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 News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

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* "Back to Russian gas? Trump-wary EU has energy security dilemma:" https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/back-russian-gas-trump-wary-eu-has-energy-security-dilemma-2025-04-14/

* "Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria's World Bank debts, sources say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-plans-pay-off-syrias-world-bank-debts-sources-say-2025-04-14/

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* "Memo shows U.S. can send migrants without criminal records to Guantanamo, despite Trump's promise to hold "the worst" there:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/guantanamo-trump-migrants-without-criminal-records/

* "ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’:" https://azmirror.com/2025/04/08/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/

* "Deporting veterans betrays America’s promise:" https://prismreports.org/2025/04/07/deported-veterans-undocumented-immigrants/

* "Hispanic Churches Groan Under Florida’s Double Immigration Crackdown:" https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/03/florida-hispanic-latino-evangelicals-immigration-persecution/

* "In the battle to keep ICE from raiding houses of worship, the grassroots needs to flex more muscle:" https://religionnews.com/2025/03/21/in-the-battle-to-keep-ice-from-raiding-houses-of-worship-the-grassroots-needs-to-flex-more-muscle/

* "Tufts student ICE grabbed off street says hijab was removed, asthma wasn't treated at Louisiana facility:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tufts-student-grabbed-street-ice-says-hijab-removed-asthma-not-treated-rcna201122

* "Don’t Take the Bait — Kristi Noem and Fascism’s Sadistic Eroticization of Power:" https://religiondispatches.org/dont-take-the-bait-kristi-noem-and-fascisms-sadistic-eroticization-of-power/

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* "Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label:" https://archive.ph/oj0SK

* "DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs:" https://archive.ph/pFB6F

* "Social Insecurity:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/social-insecurity/id1638974657?i=1000703934164

* "Pentagon chief Hegseth shared sensitive Yemen war plans in second Signal chat, source says:" https://archive.ph/x89u0

* "Pete Buttigieg calls Pete Hegseth ‘unfit to lead’ after second bombshell Signal chat leak revelation:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-buttigieg-pete-hegseth-unfit

* "The MAGA-fication of the Military:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-maga-fication-of-the-military/id1638974657?i=1000702094669

* "The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC’s news distortion policy:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/trumps-fcc-chair-invokes-rarely-enforced-news-distortion-policy-to-punish-media/

* "What exactly does Trump think is in the Smithsonian?:" https://archive.ph/rp6e9

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* "'Please don’t tax the rich': Seattle crosswalk buttons hacked to sound like Jeff Bezos:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/hacked-crosswalk-buttons-altered-play-fake-messages-south-lake-union-u-district/281-a2fb5c9b-be47-40c1-bdba-8cf36316ecfc

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond

* 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/

"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

Script to complain about Elon Musk/DOGE. I also suggest contacting your AG about data privacy. "Introducing Red State Scripts, Vol. 1:" https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2025/02/10/introducing-red-state-scripts-vol-1/

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

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

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

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

* How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

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

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

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

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* "Meet the Iowa Democrat challenging Sen. Joni Ernst: 'I live in the real world':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/meet-the-iowa-democrat-challenging-sen-joni-ernst-i-live-in-the-real-world-237952581831

* "Former OneRepublic bassist announces bid for Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/former-onerepublic-bassist-announces-bid-for-congress-237953093677

* "Nancy Mace yells 'F**k you!' at man she assumes is gay for asking her a question in an Ulta store:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nancy-mace-confronts-gay-man

* "Two dead, suspect in custody after sheriff’s deputy’s son opens fire at FSU:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article304434411.html

* "A Key Fight Over the Most Infamous Police Project in the Country Is Coming to a Head:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/copy-city-fight-future-of-journalism.html

* "A Lawyer’s Crusade Against “Copaganda”:" https://newrepublic.com/article/192070/copaganda-book-alec-karakatsanis-police-crime-statistics

* "Lawsuit alleging Alabama officials illegally harvested inmates’ organs can proceed, judge rules:" https://apnews.com/article/organ-harvesting-university-of-alabama-corrections-department-ddf8f08ccedf4998961f20e2ff0740b1

* "For the American Prison Writing Archive, a ‘Shadow Canon’ Sheds Light:" https://archive.ph/pkS6c

* "Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-parenting-terror-islamic-state-police-security-attacks-4888bab2d10502edadf787d419d45b5b

* "Whiteness rooted in place:" https://www.christiancentury.org/article/interview/whiteness-rooted-place

* "Barbarian Virtues:" https://currentpub.com/2025/04/02/barbarian-virtues/

* "Vandalism at NYU Islamic prayer room under investigation as hate crime:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vandalism-nyu-islamic-prayer-room-hate-crime-rcna199832

* "DEI? You're Fired:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dei-youre-fired-with-heather-mcghee/id1583132133?i=1000703845266

* "Top 5 LGBTQ+ books banned in the U.S. :" https://www.advocate.com/top-5-lgbtq-books-banned-2024#rebelltitem1

* CW: Sexual Assault. "The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything:" https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made-him-do-it-theory-of-everything-2/

* "MAGA's war on empathy exposes misogynist fears:" https://www.salon.com/2025/04/11/magas-on-empathy-exposes-misogynist-fears/

* "This reporter spent a year dating rabid anti-feminists — here’s what she found:" https://www.alternet.org/breaking-social/manosphere-cnn-papisova/

* "In Your Face: The Brutal Aesthetics of MAGA:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/maralago-face-conservative-girl-makeup-brutal-aesthetics-of-maga-trump-gaetz-guilfoyle/

* "Morning-after pill to be offered without charge at pharmacies in England:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/30/morning-after-pill-contraception-free-pharmacies-nhs-england

* "Why Elon Musk and JD Vance Are Obsessed With You Having More Babies:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/this-is-a-war-and-natalism-is-our-sword-and-shield-my-weekend-with-the-pronatalists/

