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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* Extended Jen Psaki Interview:

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* Extended Rachel Maddow Interview:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* Our job for the next year and a half is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.

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

* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

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

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

Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

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

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

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

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

* Extended interview with Mikie Sherrill:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "A Three Hour Bore:"

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

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* "Scarface 2: The Pardoning:"

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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* "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

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

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

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

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* "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/

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* Our job for the next year and a half is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.

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

* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

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

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

Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

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* "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

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

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

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* "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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