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* "Gaza death toll tops 70,000, health ministry says:" https://archive.ph/Nlmif

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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* This is horrific and embarrassing. "Trump’s $2 Trillion Plan to Cash in on Ukraine ‘Peace’ Leaks:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-trillion-plan-to-cash-in-on-ukraine-peace-leaks/

* I really hope Europe can pull together and save Ukraine now we have betrayed them all. "Zelenskiy says 'tough issues' still need to be resolved after Florida talks:" https://archive.ph/jcnHJ

*** 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/

* 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/

* "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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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

gwydion

* "China’s shadow navy trains to take Taiwan:" https://archive.ph/yzQ4d

* "Japan's ban on marriage equality is constitutional, according to a Tokyo court :" https://www.advocate.com/news/japan-marriage-equality-ruling

* "A ‘Death Train’ Is Haunting South Florida:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/brightline-train-florida/684624/

* From here down, many items are older.

* "FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site:" https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/

* "Your passwords don’t need so many fiddly characters, NIST says:" https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/10/your-passwords-dont-need-so-many-fiddly-characters-nist-says

* "2.5 billion Gmail users endangered after Google database hack:" https://www.pcworld.com/article/2880822/2-5-billion-gmail-users-endangered-after-google-database-hack.html

* "Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs:" https://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack

* "How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World:" https://www.404media.co/how-teas-founder-convinced-millions-of-women-to-spill-their-secrets-then-exposed-them-to-the-world/

* "GoFundMe takes responsibility for creating pages without nonprofits' consent: 'We're very sorry':" https://abc7news.com/post/gofundme-apologizes-creating-donation-pages-nonprofits-consent-vows-make-changes/18082313/

* "‘Scamming became the new farming’: inside India’s cybercrime villages:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/30/scamming-became-the-new-farming-inside-india-cybercrime-villages

* "Rise of the ‘porno-trolls’: how one porn platform made millions suing its :" https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/nov/04/strike-3-porn-copyright-lawsuits

* "The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age:" https://thewalrus.ca/collapse-of-self-worth-in-the-digital-age/

* "Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show:" https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88

* "Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month:" https://www.404media.co/flock-wants-to-partner-with-consumer-dashcam-company-that-takes-trillions-of-images-a-month/

* "China is sending its world-beating auto industry into a tailspin:" https://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-is-sending-its-world-beating-auto-industry-into-tailspin-2025-09-17/

* "BYD’s cars can now fully park themselves. Game over, Tesla:" https://www.fastcompany.com/91366273/byd-bests-tesla-again-cars-are-the-first-to-truly-park-themselves

* "Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk6kvyxvzo

* "Audi Infotainment Screens Were Bricked for Months by a Bad SiriusXM Update:" https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-siriusxm-update-sent-some-audi-screens-into-a-forced-reboot-loop-for-months

* "German court convicts 4 ex-Volkswagen managers of fraud in emissions scandal:" https://apnews.com/article/volkswagen-germany-diesel-emissions-court-fraud-3878fcf6c06c9574bf5bff8d31029f90

* "You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/prime-video-lawsuit-movie-license-ownership-1236353127/

* "Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads:" https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/

* "Satellites reveal weak spot in Earth's magnetic field keeps growing: "There's something special happening":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-magnetic-field-south-atlantic-anomaly-weak-spot-satellite-data-esa/

* "The school for astronauts hidden inside a Swiss mountain:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251023-the-school-for-astronauts-hidden-inside-a-swiss-mountain?

* "NASA discovers ‘clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars’:" https://archive.ph/1kyNT#selection-264.0-264.1

* "A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-minimal-that-it-challenges-definitions-of-life-20251124/?

* "Some ant architects design a colony to cut the risk of disease. Humans, take note!:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/10/21/g-s1-94240/ants-disease-architecture

* "These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ant-queens-seem-to-defy-biology-they-lay-eggs-that-hatch-into-another-species-180987292/

* "Mystery of dancing spiders' DNA could explain how they develop into new species:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzl2zj72jo

* "Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/11/octopuses-prefer-to-use-different-arms-for-different-tasks-scientists-find

* "Baby giant tortoises thrive in Seychelles after first successful artificial incubation:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/10/baby-giant-tortoises-thrive-seychelles-first-successful-artificial-incubation

* "Florida’s Hot Spot for the Crocodile’s Comeback Is…a Nuclear Power Plant? :" https://gardenandgun.com/articles/floridas-hot-spot-for-the-crocodiles-comeback-isa-nuclear-power-plant/

* "Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans’ Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/generations-bearded-vultures-stashed-humans-treasures-including-650-year-old-sandal-in-these-bird-nests-180987443/

* "Snakes Pee Solids. Chemical Analysis Suggests Why.:" https://www.the-scientist.com/snakes-pee-solids-chemical-analysis-suggests-why-73631?

* "Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/16/bird-migration-is-changing-what-does-this-reveal-about-our-planet-visualised-aoe

* "Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lpyrnjleeo?

* "How a huge dinosaur trackway was uncovered in the UK:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5f8c77b0-92bc-40f2-bf21-6793abbe5ffe?

