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* ""Bibi sees ghosts everywhere": U.S. alarmed by Israel's Syria strikes:" https://www.axios.com/2025/12/01/israel-syria-strikes-trump-netanyahu

* "Israel says it strikes two south Lebanon towns:" https://archive.ph/0rLu5

* "Israel launches airstrike in southern Gaza after earlier attack by militants wounded 5 soldiers:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-west-bank-gaza-hamas-hostages-1daaa29f923993fe794460309e73da80

* "Pope Leo: Palestinian state 'only' solution to Israeli conflict:" https://archive.ph/zdMDa

* "‘This Is Illegal,’ He Said, Spreading His Arms. ‘This Is Illegal.’:" https://archive.ph/LOi6X

* "Dozens of masked Israelis riot, hurl stones after illegal West Bank outpost evacuated:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-of-masked-israelis-riot-hurl-stones-after-illegal-west-bank-outpost-evacuated/

* "Four countries announce Eurovision 2026 boycott after Israel allowed to compete:" https://www.nme.com/news/music/four-countries-announce-eurovision-2026-boycott-after-israel-allowed-compete-3916030

How to Help:
Revive Gaza's farmland: https://apnature.org/en/gaza
PCRF: https://www.pcrf.net/
HEAL Palestine: https://www.healpalestine.org/
The Sameer Project: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject
Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://gazasoupkitchen.org/

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* "The Dishonorable Strikes on Venezuelan Boats:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-dishonorable-strikes-on-venezuelan-boats

* "Trump threatens strikes on any country he claims makes drugs for US:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/trump-threatens-strikes-drugs-venezuela

* "Hegseth says U.S. has "only just begun" sinking alleged drug vessels:" https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/hegseth-boat-strikes-venezuela-cabinet-meeting

* "Is This A War Crime? (Hint: Yes.):"

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* "Hegseth cites ‘fog of war’ in defending follow-on strike on alleged drug boat:" https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-trump-venezuela-540ae279827e02105e089f1bd5af37a6

* "White House says admiral approved second deadly boat strike:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/01/white-house-second-boat-strike-00671488?nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&nname=politico-toplines&nrid=5209da39-4e50-433b-986a-79bdcf9a35a2

* "Hegseth dances beside sleepy Trump to avoid accountability for boat strike amid war crimes talk:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/hegseth-dances-beside-sleepy-trump-to-avoid-accountability-for-boat-strike-amid-war-crimes-talk-2472383043526

* "Hegseth’s problems snowball despite domesticated Pentagon press corps:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/hegseth-s-problems-snowball-despite-domesticated-pentagon-press-corps-2472657987689

* "Possible war crime puts Trump’s ‘illegal orders’ freakout in new context:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/possible-war-crime-puts-trump-s-illegal-orders-freakout-in-new-context-2472055363932

* "‘He wanted me killed’: Kelly rips Trump, Hegseth threats as boat strike scandal widens:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/he-wanted-me-killed-kelly-rips-trump-hegseth-threats-as-boat-strike-scandal-widens-2472360515582

* "Rep. Himes shares shocking details from boat strikes briefing; disputes key points in reported story:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/rep-himes-shares-shocking-details-from-boat-strikes-briefing-disputes-key-points-in-reported-story-2472959043802

This is so shameful. I don't understand why every Navy veteran in the country isn't out protesting.

* "‘There was no fog of war’: New video of boat strike alarms lawmakers:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/there-was-no-fog-of-war-new-video-of-boat-strike-alarms-lawmakers-2472928323651

* "I Investigated Why Trump Wants to Recall Sen. Kelly to Active Duty (ft. Sen. Kelly):"

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* Extended Jen Psaki Interview:

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* Extended Rachel Maddow Interview:

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* "Hospital massacre caps a long series of attacks on healthcare in war-torn Sudan:" https://archive.ph/tyt0G

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* "The New German War Machine:" https://archive.ph/ZkVyh

* "Russia bans Human Rights Watch in widening crackdown on critics:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/29/russia-outlaws-human-rights-watch-crackdown-critics-ukraine-war

* "Pussy Riot Founder Decries Russia’s Push to Designate the Group as ‘Extremist’:" https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pussy-riot-russia-designation-extremist-group-2721804

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* "HIV-positive men stage 'Kiss-In' protest at U.S.-Mexico border (in photos):" https://www.advocate.com/news/hiv-kiss-protest-southern-border#rebelltitem9

* "Trump is fighting the Institute of Peace in court. Now, his name is on the building:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g-s1-100576/trump-institute-of-peace-name

* "‘A workplace crisis:’ Nearly all Foreign Service employees report lower morale in union-led survey:" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/12/a-workplace-crisis-nearly-all-foreign-service-employees-report-lower-morale-in-union-led-survey/

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

* "Trump sharpens focus on legal immigration after National Guard shooting:" https://archive.ph/QOEAL

* "Trump to Expand Travel Ban to Around 30 Countries After Shooting:" https://archive.ph/XRDN1

* "Kristi Noem urges sweeping new US travel ban after fatal DC shooting:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/kristi-noem-travel-ban-national-guard-shooting

* "Trump administration fires 8 immigration judges in New York City:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/immigration-judge-fired-trump-administration-files-lawsuit-claiming/story?id=128014324

* "ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-kids-family-separations?

