having a hard time believing ANY Math books intended for K-12 contain second year law school legal theory let alone this many. Still Republicans are now basically banning Math for being too Woke.

* "Florida rejects 54 math textbooks over ‘prohibited topics’ including critical race theory:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/17/florida-rejects-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory

* "Woke math? Florida rejects math textbooks, citing critical race theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/woke-math-florida-rejects-math-textbooks-citing-critical-race-theory-137994821717

* "A look inside the math textbooks rejected by Florida:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-look-inside-the-math-textbooks-rejected-by-florida-138274885664

* "Anti-abortion, anti-trans, anti-CRT bills spreading sign of fascism, hyper-masculinity on rise:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/anti-abortion-anti-trans-anti-crt-bills-sweep-country-as-right-wing-accuses-democrats-of-trying-to-feminize-america-137997893936

* CW: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault. "How American Apparel Fell From Grace:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Kevin Spacey Asks Judge to Toss Anthony Rapp's Sexual Abuse Lawsuit:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/4/11/kevin-spacey-asks-judge-toss-anthony-rapps-sexual-abuse-lawsuit

* "Red and blue states race to reshape abortion access:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/red-and-blue-states-race-to-reshape-abortion-access-137904197622

* "Supporting Abortion Funds in the South:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682207036936732672/supporting-abortion-funds-in-the-south

* "NHS guidance for pregnant trans people is inclusive, fair and just common sense:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/18/nhs-trans-pregnant-sussex-brighton-daily-mail-vagina-piers-morgan/

* "Joy Reid on DeSantis: Baby MAGA is mad that Disney opposes his "Don’t Say Gay" law:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/desantis-moves-to-strip-disney-of-self-governing-status-as-it-opposes-his-don-t-say-gay-law-138188869556

* "Families and Doctors Sue Over Trans Health Care Ban in Alabama:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/4/12/families-and-doctors-sue-over-trans-health-care-ban-alabama

* "Alabama bans medical care to transgender youth:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/alabama-bans-medical-care-to-transgender-youth-137904709507

* "'We will not let hate win:' Lawmaker’s viral takedown of right-wing culture war:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-will-not-let-hate-win-lawmaker-s-viral-takedown-of-right-wing-culture-war-138183237659

* "Women's cycling race loses main sponsor over 'unacceptable' trans athlete suspension:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/15/womens-cicle-classic-emily-bridges-british-cycling/

* "Tucker Carlson's documentary is a bizarre, homoerotic fever dream nobody asked for:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/19/tucker-carlson-end-of-men-documentary-balls-tanning-gay-homoerotic/

* "Yes, trans women can get prostate cancer too – but they're being failed by doctors:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/18/trans-prostate-cancer-symptoms-heather-peto/

* "Meningococcal Disease Spikes in Florida:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2022/4/11/meningococcal-disease-spikes-among-gay-and-bi-men-florida

* "Does getting a mobility aid mean you’ve ‘given up’?:"

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* "She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter:" https://www.wired.com/story/she-was-missing-a-chunk-of-her-brain-it-didnt-matter/

* "DNA-spiked gel heals the skin wounds of ‘butterfly children’:" https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-spiked-gel-heals-skin-wounds-butterfly-children

* "What really happens when babies are left to cry it out?:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220322-how-sleep-training-affects-babies

* "The secrets hidden in sewage:" https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/23006184/covid-wastewater-surveillance-opioids-tuberculosis

* "Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lead-gasoline-blunted-iq-half-us-population-study-rcna19028

* "The Insidious Idea About “Safety” That Keeps Putting Us in Danger:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/risk-compensation-debunked-masks-rapid-tests-vaccines-safety.html

* "Communities are divided over Rhode Island's plan for safe drug injection sites:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092785414/communities-are-divided-over-rhode-islands-plan-for-safe-drug-injection-sites

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* "South Africa launches relief for Durban flooding; 448 dead:" https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-figure-vampire-blood.html

* "In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/in-a-world-on-fire-stop-burning-things

* "Video shows tornado damage in Kentucky after severe storms:" https://www.kentucky.com/news/weather/article260426152.html

* "Container ship stuck in Chesapeake Bay for more than a month is free:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/17/cargo-ship-ever-forward-chesapeake-bay-stuck/

* "The Missouri Ghost Town Poisoned By Toxic Waste:"

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* "How Japan Built Cities Where You Could Send Your Toddler on an Errand:" https://slate.com/business/2022/04/old-enough-netflix-do-japanese-parents-really-send-toddlers-on-errands.html

* "‘Everything’s going to pieces’: how a port took over a Black US neighborhood:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/port-freeport-texas-east-end-historically-black-neighborhood

* "How a Forgotten Bit of Infrastructure Became a Symbol of Civic Pride:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-a-forgotten-bit-of-infrastructure-became-a-symbol-of-civic-pride

* "How the Dorze in Ethiopia make ‘beehive’ houses from bamboo that last a lifetime:" https://aeon.co/videos/how-the-dorze-in-ethiopia-make-beehive-houses-from-bamboo-that-last-a-lifetime

* "6 Times We Tried to Extract Gold from Seawater:" https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/6-times-we-tried-to-extract-gold-from-seawater

* "2 monster black holes are headed toward a collision that will rock the fabric of space-time:" https://www.livescience.com/supermassive-black-hole-merger

* "Mysterious 'odd radio circles' seen in space, new image shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/world/odd-radio-circles-space-scn/index.html

* "Photographer Shoots 2 Million Photos to Show the Moon's 'Wobble':" https://petapixel.com/2022/03/31/photographer-shoots-2-million-photos-to-show-the-moons-wobble/

* "The Long Goodbye to Saturn’s Rings:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/03/saturn-losing-rings-nasa-moons/629391/

* "How tall will Mount Everest get before it stops growing?:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220407-how-tall-will-mount-everest-get-before-it-stops-growing

* "'Impossible' chemistry may reveal origins of life on Earth:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/impossible-chemistry-may-reveal-origins-of-life-on-earth

* "Why evolution is not a tree of life but a fuzzy network:" https://aeon.co/essays/why-evolution-is-not-a-tree-of-life-but-a-fuzzy-network

* "For the first time, wild dolphin observed 'talking' with harbor porpoises:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dolphin-speaks-porpoise-communicates-with-other-species

* "Bear hibernation: More than a winter’s nap:" https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2022/bear-hibernation-more-winters-nap

* "‘It’s astonishing’: endangered bat not seen in 40 years found in Rwanda:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/bats-endangered-hills-horseshoe-bat-rwanda

* "Fungus-ravaged bat proposed for endangered species listing:" https://apnews.com/article/health-environment-wildlife-traverse-city-bats-7e6c05b5b291633c5bc80e608007de1d

* "Scientists figure out how vampire bats got a taste for blood:" https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-figure-vampire-blood.html

* "Meet the 10-armed, 325-million-year-old octopus fossil named after President Joe Biden:" https://phys.org/news/2022-03-armed-million-year-old-octopus-fossil-joe.html

* "Why Don’t All Lions Climb Trees?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/science/lions-trees.html

* "SpaceX launches 3 visitors to space station for $55M each:" https://apnews.com/article/spacex-nasa-axiom-space-launch-f184f3c36fa10a969c7faadd6e25a4d2

* "NFTs: Scamming Art into the Digital Age:"

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* "Bored Ape Yacht Club: Monkey Business on the Open Sea:"

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* "Seat Belt History: The Patent That Was Given Away:" https://tedium.co/2022/03/18/seat-belt-history/

* "EU agrees on new digital rules to rein in Big Tech dominance:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eu-agrees-digital-rules-rein-big-tech-dominance-83667180

* " Why Elizabeth Holmes Was Convicted (and Also Acquitted) :"

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* "Tesla CEO Elon Musk won't join Twitter's board after all:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-elon-musk-board-of-directors-217a2c041b13e7f647c5275ef29a6394

* "Twitter investors sue Elon Musk for failing to promptly disclose the size of his stake:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/13/twitter-investors-sue-elon-musk-for-failing-to-promptly-disclose-stake.html

* "Elon Musk Should Have Been Stopped Long Before He Came for Twitter:" https://time.com/6168452/elon-musk-should-have-been-stopped-long-before-he-came-for-twitter/

* "Study Suggests Venus of Willendorf Originated in Italy:" https://www.archaeology.org/news/10387-220301-limestone-venus-willendorf

* "Largest Human Family Tree Identifies Nearly 27 Million Ancestors:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/largest-human-genomic-family-tree-identifies-nealy-27-million-ancestors-180979657/

* "History Summarized: Minoan Greece:"

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* "The Empress of China: Wu Zetian:"

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* "Why a Medieval Woman Had Lapis Lazuli Hidden in Her Teeth:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/the-woman-with-lapis-lazuli-in-her-teeth/579760/

* "A Manuscript Made From Sin: Codex Gigas:"

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* "Plague — History Hijinks:"

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* "The Drama of Point d'Alençon Needle Lace:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-drama-of-point-dalencon-needle-lace/

* "A Day in the Life of a Free Black Pepper Pot Woman in Philadelphia:"

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* My instinct is to wonder if it was a grad student. "2 missing Charles Darwin notebooks are mysteriously returned more than 20 years later:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/1091010338/charles-darwin-notebooks-cambridge-library

* "How America Became Enamoured with Octagon Houses:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/04/12/how-america-became-enamoured-with-octagon-houses/

* "The Myth of the Mad Hatter - Making a Victorian Top Hat:"

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* "The Women Behind the First Black Music Magazine:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-black-music-magazine

* "Rube Waddell: Literally One of the WEIRDEST Guys in History:"

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* CW: Genital Mutilation. "Siblings, Sugar, and Strikes: The Story of Kelloggs:"

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* Both my Gran (Great Grandmother) and Gran got caught up in the craze when it was new and were still doing them until almoat the end of their lives. "A Century Before Wordle Went Viral, Crossword Mania Swept the Country:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-century-before-wordle-went-viral-crossword-mania-swept-the-country-180979858/

* "How The Radium Girls Changed How We Work:"

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* "Troubling Stereotypes and False Narratives: The History of Hemp:"

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* "Why Tallulah Bankhead Never Became a Movie Star:"

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* "Marie Curie and Polish Resistance - JSTOR Daily:" https://daily.jstor.org/marie-curie-and-polish-resistance/

* "A Socialite’s Plot to Assassinate a Corrupt Official in Occupied Shanghai:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/zheng-pingru-spy-shanghai

* "The Mitfords: Communism Vs Fascism In The English Aristocracy | Tale Of Two Sisters:"

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* "Tastefully Simple: The Modern Day Tupperware Party:"

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* "No One Even Watched Rudy Giuliani’s ‘The Masked Singer’ Abomination:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-one-even-watched-rudy-giulianis-the-masked-singer-abomination

* "Police Interrogations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Kyrsten Sinema: A Tragedy of Her Own Making:"

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* "The Sleep Wellness Industry Is Trying To Sell You The Weirdest Shit:"

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* "This Manipulative Midterm Email Scam Already Hit Your Inbox:"

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* "The Angsty History of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson:"

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* "Why Spock’s Sexuality is so Dang Controversial:"

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* "Trivia Game Show - SNL:"

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* "Food and YouTube ft. Lizzo - SNL:"

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* "Throne Room - SNL:"

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* Sunday, I made the mistake of absentmindedly lifting some things after the head Millennial went home. I realized what I was doing fairly early and started icing right away. I likely would have been okay if Tavy hadn't kept insisting he was allowed to sleep with his whole weight on my wound. I kept trying to discourage this and redirect him to less damaging positions. He kept pretending to comply and then creeping back onto the non-load bearing area of my body the moment I'd drift off. I'd catch him mid-creep and redirect him back to safe, bonier areas like my ribs.