* "NY county clerk refuses to file Texas’ fine for doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-lawsuit-texas-new-york-carpenter-e97d5c38d9429083d03c2a7b385cbbfd

* "From Afghanistan to Malaysia, these are the 61 countries that still criminalize homosexuality:" https://www.advocate.com/news/61-countries-criminalize-homosexuality#rebelltitem65

* "Hungary passes constitutional amendment banning public LGBTQ+ events:" https://www.advocate.com/world/hungary-gray-pride-protest-lgbtq

* "Caribbean activists step up fight to end homophobic laws that ‘breach fundamental rights’:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/caribbean-activists-step-up-fight-to-end-homophobic-laws-that-breach-fundamental-rights/ar-AA1CXwL5

* "New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-german-swiss-and-austria-guidelines

* "Trans Norwegian politician wants to give asylum to transgender people fleeing Trump's policies:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/norwegian-us-trans-asylum

* "Transgender teen can't legally change name until age 21, Mississippi Supreme Court rules:" https://www.advocate.com/law/mississippi-transgender-teen-name-change

* "Chicago Teachers Union ratifies groundbreaking contract cementing LGBTQ+ protections:" https://www.advocate.com/news/chicago-teachers-union-lgbtq-inclusion

* "Hundreds protest Pittsburgh hospital for caving to Trump and denying trans youth gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/news/hundreds-protest-upmc-trump-transgender-care

* "How doctors became providers of hope and our kids' last line of defense:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gender-affirming-care-doctors-children

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ attacks on the rise in Los Angeles: report:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/anti-lgbtq-attacks-on-the-rise-in-los-angeles-report

* "'Kiss your kids goodbye:' Indiana mom tells teacher who flew a Pride flag in class, police say:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/indiana-mom-threatens-queer-teacher

* "Florida high school teacher loses job for using student's preferred name:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-teacher-fired-preferred-name

* "Georgia mother of trans and nonbinary children forcibly removed from school board meeting:" https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-mother-removed-school-board

* "A mom complained about a trans girl using the locker room. Hundreds turned out to support the girl:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/chicago-transgender-girl-locker-room

* "New Hampshire men can't wear anti-trans gear at their kids' school while their lawsuit proceeds:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transphobic-gear-banned-new-hampshire

* "University of Cincinnati removes 'biological' bathroom signs, wasting $16K :" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/university-cincinnati-biological-bathroom-removed

* "Right-wing extremists threaten LGBTQ-affirming religious communities: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/extremists-target-affirming-religious-institutions

* "‘Just plain old Larry’: A Wisconsin man’s testimony about gender-affirming care went viral. Here’s his story.:" https://www.wpr.org/news/larry-jones-wisconsin-testimony-gender-affirming-care-viral

* "It takes a village to raise a child, but what if the village votes red?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-connecticut

* "Texas investigating USA Fencing Association after it disqualified cis player for refusing to play trans woman:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/texas-usa-fencing-investigation

* "Tennessee far-right pastor fears 'gay beam' airport scanner will make him queer:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pastor-airport-scanners-gay

* "I was beset by a sudden desire to know what, exactly, JKR said recently:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3617152.html

* "Imperfect sounds:Cochlear implants give deaf kids unprecedented access to sound. But insisting they avoid using sign language may be risky:" https://www.science.org/content/article/implants-can-help-deaf-kids-hear-many-still-struggle-spoken-language

Ya think?

* "“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline:" https://www.propublica.org/article/whooping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump?

* "How stress shapes cancer’s course:" https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/how-stress-affects-cancer?

* "U.S. fentanyl deaths have been plunging. Enter Trump:" https://archive.ph/70V6M

* "“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”:" https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-blue-shield-louisiana-insurance-lawsuit-breast-cancer-doctors

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* "Climate Violence Is Coming for Rich Countries, and They’re Not Ready:" https://thewalrus.ca/climate-violence-is-coming-for-rich-countries-and-theyre-not-ready/

* "How South Korea's largest and deadliest wildfire spread:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/SOUTHKOREA-FIRE/movaydeneva/

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* "Why We Have Lawns:" https://blog.nwf.org/2024/04/why-we-have-lawns/

* "This Interactive Map Shows You Where Your Food Comes From:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/interactive-map-shows-where-food-comes-from

* "From Daikin to Samsung, companies fight Modi over e-waste policy:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/daikin-samsung-companies-fight-modi-over-e-waste-policy-2025-04-11/

* "Bubble Trouble: An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.:" https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/

* "That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows:" https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11/

* "T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children:" https://www.404media.co/t-mobile-shows-users-the-names-pictures-and-exact-locations-of-random-children/

* "Tesla accused of using sneaky tactic to dodge car repairs:" https://www.thestreet.com/automotive/tesla-accused-of-using-sneaky-tactic-to-dodge-car-repairs

* "Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case:" https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/

* "Things to post about on Dreamwidth:" https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/933696.html

* "The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death :" https://nautil.us/the-animals-that-exist-between-life-and-death-1202592/

* "Scientists map part of a mouse’s brain that’s so complex it looks like a galaxy:" https://apnews.com/article/brain-map-neurons-alzheimers-autism-1a4e9db0a86c082e10da9c154546c592

* "Amazing ROV Footage of the First Confirmed Live Sighting of the Elusive Colossal Squid:" https://laughingsquid.com/colossal-squid-first-live-sighting/

* "A crow's math skills include geometry:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/12/nx-s1-5359438/a-crows-math-skills-include-geometry

* "The horses and mules that moved mountains and hearts:" https://www.hcn.org/articles/the-horses-and-mules-that-moved-mountains-and-hearts/

* "This Warrior Was Buried in Ice Under a Bone Shield for 4,000 Years and His Face Was Just Reconstructed:" https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/this-warrior-was-buried-in-ice-under-a-bone-shield-for-4000-years-and-his-face-was-just-reconstructed/

