gwydion | Entries tagged with nazis

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 News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

* I think I need to say this again because of what is going on in my Tumblr notes. I am against the rape, torture, and murder of civilians, especially children REGARDLESS OF WHO IS DOING IT. Yes, that means Hamas. Yes, that means the IDF/Israeli government. It also means the US Military. It means ANYONE doing it.

I can be against it whoever is doing it.

Opposing Netanyahu for his horrific policies does not mean I hate Jewish people. Being against the things that were done to civilians on October 7 doesn't mean I hate all Palestinians, nor that I support genocide. I am very much against genocide whoever is doing it. See also my opinions on the Holocaust, what Russia is doing to Ukraine, the horrific shit my government and Canada's and Australia's did to indigenous people over centuries.

I can be against Netanyahu the way I am against Trump, Putin, and Viktor Orbán.

The Israeli government is a government. It is wrong and antisemitic to blame every Jewish person everywhere in the world for things they may not support and didn't have a say in unless they specifically support and/or voted for Likud or one of the right wing parties they coalition with. Jewish people inside and outside of Israel have been and are protesting war crimes the Israeli government has committed. It is possible to have a nuanced understanding of Israeli politics.

It strikes me as pretty weird to claim all Jewish people only have one opinion about everything and to call me antisemitic for opposing one particular politician for doing things that are harmful.

I do, in fact, want all hostages free, both the ones Hamas have and the ones the Israelis have. It sure looks to me and to a lot of people, including some rather vocal families of hostages, that Netanyahu has deliberately and repeatedly stood in the way of this happening for personal political gain and so that he can stay in power and out of jail for corruption he's credibly accused of.

My holding this opinion is very similar to my opinion of Donald Trump. Just saying.

I want Netanyahu out of power because that is the only way there is a chance of anything getting better in that part of West Asia. Which is the goal. I have been in favour of the two state solution since I was old enough to understand, which is longer than a lot of you have been alive, or at least longer than many of you have been old enough to follow the news. I have seen good and bad Israeli and Palestinian leaders come and go. I've seen Netanyahu break agreement after agreement over for decades whenever he's been in power. I don't trust him to make an agreement he will follow any more than I trust Trump to make one, especially when Netanyahu's personal agenda conflicts with that agreement, because that is how he has behaved over and over, including him not holding up his end of the ceasefire just recently.

My side is not that of one government, not even my own. My side is the greater good and the lets not murder children side. It pretty much always has been.

I'd love for the violence to be over. I'd love for everyone's kids to be safe. That's the side I'm on.

* "Israel fires on Lebanon after rocket attack in the heaviest exchange since the truce with Hezbollah:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-03-22-2025-32ca8fa2c5f6e887e1d51b9ffea6f836

* "Israel returns to war in Gaza with wider aims and almost no constraints:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-trump-iran-protests-bb504392b25e111e11a2ac1ecb8f4fc5

* "At least two people killed, 19 injured in Israeli strikes on Syria's Daraa:" https://archive.ph/u4Pr9

* "Al Jazeera journalist targeted in Gaza: 'If you're reading this, it means I've been killed':" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/03/25/al-jazeera-journalist-targeted-in-gaza-if-you-re-reading-this-it-means-i-ve-been-killed_6739505_4.html

* "Israel Bombs Gaza’s Only Cancer Hospital as Genocide Continues to Escalate:" https://truthout.org/articles/israel-bombs-gazas-only-cancer-hospital-as-genocide-continues-to-escalate/

* "West Bank Palestinians displaced by Israel's military fear they'll never go home again:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54280/west-bank-displaced-palestinians-israel-idf-military

* "Palestinians in Gaza protest against Hamas for a second day:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5340645/palestinians-protest-hamas-rule-in-gaza

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* "EU says 'unconditional withdrawal' of Russia from Ukraine is a precondition to amend sanctions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-says-unconditional-withdrawal-russia-ukraine-is-precondition-amend-sanctions-2025-03-26/

* Of course there are more conditions. "Kremlin says various conditions must be met before Black Sea security deal can be activated:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-various-conditions-must-be-met-before-black-sea-security-deal-can-2025-03-26/

* Putin is playing Trump like a harp as usual and Trump continues to negotiate the cutting up Ukraine without involving Ukraine in the talks.

* "In Ukraine call, Putin furthers his goals and cedes little to Trump, say analysts:" https://archive.ph/KLtTB

* "Russia and US to discuss Black Sea shipping and Ukraine peace in Saudi Arabia:" https://archive.ph/caisN

* "Putin wants Trump to formally recognize all land Russia has taken in Ukraine, Kommersant reports:" https://archive.ph/mFjIy

* "How Trump’s policies have helped Russia and furthered Putin’s goals:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-trump-s-policies-have-helped-russia-and-furthered-putin-s-goals/ar-AA1BHkRP

* "Trump administration halts program to track abducted Ukrainian children, lawmakers say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

* "As Trump cuts funding, Ukrainians wonder who will answer for kids abducted in war:" https://archive.ph/Ix1p2

* Things on Putin's wish list. "Musk Calls on US to Quit NATO, Stop Paying for Defense of Europe:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-09/musk-calls-on-us-to-quit-nato-stop-paying-for-defense-of-europe

* "Czech President Pavel was in Odesa as Russia pounded the city with drones:" https://archive.ph/pFgMa

* "3 people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia despite truce talks:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-ceasefire-drones-zaporizhzhia-84dab972755f90ad7592a2a13758ed9c

* "Russian missile attack wounds 88 in Ukraine's Sumy, officials say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missile-attack-ukraines-sumy-injures-28-people-local-official-says-2025-03-24/

* "Western officials say Russia is behind a campaign of sabotage across Europe. This AP map shows it:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-europe-hybrid-campaign-d61887dd3ec6151adf354c5bd3e6273e

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* "In Syria, Being Wanted Went From Something to Fear to a Badge of Honor:" https://archive.ph/8PVpd

* "Can One Man Hold Syria Together?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/syria-assad-downfall-sharaa/682135/

* "Russia ships its Arctic oil to Syria for first time as sanctions limit buyers:" https://archive.ph/ePJe8

* "Erdoğan's endgame: outlawing the Turkish opposition:" https://www.metafilter.com/208141/Erdoans-endgame-outlawing-the-Turkish-opposition

* "Thousands join march in Turkiye’s Istanbul to protest mayor’s arrest:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/21/thousands-join-march-in-turkiyes-istanbul-to-protest-mayors-arrest

* "Huge pro-democracy protests grip Turkey after Erdogan rival is imprisoned: The detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is widely viewed as politically motivated.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/turkey-erdogan-protests-ekrem-imamoglu-prison-istanbul-mayor-rcna197925

* "Ministers unanimously vote no confidence in AG, beginning formal process to dismiss her: Justice minister claims Gali Baharav-Miara caused rift with government by blocking its policies; she says it ‘seeks to be above the law,’ wants unlimited power; demonstrations grow:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/ministers-unanimously-vote-no-confidence-in-ag-beginning-formal-process-to-dismiss-her/

* "The ‘ghost reporters’ writing pro-Russian propaganda in West Africa:" https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/20/the-ghost-reporters-writing-pro-russian-propaganda-in-west-africa

* "Greenland Solves Political Crisis Hours Before JD Vance Visit:" https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-solves-crisis-before-vance-visit-2051938

* "The Tech CEOs Who Want a DOGE for Canada:" https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/28/Tech-CEOs-DOGE-Canada/

Canadians! Do not follow us into the dark. If you aren't yet registered: https://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=reg&document=index&lang=e

* "Canada aims for free internal trade that can offset any US tariffs, Carney says:" https://archive.ph/cGDGZ

* "No One Wants to Work? The Real Reason Boomers Are Wrong:"

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* "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans:" https://archive.ph/xdRkf

* "As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-signal-text-group-chat-russia-putin/

* "Classified material laws and why experts say Signal chat raises concerns:" https://archive.ph/Tbe5c

* "Democrats call Trump intelligence officials' use of group chat "reckless, sloppy and stunning":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-intelligence-committee-worldwide-threats-hearing/

* "Gabbard questioned on participating in Signal chat where war plans allegedly leaked:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-gabbard-questioned-on-participating-in-signal-chat-where-war-plans-allegedly-leaked

* "'Holy crap on steroids!': Top Trump officials exposed in shocking, sloppy military security blunder:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-holy-crap-on-steroids-top-trump-officials-exposed-in-shocking-sloppy-military-security-blunder-235260485849

* "Military plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/war-plans-group-chat-scandal-fits-pattern-of-trump-s-embarrassing-weakness-on-information-security-235386437800

* "'Unheard of': Slotkin says Trump war plans breach endangers 'human beings':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-unheard-of-slotkin-says-trump-war-plans-breach-endangers-human-beings-235365957721

* "‘Sheer, unfettered, Olympian incompetence’: Hayes on the Trump war plans breach :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-sheer-unfettered-olympian-incompetence-hayes-on-the-trump-war-plans-breach-235364421753

* "Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal:" https://archive.ph/vWtKn

* "Pete Buttigieg: Trump Cabinet's use of Signal app for military ops is ‘highest level of f**kup imaginable’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-trump-signal-security

* "Trump & Co Blame Journalist For Major National Security Slip Up:"

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* "Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online:" https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pete-hegseth-mike-waltz-tulsi-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7

* "‘Four-alarm fire’: Passwords for Hegseth, Gabbard and Waltz reportedly found online:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-four-alarm-fire-passwords-for-hegseth-gabbard-waltz-reportedly-found-online-235480133798

* "Israel Supplied Intelligence in Airstrike Discussed in Signal Chat, Officials Say:" https://archive.ph/YDDHo

* "Allies wary of Trump admin's incompetence after scandal over military plan group chat:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/allies-wary-of-trump-admin-s-incompetence-after-scandal-over-military-plan-group-chat-235646533990

* "Judge orders government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/g-s1-56821/signal-houthi-strike-chat-judge

* "Mike Waltz Under Fire After Leaving Venmo List Public: What To Know:" https://www.newsweek.com/mike-waltz-venmo-list-public-2051249

* "Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/10-years-hillary-clinton-server-trump-officials-military-plans-rcna197880

Republicans keep claiming Hillary having recipes and social stuff plus some things later designated sensitive on a private server is so much worse than inviting a reporter to a text chat on their private phones using a commercial app instead of a SCIF or the situation room, endangering the lives of military pilots and revealing an information source on the ground in Yemen.

Like, yes, she shouldn't have done that, but this is running a stop sign versus driving drunk at high speed the wrong direction on a highway.

They definitely knew they were doing the wrong thing because several of them attacked Hillary back in 2016 over her server and Matt Walz himself sent out warnings about Signal and threats against leakers days previously.

Why are the recipes "Lock her up" worthy, but this Republican clusterfuck isn't even worth a slap on the wrist?

* "What Rusting Russian Tanks Can Teach Us About the Pete Hegseth Group Chat:" https://archive.ph/GNe7C

* "Military plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/war-plans-group-chat-scandal-fits-pattern-of-trump-s-embarrassing-weakness-on-information-security-235386437800

* "‘Where was the president?’: Hayes on Trump’s alarming absence amid war plans group chat:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-where-was-the-president-hayes-on-trump-s-alarming-absence-amid-war-plans-group-chat-235478085667

* "'F---ing liar': Sen. Duckworth rips Pete Hegseth; calls for his resignation over group chat scandal:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-f-ing-liar-sen-duckworth-rips-pete-hegseth-calls-for-his-resignation-over-group-chat-scandal-235500101599

* "‘Sound familiar?’: DHS staffer accidentally added reporter to email about ICE raids:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-sound-familiar-dhs-staffer-accidentally-added-reporter-to-email-about-ice-raids-235620421884

* "The Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on Civilian Home:" https://theintercept.com/2025/03/26/signal-chat-yemen-strike/?

* "Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Signalgate, Trump’s tariffs, and defending the LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.advocate.com/news/elizabeth-warren-signalgate-trump-musk

* "Texting War Plans = Illegal:"

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* "Scoop: Senate Dems propose sprawling Signal chat probe:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/senate-democrats-signal-chat-probe

* "Sen. Mark Kelly shreds Hegseth for attack plans breach: ‘He crossed the line’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-mark-kelly-shreds-hegseth-for-attack-plans-breach-he-crossed-the-line-235747909799

* "Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials:" https://archive.ph/615Pj

* "Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen says U.S. Greenland visits meant to cause 'pressure':" https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/03/25/Denmark-Greenland-denounce-Usha-Vance-visit/6201742904783/

* "VP Vance and his wife change up trip to Greenland amid protests:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5338629/vp-vance-and-his-wife-change-up-trip-to-greenland-amid-protests

* "Former Denmark Ambassador Rufus Gifford responds to VP Vance's 'not a good ally' comments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/denmark-rufus-gifford-jd-vance

* They made no friends and influenced people to despise us even more. "JD Vance blasts Denmark in visit to Greenland with wife Usha as Trump administration eyes territory:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-usha-vance-visit-greenland-most-greenlanders-dont-want-to-join-america/

* "'This is shameful': Trump sows animosity and mistrust abroad, degrading Americans in the process:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-this-is-shameful-trump-sows-animosity-and-mistrust-abroad-degrading-americans-in-the-process-235758149579

* "Trump threatens a 25 percent tariff on countries that buy oil and gas from Venezuela:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-tariff-venezuela-oil-00244832

How this will work with US companies using Venezuelan oil is a question.

* "Trump Says He Could Cut China Tariffs to Secure TikTok Deal:" https://archive.ph/DNx0x

* "Trump auto tariffs: President slaps 25% duties on car imports to US:" https://archive.ph/IWGvK

* "US decision to limit Canadian access to border-straddling library prompts outpouring of emotion:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-america-library-vermont-quebec-7c4851c705d18e0cc891c3ce085e15e4

* "US to end funding for childhood vaccines in poorest countries, document shows:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-end-funding-child-vaccines-developing-countries-new-york-2025-03-26/

So many people, particularly children will die.

* "Elon Musk won’t receive secret China briefings, Trump says:" https://archive.ph/zXhsc

This is why we need a robust media and why our out cry is helpful.

Stay Noisy.

* "Media reports prompt Trump to end plan to brief Musk on secret potential war plans for China:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/media-reports-prompt-trump-to-end-plan-to-brief-musk-on-secret-potential-war-plans-for-china-235108421909

* "How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China:" https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-allows-china-investment-cayman-islands-secrecy

* "Map Shows Countries With Visa Warnings About US:" https://www.newsweek.com/travel-visas-germany-uk-usa-denmark-finland-2048695

* "Trump's transgender rights rollbacks prompt allies to adjust travel warnings:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/allies-issue-usa-travel-guidlines-transgender

* "If Trump didn’t sign the Alien Enemies Act proclamation, who — or what — did?:" https://archive.ph/N1ATk#selection-772.0-772.1

* "Trump floats sending Americans to foreign prisons. Civil rights groups say that would be illegal.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/trump-foreign-prison-threats-civil-rights-groups-027162

You know how I said sending Venezuela refugees to El Salvador for 'crimes' like having a soccer team tattoo and being gay by labeling them gang member terrorists was a trial balloon for summary deportation of anyone Trump wants to with zero due process?

It was.

It's the same tactic the right wing always uses to steal civil liberties. Trans people are a tiny percentage of the population, so a lot of people don't know any personally. Trans people = low hanging fruit for the right. So they demonize trans people accusing even our children of being sex predators for just existing, then use the hate they whipped up over lies to ban books and anyone LGBTQIA+ from public spaces and claim anyone who disagrees is a pedophile, so that the people who should be standing up to Christo-facists abandon principle by principle until it's to late and the Right comes for them.

This is the same sort of thing, Round up a bunch of Venezualan refugees and rendition them without legal justification or due process while demonizing them to whip up hate they can use to move the Overton window towards fascist autocracy so they can do this to anyone they want.

Poof all civil liberties are gone. Refugees = low hanging fruit to the right.

Stand up NOW while you still can.

* "US judge blocks Trump administration from fast-tracking deportations:" https://archive.ph/Kj8vX

* "Judge Rejects Trump’s Request to Allow Deportations Under Wartime Law:" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations/

* "Judge smacks down Trump DOJ: This court will not be ‘gaslit’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/judge-smacks-down-trump-doj-this-court-will-not-be-gaslit-235097157508

* "Appeals court denies Trump’s bid to resume deportations under Alien Enemies Act:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/alien-enemies-act-trump-denied-court-00252157

* "Why federal judges have few tools to rein in Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/why-federal-judges-have-few-tools-to-rein-in-trump-235126341779

* "Judge rebukes Justice Dept., raises due process questions in Alien Enemies Act deportation case:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-rebukes-justice-dept-due-process-alien-enemies-act-deportation-case/

* "We will deport you if we have evidence against you, and deport you if we do not :" https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69560/we-will-deport-you-if-we-have-evidence-against-you-and-if-we-do-not

* "Here are the names of the Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to El Salvador:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-names/

* "What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced:" https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

* "Venezuelan migrant deported from U.S. to El Salvador has no criminal record, documents show:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-migrant-deported-el-salvador-no-criminal-record/

* "Deported soccer player wrongly accused of gang membership over tattoo, lawyer says:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/21/deported-soccer-player-venezuela-tattoo/82589688007/

* " Gay Venezuelan asylum-seeker ‘disappeared’ to Salvadoran mega-prison under Trump order, Maddow reveals :" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-makeup-artist-deported-prison

I know I already posted the interview, but I want to remind people just how bullshit the Republican lies that these are all gang members are. This is WHY everyone needs do process. Yes, even people actually accused of crimes, because accusations aren't convictions. If he'd been allowed to go to his scheduled court hearing, he'd be here, not in mortal peril in a for profit prison with no over sight.

* "What the Hundreds of Venezuelans Trump Sent to El Salvador Are Up Against:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/venezuela-trump-deportation-el-salvador-prison-human-rights-cecot-due-process/

* "Why experts fear the men who were sent to El Salvador's megaprison may never make it out:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-detention-abuses-rcna197125

* "“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”: The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers. :" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/

* "'Incredible’: Trump admin reportedly deports man over autism awareness tattoo:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-incredible-trump-admin-reportedly-deports-man-over-autism-awareness-tattoo-235625029616

* It also looks like we are sending refugees back to Venezuela where they will be in danger: "Venezuela reaches deal to accept deportation flights from U.S.:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-reaches-deal-to-accept-deportation-flights-from-u-s/

* "IRS close to finalizing data-sharing agreement with ICE, sources say:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/irs-close-finalizing-data-sharing-agreement-ice-sources/story?id=120063278

* "Rubio says U.S. may have pulled more than 300 visas:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/rubio-state-department-more-than-300-visas

* "Columbia University protester Khalil remains jailed while judge weighs case transfer:" https://archive.ph/4jD5z

* "Cornell student activist asked to surrender to ICE:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/momodou-taal-cornell-student-activist-surrender-ice-rcna197604

* "Federal judge orders ICE not to remove immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra:" https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/federal-judge-orders-ice-not-remove-immigration-activist-jeanette-vizguerra/

* "Visa renewal leads to Arizona ICE detention for Canadian actress:" https://www.azfamily.com/2025/03/21/visa-renewal-leads-arizona-ice-detention-canadian-actress/

* "Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her:" https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892

* "‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-flatly-authoritarian-new-video-shows-masked-agents-arresting-tufts-student-235484229584

The Secret police had their faces covered and grabbed her without identifying themselves. When challenged they eventually said what agency they were from but didn't show proof or give their names.

They did this terrible thing because of her political views in clear violation of her 1st Amendment rights.

* "US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts:" https://archive.ph/gzNXj

* "‘ICE kidnapped our neighbor’: Outrage at arrest of Tufts student spreads as lawmakers demand answers:" https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/03/28/ice-kidnapped-our-neighbor-outrage-at-arrest-of-tufts-student-spreads-as-lawmakers-demand-answers/

* "'Absolutely unconstitutional': attorney for abducted Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk speaks out on her detainment:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/-absolutely-unconstitutional-attorney-for-abducted-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-speaks-out-on-her-detainment-235779653738

* Rubio's such a horrible person that he's proud of it. "Rubio confirms he revoked Tufts student's visa, says he pulls visas 'every day':" https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/03/27/tufts-student-deportation-court-order

* "Russian medical researcher at Harvard, who protested the Ukraine war, detained by ICE:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russian-medical-researcher-harvard-protested-ukraine-war-detained-ice-rcna198528

She broke no laws in the United States and will be in danger if returned to Russia because of her opposition to their invasion of Ukraine.

* "ICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government's college crackdown continues:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-alabama-doctoral-student-detained-ice-governments-college-c-rcna198320

* "Columbia student protester can’t be detained for now as she fights deportation, judge rules:" https://apnews.com/article/university-protests-palestinian-immigration-2d7bd689b013b8bb6300fd6ab54de933

* "A look at who has been detained or deported in a US crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detainees-students-ozturk-khalil-78f544fb2c8b593c88a0c1f0e0ad9c5f

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

* Shameful that we are doing this. Shameful and Cruel. These are refugees. "They did things ‘the right way.’ Now Trump is turning them into undocumented migrants | Opinion:" https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article302686929.html

* "Judge orders release of Venezuelan couple caught up in Trump gang crackdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/venezuelan-couple-release-00258414

Another bullshit illegal deportation attempt based on Government lies.

* "Courts smack down Trump's signature program; Americans instantly outraged over street snatchings:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/courts-smack-down-trump-s-signature-program-americans-instantly-outraged-over-street-snatchings-235756101583

* "Trump Administration Aims to Bring Back Detention Centers for Immigrant Kids:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/trump-administration-plans-detention-centers-for-migrant-children

* "DHS shuts down internal watchdog agencies that advocated for immigrants:" https://archive.ph/q7CP9

* CW: CSA. Cruelty is the point. "Legal groups helping immigrant children who survived sex trafficking, abuse sue to regain federal funding:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/hhs-federal-funding-cuts-sex-abuse-child-trafficking-immigrants-rcna198602

* "Immigrant Children as Young as 2 Years Old Are Now Expected to Represent Themselves After Federal Funding Cut, Attorneys Say:" https://www.latintimes.com/immigrant-children-young-2-years-old-are-now-expected-represent-themselves-after-federal-funding-579387

* "Immigrant advocates protest inhumane conditions in Baltimore ICE detention facility:" https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-immigration-ice-detention-facility-conditions/

* "'Soul of democracy': Hundreds protest ICE detaining workers:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/ice-arrests-spark-protest-at-tacoma-immigration-detention-center/

* "Liberals Have Been Waiting for This Moment Since Trump Took Office. They Need to Act Now.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-news-rumeysa-ozturk-arrest-tufts-student-protest.html

* "'Felt like a kidnapping': Wrong turn leads to 5-day detention ordeal:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5335524/wrong-turn-bridge-detention-ordeal

* "Trump Team Claims it Made Billions Off a Gold Card That Doesn’t Exist:" https://newrepublic.com/post/193160/donald-trump-commerce-howard-lutnick-us-residency-gold-cards

* "Convicted of bilking investors, Nikola founder and Trump donor gets a presidential pardon:" https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-pardon-3fcebb0a3820cecb205656f2dc3f6764

* "Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-espionage-doge-032d2eb798e4d9d97ea7c5d6dc2ecf93

* "Appeals court refuses to halt an order for the rehiring of thousands of fired federal workers:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-firings-probationary-workers-b96a01e7460321df8b9d500f922ba257

* "Indeed report: Job applications from agencies targeted by DOGE surge:" https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/25/federal-work-DOGE-Trump-job/2641742910254/

* "Resistance is alive and well in the United States:" https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resistance-alive-well-us/

* "47 signs spotted at anti-Trump/Musk protests:" https://www.reuters.com/pictures/47-signs-spotted-anti-trumpmusk-protests-2025-03-21/

* "Anti-Elon Musk protests held at Tesla dealerships:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/tesla-elon-musk-anti-trump-protests-rcna198708

* Do I smell desperation? "Musk deploys squandered credibility in desperate bid to hold ailing Tesla together:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/musk-deploys-squandered-credibility-in-desperate-bid-to-hold-ailing-tesla-together-235111493549

* "From Seattle to Miami, anti-Musk protesters gather at hundreds of Tesla locations:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5343986/anti-musk-protests-planned-worldwide

* "Pam Bondi warns Jasmine Crockett to ‘tread very carefully’ in what she says about Elon Musk:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/23/bondi-jasmine-crockett-musk-tesla-protests-00244256

* "The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters:" https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-tesla-arson-domestic-terrorism-protests/

* Unlike protesting Tesla/Musk, this attack is actual terrorism. "Florida man accused of driving toward anti-Musk protesters at Tesla dealership is charged with assault:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-charged-assault-tesla-dealership-driving-car-protesters-rcna197746

* "Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump’s policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk:" https://apnews.com/article/50501-protests-project-2025-trump-state-capitols-ddd341171a54ba9b498cbfe7530e18ab

* "Trump Order Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters :" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-voting-elections-executive-order/

The details are scary and blatantly unconstitutional, but I don't trust we still have rule of law.

It over rides the constitutionally protected right of states to run their election, throws out millions of legally cast votes, and puts the entire election in the hands of the President.

Basically, it's a way to let Trump and Republican successors finally put an end to free and fair elections while still pretending to hold them, like the other autocrats generally do.

They win this, Democracy is likely finished in the United States for my lifetime.

* "DOGE’s Supposed Savings Are About to Cost the U.S. a Lot of Money:" https://newrepublic.com/post/193093/irs-revenue-elon-musk-doge-cuts

The IRS collects taxes. If you decimate the IRS, they can't go after rich tax cheats, since that takes lots of hours of work by skilled auditors.

To give an idea of how much not collecting taxes from billionaires is going to cost, one of the people recently laid off by billionaire Elon Musk in the name of "efficiency" personally won back more than 8 million dollars over the years. (This isn't from this article, but from Msnbc reporting... last week? Maybe the week before. Anyway, it stuck in my head as illustrative).

Basically, IRS auditors make back way more money than it costs to pay them. The more money we invest in auditors, the more money rich people refuse to pay that they owe goes back into the treasury.

Every time Republicans cut the IRS budget and clain it's for cost saving, they are lying. It is always about the rich, who are already not paying their share getting to illegally pay even less, while people who actually work and pay their taxes get more and more of the social safety net ripped away from them.

* "DOGE stimulus checks: Here's why Americans may not receive the full $5,000 amount:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2025/03/28/doge-stimulus-checks-not-full-5000-dollars-amount-musk-trump/82704076007/
The original plan was to only give them to middle class and higher income people, instead of the people who's services are being cut as a result of the cruel and often illegal cuts.

Now they are saying maybe they will have to be smaller because they aren't really saving much money.

I will believe these supposed stimulus checks when I see them. It sounds a lot like lies they told to make killing Social Security go down easier as if a small one time payment most people on social security won't even get will make of for all the people becoming homeless when their rent money doesn't arrive.

* "Exclusive: DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/?

* Originally, they announced they were shutting it because the judge told them they had to stop mining your private data. Stay noisy. It matters. "Acting Social Security chief now says he won't shut down agency after DOGE ruling:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/acting-social-security-chief-now-shut-agency-after/story?id=120046608

* "Social Security rushing service cuts at White House request, sources say:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/social-security-cuts-doge

They have postponed smashing Social Security until Monday on the grounds they did zero trainings, fired the people that would be writing the program that doesn't exist yet, so... Yeah.

There is a rush to do it as, if the agency is still functional on April 2, they will have to actually send people their money and the Republicans absolutely don't want to do that, hence them aiming for the 1st of the month.

UPDATE: They were forced to postpone until the 14th. Keep complaining.

* "Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security:" https://archive.ph/iAMdN

Hint: The fraud rate is less than one percent and the dead people collecting checks are imaginary.

* Ya Think? "The Social Security Administration's many proposed changes are worrying advocates:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5320263/social-security-administration-changes-identity-office

* "10,000 Social Security Administration workers could accept buyout offer, former commissioner says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-administration-voluntary-separation-incentive-payment/

* "Seniors won't complain if they miss a Social Security check, Lutnick says:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/social-security-lutnick-doge-checks

So the argument is, if you complain because you need your social security money for rent, electricity, etc. and they stole it, you are a fraudster who doesn't deserve it, and if you are rich enough not to need it so you wait and don't complain you doesn't need it and shouldn't get it, therefore no one should get the social security payments they earned and need to survive.

Welcome to Catch 22.

see also, this is why people who have never been actually poor in their lives should be allowed into positions of power where they can do this kind of harm.

I am completely fucked if my check doesn't come. They start assessing late fees for housing after seven days. The Bank fee for this auto-withdraw will likely overdraw my account. No gas, no electricity. My insurance will try to auto-withdraw mid-month causing bank fees to continue to grow exponentially. I am contractually required to have insurance on my apartment. I can't cancel it. I can't drive without gas or car insurance and I am disabled with very limited mobility. A bus pass costs about a months gas an requires lots of walking I can't do or someone else doing a lot of walking pushing my in a chair because my arms are fucked too.

No supplemental food or medical supplies or cleaning stuff or toilet paper or things the cats absolutely need. No credit card or other bill payments.

Not paying any bills for one month would dig me into a hole I could never get out of. With all the staff cuts and closures, how many months would it take to get reinstated? Will I automatically be labelled a fraudster and be denied reinstatement for the crime of being to poor to float all my bills for months?

* "Missed Social Security checks no big deal to Trump commerce secretary as attacks on agency escalate:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/missed-social-security-checks-no-big-deal-to-trump-commerce-secretary-as-attacks-on-agency-escalate-235110981853

* "Trump official doubts seniors would mind if their Social Security checks stopped:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-official-doubts-seniors-would-mind-if-their-social-security-checks-stopped-235096133996

I beg of you complain and/or protest now. People will die.

* Keep complaining. It's slowing them down. "Social Security backs off plan to cut phone services after backlash:" https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/26/social-security-backs-off-plan-to-cut-phone-servic/

* "New Social Security clawback policy starts this week: What to know:" https://thehill.com/homenews/5215878-new-social-security-clawback-policy-starts-this-week-what-to-know/

This is usually mistakes, not fraud, sometimes on the part of the agency. Taking 100% means some people will be homeless.

* "Trump's Social Security check change could affect half a million Americans:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/trump-social-security-paper-checks-direct-deposit

The change in payment method is designed to harm the poorest and most vulnerable recipients, because of course it is.

* "‘It is wrong’: Warren sounds off on the Trump-Musk attack on Social Security:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-it-is-wrong-warren-sounds-off-on-the-trump-musk-attack-on-social-security-235367493850

* "Social Security official ended program for Maine newborns because he was ‘ticked’ at Mills:" https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/social-security-official-ended-program-for-maine-newborns-because-he-was-ticked-at-mills/

So he decided to not automatically register the social security numbers of newborns, forcing the exhausted parents to go through hoops for something that should be simple because he's a misogynist and transphobe

* ":" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-musk-dismantle-social-security

* "'Cycle of doom': Social Security degradation evident as Trump cuts and changes cause feedback loop:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-cycle-of-doom-social-security-degradation-evident-as-trump-cuts-and-changes-cause-feedback-loop-235384901689

* "Demonstrators rally against plan to cut 7,000 Social Security workers:" https://pix11.com/news/local-news/demonstrators-rally-against-plan-to-cut-7000-social-security-workers/

* "New political leadership: Regular Americans show how to stand up to Trump as political leaders fail:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-political-leadership-regular-americans-show-how-to-stand-up-to-trump-as-political-leaders-fail-235651653560

* Presumably because Republicans feel that they aren't killing women fast enough by denying them life saving health care in some states. "Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-medicaid-trump-planned-parenthood-supreme-court-c512ec676b99d521d240bedeb7f85574

* "About 200 people rally against potential cuts to Medicaid in downtown Yakima:" https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/about-200-people-rally-against-potential-cuts-to-medicaid-in-downtown-yakima/article_3766b3da-00b7-4df7-ae18-d22d1dae519d.html

* "Federal judge prevents Trump administration from dismantling CFPB:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5315118/cfpb-shuttering-trump-doge

* "Elon Musk throws weight behind merging FTC and DOJ antitrust units:" https://archive.ph/nkuBj

* "Trump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-firing-of-ftc-commissioners-speaks-volumes-about-his-love-for-billionaires-235159621742

* "Trump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-firing-of-ftc-commissioners-speaks-volumes-about-his-love-for-billionaires-235159621742

* "‘Elon Musk is playing with fire—but he’ll never get burned’: Michael Lewis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-elon-musk-is-playing-with-fire-but-he-ll-never-get-burned-michael-lewis-234994245830

* "White House Reveals How Trump Could Buy More Bitcoin—Priming A Price Earthquake:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/03/22/white-house-reveals-how-trump-could-buy-more-bitcoin-priming-a-price-earthquake/

The goal is to drain the treasury of valuable assets to give Trump and a handful of his mega-donors by buying up their scam bitcoin. This will be a massive transfer of taxpayer money directly into the pockets of billionaires.

* This is NOT a coincidence: "Trump family crypto venture to launch a stablecoin:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/25/trump-family-crypto-venture-to-launch-a-stablecoin-00247455

* Now is a great time to tell your Senator's to oppose Cynthia Lummis' Crypto bill.

* Which was of course the goal. "Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-department-of-education-closure-civil-rights-4c5f4e8347dd3318d2f23ad8632d7b74

* "Trump administration transferring student loan, nutrition programs out of Education Dept:" https://archive.ph/iytkd

The SBA is a lot smaller than the education Department and is already swamped. They have zero experience doing any of this.

Students Loans and Grants are how nearly everyone not born so rich they can pay cash upfront goes to college. Clogging this system to uselessness stops a whole lot of talented and hard working people from getting degrees.

Kids can't learn very well if they are too hungry to con concentrate. starving them of essential nutrients causes long term learning delays and health issues. This is designed to keep the children of the poor sick and poor and combined with strangling the student loan program is a way to deny them a life time of opportunities.

This is the rich pulling up the ladder of success after them to prevent everyone else achieving a decent standard of living.

* Bonus they are dumping this on the SBA while slashing it to ribbons as part of their plan to crush small businesses to help the Billionaires who bought Trump:

"Small Business Administration plans to slash staff by over 40 percent amid agency-wide reorganization:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/small-business-administration-job-cuts-00003736

* How to in post. "hey it's probably a really good idea to download a copy of your Master Promissory Note:" https://www.tumblr.com/becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys/778806373433720832

* "So What Exactly Is Going On With Student Loans?:" https://slate.com/life/2025/03/trump-news-department-of-education-order-means-chaos-for-student-loans.html

* "Latest Trump cuts put summer reading, mobile libraries and local museums in jeopardy:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/20/trump-order-library-museum-federal-employee-leave/82572108007/

* "'Deeply outraged': Mayor Justin Bibb slams Trump administration for cutting 553K pounds of food for Greater Cleveland Food Bank:" https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/greater-cleveland-food-bank-president-donald-trump-administration-cancel-order-mayor-justin-bibb-usda/95-fad2bf18-a66b-4c1f-8859-d3e22694e486

* They are obeying in advance. "Columbia bows to Trump administration, hoping to restore federal funding:" https://gothamist.com/news/columbia-bows-to-trump-administration-hoping-to-restore-federal-funding

* They are obeying in advance. "Legal community shaken by a powerful law firm's decision to give in to Trump's demands:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/legal-community-shaken-powerful-law-firm-paul-weiss-trump-rcna197490

* Perkins Coie is not and they are doing the right thing. If no one stands up now, no law firm is likely to ever stand up to Trump again. "Legal organizations alarmed over Trump’s targeting of Seattle law firm Perkins Coie:" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/16/seattle-legal-organizations-perkins-coie/

* "DOJ moves to boot federal judge from Perkins Coie case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/doj-federal-judge-perkins-coie-case-00243928

* "One Firm Fights; One Firm Forfeits ft. Liz Dye:"

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* "Trump executive order targets law firm challenging anti-trans policies:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-targets-jenner-block

* This looks illegal on it's face. Apparently judges are agreeing "In back-to-back rulings, federal judges rule against Trump orders targeting law firms:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/g-s1-56890/law-firms-sue-trump

* "Major law firm strikes preemptive deal with White House:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/skadden-arps-trump-law-deal-028324

* ...And another law firm caves so that's 2 fought and won, one still fighting, and two caved in advance.

* "America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State: For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/

* "Judge says Justice Department attacked her character to ‘impugn the integrity’ of US judicial system:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-judiciary-executive-power-lawsuits-547ba740ad8689c8b8bd80291d2f4ad0

* "Trump appoints former personal attorney Alina Habba as US attorney for New Jersey:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appoints-alina-habba-us-attorney-new-jersey/story?id=120099632

* "USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453

You realize that without this, there will be hardly any protein, right?

Reminder: We have so much extra money that we have wasted 18.2 million dollars on Trump's golf outing as of last week. Why is that a better use of taxpayer money then helping farmers and feeding people?

