4/21/25 - 4/27/25

Apr. 27th, 2025 10:56 pm
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* As has been the case since January, the sort may be a little rough. News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

I am once again having to cut things off before I'm done. Apologies.



* "Exclusive: Israel still eyeing a limited attack on Iran's nuclear facilities:" https://archive.ph/G1vWp

* "Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 50, Palestinian officials say:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g28g02ng2o

* "Israeli bombardment of Gaza kills 92 in two days: Health Ministry:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/19/israeli-bombardment-kills-92-in-two-days-gaza-government

* "Gazans survive among unexploded bombs:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/GAZA-ORDNANCE/byvrxbenwve/

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* "Trump says he’s got his ‘own deadline’ for Ukraine talks as tensions flare:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-ukraine-deal-norwegian-leaders-00307891

* This is what Russian promises are worth.

* "'Russian peace in all its glory' — Mass Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills 12, injures 87:" https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-heard-in-kyiv-amid-russian-missile-attack/

* "Russia intensifies push in Kursk, Sumy border areas as Ukraine holds line, Syrskyi says:" https://kyivindependent.com/russia-steps-up-assault-on-sumy-oblast-kursk-border-as-ukraine-holds-line-syrskyi-says/

* "Russian attacks during Easter ceasefire killed 3 in Ukraine's Kherson region:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russian-attacks-easter-ceasefire-declared-putin-killed-3-121004572

* "Russian forces stage mass drone attack on Ukraine's Odesa, governor says:" https://archive.ph/kXs2r

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* "Sudan - The Biggest Humanitarian Crisis In The World Today:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2025/04/19/sudanthe-biggest-humanitarian-crisis-in-the-world-today/

* "Haiti’s government adopts a ‘war budget’ as town after town falls to gangs:" https://apnews.com/article/haiti-gangs-violence-war-budget-mirebalais-saut-deau-daa19487d58e9ada1846ad674bca0e54



* "EU to present roadmap in May to phase out all imports of Russian fossil fuels:" https://archive.ph/mDDq1

* "Witchcraft accusations putting hundreds at risk of "physical attacks or even death" in Ghana, Amnesty says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/witchcraft-accusations-hundreds-risks-ghana-amnesty-international/

* "Europe’s streets are alive with the sound of protests:" https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/04/16/europes-streets-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-protests

* "Nearly 200 students, journalists go on trial in Turkey over Istanbul protests:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250418-nearly-200-students-journalists-go-trial-in-turkey-over-istanbul-protests-erdogan-crackdown

* "Georgia fired 700 civil servants for supporting pro-EU protests, watchdog says:" https://archive.ph/OZcxV

* "Donald Trump's shadow looms large over Australian and Canadian elections:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-22/donald-trump-affecting-opposition-in-canada-and-australia/105196740

* "Visions of Solidarity: Lesbian writers on how we save the world from fascism:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/visions-of-solidarity-schulman-vaid



* "Syrian letter delivers response to US conditions for sanctions relief:" https://archive.ph/DIIEK

* "Trump may get a nuclear deal — on Iran’s terms:" https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-may-get-a-nuclear-deal-on-irans-terms/

It seems to me we had a really good deal with Iran that was working. Wouldn't it have been simpler to keep it in place and negotiate changes now instead of ripping it up in Trump's first term because a black man touched it? Because now there is zero trust in any agreement we might make.

Just saying.

* Who are we to demand reforms of anything while we are descending into kleptocracy? Are reforms a good idea? Yes, but not along fascism oligarch lines, but rather progressive ones. "Bessent says US will seek reforms of IMF, World Bank:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/bessent-says-us-will-seek-reforms-of-imf-world-bank-00305728

* "US and global economic outlook deteriorates in Trump trade war, IMF says:" https://apnews.com/article/recession-imf-economy-tariffs-5ec37492c9fac499923c094776b87552

* "Sherrod Brown: What Worries Me Most About Trump’s Failing Economy:" https://archive.ph/AKKS5

* "Stocks, Bonds Sink in Broad Retreat From US Assets: Markets Wrap:" https://archive.ph/wGf6g

* "Why Trump Decided Not to Try to Fire Jerome Powell:" https://archive.ph/mO1eL

Jerome Powell is just about the last thread holding the Trump ravaged economy together.

* "Key House Republican defends Fed against Trump interference:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/trump-powell-fed-lucas

* "Conflicting US-China talks statements add to global trade confusion:" https://archive.ph/WXU0l

* "Trump’s fixation on a tariff battle win against China could cost him the trade war:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trumps-xi-trade-war-battle-wins-00309223

* "Gamers Nexus out there casually providing the best coverage of tariffs:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2036344.html

* "Rubio unveils a massive overhaul of the State Department that would cut staff and bureaus:" https://apnews.com/article/state-department-rubio-reorganization-trump-usaid-3fc186fefddaaa72c3040db9fb380af4

These are essential experts that will be hard to replace.

* "Trump administration denies draft executive order outlining State Department changes:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-draft-executive-order-sweeping-changes-state-department-rcna202047

Notice the racism and the complete lack of understanding of why we need embassies and linguists and diplomats and people who are experts in a particular country.

* "A jungle route once carried hundreds of thousands of migrants. Now the local economy has crashed:" https://apnews.com/article/migration-darien-gap-trump-panama-colombia-ba393b4cf8caecdcf24556f7f84be508?

* "ACLU says Trump officials not complying with Supreme Court in deportation case:" https://archive.ph/YODZ6

* "Trump admin must seek return of another man who was improperly deported to El Salvador, judge rules :" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-el-salvador-deportation-venezuelan-minor-judge-00307336

* "Gay asylum-seeker's lawyer worries for the makeup artist's safety in Salvadoran ‘hellhole’ prison :" https://www.advocate.com/news/andry-romero-attorney-cecot

* "Robert Garcia demands answers in case of gay Venezuelan migrant deported to El Salvador prison:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-cecot-ice-demand

* "Rep. Garcia on Trump deportations: 'Everyone has a right to due process':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-garcia-on-trump-deportations-everyone-has-a-right-to-due-process-238412357851

* "Democratic lawmakers fly to El Salvador and demand action on gay man Trump sent to CECOT prison:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-andry-hernadez

* "He disappeared after detention. Now ICE is silent on the fate of Venezuelan man:" https://archive.ph/XGkmh

* "Administration ordered to more fully respond to discovery requests from Abrego Garcia's lawyers:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/abrego-garcias-attorneys-decry-administrations-failure-comply-court/story?id=121046788

* Doxxing her is state terrorism. "Abrego Garcia’s Wife Moved To Safe House After DHS Exposed Her Address On X:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kilmar-abrego-garcia-wife-dhs-doxx_n_68094822e4b047d19264e2d7

* "Mahmoud Khalil misses son's birth after ICE official denies his request to be there:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371757/mahmoud-khalil-misses-sons-birth-after-ice-official-denies-his-request-to-be-there

* "Lawmakers visit Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk at Louisiana ICE facilities:" https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-04-22/lawmakers-visit-mahmoud-khalil-and-rumeysa-ozturk-at-louisiana-ice-facilities

* "Palestinian student remains detained in Vermont with a hearing set for next week:" https://apnews.com/article/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-student-detained-ice-vermont-2078326229e424b722e837595a03a042

* "Detained Palestinian activist in Vermont prison says he's 'in good hands':" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detained-palestinian-activist-vermont-prison-good-hands-focused-121053604

* "New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-detain-kseniia-petrova-protest-harvard-cancer-research-rcna202180

* "Activist who took sanctuary in a church during first Trump term detained:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/21/activist-who-took-sanctuary-in-a-church-during-first-trump-term-detained/83197570007/

* Stay Noisy. It can work. "Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trump-admin-reverses-termination-foreign-student-visa-registrations-00309407

* "German Teens Try to Visit Hawaii, End Up Deported :" https://ground.news/article/german-teens-try-to-visit-hawaii-end-up-deported

* "Activist who took sanctuary in a church during first Trump term detained:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/21/activist-who-took-sanctuary-in-a-church-during-first-trump-term-detained/83197570007/

* "Trump DOJ Ordered ICE to Invade Homes Without Search Warrant:" https://newrepublic.com/post/194442/trump-doj-memo-ice-arrest-search-warrant

Republicans claim the 4th Amendment doesn't apply if they don't want it to. They are attacking the most vulnerable now, but no one is safe if they can do this.

Stand up now.

* "Tents could soon house more immigrants at Krome Detention Center:" https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/tents-could-soon-house-more-immigrants-at-krome-detention-center/

* "‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’ with Peter Beinart:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/being-jewish-after-the-destruction-of-gaza/id1382983397?i=1000703563937

* "How the weaponization of antisemitism is becoming a grave threat to freedom of speech in America:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/how-the-weaponization-of-antisemitism-is-becoming-a-grave-threat-to-freedom-of-speech-in-america-238415941640

* I can't cover all the protests, but here is a small sample.

* "ICE activity at Rhode Island Hospital draws protesters. What we know.:" https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/24/ice-officers-at-rhode-island-hospital-attract-protesters/83254959007/

* "Rally outside New Orleans ICE office draws over 100:" https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/protest-ice-detention-mahmoud-khalil-new-orleans-rally/289-6a6c842a-c15e-433f-8912-2da50e2834bf

* "Protests call for ICE to leave Washington:" https://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/protests-call-for-ice-to-leave-washington/article_7f4158f8-b34d-4bbc-b968-2efd8903499b.html

* "Federal raid and arrests in Pomona spark concern, outrage in community:" https://ktla.com/news/local-news/federal-raid-and-arrests-in-pomona-sparks-concern-outrage-in-community/

* "Justice Dept. agrees to let DOGE access sensitive immigration case data:" https://archive.ph/pum5L

* At least a judge is intervening here. "Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ cities that limit immigration cooperation:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-sanctuary-cities-immigrants-san-francisco-b20f3c9f44e81e2c2cbc248236762ac4

They have started illegally deporting American citizens with no due process, as they promised to do.

* "ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation:" https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation

They were denied access to a lawyer, presumably because a preschooler with cancer is such a danger to society that ICE had to throw out the entire constitution.

* Bet they ignored all evidence, them lied when they got caught. "U.S. citizen DHS detained for 10 days has intellectual disabilities, family claims:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-citizen-detained-border-nogales-arizona-dhs-10-days-intellectual-disabilities/

* "U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is false:" https://popular.info/p/us-citizen-wrongly-detained-by-border

* "Congress erupts over FBI arrest of Wisconsin judge:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arrest-judge-hannah-dugan-wisconsin-congress

* "Arrest of judge triggers public outrage as Trump escalates his war on the judiciary:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/arrest-of-judge-triggers-public-outrage-as-trump-escalates-his-war-on-the-judiciary-238387781902

* "‘We will find you’: Trump FBI arrests judge in Wisconsin, AG warns more to come:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-will-find-you-trump-fbi-arrests-judge-in-wisconsin-ag-warns-more-to-come-238380101651

* "Trump Is Arresting Judges To Send A Message:"

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* "Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5340753/trump-democracy-authoritarianism-competive-survey-political-scientist

* "‘It Sucks!!!’ Trump Bitterly Rages Against Fox News and Calls for Heads to Roll at The Wall Street Journal in Truth Social Tirade:" https://www.mediaite.com/news/it-sucks-trump-bitterly-rages-against-fox-news-and-calls-for-heads-to-roll-at-the-wall-street-journal-in-truth-social-tirade/

* "Trump's second term already falling apart less than 100 days in, polls show:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-second-term-already-falling-apart-less-than-100-days-in-polls-show-238312517562

* "‘Unpopular’: Trump whines about Fox News poll showing his approval rating cratering:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-unpopular-trump-whines-about-fox-news-poll-showing-his-approval-rating-cratering-238296645722

* "Thousands of protesters rally against Trump across US:" https://archive.ph/KK2kF

* "PHOTOS: Anti-Trump protesters rally in cities and towns across the country:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/photos-anti-trump-protesters-rally-in-cities-and-towns-across-the-country

* "Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-trump-protests-sweep-the-nation-crossing-the-threshold-of-mainstream-media-attention-238047301545

* "Oops!: Trump's first 100 days marked by incompetent screw-ups and frantic walk backs:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/oops-trump-s-first-100-days-marked-by-incompetent-screw-ups-and-frantic-walk-backs-238218821744

* "'Unadulterated disaster': Trump spends first 100 days sabotaging what makes America great:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-unadulterated-disaster-trump-spends-first-100-days-sabotaging-what-makes-america-great-238224453805

* "Trump facing impotence as courts hand him loss after loss; court of public opinion no less harsh:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-facing-impotence-as-courts-hand-him-loss-after-loss-court-of-public-opinion-no-less-harsh-238316101946

* "Trump gets reckless as his agenda tanks and pushback intensifies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-gets-reckless-as-his-agenda-tanks-and-pushback-intensifies-238390853787

* "Sen. Warren Extended Interview:

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* "Jon Lovett warns Democrats that ‘every inch Trump gets is an inch we don’t get back’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/jon-lovett-warns-trump-authoritarianism

* "'Anyone with a working brain is outraged': Dems react to Trump's first 100 days:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-anyone-with-a-working-brain-is-outraged-dems-react-to-trump-s-first-100-days-238435909774

* "Rep. Raskin: Trump's first 100 days were 'a horror show,' but Americans are standing up:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-raskin-trump-s-first-100-days-were-a-horror-show-but-americans-are-standing-up-238440517796

* WTF?!? "Trump really showed kids 'assassination trading card' at White House Easter event:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-easter-assasination-card/

* "Trump’s made-for-TV cabinet is backfiring:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-made-for-tv-cabinet-is-backfiring-238442053542

* "Judge blocks Trump administration from requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-blocks-trump-administration-requiring-proof-citizenship-register/story?id=121134512

* The bribery is completely in the open now. "Dinner with the president: Trump meme coin surges on offer to top buyers:" https://archive.ph/RiOyC

* "Trump dinner for meme coin buyers prompts senators to demand ethics probe:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/trump-dinner-for-meme-coin-prompts-senators-to-demand-ethics-probe.html

* "Scoop: Musk vs. Bessent dispute erupted into West Wing shouting match:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/musk-bessent-trump-white-house-irs

* "Tesla Stock Dives 6% Ahead Of Possible ‘Code Red’ Earnings For Elon Musk’s Firm:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2025/04/21/tesla-stock-dives-7-ahead-of-possible-code-red-earnings-for-elon-musks-firm/

* "As Tesla profits plunge 71%, Elon Musk says he'll spend less time on DOGE:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5371552/tesla-earnings-april-2025-elon-musk-doge

Who could have guessed that a mostly left electric car buying demographic would not want to associate them selves with NAZI salutes and the Autocratic horrors of DOGE, except everyone with a working brain?

* "Why Elon Musk is the new Mike 'MyPillow' Lindell:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/elon-musk-new-mike-lindell

* "Polling debunks Musk excuse that his unpopularity, collapse of Tesla, is because of paid protesters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/polling-debunks-musk-excuse-that-his-unpopularity-collapse-of-tesla-is-because-of-paid-protesters-238140485802

* "Musk eyes the exit after humiliating turn in politics: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/musk-eyes-the-exit-after-humiliating-turn-in-politics-report-238048325643

* "Trump replaces acting IRS commissioner just days after appointing him:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-replaces-acting-irs-commissioner-days-after-appointing/story?id=120959980

* "Judge blocks mass layoffs at CFPB in the latest twist over the fate of the agency:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5368206/cfpb-layoffs-rif

* "Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program :" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-peter-thiel-ramp-gsa-smartpay-expense-payment-system?

* We warned them and warned them, but most Republican Senators decided to betray their country by putting him in charge of our military.

* "Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer:" https://archive.ph/1HA2P

* "'Mindblowing': Hegseth's phone number found all over web, posing massive security risk:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-mindblowing-hegseth-s-phone-number-found-all-over-web-posing-massive-security-risk-238380613558

* "White House backs Hegseth, Leavitt says ‘entire Pentagon’ is resisting him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/21/leavitt-trump-stands-strongly-behind-embattled-hegseth-00300749

* "Controversial Hegseth chief of staff to leave Pentagon:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-chief-of-staff-pentagon-leaving-00308721

* "Former Pete Hegseth aide in op-ed: 'Total chaos at the Pentagon':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/john-ullyot-op-ed-pete-hegseth-rcna202071

* "Hegseth says staffers found leaking ‘will be prosecuted’ amid Pentagon chaos:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/pete-hegseth-leaks-investigation-00302506

* "Third top Pentagon official suspended in leak investigation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/16/pentagon-official-suspended-leak-investigation-00293473

* "'Purely personal pettiness': Inside the ‘vicious rivalries’ roiling Hegseth’s Pentagon:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-purely-personal-pettiness-inside-the-vicious-rivalries-roiling-hegseth-s-pentagon-238213189802

* "‘Plainly unraveling’: New reporting on chaos at Pentagon under Hegseth:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-plainly-unraveling-new-reporting-on-chaos-at-pentagon-under-hegseth-238125637882

* "Sen. Tammy Duckworth - Veterans Deserve Better than Trump, Hegseth, & DOGE | The Daily Show:"

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* "Veterans Affairs secretary tells employees to report 'anti-Christian discrimination':" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2025/04/23/veterans-affairs-tells-phoenix-workers-to-report-anti-christian-bias/83220624007/

* ""Do Something Group" rallies in downtown Kalamazoo to protest cuts to veterans' benefits:" https://wwmt.com/news/local/do-something-group-rallies-downtown-kalamazoo-protest-cuts-veterans-benefits-trump-doge-va

* "Trump's DOJ struggles defending trans military ban during D.C. appeals court hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/dc-circuit-trans-military-ban

* "Is Pete Hegseth violating judges’ orders blocking the Pentagon’s trans military ban? Senators demand answers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/senators-hegseth-trans-ban-answers

* "Defense Department reinstates gender-affirming care for trans troops:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-troops-care-reinstated

* "Trump AG Pam Bondi falsely compares gender-affirming care for minors as the same as female genital mutilation:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pam-bondi-targets-transgender-care

* "Trump Retaliates by Taking Kids' Lunch Money (Literally) ft. Liz Dye:"

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* "White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children:" https://archive.ph/9MfDh

* "Why the White House wanting women to have more kids will lead to outlawing same-sex relations:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-assaults-bodily-autonom

* "Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-race-to-save-climate-data-before-its-deleted-by-the-trump-administration

* "Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More :" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?

* "A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236

* Censoring facts while promoting conspiracy theories. "'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government COVID sites:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/18/g-s1-61324/lab-leak-white-house-covid-origins

* "Health on Wheels van and COVID-19 programs to see reduced services amid grant loss:" https://krcgtv.com/news/local/health-on-wheels-van-and-covid-19-programs-to-see-reduced-services-amid-grant-loss

* "Trump Cuts Threaten Meals and Services for People With Disabilities and the Aging:" https://archive.ph/hOZtg

* "RFK Jr.’s Wish Is Coming True: Everybody’s Getting Measles:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-wish-is-coming-true-everybodys-getting-measles/

* "CDC Reports 800 Confirmed Measles Cases Across the US, 624 Being in Texas:" https://www.contagionlive.com/view/800-confirmed-measles-cases-in-the-us-by-april-18-2025-across-25-states

* "More Americans exposed to false claims about measles and its vaccines, KFF poll shows:" https://archive.ph/PzOHp

* "Millions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if shots decline:" https://archive.ph/Zk7fq

* "Why ‘Everything is Tuberculosis’ with John Green:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-everything-is-tuberculosis-with-john-green/id1382983397?i=1000701696135

* "US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts:" https://archive.ph/df2sT

* "FDA head falsely claims no scientists laid off, as agency shutters food safety labs:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-head-falsely-claims-no-scientists-laid-off-as-agency-shutters-food-safety-labs/

* "I Know It Seems Impossible to Remember, but There Is Actually a Reason We Had an FDA:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64555033/us-fda-quality-testing-milk-fired-workforce/

* "In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5376473/hhs-restores-funding-for-womens-health-initiative

* Why it's important plus some other things. "‘Who voted for this?’: Trump guts first and largest women’s health study:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-who-voted-for-this-trump-guts-first-and-largest-women-s-health-study-238208581957

* But they were. "Health agencies "not creating an autism registry," official says, contradicting NIH director:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-agencies-not-creating-autism-registry-hhs-nih/

* CW: Suicide "HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-cuts-rfk-jr-hhs/

* People will die. "Trump Budget Draft Ends Narcan Program and Other Addiction Measures:" https://archive.ph/L4bRd

* "RFK Jr. Is Set to Cut Synthetic Food Dyes From US Food Supply:" https://archive.ph/bX9h5

* "Interior secretary gives DOGE aide sweeping powers to remake department:" https://archive.ph/Bgo1z

* "National Weather Service to resume translating its products for non-English speakers :" https://www.kait8.com/2025/04/25/national-weather-service-resume-translating-its-products-non-english-speakers/

* "Trump’s Most Unhinged Policy May Be Starving MAGA Arkansas of Disaster Relief Snuffing out FEMA is causing some collateral damage.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-huckabee-sanders-fema-arkansas-disaster-relief-denial.html

* "After Arkansas: The Future Of FEMA And U.S. Disaster Relief:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexanderpuutio/2025/04/25/after-arkansas-the-future-of-fema-and-disaster-relief-in-america/

* "EPA starts layoffs of environmental justice employees:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/epa-starts-layoffs-environmental-justice-employees-rcna202287

* "NWLC Statement on Trump’s Executive Order Seeking to Repeal Core Tenet of Civil Rights Act:" https://nwlc.org/press-release/nwlc-statement-on-trumps-executive-order-seeking-to-repeal-core-tenet-of-civil-rights-act/

* "Trump to target ActBlue in presidential memorandum:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-to-target-actblue-in-presidential-memorandum-00307251

This is the main fundraising vehicle of the Democratic Party. He has no proof. Meanwhile he's using his crypto scam to take direct bribes.

For Republicans, every accusation is a confession.

* "MAGA Is Aiming to Take Over the D.C. Bar. Be Afraid.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/pam-bondi-legal-news-maga-dc-bar.html

* "DOJ Reverses Grant Cancellations For Crime Victim Support:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/doj-reverses-grant-cancelations-for-crime-victim-support/

* "Trump orders revamp of school discipline policies, college accreditation and funding:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/trump-orders-schools-colleges-funding-accreditors-00307055

* "Harvard sues Trump administration over threats to cut funding if demands go unmet:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/harvard-university-sues-trump-administration-threats-cut-funding/story?id=121030309

* "Harvard sues federal government after Trump administration slashed billions in funding:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-sues-trump-administration-funding-rcna202276

* "As Harvard fights Trump, one campus quietly prepares for the worst:" https://archive.ph/3UXOo

If you are going to George Washington University, know anyone who is or has gone, or are an Alumni, now is the time to take action to stiffen their spines.

* ""Shocked and Disgusted." UA Democrats respond to news of President Trump at UA:" https://abc3340.com/news/local/shocked-and-disgusted-ua-democrats-respond-to-news-of-president-trump-at-ua-national-news-politics

* "Trump administration to resume collections on student loan borrowers in default:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371723/trump-administration-collections-on-defaulted-student-loans

* "Judges blocks Trump push to cut funding to public schools over diversity programs:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-public-schools-diversity-equality-inclusion-dei-7d7ad707d91565753263a19ebde044e0

* "Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-law-firms-perkins-coie-wilmerhale-7dba5f0c38ac547bf3f2bb1f31a2ef38

* "Are Law Firms Breaking the Law by Caving to Trump?:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/are-law-firms-breaking-the-law-trump-deal.html

* "Federal judge blocks Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America:" https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-trump-f30c48df0c16de622ec5fd99ee6c627c

* "'60 Minutes' chief resigns, saying show's independence was compromised:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372733/60-minutes-bill-owens-cbs-trump-paramount

* "In unintended filing, federal attorneys poke holes in Trump administration’s effort to end NYC toll:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-nyc-toll-congestion-pricing-6a0a3306f8625474d63c39d75b571521



* "BREAKING: Trump Justice Department asks Supreme Court to reinstate trans military ban blocked by courts:" https://www.advocate.com/news/doj-scotus-trans-military-ban

* "Obamacare returns to SCOTUS, with preventive care on the line:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/21/obamacare-scotus-preventive-care-aca-00296631

* "After oral argument, court calls for new briefs in HHS task force case:" https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/after-oral-argument-court-calls-for-new-briefs-in-hhs-task-force-case/

* "The FBI mistakenly raided their Atlanta home. Now the Supreme Court will hear their lawsuit:" https://apnews.com/article/georgia-fbi-raid-supreme-court-lawsuit-9cb55aa6f45bbf02c29d84363c7c9e6f

* "Supreme Court conservatives sympathize with parents objecting to LGBTQ-inclusive books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/conservative-justices-sympathize-religious-objections

* "Compilation of Protests and Actions Against the Supreme Court:" https://whatthetrans.com/compilation-of-protests-against-the-supreme-court/

* "Economic insecurity linked to LGBTQ+ youth mental health issues: Trevor Project report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/economic-insecurity-lgbtq-youth

* The Boycott is working! Keep at it! "Target foot traffic down for 10th consecutive week amid boycott over DEI abandonment:" https://www.advocate.com/news/target-foot-traffic-down-dei

* "Trump, Johnson squelch talk of tax hike for wealthiest Americans:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/johnson-doesnt-expect-tax-hike-on-wealthy-in-gop-budget-plan-00306708

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

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

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

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

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

* "Nancy Mace calls transgender student a transphobic slur at University of South Carolina event:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/nancy-mace-usc-trans-slur

* "12 batsh*t things Nancy Mace has done in her anti-transgender attention grab :" https://www.advocate.com/voices/nancy-mace-south-carolina-transgender#rebelltitem13

* "Sarah McBride says she won’t let Republicans make her the main character in their anti-trans crusade:" https://www.advocate.com/news/sarah-mcbride-pod-save-america

* "'Welcome to the team': Chris Murphy, Maxwell Frost hold town halls where Republicans won't:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-welcome-to-the-team-chris-murphy-maxwell-frost-hold-town-halls-where-republicans-won-t-238300741912



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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



* "Long-running legal saga over N.C. Supreme Court race could pave way for future election challenges, critics warn:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/legal-saga-north-carolina-supreme-court-future-election-challenges-rcna202634

* "Military and overseas voters at center of challenges in Riggs-Griffin NC Supreme Court race:" https://abc7chicago.com/post/military-overseas-voters-center-challenges-north-carolina-supreme-court-race-between-allison-riggs-jefferson-griffin/16209562/

* "How Process is Killing Progress with Ezra Klein:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-process-is-killing-progress-with-ezra-klein/id1382983397?i=1000702661938

* "In unprecedented move, DNC official to spend big to take down fellow Democrats:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/david-hogg-dnc-vice-chair-to-spend-big-to-take-down-safe-democratic-incumbents-00292535

* "Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, won’t seek reelection to a sixth term in 2026:" https://apnews.com/article/dick-durbin-senate-reelection-majority-02ff2de634c0e6b62842f80eef01f72e

* "The Democract Doing Trump's Dirty Work:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7fv8fZXjsrA

Coloradans! Pressure him not to veto. Unionization is essential.

* "Tennessee pauses bill targeting right to education regardless of immigration status:" https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-immigration-students-bill-9dfe0022df01d5756384cd5a4a942a24

* Stopped clocks. "North Dakota’s GOP governor vetoes library restrictions, school voucher program:" https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-governor-vetoes-book-bans-vouchers-a5a52e027a37b14acb55ffae7ec828e3

* "Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety:" https://archive.ph/vsdFG

* "George Santos sentenced to prison:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-sentenced-prison

* "Countering DeSantis, $10M Hope Florida donation came from Medicaid, draft shows:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/04/22/desantis-casey-medicaid-settlement-hope-charity-andrade/

* Because of course. "George Santos begs Trump for pardon after judge handed down 7-year sentence:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-trump-pardon-cameo

* "Senate staffer accused of having sex in Capitol building recounts 'horrific' backlash:" https://www.advocate.com/news/senate-staffer-sex-speaks-out

* CW: Mass Murder. "Car plows through Vancouver Filipino festival, killing at least 11:" https://archive.ph/npHP0

* "What is Lapu-Lapu Day? Filipinos shocked by festival tragedy in Vancouver:" https://archive.ph/jUC0y




* "Thailand Plastic Waste Law Challenges Developed Nations’ Waste Practices:" https://happyeconews.com/thailand-plastic-waste-law/

* "Behind Closed Doors: The Secret World of Molly Houses in 18th-Century England:" https://gaylifetoday.com/2025/04/21/behind-closed-doors-the-secret-world-of-molly-houses-in-18th-century-england/

* "Weaponization of the FBI from Hoover to Trump 2.0 with Beverly Gage:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weaponization-of-the-fbi-from-hoover-to-trump-2/id1382983397?i=1000700716486

* "Pope Francis dead at 88: Looking back on his LGBTQ+ rights legacy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pope-francis-dead-lgbtq-rights

* "Pope Francis changed the conversation on LGBTQ+ Catholics—will the next Pontiff hit mute?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/pope-francis-lgbtq

As a trans person who is not a Christian, I was not a fan and I side eye a bunch of things that happened under his watch as far as cover ups and corruption. That said, he was better than I had any hope of him being and so much better than predecessors in so many ways and on so many issues. He DID represent progress, even though he didn't go as far as one would wish. His anti-authoritarian moves were important.

I am really worried about what comes next.

So many things are getting so much worse. I would love for the catholic Church to keep moving forward, even if not as quickly as I would wish, instead of back sliding into horror.

* "'Evil is being defeated': Marjorie Taylor Greene sparks outrage after Pope Francis' death:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/evil-being-defeated-marjorie-taylor-130338336.html

* "Maddow on Pope Francis, advocate for migrants: 'He changed the world, he changed the church':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-on-pope-francis-advocate-for-migrants-he-changed-the-world-he-changed-the-church-238046789972

* "Pope Francis’ Legacy of Compassion for Palestinians:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/pope-francis-legacy-of-compassion-for-palestinians-238414917852

* " Blasphemy is coming to St. Peter’s Square as Trump tries to hijack Pope Francis’s funeral to feed his ego:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/donald-trump-pope-funeral-blasphemy

* "Frito-Lay recall: What to know about the Tostitos tortilla chips pulled from shelves:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/04/09/frito-lay-tostitos-chips-recall/83012547007/

* "Tri-Union Seafoods Issues Recall of Select Genova®, Van Camp’s®, H-E-B and Trader Joe’s® Tuna Cans Due to Clostridium Botulinum Risk:" https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/tri-union-seafoods-issues-recall-select-genovar-van-campsr-h-e-b-and-trader-joesr-tuna-cans-due

* Wednesday, on my way out the door to collect Millennials for group errands, I found a bureaucracy packet. Worryingly, it was not the standard bureaucracy packet. O.o It takes the same documents I already had assembled for the late April or early May bureaucracy, which helps, but also suggests a second, more complicated bureaucracy will arrive soon.

I worked on it the whole time Millennials were here, and finished it, except for the one piece I need someone to print off the computer. Last time I circled and labelled the relevant items on the bank statements and it worked out. It would be better to belt and suspenders it, but in any case I hope to drive the packet and documents up there for copying, stamping, and filing.

I like to turn them in as early as I can just generally, but speed is extra important now, given the givens.

Bonus I have all the items ID number marked so when I have to take them back to the same office within the month that will speed things up a bit on my end. *eye roll*

I did not sort the things assorted people dumped on the floor and shoveled back in the wrong place repeatedly last Summer and Autumn, but I need to. I keep a year of documents out in case there is random surprise bureaucracy in the off season (Which really does happen). I just need to go through them now before boxing them for seven year storage, in case something got in there that shouldn't.

So that's a couple hours, but less urgent.

It did eat my whole evening, alas.

* …And despite the Millennials being told they were cleared to work, they for some reason haven't been reinstated and are not getting paid. Fuckssake!

So phone bureaucracy tomorrow, I guess.

Bonus: I managed to really fuck up my hand about 7 minutes after they left for the night checking if Tavy's pads were dry. Sigh.

* "Jon Stewart on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Deportation and How Trump Fails to Deliver | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump’s Tariffs Ruined America’s Reputation. Does Anyone Still Respect Us? | The Daily Show:"

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* "Meet the Scientists Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth to Fight Climate Change | The Daily Show:"

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* "Harvey Fierstein to Receive Lifetime Achievement Tony Award:" https://www.theatermania.com/news/harvey-fierstein-to-receive-a-lifetime-achievement-tony-award_1773609/

* "Must-see LGBTQ+ films every straight ally should watch :" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/gay-movies-for-straight-allies-watch#rebelltitem12

* "Bernie Rocks Coachella:"

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* "Elmo Drops A Trump Diss Track:"

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* Cool Person in need of help. "So, due to a combination of things hitting at once we're overdue on both the electric and gas bills:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3618944.html

* There's this Evangelical sect that makes creepy ass recruitment ads. They have one that uses Depecge Mode's "Personal Jesus."

Me: do they know?

So every time it comes on, my head snaps up, and then I remember it's an evangelical ad and I chuckle to myself.

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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* 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

******

* "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



* 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/



* "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

* I wish I could debate some of these with him at a party. "Manic Monarchs:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hUkHg1A1W5o

* "Dashing Dolphins:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9hZRMAR3w1E

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* "Ludicrous Ludwig II:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nXalZ_6m5Fg

* "True Facts: How Snakes Move:"

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* "How to play the accordion with Betsy and ‪[profile] dinosaurdinnertheatre1792‬ :"

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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

* "The Red God Chronicles: The Tragedy of Rudolf:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nF1Al07sQ3M

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

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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.

* "Find Non-US Alternatives: Discover alternatives to the mainstream products, services, and companies typically found in the United States and Russia, sourced from other regions.:" https://www.bankrupttrump.org/

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

* Save The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Explainer and directions here with link to government comment form: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/776960165468684288/action-item?source=share

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* Indigenous led organizationtrying to save endangered species that just lost Federal funding. "The Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance:" https://www.bnga.org/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Feb. 18th, 2024 11:39 pm
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* Not even close to all the news, but this week was HARD.



* "Israel stages airstrikes across Gaza, makes arrests at hospital:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-stages-airstrikes-across-gaza-makes-arrests-hospital-2024-02-17/

* "Israel raids main Gaza hospital as Rafah concerns grow:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-raids-main-gaza-hospital-rafah-concerns-grow-2024-02-15/

* Note: I don't trust a thing Netanyahu's government says, given how often they've lied before to justify war crimes in the last few months. "Israeli forces storm the main hospital in southern Gaza, saying hostages were likely held there:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-15-2024-d3a25caf6b60fe560e1a31d4f8f6b45e

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

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* *glares at Biden while tapping my watch* "Biden disparages Netanyahu in private but hasn’t significantly changed U.S. policy toward Israel and Gaza:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/biden-disparages-netanyahu-private-hasnt-changed-us-policy-israel-rcna138282

* "Israeli strikes hit Rafah after Biden warns Netanyahu to have ‘credible’ plan to protect civilians:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-11-2014-785309c668e15728c6aac9905f290b4d

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* "Ukrainian civilians vanish and languish in Russian-run jails:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-government-donetsk-business-prisons-59837e2f8006bfd1dc3347522e87efc5



* "Out of options, Rohingya are fleeing Myanmar and Bangladesh by boat despite soaring death toll:" https://apnews.com/article/rohingya-migration-bangladesh-myanmar-boats-c03221ad9bf90a9467bf4030b961dbd3

* "Shehbaz Sharif to be coalition candidate for next Pakistan PM -spokeswoman:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/independent-members-welcome-form-government-if-they-can-show-majority-pakistan-2024-02-13/

* "Imran Khan’s ‘Victory Speech’ From Jail Shows A.I.’s Peril and Promise:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/11/world/asia/imran-khan-artificial-intelligence-pakistan.html

* "Head of French farmers union says protests could resume:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/head-french-farmers-union-says-protests-could-resume-2024-02-13/

* "India's controversial plans for untouched Nicobar Isles:" https://news.yahoo.com/indias-controversial-plans-untouched-nicobar-041530890.html

* "The Shompen face obliteration: they urgently need your support:" https://act.survivalinternational.org/page/128615/action/1

* "Panama denies Nicaragua's request to allow ex-Panamanian president's exit:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/panama-denies-request-nicaragua-ex-president-martinellis-exit-2024-02-10/

* "The London Overground lines have been renamed – and one line honours a piece of LGBTQ+ history:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/15/the-london-overground-lines-have-been-renamed-and-one-line-honours-a-piece-of-lgbtq-history/

* "Venezuela orders UN human rights office to close, accusing it of anti-government activity:" https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-un-human-rights-ordered-closed-baea877b4ab2cf2891d8c5743fb2e3ed

* "Venezuela defends military buildup, accusing neighboring Guyana of granting illegal oil contracts:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/venezuela-defends-military-buildup-accusing-neighboring-guyana-granting-107142331

* "Whereabouts of Venezuelan human rights attorney and her family remain unknown days after detentions:" https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-human-rights-activist-arrested-maduro-ca2f380379806338109aa74c2785aa1a

* "US says it’s taken possession of a Boeing 747 that Iran sold to a Venezuelan firm:" https://apnews.com/article/argentina-venezuela-iran-justice-department-boeing-e2066c62c48654a2aace58d23baafa22

* "Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-navalny-dead-opposition-leader-2d11644f7ae5332587b39150f1fd1738

* "'Democratic superhero': Russian journalist reacts to death of Alexei Navalny:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-democratic-superhero-russian-journalist-reacts-to-death-of-alexei-navalny-204393541606

* "How the US is preparing for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan:" https://www.reuters.com/world/china/logistics-war-how-washington-is-preparing-chinese-invasion-taiwan-2024-01-31/

* "Russia Is Boosting Calls for ‘Civil War’ Over Texas Border Crisis:" https://www.wired.com/story/russia-disinformation-campaign-civil-war-texas-border/

* "The ‘disturbing’ intel roiling the Hill is about Russian nukes in space:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/14/house-intel-national-security-threat-russia-space-power-00141473

* "Tucker Carlson Promised an Unedited Putin. The Result Was Boring:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/tucker-carlson-promised-an-unedited-putin-the-result-was-boring

* "Poland Angrily Responds to Putin's Claims About Hitler and World War II:" https://www.newsweek.com/poland-angrily-responds-putins-claims-about-hitler-world-war-ii-1868707#:~:text=During%20Putin's%20controversial%20interview%20with,of%20part%20of%20its%20territory.

* "Putin is cashing in on his ‘enormous’ investment in Trump, says Hayes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/putin-is-cashing-in-on-his-enormous-investment-in-trump-says-hayes-204170309597

* "Illegal border crossings from Mexico plunge after a record-high December, with fewer from Venezuela:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-security-migrants-homeland-security-1c6e9f612dff721191c0254f980947a5

* "‘Massive benefit’: Immigration surge set to boost U.S. economy by $7 trillion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-massive-benefit-immigration-surge-set-to-boost-u-s-economy-by-7-trillion-204283461708

* "Kamala Harris marks 20 years since first officiating same-sex marriages and reunites with gay couple she wed:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kamala-harris-gay-marriages-anniversary

* "Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin cancels overseas trip following hospitalization:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/ex-fbi-informant-charged-with-lying-about-biden-his-son-special-counsel-says-2024-02-15/

* Rightly so. Those things were stolen and belong to the descendants of people they were stolen from.
"Museums close Native American displays after new regulations take effect:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227434311/museums-close-native-american-displays-after-new-regulations-take-effect

* "Special counsel urges Supreme Court to end Trump’s delay of federal election trial:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/14/special-counsel-scotus-trump-delay-00141561

* "Trump is Not Immune from Prosecution, Duh.:"

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* "Over 500,000 workers went on strike in 2023 — double from last year:" https://www.businessinsider.com/strikes-striking-workers-surge-2023-actors-writers-teachers-uaw-contribute-2024-2

* Well played. "Uber, Lyft, DoorDash drivers in the U.S. to strike on Valentine’s Day for fair pay:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/uber-lyft-doordash-drivers-us-strike-valentines-day-fair-pay-rcna138450

* "Disneyland cast members announce plans to form a union:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/disneyland-characters-union-actors-equity-association/

* "Alaska Air flight attendants authorize strike for first time in three decades:" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/flight-attendants-join-hands-picket-outside-30-airports-better-pay-2024-02-13/

* "How African-Americans get left out of conversations about the American working class:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/how-african-americans-get-left-out-of-conversations-about-the-american-working-class-204026437515

* "The Paradox of Stay-at-Home Parents:" https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/02/stay-home-parents-support-working-parents-social-security/677400/

* "Senate passes $95B aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan despite Trump attacks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/senate-aid-package-ukraine-israel-taiwan-00141135

* "Why 22 Senate Republicans defied Trump and voted for aid to Ukraine:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/22-senate-republicans-defied-trump-voted-aid-ukraine/story?id=107193651

* "J.D. Vance’s sloppy effort to turn MAGA world against Ukraine funding:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/12/jd-vance-ukraine-funding-trump/

* "Ukraine Aid Bill Faces Hurdles in the House Amid G.O.P. Opposition:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/us/politics/ukraine-aid-bill-house.html

* "Biden warns opposing Ukraine funding plays ‘into Putin’s hands,’ but faces resistance in House:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-aid-congress-senate-5fdcf8cb1964681dcce0f4fe7b9a0f86

* URGENT: Ukraine Aid Bill

Ukraine is literally running out of bullets.

Trump has ordered Mike Johnson to block Ukraine Aid in the House of Representatives, which he is doing.

The only way to get Ukraine aid is a discharge petition which requires a couple Republican votes to pass.

Yes, the Aid Package is not ideal and there are things I wish weren't in it, but we can't amend at this point and it is likely life or death for Ukraine. A discharge petition is the only way to do an end run around the Putinists blocking the normal process.

If you have a Republican Congress critter in the House, please let that critter know you support the discharge petition for Aid to Ukraine.

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene responds to David Cameron’s call for US to aid Ukraine: ‘Kiss my ass’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/16/marjorie-taylor-greene-responds-to-david-cameron/

* "'Put the bill on the floor': Dem rep calls on GOP to stop blocking Ukraine aid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-put-the-bill-on-the-floor-dem-rep-calls-on-gop-to-stop-blocking-ukraine-aid-204395589709

* "Rep. Garcia: GOP hardliners "don't want solutions" on border security, foreign aid:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-garcia-gop-hardliners-don-t-want-solutions-on-border-security-foreign-aid-204424262001

* Matt Gaetz is shocked that his actions occasionally might have consequences. "Matt Gaetz says he misses Kevin McCarthy after House GOP's humiliating week:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/matt-gaetz-says-he-misses-kevin-mccarthy-after-house-gop-s-humiliating-week-204014661632

* "FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden's ties to Ukrainian firm:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1231884999/fbi-informant-charged-lying-joe-hunter-biden-ukraine-burisma

* "‘Amazing turn of events’: Raskin reacts to arrest of GOP's Hunter Biden ‘informant’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-amazing-turn-of-events-raskin-reacts-to-arrest-of-gop-s-hunter-biden-informant-204318789912

* Republicans refuse to name any crime, let alone produce evidence of one. "Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas impeached by House Republicans:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/13/1230977868/house-impeachment-mayorkas-border

* "House Republicans impeach Mayorkas by the margin of a medical absence:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/house-republicans-impeach-mayorkas-by-the-margin-of-a-medical-absence-204173893994

* "House Republicans are 'obsessed' with attacking LGBTQ+ people, say Democratic lawmakers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/equality-caucus-republicans-obsessed

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

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

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

* Special elections are important. I'm so happy people turned out for it. "Pennsylvania Dems seal House majority with special election win:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/pennsylvania-dems-house-majority-special-election-00141340#:~:text=to%20the%20left.-,Jim%20Prokopiak's%20election%20to%20the%20Bucks%20County%20seat%20will%20give,win%20kept%20it%20in%20place.

