gwydion | Entries tagged with intersectionality

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "History Summarized: The Splendor of Kyiv:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Much Later, Elizabeth: Something is coming between us!

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Supporters of Niger's coup march, waving Russian flags and denouncing France:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190969703/supporters-of-nigers-coup-march-waving-russian-flags-and-denouncing-france

* "West African leaders meet over Niger coup, junta warns against intervention:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/west-african-leaders-meet-over-niger-coup-junta-warns-against-intervention-2023-07-30/

* "As regional bloc threatens intervention in Niger, neighboring juntas vow mutual defense:" https://apnews.com/article/niger-coup-west-africa-use-of-force-mali-burkina-faso-0b951ec77a89033c84e6f0972cc21b5f

* "Tens of Thousands of Israelis Protest Netanyahu Government's Judicial Overhaul:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-29/ty-article/tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-protest-netanyahu-governments-judicial-overhaul/00000189-a306-d00f-a7db-b39f9dbf0000

* "Masked, Unidentifiable Cops Beat Israeli Civilians With Impunity – How Long Can It Go On?:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-30/ty-article-magazine/.premium/masked-unidentifiable-cops-beat-israeli-civilians-with-impunity-how-long-can-it-go-on/00000189-a835-d00f-a7db-b9bfb10c0000

* "Spain election repeat more likely after expat vote count:" https://www.politico.eu/article/election-repeat-spain-likely-expat-vote-tie-parliament/

* "Parish council denies homophobia after rejecting seats for two people with LGBTQ+ links:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/parish-council-denies-homophobia-after-rejecting-seats-for-two-people-with-lgbtq-links/

* "New Barbie-themed anti-Tory ads spotted in London: ‘This Barbie is gagging to deport your grandma’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/barbie-tory-mps-liz-truss-jacob-rees-mogg-kemi-badenoch-suella-braverman/

* "Saudi football ‘sportswashing’ and using multi-million-pound deals to distract from human rights issues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/saudi-arabia-lgbtq-jordan-henderson-allyship/

* "Let's talk about Putin, Russia, and Africa....:"

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* "How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride:" https://www.salon.com/2023/07/29/how-russian-colonialism-took-the-western-anti-imperialist-left-for-a-ride/

* "Judge dismisses Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ lawsuit against CNN:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/29/judge-dismisses-trump-defamation-lawsuit-00108871

* "Georgia judge skewers Trump’s bid to derail potential charges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/31/georgia-judge-trump-charges-fulton-county-00108968

* "Georgia Prosecutor to Give Donald Trump the Label He’s Deserved for Years: Racketeer:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174504/georgia-prosecutor-preps-devastating-racketeering-indictment-trump

* "Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election and block transfer of power:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc

* "Rep. Zoe Lofgren of January 6 Committee on Donald Trump’s Indictment:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-indictment-zoe-lofgren

* "Maddow: History's judgment looms as citizen Trump faces accountability:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-history-s-judgment-looms-as-citizen-trump-faces-accountability-189771333594

* "Ex-NYPD Boss Handing Over Trump Records to Jack Smith:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-nypd-boss-bernie-kerik-handing-over-trump-records-to-jack-smith?ref=home

* "'They knew to count on violence': Trump indictment shows willingness to seize power by force:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-they-knew-to-count-on-violence-trump-indictment-shows-willingness-to-seize-power-by-force-189773893815

* "'Have your ducks in a row': What to know about the judge in the Trump 2020 case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-have-your-ducks-in-a-row-what-to-know-about-the-judge-in-the-trump-2020-case-189777477796

* This is the last week ones, but I couldn't remember if I posted them here. "Trump charged with new crimes in classified documents case :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/feds-add-new-charges-against-trump-in-classified-documents-case-00108667

* "Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows joked about Trump’s election claims:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/22/mark-meadows-georgia-election-results-2020-fraud-claims/

* "We are in an 'era of global boiling' as nearly half of all Americans are under heat advisories:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/we-are-in-an-era-of-global-boiling-as-nearly-half-of-all-americans-are-under-heat-advisories-189546053685

* "Empty Office Buildings Are Being Turned Into Vertical Farms:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/empty-office-buildings-are-being-turned-into-vertical-farms-180982502/

* "Why pedestrian deaths in the US are at a 40-year high :" https://www.vox.com/23784549/pedestrian-deaths-traffic-safety-fatalities-governors-association

* "The ‘Darting Children’ That Helped Japan Win Its War on Traffic Accidents:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tobita-kun-japanese-road-safety-signs

* "Self-healing metal? It's not just the stuff of science fiction:" https://www.reuters.com/science/self-healing-metal-its-not-just-stuff-science-fiction-2023-07-19/

* "Elon Musk took

x Twitter handle from its original owner without asking:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/elon-musk-twitter-x-username-gene-x-hwang/

* "Rare ‘Trojan’ world may share the same orbit as another planet :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/world/exoplanet-trojan-sibling-pds-70-scn/index.html

* "‘Zombifying’ worms are evolutionary oddballs, missing genes all other animals have :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/world/horsehair-worms-parasites-missing-genes-scn/index.html

* "An extraordinary fossil captures the struggle for existence during the Mesozoic:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37545-8

* "Kitchen shrine serpents and more fascinating new Pompeii discoveries:" https://news.yahoo.com/kitchen-shrine-serpents-other-fascinating-234506478.html

* "How Homophobia Impacted the NYPD's Search for a Serial Killer:" https://www.advocate.com/television/last-call-serial-killer-gay

* "Gay Serial Killer Suspect's Estate Turns Up Two More DNA Samples:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/herbert-baumeister-new-dna-victims

* "Jonathan D. Lewis, Gay Activist Against Prop. 8 and DADT, Dead at 64:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/activist-jonathan-lewis-obituary

* "Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman Actor, Dies at 70 After Private Bout of Cancer :" https://variety.com/2023/film/news/paul-reubens-dead-pee-wee-herman-1235683504/

* "Pee-wee Herman Actor Paul Reubens Dead at 70:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/paul-reubens-pee-wee-herman

* "Meet a new generation of Black American ‘cowboys’:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/for-freedoms-american-history-black-equestrians

* "When is Dinner, By State:" https://flowingdata.com/2023/07/25/when-is-dinner-by-state/

* "True Facts: Elephants:"

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* It was a little cooler Sunday, so we went to the Waterfall park instead to wade and have a picnic, and then came back for proper dinner and cake for Nearby Millennial's birthday. I was really fun watching goth Millennial messing about in the water and Newest Millennial continuing to fall in love with the PNW, much as I did when I first came west.

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

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

* Contains Dracula Spoilers to the end of the book. "Four Times Jack Fakes a Death Certificate and One Time he Doesn't :" https://www.tumblr.com/animate-mush/724191083716820992/four-times-jack-fakes-a-death-certificate-and-one?source=share

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* "Niger coup widely condemned, countries urge return to order:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/niger-president-says-democracy-will-be-saved-following-coup-2023-07-27/

* "Can Israel's Supreme Court Disqualify the First Law of Netanyahu's Judicial Coup?:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-24/ty-article/.premium/can-the-high-court-block-the-new-law-that-limits-its-actions-against-israeli-government/00000189-88a1-d5eb-abcb-f9e725150000

* "Netanyahu Government's Vindictive Anti-democratic Campaign Becomes Law:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2023-07-24/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-governments-vindictive-anti-democratic-campaign-becomes-law/00000189-8821-d964-a789-9a2500390000

* "Protests rock Israel as it passes curbs on some Supreme Court powers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-discharged-hospital-reuters-witness-says-2023-07-24/

* "‘Blood Everywhere’: As Israel’s Protests Ramp Up, the Police Crack Down:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-20/ty-article-magazine/.premium/blood-everywhere-as-israels-protests-ramp-up-the-police-crack-down/00000189-6eb8-d7ac-ab8b-ffbaa0c20000

* "Huge Protest March Reaches Jerusalem After 5-Day Trek From Tel Aviv:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/world/middleeast/jerusalem-protest-march-israel.html

* "Spanish election's nail-biting finish makes hung parliament likely:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-heads-close-run-polls-marked-by-spectre-far-right-2023-07-23/

* "Government urged not to house LGBTQ+ refugees on ‘barbaric’ migrant barge:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/bibby-stockholm-lgbtq-migrants/

* "British Prime Minister Sunak narrowly avoids wipeout in local polls:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pm-sunaks-conservatives-win-boris-johnsons-former-parliamentary-seat-2023-07-21/

* "Susan Hall: Tory London mayor candidate is ‘hard-right’ Trump fan who wants trans women out of sports:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/20/susan-hall-tory-london-mayor-candidate-trump-gender-critical/

* "What the UK’s incoming flexible working laws mean for you:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/what-the-uks-incoming-flexible-working-laws-mean-for-you/

* "Russia attacks Danube grain export route vital for Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-attack-odesa-destroys-grains-depot-injures-four-ukraine-military-2023-07-24/

* "Sea drones and the counteroffensive in Crimea:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/CRIMEA/gdvzwrmrlpw/

* CW: Sexual Abuse "Trump loses bid for new trial in E. Jean Carroll case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/19/trump-loses-bid-new-trial-carroll-00107025

* "Timeline: Manhattan DA's Stormy Daniels hush money case against Donald Trump:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-manhattan-district-attorney-case-donald-trump/story?id=98389444

* "Rep. Schiff on Trump's Potential Third Indictment:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/psaki-to-gop-candidates-defending-trump-what-is-your-endgame-189186629934

* "Trump grand jury hears testimony from aide who was with him on Jan. 6:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-grand-jury-hear-testimony-aide-was-jan-6-rcna94998

* "Let's talk about Trump's legal team being surprised....:"

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* "Trump court schedule puts rule of law on the ballot; Alabama GOP already rejecting courts:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-court-schedule-puts-rule-of-law-on-the-ballot-alabama-gop-already-rejecting-courts-189196869576

* "Feds sought surveillance video from State Farm Arena in Trump probe:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/exclusive-feds-sought-surveillance-video-from-state-farm-arena/TWLKTY4KGFB25DUPSPZXUEDFL4/

* "Trump Tried to Delete Mar-a-Lago Security Footage to Thwart Investigators:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-carlos-de-oliveira-mar-a-lago-classified-docs-1234796376/

* "Why Jack Smith waited until now to charge Trump for secret Iran document flaunted on tape:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/why-jack-smith-waited-until-now-to-charge-trump-for-secret-iran-document-flaunted-on-tape-189453893613

* "Prosecutors looking at meeting at which Trump expressed confidence in voting security:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/prosecutors-looking-at-meeting-at-which-trump-expressed-confidence-in-voting-security-189277765722

* "I served on the Jan. 6 committee. Jack Smith is vindicating our work.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-indictment-looming-jan-6-committee-zoe-lofgren-rcna96471

* "Six months. 28 mass killings in the US. That’s the worst yet, and all but one case involved guns:" https://apnews.com/article/mass-killings-record-gun-violence-0174103c37756fe4d247fd15cd3bc009

* "Derailing the defund: How SPD manipulated the media narrative around the 2020 protests:" https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2023/07/19/derailing-defund-how-spd-manipulated-media-narrative-around-2020-protests

* "Seattle police kept mock tombstone for Black man, Trump flag in break room, video shows:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattle-police-kept-mock-tombstone-for-black-man-trump-flag-in-break-room-video-shows/

* "Video Confirms that Officer Was Going 74 MPH, Did Not Have Siren Running When He Struck Pedestrian:" https://publicola.com/2023/07/20/video-confirms-that-officer-was-going-74-mph-was-not-running-siren-when-he-killed-pedestrian/

* "New Police Body Cam Data Exposes the True Scale of NYPD Violence Against Protesters:" https://www.wired.com/story/nypd-george-floyd-nyc-protester-settlement/

* "New York to pay $13 million to protesters arrested during George Floyd protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-pay-13-million-protesters-arrested-during-george-floyd-protests-2023-07-20/

* "A Trooper Issued More than 1,000 Fake Tickets. Connecticut Police Won’t Say Whether He Still Has a Job.:" https://archive.ph/jTv5E#selection-1661.0-1675.272

"A single state trooper logged 1,350 fraudulent traffic tickets into a Connecticut database meant to detect racial profiling. The finding is key to a damning new audit of the Connecticut State Police, which reveals pervasive trooper malfeasance, including at least 26,000 false tickets logged over seven years, that masked racial bias in the force’s policing. Now, the CSP refuses to discuss the audit — or even reveal if the most-prolific ticket faker still has a badge."

* "Why Do White Supremacist Groups Often Include Latinos? :" https://advocatechannel.com/white-supremacist-groups-latinos

* Don't forget to vote in school board elections, because they will remember. "Chaos at the School Board:" https://www.propublica.org/series/chaos-at-the-school-board

* "Florida Board of Education OK's Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies, Sanitized View of Slavery:" https://www.advocate.com/education/florida-schools-anti-lgbtq

"Among the new standards OK’d for teaching about slavery and racism is one that requires “instruction for middle school students to include ‘how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,’” CNN reports. The NAACP issued a press release calling this “a sanitized and dishonest telling of the history of slavery in America.”

A policy on racially motivated massacres, which occurred in Florida towns and elsewhere in the 20th century, mandates inclusion of “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans,” even though most of the violence was committed by whites against Blacks."

* "Florida tries to defend its revisionist history on slavery:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/21/2182564/-Florida-tries-to-defend-its-revisionist-history-on-slavery

* "Infamous right-wing online group's programming approved for Florida students:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/right-wing-online-group-s-programming-approved-for-florida-students-189279813581

* "Maxwell Frost rips new Florida curriculum as bid to ‘erase Black history’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maxwell-frost-rips-new-florida-curriculum-as-bid-to-erase-black-history-189270597974

* "School district approves materials mentioning Harvey Milk after governor threatens $1.5 million fine:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/22/california-school-district-materials-harvey-milk-approve-fine/

* "VA: Youngkin’s Anti-Trans School Rules Prohibit Uncommon Nicknames:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/va-youngkins-anti-trans-school-rules-prohibit-uncommon-nicknames

* "They Checked Out Pride Books in Protest. It Backfired.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/pride-books-library-protest.html

* CW: Child Sexual Abuse. "Why Do Neo-Nazis Keep Getting Arrested For Child Sexual Abuse Material?:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akvbw/why-do-neo-nazis-keep-getting-arrested-for-child-porn

* "Infant deaths surge in Texas after abortion ban:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/07/infant-deaths-surge-in-texas-after-abortion-ban/

"The new grim statistics are only expected to worsen. Abortion bans and restrictions are known to increase infant deaths, maternal deaths, and maternal suffering. And the US already has the worst maternal and infant mortality rates of any other high-income country in the world."