* "School Lunches Should Be Free:"

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* "Protests Break Out Across US Over Plans To Change Postal Service:" https://www.newsweek.com/protests-plans-change-postal-service-2049406

* "US Postmaster General DeJoy steps down:" https://archive.ph/AGasQ

* Republicans decided we should no longer "waste money" on weather balloons used to track hurricanes in Tornado alley amoung other things. "National Weather Service Suspends Critical Service Again Amid DOGE Cuts:" https://www.newsweek.com/national-weather-service-suspends-critical-service-again-amid-doge-cuts-2048313

* "Fired National Park Service Staff Will Be Reinstated, but Long-Term Threats Loom:" https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21032025/todays-climate-fired-national-parks-workers-reinstated/

* "Protesters descend on Yosemite, Channel Islands and 91 other national parks:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/protests-national-parks-budget-20234508.php

* "Mount Rainier rally part of nationwide push to protect parks, federal workers:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/national/mount-rainier-rally-nationwide-push-to-protect-parks-federal-workers-washington/281-9fd675cc-5907-4965-82f2-dda739c1bca2

* "Protesters gathered outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park amid federal cuts:" https://www.wate.com/news/smoky-mountains/protesters-gathered-outside-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-amid-federal-cuts/

* "As Americans Protest Attacks on Public Lands, Trump Signals National Monuments May be Shrunk or Eliminated:" https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18032025/trump-administration-attacks-national-monuments-protests/

* "Kristi Noem to Trump’s Cabinet: I’m ‘Going to Eliminate’ FEMA:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-to-trumps-cabinet-im-going-to-eliminate-fema/

* "Trump wants FEMA gone. But that could be its own kind of disaster.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kristi-noem-fema-donald-trump-rcna198190

* "“This man is not our boss” — EPA workers rally against DOGE cuts:" https://www.theverge.com/news/635710/doge-musk-trump-environmental-protection-agency-epa

* "EPA employees rally in Denver against President Trump’s job and funding cuts:" https://www.cpr.org/2025/03/26/epa-employees-rally-in-denver-against-president-trumps-job-and-funding-cuts/

* Yet they are purging all these extremely competent people at the top based entirely on skin colour or gender to make room for mediocre or worse white men."Hegseth Brings in Emotional Support Brother as Pentagon Aide:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/hegseth-brings-in-emotional-support-brother-as-pentagon-aide/

* "Protestors outside Neal Dunn’s info session believe that Veterans Association cuts are unjust:" https://www.wjhg.com/2025/03/23/protestors-outside-neal-dunns-info-session-believe-that-verterans-association-cuts-are-unjust/

* "Veterans becoming face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/veterans-becoming-face-of-trumps-government-cuts-and-democrats-resistance

* "Another judge blocks the Pentagon from implementing Trump's transgender military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-military-ban-injunction

* "BREAKING: Judge reinstates nationwide stop to Trump’s trans military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-military-ban-injunction-reinstated

* "Internet drags Pete Hegseth after he mocked judge who blocked Trump's trans military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-hegseth-dragged-mocking-judge#rebelltitem5

* "Congress members denounce VA's end to gender-affirming care, demand answers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/congress-members-condemn-va

* "Opinion | The DEI Purge Will Weaken Our Military:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/19/dei-pentagon-hegseth-trump-00236799

* "DOD removed pages that referenced the Holocaust, then restored at least one:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dod-pages-dei-holocaust/

* "Trump administration scrubs 'Golden Girls' star's Marine Corps contributions in latest DEI purge:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-bea-arthur-golden-girls-dei

* "These are the US military's diversity photos Trump doesn't want you to see:" https://www.aol.com/us-militarys-diversity-photos-trump-093001345.html

* Nearly all our Domestic Terrorists are Republican, so.... "Trump administration cuts national database tracking domestic terrorism:" https://archive.ph/dArH6#selection-558.0-558.1

* Mine's up in threeish years. "Trump’s Gender Order Won’t Affect Existing Passports — Unless They’re Renewed:" https://www.notus.org/whitehouse/trump-gender-sex-order-passports

* "Trump vs. Maine: State refuses anti-trans sports policies as federal agencies push to cut funding:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-vs-maine-explained

* "DO THIS: Oppose Trump administration move to ban trans health care coverage in the ACA:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2030901.html

Direct Link to Comment: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability

* NYU Obeyed in advance. "‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation:" https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/

* I may have missed this, so I'm posting it. "CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.:" https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction

* "U.S. health department plans to slash 10,000 jobs as RFK Jr. upends agencies:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-plans-10000-hhs-job-cuts.html

* I know I keep saying this, but so many people are going to die because of RFKJr's policies.

* "US pulls back $12 billion in funding to state health departments:" https://archive.ph/oLqwH

* "$160M in WA health funding axed by Trump administration:" https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/03/27/160m-in-wa-health-funding-axed-by-trump-administration-cuts/

* "CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-pulling-back-11b-covid-funding-sent-health-departments-us-rcna198006

* NOTE: not all the grants. "NIH restores some long COVID grants:" https://cen.acs.org/policy/research-funding/NIH-restores-long-COVID-grants/103/web/2025/03

* RFK Jr.'s disinformation campaign is doing a massive amount of damage. "Growing measles outbreak in Texas pushes U.S. cases above 520:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-grows-us-cases-rcna198557

Not vaccinating children who can be safely vaccinated is child abuse, in my opinion.

* "The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations:" https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report

* Because RFK Jr. lied about vitamin A, people are now damaging their children's livers rather than give the safe vaccines. "West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak:" https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-27/west-texas-children-treated-for-vitamin-a-toxicity-as-medical-disinformation-spreads-alongside-measles-outbreak

* "Why I left my job leading public health messaging for the CDC: Public health policy must be guided by facts and not fantasy.:" https://archive.ph/rx1KR

* "The top FDA vaccine official is forced out, cites RFK Jr.'s 'misinformation and lies':" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5344010/fda-peter-marks-rfk-jr

* "RFK Jr. to shut down HHS Office of Infectious Diseases & HIV Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/health/office-infectious-diseases-hiv-closing

* "The War on Poppers Started Long Before RFK Jr. Took Over HHS :" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/popper-drug-crackdown-rfk-lgbtq-1235299650/

* "POPPERS 101 and HIV/AIDS Dropped by CDC:"

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* And now for some bonus RFK Jr. body shaming and assholery: "RFK Jr. Tells Governor to His Face He Needs to Lose 30 Pounds:" https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-west-virginia-governor-patrick-morrisey-weight-2052287

* EBT/SNAP is not HHS, but the Agriculture Department/USDA. "RFK Jr.'s food stamp plan fuels tension with USDA:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-food-stamps-soda-usda-tension-00252045

* "Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism:" https://archive.ph/4nc3I

There is no link. It's been proved over and over.

We are not only wasting time and money on this we could be spending vaccinating kids in the middle of a measles epidemic, but we aren't hiring a scientist to run it, but a propagandist.

* "Voice of America wins in court, for now, as judge blocks Trump administration from firing staff:" https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-trump-a1ed0ad37917055a1565da5325bd4fd8

* "Radio Free Europe says Trump administration rescinded its grant termination order:" https://archive.ph/ccFBJ

* "Trump signs order to ‘remove improper ideology’ from Smithsonian museums and zoo:" https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-3-27-2025

* "Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa

* "Trump directs JD Vance to go after ‘woke zoos’ :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-directs-jd-vance-to-go-after-woke-zoos-235744325555

* "Donald Trump's Spiritual Advisor Faces Christian Backlash:" https://www.newsweek.com/paula-white-cain-christians-donald-trump-2050102

* "Trump has big dreams for the Kennedy Center but doesn't seem to know what it does:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-kennedy-center-audience-rcna197179

* "Trump calls on Polis to remove ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait of himself hanging in the Colorado capitol:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-portrait-colorado-polis-00244561

* "Some underreported news and the return of Your Moment of Zen:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2031467.html

* "Trump asks Supreme Court for OK to cut teacher-training money as part of anti-DEI push:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/trump-supreme-court-teacher-training-00251211

* "Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow mass firings of probationary workers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-supreme-court-fired-probationary-workers-00244890

* "Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for ghost guns:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ghost-guns-bf404db1d4ece56203c8748b2544dc02

* "Supreme Court takes up case claiming Obamacare promotes “homosexual behavior”: The Texas plaintiffs say requiring workplace insurers to provide PrEP violates their religious beliefs.:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/supreme-court-takes-up-case-claiming-obamacare-promotes-homosexual-behavior/

Once again Christians are claiming corporations are people have religious convictions and that their right to deny bodily autonomy for religious reasons are more important than mere human type people's right to bodily autonomy.

* "Is America a Kleptocracy?:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/25/america-kleptocracy-trump-musk-corruption/

* "Whipsawed by Trump’s tariffs, the US public is getting a lot more nervous about the economy:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-consumer-confidence-tariffs-inflation-849d658cbab7992590a5a3bb3449aa52

* "Everything Owned by Nestlé:" https://wyomingllcattorney.com/Blog/Everything-Owned-by-Nestle

* "US likely to reach debt limit X-date in August or September, Congress’ scorekeeper predicts :" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/26/congress/us-likely-to-reach-debt-limit-x-date-in-august-or-september-congress-scorekeeper-predicts-00250525

* Scary Shit. "US House Speaker Johnson says Congress can 'eliminate' district courts:" https://archive.ph/FUgTk

* "Elon Musk’s Space Business Partner Is Poised to Take Over NASA:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/elon-musk-jared-isaacman-nasa-spacex-business-partner-1235301236/

* "Who Is Frank Bisignano? Democrats Grill Trump’s Social Security Pick At Confirmation Amid DOGE Cuts To Service.:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/03/25/who-is-frank-bisignano-democrats-grill-trumps-social-security-pick-at-confirmation-amid-doge-cuts-to-service/

* "Fallout coming for House GOP over Trump's rug pull on Stefanik:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/elise-stefanik-mike-johnson-trump-un-ambassador

* "Trump yanks Elise Stefanik’s Cabinet nomination, citing ‘very tight’ GOP majority:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-yanks-elise-stefanik-s-cabinet-nomination-citing-very-tight-gop-majority-235623493907

* "Jasmine Crockett mocks sports bans: 'Find the little trans child that is ruining your life':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jasmine-crockett-transgender-sports-bans

* "Why anger has shifted from Trump's overreach to the Democrats' disunity and apathy:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-overreach-democrats-disunity-opinion

* As always, these are representative samples. There are way more out there.

Pressure both sides. Ask hard questions. Complain. Embarrass them. Keep pushing because we deserve better.

Stay Noisy.

* "Bernie Sanders, AOC rally crowd of 30,000 in Denver’s Civic Center:" https://www.denverpost.com/2025/03/21/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-denver-civic-center-trump/

* "Fourth Protest outside Rep. Pete Stauber’s office Demanding answers:" https://www.northernnewsnow.com/2025/03/20/fourth-protest-outside-rep-pete-staubers-office-demanding-answers/

* "Republican Senator Faces Angry Protesters, Questions in Red State:" https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-faces-protestors-questions-red-state-2048906

* "Nevada voters pack town hall to voice concerns about Trump policies:" https://knpr.org/politics/2025-03-21/nevada-voters-pack-town-hall-to-voice-concerns-about-trump-policies

* "‘Do your job’: Voters voice frustration after Nancy Mace declines town hall invite:" https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/do-your-job-voters-voice-frustration-after-nancy-mace-declines-town-hall-invite/

* "Protestors gather outside Rep. Buddy Carters’ office:" https://www.wsav.com/news/protestors-gather-outside-rep-buddy-carters-office/

* "Andy Barr knew Lexington town hall was locally organized. He still lied about attendees | Opinion:" https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/linda-blackford/article302754904.html

* "Democrat Confronted by Angry Protesters at Town Hall:" https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-confronted-angry-protesters-town-hall-2048388

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Over 25 million remain under red flag warnings with heightened risk of wildfires:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfire-warnings-continue-parts-country-strong-winds-persist/story?id=120030148

* "Most Texas wildfires are contained Saturday despite elevated threats, forest service says:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2025/03/22/most-texas-wildfires-are-contained-saturday-despite-elevated-threats-forest-service-says/

* "Wildfires force mandatory evacuation order in western North Carolina:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wildfires-force-mandatory-evacuation-order-western-north-carolina-120068816

* "Firefighters battle four uncontained wildfires, evacuations in effect:" https://www.wyff4.com/article/polk-county-wnc-wildfires-high-fire-danger/64243054

* "Wildfires in North and South Carolina fueled by drought, wind and fallen trees from Hurricane Helene:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-north-south-carolina-evacuations-af970ce0551007bfa0a5940aed58d68a

* "Aid rushes into Myanmar after earthquake kills over 1,600, ravages cities:" https://archive.ph/jsXsV

* "Myanmar junta accused of air strike even after quake:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250330-myanmar-junta-accused-of-air-strike-even-after-quake

* "'Magnets for human connection': Why Japanese ‘micro-forests' are transforming our cities:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/02/17/the-japanese-micro-forest-method-is-transforming-cities

* "Debunking Garden Watering Myths:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5JAeCFM8H9E

* "Scientists were in Antarctica when a giant iceberg broke free. Here’s what they found in its shadow:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/03/23/scientists-were-in-antarctica-when-a-giant-iceberg-broke-free-heres-what-they-found-in-its

* "This Fly Larva’s Butt Looks Like a Termite’s Head—and Termites Are Falling for It:" https://gizmodo.com/this-fly-larvas-butt-looks-like-a-termites-head-and-termites-are-falling-for-it-2000563456

* "This Apex Predator Was ‘King of the Ancient Egyptian Forest’ Then Mysteriously Went Extinct:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-apex-predator-was-king-of-the-ancient-egyptian-forest-then-mysteriously-went-extinct/

* "The Only Black Police Precinct in U.S. History: How Miami Was Policed During Segregation:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-police-precinct-history-miami

* "New photo from Pulse shooting shows exit blocked by refrigerator, which may have cost lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/new-photo-pulse-exit-blocked

* "Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio: This Is the Way We Rise:" https://kcts9.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/identity-poetry-activism-video/this-is-the-way-we-rise-american-masters/

* "Scientist’s ‘disturbing’ behavior, death threats at Antarctic base prompts probe:" https://interestingengineering.com/culture/scientist-disturbing-behavior-antarctic-probe-begins

* "TSA stops man with live turtle in his pants:" https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/tsa-stops-man-with-live-turtle-in-his-pants/video_29a3b6d1-67d9-5dfc-a44e-765beb8ebc5d.html

* "Passenger Allegedly Swallowed Rosary Beads and Attacked Crew Members During Mid-Flight Meltdown:" https://people.com/plane-passenger-allegedly-swallowed-rosary-beads-and-attacked-crew-members-11695552

* Thursday a week ago, I had thought I was likely going to crash again 2AMish as I woke up exhausted, headachy, with all my joints screaming at me, but it got better about 2-3, so I soldiered on and got the aggregate out. Friday, I was well enough to do almost bare minimum physio, which I'm counting as a win.

My hopes of being super productive Friday night failed, alas, but for good reasons. The cats were doing Peaceable Kingdom in my bed, so I read most of Tidal Creatures while administering pettins on demand and cuddle naps for cats. I also had a bunch of small things needing doing I'd been in too much pain to handle around the Cat Asylum, which I spaced out in classic chronic pain fashion in between rests. Also I fell down a medieval history rabbit hole for about an hour. <.< >.>

Tonight was I was also migrating another function across to Killian laptop, and inevitably diving in and out of settings as I found things needing tweaking. This is why it generally takes several weeks to get a lap top going right, and this time having to use waterfox classic instead of standard waterfox meant I had to rethink job distributions, since a bunch of extensions don't work on classic. Limited utility means I need to switch some functions for other browsers. It's mostly sorted now, though I may need more tweaks.

Part of why Thursday worked out so well for me is I'm getting better at the new work flow pattern, so certain things can move a little faster.

So progress, basically, even though it feels like running on sand.

* Thursday this week, I had to stay up for painful x-rays and doctor prodding, as well as to have blood taken. The x-rays were incredibky painful as my hip joint are terrible right now and it's a lot of standing in fixed positions. My shoulder joint healed correctly. I have been released in the wild to do more at home physio. I am to focus particularly on inward motion, which means I will need to get creative. Sigh.

* So about a week and a half ago, a friend sent me NasalCrom to see if it could make a dent in my chronic sinus infection/sinusitis situation. It's really impressive, as it turns out. My sinuses have been slowly draining, which is not pleasant, but neither was several years of sinus headaches and the constant need to manually drain them 1-3 times a day depending on how much worse my allergies to Outside are making things. This, at least is progress towards an actual solution.

TMI after this point.
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* New Tavy pics: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/778947425672019968/the-emperor-has-found-a-new-perch-from-which-to?source=share

* "DOGE Protestors Turn Their Focus on Tesla & Delayed NASA Astronauts Make It Home | The Daily Show:"

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* "GOP Pumps Tesla As Trump Admin Flubs JFK File Release & DEI Scrubbing | The Daily Show:"

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* "Jon Stewart on Which Speech Is Free and Which Will Cost You in Trump’s America | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump's Kennedy Center Takeover | Kristi Noem Taunts Canada | Taking Greenland:"

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* "Signalgate: Trump Tries To Dodge Explosive National Security Scandal | All Of Them Should Be Fired:"

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* "Hegseth's Sloppy Security Breach | Mike Waltz: Goldberg's Number Got "Sucked In" To My Phone:"

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* "Blame Mike Waltz | Trump Team's Sloppy Digital Footprints | The Fertilization President:"

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* "How Many Dildos Is Too Many? Texas Offers An Answer:"

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* "Consumer Watch: Delete Your DNA | Toys For Kidults | Tax Prep For Kids:"

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* "Survive the Apocalypse in Luxury at this Doomsday Prepper Ranch | The Daily Show:"

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* "‘Why I’m Misogynistic’ | Are The Straights OK?:"

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* "the idea of odysseus as, like, a military propagandist/PR officer is really fun for me in a fucked up way, given that he Did Not Want To Go To War In The First Place.:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/779357773890732032/to-me-this-also-fits-with-him-taking-neoptolemus

* "Tumultuous 1066:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2XdqjwPHWps

* "Worrisome War Wolves:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1o5nXucddGQ

* "Perilous Pazzis:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G0MaPqF_Cqs

* "Woeful WWI:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gRR2rKDo1IM

* "White House Easter Egg Roll Sponsors:"

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* "Resurrecting The Wooly Mammoth:"

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* "Styling the Whole World:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XDxRiYF-v8s

* "Take a look at the winning images from this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards:" https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/03/19/take-a-look-at-the-winning-images-from-this-years-british-wildlife-photography-awards

* "Sunday Sweets Springs In:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-springs-in-2025

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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.

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

* How to fight your insurace company when they insist you take meds that don't work instead of a more expensive one that does: https://steptherapy.com/step-therapy-legislation-by-state/

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* As is custom now, Trump stuff sort is likely a little rough. I can not guarantee anything in the tariff section is up to date, because he changes it so fast and reactions from understandably furious trading partners are basically light speed at this point.

* "Hamas says it will only release American-Israeli hostage if ceasefire deal is implemented:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-03-15-2025-b54c0c11c4d7f0ca52653edb033c70f5

* "Israel's decision to cut power to Gaza hits the strip's water supplies:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/israel-cuts-power-to-gaza-hits-water-supplies-hamas-ceasfire/105045700

* "Palestinians unearth fresh wounds as Gaza's al-Shifa hospital burials are relocated:" https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bodies-buried-temporarily-gaza-hospital-during-israeli-raids-brought-cemeteries

* "Israel’s attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza ‘genocidal’: UN probe:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/13/israels-attacks-on-reproductive-healthcare-in-gaza-genocidal-un

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* "Putin on a ceasefire in Ukraine, Western companies and gas:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-has-putin-said-about-ukraine-ceasefire-deal-2025-03-13/

* "In rare meeting without U.S. ally, Western army chiefs meet to show Ukraine unity:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/rare-meeting-without-us-ally-western-army-chiefs-meet-show-ukraine-unity-2025-03-11/

* "Poland and Baltic nations welcome Macron’s nuclear deterrent proposal:" https://apnews.com/article/france-nuclear-deterrent-umbrella-russia-55e91ab65d13559dfc55dfe376ba5268

So many countries gave up their nuclear weapons trusting our promises to protect them.

* "Poland's President Duda calls for U.S. to deploy nuclear weapons in his nation:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poland-president-duda-us-nuclear-weapons-deploy/

* "Germany debates issue of nuclear weapons:" https://www.dw.com/en/germany-debates-issue-of-nuclear-weapons/a-71924424

* This is disgusting and shameful. "'Say thank you' Rubio tells Poland amid Ukraine Starlink spat:" https://archive.ph/hVrjR

* "Trump puts U.S. at risk with increasing reliance on Musk and Starlink:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-puts-u-s-at-risk-with-increasing-reliance-on-musk-and-starlink-234049093674

* "US senator accuses Trump of weakening Ukraine's defense, dismisses Musk 'traitor' insult:" https://archive.ph/d4euZ

* "'Serious mistakes': Kelly sounds alarm on Trump handling of Ukraine; Nails Musk on 'traitor' gibe:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-serious-mistakes-kelly-sounds-alarm-on-trump-handling-of-ukraine-nails-musk-on-traitor-gibe-234047557512

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* "Trump launches large-scale strikes on Yemen's Houthis, at least 31 killed:" https://archive.ph/bgr1S

* "Entire families killed during Syria's violence, UN says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-says-entire-families-killed-syria-military-operation-2025-03-11/

* "A tinderbox conflict in Congo is ready to explode:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CONGO-SECURITY/MAPS/movaykzaava/?

* Good! "Philippines' ex-President Rodrigo Duterte arrested at ICC's request over 'drugs war' killings:" https://archive.ph/1Ellj

* This includes commentary on the new Canadian PM, amoung other things. "Off the cuff news reactions:" https://sabotabby.dreamwidth.org/2648730.html

* We are seriously threatening to go to war with Denmark. "NATO Chief Smacks Down Trump on Greenland Grab:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/nato-chief-smacks-down-trump-on-greenland-grab/

* "Pentagon asked for military options to access Panama Canal, officials say:" https://archive.ph/KH6eM

We are planning to invade Panama, apparently. We HAVE access to canal. What we are planning to do is invade another country and occupy it because we are too cheap to pay a perfectly reasonable toll.

* "Donald Trump, who has been on a mission to strip transgender people of all dignity, complains ‘everything is transgender’: He made the bizarre remarks in front of the Irish prime minister.:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-everything-is-transgender

* "If our neighbor Canada hates us and Trump, what does that say for the rest of the world?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/canada-world-hates-trump-vance

No one should trust us. Not even a tiny bit.

* "How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious
President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements. :" https://archive.ph/56bzU

* "Amid U.S.-Canada trade war, Trump makes some false or misleading claims to justify tariffs:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tariffs-canada-trade-fact-check/

* "Canada and EU announce retaliatory tariffs, escalating Trump’s trade war:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/canada-and-eu-announce-retaliatory-tariffs-escalating-trumps-trade-war

* "Ontario slaps 25% tax increase on electricity exports to US in response to Trump’s trade war:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-ontario-us-trump-tariffs-electricity-834dc3d9defd314923912f9bd8540e31

* "Trump Ag Secretary's Clucked-Up Advice On Eggs Has Critics Squawking: Brooke Rollins' idea to combat rising prices isn't going over very well:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brooke-rollins-eggs-backyard-chickens_n_67c676c9e4b044c440ed7fa7

Renters, especially in apartments aren't allowed to have chickens. A lot of cities and towns ban them even for home owners.

I literally know people who had to give away all their chickens when they moved into an apartment.

* It's almost like there might be consequences for starting a trade war for funsies. "Tesla, led by Elon Musk, warns of export retaliation due to new Trump tariffs:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/g-s1-53947/tesla-led-by-elon-musk-warns-of-export-retaliation-due-to-new-trump-tariffs

* "‘Big mad’: Trump is ‘emotional’ and ‘annoyed’ over trade war he started:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-big-mad-trump-is-emotional-and-annoyed-over-trade-war-he-started-234383429687

* This harms everybody. "US State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program Researchers Say Paid for Itself:" https://www.wired.com/story/air-monitoring-beijing-state-department-halted/

* It's all illegal, of course. Republicans absolutely do not care. "Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-rubio-usaid-foreign-aid-bf442d62af67918a6fc5eee839074601

* "Judge Weighs USAID Classified Document Destruction Amid Trump Shutdown:" https://www.newsweek.com/judge-weighs-usaid-classified-document-destruction-amid-trump-shutdown-2043272

* "Court hands Trump third appellate loss in birthright citizenship battle:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/court-hands-trump-third-appellate-loss-birthright-citizenship-battle-2025-03-11/

* Lie Detector Tests have no validity, of course, which is why law enforcement loves them so much. "DHS administering lie detector tests to employees in effort to find leakers:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-lie-detector-tests-employees-leakers-immigration-raids/

* "The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Trump has invoked for deportations:" https://apnews.com/article/alien-enemies-trump-immigration-deportations-21a62ede23b8c493b60d00a9c125722f

* "Federal judge blocks Trump's plan to target 'alien enemies' for deportation:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5246028/trump-alien-enemies-act-tren-de-aragua-deportation

This is just the tip of the spear. If he wins here, he will keep expanding it to remove anyone he doesn't like.

Normal deportation proceedings would work, but he's trying to establish a precedent.

* "Japanese Americans react to Trump's plans to invoke Alien Enemies Act:" https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/japanese-americans-react-to-trumps-plans-to-invoke-alien-enemies-act#google_vignette

* "Trump reportedly keen on law at root of disgraceful chapter in American history:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-reportedly-keen-on-law-at-root-of-disgraceful-chapter-in-american-history-234498629977

* "ICE Wastes $16M on Guantanamo Bay Operation as All Migrants Returned to US:" https://www.newsweek.com/ice-guantanamo-bay-migrants-immigration-waste-millions-back-usa-2044018

* "Judge says Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can't be deported from U.S. as protesters call for his release:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/demonstrators-take-nycs-federal-plaza-mahmoud-khalil-arrested-ice-rcna195602

* "Experts say Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder, can't be deported without due process:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/experts-palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil-deported-due-process/story?id=119756360

* "Federal agents are seen arresting Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil in a newly released video:" https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-trump-653771d9f168c490c49d6e45e37a0893

* "New Mahmoud Khalil complaint names Trump and Rubio, and alleges 'targeted, retaliatory detention':" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-mahmoud-khalil-complaint-names-trump-rubio-alleges-targeted-retali-rcna196378

* "White House allegedly asked for updates on arrest of activist Mahmoud Khalil, his attorney says:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-house-allegedly-asked-updates-arrest-activist-mahmoud/story?id=119811712

* "Trump admin loses in court as judge blocks deportation of Mahmoud Khalil:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-admin-loses-in-court-as-judge-blocks-deportation-of-mahmoud-khalil-234150981981

* "Exclusive: Wife of detained Palestinian Columbia student says she was naive to believe he was safe from arrest:" https://archive.ph/bG3jK#selection-1373.88-1373.102

* "98 protesters arrested at Trump Tower sit-in for detained activist Mahmoud Khalil:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/hundreds-protesters-stage-trump-tower-sit-calling-release/story?id=119762664

* Reminder: they arrested him without a warrant in the absence of a crime for voicing an opinion Trump doesn't like. "The detention of Mahmoud Khalil is a flagrant assault on free speech:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/the-detention-of-mahmoud-khalil-is-a-flagrant-assault-on-free-speech-234524741853

* "Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer: his arrest is 'test case' for how far Trump will go to repress political enemies:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/mahmoud-khalil-s-lawyer-his-arrest-is-test-case-for-how-far-trump-will-go-to-repress-political-enemies-234525253893

* "Elissa Slotkin delivers rebuttal to Trump:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/04/trump-joint-address-to-congress/democrats-respond-00212952

* The extreme corruption continues. "People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.wired.com/story/people-paying-millions-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/

* This is discrimination and damaging. "Trump signs executive action targeting public service loan program:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5321313/trump-executive-action-public-service-loan-program

* "Trump order denies student loan relief to nonprofit workers engaged in ‘improper’ activity:" https://apnews.com/article/public-service-student-loan-forgiveness-trump-457a24f8dba3c52dfe58f1e72ba61fa4

* "Judge blocks Trump from enforcing 'chilling' order against law firm:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/g-s1-53422/judge-blocks-trump-law-firm

* "Former DOJ official blasts interim D.C. U.S. attorney’s hiring ban on Georgetown Law grads:" https://www.advocate.com/news/doj-official-slams-georgetown-ban

* "Thousands of fired federal workers must be offered reinstatement, a judge rules:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325959/federal-employees-court-firing

* "A 2nd judge orders thousands of fired federal employees temporarily reinstated:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325694/maryland-court-fired-federal-employees-trump

* "Federal judges order Trump to rehire thousands of fired probationary federal employees :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/federal-judges-order-trump-to-rehire-thousands-of-fired-probationary-federal-employees-234392133708

* "'A sham': Federal judge blasts Trump admin on improper firings of federal workers; orders rehiring:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-a-sham-federal-judge-blasts-trump-admin-on-improper-firings-of-federal-workers-orders-rehiring-234398789993

* They are ignoring the court orders to stop. "Trump poised to launch new round of layoffs despite setbacks in court:" https://archive.ph/aVPti

* "Federal workers called back to the office — or is it a shuttered Subway?:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-workers-called-back-to-the-office-or-is-it-a-shuttered-subway/ar-AA1APHKA

You know what would be easier and cheaper? Let people continue working remotely.

* "Tech 'solution' makes a fool of Trump again; Federal return to office order bungled:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/tech-solution-makes-a-fool-of-trump-again-federal-return-to-office-order-bungled-234403909936

* "A Wannabe Influencer Is in Charge of Defending DOGE Cuts:" https://www.thecut.com/article/opm-mclaurine-pinover-fashion-influencer-videos-doge-cuts.html

The cheek of it to fire so many hard working productive people and to have someone like this calling them lazy and incompetent. Every Republican accusation a confession.

* "Musk And Trump Are Trying To Break The Government So Billionaires Can Take It Over - Ezra Klein:"

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* "Judge orders urgent release of DOGE records, citing ‘unprecedented’ power and ‘unusual secrecy’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/judge-orders-doge-record-release-00223151

* "Top lawyer at IRS removed amid DOGE push for taxpayer information: Sources:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-lawyer-irs-removed-amid-doge-push-taxpayer/story?id=119769757

* "OPM to review potential risks from DOGE’s access to sensitive federal systems:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/opm-security-doge-access-00221620

* "Diverse groups opposing Trump-Musk agenda coalesce around date for nationwide protest:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/diverse-groups-opposing-trump-musk-agenda-coalesce-around-date-for-nationwide-protest-234497605740

* "‘The people hold the power’: Grassroots anti-Trump resistance outshines lawmakers:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-people-hold-the-power-grassroots-anti-trump-resistance-outshines-lawmakers-234483781748

* "Republicans struggle to answer for Trump, Musk to alarmed constituents back home:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-struggle-to-answer-for-trump-musk-to-alarmed-constituents-back-home-234049093911

* "'I'm going': Tim Walz to hold town halls in Republican districts in wake of DOGE cuts:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-i-m-going-tim-walz-to-hold-town-halls-in-republican-districts-in-wake-of-doge-cuts-234266693990

* "States sue Trump administration over mass firings of federal employees:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/08/nx-s1-5321864/trump-federal-employees-lawsuit-states

* "Md. Attorney General goes deeper on lawsuits against Trump administration, expects more to come:" https://wtop.com/maryland/2025/03/md-ag-brown-goes-deeper-on-lawsuits-against-trump-administration-expects-more-to-come/

* "Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $209 Billion:" https://archive.ph/dRz86

* "Musk Melts Down as Tesla Stock Price Plunges:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/musk-tesla-stock-price-plunge-1235292855/

* "Donald Trump Calls Tesla Boycotts Illegal:" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tesla-boycott-illegal-2042647

* "Trump turns White House into Tesla showroom as Musk gets ‘government bailout’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-turns-white-house-into-tesla-showroom-as-musk-gets-government-bailout-234149957918

* "Tesla turmoil ignites political proxy war:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/13/tesla-trump-white-house-musk

* "Trump says violence against Tesla is domestic terrorism:" https://archive.ph/fh80a

* "As Musk’s business empire falters, Trump summons a wave of conservative support:" https://archive.ph/8JNve

* "Tesla Reportedly Stops Cybertruck Deliveries Because a Massive Part Keeps Flying Off:" https://futurism.com/tesla-stops-cybertruck-deliveries-trim

* "Rep. Larson BLASTS The GOP For Blocking Elon Musk From Testifying:"

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* "Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5316227/trump-order-dismantling-education-department

* " Linda McMahon lays out Education Department’s ‘final mission’ :" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/04/linda-mcmahon-education-department-final-mission-00210057

Reminder: she's never taught or administered a school and is profoundly ignorant about the damage she is doing and doesn't care to learn.

* "Education Department cuts half its staff as Trump vows to wind the agency down:" https://apnews.com/article/education-department-layoffs-job-cuts-linda-mcmahon-ce9f6a8a63972aede0d8fbdf057ab788

* "What the Education Department layoffs could mean for students with disabilities:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/education-department-layoffs-students-disabilities-rcna196114

This harms students with disabilities and anyone not born rich enough to pay for college up front. Cruelty is the point.

* "US judge temporarily halts Trump plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-department-of-education-lawsuit-teacher-training-d9f84633d57f4010e1c03fcdaf003db2

* "Trump fires 1,300 at Department of Education; programs expected to suffer with staff gutted:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-fires-1-300-at-department-of-education-programs-expected-to-suffer-with-staff-gutted-234164805699

* "Fired Education Department worker: 'We got the sense that we were disposable.':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fired-education-department-worker-sense-disposable/story?id=119732001

* "Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division: Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-division-eroded-by-massive-layoffs

* "GOP voucher plan would divert billions in taxes to private schools:" https://archive.ph/1eNhg

This is about starving public schools which serve everyone in favor of private schools which can and do discriminate. This means concentrating the students who need the most support in schools that are having their funding cut at the same time to make it impossible to provide that support.

This is on purpose. Republicans have been trying to destroy public schools longer than I've been alive as the last thing they want is quality education for people who aren't white and also wealthy.

* "Elon Musk Teases Big Cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-cuts-social-security-medicaid-medicare-1235293407/

* "Social Security Backtracks on DOGE Phone Service Cuts After Media Report:" https://www.newsweek.com/doge-pushes-social-security-administration-cut-off-phone-service-report-2043708

This is why we need an independent media. This is why we need protests.

Why is this important? The Social Security Administration has a notoriously difficult website to use. It requires a special log in thing that most people do not have. (Including me.) Sometimes they will issue you one and not tell you what it is if you get it at an SSA office. They don't, say email it to you, which would be useless in any case for people who don't have internet access or have disabilities that make using the Internet extra hard, and for people who often are older than the internet and have little to no appropriate skills, or are home bound and can't get to library, or have had their local library cut and also just had the SSA office near them closed, or.... You get the idea.

Approximately 80% of people on Social security or applying for benefits use the phone service, because it actually works if you are patient, unlike the glitchy and difficult to access web site.

This cut is really about denying people who paid into the system getting access to the benefits they paid for.

It also really fucks up seniors and people with disabilities who need things like Medicaid and EBT on top of their Medicare as those programs often require a proof of income letter once or twice a year that must be issued within 1-3 months of turning in your paperwork. (Exactly details are state by state. My state is once a year up to three months. My state is super lenient because it's been unified Democratic rule for decades and it works at keeping citizens alive instead of trying to kill them off). So do a bunch of other programs for seniors and people with disabilities. I have to interact with this phone system 2-4 times a year, depending on which of my services need re-upping.

The knock on effects of the planned cuts would have been huge!

Stay noisy! Save lives!

* They are still planning more deadly cuts: "DOGE attacks on Social Security officials could have dire consequences:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/doge-social-security-cuts-service-rcna196118

See the part above about people needing to go in person for a lot of things like starting benefits, updating after name changes, etc.? Yeah.

* "Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

They are basing these cuts on a debunked lie Musk and Trump keep telling because DOGE Minions are so incompetent they couldn't recognize a COBOL language error message, Cutting people off from benefits they deserve will kill them and there is significantly less than a one percent fraud/error rate.

* "Understanding Trump's War on Research Funding & The Future:" https://www.panaccindex.info/p/understanding-trumps-war-on-research

* "The US agency that monitors weather will cut another 1,000 jobs, AP sources say:" https://apnews.com/article/noaa-job-cuts-weather-forecasts-trump-doge-musk-7e35e9d5d757d8fc3f0f50b2bd71c87d

These cuts are essential to preventing the prediction and monitoring of extreme weather so more people will die.

* People will die. People like me will die. "DOGE Is Trying to Shutter Crucial Volcano Observatory Facilities:" https://www.notus.org/health-science/doge-alaska-volcano-observatory

* "The True Cost of Trump’s Cuts to NOAA and NASA:" https://time.com/7267889/climate-cost-of-trump-staff-cuts-noaa-nasa/

* Ignore the misleading headline. "Trump wants to use the ‘God Squad’ to increase logging, but it must follow strict rules:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-logging-endangered-species-god-squad-5ddbbd117a480cdc60f5bc5580cd72ef

They are ignoring the endangered species act so as to drive endangered species extinct looks like too.

* "EPA workers silenced as agency cancels hundreds of grants:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/epa-workers-silenced-agency-cancels-hundreds-grants/story?id=119715963

* "Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups: The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.:" https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations

It's not illegal to receive a government grant and there is zero evidence that any of these groups broke the law.

* "The FAA’s Troubles Are More Serious Than You Know:" https://archive.ph/pnaya

* "Musk Faces Complaint Over Efforts to Get FAA to Drop Verizon, Use Starlink:" https://www.pcmag.com/news/musk-faces-complaint-over-efforts-to-get-faa-to-drop-verizon-use-starlink

It is essential that Starlink loses this one.

Verizon has a contract they bid for and won fairly. Elon Musk arbitrarily cancelling it without any government authority and awarding his own company a no bid contract is illegal and corrupt on it's face in multiple ways.

This is also away to hijack our entire federal aviation system so he can hold it for hostage later, much as he did with the Ukrainian military.