* "'Voting integrity is on the line': PA special election winner shares insights for fellow Democrats:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/-voting-integrity-is-on-the-line-pa-special-election-winner-shares-insights-for-fellow-democrats-204423237633

* "Democrat Tom Suozzi wins George Santos's seat in House of Representatives:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/tom-suozzi-wins-special-election

* "'Losing streak': GOP refuses to learn lessons from ‘crushing’ election losses:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-losing-streak-gop-refuses-to-learn-lessons-from-crushing-election-losses-204243525585

* "Trump endorses new RNC chair and Lara Trump as co-chair:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/12/trump-republican-national-committee-chair-whatley-00141061

* NOTE: The RNC normally distributes the money strategically to various state parties and candidates. "Lara Trump vows ‘every single penny’ of RNC funds will go to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lara-trump-vows-every-single-penny-of-rnc-funds-will-go-to-trump-204321861629

* "Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is running for the U.S. Senate:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/10/1230600501/former-maryland-gov-larry-hogan-running-us-senate

* "Gallagher says he won’t run for Congress again after refusing to impeach Homeland Security chief:" https://apnews.com/article/mike-gallagher-retirement-impeachment-mayorkas-wisconsin-a125c50142905225ae58f7f36f9bd1e1

* "Senate GOP campaign arm endorses Kari Lake:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/kari-lake-nrsc-endorsement-00141107

* "'Full-on, the MAGA party': Election deniers advance as Trump plots RNC takeover:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-full-on-the-maga-party-election-deniers-advance-as-trump-set-to-take-over-rnc-204179525687

* "DACA recipient resigns from Biden administration, runs for office:" https://www.axios.com/2024/02/05/daca-recipient-biden-administration-runs-office

* Presidential Primaries are ongoing:

Republicans: South Carolina votes 2/24/24

Michigan: All vote 2/27/24

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

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

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

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

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

* "West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announces he won’t run for president in 2024:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-manchin-2024-presidential-run-8377c2c336b14c660807941fe943b3b7

* It's worse than the headline makes it look. "Trump’s NATO-bashing comments rile allies, rekindle European fears:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/11/trump-nato-russia-invade/

* Everything is transactional with him. "Top Senate Dem reacts to Trump’s alarming NATO Comments:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/top-senate-dem-reacts-to-trump-s-alarming-nato-comments-204025413656

* "Nikki Haley blasts Donald Trump’s threat to dump NATO allies behind on bills:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/14/nikki-haley-donald-trump-nato-russia-attack/

* "G.O.P. Officials, Once Critical, Stand by Trump After NATO Comments:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/trump-nato-republicans.html

* "Trump exposes true allegiance, worrying U.S. NATO allies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-allies-fear-a-faithless-america-under-trump-in-thrall-to-putin-204102725539

* "As Republican sounds alarm on Russian threat, GOP makes excuses for Trump attacks on NATO:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-republican-sounds-alarm-on-russian-threat-gop-makes-excuses-for-trump-attacks-on-nato-204254789782

* "Trump Wants an Abortion Ban Based on the Weirdest Logic Ever:" https://newrepublic.com/post/179097/trump-16-week-abortion-ban

* "‘Trump is losing it’: New scrutiny on Trump’s ‘gibberish’ at campaign rallies:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-trump-is-losing-it-new-scrutiny-on-trump-s-gibberish-at-campaign-rallies-204170309716

* "One in five Americans believe Taylor Swift is part of plot to help Joe Biden win election, poll finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/15/taylor-swift-joe-biden-conspiracy-theory-2024-election/

* "‘He Gets Us’ Ad Sponsors Don’t Believe in the Jesus They’re Selling:" https://www.texasobserver.org/he-gets-us-campaign-superbowl-jesus/

* "Republican Tennessee goes after marriage equality:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1961062.html

* "New gun, abortion, prevailing wage, right-to-work repeal laws take effect in Michigan:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/13/new-michigan-abortion-gun-labor-laws-take-effect/72576434007/

* "Reporter asks Ron DeSantis why he can affirm his height with lifts, but stands against gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-shoe-lifts-presser

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene calls LGBTQ+ people ‘groomers’ as she backs LibsofTikTok:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/15/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-lgbtq-people-groomers-as-she-backs-libsoftiktok/



* "Trump hit with $354.9 million penalty, 3-year ban in NY civil fraud case:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/maxwell-frost-credit-card-pulse

* "'He is a cheat.': Devastating court penalty shatters myth of Trump business savvy for good:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-he-is-a-cheat-devastating-court-penalty-shatters-myth-of-trump-business-savvy-for-good-204398661867

* "Trump meets his match in U.S. justice system with another staggering court loss:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-meets-his-match-in-u-s-justice-system-with-another-staggering-court-loss-204403269637

* "Trump's New York hush money trial will start March 25:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1231707111/trump-hush-money-case-new-york-trial

* "Stormy Monday: More than just a hush money case, Trump's first criminal trial gets a date:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/stormy-monday-more-than-just-a-hush-money-case-trump-s-first-criminal-trial-gets-a-date-204328517812



* "Kansas City police link Super Bowl rally shooting to dispute, not extremism:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-seek-clues-kansas-city-mass-shooting-with-3-people-custody-2024-02-15/

* "Livid Kansas City congressman rips thoughts-and-prayers Congress for doing 'nothing at all' on guns:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/livid-kansas-city-congressman-rips-thoughts-and-prayers-congress-for-doing-nothing-at-all-on-guns-204251205598

* "‘I’m pissed off’: Jason Kander reacts to mass shooting at Chiefs Super Bowl parade:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-i-m-pissed-off-jason-kander-reacts-to-mass-shooting-at-chiefs-super-bowl-parade-204241477785

* "Fox News and GOP politicians falsely claim Lakewood Church shooter was transgender:" https://www.advocate.com/news/false-transgender-claim-texas-shooter

* "Four high school students shot in Atlanta:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/four-high-school-students-shot-atlanta-2024-02-14/

* "13-year-old accidentally shoots 11-year-old sibling in Whatcom County:" https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/13-year-old-accidentally-shoots-11-year-old-sibling-whatcom-county/H6JSPMYSDFDIJMETWJ5OWD7SSU/

* "Transgender people are being killed at an alarming rate, especially in the South:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-homicides-alarming-rate

* "Libs of TikTok loses it after Kansas university participates in ‘Glitter Ash Wednesday’ event:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kansas-university-glitter-ash-wednesday

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Kandy Muse assaulted & groped at a club — shares details of what happened:" https://www.advocate.com/news/rupauls-drag-race-kandy-muse

* "The Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender … Are They? Recent Ivy League dramas have made women leaders in academia wonder how far they’ve really come.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/us/colleges-antisemitism-gender.html

* "Trans 18-year-old sues hospital for last-minute cancellation of gender-affirming surgery:" https://www.advocate.com/trans-teen-sues-hospital

* "Polish state TV host: Our anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric was shameful:" https://www.advocate.com/news/poland-tv-host-apologizes-homophobia

* "Greece approves marriage equality:" https://www.advocate.com/world/greece-approves-marriage-equality

* "Transgender teen girl stabbed 14 times at roller rink birthday party:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-girl-stabbed-14-times

* "Florida man arrested for defacing Pride intersection painted to honor Pulse nightclub victims:" https://www.advocate.com/pride-intersection-burnout-florida

* "New York Times continues to fail on trans issues one year after demands made:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/new-york-times-transgender-fail

* "Meet the newscaster in drag making LGBTQ+ history in Mexican television:" https://apnews.com/article/drag-queen-mexico-tv-barraza-verdrag-4fc003d08a24cef9a9427431004d784b

* CW: Suicide. "Black trans, nonbinary youth have higher suicide risk than cisgender queer peers:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/black-youth-suicide-risk-trevor

* CW: CSA, Sexual Assault, Suicide. "Three Days of Tragedy: How a VA Clinic’s Inability to Help Veterans in Crisis Destroyed Two Families:" https://www.propublica.org/article/when-veterans-cant-access-the-psychiatric-care-they-need

* A good summary of current prevention advice. "The Swiss Cheese Model of Covid Prevention:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/742090895497773056?source=share



* "If the Atlantic Ocean Loses Circulation, What Happens Next?:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-the-atlantic-ocean-loses-circulation-what-happens-next/

* "Up to 47% of Amazon Rainforest At Risk of Collapse by Mid-Century Due to ‘Unprecedented Stress’ From Global Warming and Deforestation:" https://earth.org/up-to-47-of-amazon-rainforest-at-risk-of-collapse-by-mid-century-due-to-unprecedented-stress-from-global-warming-and-deforestation/

* "Climate change is erasing previous gains in air quality — fires are mostly to blame:" https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24066572/air-pollution-quality-climate-change-wildfire-smoke-smog

* "The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/the-perverse-policies-that-fuel-wildfires

* "Hurricanes are getting so intense, scientists propose a Category 6:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/02/05/hurricanes-category6/

* "Victorian fires live: Half a million Victorians without power as bushfires, storms wreak havoc:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-13/live-blog-vic-fires-watch-and-act-warnings-grampians-wimmera/103459362

* "Blizzard conditions bear down on central US, closing schools and highways:" https://apnews.com/article/winter-storm-weather-09d8e810fc5d80a34ef8bf008bfec7a1

* "Los Angeles’s Floods Show Why Sewers Matter:" https://newrepublic.com/article/178814/sewers-floods-california-climate



* "Driver dead, 5 injured when vehicle crashes into emergency room in Austin:" https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/1-person-killed-and-10-injured-when-vehicle-crashes-into-emergency-room-in-austin/3461627/

* "Climate change is fueling the disappearance of the Aral Sea. It’s taking residents’ livelihoods, too:" https://apnews.com/article/kazakhstan-uzbekistan-aral-sea-drying-climate-change-cb565954d5bd2ef72c02a1db8231800d

* "Demand for minerals sparks fear of mining abuses on Indigenous peoples' lands:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1226125617/demand-for-minerals-sparks-fear-of-mining-abuses-on-indigenous-peoples-lands

* "The Case for Destroying Old Forest Roads:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/case-destroying-old-forest-roads-180983693/

* "Instagram and Threads won't promote ‘political’ content. No one knows what they define as ‘political’:" https://www.advocate.com/business/instagram-threads-no-longer-politics

* "Elon Musk demands users stop ‘deadnaming’ Twitter after Stephen King trolls the billionaire:" https://www.advocate.com/news/elon-musk-stephen-king-deadname

* "Ingenuity Mars helicopter mission ends after 72 flights:" https://spacenews.com/ingenuity-mars-helicopter-mission-ends-after-72-flights/

* "Zoozve — the strange 'moon' of Venus that earned its name by accident:" https://www.space.com/venus-quasi-moon-zoozve-radiolab-nasa

* "Japan's space agency says it may now have clues about the origins of the moon:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1231636892/japans-origins-of-the-moon

* "Big, dead European satellite will crash back to Earth this month:" https://www.space.com/european-space-agency-ers-2-satellite-reentry-preview

* "The ‘Unthinkable’ New Reality About Bedbugs:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/02/bedbugs-pesticide-resistant-tropical/677415/

* "James Holman, the “Blind Traveller”:" https://daily.jstor.org/james-holman-the-blind-traveller/

* "LOST PHOTOGRAPHS OF BLACK AMERICA:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/ernest-cole-true-america-photographs/677169/

* "How a Nuclear Weapons Lab Helped Crack a Serial-Killer Case:" https://undark.org/2024/02/09/wilo-serial-killer-nuclear-lab/

* "Steven Ostrow, creator of NYC's legendary Continental Baths, dead at 91:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/steven-ostrow-continental-baths-dead

* "In this centuries-old English pancake race, ‘you just have to go flat out’:" https://apnews.com/article/britain-pancake-race-england-3e6e2c1ed8b9aefefe7d13e9944009cb

* The decoy computer is not working as a decoy, but he likes sitting in front of it and staring at the cardboard "screen" as if contemplating how to reply to important email when Goth Millennial and I are on the sofa.

Monday, I was an hour later leaving for bureaucracy than intended, basically because my limbs were barely working. This turned an hourish errand into a two and a half hour errand. (Does not count the commute.) This ate nearly all the spoons I had. I ended up eating bread and the forage bananas for first meal, because I had the shakes and nothing left really for even cup of soup prep.

I took my eat with food meds and went to lie down, alarming the cats because this was a break in routine. They did settle down with me. Eventually. I was in far too much pain to sleep. sometimes you just have to lie still and see if it helps. after an hour or so, it became clear I'd need the strong meds and lying down was actually making the pain worse, so up I got to try to sort things. I couldn't even Start physio exercises until well after midnight and couldn't complete.

Tuesday is better, but not great. Sigh. Torture appointment is Wednesday.

And then a computer hiccup ate an evening's worth of work. I recreated most of it in about two hours. And then Firefox crashed wiping all my tabs. I spent an hour trying to recreate what I could as they weren't in history: recently closed pages for some reason. I lost so much data tonight and wasted so much time and energy. *facepalm*

I am seriously worried that I won't get enough rehab done in time.

* Wednesday's arm torture appointment was a nightmare. The new exercises are incredibly hard and painful. I was such a mess that I took home Goth Millennial early so I could go to bed eightish.

I am still slugglish to stand for more than a minute, which is really fucking with Thursday physio exercises, about half of which require standing. My system is under to much stress for my always barely function body temperature regulation to work. I keep getting the shakes and had trouble getting spaghetti to the table. I still have a bunch of sets to go as of this writing at 8:15PM. I outright couldn't do more than seven of the worst of the new ones and have nixed it for the night.

* "Carnival in Brazil: Scenes from the Sambadromes:" https://www.reuters.com/pictures/carnival-brazil-scenes-sambadromes-2024-02-12/

* "The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion:" https://file770.com/the-2023-hugo-awards-a-report-on-censorship-and-exclusion/comment-page-1/

* "Postgame Time:"

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* "Miss Universe National Costume 2023:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/742216698580566016?source=share

* "Superb Owl Sunday Sweets:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/superb-owl-sunday-sweets-2024

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* Protests can work. "Clashes between police, protesters in Tel Aviv after Netanyahu pauses judicial overhaul:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-03-26/ty-article-live/senior-likud-members-hint-at-opposing-judicial-overhaul/00000187-1c81-d4ca-afff-1d89ee5b0000

* "Police using ‘excessive force’ at France protests, rights groups say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/26/france-police-violence-protests-retirement/

* "French police counter protest violence; garbage strike ends:" https://apnews.com/article/france-macron-protests-pensions-retirement-police-3b441f92ebac633c89207e7dbd5fe697

* "South Korea has the world's lowest fertility rate, a struggle with lessons for us all:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/19/1163341684/south-korea-fertility-rate

* "Hong Kong's 'villain-hitting' ritual draws crowds:" https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-villain-hitting-whacking-tradition-cdc90e423d73ffbdb8872ea55f0d5ae4

* "Belarus says it will host Russian nuclear weapons to counter NATO:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belarus-says-it-decided-host-russian-nuclear-weapons-after-nato-pressure-2023-03-28/

* "Why the Journalist Arrested in Russia Won’t Be Another Brittney Griner:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/31/russia-journalist-magazine-interview-00089877

* "Bolsonaro Returns to Brazil, Ending Self-Imposed Exile:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/world/americas/bolsonaro-returns-brazil.html

* "Oscar Pistorius, South African Olympian, is denied parole in his girlfriend's murder:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1167450979/oscar-pistorius-parole-denied-south-africa-reeva-steenkamp

* "Tory immigration bill could be ‘death sentence’ for refugees with HIV, MPs warn:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/illegal-immigration-bill-small-boats-hiv-lgbtq/

* "Homophobia, racism and misogyny rife in England’s fire services, report finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/fire-and-rescue-service-england-homophobia-racism-misogyny/

* "UK's controversial voter ID law – what it means for trans and non-binary people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/voted-id-trans-non-binary-uk/

* Good News! "Humza Yousaf winning SNP leadership is a 'relief', say queer members:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/humza-yousaf-snp-leadership-lgbtq/

* "New SNP leader Humza Yousaf promises legal challenge against Tory gender block:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/snp-leader-humza-yousaf-gender-recognition-section-35/

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* "Ukraine shuts 'post-apocalyptic' battlefield town to civilians:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-slams-putin-rhetoric-nuclear-weapons-belarus-2023-03-27/

* "Ukraine hits Russian-held city deep behind front as talk of counteroffensive grows:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-forces-making-no-headway-bakhmut-avdiivka-ukraine-says-2023-03-28/

* "Queer Ukrainian soldier makes desperate plea for same-sex marriage to be legalised:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/ukraine-same-sex-marriage-demand/

* "Separated by war, a Ukrainian family balances safety, duty and love:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/ukraine-war-anniversary-families-frontline/

* "Soils of war: The toxic legacy for Ukraine's breadbasket:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/soils-war-toxic-legacy-ukraines-breadbasket-2023-03-01/

* "The 'Ukrainian Banksy' has remained in Kharkiv despite Russian attacks:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/25/1166093764/the-ukrainian-banksy-has-remained-in-kharkiv-despite-russian-attacks

* "How Russian Journalists in Exile Are Covering the War in Ukraine:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/how-russian-journalists-in-exile-are-covering-the-war-in-ukraine

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* "Can Harris’s Visit Shore Up U.S. Relations With Africa?:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/29/kamala-harris-africa-ghana-tanzania-zambia-visit-us-china/

* The guards decided to walk away, leaving people to burn to death rather then unlock them before leaving. As far as I'm concerned that's murder. "A deadly Mexico immigration center fire shows just a sliver of the abuse migrants see:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1166947456/ciudad-juarez-detention-fire-conditions-migrants-treatment

* "He came to D.C. as a Brazilian student. The U.S. says he was a Russian spy.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/29/russian-spy-brazilian-student-washington/

* "Reclaiming U.S. Industry:" https://prospect.org/economy/2023-01-24-biden-american-industrial-policy/

* "Activist group led by Ginni Thomas received nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/03/28/ginni-thomas-crowdsourcers-anonymous-donations/

* "The Silicon Valley Bank Contagion Is Just Beginning:" https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-fallout/

* "How Gen Z's changing priorities are changing the face of work:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/23/how-gen-zs-changing-priorities-are-changing-the-face-of-work/

* "30 People Tell Us What Homelessness Is Really Like:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/10/headway/homelessness-mental-health-us.html?unlocked_article_code=MMNnOmLwwCB0dGHQJjPQ06R6r7StFi73JHHnu7YKrLYOGUUr9C6E1Jg7olVznjw9l37B99MtDqufRe9omEm01Mx7hMfiGWxKKB1ZCfG7DqIETtU0mhEUm3BFSPUnv5IFOXblCr3k5G_9GNWGI4nPJ2NFV7tC6k4lr7ZRaAoCWfW9Y1hFNkgXF7768EsNWz2-RYdl2du6HmfRIO8FNIHkYADUA9CQy3TqTegpMOapAEd9NFlgLvCdRDSYevL3QCsadmEmHYrvMLqwrZn9tTr83W-UV1XC2qbNelcUnNLtviRg5QsDZM-gyATpiu9s2tHfLTEOZFYodHy9EXSZHbTNmSu3LFqsH78ggaw7tNNkOQhcgHdGIYVp3g&smid=url-share?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=emai

* The Republican War on Health Care continues. "Texas judge invalidates ACA promise of free preventive health services:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03/30/affordable-care-act-judge-oconnor/

* "In clash with Bernie Sanders, Starbucks' Howard Schultz insists he's no union buster:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166277326/starbucks-bernie-sanders-howard-schultz-union-hearing

* "Sanders on Starbucks union busting: Even billionaires have to obey the law:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sanders-on-starbucks-union-busting-even-billionaires-have-to-obey-the-law-167098437792

* "Senate votes to repeal Iraq War authorization:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1165581083/aumf-iraq-war-senate

* "McCarthy demands meeting with Biden. White House: Show us your budget.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/28/mccarthy-biden-budget/

* "In Congress, little urgency to address gun violence with legislation:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/29/congress-little-urgency-address-gun-violence-with-legislation/

* "McCarthy dodges questions about assault weapons ban after Nashville school shooting:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-leader-dodges-questions-assault-weapons-ban-after/story?id=98236644

* "Rep. Jamaal Bowman confronts GOP colleague on guns:" https://www.salon.com/2023/03/29/theyre-all-cowards-rep-jamaal-bowman-confronts-colleague-on/

* "Biden won't veto Republican-led bill ending COVID emergency:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-biden-senate-national-emergency-bill-f0e08810c28cc648a9b778a86d2dc7e1

* The Republican War on the Environment continues. "House Republicans pass marquee energy bill in rebuke of Biden:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/30/house-republicans-marquee-energy-bill-00089529

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

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

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

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

* "Texas GOP Proposes Bill To Allow Sec Of State To Overturn Election Results In State’s Largest Blue County:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-gop-proposes-bill-to-allow-sec-of-state-to-overturn-election-results-in-states-largest-blue-county

* "Ex-Fox News Producer Asks To Correct The Testimony She Gave In Dominion Case:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ex-fox-news-producer-asks-to-correct-the-testimony-she-gave-in-dominion-case

* "Here's what Fox News was trying to hide in its Dominion lawsuit redactions:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/dominion-releases-previously-redacted-slides-fox-news-lawsuit-rcna77257

* "New Fox emails: CEO says Trump fact-checks are ‘bad for business’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-fox-emails-ceo-says-trump-fact-checks-are-bad-for-business-167096901719

* "DeSantis’ Culture Warrior: ‘We Are Now Over the Walls’:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/24/chris-rufo-desantis-anti-woke-00088578

* "Three TikTok users go viral for their prank trolling Truth Social app:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tiktok-users-viral-prank-truth-social-app-rcna76371

* "A Trump rally, a right-wing cause and the enduring legacy of Waco:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/a-trump-rally-a-right-wing-cause-and-the-enduring-legacy-of-waco/

* "Trump 'Went to Waco to Bring Back Visions' of Cult Leader David Koresh, Democratic Rep. Says:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-waco-rally-david-koresh-cult-1234703923/

* "Trump, facing potential indictment, celebrates Jan. 6 insurrectionists at Waco rally:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-03-25/trump-invokes-jan-6-at-waco-rally-ahead-of-possible-charges

* "Donald Trump launches chilling attack on trans rights at Waco rally:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/donald-trump-trans-rights-2024-campaign/

* "Trump starts Waco rally with song by Jan. 6 prison choir :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-starts-waco-rally-with-song-by-jan-6-prison-choir-166950469655

* "Disney's Middle Finger To DeSantis Was A Love Note To Lawyers:" https://www.wonkette.com/disney-s-middle-finger-to-desantis-was-a-love-note-to-lawyers

* "Gay congressman Mark Takano on his global fight for LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/20/mark-takano-gay-congressman-lgbtq-japan/

* "George Santos Finally Admits He Is a Fraudster in Brazil:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-santos-finally-admits-hes-a-fraudster-in-brazil

* "Republicans let gay thirst trap lawmaker keep job after Instagram scandal:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/randy-mcnally-gay-instagram-thirst-trap/

* "Florida's ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Author Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charges:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/dont-say-gay-author-guilty

* "Leaked Emails Show GOP Lawmaker, Anti-Trans Activists Discuss Holy War:" https://www.advocate.com/news/north-dakota-anti-trans-emails

* "Gay Republican accused of encouraging paedophilia by GOP over same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/gay-republican-chris-sander-same-sex-marriage/

* "Republican Lawmaker Asks Lesbian Colleague if She’s a Pedophile:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/rhode-island-republican-lesbian-colleague

* "AOC shuts down LibsOfTikTok founder in six epic seconds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/aoc-chaya-raichik-libs-of-tiktok/

* "Utah Republicans Try To Accuse Romney Of Treason In Upcoming Censure Vote:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/utah-republicans-try-to-accuse-romney-of-treason-in-upcoming-censure-vote/ar-AA19hgwP?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a82419441e73440599fefba0decd9d1d&ei=8

* "Prosecutor oversight bill headed to Kemp; local control concerns dismissed - Georgia Recorder:" https://georgiarecorder.com/2023/03/27/prosecutor-oversight-bill-headed-to-kemp-local-control-concerns-dismissed/

* "Georgia bill is latest GOP effort targeting prosecutors:" https://apnews.com/article/georgia-prosecutor-district-attorney-remove-discipline-dd06c56d0d0672e38ef11f4c63dda468

* "OPINION: Fani Willis blasts GOP move to rein in local prosecutors:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/opinion-as-republicans-move-against-local-das-fani-willis-fights-back/XOGOZNJDHJDI3JFKKZVZOFOQWY/

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* "Trump hush money probe ends day without voting after appearance from ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/27/politics/david-pecker-national-enquirer-trump-hush-money-investigation/

* "Donald Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury on more than 30 counts related to business fraud:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/donald-trump-indictment/index.html

* "Sen. Rand Paul says Manhattan DA leading Trump investigation should 'be put in jail':" https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-rand-paul-says-manhattan-191533879.html

* "Right-wing host calls for military to execute Obama if Trump is indicted:" https://www.salon.com/2023/03/20/right-wing-host-calls-for-military-to-execute-obama-if-is-indicted/

* "Donald Trump facing criminal charges and Stormy Daniels is sipping champagne:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/donald-trump-indicted-stormy-daniels/

* "Hayes: Why Trump's indictment isn't actually some 'crazy departure from reality':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-why-trump-s-indictment-isn-t-actually-some-crazy-departure-from-reality-167327813552

* "‘Karma’: Exonerated Central Park 5 member reacts to Trump indictment:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-karma-exonerated-central-park-5-member-reacts-to-trump-indictment-167327813954

* "Trump's Lawyers Keep Crime-Fraud-ing:"

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* "Mike Pence must testify about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, judge rules:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/politics/mike-pence-grand-jury-testimony/index.html

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* "How Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt became a MAGA martyr:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-jan-6-rioter-ashli-babbitt-became-a-maga-martyr-167027269719

* "Two More Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters Have Fled Charges, Bringing Total to Six:" https://theintercept.com/2023/03/10/jan-6-capitol-riot-fugitives/

* "How the AR-15 became a powerful political, cultural symbol in America:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-america-gun-culture-politics/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001

* "Gun advocate Tucker Carlson furious at trans people carrying guns:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/25/gun-advocate-tucker-carlson-rants-about-tran-people-carrying-guns/

* "After Mass Shootings, Republicans Expand Access to Guns:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/us/nashville-gun-laws.html

* "Permit to buy handgun no longer required in North Carolina:" https://apnews.com/article/pistol-permit-veto-override-north-carolina-b9d0ee55bf658ca72043bd3f706b128f

* "Nashville shooter who killed 6 drew maps, surveilled school:" https://wtop.com/national/2023/03/suspect-dead-after-shooting-at-nashville-private-school/

* "4 big questions about the Nashville school shooting (and what we know so far):" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166804786/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-hale

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed for transphobic Nashville school shooting comment:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-nashville-school-shooting/

* "The right exploits Nashville shooting to escalate anti-trans rhetoric:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03/30/nashville-shooting-transgender-shooter/

* "Republican Keith R Swank mercilessly trolled after inane school shooting tweet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/keith-r-swank-arsewank-twitter/

* "'Pissed off at cowards and profiteers': Outrage grows over gun safety inaction:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-pissed-off-at-cowards-and-profiteers-outrage-grows-over-gun-safety-inaction-166957125535

* "Prevalence of mass shootings extends reach of gun violence across communities:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prevalence-of-mass-shootings-extends-reach-of-gun-violence-across-communities-166959173767

* It’s only going to keep happening more often since people who were in school after the assault weapons ban lapsed, dramatically increasing the number of deaths, are now covering the mass murders. "Prevalence of mass shootings extends reach of gun violence across communities:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/slotkin-gun-views-are-changing-and-lawmakers-are-the-last-to-realize-167026757608

* "Hayes: The new attitude of GOP lawmakers is ‘American life is cheap’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-the-new-attitude-of-gop-lawmakers-is-american-life-is-cheap-167026757836

* "What do race and ethnicity mean? The US government is asking:" https://apnews.com/article/race-ethnicity-census-mena-hispanic-jewish-black-d25d02d3ec3e5f75aaa3ad8e6da331fe

* "Ron DeSantis Wants to Make It a Felony to Have an Undocumented Person in Your Home or Car:" https://newrepublic.com/post/171137/ron-desantis-florida-bill-felony-undocumented-person-home-car

* "TSA confirms plans to mandate mug shots for domestic air travel – Papers, Please!:" https://papersplease.org/wp/2023/03/15/tsa-confirms-plans-to-mandate-mug-shots-for-domestic-air-travel/

* "Irvo Otieno’s last days: How a mental health system ‘completely failed’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/25/irvo-otieno-mental-health-system-failures/

* "Idaho GOP Channels Trump With Plan to Bring Back Firing Squad:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/idaho-death-firing-squad-1234701499/

* "How one city ended prison gerrymandering:" https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/how-one-city-ended-prison-gerrymandering/

* A Cop City news round up with ways to help resisters: https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/713102785183383552?source=share

* How does this make sense let alone work? "Twitter now allows "non-toxic slurs" as long as the slurs are not hate speech:" https://boingboing.net/2023/03/24/twitter-now-allows-non-toxic-slurs-as-long-as-the-slurs-are-not-hate-speech.html

* "Church hosting drag event firebombed with Molotov cocktail by 'pathetic Nazis':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/community-church-chesterland-drag-queen-story-time-bomb-attack/

* "Neo-Nazis threatened a drag show at a Cookeville bar. Now the bar is facing eviction.:" https://wpln.org/post/neo-nazis-threatened-a-drag-show-at-a-cookeville-bar-now-the-bar-is-facing-eviction/

* "Book Sanctuary Cities Like Chicago Are a Response to Book Bans, Censorship:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/book-sanctuaries-chicago-toronto-libraries

* "Florida fears Don't Say Gay could remain for decades:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/dont-say-gay-florida-lgbtq-one-year/

* "Opinion | The anti-LGBTQ lies at the core of Florida's newest law:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/desantis-signs-don-t-say-gay-law-built-anti-lgbtq-n1293471

* "Opinion | A Florida School Banned a Disney Movie About Ruby Bridges. Here’s What That Really Means.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/opinion/florida-school-disney-ruby-bridges.html

* "Arkansas House approves bill to hold libraries accountable for ‘obscene’ material:" https://arkansasadvocate.com/2023/03/15/arkansas-house-approves-bill-to-hold-libraries-accountable-for-obscene-material/

* "Library defies bigots who tried label LGBTQ+ kids’ books ‘criminal’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/29/louisiana-st-tammany-lgbtq-library-book-ban/

* "Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton song ‘Rainbowland’ banned by school:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/miley-cyrus-dolly-parton-rainbowland-wisconsin-school-ban/

* "TERFs and the Fascist Roots of Anti-Trans Movements:"

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* CW: Sexual Assault "Marilyn Manson Harmed MINORS? New Lawsuit & Case Updates:"

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* "Nation Convicts Man of 'Stealthing' Partner During Sex:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/law-crime/nation-convicts-condoms

* "Alabama 5th Grade Girls Basketball Team Denied Title After Beating Boys' Team, Sparks Outrage:" https://www.ibtimes.sg/alabama-5th-grade-girls-basketball-team-denied-title-after-beating-boys-team-sparks-outrage-69326

* "In India, These Trailblazing Female Stunt Bikers Rule the Road:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/india-female-woman-stunt-bikers

* "UK Athletics confirms ban on trans women on Trans Day of Visibility:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/uk-athletics-ban-trans-women/

* "Young Afghan women train as midwives for out-of-reach villages:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/womens-day-afghanistan/

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* "Idaho Is About To Be The First State To Restrict Interstate Travel For Abortion Post-Roe:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-abortion-bill-trafficking-travel_n_641b62c3e4b00c3e6077c80b

* "Idaho set to restrict interstate travel for abortions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/idaho-set-to-restrict-interstate-travel-for-abortions-167095365802

* "How Florida uses a little-known law to punish abortion clinics:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/26/florida-abortion-law-ban-00088815

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* "UN urges Ugandan president to block 'disturbing' LGBTQ+ bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/23/uganda-lgbtq-bill-gay-law-ban/

* "White House suggests Uganda could face sanctions if LGBTQ+ ban becomes law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/23/white-house-uganda-lgbtq/

* "Uganda passes bill making LGBTQ+ lives illegal and punishable with jail time:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/22/uganda-homosexuality-new-bill-illegal/

* "LGBTQ+ Ugandans ‘shaken, worried and scared’ after terrifying gay ban passes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/24/uganda-lgbtq-anti-homosexuality-bill/

* "MPs urge government to help LGBTQ+ Ugandans fleeing anti-homosexuality bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/24/uganda-lgbtq-bill-uk-asylum-refugees/

* "LGBTQ+ Ugandans ‘shaken, worried and scared’ after terrifying gay ban passes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/24/uganda-lgbtq-anti-homosexuality-bill/

* "Uganda's anti-LGBTQ+ bill result of insidious global push:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/25/uganda-lgbtq-bill-evangelical-christians/

* "Kamala Harris backs Africa's LGBTQ+ community in wake of cruel Uganda bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/kamala-harris-uganda-lgbtq/

* "Transgender Man's Killer Ordered to Rehab:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-killer-germany

* "Australian MP who spoke at Posie Parker rally suspended – but avoids being sacked:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/moira-deeming-australia-liberal-mp-posie-parker-kellie-jay-keen-minshull/

* "New Zealand minister won't apologise for saying 'white cis men' cause most violence:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/new-zealand-male-violence-marama-davidson-posie-parker/

* "Report attacking trans 'ideology' in schools could 'put kids in danger':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/policy-exchange-trans-schools-report/

* "Man Convicted of Killing Boyfriend Over Grindr DMs Sentenced to Life:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/man-murder-grindr-messages-boyfriend

* "Homophobe found guilty of murdering gay man with hammer in cemetery:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/23/erik-fled-ranjith-kankanamalage-london-cemetery-hammer-murder/

* "Lesbian Project's first meeting met with joyful pro-trans protest: 'We are one community':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/26/the-lesbian-project-the-dyke-project/

* "New poll confirms what trans people already knew about transitioning:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/26/majority-of-trans-people-are-happier-after-transitioning-survey-finds/

* "Idaho governor signs 'stigmatising' anti-trans bathroom bill into law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/26/idaho-brad-little-bathroom-bill-anti-trans-law/

* "State Lawmakers Want to Ban Health Insurance for Trans Care:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/health-insurance-for-transgender-care-at-risk-in-tennessee-florida-wyoming-kentucky-and-arkansas

* He's declared gender affirming care illegal without any process because he's decided to lie that puberty blockers are somehow experimental, despite decades of them being in wide use. "Missouri AG seeks to restrict gender-affirming care for minors :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/politics/missouri-gender-affirming-care-trans-restriction/index.html

* "Conversion Therapy Ban Fails in a Missouri County Held by Democrats:" https://www.advocate.com/news/conversion-therapy-ban-fails-missouri

* "Iowa Gov. Signs Transphobic Gender-Affirming Care Ban and Bathroom Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gender-care-bathroom-ban-iowa

* "Kentucky forces through 'worst anti-trans bill in the US' – but the fight continues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/kentucky-trans-healthcare-bill-ban-veto/

* "Colorado emerges as a refuge for transgender children and their families:" https://coloradosun.com/2023/03/25/transgender-children-colorado-health-safety/

* "Sarah Huckabee Sanders Signs Trans Bathroom Ban Bill Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/arkansas-transgender-bathroom-ban

* "Utah Governor Signs Conversion Therapy Ban Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/news/conversion-therapy-utah-ban-governor

* "Buster Murdaugh Says He Wasn't Involved in Gay Student's Death:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/buster-murdaugh-stephen-smith

* "Georgia County Pays $1.2 Million to Fight Gender-Affirming Care Suit:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-affirming-care-lawsuit-deputy

* "Matthew Shepard’s father warns of history repeating itself with anti-trans hate:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/27/matthew-shepard-dennis-shepard-anti-trans-hate-warning/

* "It’s 1992 in Seattle, and it’s already about eradication :" https://solarbird.net/blog/1992/11/11/its-1992-in-seattle-and-its-already-about-eradication/

* "Transphobic Christian School Banned From Vermont Sports League:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/vermont-transphobic-christian-school

* "Women’s World Cup row brewing over pro-LGBTQ+ OneLove armbands:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/fifa-womens-world-cup-july-onelove-armband/

* "Mae Martin explains why they call out Dave Chappelle in new Netflix special:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/29/mae-martin-netflix-special-sap-dave-chappelle-trans-jokes/

* "NHS outed HIV service users in ‘distressing’ data breach:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/hiv-data-breach-nhs-highland/

* "ME/CFS: The Neglected Pandemic:" https://theotter.ca/me-cfs-neglected-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR3bKosyhfHX0aKiuP2HgPmLwnWoxUTy8emkHbPM_KV5JsPBC5Mi88b2GoQ&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

* "As African kids died, doctors fought for ban on toxic Indian syrup:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coughsyrup/

* "FDA approves first over-the-counter Narcan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/29/fda-otc-narcan-spray-approval-00089376

* "How People With Dementia Make Sense of the World:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/03/dementia-caregiver-imposter-delusion-paranoia/673308/

* "Long Covid is associated with significantly increased risk of death, heart and lung problems, study finds:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/health/long-covid-health-consequences/index.html

* "The knowns — and known unknowns — of long Covid, explained:" https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2023/3/13/23627229/long-covid-science-symptoms-treatments

* "COVID-19 made pulse oximeters ubiquitous. Engineers are fixing their racial bias : Short Wave:" https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1156166554/covid-19-pulse-oximeters-racial-bias

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* "Snow has been a no-show for some traditionally wintry cities:" https://apnews.com/article/snow-winter-east-coast-climate-warm-0e20875c070df8c57a5f04f29749b9d0

* "Before disastrous flood, officials knew Pajaro River levee could fail but took no action:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-12/authorities-knew-the-levee-could-fail

* "Another storm is expected to bring more snow and flooding to California:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166720998/california-storm-snow-rain

* "Rolling Fork, the birthplace of Muddy Waters, has faced tornado and flooding concerns for years.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/us/rolling-fork-tornado.html

* "Philadelphia Monitoring Water Supply After Chemical Spill:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/us/delaware-river-latex-chemical-spill.html

* "The Mexican Firefighting Crew That Saves Lives Across the Border:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-mexican-firefighting-crew-that-saves-lives-across-the-border

* "Scientists fear a Great Toxic Dustbowl could soon emerge from the Great Salt Lake:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/us/utah-great-salt-lake-dust-pollution-weir-wxc/index.html

* "A train carrying ethanol derails and catches fire in Minnesota, evacuation lifted:" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1166998646/minnesota-train-derailment-evacuation-fire-ethanol

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* "Facing floods: What the world can learn from Bangladesh's climate solutions:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/03/26/1165779335/facing-floods-what-the-world-can-learn-from-bangladeshs-climate-solutions

* "Hit With Extreme Weather, Texas Cities Debate Cost of Adaptation:" https://undark.org/2023/02/07/hit-with-extreme-weather-texas-cities-debate-cost-of-adaptation/

* "Opinion: Don't call it a comeback: California's Tulare Lake never really went away:" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-29/tulare-lake-california-floods-storms

* "How Climate Change Is Making Tampons (and Lots of Other Stuff) More Expensive:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/climate/climate-change-cotton-tampons.html

* "Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them in Indonesia:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-plastic-dow-shoes/

* "The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big Deal:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-electron-is-having-a-magnetic-moment-its-a-big-deal/

* "Scientists complete first map of an insect brain:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/insect-brain-first-map-complete-b2297867.html

* CW: Animal Death "In a Famed Kenyan Game Park, the Animals Are Giving Up:" https://undark.org/2023/01/04/in-a-famed-kenyan-game-park-the-animals-are-giving-up/

* "An Icelandic Town Goes All Out to Save Baby Puffins:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/icelandic-town-goes-all-out-save-baby-puffins-180981518/

* "Is There an Ethical Way to Kill Rats? Should We Even Ask?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/science/rats-rodents-trapping.html

* "Dwarf elephants? Giant rats? Strange island creatures at high risk:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/dwarf-elephants-giant-rats-strange-island-creatures-high-risk-2023-03-09/

* "First evidence for horseback riding dates back 5,000 years:" https://apnews.com/article/horse-horseback-riding-archeology-5caf7da564dbafad6aa50379b0927220

* "Were These Beetles Once as Valuable as Gemstones?:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/beetle-jewelry-status-symbol

* "Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-scrolls-are-being-read-new-xray-technique-180969358/

* "Did Christians Hate Vikings? Part Two: Crosses, Archaeology and Runes:"

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* "Michelangelo’s Illustrated Grocery List:" https://www.openculture.com/2023/02/michelangelos-illustrated-grocery-list-2.html

* "The Untold Stories of the Women Who Led Slave Revolts:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/women-led-slave-revolts

* "For the Enslaved Potter David Drake, His Literary Practice Was His Resistance:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/dave-the-potters-resistance-was-his-literary-practice-180981707/

* "NOT brothel candles:" https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2023/02/26/not-brothel-candles/

* "Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron, confirming tragic story:" https://apnews.com/article/great-lakes-shipwreck-discovery-ironton-91f6db8e3c42d37b2f8ade7b4df0a4bb

* "History’s Oldest Color Photos Show How The World Looked Like in the Early 1900s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/oldest-color-photos-in-the-world/

* "Found: An 80-Year-Old Wedding Cake With a Tragic Past:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/historical-wedding-cake-topper

* "Chilean circus has fought LGBTQ discrimination for 54 years:" https://apnews.com/article/chile-circus-diversity-lgbtq-c608be081d6e2ca44e168c6c5af7bb8b

* "First trans man to medically transition became a monk after his heart was broken:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/laurence-michael-dillon-trans-man/

* "The incredible life of Roberta Cowell: Trans innovator, war pilot and racing driver:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/31/roberta-cowell-trans-woman-uk-history/

* "The Heroes of ACT UP Are Dying:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/heroes-act-up-are-dying

* "Paul O’Grady wanted police to apologise for 'homophobic' 1987 arrest:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/29/paul-o-grady-arrest-police-apology/

* "Suzy Eddie Izzard explains how Paul O'Grady helped her come out as trans:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/suzy-eddie-izzard-paul-ogrady-trans/

* "The Bizarre Origin of Florida Man:"

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* "A duo of 81-year-old women are on the adventure of a lifetime: Seeing the world in 80 days:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-81-year-old-women-are-on-the-adventure-of-a-lifetime-seeing-the-world-in-80-days/

* "In New York City, a Ukrainian Dance Company Finds Strength in Tradition:" https://www.vogue.com/article/the-ukrainian-dance-company-that-finds-strength-in-tradition

* "Pence Ordered to Testify | School Bans Dolly Parton’s “Rainbowland” | Gwyneth’s Rectal Ozone Therapy:"

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* "Fewer Guns Equals Fewer Shootings | DeSantis Steals T****’s Best Lines:"

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* "The Last of Us: The Tragic Potential of Queer Zombies:"

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* "Starship Troopers ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "10 musical set pieces that went WAY TOO HARD:"

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* "Doctor Who casts trans actor Pete MacHale in new season:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/30/doctor-who-new-cast-pete-machale-trans/

* "The January 6th Prisoners Choir Had It Comin’:"

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* "True Facts Animal Awards: Best Worst Jumping and More:"

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* "Kevin Aymoz skated the performance of his life at the 2023 World Championships.:"

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* I am still on a weird sleep schedule and dealing with assorted bodily inconveniences. Monday, my medical social worker patched me through to the lady the state pays to sort out that thing where you are on Medicare and medicaid and your health care is meant to be covered, but they send you bills anyway. I was up to two bills as a second came over the weekend from my trip over the mountains in February. I was on hold long enough to bake a veggie roast, but she fixed it. (I had put it in just before sitting down to make phone calls. Luckily I had it on cooking timer which turns the oven off automatically. The timer went off right when she came back on the line. It was fine. I had stuff to do on the computer).

Seriously, Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage) is magic. I have no idea how to fight these things myself and it's all exhausting.

All the filters have been cleaned except on the big air conditioner that stays in it's closet until it gets really hot, which I’m pretty sure I cleaned at end of season.. The dishes are all done except the one that held the roast leftovers I had for dinner. Mr bedding is clean and fresh. The Head Millennial is off and away. The cats had a great afternoon today watching birds and dog walkers with the window open. We are already into two of their favorite shows: Gazebo Birds and new fan favorite Mrs. Robin's neighborhood. The season premieres of other favorites such as The Hummingbirds, Butterflies, and that perennial crime drama: Murder of Crows. seriously cat TV is excellent here.

* I was worried enough about the state of my lungs to call it in first thing Monday morning. I was still testing negative for COVID, but my immune system can't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag and I catch anything and everything. I got the usual lung doctor, which is a massive help, on Tuesday morning, which was when they could squeeze me in. My file is basically the medical equivalent of war and Peace and having a person up on it who had been in close contact with my much missed already GP is a huge help. I get treated like an adult who is an expert on my own body instead of having to fight foe the basics. She knows how seriously I take antibiotics. Trusty me, it was a relief to see her.

So we did the usual routine tests. I am negative for COVID and the currently dominant strains of Influenza which is very helpful to know, but not surprising with my vaccine status. I was actually feeling better at this point. We set up the standard contingencies. We generally do this 4-6 times a year. I'm hard to diagnose because of the stunning collection of things wrong with me as a baseline.

They also took five vials of blood as part of my routine monitoring, which I need for the new GP In April. new is a relative term here. If I am remembering names correctly, I think he's the guy who's been subbing in for emergencies when my doctor ius off for years, but I am bad at names, so it's possible I'm wrong. Anyway, they need to test a tone of things every year unless my numbers are bad and then i do an extra three vials at the half year.

This literally took all morning and I was running on about 3 1/2 hours sleep, plus the draws always take a lot out of me. I got another 3-4 hours sleep before the alarm. The trip to the bathroom at that point was so debilitating, that there was nothing for it but to rest and try again in another hour. My body really, really thought lying still all evening was a good idea, but I'd promised squirrel laundry, assorted plants and animals rely on me to look after them, and I'd an online commitment that was important, plus other assorted things needing doing like eating, lungs, and assorted small household things.

I did all those things, but getting up was very much a mistake. I basically spent all evening struggling and mostly failing to keep water and meds down, so that was.... not good. As of Wednesday evening, I'm still futzing with laundry from yesterday. *fingers crossed that my body is stabilizing*

* The Pevensies’ trauma: https://www.tumblr.com/nsuenn/712999444920057856/ok-we-all-talk-about-the-pevensies-trauma-at?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Hot Takes:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/713065506943434752/midnight-pals-hot-takes?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.

* "You can now sponsor refugees yourself. Here’s how.:" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23569848/how-to-sponsor-refugees-welcome-corps-biden

* "LGBTQ Refugees Welcome campaign:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/lgbtq-refugees-welcome

* There's a new Indivisible Guide! "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* This is a long time friend of mine. They have secured future housing, but have spent everything in the previous fundraiser on gofundme to survive to this point and they need They need $5000 over the next couple months until their move in date.

Gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/hdykv-housing-crisis?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

You can also support them via their Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Kandrinchae/shop?fbclid=IwAR0E1PRHlG45LWhBfDtVpGigD1YUk9Njm-__SviL4W7C8JZUCppFc1oG9Gs%22

* 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. :

SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

They are also trying to GM for pay. They are an excellent GM. Here's where to sign up: https://startplaying.games/gm/1617744454089x564714756631343740

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

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Not Remotely All the News. Sort a Bit Rough.

Nov. 6th, 2022 07:47 am
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* (I made a small start on the queer news, but it's tiny compared to the prepped link. Very little after that point went up. The backlog is daunting and this coming week turns out to also be a monster scheduling wise, plus the election coverage about to hit. We are in the midst of all hands on deck cleaning for an inspection, for example. See below.).

* "As unrest grips Iran’s schools, the government is going after children:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/01/iran-protests-children-hijab-amini/

* "Cleric killed in restive Iranian city, protests rage on:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-human-rights-lawyers-criticise-clerical-leaders-amid-unrest-2022-11-03/

* CW: Child Murder "Children among 10 feared dead in Iran crackdown, Amnesty says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/middleeast/iran-protest-crackdown-amnesty-international-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Iranians defy crackdown with fresh protests, as president dismisses US vow to ‘free Iran’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/06/iranians-defy-crackdown-with-fresh-protests-as-president-dismisses-us-vow-to-free-iran

* "US and Saudi Arabia concerned that Iran may be planning attack on energy infrastructure in Middle East:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/us-saudi-arabia-iran-energy-infrastructure-middle-east/index.html

* Well, fuck! "Israel election final results: Netanyahu, Jewish far right win power, fiasco for left:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2022-11-03/ty-article/israel-election-final-results-netanyahu-jewish-far-right-win-power-fiasco-for-left/00000184-3e80-daf1-abc4-7f9a53f40000

* Re: Netanyahu

I’ve stated some form of this over the years any number of times, but in the current climate, I should reiterate it.

My dislike of Netanyahu and his ultra-right positions is specific to Netanyahu because of his ultra-right positions, his corruption, his policies, etc.. His party and allies have policies I oppose, much in the way I oppose Trump and the Republicans, Rishi Sunak (and Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, and every Tory PM back to the much hated Thatcher which was about when I started following UK Politics in real time), Viktor Orbán, Jair Bolsanaro, and a host of other horrible extreme right wing politicians the world over to numerous to list.

This does not and should not be taken for anger at the Israeli left or Jewish people the world over who did not vote for a right wing party in the recent Israeli election. There is a reason my coverage of Israeli politics mostly originates from left leaning Israeli news sources like Haaretz.

There is far too much violent antisemitism in the world right now, far to many politicians of every stripe happy to stoke antisemitism for personal power, far too many antisemitic movements and the like. In my country one of the two political parties with any power proudly embraces it.

This I am furious about and very much wish to fight against.

Please don’t take the recent election in Israel as an excuse to do or say something that harms real people who have nothing to do with it or were actively wanting a better outcome.

