gwydion | Entries tagged with islamaphobia

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 News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am really worried about what comes next.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It did eat my whole evening, alas.

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

So phone bureaucracy tomorrow, I guess.

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Bernie Rocks Coachella:"

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* "Elmo Drops A Trump Diss Track:"

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

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

Me: do they know?

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

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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.

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

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

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

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* "Richard Lewis, Comedian and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Star, Dies at 76:" https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/richard-lewis-dead-comedian-curb-your-enthusiasm-1235925744/

* I have lost track of how many missed cleaning appointments there were. It's been weeks. I've been scheduling twice a week since November in hopes of getting one a month. Which is annoying, but not nightmarish right now, but gets ugly fast in March, when Goth Millennial is going to burn through all their hours fast taking care of me post surgery.

The Millennials are working out a cooking schedule between them, but this is a huge load on Goth Millennial's shoulders.

Basically the company Medicare is out sourcing to is falling apart because treating their contract workers like shit and lying to them about things like mileage compensation when hiring them is a terrible business model in this economy on top of being an incredible shitty way to treat humans. My decision to start calling them the Asshole Agency within a week or two of starting to deal with them continues to be vindicated. The workers there need a union since the company is devoted to it's assholery, but I get why it's easier to quit.

The system is collapsing, basically. The Medicare advantage people know this and are "discussing options."

So Friday I spent hours playing phone tag with local volunteer organizations trying to get six weeks of help, but those systems are already flooded with people who are supposed to be getting Medicare advantage help, but can't because the Asshole agency isn't sending people and hasn't been for months. Still, I was hoping a short term acute need might get me in. The secular one got right back to me. They are full up. No word yet from the Catholics and the group that coordinates a bunch of protestant organizations.

I have been told over and over to try to get a church involved, but I'm not Christian and it feels weird, especially since most of my contacts with Christian strangers in the last couple decades involve aggressive proselytizers. I have Christian friends who are cool. I have no beef with the Quakers or the Unitarians or the Episcopalians or the Catholics who are trying to change things from within (Nuns on a Bus, queer friends trying to push their parish left) or what have you. I do have a beef with extremists, which most evangelicals are and the more conservative strands of catholic, orthodox, and Protestantism and there are a lot of door to door Mormons, Jehovah's witnesses, etc. in my part of the country.

Look, a had late family members who were very involved in their churches who were decent people with reasonable views. I was a Queer Medievalist and I have some sexy late medieval saint pin ups to prove it mixed in with all my other art, some of which references assorted other religions, despite never having been Catholic. I have a Quaker friend closer to me than my own sister.

I just... Christian religious strangers in my house make me uncomfortable as a queer non-Christian in a country where Christo-fascists are trying to make me literally illegal.

I know it would likely be fine. I did fine and made lots of friends at University which doing a major that is mostly Catholics, Ex-Catholics, and people in the process of converting. I come from a debate culture. I can quote scripture like Satan. ;) I was in Philosophy before I dropped out and moved west and switched to History in one form or another. I can talk theology across a whole lot of denominations and the major "heresies." I just don't want to anymore and I haven't wanted to for a long time. That was long ago and far away when I wasn't so exhausted and in pain.

I should have started looking last August or October.

I am likely fucked because I waited too long.

Sigh.

In other news, I've been really doing well on the massive number of now mostly advanced physio things I have to do every day.

Sunday I was about a third of the way in when my arm noped out of about another third of Sunday's quota. I am trying to do all the remaining ones that don't move my arm that way, but I'm not sanguine.

I forgot to do my blood work Friday. I have an afternoon pre-op appointment Monday. Let us hope I remember then. I am so tired and it all hurts so much.

* Sunday the Millenials helped me make bread, as kneading's been beyond me for years, but I've been wanting fresh baked bread for weeks. I got started way later than intended, and then discovered my yeast was too old which added yet more delay so they went home before it was rteady, which saddened me, I was trying the recipe from B. Dylan Hollis's cookbook that went against every instinct in my body as someone who grew up poor and who's mom baked bread a lot. Like I've been involved in bread making since I was a toddler. The instinct is a well worn groove.

I made some small modifications because 1. I don't put that much salt in anything. (I put in some salt, just not as much as one is supposed to). 2. There was more yeast in it than intended as I added the fresh ayeast on top of the mostly exhausted yeast I'd already put in. 3. I wanted a round loaf rather than a loaf shape, so YMMV.

The yeast did not perform the way I am used to, which I theorize is do to the weird slurry situation they have going on instead of the classic water/sugar/yeast and wait situation I'm used to. As a result it is possible my yeast was mostly fine, but I didn't know that at this stage. Indeed, at no point did this bread rise the way I am used to bread rising, which both I and the Millenial who'd also grown up baking bread found vaguely unnerving. Like it did rise some, but not even close to our expectation.

This bread is dense. Super dense. Even knowing the ingredients and predicting it would be dense from the rise pattern, I was not remotely ready for the texture of the finished product. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad texture, just way closer to cornbread than bread bread despite the comparatively small amount of corn meal in it. I knew this was a molasses heavy bread and was expecting it to be slightly sweeter than normal bread. I don't think I had quite envisioned the particular way the molasses shifted the flavor profile. Again, not bad, just different and with the unexpected texture I took a while to adjust.

It's very filling to the point where I'm not convinced we can eat a whole loaf before it turns. Like armies could march on this. It is exactly a thing that would be good to feed people plowing a field with horse or ox. It's hearty in a way I associate with early modern and 19th century food. I need to think about what to pair it with besides the butter I already tried on it. I'm not sorry I tried it as it is interesting. I'm not sure I'd make it again as I like other breads I know how to make better.

* The Catholics are a no go on helping. I am now waiting on the Protestant Coalition to see if they will send anyone to help. In related news, the nice lady in charge of my disability aide stuff has put in for a bunch of extra hours for Goth Millennial for March, given how much help I'm going to need. We should here back from the supervisor soon so Goth Millennial can plan. I am thinking I'm going to up reservations with the asshole agency to four a week or so after my first forty eight post surgury in hopes of getting two cleaning sessions a month instead of one. I need to think about distribution for when we have our no one is coming again conversation Friday morning.

I have done my pre-op consult thingie. It looks like as the surgery is less extreme than what had initially been projected they won't need to completely immobilize the arm, just severely limit it. I am hoping "can move it slightly in an up and down fashion" will really help with the trousers on and off situation when I need the bathroom. It is a small thing making a massive difference. I will see if I will be able to type at all when we get there.

It took me three days, a ridiculous amount of time, energy, gas, and most of the oil in my car to get the blood work they wanted. It was an infuriating saga. Hospital won't take blood work from the normal easy to access lab. The one I was sent to consists of a collection of chairs and a sign directing me to what two hours of driving through the street maze north of a certain middle school suggests is a mythical location. waited an hour with an annoyingly loud loop blasting directions in a tiny windowless waiting room to be sent home to try again. That site had the wrong hours listed on the internet and was closing also indefinitely.

This left literally two open slots at the one remaining site, which was the basement of a very pretty craftsman house with no signage visible from the street. I parked in the right place, but the person in the building proper had no idea they had a phlebotomist in the basement, so I spent the next 20 minutes driving up and down and eventually systematically trying unmarked buildings on foot until a kind older gentleman led me to the secret vampire basement. Then I had to hobble up hill back to my car.

This could have easily been solved by a larger sign instead of a tiny one half hidden by landscaping, or one of those tent signs closer to the street. Just saying.

So they have their four vials of blood.

I've had my phone consult with the hospital about meds and things, during which I discovered that the intake lady at the formerly Extremely Catholic Hospital now owned by an Evil Corporate Conglomerating that has successfully enshitified healthcare across broad sectors in at least two counties knows nothing at all about gender confirmation surgeries, literally didn't understand what I was talking about without a five minute explanation, and had no way to enter such a thing into the computer so had to hand write it into my previous surgery list in vague terms because her google fu wasn't up to trans stuff and there was no medical code for it in the computer. O.o

And this is why I never feel safe at that hospital even though I'm pretty sure they stopped having everyone drop whatever they were doing including surgery prep for mandatory prayers when the Evil Corporate Overloard took over. I trust neither super Christian hospital not evil corporate hospital that fires whistle blowers, and wish we were doing this at the modern hospital one county south, but here we are.

I do have trust in my surgeon though. The person who did my swabs, BP, and med list at the surgeons place was clearly trans. I wasn't sure which direction they were going or if they were nonbinary, but it made me feel safer. They weren't weird about my botched surgery situation when I had to partially disrobe for swabs. He also has good recommendations for joint surgery from the physios because the outcomes are excellent without much in the way of complications. My interactions with him show he listens and takes problems seriously. I am comfortable with no nonsense, which he is.

I am going to hate being mostly helpless. The rehab will Suck, but it would be harder to suck more than physio already is. I am already thinking about maybe trying for a new hip next year or the year after. Best to start cycling through the process on big four since I've already started, and that left hip is deteriorating noticeably faster than the right.

My car needs to go in Monday. I need to make a mental note that oil is now three times a year. Sigh. And jiffy lube won't touch anything under my hood for liability reasons. I am trying not to stress out about housing tax, as right now I just need to focus on doing as much physio as my arm can take, laying in supplies for March, getting through what is about to be a terrible, terrible month.

I would like to thank the donor who sent some funds to allow me to order out a couple times while I'm laid up, and the Millennials who are organizing Batch Cooking so I will have things I can heat up to eat.

* Friday I kept being awakened by medical phonecalls, as has been the case all week, but it was 8 or 9 today, which feels like a lot. Nevertheless, I think I am actually getting a handle on the last two batches of advanced exercises, which is a relief.

I think I figured out why the Emperor has been so anxious and Livia's been extra cuddly. They think something is very wrong with me from how I'm moving, poor buttons. They spent most of the week trying to herd me back into bed every time I leave it.

* "Supreme Court Ethics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "Michigan Dems Vote “Uncommitted” | Biden Talks Ceasefire Over Ice Cream | GOP Targets Birth Control:"

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* "Meanwhile… Subway Surfer Sex | Airplane Mode Unnecessary | Stephen Tries KFC’s Chizza:"

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* "What’s Going On Over There? The Late Show's News From Around The World:"

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* "Trump Victory Party Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "The Republican Hip-Hop Task Force:"

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* "Call The Joe Biden Phone Sex Line:"

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* "Mitch McConnell Steps Down:"

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* Matthew Peary vs Matthew Henson: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=208

* "Sunday Sweets Brings You SKULLS ON PLATTERS:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-brings-you-skulls-on-platters-2024

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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.

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

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

* "How you can support queer and trans kids in Oklahoma after Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/how-to-help-trans-kids

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Help Queer Folks in Ghana: https://www.silentmajorityghana.com/donate

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

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

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* "Where Is Hamas Getting Its Weapons? Increasingly, From Israel.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-weapons-rockets.html

* "Gaza mediators and others warn Israel of disaster if it launches a ground invasion on crowded Rafah:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-10-2024-2d80dc890a5030757e2ae76684fa75da

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

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* "Netanyahu rejects Hamas cease-fire demands, vows to fight until ‘absolute victory’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/07/netanyahu-hamas-cease-fire-demands-00140182

* "Egypt steps up security on border as Israeli offensive in Gaza nears:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/egypt-steps-up-security-border-israeli-offensive-gaza-nears-2024-02-09/

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* "Russian missiles strike Ukrainian cities again, killing at least 7 and wounding dozens:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-kyiv-missile-kharkiv-7c360faaeec27ac169b2abf4865a4522

* "War cats: Ukraine enlists feline friends in fight against Russia:" https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-russia-war-cat-army-social-media/

* "Trump’s Worst Lawyer Costs Him Millions (Carroll v. Trump):"

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* "Judge Engoron's Scathing Rebuke of Donald Trump's Lawyers:" https://www.newsweek.com/judge-engoron-scathing-rebuke-donald-trump-lawyers-1868348

* "Jack Smith Hits Back at Judge Cannon’s Dangerous Order on Trump Case:" https://newrepublic.com/post/178922/jack-smith-judge-cannon-dangerous-order-trump-classified-documents

* "“Awful and unethical”: Legal experts say Judge Cannon could face removal for “disturbing” order:" https://www.salon.com/2024/02/08/awful-and-unethical-legal-experts-say-cannon-could-face-removal-for-disturbing-order/

* "'Putting her on notice': Jack Smith losing patience with Judge Cannon in Trump documents case:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-putting-her-on-notice-jack-smith-losing-patience-with-judge-cannon-in-trump-documents-case-203985989629

* "World Nears Dangerous Climate Tipping Point With Snow in Short Supply:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-snow-drought-climate-change/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcwNTQyODMwNCwiZXhwIjoxNzA2MDMzMTA0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTNzFaNEJUMVVNMFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzRDhGMEEzMTc2MDc0NUM5OTg4NkFCNzA1NDk2RUNEQSJ9.S2wF1RX63Z24vtPWlTsEaQvADjn7KRhnt0QuhhnOrdQ

* "Gold miners bring fresh wave of suffering to Brazil’s Yanomami:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/brazil-environment-yanomami/

* "This camel has a very important job:" https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2024/2/2/24052025/camel-seed-mojave-desert-joshua-tree-fires

* This is why we need external safety inspections. "How Boeing put profits over planes:" https://www.vox.com/money/24052245/boeing-corporate-culture-737-airplane-safety-door-plug

* "The Rooftop Solar Industry Could Be on the Verge of Collapse:" https://time.com/6565415/rooftop-solar-industry-collapse/

* "Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sand-mafias-are-plundering-the-earth/

* "Athleisure: Destroying Fashion & the Environment:"

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* "Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos:" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/metas-new-ai-image-generator-was-trained-on-1-1-billion-instagram-and-facebook-photos/

* "Texas cold leaves alligators 'frozen' underwater, but still alive. Here's how:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1226660910/alligators-frozen-underwater-brumation-explanation

* "Foul-mouthed parrots are unlikely stars at a British zoo:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1226911707/parrots-swear-profanities-british-zoo

* "These Parrots Use Their Beaks to Swing Across Branches Like Monkeys:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-parrots-can-use-their-beaks-to-swing-across-branches-like-monkeys-180983694/

* "Sighting of newborn great white shark ‘unlike anything we had ever seen before’:" https://www.science.org/content/article/sighting-newborn-great-white-shark-unlike-anything-we-had-ever-seen

* "Celebrate Winter in the Wild With 15 Photos of Animals Enjoying the Snow:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/celebrate-winter-in-the-wild-with-15-photos-of-animals-enjoying-the-snow-180983665/

* "Scientists Discover Stunning Evidence of Multiple Lost Prehistoric Societies:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3m5ye/scientists-discover-stunning-evidence-of-multiple-lost-prehistoric-societies

* "The Sensation Novelist Who Exposed the Plight of Victorian Women:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-sensation-novelist-who-exposed-the-plight-of-victorian-women-wilkie-collins-180983649/

* "Italy Returns Historic Plane to Ethiopia:" https://www.voaafrica.com/a/7463918.html

* "These Casual Snapshots Show What Kitchens Were Like in the 1960s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/kitchen-desgins-1960s/

* "THE U.S. SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/lavender-scare-gay-people-public-service-erasure/677236/

* "Doll Houses, 1983:" https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/doll-houses-1983

* "Cecilia Gentili, trans activist, actress, and author, has died at 52:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/cecilia-gentili-trans-activist-obituary

* "It was deemed extinct. But now pentl'ach has been declared a living language thanks to Qualicum researchers:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pentl-ach-officially-declared-a-living-language-added-to-b-c-list-of-first-nations-languages-1.7045803?cmp=rss

* "Los Angeles museum repatriates Asante artefacts to Ghana:" https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/02/05/fowler-museum-los-angeles-asante-repatriation-ghana

* "A pair of UK museums return gold and silver artifacts to Ghana under a long-term loan arrangement:" https://apnews.com/article/britain-ghana-museums-gold-colonial-theft-royal-e5aa77f9c07ab8952e507dd01e983c76

* "In South America, African-inspired religions gain more followers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/south-america-african-inspired-religions-gain-more-followers-2024-02-03/

* "Tell Me Why the Watermelon Grows:" https://www.switchyardmag.com/issue-2/watermelon?src=longreads

* My surgery will be March 12th. As my dominant arm will be immobilized for two weeks, odds are I won't be doing news aggregation during that period as I suck at mousing with my off hand and I am slow. If I'm on at all it will likely be reblogs, queue, and the like. It can be up to a month after I'm freed to get up to speed, but I have no way of knowing what I can manage when, until very late March.

I'm giving people the heads up now so y'all know what's going on, and I'll remind people when we're closer. I know people worry if I drop off all social media for two weeks.