* "New fossils show that the ‘bizarre’ armoured dinosaur, Spicomellus afer, grew neck spikes up to a metre long:" https://www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/press-releases/new-fossils-show-that-the--bizarre--armoured-dinosaur--spicomell.html

* "Stone tool discovery suggests very first humans were inventors :" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8zn4ln85ro

* "Signatures meant more in Mesopotamia than they do now − what cylinder seals say about ancient and modern life:" https://theconversation.com/signatures-meant-more-in-mesopotamia-than-they-do-now-what-cylinder-seals-say-about-ancient-and-modern-life-266547

* "Archaeologists Found a Hoard of Coins That Hint at an Ancient Civilization:" https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a68990168/celtic-coins-czech-republic/

* "Ancient Scythian animal-style art began with functional objects, study finds:" https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-scythian-animal-style-art.html

* "Ancient Egyptian sick notes and invoices go on show:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8r2k1g043o

* "Yet More on Ancient Greek Dildos:" https://alpennia.com/blog/yet-more-ancient-greek-dildos

* "Trans History Moment You Need to Know:"

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* "Debunking Viking Soap: Horse Chestnuts or Horse Apples? (or Boiled Animal Fat):"

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* "How Did a Chinese Sword End Up on a French Crusader’s Tomb? The Secret of the d’Aluye Knight:" https://www.medievalists.net/2025/09/chinese-sword-crusaders-tomb/

* "Michaelina Wautier: the female Flemish artist now seen as an old master:" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/28/michaelina-wautier-female-flemish-artist-exhibition-vienna?

* "The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse :" https://theconversation.com/the-17th-century-woman-who-wrote-about-surviving-domestic-abuse-260128

* "My Favorite History Myths Debunked:"

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* "The Sexist History of Belladonna & Botox:"

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* "Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years:" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/17/lost-js-bach-organ-compositions-performed-for-first-time-in-300-years?

* "Why Every Strawberry Traces Back to a Secret Spy Mission in 18th-Century South America:" https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/health/food-and-nutrition/why-every-strawberry-traces-back-to-a-secret-spy-mission-in-18th-century-south-america/

* "Did an Enslaved Chocolatier Help Hercules Mulligan Foil a Plot to Assassinate George Washington?:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-an-enslaved-chocolatier-help-hercules-mulligan-foil-a-plot-to-assassinate-george-washington-180987327/?

* "London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting:" https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/oct/21/london-museum-identifies-black-waterloo-veteran-in-rare-1821-painting?

* "The 1830s Device That Created the First Animations: The Phenakistiscope:" https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/the-1830s-device-that-created-the-first-animations-the-phenakistiscope.html

* "Why tradwives aren’t trad: The housewife is a Victorian invention. History shows us women’s true economic power:" https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/history/70945/why-tradwives-arent-trad

* "In 1907, This Daring Performer Walked on Water From Cincinnati to New Orleans, Covering Nearly 1,600 Miles in 40 Days:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-1907-this-daring-performer-walked-on-water-from-cincinnati-to-new-orleans-covering-nearly-1600-miles-in-40-days-180987576/

* "The Legendary Children’s Librarian of Harlem:" https://daily.jstor.org/legendary-childrens-libriarian-of-harlem/

* "5,000 Photos of Rural Life Taken by Vagabond Photographer Discovered Decades After Death:" https://mymodernmet.com/roberto-donetta-blenio-valley-swiss-photographer/

* "The First World War, in Sharp Focus:" https://archive.is/rC7vP

* "Messages in bottle written by World War I soldiers in 1916 found on Australian beach: "Absolutely stunned":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/messages-bottle-world-war-i-soldiers-found-australia-beach/

* "The Upper East Side tailor who took poetic street scene photos over six decades from his shop window:" https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/the-upper-east-side-tailor-who-took-poetic-street-scene-photos-over-six-decades-from-his-shop-window/

* "How a Harvard maverick forever changed our concept of the stars:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-stars?

* "Hidden in plain sight - Mumbai's glorious Art Deco legacy at 100:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2p2xp19r3o#2

* "In the early days of flight, airships were hailed as the future of war. Then disaster struck the USS Akron.:" https://magazine.atavist.com/2025/american-hindenberg-zeppelin-disaster?

* "How the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz Survived the Death Camps:" https://lithub.com/how-the-womens-orchestra-of-auschwitz-survived-the-death-camps/

* "Twist and Shout: Music, Race, and Medical Moralization:" https://nursingclio.org/2025/09/03/twist-and-shout-music-race-and-medical-moralization/

* Oooo! We had some of these! "Cereal Box Records Sound Horrible. They Still Look Incredible.:" https://archive.ph/1QJut

* "Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens During the 1960s:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newly-declassified-records-suggest-parents-collaborated-with-the-fbi-to-spy-on-their-rebellious-teens-during-the-1960s-180987694/

* "1970s True Crime:"

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* "Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games:" https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/07/stasi-coldwargames-its-all-a-game-alliiertenmuseum-berlin

* "A new book of Edward Gorey’s drawings shows what’s lost when the artist’s sexuality is glossed over:" https://theconversation.com/a-new-book-of-edward-goreys-drawings-shows-whats-lost-when-the-artists-sexuality-is-glossed-over-257938

* "The Candy Cane Park Murder Was Almost Solved. But Then …:" https://archive.ph/02xaf

* "Pizzastroika:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/pizza-hut-cold-war-us-history-russia.html?