Eventually, he "won." He landed with his whole weight on one paw directly to my wound. I woke up just early enough to anticipate the pain, but not prevent it. I yelled because it really fucking hurt, terrifying him, so it was a pyrrhic victory for the Emperor.

I iced it, but it was bad. I just managed to stay out of the ER and I'm a bit better, but still a mess.

* We are planning to use most of squirrel's tax rebate to get a working oven, but the dishwasher is also broken. (The dishwasher is a safety thing because I am medically fragile. Not having a working oven is playing havoc with my nutrition.) My share of the oven plus fixing the dishwasher will likely be in the $600-700 range.

If you would like to help: paypal.me/Gwydion

* JK Rowling vs Gretchen Felker-Martin at the Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1516995869681209344

* Stripper Picketline where they dressed as the OSHA Violations they are protesting: https://twitter.com/janusrose/status/1516776595025018885

* D&D and Greek Myths: https://twitter.com/deathbybadger/status/1516712889800925187

* "I know the joke about Izzy is “human dropped into a muppets movie” but the tragedy is that he’s a queer-coded character from some 1940s or 50s popcorn flick dropped into a pride parade in a floating gayborhood & he flat out has no idea how to deal with it.:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682208231414710272/i-know-the-joke-about-izzy-is-human-dropped-into

* Izzy Hands: Mascochist: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/swords-n-spindles/680892159977766912

* The Radical Diversity of Our Flag Means Death: https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/682005575395115008

* "Hidden love of New Brunswick men documented in early 20th-century photographs:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/havelock-len-cub-exhibit-fredericton-1.6410583

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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.

* "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

* 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

* "Supporting Abortion Funds in the South:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682207036936732672/supporting-abortion-funds-in-the-south

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Turkey delays mosque decision on Hagia Sophia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53232110

* "UK makes citizenship offer to Hong Kong residents:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53246899

* "Several killed as Thai ferry sinks:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-24796181

* "'I would repeat Olympic fist protest':" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-18134003/john-carlos-would-repeat-olympic-fist-protest

* Well, Fuck! "Scientists Say New Strain of Swine Flu Virus Is Spreading to Humans in China:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/world/asia/h1n1-swine-flu-virus-china-pig.html

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* "Coronavirus: asymptomatic people can still develop lung damage:" https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-asymptomatic-people-can-still-develop-lung-damage-141154

* Please Take Physical Distancing Seriously, Under Forty Folk! COVID Hospitalization rates are way the fuck up for your age group. A lower risk of dying does not save you from having to be on oxygen or if you are very unlucky a ventilator. It does not save you from permanent lung damage which you can get even if you are asymptomatic. Being sick enough to spend week in the hospital and picking up a brand new disability is not worth it.

Please, please, please wear your mask, keep your distance, and avoid closed public spaces unless you have to be there. We are right now at the worst point in the epidemic so far in the United States, and it is literally worse every day because Republicans basically.

Take it from someone who has permanent lung scarring from multiple lung infections. I used to be an athlete. I was a dancer and a distance runner. I used to practice martial arts every day. Now I sometimes get out of breath on a trip to my patio. This is not a great way to live. Hate a few months of lockdown? Try partial lockdown for the rest of your life because permanently screwed up lungs.

Seriously, I know this sucks that it's hitting you in the prime of life. Trust me I think a lot about the time you are losing to this, but think about how much more you lose if your lungs end up long term borked.

Stay safe out there.

* "WHO warns coronavirus pandemic is speeding up as countries ease lockdown rules: 'The worst is yet to come':" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/who-warns-coronavirus-pandemic-is-speeding-up-as-countries-ease-lockdown-rules.html

* "Fergus Walsh: What does Covid-19 do to the brain?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53081022

* "Peru looks to restart economy after months-long lockdown:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-peru/peru-looks-to-restart-economy-after-months-long-lockdown-idUSKBN2427CP

* I don't blame them at all. "E.U. Formalizes Reopening, Barring Travelers From U.S.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/world/europe/eu-reopening-blocks-us-travelers.html

* "US secures world stock of key Covid-19 drug remdesivir:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/30/us-buys-up-world-stock-of-key-covid-19-drug

* "Gilead sets price of coronavirus drug remdesivir at $3,120 as Trump administration secures supply for 500,000 patients:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/29/gilead-sciences-remdesivir-cost-coronavirus/

* "F.B.I. Warns of Fraudulent Coronavirus Antibody Tests:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/fake-coronavirus-antibody-test.html

* "U.S. risks 100,000 new Covid-19 cases a day, Fauci warns:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/30/trump-officials-some-states-skipped-reopening-guidelines-345464

* "'It's very troubling': alarm grows over Covid-19 spike among young Americans:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/02/covid-19-young-people-america-coronavirus

* "Reminder: Shudowns are to reduce contacts and control spread:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/reminder-shudowns-are-to-reduce-contacts-and-control-spread-86596677713

* "Trump Says Coronavirus Will Just ‘Disappear,’ Brags He Looks Like ‘Lone Ranger’ in Mask:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-coronavirus-will-just-disappear-brags-he-looks-like-lone-ranger-in-mask

* "Trump coronavirus strategy: wish it just disappears:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-coronavirus-strategy-wish-it-just-disappears-86784069943

* "Fallows: Bush, Obama admin. had ‘eloquent and detailed’ pandemic playbook which Trump ignored:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fallows-bush-obama-admin-had-eloquent-and-detailed-pandemic-playbook-which-trump-ignored-86715973996

* "Close the bars. Reopen the schools.:" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/7/1/21306816/coronavirus-pandemic-reopen-schools-economy-social-distancing

* "Some US states return to previous restrictions to slow surge of coronavirus cases:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html

* "Virus cases surge among the young, endangering older adults:" https://www.seattletimes.com/business/virus-cases-surge-among-the-young-endangering-older-adults/

* "As COVID-19 spreads in Spokane, Inslee visits and meets unmasked resistance:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/as-covid-19-spreads-in-spokane-inslee-visits-and-meets-unmasked-resistance/

* "Texas sets another record in COVID-19 cases:" https://abc13.com/coronavirus-new-numbers-texas-what-are-the-latest-in-covid-cases-houston/6285769/

* "Houston hospitals hit 100% base ICU capacity. Then they stopped reporting data.:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-hospitals-hit-100-base-ICU-capacity-15372256.php

* "Texas nears 'humanitarian catastrophe' with coronavirus rampant:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/texas-nears-humanitarian-catastrophe-with-coronavirus-rampant-86596165861

* "Pence hails Texas coronavirus testing despite extensive problems:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pence-hails-texas-coronavirus-testing-despite-extensive-problems-86597189634

* "Newsom orders bars closed in 7 California counties, including L.A., due to coronavirus spread:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-28/gavin-newsom-orders-bars-closed-in-7-california-counties-due-to-coronavirus-spread

* "Arizona orders bars and gyms to close, joining other states in reversing reopening:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/29/arizona-covid-19-shutdown-rollback-bars-gyms

* "Jacksonville to order mask-wearing ahead of GOP convention:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/jacksonville-mask-wearing-gop-convention-344530

* "In 2 a.m. vote, NC lawmakers target coronavirus measure on wearing masks in public:" https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article243813917.html

* "North Carolina's lieutenant governor says he will sue Gov. Roy Cooper over his coronavirus executive orders:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/politics/north-carolina-lieutenant-governor-lawsuit/index.html

* "Dan Forest does North Carolina a favor with his embarrassing COVID-19 stunt:" https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article243815237.html

* "Reopening Setback: San Francisco Delays June 29 Openings Of Salons, Museums Over Rising COVID-19 Cases:" https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/26/reopening-setback-sf-june-29-openings-delayed-hair-salons-barbers-zoos-museums/

* "Ricketts tells local governments they won't get federal COVID-19 money if they require masks:" https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/ricketts-tells-local-governments-they-wont-get-federal-covid-19-money-if-they-require-masks/article_d15459b9-26df-527e-9899-9f579a3d8597.html

* "Local leaders not in Trump's thrall issue new mask mandates:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/local-leaders-not-in-trump-s-thrall-issue-new-mask-mandates-86597189660

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* "Online Press Briefing with Ambassador Marshall Billingslea, Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control, And Lieutenant General Thomas A. Bussiere, Deputy Commander, United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM):" https://www.state.gov/online+press+briefing+with+ambassador-marshall-billingslea-special-presidential-envoy-for-arms-control-and-lieutenant-general-thomas-a-bussiere-deputy-commander-united-states-strategic-command/

* "Kayleigh McEnany’s answers on Russia’s bounties and Trump don’t make sense:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/29/kayleigh-mcenanys-answers-russias-bounties-trump-dont-make-sense/

* "Sen. Murphy: What on Earth could Russia do to us that Trump would take seriously?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-murphy-what-on-earth-could-russia-do-to-us-that-trump-would-take-seriously-86408773760

* "Suspicions of Russian Bounties Were Bolstered by Data on Financial Transfers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/russian-bounties-afghanistan-intelligence.html

* "Intelligence on Russian bounty plot was included in the President's Daily Brief earlier this year, source says:" https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/29/politics/russia-bounties-presidential-daily-briefing

* "Russian Bounties on US Troops Go Back Five Years, Ex-Taliban Claims:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-bounties-for-killing-americans-go-back-five-years-ex-taliban-claims?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

* "AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019:" https://apnews.com/425e43fa0ffdd6e126c5171653ec47d1

* "Rice: 'Makes no sense' that Trump wasn't told of Russia bounties:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rice-makes-no-sense-that-trump-wasn-t-told-of-russia-bounties-86451781606

* "Russia paid up to $100k bounty for US deaths in Afghanistan: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/russia-paid-up-to-100k-bounty-for-us-deaths-in-afghanistan-nyt-86783557856

* "Families of fallen U.S. military in Afghanistan demand answers:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/families-of-fallen-u-s-military-in-afghanistan-demand-answers-86596165782

* "Schiff: The one person not outraged by Russian bounties is Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-the-one-person-not-outraged-by-russian-bounties-is-trump-86757445590

* "Trump Calls Bounty Report A 'Hoax' Despite Administration's Briefing Of Congress:" https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885909588/trump-calls-bounty-report-a-hoax-despite-administration-s-briefing-of-congress

* "Republicans have been skipping House Intelligence meetings for months:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/republicans-house-intelligence-345212

* "‘Childish’: Schiff on GOP reps boycotting intelligence briefings on Russian bounties:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-childish-schiff-on-gop-reps-boycotting-intelligence-briefings-on-russian-bounties-86420549995

* "Human rights groups turn their sights on Trump's America:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/01/human-rights-trump-us-346423