* "Trump cuts environment program for low-income, minority communities:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250312-trump-cuts-environment-program-for-low-income-minority-communities

* "Trump administration issues funds to NYC housing nonprofits, with new strings attached:" https://gothamist.com/news/trump-administration-issues-funds-to-nyc-housing-nonprofits-with-new-strings-attached

* He knew that he was screwing over California, and he did it anyway for the optics and revenge. "Trump's 2.2 billion-gallon dump from California reservoirs just got even uglier:" https://www.sfgate.com/centralcalifornia/article/trump-california-reservoir-dump-kaweah-success-20209496.php

* "Top US health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees:" https://apnews.com/article/hhs-employee-buyouts-kennedy-cdc-nih-medicaid-bf5a746518b2b3fe967ab95a8e2a1a65

* So people will go hungry. Children will go hungry. "USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-for-schools-food-banks-00222796

* This also really hurts small farmers. "USDA ends program that helped schools serve food from local farmers:" https://apnews.com/article/school-lunch-usda-trump-c1485f824573913fe9a734bbf1273e26

* "US senators to urge USDA to reinstate canceled local food programs:" https://archive.ph/jLnN2

* Which have a lot of salt. "Sen. Deb Fischer offers up ‘canned food’ as alternate to USDA food bank cuts:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/deb-fischer-canned-food-usda-food-bank-cuts-00228164

* "Donald Trump's policies are making our kids dumber, sicker, meaner, and scared:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-children-sicker-meaner-opinion

* "Harvard doctors sue Trump administration over censoring LGBTQ+ terms:" https://www.advocate.com/news/harvard-doctors-sue-trump-administration

* Transphobia harms everyone. "Trump officials kill federal research on safer period products over mention of transgender men:" https://www.advocate.com/news/usda-scraps-study-transgender-mention

* "RFK Jr. Reportedly Had a Call With Texans Helping Distribute Unproven Measles Remedies:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/rfk-jr-measles-outbreak-texas-cod-steroids-call-seminole-mennonite-community-hhs/

You know what would be way more effective than quack medicine? Vaccinating everyone who can be vaccinated.

* Case in point: "Measles cases linked to Texas outbreak grows to 259, with just 2 among fully vaccinated people:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/measles-cases-linked-texas-outbreak-grows-259-2/story?id=119799576

* "Trump adviser Alina Habba says veterans fired by DOGE are perhaps 'not fit to have a job at this moment':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/trump-adviser-alina-habba-says-veterans-fired-doge-are-perhaps-not-fit-rcna194721

Trump has a long standing disgust and hatred for veterans in general, but particularly ones with disabilities. This is why he appointed people who feel exactly the same to steal their jobs and their health care from them.

* "Federal judge dismantles Trump's trans military ban in explosive hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-skeptical-trans-military-ban

* I am not convinced they will follow the ruling stopping this. "Pentagon says it will start kicking transgender people out of military this month:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-military-ban-moves-ahead

* "Trump's VA rescinds policy treating transgender vets with dignity (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-veterans-policy-rescinded

* "Veteran Chains Himself Outside White House to Protest Trump and Musk:" https://newrepublic.com/post/192559/veteran-chains-white-house-protest-trump-musk

* CW: Rape. We are in a constitutional crisis now. (See also Trump administration refusing to restore funding and rehire people, as well as the Military being ordered to ignore the ruling ordering them not to discharge all the trans soldiers). "Federal officials force transgender women into men’s prisons despite judge’s ruling against Trump’s order:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-women-forced-mens-prisons

* "Pam Bondi reshapes the DOJ around Trump's priorities:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/s-trumps-justice-department-now-rcna195289

* "Justice Chucks Paper Straws in Favor of Plastic Per Trump Order:" https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/justice-chucks-paper-straws-in-favor-of-plastic-per-trump-order

* CW: Domestic Violence. "DOJ official says she was fired after opposing the restoration of Mel Gibson's gun rights:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-official-says-was-fired-opposing-restoration-mel-gibsons-gun-right-rcna195287

* "Trump administration eyes cuts to Justice Department public corruption unit, people familiar say:" https://archive.ph/hnuLn

The only reason you would do this is if you were planning to bribe or otherwise allow the bribing of public officials by your allies.

* They are ending the case because most of the victims are black. "Justice Dept. says ending Louisiana petrochemical case helps ‘dismantle radical DEI programs’:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-louisiana-cancer-denka-chloroprene-epa-lawsuit-89b1f870816f65370eeb75ff269e9c0e

* This only helps our enemies. "Trump’s Justice Dept. ousts national security officials in latest purge:" https://archive.ph/99SjJ

* "They're Fabricating Criminal Prosecutions Now:"

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* This next batch may look small, but Trump is seizing control of the judiciary, persecuting political opposition, and removing checks that prevent Autocracy.

* He is calling openly for political prosecutions. "Trump pledges to ‘expose’ his enemies in political speech at Justice Department:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-visits-justice-department-e9091e3721adda4d3ed39bd15119a0d4

* "The GOP aim to shutdown democracy and 'replace it with techno-state dictatorship' warns Rep. Raskin:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/the-gop-aim-to-shutdown-democracy-and-replace-it-with-techno-state-dictatorship-warns-rep-raskin-234523205943

* "Trump demands 'accountability' for his pursuers in Justice Department speech:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-demands-accountability-his-pursuers-justice-department-speech-2025-03-14/

* They are criminalizing non-violent political speech. "Acting U.S. attorney for D.C. opens inquiries into Democrats, alleging possible threats to DOGE, Supreme Court justices:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/acting-u-s-attorney-inquiry-schumer-possible-threat-doge-supreme-court-justices/

* Luckily, push back is having an effect. "D.C. prosecutor drops bid to investigate Schumer for purported threat:" https://archive.ph/enoUV

* "D.C. U.S. attorney targets Ukraine whistleblower Rep. Vindman:" https://archive.ph/owxVo

* "Democratic senators request investigation of interim DC US attorney:" https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/democratic-senators-request-investigation-of-interim-dc-us-attorney/3862040/

Because what Ed Martin's doing is illegal and unethical.

* "Trump allies launch a bid to take control of a powerful Washington legal group:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-allies-bradley-bondi-control-dc-bar-association-rcna195253

They need to do this because Ed Martin is in danger of being disbarred for all the illegal and unethical things he is doing to persecute people Trump doesn't like.

* "Trump hones Justice Department as weapon of revenge; some dull edges remain:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-hones-justice-department-as-weapon-of-revenge-some-dull-edges-remain-234501189653

* "‘Lawlessness’: Hayes on the ‘terrifying’ abuse of power at Trump’s EPA, FBI:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-lawlessness-hayes-on-the-terrifying-abuse-of-power-at-trump-s-epa-fbi-234483781911

* "Supreme Court to decide whether states can protect LGBTQ+ youth from conversion therapy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/supreme-court-conversion-therapy-case
Conversion Therapy is torture. It has no validity, but it can lead to depression and suicide.

Republicans want to abuse children, knowing it's abuse for the pleasure of harming queer children.

* "Think Small: End Billionaires:" https://www.mind-war.com/p/think-small-end-billionaires

* "Two weak spots in Big Tech economics:" https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/06/privacy-last/

* "US stock market loses $4 trillion in value as Trump plows ahead on tariffs:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/investors-flee-equities-trump-driven-uncertainty-sparks-economic-worry-2025-03-10/

It's been suggested that doing the will he won't he with the tariffs, while extremely devastating for business, ordinary people, US Foreign Policy/trade relations, and the US Economy; would be an excellent way to manipulate the US stock market so that billionaires could buy up stocks at rock bottom prices.

I'm not saying that's what's happening, but it's the only logical reason anyone I've seen could think of to do what Trump is doing with tariffs.

I'm not suggesting Trump is bright enough to do this on his own, but I think their are a lot of very rich people who have bought their way into his inner circle who are

Again, that's speculation. I mean he could also be doing this for fun or because Putin told him to. Or all three.

* "Striking workers in WA could get unemployment insurance benefits:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/striking-workers-in-wa-could-get-unemployment-insurance-benefits/

* "Nestlé Purina workers in Pennsylvania on strike:" https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/11/koct-m11.html

* "Nestle Purina workers strike for better wages and benefits in South Whitehall Township:" https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/lehigh-county/allentown-area/nestle-purina-workers-strike-for-better-wages-and-benefits-in-south-whitehall-township/article_d28a8caa-f79b-11ef-86f9-bf0bc337c1b6.html

* Chuck Schumer betrayed us, rather than stand firm and force them to negotiate. Sigh. "Democratic Party fractures in government shutdown fight, with anger running high:" https://apnews.com/article/democrats-congress-chuck-schumer-government-funding-shutdown-43d1acea20c34ad28d848edc08ad6375

Here's who to primary:
Chuck Schumer
John Fetterman
Kirsten Gillibrand
Maggie Hassan
Catherine Cortez Masto
Jean Shaheen
Brian Schatz
Dick Durbin

Gary Peters is retiring
Angus King is a centrist independent, but caucuses Democrat.

If these are your critters, consider telling them how you feel.

* "Republicans say Medicaid is safe. But budget math says otherwise:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/1237260288/republicans-say-medicaid-is-safe-but-budget-math-says-otherwise

* "DC leaders in budget panic, saying Congress bill would financially devastate the city:" https://wtop.com/dc/2025/03/dc-leaders-in-budget-panic-saying-bill-in-congress-would-financially-devastate-the-city/

* "'Chuck Schumer's gotta go!' Dems face reckoning amid dire polls:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/-chuck-schumer-s-gotta-go-dems-face-reckoning-amid-dire-polls-234543173956

* "‘Chuck Schumer is not willing to be in the driver's seat’: Ameshia Cross on Sen. Schumer's leadership:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-chuck-schumer-is-not-willing-to-be-in-the-driver-s-seat-ameshia-cross-on-sen-schumer-s-leadership-234544709839

* "House Republicans literally alter time to avoid responsibility for Trump wrecking the economy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-republicans-literally-alter-time-to-avoid-responsibility-for-trump-wrecking-the-economy-234171974002

* "Trump administration withdraws CDC director nomination just before Senate hearing:" https://apnews.com/article/dave-weldon-cdc-director-9a3d061832e2f0f644f2c58fbae36965

* "Transgender Rep. Sarah McBride calls out 'weird' obsession by Republicans in whose minds 'I appear to live rent-free':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sarah-mcbride-gop-weird-obsession

* "'Have you no decency?': Republican calls Sarah McBride 'mister,' but Democrats wouldn't have it:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-misgender-sarah-mcbride

* "Teen targeted by homophobic school board member now running for his job:" https://www.advocate.com/news/teen-challenges-school-board-homophobe

* Wisconsin! Please don't sleep on this election. Your future chance at free and fair elections as well as so many of your rights are on the line! "The Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Is a Referendum on Elon Musk:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/elon-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-brad-schimel-susan-crawford/

* "Crawford, Schimel clash over Musk, Soros money in $59 million court raceRecord spending in Wisconsin Supreme Court race reaches $59M as candidates debate outside influence from billionaire donors Musk and: Soros.:" https://www.wisn.com/article/crawford-schimel-clash-over-musk-soros-money-in-59-million-court-race/64176457

The polls are incredibly tight and a Schimel win means Democrats lose their majority and Trump-Musk style court decisions will do terrible damage.

* "Governor Hochul Holds Roundtable with Workers Impacted by Federal Layoffs and Announces Expansion of New York’s “You’re Hired” Initiative to Recruit Impacted Workers :" https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-holds-roundtable-workers-impacted-federal-layoffs-and-announces-expansion-new

* "Protests erupt as bill allowing TN schools to refuse to enroll undocumented students moves forward:" https://www.wsmv.com/2025/03/11/protests-erupt-bill-allowing-tn-schools-refuse-enroll-undocumented-students-moves-forward/

* Texans, I beg of you to protest. Pull out the stops. "Texas Republican bill would make simply being transgender a felony:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-republicans-transgender-lives-felony

* "Protesters unveil giant Pride flag in response to Utah's new bill trying to ban it:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pride-flag-utah-protest

* "North Dakota Senate rejects resolution seeking to overturn marriage equality:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/north-dakota-marriage-equality-resolution

Watch your state level politics, folks, because protests and calls can do a lot there. Don't give up hope.

* "Andy Beshear lambastes Gavin Newsom for hosting Steve Bannon on podcast:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/beshear-lambastes-newsom-bannon

* "Wisconsin conservative admits he was wrong about his anti-trans beliefs — this was all it took:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-trans-bill-wisconsin

* "Study: Long sentences for juveniles make reentry into society more difficult:" https://phys.org/news/2025-03-sentences-juveniles-reentry-society-difficult.html

Water is wet studies are essential for making arguments in court, to policy makers, and to people who haven't made their minds up yet.

* "Multiple D.C. LGBTQ+ bars pull Jack Daniel's orders over distiller's retreat from diversity & inclusion:" https://www.advocate.com/business/lgbtq-bars-pull-jack-daniels

I am old enough to remember the Coors boycott.

* "New German, Swiss, and Austrian guidelines recommend gender-affirming care, slam Cass Review:" https://www.advocate.com/health/europeans-recommend-gender-affirming-care

* "New report finds LGBTQ+ and intersex Americans faced much discrimination in 2024:" https://www.advocate.com/news/new-report-confirms-widespread-discrimination

* "LGBTQ+ youth feel safer online than in-person — and it's not close:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-feel-safer-online

Water is wet studies are essential for making arguments in court, to policy makers, and to people who haven't made their minds up yet.

* "Who is MassResistance, the far-right group behind anti-marriage equality resolutions?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/who-is-massresistance-anti-lgbtq

* "Seven suspects charged with torture, killing of trans man Sam Nordquist appeared in court:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/seven-suspects-sam-nordquist-appear-court

* "Body of 'Julie Doe' in Florida identified as transgender woman Pamela Leigh Walton:" https://www.advocate.com/news/investigation-identifies-deceased-transgender-woman

* "Trump’s anti-trans agenda takes center stage at planned 'Detrans Awareness Day' events:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republicans-celebrate-detrans-awareness-day

* Why are people still going on these floating plague ships? "Another norovirus outbreak on Princess Cruises ship sickens dozens of passengers and crew:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/norovirus-outbreak-princess-cruises-ship-coral-princess-sickens-dozens-passengers-crew/

* "Measles cases spike to 25-year high in Europe:" https://www.politico.eu/article/measles-cases-spike-to-25-year-high-in-europe/

* "“Cool” years are now hotter than the “warm” years of the past: tracking global temperatures through El Niño and La Niña:" https://ourworldindata.org/global-temperatures-el-nino-la-nina

* "A Mount Spurr eruption is ‘likely’ within weeks or months, scientists say:" https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2025/03/12/a-mount-spurr-eruption-is-likely-within-weeks-or-months-scientists-say/

* "The Global South’s Cleantech Revolution in Five Charts:" https://rmi.org/the-global-souths-cleantech-revolution-in-five-charts/?ref=fixthenews.com

* "Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying:" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/

* "There’s a bizarre animal in the deepest depths of the Pacific Ocean that looks like a toast rack – and it uses deadly hooks to kill its prey:" https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/harp-spnge

* "When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/when-an-american-town-massacred-its-chinese-immigrants

* "Dora Richter Lived:" https://epgn.com/2024/06/25/dora-richter-lived/

* "How the Boredom Epidemic ruined Hobbies:"

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* "Looking for the mysterious photographer who snapped occupied Paris and mocked the Nazis:" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/summer-reads/article/2024/09/09/looking-for-the-unknown-photographer-who-snapped-occupied-paris-and-mocked-the-nazis_6725386_183.html

* "Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, fierce LGBTQ+ ally & progressive champion, dies at 77:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/arizona-congressman-raul-grijalva-dies

* "Sen. Alan Simpson was way ahead of his party when it came to LGBTQ+ rights and marriage equality:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/alan-simpson-remembered

I didn't agree with everything he did, but this and his work for Internment camp survivors is incredibly admirable.

* "Felice Picano, acclaimed gay author, has died at 81:" https://www.advocate.com/news/author-felice-picano-dies

* "WWII bomb disposal operation in Paris causes hours of travel chaos and Eurostar line closure:" https://apnews.com/article/france-paris-gare-nord-unexploded-bomb-d76871a93baee768df2a225922f12d89

* I am making progress on spinning up Killian Laptop. I downloaded a bunch of smaller programs, I finally convinced some browsers to sync. I've added some more accessibility extensions, and Saturday, I got a couple browsers set up with things so I could run some of the standard things I do everyday of him.

He's pretty fast compared to Klaus. The main problem I'm having is I can't get Waterfox to run on him. Our theory is maybe he's too old for modern iterations. I am trying earlier versions one by one, but I may be stuck with classic Waterfox, which is not supported and can't sync, so I keep having to stop to hand customize. I'll keep at it this week when I'm not in the aggregate crunch.

* In Cat News: Sunday Tavy discovered that Goth Millenial can also administer medication.

Livia also reached the end of her patience with a Thing the Emperor has been doing. The Empress is a peaceable animal by nature as long as you aren't live prey. She is more than twice his size, but she will generally give way as it's less hassle unless he pushes her too far.

Sunday, she decided she had had enough. For the last month or two, he's been peeing on everybody's favorite spot on my bed 5-6 times a week. I am a person with a clothes washer on it's last legs that can only use hot water. I can't wash multiple cat pads every night and he's also taken to running it to pee on the bed while I am getting ready for bed, so if he does it earlier, the cats are SOL for napping in the Best spot until I do the bed time laundry. Traditionally, he then gets really angry at the humans because Someone has Peed in the best spot!!!

This is Livia's favorite spot too. In fact, she sleeps there more than he does in winter as he decamps for his heated bed for most of his Night Napping.

Tavy's refusal to pee in the box has been inconveniencing her all this time. Sure, she has her second favorite spot: the bedroom window podium, which I tricked out for her in her youth, but a lot of cold seeps in on winter nights and though she is cold adapted, she would rather be a bit further from the window in the comfy spot in the elbow of the Pillow Mountain Range. She has a number of other popular spots, including the desk box, top of pillow mountain, and three other on bed locations. (She used to love sleeping on the sofa, but that is also covered in pee pads and Tavy pee by that time of night. In warmer weather there is also Living room Window box, but the emperor peed in the spare boxes, so I'm not bothering with a new one until the weather is good for window naps.)

Before you ask, yes, we tried keeping the boxes clean. He pees in the boxes to mark them after a change, then goes right back to the sofa if no one is sitting on it, and sometimes when they are. I'd have to scoop each box myself after every use, a thing I can't do with my lungs and arthritis. I miss when he used to pee in the tub or the sink. I could just run a little water after each use, but he doesn't anymore.

Anyway, Sunday night, Livia was camped in the Best Bed Spot and was Not Moving, because if she did, he'd just pee on it after a token sit to establish dominance. he tried all of the passive aggressive tactics. Which she ignored, and when he got physical, she yelled at him and wapped him a good one. He knows he can't win a physical fight, so he is asleep in his desk bed as of this writing and she is enjoying the Best Bed Spot in peace for the first time since he started the regular bed wetting.

Good on her.

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

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* "Trump Tanks Stocks, Exhausts Wall Street | Erasing "Women" From The Internet | The King's Playlist:"

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* "Trump Trade War Wipes $4T Off The Stock Market | Rebrand Your Tesla | RFK Jr. On Measles:"

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* "Beer Will Cost More Under “Chaotic” Tariffs | Trump: Khalil Detention Is The First Of Many To Come:"

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* "Au Revoir, Champagne | EPA Is Abandoning The Environment | Vandalizing Teslas:"

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* "Meanwhile... Packing Peanuts Are Not Food | Banana Technology | Carolina Reaper World Record:"

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* "A room full of witnesses | Rose B. Simpson: Journeys of Clay | Exhibition Insights:"

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* "Ceaser's Camp 49BC:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P2PFY7iQNVw

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* "True Facts: How Snakes Move:"

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* "How to play the accordion with Betsy and ‪

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* "King Charles' Radio Show: An Affront To Donald Trump?:"

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* "Amazon's Deepening Relationship With The Trumps:"

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* "Is It Worth It?:"

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* "The Ballad of Tommy & Joey:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KPmAbERDy5A

* "The Red God Chronicles: The Folly of King Runas:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e5VB-DDHfk0

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* "The Red God Chronicles: The Defiance of the Fae Queen:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JBVglBFW5GU

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Miles to go before I sleep. Sigh.

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

It is so beautiful here, still.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Summer of Trump Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Would Jeeves and Wooster survive Castle Dracula?:" https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/750210068089389056?source=share

* "Hot Vampire Hunters in Your Area!:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-1-hot-vampire-hunters-in-your-area/id1679833472?i=1000606859900

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

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

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

* "Black Alliance for Peace’s Atlanta Citywide Alliance:" https://linktr.ee/bapatlanta

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anyway, I can stop rationing lung meds now.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

* 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/

* 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* " History Summarized: Ukraine :"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Families are still living there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "History Summarized: Minoan Greece:"

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* "The Empress of China: Wu Zetian:"

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

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

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* "Plague — History Hijinks:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Trivia Game Show - SNL:"

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

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* "Throne Room - SNL:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

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

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

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

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

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* "We Spoke to Queer People Hiding From the Taliban:"

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* "North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet:" https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/

* "A coconut seller and a day laborer reflect on life in astoundingly unequal India:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/12/23/1065267029/a-coconut-seller-and-a-day-laborer-reflect-on-life-in-astoundingly-unequal-india

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* "Omicron’s Radical Evolution:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/science/omicron-mutations-evolution.html

* "All of North Alabama remains in high or substantial risk of COVID-19 spread:" https://whnt.com/news/coronavirus/all-of-north-alabama-remains-in-high-or-substantial-risk-of-covid-19-spread/

* "Here’s Why Podcasts Are Ripe for Misinformation:"

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* "Russia invades Ukraine:" https://graphics.reuters.com/UKRAINE-CRISIS/zdpxokdxzvx/

* "NATO Response Force activated for first time:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/nato-ukraine-russia/index.html

* "Russia vetoes U.N. Security action on Ukraine as China abstains:" https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-vetoes-un-security-action-ukraine-china-abstains-2022-02-25/

* "Biden, Europe waiting on key SWIFT sanction against Russia:" https://apnews.com/article/what-is-swift-russia-financial-system-083a5935002c9d06ffd6ac39c13d3ce4

* "US to impose sanctions on Putin following Ukraine invasion:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/us-putin-sanctions/index.html

* "Street fighting begins in Kyiv; people urged to seek shelter:" https://news.yahoo.com/russia-presses-invasion-outskirts-ukrainian-054136506.html

* "Kyiv residential tower hit by missile as fighting rages:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/26/kyiv-residential-tower-hit-by-missile-as-fighting-rages-mayor

* "Russia says it's not hitting Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. Evidence suggests otherwise:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/ukraine-russia-videos-civilians-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Civilians take up arms in Ukraine, Russia’s attack on Kiyv continues:" https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/02/26/latest-from-ukraine-civilians-take-up-arms-to-defend-capital-from-russia/

* True Heroes. "Soldiers' defiant last words as Russian warship targets Snake Island:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/ukraine-russia-snake-island-attack-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

* "Pro-Russia Ukrainians resent being used by Putin to justify war: Engel:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pro-russia-ukrainians-resent-being-used-by-putin-to-justify-war-engel-134011461975

* "Putin's failure as a leader drives his resentment of Ukraine democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-s-failure-as-a-leader-drives-his-resentment-of-ukraine-democracy-134010437899

* "Ukrainian government hands out guns to citizens, encourages people to make Molotov cocktails:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-s-people-take-up-arms-against-russia-or-flee-to-defend-their-families-as-invasion-continues-134095941736

* "'I don't think there is a safe place': Kyiv residents fearful as Russian invaders close in:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-i-don-t-think-there-is-a-safe-place-kyiv-residents-fearful-as-russian-invaders-close-in-134101061947

* "Anticipating repression under Putin, Ukrainians fight for their lives:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anticipating-repression-under-putin-ukrainians-fight-for-their-lives-134101061806

* "EU shuts airspace to Russian airlines, plans to fund weapons purchases to Ukraine:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/eu-shuts-airspace-to-russian-airlines-will-buy-ukraine-arms

* "Australia to help send weapons to Ukraine via NATO:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-27/australia-send-weapons-nato-ukraine-war-russia/100865712

* "Oil tank on fire, gas pipeline blown near Kyiv as Russia continues missile attacks in Ukraine :" https://www.indiatoday.in/world/russia-ukraine-war/story/russia-ukraine-war-crisis-oil-tank-fire-gas-pipeline-kiyv-missile-attacks-1918392-2022-02-27

* "Russian convoy of ground forces, tanks moving toward Kyiv, Maxar says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-convoy-ground-forces-fuel-tanks-moving-toward-kyiv-maxar-2022-02-27/

* "Putin's fears of a unified, stronger Europe are fast becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-02-27/putins-unified-stronger-europe-ukraine-invasion

* "Europe and the U.S. move to isolate Russia as Ukrainians fight to hold off invaders:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/27/1083380718/europe-and-the-u-s-move-to-isolate-russia-as-ukrainians-hold-off-invaders

* "Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, escalating tensions:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-europe-moscow-2e4e1cf784f22b6afbe5a2f936725550

* "‘They were fooled by Putin’: Chinese historians speak out against Russian invasion:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/28/they-were-fooled-by-putin-chinese-historians-speak-out-against-russian-invasion

* "Ukrainians flee war, seeking safety across western borders:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-hungary-europe-slovakia-39a0abe9fcb9dd9e9fc7304aa2a9305b

* "At the Polish Border, Tens of Thousands of Ukrainian Refugees:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/world/europe/ukrainian-refugees-poland.html

* "At the Ukrainian border, a mother brings a stranger's children to safety:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-border-mother-brings-strangers-children-safety-2022-02-26/

* "Ukraine invasion: Kharkiv residents describe intense battle to defend city:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60543087

* "Eurovision bans Russia from 2022 contest after widespread outrage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/eurovision-russia-ukraine-ban/

* "‘Lot of determination’: Ukrainian Americans rally for their country:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/25/ukrainian-americans-solidarity-ukraine

* "Antiwar protesters take to the streets around the world in support of Ukraine:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/26/1083314709/protests-world-ukraine-russia

* "Prominent Russians join protests against Ukraine war amid 1,800 arrests:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/prominent-russians-join-protests-against-ukraine-war-amid-1800-arrests-putin

* "Russians hold anti-war rallies amid ominous threats by Putin:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe-arrests-moscow-cf5dda5528937de907f8916820cfab75

* "Anti-war protests in Russia test Putin's dictator privilege of disregarding public opinion:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-war-protests-in-russia-test-putin-s-dictator-privilege-of-disregarding-public-opinion-134011973534

* "‘No war’: High profile Russians speak out against Ukraine invasion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-no-war-high-profile-russians-speak-out-against-ukraine-invasion-134092357626

* "Russians reject Putin and his war on Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russians-reject-putin-and-his-war-on-ukraine-134106693697

* "War via TikTok: Russia's new tool for propaganda machine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-europe-media-nationalism-2186dbc533560cb666f59655ecf1ee8e

* Aka Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose. "Russian TV Uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to Sell Putin’s War:" https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/russian-tv-uses-tucker-carlson-tulsi-gabbard-sell-putins-war/

* "How the Republican Party has evolved on Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-the-republican-party-has-evolved-on-russia-134092357969

* "'I'm just so ashamed': Local Russians speak out against invasion of Ukraine:" https://www.kcra.com/article/russians-speak-out-against-invasion-ukraine/39244716#

* "Why the Republican Party just can't get enough of Vladimir Putin:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/why-the-republican-party-just-can-t-get-enough-of-vladimir-putin-134163013637

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* "Russia threatens 'military and political consequences' if Finland, Sweden try joining NATO:" https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/595853-russia-threatens-military-and-political-consequences-if-finland?rl=1

* "White House Press Secretary Talks Russia, State of the Union, Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/white-house-press-secretary-talks-russia-state-of-the-union-supreme-court-134164549579

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* "White House science office to hold first event on countering climate change denial and delay:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/24/white-house-science-office-hold-first-ever-event-countering-climate-change-denial-delay/

* "Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court:" https://apnews.com/article/Ketanji-Brown-Jackson-biden-supreme-court-nominee-32f77fe08d7cf64af95591668a0aaa41

* "With Biden's nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, a strengthening of democracy: Ifill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-biden-s-nomination-of-ketanji-brown-jackson-a-strengthening-of-democracy-ifill-134107205786

* "Republicans label Biden Supreme Court pick as "radical left":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/republicans-label-biden-supreme-court-pick-as-radical-left-134161477962

* "Black Farmers Fear Foreclosure as Debt Relief Remains Frozen:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/us/politics/black-farmers-debt-relief.html

* "What happens when Americans stay in the same house forever?:" https://www.vox.com/22939038/rents-rising-home-prices-americans-moving-residential-stagnation-stuck-mobility-freedom

* "First They Got Long Covid. Then, It Made Them Homeless:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-covid-homeless-chronic-illness-gig-economy-1312460/

* "This Is How Big Pharma Wins:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/this-is-how-big-pharma-wins.html

* "Congressional Stock Trading Is Shady As Hell, But Will It Get Banned?:"

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

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

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

* "North Carolina Court Imposes New District Map, Eliminating G.O.P. Edge:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/us/politics/north-carolina-maps-democrats.html

* "Texas’s primaries are happening on a legally disputed congressional map:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/texas-congressional-district-map/

* "The Fall of Papa Johns Pizza:"

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* CW: Pedophilia "The Problems with the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts:"

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* "Medication abortion now makes up the majority of US abortions, study shows for the first time:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/politics/medication-abortion-use/index.html

* "Republican-led states rush to pass antiabortion bills before Supreme Court rules on Roe:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/29/abortion-supreme-court-roe-texas-mississippi/

* "Alabama lawmakers advance bill to ban medication abortions:" https://www.al.com/news/2022/02/alabama-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-ban-medication-abortions.html

* "Oklahoma Advances Bill Banning Abortion 30 Days Into Pregnancy:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-abortion-ban-30-days_n_62154241e4b06e1cc5868284

* "At-home abortion medication requests soared after Texas restrictions:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/-home-abortion-medication-requests-soared-texas-restrictions-rcna17634

* "Florida’s 15-week abortion ban will have dramatic effects on patients and providers. Here’s what to expect.:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-ne-florida-abortion-bill-what-to-expect-20220227-uxu27ozvwzcplhtzevjrdpille-story.html

* "The Met Police has more than 33,000 officers, and just four are openly trans:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/26/met-police-officers-transgender-gay-lgbt/

* "Former Pride in London staffer who resigned over inaction on ‘racism’ says ‘nothing’s changed’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/26/pride-in-london-rhammel-afflick/

* "Abbott orders Texas probe of medical procedures for transgender children:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/texas-governor-orders-probe-of-abusive-procedures-for-transgender-children-00011057

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* "Florida House passes 'Don't Say Gay' bill:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/florida-house-passes-dont-say-gay-bill-rcna17532

* "Capehart: Why the LGBTQ young people of Gen Z give me so much hope.:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/capehart-why-the-lgbtq-young-people-of-gen-z-give-me-so-much-hope-134161477975

* "A record number of American adults identify as LGBTQ:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/a-record-number-of-american-adults-identify-as-lgbtq-134164549538

* "Breaking Down Texas & Florida Anti-Transgender Attacks:"

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* "The Strange Connection Between Mono and M.S.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/magazine/epstein-barr-virus-multiple-sclerosis.html

* "How medicine erased Black women from a 'white man's disease':" https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/21/ankylosing-spondylitis-diagnosis-black-women/

* "Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/19/1081263873/mental-health-art-therapy

* "Risking Their Lives, for Little Pay, to Guard India’s Forests:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/world/asia/india-forest-rangers.html

* "Farmers in Senegal learn to respect a scruffy shrub that gets no respect:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/20/1079777745/farmers-in-senegal-learn-to-respect-a-scruffy-shrub-that-gets-no-respect

* "Idaho Is Sitting on One of the Most Important Elements on Earth:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/cobalt-clean-energy-climate-change-idaho/621321/

* "TurboTax Maker Intuit Faces Tens of Millions in Fees in a Groundbreaking Legal Battle Over Consumer Fraud:" https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-maker-intuit-faces-tens-of-millions-in-fees-in-a-groundbreaking-legal-battle-over-consumer-fraud

* "Crypto Couple Steals $4 Billion Poorly:"

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* "It’s Been a Home for Decades, but Legal Only a Few Months:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/18/business/economy/california-housing.html

* "Embracing a Wetter Future, the Dutch Turn to Floating Homes:" https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-dutch-flock-to-floating-homes-embracing-a-wetter-future

* "How to fix the disaster of human roads to benefit wildlife:" https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-fix-the-disaster-of-human-roads-to-benefit-wildlife

* "The Incredibly Obvious Way to Reduce Road Deaths That Goes Ignored:" https://slate.com/business/2022/02/car-safety-department-of-transportation-transit-a-plea.html

* "Mechanics Ask Walmart, Major Bike Manufacturers to Stop Making and Selling ‘Built-to-Fail’ Bikes:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdgq9/mechanics-ask-walmart-major-bike-manufacturers-to-stop-making-and-selling-built-to-fail-bikes

* "Tiny robots made in Mexico to explore moon in scientific first:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/tiny-robots-made-mexico-explore-moon-scientific-first-2022-02-25/

* "Scientists are stunned by the discovery of the world's largest bacterium. It's the size of a fly:" https://www.zmescience.com/science/largest-giant-bacteria-3432/

* "Ticks survive for 27 years in entomologist’s lab:" https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3485/ticks-survive-for-27-years-in-entomologists-lab

* "Magpies outwit scientists by helping each other to remove tracking devices:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-22/magpies-show-cooperative-behaviour-by-removing-tracking-device/100851458

* "Hums, honks and boops? That’s just fish chatting about sex and food:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/feb/19/fish-acoustic-communication-sex-food-researchers

* "When Nazis Took Manhattan:" https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/20/695941323/when-nazis-took-manhattan

* "Voodoo Believers Explain What People Get Wrong About Their Faith:"

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* "MLMs & LDS: Why are so Many Mormon Women Involved in MLMs?:"

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* "Goodwill: Corporate Casket:"

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* "Jobfished: the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60387324

* "HIV Discoverer Luc Montagnier Dead at 89:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/10/hiv-discoverer-luc-montagnier-dead-89

* "Street life of Victorian London in rare historical photographs, 1873-1877:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/street-life-victorian-london/

* "Vintage photographs of Amsterdam streets taken by George Hendrik Breitner, 1890-1900:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/amsterdam-photographs-george-hendrik-breitner/

* "The Musical So Bad, They Sold the Theater to a Church.:"

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* "John Mulaney Stand-Up Monologue:"

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* "Subway Churro - SNL:"

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* "Cupid Shuffle - SNL:"

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* "Blue River - SNL:"

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* "Podcast Set - SNL:"

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* "I Am Not A Unisex | Pointlessly Gendered:"

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* "Florence + The Machine - King:"

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* Saturday, I taught Head Millennial a dish my family called Sauerkraut and Sweet Biscuits, but which is really more Sweet Dumplings in a glutinous sauerkraut stew. Me, warning the Millennial in advance: This is going to be extremely stinky, but delicious and full of Vitamin C. *Millennial sensibly turns the hood up fan up on high* This is something made on the stove top, so theoretically viable, but since the stove top is rapidly failing and heat is quite variable so things like boiling water and making pasta are still okay, but things like grilled cheese are right out, so I am not entirely sure this will work. Still we forge onward.

So explain how to set up the sauerkraut in water on medium heat while he mixes the batter. I give him the recipe. Me: You want to make this, but add an extra cup of sugar. Don't worry, the sour and sweet balance each other beautifully. Head Millennial: This says cold shortening? Me: It lies. It was written down in the '50's or '60's. Almost anything in this recipe set that says lard or shortening means butter or magazine unless there is an annotation that says no really use shortening. Use the same amount of butter. It will be fine. *Millennial gives me a skeptical look, but forges on.*

Millennial: What do I do with this batter? *Goes over there to help* Me: Okay, we turn up the heat now and stir the sauerkraut. Now we pour the batter on top. *Millennial gives me a concerned and skeptical look.* Okay, we let it heat for a bit, then put the lid on and put it on low. Come check it every ten minutes so so. Don't worry. It will be ugly. It is always ugly but very delicious. *I start wandering back to my sitting down project* I have no idea if this is German or Irish, but it is good, filling Winter food. Millennial: No wonder people think you are Polish. *I am amused*

As it turned out the Millennial did a bit of cleaning, but was tired. Me: want me to take you home? *Millenial casts a worried look back at the kitchen.* Me: It'll be fine. I'll cover it and turn it down. We could be gone half an hour and it would likely still be fine. If it burns a little on the bottom, no problem, but it likely won't.

Anyway, I took them home, which takes about fifteen minutes round trip that time of night. I adjusted the heat a little. Did a very careful stir to limit scorching at the bottom without damaging the dumplings to much. Covered it back up. Did a lung treatment. When I dished it out, it was perfect. Seriously. This is the best it's been in like three years. Neither over cooked or undercooked. Dumplings in the right size range and texture. Perfect mix of sweet and sour. Omnomnomnom!

* Thanks to incredibly kind donations, the immediate financial emergencies are at bay I should be able to cover the bill that is about to go critical and I think the housing tax. I will have a better idea how messed up March will be in about a week. I once again want to thank everyone for their support.

* Last Spring the head Millenial bought some hand sanitizer it turned out they didn't want, I'm assuming because of the offensively strong artificial smell. I can just tolerate it and it's otherwise good sanitizer, just really, really intense. I mostly only use sanitizer in the car, so this pump bottle doesn't get used that much. I did use it the other night and it finally hit me why it smells so familiar: It smells like priest. O.o

* Me, exclaiming to Head Millennial just how not heterosexual Word of Honor is: And then the guy who's been following the other one all over the countryside because of his "Beautiful Shoulders Blades" says the most heterosexual line ever spoken by one man to another in a Chinese homoerotic historical fantasy martial arts epic: "A Gentleman is willing to die for his soulmate."

Head Millennial: I don't think you understand what heterosexual means.

* "I was trying to translate two poems that make up a poetry battle between two sixth-century noblewomen, over their shared husband.:" https://twitter.com/kate_lingley/status/1494843033799434246

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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.