* "The End of History: Global Events 1995-1999:"

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* I got invited to a Friday Friendsgiving thing Thursday night, which was really too short notice for me. I am really struggling to recover from the Great Furniture Migration a couple weeks ago and all the sleep disruption and stress from dealing with phone and contractor things. I am still in pain and covered in bruises and I'm really struggling to do even the basics. I would have had to bake something on no real notice and I just couldn't handle it physically.

After I went to bed Friday, I also noticed my sinuses were bothering me, so now I'm playing Allergen or Pathogen, one of my least favorite guessing games, right up there with what's that smell. I did wear an mask when assorted workmen and such were here the last few weeks and I'm fully vaxxed. I keep going back and forth on cold vs. allergies. It's likely best I didn't go as it's about 50/50 on me being contagious, and that was reason enough to bow out.

I still have almost no spoons from being pushed to hard physically, so I've made no progress at all on the living room this week, beyond slowly migrating some plants inside and spreading out some others that are likely staying out there, and the usual stuff that must be done like feeding, watering, litter boxes. I am molasses slow and unsteady.

Instead, I have been chipping away at link backlogs, as y'all may have noticed.

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

* "8 LGBTQ+ films coming in 2026 that we can't wait to see :" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/gay-films-coming-in-2026#rebelltitem12

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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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gwydion

* "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

* "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

* "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/

* "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

* "“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

* "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

* "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

* "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

*****
* 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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* "UN Security Council backs Trump’s peace plan in key vote:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/17/un-security-council-trump-peace-plan-00655496

* "After UN vote, Netanyahu calls for Hamas' expulsion from the region:" https://archive.ph/jNadn

* This is long and nuanced, but very much worth a listen. "Trump’s Peace Plan: Lessons from the Negotiating Table | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart:"

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* "Updates: Israel attacks Gaza despite ceasefire killing 33 Palestinians:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/20/live-israel-bombs-house-in-southern-gaza-kills-at-least-3-palestinians

* "Israel plans to seize historical site in the West Bank as a new settlement appears:" https://apnews.com/article/west-bank-israel-refugee-camps-hrw-79d231fd15170ef095afdf6090197fc2

* "Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in West Bank expulsions:" https://archive.ph/qDjzY

* "Israeli military steps up strikes in south Lebanon, says it is targeting Hezbollah:" https://archive.ph/XimWz

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/

******

* "US may have discussions with Maduro as aircraft carrier arrives in Caribbean, Trump says:" https://apnews.com/article/aircraft-carrier-venezuela-trump-ford-strikes-drugs-241ea9e039d717b9f80f793922cb7cc9

* "Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g-s1-97836/venezuela-evidence-doj-strikes-sinking-suspected-drug-boats-assertations

* "USS Gerald Ford enters Caribbean Sea as threat of U.S. action against Venezuela rises:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/15/nx-s1-5609888/aircraft-carrier-caribbean-venezuela-military-action

* "Trump defends Saudi crown prince, who US intelligence found ordered killing of Washington Post columnist:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-defends-mbs-saudi-arabia-00656679

* "Trump’s weird ‘lovey-dovey’ treatment of Saudi leader highlights his financial conflicts:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing/watch/trump-s-weird-lovey-dovey-treatment-of-saudi-leader-highlights-his-financial-conflicts-252416581933

* "Trump says he will sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia on eve of crown prince’s Washington visit:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-saudi-arabia-crown-prince-f35-77edbfa2f257805d43a501cd4808648a

* " Why Are The Rich Obsessed With Saudi Arabia?:"

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* "Trump's tariffs are costing companies. Keeping up with them may cost even more.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/16/trump-tariffs-ceo-company-resources-00651968

* "Trump issues order rolling back some of his food tariffs :" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-issues-order-rolling-back-food-tariffs-rcna244045

* "October jobs report canceled and November release delayed, BLS says :" https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/october-jobs-report-canceled-rcna244828

* "US Employers Added 119,000 Jobs in September, Unemployment Rose:" https://archive.ph/lQjr2

* "Fed increasingly divided over December rate cut despite Trump pressure:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/19/fed-december-rate-cut-00659858

* "Trump Quips He’ll Fire Bessent If Interest Rates Are Not Lowered:" https://archive.ph/rBtax

* "Trump’s Republican Party insists there’s no affordability crisis and dismisses election losses:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-midterms-republicans-affordability-election-losses-0e15f928cdbb01eee41eadfb477cb981

* "Trump’s Republican Party insists there’s no affordability crisis and dismisses election losses:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/16/trump-tariffs-ceo-company-resources-00651968

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

* "Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On:" https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity

* "New international student enrollment fell sharply this year amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown:" https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/new-international-student-enrollment-fell-sharply-us-trump-immigration-rcna243295

This is likely to be catastrophic for Universities. Not only are they losing diversity that is educational for everyone involved, but a lot of the colleges, particularly on my coast depend on international students as part of their funding model.

