gwydion | Entries tagged with middle ages

* I didn't even finish scaffolding the ICE Protests, but there are so many action items, I had to post.

* "Trump's Greenland War Faceplants:"

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* "Jason Rezaian - Amplifying the Iranian Experience Amid Protests & Media Blackouts | The Daily Show:"

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* "RAM Shortage Killed My Business:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RVnQbfHUDLA

* "How 'don't ask, don't tell' came to be, what it did, and how it ended:" https://www.advocate.com/history/dont-ask-dont-tell-history

* "AIDS took Ross Laycock 35 years ago. His legacy lives on:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/ross-laycock-legacy

* "Errant bus driver takes passengers for unwanted ride to Vienna Metro station:" https://www.ffxnow.com/2026/01/20/errant-bus-driver-takes-passengers-for-unwanted-ride-to-vienna-metro-station/

* I had food poisoning, but have recovered. It's been so cold here I had to scrape my car for a library run a little before ten the other day. I hope my perennials survive, as it usually isn't this kind of prolonged cold here in our weird little micro-climate.

Monday, I had the dentist. I cleverly left a lot of extra time to scrape as it was extremely cold all night still, but it wasn't as bad, particularly inside the windows, so possibly I am making headway on the damage from the incompetent thieves letting it rain inside the car. (It is way harder to get the inside ice off).

It seems the fillings that crumbled during the trying to weather strip the window in the rain emergency aren't high risk for real damage, though they do need mending, which is scheduled. I've a not covered previously scheduled cleaning coming up. February is going to be a bear financially for all the usual reasons, but that's a next month problem and I'm in the danger zone on my teeth now. (My dad's family had genetically bad teeth caused by naturally thin enamel, plus he and my mom had bad born during WWII teeth which is a thing caused by uneven nutrition due to shortages in an era before fluoride). I've seen how bad and labour intensive Periodontal disease can get in my dad's case. (Yes we all brushed and flossed and got regular check ups and cleaning, but I basically couldn't afford it after the one poverty place closed for half a decade as an adult before poverty clinic opened to all their medical patients, and my teeth have never really recovered). so I need to cover sliding scale cleaning, plus housing tax, plus car tax, which usually is January, but the bill is late. I am fascinated to see how I juggle it all.

My sliding scale lapsed, so I drove home and got the essential paper to make that happen, got gas, then drove back to turn it in, dropped off the weekend library books as it's right there, stopped at the pharmacy. I dragged home bedraggled and exhausted and over heated as I was dressed for the finger freezing cold of morning, but the cold font noticeably moved on between 8 and 9AM. Finally.

I should definitely not been spending money, but I gave in and bought a thing I'm hoping will help with the inside the car damp on the way home because it's really concerning and interfering with safe driving. We'll see.

Physio is still hogging all the spoons, so if I have to do anything much else it really lays me up. Between assorted errands and food poisoning and having to function outside in the cold, I just keep falling asleep and needing to lie still a lot when awake. Hence me not managing a Monday aggregate and the now massive backlog of news I didn't get to last week. Sorry.

* "Jon on Alex Pretti's Killing, DHS vs. Video Evidence & MAGA's Gun Rights Surrender | The Daily Show:"

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* "Masked Secret Police Are Not Victims | The Truth About Alex Pretti | What Would The Founders Do?:"

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* "Meanwhile... Deadly Space Junk | Pre-Columbian Syphilis | Mushroom Magic | Gym Germs:"

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* "Oscars 2026 nominations live updates: 'Sinners' sets new Oscar record with 16 nominations:" https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/live-blog/oscar-nominations-2026-live-updates-rcna254762

* This! "Problematic Praetorian Pomposity:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ip0R4jVA-RI

* "Chronic Chivalry:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LgyrjITmrAo

I have often found myself trying to tell people real chivalry wasn't like what the Victorians pretended it was.

* "Swordmaster Simplicity:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BgWZYULfQgg

* "Dramatic Dynamic Declarations:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X9Qv8P_3nCc

* "Kind-hearted Kids:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KwhfYqMCEy8

* "Kind-hearted Kids 2:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TvcHm-Xk1XM

* "Kind-hearted Kids 3 (Birthdays):" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0DHG855AuY

* "Kind-hearted Kids 4 (school days):" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0sDJ1SyB7dI

* "Ultra Ubers:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8CVUPRUJ4H4

* "Chess Chronicle:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/42DBVkQRk70

* "That 1 Lore Friend:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9Xh2COyiyc0

* "Trump Awards Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Backstab Island - SNL:"

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* "Toy Commercial - SNL:"

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* "Nobody Likes Ice:"

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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.

* "When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE :" https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizers

* "Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/

* If you need help with chest binders:

* "Free Chest Binders:" https://www.pointofpride.org/free-chest-binders

* "Brother 2 Brother Binder Program:" https://blacktransmen.org/binder-program/

* "Morebinders:" https://www.morebinders.com/about

* "The Queer Trans Project :" https://queertransproject.org/

* "Free Gender Affirming Gear Program:" https://www.ftmessentials.com/pages/ftme-free-youth-binder-program

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* *ACTION ITEM: Oppose Offshore Arctic Drilling. We only have to the 23rd to act!

Quick Explainer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XHEseTJnZfM

Official Public Comment link: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-trumps-offshore-drilling-in-alaska/?source=allie

* I'm cutting off early yet again.

* "Photos show daily life along Venezuela’s oil coast after Maduro’s capture:" https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/oil-industry-coast-paraguana-photos-fisherman-salt-flats-569102f029e69fb452ea58a8927feb68

* "House approves DHS funding, other final spending bills amid ICE uproar:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/22/house-approves-homeland-security-funding-amid-ice-uproar-00742402

The U.S Senate Votes next week.

The names of the Democratic pro-ICE Quislings are:

Henry Cuellar (Texas)

Jared Golden (Maine)

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.)

Laura Gillen (N.Y.)

Don Davis (N.C.)

Tom Suozzi (N.Y.)

Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)

Now is a wonderful time to tell them what you think of their vote!

One Republican voted against funding ICE with no guardrails at all.

If this is your critter, please call to thank him as likely he and his staff are getting a lot of screaming from Fascists right now. It is essential we reward people for doing the right thing regardless of party with a thank you.

Thomas Massie (Ky.)

The U.S Senate Votes next week. Now is a great time to tell them what you think about funding ICE while they violently occupy a city and violate the constitutional rights of the residents

* A model letter for contacting your Senators: https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2752971.html

* "Congress clinches $1.2T funding deal for DHS, Pentagon, domestic agencies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/congress-clinches-funding-deal-for-dhs-pentagon-domestic-agencies-00735698

* "House Democrats come out en masse against DHS funding bill:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/21/congress/house-democrats-dhs-funding-00738894

* "All anti-transgender provisions stripped from House and Senate funding bills :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/anti-transgender-provisions-stripped

This is why it's so important to keep talking to your Congress Critters about trans Issues. Complain where it's needed. Thank them when they do the right thing. We need them to keep standing up for us or we are Cooked.

* Stay safe out there! "A Widespread Winter Storm Is Looming, but Where It Hits Is Still Fuzzy:" https://archive.ph/aJcSe

* "Fashion designer Valentino Garavani dies at 93:" https://www.advocate.com/news/culture/valentino-garavani-dead

* "Remembering Rick Garcia, a leader in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality in Chicago and Illinois:" https://www.advocate.com/news/people/remembering-chicago-activist-rick-garcia

* "Remembering trailblazing trans activist Miss Major:" https://www.advocate.com/remembering-trailblazing-trans-activist-miss-major

* "Detroit heard King’s dream first. These Black women are carrying it forward.:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/advocacy/detroit-martin-luther-king-jr-aka

* It's come to my attention that there is some confusion about the physio. That's because the plan changed after the scans end of 2025. The original plan was to spend a year seeing if physio was enough to avoid hip replacement and to build up all the muscles ahead of surgery. They are now thinking that joint injections and physio could be enough, as they aren't deteriorating nearly as fast as they were in the late oughts-early teens. This looks a lot like what we'd be doing anyway for this whole year, only with comically long needles and slightly different, but overlapping physio.

I'm not the classic sort of hypermobile. I can't bend my fingers backwards, etc., but they changed criteria for hypermobile in the last decade because they discovered that it's a much bigger spectrum, which is why the bodies of dancers and gymnasts and people in other sports that require high flexibility tend to break down so fast. Apparently you pretty much have to be hypermobile to do things like a perfect straddle. <.< >.>

So people at my end of the spectrum still randomly dislocate, etc., but it takes longer for the joint damage to ramp up and no one was looking because what we could do is praised and encourage and people mostly don't think: that person is doing all these cool beautiful things with their body, surely something is wrong there.

I was a dancer with a perfect turnout, a perfect split and straddle. This changes the socket/pelvis permanently if you start as young as I did. I used to have to stick my legs be hind my head to get them stretched properly. I was a distance runner and we mostly ran on cement. That wears away cartilage in things like knees and ankles. I did a lot of things like Wing Chun, and Tai Chi, and Akido (And a family style I got invited into later), after I stopped dancing and distance running.

My joints had a hard life just generally.

My family has autoimmune arthritis in it.

They go back and forth on exact arthritis diagnoses with me as testing protocols and such change. You can easily see the damage to my joints, to my spine on x-rays. Show a layman my x-ray with the right bits circled, or with normal bones and joints for comparison they can see it's clearly not right. And expert can see damage to my spine if I bend over shirtless. It is even easier with modern scanning technology. No one disputes I'm disabled and that it's arthritis, they just move the subspecies around.

So we are doing joint injections and physio with the goal of reducing pain and trying to make the joints more stable. Ironically, a bunch of this will hopeful undo the damage the hospital physio did in the Sling Incident after my shoulder replacement, since the torso muscles, butt, and legs all work together so we are targeting a lot of different muscle groups.

Tuesday, my body flat out noped out of most of my exercises. Honestly one day off after two weeks of working hard is reasonable. Wednesday, I managed most of them after Techie Millennial's visit. I hope to finish the sets I owe across two excercises before bed. I just really needed the rest.

It is funny, the hardest ones are all the lying down ones that mostly look like I'm not doing much of anything. But I persist. I do think it's helping some.

I am still doing arm stretches and things, but I can't intensively work arms too as what I'm doing right now really thrashes me and I need to take advantage of the professional physio while I have it. Physio always feels like being wounded and ill all at once on top of the chronic pain and illness. It pretty much takes everything I have beyond stuff like getting dressed and feeding myself.

I'm still trying to work out what nutrient I'm missing. My body is usually better at suggesting solution foods. It'll have to wait for February EBT now. I've already spent way too much money on food.

* "Nobel Prize Snub Fuels Trump's Greenland Threats & Macron Pushes Back at Davos | The Daily Show:"

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* "The Secret Police Fitness Test | Smoking Diplomacy | Sexualized Human-Dog Hybrids At Mar-a-Lago:"

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* "One Exhausting Year | Americans Pay For Trump's Tariffs | No Obligation To Make Peace:"

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* "Trump Demands Greenland at Davos & Literally Trashes First-Year “Accomplishments” | The Daily Show:"

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* "Will ICE Freeze? | Trump: I'm Helping Europe | Weapons Nobody Knows About | Occupying Canada:"

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* "Trump Delivered on His Campaign Promises, But Only to Himself | The Daily Show:"

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* This does a really good job explaining why the Peace Board is a Con. "Infinitely Greenland | Billion Dollar Peace Board | Chairman For Life | Peace Buddies:"

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* "Late Night TV Crackdown: FCC Goes After Kimmel And Colbert Over Political Candidate Interviews:"

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* "It's Literally ICE vs. Good:"

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* "How to prepare for icy conditions:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vLzu4U6rnIQ

* "Haitian-American Artist Explains His Image Of MLK And President Trump:" https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/01/18/watson-mere-artist-mlk-trump

* "Dastardly Damning Deliberately Diabolical Diogenes:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/egZwVNqxCNE

* "Gargantuan Great Gladiatorial Games:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yRJMSag2BM4

* "Monarch Mortality:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rO6nTtShqlU

* "Kindred Khans:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1UwgQmkSmTw

* "Kindred Khans 2:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vQZlUUCYxAs

* "Kindred Khans 3:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-gcDAYLXvns

* "Kindred Khans 4:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vIdv9YAd-kg

* "Engaging Enlightenment:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fgNQgYKXN3k

* "Gruesome G3stapo:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ghYfcQRHwyw

* "Trump Takes Home The World's Biggest Prize:"

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* "The Swiss Send A Message To President Trump:"

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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.

* "When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE :" https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizers

* "Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/

* If you need help with chest binders:

* "Free Chest Binders:" https://www.pointofpride.org/free-chest-binders

* "Brother 2 Brother Binder Program:" https://blacktransmen.org/binder-program/

* "Morebinders:" https://www.morebinders.com/about

* "The Queer Trans Project :" https://queertransproject.org/

* "Free Gender Affirming Gear Program:" https://www.ftmessentials.com/pages/ftme-free-youth-binder-program

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*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News ***

* "Where things stand 2 months after Trump ordered troops to Portland:" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/28/donald-trump-national-guard-portland-oregon-ice/

* "Left in the dark’: Dozens protest deportation of Beaverton man:" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/28/beaverton-protest-deportation-paulino-martin/

* "Every Illegal Act Trump Committed in 2025 (So Far):"

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* "Authoritarianism Is Here:"

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* "The Red Cup Rebellion Expands :" https://sbworkersunited.org/the-red-cup-rebellion-expands/

* "Gay NYC councilman running for Congress says America is at a crossroads:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/erik-bottcher-nyc-congressional-candidate

* "21 times Marjorie Taylor Greene was the worst :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-worst-moments#rebelltitem1

* "The Trump administration is choosing silence on World AIDS Day, but we're showing up louder than ever:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/world-aids-day-silence-trump-opinion

* "What the AIDS crisis stole from Black gay men:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/world-aids-day-2026

* "US-19 Exposes the Failure of Federal Investment in Transportation Infrastructure:" https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025-10-9-us-19-exposes-the-failure-of-federal-investment-in-transportation-infrastructure

* From here down, many items are older.

* "Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom:" https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/

* "I was a chess prodigy trapped in a religious cult. It left me with years of fear and self-loathing:" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/07/chess-prodigy-trapped-religious-cult-danny-rensch

* "How Not to Get Away With Murder:" https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/how-not-to-get-away-with-murder-the-stranger-than-fiction-story-of-the-stoney-creek-killing/

* "The city of 700 languages:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/new-york-city-700-languages?

* "Istanbul’s porters keep centuries-old trade moving:" https://apnews.com/photo-essay/turkey-istanbul-porters-photo-essay-37447b6100aa7fa7b6246ff06ad669e3?

* "12 Funeral Foods And The Stories Behind Them:" https://www.thetakeout.com/1952528/funeral-foods-stories-behind-them/

* "What is Marshmallow Fluff? A guide to the iconic New England spread.:" https://www.boston.com/community/wickedpedia/2025/09/15/marshmallow-fluff-massachusetts/

* "‘I try to make them feel as ignorant as possible’: German museum’s ‘grumpy guide’ is surprise hit:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/01/german-museum-grumpy-guide-kunstpalast-dusseldorf?

* "Inside the Very Expensive, Extremely Overwhelming, Engineered Fun of Theme Parks:" https://archive.is/Yhau8#selection-572.0-572.1

* CW: Human Remains. "Is it Time to Bury Vladimir Lenin?:"

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* "Legal Loopholes So Absurd They Work:"

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* I likely wasn't sick, as the symptoms would switch on and off and seemed to be gone by Saturday evening which is too fast for a pathogen, but normal for allergens.

I'm still not really recovered from The Great Furniture Migration, but I was able to do some of the "advanced arm physio," but I very not up to much of anything else and am barely managing bare minimum maintenence.

Livia's still mostly hiding in my room.

* I'm still running the horror movie Tournament poll: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls/tagged/Horror%20Movies

* "Gomez goes gay in Kiss of the Spider Woman?:"

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* "What makes X-Men so gay?:"

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* "Richard Hunt: The Gay Man Behind the Muppets:"

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* "The Messy Politics of Enemies to Lovers:"

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* "The Problem with Fantastical Racism:"

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* "Babylon 5 is the Anti-Fascist Show We Need:"

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* "To Kill A Mockingbird ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "Holes ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "The Count of Monte Cristo ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "12 Movies And TV Shows That Started As Fan Fiction:" https://www.looper.com/1950927/movies-tv-shows-started-fan-fiction/

* "A Nerdy Breakdown of the Costumes in Muppet Treasure Island (y'all asked for this...):"

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* "Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2025:" https://archive.ph/DWo6P#selection-600.0-600.1

* "True Facts: Bats, The Science of The Hunt:"

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* "Horny Bones:"

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* "True Facts: The Science of the Praying Mantis:"

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* "Zany Zeus:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3yn_ZKy8yKs

* "Cheeky Caesar:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/56vCPOthtmw

* "Aggressive Agrippa:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pLPfVwwCNQw

* "Manageable Myths:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_C2FN0njGa0

* "Egregious English Kings:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G30l2-fAkiw

* "Sassy Shakespeare:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kii6g5wMkg8

* "Meanwhile in a Parallel Universe:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hq_0zCCTtns

* "Marauding Mary:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PH6RMlKye2I

* "Sinister Siblings:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qDVyNaB6snI

* "Sunday Sweets: Dark Beauties:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-dark-beauties-2025

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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.

* CW: Suicide "These hotlines are still available for LGBTQ+ youth after Trump kills 988 services:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-hotlines-still-available

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* News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

* "Israel expands attacks in Gaza and Yemen as Trump wraps up trip to region:" https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-israel-gaza-hamas-hostages-05-16-2025-fb5e3b08af46a55b6faeead7b8647dc6

* "Israeli bombing wave kills dozens in Gaza including at least 22 children, say reports:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/14/israel-hits-gaza-hospitals-in-deadly-strikes-after-pause-to-allow-release-of-edan-alexander

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* "Russia-Ukraine peace talks end after less than 2 hours with deal to swap POWs but no ceasefire:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-turkey-peace-talks-9a75e2069cea6c73d1276a9e53e7d6e5

* "Russia building major new explosives facility as Ukraine war drags on:" https://www.reuters.com/investigations/russia-building-major-new-explosives-facility-ukraine-war-drags-2025-05-08/?

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* "Kurdish PKK ends 40-year Turkey insurgency, bringing hope of regional stability:" https://archive.ph/EaRb3

* "What Would It Take to Rebuild Syria?:" https://thewalrus.ca/what-would-it-take-to-rebuild-syria

* "Romania’s Election Rerun: What’s at Stake as the Far Right Rises:" https://archive.ph/oC8Lf

* "Romania’s Destiny Rides on Trump Follower Versus Math Prodigy:" https://archive.ph/dyqPS

* "Libyan protesters demand prime minister quit as three ministers resign:" https://archive.ph/dI6bW

* "Workers strike in protest against job cuts at Ford Germany:" https://archive.ph/ZTztC

* "Protesters in Budapest demonstrate against 'Transparency Bill' with banner and red paint:" https://www.euronews.com/2025/05/16/protesters-in-budapest-demonstrate-against-transparency-bill-with-banner-and-red-paint

* "Two Supreme Court Justices Invited an All-Out Assault on the Voting Rights Act. Now It’s Here.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/supreme-court-justices-neil-gorsuch-clarence-thomas-voting-rights.html

* "Amy Coney Barrett Tears Into Trump Official to Defend Liberal Justice at Supreme Court:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/amy-coney-barrett-tears-into-trump-official-to-defend-liberal-justice-elena-kagan-at-supreme-court/

* "“Incalculable” Damage: How a “We Buy Ugly Houses” Franchise Left a Trail of Financial Wreckage Across Texas:" https://www.propublica.org/article/homevestors-fraud-charles-carrier-texas

* "Under ‘Crime-Free Housing’ Laws, Families May Be Evicted for Minor Offenses:" https://archive.ph/pdv8I

* "How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap:" https://archive.ph/OKhcM

* We need to fight the Budget Bill

If this budget passes, people die because they won't be able to afford the copays, especially as Trump economic policies kill jobs and keep causing prices to rise.

They are sacrificing people for the billionaires that bought them.

When you contact your Congress Critter, say what you need to say to keep Republicans split and keep Democratic spines stiff in the House.

* It is working! Every delay helps! The more we can split Republicans, the better!

* "House budget panel rejects GOP megabill amid conservative opposition:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/house-budget-panel-approves-gop-megabill-for-floor-action-as-leaders-mull-tweaks-00353326

* Stay Noisy! Flood the Republicans with complaints! "GOP infighting sends Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' off the rails:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/-big-brutal-setback-gop-infighting-sends-trump-s-big-beautiful-bill-off-the-rails-239811141510

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

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

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

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

* "New Republican House bill bans transgender troops & seeks to strip trans vets of security clearances:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gop-bill-bans-transgender-military

* "All of the biggest U.S. cities are sinking:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250508112609.htm

* "A century ago, suspended monorails were serious mass-transit contenders:" https://www.popsci.com/technology/suspended-monorails-history/

* "The Day Grok Told Everyone About ‘White Genocide’:" https://archive.ph/05Wqh

* "Four bad AI futures take root:" https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/four-bad-ai-futures-arrived-this

* "Yes, the Lopez v. Apple lawsuit over Siri allegedly snooping on users is real. Here's how to cash in:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lopez-apple-siri-lawsuit/

* "Scientists Have Just Discovered a New Type of Electricity-Conducting Bacteria:" https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-have-just-discovered-a-new-type-of-electricity-conducting-bacteria/

* "A rare New Zealand snail is filmed for the first time laying an egg from its neck:" https://apnews.com/article/zealand-snail-egg-neck-powelliphanta-augusta-3cb8082547a83b8c47848b6621c06cb0?

* "In Order to Unravel the Many Mysteries of Squids, Scientists Dive Into Their Mating Frenzies:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/in-order-to-unravel-the-many-mysteries-of-squids-scientists-dive-into-their-mating-frenzies-180986551/

* "Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal:" https://theconversation.com/young-bats-learn-to-be-discriminating-when-listening-for-their-next-meal-253321

* "Scientists once thought only humans could bob to music. Ronan the sea lion helped prove them wrong:" https://apnews.com/article/ronan-dancing-sea-lion-boogie-wonderland-ef575607db2f710fe102e2dd7c994049

* "The surprising evolution of the weirdest animals on Earth, according to a new study:" https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/science/platypus-echidna-monotremes-evolution/index.html

* "Antarctica has a huge, completely hidden mountain range. New data reveals its birth over 500 million years ago:" https://theconversation.com/antarctica-has-a-huge-completely-hidden-mountain-range-new-data-reveals-its-birth-over-500-million-years-ago-256231

* "Explore Rome’s Hidden Underworld, Where a City Lurks Beneath a City:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/explore-romes-hidden-underworld-city-beneath-city-180986228/

* "The Cult of Whiteness | How a 17th Century Idea Shaped Modern History:"

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* "The Hell We Raised: How Texas Shaped the Gunfighter Era:" https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/gunfighters-old-west-wilder-bloodier/

* "Marie Curie and Spooky Rays: Crash Course History of Science #31:"

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* "Carved in Memory: How a family heirloom uncovered the life of a man imprisoned in a First World War internment camp.:" https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/carved-in-memory

* "100 Years Ago: The Man Who Singlehandedly Stopped Thousands of Illegal Deportations:" https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/05/100-years-ago-the-man-who-singlehandedly-stopped-thousands-of-illegal-deportations/

* "Amaze Yourself With the Unbelievable Story of Bessie Coleman, the Black Aviator Who Wowed the Nation With Her High-Flying Achievements:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amaze-yourself-unbelievable-story-bessie-coleman-black-aviator-wowed-nation-high-flying-achievements-180986564/

* "The Art Spy who Stopped Hitler from Emptying the Louvre:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2025/05/14/the-artful-spy-who-stopped-hitler-from-emptying-the-louvre/

* "The Daring Polish Resistance Fighter Who Volunteered to Be Sent to Auschwitz So He Could Sabotage the Nazi Death Camp From the Inside:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-daring-polish-resistance-fighter-who-volunteered-to-be-sent-to-auschwitz-so-he-could-sabotage-the-nazi-death-camp-from-the-inside-180986559/

* "‘A Priceless Inheritance’: Preserving Memories of Black Life in Memphis:" https://archive.ph/W0q1Q

* "Veteran Crushes Tesla in Protest:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CKnQo5ZyFqA

* "Captivating Classics:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BQPj-DSaZ_U

* "Ruinous Rome:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0YMZBCsC9WE

* "Sizzling Senate Houses:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uORP0eOj7Vc

* "Pernicious Plantagenets:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JSHSEjKsznw

* "Rowdy Robert the Bruce:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KLFouMTMhOc

* "Devilish Dinners:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JlOrGs_1y7Y

* "Terrifying Townton:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HmGMOhDMryY

* "Triumphant Tudors:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I1JK-_XUijE

* "Sulking Samurai:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/woxDfQtNCmE

* "Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780) :" https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chinese-fishes/

* "Sam Stone - Call ACab (Lyrics):"

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* "1953 Lavender Marriage Song:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/En3pf6qGyO8

* I am watching Murderbot with a friend.

We both found them putting Murderbot's bare face in the promotional stuff disturbing. Sec Unit would hate that and really in the books one lives inside Murderbot's head. It's just really jarring to be looking at it like that.

I have thought about it while watching the episodes. I think I would prefer if during the bits where the humans make it retract the helmet, all shots were either Murderbot POV of the other person or via the cameras/drones, whatever, so it's Murderbot's view of Murderbots via the remotes.

I know they'd never have done it that way as Skarsgard is expensive, so odds are they want his face on screen as much as they can justify.

I just, idk. I am so used to thinking of murderbot as genderless and from the inside. Having such a famous face embodying this character is super distracting.

(I have nothing against Mr. Skarsgard. He's beeen great in everything I've seen him in previously and he has a lot of range and a sense of humor about himself. It's not that I think he's doing anything wrong acting wise here, I just think having someone so famous doing this makes sense financially, but not artistically).

I think the rest of the casting is excellent and the characterizations seems good so far. I have some other concerns, but I'm happy with it over all. It's just a bit disorienting.

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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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* 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.

* "The US has quietly gotten into another war in the Middle East: With near daily strikes against Yemen’s Houthis, is there an end in sight?:" https://archive.ph/koLeC

* "Congress Returns from Spring Recess to Draft Sweeping Budget Resolution Slashing Funding for Medicaid and Food Assistance:" https://nlihc.org/resource/congress-returns-spring-recess-draft-sweeping-budget-resolution-slashing-funding-medicaid

* "Fox News’ many justifications for extending Trump’s tax cut for the wealthy:" https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-many-justifications-extending-trumps-tax-cut-wealthy

* Republicans are planning to steal health care and food out of the mouths of children to pay for their tax cuts to the rich and corporations.

