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* "Sudan conflict could prompt 800,000 people to flee, UN says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudan-conflict-shows-no-sign-easing-sudanese-brace-more-violence-2023-05-01/

* "Sudan's warring generals extend theoretical truce but keep fighting:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudan-conflict-drives-100000-over-border-amid-crumbling-ceasefires-2023-05-02/

* "May Day: World’s workers rally, France sees pension anger:" https://apnews.com/article/may-day-celebrations-labor-conditions-wages-046a06a418c3d180eaf39ff9c9e97d18

* "May Day protest erupts in Paris as France seethes about a hike in the retirement age:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/europe/france-pension-protests-explainer-intl/index.html

* "18th weekend of rallies as protesters demand overhaul negotiations not drag on:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/18th-weekend-of-rallies-as-protesters-demand-overhaul-negotiations-not-drag-on/

* "Eamon Ryan: Free public transport would 'increase level of unnecessary trips':" https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41086711.html

"However, Ms Smith said that this perspective “fundamentally misunderstands the purpose and aim of free public transport”.

“It will take people from cars, but often the main initial change in terms of percentages can be these so-called ‘unnecessary’ journeys; but this is actually another of Fare Free public transport’s great benefits,” she said.""

* "UK government told to give LGBTQ+ Ugandans safe asylum as anti-gay bill looms:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/05/uk-uganda-asylum-anti-gay-bill-lgbtq/

* "The Caribbean is shaking off the monarchy – and 'imported' Christian homophobia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/lgbtq-caribbean-colonialism-coronation/

* "Why LGBTQ+ Uganda won't be celebrating King Charles' coronation:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/03/king-charles-coronation-uganda-lgbtq/

* "British colonialism still hurting LGBTQ+ Indians: 'King Charles should speak out':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/india-british-colonisation-lgbtq/

* "The Crown Apparently Costs Canada Over $58 Million Each Year & Here’s How It Breaks Down:" https://www.narcity.com/the-crown-costs-canadians-over-58-million-each-year-heres-how-it-breaks-down

* "King's coronation: Time for royals to face up to Britain's anti-LGBTQ+ colonial legacy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/king-charles-coronation-britain-colonisation/

* They have no bread? Let them eat cake. "King Charles’ coronation to flaunt the royal bounty despite cost-of-living crisis:" https://globalnews.ca/news/9668553/king-charles-coronation-expensive-cost-of-living-crisis/

* "Council snubs food banks…then spends £50k on coronation:" https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/coronation-38m-costs-local-councils-barking-bromley-ealing/

* "Head of anti-monarchy group arrested for peaceful coronation protest:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/king-charles-coronation-anti-monarch-protest-arrest/

* "Peter Tatchell blasts police for ‘outrageous’ coronation arrests: 'They broke their promise':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/king-charles-coronation-protests-peter-tatchell-metropolitan-police/

* "How Princess Diana fans are spending coronation day:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/princess-diana-coronation/

* "Massive Penis Is Mowed Into Lawn At King Charles Coronation Party Venue:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/penis-lawn-royal-crescent-king-charles-coronation_n_6454cd39e4b007e3d7d7f837

* "UK local elections: Conservatives battered as Labour surges:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/05/uk-local-elections-conservatives-labour-id/bd80f828-eb1b-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html

* "Tory ‘war on woke’ fails as early local election results suggest huge defeats:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/05/local-elections-conservatives-labour-lib-dems-lgbtq-trans/

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* "'Waves of volunteers' lend resourcefulness to Ukraine military:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-waves-of-volunteers-lend-resourcefulness-to-ukraine-military-172634181640

* "Ukraine's LGBTQ+ Soldiers Are Fighting For More Than Their Homes:" https://advocatechannel.com/ukraine-lgbtq-soldiers-fighting-for-more-than-their-homes

* "How the war in Ukraine has forever changed the children in one kindergarten class:" https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1161970852/ukraine-russia-war-kindergarten-students-schools

* The Russian Genocide on Ukrainians continues. "The Russian Woman Accused of 'Stealing' Ukrainian Children:"

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* "Will Detainees at Guantanamo Bay Ever Go to Trial?:"

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* This is so dangerous. "Supreme Court to decide important case on government power:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-chevron-government-regulations-9acb83915166d3bc7439dd4ae74af8a9

* "Clarence Thomas’ Friend Acknowledges That Billionaire Harlan Crow Paid Tuition for the Child Thomas Was Raising “as a Son”:" https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-tuition-martin-school

* "Chief Justice John Roberts’ Wife Made Over $10 Million As Legal Consultant, Report Says:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/04/28/chief-justice-john-roberts-wife-made-over-10-million-as-legal-consultant-report-says/?sh=4e2edb351e9a

* "Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

* "Whistleblower: Wife of Chief Justice Roberts made $10.3 million from top law firms:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/whistleblower-wife-of-chief-justice-roberts-made-10-3-million-from-top-law-firms-172159557726

* "‘Serious Omissions’ In Senate Probe Clearing Brett Kavanaugh Of Sexual Assault, Report Says:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/04/28/serious-omissions-in-senate-probe-clearing-brett-kavanaugh-of-sexual-assault-report-says/?sh=7a41a1ae7c80

* "The brazen explanation for concealing the Ginni Thomas payment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/05/clarence-thomas-ginni-leonard-leo/

* "Report: Judicial activist paid Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-judicial-activist-paid-clarence-thomas-s-wife-urged-no-mention-of-ginni-172833861650

* "New reports broaden picture of questionable gifts, income to Clarence and Ginni Thomas:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-reports-broaden-picture-of-questionable-gifts-income-to-clarence-and-ginni-thomas-172849221785

* "'This is really a five alarm fire': Supreme Court in crisis after spate of scandals:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-this-is-really-a-five-alarm-fire-supreme-court-in-crisis-after-spate-of-scandals-172855877975

* "Supreme Court ethics crisis prompts calls for new accountability measures:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/supreme-court-ethics-crisis-prompts-calls-for-new-accountability-measures-173113925583

* "Republicans were not always indifferent to Supreme Court ethics scandals:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-were-not-always-indifferent-to-supreme-court-ethics-scandals-173114437730

* "‘Captured court’: Hayes on Leonard Leo's two-fold plan to form this Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-captured-court-hayes-on-leonard-leo-s-two-fold-plan-to-form-this-supreme-court-173061701800

* "Astonishing Corruption at The Supreme Court?:"

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* More banks will fail. More people will lose their jobs and it won't address the problem of price gouging. "Fed is set to raise rates yet again. After that, then what?:" https://apnews.com/article/interest-rates-inflation-prices-recession-federal-reserve-bb8f86329961acd30ccabb1136bbb9e3

* "Job openings fell more than expected in March to lowest level in nearly two years:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/02/jolts-march-2023-.html

* "Regulators seize First Republic Bank, sell assets to JPMorgan:" https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/california-financial-regulator-takes-possession-first-republic-bank-2023-05-01/

* "Biden seeks debt ceiling talks, as U.S. faces possible June 1 default:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/01/congress-debt-limit-deadline-biden-mccarthy/

* "House Democrats maneuver to force a debt-ceiling vote as default looms:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/02/house-democrats-discharge-petition-debt-ceiling/

* "As debt ceiling deadline looms, House Dems explore new option:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/as-debt-ceiling-deadline-looms-house-dems-explore-new-option-173185605545

* "Deputy Treasury Sec. Adeyemo "Default would be catastrophic for the United States":" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/deputy-treasury-sec-adeyemo-default-would-be-catastrophic-for-the-united-states-173297221786

* "McCarthy's Dangerous Debt Ceiling Game:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/mccarthy-s-dangerous-debt-ceiling-game-173297733846

* ""Hunger cliff" looms as 32 states are set to cut food-stamp benefits:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-stamps-snap-benefits-cuts-march-2023/

* "520,000 Washington households will be impacted as extra SNAP benefits expire:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/washington-state-snap-benefits-shrink/281-2f3804be-684f-4ccf-bb34-e57d935bace6