* "ICE Goons Pepper-Spray Newly Sworn-In Congresswoman:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-goons-pepper-spray-newly-sworn-in-congresswoman-adelita-grijalva/

* "‘We have video to prove it’: Border agents push, fire pepper ball at member of Congress:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/we-have-video-to-prove-it-border-agents-push-fire-pepper-ball-at-member-of-congress-2473269827938

* "Protesters block federal agents from leaving parking garage for NYC raid:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protesters-block-federal-agents-leaving-parking-garage-nyc-raid-rcna246474

* "In Ohio's Trump country, suburban grandmas push back against ICE:" https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/20/suburban-grandmas-protest-ice-in-ohio/87337841007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z114635p002050n11----c11----d00----v114635b0038xxd003865&gca-ft=32&gca-ds=sophi

* "Dozens protest Apple’s removal of ICE warning app outside downtown Portland store:" https://www.koin.com/news/portland/dozens-protest-apples-removal-of-ice-warning-app-outside-downtown-portland-store/

* "Massachusetts woman arrested at Portland ICE protest says counter-protester provoked her:" https://www.koin.com/news/portland/massachusetts-woman-arrested-at-portland-ice-protest-says-counter-protester-provoked-her/

* "Immigration arrest inside Home Depot sparks protest in rural Oregon town:" https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/12/ice-arrest-inside-home-depot-sparks-protest-in-rural-oregon-town.html

* "Peaceful protest in downtown Yakima raises awareness of ICE actions:" https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/peaceful-protest-in-downtown-yakima-raises-awareness-of-ice-actions/article_062520c5-e2af-4f6c-abca-e7f2ec8e4541.html

* "Protesters Urge Albany County to Cut Ties with Avelo Airlines:" https://wgy.iheart.com/content/2025-12-01-protesters-urge-albany-county-to-cut-ties-with-avelo-airlines/

* "U.S. National Parks Will Soon Require Proof of Residency or Charge Higher Rates:" https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/26/u-s-national-parks-will-soon-require-proof-of-residency-or-charge-higher-rates/

* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:

Immigrant Defenders: https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkout
The Bail Project: https://bailproject.org/
National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory
Amnesty International: protect asylum-seekers: https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/
CHIRLA: https://www.chirla.org/
AL Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund
Mid-South Immigration Advocates: https://miamemphis.org/
"Know Your Rights:" https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
"Disappeared In America:" https://www.disappearedinamerica.us/

* Oh look! More Perjury! "Attacks on ICE up 1,000%? Trump administration claim not backed up by court records:" https://archive.ph/CHT2w#selection-2486.3-2549.0

* "New Orleans braces for Trump’s immigration crackdown: ‘We have rights’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/new-orleans-trump-immigration-crackdown

* "Trump administration launches latest immigration crackdown in New Orleans:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/03/trump-immigration-crackdown-new-orleans-00674468

* "Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country:" https://archive.ph/9SW5s

58% of the Somali Americans in Minnesota were born here. 87% of the Immigrant Somali Americans are naturalized U.S. Citizens and most of the rest are here legally.

* "Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/3/ilhan-omar-denounces-donald-trump-for-calling-somali-immigrants-garbage

* "5 things to know about the Somali community in Minnesota after Trump’s attacks:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/5-things-to-know-about-the-somali-community-in-minnesota-after-trumps-attacks

* "In Memphis, volunteers document Task Force arrests and provide aid to those left behind:" https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/12/03/in-memphis-volunteers-document-task-force-arrests-and-provide-aid-to-those-left-behind/

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* "Trump’s night of 160 posts on Truth Social fuels debate about US president’s stamina:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/trumps-truth-social-post-health

* "Trump, 79, Repeatedly Falls Asleep in His Own Cabinet Meeting:" https://newrepublic.com/post/203865/trump-falls-asleep-cabinet-meeting

* "Trump’s struggles to stay awake adds to growing questions about his fading health:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-struggles-to-stay-awake-adds-to-growing-questions-about-his-fading-health-2472383555679

* "Hayes: Who is calling the shots for a napping President Trump?:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/hayes-who-is-calling-the-shots-for-a-napping-president-trump-2472605763703

* "White House gives new details on Trump’s health following exam:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/01/karoline-leavitt-trump-mri-00671504

* "Trump says he plans to cancel most of Biden’s executive orders:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/trump-canceling-biden-executive-orders-autopen

* "The President Who Never Grew Up:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/04/trump-presidency-child-renovations-entertainment-attention-00676183

* "Psaki: No one home at the White House but the man-children:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/psaki-no-one-home-at-the-white-house-but-the-man-children-2473279555605

* "Trump accepts FIFA peace prize despite ‘fuming’ over media coverage of his age:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/trump-accepts-fifa-peace-prize-despite-fuming-over-media-coverage-of-his-age-2473254467786

* "‘500 tons of cocaine’: Trump pardons trafficker who helped flood U.S. with drugs:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/500-tons-of-cocaine-trump-pardons-trafficker-who-helped-flood-u-s-with-drugs-2472950339615

* "More LGBTQ+ people are quietly planning to flee America as fears of fascism in Trump’s second term rise:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-escape-plans-trumpism

* I don't understand how this is legal for multiple reasons. "Trump administration threatens to withhold SNAP management funds from states that don’t share data:" https://apnews.com/article/food-aid-snap-rollins-blue-states-edf7a10ab409fe471ae81a13823484ab

* "Michael and Susan Dell to donate $6 billion to Trump accounts of 25 million US children:" https://archive.ph/5xhsM

* "US federal workers would lose whistleblower safeguards under Trump rule:" https://archive.ph/JEwt3#selection-1052.0-1052.1

* "Pentagon watchdog says Hegseth’s Signal chats put troops at risk:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/03/pentagon-watchdog-says-hegseths-signal-use-put-troops-at-risk-00674547

* "7 times Pete Hegseth was the definition of toxic masculinity :" https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-hegseth-toxic-masculinity#rebelltitem1

* "Trans National Guard employee in Illinois sues Trump over restroom ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-lawsuit-trump-administration

* "HHS replaces name on transgender admiral’s official portrait with deadname in act of ‘pettiness and bigotry’ :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/hhs-rachel-levine-deadname

* "Kash Patel Yelled At Girlfriend’s Security Detail To Drive Drunk Friend After Partying:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kash-patel-girlfriend-ordered-agent-to-drive-drunk-friend-report_n_6932f8dbe4b03cea5ab3f683

* CW: Rape. "Trump DOJ rolls back policies protecting LGBTQ+ inmates from sexual violence:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/lgbtq-inmates-sexual-violence-trump

Republicans are broadly pro-rape, so I'm saddened and angered, but not surprised.