* "Katherine Maher - Why America Needs Public Media | The Daily Show:"

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

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

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

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

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

* "Democrats reintroduce Equality Act as Trump escalates war on LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/democrats-reintroduce-equality-act

* "Some semi-organized snail mail campaigns:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

* 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 think I need to say this again because of what is going on in my Tumblr notes. I am against the rape, torture, and murder of civilians, especially children REGARDLESS OF WHO IS DOING IT. Yes, that means Hamas. Yes, that means the IDF/Israeli government. It also means the US Military. It means ANYONE doing it.

I can be against it whoever is doing it.

Opposing Netanyahu for his horrific policies does not mean I hate Jewish people. Being against the things that were done to civilians on October 7 doesn't mean I hate all Palestinians, nor that I support genocide. I am very much against genocide whoever is doing it. See also my opinions on the Holocaust, what Russia is doing to Ukraine, the horrific shit my government and Canada's and Australia's did to indigenous people over centuries.

I can be against Netanyahu the way I am against Trump, Putin, and Viktor Orbán.

The Israeli government is a government. It is wrong and antisemitic to blame every Jewish person everywhere in the world for things they may not support and didn't have a say in unless they specifically support and/or voted for Likud or one of the right wing parties they coalition with. Jewish people inside and outside of Israel have been and are protesting war crimes the Israeli government has committed. It is possible to have a nuanced understanding of Israeli politics.

It strikes me as pretty weird to claim all Jewish people only have one opinion about everything and to call me antisemitic for opposing one particular politician for doing things that are harmful.

I do, in fact, want all hostages free, both the ones Hamas have and the ones the Israelis have. It sure looks to me and to a lot of people, including some rather vocal families of hostages, that Netanyahu has deliberately and repeatedly stood in the way of this happening for personal political gain and so that he can stay in power and out of jail for corruption he's credibly accused of.

My holding this opinion is very similar to my opinion of Donald Trump. Just saying.

I want Netanyahu out of power because that is the only way there is a chance of anything getting better in that part of West Asia. Which is the goal. I have been in favour of the two state solution since I was old enough to understand, which is longer than a lot of you have been alive, or at least longer than many of you have been old enough to follow the news. I have seen good and bad Israeli and Palestinian leaders come and go. I've seen Netanyahu break agreement after agreement over for decades whenever he's been in power. I don't trust him to make an agreement he will follow any more than I trust Trump to make one, especially when Netanyahu's personal agenda conflicts with that agreement, because that is how he has behaved over and over, including him not holding up his end of the ceasefire just recently.

My side is not that of one government, not even my own. My side is the greater good and the lets not murder children side. It pretty much always has been.

I'd love for the violence to be over. I'd love for everyone's kids to be safe. That's the side I'm on.

* "Israel fires on Lebanon after rocket attack in the heaviest exchange since the truce with Hezbollah:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-03-22-2025-32ca8fa2c5f6e887e1d51b9ffea6f836

* "Israel returns to war in Gaza with wider aims and almost no constraints:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-trump-iran-protests-bb504392b25e111e11a2ac1ecb8f4fc5

* "At least two people killed, 19 injured in Israeli strikes on Syria's Daraa:" https://archive.ph/u4Pr9

* "Al Jazeera journalist targeted in Gaza: 'If you're reading this, it means I've been killed':" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/03/25/al-jazeera-journalist-targeted-in-gaza-if-you-re-reading-this-it-means-i-ve-been-killed_6739505_4.html

* "Israel Bombs Gaza’s Only Cancer Hospital as Genocide Continues to Escalate:" https://truthout.org/articles/israel-bombs-gazas-only-cancer-hospital-as-genocide-continues-to-escalate/

* "West Bank Palestinians displaced by Israel's military fear they'll never go home again:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54280/west-bank-displaced-palestinians-israel-idf-military

* "Palestinians in Gaza protest against Hamas for a second day:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5340645/palestinians-protest-hamas-rule-in-gaza

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* "EU says 'unconditional withdrawal' of Russia from Ukraine is a precondition to amend sanctions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-says-unconditional-withdrawal-russia-ukraine-is-precondition-amend-sanctions-2025-03-26/

* Of course there are more conditions. "Kremlin says various conditions must be met before Black Sea security deal can be activated:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-various-conditions-must-be-met-before-black-sea-security-deal-can-2025-03-26/

* Putin is playing Trump like a harp as usual and Trump continues to negotiate the cutting up Ukraine without involving Ukraine in the talks.

* "In Ukraine call, Putin furthers his goals and cedes little to Trump, say analysts:" https://archive.ph/KLtTB

* "Russia and US to discuss Black Sea shipping and Ukraine peace in Saudi Arabia:" https://archive.ph/caisN

* "Putin wants Trump to formally recognize all land Russia has taken in Ukraine, Kommersant reports:" https://archive.ph/mFjIy

* "How Trump’s policies have helped Russia and furthered Putin’s goals:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-trump-s-policies-have-helped-russia-and-furthered-putin-s-goals/ar-AA1BHkRP

* "Trump administration halts program to track abducted Ukrainian children, lawmakers say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

* "As Trump cuts funding, Ukrainians wonder who will answer for kids abducted in war:" https://archive.ph/Ix1p2

* Things on Putin's wish list. "Musk Calls on US to Quit NATO, Stop Paying for Defense of Europe:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-09/musk-calls-on-us-to-quit-nato-stop-paying-for-defense-of-europe

* "Czech President Pavel was in Odesa as Russia pounded the city with drones:" https://archive.ph/pFgMa

* "3 people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia despite truce talks:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-ceasefire-drones-zaporizhzhia-84dab972755f90ad7592a2a13758ed9c

* "Russian missile attack wounds 88 in Ukraine's Sumy, officials say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missile-attack-ukraines-sumy-injures-28-people-local-official-says-2025-03-24/

* "Western officials say Russia is behind a campaign of sabotage across Europe. This AP map shows it:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-europe-hybrid-campaign-d61887dd3ec6151adf354c5bd3e6273e

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* "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans:" https://archive.ph/xdRkf

* "As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-signal-text-group-chat-russia-putin/

* "Classified material laws and why experts say Signal chat raises concerns:" https://archive.ph/Tbe5c

* "Democrats call Trump intelligence officials' use of group chat "reckless, sloppy and stunning":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-intelligence-committee-worldwide-threats-hearing/

* "Gabbard questioned on participating in Signal chat where war plans allegedly leaked:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-gabbard-questioned-on-participating-in-signal-chat-where-war-plans-allegedly-leaked

* "'Holy crap on steroids!': Top Trump officials exposed in shocking, sloppy military security blunder:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-holy-crap-on-steroids-top-trump-officials-exposed-in-shocking-sloppy-military-security-blunder-235260485849

* "Military plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/war-plans-group-chat-scandal-fits-pattern-of-trump-s-embarrassing-weakness-on-information-security-235386437800

* "'Unheard of': Slotkin says Trump war plans breach endangers 'human beings':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-unheard-of-slotkin-says-trump-war-plans-breach-endangers-human-beings-235365957721

* "‘Sheer, unfettered, Olympian incompetence’: Hayes on the Trump war plans breach :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-sheer-unfettered-olympian-incompetence-hayes-on-the-trump-war-plans-breach-235364421753

* "Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal:" https://archive.ph/vWtKn

* "Pete Buttigieg: Trump Cabinet's use of Signal app for military ops is ‘highest level of f**kup imaginable’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-trump-signal-security

* "Trump & Co Blame Journalist For Major National Security Slip Up:"

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* "Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online:" https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pete-hegseth-mike-waltz-tulsi-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7

* "‘Four-alarm fire’: Passwords for Hegseth, Gabbard and Waltz reportedly found online:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-four-alarm-fire-passwords-for-hegseth-gabbard-waltz-reportedly-found-online-235480133798

* "Israel Supplied Intelligence in Airstrike Discussed in Signal Chat, Officials Say:" https://archive.ph/YDDHo

* "Allies wary of Trump admin's incompetence after scandal over military plan group chat:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/allies-wary-of-trump-admin-s-incompetence-after-scandal-over-military-plan-group-chat-235646533990

* "Judge orders government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/g-s1-56821/signal-houthi-strike-chat-judge

* "Mike Waltz Under Fire After Leaving Venmo List Public: What To Know:" https://www.newsweek.com/mike-waltz-venmo-list-public-2051249

* "Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/10-years-hillary-clinton-server-trump-officials-military-plans-rcna197880

Republicans keep claiming Hillary having recipes and social stuff plus some things later designated sensitive on a private server is so much worse than inviting a reporter to a text chat on their private phones using a commercial app instead of a SCIF or the situation room, endangering the lives of military pilots and revealing an information source on the ground in Yemen.

Like, yes, she shouldn't have done that, but this is running a stop sign versus driving drunk at high speed the wrong direction on a highway.

They definitely knew they were doing the wrong thing because several of them attacked Hillary back in 2016 over her server and Matt Walz himself sent out warnings about Signal and threats against leakers days previously.

Why are the recipes "Lock her up" worthy, but this Republican clusterfuck isn't even worth a slap on the wrist?

* "What Rusting Russian Tanks Can Teach Us About the Pete Hegseth Group Chat:" https://archive.ph/GNe7C

* "Military plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/war-plans-group-chat-scandal-fits-pattern-of-trump-s-embarrassing-weakness-on-information-security-235386437800

* "‘Where was the president?’: Hayes on Trump’s alarming absence amid war plans group chat:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-where-was-the-president-hayes-on-trump-s-alarming-absence-amid-war-plans-group-chat-235478085667

* "'F---ing liar': Sen. Duckworth rips Pete Hegseth; calls for his resignation over group chat scandal:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-f-ing-liar-sen-duckworth-rips-pete-hegseth-calls-for-his-resignation-over-group-chat-scandal-235500101599

* "‘Sound familiar?’: DHS staffer accidentally added reporter to email about ICE raids:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-sound-familiar-dhs-staffer-accidentally-added-reporter-to-email-about-ice-raids-235620421884

* "The Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on Civilian Home:" https://theintercept.com/2025/03/26/signal-chat-yemen-strike/?

* "Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Signalgate, Trump’s tariffs, and defending the LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.advocate.com/news/elizabeth-warren-signalgate-trump-musk

* "Texting War Plans = Illegal:"

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* "Scoop: Senate Dems propose sprawling Signal chat probe:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/senate-democrats-signal-chat-probe

* "Sen. Mark Kelly shreds Hegseth for attack plans breach: ‘He crossed the line’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-mark-kelly-shreds-hegseth-for-attack-plans-breach-he-crossed-the-line-235747909799

* "Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials:" https://archive.ph/615Pj

* "Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen says U.S. Greenland visits meant to cause 'pressure':" https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/03/25/Denmark-Greenland-denounce-Usha-Vance-visit/6201742904783/

* "VP Vance and his wife change up trip to Greenland amid protests:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5338629/vp-vance-and-his-wife-change-up-trip-to-greenland-amid-protests

* "Former Denmark Ambassador Rufus Gifford responds to VP Vance's 'not a good ally' comments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/denmark-rufus-gifford-jd-vance

* They made no friends and influenced people to despise us even more. "JD Vance blasts Denmark in visit to Greenland with wife Usha as Trump administration eyes territory:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-usha-vance-visit-greenland-most-greenlanders-dont-want-to-join-america/

* "'This is shameful': Trump sows animosity and mistrust abroad, degrading Americans in the process:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-this-is-shameful-trump-sows-animosity-and-mistrust-abroad-degrading-americans-in-the-process-235758149579

* "Trump threatens a 25 percent tariff on countries that buy oil and gas from Venezuela:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-tariff-venezuela-oil-00244832

How this will work with US companies using Venezuelan oil is a question.

* "Trump Says He Could Cut China Tariffs to Secure TikTok Deal:" https://archive.ph/DNx0x

* "Trump auto tariffs: President slaps 25% duties on car imports to US:" https://archive.ph/IWGvK

* "US decision to limit Canadian access to border-straddling library prompts outpouring of emotion:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-america-library-vermont-quebec-7c4851c705d18e0cc891c3ce085e15e4

* "US to end funding for childhood vaccines in poorest countries, document shows:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-end-funding-child-vaccines-developing-countries-new-york-2025-03-26/

So many people, particularly children will die.

* "Elon Musk won’t receive secret China briefings, Trump says:" https://archive.ph/zXhsc

This is why we need a robust media and why our out cry is helpful.

Stay Noisy.

* "Media reports prompt Trump to end plan to brief Musk on secret potential war plans for China:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/media-reports-prompt-trump-to-end-plan-to-brief-musk-on-secret-potential-war-plans-for-china-235108421909

* "How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China:" https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-allows-china-investment-cayman-islands-secrecy

* "Map Shows Countries With Visa Warnings About US:" https://www.newsweek.com/travel-visas-germany-uk-usa-denmark-finland-2048695

* "Trump's transgender rights rollbacks prompt allies to adjust travel warnings:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/allies-issue-usa-travel-guidlines-transgender

* "If Trump didn’t sign the Alien Enemies Act proclamation, who — or what — did?:" https://archive.ph/N1ATk#selection-772.0-772.1

* "Trump floats sending Americans to foreign prisons. Civil rights groups say that would be illegal.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/trump-foreign-prison-threats-civil-rights-groups-027162

You know how I said sending Venezuela refugees to El Salvador for 'crimes' like having a soccer team tattoo and being gay by labeling them gang member terrorists was a trial balloon for summary deportation of anyone Trump wants to with zero due process?

It was.

It's the same tactic the right wing always uses to steal civil liberties. Trans people are a tiny percentage of the population, so a lot of people don't know any personally. Trans people = low hanging fruit for the right. So they demonize trans people accusing even our children of being sex predators for just existing, then use the hate they whipped up over lies to ban books and anyone LGBTQIA+ from public spaces and claim anyone who disagrees is a pedophile, so that the people who should be standing up to Christo-facists abandon principle by principle until it's to late and the Right comes for them.

This is the same sort of thing, Round up a bunch of Venezualan refugees and rendition them without legal justification or due process while demonizing them to whip up hate they can use to move the Overton window towards fascist autocracy so they can do this to anyone they want.

Poof all civil liberties are gone. Refugees = low hanging fruit to the right.

Stand up NOW while you still can.

* "US judge blocks Trump administration from fast-tracking deportations:" https://archive.ph/Kj8vX

* "Judge Rejects Trump’s Request to Allow Deportations Under Wartime Law:" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations/

* "Judge smacks down Trump DOJ: This court will not be ‘gaslit’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/judge-smacks-down-trump-doj-this-court-will-not-be-gaslit-235097157508

* "Appeals court denies Trump’s bid to resume deportations under Alien Enemies Act:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/alien-enemies-act-trump-denied-court-00252157

* "Why federal judges have few tools to rein in Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/why-federal-judges-have-few-tools-to-rein-in-trump-235126341779

* "Judge rebukes Justice Dept., raises due process questions in Alien Enemies Act deportation case:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-rebukes-justice-dept-due-process-alien-enemies-act-deportation-case/

* "We will deport you if we have evidence against you, and deport you if we do not :" https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69560/we-will-deport-you-if-we-have-evidence-against-you-and-if-we-do-not

* "Here are the names of the Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to El Salvador:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-names/

* "What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced:" https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

* "Venezuelan migrant deported from U.S. to El Salvador has no criminal record, documents show:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-migrant-deported-el-salvador-no-criminal-record/

* "Deported soccer player wrongly accused of gang membership over tattoo, lawyer says:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/21/deported-soccer-player-venezuela-tattoo/82589688007/

* " Gay Venezuelan asylum-seeker ‘disappeared’ to Salvadoran mega-prison under Trump order, Maddow reveals :" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-makeup-artist-deported-prison

I know I already posted the interview, but I want to remind people just how bullshit the Republican lies that these are all gang members are. This is WHY everyone needs do process. Yes, even people actually accused of crimes, because accusations aren't convictions. If he'd been allowed to go to his scheduled court hearing, he'd be here, not in mortal peril in a for profit prison with no over sight.

* "What the Hundreds of Venezuelans Trump Sent to El Salvador Are Up Against:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/venezuela-trump-deportation-el-salvador-prison-human-rights-cecot-due-process/

* "Why experts fear the men who were sent to El Salvador's megaprison may never make it out:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-detention-abuses-rcna197125

* "“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”: The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers. :" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/

* "'Incredible’: Trump admin reportedly deports man over autism awareness tattoo:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-incredible-trump-admin-reportedly-deports-man-over-autism-awareness-tattoo-235625029616

* It also looks like we are sending refugees back to Venezuela where they will be in danger: "Venezuela reaches deal to accept deportation flights from U.S.:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-reaches-deal-to-accept-deportation-flights-from-u-s/

* "IRS close to finalizing data-sharing agreement with ICE, sources say:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/irs-close-finalizing-data-sharing-agreement-ice-sources/story?id=120063278

* "Rubio says U.S. may have pulled more than 300 visas:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/rubio-state-department-more-than-300-visas

* "Columbia University protester Khalil remains jailed while judge weighs case transfer:" https://archive.ph/4jD5z

* "Cornell student activist asked to surrender to ICE:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/momodou-taal-cornell-student-activist-surrender-ice-rcna197604

* "Federal judge orders ICE not to remove immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra:" https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/federal-judge-orders-ice-not-remove-immigration-activist-jeanette-vizguerra/

* "Visa renewal leads to Arizona ICE detention for Canadian actress:" https://www.azfamily.com/2025/03/21/visa-renewal-leads-arizona-ice-detention-canadian-actress/

* "Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her:" https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892

* "‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-flatly-authoritarian-new-video-shows-masked-agents-arresting-tufts-student-235484229584

The Secret police had their faces covered and grabbed her without identifying themselves. When challenged they eventually said what agency they were from but didn't show proof or give their names.

They did this terrible thing because of her political views in clear violation of her 1st Amendment rights.

* "US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts:" https://archive.ph/gzNXj

* "‘ICE kidnapped our neighbor’: Outrage at arrest of Tufts student spreads as lawmakers demand answers:" https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/03/28/ice-kidnapped-our-neighbor-outrage-at-arrest-of-tufts-student-spreads-as-lawmakers-demand-answers/

* "'Absolutely unconstitutional': attorney for abducted Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk speaks out on her detainment:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/-absolutely-unconstitutional-attorney-for-abducted-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-speaks-out-on-her-detainment-235779653738

* Rubio's such a horrible person that he's proud of it. "Rubio confirms he revoked Tufts student's visa, says he pulls visas 'every day':" https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/03/27/tufts-student-deportation-court-order

* "Russian medical researcher at Harvard, who protested the Ukraine war, detained by ICE:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russian-medical-researcher-harvard-protested-ukraine-war-detained-ice-rcna198528

She broke no laws in the United States and will be in danger if returned to Russia because of her opposition to their invasion of Ukraine.

* "ICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government's college crackdown continues:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-alabama-doctoral-student-detained-ice-governments-college-c-rcna198320

* "Columbia student protester can’t be detained for now as she fights deportation, judge rules:" https://apnews.com/article/university-protests-palestinian-immigration-2d7bd689b013b8bb6300fd6ab54de933

* "A look at who has been detained or deported in a US crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detainees-students-ozturk-khalil-78f544fb2c8b593c88a0c1f0e0ad9c5f

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

* Shameful that we are doing this. Shameful and Cruel. These are refugees. "They did things ‘the right way.’ Now Trump is turning them into undocumented migrants | Opinion:" https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article302686929.html

* "Judge orders release of Venezuelan couple caught up in Trump gang crackdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/venezuelan-couple-release-00258414

Another bullshit illegal deportation attempt based on Government lies.

* "Courts smack down Trump's signature program; Americans instantly outraged over street snatchings:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/courts-smack-down-trump-s-signature-program-americans-instantly-outraged-over-street-snatchings-235756101583

* "Trump Administration Aims to Bring Back Detention Centers for Immigrant Kids:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/trump-administration-plans-detention-centers-for-migrant-children

* "DHS shuts down internal watchdog agencies that advocated for immigrants:" https://archive.ph/q7CP9

* CW: CSA. Cruelty is the point. "Legal groups helping immigrant children who survived sex trafficking, abuse sue to regain federal funding:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/hhs-federal-funding-cuts-sex-abuse-child-trafficking-immigrants-rcna198602

* "Immigrant Children as Young as 2 Years Old Are Now Expected to Represent Themselves After Federal Funding Cut, Attorneys Say:" https://www.latintimes.com/immigrant-children-young-2-years-old-are-now-expected-represent-themselves-after-federal-funding-579387

* "Immigrant advocates protest inhumane conditions in Baltimore ICE detention facility:" https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-immigration-ice-detention-facility-conditions/

* "'Soul of democracy': Hundreds protest ICE detaining workers:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/ice-arrests-spark-protest-at-tacoma-immigration-detention-center/

* "Liberals Have Been Waiting for This Moment Since Trump Took Office. They Need to Act Now.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-news-rumeysa-ozturk-arrest-tufts-student-protest.html

* "'Felt like a kidnapping': Wrong turn leads to 5-day detention ordeal:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5335524/wrong-turn-bridge-detention-ordeal

* "Trump Team Claims it Made Billions Off a Gold Card That Doesn’t Exist:" https://newrepublic.com/post/193160/donald-trump-commerce-howard-lutnick-us-residency-gold-cards

* "Convicted of bilking investors, Nikola founder and Trump donor gets a presidential pardon:" https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-pardon-3fcebb0a3820cecb205656f2dc3f6764

* "Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-espionage-doge-032d2eb798e4d9d97ea7c5d6dc2ecf93

* "Appeals court refuses to halt an order for the rehiring of thousands of fired federal workers:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-firings-probationary-workers-b96a01e7460321df8b9d500f922ba257

* "Indeed report: Job applications from agencies targeted by DOGE surge:" https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/25/federal-work-DOGE-Trump-job/2641742910254/

* "Resistance is alive and well in the United States:" https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resistance-alive-well-us/

* "47 signs spotted at anti-Trump/Musk protests:" https://www.reuters.com/pictures/47-signs-spotted-anti-trumpmusk-protests-2025-03-21/

* "Anti-Elon Musk protests held at Tesla dealerships:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/tesla-elon-musk-anti-trump-protests-rcna198708

* Do I smell desperation? "Musk deploys squandered credibility in desperate bid to hold ailing Tesla together:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/musk-deploys-squandered-credibility-in-desperate-bid-to-hold-ailing-tesla-together-235111493549

* "From Seattle to Miami, anti-Musk protesters gather at hundreds of Tesla locations:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5343986/anti-musk-protests-planned-worldwide

* "Pam Bondi warns Jasmine Crockett to ‘tread very carefully’ in what she says about Elon Musk:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/23/bondi-jasmine-crockett-musk-tesla-protests-00244256

* "The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters:" https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-tesla-arson-domestic-terrorism-protests/

* Unlike protesting Tesla/Musk, this attack is actual terrorism. "Florida man accused of driving toward anti-Musk protesters at Tesla dealership is charged with assault:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-charged-assault-tesla-dealership-driving-car-protesters-rcna197746

* "Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump’s policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk:" https://apnews.com/article/50501-protests-project-2025-trump-state-capitols-ddd341171a54ba9b498cbfe7530e18ab

* "Trump Order Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters :" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-voting-elections-executive-order/

The details are scary and blatantly unconstitutional, but I don't trust we still have rule of law.

It over rides the constitutionally protected right of states to run their election, throws out millions of legally cast votes, and puts the entire election in the hands of the President.

Basically, it's a way to let Trump and Republican successors finally put an end to free and fair elections while still pretending to hold them, like the other autocrats generally do.

They win this, Democracy is likely finished in the United States for my lifetime.

* "DOGE’s Supposed Savings Are About to Cost the U.S. a Lot of Money:" https://newrepublic.com/post/193093/irs-revenue-elon-musk-doge-cuts

The IRS collects taxes. If you decimate the IRS, they can't go after rich tax cheats, since that takes lots of hours of work by skilled auditors.

To give an idea of how much not collecting taxes from billionaires is going to cost, one of the people recently laid off by billionaire Elon Musk in the name of "efficiency" personally won back more than 8 million dollars over the years. (This isn't from this article, but from Msnbc reporting... last week? Maybe the week before. Anyway, it stuck in my head as illustrative).

Basically, IRS auditors make back way more money than it costs to pay them. The more money we invest in auditors, the more money rich people refuse to pay that they owe goes back into the treasury.

Every time Republicans cut the IRS budget and clain it's for cost saving, they are lying. It is always about the rich, who are already not paying their share getting to illegally pay even less, while people who actually work and pay their taxes get more and more of the social safety net ripped away from them.

* "DOGE stimulus checks: Here's why Americans may not receive the full $5,000 amount:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2025/03/28/doge-stimulus-checks-not-full-5000-dollars-amount-musk-trump/82704076007/
The original plan was to only give them to middle class and higher income people, instead of the people who's services are being cut as a result of the cruel and often illegal cuts.

Now they are saying maybe they will have to be smaller because they aren't really saving much money.

I will believe these supposed stimulus checks when I see them. It sounds a lot like lies they told to make killing Social Security go down easier as if a small one time payment most people on social security won't even get will make of for all the people becoming homeless when their rent money doesn't arrive.

* "Exclusive: DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/?

* Originally, they announced they were shutting it because the judge told them they had to stop mining your private data. Stay noisy. It matters. "Acting Social Security chief now says he won't shut down agency after DOGE ruling:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/acting-social-security-chief-now-shut-agency-after/story?id=120046608

* "Social Security rushing service cuts at White House request, sources say:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/social-security-cuts-doge

They have postponed smashing Social Security until Monday on the grounds they did zero trainings, fired the people that would be writing the program that doesn't exist yet, so... Yeah.

There is a rush to do it as, if the agency is still functional on April 2, they will have to actually send people their money and the Republicans absolutely don't want to do that, hence them aiming for the 1st of the month.

UPDATE: They were forced to postpone until the 14th. Keep complaining.

* "Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security:" https://archive.ph/iAMdN

Hint: The fraud rate is less than one percent and the dead people collecting checks are imaginary.

* Ya Think? "The Social Security Administration's many proposed changes are worrying advocates:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5320263/social-security-administration-changes-identity-office

* "10,000 Social Security Administration workers could accept buyout offer, former commissioner says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-administration-voluntary-separation-incentive-payment/

* "Seniors won't complain if they miss a Social Security check, Lutnick says:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/social-security-lutnick-doge-checks

So the argument is, if you complain because you need your social security money for rent, electricity, etc. and they stole it, you are a fraudster who doesn't deserve it, and if you are rich enough not to need it so you wait and don't complain you doesn't need it and shouldn't get it, therefore no one should get the social security payments they earned and need to survive.