* "Meanwhile… Stolen Polar Bear | Monkey On The Run In Scotland | The $1,780 Lemon:"

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* "California’s Rainpocalypse | Taylor’s GRAMMY Surprise | Biden: Trump Is A “Sick F***”:"

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* "Meanwhile… Disco Bathroom | Kid Stuck In The Claw Game | Transatlantic Pot Bust:"

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* "Speaker Johnson Gets Spanked | Nobody Wins Nevada GOP Primary | Trump’s Pick To Run The RNC:"

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* "A History of Chuck E. Cheese: Last Squeak Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "The Subversive Power of the Lesbian Cheerleader:"

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* "Sorry for adding to the Saltburn discourse:"

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This is pretty much where I was with this. I was low key obsessed with both Brideshead (Book and miniseries) and the Nureyev Nijinsky's Faun (and Nijinsky just generally. Also ballet) as a tween. I've seen talented Mr. Ripley any number of times.

On paper this was so exciting. The bones of something interesting were there. In practice? I kept thinking I'd rather be watching the Andrews/Irons miniseries of my youth.

* "Kwame Alexander Reads A Poem From “This Is the Honey: An Anthology Of Contemporary Black Poets”:"

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* "The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have finally been released – and we have questions:" https://corabuhlert.com/2024/01/21/the-2023-hugo-nomination-statistics-have-finally-been-release-and-we-have-questions/

* World Con Stuff. "McCarty, Standlee, and Others Censured or Reprimanded:" https://locusmag.com/2024/01/mccarty-standlee-and-others-censured/

* "Why You Should Watch Straight Jacket, the Lost Gay Rom-Com:"

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* "Meet the 'Feud: Capote vs. The Swans' cast & the real people they play:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/feud-capote-versus-swans#rebelltitem3

* "Lil Nas X has hilariously on-brand reaction to new single ‘J Christ’ charting at 69:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/25/lil-nas-x-j-christ-single-chart/

* "Donald Trump Has PACs For Days:"

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* "The Stakes Are High At Super Bowl LVIII:"

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* "Stephen Is Become Death, Destroyer Of Worlds:"

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* "Home Videos - SNL:"

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* "CNN Town Hall South Carolina Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Dune Popcorn Bucket - SNL:"

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* "Where Ought The Human Part of Pan End and the Goat Part of Pan Begin?:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/where-ought-the-human-part-of-pan?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=141165230&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&utm_medium=email

* "Sometimes reading Arthuriana feels like reading Alice in Wonderland.:" https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/740748424532623360/sometimes-reading-arthuriana-feels-like-reading?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

* "Tell your Representative to Support Rep Tlaib's Resolution for a New Streaming Royalty:" https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-representative-to-support-the-resolution-for-a-new-streaming-royalty/

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

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

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

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

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

( More Links Underneath: )

* "Maddow: No accident Trump's courtroom chaos makes a mockery of the legal system:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-no-accident-trump-s-courtroom-chaos-makes-a-mockery-of-the-legal-system-197266501583

* "Man Avoids Jail Time For Threatening LGBTQ+ High School Students:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/brandon-moore-threats-nonbinary-prom

* "Suspect turns self in after 2 killed in shooting at Tacoma bar overnight:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/1-dead-3-injured-shooting-tacoma-bar-overnight/281-1e7b2808-50e1-482b-9ab9-26802d165f70

* "Black Trans Woman A'nee Roberson Killed After Being Assaulted and Hit With a Car in Washington, D.C.:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/anee-roberson-murder-dc

* "The most important deity you've never heard of: the 3000 years long history of Nanaya:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/733248794091749376?source=share

* My car broke yet again in late October. As I feared it was the hose that keeps the engine cool. Why feared? It's in the middle of all the gear under the hood. Hose and fluid replacements are cheap. an hour and a half of labor to take it all apart then put it back in is incredibly expensive. $280 worth in total. I have paid Squirrel back for the gas for the week and a halfish, I was borrowing his car, thanks to a donor. The repairs ate most of my bill money for the month. Yes, this is the forth repair this year. My car is about 25ish years old. I can't afford to replace it, nor can I do without it, being disabled: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. We can float bills a bit if we must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. They have already had a ton of interviews, and it is likely they will be offered a very good job if they can hold out until December when it starts. They are an old RL friend and my roommate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* "Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Millennial Women May Never Recover From The Romcom:"

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* "That Izzy line about Ed being "a complicated man" immediately put me in mind of the Wilson translation of The Odyssey:" https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/732988429215875072?source=share

* "My Arch Nemesis Cynthia:" https://ridinkskinned.com/post/188426780699/my-arch-nemesis-cynthia-is-of-course-at-the

* "Superhero Sweets For DragonCon:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/superhero-sweets-for-dragoncon-2023

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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.

* Where to donate for non-violent causes in Gaza and Israel: https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/867894.html

* "Games for Gaza:" https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/868099.html

* "If anyone wants to donate to Wadea Al-Fayoume's family then here:" https://www.tumblr.com/abigail-pent/731484616352989184/arab-mother-attacked-and-6-year-old-murdered-in?source=share

* My car broke yet again in late October. As I feared it was the hose that keeps the engine cool. Why feared? It's in the middle of all the gear under the hood. Hose and fluid replacements are cheap. an hour and a half of labor to take it all apart then put it back in is incredibly expensive. $280 worth in total. I have paid Squirrel back for the gas for the week and a halfish, I was borrowing his car, thanks to a donor. The repairs ate most of my bill money for the month. Yes, this is the forth repair this year. My car is about 25ish years old. I can't afford to replace it, nor can I do without it, being disabled: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. We can float bills a bit if we must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. They have already had a ton of interviews, and it is likely they will be offered a very good job if they can hold out until December when it starts. They are an old RL friend and my roommate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* Apply for Project 2025 so they have to pick through resumes, using their resources: https://apply.project2025.org/ords/r/p25/pub/questionnaire?p4_qid=1

* Want to help Andy Kim beat Bob Menendez? https://www.andykim.com/

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

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

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/23/ukraine-cia-shadow-war-russia/

* "Let's talk about rumor about Ukrainian aid....:"

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* "A Small Country Far From Ukraine Is Sending Hundreds to War, on Both Sides:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/world/asia/ukraine-russia-nepal.html

* "Friends From Childhood. Brothers in War.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/world/europe/ukraine-war-friends.html

* "Russia prison population plummets as convicts are sent to war:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/26/russia-prison-population-convicts-war/

* "Daughter Ivanka Trump must testify at Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial, New York judge rules:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/27/ivanka-trump-must-testify-trial-00123992

* "Trump takes the stand and is fined $10,000 for violating a gag order in fraud case:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1208444786/trump-new-york-fraud-case

* "Judge in Trump NY fraud trial extends gag order to lawyers, says office has received ‘hundreds’ of threats since trial started:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/03/judge-in-trump-ny-fraud-trial-extends-gag-order-to-lawyers-says-office-has-received-hundreds-of-threats-since-trial-started.html

* "Judge drops hammer on Trump: Gags entire legal team:" https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/judge-drops-hammer-on-trump-gags-entire-legal-team-197075525979

* "Judge reinstates gag order against Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/29/trump-gag-order-reinstated-00124147

* "Trump Gagged; Immediately Violates Gag Order:"

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* "'Maybe they haven't been paying attention': Court agrees to hear Trump objections to gag order:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-maybe-they-haven-t-been-paying-attention-court-agrees-to-hear-trump-objections-to-gag-order-197091909870

* "The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions" :" https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/

* "New study warns climate is warming even faster than some think:" https://www.axios.com/2023/11/02/climate-change-warming-james-hansen

* "Amazon River falls to lowest in over a century amid Brazil drought:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/amazon-rainforest-port-records-lowest-water-level-121-years-amid-drought-2023-10-16/

* "Hurricane Otis: How a tropical storm turned into a 'nightmare scenario' overnight:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/hurricane-otis-rapid-intensification-climate-change-rcna122090

* "Credible missing persons list drops to 5 people unaccounted for from Lahaina fire:" https://mauinow.com/2023/10/27/credible-missing-persons-list-drops-to-5-people-unaccounted-for-from-lahaina-fire/

* "Deadly explosion off Nigeria points to threat posed by aging oil ships around the world:" https://apnews.com/article/oil-exploration-gasoline-environment-nigeria-1d4cc4791cbfc28e6ccf942075510a60

* "Let's talk about the Colorado River deal....:"

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* Golf courses should be illegal. "Abandoned golf courses are being reclaimed by nature:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/world/abandoned-golf-courses-reclaimed-by-nature-c2e-spc-scn-intl

* "What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections:" https://theconversation.com/what-are-roundabouts-a-transportation-engineer-explains-the-safety-benefits-of-these-circular-intersections-215412

* "Here's What Ethical AI Really Means:"

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* "Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-wikipedia-twitter-x-encyclopedia-1234861220/

* "Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty in FTX crypto fraud case:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-trial-verdict/

* "Fallen crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all counts:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fallen-crypto-king-sam-bankman-fried-found-guilty-on-all-counts-196993605915

* "China’s youngest-ever astronauts blast off to space station:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/26/chinas-youngest-ever-astronauts-blast-off-to-space-station

* "US zoo saving endangered red wolf, one dental checkup at a time:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-zoo-saving-endangered-red-wolf-one-dental-checkup-time-2023-10-25/

* "Runaway zebras delighted the nation — and exposed their owner’s dark past:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/maryland-zebras-jerry-holly/

* "How Scientists Tracked the Movements of a 17,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-tracked-movements-17000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-180983064/

* "The Ancient Greek Woman Who Dressed as a Man to Seduce Men:" https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/12/01/the-ancient-greek-woman-who-dressed-as-a-man-to-seduce-men/

* "The London History Show: Anne Boleyn:"

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* "The Chevalier d'Eon: the Trans 18th Century Spy:"

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* "How To Convince People To Volunteer: Joining Up In WWI:"

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* "15 Years After Pres. Obama's Historic Election:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/15-years-after-pres-obama-s-historic-election-197108293787

* "The Fight Between Cataphiles and Underground Police in the Paris Catacombs:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-paris-catacombs

I will never see the catacombs in person but I am horrified. Destroying them would be a desecration.

* "Illegal Body Trade: Modern-Day Corpse Theft:"

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* "Something Wicked This Way Paddles:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/witches-paddle-halloween.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5Uw.qR51.sbD-6BoYNu4_&smid=url-share

* "A Professional Pumpkin Carver Spills His Guts:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/style/halloween-professional-pumpkin-carver.html

* "New York unveils statue commemorating alligator sewer myth:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/nyc-alligator-sewer-statue-trnd/index.html

* Thursday a week ago dentist and hygienist were very astonished by my relaxed state during dentistry. I hadn't had time to warn them that sometimes I fall asleep before the dental dam went in ending my ability to explain. Luckily they didn't get scared as had happened before. I wasn't asleep, just meditating as is my usual practice when I'm not exhausted. Apparently even very chill patients don't normally relax at this level. I have no dental trauma or phobias. It's not that I enjoy dentistry, it's just I have no more emotion about it than I do around oil change. It's just maintenance.

No cleaner Friday, which is fine. So many people clocked out slightly late, they snatched 15 minutes here and 15 minutes there, so I am left with six visits at most to cover November and December instead of the surplus Math last summer suggested I should have. I am a bit grumpy as I generally let them off three to six minutes early.

Saturday, Goth Millennial exhausted the Tiny Terror with one of their Gothmas presents. Livia had her third oops in two weeks. I am pretty sure it's stress.

Sunday: Millennial pumpkin carving!

Monday I did a bunch of prep for the big day.

* Gothmas Phase 2 exterior decorations:
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* I lost the first version of this in the crash. The Management chased all the families with kids out and most of the grad students, replacing them mostly with retirees. I hardly even got adults raiding my table this year, and one of them stole a bowl. Sigh. This is why I use cheap Dollar Store bowls. The Millennials got big candy gift bags this year.

I love the pumpkins the Millennials carved so much. I'm going to be so sad when I take them down in a day or two.

A cheerful Gen Z person turned up to Clean Saturday, and we got most of the outside display down. I really liked them. Goth millennial got the things too high to reach Saturday. We are mostly focused on the Tuesday inspection right now.

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* My car broke yet again in late October. As I feared it was the hose that keeps the engine cool. Why feared? It's in the middle of all the gear under the hood. Hose and fluid replacements are cheap. an hour and a half of labor to take it all apart then put it back in is incredibly expensive. $280 worth in total. I have paid Squirrel back for the gas for the week and a halfish, I was borrowing his car, thanks to a donor. The repairs ate most of my bill money for the month. Yes, this is the forth repair this year. My car is about 25ish years old. I can't afford to replace it, nor can I do without it, being disabled: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. We can float bills a bit if we must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. They have already had a ton of interviews, and it is likely they will be offered a very good job if they can hold out until December when it starts. They are an old RL friend and my roommate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* "Chocolate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Meanwhile… Taylor Swift is a Billionaire | Doordash Tips | Florida’s Fake Cops:"

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* "World’s Longest Zucchini | Trump Kids Take the Stand | George Santos Survives Expulsion Attempt:"

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* "Why is Ron DeSantis Wearing Lifts? | Donald Trump v. The People | Biden’s Chilling AI Warning:"

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* "Barbie is Halloween’s Top Costume | Speaker Johnson’s Wife Runs Anti-LGBTQ Counseling Company:"

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* "Why Are Conservatives So Media Illiterate?:"

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* "Doctor Who vs Women:"

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* "Exploring the Emotions: Black Trauma vs. Black Horror:"

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* "From Protagonist to Romantic Prop: Mina Murray's Transformation:"

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* "The Gay Horror Manga You Should Be Reading:"

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* "True Facts: Incredible Crab Stories:"

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* "The Trump Kids in America:"

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* "See the Cutest Costumed Pups from New York City's Halloween Dog Parade:" https://people.com/dogs-costumes-2023-nyc-halloween-dog-parade-photos-8374321

* "Father and son make Halloween accessible to kids with disabilities one custom costume at a time:" https://www.cnn.com/us/walkin-rollin-costumes-halloween-iyw/index.html

* "Quirky Vintage Japanese Playgrounds Photographed at Night:" https://mossandfog.com/quirky-vintage-japanese-playgrounds-photographed-at-night/

* "Proposed: Counter-Halloween:" https://www.thestopgap.net/proposed/

* Ankh-Morpork Pride: https://www.tumblr.com/jamyesterday/732666837755691008?source=share

* A friend of Bertie Wooster transitions: https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/732533098457268224?source=share

* "You work as the minor villain every new hero has to beat for their first battle.:" https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/718085841933795328?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: A Chip off the old Block:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/732631414044049408/midnight-pals-a-chip-off-the-old-block?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Imaginarium:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/732810170427752448/midnight-pals-imaginarium?source=share

* "Sunday Sweets: Drama Queens:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-drama-queens-2023

* "Sunday Sweets: It's Fall, Y'all!:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-its-fall-yall-2023

* "Sunday Sweets Gets SPOOPY:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-gets-spoopy-2023

* "Sunday Sweets: 10 Halloween Cuties:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-10-halloween-cuties-2023

* "Love Inks: 11 Tattoo Sweets!:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/love-inks-11-tattoo-sweets-2023

* "10 Enchanted Garden Cakes That Are Pure Magic:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/10-enchanted-garden-cakes-that-are-pure-magic-2023

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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.

