gwydion | Entries tagged with treason

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "History Summarized: The Splendor of Kyiv:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Much Later, Elizabeth: Something is coming between us!

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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* "Political crisis continues in Baghdad after bloody clashes:" https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-iran-iraq-baghdad-muqtada-al-sadr-62e9d144b591e60c43d72c3f4d2b7cbc

* "Rift between Tehran and Shi'ite cleric fuels instability in Iraq:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/iraq-iran-shiites/

* "UN report on Xinjiang ups pressure on brands from Nike to Airbnb:" https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/9/1/un-report-on-xinjiang-raises-pressure-on-firms-to-cut-ties

* "Nord Stream 1: Russia shuts major gas pipeline to Europe:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62732835

* "The ‘QAnon Queen’ Told Her Followers to Arrest Cops. It Didn’t Go Well.:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb5y/queen-romana-didulo-citizen-arrest-qanon

* "Northern Ireland's first out gay party leader wants to nationalise energy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/30/mal-ohara-green-party-northern-ireland-gay-leader/

* "Scotland school and waste service strikes called off after ‘credible’ pay offer:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/02/scotland-refuse-and-school-strikes-called-off-after-credible-pay-offer

* "Myanmar junta sentences ex-British ambassador to one year in prison:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/02/asia/myanmar-junta-jails-former-british-ambassador-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Ex-Tory MP accuses anti-trans groups of 'Machiavellian' lobbying in leadership race:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/02/ben-howlett-conservative-leadership-race-trans-lgb-alliance/

* "Edinburgh clean-up begins as refuse collections resume:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/30/edinburgh-clean-up-begins-as-refuse-collections-resume

* "Police accused of blindsiding Grindr killer victims' families:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/30/met-police-stephen-port-compensation/

* "Eight arrested after climate activists superglue themselves around Commons Speaker’s chair:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/02/extinction-rebellion-activists-superglue-themselves-commons-chamber-speaker-seat

* I have no words. "Stabbings in Canada kill 10, wound 15; suspects at large:" https://apnews.com/article/saskatchewan-stabbings-multiple-victims-suspects-sought-999fe33f8da5025e0e19a3010bae108f

* "Wave of bull runner deaths turns focus on Spain's fiestas:" https://apnews.com/article/sports-spain-valencia-8097c3b17a51c2aded36244becfa7045

* "Argentina's vice president is threatened by a man wielding a handgun:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/02/1120688951/argentina-vice-president-threatened-handgun

* "Two Air France pilots suspended after cockpit fight:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/air-france-pilots-cockpit-fight/index.html

* "'Man of the Hole': Last of his tribe dies in Brazil:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62712318

* "Fears for independent media in India as tycoon eyes major news channel:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/24/india-ndtv-adani-media-takover/

* "Podcast leads to Australian’s conviction in wife’s murder:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/podcast-leads-to-australians-conviction-in-wifes-murder/

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* "Low vaccine booster rates are now a key factor in COVID-19 deaths – and racial disparities in booster rates persist:" https://theconversation.com/low-vaccine-booster-rates-are-now-a-key-factor-in-covid-19-deaths-and-racial-disparities-in-booster-rates-persist-187272

* "Long COVID: How researchers are zeroing in on the self-targeted immune attacks that may lurk behind it:" https://theconversation.com/long-covid-how-researchers-are-zeroing-in-on-the-self-targeted-immune-attacks-that-may-lurk-behind-it-169911

* "The government will no longer be sending free COVID-19 tests to Americans:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/29/1119880329/the-government-will-no-longer-be-sending-free-covid-19-tests-to-americans

* "US clears updated COVID boosters targeting newest variants:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-vaccine-omicron-booster-shot-227514678d25a99b65b7ee092735fb03

* "5 Things Immunologists Want You to Know About Omicron-Specific Booster Vaccines:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/09/01/omicron-booster-shot/

* Don't fuck around with this. You could literally kill or permanently disable someone. "Californians working while sick with COVID-19, fooled by mild symptoms:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-27/otc-sat-7am-more-are-working-while-sick-with-covid-19-fooled-by-mild-symptoms

* "Black Covid long-haulers say doctors dismissed their symptoms, so now they’re relying on one another for support:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-covid-long-haulers-felt-invisible-health-care-system-formed-supp-rcna44468

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* "Why people are advised to take iodine tablets in the event of a nuclear disaster:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-people-are-advised-to-take-iodine-tablets-in-the-event-of-a-nuclear-disaster-147302981817

* "Russia's war in Ukraine puts fragile nuclear power plant in peril:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russia-s-war-in-ukraine-puts-fragile-nuclear-power-plant-in-peril-147305541654

* "UN inspectors arrive at Ukraine nuclear plant amid fighting:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-united-nations-ce8c3e254c8dd44b8ae4eb3cea3c5907

* "Ukraine wages counterattack to reclaim Russia-occupied Kherson:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/30/ukraine-launches-counterattack-to-reclaim-russia-occupied-kherson

* "Against Fierce Resistance, Ukraine Makes Small Gains in the South:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/world/europe/ukraine-russia-south-kherson.html

* "A Frontline Shadow Economy: Ukrainian Units Swap Tanks and Artillery:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/world/europe/ukrainian-soldiers-weapons-front-line.html

* "Ukrainian Women Are Clearing Unexploded Bombs From Ukraine:"

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* "“We Felt Like Hostages”: Ukrainians Describe Forcible Transfers and Filtration by Russian Forces:" https://theintercept.com/2022/09/01/ukraine-russia-war-forced-deportations/

* "It's back to school in Ukraine — but far from normal:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-education-efe7f1cc5610f6605c5256c8c5323e47

* "At edge of Russian onslaught, city of Bakhmut clings to freedom:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/02/ukraine-bakhmut-frontline-city/

* "A Russian paratrooper seeking asylum in France describes disarray in Putin’s military.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/world/europe/russian-defector-france-book.html

* "What Russians See in the News: A War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/world/europe/russian-media-ukraine-war.html

* I am a bit late for Ukrainian Independence day, but given current offensives, now is an excellent time to donate: https://www.hospitallers.life/needs-hospitallers

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* "Navy expedites waterborne drones to close gap with China:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-china-robotics-pacific-ocean-b8262b737593a07ca28d8b99b0f2555d

* "Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan | Where Do We Go From Here?:"

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* Of course they are. "Conservatives Plot Legal Challenge To Joe Biden’s Student Debt Relief:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-student-debt-relief-legal-challenge_n_6310d394e4b063d5e622a63d

* "Student Loan Forgiveness a win for progressives:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/student-loan-forgiveness-a-win-for-progressives-147186757936

* "Warren ‘has had it with idea’ that people needing student debt relief are slackers:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/student-debt-relief-recipients-are-hardworking-middle-class-working-class-folks-sen-warren-says-147381829846

* "Biden sounds newly strong alarm: Trumpism menaces democracy:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-donald-trump-presidential-philadelphia-5d0f7c02df093f0d3a3340474a53be4b

* "If Biden's speech sounded divisive and extreme, here's why.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-if-biden-s-speech-sounded-divisive-and-extreme-here-s-why-147640901565

* "Mortgage rates soar to their highest levels since late June:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/01/mortgage-rates-soar-their-highest-levels-since-late-june/

* "Secret Service recovers $286M in stolen pandemic loans:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-small-business-us-secret-service-ed482641a658543f4db9e2ec5121153e

* "Census Bureau: 3.8 million renters will likely be evicted in the next two months — why the rental crisis keeps getting worse:" https://moneywise.com/managing-money/debt/millions-of-renters-on-verge-of-eviction

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

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

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* Of course they are."Election workers abruptly quit, upending rural Texas county:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/election-staff-abruptly-quits-upending-rural-texas-county

* "Public service agencies, large and small, chilled by violent threats from Trump supporters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/public-service-agencies-large-and-small-chilled-by-violent-threats-from-trump-supporters-147302981574

* Of course they are. Check your voter registration. "Trump Allies Back Mass Challenge to Voter Eligibility in Georgia:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-01/trump-allies-back-mass-challenge-to-voter-eligibility-in-georgia

* Why voting in school board elections matters: https://magnesiumflare.tumblr.com/post/694342530748350464

* Important 2022 Senate Races and how to donate: https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/694338688722796544

* "Abortion policy motivating potential voters, Minnesota State Fair attendees say:" https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2022/09/02/abortion-policy-motivating-potential-voters-minnesota-state-fair-attendees-say

* "Another Republican Scrubbed His Support for Total Abortion Ban on Website Before Midterms:" https://jezebel.com/another-republican-scrubbed-his-support-for-total-abort-1849468223

* "Senate candidate Dr. Oz, who once defended Roe v. Wade, earlier this year said abortion is 'still murder' at any point in a pregnancy, according to a report:" https://www.businessinsider.com/daily-beast-dr-mehmet-oz-abortion-murder-any-point-pregnancy-2022-8

* "Fetterman slams Oz demand that he fire 'wrongfully convicted' brothers who received clemency over 1993 murder:" https://www.businessinsider.com/fetterman-slams-dr-oz-demand-he-fire-wrongfully-convicted-brothers-2022-9

* "'Nasty': Hayes on Oz’s ‘shockingly disingenuous’ attack on Fetterman:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-nasty-hayes-on-oz-s-shockingly-disingenuous-attack-on-fetterman-147642437803

* They stole money from the country's poorest children to give to a rich cis white straight guy. I'm not sure if it's possible to be more Repubilcan than that. It is the purest distillation of the Republican christian agenda. "FBI questions Brett Favre in Mississippi welfare scandal:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/nations-poorest-state-used-welfare-money-pay-brett-favre-speeches-neve-rcna45871

* "Out LGBTQ+ Elected Officials Jump to Record Level in Past Year:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/8/19/out-lgbtq-elected-officials-jump-record-level-past-year

* "Democrat Peltola beats Palin in Alaska special election upset:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/31/democrat-peltola-beats-palin-in-alaska-special-election-upset-00054428

* This makes me so happy. "Palin loss suggests waning voter indulgence of Trump-style spectacle candidates:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/palin-loss-suggests-waning-voter-indulgence-of-trump-style-spectacle-candidates-147476549631

* "Ginni Thomas pressed Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/09/01/ginni-thomas-wisconsin-bernier-tauchen/

* "Judge again rejects Graham bid to throw out subpoena in Atlanta-area Trump probe:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/01/graham-subpoena-atlanta-trump-probe-00054527

* "Judge rejects bid by Gov. Kemp and Trump attorney Chesebro to quash subpoenas:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/29/judge-kemp-trump-attorney-subpoenas-00054053

* "Lindsey Graham’s prediction of riots reads more like a threat:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/29/lindsey-graham-trump-riots-threat-reckless/

* "What Is Lindsey Graham Doing to Try to Prevent 'Riots' If Trump Is Charged With a Crime?:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a41020367/lindsey-graham-riots-trump-indicted-mar-a-lago/

* "With no excuses left, Trumpworld turns to threatening violence amid docs probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/with-no-excuses-left-trumpworld-turns-to-threatening-violence-amid-docs-probe-147293253882

* "'That's a fascist statement:' Cicilline on Lindsey Graham’s 'riot' threat:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-that-s-a-fascist-statement-cicilline-on-lindsey-graham-s-riot-threat-147294789514

* "Historian: Graham saying Republicans will riot if Trump's indicted ‘like race-baiter from the '20s’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/graham-saying-republicans-will-riot-if-trump-s-indicted-like-a-race-baiter-from-the-20s-beschloss-says-147298885767

* "‘This is the fight of our lifetime’: Rep. Cicilline on poll showing expectations of civil war:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-slams-the-maga-republican-threat-to-the-rule-of-law-147380805858

* "For civil rights community, defending democracy mirrors fight for voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/for-civil-rights-community-defending-democracy-mirrors-fight-for-voting-rights-147650117574

* "What if Trump's conspiracy was way bigger than we know?:" https://www.rawstory.com/trump-seditious-conspiracy-2657964597/

* "Intel officials to assess national security fallout from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/27/intel-officials-national-security-fallout-trumps-mar-a-lago-documents-00054006

* "Ex-chief of DOJ Counterintelligence Section analyzes photo of Mar-a-Lago docs:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ex-chief-of-doj-counterintelligence-section-analyzes-photo-of-mar-a-lago-docs-147464773684

* "Trump delay tactics risk stalling important security review of compromised material:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-delay-tactics-risk-stalling-important-security-review-of-compromised-material-147475525716

* I have serious concerns. "Trump search inventory reveals new details from FBI seizure:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-6bd103a8e418166b17a34d77e8d9102d

* "What to understand about the empty folders found at Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/what-to-understand-about-the-empty-folders-found-at-mar-a-lago-147647557870

* "Folder marked ‘classified’ apparently on display at Trump 45-themed bar:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/folder-marked-classified-apparently-on-display-at-trump-s-45-themed-bar-147640901659

* "Sparse precedent could earn Supreme Court attention for Mar-a-Lago search:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/sparse-precedent-could-earn-supreme-court-attention-for-mar-a-lago-search-147648581835

* "Review of possibly privileged Trump papers already over:" https://apnews.com/article/florida-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-92eadcf7c102d1f64b8603caa816e796

* "Days before Mar-a-Lago subpoena, Trump lawyer claimed she scoured his office, closets and drawers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/31/days-before-mar-a-lago-subpoena-trump-lawyer-claimed-she-scoured-trumps-office-closets-00054369

* "Trump team likely sought to conceal classified docs at Mar-a-Lago, DOJ tells judge:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/30/trump-justice-department-filing-warrant-00054319

* "Obstruction now a major focus in Trump documents probe:" https://apnews.com/article/florida-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-05541b18c364a484891f2b3076bf1847

* "Trump Mar–a-Lago affidavit reveals ‘handwritten notes,’ highly classified material led to warrant request:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/26/trump-mar-a-lago-affidavit-release-00053944

* "If It Were Anyone Else, They’d Be Prosecuted:" https://politicalwire.com/2022/08/31/if-it-were-anyone-else-theyd-be-prosecuted/

* "Three weeks after Trump announced FBI search he's yet to say why he had documents at Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-mishandling-of-classified-documents-now-under-review-for-security-risks-147298373770

* "House committee reaches deal to get Trump financial records:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-personal-taxes-subpoenas-investigations-962ba3fef1ae51133a53005a289b675c

* "Ex-NYPD officer sentenced to record 10 years for Jan. 6 riot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ex-nypd-officer-gets-10-years-in-prison-for-jan-6-attack/2022/09/01/5284375e-2a34-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html

* "Rioter who encountered senator gets over 4 years in prison:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rioter-who-encountered-senator-gets-over-4-years-in-prison/2022/08/29/529497c8-27bb-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html

* "Man suspected of randomly killing 3 ‘terrorized’ Detroit, police chief says:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/midwest/ct-aud-detroit-shootings-suspect-20220829-tnlwyafd7jfhtb7znxi6kv6uka-story.html

* "A Venezuelan family's harrowing, 10-country trek to New York City, with their Pitbull in tow:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/us/venezuela-family-journey-new-york/index.html

* "Dust and Bones:" https://atmos.earth/climate-change-heat-mexico-border-migrant-deaths/

* Do Not Want. "Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-d395409ef5a8c6c3f6cdab5b1d0e27ef

* "The Humiliating History of the TSA:" https://www.theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa-history-airport-security-theater-homeland

* "Panel: West Point should rename Lee Barracks, nix KKK art:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/panel-west-point-should-rename-lee-barracks-nix-kkk-art/2022/09/01/e95ca73e-2a42-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html

* "Christian Mission Ousted from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation after Distribution of Hate Materials:" https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/christian-mission-ousted-from-pine-ridge-indian-reservation-after-distribution-of-hate-materials