* "CDC advisers vote to overturn decades-long policy on hepatitis B vaccine for infants:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/05/nx-s1-5634004/cdc-hepatitis-b-vaccine-acip-meeting

Of course the children of those well off enough to have good health insurance will still be able to get vaccines. The goal here is to deprive the children of the poor so they will die of an easily preventable disease as part of RFK Jr's eugenics program.

The vaccine is very safe and saves so many lives by causing a 99% drop in cases. There is no other reason to do it than the deliberate slaughter of infants and children.

* "CDC Panel ends recommendation for newborn hepatitis B shot:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/cdc-panel-ends-recommendation-for-newborn-hepatitis-b-shot-2473252419771

* "Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time:" https://theintercept.com/2025/12/01/world-aids-hiv-trump-cuts-unemployment-lgbtq/

* "Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5630389/trump-administration-rolls-back-fuel-economy-standards

**** Pretextual Indictments and the Weaponization and Corruption of the Justice System ****

* "Treasury investigating tax fraud allegations in Minnesota, Bessent says:" https://archive.ph/b6GmZ

* "Congressional watchdog will investigate Trump official’s conduct:" https://archive.ph/03Yc9

* "Here are all of Trump's political enemies that have been charged or investigated (so far) :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-political-enemies-investigated-charged#rebelltitem9

* "Lesson in resistance: Hidden danger as Trump takes a page from Putin’s playbook:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/lesson-in-resistance-hidden-danger-as-trump-takes-a-page-from-putin-s-playbook-2472073283577

* "Appeals court upholds disqualification of Alina Habba as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/01/alina-habba-appeals-court-ruling-00671224

**** Trump/Epstein/Maxwell, etc. CW: CSA ****

* "Epstein island photos, videos released by House Oversight Committee:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/03/congress/jeffrey-epstein-house-oversight-jpmorgan-00674304

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* "Supreme Court gives Texas OK to use House map drawn to boost GOP:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/supreme-court-texas-house-map-00678075

* "Supreme Court to hear case on Trump order limiting birthright citizenship:" https://www.advocate.com/news/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship

Will the Supreme Court rule the 14th Amendment to the constitution unconstitutional?

* "Starbucks to Pay $39 Million in Landmark N.Y.C. Labor Law Settlement:" https://archive.ph/3jv3z

* "‘We’re not going anywhere’: how unionization ‘whirlwind’ set stage for historic Starbucks strike:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/starbucks-union-strike

* "Starbucks Workers United holds rally in NYC as strikes continue for a third week:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/starbucks-workers-united-union-strike-nyc-rally.html

* "Why Healthcare Costs Are Rising So Much with Jonathan Cohn:" https://open.spotify.com/episode/4qvIs6JLTifYphzC3h1Pmi

* "Obamacare Subsidies Likely to Expire With Congress in Deadlock:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/trump-threatens-strikes-drugs-venezuela

* "Thune says abortion language a sticking point in health care talks:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/02/congress/thune-abortion-language-health-care-00672635

* "Why Republicans aren’t eager to cut an Obamacare deal:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/03/obamacare-subsidies-expire-this-month-many-republicans-are-shrugging-00672949

* "For Many Contractors, Losing ACA Subsidies Means Losing Health Care:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/aca-obamacare-subsidy-health-insurance-gop/

* "Hospital Crisis Watch:" https://www.protectourcare.org/hospital-crisis-watch/

* "House overhauls KOSA in a new kids online safety package:" https://www.theverge.com/news/829492/house-energy-commerce-kids-online-safety-package

* "Grindr supports age verification bill introduced by two Republicans:" https://www.advocate.com/news/grindr-supports-age-verification-bill-republican

* "Don’t STEAL Act:" https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5048?s=1&r=1

* "H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/315708.html

* "End arms sales to UAE:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/318426.html

* "Jack Smith subpoenaed for closed-door House Judiciary interview:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/03/congress/jack-smith-subpoena-house-judiciary-00674387

* "MAGA backlash builds as GOP women turn on Mike Johnson:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/maga-backlash-builds-as-gop-women-turn-on-mike-johnson-2472941635872

* "Ruben Gallego’s leaked texts mocking Democrats’ looks & masculinity intensify temperament concerns:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ruben-gallego-mocks-democrats

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* Our job for the next year and a half 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.

* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

* 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

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

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

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

"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

Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

"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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* "Republican whose child has Down syndrome opposes redistricting after Trump’s ableist slur:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/trump-indiana-state-senator-redistricting-vote

* "Republican Matt Van Epps wins US House special election in Tennessee:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/tennessee-special-election

* "‘Unhinged’: Mike Johnson takes heat as Republican vulnerabilities are laid bare by close election:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/unhinged-mike-johnson-takes-heat-as-republican-vulnerabilities-are-laid-bare-by-close-election-2472667203647

* "Transgender Army vet running for state delegate in red Maryland district is all about showing up:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender-candidate-maryland-delegate

* Extended interview with Mikie Sherrill:

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* "Here's what Zohran Mamdani has promised to do for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers as mayor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/zohran-mamdani-lgbtq-campaign-promises

* "Banning VPNs:" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/banning-vpns.html

* "Missouri judge who wore Elvis Presley wig and played singer's music in court forced to step down:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missouri-judge-elvis-presley-wig-music-court-stepping-down/

* "Man accused of planting pipe bombs before Jan. 6 Capitol attack is charged with explosives offenses:" https://apnews.com/article/pipe-bombs-dc-jan6-40d748385b7b18ece2208c6c6690708b

* "Pipe bomb suspect said he believed 2020 election was stolen, was supportive of Trump:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5632646/fbi-pipe-bombs-arrest

* "Afghan suspect in D.C. National Guard attack appeared to suffer personal crisis:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/01/nx-s1-5627109/afghan-dc-national-guard-attack-rahmanullah-lakanwal

* "National Guard shooting suspect radicalized in US, homeland secretary says:" https://archive.ph/Zvaq9