* Where to donate for non-violent causes in Gaza and Israel: https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/867894.html

* "Games for Gaza:" https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/868099.html

* "If anyone wants to donate to Wadea Al-Fayoume's family then here:" https://www.tumblr.com/abigail-pent/731484616352989184/arab-mother-attacked-and-6-year-old-murdered-in?source=share

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* Apply for Project 2025 so they have to pick through resumes, using their resources: https://apply.project2025.org/ords/r/p25/pub/questionnaire?p4_qid=1

* Want to help Andy Kim beat Bob Menendez? https://www.andykim.com/

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

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

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "Sudan ceasefire starts precariously as continued fighting reported:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/air-strikes-hit-khartoum-seven-day-ceasefire-approaches-2023-05-22/

* "UN: Sudan conflict displaces over 1.3 million, including some 320K to neighboring countries:" https://apnews.com/article/sudan-conflict-military-paramilitary-displaced-un-787b00cb9203335dc834369aabb3b202

* "As more women forgo the hijab, Iran’s government pushes back:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-headscarf-hijab-protests-unrest-7cfce99b8841d6df5e8ad95ec8032b28

* "Anti-overhaul protests enter 20th week as compromise talks remain stalled:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-overhaul-protests-set-to-enter-20th-week-as-compromise-talks-remain-stalled/

* "Thousands in Jerusalem rally against budget, deals for ultra-Orthodox:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-in-jerusalem-rally-against-budget-deals-for-ultra-orthodox/

* "The State Of Israel:"

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* "France pension protest held on outskirts of Cannes Film Festival:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/france-pension-protest-held-outskirts-cannes-film-festival-99492995

* "Pakistan’s Imran Khan wins bail in multiple cases from anti-terrorist court:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistans-imran-khan-wins-bail-multiple-cases-anti-terrorist-court-bloomberg-2023-05-23/

* "Key aide of Pakistan's Imran Khan resigns amidst standoff with army:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-considering-banning-imran-khans-party-defence-minister-2023-05-24/

* "The Fugitive Princesses of Dubai:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/08/the-fugitive-princesses-of-dubai

* "Russian lawyer claims Putin is building settlements for conservatives looking to leave the US for 'ideological reasons':" https://www.rawstory.com/russian-lawyer-claims-putin-is-building-settlements-for-conservatives-looking-to-leave-the-us-for-ideological-reasons/

* "Life inside the South African gangs risking everything for copper:" https://www.ft.com/content/19973223-cda7-43c0-8ba5-ddd329fc9ff9?accessToken=zwAF-3NAn_Ggkc8ZlzIjzadDwNOLpd3TKfyf-Q.MEYCIQCdkXLApDF5LercBIVa5DHnMQA8t4Geek0BR_d5HLnjDwIhAItJ6AnaORpQmAUQHBHBj5RC3N5S6FP6_4oPCR5xKUNZ&sharetype=gift&token=ddc1c232-edc3-45e8-ac8a-fc676f0559dc

* "Jamaica’s break from British monarchy must bring about queer liberation, activists say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/20/jamaica-republic-lgbtq-rights-kings-coronation/

* Looks like the opening salvo for political purges of schools and university and censorship to me. "Tory MP Miriam Cates thinks ‘cultural Marxism’ is ‘destroying children’s souls’. No, seriously:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/17/miriam-cates-cultural-marxism-national-conservatism-conference/

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* "The Counteroffensive:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/counteroffensive-ukraine-zelensky-crimea/673781/

* "Ukraine restores power to Russia-occupied nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-switched-standby-russia-installed-official-2023-05-22/

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* How?!? "Conservative group Moms for Liberty claims Joe Biden is trying to turn kids trans and gay:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/moms-for-liberty-trans-gay-kids-joe-biden/

* "Joe Biden said “there are at least three” genders & shut down a conservative activist:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/01/joe-biden-said-least-three-genders-shut-conservative-activist/

* The Republicans continue to win their war against the environment and Humanity. "Supreme Court dramatically shrinks Clean Water Act’s reach:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/25/supreme-court-dramatically-shrinks-clean-water-acts-reach-00098781

* "Harlan Crow refuses to cooperate with Dem senators’ Supreme Court probe :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/harlan-crow-supreme-court-probe-00098401

* The Republican war on the Economy continues. Want to know how much Republicans hate America? This much apparently. "White House details ‘severe damage’ to the economy if debt ceiling crisis occurs:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-details-severe-damage-economy-debt-ceiling-default-occurs-rcna82743

* "Hayes: What the Republican debt ceiling threat is really about:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-what-the-republican-debt-ceiling-threat-is-really-about-175793221559

* "Saddled with Trump, unpopular policies, GOP toys with tanking economy under Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/saddled-with-trump-unpopular-policies-gop-toys-with-tanking-economy-under-biden-175833157654

* "Hayes: ‘Deranged’ GOP debt plan would put these items on the chopping block:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-deranged-gop-debt-plan-would-put-these-items-on-the-chopping-block-176619589699

* Republicans don't want any further life saving vaccine research. When Republicans say the are pro-life, it looks like they mean pro-deadly virus life and on human type people. "White House Pushes to Save Key Covid Programs in Debt Ceiling Talks:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/us/politics/biden-debt-ceiling-covid.html

* "House Dems take pessimistic tone on debt as McCarthy pushes to ‘finish up’ talks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/24/debt-limit-talks-wednesday-kevin-mccarthy-00098564

* "Rich People’s Gain is Worth Less Than Poor People’s Pain:" https://doctorow.medium.com/rich-peoples-gain-is-worth-less-than-poor-people-s-pain-6c3631292841

* "From stakeouts to warrants: How federal investigators found more than 100 children cleaning slaughterhouses:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-investigation-into-slaughterhouse-cleaning-company-that-hired-children-60-minutes-transcript-2023-05-07/

* "'They Just Need a Safe Place to Be:' How Public Transit Became the Last Safety Net In America:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wvq5/they-just-need-a-safe-place-to-be-how-public-transit-became-the-last-safety-net-in-america

* "Low-income tenants lack options as old mobile home parks are razed:" https://apnews.com/article/mobile-home-evictions-housing-homelessness-796097305c4ef90d7d98e1fee1489284

* "Silo creator Graham Yost on why struggling writers needed to go on strike:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/21/graham-yost-silo-writers-strike/

* "Why Writers Are On Strike:"

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* This is a little round about, but please bear with me.

( Musings on B5, TV Production, and the writer's strike: )

All the actors were amazed that they always got to go home at five. Shooting stopped on time! This hardly ever happens! They could make dinner plans even on a Friday and get proper sleep instead of Friday shooting running into Saturday to make up missed shots. Which I suspect means that all the tech side folk js too got to have personal lives and sleep. O.o For five years! Steady employment with a reliable schedule in TV! I bet it saved money too, to not have to pay over time, to not have all that standing around when they could be setting up the next shot which wastes everyone's time and money. People were happier and they weren't run as nearly ragged and they made five seasons of antifascist and anti-colonialist science fiction with characters and dialog that will live in my heart and mind until I die.

All because they let the showrunner show run and write with a staff of writers who could stay on the project long term. Stuff that got seeded in season one paid off in later seasons. The writers all knew the lore and backstories and the relationships and where things were going.

You can't make TV like that without writers. You can't make TV like that with minirooms and gig employees.

I know I keep harping on how important that the WGA wins and wins big on Tumblr. (I do things on it on the aggregate as well, but I don't trust a lot of the journalism because it tends to be slanted for the greedy ass corporations, so way less turns up there). This is why I care so much. Because tech crew got to drive home safe after a reasonable work day instead of falling asleep at the wheel and crashing. Because it was a huge benefit to the actors who got a chance to really practice their craft and still go home at night. Because the directors could focus on making the best show possible every week without mountains of extra hassle. Because things like B5 and Black sails and stranger Things and Umbrella Academy and pretty much every show I've loved intensely as an adult absolutely require a reasonably stable writer's room with writers paid well enough to live while they do it.

If WGA wins, everybody wins. The tiny sliver of profits it takes to make all this happen is negligible.

I hope SAG and DGA strike too. I hope they all stand together and stop the Capitalist horror that grinds up writers and tech folk like they were components and not utterly essential.

The WGA are not greedy; they are fighting for their livelihoods and their art and it infuriates me that people can't wait a little longer for all the ways it will make the world better if the Studios blink first.

* "Jewish Democrats call on McCarthy to censure Gosar over staffer’s reported beliefs:" https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4010382-jewish-democrats-call-on-mccarthy-to-censure-gosar-over-staffers-reported-beliefs/

* "George Santos Just Hired the Only Man He Can Trust:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/george-santos-just-hired-the-only-man-he-can-trust/

* "George Santos Is In Trouble:"

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* "FBI ‘Called Bluff’ on Jim Jordan Hearing, Says Ex-Asst. Director:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-called-bluff-on-jim-jordan-hearing-ex-asst-director-for-counterintelligence-frank-figliuzzi-says

* "Jordan’s FBI “whistleblower” may have lied under oath about funding from Trump ally: report:" https://www.salon.com/2023/05/23/jordans-fbi-whistleblower-may-have-lied-under-oath-about-funding-from-ally-report/

* Again? ""Nothing is off the table": Jim Jordan says he'll give a "hard look" at launching new Hillary probe:" https://www.salon.com/2023/05/22/nothing-is-off-the-table-jim-jordan-says-hell-give-a-hard-look-at-launching-new-hillary-probe/

* "House passes measure to block Biden's student debt relief program:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-vote-measure-block-bidens-student-debt-relief-program-rcna85974

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

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

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

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

* "Harris County must remove its elections chief under new legislation headed to Gov. Greg Abbott:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/23/texas-legislature-harris-county-elections/

This is the end of Democracy. They have given themselves the power to overturn any election not in their favor in the most populous county in the state because it's majority minority. If votes don't count, then all the people living there have been permanently disenfranchised, since there is no mechanism to undo this outside of a court system republicans have also fixed.

This is the fascist agenda at work.

* "Ohio Republicans try to change state rules to keep abortion off ballots:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ohio-republicans-try-to-change-state-rules-to-keep-abortion-off-ballots-176197701972

* "Let's talk about how there are no red states....:"

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* The Republican war on children continues. "Kentucky Republican Candidate: ‘Will Not Have Transgenders in School’ if Elected:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kentucky-kelly-craft-transgenders

* "2024 Republican candidates: Who’s running and how bad would they be for LGBTQ+ rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/2024-republican-candidates-lgbtq/

* "Republican Nikki Haley rants about trans women and Dylan Mulvaney on 2024 campaign trail:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/nikki-haley-2024-election-dylan-mulvaney/

* "9 Ways Vivek Ramaswamy Can Beat Donald Trump, According to Andrew Yang:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/17/vivek-ramaswamy-how-you-win-00097211

* "Twitter glitches plague Ron DeSantis’ much-hyped presidential announcement with Elon Musk:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/twitter-glitches-plague-desantis-presidential-announcement.html

* "First day of DeSantis campaign not likely as threatening to Trump as he hoped:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/first-day-of-desantis-campaign-not-likely-as-threatening-to-trump-as-he-hoped-176656965515

* "‘Blood in the water for DeSantis’: Trump world embraces Tim Scott’s candidacy :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/22/trump-tim-scott-2024-00098292

* "DeSantis needs a new Republican lane. Elon Musk might be paving it. :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/24/desantis-musk-thiel-sacks-tech-00098555

* " DeSantis sees a path to the White House — 280 characters at a time:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/ron-desantis-to-launch-his-presidential-campaign-on-twitter-with-elon-musk-00098412

* "Scarred DeSantis staffers form a support group:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/552308-former-desantis-staffers-form-support-group/

* "DeSantis' cringeworthy strain for 'likeability' is contradicted by hostile policies:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/desantis-cringeworthy-strain-for-likeability-is-contradicted-by-hostile-policies-176248901845

* "Ron DeSantis’ presidential bid: Sad attempt to ‘export extremist, anti-LGBTQ+ agenda to the nation’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/ron-desantis-presidential-campaign-bid-florida-lgbtq-activists/

* "DeSantis faith in Musk for campaign launch results in humiliation; Trump gleeful:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/desantis-faith-in-musk-for-campaign-launch-results-in-humiliation-trump-gleeful-176650821634

* "Asked about pardoning Trump as president, DeSantis says he would be 'aggressive':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/asked-pardoning-trump-president-desantis-aggressive/story?id=99609762

* "DeSantis attempts to redefine Trump to make room for himself on GOP's right wing:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/desantis-attempts-to-redefine-trump-to-make-room-for-himself-on-gop-s-right-wing-177058885852

* "Republican senator says gender-neutral bathrooms will lead to violence from ‘dads like me’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/illinois-neil-anderson-gender-neutral-toilets/

* "Texas House committee issues 20 articles of impeachment against Attorney General Ken Paxton:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/25/ken-paxton-impeachment-investigation/

* "House panel investigating AG Ken Paxton’s office; Paxton calls on Speaker Dade Phelan to resign:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/23/dade-phelan-ken-paxton-resign-intoxication/

* "‘Literal dumpster fire’: Infighting erupts among Texas Republican leaders:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-literal-dumpster-fire-infighting-erupts-among-texas-republican-leaders-177032773957

* "Florida State Guard could triple in size, gain military police-like arm:" https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/04/25/florida-state-guard-could-triple-in-size-gain-military-police-like-arm/

* "Unlicensed religious chaplains may counsel students in Texas’ public schools after lawmakers OK proposal:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/24/texas-legislature-chaplains-schools/

Republicans rammed it through because replacing licensed, trained counselors who've had background checks with untrained, unlicensed proselytizers is an emergency somehow, unlike mass shootings.

"Earlier this month, House Democrats also offered amendments to bar proselytizing or attempts to convert students from one religion to another; to require chaplains to receive consent from the parents of school children; and to make schools provide chaplains from any faith or denomination requested by students. All of those amendments failed."

"Worse, opponents say, the bill could deepen the state’s youth mental health crisis by providing students with unproven, lightly supervised and nonscientific counseling that treats common childhood problems, such as anxiety, as “sins” or issues that can merely be prayed away."

* "Texas Senate passes revamped school funding bill in last-minute bid to implement voucher program:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/22/texas-senate-school-voucher/

* "As legislative session ends, Texas ignores gun violence crisis for culture war issues:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-legislative-session-ends-texas-ignores-gun-violence-crisis-for-culture-war-issues-176245829951

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* "E. Jean Carroll adds Trump’s post-verdict remarks to defamation case, seeks at least $10M:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-trial-carroll-536e9f38e84f42d53b0216293b848e08

* "Carroll moves to teach Trump lesson he failed to learn from loss in court:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/carroll-moves-to-teach-trump-lesson-he-failed-to-learn-from-loss-in-court-175833157524

* "Donald Trump criminal trial is set for March 2024; judge informs Trump what he can’t say about hush money case:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/23/politics/donald-trump-protective-order-hearing/

* "Prosecutors Sought Records on Trump’s Foreign Business Deals Since 2017:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/politics/trump-records-foreign-deals.html

* "DOJ's reported interest in Trump foreign business deals reframes scope of Mar-a-Lago probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-s-reported-interest-in-trump-foreign-business-deals-reframes-scope-of-mar-a-lago-probe-175837765937

* "“Shocked at the stupidity”: Prosecutors obtain lawyer notes that blow up Trump’s Mar-a-Lago defense:" https://www.salon.com/2023/05/22/shocked-at-the-stupidity-prosecutors-obtain-lawyer-notes-that-blow-up-trumps-mar-a-lago-defense/

* "Trump employees moved boxes at Mar-a-Lago a day before visit from feds:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mar-a-lago-boxes-moved-trump-employees/

* "New reporting on documents moved at Mar-a-Lago suggests shape of case against Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-reporting-on-documents-moved-at-mar-a-lago-suggests-shape-of-case-against-trump-177068101886

* "Trump attorneys ask to meet with Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland on investigation:" https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/trump-attorneys-ask-to-meet-with-atty-gen-merrick-garland-on-investigation/

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* "Officers describe chaos, fear on Jan. 6 as judge weighs prison time for Oath Keepers’ Rhodes:" https://apnews.com/article/oath-keepers-sentencing-jan-6-stewart-rhodes-a33d6432875bd97fda41a60b4bb967f9

* "Oath Keepers to receive first seditious conspiracy sentences over Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/oath-keepers-to-receive-first-seditious-conspiracy-sentences-over-jan-6-176611397965

* "Man with Nazi flag who crashed U-Haul near White House praised Hitler:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/driver-white-house-crash-kill-biden-seize-power-nazis-rcna85905

* "Let's talk about what happened in DC....:"

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* "Pittsburgh confronts antisemitism as Tree of Life shooting trial nears :" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/20/tree-of-life-shooting-trial-pittsburgh/

* "The U.S. Left Them Behind. They Crossed a Jungle to Get Here Anyway.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/world/americas/darien-gap-afghan-migration.html

* "Florida judge blocks quick migrant release policy, raising concerns about overcrowding:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-judge-blocks-quick-migrant-release-policy-overcrowding-concerns-title-42-expiring/

* CW: Child Abuse, Child Death. "Child who died in Border Patrol custody ‘begged’ for medical help, her mother says:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/child-who-died-in-border-patrol-custody-begged-for-medical-help-her-mother-says

* CW: Child Abuse, Child Death. "Honduran teen dies in US immigration custody: ‘He wanted to live the American Dream’:" https://www.wbtv.com/2023/05/14/honduran-teen-dies-us-immigration-custody-he-wanted-live-american-dream/

* "Fox News runs with fake story about migrants displacing homeless veterans:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-news-runs-with-fake-story-about-migrants-displacing-homeless-veterans-175800901614

* "FBI misused surveillance authorities to investigate Black Lives Matter protesters :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/19/fbi-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protesters-00097924

* "Every state offers victim compensation. For the Longs and other Black families, it often isn't fair:" https://apnews.com/article/crime-victims-compensation-racial-bias-58908169e0ee05d4389c57f975eae49b

* "Investigation continues in death of Rasheem Carter:" https://magnoliatribune.com/2023/05/24/investigation-continues-in-death-of-rasheem-carter/

* "Civil rights groups warn tourists about traveling to Florida:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/22/1177455149/civil-rights-groups-warn-tourists-about-traveling-to-florida

* "Hamburger Mary’s sues Ron DeSantis over Florida drag ban: ‘When does it stop?’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/ron-desantis-hamburger-marys-florida/

* "Florida school limits access to Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem after parental complaint :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/florida-school-inaugural-poem-ban-00098492

* This contains the full text of the banned poem if you scroll down: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html

* "Florida school bans Amanda Gorman poem over one parent’s CRT fears:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/florida-school-bans-amanda-gorman-poem-over-one-parent-s-crt-fears-176202309953

* "Florida Mom Behind Amanda Gorman Book Ban Has Proud Boy Links:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-mom-behind-amanda-gorman-book-ban-has-proud-boy-links