* "‘The results confirm our fears’: Federal school test scores dropped during pandemic:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/01/federal-school-test-scores-dropped-pandemic-00054414

* "Judge tosses suit that tried to deem books obscene for kids:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/judge-tosses-suit-deem-books-obscene-kids-89070787

* "Gender Queer author says it's 'dangerous' to ban books on LGBTQ+ people and sex:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/02/gender-queer-maia-kobabe-dangerous-ban-lgbtq-books/

* It includes massive racist censorship of libraries and curriculum as well. "Texas School District Adopts Antigay, Anti-Trans Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/24/texas-school-district-adopts-antigay-anti-trans-policies

* CW: Sexual Abuse, Domestic Abuse. "The DISTURBING Depp & Marilyn Manson Texts. Is Manson's Wife a Victim or "Amber 2.0"?:"

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* "California bill to make vasectomies cheaper goes to governor:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/california-bill-make-vasectomies-cheaper-governor-89129882

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* CW: Rape "Ukrainian Refugees Arrive In Reproductive Rights Nightmare:"

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* "Abortion pill: Why Japanese women will need their partner's consent to get a tablet:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62515356

* "Their ancestors came to America. After Dobbs, they want out.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/08/29/dual-citizenship-european-union-germany-italy/

* This is terrifying. "U.S. government sues Idaho data company it says tracks people at abortion clinics:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/us-government-sues-idaho-data-company-says-tracks-people-abortion-clin-rcna45316

* "New Texas trigger law makes abortion a felony:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/27/1119795665/new-texas-trigger-law-makes-abortion-a-felony

* "Veterans Affairs says it will provide abortions — even in Texas:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/02/va-abortions-veterans-texas/

* "South Carolina House approves abortion ban with exceptions:" https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Abortion-ban-faces-exceptions-fight-in-South-17406528.php

* Republicans are absolutely ideologically opposed to democracy and human rights."Abortion bans are terrible. The debates over them are actually worse.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/09/01/abortion-ban-bill-south-carolina-house/

* "Michigan Republicans block abortion referendum, setting up showdown:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/31/michigan-abortion-ballot/

* "'We're a part of this movement, too.' Transgender and nonbinary people say they feel excluded from the abortion fight:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/us/transgender-nonbinary-abortion-reproductive-care-reaj/index.html

* "Forced parenthood and failing safety nets: This is life in post-Roe America:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/abortion-bans-states-social-safety-net-dobbs/

* "Forced Pregnancy Is What They Want, Not What They're Willing to Tolerate:"

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* "Cost of living crisis forcing trans youth to 'choose between eating and hormones':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/31/akt-cost-of-living-crisis-lgbtq-trans-youth/

* Security decided to allow people to use the memorial to our dead as a urinal and made zero effort to protect it. "National Trans Memorial 'irreparably damaged' by fire during Manchester Pride:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/30/nation-trans-memorial-fire-manchester-pride/

* "Wisc. School Board Affirms Ban on Pride Displays & Preferred Pronouns:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/19/wisc-school-board-affirms-ban-pride-displays-preferred-pronouns

* "Anti-Trans Policy on Bathroom Access Considered by Va. School Board:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/8/10/anti-trans-policy-bathroom-access-considered-va-school-board

* "Judge Blocks Utah Trans Sports Ban, While Probe of Athlete Emerges:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/8/19/judge-blocks-utah-trans-sports-ban-while-probe-athlete-emerges

* "Children's hospitals are the latest target of anti-LGBTQ harassment:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119634878/childrens-hospitals-are-the-latest-target-of-anti-lgbtq-harassment

* "Black trans woman Dede Ricks murdered in Detroit:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/03/dede-ricks-black-trans-woman-murder-detroit-michigan/

* "Monkeypox: US confirms 31 child cases in latest outbreak update:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/01/monkeypox-child-cases-us/

* "White House Accelerates Monkeypox Vaccine Efforts with 1.8 million Doses:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/8/18/white-house-accelerates-monkeypox-vaccine-efforts-18-million-doses

* "Newest Details on Human-to-Animal Monkeypox Transmission:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/8/17/newest-details-human-animal-monkeypox-transmission-0

* "A mutated virus, anti-vaxxers and a vulnerable population: how polio returned to the US:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/29/polio-us-vaccines-new-york-rockland-county

* "Covid, monkeypox, polio: Summer of viruses reflects travel, warming trends:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/09/01/summer-viruses-covid-19-monkeypox-polio/

* "Jeunesse the MLM Company With 16 Lawsuits to Their Name:"

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* "How Drug Users Developed a Key Approach to Fighting Covid:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/opinion/harm-reduction-covid.html

* "U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/health/life-expectancy-covid-pandemic.html

* "Bacteria’s Immune Sensors Reveal a Novel Way to Detect Viruses:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/bacterias-immune-sensors-reveal-a-novel-way-to-detect-viruses-20220829/

* "Zombie cells central to the quest for active, vital old age:" https://apnews.com/article/zombie-cells-central-quest-active-vital-old-age-e52713983444185dcd6ed116305d0764

* "The Right to Privacy for Nonspeaking Autistics:" https://neuroclastic.com/privacy-nonspeaking-nonverbal-nonspeaker-autism-autistic/

* "Britney Spears shares horrifying new details about abusive conservatorship:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/29/britney-spears-conservatorship-audio-abuse/

* "The Weird Psychological Theory behind Gym Class:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-weird-psychological-theory-behind-gym-class/

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* "Zombie ice from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches:" https://apnews.com/article/science-oceans-glaciers-greenland-climate-and-environment-9cd7662658ebbeaba05682352de8aa87

* "Ocean heat reached all-time high in 2021, report finds:" https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/ocean-heat-reached-all-time-high-2021-report-finds

* "Switzerland's vanishing glaciers threaten Europe's water supply:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62689707

* "The Colorado River drought is coming for your winter veggies:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23310631/colorado-river-drought-arizona-california-farms

* "Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02813-6

* "Pakistan floods caused by 'monsoon on steroids,' says UN chief in urgent appeal:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/asia/pakistan-flood-damage-imf-bailout-intl-hnk/index.html

* "In Pakistan, fears of waterborne diseases as floods recede:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-health-pakistan-united-nations-monsoons-6849f83a664ff0022e82a775aaf7fd3b

Want to help? https://islamic-relief.org/appeals/pakistan-floods-appeal/

* "A flash flood emergency in northwestern Georgia is at least a 1-in-200 year event:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/04/weather/georgia-flash-flood/index.html

* "‘Very dangerous’ heat may reignite fire season in western U.S.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/29/western-california-heatwave-fires-forecast/

* "Get ready for Southern California's hottest and longest heat wave of the year:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-29/heat-wave-southern-california-hottest-longest-2022

* "Wildfire reaches 4,240 acres in Barrett Junction area; 2 hurt, at least 4 structures destroyed:" https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2022-08-31/quick-moving-brush-fire-threatening-homes-in-barrett-junction-area-of-east-county

* "Route fire near Castaic explodes to 5,100 acres; 8 firefighters suffer heat-related injuries:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-31/fire-5-freeway-castaic-route-fire

* "Growing wildfire threatens thousands of structures in SW Oregon:" https://www.koin.com/news/wildfires/growing-rum-creek-fire-southwest-oregon-threatens-structures-08312022/

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* "The Lessons of Uzbekistan’s Lost Sea:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/08/29/uzbekistan-russia-climate-change-global-warming/

* This is a man made disaster and the goal of Republican policy making. "GOP Repeatedly Opposed Infrastructure Upgrades. Now This Mississippi City Has No Safe Water:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/30/gop-repeatedly-opposed-infrastructure-upgrades-now-mississippi-city-has-no-safe

* "Mississippi state capital has no "reliable running water" after river flooding:" https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis-flooding

* "The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, has gotten so bad, the city temporarily ran out of bottled water to give to residents:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/us/jackson-water-system-failing-tuesday/index.html

* "Water crisis in Jackson, MS is decades in the making:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/water-crisis-in-jackson-ms-is-decades-in-the-making-147391045747

* "Jackson, MS water catastrophe lays bare state's failures of governance:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/jackson-ms-water-catastrophe-lays-bare-state-s-failures-of-governance-147476549879

* "Jackson mayor slams ‘circumstances of divestment’ for contaminated water in Mississippi's capital:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jackson-mississippi-s-contaminated-water-product-of-circumstances-of-divestment-mayor-says-147646021656

* "Fishermen begin legal campaign over dead shellfish:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-62679557

* "UK looks to Sweden for a solution to nuclear waste:" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62677534

* "The Himalayas' ancient earthquake-defying design:" https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220825-kath-kuni-the-himalayas-ancient-earthquake-defying-design

* "Now hiring: US offshore wind ramps up, workers taught safety:" https://apnews.com/article/united-states-massachusetts-energy-industry-climate-and-environment-bc94888f71341ad785878203d46841fb

* "How the Car Industry Made Walking Illegal:"

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* "Robinhood: From Hero to Sellout:"

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* "Elon Musk and the Power of Money:"

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* "Elon Musk sells $7B in Tesla shares ahead of Twitter fight:" https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/elon-musk-sells-7b-tesla-shares-ahead-twitter-88188111

* "Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/africas-cold-rush-and-the-promise-of-refrigeration

* "NASA won't try to launch the Artemis 1 moon mission again for at least a few weeks:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/03/1120742884/nasa-artemis-1-launch-saturday-time-moon-mission-rocket-orion-sls

* "Rock-hunting NASA rover reveals Martian crater's surprising geology:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/rock-hunting-nasa-rover-reveals-martian-craters-surprising-geology-2022-08-25/

* "NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has made oxygen 7 times in exploration milestone:" https://www.space.com/mars-moxie-experiment-makes-oxygen

* "Seahorse fathers give birth in a unique way, new research shows:" https://phys.org/news/2022-09-seahorse-fathers-birth-unique.html

* "The mysterious inner life of the octopus:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220720-do-octopuses-feel-pain

* "Why Birds Changed Their Tune During the Pandemic:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bird-songs-changed-pandemic

* "Cry wolf? Debate over presence of wolves in Northeast:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cry-wolf-debate-presence-wolves-northeast-88889723

* "US Agents in Memphis Seize Shipped Ancient Egyptian Artifact:" https://www.voanews.com/a/us-agents-in-memphis-seize-shipped-ancient-egyptian-artifact-/6719448.html

* "History Summarized: Cleopatra:"

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* This is such a horrifying mix of good urban design and horrific Stepford fascist dystopia. "Defunctland: Walt Disney's City of the Future, E.P.C.O.T.:"

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* "Defunctland: The History of the Worst Six Flags Coaster, Green Lantern: First Flight:"

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* "Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who ended cold war, dies aged 91:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/mikhail-gorbachev-dies-soviet-leader-92

* For balance an Eastern European perspective on Gorbachev: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/694253693907959808

* "Faust to go (Goethe in 9 minutes, English version):"

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* It's been an exhausting week. I had a ton of RL, I am bad in the heat, and I am still in the aftermath of the extreme pain incident, though noticeably improved. I haven't gotten around to scheduling the blood work follow up due to various alarms and excursions, but I can intuit some of the results from the fact that when I went to get my prescription strength D, there were two other prescription strength vitamins waiting for me. No wonder I'm exhausted. We gave up taking me off the prescription strength D for half a year... half a decade ago? Longer? My levels drop as soon as I stop taking them. My chronic anemia was fixed by a drug I was on for a while years ago, but my body seems to have finally bounced back to it's natural state. The third one, I'm pretty sure is related to me not being able to chew as my main dietary source involves fresh vegetables, which inability honestly could be causing the anemia or making it worse also. (For someone not anatomically equipped to menstruate, it's a stupid problem to have. IDK, maybe vampires? sigh.)

Actually, the blood tests were not long after we finally got an oven again (Thank all of you who helped), and honestly the no oven and no chewing were a double whammy to my nutrition since last late Winter? Spring? I've lost track. It's certainly made protein hella challenging. I bet the tests captured my absolute nadir, but it really does explain why I'm still feeling pretty crap.

As of this writing, at the turning of Wednesday into Thursday, I am a week away from being able to chew. I missed so many salad's this summer. I have gone to bed hungry because I don't have the spoons to cook something soft and most of my emergency foods I would normally eat are dangerous. I fantasize about cheese and crackers. I fantasize about toast and sandwiches and pizza and caramels and nuts.

I have eaten the first garden tomatoes though. Two undersized volunteer specimens damaged by the fucked up weather patterns over the weekend, and one full sized perfect heritage tomato I nommed today despite the slight danger posed by the skin, all three fresh from the vine and sun warmed. the flavour was so rich...

I am not explaining this past week here, because most of the things aren't mine to talk about, just know that my found family look after their own.

* We have continued to take the forage boxes, even though they are wasteful because a lot of times I'm too ill to go down in person or I have conflicting medical stuff and there's even less at the in person anyway. squirrel and I get separate boxes and we don't share food and have mutually exclusive medical diets. They put in a program a little while back where there are four types of boxes instead of one. Problem was they made us get the same type and I couldn't get the vegan box if Squirrel was to get his meat. (I'm vegetarian, not vegan, but the vegan box is the only one promising safe for me protein. In person hasn't had safe for me protein since the pandemic except for things like dried beans that are too much work).

This month they worked out a way for us to separate our deliveries and Friday we got the first split delivery. It is a lot less wasteful, and the way it's wasteful can't be helped. (EX: Squirrel can't eat eggs and won't eat carrots. I can't eat egg yolks and can only use the small amount of whites in baking. We literally haven't had an oven that could bake since last winter until a couple of weeks ago, and Ii haven't been able to chew since some point last spring. Cutting two dozen eggs to one is helpful, but we're still going to be giving eggs away to other poor people. We still can't use twenty carrots a week. When I could chew one or two carrots a week was maximum usage). There are still a bunch of things we are simply going to have to give away to other poor people or take to the food bank and things no one we know can use. (Squirrel, several of my Millennials, and I all can't digest onions, for example). There is a fundamental problem because there can't be customization at this scale, but at least having four box types is a step forward.

Get this, the vegan box came with Impossible burger meat! There was enough for two. Head Millennial made me one Saturday and it was delicious. we used tomatoes and lettuce from the garden, with ketchup and some of the good Mexican Revolutionary hot sauce. (I forget the name, but it has the round ball top?) Omnomnom.

Saturday, a few of us went out to look at Halloween store displays (aka. free haunted houses), as Spirit opened up at the mall. While we were out I got fresh fruit and an eggplant, head Millennial promises to cook when we are not so tired.

It's not that we've been ignoring my nutrition, but it has been just stupid hard to make good food I can eat until recently. It's still a struggle. I'm so tired of being hungry all the time.

Wednesday can't come soon enough. I noticed when brushing Saturday morning the preliminary's starting to loosen. I'm hoping it will hold together until Wednesday as it already hurts when I brush.

* The sky is still the wrong colour and everything smells scorched and toxic, but round about Thursday or Friday, the wind pattern snapped back into something like normal. We even had a little drizzle Sunday evening. We can't dismantle the heavy air filtration until the inland fires are done, but everything is much more bearable now in our tiny micro-climate.

I am still tired and hungry, but I'm starting to feel a little better. There was a really good sale on Beyond Burger when we stopped in to the Cheapie looking for soft foods, so I got some. It's not that I don't have Bocas in my freezer, but something in this feels like it's filling a nutritional hole. Pea protein? IDK. They are usually far to expensive to buy, but I'm guessing theirs a local glut or something. They are too much work for me to cook in my current state, but Head Millennial can make them well.

* Thank you to everyone who contributed to the recent fundraiser. Friday, I was informed the transwoman is housed and has funds to carry her to safety in the North once her paperwork is sorted.