* "Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern

* "Investigation finds 10-year-old children working unpaid at Louisville McDonald's:" https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/investigation-finds-10-year-old-children-working-unpaid-at-louisville-mcdonalds/article_65180cb8-e95d-11ed-beab-ef0317b2e48b.html

* "Open Letter to Walt Disney Animation Studios/Disney Leadership:" https://iatse.net/online-action/disney-production/

* It is in everyone's best interests for the writer's to win this one. "‘It’s just pure chaos’: Top Hollywood showrunners explain the writers' strike:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-05-02/television-showrunners-writers-strike

* "What the writers strike is all about:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/what-the-writers-strike-is-all-about-172397125771

* "A perspective on the WGA strike from gig work transcription: Don’t trust any business dipshit who says their workers are ‘lightly editing’ AI output.:" https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/716425344509526016/a-perspective-on-the-wga-strike-from-gig-work

* "Wizards Of The Coast Raids YouTuber’s House To Take Back Magic: The Gathering Cards:" https://kotaku.com/mtg-aftermath-leaks-pinkertons-wotc-magic-the-gathering-1850368923

* "GOP senators call on Supreme Court to 'update' ethics oversight:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/02/senate-dems-excoriate-supreme-court-ethics-as-chief-justice-snubs-hearing-00094851

* 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

* This is the end of democracy in Texas. "Texas Senate passes bill to allow secretary of state to overturn Harris County elections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/texas-senate-passes-bill-allowing-secretary-state-overturn-elections-h-rcna82631

* "A Texas Republican says banning college polling places is about safety. Students don’t buy it.:" https://www.kut.org/education/2023-03-01/a-texas-republican-says-banning-college-polling-places-is-about-safety-students-dont-buy-it

* The Republican War on Freedom and Democracy continues. "Ohio lawmakers debate increasing voting threshold to 60% to pass statewide ballot initiatives:" https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/ohio-lawmakers-debate-increasing-voting-threshold-to-60-to-pass-statewide-ballot-initiatives/512-9927e692-6fad-42f3-96e9-531791d59eb5

* "Holder: NC Supreme Court acting not on principle nor precedent—but on personnel:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/eric-holder-on-the-blatant-republican-power-grabs-across-several-statehouses-172603461799

* This is the end of the rule of law in Georgia as they can now fire anyone investigating or prosecuting Republicans. "Georgia enacts law letting panel punish, oust prosecutors:" https://apnews.com/article/brian-kemp-georgia-prosecutor-district-attorney-remove-7987cd538ab3ccdc713ae4d2b2aec32b

* "How Gov. Ron DeSantis deploys state police to enforce political agenda:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/05/desantis-fdle-police-immigration-migrant-flights/

* CW: Suicide "Montana GOP Lawmaker Suggested She'd Prefer Her Daughter Die By Suicide Than Transition:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/montana-seekins-crowe-daughter-suicide

* "Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr sues over her removal from House floor:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/1173079450/montana-rep-zooey-zephyr-sues-over-her-removal-from-house-floor

* "Hundreds rally for Zooey Zephyr after 'hateful' silencing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/zooey-zephyr-montana-rally-ban/

* "Brave trans lawmaker Zooey Zephyr has best response to being intimidated:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/zooey-zephyr-intimidation-montana-state-house/

* "Montana Trans Rep. Zooey Zephyr Target of SWATting Attempt Hours After Girlfriend Was:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/zooey-zephyr

* "Controversial text reveals nature of Tucker Carlson's white supremacy on Fox:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/controversial-text-reveals-nature-of-tucker-carlson-s-white-supremacy-on-fox-172635717832

* "Newly revealed text confirms Tucker Carlson is also privately racist:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/newly-revealed-text-confirms-tucker-carlson-is-also-privately-racist-172595781998

* "Fear Of Right-Wing Outrage Makes Us All Worse Off:" https://www.readtpa.com/p/fear-of-right-wing-outrage-makes

* "WA Gov. Jay Inslee won’t seek reelection:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-gov-jay-inslee-wont-seek-reelection-for-fourth-term/

* Do not sleep on Primaries. "Republican voters return to the polls for the first time since their 2022 disappointment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/06/republican-voters-kentucky-governor-election-00095657

* "Hate crimes set to spike during 2024 presidential race, worrying new study shows:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/hate-crimes-presidential-election-2024-warning/

* "Trump town hall: How the media covers a seditious presidential candidate:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-town-hall-how-the-media-covers-a-seditious-presidential-candidate-172599877722

* Who else remembers when both thin skin and torture were disqualifying? "Ron DeSantis Explodes When Asked About His Role in Guantánamo Torture:" https://newrepublic.com/post/172290/ron-desantis-explodes-asked-role-guantanamo-torture

* "DeSantis Declines to Say If He Supports 'Mainstream Human Rights' When Reporter Asks 'Yes or No?':" https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/05/watch-desantis-declines-to-say-if-he-supports-mainstream-human-rights-when-reporter-asks-yes-or-no/

* Remember how Trump was terrified of debating Biden more than once? Apparently he's too scared for primary debates against other Republicans. At least according to people "familiar with his thinking." are we still convinced he thinks? Because I'm not.

* "For Trump, GOP primary debates a question of risk versus reward:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/for-trump-gop-primary-debates-a-question-of-risk-versus-reward-172630597803

* "Nancy Pelosi Has a Lot to Say About Drag, San Francisco, and the GOP:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-drag-sanfrancisco-gop

* "Republican senator attacks Mormon university professor for having a trans child:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/03/mike-lee-byu-professor-trans-child-mormon/

* Want to bet the plan is to start executing trans people for existing in public? "DeSantis expands Florida death penalty law, defying U.S. Supreme Court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/01/desantis-death-penalty-child-rapists/

* This is a long read, but an important one. "The first arrests from DeSantis’s election police take extensive toll:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/30/desantis-election-police-arrests-florida/

* "Florida board picked by Ron DeSantis countersues Disney as queer people suffer:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/florida-board-countersues-disney-ron-desantis-feud/

* "DeSantis signs bill allowing Florida board to cancel Disney deals:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/desantis-signs-bill-allowing-florida-board-cancel-disney-deals-2023-05-05/

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* "Judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against New York Times:" https://www.axios.com/2023/05/03/trump-new-york-times-lawsuit-dismissed

* CW: Rape. "E. Jean Carroll concludes testimony as judge denies Trump’s mistrial request:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/01/trump-rape-trial-carroll-concludes-testimony-00094775

* CW: Rape. "E. Jean Carroll returns to witness stand as judge denies Trump mistrial bid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/e-jean-carroll-returns-to-witness-stand-as-judge-denies-trump-mistrial-bid-172158533905

* CW: Rape. "E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump rest their cases in civil rape trial, but Trump could still testify:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/04/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump/index.html

* "Trump lawyers will not offer witnesses at E. Jean Carroll rape defamation trial:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/03/trump-no-witnesses-e-jean-carroll-rape-trial.html

* CW: Rape. "Friend testifies E. Jean Carroll called minutes after alleged Trump assault:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/friend-testifies-e-jean-carroll-called-minutes-after-alleged-trump-assault-172369989583

* CW: Rape. "How Trump's pattern of behavior strengthens E. Jean Carroll's case against him:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-trump-s-pattern-of-behavior-strengthens-e-jean-carroll-s-case-against-him-172399173764

* CW: Rape. "Opinion | E. Jean Carroll Must Be Going Through Hell:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/opinion/carroll-trump-trial.html

* CW: Rape. "Video of Trump confusing E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples shown during lawsuit trial:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-of-trump-confusing-e-jean-carroll-ex-wife-marla-maples-lawsuit-trial/

* CW: Rape. "Trump unleashes unhinged tirade attacking his rape accuser:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-e-jean-carroll-rape-trial-response-rcna82923

* CW: Rape. "Trump defends Access Hollywood tape: Stars have 'historically' grabbed women:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-defends-access-hollywood-tape-stars-have-historically-grabbed-women-173063237972

* "Eight false Trump electors have accepted immunity deals, lawyer says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/05/trump-false-electors-immunity-00095664

* "At least 8 Georgia fake electors get immunity deals; transcript mentions 'the indictment':" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/at-least-8-georgia-fake-electors-get-immunity-deals-transcript-mentions-the-indictment-173087814001