Welcome to Catch 22.

see also, this is why people who have never been actually poor in their lives should be allowed into positions of power where they can do this kind of harm.

I am completely fucked if my check doesn't come. They start assessing late fees for housing after seven days. The Bank fee for this auto-withdraw will likely overdraw my account. No gas, no electricity. My insurance will try to auto-withdraw mid-month causing bank fees to continue to grow exponentially. I am contractually required to have insurance on my apartment. I can't cancel it. I can't drive without gas or car insurance and I am disabled with very limited mobility. A bus pass costs about a months gas an requires lots of walking I can't do or someone else doing a lot of walking pushing my in a chair because my arms are fucked too.

No supplemental food or medical supplies or cleaning stuff or toilet paper or things the cats absolutely need. No credit card or other bill payments.

Not paying any bills for one month would dig me into a hole I could never get out of. With all the staff cuts and closures, how many months would it take to get reinstated? Will I automatically be labelled a fraudster and be denied reinstatement for the crime of being to poor to float all my bills for months?

* "Missed Social Security checks no big deal to Trump commerce secretary as attacks on agency escalate:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/missed-social-security-checks-no-big-deal-to-trump-commerce-secretary-as-attacks-on-agency-escalate-235110981853

* "Trump official doubts seniors would mind if their Social Security checks stopped:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-official-doubts-seniors-would-mind-if-their-social-security-checks-stopped-235096133996

I beg of you complain and/or protest now. People will die.

* Keep complaining. It's slowing them down. "Social Security backs off plan to cut phone services after backlash:" https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/26/social-security-backs-off-plan-to-cut-phone-servic/

* "New Social Security clawback policy starts this week: What to know:" https://thehill.com/homenews/5215878-new-social-security-clawback-policy-starts-this-week-what-to-know/

This is usually mistakes, not fraud, sometimes on the part of the agency. Taking 100% means some people will be homeless.

* "Trump's Social Security check change could affect half a million Americans:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/trump-social-security-paper-checks-direct-deposit

The change in payment method is designed to harm the poorest and most vulnerable recipients, because of course it is.

* "‘It is wrong’: Warren sounds off on the Trump-Musk attack on Social Security:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-it-is-wrong-warren-sounds-off-on-the-trump-musk-attack-on-social-security-235367493850

* "Social Security official ended program for Maine newborns because he was ‘ticked’ at Mills:" https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/social-security-official-ended-program-for-maine-newborns-because-he-was-ticked-at-mills/

So he decided to not automatically register the social security numbers of newborns, forcing the exhausted parents to go through hoops for something that should be simple because he's a misogynist and transphobe

* ":" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-musk-dismantle-social-security

* "'Cycle of doom': Social Security degradation evident as Trump cuts and changes cause feedback loop:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-cycle-of-doom-social-security-degradation-evident-as-trump-cuts-and-changes-cause-feedback-loop-235384901689

* "Demonstrators rally against plan to cut 7,000 Social Security workers:" https://pix11.com/news/local-news/demonstrators-rally-against-plan-to-cut-7000-social-security-workers/

* "New political leadership: Regular Americans show how to stand up to Trump as political leaders fail:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-political-leadership-regular-americans-show-how-to-stand-up-to-trump-as-political-leaders-fail-235651653560

* Presumably because Republicans feel that they aren't killing women fast enough by denying them life saving health care in some states. "Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-medicaid-trump-planned-parenthood-supreme-court-c512ec676b99d521d240bedeb7f85574

* "About 200 people rally against potential cuts to Medicaid in downtown Yakima:" https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/about-200-people-rally-against-potential-cuts-to-medicaid-in-downtown-yakima/article_3766b3da-00b7-4df7-ae18-d22d1dae519d.html

* "Federal judge prevents Trump administration from dismantling CFPB:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5315118/cfpb-shuttering-trump-doge

* "Elon Musk throws weight behind merging FTC and DOJ antitrust units:" https://archive.ph/nkuBj

* "Trump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-firing-of-ftc-commissioners-speaks-volumes-about-his-love-for-billionaires-235159621742

* "Trump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-firing-of-ftc-commissioners-speaks-volumes-about-his-love-for-billionaires-235159621742

* "‘Elon Musk is playing with fire—but he’ll never get burned’: Michael Lewis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-elon-musk-is-playing-with-fire-but-he-ll-never-get-burned-michael-lewis-234994245830

* "White House Reveals How Trump Could Buy More Bitcoin—Priming A Price Earthquake:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/03/22/white-house-reveals-how-trump-could-buy-more-bitcoin-priming-a-price-earthquake/

The goal is to drain the treasury of valuable assets to give Trump and a handful of his mega-donors by buying up their scam bitcoin. This will be a massive transfer of taxpayer money directly into the pockets of billionaires.

* This is NOT a coincidence: "Trump family crypto venture to launch a stablecoin:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/25/trump-family-crypto-venture-to-launch-a-stablecoin-00247455

* Now is a great time to tell your Senator's to oppose Cynthia Lummis' Crypto bill.

* Which was of course the goal. "Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-department-of-education-closure-civil-rights-4c5f4e8347dd3318d2f23ad8632d7b74

* "Trump administration transferring student loan, nutrition programs out of Education Dept:" https://archive.ph/iytkd

The SBA is a lot smaller than the education Department and is already swamped. They have zero experience doing any of this.

Students Loans and Grants are how nearly everyone not born so rich they can pay cash upfront goes to college. Clogging this system to uselessness stops a whole lot of talented and hard working people from getting degrees.

Kids can't learn very well if they are too hungry to con concentrate. starving them of essential nutrients causes long term learning delays and health issues. This is designed to keep the children of the poor sick and poor and combined with strangling the student loan program is a way to deny them a life time of opportunities.

This is the rich pulling up the ladder of success after them to prevent everyone else achieving a decent standard of living.

* Bonus they are dumping this on the SBA while slashing it to ribbons as part of their plan to crush small businesses to help the Billionaires who bought Trump:

"Small Business Administration plans to slash staff by over 40 percent amid agency-wide reorganization:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/small-business-administration-job-cuts-00003736

* How to in post. "hey it's probably a really good idea to download a copy of your Master Promissory Note:" https://www.tumblr.com/becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys/778806373433720832

* "So What Exactly Is Going On With Student Loans?:" https://slate.com/life/2025/03/trump-news-department-of-education-order-means-chaos-for-student-loans.html

* "Latest Trump cuts put summer reading, mobile libraries and local museums in jeopardy:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/20/trump-order-library-museum-federal-employee-leave/82572108007/

* "'Deeply outraged': Mayor Justin Bibb slams Trump administration for cutting 553K pounds of food for Greater Cleveland Food Bank:" https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/greater-cleveland-food-bank-president-donald-trump-administration-cancel-order-mayor-justin-bibb-usda/95-fad2bf18-a66b-4c1f-8859-d3e22694e486

* They are obeying in advance. "Columbia bows to Trump administration, hoping to restore federal funding:" https://gothamist.com/news/columbia-bows-to-trump-administration-hoping-to-restore-federal-funding

* They are obeying in advance. "Legal community shaken by a powerful law firm's decision to give in to Trump's demands:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/legal-community-shaken-powerful-law-firm-paul-weiss-trump-rcna197490

* Perkins Coie is not and they are doing the right thing. If no one stands up now, no law firm is likely to ever stand up to Trump again. "Legal organizations alarmed over Trump’s targeting of Seattle law firm Perkins Coie:" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/16/seattle-legal-organizations-perkins-coie/

* "DOJ moves to boot federal judge from Perkins Coie case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/doj-federal-judge-perkins-coie-case-00243928

* "One Firm Fights; One Firm Forfeits ft. Liz Dye:"

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* "Trump executive order targets law firm challenging anti-trans policies:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-targets-jenner-block

* This looks illegal on it's face. Apparently judges are agreeing "In back-to-back rulings, federal judges rule against Trump orders targeting law firms:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/g-s1-56890/law-firms-sue-trump

* "Major law firm strikes preemptive deal with White House:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/skadden-arps-trump-law-deal-028324

* ...And another law firm caves so that's 2 fought and won, one still fighting, and two caved in advance.

* "America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State: For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/

* "Judge says Justice Department attacked her character to ‘impugn the integrity’ of US judicial system:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-judiciary-executive-power-lawsuits-547ba740ad8689c8b8bd80291d2f4ad0

* "Trump appoints former personal attorney Alina Habba as US attorney for New Jersey:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appoints-alina-habba-us-attorney-new-jersey/story?id=120099632

* "USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453

You realize that without this, there will be hardly any protein, right?

Reminder: We have so much extra money that we have wasted 18.2 million dollars on Trump's golf outing as of last week. Why is that a better use of taxpayer money then helping farmers and feeding people?

* "School Lunches Should Be Free:"

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* "Protests Break Out Across US Over Plans To Change Postal Service:" https://www.newsweek.com/protests-plans-change-postal-service-2049406

* "US Postmaster General DeJoy steps down:" https://archive.ph/AGasQ

* Republicans decided we should no longer "waste money" on weather balloons used to track hurricanes in Tornado alley amoung other things. "National Weather Service Suspends Critical Service Again Amid DOGE Cuts:" https://www.newsweek.com/national-weather-service-suspends-critical-service-again-amid-doge-cuts-2048313

* "Fired National Park Service Staff Will Be Reinstated, but Long-Term Threats Loom:" https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21032025/todays-climate-fired-national-parks-workers-reinstated/

* "Protesters descend on Yosemite, Channel Islands and 91 other national parks:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/protests-national-parks-budget-20234508.php

* "Mount Rainier rally part of nationwide push to protect parks, federal workers:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/national/mount-rainier-rally-nationwide-push-to-protect-parks-federal-workers-washington/281-9fd675cc-5907-4965-82f2-dda739c1bca2

* "Protesters gathered outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park amid federal cuts:" https://www.wate.com/news/smoky-mountains/protesters-gathered-outside-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-amid-federal-cuts/

* "As Americans Protest Attacks on Public Lands, Trump Signals National Monuments May be Shrunk or Eliminated:" https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18032025/trump-administration-attacks-national-monuments-protests/

* "Kristi Noem to Trump’s Cabinet: I’m ‘Going to Eliminate’ FEMA:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-to-trumps-cabinet-im-going-to-eliminate-fema/

* "Trump wants FEMA gone. But that could be its own kind of disaster.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kristi-noem-fema-donald-trump-rcna198190

* "“This man is not our boss” — EPA workers rally against DOGE cuts:" https://www.theverge.com/news/635710/doge-musk-trump-environmental-protection-agency-epa

* "EPA employees rally in Denver against President Trump’s job and funding cuts:" https://www.cpr.org/2025/03/26/epa-employees-rally-in-denver-against-president-trumps-job-and-funding-cuts/

* Yet they are purging all these extremely competent people at the top based entirely on skin colour or gender to make room for mediocre or worse white men."Hegseth Brings in Emotional Support Brother as Pentagon Aide:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/hegseth-brings-in-emotional-support-brother-as-pentagon-aide/

* "Protestors outside Neal Dunn’s info session believe that Veterans Association cuts are unjust:" https://www.wjhg.com/2025/03/23/protestors-outside-neal-dunns-info-session-believe-that-verterans-association-cuts-are-unjust/

* "Veterans becoming face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/veterans-becoming-face-of-trumps-government-cuts-and-democrats-resistance

* "Another judge blocks the Pentagon from implementing Trump's transgender military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-military-ban-injunction

* "BREAKING: Judge reinstates nationwide stop to Trump’s trans military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-military-ban-injunction-reinstated

* "Internet drags Pete Hegseth after he mocked judge who blocked Trump's trans military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-hegseth-dragged-mocking-judge#rebelltitem5

* "Congress members denounce VA's end to gender-affirming care, demand answers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/congress-members-condemn-va

* "Opinion | The DEI Purge Will Weaken Our Military:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/19/dei-pentagon-hegseth-trump-00236799

* "DOD removed pages that referenced the Holocaust, then restored at least one:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dod-pages-dei-holocaust/

* "Trump administration scrubs 'Golden Girls' star's Marine Corps contributions in latest DEI purge:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-bea-arthur-golden-girls-dei

* "These are the US military's diversity photos Trump doesn't want you to see:" https://www.aol.com/us-militarys-diversity-photos-trump-093001345.html

* Nearly all our Domestic Terrorists are Republican, so.... "Trump administration cuts national database tracking domestic terrorism:" https://archive.ph/dArH6#selection-558.0-558.1

* Mine's up in threeish years. "Trump’s Gender Order Won’t Affect Existing Passports — Unless They’re Renewed:" https://www.notus.org/whitehouse/trump-gender-sex-order-passports

* "Trump vs. Maine: State refuses anti-trans sports policies as federal agencies push to cut funding:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-vs-maine-explained

* "DO THIS: Oppose Trump administration move to ban trans health care coverage in the ACA:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2030901.html

Direct Link to Comment: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability

* NYU Obeyed in advance. "‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation:" https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/

* I may have missed this, so I'm posting it. "CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.:" https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction

* "U.S. health department plans to slash 10,000 jobs as RFK Jr. upends agencies:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-plans-10000-hhs-job-cuts.html

* I know I keep saying this, but so many people are going to die because of RFKJr's policies.

* "US pulls back $12 billion in funding to state health departments:" https://archive.ph/oLqwH

* "$160M in WA health funding axed by Trump administration:" https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/03/27/160m-in-wa-health-funding-axed-by-trump-administration-cuts/

* "CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-pulling-back-11b-covid-funding-sent-health-departments-us-rcna198006

* NOTE: not all the grants. "NIH restores some long COVID grants:" https://cen.acs.org/policy/research-funding/NIH-restores-long-COVID-grants/103/web/2025/03

* RFK Jr.'s disinformation campaign is doing a massive amount of damage. "Growing measles outbreak in Texas pushes U.S. cases above 520:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-grows-us-cases-rcna198557

Not vaccinating children who can be safely vaccinated is child abuse, in my opinion.

* "The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations:" https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report

* Because RFK Jr. lied about vitamin A, people are now damaging their children's livers rather than give the safe vaccines. "West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak:" https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-27/west-texas-children-treated-for-vitamin-a-toxicity-as-medical-disinformation-spreads-alongside-measles-outbreak

* "Why I left my job leading public health messaging for the CDC: Public health policy must be guided by facts and not fantasy.:" https://archive.ph/rx1KR

* "The top FDA vaccine official is forced out, cites RFK Jr.'s 'misinformation and lies':" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5344010/fda-peter-marks-rfk-jr

* "RFK Jr. to shut down HHS Office of Infectious Diseases & HIV Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/health/office-infectious-diseases-hiv-closing

* "The War on Poppers Started Long Before RFK Jr. Took Over HHS :" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/popper-drug-crackdown-rfk-lgbtq-1235299650/

* "POPPERS 101 and HIV/AIDS Dropped by CDC:"

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* And now for some bonus RFK Jr. body shaming and assholery: "RFK Jr. Tells Governor to His Face He Needs to Lose 30 Pounds:" https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-west-virginia-governor-patrick-morrisey-weight-2052287

* EBT/SNAP is not HHS, but the Agriculture Department/USDA. "RFK Jr.'s food stamp plan fuels tension with USDA:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-food-stamps-soda-usda-tension-00252045

* "Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism:" https://archive.ph/4nc3I

There is no link. It's been proved over and over.

We are not only wasting time and money on this we could be spending vaccinating kids in the middle of a measles epidemic, but we aren't hiring a scientist to run it, but a propagandist.

* "Voice of America wins in court, for now, as judge blocks Trump administration from firing staff:" https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-trump-a1ed0ad37917055a1565da5325bd4fd8

* "Radio Free Europe says Trump administration rescinded its grant termination order:" https://archive.ph/ccFBJ

* "Trump signs order to ‘remove improper ideology’ from Smithsonian museums and zoo:" https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-3-27-2025

* "Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa

* "Trump directs JD Vance to go after ‘woke zoos’ :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-directs-jd-vance-to-go-after-woke-zoos-235744325555

* "Donald Trump's Spiritual Advisor Faces Christian Backlash:" https://www.newsweek.com/paula-white-cain-christians-donald-trump-2050102

* "Trump has big dreams for the Kennedy Center but doesn't seem to know what it does:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-kennedy-center-audience-rcna197179

* "Trump calls on Polis to remove ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait of himself hanging in the Colorado capitol:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-portrait-colorado-polis-00244561

* "Some underreported news and the return of Your Moment of Zen:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2031467.html

* "Over 25 million remain under red flag warnings with heightened risk of wildfires:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfire-warnings-continue-parts-country-strong-winds-persist/story?id=120030148

* "Most Texas wildfires are contained Saturday despite elevated threats, forest service says:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2025/03/22/most-texas-wildfires-are-contained-saturday-despite-elevated-threats-forest-service-says/

* "Wildfires force mandatory evacuation order in western North Carolina:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wildfires-force-mandatory-evacuation-order-western-north-carolina-120068816

* "Firefighters battle four uncontained wildfires, evacuations in effect:" https://www.wyff4.com/article/polk-county-wnc-wildfires-high-fire-danger/64243054

* "Wildfires in North and South Carolina fueled by drought, wind and fallen trees from Hurricane Helene:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-north-south-carolina-evacuations-af970ce0551007bfa0a5940aed58d68a

* "Aid rushes into Myanmar after earthquake kills over 1,600, ravages cities:" https://archive.ph/jsXsV

* "Myanmar junta accused of air strike even after quake:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250330-myanmar-junta-accused-of-air-strike-even-after-quake

* "'Magnets for human connection': Why Japanese ‘micro-forests' are transforming our cities:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/02/17/the-japanese-micro-forest-method-is-transforming-cities

* "Debunking Garden Watering Myths:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5JAeCFM8H9E

* "Scientists were in Antarctica when a giant iceberg broke free. Here’s what they found in its shadow:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/03/23/scientists-were-in-antarctica-when-a-giant-iceberg-broke-free-heres-what-they-found-in-its

* "This Fly Larva’s Butt Looks Like a Termite’s Head—and Termites Are Falling for It:" https://gizmodo.com/this-fly-larvas-butt-looks-like-a-termites-head-and-termites-are-falling-for-it-2000563456

* "This Apex Predator Was ‘King of the Ancient Egyptian Forest’ Then Mysteriously Went Extinct:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-apex-predator-was-king-of-the-ancient-egyptian-forest-then-mysteriously-went-extinct/

* "The Only Black Police Precinct in U.S. History: How Miami Was Policed During Segregation:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-police-precinct-history-miami

* "New photo from Pulse shooting shows exit blocked by refrigerator, which may have cost lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/new-photo-pulse-exit-blocked

* "Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio: This Is the Way We Rise:" https://kcts9.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/identity-poetry-activism-video/this-is-the-way-we-rise-american-masters/

* "Scientist’s ‘disturbing’ behavior, death threats at Antarctic base prompts probe:" https://interestingengineering.com/culture/scientist-disturbing-behavior-antarctic-probe-begins

* "TSA stops man with live turtle in his pants:" https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/tsa-stops-man-with-live-turtle-in-his-pants/video_29a3b6d1-67d9-5dfc-a44e-765beb8ebc5d.html

* "Passenger Allegedly Swallowed Rosary Beads and Attacked Crew Members During Mid-Flight Meltdown:" https://people.com/plane-passenger-allegedly-swallowed-rosary-beads-and-attacked-crew-members-11695552

* Thursday a week ago, I had thought I was likely going to crash again 2AMish as I woke up exhausted, headachy, with all my joints screaming at me, but it got better about 2-3, so I soldiered on and got the aggregate out. Friday, I was well enough to do almost bare minimum physio, which I'm counting as a win.

My hopes of being super productive Friday night failed, alas, but for good reasons. The cats were doing Peaceable Kingdom in my bed, so I read most of Tidal Creatures while administering pettins on demand and cuddle naps for cats. I also had a bunch of small things needing doing I'd been in too much pain to handle around the Cat Asylum, which I spaced out in classic chronic pain fashion in between rests. Also I fell down a medieval history rabbit hole for about an hour. <.< >.>

Tonight was I was also migrating another function across to Killian laptop, and inevitably diving in and out of settings as I found things needing tweaking. This is why it generally takes several weeks to get a lap top going right, and this time having to use waterfox classic instead of standard waterfox meant I had to rethink job distributions, since a bunch of extensions don't work on classic. Limited utility means I need to switch some functions for other browsers. It's mostly sorted now, though I may need more tweaks.

Part of why Thursday worked out so well for me is I'm getting better at the new work flow pattern, so certain things can move a little faster.

So progress, basically, even though it feels like running on sand.

* Thursday this week, I had to stay up for painful x-rays and doctor prodding, as well as to have blood taken. The x-rays were incredibky painful as my hip joint are terrible right now and it's a lot of standing in fixed positions. My shoulder joint healed correctly. I have been released in the wild to do more at home physio. I am to focus particularly on inward motion, which means I will need to get creative. Sigh.

* So about a week and a half ago, a friend sent me NasalCrom to see if it could make a dent in my chronic sinus infection/sinusitis situation. It's really impressive, as it turns out. My sinuses have been slowly draining, which is not pleasant, but neither was several years of sinus headaches and the constant need to manually drain them 1-3 times a day depending on how much worse my allergies to Outside are making things. This, at least is progress towards an actual solution.

TMI after this point.
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* New Tavy pics: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/778947425672019968/the-emperor-has-found-a-new-perch-from-which-to?source=share

* "DOGE Protestors Turn Their Focus on Tesla & Delayed NASA Astronauts Make It Home | The Daily Show:"

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* "GOP Pumps Tesla As Trump Admin Flubs JFK File Release & DEI Scrubbing | The Daily Show:"

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* "Jon Stewart on Which Speech Is Free and Which Will Cost You in Trump’s America | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump's Kennedy Center Takeover | Kristi Noem Taunts Canada | Taking Greenland:"

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* "Signalgate: Trump Tries To Dodge Explosive National Security Scandal | All Of Them Should Be Fired:"

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* "Hegseth's Sloppy Security Breach | Mike Waltz: Goldberg's Number Got "Sucked In" To My Phone:"

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* "Blame Mike Waltz | Trump Team's Sloppy Digital Footprints | The Fertilization President:"

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* "How Many Dildos Is Too Many? Texas Offers An Answer:"

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* "Consumer Watch: Delete Your DNA | Toys For Kidults | Tax Prep For Kids:"

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* "Survive the Apocalypse in Luxury at this Doomsday Prepper Ranch | The Daily Show:"

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* "‘Why I’m Misogynistic’ | Are The Straights OK?:"

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* "the idea of odysseus as, like, a military propagandist/PR officer is really fun for me in a fucked up way, given that he Did Not Want To Go To War In The First Place.:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/779357773890732032/to-me-this-also-fits-with-him-taking-neoptolemus

* "Tumultuous 1066:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2XdqjwPHWps

* "Worrisome War Wolves:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1o5nXucddGQ

* "Perilous Pazzis:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G0MaPqF_Cqs

* "Woeful WWI:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gRR2rKDo1IM

* "White House Easter Egg Roll Sponsors:"

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* "Resurrecting The Wooly Mammoth:"

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* "Styling the Whole World:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XDxRiYF-v8s

* "Take a look at the winning images from this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards:" https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/03/19/take-a-look-at-the-winning-images-from-this-years-british-wildlife-photography-awards

* "Sunday Sweets Springs In:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-springs-in-2025

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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.

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

* How to fight your insurace company when they insist you take meds that don't work instead of a more expensive one that does: https://steptherapy.com/step-therapy-legislation-by-state/

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* As is custom now, Trump stuff sort is likely a little rough. I can not guarantee anything in the tariff section is up to date, because he changes it so fast and reactions from understandably furious trading partners are basically light speed at this point.

* Good! "Philippines' ex-President Rodrigo Duterte arrested at ICC's request over 'drugs war' killings:" https://archive.ph/1Ellj

* This includes commentary on the new Canadian PM, amoung other things. "Off the cuff news reactions:" https://sabotabby.dreamwidth.org/2648730.html

* We are seriously threatening to go to war with Denmark. "NATO Chief Smacks Down Trump on Greenland Grab:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/nato-chief-smacks-down-trump-on-greenland-grab/

* "Pentagon asked for military options to access Panama Canal, officials say:" https://archive.ph/KH6eM

We are planning to invade Panama, apparently. We HAVE access to canal. What we are planning to do is invade another country and occupy it because we are too cheap to pay a perfectly reasonable toll.

* "Donald Trump, who has been on a mission to strip transgender people of all dignity, complains ‘everything is transgender’: He made the bizarre remarks in front of the Irish prime minister.:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-everything-is-transgender

* "If our neighbor Canada hates us and Trump, what does that say for the rest of the world?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/canada-world-hates-trump-vance

No one should trust us. Not even a tiny bit.

* "How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious
President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements. :" https://archive.ph/56bzU

* "Amid U.S.-Canada trade war, Trump makes some false or misleading claims to justify tariffs:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tariffs-canada-trade-fact-check/

* "Canada and EU announce retaliatory tariffs, escalating Trump’s trade war:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/canada-and-eu-announce-retaliatory-tariffs-escalating-trumps-trade-war

* "Ontario slaps 25% tax increase on electricity exports to US in response to Trump’s trade war:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-ontario-us-trump-tariffs-electricity-834dc3d9defd314923912f9bd8540e31

* "Trump Ag Secretary's Clucked-Up Advice On Eggs Has Critics Squawking: Brooke Rollins' idea to combat rising prices isn't going over very well:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brooke-rollins-eggs-backyard-chickens_n_67c676c9e4b044c440ed7fa7

Renters, especially in apartments aren't allowed to have chickens. A lot of cities and towns ban them even for home owners.

I literally know people who had to give away all their chickens when they moved into an apartment.