* **ACTION ITEM** It's open for public Comment. Please give them one. "Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services :" https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/03/2025-19747/collection-and-use-of-biometrics-by-us-citizenship-and-immigration-services#open-comment

* "US judge revives contempt proceeding against Trump officials:" https://archive.ph/uXFaR

* CW: Child Abuse. "“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime:" https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges

Remember the violent warrantless aid on that Chicago apartment building where they threw everyone's stuff into the hallway and grabbed citizens as well as legal aliens and zip tied naked children and dragged them outside for the sheer pedophilic pleasure of it for the agents?

They did all this permanent harm for not reason at all the supposed gang members were imaginary.

There wasn't a single one. Which is likely why they couldn't get a warrant.

If one person is denied due process no one has them.

* CW: CSA. "Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
Under President Trump, an agency intended to keep Americans safe has diverted resources from combating child abuse, trafficking and terrorism.:" https://archive.ph/Hsrkt#selection-505.0-509.142

* "'Irretrievably destroyed': Trump admin says video footage inside ICE facility at center of class action lawsuit 'cannot be produced' in line with court's discovery order:" https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/irretrievably-destroyed-trump-admin-says-video-footage-inside-ice-facility-at-center-of-class-action-lawsuit-cannot-be-produced-in-line-with-courts-discovery-order/

* "'A broken system': Texas border town has misgivings over Trump vote:" https://www.alternet.org/texas-border-town-trump/

* "Catholic bishops push U.S. to end ‘dehumanizing’ immigration enforcement:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/catholic-bishops-push-u-s-to-end-dehumanizing-immigration-enforcement

* "Pope Leo Condemns ‘Extremely Disrespectful’ Treatment Of Migrants By Trump Administration:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/11/19/pope-leo-condemns-extremely-disrespectful-treatment-of-migrants-by-trump-administration/

* "'We are going to do everything we can to fight this’: Newport unites against ICE facility, Coast Guard helicopter loss:" https://www.klcc.org/local-news/2025-11-13/we-are-going-to-do-everything-we-can-to-fight-this-newport-unites-against-ice-facility-coast-guard-helicopter-loss

* "A small Oregon crabbing town is taking on Trump over plans to build an ICE prison:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/newport-oregon-dungeness-crab-fishing-ice-prison-trump-rcna244672

* "Protests in Charlotte as aggressive immigration arrests continue:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/17/charlotte-protests-arrests-immigration

* "Immigration crackdown operation in Charlotte ends, sheriff says:" https://archive.ph/EUi6O

* "Masked Border Patrol Agents Caught on Video Smashing U.S. Citizen's Truck Window in North Carolina:" https://people.com/border-patrol-agents-caught-on-video-smashing-us-citizens-truck-window-north-carolina-11851148

* "South Meck students stage school walkout to protest Border Patrol’s Charlotte operation:" https://www.wbtv.com/2025/11/20/south-meck-students-stage-school-walkout-protest-border-patrols-charlotte-operation/

* There were so many other protests in other cities as well. I want to thank everyone who came out.

* "Protests call on Home Depot to stop allowing Border Patrol, ICE arrests at stores:" https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article312969164.html

* CW: CSA. "ICE Employee Arrested in Child Sex Sting Allegedly Told Cops, 'I'm ICE, Boys.' The Police Chief Was Not Impressed:" https://people.com/ice-employee-arrested-in-child-sex-sting-minnesota-11852492

* "ICE detains U.S. citizen for 7 hours after she photographed agents in Oregon:" https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/11/ice-detains-us-citizen-for-7-hours-after-she-photographed-agents-in-gresham.html

* "‘It’s alarming’: Montgomery County councilmember says she was grabbed by ICE while filming stop:" https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/maryland/montgomery-county/its-alarming-montgomery-county-councilmember-says-she-was-grabbed-by-ice-while-filming-stop/

* "Boston University Student Faces Backlash After He Called ICE on Workers:" https://archive.ph/UFKba

* STAY Noisy! "Protesters outside Rockford AT&T store demand company cut ties with ICE:" https://www.wifr.com/2025/11/17/protesters-outside-rockford-att-store-demand-company-cut-ties-with-ice/

* "Immigration Raids in LA and Nationwide with Memo Torres:" https://open.spotify.com/episode/5k3jgkpx6CDPUJGFYuJTbb

* 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/

* "How Can States Stand Up To Trump?:"

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* "Tennessee judge blocks deployment of National Guard in Memphis:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5611530/national-guard-memphis-judge-ruling

* "Tennessee National Guard allowed in Memphis while state appeals:" https://tennesseelookout.com/briefs/tennessee-national-guard-allowed-in-memphis-while-state-appeals/

* "Hundreds of National Guard troops will leave Portland and Chicago:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/16/nx-s1-5610485/national-guard-chicago-portland-texas-california