* "Amanda Gorman’s Books Sky Rocket in Sales Despite Florida Book Ban :" https://variety.com/2023/politics/news/amanda-gorman-poem-banned-florida-1235623558/

* "PEN America v. Escambia County School District:" https://pen.org/pen-america-v-escambia-county/

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* Planned Parenthood is being sued for a massive amount of money because they followed a court order. "Trump’s worst judge will hear a $1.8 billion attack on Planned Parenthood:" https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/24/23725897/abortion-planned-parenthood-matthew-kacsmaryk-supreme-court-medical-progress-medicaid

* "Judge from abortion pill case to hear $1.8B suit against Planned Parenthood:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/judge-from-abortion-pill-case-to-hear-1-8b-suit-against-planned-parenthood-177037381937

* "South Carolina 6-week abortion ban signed into law, providers file lawsuit:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/south-carolina-6-week-abortion-ban-heads-governors/story?id=99565825

* "How South Carolina Ended Up With an All-Male Supreme Court :" https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-carolina-ended-up-with-all-male-supreme-court

* "More women sue Texas saying the state's anti-abortion laws harmed them:" https://www.wesa.fm/2023-05-22/more-women-sue-texas-saying-the-states-anti-abortion-laws-harmed-them

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* "Romania breaching LGBTQ+ couples’ human rights, European court rules:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/romania-same-sex-couples-echr/

* "South Korea: Human rights boss makes crude, homophobic ‘anal rupture’ claim in draft ruling:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/lgbtq-south-korea-human-rights-commissioner-homophobic-remark/

* Bet his mom is proud of him for being such a big strong man that he can beat up elderly ladies dementia for pleasure. "Woman with dementia, 86, beat up by thug and put in wheelie bin because he thought she was trans:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/woman-86-beaten-wheelie-bin-trans/

* "Tory MP Nick Fletcher wants pronouns taken out of all schools: ‘We’re confusing people’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/tory-mp-nick-fletcher-pronouns-schools-joshua-sutcliffe/

* "EHRC chair Kishwer Falkner under investigation ‘over bullying, transphobia and harassment claims’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/ehrc-chair-kishwer-falkner-kemi-badenoch/

* "Grassroots trans group uncovering EHRC ‘attacks’ and the UK’s well-connected anti-trans movement:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/trans-safety-network-ehrc-un-abuse-hate/

* "Christian teacher banned after misgendering student on This Morning and posting Islamophobic videos:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/joshua-sutcliffe-teacher-banned-misgendering-this-morning/

* "Florida Agencies Manipulated Research To Ban Trans Care And Coverage:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/florida-agencies-manipulated-research?fbclid=IwAR0aJIga-j58jQkP7N9kBOIGXPcpjf878Or2h_fgeaI9E5vIDHJ0mxHoHxk

* "Florida parents sue to block enforcement of state’s gender-affirming care restrictions :" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4010677-florida-parents-sue-to-block-enforcement-of-states-gender-affirming-care-restrictions/

* "How it's going as a trans person in Florida:" https://www.tumblr.com/bibliomancer7/718065561652871168?source=share

* "The next target of the right’s campaign against woke companies: Fox News?:" https://www.vox.com/2023/5/22/23732777/fox-news-trans-bud-light-employee-handbook

* "Target to pull some LGBTQ items after ‘threats’ to employees:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/24/target-lgbtq-clothing-backlash-00098529

* "Target Pride artist responds after stores pull collection: ‘They haven’t contacted me once’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/target-pride-collection-erik/

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* "Ending Guardianship: How State Governments Take Away Our Right to Make Choices and How We Can Stop It:" https://autisticadvocacy.org/actioncenter/issues/choices/guardianship/#how-guardianship-works

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* "Extreme weather has killed 2 million people over past half century, U.N. says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/extreme-weather-killed-2-million-people-half-century-un-says-rcna85537

* "One in Three People Will Live in Dangerously Hot Areas by 2080:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-22/one-in-three-people-will-live-in-dangerously-hot-areas-by-2080?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj&leadSource=uverify%20wall

* "How global warming and a wet winter may impact the U.S. wildfire season:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/wildfire-season-2023-predictions-climate-change-snow-rcna85129

* "Flood watch issued for parts of B.C. already dealing with wildfires:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/flood-watch-heavy-rain-peace-fort-nelson-1.6851171

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* "Colorado River states announce breakthrough water sharing deal:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/22/1177511800/colorado-river-states-announce-breakthrough-water-sharing-deal

* "On this day in 1892:" https://mississippitoday.org/2023/05/21/on-this-day-in-1892-ida-b-wells-column-exposes-lynchings/

* "'Queen of rock 'n' roll' Tina Turner dies at 83:" https://www.reuters.com/world/singer-tina-turner-dies-aged-83-2023-05-24/

* "Tina Turner was a fearless LGBTQ+ ally – long before it was popular to be one:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/tina-turner-lgbtq-ally-legacy/

* "The Breaking of “Narrative Promises” Through the Lens of Supernatural, Marvel, & More:" https://www.themarysue.com/the-breaking-of-narrative-promises-through-the-lens-of-supernatural-marvel-more/

* "Hurt - Nine Inch Nails (Bardcore | Medieval Style Cover) Hildegard von Blingin':"

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* "Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It:"

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* "Sam Smith, Kim Petras - Unholy:"

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* Spoke to the Allergist today. They are plateauing me for the summer and are guaranteeing me treatment until September. This is good, as my lungs haven't been doing this well in Spring for years. I think it's peeling the trees and weeds away. Grasses remain a major problem. As I'm on Medicare, she's advocating for my transfer to a clinic by the hospital that will take it if they aren't full and my chances are good given the extreme severity of the grass allergy and my general improvement in other areas. They are full to bulging with patients already, especially with the influx from the closing clinic, but digits cruciform, yes?

This does not diminish my horror and distress for all the Medicaid patients and the people who are about to lose their jobs, but I for real was dreading the slow slide into allergy based ER visits that is near future if we stop treatment.

So I'm on maintenance for the Summer while we wait it all out.

* Thanks to a kind donation, the bills wil be up to date by early next week. Thank you all again for your help.

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

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

* Some Interesting Poison Ivy Thoughts: https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/718353871863414784/im-glad-i-could-share-i-originally-got-into?source=share

* "Chess tournament put on hold briefly as White's bishops are having a schism:" https://www.tumblr.com/knowlesian/718061108513177600?source=share

* "The Story is Wrong:" https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/717870485894037504/charminglyantiquated-a-short-comic-about-the?source=share

* "We don’t appreciate the fact that Bruce Wayne is a Kardasian level celebrity enough:" https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/717956049256300544/we-dont-appreciate-the-fact-that-bruce-wayne-is-a?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Hungry Trees:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/718136484989894656/midnight-pals-hungry-trees?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Faust Love:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/718228107372445696/midnight-pals-faust-love?source=share

* "The Significance of Lucy’s Letters to Mina:" https://www.tumblr.com/fridge-full-of-feels/718337149559259137/i-cant-stop-thinking-about-the-significance-of?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

* A very old friend and all around stand up guy wrote this. "Safest Family on the Block: 101 Tips, Tricks, Habits, and Hacks to Protect Your Family at Home, at School, and in the World:" https://www.amazon.com/Safest-Family-Block-Tricks-Protect-ebook/dp/B0C4JZ1QRX

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

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

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

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* Monday's news mostly isn't in here.

Tavy Published a version of this while I was working on it. Apologies if you hit that window.

* "Sudan fighting in its 25th day: A list of key events:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/9/sudan-fighting-in-its-25th-day-a-list-of-key-events

* "Unhappy return: Sudan crisis forces South Sudanese refugees back to troubled home:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/unhappy-return-sudan-crisis-forces-south-sudanese-refugees-back-troubled-home-2023-05-08/

* "Western motion to monitor Sudan abuses ekes past at UN rights body:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/un-human-rights-chief-calls-states-with-clout-region-help-end-sudan-conflict-2023-05-11/

* "Afghanistan Women Say: 'We're Alive, But Not Living':" https://advocatechannel.com/afghanistan-women-say-were-alive-but-not-living

* "Pakistan on edge as ex-PM Imran Khan charged with corruption:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/asia/pakistan-imran-khan-arrest-wednesday-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Violent response to Peru protesters may be 'massacre,' says rights group:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/peru-actions-violent-protests-could-be-classified-massacre-rights-group-says-2023-05-03/

* "Peru’s Indigenous Revolt Against Colonial Legacy:"

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* "Venezuela, Colombia to increase military presence along shared border:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-colombia-increase-military-presence-along-shared-border-2023-05-11/

* "Lynching For God:"

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* "Some parts of King Charles III's realm are already moving to replace him with their own head of state:" https://theweek.com/united-kingdom/1016566/some-parts-of-king-charles-iiis-realm-are-already-moving-to-replace-him-with

* "Belize PM signals possible break with British monarchy, the Guardian reports:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/belize-pm-signals-possible-break-with-british-monarchy-guardian-2023-05-04/

* "A British monarch as St Vincent head of state is 'an absurdity':" https://www.stvincenttimes.com/it-is-absurd-to-have-king-charles-iii-as-head-of-state-in-st-vincent-pm/

* "St Kitts and Nevis is not totally free under King Charles III, says PM:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st-kitts-nevis-not-totally-040035624.html

* "Jamaica's republic status on the horizon - Jamaica Observer:" https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/jamaicas-republic-status-on-the-horizon/

* "Most Canadians would get rid of the monarchy. That's easier said than done :" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eliminating-the-monarchy-canada-1.6832121

* "To Hold a Coronation, Britain Suppressed Free Speech. That’s Insane.:" https://newrepublic.com/article/172508/hold-coronation-britain-suppressed-free-speech-thats-insane

* "Trans person asked if they're 'boy or girl' live on GB News 'totally expected it':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/11/trans-gb-news-lady-victoria-hervey/

* "Dozen Grenfell firefighters diagnosed with terminal cancer:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grenfell-firefighters-terminal-cancer-tower-fire-b2262185.html

* "Insulation firm had research showing product used on Grenfell released toxic smoke 18 months before fire:" https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/insulation-firm-had-research-showing-product-used-on-grenfell-released-toxic-smoke-18-months-before-fire-79704

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* "Taiwan is urging the U.S. not to abandon Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/10/taiwan-defense-ukraine-russia-china/

* "Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Ukraine retakes land around Bakhmut:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-war-ukraine-latest-russia-says-ukrainian-forces-attack-along-wide-front-2023-05-12/

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* "Biden rule tells power plants to cut climate pollution by 90 percent — or shut down:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/11/biden-rule-tells-power-plants-cut-climate-pollution-00095827

* "Buttigieg and Biden Look to Shore Up Airline Consumer Protections:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-airline-regulations

* "Karine Jean-Pierre Says Biden Is Fully Engaged on Gun Control:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/karine-jean-pierre-gun-violence

* "Senate tax chief says billionaire Crow 'stonewalling' over perks for Clarence Thomas:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/09/harlan-crow-clarence-thomas-gifts-00095967

* "‘We don’t have a choice’: Sen. Markey on expanding Supreme Court to 13 seats:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-don-t-have-a-choice-sen-markey-on-expanding-supreme-court-to-13-seats-174461509709

* "Inflation stayed high last month, compounding the challenges facing the U.S. economy:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/10/1175029996/inflation-consumer-prices-recession-federal-reserve

* "Senate Republicans will stand firm on debt ceiling, Mike Lee says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/07/senate-republicans-debt-ceiling-mike-lee-00095686

* "Biden and congressional leaders met about the debt limit. They'll talk again on Friday:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1174780261/biden-mccarthy-debt-ceiling-meeting

* "Food Pantries Are Swamped After Covid Benefits End:"

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* "Dianne Feinstein returns to the Capitol after extended absence:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/politics/dianne-feinstein-returns-to-washington/index.html

* "Manchin vows to oppose all Biden's EPA nominees over climate plan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/10/manchin-biden-epa-nominees-00096197

* Republicans WANT domestic terrorists min the military. "Tuberville on white nationalists in the military: ‘I call them Americans’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/tuberville-on-white-nationalists-in-the-military-i-call-them-americans-173904453611

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

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

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

* "Marginalized Legislator? You’re Expelled!:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/zooey-zephyr-tennessee-three-hunt

* "Nebraska Democratic Lawmaker Under Ethics Investigation for Having a Trans Son:" https://newrepublic.com/post/172263/nebraska-democratic-lawmaker-hunt-ethics-investigation-trans-son

* "Zooey Zephyr explains how Republicans are spreading 'Christian nationalism':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/11/zooey-zephyr-christian-nationalism/

* "A WaPo Poll Found That Significant Majorities Support Pro-Trans Policies, But Reported The Exact Opposite:" https://www.readtpa.com/p/a-wapo-poll-found-that-significant

* "Republican governor thinks anti-LGBTQ+ hate will win party the 2024 election:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/10/kevin-stitt-oklahoma-lgbt-election/

* "Group associated with conservative activist spent $183 million in one year: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/group-associated-with-conservative-activist-spent-183-million-in-one-year-nyt-174208581977

* "Opinion |This rising GOP star embodies the Christian right’s bigotry:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mark-robinson-republican-christian-bigotry-rcna76346

* "Joe Saunders, One of Florida's First Gay Lawmakers, Looks to Make a Political Comeback:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/joe-saunders-political-comback

* Could we please have a better candidate? "Biden faces broad negative ratings at start of campaign, Post-ABC poll finds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/07/president-biden-post-abc-poll/

* "CNN's town hall with Donald Trump takes on added stakes after verdict in Carroll case:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/10/1174959260/cnn-trump-town-hallhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/how-donald-trump-and-cnn-found-each-other-again-66c9c85c

* "5 takeaways from Trump’s CNN smackdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/10/5-takeaways-from-trumps-cnn-smackdown-00096376

* "5 things we learned from Trump's town hall: From election lies to abortion bans:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/11/donald-trump-presidential-race-2024-cnn-us/

* "Trump says he would pardon a 'large portion' of Jan. 6 rioters:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-pardon-large-portion-jan-6-rioters-rcna83873

* "'Profoundly irresponsible': Ocasio-Cortez rips 'atrocious' Trump town hall:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-profoundly-irresponsible-ocasio-cortez-rips-atrocious-trump-town-hall-173906501926

* "Republican at Trump Town Hall Says Many in Audience Were ‘Disgusted’ or ‘Bewildered’ By Ex-President:" https://www.mediaite.com/politics/republican-at-trump-town-hall-says-many-in-audience-were-disgusted-or-bewildered-by-ex-president/

* "Hayes: CNN town hall showed how not to cover Trump ahead of 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-cnn-town-hall-showed-how-not-to-cover-trump-ahead-of-2024-174050885962

* "Trump isn’t quite done siding with Putin over U.S. officials:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-isnt-quite-done-siding-putin-us-officials-rcna68330

* "Hitler-promoting antisemites will speak at Trump’s Miami hotel alongside Eric Trump, Lara Trump, and other Trump personalities:" https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/hitler-promoting-antisemites-will-speak-trumps-miami-hotel-alongside-eric-trump-lara

* "Antisemitic speakers to skip Trump stop on right-wing roadshow tour:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/antisemitic-speakers-to-skip-trump-stop-on-right-wing-roadshow-tour-174201925918

* "White Christian nationalism emerges from shadows of GOP politics:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/white-christian-nationalism-emerges-from-shadows-of-gop-politics-174207045771

* "Void in GOP leadership leaves Trump's corrupting influence intact:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/void-in-gop-leadership-leaves-trump-s-corrupting-influence-intact-174062149725

* "Hayes on Trump town hall: A seditious candidate can't be debated, only defeated:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-on-trump-town-hall-a-seditious-candidate-can-t-be-debated-only-defeated-174044741919

* "Chris Hayes to Trump opponents: He is not inevitable:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-to-trump-opponents-he-is-not-inevitable-174190661613

* "‘Absolutely disgusted’: Town hall audience member says not all cheered Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-absolutely-disgusted-town-hall-audience-member-says-not-all-cheered-trump-174191173606

* Please No! "Report: Trump wants to bring back Jeffrey Clark, Michael Flynn for 2nd term:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-trump-wants-to-bring-back-jeffrey-clark-michael-flynn-for-2nd-term-174191173808

* "Bisexual Ex-Florida Mayor Andrew Gillum Acquitted of Lying to FBI:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/andrew-gillum-aquitted-lying

* Their every accusation is a confession. "Texas ‘Anti-Grooming’ Republican Resigns After Grooming, Sleeping With 19-Year-Old Staffer:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/bryan-slaton-resigns-grooming-staffer

* "Report: Gosar's congressional staffer linked to neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-gosar-s-congressional-staffer-linked-to-neo-nazi-nick-fuentes-174460997566

* "George Santos confesses to theft in Brazil to avoid prosecution:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/11/george-santos-brazil-case-theft/

* "George Santos pleads not guilty to federal indictment and says he won't resign:" https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-federal-charges-updates-33667a0900271e5002459ab748d8fdc8