* It's almost like there might be consequences for starting a trade war for funsies. "Tesla, led by Elon Musk, warns of export retaliation due to new Trump tariffs:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/g-s1-53947/tesla-led-by-elon-musk-warns-of-export-retaliation-due-to-new-trump-tariffs

* "‘Big mad’: Trump is ‘emotional’ and ‘annoyed’ over trade war he started:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-big-mad-trump-is-emotional-and-annoyed-over-trade-war-he-started-234383429687

* This harms everybody. "US State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program Researchers Say Paid for Itself:" https://www.wired.com/story/air-monitoring-beijing-state-department-halted/

* It's all illegal, of course. Republicans absolutely do not care. "Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-rubio-usaid-foreign-aid-bf442d62af67918a6fc5eee839074601

* "Judge Weighs USAID Classified Document Destruction Amid Trump Shutdown:" https://www.newsweek.com/judge-weighs-usaid-classified-document-destruction-amid-trump-shutdown-2043272

* "Court hands Trump third appellate loss in birthright citizenship battle:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/court-hands-trump-third-appellate-loss-birthright-citizenship-battle-2025-03-11/

* Lie Detector Tests have no validity, of course, which is why law enforcement loves them so much. "DHS administering lie detector tests to employees in effort to find leakers:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-lie-detector-tests-employees-leakers-immigration-raids/

* "The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Trump has invoked for deportations:" https://apnews.com/article/alien-enemies-trump-immigration-deportations-21a62ede23b8c493b60d00a9c125722f

* "Federal judge blocks Trump's plan to target 'alien enemies' for deportation:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5246028/trump-alien-enemies-act-tren-de-aragua-deportation

This is just the tip of the spear. If he wins here, he will keep expanding it to remove anyone he doesn't like.

Normal deportation proceedings would work, but he's trying to establish a precedent.

* "Japanese Americans react to Trump's plans to invoke Alien Enemies Act:" https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/japanese-americans-react-to-trumps-plans-to-invoke-alien-enemies-act#google_vignette

* "Trump reportedly keen on law at root of disgraceful chapter in American history:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-reportedly-keen-on-law-at-root-of-disgraceful-chapter-in-american-history-234498629977

* "ICE Wastes $16M on Guantanamo Bay Operation as All Migrants Returned to US:" https://www.newsweek.com/ice-guantanamo-bay-migrants-immigration-waste-millions-back-usa-2044018

* "Judge says Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can't be deported from U.S. as protesters call for his release:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/demonstrators-take-nycs-federal-plaza-mahmoud-khalil-arrested-ice-rcna195602

* "Experts say Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder, can't be deported without due process:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/experts-palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil-deported-due-process/story?id=119756360

* "Federal agents are seen arresting Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil in a newly released video:" https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-trump-653771d9f168c490c49d6e45e37a0893

* "New Mahmoud Khalil complaint names Trump and Rubio, and alleges 'targeted, retaliatory detention':" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-mahmoud-khalil-complaint-names-trump-rubio-alleges-targeted-retali-rcna196378

* "White House allegedly asked for updates on arrest of activist Mahmoud Khalil, his attorney says:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-house-allegedly-asked-updates-arrest-activist-mahmoud/story?id=119811712

* "Trump admin loses in court as judge blocks deportation of Mahmoud Khalil:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-admin-loses-in-court-as-judge-blocks-deportation-of-mahmoud-khalil-234150981981

* "Exclusive: Wife of detained Palestinian Columbia student says she was naive to believe he was safe from arrest:" https://archive.ph/bG3jK#selection-1373.88-1373.102

* "98 protesters arrested at Trump Tower sit-in for detained activist Mahmoud Khalil:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/hundreds-protesters-stage-trump-tower-sit-calling-release/story?id=119762664

* Reminder: they arrested him without a warrant in the absence of a crime for voicing an opinion Trump doesn't like. "The detention of Mahmoud Khalil is a flagrant assault on free speech:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/the-detention-of-mahmoud-khalil-is-a-flagrant-assault-on-free-speech-234524741853

* "Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer: his arrest is 'test case' for how far Trump will go to repress political enemies:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/mahmoud-khalil-s-lawyer-his-arrest-is-test-case-for-how-far-trump-will-go-to-repress-political-enemies-234525253893

* "Elissa Slotkin delivers rebuttal to Trump:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/04/trump-joint-address-to-congress/democrats-respond-00212952

* The extreme corruption continues. "People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.wired.com/story/people-paying-millions-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/

* This is discrimination and damaging. "Trump signs executive action targeting public service loan program:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5321313/trump-executive-action-public-service-loan-program

* "Trump order denies student loan relief to nonprofit workers engaged in ‘improper’ activity:" https://apnews.com/article/public-service-student-loan-forgiveness-trump-457a24f8dba3c52dfe58f1e72ba61fa4

* "Judge blocks Trump from enforcing 'chilling' order against law firm:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/g-s1-53422/judge-blocks-trump-law-firm

* "Former DOJ official blasts interim D.C. U.S. attorney’s hiring ban on Georgetown Law grads:" https://www.advocate.com/news/doj-official-slams-georgetown-ban

* "Thousands of fired federal workers must be offered reinstatement, a judge rules:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325959/federal-employees-court-firing

* "A 2nd judge orders thousands of fired federal employees temporarily reinstated:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325694/maryland-court-fired-federal-employees-trump

* "Federal judges order Trump to rehire thousands of fired probationary federal employees :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/federal-judges-order-trump-to-rehire-thousands-of-fired-probationary-federal-employees-234392133708

* "'A sham': Federal judge blasts Trump admin on improper firings of federal workers; orders rehiring:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-a-sham-federal-judge-blasts-trump-admin-on-improper-firings-of-federal-workers-orders-rehiring-234398789993

* They are ignoring the court orders to stop. "Trump poised to launch new round of layoffs despite setbacks in court:" https://archive.ph/aVPti

* "Federal workers called back to the office — or is it a shuttered Subway?:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-workers-called-back-to-the-office-or-is-it-a-shuttered-subway/ar-AA1APHKA

You know what would be easier and cheaper? Let people continue working remotely.

* "Tech 'solution' makes a fool of Trump again; Federal return to office order bungled:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/tech-solution-makes-a-fool-of-trump-again-federal-return-to-office-order-bungled-234403909936

* "A Wannabe Influencer Is in Charge of Defending DOGE Cuts:" https://www.thecut.com/article/opm-mclaurine-pinover-fashion-influencer-videos-doge-cuts.html

The cheek of it to fire so many hard working productive people and to have someone like this calling them lazy and incompetent. Every Republican accusation a confession.

* "Musk And Trump Are Trying To Break The Government So Billionaires Can Take It Over - Ezra Klein:"

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* "Judge orders urgent release of DOGE records, citing ‘unprecedented’ power and ‘unusual secrecy’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/judge-orders-doge-record-release-00223151

* "Top lawyer at IRS removed amid DOGE push for taxpayer information: Sources:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-lawyer-irs-removed-amid-doge-push-taxpayer/story?id=119769757

* "OPM to review potential risks from DOGE’s access to sensitive federal systems:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/opm-security-doge-access-00221620

* "Diverse groups opposing Trump-Musk agenda coalesce around date for nationwide protest:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/diverse-groups-opposing-trump-musk-agenda-coalesce-around-date-for-nationwide-protest-234497605740

* "‘The people hold the power’: Grassroots anti-Trump resistance outshines lawmakers:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-people-hold-the-power-grassroots-anti-trump-resistance-outshines-lawmakers-234483781748

* "Republicans struggle to answer for Trump, Musk to alarmed constituents back home:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-struggle-to-answer-for-trump-musk-to-alarmed-constituents-back-home-234049093911

* "'I'm going': Tim Walz to hold town halls in Republican districts in wake of DOGE cuts:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-i-m-going-tim-walz-to-hold-town-halls-in-republican-districts-in-wake-of-doge-cuts-234266693990

* "States sue Trump administration over mass firings of federal employees:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/08/nx-s1-5321864/trump-federal-employees-lawsuit-states

* "Md. Attorney General goes deeper on lawsuits against Trump administration, expects more to come:" https://wtop.com/maryland/2025/03/md-ag-brown-goes-deeper-on-lawsuits-against-trump-administration-expects-more-to-come/

* "Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $209 Billion:" https://archive.ph/dRz86

* "Musk Melts Down as Tesla Stock Price Plunges:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/musk-tesla-stock-price-plunge-1235292855/

* "Donald Trump Calls Tesla Boycotts Illegal:" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tesla-boycott-illegal-2042647

* "Trump turns White House into Tesla showroom as Musk gets ‘government bailout’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-turns-white-house-into-tesla-showroom-as-musk-gets-government-bailout-234149957918

* "Tesla turmoil ignites political proxy war:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/13/tesla-trump-white-house-musk

* "Trump says violence against Tesla is domestic terrorism:" https://archive.ph/fh80a

* "As Musk’s business empire falters, Trump summons a wave of conservative support:" https://archive.ph/8JNve

* "Tesla Reportedly Stops Cybertruck Deliveries Because a Massive Part Keeps Flying Off:" https://futurism.com/tesla-stops-cybertruck-deliveries-trim

* "Rep. Larson BLASTS The GOP For Blocking Elon Musk From Testifying:"

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* "Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5316227/trump-order-dismantling-education-department

* " Linda McMahon lays out Education Department’s ‘final mission’ :" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/04/linda-mcmahon-education-department-final-mission-00210057

Reminder: she's never taught or administered a school and is profoundly ignorant about the damage she is doing and doesn't care to learn.

* "Education Department cuts half its staff as Trump vows to wind the agency down:" https://apnews.com/article/education-department-layoffs-job-cuts-linda-mcmahon-ce9f6a8a63972aede0d8fbdf057ab788

* "What the Education Department layoffs could mean for students with disabilities:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/education-department-layoffs-students-disabilities-rcna196114

This harms students with disabilities and anyone not born rich enough to pay for college up front. Cruelty is the point.

* "US judge temporarily halts Trump plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-department-of-education-lawsuit-teacher-training-d9f84633d57f4010e1c03fcdaf003db2

* "Trump fires 1,300 at Department of Education; programs expected to suffer with staff gutted:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-fires-1-300-at-department-of-education-programs-expected-to-suffer-with-staff-gutted-234164805699

* "Fired Education Department worker: 'We got the sense that we were disposable.':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fired-education-department-worker-sense-disposable/story?id=119732001

* "Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division: Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-division-eroded-by-massive-layoffs

* "GOP voucher plan would divert billions in taxes to private schools:" https://archive.ph/1eNhg

This is about starving public schools which serve everyone in favor of private schools which can and do discriminate. This means concentrating the students who need the most support in schools that are having their funding cut at the same time to make it impossible to provide that support.

This is on purpose. Republicans have been trying to destroy public schools longer than I've been alive as the last thing they want is quality education for people who aren't white and also wealthy.

* "Elon Musk Teases Big Cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-cuts-social-security-medicaid-medicare-1235293407/

* "Social Security Backtracks on DOGE Phone Service Cuts After Media Report:" https://www.newsweek.com/doge-pushes-social-security-administration-cut-off-phone-service-report-2043708

This is why we need an independent media. This is why we need protests.

Why is this important? The Social Security Administration has a notoriously difficult website to use. It requires a special log in thing that most people do not have. (Including me.) Sometimes they will issue you one and not tell you what it is if you get it at an SSA office. They don't, say email it to you, which would be useless in any case for people who don't have internet access or have disabilities that make using the Internet extra hard, and for people who often are older than the internet and have little to no appropriate skills, or are home bound and can't get to library, or have had their local library cut and also just had the SSA office near them closed, or.... You get the idea.

Approximately 80% of people on Social security or applying for benefits use the phone service, because it actually works if you are patient, unlike the glitchy and difficult to access web site.

This cut is really about denying people who paid into the system getting access to the benefits they paid for.

It also really fucks up seniors and people with disabilities who need things like Medicaid and EBT on top of their Medicare as those programs often require a proof of income letter once or twice a year that must be issued within 1-3 months of turning in your paperwork. (Exactly details are state by state. My state is once a year up to three months. My state is super lenient because it's been unified Democratic rule for decades and it works at keeping citizens alive instead of trying to kill them off). So do a bunch of other programs for seniors and people with disabilities. I have to interact with this phone system 2-4 times a year, depending on which of my services need re-upping.

The knock on effects of the planned cuts would have been huge!

Stay noisy! Save lives!

* They are still planning more deadly cuts: "DOGE attacks on Social Security officials could have dire consequences:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/doge-social-security-cuts-service-rcna196118

See the part above about people needing to go in person for a lot of things like starting benefits, updating after name changes, etc.? Yeah.

* "Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

They are basing these cuts on a debunked lie Musk and Trump keep telling because DOGE Minions are so incompetent they couldn't recognize a COBOL language error message, Cutting people off from benefits they deserve will kill them and there is significantly less than a one percent fraud/error rate.

* "Understanding Trump's War on Research Funding & The Future:" https://www.panaccindex.info/p/understanding-trumps-war-on-research

* "The US agency that monitors weather will cut another 1,000 jobs, AP sources say:" https://apnews.com/article/noaa-job-cuts-weather-forecasts-trump-doge-musk-7e35e9d5d757d8fc3f0f50b2bd71c87d

These cuts are essential to preventing the prediction and monitoring of extreme weather so more people will die.

* People will die. People like me will die. "DOGE Is Trying to Shutter Crucial Volcano Observatory Facilities:" https://www.notus.org/health-science/doge-alaska-volcano-observatory

* "The True Cost of Trump’s Cuts to NOAA and NASA:" https://time.com/7267889/climate-cost-of-trump-staff-cuts-noaa-nasa/

* Ignore the misleading headline. "Trump wants to use the ‘God Squad’ to increase logging, but it must follow strict rules:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-logging-endangered-species-god-squad-5ddbbd117a480cdc60f5bc5580cd72ef

They are ignoring the endangered species act so as to drive endangered species extinct looks like too.

* "EPA workers silenced as agency cancels hundreds of grants:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/epa-workers-silenced-agency-cancels-hundreds-grants/story?id=119715963

* "Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups: The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.:" https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations

It's not illegal to receive a government grant and there is zero evidence that any of these groups broke the law.

* "The FAA’s Troubles Are More Serious Than You Know:" https://archive.ph/pnaya

* "Musk Faces Complaint Over Efforts to Get FAA to Drop Verizon, Use Starlink:" https://www.pcmag.com/news/musk-faces-complaint-over-efforts-to-get-faa-to-drop-verizon-use-starlink

It is essential that Starlink loses this one.

Verizon has a contract they bid for and won fairly. Elon Musk arbitrarily cancelling it without any government authority and awarding his own company a no bid contract is illegal and corrupt on it's face in multiple ways.

This is also away to hijack our entire federal aviation system so he can hold it for hostage later, much as he did with the Ukrainian military.

* "Trump cuts environment program for low-income, minority communities:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250312-trump-cuts-environment-program-for-low-income-minority-communities

* "Trump administration issues funds to NYC housing nonprofits, with new strings attached:" https://gothamist.com/news/trump-administration-issues-funds-to-nyc-housing-nonprofits-with-new-strings-attached

* He knew that he was screwing over California, and he did it anyway for the optics and revenge. "Trump's 2.2 billion-gallon dump from California reservoirs just got even uglier:" https://www.sfgate.com/centralcalifornia/article/trump-california-reservoir-dump-kaweah-success-20209496.php

* "Top US health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees:" https://apnews.com/article/hhs-employee-buyouts-kennedy-cdc-nih-medicaid-bf5a746518b2b3fe967ab95a8e2a1a65

* So people will go hungry. Children will go hungry. "USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-for-schools-food-banks-00222796

* This also really hurts small farmers. "USDA ends program that helped schools serve food from local farmers:" https://apnews.com/article/school-lunch-usda-trump-c1485f824573913fe9a734bbf1273e26

* "US senators to urge USDA to reinstate canceled local food programs:" https://archive.ph/jLnN2

* Which have a lot of salt. "Sen. Deb Fischer offers up ‘canned food’ as alternate to USDA food bank cuts:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/deb-fischer-canned-food-usda-food-bank-cuts-00228164

* "Donald Trump's policies are making our kids dumber, sicker, meaner, and scared:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-children-sicker-meaner-opinion

* "Harvard doctors sue Trump administration over censoring LGBTQ+ terms:" https://www.advocate.com/news/harvard-doctors-sue-trump-administration

* Transphobia harms everyone. "Trump officials kill federal research on safer period products over mention of transgender men:" https://www.advocate.com/news/usda-scraps-study-transgender-mention

* "RFK Jr. Reportedly Had a Call With Texans Helping Distribute Unproven Measles Remedies:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/rfk-jr-measles-outbreak-texas-cod-steroids-call-seminole-mennonite-community-hhs/

You know what would be way more effective than quack medicine? Vaccinating everyone who can be vaccinated.

* Case in point: "Measles cases linked to Texas outbreak grows to 259, with just 2 among fully vaccinated people:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/measles-cases-linked-texas-outbreak-grows-259-2/story?id=119799576

* "Trump adviser Alina Habba says veterans fired by DOGE are perhaps 'not fit to have a job at this moment':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/trump-adviser-alina-habba-says-veterans-fired-doge-are-perhaps-not-fit-rcna194721

Trump has a long standing disgust and hatred for veterans in general, but particularly ones with disabilities. This is why he appointed people who feel exactly the same to steal their jobs and their health care from them.

* "Federal judge dismantles Trump's trans military ban in explosive hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-skeptical-trans-military-ban

* I am not convinced they will follow the ruling stopping this. "Pentagon says it will start kicking transgender people out of military this month:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-military-ban-moves-ahead

* "Trump's VA rescinds policy treating transgender vets with dignity (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-veterans-policy-rescinded

* "Veteran Chains Himself Outside White House to Protest Trump and Musk:" https://newrepublic.com/post/192559/veteran-chains-white-house-protest-trump-musk

* CW: Rape. We are in a constitutional crisis now. (See also Trump administration refusing to restore funding and rehire people, as well as the Military being ordered to ignore the ruling ordering them not to discharge all the trans soldiers). "Federal officials force transgender women into men’s prisons despite judge’s ruling against Trump’s order:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-women-forced-mens-prisons

* "Pam Bondi reshapes the DOJ around Trump's priorities:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/s-trumps-justice-department-now-rcna195289

* "Justice Chucks Paper Straws in Favor of Plastic Per Trump Order:" https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/justice-chucks-paper-straws-in-favor-of-plastic-per-trump-order

* CW: Domestic Violence. "DOJ official says she was fired after opposing the restoration of Mel Gibson's gun rights:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-official-says-was-fired-opposing-restoration-mel-gibsons-gun-right-rcna195287

* "Trump administration eyes cuts to Justice Department public corruption unit, people familiar say:" https://archive.ph/hnuLn

The only reason you would do this is if you were planning to bribe or otherwise allow the bribing of public officials by your allies.

* They are ending the case because most of the victims are black. "Justice Dept. says ending Louisiana petrochemical case helps ‘dismantle radical DEI programs’:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-louisiana-cancer-denka-chloroprene-epa-lawsuit-89b1f870816f65370eeb75ff269e9c0e

* This only helps our enemies. "Trump’s Justice Dept. ousts national security officials in latest purge:" https://archive.ph/99SjJ

* "They're Fabricating Criminal Prosecutions Now:"

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* This next batch may look small, but Trump is seizing control of the judiciary, persecuting political opposition, and removing checks that prevent Autocracy.

* He is calling openly for political prosecutions. "Trump pledges to ‘expose’ his enemies in political speech at Justice Department:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-visits-justice-department-e9091e3721adda4d3ed39bd15119a0d4

* "The GOP aim to shutdown democracy and 'replace it with techno-state dictatorship' warns Rep. Raskin:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/the-gop-aim-to-shutdown-democracy-and-replace-it-with-techno-state-dictatorship-warns-rep-raskin-234523205943

* "Trump demands 'accountability' for his pursuers in Justice Department speech:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-demands-accountability-his-pursuers-justice-department-speech-2025-03-14/

* They are criminalizing non-violent political speech. "Acting U.S. attorney for D.C. opens inquiries into Democrats, alleging possible threats to DOGE, Supreme Court justices:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/acting-u-s-attorney-inquiry-schumer-possible-threat-doge-supreme-court-justices/

* Luckily, push back is having an effect. "D.C. prosecutor drops bid to investigate Schumer for purported threat:" https://archive.ph/enoUV

* "D.C. U.S. attorney targets Ukraine whistleblower Rep. Vindman:" https://archive.ph/owxVo

* "Democratic senators request investigation of interim DC US attorney:" https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/democratic-senators-request-investigation-of-interim-dc-us-attorney/3862040/

Because what Ed Martin's doing is illegal and unethical.

* "Trump allies launch a bid to take control of a powerful Washington legal group:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-allies-bradley-bondi-control-dc-bar-association-rcna195253

They need to do this because Ed Martin is in danger of being disbarred for all the illegal and unethical things he is doing to persecute people Trump doesn't like.

* "Trump hones Justice Department as weapon of revenge; some dull edges remain:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-hones-justice-department-as-weapon-of-revenge-some-dull-edges-remain-234501189653

* "‘Lawlessness’: Hayes on the ‘terrifying’ abuse of power at Trump’s EPA, FBI:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-lawlessness-hayes-on-the-terrifying-abuse-of-power-at-trump-s-epa-fbi-234483781911

* "Supreme Court to decide whether states can protect LGBTQ+ youth from conversion therapy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/supreme-court-conversion-therapy-case
Conversion Therapy is torture. It has no validity, but it can lead to depression and suicide.

Republicans want to abuse children, knowing it's abuse for the pleasure of harming queer children.

* "Think Small: End Billionaires:" https://www.mind-war.com/p/think-small-end-billionaires

* "Two weak spots in Big Tech economics:" https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/06/privacy-last/

* "US stock market loses $4 trillion in value as Trump plows ahead on tariffs:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/investors-flee-equities-trump-driven-uncertainty-sparks-economic-worry-2025-03-10/

It's been suggested that doing the will he won't he with the tariffs, while extremely devastating for business, ordinary people, US Foreign Policy/trade relations, and the US Economy; would be an excellent way to manipulate the US stock market so that billionaires could buy up stocks at rock bottom prices.

I'm not saying that's what's happening, but it's the only logical reason anyone I've seen could think of to do what Trump is doing with tariffs.

I'm not suggesting Trump is bright enough to do this on his own, but I think their are a lot of very rich people who have bought their way into his inner circle who are

Again, that's speculation. I mean he could also be doing this for fun or because Putin told him to. Or all three.

* "Striking workers in WA could get unemployment insurance benefits:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/striking-workers-in-wa-could-get-unemployment-insurance-benefits/

* "Nestlé Purina workers in Pennsylvania on strike:" https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/11/koct-m11.html

* "Nestle Purina workers strike for better wages and benefits in South Whitehall Township:" https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/lehigh-county/allentown-area/nestle-purina-workers-strike-for-better-wages-and-benefits-in-south-whitehall-township/article_d28a8caa-f79b-11ef-86f9-bf0bc337c1b6.html

* Chuck Schumer betrayed us, rather than stand firm and force them to negotiate. Sigh. "Democratic Party fractures in government shutdown fight, with anger running high:" https://apnews.com/article/democrats-congress-chuck-schumer-government-funding-shutdown-43d1acea20c34ad28d848edc08ad6375

Here's who to primary:
Chuck Schumer
John Fetterman
Kirsten Gillibrand
Maggie Hassan
Catherine Cortez Masto
Jean Shaheen
Brian Schatz
Dick Durbin

Gary Peters is retiring
Angus King is a centrist independent, but caucuses Democrat.

If these are your critters, consider telling them how you feel.

* "Republicans say Medicaid is safe. But budget math says otherwise:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/1237260288/republicans-say-medicaid-is-safe-but-budget-math-says-otherwise

* "DC leaders in budget panic, saying Congress bill would financially devastate the city:" https://wtop.com/dc/2025/03/dc-leaders-in-budget-panic-saying-bill-in-congress-would-financially-devastate-the-city/

* "'Chuck Schumer's gotta go!' Dems face reckoning amid dire polls:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/-chuck-schumer-s-gotta-go-dems-face-reckoning-amid-dire-polls-234543173956

* "‘Chuck Schumer is not willing to be in the driver's seat’: Ameshia Cross on Sen. Schumer's leadership:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-chuck-schumer-is-not-willing-to-be-in-the-driver-s-seat-ameshia-cross-on-sen-schumer-s-leadership-234544709839

* "House Republicans literally alter time to avoid responsibility for Trump wrecking the economy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-republicans-literally-alter-time-to-avoid-responsibility-for-trump-wrecking-the-economy-234171974002

* "Trump administration withdraws CDC director nomination just before Senate hearing:" https://apnews.com/article/dave-weldon-cdc-director-9a3d061832e2f0f644f2c58fbae36965

* "Transgender Rep. Sarah McBride calls out 'weird' obsession by Republicans in whose minds 'I appear to live rent-free':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sarah-mcbride-gop-weird-obsession

* "'Have you no decency?': Republican calls Sarah McBride 'mister,' but Democrats wouldn't have it:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-misgender-sarah-mcbride

* "Teen targeted by homophobic school board member now running for his job:" https://www.advocate.com/news/teen-challenges-school-board-homophobe

* Wisconsin! Please don't sleep on this election. Your future chance at free and fair elections as well as so many of your rights are on the line! "The Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Is a Referendum on Elon Musk:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/elon-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-brad-schimel-susan-crawford/

* "Crawford, Schimel clash over Musk, Soros money in $59 million court raceRecord spending in Wisconsin Supreme Court race reaches $59M as candidates debate outside influence from billionaire donors Musk and: Soros.:" https://www.wisn.com/article/crawford-schimel-clash-over-musk-soros-money-in-59-million-court-race/64176457

The polls are incredibly tight and a Schimel win means Democrats lose their majority and Trump-Musk style court decisions will do terrible damage.

* "Governor Hochul Holds Roundtable with Workers Impacted by Federal Layoffs and Announces Expansion of New York’s “You’re Hired” Initiative to Recruit Impacted Workers :" https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-holds-roundtable-workers-impacted-federal-layoffs-and-announces-expansion-new

* "Protests erupt as bill allowing TN schools to refuse to enroll undocumented students moves forward:" https://www.wsmv.com/2025/03/11/protests-erupt-bill-allowing-tn-schools-refuse-enroll-undocumented-students-moves-forward/

* Texans, I beg of you to protest. Pull out the stops. "Texas Republican bill would make simply being transgender a felony:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-republicans-transgender-lives-felony

* "Protesters unveil giant Pride flag in response to Utah's new bill trying to ban it:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pride-flag-utah-protest

* "North Dakota Senate rejects resolution seeking to overturn marriage equality:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/north-dakota-marriage-equality-resolution

Watch your state level politics, folks, because protests and calls can do a lot there. Don't give up hope.

* "Andy Beshear lambastes Gavin Newsom for hosting Steve Bannon on podcast:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/beshear-lambastes-newsom-bannon

* "Wisconsin conservative admits he was wrong about his anti-trans beliefs — this was all it took:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-trans-bill-wisconsin

* "Study: Long sentences for juveniles make reentry into society more difficult:" https://phys.org/news/2025-03-sentences-juveniles-reentry-society-difficult.html

Water is wet studies are essential for making arguments in court, to policy makers, and to people who haven't made their minds up yet.