* "Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani:" https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/29/middleeast/iran-arrest-warrant-donald-trump-intl/

* "Trump administration finalizing plan to withdraw 4,000 troops from Afghanistan:" https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/26/politics/us-troops-afghanistan/

* "Trump’s North American trade deal starts now. Here’s what to expect.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/01/trump-usmca-trade-346296

* "Senate strips provision from intelligence bill requiring campaigns to report foreign election help:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/senate-removes-ban-foreign-election-help/index.html

* "Trump Campaign Has Spent $325,000 on Facebook Ads Featuring Brad Parscale’s Page:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/brad-parscale-trump.html

* "Trump shares video in which supporter yells 'white power':" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/28/trump-shares-video-where-supporter-yells-white-power-342869

* "Trump retweets video of white St Louis couple pointing guns at protesters:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/29/st-louis-couple-point-guns-at-protesters

* "Twitch, Reddit crack down on Trump-linked content as industry faces reckoning:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-in-crackdown-on-hate-speech-344698

* "Trump Goes Golfing in Virginia After Promising He’d Stay Home to ‘Enforce’ Order in D.C.:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goes-golfing-in-virginia-after-promising-hed-stay-home-to-enforce-order-in-dc

* "Video appears to show Trump campaign removing social-distancing stickers in Tulsa:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/27/trump-campaign-stickers-social-distancing-tulsa-video

* "CDC Says Singers Could Be Virus Superspreaders — But 100 Sang Unmasked With Pence:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/29/884614249/cdc-says-singers-could-be-virus-super-spreaders-but-100-sang-unmasked-with-vp-pe

* "S. Dakota gov says 'we will not be social distancing' at July 3 celebration with Trump at Mount Rushmore:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/s-dakota-gov-noem-says-we-will-not-be-social-n1232507

* "Pence postpones Florida, Arizona campaign events as coronavirus cases spike:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/27/pence-postpones-florida-arizona-campaign-events-coronavirus-342241

* "Pence makes irresponsible rally stop as COVID-19 flares in Texas:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pence-makes-irresponsible-rally-stop-as-covid-19-flares-in-texas-86451269676

* "Court sides with publisher of tell-all book by Trump's niece:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/media/mary-trump-book-reliable-sources/index.html

* "Kushner shakes up Trump campaign team:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/01/jared-kushner-trump-campaign-team-346728

* "ADP Says U.S. Firms Add 2.37 Million Jobs, Fewer Than Forecast:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-01/adp-says-u-s-firms-add-2-37-million-jobs-fewer-than-forecast?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Fed officials raised concerns in June that U.S. could enter a much worse recession later this year if coronavirus cases continued to surge:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/01/federal-reserve-recession-june-minutes/

* "Fed officials raised concerns in June that U.S. could enter a much worse recession later this year if coronavirus cases continued to surge:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/30/paycheck-protection-program/

* "Trump picks worst time to attack pre-existing condition coverage:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-picks-worst-time-to-attack-pre-existing-condition-coverage-86784581897

* "Rice: No higher imperative for U.S. than electing Joe Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rice-no-higher-imperative-for-u-s-than-electing-joe-biden-86449733752

* "Oklahoma voters approve Medicaid expansion at the ballot box:" https://oklahoman.com/article/5665790/oklahoma-voters-approve-medicaid-expansion-at-the-ballot

* "Atlanta mayor on voter suppression: Georgia Sec. of State refuses to accept reality:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/atlanta-mayor-on-voter-suppression-georgia-sec-of-state-refuses-to-accept-reality-86590533855

* "Judge blocks Trump administration rule limiting asylum claims by Central Americans:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/asylum-us-mexico-border/index.html

* "Senate Republicans shrug off Trump's veto threat over renaming Confederate bases:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/01/senate-ndaa-confederate-bases-347014

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* "Trump regrets following Jared Kushner's advice on prison reform:" https://www.axios.com/trump-kushner-second-thoughts-408d5a33-725d-442a-88e4-d6ab6742c139.html

* "Trump: Black Lives Matter is a 'symbol of hate':" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/01/trump-black-lives-matter-347051

* "L.A. mayor: Police shouldn’t be solution to everything:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/l-a-mayor-police-shouldn-t-be-solution-to-everything-86589509881

* "New Orleans mayor on police brutality: Transparency, accountability go ‘hand in hand’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-orleans-mayor-on-police-brutality-transparency-accountability-go-hand-in-hand-86589509963

* "Sherrilyn Ifill: There Is Bi-Partisan Support For Reforming Qualified Immunity:"

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* "Union denies that Hamilton County sheriff's deputies beat Black man:" https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2020/jun/25/union-denies-beating/526195/

* "Riot police confront peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain with pepper spray:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/police-in-riot-gear-confront-peaceful-violin-vigil-for-elijah-mcclain-with-pepper-spray-86434373957

* "Colorado Police Officers Under Investigation Over Photos At Elijah McClain Memorial:" https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/30/885178533/colorado-police-officers-under-investigation-for-photos-at-elijah-mcclain-memori

* "Mike Brown Learns How to Do the Uprising Thing:"

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* "Companies Pull Ads From Facebook to Combat Racist, Homophobic Speech:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2020/6/30/companies-pull-ads-facebook-combat-racist-homophobic-speech

* "Supreme Court strikes down restrictive Louisiana abortion law that would have closed clinics:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-louisiana-abortion-law-john-roberts/2020/06/29/6f42067e-ba00-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html

* "Missouri governor will not appeal ruling for Planned Parenthood abortion clinic:" https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Missouri-governor-will-not-appeal-ruling-for-abortion-clinic-571547741.html

* "Teachers should be forced to misgender trans kids unless they have ‘permission’ from parents, right-wing think tank suggests:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/01/civitas-report-trans-transgender-puberty-blockers-school-joanna-williams/

* "Homophobic cyclist brutally beats driver, punches him in the face and shuts his leg in a car door:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/01/northampton-cyclist-homophobic-driver-punched-face-shut-leg-car-door/

* "In Gay We Trust: Queer Liberation Is Far From Over:" https://www.advocate.com/pride/2020/7/01/gay-we-trust-queer-liberation-far-over

* "Black Trans Woman Merci Mack Shot to Death in Dallas:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/7/01/black-trans-woman-merci-mack-shot-death-dallas

* "Detroit Man Sentenced to Life in Murders of Two Gay Men, Trans Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/7/01/detroit-man-sentenced-life-murders-two-gay-men-trans-woman

* "Police investigating golf club attack on Black-run LGBT+ community centre that was a ‘sanctuary of love’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/28/oakland-california-black-run-lgbt-centre-pride-weekend-golf-club-attack-sanctuary-of-love/

* "HIV activists celebrate as Wales confirms life-saving HIV drug PrEP will be rolled out on the NHS:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/30/prep-wales-roll-out-commissioned-available-hiv-drug/

* "My latest hospital visit in the form of a rainbow cake:"

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* Note: The Supreme Court sided in her favour. "Protecting Trans Bodies in Death:"

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* "Why Are Black & White Funeral Homes STILL Separate?:"

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* "Iconic Corpse: The Exhumations of Jesse James:"

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* "The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/

* "Protests East and West: Crash Course European History #45:"

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* "Carl Reiner, Multifaceted Master of Comedy, Is Dead at 98:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/arts/television/carl-reiner-dead.html

* A wee bit of schadenfreude: Brexiter Edition. https://twitter.com/archer_rs/status/1277505330885386240

* "Coronavirus IX: Evictions:"

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* "Trump Attacks Our Nation's Free Press Part 1:"

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* "Trump’s Ongoing Attacks On Our Nation’s Free Press Part 2 :"

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* "Bright Eyes "Mariana Trench":"

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* The last week or so was stressful for a bunch of reasons on top of my usual physical stuff being extra obnoxious. I'm tired basically. Monday I did do my socially distanced curbside pick up and got some links up, but see tired. Tuesday I was scarping along, even more tired, but we had a long internet outage and I gave up and just went to bed, rather than wait it out. I did get proper sleep today for the most part, but things have piled up dramatically. I'll do my best, but odds are you are looking at a partial instead of the usual amount of work.

Update: And then tumblr shit the bed and I spent a couple of hours trying to get it functional. My dashboard is still borked, but I can post links again.

If anyone knows how to roll back the dashboard to the yesterday version please tell me.

* "Two Timelines of Slang for Genitalia, from 1250 Through Today:" https://io9.gizmodo.com/two-timelines-of-slang-for-genitalia-from-1250-through-1157205966

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Coronavirus May ‘Reactivate’ in Cured Patients, Korean CDC Says:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/coronavirus-may-reactivate-in-cured-patients-korean-cdc-says?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Scientists at odds after study finds coronavirus antibody puzzle:" https://www.smh.com.au/national/scientists-at-odds-after-study-finds-coronavirus-antibody-anomaly-20200410-p54iwm.html

* "Nearly 90% of People Hospitalized With Coronavirus Have These Underlying Conditions:" https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/covid-19-hospitalization

* "Coronavirus patients on ventilators are unusually likely to die:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/coronavirus-ventilators-nhs-death-rates-china-wuhan-us-cases-a9458541.html

* "Coronavirus patients report strange new symptom: ‘Fizzing’:" https://nypost.com/2020/04/10/coronavirus-patients-report-strange-new-symptom-fizzing/

* "What the coronavirus does to your body that makes it so deadly:" https://knowridge.com/2020/04/what-the-coronavirus-does-to-your-body-that-makes-it-so-deadly/

* "Late in the Game, Russia Steps Up to Covid-19:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/opinion/putin-russia-coronavirus.html

* "Japan Declared a Coronavirus Emergency. Is It Too Late?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/asia/japan-coronavirus-emergency.html

* "Mafia distributes food to Italy's struggling residents:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/10/mafia-distributes-food-to-italys-struggling-residents

* "How coronavirus inspired a gangland truce:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-52205158/how-coronavirus-inspired-a-gangland-truce-in-south-africa

* "ER doctor on what it’s like to survive coronavirus:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/er-doctor-on-what-it-s-like-to-survive-coronavirus-81912901803

* "White House working on plan to cut aid to WHO:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-working-plan-cut-aid-w-h-o-n1179701

* "Federal Support Ends For Coronavirus Testing Sites As Pandemic Peak Nears:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/08/829955099/federal-support-for-coronavirus-testing-sites-end-as-peak-nears

* "Coronavirus government response update: Amid shortage, White House say hospital workers could reuse cloth gowns:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/coronavirus-government-response-update-fauci-death-toll-lower/story?id=70062641

* "Barr calls current restrictions ‘draconian,’ and suggests they should be revisited next month:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/attorney-general-william-barr-fox-news-coronavirus/2020/04/09/dfda1f94-7a12-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html

* "Physical distancing is the only tool we have to stop COVID-19:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/physical-distancing-is-the-only-tool-we-have-to-stop-covid-19-81867845580

* "Health officials bearish on Trump's drive to re-open economy by May:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/10/surgeon-general-country-not-open-may-1-178790

* "Why is Trump touting unproven anti-malaria drug as virus cure?:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-promoting-unproven-drug-as-coronavirus-cure-alarms-experts-81930309913