* "Federal charges for Santos are an added burden for McCarthy, Republicans:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/federal-charges-for-santos-are-an-added-burden-for-mccarthy-gop-173790277762

* "Goldman: McCarthy must remove Santos from Congress in wake of federal charges:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/goldman-mccarthy-must-remove-santos-from-congress-in-wake-of-federal-charges-173759557989

* "Why Kevin McCarthy Still Won’t Quit George Santos:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/george-santos-arrest-kevin-mccarthy-debt-ceiling.html

* "Private equity investor identified as political contributor allegedly duped by George Santos:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/politics/andrew-intrater-private-equity-investor-santos/index.html

* How to tell Republicans are lying when they pretend they care about child welfare. "Iowa governor will sign bill rolling back labor protections for children:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/iowa-governor-to-sign-bill-letting-kids-work-more-do-previously-banned-jobs/ar-AA1aKW26?PC=EMMX01

* "Florida Republicans ignore controversies, give Ladapo second term:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/florida-republicans-ignore-controversies-give-ladapo-second-term-rcna83349

* "Florida law takes aim at teachers union that defied DeSantis:" https://apnews.com/article/desantis-education-government-florida-a65a7f298cc7d0a7773024a79141889f

* "Why Texas, a clean energy powerhouse, is about to hit the brakes:" https://www.oklahomaminerals.com/why-texas-a-clean-energy-powerhouse-is-about-to-hit-the-brakes

* "Florida Republican Lawmaker Admits GOP’s Hatred of LGBTQ+ People:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-republicans-hate-homosexuals

* "Durham report, long-awaited by Trump supporters, fails to deliver on hype:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/durham-report-long-awaited-by-trump-supporters-fails-to-deliver-on-hype-174469189647

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* "Trump Had No Defense For E. Jean Carroll:"

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* CW: Rape. "Trump found liable for sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll, ordered to pay $5M:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/09/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial-verdict/

* CW: Rape. "Carroll victory over Trump seen as waypoint in winding path of progress:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/carroll-victory-over-trump-seen-as-waypoint-in-winding-path-of-progress-173790789623

* CW: Rape. "Trump accuser Natasha Stoynoff reacts to E. Jean Carroll verdict: 'Moment of truth':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-accuser-natasha-stoynoff-reacts-to-e-jean-carroll-verdict-moment-of-truth-173762117622

* CW: Rape. "Maddow: Trump sexual abuse verdict ‘established a truth’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maddow-trump-sexual-abuse-verdict-established-a-truth-173901893879

* CW: Rape. "E. Jean Carroll 'thrilled' to finally hold Donald Trump to account for his lies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/carroll-thrilled-to-finally-hold-trump-to-account-for-his-lies-174467141720

* CW: Rape. Let us hope it is a turning point. "Donald Trump's sex abuse verdict is a 'turning point in history' for survivors:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/10/donald-trump-verdict-sexual-abuse-e-jean-carroll-reaction/

* "Trump barred from making evidence public in Stormy Daniels hush money case:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/08/trump-barred-in-stormy-daniels-case-from-revealing-evidence.html

* "GA Republican says fake elector scheme came from Trump's legal team:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/9/2168358/-GA-Republican-says-fake-elector-scheme-came-from-Trump-s-legal-team

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* "Va. Navy reservist who praised Nazis given four more years in Jan. 6 riot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/05/08/jan6-navy-reservist-sentenced/

* "Oath Keepers Leader Wants Leniency for Public Service … of Creating the Oath Keepers:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/stewart-rhodes-leniency-creating-oath-keepers-1234731524/

* "DOJ charges 'Pink Beret' Jan. 6 rioter IDed after an ex spotted her in a viral FBI tweet:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/government-charges-pink-beret-jan-6-rioter-ided-ex-spotted-viral-fbi-t-rcna83339

* "The death penalty trial for the man accused of killing 11 at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue begins. Here's what to know:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/27/us/tree-of-life-synagogue-shooting-trial/index.html

* "Buffalo mass shooting victims' families suing social media companies for wrongful death:" https://13wham.com/news/local/buffalo-mass-shooting-victims-families-suing-social-media-companies-for-wrongful-death

* "A Year After Buffalo: Turning Grief Into Action:"

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* "In surprise move days after Allen mall shooting, Texas House panel OKs bill raising age to buy semi-automatic rifles:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/08/texas-gun-bill-uvalde-allen-mall-shooting/

* "Should Schools Train Children to be 'Battlefield' Ready? New Texas Law Would Do Just That:" https://www.parents.com/training-school-children-in-trauma-wound-care-7495063

* "Investigators examine Texas gunman’s white-supremacist views after 8 killed:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/07/texas-allen-outlets-shooting-dallas/

* "Disturbing Posts Show Neo-Nazi Mall Shooter Documented His Planning:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/disturbing-posts-show-neo-nazi-shooter-mauricio-garcia-planned-to-target-allen-mall

* "Texas mass shooter reportedly 'inspired' by anti-LGBTQ+ Libs of TikTok:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/10/texas-mass-shooting-mauricio-garcia-libs-of-tiktok/

* "Granderson: With each horrific shooting, Texas' governor looks more inept:" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-05-07/with-each-texas-shooting-gov-greg-abbott-looks-more-inept

* "Radical right wing mass violence sits dangerously close to Republican politics:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/radical-right-wing-mass-violence-sits-dangerously-close-to-republican-politics-173612613606

* "Why being Latino and also a neo-Nazi are not mutually exclusive:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-being-latino-and-also-a-neo-nazi-are-not-mutually-exclusive-173615173518

* "Pulse survivor slams pro-gun advocates in wake of deadly Texas shooting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/09/pulse-nightclub-shooting-survior-brandon-wolf-slams-pro-gun-advocates/

* "The End of Title 42:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/the-end-of-title-42-174242885523

* "End of Title 42 tests U.S. image as beacon of hope:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/end-of-title-42-tests-u-s-image-as-beacon-of-hope-174064709810

* "Covid's legacy seen in human desperation at U.S. border:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/covid-s-legacy-seen-in-human-desperation-at-u-s-border-174067269516

* "Hayes on the ‘dehumanizing’ border coverage of the end of Title 42:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-on-the-dehumanizing-border-coverage-of-the-end-of-title-42-174049861911

* "Bicyclist brings white supremacists low with skilled heckling:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bicyclist-brings-white-supremacists-low-with-skilled-heckling-174471237549

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* "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill legalizing anti-LGBTQ+ medical discrimination:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/florida-gov-ron-desantis-signs-bill-legalizing-anti-lgbtq-medical-discrimination/

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* "Elon Musk says he's found a new CEO for Twitter:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/tech/elon-musk-twitter-ceo/index.html

* "Star Duo Forms ‘Fingerprint’ in Space, NASA’s Webb Finds:" https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/star-duo-forms-fingerprint-in-space-nasas-webb-finds

* "Gay congressman who helped Edward Snowden blow whistle dies aged 37:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/11/david-miranda-gay-brazilian-congressman-who-helped-edward-snowden-blow-whistle-dies-aged-37/

* I love when people sing in their own language at Eurovision. I love when they really sell it with the music, tone, performance, and visuals. For example, I have no idea what Moldova was singing about, but I sure had fun bobbing along and watching them. Honestly the boring generic ones are WORSE when I know what they are singing about. *eyes Ireland*

* "Eurovision 2023: live updates as UK hosts Grand Final of the song contest:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/13/eurovision-2023-grand-final-live-updates/

* This is Reddit, but it's a really cogent explanation of why a lot of the Ukrainian and other Eastern European commentators are responding negatively to "My Sister’s Crown:" https://www.reddit.com/r/eurovision/comments/10wxscj/comment/j7tvr5x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I don’t read or understand well enough to make a comment or judgement of my own, but I feel like in matters such as this, it’s the Ukrainian voices I ought to listen to and the explanation sure makes sense to me.

* I really don't like or approve of the Eurovision judge system. It should be a straight up popularity contest voted on my regular people, but it's not my contest and I've only had access to the full contest for a few years as a viewer, so it's fine I don't get a say. Still, I liked Finland way better than Sweden. (This is not an attack on Sweden, just a beef with the whole juror system).

* "Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha | Finland 🇫🇮 | Official Music Video | Eurovision 2023:"

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* "Lord Of The Lost - Blood & Glitter | Germany 🇩🇪 | Official Music Video | Eurovision 2023:"

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* "Alessandra - Queen Of Kings | Norway 🇳🇴 | National Final Performance | Eurovision 2023:"

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* "Teya & Salena - Who The Hell Is Edgar? | Austria Eurovision 2023:"

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* "TVORCHI - Heart Of Steel (Eurovision Version) | Ukraine :"

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* "Zlata Dziunka and Mariya Yaremchuk - Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells):"

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* "Let 3 - Mama ŠČ!:"

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* "Pasha Parfeni - Soarele şi Luna | Moldova 🇲🇩 | Official Music Video | Eurovision 2023:"

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* I would like to thank the folks who sent money. I managed to pay the bill that was about to flip into serious penalties just under the wire. I don't have enough yet for the other bills, but I have a little wiggle room there.

Update 5/12: Gas is now sorted until next month. I've a $275 shortfall for bills still.

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

* In other news, last week, I got a call from an agency offering me two hours of free cleaning a week. I suspect this is the result of the home assessment.

The lady came Friday morning. I scheduled it to coincide with the usual forage delivery window, with the hope that I'd be able to go to sleep after. I did not plan on how BAD Thursday was going to be. I woke up with the pain shakes and since I had to stay up for all this stuff Friday morning, my mitigation options were limited. I managed, but everything was sloooooow.

The person they sent was excellent. I'd foolishly made the assumption they had proper pay and regular clients, like Home health care Aids. Apparently not. Bastards don't give them regular hours or clients or benefits and the pay is not great. They are gig workers and have to sign up for the jobs on an ap and hope they can get ones that they can drive to in reasonable time.

I fucking hate that I have to participate in an exploitative system like this. They should let people request particular workers at least, so the workers can get regular schedules.

She did great work and seemed really nice. She tried working past the time. I'm like, "Never, ever work for free. Make them pay you." I was sorting the forage box and offered her first pick of stuff we couldn't use. she had trouble believing I meant it at first, and when I offered her last weeks eggs, she got all excited, which makes sense given how expensive they are these days. I also sent her away with good rice (We have tons of rice already) and some fresh fruit and veg none of us can eat. Me: no really. We can't eat these for medical reasons. We'll just have to throw them out.

I was planning to offer them first pick of things we couldn't use and the Millennials weren't likely to particularly want regardless, but now I know how screwed they are by management? I just which I could give them cash too, but we simply haven't got it.

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

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

* Due to RL commitments, I was away from the computer most of Sunday. I had intended to post the aggregate, before I left, but I ran out of time. I spent all Monday out and about doing bureaucracy in the heat and high pollen count. It was rather suddenly high summer all weekend. It should still be early spring. *shakes fist at the Koch Brothers*

Given how bad things were physically last week, I am a very special level of behind. My apologies.

* I ended up watching Queen Charlotte before our Netflix shut off. (Squirrel does our steaming services and had to cut ours for gas money to get to work. With Bridgeton, I generally pretend it is all a fantasy AU.

I still occasionally have trouble swallowing things like why Lady Featherington is the only one dressed in a 1950's bodice. The costumes are not historical, which I am mostly fine with because it mostly looks like on purpose design choices, but it's just very sore thumb and hard to shut my fashion history brain off for. I apparently have the same problem with King George III's hair. There are men with wigs or longer hair styled in one of the period fashions in a lot of larger scenes. Having one character with a random modern short hair cut stands out. If he was wearing a wig in public, but took it off in private, or had it cut when he was particularly ill, I would have just accepted it. having him be the only guy with short unpowdered unwigged hair at big formal events made it stand out more. I suspect I'm extra sensitive to it, because a lot of period dramas and things like that amazon Lord of the Rings chose short hair when it doesn't fit or cut the long hair of established characters to make them look more modern. Also, I just like long hair on men. So sue me.

I have a whole lot of feelings about the actual plot. I think the choice to go with autistic and schizophrenia was a really interesting one. I think that they treated him sympathetically and it was really nice to see a character who has psychosis being loved like that. I like that love doesn't magically cure mental illness, but it does make things better for the person experiencing it.

At the same time, my historian brain would start screaming and I'd have to remind it that this is fantasy and not history and it doesn't matter in a fantasy AU if they move things around by decades or dramatically change them. (I am better at keeping historian brain quieter for The Great as it's a farce and about as ahistorical as Black Adder series two. It's easier for me to accept nonsense history in a comedy than in a romance, if that make sense).

I suspect this is a me problem, and despite historian Brain not shutting up, I think this ended up being the most powerful and effective story in the Bridgeton series so far.

* On Molly Grue: https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/717159464636170241/star-anise-thebiscuiteternal-arcanebarrage?source=share

* What if the Avengers thought Peter Parker is an adult: https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/716870936262049792/iamthedukeofurl-ding-dong-the-bitch-is-dead?source=share

* Gretel and the Witch: https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/716317121909555201/strangelittlestories-after-shoving-hansel-in?source=share

* A very old friend and all around stand up guy wrote this. "Safest Family on the Block: 101 Tips, Tricks, Habits, and Hacks to Protect Your Family at Home, at School, and in the World:" https://www.amazon.com/Safest-Family-Block-Tricks-Protect-ebook/dp/B0C4JZ1QRX

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

* They need to move their senior facilities to a safer location. "Quileute Move to Higher Ground:" https://mthg.org/

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

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

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

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

* For the UK "We need your help to take the trans healthcare case to the Court of Appeal:" https://actions.goodlawproject.org/healthcare_delays_appeal

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

* A very old friend and all around stand up guy wrote this. "Safest Family on the Block: 101 Tips, Tricks, Habits, and Hacks to Protect Your Family at Home, at School, and in the World:" https://www.amazon.com/Safest-Family-Block-Tricks-Protect-ebook/dp/B0C4JZ1QRX

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

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

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

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

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

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

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. :

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

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

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

( Links Underneath: )

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "The [Queer] Politics of Eurovision:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Sit Down Young Stranger - Gordon Lightfoot:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Context doesn’t matter. Gifts are Gifts.

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. :

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

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

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

( Links Underneath: )

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Re: Netanyahu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I try very hard to do that in this space.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Living Homeless in the Desert:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If they win, Democracy dies in those states.

Please, please, please vote the whole ticket.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Elizabeth Warren Extended Interview:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Election Conspiracies Are Disrupting the Midterms:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Hate speech increased on Twitter after Elon Musk takeover, study finds:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/hate-speech-increased-twitter-elon-musk-takeover-study/story?id=92445797

* "Twitter reportedly limits content moderation ahead of midterm elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/twitter-reportedly-limits-content-moderation-ahead-of-midterm-elections-152243269649

* Do not trust twitter. "Elon Musk appears in over his head with purchase of Twitter:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/elon-musk-appears-in-over-his-head-with-purchase-of-twitter-152617541762

* "Musk's attempt at trolling AOC backfires | Boing Boing:" https://boingboing.net/2022/11/03/musks-attempt-at-trolling-aoc-backfires.html

* "Elon Musk to the Rescue: Big Lie Fanatic Escapes Twitter Ban:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizona-election-denier-mark-finchem-credits-elon-musk-for-overturning-twitter-ban

* "What changes has Elon Musk made at Twitter and what might he do next?:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/04/mass-sackings-monetisation-elon-musk-twitter-changing

* "Man pleads guilty to threatening to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell and staffers:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/swalwell-threat-plea/index.html

* "Adams County investigates white powder found on ballot as officials reassure voters the election is safe:" https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/adams-county-investigates-white-powder-found-on-ballot-as-officials-reassure-voters-the-election-is-safe

* "Barrack acquittal another blow to DOJ’s foreign influence crackdown:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2022/11/04/barrack-acquittal-another-blow-to-dojs-foreign-influence-crackdown-00065258

* "Supreme Court Rules That Lindsey Graham Must Testify in Georgia Inquiry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/politics/supreme-court-lindsey-graham-georgia.html

* "Trump files a suit against New York attorney general, and against advice:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/trump-files-a-suit-against-new-york-attorney-general-and-against-advice/

* "Judge rules in favor of assigning monitor to oversee Trump Organization:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/03/judge-rules-favor-assigning-monitor-oversee-trump-organization/

* "Key Trump insider given immunity to testify in Mar-a-Lago documents investigation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/key-trump-insider-given-immunity-to-testify-in-mar-a-lago-documents-investigation-152373829657

* "Litany of Trump legal entanglements grows ever longer as Trump Org criminal trial begins:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/litany-of-trump-legal-entanglements-grows-ever-longer-as-trump-org-criminal-trial-begins-152127557527

* "Trump asks Supreme Court to stop IRS from turning over his tax returns to the House:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/trump-supreme-court-appeal/index.html

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as 'only chance' to stop 2020 election certification:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-only-chance-to-stop-2020-election-certification-00064592