* Every time they run that add where the father tells his daughter he loves his son best and then the father and son smugly fist bump and the ad pretends this is cute and funny I want to slap an ad executive and whoever okayed it at whatever company's product is is trying to sell. Some kind of chicken? IDK. I don't eat meat, so really all I notice is the decision to normalize cruelty and emotional abuse in an ad that runs multiple times an hour.

What kind of monster thinks this is okay?

* I am disgruntled over the Animal Kingdom finale. I'm fine with what happens to Craig. Andrew's fate, annoying as the Jay outcome is, made complete sense with his series character arc and this season's arc particularly, so it worked for me. I was pretty sure this was where Jay's arc was going from season one on and much as I'd have loved a twist, it makes character and narrative sense, and I never let my hopes get up for something different.

It's Darren that burns me. It seems to me they could have cut like 30 seconds of the endless boring shot of Jay looking around and used that to show a quick shot of Darren in an airport disembarkation area. If it wasn't worth the price of Adrian's actor or he wasn't available, they could have shot over the shoulder of a body double to show Darren's face as he sees who's waiting. They could close shot as they wrap their arms around each other. Simple, neat, and they'd have one fucking arc in there with a happy ending, for the character who's arc all series was realizing he wanted something better for himself and that included love.

Instead, a brilliantly acted devastating scene, but no real resolution. Did he make it to Mexico and on to Thailand or Indonesia? Get shot by cops? Get arrested?

With Black Sails, the Schrodinger's ending made sense thematically and characterize given the double layer of unreliable narration. I don't hate ambiguous endings where they fit with everything else. I hate it here because you have four characters we've been following since episode one, and oops! Only the gay one doesn't get a real ending of his own, just again a beautiful acted reaction to the end of the least interesting of the four character's story, and it feels so fucking cheap and having had at least half the season to anticipate them selling the gay character's arc short doesn't make me any less disgusted by it.

* Am I furious over the "Freddie" episode of What We Do in the Shadows for at least five reasons? Yes. I'm waiting to see where the last episode goes before I decide where I am on the show as a whole.

* A Dracula Daily exchange I am proud of regarding 8/31's entry (Arthur begging Seward to examine Lucy): https://krinsbez.tumblr.com/post/694198358156443648/random-dracula-thoughts-august-30th

* "Act of Grace: Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Queer Catharsis in Our Flag Means Death:" https://www.tor.com/2022/04/25/act-of-grace-masculinity-monstrosity-and-queer-catharsis-in-our-flag-means-death/

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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.

* Pakistan is experiencing absolutely catastrophic floods: https://islamic-relief.org/appeals/pakistan-floods-appeal/

* Fundraiser for a librarian under threat for Fighting Censorship: https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fees-for-librarian-amanda-jones

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* "The crop that put women on top:" https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-44688104

* "London protests send clear message to Trump: You're not welcome:" https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/13/uk/trump-visit-london-protests-intl/index.html

* "Immigration is a 'very negative thing' for Europe: Trump:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/immigration-changing-culture-europe-trump/story?id=56564695

* Sigh. "Trump won't rule out ceasing military exercises if Putin asks:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/12/politics/trump-nato-military-exercises/index.html

* Don’t hold your breath. "Dems call on Trump to cancel Putin summit after Russian hacking indictments:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-call-trump-cancel-putin-summit-after-russian-hacking-indictments-n891256

* "As Eight Guantánamo Detainees Ask for Freedom, the Trump Administration Says It Could Hold Them For 100 Years:" https://theintercept.com/2018/07/12/trump-guantanamo-detainees-release/

* "The Idle Poor and the Idle Rich:" http://prospect.org/article/idle-poor-and-idle-rich

* "Mueller Indicts 12 Russian Officers for Hacking Dems in 2016:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-indicts-12-russian-officers-for-hacking-dems-in-2016

* "Indictment: Russians tried to hack Clinton around when Trump publicly asked them to:" http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/396915-indictment-russians-tried-to-hack-clinton-around-when-trump-publicly

* Presumably so they can leak and/or intimidate witnesses more effectively as part of their conspiracy to obstruct justice. Sigh. "White House orders greater access to files on FBI informant: New...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/white-house-orders-greater-access-to-files-on-fbi-informant-new-york-times-idUSKBN1K3082

* "Federal auditor calls for recouping $341K Tom Price spent on flights:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/13/tom-price-auditor-travel-685778

* "Criticism from Ethics Watchdog Leads Commerce Secretary Ross To Sell Remaining Stocks:" https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628682930/criticism-from-ethics-watchdog-leads-commerce-secretary-ross-to-sell-remaining-s

* "Trump pick for top NASA role has no past experience in space operations:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/396806-trump-pick-for-top-nasa-role-has-no-past-experience-in-space-tech

* "The CIA Still Doesn’t Trust Jared Kushner With Its Most Sensitive Intelligence:" http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/the-cia-still-doesnt-trust-jared-kushner-with-its-intel.html

* "GOP rushing through Trump judicial nominees:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rushing-through-trump-judicial-nominees-1276746819866

* "Coal miners are dying of black lung, and a Kentucky law could make it harder to claim benefits:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwkzv4/coal-miners-are-dying-of-black-lung-and-a-kentucky-law-could-make-it-harder-to-claim-benefits

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* "How Poker (and Boredom) Can Help Solve Murders:" http://nowiknow.com/how-poker-and-boredom-can-help-solve-murders/

* "How to Become Invisible:" http://www.medievalists.net/2018/06/how-to-become-invisible/

* A fashion show in Spain where they have men from the nation Ballet Company dance the collection instead of models walk it. It is mesmerizing! There is a man doing a stylized matador dance! There are ridiculously sexy men in suits doing a Flamenco inspired group dance! Why is tins not generally a Thing? I'd love watching fashion week dance routines instead of boring catwalks:

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* I managed to get a few hours of sleep which was not nearly enough, but very much better than no sleep. Squirrel's car wouldn't go, so we couldn't take it. It turned out to be just as well. a Squirrel friend came over and it turns out to be something he can fix tomorrow himself. I made it exactly on time, as it they were unlocking the doors as I pulled in. They estimated an hour when they figured in cooling time so they wouldn't burn themselves. The actual work of cutting a new cable etc. and installing it was half an hour which sounds right given the car's anatomy. I had tea in their waiting room then went and joined the line just in time to catch a bench spot sitting down. I got the last open spot when they came with the Car, so that too was a win. The fix it price was under estimate, but not by much. I scraped it together, but the insurance auto-draw is now imperiled as well as a bill not paid to make it work. I'll check when things clear to see how bad, but my current shortage is likely in the 120.00 range. Part of that is legitimately my fault for buying... was it toilet paper, meds, and litter? at the beginning of the month. I remember the meds were extra high as I had to buy a sliding scale thing on top of the covered and small copay things. the sliding scale thing was a 6ish month supply, but one has to buy it all at once since it's a tube instead of pills or ampules. I'm going try to get it together to set up an auction over the weekend. I'm far too tired to do it properly today and tomorrow will be the same.

Anyway, I made copies of some useful lineage charts at the library before returning Margaret of York, luckily they fit on two legal sized pages. I got food away, messed with the garden, and a tank cleaned before it got too hot to move about much. I made good progress on the big box of late '90's Vertigos before I reached the "I can't stand another minute point. I filled up a the dinner meds organizer with a month's worth of doses. First meal ended up being bread and the last of the snack nuts as it was too hot and I was too tired by that point to make anything. I feel like I did pretty well for three hours of sleep in the unkindest season as far as my body is concerned.

Want to chip in? Paypal [email protected] or paypal.me/Gwydion

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

* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/

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* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border

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* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

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* "The Guardian view on Italian elections: a lesson for progressives:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/05/the-guardian-view-on-italian-elections-a-lesson-for-progressives

* "Trump praises Chinese president extending tenure 'for life':" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-china/trump-praises-chinese-president-extending-tenure-for-life-idUSKCN1GG015

* "U.S. pushes NAFTA talks pace, warns of political headwinds:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade-nafta/canada-mexico-push-back-on-trumps-fair-nafta-deal-suggestion-idUSKBN1GH0LQ

* "Paul Ryan urges Trump not to advance with tariffs:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-ryan/paul-ryan-urges-trump-not-to-advance-with-tariffs-spokeswoman-idUSKBN1GH2LF

* "Obama official says Mitch McConnell 'watered down' Russia warning in 2016:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/denis-mcdonough-mcconnell-watered-down-russia-warning-2016-n853016

* "Rex Tillerson reportedly squandered over $60 million that he was offered to counter Russian election meddling:" http://www.businessinsider.com/state-department-not-fighting-russian-election-meddling-2018-3

* "67 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/05/climate/trump-environment-rules-reversed.html

* "‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast Extra: The Trump Organization Ordered Golf Course Markers With the Presidential Seal. That May Be Illegal.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-extra-the-trump-organization-ordered-golf-course-markers-with-the-presidential-seal-that-may-be-illegal

* This is long, but it's important. "Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier

* "Mueller's hit list:" https://www.axios.com/robert-muller-questions-list-trump-russia-54d00d1c-f008-457c-b304-ee601a98d78c.html

* "It’s not just Russia — Mueller is digging into Trump associates’ potentially corrupt foreign ties:" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/5/17080302/trump-russia-news-kushner-mueller

* "SEC dropped probe shortly after company gave loan to Jared Kushner's family firm: AP:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sec-drops-probe-after-company-gives-loan-to-jared-kushners-family-firm/

* "Ex-aide Sam Nunberg backs away from vow to fight Mueller subpoena:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/ex-aide-won-t-comply-subpoena-says-trump-may-have-n853771

* "Democrats' 'Resistance' to Trump Is Eroding, and So Are Their Poll Numbers:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/democrats-resistance-to-trump-is-eroding-and-so-are-their-poll-numbers/552845/

* "10 years after financial crisis, Senate prepares to roll back banking rules:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/10-years-after-financial-crisis-senate-prepares-to-roll-back-banking-rules/2018/03/04/e6115438-1e37-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.htmlv

I know this isn't glamorous, but we need to resist this one Hard, because the last thing we need is a repeat of the Bush world financial crisis.

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* "Anacaona, (c.1474-1503), Poet Queen of Haiti:" http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/anacaona

* Re: Belarussian Escort. Everything is pretty speculative there, though I'm in the camp that she legitimately fears for her life. I'm not going to comment on the information she's trying to sell for asylum until whatever she has has been properly obtained and analyzed.

* "40 Years Later, Jonestown Survivor Speaks Out on Massacre That Nearly Killed 1,000:" https://www.theroot.com/jonestown-survivor-speaks-out-on-massacre-that-nearly-k-1823320525

* A reminder about Sealioning. We do not owe them our time and energy. http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/171348212070/anfem-cripplepunk-runicscribbles

* I did go out and get provisions Saturday, which used up most of the spoons. Sunday was a rest day. Monday was forage, dentist and sundry errands. So this was the tooth Asshole dentist messed up last time I had money for the dental copay, and the tooth was rather fucked up. Luckily most of this dental work is the back side of the teeth, which is usual for me. As has been the case this year generally, I had the same number of teeth needing work when I left as I needed going in as the new extra showed a new, admittedly small problem. We are still working on my left lower teeth as a result. Sigh. On the upside it is clearly helping. At the same time this was a bad one and I ended up having to take one of the mid-level pain pills, which I then threw up. Charming. So I hurt and am miserable and generally queasy, but I've hopes of better sleep tonight and Tuesday being better. I did use up most of my leg spoons for the day.

I have opted to pay property tax instead of all the bills but insurance this month on the grounds that housing is always first. It has to be. This means I absolutely have to do an auction this month to try to make up enough to pay at least one of the bills I'm ignoring in favour of spending nearly all my social security on securing housing the next six months. I expect to be something in the neighborhood of two hundred down total, but I won't know how bad it is until mid-month when the other shoe inevitably drops.

If you'd like to chip in towards this months bills, including medication: Paypal [email protected]

Tavy is entirely well again and bored enough to be picking fights all weekend as a result. Poor Livia, while not nearly as sick as Tavy was, is hating her cold and mostly attempting to sleep through it, poor Beastie, hence Tavy's boredom.

I was Supposed to be reading a new and interesting book about Rome, but I couldn't tear myself away from the Guy book on the later part Elizabeth I's reign. We are trundling towards the end, Essex finally having destroyed himself yesterday. This book is so damned good, but I expected nothing less, having read his Tudors back in college.

* Nakia Saved Wakanda: http://the-alexandrian-alchemist.tumblr.com/post/171575886906/obirinlover-gayhura-lj-writes

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Winter Olympics 2018: Cas Russia ruling 'craven and spineless':" http://www.bbc.com/sport/winter-olympics/42909132

* "Poland provokes Israeli anger with Holocaust speech law:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/01/poland-holocaust-speech-law-senate-israel-us

* "Mexico to send troops to stem violence after record 25,000 murders:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence/mexico-to-send-troops-to-stem-violence-after-record-25000-murders-idUSKBN1FH0W2

* "'I was 12 when I married a 35-year-old':" http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42794898

* "Cape Town cuts water use limit by nearly half:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/africa/cape-town-water-crisis-intl/index.html

* "An Art Museum's Yelp Reviews Go Down The Toilet After Spectacular White House Dig:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/guggenheim-trump-online-reviews_us_5a6f341be4b01fbbefb41200

* "Trump administration shrinks CFPB's oversight in discrimination cases:" https://www.axios.com/trump-administration-shrinks-cfpb-oversight-discrimination-a7de31dd-8906-4b4a-af41-6fdc37c0a9ef.html

* Well this is a terrible idea. "CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/02/01/cdc-to-cut-by-80-percent-efforts-to-prevent-global-disease-outbreak/?utm_term=.0f8e793dc2f6

* "Former Trump Aide Carter Page Was on U.S. Counterintelligence Radar Before Russia Dossier:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-trump-aide-carter-page-was-on-u-s-counterintelligence-radar-before-russia-dossier-1517486401

* "Reported memo focus on Page won't help Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-faith-misplaced-in-memo-reportedly-focused-on-carter-page-1151907907667?playlist=associated

* "Hope Hicks allegedly said Don Jr. emails 'will never get out':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hope-hicks-allegedly-said-don-jr-emails-will-never-get-out-1151813187717

* "Behind Pence’s plan to rescue the Republican majority in 2018:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/01/mike-pence-republicans-congress-midterms-381261

* "Officials raised ethics concerns over Ben Carson's son assisting HUD event:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/371661-hud-officials-worried-about-involvement-of-ben-carsons-son-in

* "State of the Union: Democratic rebuttal by Joe Kennedy III:"

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* I've been wondering about this. Has anyone seen polling? "What is the deal with Devin Nunes?:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/devin-nunes-memo-antics-are-not-playing-well-at-home-1151828547992

* "Top Pennsylvania Republican Says He'll Ignore Court Order To Help Fix Gerrymandering:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joseph-scarnati-gerrymandering-pennsylvania_us_5a723db6e4b05253b27550c2

* "Penn. GOP leader ignores court order on gerrymandering:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/penn-gop-leader-ignores-court-order-on-gerrymandering-1151825987934

* "New York Is Holding A Statewide Primary On Rosh Hashanah:" https://forward.com/fast-forward/392898/new-york-is-holding-a-statewide-primary-on-rosh-hashanah/

* "Josh Hawley blames sex trafficking on ‘sexual revolution’ of 1960s in leaked audio:" http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article197613959.html

* How is this not a human rights abuse? "Trump officials considered contentious method to 'reverse' undocumented teen's abortion:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/31/scott-lloyd-considered-controversial-method-reverse-abortion

* "California Murder Suspect Said to Have Trained With Extremist Hate Group:" https://www.propublica.org/article/california-murder-suspect-atomwaffen-division-extremist-hate-group