* "Getting Down to Planning the Next Year and the Interim New Normal:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/getting-down-to-planning-the-next-year-and-the-interim-new-normal

* ""I’ve read the plans to reopen the economy. They’re scary.":" https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavirus-plans-social-distancing-economy-recession-depression-unemployment

* "CDC Director: 'Very Aggressive' Contact Tracing Needed For U.S. To Return To Normal:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/10/831200054/cdc-director-very-aggressive-contact-tracing-needed-for-u-s-to-return-to-normal

* "Nobel Prize winner: We should be testing 30 million for COVID-19 daily:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nobel-prize-winner-we-should-be-testing-30-million-for-covid-19-daily-81912389636

* "I Spent A Day In The Coronavirus-Driven Feeding Frenzy Of N95 Mask Sellers And Buyers And This Is What I Learned:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2020/03/30/i-spent-a-day-in-the-coronavirus-driven-feeding-frenzy-of-n95-mask-sellers-and-buyers-and-this-is-what-i-learned/#575647ca56d4

* "CDC Report Shows How a Funeral and Birthday Party ‘Super Spread’ COVID-19 in Chicago:" https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/cdc-report-shows-how-a-funeral-and-birthday-party-super-spread-covid-19-in-chicago/2253006/

* "Chris Hayes on what a swift response means in a pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-what-a-swift-response-means-in-a-pandemic-81861189646

* "‘Admission of failure:’ Chris Hayes on Trump saying the virus should soon be forgotten:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-admission-of-failure-chris-hayes-on-trump-saying-the-virus-should-soon-be-forgotten-81811525815

* "Chicago’s lesbian mayor and ‘angry auntie’ Lori Lightfoot isn’t pulling any punches when it comes to coronavirus:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/10/lori-lightfoot-chicago-lesbian-mayor-coronavirus-memes-social-distancing/

* "Coronavirus mass testing site in Montgomery County saved:" https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/20200409/coronavirus-mass-testing-site-in-montgomery-county-saved

* "Coronavirus cases continue to rise in Whatcom County:" https://www.thenorthernlight.com/stories/coronavirus-cases-continue-to-rise-in-whatcom-county,10198

* "Southeast nursing home 'saddened, devastated' by residents' deaths from coronavirus:" https://www.kens5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/san-antonio-nursing-home-coronavirus-outbreak/273-5e622585-2511-43c8-a036-4e8525272b71

* "Coronavirus-wracked nursing home evacuated after most of staff failed to show for two days:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/09/california-nursing-home-coronavirus/

* "California moves to protect nursing home residents from the coronavirus:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-10/gavin-newsom-california-coronavirus-nursing-homes-mercy-ship-seniors

* "These 26 Kentucky nursing homes have at least one COVID-19 patient:" https://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article241913381.html

* "10 residents from Southeast Portland nursing home dead from coronavirus, employees say:" https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/04/10-residents-from-southeast-portland-nursing-home-dead-from-coronavirus-employees-say.html

* "Two coronavirus deaths in Montgomery County linked to March KCK church gathering:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article241863906.html

* "Gov. Northam announces plans for inmate releases, nursing home task force:" https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Gov-Northam-addresses-Virginians-on-COVID-19-569542331.html

* "5 people confirmed dead as COVID-19 outbreak hits Louisville retirement community:" https://www.wdrb.com/news/5-people-confirmed-dead-as-covid-19-outbreak-hits-louisville-retirement-community/article_22af27c2-7a9c-11ea-b357-9f4df625e38b.html

* "Deaths at Virginia Care Facility With Outbreak Climb to 39:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/virginia/articles/2020-04-09/deaths-at-virginia-care-facility-with-outbreak-climb-to-39

* "Over 450 Healthcare Workers Have Been Infected With Covid-19 - Alabama News:" https://www.alabamanews.net/2020/04/10/over-450-healthcare-workers-have-been-infected-with-covid-19/

* "24 Madison County nursing home residents now dead from COVID-19:" https://www.theindychannel.com/news/coronavirus/24-madison-county-nursing-home-residents-now-dead-from-covid-19

* "Eight Ohio prisons under quarantine due to coronavirus:" https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/state--regional/eight-ohio-prisons-under-quarantine-due-coronavirus/DAotdr7t5ZQZfdgjK3GJEN/

* "Lack of national COVID-19 testing leaves nursing home front line in shadow:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lack-of-national-covid-19-testing-leaves-nursing-home-front-line-in-shadow-81865285641

* "Trump admin ignoring dire COVID-19 situation in US nursing homes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-ignoring-dire-covid-19-situation-in-us-nursing-homes-81919045542

* "Frontline medical workers take mortal risks to answer impossible call:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/frontline-medical-workers-take-mortal-risks-to-answer-impossible-call-81814085863

* "Overwhelmed hospitals mean overwhelming conditions for medical workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/overwhelmed-hospitals-mean-overwhelming-conditions-for-medical-workers-81917509880

* "‘The virus is color blind. We are not:’ Ta-Nehisi Coates on racial disparities in pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-virus-is-color-blind-we-are-not-ta-nehisi-coates-on-racial-disparities-in-pandemic-81860677761

* "Systemic racism, lack of insurance fuel coronavirus racial divide:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-racial-disparities-caused-by-racism-expert-says-81930821779

* "States are restricting Easter gatherings amid COVID-19. Churches and lawmakers are pushing back.:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/11/coronavirus-easter-kansas-kentucky-restrict-religious-gatherings-church/2975593001/

* "Pastor asks Easter celebrants to worship with social distancing:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-fears-rise-that-easter-gatherings-may-spread-virus-81930309973

* "Prison uprising put down as US inmates demand protection from coronavirus:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/10/us-prisons-coronavirus-uprising-riot

* "‘The fear is real:’ Prisoners at high risk for contracting COVID-19:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-fear-is-real-prisoners-at-high-risk-for-contracting-covid-19-81913925649

* "Darren Walker - Protecting Prisoners During the COVID-19 Pandemic:"

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* "Sen. Murphy on mental health effects in aftermath of coronavirus:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-murphy-on-mental-health-effects-in-aftermath-of-coronavirus-81809989664

* Meanwhile, the Great Pumpkin... https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1248727807728840704

* "Anti-gay pastor defies social distancing to host live reenactment of Christ’s crucifixion starring his teen son:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/11/pastor-greg-locke-coronavirus-pandemic-jesus-christ-crucifixion-tennessee/

* "Homophobic tensions halt plans for a second Franklin Graham coronavirus hospital in a cathedral:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/10/franklin-graham-homophobic-coronavirus-hospital-cathedral-new-york-city-samaritans-purse/

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* "Defense secretary says he's open to reinstating carrier captain who requested coronavirus help:" https://thehill.com/policy/defense/492163-defense-secretary-open-to-reinstating-aircraft-carrier-captain-who-asked-for

* "White House reverses position after blocking health officials from appearing on CNN:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/media/pence-office-tv-bookings-coronavirus/index.html

* "IMF Sees World in Worst Recession Since Great Depression:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/imf-sees-world-economy-in-worst-recession-since-great-depression?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Federal Reserve unveils details of $2.3 trillion in programs to help support the economy:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/09/federal-reserve-unveils-details-of-its-much-anticipated-main-street-lending-program.html

* "Unemployment claims near 17 million in three weeks as coronavirus ravages economy:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/09/coronavirus-unemployment-claims-numbers-176794

* "Unemployment claims near 17 million in three weeks as coronavirus ravages economy:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/09/mnuchin-economy-could-reopen-in-may-177037

* "Trump preparing to announce second task force focused on economic recovery:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/politics/trump-economy-task-force/

* "Senate brawl derails fast push for new coronavirus relief:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/09/senate-coronavirus-relief-deal-176804

* "Lawmakers weigh extra coronavirus relief bill as economy teeters:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-supplementary-bill-debated-to-provide-further-relief-81932357777

* "Record Bankruptcies Predicted in Next Year as Unemployment Soars:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-10/record-bankruptcies-predicted-in-next-year-as-unemployment-soars?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Is DeSantis here to help or hurt the unemployed? He should OK retroactive benefits — now:" https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article241857086.html

* "Bernie Sanders suspends presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden to face Trump. Here’s what that means for LGBT+ people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/08/joe-biden-donald-trump-2020-lgbt-rights-presidential-election-bernie-sanders-equality-act/

* "Sanders confirms Obama, Biden conversations before ending campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-sanders-on-why-he-ended-his-presidential-campaign-81861701630

* "Paige Kreisman: Kicked Out of the Military, Now Running for Office:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/4/11/paige-kreisman-kicked-out-military-now-running-office

* "Voting rights expert: Wisconsin election one of worst in history:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/how-coronavirus-risk-missing-ballots-impacted-wisconsin-voters-81931845553

* "GOP accused of resisting mail-in ballot use during pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/is-coronavirus-threat-being-used-by-gop-to-hinder-voting-81931845750

* "Trump administration has expelled 10,000 migrants at the border during coronavirus outbreak, leaving less than 100 in CBP custody:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trump-administration-has-expelled-10000-migrants-at-the-border-during-coronavirus-outbreak/2020/04/09/b177c534-7a7b-11ea-8cec-530b4044a458_story.html?tidr=a_breakingnews

* "Lesbian Couple in Custody Pleads 'Don't Let Us Die':" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/4/10/lesbian-couple-custody-pleads-dont-let-us-die

* "No Murder Charges in Burning Death of Indonesian Trans Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/4/09/no-murder-charges-burning-death-indonesian-trans-woman

* "This Christian tried to complain that the rainbow flag incited ‘contempt and hatred’ – but it cataclysmically backfired:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/10/british-columbia-langley-pride-rainbow-flag-kari-simpson/

* Same cake shop, different case. "Christian baker asks judge to toss out lawsuit over his refusal to bake a trans lawyer’s birthday cake:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/10/christian-baker-masterpiece-cakeshop-jack-phillips-transgender-cake-dismiss-lawsuit/

* "This doctor is saying it louder for the people at the back – there’s no scientific reason for banning trans people from sport:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/10/trans-women-sport-school-idaho-brad-little-them-unscientific-puberty-dr-vinny-chulani/

* "The government’s newly-relaxed blood donation rules for gay and bi men are already facing fierce opposition:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/10/united-states-government-gay-bisexual-blood-donation-ban-discrimination-fda/

* "A zoo has been trying to get two pandas to mate for 10 years. When coronavirus shut the zoo down, the pandas finally did:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/pandas-mate-ocean-park-trnd/index.html

* "Tasked with schoolwork help, many US parents lack English:" https://apnews.com/bd0e17a365c121365f0ddc06e82027ec

* "New book shines a light on the incredible role queer women played in the Easter Uprising:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/10/easter-rising-1916-ireland-irish-independence-niall-odowd-elizabeth-ofarrell/

* "Embracing the Mysteries of a Trove of Hungarian Photos, Rescued From the Dustbin of History:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hungarian-photos-from-trash

* "Trans Politician Christine Hallquist Tests Positive for COVID-19:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/4/10/trans-politician-christine-hallquist-tests-positive-covid-19

* "Florida Transgender Icon Henrietta Robinson Dead at 79:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/4/09/florida-transgender-icon-henrietta-robinson-dead-79

* "Phyllis Lyon, Pioneering Lesbian Activist, Dies at 95:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/4/09/phyllis-lyon-pioneering-lesbian-activist-dies-95

* I have often and emphaically said that the only things I want back from the '80's are things like asymetrical hair cuts and guitars in pop songs.