It is important to separate a dislike of a particular person for political reasons from a wider attack on a large group living in many countries famously holding a wide variety of beliefs and opinions.

I try very hard to do that in this space.

* A relief! "Denmark election result keeps Social Democrats at the helm:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/denmark-election-result-keeps-social-democrats-at-the-helm

* A massive relief!!! "Brazil election: Anti-LGBTQ+ tyrant Jair Bolsonaro beaten by leftist Lula:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/30/brazil-election-lula-beats-jair-bolsonaro-lgbtq/

* "Why Bolsonaro’s stunning loss should give humans a glimmer of hope:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/jair-bolsonaro-lula-brazilian-election-amazon-putin-ukraine/

* *digits cruciform* "We Might Finally Be Free From the Madness of Bolsonaro:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/opinion/brazil-election-lula-bolsonaro.html

* Let’s hope things go well for democracy. "Trucks, Protesters Block Brazil Highways After Bolsonaro Rout:" https://www.barrons.com/news/trucks-protesters-block-brazil-highways-after-bolsonaro-rout-01667224207

* "Steve Bannon says Bolsonaro can't concede as he rails against Biden and CIA:" https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-bolsonaro-brazil-election-lula-1755696

* "Brazil's Bolsonaro signals cooperation with transfer of power, but does not concede election defeat :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-elections-protests-intl-latam/index.html

* "Bolsonaro backers call on Brazil military to intervene after Lula victory:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolsonaro-backers-call-brazil-military-intervene-after-lula-victory-2022-11-02/

* "Rishi Sunak 'wants to gut trans rights from Equality Act':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/rishi-sunak-trans-equality-act/

* "New women's minister defends troubling voting record on women's rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/minister-for-women-maria-caulfield-abortion-clinic-vote/

* "Manston migrant centre like a zoo, says asylum seeker:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63481151

* "Dover petrol bomb attacker said he planned to ‘obliterate Muslim children’:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/02/migrant-centre-attacker-planned-to-obliterate-muslim-children-in-final-tweet

* "Russia’s security service works to subvert Moldova’s pro-Western government:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/28/russia-fsb-moldova-manipulation/

* "Russia Expected to OK Stricter 'Gay Propaganda' Law This Fall:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/17/russia-expected-ok-stricter-gay-propaganda-law-fall

* "Bi OnlyFans Creator Sentenced to Prison Over Using the Site:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/bi-onlyfans-creator-sentenced-prison-over-using-site

* "How Halloween revelry turned to disaster in South Korea:" https://graphics.reuters.com/SOUTHKOREA-STAMPEDE/CHRONOLOGY/zjvqjqmmlpx/index.html

* "North Korea fired the highest number of short-range missiles in a day, says South Korea:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/asia/north-korea-missiles-wednesday-intl-hnk

* "North Korea ICBM may have failed in flight, officials say; residents in Japan told to shelter:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-south-koreas-military-2022-11-02/

* "How Spain looked on as dozens were crushed to death at its border:" https://www.bbc.com/news/extra/z8i55dsu8w/spain-morocco-border

* "Czechs rally against rising extremism and voice support for Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czechs-rally-against-rising-extremism-voice-support-ukraine-2022-10-30/

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* "'Scrabble variants' now cause the majority of new Covid-19 infections in the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/health/covid-variants-dominant-bq/index.html

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* "For the first time, Iran acknowledges it sent drones to Russia:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/05/1134523148/ukraine-russia-war-iran-drones

* "Russia's hope for Ukraine win revealed in battle for Bakhmut:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russias-hope-for-ukraine-win-revealed-in-battle-for-bakhmut/2022/10/28/d81ceb7e-5692-11ed-ac8b-08bbfab1c5a5_story.html

* "Ukraine's 58th Brigade in the Heart of the Bakhmut Mire:" https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-s-58th-brigade-in-the-heart-of-the-bakhmut-mire-/6815660.html

* "Kyiv reels as 'massive' wave of missile strikes hit Ukrainian cities; wheat prices rise as grain deal stalls:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/31/ukraines-forces-repel-brutal-russian-offensive-in-donetsk-wheat-prices-rise-after-grain-export-deal-stumbles.html

* "Ukraine’s War Is Leading to a Nervous Breakdown:"

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* "Lions Rescued From Ukraine Find New Home:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/17/lions-rescued-ukraine-find-new-home

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* "US Announces New Sanctions on Iran for Bounty on Rushdie:" https://www.voanews.com/a/us-announces-new-sanctions-on-iran-for-bounty-on-rushdie-/6809948.html

* "Biden sends a stark warning about political violence ahead of midterms: 'We can't take democracy for granted any longer':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/politics/biden-speech-democracy-dc/index.html

* "Seeing danger in GOP election-deniers, Biden appeals to Americans to support democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/seeing-danger-in-gop-election-deniers-biden-appeals-to-americans-to-support-democracy-152373317527

* "Dowd: Biden realized there isn't a sane GOP holding election deniers accountable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-s-speech-addressing-threats-to-democracy-particularly-from-maga-republicans-praised-as-midterms-push-152353861727

* "Rep. Raskin: ‘Joe Biden was trying to strike that tone as the leader of the whole country’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-s-speech-on-attacks-and-threats-to-democracy-responded-to-by-rep-raskin-152356421932

* "Biden administration to provide over $13 billion in aid to help American families lower energy bills:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/02/biden-administration-to-provide-over-13-billion-in-aid-to-help-american-families-lower-energy-bills.html

* "More LGBTQ+ Spouses to Receive Survivors' Benefits, VA Announces:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/more-lgbtq-spouses-receive-survivors-benefits-va-announces

* "Rachel Levine Elected to National Academy of Medicine:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/21/rachel-levine-elected-national-academy-medicine

* "Conservatives Spew Transphobia at Already Anti-Trans Federal Agency:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/18/conservatives-spew-transphobia-already-anti-trans-federal-agency

* "Elie Mystal: Supreme Court pretended arguments in favor of affirmative action didn’t exist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-weighs-race-based-college-admissions-don-t-seem-supportive-of-campus-diversity-152115269631

* "Supreme Court to Hear LGBTQ+ Rights Case Before End of Year:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/10/19/supreme-court-hear-lgbtq-rights-case-end-year

* "White House Press Secretary Sits Down for an Exclusive Interview:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/white-house-press-secretary-sits-down-for-an-exclusive-interview-151959621696

* I have concerns. "Fed hikes interest rates again, up 0.75 percentage points:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/02/fed-rate-hike/

* "'Ripped off': Katie Porter on how price-gouging companies are driving inflation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ripped-off-katie-porter-on-how-price-gouging-companies-are-driving-inflation-152360005651

* "Living Homeless in the Desert:"

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* "What I Learned Watching a Co-Worker Get Forced Out:" https://index.medium.com/what-i-learned-watching-a-co-worker-get-forced-out-2418ca86411

* "Pennsylvania court orders election officials to not count ‘undated’ ballots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/01/pennsylvania-court-undated-ballots-00064549

* "Arizona, Michigan GOP ask voters to mail in ballots and use drop boxes as candidates and officials blast the practice:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/29/politics/kfile-arizona-michigan-gop-encourage-mail-ballots/index.html

* "Kristina Karamo seeks court order that could impact thousands of Detroit voters:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/28/kristina-karamo-lawsuit-detroit-votes/69598090007/

* "Lawyer in Karamo lawsuit targeting Detroit yells at judge, cites debunked film:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/11/03/hearing-karamo-lawsuit-targeting-detroit-voters/69616706007/

* "DeSantis Voter Fraud Unit Defends Arresting Former Felons:"

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* If people like this turn up at your door, close and lock it. Do not interact. "In the hunt for voter fraud, Republican door knockers are intimidating residents: officials:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/republican-door-knockers-intimidate-voters-while-hunting-voter-fraud-say-2022-11-03/

* "Election Officials Say Efforts to Intimidate Voters Are Widening:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/politics/voting-intimidation-democracy.html

* "Voter intimidation, election worker threats part of voting climate ahead of midterms:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/voter-intimidation-election-worker-threats-part-voting-climate/story?id=92505277

* "North Carolina reports possible voter intimidation, threats ahead of midterm elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/north-carolina-reports-possible-voter-intimidation-threats-ahead-midterms-2022-11-04/

* "Stacey Abrams - Fighting for Voting Access in Georgia:" https://www.cc.com/video/2hwoe3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-stacey-abrams-fighting-for-voting-access-in-georgia

* "Justice Department says 'vigilante ballot security efforts' in Arizona are likely illegal:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/arizona-voter-intimidation-doj/index.html

* "Americans face voter intimidation at the polls:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/americans-face-voter-intimidation-at-the-polls-151960645695

* "Judge limits ballot drop box monitoring in Arizona after intimidation claims:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/arizona-ballot-clean-elections-liburdi/

* If Republicans actually cared about ending voter fraud they'd stop committing it instead of stealing people's right to vote. "Milwaukee Election Commission official Kimberly Zapata could face charges accusing her of fraudulently requesting military ballots:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/03/mayor-says-milwaukee-election-worker-fired-over-ballot-fraud/69616108007/

* "Obama says democracy ‘may not survive’ in Arizona if Republicans win:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/03/obama-says-democracy-may-not-survive-if-arizona-republicans-win/

* "‘Let's not pretend’ that Republicans and Democrats share equal blame for election denial, DCCC chair says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/sean-maloney-democrats-republicans-elections-00064138

* "The Five Scariest Statewide Republican Candidates You Haven’t Heard of:" https://newrepublic.com/article/168373/five-scariest-republican-candidates-statewide-office

* "In 5 key battlegrounds, most GOP state legislative nominees are election deniers, report finds:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/29/in-5-key-battlegrounds-most-gop-nominees-are-election-deniers.html

If they win, Democracy dies in those states.

Please, please, please vote the whole ticket.

* "GOP candidate Mark Finchem's lawyer proposed fake elector votes that "aren't legal.":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/gop-candidate-mark-finchems-lawyer-proposed-fake-elector-votes-that-arent-legal/

"And this guy wants to be in charge of Arizona's elections."

* I am terrified. Literally every governor and secretary of state race we lose in this election is likely a state that will lose the right to free and fair elections, probably for a generation, possibly forever.

I am terrified because not enough Millennials and Gen z are early voting. We can't save democracy without you. We pretty much need all of you. If we don't save democracy there is zero chance of fixing any thing else in this country.

Yes, things are terrible and most democratic politicians haven't enough spine, but they are legitimately trying to fix things. Republicans are out right promising to crash the world economy if they win the house of representatives to force an end to the social safety net. They are openly promising that if they win in the states, they will fix it so republicans can never lose there again. They are promising a national abortion ban and a repeal of civil and human rights for queer folks. Kiss any attempt to stop the planet burning goodbye.

Fuckssake get out there and vote! This may be your last chance for it to count if Republicans win in your state. Vote because our lives depend on it!

* "GOP floats Medicare changes while ducking details:" https://www.axios.com/2022/11/03/gop-floats-medicare-reform

* "Yes, some Republican senators really are talking openly about Social Security cuts:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/yes-some-republican-senators-are-talking-openly-about-social-security-cuts/ar-AA13K0K4?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b2fd7a3baaf5485b89016d7bbdf50c32

* "GLAAD Ads Remind LGBTQ+ Voters What's at Stake in Midterm Election:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/10/12/glaad-ads-remind-lgbtq-voters-whats-stake-midterm-election

* "Forward thinking, playing offense are opportunities for Democrats as midterms approach:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/forward-thinking-playing-offense-are-opportunities-for-democrats-as-midterms-approach-152243269571

* "Can Republicans fulfill their role in a multi-party democracy?:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/can-republicans-fulfill-their-role-in-a-multi-party-democracy-152370757778

* Elizabeth Warren Extended Interview:

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* "House GOP uses grade school trick to inflate pad report with 'filler and Fox News' :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/house-gop-uses-grade-school-trick-to-inflate-pad-report-with-filler-and-fox-news-152618053708

* "Chris Hayes: If Republicans win, Trump will be the ‘shadow Speaker of the House’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-if-republicans-win-trump-will-be-the-shadow-speaker-of-the-house-152597061618

* "Judiciary Republicans hint at investigation into FBI, DOJ if they retake the House:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134449665/republicans-investigation-fbi-doj-midterms

* "3 Lies Republicans Are Using This Election| Robert Reich:"

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* "Pro-LGBTQ+ PAC Targets Pa. Republican Candidates Oz and Mastriano:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/27/pro-lgbtq-pac-targets-penn-republican-candidates-oz-and-mastriano

* "Column: A speech-impaired John Fetterman is better than a fast-talking Mehmet Oz:" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-30/john-fetterman-mehmet-oz-aphasia-debate

* "Dr. Oz's Campaign Is Stocked With Jan. 6ers:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dr-oz-jan6-john-fetterman-donald-trump-1234620315/

* He doesn't even know where Pennsylvania IS! O.o "Pennsylvania by the sea: Mehmet Oz implies state has Atlantic coastline:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/01/mehmet-oz-pennsylvania-republican-candidate

* "Doug Mastriano ally Toni Shuppe has a plan to ‘stop the steal of 2022.’ It’s full of misinformation.:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/toni-shuppe-doug-mastriano-election-steal-pennsylvania-20221030.html

* "Exclusive with Josh Shapiro: "Our fundamental freedoms are on the ballot":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/exclusive-with-josh-shapiro-our-fundamental-freedoms-are-on-the-ballot-151960645652

* "Mehmet Oz’s medical research was rejected in 2003, resulting in 2-year ban:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/11/01/oz-senate-doctor-research/

* "Oprah says if she lived in Pennsylvania, she’d vote for Fetterman over Oz in U.S. Senate race:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/oprah-winfrey-john-fetterman-mehmet-oz-pa-senate-race-20221103.html

* "GOP candidate Mark Finchem's lawyer proposed fake elector votes that "aren't legal.":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/gop-candidate-mark-finchems-lawyer-proposed-fake-elector-votes-that-arent-legal/

* "How Democracy Is on the Line in 2022 & Beyond:"

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* CW: Rape "GOP candidate wants ‘community-level review’ on if rape victims can get abortions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-candidate-wants-community-level-review-on-if-rape-victims-can-get-abortions-152599109733

* "How Doug Mastriano ended up in a Holocaust film that troubles scholars:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/doug-mastriano-holocaust-film-agenda/

* "Endorsement: Please, don’t give your vote to Lauren Boebert:" https://www.denverpost.com/2022/10/29/opinion-lauren-boebert-vote/

* "Lauren Boebert posts particularly vile Tweet and the backlash is brutal:" https://www.queerty.com/lauren-boebert-posts-particularly-vile-tweet-backlash-brutal-20221103

* "Indiana's Democratic Candidates Sign Contract to Protect Abortion Rights:" https://advocatechannel.com/indianas-democratic-candidates-sign-contract-to-protect-abortion-rights

* "Republican says party ‘will never lose another election’ in Wisconsin if he wins:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/02/wisconsin-republican-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-michels

* "Editorial: Vote for Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes to defend our democracy. Here's why.:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2022/11/02/wisconsin-vote-for-mandela-barnes-and-tony-evers-to-defend-democracy/69588162007/

* "Ron DeSantis uses 'non-binary student' photo to push pathetic election campaign:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/03/ron-desantis-anti-lgbtq-non-binary-stock-photo/

* "Rep. Val Demings: Marco Rubio only likes to talk about crime when it is politically advantageous:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-u-s-senate-candidate-rep-val-demings-demolishes-marco-rubio-s-attempts-to-campaign-on-crime-152489541804

* "Midterms candidates Chris Jones in Arkansas, Charles Booker in Kentucky have impressive ground game:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/midterms-candidates-chris-jones-in-arkansas-charles-booker-in-kentucky-winning-voters-by-focusing-on-forgotten-152605765559

* "Charles Booker touts abortion rights in Kentucky Senate bid:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/charles-booker-touts-abortion-rights-kentucky-senate-bid-92607940

* "Leading election denier is on the verge of leading Nevada's election system:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/01/trump-aligned-jim-marchant-midterm-election-00064357

* "Nevada's MAGA secretary of state candidate appears to be blatantly ignoring campaign finance law:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/jim-marchant-nevada-secretary-state-maga-trump-citizens-united-campaign-finance/

* "This Bisexual Kansas Legislator Wants to Get Stuff Done:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/10/18/bisexual-kansas-legislator-wants-get-stuff-done

* "‘Emasculating Vance Is Actually Part of Tim’s Effectiveness’:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/11/03/tim-ryan-senate-ohio-00064670

* "Tim Ryan on finding "gettable voters" in his quest for a Senate seat:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/tim-ryan-on-finding-gettable-voters-in-his-quest-for-a-senate-seat-152240709776

* "Abortion Is on the Ballot. Will It Help the Dems?:"

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* "Chris Hayes: The stakes of the New York governor's race between Zeldin and Hochul:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-stakes-of-the-new-york-governor-s-race-between-zeldin-and-hochul-152107077663

* "Raphael Warnock - The Georgia Senator on His Midterm Race:" https://www.cc.com/video/8rlhtb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-raphael-warnock-the-georgia-senator-on-his-midterm-race

* "What makes Virginia’s most competitive congressional race so close?:" https://wtop.com/virginia/2022/11/what-makes-virginias-most-competitive-race-so-competitive/

* "Luria makes final case for democracy, vies for Black voters:" https://apnews.com/article/elaine-luria-2022-midterms-strategy-a36ffe96b8d1ec2654ed67cb93639a16

* "Democratic star Katie Porter fights against a conservative resurgence in O.C.:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-01/katie-porter-scott-baugh-california-congress-midterm-elections

* "Election Conspiracies Are Disrupting the Midterms:"

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* "N.J. Democrat once thought safe now in a close congressional race at campaign’s final week:" https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/11/nj-democrat-once-thought-safe-now-in-a-competitive-congressional-race-at-campaigns-final-week.html

* "GOP Candidate Said Elites Drink Blood, Sell ‘Baby Body Parts’ After Abortion:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzkdp/kristina-karamo-qanon-blood-body-parts

* "GOP rejection of democracy leaves force and violence as remaining governing option:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-rejection-of-democracy-leaves-force-and-violence-as-remaining-governing-option-152124997513

* "Paul Pelosi's alleged attacker charged with attempted kidnapping:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/31/justice-department-charges-depape-following-paul-pelosi-assault-00064282

* "Fears of Political Violence Following Attack on Paul Pelosi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/fears-of-political-violence-following-attack-on-paul-pelosi-151959621741

* "What we know about David DePape, the man accused in the Pelosi home invasion, attack:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/29/what-we-know-about-david-depape-the-man-accused-in-the-pelosi-home-invasion-attack.html

* An elderly man was beaten with a hammer in an act of political terrorism. They are LYING when they say they are Law and Order candidates. Cruelty is the point. "Arizona GOP nominee Kari Lake mocks attack on Paul Pelosi at campaign event:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960

* "Capitol Police cameras caught break-in at Pelosi home, but no one was watching:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/01/capitol-police-cameras-caught-break-in-pelosi-home-no-one-was-watching/

* "Fresh finger-pointing over Capitol Police's future after Pelosi home invasion:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/04/fresh-finger-pointing-over-capitol-polices-future-after-pelosi-home-invasion-00065064

* "Swalwell: Pelosi suspect’s social media looks like that of Ted Cruz, MTG:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/swalwell-pelosi-suspect-s-social-media-looks-like-that-of-ted-cruz-mtg-152105029931

* "The Facts About the Attack on Paul Pelosi, According to Prosecutors:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/pelosi-paul-nancy-attack-facts.html

* "Joy Reid: There’s a long history of gaslighting and toxic politics regarding Speaker Pelosi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/paul-pelosi-assault-spawning-far-right-conspiracies-about-attack-decried-as-deplorable-152113733729

* "‘This is not normal, moral, human behavior’: Psaki on GOP response to Pelosi attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-not-normal-moral-human-behavior-psaki-on-gop-response-to-pelosi-attack-152228933737

* "Right-wing resists facts about extremist violence to preserve identity of victimhood:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/right-wing-resists-facts-about-extremist-violence-to-preserve-identity-of-victimhood-152128069582

* "Trump joins growing GOP effort to whitewash, lie about Pelosi attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-joins-growing-gop-effort-to-whitewash-lie-about-pelosi-attack-152227909623

* "Elon Musk tweets anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-conspiracy-theory-gay-lgbtq/

* "Hate speech increased on Twitter after Elon Musk takeover, study finds:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/hate-speech-increased-twitter-elon-musk-takeover-study/story?id=92445797

* "Twitter reportedly limits content moderation ahead of midterm elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/twitter-reportedly-limits-content-moderation-ahead-of-midterm-elections-152243269649

* Do not trust twitter. "Elon Musk appears in over his head with purchase of Twitter:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/elon-musk-appears-in-over-his-head-with-purchase-of-twitter-152617541762

* "Musk's attempt at trolling AOC backfires | Boing Boing:" https://boingboing.net/2022/11/03/musks-attempt-at-trolling-aoc-backfires.html

* "Elon Musk to the Rescue: Big Lie Fanatic Escapes Twitter Ban:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizona-election-denier-mark-finchem-credits-elon-musk-for-overturning-twitter-ban

* "What changes has Elon Musk made at Twitter and what might he do next?:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/04/mass-sackings-monetisation-elon-musk-twitter-changing

* "Man pleads guilty to threatening to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell and staffers:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/swalwell-threat-plea/index.html

* "Adams County investigates white powder found on ballot as officials reassure voters the election is safe:" https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/adams-county-investigates-white-powder-found-on-ballot-as-officials-reassure-voters-the-election-is-safe

* "Barrack acquittal another blow to DOJ’s foreign influence crackdown:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2022/11/04/barrack-acquittal-another-blow-to-dojs-foreign-influence-crackdown-00065258

* "Supreme Court Rules That Lindsey Graham Must Testify in Georgia Inquiry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/politics/supreme-court-lindsey-graham-georgia.html

* "Trump files a suit against New York attorney general, and against advice:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/trump-files-a-suit-against-new-york-attorney-general-and-against-advice/

* "Judge rules in favor of assigning monitor to oversee Trump Organization:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/03/judge-rules-favor-assigning-monitor-oversee-trump-organization/

* "Key Trump insider given immunity to testify in Mar-a-Lago documents investigation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/key-trump-insider-given-immunity-to-testify-in-mar-a-lago-documents-investigation-152373829657

* "Litany of Trump legal entanglements grows ever longer as Trump Org criminal trial begins:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/litany-of-trump-legal-entanglements-grows-ever-longer-as-trump-org-criminal-trial-begins-152127557527

* "Trump asks Supreme Court to stop IRS from turning over his tax returns to the House:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/trump-supreme-court-appeal/index.html

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as 'only chance' to stop 2020 election certification:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-only-chance-to-stop-2020-election-certification-00064592

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as ‘key’ to post-election plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/emails-trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-key-to-post-election-plan-152356421588

* "Trump loyalist Kash Patel questioned before Mar-a-Lago grand jury:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/03/kash-patel-grand-jury-trump/

* "Despite Eastman appeal, Jan. 6 committee accesses 8 disputed emails:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/eastman-appeals-jan6-committee-disputed-00064166

* "House January 6 committee gives Trump more time to turn over subpoenaed documents:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/trump-january-6-subpoena-deadline/index.html

* "Capitol Police officer disputes claims that Oath Keepers were seen protecting him during Jan. 6 attack:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/capitol-police-officer-disputes-claims-oath-keepers-protecting/story?id=92432188

* "Oath Keepers spent over $400 at post-US Capitol riot feast at the Olive Garden, prosecutors say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/oath-keepers-olive-garden-january-6/index.html

* "New Report Sheds Light on Gun Violence in LGBTQ+ Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/11/new-report-sheds-light-gun-violence-lgbtq-lives

* "Chris Hayes: The myth of crime as a big-city, blue-state problem:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-myth-of-crime-as-a-big-city-blue-state-problem-152230981820

* "Polly Klaas’s murder fueled the 90s crime panic. Her sisters fear ‘we’re repeating history’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/22/polly-klaas-sisters-criminal-justice-mass-incarceration

* "Detectives in Breonna Taylor Killing Confess to Falsifying Warrant Evidence:" https://advocatechannel.com/detectives-in-breonna-taylor-killing-admit-to-falsifying-warrant-evidence-based-on-gut-feeling

* "Police Killed a Boy. His Friend Was Charged With Murder:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFjFze39Dcc

* "Video Shows Sheriffs Choking, Tasing Unarmed Transgender Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/24/video-shows-sheriffs-choking-tasing-unarmed-transgender-woman

* "Comedian Eric André Files Lawsuit Against Atlanta Airport Police:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/20/two-black-comedians-file-lawsuit-against-atlanta-airport-police

* "I Spent Over 40 Years Working in Corrections. I Wasn’t Ready for Rikers.:" https://mailchi.mp/themarshallproject/i-spent-over-40-years-working-in-corrections-i-wasnt-ready-for-rikers

* "Ezra Miller Pleads Not Guilty to Burglary Charges in Vermont:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/17/ezra-miller-pleads-not-guilty-burglary-charges-vermont

* "Bi Actor Andy Dick Arrested on Felony Burglary Charge:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/21/bi-actor-andy-dick-arrested-felony-burglary-charge

* "Sheriff's office says antisemitic messages in Jacksonville were not crimes:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/us/florida-georgia-game-kanye-west/index.html

* "Pa. School District Allegedly Discriminated Against LGBTQ+ Students:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/09/penn-school-district-allegedly-discriminated-against-lgbtq-students

* "How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level:"

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How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level

When this was passed teachers called it things like “children Left behind” because we could see it was designed to starve neighborhood schools so Republicans could close them, forcing busing to other schools and shifting funding even further away from the schools that need it into charter schools that can bar students who are poor, or not white, or who have limited English, or who have special needs.

This is about de facto segregation. It’s about starving public schools of funds. it’s about excuses to deprive the students with the biggest needs of an education.

All “Back to Basics” school “reforms” are about defending music, art, social studies, and sciences, because Republicans hate anything that keeps children from dropping out and/or teaches critical thinking. Science and social studies teach things like applying logic to real world problems, evaluating evidence, and thinking for yourself. The last thing they want is accurate history or modern science taught to children.

All Republicans want is to create an ignorant easily manipulable permanent underclass that votes for them. Quality Public education in anathema to them.

Republicans keep saying, “you can’t just through money at the problem,” yet never once in the history of this country have we tried funding the schools for the poor at the level we fund schools for the well off. we know objectively that 15-18 students is the sweet spot for class size at all grades. why not for once try paying teachers a living wage and hire enough of them to give every class room the same student/teacher ratios private schools have. How about instead of pennies per student per day we actually buy enough equipment and supplies so that all students get to do hands on science instead of only students who already have all the advantages? How about paying for proper maintenance on schools so the heating works and the pipes don’t bang and the roof doesn’t leak? How about money for computers and library books? How about desks and chairs so every student in every class gets one as well as a locker that closes and locks?

Can’t we try that just once?

Teaching pays about as well as Burger King and teachers owe student loans and need to pay for continuing ed and certification re-upping. They need supplies for themselves and students and a professional wardrobe and money for transportation and to pay off massive student loans, plus food, housing, medical stuff, etc.. out of what amounts to minimum wage.

Nobody goes into teaching expecting to get rich; they do it because they want to teach. Punishing them because the schools are falling apart and the textbooks are as old as they are is counter-productive. Actually funding the schools properly would let them do their jobs.

But no one ever ask teachers when they do “school reform.” It is nearly always imposed by people who’ve never taught based on ignorance and a deep refusal to look at the research.

* CW: Rape, Human Trafficking "Smooth Like Butter: The Slippery Underbelly of the Kpop Industry:"

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* "LGBTQ+ World Cup fans told hand-holding fine – but don't kiss:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/28/holding-hands-world-cup-no-public-affection-qatar-ambassador/

The World Cup should never have been held here. A whole lot of mostly guest workers literally died building that stadium, worked to death in the heat.

Their human rights record with LGBTQIA+ people is horrific and should be disqualifying.

* "Qatar journalist says LGBTQ+ people are ‘abnormal’ ahead of World Cup:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/qatar-journalist-lgbtq-abnormal-world-cup/

* "Wales footballers won’t be silenced when it comes to Qatar’s LGBTQ+ atrocities:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/wales-footballers-wont-be-banned-from-addressing-qatars-lgbtq-rights-record-officials-confirm/

* "Gay Qatari man won't let World Cup 'bury' LGBTQ+ atrocities 'in the shadows':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/05/qatar-gay-nas-mohamed-world-cup/

* "Gay men shot outside LGBTQ+ bar laid to rest as thousands take to streets:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/gay-men-shot-outside-slovakian-lgbtq-bar-laid-to-rest-as-thousands-take-to-streets-in-protest/

* "Czech MP comes out as gay after horrific Slovakia LGBTQ+ bar shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/czech-mp-gay-jiri-navratil/

* "Malaysia police detain 20 people at LGBTQ+ Halloween party for 'cross-dressing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/malaysia-halloween-party-raid-religious-police-sharia-law/

* "Irish law protecting trans people from hate crime 'too little too late':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/ireland-trans-hate-crime-violence-law/

* "Gay Palestinian Man Beheaded After Receiving Death Threats:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/07/gay-palestinian-man-beheaded-after-receiving-death-threats

* "Mexico celebrates as same-sex marriage becomes law of the land:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/same-sex-marriage-legalised-mexico/

* "Trevor Project Launches Services in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/10/11/trevor-project-launches-services-mexico

* "Former Cop Reveals Horrific Gay Bashings by Police:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/05/former-cop-reveals-horrific-gay-bashings-police

* "Gender law reforms pass first vote in Scotland with 'overwhelming' support:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/scotland-trans-gender-recognition-reform-vote/

* "Conversion therapy ban delayed by equalities minister Kemi Badenoch:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/conversion-therapy-ban-kemi-badenoch/

* "Grindr Faces Boycott After Gay CEO's Right-Wing Tweets Are Revealed:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/grindr-faces-boycott-after-gay-ceos-right-wing-tweets-are-revealed

* "Social Security Will Allow Users to Select Own Gender Marker:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/social-security-will-allow-users-select-own-gender-marker

* "South Carolina governor says he wants a statewide ban on same-sex marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/29/south-carolina-henry-mcmaster-same-sex-marriage-ban-supreme-court/

* "Men who violently attacked gay couple escape jail thanks to kindness of victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/miami-homophobic-attack-avoid-jail/

* "2022 U.S. Trans Survey:" https://www.ustranssurvey.org/

* Why you should fill it out "The biggest transgender survey in the US is underway. Here's why it's important:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/us-trans-survey-2022-cec/index.html

* "If I say "the queer community", I am referring to the community of self identified queers. If you're not a self identified queer, then I wasn't talking about you!:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/699776198583238656

* Rightly so!!! CW: Rape, Murder, Cannibalism "Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costumes banned by LGBTQ+ bars:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/jeffrey-dahmer-halloween-costumes-lgbtq-bars-wisconsin/

* "Heartstopper fans react to star Kit Connor being forced to come out as bisexual:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/kit-connor-bisexual-coming-out-fan-reaction/

It is wrong to bully people. It is extra wrong to bully teenagers.

No one owes you their coming out. People deserve to work stuff out without pressure.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

This isn’t a closeted anti-queer politician out to hurt us. This is a literal teenager who is just trying to live his life.

* "Kit Connor's coming out proves bi-erasure is rife even in LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/kit-connor-biphobia-bi-erasure-bisexual/

* "The Outing of Kit Connor:"

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* "Why we should be watching the sun, not the clock:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/11/watching-the-sun-not-the-clock-sleep-body-clocks-daylight-saving-time

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* "Philippine death toll from storm Nalgae rises to 98, disaster agency says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/asia/philippines-tropical-storm-nalgae-paeng-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Photos: The aftermath of tropical storm Nalgae in Philippines:" https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/11/1/photos-the-aftermath-of-tropical-storm-nalgae-in-philippines

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* "Greece: Dozens missing after boat carrying migrants sinks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/greece-dozens-missing-after-boat-carrying-migrants-sinks/2022/11/01/52543176-59b9-11ed-bc40-b5a130f95ee7_story.html

* "What we know about India's deadly bridge collapse:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/india/india-gujarat-morbi-bridge-collapse-explainer-intl-hnk

* "We Need To Talk About The Latest SHEIN Scandal:"

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* "First wild bison born in UK for millennia after surprise pregnancy:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/21/first-wild-bison-born-in-uk-for-millennia-after-surprise-pregnancy

* "The Gruesome History of Real Life Vampire Hunting:"

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* "Ghosts Are Legally Real:"

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* "Recalling LGBTQ+ Stories in Hispanic Heritage Month:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/10/14/recalling-lgbtq-stories-hispanic-heritage-month

* "Pioneering singer who recorded first gay country songs dies aged 78:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/patrick-haggerty-gay-country-singer-dies-aged-78/

* "Proud to be a Gay Icon: Angela Lansbury's Life & Legacy:"

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* "Bail Reform:"

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* "Stephen's Message To Young Voters | Dick Bigger, Jr. Is The Breakout Star Of This Election Season:"

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* "Dr. Oz Surfs PA's Coast | Taylor Swift Dominates The Charts | Elon Negotiates With Stephen King:"

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* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 1:" https://www.cc.com/video/q0462s/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-1

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 2 :" https://www.cc.com/video/rsdbd4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-2

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 3:" https://www.cc.com/video/9udze9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-3

* "Kosta La Vista Baby - Atlanta:" https://www.cc.com/video/3yu223/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-kosta-la-vista-baby-atlanta

* "Is Atlanta the Real-Life Wakanda?:" https://www.cc.com/video/ap288q/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-is-atlanta-the-real-life-wakanda

* CW: Self Harm, Eating Disorders. "The Harmful Drive for Queer Perfection:"

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* "DefunctTV: The History of the First Muppet Show, Sam and Friends:"

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* "5 Spooky Musicals That Are Totally UNHINGED:"

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* "Dr. Oz Is Surfin' PA:"

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* "Olive Garden Is The Perfect Place To Subvert Democracy:"

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* "This Is How Kari Lake's Comments Would Sound If They Were Actually Creatively Edited:"

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* "President Biden Midterms Address Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update: Tammy the Trucker on Gas Prices and Definitely Not Abortion - SNL:"

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* "Vlad the Impaler vs Count Dracula. Epic Rap Battles of History:"

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* More attempts at Gothmas Phase II pictures: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699602590803083264

* The emperor has been trying to break into one of the presents since it arrived, including an attempt to unwrap it the second I pulled it from the box. Turned out it was a massive bag of hand dried catnip. https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699682102668673024/gothmashalloween-2022-the-emperor-has-been-tryingfr.

* Since the Pandemic started, I put out bowls of candy. each bowl has a handful of things. Adults are welcome too, and I usually give out a lot of candy. This year one person stole the bowl itself, and no one else came. I think the three families with kids have moved out, since i haven't seen or heard them playing since summer. I've noticed that the other people that usually decorate in the complex didn't this year. It's sad.

I did get reverse trick or treated and Squirrel and I split the loot. Weirdly, it was not the bowl thief.

* October is always really hard on my body and particularly so in the back half. Halloween week takes everything I have really. Samhein is the most important holiday of my year and it takes everything.

Wednesday my body hard vetoed Wednesday errands. I called Head Millennial in time for them to get public transport and make evening arrangements. I could barely walk and had the pain shakes. One days like this, it's best to just take ones meds and go back to sleep and home a nap will reset things. This was correct. When I tried again later, I was a functional level of awful. We managed to take in the Halloween specific exterior stuff and box it all up. I'll need to tweek the "Harvest Display" and do a day time sweep to be sure we got everything before boxes go back into storage. Halloweentown is in chaos, but that's another day's problem.

Head Millennial went above and beyond today. I love how fundamentally kind and trustworthy they are. we had dinner together and watched a movie we'd started a week ago, geeking out together about the high quality lighting design and mourning the death of banter in modern romcoms as well as how few productions are willing to pay for really artistic lighting. (I sited Black Sails as proof the art isn't lost, even though we might think it was looking at the newest Halloween and Got/house of the dragon. Head Millennial is very grumpy about Halloween franchise in particular.)

It sounds like Visiting Millennial has decided to move up here, so at some point in the future they will be Newest Millennial. There is much rejoicing.

NOTE for newer readers: I like to use sobriquets to prevent people chain tracking through blogs. It was always my instinct and I got stricter after that reporter found me through the blog of a friend who wasn't as careful after Skye was murdered. It was fine. She was nice and professional and my friend changed the post in case of future accident. My point is that a determined swatter could find me, but I like to make them work for it if they want my friends.

* Another disabled Elder Goth friend suggested there should be a "Retired Goth Bat sanctuary" for people like us. This delights me.

There is talk of Tee shirts.

Possibly next week.

I already want one.

* Thursday was the blue beast's mechanic appointment. They are always booked for weeks out this time of year. This meant very little sleep, but the coolant situation is sorted and I should be okay on the engine not melting for a while. *Knock wood*

Friday I just wanted sleep, but of they woke me up trying to strong arm me into a home health assessment. Thing is, it's an excellent service and an important one. My mother used them in her last year of life when her health was failing. They assess the person; they assess the needs; they help organize complex meds schedules; they hook people up with services. I support the program and said so to the lady, but I do not want one.

Why? She wanted to know. I do not need what they are offering and I don't like strangers in my home it's invasive. I don't need a dementia test. I have a home health aid. My meds schedule is, indeed, complex, but it's logical. (Think of it as a logic puzzle. Pills needing to be taken on an empty stomach need to go first thing in the morning. Ppills needing to be taken with food need to be at least an hour after empty stomach pills, and need to work with meal scheduling. Some pills can't be taken within two hours of each other, etc.. Some pills need to be taken multiple times a day. For a while I had a pill that needed to go four times a day, at least two hours after eating and an hour before eating. It was a nightmare, but I did it.) I do not want people tampering with the schedule, because every adjustment is a hassle and a half, and I have it down. The point is, it's my body deteriorating, not my mind, and I handle things just fine within my physical limits and I hate all the invasive monitoring that comes with living in this complex and that comes with being disabled. I minimize it where I can.

So I go to the bathroom, give Livia a come for pettins offer, reset my pillow prop system, and settle back in to try to sleep.

The phone rings. It's the system that pay for my caregiver. Mandatory home inspection. *deep sigh* I managed to wiggle out of this one so far because of the pandemic. It's so intrusive and I fucking hate that I don't get to have privacy because I'm disabled. I can't manage without Head Millennial, so I guess we're doing that Monday, plus the already scheduled social worker call Tuesday.

* "Here are the Spookiest Cities in America:" https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2022/10/21/spookiest-cities-america

* "America's 15 Most Haunted Hotels:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/22/americas-15-most-haunted-hotels#media-gallery-media-16

* Events towards the end of Dracula from the viewpoint of the locals: https://uri59.tumblr.com/post/699674996605403136/random-sailor-at-the-sereth-river-this-night-is

* Ed as Blackbeard: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699813146114818048/ok-i-just-have-to-ask-did-you-notice-ed-as

* Arden Powell at the The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1585317897785647105

* Clive Barker vs JK Rowling at The Midnight Society : https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1586397640186466304

* Goblin detecting sword: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699816725716287488

* I feel this in my bones: https://xkcd.com/2692/

* "You’ve been sentenced to 400 years for multiple murders. It’s been 399 years and your jailers are starting to get nervous.:" https://www.tumblr.com/elidyce/688193708499320832/writing-prompt-s-youve-been-sentenced-to-400

* "God of Arepo:" https://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/699776328566800384

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Plan Your Vote: 2022 Elections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-2022-elections/index.html?language=english&state=WA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Extended Fauci Interview:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Equalities watchdog admits asking trans people to prove their sex could break law:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/ehrc-scottish-gra-legal-sex-trans/

* "Judge: Antigay N.Y. Adoption Agency Can Turn Away Same-Sex Couples:" https://www.advocate.com/family/2022/9/12/judge-antigay-ny-adoption-agency-can-turn-away-same-sex-couples

* "Baker who took anti-LGBTQ+ fight to Supreme Court in new court case:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/jack-phillips-masterpiece-baker-lgbt/

* "California Will Ease Benefit Process for Vets Discharged Under DADT:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/19/california-will-ease-benefit-process-vets-discharged-under-dadt

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* "Tropical Storm Julia, A Flooding Hurricane Danger To Central America :" https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2022-10-07-tropical-storm-julia-hurricane-forecast-central-america

* "Cuban protests after Hurricane Ian fade but anger over shortages simmers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuban-protests-after-hurricane-ian-fade-anger-over-shortages-simmers-2022-10-03/

* "Ian left a trail of destruction stretching from the Caribbean to the Carolinas. Here's a closer look:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/us/hurricane-ian-trail-destruction/index.html

* "Central Florida floodwaters rising after Hurricane Ian unleashed "unprecedented rainfall":" https://www.axios.com/2022/10/03/central-florida-floodwaters-rising-ian-record-rainfall

* "Nor’easter causes problems at Shore with more flooding and erosion expected through Wednesday:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey-philadelphia-noreaster-ian-flooding-shore-20221003.html

* "Death toll from Hurricane Ian surpasses 100 as the search for survivors continues in Florida:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/us/hurricane-ian-florida-recovery-monday/index.html

* "For flooded inland Florida, Hurricane Ian saved the worst for last:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/flooded-inland-florida-hurricane-ian-saved-worst-last-2022-10-06/

* "Why the Florida Fantasy Withstands Reality:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/hurricane-ian-florida-real-estate/671629/

* "Chile's Easter Island 'Moai' statues face irreparable damage after wildfire:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-easter-island-moai-statues-face-irreparable-damage-after-wildfire-2022-10-07/

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* "How food prices and the climate crisis brought famine to Somalia once more:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/first-edition-somalia-famine-climate-crisis

* "Where Protecting the Environment Gets You Killed:"

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* "Iraq's Dying Garden of Eden:"

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* "Facebook scrambles to escape stock's death spiral as users flee, sales drop:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/30/facebook-scrambles-to-escape-death-spiral-as-users-flee-sales-drop.html

* "Musk Twitter purchase would see return of Trump tweets to no one's benefit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/musk-twitter-purchase-would-see-return-of-trump-tweets-to-no-one-s-benefit-150019141742

* "The Navy Accused Him of Arson. Its Own Investigation Showed Widespread Safety Failures.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/bonhomme-richard-fire-safety-lapses

* "Sacheen Littlefeather, actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s Oscar, dies aged 75:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/03/sacheen-littlefeather-actor-and-activist-who-declined-marlon-brandos-oscar-dies-aged-75

* "Judy Tenuta, ‘Love Goddess’ comedian known for her brash routines, dies at 72:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/judy-tenuta-love-goddess-comedian-known-brash-routines-dies-72-rcna51097

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* "Weekend Update: Velma Comes Out as a Lesbian, Artist Sells Urine for $500 - SNL:"

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* "The Right Stuff Dating App & Introducing Hate F**k - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah :" https://www.cc.com/video/ma26un/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-right-stuff-dating-app-introducing-hate-f-k

* "Kim Kardashian's Crypto Fine & Putin's Ukraine Annexation:" https://www.cc.com/video/3y5zki/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-kim-kardashian-s-crypto-fine-putin-s-ukraine-annexation

* "Fringe-Watching - Herschel Walker:" https://www.cc.com/video/lmxs3o/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-fringe-watching-herschel-walker

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* Last Sunday, we went shopping. By we I mean Head Millennial, Techie Millennial, Techie's New Roommate, and me. It was insanely hot and muggy, which we had no way of guessing when planning the expodition the night before when it was a perfectly reasonable temperature for mid-September in this micro-climate. Yes, I know it's October. *shakes fist at the Koch brothers and every other rich person who bought climate denial during my life time to boost their profit margins*

But it had been early September sane temperatures for a week. We'd already ripped out the living room air-conditioning the previous weekend so we could start Gothmas Phase I. (All I've managed is most of the ornaments on one tree.) We were not expecting Surprise late July in Alabama. This means not only was the trip to the Good Grocery (Excellent Prices, Solid selection, Employee run) sticky hot, exhausting, and full of human obstacles, but the apartment common area was oven hot when we got home. It is supposed to be cool, windy, and sporadically rainy. Fucking Climate change.

Now it is Gothmas Phase II, of which I've managed the easy stuff not involving string lights and ladders, but it's enough to start lighting of an evening outside. head Millennial helped me get the gear out of the storage closest, then focused on hand making us lasagna to eat while watching our beloved resident Alien and sipping nice cold floats.

I have already spent two thirds of my food budget for the month and I have my birthday party to get food for mid October. Sigh. I did score eight dollars of fruit from the Market Garden before they closed for the season in the morning of their very last day right after open. I really miss the other fruit and veg stand as they generally stayed open through Halloween, but I really don't blame two people in their '70's for deciding that organizing produce from a bunch of small farms was too damned much.

For the record, the market garden is produce from one farm, super fresh, as it's harvested right there and placed on display throughout the day, but the selection is smaller than the one that was like a farmer's Market only every day and with one check out. Seriously, the Market garden is magical and really close to where I live now and they have a good selection given the size of their growing space. I just wish there were two options instead of one. It's not like there is any shortage of fresh fruit and produce in this place as we are a part off the country that supplies other areas with the same, so we are spoiled by good, reasonably cheap, fresh food. Also, the major artery for the west coast means more southerly fruit makes it up here quickly at reasonable prices.

I never forget we are incredibly lucky to be living were food is. I grew up in an area where the only biking distance food stores were a tiny corner store and a WaWa (convenience store). A real grocery store was an hour round trip not counting the actual shopping, and my Gran was living in a Germantown food desert because she wasn't willing to leave the neighborhood where she was born in 1889 and she had a bad arm, so my Mother and Grandmother took it in turn to take her grocery shopping once a week. I still measure food availibity in things like travel time and spoons and how much a person on foot could reasonably carry for how many miles, because those were the calculation of more than half my life and they still are for my Millennials.

Still, the tiny end of season selection and the last day sign made me sad.

Anyway, we have food. I've two meals worth of eggplant lasagna in my fridge and one in my stomach, and it's starting to look a bit Gothmasy around the Cat Asylum.

For those not used to the lingo, the Gothmas season starts September 1 and runs to Jan. 7. Phase one is interior Gothmas decorations like trees and Halloween Town. Phase 2 is exterior Halloween decorations, Phase 3: we leave everything up inside and pull the Halloween specific stuff from outside while leaving lights, gourds, etc.. Phase 4: yet more interior decorations and more lights everywhere. It is a disability friendly way to do things and is cheerful for the dark of the year. I got in the habit for my late longtime partner Skye as even though he was a happy atheist, the social bits of the winter holidays really mattered to him and he missed his family. It is all very, very Goth to look at since he only specifically theistic things were gifts from assorted relatives and these are black and purple Halloween trees decorated with things like science fiction and Halloween ornaments and Halloween Town stays up throughout. Phase 5: everything sorted and back in boxes, stowed away for next September.