* Why "they" can't "just get in line:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170414903497/i-was-talking-with-a-more-conservative-minded

* Eeew. TW: Contains images of the offending garment. "Not a Good Look: The SCA Swastika Incident:" https://www.publicmedievalist.com/sca-swastika/

* "Ohio Considering Pro-TBLGQ Rights Legislation:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/01/ohio-considering-pro-tblgq-rights.html

* "Last year, June was National Pride Month. This year, it isn’t.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/27/last-year-june-was-national-pride-month-this-year-it-isnt/?utm_term=.38e7711226ab

* NWS. "Orientation Police:" http://comics.billroundy.com/?p=1116

* "A Norwegian plane carrying 85 plumbers had to turn around after experiencing plumbing issues:" http://www.newsweek.com/plane-carrying-plumbers-has-plumbing-issue-795504

* "Memo Combat: The GOP Goes After the Trump-Russia Probe:"

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* "Russian News Reports: U.S. Dropping Sanctions:"

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* "State Dept Saw 'No Need' To Impose Russia Sanctions:"

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* "The State of the Union Needs an Emotional Support Peacock:"

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* "The Choices of Master Samwise:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/sam-choices-master-samwise-lotr-reread/

* "Black Lightning Gives us Grace Choi:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/black-lightning-1x03/

* American Gothic Creepy: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/170375381174/etrianexplorer-thebibliosphere

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Tax vote a handy excuse for Mike Pence:"

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* "FBI warned Trump in 2016 to report Russian overtures:"

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* "Trump: inching America towards authoritarianism?:"

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* Let them eat Cake. "Trump Asks ‘How’s Your 401(k)?’ But Most Voters Don’t Have One:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-19/trump-asks-how-s-your-401-k-but-most-voters-don-t-have-one

* "EPA ends contract with GOP opposition research firm after media reports:" http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/365619-epa-ends-contract-with-gop-opposition-research-firm-after-media

* "GOP attack on Mueller probe falls apart:"

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* "Mueller team expects to work well into 2018:"

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* "FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn rips net neutrality ruling:"

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* "Activist with ALS protests tax bill's health care cuts:"

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* "GOP tax bill would benefit the people voting on it:"

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* "Sen Murphy: GOP tax bill a gift to donors:"

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* This does a good job of explaining how Draconian and corrupt this is. "GOP set to make rich richer with new tax bill:"

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* "Republicans in Senate pass sweeping tax measure, bill returns to House after snafu:" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-expected-pass-tax-reform-measure/story?id=51870650

* "Tax bill whacks liberal big cities:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/19/cities-republican-tax-bill-304123

* "Warner on GOP tax plan: 'Worst piece of legislation that I've seen since I've been in the Senate':" https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/18/mark-warner-on-gop-tax-plan-worst-piece-of-legislation-ive-seen.html

* "Connecticut to end children's health program unless it gets money from Congress:" http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/365598-connecticut-to-end-childrens-health-program-unless-it-gets-money-from

* "One-vote recount win gives Democrats tie in Virginia state House:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/19/democrats-tie-virginia-house-of-delegates-244598

* "Tom Perez, DNC Chairman, on black voters securing Alabama:"

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* "Kaine's bid for Senate harassment data rejected:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/18/kaine-senate-harassment-data-304736

* "Puerto Rico to admit Maria death toll far too low:"

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* "Ex-student accused of harassing black roommate not charged with a hate crime:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/ex-student-accused-harassing-black-roommate-avoids-hate-crime-charge-n830876

* "Why the idea that the English have a common Anglo-Saxon origin is a myth:" https://phys.org/news/2017-12-idea-english-common-anglo-saxon-myth.html

* "Historic finds unearthed in Medieval cemetery:" https://phys.org/news/2017-12-historic-unearthed-medieval-cemetary.html

* "Graveyard excavation's medieval mysteries:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-42311255

* "The Unipiper Dresses as a Rebel Pilot and Takes Down an AT-AT While Playing Flaming Bagpipes:" https://laughingsquid.com/the-unipiper-takes-down-an-at-at/

* Star Trek Animated Series:

1:2 Yesteryear. The time travel plot makes no logical sense at all, and I have so many lingering questions about Vulcan culture that this makes worse. This one's also a tad sexist.

1:3 One of our Planets is Missing. Ah, that classic battle: Mn vs. Cloud. Somehow shooting the cloud doesn't work. Who'd have guessed? <.< >.> I do like them using the cartoon medium to make actual aliens beyond the forehead of the week and the space drawings look significantly better than the live action. Look, it's primitive animation, but they are using it well. Actual prime directive debate, a weird technically assisted mind meld. I think the Doctor Who Space whale plot may have been stolen from this. Sort of.

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Inside Bell’s Push To End Net Neutrality In Canada:" http://www.canadalandshow.com/bell-pushing-end-to-net-neutrality-in-canada/

* "Trump unveils national security plan, blasts previous presidents:" https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/18/politics/trump-national-security-strategy/index.html

* "Putin calls Trump to thank him for shared intelligence information:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/putin-calls-trump-thank-him-sharing-intelligence-information-n830531

* Yet another smoking gun. "FBI told Trump Russians would try to infiltrate his campaign:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-warned-trump-2016-russians-would-try-infiltrate-his-campaign-n830596

* "Mueller obtains "tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails:" https://www.axios.com/scoop-mueller-obtains-tens-of-thousands-of-trump-transition-emails-2517994590.html

* "Trump predicts exoneration in Russia investigation as allies fear a 'meltdown':" https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/18/politics/trump-russia-investigation/index.html

* This is a nonsense claim. I've worked both Library and K-12 jobs. They briefed us on Public Records/FOIA and that our emails on government machines weren't private. There was a fricking warning banner right there every time we logged in. My Mom's third career was in Domestic Relations. Every email she sent or received had the FOIA warning on it. No way they could have not known those were public records. If it applies to the person shelving books at your local library and the person teaching civics to your 8th grader, how much more does it apply to the future President and his staff. Executive Privilege does not extend to things that happen before swearing in. There is no Attorney client privilege if you are communicating in public with someone who isn't your attorney. "Trump transition lawyer accuses Mueller of unlawfully obtaining emails:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/16/mueller-trump-transition-emails-lawyer-299577

* The fix is in. "House Republicans prepare to wrap up Russia investigation:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-prepare-wrap-contentious-russia-investigation-n830561

* "Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner are sued over financial disclosures:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/17/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-sued-financial-disclosures-302240

* "Trump Judicial Nominee Drops Out After Embarrassing Hearing:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-judicial-nominee-matthew-petersen_us_5a37ec14e4b0ff955ad51e82

* The 60% of working American who make the least will have their taxes go up to benefit the richest 1% when the Senate passes the Tax scam tomorrow or Wednesday.

* "Carolers Protest Tax Bill By Singing Revised Christmas Songs Outside Office of Senator John Cornyn:" https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/us/carolers-protest-tax-bill-by-singing-revised-christmas-songs-outside-office-of-senator-john-cornyn/vp-BBH0lop

* Yep, they are personally benefiting from robbing 60% of workers and stealing people's health care. "Senator Bob Corker Said He Hasn’t Read The Tax Bill, Denies Changing His Vote In Exchange For Personal Tax Breaks:" www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/senator-bob-corker-said-he-hasnt-read-tax-bill-denies-changing-his-vote-exchange

* "Protesters arrested in demonstrations at Collins’ offices:" https://bangordailynews.com/2017/12/18/news/bangor/three-protesters-arrested-by-federal-official-at-collins-bangor-office/

* Don't hold your breath on it passing the House, but it's a valiant attempt. "“There will be a [Senate] vote” to reinstate net neutrality, Schumer says:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/there-will-be-a-senate-vote-to-reinstate-net-neutrality-schumer-says/

* I’ve been on this route so many times both by train and on I-5 and the high speed rail construction made several of my last trips more complicated and/or slow. I am all for high speed rail, which we need desperately. At the same time the whole not using the latest safety tech worries me, and I am absolutely horrified that this thing has happened.

These are real places for me and this could have so easily been me or one of my friends. I just... these things keep happening here and in Europe and they shouldn’t.

My thoughts are with the survivors and the families of the dead. "Three dead after Amtrak train derails near Tacoma, Washington:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amtrak-derailment-train-crashes-near-tacoma-washington-n830751

* TW: Sexual Harassment "US judge resigns for sexual misconduct:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42401601

* "Judge tells Trump officials to allow two 17-year-old immigrants to obtain abortions; government concedes in one case:" http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-abortion-migrant-20171218-story.html

* Queer History: Butch and Femme: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168705325788/softbutchelliewilliams-idk-if-this-has-been

* "The Next Weird:" http://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-12-14/next-weird

* "Visitors from the Intermediate Bronze Age? Crescent Headed Figures in Negev Rock Art:" http://asorblog.org/2017/12/12/visitors-intermediate-bronze-age-crescent-headed-figures-negev-rock-art/

* "Canaanites of Hazor risked farming dainty sheep, while neighbors stuck to goats:" https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.828899

* "Ancient feces reveal parasites described in earliest Greek medical texts:" https://phys.org/news/2017-12-ancient-feces-reveal-parasites-earliest.html

* "Ancient Roman Saturnalia Festival beckons area Latin students:" http://www.mainlinemedianews.com/mainlinesuburbanlife/opinion/as-i-see-it-ancient-roman-saturnalia-festival-beckons-area/article_6b6e9e83-b21a-55f1-b94f-da7b0c4b4582.html

* "The grim reality of the brothels of Pompeii:" https://theconversation.com/the-grim-reality-of-the-brothels-of-pompeii-88853

* Monday, I very nearly missed my forage window, having been trapped under a sedimentary layer of peacefully napping cats. I did all the things on the list, but it wore me out. Today, I needed proper sleep, but I had Doctor/Bureaucracy, so out I went into rain/sleet/snow. It was full dark when I was done, but the sky chose rain instead of the less pleasant options. I am so tired I despair of making sense, so likely i will slope off to bed after sorting a few necessary things out.

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "What Is An Ex-Georgian President Doing Camping Outside Ukraine's Parliament?:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/07/569132334/what-is-an-ex-georgian-president-doing-camping-outside-ukraines-parliament

* "Michael Gove: voters can change EU deal if they don't like it:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/09/michael-gove-voters-can-change-eu-deal-if-they-dont-like-it

* "Saudi Arabia's Leader Spent $450 Million On A Painting. Here's What That Could Do For Victims Of His War In Yemen.:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/saudi-yemen-mbs-painting-aid_us_5a2999c2e4b0b185e53a3ce8

* "Two Palestinians shot dead and one critical in riots after Trump speech:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/08/palestinian-shot-dead-in-gaza-as-protesters-clash-with-israeli-troops-in-west-bank

* So they decided to systematically exclude Jewish Democrats from an historically bipartisan Hanukah celebration on a partisan political basis to make it less political. O.o Can they hear themselves when they talk? "Trump to Jewish Democrats: No Hanukkah party for you:" http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article188644224.html

* TW: Sexual Assault. "WH: Trump treats women with 'highest level of respect':" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/363804-wh-trump-treats-women-with-highest-level-of-respect

* "Trump offers second Moore endorsement days before Alabama election:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/08/trump-endorses-roy-moore-again-287143

* Except he will, just at a difference ceremony. "Trump will not speak publicly at opening of Civil Rights Museum:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-will-not-speak-publicly-opening-mississippi-s-civil-rights-n827861

* "Trump admin scraps Obama-era proposal requiring airlines to disclose bag fees:" http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/363956-trump-admin-scraps-obama-era-proposal-requiring-airlines-to-disclose

* "Devin Nunes spoke to Erik Prince about House Intel testimony despite recusal from the Russia probe:" http://www.businessinsider.com/erik-prince-testimony-house-intel-committee-devin-nunes-russia-probe-2017-12

* Wave Goodbye to any chance of real investigation in the House. "Rep. Devin Nunes cleared of allegations that he disclosed classified information in Russia investigation:" http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-nunes-russia-ethics-20171207-story.html

* "Judge presiding over Michael Flynn criminal case is recused: court:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-flynn/judge-presiding-over-michael-flynn-criminal-case-is-recused-court-idUSKBN1E202V

* "Email pointed Trump campaign to WikiLeaks documents:" https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/politics/email-effort-give-trump-campaign-wikileaks-documents/index.html

* "Trump senior aide Dina Powell to resign early next year: White House:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-powell/trump-senior-aide-dina-powell-to-resign-early-next-year-white-house-idUSKBN1E22IO

* How to save the Internet: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/168331422241/net-neutrality

* Now is a fine time to contact her to complain about the Tax Scam if she's your senator. "Collins' Obamacare deal faces moment of truth:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/08/susan-collins-obamacare-deal-213254

* Fuckssake. "The Activist Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Says It’s “Long Past Time” The Justice Department Looked Into It:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/the-justice-department-is-taking-steps-to-investigate?utm_term=.yd2OV1JJ07#.dsNl0NQQoW

* "Puerto Rico's Death Toll May Be 1,052, New York Times Analysis Finds:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/puerto-ricos-death-toll-1052-nytimes-analysis-finds_us_5a2af857e4b0a290f0509d4e

* TW: Sexual Harassment. "Accuser's confidante: Trent Franks offered $5M for surrogacy:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/politics/trent-franks-surrogacy-accuser/index.html

* TW: Pedophilia. "Why these Alabama voters are sticking by Roy Moore:" https://news.vice.com/story/why-these-alabama-voters-are-sticking-by-roy-moore

* TW: Sexual Harassment. "Kaine calls on Senate to publicly release sexual harassment claims:" http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/363754-dem-wants-to-publicly-release-the-number-of-sexual-harassment-claims-filed

* TW: Sexual Harassment. "Aide who accused Texas Rep. Farenthold of sexual harassment to cooperate with House Ethics investigation:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2017/12/07/aide-accused-texas-rep-farenthold-sexual-harassment-cooperate-house-ethics-investigation

* TW: Sexual Harassment. "Democrat Kihuen hanging on despite harassment claim:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/07/ruben-kihuen-harassment-claim-286781

* TW: Sexual Harassment. "Hastings says never told of $220K settlement for sex harassment claims against him:" https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2017/12/08/treasury-department-settled-220-000-sexual-harassment-case-for-congressman-alcee-hastings-in-2014-8634339

* Why is there no coverage at all in even the local paper about the ongoing protest against police clearance of homeless camps and for housing first on the courthouse Downtown? Seriously fuck the Herald and their shittastic right wing editorial policies.

* TW: contains footage of police murdering an unarmed man while begging for his life. "Mesa Police shooting: Daniel Shaver seen crawling, begging in disturbing video:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mesa-police-shooting-daniel-shaver-seen-crawling-begging-in-disturbing-video/

* TW: contains horrifying quotes made of Hate Speech. ""White Sharia" and militant white nationalism:" https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/11/27/white-sharia-and-militant-white-nationalism

* "Ex-cop Michael Slager sentenced to 20 years for Walter Scott killing:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/07/us/michael-slager-sentencing/index.html

* Ha! "Gay man denied a marriage license by Kim Davis is now running against her:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/kim-davis-david-ernold-campaign-trnd/index.html

* "Historical signs now mark site where slaves were sold in Camden:" http://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2017/11/nj_slave_markets_recognized_in_camden.html

* "'This is surreal': descendants of slaves and slaveowners meet on US plantation:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/16/us-slavery-descendants-plantation-mississippi

* "The Walking Dead, Season 8, Episode 7: Time for After:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/12/the-walking-dead-season-8-episode-7.html

* Cersei Lannister's terrible plan. http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/168216316487/could-you-outline-the-reasons-why-cerseis-plan

* What Varys wanted with Ned Stark: http://poorquentyn.tumblr.com/post/168261567798/what-role-would-varys-set-up-for-ned-had-he-been

* Representation Matters in Science Fiction Cannon: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/168350786787

* OMG! Read the 1 Star reviews! https://www.amazon.com/Trump-America-Great-Collectible-Ornament/product-reviews/B01N67D8HO/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm_2?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&pageNumber=2

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* The Russian Olympic Ban has been coming for a long time. The question was only whether or not the IOC had the guts to pull the trigger. The evidence that their entire verification system has been corrupted from top officials down to the testing labs is pretty overwhelming. The doping has been systematized on a bureaucratic scale. Putin basically gambled that if they cheated on a big enough scale they could get away with it. They lost.