* "Justice Dept. Intensifying Efforts to Determine if Trump Hid Documents:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/politics/trump-documents-subpoenas-justice-department.html

* "Special counsel probing Trump Organization's handling of Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/maralago-footage-trump-special-counsel-calamari/

* "DOJ has cooperating witness in Trump documents case; issues 'wave of new subpoenas':" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/doj-has-cooperating-witness-in-trump-documents-case-issues-wave-of-new-subpoenas-nyt-172848709592

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* "Media missed how Proud Boys worked with FBI to bring down left-wing operations: report:" https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-fbi-2659974980/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Proud Boys Leader and Associates Convicted of Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/proud-boys-guilty-seditious-conspiracy

* "Florida man charged with throwing explosive at Capitol riot:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/florida-man-charged-explosion-capitol-riot/index.html

* "Ilhan Omar speaks out after learning suspected mosque arsonist also targeted her:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ilhan-omar-speaks-out-after-learning-suspected-mosque-arsonist-also-targeted-her-172376133751

* "The Surprising Geography of Gun Violence:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413

* "Map of gun deaths shows cities have lower rates than rural counties in the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/map-gun-death-rates-lower-cities-than-rural-counties-rcna81462

* "The Texas man accused of killing 5 neighbors is in custody, authorities say:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173593060/texas-shooting-neighbors-in-custody-cleveland

* "Cleveland victims deserve more than Abbott's 'illegal immigrant' label:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/abbott-cleveland-mass-shooting-immigration-18000219.php

* "Ayman on Gov. Abbott’s ‘indifference’ towards gun violence—and victims of color:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ayman-on-gov-abbott-s-indifference-towards-gun-violence-and-victims-of-color-172157509792

* CW: Domestic Violence. Yet another extremely violence domestic abuser allowed to run around accumulating guns until he kills people. "Man believed to be suspect in Texas mass shooting apprehended after manhunt:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/man-believed-to-be-suspect-in-texas-mass-shooting-apprehended-after-manhunt-172371013853

* "Greg Abbott demonized the victims of the Texas shooting. It says a lot about why the GOP loves guns:" https://www.salon.com/2023/05/02/greg-abbott-demonized-the-victims-of-the-texas-illegal/

* CW: Domestic Violence "Suspect in massacre of 5 neighbors allegedly beat his wife in 2022:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-massacre-5-neighbors-texas-allegedly-beat-wife-2022-prosecutor-rcna82550

* "Texas mall massacre gunman identified as witnesses describe horror of the shooting spree that killed 8 people:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/07/us/allen-texas-mall-shooting-sunday/index.html

* ""America deserves better." Fred Guttenberg reacts to the outlet mall shooting in Texas:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-america-deserves-better-fred-guttenberg-reacts-to-the-outlet-mall-shooting-in-texas-173297221704

* "Suspect in custody in shooting at Atlanta medical facility that left 1 dead, 4 injured:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-large-active-shooter-situation-atlanta-leaves-multiple-injured-rcna82692

* "'Unacceptable': Top Dem rips Biden plan to send 1,500 more troops to southern border:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/02/1500-more-troops-southern-border-00094850

* "Extended video shows Daniel Penny appearing to ignore a person who warned 'you're going to kill him' while he had Jordan Neely in a chokehold:" https://www.insider.com/video-bystander-says-daniel-penny-going-to-kill-jordan-neely-2023-5

* "First Amendment Auditors: Knights or Nuisance:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0hHPcgFchA

* "This Man’s Conviction Was Overturned After Two Years in Prison. But the City Said He Didn’t Deserve a Dime.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-wrongful-conviction-lawsuit-law-department

* "Short on Staff, Prisons Enlist Teachers and Case Managers as Guards:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/us/politics/prison-guards-teachers-staff.html

* "John Legend talks new documentary 'Home/Free':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/exclusive-john-legend-talks-new-documentary-home-free-173185093910

* "Missouri Senate begins debate on special prosecutor, state takeover of St. Louis police:" https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/missouri-senate-begins-debate-on-special-prosecutor-state-takeover-of-st-louis-police/article_9b760750-e904-11ed-93ad-af34a74d1810.html

* "Embattled St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner will resign June 1:" https://missouriindependent.com/2023/05/04/embattled-st-louis-prosecutor-kim-gardner-will-resign-june-1/

* "Transphobic, Anti-Semitic Flyers Found in Atlanta Neighborhood:" https://www.advocate.com/news/atlanta-transphobic-antisemitic-flyers

* "Feds: Man tried to firebomb Ohio church to stop drag show:" https://www.wsaz.com/2023/04/25/feds-man-tried-firebomb-ohio-church-stop-drag-show/

* "Nazis protest at Land-Grant drag brunch: Here's what you need to know now:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2023/05/01/heres-what-we-know-about-the-nazis-protesting-a-columbus-drag-brunch/70169948007/

* "Montana Sends Drag Ban and LGBTQ+ Erasure Bill to Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/montana-drag-show-ban-erasure

* "Video: Testimony on Ohio trans bill accuses Muslim, Jewish opponents of being possessed:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/26/video-demons-ohio-pastor-stuart-long-trans-bill-beth-liston-jesus-jews-muslims-transgender-columbus/70156732007/

Republicans Christo-fascism has reached it’s logical conclusion. This is where the Republican mainstream is now. This is an existential to all of us who aren’t Christo-fascists.

We hang together or we hang separately.

* "Anti-trans neo-Nazis in Ohio find common cause with state Republicans:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-trans-neo-nazis-in-ohio-find-common-cause-with-state-republicans-172184645799

* "LGBTQ+ book bans are 'actively harming children', authors warn:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/21/lgbtq-books-ban-fox-fisher-owl/

* "Illinois passes bill to end book bans: 'A triumph for our democracy':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/05/illinois-book-ban/

* "High School Theater Suffers Under the Culture War:" https://advocatechannel.com/high-school-theater-suffers-under-culture-war

* CW: Sexual Assault. "New Report Details Anti-LGBTQ+ Harassment Onboard California's Elite Training Ship:" https://www.advocate.com/news/csu-maritime-academy-anti-lgbtq

* "Creationist Theme Park Pal Charged with Child Sex Abuse—Again:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/friend-of-dinosaur-adventure-land-preacher-kent-hovind-charged-with-child-sex-abuseagain?ref=home

* "Why Homeless LGBTQ+ Youth in One City Engage in Survival Sex:" https://www.advocate.com/news/homeless-lgbtq-youth-hartford

* "A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/world/asia/korea-us-comfort-women-sexual-slavery.html

* CW: Domestic Abuse. "Worryingly high number of queer men facing abuse and violence in relationships:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/17/gay-bisexual-men-domestic-violence-study/

* "Pornhub Blocks All of Utah From Its Site:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kbkv/pornhub-blocks-utah-age-verification

* "The Next Front in the GOP's War on Women: No-Fault Divorce:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/stephen-crowder-divorce-1234727777/

* "Kentucky Schools Can’t Teach Kids About Puberty Anymore:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjzbz/kentucky-law-restricts-sexual-education-schools

* The plan is to make it illegal to discuss puberty at all with children until sixth grade, well after puberty starts for many people assigned female at birth. "“Don’t Say Period”: Now Florida wants to ban students from discussing menstruation:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/don-t-say-period-now-florida-wants-to-ban-students-from-discussing-menstruation/ar-AA19IpN4

* "Blue states passing laws to protect against red state overreach:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/blue-states-passing-laws-to-protect-against-red-state-overreach-172179013630

* "Leaked Files Expose Anti-Abortion, Anti-LGBTQ+ Medical Group:" https://www.advocate.com/health-care/anti-lgbtq-medial-group-files

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* "North Carolina Republicans reach deal to limit most abortions after 12 weeks:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/north-carolina-abortion-12-weeks/

* "North Carolina lawmaker Tricia Cotham switches to GOP, votes to ban abortion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/north-carolina-lawmaker-tricia-cotham-switches-to-gop-votes-to-ban-abortion-172832837854

* "New Mexico governor signs bill to shield abortion providers:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-transgender-rights-new-mexico-195c27ab1a60a8d7c07a71f157c07384