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

* 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

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

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* "Lebanon's soul has been eviscerated by its financial crisis. Not even the children want to play:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/middleeast/lebanon-crisis-children-cmd-intl/index.html

* "Russia lists Pussy Riot member, art collector and satirist as 'foreign agents':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/europe/pussy-riot/index.html

* "Lesbian Pop Star Denise Ho Arrested by Hong Kong Authorities:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/12/30/lesbian-pop-star-denise-ho-arrested-hong-kong-authorities-cantopop-china

* "The mob killing of a factory manager in Pakistan comes amid surge in anti-blasphemy violence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/24/pakistan-blasphemy-violence-labbaik/?itid=mr_world_4

* "“Meet a Jew,” Germany’s New Scheme to Convince the Country That Jews Are People:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/12/meet-a-jew-germany-anti-semitism-crime.html

* "‘My grandmother hid Jewish children’: Poland’s underground refugee network:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/dec/24/my-grandmother-hid-jewish-children-polands-underground-refugee-network

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* "WHO: global COVID cases up 11% last week, omicron risk high:" https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/12/who-global-covid-cases-up-11-last-week-omicron-risk-high.html

* "FDA: Antigen tests may have reduced sensitivity detecting Omicron:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/fda-antigen-tests-reduced-sensitivity-omicron-526217

* "You might get a breakthrough case of Covid-19 this winter. Here’s how to prepare.:" https://www.vox.com/22841985/breakthrough-covid-19-winter-positive-test-how-to-prepare

* "COVID cases surge in Lebanon ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/31/warnings-lebanon-covid-rising-figures

* "NHS trusts in England declare critical incidents amid Covid staff crisis:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/03/several-nhs-trusts-declare-critical-incidents-amid-covid-staff-crisis

* "U.S. sets new daily high for Covid cases:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/us-new-daily-high-covid-526223

* "US children hospitalized with COVID in record numbers:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-children-hospitalized-covid-record-numbers-82004052

* "FDA Expands Pfizer Boosters for More Teens as Omicron Surges:" https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-01-03/fda-expands-pfizer-boosters-for-more-teens-as-omicron-surges

* "Omicron makes up 95% of sequenced Covid cases in U.S. as infections hit pandemic record:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/04/omicron-makes-up-95percent-of-sequenced-covid-cases-in-us-as-infections-hit-pandemic-record.html

* "Hospitalizations spike amid rocketing Covid case counts; threat to hospitals renewed:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hospitalizations-spike-amid-rocketing-covid-case-counts-threat-to-hospitals-renewed-130067013845

* "Intimate portraits of a hospital COVID unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/26/1066395049/intimate-portraits-of-a-hospital-covid-unit-from-a-photojournalist-turned-nurse

* "White House issues a warning to unvaccinated Americans as concerns about omicron grow:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/17/1065312060/white-house-issues-a-warning-to-unvaccinated-americans-as-concerns-about-omicron

* "Chris Hayes: How omicron’s contagiousness is changing the pandemic normal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-omicron-s-contagiousness-is-changing-the-pandemic-normal-129800261794

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

* "US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID & SARS Variants, Researchers Say:" https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/12/us-army-creates-single-vaccine-effective-against-all-covid-sars-variants/360089/

* "‘This was the moment’: CDC defends altered guidance amid Omicron surge:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/29/cdc-defends-new-covid-guidelines-526234

* "Omicron is latest blow to pandemic-weary front-line workers:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-pandemics-london-7004e1f1b1847b9831623e6adcedb5f3

* "Covid-19 surges spark chain reactions that strain US hospitals everywhere:" https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22849829/covid-omicron-variant-cases-surge-us-hospitals

* "Florida breaks state record for COVID-19 cases again, for 4th time in 7 days:" https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/florida-breaks-state-record-for-covid-19-cases-again-fourth-time-in-7-days/

* "Orange Mayor Demings blasts DeSantis, expands COVID-19 testing, requires masks for employees:" https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-orange-update-12-28-20211229-3xmrumwt45gllkym5su6jz26nq-story.html

* "Dem Florida gov. candidate Nikki Fried calls out DeSantis’s lack of visibility as Omicron surges:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-gov-ron-desantis-appears-to-be-missing-in-action-as-omicron-sweeps-across-his-state-129803845777

* "Activist claims DeSantis ‘decided to just sit back, do nothing’ as Covid surged in Florida:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/desantis-largely-missing-from-public-from-december-17-through-new-year-s-eve-as-covid-surged-130060869600

* "Despite vaccines, more Texans died of COVID-19 in 2021 than in first year of pandemic:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/coronavirus/article/Despite-vaccines-Texas-COVID-deaths-35-higher-16722967.php

* "Omicron is sidelining even health care workers as it rips through Texas:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/28/omicron-texas-covid-19/

* "Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations rise more than 11% in a day:" https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/hospitalizations/texas-covid-19-hospitalizations-rise-more-than-11-in-a-day/

* "R.I. health care system ‘is currently collapsing,’ emergency doctors warn :" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/18/metro/ri-health-care-system-is-currently-collapsing-emergency-doctors-warn/

* "Frustrated emergency doctor says R.I. isn’t doing enough to address health system ‘collapse’:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/21/metro/frustrated-emergency-doctor-says-ri-isnt-doing-enough-address-health-system-collapse/

* "Covid-19 patients at this hospital are dying 'at a rate we've never seen die before' -- and it's taking a toll on health care workers:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/us/hospital-covid-19-deaths-michigan/index.html

* "Surge in COVID-19 cases overwhelms Indianapolis hospitals:" https://www.wishtv.com/news/vaccinecentral/surge-in-covid-19-cases-overwhelms-indianapolis-hospitals/

* "'There's going to be opposition': Indiana lawmakers prep to fast track vaccine mandate bill:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/17/covid-indiana-lawmakers-prep-fast-track-vaccine-mandate-bill/8925925002/

* "Nearly two-thirds of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in New Hampshire unvaccinated, report says:" https://www.wmur.com/article/nearly-two-thirds-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-in-new-hampshire-unvaccinated-report-says/38628992

* "Inside a New Hampshire hospital overwhelmed by COVID:" https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/12/20/covid-cases-overwhelm-new-england-hospitals

* "About 25% of Ohio coronavirus tests are coming back positive. Gov. Mike DeWine says actual positivity is higher.:" https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/12/about-25-of-ohio-coronavirus-tests-are-coming-back-positive-gov-mike-dewine-says-actual-positivity-is-higher.html

* "Ohio hospital saw pediatric COVID-related hospitalizations triple in the last week:" https://www.10tv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/ohio-hospital-pediatric-covid-related-hospitalizations-triple-in-the-last-week/530-3228dfd1-2f0b-4a15-9956-de0267ca8fdd

* "More Ohio hospitals postpone surgeries as COVID cases rise:" https://www.10tv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/more-ohio-hospitals-postpone-surgeries-covid-cases-rise/530-4c8f04ca-8fe4-4125-8250-a71c16e970b3

* "‘We’re begging you’: Ohio hospitals have more COVID-19 patients in emergency rooms than ever before:" https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/12/20/were-begging-you-ohio-hospitals-have-more-covid-19-patients-emergency-rooms-than-ever-before/

* "'Nurses are at a breaking point': Union sounds plea as healthcare workers face continuing COVID-19 surge:" https://www.kare11.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/nurses-breaking-point-minnesota-nurses-association-pleas-healthcare-workers-covid-19-surge/89-1dd21ed7-fa65-4926-8432-0ab1860471ed

* "Mississippi in 5th wave of COVID-19, state health official says:" https://www.wapt.com/article/msdh-issues-updated-guidance-on-omicron-covid-19-treatments/38635488

* "COVID-19 cases to climb even higher as students return to school, health officials say:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2021/12/28/mississippi-covid-cases-rise-sharply-going-into-new-year/9035370002/

* "COVID-19 hospitalizations up dramatically in Missouri:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-st-louis-kansas-city-missouri-44e8dc99f89b812fecbe01c7b9c5a3ba

* "COVID cases surge in Kansas City as the new year arrives: here are three key takeaways:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article256930162.html

* "Alabama adds 5,900 new COVID cases, positivity rate hits all-time high:" https://www.al.com/news/2021/12/alabama-covid-positivity-rate-at-all-time-high-nearly-6000-new-cases-reported-wednesday.html

* "COVID-19 hospitalizations, school cases increasing in Alabama:" https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2021/12/22/covid-alabama-coronavirus-cases-hospitals-schools-omicron-variant/8998336002/

* "COVID-19 cases continue to rise in New Jersey:" https://abc7ny.com/covid-in-new-jersey-gov-phil-murphy-restrictions-coronavirus-updates/11361136/

* "NJ's Largest Hospital System Expects Hospitalizations to Exceed Worst of 2020 Soon:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/njs-largest-hospital-system-expects-hospitalizations-to-exceed-worst-of-2020-soon/3473230/

* "Inmates at NYC's Rikers Island jail in the midst of 'emerging crisis' related to Omicron surge:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/us/omicron-surge-rikers-jail/index.html

* Why are cruises still a thing? "3rd Florida-based ship has outbreak, state cases hit record:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/3rd-florida-based-ship-outbreak-state-cases-rise-81932406

* "People should avoid cruise travel regardless of their vaccination status, the CDC says:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/12/30/1069253312/cdc-cruise-ship-travel-covid-19

* "Fauci on Fox’s Jesse Watters: He ‘should be fired on the spot’:" https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/fauci-on-foxs-jesse-watters-he-should-be-fired-on-the-spot/

* "Extremists shifting attention to influencing local governments expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/u-s-sets-global-record-of-one-million-covid-cases-reported-monday-130145349717

* "Anti-vaccination protesters targeted a Cheesecake Factory — 6 were arrested:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-vaxxer-protesers-cheesecake-factory-arrests/

* "Congress' doctor urges lawmakers to work remotely and upgrade masks as omicron rages:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1070037412/covid-congress-house-senate-omicron

* "Congress' attending physician says there are "unprecedented" cases of Covid throughout the complex. :" https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/01-3-2022/omicron-swamps-the-hill/

* "Pentagon Chief Austin Says He Has Tested Positive for COVID:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-02/pentagon-chief-austin-says-he-has-tested-positive-for-covid

* "Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker test positive for Covid amid US Omicron surge:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/19/elizabeth-warren-tests-positive-covid-omicron-surge

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* "Alexander Vindman supports arming Ukrainians to make Russian attack ‘less palatable’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-joe-biden-spoke-to-vladimir-putin-as-russian-troops-remain-stationed-at-ukrainian-border-129874501741

* "No surprise, Donald Trump just endorsed Hungary homophobe Viktor Orbán:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/donald-trump-viktor-orban-hungary-election-lgbt-rights/

* "The Human Toll of America’s Air Wars:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/19/magazine/victims-airstrikes-middle-east-civilians.html

* "Hundreds of Afghans denied humanitarian entry into US:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-immigration-massachusetts-kabul-taliban-8ea41eef2c1e1735d748fcb796faccab

* "Biden to speak with Putin on Thursday at Russian leader's request:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/politics/biden-putin-call/index.html

* "Dems fight back against GOP accusations of being weak on Russia: "That dog won't hunt!":" https://www.salon.com/2021/12/06/smacked-down-on-senate-floor-for-calling-dems-soft-on-russia-that-dog-wont-hunt_partner/

* "How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken):"

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* "White House unveils plan to replace every lead pipe in the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-unveils-plan-replace-every-lead-pipe-u-s-n1286079

* "Biden’s Pick for Banking Regulator Pulls Out After ‘Inappropriate Personal Attacks’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/saule-omarova-bidens-pick-for-banking-regulator-withdraws-after-inappropriate-personal-attacks

* "Biden finishes 2021 with most confirmed judicial picks since Reagan:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/biden-finishes-2021-with-most-confirmed-judicial-picks-since-reagan-2021-12-28/

* And yet Manchin insists we can’t afford the infrastructure Bill. "Biden signs $768B defense policy bill that supersized his original Pentagon request:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/27/biden-signs-defense-policy-bill-526171

* "Manchin says he won't vote for Build Back Better Act:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/19/politics/joe-manchin-build-back-better/index.html

* "Corporate donations to Sen. Joe Manchin's PAC surged as he fought President Biden's agenda:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/joe-manchin-pac-saw-surge-of-corporate-donations-as-he-fought-biden-agenda.html

* "As Congress fails on climate (again), focus turns to executive options for Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-congress-fails-on-climate-again-focus-turns-to-executive-options-for-biden-129880645576

* "They Are Essential Workers. They Pay Taxes. But They've Been Largely Excluded from Pandemic Aid.:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/12/15/essential-but-excluded

* "The Undercover Anarchists’ Secret Construction Collective:" https://narratively.com/the-undercover-anarchists-secret-construction-collective/

* "Hostile Architecture: The Fight Against the Homeless:"

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* "Supply shortages and emboldened workers: A changed economy:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-health-business-prices-66e5f5612c0a56c18ac218425e2cd20a

* "The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?:" https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22837830/covid-pandemic-climate-change-great-resignation-2021

* "Senate parliamentarian rejects latest Dem proposal on immigration:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/16/senate-parliamentarian-rejects-latest-dem-proposal-on-immigration-525195

* "Senate Democrats renew focus on voting rights as domestic policy bill stalls and filibuster changes are considered:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/voting-rights-filibuster-manchin/2021/12/15/3492c0b0-5de5-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html

* "Politics expert asks: Will Democratic leaders really listen to voters in 2022?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/senate-majority-leader-chuck-schumer-has-promised-a-vote-on-the-build-back-better-bill-in-2022-129873989697

* "'This is it': Swalwell warns 2022 could be last election if GOP wins majority:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-it-swalwell-warns-2022-could-be-last-election-if-gop-wins-majority-130056261886

* "Historian: We must protect democracy in 2022, or lose it forever.:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/historian-we-must-protect-democracy-in-2022-or-lose-it-forever-129969221954

* "How Out Texas Rep. Celia Israel Put Voting Rights First in 2021:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2021/12/16/how-out-texas-rep-celia-israel-put-voting-rights-first-2021

* "Schumer tries to jump-start Dems with rules change threat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/03/schumer-threatens-vote-on-senate-rules-change-in-january-526394

* "Sen. Schumer on Manchin, Sinema: We've got to keep pressing them on voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/sen-chuck-schumer-vows-vote-on-senate-filibuster-rules-changes-to-advance-voting-rights-legislation-130058821956

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

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

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

* "Lincoln County, Georgia, Where The Population Is One-Third Black, Proposes Closing Down All But One Polling Place:" https://www.theroot.com/lincoln-county-georgia-where-the-population-is-one-th-1848257870

* "Washington redistricting commission sued over transparency issues as behind-the-scenes dealings emerge:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/lawsuit-washington-redistricting-commission-violated-open-meetings-law/

* "Political stakes are high as trial begins in NC gerrymandering lawsuit:" https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article257010887.html

* "Congressional redistricting hits the Ohio Supreme Court:" https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/12/29/congressional-redistricting-hits-the-ohio-supreme-court/

* We still have a fighting chance if we all turn out next November. "Democrats Are Doing Weirdly Well in Redistricting:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/democrats-are-doing-weirdly-well-in-redistricting.html

* "Republicans hit snags deploying gerrymandering strategy to strengthen grip on power:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-hit-snags-deploying-gerrymandering-strategy-to-strengthen-grip-on-power-129879109973

* "'Slow-motion insurrection': How GOP seizes election power:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-united-states-elections-electoral-college-election-2020-809215812f4bc6e5907573ba98247c0c

* "Colorado Election Fraud Group Is Training Conspiracists in Other States to Knock Doors in Search of 'Phantom Ballots':" https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/10/colorado-election-fraud-group-is-training-conspiracists-in-other-states-to-knock-doors-in-search-of-phantom-ballots/39935/

* "A Utah group is going door to door looking for election fraud. But they don’t want you to know about it:" https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/12/06/utah-group-is-going-door/

* "Amid Texas GOP’s effort to question electoral integrity, attorney general tried to indict Travis County elections chief:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/20/texas-ken-paxton-travis-county-elections/

* "‘A real conflagration’: Wisconsin emerges as front line in war over the 2020 vote:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-2020-vote-battle/2021/12/16/6c585248-5931-11ec-9a18-a506cf3aa31d_story.html

* "Most threats against election workers, stoked by Trump's Big Lie, go unpunished: Reuters :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/most-threats-against-election-workers-stoked-by-trump-s-big-lie-go-unpunished-reuters-129878597732

* "Trump aide admits he was behind meeting with Kanye West publicist and Georgia election worker:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2070502

* "Eric Adams becomes New York City's 110th mayor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/eric-adams-becomes-new-york-city-s-110th-mayor-129969733747

* "‘National divorce:’ Congresswoman openly advocates end to American democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-national-divorce-congresswoman-openly-advocates-end-to-american-democracy-129871429742

* "Dominion Voting wins key decision in lawsuit against Fox News:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/media/fox-news-court-dominion/index.html

* "Twitter Bans Personal Greene Account for COVID-19 Misinfo:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-02/twitter-bans-personal-greene-account-for-covid-19-misinfo

* "GOP Candidate Claims Colorado Gov. Jared Polis Not Gay, Is Abuser:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/16/gop-candidate-claims-colorado-gov-jared-polis-not-gay-abuser

* "Herschel Walker stumbles badly on John Lewis, voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/herschel-walker-stumbles-badly-john-lewis-voting-rights-n1286559

* "3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/eaton-taguba-anderson-generals-military/

* "GOP blows off Trump’s bid to oust McConnell:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/gop-trump-oust-mcconnell-525207

* "Trump sues NY attorney general, seeking to halt civil probe:" https://apnews.com/article/business-new-york-lawsuits-donald-trump-albany-8cd1fd3c9dc206a5b563116f3966f2a4

* "GOP agrees to pay up to $1.6 million of Trump’s legal bills in N.Y. probes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-party-trump-legal-bills-new-york-probe/2021/12/16/08af4524-5c3f-11ec-9c0e-a955f8a009c1_story.html

* "New York attorney general subpoenas Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/03/donald-trump-jr-ivanka-trump-new-york-attorney-general

* "Subpoenas for Ivanka, Trump Jr suggest NY AG investigation entering final stages:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/subpoenas-for-ivanka-trump-jr-suggest-ny-ag-investigation-entering-final-stages-130065477932

* "The U.S. military men spreading Trump’s baseless fraud claims:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/

* "Cheney: January 6 committee has 'firsthand testimony' that Ivanka asked Trump to intervene during insurrection:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/politics/bennie-thompson-trump-capitol-insurrection/index.html

* "Capitol panel to investigate Trump call to Willard hotel in hours before attack:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/27/capitol-attack-panel-investigate-trump-call-willard-hotel-before-assault

* House panel asks Supreme Court to say by mid-January whether it's taking Trump's January 6 records case":" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-records-january-6/

* "Why the ‘consensus opinion’ during and right after Jan. 6 is worth remembering:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-the-consensus-opinion-during-and-right-after-jan-6-is-worth-remembering-130056773581

* "House committee seeks to interview GOP firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan about January 6:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/jim-jordan-house-select-committee-january-6/index.html

* "Michael Flynn loses his legal challenge to the House January 6 probe, one day after filing it:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/michael-flynn-january-6-lawsuit/index.html

* "Trump ally Straka has provided potentially significant information:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/trump-ally-brandon-straka-information-525272

* "January 6 committee sends letter to GOP Rep. Scott Perry, asking to interview him:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/scott-perry-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Trump ally Roger Stone pleads the Fifth in deposition with January 6 committee:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/roger-stone-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Capitol rioters' tears, remorse don't spare them from jail:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-rioters-prison-95bdc863812cab48be3d98ada67bd582

* "Judge: Lack of charges for Trump over Jan. 6 is no basis for leniency for others:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/judge-lack-charges-trump-jan-6-525277

* "Remembering the Jan. 6 insurrection: What it was like inside the Capitol:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/remembering-the-jan-6-insurrection-what-it-was-like-inside-the-capitol-129968709883

* "Proud Boys member pleads guilty for role in Capitol riot:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/22/1066944829/matthew-greene-proud-boys-jan-6-capitol-pleads-guilty

* "Capitol rioter told FBI he was "in the bathroom pooping when the violence occurred":" https://www.salon.com/2021/12/03/capitol-rioter-told-fbi-he-was-in-the-bathroom-pooping-when-the-violence-occurred_partner/

* "Proud Boys member pleads guilty for role in Capitol riot:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/22/1066944829/matthew-greene-proud-boys-jan-6-capitol-pleads-guilty

* "'Jesus Christ Superstar' actor, an accused Capitol rioter, claimed 'divine' authority in court hearing:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/politics/january-6-jesus-christ-superstar-sovereign-citizen/index.html

* "‘Q’ Has Been Quiet, but QAnon Lives On:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/technology/qanon-conspiracy-movement.html

* "Defense seeks dismissal of indictment for Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/26/defense-dismissal-indictment-gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-plot-michigan-governor-coronavirus-covid

* "Since Jan. 6, the pro-Trump Internet has descended into infighting over money and followers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/03/trump-qanon-online-money-war-jan6/

* "Police: Gunman in Denver who killed 5 targeted some victims:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article256898017.html

* " Why Alex Jones Lost the Sandy Hook Lawsuits :"

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* "North Carolina 3-year-old who accidentally shot herself on Christmas Day has died:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/us/north-carolina-christmas-shooting-toddler-dies/index.html

* "How a bloody land feud in Honduras is stoking migrant flight to U.S.:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/honduras-migration-land/

* "Ex-officer Kim Potter found guilty of two counts of manslaughter for fatally shooting Daunte Wright:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/us/kim-potter-trial-thursday/index.html

* "A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard:" https://theintercept.com/2021/12/18/little-rock-police-chief-keith-humphrey/

* "How Paid Experts Help Exonerate Police After Deaths in Custody:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/police-deaths-in-custody-blame.html

* "A Rogue Climber Running From the Law Was Fleeing His Own Trauma:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/isaac-wright-driftershoots-ptsd.html

* "5 teenagers charged in armed carjacking of US Rep. Scanlon:" https://apnews.com/article/congresswoman-mary-gay-scanlon-carjacked-teens-charged-3b17b2cc9d2dc00f0782f0f937e960d0

* "'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski moved to prison medical facility:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-moved-prison-medical-facility-81916720

* "Rocker Rod Stewart, son resolve Florida hotel assault case:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-florida-rod-stewart-3ffb512ae758f75593d0cc8f1ab5ecb1

* "Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbbey/prison-phone-companies-are-recording-attorney-client-calls-across-the-us

* "Behind the Violence at Rikers, Decades of Mismanagement and Dysfunction:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/nyregion/rikers-island-correction-officers.html

* "The Injustices of the Private Prison System:"

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* "Far-right using COVID-19 theories to grow reach, study shows:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-race-and-ethnicity-europe-1952ea369c0f4afdb6d23c7706aaadc8

* "Debunking the right-wing’s shoplifting freak-out:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/debunking-wing-shoplifting-freak-015411156.html

* "Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on four out of 11 federal charges:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/tech/elizabeth-holmes-verdict/index.html

* "He wore a wire, risked his life to expose who was in the KKK:" https://apnews.com/article/florida-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-veterans-ku-klux-klan-fa0ec4120b1457f56c527108074795b5

* "Claudette Colvin: Civil rights pioneer has record cleared:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59688404

* "OK bill would pay parents $10K each day their nominated banned books remain in libraries:" https://www.newsweek.com/ok-bill-would-pay-parents-10k-each-day-their-nominated-banned-books-remain-libraries-1663511

* "Some school librarians fed up with book bans are organizing and fighting back:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/us/texas-school-librarians-book-challenges/index.html

* CW: Psychiatric Abuse, Domestic Abuse. "The Rise and Fall of Dr. Phil, Part One:"

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* CW: Child Abuse, Torture "Dr. Phil's Involvement with Turnabout Ranch is Uncomfortable :"

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* "Pushed to Perform: How Reality TV Became About Kids:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Joshua Bassett's childhood sexual abuser was a family member who groomed him for years:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/28/joshua-bassett-sexual-abuse-coming-out-zach-sang/

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1066219689/ghislaine-maxwell-verdict-trial-jeffrey-epstein

* CW: Sex Trafficking, Rape, Pedophilia. "What Medieval Women Who Trafficked Girls Can Teach Us About Ghislaine Maxwell:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-history-of-female-complicity-in-sexual-abuse.html

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "Prince Andrew accuser’s 2009 deal with Jeffrey Epstein made public:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59861831

* CW: Sex Trafficking, Pedophilia"A QAnon con: How the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kids:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/wayfair-qanon-sex-trafficking-conspiracy/

* "Child grooms are often overlooked in the fight to stop child marriage:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/02/1066099271/child-grooms-are-often-overlooked-in-the-fight-to-stop-child-marriage

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Chris Noth: Two women accuse Sex And The City actor of sexual assault:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59689064

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Chris Noth Is Dropped From ‘The Equalizer’ Amid Sexual Assault Allegations:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/us/chris-noth-the-equalizer-fired.html

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Prosecutor drops groping charge against former NY Gov. Cuomo:" https://apnews.com/article/new-york-andrew-cuomo-albany-david-soares-24c140df57e2cf65bea8e576bf427f74

* CW: sexual Misconduct "Chris Cuomo, newly fired from CNN, faces an allegation of sexual misconduct:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/05/1061639233/chris-cuomo-newly-fired-from-cnn-faces-an-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct

* "Bryan Singer accused of 'controlling, abusive' relationship with young assistant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/bryan-singer-x-men-director-abuse-allegations-blake-stuerman/

* "Alex Jones' wife arrested on domestic violence charge:" https://news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-wife-arrested-domestic-204930217.html

* CW: Domestic Abuse "Dubai ruler must pay ex-wife $700M in divorce settlement:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/dubai-ruler-pay-wife-700m-divorce-settlement-81873513

* CW: Domestic Violence "Students walked out before ‘transphobic’ Rod Liddle speech 'over assault caution':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/08/rod-liddle-durham-assault-caution/

* "Death of pregnant woman ignites debate about abortion ban in Poland:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/death-pregnant-woman-ignites-debate-about-abortion-ban-poland-2021-11-05/

* "Tennessee Planned Parenthood destroyed in early morning fire:" https://apnews.com/article/health-fires-tennessee-knoxville-planned-parenthood-524edc1a8bd12e46774c1fcdf37c6c72

* "US groups behind bid to outlaw abortion linked to global attacks on human rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/07/homophobic-groups-fund-abortion-case-us/

* "Abortion bans 'certain' across America if Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/abortion-supreme-court-roe-v-wade/

* "For Young LGBTQ+ Folks, Emergency Contraception on Campus Is Essential:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/29/young-lgbtq-folks-emergency-contraception-campus-essential

* "Vladimir Putin uses annual four-hour speech to attack trans people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/24/vladimir-putin-russia-trans-coronavirus-pandemic/

* "Hungary’s cruel anti-LGBT+ law breaches basic human rights, say legal experts:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/hungary-anti-lgbt-law/

* "Kiss-A-Thon Held at Six Flags Mexico After Queer Couple Reprimanded:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/1/03/kiss-thon-held-six-flags-mexico-after-queer-couple-reprimanded-kissing

* "Same-Sex Couples in Israel Will Soon Have Access to Surrogacy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/04/same-sex-couples-israel-will-soon-have-access-surrogacy

* "Majority of Scots think trans people should be 'free to express their identity':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/17/trans-scotland-self-id-survation-poll/

* "All historic gay sex convictions to be pardoned: 'The UK did so much wrong':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/gay-sex-pardon-turins-law-priti-patel/

* "Crucial appeal against anti-trans LGB Alliance’s charity status to be heard in 2022:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/23/lgb-alliance-charity-appeal/

* "Tories should give non-binary people legal recognition by 2024, say MPs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/non-binary-legal-recognition-inquiry/

* "The real-life stories of Grindr serial killer Stephen Port's tragic victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/stephen-port-victims-anthony-walgate-daniel-whitworth-gabriel-kovari-jack-taylor/

* "America's LGBT+ population could be twice as big as previously thought, study says:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/19/usa-lgbt-population-census-pulse-survey-trans/

* "Black Trans Woman Ke’Yahonna Stone Shot Morning After Christmas:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/12/31/black-transgender-woman-keyahonna-stone-shot-morning-after-christmas-indiana

* "21-Year-Old Black Trans Woman Amarey Lej Killed in Pittsburgh:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/04/21-year-old-black-trans-woman-amarey-lej-killed-pittsburgh

* "'Angry' students take stand after school targeted in racist, homophobic attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/homophobic-racist-slurs-san-dieguito-academy/

* "Billionaire Mormon quits church over relentless attacks on LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/22/jeff-t-green-mormon-quit-lgbt-gay/

* "Their fears are mirrors of what they desire:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1814418.html

* "Game-changing injectable PrEP taken every other month to be rolled out in US:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/22/prep-injection-fda/

* Child Death "They Lost Three Daughters to Sickle Cell. Can They Save a Fourth?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/health/sickle-cell-nigeria.html

* "The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier:" https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/13/whitest-specialty-as-medicine-strives-to-close-diversity-gaps-orthopedic-surgery-remains-stubborn-outlier/

* "New Zealand's unique cigarette ban may be a model for other countries:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064212737/new-zealands-cigarette-ban-model

* "The Problem With the Myers-Briggs Personality Test:" https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-problem-with-the-myers-briggs-personality-test

* "US population growth at lowest rate in pandemic's 1st year:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-immigration-health-us-census-bureau-covid-19-pandemic-d224035ee70e805f1e42da6c1a9c079c

* "Alyssa always wanted to be a doctor. Then her dad died of covid and her dream fell apart.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/father-covid-grief/

* "Children, Coping With Loss, Are Pandemic’s ‘Forgotten Grievers’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/us/politics/children-lost-parents-caregivers-covid-grief.html

* "Fentanyl number one cause of death for adults 18-45, recent government data says:" https://www.abc12.com/news/fentanyl-number-one-cause-of-death-for-adults-18-45-recent-government-data-says/article_ed0bfe28-5f79-11ec-8aa0-af3f6cbff03c.html

* "States target Sackler family for opioid crisis justice after judge dumps bankruptcy deal:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/states-target-sackler-family-for-opioid-crisis-justice-after-judge-dumps-bankruptcy-deal-129812037758

* CW: Suicide "Hazmat incident from suspected suicide closes Main Street in Springfield:" https://news.yahoo.com/hazmat-incident-fire-police-officials-023532091.html

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* "‘Our house was gone, it was sea and sand’: life on the vanishing coasts – in pictures:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2021/dec/29/our-house-was-gone-it-was-sea-and-sand-life-on-the-vanishing-coasts-in-pictures

* "Boulder County wildfires: How to help those impacted by the disaster:" https://www.denverpost.com/2021/12/30/boulder-county-wildfires-how-to-help/

* "Alaska records all-time December high of 67 degrees:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/alaska-records-all-time-december-high-of-67-degrees-129871429768

* "‘Doomsday glacier’: Experts raise alarms about cracking Antarctic ice shelf:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-doomsday-glacier-experts-raise-alarms-about-cracking-antarctic-ice-shelf-129872965776

* "3 people missing, nearly 1K structures scorched in Colorado wildfire, officials say:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/01/colorado-fire-boulder-county-2-people-believed-missing/9067357002/

* "Drivers fret about food and fuel while stranded on highway :" https://apnews.com/article/snow-storm-weather-195-virginia-660346cff578c655186ac517fb45f17f

* "The Next Disaster Coming to the Great Plains:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/kansas-aquifer-ogallala-water-crisis-drought/621007/

* "The rising threat to businesses in 2022? Water.:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-flooding-businesses-2022/

* "Trash for rice: Bali recycling scheme gives families pandemic lifeline:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trash-rice-bali-recycling-scheme-gives-families-pandemic-lifeline-2021-12-29/

* "Inside the Chicago-area factory aiming to end US overreliance on Asia's PPE production:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/us/medical-gloves-ppe-chicago-factory/index.html

* "The First Dynasty of Egypt: The Birth of a Civilization:"

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* "The Great European Famine: The First Catastrophe of the 14th Century:"

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* "Syphilis: The Disease that Changed Europe:"

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* CW: Rape, Torture. "François L’Olonnais: The Most Savage Pirate of the Caribbean:"

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* "Emiliano Zapata: Mexico’s Greatest Revolutionary:"

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* CW: NAZIs, Holocaust, Torture. "Bayer's History is a Hard Pill to Swallow :"

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* "The Black Cop Who Infiltrated the KKK: Ron Stallworth:"

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* CW: Pedophilia, Child Murder "Inside the hunt for Christine Jessop's real killer:" https://torontolife.com/city/inside-the-hunt-for-christine-jessops-real-killer/

* "Betty White defended a Black dancer on her 1950s variety show:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/01/betty-white-show-arthur-duncan-black-tap-dancer-racism/

* "Betty White Understood Gay Men, and We Loved Her for It:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/12/31/betty-white-understood-gay-men-and-we-loved-her-it

* "Gay Olympic Diving Star Ian Matos Is Dead at 32:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/12/24/gay-olympic-diving-star-ian-matos-dead-32

* "A Quick Memory of Harry Reid:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1815738.html

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* This latest crisis is of course happening in that weird liminal space between end of year holidays, so the fact that I got any call backs on my Wednesday round of message leaving as various social service agencies was all by itself impressive.

Thursday morning at 7AM, the phone rang. This is an alarming time for anyone to call anyone, and we are far enough north it's not yet dawn. With Squirrel's slightly longer commute to his new job (He'd have been home by then from his old job, if he hadn't stopped for groceries or gas or the like, but at 7 he's often still commuting these days) and the whole melted snow freezes into dangerous ice overnight thing, I was worried it was Squirrel having had an accident on the way home.

It was not. It was a very nice man filling in for someone on vacation at a long shot agency I called the previous day. The answer was the expected no, but he had two more leads to try.

Poverty is very time consuming. I have been poor most of my life, including all my adult life. Phone tag, the endless time consuming search for hidden little programs that might help one with whatever nightmare poverty has tossed at you this time. I fish and I wait. There is noting else to do sometimes.

It was very sweet of him to call first thing, and really kind to try to help the only way he could.

Want to help with the bills/wiring crisis? paypal.me/Gwydion

* The roads are so bad, the security guys coming to fix the fire system cancelled. Really there is nothing to be done until after the new year.

Head Millenial came in on his day off. We've got white fairy lights strung up in the kitchen and an extension cord running to the bathroom with a bedroom lamp attach. The beta now has light and heat. The lighting is dimmer than ideal but we can now see what we're doing at night and the small space heater is attached to the most stable of the household circuits, the one that is also lighting the bathroom. It's not ideal but the safety issue is abated and I have a stomache with protein in it as I typed this.

Addendum: The temperature dropped fast tonight, so it was very good we sorted out the space heater power supply.

* Friday, I'm awakened by some guy yelling about water leaking outside the interior door. So I throw on some clothes and go and answer it. It's an inspector needing to take moisture readings of his wall that connects to the neighbor on his side. So I wake squirrel up.

He hit us first, so I don't know the results of the inspection, but he had information that may be a game changer. He said that the fire suppression sprinkler cracked due to the weather, and was leaking into next door's apartment. I told him about our fire suppression and electrical issues and he said likely next door's water leak zapped us too.

If this is the case, odds are I can leverage that into getting management to pay to fix the electricals, since weather damage in another apartment leaking into ours and doing massive damage sounds a lot like the time I called in water coming out of the ceiling in the bathroom and they had to fix it for me. the Inspector said it sounded as crazy to him as it did to us that they wanted us to pay a massive repair bill caused by weather damage in someone else's apartment.

So Monday, I'll call around and verify if this is the case, and if it is, I have a good case for this being someone else's problem. Which leaves us with the bills I didn't pay so I could fix my brakes and the medical bill. I've got a few donations, including one that means I can cover the one that flips into fines on the 7th. I need to wait for money to shift around and for the electrical situation to get settled one way or another, at which point I an give an update on my level of fucked, but odds just shifted from this is my life now I guess to solvable by Spring.

In other news, the cats and I are still holed up against the cold and snow and spending a lot of time napping in a group. I am adjusting to the dim emergency lighting we've strung up and still have the battery lanterns for close work. What did I do for New Years? Pet assorted cats and read Medieval history between naps. Oh, and had spasms. So many spasms. I spent the last couple of days trying to head them off, and lost.

But we are all fed and warm and that's more than a lot of people have right now.

* The Mummer's Parade got postponed to Sunday, so I stayed up to watch it live streaming. you could see the effects of the pandemic particularly in the Comics, I think, and in some of the string Bands. Most of the parade did pretty well on the whole racism, appropriation problem. There was one thing in each section before the fancy brigades if i remember correctly, plus a really bad one by a DJ in the fancies, but trust me this is progress. It used to be so much worse.

The Fancy Brigades though? Jesus fuck! It was like some sort of racism/cultural appropriation Olympics. There were always problems in the fancies division, but this is by far the worst it's been since the '90's. no wonder the my agish black man doing the cultural sensitivity training for Mummers sounded so damned tired.

The fuck!
Anyway, money has moved around and the immediate personal financial crisis that started with the brakes on the car is under control thanks to donors. The wall I was going to hit on the seventh has been removed. If I can talk property management into fixing the electricity, it will be tight for January and possibly ugly in February, but the immediate oh shit has become a next month problem. I should know in a week or two how fucked we will be next month. I'll let you know then.

* Monday I spent all day doing bureaucracy and errands. A half an hour's argument with management rendered a hard no. Luckily, the City called and is willing to put me on the expedited waiting list. The form required me to spend two hours on hold to get a single number from an agency, but I filed the application for the city to fix the electricals the same day via email.

Going out to get the application packet turned into more of a saga than hoped, as one of my tires was on the rim flat. Luckily squirrel was awake and lent me his car. Also, I was exhausted, barely mobile and in a lot of pain. Still, the essential adulting got done.