I do think letting clean athletes compete individually is the only fair decision. There is now talk of Russia boycotting and not allowing clean athletes to compete. The only people this is going to harm are the people that didn't cheat, particularly their women figure skaters who are currently the best in the world. It will be a shame if they don't go, since the window in which people can skate at the top level is very short and getting shorter. If one only has one to at most three chances to win a medal, losing their best chance at Gold is a personal tragedy. To lose that chance because Putin is pouting because rules still mean something on an International level has to be heartbreaking. If they go through with punishing their own people for being honest, I will feel bad for those athletes that lost their chance, but changing the rules to allow large scale cheating without any consequences can not and should not be an option. I do hope Evgenia Medvedeva foot heals in time for her to compete because she is the best in the world and her team mates are amazing, and that Putin let's them come. They deserve their best chance to be remembered for all the work they've put in. I will be sorry if they don't get that chance, but it's Putin's petulance that will be at fault, not the IOC.

* "How the Kremlin Tried to Rig the Olympics, and Failed:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/kremlin-doping-scandal-sochi-winter-olympics/547616/

* "West Africa's biggest solar farm launched in Burkina Faso:" http://www.africanews.com/2017/11/30/west-africa-s-biggest-solar-farm-launched-in-burkina-faso/

* "British Intelligence Reportedly Foils Plot To Kill Prime Minister:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/06/568753249/british-intelligence-reportedly-foils-plot-to-kill-prime-minister

* "Catalonia’s Puigdemont says to stay in Belgium ‘for now’:" https://guardian.ng/news/catalonias-puigdemont-says-to-stay-in-belgium-for-now/

* "Ramaphosa takes lead in ANC battle:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42236102

* "'Millions misspent' during Mandela funeral:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42224937

* Well, fuck. "The West Backed the Wrong Man in Ukraine:" https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-05/the-west-backed-the-wrong-man-in-ukraine

* "Top German official: Relations with US ‘will never be the same’ after Trump:" http://thehill.com/policy/international/363489-top-german-official-relations-with-us-will-never-be-the-same-after-trump

* "Supreme Court backs Trump travel ban:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42231806

* I have so many questions still about 45's attempt to start a war in Israel. Amoung them are: Do Republicans in general believe our Israel policy should be in part determined by literal Neo-NAZI, Steve Bannon, or is it only 33%? Why are Republicans okay with 45 doing this incredibly dangerous thing also in part as pay back to one specific political donor who bought this as his personal project? So did 45 slur his way through his Jerusalem speech because of a denture issue, or did he have a stroke?

* "Trump impeachment vote fails overwhelmingly:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/trump-impeachment-vote-fail-282888

* I assume making it easier for Russian Intelligence to control out elections is the goal, not a side effect. "Experts: White House's planned voter database could draw hackers:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/politics/election-integrity-cyber-security-experts-clapper/index.html

* * Shudder* "God’s Plan for Mike Pence:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/gods-plan-for-mike-pence/546569/

* "Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed as Homeland Security secretary:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/05/kirstjen-nielsen-confirmed-as-homeland-security-secretary-281811

* The war on the middle class continues. "The abrupt reversal that shows Donald Trump’s approach to consumer protection:" https://qz.com/1148528/cfpb-donald-trumps-top-consumer-cop-is-letting-misleading-advertisers-off-the-hook/

* "Russian told Senate Trump Jr. wanted info on Clinton Foundation money:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-jr-asked-russian-lawyer-info-clinton-foundation-n826711

* That's not how attorney client privilege works. O.o "Trump Jr. Meets With House Intelligence Panel in Russia Probe:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-06/trump-jr-to-meet-house-intelligence-panel-in-russia-probe

* "Flynn texted partners about nuclear plan during inauguration, whistleblower says:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/michael-flynn-texted-nuclear-plans-whistleblower-282070

* Republicans want everyone to know that the infighting within the GOP is somehow totally the democrats' fault. "GOP leaders tamp down opposition to shutdown strategy:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/freedom-caucus-paul-ryan-shutdown-truce-282072

* "'Holy crap': Experts find tax plan riddled with glitches:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/tax-plan-glitches-mistakes-republicans-208049

If you can not protest in person, here are some options:

Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc
Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* "I’m a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/11/30/im-a-depression-historian-the-gop-tax-bill-is-straight-out-of-1929/?utm_term=.b35cc813faa1

* Can she hear herself talk? How does she do it with a straight face? "Conway defends Trump's Moore endorsement: ‘The president has tremendous moral standards’:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/363490-conway-defends-trumps-endorsement-of-moore-the-president-has

* TW: Sexual Assault. "Bette Midler demands apology from Geraldo Rivera for alleged sexual assault:" http://mashable.com/2017/11/30/bette-midler-geraldo-rivera-sexual-assault-harassment/#_anLKkOaLiq8

* TW: Sexual Assault. "Democrats stampede to drive Franken out of the Senate amid sexual misconduct allegations:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democratic-women-senators-call-franken-resign-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations-n827036

* TW: Sexual Assault. "Senate Democrats Call for Al Franken to Resign:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/al-franken-women-senators-resign/547658/

* "Two Texas Transmen Are Running For Office!:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/12/two-texas-transmen-are-running-for.html

* "Supreme Court deeply divided over gay wedding cake:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/05/speech-religion-lgbt-rights-collide-supreme-court/921458001/

* "Oceans under greatest threat in history, warns Sir David Attenborough:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/05/oceans-under-greatest-threat-in-history-warns-sir-david-attenborough

* "Homesick Phoenicians imported plants, animals to new Sicilian island home 3,000 years ago:" https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.825589

* "Native American Hand Talkers Fight to Keep Sign Language Alive:" https://www.voanews.com/a/native-american-hand-talker-fight-to-keep-signed-language-alive/3794333.html

* I lost my parking yesterday because of Fix It. I saw them staring at me out of the window as I was loading up and then scrambling, which meant I stayed up as late as I could bear in hopes of rush hour going to work people freeing up a shot. I did score close street parking, but it's not a good option. On the upside, by feet are showing signs of healing from the glass accident Monday night, with no sign of infection yet. I am monitoring the really bad one closely and cleaning it with rubbing alcohol.

As a result I slept in today and did necessary things around the house. Tavy and I had a particularly good game of wrigglers and Livia came to watch again. she's clearly interested, her eyes tracking the game, but it's too wild for her in her current nervous state. I tried engaging her one on one after bedding change, but she is still too shy. She's still trying to figure out the busy box. So far I know for sure she pulled two toys out of it, carefully set so they would be easy to remove. I found another three or four loose when I got up today, but I don't know which of them did it. I do know she was experimenting last night before bed and three of the toys were ones she'd beed trying to figure out last night. Don't worry, she is not deprived. There are plenty of toys loose, plus Tavy, and I periodically toss her a new one she hasn't tried yet when she looks like she'd like to play but isn't up to the level of interaction with me string requires. She still only allows pettins when she is relaxed and lounging with Tavy on the bed, but the purring suggests she does like it and the way they both look up when one of us might be coming in suggests she kind of hopes we might. Tavy's head musk smells amazing since he became a daddy.

I did change the bed, do two loads of laundry, cleaned a bunch of small things, set up two meds organizers, ordered next week's meds, but I didn't manage much else.

If you'd like to donate to next week's meds Paypal [email protected]

* Southern Gothic themes and systemic violence: http://gothiccharmschool.tumblr.com/post/168281918165/forthegothicheroine-doctor-q-oliviajewels#notes

* Giant Chickens: gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/168284180238/gallus-rostromegalus

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* Emoluments clause? What Emoluments clause? "Despite pledge, Trump company works with a foreign entity. Again.:" http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article187562198.html

* "Trump announces reduction of two national monuments in Utah:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-announces-reductions-bears-ears-grand-staircase-monuments-n826326

* "Trump moves to block Romney from the Senate:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/03/trump-mitt-romney-utah-senate-hatch-276805

* "Trump doubles down on Flynn defense, draws scrutiny with FBI tweet:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/02/trump-flynn-russia-no-collusion-claim-276017

* "Trump lawyer: 'The president cannot obstruct justice:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-lawyer-president-cannot-obstruct-justice-n826231

* "Trump's lawyer says he wrote the president's tweet about Flynn's dismissal:" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-lawyer-wrote-presidents-sloppy-tweet-flynns-dismissal/story?id=51541650

* "House Republicans Prepare Contempt Action Against FBI, DOJ:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-03/u-s-house-republicans-prepare-contempt-action-against-fbi-doj-jaqegooo

* "White House paranoid: 'Everyone thinks they’re being recorded':" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/04/white-house-paranoid-trump-277761

* "Alleged" Pedophiles stick together. "Trump calls Roy Moore to offer his endorsement:" https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/trump-moore-endorsement-twitter/index.html

* "FBI agents fire back at Trump: Saying we're not dedicated is 'simply false':" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/363048-fbi-agents-fire-back-at-trump-saying-fbi-isnt-dedicated-is-simply

* "Sessions argued in Clinton impeachment that presidents can obstruct justice:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/04/jeff-sessions-president-obstruct-justice-bill-clinton-278517

* He got RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE to help him write his op-ed so he could violate the gag order before the bail deal even went into effect. O.o "Prosecutors: Manafort tried to write op-ed with Russian operative while under house arrest:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/04/manafort-russia-prosecutors-oped-278786

* "Jared Kushner failed to disclose he led a foundation funding illegal Israeli settlements before U.N. vote:" http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-disclosure-form-west-bank-settlements-israel-white-house-729290

* "Senate passes sweeping tax overhaul:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/01/tax-bill-2017-senate-republicans-274453

Here are some resistance options:
Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc
Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what
Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* We need to fight this one hard and there's almost no time. "Why Congress Should 'Fix NICS' And Reject The NRA's So-Called Concealed Carry 'Reciprocity' Bill:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-congress-should-fix-nics-and-reject-the-nras_us_5a242152e4b05072e8b56a16

* "The FCC's plans to end net neutrality could be killed in court:" https://www.techspot.com/news/72039-fcc-plans-end-net-neutrality-could-killed-court.html

* "Supreme Court grants Trump's bid to revive full travel ban for now:" http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-court-travel-ban-20171204-story.html

* "Dinosaur ‘Mummy’ Unveiled With Skin And Guts Intact:" http://all-that-is-interesting.com/nodosaur-fossil?utm_campaign=pdtol&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

* "Archaeology of dogs: Were they first domesticated in the Middle East?:" https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.825926

* "Not Just for the Birds: Pigeons in the Roman and Byzantine Near East:" http://asorblog.org/2017/11/28/not-just-birds-pigeons-roman-byzantine-near-east/

* "Drone survey reveals ancient temple at Israeli military grounds:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/drone-survey-reveals-ancient-temple-at-israeli-military-grounds/

* "Mummies and log houses of the dead: Scythian life and death:" https://blog.britishmuseum.org/mummies-and-log-houses-of-the-dead-scythian-life-and-death/

* "Toxic masculinity fostered by misreadings of the classics:" https://theconversation.com/toxic-masculinity-fostered-by-misreadings-of-the-classics-88118

* "Mosaics on mosque floor revealed:" https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/11/27/mosaics-on-mosque-floor-revealed

* "The Skeletal Welsh Horse You Must Beat in a Battle of Rhymes:" https://hyperallergic.com/345156/the-welsh-undead-horse-of-christmas-you-must-beat-in-a-battle-of-rhymes/

* "When 'Miss' Meant So Much More: How One Woman Fought Alabama — And Won:" https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/11/30/567177501/when-miss-meant-so-much-more-how-one-woman-fought-alabama-and-won?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2058

* I got out and did my forage and errands on time, including the long loop as I had gas for it. I am bleeding money I can't afford on meds and the like. Somehow, I'm going to need to find money for laundry detergent as we've been out over a week. *eyes medical debit* Sigh. Tomorrow is fix it, and I think I shall take them the fish light with the loose wire if I get my act together in time.

When I got home, there was Tavy happy to see me, and we had a good play after I put the forage away. There was no sin of Livia. I had honestly started to worry that she might have escaped when Squirrel was carrying the forage in, at which point Tavy started circling the area in front of my room calling for her, clearly concerned by her absence himself. She had been asleep in the mesting box under my desk the whole time, a foot away from my left foot. Doh!

He's been parenting so Hard, yo. I'm so proud of him. He did reach the point in the Sunday AM where the schedule disruption she was creating by insisting they saty on my bed instead of migrating into my office to hang out with me was wearing on him. He likes to be near the Hu-Mon, but his kitten inexplicably does not. It was a stressful conundrum, but being a bright little button, he has solved it by migrating out periodically to sit on the top of the cat tree, positioned where he can watch me and the kitten at the same time. he is, of course spending most of his time with her, in my room and they were curled up together on the blanket for a nap for a ouple of hours, so things are going well. She's more tolerant of me going in there periodically do grab things or change lighting or whatever, though she's not willing to be in the bed when I am in it except for tag with Tavy.

* "Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale reminds us that it can always happen here. It’s speculative, and it’s fiction, but that doesn’t mean it’s untrue.:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/168216664782/thecrashcourse-margaret-atwoods-the-handmaids

* That song in "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" where Kris Kringle insists children pay for their toys with kisses did NOT age well.