* "Climate Disasters Daily? Welcome to the ‘New Normal.’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/climate/climate-change-extreme-weather.html

* "Climate change role in July heatwaves 'overwhelming', scientists say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/climate-change-role-july-heatwaves-overwhelming-scientists-say-2023-07-25/

* "Gulf Stream shutoff could happen this century, scientists warn:" https://www.politico.eu/article/climate-change-gulf-stream-atlantic-ocean-global-warming-nature-ditlevsen-copenhagen/

* "What People With Disabilities Know About Surviving Climate Disasters:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-06-22/in-climate-disasters-people-with-disabilities-are-getting-left-behind

* "Let's talk about 80 million at 105 degrees....:"

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* "Maricopa County Medical Examiner at 106% capacity, bringing in coolers:" https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/maricopa-county-medical-examiner-at-106-capacity-bringing-in-coolers

* I mildly burned my feet on black top Tuesday a week ago in about a minute, and it's not nearly that hot here.

Be careful folks, and keep children and animals off pavement."Toddler receives second-degree burns to feet from hot playground in Castle Rock: "It's dangerous":" https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/toddler-receives-second-degree-burns-feet-hot-playground-castle-rock-dangerous/

* "Monsoon floods threaten India's Taj Mahal, but officials say the iconic building will be safe:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monsoon-floods-threaten-indias-taj-mahal-but-officials-say-the-iconic-building-will-be-safe/

* "Nova Scotia floods cause 'unimaginable' damage; four people missing:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/atlantic-canada-province-says-dam-could-breach-tell-residents-get-out-2023-07-22/

* "‘Concrete Coffins’: Surviving Extreme Heat Behind Bars:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/07/22/texas-heat-prison-louisiana

* "Texas charges prisoners 50% more for water as heat wave continues:" https://www.kut.org/health/2023-07-20/texas-charges-prisoners-50-more-for-water-for-as-heat-wave-continues

* "Tornado damage to Pfizer plant will probably create long-term shortages of some drugs hospitals need:" https://apnews.com/article/pfizer-factory-tornado-drugs-north-carolina-3ce4b4ee0be984f751e0173091a3cdd7

* "How Bricks Made From Invasive Seaweed Clean Mexico's Beaches:"

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* "Elon Sues The Lawyers That Forced Him to Buy Twitter:"

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* "X Isn’t a Super App. It’s Just Twitter:" https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-x-rebrand-elon-musk/

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter rebrand to ‘X’ is a total disaster. Here’s what’s happened so far:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/26/elon-musks-twitter-x-rebrand-disaster/

* "‘Mom, these bad men have me’: She believes scammers cloned her daughter’s voice in a fake kidnapping :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/ai-scam-calls-kidnapping-cec/index.html

* "Legends Summarized: The Epic of Gilgamesh:"

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* "Eating The Heart Of A King:"

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* CW: Child Abuse "The Dark Secrets Buried at Red Cloud Boarding School:" https://www.wired.com/story/marsha-small-red-cloud-boarding-school/

* "Clinging to the Enigma of Rock Hudson:" https://www.advocate.com/television/rock-hudson-documentary

* "Susan Love, Outspoken Lesbian Doctor and Breast Cancer Expert, Dies at 75:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/susan-love-dead-breast-cancer

* "Steven Pieters, Longtime HIV Activist Interviewed by Tammy Faye Bakker, Dies at 71:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/steven-pieters-obituary

* "Sue Johanson, Who Gave Witty Sex Advice, Dead at 92:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/sex-adviser-sue-johanson-dies

* "Cheri Pies, pioneering author of lesbian parent handbook, dies of cancer, aged 73:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/25/cheri-pies-lesbian-parent-handbook-dies-cancer/

* "Appreciation: Sinéad O’Connor was right all along:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-07-27/sinead-oconnor-dies-snl-catholic-church-protest

* "All the ways queer icon Sinéad O’Connor proved she was a fearless LGBTQ+ ally:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/sinead-oconnor-lgbtq-ally-irish-singer-dead/

* "Sinéad O’Connor risked it all to give voice to the powerless and call out the Catholic Church:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/sinead-o-connor-death-catholic-church-snl/

* Our movement must be intersectional. We must all have each other's backs. Leave no one's rights behind. "50+ Years Since Stonewall, 20 Years After Lawrence, We Still Fight Criminalization:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-criminal-justice-system

* "I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!):" https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

* Why people didn't come out in High School (Hate Speech, Bullying, Hate Crime, Child Abuse): https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/723812206710489088/i-figured-out-who-i-was-over-the-course-of-the?source=share

* "The Outsiders | Toxic Masculinity vs. Vulnerability:"

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* "The History of Gay Hollywood:"

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* "The Black Reclamation of the Body Snatchers:"

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* "RENT and the Mainstreaming of Queer Suffering:"

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* "Chuck Tingle Goes Mainstream...ish:" https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/92146-chuck-tingle-goes-mainstream-ish.html

* "“Horror Is Not a Celebration of Death, It Is a Celebration of Life”: Chuck Tingle Talks Camp Damascus:" https://www.tor.com/2023/07/11/horror-is-not-a-celebration-of-death-it-is-a-celebration-of-life-chuck-tingle-talks-camp-damascus/

* "Camp Damascus is a Hopeful Story of Queer Struggle and Survival:" https://gizmodo.com/camp-damascus-chuck-tingle-review-book-horror-queer-1850668427

* "The Foggy Dew - Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains, 1995:"

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* "Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U:"

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* "Sinéad O'Connor - I Am Stretched on Your Grave:"

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* Sunday was a trip to the Lake with Millennials. No rich children stole my crutch this time. We had a really good swim, but the current was above average strong and at some point I was like, "Oh shit! There's the swim boouy! We are in the middle of the boat lanes. We swam back. It was fine. They put in an outdoor shower this year, which is a huge help. After we showered we ate finger foods and chatted.

I stopped by the bathrooms on the way to my car and OMG! It was one of those things where there was a perfectly logical explanation from the perspective of the three of us already in the bathroom, but like opening a door into chaos for the other two people involved.

This bathroom is tiny. Three stalls on your left. Across from that a big metal communal urinal. The sink and mirror give an excellent view of the door and also a small bench they jammed in against the door wall. It's almost 6:30PM on a crowded hot weekend. it's a couple hours before sunset, so the park is less crowded than when we arrived 4ish, but people are still arriving and the bathroom is Trashed. The little beach strip is more mud then sand and people have been tracking water and black mud/sand in there for about ten hours and there is tp paper mache all over the ground and the toilets desperately need cleaning.

So I step out of the stall, just as a person is heading to the nasty ass urinal trench thing. Another guy is climbing up on the bench to change, because he understandably doesn't want to be barefoot on that floor and then put on shoes to drive home. Bench guy is soon full on pooh bear over my right shoulder as i wash my hands, which takes a while because the water keeps auto shutting off, so I have to stop and restart every few seconds. Perfectly framed over my left shoulder is the door, which swings open.

It's two gentlemen, one of whom beelines for the urinal. The other freezes in horror and starts yelling, "Wrong bathroom! Wrong bathroom!" I have very long hair. I am wearing a mask because I'm in a small, poorly ventilated place. I have on a black tee and my trunks look like goth shorts. My sandals are of an ubiquitous style worn my any gender in my region in good weather. I'm very androgynous. I think it was my hair causing the initial panic, but his head turned to follow his friend's trajectory to the 2-3 person piss trench and he saw bench guy crouched pantsless behind me like a downhill skier doing the streak, as if he was possibly about to pounce on my back, and his cries of wrong bathroom got a lot more shrill. In my head I'm picturing the Guy in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas who walks in on hippies liking a guy's jacket. His oblivious friend is doing his business, the other guy is about to leave. I turn and head towards the poor panicky guy and am like: It's the right bathroom. I have long hair.

We have accidentally traumatized a guy who was clearly not ready for the PNW weird.

A couple millennials came back for dinner. Once we arrived, I realized just how fucked I was. I'd swum too long and my arms were DONE. Luckily, I'd dropped off New Millennial to get their car and a take 'n bake, so I could just lung and rest up. They ended up staying very late talking. I closed down the apartment for the night and went to bed.

I could have gotten up nineish, but I decided to read Camp Damascus in between pettins and supplemental sleep all day, which turned out to be a good call. I have this thing where I promise the Millennials that if they are ever stranded at one of the further bits of town they can call me and if I physically can, I will come get them. Bus service is even shittier out there and there's a severe lack of shelters to wait in. It was pouring down at a rate that was threatening to flood low lying areas. A Millennial was trapped at the back of beyond with a long drenching slog to the bus. Of course I went, but it turned into a a much longer trip than intended for reasons that were no one's fault. I got them home and reasonably dry though, and I'm not sorry.

It did eat and extra chunk of evening though, and I'm really chewed up from swimming. I am very glad I got the aggregate out Friday, because I'm not up to much posting this evening.

We plan to do lake swimming on Sundays all August, which will effect posting schedule.

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* Secrecy in Dracula: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/724040479037161472/your-meta-made-me-think-that-secrecy-sealing?source=share

* "A princess died in the Snow:" https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/723388026724745216?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Little Longfellow War:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/723927370035265536/midnight-pals-little-longfellow-war?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Long Longfellow War:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/724022759803535360/midnight-pals-long-longfellow-war?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Escape Antics:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/724113850793869312/midnight-pals-escape-antics?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
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* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

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

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

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

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

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

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* "Russian mercenaries exploit a war-torn African nation as they lead Putin’s fight in Ukraine:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/africa/wagner-ukraine-russia-central-african-republic-gold-mine-putin-rcna86392

* "500 days of the Ukraine war – and scapegoating:" https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-500-days-of-the-ukraine-war-and-scapegoating/

* "What a Former Republican Calls “The Conspiracy to End America”:" https://terikanefield.com/what-a-former-republican-calls-the-conspiracy-to-end-america/

* "More Mar-a-Lago search warrant information released in Trump classified docs case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-orders-release-mar-lago-search-warrant-information-trump-classif-rcna92676

* "Justice Department had video of boxes being moved at Mar-a-Lago before FBI search, unredacted document shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/politics/mar-a-lago-unredacted-search-warrant-affidavit/

* "How Long Will Trump Go To Jail?:"

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* "Walt Nauta, Trump aide indicted in classified documents case, pleads not guilty:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walt-nauta-pleads-not-guilty-trump-classified-documents-case/

* "Who is Walt Nauta?:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/who-is-walt-nauta

* "“Ominous sign”: Legal experts say Jack Smith "closing in" after piercing Trump’s “inner circle”:" https://www.salon.com/2023/07/03/ominous-sign-legal-experts-say-jack-smith-closing-in-after-piercing-trumps-inner-circle/

* "Will be investigated!: Feds probe meeting that spawned Trump's 'will be wild!' tweet:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/will-be-investigated-feds-probe-meeting-that-spawned-trump-s-will-be-wild-tweet-187235909644

* "This Zombie Law Could Threaten Abortion Access Nationwide: The GOP’s 2024 candidates don’t want to talk about it, but anti-abortion activists see it as a way to further restrict women's reproductive rights:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/comstock-act-threaten-abortion-access-1234781080/

* "Wisconsin judge: Lawsuit to repeal abortion ban can continue:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-wisconsin-ban-challenge-lawsuit-866eed85d2918113bfe644459e62171a

* Ohioans, don't sleep on this!!! "Ohio abortion rights groups submit signatures for ballot measure:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ohio-abortion-rights-groups-submit-signatures-ballot-measure-rcna92627

* "Ohio voters scramble to protect abortion rights as GOP legislature invents new obstacles:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ohio-voters-scramble-to-protect-abortion-rights-as-gop-legislature-invents-new-obstacles-186931781831

* "Iowa Republicans release information on proposed abortion bill:" https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-republicans-propose-new-bill-on-abortion/44478342

* "Mother charged in Northeast Nebraska illegal abortion case pleads guilty:" https://www.ktiv.com/2023/07/07/mother-charged-northeast-nebraska-illegal-abortion-case-pleads-guilty/

* "Nearly 10,000 more babies born in nine months under Texas’ restrictive abortion law, study finds:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-abortion-johns-hopkins-study/

* "Earth just set a heat record. It won't be its last.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/earth-record-heat-climate-change-prehistory

“This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life.”

* "Earth reaches hottest day ever recorded 3 days in a row:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/4th-july-breaks-record-highest-temperature-measured/story?id=100702850

* "World records its hottest days ever this week:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/world-records-its-hottest-days-ever-this-week-186912325902

* Before you say no duh, remember that we need studies like this to quantify things for planning, government policy, and court cases, and also to help convince people who's minds aren't already made up "Extreme heat 'disproportionately' impacts people with disabilities, report says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/extreme-heat-disproportionately-impacts-people-with-disabilities-report-2023-06-26/

I know I struggle to breath in heat like this, and hypoxia kills, especially when cars are involved.

Please remember many medications and medical conditions can make you extra susebtable to heat or direct sunlight. I was reminded that SSRIs are a super common one. Please be extra careful out there if this applies to you.

* "Mexico acknowledges 112 heat-related deaths so far this year, almost triple the figures in 2022:" https://www.news4jax.com/health/2023/06/29/mexico-acknowledges-112-heat-related-deaths-so-far-this-year-almost-triple-the-figures-in-2022/

* "A 65-year-old man is found dead in Death Valley National Park after apparent extreme heat death:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/us/death-valley-national-park-heat-death-california/index.html

* "‘Literally off the charts’: Canada’s fire season sets records — and is far from over :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/06/canada-fire-season-00104959

* "Wildfire in WA near Columbia River Gorge grows slowly, still at 5% containment :" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wildfire-in-wa-near-columbia-river-gorge-grows-slowly-still-at-5-containment/

* "Restaurants in New Orleans are recycling oyster shells to save precious coastline:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-louisiana-turns-discarded-oyster-shells-into-restored-coastline

* "What Media Leaves Below Decks:" https://popula.com/2023/06/27/what-media-leaves-below-decks/

* CW: Harassment. "More than 50 percent of Americans report facing online harassment, hate: survey :" https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4071697-more-than-50-percent-of-americans-report-facing-online-harassment/

* "What does Twitter 'rate limit exceeded' mean for users?:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-does-twitter-rate-limit-exceeded-mean-users-2023-07-03/

* "Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/twitter-outage-elon-musk-user-restrictions/674609/

* "Twitter's threat to the 2024 election is coming from inside the house:" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/elon-musk-empowers-twitter-misinformation

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter Threatens to Sue Meta Over Threads, Alleging Meta Hired ‘Dozens’ of Twitter Employees to Launch Copycat App; Meta Disputes Claim:" https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-twitter-legal-threat-meta-instagram-threads-1235663115/

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

* "Quitting Twitter? Here Are Six Alternatives, From Threads to Bluesky and Spill:" https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-alternatives-bluesky-spill-instagram-threads-1235660707/

* "Spill Is a New Black-Owned Twitter Alternative. Here’s What to Know About the App:" https://time.com/6292622/spill-app-twitter-alternative/

* "Rats sense the wind with antennae-like whiskers above their eyes:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rats-wind-antennae-whiskers-eyes

* "The horrors of Pompeii:" https://aeon.co/essays/what-pompeiis-ruins-say-about-its-enslaved-prostituted-women

* "What's the Deal with 18th Century Wigs? (and why Bridgerton really messed this up):"

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* "Celebrating the life and loves of Frida Kahlo, Mexico’s most famous bisexual and a global icon:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/frida-kahlo-birthday-bisexual-artist/

* "‘The meanest, dirtiest, low-down stuff’: Republican complaints about election integrity that actually hide a more nefarious goal are not unknown in U.S. history.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-3-meanest-dirtiest-low-stuff-rcna91078

* "A Short History of Everyone Who Confirmed Reagan’s October Surprise Before the New York Times:" https://theintercept.com/2023/03/24/october-surprise-ben-barnes/

* "Ballroom History: The 1960s, Paris is Burning, and Today:"

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* "Spain's Falleras Bring Historic Opulence to Life:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/falleras-tradition-parade-costume-spain-culture

* "What Even Is "Good" Queer TV?:"

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* "Preacher calls for ‘holy judgement’ on Barbie movie for being ‘full of transgender and homosexuality’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/barbie-lgbtq-kent-christmas-holy-judgement/

* "How Kids actually Played:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Er-8fEbozNg

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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* It's been a truly terrible several weeks here at the Cat Asylum. A longer explanation is below. I have literally weeks of newslinks I haven't posted. My body is doing incredibly painful things. On top of the brakes emergency, we've had snow bad enough to knock out power in a bunch of places in town and imprison me likely for at least another week, and we've had some of the wiring fry, an expensive prospect that I haven't much hope of solving short of a miracle.