* "50 Viking Sayings That Still Hit Hard Today:" https://www.medievalists.net/2025/04/50-viking-sayings/

* "Sheryl Lee Ralph Learns of Ancestors' Uncommon Love Story | Finding Your Roots:"

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* "Unearth the homoerotic art of Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte :" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/gustave-caillebottes-impressionist-queer#rebelltitem16

* "Two women have sent each other the same weathered birthday card for 81 years:" https://archive.ph/Uz9HD#selection-234.0-234.1

* "Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88:" https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-francis-dead-01ca7d73c3c48d25fd1504ba076e2e2a

* "King of fruits:" https://worksinprogress.co/issue/king-of-fruits/

* Something has gone dramatically wrong with my bank account. I suspect paypal allowed a secret autowithdraw again at exactly the wrong time, which I will need to track down, as a bill I'd scheduled to pay with more than enough money in the account rather suddenly caused an overdraft. (I checked it wasn't Amazon prime randomly reactivating again, but it's a pain in the ass finding the right tab on paypal. I will do that next.) I had some cash I'd socked away at the beginning of the month in case I needed it for inspection cleaning. I put it back in in time to patch the hole, but when Insuarnce auto-withdraws hit, I am fucked. I think $70.00 would cover those plus fees.

Want to help? https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* I've been behind on Tumblr scheduling since… I think Nov. 3rd 2023. On 4/20/25, I finally caught up. Guess my new system is working. O.o

I think I've finally got the workflow on computer stuff mostly settled. Finally.

I am really struggling with pain right now. Part of it is the new physio I've been working since the last visit to the ostio, part of it is the randomness of the spring weather, part of it? Who knows.

The Cats are definitively into their Spring migration pattern around the house, which means Livia is ascendant on bed pets and Tavy is mostly living in the living room. Mostly.

* ""ER" Sues "The Pitt":"

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* "The Hidden Meanings in Nature Art: Crash Course Art History #9:"

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* "How Communities Make Art: Crash Course Art History #10:"

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* "Bodies in Art: Crash Course Art History #11:"

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* "Senator Shenanigans:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0sPH8N0-4w4

* "Obnoxious Octavian:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kqi8Zl4rySE

* "Goofy Gladiators:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SzaQlQabIsw

* "The Anxious Anarchy:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_cExqCxVi90

* "Crazy Crusaders:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PZuDndcB750

* "Knaverous Knights:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yE9u-SwW50A

* "Music Mayhem:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/17mjE0alOV4

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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* As has been the case since January, the sort may be a little rough. News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date. I had massive amounts of bureaucracy, plus Inspection Cleaning last week and my body got pushed too hard. This is both why the aggregate is late, and why it's missing a ton of stuff.

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* "Exclusive: Israel hit Syrian bases scoped by Turkey, sources say:" https://archive.ph/TqPKk

* "'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This': author speaks out on Gaza:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/-one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this-author-speaks-out-on-gaza-237276741815

* "Gaza aid worker killings: One humanitarian still missing in mass grave:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/04/1161736

* "'We Are In Complete Shock': Israel Bombs Last Fully Functioning Hospital in North Gaza:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-hospital-bombing

* "Israel walks back its account of Gaza medic killings after video surfaces of attack:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-walks-back-account-gaza-medic-killings-video-surfaces-attack/

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* "Death toll from Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih rises to 19, one dead after overnight strikes in Kyiv:" https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/06/death-toll-from-russias-attack-on-kryvyi-rih-rises-to-18

* CW: Child Death "‘Little suns in the classroom’: Ukrainian city mourns children killed by Russian missile:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-kryvyi-rih-missile-attack-63cf067166caebe68b163af6c2e1de5e

* "1 killed in Russian attack on Kyiv as death toll from earlier missile strike rises to 20:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-kyiv-kryvyi-rih-strike-5d612e2dc8e311fc82c37404e204e79a

* "Russian missiles hit Ukrainian city of Sumy during Palm Sunday celebrations, killing more than 30:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-sumy-b034da8f4d83d08e5ea24c6033dbe3cf

* "‘Everybody is to blame’: Trump slams Biden, Zelenskyy and Putin for war in Ukraine:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/14/trump-ukraine-russia-war-00289352

* Russia invaded Ukraine in an attempt to conquer it. How is that Ukraine or Biden's fault? " Zelenskyy jabs JD Vance for ‘justifying’ Russia’s war on Ukraine :" https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-jab-jd-vance-justify-russia-war-ukraine/

* The plant is in Ukraine. Neither Russia nor the US are entitled to it. "Everyone wants Europe’s largest nuclear plant. Ukraine wants it back.:" https://archive.ph/gqj7n

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* "Turkey's opposition vows to sustain protests over jailing of Erdogan's main rival:" https://archive.ph/Z0e2o

* "Serbian protesters cycle 1,400 kilometres to seek EU support against Vucic regime:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250405-serbian-protesters-cycle-1-400-kilometres-to-seek-eu-support-against-vucic-regime

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* "Hundreds of protesters turn out in European cities against Trump:" https://archive.ph/FN2je

* "Pentagon fires Greenland base commander after she criticized JD Vance visit:" https://www.politico.eu/article/us-military-fires-commander-susannah-meyers-greenland-base-critic-jd-vance-visit/

* "Trump says the US will hold direct talks with Iran; Tehran says they’ll be indirect negotiations:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-netanyahu-tariffs-gaza-war-israel-4d83902207c28277b22ef2a310be4a5c

* "Trump and El Salvador's president attack transgender people during White House meeting:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-el-salvador-transgender

* "Trump punts on TikTok deal — app gets another 75 days:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/04/trump-tiktok-deal-00272469