* "ACLU of Oregon sues Trump administration over First Amendment 'violations' during Portland ICE facility protests:" https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/aclu-oregon-sues-trump-administration-first-amendment-rights-portland-ice-facility-protests/283-1ac659b1-02e8-4a9b-8217-b0810499622c

* "Landlord may sue feds over ICE tear gas affecting Portland apartments:" https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/11/landlord-may-sue-feds-over-ice-tear-gas-affecting-portland-apartments.html

* "Judge orders Trump administration to end National Guard deployment in DC:" https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-dc-deployment-c1c2b13a7102632632267bf1262506ff

* "Anti-Trump Protest around the White House:" https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/anti-trump-protest-around-the-white-house/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjU6bmV3c21sX01UMUFOQURMMDAwQVRBNzlX

* "Trump, who mocked Biden’s use of autopen, caught posting identical signatures on pardons:" https://fortune.com/2025/11/15/trump-autopen-identical-pardon-signatures-technical-error/

* "‘Truly improbable and hilarious:’ Hayes reacts to Mamdani-Trump meeting:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/truly-improbable-and-hilarious-hayes-reacts-to-mamdani-trump-meeting-252609093523

* "One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media:" https://www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the-most-dangerous-interviews-ever-maga-media-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes

* "The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi:" https://www.vox.com/politics/466905/the-gops-top-think-tank-just-defended-an-open-nazi

* "Trump defends Tucker Carlson after interview with Nick Fuentes, far-right activist known for his antisemitic views:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-defends-tucker-carlson-after-interview-with-nick-fuentes-far-right-activist-known-for-his-antisemitic-views

* "Heritage board member resigns over organization's defense of Tucker Carlson:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/17/heritage-resigns-robert-george-tucker-00654143

* "Trump says Democrats’ message to military is ‘seditious behavior’ punishable by death:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-military-traitors-sedition-illegal-orders-c5fc3c5bd2fbc6b1204550e4203c24b2

* "‘HANG THEM’: Trump melts down, accuses six Dems of ‘seditious behavior’:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/hang-them-trump-melts-down-accuses-six-dems-of-seditious-behavior-252508229591

* "Trump freaks out at reminder to military that he’s not king:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing/watch/trump-freaks-out-at-reminder-to-military-that-he-s-not-king-252522053810

* "Chris Hayes: Trump is in ‘worst political spell of his second term’:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-trump-is-in-worst-political-spell-of-his-second-term-252501061789

* "Mike Johnson defends Trump’s ‘sedition’ attacks on Democrats:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/20/congress/mike-johnson-trump-sedition-00662754

* CW: Rape, Trafficking. "The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation:" https://www.propublica.org/article/andrew-tate-investigation-dhs-paul-ingrassia

* CW: CSA. "Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say:" https://theintercept.com/2025/11/17/pardoned-jan-6-child-abuse-molestation-andrew-paul-johnson/

* "A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme:" https://archive.ph/Pr0PX

* "Abuse of pardon power becomes a key feature of Trump corruption of the Justice Department:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/abuse-of-pardon-power-becomes-a-key-feature-of-trump-corruption-of-the-justice-department-251764805813

* "Kash Patel, the FBI’s Agent of Chaos:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/kash-patel-the-fbis-agent-of-chaos/

* "Keystone Kash Gifts His Girlfriend Insane Security Perk:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-director-keystone-kash-gifts-his-girlfriend-alexis-wilkins-swat-security-detail/

* "Gay former FBI official sues Kash Patel & Pam Bondi for Pride flag firing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kash-patel-lgbtq-flag-lawsuit

* " Decorated FBI agent trainee fired over Pride flag warns new ‘Lavender Scare’ is spreading ‘like wildfire’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/fbi-lavender-scare-pride-flag

* Stay Noisy! "U.S. Coast Guard backtracks on acceptability of ‘potentially divisive’ swastikas & nooses:" https://www.advocate.com/news/coast-guard-divisive-symbols-reversal

* "Trans National Guard member sues Trump admin over bathroom ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-woman-sues-trump-restrooms

* "Trump administration kills plan to pay passengers up to $775 for flight delays:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/airline-delay-compensation-rule-21199404.php

* "Trump Wanted to Abolish FEMA. His Own Advisers Disagree.:" https://archive.ph/upGuH

* "Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson resigns:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/acting-fema-administrator-david-richardson-resigns-sources/story?id=127599184

* "Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling:" https://archive.ph/TnOiq

* "Trump Promised to Bring Back Coal. This Town Listened.:" https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/trump-coal-country-colstrip-montana/

* "A Confederate Statue Is Restored as Part of Trump’s Efforts to Reshape How History Is Told:" https://www.mississippifreepress.org/a-confederate-statue-is-restored-as-part-of-trumps-efforts-to-reshape-how-history-is-told/

* "Pennies Are Trash Now:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/pennies-circulation-mint/684935/

* "CDC website changed to contradict scientific conclusion that vaccines don’t cause autism:" https://apnews.com/article/cdc-autism-vaccines-7b1890f626dd5921fafd00fdd1e6425a