Hearing over and over about people testing positive and seeing all the obits for ueer activists, creatives, and elders dying, it just... So few of ourelderssurvived that plague and now weare losing so many of the survivors in this one, while an indifferent republican sits in the white house actively hampering efforts to prevent death on a large scale.

I do not want the '80's back. This is so much worse, but it is nightmarishly familiar.

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* Friday: I ordered Special Girl food today. I was a touch apprehensive because a correspondent has reported kibble shortages at chewy, but this was the first day the right money was in the right place to do it. They weren't out, but it was up to a ten day delivery day because they are not surprisingly swamped. We're fine. We wouldn't have been if a benefactor hadn't gotten us a couple of extra flats, but we can handle a ten day for once without risking baby girl's health.

I went out at dawn today as a relative had sent a small check and really i needed gas. My suspicion that the price would be dramatically lower was correct and I used what was left on the card after the special girl food order. It was about a dollar and a quarter cheaper than it was last I was at the cheapy. I I'd had an extra ten, I probably could have filled it up.

Don't worry, I wore gloves and washed as soon as I got home.

The smaller cherry trees are all in bloom, though the taller ones are only at the bud stage. Out in the world, a handful of teary waking trees have leaves, though most of the green is ever instead of deciduous and most of the branches are still bare. It is full Spring here by day, but we are far enough North that it is still cold at night. Last night though, was noticeably less so and it really only got properly cold, cold an hour or two before dawn.

The streets were so empty, I didn't even see the usual rough sleepers in doorways. This town only has one shitty cult like men's shelter. I wonder where the rest of them are and if they are safe.

I saw no pedestrians at all, just a few other cars, one motorcycle, and a couple grocery delivery trucks. The shelter in place is holding. I took a chance and stopped at the coop to squint at their starts. Them being closed, I figured it was safe. I wore a mask and touched nothing. They have lots of lettuce, but it must be too early for the other things I'm interested in, so no point in sending a Millennial just yet.

This is the first time I've been further than the path in front of my door about a month. I had only gone that far a couple of days ago at dawn so I could see the cherry trees before anyone else was up.

Last night I dug the fans out of the back of my closet. Normally, this is a very minor nuisance, but normally I don't have a stack of boxes full of altar materials in front of it, nor have Ii usually panic piled stuff on top of them because renovations, nor is there usually a lamp cord twisted up so it jams the closet closed in a way that takes 15 mins to extract. Sigh. I inevitably dropped heavy things on my feet, but I'm ready if it's as hot today as it was yesterday afternoon. The rest is packed back away more properly again, but nothing will really be right until I've got the living room sorted out, which will be a long time at the rate I'm going.

I did mail out a bit of bureaucracy at least. I haven't heard back about the last bit to go out back when the library closed mid-March.

* Cat pictures: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/615047723325980672/the-apartment-is-still-piled-with-boxes-and-mess

* Saturday: Squirrel went for a COVID test today. Neither we nor his doctor think he has it, but given what he does for a living, his employer won't let him back without one, which is entirely understandable, and they need him back because it is vital work.

My suspicion is he had the same mild pathogen I had a couple of weeks ago. Same symptom set, if you subtract my chronic stuff. Odds are it's an influenza that muted just enough that the Autumn flu shot mostly, but not quite covered it.

The first I knew of him being sick was him ambling into my office yesterday to have me check him for covid eyes, which he assuredly doesn't have. Apparently he was a couples days in at this point.

I repeat, it doesn't look or sound like COVID. He's already much improved, it's just a precaution because he could kill a lot of people if he were infected.

It is still unnerving.

* Today, I saw more people out on the path and the lawn than I have in over a month. It was safer than it sounds. A lot of it was lone grad students going out to the parking lot and back a while later, presumably on errands or to one of the larger parks.

I also saw things like a mom with a stroller and an older child trying to get some air at a time when the area was empty. A mom and her two kids were out playing frizbee and on the lawn for a couple hours. I know them. It was one household, they moved well away when anyone was coming, and I'm not at all surprised that they were going stir crazy.

Not ideal, but it really did look like people were avoiding people not in their household and timing travel along the paths to avoid others.

* "This is the Worst Movie I've ever seen:" https://twitter.com/realsarahpolley/status/1248619302011297792

* "How To Win Any Argument By Retreating Into Your Mind Palace:" https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/how-to-win-any-argument-by-retreating?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNjQ5NTIsIl8iOiJINmxnVyIsImlhdCI6MTU4NjYzMjQwNiwiZXhwIjoxNTg2NjM2MDA2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.VTAjB1uRwWPPAMKAwtYdaqRBHvNus3_TqWTOUvYQIW4

* "Physical Distancing Gothic:" https://twitter.com/AlanBaxter/status/1247844822833979392

* Free Performances: https://cityparksfoundation.org/shows-anywhere/

* Stuff to do: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3004935.html

* "Your child can become an astronaut and explore space from home:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/world/nasa-space-station-stem-activities-scn/index.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "100 Million Mask Challenge:" https://www.providence.org/lp/100m-masks

* "Coronavirus: Deaconess asks public to sew CDC-compliant face masks for staff:" https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2020/03/18/coronavirus-deaconess-ask-public-provide-medical-face-masks/2865273001/

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

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

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

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* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html

* "Doctors Say U.K. Is Ill Prepared for Coronavirus:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/europe/coronavirus-united-kingdom-national-health-service.html

* "Bodies 'pile up' in morgue as Iran feels strain of coronavirus:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/middleeast/iran-coronavirus-morgues-intl/index.html

* As a 14th century specialist, I keep getting deja vu. "Leaked coronavirus plan to quarantine 16m sparks chaos in Italy:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/leaked-coronavirus-plan-to-quarantine-16m-sparks-chaos-in-italy

* "Is Italy’s massive coronavirus quarantine sign of things to come?:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-cases-hit-over-107-000-worldwide-italy-quarantines-80279109869

* "The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-have-been-tested-coronavirus/607597/

* "Journalist covering coronavirus: U.S. lags behind in testing:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-cases-in-u-s-climb-as-slow-gov-response-slammed-80277061698

* You know what would really help in this pandemic? Competent leadership from the Presidency on down, free universal health care and paid lead lke developed countries have. People could then afford to take off work if they were sick and afford testing instead of being forced to go around spreading disease? You know what else would really help? universal basic income, which would let people with non-essential jobs stay home. Just saying.

* "Coronavirus in Maryland: Three Montgomery County residents contracted the virus:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/maryland-confirms-three-cases-of-coronavirus/2020/03/05/687def10-5f3d-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

* "Coronavirus case at CPAC brings outbreak closer to Trump, threatening to upend his routine amid reelection bid:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/coronavirus-case-at-cpac-brings-outbreak-closer-to-trump-threatening-to-upend-his-routine-amid-reelection-bid/2020/03/08/8e3ba384-6170-11ea-912d-d98032ec8e25_story.html

* He is claiming countries like Iran won’t get the coronavirus because they don’t have Pride parades. O.o Meanwhile 45 is telling people to go to work sick so as to spread it to more vulnerable coworkers and is trying to steal health coverage from 20 million people as part of his pandemic response. "30 million lack health insurance as coronavirus outbreak spreads:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-may-attempt-obamacare-repeal-during-coronavirus-outbreak-80240709506

* "Homophobic rabbi claims coronavirus outbreak is God’s divine punishment for Pride parades:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/09/israel-rabbi-coronavirus-pride-parade-gay-god-divine-punishment-covid19-meir-mazuz/

* "Facebook removes Trump campaign ads over census confusion:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/05/facebook-removes-trump-campaign-ad-122374

* "Fmr. fed. prosecutor: DOJ response to judge on Barr ‘laughable’:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/doj-responds-to-judge-questioning-barr-s-credibility-80242245515

* "Trump loses another White House ‘original’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/trump-white-house-adam-kennedy-122435

* "Civilian vacancies at Trump’s Pentagon hit new high:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/pentagon-vacancies-donald-trump-122805

* "Experts explain allegations of nepotism in the Trump White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/do-trump-kids-financially-benefit-from-trump-in-white-house-80237637729

* "Women Democratic candidates were seen as huge gamble vs. Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-s-defeat-prioritized-by-democrats-over-women-candidates-80236613794

* "With No Braille Option, a Blind Man Failed His Citizenship Exam:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/citizenship-exam-blind-man-braille.html

* "UK’s first pansexual MP Layla Moran is running to be leader of the Liberal Democrats:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/08/layla-moran-liberal-democrats-leadership-election-first-pansexual-mp/

* "Reward money doubles to $2 million for information on the death of a gay man found naked at the bottom of a cliff in 1988:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/09/scott-johnson-death-australia-new-south-wales-gay-hate-crime-steve-police/

* "Local councils are asking young people kicked out of their homes for being LGBT+ for ‘proof’ of their homelessness:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/09/councils-england-lgbt-homelessness-youth-albert-kennedy-trust-bbc-three-investigation/

"Leigh Fontaine, services manager at the Albert Kennedy Trust, told BBC Three: “A lot of the time parents will say one thing to the local authority – ‘Oh, no. I’ve not kicked my son or my daughter out’ – but in the same instance they are telling the child they can’t return home.

“I don’t think that local authorities always take homophobic abuse in the home seriously.”"

* "South Carolina lawmaker wants referendum to make county similar to Poland’s ‘LGBT-free’ zones:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/08/south-carolina-greenville-referendum-lgbt-free-zone-poland-joe-dill/

* "Republicans pass bill to make it illegal for doctors to prescribe life-saving treatment to trans youth:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/06/republican-alabama-senate-shay-shelnutt-trans-youth-puberty-blockers-hormone-treatment-doctors-illegal/

* "Depression-Era New York Looked, Well, Pretty Depressing:" https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/nation/old-photos-of-new-york-during-the-great-depression-library-of-congress-archive

* "Backstage at the Paris Opera House in 1937:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/03/06/backstage-at-the-paris-opera-house-in-1937/

* "I Illustrated National Parks In America Based On Their Worst Review And I Hope They Will Make You Laugh (16 Pics):" https://www.boredpanda.com/one-star-reviews-into-illustrations-national-parks-amber-share/

* The Incident: https://twitter.com/deanlines/status/1236366815107919872

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

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

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* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
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* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html

* "Why I’m Protesting the Indian Government’s Abuses Against Muslims:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/students-against-hindutva-protests-modi-muslims

* "After a Face-Off in Syria, Turkey and Russia Try to Pull Back From the Brink:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/world/europe/turkey-syria-russia.html

* "S Korea sect leader apologises for virus spread:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51701039

* Republicans are still insisting that this is a PR issue, not a public health crisis as only about 2% of the populations are likely to die, since they don't care how many die. "Trump Criticizes Media for Coverage of Coronavirus:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/us/politics/cpac-coronavirus.html

* "2nd Death Near Seattle Adds to Signs Virus Is Spreading in U.S.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/us/washington-coronavirus-nursing-home.html

* "As schools announce closures for coronavirus, Seattle-area parents wonder what’s next:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/as-renton-school-announces-closure-for-coronavirus-seattle-area-parents-wonder-whats-next/

* "Coronavirus in N.Y.: Manhattan Woman Is First Confirmed Case in State:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/nyregion/new-york-coronvirus-confirmed.html

* "Pete Buttigieg Ends History-Making Presidential Campaign:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/3/01/pete-buttigieg-exits-presidential-race

* Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and American Samoa all vote on Tuesday March 3. If you live there, don't forget to vote!