* "Exclusive: Water looms as new front in Mexico's trade negotiations with the US:" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/land-use-biodiversity/water-looms-new-front-mexicos-trade-negotiations-with-us-2025-04-09/

* Sort of. For a little while. "Trump hits pause on trade war: China tariffs will go up to 125 percent while other countries get a 90-day reprieve.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/09/trump-pauses-tariffs-00281494

* "Trump spares smartphones, computers, other electronics from China tariffs:" https://archive.ph/gHzcA

* "China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies:" https://archive.ph/EWHN5

* "The 18 hours that changed Trump’s mind on trade:" https://archive.ph/daKf0

* "From ‘Be Cool!’ to ‘Getting Yippy’: Inside Trump’s Reversal on Tariffs:" https://archive.ph/pUTmz

* "Why Trump Blinked on Tariffs Just Hours After They Went Into Effect:" https://archive.ph/EgSaE

* "We Just Saw the Cracks in Trump’s Wall of Power:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/10/donald-trump-vulnerabilities-tariffs-budget-00283251

* "U.S. stocks slump again as euphoria over Trump's tariff pause fades:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/g-s1-59342/global-markets-react-trump-tariffs-pause

* Not that's it's likely to matter because SCOTUS. "Adam Schiff Calls For Insider Trading Investigation into Trump Over Tariff Pause:" https://time.com/7276234/trump-tariff-insider-trading-schiff/

* "Pete Buttigieg — bearded and blunt — calls out Donald Trump’s tariff chaos: ‘This is people’s lives’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-buttigieg-blasts-trump

* "This was before the pause, but it's about Trump's goals, so I'm keeping it.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-idiotic-trump-s-tariffs-aim-to-send-us-back-to-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-era-236875845702

* "‘Donny, do a deal’: Why 'Trust in the Dear Leader' is not an economic policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-donny-do-a-deal-why-trust-in-the-dear-leader-is-not-an-economic-policy-237196357588

* Proof Republicans give no fucks about how much Trump dicking around the economy harms the base. Republicans: why we can't have nice things. "House GOP leaders move to quash vote on Trump’s global tariffs:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/09/congress/house-gop-leaders-move-to-quash-vote-on-trumps-global-tariffs-00280922

* Lest we forget, Trump golfed while the economy burned: "As the markets fell, Trump putted:" https://archive.ph/cGfkw

* "Who is Scott Bessent? Here's the gay billionaire and treasury secretary backing Trump tariffs:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/who-is-scott-bessent

* He really gives Let them Eat Cake vibes. "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Americans looking to retire aren’t concerned about day-to-day markets, dismisses concerns about a potential recession:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-markets-tariffs-recession.html

* "Lutnick’s Strategy Flummoxes Business Leaders and White House Aides:" https://archive.ph/oeazo

* "Elon Musk vs. Peter Navarro is a slugfest in the swamp of the repugnant:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/elon-musk-vs-peter-navarro

* "Fed's Powell steady on rates, warns on inflation as Trump demands cut:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/fed-powell-tariffs-inflation-growth

* "Former WA candidate Joe Kent involved in Signal chat scandal:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/former-wa-candidate-joe-kent-involved-in-signal-chat-scandal/

* "Trump plan would slash State Dept. funding by nearly half, memo says:" https://archive.ph/PYKjU

* "500,000 kids could die without PEPFAR as Trump & Elon Musk undermine HIV aid, study warns:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-pepfar-cuts-severe-consequences

* Cruelty is the Point "U.S. aid team fired while in Myanmar earthquake zone, ex-official says :" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-aid-team-fired-myanmar-earthquake-zone-ex-official-says-rcna199886

* "WATCH: State Department says funding to some life-saving UN food programs was cut by mistake:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/watch-live-state-department-briefing-may-address-trade-negotiations-deportation-flights

* "U.S. Slashes Many of the Aid Programs It Had Promised to Keep:" https://archive.ph/sC2Ef

* "US Army to control land on Mexico border as part of base, migrants could be detained, officials say:" https://apnews.com/article/border-trump-roosevelt-military-immigration-85974188a51593351eed70ad26291888

* "DHS revokes parole for hundreds of thousands who entered via the CBP One app:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/08/dhs-parole-revoked-app-00007326

* "IRS agrees to share tax data with immigration authorities:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/08/irs-agrees-to-share-tax-data-with-immigration-authorities-00278548

Punishing people for paying taxes seems like a terrible idea, and breaching privacy is a dangerous precedent.

* "Top IRS officials join chief in quitting following immigration data deal:" https://archive.ph/C80D7

* "'It's criminal': IRS officials quit over sharing taxpayer info; Trump cuts worsen crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-criminal-irs-officials-quit-over-sharing-taxpayer-info-trump-cuts-worsen-crisis-237006917721

* "U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/g-s1-59149/immigrants-social-media-antisemitism-dhs

Bet that's going to be abusive and arbitrary in the way the recent visa revocations are. Bet it's not going to target antisemitism but rather anything Trump doesn't like.