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as ‘key’ to post-election plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/emails-trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-key-to-post-election-plan-152356421588

* "Trump loyalist Kash Patel questioned before Mar-a-Lago grand jury:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/03/kash-patel-grand-jury-trump/

* "Despite Eastman appeal, Jan. 6 committee accesses 8 disputed emails:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/eastman-appeals-jan6-committee-disputed-00064166

* "House January 6 committee gives Trump more time to turn over subpoenaed documents:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/trump-january-6-subpoena-deadline/index.html

* "Capitol Police officer disputes claims that Oath Keepers were seen protecting him during Jan. 6 attack:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/capitol-police-officer-disputes-claims-oath-keepers-protecting/story?id=92432188

* "Oath Keepers spent over $400 at post-US Capitol riot feast at the Olive Garden, prosecutors say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/oath-keepers-olive-garden-january-6/index.html

* "New Report Sheds Light on Gun Violence in LGBTQ+ Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/11/new-report-sheds-light-gun-violence-lgbtq-lives

* "Chris Hayes: The myth of crime as a big-city, blue-state problem:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-myth-of-crime-as-a-big-city-blue-state-problem-152230981820

* "Polly Klaas’s murder fueled the 90s crime panic. Her sisters fear ‘we’re repeating history’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/22/polly-klaas-sisters-criminal-justice-mass-incarceration

* "Detectives in Breonna Taylor Killing Confess to Falsifying Warrant Evidence:" https://advocatechannel.com/detectives-in-breonna-taylor-killing-admit-to-falsifying-warrant-evidence-based-on-gut-feeling

* "Police Killed a Boy. His Friend Was Charged With Murder:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFjFze39Dcc

* "Video Shows Sheriffs Choking, Tasing Unarmed Transgender Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/24/video-shows-sheriffs-choking-tasing-unarmed-transgender-woman

* "Comedian Eric André Files Lawsuit Against Atlanta Airport Police:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/20/two-black-comedians-file-lawsuit-against-atlanta-airport-police

* "I Spent Over 40 Years Working in Corrections. I Wasn’t Ready for Rikers.:" https://mailchi.mp/themarshallproject/i-spent-over-40-years-working-in-corrections-i-wasnt-ready-for-rikers

* "Ezra Miller Pleads Not Guilty to Burglary Charges in Vermont:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/17/ezra-miller-pleads-not-guilty-burglary-charges-vermont

* "Bi Actor Andy Dick Arrested on Felony Burglary Charge:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/21/bi-actor-andy-dick-arrested-felony-burglary-charge

* "Sheriff's office says antisemitic messages in Jacksonville were not crimes:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/us/florida-georgia-game-kanye-west/index.html

* "Pa. School District Allegedly Discriminated Against LGBTQ+ Students:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/09/penn-school-district-allegedly-discriminated-against-lgbtq-students

* "How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level:"

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How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level

When this was passed teachers called it things like “children Left behind” because we could see it was designed to starve neighborhood schools so Republicans could close them, forcing busing to other schools and shifting funding even further away from the schools that need it into charter schools that can bar students who are poor, or not white, or who have limited English, or who have special needs.

This is about de facto segregation. It’s about starving public schools of funds. it’s about excuses to deprive the students with the biggest needs of an education.

All “Back to Basics” school “reforms” are about defending music, art, social studies, and sciences, because Republicans hate anything that keeps children from dropping out and/or teaches critical thinking. Science and social studies teach things like applying logic to real world problems, evaluating evidence, and thinking for yourself. The last thing they want is accurate history or modern science taught to children.

All Republicans want is to create an ignorant easily manipulable permanent underclass that votes for them. Quality Public education in anathema to them.

Republicans keep saying, “you can’t just through money at the problem,” yet never once in the history of this country have we tried funding the schools for the poor at the level we fund schools for the well off. we know objectively that 15-18 students is the sweet spot for class size at all grades. why not for once try paying teachers a living wage and hire enough of them to give every class room the same student/teacher ratios private schools have. How about instead of pennies per student per day we actually buy enough equipment and supplies so that all students get to do hands on science instead of only students who already have all the advantages? How about paying for proper maintenance on schools so the heating works and the pipes don’t bang and the roof doesn’t leak? How about money for computers and library books? How about desks and chairs so every student in every class gets one as well as a locker that closes and locks?

Can’t we try that just once?

Teaching pays about as well as Burger King and teachers owe student loans and need to pay for continuing ed and certification re-upping. They need supplies for themselves and students and a professional wardrobe and money for transportation and to pay off massive student loans, plus food, housing, medical stuff, etc.. out of what amounts to minimum wage.

Nobody goes into teaching expecting to get rich; they do it because they want to teach. Punishing them because the schools are falling apart and the textbooks are as old as they are is counter-productive. Actually funding the schools properly would let them do their jobs.

But no one ever ask teachers when they do “school reform.” It is nearly always imposed by people who’ve never taught based on ignorance and a deep refusal to look at the research.

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* "LGBTQ+ World Cup fans told hand-holding fine – but don't kiss:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/28/holding-hands-world-cup-no-public-affection-qatar-ambassador/

The World Cup should never have been held here. A whole lot of mostly guest workers literally died building that stadium, worked to death in the heat.

Their human rights record with LGBTQIA+ people is horrific and should be disqualifying.

* "Qatar journalist says LGBTQ+ people are ‘abnormal’ ahead of World Cup:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/qatar-journalist-lgbtq-abnormal-world-cup/

* "Wales footballers won’t be silenced when it comes to Qatar’s LGBTQ+ atrocities:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/wales-footballers-wont-be-banned-from-addressing-qatars-lgbtq-rights-record-officials-confirm/

* "Gay Qatari man won't let World Cup 'bury' LGBTQ+ atrocities 'in the shadows':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/05/qatar-gay-nas-mohamed-world-cup/

* "Gay men shot outside LGBTQ+ bar laid to rest as thousands take to streets:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/gay-men-shot-outside-slovakian-lgbtq-bar-laid-to-rest-as-thousands-take-to-streets-in-protest/

* "Czech MP comes out as gay after horrific Slovakia LGBTQ+ bar shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/czech-mp-gay-jiri-navratil/

* "Malaysia police detain 20 people at LGBTQ+ Halloween party for 'cross-dressing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/malaysia-halloween-party-raid-religious-police-sharia-law/

* "Irish law protecting trans people from hate crime 'too little too late':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/ireland-trans-hate-crime-violence-law/

* "Gay Palestinian Man Beheaded After Receiving Death Threats:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/07/gay-palestinian-man-beheaded-after-receiving-death-threats

* "Mexico celebrates as same-sex marriage becomes law of the land:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/same-sex-marriage-legalised-mexico/

* "Trevor Project Launches Services in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/10/11/trevor-project-launches-services-mexico

* "Former Cop Reveals Horrific Gay Bashings by Police:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/05/former-cop-reveals-horrific-gay-bashings-police

* "Gender law reforms pass first vote in Scotland with 'overwhelming' support:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/scotland-trans-gender-recognition-reform-vote/

* "Conversion therapy ban delayed by equalities minister Kemi Badenoch:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/conversion-therapy-ban-kemi-badenoch/

* "Grindr Faces Boycott After Gay CEO's Right-Wing Tweets Are Revealed:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/grindr-faces-boycott-after-gay-ceos-right-wing-tweets-are-revealed

* "Social Security Will Allow Users to Select Own Gender Marker:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/social-security-will-allow-users-select-own-gender-marker

* "South Carolina governor says he wants a statewide ban on same-sex marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/29/south-carolina-henry-mcmaster-same-sex-marriage-ban-supreme-court/

* "Men who violently attacked gay couple escape jail thanks to kindness of victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/miami-homophobic-attack-avoid-jail/

* "2022 U.S. Trans Survey:" https://www.ustranssurvey.org/

* Why you should fill it out "The biggest transgender survey in the US is underway. Here's why it's important:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/us-trans-survey-2022-cec/index.html

* "If I say "the queer community", I am referring to the community of self identified queers. If you're not a self identified queer, then I wasn't talking about you!:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/699776198583238656

* Rightly so!!! CW: Rape, Murder, Cannibalism "Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costumes banned by LGBTQ+ bars:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/jeffrey-dahmer-halloween-costumes-lgbtq-bars-wisconsin/

* "Heartstopper fans react to star Kit Connor being forced to come out as bisexual:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/kit-connor-bisexual-coming-out-fan-reaction/

It is wrong to bully people. It is extra wrong to bully teenagers.

No one owes you their coming out. People deserve to work stuff out without pressure.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

This isn’t a closeted anti-queer politician out to hurt us. This is a literal teenager who is just trying to live his life.

* "Kit Connor's coming out proves bi-erasure is rife even in LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/kit-connor-biphobia-bi-erasure-bisexual/

* "The Outing of Kit Connor:"

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* "Why we should be watching the sun, not the clock:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/11/watching-the-sun-not-the-clock-sleep-body-clocks-daylight-saving-time

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* "Philippine death toll from storm Nalgae rises to 98, disaster agency says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/asia/philippines-tropical-storm-nalgae-paeng-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Photos: The aftermath of tropical storm Nalgae in Philippines:" https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/11/1/photos-the-aftermath-of-tropical-storm-nalgae-in-philippines

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* "Greece: Dozens missing after boat carrying migrants sinks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/greece-dozens-missing-after-boat-carrying-migrants-sinks/2022/11/01/52543176-59b9-11ed-bc40-b5a130f95ee7_story.html

* "What we know about India's deadly bridge collapse:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/india/india-gujarat-morbi-bridge-collapse-explainer-intl-hnk

* "We Need To Talk About The Latest SHEIN Scandal:"

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* "First wild bison born in UK for millennia after surprise pregnancy:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/21/first-wild-bison-born-in-uk-for-millennia-after-surprise-pregnancy

* "The Gruesome History of Real Life Vampire Hunting:"

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* "Ghosts Are Legally Real:"

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* "Recalling LGBTQ+ Stories in Hispanic Heritage Month:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/10/14/recalling-lgbtq-stories-hispanic-heritage-month

* "Pioneering singer who recorded first gay country songs dies aged 78:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/patrick-haggerty-gay-country-singer-dies-aged-78/

* "Proud to be a Gay Icon: Angela Lansbury's Life & Legacy:"

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* "Bail Reform:"

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* "Stephen's Message To Young Voters | Dick Bigger, Jr. Is The Breakout Star Of This Election Season:"

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* "Dr. Oz Surfs PA's Coast | Taylor Swift Dominates The Charts | Elon Negotiates With Stephen King:"

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* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 1:" https://www.cc.com/video/q0462s/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-1

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 2 :" https://www.cc.com/video/rsdbd4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-2

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 3:" https://www.cc.com/video/9udze9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-3

* "Kosta La Vista Baby - Atlanta:" https://www.cc.com/video/3yu223/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-kosta-la-vista-baby-atlanta

* "Is Atlanta the Real-Life Wakanda?:" https://www.cc.com/video/ap288q/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-is-atlanta-the-real-life-wakanda

* CW: Self Harm, Eating Disorders. "The Harmful Drive for Queer Perfection:"

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* "DefunctTV: The History of the First Muppet Show, Sam and Friends:"

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* "5 Spooky Musicals That Are Totally UNHINGED:"

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* "Dr. Oz Is Surfin' PA:"

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* "Olive Garden Is The Perfect Place To Subvert Democracy:"

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* "This Is How Kari Lake's Comments Would Sound If They Were Actually Creatively Edited:"

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* "President Biden Midterms Address Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update: Tammy the Trucker on Gas Prices and Definitely Not Abortion - SNL:"

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* "Vlad the Impaler vs Count Dracula. Epic Rap Battles of History:"

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* More attempts at Gothmas Phase II pictures: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699602590803083264

* The emperor has been trying to break into one of the presents since it arrived, including an attempt to unwrap it the second I pulled it from the box. Turned out it was a massive bag of hand dried catnip. https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699682102668673024/gothmashalloween-2022-the-emperor-has-been-tryingfr.

* Since the Pandemic started, I put out bowls of candy. each bowl has a handful of things. Adults are welcome too, and I usually give out a lot of candy. This year one person stole the bowl itself, and no one else came. I think the three families with kids have moved out, since i haven't seen or heard them playing since summer. I've noticed that the other people that usually decorate in the complex didn't this year. It's sad.

I did get reverse trick or treated and Squirrel and I split the loot. Weirdly, it was not the bowl thief.

* October is always really hard on my body and particularly so in the back half. Halloween week takes everything I have really. Samhein is the most important holiday of my year and it takes everything.

Wednesday my body hard vetoed Wednesday errands. I called Head Millennial in time for them to get public transport and make evening arrangements. I could barely walk and had the pain shakes. One days like this, it's best to just take ones meds and go back to sleep and home a nap will reset things. This was correct. When I tried again later, I was a functional level of awful. We managed to take in the Halloween specific exterior stuff and box it all up. I'll need to tweek the "Harvest Display" and do a day time sweep to be sure we got everything before boxes go back into storage. Halloweentown is in chaos, but that's another day's problem.

Head Millennial went above and beyond today. I love how fundamentally kind and trustworthy they are. we had dinner together and watched a movie we'd started a week ago, geeking out together about the high quality lighting design and mourning the death of banter in modern romcoms as well as how few productions are willing to pay for really artistic lighting. (I sited Black Sails as proof the art isn't lost, even though we might think it was looking at the newest Halloween and Got/house of the dragon. Head Millennial is very grumpy about Halloween franchise in particular.)

It sounds like Visiting Millennial has decided to move up here, so at some point in the future they will be Newest Millennial. There is much rejoicing.

NOTE for newer readers: I like to use sobriquets to prevent people chain tracking through blogs. It was always my instinct and I got stricter after that reporter found me through the blog of a friend who wasn't as careful after Skye was murdered. It was fine. She was nice and professional and my friend changed the post in case of future accident. My point is that a determined swatter could find me, but I like to make them work for it if they want my friends.

* Another disabled Elder Goth friend suggested there should be a "Retired Goth Bat sanctuary" for people like us. This delights me.

There is talk of Tee shirts.

Possibly next week.

I already want one.

* Thursday was the blue beast's mechanic appointment. They are always booked for weeks out this time of year. This meant very little sleep, but the coolant situation is sorted and I should be okay on the engine not melting for a while. *Knock wood*

Friday I just wanted sleep, but of they woke me up trying to strong arm me into a home health assessment. Thing is, it's an excellent service and an important one. My mother used them in her last year of life when her health was failing. They assess the person; they assess the needs; they help organize complex meds schedules; they hook people up with services. I support the program and said so to the lady, but I do not want one.

Why? She wanted to know. I do not need what they are offering and I don't like strangers in my home it's invasive. I don't need a dementia test. I have a home health aid. My meds schedule is, indeed, complex, but it's logical. (Think of it as a logic puzzle. Pills needing to be taken on an empty stomach need to go first thing in the morning. Ppills needing to be taken with food need to be at least an hour after empty stomach pills, and need to work with meal scheduling. Some pills can't be taken within two hours of each other, etc.. Some pills need to be taken multiple times a day. For a while I had a pill that needed to go four times a day, at least two hours after eating and an hour before eating. It was a nightmare, but I did it.) I do not want people tampering with the schedule, because every adjustment is a hassle and a half, and I have it down. The point is, it's my body deteriorating, not my mind, and I handle things just fine within my physical limits and I hate all the invasive monitoring that comes with living in this complex and that comes with being disabled. I minimize it where I can.

So I go to the bathroom, give Livia a come for pettins offer, reset my pillow prop system, and settle back in to try to sleep.

The phone rings. It's the system that pay for my caregiver. Mandatory home inspection. *deep sigh* I managed to wiggle out of this one so far because of the pandemic. It's so intrusive and I fucking hate that I don't get to have privacy because I'm disabled. I can't manage without Head Millennial, so I guess we're doing that Monday, plus the already scheduled social worker call Tuesday.