* "Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' immigration policy allowed to proceed temporarily:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico/u-s-appeals-court-blocks-trump-policy-forcing-migrants-to-wait-in-mexico-idUSKCN20M2SC

* "Michael Cashman and Baroness Barker double down on trans support after toxic debate in House of Lords:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/28/anti-trans-house-lords-debate-michael-cashman-baroness-barker-support-trans-community/

* "Parents of trans teens say banning puberty blockers would be a ‘slap in the face’ to their children:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/02/puberty-blockers-families-speak-out-nhs-treatment-high-court-judicial-review-gids-tavistock/

* "This is why ‘life-saving’ puberty blockers are so important for trans teenagers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/01/puberty-blockers-important-high-court-life-saving-judicial-review-tavistock-portman-gids-nhs/

* "Disgusting anti-trans bill forcing girls to face a genital exam so they can play sports is dealt a heavy blow:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/02/republican-bill-girls-sports-chromosomes-genitalia-testosterone-heavy-blow-new-hampshire/

* "Trump-themed coffee shop encouraging customers to bring guns opens next door to LGBT bar:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/01/trump-themed-coffee-shop-guns-lgbt-bar-conservative-grounds-largo-florida/

* "Sewing Saved Us from a "Cold Snap" 13 Thousand Years Ago:" https://daily.jstor.org/sewing-saved-us-from-a-cold-snap-13-thousand-years-ago/

* "On the Trail of America’s First Women to Vote:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/arts/first-women-voters-new-jersey.html?referringSource=articleShare

* "A gay first lady? Yes, we’ve already had one, and here are her love letters.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/20/she-was-once-first-lady-she-is-buried-next-her-longtime-female-partner/

* "Post-World War I Recovery: Crash Course European History #36:"

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* "Sunday Sweets Sings It's Not Easy Being Green:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/3/1/sunday-sweets-sings-its-not-easy-being-green

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

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* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html

* "Why People Are Protesting in India:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/world/asia/india-protests-citizenship-muslims.html

"All 33 million residents of Assam, a state bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh, had to provide documentary evidence, such as a property deed or a birth certificate, showing that they or their ancestors lived in India before 1971. Those who could not would be declared foreign migrants, at risk of being sent to huge new detention camps.

More than two million people, many of them Muslims, failed to pass the test and could end up stateless. The governing party of Mr. Modi has vowed to extend the test to other parts of India.

The government has said the test was intended to root out undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh. India’s home minister, Amit Shah, has repeatedly referred to these migrants as “termites.”"

* "The year in protests: What happened next?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50822363

* "Hong Kong protest tide turns into sea of flames:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-poy-hong-kong-widerimage/hong-kong-protest-tide-turns-into-sea-of-flames-idUSKBN1YR1T4

* "U.S. Braces for Major North Korean Weapons Test as Trump’s Diplomacy Fizzles:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/world/asia/north-korea-missile-test-trump-kim.html

* "Russia’s State TV Calls Trump Their ‘Agent’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-state-tv-calls-trump-their-agent

* "Trump airs his grievances as MAGA millennials mingle:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/21/trump-turning-point-usa-speech-089182

* "‘Who is Mar-a-Lago?’ Arrested Chinese woman appears confused after intrusion at Trump club:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article238538558.html

* "Trespassing Chinese nationals suggest an alarming pattern:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trespassing-chinese-nationals-suggest-an-alarming-pattern-75638341667

* "Rev. Barber on relationship between Evangelical movement and Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rev-barber-on-relationship-between-evangelical-movement-and-trump-75629637959

* "Donald Trump’s vendetta against the wind:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/donald-trump-s-vendetta-against-the-wind-75631173743

* "President Trump’s written tirade to Nancy Pelosi, annotated:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/17/president-trumps-written-tirade-nancy-pelosi-annotated/

* "Battle lines harden over Trump impeachment trial witnesses:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-idUSKBN1YQ0I6

* "House counsel suggests Trump could be impeached again:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/23/doj-impeachment-vote-undercut-house-mcgahn-testimony-089604

* "New evidence shows fears about legality of Trump Ukraine scheme:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-evidence-shows-fears-about-legality-of-trump-ukraine-scheme-75635781983

* "Sen. Van Hollen: Trump violated another law with Ukraine aid hold:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-van-hollen-trump-violated-another-law-with-ukraine-aid-hold-75630149899

* "Chris Hayes on the ‘damning’ emails sent right after the Ukraine phone call:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-damning-emails-sent-right-after-the-ukraine-phone-call-75631685829

* "Does media coverage appear to attack Democrats for impeachment?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-impeachment-media-coverage-seems-to-criticize-democrats-75549765878

* "Millions of Americans Are at Risk of Losing Health Care, Yet Again:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2019/12/23/millions-americans-are-risk-losing-health-care-yet-again

* "Trump adviser: Expect more aggressive poll watching in 2020:" https://apnews.com/af2f0ede054d8baebbe1bb6ca47b4895

* "Democrats strategize against renewed GOP vote suppression efforts:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-strategize-against-renewed-gop-vote-suppression-efforts-75637317560

* "50+ LGBTQ Women, Nonbinary Activists Back Elizabeth Warren:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/12/24/exclusive-50-lgbtq-women-nonbinary-activists-back-elizabeth-warren

* "Elizabeth Warren launches investigation into FOSTA/SESTA on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/17/fosta-sesta-elizabeth-warren-international-day-end-violence-sex-workers-trans-rights/

* "Under secret Stephen Miller plan, ICE to use data on migrant children to expand deportation efforts:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/under-secret-stephen-miller-plan-ice-to-use-data-on-migrant-children-to-expand-deportation-efforts/2019/12/20/36975b34-22a8-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html

* "Does white nationalism remain a problem for active-duty troops?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/-white-nationalist-term-removed-from-military-screening-measure-75547717869

* "New Jersey Is Third State to Ban Discrimination Based on Hair:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/nj-hair-discrimination.html

* "Antigay, Tax-Exempt Mormon Church Accused of Misusing Billions:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2019/12/17/antigay-tax-exempt-mormon-church-accused-misusing-billions

* "Modern Life: Crash Course European History #30:"

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* "Indonesia Is Trying to Screen Out Queer Teachers:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2019/12/23/indonesia-trying-screen-out-queer-teachers

* "U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Relieved of Duty After Denouncing Homophobia:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2019/12/23/us-ambassador-zambia-relieved-duty-after-denouncing-homophobia

* "An Open Letter to My LGBTQ Family This Holiday Season:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/23/open-letter-my-lgbtq-family-holiday-season

* "Will a Post-HB 2 North Carolina Elect Its First Trans Senator?:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/12/23/will-post-hb2-north-carolina-elect-its-first-trans-senator

* TW: Death Threat "High school student makes a powerful statement after being called a ‘f****t’ one too many times:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/17/high-school-student-pride-flag-cape-eastern-hancock-indiana/

* "'Lost crops' could have fed as many as maize:" https://phys.org/news/2019-12-lost-crops-fed-maize.html

* "‘Tis Impeachment Season:"

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* "Why Are People Protesting in Hong Kong? Part 1:"

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* "Why Are People Protesting in Hong Kong? Part 2:"

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* ""Once Upon Impeachment," A Late Show Animated Christmas Classic:"

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* The Refrigerator is officially fixed. It really was a very easy repair of yu have the right toolsand know what you're doing. It was absolutely nothing I could fix myself. It turns out Rubbermaid makes a kick ass cooler. As in, the large baby sized ice block I had put in the bottom was barely even a tiny bit melted and most of the loose ice stayed intact. It did fit in the storage unit with the small borrowed cooler inside. Like, all the perishables made it through from Friday to Sunday. I lost half my food at least in the initial emergency, but nothing over the weekend. It's nice and cool/cold and the ice maker is happily making ice.

I did my Solstice thing, but was too tired after to even touch a computer, hence Sunday being all preprogrammed stuff on tumblr and it being crickets on Dreamwidth. I am till finding things and returning them to their proper homes, as the table clearing had to be hasty.

The great fish migration is going to be next Saturday. *crosses fingers* I spotted a live whiptail in the by the door twenty and those are the worst to catch and transport. Current plan is to migrate the other twenty across to the thirty and what until I hear from the contractor in January to see if I actually have to move the door twenty at all. If I do, they will join their comrades in the office thirty. If not, after the renovation I'll move the tank with fish inside across the living room and put the thirty back on it's pedestal in the living room where the door twenty currently is.

Today I went out to do forage, library and pick up a few replacements for things that died in the fridge last week. It was a good forage in a lot of ways (pistachios!), but was light on bread and fresh veg. Then I went through a stack of yet more phone bureaucracy. They are not cancelling my medicaid, it turns out, but the COLA on Social security starting January was just enough to push everyone on Social Security out of the Categorically needy program into the Medically needy program, which despite the you are going to lose some benefits wording is essentially the same according to the Health and Human Services guy. I have not started the end of year bureaucracy packet, which came last Friday, but a lot of Friday's phone bureaucracy was me calling around to get people to mail me the documentation I need to do the packet. Obviously, none of that is here yet. The weekend ate all the spoons, and I'm wiped today from errands. Hopefully, I'll get my shit to do the parts I can manage with the paperwork I have in the next three days, and fill in the bits that need documents when they turn up. Then I laboriously put forage away. Squirrel emptied the dishwasher yesterday, so there was room for me to reload it. Which meant exhausting and painful prewashing. I still have one side of the sink worth of prewashed things ready for the next load. Sigh.

I still have a lot of last week's news to chew through on top of toy's stuff. My hope is, I'll have a chance to catch up this week.

* I want to thank all of my readers. no really, y'all make me feel less like a voice crying in the wilderness or Cassandra speaking prophecy to those who don't listen.

I especially want to thank those of you who helped keep Livia kitten alive through her medical crisis. Seriously, she would have died without you all coing together to pay her vet bills and get her the food she needed/s to stay alive. She seems to be doing really well on limited ingredient shreds and odds are I'll be getting normal limited ingredient turkey based grain free kibbles and try transitioning her off the prescription kibbles in January once I'm in funds again. She likes the shreds so much she looks forward to them every day, milling around excitedly when she thinks I'm making them and giving one small worried squeak if I'm too slow. I make the sounds that means it's coming and she is reassured. Elder kitty thinks the shreds are the best food ever, and I think they are helping her digestion. Elder Kitty is doing so well, it like the clock has turned back to when her cohort clowder were alive. she's still frail, but she's eating better, has taken back all her common area nap spots and seems to have mostly recovered from her long depression.

I also wanted to give a special thanks to everyone who helped keep the car, dishwasher, and refrigerator running. You are all super stars.