We call it the Cat Asylum, because back just before the turn of the century, Skye and I took in two rescue cats with serious psychological and resulting behavioral problems. It is asylum both in the original sense of a safe place, a refuge; and in the sense that it could get pretty wild for the first few years. For the record, they both lived to their late teens despite health issues related to their abuse and abandonment. Mache recovered and was the best Queen I ever met and a wonderful, wonderful cat by every measure after the extremely rough first 2-3 years. hector suffered from nightmares, anxiety, panic attacks his whole life, but he got so much better and was loved his whole life after that first terrible year. his bad spells went from every day to only once in a while, and he had a really, really good life. It is still the cat asylum because the the current cats also have issues and this is a safe and supportive environment for them.

* Monday I was still exhausted and in pain from Sunday shopping and the weather changes. It was also still July in Alabama humid hot. Still we dropped of my car after squirrel's game so they'd have it Wednesday morning.

Tuesday, the temperature switched back to mid-September, which was much more manageable. The car... things were a lot worse than expected when they cracked the Beastie open. There is a small part that breaks about every half decade, one of many known design flaws for this make and model. So they did that and a few other small necessary things on top of the every ten month stuff that stops the engine from bricking itself. This car is in it's mid-twenties and was poorly designed to start with. Most of the important bits have been replaced over the years, but parts are harder and harder to find. Still we keep pasting it back together because I'll never likely have money for a replacement used car. This made the repair nearly twice as expensive as I expected.

Anyway, it turns out another system needs sorting out preferably in the next month or so before critical damage happens. This has been such an expensive year starting with last November car repairs and including things like the apartment electrical system, the oven dying, , other car repairs, my teeth, my surgery.... Sigh. I'll know how badly I'm fucked next week. I am sure I don't have 150 for replacing bits of the car's fluid system. I'm pretty sure I just spent the money for second Biggest bill on the extra bits and bobs today.

I really need this coming year to be both surgery free and less expensive. Could my body, my car, and my home stop falling apart for even a little while so I can catch my breath? I've had four surgeries in two years which i feel like is a lot.

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

Bonus: My body threw a whole ass four hour tantrum which left me wrung out like a wet dish towel, but spasm aftershocks all night long meant there was no point in going to bed. Sigh.

* The barometer has been swinging wildly back and forth. The hot and humid is the worst thing for my lungs and general functioning. I remain exhausted and in a stupid amount of pain. My sinuses are a nightmare and need mitigation every couple of hours, my As is screaming at me. everything I eat makes me sick, which is a thing that happens when it is muggy hot. The trees on my street are very confused. some of them haven't started to turn, others have a few patches of orange, others are in full orange or red autumn mode, others still have already lost their leaves. We need a good cleansing rain from Alaska.

On the upside, I discovered I'd only spent half rather than two thirds of my food allotment for the month, and the third store actually had my special crackers. I think the global supply issues must be pretty bad right now what with Putin being the monster he is. Two of the four grocery stores in the last week had tons of empty shelves, and the better of them looked like pre-disaster panic shoppers had swept through some of the sections despite the only disaster here being the fact that we're a month into the rainy season, but it's barely even drizzled in couple of months. Oh and the wildfire smoke still blowing in over the mountains from the inland fires. We are protected here from the kind of disasters that destroy towns, but not from climate change itself, which is so obvious to anyone who's lived here a reasonable length of time that it is hard to grasp why it's not obvious to everyone.

* The air quality and extreme humidity remain a serious problem not just for me, but even people with properly working lungs. It often smells like burning and the sky is assorted shades of wrong still from inland fires. I know it's that and not a pathogen, because I am dramatically better when I'm under filtration for a while, but when I come out I start to stuff up again and itch. I can see a really dramatic difference in my lung function too. Something must have been burning very badly Saturday night. By morning it smelled like a tire fire.

Techie Millennial came over Saturday to visit and decorate trees. It was a good visit. Head Millennial called out, and was exhausted when they came in Sunday. I honestly think the air quality is a lot of the problem. We did not finish outside. There is still lighting that needs to go up inside and Halloweentown is all over the place, but it is so much more cheerful now, and we are getting people slowing down to look already.

Unfortunately, some of these people are dog walkers, to the Imperial couple's dismay. Sunday morning a fairly new to the complex German Shepard took serious exception to Tavy and the owner just let the dog stand there barking for a while. Sigh. Most of the dogs in this complex are really well behaved. People know how hard it is to find pet friendly housing in this town, so make an effort, but i feel like if your dog is that agitated because cats live in an apartment, maybe keep walking instead of standing around staring while you dog barks for seven minutes at a now empty window, while the cats that live there hide in terror. just saying.

I do not blame the dogs in these situations; I blame the humans.

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* "For Iranian exiles, Mahsa Amini protests are a source of hope and pain:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/30/iran-protests-mahsa-amini-exile/

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* "US warnings against Putin's nuclear threats mark a sobering moment for the world:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/us-warns-putin-nuclear-weapons-analysis/index.html

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* "Putin Suffers Most Humiliating Ukraine Defeat Yet:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-suffers-most-humiliating-ukraine-defeat-yet-around-key-city-of-lyman-in-donetsk

* "The Great Bluff: How the Ukrainians Outwitted Putin's Army:" https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-great-bluff-how-the-ukrainians-outwitted-putin-s-army-a-05d74f95-a5c5-482e-bb6a-837de8700fc9

* "Russians rebel as Putin drafts more people in battle for Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/29/russia-putin-mobilization-protests-fury/

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* Republicans are why we can't have nice things. "Biden administration scales back student debt relief for millions amid legal concerns:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/29/biden-administration-scales-back-student-debt-relief-for-millions-amid-legal-concerns-00059522

* "Biden’s hunger and nutrition goals confront November realities:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/27/bidens-hunger-nutrition-goals-november-00058938

* "Mortgage refinancing drops to a 22-year low as interest rates surge even higher:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/28/mortgage-refinancing-drops-to-a-22-year-low-.html

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* "'Obscene,' Says Sanders After CBO Reports Richest 1% Now Owns Over 1/3 of US Wealth:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/28/obscene-says-sanders-after-cbo-reports-richest-1-now-owns-over-13-us-wealth

* "Senate passes funding bill to likely thwart weekend shutdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/29/senate-avert-shutdown-00059485

* "Same-sex marriage puts Ron Johnson in a bind:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/29/ron-johnson-same-sex-marriage-00054000

* "McConnell, Schumer back bill to prevent efforts to subvert presidential election results:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/27/mcconnell-schumer-electoral-reform/

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* "Biden Says Social Security Is on ‘Chopping Block’ if Republicans Win Congress:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/us/politics/biden-social-security-republicans.html

* "One third of Republicans think more LGBTQ+ people in Congress would be a 'bad thing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/28/one-third-republicans-think-more-lgbtq-people-in-congress-a-bad-thing/

* "Coca-Cola, Disney and Pfizer among companies funding anti-LGBTQ+ politicians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/30/coca-cola-pfizer-disney-anti-lgbtq-politicians-database/

* "Buoyed by Abbott failures, GOP unpopularity, Beto O'Rourke musters campaign volunteer army:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/buoyed-by-abbott-failures-gop-unpopularity-beto-o-rourke-musters-campaign-volunteer-army-149647941537

* "In Minnesota, abortion key to Keith Ellison's 2nd term hopes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-minnesota-abortion-keys-keith-ellisons-2nd-term-hopes/2022/09/29/db3921fe-3fab-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html

* "Warnock: Voting rights battle is why I know 'I still have work to do' in Senate:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/warnock-voting-rights-battle-is-why-i-know-i-still-have-work-to-do-in-senate-149560901860

* "GOP Senate Candidate's Home Site of ‘Aggressive’ Incident With Police in 2018:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-senate-candidate-don-bolduc-was-aggressive-with-police-in-2018-incident

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

* "Records contradict Majewski's account of military punishment:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-afghanistan-ohio-campaigns-only-on-ap-14b98ee6b4e8ff023729a4498ade2ac0

* "Donald Trump made transphobic jokes while preparing for Hilary Clinton debate:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/28/donald-trump-homophobia-transphobia-book-maggie-haberman/

* "Judge again sides with Trump in Mar-a-Lago documents fight:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/29/judge-again-sides-with-trump-in-mar-a-lago-documents-fight-00059644

* "Hayes: Trump judges remind us the rule of law is a 'human institution':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-judges-reminds-us-the-rule-of-law-is-a-human-institution-149638725887

* "Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, testifies before Jan. 6 panel:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/29/1125886442/ginni-thomas-wife-supreme-court-justice-testifies-jan-6

* "‘Who asked Ginni Thomas to call legislators in Wisconsin and Arizona?’ legal expert asks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ginni-thomas-meets-with-jan-6-select-committee-investigators-149567045727

* "Raskin: ‘Remarkable’ that Ginni Thomas still believes election was stolen:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/raskin-remarkable-that-ginni-thomas-still-believes-election-was-stolen-149640261728

* "Stone may join Bannon in club of pardoned Trump henchmen who commit more crimes:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/roger-stone-says-before-2020-election-trump-should-just-declare-victory-149404741794

* "Jurors must decide how much Newtown families suffering worth:" https://apnews.com/article/business-shootings-education-violence-school-0237a512275c9ede38d28ebb9bfee03c

* "Police uncertain if girl killed in shootout was abducted:" https://apnews.com/article/shootings-violence-california-2621bd124c235bdfc1d91759d9812545

* "California woman charged with killing man over cat dispute:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-california-obituaries-santa-ana-311387a2cf8ceec8fbe0e4e417a5f454

* CW: Child Abuse "Making Money off Children’s Pain: Family Vloggers:"

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* "Mali – Hundreds of Homes Destroyed by Floods in Mopti Region:" https://floodlist.com/africa/mali-floods-mopti-september-2022

* "People in Cuba protest over the island-wide blackout caused by Hurricane Ian:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1126189710/cuba-hurricane-ian-blackout-power-protests

* "Ian Becomes a Hurricane Again as It Takes Aim at South Carolina:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/29/us/hurricane-ian-florida

* "How to help victims of Hurricane Ian in Florida:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-to-help-victims-of-hurricane-ian-in-florida

* "Before, after images show Hurricane Ian storm surge completely destroyed some Sanibel Island, Florida hotels | CNN:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/us/hurricane-ian-sanibel-before-after/index.html

* "Hundreds of thousands of Florida homes lie in flood-risk areas not recognized by FEMA's flood maps, research group says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hundreds-thousands-florida-homes-lie-flood-risk-areas-not-recognized-f-rcna50002

* "Ian will likely hit South Carolina as a hurricane, forecasters say:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/29/1125876027/hurricane-ian-east-coast-forecast

* "Florida’s Cape Coral real estate boom show reality of climate crisis era:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/florida-s-cape-coral-real-estate-boom-show-reality-of-climate-crisis-era-149560901564

* "Cost of losses, lack of insurance compound storm's devastation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/cost-of-losses-lack-of-insurance-compound-storm-s-devastation-149645381986

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* "Mastriano Getting Desperate In PA | Frankie Lasagna Misses Judge's 61st Home Run:"

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* I am really struggling with my sinuses which fucks up my sleep, so this is short and a lot got left out. Apologies.

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* "Death toll grows in Iran as Mahsa Amini protests continue for 10th night:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/26/death-toll-grows-in-iran-as-mahsa-amini-protests-continue-for-10th-night

* "Mahsa Amini's death is a 'tipping point', says U.S.-based Iranian journalist:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/mahsa-aminis-death-is-tipping-point-says-us-based-iranian-journalist-2022-09-27/

* "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe cuts her hair in protest over death of Mahsa Amini:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/28/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-cuts-her-hair-in-protest-over-death-of-mahsa-amini

* "The far right is having a moment in Europe. Actually, everywhere.:" https://www.vox.com/world/2022/9/24/23366464/italy-elections-meloni-sweden-europe-far-right

* Italy has fallen to literal fascists, the direct heirs of Mussolini. One by one the lights go out in the West.

* "Italy shifts to the right as voters reward Meloni's party:" https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-italy-matteo-salvini-c251832f5b73063b2e20869a21f92efe

* "Italy election victors target era of political stability:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/giorgia-melonis-right-triumphs-italys-election-2022-09-26/

* "Liz Truss slammed for congratulating Italy's new 'fascist' PM Giorgia Meloni:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/27/liz-truss-giorgia-meloni-italy-prime-minister-backlash/

* "As Brazil’s election day approaches, fear of violence grows:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/27/bolsonaro-brazil-election-political-violence/

* "Bolsonaro's gun laws arm Brazil's brazen bank thieves:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolsonaros-gun-laws-arm-brazils-brazen-bank-thieves-2022-09-21/

* "Attacks on anti-Netanyahu protesters spike in run-up to Israeli election:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2022-09-25/ty-article/.premium/attacks-on-anti-netanyahu-protesters-spike-in-run-up-to-israeli-election/00000183-7554-db37-a383-7f7f5aa70000

* "Sweden's Moderates ask for more time to agree coalition after election win:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedens-moderates-ask-more-time-agree-coalition-after-election-win-2022-09-28/

* "U.S. ambassador: Finland and Sweden in NATO by Christmas:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/09/22/u-s-ambassador-finland-and-sweden-in-nato-by-christmas-00058404

* "Europe ramps up energy security after suspected sabotage:" https://apnews.com/article/foreign-policy-sabotage-european-union-79e773da228816c1f6fdeb53211e61e9

* "17 dead, 24 wounded in school shooting in Russia:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/6-dead-20-wounded-in-school-shooting-in-russia/2022/09/26/e9375610-3d74-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html

* "Russia gives citizenship to ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden:" https://apnews.com/article/edward-snowden-russian-citizenship-441ab3c037b91145d17f2de2237f834d

* "Royal Mail workers union calls for 19 days of strikes:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-postal-workers-union-calls-19-days-strikes-against-royal-mail-2022-09-27/

* "Liz Truss energy and tax plan ‘will give richest families twice as much support’:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/13/liz-truss-energy-and-tax-plan-will-give-richest-families-twice-as-much-support

* "Kwarteng: UK economy must expect more tax cuts and deregulation:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/25/kwarteng-uk-economy-must-expect-more-tax-cuts-and-deregulation

* "UK cuts taxes, boosts spending, accelerating pound's slide:" https://apnews.com/article/inflation-economy-liz-truss-62a86ff2e88ee60b3e8773419fe7d4d2

* "Jamaica Eyes a Break from Monarchy:"

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* "N.Korea fires two ballistic missiles ahead of Harris visit to South:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-fires-ballistic-missile-off-east-coast-skorea-2022-09-28/

* "A human rights lawyer pays the price of standing up to Xi's China:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-lawyers-crackdown-mainland/

* "Black Brazilians in remote 'quilombo' hamlets stand up to be counted:" https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/black-brazilians-in-remote-quilombo-hamlets-stand-up-to-be-counted

* "Why Chile Rejected the World’s Most Progressive Constitution:"

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* "Latest U.S. Military Package for Ukraine Suggests Shift in Focus to Long, Open-Ended War:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/28/world/russia-ukraine-war-news

* "Russia poised to annex occupied Ukraine after sham vote:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/occupied-ukrainian-regions-to-ask-putin-to-annex-them/2022/09/28/1f85b9da-3f02-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html

* "Two Cities, Two Armies: Pivot Points in the Fight in Ukraine’s East:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/world/europe/ukraine-donbas-russia-lyman-bakhmut.html

* "Zelenskiy: Donetsk is Ukraine's top priority since it is Russia's top priority:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-donetsk-is-ukraines-top-priority-since-it-is-russias-top-priority-2022-09-26/

* "Ukrainians told to be ready to fight for Russia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63049386

In their place I'd switch sides first chance I got, I suspect.

* "Russians are calling up the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense asking how to surrender, Ukraine says:" https://www.businessinsider.com/russians-calling-ukraine-hotline-ask-how-surrender-ukraine-mod-says-2022-9

* "Russians protested in dozens of cities against Putin's military draft:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/24/1124939236/russia-protest-putin-mobilization-draft-ukraine-war

* "Russia: man shoots officer drafting residents for war in Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/26/russia-man-shoots-commander-drafting-residents-for-war-in-ukraine

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* "Patrol spots Chinese, Russian naval ships off Alaska island:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/patrol-spots-chinese-russian-naval-ships-off-alaska-90550596

* "Biden administration awards $1.5 billion to fight opioid crisis:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/24/biden-administration-awards-1point5-billion-to-fight-opioid-crisis.html

* "W.H. Adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms joins The Sunday Show for exclusive interview:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/w-h-adviser-keisha-lance-bottoms-joins-the-sunday-show-for-exclusive-interview-149220933577

* "Senators push to reform police's cellphone tracking tools:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-new-york-criminal-investigations-federal-trade-commission-63451d232fb202009d71a2b59173b4c7

* "Electoral Count Reform Act gets its day in the Senate:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/electoral-count-reform-act-gets-its-day-in-the-senate-149220933585

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

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

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

* "Alaska Rep. Eastman remains on ballot but could be disqualified after election:" https://www.anchoragepress.com/news/alaska-rep-eastman-remains-on-ballot-but-could-be-disqualified-after-election/article_71627796-3dce-11ed-9692-27b7f2444ca8.html

* "Cowboy for Trump Removed From Office For Jan. 6:"

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* "Democratic nominee for AZ Sec. of State, slams GOP opponent for having been at Capitol insurrection:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democratic-nominee-for-arizona-secretary-of-state-adrian-fontes-slams-gop-opponent-for-having-been-at-capitol-insurrection-149167173800

* "Republican Party's failure to manage its extremists threatens U.S. democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-party-s-failure-to-manage-its-extremists-threatens-u-s-democracy-149330501867

* "Maddow: Endgame of GOP undermining elections is to evade accountability to voters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/endgame-of-gop-undermining-elections-is-to-evade-accountability-to-voters-149332037939

* "The third rail Republicans can’t stop touching:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/22/republican-candidates-social-security-medicare-00058158

* "Caruso and Bass duel over LA corruption, crime and homelessness in mayor debate:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/21/caruso-and-bass-mayor-debate-00058204

* "Dr. Oz is getting dragged on Twitter for saying his Democratic opponent, John Fetterman, looks like he's 'kicking authority in the balls':" https://www.businessinsider.com/oz-gets-dragged-twitter-after-fetterman-insult-backfires-2022-9

* "Opinion | The Midterm Race That Has It All:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/opinion/house-republican-elections.html

* "The Republicans' J.R. Majewski problem is going to get worse:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/j-r-majewski-s-afghanistan-lies-show-bigger-gop-problem-n1299059

* "Democrat Cheri Beasley in a tight race for senator from deep-red North Carolina.:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/democrat-cheri-beasley-in-a-tight-race-for-senator-from-deep-red-north-carolina-149219397848

* McCarthy is promising that if Republicans win back Congress they will fire 87,000 people in order to stop rich people from getting audited when they cheat on their taxes. Which means zero consequences for billionaire tax cheats. They barely pay taxes now, so.... Yeah. "Just wait 'til next year :" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-tax/2022/09/26/just-wait-til-next-year-maybe-00058780

* "Meadows texts reveal direct White House communications with pro-Trump operative behind plans to seize voting machines:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/meadows-texts-phil-waldron-seize-voting-machines-election-fraud/index.html

* ""Declassify, we do": Cohen says Jedi mind tricks don't work for declassification:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/-declassify-we-do-cohen-says-jedi-mind-tricks-don-t-work-for-declassification-149218373955

* "Ex-Jan. 6 committee aide: Roger Stone is 'one of the most important factors':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ex-jan-6-committee-aide-roger-stone-is-one-of-the-most-important-factors-149319237831

* "Trump's secret court fight to stop grand jury from getting information from his inner circle:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/politics/trump-grand-jury-court-fight/index.html

* "Jan. 6 panel is 'aware of' call between White House and rioter, Rep. Raskin says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-aware-call-white-house-rioter-rep-raskin-says-rcna49328

* "‘I hope you suffer’: Ex-D.C. officer confronts Jan. 6 attacker in court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/27/kyle-young-jan6-fanone-sentence/

* "Sedition Trial of Oath Keepers Gets Underway:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/us/jan-6-oath-keepers-trial.html

* "The man who recruited migrants for flights to Martha's Vineyard says he feels betrayed:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/us/migrants-flight-marthas-vineyard-recruiter

* Sure looks like attempted murder to me. There is zero reason to park on train tracks. "Videos show train crash into Colorado police cruiser with woman inside:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/26/colorado-police-car-woman-hit-train/

* "How social-emotional learning became a frontline in the battle against CRT:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/26/1124082878/how-social-emotional-learning-became-a-frontline-in-the-battle-against-crt

* CW: Rape "Trump bid to dodge suit from rape accuser heads to DC court:" https://apnews.com/article/new-york-lawsuits-manhattan-donald-trump-d3f257e2efe28a695286c8a1230c1790

* CW: Gender-Based Violence ""There's still so much to go": Attorney and professor Anita Hill on the fight against gender violence:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anita-hill-clarence-thomas-gender-violence/

* "Teen interest in long-lasting birth control soars after Roe:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-florida-4c89ab23748309a69cac57e43e96e2c7

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* "Why experts say the fall of abortion rights is a key sign of a troubled democracy:" https://michiganadvance.com/2022/09/25/why-experts-say-the-fall-of-abortion-rights-is-a-key-sign-of-a-troubled-democracy/

* "Nearly all abortions become illegal in Arizona:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/24/arizona-abortion-ban-law

* "‘This is why young voters are mobilized’: Reactions to AZ judge allowing near-total abortion ban:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/arizona-judge-rules-state-can-enforce-near-total-abortion-ban-as-midterm-elections-approach-149168197667

* Seriously, delete your period tracker apps and the like and make sure you avoid these places. "Crisis Pregnancy Centers: A Wicked Twist on Big Brother:"

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* "Cuba just voted to legalise same-sex marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/26/cuba-same-sex-marriage-referendum-result/

* It creates a precedent that trans men aren’t men. Let’s hope it gets overturned. "Trans male prison guard banned from strip-searching Muslim inmate, court rules:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/28/trans-prison-guard-muslim-inmate-isaac-buhle-rufus-west/

* "Va. students walk out of classes in protest of Youngkin transgender policy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/27/youngkin-virginia-transgender-student-policy-walkout/

* "Bi “Visibility” Is Good, but Bi Community Is Better:" https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a41284125/what-comes-after-bisexual-visibility/

* CW: Child Death. "The Wild (and Terrible) Legacy 4Loko Left Behind:"

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* "When’s the Perfect Time to Get a Flu Shot?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/flu-shot-vaccine-timing-winter/671553/

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* "Cuba slowly begins to restore power after Hurricane Ian knocks out grid:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/cuba-slowly-begins-restore-power-after-hurricane-ian-knocks-out-grid-2022-09-28/

* "Ian swamps southwest Florida, trapping people in homes:" https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ian-live-updates-6302894797cae989ff855030cf332a97

* "Damage from Hurricane Ian impacts South Tampa:" https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2022/09/29/damage-from-hurricane-ian-impacts-south-tampa

* "People trapped and over 2 million without power as Ian drenches Florida:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/people-trapped-and-over-2-million-without-power-as-ian-drenches-florida

* "On Hurricane Fiona:" https://www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-hurricane-fiona

* "Swathes of land swamped in Philippines after typhoon:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-marcos-orders-aid-typhoon-struck-areas-five-reported-dead-2022-09-26/

* "Typhoon Noru leaves 6 rescuers dead in the northern Philippines:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/26/1125053969/typhoon-noru-leaves-5-rescuers-dead-in-the-northern-philippines

* "Fires in Brazil's Amazon surge in September, worst month since 2010:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/fires-brazils-amazon-surge-september-worst-month-since-2010-2022-09-26/

* "Mexico Earthquake Sets Off Desert Tsunami In Death Valley Cave Containing World’s Rarest Fish:" https://iflscience.com/mexico-earthquake-sets-off-desert-tsunami-in-death-valley-cave-containing-world-s-rarest-fish-65486

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* "Barber slams Mississippi state gov.: ‘People are tired of washing their babies in poisoned water’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis-blamed-on-state-leaders-ignoring-problem-149324357633

* "NAACP says Jackson's water problems are civil rights issue:" https://www.wfmj.com/story/47380435/naacp-says-jacksons-water-problems-are-civil-rights-issue

* "‘This is what a river should look like’: Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/20/dutch-rewilding-project-turns-back-the-clock-500-years-aoe

* "Tourists Are Ruining Yellowstone:"

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* "DART probe hits bull’s eye on an asteroid and strikes a blow for planetary defense:" https://www.geekwire.com/2022/dart-probe-hits-bulls-eye-on-an-asteroid-planetary-defense/

* "Mind-bending NASA feat serves as inspiration for attempting important work:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mind-bending-nasa-feat-serves-as-inspiration-for-attempting-important-work-149331525542

* "Scientists have estimated how many ants there are on Earth. Clue: It's a lot:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/world/ants-twenty-quadrillion-earth-intl-scli-scn/index.html

* "Fire ant rafts form because of the Cheerios effect, study concludes:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/fire-ant-rafts-form-because-of-the-cheerios-effect-study-concludes/

* CW: Animal Death. This is heart breaking. "32 pilot whales have been rescued out of 230 stranded in Tasmania:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124486698/tasmania-whales-rescued-australia

* "The Race to Document Prehistoric Art in a Coastal Cave in France:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cosquer-cave-art-underwater

* "The messages that survived civilisation's collapse:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220818-how-to-write-a-message-to-the-future

* "Was Loki Bisexual in Norse Mythology? (This is gonna get weirder than you think):"

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* "When Was The Viking Age?:"

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This captures perfectly the two biggest things I endlessly try to explain to people about Periodization .

1: Periodization is inherently arbitrary and depends on the specific thing you are studying and exist because things like papers, classes, and books need a beginning and end date. You can’t jam all of history into any of these things, so you need to draw some arbitrary lines, but a person studying Japanese History will draw a different set of line than someone studying say German theology than someone studying Central American archeology.

2. Periodization is only useful insofar as it’s giving you some degree of useful information to the people trying to study the same sorts of things, and the people doing it don’t take it to seriously.

* "A Tale of Two Times: Edo Japan Encounters the European Clock:" https://daily.jstor.org/a-tale-of-two-times-edo-japan-encounters-the-european-clock/

* CW: Child Death The Eastland disaster always rips my heart out. "The Forgotten Disaster of the SS Eastland:"

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* "A new label revives forgotten female composers' music:" https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2022/08/17/1117799706/a-new-label-exhumes-forgotten-female-composers-music

* "Rapper Coolio dies at 59:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-aud-ent-coolio-dies-59-20220929-tpe3g3xyt5d43nd6un5nypfqyq-story.html

* "Bolsonaro: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Haberman's Book Details Racist, Sexist Behavior By The Former President | Lizzo Makes History Cool:"

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* "Putin's Draft Is Going As Badly As His War | NASA Knows How To Celebrate!:"

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* "T**** Denies Watching TV During Jan 6 Insurrection | Italy's Far Right Is Ruining "LOTR":"

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* "So Much News, So Little Time - Trump Telepathy & More:" https://www.cc.com/video/u56ew4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-so-much-news-so-little-time-trump-telepathy-more

* "New Darth Vader Voice & The British Pound Plunges :" https://www.cc.com/video/4idpa0/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-new-darth-vader-voice-the-british-pound-plunges

* "Ronny Chieng Teaches You About Asians - K-Pop:" https://www.cc.com/video/dbdv4k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-ronny-chieng-teaches-you-about-asians-k-pop

* "Putin's Sham Referendum & Pre-Pandemic Traffic Returns:" https://www.cc.com/video/6tz18o/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-putin-s-sham-referendum-pre-pandemic-traffic-returns

* "The Former President's Secret Rich Friends:"

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* "Werner Herzog On The Emotional Cost Of Flying:"

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* "Midwestern Dad: The Only Ride Share That Tips You:"

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* My body is struggling with the wild swings between too hot and muggy and chilly that are typical of season change. It will even out when the rains settle in properly. I have hopes tomorrow may be the day from the feel of the air at dusk.

In the meantime, I am Frankensteining painfully about the cat asylum. Not only did the Wednseday errands wipe me out, but annoyingly, I had cascading torso spasms starting right at dinnertime. Which happens. I think barometric changeability spiking the AS pain and the late August meds change dovetailed. I think of these things as the "One thing too many" syndrome. I saw it early enough to start mitigation before the first wave hit and a hot epsom bath and the meds straightened me out, by about 9ish, which trust me is fast. Still, it is hard on the system.

I missed the market garden by a literal two minutes at errands end. Dammit.

* Weird History Geek Moment: Watching Lucy Worsley handle 14th Century Court rolls. Me flashing on all the time and energy I spent with magnifying glass, a bright light on a bendy thing trying to decipher the facsimiles of a different set sent by an archivist friend of my late advisers as a favor. The handwriting on the Walsham le Willows set looks so much better than the ones I worked with. She had way better lighting than I did in my dorm room and she still needed a magnifying glass too. It's just weird seeing anyone putting stuff from my specialty on TV.

The family they are studying... I had one like that too in my set. I was so relieved to see them still making trouble in the 1350's....

Unfortunately, she doesn't understand that a 'fine for brewing in breach of the assize' is a form of tax. No really. They didn't have a proper income tax system yet. They had a system for taxation to raise money for war, but it required a special vote in parliament at this historical period. They had rents for peasants. (I don't want to get into the issue of extraordinary poll tax votes here, as it's not relevant to the issue of taxation right before the coming of the Great Pestilence aka the first wave of the plague in England).

So you have these peasants who pay rents for their land in money, goods, and or labor (unfree peasants aka serfs pay rent in labour on top of the other stuff. Free peasants only pay money or in kind); but if you are the lord of the manor, how do you make money off other types of economic actively in the village? You do get fines when they break laws, right? You can fine them for taking rushes from the marsh or taking stuff out of the forests, but not everyone does that. You know what everyone needs? Bread and ale! So you pass a law making brewing and bread baking illegal and you assess a small fine for it.

You're likely picturing a tavern, but that's not how things work in a rural 14th century village. A lot of women take it in turn to brew ale, as they don't have preservatives yet, and it's hard work requiring equipment and ingredients, so generally it's your mid-level peasant women. In the sort of village I was working with you had approximately two batches a week. (The village she is talking about in the Black Death episode is bigger than my biggest village, so YMMV). When a new batch is ready you set out your benches and people come by to buy it for home or to drink there. Meanwhile, a different woman elsewhere in the village starts up a new batch for drinking at a later date.

You can tell which women are the most popular brewers by the size of the 'fine' aka tax on what they sold.

There was usually only one big bread oven (Not counting the manor house or monastery) for the village size I was working with, so whoever ran that paid the baking fine. Again, don't be picturing a bakery in the modern sense. People would mostly bring their own dough or at least grain and pay to get it baked, but any extra work the baker was doing was extra money so.... Yeah. You brought your dough and they baked it for you, because most homes just had an open fire pit and a hole to let the smoke out. So your baker had a bigger fine for baking than any of the alewives would.

It's an income tax, not a brewing moonshine in a hidden still, type situation.

So if there is dramatically more brewing going on the Autumn before the Great Pestilence arrived in England on the strength of rumors from france, compared to the previous years, it means they are running through ale batches faster, so more households are taking it in turn at a faster rate, so the fines would be higher and some of the infrequent alewives are likely taking noticeably more turns. You CAN see that sort of thing in the records, if you know how to look, but you need to take a longitudinal approach. One set of Court rolls can't tell you a damned thing about statistical change.

I'm not saying it didn't happen. (I haven't read these specific Court Rolls, which were just starting to be studied when I was finishing, and once I left academia I stopped reading this sort of article. They weren't published yet and I couldn't get my hands on them, basically, since the researches who did have hands on them rightly reserved first crack). I'm saying her methodology as described doesn't make sense. She's an early modern specialist who has said repeatedly in the episode this isn't her area. It's possible her consultants skipped a step explaining it to her, or she didn't understand and skipped a step. In either case, why didn't they edit it out or film an insert that wasn't inaccurate? Had they no fact checkers? How did they even get into Court Rolls at this depth if they had no specialists involved? I have questions.

The thing is? Most of the stuff in this one does make sense. I caught some small issues, like generalizations based on this specific court roll set that don't match practice in other villages (EX: some places fine male head of household and some fine the person doing the specific activity) and the like, but this is like 100X better than the crap the so called "History Channel" puts out about the middle Ages. I just... I have questions.

As always on these occasions, I would like to extend my condolences to any poor grad student forced by their research topic to read my research. *Shudder* Seriously, let's pour one out for the 14th century English peasant studies scholars and their embroidery lights and magnifying glasses.

* Aaaw, I missed Stanislav Petrov Day!

For those of you too young to know, once upon a time, in this case 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world from nuclear annihilation single handedly by using his head instead of believing malfunctioning instruments.

None of us would be here right now if he had followed procedures and started a nuclear war with the west.

* The Serpant Queen: I’m all in with the Catherine De Medici characterization, but I wish they hadn’t decided to go heavy handed mean girl with diane de Poitiers. Making her historically accurately subtle and intelligent instead of a cliche would have created a far more interesting product over all.

I agree that this is the best thing they’ve done in this line and worlds ahead of the White Princess and the Catherine one, which I rage quit over them having her brag about her deflowering when historically the whole point was she claimed to be a virgin later. (No offence to the York/Tudor series actors. It’s the writing that’s the issue).

I expect telescoping and small changes and character combinations and the like in my historical adaptions. I understand that fiction’s going to fiction. i understand anachronisms for humorous effect. What I do want is for the characters based on historical people to be recognizable interpretations of them, if you follow. The lion in winter is an example of doing that that. tight writing, all the people make sense as interpretations of the historical personages they represent, completely fictional scenario. The old Tudors series is a classic example of completely tossing out the actual personality of the main character Henry VIII in favor of something less interesting and relevant. (I can believe Johnathan Rhys Meyers is a generic king, but not that particular king, Throwing physicality out entirely, which they also did, he acts more like and Edward I than a Henry VIII),

The Serpent Queen version of Catherine de Medici is fascinating and a fair interpretation of the historical figure. (There are a bunch of ways to approach her, but anti-heroine is right up there on the short list). The do a lot of the same things with history the Borgias series did, as in we are watching fiction loosely based on historical stuff with a bunch of changes, telescoping, etc., but my concerns are things like how will they be handling Mary Queen of Scots, given them deciding to do Diane dirty on characterization.

It’s fascinating, beautiful designwise and way bolder than the previous STARZ Tudor stuff. I am watching it with more interest than I’ve had for anything like this in some time. I love them leaning in hard on Catherine’s self agendaed intelligence, and I think a lot of people complaining about her character design wouldn’t be if they were looking at a male anti-hero, but I also think there are valid complaints to be made in other areas.

Even if this is hands down the best entry in this series of series so far.

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

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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/

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

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* "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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Families are still living there.

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

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* 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

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* "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

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

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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

*****
* 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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* "Afghanistan women: 'I felt anxious going back to university':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60236826

* "Evidence police in Belfast colluded with loyalists in the Troubles, report finds:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/08/evidence-police-in-belfast-colluded-with-loyalists-in-the-troubles-report-finds

* It sure looks like a transparent ploy to whip up a lynch mob against the opposition in order to distract from his COVID Party scandal. "MPs blame Boris Johnson’s ‘poison’ after protesters mob Keir Starmer:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/07/police-rescue-keir-starmer-after-protesters-surround-him-near-parliament

* "Misogyny in Met played key role in downfall of Cressida Dick:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/11/misogyny-in-met-police-played-key-role-in-downfall-of-cressida-dick

* "Cressida Dick steps down as Met Police commissioner amid scandal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/10/cressida-dick-metropolitan-police-resign/

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* "An Omicron subvariant gains in Europe, but is unlikely to alter the picture very much, experts say.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/world/europe/omicron-subvariant-ba-2.html

* "New Zealand authorities deploy Barry Manilow against Covid protesters:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/new-zealand-authorities-deploy-barry-manilow-against-covid-protesters

* "As state medical boards try to stamp out COVID misinformation, some in GOP push back:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/14/1077689734/as-state-medical-boards-try-to-stamp-out-covid-misinformation-some-in-gop-push-b

* "Alabama hospitals still battling Omicron COVID-19 surge:" https://www.wbrc.com/2022/02/07/alabama-hospitals-still-battling-omicron-covid-19-surge/

* "3 Alabama inmates die shortly after testing positive for COVID-19:" https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/3-alabama-inmates-die-shortly-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19/

* "New Jersey, Connecticut, others to lift statewide school mask mandates:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-governor-end-school-mask-mandate-rcna15168

* "Louisiana Covid-19 cases are trending down, while Mississippi is seeing significant challenges in the ICU.:" https://wgno.com/news/health/louisiana-covid-19-cases-are-trending-down-while-mississippi-is-seeing-significant-challenges-in-the-icu/

* "COVID-19 challenges persist in minority, rural communities in Tennessee:" https://www.wkrn.com/community/health/coronavirus/covid-19-challenges-persist-in-minority-rural-communities-in-tennessee/

* "Rep. Joyce Beatty discusses Rep. Hal Rogers apologizing after "Kiss my a**" comment regarding mask request:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-joyce-beatty-says-rep-hal-rogers-poked-her-said-kiss-my-ass-over-mask-request-132819013797

* Why would someone go to a plague rat for dentistry? "Cranston dentist who defied RI COVID vaccine mandate sues for right to see patients again:" https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/02/04/dentist-defied-rhode-island-covid-1-vaccine-mandate-health-workers-lawsuit/6650356001/

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* "U.S. says 'no wiggle room' on Lebanon holding May elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-says-no-wiggle-room-lebanon-holding-may-elections-2022-02-07/

* "Iran timeline to nuclear weapon 'frighteningly short' after failed Trump policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/iran-timeline-to-nuclear-weapon-frighteningly-short-after-failed-trump-policy-132831301974

* "Ottawa truckers' convoy galvanizes far-right worldwide:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/06/ottawa-truckers-convoy-galvanizes-far-right-worldwide-00006080

* "Ottawa declares a state of emergency over truckers' growing anti-government protests:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/07/1078861392/ottawa-protest-state-of-emergency

* "Ted Cruz gushes: Canadian truckers ‘defending America’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ted-cruz-gushes-canadian-truckers-defending-america-132652101735

* "Canada afflicted with right-wing American Covid conspiracy chaos:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/canada-afflicted-with-right-wing-american-covid-conspiracy-chaos-132832325668

* "Joy Reid explains American right-wing co-optation of Canadian anti-Covid vaccine mandate trucker protest:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/canadian-anti-covid-vaccine-mandate-trucker-protest-co-optation-by-american-right-wing-explained-by-joy-reid-132821061640

* "COVID-19 protests threaten border trade between Canada, US:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-ottawa-truckers-canada-protest-c49a25da25cd2f5e81f1eac5664e37ad

* "US urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-detroit-canada-20f273b32bfa8ef695fdabcc7e11321e

* "Canada's Trudeau invokes emergency powers in bid to end protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-police-response-protests-spotlight-after-key-bridge-us-cleared-2022-02-14/

* "U.S.-Canada bridge reopens but protests persist in Ottawa:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080548576/u-s-canada-bridge-reopens-but-protests-persist-in-ottawa

* "Anger and fear among Ukrainians in Russia's crosshairs:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anger-and-fear-among-ukrainians-in-russia-s-crosshairs-133178437580

* "Lesson of 'little green men' prompts U.S. strategy of radical transparency on Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lesson-of-little-green-men-prompts-u-s-strategy-of-radical-transparency-on-russia-133177925806

* "Volunteers and veterans train for war in Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/ukraine-russia-volunteers-training/

* I admit, I downgrade my assessment of any pundit's expertise if they pronounce Kyiv the Russian instead of the Ukrainian way. It is heartening to see so many presenters flipping their own pronunciations. I know it may seem like a small thing, but it shows bias, I think, if not outright ignorance.