* "US Supreme Court lets Trump pursue deportations under 1798 law, with limits:" https://archive.ph/ITYbR

* "Supreme Court says Trump admin must 'facilitate' release of man wrongly deported to El Salvador prison:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-trump-admin-must-facilitate-release-kilmar-abrego-garcia-rcna200284

* "Supreme Court avoids confronting Trump so far, even when it rules against him:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-avoids-confronting-trump-far-even-rules-rcna200433

* "Supreme Court unanimously rules against Trump, orders return of mistakenly deported man:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/breaking-supreme-court-unanimously-rules-against-trump-orders-return-of-mistakenly-deported-man-237089349832

* "'Get them back': Crockett reacts to SCOTUS ordering return of wrongly deported man:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-get-them-back-crockett-reacts-to-scotus-ordering-return-of-wrongly-deported-man-237092933749

* "Trump admin says Maryland man deported by mistake still detained in El Salvador:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/trump-admin-says-maryland-man-deported-by-mistake-still-detained-in-el-salvador-237242437509

* "About 90% of Migrants Sent to Salvador Lacked US Criminal Record:" https://archive.ph/OH3ma

* "2Bad Wisconsin cop’s tattoo claim helped deport gay asylum-seeker to Salvadoran prison hellscape: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/cop-gay-asylum-deportation

* "Deported gay makeup artist cried for mother in prison, photojournalist says:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-man-imprisoned-el-salvador

* "What Happens When He Ignores Court Orders?:"

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* No one is safe under autocracy. Stand up for the most vulnerable now. Stay noisy. "Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-el-salvador-us-citizens-denaturalization-1235315975/

* "Trump administration contends it has no duty to return illegally deported man to US:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/13/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-trump-administration-00288502

* "El Salvador's Bukele, meeting with Trump, says he won't return migrant wrongfully deported:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hosts-el-salvadors-bukele-amid-deportation-controversy/story?id=120788481

* "'It’s just that simple': Rubio admits to jailing immigrants for their political views:" https://www.alternet.org/rubio-jailing-immigrants/

* "Federal judge to consider releasing immigration activist who took refuge in churches:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-judge-consider-releasing-immigration-activist-took-refuge-chur-rcna198517

* "Attorneys for Denver immigrants' rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra say her due process rights are being violated:" https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/denver-attorneys-activist-jeanette-vizguerra-say-due-process-rights-violated/

* "Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil says his ICE arrest was an 'abduction' :" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-deportation-rcna199814

* It may be more complicated than the headlines make it look. "Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, immigration judge rules:" https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-protester-ruling-deport-fd9e80583af3109d7de0a5264e79ea61

* "Mahmoud Khalil’s fight against Trump isn’t over:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/mahmoud-khalil-s-fight-against-trump-isn-t-over-237241413872

* Protesting works sometimes, so Stay Noisy. "Source: ICE-detained family returning to Sackets Harbor:" https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/source-ice-detained-family-returning-to-sackets-harbor/

* "Judge weighs Tufts student's bid for release during challenge to detention:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-ice-hearing-jurisdiction/

* "‘They’re attacking attorneys’: Lawyer representing student protestor detained:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-they-re-attacking-attorneys-lawyer-representing-student-protestor-detained-236874309541

* "Mapped: How Many People Are ICE Detaining?:" https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/ice-detentions-february-2025/

* "Noem turns Homeland Security role into cringey costume theater:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/noem-turns-homeland-security-role-into-cringey-costume-theater-236899397868

* "‘Every day is Halloween’: Kristi Noem turns DHS role into costume parade:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-every-day-is-halloween-kristi-noem-turns-dhs-role-into-costume-parade-237194309976

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* "Prep for the date: April 19:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2034306.html

* "Fierce backlash against Trump's agenda seen in sweeping, nationwide protests:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fierce-backlash-against-trump-s-agenda-seen-in-sweeping-nation-wide-protests-236780613896

* "Making a mockery of Musk: Backlash against dismantling U.S. government focuses on hatchet man:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/making-a-mockery-of-musk-backlash-against-dismantling-u-s-government-focuses-on-hatchet-man-237420613874

* "Trump says he took a cognitive test as part of his latest physical:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361249/trump-physical-cognitive-test

* "Appeals court clears the way for Trump to fire probationary federal workers once again:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357415/trump-federal-probationary-employees-firings

* "Supreme Court lets Trump remove independent regulators, for now: The cases test the boundaries of presidential power and involve Gwynne Wilcox of the National Labor Relations Board and Cathy A. Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board.:" https://archive.ph/3FkfS

* "Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say:" https://archive.ph/UhFTP

* "Trump in search of waste need look no further than his own staff:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-in-search-of-waste-need-look-no-further-than-his-own-staff-236893253817

* "The Trump administration’s conflicting messages to the public and the courts:" https://www.politico.com/interactives/2025/trump-administration-messaging-public-courts-discrepancies-tracker/

* "Dan Bongino Wants You to Know He’s Working Really Hard. Seriously. He Is.:" https://www.thebulwark.com/p/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director-kash-patel-wants-you-to-know-hes-working-really-hard?r=cnvx&triedRedirect=true

* "The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked:"https://archive.ph/fTUrq#selection-605.48-605.59

* "Maddow blasts Trump's 'terrible, absolutely ridiculous way to run a government':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-blast-s-trump-s-terrible-absolutely-ridiculous-way-to-run-a-government-236899909714

* "FBI creates multiagent bodyguard team to protect Dan Bongino :" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-creates-multiagent-bodyguard-team-protect-dan-bongino-rcna199861

* "Social Security wrongly told disabled people and some seniors their benefits ended, causing alarm:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-doge-ssi-error-message-currently-not-receiving-payments/

* "Social Security faces thousands more job cuts even with service in tailspin:" https://archive.ph/rjUbx

* ""Total betrayal of the middle class": Rep. Balint slams GOP plan to cut benefits:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-total-betrayal-of-the-middle-class-rep-balint-slams-gop-plan-to-cut-benefits-237275717741

* "UAW Statement on Job Cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health:" https://uaw.org/uaw-statement-on-job-cuts-at-the-national-institute-for-occupational-safety-and-health/

* "Trump, Hegseth promise record $1 trillion Pentagon budget:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/07/hegseth-trump-1-trillion-defense-budget-00007147

* "Kash Patel removed as ATF director, replaced with Army secretary:" https://archive.ph/GrUiO

* "Veterans Affairs clinicians sign letter against Trump's ban on trans vets' care: ‘There is resistance’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/va-clinicians-resistance-letter

* "Meet the trans Black Hawk pilot suing after being falsely accused of role in deadly D.C. crash:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-pilot-defamation-lawsuit

* " Maine Gov. Janet Mills doubles down on defying Trump’s attacks on trans rights after court victory :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/janet-mills-donald-trump-transgender

* "Justice Dept. pulls 'nonessential' funds from Maine prison system over trans inmate housed with women:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/maine-funding-withdrawn-transgender-prisoner

* "Weaponizing antisemitism makes students 'less safe,' says drafter of definition:" https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-20/weaponizing-antisemitism-makes-students-less-safe-says-drafter-of-definition

* "The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

* "WATCH: Ed Sec Calls Artificial Intelligence ‘A1’ Like the Steak Sauce:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/education-secretary-linda-mcmahon-calls-artificial-intelligence-a1-like-the-steak-sauce/

* "DIRNSA Fired:" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/dirnsa-fired.html

* "Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-greenhouse-gas-reporting-climate-crisis?

