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Bitte. “U.S. citizens who are out walking or standing in public are not required to provide identification“ yet agents are threatening them with violence and detainment.

"Immigration officers around Minneapolis are approaching people and demanding proof that they’re U.S. citizens"
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-approaching-people-minneapolis-demanding-proof-citizenship-rcna254247


"NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING"
The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO along with [list] ... statewide action on January 23... united against the violent ICE occupation of our beloved cities that has directly impacted union members, our workplaces and our families."
Press release: https://minneapolisunions.org/system/files/2026-01/press_release_-_january_16_2026.pdf


"Will ICE Ignite a Mass Strike in Minnesota?"
Other endorsers include Faith in Minnesota, Tending the Soil, United Renters for Justice, Unidos Minnesota, Communities Against Police Brutality, Indivisible Twin Cities, Women’s March Minnesota, the worker center Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha, and Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee. In all, 90 organizations, big and small, have endorsed the call.

Under the banner “ICE Out of MN: Day of Truth and Freedom,” they are calling for ICE to leave the state, for the officer who killed Good to be held legally accountable, for no additional federal funding for ICE, and for businesses to sever any economic ties with the federal agency.
https://labornotes.org/2026/01/will-ice-ignite-mass-strike-minnesota

--> It's very important that whatever your politics, you look for news that is on the other side of issues, as long as it is high-fact-containing. Media bias charts can help you figure out reliable sources.

Non-reliable sources are CBS, Fox, OAN.



"THIS IS A POST ABOUT WHY FASCIST ELITES MUST RECRUIT MEN AS FOOT SOLDIERS WHO HATE AND FEAR ASSERTIVE WOMEN TO THE POINT OF VIOLENCE AND MURDER.
… especially those portrayed as “disobedient, Communist whores” or whatever the current terms for uppity women are … The man who has unearthed more about the fascist mind than anyone before or since is Klaus Theweleit, an 83-year-old German sociologist."

"And the men who become fascist foot soldiers are highly correlated with the fear of, and malevolent hatred for women who … “do not know their place.”
Theweleit uses his sources to demonstrate that women (ALL women) are more like non-player-characters (NPCs) to the fascist foot soldiers than people. Only other men, and REALLY only other fascist men, are people." Sources are listed at the end of the article.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AWzbTSMCK/

I think everyone I know backed-up their LJ years ago when it was first sold to Russians, (2007) but just in case, a heads-up. Here is enough info for you to hunt down specifics if you need to do so.

Text of the screenshot image: Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I swear this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details: ( Read more... )

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I saw a statement online [with no citations, you fool writer] that Covid causes cancer, so I read several research papers from the past year to find out if this was true. There are two quoted and linked below. Papers from earlier in the pandemic have a lot of "we need more data/time" sorts of conclusions.

It looks to me that it causes lung cancer but other cancers are not yet proven. Note: there are several other viruses known to cause cancers.

September 2025: The double-edged sword: How SARS-CoV-2 might fuel lung cancer: Investigating the potential oncogenic mechanisms of the novel coronavirus in lung carcinogenesis

“It has been proven [other research] that although the SARS virus is not capable of integrating into the host genome, it uses the mechanisms of other human oncoviruses to cause lung cancer.”

“the emerging hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 infection might actively contribute to de novo carcinogenesis or accelerate the progression of existing, previously undetected, or dormant cancers. This proposition is supported by observations of increased cancer-related deaths and accelerated metastatic lung disease among cancer survivors who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. The mechanisms underpinning this potential oncogenic influence are multifaceted and are currently a significant area of active research(Chia et al., 2024a, 2024b).”

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0098299725000779

………..

April 2025:

The viral oncogenesis of COVID-19 and its impact on cancer progression, long-term risks, treatment complexities, and research strategies

“definitive evidence directly linking SARS-CoV-2 to tumorigenesis remains elusive.”

“even patients with less severe disease—those hospitalized but not requiring intensive care—show increased risks for HER2-positive breast cancer, esophageal cancer, and stomach cancer” [Rundown of cancer types and evidence follows Table 3]

www.explorationpub.com/Journals/em/Article/1001314

I made two new designs for myself on Spoonflower (custom printed yardage), but they are available to buy if other people want them. My most popular design, however, is the Elvish calligraphy trim. I get about a dollar per yard someone else buys. Spoonflower will print on linen, velvet, chiffon, cotton twill... many different fabrics. Also wallpaper.

The designs are an irregular peppermint candy cane stripe, and Elizabethan pearl-and-goldwork from a painting - see image.

My designs are here: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/cvirtue?sort=new

YouTube pays creators: Good to know: a creator I support via Patreon was asked: "If a YouTube Premium viewer watches your video, does YouTube give you a share of their premium payment in lieu of them watching your content but not watching adverts on your content? Creator: They do, and in some cases it's more than I get for people watching ads."