* "Officials criticize Biden vetting, but Afghan shooting suspect was granted asylum under Trump:" https://archive.ph/9yJQv

* "Georgia law banning gender-affirming care for trans inmates struck down:" https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-prison-gender-affirming-care

* "Maryland community outraged after ‘bigoted’ early morning rainbow crosswalk removal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/maryland-pride-crosswalk-removal

* "Oklahoma University instructor suspended for failing student’s unscientific anti-trans psychology essay:" https://www.advocate.com/news/oklahoma-university-trans-instructor-suspended

* "Cis men love top surgery—it should be available for all:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/top-surgery-cis-men

* "Women's Institute to ban transgender women after U.K. Supreme Court ruling :" https://www.advocate.com/world/womens-institute-united-kingdom-transgender

* "New puberty blockers trial to begin after UK ban:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2k4jg0wkj4o

* "Man pleads guilty to murder of gay University of Mississippi student Jimmie 'Jay' Lee:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/guilty-plea-jimmie-lee-murder

* "On World AIDS Day, thinking of progress and how to build on it in the face of hostility:" https://www.advocate.com/news/world-aids-day-progress-setbacks

* "Out former CDC vaccines head Demetre Daskalakis named chief medical officer at NYC LGBTQ+ health center:" https://www.advocate.com/news/demetre-daskalakis-callen-lorde-cmo

* "Living With Muscular Dystrophy at 50 Makes Death My Shadow Partner:" https://time.com/6960765/alice-wong-muscular-dystrophy-essay/

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* "Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forgot to secure a 20-ton service platform :" https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/russian-launch-pad-incident-raises-concerns-about-future-of-space-station/

* "To Save This West Texas Lizard, They Must First Prove It Actually Exists :" https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/dixons-whiptail-lizard-conservation/

* On Japanese Internment "Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order: Episode 1: Safecracker:" https://www.ms.now/msnbc-podcast/msnbc-podcast/maddow-burn-order-podcast/episode-1-safecracker

* "Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order: Episode 2: The Jitters:" https://www.ms.now/msnbc-podcast/msnbc-podcast/maddow-burn-order-podcast/episode-2-the-jitters

* I still get chills remembering the production of Arcadia I saw in Ashland 30ish years later. "Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 :" https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov/29/tom-stoppard-playwright-of-dazzling-wit-and-playful-erudition-dies-aged-88

* Tuesday I had in home physio. She unlocked my shoulder, which really helps. It's the first time since the start of the Great Furniture Migration it hasn't felt like I had a dagger embedded in it. Of course the rest of the pain is debilitating, but I'll take spread out pain over being stabbed and the whole the arm failing to arm at random thing.

So after, I needed to go to the library quick and stop at the coop on the way back for cheese, veg, broth, and to see if there was any veggie loaf etc.. left, as I pretty much missed all November chances because of the one disaster after another/chaos. I estimated an hour an a half. Bwahahahaha!

Some asshole broke into my nearly thirty year old clunker. Locked my steering wheel trying to steal the car, tried to steal my radio, but it's the kind the front pops off, but you can't get the radio without specialized tools. All they got was my roll of paper towels I keep against condensation and some blank generic deposit slips I keep for emergencies with the name and number for the bank, but no personal details. They did not spot the jug of oil in the back or the dolly in the trunk for which I am grateful.

Wasted me so much time as the wheel wouldn't unlock so I couldn't turn my key. Radio's an asshole to put back together and I think they low key fucked up the wheel/ignition as I had a ten minute battle to unlock it at the library and a three minute battle at the grocery. This delay and the physio being very late meant I was now doing everything during rush hour instead of heading home as it was heating up. Sigh

I literally own nothing worth the effort of stealing at all except my lap tops which stay in the apartment and theoretically the apartment itself. Like they peeled some of the weather tape off the window that no longer closes the last half inch because the motor in the door is dead to get the jimmy in. I am not convinced they would make more than a few hundred selling it for parts.

One of my library books is missing. I had hoped it had slipped off the passenger seat, but if it did, it's gone. I know it's not on the library book shelf. I shall have to do a more exhaustive search. My worry is it could have been trapped between door and passenger seat and the thieves maybe grabbed it. Let up hope not.

The grocery store was inevitably packed with slow moving indecisive people, but it was worth it as I scored the last two korn loaves and the last three frozen tofurkey gravies. I am extra excited about tofurky graving as we stopped being able to get it in 2020 and I was worried it's gone for good. Korn loaf came back a year or two ago, but not in the quantities we used to get. This combination is the easiest protein I know of that I can actually eat. Five minute prep time. Perfectr when I'm too ill to manage anything much. Stab it a few times, pop it in a loaf pan and forget it. Heat the gravy in the microwave towards the end of the cook cucle. Slice loaf. Pull off plastic. Eat. Tofurkey gravy is the perfect vegetarian gravy. I will need to score some boca chick'n patties to make chick'n and gravy burgers with, but this is a huge win, really.

I blew 2/3rds my ebt, but it was worth it and I now have all the parts for home made soup too, plus things like the cheese.

Still, but the time I had it away I had the shakes bad, and I am still not in great shape. My arm works though at least, as much as it ever does.

* I went to sleep early and ended up spending about 20 hours in bed, which given how far my body had been pushed seemed about right.

Squirrel Reports that when I am asleep and she hears Squirrel moving around, she comes out and stands sadly in front of my door curtain, gazing at them with her big moon eyes and trying to lure them inside. There is no way to convey to her human concepts of privacy.

* I had planned to settle in Thursday night, do some work on the apartment, then really work on aggregate links, but just a lot things happened. Friday was kind of the same, so I am behind again.

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

* "Trump Berates Reporters, Gets Mystery MRI & Closes Border to (Non-White) Immigrants | The Daily Show:"

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I debated whether to share this one or not because of some ablest etc. things in there, but it also has a lot of key footage of Trump's remarks at Thanksgiving which I think are pretty newsworthy, but which most news outlets aren't showing in aggregate.