* "White House approves plan for US troops to help Americans leave Ukraine if Russia invades:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/white-house-plan-troops-help-americans-leave-ukraine/index.html

* "U.S. sending 3,000 more troops to Poland amid fresh Ukraine invasion warnings:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/11/us-sending-3000-more-troops-to-poland-00008357

* "US suspends Mexican avocado imports on eve of Super Bowl:" https://apnews.com/article/business-mexico-global-trade-agriculture-drug-cartels-7c6bb7ef83bada375692ba890c413ce5

* "U.S. unveils $5 bln plan to fund EV charging network:" https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-detail-5-bln-plan-fund-ev-charging-network-2022-02-10/

* "Michael S. Regan - Seeking Solutions as Head of the EPA :" https://www.cc.com/video/jsv3ed/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-michael-s-regan-seeking-solutions-as-head-of-the-epa

* "Brilliant gender-fluid nuclear expert and LGBT+ activist lands key energy job:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/14/sam-brinton-gender-fluid-joe-biden/

* "Biden’s top science adviser bullied and demeaned subordinates, according to White House investigation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/07/eric-lander-white-house-investigation-00006077

* "House passes short-term government funding bill that would prevent shutdown, sends it to Senate:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/government-shutdown-house-passes-funding-bill.html

* "Joy Reid: Prices will keep going higher and higher until the consumer says ‘enough!’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/inflation-caused-in-part-by-corporate-price-raising-and-profit-seeking-expert-says-132911173796

* "Jill Biden acknowledges free community college has fallen out of her husband’s Build Back Better agenda:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/jill-biden-says-free-community-college-out-of-bbb/

* "House OKs bill easing budget strains on Postal Service:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/house-oks-bill-easing-budget-strains-postal-service-82756382

* "Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi sued the Biden administration for raising federal contractors' minimum wage to $15 an hour:" https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-federal-contractor-minimum-wage-texas-louisiana-mississippi-2022-lawsuit-paxton-2

* "Nurses Who Faced Lawsuits for Quitting Are Fighting Back:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-02/underpaid-contract-nurses-who-faced-fines-lawsuits-for-quitting-fight-back

* "‘This is a national movement’: union drives surge at US Starbucks stores:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/11/starbucks-union-organizing-drives-across-us

* "Why Congress is moving against sexual harassment, 4 years after #MeToo:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/10/congress-sexual-harassment-metoo-00007493

* "Rep. Porter on Congress stock trading ban: We must earn back public trust:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-porter-on-congress-stock-trading-ban-we-must-earn-back-public-trust-132819525583

* They are planning to make the entire Internet Child Safe: https://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/675770052789862400

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

* Tuesday they nullified the Voting Rights Act and possibly the 14th Amendment on the Shadow Docket so as to allow racial gerrymandering for the Midterms. "Activists on Supreme Court declare open season on voting rights of people of color experts say:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-ruling-validates-racist-gerrymander-in-alabama-132738117970

* "Supreme Court guts yet another provision of the Voting Rights Act:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/supreme-court-guts-yet-another-provision-of-the-voting-rights-act-132735557936

* 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/

* "The Push to Restrict Voting Rights Continues:" https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/push-restrict-voting-rights-continues

* "North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down GOP-drawn congressional map:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/04/north-carolina-congressional-map-struck-down-00005974

* "Arizona panel votes to require excuse for early voting:" https://www.abc15.com/news/politics/arizona-panel-votes-to-require-excuse-for-early-voting

* "Supreme Court stops lower court order requiring Alabama to draw a new district voting map favorable to Black residents:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/supreme-court-alabama-racial-gerrymandering/

* "Supreme Court conservatives help Alabama GOP keep biased map for next election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/supreme-court-conservatives-help-alabama-gop-keep-biased-map-for-next-election-132660293929

* "Republicans see early success at damaging elections with new voting restrictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-see-early-success-at-damaging-elections-with-new-voting-restrictions-133179461628

* "As GOP seeks to usurp control of elections, Wisconsin Democrats are mobilizing locally:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-gop-seeks-to-usurp-control-of-elections-wisconsin-democrats-are-mobilizing-locally-132744773645

* "WWII Vet, 95, Says Mail-in Ballot Application Rejected Twice Under Texas Law: 'I've Never Missed a Vote':" https://people.com/politics/mail-in-ballot-application-rejected-veteran-95-texas-voting-law-sb1/

* "A judge has kept in place his ruling that says absentee ballot drop boxes can't be used in Wisconsin:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/21/wisconsin-judge-keeps-place-ruling-bars-ballot-drop-boxes/6584338001/

* "People Who Think Trump Won in 2020 Are Trying to Run Elections:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3v57v/people-who-think-trump-won-in-2020-are-trying-to-run-elections

* Can we take a moment to appreciate that the only 'proof' Marjorie Taylor Greene has that Nancy Pelosi is somehow using cold tomato soup against Republicans is that after hours Capital police saw a congressman's door was a jar and checked to make sure there were no intruders before closing it? Like that's it. They didn't touch any of his stuff. It was exactly the sort of routine security check you'd want capital police to do if they spotted an open congress critters door. "Marjorie Taylor Greene says Nancy Pelosi leads ‘gazpacho police,’ causing collective spit take:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-gazpacho-gestapo/

* "GOP rep professes loyalty to Trump at his Tower after he endorses her opponent:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-professes-loyalty-to-trump-at-his-tower-after-he-endorses-her-opponent-132908101582

* "GOP candidate says her aides were among January 6 "heroes":" https://www.newsweek.com/gop-candidate-lynne-torgerson-says-her-aides-were-among-jan-6-heroes-1678290

* "Meet the candidates running on 'explicitly pro-coup platforms':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/meet-the-candidates-running-on-explicitly-pro-coup-platforms-132992581513

* "Republicans try to straddle the ‘pro-coup’ line after RNC censure:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-try-to-straddle-the-pro-coup-line-after-rnc-censure-132735557601

* "Gay Billionaire Peter Thiel Exits Meta Board to Fund Trump Candidates:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2022/2/08/gay-billionaire-and-republican-donor-peter-thiel-leave-meta-board

* "How one small town fought off a QAnon invasion :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-one-small-town-fought-off-a-qanon-invasion-133166149895

* "With little evidence, felon tells Assembly committee there were thousands of illegal votes:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/02/10/with-little-evidence-felon-tells-assembly-committee-there-were-thousands-of-illegal-votes/

* "Republicans credulously present convicted fraudster to spin stolen election tale:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-credulously-present-convicted-fraudster-to-spin-stolen-election-tale-132921413827

* "Deputy Virginia Attorney General Resigns Over Posts Praising Capitol Rioters:" https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/deputy-virginia-attorney-general-resigns-over-posts-praising-capitol-rioters/2968067/

* "Trump backer, 4 others charged with voter fraud in Wisconsin:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-backer-charged-voter-fraud-wisconsin-82806728

* "Giuliani asked Michigan prosecutor to give voting machines to Trump team:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/02/09/giuliani-antrim-prosecutor-voting-machines/

* "Trump Organization's accounting firm says 10 years of financial statements are unreliable:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/politics/trump-mazars/index.html

* "‘Big blow’: Accounting firm dumps Trump over dubious financial statements:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-big-blow-accounting-firm-dumps-trump-over-dubious-financial-statements-133163077859

* "Banker who tried to buy his way into Trump administration gets a year in prison :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/banker-who-tried-to-buy-his-way-into-trump-administration-gets-a-year-in-prison-132746309540

* "Stephen Calk: Banker sentenced to prison for bribery scheme in chase for Trump administration job:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/07/politics/stephen-calk/index.html

* "National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/trump-records-mar-a-lago/

* "Presidential Records Act: From Nixon’s Watergate tapes to Trump’s ‘burn bags’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/07/presidential-records-act-trump-nixon/

* "Trump flouting of Presidential Records Act leaves National Archives scrambling:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-flouting-of-presidential-records-act-leaves-national-archives-scrambling-132663365612

* "Trump used ‘burn bags’ to destroy docs, took records to Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-used-burn-bags-to-destroy-docs-took-records-to-mar-a-lago-132651077571

* "Records retrieved from Trump by National Archives may include classified material: reports:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/records-retrieved-from-trump-by-national-archives-may-include-classified-material-reports-132828229549

* I bet if I’d stolen boxes of classified documents from the government they’d arrest me right away. Just saying. "New legal entanglement for Trump as DOJ, intel community assess mishandling of documents:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-legal-entanglement-for-trump-as-doj-intel-community-assess-mishandling-of-documents-132919877762

* "Trump's odd toilet flushing fixation reconsidered after reports of document dumping:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-odd-toilet-flushing-fixation-reconsidered-after-reports-of-document-dumping-132920901985

* "Flush away the evidence?: The Trump toilet obsession takes a crooked turn:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/flush-away-the-evidence-the-trump-toilet-obsession-takes-a-crooked-turn-132905541770

* "Glenn Kirschner: Between Navarro and draft executive order this is like 'Sedition for Dummies':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/national-archives-asks-the-department-of-justice-to-investigate-donald-trump-for-handling-of-white-house-documents-132820037635

* "Steele: I don’t want to hear another word about Clinton’s emails after Trump doc eating allegation:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-accused-of-eating-torn-up-documents-in-the-oval-office-according-to-former-white-house-aide-132910149987

* "New details on Trump’s reported document stealing, destroying, flushing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-trump-s-reported-document-stealing-destroying-flushing-132992581872

* "Trump denies flushing documents down White House toilet:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/10/trump-denies-flushing-documents-down-white-house-toilet-00007710

* "White House records obtained so far by January 6 committee show no record of calls to and from Trump during riot:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/politics/trump-white-house-records/index.html

* "January 6 Committee adopts prosecutorial style in hope of prompting Garland to action: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6-committee-adopts-prosecutorial-style-in-hope-of-prompting-garland-to-action-nyt-132661829905

* "January 6th probe tracing chain of command despite resistance from Trump entourage:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-probe-tracing-chain-of-command-despite-resistance-from-trump-entourage-133001797604

* "Federal judge orders John Eastman to detail legal work for Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/14/john-eastman-jan-6-investigation-00008560

* "Jan. 6 panel 'fully' expects Giuliani to cooperate with subpoena, Kinzinger says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-fully-expects-giuliani-cooperate-subpoena-kinzinger-says-rcna16059

* "January 6 committee subpoenas one-time Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/peter-navarro-january-6-subpoena/index.html

* "Prosecutor exposes another facet of Trump scheme to seize voting machines after 2020 loss:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prosecutor-exposes-another-facet-of-trump-scheme-to-seize-voting-machines-after-2020-loss-132832837738

* "Unifying power of January 6th for extremist groups being examined by congressional panel:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/unifying-power-of-january-6th-for-extremist-groups-being-examined-by-congressional-panel-132745285796

* "Capitol rioter gets prison as feds reach 100 sentencings:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-iraq-middle-east-elections-amy-berman-jackson-59d2550b3036ed48d8d4e41a84617d73

* "Anti-vax doctor Simone Gold reaches plea deal in Capitol riot case:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/anti-vax-doctor-simone-gold-reaches-plea-deal-in-capitol-riot-case-john-herbert-strand-covid-19-hydroxychloroquine-ivermectin-americas-frontline/65-06593dc8-7f9a-47ec-93f0-f507e3c1b2a7

* "Anti-vax doctor reaches plea deal in Capitol riot case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/anti-vax-doctor-reaches-plea-deal-in-capitol-riot-case-132817989652

* "Amir Locke's family calls for a full ban on no-knock warrants as the Minneapolis mayor answers City Council questions about city's policies:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/07/us/no-knock-warrants-minneapolis-shooting/index.html

* "Amir Locke and the Second Amendment:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/amir-locke-and-the-second-amendment-133066821537

* "School leaders say HBCUs are undeterred after a series of bomb threats:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/08/1079294424/hbcu-bomb-threats-black-colleges

* "FBI investigating HBCU bomb threats as a hate crime, suspects juveniles may be involved:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/02/fbi-hbcu-bomb-threats-investigation/

* "8 DC schools cleared following threats; police, FBI investigating:" https://wtop.com/dc/2022/02/3-dc-high-schools-evacuated-after-threats/

* "Second gentleman Doug Emhoff evacuated from D.C. school following bomb threat:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/second-gentleman-doug-emhoff-evacuated-dc-school-bomb-threat-rcna15403

* Anyone surprised Elon Musk is Henry ford level racist? "Tesla sued over alleged racial discrimination:" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60330296

* "Elon Musk’s car company Tesla faces allegations of racist discrimination against Black employees:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/elon-musk-s-car-company-tesla-faces-allegations-of-racist-discrimination-against-black-employees-133168709936

* "What about Black students’ ‘discomfort’?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/08/teaching-history-discomfort-black-students/

* "Nikole Hannah-Jones: These bills say we need to ensure White children are not uncomfortable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-gov-desantis-proposes-stop-woke-act-132740677637

* "Parents organize to fight back against GOP's classroom culture war:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/parents-organize-to-fight-back-against-gop-s-classroom-culture-war-133065797695

* "A Gay Man Burned a Bible in Protest at a Tennessee Book Burning:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2022/2/07/gay-man-burned-bible-protest-tennessee-book-burning

* "Super Bowl halftime show showcased Black artists yet NFL diversity issues persist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/super-bowl-lvi-halftime-show-sparks-right-wing-freak-out-133167685837

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "The Sheltered Lives of Jehovah's Witnesses:"

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* Tell me you get turned on by dead fish without telling me. "Ohio mayor concerned ice shanties could lead to prostitution:" https://apnews.com/article/ohio-cleveland-bf6a9817a5d910411679a2781e23210c

* "Governor Glenn Youngkin accused of ‘toxic culture’ after aides attack teen on Twitter:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/07/virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-aides-attack-teen-on-twitter

* "Fla. Republicans ditch Texas-style abortion law for what they call a ‘generous’ 15-week ban, drawing criticism from all sides:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/abortion-ban-florida-texas-roe-supreme-court/

* "Florida Republicans move toward abortion ban with new proposed restrictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/florida-republicans-move-toward-abortion-ban-with-new-proposed-restrictions-133003333930

* "Vermont moves forward on becoming first state to guarantee the right to abortion in its constitution:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/08/abortion-roe-vermont/

* "BBC's 'transphobic reporting' called out in international human rights review:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/15/ilga-europe-transphobia-uk-bbc/

* "Netherlands could be next country to ban 'medieval' conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/14/netherlands-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Staff quit UK's so-called equalities watchdog en masse over relentless 'transphobia':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/04/ehrc-baroness-falkner-staff-quit-transphobia/

* "Queer students feel ‘betrayed’ after Cambridge college bans Pride flag:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/05/cambridge-college-pride-flag-gonville-caius/

* "The Importance of Seeking Social Security Survivor's Benefits:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/04/importance-seeking-social-security-survivors-benefits

* "South Dakota Governor Signs Anti-Trans Sports Bill Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/2/03/south-dakota-governor-kristi-noem-signs-anti-trans-sports-bill-law

* I'm so happy for them both! "Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta Marries Fiancé Dr. Matthew Jordan-Miller:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2022/2/06/rep-malcolm-kenyatta-marries-fiance-dr-matthew-jordan-miller

* "Paralysed man with severed spine walks thanks to implant:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60258620

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* "Study finds Western megadrought is the worst in 1,200 years:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080302434/study-finds-western-megadrought-is-the-worst-in-1-200-years

* "Venezuela opens probe into table-top mountain 'party':" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220210-venezuela-opens-probe-into-table-top-mountain-party

* "Plastic crisis needs binding treaty, report says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60026748

* "The fast fashion graveyard in a desert:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-60249712

* "SpaceX satellites falling out of orbit after solar storm:" https://apnews.com/article/spacex-space-launches-storms-science-business-4ac79ca2d9341f91f9c2897cb07363d4

* "Texas sues Meta's Facebook over facial-recognition practices:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/texas-sues-meta-over-facebooks-facial-recognition-practices-report-2022-02-14/

* CW: Animal Death. I really hope it works! "Vaccine trial for killer elephant virus begins:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60222464

* "The Actual “Assassins” Were Not What You Think:"

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* "10 Facts: Black Patriots in the American Revolution:" https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/10-facts-black-patriots-american-revolution?fbclid=IwAR23B3fedgZUszN1wcJgIypLZCIRumPBqPCxtKAKkNZBGJ-sgGp_eZwN6l4

* "Zora Neale Hurston: Crash Course Black American History #30:"

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* "Chernobyl, The Worst Nuclear Disaster in History:"

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* "432 Park Ave: Luxury Apartments From Your Worst Nightmares | Corporate Casket:"

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* "Why World’s Finest Chocolate Isn’t So Sweet :"

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* "Russian skater Kamila Valieva can compete, but medal ceremony won't be held | CBC Sports:" https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/figure-skating/doping-hearing-russian-figure-skater-kamila-valieva-ruling-expected-mondady-1.6350402

* "Russian anti-doping agency allowed Kamila Valieva to compete in Olympics despite failed drug test:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/sport/kamila-valieva-roc-drugs-test-olympics-spt-intl-hnk/index.html

They need a hard ban. Last time it was a slap on the wrist, so of course they are still doing it.

For the record, I don't blame an abused 15 year old for doing what her abuser told her to do. I blame every single adult involved.

* "U.S. Figure Skater Vincent Zhou Addresses COVID Diagnosis In Tearful Video:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vincent-zhou-covid-winter-olympics_n_6202353fe4b0500424322946

* Every time that piece of shit Dick Button would body shame Irina Slutskaya, I'd throw up in my mouth a little and think about stabbings. https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1492547898390708224

* We need to talk about Zhu Yi.

So here's the thing, in both the elite sports and the ballet world, people have been switching countries significantly longer than I've been alive. It a thing that happens. It's normal. There are a lot of reasons for it. sometimes, as during the Cold war, people outright defect(ed) because they think they will have a better life in the other country. This is an extremely familiar narrative even to people who don't follow figure skating (or ballet, or certain other sports), but it's not the only reason people do this.

In figure skating, it's incredibly common for people who are good, but live in a country with a large number of good skaters to, you know, move somewhere where they have more opportunities. People with duel citizenship will often pick the country with less competition for top slots because things like the Olympics max out a countries entries at three. If there are say four or even five of you vying for a limited number of slots at say Worlds or the Olympics, maybe it's worth staying, but what if you have an option to grab the one spot some other country has instead of fighting your way into those limited slots?

Keep in mind, a lot of those smaller countries very much want an elite skater to help build a program in their country and for the international prestige. They will welcome a duel citizen with open arms. Similarly, the child of emigres. Some of them will actively recruit athletes who've signaled an interest in leaving despite a lack of ties. (This happens in lots of Sports. Remember that Belarusian runner who defected in a Japanese airport who got taken in by a third country?) So if your country has no potential Olympians, or only very weak contenders, it really does make sense on both sides.

Last I checked eight Russian figure skaters were expected at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, five of them skating for other countries because the Russian women's single skate program is so incredibly dominant right now. If you are in the top four or five, might as well go be the best woman's single skater in some other nearby country.

You also get good skaters from smaller countries moving to live somewhere else without changing citizenship to be where the best coaches are. This is incredibly normal. you also get pairs and dance skaters who end up deciding to partner with someone from another country, who have to change citizenship so they can skate together. My point is, a lot of people live and train in one country and compete for another, or have moved between countries as they think is best for their development as skaters.

Would I want to pick China to switch to? No. Surveillance, genocide, concentration camps, rising anti-queer sentiment, etc., but I can see why the level of state support china gives their elite athletes might attract someone who was talented but not likely to get much support or exposure in the US. It's not the choice I would likely make, but I can understand someone who did, especially someone with her background. This really likely was her best option, possibly her only option besides skating here. Keep in mind, most athletes above a certain level have lived and dreamed and sacrificed most of their childhood and teen years to try to do this one thing very, very well. It's easy for people who never were that kind of choice to judge that choice harshly. I prefer exercising a little empathy.

Last winter Olympics, there was a Kazakhstani ladies single skater who was good enough to score two slots for her country. There were not two women at the right level to fill those slots and there was a controversy, because the second best Kazakhstani lady figure skater came anyway instead of that slot to the next eligible person from another country. and yes, it sucked that that other woman didn't get to go, but realistically, neither of these women were going to medal. So picture for a second if you were an amateur Kazakhstani skater and you had a once in a lifetime chance to travel to Korea to skate on televisions all over the world wearing your tiara. Realistically, I'd guess 99% of us would have been skating in our tiaras even if the world called us selfish. It's nice to say, oh, you'd cede that slot, but no one offered you one. I don't think any of us know we'd for sure say no.

Also, you know why Zhu Yi was skating for China in Beijing? They literally had no woman single skater better than her. No really. When I heard China was going to the team event, I thought, "Huh. Who's they get for the woman's single skate?" Because I could think of anyone this cycle at that level to take the slot. when I saw who it was, I was like, oh! I vaguely remember her from pre-pandemic. Which means she was good enough for me to have seen her and for to have made some sort of impression though not a strong one either way. If China had a woman with a 60+ short, she'd have been in that slot. Ask yourself seriously, in her place, given a chance for better coaching and a ticket to the Olympics, would you really say no? Because I think a whole lot of armchair skate fans would say yes, even with all the stuff going on in China.

And then there is the extreme cyber bullying which makes me furious. She was clearly doing her best in the short. I have been listening to Canadian skate commentators every year since I moved up here in '98 and I have never heard them as quietly furious as they were during the long program at the harm people on social media heave done to this young woman. She is nineteen. A teenager. her whole life has been about trying to do this one thing she loved. She's not a murderer, like Kyle Rittenhouse, or a monster. She is a teenager who wanted to skate more than anything in the world and now hate is pouring down on her from all sides with no thought at all to her humanity or her youth. The cruelty of it. I just have no fucking words.

Of course she couldn't skate well under those conditions. Could you? Could anyone?

I don't know her. I'll never meet her, but oh do I have empathy for her, because this is a terrible thing for anyone to have done to them, especially a young woman with all the pressures that the world piles on young women just in general.

Fuckssake, can we think before we pile on? Expend a little empathy like the Canadian Skate commentators, instead of being the gears of hate grinding up young athletes trying to do their best in one of the most high pressure situations is possible for an athlete to be in.

* "Kamila Valieva and Zhu Yi are victims in Winter Olympics’ puppet theatre of pain:" https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/11/kamila-valieva-zhu-yi-victims-winter-olympics-puppet-theatre-pain-beijing-2022

* "Vladimir Putin Blames the West & Inside the U.N.:" https://www.cc.com/video/jrahoy/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-vladimir-putin-blames-the-west-inside-the-u-n

* "The NFL's Black Coaching Crisis:" https://www.cc.com/video/nfqbdg/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-nfl-s-black-coaching-crisis

* "Tesla's Auto-Pilot Problem & Road Rage Ends in Gunfire:" https://www.cc.com/video/fx5bsb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tesla-s-auto-pilot-problem-road-rage-ends-in-gunfire

* "Sexual Harassment in the Metaverse & Pence vs. Trump:" https://www.cc.com/video/9ztvhd/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-sexual-harassment-in-the-metaverse-pence-vs-trump

* "Joe Rogan's N-Word Controversy:" https://www.cc.com/video/2kdhuy/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-joe-rogan-s-n-word-controversy

* "Project Conspiracy - Sewer Tunnels:" https://www.cc.com/video/853gsx/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-project-conspiracy-sewer-tunnels

* "Black in Business - Legacy Cereal Company's Nic King:" https://www.cc.com/video/qy6ri6/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-black-in-business-legacy-cereal-company-s-nic-king

* "‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Universalized the Trans Experience (& Why Its Great):"

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* "Why Gay Men Love WandaVision:"

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* "Andrew Lloyd Webber on Roller Skates!? | The Painful Spectacle of Starlight Express:"

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* "Drunken Ghost Hunters: Sydney Quarantine Station:"

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* "True Facts: Proboscis Monkey:"

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* I had one of my perennial plague dreams. (I'm a life long plague watcher. 1 was a 14th century specialist before I parted ways with academia. I was dreaming about epidemics since the mid-to late 70's. So no, it's neither an AIDS thing nor a Covid thing.) In this one there was an outbreak of a weaponized... okay, not really small pox, but best described as some sort of Anthrax/smallpox cross? But not really. It was sort of an Anthrax timeline on latency and infection, with both pox and lesions and a small pox like rash following the lesions by about 12 hours, and lung symptoms.

A High school was the target, so the authorities locked it down and were trying to do quarantine and triage, but given how infectious small pox is... yeah. which is why the small town also had perimeter quarantine, since people could be infectious before the fever started and airbourne pathogens are bad.

I was lucid dreaming as is often the case. so I took to the air on the theory that a couple stories up was safer, grabbed a bedroll, provisions, etc. and was setting up camp on a roof top with a structure that could provide an overhang, as is a thing I often do in zombie outbreaks and epidemic scenarios in my dreams.

So I'm up on this roof top watching a massive crowd of parents and families gather in the sports fields around the school, all breathing on each other without masks and trying to press up on the National Guard as they worked themselves into an angry frenzy and it suddenly dawned on me: Anti-vaxxers are panicky nonsense south Park parents.

Bear with me. I hate south Park. I used to watch it while I was teaching because the kids were watching it, and it's good practice to read, watch, and listen to what they are consuming. It was essential to watch south Park in particular because 1. They'd tried to get around you using stuff from there and catching them every time taught them you were hard to trick that way. the more pop culture one was up on, the more they assumed one was basically omniscient and it solved a lot of problems before they started, and 2. The middle Schoolers would come in Monday morning with serious questions and concerns about what they saw and if they knew you knew south Park they'd ask you and you could use it for teachable moments, and things like that were where I did some of my best work as far as media literacy and getting kids to really think about what they are consuming.

But I fucking hate South Park for all the ways it's regressive and toxic. It's fed antisemitism and homophobia and transphobia and sexism and science denial and a whole host of toxic things in American culture. I hate it.

But, this connection I made in this dream has haunted me for two days. There's this thing the adults in South Park do where they hear something or something happens and they don't actually listen properly and they just panic and wildly over react and lose their shit and the next thing you know there's this mob of incensed nonsense spewing people who are violent or borderline violent.

I can't say one way or another if 25 years of this shitty regressive show being on the air and popular has caused this or merely reflects the shittiness always under the surface in American, but I saw that irrational nonsense and pathogen spewing crowd reacting exactly the wrong way in a pandemic and I thought of the anti-semetic South Park show with it's hysterical nonsense adults and the Neo-NAZIs making Ottawa unlivable right now and and Trumpist swastika waving anti-vaxxers beating up teachers and storming American state capitals and trying to overthrow the government and it just... felt like the same thing. idk. It's not deep, just an image stuck in my head from a dream.

* Classical Valentines: https://twitter.com/eduardo_garcmol/status/1492438829768269828

* Jorts and Jean, Please never change: https://twitter.com/JortsTheCat/status/1492226999360040960

* "Sunday Sweets: Be My Valentine:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/2/13/sunday-sweets-be-my-valentine

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

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* "U.N. report says Taliban have killed scores of former Afghan officials, others:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/un-report-says-taliban-killed-have-killed-scores-former-afghan-officials-others-2022-01-30/

* "Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Attack in Herat, Afghanistan:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-01-23/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-attack-in-heart-afghanistan

* "Experts decry measures to ‘steadily erase’ Afghan women and girls from public life:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/01/1109902

* "Taliban arrests Afghan journalists, weeks after activists go missing:" https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/02/01/Taliban-arrests-Afghan-journalists-weeks-after-activists-go-missing

* "Taliban Free 2 Afghan Journalists After International Outcry:" https://www.voanews.com/a/taliban-free-2-afghan-journalists-after-international-outcry/6423917.html

* "Attack on Kurdish prison in Syria shows ISIS is still alive and kicking:" https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-attack-on-kurdish-prison-in-syria-shows-isis-is-still-alive-and-kicking-1.10574260

* "Will Humanitarian Aid Reach the LGBTQ+ Afghans in Hiding?:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/1/26/will-humanitarian-aid-reach-lgbtq-afghans-hiding

* "‘We just sleep and hope we don’t perish’: 2m in Tigray in urgent need of food – UN:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/28/we-just-sleep-and-hope-we-dont-perish-2m-in-tigray-in-urgent-need-of-food-un

* "Myanmar Is Killing the Poets Fighting a Coup:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRfIFyJjS_I

* "Myanmar’s junta struggles to prevent protests planned for coup anniversary:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/31/myanmars-junta-threatens-protesters-planning-coup-anniversary-action

* "‘I can’t go home’: families hide in Myanmar’s forests as fighting rages:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/03/families-hide-in-myanmar-forests-as-fighting-rages

* "Manchester police make sixth arrest after fatal stabbing of Kennie Carter, 16:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/24/manchester-police-make-sixth-arrest-after-fatal-stabbing-of-kennie-carter-16

* "Tainted cocaine kills 20 in Argentina with dozens more hospitalised:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/03/tainted-cocaine-kills-16-in-argentina-with-dozens-more-hospitalised

* "‘Felt like ice’: Two babies freeze to death in Syria IDP camps:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/1/she-felt-like-ice-children-die-in-syria-as-winter-hits-hard

* "Manitoba RCMP in Toronto area to investigate path of family found frozen near border:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/patel-family-frozen-canada-us-border-manitoba-rcmp-investigators-toronto-tips-1.6336751

* "19 people found frozen to death, sparking diplomatic row between Turkey and Greece:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/europe/frozen-migrants-turkey-greece-intl/index.html

* "North Korea missile tests: Photos from space released:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60193714

* "Mexicans protest journalist killings, call for protection:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-reporters-plan-nationwide-protests-over-journalist-killings-2022-01-25/

* "Burkina Faso coup: New leader Damiba gives first speech:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60164531

* "Xiomara Castro becomes Honduras' first female president:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/americas/xiomara-castro-honduras-inauguration-intl/index.html

* "Cuba’s Shelves Are Empty, Citizens Are Organizing:"

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* I know this is tumblr, but it summarizes the white supremacist and appropriative bits of the Anti-vaxxer convoy: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/675504426036920320/foroneandall-jayswing101-sobadpink-sobadpink

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* "To mandate or not to mandate? All eyes are on Austria as vaccination requirement for all adults comes into force.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/31/austria-vaccine-mandate-coronavirus/

* "Italian nurse accused of giving fake Covid jabs to anti-vaxxers arrested:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/16/italian-nurse-accused-of-giving-fake-covid-jabs-to-anti-vaxxers

* My people know from plague."COVID-19 vaccination higher among gay and lesbian adults than heterosexual adults:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/04/covid-19-vaccine-rates-gay-lesbian-cdc/

* "Pfizer asks FDA to allow COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-vaccine-children-pfizer-07d72ab0b76329d3899c135afd2a93f5

* "FDA gives full approval to Moderna's Covid-19 shot:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/31/moderna-fda-approval-covid-shot-00003673

* But will COVID move away from us? "Governors say they told Biden US needs to 'move away from the pandemic' at White House meeting:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/governors-pandemic-biden/index.html

* "Alabama least vaccinated state, breaks 17,000 confirmed COVID deaths:" https://www.alreporter.com/2022/01/28/alabama-least-vaccinated-state-breaks-17000-confirmed-covid-deaths/

* "Official: COVID Strain on Mississippi Health System High:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/mississippi/articles/2022-01-30/official-covid-strain-on-mississippi-health-system-high

* "Hospitals in East Tennessee concerned about latest COVID-19 surge:" https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/hospitals-concerned-about-latest-covid-surge/51-beab783e-6460-4954-bfd4-becfbcf64584

* "Indiana coronavirus updates: Omicron drives US deaths higher than fall's delta wave:" https://www.wthr.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/indiana-coronavirus-updates-sunday-jan-30-2022-vaccine-tests-k95/531-532ab3ed-8622-4c97-9809-0e32d0477566

* "Missouri is ranked one of the top five least safe states from COVID. Here’s why:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article257779738.html

* "Nurses’ union launches campaign targeting unvaccinated, unboosted Rhode Islanders:" https://www.wpri.com/health/coronavirus/nurses-union-launches-campaign-targeting-unvaccinated-unboosted-rhode-islanders/

* "Omicron surge in New Hampshire not letting up, health officials say:" https://www.wmur.com/article/omicron-surge-new-hampshire-deaths/38903310#

* "Joseph Ladapo and his contrived evasiveness must go:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/fl-op-edit-ladapo-covid-senate-confirmation-20220126-7hd6kbncjvdmvgrq75vcblpvy4-story.html

* "Despite red flags, Florida Republicans poised to confirm questionable surgeon general:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/despite-red-flags-florida-republicans-poised-to-confirm-questionable-surgeon-general-132501573731

* "Florida surgeon general favorably recommended after Democrats walk out of confirmation hearing:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/politics/joseph-ladapo-florida-surgeon-general-confirmation/index.html

* "Ex-supervisor wouldn't endorse Ladapo as FL's top doctor:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/supervisor-endorse-ladapo-fls-top-doctor-82679324

* "Wash. state trooper who told governor to "kiss my a**' over vaccine dies of COVID:" https://www.newsweek.com/robert-lamay-washington-state-trooper-jay-inslee-covid-vaccine-mandate-dies-1674275

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* "U.S. intelligence: Russia may stage video to create pretext for Ukraine war:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-intelligence-alleges-russia-has-plan-fabricate-pretext-attack-ukraine-reports-2022-02-03/

* "U.S. deploys troops to Eastern Europe; thousands more on standby:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/02/biden-troops-europe-ukraine-tensions-00004630

* "How a group of Irish fishermen forced the Russian Navy into a U-turn:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/europe/ireland-fishermen-russia-navy-intl/index.html

* "LGBT+ Ukrainians are ready to fight for their freedom if Russia invades:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/29/ukraine-russia-war-invasion-lgbt-kiev-pride/

* "Is Russia Preparing to Invade Ukraine?:"

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* "Ukrainian Soldiers Are Preparing for Russia to Invade (Again):"

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* "Biden: U.S. forces killed ISIS leader in Syria raida:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/03/us-forces-syria-raid-00005114

* "Kansas Mom Accused of Being ISIS Leader Not Contesting Detention:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gvnz/kansas-mom-allison-fluke-ekren-isis-court

* "Biden relaunches 'Cancer Moonshot' initiative aimed at halving rate of cancer deaths by 2047:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/politics/cancer-moonshot-initiative-white-house-biden/index.html

* "Biden May Stumble, But He’s No Donald Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/1/25/biden-may-stumble-hes-no-donald-trump

* "Exclusive: Biden administration raises minimum wage for federal employees to $15:" https://www.axios.com/minimum-wage-increase-federal-workers-biden-5806be19-a753-458e-8af8-56bab9498f50.html

* "Biden to sign executive order boosting rights of 200,000 construction workers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-biden-sign-executive-order-boosting-rights-200000-construction-workers-2022-02-03/

* "Biden officials push to hold up $11.3 billion USPS truck contract, citing climate damage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/02/usps-trucks-epa-climate-change/

* "EPA to bring back mercury pollution rules that were nixed under Trump administration:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/epa-mercury-pollution-coal-plants-climate/index.html

* "‘The White House isn’t supporting him’: Biden’s FDA pick left in limbo:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/28/white-house-biden-fda-pick-califf-00003053

* "Biden Should Nominate More LGBTQ+ Federal Judges, Lambda Legal Urges:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/2/01/biden-should-nominate-more-lgbtq-federal-judges-lambda-legal-urges

* "Senate sets hearing on antisemitism envoy for Feb. 8:" https://forward.com/fast-forward/481794/senate-close-to-scheduling-confirmation-hearing-for-bidens-special-envoy/

* "What Conservatives Really Mean When They Say Biden’s Potential SCOTUS Nominees Are “Unqualified”:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/conservative-attacks-on-bidens-scotus-nominees-have-a-long-racist-history.html

* "A history lesson for the Senators troubled by the Biden SCOTUS vow:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-history-lesson-for-the-senators-troubled-by-the-biden-scotus-vow-132407365664

* "Chris Hayes rips Neil Gorsuch for private speech at conservative event:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-rips-neil-gorsuch-for-private-speech-at-conservative-event-132491333900

* "Luján will return to Senate in 4-6 weeks 'barring any complications' after stroke:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/politics/scotus-fight-senate-democrats/index.html

* It’s almost like we need an Infrastructure Bill. "City waits for Mississippi to earmark money for water crisis as sewage overflows continue:" https://www.clarionledger.com/in-depth/news/2022/01/30/jackson-mississippi-federal-funding-resolve-water-crisis-sewage-pearl-river/9228052002/

* "'Déjà Vu All Over Again': Despite Gov. Abbott's Promises 70,000 Now Without Power in Texas as Winter Storm Hits:" https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/02/deja-vu-all-over-again-despite-gov-abbotts-promises-70000-now-without-power-in-texas-as-winter-storm-hits/

* "Beto O’Rourke rips Abbott’s Texas freeze failure—and inaction to prevent another:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/beto-o-rourke-rips-abbott-s-texas-freeze-failure-and-inaction-to-prevent-another-132225093579

* "Childcare spending not your responsibility, senator? What fine Republican hypocrisy:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/27/ron-johnson-republican-senator-childcare-society

* I bet Housing First would prevent things like this, but Christians appose helping the homeless on religious grounds, so.... "Advocates want more winter resources after friends say homeless Memphis man froze to death:" https://www.actionnews5.com/2022/01/21/advocates-want-more-winter-resources-after-friends-say-homeless-memphis-man-froze-death/

* "Living Rent-Free Next to Millionaires:"

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

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* "Fort Worth is center of first redistricting challenge heard in federal court:" https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2022-01-24/fort-worth-is-center-of-first-redistricting-challenge-set-to-be-heard-in-federal-court

* "Mich. Supreme Court upholds redistricting commission maps in face of voting rights lawsuit:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2022/02/03/michigan-supreme-court-upholds-redistricting-commission-maps/9226313002/

* "N.J. Supreme Court dismisses GOP lawsuit on congressional redistricting - New Jersey Globe:" https://newjerseyglobe.com/redistricing/n-j-supreme-court-dismisses-gop-lawsuit-on-congressional-redistricting/

* "Audit Bureau Needs to Do a Better Job, Starting with Gableman’s Folly:" https://upnorthnewswi.com/2022/01/14/opinion-audit-bureau-needs-to-do-a-better-job-starting-with-gablemans-folly/

* "Defendant to appear in court in alleged attempt to access Cross Village voting machine:" https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/2022/02/02/defendant-appear-court-alleged-attempt-access-cross-village-voting-machine/9296696002/

* "Elbert County Clerk and Recorder admits copying election hard drives, says it's his duty to 'preserve' 2020 records:" https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/elbert-county-clerk-recorder-admits-copying-election-hard-drives/73-8b87f791-1efd-4d67-8b0f-76081bfce14f

* "NYT: Trump fake electors planning began as early as 15 days after election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nyt-trump-fake-electors-planning-began-as-early-as-15-days-after-election-132315717984

* "Wisconsin attorney for Trump campaign one of first known to learn of fake elector strategy, memo shows:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/02/02/trump-campaigns-wisconsin-attorney-got-memo-fake-elector-strategy/6642643001/

* "January 6 committee subpoenas individuals tied to fake elector push:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/politics/committee-subpoenas-14-republicans/index.html

* "Newly uncovered memos shed light on origins of Trump campaign's fake elector scheme: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/newly-uncovered-memos-shed-light-on-origins-of-trump-campaign-s-fake-elector-scheme-nyt-132335173835

* She had an official certificate telling her it was legal for her to vote. Meanwhile white republican men illegally casting ballots on purpose are getting slaps on the wrists. "The Black woman sentenced to six years in prison over a voting error:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/03/fight-to-vote-tennessee-pamela-moses-convicted

* "Memphis Black Lives Matter activist sentenced to six years in shady-as-hell voter fraud case:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/3/2078418/-Memphis-Black-Lives-Matter-activist-sentenced-to-six-years-in-shady-as-hell-voter-fraud-case

* "GOP men hardly punished for illegal votes; Black woman given six years for sign-up error:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-men-hardly-punished-for-illegal-votes-black-woman-given-six-years-for-sign-up-error-132422213543

* "Republicans to field more than 100 far-right candidates this year:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/02/republicans-100-far-right-candidates-2022

* "A GOP Senate candidate walks 'rigged election' tightrope in Nevada:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/adam-laxalt-walks-rigged-election-tightrope-nevada-senate-campaign-rcna14609

* "Heller calls Biden ‘illegitimate’ president; vows to repeal Commerce Tax ‘day one’ - The Nevada Independent:" https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/heller-calls-biden-illegitimate-president-vows-to-repeal-commerce-tax-day-one

* "GOP senate candidate pushes Big Lie while simultaneously urging people to vote:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-senate-candidate-pushes-big-lie-while-simultaneously-urging-people-to-vote-132403781773

* "New Financial Disclosures Show Kyrsten Sinema Is Raking in Cash from Big GOP Donors:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kyrsten-sinema-fundraising-republican-donors-1293087/

* "Barbara Lee - "Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power":" https://www.cc.com/video/bfo5wq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-barbara-lee-barbara-lee-speaking-truth-to-power

* "Nina Turner announces run for Congress, setting up Democratic primary rematch with Shontel Brown:" https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/01/nina-turner-announces-run-for-congress-setting-up-democratic-primary-rematch-with-shontel-brown.html

* "Nina Turner announces her candidacy for Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/nina-turner-announces-her-candidacy-for-congress-132031045983

* "Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams details her Georgia governor race strategy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democratic-georgia-governor-candidate-stacey-abrams-on-her-campaign-strategy-132129349690

* "Cawthorn Challenge Raises the Question: Who Is an ‘Insurrectionist’?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/us/politics/madison-cawthorn-jan-6.html

* "Madison Cawthorn sues to stop inquiry into his role on Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/madison-cawthorn-sues-to-stop-inquiry-into-his-role-on-jan-6-132224581646

* Want more left politicians to Vote for? Vote in the damned PRIMARIES! That is when you push the party left by making sure the people running in November are more progressive. Even if your candidate doesn’t win, a strong progressive alternative who almost wins tends to push the more establishment candidates a little further left. Tell your friends. Get them to vote too.

Do not forget to vote the whole ticket. The Republicans will. They will take over your school board or your town council or your state government if you let them and that’s a recipe for losing your basic human and civil rights.

Vote in every primary and special and general election. Vote on every race and ballot measure.

They will. You do it too. There are more of us.

* "Star witness in Ukraine impeachment saga sues Trump allies and alleges conspiracy to intimidate him:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/politics/alexander-vindman-donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-ukraine-impeachment/index.html

* "Republican party calls January 6 attack ‘legitimate political discourse’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/republicans-capitol-attack-legitimate-political-discourse-cheney-kinzinger-pence

* "Trump’s grip on the GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/trump-s-grip-on-the-gop-132563013950

* "Donald Trump vows to ban trans athletes if re-elected president:"https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/30/donald-trump-trans-athletes-re-election/

* "Trump suggests he might pardon some Jan. 6 defendants:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/30/trump-pardon-jan6-defendants-00003450

* "Jan. 6 committee member: Trump ‘absolutely’ tampering with witnesses:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/02/jan-6-committee-trump-witnesses-00004559

* "Trump is feeling the heat from investigations — and wants his mob to save him:" https://www.salon.com/2022/01/31/is-feeling-the-heat-from-investigations--and-wants-his-mob-to-save-him/

* "Fulton County district attorney asks for FBI's help with security as Trump investigation continues:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/30/politics/fulton-county-da-fbi-letter/index.html

* "No wonder Trump is nervous: NY attorney general looking at Trump bid for D.C. hotel:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/no-wonder-trump-is-nervous-ny-attorney-general-looking-at-trump-bid-for-d-c-hotel-132237381797

* "Joy Reid: Trump has emerged from his MAGA cocoon a fully-formed authoritarian butterfly:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-discussing-pardons-for-jan-6-capitol-insurrectionists-if-re-elected-slammed-by-joy-reid-132130885662

* "George Conway: Trump just gave prosecutors ‘trifecta’ of criminal intent:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/george-conway-trump-just-gave-prosecutors-trifecta-of-criminal-intent-132123717785

* "'A pernicious threat': Trump incitement of mob triggers security, safety concerns:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-a-pernicious-threat-trump-incitement-of-mob-triggers-security-safety-concerns-132139589867

* "Bogus election claims in Michigan end up in draft order to seize voting machines nationally, state official says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/politics/michigan-secretary-of-state-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Trump sought means of seizing voting machines in wake of his 2020 election defeat: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-sought-means-of-seizing-voting-machines-in-wake-of-his-2020-election-defeat-132238917586

* "As Trump worked presidency's power to seize voting machines, local backers got the message:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-trump-worked-presidency-s-power-to-seize-voting-machines-local-backers-got-the-message-132421189848

* "New details on Trump's ‘Spidey-sense of criminal liability’ in bid to steal power:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-trump-s-spidey-sense-of-criminal-liability-in-bid-to-steal-power-132221509720

* "Memo circulated among Trump allies advocated using NSA data in attempt to prove stolen election:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/03/trump-nsa-election/

* "Disgraced Trump NSA Flynn proposed using National Guard to seize voting machines:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/disgraced-trump-nsa-flynn-proposed-using-national-guard-to-seize-voting-machines-nyt-132502085738

* "Analysis: January 6 committee uses Pence team to try to penetrate Trump's West Wing:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/politics/donald-trump-capitol-insurrection-house-committee-mike-pence/index.html

* "Raskin: Pence should tell the full truth and join the ‘party of democracy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/raskin-pence-should-tell-the-full-truth-and-join-the-party-of-democracy-132490821636

* "Joy Reid: Republicans as a party now officially trying to memory-hole the truth:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/mike-pence-stands-up-to-donald-trump-and-tells-the-truth-about-the-election-again-132496453503

* "Former Pence lawyer hailed as 'patriot' for lengthy testimony to January 6th Committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/former-pence-lawyer-hailed-as-patriot-for-lengthy-testimony-to-january-6th-committee-132237893508

* "Ex-Trump Justice Dept official appears before U.S. House Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-top-justice-dept-official-clark-appears-before-us-house-jan-6-committee-2022-02-02/

* I don't understand why a million dollar bribe doesn't constitute witness tampering. "Trump's PAC gave $1 million to Meadows' non-profit weeks after House formed January 6 committee:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/politics/trump-pac-mark-meadows-january-6-investigation/index.html

* "Oath Keepers leader talks to Jan. 6 panel from federal jail:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/oath-keepers-leader-talks-jan-panel-federal-jail-82632978

* "Claire McCaskill: Trump is clearly ready to burn the whole thing down:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-select-committee-met-with-oath-keepers-leader-stewart-rhodes-132321349571

* "Oath Keepers founder is ordered detained pending trial in Jan. 6 riot:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/26/oath-keepers-founder-detained-jan-6-riot-00002603

* "U.S. judge hands down 44-month sentence for Capitol rioter who assaulted police:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-prosecutors-seek-51-month-sentence-capitol-rioter-who-assaulted-police-2022-01-26/

* "Gay Insurrectionist Brandon Straka Pleas Out, Gets House Arrest & Fine:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/24/heres-convicted-gay-insurrectionist-brandon-straka-court-sentence

* I don't want people who are trying to end American Democracy platformed and normalized. Why did only two of them walk off? "Rudy Giuliani’s surprise reveal on Masked Singer led to judges walking off:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/03/rudy-giuliani-surprise-masked-singer-judges-walking-off

* "California city approves 1st US insurance law for gun owners:" https://apnews.com/article/business-violence-california-united-states-gun-politics-998aa2507f995acb5a0c3e3661805a4a

* "Big-city mayors struggle to curb violent crime and illegal firearms as activists warn of return to problematic police tactics:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/big-city-mayors-struggle-to-curb-violent-crime-and-illegal-firearms-as-activists-warn-of-return-to-problematic-police-tactics-132033093565

* "Federal judge rejects plea deal on hate crime charges in Ahmaud Arbery's killing over sentencing concerns:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/us/travis-and-greg-mcmichael-plea-deal-ahmaud-arbery-federal-hate-crime-charges/index.html

* "Gregory McMichael will face trial on federal hate crime charges in Ahmaud Arbery killing after withdrawing plea agreement:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/us/gregory-mcmichael-arbery-hate-crime-federal-trial-proceeds/index.html

* "Missouri ‘Stand Your Ground’ bill critiqued as racist ‘Make Murder Legal Act’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/missouri-stand-your-ground-bill-critics-call-make-murder-legal-act-now-being-debated-132408901763

* "What the Killing of Two N.Y.P.D. Officers Means for New York:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/what-the-killing-of-two-nypd-officers-means-for-new-york

* "Baltimore City State's Attorney denies charges she calls retaliation for indicting law enforcement:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/marilyn-mosby-says-she-is-innocent-timing-of-charges-meant-to-hurt-her-re-election-campaign-132227141699

* "Michael Avenatti convicted for stealing from Stormy Daniels:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/politics/michael-avenatti/index.html

* Good! He belongs in prison! "‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic resentenced to 21 years in prison:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-exotic-tiger-king-sentence-murder-for-hire-812b9b2b759e8d84f2e3192766f1efec

* "Grindr, Scruff Used to Arrest 60 on Drug Charges in Sting Operation:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/28/grindr-scruff-used-arrest-60-drug-charges-sting-operation

* "A white supremacist website got hacked, airing all its dirty laundry:" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/data-leak-from-neo-nazi-site-shows-members-conspiring-in-hate-crimes/

* "Nazi gatherings in broad daylight in Florida spark alarm:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nazi-gatherings-in-broad-daylight-in-florida-spark-alarm-132138053956

* "DeSantis treats Florida Nazi incidents as political game; condemns Democrats instead:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/desantis-treats-florida-nazi-incidents-as-political-game-condemns-democrats-instead-132334149995

* "Federal investigators focused on rash of threats against historically Black schools:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/federal-investigators-focused-on-rash-of-threats-against-historically-black-schools-132237381954

* "Neo-Nazi group’s leader among 3 arrested in attack at Orlando demonstration:" https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-ne-neo-nazi-alafaya-orlando-arrest-20220204-nudpwz7gtzhdzd4gkevjvq5sra-story.html

* "Three neo-Nazis arrested in Florida attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/three-neo-nazis-arrested-in-florida-attack-132502597785

* "Neo-Nazis, Trump, treat racial disparity fix as attack on white people in health care:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/neo-nazis-trump-treat-racial-disparity-fix-as-attack-on-white-people-in-health-care-132334661676

* "GOP bill would ban teachers from talking about LGBTQ people because it “offends Christian values”:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/02/gop-bill-ban-teachers-talking-lgbtq-people-offends-christian-values/

* "As Black History Month Begins, Booker Introduces African American History Act in Senate:" https://www.africanamericanreports.com/2022/02/as-black-history-month-begins-booker_5.html

* "Florida's "Don't say gay" bill advances:" https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/floridas-dont-gay-bill-advances-112003757.html

* "Florida Senate Bill Could Ban Books With LGBTQ+ Characters:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/26/florida-senate-bill-could-ban-books-lgbtq-characters

* "Chasten Buttigieg: Florida’s Proposed Anti-LGBTQ Bill ‘Will Kill Kids’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/24/chasten-buttigieg-floridas-proposed-anti-lgbtq-bill-will-kill-kids

* "Chasten Buttigieg: Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill puts kids in danger:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/chasten-buttigieg-florida-s-don-t-say-gay-bill-puts-kids-in-danger-132033093586

* "'Stop the censorship': Texas students go off on school district officials:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/granbury-texas-students-book-ban-rcna13617

* On Censorship: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/674859050572398592

* "'Filth,' 'Obscene': GOP Attacks Books About LGBTQ+ Kids, Racism:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2022/2/01/filth-obscene-gop-attacks-books-about-lgbtq-kids-racism

* "Ex-Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores accuses NFL of racial discrimination in lawsuit:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/01/1077401749/brian-flores-sues-nfl-racial-discrimination

* "Brian Flores: Belichick texts confirmed what we thought happened behind closed doors:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/brian-flores-belichick-texts-confirmed-what-we-thought-happened-behind-closed-doors-132317253664

* "The Commodification of Black Athletes:"

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* CW: Rape, Pedophilia "The New Zealand Cult That Preyed on Children: Gloriavale:"

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* CW: Pedophilia, Sexual Assault. On Disney:

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* CW: Eating Disorders, Rape, Pedophilia. "Exposing the Underbelly of the Ballet Industry :"

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* "Looking at OAN's Treatment of Current and Former Employees:"

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* "Money, power and prestige: what a Prince Andrew trial would mean for New York:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/27/prince-andrew-lawsuit-

* "Dueling Defamation Suits: Woman Testifies Against Roy Moore:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-25/testimony-begins-in-defamation-suits-over-roy-moore-claims

* CW: Rape "Libby Squire's mum calls for non-contact sex crime rehabilitation rules:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-60206133

* CW: Rape "Scottish club Raith Rovers criticized after it signs striker who was ruled to have been a rapist by a judge in a civil case:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/football/david-goodwillie-raith-rovers-spt-intl/index.html

* "CNN president resigns after relationship with co-worker:" https://apnews.com/article/cnn-zucker-resigns-8bb57994bc510516ffa06fbac5442439

* "At 50, I finally figured out what Grace Tame knows in her 20s:" https://www.smh.com.au/national/at-50-i-finally-figured-out-what-grace-tame-knows-in-her-20s-20220128-p59s0a.html

* "Meet the Man Trying to Ban Abortion in America, One Town At A Time:"

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* "Growing Up Trans in a Country at the Forefront of Trans Rights:"

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* "Director's film on gay soldier blocked by India's government:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/29/onir-we-are-gay-soldier-india/

* "UK's so-called equalities watchdog 'held private meetings with anti-trans groups':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/02/ehrc-equalities-watchdog-trans-lgb-alliance-fair-play-women/

* "Scottish Alba councillor launches 'appalling' attack against trans youth:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/30/scotland-trans-youth-alba-caroline-mcallister/

* "Murderers of beloved bisexual doctor laughed and joked as they were found guilty:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/04/gary-jenkins-murder-trial-guilty-cardiff/

* "Gay man left reeling after homophobic tirade from bus driver for kissing another man:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/29/connor-cunningham-london-bus-gay-homophobia/

* "TikTok's so-called 'Banter Queen' jailed for abusing trans reality TV star:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/28/tiktok-banter-queen-jail-trans-chelsey-harwood/

* "Gay Man Says Security Guards Savagely Beat Him at Popular Nightclub:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/25/gay-man-says-security-guards-savagely-beat-him-popular-nightclub

* "Legislation Affecting LGBTQ Rights Across the Country:" https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/675419990950821888/legislation-affecting-lgbtq-rights-across-the

* "Lesbian Sues Military Bosses Who Told Her to Grow Hair, Wear Makeup:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/24/lesbian-sues-military-bosses-who-told-her-grow-hair-wear-makeup

* "GOP-Led Town Is First in Pennsylvania to Repeal LGBTQ+ Protections:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/1/25/gop-led-town-first-pennsylvania-repeal-lgbtq-protections

* "Republican governor's 'hateful' chief-of-staff compares trans athletes to terrorists:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/27/south-dakota-kristi-noem-trans-athletes-mark-miller/

* "Two trans women killed are 2021's latest victims to 'epidemic of violence':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/30/nikki-turietta-zaniyah-williams-trans-us-2021/

* "Man Charged in Gruesome and Violent Killing of Queer Couple:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/01/man-charged-gruesome-and-violent-killing-queer-couple-australia

* "School official compares young kid's adorable Pride artwork to Nazi flag:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/28/oglethorpe-avenue-elementary-school-pride-artwork-nazi/

* "Jordan Peterson compares being trans to 'satanic ritual abuse' on Joe Rogan podcast:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/27/jordan-peterson-joe-rogan-spotify-podcast-trans/

* "Former President for the Human Rights Campaign sues organization for racial bias:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/former-president-for-the-human-rights-campaign-sues-organization-for-racial-bias-132555845541

* "New highly-infectious and damaging strain of HIV discovered in the Netherlands:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/05/hiv-strain-variant-mutation-netherlands-testing/

* "New Jersey Decriminalizes Sexual Activity by People Living with HIV:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/stigma/2022/2/01/new-jersey-decriminalizes-sexual-activity-people-living-hiv

* "How Are We All Part of Ending Outbreaks? Crash Course Outbreak Science #15:"

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* "'Extremely drug-resistant' strain of painful STI shigella is on the rise in the UK:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/27/sti-shigella-rise/

* "‘Very worrying’: MMR vaccine rates in England at 10-year low:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/01/very-worrying-mmr-vaccine-rates-in-england-at-10-year-low

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* "Death toll rises after Tropical Cyclone Ana tears across southern Africa:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/africa/southern-africa-storm-ana-intl/index.html

* "Northeast begins to dig out from blizzard that dropped two feet of snow in some spots:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/30/1076817657/boston-snow-ties-record-northeast-blizzard

* "Ecuador landslide: at least 24 dead after hillside collapses in capital Quito:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/02/ecuador-landslide-deaths-hillside-collapses-quito

* "Peru oil spill after Tonga eruption bigger than previously thought:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-60180226

* "Oil executives barred from leaving Peru after massive spill:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/americas/peru-oil-spill-travel-ban-intl/index.html

* "Homeless man freezes to death in Westlock:" https://www.townandcountrytoday.com/local-news/homeless-man-freezes-to-death-in-westlock-4962791

* "Investigation into Death of SUNY Oneonta Student May Take Months:" https://wibx950.com/investigation-into-death-of-suny-oneonta-student-tyler-lopresti-castro-may-take-months/

* "Wildfires Are Coming to the Suburbs:"

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* "National Butterfly Center Closing in Response to Conspiracy Theorists’ Threats:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/national-butterfly-center-closing-in-response-to-conspiracy-theorists-threats?via=ios

* "St. George’s Lake Powell Pipeline threatened by low lake levels:" https://lakepowellchronicle.com/article/st-georges-lake-powell-pipeline-threatened-by-low-lake-levels

* "Inside Kazakhstan's giant crypto-mine:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-60148754

* "Holding in the deep: what Canada wants to do with its decades-old pileup of nuclear waste:" https://thenarwhal.ca/nuclear-waste-ignace-bruce

* "6 cancer patients sue utility over Fukushima radiation:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-japan-lawsuits-tokyo-6f168fe334ce7999aa232dda7910b7a6

* DO NOT WANT!!! D: "Why the Prospect of the IRS Using Facial Recognition Is So Alarming:" https://slate.com/technology/2022/02/irs-id-me-facial-recognition.html

* "Out-of-control SpaceX rocket on collision course with moon:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/26/out-of-control-spacex-rocket-on-track-to-collide-with-the-moon

* "The hard life and times of the forgotten Jamaicans who were exiled to Nova Scotia in 1796:" https://face2faceafrica.com/article/the-hard-life-and-times-of-the-forgotten-jamaicans-who-were-exiled-to-nova-scotia-in-1796

* "Ethical US consumers struggled to pressure the sugar industry to abandon slavery with less success than their British counterparts:" https://theconversation.com/ethical-us-consumers-struggled-to-pressure-the-sugar-industry-to-abandon-slavery-with-less-success-than-their-british-counterparts-173473

* "Were Books Really Bound in Human Skin?:"

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* ""The porters were fed up." C.L. Dellums and the rise of America's first Black union:" https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-kitchen/182-the-porters-were-fed-up-QGEiPJHqj51/

* CW: Historical Racist and Homophobic Stereotypes. "The Offensive Tabloid that "Exposed" Gay People | Broadway Brevities:"

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* "The Tuskegee Experiment: Crash Course Black American History #29:"

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* CW: Historical Racism "The History of Sambo's Restaurant and Where it Stands Today:"

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* CW: Incest, Rape, Domestic Abuse. "Examining the Troubled Life of Rita Hayworth | Prism of the Past:"

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* "How Dr. Clarence Jones smuggled MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" out to the world:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/how-dr-clarence-jones-smuggled-mlk-s-letter-from-birmingham-jail-out-to-the-world-132556357569

* "Serial Killer Who Hunted Down Gay Men May Have Had a Sixth Victim:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/28/serial-killer-who-hunted-down-gay-men-san-francisco-may-have-had-sixth-victim

* "Life in Prison For a Glitter Bomb?!:"

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* I still have a stupidly large amount of prepped links, but I've been scaffolding this all evening so I'm cutting it here before it runs another day.