* "Here are the Spookiest Cities in America:" https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2022/10/21/spookiest-cities-america

* "America's 15 Most Haunted Hotels:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/22/americas-15-most-haunted-hotels#media-gallery-media-16

* Events towards the end of Dracula from the viewpoint of the locals: https://uri59.tumblr.com/post/699674996605403136/random-sailor-at-the-sereth-river-this-night-is

* Ed as Blackbeard: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699813146114818048/ok-i-just-have-to-ask-did-you-notice-ed-as

* Arden Powell at the The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1585317897785647105

* Clive Barker vs JK Rowling at The Midnight Society : https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1586397640186466304

* Goblin detecting sword: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699816725716287488

* I feel this in my bones: https://xkcd.com/2692/

* "You’ve been sentenced to 400 years for multiple murders. It’s been 399 years and your jailers are starting to get nervous.:" https://www.tumblr.com/elidyce/688193708499320832/writing-prompt-s-youve-been-sentenced-to-400

* "God of Arepo:" https://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/699776328566800384

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Plan Your Vote: 2022 Elections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-2022-elections/index.html?language=english&state=WA

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

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* I support the right to wear a hijab, just as I support the right not to wear a hijab. "Hindu hardliners seek wider India ban on hijab in class after court verdict:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/hindu-hardliners-seek-wider-india-ban-hijab-class-after-court-verdict-2022-03-16/

* "Jamaicans shun UK royal visit, demand slavery reparations:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/jamaicans-shun-uk-royal-visit-demand-slavery-reparations-83584061

* "US admiral says China fully militarized isles:" https://apnews.com/article/business-china-beijing-xi-jinping-south-china-sea-d229070bc2373be1ca515390960a6e6c

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* "New COVID variant is spreading across the US. Here's what you need to know about BA.2:" https://news.yahoo.com/covid-variant-spreading-across-us-182505445.html

* "World’s brightest x-rays reveal COVID-19’s damage to the body:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/worlds-brightest-x-rays-reveal-covid-19-damage-to-the-body

* "The Pandemic After the Pandemic:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/long-covid-risk/627031/

* "Covid deaths probably three times higher than records say:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-60690251

* "China is managing its Covid outbreak one new local crisis at a time:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/21/china-sticks-to-zero-covid-managing-outbreak-one-local-city-at-a-time.html

* "Confusion and Chaos in Hong Kong as Leaders Fumble Virus Response:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/hong-kong-virus-beijing.html

* "Austria Reimposes Some Coronavirus Measures to Curb Record Cases:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-18/austria-reimposes-some-coronavirus-measures-to-curb-record-cases

* "Germany reports another record COVID-19 incidence:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/germany-reports-another-record-covid-19-incidence-2022-03-16/

* "Europe’s Covid spike has Biden officials concerned, could lead to return of masks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/17/europes-covid-spike-has-biden-officials-concerned-could-lead-to-return-of-masks-00018159

* "‘We’ve learned absolutely nothing’: Tests could again be in short supply if Covid surges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/22/tests-short-supply-if-covid-surges-00019046

* "White House press secretary Jen Psaki tests positive for Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/politics/jen-psaki-covid-19/index.html

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* "Japan adds Russia sanctions, U.S. envoy offers home to Ukrainians:" https://www.reuters.com/world/japan-slaps-new-sanctions-russian-defence-officials-arms-exporter-2022-03-18/

* "Chinese official calls sanctions on Russia increasingly 'outrageous':" https://www.reuters.com/world/chinese-official-calls-sanctions-russia-increasingly-outrageous-2022-03-19/

* "Russian progress 'significantly blunted' amid failure to control Ukraine airspace; China says it's on the right side of history:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/19/live-updates-russia-ukraine-war-updates-for-march-19-2022.html

* "The Smaller Bombs That Could Turn Ukraine Into a Nuclear War Zone:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/science/russia-nuclear-ukraine.html

* "Amb. Thomas-Greenfield: "The audacity of the Russians to call for a meeting of the security council":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/amb-thomas-greenfield-the-audacity-of-the-russians-to-call-for-a-meeting-of-the-security-council-135799877894

* "Ukraine's first and only Black MP, Zhan Beleniuk, lets Americans know what Ukrainians need:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/ukraine-s-first-and-only-black-mp-zhan-beleniuk-lets-americans-know-what-ukrainians-need-135801925607

* "British Amb. Karen Pierce reacts to Zelenskyy's plea for more support:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/british-amb-karen-pierce-reacts-to-zelenskyy-s-plea-for-more-support-135801925753

* "Russia threatens to cut ties with US after Biden labels Putin a ‘war criminal’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/ukraine-eu-ministers-meet-to-discuss-further-russian-sanctions-as-cracks-emerge

* "EU split on Russia oil sanctions, mulls other steps:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-mull-russian-oil-embargo-with-biden-set-join-talks-2022-03-21/

* "A Chinese vlogger shared videos of war-torn Ukraine. He's been labeled a national traitor:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/18/asia/wang-jixian-chinese-vlogger-ukraine-intl-hnk/index.html

* "As Russia Stalls in Ukraine, Dissent Brews Over Putin’s Leadership:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/world/europe/putin-russia-military-planning.html

* "Ukraine captured a batch of Russia's missiles and fired them back at its troops, report says:" https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-captured-russia-missiles-fired-them-back-cnn-2022-3

* "‘Ukraine now is the battleground for the whole free world’ former Ukrainian MP says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-forces-fighting-in-ukraine-plagued-by-heavy-losses-equipment-failures-sagging-morale-135907909920

* "Putin’s war in Ukraine might already be a stalemate UN says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-s-war-in-ukraine-is-becoming-a-stalemate-un-says-135909445977

* "Forest fires erupt around Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/22/chernobyl-forest-fires-ukraine-nuclear-plant

* "Ukrainian mayor describes abduction by Russian troops :" https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/03/19/melitopol-ukraine-mayor-ivan-fedorov-russia-kidnapping-ac360-vpx.cnn

* "Russia says it used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine again:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/20/russia-says-it-used-hypersonic-missiles-in-ukraine-for-second-day

* "DoD official: Russia’s hypersonic missile boast ‘a bit of a head-scratcher’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/21/dod-official-russia-hypersonic-missile-00018872

* "Shells rain down on Kharkiv as Ukraine's army stands firm:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60785679

* "Losses mount in Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, regional governor says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/losses-mount-ukrainian-city-chernihiv-regional-governor-says-2022-03-17/

* "What Has Been Lost in Kharkiv:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/briefing/russia-ukraine-war-kharkiv.html

* "Dozens of Ukrainian troops killed in barracks bombed by Russia, witnesses say:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-of-ukrainian-troops-killed-in-barracks-struck-by-russia-say-witnesses/

* "Kyiv says ‘no question’ of surrender in Mariupol as it defies Russia’s deadline:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/russia-sets-5am-deadline-for-ukrainian-forces-surrender-in-mariupol

* "How two journalists managed to share the horror stories of Mariupol with the world:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/03/19/mariupol-siege-ap-journalists-chernov-maloletka/

* "‘The eyes and ears of the world’: The story of the last journalists in Mariupol:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-eyes-and-ears-of-the-world-the-story-of-the-last-journalists-in-mariupol-135900229545

* "As Mariupol hangs on, the extent of the horror not yet known:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-024cfeb20ed4a60dc692401ffb3bb7be

* "Russian Soldiers Reportedly Captured by LGBTQ+ Ukrainians:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/3/02/russian-soldiers-reportedly-captured-lgbtq-ukrainians

* "Russia could be losing ground in battle for Mykolaiv, but it still seeks to crush what it cannot have:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/21/europe/ukraine-russia-posad-pokrovske-mykolaiv-kherson-intl/index.html

* "An Ancient City Transformed by War:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/world/europe/ukraine-lviv-war.html

* "Ukraine military tells residents to brace for indiscriminate Russian shelling:"https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-says-russia-is-considering-using-chemical-biological-weapons-ukraine-2022-03-22/

* "The Battle for Kyiv Looms as a Long and Bloody Conflict:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/19/world/europe/kyiv-ukraine-russia-war.html

* "School where hundreds were believed to be sheltering is bombed in Mariupol as fighting rages for key port city:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/20/europe/russia-invasion-ukraine-03-20-intl/index.html

* "Russian Soldiers Took Their City, Then Their Homes:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/world/europe/russian-soldiers-video-kyiv-invasion.html

* "Ukraine Confirms Fifth Russian General Has Been Killed:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-claims-it-used-hypersonic-missiles-in-ukraine-war-as-cosmonauts-don-ukrainian-colors-in-space

* "Russian strike kills 96-year-old Holocaust survivor in Ukraine:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/21/europe/borys-romanchenko-death-ukraine-intl/index.html

""This is what they call the 'operation of denazification,'" he said, alluding to Russia's claim that its invasion of Ukraine is designed to save the country from Nazi elements."

""Survived Hitler, murdered by Putin," he wrote."

* "From Leningrad to Kharkiv, a Life Bookended by War and Despair:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-03-20/from-leningrad-to-kharkiv-a-life-bookended-by-war-and-despair

* "Kyiv’s Suburbs Become Unlikely Front Line of Ukraine War:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/world/europe/kyiv-suburbs-irpin-ukraine-war-russia.html

* "‘First you cry, then get used to it’: Ukraine villagers find a kind of refuge in Mykolaiv:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/mykolaiv-ukraine-bombarded-port-city

* "Chechen Warlord Who Assisted in Antigay Purge Killed in Ukraine:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/2/28/chechen-warlord-who-assisted-antigay-purge-killed-ukraine

* "Ukraine’s LGBT+ leaders say fleeing isn’t an option: 'We have to save our country':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/17/ukraine-lgbt-kyiv-pride-2/

* "Russian bombs kills 'heroic, brave and courageous' Ukrainian LGBT+ activist:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/18/ukraine-russia-war-elvira-schemur-death-tribute-lgbt/

* "A city away from the Russian lines became a haven for people fleeing Kharkiv. But for how long?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/02/ukraine-russia-kharkiv/

* "‘We’re showing we’re alive’: the older Ukrainians running daily as war rages:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/ukrainian-men-running-marathons-russia-invasion

* "Ukraine war: Fifty orphans permitted to travel to Scotland:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-60787601

* "From chaos to cooperation: Moldova learns to cope with Ukrainian refugees:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/from-chaos-to-cooperation-moldova-learns-to-cope-with-ukrainian-refugees/

* "Historic synagogue in Kyiv has spent $2 million evacuating Ukrainians from war’s hot spots:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/22/kyiv-temple-evacuations/

* "In Belarusian Morgues And Hospitals, Clues To Russian Military Losses In Ukraine:" https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-morgues-russian-soldiers/31760144.html

* "Ukrainian activists block trucks at Poland-Belarus border, demand halting EU trade with Russia:" https://kyivindependent.com/uncategorized/ukrainian-activists-block-trucks-at-poland-belarus-border-demand-halting-eu-trade-with-russia/

* "Ukraine flag beamed onto Russia’s London embassy in protest against war:" https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukraine-flag-beamed-onto-russia-102649279.html

* "In Ukraine, empty strollers are a symbol of children killed in war:" https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-empty-strollers-are-symbol-children-killed-war-2022-03-18/

* "War in Ukraine: Anti-war opinions can cost Russians their jobs:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60793446

* "Russian citizens continue to protest war with Ukraine despite threat of punishment:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/20/1087766146/russian-citizens-continue-to-protest-war-with-ukraine-despite-threat-of-punishme

* "'It's Putin's war, not [the] Russian people's war': Russian anti-war journalist:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/putins-war-russian-peoples-war-marina-ovsyannikova/story?id=83552852

* "Mounting Russian casualties in Ukraine lead to more questions about its military readiness:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/europe/russian-casualties-ukraine-military-readiness/index.html

* "Russia’s Brutality in Ukraine Has Roots in Earlier Conflicts:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/world/europe/russia-military-strategy-bombing-cities.html

* "GOP backlash grows over Cawthorn's Zelensky insult:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/18/politics/madison-cawthorn-republican-reaction/index.html

* "A Russian lawmaker wants Alaska back. ‘Good luck with that!’:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/a-russian-lawmaker-wants-alaska-back-good-luck-with-that/

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* "'Slow-motion disaster': War in Ukraine threatens to cause global food shortage:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-slow-motion-disaster-war-in-ukraine-threatens-to-cause-global-food-shortage-135901765991

* "Biden warns Russian cyberattacks 'coming':" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/21/biden-russia-cyberattacks-00018942

* "Blinken declares Myanmar's military committed genocide against Rohingya:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/21/politics/blinken-myanmar-genocide-designation/index.html

* "Appeals court revives key climate measure rejected by Trump judge:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/16/appeals-court-social-cost-carbon-biden-trump-00017986

* "Ketanji Brown Jackson pledges independence and neutrality in Supreme Court confirmation hearing:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/21/jackson-opening-statement/

* "Jackson vocally rebuts GOP criticism of her sex offense sentencing record:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/22/democrats-ketanji-brown-jackson-confirmation-00019063

* "Sen. Booker: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘is going to show America the power of her character’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/senate-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings-for-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-discussed-by-sen-cory-booker-135908421992

* "Joy Reid to GOP senators: Ketanji Brown Jackson bested you intellectually and you’re mad about it:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ketanji-brown-jackson-s-second-day-of-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings-analyzed-by-joy-reid-and-her-panel-136003141594

* "Blumenthal: Brown Jackson dealt with ‘distorting and distracting questions’ with grace:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/blumenthal-jackson-dealt-with-distorting-and-distracting-questions-with-grace-135992389685

* "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the hospital: What we know:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-03-22/justice-clarence-thomas-hospitalization-what-we-know

* "Why Joe Manchin Sank Sarah Bloom Raskin’s Nomination:" https://newrepublic.com/article/165746/joe-manchin-sank-sarah-bloom-raskins-nomination

* "Puppet Makers Rise Up Against the Puppet Masters:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-jim-henson-company-craftspeople-unsafe-work-conditions-1235111978/

* Finally! I've been angry about the lack of protection for Indigenous women for decades. "President Biden Addresses Nation After Signing the Violence Against Women Act of 2022, Notes New Tribal Court Jurisdiction:" https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/president-biden-addresses-nation-after-signing-the-violence-against-women-act-of-2022-notes-new-tribal-court-jurisdiction

* "House passes Crown Act banning discrimination against Black hairstyles:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/house-passes-crown-act-banning-discrimination-black-hairstyles-rcna20617?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

* 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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* "Good News From Texas: Historic Number of Out Candidates Win Primaries:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/02/good-news-texas-historic-number-out-candidates-win-primaries

* "DeSantis and his acolytes mounting hostile takeover of Florida’s university system:" https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2022/03/17/ron-cunningham-obstacles-cleared-corcoran-seek-uf-presidency/7050333001/

* "Mark Meadows' voter registration under investigation by state officials in North Carolina:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/18/politics/mark-meadows-trump-aide-voter-north-carolina/index.html

* "Unpacking how Trump primed Jan. 6’s most dangerous weapon: The mob:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/21/unpacking-how-trump-primed-jan-6s-most-dangerous-weapon-mob/

* "Cowboys for Trump founder convicted for breaching Capitol grounds on Jan. 6:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/22/cowboys-for-trump-founder-convicted-jan-6-00019270

* "Sandy Hook and the Troubling Psychology of Conspiracy Theories:" https://www.wired.com/story/sandy-hook-psychology-conspiracy-theories/

* "The Invention of Incarceration:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-invention-of-incarceration/?preview_id=283873

* "Melissa Lucio, only Latina on Texas death row, seeks clemency as execution looms:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/melissa-lucio-only-latina-texas-death-row-seeks-clemency-execution-loo-rcna20643

* "FBI eyeing 6 suspects after bomb threats at Black colleges:" https://apnews.com/article/crime-race-and-ethnicity-hate-crimes-bomb-threats-congress-c8d3947158c168cc96e9c29cd713845f

* "Canada: 169 potential graves found at former residential school:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/canada-169-potential-graves-found-at-former-residential-school

* "Trans-led sexual health clinics are quietly revolutionising care for the community:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/18/trans-sexual-health-clinics-lgbt/

* "Disney employees are staging walkouts over company's response to the 'Don't Say Gay' bill:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/media/disney-walkout-florida-bill/index.html

* "What is Social Manipulation? (Groupthink, The Bystander Effect, and Confirmation Bias):"

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* "Severe storms rake Texas, Oklahoma; tornado watch in effect:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/severe-storms-rake-texas-oklahoma-tornado-watch-in-effect

* "Study reveals new insight into Ancient Egyptian Matariya sun temple:" https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/11/study-reveals-new-insight-into-ancient-egyptian-matariya-sun-temple/142011

* "One of Pompeii’s Greatest Mysteries May Have Been Solved:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-of-pompeiis-greatest-mysteries-may-have-been-solved

* CW: Child Murder "America's Mysterious Murderer: H.H. Holmes:"

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* "Weighty case: Alabama man charged in theft of 70-ton crane:" https://apnews.com/article/oddities-alabama-arrests-theft-clanton-8073675ba4b54064dc76f6b34883e4f8

* "Anti-Russian Protests Hit Businesses in the U.S.:" https://www.cc.com/video/00bzf5/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-anti-russian-protests-hit-businesses-in-the-u-s

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* At the turning of the year, they switched from the aides being paid directly by the state to a way shittier for profit subcontractor, with the expected result. The switch over took two months of labor intensive attempts to get through to a jammed help line with 5-7 hour wait times and lots of an one more things they didn't tell us about being used as an excuse to delay pay. It is a form of wage theft, of course. They did finally catch up all the missed pay at the beginning of March, only not to pay Head Millennial Friday. I'm going to see if I can get through Monday to unleash the power of my righteous anger on them.

This is some Bullshit. Care givers are in extremely short supply just generally and geometrically so thanks to the pandemic and here they are making it incredibly hard for people to get through all the hoops who are already employed and then jerking them around for their earned pay.

As crappy as the lowest bidder caregiver app was, at least the government pays it's bills. The For profit app is worse, just like everything else is worse because for profit means corner cutting.