So 2021 continuing the streak, really. I have reached the fuck it point and am posting the aggregate with the understanding I'm sitting on I'd guess 100-200 prepped links that aren't included and that weeding and sorting are likely a bit rough.

* "200 years ago, everyone lacked democratic rights. Now, billions of people have them:" https://ourworldindata.org/democratic-rights

* "Afghans push through snowy Alps toward new lives in Europe:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-migrants-trek-through-alps-seek-new-future-02613cb26351c9249c27ee20f5d1681f

* "Lesbian risks life and flees Afghanistan to escape forced marriage to Taliban brute:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/27/afghanistan-lesbian-taliban-forced-marriage/

* "Shining shoes for a piece of bread:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-59761535

* "Guterres in Lebanon: Fair elections in 2022, an ‘essential opportunity’ for voices to be heard:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/12/1108552

* "Lebanon's Aoun calls for defence dialogue, hinting at friction with Hezbollah:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanons-president-calls-national-dialog-reach-understanding-defense-economic-2021-12-27/

* "Security forces loyal to Somalia PM gather outside presidential palace:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-says-supports-somalian-pms-efforts-rapid-credible-elections-2021-12-28/

* "Why Authoritarian Regimes Bother With Elections:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/12/hong-kong-stunt-election-democracy/621071/

* "Hong Kong universities remove more monuments marking Tiananmen:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59752089

* "Hong Kong pro-democracy news site closes after raid, arrests:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068696336/hong-kong-police-raid-pro-democracy-news-outlet-arrest-6

* "'Erasing history': Russia closes top rights group, capping year of crackdowns:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-orders-closure-top-rights-group-2021-12-28/

* "How the Kremlin Is Militarizing Russian Society:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/world/europe/russia-military-putin-kremlin.html

* "Georgia: The rise of the right:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-59763185

* "We should all be worried by what Liz Truss is doing to our equalities watchdog:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/24/trans-equality-watchdog-liz-truss/

* "Barrister who slammed Stonewall trans inclusion advice given key equalities role:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/20/stonewall-akua-reindorf-ehrc/

* "Why North Shropshire result is good news for Labour as well as Lib Dems:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/17/north-shropshire-byelection-result-good-news-for-labour-lib-dems

* "The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-libyan-prisons-that-keep-migrants-out-of-europe

* "Indian Christians fear attacks or jail over conversions:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59724425

* "Arrests, Beatings and Secret Prayers: Inside the Persecution of India’s Christians:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/world/asia/india-christians-attacked.html

* First they came for the Muslims, then they came for the Christians....

This all looks part of the same violent Hindu nationalism that strips away basic rights and encourages violence and torture from both police and mobs.

* "Myanmar massacre: two Save the Children staff among dead:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/28/myanmar-massacre-two-save-the-children-staff-among-dead

* "The ultra-violent cult that became a global mafia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59614595

* "The U.S. predicted his downfall but Maduro strengthens his grip on power in Venezuela:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/07/1061290155/maduros-grip-on-power-in-venezuela-only-gets-stronger

* "Chile breathes sigh of relief as pro-LGBT president elected over far-right bigot:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/20/chile-election-gabriel-boric-president-lgbt/

* "Nonbelievers across Africa risk freedom and family support:" https://apnews.com/article/africa-religion-nigeria-ce936d8627ca1c233e479961ac440944

* "Kenyans find rural lifeline after Covid city exodus:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59630164

* "Bruno Le Maire - An Inclusive Future for France:" https://www.cc.com/video/v9jyq7/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-bruno-le-maire-an-inclusive-future-for-france

* "Mali Says Chad to Send 1,000 Additional Troops as France Backs Off:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-12-18/mali-says-chad-to-send-1-000-additional-troops-as-france-backs-off

* CW: Torture "Jailed for the killing of Haiti's president, five suspected assassins say they're innocent:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/americas/haiti-assassination-colombian-prisoners-exclusive-intl-cmd/index.html

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* "Omicron infects 70 times faster than previous COVID strains:" https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/586074-omicon-infects-70-times-faster-than-previous-covid-strains-study?rl=1

* "A tantalizing clue to why omicron is spreading so quickly:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/12/15/1064597592/a-tantalizing-clue-to-why-omicron-is-spreading-so-quickly

* "UK data suggests hospitalization is less likely with omicron:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-omicron-variant-symptoms-hospitalization-less-likely-8ed5a786604ac1df349464296aa7e3c8

* "Europeans Ponder Living With, Not Defeating, Covid:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/world/europe/europe-covid-pandemic-omicron.html

* "Spain's COVID-19 infections soar after Christmas:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spains-covid-19-infections-soar-after-christmas-2021-12-27/

* Let Them Eat Cake. "Why is anyone surprised at Boris weaselling his way through another scandal?:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/08/boris-johnson-christmas-party-downing-street-covid/

* "Ecuador: Coronavirus vaccination mandatory for most citizens:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ecuador-coronavirus-vaccination-mandatory-citizens-81919392

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

* "Game changer: New Covid treatment pill could be key to ending pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/game-changer-new-covid-treatment-pill-could-be-key-to-ending-pandemic-129431621896

* "CDC recommends Moderna, Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines over J&J's:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/blood-clot-rates-after-jj-vaccine-higher-than-previous-estimates-cdc-advisers-2021-12-16/

* "Chris Hayes: How the booster shot messaging got muddled :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-the-booster-shot-messaging-got-muddled-129230405826

* "'No slack in the system': Struggling hospitals despair at prospect of Omicron wave:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-no-slack-in-the-system-struggling-hospitals-despair-at-prospect-of-omicron-wave-129243205641

* "Maddow: If you've been putting off vaccination, the time to do it is now.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-if-you-ve-been-putting-off-vaccination-the-time-to-do-it-is-now-129251909682

* "'It's a balancing act': New CDC guidance weighs practicality but raises questions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-a-balancing-act-new-cdc-guidance-weighs-practicality-but-raises-questions-129740869850

* "Hospitals' concern: Volume of Omicron cases could counter lower hospitalization rate:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hospitals-concern-volume-of-omicron-cases-could-counter-lower-hospitalization-rate-129340997873

* "Army: 98% of active duty got COVID-19 vaccine by deadline:" https://www.kvoa.com/coronavirus/army-98-of-active-duty-got-covid-19-vaccine-by-deadline/article_ef26a17e-5e87-11ec-82a0-43255e602142.html

* "White House labels Orange County Florida ‘rapid riser,’ as state reports 29,568 COVID-19 cases:" https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-florida-coronavirus-dec-17-20211217-zbdv6y3cefd3lnqa2wqazfrlzi-story.html

* "University of Texas sees 'alarming' spike in COVID-19 cases likely due to omicron variant:" https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/12/16/ut-austin-spike-covid-19-cases-likely-omicron-variant/8923174002/

* "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he’ll take fight against federal vaccine mandate for large businesses to Supreme Court:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/17/vaccine-mandate-businesses-texas/

* "Kansas City COVID-19 deaths more than doubled in the past week, data shows:" https://amp.kansascity.com/article256597306.html

* "Kansas hospitals brace for 'long, tough winter' of COVID. Here's what experts fear if omicron surges.:" https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/12/16/covid-19-kansas-hospitals-omicron-transfers-surge-full-beds/8908272002/

* "Tennessee nursing homes to enforce vaccine with federal mandate back in place Wednesday:" https://newschannel9.com/news/coronavirus/tennessee-nursing-homes-to-enforce-vaccine-with-federal-mandate-back-in-place-wednesday

* "New York state reports highest number of daily Covid cases of entire pandemic at more than 21,000:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/17/new-york-state-reports-highest-number-of-daily-covid-cases-of-entire-pandemic-at-more-than-21000.html

* "‘We've Never Seen This Before in NYC': COVID Positivity Rate Doubles in 3 Days on Omicron Spread:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/weve-never-seen-this-before-in-nyc-covid-positivity-rate-doubles-in-3-days-as-omicron-spreads/3454450/

* "NYC offers 500,000 free rapid Covid tests, 1 million masks amid case surge:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nyc-offers-500000-free-rapid-covid-tests-1-million-masks-amid-case-surge/vi-AARTnRJ

* "Classroom closures spike as COVID-19 cases climb in NYC:" https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/education/2021/12/16/nyc-doe-school-closures-spike-as-covid-cases-climb-in-nyc

* "Several NYC Restaurants Temporarily Close Due to COVID Spike:" https://www.thrillist.com/eat/new-york/nyc-restaurants-are-closing-due-to-covid-surge

* "As Virus Cases Surge, New Yorkers Feel a Familiar Anxiety:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/nyregion/new-york-covid-cases.html

* "U.S. Surgeon General decries Fox News commentator urging conservatives to ‘ambush’ Dr. Fauci:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jesse-watters-urging-conservatives-to-ambush-dr-fauci-decried-by-u-s-surgeon-general-129330245886

* "House oversight committee releases report detailing efforts of Trump administration officials to 'undermine' Covid-19 efforts in US:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/house-committee-trump-covid-19/index.html

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* "Congress approves import ban targeting forced labor in China :" https://apnews.com/article/science-business-china-asia-beijing-d73f6a5b82a58209480f5aa010895100

* "President Biden reaches year's end with growing list of successes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/president-biden-reaches-year-s-end-with-growing-list-of-successes-129655877954

* "Manchin says he won't vote for Biden's Build Back Better Act:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/manchin-says-he-won-t-vote-for-biden-s-build-back-better-act-129114181654

* "Rep. Cori Bush: It's "not a huge surprise" that Sen. Joe Manchin won't vote for Build Back Better:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-cori-bush-it-s-not-a-huge-suprise-that-sen-joe-manchin-won-t-vote-for-build-back-better-129118789504

* "Wearied by Manchin perfidy, progressives eye 'two track process' to achieve BBB's goals:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wearied-by-manchin-perfidy-progressives-eye-two-track-process-to-achieve-bbb-s-goals-129244229595

* "Manchin negotiated in bad faith to obstruct bill that would help his state Joy Reid says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joe-manchin-slammed-or-withdrawing-support-for-biden-s-build-back-better-bill-129331781669

* "Bernie: Striking workers ‘courageous’ in face of Kellogg’s ‘abrasive’ tactics :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-striking-workers-courageous-in-face-of-kellogg-s-abrasive-tactics-128943685558

* I hope they win. "Workers at candle factory hit by tornado file class-action lawsuit against employer:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/us/mayfield-candle-factory-lawsuit-tornado/index.html

* "MLK III on King holiday: "No celebration without legislation":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/mlk-iii-on-king-holiday-no-celebration-without-legislation-129117765664

* "The Senate filibuster isn't what it used to be because the Senate isn't either:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-senate-filibuster-isn-t-what-it-used-to-be-because-the-senate-isn-t-either-129053765588

* "Senate Democrats get serious about protecting elections, voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-democrats-get-serious-about-protecting-elections-voting-rights-128958021557

* "Sen. Klobuchar: I would get rid of the filibuster in a minute if I could:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-agenda-struggling-due-to-gop-conservative-democratic-senators-discussed-by-sen-amy-klobuchar-128948293717

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

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

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* "Accountability elusive as Trump's Big Lie runs amok in Wisconsin:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/accountability-elusive-as-trump-s-big-lie-runs-amok-in-wisconsin-129341509806

* "Absent accountability, Republicans run roughshod over election system in Wisconsin:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/absent-accountability-republicans-run-roughshod-over-election-system-in-wisconsin-129341509594

* "Republicans bullying election officials achieve their ends even in failure:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-bullying-election-officials-achieve-their-ends-even-in-failure-129431621674

* "Republicans overhaul local election board, look to eliminate six of seven polling stations:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-overhaul-local-election-board-look-to-eliminate-six-of-seven-polling-stations-129434181622

* "Fmr. top general warns of potential ‘2024 insurrection,’ urges preparedness:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fmr-top-general-warns-of-potential-2024-insurrection-urges-preparedness-129231941834

* "Michael Eric Dyson: American democracy is only as good as we are willing to fight for it:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-capitol-insurrection-anniversary-a-reminder-of-our-endangered-democracy-experts-say-129649733982

* "Is this seriously who Republicans want representing Georgia instead of Raphael Warnock?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/is-this-seriously-who-republicans-want-representing-georgia-instead-of-raphael-warnock-129502277945

* "California's Out Insurance Commissioner Gets Reelection Backing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/15/californias-out-insurance-commissioner-gets-reelection-backing

* "Softening Trump political potency seen in endorsement flops, limp ticket sales:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/softening-trump-political-potency-seen-in-endorsement-flops-limp-ticket-sales-129051205777

* "Lawmaker targeted by Trump shares disturbing death threat voicemail:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lawmaker-targeted-by-trump-shares-disturbing-death-threat-voicemail-129648709644

* "New details paint 'insane' picture of how right wing media obtained Biden daughter's diary:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-details-paint-insane-picture-of-how-right-wing-media-obtained-biden-daughter-s-diary-128959557852

* "Sketchy Chinese company under investigation is well suited to partner with Donald Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sketchy-chinese-company-under-investigation-is-well-suited-to-partner-with-donald-trump-129502789793

* "Legal expert says Trump lawsuit against New York attorney general will likely be thrown out:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-lawsuit-accusing-new-york-attorney-general-of-bias-will-likely-be-thrown-out-expert-says-129233477757

* "Republican Party helping Trump pay his personal legal bills:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-party-helping-trump-pay-his-personal-legal-bills-wapo-128956997854

* "Basis of new Cohen lawsuit over Trump abuse of power warrants concern among Americans:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/basis-of-new-cohen-lawsuit-over-trump-abuse-of-power-warrants-concern-among-americans-129051717673