* "The 30 Best LGBTQ Films of the Decade:" https://www.advocate.com/film/2019/12/23/30-best-lgbtq-films-decade#media-gallery-media-31

* TW: Eating Disorders. "Why Can't Marvel Superheroes Have 'Normal' Bodies?:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/18/why-cant-marvel-superheroes-have-normal-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.

* A small, cheap thing to help climate change if you have little money to spare: https://onetreeplanted.org/products/amazon-rainforest-peru

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* Here are a bunch of state level links to help people in immigrant detention: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/186058182962/woundability-this-4th-of-july-celebrate-the

* Angry about the concentration camps on our Southern Border? Here is a list of useful things you can do: https://medium.com/@togetherandfree/feel-helpless-amidst-the-horrific-immigration-news-youre-not-how-you-can-make-difference-today-108dc42de88e

* "More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html

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

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

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* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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* HorrorMux is currently running a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html

* "Is Bolivia turning into a rightwing military dictatorship?:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/26/bolivia-rightwing-military-dictatorship

"Indian massacres have returned to Bolivia. There is a history — a blood feud, to be precise — behind this tragedy. The self-declared “presidency” of Jeanine Áñez has revived the old oligarchy’s race hatred and the barbaric practice of Indian killing, the collective punishment of the nation’s Indigenous majority for daring to defy a centuries-old racial order of apartheid and oppression. Since the ousting of Bolivia’s first Indigenous president Evo Morales, security forces have carried out at least two massacres of Indigenous people protesting the military coup."

* "Chile security forces' crackdown leaves toll of death and broken bodies:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/25/chile-protester-killed-mother-army-police-romario-veloz

* "AP Explains: Colombians join Latin America’s protests:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article237758714.html

* "‘Bloodbath’: Iraq Is Cracking Down on Protesters With Live Ammunition and Military-Grade Tear Gas Grenades:" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjag8/bloodbath-iraq-is-cracking-down-on-protesters-with-live-ammunition-and-military-grade-tear-gas-grenades

* "Lebanese protesters clash with supporters of Hezbollah, Amal in Beirut:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-protests/lebanese-protesters-clash-with-supporters-of-hezbollah-amal-in-beirut-idUSKBN1XZ013

* "Hong Kong university siege: staff say almost all protesters have gone:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/26/hong-kong-elections-carrie-lam-holds-firm-as-chinese-media-blames-external-forces

"Meanwhile, Chinese authorities and Hong Kong’s leader suggested on Tuesday they had little intention to compromise with the city’s protest movement, despite a landslide victory for pro-democracy campaigners in local elections that served as a proxy referendum on six months of unrest."

* "What the Trump administration is getting wrong about the protests in Iran:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/26/what-trump-administration-is-getting-wrong-about-protests-iran/

* "Trump boasts about economy with many sectors reportedly faltering:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-admin-gives-2-billion-in-aid-to-farmers-hurt-by-trade-war-74001477858

* "Trump ordered Defense secretary to allow Navy SEAL to keep his status:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/25/trump-navy-seal-gallagher-073582

* "Navy SEAL case closed as far as top U.S. general concerned:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-seals-milley-idUSKBN1XZ0ZZ

* "Fired Navy Secretary criticizes Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fired-navy-secretary-criticizes-trump-74074693929

* "White House review turns up emails showing extensive effort to justify Trump’s decision to block Ukraine military aid:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-review-turns-up-emails-showing-extensive-effort-to-justify-trumps-decision-to-block-ukraine-military-aid/2019/11/24/2121cf98-0d57-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html

* "White House helped arrange call between Giuliani and Pompeo after handover of Biden allegations:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/23/politics/giuliani-pompeo-phone-calls-state-department/

* "Russia expert blasts Ukraine election interference conspiracy:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/gop-repeats-russian-conspiracy-theories-at-impeachment-hearings-74004037635

* "Senate GOP wants to do what Ukraine didn't:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/senate-gop-wants-to-do-what-ukraine-didn-t-74074693701

* "Mueller investigation did not follow the money on Trump: book:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-investigation-did-not-follow-the-money-on-trump-book-74080837852

* "Manafort joining Trump campaign raised immediate suspicions: book:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manafort-joining-trump-campaign-raised-immediate-suspicions-book-74080837900

* "Investigators scrutinize Giuliani firm and donations to Trump super PAC as part of broad probe:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/investigators-scrutinize-giuliani-firm-and-donations-to-trump-super-pac-as-part-of-broad-probe/2019/11/25/1d86a814-0fb3-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html

* "Lev Parnas Handed Over Tapes of Trump and Giuliani to the House Intelligence Committee:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/lev-parnas-handed-over-tapes-of-trump-and-giuliani-to-the-house-intelligence-committee-917769/

* "Nunes denies allegation he met with top Ukrainian prosecutor about Bidens:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nunes-denies-allegation-he-met-with-top-ukrainian-prosecutor-about-bidens/2019/11/24/34644688-0edf-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html

* "Top Dem says ethics investigation into Devin Nunes likely:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/23/democrat-says-devin-nunes-investigation-likely-073109

* "Rep. Raskin: The offenses against America continue to multiply:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/nunes-reportedly-named-by-giuliani-associate-in-ukraine-scandal-74003013579

* "Don McGahn must testify about time as White House lawyer, judge rules:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/25/mueller-star-witness-must-testify-to-congress-judge-rules-073622

* "'Presidents are not kings': judge says Trump can't block subpoena:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-presidents-are-not-kings-judge-says-trump-can-t-block-subpoena-74080837821

* "U.S. Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Release Of Trump's Tax Records:" https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/782813946/u-s-supreme-court-temporarily-blocks-release-of-trumps-tax-records

* "National Enquirer company chief David Pecker talking with New York prosecutors:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/25/politics/national-enquirer-ami-david-pecker-prosecutors/index.html

* "Michael Bloomberg Brings Mixed LGBTQ Record to Presidential Run:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/11/11/michael-bloomberg-brings-mixed-lgbtq-record-presidential-run

* "Michael Bloomberg officially announces 2020 presidential campaign:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/michael-bloomberg-officially-announces-2020-presidential-campaign-73995333698

* "Elizabeth Warren's rise started by looking at the bottom:" https://apnews.com/8bbb0cbe763a407db4a9b5d563dc56ca

* "How bad ballot design can sway the result of an election:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/19/bad-ballot-design-2020-democracy-america

* TW: Pedophilia, Rape. "Rev transcribers hate the low pay, but the disturbing recordings are even worse:" https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20979249/rev-recordings-transcriptions-low-pay-complaints-freelance-transcribers

* "Cuomo Blasts Syracuse U Leadership After White-Supremacist Manifesto Allegedly AirDropped to Students:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/syracuse-university-christchurch-white-supremacist-manifesto-airdropped-to-students

* "LGBTQ Activist Jeudy Charlot Dead; Some Fear Foul Play:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2019/11/25/lgbtq-activist-jeudy-charlot-dead-some-fear-foul-play

* "LGBTQ People Protest Proposed Anti-Trans Law in India:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2019/11/24/lgbtq-people-protest-proposed-anti-trans-law-india

* "UK Conservative Party launch manifesto vowing to ‘get Brexit done’ but sidelines LGBT+ rights near entirely:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/24/uk-conservative-party-manifesto-boris-johnson-2019-general-election-lgbt-rights/

* "There are more men named David running in the general election than there were LGBT+ MPs in the last two parliaments combined:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/22/general-election-2019-names-david-lgbt-mps/

* "A comprehensive guide to what each party’s general election manifesto is promising queer voters:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/25/general-election-2019-lgbt-policies-comparison-manifestos-full-labour-conservative-brexit-lib-dem/

* "This is how Corbyn, Johnson and Swinson voted on major LGBT issues and legislation:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/25/jeremy-corbyn-boris-johnson-jo-swinson-lgbt-voting-record/

* "British police chief quits Twitter following ‘homophobic abuse’ over her spiky hairstyle:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/24/british-police-chief-twitter-homophobic-hairstyle-rachel-swann/

* "Anglican church elects gay, black, immigrant man in a same-sex marriage as bishop:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/25/anglican-church-deon-johnson-gay-black-immigrant-same-sex-marriage-bishop-missouri-michigan/

* "Indiana Is Trying to Make it Harder to Change Gender Markers on IDs:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/11/24/indiana-trying-make-it-harder-change-gender-markers-ids

* TW: Pedophila. "Republican candidate Roy Moore wants to return to a ‘moral time’ when it was illegal to be gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/26/republican-roy-moore-moral-time-illegal-gay/

* He’s claiming honoring our murdered dead for 3-5 minutes is the equivalent of us some how mass murdering Christians. Can they hear themselves when they talk? "Republican: 'Rainbow Jihad' Behind Trans Flag Display at Iowa Capitol:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/11/25/republican-rainbow-jihad-behind-trans-flag-display-iowa-capitol

* You can't catch it that way. Fucksake!!! "28 Percent of HIV-Negative Millennials Avoid Hugging People With HIV:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2019/11/25/28-percent-hiv-negative-millennials-avoid-hugging-people-hiv

* "Revolutions of 1848: Crash Course European History #26:"

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* "As Australia bush fires rage, country offers lessons for the wildfire-prone western U.S.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/11/23/australia-bush-fires-rage-country-offers-lessons-wildfire-prone-us/

* "Several Years In, Is Vision Zero Actually Working?:" https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/11/vision-zero-data-traffic-deaths-pedestrians-cyclist-safety/601831/

* "Trump Reverses Course On Vaping Ban:"

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* "Mayor Pete Leads In Iowa But Lacks Significant African American Support:"

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* "Stephen Colbert Treks To Remote Parts Of New Zealand To Test His Mettle As The Newest Zealander:"

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* "Trump Peddles Threadbare Conspiracy Theories In Rambling Call To "Fox & Friends":"

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* It has been rather more excitement than we wanted here at the cat Asylum. I am still recovering from the illness, and while much improved, need a lot of extra sleep and lying still generally. So i did a bunch of that over the weekend, which is why I wasn't avaiable for MUSH and chat and the like. The resting up wold have been fine, except the internet when out at 1AM Monday early morning. You know, right when i was ready to reboot and post evening links.

It was out in our area until 6AMish. Helpful! I did a little housework, took a bath and tried to sleep. Ha! Lots of disruption. From being ill, from going to bed when I wasn't really tired, etc.. When Squirrel got home from work it woke me and it took three hours or so to get back to sleep. Fun! And then there was the phone and outside noises, and... I had theoretically ten hours to sleep in. I don't think I managed five.

Tavy emphatically did not want me leaving the house and kept climbing back on the second I stopped moving which made first meds and dressing complicated. I am of course in extra pain, and bits of me are not working particularly well.

I spent 20 minutes waiting for parking at forage, and no one on their whole block pulled out in that time. I was starting with almost no leg, so walking a few extra blocks wasn't an option. Five minutes to close and still no one even getting ready to leave, so I left, having wasted the gas and having entirely failed to get food. We are running low on things like bread and milk and fresh veg because I've been too ill to go mostly and am barely managing one a week. Did I even make it thee last week at all? I can't remember.