I do think it's useful sometimes to see just how bad it actually is instead of the normalized version.

* "Trump Launches War on Drug Traffickers… Unless They’re Also Honduran Ex-Presidents | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump's Holiday Cash Grab | Release The MRI Results | The President Won't Exercise | "Kill Them All":"

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* "Our Unpopular President | Cabinet Meeting Nap Time | Hegseth Throws Admiral Bradley Under The Bus:"

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* "Winter Vomiting Disease | Trump's Cocaine Double Standard | Melania En Español | Drunk Raccoon:"

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* "‘Proudly Queer’ Photo Exhibition Celebrates Hidden Roma Voices:" https://balkaninsight.com/2025/11/24/proudly-queer-photo-exhibition-celebrates-hidden-roma-voices/

* "A Three Hour Bore:"

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* "Inside Entertainwood: Harrison Ford | Megan Thee Stallion | Jennifer Garner | R.I.P. Fonzie:"

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* "Scarface 2: The Pardoning:"

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* "Trump Tinsel: Made from Recycled Epstein Files You Shouldn’t Piece Together | The Daily Show:"

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* "Will Prince Harry Ever Get To Be A Hallmark Christmas Movie Prince?:"

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* "Merry Christmas And Happy Chanukah From "Weird Al" Yankovic:"

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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

* "Hospital Crisis Watch:" https://www.protectourcare.org/hospital-crisis-watch/

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* "Israel launches new military operation in northern West Bank:" https://archive.ph/GI8vF

* "Disputed Gaza aid distributor backed by US and Israel ends operations:" https://archive.ph/eTryv

How to Help:
Revive Gaza's farmland: https://apnature.org/en/gaza
PCRF: https://www.pcrf.net/
HEAL Palestine: https://www.healpalestine.org/
The Sameer Project: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject
Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://gazasoupkitchen.org/

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* "Full text of European counter-proposal to US Ukraine peace plan:" https://archive.ph/HDeNo

* "Ukraine says it hopes to finalize a peace deal as U.S. and Russia hold new talks:" https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-deal-zelenskyy-trump-meeting-russia-war-abu-dhabi-talks-rcna245800

* "Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump:" https://archive.ph/UN6eQ

* "Seven killed in Kyiv as Russia hits Ukraine’s energy sector with missiles and drones:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/25/russia-strikes-kyiv-ukraine-us-brokered-peace-talks-abu-dhabi

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* "Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro begins 27-year prison sentence for coup attempt:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/25/brazil-president-bolsonaro-prison-sentence-coup-attempt-00669193

* "Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it’s already a bust:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-appears-to-blurt-out-secret-plan-not-knowing-it-s-already-a-bust-2470093379507

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* "A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal:" https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal

* "X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/x-new-location-transparency-feature-questions-origins-maga-accounts-rcna245487

* "Consumer confidence slides as Americans grow wary of high costs and sluggish job gains:" https://apnews.com/article/consumer-confidence-economy-55848421b5ff33ed244c8a4291f7facf

* "Scott Bessent Gives Deranged Financial Advice on Beating Inflation:" https://newrepublic.com/post/203598/scott-bessent-advice-beating-inflation-red-blue-states

* "Trump Goon Stumbles Claiming Trump’s ‘I’ll Fire Your A**’ Line Was Only a Joke:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-stumbles-claiming-trumps-ill-fire-your-a-line-was-only-a-joke/

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

* "Immigrating while queer: America has a complex history of exclusion:" https://www.advocate.com/news/immigrating-queer-america

* "'Flatly false': Trump admin lied to judge about Costa Rica's willingness to accept Abrego Garcia, filing says:" https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/flatly-false-trump-admin-lied-to-judge-about-costa-ricas-willingness-to-accept-abrego-garcia-filing-says/

* "Kristi Noem made final call on deportation flights after judge ordered planes to turn back, DOJ says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/kristi-noem-deportation-flights-judge-ordered-planes-turn-back-aea-rcna245987

* "Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Federal Agents Repeatedly Lied About What They Did During Aggressive Immigration Raids: Judge:" https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/24/border-patrol-chief-greg-bovino-federal-agents-repeatedly-lied-about-what-they-did

* "Home Depot Hit by ‘ICE Scraper’ Protest As Dozens Line Up To Buy 17¢ Item:" https://www.newsweek.com/home-depot-ice-scraper-protest-monrovia-california-11097010

* "Minnesotans gear up to fight Trump ending Somalis’ temporary protected status:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/minnesota-fight-trump-somalis-tps-order

* "Charlotte activists met the immigration crackdown with ‘bless your heart’ resistance:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/activists-immigration-charlotte-north-carolina

* "ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol:" https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article313010544.html

* "Students at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School walkout in protest of immigration enforcement:" https://abc11.com/post/ice-nc-southeast-raleigh-magnet-high-school-students-walkout-protest-immigration-enforcement/18202246/

* "‘Don’t feel safe’: McMinnville students protest ICE arrest:" https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/dont-feel-safe-mcminnville-students-protest-ice-arrest/

* "‘Detain first and ask questions later’: Oregon ICE arrests shot up in October:" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/14/oregon-ice-arrests-shot-up-in-october-portland-detain-first-ask-questions-later/

* "'ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor' protest leads to 31 arrests outside Krome facility:" https://cbs12.com/news/local/ice-kidnapped-my-neighbor-protest-leads-to-31-arrests-outside-krome-ice-facility-miami-dade-sheriffs-office-krome-detention-faclity-wplg-sunrise-movement-november-25-2025

* "Beloved chef released after spending nearly month in ICE detention facility in Newark:" https://abc7ny.com/post/restaurant-owner-nj-released-ice-detention-facility-newark-month-being-detained/18172267/

* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:

Immigrant Defenders: https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkout
The Bail Project: https://bailproject.org/
National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory
Amnesty International: protect asylum-seekers: https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/
CHIRLA: https://www.chirla.org/
AL Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund
Mid-South Immigration Advocates: https://miamemphis.org/
"Know Your Rights:" https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
"Disappeared In America:" https://www.disappearedinamerica.us/