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Resistance! São Paulo's homeless seize the city:" https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/27/resistance-sao-paulo-homeless-reclaim-city-occupations

* "Zimbabwe opposition promises push for reform after new cabinet revealed:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/01/zimbabwe-military-officials-given-key-jobs-post-mugabe-cabinet-emmerson-mnangagwa

* "Australia can't stay silent on Myanmar's apartheid:" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-01/myanmar-treatment-of-rohingya-apartheid-amnesty-international/9206562

* "Pope Francis demands "decisive measures" to resolve mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-decisive-measures-mass-exodus-rohingya-muslims/

* "Rohingya girls as young as 12 compelled to marry just to get food:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/nov/30/young-rohingya-girls-bangladesh-compelled-marry-food-rations

* "African refugees bought, sold and murdered in Libya:" http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/african-refugees-bought-sold-murdered-libya-171129103602048.html

* "Trump has now urged seven officials to help end the Russia investigations:" http://www.newsweek.com/trump-has-now-urged-seven-officials-help-end-russia-probes-728072

* "Why did Trump ignore repeated warnings Flynn was compromised?:"

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* "Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI, is cooperating with Mueller:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/01/politics/michael-flynn-charged/index.html

* "The Latest: AP sources link KT McFarland to Flynn papers:" https://apnews.com/99bb8f75c5514af8b7e5ec77ea4f6f68/The-Latest:-AP-sources-link-KT-McFarland-to-Flynn-papers

* "Kushner was the 'very senior' transition member:" https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/01/politics/jared-kushner-michael-flynn-russia/index.html

* "Treasury Watchdog Probes Mnuchin's Missing Tax Analysis:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-30/treasury-watchdog-probes-missing-analysis-of-gop-tax-proposal

* I know it passed, but the process is beyond fucked up. It's illegibly handwritten and they gave them a couple of hours to look at it. "GOP poised to raise middle class taxes to benefit corporations:"

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* Why let anyone properly read a bill designed to rob the poor and middle class to give to the rich that will also make it impossible for people without trust funds to go to grad school before voting? "Senate to pass tax bill hours after releasing final plan:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/01/tax-bill-2017-senate-republicans-274453

* It's not over. It still needs to go through reconciliation. Keep protesting. "Trump victory as Senate backs tax overhaul:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42205181

* He's the only one. "Corker to vote no on GOP tax bill:" http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/362850-corker-to-vote-no-on-gop-tax-bill

* "The GOP will cut Social Security and Medicare if tax plan passes, Marco Rubio says:" http://www.newsweek.com/tax-plan-social-security-medicare-welfare-republicans-rubio-729133

If you can not protest in Person, here are some other options.
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* "NBC's shifting statements on Lauer draw scrutiny:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/30/matt-lauer-nbc-management-complaints-272954

* TW: Sexual Harassment. "Lawmaker behind secret $84K sexual harassment settlement unmasked:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/01/blake-farenthold-taxpayer-funds-sexual-harassment-274458

* "What Went Wrong In Charlottesville? Almost Everything, Says Report:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/01/567824446/charlottesville-made-major-mistakes-in-handling-protest-review-finds

* "Trump Excludes LGBTQ People From World AIDS Day Proclamation:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-world-aids-day_us_5a2073ace4b0a02abe8fc6b3

* Note that this is all coming from a child molester. "Roy Moore blames 'malicious' allegations on gays, liberals and socialists:" https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/roy-moore-blames-malicious-allegations-gays-liberals-socialists-n825316

* "Trump's Tax Bill Helps One Man In Particular:"

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* TW: Sexual Assault. "Geraldo Rivera, The Lone Matt Lauer Sympathizer:"

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* Tavy has successfully convinced Livia that it’s totally cool to nap on my bed of an evening to the point I spotted her sprawled in the center of it like an odalisque and they did most of their tandem napping in there today within paw’s reach of each other, but he’s taught her that it’s fine to play on the bed in a particular L shape as long as you don’t cross the human. Which they did. All day off and on. Starting with when I lay down to sleep. She’ll have been here a week Saturday evening and they are already BFFs.

I had a dream that a group of queer friends and I were play testing/reviewing a new game not yet out on the market. It was a sort of inclusive cross between paper dolls and that game they used to market for girls in the '60's where you tried to get dates. The paper dolls were basically the date options. There were ten of them, I think. They came in androphilic, gynophilic, and bi orientations, and a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. They had their stats printed on the back and there were a variety of outfits. The board was a bit like the game of life crossed with Talisman. The paper dolls were sturdy and came with little plastic stands as they were placed on the board during play based on chance type cards.

Anyway, as there were only ten options, there was an element of tokenism for obvious reasons. My friends got into a massive debate about the one trans option, which was a straight white woman whose paper doll looked rather like Danica Roem. Some people really wanted her to be bi and/or black or latina. Some other people were angry there wasn't a trans man of colour. Others wanted an non-binary option which some wanted to be pan and other ace. Which... feels pretty realistic to me. We have so little representation in media, and while it's gotten a lot better, at least in the sort of things I watch, the lion's share tends to be white women.

I finally said, "Nothing is stopping us from drawing our own paper dolls to be any thing we want. I used to draw whatever sort of paper dolls my sister and her friends wanted when we were small. Really though, they need to sell booster packs with more date options."

I stand by that. I also rather wish this game existed.

* "The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook:" http://pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.comd I

* "North Koreans express frustration over new government foreign-currency collections:" http://www.dailynk.com/english/m/read.php?num=14814&cataId=nk01500

* "Trump announces designation of North Korea as state sponsor of terrorism:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/20/trump-says-hell-designate-north-korea-as-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-250344

* "59,000 Haitians living in U.S. must leave within 18 months, Trump administration says:" http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-50-000-haitians-living-in-u-s-must-1511223433-htmlstory.html

* "Daughter of Haitians, 10, urges Trump to extend families' protected status:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/20/haiti-immigrants-trump-ronyde-christina-ponthieux

* "Trump Defends Roy Moore Amid Sexual Assault Allegations: 'He Totally Denies It':" https://www.npr.org/2017/11/21/565760674/trump-defends-roy-moore-amid-sexual-assault-allegations-he-totally-denies-it

* "Judge issues blow against Trump's sanctuary city order:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/21/politics/trump-sanctuary-cities-executive-order-blocked/index.html

* "Trump calls on NFL to suspend Raiders' Marshawn Lynch:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/trump-twitter-marshawn-lynch/index.html

* Both sides are already questioning the veracity, but it is amusing. "Dem senator: Gary Cohn faked a bad connection to get off phone with Trump:" http://thehill.com/homenews/house/361553-dem-senator-gary-cohn-faked-a-bad-connection-to-get-off-phone-call-with-trump

* This is really unfair to Kindergartners. "Sources: McMaster Mocked Trump’s Intelligence At A Private Dinner:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/sources-mcmaster-mocked-trumps-intelligence-in-a-private?utm_term=.idYbm7NB0#.tmvZKL2G4

* "Trump campaign adviser Carter Page met with Hungarian officials in Budapest:" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-campaign-adviser-carter-page-held-high-level/story?id=51284300

* Damn. "Yellen Says She’ll Leave Fed Once Powell Is Sworn In as Chairman:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-20/yellen-says-she-ll-leave-fed-once-powell-sworn-in-as-chairman

* "Kushner didn't disclose outreach from Russian 'godfather' to campaign:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kushner-failed-disclose-outreach-putin-ally-trump-campaign-n822021

* TW: Pedophilia. "Conway on Moore: 'We want the votes' for tax bill:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/kellyanne-conway-roy-moore-fox-interview/index.html

* "Former ethics chief files complaint after Conway attacks Alabama Dem:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/361528-former-ethics-chief-files-complaint-after-conways-comments-on-alabama

* "FCC plans total repeal of net neutrality rules:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/20/net-neutrality-repeal-fcc-251824

* "NY AG probing ‘massive scheme’ to influence FCC with fake net neutrality comments:" http://thehill.com/policy/technology/361509-ny-ag-probing-massive-scheme-to-influence-fcc-on-net-neutrality-with-fake

* The current Republican tax plan will raise taxes on the bottom 50% of earners while giving the rich a massive tax cut.

* "House Tax Bill Is Littered With Loopholes for Wall Street’s Wealthiest:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/tax-loopholes-for-wall-street-s-wealthiest-loom-in-house-bill

* If you can’t protest any or all of the above in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
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* "Montana Rep. Greg Gianforte Lied to Police About Assaulting a Reporter:" https://splinternews.com/montana-rep-greg-gianforte-lied-to-police-about-assaul-1820573454

* "MSNBC awaits NYT probe of allegations against Glenn Thrush:" http://thehill.com/homenews/media/361210-msnbc-to-await-nyt-probe-of-allegations-against-glenn-thrush

* TW: Pedophilia. "Moore campaign: 'We don't believe these women':" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/21/politics/roy-moore-campaign-allegations/index.html

* "Keystone XL pipeline wins green light in Nebraska — but may face new hurdles:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/20/nebraska-approves-keystone-xl-pipeline-250341

* I woke up randomly exhausted with no obvious cause, which is a thing that happens with a body like mine. I did achieve phone bureaucracy, have secured pie for tomorrow, and did a bunch of correspondence. I am still scary behind on news, for which I apologise. We may be about to be gifted a new stripey cat. *fingers crossed*

* I was really into this movie called Ghost Story when I was eleven. Now you may be asking yourself, what kind of parents are letting a kid that young watch a movie with that much nudity and sex, including male full frontal. The answer is, I was a quiet, responsible kid who was sneaky as hell and had access to cable. <.< >.>

Anyway, I haven't seen this movie since it fell out of rotation at some point in the first half of the '80's and always intended to see if it stood up to time and adulthood. I am watching it now. Look, it was released in '81 so the special effects don't hold up particularly well, which is as expected. It is beautifully shot though and the set designs/art direction is lovely. It stars people like Fred Astaire and Douglas Fairbanks Jr, though I am in no position to evaluate the acting, because so much of this is interior furniture in my brain. It is a sausage fest, and I suspect a lot of the female nudity was for straight male titilation, though despite the male nudity, there was nothing to tittillate me as the young male lead who is trying to figure things out is as unappealing to be now as he was to me then and his brother is even less appealing. I was not getting out of it, what one might think an eleven year old would get out of it.

The thing is, watching it, I was not sympathizing with any of the men. I did not like crappy David and his crappy brother, Donnie. As charming as Fred Astaire could be, the Chowder Club did a terrible thing and they were getting what they deserved. Yes, visiting punishment on sons for the sins of a father is not cool, but they were mediocre guys anyway in every respect from what I could see in the narrative. Like, do they deserve the stuff happening to them? Probably not, but they aren't people I'd spend time with on purpose.

No, I was all about Alma. I liked her. I got her. I got why she felt the way she did and why she did the things she did. I appreciated her sense of agency, her confidence. I was furious on her behalf. To me, her nudity existed as contrast. It was the weapon that was left her when all else was taken away but her anger. This, eleven year old me could understand and identify with, though I was not yet good looking to any but the pedophiles. It was a weapon I would understand and use later in a few years as an unnervingly confident teen with a strong sense of personal agency. Anger was something I lived and breathed. Her anger was as justified as mind and I was all for her getting her vengeance once I knew it's reasons in later watchings. Did I at eleven get all the nuances of the Chowder Club original sin? No, but I get the text of it and all the important bits of the subtext. My angle of vision is a little deeper now, but I got the dynamic and the gendered ugliness just fine back then. I think that's why it haunted me so, the fundamental masculine stupidity of it, the way she was clearly worth ten of them and deserved so much better.

The essential power of truth and the telling of Story, the revealing of what was hidden changing everything? That too spoke to me.

Does it hold up in modern context? I can't say. I do not think it's a movie that could or should be made now. It still has something though, and I'm not sorry I saw it again for all it's flaws.

* An old RL friend of mine wrote this. It's M/M erotica with quality writing, world building, and a plot. It is right now free and will be for the next 3-4 days along with all her other things. "Outlaws (Ashfall Book 1):" https://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-Ashfall-Book-Michaela-Holland-ebook/dp/B0774VX55H/ref=la_B0777FHWLC_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511420655&sr=1-2

Second installment: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077P2VH38/ref=la_B0777FHWLC_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511420655&sr=1-3

"New Prospects:" https://www.amazon.com/New-Prospects-Michaela-Holland-ebook/dp/B077N4YH7M/ref=la_B0777FHWLC_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511420655&sr=1-4

"The Price of His Kiss (City of Pantheons Book 1):" https://www.amazon.com/Price-Kiss-City-Pantheons-Book-ebook/dp/B077D1BZD9/ref=la_B0777FHWLC_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511420655&sr=1-1

* I have been reading the fascinating Indexing, which had me thinking about the Little Mermaid. Not the movie, which I've never seen as it came out when I was in college and was rumored to have a happy ending, but the original tale, by Hans Christian Anderson. This was the one of all the fairy tales, and nursery rhymes, and literary outings on that same continuum that resonated most with me as a kid. I think my father first read it to me when I was three, and it stayed a favorite until I got old enough to be rereading things like Dumas and Tolkien on my own, and my father was just reading to my sitter. (Later I would read to her in his place, but that is another story).

The Little Mermaid really spoke to me, and I learned so much from it. The longing to be and do something new and to travel places far away. The important lesson that no matter how much you love someone, they may not ever love you back. That you cannot, do not, should not try to own someone else no matter how perfect that image of you together might be in your head. That you don't get to make other people's decisions for them, but you do get to decide how you react to those decisions. That every single one of us gets to write our own story, make our own decisions, control our own narrative of who we are and who we are going to be by the choices we make and how we deal with the consequences of those choices. That you can't hang all of your future and happiness on a single person.

These are incredibly important lessons, that I think every child should walk out into the world armed with. I think thy are incredibly important when those children grow into teens and adults and try to date other people, but they are incredibly important long before that. This story helped save me when I was eight years old. This story influenced me to lift my head up and decide that while they could pretty much do what they wanted to me, they could not tell me who I was. I got to decide who I was. I got to decide my own story and what it meant. I got to chose to resist and how. They could physically imprison my body, but not my thoughts and they could not stop me using their limits against them, and surviving. I would not consent to my own oppression. I would not let them simplify me and define me.

I decided to be the hero of my own story, and that is fundamentally what saved me. No one was coming to save me, but I would do what I could to survive and save my self. I would do it honorably. I would do it cleverly. I would do it.

Many things went into that decision, but I think a life line tossed across the nearly a century between his death and my birth, by a gay man who loved a straight man who could never love him back played a part in shaping me so fundamentally that I could have that perspective at eight, and at twelve, and at fifteen, when it really mattered. Story has a magic to it, and never let anyone tell you otherwise, because the stories we tell about ourselves to ourselves are the most powerful ones of all.

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

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

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* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Zimbabwe's resistance leader says Mugabe is "history":" https://news.vice.com/story/zimbabwes-resistance-leader-says-mugabe-is-history

* "Zimbabwe's President Mugabe resigns:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42071488

* "Egyptian lawmakers introduce LGBT criminalization bill:" http://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/10/27/egyptian-lawmakers-introduce-lgbt-criminalization-bill/

* "Trump hurts Haitians he promised to help:"

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* "Trump looks to boost GOP gerrymandering edge:"

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* "VA's quiet plan to widen private care with TRICARE stirs ire:" http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/vas-quiet-plan-widen-private-care-tricare-stirs-51216763

* "Trump moving stealthily to privatize the VA, alarming vets groups:"

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* "Trump ignores Nixon lesson with public pressure on DoJ, Sessions:"

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* 45 has endorsed noted pedophile and bigot, Roy Moore, because "we don't need a liberal person in there." But we do need a pedophile, apparently.

* So they are open about wanting a pedophile in the senate because that’s way better than them not robbing the poor and middle class to give the rich a tax cut they don’t need. Somehow, they still are claiming to be the party of family values. These are the family values they are touting. "White House to Alabama: Stand with Roy Moore:"

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* "President Trump backs Roy Moore:"

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* "Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know Now:" https://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know-now

* "Trump FCC to revoke net neutrality: Politico:"

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* "Trump FCC would close internet with revocation of net neutrality:"

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* "Mueller examining Kushner contacts with foreign leaders: WSJ:"

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* Things that make me go hmmmm.... "Dismissal of key US attorney, Dana Boente, a mystery:"

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* This is my response to a comment about the tax bill not being about a war on education but a war to only allow the rich into college:

They’ve been fighting against access to education on all levels nearly as long as I’ve been alive. I am pretty sure the goal is to make it impossible for people not born with large trust funds to ever improve their situation, to permanently enshrine extreme wealth inequality and hereditary class distinction.

They are trying to concentrate wealth and power in small number of hands and make it as close to impossible to undo as they can manage. you can see it in every financial policy starting with Regan. You can see it in the battle to destroy Unions and depress wages since the ‘70′s. You can see it in mass incarceration for minor offenses that bar people from voting. You can see it in the voter suppression that keeps eligible citizens from voting. You can see it in targeted voter intimidation aimed at people of colour. You can see it in the deliberate starving of public schools of the funds they need to actually educate students instead of warehousing them. You can see it in supposed school “reforms” designed to lower the quality of education and leave students less prepared for higher education.

You can really see it in this tax bill which punishes teachers for providing school supplies to students who can’t afford them, and which makes college so expensive only the rich get to go, no matter how hard the student works or how intelligent they are.

This is a war on Merit on behalf of the interests of inherited wealth. We need to fight this with everything we have, because they are stealing the future of this generation and every generation to come after and the more battles we lose the harder it will be to keep fighting.