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* "Namibians Take the Fight for LGBTQ Rights to the Supreme Court:"

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* "Uganda passes cruel anti-gay bill for second time:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill-passes-second-time/

* "U.S. religious extremists help push radical anti-gay laws in Africa:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-religious-extremists-help-push-radical-anti-gay-laws-in-africa-172183109504

* "Uganda risks 'LGBTQ+ genocide' with Anti-Homosexuality Bill, activist says:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/03/uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill-lgbtq-frank-mugisha/

* "Russia adds LGBTQ+ human rights group to controversial list:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/07/russia-lgbtq-human-rights-nc-sos-crisis-group-foreign-agents/

* "Turkey's president Erdoğan claims 'LGBT will not emerge in this country' at rally:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/president-erdogan-reelection-anti-lgbt-speech/

* "Saudi Arabia now claims to 'welcome' LGBTQ+ tourists – despite its history:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/saudi-arabia-lgbtq-rights-tourism/

* "South Korean drag artist wants the world to 'call Korea out' on LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/south-korea-lgbtq-drag/

* "Barbados activists pushing for LGBTQ+ rights after shedding 'cloak of imperialism':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/barbados-lgbtq-republic/

* "'Butch' Women Bikers Unite to Defend Drag Story Hour Event:" https://www.advocate.com/canada/drag-story-wind-sisters

* "NHS algorithms failing to recognise needs of trans patients, experts warn:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/nhs-algorithms-trans-patients/

* "Met Police accused of ‘siding’ with far-right group over anti-drag protests:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/07/met-police-turning-point-uk-drag-protests-honor-oak-pub/

* They want trans children dead. "Parents 'suing government' over schools supporting their trans kids:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/education-bad-law-project-dr-anna-loutfi-trans/

* "Posie Parker rally sees clash between right-wing protesters and LGBTQ+ activists:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/posie-parker-hyde-park-turning-point-uk-police/

* "Hungary PM tells right-wing Americans ‘no migration, no gender’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/05/cpac-hungary-anti-lgbtq/

* "You've Got to Stop Picturing Camps — Assigned:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/beyond-camps-prisons-hospitals-will-be-used-to-eradicate-transgender-people

* A new name for Conversion Therapy. "How Therapists Are Trying to Convince Children That They’re Not Actually Trans:" https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/gender-exploratory-therapy-trans-kids-what-is-it.html

* People will die. "Florida legislators send ‘dangerous' trans healthcare ban to Ron DeSantis:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/florida-gender-affirming-healthcare-ban-trans-youth-adults-sb-254/

* If you ban trans people from using public restrooms, you are banning them from existing in public. "Florida passes chilling new bill banning trans people from toilets:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/florida-anti-trans-toilet-bill-dont-say-gay/

* "Florida Passes Bill Allowing Trans Kids to Be Taken From Their Families:" https://newrepublic.com/post/172444/florida-passes-bill-allowing-trans-kids-taken-families

* They are mandating that teachers endanger the lives of their students. "Indiana governor signs cruel bill forcing teachers to out trans kids to parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/indiana-governor-anti-trans-name-pronouns-bill/

* "Oklahoma Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Minors:" https://www.advocate.com/law/oklahoma-gender-affirming-care-ban

* "Texas police ‘violently arrest’ trans people protesting life-threatening bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/texas-trans-healthcare-protest-arrests/

* It’s temporary. "Missouri Judge Blocks GOP Attorney General’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/missouri-gender-care-injunction

* "Ohio Woman Targeted for Using Changing Room Found Not Guilty:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/update-ohio-woman-targeted-with-misdemeanors-for-changing-not-guilty

* I fear it won’t hold up legally. "Kansas City bids to become 'sanctuary' for trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/kansas-city-missouri-sanctuary-trans/

* "Maryland Governor Signs Bill Assuring Medicaid Coverage of Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-maryland

* "Teen arrested over fatal shooting of Kokomo City star Koko Da Doll:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/koko-da-doll-shooting-arrest-atlanta/

* "Suspect arrested over murder of Black trans man Mar'Quis Jackson:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/marquis-jackson-trans-murder-arrest/

* "Police searching for man accused of defecating on Pride flags:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/new-york-police-man-defecates-pride-flags/

* A police state can’t tolerate even a hint of dissent no matter how peaceful. "Student jailed after chanting ‘trans lives matter’ at peaceful protest:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/arkansas-student-jailed-trans-protest/

* I am disappointed the way I was when Dave Mustaine went MAGA. sure none of these people are relevant anymore, but they should have known better. "KISS and Twisted Sister Rock Legends Go Full-on Transphobic:" https://www.advocate.com/people/paul-stanley-dee-snider-transphobic

* "British Rowing considers ban on trans women from female category:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/05/british-rowing-trans-non-binary-ban-sport/

* "Trans woman Austin Killips wins US cycle race. Transphobic outrage ensues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/austin-killips-cycling-us-transphobes/

* "Mental Health Crisis Among LGBTQ+ Youth Continues — But It Doesn't Have To:" https://www.advocate.com/health/lgbtq-mental-health-crisis

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* "‘Arcturus,’ a highly transmissible COVID variant eyed by the WHO, appears to have a new symptom. Here’s what you need to know:" https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/04/11/arcturus-a-highly-transmissible-covid-variant-eyed-by-the-who-appears-to-have-a-new-symptom-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

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* "For some long COVID patients, exercise is bad medicine:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/long-covid-patients-exercise-bad-medicine

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* "The Insane Standard That America Applies to Parking:" https://slate.com/business/2023/05/parking-spots-cities-paved-paradise-cars.html

* "Elon Musk threatens to reassign npr on Twitter to 'another company':" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign

* "Big Tech's big downgrade:" https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-ruining-apps-websites-internet-worse-google-facebook-amazon-2023-3

* CW: All the Things. "150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi Meeting:" https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/

* "Rewilding the planet: how seven artificial islands could help a dying Dutch lake:" https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-01370-w/index.html

* "Zoonomia: Genetic research reveals all we share with animals:" https://apnews.com/article/zoonomia-project-genetics-animals-f80d1570acf5a97a8ed9e2a1104e74e9

* "New Species of Symbiotic Sea Anemone Discovered Off Coast of Japan:" https://www.sci.news/biology/stylobates-calcifer-10932.html

* "World’s oldest yarn hints that Neanderthals had basic math skills:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/neanderthals-made-the-worlds-oldest-thread/

* "Royalty, Debauchery and Executions - a Brief History of the OTHER King Charles:"

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* "The Long Forgotten Love Story of the Titanic's Interracial Couple:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/05/03/the-long-forgotten-love-story-of-the-titanics-interracial-couple/

* "The Helmet Art: Vintage Photographs of Graffiti on Soldiers’ Helmets During the Vietnam War:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/helmet-graffiti-vietnam-photos/

* "Game of Thrones’ Hodor witnessed gay club shooting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/03/game-of-thrones-kristian-nairn-belfast-gay-shooting/

* "Hawaii’s Native language nearly vanished—this is the fight to bring it back:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/hawaii-native-language-efforts-to-preserve-revive

* "The [Queer] Politics of Eurovision:"

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* My mother loved his music. His voice is one of the sounds of my childhood. "Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk legend, dies at 84:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/133464279/gordon-lightfoot-canadian-folk-legend-dies-at-84

* "Nonbinary, Gender-Nonconforming Actors Make Tony Awards History:" https://www.advocate.com/theater/tony-awards-nonbinary-actors

* "Photos: Harvey Guillén on Bringing His Queer, Fat, POC, Self to the Met Gala:" https://www.advocate.com/people/harvey-guillen-met-gala-siriano#rebelltitem21

* "Carrie Fisher Honored With Walk-of-Fame Star on May 4th, Star Wars Day:" https://advocatechannel.com/carrie-fisher-honored-walk-of-fame-star-wars-day-may-4th

* "Newfoundland man captures phallic iceberg in Conception Bay:" https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/04/29/newfoundland-man-captures-phallic-iceberg-in-conception-bay/

* "Tucker Carlson Gets To Say Goodbye To His Viewers:"

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* "Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald :"

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* "Sit Down Young Stranger - Gordon Lightfoot:"

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* Sunday we did a bunch more cleaning and then dropped off the car at the mechanic. It was good I did, as my belief we were down to the metal on the driver's side proved correct. This cost $450.00, which is quite literally everything except housing and autowithdraws.