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* "Thousands Rally to Demand Trump’s Impeachment:" https://washingtonian.com/2025/11/24/photos-thousands-rally-to-demand-trumps-impeachment/

* "Trump administration won't observe World AIDS Day:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-no-world-aids-day

* "Gobble-degook: Trump talks turkey and trashes another presidential tradition:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/thanksgiving-trump-turkey-tradition

* "Trump turns turkey pardon into Chicago attack:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/11/26/trump-turns-turkey-pardon-into-chicago-attack-00669501

* "Trump’s clown car Cabinet lives up to the name:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-clown-car-cabinet-lives-up-to-the-name-2470403651822

* "DOGE is gone, leaving behind 300,000 fired federal workers, 600,000 USAID deaths, and more:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/doge-lgbtq-impact-elon-musk

* "DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos:" https://www.theverge.com/news/827390/doge-is-no-more-and-in-its-wake-only-chaos

* "Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts:" https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-strategy-group-senate-probe

* "Scouting America 'surprised and disappointed' after U.S. military threatens to cut ties:" https://www.advocate.com/news/military-boy-scouts-partnership-ended

* "How the Boy Scouts became a target of the Trump administration's wrath:" https://www.advocate.com/news/how-scouting-became-inclusive

* "Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend:" https://archive.ph/RHmjd

* "Will Dressing Up Fix Flying? Will It Fix Anything?:" https://archive.ph/GReDL

* "RFK Jr. and the Inexplicable Appeal of Repulsive Men:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/rfk-jr-olivia-nuzzi-cheryl-hines-attraction/

* "‘Sober’ RFK Jr. Spilled Wild Drugs Secrets, Alleged Ex-Lover Claims:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/sober-rfk-jr-spilled-wild-drugs-secrets-alleged-ex-lover-olivia-nuzzi-claims/

* "RFK Jr. says he directed CDC to remove claim that vaccines do not cause autism:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/rfk-jr-vaccines-autism-cdc-00665361?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nname=playbook&nrid=1baa4a95-6674-4546-a73e-ef850be0db49

* "Why outrage is erupting over Trump plan to exclude nursing from ‘professional’ designation:" https://archive.ph/MZtRv

* "Funding cuts could cause 3.3 million additional HIV infections by 2030: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/hiv-funding-cuts-new-infections

* "Georgia prosecutor drops election interference case against Trump, others:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-prosecutor-drops-election-interference-case-trump/story?id=127898245

* "Federal court rejects Trump Justice Department’s effort to access trans kids’ medical records:" https://www.advocate.com/news/philadelphia-trans-patient-subpoena-quashed

* "Democrats and rights groups accuse Trump's Justice Department of ignoring hate crimes:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/doj-accused-ignores-hate-crimes

**** Pretextual Indictments and the Weaponization and Corruption of the Justice System ****

* "Judge Casts Doubt Over Pam Bondi’s Justification for Appointing Lindsey Halligan:" https://www.notus.org/courts/lindsey-halligan-pam-bondi-james-comey-letitia-james

* "Comey, James cases dismissed as judge disqualifies interim US attorney Lindsey Halligan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/james-comey-letitia-james-cases-lindsey-halligan-00666896

* "I Witnessed Trump's Case Against James Comey Implode in Court:"

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* "‘Highly suspicious’: Trump official hit with lawsuit alleging abuse of power against foes:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/highly-suspicious-trump-official-hit-with-lawsuit-alleging-abuse-of-power-against-foes-2470709315661

* I legitimately don't understand how referencing the Uniform Code of military Justice can be a violation of the Uniform Code of military Justice with the death penalty as punishment, as how can they conduct any Courts Marshall at all without referencing the Uniform Code of military Justice?

It seems illogical, as does the Republican claim that the Uniform Code of military Justice is inherently seditious and following or referencing it for any civilian is also a death penalty offense, but here we are.

* "FBI probes congressional Democrats who warned military about illegal orders:" https://archive.ph/dkMzl

* "Pentagon to investigate Sen. Mark Kelly for anti-Trump video:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/pentagon-to-investigate-sen-mark-kelly-for-anti-trump-video-00666894

* "‘It’s absurd’: Sen. Kelly bites back at Trump, Hegseth threats over ‘illegal orders’ video:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/it-s-absurd-sen-kelly-bites-back-at-trump-hegseth-threats-over-illegal-orders-video-2470067779687

* "‘Just following orders’ is no excuse: former Army JAG explains the ‘illegal order’ PSA :" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/just-following-orders-is-no-excuse-former-army-jag-explains-the-illegal-order-psa-2470414403642

**** Trump/Epstein/Maxwell, etc. CW: CSA ****

* "Justice Department renews bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury materials:" https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-441c932c63d726167c09f3ab813f68b5

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* "“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.”:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/child-welfare-housing-missouri/?

* "Trump was going to roll out a health care plan. Then Republicans weighed in.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/trump-health-care-subsidies-backlash-00667751

* "Following Epstein files tactic, Democrats aim to override GOP on health care vote:"

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* "How a united message of 'Tax the Rich' could make life more affordable, and win elections:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/tax-the-rich

* "Don’t STEAL Act:" https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5048?s=1&r=1

* "H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/315708.html

* "End arms sales to UAE:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/318426.html

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* Our job for the next year and a half 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.

* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

* 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

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

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

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

"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

Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

"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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* "Alito lets Texas reinstate gerrymandered House map that could give GOP 5 more seats:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/texas-supreme-court-map-case-00665951

* ACTION ITEM: Tennessee's 7th, please vote in the Special election! "Can Aftyn Behn Stun the GOP in Tennessee Next Week?:" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/aftyn-behn-interview-tennessee-special-election/

* "GOP panics as Democrat closes gap in red district special election:"

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* "Illinois Democratic candidate glitter bombs anti-LGBTQ+ Christian group:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/reed-showalter-glitterbomb-transgender-survey

* "‘Morale has never been lower’: More GOP reps reportedly plot early exits:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/morale-has-never-been-lower-more-gop-reps-reportedly-plot-early-exits-2470705219852

* "Where is bi former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema now?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/where-is-kyrsten-sinema-now

* "Here's what we know about the shooting of 2 National Guard members in D.C.:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/27/nx-s1-5622955/national-guard-shooting-washington-dc-updates

* Trump is now using it as a pretext to send even more troops to illegally occupy D.C. instead of withdrawing them. "Trump Vows Crackdown on Immigration and Orders More Troops to D.C. After Shooting:" https://archive.ph/2E9O1

* "Florida driver arrested and accused of trying to run over LGBTQ+ running group:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/florida-driver-suspected-run-over-runners

* "'Just holding a Doritos bag': Student handcuffed after AI system mistook bag of chips for weapon:" https://www.wbaltv.com/article/student-handcuffed-ai-system-mistook-bag-chips-weapon/69114601

* "LGBTQ+ people are more likely to be stopped, arrested, and falsely accused by police: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-police-mistreatment-report

* "Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson:" https://archive.ph/Upkof

* "Southern states ban transgender books from YA and children's sections in libraries:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/alabama-tennessee-transgender-books-libraries

* "The Uncle Sam Billboard Along I-5 Is Now Brought to You by the Chehalis Tribe:" https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2025/11/04/the-uncle-sam-billboard-along-i-5-is-now-brought-to-you-by-the-chehalis-tribe/

* "Sean Sherman - "Turtle Island" & Fighting Native American Erasure With Food | The Daily Show:"

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* "He Died at a School for Disabled People. Decades Later, His Brother Sought Answers.:" https://archive.ph/p0TI2

* "When the Headline Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn’t the Problem—Patriarchy Is:" https://msmagazine.com/2025/11/08/conservative-feminism-new-york-times-headline-liberal-feminism-ruin-workplace/

* "Rigid gender roles are prompting women to leave rural Japan:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/g-s1-95310/japan-population-decline-gender-inequality

* "North Dakota's top court revives state's abortion ban:" https://archive.ph/k4OBd

* "6th Circuit Rules Cis Students May Bully Trans Students By Repeatedly Misgendering Them:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/6th-circuit-rules-cis-students-may

* "How community 'goodwill' helped open a new shelter for LGBTQ+ young adults in Harlem:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ali-forney-center-shelter-harlem

* "How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland:" https://www.propublica.org/article/methodology-bird-flu-outbreak-ohio-indiana

* "mRNA Covid shots may boost the effects of certain cancer treatments, study suggests:" https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/19/mrna-covid-shots-boost-cancer-immunotherapy-lung-cancer-melanoma/

* "Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation:" https://archive.is/xJgda#selection-1496.0-1496.1

* From here down, many items are older.

* "Does the news reflect what we die from?:" https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from

* "Scientists make embryos from human skin DNA for first time:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2vyee0zlo

* "Blood Money: My experience as a plasma donor hasn’t been what I expected.:" https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/donate-plasma-gig-work-grad-school.html

* "How the Brain Moves From Waking Life to Sleep (and Back Again):" https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-moves-from-waking-life-to-sleep-and-back-again-20251017/

* "The Kid Is All Right: In Defense of Picky Eating:" https://www.seriouseats.com/the-kid-is-all-right-in-defense-of-picky-eating-11832437

* "There’s Now a Casino in Everyone’s Pocket. For Some Young Men, It’s a Near-Fatal Gamble:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mobile-sports-betting-gambling-addiction-fanduel-draftkings-1235444172/

* CW: Suicide. "The Business of Killing: Newly Released Data Reveals Air Force Suicide Crisis After Years of Concealment:" https://theintercept.com/2025/10/27/air-force-suicide-deaths-maintainers/

* "‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/08/heroic-actions-natural-tendency-bystander-apathy-myth

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* "For the first time in 40 Years, Panama's deep and cold ocean waters fail to emerge:" https://phys.org/news/2025-09-years-panama-deep-cold-ocean.html

* "There’s A Reason I Say “Climate Change and Environmental Collapse”:" https://www.ianwelsh.net/theres-a-reason-i-say-climate-change-and-environmental-issues/

* "The pivot:" https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/10/the-pivot-1.html

* "5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you:" https://theconversation.com/5-forecasts-early-climate-models-got-right-the-evidence-is-all-around-you-263248

* "Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/earths-wildfires-growing-in-number

* "The Hidden Devastation of Hurricanes:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-hidden-devastation-of-hurricanes

* "On North Carolina’s rivers and streams, the cleanup of Helene’s fury seems never-ending:" https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-rivers-damage-cleanup-787332a031e07de813b005505505ec24

* "Beneath Your Feet: Sinkholes cost almost as much as tornadoes in annual damage. The problem is only going to get worse.:" https://slate.com/business/2025/10/sinkholes-dangerous-new-jersey-florida-roads.html

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* "The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive:" https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-soy-corn-flooding-subsidies-insurance

* "It's harder to get home insurance. That's changing communities across the U.S.:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5546754/climate-home-insurance-cop30-prices-expensive-disasters?

* "Why this one area of cities is usually the poorest:" https://archive.ph/QJMdW#selection-288.0-288.1

* "They help preserve America’s dominance in the Pacific. They’re paying a painful price:" https://www.reuters.com/investigations/they-help-preserve-americas-dominance-pacific-theyre-paying-painful-price-2025-09-24/

* "A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?:" https://archive.is/20251019112709/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/nyregion/432-park-avenue-condo-tower.html#selection-720.0-720.1

* "Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/07/indian-factory-workers-fast-fashion-recycling-panipat-discarded-clothing

* "'I had no idea it would snowball this far': Why a Brazilian favela facing eviction decided to go green:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250821-why-a-brazilian-favela-facing-eviction-went-green-with-gardening

* "How Japanese 'tiny forests' are sweeping Scotland:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250910-the-tiny-forests-that-thrive-in-cities

* "A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how — and why:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5589228/garden-environment-restoration-ecology-la-river-guerrilla

* "Closely sown corn plants communicate to defend themselves:" https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-08-24/closely-sown-corn-plants-communicate-to-defend-themselves.html

* "Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-renewable-wind-solar-coal-electricity-demand-abf7b587b038bf7580de1baee6576bbc?