* "Conyers scandal rocks House Democrats:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/21/john-conyers-sexual-harassment-253977

* "Charlie Rose fired by CBS, PBS and Bloomberg over sexual misconduct allegations:" https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/harvey-weinstein-scandal/tv-host-charlie-rose-suspended-apologizes-after-sexual-harassment-accusations-n822691

* "Charlie Rose out at CBS News, PBS:"

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* I am not at all surprised that a man willing to assault a woman in the ways he attacked Ms. Tweedan would assault other women. "Woman says Franken inappropriately touched her in 2010:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/al-franken-inappropriate-touch-2010/index.html

* I am uncomfortable using the me too tag because of my gender, but this sort of thing is wide spread. There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we socialize men and boys to believe they are entitled to other people's bodies, because that's what this is. ( TW Sexual assault: ) So I keep thinking about the things that I was forced to accept if I wanted my pay check in my teens and twenties, all the women and men I've known with stories like this, and the occasional male friend coming to me over the years with his horror on discovering it had happened to his girlfriend or his women friends or his family members so he could have someone to talk through the process with.

I believe the women. I always believe the women, because it is so disgustingly common. Because I was someone who had to dodge male hands every day at work. Because I had to defend myself and my sister when we were small. Because I have a long list of friends it's happened too, and not just the women. Because it's fucking exhausting to have to deal with constantly, and the things my disease has done to my body and thus put an end to it for me, hasn't erased my long memory of what it felt like to deal with it daily from customers and coworkers and management.

I want a better world than the one we had and the one we have now and that means changing the culture. That means men confronting men and calling them on their bullshit. That means believing and supporting the ones who were attacked. That means listening to the stories. That means raising the next generation of boys better.

* "Sex harassment accusations continues to rock media, politics:"

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* "Woman with crude anti-Trump sticker adds new decal to her truck:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/karen-fonseca-trump-sticker-new-decal-troy-nehls-pickup-truck/

* "Moni's 2017 TDOR Thoughts:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/monis-2017-tdor-thoughts.html

* "A Ten Point Post TDOR Plan:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-ten-point-post-tdor-plan.html

* Warning: contains ableist language at the end. "How do you avoid Thanksgiving arguments? We asked a hostage negotiator:" http://www.kgw.com/news/how-do-you-avoid-thanksgiving-arguments-we-asked-a-hostage-negotiator/493752055

* I am not convinced those are leashes, but the carvings are interesting. "The first-ever depiction of dogs shows them on leashes:" http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-8000-year-old-rock-art-first-ever-depiction-dogs-and-humans-had-715114

* "Ancient Ruins Discovered Under Lake in Turkey:" https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/underwater-fortress-urartu-lake-van-turkey-archaeology-video-spd/

* "The Anti-Roy Moore Headlines You Haven't Seen:"

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* "On Elephants, Trump Has A Change Of Heartlessness:"

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* Sunday, the winds were so wild, they kept startling poor Tavy awake. Monday, I did some excellent adulting: tanks, garden stuff, foraging, meds, library, fish food (We only had a day or two of micro pellets left). My the time the forage was away and dishes done, etc., I didn't have much left. I did promised things and necessary things, but I wasn't up to tackling the news firehouse. Instead I went to bed early and got good sleep. Tuesday I spent the afternoon on phone bureaucracy (Progress!) and went on a long loop for a kibble run in really wild weather. I made it home safe despite wind strong enough to bat my car around, rush hour, and accidents on the freeway. There was a break in the rain the last half of the journey home and I stood next to my car a good five minutes, watching the clouds rush north alarmingly fast. Through occasional breaks in the stormclouds, I could see another layer higher up moving slower, but still fast for clouds. It was beautiful and strange and it made me wish I had a camera so I could film it for you.

Anyway, I am a day and a half behind on postings, and it may be some time before I catch up.

* Amoung the random bits of phone bureaucracy today, I talked to a supervisor at the clinic where I go. This is not a thing that normally happens, but I need to make special arrangements for some unusual medical documentation another bit of bureaucracy is going to need apparently.

Anyway, some of you will remember that I was one of the earliest trans patients to pioneer at this clinic. There were two others I know of before me but seriously, it was a huge thing for this city as when we started advocating for trans services there, trans patients still had to travel all the way to Seattle for basic services like prescriptions. I'm not even talking first prescribing. I am talking about on going treatment. The only endocrinologist in town was a notorious transphobe and wasn't taking new patients anyway. One doctor at the poverty clinic was willing to do script renewels, and a little while after that, I talked a second into trying it. Word of mouth spread, because even having two practitioners doing basic trans friendly GP type stuff North of Seattle was a Big Fucking Deal, especially as they take Medicare/Medicaid and do sliding scale for patients in poverty. People kept coming; services kept expanding. The clinic realized how big the need was, and they evolved to take proper care of us. New staff was hired with the trans patient base in mind. They did special training to make sure trans patients were being treated properly. They asked actual trans patients how they were doing and took suggestions seriously. This is how to be an ally on a medical professional level, and I am incredibly proud of them. They adjusted standardized forms to make them trans friendly. They have a standard protocol for use names vs. legal names and are super careful about calling trans patients by the correct ones. They changed the fucking names of the clinic a number of years ago because the old one made them look a tad catholic and that was scary for LGBTQIA+ patients, and thus counter productive given that they are now not only the major provider up here for transfolk, but they have a large HIV+ patient base as well and have for decades before we invaded them, but us being around helped encourage the change, as when they asked us about things they could do better, the name kept coming up.

So as part of our conversation about arranging for the special documentation, my trans status came up. He was looking at my chart and noticed that they had no pronouns listed for me. Apparently they'd added a standardized pronoun slot to the forms in the last decade, but I've been out so long, they'd missed me. We had a conversation about them in which my choice of "ze, zir, zim" caused rather a bit of confusion as he'd not heard them and couldn't figure out at first that'd I'd understood and was answering. (They had they as one of the expected options, but he wasn't as up on other non-binary variants). Anyway, he was fine and my chart is updated and he's expected to call back tomorrow about my documentation for the bureaucracy, which is fine. Mostly I just wanted to say how impressed I am at how hard those cisfolk down at the poverty clinic are trying to do things right and how open they are to evolving to fit the needs of a population that is extremely underserved every where.

Revaunchist forces may be trying to beat us down and take our basic rights from us and kill us, but people who decided to stand up for what's right voted in Transfolk in Virginia and Minneapolis this month, and at the downtown poverty clinic I can have a calm adult conversation about non-binary pronoun options with a cis-person admin at a local clinic that is doing it's damnedest to keep my people healthy and make them feel respected.

* Tavy had his first serious oops for the season today. One would think from his personality, that he'd be a terror with Gothmas ornaments and nothing in Halloweentown would be safe, but he is as careful as he can reasonably be given his disability and while he does tip over halloween village people with his feet, it's clearly accidental and the larger items and the Halloween trees/ornaments are safe. Tonight he messed up a jump and sent the Halloweeen globe, a ceramic pumpkin and some village people flying, but nothing was broken and it was very load and scary for him so he got a nice cuddle. Seriously, he tries so hard, and I am honestly impressed we got all the way to Thanksgiving week without mishap.

* "Signs You're About To Be In A Gay Subplot In A Period Drama:" http://the-toast.net/2015/11/24/signs-youre-about-to-be-in-a-gay-subplot-in-a-period-drama/

* It is quite possible that I'm a character in a Stoppard play. "How To Tell If You Are In A Tom Stoppard Play - The Toast:" http://the-toast.net/2015/11/30/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-tom-stoppard-play/

* Snerk. Warning: contains nudes from Western Art. "Normal, Old-Fashioned Heterosexuality In Western Art History:" http://the-toast.net/2016/02/29/normal-old-fashioned-heterosexuality-in-western-art-history/

* "Z Nation, Season 4, Episode 8: A Crisis of Faith:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/11/z-nation-season-4-episode-8-crisis-of.html

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

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

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* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* What they are doing to indigenous people in Indonesia is evil. "The tribe forced to pick a new religion:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41981430

* "Why Saudi Arabia Giving a Robot Citizenship Is Firing People Up:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/saudi-arabia-gives-robot-citizenshipand-more-freedoms-human-women-180967007/

* "Trump halts Interior’s elephant trophy decision:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/11/17/trump-halts-big-game-trophy-decision/?utm_term=.58c7ddfc702d

* TW: Sexual Assault. "Conway explains why Trump tweeted about Franken but not Moore:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/17/trump-tweet-al-franken-roy-moore-kellyanne-conway-246732

* TW: Sexual Assault. "As sex scandals topple the powerful: Why not Trump?:" https://apnews.com/31d095897fc6432a804c518b30666424/Selective-outrage:-Trump-criticizes-Franken,-silent-on-Moore

* "Michael Flynn Turkey: Russia probe taps man with Erdoğan ties:"

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* "GOP tax plan: Nearly half of benefits go to top 1 percent:"

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* 37% that Alabama Evangelicals say they are more likely to vote for Roy Moore now they know he’s a pedophile.

* "Roy Moore: Barber and more faith leaders protest in Alabama:"

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* "The Trump Presidency: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

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

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* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Congo crisis on a par with Iraq, Syria and Yemen – and getting worse by the day:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/nov/16/congo-crisis-iraq-syria-yemen-cholera-aid

* "'Leave Zimbabwe now': thousands of protesters call for Robert Mugabe to go:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/17/anti-mugabe-protest-planned-in-harare-as-president-clings-on

* TW: Rape. I hate Abe so much. "'Comfort Woman' Memorial Statues, A Thorn In Japan's Side, Now Sit On Korean Buses:" https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/11/13/563838610/comfort-woman-memorial-statues-a-thorn-in-japans-side-now-sit-on-korean-buses

* "On the frontline of Europe’s forgotten war in Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/12/ukraine-on-the-front-line-of-europes-forgotten-war

* "North Korean defector had 27cm parasitic worm in his stomach:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/17/north-korean-defector-parasitic-worm-parasites-south-korea

* "Belgian court defers ruling on Carles Puidgemont extradition:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/17/belgian-court-to-rule-carles-puidgemont-extradition-request-spain

* "'Our children are vulnerable': Judge sentences Calgary mother to 3 years in prison for son's strep death:" http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tamara-lovett-ryan-strep-criminal-negligence-stay-sentence-decision-1.4406109

* I admit, my first thought on hearing the policy change Thursday, was Eric and Don Jr. want trophies, don't they? "Conservationists criticize timing of Trump reversal on ban of elephant trophies:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/zimbabwe-can-t-manage-its-elephant-population-while-under-coup-n821661

* TW: Sexual Assault "What about sexual misconduct allegations against Trump?:"

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* "Trump choosing white men as judges, highest rate in decades:" https://www.apnews.com/a2c7a89828c747ed9439f60e4a89193e/Trump-choosing-white-men-as-judges,-highest-rate-in-decades

* "Trump to Pay His Own Legal Bills, Set Up Fund to Cover Staff:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-17/trump-to-pay-his-own-legal-bills-set-up-fund-to-cover-staff

* "Kushner still waiting on permanent security clearance:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/16/jared-kushner-security-clearance-246531

* "Russian ambassador says he won't name all the Trump officials he's met with: 'The list is so long":" https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/16/kislyak-wont-name-trump-officials-hes-met-because-list-is-so-long.html

* "Papadopoulos claimed Trump phone call and larger campaign role:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/17/george-papadopoulos-trump-greece-russia-245668

* "FCC begins scaling back internet subsidies for low-income homes:" https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/17/16669716/fcc-lifeline-scaled-back-tribal-lands-broadband-discount-limits

* 29% of Alabama Republicans say they are more likely to vote for Roy Moore now that they know he is a pedophile.

* "How a French king’s legacy revealed a loophole in evolution:" https://www.salon.com/2017/11/04/how-a-french-kings-legacy-revealed-a-loophole-in-evolution_partner/

* "North End archeological dig finds 1600s artifacts:" http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/09/north-end-archaeological-dig-finds-artifacts/gZsnNRyUMAjUIjo74ksFIL/story.html

* "Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History:" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/arts/princeton-digs-deep-into-its-fraught-racial-history.html

* "How Germany got the Russian Revolution off the ground:" http://www.dw.com/en/how-germany-got-the-russian-revolution-off-the-ground/a-41195312

* "The two-time Nobel prize winner Marie Curie was born 150 years ago:" http://www.dw.com/en/the-two-time-nobel-prize-winner-marie-curie-was-born-150-years-ago/g-41262435

* "Roy Moore - Just a Gun-Totin', Jesus-Lovin' Accused Child Molester:"

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* "Satan Distances Himself From Roy Moore:"

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* "The Bipartisan Pastime Of Harassing Women:"

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* So I'm just short of a week in on this lung infection, which it turns out squirrel also has, along with his nursing home. Odds are, he gave it to me. I did get him to stay home Thursday and he's been holed up in his cave only emerging for juice and supplies. I'm puttering along at half speed and on maximum meds, as knock you on your ass sick for a healthy person is medium sick to someone who is always sick and used to making due. This thing has only tried to suffocate me twice, which is nothing compared to say, a month of life threatening pneumonia or six months of lung MRSA. So annoying, requires hoarded resources and much sleep. I don't need to leave the house until Monday anyway, so it's mostly inconveniencing rp partners anyway. As always, there is a chance of escalation or secondary infection, but I'm already doing everthing I can for now.

Thanks to all of you who have written in about the tech. After a consultation, it sounds like the shitty microsoft update that turned my computer into an asshole the last week or so is a contributing factor. Odds are that the Firefox update was more the straw that broke the camels back rather than the main culprit. Things appear a touch more stable today, so I am holding off on rolling things back in hopes that microsoft will get their shit together.

Tavy Button, who has a similar taste in play and mesting sites as my late beloved hector, has discovered the second to last of Hector's old napping spots not already taken over, as had the Best Nap in it today.

We are down to about a week's supply of kibble. If you'd like to chip in Paypal [email protected]

* MCU and Insurance: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/167591426145/my-friends-and-i-are-having-a-discussion-on

* Figure Skating: NHK.

Ladies: Chartrand seems to have picked a program that works well with her strengths, but some of her second half elements fell apart. Mirai Nagasu had a lovely skate. Medvedeva was having an uncharacteristically rough skate and actually fell? Seriously, this season has been full of rough skates for the top people. I hope they are getting it all out of the way before the Olympics. Polina Tsurskaya is only just up from juniors and apparently has had a lot of injuries, but oh, do I like how she skates. Seriously, I think whoever gets the third slot will do fine. Carolina Kostner's choreography suits her and her skating is really expressive, but she was having a little trouble tonight too, though not as bad as it might have been and the silver was deserved.

Men: I wrote a whole complex thing up, but the computer ate it and reconstructing it is too much work, frankly.