Tuesday I spent most of the morning on more phone bureaucracy (tracking down more leads, etc.). apparently if I had 2500 I could get the electricals fixed myself. Might as well wish I had a million. I then drove on the rim to the tire store. It took two hours, which was no surprise. The line is always long there, and it was worse because of the whole people snowed in and new year thing, plus they were having computer issues which was slowing check in considerable. I couldn't not replace the tire and waiting for a better day would not make things any easier.

Apparently, the tire was under warranty, which surprised the hell out of me as I didn't know i had a warranty. I certainly hadn't paid for one. My assumption is is came automatically with the tires. As I bought these tires in February a year before the pandemic, my suspicion is if the tire had punctured say a month and a half from now, it would have expired. As it fell out, I got a free replacement tire, so that's a win.

I turned out one of the bills I didn't pay because brakes had acquired and extra 25 or so of fees; the other was the amount expected. I'll need to pay this month's bills, of course, plus the 70.00 medical bill, plus whatever they are going to charge me for car tabs later in the month, so I'm still some degree of fucked, but this could have been so much worse.

I also bought a grocery sandwich on EBT, because while it's not as bad as yesterday, my body is really not doing well at the basics. I turned in the hard copy of our application on the grounds that trying to read my arthritis handwriting on Squirrel's cell phone picture sounded dicey to me. I actually have faith that the city will help since both of the people involved in that decision are very invested in getting it sorted. It's more a matter of how long until my waiting list spot rises to an open slot and then about a three month process after that. We may even get them to replace the unreliable refrigerator and fix my broken kitchen drawer in the process.

It's going to be unpleasant, but if we can make it to April financially, we'll be okay.

* Wednesday, we didn't forage. Nearby Millennial was trapped at home because the compacted ice made her hill too dangerous. Head Millennial could make it, so we worked on stuff in the living room, while the snow invisibly piled up outside. Luckily, Squirrel took Head Millennial home before he went to work.

He called me from work. They have an outbreak and it's bad. Really, really bad. He's working directly with COVID patients. He is taking all precautions at work and is masking when he has to leave his room for food or work, but our risk just went way up.

In other news, I packed up Halloweentown today as a preliminary to taking down the interior Gothmas display. The cats had an exciting time exploring the cleared space and sitting together to stare out at the snowy landscape and occasional dog walker.

Did I mention the previous Wednesday, Head Millennial brought in a dish of snow for the cats? neither of them have much outdoor experience. (Livia escaped once and was deeply traumatized. Tavy has escaped more often, usually to the bushes in front of our patio to check for hidden Millenials). They've never been out in snow and seeing it fall only happens once or twice a year in the normal course of things, so they are fascinated and a bit alarmed whenever it happens.

The dish of snow blew the Emperor's mind. He finds snow both fascinating and alarming at the best of times. He'd never seen it indoors or been close to it. It really freaked him right out. he'd approach the bowl cautiously, tail lashing, then skitter away sideways. He did eventually sniff it, at which point he recoiled in horror. Livia basically gave it the side eye and would skirt around it.

Imperial opinion is united: It was not a hit. Snow belongs Outside, with noises and strangers.

* Since 2016, I've tried to write up a thing in the dark of every year, but this year, I didn't find the words. Looks like the Mountain Goats guy found them for me. :https://star-burp.tumblr.com/post/672168512356237312

* "Sunday Sweets For Roy G. Biv:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/1/2/sunday-sweets-for-roy-g-biv

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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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* "Protesters face tear gas and bullets to oppose Sudan coup:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudanese-gather-mass-protests-against-coup-amid-tight-security-2021-11-13/

* "Lebanese government in ‘fantasy land’ amid crisis, UN envoy says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanese-government-fantasy-land-amid-crisis-un-envoy-says-2021-11-12/

* "Afghans facing 'hell on earth' as winter looms:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59202880

* "UK counter-terrorism police arrest three after Liverpool car blast:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/one-person-dead-one-injured-after-car-explosion-liverpool-uk-2021-11-14/

* "Poland border crisis: EU to widen Belarus sanctions as row intensifies:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59289998

* "Ethiopian Civil War Sparks Rancorous Debate Over Immigration to Israel:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/world/middleeast/israel-ethiopia-jews-immigration.html

"Further confounding the situation, Israel’s National Security Council has assessed that there is no urgency or need for immediate rescue, even though Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just pulled the families of its diplomats out of Addis Ababa and has warned Israelis not to travel to Ethiopia."

* "Sierra Leone tanker explosion: Mass burial in Freetown:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59205372

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* "Austria and Germany impose restrictions on unvaccinated people as COVID cases surge:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/11/15/1055839727/austria-and-germany-impose-restrictions-on-unvaccinated-people-as-covid-cases-su

* "As pandemic pounds Ukraine, desperate officials try to scare people into getting the jab:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/coronavirus-ukraine-vaccine-russia/2021/11/05/f63e23f6-3ca4-11ec-bd6f-da376f47304e_story.html

* "Germany’s Fourth Covid Wave: ‘A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/world/europe/germany-covid-unvaccinated.html

* "Ron DeSantis’ surgeon general got his medical license approved in just two days:" https://www.rawstory.com/florida-surgeon-general-medical-license/

* "Texas schools can again set their own face mask rules after federal judge overrules Gov. Greg Abbott's ban:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/10/texas-schools-mask-mandate-ban-overturned/

* "A Texas hospital suspends a doctor's privileges for spreading 'misinformation' about Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/13/us/houston-doctor-suspended-covid-19/index.html

* "Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signs sweeping COVID-19 legislation into law:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2021/11/12/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-covid-19-legislation-general-assembly-legislature-businesses-masks/6264103001/

* "Alabama health leaders say unvaccinated are contributing to COVID deaths of all ages:" https://www.cbs42.com/news/health/coronavirus/alabama-health-leaders-say-unvaccinated-are-contributing-to-covid-deaths-of-all-ages/

* "Colorado announces vaccine mandate for certain indoor events as Mountain West states grapple with Covid-19 surge:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/15/us/colorado-covid-surge-vaccine/index.html

* "Latest COVID surge is the “straw that broke the camel’s back,” Colorado hospital nurses say:" https://www.denverpost.com/2021/11/14/colorado-hospital-staffing-covid-nurses-icu/

* "Oklahoma National Guard rejects Pentagon’s coronavirus vaccine mandate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/11/13/oklahoma-national-guard-vaccine-mandate/

* This prevents localities from knowing how bad the infection rates are and thus taking effective measures to stop the spread. "'A little blind': Officials, health experts frustrated after State Health Department stops publishing local COVID-19 data:" https://tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/a-little-blind-officials-health-experts-frustrated-after-state-health-department-stops-publishing-local-covid/article_dfe17a6a-43d2-11ec-9880-8f0066661149.html

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* "U.S. military hid airstrikes that killed dozens of civilians in Syria:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-military-hid-airstrikes-that-killed-dozens-civilians-syria-nyt-2021-11-13/

* "World's autocrats eager to fill in where U.S. democracy falters on world stage:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/world-s-autocrats-eager-to-fill-in-where-u-s-democracy-falters-on-world-stage-126327365655

* "Biden finally gets the ‘big effing deal’ signing ceremony of his own:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/15/biden-signs-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal-522567

* "Deere Reaches Third Tentative Deal With Union in Attempt to End Strike:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/business/john-deere-strike-union.html

* "Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal With Unions, Averting Strike:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/business/kaiser-permanente-unions-strike.html

* "A Gay Veteran on His Experience With Discrimination:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/11/gay-veteran-his-experience-discrimination

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

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

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

* "Republicans Gain Heavy House Edge in 2022 as Gerrymandered Maps Emerge:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/politics/republicans-2022-redistricting-maps.html

* "Nevada Democrat aims to be 1st trans politician to win a statewide race:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/nevada-democrat-aims-be-1st-trans-politician-win-statewide-race-n1283790

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

* "Kimi Cole seeks to make history in run for Nevada lieutenant governor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/kimi-cole-seeks-to-make-history-in-run-for-nevada-lieutenant-governor-126195269785

* "The Bye Line: Kevin McCarthy is no leader:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-kevin-mccarthy-is-no-leader-126194245911

* "Trump scores legal wins with one lawsuit dropped and another dismissed:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/12/politics/trump-lawsuits-michael-cohen-summer-zervos/index.html

* "'Un-American': Rep. Gallego slams Flynn call for ‘one religion’ in U.S.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-un-american-rep-gallego-slams-flynn-call-for-one-religion-in-u-s-126308933963

* "Another Trump lawyer wrote another memo pressuring Pence to overturn election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/another-trump-lawyer-wrote-another-memo-pressuring-pence-to-overturn-election-126306373919

* "Trump ally Steve Bannon surrenders after his indictment on two counts of contempt of Congress:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/15/politics/steve-bannon/

* "Bannon makes curious choice of lawyer for contempt of Congress case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bannon-makes-curious-choice-of-lawyer-for-contempt-of-congress-case-126323781967

* This one’s a wild ride. Trust me, it’s worth reading for the sheer wtf of it all. "Man convicted of threatening Dems says pretrial jail stint was enough punishment:" https://www.courthousenews.com/man-convicted-of-threatening-dems-says-pretrial-jail-stint-was-enough-punishment/

* "'One Toke Over The Line': Judge Denies Pot-Loving Capitol Rioter's Holiday Travel Request:" https://news.yahoo.com/one-toke-over-line-judge-212107756.html

* "Jenna Ryan, Texas realtor who tweeted she was 'definitely not going to jail,' gets 60 days in jail:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/jenna-ryan-texas-realtor-who-tweeted-she-was-definitely-not-going-to-jail-gets-60-days-in-jail-white-skin-blonde-hair-donald-trump-guy-womack/65-fb717bf2-3a07-4581-9486-bb9d8e144abd

* "Sandy Hook families win legal victory against Alex Jones in defamation case:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/15/media/alex-jones-sandy-hook-defamation-legal-victory/index.html

* "Sandy Hook families win legal victory against Alex Jones in defamation suit:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/n-hayes-alexjones-211115-126310469952

* "Prosecutors have used the defendants' own words in the Ahmaud Arbery case:" https://www.npr.org/2021/11/13/1054869628/prosecutors-call-witnesses-in-first-week-of-testimony-in-ahmaud-arbery-case

* "Closing arguments in Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial begin Monday:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/closing-arguments-in-kyle-rittenhouse-murder-trial-begin-monday-126194246001

* CW: Child Abuse. "This Company Profits Off the Most Vulnerable Children in the US:"

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* "More Republican leaders try to ban books on race, LGBTQ issues:" https://www.npr.org/2021/11/13/1055524205/more-republican-leaders-try-to-ban-books-on-race-lgbtq-issues

* "Texas schools resist Republican request for records on classroom books:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/13/texas-schools-books-republican-matt-krause

* "SNP MP Joanna Cherry suggests trans conversion therapy should be legal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/15/joanna-cherry-snp-trans-conversion-therapy/

* "Tory MP who's spent years opposing LGBT+ rights quietly joins equalities committee:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/10/jackie-doyle-price-women-equalities-committee-lgbt/

* "BBC quits Stonewall scheme over 'risk of perceived bias':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/10/bbc-stonewall-diversity-champions-programme/

* "BBC boss tells LGBT staff 'get used to views you don't like' amid transphobia row:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/15/bbc-fran-unsworth-lgbt-transgender/

* "Boyfriend of Grindr killer victim 'pushed out' by anti-gay police, inquest told:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/10/stephen-port-inquest-daniel-whitworth/

* "Pensioner aggressively stalked librarians because she thought they were lesbians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/10/lesbian-stalker-beaconsfield-library-louisa-carlton/

* "Jenny De Leon Is Fourth Trans Woman Killed in Florida This Year:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/11/14/jenny-de-leon-fourth-trans-woman-killed-florida-year

* "Can We Predict An Outbreak's Future? - Modeling: Crash Course Outbreak Science #9:"

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* "Nick had a wife, a baby and job – but he couldn't buy nappies without asking his parents:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-14/britney-spears-shines-light-on-america-conservatorship-laws/100605612

* "Sickle cell disease inquiry finds ‘serious care failings’ in NHS:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/15/sickle-cell-disease-inquiry-finds-serious-care-failings-in-nhs

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* "What the world did and didn’t accomplish at COP26:" https://www.vox.com/22777957/cop26-un-climate-change-conference-glasgow-goals-paris

* "Hundreds of global civil society representatives walk out of Cop26 in protest:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/12/global-civil-society-representatives-walkout-cop26-protest

* "'Atmospheric river' causes floods, evacuations in Northwest:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-mount-vernon-evacuations-a39b0e7fe7b0c5bf71256bd772d1ad25

* "This is how Venice will fall: conservation expert shares day-by-day destruction caused by rising water levels:" https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/29/this-is-how-venice-will-fall

* "Tourists having sex in the dunes is ruining a Spanish beach:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/gran-canaria-tourist-sex-dunes-maspalomas-scn/index.html

* ""Band-Aid on a bullet wound:" Flint locals seethe over $626M water settlement:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/flint-water-lead-court-settlement-residents-unhappy/

* "How a female-only line of salamanders 'steals' genes from unsuspecting males:" https://www.popsci.com/female-salamander-kleptogenesis/

* "Researchers discover first dinosaur species that lived on Greenland 214 million years ago:" https://phys.org/news/2021-11-dinosaur-species-greenland-million-years.html

* "Göbekli Tepe: The Dawn of Civilization:"

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* "What did Vikings wear, really? Attempting a historically accurate womens Viking costume:"

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* "The Black Women's Club Movement: Crash Course Black American History #23:"

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* "New Film Showcases the 'Coded' Homoeroticism of a Gay Artist:" https://www.advocate.com/film/2021/11/11/new-film-showcases-coded-homoeroticism-gay-artist-leyendecker

* "The Littlest Naval War: Britain's Insane Attempt to End German Domination of a Single African Lake:"

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* "Conrad Veidt, Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Queer History of Weimar Germany:"

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* "When Mississippi Once Banned Sesame Street:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/611570/when-mississippi-banned-sesame-street

* "The Impossibly Badass Story of Mills' Marauders and the Battle of Grytviken:"

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* "Father Gabriele Amorth: The Vatican’s Chief Exorcist:"

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* "Armistice Day: Tributes paid across the North East:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-59246982

* "How Jewish delis are evolving -- even as pastrami and matzoh ball soup become a rarity across the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/07/us/jewish-delis-closing-evolving-cec/index.html

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

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* "Revolting Revolutionaries: The Feds Round Up More Jan. 6th Seditionists:"

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* "Man Park - SNL:"

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* "March of the Suitors - SNL:"

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* "Audacity in Advertising Awards - SNL:"

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* "Ted Cruz Sesame Street Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Trump Defends Pressuring Pence over Insurrection:" https://www.cc.com/video/77rdqt/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-trump-defends-pressuring-pence-over-insurrection

* "Bootsie Proves Sex Parties Are Real - Uninformed Correspondent:"

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* "The Straights are Failing at Gender Reveals:"

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* "It's Plasticfest At Red Lobster!:"

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* As some of you may know we are having a lot of flooding in my area. This is the rainy season here and small amounts of flooding happen every few years. This is not that. This is large scale flooding including big patches of area that don't normally flood.

This is not normal. This is yet more of the climate crisis fucking with the local patterns.

Sunday Squirrel went out to his game and it was fine. Four hours later he was nearly cut off and trapped in a neighboring town. Luckily, the last road out was still open, though not for long.

A whole lot of communities have been cut off. Some people have been evacuated. The back bone of one of our two shopping districts is flooded. A lot of nursing homes are half staffed because people literally couldn't get there.

We are safe as of now. We are lower on the Hill than we used to be, but this part of town has excellent drainage and we are in the foothills. All of my Millenials have checked in and are safe.

I don't know how bad it's going to end up or how much will be lost.

Stay safe out there folks.

* "Sunday Sweets: Game On :" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/11/14/sunday-sweets-game-on

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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.

* 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

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* "Haiti crippled by fuel shortages as gang leader demands prime minister resign:" https://www.reuters.com/world/haiti-crippled-by-fuel-shortages-gang-leader-demands-prime-minister-resign-2021-10-26/

* "Sudan coup: Protests continue after military takeover:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59045020

* "Seven killed, 140 hurt in protests against Sudan military coup:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/military-forces-arrest-senior-civilian-figures-sudan-al-hadath-tv-2021-10-25/

* "Tigray crisis: How the West has fallen out with Ethiopia's PM:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58967302

* "In Colombia, shelters prepare for migrant families as Venezuela reopens border:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/colombia-shelters-prepare-migrant-families-venezuela-reopens-border-rcna3748

* "Aung San Suu Kyi Defends Herself During ‘Show Trial’ in Myanmar:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/world/asia/myanmar-coup-trial-aung-san-suu-kyi.html

* "Japan's Princess Mako marries commoner, loses royal status:" https://apnews.com/article/japan-princess-mako-wedding-royal-status-888700204e714145be58e320f1dc0fe0

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* "Merck will allow drugmakers in other countries to make its COVID-19 pill:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/10/27/1049587575/merck-covid-pill-countries

* "Brazil senators recommend Bolsonaro face charges over COVID:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/brazil-senators-to-vote-on-urging-charges-for-bolsonaro/2021/10/26/f34f0814-3677-11ec-9662-399cfa75efee_story.html

* "Facebook, YouTube take down Bolsonaro video over false vaccine claim:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/facebook-takes-down-bolsonaro-video-over-false-vaccine-claim-2021-10-25/

* "Poland may tighten COVID-19 curbs if cases keep growing, says minister:" https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-may-tighten-covid-19-curbs-if-cases-keep-growing-says-minister-2021-10-25/

* "FDA advisers endorse Covid-19 vaccine for kids 5-11:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/26/fda-panel-endorses-covid-19-shot-for-kids-5-11-years-old-517236

* "Texas universities with federal contracts are caught between Greg Abbott and Joe Biden over COVID-19 vaccine mandates:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/25/texas-universities-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/

* "As some police fight vaccine rules, DeSantis says Florida will pay them $5,000 to relocate: ‘We’ll treat you better’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/25/desantis-offers-5k-bonus-outofstate-unvaccinated-officers/

* "Republicans pitching Florida’s COVID-19 policies to businesses, including In-N-Out:" https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/republicans-pitching-floridas-covid-19-policies-to-businesses-including-in-n-out/

* "Mississippi reports nearly 23,000 positive COVID cases among students since August:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2021/10/26/mississippi-covid-19-cases-reporting-schools-declining/6176871001/

* "Alabama governor instructs state agencies to fight federal Covid-19 vaccine mandates:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/25/politics/alabama-vaccine-mandates-executive-order-kay-ivey/index.html

* "TN lawmakers to discuss future of COVID mandates, restrictions at special session:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/tn-lawmakers-to-discuss-future-of-covid-mandates-restrictions-at-special-session/

* "WV Gov. Justice reports average COVID death age continues to drop, state orders 50k vaccine doses for young children:" https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/watch-live-gov-jim-justice-schedules-virtual-covid-19-briefing-for-11-a-m-2/

* "Montana hospitals face looming choice between state law, federal vaccine requirements:" https://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/montana-hospitals-face-looming-choice-between-state-law-federal-vaccine-requirements/article_f4e623e9-5359-5c2f-97bd-a5b6493d9a34.html

* "Why this doctor says Idaho has ‘lost the war’ against COVID-19:" https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/10/18/22732879/covid19-study-idaho-least-safe-doctor-says-state-lost-war-wallethub-worst-state-coronavirus

* "September was Alaska’s deadliest pandemic month. Here’s what that might tell us about the future of COVID-19 in the state.:" https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/10/23/september-was-alaskas-deadliest-pandemic-month-heres-what-that-might-tell-us-about-the-future-of-covid-19-in-the-state/

* "Birx: Trump adviser squeezed out health officials to downplay seriousness of Covid-19:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/26/deborah-birx-trump-covid-reponse-hearing-517188

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* "Biden heads to G20 bereft of ambassadors as Republicans hold up nearly all nominees:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-heads-to-g20-bereft-of-ambassadors-as-republicans-hold-up-nearly-all-nominees-124789829947

* Dejoy did this. "Consumers fume after US Postal Service suspends Australian deliveries:" https://247newsaroundtheworld.com/news/consumers-fume-after-us-postal-service-suspends-australian-deliveries/

* "In odd shortcoming for a major, modern nation, U.S.P.S. suspends deliveries to Australia:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/in-odd-shortcoming-for-a-major-modern-nation-u-s-p-s-suspends-deliveries-to-australia-124791365796

* "Inside the World's Most Spectacularly Failed Coup:"

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* "Biden, second Catholic U.S. president, enjoys lengthy visit with Pope Francis:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-second-catholic-u-s-president-enjoys-lengthy-visit-with-pope-francis-124966469886

* "Wildlife agencies to cancel Trump endangered species rules:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/wildlife-agencies-cancel-trump-endangered-species-rules-80789075

* "Senate Democrats unveil corporate tax for Biden agenda:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/details-emerge-corporate-minimum-tax-plan-us-senate-democrats-cnbc-2021-10-26/

* "Robert Reich: Saying rich won’t invest if their taxes are raised ‘really a red herring’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democrats-announced-corporate-minimum-tax-plan-on-tuesday-sparking-gop-opposition-124685893852

* "Progressives patient with negotiations as Manchin, Sinema sabotage Build Back Better bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/progressives-patient-with-negotiations-as-manchin-sinema-sabotage-build-back-better-bill-124792389844

* "Hayes: We have a Build Back Better deal. Now let’s remember how we got here.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-we-have-a-build-back-better-deal-now-let-s-remember-how-we-got-here-124872261739

* "Rep. Cori Bush to Manchin, Sinema: Let us see the vote, that’s how we know where you stand:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/progressives-demanding-that-infrastructure-bill-and-build-back-better-be-linked-discussed-by-rep-cori-bush-124874309972

* "‘Shockingly damning’: Hayes on America’s exceptional lack of paid family leave:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-shockingly-damning-hayes-on-america-s-exceptional-lack-of-paid-family-leave-124683845956

* "108,000 people will get medical debt relief after Stacey Abrams' PAC gifts $1.34M:" https://www.npr.org/2021/10/27/1049675704/stacey-abrams-medical-debt-relief-pac-donation

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

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

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

* "Wisconsin Republicans add mysterious 'Carol' to election review circus:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wisconsin-republicans-add-mysterious-carol-to-election-review-circus-124791365869

* "Senate highlights threats to election workers; emphasizes protections in voting bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-highlights-threats-to-election-workers-emphasizes-protections-in-voting-bill-124694597782

* Did you remember to vote?

* "At Least 12 Republicans Who Participated In Jan. 6 Are Running For Office Next Week:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/jan-6-republicans-ballot-election-day

* Virginians, please vote! "Trump unpopularity in Virginia a liability for Youngkin; McCauliffe hopes to benefit:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-unpopularity-in-virginia-a-liability-for-youngkin-mccauliffe-hopes-to-benefit-124695621811

* "Democratic Virginia governor candidate Terry McAuliffe calls GOP opponent Youngkin ‘dangerous’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/virginia-governor-race-between-democrat-mcauliffe-and-trump-backed-republican-youngkin-enters-final-stretch-124781125880

* "Republicans Are Leaning Into MAGA to Win Virginia:"

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* "The Bye Line: The voters who really hold the key to what happens in Virginia on Tuesday:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-the-voters-who-really-hold-the-key-to-what-happens-in-virginia-on-tuesday-125038149940

* "Sen. Tim Kaine Weighs in on Close Gubernatorial Race in VA:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/sen-tim-kaine-weighs-in-on-close-gubernatorial-race-in-va-125038149881

* "Hayes: Why Trump's anti-democratic push can't be ignored in Virginia election :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-why-trump-s-anti-democratic-push-can-t-be-ignored-in-virginia-election-125142597550

* "Democratic candidate Eric Adams likely to beat Republican Challenger Curtis Sliwa in NYC's mayoral election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/democratic-candidate-eric-adams-likely-to-beat-republican-challenger-curtis-sliwa-in-nyc-s-mayoral-election-125039173614

* "Who’s afraid of India Walton?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/11/01/india-walton-socialist-mayor-buffalo/

* "National rightist money going into school board elections:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1807984.html

* "Burr’s Brother-in-Law Called Stock Broker, One Minute After Getting Off Phone With Senator:" https://www.propublica.org/article/burrs-brother-in-law-called-stock-broker-one-minute-after-getting-off-phone-with-senator

* "Despite free pass from Trump DOJ, Republican senator in hot water over sketchy trades:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/despite-free-pass-from-trump-doj-republican-senator-in-hot-water-over-sketchy-trades-124886597807

* "GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who voted to impeach Trump, won't run for reelection:" https://www.npr.org/2021/10/29/1050454729/gop-rep-adam-kinzinger-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-wont-run-for-reelection

* "Oklahoma's non-binary lawmaker has zero time for ignorant Republican dinosaurs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/25/mauree-turner-non-binary-birth-certificates/

* "Republican congressman suspended from Twitter for misgendering top trans official:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/25/jim-banks-dr-rachel-levine-twitter/

* "A man gave a Nazi salute at a school board meeting to oppose mask rules. Ted Cruz defended it as a form of protest.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/28/ted-cruz-nazi-salute-senate-hearing/

* "Facebook joins list of infamous companies hiding behind a name change:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/facebook-joins-list-of-infamous-companies-hiding-behind-a-name-change-124885573752

* "Joy Reid critiques Facebook for reportedly allowing right wing misinformation to thrive:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/facebook-reportedly-allowing-hate-speech-right-wing-misinformation-to-thrive-critiqued-by-joy-reid-124782662002

* "Prison or presidency, new Trump company factors in his uncertain future:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prison-or-presidency-new-trump-company-factors-in-his-uncertain-future-125156421763

* "Trump 'coup lawyer' caught on video boasting about quasi-legal memo; trashing Pence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-coup-lawyer-caught-on-video-boasting-about-quasi-legal-memo-trashing-pence-124694085949

* "Rep. Adam Schiff: GOP is now an anti-truth, anti-democratic cult of former president:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-attorney-john-eastman-caught-on-tape-discussing-jan-6-capitol-insurrection-124781125719

* "In new letter, tech expert's lawyer insists Alfa-Bank, Trump server data is no hoax:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/in-new-letter-tech-expert-s-lawyer-insists-alfa-bank-trump-server-data-is-no-hoax-124968005549

* "List of documents Trump wants to keep secret hint at January 6 presidential actions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/list-of-documents-trump-wants-to-keep-secret-hint-at-january-6-presidential-actions-125158981583

* "Rep. Lieu: Marjorie Taylor Greene should not be in Congress if she still disputes election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/mo-brooks-denies-he-was-involved-in-planning-jan-6-rallies-implicates-his-staff-124688453586

* "How one GOP congressman went from barricading the doors to Jan. 6 apologist:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-one-gop-congressman-went-from-barricading-the-doors-to-jan-6-apologist-124682821531

* "‘The coup is ongoing’: Rep. Gallego on GOP whitewashing of Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-coup-is-ongoing-rep-gallego-on-gop-whitewashing-of-jan-6-124955717767

* "He reported an ‘avalanche’ of warnings before Jan. 6. So why wasn’t it heeded?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/he-reported-an-avalanche-of-warnings-before-jan-6-so-why-wasn-t-it-heeded-125144645976

* "'Cult-like': Riot suspect released over ‘toxic’ environment of jail's Jan. 6 wing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-cult-like-riot-suspect-released-over-toxic-environment-of-jail-s-jan-6-wing-124684357667

* "Hayes: How the Second Amendment is threatening the First:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-how-the-second-amendment-is-threatening-the-first-124774981860

* "Major settlement reached over failed background check on church killer's gun:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/major-settlement-reached-over-failed-background-check-on-church-killer-s-gun-124886597539

* "Charleston massacre survivor Jennifer Pinckney says ‘you never forget’ in wake of $88 million settlement:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/charleston-massacre-survivors-winning-88-million-settlement-discussed-by-survivor-jennifer-pinckney-125148229832

* "White Supremacy Is On Trial in Charlottesville:"

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* "Report: Charlottesville defendant watched Tucker Carlson to prep for trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-charlottesville-defendant-watched-tucker-carlson-to-prep-for-trial-124871749554

* "Stuart Stevens: Race is the original sin of the modern Republican Party:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gop-virginia-governor-candidate-ad-targets-novel-by-about-escaping-slavery-beloved-124686405678

* "Top critical race theory scholar calls attacks on Toni Morrison novel a ‘bait and switch’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/toni-morrison-novel-targeted-in-virginia-governor-race-ad-decried-by-critical-race-theory-scholar-124960325880

* "Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin seeks to clear her name:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/civil-rights-pioneer-claudette-colvin-seeks-to-clear-her-name-125040197723

* "Absurdity of Texas abortion law laid bare in Supreme Court arguments:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/absurdity-of-texas-abortion-law-laid-bare-in-supreme-court-arguments-125157445691

* "Legal expert on Texas abortion law: We need this law blocked immediately:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-abortion-ban-comes-before-supreme-court-via-challenges-from-doj-providers-125148741611

* "Billionaire plays architect, designs ‘nightmare’ dorm:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/billionaire-plays-architect-designs-nightmare-dorm-124957765694

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* "Meet the Vigilantes Trying to Wipe Out the Spotted Lanternfly:"

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* "Women Are on the Rise in Organized Crime:"

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* "How One Man In Egypt Is Keeping This 200-Year-Old Tile Tradition Alive | Still Standing:"

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

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* "West Virginia's Country Roads Will Soon Be Underwater:"

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* "New Jersey Is Paving The Way For Reproductive Rights:"

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* "Full Frontal Welcomes (Most Of) You to NYC!:"

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* "TikTok Misinformation is Spreading and it’s #Dangerous:"

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

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* "Facebook Needs A New Name, And Bannon 'Might' Be Punished For Contempt Of Congress:"

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* "It's Already Too Late To Start Your Holiday Shopping:"

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* "Rainfall Swamps The West, And GOP Members Conspired With Jan. 6th Riot Organizers:"

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* "Food And Gas Prices Spike, And Rep. Mo Brooks Wore Body Armor At 'Stop The Steal' Rally:"

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* "GOP Ridicules Billionaire Tax Plan, Rude Shoppers Blamed For The Labor Shortage:"

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* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Ticket Quotas for Police:" https://www.cc.com/video/e111pz/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-ticket-quotas-for-police

* "SB 8 and the Future of Abortion Rights in Texas:" https://www.cc.com/video/mg2clq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-sb-8-and-the-future-of-abortion-rights-in-texas

* "Halloween Edibles & Democrats Agree on New Corporate Tax:" https://www.cc.com/video/agevgo/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-halloween-edibles-democrats-agree-on-new-corporate-tax

* "Mattress Stores React To The News That Vikings Beat Columbus To North America:"

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* "Together We Can Save Our Dongs:"

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* "Try NBA 2K22's New Unvaccinated Mode:"

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* "Mark Zuckerberg Has A New Strategy Team At Facebook:"

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* "Late Show's "How-Tooo-Weeeen: Pumpkin Carving Edition":"

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* "Rescue Dog Rescue with Nick Offerman, Halloween Costume Edition:"

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* "Stephen Colbert's Book Club For People Who Want To Sound Like They Read The Book:"

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* "Facebook's New Name Search Isn't Going Very Well:"

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* "Forget Goop, Real Luxury Fans Are Signing Up For Summit-ton House:"

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* Saturday we went to the museums downtown as there were a couple of exhibits scheduled to be gone Monday we really wanted to see, and addition covers both buildings. (Thee is a third small museum in the cluster, but it's closed on weekends. Unfortunately, one of the exhibits we really wanted to see had left early, but the replacement was basically meditations on the human body by a very diverse group of artists. There were a number of interesting paintings, but the sculptures really stood out as a group. We went upstairs and looked at the Lummi and Nooksack exhibit, then over to see the small but extremely good 20th century fashion exhibit which was the other thing we were particularly wanting to see. Bonus, the dresses were free standing so you could walk all the way around to look over the construction and enjoy them from various angles. They also had a tone of hats mostly from the 20's and 30's, a nice array of shoes including some early twentieth century boots 18-35 year old be would have killed to have a pair of, and some lovely and deadly looking hat pins. We wandered around looking at the other permanent exhibits, then watched a surprisingly amusing educational film about our weird little... large town? Small City? (Population wise we are on the bubble. Signs insist it's a city, my instinct and the technical classification put it just under the limit in large town territory).

We left about fifteen minutes before turf out time take and bake pizza and baked goods were aquired and I passed out tea and the like.

Samhain went really smoothly. I got everything set up in time. I did the contactless individual bowls of mixed candy and did up my All ages welcome sign. I believe this holiday is fundamentally about hospitality to all comers living and dead. I also feel anyone who makes it all the way to my place deserves a fist full of candy. Last year adults kept furtively raiding the bowls. The sign dramatically increased the number of people quietly collecting their fist full. Yay, guilt free candy. The wind had been really high the last few nights, but it was gentle breezes tonight which really helped with the altar I set up back in the patio recess out of the way every year. With the hospitality table and the plants forming a barricade it was extra safe and I wasn't having to deal with making a make shift windbreak like I did the last few years.

Tavy kept trying to follow me out to search the bush he thinks Millennials come from, and succeeded after dark. He knows that today is usually a head Millennial day. (He's a bright guy. He knows sometimes the Head Millennial comes the afternoon after forage box delivery, so keeps an ear alert for patio sounds when it gets late enough, but he knows for sure Head Millennial comes the next afternoon and sometimes also Nearby Millennial. He knows the day after that there is usually another visit from head Millennial. Alas for the emperor for Halloween is a Goth national holiday, so he was off tending his own Pumpkins and the like. Poor little guy finally slipped out after dark. It was scary and there were strangers and a thing fell. He realized he'd made a mistake right away, but panicked a bit trying to get past the barrier to get back in. I made soothing sounds and he remembered he fit fine when he wasn't all bunched up and scurried in. He did enjoy people watching through the window.

Livia decided it was too much excitement for her after a while. I was up and down all night checking and periodically refilling bowls, checking candles. Going in and out the patio door. She's come out for pets, etc., but spent most of the night in her room where it was calmer.

Gothmas Exterior decorations: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/666615551576178688/halloween

* "On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet:" https://lithub.com/on-the-gleefully-indecent-poems-of-a-medieval-welsh-feminist-poet/

* Where I am on Y: the Last Man:

I am wary because the graphic novel was very transphobic and the premise is everyone with a y chromosome with tiny exceptions died.

However, they are pretty clearly trying to fix it as much as it can be fixed. They hired a trans man actor I like and made his part a lot bigger according to informants. He is very much treated and spoken of as a man, with the exception of some terfy villains (some people in that group very much see him as a man some don’t. They are very clearly depicted as villains). Multiple characters consistently mention there still being men at appropriate points, and occasionally when man child Yorick isn’t wearing his mask (see baby man), people take him for a trans man and are cool about transness. They mention Intersex people with Y chromosomes dying, some of whom likely didn’t know they are intersex, which implies intersex people without ys are alive.

It’s still messy. I’m not comfortable with the basic premise which is why I didn’t read the comics when they were new despite being an avid Vertigo reader. People who did read it described the contents and I decided I never wanted to read it. I’m basing my understanding of what’s been changed on that.

I actually do like several of the women characters. I do like the way non-villains have an easy acceptance of trans people. Elliot Fletcher‘s trans man is a whole character with flaws and his own perspectives and goals. They do address trans specific concerns like can you get hormones in a post-apocalyptic situation and some trans specific safety concerns. I really, really wish Yorick would grow the fuck up and take some responsibility for his own safety and examine the way his privilege harms other people. The villians are so horrible I have trouble watching certain sections because I get enough horrible Republican crap in the news. I’m never going to be comfortable with the premise.

But I keep watching. Warily.

YMMV

* "Sunday Sweets: Haunted Tour:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/10/31/sunday-sweets-haunted-tour

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

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

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* Hardly any of the Sunday news made it onto this and i have a massive back up waiting to be scaffolded, but if I don't post it will get so much worse, so here we are.