* "C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time:" https://archive.ph/uPjGu

* "America’s most basic HIV protections are in danger as a decade of progress unravels:" https://www.advocate.com/health/hiv-protections-lost-trump

* "Trans people and people of color have been quietly erased from national caregiving plan:" https://www.advocate.com/health/trans-people-national-caregiving-erased

* "Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-administration-sets-out-massive-education-department-restructuring-plan-00656464

* "Justice Department Prepares to Pay Trump Ally Michael Flynn Millions:" https://newrepublic.com/post/203226/justice-department-prepares-pay-trump-ally-michael-flynn-millions

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

* "The Unraveling of the Justice Department:" https://archive.ph/4puuG

* "Comey case hanging by a thread as judge squeezes DOJ over Halligan’s handling:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/19/james-comey-case-lindsey-halligan-hearing-00659479

* "Fannie Mae's fraud watchdogs doubted charges against James:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/17/fannie-maes-fraud-watchdogs-letitia-james-00655533

* "He’s Called ‘Little Trump,’ and His Tactics Are Rankling White House Top Brass:" https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/bill-pulte-profile-d000c844

* "Fed Governor Says Housing Official Worked With Trump to Smear Her:" https://archive.ph/PhMxl

* "Trump Admin May Have ‘Tainted’ Mortgage Fraud Investigations Against Schiff, James by Appointing ‘Unauthorized’ People to Case: Report:" https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-admin-may-have-tainted-mortgage-fraud-investigations-against-schiff-james-by-appointing-unauthorized-people-to-case-report/

* "Justice Department is examining handling of mortgage fraud investigation into Sen. Adam Schiff:" https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-mortgage-fraud-ed-martin-8b29a802d74b90576e0332d610ea99ce

* "Tables turn on Trump’s attack dogs as political prosecutions fall apart:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing/watch/tables-turn-on-trump-s-attack-dogs-as-political-prosecutions-fall-apart-252525125949

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

* I kept seeing Republicans trying to stop the Epstein File release by telling Democrats that that would mean their pedophiles would be exposed and then being shocked when Democrats responded by saying things like: Good! Let's arrest and prosecute all the pedophiles.

I was confused until I remembered that Republican politicians mostly give no fucks at all for the safety and welfare of children. They are so used to using "Think of the children" as a cudgel to steal rights for innocent people and justify any atrocity on their part, so used to lying that innocent people are pedophiles in order to scapegoat anyone or any group they don't like without caring how hard that makes to actually stop CSA as long as it gives them more power and harms innocent people they don't like, that they just started assuming anyone actually opposing CSA was doing it in a performative way, just like Republicans enjoy doing.

Except Democrats do in fact care about the greater good and the safety of children.

Surprise!

* "Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump during president's first term in office: emails:" https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-thanksgiving/

* "Epstein's Emails Are An Indictment Of The 1%:"

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* Extended Elizabeth Warren Interview:"

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* "Christiane Amanpour - Journalism in the Fight Against Authoritarianism | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump again threatens ABC's broadcast license, this time over Epstein questions:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-again-threatens-abcs-broadcast-license-this-time-over-epstein-questions-00657264

* "Trump signs bill to release Epstein files:" https://archive.ph/PRra0

* "Trump fails to stop Epstein bill as his political grip slips and sycophants fall away:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing/watch/trump-fails-to-stop-epstein-bill-as-his-political-grip-slips-and-sycophants-fall-away-252416069795

* "Congress Just Rebelled Against Trump:"

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* "All about anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Clay Higgins, the lone vote against Epstein files release:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/all-about-clay-higgins

* "‘Checkmate’: GOP revolt pushes Trump to back down on Epstein files:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/checkmate-gop-revolt-pushes-trump-to-back-down-on-epstein-files-252323909961

* "Looming fight with Trump casts shadow over win in Congress for Epstein survivors:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing/watch/looming-fight-with-trump-casts-shadow-over-win-in-congress-for-epstein-survivors-252337221904

* "Epstein survivor breaks her silence on ‘the list,’ Mar-a-Lago and the fight for justice:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing/watch/epstein-survivor-breaks-her-silence-on-the-list-mar-a-lago-and-the-fight-for-justice-252334149974

* "New report on Trump’s ‘dirty tricks’ plan to keep Epstein files buried:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/new-report-on-trump-s-dirty-tricks-plan-to-keep-epstein-files-buried-252410437715

* "To the ProPublica Board: We Need a Fair Contract Now:" https://www.propublicaguild.org/updates/to-the-propublica-board-we-need-a-fair-contract-now

* "House unanimously rebukes Thune on data seizure payouts:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/19/congress/house-votes-to-overturn-thunes-controversial-subpoena-measure-00661169

Call your Senators!