* "Hezbollah brings Iranian fuel into Lebanon to ease shortages:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-58583008

* "Missing bolts, poor welding contributed to Mexico City metro collapse, auditor finds:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/missing-bolts-among-issues-that-sparked-mexico-city-metro-collapse-auditor-finds-2021-09-07/

* "Justin Trudeau's early election gamble backfires in Canada but he clings onto power:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/americas/canada-election-results-trudeau-o-toole-intl/index.html

* I had a ton of good coverage of the Canadian election, but events overtook me, so I pulled the links.

* "Rivals allege mass fraud as Russian pro-Putin party wins big majority:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pro-putin-party-heads-russian-election-win-after-navalny-clampdown-2021-09-19/

* "Communists, observers report violations in Russian election:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/communists-observers-report-violations-duma-election-80094316

* Google and Apple took strong action to side with Putin against Democracy."Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/google-apple-remove-navalny-app-stores-russian-elections-begin-2021-09-17/

* "Apple, Google, cowed by Putin, remove Russian protest voting app as election begins:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/apple-google-cowed-by-putin-remove-russian-protest-voting-app-as-election-begins-121227845901

* "Top Russian Diplomat’s Secret Life With Millionaire Mistress Exposed:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-russian-diplomat-sergey-lavrovs-secret-life-with-millionaire-mistress-exposed

* "Boris Johnson’s reshuffled cabinet has a sorry record on LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/16/boris-johnson-cabinet-reshuffle-lgbt-rights/

* "Liz Truss promoted to foreign secretary and remains equalities minister:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/liz-truss-foreign-secretary-equalities/

* "Both North and South Korea fire ballistic missiles as tensions rise on peninsula:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/asia/north-korea-missiles-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Russia election: Opposition crushed ahead of managed polls:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58504603

* "Haiti faces fresh instability as PM comes under scrutiny:" https://apnews.com/article/port-au-prince-haiti-f57d0c530cd01452f357d020b8926324

* "Haiti prosecutor seeks to charge PM in killing, is replaced:" https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-port-au-prince-haiti-assassinations-1b48e0e75c14ee83b5530b2f8a9618c4

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* "COVID-19 virus is evolving to get better at becoming airborne:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210916173428.htm

* "Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine works in kids ages 5 to 11:" https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-202cb6e44b90270ec4d1f19690ed94c5

* "Indian study finds big drop in COVID antibodies within four months of vaccination:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-study-finds-big-drop-covid-antibodies-within-four-months-vaccination-2021-09-14/

Preliminary study, not peer reviewed, and for Covaxin and Covishield/AstraZeneca . Also, it may not reflect lesser effectiveness. Basically, not nearly enough is known and it’s far to early to panic.

* "Ischgl: Austria sued over Tyrol ski resort's Covid-19 outbreak:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54256463

* "Biden doubles US global donation of COVID-19 vaccine shots:" https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-joe-biden-pandemics-business-united-nations-e7c09c1f896d83c0ed80513082787bd3

* "The U.S. is falling to the lowest vaccination rates of the world’s wealthiest democracies.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/world/asia/us-vaccination-rate-low.html

* "After Months Of Bans, Fully Vaccinated Travelers Will Be Allowed To Fly To The U.S.:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/20/1038912216/white-house-says-vaccinated-foreign-nationals-will-be-allowed-to-fly-to-the-u-s

* "1 in every 500 US residents have died of Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html

* "COVID-19 cases climbing, wiping out months of progress:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-health-texas-coronavirus-pandemic-kentucky-9e89fcef6ef184baa4703a47d2aefab6

* "'Soul-crushing': US COVID-19 deaths are topping 1,900 a day:" https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-missouri-c4d03a53de4036158fabb0125c4f7b02

* "US panel backs COVID-19 boosters only for seniors, high-risk:" https://apnews.com/article/fda-panel-rejects-widespread-pfizer-booster-shots-1cd1cf6a5c5c02b63f8a7324807a59f1

* "What to know about the FDA's decision on Pfizer booster shots:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/what-to-know-about-the-fda-s-decision-on-pfizer-booster-shots-121227333684

* "More than 675,000 people have died of Covid-19 in the US, surpassing country's 1918 flu pandemic death toll:" https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-09-20-21/h_9235b1080a7bd0bbee1fb393d8055b2b

* "F.D.A. Authorizes Pfizer Booster Shots for Older and At-Risk Americans:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/us/politics/pfizer-boosters-fda-authorize.html

* "GOP governors decry Covid mandates despite requiring other vaccines in own states:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-governors-decry-covid-mandates-despite-requiring-other-vaccines-in-own-states-120796741724

* "Are Biden's Vaccine Mandates Legal?:"

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* "Florida COVID update: 10,723 cases added, state nears 50,000 total deaths:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article254263558.html

* "Florida Governor Celebrates Ban on School Mask Mandates as More Kids Die From COVID:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/florida-governor-celebrates-ban-on-school-mask-mandates-as-more-kids-die-from-covid

* "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis threatens to fine state counties and cities over vaccine mandates:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/13/politics/ron-desantis-vaccine-mandate-fine-florida/index.html

* "DeSantis ‘anti-vaccine mandate’ event turned anti-vaccine real quick:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/florida-s-ron-desantis-anti-vaccine-mandate-event-turned-anti-vaccine-real-quick-120796741608

* "Nearly 2 million people in Texas are overdue for a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/14/coronavirus-texas-vaccine-second-dose/

* "“Do I or don't I?” Some Texas hospitals grapple with new mandatory vaccine rule:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/10/coronavirus-texas-vaccine-mandate-hospitals/

* "Tennessee ranks worst in nation for COVID-19 spread:" https://www.wbir.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/tennessee-worst-in-nation-for-covid-spread/51-4061c4f5-0eda-43f2-b200-dc346181a20d

* "About 56.5% of COVID-19 cases occurring in Metro Nashville middle and high schools:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2021/09/13/covid-19-school-tennessee-half-nashville-cases-middle-high-schools/8318871002/

* "I was supposed to have life-saving surgery. Tennessee’s covid-19 surge cost me a hospital bed.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/14/tennessee-covid-19-surge-hospital-beds-surgery/

* "Stillbirths may be increasing in Middle Tennessee due to COVID pandemic:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/stillbirths-may-be-increasing-in-middle-tennessee-due-to-covid-pandemic/

* "Mississippi health officials plea for vaccination after 'significant' number of COVID-19 fatalities in pregnant women:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/mississippi-health-officials-plea-vaccination-significant-number-covid/story?id=79931539

* "Mississippi governor calls Biden vaccine mandate 'tyranny':" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-health-coronavirus-pandemic-mississippi-tate-reeves-546dfb92122b16daa903622c59e92032

* "‘Substantial’ daily death rate cited for Alabama’s COVID-19 hospitalization decline:" https://www.wsfa.com/2021/09/14/substantial-daily-death-rate-cited-alabamas-covid-19-hospitalization-decline/

* I am so angry about this. "A Man Died After Being Turned Away From 43 ICUs At Capacity Due To COVID, Family Says:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/13/1036593269/coronavirus-alabama-43-icus-at-capacity-ray-demonia

* "Man dies in out-of-state hospital after multi-state Cardiac ICU search:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/man-dies-in-out-of-state-hospital-after-multi-state-cardiac-icu-search-120811077880

* "‘You’re not getting this damn vaccine’: Alabama teen’s struggle for COVID shot mirrors struggles nationwide:" https://www.al.com/news/2021/09/youre-not-getting-this-damn-vaccine-alabama-teens-struggle-for-covid-shot-mirrors-struggles-nationwide.html

* "CDC reports 70 additional COVID-19 deaths in Oklahoma:" https://kfor.com/news/local/cdc-reports-70-additional-covid-19-deaths-in-oklahoma/

* "South Carolina adds nearly 15,000 new COVID-19 cases, 158 deaths over three days:" https://www.thestate.com/news/coronavirus/article254199853.html

* "COVID updates: SC Children's hospitals report 20 children needing critical care:" https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2021/09/13/covid-sc-mask-vaccine-mandate-hospitals-cases-updates-clemson-dashboard/8272184002/

* "All-time high Covid hospitalizations in Idaho:" https://komonews.com/news/local/all-time-high-covid-hospitalizations-in-idaho

* "‘Their Crisis’ Is ‘Our Problem’: Washington Grapples With Idaho Covid Cases:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/us/coronavirus-hospitals-washington-idaho.html

* "Likelihood of survival becomes key for rationed hospital care in Covid-crushed Idaho:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/likelihood-of-survival-becomes-key-for-rationed-hospital-care-in-covid-crushed-idaho-121079877877

* "Washington governor asks feds for medical staffing help:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-gov-jay-inslee-asks-feds-for-medical-staffing-help-with-covid-response/

* "Alaska’s largest hospital implements ‘crisis standards of care’ as U.S. marks grim milestone:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/

* "COVID-19 surge forces health care rationing in parts of West:" https://www.startribune.com/covid-19-surge-forces-health-care-rationing-in-parts-of-west/600097740/?refresh=true

* "Doctors face hard choices at packed hospital; patients wait in their cars for treatment:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doctors-face-hard-choices-at-packed-hospital-patients-wait-in-their-cars-for-treatment-120988229508

* "Alaska plans to help hospitals with COVID-19 crisis care:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-alaska-public-health-coronavirus-pandemic-35b7d277449e702c42f1d5f591053788

* "The Big Lie, Updated:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1805180.html

* "They Shunned Covid Vaccines but Embraced Antibody Treatment:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/health/covid-antibody-regeneron.html

* "Chris Hayes on the madness of opposing Covid vaccine to ‘own the libs’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-madness-of-opposing-covid-vaccine-to-own-the-libs-121557061525

* "Anti-gay radio host who shamefully mocked AIDS victims dies with COVID-19:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/bob-enyart-aids-covid/

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* "UN climate talks: Faint progress on money, none on pollution:" https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-climate-united-kingdom-united-nations-business-40ac1b94dc489832415aa41adc9671cf

* "Afghan women hit back at Taliban with #DoNotTouchMyClothes campaign:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58550335

* "A Million Afghan Children Could Die in ‘Most Perilous Hour,’ U.N. Warns:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/world/asia/afghanistan-united-nations-crisis.html

* "The Other Afghan Women:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women

* "Afghanistan girls soccer team given asylum in Portugal:" https://apnews.com/article/soccer-immigration-sports-portugal-professional-soccer-b2097da4ac6ba491b31fffc2431091d3

* "Pentagon Reverses Itself And Now Says A Deadly Kabul Drone Strike Was An Error:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038381206/drone-attack-afghanistan-civilians-pentagon

* "‘All of them have names:’ Hayes on 10 civilians killed in Kabul drone strike:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-all-of-them-have-names-hayes-on-10-civilians-killed-in-kabul-drone-strike-121212997890

* "Trump aides aim to build GOP opposition to Afghan refugees:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-afghanistan-immigration-taliban-ac6dbd381ff5e6e64f921e1e64f53444

* Looks like they sorted it out, but I'm leaving in the links in case you wanted to know WTF.

* "France To Send Its Ambassador Back To The U.S. Following A Macron-Biden Call:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039735697/france-ambassador-submarine-macron-biden-call

* "Australia nuclear submarine deal: Aukus defence pact with US and UK means $90bn contract with France will be scrapped:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/16/australia-nuclear-submarine-deal-contract-france-scrapped-defence-pact-us-uk

* "Furious Over Sub Deal, France Recalls Ambassadors to U.S. and Australia:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/17/us/political-news

* Australia has this big ongoing trade deal with France involving submarines with France with a lot of money and jobs tied up in it. UK and US negotiated a secret deal with Australia for Australia to get nuclear reactor for submarines. Not weapons. Just the sort of the subs that don't have to refuel. They announced it this weak without even a heads up to France, which is just a dick maneuver however you feel about submarines conventional or nuclear, if you see what I mean.

France is our oldest and most loyal ally. Honestly I am confused as why the fuck we didn't include France in negotiations that effected them. Like, I have complicated thoughts about the agreement with Australia and UK, but given the trade deals between Australia and France, basic courtesy would suggest they should be dealt in. If we are negotiating something that effects them, we should include them. D'uh.

* "Russian hackers target Iowa grain co-op in $5.9 million ransomware attack:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/21/new-cooperative-hack-ransomware/

* "'Release the hounds': Ransomware attacks prompt calls for aggressive U.S. cyber response:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-release-the-hounds-ransomware-attacks-prompt-calls-for-aggressive-u-s-cyber-response-121666629508

* "Woodward/Costa book: Worried Trump could 'go rogue,' Milley took secret action to protect nuclear weapons:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/politics/woodward-book-trump-nuclear/index.html

* "On concerns of Trump instability, Gen. Milley built shadow authority; soothed China: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/on-concerns-of-trump-instability-gen-milley-built-shadow-authority-soothed-china-book-120902725768

* "Schumer calls on Biden to cancel $50,000 in student debt for all:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/21/schumer-calls-on-biden-to-cancel-50000-in-student-debt-for-all-.html

* "Biden Announces Out Nominees for Futures Commission, Commerce:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/9/13/biden-announces-out-nominees-futures-commission-commerce

* "U.S. government aid helped reduce poverty in 2020, Census data shows:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-median-income-dropped-2020-poverty-rose-census-data-shows-2021-09-14/

* "Biden invokes Defense Production Act for second time to address fire hose shortage:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/biden-invokes-defense-production-act-052545045.html

* "Out West, Biden points to wildfires to push for big rebuild:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-fires-california-idaho-wildfires-6f50ae5a9f9e0922530f7594b427b07a

* "Manchin suggests he may support a $1T-$1.5T spending agenda:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/12/manchin-senate-spending-agenda-511482

* "House Democrats plan 26.5 percent corporate rate as part of multitrillion tax hike:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/12/corporate-tax-rate-511570

* "Hayes looks at reconciliation bill through lens of ‘The Price is Right’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-looks-at-reconciliation-bill-through-lens-of-the-price-is-right-121067077980

* "Bernie Sanders justifies $3.5T budget: 'How much is too much' to save planet?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-sanders-justifies-3-5t-budget-how-much-is-too-much-to-save-planet-121070149937

* "What Congress will ask oil execs when they testify on climate disinformation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-congress-will-ask-oil-execs-when-they-testify-on-climate-disinformation-121215557834

* "Dems rope debt to government funding, lassoing GOP into clash:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/democrats-government-shutdown-debt-limit-513008

* "Three Democrats say they’ll oppose party’s drug-price plan, creating roadblock for larger package:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/14/democrats-oppose-drug-price-plan/

* "How Kathleen Rice Is Threatening the Biden Agenda:" https://prospect.org/politics/how-kathleen-rice-is-threatening-the-biden-agenda/

* "House sends shutdown patch, debt fix to Senate demise:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/21/democrats-funding-shutdown-debt-limit-513407

* "Jeffries calls out GOP hypocrisy on debt ceiling—and calls McConnell’s bluff :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jeffries-calls-out-gop-hypocrisy-on-debt-ceiling-and-calls-mcconnell-s-bluff-121561157669

* "'Try us': Jayapal makes clear House Progressives not bluffing on infrastructure bills:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-try-us-jayapal-makes-clear-house-progressives-not-bluffing-on-infrastructure-bills-121664581925

* "One-on-One with Deputy Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the American Rescue Plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/one-on-one-with-deputy-secretary-of-the-treasury-on-the-state-of-the-american-rescue-plan-121296453630

* "‘Failure is not an option’: Hayes on why Dems must unify on Biden agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-failure-is-not-an-option-hayes-on-why-dems-must-unify-on-biden-agenda-121749061673

* "Post Trump, U.S. Democrats offer bill to rein in presidential powers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/post-trump-us-democrats-offer-bill-rein-presidential-powers-2021-09-21/

* "No, the Richest One Percent Don’t Pay 40 Percent of the Taxes.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fact-check-richest-1-dont-pay-40-of-the-taxes.html

* "Dems bet their political chips on party-line immigration reform:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/13/immigration-reform-democrats-political-chips-511253

* "Democrats blocked from including immigration reform in party-line spending bill:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/19/democrats-immigration-reform-spending-bill-512898

* "Democrats propose a compromise bill on voting rights.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/us/politics/voting-rights-bill-democrats.html

* "Stacey Abrams on voting rights bill: ‘I am excited and very supportive’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-backs-voting-rights-bill-i-am-excited-and-very-supportive-120887365810

* "Sen. Padilla: Democrats need ‘gumption’ to change rules if needed to pass voting bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/senate-democrats-released-new-voting-bill-after-reaching-compromise-with-manchin-120891461899

* "Democrats introduce new legislation to protect voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/democrats-introduce-new-legislation-to-protect-voting-rights-121296965587

* "'A major victory for our country': Sen. Klobuchar breaks down 'Freedom to Vote Act':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/sen-klobuchar-breaks-down-new-freedom-to-vote-act-as-major-victory-for-our-country-121298501562

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* "ALEC pushed voter suppression bills:" https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/03/kindgergarten-court/#alec-lied

* "Arizona Senate asks Cyber Ninjas to make 2020 election audit records available:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/arizona-senate-asks-cyber-ninjas-204100563.html

* "Wisconsin GOP leaders pressured to sign election subpoenas:" https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/wisconsin-gop-leaders-pressured-to-sign-election-subpoenas/article_56924ee2-305f-5064-af75-27f55886f178.html

* "Following Arizona's shambolic example, Wisconsin GOP starts bumbling election spectacle :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/following-arizona-s-shambolic-example-wisconsin-gop-starts-bumbling-election-spectacle-120906821532

* "Republicans become less tethered to reality; Democrats engrossed in policy wrangling:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-become-less-tethered-to-reality-democrats-engrossed-in-policy-wrangling-121078341738

* "Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers approve wide-ranging subpoenas for personal information of 2020 voters:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/15/pennsylvania-gop-election-probe-subpoena-trump/

* "State Republicans seek voters' personal info as GOP vote count stunts threaten security:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/state-republicans-seek-voters-personal-info-as-gop-vote-count-stunts-threaten-security-121078853943

* "Lawsuits Claiming 2020 Ballots Were Manipulated Come to WA:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2021-09-21/lawsuits-claiming-2020-ballots-were-manipulated-come-to-wa

* "The Bye Line: Republicans can’t remain silent on the danger Trump poses to the party and the republic:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-republicans-can-t-remain-silent-on-the-danger-trump-poses-to-the-party-and-the-republic-121293381979

* "Backers of Trump's false fraud claims seek to control next elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/backers-trumps-false-fraud-claims-seek-control-next-us-elections-2021-09-22/

* "Threats against members of Congress are skyrocketing. It's changing the job:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-20/threats-members-of-congress

* "Republican war on elections makes casualties of civilian stewards of democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-war-on-elections-makes-casualties-of-civilian-stewards-of-democracy-121226821899

* "California Gov. Newsom Crushes Republican-Led Recall Effort:" https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/national-international/2021-09-15/california-gov-newsom-crushes-republican-led-recall-effort

* "Democrats could change 'weaponized' California recall system:" https://apnews.com/article/california-recall-politics-elections-california-coronavirus-pandemic-c9963319bfd8754dc77687049ba6e0e0

* "‘Greatest self-own’: GOP strategist rips Elder’s pre-election fraud claims:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-strategist-ron-nehring-rips-larry-elder-s-pre-election-fraud-claims-121068101920

* "Caitlyn Jenner and Her Recall 'Platform': What a Waste:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/9/14/caitlyn-jenner-and-her-recall-platform-what-waste

* "Caitlyn Jenner Releases Incredulous Statement After Crushing Defeat:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/9/15/caitlyn-jenner-releases-incredulous-statement-after-crushing-defeat

* "Progressive hopeful Morgan Harper's bid for Ohio Senate Seat:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/progressive-hopeful-morgan-harper-s-bid-for-ohio-senate-seat-121295429931

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* "Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez hit with ethics complaint over iconic Met Gala appearance:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/alexandra-ocasio-cortez-aoc-met-gala-complaint/

* CW: Child Abuse. He claimed God told him to emotional and physically abuse the child and therefore it was okay. "Republican convicted for kicking child in the crotch during homophobic rant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/mark-samsel-homophobic-rant/

* "Ohio House Republican, Calling Trump ‘a Cancer,’ Bows Out of 2022:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/us/politics/anthony-gonzalez-ohio-trump.html

* "GOP rep announces retirement after threats of violence, Trump celebrates:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-announces-retirement-after-threats-of-violence-trump-celebrates-121208901539

* "Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows:" https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election

* "Longtime GOP operatives charged with funneling Russian national’s money to Trump, RNC:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/gop-operatives-charged-funneling-russian-money-trump-rnc-513219

* "Trump repeatedly endorses elections officials who reject 2020 election results:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-repeatedly-endorses-elections-officials-who-reject-2020-election-results-120814661740

* "Trump Sues NYT and Niece—Who Calls Him ‘F*cking Loser’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-sues-new-york-times-and-his-niece-mary-trump-over-tax-story

* "Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/us/politics/trump-dominion-voting.html

* "Memo shows Trump lawyer's six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/trump-pence-election-memo/

* "Pence sought way to hand election to Trump; Dan Quayle advice saved U.S. democracy: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pence-sought-way-to-hand-election-to-trump-dan-quayle-advice-saved-u-s-democracy-book-120904261608

* "Trump's insurrection may be over, but the danger to democracy is ongoing:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/trump-s-insurrection-may-be-over-but-the-danger-to-democracy-is-ongoing-121295941739

* "Rep. Swalwell: When cameras are off Republicans know their statements are ‘batty’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pence-praises-journalist-posing-as-insurrectionist-for-embracing-big-lie-on-camera-120799301725

* The whole thing looks Suspect. "Durham is said to be seeking indictment of lawyer whose firm represented Hillary Clinton’s campaign:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/john-durham-michael-sussmann-hillary-clinton/2021/09/16/ed8ba0e6-1696-11ec-a5e5-ceecb895922f_story.html

* "Indicted Trump Org. ex-CFO Weisselberg expects more indictments:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/allen-weisselberg-trump-org-hearing-cy-vance-case/index.html

* "Court transcript suggests search warrants used in broadening Trump Org tax scheme case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/court-transcript-suggests-search-warrants-used-in-broadening-trump-org-tax-scheme-case-121568837968

* "Schiff: Jan. 6 investigation going 'straight to subpoenas' in some cases:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/21/jan-6-investigation-subpoenas-513425

* "The Seditionist’s Cookbook:" https://www.thebulwark.com/the-seditionists-cookbook/

* "Amid high security, small pro-Trump crowd rallies at U.S. Capitol:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-capitol-high-alert-pro-trump-demonstrators-converge-rally-2021-09-18/

* "Pro-Insurrectionist rally flopped, but warns of deeper rot in GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/pro-insurrectionist-rally-flopped-but-warns-of-deeper-rot-in-gop-121295429779

* "Capitol Police arrest man with bayonet and machete in truck near DNC headquarters:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/13/politics/bayonet-machete-arrest-capitol-police/index.html

* "DHS to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti as migrants overwhelm US southern border:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/18/politics/biden-haiti-deportations/index.html

* I am furious at Biden over this. "White House Faces Bipartisan Backlash on Haitian Migrants:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-09-21/mayorkas-chief-says-images-from-border-horrified-him

* "Homeland Security chief Mayorkas says images from border 'horrified' him:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-21/homeland-security-chief-mayorkas-says-images-from-border-horrified-him

* "Officials: Many Haitian migrants are being released in US:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article254401744.html

* "Haitian deportees start over in country they don’t recognize:" https://apnews.com/article/business-mexico-caribbean-port-au-prince-haiti-d37a08bda5d779bf6ddb8f0ae34e1451

* "Angry scenes at Haiti airport add to Biden pressure over expulsions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-says-4000-haitian-migrants-moved-border-four-more-flights-come-mayorkas-2021-09-21/

* "DHS vows to have findings within 'days' in investigation of Border Patrol's treatment of Haitian migrants:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/22/photos-border-patrol-using-horse-reins-whips-prompts-dhs-probe/5812845001/

* "Texas Gov. Abbott sends miles of cars along border to deter migrants:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/22/texas-greg-abbott-del-rio-border-wall/

* "Ex-cops accused of violating Floyd's rights plead not guilty:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cops-accused-violating-floyds-rights-arraigned-80003361

* They are screaming that the vaccine mandate will make officers quit the Seattle PD.

Me: good. The ones who quit are likely the bad ones any way. They just demonstrated they are against serving and protecting and happy to kill and maim people for no reason at all by giving them COVID. Yes, there will be shortages. Why don't we shift all that extra pay over to social services and start doing mental health diversion and non-violent responses to mental health crises. just saying. It's away to get around the union and still do police reform

Newscaster continues to act like It'll be the end of everything and there will be violent anarchy in the streets if all the worst cops decide to self downsize.

Me: I don't really see a down side here. If the officer shortage is that acute pull them off harassing poor people for petty shit and just make their job solving actual crimes that hurt people like murder, sexual and physical assault, kidnapping, and burglary. You know the things police do in civilized societies that don't pay absorbent salaries for thugs in blue to terrorize their citizens. You see crisis, newscaster lady; I see a opportunity for real police reform.

* "The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/geofence-warrants-reverse-search-warrants-police-google

* "‘I Helped Destroy People’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/magazine/fbi-terrorism-terry-albury.html

* CW: Pedophilia. "US lawyers ask British courts to tell Prince Andrew of suit:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-lawyers-ask-british-courts-to-tell-prince-andrew-of-suit/2021/09/15/09499b86-1637-11ec-a019-cb193b28aa73_story.html

* CW: Rape. "Federal judge denies Trump's request to stop E. Jean Carroll lawsuit from moving forward:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-lawsuit/

* CW: Pedophilia. "Biles: FBI turned ‘blind eye’ to reports of gymnasts’ abuse:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article254259768.html

* "Biden administration files motion to block Texas abortion ban:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-files-motion-block-texas-abortion-ban-2021-09-15/

* "Satanic Temple set to challenge Texas abortion law on freedom of religion grounds:" https://wgntv.com/news/satanic-temple-set-to-challenge-texas-abortion-law-on-freedom-of-religion-grounds/

* "Anonymous hacks Texas Republican Party website in retaliation for state's abortion ban:" https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2021/09/13/anonymous-hacks-texas-republican-party-website-in-retaliation-for-states-abortion-ban

* "The Texas Abortion Decision Is Bad For Everyone:"

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* "Women suffer hardship under Texas abortion ban; Judge unhurried by DOJ emergency filing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/women-suffer-hardship-under-texas-abortion-ban-judge-unhurried-by-doj-emergency-filing-120986181595

* "The rank hypocrisy of Justice Barrett claiming Supreme Court isn't partisan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-rank-hypocrisy-of-justice-amy-coney-barrett-claiming-supreme-court-isn-t-partisan-120796741920

* "Texas doctor who violated state’s abortion ban is sued, launching test of constitutionality:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/texas-abortion-doctor-sued/2021/09/20/f5ab5c56-1a1c-11ec-bcb8-0cb135811007_story.html

* "Why I violated Texas’s extreme abortion ban:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/18/texas-abortion-provider-alan-braid/

* "'Rank vigilantism' of first application of Texas abortion ban invites court challenge:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-rank-vigilantism-of-first-application-of-texas-abortion-ban-invites-court-challenge-121667653513

* It's a different one. "Texas governor signs bill tightening restrictions on abortion-inducing drugs:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/politics/texas-abbott-abortion-inducing-drugs-law/index.html

* "Supreme Court sets Dec. 1 for arguments in challenge to Roe v. Wade:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/supreme-court-abortion-case-513012

* "U.S. Soccer says it has offered identical contract proposals to men's, women's players:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/us-soccer-says-it-has-offered-identical-contract-proposals-mens-womens-players-2021-09-15/

* CW: Eating Disorders. "Lawmakers Push Facebook To Abandon Instagram For Kids, Citing Mental Health Concerns:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037222495/lawmakers-push-facebook-to-abandon-instagram-for-kids-citing-mental-health-conce

* CW: Eating Disorders. "Food, Beauty, Mind | Philosophy Tube:"

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* "The Gender Criticals:"

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* And yet, Marriage wasn't a sacrament for most of the history of the catholic church. They only created in response to Protestants doing it. Sacraments have and thus can change. The Pope is lying about not having the power. he just doesn't want to. "Pope Francis emphatically shuts down hope for same-sex marriage in Catholic Church:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/17/pope-francis-catholic-church-same-sex-marriage/

* "How LGBTQ+ Life Has Changed in One of the World's Mega Nations:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/9/13/how-lgbtq-life-has-changed-one-worlds-mega-nations

* "Mayor Attacked, Beaten in Gay Cruising Area, Left Tied to Tree:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/15/mayor-attacked-beaten-gay-cruising-area-left-tied-tree

* "Trans doctor cruelly struck off for wearing a bikini to the beach:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/21/trans-doctor-turkey-larin-kayatas/

* "Chinese Volleyball Star Comes Out as Country Steps Up LGBTQ+ Censoring:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/9/14/chinese-volleyball-star-comes-out-country-steps-lgbtq-censoring

* "Four arrested over murder of queer journalist Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/lyra-mckee-murder-arrest/

* "Black Trans Woman Disaya Monaee Fatally Shot in Chicago Suburb:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/14/black-trans-woman-disaya-monaee-fatally-shot-chicago-suburb

* "Corrections Officer Dressed as a Woman, Pistol-Whipped and Robbed:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/13/corrections-officer-dressed-woman-pistol-whipped-and-robbed

* "Alphonso David Says HRC Treated Him Differently Because of Race:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/13/alphonso-david-says-hrc-treated-him-differently-because-race

* "Trevor Project: Make Sports More Welcoming to LGBTQ+ Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/9/15/trevor-project-make-sports-more-welcoming-lgbtq-youth

* "Tory cuts jeopardising global fight against HIV and AIDS, report warns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/21/hiv-aids-tory-cuts-official-development-assistance/

* "A Crisis of Minds: The Fascinating Tale of "Healing" People... By Destroying Their Brains:"

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* "That Time Some Psychiatrists Pretended to be Mentally Ill to Prove Psychiatrists Don't Know Anything:"

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* "Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement in Cities around the World:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/simple-mathematical-law-predicts-movement-in-cities-around-the-world/#

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The World is basically on Fire/Melting. I'm putting stuff to do with it here.

* "The Kids Are Not Alright:" https://gizmodo.com/the-kids-are-not-alright-1847671079?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-09-15

* "A wildfire in Spain is uprooting villages, razing forests — and raising concerns about climate change:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/13/spain-wildfires-military-deployment/

* "Nicholas, now a tropical depression, still douses Gulf Coast:" https://apnews.com/article/tropical-storm-nicholas-35477d4e990ac7c6de4c7c55e33c00fd

* "California’s Wildfires Had an Invisible Impact: High Carbon Dioxide Emissions:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/climate/wildfire-emissions-climate-change.html

* "Wildfires rage in Sequoia National park and forest, sending flames into grove of giant trees:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-13/fires-rage-in-sequoia-national-park-forcing-closures-as-crews-make-progress-on-dixie-caldor-fires

* "In California, Even Fire-Resistant Trees Need to Be Protected From Flames:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/us/california-fire-trees-general-sherman.html

* "How one foil-wrapped home survived the Caldor Fire as everything around it burned:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/How-one-foil-wrapped-home-survived-the-Caldor-16444302.php

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* "5.9-magnitude earthquake strikes Australia; shaking felt in Melbourne:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/5-8-earthquake-strikes-australia-shaking-felt-melbourne-n1279796

* "Volcano erupts on Spain's La Palma island, spewing lava and forcing thousands to evacuate:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/la-palma-volcano-eruption-spain-cumbre-vieja-island-evacuation/

* "A Massive Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-massive-subterranean-tree-is-moving-magma-to-earths-surface-20210915/

* "Life at 50C: How to cool a megacity:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-58557995

* "Life at 50C: The toxic flares fuelling climate change:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58549010

* "How India's air pollution is being turned into floor tiles:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210909-the-young-inventor-purifying-indias-dirty-air

* "Idled Thai taxis go green with mini-gardens on car roofs:" https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-business-thailand-gardening-94e6376a9b0ed616ba3b203f8c503a46

* "Frederick Douglass: Crash Course Black American History #17:"

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* Over the weekend, Livia caught a third mouse. She patrols every night. She always finds them 1-3 nights after the food delivery. Still, I'm starting to worry about mice in the walls....

* Wednesday Tavy started things out by feigning a desire for an arm cuddle, but it was all a ruse to bite by emergency pendant to summon the paramedics. Sigh.

Wednesday wears all of us out what with forage, and all the things needing doing generally. It's turning out that having the second Millennial in for two hours is a massive help. Changing the bed with two able bodied people? So much faster. (It's a very heavy mattress and it really needs two people to get it correct on the head board end, between the lifting and pulling from opposite sides.) The tanks have been a major issue, since I stopped being able to handle the big tanks when my shoulder joint started to go. Head Millennial struggles with one step in the process. It turns out nearby Millenial can do everything but a different step, so they can just trade off tanks vs. Kitchen tasks. Nearby Millenial is cheerful and a hard worker too. I really think this will work out really well.

* Friday, the Autumn winds came in earnest, bring Autumn rain. Finally. The cats were unsettled of course. The wind this time of year really moves the familiar landscape outside their windows and there are strange irregular sounds. It usually takes a week or so for them to really get used to Autumn. The mild at this point chill and all the unsettling stuff sent them to my bed for cuddles and hanging around peacefully in a group. The air purifier's white noise blocks our the wind sounds. They have to stand on their hind legs to see out the window, and of course, I was in there sleeping and later reading the latest In Cryptid. It is quiet. it is safe. Everything in there is familiar. Their personal human is available and mostly still, ideal for cat purposes.

* Saturday we went on a perishable run followed by the usual putting things away and dishes. It being properly the rainy season now, it was time to take out the living room portable air system and replace it with phase 1 Gothmas stuff. Which is a process.

I had concerns about where the unit would be stored and had come up with something we could try, but head Millennial was like, I bet I could fit it in the hall closet. Me: O.o

Understand that this closet has been close packed since I moved in. Oh, I get outerwear and TV tables out of it on the regular. The painting stuff is on a high shelf and I periodically get it down for touch ups. We traditionally keep the wheel chair in the front for those occasions when I need it. One of the cat carriers is in there for vet emergencies, plus the back up emergency cane, one of the card tables... You get the idea. This is not a big closet. Everything in there is in there for a good reason, and dealing with it is a real pain in the ass.

The Millennial had reorganized it at some point during one of his organizing sprees, but it being summer, I was only opening the left panel to get or put back TV tables, usually on game night. In a hurry. Without really looking. I let him try to fit the monster in there on the grounds that it would be a dramatically better place than what was now plan B (My idea).

Gentle readers, he did it! I am blown away. He even made enough extra space for the big plastic fan Squirrel gave me when he upgraded at some point during the summer heat emergency. Head Millennial is an organizational God.

We also started the moving things around in the living room, cleaning and making space part of Gothmas Phase 1, pulled the boxes for phase one out of my bedroom closet and stacked them in the living room, and put up the Halloween trees, though didn't decorate them. It looks so much more cheerful with them there.

After the Millennial clocked out, we ate dinner and watched the Surreal Estate two part season ender and watched assorted cats explore the area by the window. Livia sensibly hides during Gothmas related commotion and emerges later to discover the humans have yet again illogically rearranged her living space. Sigh. Tavy got the special treat of getting to sit next to his favorite Millennial on the sofa and nap by his head for nearly two hours, having exhausted himself 'helping' with the Forbidden Closet reorganization and with the excited running around in celebration of a Gothmas Box Moving Day, one of his favorite Autumn activities.

Tomorrow? We decorate the Cat Asylum Interior!

In other news, I would like to thank the benefactor who made sure that we had not only enough money for car repair, but car insurance auto withdraw. Whoever you are, you are my hero.

*The Gothmas season stretches from the beginning of the Autumn rainy season in September to the first week of January. It is a disability friendly Gothy way to celebrate Autumn.

Phase 1: Halloween Tree, Halloweentown, and assorted interior decorations go up. In September as soon as the weather turns.

Phase 2: We add exterior Halloween decorations. It runs from close to October 1st as we can get to around November 3rd.

Phase 3: We take down all the exterior decorations except uncarved gourds (arranged as a ‘Harvest Display’) and the lights, which I keep off except in emergencies when I need extra lights to do something outside in the garden to avoid pushing the HOA over the line into fining us. This saves a fuck of a lot of spoons on taking lights down and putting them back up. I stick my Birthday presents and Samhein presents under the larger black hallowed tree.

Phase 4: We gild the lily. Basically we layer all the Solstice stuff on top of the Gothmas stuff already up, which again saves a fuck ton of spoons and since I’m not christian is an excuse to keep all the gothy decoration stuff up because glitter trees full of geeky and goth ornaments are cheerful things for the dark of the year.

Breakdown: Generally, we start taking things down on the 2nd or 3rd of January. sometimes it takes a few days, but it’s all set up to do in stages. I store things in boxes by phase with Phase one boxes on top to be easy to grab next year and phase 4 on the bottom. Organization like this is everything if you are a disabled person who takes Gothmas this seriously.

The nice thing about it is I can get all my Gothy stuff past the HOA and everything is done in stages and with a helper which is way more manageable than the try to do it all at once, take it down, put a whole other set of stuff back up a month later process my parents went through every autumn.

The day I decided to do Gothmas this way changed everything and most years results in three and a half months out of every year of genuine gothy pleasure every night.

* Normally I decorate with a different Millenial. It's still extremely time consuming and this with both of us having a good idea of what it's meant to look like and a well established routine and division of labor. Head Millenial saw the display briefly once or twice at best before the Pandemic. I also had six strings blow fuses during light testing and bulb replacement, which meant I couldn't be nearly as helpful as I'd meant to be. Thus it was not all that surprising we only got a half to a third of the there, which is fine. Training a new person on Gothmas is a whole epic in itself.

This is now a next weekend problem.

This wore me out, which meant I went to bed instead of loading a ridiculous number of prepped links that had accrued over the last week and pushing the thing out.

Monday, I was up all day dealing with car stuff, adulting, and obligations. They spotted a new potential problem I'll need to keep an eye on this autumn to see if it is anything. (They felt exploratory surgury on the car to be far more expensive than it's worthy without more data. We'll see.)

Livia is very disappointed my the lack of live mice in the Cat Asylum this weekend. Tavy would like to lodge a complaint about the frequency of the medicine finger in the last month. Both cats approve of the open living room window and the deliberately clear space among the goth tchotchkes for sitting and staring purposes.

* Tuesday, the pain won.

Wednesday, we went foraging, and then the Millenials got to work on a list I had divided into "Must Do," "Should Do," and "Stretch Goals." I was not expecting them to get to stretch goals. They efficiently divided tasks, and had at it. Nearby Millenial is really getting the hang of things, BTW. They worked beautifully together. They finished 15 miniutes early, so I gave them some smaller tasks I'd wanted doing. Wednesdays really wear out head Millenial, and there are several things like bed change, trash, and recycling that are just worlds easier with two able bodied people. I'm just incredibly happy with how the whole thing is working out for all four of us.

* Immortality: https://jonquility.tumblr.com/post/661189122717892608/have-you-heard-the-tale-of-the-queen-of-thieves

* I am actually angry that I liked that first episode of AHS: Red Tide. The went down hill fast and the lastest episode made me actually angry. A friend asked: What Di they do?

Me: What didn't they do. Gaslighting. Suicide. A particular kind of betrayal I don't enjoy even in fiction. Lots and lots of endless petty Ryan Murphy bullshit interpersonal stuff. I really shitty and condescending attitude towards people who try to make art but aren't genius that is structural to the plot....

I'm in the school of thought that people making art is good for the people making art even if they never get really good and that everyone pretty much sucks when they start anyway and I just... I'm furious. Like my friends, I also feel like the writers at AHS are maybe the last people who should go after people for imperfect art.

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

- 3.4: And the Children Shall Lead. (CW: Suicide)

The main three beam down in response to a distress signal to find nearly everyone dead. They take zero precautions against pathogens or alien parasites despite a number of previous times they answered distress calls only to get infected by a deadly pathogen or taken over by aliens. seriously, have these people learned nothing at all in three years? A dying friend of Kirk doesn't recognize him. It looks like it's all self inflicted. They get a damaged recording of a man yelling about an "enemy within."