Book: My current favorite new book is based on this series of shorts by the woman that's been doing armor & movie swordfights reviews for years; her description of this is "Caroline wants to write a romantasy novel. Rosamund, her heroine, isn't quite the compliant 18-year-old she expected..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFZrnSkQb1w&list=PLj4N-R1RQxAt60HueNg7w0IMrZPO8WweR

Videos she has done which I recommend:

Inigo vs. Westley: Princess Bride Perfection [CV: choreography of the swordfight at the top of the Cliffs of Insanity, and how it supports the storyline] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0rkUbrPo3k

Just Stab Me Now: A Women's Armour Tier List: Can you move? Can you breathe? Can you fight? [CV: I'm sure you've noticed a lot of fictional armor makes ZERO practical sense.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbJK4T-SBRA

How to Hide a Sword in Your Dress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ5Z6awBSb8

Tiffany window: Video from the Met about a huge Tiffany window they just bought & restored, this one was one of the many designed by Agnes Northrop. https://youtube.com/watch?v=KfdWikGUT5Q&si=hfPl62aOaxSHQpNI

Snow crystals: This person lives in Alaska and does close-up video of snow crystals that form on spider webs. Account name is Lotze Art & Design, if for some reason you can't see this without a FB account. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FjuinfYmp/

Fyi: FB somehow doubts I am a real person and is reviewing my account and a “video selfie” they had me take.
Until it clears, my account is invisible to others.
I’ve been using this account for 10 years.

I've been looking through (and printing out) stereograms from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, etc, to view on my stereoviewer. There are also some recently-published books of these which include a stereoviewer in the front cover.

Text from the back of the photo card; probably around 1930 (at the end of the popularity of stereograms)

"WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUN'K-IN, AND THE FODDER'S IN THE SHOCK" INDIANA. Lat. 40° N.; Long. 86° W.

Here is a genuine fall scene in the country You could almost walk across the cornfield by stepping from pumpkin to pumpkin. In the background are some fodder shocks, and beyond this lies the apple orchard. It is "gathering-in" time in the fall. In the bright days of autumn when the frost glitters in the early morning, farmers begin to gather in the crops.

James Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana poet, thought this the best time of the year. He tells about it in the poem that is the subject of this description. You have doubtless read others of his poems such as "When the Flag Goes By, "The Old Swimmin' Hole," "Out to Old Aunt Mary's." Riley was born in 1853 at Greenfield, Indiana. He had only a common school education. Then he went as an assistant to a patent medicine man. Later he began writing verse for the Indianapolis papers. He soon became popular as the "Hoosier Poet" , and is known all over the world where people like the poetry of common things. He died in 1916.

Whittier also wrote a poem on the pumpkin:

From his home in the north. On the fields of his harvest the Yankee looks forth, Where crook-necks are curling and yellow fruit shines, And the sun of September melts down on his vines.

What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!"

The last lines refer to Hallowe'en when the shell of the pumpkin is used to make a head in which a candle is set.

137- (16755) Copyright by The Keystone View Company.

I found out that my hometown newspaper has archives going back 200 years, and spent a lot of today searching out articles about my older relatives, which was entertaining. I discovered that my grandfather, who ended his life as a respected general manager of a very large paper mill, was a dastardly youth who had more than a few traffic tickets, such as passing a streetcar when it was unloading, for which he was fined $5 in 1933 (that's $125 in today's dollars.) Here's a pic of my grandmother.

Comedian says a thing. FCC Commissioner threatens to pull broadcast license of network if it doesn't fire comedian. How is this not PRECISELY government censorship?

This is what got him cancelled – not ill of the dead, but speculation about MAGA motives. “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said in his monologue.

"Insurance plan networks are simply inadequate, Harbin said, which is no surprise, given that insurance companies consistently reimburse behavioral health providers at lower rates. The study found, for example, that primary-care office visit rates were on average 23.8 percent higher than rates for behavioral health office visits."


http://www.peteearley.com/2019/12/09/insurance-refused-to-pay-110000-bill-for-sons-out-of-network-care-parity-an-illusion-no-care-in-rural-areas

Deborah Vlock writes:
In case you thought you knew all you need to know about domestic violence, WGBH Boston has a really good piece on childhood MI and violence against parents/caregivers. It's a problem and more prevalent than you might think.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2019/11/29/when-teens-abuse-parents-shame-and-secrecy-make-it-hard-to-seek-help
(link has been fixed)

I interviewed a lovely woman named "Tina" about her experiences with this very issue in my book, Parenting Children with Mental Heath Challenges. Her story is powerful, like all of our stories. But there's that much more stigma and shame around it, because of the DV component.