* "FACT FOCUS: Trump misrepresents facts about coal as he signs executive orders to boost its use:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-coal-industry-mining-fact-check-69bc9919c2899a87c65c4c89a84a973e

* ""Restoring shower freedom": Trump signs order to undo water pressure standards:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/10/trump-shower-heads-water-pressure-order-obama-biden

* "Trump Administration Cuts Funding and Staff for Flagship Climate Report:" https://archive.ph/GaP77

* "White House axes land bureau pick after past Jan. 6 criticism:" https://www.axios.com/pro/energy-policy/2025/04/10/white-house-withdraws-blm-nominee-kathleen-sgammas-nomination

* "White House outlines plan to gut NOAA, smother climate research:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/white-house-plan-guts-noaa-climate-research-00286408

* "DOGE cuts at a Florida manatee refuge have been reversed — for now:" https://archive.ph/HBbmJ

* "Law firms’ deals with Trump roil their staff, deepen industry rifts:" https://archive.ph/AWfyo

* "'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-the-time-is-now-to-stand-up-eric-holder-sounds-alarm-on-trump-s-war-on-the-rule-of-law-237110853729

* "US Justice Dept bars its attorneys from participating in American Bar Association events:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-justice-dept-bars-its-attorneys-participating-american-bar-association-events-2025-04-09/

* "Trump channels his inner Putin against 2 critics. That should make you sick | Opinion:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2025/04/10/miles-taylor-chris-krebs-trump-order-investigation/83025618007/

* "Trump administration freezes $2 billion after Harvard rejects demands:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-rejects-trump-administration-demands-threats-funding-cuts-rcna201203

* "A federal website watered down the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman's descendant wants to know why.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/national-park-service-website-erases-harriet-tubman-history-rcna200514

* "National Park Service restores original Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad webpage:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/national-park-service-restores-original-harriet-tubman-underground-rai-rcna200298

* "Donald Trump orders Women’s History Museum to remove trans people or lose funding:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/womens-history-museum-trans-trump

* "President Trump says CBS and ’60 Minutes’ should ‘pay a big price’ for going after him:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-cbs-60-minutes-2c8a32df63f3ec50cfffe94a26436fda

* "Trump Targets NPR, PBS, Foreign Aid in $9 Billion Spending Cut:" https://archive.ph/e0dy3

* "Federal judge restores AP’s full access to White House events in victory for press freedom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-ap-white-house-pool

* "Trump officials won't answer reporters' queries if they include pronouns in emails:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-administration-opposes-pronouns

* "Measles cases rise to 700, adding pressure to RFK Jr.:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/national/measles-cases-rise-to-700-adding-pressure-to-rfk-jr/

* "I Study Measles. I’m Terrified We’re Headed for an Epidemic.:" https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2025/04/02/i-study-measles-im-terrified-were-headed-for-an-epidemic/

* "Can vitamin A treat measles? RFK Jr. suggests so. Kids are overdosing.:" https://archive.ph/aW9zR

* "CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration:" https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration/

* "Trump quietly purges presidential HIV advisory council, sparking public health fears (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-pacha-purge-worries-advisors

* "World Trade Center Health program cuts a deep concern, Schumer and Gillibrand say:" https://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/new-york-sens-kirsten-gillibrand-and-chuck-schumer-world-trade-center-health-program-x7vezod3

* "RFK Jr. says he plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water:" https://apnews.com/article/fluoride-cdc-epa-6f4dbc64b5dc511f712a82cd2d252d76

* "Trump orders NIH to study gender transition ‘regret.’ Here's what we already know about it:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-nih-regret-transgender-transition

* "New Trump Medicaid directive attacks trans people's access to gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-transgender-minors-medicaid-limitations

* "Trump uses child abuse proclamation to attack transgender people:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-transgender-child-abuse-proclamation

* The program is incredibly effective, so of course Republicans hate it. It helps mitigate some of the disadvantages poor children start out with. "Local Head Start employees locked out, let go due to federal program cuts:" https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/local-head-start-employees-locked-out-let-go-due-federal-program-cuts/GM5MYR7BAFHXRHVRM3DLTGDBMQ/

* "‘Who voted for this?’: Trump guts funding for kids history contest:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-who-voted-for-this-trump-guts-funding-for-kids-history-contest-237095493915

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* "Consumer sentiment tumbles in April as inflation fears spike, University of Michigan survey shows:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/consumer-sentiment-tumbles-in-april-as-inflation-fears-spike-university-of-michigan-survey-shows.html

* " A Lawyer Who Helped the Kushners Crack Down on Poor Tenants Now Helps Renters Fight Big Landlords :" https://www.propublica.org/article/kushner-kushnerville-apartments-tenants-lawsuits-andrew-rabinowitz-lawyer?