There is now nothing at all for gas or any of the other bills. I need at least 150.00 to cover gas and a bill that I had to put off due to the previous car repairs last month. The rest will still need paying, but is less urgent.

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

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

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

* In person bureaucracy errand turned out to be disorientingly in the same building as and down the hall from the people who did my root canal. There was an extra fifteen minute wait, as the lady who unlocks the doors was out sick and the lady replacing here was from another office and didn't know she was meant to do it. I flagged down someone going in the employee door and asked when they were opening. “It opens at eight. What time is it?” “8:15. It’s still locked.” It was quickly sorted and the rest was way faster than the old process with the only wait being for copying, which I did not have to do myself, so wins all around even if I did have to deal with a much longer hobble and the dangers of stairs.

The place with the good veg and starts that closed last year reopened with much shorter hours and was only two blocks out of the way on my way home, so I went and sat for fifteen minutes while I watched them open up, scoring some nice tomato plants and fresh fruit and veg for cheap. The short hours mean we will go their rarely, but I am glad they are back.

The for profit people that took over payroll for home care givers so disastrously two Januaries ago, are jerking around a big chunk of home caregivers over pay for May and June. Head Millennial has email saying very specifically they aren't, but their website says they are, which will be a hardship for them and me both.

Things will be very rough the next few months if we can't sort it. (We are both trying to sort it, and have been for several weeks, but have made plans for the worst case).

For profit is so much worse than government direct control, but no one ever asks me about these things. Sigh.

* Something I said on Tumblr that I often say in one gform or another:

Once a gift leaves my hand, it is not mine. To do anything else is not to give a gift, but an obligation.

Context doesn’t matter. Gifts are Gifts.

* The King and the Healer: https://www.tumblr.com/johannestevans/716711460986830848/thinking-about-a-king-who-is-travelling-from-his?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: The Case of the Martian Invasion:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/716505284287283200/midnight-pals-the-case-of-the-martian-invasion?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.

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

* A resistance website for organizing and publicizing anti-censorship pro-education etc. rallies/protests/walkouts. "Walkout2learn:" https://www.walkout2learn.org/

* "Donate to The Committee to Elect Justin J. Pearson:" https://secure.actblue.com/donate/justinjpearson86?fbclid=IwAR1jXHNa6_VbtScA9wxsHH7Kun5llZGqvp6MdolMhgJ31-z1CZK3YSL9mpM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

* "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

* 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

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

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

* Black Phoenix Activism Fundraisers: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/

* 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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* "Strike paralyzes Lebanon as economic conditions worsen:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/strike-paralyzes-lebanon-amid-worsening-economic-conditions/2022/01/13/9e80dedc-744f-11ec-a26d-1c21c16b1c93_story.html

* "Portraits of fear and loss:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/women-life-taliban-afghanistan/?itid=mr_world_1

* "Russia moves more troops westward amid Ukraine tensions:" https://apnews.com/article/moscow-russia-europe-belarus-ukraine-555703583c8f9d54bd42e60aca895590

* "Sen. Murphy: We should be very worried about war in Europe over Russia-Ukraine tensions:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-facing-100-000-russian-troops-amassed-on-its-border-discussed-by-sen-chris-murphy-131253829691

* "The Day After Russia Attacks:" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-01-21/day-after-russia-attacks

* "Biden predicts Russian invasion of Ukraine, but "minor incursion" may prompt discussion over consequences:" https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/joe-biden-press-conference-01-19-22/h_699d89bb5c17489b49a54ae70409fbca

* "Tory MP claims No 10 ‘blackmailing’ rebels as Wakeford says funding was threatened before he defected – as it happened:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/jan/20/boris-johnson-conservatives-tory-labour-latest-updates

* This is from tumblr, but it's an excellent summary of the Boris Johnson cluster of scandals: https://becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys.tumblr.com/post/673901375516753920/hoo-boy-the-circus-is-in-town-this-week-lads-i

* "As an MP, I've had death threats and been attacked, but I will never be silenced:" https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/07/as-an-mp-ive-had-death-threats-and-been-attacked-i-wont-be-silenced-15881199/

* "Woman jailed for death threats to Bradford MP Naz Shah:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/14/naz-shah-mp-death-threats-sundas-alam-jailed

* "‘Unpalletable’: Scott Morrison hits reverse on plan to allow under-18s to drive forklifts:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/20/unpalletable-scott-morrison-hits-reverse-on-plan-to-allow-under-18s-to-drive-forklifts

* "Kenyan vigilantes taking on avocado gangs:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59989656

* "Belgian court jails trafficking gang leader for Vietnamese truck deaths:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belgian-court-jails-trafficking-gang-leader-vietnamese-truck-deaths-2022-01-19/

* "China's births fall in 2021, as workforce shrinks:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinas-birth-rate-falls-2021-workforce-shrinks-rcna12446

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* "Study shows COVID-19 vaccines offer lasting protection:" https://uncnews.unc.edu/2022/01/12/study-shows-covid-19-vaccines-offer-lasting-protection/

* "Association of vaccination status with Long COVID symptoms:" https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220110/Association-of-vaccination-status-with-Long-COVID-symptoms.aspx

* "COVID-19 will continue but the end of the pandemic is near:" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00100-3/fulltext

* "Biden acknowledges his team should have done more COVID testing earlier:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/19/1073825012/biden-press-conference-covid-19-aid-infrastructure

* "White House to distribute 400 million free N95 masks starting next week:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/19/free-n95-masks/

* "“We’re about to catch on fire”: Inside a Texas hospital battling omicron and staffing shortages:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/17/texas-hospital-omicron-staff-nurses/

* "For Texas children, COVID-19 hospitalizations are outpacing vaccinations:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/14/texas-covid-19-children-hospitalizations/

* "COVID cases are at an all-time high in Mississippi. Are vaccination rates following?:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2022/01/17/covid-19-surges-mississippi-vaccination-rate-stays-stagnant/6539131001/

* "Alabama health leaders worried about youth COVID numbers:" https://www.rocketcitynow.com/article/news/local/alabama-health-officials-concerned-rising-number-kids-covid/525-7f7f1e6f-5140-4789-b345-a5f86dbc302e

* "COVID not going away even after omicron wave peaks in Alabama, expert says:" https://www.al.com/coronavirus/2022/01/covid-not-going-away-even-after-omicron-wave-peaks-in-alabama-expert-says.html

* "Northeast TN COVID case rate up 86% in a week, just off record high:" https://www.wjhl.com/local-coronavirus-coverage/northeast-tn-covid-case-rate-up-86-in-a-week-just-off-record-high/

* "Indiana House passes bill restricting employer vaccine mandates despite COVID-19 surge:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/18/indiana-house-passes-bill-restricting-vaccine-mandates-hb-1001/6529347001/

* "'Everyone is so tired': Inside IU Health Methodist as it is overwhelmed by COVID patients:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/01/13/indiana-covid-19-patients-iu-health-methodist-overwhelmed-coronavirus-pandemic/9135493002/

* "Indiana schools buckling under weight of eye-popping new record for COVID-19 cases:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2022/01/18/covid-indiana-schools-cases-last-week-double-previous-record/6561727001/

* "COVID-19 hits Missouri nursing homes again; staff hard hit:" https://www.ky3.com/2022/01/14/covid-19-hits-missouri-nursing-homes-again-staff-hard-hit/

* "As COVID-19 surges, Rhode Island Hospital welcomes help from military medical team:" https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/01/13/us-military-medical-team-dispatched-by-biden-welcomed-ri-hospitals-covid-cases-surge/6512218001/

* "New Hampshire hospitalizations rise as COVID-19 cases continue to hit record levels:" https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-hospitalizations-covid-19-cases-january-13-2022/38760941#