* "Multiple D.C. LGBTQ+ bars pull Jack Daniel's orders over distiller's retreat from diversity & inclusion:" https://www.advocate.com/business/lgbtq-bars-pull-jack-daniels

I am old enough to remember the Coors boycott.

* "New German, Swiss, and Austrian guidelines recommend gender-affirming care, slam Cass Review:" https://www.advocate.com/health/europeans-recommend-gender-affirming-care

* "New report finds LGBTQ+ and intersex Americans faced much discrimination in 2024:" https://www.advocate.com/news/new-report-confirms-widespread-discrimination

* "LGBTQ+ youth feel safer online than in-person — and it's not close:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-feel-safer-online

Water is wet studies are essential for making arguments in court, to policy makers, and to people who haven't made their minds up yet.

* "Who is MassResistance, the far-right group behind anti-marriage equality resolutions?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/who-is-massresistance-anti-lgbtq

* "Seven suspects charged with torture, killing of trans man Sam Nordquist appeared in court:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/seven-suspects-sam-nordquist-appear-court

* "Body of 'Julie Doe' in Florida identified as transgender woman Pamela Leigh Walton:" https://www.advocate.com/news/investigation-identifies-deceased-transgender-woman

* "Trump’s anti-trans agenda takes center stage at planned 'Detrans Awareness Day' events:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republicans-celebrate-detrans-awareness-day

* Why are people still going on these floating plague ships? "Another norovirus outbreak on Princess Cruises ship sickens dozens of passengers and crew:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/norovirus-outbreak-princess-cruises-ship-coral-princess-sickens-dozens-passengers-crew/

* "Measles cases spike to 25-year high in Europe:" https://www.politico.eu/article/measles-cases-spike-to-25-year-high-in-europe/

* "“Cool” years are now hotter than the “warm” years of the past: tracking global temperatures through El Niño and La Niña:" https://ourworldindata.org/global-temperatures-el-nino-la-nina

* "A Mount Spurr eruption is ‘likely’ within weeks or months, scientists say:" https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2025/03/12/a-mount-spurr-eruption-is-likely-within-weeks-or-months-scientists-say/

* "The Global South’s Cleantech Revolution in Five Charts:" https://rmi.org/the-global-souths-cleantech-revolution-in-five-charts/?ref=fixthenews.com

* "Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying:" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/

* "There’s a bizarre animal in the deepest depths of the Pacific Ocean that looks like a toast rack – and it uses deadly hooks to kill its prey:" https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/harp-spnge

* "When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/when-an-american-town-massacred-its-chinese-immigrants

* "Dora Richter Lived:" https://epgn.com/2024/06/25/dora-richter-lived/

* "How the Boredom Epidemic ruined Hobbies:"

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* "Looking for the mysterious photographer who snapped occupied Paris and mocked the Nazis:" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/summer-reads/article/2024/09/09/looking-for-the-unknown-photographer-who-snapped-occupied-paris-and-mocked-the-nazis_6725386_183.html

* "Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, fierce LGBTQ+ ally & progressive champion, dies at 77:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/arizona-congressman-raul-grijalva-dies

* "Sen. Alan Simpson was way ahead of his party when it came to LGBTQ+ rights and marriage equality:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/alan-simpson-remembered

I didn't agree with everything he did, but this and his work for Internment camp survivors is incredibly admirable.

* "Felice Picano, acclaimed gay author, has died at 81:" https://www.advocate.com/news/author-felice-picano-dies

* "WWII bomb disposal operation in Paris causes hours of travel chaos and Eurostar line closure:" https://apnews.com/article/france-paris-gare-nord-unexploded-bomb-d76871a93baee768df2a225922f12d89

* I am making progress on spinning up Killian Laptop. I downloaded a bunch of smaller programs, I finally convinced some browsers to sync. I've added some more accessibility extensions, and Saturday, I got a couple browsers set up with things so I could run some of the standard things I do everyday of him.

He's pretty fast compared to Klaus. The main problem I'm having is I can't get Waterfox to run on him. Our theory is maybe he's too old for modern iterations. I am trying earlier versions one by one, but I may be stuck with classic Waterfox, which is not supported and can't sync, so I keep having to stop to hand customize. I'll keep at it this week when I'm not in the aggregate crunch.

* In Cat News: Sunday Tavy discovered that Goth Millenial can also administer medication.

Livia also reached the end of her patience with a Thing the Emperor has been doing. The Empress is a peaceable animal by nature as long as you aren't live prey. She is more than twice his size, but she will generally give way as it's less hassle unless he pushes her too far.

Sunday, she decided she had had enough. For the last month or two, he's been peeing on everybody's favorite spot on my bed 5-6 times a week. I am a person with a clothes washer on it's last legs that can only use hot water. I can't wash multiple cat pads every night and he's also taken to running it to pee on the bed while I am getting ready for bed, so if he does it earlier, the cats are SOL for napping in the Best spot until I do the bed time laundry. Traditionally, he then gets really angry at the humans because Someone has Peed in the best spot!!!

This is Livia's favorite spot too. In fact, she sleeps there more than he does in winter as he decamps for his heated bed for most of his Night Napping.

Tavy's refusal to pee in the box has been inconveniencing her all this time. Sure, she has her second favorite spot: the bedroom window podium, which I tricked out for her in her youth, but a lot of cold seeps in on winter nights and though she is cold adapted, she would rather be a bit further from the window in the comfy spot in the elbow of the Pillow Mountain Range. She has a number of other popular spots, including the desk box, top of pillow mountain, and three other on bed locations. (She used to love sleeping on the sofa, but that is also covered in pee pads and Tavy pee by that time of night. In warmer weather there is also Living room Window box, but the emperor peed in the spare boxes, so I'm not bothering with a new one until the weather is good for window naps.)

Before you ask, yes, we tried keeping the boxes clean. He pees in the boxes to mark them after a change, then goes right back to the sofa if no one is sitting on it, and sometimes when they are. I'd have to scoop each box myself after every use, a thing I can't do with my lungs and arthritis. I miss when he used to pee in the tub or the sink. I could just run a little water after each use, but he doesn't anymore.

Anyway, Sunday night, Livia was camped in the Best Bed Spot and was Not Moving, because if she did, he'd just pee on it after a token sit to establish dominance. he tried all of the passive aggressive tactics. Which she ignored, and when he got physical, she yelled at him and wapped him a good one. He knows he can't win a physical fight, so he is asleep in his desk bed as of this writing and she is enjoying the Best Bed Spot in peace for the first time since he started the regular bed wetting.

Good on her.

* "ICE Detention: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "Trump Tanks Stocks, Exhausts Wall Street | Erasing "Women" From The Internet | The King's Playlist:"

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* "Trump Trade War Wipes $4T Off The Stock Market | Rebrand Your Tesla | RFK Jr. On Measles:"

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* "Beer Will Cost More Under “Chaotic” Tariffs | Trump: Khalil Detention Is The First Of Many To Come:"

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* "Au Revoir, Champagne | EPA Is Abandoning The Environment | Vandalizing Teslas:"

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* "Meanwhile... Packing Peanuts Are Not Food | Banana Technology | Carolina Reaper World Record:"

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* "A room full of witnesses | Rose B. Simpson: Journeys of Clay | Exhibition Insights:"

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* "Ceaser's Camp 49BC:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P2PFY7iQNVw

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

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

* "Charging Cavalry:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ww5_UiO09Ks

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

* "True Facts: How Snakes Move:"

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* "How to play the accordion with Betsy and ‪

* I had more Millennials at once than we've had in months over Wednesday evening, which was fun.

After they left, I unfortunately left the computer open while I went to do lungs. When I got back, I discovered the Emperor had done something mind boggling destructive to the aggregate scaffolding formatting, that could only be undone laboriously, by hand.

Luckily, I had taken an impression of the current naked scaffold Right after the Sunday post, so what I'm doing is putting things like the divider lines back in and then posting it without most of the news I have prepped as it will be much simpler to start over with a clean scaffold.

As a result, my plan to spend several hours doing news postings wednesday evening got bumped in favour of dealing with the mess the Emperor made of the Aggregate.

Apologies.

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* "Israel sends tanks into West Bank for first time in decades, says fleeing Palestinians can’t return:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-hostages-02-23-2025-1c2dc86afd2e05888d5d588f462e898b

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* "30 fact checks to mark 3rd anniversary of Russia's invasion in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/collections/ukraine-war-trump-putin-zelenskyy/

* "On the third anniversary of Russian invasion, Ukraine supporters march through Detroit:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2025/02/23/rally-for-ukraine-downtown-detroit-amid-trump-russia-putin-peace-talks/79847462007/

* "Photos: Hundreds rally in Boston to mark 3 years since Russia's invasion in Ukraine:" https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/02/24/boston-ukraine-protest-photos-russia-trump

* "Amid growing Russian, US pressure, world rallies in support of Ukraine:" https://kyivindependent.com/the-world-rallies-in-support-of-ukraine/

* There are plenty more protests and articles about them. I'm just posting a selection.

* This is shameful for my country. "UN passes resolutions condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine despite US opposition:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/24/united-nations-ukraine-resolutions-00205744

* "5 signs that a U.S.-Europe split is widening:" https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5307012/europe-nato-us-ukraine-russia-eu

* Rightly so. I am not a fan of Macron's just generally, but he is on the right side of history and we are on the wrong one on this issue. "Trump, Macron display stark differences on Ukraine despite friendly veneer:" https://www.reuters.com/world/macron-arrives-white-house-ukraine-talks-with-trump-2025-02-24/

* "A flawed peace deal would not end the war in Ukraine:" https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/24/a-flawed-peace-deal-would-not-end-the-war-in-ukraine

* Us asking this is disgusting beyond words. "US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters:" https://kyivindependent.com/us-threatens-to-shut-off-starlink-if-ukraine-wont-sign-minerals-deal-sources-tell-reuters/

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* "Syria's new president invited to emergency Arab League summit in Egypt:" https://www.reuters.com/world/syrias-new-president-invited-emergency-arab-league-summit-egypt-2025-02-23/

* "Merz's conservatives push for quick coalition talks after German election win:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/merzs-conservatives-push-quick-coalition-talks-after-german-election-win-2025-02-24/

* "International reaction to German election:" https://www.reuters.com/world/international-reaction-germanys-election-2025-02-23/

* "German reactions to election result:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-reactions-election-result-2025-02-23/

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* "U.S. slips to new low in international corruption index:" https://www.axios.com/2025/02/11/us-record-low-international-corruption-index

* "Trump says Canada, Mexico tariffs on schedule despite border, fentanyl efforts:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-mexico-step-up-fentanyl-border-talks-this-week-avoid-trumps-tariffs-2025-02-24/

This is an essential step in the Republican plan to destroy the US economy for the pleasure of harming ordinary people. There is no sense or reason for doing this beyond the joy of watching the country burn.

* "How Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum could hit you at the grocery store:" https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5300051/tariffs-steel-aluminum-cans-food-groceries

* "Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/trump-doj-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-pause.html

* "Trump rescinds order on rights abuses with US-supplied weapons, sources say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-rescinds-order-rights-abuses-with-us-supplied-weapons-sources-say-2025-02-24/

* "The Trump administration is putting USAID staffers on leave worldwide and firing at least 1,600:" https://apnews.com/article/usaid-trump-musk-foreign-aid-firings-a3af8ce6ef17878b718c8e2ed3bf98e4

* "How the U.S. is betraying LGBTQ+ communities worldwide:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/foreign-aid-freeze

* "USAID freeze opens door to Russian influence in Eastern Europe:" https://www.politico.eu/article/usaid-freeze-russia-influence-eastern-europe-georgia-ukraine-moldova-belarus-ngo-media/

* "Judge warns Trump administration to comply with court order on foreign aid payments:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/foreign-aid-funding-state-department-022736

* "ICE lets local officials stop immigrants on the streets as task force program is back:" https://newjerseymonitor.com/2025/02/24/ice-lets-local-officials-stop-immigrants-on-the-streets-as-task-force-program-is-back/

How do they know who is an immigrant? Sure looks like racial profiling to me.

* "The hidden world of Chicago ICE arrests:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/23/immigration-detentions/

* "Judge blocks Trump immigration policy allowing arrests in churches for some religious groups:" https://apnews.com/article/dhs-immigration-agents-churches-trump-7c12f2509966dadeba98e920578f24c2
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* I wish it were so. "Tesla Takeover: How the Protests Against Elon Musk Signal a National Turning Point:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/elon-musk-tesla-takeover-protests-1235276235/

* "Anti-Trump activists reach new heights, perform new feats (so to speak):" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-taunted-with-fake-video-of-him-kissing-elon-musk-s-feet-over-cuts-at-hud-232839749894

* "At town halls, Republicans feel the heat from Trump and Musk's firing and cutting spree:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/town-halls-republicans-feel-heat-trump-musks-firing-cutting-spree-rcna193164

* "Democrats not immune from voter wrath as pressure to impede Trump mounts:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-not-immune-from-voter-wrath-as-pressure-to-impede-trump-mounts-232839749757

* "Trump says he has directed U.S. Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost :" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-treasury-stop-minting-penny-rcna191421

* "Donald Trump Declines to Endorse JD Vance as 2028 Republican 'Successor':" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-declines-endorse-jd-vance-2028-successor-2029106

* "The Dunning-Kruger Presidency:"

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* "Liberal Redneck - More MAGA Madness (and the DOGE Problem):"

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* "Trump and Elon Musk are floating 'DOGE dividends.' Low-income Americans might not get the benefits.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/trump-elon-musk-doge-dividends-low-income-americans-rcna192994

* "Mass firings continue across nation’s health agencies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/16/mass-firings-health-agencies-00204570

* "Top FDA food safety official's resignation letter warns firings will backfire on RFK Jr.:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-james-jones-resigns-warning-rfk-jr/

* "Can RFK Jr. Really Take Away ADHD Medications?: The Trump administration is calling for a report “assess[ing] the prevalence of and threat" of several drugs, including stimulants like Adderall:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/adderall-adhd-rfk-jr-medication-ban-1235276940/

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* "These little-known bank accounts allow Americans with disabilities to save and invest:" https://apnews.com/article/able-account-disabilities-savings-439fe21204ff443a1c0d907a112b99a0

* "US House Republicans advance Trump's tax cut plan:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-republicans-set-vote-trumps-tax-cut-agenda-2025-02-25/

People like me will die. This is the goal, of course.

Republicans want to remind you that this extreme life threatening cruelty is essential to pay for the massive tax cuts they want to give a handful of billionaires.

If you have Democratic Senators, call to stiffen their spines and get them to stand firm in unity. If you have Republican critters focus on how it will harm their base. If you can get your Republican Congress person to vote against this budget, it will be incredibly helpful, as the margin is small. Say whatever you need to say to sway them.

Either way, tell them you will never vote for them again if they pass this budget.

* "House GOP narrowly passes Trump budget blueprint that threatens Medicaid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/house-gop-narrowly-passes-trump-budget-blueprint-that-threatens-medicaid-232923205765

* "Senate Republicans say House budget won’t fly with them:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/senate-republicans-reject-house-budget-00206244

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Gov. Evers: “I want Wisconsin to become the first state in America to start auditing insurance companies over denying healthcare claims”:" https://www.wispolitics.com/2025/gov-evers-i-want-wisconsin-to-become-the-first-state-in-america-to-start-auditing-insurance-companies-over-denying-healthcare-claims/

* I am incandescent with fury. I also notice MSNBC refused to post Rachel Maddow's pointed comments about this. "New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bloodbath-of-non-white-anchors-after-joy-reid-forced-out/

* "Rachel Maddow calls out MSNBC for axing non-white hosts: ‘That feels indefensible’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/maddow-criticizes-msnbc-firing-anchors

* "Don Lemon tells 'racist' Megyn Kelly to 'go f**k yourself' for mocking Joy Reid's firing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/don-lemon-racist-megyn-kelly

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Wife accused of fatally stabbing fire captain was convicted of killing her first husband:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/fire-captain-stabbing-suspect-husband

* On people using small dicks as insults: https://www.tumblr.com/alatheacadabra/776299818992730112?source=share

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* "Fabric And Craft Retailer Joann To Go Out Of Business, Close All Of Its Stores:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joann-stores-closing-out-of-business_n_67bcddf9e4b0086412e16abd

Joann's is irreplaceable. Vulture Capitalism: Why we can't have nice things.

* "Millions of popular granola bars sold across the U.S. recalled due to ‘potential presence of metal':" https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/millions-of-popular-granola-bars-sold-across-the-u-s-recalled-due-to-potential-presence-of-metal/3679069/

* "Colombian police catch a man smuggling packets of cocaine under toupee:" https://apnews.com/article/colombia-cocaine-wig-drug-trafficking-methods-213436a6d8a232058e692c2a1145f5f3

* "Student Sparks Fire While Trying to Hide His 'Inflatable Girlfriend' From His Roommate:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/student-sparks-fire-while-trying-to-hide-his-inflatable-girlfriend-from-his-roommate/ar-AA1zx5Gw

* I was exhausted, but stayed up anyway for phone bureaucracy Monday. It was good I did. I was able to score a cancellation doctor's appointment for a concerning thing that happened with my foot over the weekend. I did in fact need medication and it will be weeks of treatment, but solvable.

While I was waiting to go, I did some other calls and some aggregate stuff. All the people I left messages with actually called back in the course of about an hour in the afternoon, which never happens. I'm used to call backs being an average of three days, but occasionally with a couple weeks as outlier.

Both the appointment and calls were very worth the lack of sleep.

Laundry experiments continue. The human laundry load went without a hitch. I ended up spending Monday evening wearing boxers and a cape as the fifth disability friendly shirt had gone walk about and the rest were in the wash. Tavy had pissed the bed again, possibly as part of his too many things protest and/or upset over me getting ready to go to the Doctor, a thing he is anxious about for the last year. The big bed cover and two sofa pads cleaned up fine. The messier one he complete befouled on the sofa will need to run back through, but we have enough pads that should be viable as long as he doesn't do something outrageous.

I think we can hold out like this for a few months as long as the hot water doesn't start leaking.

The New used laptop is now in Pennsylvania, on it's second attempt. I am still pissed that UPs didn't even attempt to deliver it despite the address being correct. Sigh. I think we've been at this since early January, one way or another. My heart constricts every time the screen on Edward goes randomly black. I worry each time I reboot Klaus that this time he won't wake back up. I am at the batch deleting stuff off Klaus in hopes of getting him to last longer stage as memory shrinks with this kind of hard drive failure. Still, we are hanging on for now.

* "Content Moderation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "Fed Workers Can Ignore Musk Email | A Living Cringe Meme | Trump Licks Feet In Viral AI Video:"

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* "Sassy Senators:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vD-xzhKfGss

* "Roman Senate:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RHN9mqPmiUo

* "Roman Emperors:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HayvQJ_tG08

* "Medieval Manliness:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8zNsAAYND1M

* "Medieval Melodrama:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UalUttUnylQ

* "The Hearty Hundred Years War:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kR2KmkJEWms

* "Pirates:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/54ogVscQhBA

* "Interview with a Vampire:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/68MMjU-oAe0

* CW: Rape. "I Did Not Enjoy Reading Wicked:"

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Nothing against all the people who love/d it, but I had exactly these problems myself.

* "Macron Knows How To Talk To Trump:"

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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.

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

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

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

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

* "Resources for California fire victims were scattered. So I created this site to help.:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/california-disaster-recovery-resources

* "Where your donations to L.A. fire victims will do the most good:" https://www.advocate.com/news/donate-los-angeles-fire-victims

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

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

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

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

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

* Where to protest the censoring and erasure of transfolk on the Stonewal Uprising monument if you can't go in person. Select no and leave a comment.: https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm

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

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

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

* "The Black Consumer Advisory:" https://naacp.org/campaigns/black-consumer-advisory

* "These little-known bank accounts allow Americans with disabilities to save and invest:" https://apnews.com/article/able-account-disabilities-savings-439fe21204ff443a1c0d907a112b99a0

( More Links Underneath: )

* "Resources for helping Gaza, Sudan and Congo:" https://www.tumblr.com/swallowedabug/758070860436439040?source=share

* ""President Musk" And The Dangers Of Plutocracy:"

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* "Why Does Elon Musk Want to Kill Wikipedia?:"

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* "Trump weighs in on H-1B visas amid legal immigration fight:" https://www.semafor.com/article/12/29/2024/trump-fails-to-clarify-stance-on-highly-sough-h-1b-visas-wanted-by-silicon-valley

* "Trump tech bros spar with MAGA loyalists online:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-tech-bros-spar-with-maga-loyalists-online-228053573772

* "Elon Musk ‘melts down’ after underestimating wrath of MAGA trolls:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/elon-musk-melts-down-after-underestimating-wrath-of-maga-trolls-228186181734

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Court rejects Trump appeal in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation case:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/30/nx-s1-5243228/federal-appeal-trump-e-jean-carroll

* "South Korea to inspect Boeing aircraft as it struggles to find cause of plane crash that killed 179:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/south-korea-to-inspect-boeing-aircraft-as-it-struggles-to-find-cause-of-plane-crash-that-killed-179/ar-AA1wH0UX

* "Chile's giant 'living fossil' frog faces threat from climate change and humans:" https://www.reuters.com/science/chiles-giant-living-fossil-frog-faces-threat-climate-change-humans-2024-12-18/

* "Bird flu has killed 20 big cats including cougars at a U.S. wildlife sanctuary:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/26/nx-s1-5239841/bird-flu-kills-20-cats-washington-sanctuary

* "Hungry or horny? Whale makes record swim halfway across planet:" https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/record-humpback-whale-migration/

* "A Homeowner Found Huge, Fossil Teeth While Mowing the Lawn. Then, Excavations Revealed a Complete Mastodon Jaw:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-homeowner-found-huge-fossil-teeth-while-mowing-the-lawn-then-excavations-revealed-a-complete-mastodon-jaw-180985703/

* "Archaeology news: New Polish Viking Sword!:"

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* "Vlad the Impaler | Extra History Complete | European History:"

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* "The Black Dinner - Scottish History - Extra History:"

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* "When the United States Tried to Get on Top of the Sex Trade:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/16/empire-of-purity-eva-payne-book-review

* "Disney's Animatronics: A Living History:"

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* "Tragedy Lingers Inside Chornobyl’s Abandoned City:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abandoned-chernobyl-disaster-ukraine

* "the Sham Legacy of Richard Feynman:"

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When I got to my first college to be a philosophy monk, guys were all abuzz about "Surely You're Joking."

I intended to read it eventually, but I kept shying away instinctively. I think I subconsciously picked up on what time of guys were into Feynman.

(There was an exception, who used to also tell his dad's Feynman stories from when they were working together. These stories were amusing in a way that the Feynman Bros quoting the book weren't. He wasn't a Feynman cultist, but rather someone with stories to contribute about Feynman in Feynman based conversations, if you get my meaning.)

This piece was illuminating and helpful to me.

* "Why we will never have another president like Jimmy Carter again:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/jimmy-carter-remembered

* "President Jimmy Carter dead at 100 — here's his history as an LGBTQ+ ally:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jimmy-carter-dead-100

* "Pete Buttigieg remembers warmth and kindness of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-praises-jimmy-carter

* "Stacey Abrams honors Jimmy Carter: He ‘remade Democratic politics’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-honors-jimmy-carter-he-remade-democratic-politics-228186693960

* "11 Rare Old Words for the Heinous and Villainous:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/83472/11-rare-old-words-heinous-and-villainous

* At bedtime Monday morning I noticed some weird things with my vision in my right eye. I looked them up and it sure sounds like a retinal tear. (I know, don't trust Web M.D., but shit is sudden, extreme and weird. I thought of alternate explanations, but I liminiated all of the non-medical ones. Fuck! Of course when everyone's off for holidays.

I have a scheduled appointment, I think for Monday. I should likely wait up and hope they are open today because it's getting worse.

* I was so exhausted I completely missed the Mummer's this year. :(

For those following the Special Assessment Saga, it was a good thing I raised and paid rent on top of what they took. Assholes still charged me a hundred dollar late fee because they fucked up December accounting. If they had taken rent instead of the third special assessment chunk without my knowledge or consent causing overdraft fees, then everything would have been paid to them on time, but I didn't know they were doing it until it was too late to fix, so here we are down an extra hundred for January with car fees and things coming due later in the month.

It will likely be all right. I will need to talk to Squirrel about it, but it will probably be all right.

I hate how extreme the punishment for doing nothing wrong has been in 2024, and it just keeps happening.

* I had so much fun with the dead podcast the back half of December. I ran out of episodes and find myself craving more.

It's an anthology series via Bloody Disgusting and the George A. Romero Foundation, so zombies.Like any anthology, so are more to my taste than others, but they were all worth listening to. They are shared universe, and do occasionally reference each other, but they also jump in time between stories and you could pretty easily listen to each story in any order. (A story is four episodes). The cast is diverse as one would expect given who is making these. The sound design fills me with horror and delight as is expected from Bloody Disgusting. For real, the zombie eating people sounds are far more awful than seeing gore on screen would be, even knowing how they were made.

Something I wanted to mention is the zombie sounds. Walking Dead is such a big thing and has been since the first episode debuted that their rattling hiss zombie vocalizations tend to be what zombies sound like now. Older media did other things: Moans, silence, even words. I have even heard a roar in one fascinating low budget one. These days though? Rattling hiss tends to be what one hears even in a lot of non Walking Dead Properties.

I like how human they made their zombie vocalizations in The Dead. I like the slow transition from a human sounding sick and in pain getting less and less articulate to what sounds a lot like me levering myself out of bed on a bad pain day and hobbling around. I like that it reminds one how human the newly turned look and sound. I like that it sounds like they could start speaking again at any moment, that the sound design of the intro encourages one to strain to catch words that never come during the episodes proper.

This thing is beautifully done and addicting, even when I know exactly how things are going to go. (This isn't a dis. Most twists in anything I will see coming).

Anyway, if you like zombie stories, I suggest checking this out.