* "US senator challenges defense industry on right-to-repair opposition as funding talks continue:" https://archive.ph/2O3QY

* "Sarah McBride leads bipartisan coalition to secure ‘freedom and dignity’ for LGBTQ+ people globally:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sarah-mcbride-global-respect-act

* "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

* "200+ lawmakers demand Speaker Mike Johnson end anti-trans rhetoric in Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/democrats-end-transphobia-congress

* "Indicted House Dem will step down from committee leadership position:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/20/congress/jeffries-on-cherfilus-mccormick-00661418

* "COP30 deal exposes fragile climate unity as US steps back:" https://archive.ph/1Rzdu

* "The tough reality of Tudor childhood: Ruth Goodman on harsh lessons and discipline:"

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* "Ryan Coogler gives a speech at Chadwick Boseman's posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony:"

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* "Remembering the groundbreaking bisexual activist and author Loraine Hutchins:" https://www.advocate.com/news/remembering-bisexual-activist-loraine-hutchins

* FOOD RECALL: "First and Last Bakery, LLC Recalls First and Last Brand Tomato Sauce Products Because Of Possible Health Risk:" https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/first-and-last-bakery-llc-recalls-first-and-last-brand-tomato-sauce-products-because-possible-health

* The problem with the next bit of living room is it is a bit like those puzzles you get as a kid where there are tiles with one missing and you need to shift them around to make a picture. I had to move everything and do it cleverly to get the living room table and this particular chair where they need to go. then I had to move everything else so people could use the patio entrance. So many piles of things need putting away. Things that fell ended up random places. Things in the way ended up random places. I have a bunch of stuff boxed up in my room. I can not find my duct tape.

Bonus, the safteyline thingie died and I didn't know so I missed a bunch of important calls including the City electrical inspector. It took well over an hour to bodge a temporary fix, but really I need new phone cords and things. Right now I'm holding together broken ends and crumbly wires with frog tape. See missing duct tape.

Everything is exhausting and painful and ends up involving 7 or eight extra steps and several hours extra even for simple tasks.

Livia is still off her feed and really just wants me to stay in bed so she can hide in there with me.

* So I discovered that all incoming calls to me go direct to voice mall, no ring, no call waiting beep.

The city inspector has come twice this week and I didn't know because the phone never rang.

I cant fix it because it's impossible to get tech help people to understand that they can't just call me back on the phone because it does not ring and goes to voicemail. No combination of words woks. So they reset, which cuts me off. They can not grasp there is no way once they disconnect to reconnect unless I call them and then I need to start over with a new tech person who insists on disconnecting and calling back. There i no way to successfully convey I don't have or want a cell phone.

So round and round we go.

I need a phone that works so that the city inspector can inspect.

UPDATE 9:30PM: So I finally wade through all the stuff I was meant to be doing while spending a couple of hours failing to convince anyone to fix things so my phone would ring rather than go straight to voice mail, except for the errands because I missed the time window so I have to do a bunch of things tomorrow including an extra errand because the phone doesn't work so I have to go in person.

I open up the Lemon lenovo intending to get going on news aggregation.

I discover I have been invited to play yet another game of what is wrong with the lenovo this time. Luckily it only took about 15ish minutes instead of me having to wait for tomorrow to trick Best Buy into updating drivers again.

The fuck with this couple of months?!?

In other news, I'm still chipping away at the post renovation stuff. The electricals seem okay, but we can't get them inspected because Phone and the real test is Summer. Honest Contractor did put the new fancy smoke detectors in to replace the dead, dying ones from when they built the building. (This isn't a battery needs changing issue. The electronics had deteriorated to the point where one was dead, one eats a battery every 6-8 months, and the third... seemed okay, but how long before it started to go? All three were the same age. These are not simple battery only ones, as they connect to the building fire system wiring.

Among other things, over the last couple nights I was able to bring in another planter, though really another three ought to be onside, but that's physically impossible withought me buying shelving. I did manage to juggle some things outside while I was at it. After inspection I will see if I can juggle a couple more things. We'll see.

I got enough done Wednesday night to hang a new living room fly strip and move stuff from the kitchen into the living room, but that was really too much for my shoulder, so everything else is now a tomorrow problem.

I'm at a point where I can work on things in smaller steps and I've got three starting places based on spoon level instead of everything needing to be done in a specific order for the next while which also helps. Things in my room need to wait for things out here, but I have plans for how to tackle the rest of out here basically.

Livia is willing to do pettin throne pets and is accessing three of five litter boxes, which is progress. (The fifth litter box is in Squirrel's room where she does not go. It was used by Little Miss and The Emperor, both now gone. She will stand in Squirrel's doorway and check on them, and gets upset if she hasn't seen them in too long, but she doesn't like it in there. The fifth litterbox is Not My Problem, so I frequently forget it exists.)

Livia will look out the patio door briefly, but won't sit there to stare out like she normally would, but is avoiding things like sofa naps, her front window scratch box and desk naps. I haven't seen her eat kibble, but she has been sneaking small amounts while I sleep. I tried putting kibbles in her room, but she didn't touch them and I worry about the bowl breaking if I put it there and Squirrel goes in to check on her.

I am worried about her, but all I can do is keep trying to comfort her.