* "What the Omicron Wave Looks Like at One Brooklyn E.R.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/nyregion/brooklyn-omicron-cases.html

* "Gorsuch didn't mask despite Sotomayor's COVID worries, leading her to telework:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073428376/supreme-court-justices-arent-scorpions-but-not-happy-campers-either

* "Justice Sotomayor works remotely due to apparent occupational hazard:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/justice-sotomayor-works-remotely-due-to-apparent-occupational-hazard-131159109913

* Why Covid is so much worse than the death rate: https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/674056022331162624

* "Have I finally found the right word?:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1819999.html

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* "Newly Declassified Video Shows U.S. Killing of 10 Civilians in Drone Strike:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/politics/afghanistan-drone-strike-video.html

* "‘Give Manchin the pen’: Markey, Khanna on how to get climate in Build Back Better:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-give-manchin-the-pen-markey-khanna-on-how-to-get-climate-in-build-back-better-131437125850

* "Chris Hayes: Lawmakers must prioritize climate in the Build Back Better bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-lawmakers-must-prioritize-climate-in-the-build-back-better-bill-131437125721

* "Sec. Buttigieg: We’re focused on making infrastructure jobs more workers of color, women:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-s-first-anniversary-infrastructure-bill-administration-s-plans-discussed-by-transportation-sec-buttigieg-131351621575

* "BNSF Railroad Tries to Block 17,000 Workers From Striking:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/texas/articles/2022-01-19/bnsf-railroad-tries-to-block-17-000-workers-from-striking

* "Wisconsin Judge Orders At-Will Employees to Stay at Jobs:" https://themountain.news/news/wisconsin-judge-orders-at-will-employees-to-stay-at-jobs

* "Voting bill collapses, Democrats unable to change filibuster:" https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-joe-biden-kyrsten-sinema-elections-voting-f6c2cfd9f79a1658c2998f3b7b14588d

* "Rep. Sewell: "A high sign of hypocrisy" that lawmakers who approved Voting Rights Act in 2006 won't act now:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-sewell-a-high-sign-of-hypocrisy-that-lawmakers-who-approved-voting-rights-act-in-2006-won-t-act-now-130992197829

* "Jonathan Capehart explains why he's worried about democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/jonathan-capehart-explains-why-he-s-worried-about-democracy-130994245730

* "Voting rights activists see hope in fight for access to the ballot:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/voting-rights-activists-see-hope-in-fight-for-access-to-the-ballot-130994757844

* "Congressional Black Caucus chair offers political warning to voting rights opponents:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/congressional-black-caucus-chair-offers-political-warning-to-voting-rights-opponents-131084869950

* "Dr. Bernice King: I think it's time for massive civil disobedience, noncooperation with evil:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/martin-luther-king-s-legacy-is-remembered-by-his-daughter-dr-bernice-king-131077189703

* "Marc Elias to GOP: Stop suppressing the vote, and I’ll stop suing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/marc-elias-to-gop-stop-suppressing-the-vote-and-i-ll-stop-suing-131249221767

* "Senator Hassan shames Republicans for failure to stand up for democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senator-hassan-shames-republicans-for-failure-to-stand-up-for-democracy-131262533996

* "Protecting the Right to Vote: The Only Way to Safeguard LGBTQ+ Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/1/17/protecting-right-vote-only-way-safeguard-lgbtq-rights

* 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/

* "Idaho Supreme Court hears arguments over redistricting:" https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-idaho-redistricting-boise-voting-districts-daef27a4d91bc6892753e9c449d2baae

* "DeSantis shakes up Florida redistricting as veto concerns grow:" https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2022/01/18/desantis-shakes-up-florida-redistricting-as-veto-concerns-grow-1405811

* "Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-lincoln-county-georgia/index.html

* "A Wisconsin judge rules absentee ballot drop boxes are not allowed under state law:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072929277/a-wisconsin-judge-rules-absentee-ballot-drop-boxes-are-not-allowed-under-state-l

* "Texas rejects hundreds of mail ballot applications under new voting limits:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-rejects-hundreds-mail-ballot-applications-under-new-voting-limits-2022-01-18/

* "Republican voting restriction strategy already bearing fruit in Texas:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-voting-restriction-strategy-already-bearing-fruit-in-texas-131084869857

* "Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot in 7 states:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/trump-campaign-officials-rudy-giuliani-fake-electors/index.html

* "New Mexico Republican who signed bogus electoral certificate says he has 'no regrets whatsoever':" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mexico-republican-signed-bogus-electoral-000924926.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAINyCQrzPs6hkXAdjAHESwULWpkF6JBU29FbN0LShN8riN81g1tyGOKl3cbQCPOB9DnGbzYL3Hhlh_eUooETlQqUvT1zObgjUyxOBJjTFqlaStzo86br1tM0CaItqT-XgDkik_xFiMySv2ejcKtvbAEGEOdQVPg4NhZ2FKdajvAX

* "Legal line crossed? Nevada GOP’s faux electors draw scrutiny:" https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/jan/20/legal-line-crossed-nevada-gops-faux-electors-draw/

* "Milwaukee County prosecutor seeks to pass off case over fake electors to state or federal agencies:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/20/milwaukee-county-seeks-pass-case-over-fake-electors-wisconsin-ag/6591509001/

* "Michigan GOP co-chair says Trump campaign directed fake electors, per CNN audio:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2022/01/20/meshawn-maddock-donald-trump-fake-electors-cnn-audio/6599607001/

* "Will false Trump electors’ attempt to hijack the Georgia vote be punished?:" https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/01/18/will-false-trump-electors-attempt-hijack-the-georgia-vote-be-punished

* "Arizona's phony electors aren't patriots, they're traitors:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2022/01/14/phony-electors-jan-6-house-committee/6525978001/

* "Rudy Giuliani reportedly the ringleader of fake Trump elector scheme:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rudy-giuliani-reportedly-the-ringleader-of-fake-trump-elector-scheme-131362373903

* "U.S. charges Texas man for threatening Georgia election officials:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-charges-texas-man-threatening-georgia-government-officials-2022-01-21/

* "People Left Death Threats for Election Workers. We Called Them Back.:"

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* "DOJ task force brings first charges for threats against election workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-task-force-brings-first-charges-for-threats-against-election-workers-131448389571

* "Republican hails infrastructure investment she bashed as 'socialism'; voted against it:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-hails-infrastructure-investment-she-bashed-as-socialism-voted-against-it-131449413701

* "One-on-one with outgoing Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, and lessons learned from "the yearbook incident.":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/one-on-one-with-outgoing-virginia-gov-ralph-northam-and-lessons-learned-from-the-yearbook-incident-130994757727

* "Dem U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers on his viral campaign ad featuring cannabis smoking:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-appears-willing-to-uphold-texas-abortion-ban-as-roe-vs-wade-reaches-49-131440709935

* "Republicans enter 'post-election' phase, blindly disputing vote outcomes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-enter-post-election-phase-blindly-disputing-vote-outcomes-131085381986

* "MAGA hats and QAnon: Inside Trump’s first rally of 2022:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/16/trump-first-rally-2022-maga-527206

* "Trump shares stage with self-proclaimed Oath Keeper at Arizona rally:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-shares-stage-with-self-proclaimed-oath-keeper-at-arizona-rally-131075141612

* "New York attorney general's office says it has identified numerous 'misleading statements and omissions' in Trump Org. financial statements:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/new-york-attorney-general-trump-organization-investigation/index.html

* "Trumps surprisingly uninsulated from sketchy accounting, court documents suggest:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trumps-surprisingly-uninsulated-from-sketchy-accounting-court-documents-suggest-131264581698

* "Court filings expose Trump pattern of exaggerating values of real estate holdings:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/court-filings-expose-trump-pattern-of-exaggerating-values-of-real-estate-holdings-131264069797

* "DA for Atlanta area requests special grand jury to probe Trump's election interference:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/georgia-trump-grand-jury/index.html

* "Criminal investigation of Trump in Georgia takes key step with special grand jury request:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/criminal-investigation-of-trump-in-georgia-takes-key-step-with-special-grand-jury-request-131364421545

* "Even Trump’s Justices Rule Jan. 6 Panel Can See His Docs:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-allows-government-to-send-trump-docs-to-jan-6-panel