* "Jan. 6 committee weighs possibility of criminal referrals:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nyt-jan-6-committee-weighs-possibility-of-criminal-referrals-129230917531

* "Legal expert: DOJ must immediately conduct 'full-blown' Jan. 6 probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/legal-expert-doj-must-immediately-conduct-full-blown-jan-6-probe-129492037712

* "Joy Reid: House GOP is trying to throw all the sand it can into Jan. 6 probe gears:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/house-minority-leader-attempting-to-install-jim-jordan-on-jan-6-select-committee-129495109652

* "Jim Jordan and Trump's coup: The calls were coming from inside the House:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jim-jordan-and-trump-s-coup-the-calls-were-coming-from-inside-the-house-128938565877

* "Legal expert believes Jim Jordan text to Mark Meadows is probable cause for criminal charge:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-jim-jordan-text-to-mark-meadows-probable-cause-for-criminal-charge-legal-expert-says-129041989724

* "Rep. Aguilar on why Rep. Jordan was never ‘fit to serve’ on Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-aguilar-on-why-rep-jordan-was-never-fit-to-serve-on-jan-6-committee-129420357806

* "CIA expert: Can you imagine what’s on Mark Meadows’ encrypted Signal app?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/mark-meadows-plotted-with-six-house-republicans-to-overturn-2020-election-washington-post-reports-128945733905

* "Legal expert believes Jim Jordan text to Mark Meadows is probable cause for criminal charge:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-jim-jordan-text-to-mark-meadows-probable-cause-for-criminal-charge-legal-expert-says-129041989724

* "Many who mock the Jan. 6 committee actively plotted with Trump’s White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-s-phone-calls-with-jim-jordan-on-jan-6-of-interest-to-house-select-committee-129423941806

* "Jan. 6 committee requests testimony, documents from Republican Rep. Scott Perry:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-select-committee-investigating-capitol-insurrection-reportedly-considering-more-criminal-referrals-129332805580

* "Legal expert says Department of Justice is ‘not doing its job' regarding Jan. 6 prosecutions:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-plot-reportedly-launched-by-steve-bannon-and-peter-navarro-analyzed-on-the-reidout-129731653881

* "'Rosanne didn't radicalize herself': After death on 1/6, family seeks accountability:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-rosanne-didn-t-radicalize-herself-after-death-on-1-6-family-seeks-accountability-129653317889

* "'We took the Capitol’: Proud Boy pleads guilty to Jan. 6 conspiracy charges:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-took-the-capitol-proud-boy-pleads-guilty-to-jan-6-conspiracy-charges-129493061593

* "Jan. 6 rioter provides evidence that may impact sentencing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jan-6-rioter-provides-evidence-that-may-impact-sentencing-129039429661

* "'We took the Capitol’: Proud Boy pleads guilty to Jan. 6 conspiracy charges:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-took-the-capitol-proud-boy-pleads-guilty-to-jan-6-conspiracy-charges-129493061593

* "D.C. Attorney General Files Civil Lawsuit Against Proud Boys, Oath Keepers:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/d-c-attorney-general-files-civil-lawsuit-against-proud-boys-oath-keepers-129117253787

* "Right’s ‘celebration of violence’ on full display at Turning Point USA convention:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/right-s-celebration-of-violence-on-full-display-at-turning-point-usa-convention-129328197797

* "Rep. Bass on Kim Potter guilty verdict: Communities fear she'll get a slap on the wrist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kim-potter-guilty-verdict-for-killing-daunte-wright-could-still-result-in-slap-on-the-wrist-rep-bass-says-129494597620

* "‘Surprising is an understatement’: Civil rights attorney on Kim Potter verdict:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-surprising-is-an-understatement-civil-rights-attorney-on-kim-potter-verdict-129493061543

* "Lawyer of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors: We must have closure, know where the mass graves are:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/tulsa-race-massacre-survivors-have-lawyer-send-letter-to-department-of-justice-requesting-federal-investigation-129732677906

* "US regulators lift in-person restrictions on abortion pill:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-abortion-health-medication-a6634601a37fb048aecdd9f030e0863a

* "FDA makes access to abortion medication by mail permanent:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fda-makes-access-to-abortion-pills-by-mail-permanent-128959045505

* "Campaigner Christie Elan-Cane dubs gender-neutral passport ruling an 'abomination':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/15/christie-elan-cane-supreme-court-passport-ruling/

* Another reason to boycott all JK Rowling: https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/671138868165296128

"But, of course, the law doesn’t (shouldn’t) discriminate, and if autistic teens and/or adults can’t legally consent to treatment of gender dysphoria, we can’t legally consent to the treatment of anything. We won’t be able to access any treatment or medication without approval from a responsible adult."

* "Jury Awards $4M to Trans Boy After School Denies Him Restroom Access:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/15/jury-awards-4m-trans-boy-after-school-denies-him-restroom-access

* "Uber Reportedly Blocked Trans Drivers’ Accounts For Being “Fraudulent”:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/15/uber-reportedly-blocked-trans-drivers-accounts-being-fraudulent

* CW: Elder Abuse. "How Nursing Homes Hide Profits While Residents Suffer:"

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* "How do Outbreaks End? Vaccines and Recovery: Crash Course Outbreak Science #14:"

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* "Debunking Anti-Vax: The Real History About Andrew Wakefield:"

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* "Autopsy: Severe brain trauma in ex-NFL player who shot 6:" https://apnews.com/article/nfl-sports-health-shootings-football-15b2c553682a7d122dbbc0d1eb76731c

* "Fresh Express Announces Recall of Fresh Salad Products Due to Potential Health Risk:" https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/fresh-express-announces-recall-fresh-salad-products-due-potential-health-risk

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* "Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/climate/chile-constitution-climate-change.html

* "‘Receding before our eyes:’ Vancouver Island glaciers likely to be all gone by mid-century:" https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/receding-before-our-eyes-vancouver-island-glaciers-likely-to-be-all-gone-by-mid-century

* "Super Typhoon Rai slams into the Philippines as rescue operations get underway:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/asia/super-typhoon-rai-philippines-intl-hnk/index.html

* CW: Dead Children. "Bouncy castle tragedy: Emotional police commissioner reveals 40 kids involved - NZ Herald:" https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/bouncy-castle-tragedy-emotional-police-commissioner-reveals-40-kids-involved/MNAAFFSSGHKDLTBUTYRMNR5ZOY/

* "Rebuilding tornado-ravaged Kentucky town could take years:" https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-kentucky-weather-mayfield-d67943a53d55d95db354011b45bfd995

* "Hurricane Ida Recovery Reveals Climate Change Inequalities to Come:"

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* "Entangled whale cannot be freed with newborn calf close by, ocean experts say:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/15/entangled-whale-cannot-be-freed-newborn-calf

* "Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/26/africa/desmond-tutu-death-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Tributes pour in for anti-apartheid leader and LGBT+ ally Archbishop Desmond Tutu:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/26/desmond-tutu-death-lgbt-ally-anti-apartheid/

* "Harry M. Reid, pugnacious Senate majority leader, dies at 82:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/harry-reid-dead/2021/12/28/775787dc-43f9-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html

* "Queer Black Feminist Writer bell hooks Dies at 69:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/12/15/queer-black-feminist-writer-bell-hooks-dies-69

* "Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/23/joan-didion-dies-526068

* "'Dallas Buyers Club' director Jean-Marc Vallée dies:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/27/entertainment/jean-marc-vallee-obit/index.html

* "Princeton teaches Ge'ez for the first time:" https://classics.princeton.edu/department/news/princeton-teaches-geez-first-time

* "Sweden's Gavle Christmas goat torched... again:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59696442

* "U.S. Warns Russia Not To Take Ukraine | Earth's Black Box Will Record Humanity's Demise:"

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* "Meanwhile... Woman Seen Breastfeeding Her Cat On A Flight | Omicron (The Band) Is Not A Virus:"

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* "Fox News Christmas Tree Fire Wasn't Politically Motivated | The Debt Ceiling Shouldn't Be A Thing:"

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* ""He's Destroying His Legacy" - Scared Fox News Hosts Texted Mark Meadows During Capitol Attack:"

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* "As Wrong As It Gets - Republicans Don't Want You To Know What Happened On Jan. 6th:"

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* "GOP Says Covid Is Overhyped | Sheriff In Hot Water Over Pic Of Santa Getting A Gun Permit:"

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* "On The Next Season Of Succession: Who Will Replace Chris Wallace?:"

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* "Omicron Is Taking Over & Teachers Dash for Cash:" https://www.cc.com/video/srbo0b/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-omicron-is-taking-over-teachers-dash-for-cash

* "Mark Meadows Held in Contempt:" https://www.cc.com/video/piaqpv/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-mark-meadows-held-in-contempt

* "Dul-Sayin' - The History of Kwanzaa:" https://www.cc.com/video/lrx340/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-dul-sayin-the-history-of-kwanzaa

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - China's Africa Investments:" https://www.cc.com/video/xhwr8p/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-china-s-africa-investments

* "Man with Thong Mask & MLK's Family Calls for No Celebration:" https://www.cc.com/video/63uk0a/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-man-with-thong-mask-mlk-s-family-calls-for-no-celebration

* "Viral Clip Of Runaway Airport Luggage Is The Pixar Film We Needed | Seditionist Roundup Round Up:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxsJAbchko&list=PLiZxWe0ejyv8n24CSzVDLGdvDR1qCX6jY&index=2

* "Santa Song - SNL:"

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* "Hotel Ad - SNL:"

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* "The Global Warming Christmas Special - SNL:"

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* "The Viral Cat Spreading All That Misinformation Has Been Found:"

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* "Men Writing Women...Badly:"

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* "Santa Is Packing Heat:"

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* "The Hallmark Channel Presents: Frankenclaus:"

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* "The Late Show Presents: A Conspiracy Carol:"

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* "Colbert's "Lord of the Rings" Rap Celebrates 20 Years Of The Greatest Trilogy In Movie History:"

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* Today I learned that Tumblr forcing me to look at the severed lady bits and buttocks from behind ad is significantly less disturbing than the dismembered anatomically correct torso, though still very do not want. I want to be clear that I don't judge people who buy these sex toys, I just think the images should be opt in.

* I've been thinking a lot about the Figure Skater, now choreographer, Kurt Browning. There were a lot of figure skaters I loved in his era, but there was something about him that really made him linger in my mind. I think that special something was that he fundamentally looked like he loved what he was doing. Oh, he definitely wanted to win, and he had bad skates like everything else, but that fundamental love was baked into his choreography, into his artistic expression, into the style of every element. It radiated out of him in interviews too.

The longer he skated both as an amateur and professional, the stronger his personal voice was in his work. He didn't always make choices to my taste. That happens when you have a strong and particular artistic voice. Still, I adored so many of his routines and even the ones that weren't for me were memorable.

At some point after he started to do choreography, some skater would come back from summer training completely transformed. They wouldn't be skating like him, but they would be skating with a new joy and with their own clear voice. They would have new routines that fit them like gloves, that helped them reach out to the audience, that gave them a particular magic they'd never had before. I would watch them and think "I wonder if they've been working with Kurt," and they almost invariably have.

What a beautifully gift to give the world.

I've no idea what he's like as a person beyond his public persona, but damned if he hasn't had a beautiful ripple effect in the world.

* So this is what's going on with me. My AS has been really terrible the last two months. It's hard to explain the level of debilitating too someone who's body works. To give yo and Idea of how hard basic stuff is, on the twenty third, it took me four hours to get dressed and do physio. My legs kept buckling as I shuffled about trying to do the bare minimum as far as feeding cats, fish, and myself. I literally scream from pain and nearly went over when I tried to feed Livia.

It's why the post schedule is so weird and I why I have...idk a couple weeks of link back log as of this writing. I am doing what I can, but even my high pain threshold ass can't make this work. The barometer has been yoyoing, and that generally just fucks me up.

So on the twenty forth, I was going to run out to grab a last minute thing before the store closed with the last of my EBT. Three hours for dressing and physio, two cats in cling mode. To give you an idea of the cling level, I was trying to put my shoe on, got as far as one sock and getting a shoe half on when Tavy leapt onto me and proceeded to nap in my arms. Me: Well I guess I'm doing lungs before instead of after the errand.

I was latter than I meant, but surely the shop was still open, right? We're a fairly secular college town. It is not that cold, but I step out to find flurries and a thin layer of snow on my car, though none sticking yet on the ground. I grew up with snow. the quality of the air and the look of the flurries told me they would be sticking soon. I figure I should be fine on a fifteen minute errand, but I'd been snowed in all weekend.

The temperature kept dropping noticeably; the snow was coming faster. Shop was closed. I likely would have made it if I'd fought Tavy over the shoes, but no matter. I'd guess I was gone five to seven minutes and it was brutal cold and coming down hard by the time I'd parked again. Squirrel had work and the driving was scary. I'd guess we got six inches, which is a lot in a town where the only people with snow tires either regularly commute over the Mountain pass or are skier/snowboarders. Our large town/small city has a snow plow, but they hit the big streets first, and generally the snow is melted before they get streets like ours, our worse the last three streets I lived on. My current street is an increasingly busy feeder instead of the true back streets I've always lived on between coming North and this place. Saturday it warmed up just enough for what little melted to freeze over after dark making it incredibly unsafe after. Squirrel was white as a sheet when he got home from work 7ish Sunday morning. It had snowed hard all night and my end of town the wind was so high it was blowing nearly horizontal. The cats sat in the window watching in fascination. It did that all day, i suspect, as it was still going past noon when I looked.

Luckily Squirrel didn't have work, and I don't leave the house unless all paths and streets are clear except for emergencies as I don't want to break anything or tear ligaments. The snow it utterly beautiful, but I'm someone finding the hobble to the bathroom challenging, and i don't want to go to the ER and spend a month laid up like last time.

Except the fire alarm kept going off. Nothing was on fire. I'd been trying to get him to change the battery in his detector for a couple of months, but he kept spacing it. I knew it wasn't mine as I changed them last... it was before I got my second shot end of March, so I'd say less than a year ago, but not by a lot. The little detectors are wired to the big ones. It went on for hours, waking people up, terrifying cats. I finally gave him a battery, because I had one, being exactly that sort of anal retentive and the chirping will drive me bats because of my sensory stuff. (I hate being caught without an emergency 9 volt). A couple hours passed, but I could hear it chirping in his room again and it went off again, because of course it did. He pulled it out, which the management company hates. his theory is it's old and the equipment needs replacing, so I guess I'm staying up to deal with them.

I am tired and everything hurts, and I've lost track of how long the aggregate posting gap is. I am sorry. It likely won't be any better until the weather evens out.

* Tuesday I went to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, flipped on a switch, and there was a flash of light and blue sparks. Attempts to flip the fuse elicited more of the same. This means no microwave, not bathroom or kitchen lights, no small appliances, no bathroom electricity at all. We suspect the wiring's fubared. squirrel is wondering if this it what was setting the fire alarms off. So I'm staying up to call iyt in, but i haven't much hope of a solution any time soon with snow and the holidays.