* "World’s largest sand battery switches on in huge boost to clean energy:" https://www.the-independent.com/tech/sand-battery-renewable-energy-finland-b2818348.html

* "Why Are Train Tracks Built on Rocks?:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/transportation/trains/why-train-tracks-are-built-on-rocks?

* "Why Popcorn Ceilings Used to Be So Popular—and Why They Vanished:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/culture/design/why-were-popcorn-ceilings-popular?

* "In a Skyscraper City, They Fix Cobblestone Streets by Hand:" https://archive.ph/UJvUk

* "He crossed 26 miles in a kayak made from mushrooms – and lived to tell the tale:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/07/mushroom-kayak-plastic-alternative?

* "Jet engine shortages threaten AI data center expansion as wait times stretch into 2030 — the rush to power AI buildout continues:" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/turbine-shortage-threatens-ai-datacenters-as-wait-times-stretch-into-2030

* "AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/

* "DRAM prices skyrocket 171% year-over-year, outpacing the rate of gold price increases — AI demand drives massive price hikes as shortage takes hold:" https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-prices-surge-171-percent-year-over-year-ai-demand-drives-a-higher-yoy-price-increase-than-gold

* "Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/bombshell-report-exposes-how-meta-relied-on-scam-ad-profits-to-fund-ai/

* "Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books:" https://www.404media.co/librarians-are-being-asked-to-find-ai-hallucinated-books/

* "Libby’s library app adds an AI discovery feature, and not everyone is thrilled:" https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/libbys-library-app-adds-an-ai-discovery-feature-and-not-everyone-is-thrilled/

* "Dad Baffled When 6-Year-Old Daughter Turns Off AI Function on High Tech Doll and Plays With It Like Regular Toy:" https://futurism.com/dad-daughter-ai-toy

* "‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/16/i-love-you-too-my-familys-creepy-unsettling-week-with-an-ai-toy

* "OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws:" https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

* "A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject:" https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/

* "UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’:" https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/university-breaking-school-of-ai-20251009

* "Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents:" https://arxiv.org/html/2502.15840v1

* "20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me:" https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/20-ways-ai-has-created-more-work-for-me/

* "OpenAI stops 'disrespectful' Martin Luther King Jr deepfakes:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0g79xevxo

* "Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission:" https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-created-flirty-chatbots-taylor-swift-other-celebrities-without-permission-2025-08-29/

* "First-of-its-kind Stanford study says AI is starting to have a ‘significant and disproportionate impact’ on entry-level workers in the U.S.:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/first-kind-stanford-study-says-154521204.html?guccounter=2

* "YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission

* CW: Suicide. "ChatGPT affirmed Greenwich man's fears about his mom before murder-suicide, YouTube videos show:" https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/chatgpt-greenwich-ct-murder-stein-erik-soelberg-21022277.php

* "We set out to craft the perfect phishing scam.: Major AI chatbots were happy to help. :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ai-chatbots-cyber/?

* "Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit: “Largest Publicly Reported Copyright Recovery In History”:" https://deadline.com/2025/09/anthropic-ai-lawsuit-settlement-1-5-billion-1236509423/

* "Microsoft’s Copilot AI is now inside Samsung TVs and monitors:" https://www.theverge.com/news/767078/microsoft-samsung-tv-copilot-ai-assistant-launch

* "‘We were forced to burn bodies’: will survivors of the Tadamon massacres see justice?:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/13/survivors-tadamon-massacres-justice-syria

* Gay Hollywood and art house star Udo Kier dies at 81:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/udo-kier-gay-dead

* Ongoing Phone Saga, Monday: It is a holiday here Thursday, so the electrical inspection is a real issue and we missed three already. They are jammed because holiday. If I don't get inspected, the contractors don't get paid by the city. The inspector said it was unlikely, but he'd try to squeeze me in so I had to be dressed at 9AM and hope he knocked really loud because I couldn't just never sleep. Service tech window is 4-6. Inspector came 3:45ish and inspected. I heard something on the inner door a little after four, but no one was there. I even yelled hello very loudly. No one was there. Dispatch at 6:15ish claimed it was them.

I had even posted a note illegally where the the tech could see if they went to the front door with a little map on it showing how to get to my door. I'm going to move my "We are home Knock Louder" sign from patio to inner door, as the inner door is really hard to hear even when one is standing in the kitchen unless someone pounds it.

So I need to be up and dressed for a supposed 3-6 appointment Tuesday and hope the tech reads the note on the account and/or the notes I put up in defiance of management.

Oh, so this not knowing when they are coming thing also means I can't leave my apartment even to check mail between 8 and 6 every day just in case.

* My belief that the phone was nothing we could fix was correct. Problem required some sort of manual switching at their end, which they could have done at any time in the last week if they'd wanted to. It took the in my home technician most of an hour to convince advanced tech serve at home office to get off their ass and do the five minute fix instead of just repeating things we already knew didn't work. In home tech: I can see why you were so frustrated.

We then had a couple hours of internet instability that also meant my emergency thingie kept calling for help every time we got back on line.

In other news, papers are now signed and the city is releasing funds to contractors. Odds are the poor bastards will finally get their money tomorrow.

Livia hates All of It.

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

* This is so good. "DÛ BIST MÎN ICH BIN DÎN – Medieval Coming of Age Short Film (English & German Subs):"

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* "A Spooky Night in a New Country:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2nlhgluk_Q8

I still feel bad about a family of Vietnamese refugees we accidentally alarmed this way in the early '70's.

* "11 modern horror books that should be turned into prestige TV:" https://winteriscoming.net/11-modern-horror-books-that-should-be-turned-into-prestige-tv

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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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