* "Draft document would have had Trump order seizure of voting machines, election equipment:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/draft-document-would-have-had-trump-order-seizure-of-voting-machines-election-equipment-131448389745

* "Luria: 'Concerning' that Trump doc to seize voting machines was among official records:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/luria-concerning-that-trump-doc-to-seize-voting-machines-was-among-official-records-131437637513

* "Trump held secret meetings in days before Capitol attack, ex-press secretary tells panel:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/20/trump-secret-meetings-january-6-capitol-attack-stephanie-grisham

* "Rudy Giuliani among Trump allies subpoenaed by Jan. 6 panel:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-boris-epshteyn-bennie-thompson-donald-trump-subpoenas-871ecaecc54ffff987205684833850ed

* "Jan. 6 committee requests interview with Ivanka Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-bennie-thompson-elections-election-2020-b974bb17f8ce4ea0200f3b016e50176b

* "January 6th Committee uses evidence to paint Ivanka Trump into a corner on testifying:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-committee-uses-evidence-to-paint-ivanka-trump-into-a-corner-on-testifying-131365445516

* "January 6th probe tips its hand with eye-popping details in letter to Ivanka Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-probe-tips-its-hand-with-eye-popping-details-in-letter-to-ivanka-trump-131363397590

* "Mike Pence script change seems to address fake Trump elector scheme:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mike-pence-script-change-seems-to-address-fake-trump-elector-scheme-131083845811

* "Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court

* "Justice Thomas ignores basic ethics where wife's activism, lobbying conflict with cases:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/justice-thomas-ignores-basic-ethics-where-wife-s-activism-lobbying-conflict-with-cases-131445829777

* "Elie Mystal: Justice Thomas is lone dissenter on issues that may implicate his wife in Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-must-recuse-on-issues-impacting-far-right-activist-elie-mystal-says-131439685792

* "Why Some Chinese Dissidents Love QAnon:"

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* "6 people have been injured in a mass shooting in Oregon:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1073323357/six-people-have-been-injured-in-a-mass-shooting-in-oregon

* "What it was like inside the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue during the 11-hour hostage standoff:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/17/us/inside-texas-synagogue-hostage-standoff/index.html

* "The Invisible Violence of Carceral Food:" https://inquest.org/the-invisible-violence-of-carceral-food/

* "White Supremacy, 4 Years After Charlottesville:"

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* "The Necessity of Gay Crime | James Somerton:"

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* "The Spiral of John McAfee:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Catholic church suggests 12-year-old enjoyed abuse because he's gay :" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/16/catholic-abuse-poland-gay-priest-janusz-szymik/

* CW: Rape, Torture. "​​RAF accused of 'torturing' serviceman for days after finding out he was gay" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/17/raf-gay-torture/

* "Gracie Spinks death: Parents of 'stalking victim' call for law change:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-59913331

* "Supreme Court deals a setback to abortion providers' bid to quickly block Texas law:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/texas-abortion-law-supreme-court-denies-bid-to-send-case-back-to-federal-judge.html

* "Afghan tradition allows girls to access the freedom of boys:" https://apnews.com/article/bacha-posh-Kabul-Afghanistan-ad82563ff1ddae630ca0e5b52236172b

* "LGBT+ activist flees Jordan and is finally ‘supported, seen and heard’ in Australia:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/16/jordan-lgbt-activism-australia-alshaima-omama-alzubi/

* It is amazing to me they solved this after all that time and got a conviction. I’m glad there will be some measure of justice. "Australian Man Convicted Over the 1988 Murder of Gay American:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/13/australian-man-convicted-over-1988-murder-gay-american-scott-johnson

* "Anti-Trans Legislative Push Starts Again in 2022:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/1/13/states-anti-trans-legislative-push-starts-again-2022

* "Police open homicide investigation after LGBT rights hero found dead in landfill:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/15/jorge-diaz-johnston-police-homicide-florida/

* "Gay Adult Performer Cole Connor Beaten, Mugged by Group of Men:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/20/gay-adult-performer-cole-connor-beaten-mugged-group-men

* "High Schooler Censored By School Administration Over Saying He's Gay:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/14/high-schooler-censored-school-administration-over-saying-hes-gay

* "NCAA Adopts New Policy for Transgender Athletes:" https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2022-01-19/ncaa-adopts-new-policy-for-transgender-athletes

* "Brave and beautiful 11-year-old trans girl is finalist for TIME's Kid of the Year:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/20/kai-shappelly-trans-texas-time-kid-of-the-year/

* "Biden Admin Speaks Out About Blood Donation Policy for Queer Men:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2022/1/19/biden-admin-speaks-out-about-blood-donation-policy-queer-gay-bi-men

* "Locks of Love: Corporate Casket:"

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* "The Battle Over Psychedelic Therapy’s Future:"

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* "The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/magazine/military-burn-pits.html

* "Telehealth changes ‘devastating’ for psychiatry patients in regional areas:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/04/telehealth-changes-devastating-for-psychiatry-patients-in-regional-areas

* "Specialist mental health unit failures exposed by patients:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59964353

* "No way to Grow Up:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-children-crisis-pandemic.html

* "Epstein-Barr virus may be leading cause of multiple sclerosis:" https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/epstein-barr-virus-may-be-leading-cause-of-multiple-sclerosis/

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* "Two-Spirit activists explain why LGBT+ folk must unite against climate disaster:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/15/indigenous-environmental-activist-two-spirit-lgbt/

* "How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/11/climate-change-insect-world-global-heating-species

* "All homes on one of Tonga's islands destroyed, three dead:" https://www.reuters.com/world/significant-damage-reported-tongas-main-island-after-volcanic-eruption-2022-01-17/

* "Three Tiny Islands Have Borne the Brunt of Tonga’s Tsunami:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/world/asia/tonga-tsunami-volcano.html

* "‘Unacceptably high’ risk of tailings dam failure in Canadian miner’s Amazon project:" https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/unacceptably-high-risk-of-tailings-dam-failure-in-canadian-miners-amazon-project/

* "‘Like a work of art’: rare stretch of pristine coral reef discovered off Tahiti:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/20/like-a-work-of-art-rare-stretch-of-pristine-coral-reef-discovered-off-tahiti-age-of-extinction

* "New York's Central Park Becomes a Living Climate Laboratory:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-yorks-central-park-becomes-a-living-climate-laboratory/#

* "‘Tenants have no choice’: Racism in urban planning fuels high rate of Black fire deaths:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/tenants-no-choice-racism-urban-planning-fuels-high-rate-black-fire-dea-rcna11986

* "Other Countries Have Gates That Would Have Prevented NYC’s Subway Killing:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn7y5/other-countries-have-gates-that-would-have-prevented-nycs-subway-killing

* "Citizen scientists discover planet the size of Jupiter that NASA algorithms missed:" https://www.cnet.com/news/citizen-scientists-discover-planet-the-size-of-jupiter-that-nasa-algorithms-missed/

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

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* "After rain burst, California salmon reclaim old spawning grounds:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/after-rain-burst-california-salmon-reclaim-old-spawning-grounds-2022-01-19/

* "Study: Dolphins Have Lots of Lesbian Sex Due to Evolved Clitorises:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/18/study-dolphins-have-lots-lesbian-sex-due-evolved-clitorises

* CW: Torture, Rape, Incest "Caligula – Rome’s Mad Emperor:"

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* "Tikal: The Mayan City of the Jaguar God:"

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* "Niccolo Machiavelli: "It is Better to Be Feared Than Loved... If You Cannot be Both":"

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* "A Day in the Life of an Enslaved Cook:"

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* I was happier not knowing, and it's speculative, but ymmv. "Cold case team believes it has solved the mystery of who may have betrayed Anne Frank:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1073618330/anne-frank-cold-case-investigation

* "The Black Arts Movement’s Revolution in the South:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/james-smethurst-black-arts-movement/

* "White Shoes, WASPs and Law Firms:" https://daily.jstor.org/white-shoes-wasps-and-law-firms/

* "Martin Luther King's Gay Best Friend // Bayard Rustin:"