* "Video Games & the Sexy Gender Binary:"

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* "Horror Queers: Re-Animator (1985):" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/re-animator-1985/id1449041559?i=1000643633533

* "The 25 Best Queer Films of the Century So Far :" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/the-25-best-queer-films-of-the-century-so-far

* "19 LGBTQ+ movies & TV shows coming in January 2025 & where to watch them:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/lgbtq-movies-tv-shows-january-2025

* "Horror Queers: Strangers on a Train (1951):" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/strangers-on-a-train-1951/id1449041559?i=1000649018428

* "39 Amazing And Thought-Provoking Sculptures You've Probably Never Seen Before:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/39-amazing-and-thought-provoking-sculptures-you-ve-probably-never-seen-before/ar-AA1tHmuz

* "Riding Through Time: Vintage Motorcycle Photos of People Posing with Pride, 1920s-1950s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/people-with-motorcycles-vintage-photos/

* "Stunning Black-and-White Photos That Capture the Spirit of 1980s Hong Kong:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hong-kong-photos-1980s/

* "“The Council Requires Snackies”: 50 Hilarious Pics Of Cats Grouping Together Interview With Expert:" https://www.boredpanda.com/council-of-cats-pics/

* "Sunday Sweets: Jen's Happy Cakes:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-jens-happy-cakes-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.

* "We have a right to safety, privacy, and protest. Say no to mask bans.:" https://www.stopmaskbans.com/

* Ethical Elephant sanctuary disaster relief: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/769847233453719552/emergency-flood-relief?source=share

* "Trans Kids Deserve Better:" https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/support

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

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

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

* "Buy Native List:" https://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

* Natural fiber fabric sources to buy from for sewing: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/768880596478984192?source=share

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

* Disaster Preparedness stuff from the US Government: https://www.ready.gov/publications

* "My husky’s fren needs your help:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/74raKUtbCKI

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* Please tell the Whitehouse anything you want them to do while there is still time: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

* "Resources for helping Gaza, Sudan and Congo:" https://www.tumblr.com/swallowedabug/758070860436439040?source=share

* "Israel’s move into Golan Heights demilitarised zone:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/SYRIA-SECURITY/MAPS/myvmbxdgwpr/#israels-move-into-golan-heights-demilitarised-zone

* "An elaborate global system exists to prevent famine. It’s failing.:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/famine-response-overview/

* "Hundreds of arrests and mysterious beatings as Georgia cracks down on pro-EU protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hundreds-arrests-mysterious-beatings-georgia-cracks-down-pro-eu-protests-2024-12-11/

* "Women despair over Taliban rules, but many Afghan returnees don’t see it:" https://archive.ph/QbWSV#selection-494.0-494.1

* "Ayman: Why did it take this long for Assad’s regime in Syria to collapse?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ayman-why-did-it-take-this-long-for-assad-s-regime-in-syria-to-collapse-226786373533

* "A look at the political storm caused by South Korean president’s martial law decree:" https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-yoon-martial-law-impeachment-turmoil-timeline-336b2e3defa5c4e36221ca08ae75cbc7

* "South Korea opposition leader urges president's party to back impeachment over martial law:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-opposition-leader-lee-says-impeaching-yoon-best-way-restore-order-2024-12-13/

* "K-pop light sticks fire up Yoon's impeachment protests in South Korea:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/k-pop-light-sticks-fire-up-impeachment-protests-south-korea-2024-12-10/

* These are refugees. "Dominican Republic Is Deporting Haitians In Trucks With Built-in Cages In Immigration Crackdown:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dominican-republic-is-deporting-haitians-in-trucks-with-built-in-cages-in-immigration-crackdown/ar-AA1vCCDL

* "Chinese espionage campaign scooped up data on thousands of US mobile phone users, sources say:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/chinese-espionage-campaign-scooped-data-thousands-us-mobile/story?id=116439853

* "The Hawaiians Who Want Their Nation Back: In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government. What does America owe Hawai‘i now?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/hawaii-monarchy-overthrow-independence/680759/

* "Ex-Judges Join Push for Biden to Commute Federal Death Sentences:" https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ex-judges-join-push-for-biden-to-commute-federal-death-sentences

* As of this writing, it's not the death penalty cases yet, so now might be a good time to let Biden know. "Biden commutes sentences for 1,500 people. Some say he could do a lot more:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/12/nx-s1-5226683/biden-commutations-pardons

* "Interior Sec. Deb Haaland - Honoring Native American History & Gift to Biden | The Daily Show:"

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* "FBI informant accused of lying about Bidens agrees to plead guilty:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/12/smirnov-bidens-plea-agreement-00194004

* "US Supreme Court may limit environmental reviews in Utah railway fight:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-examines-utah-railway-environmental-review-fight-2024-12-10/

* "US v Skrmetti is a public health disaster:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/us-v-skrmetti

* "Trans Kids Are On The Chopping Block:"

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* "BREAKING: U.S. House passes defense spending bill with anti-trans provision:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-trans-defense-bill-advances

* "Gay Democrat is lone LGBTQ+ vote in Congress for anti-trans national defense bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/chris-pappas-supports-transphobic-bill

* "40+ senators oppose anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion provisions in spending bills:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/senators-oppose-anti-lgbtq-ndaa

Remember how we spent all last year and the early part of this one fighting this sort of thing where they slip anti-bodily autonomy stuff into must pass funding bills?

Here we are again. Please, call your critters in the Senate, whether Republican or Democrat. Democrats actually had our backs through these fights in the last few years, but it's not guaranteed given the scapegoating in the press, so call Democratic critters too help stiffen their spines. Thank them if they are standing up for bodily autonomy; tell them your opinion if they aren't. Express support for trans healthcare as well as abortion

If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

* Women in the Open misogyny/Women should be subordinate and have no say in anything party shocked SHOCKED that the party is misogynist and won't let them have a say in anything. "Republican women annoyed GOP Congress won't let them run committees: report:" https://www.rawstory.com/republican-women-in-congress/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHISwVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdNfhvGLyRp5kBd98UrRP1ZhVjp2l_prDktsdkOxjaKP2d0ahXu54TmElw_aem_VSofeM4qZMNmHyTXyABnRQ&sfnsn=mo

* "Ocasio-Cortez launches bid for top role on Oversight, as some Dems predict she’ll win:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/06/congress/ocasio-cortez-prepares-oversight-bid-00193010

* "Donald Trump says he won’t debate trans bathroom use affecting ‘very small number of people’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trans-bathroom-ban-donald-trump

One. One person in particular. They singled out Sarah McBride to prevent her peeing safely at work.

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "North Carolina GOP lawmakers override veto of bill to strip power from incoming Democratic officials:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/north-carolina-republican-override-veto-democrat-governor-rcna183703

* "Elections board dismisses Republican protests in close North Carolina races:" https://abc11.com/post/elections-board-dismisses-republican-protests-close-north-carolina-races/15642973/

* "Texas City Council that targeted LGBTQ+ people gets voted out — and replaced with first gay member:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-odessa-first-gay-city-council-member

* "Nancy Mace gets prominent foster care activist arrested on assault charges that eyewitnesses dispute:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nancy-mace-disputed-assault-claims

* "Who is Scott Presler? The gay conservative even the RNC won't employ:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/who-is-scott-presler

* "Court ruling sends jolt through the core of U.S. conservatives, Fox News 'Trump staffing agency':" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/court-ruling-sends-jolt-through-the-core-of-u-s-conservatives-fox-news-trump-staffing-agency-226736197803

* "Sen. Bernie Sanders on Making Government Deliver:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sen-bernie-sanders-on-making-government-deliver/id1583132133?i=1000679319133

* "Free Idea: No Democratic Votes For Loyalty-Tested Republicans:" https://www.offmessage.net/p/no-democratic-votes-for-loyalty-test-republicans

* "‘Enraging’: Hayes slams lawmakers, billionaires for submitting to Trump in advance:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-enraging-hayes-slams-lawmakers-billionaires-for-submitting-to-trump-in-advance-226951749754

* "The triumph of anti-identity-politics identity politics:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-triumph-of-anti-identity-politics-identity-politics/ar-AA1vCC9Z

* "Conservatism in the Trump 2.0 Years with McKay Coppins:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conservatism-in-the-trump-2-0-years-with-mckay-coppins/id1382983397?i=1000678257096

* "Is climate change lighting a fuse under Iceland's volcanoes?:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-glacier-volcanoes/

* "Death by water, burial by mud. Images of Spain’s floods of the century:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-spain-valencia-photo-gallery-af444afb79ad40dd4a01e9dcfa95d2ba

* "How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of Digging:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-a-team-of-gophers-restored-mount-st-helens-after-its-catastrophic-eruption-with-less-than-a-day-of-digging-180985459/

* "Appeals court upholds TikTok ban, declining to block law that would force sale:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-ban-appeals-court-congress/

* "Keeping Your Personal Data Safe in the Age of Trump:" https://www.wired.com/story/politics-lab-keeping-your-personal-data-safe/

* "Monarch butterfly proposed for listing under the US Endangered Species Act:" https://xerces.org/press/monarch-butterfly-proposed-for-listing-under-us-endangered-species-act

* "When Songbird Couples Split: A warming climate may cause more bird couples to break up.:" https://nautil.us/when-songbird-couples-split-1168056/?

* "Medieval Daily Life on Birchbark:" https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/medieval-daily-life-on-birchbark/

* "Self-Publishing and the Black American Narrative:" https://daily.jstor.org/self-publishing-black-american-narrative/?preview_id=320102

* "All about the nation's first gay rights group, the Society for Human Rights, founded 100 years ago:" https://www.advocate.com/news/first-gay-rights-group

* "Millions are reading a teen’s account of life and war. It’s from 1945.:" https://archive.ph/By0Rr#selection-476.0-476.1

* "The Soul of 1970s Harlem as Seen Through Jack Garofalo’s Camera:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/harlem-photographed-by-jack-garofalo/

* CW: Pedophilia. "Waco Primer:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/waco-primer/id1762494071?i=1000676606879

* "How To Lose A Rap Battle:"

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* The fundraiser is over. I want to tank everyone has helped since September. This has been a terrible year for all of us and it means so much to me that you are here.

* Amoung the Too Many Things that maid up my Wednesday, I went to get vaccinated. Yes, I know my Doctor suggested I should wait for February after my September COVID, according to current guidelines, but I am worried that that all vaccines may be banned by that point, if the Republicans fulfill their threats. I don't want to get caught in what I suspect will be a rush for boosters in January by people who are aware of the planned vaccine ban.

Sure, it might not happen, but this is one of the areas where they can move without Congress and there isn't much stopping them, so I decided on caution. I take vaccination seriously and there is a reason I was classed group 1B during initial vaccine roll out. I'm a medically fragile person who had to mask against things like influenza before 2020. I made it four and a half years before catching it, I'd rather not catch it again, as I am still tired from my first bout in September and I'd rather not lose any more function. I'd get an RSV vaccine if they'd let me. I have all my other shots.

So I was down at the poverty clinic pharmacy chatting with the guy giving me my shot, who has been there, I think, a couple decades, so I'm a familiar face. So I mentioned my worries about the public health policy situation to see how they were taking it at Poverty clinic.

He had a lot to say, not surprisingly. They are frightened and furious. They rely on grants and are absolutely essential to the healthcare infrastructure of the city. In my opinion, they are absolutely irreplaceable. They serve the poor and other marginalized communities. They've been essential to providing healthcare to the HIV+ population since the '80's, they are a hub for trans healthcare for several counties, they are queer friendly generally and safe, they have lots of immigrant services and translators, they do a lion's share of health care and dentistry for the homeless population. Him: We save lives here. I don't know what will happen if we lose our grants and close.

Me either, Sir. Me either.

* The asshole agency started sending cleaners again the back half of November. As they only sent one person for a two hour shift, not counting the lady who lied she was going to get gloves and drove away, between early June and then (The time we needed them most), I had a fuckton of hours that go away at the end of the year. I've been scheduling them twice a week and to my absolute shock they've been sending them. O.o I had five extra hours even so, so I scheduled a couple extra Mondays because of the holidays.

One of them is amazing, so I set it up so she gets first shot at my hours. Seriously, she's a delight. She's lonely and has hinted at maybe wanting to be friends outside of work. I'd invite her to join the friend group if she could bubble, but she has kids, so it wouldn't be safe, unfortunately. (Don't worry, we both mask for her visits). I sent her home with three full boxes of food forage sent us that neither we nor the Millennials could use, two boxes of which have been in my car since inspection because we needed to take them to donate. Better they go to a single Mom I know and like, I figure.

Part of why my original standard cleaner day for Friday morning is that the forage boxes usually arrive while cleaners are there and they can haul them inside and I can offer them things like the extra eggs (Squirrel isn't allowed to have them and I can only use whites in a baking context because my body can't handle an egg white omelette even so I never need more than one carton. I am always asking visiting Millennials if they want eggs.), or vegetables we are allergic to, or canned goods we have a surplus of or can't use for medical reasons, etc.. Some take them, some don't. My feeling is people who aren't poor don't take jobs like this. Poor people have to look out for each other.

The thing is, I needed to take a Millennial to a thing to sort out an ongoing thing left over from late last summer. The place closes at five which meant between 3/12- 4 Hours sleep for me. I am exhausted, but it was worth it. I do need to take them back a couple more times, but it is actually sorted out in a satisfactory way. We stopped at the good grocery on the way back and I got good tomatoes for sandwiches, which I had been wanting to do, but was too tired last couple of days what with the HOA drama and the booster shot. As Covid vaccine goes, this wasn't too bad and is noticeably less severe than this years flu shot was. I can live with extra tired, and slightly congested. I frequently do that without any vaccines. It's certainly better than a second bout of Covid would be.

I am not looking forward to figuring out how to get my flu and Covid boosters in Canada next year if they are banned. Sigh. That is next September me's problem, though.

I also had a Firefox crash and they no longer let you have access to a "restore session" button. I spent a couple hours reconstructing, but I suspect some news was lost and it is possible I may repost news items because I can't remember if they went out already. Apologies.

* "Meanwhile... Oregon's Controversial Googly Eyes | Drain Pipe Cat | Krispy Kreme Hacked:"

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* ""TV Ate my Family": Lance Loud & America's First Reality Show:"

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* "Fashion Doesn't Matter (like it used to):"

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* "Jane Austen - Sarcasm and Subversion - Extra History:"

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* "Horror Queers: Critters (1986):" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critters-1986/id1449041559?i=1000666871969

* "Hallmark Channel Targets Sad Singles:"

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* "The Anti-Holiday Rom-Com We Deserve After Surviving 2024 | The Daily Show:"

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* "A History of the Infant Christ Being Given Piggy-Back Rides in Western Art:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/a-history-of-the-infant-christ-being?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=152664256&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

* "Reelin’ In The Years – DORK TOWER 27.11.24:" http://www.dorktower.com/2024/11/27/19227/

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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.

* "Trans Kids Deserve Better:" https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/support

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

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

* "Buy Native List:" https://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

* Natural fiber fabric sources to buy from for sewing: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/768880596478984192?source=share

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

* Disaster Preparedness stuff from the US Government: https://www.ready.gov/publications

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* "Russia’s Wagner Group expands into Africa’s Sahel with a new brand:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/12/russias-wagner-group-expands-into-africas-sahel-with-a-new-brand.html

* "Yulia Navalnaya once avoided the limelight. Now she’s Russia’s newest opposition leader:" https://apnews.com/article/yulia-navalnaya-navalny-death-92efe8fa54fa6a6614fb3433c27e4878

* "Inside ‘The Game’: The dangerous new path migrants are risking to get to the EU:" https://inews.co.uk/news/world/refugee-europe-bosnia-asylum-seeker-2916539

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Inside North Korea's Forced-Labor Program:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/inside-north-koreas-forced-labor-program-in-china

* "Asylum-seekers risk lives to cross Rio Grande into US:" https://www.reuters.com/pictures/asylum-seekers-risk-lives-cross-rio-grande-into-us-2024-02-26/

* "A unanimous Supreme Court restores Trump to the Colorado ballot:" https://www.npr.org/2024/03/04/1230453714/supreme-court-trump-colorado-ballot

* "4 takeaways from the Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump and 14th Amendment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/04/takeaways-supreme-court-trump-ruling/

* "Amazon’s Big Secret:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/amazon-profits-antitrust-ftc/677580/

* "Republicans who say they support IVF backed a bill protecting life ‘at conception’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/25/ivf-republicans-legislation/

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

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

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

* The Republican War on Democracy continues. "Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/us/politics/trump-voter-rolls.html

* "It Can Happen Here: A new project tracking creeping authoritarianism.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/it-can-happen-here-trump-authoritarianism-fascism/

* "She’s a Prophet. She’s a Theocrat. She’s the Most Powerful Lobbyist You’ve Never Heard Of.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/abby-abildness-lobbyist/

* "'The Republican Party is going through some things': Maddow marvels at GOP veering into extremism:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-marvels-at-gop-veering-into-extremism-right-up-to-the-top-205461573974

* "U.S. voters face stark contrast in 2024 choices, with no 'magic wand' coming to help:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-voters-face-stark-contrast-in-2024-choices-with-no-magic-wand-coming-to-help-205463621504

* "Laverne Cox is begging all queer Americans to vote Democrat in the 2024 election:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/laverne-cox-election-2024

* "Black LGBTQ+ candidates still face bigotry — here's how they're fighting it:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/black-lgbtq-politicians-obstacles

* "Oregon mayoral candidate was involved in 1984 gay bashing but says he's changed:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/oregon-mayoral-candidate-gay-bashing

* "Missouri Republicans try to remove man with ties to KKK from party ballot:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-mark-robinson-mlk

* "Offensive comments by N.C. Republican stand out even in Trump’s party:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/03/02/mark-robinson-governor-candidate-north-carolina-offensive-comments/

* "Donald Trump endorses Mark Robinson, who said gays are ‘filth’ and ‘maggots,’ for NC governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-mark-robinson-mlk

* "Trump calls GOP's most toxic candidate 'Martin Luther King times two':" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/4/2227413/-Trump-calls-GOP-s-most-toxic-candidate-Martin-Luther-King-times-two

* Presidential Primaries are ongoing:

NOTE: There is now a call for people to vote "uncommitted" in the Democratic primary as a protest against Biden's Israel policy, I have voted that way in my up coming primary. The time to pressure Biden with your vote is now, not in November. The more of us who do this the more likely he'll actually do something.

Alabama, Alaska (Republicans), Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa (Democrats), Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, American Samoa (Democrats): 3/5/24

Hawaii: (Democrats): 3/6/24

American Samoa (Republicans): 3/8/24

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

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

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

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

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

* "'Uncommitted' protest over Biden's Israel support heads to Minnesota:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/uncommitted-protest-aims-minnesota-over-bidens-israel-support-2024-03-04/

* "Biden says Trump wouldn't concede next time: "Losers are never graceful":" https://www.axios.com/2024/03/04/biden-trump-2024-election-concede

* "Nikki Haley wins DC primary, first victory for campaign:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/haley-dc-primary-results-00144502

* "Hungarian PM Orban to meet ally Trump on March 8:" https://www.reuters.com/world/hungarian-pm-orban-meet-trump-march-8-florida-2024-03-04/

* "At CPAC, Trump Invokes Clashing Visions of America’s Future:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/us/politics/trump-cpac.html

* ""Truly dystopian": Experts worry Trump's school vaccine plan will spark "public health catastrophe":" https://www.salon.com/2024/03/04/truly-dystopian-experts-worry-school-vaccine-plan-will-spark-public-health-catastrophe/

* ""He looks lost": Alarm after Trump's "mind blanks out" repeatedly during speech:" https://www.salon.com/2024/03/04/he-looks-lost-alarm-after-mind-blanks-out-repeatedly-during-speech/

* "Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/

* "Kentucky bill threatens to take custody of trans kids using ‘wrong’ school bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kentucky-bill-take-trans-children

* I think we all know why they want this and what they are going to do to the women. "New Oklahoma bill could allow state to create database of women who had abortions:" https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/02/15/oklahoma-abortion-law-kevin-west-bill-creates-database-women/72613836007/#:~:text=New%20Oklahoma%20bill%20could%20allow,of%20women%20who%20had%20abortions&text=A%20Democratic%20lawmaker%20expressed%20concerns,procedure%20and%20ban%20emergency%20contraception.

* "A bill protecting birth control access is headed to Virginia’s governor. Here’s why Republicans said they opposed it.:" https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/03/01/a-bill-protecting-birth-control-access-is-headed-to-virginias-governor-heres-why-republicans-said-they-opposed-it/

* "As Missouri lawmakers continue attacking LGBTQ+ rights, one city is taking a stand against hate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/columbia-missouri-lgbtq-safe-haven

* "Georgia Senate passes bill to create ‘America First’ license plate:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-senate-passes-bill-creating-america-first-license-plate/XHE3RYKTN5DLPAOJ6PKZRK3HH4/

Reminder: "America first" is a NAZI slogan broadly adopted by Trump and the Republicans for obvious reasons.

* "California Sen. Laphonza Butler reads Audre Lorde in protest of GOP book banning:" https://www.advocate.com/books/banned-books-laphonza-butler

* "Oklahoma superintendent’s ties to anti-trans influencer spark outrage in wake of Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ryan-walters-transphobic-influencer-ties

* "Oklahoma superintendent and Libs of TikTok celebrate bullying gay principal out of job for drag persona:" https://www.advocate.com/news/oklahoma-drag-principal-resignation

* "Why industry is blocking the push for more energy efficient homes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/21/homebuilders-energy-efficiency-climate/

* "In Cincinnati, redevelopment can mean artwork — and people — disappear:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/21/1231466640/in-cincinnati-redevelopment-can-mean-artwork-and-people-disappear

* "The Future of Silk:" https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-future-of-silk/

* "Apple’s Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-03/why-was-apple-car-canceled-the-hubris-in-apple-thinking-it-could-outdo-tesla-ltbke5ut

* "X/Twitter has ‘quietly restored’ a ban on misgendering and deadnaming trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/x-twitter-has-quietly-restored-a-ban-on-misgendering-and-deadnaming-trans-people/

* "Elon Musk sues OpenAI's Sam Altman for breach of contract:" https://www.advocate.com/news/sam-altman-openai-elon-musk

* "Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/magazine/mars-isolation-experiment.html

* "Twin Bell's turtles hatch during research project to repopulate the species in the NSW New England region:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-21/belles-turtle-repopulation-program-produces-twin-hatchlings-une/103485442

* "Getting that 'Moby Dick' — The first humpback whales to be seen having sex are both male:" https://www.advocate.com/news/humpback-whale-gay-sex

* "Charlotte, a stingray with no male companion, is pregnant in her mountain aquarium:" https://apnews.com/article/stingray-pregnant-charlotte-north-carolina-1da7d7ab06bf22169ef2c8e589db9cb4

* "Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds:" https://phys.org/news/2024-02-pythagoras-wrong-universal-musical-harmonies.html

* "Rediscovering Rome’s Female Merchants:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/antiquity-roman-female-merchants

* "A mysterious 2,000-year-old Iron Age warrior was female, a new study shows:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/old-iron-age-female-warrior-scilly-iburial-rcna96595

* "The Humour of Medieval Scribes:" https://www.medievalists.net/2024/02/humour-medieval-scribes/

* "Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855):" https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/earthquakes-in-japanese-woodblock-prints/

* "Recovering the Lost Aviators of World War II:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/recovering-lost-aviators-world-war-ii-180983690/

* "Meet the Boston native at the center of the Tuskegee Airmen mural at Logan Airport:" https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-02-29/meet-the-boston-native-at-the-center-of-the-tuskegee-airmen-mural-at-logan-airport

* "Rosalind Franklin was so much more than the ‘wronged heroine’ of DNA:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02144-4

* "What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/

* "The Endangered Languages of NYC:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/22/magazine/endangered-languages-nyc.html

* "The Black Women of Gee’s Bend Work Hard and Easy: The wonder world of quilt-making:" https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/the-black-women-of-gees-bend-work-hard-and-easy/

* "Some Museums Scrambled to Remove Native American Items From Display. These Museums Didn’t Need to.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/why-museum-of-us-history-colorado-didnt-scramble-meet-new-repatriation-rules

* "Pat Logue, Lambda Legal attorney who won landmark cases, has died:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pat-logue-lambda-legal-obituary

* Saturday physio still gave me the shakes, but it was the first time I made any real progress with the hardest Exercise.

Monday, the car fix was cheaper than expected, but they discovered the power steering is about to Go. I've already paid the housing tax, which ate most of my discretionary funds, and I blew the entire EBT on shelf stable easy to make things for while I'm laid up plus a few perishables and I still need to hit the other store for fresh veg and such.

The car fix is expensive, as there aren't that many places carrying compatible parts for a car this ancient, so the price is like twice what it would have been a decade ago. I made the appointment for mid-April, when I hope to be allowed to drive as it takes two of us to drop off and pick up the car. The hope is it can survive another week, as I shan't be allowed to drive for any of March past the 12th.

Sigh. Being Poor is so damned expensive.

I have decided not to worry about it now. Getting through March is going to be hard enough given the surgery stuff. If worse comes to worst I'll just not pay anything but housing next month.

On the up side, the completely immobilized arm for two weeks turns out to have been for the rather extreme and complex surgery we though i was going to need. I am getting the medium surgery instead, so I'll be able to move it a little. It won't be good for much, but can move it a little will be a bit easier than not at all.

I am still stressed out about trips to the toilet and the like, trying to manage one handed without practice. I know lots of people manage fine with one or no arms. I once had a lover who only had one part of one arm and he was the most graceful man I've ever seen including professional dancers. I have no practice though, and I'm not going to be in great shape the first few days.

* "Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Black writers share their favorite books to honor Black History Month:" https://www.advocate.com/books/black-writers-black-history-month

* "New Indigenous heist movie focuses on repatriation of belongings:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/the-great-salish-heist-1.7112633

* "A gender-bending Civil War soldier's tale comes to the musical stage:" https://www.advocate.com/theater/rosetta-project-civil-war-gender

* "Detectives - SNL:"

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* "Airbnb Design Commercial - SNL:"

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* "Sunday Sweets Sings It's Not Easy Being Green:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-sings-its-not-easy-being-green-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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* Duplications may occur for the next while due to laptop issue.