We've been waiting for nearly two years for them to connect squirrel's bathroom vent to the outside. They took three years not to fix a hole they put in my ceiling. I gave up and paid for fixing it myself. Who wants to bet they don't consider wiring burning in the walls an emergency?

* ...And We’re hosed. Even though the contracts said things inside the walls are them, they are making us pay for the wiring.

I have no idea how we’re going to manage it. I have no idea what it will cost even to get an estimate.

Bonus and extra 70.00 uncovered copay came in. Why the fuck not?

paypal.me/Gwydion
are there any lawyer friends/legal aid places that might remotely type up an official-sounding letter for free?

* FAQ: Everyone is asking some version of: "Are there any lawyer friends/legal aid places that might remotely type up an official-sounding letter for free?"

( They answer to this and what we are doing is very, very long and complicated: )

Wishful thinking though and best not to plan on it, so I am focusing on practical stuff like how to learn to live without non-major appliance power in the darkest parts of the Cat Asylum, and setting long term solutions in motion (See Parts One and Two).

You see why I’ve been short handing it. :)

* I am so used to normal blackouts that I am having a vaguely surreal time dealing with the current crisis. This is not a complaint, just an observation. The house we moved into just before I started high school was super prone to blackouts, just like the part of town where I've lived a majority of the time since I moved up here for third college, used to get regular black outs. The ones back East could be a day or two long, and happened a bunch of times in the November through December with such regularity, we all had assigned blackout chores in my family. We get little black outs here all the time, also most in November or December, but blackout season starts in October and runs until true spring. Most years we lose power all night at least once. Sometimes we have a good year or a bad year. Sometimes it's a day or two, but that's rare.

I'm that person with emergency candles and battery lanterns and black out contingency plans, so I have a battery lantern where I can grab it entering the bathroom with what light reaches from the living room. I have a stronger lamp set up further in that I can use the cheap light to find. (If the cheap light breaks it's not a big deal. I don't want to risk the expensive light where I can knock it off and break it easily or near water.) It a good spot to grab it if I need it in the kitchen. I'm basically living off stockpiled emergency vegetarian cup of soups because low mobility/low visibility stove top cooking is harder than it sounds because while I can navigate in there okay, it's hard to see details and the counters are in shadow. The range light and hood are dead, which means things like pasta aren't a good idea. I can make tea and cup of soups safely so it's that and cold foods and energy bars right now. I may branch out into stove top regular soup heating, but I can't walk away and sit down while I do that.

I desperately needed a bath so in the period Wednesday midday while I was waiting for return emails and phone calls, I took a bath. That's the surreal part. I've had power go out mid bath a bunch of times. I have a protocol for it. Turn off water (to save what hot water is left) and motor (so it doesn't turn on when the power does. I think there's a safety shut off when power goes out, but I don't want to chance it. Turn on the good emergency bathroom lantern (Stored where I can easily grope it in the dark, but where it's apt to stay safe from falls and water). Finish shampoo and rinse. Turn off any other switches that were on. Use the good emergency lantern to do last meds and set things up as far as bedroom emergency lighting for when I inevitable shamble out later to pee or if I'm unlucky and have to start the next meds cycle in the semi dark.

So water heater's on a dedicated circuit. So is my tub. I don't worry about either as they were city inspected at the beginning of the pandemic. It was so fucking weird to have hot water and the hydrotherapy motor going while bathing by light of a battery lantern. Did my head in, it did.

(Long term readers may remember the city buying me a new tub and my doctor managing to talk them into jets for my back and shoulders on medical grounds. These have been a life saver given how much my joints have deteriorated in the intervening twoish years. It was a whole saga that involved most of the plumbing and a bunch of appliances being replaced along with small stuff like us getting working exterior doorknobs).

Nearby Millenial has spiked hiking boots and lives a long block away in my old complex, so came for her shift. She also has a head lamp. (She's legally blind, but has low vision and walks around at night, so has things like a reflective safety vest and a powerful headlamp. She does chunk of her job by touch and she is very, very good as an Aid. Not kidding 10 out of 10). Picture her doing the dishes with her headlamp on. Picture us endlessly moving from dark to light flipping dead switches. She did a brilliant job today.

Still so fucking surreal to watch her doing it.

unless we are super super lucky in the morning, This will likely be how it is for weeks or months. If we are unlucky, this is our life now. I will get used to it, but it's strange.

It was just weird.

* "It's A Sweet Day For A Winter Wedding:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/12/26/its-a-sweet-day-for-a-winter-wedding

* "Sunday Sweets: Your Holiday Happy Place:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/12/19/sunday-sweets-your-holiday-happy-place

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* It outlaws any strikes or protest. "Philippine activists protest anti-terror law despite threats:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/philippine-activists-protest-anti-terror-law-despite-threats/2020/06/12/d3918584-ac6b-11ea-a43b-be9f6494a87d_story.html

* "Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese activist “to comply with local law”:" https://www.axios.com/zoom-closes-chinese-user-account-tiananmen-square-f218fed1-69af-4bdd-aac4-7eaf67f34084.html

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* "Widespread mask-wearing could prevent COVID-19 second waves: study:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-masks-study-idUSKBN23G37V

* CW: Animal Death. "Dutch farms ordered to cull 10,000 mink over coronavirus risk:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/06/dutch-mink-farms-ordered-to-cull-10000-animals-over-coronavirus-risk

* "Peru surpasses 200,000 coronavirus infections: Health ministry:" https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/06/10/peru-surpasses-200000-coronavirus-infections-health-ministry.html

* "Coronavirus infections appear to spike in U.S. even as they decline elsewhere:" https://news.yahoo.com/covid-case-spike-united-states-texas-arizona-north-carolina-coronavirus-201958682.html

* "Coronavirus deaths could reach 200,000 by early fall, Harvard doctor warns:" https://www.today.com/health/us-coronavirus-deaths-could-reach-200-000-september-harvard-doctor-t183984

* "Alarming rise in virus cases as states roll back lockdowns:" https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Many-forces-behind-alarming-rise-in-virus-cases-in-21-states-571185821.html

* "Dallas County breaks record with highest number of single-day cases Thursday:" https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/record-high-covid-19-hospitalizations-for-second-day-straight-in-north-texas/287-fa0775ca-9a4e-4a39-a392-0dbe4fade69c

* "New coronavirus cases almost double after reopening:" https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/new-coronavirus-cases-each-day-almost-doubles-after-reopening-says-alabama-expert.html

* "Face masks no longer required in Orange County as more businesses like gyms get OK to reopen:" https://abc7.com/health/face-masks-no-longer-required-in-oc-as-more-businesses-get-ok-to-reopen/6243230/

* "With uptick in Georgia COVID-19 cases, Gov. Kemp lifts restrictions to allow sports, conventions:" https://www.wjcl.com/article/with-uptick-in-georgia-covid-19-cases-gov-kemp-lifts-restrictions-to-allow-sports-conventions/32848659

* "Amy Acton, Ohio's embattled health director, resigns amid COVID-19 crisis:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/amy-acton-ohios-embattled-health-director-resigns-amid/story?id=71202353

* "Coronavirus has killed 5 poultry plant workers and infected more than 200 other employees on Maryland’s Eastern Shore:" https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-chicken-plant-cases-20200611-ck65omlurrd63anpoqiibitblm-story.html

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* "Trump’s Tightly Packed Republican Convention Likely Heading for Jacksonville, Says Report:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-national-convention-likely-heading-for-jacksonville-instead-of-charlotte-says-report

* "Pence tweets photo of Trump reelection campaign:" https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/06/11/pence-tweets-photo-of-trump-reelection-campaign-newday-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics

* He’s holding a hate rally in Tulsa (That place where white people rose up to murder middle class black people and the police being KKK and busy murdering innocent people as a result, helped with the killing instead of stopping it) on Juneteenth. "Donald Trump to hold rally in Oklahoma, first since coronavirus pandemic began:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/donald-trump-rally-tulsa-oklahoma-juneteenth-coronavirus

* "Trump's decision to hold a Tulsa rally on Juneteenth is no coincidence:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/11/opinions/trump-rally-tulsa-juneteenth-ghitis/index.html

* "Trump Rally Attendees Must Agree Not to Sue Campaign If They Get the Coronavirus:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/trump-rallygoers-must-agree-not-to-sue-if-they-get-covid-19.html

* "Trump plies his one political, media trick: causing outrage:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-plies-his-one-political-media-trick-causing-outrage-84918341514

* "Senate Republicans authorize subpoenas in probe targeting Trump enemies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/11/senate-republicans-authorize-subpoenas-in-probes-targeting-former-obama-officials-313123

* "Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says 'we can't shut down the economy again':" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/11/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-says-we-cant-shut-down-the-economy-again.html

* "Unemployment claims climbed by 1.5 million last week, despite jobs gains in May:"https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/11/unemployment-claims-numbers-coronavirus-312958

* "Surprise! Raging coronavirus epidemic is bad for the economy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/surprise-raging-coronavirus-epidemic-is-bad-for-the-economy-84916293881

* "Economic shockwave hits as coronavirus warnings come to pass:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/economic-shockwave-hits-as-coronavirus-warnings-come-to-pass-84916805964

* "Trump administration won’t say who got $511 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus loans:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/11/trump-administration-wont-say-who-got-511-billion-taxpayer-backed-coronavirus-loans/

* "Joe Biden Has Already Considered What To Do If Trump Refuses To Leave Office:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-remove-trump-from-the-white-house_n_5ee21f1ec5b6843ba6f808cf

* "Conservative Operatives Float Plan to Place Retired Military, Police Officers as GOP Poll Watchers on Election Day:" https://theintercept.com/2020/04/11/republican-poll-watchers-vote-by-mail-voter-fraud/

* Extended interview with stacy Abrams:

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* "Trump to Keep Confederate Names on Bases, Halting Pentagon Talks:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-10/trump-says-u-s-military-bases-to-retain-confederate-names

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* "Trump just threatened to invade Seattle. The mayor and governor rejected his offer with light mockery.:" https://theweek.com/speedreads/919396/trump-just-threatened-invade-seattle-mayor-governor-rejected-offer-light-mockery

* "Trump lashes out at Inslee, Seattle mayor over protesters' 'autonomous zone':" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/11/trump-seattle-protests-jay-inslee-313278

* "‘What I saw was just absolutely wrong’: National Guardsmen struggle with their role in controlling protests:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/national-guard-protests-309932

* "U.S. Army Unit Was Issued Bayonets to Prep for D.C. Protest Duty:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-11/u-s-army-unit-was-issued-bayonets-to-prep-for-d-c-protest-duty?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "After photo op debacle, Pentagon leaders try to regroup:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/11/mark-milley-trump-church-walk-313074

* "Activists target removal of statues including Columbus and King Leopold II:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/columbus-king-leopold-ii-statues-could-be-next-to-fall-black-lives-matter-protests

* "Statue of racist homophobe and founder of the Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell, to be removed over fears of attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/11/robert-baden-powell-statue-racism-homophobia-scouts-poole-nazi-adolf-hitler/

* "'I can't breathe,' Oklahoma man tells police before dying. 'I don't care,' officer responds.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i-can-t-breathe-oklahoma-man-tells-police-dying-i-n1229586

* "Manuel Ellis: Washington orders new investigation into police custody death:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/manuel-ellis-washington-governor-new-investigation-police

* "She Protested In Seattle, Then Spent 2 'Terrifying' Days In Jail:" https://patch.com/washington/seattle/she-protested-seattle-then-spent-2-terrifying-days-jail

* "U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on George Floyd: "That could have been me":" https://www.axios.com/jerome-adams-surgeon-general-george-floyd-3c20339c-98f4-430a-b47a-c8379534e49e.html

* "“No, I Am Not Okay”: A Black Journalist Addresses His White Friends:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/no-i-am-not-okay-a-black-journalist-addresses-his-white-friends

* "Police Tactics Are Putting Protesters at Higher COVID Transmission Risk:" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ayx3b/police-tactics-put-protesters-at-higher-covid-transmission-risk?utm_campaign=sharebutton

* Racist posts from a cop: https://twitter.com/oranicuhh/status/1271072725910487045

* "Trump omits local Black officials from race and policing event:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-omits-local-black-officials-from-race-and-policing-event-84917829658

* "Homophobic police officer who shouted ‘f****t’ at Black Lives Matter protesters stripped of powers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/11/chicago-police-officer-homophobic-slur-black-lives-matter-protests-queer-mayor-lori-lightfoot/

* "‘Cowards’: Rep. Rush slams Chicago police caught lounging in his office amid looting:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-cowards-rep-rush-slams-chicago-police-caught-lounging-in-his-office-amid-looting-84912709889

* "No-Knock Warrants Banned In Louisville In Law Named For Breonna Taylor:" https://www.npr.org/2020/06/11/875466130/no-knock-warrants-banned-in-louisville-in-law-named-for-breonna-taylor

* "Seattle Public Schools to consider temporarily cutting ties, reevaluating relationship with police:" https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Seattle-Public-Schools-to-consider-temporarily-15330479.php

* "Police arrest Tacoma woman accused of setting five patrol cars on fire during Seattle protest:" https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/police-arrest-tacoma-woman-accused-setting-five-patrol-cars-fire-during-seattle-protest/RXCU2LUR2NG77CEFKTLLIY5M6I/

* "No Sign Of Antifa So Far In Justice Department Cases Brought Over Unrest:" https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/873278314/no-sign-of-antifa-so-far-in-justice-department-cases-brought-over-unrest

* "St. Paul Man Charged In Connection To Arson At MPD Third Precinct:" https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/06/08/st-paul-man-charged-in-connection-to-arson-at-mpd-third-precinct/

* "Evangelical group wants gays removed from anti-lynching bill:" https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/evangelical-group-wants-gays-removed-anti-lynching-bill-n956831

* Sigh. "'Obelisk of Wokeness': Sen. Tom Cotton Fears the Washington Monument Will Be Renamed:" https://www.newsweek.com/tom-cotton-washington-monument-obelisk-wokeness-congress-1510438

* "Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter:" https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/502252-starbucks-bans-employees-from-wearing-anything-in-support-of-black-lives

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* "Texas gay man perfectly explains why Donald Trump is linked to racism and homophobia in 'five minutes of hot tea':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/11/texas-gay-man-donald-trump-supporters-homophobia-racism-andrew-duffer-viral-video/

* "Chris Hayes on why racists are drawn to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-why-racists-are-drawn-to-trump-84910661724

* "A White Woman, Racism and a Poodle:" https://franklywrite.com/2020/06/01/a-white-woman-racism-and-a-poodle/

* "There are two glaring omissions from JK Rowling's rambling 3,691-word defence of her 'gender critical' views:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/11/jk-rowling-terf-wars-trans-transgender-essay-coroanvirus-pandemic-black-lives-matter-periods/

* "Anti-trans Tory peer Baroness Nicholson condemned after launching astonishing attack on same-sex marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/10/baroness-emma-nicholson-same-sex-marriage-equality-tweets-twitter-homophobia/

* "Bishops attack anti-homophobia law for making ‘expression of a legitimate opinion’ a crime:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/11/bishops-homophobia-transphobia-discrimination-law-italy-religious-freedom-speech-catholic/

* "Remembering the Pulse Tragedy: Ceremony to Livestream Tonight:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/6/12/remembering-pulse-tragedy-ceremony-livestream-tonight

* "Confederate Statues in Congress, NASCAR's Confederate Flag Ban & Trump Opposes Renaming Bases:"

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* "Police Union Problems:"

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* "Coronavirus on the Rise:"

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* "Georgia's Primary Voting Disaster :"

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* "Voter Suppression Plagues Georgia's Primary Election While Trump Sues CNN Over Low Poll Numbers:"

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* There was nothing for it but to stay up. It took a while to arrange as they tried to nudge me into using another company, but it was twice the price. It turned out he was hesitating because there was construction starting in the afternoon that required them to vacate the premises until Monday. This is not a problem as I hardly leave the house. We'll jump and drop the car off so they can work on it next Monday.