All the colony children are alive though, and playing rather than traumatized. Shatner's WTF face may be some of the most believable acting of his whole career. Nimoy still wins though of the three of them, despite DeForest Kelly's excellent entry. McCoy thinks it's a trauma response and wants to get them up to the ship instead of letting the others interrogate them, so he beams up with the children without any quarantine procedures in place. Spock suspects induced suicide caused by a biological or chemical agent, yet they are not wearing NBC suits or even the most basic PPE. Just saying. yes, it won't help with dis corporate aliens and the like, but they don't know what caused it yet. Anyway, maybe the children are behaving oddly through fear of punishment or promise of reward. I wonder if this episode influenced Children of the Corn?

Spock finds a weird reading in a nearby cave. Nothing humanoid is in there (except themselves, presumably). Kirk gets anxiety. Spock feels nothing. Kirk gets weird and paranoid rapidly, in some of the worst acting of Shatner's career. It passes so they beam up with no anti-infection protocols despite kirk possibly being infected.

Nurse Chapel gives the kids ice cream using primitive replicators as a special treat. No one is wearing PPE. One child, Stevey, is singled out by the narrative. McCoy says there is nothing physically wrong with them. McCoy wants to go to a star base to spread the possible infection and let a real child psychologist deal with them. Kirk insists on interrogating them against the doctors orders.

Kirk tries to relate to the children and asks leading questions. Nurse Chapel: Parents like children. Little Girl: That's what you think. Kirk presses. They start chanting "Bizzy! Bizzy!" and the girl pretends to be a bee stinging Kirk. The leader of the children asks for more ice cream. Kirk's refusal is proof "They all say it." When questioned the leader says his father was upset the day he died. "They were always upset." Was this episode influenced by the Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life?" The planet was for adults, who loved it down there, always "Bizzy." a clue, methinks! Kirk sensibly puts a guard on the children.

The children do a ritual to summon "The Angel." An alien appears, telling them they did very well in infiltrating the Enterprise. The adults will want to take them to a Star base, but they should get them to take them to Marcus 12, with millions on it. Maybe a million friends to join them. The rest (adults, I assume) will be enemies. They will defeat the enemies, no one will tell them what to do, and the alien will rule the universe. The children are ordered to take over the Enterprise.

They clean up the tricoder recording. The adults had anxiety, of which the children are free. They kept poking around in the cave, despite growing anxiety. The last survivor of a dead race took refuge in there long ago.

The children want to go to Markus XII. Kirk says no. The leader stays on the bridge to psychically influence the navigators. The girl turns up with her security guard. The Leader is making them think they are circling the planet still when they are actually flying to Markus XII. Uhura notices and gets zapped too. Scotty notices down in engineering, but they already zapped the other Engineers. They fight, but Scotty wins.

On the tapes, the expedition head says they were making him do things like call Starfleet for transportation. he tried to warn them when he realized what he'd done, but "The Enemy within!" The dispatch was never sent. It happened fast. They realize that whatever it was misled 'the innocent' IE: The children. The destroyed race were marauders that kept attacking their neighbors until they were eventually destroyed by their combined victims. Kirk thinks the evil has returned. McCoy objects to damaging the children. Kirk is like the ship comes first.

Kirk goes to switch planetary investigation crews, but the planet isn't there, so the guys they send down are beamed into space and they can't bring up the ones they left down there. Why are there no safety protocols for this?

The children summon the alien on the bridge surrounded by tranced out adults. Kirk is not best pleased. The alien says they've been discovered, but it's too late for the adults to stop them. If the adults give them trouble the children should release the beast of fear in the adults. Kirk battles the leader for control of Sulu and Uhura. The child makes Uhura see herself old, which... fuck you writers. Let's make the woman vane. Sulu thinks if he changes course they will be destroyed. Spock refuses to obey the order to send a report to StarFleet. he fails to obey, despite all that mental discipline training and I think that makes no sense. Logically, Spock should be resistant rather than Kirk, but Spock does break the control. The security guards can't understand Kirk. Spock takes Kirk off the bridge, just as Kirk succumbs to his fear of losing control.

Spock mind melds him and fixes it in the elevator. Scotty's been zapped and threatens to kill Kirk if he touches the instruments. The engineers attack, but Spock and Kirk escape. Spock wants to do something about the children, "Without followers evil can not spread." The ship and the crew are in danger. "The evil is spreading fast." Kirk agrees that if they can't excise the evil the children will need to be killed. Chekhov turns up with security to arrest them. The Leader gets Chekhov to threaten to kill them. Conflicting loyalties are invoked. A fight ensues. The leader runs when his people lose.

Kirk returns to the bridge, where the leader is in the captain's seat. A very childish argument ensues. Kirk points out their leader is afraid to be seen. If he's not afraid he should show himself. Spock plays the recording of the Alien summoning chant. The Alien appears. Kirk and Spock argue with him. he thinks Kirk and Spock's gentleness makes them weak. They show the children pictures of the children playing with their late parents. They smile. Then there is the image of their dead parents and the smiles fade. So very manipulative. The Alien tries to justify murdering their parents to the crying children. Kirk points out to the children that without them the alien is nothing. he turns "ugly," because of course star Trek needs to hammer in the idea that the beautiful are good and anyone who isn't is bad. Fuck you, Roddenberry.

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* "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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Feb. 3rd, 2021 04:30 am
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* "‘Vladimir the Poisoner’ A translation of Alexey Navalny’s speech in court on February 2:" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/02/02/vladimir-the-poisoner

* "Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny handed jail term, prompting protests across Russia:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/europe/alexey-navalny-russia-court-hearing-intl/index.html

* "'Vladimir the Underpants Poisoner': Navalny belittles Putin at court sentencing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-vladimir-the-underpants-poisoner-navalny-belittles-putin-at-court-sentencing-100441669612

* "Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi detained as military seizes control:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55882489

* "Fire breaks out at controversial army barracks housing hundreds of asylum seekers:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/folkestone-napier-barracks-fire-today-asylum-seekers-b1794848.html

* "The Hong Kong migrants fleeing to start new lives in the UK:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55357495

* "UK opens special visa route for Hong Kong residents to become citizens:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-security-britain-passports/uk-opens-special-visa-route-for-hong-kong-residents-to-become-citizens-idUSKBN2A0005

* "China Will No Longer Recognize British Hong Kong Travel Document:" https://www.npr.org/2021/01/29/962008847/china-will-no-longer-recognize-british-hong-kong-travel-document

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* "Johnson & Johnson’s Vaccine Offers Strong Protection but Fuels Concern About Variants:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/health/covid-vaccine-johnson-and-johnson-variants.html

* "Novavax’s Vaccine Works Well — Except on Variant First Found in South Africa:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/health/covid-vaccine-novavax-south-africa.html

* "Novavax submits vaccine for approval as Ottawa seeks EU reassurances on exports rules:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/novavax-approval-submission-eu-vaccine-export-controls-1.5895564

* "Infectious disease specialist: Johnson & Johnson vaccine ‘100% effective in preventing death’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/infectious-disease-specialist-johnson-johnson-vaccine-100-effective-in-preventing-death-100256837793

* "Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has 92% efficacy in trial:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55900622

* "Covid: EU approves AstraZeneca vaccine amid supply row:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55862233

* "Why Is the Netherlands Rioting Over COVID Now?:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/netherlands-covid-lockdown-riots-why.html

* "The numbers are in: Canada’s COVID-fighting efforts are among world’s worst :" https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-numbers-are-in-canadas-covid-fighting-efforts-are-among-worlds-worst/

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 1/29/21 are 25,875,000. The official death toll is 436,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "Variant prompts travel curbs as Fauci calls U.S. spread a ‘wake-up call’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/29/covid-coronavirus-updates/

* "US virus numbers drop, but race against new strains heats up:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-us-update-29c07f020bca0aa4a48a85dae5aa1457

* "Biden Pandemic Strategy Puts Focus On People With Disabilities:" https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2021/01/25/biden-pandemic-strategy-puts-focus-on-people-with-disabilities/29163/

* "Pentagon May Send Troops to Assist With Vaccines, Enlarging Federal Role:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/us/politics/coronavirus-fema-pentagon-vaccines.html

* "Biden administration to begin shipping vaccine doses directly to pharmacies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/02/biden-vaccine-pharmacies-464995

* "U.S. Cuts $231 Million Deal To Provide 15-Minute COVID-19 At-Home Tests:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/02/01/962828149/u-s-cuts-231-million-deal-to-provide-15-minute-covid-19-at-home-tests

* "Biden Covid adviser tells providers to stop stockpiling vaccine:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/01/states-stockpiling-covid-vaccine-464447

* Anthony Fauci Interview: https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dr-fauci-how-to-avoid-another-covid-surge-in-the-u-s-100432965968

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-global-effort-dr-fauci-on-the-need-for-vaccination-push-across-the-world-100435013709

* "‘It’s a mess’: Biden’s first 10 days dominated by vaccine mysteries:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/30/biden-covid-vaccine-states-463953

* O.o "Trump White House donated 8,700 ventilators to other nations. Officials now don’t know where many of them are, watchdog finds.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/01/29/usaid-trump-ventilators-watchdog/

* "Our Funeral Home is Overwhelmed With Bodies:"

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* "In Philadelphia, A Scandal Erupts Over Vaccination Startup Led By 22-Year-Old:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/29/962143659/in-philadelphia-a-scandal-erupts-over-vaccination-start-up-led-by-22-year-old

* "Dodger Stadium's COVID-19 vaccination site temporarily shut down after protesters gather at entrance:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-30/dodger-stadiums-covid-19-vaccination-site-shutdown-after-dozens-of-protesters-gather-at-entrance

* "Personal touch, word of mouth: How U.S. rural communities succeed getting COVID-19 shots into arms:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-rural-ins/personal-touch-word-of-mouth-how-u-s-rural-communities-succeed-getting-covid-19-shots-into-arms-idUSKBN29Y1B2

* "Racial disparity seen in US vaccination drive:" https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-health-coronavirus-pandemic-hispanics-d0746b028cf56231dbcdeda0fba24314

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* "Putin signs extension of last Russia-U.S. nuclear arms treaty:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/29/putin-russia-us-nuclear-arms-treaty-463779

* "Biden’s push to advance LGBT rights applauded Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/biden-s-lgbt-executive-orders-applauded-by-lgbtq-rights-leader-alphonso-david-100308549953

* "Valerie Jarrett decries Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) scoffing at Biden’s transgender rights executive order:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/biden-s-transgender-rights-executive-order-being-scoffing-at-by-sen-cornyn-decried-by-jarrett-100310597694

* "Do Biden’s executive orders addressing racism include Latinx community needs?:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/biden-signing-executive-orders-addressing-racism-latinx-community-needs-discussed-100282949906

* "The Sunday Show exclusive: Susan Rice makes case for Biden’s racial justice, equity plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/biden-s-racial-justice-universal-equity-vision-explained-by-fmr-amb-susan-rice-100310085784

* "Senate Makes Alejandro Mayorkas First Latino Head Of Homeland Security:" https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/02/02/963317909/senate-makes-alejandro-mayorkas-first-latino-head-of-homeland-security

* "Pete Buttigieg Confirmed As Transportation Secretary:" https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/02/02/963217201/pete-buttigieg-confirmed-as-transportation-secretary

* "Biden environmental challenge: Filling vacant scientist jobs:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-climate-climate-change-environment-d144eeab286de4cff4428b04b75f4489

* "Pentagon halts Trump appointments to advisory boards:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/28/pentagon-suspends-trump-appointments-463601

* "Austin ousts Pentagon advisory board members as he roots out Trump appointees:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/02/lloyd-austin-pentagon-advisory-board-members-465108

* This is absent the stimulus bill. "U.S. unemployment rate to remain above pre-pandemic level through decade, CBO says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/02/01/cbo-economy-biden/

* "Biden doesn’t buy GOP’s Covid pitch:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/01/senate-republicans-covid-relief-464327

* "Elizabeth Warren calls on Senate Republicans to ‘step up’ and vote for COVID relief:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/covid-relief-senate-republicans-civil-unrest-addressed-by-sen-elizabeth-warren-100281413614

* "Democrats nurse fresh memories of bad faith Republican 'bipartisanship':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-nurse-fresh-memories-of-bad-faith-republican-bipartisanship-100381253636

* "Sen. Cory Booker on covid relief: ‘This big challenge demands a big response ’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/sen-cory-booker-on-covid-relief-this-big-challenge-demands-a-big-response-100371013929

* "Rev. Barber on covid relief: We cannot compromise on the backs of poor people:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rev-barber-on-covid-relief-we-cannot-compromise-on-the-backs-of-poor-people-100372037534

* "Bernie Sanders on Covid relief bill: ‘Now is not the time to count pennies’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-sanders-on-covid-relief-bill-now-is-not-the-time-to-count-pennies-100374597763

* "‘We know going big matters’: Sherrod Brown makes the case for covid relief:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-we-know-going-big-matters-sherrod-brown-makes-the-case-for-covid-relief-100430917822

* "Trump officials lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall:" https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/31/trump-officials-lobbied-to-deny-states-money-for-vaccine-rollout/

* "‘The internet exploded’: Huge backlash as Robinhood restricts trading on GameStop stocks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-the-internet-exploded-huge-backlash-as-robinhood-restricts-trading-on-gamestop-stocks-100189253972

* "Dems deliver GOP ultimatum over Marjorie Taylor Greene:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/01/democrats-marjorie-taylor-greene-ultimatum-464382

* "McConnell Slams Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Conspiracies As 'Loony Lies':" https://www.npr.org/2021/02/01/963069170/mcconnell-slams-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-conspiracies-as-loony-lies

* "Democrats give Republicans ultimatum on booting Greene from committees:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-give-republicans-ultimatum-on-booting-greene-from-committees-100380741773

* "What the GOP war over Marjorie Taylor Greene is really about:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/02/what-gop-war-over-marjorie-taylor-greene-is-really-about/

* "‘I’m just furious’: Relations in Congress crack after attack:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/29/congress-frustrations-capitol-riot-463619

"And on Friday, freshman Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) tweeted that controversial GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her staff “berated” her in a hallway and she now want to move her office from Greene’s “for my team's safety.”"

* "'I'm here to do a job': Cori Bush recounts how Marjorie Taylor Greene berated her:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-i-m-here-to-do-a-job-cori-bush-recounts-how-marjorie-taylor-greene-berated-her-100256325759

* "Rep. Tim Ryan addresses controversy related to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/capitol-security-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-discussed-by-rep-tim-ryan-100278341507

* "Democrats launch bid to kick anti-trans, QAnon conspiracist Republican out of office:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/29/marjorie-taylor-greene-republican-georgia-resolution-unseat-congress-jimmy-gomez/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene Theorized Space Laser Beam Sparked CA Fire:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-california-wildfires_n_60130bebc5b6aa4bad3241c4

* "QAnon Congresswoman: Ban Pride, 'Hate America Flags' at Embassies:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/2/01/qanon-congresswoman-ban-pride-hate-america-flags-embassies

* "Rep. Deutch, gun control activist David Hogg support Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s removal:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-s-removal-is-strongly-supported-by-rep-deutch-d-fl-david-hogg-100309573817

* If this passes, it will disenfranchise Arizona voters in Presidential elections, possibly forever. "Arizona GOP lawmaker introduces bill to give Legislature power to toss out election results:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/arizona-gop-lawmaker-introduces-bill-give-legislature-power-toss-out-n1256097

* "Arizona GOP rep introduces bill to give Legislature power to throw out election results:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/arizona-gop-rep-introduces-bill-to-give-legislature-power-to-throw-out-election-results-100258373909

* "Republicans considering more than 100 bills to restrict voting rights:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/28/republicans-considering-100-bills-restrict-voting-rights

* "Proposed bill to require two copies of photo ID to vote absentee in Georgia:" https://thegrio.com/2021/01/29/proposed-bill-two-copies-photo-id-vote-absentee-georgia/

* "Capitol Police Call for More Security, Prompting Debate Over How Far to Go:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/us/politics/capitol-riot-security.html

* "Trump’s actions described as ‘a betrayal of historic proportions’ in trial brief filed by House impeachment managers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-impeachment-trial-brief/2021/02/02/8eca2f14-6557-11eb-8c64-9595888caa15_story.html

* "Trump doubles down on false election claim in impeachment response:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/02/house-impeachment-brief-trump-responsible-capitol-attack-464930

* "January 6th lingers as Trump pushes 'stolen election' myth in impeachment defense:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-lingers-as-trump-pushes-stolen-election-myth-in-impeachment-defense-100440645775

* "Congressional staffers call for impeachment conviction of Trump in letter to senators:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/congressional-staffers-call-for-impeachment-conviction-of-trump-in-letter-to-senators-100266053533

* "Maxine Waters says Trump ‘absolutely should be charged with premeditated murder’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/maxine-waters-says-trump-absolutely-should-be-charged-with-premeditated-murder-100429893966

* "Trump’s top impeachment lawyer has left his team:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/30/trumps-impeachment-lawyer-leaves-team-464017

* "One of Trump’s new lawyers declined to charge Bill Cosby. The other maintains Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/01/trump-impeachment-new-defense-team/

* "Text Messages Show Top Trump Campaign Fundraiser’s Key Role Planning the Rally That Preceded the Siege:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-campaign-fundraiser-ellipse-rally

* "New reporting shows White House role in directing Trump mob to Capitol:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-reporting-shows-white-house-role-in-directing-trump-mob-to-capitol-100380741757

* "Trump pollster's campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/01/trump-campaign-autopsy-paints-damning-picture-of-defeat-464636

* "Parliament to hold vote on Unexplained Wealth Order into Donald Trump's finances:" https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-parliament-hold-vote-unexplained-wealth-order-donald-trumps-finances-3118810

* "NY judge orders Trump Organization's tax firm to hand over more documents:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/29/politics/trump-taxes-westchester/index.html

* "Trump Raised $255.4 Million in 8 Weeks as He Sought to Overturn Election Result:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/politics/trump-voter-fraud-fundraising.html

* "People Died at the Capitol. Can Rioters Be Held Accountable?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/us/capitol-riots-brian-sicknick.html

* "Pipe bombs found near Capitol on Jan. 6 are believed to have been placed the night before:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/01/29/pipe-bomb-suspect-video/

* "'Extremely motivated': Authorities eager to bring Capitol officer's killer to justice:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-extremely-motivated-authorities-eager-to-bring-capitol-officer-s-killer-to-justice-100440645760

* "A Pennsylvania Mother’s Path to Insurrection:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-pennsylvania-mothers-path-to-insurrection-capitol-riot

* "The Capitol and the Grim Reminder to a Gay Jewish Man to Never Forget:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/1/31/capitol-and-grim-reminder-gay-jewish-man-never-forget

* "As more Capitol rioters are caught, Trump's ringleader role comes into focus:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-more-capitol-rioters-are-caught-trump-s-ringleader-role-comes-into-focus-100267589503

* "Federal judge overturns local courts to keep some accused Trump mob members in custody:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/federal-judge-overturns-local-courts-to-keep-accused-trump-mob-members-in-custody-100266565844

* "Ex-FBI lawyer spared prison for altering Trump-Russia probe email:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/29/fbi-lawyer-trump-russia-probe-email-463750

* "Reality Winner’s mother: ‘I blame Trump and his DOJ' for my daughter's imprisonment:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/reality-winner-s-mother-i-blame-trump-and-his-doj-for-my-daughter-s-imprisonment-100258373565

* "Biden open to breaking his immigration bill into pieces:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/26/biden-immigration-bill-462479

* "Biden creates task force to undo 'shame' of Trump family separation policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-creates-task-force-to-undo-shame-of-trump-family-separation-policy-100440645786

* "Biden forms task force to reunite separated families:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-forms-task-force-to-reunite-separated-families-100431941734

* ICE needs to go.

* It sure looks like child abuse to me, to deliberately harm a child this way. "Rochester police officers handcuff and pepper-spray a 9-year-old girl after call of 'family trouble':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/us/rochester-police-pepper-spray-child/index.html

* "US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/13/us-police-use-of-force-protests-black-lives-matter-far-right

* "Rep. Karen Bass on how Democratic leaders may address policing with Senate control:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/policing-reform-legislation-democratic-leadership-plans-discussed-by-rep-karen-bass-100283973531

* "White cop's son gets single year in jail for killing Black lover – for 'evidence tampering':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/29/gardner-kent-fraser-dominic-jerome-dj-broadus-jr-cops-son/

* "Former QAnon believer apologises to Anderson Cooper for thinking he eats babies:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/01/qanon-conspiracy-theory-anderson-cooper-eats-babies-cnn-apology/

* "Teacher struck off for lesbian affair with teenage pupil who moved into her house:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/01/lesbian-history-teacher-pupil-fired-struck-off-affair-john-newman-catholic-college-birmingham/

* "Co-Founder of GOP Group Sent Sexual Messages to Young Men, 14-Year-Old:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/1/31/co-founder-gop-group-sent-sexual-messages-young-men-14-year-old

* "Coming Out As Trans - A Little Public Statement:"

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* "Pro-trans groups told they can join appeal against cruel puberty blockers ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/29/puberty-blockers-appeal-high-court-trans-kids-gendered-intelligence-stonewall/

* "Turkish students depict sacred Islamic site alongside rainbows. They’re detained and dubbed ‘deviants’ by ministers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/30/turkey-four-students-artwork-arrested-deviants-interior-minister-bogazici-university-kaaba/

* "Pregnant lesbian couple in race against time to overturn ‘discriminatory’ law and be recognised as baby’s parents:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/31/gibraltar-lesbian-couple-parental-rights-same-sex/

* "Scottish government withdraws amendment to exempt ‘criticism of transgender identity’ from hate crime law after backlash:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/01/scottish-government-exempt-criticism-transgender-identity-hate-crime-law-backlash/

* "Michael Sheen confronts Salvation Army over notorious LGBT+ discrimination record:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/01/michael-sheen-good-omens-salvation-army-donation-trans-lgbt/

* "LGBTQ+ Activists Urge Japan to Pass Equality Act Before 2021 Olympics:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/2/01/lgbtq-activists-urge-japan-pass-equality-act-2021-olympics

* "Bishops council issues dangerous, misleading guide on praying the gay away:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/29/anglican-church-north-america-pastoral-statement-christian-lgbt-gay-lesbian/

* "Christian School Expels 8-Year-Old for Crush on Another Girl:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2021/1/29/christian-school-expels-8-year-old-crush-another-girl

* "Vile Republican senator thinks married gay people are in direct 'rebellion' against God:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/01/richard-cash-south-carolina-homophobic-same-sex-marriage-gay-trans-god-homophobia/

* "Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story | Philosophy Tube ★:"

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* "Once-a-Month PrEP on Its Way?:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/prevention/2021/2/01/once-month-prep-its-way

* "Lawmakers push mental health days for kids amid pandemic:" https://apnews.com/article/arizona-mental-health-legislation-utah-coronavirus-pandemic-e7e6b6880c1495d7b48f6a16444eb5f5

* "A growing share of lung cancer is turning up in never-smokers:" https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/26/growing-share-of-lung-cancer-turning-up-in-never-smokers/

* "A Quarter of Known Bee Species Haven’t Been Seen Since 1990:" https://www.wired.com/story/a-quarter-of-known-bee-species-havent-been-seen-since-1990/

* "Fighting climate change in America means changes to America:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-climate-climate-change-united-states-605d63d962913aaa03f6c74e81405fbf

* "A huge piece of California's Highway 1 near Big Sur collapsed into the ocean:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/30/us/big-sur-road-collapse-trnd/index.html

* I miss our repair café, but pandemic. Often wonder and hope the retirees who ran and staff it are all safe and well. "The country rejecting throwaway culture:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210128-right-to-repair-how-the-french-are-fighting-avoidable-waste

* "NYC Street Vendors Get Overdue Relief With New Permits Bill:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-29/nyc-street-vendors-scored-a-rare-victory-with-new-permits-bill

* "Burial ground reveals Stone Age people wore clothing covered in elk teeth:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/22/world/stone-age-people-elk-teeth-scn/index.html

* "A woman sleeps with someone in exchange for presents, and her husband gets mad. So she sets out to prove that her husband would ALSO allow a man to have sex with him in exchange for presents.:" https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1354782143487029249

* "The Sword-fighting, Bisexual Badass La Maupin // Julie d'Aubigny [CC]:"

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* "The “Scientific” Antifeminists of Victorian England:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-scientific-antifeminists-of-victorian-england/

* "We'll Call her Story a Real-Life "Handmaid's Tale":" https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/11/27/well-call-her-story-a-real-life-handmaids-tale/

* "Atomic John:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/15/atomic-john

* "Bill would withhold state funds from any Mississippi school teaching The 1619 Project:" https://www.wlox.com/2021/01/30/bill-would-withhold-state-funds-any-mississippi-school-teaching-project/

* "'Progress isn't always linear': Joy Reid reflects on Black History Month:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-progress-isn-t-always-linear-joy-reid-reflects-on-black-history-month-100372037637

* "Lawyer Responds: John Oliver SLAPPs Back? (Real Law Review):"

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* "Rights You Didn't Know You Had (and Probably Don't Want):"

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* "The Parable of the Sower: Crash Course Literature 406:"

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* "Could a Corset Stop a Knife? | Enola Holmes:"

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* "How 8 Different Historical Corsets Affect the Same Plus Size Body:"

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* "Costuming in Historical Fantasy vs. Historical Accuracy in Movies & TV // Bridgerton Costumes:"

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* "Snowy Owl Stops in Central Park for the First Time Since 1890:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/snowy-owl-stops-central-park-first-time-1890-180976882/

* "Dog Leads Man To An Abandoned Newborn Baby In The Mountains:" https://blog.theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/dog-leads-man-to-abandoned-baby/

* "Kyrgyzstan ballads, Okinawan folk, Ugandan hymns … the album rewriting global music history:" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/26/kyrgyzstan-ballads-okinawan-folk-ugandan-hymns-the-album-rewriting-global-music-history-excavated-shellac

* ""How Parisians Fell in Love with Their Own Weird Interpretation of Bagels:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x5w3j/how-parisians-fell-in-love-with-their-own-weird-interpretation-of-bagels

* "New York's radical female and non-binary skateboarders -- in photos:" https://www.cnn.com/style/article/girls-cant-skate-jordana-bermudez-photography/index.html

* "America's Crisis of Democracy from an African Perspective :" https://www.cc.com/video/xiavei/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-america-s-crisis-of-democracy-from-an-african-perspective

* "Washington Debates COVID-19 Relief :" https://www.cc.com/video/sck5a9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-washington-debates-covid-19-relief

* "Wall Street Manipulation:" https://www.cc.com/video/815zm4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-wall-street-manipulation

* "Western Australia's Lockdown & Rusty Pandemic-Era Pilots:" https://www.cc.com/video/4k4h2m/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-western-australia-s-lockdown-rusty-pandemic-era-pilots

* "AOC Recounts Capitol Riot Attack:" https://www.cc.com/video/25s9s1/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-aoc-recounts-capitol-riot-attack

* "What Still Works Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Pandemic Game Night - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update: New Minimum Wage & Amanda Gorman Super Bowl Poem - SNL:"

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* "Twins - SNL:"

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* "Vaccine wellerman let's goooo:"

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* I am having massive difficulties with my body. If you are an aggregate reader, it's likely obvious that something had gone badly wrong hear at the Cat Asylum. I am exhausted. The pain isn't really letting me sleep properly and doing everything is insanely hard. I keep having to stop and lie down.

I have surprise doctor appointment Tuesday. My suspicion is there was a cancellation or someone got moved over to a lung clinic appointment. In any case, it's mid sleep cycle. Fun!!!

* Tuesday I did make it out to the Doctor, despite the Emperor's objections. The Vaccination portable was eerily empty as I went through screening. I saw way more health care workers than patients on the property generally, all of which is super weird for Poverty Clinic.

My blood work is good. We are in agreement on what's going on with my lungs. We are changing up some of my meds including adding some temporary measures, one of which is "challenging" because I need to do it for times a day on a complicated schedule to avoid some of my meds it interferes with and food. I'm also going to have to risk a trip to an orthopedist because of the alarming shoulder deterioration in the last few months. I'm right handed. I really need my right arm to function and at this rate... Yeah.

My belief that I am near the top of the 1B schedule at the clinic is correct. The reason I haven't heard yet is they got one fifth of the doses they were meant to get and no doses at all this week. O.o Basically, they sent so few to my county that they are only doing 1A second doses this week here. Luckily, Squirrel was one of those second shots. I've been legitimately worried about him all year since as bad as my chances are his are a lot worse.

Anyway, if they actually start sending vaccine again, I'm betting I'll be next week or week after. If not... who knows.

I came home to find I'd lost parking, but luckily the guy we share with was at work. He's able bodied and only needs it sporadically; I've very much not and protecting the shoulder means opposite hip is really bad. I still feel like the asshole here. There was also a box of Special Girl Food and a bunch of bureaucracy. I did the phone bureaucracy right off, and luckily got under the wire in reaching an office to get stuff sent on an extremely time constricted thing before the offices in question closed. I need to check later in the week to make sure everything is sorted now. Two other things are also sorted. I have another thing I'm going to have to go through the pile for next weeks phone interview for to see if I really have a spare original of the thing another bit of bureaucracy that came in today needs. I think I do, but I was too tired to deal with it.

* "Australia Is A Whole Different World, And These 50 Photos Are Here To Prove It:" https://www.boredpanda.com/australia-weird-bizarre-things/

* "Sunday Sweets Goes FULL UNICORN:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/1/31/sunday-sweets-goes-full-unicorn

*****
* 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.

* I can't swear to these, but they fit with everything I've heard. "HOW TO FIGHT COVID AT HOME when you are not hospitalized.:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/639454183045644288/fighting-covid-when-kept-home

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Jan. 22nd, 2021 07:30 am
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* I am too tired to go through and weed out all the things no longer relevant. Also, the sorting got a bit haphazard. Sorry.

* "Theresa May accuses Boris Johnson of 'abandoning global leadership':" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/20/theresa-may-accuses-boris-johnson-of-abandoning-global-moral-leadership

* "Twin Suicide Bombings In Baghdad Market Kill At Least 32, Wound Over 100:" https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/959115619/twin-suicide-bombings-in-baghdad-market-kill-and-wound-dozens

* "Serum Institute: Fire at world's largest vaccine producer kills five:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55753586

* "EU and US call for probe into Uganda election violence as Bobi Wine remains under house arrest:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/africa/uganda-elections-international-pressure-intl/index.html

* "After five days of internet blackout, Ugandans are back online as Bobi Wine remains under house arrest:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/18/africa/uganda-bobi-wine-house-arrest-internet-intl/index.html

* "A Rohingya Camp Fire Leaves Hundreds Homeless:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/world/asia/rohingya-camp-fire-bangladesh.html

* "Guatemalan forces stall migrant caravan from Honduras with tear gas, batons:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-18/guatemala-forces-stall-migrant-caravan-tear-gas-batons

* "Dutch Rutte government resigns over child welfare fraud scandal:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55674146

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* It's really, really bad. "Bolsonaro Talked Vaccines Down. Now Brazil has Too Few Doses.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/world/americas/brazil-covid-variants-vaccinations.html

* "'Rent an oxygen machine': As Lebanon collapses, COVID-19 patients are left to save themselves:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-21/lebanon-hospitals-on-brink-of-collapse-due-to-covid/13070072

* "U.S. Will Remain In WHO, Fauci Announces, As Biden Reverses Trump Move:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/01/21/959142553/u-s-will-remain-in-who-fauci-announces-as-biden-reverses-trump-move

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 1/21/21 are 24,571,000. The official death toll is 409,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "US surpasses 400,000 deaths from Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/

* "Biden says death toll from pandemic likely will top 500,000 next month, says it will take months ‘for us to turn things around’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/biden-coronavirus-executive-actions/2021/01/21/9a4ab954-5b56-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "How Bad Will COVID-19 Get?:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/1/18/how-bad-will-covid-19-get

* "New CDC director says Covid vaccine won't be in every pharmacy by late February:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-cdc-director-says-covid-vaccine-won-t-be-every-n1255128

* "Trump moves to lift some Covid-19-related travel restrictions, but Biden plans to block the order:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/18/politics/trump-covid-travel-restrictions/index.html

* "Biden inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan and must start 'from scratch,' sources say:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/biden-covid-vaccination-trump/index.html

* "On Night Before Inauguration, Biden Leads Mourning for Virus Victims:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/politics/biden-inauguration-coronavirus.html

* "Biden admin begins immediate coronavirus policy overhaul:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-admin-begins-immediate-coronavirus-policy-overhaul-99770949978

* Thank fuck! "Biden signs order requiring masks on planes, buses, trains and at airports:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/biden-mask-mandate/2021/01/21/5867d7ee-5bf9-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "‘Wartime effort’: Biden signs orders to fight the pandemic:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/biden-10-executive-orders-pandemic-460996

* "Dr. Anthony Fauci says he now feels liberated to speak freely on science, pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/dr-anthony-fauci-says-he-now-feels-liberated-to-speak-freely-on-science-pandemic-99821637600

* "Biden CDC goes back to square one on Covid policy: gathering accurate data:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-cdc-goes-back-to-square-one-on-covid-policy-gathering-accurate-data-99850309573

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* "U.S. Says China’s Repression of Uighurs Is ‘Genocide’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/politics/trump-china-xinjiang.html

* "China Slaps Sanctions On 28 Trump Administration Officials, Including Mike Pompeo:" https://www.npr.org/2021/01/20/958996415/china-slaps-sanctions-on-28-trump-administration-officials-including-mike-pompeo

* "Biden administration to seek five-year extension on key nuclear arms treaty in first foray with Russia:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-russia-nuclear-treaty-extension/2021/01/21/4667a11e-5b40-11eb-aaad-93988621dd28_story.html

* "US Military Pulls Last Troops Out of Somalia:" https://www.voanews.com/africa/us-military-pulls-last-troops-out-somalia

* "US has conceded too much to Taliban, says Afghan vice-president:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55666152

* "Respect:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1788812.html

* "‘We did what we came here to do’: Trump tries to recast legacy in farewell address:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-farewell-address-460427

* "Full list of Trump's last-minute pardons and commuted sentences:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/full-list-trump-s-last-minute-pardons-commuted-sentences-n1254806

* Just the low lights if you don't want to read the whole rogue's gallery. "Trump grants clemency to 143 people in late-night pardon blast:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pardons/2021/01/20/7653bd12-59a2-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "Some people pardoned by Trump can still be tried, an ex-Mueller prosecutor argues.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/politics/some-people-pardoned-by-trump-can-still-be-tried-an-ex-mueller-prosecutor-argues.html

* "Fleece Trump's own supporters? He'll pardon you.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fleece-trump-s-own-supporters-he-ll-pardon-you-99834949938

* "Trump Has Discussed Starting a New Political Party:" https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-impeachment-biden-inauguration/card/90pPMzFPqr5fMzg1Bkbs

* "‘We will be back in some form’: Trump pledges political comeback at farewell event:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/trump-pledges-we-will-be-back-farewell-event-460675

* "Donald Trump’s failure of a presidency ends with a song that’s definitely not about gay sex. Honest:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/20/donald-trump-laura-branigan-gloria-village-people-ymca-gay/

* "The Financial Minefield Awaiting an Ex-President Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/trump-finances.html

* "Trump extended Secret Service protection to his adult children and three top officials as he left office:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-extended-secret-service-protection-for-13-members-of-his-family-as-he-left-office/2021/01/20/31ef3e9e-5b3c-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html

* "Just a really long list of reasons why Donald Trump will go down as America’s most hateful president in history:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/19/donald-trump-lgbt-attacks-trans-gay/

* "Trump leaves parting Oval Office letter for Biden:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/trump-biden-inauguration-day-460670

* "Melania Trump outsourced writing her own 'thank you' notes to the White House residence staff:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/melania-trump-thank-you-notes/index.html

* "Trump authorizes DOJ to declassify Russia probe documents:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-doj-declassify-russia-probe-documents-460511

* "McConnell proposes delaying impeachment trial until February so Trump team can prepare:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/nancy-pelosi-impeachment-timing/index.html

* "America's unfinished business with Trump leaves bifurcated vision as Biden begins:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/america-s-unfinished-business-with-trump-leaves-bifurcated-vision-as-biden-begins-99849797707

* "McConnell says Trump ‘provoked’ the Capitol attackers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/mcconnell-trump-provoked-capitol-attackers-460372

* "George Conway: Hawley, Cruz ‘disregard the Constitution’ for own political agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/george-conway-hawley-cruz-disregard-the-constitution-for-own-political-agenda-99706437604

* "Self-styled militia members planned on storming the U.S. Capitol days in advance of Jan. 6 attack, court documents say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/conspiracy-oath-keeper-arrest-capitol-riot/2021/01/19/fb84877a-5a4f-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "Police arrest woman FBI alleges stole Pelosi laptop to sell to Russia:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/19/police-arrest-woman-fbi-alleges-stole-pelosi-laptop-capitol-to-sell-to-russia

* "Man Accused of Beating Officer With Hockey Stick in Capitol Riot Is Arrested:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/politics/michael-joseph-foy-arrested-capitol-riot.html

* "Woman Fired After Queer Daughter Outed Her Participation in D.C. Riot:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/1/19/woman-fired-after-queer-daughter-outed-her-role-dc-violence

* "How News Media is Describing the Incident at the U.S. Capitol:" https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-news-media-is-describing-the-incident-at-the-u-s-capitol/

* "Pro-Trump navy vet 'threatened to hang' congresspeople in homophobic voicemails:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/15/ryder-winegar-navy-veteran-arrested-voicemails-trump-hang/

* "Army falsely denied Flynn’s brother was involved in key part of military response to Capitol riot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/flynn-national-guard-call-riot/2021/01/20/7f4f41ba-5b4c-11eb-aaad-93988621dd28_story.html

* "Meeting on military response to Trump riot included Mike Flynn's brother:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wapo-meeting-on-military-response-to-trump-riot-included-mike-flynn-s-brother-99773509543

* "Senate Democrats file ethics complaint against Hawley, Cruz over election challenge:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/senate-democrats-file-ethics-complaint-against-hawley-cruz-over-election-challenge-461190

* "Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland sets off metal detector while carrying gun near House chamber:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/andy-harris-gun/2021/01/21/81c7ba90-5c63-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "QAnon adherents discussed posing as National Guard to try to infiltrate inauguration, according to FBI intelligence briefing:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-warning-inauguration-qanon/2021/01/18/293284b6-59c8-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html

* "12 Army National Guard members removed from inauguration duty:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/politics/national-guard-removed-inauguration-duty/index.html

* "‘A Total Failure’: The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/technology/proud-boys-trump.html

* This reminds me so much of the collapse of sherlock fandom. "‘I’m About to Puke’: QAnon in Chaos as Biden Takes Office:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/im-about-to-puke-qanon-in-chaos-as-biden-takes-office?ref=home

* "Compartment Four:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1789184.html

* How much do Republicans hate America? They resisted turning over necessity National Security information to the Biden campaignme because their petty vendetta was more important than keeping us safe. "‘Really quite shocking’: Inside the ugly transition at the Pentagon:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/biden-pentagon-transition-460768

* "'This Is America's Day': Biden's Inaugural Address, Annotated:" https://www.npr.org/2021/01/20/956922884/bidens-inaugural-address-annotated

* "Biden pledges, once more, to lead America away from dystopia:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/biden-inauguration-america-dystopia-460840

* This was stunning. "National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman recites poem at Biden inauguration:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/national-youth-poet-laureate-amanda-gorman-recites-poem-at-biden-inauguration-99736133527

* "TV audience for Biden inauguration tops Trump's viewership four years earlier:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-inauguration-tv-ratings/tv-audience-for-biden-inauguration-tops-trumps-viewership-four-years-earlier-idUSKBN29Q30E

* "Mary Trump thinks Biden's inauguration was 'the worst day' of her uncle Donald's life:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/mary-trump-donald-niece-biden-inauguration/

* "Jelani Cobb - Cautious Optimism in a Post-Trump America :" https://www.cc.com/video/pl748b/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jelani-cobb-cautious-optimism-in-a-post-trump-america

* "Biden signs executive order invoking 2-year lobbying ban for appointees:" https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/535176-biden-signs-executive-order-invoking-2-year-lobbying-ban-for-appointees

* "Biden's plan to outdo Obama, undo Trump's immigration legacy has begun:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/biden-ready-immigration-bill-inauguration-460585

* "Biden Administration Prepares To Overturn Trump Abortion Rule:" https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/01/21/959170860/biden-administration-prepares-to-overturn-trump-abortion-rule

* "Biden plans executive action blitz for Day One:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/joe-biden-executive-action-blitz-day-one-460587

* "The White House website now asks people to choose their pronouns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/20/white-house-website-contact-form-pronouns-trans-joe-biden/

* "On Day One, Biden Issues Order Against Anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/1/20/day-one-biden-issues-order-against-anti-lgbtq-discrimination

* "'Heading in the right direction': Senator Warren enthusiastic about new Biden agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-heading-in-the-right-direction-senator-warren-enthusiastic-about-new-biden-agenda-99767365537

* "Sen. Booker on changes to the Senate: ‘It is a new day in Washington’:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/sen-booker-on-changes-to-the-senate-it-is-a-new-day-in-washington-99743301858

* "Hate group founder says kids will be doomed 'to hell' by Biden's 'LGBT+ propaganda':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/18/james-dobson-focus-family-research-council-joe-biden-radical-left-hell/

* "Biden will 'advance moral evils' in 'marriage and gender', claims snowflake bishop:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/joe-biden-bishop-jose-h-gomez-marriage-gender-catholic-church-lgbt-rights/

* "Trump admin governing incompetence leaves low hanging fruit for Biden team:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-governing-incompetence-leaves-low-hanging-fruit-for-biden-team-99849285952

* "Yamiche Alcindor: We’ll ask tough questions, but the White House won’t ‘make up alternative facts’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/yamiche-alcindor-we-ll-ask-tough-questions-but-the-white-house-won-t-make-up-alternative-facts-99821637776

* "Republicans take on Biden's Cabinet, but without the Trumpian fury:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/republicans-take-on-bidens-cabinet-but-without-the-trumpian-fury-460482

* "Sen. Hawley moves to block swift confirmation for Biden’s homeland security pick:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/alejandro-mayorkas-confirmation-hearing-josh-hawley/2021/01/19/d11971d2-5a7f-11eb-aaad-93988621dd28_story.html

* "Senate confirms Biden’s pick for national intelligence director:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/senate-biden-intelligence-inauguration-460834

* "Senate clears Austin waiver, setting up confirmation vote to be Biden's Pentagon chief:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/austin-waiver-approved-senate-461082

* "Joe Biden’s secretary of defence pick gives full-throated support for trans troops serving in military:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/lloyd-austin-trans-transgender-secretary-defense/

* "Everything you need to know about Joe Biden's defiant, kaleidoscopic cabinet picks:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/joe-biden-cabinet-picks-lgbt-administration-members/

* "Buttigieg Thanks Husband, Talks Policy in Senate Confirmation Hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/1/21/buttigieg-thanks-husband-talks-policy-senate-confirmation-hearing

* "Biden to keep Wray on as FBI director:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/biden-wray-fbi-director-461064

* "Last-minute Trump appointee at NSA put on administrative leave due to inspector general probe:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/michael-ellis-administrative-leave/index.html

* "Defined By Scandal At Voice of America, CEO Resigns At Biden's Request:" https://www.npr.org/sections/inauguration-day-live-updates/2021/01/20/958875488/voice-of-america-ceo-pack-defined-by-scandal-resigns-at-bidens-request

* "Consumer bureau director resigns after Biden's inauguration:" https://thehill.com/policy/finance/535053-consumer-bureau-director-resigns-after-bidens-inauguration

* "Biden fires Trump-appointed labor board general counsel and deputy who refused to resign:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/20/biden-fires-nlrb-peter-robb/

* "Biden removes controversial Trump appointees from key posts:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-removes-controversial-trump-appointees-from-key-posts-99825733953

* "Sec. State Pompeo: Multiculturalism Distorts Glorious Founding of U.S.:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/1/19/sec-state-pompeo-multiculturalism-distorts-glorious-founding-us

* "A big chunk of Trump’s 1776 report appears lifted from an author’s prior work:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-1776-report-plagiarism-460464

* ...And it's gone! Yay! "Biden revokes Trump report promoting 'patriotic education':" https://apnews.com/article/biden-revoke-trump-patriotic-education-259b9302ab24bac55fa14676a1a9d11e

* "Trump revokes rule preventing White House staff from lobbying:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/trump-revokes-rule-lobbying-by-white-house-staff-460608

* "Trump Administration Issues Last-Minute Arctic Refuge Drilling Leases:" https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-01-19/trump-administration-issues-arctic-refuge-drilling-leases-on-last-day-in-office

* "Federal court strikes down major Trump climate rollback:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/federal-court-strikes-major-trump-climate-rollback-75344898

* "Biden Will Lead an Older, Polarized and Financially Insecure Nation:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-inherits-an-older-polarized-and-financially-insecure-nation-11611153710

* "U.S. jobless claims decline to a still-high 900,000:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/jobless-claims-decline-january-461044

* "Democrats rebuff McConnell’s filibuster demands:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/democrats-mcconnell-filibuster-460967

* "Hayes: Senate Dems have a choice—accept ‘unity’ or use their power to improve America:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-senate-dems-have-a-choice-accept-unity-or-use-their-power-to-improve-america-99831877755

* Extended Pelosi Interview starts here: https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/pelosi-s-message-to-trump-concede-the-election-and-call-off-the-terrorists-you-have-unleashed-99707461820

* "Warnock sees 'continuity of service' in new role as senator:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/warnock-sees-continuity-of-service-in-new-role-as-senator-99770437677

* "DNC Chair Jaime Harrison: We’re going to invest in a 50 state strategy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/dnc-chair-jaime-harrison-we-re-going-to-invest-in-a-50-state-strategy-99831877642

* "Stacey Abrams - Keeping the Momentum in Georgia:" https://www.cc.com/video/vm2doj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-stacey-abrams-keeping-the-momentum-in-georgia

* "Trump administration trying to sabotage Biden immigration plans with last-minute deals, say officials:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1254733

* "The Black Panthers still in prison: after 46 years, will they ever be set free?:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/30/black-panthers-prison-interviews-african-american-activism

* "Women film themselves running through hospital screaming ‘f**k the NHS’ and ‘hurling homophobic abuse’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/18/royal-liverpool-hospital-homophobic-abuse-facebook-vide-arrest/

* "Thousands protest women-only pool's 'breathtakingly offensive' ban on trans women:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/18/mcivers-ladies-baths-protest-transphobic-trans-women-ban-swim-in/

* "Court rules trans teen can start puberty blockers without the consent of her ‘threatening and demeaning’ father:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/17/puberty-blockers-supreme-court-queensland-trans-teen-mother-father-consent/

* "Trans refugee cruelly forced into homelessness after years of abuse from neighbour:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/transphobic-hate-crime-trans-refugee-homeless-police-haringey-council/

* "Romania found guilty in European Court of Human Rights for refusing to recognise trans men without surgery:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/19/romania-european-court-human-rights-guilty-refuse-recognise-trans-men-identity-surgery/

* "UK’s only gender clinic for children rated ‘inadequate’ due to damning two-year wait for appointments:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/20/tavistock-portman-nhs-trust-gender-clinic-gids-care-quality-commission/

* "Butch lesbian confronted ‘tens of times’ in public toilets as anti-trans hostility spills over:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/19/public-toilets-trans-bathroom-butch-lesbian-harassed-gender-critical-feminists/

* "Vile Lithuanian MEP expelled after calling LGBT+ people 'perverts':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/viktor-uspaskich-lithuanian-mep-expelled-renew-europe-lgbt-perverts/

* "Republicans have launched at least 10 attacks on trans rights in just three weeks:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/18/republicans-anti-trans-transgender-bills-laws-2021/

* "Montana Pushes Anti-Trans Bills, Sets Up Battle With Biden Admin:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/1/21/montana-pushes-anti-trans-bills-sets-battle-biden-admin

* "Stonewall Vet Miss Major and Her Partner Are Now Parents:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/1/15/stonewall-vet-miss-major-and-her-partner-are-now-parents

* "North Dakota Rejects Changes to HIV Law, Missouri Considers Them:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/law-crime/2021/1/15/north-dakota-rejects-changes-hiv-law-missouri-considers-them

* "Judge gives preliminary OK to $641 million Flint water crisis settlement:" https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2021/01/judge-gives-preliminary-ok-to-641-million-flint-water-crisis-settlement.html

* "Freeze expected on heels of flooding damage from Storm Christoph:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/21/north-west-england-and-wales-badly-hit-by-floods-from-storm-christoph

* "Pablo Escobar's hippos have invaded Colombia's waterways and need to be culled, study says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/pablo-escobar-s-hippos-have-invaded-colombia-s-waterways-need-n1254791

* It's a from a few years ago, but still very relevant. "Artist creates "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" memes to stop people from whitewashing MLK:" https://www.mic.com/articles/165598/artist-creates-letters-from-birmingham-jail-memes-to-stop-people-from-whitewashing-mlk?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=movement&utm_campaign=social

* Damn. "Mira Furlan, ‘Babylon 5’ and ‘Lost’ Actress, Dies at 65:" https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mira-furlan-dead-babylon-5-lost-1234890117/

* "Ken Jones, Pioneering Black Gay Activist, Dies at 70:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/1/15/ken-jones-pioneering-black-gay-activist-dies-70

* "Do ‘elder Goths’ hold the secret to aging successfully?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/do-elder-goths-hold-the-secret-to-aging-successfully/2021/01/11/a565b2de-3b04-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html

* "Gwyneth Paltrow candle explodes causing vagina-scented ‘inferno’ in woman’s living room:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/19/gwyneth-paltrow-vagina-candle-explodes/

* I actually read it as a valid turn of the century interp in the theater so it didn't bother me at the time the way it did other people. I am in agreement with this assessment. Not perfect, but often good. "How Historically Accurate are the Costumes in Pride & Prejudice 2005? | A Fashion History Analysis:"

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* "Are "Emma." (2020) Costumes Historically Accurate? aka What Makes Good Period Drama Costumes:"

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* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Inauguration Day :" https://www.cc.com/video/bahsw3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-inauguration-day

* "President Biden's First Executive Orders:" https://www.cc.com/video/qbk6bu/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-president-biden-s-first-executive-orders

* "Biden Clears a Low Bar & Ex-Presidents Team Up Without Trump:" https://www.cc.com/video/cx6xk4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-biden-clears-a-low-bar-ex-presidents-team-up-without-trump

* "Democrats: They (Can Finally) Get The Job Done!:"

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* "President Biden's Joyful Inauguration Day Felt Like A Return To Normalcy:"

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* "Officially In Charge, President Biden Begins Dismantling His Predecessor's Legacy:"

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* "Shea Diamond - "I Am America":"

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* "Avi Kaplan - Change on the Rise (Official Music Video):"

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* "Rhiannon Giddens - "Cry No More":"

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* My body was emphatically not doing well Tuesday. I did prep, but had to go back to bed. Wednesday was a bit better, but I am drowning in news, and am still having trouble. We are adjusting my nausea meds temporarily in hopes of getting things more under control so I can go back to taking all my non-narcotic arthritis meds and still function. We'll see. Odds are the car will be back tomorrow if it's the cheaper repair, likely not until next week if it's the more expensive.