* "Tensions flare as Chinese flights near Taiwan intensify:" https://apnews.com/article/tensions-flare-chinese-flights-near-taiwan-02b30ed449f663cf53ef0782482e35e9

* "Extremists target African village leaders in wave of assassinations:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/africa-islamists-sahel-leaders/

* "An Asylum Seeker’s Wrenching Choice: Stay on the Run or Save His Child’s Life:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/world/europe/poland-belarus-border-crisis.html

* "Authorities call fatal stabbing of UK lawmaker terrorist act:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-london-england-eda5b4786c84e68a59de9075efecbcf7

* "ASEAN to exclude Myanmar junta chief from leaders' summit:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-does-not-want-myanmar-junta-leader-summit-if-no-progress-minister-2021-10-15/

* "Beirut's worst street violence in more than a decade kills at least 6:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/middleeast/lebanon-blast-gunfire-protest-intl/index.html

* "Lebanese firefighters put out fire at fuel facility:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanons-al-jadeed-tv-reports-fire-near-zahrani-oil-facility-2021-10-11/

* "It’s time to drop the curtain on Japan’s colonial legacy :" https://lausan.hk/2021/japans-colonial-legacy/

* "Justin Trudeau Tells International Conference Left-Wing ‘Extremist Groups’ Are ‘Pushing White Supremacy’:" https://pressprogress.ca/justin-trudeau-tells-international-conference-left-wing-extremist-groups-are-pushing-white-supremacy/

* "British football coach sentenced to 25 years’ jail in Dubai over CBD vape liquid:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/13/british-football-coach-sentenced-to-25-years-jail-in-dubai-over-cbd-vape-liquid

* "Australia's Daintree rainforest returned to Aboriginal ownership:" https://edition.cnn.com/travel/amp/australia-daintree-rainforest-aboriginal-owners-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Inside the manic race to replace Duterte as the Philippines' leader:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/asia/philippines-election-president-duterte-marcos-dst-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Help find this man wanted for BITING and assaulting Game Store Employees!:"

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* "Australia ends migrants housing deal with Papua New Guinea:" https://wtop.com/australia/2021/10/australia-ends-migrants-housing-deal-with-papua-new-guinea/

* "Austrian Chancellor Kurz resigns amid corruption allegations:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/austria-kurz-resigns-corruption/2021/10/09/fd58ac5a-2927-11ec-8739-5cb6aba30a30_story.html

* "96-year-old German woman released after going on the run to skip Nazi war crimes trial:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/96-year-old-german-woman-released-after-going-run-skip-n1280876

* "Calls for investigation after court finds Dubai ruler hacked ex-wife’s phone:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/07/calls-for-investigation-after-court-finds-dubai-ruler-hacked-ex-wifes-phone

* "Journalists who took on Putin and Duterte win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize:" https://www.reuters.com/world/philippines-journalist-ressa-russian-journalist-muratov-win-2021-nobel-peace-2021-10-08/

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* "Even Mild Cases of COVID May Leave a Mark on the Brain:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/even-mild-cases-of-covid-may-leave-a-mark-on-the-brain/

* "Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58170809

* "Merck asks US FDA to authorize promising anti-COVID pill:" https://apnews.com/article/merck-asks-fda-to-authorize-covid-pill-e731ada126414396b402c4dfc3cf8d2c

* "South Sudan: How to deliver Covid vaccines in a country with few roads:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58911911

* "New Zealand will phase out its zero-covid strategy, acknowledging it cannot eliminate coronavirus:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/05/new-zealand-zero-covid-strategy/

* "As Brazil passes 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, vaccines offer hope worst is over:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-nears-600000-covid-19-deaths-vaccines-offer-hope-worst-is-over-2021-10-08/

* "Brazil pandemic probe to recommend Bolsonaro face 11 criminal charges, senator says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-pandemic-probe-recommend-bolsonaro-face-11-criminal-charges-senator-says-2021-10-15/

* "COVID Misinformation Has People Injecting Bleach:"

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* "US to reopen land borders in November for fully vaccinated:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-covid-19-pandemic-air-travel-health-c3f7e2b8feca4c8cdaf4301ae9c81a79

* "COVID-19 Vaccination:" https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-shot.html

* "F.D.A. Panel Unanimously Recommends Johnson & Johnson Booster Shots:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/health/johnson-johnson-vaccine-booster.html

* "FDA panel endorses lower-dose Moderna COVID shot for booster:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-moderna-booster-shot-fda-2de19cdff021ad11b95c6b67fd5d8617

* "J&J Covid vaccine recipients are better off getting Pfizer or Moderna booster, NIH study suggests:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/13/jj-covid-vaccine-recipients-are-better-off-getting-pfizer-or-moderna-booster-nih-study-suggests.html

* "Big gap between Pfizer, Moderna vaccines seen for preventing COVID hospitalizations:" https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-09-17/study-finds-big-gap-between-pfizer-moderna-vaccines-at-preventing-covid-hospitalizations

* "Getting a Booster Too Soon Could Cause This Serious Side Effect:" https://bestlifeonline.com/booster-side-effect-news/

* "Boosters and mixes: Health officials consider most beneficial combinations:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/boosters-and-mixes-health-officials-consider-most-beneficial-combinations-123695685898

* "POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans support vaccine mandates for schoolkids:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/poll-support-vaccine-mandates-students-515657

* "Florida is only state not to submit school Covid-19 relief funding plan, US Education Department says:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/politics/florida-schools-covid-relief-funding-plan/index.html

* "Florida trying to block money Biden sent to school districts fined for mask mandates:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/florida-working-block-money-biden-school-districts-mask/story?id=80419199

* "Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried urges Florida to speed up distribution of federal COVID relief dollars:" https://www.wptv.com/coronavirus/agriculture-commissioner-nikki-fried-urges-florida-to-speed-up-distribution-of-federal-covid-relief-dollars

* "Texas school COVID-19 cases: How those with mask mandates compare to those without:" https://www.kxan.com/investigations/texas-school-covid-19-cases-how-those-with-mask-mandates-compare-to-those-without/

* "Texas order reflects growing GOP vaccine mandates hostility:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-nba-sports-business-aa6c30fa6270b735acafc69e2ce26766

* "Texas Republicans spar over who is more pro-Covid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/texas-republicans-spar-over-who-is-more-pro-covid-123393605771

* "Study: Vaccines Helped Reduce COVID-19 Deaths in Oklahoma:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2021-10-05/study-vaccines-helped-reduce-covid-19-deaths-in-oklahoma

* "Stitt: Oklahoma ready to ‘take President Biden to court’ over COVID-19 vaccine mandates:" https://www.koco.com/article/kevin-stitt-oklahoma-president-biden-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/37963844

* "48 hours to live: An Oklahoma hospital’s rush to find an ICU bed for a covid patient:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/hospital-covid-patient/

* "This Teen's Community Rallied As She Fought COVID. But Many Still Shun The Vaccine:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/03/1032665979/child-near-death-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-mis-c

* "TN doctor warns of ‘death lag’ with younger people hospitalized for COVID:" https://www.wate.com/news/tennessee/tn-doctor-warns-of-death-lag-with-younger-people-hospitalized-for-covid/

* "Tennessee physicians who spread COVID-19 misinformation could now face disciplinary action:" https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tennessee-physicians-who-spread-covid-19-misinformation-could-now-face-disciplinary-action

* "More than 20 Tennessee school staff members have died from COVID-19:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/more-than-20-tennessee-school-staff-members-have-died-from-covid-19/

* "Montana only state to ban vaccine requirements for employees:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-montana-8c47ca9308494b678f41f41764094800

* "Amid COVID crisis, Idaho health care workers grapple with burnout and misinformation: "I'm treating patients for their political views":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/idaho-health-care-workers-covid/

* This is in line with the findings from Brazil earlier in the year. "Pregnant women at risk with COVID-19:" https://idahonews.com/news/local/pregnant-women-at-risk-with-covid-19

* "COVID spike pushes Alaska’s health care system to brink:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-business-health-pandemics-18bd9ffb116ce59872451f11067e94eb

* "Alaska reports 3 deaths, 871 COVID-19 cases as delayed monoclonal antibody shipments begin arriving:" https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/10/05/alaska-reports-3-deaths-871-covid-19-cases-as-delayed-monoclonal-antibody-shipments-begin-arriving/

* "'Reckless': Parents sue school district for failing to protect kids from Covid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-reckless-parents-sue-wisconsin-school-district-for-failing-to-protect-kids-from-covid-123396165875

* "Anti-Vax Protesters Confront Parents About Masks Outside Beverly Hills School:" https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/10/07/anti-vax-protesters-confront-parents-about-masks-outside-beverly-hills-school/

* A special place in hell. "10-Year-Old Died of COVID After Teacher Made Her Be ‘Nurse’ to Sick Kids, Parents Say:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-year-old-teresa-sperry-died-of-covid-after-teacher-made-her-be-nurse-to-sick-kids-parents-say?ref=scroll

* "'The mood is grim': Death threats and violence mark another pandemic school year:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-05/covid-vaccine-mask-fury-shakes-up-california-schools

* "Masks burned outside Brevard School Board meeting; board passes final budget:" https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/09/09/covid-19-masks-burnt-protest-outside-brevard-school-board-meeting/8264824002/

* "Cops Charge Zip-Tie Guys Who Ambushed School Principal Over COVID Rules:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/men-charged-for-ambushing-mesquite-elementary-school-principal-with-zip-ties-over-covid-rules

* "Marchers Attack Coronavirus Testing Station in Union Square:" https://www.curbed.com/2021/10/anti-vaccine-mandate-protest-new-york-city.html

* "Police unions across U.S. urge members to defy vaccine mandates:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/police-unions-across-u-s-urge-members-to-defy-vaccine-mandates-123688005985

* "Death Threats, Trolling Common for Scientists Who Speak to Media About COVID:" https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-10-14/death-threats-trolling-common-for-scientists-who-speak-to-media-about-covid

* "Man charged federally with threatening former Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen over COVID vaccine support:" https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-wen-threats-charges-20211012-iiiutjgxyfbslh2zmlpv3yntlu-story.html

* "Republican lawmaker banned from Alaska Airlines over mask rules tests positive for COVID:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/14/alaska-airlines-lawmaker-banned-flights-tests-positive-covid/8455352002/

* "Hayes: How America is processing the trauma of living through a pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-how-america-is-processing-the-trauma-of-living-through-a-pandemic-123492421658

* "Police Cite Anti-Vaccine Motive in Killing of Pharmacist and 2 Others:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/jeffrey-burnham-pharmacist-brother-covid-vaccine.html

* "Eric Clapton Isn't Just Spouting Vaccine Nonsense--He's Bankrolling It:" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eric-clapton-vaccine-lockdown-racist-comments-1239027/

* "Allen West, Texas GOP gubernatorial hopeful, has COVID-19:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-allen-west-texas-pneumonia-health-03839ff2547c8895fb0e4f155705322a

* ""The tyranny of evidence-based medicine.":" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1806319.html

* "Texas man sentenced to 15 months in prison for posting Covid-19 hoax on social media:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/us/texas-man-sentenced-covid-hoax/index.html

* "Fox News hosts deride vaccine mandates while complying with strict Covid policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-news-hosts-deride-vaccine-mandates-while-complying-with-strict-covid-policy-122842693795

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* "Afghanistan: Deadly attack hits Kunduz mosque during Friday prayers:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58842793

* "Afghanistan: Taliban unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazara people, Amnesty says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58807734

* "Global minimum tax effort moves forward as Ireland and Hungary join pact:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/08/minimum-corporate-tax-oecd-biden/

* "3 US-based economists win Nobel for research on wages, jobs:" https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prizes-business-europe-3cbc672f994ae6f4f486a68b52c2bb32

* "Maryland husband and wife arrested in nuclear submarine spy case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/10/maryland-husband-wife-arrested-espionage-case-515761

* "FBI: U.S. Navy engineer tried to sell nuclear submarine secrets :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fbi-u-s-navy-engineer-tried-to-sell-nuclear-submarine-secrets-123297861573

* "America Is Running Out of Everything:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/

* "Americans Have No Idea What the Supply Chain Really Is:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/pandemic-supply-chain-nightmare-slow-shipping/620147/

* "Grocery store shelves aren't going back to normal this year:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/business/grocery-stores-food-supply-chain/index.html

* "Biden tries to tame inflation by having LA port open 24/7:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-los-angeles-health-48ff262b882a37308e4a3f15934b2ee4

* "Biden plan aims to untangle supply chain with focus on clearing backed up ports :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-plan-aims-to-untangle-supply-chain-with-focus-on-clearing-backed-up-ports-123505221529

* "US to restore full pension of FBI official fired under Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-lawsuits-james-comey-jeff-sessions-2be69b9a619dcbeb64469edd485b1a1b

* "Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-utah-environment-and-nature-b763897fc47136339bd12360a90079c0

* "New HUD rule aimed at preventing public housing evictions:" https://apnews.com/article/public-housing-evictions-biden-ab3191da5dbb1bd0db5ae91856383be4

* "Biden's Supreme Court commission is leaving everyone unhappy:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/15/politics/biden-supreme-court-liberals/index.html

* "Congress punts debt limit crisis into December:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/12/congress-debt-limit-december-515820

* "Senate advances short-term debt limit hike after GOP scramble:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/senate-leaders-strike-deal-on-short-term-debt-limit-patch-515578

* "Senate votes to extend debt limit after McConnell caves:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/senate-votes-to-extend-debt-limit-after-mcconnell-caves-123040837854

* I admit, I’d hoped Manchin and Sinema would give up on the filibuster. Ah well.

* "Ted Cruz and John Cornyn opposed a debt-limit increase that will stave off economic catastrophe, but backed previous borrowing hikes:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/08/ted-cruz-john-cornyn-debt-ceiling/

* "Progressives focus on key priorities to narrow BBB bill for Manchin, Sinema:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/progressives-focus-on-key-priorities-to-narrow-bbb-bill-for-manchin-sinema-122854981959

* "Watch Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Supporters Confront Her in Restroom:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/04/watch-former-sen-kyrsten-sinema-supporters-confront-her-restroom

* "Sanders offers rejoinder to Manchin's "entitlement society" word games:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-offers-rejoinder-to-manchin-s-entitlement-society-word-games-122964549966

* "Sanders frustrated with lack of specificity of Manchin, Sinema objections to BBB bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-frustrated-with-lack-of-specificity-of-manchin-sinema-objections-to-bbb-bill-122963525955

* "'It's not a 50/50 deal.': Sanders critical of Manchin, Sinema obstructing popular will:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-not-a-50-50-deal-sanders-critical-of-manchin-sinema-obstructing-popular-will-122964549928

* "Chris Hayes to Kyrsten Sinema: What are you doing here?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-to-kyrsten-sinema-what-are-you-doing-here-123595845509

* "‘Biden agenda overwhelmingly helps working class White people’ Dem strategist says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democrats-face-trouble-going-into-midterms-experts-say-123300933692

* "Manchin pulls plug on U.S. clean electricity ambitions in Biden budget bill: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manchin-pulls-plug-on-u-s-clean-electricity-ambitions-in-biden-budget-bill-nyt-123694661824

* "Climate Program Likely to be Dropped from Build Back Better Bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/climate-program-likely-to-be-dropped-from-build-back-better-bill-123786821627

* "The reconciliation stalemate: when and how will this end?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-reconciliation-stalemate-when-and-how-will-this-end-123787333579

* "Museum Workers, Jolted by Pandemic Job Losses, Turn to Unions:" https://web.archive.org/web/20211005070657/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/museum-workers-embrace-unions-after-pandemic-job-cuts

* "Elizabeth Warren backs Deere strike, saying workers have gotten the short end of the stick 'for decades':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/business/deere-strike-elizabeth-warren/index.html

* "Workers at all of Kellogg's U.S. cereal plants go on strike:" https://apnews.com/article/kelloggs-cereal-plants-strike-d9185eb8fa9054d34a078063c3db6c33

* "American workers gain upper hand to demand better working conditions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/american-workers-gain-upper-hand-to-demand-better-working-conditions-123693637949

* "USPS pilot expands postal banking services after years of skepticism:" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2021/10/usps-pilot-expands-postal-banking-services-after-years-of-skepticism/

* "The ban on evictions has ended: Here's what to do if you're facing eviction:" https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/your-money/the-ban-on-evictions-has-ended-heres-what-to-do-if-youre-facing-eviction/

* "ITT Tech: Profit Over Education :"

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* "How This Recession Could Set Us Back 30 Years:"

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* "Activists keen to keep voting rights bill in spotlight of Biden's attention:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/activists-keen-to-keep-voting-rights-bill-in-spotlight-of-biden-s-attention-122858053542

* "Ending the Filibuster | Where Do We Go From Here?:"

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* "Pennsylvania AG Shapiro vows to use ‘veto pen’ to protect state if elected governor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pennsylvania-attorney-general-shapiro-running-for-governor-filed-motion-to-block-republican-election-investigation-123598917624

* "Republicans eyeing upcoming votes stack local elections boards with Trump loyalists:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-eyeing-upcoming-votes-stack-local-elections-boards-with-trump-loyalists-123408453715

* "In Dead of Night, Texas House Approves GOP's Gerrymandered Map:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/13/dead-night-texas-house-approves-gops-gerrymandered-map

* "Congressional Redistricting Taking Place Across the Country:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/congressional-redistricting-taking-place-across-the-country-123205701796

* "Joy Reid: We're still feeling impact of Voting Rights Act being gutted in 2013:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-passes-proposed-map-increasing-majority-white-districts-decreasing-latinx-and-black-majority-districts-123490885908

* "Georgia ballot inspection case dismissed after no fraud found:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-ballot-inspection-case-dismissed-after-no-fraud-found/OUVOQ5I5ARHMBJ62CX3YBHRMYM/

* "Judge stomps out Trump Big Lie case in Georgia; triggers Trump tantrum:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/judge-stomps-out-trump-big-lie-case-in-georgia-triggers-trump-tantrum-123505221632

* "Once central to Trump's Big Lie, Arizona conspiracy theory fizzles into incoherence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/once-central-to-trump-s-big-lie-arizona-conspiracy-theory-fizzles-into-incoherence-123148869589

* "Why the Cyber Ninjas CEO Skipped the Oversight Hearing on His Own Audit in Arizona:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/cyber-ninja-ceo-skips-oversight-hearing-on-arizona-election-audit.html

* "Rep. Steve Scalise repeatedly refuses to say 2020 election wasn't stolen:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-steve-scalise-repeatedly-refuses-to-say-2020-election-wasn-t-stolen-123205189966

* "‘Stop the Steal’ Movement Races Forward, Ignoring Arizona Humiliation:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/arizona-election-audit-analysis.html

* "'Shut this fake investigation down': Clumsy Republican 'audit' stunt elicits blowback:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-shut-this-fake-investigation-down-clumsy-republican-audit-stunt-elicits-blowback-123608645850

* "Joy Reid: The cancer of the Big Lie has spread through GOP ranks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-polls-her-supporters-on-potential-national-divorce-123400773762

* "Recap of the Trump-endorsed rally at the Michigan State Capitol:" https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan/live-updates-from-the-trump-endorsed-rally-at-the-michigan-state-capitol/

* "Trump Allies Call for 'Audit' of 2020 Results in Michigan:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2021-10-12/trump-allies-call-for-audit-of-2020-results-in-michigan

* "Trump Tells Republicans Not to Vote in 2022 or 2024:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-republicans-not-to-vote-in-2022-or-2024

* "Trump suggests he will back primary challenges to Michigan GOP lawmakers:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/13/trump-suggests-he-back-primary-challenges-michigan-lawmakers/8435061002/

* "Trump tells Republicans not to vote if his 2020 election loss isn't 'solved':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-tells-republicans-not-to-vote-if-his-2020-election-loss-isn-t-solved-123504709941

* "Head of GOP election inquiry compares Milwaukee newspaper to Nazi propagandist:" https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/head-of-gop-election-inquiry-compares-milwaukee-newspaper-to-nazi-propagandist/article_82287223-b974-5877-a297-990531bde8dc.html

* "Former Supreme Court Justice Gableman, head of Republican review of Wisconsin election, says he does not understand how elections work:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/06/republican-reviewing-2020-vote-says-he-doesnt-know-how-elections-work/6020978001/

* "Gableman video puts a polished gloss on election nonsense:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/09/21/gablemans-taxpayer-financed-video-puts-a-reasonable-face-on-election-fraud-craziness/

* "Republicans seeking to discredit Wisconsin elections off to a bumbling start:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-seeking-to-discredit-wisconsin-elections-off-to-a-bumbling-start-123147333958

* "Republican threat to Wisconsin elections no laughing matter despite farcical clumsiness:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-threat-to-wisconsin-elections-no-laughing-matter-despite-farcical-clumsiness-123310149663

* "Impartial audit? Wisconsin Republicans tap Trump appointee, Trump lawyer:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/impartial-audit-wisconsin-republicans-tap-trump-appointee-trump-lawyer-123612229601

* "Mike Lindell now claims he's found people as old as 850 years who voted in 2020 election: report:" https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-voter-fraud-2655251741/

* CW: Domestic Abuse "Senate Republicans Shrug Off Candidates’ Domestic Abuse Allegations:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-shrug-off-candidates-with-domestic-violence-allegations_n_615cb61ee4b06f0ef2897f2b

* "Stacey Abrams: Youngkin ‘should be rejected’ for backing election audit:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-youngkin-should-be-rejected-for-backing-election-audit-122948677666

* "Political Giants Stump for Terry McAuliffe:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/political-giants-stump-for-terry-mcauliffe-123786309783

* "Joy Reid: Republican party has abandoned its once-lofty principles for Trumpism:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/virginia-governor-race-gop-embrace-of-trumpism-and-erosion-of-voting-rights-analyzed-by-politics-experts-123492933901

* "Chris Hayes: What Chuck Grassley traded for Trump’s endorsement :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-what-chuck-grassley-traded-for-trump-s-endorsement-123298373686

* "AT&T funds rightwing channel One America News, Reuters reveals:" https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/07/att-source-revenue-one-america-news

* "Hayes: What 25 years of Fox News ‘poison’ has done to America:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-what-25-years-of-fox-news-poison-has-done-to-america-123130437945

* "Joy critiques GOP leaders cultivating an ‘Idiocracy’ normalizing stupidity:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republicans-conservatives-right-wing-extremists-slammed-for-cultivating-culture-of-stupidity-123138629986

* "'Think about democracy as something which has a future': Snyder on hope in troubled times:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-think-about-democracy-as-something-which-has-a-future-snyder-on-hope-in-troubled-times-122963525615

* "Idaho governor repeals political rival’s executive order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/idaho-governor-repeals-political-rivals-executive-order-515542

* "This governor and lt. governor duo are trying to out-Trump each other:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/this-governor-and-lt-governor-duo-are-trying-to-out-trump-each-other-122950725570

* "Joy Reid critiques Idaho’s governor and lieutenant governor’s game of GOP one-upmanship:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/idaho-s-governor-and-lieutenant-governor-engage-in-game-of-gop-one-upmanship-122952773947

* "Whistleblower testifies to Senate as patience with Facebook wears thin in Washington:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/whistleblower-testifies-to-senate-as-patience-with-facebook-wears-thin-in-washington-122858053507

* "Expert: Why Facebook’s business model is ‘incommensurable with democracy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/expert-why-facebook-s-business-model-is-incommensurable-with-democracy-122847813728

* This gets scarier the more we know. "New details on ‘democratic near-death experience’ of Trump election plot:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-democratic-near-death-experience-of-trump-election-plot-123038789931

* "Questions yet unanswered suggest probe of DOJ misuse by Trump shift focus to White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/questions-yet-unanswered-suggest-probe-of-doj-misuse-by-trump-shift-focus-to-white-house-123056197607

* "Senate report exposes 'a mini attempted coup d'état' within the DOJ under Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-report-exposes-a-mini-attempted-coup-d-etat-within-the-doj-under-trump-123055685783

* "Political hijacking of Justice Department by Trump raises cleanup questions for Garland:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/political-hijacking-of-justice-department-by-trump-raises-cleanup-questions-for-garland-123056197797

* "Group files complaint with California bar association against John Eastman, lawyer who advised Trump on election challenges:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/eastman-trump-bar-complaint/2021/10/04/26dc7d50-2535-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html

* "Trump hotel lost $70M despite millions in foreign business:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-business-4203026146d39a3a2315eecd7fe79486

* "Trump must give videotaped deposition in protest lawsuit, judge orders:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-give-videotaped-deposition-protest-lawsuit-judge-orders/story?id=80579982

* "State Department Investigating if Trump Officials Stole G-7 Gift Bags Meant for Foreign Leaders:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/trump-gift-bags-g7-missing-gifts-saudi-fake-fur.html

* This is very 45. "White Tiger and Cheetah Furs: A Mess of Trump Gift Exchanges:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/us/politics/trump-gifts.html

* "Schiff book documents when Republicans gave up and gave in to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-book-documents-when-republicans-gave-up-and-gave-in-to-trump-123309637776

* "Rep. Bennie Thompson: Merrick Garland has to do his job in a timely manner:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/bannon-defying-subpoena-what-garland-should-do-discussed-by-jan-6-select-committee-chair-thompson-123596358002

* "Biden White House waives executive privilege for initial set of Trump-era documents sought by Jan. 6 panel:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/bannon-jan-6-subpoena-515681

* "Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/politics/senate-judiciary-committee-investigation-trump-2020-election/index.html

* "Trump tells 4 former aides to defy Jan. 6 committee's subpoena:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/trump-jan-6-committees-subpoena-515593

* "Top Trump aides set to defy subpoenas in Capitol attack investigation:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/06/trump-aides-capitol-attack-house-select-committee

* "Jan. 6 Panel Threatens to Pursue Charges Against Bannon:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/us/politics/steve-bannon-capitol-riot.html

* "Schiff: Enforcing select committee subpoenas tests ‘principle no one is above the law’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/steve-bannon-defying-jan-6-select-committee-subpoena-discussed-by-rep-adam-schiff-123691077812

* "Rosen, former acting AG under Trump, appears before Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/13/rosen-jan-6-committee-515910

* "Jan. 6 panel moving swiftly as it sets Bannon contempt vote:" https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-capitol-siege-subpoenas-bennie-thompson-9823b7d1c15eabd235cd3a9887b1f46e

* "Capitol Police whistleblower delivers scathing rebuke to 2 of its senior leaders Jan. 6:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/capitol-police-whistleblower-rebuke-jan-6-515696

* "Prosecutors: Capitol cop told Jan. 6 rioter to hide evidence:" https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/capitol-police-officer-indicted-for-obstruction-after-riot

* "‘Just looking out’: Capitol officer charged with telling rioter to delete evidence:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-just-looking-out-capitol-officer-charged-with-telling-rioter-to-delete-evidence-123686469722

* "Judge holds DC jail officials in contempt in 1/6 riot case:" https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-district-of-columbia-capitol-siege-b944fd79b8e132f633bfb0111adfaba8

* "100 Capitol Rioters Have Pleaded Guilty. Here’s What They Did And What They’re Facing.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/100-capitol-riot-guilty-pleas

* "Capitol rioter admits to two new felonies while representing himself in bond hearing:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/capitol-rioter-brandon-fellows-admits-to-two-new-felonies-while-representing-himself-in-bond-hearing-judge-trevor-mcfadden/65-a40af9c2-9809-4adb-aaec-7e36ad12b308

* "Capitol rioter represents himself, accidentally admits to more crimes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/capitol-rioter-represents-himself-accidentally-admits-to-more-crimes-123491909794

* "Gay Trump Supporter Brandon Stratka Pleads Guilty in Capitol Riot Role:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/08/gay-trump-supporter-brandon-stratka-pleads-guilty-capitol-riot-role

* "U.S. Capitol Police arrest man who parked suspicious vehicle outside Supreme Court:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/capitol-police-says-it-investigating-suspicious-vehicle-front-us-supreme-court-2021-10-05/

* "Maryland senior housing shooting kills 2; suspect held:" https://www.khq.com/regional/gunman-held-in-shooting-of-2-staffers-inside-senior-facility/article_adb26ce1-aba9-50cb-b1b3-d8a254f771cf.html

* "How Thousands of Haitians Became Trapped in Mexico:"

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* "Reporting on the Humanity of the Immigration Crisis | Field Notes:"

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* How is it legal to deport kids to Haiti when they aren't from there? Why would anyone deport anyone to Haiti right now let alone Brazilian and Chilean children? More than 40 children with non-Haitian passports deported to Haiti: IOM":" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americas/haitian-kids-deportees-intl-latam/index.html

* "Biden administration canceling more border wall contracts:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/border-wall-contacts-canceled-biden-administration/index.html

* "At least 1,000 migrant children separated under Trump still haven't been reunited with parents:" https://www.axios.com/migrant-children-still-separated-from-parents-92a72738-f295-410b-ac61-076c634eaaea.html

* "Family Demands Surveillance Video After Alabama Woman Christina Nance Was Found Dead in Unused Police Van:" https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/family-demands-surveillance-video-after-alabama-woman-christina-nance-was-found-dead-in-unused-police-van/

* "Feds won't seek charges against cop in Jacob Blake shooting:" https://apnews.com/article/us-news-us-department-of-justice-rusten-sheskey-jacob-blake-kenosha-4f8493dd0776ef6046e052a538cd1460

* "Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist#1133516

* "‘County with staggering history of detaining children’ revealed in shocking report:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/tennessee-county-was-profiting-off-jailing-black-children-as-young-as-seven-123298885901

* "A homeless man was arrested for a 43-cent ‘theft’ of a Mountain Dew. He could face 7 years in prison.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/21/pennsylvania-mountaindew-theft-joseph-sobolewski/

* "Texas Board Recommends Posthumous Pardon for George Floyd:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/george-floyd-pardon-texas.html

* "FBI raids New York's police sergeants union offices and the union president resigns:" https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043567201/fbi-raid-new-york-police-sergeants-union-ed-mullins

* "A look at track record of NYPD union head who resigned after FBI raid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-look-at-track-record-of-nypd-union-head-who-resigned-after-fbi-raid-123042373581

* "Derecka Purnell - "Becoming Abolitionists":" https://www.cc.com/video/0w8kcq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-derecka-purnell-becoming-abolitionists

* "How the nation's Chinese American communities grapple with systemic racism and gentrification:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/how-the-nation-s-chinese-american-communities-grapple-with-systemic-racism-and-gentrification-123205189953

* "The Latest in Jussie Smollett's Ongoing Alleged Hoax Attack Case:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/06/heres-latest-jussie-smolletts-ongoing-hoax-attack-case

* "Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then ‘Everything Just Imploded.’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/politics/maryland-superintendent-racism-black-lives-matter.html

* "Texas school official says classrooms with books on Holocaust must offer ‘opposing’ views:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/14/texas-school-holocaust-books-race-southlake

* "Islamophobia: An Analysis | Philosophy Tube:"

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* CW: Pedophila, Rape. "French clergy sexually abused over 200,000 children since 1950, report finds:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/report-finds-216000-children-were-victims-french-clergy-sex-abuse-since-1950-2021-10-05/

* CW: Rape. "UK police won't act against Prince Andrew over abuse claim:" https://apnews.com/article/prince-andrew-sexual-assault-allegations-jeffrey-epstein-f0e955fd2345884173ba1321bb105048

* "NFL players attack ‘fraud’ Jon Gruden after racist and homophobic emails:" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/oct/12/nfl-players-reaction-jon-gruden-emails-racist-homophobic

* CW: Sexual Harassment "'Toxic culture': NFL cheerleaders demand release of full workplace inquiry:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-toxic-culture-nfl-cheerleaders-demand-release-of-full-workplace-inquiry-123494469775

* CW: Sexual Harassment "'We feel invisible': Washington Football Team employees experienced decades of abuse, sexual harassment:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/10/14/jon-gruden-washington-football-team-owner/8450505002/

* "California Outlaws 'Stealthing,' Mandates Gender-Neutral Toy Sections:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/10/12/california-outlaws-stealthing-mandates-gender-neutral-toy-sections

* "Appeals court puts temporary hold on judge's order blocking Texas 6-week abortion ban:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/texas-abortion-appeal/index.html

* "Biden administration: Texas abortion ban, in place despite constitutional questions, offers road map for other states:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/texas-abortion-ban-appeal/2021/10/12/fd649804-2b60-11ec-baf4-d7a4e075eb90_story.html

* "Justice Department to ask Supreme Court to block Texas abortion ban:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/15/biden-justice-department-supreme-court-texas-abortion-516093

* "DOJ rips Texas abortion ban in new appeals court filing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-rips-texas-abortion-ban-in-new-appeals-court-filing-123312197593

* "DOJ will ask Supreme Court to halt Texas abortion law:" https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-health-texas-aeedf9630e395f9115909ce5fb63eea5

* "Attacks on abortion rights already forcing women to dangerous 'back alley' alternatives:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/attacks-on-abortion-rights-already-forcing-women-to-dangerous-back-alley-alternatives-123409477923

* "Fact check: Pennsylvania bill proposing restrictions on male reproductive rights is satirical:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/07/fact-check-legislation-male-reproductive-rights-parody-bill/6032780001/

* "A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/a-botched-circumcision-and-its-aftermath

* "Justice secretary Dominic Raab thinks misogyny can be a 'woman against a man':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/06/dominic-raab-tory-misogyny/

* "Daddy Issues, Misogyny, and the Pinnacle of Male Privilege:"

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* "Gay couple’s son finally granted citizenship in landmark Namibian ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/16/namibia-gay-couple-children-citizenship-win/

* "Evangelist who backed death penalty for gays wants to run the National Trust:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/national-trust-christian-voice-stephen-green/

* "Genderfluid Person in Dress and Heels Attacked, Left Black and Blue:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/08/genderfluid-person-dress-and-heels-attacked-left-black-and-blue

* "Thug beats man with wine bottle for ‘holding another man’s hand’ near gay village:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/11/birmingham-homophobic-attack-kesseler/

* "Birmingham announces major steps to combat spike of anti-LGBT+ violence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/birmingham-homophobic-attacks-lgbt/

* "Protesters demand the Guardian 'stop platforming transphobia' at newspaper's HQ:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/08/guardian-transphobia-protest-london/

* "LGBT+ students demand university fire anti-trans professor: 'We've had enough':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/07/kathleen-stock-university-sussex/

* "Biden Calls Out Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation on National Coming Out Day:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/11/biden-calls-out-anti-lgbtq-legislation-national-coming-out-day

* "Black Trans Man Mel Groves Shot to Death in Mississippi:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/13/black-trans-man-mel-groves-shot-death-mississippi

* "The Queer Tax on LGBTQ+ Women Who Partner With Women:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/10/07/queer-tax-lgbtq-women-who-partner-women

* "Trans writer cuts ties with Netflix over 'transphobic' Dave Chappelle special:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/07/dave-chapelle-netflix-the-closer-criticism/

* "The Complex Transphobia of Dave Chappelle:"

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* They used her name without her consent, the bastards. "Hannah Gadsby slams Netflix boss over Dave Chappelle: ‘F**k you and your amoral algorithm cult’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/hannah-gadsby-netflix-dave-chappelle-the-closer/

* "Trans Worker Who Criticized Netflix's Chappelle Special Is Suspended:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2021/10/11/trans-worker-who-criticized-netflixs-chappelle-special-suspended

* "The Bye Line: Jonathan Capehart calls out Tucker Carlson's homophobia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-jonathan-capehart-calls-out-tucker-carlson-s-homophobia-123784773952

* "Sally Ride and Nina Otero-Warren to Be 1st LGBTQ+ Faces on U.S. Coins:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/10/12/sally-ride-and-nina-otero-warren-be-1st-lgbtq-faces-us-coins

* CW: Suicide. "Texas Removes Access to Youth LGBTQ+ Suicide Hotline, Resource Page:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/13/texas-removes-access-youth-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-resource-page

* "Trans-inclusive cervical screenings aren't a debate. They can be life-saving:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/09/trans-cervical-cancer-screenings/

* "Why Do We Have Fewer Outbreaks? Epidemiological Transition: Crash Course Outbreak Science #3:"

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* "The Weaponization of Outbreaks: Crash Course Outbreak Science #5:"

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* "The Spanish Flu: The Greatest Pandemic of the 20th Century:"

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* "BSE: Britain’s Deadly Disease Scandal:"

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* "NHS England to offer breakthrough treatment for sickle cell disease:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/05/nhs-england-breakthrough-treatment-sickle-cell-disease

* "WHO backs malaria vaccine rollout for Africa's children in major breakthrough:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-experts-back-using-malaria-vaccine-african-children-2021-10-06/

* "COVID is changing medical fly-in missions — and it might be for the better:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/10/07/1041862629/covid-is-changing-medical-fly-in-missions-and-it-might-be-for-the-better

* "Maddow: Look past conspiracy nonsense and weirdos to appreciate modern medical science:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-look-past-conspiracy-nonsense-and-weirdos-to-appreciate-modern-medical-science-123411013592

* "‘This is a crisis’: Tens of thousands of children affected by pandemic-related deaths of parents:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-is-a-crisis-tens-of-thousands-of-children-affected-by-pandemic-related-deaths-of-parents/ar-AAPdH5o?ocid=msedgntp

* "Valley Fever Is Spreading Through a Hotter, Drier Western US:" https://www.wired.com/story/valley-fever-is-spreading-through-a-hotter-drier-western-us/

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* "Pope, other religious leaders issue pre-COP26 appeal on climate change:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-world-religious-leaders-issue-pre-cop26-appeal-climate-change-2021-10-04/

* "Climate change: Carbon emissions from rich countries rose rapidly in 2021:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58897805

* "At least 15 dead after heavy rainfall and flooding in northern China:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/china/flooding-china-shanxi-ntl-hnk/index.html

* "China floods: Nearly 2 million displaced in Shanxi province:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58866854

* "Torrential rain follows summer wildfires, flooding homes across Greece:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/torrential-rain-follows-summer-wildfires-flooding-homes-across-greece-2021-10-15/

* "Flash flooding in parts of Alabama kills at least four, prompts dozens of rescues:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rescues-underway-after-flash-flooding-parts-alabama-2021-10-07/

* "Elite Firefighters Have a Secret Skill:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/smokejumpers-wildfires-sew-their-own-gear/620323/

* "More flee as Canary Island eruption continues, creates 'lava tsunami':" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/more-flee-canary-island-eruption-continues-creates-lava-tsunami-n1281690

* "'Catastrophic' California oil spill kills fish, damages wetlands:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/major-oil-spill-washes-ashore-california-killing-wildlife-2021-10-03/

* "At least 2 dead in California plane crash that torched homes:" https://apnews.com/article/san-diego-california-plane-crashes-fires-suburbs-44a0451856e261b5314fb9528d9fa644

* "Strong earthquake in southwest Pakistan kills at least 23:" https://apnews.com/article/science-pakistan-earthquakes-bd2be7e2982a44a0f02ecb4f12e9d0e3

* "City in Michigan urged to use bottled water due to lead risk:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/city-michigan-urged-bottled-water-due-lead-risk-80444860

* "Majority Black city in Michigan faces water lead levels higher than Flint’s at height:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/michigan-tells-majority-black-city-of-benton-harbor-not-to-drink-lead-laced-water-123401797648

* "How economists helped Big Oil obstruct climate action for decades:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/10/economists-helped-big-oil-companies-obstruct-climate-action-benjamin-franta-stanford-university/

* "Masai Woman Builds Beautiful Off-Grid Homestead in the African Bush:"

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* "In Kenya, An Inspiring Maasai Man Creates Change Through Permaculture:"

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* "How Dying Gas Wells Are Making One Company Rich:"

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* "Climate change is killing the world's coral reefs as oceans warm, study shows:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-change-is-killing-worlds-coral-reefs-oceans-warm-study-2021-10-05/

* "Inside the Indigenous Fight to Save the Amazon:"

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* "Fast fashion: The dumping ground for unwanted clothes:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58836618

* "What It's Like to Document the Death of Ecosystems:"

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* "Mathematicians Prove Melting Ice Stays Smooth:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-melting-ice-stays-smooth-20211006/

* "A Centuries-Old Physics Mystery? Solved:" https://scitechdaily.com/a-centuries-old-physics-mystery-solved/

* "Planet with iron rainfall is even more extreme than scientists thought:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/05/world/iron-rain-exoplanet-scn/index.html

* "Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

* "If Social Media Can Be Unsafe for Kids, What Happens in VR?:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-virtual-reality-metaverse-safety-children-jakki-bailey.html

* "The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along:" https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-archaeology-the-white-sands-discovery-only-confirms-what-indigenous-people-have-said-all-along

* "Scientists solve the mystery of the Etruscans’ origins:" https://www.livescience.com/origins-of-etruscans-discovered

* CW: Lynching, Sexual Assault "Ida B. Wells: Crash Course Black American History #20:"

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* "Jailbreak! The International King of Escapes:"

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* I was angry about what happened to Monika Lewinsky while it was happening. Everyone else in the scandal was absolutely vile. The media and the comics decided to completely destroy her life. It was very there but for the grace and I had huge empathy for her. I love the person she grew up to be, and every time I see her out and about doing activism it makes be happy. She not only survived the terrible thing our whole society did to her; she took that trauma and made something beautiful and powerful out of it.