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

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

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* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Iran-Iraq earthquake death toll climbs to more than 400:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/12/dozens-killed-by-earthquake-in-iraniraq-border-region

* They are basically going to have the KGB do all the security for our Moscow Embassy thanks to a no bid contract. *head desk* "US embassy hires security firm of former Russian spy who worked with Putin:" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/10/us-embassy-hires-security-firm-former-russian-spy-worked-putin/

* "Secret Finding: 60 Russian Payments "To Finance Election Campaign Of 2016”:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/secret-finding-60-russian-payments-to-finance-election?utm_term=.baplkBzjOj#.hq9O6npRZR

* "Sessions tries to distance himself from Trump advisers' Russia talks:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/14/sessions-no-clear-recollection-of-papadopoulos-proposing-trump-putin-meeting-244881

* "The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/

* "Pence denies knowing about Trump Jr. WikiLeaks contacts:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/13/pence-trump-wikileaks-russia-244863

* "Sessions says he knew of ex-Trump aide's Russia ties, despite testimony:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/14/jeff-sessions-special-counsel-hillary-clinton

* "Congress Will Hold a Hearing on a “Heartbeat” Abortion Ban:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/10/26/congress_is_holding_a_hearing_on_a_heartbeat_abortion_ban.html

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* "Miscarriages in Flint: ‘I Really Believe It’s the Water’:" https://rewire.news/article/2017/11/03/miscarriages-flint-really-believe-water/

* "The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline:" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/upshot/the-unsung-role-that-ordinary-citizens-played-in-the-great-crime-decline.html?_r=0

* "Minnesota Republican State Legislator Unleashes Anti-Trans Tweet:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/minnesota-republican-state-legislator.html

* There are still some hurdles, but it's progress! "Australia Votes YES For Marriage Equality:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/australia-votes-yes-for-marriage.html

* "2017 Remembering Our Dead:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/2017-remembering-our-dead.html

* "Why octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/why-octopuses-are-building-small-cities-off-the-coast-of-australia/

* Look, I get why you'd want to do this for, say people with dementia or certain serious disorders or antibiotics, but I am deeply uncomfortable with it because the potential abuses are pretty fucking obvious and have have substantial privacy concerns. This is incredibly intrusive specially if it becomes mandatory for, say, insurance purposes. I do not want this in my body; I especially do not want anybody coercing me to put it in my body. "FDA approves 'trackable' pill:" http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41980836

* "Thriller - Michael Jackson (1930s Jazz Cover) ft. Wayne Brady:"

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* My lungs started to show signs of worsening over the weekend. Monday was a special kind of terrible as I only got three hours of sleep before the phone woke me and I couldn't fall back asleep, and so I lost the other three hours I might have had and went out to forage exhausted. The winds were high enough that the second I hit the highway from the on ramp i knew freeway travel was a mistake. My crutch wrack went walkabout in October and there is no chance of salvaging similar until spring. I got my lung med which I was nearly out of, the second most important, and v ery much a thing I need to function after last spring's damage. I hit the library, put the monthly pittance down on a certain bill to stay out of collections, and picked up my korn loafs. Things were not good physically, but manageable. We got the forage inside minutes before drizzle turned into pissing down sideways.

Today I was scheduled short sleeped again for Fix It at the library. Things are officially not manageable. I do not like to appear in public when it's this bad, plus I'd messed up my meds schedule Sunday and my body is til trying to recover. If I did not go, I'd have to wait for December. I forced myself out, much to Tavy's disapproval, braved twilight rush hour in high winds and... the PNW really needs 40 words for rain. This was the rain that is too steady for a drizzle, but no inconvenience and not apt to do dampen the surface of a cloth coat, but too chilly for a hoadie. People were driving the way they do in a high damp wind with dark closing fast, so always an adventure. I was exactly on time, parked and had actually lifted the cursed TV, when I realized I HAD NOT UNPLUGGED and BROUGHT THE DvD player. I had to wast gas on driving all the way back, now through dark, damp, angry, high wind rush hour, which is an experience i normally go lengths to avoid. The spare is entangled in what looks like permanent possibly carnal embrace with a VCR and the cable box, so I took the bedroom one, which I hate to do as it is fragile and if something unseats I have to completely disassemble and reassemble it, but it had the virtue of already having a DvD in it and it's easy to separate from the TV. I needn't have gone back for it, as the nice man who I wish would let me give him a manicure who designed one of the chips in the TV had bought and experimented with a $1 VCR entirely for my benefit yesterday and was reay with connectors and everything. They'd also saved the remote I'd abandoned last week accidentally. There was a lamp ahead of me and the precocious young electronics enthusiast with his Daddy this time. From what I saw the Dad is as A+ parenting wise as his Mom in a way especially good for a kid that bright and curious. I was resigned to a long wait, but the lamp was done in two pages and we worked on the TV extensively, me holding it up and together for testing. Apparently, the audio was dead now too. Meanwhile my physical condition is visibly deteriorating and I haven't energy to be charming as it's all going in to the effort not to throw up and or, collapse into a weeping ball under the table, as amoung other things it was increasingly clear I should have taken a rantie on top of my main anti-nausea dose which WAS NOT WORKING FAST ENOUGH. I am firmly of the opinion that nausea is worse than pain as horrible as the pain can get sometimes. The TV is toast. I am furious that Visio charge $350.00 for a TV that only lasts 11 months with a one year warranty they refused to honor, prefering to ignore us until the time ran out. I suppose it is second hand dying behemoths from here on out. If I had money for a TV, I'd buy working fish lights with it, as the last twenty light is half dead of a bad fan and is a time share between two tanks as it is. I can't even afford a replacement bulb for the secondary light. I am too tired to dispose of the thing. I am also fairly sure I may be legitimate sick after all as sine I got home my ability to regulate body temperature went highwire, and the symptom list is long and diverse enough to suggest it's not just chronic assholery ganging up on me. It is a very lucky thing I picked up the quick protein Monday, as it is warm, filling, very little standing, and very easy on the stomache.

I am likely going to suck for the next few days and will likely be cranky, for which I apologize. Tomorrow is a scheduled rest day, Thursday I am scheduled for afternoon Game of Bones. If I have dropped the ball on something, remind me Friday. I refuse to promise anything else to anyone besides bare minimum until my body is under better control.

I would like to thank whoever sent me the interesting looking book of essays on early modern Women. It was kind.

* I am going to be FURIOUS is the Exorcist is queer baiting me. One kiss isn't enough anymore. I am no longer willing to accept crumbs.

* "Racism and Some Sexism in Woman Who Rides Like A Man:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/racism-sexism-woman-like-man/

* Sexism and the Justice League. "The Amazons’ New Clothes:" http://www.goldenlasso.net/the-amazons-new-clothes/

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* A second conservative politician has taken steps to keep the mother of a toddler in Iranian prison instead of keeping quiet so she could come home quickly to her family so she could get treatment for what is very likely breast cancer, apparently for funsies in both cases. "Gove under fire over Nazanin comments:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-41960006

* They have been starving their soldiers for years. "North Korean soldier shot while defecting to South Korea:" https://www.axios.com/north-korean-defector-2509138802.html

* "‘White Europe’: 60,000 nationalists march on Poland’s independence day:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/12/white-europe-60000-nationalists-march-on-polands-independence-day

* "Trump sarcastically responds to Kim Jong Un:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/11/politics/north-korea-trump-asia-trip/index.html

* How stupid and incompetent is 45 claiming to be? Glad you asked. "Trump says he believes Putin's election meddling denials:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/11/politics/president-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-election-meddling/index.html

* "Trump careens off script on Russia after Putin meeting:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/11/trump-russia-putin-people-will-die-244801

* "CIA director stands by intel community assessment Russia meddled in election:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/11/politics/mike-pompeo-cia-donald-trump-white-house-russia-meddling/index.html

* "Sally Yates: Trump 'embraces Putin yet again' in 'unpatriotic' comments:" http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359923-sally-yates-trump-is-shamelessly-unpatriotic-for-russian

* "George Papadopoulos told a senior Trump adviser he had an 'interesting message' from Russia — a day after learning of Clinton 'dirt':" http://www.businessinsider.com/george-papadopoulos-stephen-miller-trump-russia-clinton-2017-11

* "The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/

* "Trump picks ex-pharma executive Azar to lead HHS:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/13/alex-azar-hhs-secretary-trump-244837

* Republicans are standing behind him. "Federal judge nominee fails to disclose wife's White House ties:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/politics/brett-talley-criticism/index.html

* TW: Pedophilia. How broadly pro-Pedophilia is the Republican Mainstream? Glad you asked. What is more mainstream than the RNC? "RNC still working with Roy Moore in Alabama:"

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* Alabama Republicans are so strongly pro-pedophilia that Roy Moore is even in the polls with his non-pedophile opponent, which really tells you a lot about evangelical Christian values.

* TW: Pedophila. Contains video of a survivor weeping as she recounts a violent attempted rape. "5th Woman Comes Forward With Assault Allegations Against Roy Moore:" https://www.npr.org/2017/11/13/563747648/mcconnell-calls-on-roy-moore-to-step-aside

* "Hari Kondabolu - Exposing "The Problem with Apu":"

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* I am deeply skeptical of facial reconstruction, but she sounds like an amazing woman in life. "Face of 'witch' who died before she could be burned for her 'crimes' is digitally reconstructed 300 years later:" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/31/face-witch-died-1704-digitally-reconstructed/

* "Archaeology at Salem says we’re thinking about witches and witch hunts all wrong:" http://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-salem-says-were-thinking-about-witches-and-witch-hunts-all-wrong-694200

* "Scurrilous manuscript that could have undone John Donne discovered:" https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/nov/03/scurrilous-manuscript-that-could-have-undone-john-donne-discovered

* "Being interested in a historical period does not mean you agree with what happened.:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/167478711987/skeleton-richard-cornbreadcrumbs

* "How the Right Politicized Roy Moore's Sexual Misconduct Allegations:"

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* "Trump Rounds Out an Embarrassing Trip to Asia:"

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* "Puerto Rico's Hurricane Recovery: A 10 out of 10:"

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* "Jose Calderon - A Marshall Plan for Puerto Rico:"

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* An old friend of mine wrote this. Is is M/M erotica and very well written. "The Price of His Kiss (City of Pantheons Book 1) - Kindle edition by Michaela Holland." https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077D1BZD9/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_vote_lft?ie=UTF8&voteInstanceId=R2OV7U4IHMAB3I&voteValue=1&csrfT=gNwdyESg68ekYMcJe8dSuAq5Ien9qNt2zqkVMuUAAAAJAAAAAFoKaKJyYXcAAAAA#R2OV7U4IHMAB3I&

* Whichever of you recommended Daughter of Mystery was terribly clever as it was exactly the sort of book that was wanted. I have passed the reccie on to multiple parties and am myself struggling to put the thing down. Seriously, brilliant suggestion.

* Man dances on mechanical Bull while stripping:

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Anger rises as toxic air chokes Delhi:" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/anger-rises-as-toxic-air-chokes-delhi/articleshow/61603209.cms

* "How to Hire Fake Friends and Family:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/paying-for-fake-friends-and-family/545060/?utm_source=atlfb

* "'These Are Not The Actions of an Innocent Man':" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/trump-putin-russia-election/545651/

* I have no words. "'I love France, I love your wine': Trump's bizarre first phone call with Hollande:" https://www.thelocal.fr/20171107/i-love-france-i-love-your-wine-trumps-bizarre-first-phone-call-with-hollande

* "Russia Threatens To 'Retaliate' As RT Says It Will Register As Foreign Agent In U.S.:" https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-today-rt-justice-department-deadline-register-foreign-agent/28844886.html

* TW: Pedophilia. "Lawrence O'Donnell on Roy Moore Sexual Misconduct Allegations:"

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* TW: Pedophilia. "Roy Moore denies sexual misconduct allegations:"

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* TW: Pedophilia. What would Jesus Do? There’s your answer. *shudder* "Roy Moore's brother compares sexual conduct allegations to the persecution of Jesus:" http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/359808-roy-moores-brother-compares-sexual-conduct-allegations-to-the

* TW: Pedophilia. "Women Recall The First Time A Man Masturbated In Front Of Them Without Consent:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/louis-ck-masturbation-women_us_5a05c227e4b05673aa58f4ba

* TW: Pedophilia. So there you have it, the Republican Mainstream in Alabama is so strongly pro-pedophilia that one of their reps is calling for the arrest and prosecution of the survivors of child molestation and the elevation of a pedophile to the United States Senate. "Alabama state representative says Moore's accusers are "guilty of allowing him to exist":" http://www.newsweek.com/alabama-state-rep-says-roy-moores-accusers-should-be-prosecuted-708125

"They are guilty of allowing him to exist for 40 years....Someone should prosecute and go after them." So the literal teenagers half his age or less were solely responsible for a grown man's decision to molest them, but by contrast the Pedophile deserves the honor and reward of being a United State's Senator.

Why do I say this is the mainstream of the Alabama Republican Party? Because multiple Republican officials are still endorsing and defending him on the grounds that pedophilia is a Christian value stretching all the way back to the virgin Mary, etc.. Because there are plenty of ordinary Republicans willing to defend him publicly over it. Because he’s successfully fundraising on it. If they aren’t pro-pedphilia, why the fuck would they do that? If it’s not mainstream, why are their so many of them and why do they put so many people with these odious views in charge? Why is 45 president if the Republican Party isn't enthusiastically pro sexual predator?

Go back and read the original claims. If a teacher did those things to students, trust me there would be no doubt that those things were illegal and the teacher would be locked up so fast the papers would be still settling on the desk. If a teacher did only the things Roy Moore has admitted to doing (supposedly consensual kissing), that teacher would be fired and license revoked even in states like Pennsylvania where the age of consent is ridiculously low. In my state, he’d have been arrested.

And I believe the women. All of them.

* "Anna Paquin Backs Up Ellen Page's Claim That Brett Ratner Outed Her :" https://jezebel.com/anna-paquin-backs-up-ellen-pages-claim-that-brett-ratne-1820358607

* TW: Rape. "Six actresses accuse Brett Ratner of sexual harassment:" https://pagesix.com/2017/11/01/six-actresses-accuse-brett-ratner-of-sexual-harassment/

* "Gal Gadot will only be ‘Wonder Woman’ again if Brett Ratner is out:" https://pagesix.com/2017/11/11/gal-gadot-will-only-be-wonder-woman-again-if-brett-ratner-is-out/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=P6Twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

* "Today in Conservative Media: The Texas Shooting Victims Were Praying to Be Killed:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/11/06/today_in_conservative_media_the_texas_shooting_victims_were_praying_to_be.html

“It may seem, on the surface, that God was refusing to give such protection to his Texan children,” he wrote. “But we are also praying that God would deliver us from evil eternally. Through these same words, we are asking God to deliver us out of this evil world and into his heavenly glory, where no violence, persecution, cruelty, or hatred will ever afflict us again.”

* "High Court Says Germany's Birth Registry Must Allow Third Gender Option:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/08/562885752/high-court-says-germanys-birth-registry-must-allow-third-gender-option?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202808

* "Happy Veterans Day 2017 Trans Vets!:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/happy-veterans-day-2017-trans-vets.html

* "Economic Development: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* Nothing points out to me how much our culture has changed for the better in my life time than watching stand up comedy from the '70's and early '80's. So much of it is flat out not funny anymore; not because of the references (which I am old enough to catch 99.9% of the time); but long strings of nasty, rambling, incredibly racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, etc. remarks no longer constitute jokes outside of certain specific venues, such as Trump rallies and FOX "News." It is oddly comforting in it's way.

* "Stop Celebrating Crumbs:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/11/stop-celebrating-crumbs.html

* "Landscape Unsettles the Journey to the Crossroads:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/landscape-journey-crossroads-lotr-reread/

* Catullus. Snerk: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/167396383787

* Snerk: http://the-alexandrian-alchemist.tumblr.com/post/167397042966/a-video-game-metaphor

* "The Walking Dead, Season 8, Episode 3: Monsters:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/11/the-walking-dead-season-8-episode-3.html

* "If a child is old enough:" http://frankiefan1993.tumblr.com/post/167397076167

* This is from a year ago, but it's still on point: https://boingboing.net/2016/11/11/leonard-cohen-wrote-the-perfec.html

* On Myrcella: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/167358193382/thoughts-on-myrcella

* December 24 2017, 11am
November 19 2017, 2pm
November 12 2017, 5pm
December 1 2017, 10am
December 12 2017 6pm
Next Monday, 8pm
Next Monday, 2:30pm
Next Saturday, 5:30pm

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

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

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal [email protected]

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

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Happy Labor Day!

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Apparently I didn't post this before the Crash last Night.

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We had an Internet Outage. This is yesterday's posting as far as I got.

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