* "EXTENDED - Sen. Cory Booker On America's "Moral Moment" And Why Trump Is The Last Boomer President:"

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* The plan is to steal people's healthcare in order to give tax cuts to billionaires. "House adopts budget blueprint for Trump's agenda after GOP leaders sway holdouts:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-gop-budget-vote-trump-agenda-rcna200578

* "The House has passed the Trump-backed SAVE Act. Here are 8 things to know:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5301676/save-act-explainer-voter-registration

This bill is intended to deny married women and trans people the vote as they are most likely to have name changes as well as poor people who can't afford travel and extra documents.

I beg of you to contact your Senators as four Quisling Democrats voted for this in the House, knowing that Republican claims of wide spread voter fraud are a lie and that all this is going to do is steal the right to vote from American citizens.

* "Rachel Levine's potential replacement once said trans youth should undergo 'corrective care':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/rachel-levine-successor-brian-christine

Conversion therapy doesn't work and is just torture that causes long term harm.

* "Alabama's Tommy Tuberville claims ‘entire men’s teams’ are transitioning. There’s no evidence of that because it’s not true:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/tommy-tuberville-teams-turning-transgender

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond

* 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/

"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

Script to complain about Elon Musk/DOGE. I also suggest contacting your AG about data privacy. "Introducing Red State Scripts, Vol. 1:" https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2025/02/10/introducing-red-state-scripts-vol-1/

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

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

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

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

* How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

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

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

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

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* "We’re Getting Dangerously Close to a Losing North Carolina Candidate Being Declared the Winner:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/bush-v-gore-supreme-court-ruling-north-carolina-election.html

Fix it here: https://thegriffinlist.com/

* "Ohio Democrats call out Republicans for targeting LGBTQ+ people in 2025-2026 budget:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-lawmakers-book-trans-ban

"Republican legislators in Ohio have added anti-LGBTQ+ provisions to its 2025 budget that would officially recognize only two sexes, ban Pride flags from government buildings, and restrict the availability of LGBTQ+ books in public libraries, local media report."

Ohioans, I beg of you to protest!

* "Judge denies bail for man accused of setting fire at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence:" https://apnews.com/article/josh-shapiro-arson-charges-pennsylvania-governor-c3ccfc0f23a40f2b10bd6ba767d53f80

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* "Central Myanmar shaken by new quake in one of the biggest aftershocks since March 28 temblor:" https://www.wral.com/story/central-myanmar-shaken-by-new-quake-in-one-of-the-biggest-aftershocks-since-march-28-temblor/21957871/

* "As Bolivia floods, cows swim where they once grazed:" https://archive.ph/hgj6c

* "Flooding death toll in Congo's capital reaches 33 as officials race to help victims:" https://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/2025-04-08/flooding-death-toll-in-congos-capital-reaches-33-as-officials-race-to-help-victims

* Want to Help?

Here's one way, but I'd love if people ad more reputable local based options:

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate?type=one-time

* "Millions across Midwest and South reeling from widespread flooding as storm death toll rises to 24:" https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/storms/millions-midwest-south-reeling-widespread-flooding-storm-death-toll-ri-rcna199954

* "Officials scramble to identify victims of Dominican club roof collapse that killed at least 184:" https://apnews.com/article/jet-set-nightclub-roof-collapse-dominican-republic-d135f5c315e47f1855fd2973fc34f656

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* "Perseverance rover witnesses one Martian dust devil eating another:" https://phys.org/news/2025-04-perseverance-rover-witnesses-martian-devil.html

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* Basically we spent all week doing large amounts of exhausting bureaucracy, and trying to clean the apartment for inspection. Together these keep taking all the spoons. Friday is also going to be terrible. We have fire inspection and I am taking two Millennials with me to the stupid hiring fair because it's been a month and they still haven't sent the rehiring paperwork. I also need to do yet more time urgent bureaucracy on the way home, plus I have a disability inspection on either Friday, Monday, or Tuesday, but I've no idea which or which time. Let us hope it's not while I am out Friday, because I have no choice, but to go.

Special shout out to Tuesday in which I nearly killed myself doing three separate bureaucracys, while my feet blew up to giant red balloons from all that time with my legs down in the car and waiting rooms, did some grocery shopping as it was across the street from one of the bureaucracies, got three hours of sleep and had to be up again trying to be coherent.

I feel terrible, the pain is stunning, and there is no rest ever.

*shakes fist at Elon Musk*

* The exhausting bureaucracy was… a bit extra Friday. Okay, I thought I'd signed us up for a 2:30PM Appointment to take the Millennials to get their aid work stuff sorted out since it had been over a month and the employment packet they said they were sending still hadn't come. (Stick a pin in them promising to mail me the employment packet). I say I signed us up, but it was actually my medical social worker because they were using some weird off brand web format that I literally couldn't figure out how to interact with. Clicking the hyperlink looking things did nothing. No buttons to click or form I could fill out. Took me ten minutes to figure out how to scroll with no scroll bar… Yeah.

So they send me a reminder email saying we were signed up for 12:30. I forwarded it to the Millennials so they'd had copies. We decided to car pool in my car as all three of us were going to make sure. I figure I must have written down the time wrong. Sick a pin in that.

Alarm got me up quarter to 11AM. I was literally taking my pills when the bone vibrating alarm weren't off, terrifying poor Livia, and signalling fire inspection had hit my floor, which was good timing, honestly. Threw on clothes. Went out and asked if they could inspect me early as I was leaving shortly, which they did. This is when Tavy's nerve broke and he too ran for cover. Finished getting ready. Called Millennials, so they could get started getting their stuff, and went over to read while I waited for them.

The place we were going is the far edge of town. I figured in things like stopping for them to get caffeine and a little something to eat and lunch rush travel time on the highway. Traffic was lighter than expected, so we sat in the car, finishing coffee or tea and getting our heads ready to deal with bureaucracy.