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* "Singer Meat Loaf dies aged 74:" https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60080934

* "Iconic Vogue Editor André Leon Talley Has Died at Age 73:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2022/1/18/iconic-vogue-editor-andre-leon-talley-has-died-age-73

* "Biden’s 1st Year as POTUS: The Yays and Mehs:"

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* "Insurrection Investigation Committee Reveals GOP's Batshit Plan To Overturn 2020 Election:"

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* "Put Down Your Pandemic Pet: We’ve Got a COVID Mental Health Crisis:"

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* "Ingraham Angle Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Message from the President Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Eric Adams Press Conference - SNL:"

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* "Ranking Every 2021 Costume Drama on Historical Accuracy || "Ancient" - 18th Century:"

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* "What Hawkeye gets right about Deafness:"

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* "Winter Formal - SNL:"

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* "The Greatest Musical NEVER Made | Rogers the Musical the Documentary:"

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* "MacGruber: Coronavirus - SNL:"

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* "Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That):"

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* Rest in Peace, Man. "Rocky Horror Picture Show-Hot Patootie-Bless my soul:"

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* To our great surprise, I tested negative for COVID. I guess that booster shot, plus our best efforts at quarantine protocol worked. This means that last weekend's terrible cold symptoms really were a head cold. Which I thought I was mostly over, but apparently not. Sigh. Squirrel seems to have caught it despite masking and quarantining in his room. idk. Maybe the food and medicine packages I handed off by putting them outside his door?

By current CDC standards he'd have been out of quarantine earlier in the week, but we opted for the older, stricter standards because there is debate about the new ones. He was supposed to be out tomorrow, but his cold came with a sore throat and is significantly worse than mine was even last weekend, so idk.

Being out of quarantine, I did curbside library pick up, much to Tavy's delight and had an excellent game of cat in Bag followed by the Ribbon Game. The poor little button has been pining for Millenials and when he hears people passing outside in the late afternoon/early evening runs to the nearest window to check.

I actually did have enough to catch up bills and cover the medical copay thanks to all you benefactors, plus get kibbles for the cats, as Livia's special girl kibbles ran out last week. (Long term readers will remember Livia nearly dying as a teenager. She has to have a special diet to prevent a recurrence so I can just get them ocean friskies or the like.). I'm still expecting a car tab renewal bill and then it's time to work out how to pay this year's housing tax, but there is no point in panicking until the bills arrive. For now, the cat asylum is afloat. Ish.

I keep eyeing my last two burners with concern. I keep trying to work out what I want for dinner then remember I can't make the thing because the oven's dead. I've never lived with out an oven before; it's disturbing.

But for now, we are all alive if not well, and housed for which we are grateful.

* On Seward Johnson: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/673956797047013376/sam-i-have-an-important-chicago-question-just

* A Cool thing on costuming Geralt and Jaskier in the Witcher: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/673328227570384896

* I watch a lot of shows and movies not originally in English. I am one of those people who really likes subtitles. I use them with English language stuff anyway, because it helps cover if I have sensory processing issues with the dialog, so watching subtitled foreign language stuff isn't that different for me. Subtitles mean you keep the original vocal performance that can really matter.

At the same time there are problems. They with use white subtitles on white backgrounds or black subtitles on dark backgrounds, t which point, why subtitle at all? They will sometimes make them too small, as if everyone is watching on a massive screen. They will sometimes cover something essential with words that I kind of need to see. (some productions will move the subtitles around so they stay in negative space. Some subtitles with be white in a black band to cut down on the lack of contrast issue).

Then there are all the people subtitles don't work for. My Mother's eyes weren't good enough the last several decades of her life, which was unfortunate as she was also HoH for about that long. It sucked a lot of fun out of her life to have to give up anything with subtitles or accented English or muddy sound design. There are people who don't have the vision or literacy level. There are people with dyslexia and the like.

Yes, dubbing exists, but it's often, frankly a mess. No translation is ever going to be perfect. it's a fundamental problem with subtitles too. No language maps one to one on another. Information is lost and/or added inevitable. Ambiguity is created or lost. Often the dubbed performance is frankly bad voice acting.

Sometimes it is an adequate performance, but doesn't remotely match the tone of the original performance. I notice this a lot with things dubbed out of French. I'm no longer fluent and mostly only speak it to cats, but I was fluent once and as long as there isn't a thick regional accent or too much technical vocabulary or unfamiliar slang or they aren't going extremely fast, I can usually still follow.

There is a tendency to hire people with English received pronunciation type accents to do the voices for french costume dramas and the results are terrible. You have all these restrained upper class English performances that not only lose the class and regional nuances, but they are sort of flat and restrained vocals over often intense physical performances. It is so dissonant it hurts my head. They lose the tone siblings use to tease and bicker; they lose the angry arguments between heroine and villain; they lose the passion and warmth between friends or lovers.

A lot of the 19th century french literature I read back in the day would do these clever and often playful things with formal and informal language: describe something intimate in formal language, do something formal with bits of intimate language tucked here and there, that sort of thing. There is a flavour to it that I often find in the french dialog and performances, that gets utterly lost in translation. 18th and 19th century English language dramas tend to go either formal or informal. They don't play back and forth much. Inevitably I switch it back to french.

I don't know if it's this bad for other languages, but it wouldn't surprise me. But what if they decided to do better? The foreign language things I watch most often are either Korean or French. I frequently see people in major roles who I know also speak English well enough to act beautifully in English language productions. Why the fuck don't they spend the money to hire them to do the dubbing for their own characters? I know there are plenty of people who act in more than one language. Speak German and french? Why not dub the other language too? I bet the original actor would be better at preserving the tone of the performance than a stranger.

For monolingual actors, you could hire someone with a similar class and regional accent who comes from the original language group but also speaks the target language, so there'd be a better chance of carrying original emotional tone and meaning across even where the words can't quite convey by themselves.

And hire people who are good voice actors instead of doing it the cheap. Would it be perfect, no, but it would be better than some goofy sounding bad actor or a performance so off tone as to make it hard to watch. It would be something at least.

* I was not and am still not convinced that Peacemaker ought to be foregrounded by giving him a show, however, I am legitimately appreciating how queer the show is. There's marvel over there to scared to do anything like good representation, the little hints designed to be clipped out for China. (Do not start me on the people who wrote Loki not understanding what "gender fluid" means. yes, it's nice they tried, but it's not exactly hard to google that, or hire a nonbinary person onto the writing staff. just saying). Meanwhile DC is doing a Batwoman, a show full of queer women characters, Doom Patrol, etc., and now Peacemaker with multiple lesbian and bi characters. Watching the opening credits for the first episode I was wondering, "Is that bisexual lighting on purpose? Are they teasing me?" No, no they were not. So points there.

I am concerned about things like their uneven lighting for characters of color and a number of things about the basic show design. On the one hand, the horrible racist/misogynist characters are consistently called out by disgusted other characters, and the narrative seems to be of the same opinion. At the same time, having a horrible racist and misogynist right wing character as the main character the show is named after, even if they are clearly not the good guy has a messy history. Carrol O'Conner was a strong civil rights advocate, but an awful lot of right wing folks liked Archie Bunker and took that character as permission. Similarly, the Colbert Report was an elaborate mock of the Right, but a lot of the right didn't get the joke and took him for serious. The things Peacemaker and his father say are clearly terrible. That doesn't mean they won't reinforce that in our culture.

I like the women in this. A lot. I appreciate the horrifying psychopath friend/sidekick and associated humor. I appreciate the ruthless way the narrative and other characters treat Peacemaker. At the same time? I am afraid of where this is going. I do not want him to win over the blond agent. I am scared of an easy redemption arc that rewards him without drastic fucking change. Maybe it will be okay, but I don't trust like that. I'm sticking with it for now. Warily.

* "Sunday Sweets: Watercolor Cakes:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/1/23/sunday-sweets-watercolor-cakes

* "Stray Cats Save Osaka Restaurant from Going Out of Business During Pandemic:" https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2022/01/13/diorama-restaurant-stray-cats/

* "Sunday Sweets: Pretty as a Peacock:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/1/16/sunday-sweets-pretty-as-a-peacock

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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