"Monica Lewinsky - "15 Minutes of Shame":" https://www.cc.com/video/6of5s5/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-monica-lewinsky-15-minutes-of-shame

* "‘Do right by Henrietta Lacks’ family attorney of Black woman whose cells are commercialized by pharmaceutical company asks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/henrietta-lacks-family-member-discusses-suit-filed-over-black-woman-s-cells-sold-to-advance-medicine-science-122849861560

* CW: Suicide mention. "The Disappearance of Elisa Lam:"

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* "Gentrification Is Erasing Philly’s Black Horse Stables:"

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* "Two men arrested for alleged illegal smuggling of Kentucky Fried Chicken:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/two-men-arrested-alleged-illegal-171700302.html

* "Thank Me Later - Crusade for Clitoral Awareness:" https://www.cc.com/video/6bwz5l/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-thank-me-later-crusade-for-clitoral-awareness

* "Facebook Hearings Cold Open - SNL:"

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

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* "PFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "TikTok Challenge Incites School Vandalism:" https://www.cc.com/video/l5foji/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tiktok-challenge-incites-school-vandalism

* "Coronavirus Deaths Surpass Spanish Flu:" https://www.cc.com/video/hk1pbh/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-coronavirus-deaths-surpass-spanish-flu

* "The Rise of Water Witches in California:" https://www.cc.com/video/qr1e8g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-rise-of-water-witches-in-california

* "New Zealanders Smuggle KFC & Man Faces Prison Over 43 Cents:" https://www.cc.com/video/biv64w/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-new-zealanders-smuggle-kfc-man-faces-prison-over-43-cents

* "Climate Week - Trickle-Down Effects of the Global Crisis:" https://www.cc.com/video/3a9x5k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-climate-week-trickle-down-effects-of-the-global-crisis

* "Ongoing Crisis at the U.S. Border:" https://www.cc.com/video/jshkgv/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-ongoing-crisis-at-the-u-s-border

* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - Anti-Mask Rally:" https://www.cc.com/video/dxm2d3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse-anti-mask-rally

* "Booster Shots Approved & 46% of Americans Believe in Ghosts:" https://www.cc.com/video/53kjvm/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-booster-shots-approved-46-of-americans-believe-in-ghosts

* "Switzerland OKs Same-Sex Marriage & Kids Face Climate Woes:" https://www.cc.com/video/6ig1jw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-switzerland-oks-same-sex-marriage-kids-face-climate-woes

* "CP Time - Black Fashion Models:" https://www.cc.com/video/2vcs6m/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-black-fashion-models

* "Can We Convo? - Reporting on Missing White Women:" https://www.cc.com/video/sp35bc/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-can-we-convo-reporting-on-missing-white-women

* "Keeping Up with the Congressians - Capitol Hill Crunch Time :" https://www.cc.com/video/2on71h/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-keeping-up-with-the-congressians-capitol-hill-crunch-time

* "Amazon Unveils $1K Robot & Man Traps Alligator in Trash Can :" https://www.cc.com/video/ghjlcw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-amazon-unveils-titlek-robot-man-traps-alligator-in-trash-can

* "Pandora Papers Expose Wealthy Tax Dodgers:" https://www.cc.com/video/52gnv2/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-pandora-papers-expose-wealthy-tax-dodgers

* "Black Family vs. Racist Neighbor & Meghan Trainor's Toilets:" https://www.cc.com/video/vyqduj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-black-family-vs-racist-neighbor-meghan-trainor-s-toilets

* "Red, White and Broken - Religious Exemptions for Vaccines :" https://www.cc.com/video/05hv1g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-red-white-and-broken-religious-exemptions-for-vaccines

* "Remotely Educational - How Hollywood Works:" https://www.cc.com/video/2o4rhr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-remotely-educational-how-hollywood-works

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Right to Repair:" https://www.cc.com/video/iv0hvu/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-right-to-repair

* "Freedom of Speech Battle in New Jersey:" https://www.cc.com/video/fpz5ow/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-freedom-of-speech-battle-in-new-jersey

* "Back in Black - Hollywood's De-Aging Problem :" https://www.cc.com/video/wr6ipp/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-back-in-black-hollywood-s-de-aging-problem

* "Getting Back to Normal-ish - America's Great Resignation:" https://www.cc.com/video/26ld3k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-getting-back-to-normal-ish-america-s-great-resignation

* "Ladies Night Song - SNL:"

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* "End Of Iris - El Tango De Roxanne (Moulin Rouge Cover):"

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* Wednesday I spaced a Doctor's appointment. (In my defense, I was very aware of it Monday and planning to go, but they never sent a reminder call and scheduling on Tuesday and Wednesday was tight, so it just fell out of my head with all the other stuff I needed to remember). I remembered it about an hour too late. Sigh. The reschedule and the long wait times between nurse and doctor because they were squeezing me into cracks meant I only got a few hours of sleep.

Add to this that all the gimping about Wednesday led to my dicey left hip joint trying to dislocate itself later that night, which is a thing it just sort of does periodically, but hadn't for several years. The pain of even a failed dislocation is stunningly painful and means the leg stops being load bearing sporadically. Luckily, Thursday it waited until I was parked at home to make another series of attempts to escape it's socket. (This has to do with my AS made worse by things like the distance running and ballet in my youth. My cartilage is under constant attack by my immune system. Yes, I know this isn't a problem most people have. It was always the left hip joint that used to pop out. I think I must have done extra damage to it in my teens somehow). The weather being changeable enough to ramp my arthritis pain level way up is not helping either and is likely contributing though I can't prove it. I just know when I dislocate, it tends to be in autumn or Winter.

Also, I needed head Millennial for an essential project, which meant I needed to bail the tanks myself (Nearby Millennial is the best at all the other tank cleaning components, which I flat out can't do since the AS started gnawing that shoulder joint which sent the fragile right shoulder joint. Normally Head Millennial does the bailing when things are running smoothly, as it's something Nearby Millennial absolutely can't do), into it's own exciting pain Wednesday night. Luckily this is more remediable than the hip joint thing, and the measures I took Wednesday night moved it make into the unpleasanter end of functional, which is really all I could ask for given the givens.

So I've been a serious mess physically for a couple of days, add in the lack of sleep and the way the need to get to the appointment on short notice threw my meds schedule into chaos and basically, I'm just trying to stay up late enough that Friday will still work and doing stuff that doesn't require too much eye focus.

* Over the weekend we managed to nearly finish decorating for Phase II, and on Sunday a friend came to visit. Livia is still full of complaints about the lack of live mice in food deliveries, but there is nothing to be done.

* I've been having a particularly bad chronic pain week, made worse by the nobody will let me sleep thing. I'm getting Police union auto-dialers from at least three different zip codes and as between them they have about twenty and I can only block 25 numbers, every time I block one another one wakes me up later. I wish there were a do not call list for police unions, but... America. they called twice today. It was so bad Thursday and Friday that after call five Friday, Tavy stood on my hip and complained angrily until I hung up. There were four more calls to come in the next couple hours including two separate calls from my dentist reminding me of the same appointment, one live and one robo.

I'm also getting daily harassment from a robot claiming to be a pharmacy, which insists on calling me every morning between 9-9:30AM wanting me to get up, find pen and paper and in the short time it takes for the robot to read the number, and write down their number and call them back, you know, exactly the way scammers trying to steal your social security or credit card numbers like to do. I haven't blocked them on the grounds that I haven't heard from lung ampule people for a while and it's just possible they subcontracted out. Medicare advantage does the same thing some times, you see. They like to wake me up once or twice a day with a rambling generic robot message that doesn't properly identify themselves and what they want in the thirty seconds before I hang up. Eventually they give up and have a live person call and properly identify themselves. So I tend not to block medical type things that behave like that on the off it actually is Medicare being too lazy to properly contact me. I hoping if that's what's going on here, do that before I have to start a game of phone tag with the wildly incompetent folks at lung medicine head office. which took most of a month last time my machine died.

* I voted Saturday. Yes, it's election season again. I know people have trouble caring about off year elections, but state and local elections have a massive effect on your quality of life. My ballot had a ton of initiatives and common sense tax stuff needing affirming. Turn out matters. My ballot had a ton of local and county offices that very much mattered for issues like affordable housing and environmental measures.

Don't sleep on this election. Republicans are pushing hard most places to take over state election positions with partisan extremists who want to end democracy. They are packing school boards with people who want to censor history and thing that you need to teach "The other side of the holocaust." Who your sheriff is can make the difference between mental health and drug diversion vs. Stop and frisk.

Don't sleep on this, I beg you. People sleeping on state level elections is why so many states are getting extreme racial gerrymandering next year.

* I am worried about Tavy. He slipped past Squirrel when he came home from work a few days ago, and I didn't notice until after lung time. Late Saturday, he got diarrhea. He slept most of Sunday and was still ill. He's drinking lots of water and is behaving normally while awake, but not eating much and is low energy for him. I'm worried he ate something he shouldn't while he was lose in the pre-dawn or caught a paracite from one of the complex dogs, since a lot of the owners are too lazy to toss their feces in the receptacle.

I'll see how how is tomorrow. I definitely can't afford the vet and squirrel is skint this month. *digits cruciform*

* "AI improves your Halloween costumes!:" https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/665293325032669184

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

- 3.5: Is There in Truth No Beauty?

They are escorting the Medusan ambassador to the Federation home. Humans can't talk to the Medusans face to face as sight of the Medusan driving them insane. Spock must wear a visors, though there is concern about his human half. The Medusan is traveling in a future tech cat carrier apparently with Larry and Miranda. The cat carrier opens. Spock flinches, but gazes on the entity for a while. He tells Miranda, the woman assisting the Ambassador that he envies her assignment. The Assistant tries to touch his mind. She seems to project her envy on Spock. Clue number one. Apparently he telepathy is why he studies on Vulcan. She wishes she could see the Medusan.

They have a dinner party where they discuss Vulcan telepathy and the need to block out other's thoughts. Miranda takes a badge he wore in honor of her as a taunt. Clue number 2. Bones argues that Vulcan is boring and that the Medusans must be evil because they are ugly. Spock keeps gently rebuking McCoy instead of slapping him. Spock is a better man than I. Kirk calls beauty the last prejudice, but then toasts Miranda's beauty. Bones is racist and paternalistic. Miranda rebukes him on the racism. Miranda says she senses someone thinking about murder, but can't say who. She rebuffs Bones' attempt to escort her to her room. Scotty invites the other guy that came with the Medusan to go drinking, but he too turns down the offer. Bones says she's 'disturbing' possibly because she doesn't want to fuck. *side eye*

Larry has a deep crush on Miranda and is losing his shit because she's going to live with the Medusa instead of having sex with him. He kisses her. she is not into it and tells him to leave. She now knows the murdery feelings and envy are from Larry. The Creep. He goes to murder the Medusa out of sexual jealousy, thus seeing the Medusa and going violently mad. He runs around attacking people. Miranda tells the feds about Larry.

Larry the Incel turns up at engineering. Scotty gives him the controls before the announcement of Larry's homicidal insanity comes over. He knocks out Scotty and starts driving the Enterprise dangerously fast. He sends them beyond the galaxy boundaries before they subdue him. He is raving about dreams. Only Miranda can calm him. He thinks about the Medusa, they calls her a liar and tries to kill her, but he dies instead. Everything just stopped.

So now they are lost in space. (Danger Will Robinson). It's a void. they can't recross the barrier in sub-light and the sensory distortion in warp makes navigating impossible. The only solution is a mindlink with the Medusan which Spock suspects Dr. Miranda Jones won't allow. Kirk volunteers to distract her with a date to the arboretum. *side eye* Kirk tries to talk her out of her asexuality. *side eye* She doesn't enjoy other people's violent emotions and finds the Medusans restful. Kirk keeps trying to seduce her anyway, insulting her Medusan friend. Asshole.

Miranda works out what Spock is planning and tries to take his place. he points out she doesn't know how to pilot the ship. Bones points out a blind person can't fly the ship. (He'd been keeping her blindness private because ethics, but he couldn't let her endanger the ship). Her dress contains a sensor web. Kirk works out she hides her blindness to avoid pity. She insists. Kirk says to ask the Medusan, who says no.

Spock mind melds with the Medusan and the two become one. The blend quotes Byron at Uhura and the Tempest at Miranda. They navigate back to entry point, at which point the Medusan waxes poetic about the wonder of being embodied but also the intense loneliness of it. Spock goes to put the entity back in the cat carrier, but forgets his visor. He goes berserk and Kirk has to stun him. Nimoy's performance in this scene is really beautiful, with all the switches back and forth in both personality and emotion.

Miranda is Spock's only hope, via Mind Meld. Kirk gets impatient and finds her in there without her net. Kirk thinks she should wake him with a kiss then accuses her of trying to kill Spock. She goes all the way down, risking them both. Spock recovers. Kirk gives Miranda a rose and she goes off to live with the aliens. She and Spock respect each other now.

The men (except Spock are just really gross in this one.

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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* "SOS: Stranded and shattered seafarers threaten global supply lines:" https://www.reuters.com/world/sos-stranded-shattered-seafarers-threaten-global-supply-lines-2021-07-20/

* "The return of shell money: PNG revives old ways after Covid's blow to economy:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/22/the-return-of-shell-money-png-revives-old-ways-after-covids-blow-to-economy

* "Zambia election: Hakainde Hichilema beats President Edgar Lungu:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58226695

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* "Delta Is Bad News for Kids:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/delta-variant-covid-children/619712/

* "Smoke and soot from wildfires may be causing more Covid-19 cases and deaths, study finds:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/health/wildfire-smoke-coronavirus-climate-change/index.html

* "Amid shortages, Africans scramble to be fully immunized :" https://apnews.com/article/africa-health-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-4223767b41b3c7b6cd81ead14d6c04e7

* "US reports nearly 1 million vaccinations in past day, most since early July:" https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/567814-us-reports-nearly-1-million-vaccinations-in-past-day-most-since-early-july?rl=1

* "U.S. to Advise Boosters for Most Americans 8 Months After Vaccination:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/us/politics/vaccination-booster-shots.html

* "Feds aim to save Covid-flooded hospitals with antibody therapy facility:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/feds-aim-to-save-covid-flooded-hospitals-with-antibody-therapy-facility-118683717782

* "U.S. to Advise Boosters for Most Americans 8 Months After Vaccination:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/us/politics/booster-shots.html

* Good. Squirrel and I have been quietly freaked out about unvaccinated people risking nursing home denizens since early February at least. "Biden says US will require nursing homes get staff vaccinated or lose federal funds:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/18/politics/nursing-homes-federal-funding/index.html

* Good. At minimum unmasked schools looks like a serious ADA violation to me. "The Biden administration will use a federal civil rights office to deter states from banning masks in classrooms.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/us/politics/biden-masks-schools-civil-rights.html

* "'We are on fire': Five U.S. states set new records for Covid cases as hospitalizations rise:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/16/we-are-on-fire-five-us-states-set-new-records-for-covid-cases-as-hospitalizations-rise-.html

* "Over 5,000 students quarantine or isolate because of Covid in Florida school district:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/over-5-000-students-quarantine-or-isolate-due-covid-single-n1276933

* "More than 400 students quarantined since first day of school because of COVID-19 in Palm Beach County School District:" https://www.wpbf.com/article/440-palm-beach-county-students-in-quarantine/37296839#

* "3 Broward County, Florida, educators died within about 24 hours from Covid-19 complications:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/us/broward-county-florida-covid-deaths/index.html

* "With the delta variant spreading, Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations have increased over 300% in the last month:" https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/

* "Multiple regions across Texas now completely out of ICU beds as COVID-19 cases spike, data shows:" https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/multiple-regions-across-texas-now-completely-out-of-icu-beds-data-shows/287-aaffc3f1-5d3b-4fa7-911d-bfd56bc174c9

* "The Texas Covid crisis worsens – why is the governor resisting masks?:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/15/texas-covid-coronavirus-crisis-austin-greg-abbott

* "Siding with Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas Supreme Court temporarily halts mask orders in Dallas and Bexar counties:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/15/texas-coronavirus-supreme-court-school-mask-mandate/

* I hope it works. "Texas school district makes masks part of dress code to get around Gov. Abbott's order:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-school-district-makes-masks-part-dress-code-get-around-n1277040

* "As COVID-19 Surges, Mississippi Hospital 'Days Away' From Turning Away Patients:" https://www.npr.org/2021/08/14/1027756573/as-covid-19-surges-mississippi-hospital-days-away-from-turning-away-patients

* "Field hospital opens in parking garage as Mississippi sees 'skyrocketing' crush of COVID patients:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/field-hospital-opens-parking-garage-mississippi-sees-skyrocketing/story?id=79433418

* "Doctor laments amount of 'young death' as Covid patients jam Mississippi hospitals:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doctor-laments-amount-of-young-death-as-covid-patients-jam-mississippi-hospitals-118683717858

* "'Save our babies': As another Mississippi child dies of COVID-19, communities beg for help:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2021/08/16/fifth-child-mississippi-dies-covid-19/8150426002/

* "DeSoto County COVID cases rise 151% as Mississippi cases surge toward new peak:" https://www.wreg.com/news/coronavirus/desoto-county-covid-cases-rise-151-as-mississippi-cases-surge/

* "As COVID surges, Mississippi sets up second field hospital:" https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-mississippi-edbfe1ae66fc3d15a73d9962b284a9f6

* "Metro Atlanta school districts report over 4,000 cases of COVID-19 in first weeks:" https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/metro-atlanta-school-districts-report-over-3700-cases-covid-19-first-weeks/KO37EA3M5NDRFPGCGVEY6OIA4U/

* "Louisiana's health care system nearing 'major failure' under COVID surge, says Gov. John Bel Edwards:" https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_35d58738-fc87-11eb-a14c-cb993c0fdd54.html

* "Louisiana lawmakers hold contentious hearing on COVID-19:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-louisiana-education-coronavirus-pandemic-082e94c98144f3dfa2005e6f43f6cd32

* "'No beds anywhere': As COVID wards expand, Louisiana's small hospitals have nowhere to turn:" https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_2dc75078-fc7b-11eb-a04d-8f9b3ec919cf.html

* "COVID in Louisiana schools: As students return to campuses, infection rates are worse than ever:" https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/coronavirus/article_88df9674-fb80-11eb-b4fb-93a296642845.html

* "Nearly 1,000 confirmed COVID cases in Middle TN schools; hundreds quarantined for exposure:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/nearly-1000-confirmed-covid-cases-in-middle-tn-schools/

* "Oregon governor orders National Guard to help frontline workers in Covid-19 battle:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-governor-orders-national-guard-help-frontline-workers-covid-19-n1276817

* "Nearly 4,400 new COVID-19 cases in Oregon over the weekend, health officials say:" https://katu.com/news/local/nearly-4400-new-covid-19-cases-in-oregon-over-the-weekend-health-officials-say

* "Fueled by delta variant, 500,000 coronavirus cases now tallied in Washington state:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/fueled-by-delta-variant-washington-state-surpasses-500000-covid-19-cases/

* "Inslee announces vaccination requirement for most state employees, private health care and…:" https://medium.com/wagovernor/inslee-announces-vaccination-requirement-for-most-state-employees-private-health-care-and-7c765161cbb6

* "Whatcom sees 300 confirmed COVID cases last week, as hospital sets pandemic record high:" https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253520639.html

* "Supreme Court rejects challenge to Indiana University's vaccination requirement:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-indiana-university-s-vaccination-requirement-n1276714

* "Curfew could be implemented as hospitalizations, cases continue to soar:" https://www.khon2.com/top-stories/curfew-could-be-implemented-as-hospitalizations-cases-continue-to-soar/

* "27 people aboard Carnival cruise test positive for COVID-19:" https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-health-travel-caribbean-4dd34f14b6a6365f48b3375c57ba4fb4

* My community knows from plagues. "Overwhelming majority of LGBT+ adults have been vaccinated against COVID in the US:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/16/lgbt-adults-covid-cavvine/

* "Man stabbed near L.A. City Hall as vaccine mandate protest turns violent:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/15/la-vaccine-protest-stabbing/

* "Jen Psaki shuts down Fox reporter with reminder Trump suggested injecting bleach as COVID cure:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/13/jen-psaki-trump-covid-disenfectant/

* "Gov. Greg Abbott tests positive for COVID after jam-packed, maskless GOP event:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/No-mask-no-social-distancing-no-problem-for-16393209.php

* "Vaccinated Texas Gov. Abbott Covid positive after heedless hobnobbing at maskless GOP fete:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/vaccinated-texas-gov-abbott-covid-positive-after-heedless-hobnobbing-at-maskless-gop-fete-118920773640

* "Antivaccine, Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas Politician Dies After COVID Diagnosis:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/8/05/antivaccine-anti-lgbtq-texas-politician-dies-after-covid-diagnosis

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* Remember way back at the beginning of this when I wrote extensively in livejournal during the lead up to the Afghan war, that we shouldn't invade Afghanistan because there was very little chance of us achieving any long term good? Remember how I wrote about the long history of resistance their and the then recent Russian occupation? Remember how I said we had no clear exit strategy and that it looked to me like a potential forever war as we suck at things like nation building? That this sure looked like the recipe for another Vietnam? Remember I said we, as a country are not nearly bright enough to meddle with that part of the world. Yes, there are experts who are, but US foreign policy is a blunt instrument mostly wielded by the willfully ignorant with agendas that have nothing to do with working with locals to actually fix things.

Yeah.

My father was against the Vietnam war and at the same time we abandoned all those people who helped us to horrors. I was raised on images of the fall of Saigon, people desperately grabbing on to helicopter legs. I had a Vietnamese friend at my second college who'd been in a camp as a young child after the war and went through horrible trauma before she got out. Most of her family wasn't as lucky. They were mostly tortured to death.

I am furious we went in knowing we were only going to make things worse, kill and maim so many people, waist so many resources. I am furious zero effort is being made yet again to save people who risked everything to help us. Terrible things are going to happen and the second we invaded that became our fault the same way the terrible things we did there are all fault.

* "Only Congress member to vote against Afghanistan war in 2001 speaks out:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/only-congress-member-to-vote-against-afghanistan-war-in-2001-speaks-out-118830661619

* "Chaos is unfolding in Afghanistan. Here's what you need to know.:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/15/politics/taliban-kabul-afghanistan-explainer/index.html

* "Mapping the advance of the Taliban in Afghanistan:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57933979

* "‘Game over’: Westerners rush to leave Kabul, rescue Afghans:" https://apnews.com/article/business-kabul-3bf5dcb07bb97ab8851cadce9336574b

* "Afghanistan in chaos as thousands try to flee Kabul after Taliban takeover:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/08/16/chaos-afghanistan-thousands-flee-amid-taliban-takeover-kabul/8147024002/

* "Frantic exodus from Afghanistan ties U.S. in logistical knot at Kabul airport:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/frantic-exodus-from-afghanistan-ties-u-s-in-logistical-knot-at-kabul-airport-118920773749

* "Ousted Afghan President Ashraf Ghani resurfaces in UAE after fleeing Kabul, Emirati government says:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-is-in-uae-after-fleeing-afghanistan.html

* "'I stand squarely behind my decision': Biden holds firm on Afghanistan drawdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/16/joe-biden-afghanistan-drawdown-decision-505179

* "Full speech: President Biden addresses nation on Afghanistan:" https://www.nbcnews.com/video/full-speech-president-biden-addresses-nation-on-afghanistan-118814277554

* "What Biden lost in Afghanistan:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2021/08/16/what-biden-lost-in-afghanistan-493977

* "6 Political Takeaways For President Biden From The Chaotic Afghanistan Withdrawal:" https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028329119/biden-kabul-withdrawal-political-consequences

* "The awkward Trumpy truth about Afghanistan's likely new Taliban leader:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-awkward-trumpy-truth-about-afghanistan-s-likely-new-taliban-leader-mullah-baradar-118918725748

* "Afghan security forces’ wholesale collapse was years in the making:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/afghan-security-forces-capabilities/2021/08/15/052a45e2-fdc7-11eb-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html

* "Maddow: Vanishing Afghan army disproves premise of U.S. presence in Afghanistan:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-vanishing-afghan-army-disproves-premise-of-u-s-presence-in-afghanistan-118836293933

* "Billions spent on Afghan army ultimately benefited Taliban:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-army-taliban-995b069a9008690582cb34f4cacd8515

* "U.S. investment in Afghanistan bought infrastructure, corruption and a lot of weaponry:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-investment-in-afghanistan-bought-infrastructure-corruption-and-a-lot-of-weaponry-118836293710

* "Journalist asks on Afghanistan: What were we doing for the last two decades?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/afghanistan-under-taliban-u-s-withdrawal-of-troops-president-biden-s-address-analyzed-by-experts-118832197827

* "'Every second is a life or death': Marine encourages expediting Afghan evacuations:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-every-second-is-a-life-or-death-marine-encourages-expediting-afghan-evacuations-119009861577

* "Americans at home tap every resource to help colleagues escape Afghanistan exodus gridlock:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/americans-at-home-tap-every-resource-to-help-colleagues-escape-afghanistan-exodus-gridlock-119006789555

* "Statement to President Biden from The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2021/08/16/statement-president-biden-washington-post-new-york-times-wall-street-journal/

* "Afghan women journalists stalwart in face of Taliban takeover:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/afghan-women-journalists-stalwart-in-face-of-taliban-takeover-118919749714

* "CNN’s Ward says Kabul colleague nearly pistol-whipped:" https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/cnns-ward-says-kabul-colleague-nearly-pistol-whipped/

* "The Taliban’s Return Is Catastrophic for Women:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/08/the-talibans-return-is-awful-for-women-in-afghanistan/619765/

* "Taliban's terrifying treatment of LGBT+ people is no longer a horror of the past:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/18/taliban-afghanistan-lgbt-sharia-law/

* "The Dire Plight of LGBTQ+ Afghan Refugees:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/8/16/dire-plight-lgbtq-afghan-refugees

* "'Everything is gone' for LGBT+ Afghans, says bisexual man who escaped the Taliban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/19/taliban-afghanistan-lgbt-kabul/

"He is deeply worried for LGBT+ people in his home country, but he is also terrified for his atheist friends who he fears will face persecution from the Taliban. When he still lived in Afghanistan, Mehrshad used to meet with a group of fellow atheists once a week where they would discuss what books they were reading and talk about different ideologies. Because many of them were visible and vocal about their atheism, Mehrshad fears they could be at the top of the Taliban’s list for persecution."

* "How You Can Help LGBTQ+ Afghans in Crisis:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/8/17/how-you-can-help-lgbtq-afghans-crisis

* "As Taliban widens its grip, Afghans reckon with life under militant rule:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/13/afghanistan-taliban-rule/

* "Evacuations continue in Afghanistan – in pictures:" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/aug/17/the-fall-of-afghanistan-in-pictures

* "Afghan woman to Biden: ‘Please save the families’ :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/afghanistan-s-first-female-air-force-pilot-niloofar-rahmani-begs-biden-to-save-the-families-118829125656

* "Engel: Despite peaceful rhetoric, Taliban hasn't changed:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/engel-despite-peaceful-rhetoric-taliban-hasn-t-changed-118839877714

* "'There's no one to help. They're stuck there.': Afghan women look for escape from Taliban:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-there-s-no-one-to-help-they-re-stuck-there-afghan-women-look-for-escape-from-taliban-118840901912

* "Rep. Jason Crow: You just can't deal with the Taliban:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/afghanistan-deteriorating-rapidly-as-taliban-seizes-control-and-u-s-withdraws-analyzed-by-rep-jason-crow-nbc-s-richard-engel-118676037522

* "On the Ground in Kandahar as the Taliban Closed in:"

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* "The Taliban Was Never Going to Share Power:"

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* "Inside the Taliban's Takeover of Afghanistan:"

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* "David Corn: I’m not surprised to see Republicans using Afghanistan for political points:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-being-blamed-for-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-called-out-by-politics-experts-118833221792

* "Fox News, Stephen Miller fan anti-refugee flames amid Afghanistan crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-news-stephen-miller-fan-anti-refugee-flames-amid-afghanistan-crisis-says-mehdi-hasan-118912069559

* "Rep. Omar responds to radio host saying Biden wants ‘a couple hundred thousand more Ilhan Omars’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republicans-saying-they-do-not-want-afghan-refugees-to-come-to-u-s-slammed-by-rep-ilhan-omar-118913093985

* "Fearless advocate Tori Cooper is first Black trans woman appointed to presidential HIV council:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/16/tori-cooper-presidential-hiv-council/

* "DeJoy bought up to $305,000 in bonds from USPS board chair’s investment firm:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/13/dejoy-usps-bloom-bonds-brookfield/

* "Louis DeJoy finance entanglements with supportive USPS board member raise ethics questions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/louis-dejoy-finance-entanglements-with-supportive-usps-board-member-raise-ethics-questions-118682181957

* "House Moderates Say They Won’t Back Budget Vote Until Infrastructure Bill Passes:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/us/politics/house-democrats-budget-infrastructure.html

* "Pelosi seeks to advance bipartisan infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion budget plan at same time:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pelosi-infrastructure-bill-buget-resolution-house/

* "Biden Administration Prompts Largest Permanent Increase in Food Stamps:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/us/politics/biden-food-stamps.html

* I am frightened if we lose this time we lose for generations, the way it happened when Radical Reconstruction ended. We lose the right to vote, we lose everything.

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* "New intel reports indicate fresh efforts by Russia to interfere in 2022 election:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/politics/intel-report-russia-election-interference-2022/index.html

* "After Threats And Pressure, Fulton County Voter Registration Chief Resigns:" https://www.wabe.org/after-threats-and-pressure-fulton-county-voter-registration-chief-resigns/

* "FBI joins criminal probe in Colorado voting equipment breach:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-colorado-voting-hacking-1b6cf27c95b376edcf91bb53af4a4d40

* "Report Shows Big Spike in Mail Ballots During 2020 Election:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-08-16/report-shows-big-spike-in-mail-ballots-during-2020-election

* "She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.:" https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/29/1030260/facebook-whistleblower-sophie-zhang-global-political-manipulation/

* "Federal officials press GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert over apparent personal use of campaign funds:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/lauren-boebert-questioned-over-personal-use-of-campaign-funds.html

* "Rand Paul discloses 16 months late that his wife bought stock in company behind covid treatment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/11/rand-paul-gilead-stock/

* "Rand Paul reveals his wife bought stock in Covid treatment in February 2020:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rand-paul-reveals-his-wife-bought-stock-in-covid-treatment-in-february-2020-118671941792

* "Kevin McCarthy Hawks ‘Moron’ T-Shirts In Spectacular Self-Own:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-t-shirt_n_611611c4e4b07c14031367c6

* "Lindsey Graham Clicks Up His Heels at Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/8/16/lindsey-graham-clicks-his-heels-mar-lago

* "Trump not back in office Aug. 13 despite QAnon, MyPillow predictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-not-back-in-office-aug-13-despite-qanon-mypillow-predictions-118671429765

* "Former U.S. attorney in Atlanta says Trump wanted to fire him for not backing election fraud claims.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/us/politics/byung-pak-trump-atlanta-election-fraud.html

* "'Relevant and useful': Criminal probe of Trump keen on new Georgia coup plot reporting:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-relevant-and-useful-criminal-probe-of-trump-keen-on-new-georgia-coup-plot-reporting-118684741869

* "Former AG Holder on whether Trump should be ‘held accountable if found to have committed criminal acts’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-facing-prosecution-for-allegations-of-seeking-to-overturn-election-discussed-by-former-ag-eric-holder-118675525570

* "Trump pardon worthless to Kushner pal facing new state charges:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-pardon-worthless-to-kushner-pal-facing-new-state-charges-119009861883

* "Kushner friend Ken Kurson charged in N.Y. eavesdropping case after Trump pardon:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ken-kurson-kushner-friend-charged-trump-pardon/2021/08/18/d670ef70-ffac-11eb-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html

* "Rep. Hakeem Jeffries recounts Jan. 6 moment when the ‘jackets came off’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-hakeem-jeffries-recounts-jan-6-capitol-riot-moment-when-the-jackets-came-off-118909509862

* "Multiracial population grew in almost every county in the US. It doesn't mean racism is over:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/15/us/census-2020-multiracial-nation/index.html

* "NRA Must Be Dissolved After Failing to Clean Up Misconduct, New York Says:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-17/nra-failed-to-clean-up-misconduct-must-be-dissolved-n-y-says

* "More Cubans try dangerous trip to US across Florida Straits:" https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-joe-biden-travel-cuba-caribbean-cacce3184f5d48460967d89536042670

* "Senators Press State Department on Support for LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/8/06/senators-press-state-department-support-lgbtq-asylum-seekers

* "‘Warrior mindset’ police training proliferated. Then, high-profile deaths put it under scrutiny.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/11/police-training-warrior-mindset-killology/

* "Phoenix police officers passed around a coin to celebrate shooting anti-Trump protesters in the groin. The police chief got a 'written reprimand' for it.:" https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/phoenix-police-officers-passed-around-131704848.html

* "Is This Man Serving a Life Sentence Because of a Mistaken Identity?:" https://www.gq.com/story/thomas-james-tragic-murder-case

* "Stopping Violence Over Prison Phone Time? There’s an App for That.:" https://mailchi.mp/themarshallproject/cbpj1etnns

* "Prisons Are Increasingly Banning Physical Mail:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/08/prisons-banning-physical-mail.html

* "Hate crime charges for man who allegedly launched racist, homophobic attack on Asian family:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/12/gay-asian-washington-dc-homophobia/

* "Pride flags banned at school. So, a neighbour decided to pick up their paintbrush:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/13/pride-flags-blm-newberg-oregon/

"School board director and vice chair Brian Shannon, who believes Pride flags are “divisive”, even suggested that the board look at drafting “replacement language” for the districts anti-racism policy and repealing the Oregon Department of Education’s Every Student Belongs policy, which bans hate symbols including swastikas and the Confederate flag."

* "The Unmaking of Biblical Womanhood:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/the-unmaking-of-biblical-womanhood

* "Buck Angel: When Trans Folks Weaponize Transphobia For Themselves:"

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* "Bigot banned from store for putting 'gay pervert' signs up loses 'vexatious' discrimination case:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/13/evangelical-discrimination-case/

* "Bi Olympic hero Jack Woolley battered by gang of 12:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/15/jack-woolley-attack-dublin/

* "Couple beaten with glass bottles in brutal homophobic attack in Birmingham's Gay Village:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/16/birmingham-gay-village-homophobic-attack/

* "Two teenage girls beaten and robbed in ‘unprovoked homophobic hate crime’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/15/homophobic-attack-hertfordshire/

* "Children beaten and spat on by gang of youths spouting homophobic and transphobic hate:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/17/children-homophobic-attack-liverpool/

* "Liverpool to ‘reclaim Pride’ after spate of violence with defiant, anti-capitalist protest:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/12/liverpool-reclaim-pride-lgbt/

* "Man on jet ski hurls foul homophobic abuse at beachgoers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/12/jet-ski-homophobic-mudeford/

* "Black Trans Woman Miss CoCo Killed in Dallas:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/8/13/black-trans-woman-miss-coco-killed-dallas

* "Arkansas Man Gets 50-Year Sentence in Death of Trans Teen:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/8/16/arkansas-man-gets-50-year-sentence-death-trans-teen

* "Catholic school can legally fire teacher for being in same-sex marriage, court rules:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/12/catholic-roncalli-lynn-starkey/

* "Human Trials to Begin for Moderna's HIV Vaccine:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2021/8/17/human-trials-begin-modernas-hiv-vaccine

* "Gilead: Two of Our HIV Drugs Were Tampered With:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/8/12/gilead-two-our-hiv-drugs-were-tampered

* CW: Eating Disorders. "‘We are all suffering in silence’ — Inside the US military’s pervasive culture of eating disorders:" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-eating-disorders/

* "Deaf Children in Developing Countries Are Getting Inferior Cochlear Implants:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deaf-children-in-developing-countries-are-getting-inferior-cochlear-implants/

* "A Surprising Side Effect of Giving Birth:" https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/07/link-between-giving-birth-and-getting-cavities/619576/

* "‘He Thought What He Was Doing Was Good for People’:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/08/health-care-sherman-sorensen-pfo-closures/619649/

* "Haiti quake death toll rises to 1,419, injured now at 6,000:" https://apnews.com/article/health-caribbean-coronavirus-pandemic-united-nations-haiti-a625e4406ffa26e43d8b42cb71c9ba7f

* "Death toll from Haiti’s weekend earthquake raised to 1,941:" https://www.live5news.com/2021/08/16/quake-injured-wait-help-new-disaster-overwhelms-haiti/

* "Desperation, pressure for aid increase in Haiti after quake:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-caribbean-coronavirus-pandemic-haiti-7901eacc8e6901885d6e6cd0b115bb40

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The World is basically on Fire/Melting. I'm putting stuff to do with it here.