We showed up to check in for the stupid hiring fair appointment thingie at about 12:20. They claimed we had no appointment. There was some weird mix up about names, likely because of their shitty website. I mentioned waiting over a month for the promised packets and them having said in the email we had a 12:30 Appointment. She looked at me like I was probably senile and said we had no appointment and that they'd been a paperless company for years, and settled in to start gaslighting me.

CDWA has lied to us soooo many times before. I have zero doubt they lied to me on the phone about packets rather than saying they were paperless and emailing me a URL, because they like to lie so they don't have to email urls, presumably out of laziness. This kind of lie featured heavily in the big nightmarish jerking around of Goth Millennial March/April/May of 2024.

So I dug my fucking heels in and started stubbornly arguing back, my which point New Millennial had called up the Email on their phone and silently held it out facing her. showing they'd sent the confirmation email for 12:30. Ha! By this time their was a line forming and she gave the fuck in and agreed to accommodate us, as it was clear the scheduling issue was on their end.

They hooked us up with an IT guy. We explained the nonsense. It turned out I didn't actually need to be there, but damned if I wasn't glad I came to stubborn at them, because I am my Mother's child, and stubborning was clearly the correct solution. So he sent me and Goth Millennial out to sit in the comfy chairs in the hall while he got New Millennial sorted out. He was super nice, btw. The catasterfuck that is the privatization of home care aids means we are now dealing with five different agencies/companies instead of two, none of which they tell anyone about and the procedures are deliberately hidden which is how we got here. Goth Millennial he couldn't sort out because they'd outsources to the secret 5th company no one had told us about so they were stuck in employment limbo, but he gave the Millennials directions for sorting it out Monday, his contact information, and an appointment for Goth Millennial to get completely sorted next Tuesday.

I am furious about the level of bullishit at CDWA, because all this was super easy when it was the state doing it and there wasn't constant lying and hiding the ball and extra obstacles and general fuckery.

IT guy though? A mensch.

So hopefully all the aid worker stuff is really sorted this time.

Then we attempted to turn in my disability paperwork (I periodically need to prove that I am still disabled to state and federal agencies. This is one of those simple recertifications) to the address on the disability paperwork. I thought, Republicans have enshittified the post office and this needs to be sorted by May 1. Surely, I thought, it would be simpler to follow the turn in in person directions. Bwahahahaha! No drop box, but rather a super long line to check in. So I stood there on feet rapidly swelling into big red balloons in the afternoon heat. And stood there. And stood there.

So the paperwork lied about where it was supposed to go. They gave me a hand out of addresses. It was now 2:20PM. So we drive down town. A very polite late teen in security clothes told me I now need metal detecting. I asked if I could just leave my keys with him, them being dangerous contraband. He was nice enough to let me. Me: I'm just dropping off paperwork He gave me an understandably skeptical look. Three open windows. One other customer. Five minutes to type me in and print out a thing and off I went. Me and my crutch clomping down the hall alerted the security guard and he jumped to his feet. Him: You were fast O.o

We were blocks from the locksmith, so I replaced a key that broke last winter. Then I stopped to by bread as it's literally on the way back and I dropped them home.

The cats were Soooo glad to see me after their ordeal.

It is 7:15. The swelling's about halfway down. Tavy's having a nice desk nap; I am petting Livia with my right hand. Everyone but the fish are fed. The Plants are watered, and there is now a scratch box in the front window for cat naps.

I am soooo tired, but I need to come to terms with this weeks news after my rest.

This week's news may be a bit sketchy as most of what I managed to do before the bureaucracy and cleaning started eating all the spoons was tariff immigration stuff, and most of the tariff stuff which stopped being relevant between then and now, so now I need to work out what to post of that.

I am doing my best, but having this much incredibly physically taxing bureaucracy in one week (Tuesday and Friday) and inspection prep stuff (Sun-Thursday). Was waaaaay too many things.

Oh! The disability inspection was luckily not today. Which leaves Monday and Tuesday. My money is on Tuesday as I vaguely remember him saying something about the last allowable day, and the 15th would make sense. In my defense, he woke me up out of a sound sleep and I lost whatever I wrote the appointment on.

* Second inspection turned out to be Monday morning. It went fine as far as I call tell. (Results will appear later.

He came in scrubs, wearing a mask instead of me having to provide a mask. He started dementia assessment by rote and then was like "You don't need this," and skipped it. As he was packing up to go, I asked, "Is it Banana, Sunset, Chair time?" Him: You are fine.

Tavy looked him over and decided he was okay. Observed most of the assessment from the window box. The bit where I had to stand up and do things while the guy monitored me, Tavy found rather concerning, but otherwise it was fine and he allowed the visitor to skritch his head at the end.

The Emperor did not bite anyone.

* Some of you may remember Squirrel not being able to keep up their end during our housing crisis the back quarter of 2024. This is because they'd been tricked by a company that turned out to be stealing hundreds of dollars every month. They then had to pay a massive amount last month to get out from under them. (They have put in a complaint with the state AG, because the company out right lied to them).

The massive amount of money was their bill money for last month. If they can manage to make it through this month, they will be fine, but a bunch of things are now so overdue as to be critical. I've been floating their share of some things for March and April and am lending them gas money to get to work, but I'm on SSI, and don't have that much leeway, especially as we have no idea what happens to my SSI May 2nd.

They are panicky and about $500.00 underwater.

They say anything will help right now, as the more they can pay on the bills they are trying to negotiate partial payments for, they more likely the companies involve will let them float some of it until May.

If they lose their Internet, I lose my Internet, as that is one of the household bills they cover in lieu of rent.

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SquirrelMH

UPDATE:
Thanks to some help and clever negotiating, they were able to put enough down on each of their bills that we get to do things like keep internet another two weeks.

Their Union may be about to go on strike so what happens in two weeks is unclear when they need to pay off balances, as whether or not they will be able to cover things then depends on if they get enough hour, and it's already dicey even without a strike.

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