It was early for the dentist so I did the library run and turned in some bureaucracy I owe. I hen checked in at the dentist and read until it was my time. A half hour early is better than late, and also less gas.

I'm not phobic. I'm super relaxed about dentistry. I literally meditate and occasionally nap while my teeth are being worked on.

When I tell you this was a bad one? I am not fucking around. ( horrifying Dental Adventure under the cut: )

I was about ten minutes later than I hoped getting back, but with the vagaries of the bus system they hadn't been waiting long. I'd had the forethought to warn of the dentist and that i might be late if they were behind. I made tea and we hng all the solstice stuff. They will send pics, but not tonight.

Once I got home from dropping them off I took one of my stronger meds so I could eat. I have no expectation of getting through Monday's news, seeing as I haven't started prepping even as I wrote this and it's quarter to one. I'll post yesterday's links and see how far I can get before I crash.

The cats have had too much disruption and are all three in cling mode, poor buttons.

Update: I actually caught up on the Monday essentials.

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

* "Sunday Sweets: 10 Cakes With Curtain Calls :" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2019/11/24/sunday-sweets-10-cakes-with-curtain-calls

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

* A small, cheap thing to help climate change if you have little money to spare: https://onetreeplanted.org/products/amazon-rainforest-peru

* How to donate to Rainbow Road: https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate

* Here are a bunch of state level links to help people in immigrant detention: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/186058182962/woundability-this-4th-of-july-celebrate-the

* Angry about the concentration camps on our Southern Border? Here is a list of useful things you can do: https://medium.com/@togetherandfree/feel-helpless-amidst-the-horrific-immigration-news-youre-not-how-you-can-make-difference-today-108dc42de88e

* "More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html

Here is a massive list of things you can do to help refugees inside and outside of the Camps: https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/185783586806/so-youve-probably-seen-the-post-going-around

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/

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

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

Or possibly this: https://www.chewy.com/instinct-by-natures-variety-limited/dp/44654

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html

* At least forty are dead in what is believed to be a natural gas explosion in Prague. The are still digging survivors from the ruins, so no firm figures are available.

* As of this evening 380 were confirmed dead in the Bangladesh factory collapse. Many are still missing and presumed dead at this point. Eight people have been arrested. Protests and mourning continue.

* Meanwhile, no one has been arrested in the explosion in West, despite the owners being every bit as culpable and the loss of life being so much larger than the Boston Bombing. There are no protests, no demands for arrests, and no calls for properly funding regulators so they can do frequent inspections and giving agencies means to enforce the regulations when violations are found.

* A round up of current Homo Floresiensis Theories: http://www.livescience.com/29100-homo-floresiensis-hobbit-facts.html

* Interesting DNA study of neolithic migrations from Africa and the Middle east into Europe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22252099

* They are searching for evidence of an earthquake in hopes of finding the reason for the Mycenaean collapse. Usually the debate is whether it was invasion or slave revolt that caused the collapse. I'm of the opinion it was likely both. There is evidence of invasion in the North, but not in the south where massive slave revolt is more plausible. It wouldn't surprise me if one triggered the other though there is no way to tell which came first with current evidence. (Ie: A massive slave revolt could make the cities look attractive to invaders, but also an invasion would be a good time for slaves to revolt.) Earthquake has been a less popular theory because the fault lines don't correlate well with the Mycenaean cities that collapsed. I do think looking for evidence is a very good idea, whether or not they find any. (I'm not convinced finding evidence invalidates the idea that invasion and/or slave revolt happened also. Again, any event causing significant disruption could tempt people to invade or revolt.) http://www.livescience.com/28969-earthquake-ended-mycenaean-culture.html

* "Four-thousand year old gold-adorned skeleton found near Windsor:" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fourthousand-year-old-goldadorned-skeleton-found-near-windsor-8581819.html

* "66 Ancient Skeletons Found in Indonesian Cave:" http://www.livescience.com/28910-art-skeletons-indonesia-cave.html

* Iron Age find with game pieces: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130422100959.htm

* "Bride prices existed in ancient era:" http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bride-prices-existed-in-ancient-era.aspx?pageID=238&nid=45547&NewsCatID=375

* The Diet of ordinary Romans: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/dinner-at-the-pompeii-takeaway-the-empires-feasting-was-legendary-but-what-did-ordinary-romans-eat-8588878.html

* "Millennia-old burial chamber found in Oman:" http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/oman/millennia-old-burial-chamber-found-in-oman-1.1175535

* "7 more skeletons found near Old Town knight grave:" http://www.scotsman.com/news/7-more-skeletons-found-near-old-town-knight-grave-1-2908534

* In Arizona, they are pushing a bill to allow employers to fire women for using birth control. After all, whether or not a woman is sexually active is the employer's business, right?

* One of the tactics the bosses used to prevent Unionization in the early days was racial/ethnic division. They would hire scabs of a different racial/ethnic group during strikes and pay folks to yell about how those dirty *Insert racial/ethnic slur here* took our jobs! As long as a Union stayed whites only, or no Irish/Italian/whatever, there would always be angry folks they could use to break strikes. They'd finance/buy ads etc. to encourage racist diatribes. The more hatred, the better for those in power and the weaker the Unions. I wonder how much of this sort of thinking is behind the whipping up of racial hatred here in the twenty first century. Scream about how Mexico is invading us at a time when there is zero net immigration from Mexico. Use anti-black code words like Rick Santorum or out right claim African Americans have no work ethic like Newt Gingrich. Circulate racist cartoons or "jokes" and AstroTurf anti-Obama rallies where you know the most ignorant element will show up with racist signs. At the same time outlaw Unions, disenfranchise millions of poor white and POC voters, outlaw protests (Georgia), do everything possible to make it so ordinary people can't combine and stand up for their rights. Let's hope folks are brighter this time and see through all this deliberately divisive stuff. Let's hope this time the average person will be sensible enough to act in zir best interest instead of getting distracted by racial/ethnic scapegoating. I'm not sanguine, but I'd love to be surprised.

* Debunking "Climategate:" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46754847

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* I was going to give you a beautiful CNN clip featuring female legislators fight back against the Republican anti-woman agenda, but CNN sucks as far as posting clips I'd actually like to link up in a timely fashion or at all. *Sigh*

* The Army has pulled advertising from the Limbaugh show.

* It always alarms be when the Daily Show breaks a story I don't see anyone else much covering. If you missed the 3/15 thing on us yanking UNESCO funding, I encourage you to check out the John Oliver segments.

* So there's another round of Wallis Simpson nostalgia going around in the culture, which always makes me queasy. I get it. A King abdicated for love of her. It sounds really romantic, until you remember the King in question was pro-NAZI in the 1930's. People were literally being herded into death camps and he was using what power and influence that was left to the English crown to push the British Government to support Hitler. I don't think being literally pro-NAZI is even vaguely romantic. Sorry, I just don't. Imagine what it would have been like to have a Hitler partisan on the throne while Germany marched across Europe, giving pro-NAZI speeches and stirring people up to vote for Mosely and his ilk. Eeeeeew! I'm glad he abdicated and went into exile; I'm just sorry he didn't take the Union of British fascists with him. (Or was it British Union of fascists? The name changed at some point). This is not Godwin's Law: These are actual fascists, actually pro-Hitler, actual pro-genocide people. So pardon me if I'm not jumping on the Wallis Simpson nostalgia train. I suppose she is a heroine, in that she got that disgusting pig Edward VIII off the throne, but the idea of him as a romantic lead makes me queasy, and I don't want to picture what she did to make that happen. Also, she herself was pro-NAZI and had lots of NAZI friends. Eeeeew! No thanks. I'm sitting out this wave of romanticization of two people who approved of atrocities.

* I am still trying to decide if tomorrow should be a rest day or a get stuff done day.

* It turns out I'm still not okay with 9/11 themed fiction. Sorry, David Leviathan.

* Rm recently said, "Kurt actively both aligns himself with a community and an identity and is also very interested in being what is, in Lima, OH, at least, something that seems like a species of one. " That's always how I felt growing up in Pennsylvania; I called myself "an alien anthropologist." In a lot of ways I am still a species of one and always have been.

Seriously, there's a reason I'm finding rm's writing on Glee more interesting than the show itself and this is exhibit A.

* O.o: http://instagr.am/p/HzDbMYkiRx/

* They are drafting veterinarians to help care for the wounded in Homs, using aspirin as anesthesia for surgery, and trying to smuggle the wounded across the border in Lebanon, where thee government is not currently targeting doctors so there is still medial care available. Imagine just how bad things have to be for Lebanon to look like a step up. No word on what's going to happen with Turkey trying to organize help. No word at all of planned humanitarian aid.

* rm posted a wonderful list of crisis resources here: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/18063505346/please-please-what-do-i-do-in-light-of-this-i-dont

* I am randomly craving pastilles, but they no longer sell them down at the greek place. :( I'm also craving russian caravan since my supply ran out and I've had to fall back on substandard Lapsong Souchong. Why is it hard to find a good blend of that?

* I'm at the stage where I keep playing with my hair because the texture is so strange to me. I've been with short haired men over the years, but as I've always liked longer hair on men, whether the classic afro, the white version, or long straight or wavy locks, and I never got used to the feel of short hair on other people's heads, if that makes sense. I actually remember making out with my first short haired man during my first fall as St. John's and feeling daring and wicked as I rubbed it. Short hair felt weird and forbidden. It still does, even on my own head. Brain wiring is a peculiar thing sometimes.

* I actually did make it most of the way through the BPAL. (Four things left to test). It helped that most of the imps were already in my catalog and something like half the bottles as well.

* I have three things I can theoretically do tomorrow night, so I may not be around. I expect to be low on sleep tomorrow anyway. Just a heads up, that if it's important, PM.

* I'm actually of the opinion that she was innocent: http://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/valentines-meat-juice/

Her husband was an arsenic addict, and his family went to lengths to get the poor battered woman convicted on extremely circumstantial evidence. (There wasn't arsenic in the bottle and the roll of meat juice was never proved.) It is likely that he actually died of arsenic withdraw. Arsenic builds up in the system and withdraw releases all the effects of the arsenic the addict has taken in small doses over time at once. Without modern medical testing that can distinguish a large dose taken at once from small amounts taken over time, study stomache and digestive tract contents, etc. it's hard to distinguish. (There was a similar Victorian case in the U.S. involving an army veteran where the wife got off because she ate the donuts in front of witnesses, so they could see they weren't poison. In that case, she was likely guilty of deliberately depriving him of arsenic to kill him. It's impossible to prove at this late date). Anyway, in the English case, she had a lot of supporters as it was a very messed up investigation and trial, and she was eventually released, though her life was pretty much ruined. It's impossible to prove at this late date, though to the best investigations of the case moderns can bring to it, it looks more like arsenic withdraw than murder. Also, given the severe physical and emotional abuse she was subjected to, I would be hard put to blame her if she'd murdered them all, frankly. Anyway, it's fun to speculate.

* I think I just watched Bill Maher and Craig Ferguson demonstrate why talk show host shouldn't interview each other without a predetermined topic of mutual interest and practice at interviewing other talk show hosts. That was terrible.

* Rachel Maddow on the republican big government intrusion agenda in Virginia: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46474634

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