HOA's form letter gave no clue as to what they want done beyond it having something to do with the patio, and as they hadn't objected to these same things for literally years, I had to call them do get clarification. Them: It's not organized enough. Me: What do you mean by organized? It is organized to take bet advantage of the sun. If I don't know what you specifically mean by organized, how will I know if I'm in compliance or not. Her: ...

This required us to wait until the manager for this property turned up for work. At the best of times they have truncated business hours. These days they are also staggered for safety. When they called back it sounded like they were objecting to me having the potting soil bag and a trowel out because I'd been gardening? Also it didn't look quite net enough. IDK.

So I went out and hoisted the soil up onto the shelf behind the tomatoes and lettuce. It's heavy af and it's hard for my fucked up shoulder to manage, hence me normally tucking it under the air conditioner so I can just scoop out what I need instead of it being a major production. It's that or move it inside, which I'm loathe to do because d'uh. I put the trowel away and tucked up the planter bottom trays I also had under the air conditioner behind the potting soil because I'd been switching planters around after the windstorm. I decided "unorganized" may mean that they don't like the way the seeding phase of the year round greens, because they sprawl rather at that stage. I turned the two pots with heavily pregnant plants so they stick out less, and gave everything yet another sweep, since I was in damage control mode after the windstorm, and just trying to solve the big problems. I hope this suffices. It would really the fck help if they said what they mean. My first battle with them was because they said "neutral" in the directions when they meant white and it took a very long interrogation to discover what they meant since they didn't want to say white. Idk.

It was far too late to go to bed before groceries came, so I did dishes and a variety of other things needing doing, including a litter box full change. at which point I discovered that someone had clearly accidentally peed over the side. I really do think it was an accident. It was the box I got when Livia was an invalid and in real danger of dying so I wanted to make it as easy as possible for her to make it in there when she was having an emergency. It's an open box and low in the front. I think someone had their face pointed towards the high back end and misjudged the rim. I think this explains the small poop I found the day before that looked like it might have been kicked out.

I still have the puppy pads I purchased when Tavy was having the confusion where he thought the exposed foundation was a litterbox. (I solved it by putting a puppy pad down to cover where the litterbox couldn't, because scrubbing the foundation multiple times a day was beyond my strength. The pads are expensive, but I already have them, so after I cleaned up, I put one down under the box with the extra out front. It was lucky I did, because someone made a massive mistake while I was asleep. I guess this is what we are doing now until I work out another solution. I can't get rid of the box as it dramatically cuts down on Tavy peeing on the sofa. I can't replace the box with another extra large high side covered one: they are expensive, and I have been spending way too much on food out of pocket because the EBT issue, plus the battery replacement, which is about to gobble this months cat food and litter money(I have a cushion as I bought extra with the relief money, so I think we are okay), plus I don't feel safe going to Pet Stop even if they are open because Covid. Sigh. So for now, puppy pads while I think it through. I really do suspect Livia is the one making mistakes. She's really big and the box is small and she still occasionally misjudges where her butt and tail are in relation to her head and other objects.

Anyway I had good fresh vegetables with dinner tonight and my larder is full.

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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 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://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/619601461925625856

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* "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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* "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

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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

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
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* "Dr. Anthony Fauci says coronavirus turned 'out to be my worst nightmare' and it 'isn't over':" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/09/dr-anthony-fauci-says-coronavirus-turned-out-to-be-my-worst-nightmare-and-it-isnt-over.html

* "Surging Coronavirus Cases Push Latin America ‘to the Limit’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/world/coronavirus-us-usa.html#link-1f302e21

* "White House goes quiet on coronavirus as outbreak spikes again across the U.S.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/white-house-stops-talking-about-coronavirus-309993

* "14 states and Puerto Rico hit highest seven-day average of new coronavirus infections:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/08/14-states-puerto-rico-hit-their-highest-seven-day-average-new-covid-19-infections-since-june/

* "Trump blames testing for spike in COVID-19 cases. Experts fault reopening of states.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-trump-blames-testing-spike-covid-19-cases-experts-n1228671

* "Montgomery COVID-19 cases ‘alarming’ to hospital association:" https://www.wsfa.com/2020/06/09/montgomery-covid-cases-alarming-hospital-association/

* Inslee opened us up into phase 2 and announced heavily expanded testing. I was pleased to discover they are doing a full screening of nursing home employees. really, all nursing home staff and residents need screening, same with staff and residents of jails and prisons on a regular basis. Fingers crossed that they do that. i have reasonable faith in my governor doing the right thing and following best practices to the best of his ability, so here's hoping this is just the iceberg's tip.

* "Migrants say they were forced to clean COVID-infected ICE facility:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/detained-migrants-say-they-were-forced-clean-covid-infected-ice-n1228831

* "20 LGBTQ+ People Working to Save Lives on the Frontline:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/6/04/20-stories-lgbtq-people-working-save-lives-frontline

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* "Donald Trump Jr.'s Mongolia Hunting Trip Cost Taxpayers $77,000:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-mongolia-hunting-trip-endangered-sheep_n_5edf126bc5b6948cbc5c971a

* Over the weekend, I saw an ad so strange I kept waiting for the punchline. For some reason we are getting Campaign ads for 45that are so utterly oblivious of the death and misery and carnage he'd wrought that they seem to have come from another planet. The ad was boasting about how he'd made America great Again, as if he hadn't killed so many people by hindering the Covid response, as if he hadn't put kids in cages, killed trans women and children in ICE detention by having his agents refuse them medical care, been more corrupt than the Grant and Harding administrations put together by an order of magnitude, betrayed this country on every level, pursued foreign policy in Russia's interests instead of our own egged on police violence, praised and encouraged NAZIs and loaded his cabinet with them, dismantled systems designed to protect civil and human rights, deliberately packed the courts with incompetence, summoned soldiers and secret police to put down democracy in the capital, shredded the constitution, ripped up environmental protections, broken more laws than I can count, and on and on and on. The only mention of the economy was to brag about it as if we weren't in a recession with small businesses permanently shuttered all over the country and worse to come. I just... Can Republicans hear themselves? Do they have working eyes or ears or some other way to absorb information from the world around them. How is this hellscape of mostly self created disaster better than what we had four years ago?

And they are showing this in a college town in a blue state. O.o I legitimately thought it was a parody.

* "Scottish bailout puts Trump's golf resorts in line for £1m tax rebate:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/scottish-bailout-means-trumps-golf-resorts-in-line-for-1m-tax-rebate

* "White House Tells Bolton His Book Still Contains Classified Information:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/trump-john-bolton-book.html

* "'Everything about this is irregular': Ex-judge tapped to review Flynn case blasts Trump DOJ:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/gleeson-flynn-sullivan-barr-justice-department-311018

* "Interior to push drilling in Florida waters after November election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/interior-drilling-florida-waters-november-election-310595

* "The Real Economic Catastrophe Hasn’t Hit Yet. Just Wait For August.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomgara/economy-recession-coronavirus

* "Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/trump-campaign-cnn-poll/index.html

* "Joe Biden's LGBTQ Legacy, 10 Years After DADT Repeal:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/6/09/joe-bidens-lgbtq-legacy-10-years-after-dadt-repeal

* "Joe Biden - America's Policing Problem, Running Against Trump & Fighting Voter Suppression:"

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* "West Virginia Elects First Out Transgender Official:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/6/09/west-virginia-elects-first-out-transgender-official

* "Chris Hayes on why we should be worried that Trump is worried about reelection:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-why-we-should-be-worried-that-trump-is-worried-about-reelection-84800581943

* "Trump admin vote suppression plan seen in vote-by-mail hypocrisy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-vote-suppression-plan-seen-in-vote-by-mail-hypocrisy-84809285564

* "Iowa Senate Bill Could Limit Election Officials' Ability To Change Voting Process During Pandemic:" https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/iowa-senate-bill-could-limit-election-officials-ability-change-voting-process-during-pandemic#stream/0

* "Nevada polls close, long waits reported in Las Vegas:" https://news3lv.com/news/local/nevada-polls-close-long-waits-reported-in-las-vegas

* "‘A hot, flaming mess’: Georgia primary beset by chaos, long lines:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/georgia-primary-election-voting-309066

* "‘I Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/us/politics/atlanta-voting-georgia-primary.html

* "'It Was Very Chaotic': Long Lines, Voting Machine Issues Plague Georgia Primary:" https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/873054620/long-lines-voting-machine-issues-plague-georgia-primary

* "Kemp admin seems intent on keeping Georgia voting broken for 2020:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kemp-admin-seems-intent-on-keeping-georgia-voting-broken-for-2020-84808261552

* "Record turnout moves Iowa GOP to attack successful voting system:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/record-turnout-moves-iowa-gop-to-attack-successful-voting-system-84809285716

* "GOP returns to voting suppression playbook as November looms:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-returns-to-voting-suppression-playbook-as-november-looms-84806725793

* "Stacey Abrams slams Georgia leaders for ‘incompetence’ and ‘malice’ in election disaster:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-slams-georgia-leaders-for-incompetence-and-malice-in-election-disaster-84853317609

* The Georgia Primary: Oh look! Most of the voting machines in black areas weren't working and at least one place they only had one worker to check people in and sanitize. Hours of waiting in long lines, but not in white areas! After all there's a pandemic on! They also didn't give poll workers passwords to operate the machines so it took a couple hours after open to start the voting in some plces.

Oh and they didn't bother sending out a whole lot of the requested absentee ballots. Fucking Wonder if the applications for those are in the same drawer as the one where Kemp kept all those voter registrations from black majority districts instead of processing them so he could fix the election last time.

Oh and the new voting machines that don't work? Kemp overrode the non-partisan choice to give it to his campaign manager's company even though they weren't remotely qualified for the job.

Meanwhile, Iowa had record June primary turnout last week because it was all mail in. Republicans are moving to ban it so they can force people to vote in person in a pndemic in November.

* "Army reverses course, will consider renaming bases named for Confederate leaders:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/08/army-reverses-course-will-consider-renaming-bases-named-for-confederate-leaders-307594

"The unrest sweeping the country over racial injustice comes as incidents of white nationalism within the ranks appear to be on the rise. A 2019 Military Times survey found that more than a third of troops who responded have seen evidence of white supremacist and racist ideologies in the military, a significant increase from the year before, when only 22 percent reported the same."

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* "Trump Wanted to Fire Esper Over Troops Dispute:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-wanted-to-fire-esper-over-troops-dispute-11591728235?mod=djemalertNEWS

* "Barr contradicts Trump: 'The Secret Service recommended that the President go down to the bunker' for safety:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/politics/bill-barr-donald-trump-white-house-bunker/index.html

* "More than 1,250 former Justice Dept. workers call for internal watchdog to probe Barr role in clearing demonstrators from Lafayette Square:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/more-than-1250-former-justice-dept-workers-call-for-internal-watchdog-to-probe-barr-role-in-clearing-demonstrators-from-lafayette-square/2020/06/10/608827fe-aa73-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html

* "‘Disgusted’: Sen. Duckworth on unanswered questions about D.C. protest chain of command:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disgusted-sen-duckworth-on-unanswered-questions-about-d-c-protest-chain-of-command-84801605943

* "‘Ugh’: Republicans cringe after Trump's attack on 75-year-old protester:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/republicans-deflect-questions-after-trump-tweet-75-year-old-protester-309075

* "McEnany says Trump's baseless Buffalo protester tweet raised "questions that need to be asked":" https://www.axios.com/mcenany-trump-buffalo-protester-tweet-questions-asked-0cd06fc4-cf4f-4bbc-acf4-edfc6856cbe8.html

* The Fuck!?!?! "The Police Report on the Killing of Breonna Taylor Is Almost Entirely Blank:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/police-report-for-killing-of-breonna-taylor-is-nearly-blank.html

* "Police reform wasted without corresponding accountability:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/police-reform-wasted-without-corresponding-accountability-84809797754

* "Panel Discussion on Radical Police Reform:" http://www.cc.com/episodes/te9mhf/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-june-9--2020---panel-discussion-on-radical-police-reform-season-25-ep-25113

* "D.C. toughens officer hiring and discipline, as wave of police reform sweeps the U.S.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-police-reform/2020/06/09/c77ae6b0-aa49-11ea-a9d9-a81c1a491c52_story.html

* "Denver police ban chokeholds, require officers to report when they point gun at someone:" https://www.denverpost.com/2020/06/07/denver-police-ban-chokeholds/

* "New York lawmakers pass anti-chokehold bill named for Eric Garner:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-lawmakers-pass-anti-chokehold-bill-named-for-eric-garner-2020-06-08/

* "Federal judge orders partial ban on tear gas in Portland:" https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/469724-380220-federal-judge-orders-partial-ban-on-tear-gas-in-portland

* "The judge approved a restraining order against the Minneapolis police:" https://pressinsiderdaily.com/2020/06/the-judge-approved-a-restraining-order-against-the-minneapolis-police/

* "Minneapolis police department pulls out of union contract negotiations:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/minneapolis-police-department-withdraws-from-union-contract-negotiations

* "Legislating Healing and Justice with Ayanna Pressley :"

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* "‘Lightning striking’: The swift shift of public in favor of Black Lives Matter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-lightning-striking-the-swift-shift-of-public-in-favor-of-black-lives-matter-84854853741

* "‘Welcome to Free Capitol Hill’ — Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone forms around emptied East Precinct:" https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2020/06/welcome-to-free-capitol-hill-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-forms-around-emptied-east-precinct/

* "KY Senate candidate: Mitch McConnell 'couldn’t care less if we die':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ky-senate-candidate-mitch-mcconnell-couldn-t-care-less-if-we-die-84701765960

* Wouldn't it be easier to get people to do that if they stop behaving like Animals and Thugs? "N.Y. Police Boss: 'Stop Treating Us Like Animals and Thugs':" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/6/09/ny-police-boss-stop-treating-us-animals-and-thugs