In other news, the emperor’s recent sexual awakening is extremely trying for the Empress and myself. Yes they are both fixed. I’ve started going over to lift him off every time she yells. By today, I generally don’t get over there before he stops, but it’s still a lot of up and down when I’m trying to work. I wish he’d use a stuffed animal like a sensible animal and let Livia nap. all she wants is a little quiet togetherness, poor thing.

* The Midnight Society At the Ackermansion: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1350882319779827714

* The Midnight Society At the Ackermansion II: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1351603111245148160

* The Midnight Society At the Ackermansion III: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1351251933881794560

* Time has done beautiful things to Wilson Cruz.

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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.

* I can't swear to these, but they fit with everything I've heard. "HOW TO FIGHT COVID AT HOME when you are not hospitalized.:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/639454183045644288/fighting-covid-when-kept-home

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Jul. 20th, 2020 04:28 pm
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* "UK accuses China of 'gross' human rights abuses against Uighurs:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53463403

* "Huge protests rock several countries as coronavirus ignites rage against governments:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/world/protests-israel-serbia-bulgaria-coronavirus-intl/index.html

* "Defying Kremlin, Protesters Stage Biggest Rally Yet in Russian Far East:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/world/russian-protests.html

* "More than 140 Russians protesting against homophobe Vladimir Putin detained and dragged into police vans:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/18/140-russians-protesting-homophobe-vladimir-putin-detained-dragged-police-vans-moscow/

* "Nantes Cathedral blaze investigated as possible arson:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/18/europe/nantes-cathedral-fire-intl/index.html

* I am following the EU recovery Package negotiation, but honestly, it's back and forth along the usual dividing lines with lots of the usual speculation, so I'm not bothering to link.

* "Forced to flee my country for rapping:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-53451702/the-woman-forced-to-flee-her-country-for-rapping

* "Officer suspended over 'knee on neck' video:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-53443641

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* ""My patient caught Covid-19 twice. So long to herd immunity hopes?":" https://www.vox.com/2020/7/12/21321653/getting-covid-19-twice-reinfection-antibody-herd-immunity

* "Covid-19 Immunity May Rely on a Microscopic Helper: T Cells:" https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-immunity-may-rely-on-a-microscopic-helper-t-cells/

* "Immunity to Covid-19 could be lost in months, UK study suggests:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/12/immunity-to-covid-19-could-be-lost-in-months-uk-study-suggests

* "Iranian president's claim that 25 million are infected with COVID causes confusion:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/iranian-presidents-claim-25-million-infected-covid-confusion/story?id=71860435

* "India's Covid-19 cases surge past one million:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53440913

* "Public's disconnect from COVID-19 reality worries experts:" https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/507334-publics-disconnect-from-covid-19-reality-worries-experts

* "The Trump Administration Is Waiving the Public’s Right to Affordable Coronavirus Treatments:" https://theintercept.com/2020/07/01/coronavirus-treatment-drug-contracts-trump/

* "The party of grotesque selfishness:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/14/party-grotesque-selfishness/

* "If you aren’t filled with rage at Trump, you aren’t paying attention:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/14/if-you-arent-filled-with-rage-trump-you-arent-paying-attention/

* "Trump is trying to do to Anthony Fauci what the right did to Al Gore — but it's not working:" https://www.salon.com/2020/07/14/trump-is-trying-to-do-to-anthony-fauci-what-the-right-did-to-al-gore--but-its-not-working/

* "Hayes: Fauci is trying to fight coronavirus while Trump is trying to fight reality:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-fauci-is-trying-to-fight-coronavirus-while-trump-is-trying-to-fight-reality-87782469853

* "‘Wrong way for America to be exceptional’: Fmr. Surgeon General on U.S. COVID-19 failure:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-wrong-way-for-america-to-be-exceptional-fmr-surgeon-general-on-u-s-covid-19-failure-87904837929

* "Inslee pauses reopening of Washington’s counties through July 28 as COVID-19 cases spike:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/inslee-pauses-further-reopening-of-counties-through-july-28-as-covid-19-cases-spike/

* "Almost one-third of Florida children tested are positive for the coronavirus:" https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/507442-almost-one-third-of-florida-children-tested-are

* "Texas eclipses grim benchmark with 300,000 coronavirus cases:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-eclipses-grim-benchmark-300-000-coronavirus-cases-n1234169

* "'There's just too many positives a day': Texas county overwhelmed:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-there-s-just-too-many-positives-a-day-texas-county-overwhelmed-87915589873

* "Three California churches sue Newsom over singing ban:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-16/california-churches-sue-newsom-singing-ban

* "‘Nonsense’: McCaskill knocks Missouri governor’s pandemic response:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-nonsense-mccaskill-knocks-missouri-governor-s-pandemic-response-87845957683

* "Kentucky Bar Defies Mask Order: 'We Are Americans—We're Going to Do What We Want':" https://www.newsweek.com/kentucky-bar-defies-mask-order-we-are-americanswere-going-do-what-we-want-1517533

* "Anti-Mask Idiots Rally at Florida Restaurant as State Becomes Covid-19 Epicenter:" https://gizmodo.com/anti-mask-idiots-rally-at-florida-restaurant-as-state-b-1844359920

* "The Food-Processing Industry Is the Typhoid Mary of This Pandemic:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a33309725/new-yorker-mountaire-foods-covid-19-workers/

* "Access to public health official's emails will cost at least $8,000:" https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2020/07/14/access-to-public-health-officials-emails-will-cost-at-least-8000/

* He's dying and he wants the rest of us to join him. "Rush Limbaugh: Americans should “adapt” to coronavirus, like famous pioneers who “had to turn to cannibalism”:" https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-americans-should-adapt-coronavirus-famous-pioneers-who-had-turn

* "‘Deep State’ Hawk Tom Fitton’s Latest Target: The ‘Medical Media Establishment’:" https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/deep-state-hawk-tom-fittons-latest-target-the-medical-media-establishment/

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* "Trump using properties to turn campaign cash into personal profit:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-using-properties-to-turn-campaign-cash-into-personal-profit-87915589956

* "Chris Hayes: RNC mess exemplifies Trump’s coronavirus failures:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-rnc-mess-exemplifies-trump-s-coronavirus-failures-87715909654

* "QAnon Devotees Plan Rally At Republican National Convention:" https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/qanon-devotees-plan-rally-at-republican-national-convention/

* "It’s the duty of the White House press secretary to hold briefings. But not like this.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-the-duty-of-the-white-house-press-secretary-to-hold-briefings-but-not-like-this/2020/07/10/1a61ae78-c2cc-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.html

* "Ruth Bader Ginsburg announces cancer recurrence, will remain on the Supreme Court:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-cancer-chemotherapy/index.html

* "America’s Jobless Are About to Lose Their $600-a-Week Lifeline:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-14/america-s-jobless-are-about-to-lose-their-600-a-week-lifeline

* "‘Completely upside down:’ Pelosi on Trump push to reopen schools:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-completely-upside-down-pelosi-on-trump-push-to-reopen-schools-87784005512

* "‘Pure hypocrisy’: Kamala Harris on GOP opposition to coronavirus relief bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-pure-hypocrisy-kamala-harris-on-gop-opposition-to-coronavirus-relief-bill-87846981944

* "Culturally vibrant industries in danger amid flailing COVID-19 response:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/culturally-vibrant-industries-in-danger-amid-flailing-covid-19-response-87818309871

* "Jamaal Bowman wins New York primary in major victory for progressives:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/17/jamaal-bowman-wins-new-york-congressional-seat-progressives

* "Jamaal Bowman reacts to defeating longtime Rep. Engel in N.Y. primary:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jamaal-bowman-reacts-to-defeating-longtime-rep-engel-in-n-y-primary-87906885825

* "OC School Board Votes To Allow In-Person Instruction This Fall Without Masks, Social Distancing:" https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/07/13/oc-school-board-classes-fall/

* "If coronavirus transmission levels don’t decrease, King County school buildings should not reopen in fall, report says:" https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/recent-coronavirus-transmission-levels-too-high-to-reopen-king-county-school-buildings-says-new-report/

* And here's some malevolent Republican nonsense. "Fox guest says teachers are “grooming our children for sexual predators to use them”:" https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/fox-guest-says-teachers-are-grooming-our-children-sexual-predators-use-them

* "As reopening plan that calls for face coverings, school board members express resistance:" https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/health/as-reopening-plan-that-calls-for-face-coverings-school-board-members-express-resistance/article_0b67f362-9532-5832-a1fe-ef8662e55431.html

* "'A Nightmare': Georgia Tech Faculty Push Back Against In-Person Reopening Plans:" https://www.npr.org/2020/07/05/887471299/a-nightmare-georgia-tech-faculty-push-back-against-in-person-reopening-plans

* "Florida Education Commissioner mandates all schools to reopen in August:" https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/07/06/florida-schools-mandated-reopen-august/5387823002/

* "Four States Are Sharing Driver's License Info To Help Find Out Who's A Citizen:" https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/890798378/south-dakota-is-sharing-drivers-license-info-to-help-find-out-who-s-a-citizen

* "New International Students To U.S. May Hit Post-WW2 Low:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/07/13/new-international-students-to-us-may-hit-post-ww2-low/#52687892267f

* "Portland mayor demands Trump remove federal agents from city:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/18/portland-federal-agents-protests-trump-mayor

* "‘Terrifying for citizens’: Oregon gov. reacts to Trump’s ‘invasion’ of Portland:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-terrifying-for-citizens-oregon-gov-reacts-to-trump-s-invasion-of-portland-87904837678

* "Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets:" https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/

Neither state or local authorities asked for this. 45 sent people to arrest random protesters without them having committed crimes. The secret police are denying people basic rights.

This is the death of free society, folks.

* "Unmarked federal troops snatching protesters raise local alarm:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/unmarked-federal-troops-snatching-protesters-raise-local-alarm-87910469866

Secret police are kidnapping people for interrogation without any charges or civil rights. The secret police in this case are the ones 45 constituted without congressional authority to protect confederate monuments, but really they can grab anyone off the streets anywhere in the absence of a crime whenever they feel like nowhere near any monuments it because 45 says so.

It's terrorism. It's a fundamental threat to our country and our tax money is paying for it.

* "Pres. Trump on federal officers in Portland: 'we quelled it':" https://katu.com/news/local/pres-trump-on-federal-officers-in-portlandwe-quelled-it

* "Partially blinded by police: Video evidence undermines official accounts of injuries at George Floyd protests:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/police-partially-blinded-eight-people-on-the-same-day-of-protests-after-george-floyds-death/2020/07/14/6be427dc-436a-4558-bf4d-c9f3c67c3fa5_video.html

* "U.S. Marshals probing protester’s shooting by federal officer in Portland, mayor says:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/u-s-marshals-probing-protesters-shooting-by-federal-officer-in-portland-mayor-says/

* "Off-duty officer who drove car through protest crowd ‘no longer employed’ by Seattle police:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/off-duty-officer-who-drove-car-through-protest-crowd-no-longer-employed-by-seattle-police/

* "Cop who threatened to kill protesters shoots, kills colleague who knocked on door, affidavit says:" https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/cop-who-threatened-kill-protesters-shoots-kills-colleague-who-knocked-door-affidavit-says/BMAXC27P7FA7LMIAXFQUJAHZJE/

* The police are proudly breaking the law because they are ideologically opposed to protecting people's lives. Seriously, it's way past time to disband and start over. "Oregon State Police don’t wear coronavirus masks while patronizing coffee shop, despite governor’s order:" https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/07/oregon-state-police-dont-wear-coronavirus-masks-as-they-patronize-corvallis-coffee-shop-despite-governors-order.html

Weird personal note: That was my favorite coffee shop when I lived there and my friends and I would order Italian sodas and si around playing bridge.

* "Leaked Documents Show Police Knew Far-Right Extremists Were the Real Threat at Protests, not “Antifa”:" https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-police-far-right-antifa/

* So there you have it. They are now claiming anyone opposing facism or who thinks black lives matter is tthe antichrist. The Christian extremists aren;t even pretending not to be evil, are they? "Robert Maginnis Ranks Barack Obama, George Soros Among ‘Satan’s Greatest Human Proxies:" https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/robert-maginnis-ranks-barack-obama-george-soros-among-satans-greatest-human-proxies/

* "The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/the-police-have-been-spying-on-black-reporters-and-activists-for-years-i-know-because-im-one-of-them

* "Selah city attorney warns family they could be prosecuted for creating more chalk art:" https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/selah-city-attorney-warns-family-they-could-be-prosecuted-for-creating-more-chalk-art/article_e88672e7-e72c-5140-a4b7-ece27ac83925.html

* "The Violent Politics Behind Karenism:" https://medium.com/@RomeroAlexis/the-violent-politics-behind-karenism-a9c593a750f9

* "Washington’s NFL team drops ‘Redskins’ name after 87 years:" https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/ap-source-washington-nfl-team-dropping-redskins-name/

* "Gov. Bill Lee signs controversial Tennessee abortion restriction measure into law:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/13/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-signs-restrictive-abortion-bill-into-law/5349100002/

* "Trans people are twice as likely to be victims of crime in England and Wales than cis people, new figures reveal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/17/trans-crime-victims-england-wales-cis-office-national-statistics-data-gender-identity/

* "Trump Signs Anti-LGBTQ Child Welfare Executive Order:" https://www.lambdalegal.org/blog/20200630_trump-admin-child-welfare-executive-order

* "Grassroots campaign raises over $250,000 to build neighbourhood of ‘tiny homes’ for Black trans women:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/19/black-trans-women-my-sistahs-house-memphis-tiny-homes/

* "A Bomb in the Desert:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/07/75-years-after-bomb/614260/

* "Artists install anti-Trump living statues around DC:" https://thehill.com/homenews/news/507877-artists-install-anti-trump-living-statues-around-dc

* "John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/john-lewis-dead.html

* "Producer of ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’ on life of late icon:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/-john-lewis-good-trouble-producer-on-late-civil-rights-icon-87938117512

* "Barber: To honor John Lewis fully restore voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/john-lewis-remembered-by-rev-dr-william-barber-87937093681

* "Capehart on historical throughline linking Lewis and Obama:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/john-lewis-relationship-with-barack-obama-remembered-by-capehart-87934021913

* "Booker: Lewis was called bravest person in Civil Rights Movement:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/john-lewis-as-civil-rights-hero-remembered-by-sen-cory-booker-87932998002

* "Lewis called ‘patron saint’ of voting rights amid ongoing battle:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/john-lewis-life-inspires-u-s-senate-candidate-raphael-warnock-87934533813

* Sunday I got awakened by what turned out to be a really long, badly designed lumber industry push poll after an unsatisfying 5 or 6 hours of sleep It wasn't obvious it was a push poll from the early question rounds and by the time I worked it out and it got frustrating to deal with because of the design, I was too awake to go back to sleep. I eventually wandered out and discovered my primary ballot had arrived for the state and locals, so I did that after food and lungs.

There was also a letter from the HOA threatening to fine us because some neighbor hallucinated we had a dog, which, being imaginary, we had failed to register!?!?! I left them a message pointing out that we were cat people and registered as such if they'd check our file. My best guess at the time was some upper middle class asshole busy body saw our raggedy counter culture asses trying to catch Elder Kitty in the bushes last week and decided to fuck us over because, you know, we're not upper middle class assholes and they think we bring down property values just by existing.

The called me back today, and it turns out that the upper middle class busy body had zeroed in on the large, incredibly ugly, banana coloured...idk, range rover, maybe? Something like that. Anyway, it's massive an stands the fuck out, but we're counter culture people and I'm driving a rusted clunker that's old enough to hang around in bars if it were a person, and i'd have likely turned it in to an art car if I had more money, so I would never cast the first stone. Drive the fuck you like; it's none of my business unless you are endangering people, and I'm pretty sure other drivers can see them coming miles away. It parks next to the building disabled space and Asshole Busy Body decided it must be ours and therefore the nuisance loose dog must be ours. Not our space, not our vehicle, not our dog.

Case closed.

In other news, last night I found myself staring in utter bewilderment at John Cena's abs. My exhausted brain couldn't parse them at all. I think I'd forgotten some people's bodies looked like that and I just couldn't grasp the topography. in my defense my taste in men always ran along the lines from outright nerdy to wiry built runner or martial arts types. Like I and some of my guys lifted weights now and then, but not for bulking up, since what you want is enough core strength for endurance or enough strength to pack a good punch without fucking up your speed. It's working muscles, not body builder muscles. Like, occasionally one will see a body builder type in a movie or whatever, but they aren't images i seek out or particularly notice.

Also in my defense, I was dead exhausted all last night and couldn't concentrate for fuck and did no work beyond voting.

So not long after I the me trying to grasp that was real skin over muscle and not plastic over god knows what, Elder Kitty gets up on the desk, be moving my water to keep her from knocking it over and then lifting her over the wax melt thingie lest she hurt herself. The Emperor had been napping behind Rupert Laptop as he's wont to do. Me: Shit! There is about to be a fight on my desk!

Elder kitty wobbles over and sniffs him extensively for about a minute, before drifting off along the sofa arm root for a nap in the comfy chair. Tavy stared at her the whole time with much the same bafflement I had just experienced in contemplating Mr. Cena's torso.

Stroke brain damage confirmed.

She's perfectly happy and living her best life. We have to watch her because in her fearless state, she occasionally needs rescuing from decisions she'd not have made nine days ago. We definitely think she hasn't much time, but if she wants to spend what she has soaking up pets, sleeping in the best spots, and generally giving no fucks, good for her.

Anyway, no work at all was done Sunday, not even putting out the mostly finished Saturday news. I am deeply concerned by how worn out I am just from doing the library curbside pick up run and dealing with laundry, so odds are I'll post Saturday's aggregate before trying to tackle Sunday and Monday.

* "9 Bizarre and Beautiful Fancy Pigeons:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/54359/9-bizarre-and-beautiful-fancy-pigeons

* "17 Insane Illusion Cakes That Are Guaranteed To Make You Look Twice:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasminnahar/illusion-cakes-that-will-make-you-say

- 7.15 Lower Decks. Riker and Deanna do crew evaluations. The episode is mostly from the perspective of the ensigns. Two people are up for the same promotion. The male one thinks Riker hates him. The woman one has doubts about being good enough for ops. It turns out she was one of the ones involved in the cover up at the academy, something Picard dresses her down for later, which explains why she's vaguely familiar, but that season was a while ago and I forgot. An ambitious Vulcan has lots of ideas for increasing efficiency and really annoying personality, even compared to the guy up for the ops job. The medical one has personal problems involving a relationship which is resolved with no real development later. There's also a civilian? IDK.

Something's going on and a bunch of the ensigns get barred from sick bay and the bridge while it's going on. Vulcan engineering guy keeps arguing with Mr. LaForge. He points out it looks like they are making it look like the shuttle was fleeing an attacker. The medical one is ordered to synthesize a liter of Cardassian blood for the person they beamed off the shuttle.

Both groups are playing poker separately and give each other advice regarding the other group. Riker agree to have a more open mind about Civilian one's attempts to ingratiate himself. Geordi decides to do the Vulcan's nacelle tests with him. Worf does a surprise martial arts test on the woman ops candidate, which she passes by saying the test it unfair. It's an object lesson about standing up for herself. She goes and tells Picard he's being unfair. It turned out this was a test and he'd requested her for the enterprise so she could get a fair shake. Now she's going on a dangerous mission with the Cardassian spy. She thanks Worf before going. The spy is angry about Ambitious ghuls warmongering, hence working with Starfleet.

The annoying male ops candidate pressures the others to tell him what's going on. The Vulcan and the medical one behave correctly, which leads to him pouting. I take back what I aid before. Ops man baby is way more annoying than the Vulcan. They find debris from the Bajoran ship. The Cardassians blew her up as an escapee. Picard does a beautiful eulogy.

I really wasn't feeling this one. Everything felt too obvious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
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Feb. 11th, 2020 06:06 am
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* "Beijing Takes Direct Control Over Coronavirus Response In Hubei Province:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/11/804737888/beijing-takes-direct-control-over-coronavirus-response-in-hubei-province

* "Leo Varadkar unlikely to continue as leader following Ireland’s general election:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/10/leo-varadkar-gay-taoiseach-fine-gael-fianna-fail-sinn-fein-general-election-ireland/

* "Irish Green Party candidate celebrates election victory with a defiant kiss on live TV:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/11/ireland-general-election-green-party-roderic-ogorman-kiss-partner-gay-live-tv/

* Remember when 45 mocked them over their "headaches?" "Over 100 US troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries following Iran strike:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/politics/traumatic-brain-injuries-iran-strike/index.html

* "Trump tells advisers he doesn't want another summit with North Korea's Kim before the election:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/politics/trump-north-korea-thaw/index.html

* "Amazon Looks to Question Trump in Pentagon Contracting Case:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/technology/amazon-depose-trump-pentagon-jedi.html

* "Barr acknowledges Justice Dept. has created ‘intake process’ to vet Giuliani’s information on Bidens:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/barr-acknowledges-justice-dept-has-created-intake-process-to-vet-giulianis-information-on-bidens/2020/02/10/0fba553a-4c1e-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html

* "Freed by Senate GOP, Trump appears to formalize Ukraine scheme through Barr:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/freed-by-senate-gop-trump-appears-to-formalize-ukraine-scheme-through-barr-78524997530

* "Republican Senators Tried to Stop Trump From Firing Impeachment Witness:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/us/politics/trump-vindman-sondland-fired.html

* "Schumer asks inspectors general to investigate whistleblower retaliation after Vindman firing:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/10/schumer-investigate-whistleblower-retaliation-vindman-113022

* "Kellyanne Conway says more officials may be ousted after Trump’s Senate acquittal:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/10/kellyanne-conway-says-more-officials-ousted-trump-acquittal-113138

* "Trump vindictiveness sends chilling message to U.S. officials:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-vindictiveness-sends-chilling-message-to-u-s-officials-78522437993

* "Esper guarantee against retaliation proves faithless for Vindman:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/esper-guarantee-against-retaliation-proves-faithless-for-vindman-78361669933

* "Trump proposes $4.8 trillion election-year budget with big domestic cuts:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/09/trump-budget-plan-would-fail-eliminate-deficit-over-10-years-briefing-document-shows/

* "Odd for an election year: Trump proposes massive health care cuts:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/odd-for-an-election-year-trump-proposes-massive-health-care-cuts-78524997563

* "After Iowa, Will Anyone Swoop in to Save the Democrats?:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/2/05/after-iowa-will-anyone-swoop-save-democrats

* "Sheldon Adelson to donate $100m to Trump and Republicans, fundraisers say:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/10/sheldon-adelson-trump-donation-republicans-congress

* "Chris Hayes: Trump is weak, and beatable:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-trump-is-weak-and-beatable-78517317507

* "Joe Biden can’t decide whether he wants Pete Buttigieg as his vice president or whether he’s a ‘small town’ nobody:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/10/pete-buttigieg-joe-biden-running-mate-vice-president-presidential-nomination-election/

* Stephen Colbert did an extended interview with Buttigeig. I'm going to stick the parts under the cut:

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* "Trump wants California cops to evict homeless people. They don't want that 'dirty' job:" https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-02-06/homeless-police-trump-santa-rosa-clear-encampment

* "New York sues Trump administration over 'punitive' ban from traveler programs:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-travel-idUSKBN204211

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* "London school flooded with abusive messages after painting a rainbow crossing to celebrate LGBT History Month:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/10/london-woodside-high-school-rainbow-pride-flag-crossing-abuse-twitter-instagram/

* "Switzerland Makes Homophobia a Crime:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/2/10/switzerland-makes-homophobia-crime

* "Russian Police Raid Pussy Riot Music Video Shoot for 'Gay Propaganda':" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/2/10/russian-police-raid-pussy-riot-music-video-shoot-gay-propaganda

* "Hero firefighter hit with barrage of vile homophobic abuse from Brexiteers after calling out racism:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/10/brexiteers-patrick-carberry-fire-brigade-brexit-leighton-jeremy-corbyn-facebook/

* "Four men arrested over the murder of gay journalist and activist Lyra McKee:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/11/lyra-mckee-murder-investigation-arrest-new-ira-derry-creggan-gay-police/

* "This 72-year-old trans woman perfectly explains why LGBT education is not ‘confusing’ to children:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/04/lgbt-education-trans-elder-confusing-children-inclusive-lessons-primary-school-lbc/

* "Yorkshire fire service epically hits back at petty homophobes who don’t like the Pride flag:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/05/south-yorkshire-fire-service-rescue-homophobic-abuse-pride-flag-lgbt/

* "Facing Reelection, Trump Expands His Anti-LGBTQ Agenda:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/2/10/facing-reelection-trump-expands-his-anti-lgbtq-agenda

* "South Dakota Kills Bill to Criminalize Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/2/10/south-dakota-kills-bill-criminalize-gender-affirming-care

* "Two proposed bills threatening healthcare for trans kids killed off by lawmakers as transphobic attacks continue:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/04/anti-trans-bills-targeting-transgender-youth-killed-lawmakers-iowa-florida/

* "Florida Vouchers Channel Millions to Anti-LGBTQ Religious Schools:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2020/1/27/florida-vouchers-fund-anti-lgbtq-religious-schools

* "Republicans have filed more than 200 anti-LGBT bills in bid to roll back rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/05/republicans-filed-200-anti-lgbt-bills-roll-back-rights/

* "Where's winter? A number of countries just witnessed their warmest January ever recorded:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/05/weather/record-global-january-2020-temperature-trnd/index.html

* "Deborah Batts, America’s first openly gay federal judge, dies aged 72:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/04/deborah-batts-first-out-lesbian-federal-judge-dies-aged-72/

* "Pete Buttigieg Pile-On & Joe Biden's "Dog-Faced Pony Soldier" Remark:"

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* "Will the New Hampshire Primary Be a Repeat of the Iowa Debacle?:"

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* "Meanwhile... Gritty Is Cleared Of Assault Charge:"

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* "Trump Gives Mitt Romney A Cool New Nickname:"

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* "Trump Proves He Hasn't Changed In Two Aggressive, Bizarre Speeches:"

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Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
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Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
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Doug Jones - Alabama
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Feb. 5th, 2020 01:01 am
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* "London’s gay village evacuated for second time in two days after unexploded World War II bomb found:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/04/second-unexploded-world-war-ii-bomb-london-gay-soho-metropolitan-police/

* "Deaths in China Rise, With No Sign of Slowdown:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/world/asia/coronavirus-china.html

* "Iraq names new PM after months of protests:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51342053

* "Iraqi Security Forces Storm Tahrir Square, Clash With Protesters:" https://www.npr.org/2020/01/25/799507583/iraqi-security-forces-storm-tahrir-square-clash-with-protesters

* "US military deploys new type of nuclear weapon seen as key to countering Russia:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/politics/us-nuclear-weapon-submarine/index.html

* "White House excludes CNN from annual pre-SOTU lunch with news anchors:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/media/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-lunch-cnn/index.html

* "Trump touts economy, immigration policies and foreign relations in State of the Union as Senate impeachment vote nears:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/state-of-the-union-impeachment-live-updates/2020/02/04/22ddcdf6-46d6-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html

* "Rep. Tlaib on walking out of SOTU: 'We aren't part of a reality show':" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/rep-tlaib-on-walking-out-of-sotu-we-aren-t-part-of-a-reality-show-78146117512

* "Buttigieg: Manufacturing recession doesn't match Trump's rosy picture:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/buttigieg-manufacturing-recession-doesn-t-match-trump-s-rosy-picture-78146117754

* "Trump's State of the Union Full of Lies, and Pelosi Rips It:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/2/04/trumps-state-union-full-lies-and-pelosi-rips-it

* Iowa Caucus results:
Pete Buttigieg 10 Delegates 26.8% 419
Bernie Sanders 10 Delegates 25.2% 394
Elizabeth Warren 4 Delegates 18.4% 287

* So these are from before the official totals, but you might want to know what happened. "'It’s a total meltdown': Confusion grips Iowa with no official results in sight:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/03/iowa-caucus-2020-election-110600

* "Trump's campaign shouts 'rigged' as Iowa caucuses thrown into chaos:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-s-campaign-shouts-rigged-iowa-caucuses-thrown-chaos-n1129636

* "Buttigieg looking forward to boost from strong Iowa performance:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/buttigieg-looking-forward-to-boost-from-strong-iowa-performance-78146629890

* "Iowa Buttigieg Voter Demands Ballot Back After Learning He's Gay:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/2/04/iowa-buttigieg-voter-demands-ballot-back-after-learning-hes-gay

* "Texas Republicans ban LGBT group from convention yet again, claiming they promote ‘unnatural sex’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/04/texas-republicans-ban-lgbt-group-convention-unnatural-sex/

* "CBLDF Stands Up for Missouri Libraries & First Amendment :" http://cbldf.org/2020/01/cbldf-stands-up-for-missouri-libraries-first-amendment/

* "West Ham becomes first football club to threaten homophobes with a lifetime ban and seriously why isn’t every team doing this:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/04/west-ham-football-club-homophobia-lifetime-ban-order-manchester-city/

* "Scotland just cancelled yet another homophobic, anti-abortion, anti-women Christian hate preacher:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/04/hate-preacher-scotland-edinburgh-larry-stockstill-anti-gay-abortion-christian-franklin-graham/

* "Anti-Trans Bill Criminalizing Doctors May Be Dead in Florida:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/2/04/anti-trans-bill-criminalizing-doctors-may-be-dead-florida

* "Republican wants to pull funding from Sesame Street because Billy Porter will appear in a glamorous tuxedo gown:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/04/republican-sesame-street-billy-porter/

* "Bulldykers and lady lovers: the rumors about lesbian blues singers were all true:" https://timeline.com/lesbian-blues-harlem-secret-f3da10ec2334

* "A Secret Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-secret-forest-grew-for-millennia-in-north-america-without-anyone-noticing

* "GOP Senators Give Poor Excuses For Voting Against Witnesses In Trump Impeachment Trial:"

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* "GOP Senators Block Witness Testimonies at the Impeachment Trial & Trump Targets Michael Bloomberg:"

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* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - Trump Supporters Rail Against the Impeachment Trial:"

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* I spotted some young fry in the 30 gallon, clearly born since the die off. I think the colony is viable.

Elder Kitty discovered Tavy napping on the sofa last night and a fracas ensued. No one started a pissing contest though, so that's progress.

At minimum, the new foot protocols seem to have eliminated that thing where I dismount my bed and the leg collapses. The pain in still seriously annoying, but it's more functional.

* Bad Livia pics: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/190647610222/as-you-can-see-things-are-a-mess-from-the

* "Swan Princess:" https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/190653088391/kyraneko-alarajrogers-prokopetz-concept

* "John Barrowman made a shock return to Doctor Who as bisexual hero Captain Jack Harkness:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/27/doctor-who-captain-jack-harkness-john-barrowman-series-12-fugitive-judoon/

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

* Australia is on fire. Want to help? https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/190151259088
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* "Emotional support animals could be banned from planes under DOT rule:" https://www.rollcall.com/news/emotional-support-animals-banned-planes-dot

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

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

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

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Not Even Close to Caught Up.

Dec. 24th, 2019 07:15 am
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* "Why People Are Protesting in India:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/world/asia/india-protests-citizenship-muslims.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "‘Tis Impeachment Season:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Oct. 16th, 2019 11:06 pm
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* "Chaos as Hong Kong 'state of the union' disrupted:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50065292

* "With Catalan Fury Inflamed Anew, What Comes Next for Spain?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/europe/catalonia-independence-spain.html

* "Catalan leader urges immediate halt to violence:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50077595

* "US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/14/us-bombs-at-turkish-airbase-complicate-rift-over-syria-invasion

* It’s not veto proof. "Trump Lashes Out on Syria as Republicans Rebuke Him in House Vote:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/middleeast/trump-erdogan-turkey-syria-kurds.html

* "Trump tries to distance himself from chaos in Syria as tensions with lawmakers in both parties escalate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-tries-to-distance-us-from-chaos-in-syria-says-kurdish-allies-are-no-angels/2019/10/16/7b6c5ac8-f037-11e9-b2da-606ba1ef30e3_story.html

* "Trump capitulation on Syria shatters US credibility on alliances:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-capitulation-on-syria-shatters-us-credibility-on-alliances-71347269611

* "Trump 'doesn't know what he's doing or talking about': McGurk:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-doesn-t-know-what-he-s-doing-or-talking-about-mcgurk-71443013941

* "Rep. Smith on Trump’s meeting meltdown: ‘Very dismissive and very insulting’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-smith-on-trump-s-meeting-meltdown-very-dismissive-and-very-insulting-71427141896

* "Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-never-before-seen-trump-tax-documents-show-major-inconsistencies

* "Macabre Video of Fake Trump Shooting Media and Critics Is Shown at His Resort:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/us/politics/trump-video.html

* "Mulvaney emerges as a key facilitator of the campaign to pressure Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/mulvaney-emerges-as-a-key-facilitator-of-the-campaign-to-pressure-ukraine/2019/10/15/9d46b7ae-ef76-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html

* "Ex-Aide Saw Gordon Sondland as a Potential National Security Risk:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/gordon-sondland-intelligence-risk.html

* "Former State adviser says Pompeo was silent on Yovanovitch ouster:" https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/16/politics/michael-mckinley-deposition-pompeo-marie-yovanovitch/index.html

* "House Democrats ask U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine to appear for questioning:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/house-democrats-summon-u-s-ambassador-ukraine-deposition-n1067536

* "Trump Ukraine scandal spawns counterintelligence investigation:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-ukraine-scandal-spawns-counterintelligence-investigation-71442501867

* "Susan Rice on Trump's phone call to Ukraine:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/susan-rice-on-trump-s-phone-call-to-ukraine-71338565885

* "Giuliani pressed Trump to eject Muslim cleric from U.S., a top priority of Turkish president, former officials say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-pressed-trump-to-eject-muslim-cleric-from-us-a-top-priority-of-turkish-president-former-officials-say/2019/10/15/bf43d1ec-ef68-11e9-b648-76bcf86eb67e_story.html

* "Federal investigation of Rudy Giuliani includes counterintelligence probe:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/politics/giuliani-counterintelligence-probe/index.html

* "Reports suggest greater reach by Turkey into Trump administration:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/reports-suggest-greater-reach-by-turkey-into-trump-administration-71441989818

* "Former Rep. Pete Sessions subpoenaed by grand jury investigating Giuliani and associates:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-rep-pete-sessions-subpoenaed-by-grand-jury-investigating-giuliani-and-associates/2019/10/15/c7fb9204-ef98-11e9-8693-f487e46784aa_story.html

* "Fourth defendant in Giuliani associates’ case arrested at New York airport:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fourth-defendant-in-giuliani-associates-case-arrested-at-new-york-airport/2019/10/16/2c3ea19e-f024-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html

* "Trump's widening circle in Ukraine scheme:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-s-widening-circle-in-ukraine-scheme-71339077895

* "Trump impeachment inquiry banks evidence as witnesses testify:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-impeachment-inquiry-banks-evidence-as-witnesses-testify-71344709985

* "Onus of investigations on Congress, SDNY as Barr defers to Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/onus-of-investigations-on-congress-sdny-as-barr-defers-to-trump-71441989679

* "Rep. Castro: It's likely laws were broken in Ukraine scheme:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-castro-it-s-likely-laws-were-broken-in-ukraine-scheme-71429701744

* "We Found a “Staggering” 281 Lobbyists Who’ve Worked in the Trump Administration:" https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-a-staggering-281-lobbyists-whove-worked-in-the-trump-administration

* "Trump administration proposes expanding logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/trump-administration-proposes-expanding-logging-in-alaskas-tongass-national-forest/2019/10/15/92e47db8-ef77-11e9-8693-f487e46784aa_story.html

* "Dem Debate's Big LGBTQ Question: Ellen DeGeneres and George W. Bush:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/10/15/dem-debates-big-lgbtq-question-ellen-degeneres-and-george-w-bush

* "Trump vetoes measure to end his emergency declaration on border wall:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-congress-emergency-idUSKBN1WV06P

* ""We don't feel safe": Fort Worth residents outraged over police shooting of black woman in home:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/atatiana-jefferson-shooting-we-dont-feel-safe-fort-worth-leaders-hear-outrage-over-police-killing-of-black-woman/

* "U.N. Calls on Governments to Fight Anti-LGBTQ Bullying for Spirit Day:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2019/10/16/un-calls-governments-fight-anti-lgbtq-bullying-spirit-day

* "Homophobia is increasing among young people in the UK – and online hate is to blame:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/16/homophobia-galop-young-people-uk-online-hate-crime-transphobia-violence-lgbt/

* "Man pummelled his neighbour while calling him a ‘f*****g queer’ in horrific homophobic attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/15/wales-homophobic-attack-flintshire-north-east/

* "Matt Shepard's Parents Snub AG Barr: We Won't 'Kowtow to Hypocrisy':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/10/16/matt-shepards-parents-snub-ag-barr-we-wont-kowtow-hypocrisy

* "Brianna Hill Is the 20th Confirmed Trans Homicide This Year:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/10/16/trans-woman-brianna-hill-murdered-least-20th-year

* "A waitress has been fired for refusing to serve a transphobic couple:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/16/waitress-fired-transphobic-customers-facebook-fat-joes-bar-grill-wisconsin/

* "Mormon Church Says It's Against Banning Conversion Therapy in Utah:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2019/10/16/mormon-church-says-its-against-banning-conversion-therapy-utah

* "Trans Man Attacked at Philly 7-Eleven After Coming Out Day Celebration:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/10/15/trans-man-attacked-philly-7-eleven-after-coming-out-day-celebration

* Today I finally went and activated my swim scholarship. Those following the saga may remember i got second degree burns all over my stomach right after I got the scholarship and then had three months of a lung and sinus infection that ate my summer, plus the arm thing I've been battling since... I'm going to guess July, but it might have been June. I left the house something like 20 minutes later than I'd hoped, which would have been fine if it weren't for traffic/activation procedure/me bringing the library bag instead of the swim bag in from the car and having to go back/a small drama with the lockers/etc.. Did I mention my watch is missing? I searched for it last night and before I left. My suspicion is Tavy ran off wih it as he was showing an intense interest lately.

Still, I was only 15 minutes late and today's goal was really to just go do it. Like, drag myself out of the house in swim clothes too early in the morning, drive over there, get the scholarship sorted and see if my body can still do regular water aerobics. My lungs being my lungs and this being regular water aerobics and not the arthritis aerobics, 45 minutes was reasonable.

I slid in at the edge and got going. I could really see the deterioration in the loss of grace and hip joint pain, but I was fine and used the hardest hand weights when it was arm time. It had been so long I literally didn't recognize any of the pool personnel I encountered. It was a shame, as the man leading the aerobics was nice, but no where even close to as good as either of the women who used to run it. The music was mostly upbeat hits of the '60's and'70's, but I clocked one late '50's and one early '80's. I can live with it. This was more repetitive than under the previous aerobics teachers and a bunch of my favorite bits were missing. It hurt, but I think I can handle it.

Water aerobics, whether regular, deep water, or arthritis tends to skew old and/or people with disabilities, as you basically have to be home during the day to be doing this and have enough money for pool fees. My memory is deep water has more non-retiree women and arthritis is not surprisingly where the people with a lot more things wrong with them tend to be, but none of this stuff is restricted. I used to float between the three depending on what my body and sleep cycle happened to be dong that week. My memory is, people tended to form friendships there. The men tend to cluster towards the deeper water, where I prefer to be if I turn up at a reasonable time, since less gravity and more water resistance are better for my collection of things wrong with my body. This time I was over near the inevitable group of less vigorous woman who need longer rests and chat with each other while they do less vigorous versions of the exercises. (Not a criticism. Coming out and doing gentler exercise is better than not coming out at all and they aren't bothering anybody. If they have the hearing to chat in that sound environment more power to them. Like I said, people float between the types of water aerobics and if the 1st session better suits someone's schedule no reason they shouldn't take advantage of it.) I kept my eye on the healthier ladies in front who clearly knew the fuck they were doing especially as the instructor was not good at demonstrating things and I only half remembered some of the stuff.

I can exactly pinpoint the moment they realized a new, younger man (not really, but that was the assumpion given the gendered nature of swim wear etc.) had joined the group. (My hairline is rising. As it's about where my dad's was junior high school which I call winning. I look younger than I am, I think in part because while the colour has been leeching slowly out of the natural blond and copper highlights, the bulk of the brown is still a warm brown. To my eyes it looks flatter and less vibrant, but it's clearly not dyed and very brown. The odd grey or white hair isn't noticeable unless you look close under good lighting. That and the fact that my Gothiness means there is very little in the way of sun damage and wrinkling tends to peel time off my exterior even though I am a ruin in most other ways.) It was when they were passing out the hand weight floaty things. The really tall woman who reminded me a bit of carol from Walking Dead handed me my set and we had a little conversation. The other up front vigorous ladies al started casting glances. During stretch time at the end I did that thing I can still do despite all the hip damage and it was like blood in the water at our end of the shark pool. People had questions. There was subtle flirting. I am for real ant used to that sort of attention from women, as I'm pretty obviously not for them in most social contexts, and yelling over the music while exercising eats a lot of the nuance, but there they were teasing me about being a pole dancer and asking me about clips of me on youtube. It was sweet and I know they'll lose interest once they realize just how queer I am.

We'll see if my body is together enough for Friday. I suspect not as I'll need extra recovery and I have my Birthday party in the evening, and a bunch of things to do in the afternoon, so I don't want to push myself too hard.

Speaking of birthdays, couple of Gothmas boxes came for me. I'm glad I checked as I was personally taking up all the buildings lock boxes. <.< >.> Alas, bureaucracy came for me that requires a Doctor's appointment as I need to prove I am in fact not miraculously cured of my genetic degenerative diseases. Sigh.

I did the swim laundry and all but two of my phone calls before I went off for forage and errands. I am exhausted and pretty low on spoons, so odds are I will not manage Wednesday's news or catch up Tuesday. Apologies.

It is beautiful witchy weather, wild wind off the bay clearing away the fug. I've had to go out and fix the exterior decorations three times today. Piles of leaves move and swirl, all the trees are swaying and whispering. It waited to rain until I was safe inside. Perfect autumn.

Addendum: Squirrel got me really good scotch in honor of my Half Century. I was so tempted to drink it, but I'm exhausted and I know I won't enjoy it properly. We are thinking of picking one of his nights off and drinking it while watching a horror move together. I'm ridiculously exited. I don't drink often and I only ever had scotch this good once, in honor of a different friend's half century back when I was still well enough to go to Cons. That was one glass. Jesus fuck, I have a bottle!

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