* "Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN report:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/12/greenhouse-gas-emissions-must-peak-within-4-years-says-leaked-un-report

* "Droughts shrink hydropower, pose risk to global push to clean energy:" https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/inconvenient-truth-droughts-shrink-hydropower-pose-risk-global-push-clean-energy-2021-08-13/

* "Flooding in China kills 21, as thousands escape to shelters.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/world/asia/china-flooding-evacuations.html

* "Flash Floods in Turkey Kill 59, and Dozens Are Still Missing:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/world/europe/turkey-floods.html

* "North Africa Fires Spread to Libya and Tunisia:" https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/north-africa-fires-spread-libya-and-tunisia

* CW: Lynching "Algeria: 61 arrested after mob kills man falsely accused of starting deadly fires:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/18/algeria-61-arrested-after-mob-kills-man-falsely-accused-of-starting-deadly-fires

* "Morocco Deploys Canadair Water Bombers to Manage Chefchaouen Fires:" https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/08/343913/morocco-deploys-canadair-water-bombers-to-manage-chefchaouen-fires

* "Wildfire in Jerusalem hills sends smoke clouds over city:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/wildfire-blazes-jerusalem-hills-2021-08-15/

* "Greece wildfires: Winds fan 2 new blazes outside of Athens:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-middle-east-fires-environment-and-nature-greece-c20f44f43e116b7afbbca28fed802348

* "Hundreds are evacuated as tinderbox Spain tackles wildfires:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hundreds-evacuated-tinderbox-spain-tackles-wildfires-79467665

* "‘All that’s left are ashes’: Italian communities count cost of wildfires:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/13/all-thats-left-are-ashes-italian-communities-count-cost-of-wildfires

* "105 forest fires burning in northwestern Ontario on Sunday morning:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/forest-fire-update-1.6141726

* "Kananaskis, Canmore have worst air quality in Canada after wildfires:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/air-quality-wildfire-canmore-kananaskis-1.6142459

* "Crews battle Western wildfires that have caused thousands of evacuations:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/16/weather/us-western-wildfires-monday/index.html

* "Thousands Evacuate as Wildfires Ravage Utah and Northern California:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/us/utah-california-wildfire-evacuations.html

* "Northern California wildfire triples in size, forcing thousands to evacuate:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/18/weather/us-western-wildfires-wednesday/index.html

* "California Drought Takes Toll on World's Top Almond Producer:" https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-08-17/california-drought-takes-toll-on-worlds-top-almond-producer

* "He Wrote a Gardening Column. He Ended Up Documenting Climate Change.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/magazine/gardening-column-climate-change.html

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* "Why Are Farmers in Senegal Creating Gardens That Look Like Crop Circles?:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tolou-keur-circle-garden-senegal

* "Shift away from earthen homes ‘environmentally damaging’:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210809144043.htm

* "40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River, and Now It's Drying Up:"

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* "First-ever water shortage on the Colorado River will bring cuts for Arizona farmers:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2021/08/16/colorado-river-shortage-bring-water-cuts-arizona-farmers/8150901002/

* "How Your Cup of Coffee Is Clearing the Jungle:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/magazine/indonesia-rainforest-coffee.html

* "Meet the 'seed detective' on a mission to save our rarest vegetables:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/03/europe/seed-detective-heritage-seed-library-spc-intl/index.html

* "The Ingenious Ancient Technology Concealed in the Shallows:" https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-ingenious-ancient-technology-concealed-in-the-shallows/

* On so called 'Smart Cities:' https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/659441941482733569/smart-cities-are-neither-2021-edition

* "Studland Bay 'eco-moorings' set up to protect seahorses:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-57999730

* "What Animals See in the Stars, and What They Stand to Lose:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/science/animals-starlight-navigation-dacke.html

* "There and back again: The epic adventures of China's wandering elephants:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58196663

* "How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01681-w

* "This 3,700-Year-Old Tablet Shows The Oldest Known Example of Applied Geometry:" https://www.sciencealert.com/this-3-700-year-old-tablet-shows-the-oldest-known-example-of-applied-geometry

* "For Centuries, England's Go-To Apple Utensil Was a Sheep Bone:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/antique-apple-scoops

* CW: Suicide Mentions. "The Poisonous Romance of Madeleine Smith:"

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* "A Toolbox in Your Pocket: The History of the Swiss Army Knife:"

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* CW: Child Murder "Leopold and Loeb: The "Genius" Killers:"

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* CW: Suicide Mention. "The Lead Masks of Vintém Hill:"

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* "Black Nite Brawl: 60 Year Anniversary of Pre-Stonewall Bar Uprising:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/8/05/milwaukee-marks-60th-anniversary-pre-stonewall-bar-uprising

* CW: Pedophilia, Child Death. "Cropsey: The Boogeyman of Staten Island:"

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* "Dr Death: Modern History's Worst Serial Killer:"

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* "Robert Pickton: The Pig Farmer Killer:"

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* "Nagasaki marks 76th anniversary of atomic bombing:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-bombings-63b48fdaf8e219c62663d48c138b6a3d

* "Mark Twitchell: The Dexter Killer (Part 1):"

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* "What Should You Do With a Captured Nazi Flag?:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/captured-nazi-flags

* "How Blind Activists Fought for Blind Workers:" https://daily.jstor.org/how-blind-activists-fought-for-blind-workers/

* "She was the only member of Congress to vote against war in Afghanistan. Some called her a traitor.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/08/17/barbara-lee-afghanistan-vote/

* "Breivik survivors keep fighting for their vision of Norway:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-norway-34f288881c5f26364d38f651a928649e

* "Mary Cunningham Simpson, the UK’s forgotten lesbian pioneer, tragically dies aged 74:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/19/mary-cunningham-simpson-lesbian-death/

* "'River Dave' Doesn't Think He Can Go Back to Being a Hermit:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-hampshire/articles/2021-08-11/river-dave-doesnt-think-he-can-go-back-to-being-a-hermit

* "When Pets Need Lawyers:"

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* "Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Andrew Cuomo, Don't Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out:"

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* Can we bring nuance back? "Fandom's Biggest Controversy: The Story of Proshippers vs Antis:"

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* "Therapist Reacts to KNIVES OUT:"

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* "The Conjuring: A Proper Movie Trilogy:"

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* "Marlon Brando Stars As "The Covid One":"

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* "The Vaccine Conspiracy Train Makes Stops At Ivermectin, Chimpanzees, And "I Am Legend":"

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* "All The Nudes That's Fit To Print - The New York Times Has A New Motto:"

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* "Therapist Reacts to A QUIET PLACE:"

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* "Can I Pee Here?:"

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* Saturday some friends drove up to visit. It was excellent, but looking at the PNW COVID numbers, I'm going to have to go back to stricter protocols, I think.

As of Monday, I've been threeish weeks without a properly working nebulizer motor. With the air quality as bad as it was last week, I should be doing three doses a day. My normal amount is two. I can just coax oneish dose out in two partial doses a day. I feel like shit, frankly. I'm pretty sure the air filtering is the only way I function at all.

* I got my flu shot today. It was a bit of an odyssey as they made me wait more than half an hour before realizing that even though I get it there every year they randomly no longer take Medicare advantage. Sigh. At least they were kind enough to tell me which pharmacy chain still takes it.

Why didn't I go to my Doctor? Pharmacies get it a month earlier than poverty clinic and I try to go as early in season as I can manage so that I don't turn out to be too sick to get it at appointment time.

Both pharmacies had covid vaccine patients ahead of me. I was the only flu shot that day at either place and it was already evening. Yay, people getting covid shots! Seriously, if you haven't got yours go! Go right away! If you already have been vaccinated? Please go get your flu shot. I know it's likely not a serious risk to you unless you are about my levelish of sick or worse, but it is way nicer not getting flu at all, and it is a risk to people around you. Save your grandmother. Save the cashier with underlying health condition. Save the kid with cancer living on your block. The mild inconvenience of a flu shot is nothing compared to actual flu.

Please, I beg you every year, but CDC is really worried about how flu season is going to go this year given the givens.

* "Sunday Sweets: Grandma's Kitchen Counter :" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/8/15/sunday-sweets-grandmas-kitchen-counter

* "What Are Your Preconceptions of Disability and Sexuality?:" https://www.advocate.com/photography/2021/8/12/what-are-your-preconceptions-disability-and-sexuality#media-gallery-media-8

* "Just Enough Rain:" http://giganotosaurus.org/2021/05/01/just-enough-rain/?fbclid=IwAR2LTT7udjMOKc5k_0J1i5efsOiwo4hG17f-0THXGZvCmbGaCIycCdbTo_E

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

- 3.1: Spock's Brain.

*facepalm* This one is infamous. A mysterious ship shows up. A woman beams aboard. Everyone is knocked out. She takes Spock to sick bay and steals his brain. Somehow they get him on life support. They have to get his brain back before his body dies. Uhura asks the important question: why do they want Spock's brain.

Anyway, they follow the ion trail back to the planet where they think they took the brain. Some barbarians, who definitely were not the sort to have higher tech than the federation, attack. They stun one to question. The Barbarian thinks they are small, "Like the the Others, the givers of pain and delight." The Barbarians are all men; the others are women with some male barbarian servants. The Barbarian doesn't want to go to the buried city where the Others are and runs away.

The Landing Party finds a cave of supplies that may be a trap. Kirk sends for Spock and Bones. The brain nappers are confused, with minds like children. They contact Spock on the communicators. The Women capture them and question them. One is the brain abductor, but she doesn't remember at all. They serve the Controller. Bones explains brains to the women. Kirk works out that Spock's brain is the Controller.

The women give the Landing Party a long pain zap and go to work out what to do. They say a lot of sexist things, particularly Scotty. The Landing Party beats up the guards and escape. They explain to Spock he's a disembodied brain. Spock points out Bones doesn't have the technological knowledge to put his brain back in. Spock tells them how to get the pain bands off.

They find the Brain chamber. Head woman zaps them. Kirk uses his remote control to get Spock's body to release them. The Woman says if they take Spock's brain they will all die. It clearly runs their city. They find out their is a taped archive of the knowledge of the city builders they can access through "The Teacher" which is how the woman stole the brain in the first place.

They force the woman into the machine. She threatens them with the phasor, now she's bright. They steal the phasor back. The Teacher only gives three hours of knowledge. She refuses to put the brain back. Bones wants to try despite the brain damage risk. Bones hopes he can retain the knowledge. (Side note: The teacher looks like a crown to match the Iron Throne.)

Bones starts putting the brain back. The women is distressed by the coming civilization collapse. Kirk basically tells her she can trade sex for food and warmth. Eeew. Bones starts to forget how to do the operation. They connect Spock's vocal cords so he can help, instead of putting him under again for some reason. Spock talks him through it. Apparently the split happened during a glacial age. Bones is a jerk about the exposition.

This whole episode.... Sigh.

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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.

* "How You Can Help LGBTQ+ Afghans in Crisis:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/8/17/how-you-can-help-lgbtq-afghans-crisis

* Hey! Want to propose Washington State geographical features to be renamed? "Committee on Geographic Names:" https://www.dnr.wa.gov/about/boards-and-councils/board-natural-resources/committee-geographic-names

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* "Myanmar's military disappearing young men to crush uprising:" https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-myanmar-technology-e5c0036949f7e7fb8ce1da5884f250a4

* "Three Months After Coup, Myanmar Returns to the ‘Bad Old Days’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/world/asia/myanmar-terror-military-coup.html

* "The Unbelievable Story of Europe’s Runaway Nazi:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8ekk/runaway-nazi-golden-dawn-christos-pappas-greece

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* "‘We’ve cried ourselves dry’: COVID overwhelms Manila hospitals:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/19/for-kate-patients-die-as-covid-overwhelms-philippine-hospitals

* "Vaccinating the Amazon:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-56949409

* "In this Indian state, one in every two people tested is positive for Covid:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/india/india-covid-goa-positivity-intl-hnk/index.html

* How to help India: https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

* "How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-covid-how-to-help.html

* "As COVID-19 rages in India, scientist warns further waves ‘inevitable’:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-posts-record-daily-rise-coronavirus-deaths-2021-05-05/

* "Why India's Covid surge matters to the entire world:" https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/why-india-s-covid-surge-matters-to-the-entire-world-111419973930

* "US backs waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines:" https://apnews.com/article/intellectual-property-coronavirus-pandemic-business-global-trade-health-c2f1ba1e6e150dc6c081b8eb6fe4f1e5

* "'Lives over profits': Biden backs Covid vaccine patent waiver; flexes U.S. leadership:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-lives-over-profits-biden-backs-covid-vaccine-patent-waiver-flexes-u-s-leadership-111423045507

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* "‘It’s who we are as a country’: Sen. Brown on push to vaccinate rest of world:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-it-s-who-we-are-as-a-country-sen-brown-on-push-to-vaccinate-rest-of-world-111473221950

* "Sen. Elizabeth Warren: ‘You want people to go to work? Then, invest in childcare’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/sen-elizabeth-warren-you-want-people-to-go-to-work-then-invest-in-childcare-111411269695

* Well, Fuck. "Federal judge rules national eviction moratorium exceeds the CDC's authority:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/federal-judge-rules-national-eviction-moratorium-exceeds-cdc-s-authority-n1266399

* "Signaling to base not to trust elections is key to GOP voter suppression strategy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/signaling-to-base-not-to-trust-elections-is-key-to-gop-voter-suppression-strategy-111480901742

* "Maddow: Republicans running against democracy not Democrats:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-republicans-running-against-democracy-not-democrats-111478853832

* "Joy Reid: Being a Republican today means parroting the ‘Big Lie’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-being-a-republican-today-means-parroting-the-big-lie-111345733920

* "Joy Reid: The Republican party is ‘in moral crisis’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-the-republican-party-is-in-moral-crisis-111408197886

* "‘Soulless’: Rep. Gallego on why he’s no longer friends with this congresswoman:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-soulless-rep-gallego-on-why-he-s-no-longer-friends-with-this-congresswoman-111473221634

* "Joy Reid on GOP’s push to oust Liz Cheney: ‘This is what total surrender to Trump looks like’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-on-gop-s-push-to-oust-liz-cheney-this-is-what-total-surrender-to-trump-looks-like-111469125576

* "Florida governor signs new restrictive bill in ‘blatant attack on right to vote’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/06/florida-restrictive-voting-bill-governor-ron-desantis

* "Gov. DeSantis signs Florida restrictive voting law while shutting out all media but Fox News:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gov-desantis-signs-florida-restrictive-voting-law-while-shutting-out-all-media-but-fox-news-111469637852

* "Texas lawmakers race against the clock to push through new voting restrictions:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/06/texas-voting-restrictions-access-lawmakers

* "Beto O’Rourke on new voting restrictions: Texas is ‘already the hardest in the country to vote’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/beto-o-rourke-on-new-voting-restrictions-texas-is-already-the-hardest-in-the-country-to-vote-111347269966

* "Major corporations come out against proposed voting restrictions in Texas:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/04/texas-voting-restrictions/

* "Arizona Is Holding Yet Another Trump 2020 Recount—and It Gets Worse:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/arizona-recount-cyber-ninjas-doug-logan-explained.html

* "Extending Arizona ballot recount past May 14 is 'not feasible', state fair official says:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2021/05/05/arizona-audit-fair-official-says-extending-recount-not-feasible/4960234001/

* How is this legal? "Maricopa County Senate audit observers forced to sign non-disclosure agreements:" https://www.abc15.com/news/state/maricopa-county-senate-audit-observers-forced-to-sign-non-disclosure-agreements

* "Arizona’s Republican-Run Election Audit Is Now Looking for Bamboo-Laced “China Ballots”:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/arizona-republican-audit-bamboo-ballots-china.html

* "Built on nonsense, Trump makes election fantasy the core of Republican doctrine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/built-on-nonsense-trump-makes-election-fantasy-the-core-of-republican-doctrine-111479877533

* "‘Bring in the pandas’: Election ‘audit’ continues to bamboo-zle onlookers:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-bring-in-the-pandas-election-audit-continues-to-bamboo-zle-onlookers-111473221815

* "‘A sham’: Arizona State Rep says GOP audit ‘destroying democracy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-a-sham-arizona-state-rep-says-gop-audit-destroying-democracy-111469125910

* "Virginia Republican Politician Sues Over Being Called 'Gay Democrat':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/5/05/virginia-republican-politician-sues-over-being-called-gay-democrat

* "Chris Hayes: How Republicans trade dignity to stay in Party of Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-republicans-trade-dignity-to-stay-in-party-of-trump-111413317672

* "Donald Trump's Facebook ban upheld – but he could be reinstated in months:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/donald-trump-facebook-ban-oversight-board-ruling/

* "Donald Trump launches 'communications platform' and it's basically a Tumblr blog:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/donald-trump-communications-platform-blog-social-media/

* "Judge orders release of DOJ memo justifying not prosecuting Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/04/trump-obstruction-justice-doj-485360

* "Rep. Val Demings on Barr letting Trump off the hook: If it was you or me, we’d be prosecuted:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-val-demings-on-barr-letting-trump-off-the-hook-if-it-was-you-or-me-we-d-be-prosecuted-111412293531

* "Supreme loser Donald Trump tried to sneak back onto Twitter – and failed miserably:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/07/donald-trump-twitter-ban-suspended-djtdesk-capitol-riots/

* "ICE deportations fell in April to lowest monthly level on record, enforcement data shows:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/biden-ice-deportations-record-low/2021/05/05/522ee35c-adb8-11eb-8109-f8ba1ea2eeab_story.html

* "Number of unaccompanied migrants drops—along with border media coverage:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/number-of-unaccompanied-migrants-drops-along-with-border-media-coverage-111412805873

* "DHS head on immigration: ‘We inherited a system that was entirely dismantled’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dhs-head-on-immigration-we-inherited-a-system-that-was-entirely-dismantled-111414853701

* "Prosecutors seek tougher sentence for Derek Chauvin in George Floyd's death:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/prosecutors-seek-tougher-sentence-for-derek-chauvin-in-george-floyd-s-death-111281733773

* "Derek Chauvin files motion for new trial in George Floyd case, alleging jury misconduct:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/derek-chauvin-files-motion-for-new-trial-in-george-floyd-case-alleging-jury-misconduct-111349317836

* "Firing of Atlanta officer who shot Rayshard Brooks reversed:" https://apnews.com/article/rayshard-brooks-shooting-664fefd79db05fdb3bfed1873bab04b5

* "One High School, Five Students Fatally Shot:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/us/knoxville-anthony-thompson.html

* More "frothy residue" from the mouth of Rick Santorum. "Don Lemon eviscerates Rick Santorum over non-apology for Native American comments:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/don-lemon-rick-santorum-chris-cuomo-cnn-tonight-native-americans/

* "‘Making America worse’: Joy Reid's mini-biography on Tucker Carlson's many failures:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-making-america-worse-joy-reid-s-mini-biography-on-tucker-carlson-s-many-failures-111282757981

* They voted to censor US History. "TN Legislature passes bill that would ban schools from teaching Critical Race Theory:" https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2021/05/05/debate-about-teaching-critical-race-theory-tn-classrooms-moves-conference-committee/

* "'Whitewashing history': State GOP reps seek to ban lessons on systemic racism:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-whitewashing-history-tennessee-gop-wants-to-ban-lessons-on-systemic-racism-111350853629

* "The GOP's culture war: 1619 Project and Transgender rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/the-gop-s-culture-war-1619-project-and-transgender-rights-111354437582

* "LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Index: 150 Countries Ranked Worst to Best:"https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2021/5/05/lgbtq-travel-safety-index-150-countries-ranked-worst-best

* "Elderly Christian kisses feet of Polish LGBT+ protestor in extraordinary video:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/poland-radio-maryja-lgbt-protest-christian-woman-kiss-feet-activist/

* "Lesbian stabbed to death as wave of homophobia washes over South Africa:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/south-africa-phelokazi-ndlwana-lesbian-stabbed-murder-hate-crime/

* "Judge throws out LGB Alliance founder's fight to ban trans women from women's spaces:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/06/lgb-alliance-ann-sinnott-judicial-review-fails-london-high-court-equality-act/

* "Tennessee Will Excuse Students From Lessons With LGBTQ+ Content:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/5/04/tennessee-will-excuse-students-lessons-lgbtq-content

* This one is Louisiana. "Cruel ban on trans athletes thwarted by single vote. Another bill is right behind it:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/louisiana-lawmakers-ban-trans-sport-one-vote-hb542/

* "Pointlessly cruel anti-trans sports bill fails to reach the finish line in Texas:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/texas-anti-trans-athletes-sports-ban-bill-sb29-senate/

* "Three More Trans or Gender-Nonconforming Americans Killed in U.S.:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/5/04/three-more-trans-or-gender-nonconforming-americans-killed-us

* "'Precious' Black LGBT+ teen found dead after being 'beaten by racist, violent' thugs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/06/mikayla-miller-death-racism-hopkinton-massachusetts-lgbt-police-investigation/

"One police official even “warned” her “not to go to the media” or else they would out her late daughter."

* "Weight Lifter Laurel Hubbard Likely to Be First Out Trans Olympian:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/5/06/weight-lifter-laurel-hubbard-likely-be-first-trans-olympian

* "America's new normal: A degree hotter than two decades ago:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-science-environment-and-nature-414a77846631e50d3c528204b8beb3d9

* "Then and now: Restoring coral reefs in Indonesia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-56985594

* "At Clemson, unmarked slave graves highlight plantation past:" https://apnews.com/article/clemson-unmarked-slave-graves-plantation-past-e893ad1edc60d51706e0dc6f6ff8240d

* "'Beautiful' actor remembered by husband after losing battle with COVID-19:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/paulo-gustavo-dead-covid-19-brazil-queer-comedian/

* "TRICK-OR-TRAUMA: The Complex Ethics of The Haunted House Industry:" https://www.shopkalma.com/post/trick-or-trauma-the-complicated-ethics-of-the-haunted-house-industry

* "Stranded giraffes in raft rescue:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-55238533

* "Bonding s1 + Bondage Gear | Kat Blaque:"

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* "Hasn't Star Trek Always Had Transgender Characters?:"

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* "2021 Oscars, Gender Reveal Blast & Rioter Caught via Bumble:" https://www.cc.com/video/lid9b9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-2021-oscars-gender-reveal-blast-rioter-caught-via-bumble

* "Keeping Up with Coronavirus - India's in a Bad Place & More:" https://www.cc.com/video/658k7o/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-keeping-up-with-coronavirus-india-s-in-a-bad-place-more

* I remember how Exciting Roxanne's Revenge and Ladies First were the first time I heard them. "Dul-Sayin' - Pioneering Women Rappers:" https://www.cc.com/video/sl86fc/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-dul-sayin-pioneering-women-rappers

* "State of Black S**t 2021:" https://www.cc.com/video/rjgo17/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-state-of-black-s-t-2021

* "Vaccine Incentives Get Creative:" https://www.cc.com/video/hvzjk1/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-vaccine-incentives-get-creative

* My glasses broke back in April. I tried gluing them together, but it wouldn’t hold and they were giving me a headache from the wobbles, so i reverted to the previous, non-bifocal pair, which was annoying, but the top prescription was very close, so I could do things like drive and watch TV, which matters. It took a few weeks for an optometrist opening.

I didn't get to bed until noon and the Millennial came sat three, so I am a mess, but today was super productive.

OMG, though, they dramatically improved vision coverage since last time! They more than doubled the frame allowance, so instead of crappy ones that break in a year that must be constantly repaired, we can get really nice sturdy ones and they added a bunch of discounts for things that were wholly out of pocket like bifocals. I couldn't do progressive lenses as they more than doubled total cost, but I got everything else for less than I paid last time for bare minimum I could get away with. (I need bifocals like whoa, and they do not make my prescription without doing the ultra light style, so that was always out of pocket and I usually buy scratch resistance because at my level of clumsy it’s counter productive not too.)

They had a trainee so two very excited ladies helped me pick frames. (They liked my polish and wanted to talk me into these kicky very Zoomer ones, but I'm like orange is no good. here's why, and I put my hand next to the frames and they visibly winces at what it did to my completion. we are getting black with lapis blue pointings. These may be the cutest glasses I've ever owned. (I had contacts all through my teens to whenever in my thirties I stopped being able to afford them).

Apparently, my eyes no longer align right and are just sort of doing their own thing, so add “prism” to astigmatism. Sigh.

I am used to glasses being 2-3 weeks to a month at the outside to replace as they have to special order materials because fucked up eyes. They were all apologetic about it being two.

I am really excited for these glasses. When i first started getting Medicaid glasses they had six ugly styles in cheap frames that broke about a year in. Medicare advantage eventually switched from government produce frames to a very low frame allowance that was usually the eight cheapest frames in the store which also broke a year in and my optometrist while in network for exams was out of network for frames so it was a whole other drama going to the one store in town that was in network. apparently they are back in network again, so I could just get them there which was also a massive help.

So in two weeks I’ll be able to read ingredient lists on boxes again without taking off my glasses and holding them right up to my face.

Both Caregiver Millennial and I were wiped so I’m like want to go home after errands? And he’s like “I’ll do dishes after putting away groceries,” so he went home. I’ll be going to bed super early once I’m done some necessary things.

The poor thing asked me a small question about the British monarchy and made a comment about bathing culture that lend to me giving the poor guy a wide ranging lecture on English parliamentary development, the constitutional monarchy, and medieval-early modern western European comparative attitudes around sex work and bathing....

I am a monster, but I ramble when I’m tired. Or you ask history questions. Or encourage me to roast the house of Hanover/Windsor

* My plan for the stimulus went all to hell. I had intended to blow 2-3 hunfdred on things like food and gardening stuff and things needed around the house, plus a special treat for me. The rest I was going to use to get ahead on bills and hopefully save for either air conditioning in the common area or the next emergency.

Ha!

Rupert Laptop died and needed replacing, poor fellow. (This was one of the emergencies I was expecting and Aidan laptop is so much brighter and faster than poor Rupert who tried his best. It was going to happen eventually, and best it happen when i was in funds). The car needed repairs. (The car is ancient and this was one of the three big emergencies I was imagining). I rather desperately needed more bedding, as the padded liner gave up the ghost and I was on emergency back up bedding that interfered with sleep. I may have gone a little berserk with garden things. One thing after another happened. Things broke or ran out or.... The glasses were also on my list of expected emergencies. Let's hope the TV (second hand and likely even older than my car) survives, as the glasses ate the last of the cushion from the stimulus.

* I really appreciate that Debris made me hate the alternate timelines almost as much as the protagonists do.

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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.

* How to help India: https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

* "How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-covid-how-to-help.html

* Mutual Aid Link Round Up: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/645696532415447040/popss-great-big-mutual-aid-masterpost

* Want to help the Asian Community?
https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-to-help-asian-communities-2021.html
https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate
https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org/

* What to help save bats, and essential part of our ecosystem? "Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation:" https://www.merlintuttle.org/

* My oldest continuous Real Life friend is doing this project. "Bed, Bath, & Behemoth: An Epic D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/bed-bath-and-behemoth-an-epic-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR2pA1NFVGG7aZyrLDC5h9Q0a_g7yMh_rY5rWxrnpZ3sJRSe6yO8gAAEq4M

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* "Widespread COVID-19 vaccinations not expected until mid-2021, WHO says:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-briefing/widespread-covid-vaccinations-not-expected-until-mid-2021-who-says-idUSKBN25V1B0

* "A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged:" https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63

* "No, 94 Percent of COVID-19 Deaths Were Not Caused by Something Else:" https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/94-percent-covid19-deaths-not-caused-by-something-else.html

* "COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven't Had Any Symptoms:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-can-wreck-your-heart-even-if-you-havent-had-any-symptoms/

* "Israel announces partial national lockdown after coronavirus surge:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-announces-partial-national-lockdown-after-coronavirus-surge-idUSKBN25U2T1

* "Cuba imposes Havana lockdown as coronavirus spreads:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/cuba-imposes-havana-lockdown-coronavirus-spreads-200901194133796.html

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 9/4/20 are 6,174,000. The death toll is 187,200. The real number is likely much higher.

* "Coronavirus in Illinois updates: 5,368 new known COVID-19 cases reported as state catches up following significant slowdown in data processing; Lake County now on warning list:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-pandemic-chicago-illinois-news-20200903-dzsplixxhfhjlmhpzi6j5ybymi-story.html

* Can we stop reopening schools now? "Despite Mass Testing, University Of Illinois Sees Coronavirus Cases Rise:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/03/909137658/university-with-model-testing-regime-doubles-down-on-discipline-amid-case-spike

* "Missouri universities grappling with coronavirus spread:" https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/missouri-universities-grappling-with-coronavirus-spread/article_8827d84d-280e-59cc-aa8e-559c359dfba2.html

* "Video shows South Carolina college students crowding bar as COVID-19 cases spike:" https://thehill.com/homenews/news/515209-video-shows-south-carolina-college-students-crowding-bar-as-covid-19-cases

* "University of Iowa coronavirus cases among highest on U.S. campuses UI sees evidence surge has 'started to plateau':" https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/iowa-university-coronavirus-students-tests-positive-cases-20200904

* "Different coronavirus landscape increases risk of post-Labor Day weekend spike:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/different-coronavirus-landscape-increases-risk-of-post-labor-day-weekend-spike-91167813758

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* "Multiple news outlets mirror report of Trump denigrating veterans, military service:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/multiple-news-outlets-mirror-report-of-trump-denigrating-veterans-91166789918

* "'It fits': Reports of Trump disparaging veterans resonates with what we know about him:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/reports-of-trump-disparaging-veterans-resonates-with-what-we-know-91167301940

* "Gold Star Mom: Trump 'doesn't seem to have a concept of service':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gold-star-mom-trump-doesn-t-seem-to-have-a-concept-of-service-91166277850

* "Trump disdain for military service threatens morale of those serving:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-disdain-for-military-service-threatens-morale-of-those-serving-91165765942

* "This Former Log Cabin Republican Is on a Mission to Stop Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/9/03/former-log-cabin-republican-mission-stop-trump

* "Anti-Trans Ads Against Biden Incite Fury:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/9/03/anti-trans-ads-against-biden-incite-fury

* "Gay son gives his Trump-supporting mum a much-needed wake-up call in eye-opening new campaign ad:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/25/donald-trump-lgbt-gay-glaad-campaign-ad-fox-news-presidential-election/

* "Trump spins rumors about his own health into new attack on Biden:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/03/trump-attacks-bidens-health-rally-408592

* "Trump Campaign Running Photo Ads Edited To Make Joe Biden Appear Older:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-older-facebook-ads_n_5f515dcfc5b6946f3eaf3fbe?vf&_guc_consent_skip=1599190225

* "What video analysis of the Aug. 29 Portland shooting tells us:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/09/04/portland-protest-shooting-video/

* "The Few, the Proud, the White: The Marine Corps Balks at Promoting Generals of Color:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/us/politics/marines-race-general.html

* "White House Orders End Of 'Un-American' Racial Sensitivity Training At Federal Agencies:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/racial-sensitivity-training-un-american_n_5f52e600c5b6578026ce23f1

* "Death of the Author 2: Rowling Boogaloo:"

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* "Shamelessly transphobic Polish minister urged to resign after lying about schools ‘stuffing’ kids with hormones:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/09/03/poland-mikolaj-pawlak-hormones-schools-transgender-pills-fact-checked/

* "Bishop who called for gay conversion camps claims church doesn't wants to force queer people into harmful 'therapy':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/09/03/polish-bishop-now-claims-misconception-church-force-lgbt-people-into-conversion-therapy/

* "Indonesian Police Arrest Nine in Raid on 'Gay Party':" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/9/03/indonesian-police-arrest-nine-raid-gay-party

* "You're Not Useless:"

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* "Burning Out:" https://longreads.com/2019/11/15/burning-out/

* "Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/black-paint-on-wind-turbines-helps-prevent-bird-massacres/

* "Once seen as loners, male elephants shown to follow elders:" https://apnews.com/ec1b2fcee31d80de93819897d2fe7441

* "Girl Talk with the Dead!:"

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* "Caged Congolese teen: Why a zoo took 114 years to apologise:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53917733

* "How Four Brothers Allegedly Fleeced $19 Million From Amazon:" https://www.wired.com/story/how-four-brothers-allegedly-fleeced-19-million-amazon/

* "R.I.P. David Graeber:" https://www.ianwelsh.net/r-i-p-david-graeber/

* "Amezaiku: The Nearly Lost Japanese Art of Candy Sculpture:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/628146/amezaiku-japanese-candy-sculpture

* "Mel Brooks, The Producers and the Ethics of Satire about N@zis:"

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* I was getting better. I swear I was. I started the second z-pac Thursday because while clearing, my lungs weren't clear. I also kind of felt crap Thursday evening, but in the expected ways given the war inside my body.

Ad then I had an ICU dream. These aren't nightmares. No really. I get them when my lungs are bad and the dream is about going on oxygen and having actual appropriate medical care. Other Americans will see why this is kind of an exciting concept. People in developed countries will likely be like: isn't that every day?

Anyway, I half woke up and thought, "Huh, that's odd. My lungs aren't bad enough for me to be dreaming about supplemental oxygen," and went back to sleep.

This was a mistake. I bet you can see the mistake already, but in my defense: half asleep and when I went to bed I was projecting them drying up by Monday.

I woke up with really bad lungs. Like worse than the day they started me on the second antibiotic bad lungs. I moved a little and ended up having to eject a cat and lean over the side of me bed in case I vomited from coughing bad.

My the time I got it together I was too late for the clinic call in hours, apparently. Like they were till open, but o longer answering phones.

Long time readers will know that I general get a virus and then an opportunistic bacterial lung infection moves in while my immune system is extra distracted between fighting off the virs and it's main goal of eating large sections of my body under the beleif that most of me is a foreign object.

Except this is clearly bacterial or it wouldn't have been responding to antibiotics. Which means odds are i just pulled the rare opposite scenario. What have I had to do a lot of the past three weeks? Go to assorted Doctors despite my real concern about infection risk. <.< >.>

Nothing could be done except wait for me to reach live people at the poverty clinic. I'm maxing out my lung treatments.

I think I need a COVID test. If I have it, odds are squirrel and I are both dead.

Update: as of 9AM, I have spent an hour so far hunting for an open Covid test slot before Tuesday. *digits cruciform*

* I watch a lot of zombie movies. Like most of them at least once. One'll slip by here or there only to be noticed a few years later and I'll have to wait for some to come up somewhere I can watch free, but I watch them all, even the terrible z-grade ones. I've been dreaming about zombies in one form another since I was literally three, before I knew the word. IDK, they resonate with me for a bunch of reasons, some of which I've written about before.

I have watched aquatic NAZI zombies, stripper zombies, lederhosen zombies, crappy racist pre-Romero zombies. I love Romero and always will. I love Cemetery Man. Train to Busan is now my favorite, but seriously Dawn of the dead in particular was formative in a bunch of ways. I even watched the zombienado thing the sharknado people made.

I may have found one of the worst zombie movies ever made last night. I mean, at least Zombienado and the zombie strippers had some camp value and the self awareness to know they aren't making a good flick here, just making a flick period, so they just had fun with it. It was a terrible, terrible thing, that made very little sense, couldn't pick a tone, was consistently horribly racist despite being made in 2014 and randomly casually homophobic, and had possibly the stupidest, most annoying collection of characters ever assembled in a zombie movie. Also it was simultaneously vehemently christian and anti-christian in a way that just kept confusing me. It seemed to be trying to say something about religion, but the whole thing was so incoherent, I can't venture a guess as to what.

When I say stupid, I mean I literally could not figure out how this collection of people could survive an hour in a zombie apocalypse let alone a year and a half. These zombies are attracted to noise, but they never shut up and like yelling and screaming all the fucking time. All of their ideas are terrible and frequently deadly. The teenager keeps wandering off by herself. they keep putting limbs and faces next to infected people. they don't pay attention to undead they can see coming towards them because their annoying petty personal dramas are more important than not getting bitten. They keep splitting up and getting attacked.... Like seriously, how'd they make it this far?

The two supposedly bright characters really, really weren't. One was a bunch of ableist tropes (both mental and physical) in a man suit. The other? Was supposedly a scientist, but was only marginally brighter than the others. If this movie wasn't from the UK and six years old, I'd have thought he was a trump CDC political appointee. Like get this: They did mass inoculations of the military with an experimental vaccine they had not bothered to test for safety and efficacy. They had no tests to see if there were any side effects apparently before they lined them up and dosed them with the stuff. What could go wrong? Dude!

So I have to ask, how did someone with 45's level of mental impairment get put in charge of a biological warfare vaccine development program of this magnitude? How did he get the credentials to get hired? What muppet let him handle level four pathogens? Did not one person anywhere in the process suggest at least one proper phase 3 study?

And his decisions stopped making any sense at all once they ran into literal Sweet zombie Jesus. No really. There is a literal zombie Jesus and what little sense the character had in their heads falls right out along with the already minimal coherence to the plot.

I just can't with this film. I keep trying to work out what any of the characters were thinking or why they did any of the things they did and I can't. I still have no idea why zombie Jesus' powers worked the weird inconsistent way they did, just as I can't explain WTF they had a live action first person shooter style intro tacked on at the start of the movie and what if any information it was meant to convey.

They'd have been better off killing off these people as an intro and then made another better movie with characters that I actually wanted to watch doing things that made sense instead of bickering loudly to attract zombies and occasionally literally feeding themselves to zombies on purpose.

Do not watch Zombie Resurrection.

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

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Touched By a Zombie

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