* "Trump Campaign Aide Shared Praise for Racist With Chainsaw Who Assaulted Protesters:" https://theintercept.com/2020/06/06/trump-campaign-aide-shared-praise-racist-chainsaw-assaulted-protesters/

* "The Black Lives Matter movement must do more for murdered Black trans women, says leading LGBT+ group:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/09/black-trans-women-murder-lives-matter-movement-hrc-tony-mcdade-iyanna-dior-america-protests/

* "Adam Rippon Donates to Black Trans Cause in Anti-LGBTQ+ Skater's Name:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2020/6/09/adam-rippon-gives-1k-black-trans-charity-homophobes-name

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* "Anti-Asian Racism Is No Match for LGBTQ+ Activist Amazin LeThi:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/6/11/anti-asian-racism-no-match-lgbtq-activist-amazin-lethi

* TW: Sexual Assault, Torture. "Saudi authorities beat blogger, subject him to anal exam and demand he 'confess' being gay – all for supporting LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/10/saudia-arabia-mohamad-al-bokari-blogger-anal-exam-torture-lgbt-human-rights-watch/

* "This Japanese Region Just Made Outing LGBTQ+ People Illegal:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/6/09/japanese-region-first-make-outing-queer-people-illegal

* "Pose star Indya Moore says JK Rowling 'doesn't understand how much death and violence' are behind her 'stupid' opinions:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/11/pose-indya-moore-jk-rowling-trans-rights-dominque-jackson-mj-rodriguez/

* "54 Health Organizations: White Supremacy Fuels Black, Latinx HIV Rates:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/opinion/2020/6/08/54-health-organizations-white-supremacy-fuels-black-latinx-hiv-rates

* "The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name, Of A Beetle For A Beer Bottle:" https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/the-love-that-dared-not-speak-its-name-of-a-beetle-for-a-beer-bottle?fbclid=IwAR3-RKvCTBUrNIUjU82RLYsI2v4XWPl51HNheKd1GBu8IkH-NrqE0cezs-0

* "China removes pangolin scales from traditional medicine list:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/asia/china-pangolin-protection-medicine-intl-hnk/index.html

* "The Cherokee Chefs Bringing Back North America’s Lost Cuisine:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-was-native-american-food-like-before-europeans

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

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* "America’s Long-Standing Tradition of Police Brutality:"

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* "It’s Time to Defund the Police:"

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* ""Cops" Gets Canceled, HBO Max Pulls "Gone with the Wind" & Updated Racism Definition:"

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* He’s legitimately one of the best Juliets I’ve ever seen. "You Made Me Love You - Matt Doyle:"

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* There's no fighting it. The battery is no good. He used the external charger and it seemed fine, until I tried to start it a second time and it was fully drained. I am pretty sure we replaced it a couple of years ago, but here we are.

Wednesday I had to stay up for some phone bureaucracy. Thursda I need to stay up for the mechanic and to all the HOA because they senta form letter complaint about the patio garden. As it's the same stuff that hasn't bothered them for years and I'm following the rules, I don't know what they want us to change, which means live humans on the phone in their shitty short business hours. Plus food shipment may be coming.

I'm so tired.

On the upside, the food card came.

Update: They are having construction, but it's half the price of the other option and I hardly ever leave the house, so we're dropping it off for Monday. I'd already paid first bill, but not second. The other option is twice as expensive and this is an ancient car and I am poor.

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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 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://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/619601461925625856

* 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

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "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/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "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

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* 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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* 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

* Want to help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

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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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* 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

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

* "‘The anger is still there’: Hong Kong defiant a year on from first protests:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/07/anger-still-there-hong-kong-defiant-one-year-anniversary-first-protests-china

* "Matt Hancock proclaims Boris Johnson’s cabinet, which includes no Black or openly LGBT+ people, the ‘most diverse in history’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/08/matt-hancock-black-lgbt-sophy-ridge-diverse-cabinet-boris-johnson-priti-patel-backlash/

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* "Lockdowns May Have Helped Prevent Half a Billion Coronavirus Cases:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-08/lockdowns-may-have-helped-prevent-half-a-billion-covid-cases?srnd=politics-vp&sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Study finds coronavirus lockdowns saved millions of lives:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/study-finds-coronavirus-lockdowns-saved-millions-of-lives-84742725662

* "Humankind achieves historic feat in slowing coronavirus spread:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/humankind-achieves-historic-feat-in-slowing-coronavirus-spread-84743237775

* "Spain marks 10 days of mourning for covid victims while celebrating a return to normal life:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/spain-covid-deaths-10-days-of-mourning/2020/06/04/57b90a7c-a428-11ea-898e-b21b9a83f792_story.html

* "Coronavirus keeps outpacing Donald Trump's low-balling:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/coronavirus-keeps-outpacing-donald-trump-s-low-balling-84743237519

* "Arizona's COVID-19 Surge Began Right After Reopening, Says Ex-DHS Chief:" https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-covid-19-surge-began-right-after-reopening-expert-says-11474395

* "Reported coronavirus hospitalizations reach another new high in North Carolina:" https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article243364666.html

* "As Utah eases restrictions, COVID-19 cases increase:" https://www.abc4.com/coronavirus/covid-19-numbers-show-results-of-actions-taken/

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* "Trump approves plan to withdraw one-third of U.S. troops from Germany:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-approves-plan-to-withdraw-one-third-of-us-troops-from-germany/2020/06/05/987b2d38-a775-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html

"Jeff Rathke, a former career Foreign Service officer and a Germany scholar at Johns Hopkins University, was critical of the move. “For those who think this will punish Merkel and Germany, they have it wrong,” he said. “It is important to remember that the U.S. force presence in Germany is not about defending Germany, but about having a platform from which the U.S. can engage and bolster NATO allies, deter Russia, and project power into the Middle East and North Africa when necessary.”"

* "CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns abroad see troubling parallels in Trump’s handling of protests:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/cia-veterans-who-monitored-crackdowns-abroad-see-troubling-parallels-in-trump-handling-of-protests/2020/06/02/7ab210b8-a4f6-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

* "White House press object to being used as ‘prop’ at Trump briefing with no social distancing, no questions:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/white-house-press-complain-they-were-used-as-prop-at-trump-briefing-with-no-social-distancing-no-questions/2020/06/05/4be726b0-a776-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html

* "Trump to restart MAGA rallies this month despite coronavirus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/08/trump-rally-coronavirus-307496

* "Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism:" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/sheldon-wolin-and-inverted-totalitarianism/

* "Trump promises Stone won’t serve prison time: ‘He can sleep well at night!’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/trump-promises-roger-stone-will-serve-no-prison-time-300351

* "Trump seeks to scale back environmental reviews for projects:" https://apnews.com/ea178bafbd3e4b0fbdfb4405d9e56d63

"Trump has been issuing executive orders on a near-weekly basis during his fourth year in office. Thursday’s order will mark his 25th of the year as he uses the pandemic to justify efforts to do away with government regulations that are designed to protect the environment and public health but are viewed by critics as costly and unnecessary."

* "New Trump appointee thinks America is in the clutches of a ‘homo-empire’ that pushes a ‘tyrannical LGBT+ agenda’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/08/lgbt-agenda-trump-appointee-america-homo-empire-usaid-foreign-aid-merritt-corrigan-viktor-orban-hungary/

"The new Trump appointee has a long history of online posts denouncing liberal democracy, feminism, abortion and the LGBT+ community."

* "U.S. entered recession in February, ending record expansion:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/08/recession-united-states-economy-307403

* "Republicans face looming unemployment dilemma:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/republicans-face-looming-unemployment-dilemma-299407

* "A ‘misclassification error’ made the May unemployment rate look better than it is. Here’s what happened.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/05/may-2020-jobs-report-misclassification-error/

* "Senate panel approves legislation requiring campaigns to report foreign election help:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/senate-intelligence-committee-reporting-foreign-election-help/index.html

* "Biden Campaign Launches LGBTQ+ Voter Initiative:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/6/08/biden-campaign-launches-lgbtq-voter-initiative

* "Christian Cooper Endorses Ritchie Torres in Race Against Rubén Díaz Sr:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/6/08/christian-cooper-endorses-ritchie-torres-race-against-ruben-diaz-s

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* "People are sawing through and climbing over Trump’s border wall. Now contractors are being asked for ideas to make it less vulnerable.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-border-wall-vulnerable/2020/06/04/ccd40e5e-a66e-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html

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* "Why military men pushing back on Trump is an 'extraordinary' event in American democracy:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-generals-event-1.5599407

* "Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Condemns Trump's Threat To Use Military At Protests:" https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/870004024/former-joint-chiefs-chairman-condemns-trumps-threat-to-use-military-at-protests

* "Pentagon Ordered National Guard Helicopters’ Aggressive Response in D.C.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/politics/protests-trump-helicopters-national-guard.html

* "Former White House chief of Staff John Kelly: 'I agree' with Jim Mattis on Trump:" https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/05/politics/john-kelly-agrees-with-jim-mattis-on-trump/

* "89 former Defense officials: The military must never be used to violate constitutional rights:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/05/89-former-defense-officials-military-must-never-be-used-violate-constitutional-rights/

* "Trump wanted to deploy 10,000 troops in Washington D.C., official says:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protest-troops-idUSKBN23E0DY

* "Bill Barr Defends Attack on Peaceful Protesters: ‘Pepper Spray Is Not a Chemical Irritant’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-barr-defends-police-attack-on-peaceful-protesters-pepper-spray-is-not-a-chemical-irritant

* "Black Lives Matter sues Trump, Barr for forcibly clearing White House protesters:" https://www.axios.com/trump-black-lives-matter-lawsuit-6f8c4f18-2b5a-4dd9-aada-93378247cf28.html

* "AP FACT CHECK: Trump denies tear gas use despite evidence:" https://apnews.com/2aa7979e6fb88948895407f127e5e5b6

* "Trump has flooded DC with law enforcement officers who won't identify themselves:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/trump-has-flooded-dc-with-law-enforcement-officers-who-wont-identify-themselves/

* "Trump pulls back National Guard, and cities cancel curfews, as peaceful protests continue and grow:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pulls-back-national-guard-and-cities-cancel-curfews-as-peaceful-protests-continue-and-grow/2020/06/07/af844d88-a8e3-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com

* "Security Concerns Give the White House a Fortified New Look:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/politics/white-house-security.html

* "I Cannot Remain Silent:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/american-cities-are-not-battlespaces/612553/

* "‘Black Americans want to stop being killed’: Democrats unveil sweeping police reform bill:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/08/democrats-to-unveil-sweeping-police-reform-bill-307108

* "Sen. Cory Booker Talks Race, Empathy, And His Legislation To Stop Abuses Of Power By Law Enforcem…:"

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* "What does it mean to dismantle a police department?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/what-does-it-mean-to-dismantle-a-police-department-84734533782

* "Miski Noor - Black Visions Collective and Minneapolis's Longstanding Police Brutality Problem:"

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* "How Much Do We Need The Police?:" https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/03/457251670/how-much-do-we-need-the-police

* "Rep. Karen Bass: We Must Ban Chokeholds And Create A National Database Of Problematic Officers:"

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* "In violent protest incidents, a theme emerges: Videos contradict police accounts:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/06/police-protester-incidents-video/

* "LAPD officers seen striking protesters with batons in Fairfax district confrontation captured on video:" https://abc7.com/6231194/

* "Charlamagne Tha God On Systemic Racism And How Reparations Can Lead To Economic Justice:"

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* Events moved really fast in Seattle last night, but I got very little sleep yesterday and I really need to sleep. I really hope that we are looking at the straws that break the camel's back, because in the 22ish years I've lived up here I've seen wave after wave of egregious racism and violence from Seattle PD followed by protests that always get empty promises. The Seattle PD has gotten a lot worse 2016. It's time to fix this. Devolve most of their functions on non-violent social services and fund those properly. Disband the police and form a force that just focuses on solving crime staffed by new people. If the old officers want their jobs back? Make them reapply and only take the squeaky clean ones with no prior complaints.

How many neo-NAZIs and sympathizers are acceptable in a police force? Same amount as cholera in your drinking water: None.

* I feel like I need to say this again, given the givens: I am broadly pro Union, but the police unions are dangerous and toxic. If a nurse was caught murdering patients, there wouldn't be a massive nurse's union walk out protesting the nurse being charged. When a teacher is caught molesting kids, the teacher's union doesn't go picket the school board. Most other professions draw a line between fighting for benefits/better working conditions on the one hand and declaring their members above the law no matter how many people they maim and kill. Just saying.

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* "Hamilton star Javier Muñoz says he was victim to a horrific homophobic attack by undercover cops:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/08/hamilton-javier-munoz-homophobia-attack-police-new-york-black-lives-matter/

* "Gay Married Couple Is First to Appear in Ad in Conservative Poland:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2020/6/08/gay-married-couple-first-appear-ad-conservative-poland

* "Gay vicar dies aged 81, leaving fortune to 27-year-old husband:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/08/gay-vicar-philip-clements-dies-aged-81-leaving-fortune-27-year-old-husband-florian-marin/

* "Watch What Marriage Equality Meant to Two Texan LGBTQ+ Families:" https://www.advocate.com/family/2020/6/08/watch-what-marriage-equality-meant-two-texan-lgbtq-families

* "Revolutions in Science and Tech: Crash Course European History #44:"

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* "He Left Us Better Than He Found Us: Remembering Activist Ron Simmons:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2020/6/08/he-left-us-better-he-found-us-remembering-activist-ron-simmons

* "Protests Sweep Across America, Books on Race Become Best Sellers & Cities Begin Police Reform:"

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* "Police Brutality During Protests:"

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* "GOP Senators Speak Out After Trump Gasses U.S. Citizens:"

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* "New Jersey Makes A Bid For Trump's Relocated Convention:"

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* "Shockingly Brutal Police Tactics Deployed Nationwide As Protests Unite Americans Of All Backgroun…:"

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* "America's Citizens Will Not Be Silenced By Government Intimidation:"

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* I did manage to get through to a different human. Apparently the guy who lied to me and refused to do anything also didn't log anything about the interaction. Lady at DHS: I can have your local office mail you another card today. Me: Why didn't the other guy just do that instead of lying repeatedly and refusing to fix it. Her: I don't know.

I am still confused as to why, if it only takes 1-3 days to replace a card, me not having mine yet a couple weeks later wasn't a red flag that maybe he should reissue instead of refusing to give me any time frame for how many weeks or months it normally takes or was likely to take.

Seriously, if it was this obvious something went wrong and this easy to solve with a few key strokes why lie and stonewall and refuse to help?