* I keep trying to battle my way to getting them to make it so my phone rings instead of going straight to voicemail. Saturday they promised to send a tech Sunday between 1 and 6. I made them put in the notes to knock on the patio door because the phone doesn't work. I was dressed and ready. Nothing.

According to squirrel they insisted on texting them, even though I told them I can't receive texts. They did not read the notes telling them the phone doesn't work and they have to knock on my actual door, so they drove away as I suspected they would. I called every couple hours, but they strung me along until knock off time at 9PM.

So we are scheduled for Monday. I have zero hope that they will read the notes.

There is no way for me to fix it myself and they can't fix it without reading the notes on my account with they absolutely refuse to do.

I don't have much hope of the city inspector either, but I will have to sleep dressed and never leave the house during business hours on weekdays until he does.

I am terrible at sleeping in my clothes. Sigh.

The replacement safetyline box came, so I did manage to sort that out.

In other news, I found most of the things that went missing when my bedroom had to be emergency emptied accidentally Saturday, while searching my bedroom drawers for space to put the large Tavy pads. They are too big to use in the spot next to my bathroom litter box, and I won't need them unless Livia gets sick again, but I can't get rid of them in case Livia gets sick again.

I Thought I'd found all the things I tucked into drawers during the Box shortage, but I had not. I put them away properly, but I likely will have to do a little rearranging on the shelving by my bedroom door before I'm really satisfied.

I have made zero progress on other things as basic maintenance and trying to fight the fix my phone battle and the resulting sleep loss ate most of the spoons.

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

* "Epstein Emails Reveal "Bubba" Bombshell About Trump & Republicans Pretend It’s NBD | The Daily Show:"

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* "Leslie Jones: Overworked Air Traffic Controllers Deserve First-Class Treatment | The Daily Show:"

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* "Jeffrey Epstein: Trump's A Bad Guy | "Bubba" Was Neither A Clinton Nor A Horse | Trump: I Don't Care:"

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* "Epstein Files Vote Is A Huge Loss For Trump | "Quiet Piggy" | Dictator Besties | A Flying McDonald’s:"

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* "Meanwhile... French Rocket Ship | Porn Ferry | A Pig Named "Breakfast":"

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* "The 20+ best LGBTQ+ historic sites and artifacts to add to your bucket list :" https://www.advocate.com/history/best-lgbtq-sites-artifacts#rebelltitem1

* "Frankenstein (2025) Costumes Get Historical Fashion Right:"

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* "Now That's What I Declare Is Music:"

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* "The Real American Heroes:"

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* "RFK Hospital: An Original Series Inspired by the Medical Advice of RFK Jr. | The Daily Show:"

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* "Sunday Sweets: My Favorite Things:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-my-favorite-things-2025

* Fairytale Prophesies: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/800870124195381248?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.

* "State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies:" https://rsa.ed.gov/about/states

* 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

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

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

* 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 Immigtrant 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/

* 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.

* Glad Law is fighting for trans service members. Want to help? https://givebutter.com/donatetoglad?utm_src=webheader&_gl=1*1qhxi1q*_ga*NDM3MjM0Mzk1LjE3NDEwMDk5NDA.*_ga_PCJHHSV2G7*MTc0MTAwOTk0MC4xLjAuMTc0MTAwOTk0MC4wLjAuMA..

* "Donate to the ACLU:" https://action.aclu.org/give/now

* "Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

* "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

* "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/

* Want to help Virginia get a Democratic Governor? "Support Abigail's Campaign for Governor of Virginia!" https://secure.actblue.com/donate/blu-asfg-2025-gs-dd?refcode=BLU_ASFG_DD_GS_NT_NTL_Q1_01&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAt4C-BhBcEiwA8Kp0CcaXXWdWpVI1uyoauFCRFgrY9hsEMA4pbxF_TO6ZPHAdhNzOmcwHTxoC8lgQAvD_BwE

* What to do if you encounter an immigration official. "Know Your Rights:" https://unitedwedream.org/resources/know-your-rights/

* "ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

* "Legal Services for Your Reproductive Life:" https://reprolegalhelpline.org/

* "National Abortion Hotline:" https://prochoice.org/

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

* Trans support organization: https://www.pointofpride.org/

* "Transanta: An opportunity to directly support trans youth:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/291573.html

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

* "Black Alliance for Peace’s Atlanta Citywide Alliance:" https://linktr.ee/bapatlanta

* Map of Cop Cities planned or being built: https://isyourlifebetter.net/cop-cities-usa/

* Want to help Journalists without Borders? https://donate.rsf.org/us/donate/~my-donation

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* "War in Ukraine! Support LGBTQ people.:" https://secure.wayforpay.com/payment/s047412e502b6

* What to help fight for queer people in Africa? Try the Initiative Sankofa D’Afrique de l’Ouest www.ISDAO.org

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

* Indivisible Guide for Trump 2.0 "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

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

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

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Senate: https://contactsenators.com/senator-phone-numbers/
Congress in General: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

* "DONATE TO EMILY'S LIST:" https://win.emilyslist.org/a/donate-to-emily

* Want to help support all of us all here at the Cat Asylum? https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/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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