No one who does this kind of job can afford to keep randomly missing pay checks.

Capitalism.

In other news, I filled out my paperwork for the Wednesday consult, and I am doing much better.

* When I went to bed Monday Morning, Prince Pointy Paws did not wait for me to properly position myself, and instead jumped right on top of the wounded area and started making vigorous biscuits. He knows I don't like biscuit making there, but my normal reaction is to gently nudge his paws away to somewhere more reasonable, not to make a scary sound, lift him off unceremoniously, and then curl into a ball of distress. It was not his fault. he and Livia saw I was doing much better Friday night, and he has no way of knowing there is a serious wound he can't see or smell.

Still, it was impossible to get comfortable for sleep, and I kept wriggling about and endlessly dislodging him to try something else for the next four hours. This made it impossible for him to sleep as well. We did finally start to drift off when the phone rang. It was an identity theft scammer. I then had to try to find a spot that didn't hurt to much. Eventually we drifted off. The phone rang. Wrong number. Eventually we drifted off. The phone rang. Medical thing. Eventually we drifted off. The phone rang. It was caregiver call back. They would not let me sort the pay thing for Head Millennial. Sigh.We did finally manage two hours of sleep when the phone rang. It was them checking to see if I was going to the Wednesday surgery consult. Sigh.

The Emperor was so furious about having his sleep stolen by that infernal machine that he came up onto my pillow to yell at the phone at the top of his lungs. I didn’t blame him even a little.

Sleep was impossible at that point so I went back to my Bujold reread and eventually forced myself up for the evening putter. Those of you reading on Tumblr will notice I didn't accomplish that much. Those of you reading on dreamwidth may have correctly guessed this is why the aggregate didn't go out.

Tuesday, the Head Millennial came over. I called the people who are supposed to pay them, and waited on hold for a few hours for them while they did a half shift around the house. (They arrived too late for callback sign up.) They'd just settled in to watch the Resident Alien pilot on the sofa after logging out when we finally got a live person on the phone. (I'd gotten them hooked on Resident Alien and they wanted to see the show from the beginning. It is even better on rewatch I discovered). They ended up watching four episodes it was so good.

Anyway, it turns out the change over to for profit was such a shit show they decided to delay payment of all the caregivers for a week without, you know, telling them. hence the phone lines being jammed by workers in deep poverty trying to find out why they weren't getting paid and if they'd added yet another hoop to jump through to get the money they'd earned released. These are the workers who can least afford pay delays. This is wage theft and very cruel. Asking them to literally spend hours on the phone trying to find out why they weren't paid is a theft of their time.

I am furious, but there's not a damned thing I can do about it. The best I could manage was ginger cookies for a snack and Resident Alien. Sigh.

There will be very little sleep Wednesday because the consult is mid-sleep cycle. I suspect there is no chance of the aggregate until Thursday or Friday. Sorry.

* So you know how I said the wound is small? Yeah, no. The imaging wasn't even close to thorough enough. Luckily, they did a whole torso CT scan during the ER visit during the big health emergency last year. I have a hole in me slightly larger than a fifty cent piece and no one at the ER bothered to mention it. I've been a ticking time bomb this whole time.

It is really fucking important that we know the size as it dramatically changes the way they do the surgery, which they definitely needed to know in advance. It also moves me way higher on the cancellation wait list than the hole they thought I had would, since the danger of things taken a sudden, possibly deadly turn without much warning is way higher.

They scheduled me for early June, what with the pandemic back up for out patient surgeries, but no one thinks it'll take that long. I'm fast tracked. I've given squirrel the heads up that I could need transport in two to three weeks on fairly short notice, as they think that's how long it will take me to make the top of the wait list.

I kind of loved how mater of fact they were at the surgeon's. I was in getting vitals five minutes before my appointment start time. I was efficiently quizzed on drug allergies and the like. The actual doctor was in immediately after. Zipped through the basics as I knew the drill and have had a similar, less dire version of this surgery before. Clearly knew my massive and crazy medical file and scans, based on comments and questions asked. Gave it to me straight without the round about bullshit that gets on my nerves. Answered the specific question I had. asked a bunch of pertinent questions about my anesthesia reactions, previous surgeries etc. Had a squint at the thing. dropped me off at scheduling. I was in my car 17 minutes after the official appointment start time.

In other news, I injured myself rather badly Wednesday morning about two hours before I was meant to leave for the doctor. I'd had about an hour's sleep. When the phone rang once, waking me up. settled back in. Phone rang once again. I checked it and it was my pharmacy to which I must ask, "WTF." Tavy hates phones and had wandered of, presumably for a snack and to patrol as is his wont in these situation. Livia ran in to grab a bed pet in his absence, as is her custom, climbed on before I properly settled in a safe position, which meant I kept trying to maker small adjustments while petting her and the whole thing hurt rather more than intended given her weight.

When she gave up after a bit, I rolled over, hoping to have better luck and accidentally jabbed myself directly in the center of the wound. It was stunningly painful and meant there was no hope of sleep. Worse, I couldn't take the emergency pain meds because of the appointment, so the entire day was pretty much hell until I got home. even by my standards this was fell an ox level pain. i took the good meds when I got home, sent some now essential emails (including one with directions to Head Millenial and warnings about my pain level.), and prepped for bed.

I napped until partway through the Head Millennial's shift, at which pain the pain yells lured them to see if they could help, which, in fact, they could. I knew sleep was done for a while. we worked out a plan for the evening involving lots of lying down for me, white tea, soup, and ointment for my extremely damaged shoulder (I can't do proper physio, so the shoulder is deteriorating rapidly.) After they clocked out we watched some resident alien until it was time for them to go home.

Don’t worry, I have nutritious, easy to digest food prepped for tomorrow that I just need to microwave.

They take such good care of me.

My Thursday plan involves lots of rest and fluids. I'm upright for hydration and am going to try to push the aggregate out on Dreamwidth without any Thursday news or a truly massive number of non-Ukraine related links, because I only have about an hour or two if I'm lucky before collapse, and fuck knows what my condition will be the next few days, or if I've damaged things enough to make a sudden trip to the ER more likely.

* "History Handfulls: Five More Incredible Female Artists from History:" https://whatisarchaeo.wixsite.com/whatisarchaeology/five-female-artists-from-history-2

* "All The Best Lines From A Fifteen-Year-Old Edition of "Country Life" Magazine:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/all-the-best-lines-from-a-fifteen?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MDY5MTk1NiwiXyI6InM0WDU5IiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ3ODYxMzYzLCJleHAiOjE2NDc4NjQ5NjMsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.hXe9Oy5RhIfKxKe0kBaJbxpcUwPsJia50kvpIrHJp-g&s=r

* A Batman Series I'd actually watch: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/679206571513954304/noartnowritingsorry-please-read-the-whole

* "Ongoing Public Conversations About True Crime Where "True Crime" Has Been Replaced By "Murder Ballads":" https://www.thechatner.com/p/ongoing-public-conversations-about?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MDUxNzQ3MiwiXyI6InM0WDU5IiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ3NTI0ODYwLCJleHAiOjE2NDc1Mjg0NjAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.lEKII3W4xbqRO68UlkIuENZukAFv8DsN9VF8vbhPGR0&s=r

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

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

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

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Indian Court Grants Bail to Activist Arrested Over Farmers’ Protests:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/world/asia/india-bail-disha-ravi.html

* "China court orders man to pay wife for housework in landmark case:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56178510

* "Angry words: rapper's jailing exposes Spain's free speech faultlines:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/19/angry-words-rappers-jailing-exposes-spains-free-speech-faultlines-pablo-hasel

* "Protests in Myanmar amid flurry of Southeast Asian diplomacy:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/24/myanmar-set-for-more-protests-as-indonesia-steps-up-diplomacy

* "Myanmar’s Protests Are Growing, Defying Threats and Snipers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/world/asia/myanmar-general-strike.html

* "Myanmar's Pajama Protesters Are Defying a Military Coup:"

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* "Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of 'prisoner of conscience' status:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/24/alexei-navalny-loses-amnesty-prisoner-of-conscience-label

* "In a Russian court, Alexei Navalny loses again but still has the last word:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-navalny-court-putin/2021/02/19/0985c016-706a-11eb-8651-6d3091eac63f_story.html

* "A year on, India's riot victims say justice still unserved:" https://apnews.com/article/religion-violence-india-crime-riots-14d73b12cab70f3b0e74b3b1d37790cb

* "On the Front Line With Mexico’s Warring Cartels:"

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* "Covid-Linked Syndrome in Children Is Growing, and Cases Are More Severe:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/health/covid-children-inflammatory-syndrome.html

* "New research shows California coronavirus variant is more transmissible:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/california-covid-variant/2021/02/24/0fb75550-76a3-11eb-948d-19472e683521_story.html

* "Selfish thug throws homophobic tantrum after being asked to wear a face mask in Greggs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/24/homophobe-face-mask-greggs-nisa-local-southend-essex/

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 2/25/21 are 28,398,000. The official death toll is 508,000. Fully Vaccinated: 6.2%.

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* "US carries out air strikes in Syria targeting Iranian backed militias:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/us-iraq-iran/index.html

* "Global LGBTQ+ Rights Could Be Elevated Through Biden's Trade Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/2/24/global-lgbtq-rights-could-be-elevated-through-bidens-trade-policy

* "President Biden Revokes Trump's Controversial Classical Architecture Order:" https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/971312635/president-biden-revokes-trumps-controversial-classical-architecture-order

* "Senate confirms former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as energy secretary:" https://www.axios.com/jennifer-granholm-energy-secretary-e58c8208-1095-49ea-a6a8-a42c3c9bafbd.html

* "Biden’s new energy secretary on why she’s ‘obsessed’ with creating green jobs:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/biden-s-new-energy-secretary-on-why-she-s-obsessed-with-creating-green-jobs-101615173684

* "Vile trolls spread fake social media posts targeting Biden nominee Dr Rachel Levine:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/24/joe-biden-rachel-levine-misinformation-vanity-fair-trans-kids-surgery-transphobia/

* "U.S. jobless claims fall to 730,000 but layoffs remain high:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/25/jobless-claims-fall-layoffs-remain-high-471570

* "Minimum-wage increase imperiled in covid relief bill by Senate official’s ruling:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/02/25/minimum-wage-increase-imperiled-covid-relief-bill-by-senate-officials-ruling/

* "Republicans in the way of minimum wage hike most Americans want:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-in-the-way-of-minimum-wage-hike-most-americans-want-101623877871

* "GOP mayor of Oklahoma City argues for Covid relief opposed by Okla. GOP in Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-mayor-of-oklahoma-city-argues-for-covid-relief-opposed-by-okla-gop-in-congress-101612613971

* "McDonald’s Secretive Intel Team Spies on ‘Fight for $15’ Workers, Internal Documents Show:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdkz9/mcdonalds-secretive-intel-team-spies-on-fight-for-15-workers

* "House passes Equality Act:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/equality-act-passes-house/index.html

Want to tell your Republican Senator how important this is to you? Here are some options:

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

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* "Marjorie Taylor Greene posts anti-transgender sign across hall from lawmaker with transgender child:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-anti-transgender-sign/index.html

* "Antigay Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Equality Act Protects Pedophiles:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/2/24/antigay-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-equality-act-protects-pedophiles

* "USPS' DeJoy to Congress: 'Get used to me':" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/24/usps-dejoy-congress-471362

* "The voter fraud you didn’t hear about: Wisconsin’s Electoral College imposters - Wisconsin Examiner:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/02/16/the-voter-fraud-you-didnt-hear-about-wisconsins-electoral-college-imposters/

* "Manhattan prosecutor gets Trump tax records after long fight:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/25/manhattan-prosecutor-trump-tax-records-471585

* "Capitol Police chief warns militia groups want to 'blow up the Capitol' when Biden addresses Congress:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/us-capitol-attack-house-hearing-pittman-blodgett/index.html

* "The Capitol Riots Finally Get Their First Public Hearing:"

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* "U.S. attorney investigating Capitol 'reconnaissance tours' ahead of pro-Trump riot:" https://news.yahoo.com/u-attorney-investigating-capitol-reconnaissance-063312314.html

* "U.S. attorney investigating Capitol 'reconnaissance tours' ahead of pro-Trump riot:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-attorney-investigating-capitol-reconnaissance-tours-ahead-of-pro-trump-riot-101624901598

* "Biden Reopens Gateway For Green Cards Reversing Trump COVID-19 Freeze:" https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/971206197/biden-reopens-gateway-for-green-cards-work-visas-reversing-trump-covid-19-freeze

* "Federal judge indefinitely blocks Biden administration's 100-day moratorium on most deportations:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-deportation-moratorium-judge-bans-enforcement/

* "First migrant facility for children opens under Biden:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/immigrant-children-camp-texas-biden/2021/02/22/05dfd58c-7533-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html

“When I read they were opening again, I cried,” said Rosey Abuabara, a San Antonio community activist who was arrested for protesting outside the Carrizo camp in 2019. “I consoled myself with the fact that it was considered the Cadillac of [migrant child] centers, but I don’t have any hope that Biden is going to make it better.”

* "Lindsey Graham really, really wants this hole plugging:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/23/lindsey-graham-hole-mexico-border-wall-twitter/

* "The Prison Wildfire Evacuation That Led to a Riot:"

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* "Why Not Let People Have Cellphones in Prison?:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/cellphones-in-prisons.html

* "South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat Bill Basically Bans Abortions:"

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* "Brave and defiant Ghanaian journalist proudly comes out as gay on live TV:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/23/ghana-journalist-ignatius-annor-coming-out-gay-live-tv-joynews/

* "'The SNP has failed trans people' says Scottish Labour leader candidate Monica Lennon:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/24/monica-lennon-scottish-labour-leadership-election-lgbt-trans-pledges-snp/

* "South Dakota House Advances Dangerous Anti-Trans Sports Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/2/24/south-dakota-house-advances-dangerous-anti-trans-sports-bill

* "Biden administration withdraws White House support for trans school sports ban case:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/24/trans-school-sports-ban-biden-administration-withdraw-white-house-support-connecticut/

* "Man robbed and strangled to death after Grindr hook-up goes horribly wrong:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/24/grindr-killer-murder-benjamin-davis-victor-najera-betanzos/

* CW: Dead Animals "Megafires Are Destroying the World's Biggest Tropical Wetlands:"

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* "Volunteers Are Leading Austin's Post-Storm Recovery:"

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* "Texas oil and gas agency not planning to require winterizing equipment despite failure:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/texas-oil-and-gas-agency-not-planning-to-require-winterizing-equipment-despite-failure-101622853992

* "Lady Gaga's dog walker 'shot in the chest' by thugs who stole two of her bulldogs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/25/lady-gaga-dogs-stolen-dogwalker-shot-los-angeles/

* "Margaret Thatcher’s head on a spike appears in place of controversial 20ft statue:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/24/margaret-thatcher-head-spike-grantham-lincolnshire-statue-plinth/

* I loved this movie so much. "It Has Come To My Attention You Don't All Love BIRDS OF PREY:"

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* "Ted Cruz's Favorite President Could Face Jail Time For Tax Fraud:"

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* "Which Way Will You Go, Compromise Joe Manchin?:"

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* "NASA's Thrilling Mars Landing Is The Good News Pandemic-Weary America Needs:"

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* Tavy News: The Emperor has rediscovered the pleasures of his youth. The Ribbon Game involves me waving a long ribbon, which is so exciting, he runs from room to room like a maniac, too worked up to actually play with it. Livia, watching: O.o

At bedtime I was decanting and sorting a library pick up. This was in the largest paper bag size. The Middle Aged Terror say this, and seemed to remember how much he loved paper bags as a Tiny Terror. See, at some point he discovered he was too large to enjoy even the largest Pharmacy bags, and lost interest, so I started doing games involving a crinkle paper mest instead, but this bag was On the Bed and the right size for a full grown terror to really stretch out in. We had a great time playing kitten in a Bag for the first time in years, even if I did have to use a library DvD instead of a jingle stick, the bag being between me and the bed toys.

Livia News: She has discovered the Andromache Memorial Pettin Throne. I bought this pouf second hand when Mache was getting up there in years. It is low enough that an arthritic cat doesn't need to jump to get on. It is round and padded. Best of all it is right by where I sit at my desk so a cat can get pettins between naps. Mache was my copilot for years. LM came to love the Throne towards the end of her life. Now Livia has discovered it and as I typed this, she had fallen asleep on my foot after a long love.

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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.

* Ways to help people in Texas: https://spockvarietyhour.tumblr.com/post/643435770019987456
https://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/643431809724628992

More Texas how to help links: https://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/643431809724628992

* "You Can Buy Girl Scout Cookies From Troop Of Girls In NYC Shelter System:" https://www.scarymommy.com/troop-6000-girl-scouts-nyc-shelters/

* More Girl Scout Troops in Particular Need: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/643247412337639424/girl-scout-cookie-time

* Cat Rescue Fundraiser: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/642429918533304320/design-a-tea-where-tea-leaves-dream-custom

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