* "Number of Gazans Detained in Israel Jumps by 150% in a Month; Witness: Soldiers Abuse Detainees in Military Facility:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-03/ty-article/.premium/number-of-gazans-detained-in-israel-jumps-150-witness-soldiers-abuse-detainees/0000018c-ca0b-d6c4-ab8d-ebbf60380000

* "Editorial | Israel Must Stop Abusing and Humiliating Palestinian Prisoners:" https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-01-03/ty-article-opinion/israel-must-stop-the-beating-and-humiliation-of-palestinian-prisoners/0000018c-cbf7-dc35-adee-cbf7961c0000

* "Gaza Is Starving:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/gaza-is-starving

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544
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* "PALESTINIANS SUE BIDEN FOR FAILING TO PREVENT GENOCIDE IN GAZA:" https://theintercept.com/2023/11/13/gaza-lawsuit-biden-israel-genocide/

* "Earth shattered global heat record in ’23 and it’s flirting with warming limit, European agency says:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-warming-heating-earth-europe-copernicus-60eb12d11b7e5f694848673bb58512d3

* "Snow loss pinned to human-induced emissions:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03993-5

* "U.S. Carbon Emissions Fell in 2023 as Coal Use Tumbled to New Lows:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/climate/us-carbon-emissions-2023-climate.html

* "The United States is producing more oil than any country in history:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/us-production-oil-reserves-crude/index.html

* "Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers:" https://apnews.com/article/chocolate-deforestation-cocoa-farming-nigeria-8813c4656635a4ae8b49c6fd7ced6d28

* "Ethical Questions Arise After AI “Completes” Keith Haring Painting:" https://hyperallergic.com/865291/ethical-questions-arise-after-ai-completes-keith-haring-painting/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=D010924&utm_content=D010924+CID_60293e60ec7f70af8338050e1e6e4210&utm_source=hn&utm_term=Ethical+Questions+Arise+After+AI+Completes+Keith+Haring+Painting

* "OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material:" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/openai-says-its-impossible-to-create-useful-ai-models-without-copyrighted-material/

* "JUST SAY NO TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN YOUR CREATIVE PURSUITS, PLEASE, JFC, WTAF:" https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2024/01/10/just-say-no-to-artificial-intelligence-in-your-creative-pursuits-please-jfc-wtaf/

* "Elon Musk criticized by civil rights groups over claim that diversity efforts make flying less safe:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-boeing-dei-diversity-x-posts-pilots-rcna133351

* "How these parrots went from the tropical jungle to the concrete jungle:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/los-angeles-flocks-wild-parrots-how-they-get-there

* "Ancient Romans lost these gemstones—down a bathhouse drain:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/ancient-romans-lost-gemstones-bathhouse-drain

* "Mysterious Section of the Great Wall of China Isn't What We Thought, Study Reveals:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7e5mb/mysterious-section-of-the-great-wall-of-china-isnt-what-we-thought-study-reveals

* "The American Soldier Whose Fear of Fighting in Vietnam Led Him to Defect to North Korea. He Stayed There for 40 Years:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-american-soldier-whose-fear-of-fighting-in-vietnam-led-him-to-defect-to-north-korea-he-stayed-there-for-40-years-180983530/

* "Happy Public Domain Day 2024!:" https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/public-domain-day-2024/

* I'm doing my best with Klaus, migrating functions. It's way less efficient this way and a bunch of other things I normally do on Klaus need to keep on happening, so there are zero promises about me getting any number of things done when I normally do them. Some friends have clubbed together and are planning to send something I can do some of my messaging, etc. on, which mostly effects my private life. (Important for me and my close friends, but no one else).

The power still hasn't drained from Aidan, so we can't tell if reboot would help. A Millennial may look at it next week to see if anything can be done. I don't have a lot of hope. This is infuriating. Aidan is only a couple years old and was in great shape.

There is a good chance of me double posting accidentally for a bit, as I'm not sure which news items were just prepped or posted.

* "Christie Drops Out | Trump: A President Can Assassinate Rivals | Celebs Ruin RFK Jr.’s Birthday:"

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* "Stephen Colbert’s Cyborgasm: Chatbots Run Wendy’s Drive Thru | AI Dating Apps | Robotic Third Arm:"

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* "Texas Library Association’s Excuse for Dropping Chuck Tingle Appearance Doesn’t Add Up:" https://www.themarysue.com/texas-library-associations-excuse-for-dropping-chuck-tingle-appearance-doesnt-add-up/

* Chuck Tingle explains the ableism of the TLA in refusing accommodation. "My Masks:" https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739177829397331968/my-masks?source=share

* "Antigone to go (Sophocles in 11 minutes, English version):"

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* "‘Our Flag Means Death’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Max:" https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/our-flag-means-death-canceled-max-1235866718/

* "A Quick Fix To Improve Your Historical Drama, Fast: The Thing About The Past Is People Still Liked Being Clean:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/a-quick-fix-to-improve-your-historical?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=140517747&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&utm_medium=email

* "That’s Ludacris!:"

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* "Prompt: After a lackluster 1st year as a Hero, you’re ready to go rogue. The problem is that the new guy in the team is definitely onto you.:" https://www.tumblr.com/caffeinewitchcraft/692435372447285248/that-nerdy-guy-knows-your-secret-you-scan-the

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help the Lenape Nation get recognition from Pennsylvania: https://www.lenape-nation.org/

* "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

* CW: Animal Death. Fundraiser to cover costs of final treatment. "Dine's expenses for Olivier's last week:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/dines-expenses-for-oliviers-last-week

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* 1/8/24: So where was most of the news for the first week of January? Basically a lot of stuff was happening out in the world while my body is still reading the beefed up daily physio routine as if it's an injury. Basically, I'd be just up to doing prep and then have to go rest. Or do more physio. Or my arm wouldn't be up to much. I have the links despite me thinking for about fifteen minutes I'd lost them in a computer problem at one point.

Trust me, I have been following the news. I'm going to try to at least get essentials from Gaza and some of the world election stuff out before I close out this aggregate edition. the Trump ball of worms is likely going to have to wait.

I will see how much I can wrangle before the Monday arm torture appointment.

* "Rep. Crockett: We know Trump got more than $7.8 million from foreign governments:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-crockett-we-know-trump-got-more-than-7-8-million-from-foreign-governments-201494597674

* "Britain hit by flooding after heavy rain swells major rivers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-hit-by-flooding-after-heavy-rain-swells-major-rivers-2024-01-05/

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

* "Severe Thunderstorms and Likely Tornadoes Cause Damage in Florida:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/us/tornado-storms-georgia-florida.html

* "How safety rules ‘written in blood’ saved lives in Tokyo plane crash :" https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/travel/tokyo-plane-crash-safety-rules-analysis-intl/index.html

* "FAA orders grounding of certain Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after Alaska Airlines incident:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/06/1223296736/boeing-737-max-9-planes-grounded

* "Inside India’s Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/river-ganges-clean-up-india-modi

* "Drought-prone California OKs new rules for turning wastewater directly into drinking water:" https://apnews.com/article/california-recycled-wastewater-drought-8b476dc83652af43c6aad52070b9d992

* "After a Decade of Planning, New York City Is Raising Its Shoreline:" https://e360.yale.edu/features/new-york-city-climate-plan-sea-level-rise

* "The nation’s capital, built on water, struggles to keep from drowning:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/dc-low-lying-city-flood-risks/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzAzMTM0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA0NTE3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDMxMzQ4MDAsImp0aSI6IjJhMDE5Y2E4LTc0OTctNDM4OC05ZTEwLWI5MmI4ZDU5NjY1NyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50L2ludGVyYWN0aXZlLzIwMjMvZGMtbG93LWx5aW5nLWNpdHktZmxvb2Qtcmlza3MvIn0.ftwEQeIL-DQKqGE7C2Rpq12eEXSIop4bKI31feVa9ng&itid=gfta

* "From Austin to Anchorage, U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1221366173/u-s-cities-drop-parking-space-minimums-development

* "Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/manufacturer-deliberately-bricked-trains-repaired-by-competitors-hackers-find/

* "Making Transparent Wood:"

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* "Don't Use AI Viking Face Apps:"

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* "What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home:" https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-energy-heating-homes/

* "Google Settles $5 Billion Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking People Using 'Incognito Mode':" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-settles-5-billion-privacy-lawsuit-over-tracking-people-using-incognito-mode_n_65903bade4b0cd3cf0e57701

* "'New York Times' sues ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Microsoft, for copyright infringement:" https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221821750/new-york-times-sues-chatgpt-openai-microsoft-for-copyright-infringement

* "The Reach and Accuracy of Information on Autism on TikTok:" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37544970/

* "Try not to let moose lick your car, Parks Canada warns, as more salt-seeking animals flock to highways:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dont-let-moose-lick-1.7074587

* "Spy Octopus Helps Friend Hide From Shark:"

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* "The checkered history of the poinsettia’s namesake and the flower’s origins get new attention:" https://apnews.com/article/poinsettia-joel-poinsett-noche-buena-mexico-a5f4abea985e0f44523b2963ff435b56

* "The Truth About Arsenic in the Victorian Era:"

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* "This 50-Year-Old Footage Shows What Life in New York Was Like in the 1970s:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/vintage-video-new-york-city-1970s

* "Apo Whang-Od And The Thousand-Year-Old Tradition Live On:" https://vogue.ph/lifestyle/apo-whang-od-and-the-thousand-year-old-tradition-live-on/

* "Singapore's clandestine cats can soon legally call the city-state home:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapores-clandestine-cats-can-soon-legally-call-city-state-home-2024-01-03/

* "Single mother comes home to find driveway stolen:" https://local12.com/news/nation-world/single-mother-driveway-stolen-contractor-scam-real-estate-construction-replacement-cost-police-theft-investigation-home-value-sell-moving-contract-gofund-me-fundraiser-orange-county-florida

* For the first time since I moved up here in 1998, none of the neighbors set off fireworks. The laws got a lot stricter a few years ago, but the reservation is not that far, so people tend to have them all over town. My suspicion is, the complex has really beefed up surveillance, which i hate, but boomers are in charge, so….

I am glad there were no explosions. It's rough on veterans and animals and people with certain sensory situations, etc.. It didn't effect me much personally until this batch of cats, who are extremely sensitive. (The previous clowder ranged from indifference to curious.). The Imperial couple always find the explosions terrifying, especially as they are often a few feet from their windows.

This year, I failed to notice the turning of the year until 1:09AM, as i was busy with something. I only really drink for weddings and funerals or the equivalent. I am too old and tired for drunken parties, and my local friends are small gathering people. When I had a partner, we favored the large municipal fireworks displays, or small parties, or beach gatherings over large drunken things, but were just as likely to have a quiet romantic evening at home as go out to see explosions.

The cats entirely slept through it. They were crashed out so hard, they missed me padding about around 2ish, sprinkling fresh nip in there very beat up scratch and nap boxes. I literally accidentally sprinkled some on the emperor and he didn't stir.

This was so much nicer than them being terrified and running for the hides and needing hours of reassurance.

I still oppose the surveillance, etc., but I admit, it is pleasing not to have to worrying about the cats.

* There was a cleaner Tuesday, which was a huge help. Friday rescheduled to later Friday. We'll see if they actually come. I had another rough week with pain and exhaustion, but I'm finally starting to see results from the new batch of physio.

* Friday cleaner did come and took down most of the Gothmas decorations, mopped floors, etc.. We still need to stow the Halloween trees, and some miscellaneous things, but everything is much nicer with the dishes done and away and the floors clean. I think scheduling two this week was the right thing. The cats were delighted to see the window bench mostly devoid of Goth tchotchkes.

One of my few remaining relatives sent me shirt money, so I ordered a plain purple and a fancier one that I likely will wear outside of the surgery context. This means I'm up to four shirts. My plan is to mostly not bother with shirts when I don't have to go out until my arm heals up some, so it should be all right. I'm still stressed about the whole logistics of recovery, because I'll be mostly helpless in a bunch of areas and I hate that.

Livia love selected a new Spot at some point in early December and has been living it up. She's also decided that New Millennial is Safe and is relaxed enough to let me rub the tummy in her room when the Millennial is on the sofa. It is a huge show of trust for her to be that relaxed when there are People in her Home. I am endlessly proud of her. Tavy spent a whole hour Thursday night asleep in the crook of my good arm, which he hasn't been calm enough to do for a while.

* Tuesday: I have not enjoyed anything my body has done in the last 24 hours.

* "I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_LW1PkmnY

* "Very Bad Publishers Part VIII:" https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/very-bad-publishers-part-ix?r=2hlocf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

* "Odyssey to go (Homer in 14 minutes, English version):"

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* "A Midsummer Nights Dream to go (Shakespeare in 12.5 minutes):"

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* "Trump’s Theory Of Magnetivity:"

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* "The five most important queer moments from the Golden Globes 2024:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/08/the-five-biggest-queer-moments-from-the-golden-globes-2024/

* References for various types of traditional dress: https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/738450685451010048?source=share

* A thing on how Americans tend to think of Calvinism as the default for Christianity in which we get into things like how very different Medieval Catholicism is.: https://www.tumblr.com/littlescratches/738868338146639872/a-good-way-to-get-a-vague-idea-with-how-it-used-to

* "A Letter from “Crawly” to Azirapil:" https://archiveofourown.org/works/19730593

* "My neoclassical New Year's Eve party dress: Ancient Roman, Regency, and historybounding lookbook!:"

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* "True Facts: The Rise of the Kitten Snake:"

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* "I assure you that I am a fully functional human with a backstory and everything.:" https://wilwheaton.net/2024/01/i-assure-you-that-i-am-a-fully-functional-human-with-a-backstory-and-everything/

* "Reverse Saltburn and The "Boy Kate Middleton" Genre:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/reverse-saltburn-and-the-boy-kate?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=140285062&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&utm_medium=email

* "Sentenced to death in a magical court:" https://www.tumblr.com/dycefic/656084683226038272/writing-prompt-s-you-have-been-sentenced-to-death

* "An old and homely grandmother accidentally summons a demon.:" https://jumpingjacktrash.tumblr.com/post/160598655019/fireandshellamari-gilajames

* "A daycare worker, watching over toddlers, when the imminent end of the world is announced. It becomes increasingly clear none of the kids’ parents are going to show up as the end inches nearer.:" https://bixbythemartian.tumblr.com/post/633183446892691456/writing-prompt-s-youre-a-daycare-worker

* "You were once the demon king.:" https://caffeinewitchcraft.tumblr.com/post/634539896857608192/writing-prompt-s-you-were-once-the-demon-king

* "Legolas and Gimli get married at least 5 times and here’s why:" https://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/696788010995417088/lenin-it-to-win-it-legolas-and-gimli-get-married

* Grandmother Beetroot: https://thestalkerbunny.tumblr.com/post/623514977716846592/times-are-troubling-and-hard-right-now-but-never

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help the Lenape Nation get recognition from Pennsylvania: https://www.lenape-nation.org/

* "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

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food. They just need $75 more.: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* CW: Animal Death. Fundraiser to cover costs of final treatment. "Dine's expenses for Olivier's last week:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/dines-expenses-for-oliviers-last-week

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* Very little Thursday made it on here. Sorry.

* "Israel Knew Hamas’ Attack Plan a Year Before Oct. 7: Report:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/israel-hamas-attack-knew-over-year-1234906803/

* "‘Designed to start a war’: Israel obtained Hamas battle plan more than year ago, NYT reports:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-designed-to-start-a-war-israel-obtained-hamas-battle-plan-more-than-year-ago-nyt-reports-199121989757

* "War resumes in Gaza after truce collapses:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-negotiators-try-get-israel-hamas-agree-extend-truce-again-2023-12-01/

* I keep warning about disinformation operations. "Is Hamas.com a Website for Hamas?
Forensic evidence indicated the website was created on an Israeli platform.:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hamas-website/

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

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* "White House grapples with internal divisions on Israel-Gaza:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/26/biden-white-house-divisions-israel-gaza/

* "Let's talk about the Joint Chief's comment....:"

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* "Let's talk about Russia, the Baltics, and balance....:"

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* "Russian Women Protest Long Deployments for Soldiers in Ukraine:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/world/europe/russia-ukraine-protests-women.html

* "Let's talk about Putin, persuade, promise, pay, and pitchforks....:"

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* "Court filing reveals Rep. Scott Perry’s vast web of contacts in bid to reverse 2020 election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/scott-perry-texts-unsealed-00129195

* "‘Damning’: New Pence notes point to GOP senator's role in Jan. 6 plot:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-damning-new-pence-notes-point-to-gop-senator-s-role-in-jan-6-plot-198941765724

* "Rep. Perry's central role in Trump's election scheme exposed by 'clerical error':" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/rep-perry-s-central-role-in-trump-s-election-scheme-exposed-by-clerical-error-199131205615

* "Why Judges in the Trump Jan. 6 Trial Need a Rocket Docket:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/opinion/trump-judges-january-6-trial.html

* "What's the hold-up? How a civil case against Donald Trump is delaying his federal Jan 6 prosecution:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/what-s-the-hold-up-how-a-civil-case-against-donald-trump-is-delaying-his-federal-jan-6-prosecution-198951493933

* "Campaign notes sound in Trump's grasping criminal defense:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/campaign-notes-sound-in-trump-s-grasping-criminal-defense-199042629680

* "Police retrieve wreckage of fatal plane crash from Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-25/police-bring-up-wreckage-of-fatal-plane-crash-melbourne/103150296

* "Huge Turbines Will Soon Bring First Offshore Wind Power to New Yorkers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/nyregion/offshore-wind-power-farm-ny.html

* "Sodium in Batteries: Shift May Herald Another Shakeup:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-26/sodium-in-ev-and-storage-batteries-may-herald-another-shakeup?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Old EV Batteries Get a Second Life Storing Solar Energy:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/11/old-ev-batteries-solar-power-grid-backup-b2u/

* "Elon Musk tells cautious Twitter advertisers to ‘go f**k yourselves’ in interview:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/30/elon-musk-twitter-advertisers/

* "Fake news-prone Musk embraces another debunked conspiracy theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/fake-news-prone-musk-embraces-another-debunked-conspiracy-theory-198955077888

* "Substack Has a Nazi Problem:" https://archive.ph/ZhKCt

* "Gay furry hackers infiltrate huge nuclear lab to demand cat-girl research:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/28/gay-furry-hackers-nuclear-lcat-girls/

* "Dating advice from medieval times?! Reacting to middle ages tips for romance on Valentine's day:"

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* "How Nazi Germany Persecuted Transgender People:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/nazi-germany-trans-people-persecution

* "The Pogues singer and ‘Fairytale of New York’ star Shane MacGowan dies aged 65:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/30/the-pogues-singer-fairytale-of-new-york-shane-macgowan-dies/

The Pogues where fundamental architecture in the way my mind works, a slice of my youth.

We played Pogues at the wake for my cherry blossom boy.

I have no words for how I feel as I write this. It was a messy messy time and he was an incredibly messy man with a complicated life.

It is a miracle he made it to the 21st century at all, let alone to nearly the end of 2023. I know that very well. I still feel like a piece of me was sliced off. I can't really explain it. i never met him. I never wanted to. His music was a wild thing, a powerful thing that cut to the bone.

* "How Shane MacGowan’s views on Fairytale of New York’s homophobic lyrics changed:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/30/fairytale-of-new-york-discourse-homophobic/

* "Shane MacGowan remembered by fans for ‘herrenvolk s***e’ tweet at Laurence Fox:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/12/01/shane-macgowan-tweet-laurence-fox-fairytale-of-new-york/

* "Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

* "Controversial former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dies age 100:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/30/henry-kissinger-dies-aged-100/

* On Kissinger death celebrations: https://www.tumblr.com/blankmuse/735506959488466944

* "Now feels like a good time to plug the organizations that the Kissinger Death Tontine accepted donations-as-submissions from!:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/735458103739465728?source=share

* I rescheduled Cleaning for Tuesday afternoon, but correctly did not get my hopes up. No reminder bot and no call from a cleaner the day before or morning of. I slept in my clothes and didn't even try to be awake for arrival time. No cleaner since the first Friday of November. No call to tell me no one was coming from Asshole agency. They did call three hours after the promised arrival time. I pointed out how long it had been since they'd sent an aid. They said they'd "reach out" for Friday. I trust them not at all, but last time when they skipped out on five in a row, a similar tactic scored a cleaner, so we'll see.

I know it's a free service for the disabled, but Goth Millennial is overwhelmed and I really need someone to do basic stuff. Sigh.

* Wednesday we did errands and I did a bunch of bureaucracy. Before I did errands, I spotted someone home at one of the two apartments the Hallway Harasser could be from, the one we were pretty wasn't his, but needed to eliminate for written complaint purposes. Millennials live there and weren't sure but added data points that mean it's extremely likely we have narrowed down to the correct apartment.

I have promised Goth Millennial I will walk with them when we have to go out in the hall.

I suspect no cleaner is coming as no confirmation call yesterday. Sigh. As of this writing that's four in a row skipped. The record is five.

* 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. $200 worth in total. (Thank you donors!) 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 their job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. They can float bills a bit if they must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. Squirrel got hired. The job starts on the 5th. First paycheck is mid-December 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. They are $75.00 short of goal: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* "The seven queerest moments in Doctor Who history:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/28/doctor-who-most-queer-moments/

* OFMD: Izzy Hands as First Mate and his dynamic with Ed: https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/735274051673702400?source=share

* "The Pogues - The Old Main Drag:"

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* "The Pogues The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn 1985 RTE:"

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* "Thousands Are Sailing - Pogues:"

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* "The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York :"

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* Yes, I know this is a cover. Still my favorite version. "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Pogues:"

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* Sometimes I lie in bed wondering what Black Sails James Flint and Our Flag Ed Teach would make of each other. Sometimes I wonder what their respective Israel Handses would make of each other.

I am pretty sure Black Sails Anne Bonny would look at OFMD Anne and ask, "Fuck are you wearing?"

Seriously though, I have all these amorphous thoughts about Black Sails and Our Flag and the way the stories Flint, Silver, and Ed Weave about themselves take over their lives and start killing them. About the way Flint and BS Jack Rackham and Silver and Ed talk about the Story and Persona. I just… *flailing hands* There's something there, right?

* OFMD: Ed and Stede run the Inn: https://www.tumblr.com/captainclickycat/735260942467792896/you-come-down-to-breakfast-at-the-wobbly-dining?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Large Adult Son:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/735354407436288000/midnight-pals-large-adult-son?source=share

* "Sunday Sweets: Easily Distracted:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-easily-distracted-2023

* "Sunday Sweets: 10 Cakes With Curtain Calls:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-10-cakes-with-curtain-calls-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.

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

* "Now feels like a good time to plug the organizations that the Kissinger Death Tontine accepted donations-as-submissions from!:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/735458103739465728?source=share

* 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

* 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. $230 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 their 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.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food. They just need $75 more.: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* 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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* "‘She could be my sister’: Iranian activists on why Mahsa Amini protests are an LGBTQ+ fight too:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/17/iran-lgbtq-mahsa-amini-protests-year/

* "Netanyahu's Supreme Court overhaul effort seen by protesters as threat to Israel's democracy:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-supreme-court-60-minutes-transcript/

* "Gender reform law: Scottish and UK governments battle in court over Section 35 block:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/19/gender-reform-law-scotland-uk-governments-court/

* "The Serial Killer Hiding in Plain Sight:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epv54m/the-serial-killer-hiding-in-plain-sight

* "Biden urges UN: Stand united with Ukraine :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/biden-un-general-assembly-ukraine-00116739

* "Trump civil fraud trial in New York will last nearly three months, judge says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trumps-new-york-fraud-trial-will-last-nearly-3-months-judge-rcna104100

* "Let's talk about rhetoric and reality....:"

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* I don't like the ableism here, but most of the other coverage is worse in one way or another. "A Befuddled Trump Both Admits and Denies that He Was 'Waving Around' a Classified Document:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/14/2193353/-A-Befuddled-Trump-Both-Admits-and-Denies-that-He-Was-Waving-Around-a-Classified-Document

* "Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113

* "Trump co-defendant Jeffrey Clark seeks to move Georgia election case to federal court:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-co-defendant-jeffrey-clark-seeks-move-georgia-election-case-fede-rcna105555

* "Jack Smith seeks gag order on Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/jack-smith-seeks-gag-order-on-trump-00116366

* "Trump blasts special counsel Jack Smith for seeking gag order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/trump-blasts-special-counsel-jack-smith-for-seeking-gag-order-00116376

* "Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from Trump’s account to special counsel:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/politics/trump-twitter-direct-messages/

* "East Libya Strongman Keeps Tight Control Over Aid After Floods:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/world/middleeast/libya-flood-aid-khalifa-hifter.html

* "Libyan flood survivors weigh water shortages against landmine risk:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/libyan-flood-survivors-weigh-water-shortages-against-landmine-risk-2023-09-17/

* "Survivors of Libya's deadly floods describe catastrophic scenes and tragic losses:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/15/1199761659/libya-floods-derna-survivors-deaths

* "Moroccan earthquake shattered thousands of lives:" https://apnews.com/article/morocco-photos-earthquake-920c39947f895cdfc3448e5431df7562

* "Morocco's earthquake crumbled much of this adobe village nestled in the mountain:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1200132282/morocco-earthquake-atlas-mountain-village

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate

* "Today’s world requires vastly more copper than you could imagine, and the world of electric vehicles will require even more. That means finding new ways to find and extract copper from the earth’s crust and oceans.:" https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-discovery-of-copper

* "LGBTQ+ indie game developers hit back at ‘worrying’ new Unity fees for installs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/unity-development-fees-indie-games/

* "Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, could charge all users for access:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/x-elon-musk-charge-all-users-18374233.php

* "‘The Trumpian Playbook’: Mehdi unpacks the GOP and Elon Musk’s war on truth:" https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-the-trumpian-playbook-mehdi-unpacks-the-gop-and-elon-musk-s-war-on-truth-192472133703

* "Eclipse Records Pin Dates of 12th and 13th Century Eruptions:" https://eos.org/articles/eclipse-records-pin-dates-of-12th-and-13th-century-eruptions

* "Triboulet the Butt-Slapping Jester: Investigating a Historical Meme:"

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* "The London History Show: The Great Fire:"

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* "The Pub Where They Hanged Pirates: The London History Show:"

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* "Was Victorian modesty a myth? Fashion history mythbusting with sunscreen and school dress codes:"

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* "How Queer Communities Created Secret Languages:"

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* "The Remarkable Versatility of Cloris Leachman: From The Last Picture Show to Young Frankenstein:"

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* Saturday I "won" a game of "What am I allergic to now?"

Spoiler: sandalwood. It was sandalwood. Sigh.

* Thursday was likely the last of the good fruit from the market garden down the street as I can't afford more. They were plums. The oval ones with the dark purple skin and the yellowish interior, perfectly rich of flavour and sweet. I already miss them. Sunday I ate one of the tomatoes that hadn't developed right from the garden and it was like the whole flavour of what would have been a full sized heirloom was compressed into something a tad larger than a cherry tomato. It was still warm from the sun. I dislike summer, but I do love the fresh fruit and veg it brings.

Last Wednesday we started Gothmas prep stuff. The Gothmas season stretches from when the first leaves start turning until some time first week of January. It has many phases. I didn't used to count prep as a phase, but it really is. Last Wednesday was basically Adult Arts and Crafts and cleaning air-conditioner vents. Sunday was things like break down and drain the living room air condition. admittedly a risk with this humidity, but we can't move forward without putting it away. We are hoping to start interior decorating Wednesday.