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

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* "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

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "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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* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "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

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

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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

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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:

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* "Stalled vaccine schemes 'put young lives at risk':" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52911972

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* "Hydroxychloroquine, a drug promoted by Trump, failed to prevent healthy people from getting covid-19 in trial:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/03/hydroxychloroquine-clinical-trial-results/

* "Nine long-term care facilities in South Mississippi identified as having COVID-19 cases:" https://www.wlox.com/2020/06/03/nine-long-term-care-facilities-south-mississippi-identified-having-covid-cases/

* "Oregon reports 76 new COVID-19 cases, 7 in C. Oregon; no new deaths:" https://ktvz.com/news/coronavirus/2020/06/04/oregon-reports-76-new-covid-19-cases-7-in-c-oregon-no-new-deaths/

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* "U.S. Plans to Block Flights by Chinese Airlines:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-blockchinese-airline-flights-to-and-from-u-s-says-dot-11591194145?mod=hp_lead_pos1

* "Senate panel approves legislation requiring campaigns to report foreign election help:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/senate-intelligence-committee-reporting-foreign-election-help/index.html

* They've got an out of Control COVID-19 outbreak and resisted the idea of packing people in elbow to elbow without masks to yell, spreading droplets up to twelve feet. "Trump slams North Carolina and says he's moving GOP convention elsewhere:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/02/north-carolina-governor-rejects-gops-demand-for-full-fledged-convention-296566

* "President Trump tried to register to vote in Florida using an out-of-state address:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/president-trump-tried-to-register-to-vote-in-florida-using-an-out-of-state-address/2020/06/03/687d0014-a4f2-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html

* "Rod Rosenstein blames FBI while defending Russia probe5:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/03/rod-rosenstein-testimony-russia-probe-298253

* "Republicans face looming unemployment dilemma:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/republicans-face-looming-unemployment-dilemma-299407

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* "An obituary for George Floyd:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/an-obituary-for-george-floyd-84415557780

* "All four former officers involved in George Floyd's killing now face charges:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/george-floyd-officers-charges/index.html

* "MN AG cites 'additional evidence' in new charges in Floyd case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mn-ag-cites-additional-evidence-in-new-charges-in-floyd-case-84340805874

* "Attorney for family of George Floyd reacts to new charges in case:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/attorney-for-family-of-george-floyd-reacts-to-new-charges-in-case-84345925566

* "Mattis tears into Trump: 'We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/mattis-statement-trump/index.html

* "Trump and the Military: A Mutual Embrace Might Dissolve on America’s Streets:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/us/politics/trump-military-protests.html

* "McConnell blocks resolution condemning Trump's actions against peaceful protesters:" https://www.axios.com/mcconnell-trump-peaceful-protesters-4f2209d1-7cad-477c-a5fa-1a9fee4e625a.html

* You know, tear gas and rubber bullets, not tear gas and rubber bullets. "White House says police didn’t use tear gas and rubber bullets in incident that cleared protesters with chemical irritants and projectile munitions:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/trump-demands-journalists-correct-stories-on-the-use-of-tear-gas-according-to-the-cdc-it-was-tear-gas/2020/06/02/bf68726c-a544-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

* "60 minutes of mayhem: How aggressive politics and policing turned a peaceful protest into a violent confrontation:" https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/02/politics/trump-white-house-protest-police-church-photo-op/

* "‘This can’t be happening’: An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/this-cant-be-happening-an-oral-history-of-48-surreal-violent-biblical-minutes-in-washington/2020/06/02/6683d36e-a4e3-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html#click=https://t.co/Lp9Br7CzvX

* "Trump denies sheltering in White House bunker amid protests:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/03/trump-denies-sheltering-in-white-house-bunker-amid-protests-298406

* "James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/

* "Pentagon disarms National Guard activated in D.C., sends active-duty forces home:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/pentagon-disarms-guardsmen-in-washington-dc-in-signal-of-de-escalation/2020/06/05/324da91a-a733-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html

* "Rep. Val Demings On Ways America Can Heal and Evolve:"

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* "‘Performing fascism': Masha Gessen on Trump’s dictatorial turn:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-performing-facism-masha-gessen-on-trump-s-dictatorial-turn-84416069972

* "Schmidt: Trump, Barr building 'thugocracy' with secret police:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schmidt-trump-barr-building-thugocracy-with-secret-police-84456005946

* "D.C. mayor on Trump using federal forces in her city: Who's next?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/d-c-mayor-on-trump-using-federal-forces-in-her-city-who-s-next-84452933623

* Bonus! Bill Barr’s Secret Police are likely spreading COVID. "Some of Trump's unmarked police force traced to Texas prison:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/some-of-trump-s-unmarked-police-force-traced-to-texas-prison-84546117980

* "Unidentified, armed federal troops raise accountability concerns:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/unidentified-armed-federal-troops-raise-accountability-concerns-84448325645

* You know how it sounded like they were lying about Antifa? Yep, they were. "The FBI Finds ‘No Intel Indicating Antifa Involvement’ in Sunday’s Violence:" https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/antifa-trump-fbi/

* A Quick History of "Antifa." https://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/1266867554041188353

* "Puerto Ricans bring out a guillotine and trans Pride flags as hundreds join Black Lives Matter protest:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/04/puerto-ricans-bring-out-a-guillotine-and-trans-pride-flags-as-hundreds-join-black-lives-matter-protest/

* "Chris Hayes: Yes, Gov. Cuomo, NYPD are beating peaceful protesters:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-yes-gov-cuomo-nypd-are-beating-peaceful-protesters-84419653909

* "Buffalo mayor addresses horrific video of police shoving protester:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/buffalo-mayor-addresses-horrific-video-of-police-shoving-protester-84525125861

* Any police force that riots the way they have been in NYC, Philly, D.C. etc. needs to be disbanded. They no longer serve any positive function in society.

* As far as I'm concerned any officer who witnessed the attempted murder on the elderly man in Buffalo and didn't immediately arrest the officers involved for attempted murder and call 911 should have been fired immediately. Their whole unit is protesting the suspension of the men who brutally assaulted an elderly man? Fire the whole fucking unit, because they are unfit for the responsibility. If they aren't okay with any discipline at all for attempted murder on an unarmed non aggressive elderly man, they need to go.

There are too many cops who may not have done the bad things, but are willing to defend or cover up or not intervene in the bad things while being clearly aware of them.

It's time to grow a spine. Whole department protests those firings? Fire them. Anyone left may still have at least some ethical sense.

I'm generally pro-Union, but you don't see mass teacher walk outs when a union member is exposed as a pedophile. Police need to be held to a higher standard, not no standard at all. Teachers are held to a higher standard because they basically have the safety of children in their hands. Police are way more dangerous than teachers, so....

* I keep thinking about the conversation I had with the Millenials Friday about systemic police violence and corruption, and the way where I'm from influences my thinking about these matters. I keep thinking about my having to explain to my Oregon friends why the police thought what they did to Rodney king was fine and why the riots.

So I'm originally from Philly, where like NYC the police have been violent and corrupt since there were police. That was the reality. The local precinct when I was a teen was run on principals of nepotism and patronage. It just was. It became quickly obvious to me, working at a popular police hang out that this was just another form of organized crime.

Oh they were charming guys, very nice to us. They were terrifying. We gave them anything they wanted free and they'd come fast if there was trouble instead of slow walking it. We had a get out of traffic tickets free deal if we were in uniform or they knew us. It's low level extortion. Only the businesses that gave them free stuff got protection.

They'd sit around telling funny to them stories about people they put in the hospital with group beatings for personal vendettas or for fun. They freaked my dad out my telling him about the time they thought this guy was sleeping with one of their wives, so they broke into his house and beat him near to death. Haha! We really got that guy! There was no law where I lived, only order imposed by a violent gang in blue that acted with utter impunity.

It was the '80's and we were in the metro area, outside the city limits though. There was one black cop and one woman cop at that precinct. They had been hired outside the patronage system to ward off discrimination suits. They were partners. They were not corrupt or violent as far as I could tell. We still gave them free food.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about the entire policing system in this country since I got that job at 15. I've heard a lot of people say "just a few bad apples" as if it were an excuse not to hold police accountable, as if it were some kind of excuse for letting officers beat and even kill whoever they like with impunity. People never seem to quote the entire saying. A few bad apples spoil the barrel. It's not an argument for allowing police to do as they like. It's an argument for prosecuting the shit out of every single violent and/or corrupt cop you find.

A few bad apples is like a little bit of gangrene; if you don't get rid of them they corrupt everything. You get even a hint of gangrene you act aggressively to get rid of it. you don't and you can lose the limb. It can get into the blood stream and kill the patient. Get some antibiotic on the case! Let maggots remove the dead tissue!

Instead, we've collectively decided to let whole cities rot. Promote the bad apples, let them train the next generation of cops, like Minneapolis did, then you get a whole culture of violence and corruption. Make it so you punish and force out cops who report the crimes, then good people stop signing p to do the job and only the sadists, the psychopaths, and the wildly corrupt remain.

When your blueberry bushes get the mummy virus, there's no saving them. Uproot them and plant something new that can cleanse the soil.

I've forgotten the name of the place in I think Georgia that got incorporated as a town a few years back. They got to build their justice system from the ground up. They are majority black. Almost all of the judges ended up being black women. Their policing model was based on the concept that they really were their to protect and serve the community. The police were living in the communities they served. They knew the people they were policing and the citizens knew them. Their court system was based on concepts like restitution and drug and mental health diversion. Sentences tended to be about trying to fix the damage the crime had done. Getting a schizophrenic treatment is kinder and long term all around better than locking them up for disturbing the peace. Getting someone drug and/or alcohol treatment is kinder and better than locking them up. Once they are doing better they are more likely to be able to do good restitution for an damage they did. The arrestees were being talked to and treated like people in the courtroom proceedings they filmed. It was a joint effort that everyone was engaged in to make their town better and safer for everyone in it, not a fundamentally oppositional process with cops as judge, jury and executioners. The people who were arrested were seen as part of that community and the goal was to help them stop fucking up in destructive or potentially destructive ways. It was a wildly different police culture and a wildly different police and judicial mindset.

We need to start over most places at this point. We need to rebuild from the ground up. We need a system that serves and protects everybody, not an occupying army that terrorizes citizens with impunity. that stuff happening in New York and Washington and a bunch of other places? That's terrorism. That's an occupying army trying to scare and dehumanize and crush.

We are long past removing a few rotten apples from the barrel. The barrel is full of rot; the gangrene is everywhere compromising the whole system; the mummy virus has infected all the blueberry bushes.

Time to start over and grow something new and so much better.

* "Police, policing, social issues and #AbolishThePolice:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1784909.html

* "The Double Standard of the American Riot:" https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/06/riots-are-american-way-george-floyd-protests/612466/

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* "The Real Moby Dick Was So Much Worse:"

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* Thursday: I've been short sleeped for a few days due to a variety of competing commitments. Wednesday I was a mess, so I couldn't really multitask properly which meant very little work could reasonably get done. Sorry.

Livia and I were at my desk and Tavy was peering out the patio window. It was the middle of the night and the curtains were closed. I heard a soft sound like someone futzing about on the porch. Tavy panicked and ran for my bed. Livia and I looked up in response to the sound, so we both saw him zoom out of there freaked the hell out. I could actually see the processing delay as Livia tried to work out if she should panic too, but by then I was up and calmly going around to see wtf, so she decided to come with, hiding behind my legs as I lifted the door curtain. Meanwhile, Tavy saw us going to look, so he decided he should come look. People who say they aren't social beasties are liars. So I've got two of them peering around my legs as I look out into the darkness.

It wasn't an intruder, but I did not blame Tavy Baby at all for freaking out. The wind had knocked bunch of plant stands over. Me: Fuck! It's not the windy season but were are having a weird unseasonalble blast out of Alaska that's messing with the local weather and I live in a wind tunnel between two foothills near the bay so... Surprise! Our porch light is basically crap, so I couldn't properly assess the damage. i went out and set things to rights, but I was not happy. A whole bunch of budding carnation branches got chopped along with assorted thing from the neighboring planters. The container with the most mature of the tomatoes and a bunch of juvenile lettuce was amoung the casualties. I couldn't tell immediately how bad it was, so I did my best.

I got a few hours of sleep and then had a scheduled conversation call with some millennials. Afterwards I trotted out there to fix things up properly. The carnation will live, but I lots 6-8 future blooms, I'd estimate. The container with the tomato and lettuce was the one construction workers damaged a few years ago, but it was still usable and it also has a perennial thing in it which added to it's size made reporting in a newer container a serious undertaking. Oh, I purchased a replacement the time and had a really nice potting soil compost mix in it ready for the grand repotting, but it was really a two person job and there was always that perennial and... yeah.

One of the sides was smashed most of the way in. I had long thought the least damaging way to repot would be to basically take the pot itself the rest of the way apart and resettle it in the replacement. see really a wo person job. Problem is I really needed a tool for that, like wire cutters or a saw or something. I had no tools and no help. I positioned new pot by the chair and had at it the hard way with my bear hands. Luckily the damage to the structural integrity and time and plastic fatigue had moved this just into the realm of the possible barely. The construction workers had broken off the thicker plastic rim and big sections of the top 3-4 inches, leaving the thinner plastic sides. I managed to pull the section between the massive hole and the ragged top okay, but I needed wider hole and worse, a chunk of the thicker bottom plastic to go. I had to do the bottom one handed as I needed the other to balance the pot and I'm pretty sure this is how I got all the scratches on my arm.

Anyway it's done, but I think I lost one-three lettuce plants. The tomato looks okay, the perennial is badly damaged, but I have more and it doesn't matter. The tomato and lettuce do, however, so fingers crossed. They are off the stands as it's safer for that pot and the carnation on the ground anyway and the light at ground level is descent up front, especially after asshole bush got the aggressive pruning. The rank behind them aren't as they really need elevation to get enough light. I may shift some stuff around some more tomorrow though.

And then I swept the patio and watered the plants and mopped the floor because I got water everywhere, and delta with the mess on the floor Squirrel left when he took out the trash and cleaned all his pork grease off the counters and microwaves and he'd finally put the dishes away so the I prewashed a whole other load as he'd waited that long to empty it and found more pork grease wish I cleaned and hung a fly strip which is ow i got glue in my hair which I had to wash and put the shower curtain rod back up because it fell again, and, and.... Yeah.

* Friday: Livia's day started out so well. Everyone knows the best love is the one where you catch the human awake, but in the bed with all the machines off. Not only did she succeed at that. Not only that but Tavy was conked out on the sofa. She had the human all to herself! For as long as she liked with no interruption! A Red Letter Day!

Except...

The human snuck up on her later and gave her the medicine paw! I mean yes, the Emperor got one too, but still! Betrayed!

* The last couple nights I've been dealing with chronic illness stuff. Friday was particularly bad as I had the dreaded spasms, which meant until... 2AMish, I was super limited in how much time I could spend at my desk. It seriously messes with my concentration when I can actually work too. The result is the last ew nights I mostly get through prep and post a few links on tumblr, but I'm drowning in hundreds of things I couldn't look at properly. It's not that I don't care, it's that I'm federally disabled for a reason.

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

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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

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Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

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* The pain was impossible today. Me: why is everything so hard? Oh right. The weather's uneven and I'm off my meds plus I missed my bath window Sunday morning as there wasn't hot water. (I'm off my arthritis meds for the antibiotic. No wonder everything sucks! It's too much for my stomach to handle, so it's one or the other.)

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

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* "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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* 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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