As always, the goal is to have everything up but the exterior by the end of the 27th. Let's hope i remember to start the curtains in the washing machine before I leave for Wednesday errands. (I really shouldn't be taking the curtains down myself, but I can't put them back up myself, so the timing needs to be a thing that happens when I'm dressed for the day, but with enough time for wash and dry while the Millennials are here.

I am so ready for Autumn, which should be much farther along, but the wind patterns have been radically fucked for half a decade thanks to climate crisis.

The cleaner tricked poor Livia Friday into thinking he was Goth Millennial. He was very quiet and making familiar doing things in the kitchen sounds, so without checking his identity she trundled out of her hide so she could watch birds from her padded podium by my bedroom window. About and hour and a quarter later, he loomed into her doorway. Panic! Goth Millennial was a doppelganger! a Tricksey shape Shifting stranger!

Saturday, she hid from Goth Millennial in case they performed the same shape shifting trick again. Fool me once….

Sunday she was on my bed with Tavy when I brought Goth Millennial in, and we were mid-chat, so she decided Goth Millennial was not a Decepticon because that meant she could keep enjoying the pet I was giving her and a nap in her Spot instead of repairing to her Fortress of Solitude for the evening. it was fine. no shape shifting shenanigans ensued.

* I'd have been harder on Tarantino, but otherwise, perfection. "The Campy Queer Sensibilities of Barbie:"

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* Dracula Thought: So here is the question: Knowing what we know now, is the maids begging to watch by Lucy earlier in her illness touching or sinister?

* "Midnight Pals: Playground of Death:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/728732779485036544/midnight-pals-playground-of-death?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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "History Summarized: The Splendor of Kyiv:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Much Later, Elizabeth: Something is coming between us!

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

* 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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* "Guatemala presidential election: Unraveling the final candidates’ platforms:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/14/guatemala-presidential-election-unraveling-the-final-candidates-platforms

* "Guatemala presidential frontrunner to keep same-sex marriage illegal and run country with ‘fear of God’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/guatemalan-presidential-campaign-candidate-sandra-torres/

* "Let's talk about 2 things falling in Russia....:"

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* "Asylum seeker explains why ‘inhumane’ rhetoric is so hurtful: ‘See the person behind the story’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/11/asylum-seeker-refugee-rishi-sunak-lee-anderson-bisexual/

* "How the ECHR has transformed LGBTQ+ rights in the UK, as Tories consider leaving it:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/echr-rwanda-lgbtq-rights/

* Doesn't undo the trauma of the police brutalizing her though. "Autistic girl arrested over ‘lesbian nanna’ comment to face no further action, police say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/autistic-girl-arrest-west-yorkshire-police/

* "Ukraine says two killed in Russian shelling of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia regions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-two-killed-russian-shelling-kharkiv-zaporizhzhia-regions-2023-08-12/

* "Ukraine briefing: Russian shelling kills 7, including infant, in Kherson; cargo ship fired on in Black Sea:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/13/russia-ukraine-war-news/

* "Crimea Bridge Strikes 'Continue To Disrupt' Russian Logistics: ISW:" https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-russia-crimea-bridge-chonhar-kerch-strait-logistics-1819386

* "Death toll grows in Iran as Mahsa Amini protests continue for 10th night:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/26/death-toll-grows-in-iran-as-mahsa-amini-protests-continue-for-10th-night

* "Mahsa Amini's death is a 'tipping point', says U.S.-based Iranian journalist:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/mahsa-aminis-death-is-tipping-point-says-us-based-iranian-journalist-2022-09-27/

* "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe cuts her hair in protest over death of Mahsa Amini:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/28/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-cuts-her-hair-in-protest-over-death-of-mahsa-amini

* "The far right is having a moment in Europe. Actually, everywhere.:" https://www.vox.com/world/2022/9/24/23366464/italy-elections-meloni-sweden-europe-far-right

* Italy has fallen to literal fascists, the direct heirs of Mussolini. One by one the lights go out in the West.

* "Italy shifts to the right as voters reward Meloni's party:" https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-italy-matteo-salvini-c251832f5b73063b2e20869a21f92efe

* "Italy election victors target era of political stability:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/giorgia-melonis-right-triumphs-italys-election-2022-09-26/

* "Liz Truss slammed for congratulating Italy's new 'fascist' PM Giorgia Meloni:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/27/liz-truss-giorgia-meloni-italy-prime-minister-backlash/

* "As Brazil’s election day approaches, fear of violence grows:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/27/bolsonaro-brazil-election-political-violence/

* "Bolsonaro's gun laws arm Brazil's brazen bank thieves:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolsonaros-gun-laws-arm-brazils-brazen-bank-thieves-2022-09-21/

* "Attacks on anti-Netanyahu protesters spike in run-up to Israeli election:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2022-09-25/ty-article/.premium/attacks-on-anti-netanyahu-protesters-spike-in-run-up-to-israeli-election/00000183-7554-db37-a383-7f7f5aa70000

* "Sweden's Moderates ask for more time to agree coalition after election win:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedens-moderates-ask-more-time-agree-coalition-after-election-win-2022-09-28/

* "U.S. ambassador: Finland and Sweden in NATO by Christmas:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/09/22/u-s-ambassador-finland-and-sweden-in-nato-by-christmas-00058404

* "Europe ramps up energy security after suspected sabotage:" https://apnews.com/article/foreign-policy-sabotage-european-union-79e773da228816c1f6fdeb53211e61e9

* "17 dead, 24 wounded in school shooting in Russia:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/6-dead-20-wounded-in-school-shooting-in-russia/2022/09/26/e9375610-3d74-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html

* "Russia gives citizenship to ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden:" https://apnews.com/article/edward-snowden-russian-citizenship-441ab3c037b91145d17f2de2237f834d

* "Royal Mail workers union calls for 19 days of strikes:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-postal-workers-union-calls-19-days-strikes-against-royal-mail-2022-09-27/

* "Liz Truss energy and tax plan ‘will give richest families twice as much support’:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/13/liz-truss-energy-and-tax-plan-will-give-richest-families-twice-as-much-support

* "Kwarteng: UK economy must expect more tax cuts and deregulation:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/25/kwarteng-uk-economy-must-expect-more-tax-cuts-and-deregulation

* "UK cuts taxes, boosts spending, accelerating pound's slide:" https://apnews.com/article/inflation-economy-liz-truss-62a86ff2e88ee60b3e8773419fe7d4d2

* "Jamaica Eyes a Break from Monarchy:"

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* "N.Korea fires two ballistic missiles ahead of Harris visit to South:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-fires-ballistic-missile-off-east-coast-skorea-2022-09-28/

* "A human rights lawyer pays the price of standing up to Xi's China:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-lawyers-crackdown-mainland/

* "Black Brazilians in remote 'quilombo' hamlets stand up to be counted:" https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/black-brazilians-in-remote-quilombo-hamlets-stand-up-to-be-counted

* "Why Chile Rejected the World’s Most Progressive Constitution:"

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* "Latest U.S. Military Package for Ukraine Suggests Shift in Focus to Long, Open-Ended War:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/28/world/russia-ukraine-war-news

* "Russia poised to annex occupied Ukraine after sham vote:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/occupied-ukrainian-regions-to-ask-putin-to-annex-them/2022/09/28/1f85b9da-3f02-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html

* "Two Cities, Two Armies: Pivot Points in the Fight in Ukraine’s East:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/world/europe/ukraine-donbas-russia-lyman-bakhmut.html

* "Zelenskiy: Donetsk is Ukraine's top priority since it is Russia's top priority:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-donetsk-is-ukraines-top-priority-since-it-is-russias-top-priority-2022-09-26/

* "Ukrainians told to be ready to fight for Russia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63049386

In their place I'd switch sides first chance I got, I suspect.

* "Russians are calling up the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense asking how to surrender, Ukraine says:" https://www.businessinsider.com/russians-calling-ukraine-hotline-ask-how-surrender-ukraine-mod-says-2022-9

* "Russians protested in dozens of cities against Putin's military draft:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/24/1124939236/russia-protest-putin-mobilization-draft-ukraine-war

* "Russia: man shoots officer drafting residents for war in Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/26/russia-man-shoots-commander-drafting-residents-for-war-in-ukraine

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* "Patrol spots Chinese, Russian naval ships off Alaska island:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/patrol-spots-chinese-russian-naval-ships-off-alaska-90550596

* "Biden administration awards $1.5 billion to fight opioid crisis:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/24/biden-administration-awards-1point5-billion-to-fight-opioid-crisis.html

* "W.H. Adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms joins The Sunday Show for exclusive interview:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/w-h-adviser-keisha-lance-bottoms-joins-the-sunday-show-for-exclusive-interview-149220933577

* "Senators push to reform police's cellphone tracking tools:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-new-york-criminal-investigations-federal-trade-commission-63451d232fb202009d71a2b59173b4c7

* "Electoral Count Reform Act gets its day in the Senate:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/electoral-count-reform-act-gets-its-day-in-the-senate-149220933585

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

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

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

* "Alaska Rep. Eastman remains on ballot but could be disqualified after election:" https://www.anchoragepress.com/news/alaska-rep-eastman-remains-on-ballot-but-could-be-disqualified-after-election/article_71627796-3dce-11ed-9692-27b7f2444ca8.html

* "Cowboy for Trump Removed From Office For Jan. 6:"

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* "Democratic nominee for AZ Sec. of State, slams GOP opponent for having been at Capitol insurrection:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democratic-nominee-for-arizona-secretary-of-state-adrian-fontes-slams-gop-opponent-for-having-been-at-capitol-insurrection-149167173800

* "Republican Party's failure to manage its extremists threatens U.S. democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-party-s-failure-to-manage-its-extremists-threatens-u-s-democracy-149330501867

* "Maddow: Endgame of GOP undermining elections is to evade accountability to voters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/endgame-of-gop-undermining-elections-is-to-evade-accountability-to-voters-149332037939

* "The third rail Republicans can’t stop touching:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/22/republican-candidates-social-security-medicare-00058158

* "Caruso and Bass duel over LA corruption, crime and homelessness in mayor debate:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/21/caruso-and-bass-mayor-debate-00058204

* "Dr. Oz is getting dragged on Twitter for saying his Democratic opponent, John Fetterman, looks like he's 'kicking authority in the balls':" https://www.businessinsider.com/oz-gets-dragged-twitter-after-fetterman-insult-backfires-2022-9

* "Opinion | The Midterm Race That Has It All:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/opinion/house-republican-elections.html

* "The Republicans' J.R. Majewski problem is going to get worse:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/j-r-majewski-s-afghanistan-lies-show-bigger-gop-problem-n1299059

* "Democrat Cheri Beasley in a tight race for senator from deep-red North Carolina.:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/democrat-cheri-beasley-in-a-tight-race-for-senator-from-deep-red-north-carolina-149219397848

* McCarthy is promising that if Republicans win back Congress they will fire 87,000 people in order to stop rich people from getting audited when they cheat on their taxes. Which means zero consequences for billionaire tax cheats. They barely pay taxes now, so.... Yeah. "Just wait 'til next year :" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-tax/2022/09/26/just-wait-til-next-year-maybe-00058780

* "Meadows texts reveal direct White House communications with pro-Trump operative behind plans to seize voting machines:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/meadows-texts-phil-waldron-seize-voting-machines-election-fraud/index.html

* ""Declassify, we do": Cohen says Jedi mind tricks don't work for declassification:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/-declassify-we-do-cohen-says-jedi-mind-tricks-don-t-work-for-declassification-149218373955

* "Ex-Jan. 6 committee aide: Roger Stone is 'one of the most important factors':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ex-jan-6-committee-aide-roger-stone-is-one-of-the-most-important-factors-149319237831

* "Trump's secret court fight to stop grand jury from getting information from his inner circle:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/politics/trump-grand-jury-court-fight/index.html

* "Jan. 6 panel is 'aware of' call between White House and rioter, Rep. Raskin says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-aware-call-white-house-rioter-rep-raskin-says-rcna49328

* "‘I hope you suffer’: Ex-D.C. officer confronts Jan. 6 attacker in court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/27/kyle-young-jan6-fanone-sentence/

* "Sedition Trial of Oath Keepers Gets Underway:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/us/jan-6-oath-keepers-trial.html

* "The man who recruited migrants for flights to Martha's Vineyard says he feels betrayed:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/us/migrants-flight-marthas-vineyard-recruiter

* Sure looks like attempted murder to me. There is zero reason to park on train tracks. "Videos show train crash into Colorado police cruiser with woman inside:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/26/colorado-police-car-woman-hit-train/

* "How social-emotional learning became a frontline in the battle against CRT:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/26/1124082878/how-social-emotional-learning-became-a-frontline-in-the-battle-against-crt

* CW: Rape "Trump bid to dodge suit from rape accuser heads to DC court:" https://apnews.com/article/new-york-lawsuits-manhattan-donald-trump-d3f257e2efe28a695286c8a1230c1790

* CW: Gender-Based Violence ""There's still so much to go": Attorney and professor Anita Hill on the fight against gender violence:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anita-hill-clarence-thomas-gender-violence/

* "Teen interest in long-lasting birth control soars after Roe:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-florida-4c89ab23748309a69cac57e43e96e2c7

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* "Why experts say the fall of abortion rights is a key sign of a troubled democracy:" https://michiganadvance.com/2022/09/25/why-experts-say-the-fall-of-abortion-rights-is-a-key-sign-of-a-troubled-democracy/

* "Nearly all abortions become illegal in Arizona:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/24/arizona-abortion-ban-law

* "‘This is why young voters are mobilized’: Reactions to AZ judge allowing near-total abortion ban:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/arizona-judge-rules-state-can-enforce-near-total-abortion-ban-as-midterm-elections-approach-149168197667

* Seriously, delete your period tracker apps and the like and make sure you avoid these places. "Crisis Pregnancy Centers: A Wicked Twist on Big Brother:"

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* "Cuba just voted to legalise same-sex marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/26/cuba-same-sex-marriage-referendum-result/

* It creates a precedent that trans men aren’t men. Let’s hope it gets overturned. "Trans male prison guard banned from strip-searching Muslim inmate, court rules:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/28/trans-prison-guard-muslim-inmate-isaac-buhle-rufus-west/

* "Va. students walk out of classes in protest of Youngkin transgender policy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/27/youngkin-virginia-transgender-student-policy-walkout/

* "Bi “Visibility” Is Good, but Bi Community Is Better:" https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a41284125/what-comes-after-bisexual-visibility/

* CW: Child Death. "The Wild (and Terrible) Legacy 4Loko Left Behind:"

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* "When’s the Perfect Time to Get a Flu Shot?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/flu-shot-vaccine-timing-winter/671553/

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* "Cuba slowly begins to restore power after Hurricane Ian knocks out grid:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/cuba-slowly-begins-restore-power-after-hurricane-ian-knocks-out-grid-2022-09-28/

* "Ian swamps southwest Florida, trapping people in homes:" https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ian-live-updates-6302894797cae989ff855030cf332a97

* "Damage from Hurricane Ian impacts South Tampa:" https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2022/09/29/damage-from-hurricane-ian-impacts-south-tampa

* "People trapped and over 2 million without power as Ian drenches Florida:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/people-trapped-and-over-2-million-without-power-as-ian-drenches-florida

* "On Hurricane Fiona:" https://www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-hurricane-fiona

* "Swathes of land swamped in Philippines after typhoon:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-marcos-orders-aid-typhoon-struck-areas-five-reported-dead-2022-09-26/

* "Typhoon Noru leaves 6 rescuers dead in the northern Philippines:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/26/1125053969/typhoon-noru-leaves-5-rescuers-dead-in-the-northern-philippines

* "Fires in Brazil's Amazon surge in September, worst month since 2010:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/fires-brazils-amazon-surge-september-worst-month-since-2010-2022-09-26/

* "Mexico Earthquake Sets Off Desert Tsunami In Death Valley Cave Containing World’s Rarest Fish:" https://iflscience.com/mexico-earthquake-sets-off-desert-tsunami-in-death-valley-cave-containing-world-s-rarest-fish-65486

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* "Barber slams Mississippi state gov.: ‘People are tired of washing their babies in poisoned water’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis-blamed-on-state-leaders-ignoring-problem-149324357633

* "NAACP says Jackson's water problems are civil rights issue:" https://www.wfmj.com/story/47380435/naacp-says-jacksons-water-problems-are-civil-rights-issue

* "‘This is what a river should look like’: Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/20/dutch-rewilding-project-turns-back-the-clock-500-years-aoe

* "Tourists Are Ruining Yellowstone:"

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* "DART probe hits bull’s eye on an asteroid and strikes a blow for planetary defense:" https://www.geekwire.com/2022/dart-probe-hits-bulls-eye-on-an-asteroid-planetary-defense/

* "Mind-bending NASA feat serves as inspiration for attempting important work:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mind-bending-nasa-feat-serves-as-inspiration-for-attempting-important-work-149331525542

* "Scientists have estimated how many ants there are on Earth. Clue: It's a lot:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/world/ants-twenty-quadrillion-earth-intl-scli-scn/index.html

* "Fire ant rafts form because of the Cheerios effect, study concludes:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/fire-ant-rafts-form-because-of-the-cheerios-effect-study-concludes/

* CW: Animal Death. This is heart breaking. "32 pilot whales have been rescued out of 230 stranded in Tasmania:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124486698/tasmania-whales-rescued-australia

* "The Race to Document Prehistoric Art in a Coastal Cave in France:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cosquer-cave-art-underwater

* "The messages that survived civilisation's collapse:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220818-how-to-write-a-message-to-the-future

* "Was Loki Bisexual in Norse Mythology? (This is gonna get weirder than you think):"

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* "When Was The Viking Age?:"

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This captures perfectly the two biggest things I endlessly try to explain to people about Periodization .

1: Periodization is inherently arbitrary and depends on the specific thing you are studying and exist because things like papers, classes, and books need a beginning and end date. You can’t jam all of history into any of these things, so you need to draw some arbitrary lines, but a person studying Japanese History will draw a different set of line than someone studying say German theology than someone studying Central American archeology.

2. Periodization is only useful insofar as it’s giving you some degree of useful information to the people trying to study the same sorts of things, and the people doing it don’t take it to seriously.

* "A Tale of Two Times: Edo Japan Encounters the European Clock:" https://daily.jstor.org/a-tale-of-two-times-edo-japan-encounters-the-european-clock/

* CW: Child Death The Eastland disaster always rips my heart out. "The Forgotten Disaster of the SS Eastland:"

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* "A new label revives forgotten female composers' music:" https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2022/08/17/1117799706/a-new-label-exhumes-forgotten-female-composers-music

* "Rapper Coolio dies at 59:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-aud-ent-coolio-dies-59-20220929-tpe3g3xyt5d43nd6un5nypfqyq-story.html

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* "So Much News, So Little Time - Trump Telepathy & More:" https://www.cc.com/video/u56ew4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-so-much-news-so-little-time-trump-telepathy-more

* "New Darth Vader Voice & The British Pound Plunges :" https://www.cc.com/video/4idpa0/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-new-darth-vader-voice-the-british-pound-plunges

* "Ronny Chieng Teaches You About Asians - K-Pop:" https://www.cc.com/video/dbdv4k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-ronny-chieng-teaches-you-about-asians-k-pop

* "Putin's Sham Referendum & Pre-Pandemic Traffic Returns:" https://www.cc.com/video/6tz18o/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-putin-s-sham-referendum-pre-pandemic-traffic-returns

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* My body is struggling with the wild swings between too hot and muggy and chilly that are typical of season change. It will even out when the rains settle in properly. I have hopes tomorrow may be the day from the feel of the air at dusk.

In the meantime, I am Frankensteining painfully about the cat asylum. Not only did the Wednseday errands wipe me out, but annoyingly, I had cascading torso spasms starting right at dinnertime. Which happens. I think barometric changeability spiking the AS pain and the late August meds change dovetailed. I think of these things as the "One thing too many" syndrome. I saw it early enough to start mitigation before the first wave hit and a hot epsom bath and the meds straightened me out, by about 9ish, which trust me is fast. Still, it is hard on the system.

I missed the market garden by a literal two minutes at errands end. Dammit.

* Weird History Geek Moment: Watching Lucy Worsley handle 14th Century Court rolls. Me flashing on all the time and energy I spent with magnifying glass, a bright light on a bendy thing trying to decipher the facsimiles of a different set sent by an archivist friend of my late advisers as a favor. The handwriting on the Walsham le Willows set looks so much better than the ones I worked with. She had way better lighting than I did in my dorm room and she still needed a magnifying glass too. It's just weird seeing anyone putting stuff from my specialty on TV.

The family they are studying... I had one like that too in my set. I was so relieved to see them still making trouble in the 1350's....

Unfortunately, she doesn't understand that a 'fine for brewing in breach of the assize' is a form of tax. No really. They didn't have a proper income tax system yet. They had a system for taxation to raise money for war, but it required a special vote in parliament at this historical period. They had rents for peasants. (I don't want to get into the issue of extraordinary poll tax votes here, as it's not relevant to the issue of taxation right before the coming of the Great Pestilence aka the first wave of the plague in England).

So you have these peasants who pay rents for their land in money, goods, and or labor (unfree peasants aka serfs pay rent in labour on top of the other stuff. Free peasants only pay money or in kind); but if you are the lord of the manor, how do you make money off other types of economic actively in the village? You do get fines when they break laws, right? You can fine them for taking rushes from the marsh or taking stuff out of the forests, but not everyone does that. You know what everyone needs? Bread and ale! So you pass a law making brewing and bread baking illegal and you assess a small fine for it.

You're likely picturing a tavern, but that's not how things work in a rural 14th century village. A lot of women take it in turn to brew ale, as they don't have preservatives yet, and it's hard work requiring equipment and ingredients, so generally it's your mid-level peasant women. In the sort of village I was working with you had approximately two batches a week. (The village she is talking about in the Black Death episode is bigger than my biggest village, so YMMV). When a new batch is ready you set out your benches and people come by to buy it for home or to drink there. Meanwhile, a different woman elsewhere in the village starts up a new batch for drinking at a later date.

You can tell which women are the most popular brewers by the size of the 'fine' aka tax on what they sold.

There was usually only one big bread oven (Not counting the manor house or monastery) for the village size I was working with, so whoever ran that paid the baking fine. Again, don't be picturing a bakery in the modern sense. People would mostly bring their own dough or at least grain and pay to get it baked, but any extra work the baker was doing was extra money so.... Yeah. You brought your dough and they baked it for you, because most homes just had an open fire pit and a hole to let the smoke out. So your baker had a bigger fine for baking than any of the alewives would.

It's an income tax, not a brewing moonshine in a hidden still, type situation.

So if there is dramatically more brewing going on the Autumn before the Great Pestilence arrived in England on the strength of rumors from france, compared to the previous years, it means they are running through ale batches faster, so more households are taking it in turn at a faster rate, so the fines would be higher and some of the infrequent alewives are likely taking noticeably more turns. You CAN see that sort of thing in the records, if you know how to look, but you need to take a longitudinal approach. One set of Court rolls can't tell you a damned thing about statistical change.

I'm not saying it didn't happen. (I haven't read these specific Court Rolls, which were just starting to be studied when I was finishing, and once I left academia I stopped reading this sort of article. They weren't published yet and I couldn't get my hands on them, basically, since the researches who did have hands on them rightly reserved first crack). I'm saying her methodology as described doesn't make sense. She's an early modern specialist who has said repeatedly in the episode this isn't her area. It's possible her consultants skipped a step explaining it to her, or she didn't understand and skipped a step. In either case, why didn't they edit it out or film an insert that wasn't inaccurate? Had they no fact checkers? How did they even get into Court Rolls at this depth if they had no specialists involved? I have questions.

The thing is? Most of the stuff in this one does make sense. I caught some small issues, like generalizations based on this specific court roll set that don't match practice in other villages (EX: some places fine male head of household and some fine the person doing the specific activity) and the like, but this is like 100X better than the crap the so called "History Channel" puts out about the middle Ages. I just... I have questions.

As always on these occasions, I would like to extend my condolences to any poor grad student forced by their research topic to read my research. *Shudder* Seriously, let's pour one out for the 14th century English peasant studies scholars and their embroidery lights and magnifying glasses.

* Aaaw, I missed Stanislav Petrov Day!

For those of you too young to know, once upon a time, in this case 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world from nuclear annihilation single handedly by using his head instead of believing malfunctioning instruments.

None of us would be here right now if he had followed procedures and started a nuclear war with the west.

* The Serpant Queen: I’m all in with the Catherine De Medici characterization, but I wish they hadn’t decided to go heavy handed mean girl with diane de Poitiers. Making her historically accurately subtle and intelligent instead of a cliche would have created a far more interesting product over all.

I agree that this is the best thing they’ve done in this line and worlds ahead of the White Princess and the Catherine one, which I rage quit over them having her brag about her deflowering when historically the whole point was she claimed to be a virgin later. (No offence to the York/Tudor series actors. It’s the writing that’s the issue).

I expect telescoping and small changes and character combinations and the like in my historical adaptions. I understand that fiction’s going to fiction. i understand anachronisms for humorous effect. What I do want is for the characters based on historical people to be recognizable interpretations of them, if you follow. The lion in winter is an example of doing that that. tight writing, all the people make sense as interpretations of the historical personages they represent, completely fictional scenario. The old Tudors series is a classic example of completely tossing out the actual personality of the main character Henry VIII in favor of something less interesting and relevant. (I can believe Johnathan Rhys Meyers is a generic king, but not that particular king, Throwing physicality out entirely, which they also did, he acts more like and Edward I than a Henry VIII),

The Serpent Queen version of Catherine de Medici is fascinating and a fair interpretation of the historical figure. (There are a bunch of ways to approach her, but anti-heroine is right up there on the short list). The do a lot of the same things with history the Borgias series did, as in we are watching fiction loosely based on historical stuff with a bunch of changes, telescoping, etc., but my concerns are things like how will they be handling Mary Queen of Scots, given them deciding to do Diane dirty on characterization.

It’s fascinating, beautiful designwise and way bolder than the previous STARZ Tudor stuff. I am watching it with more interest than I’ve had for anything like this in some time. I love them leaning in hard on Catherine’s self agendaed intelligence, and I think a lot of people complaining about her character design wouldn’t be if they were looking at a male anti-hero, but I also think there are valid complaints to be made in other areas.

Even if this is hands down the best entry in this series of series so far.

* The Reservation Dogs Season Two Finale ripped my heart out.

* Gomez and Morticia Addams meet Mr. and Mrs. Columbo: https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/695338690643410944/ok-this-was-going-to-be-a-one-off-joke-but-my

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