* No one should share intelligence with us. We can't be trusted. "Trump’s targeting of alleged drug vessels strains UK-US intelligence ties:"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/14/trump-targeting-alleged-drug-vessels-uk-us-intelligence-ties-analysis* "Why Is The U.S. Striking Venezuela? with Benjamin Gedan:"
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6QJyDHMD0fbm4WVsScHPw1
* "Ten years on, France bears the scars of the November 13 attacks:"
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/ten-years-france-bears-scars-november-13-attacks-2025-11-10/* "Born to Unwed Mothers, These Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia:"
https://archive.ph/WivQ5
* "Trump announces tariff cuts on food, citing high prices:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-announces-tariff-cuts-on-food-citing-high-prices-252104261690This is a crisis he caused for fun. Stab five inches, pull back one.
* **ACTION ITEM** It's open for public Comment. Please give them one. "Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services :"
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/03/2025-19747/collection-and-use-of-biometrics-by-us-citizenship-and-immigration-services#open-comment* "Federal judge says he’ll order release of hundreds of Operation Midway Blitz arrestees on bond:"
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/federal-judge-says-hell-order-release-of-hundreds-of-operation-midway-blitz-arrestees-on-bond/* "ICE Almost Deports Native American:"
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-almost-deports-native-american-11046193* "Watch 15 videos of LGBTQ+ and ally protestors making clowns of ICE:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/watch-15-videos-of-lgbtq-and-ally-protestors-making-clowns-of-ice* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:
Immigrant Defenders:
https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkoutThe Bail Project:
https://bailproject.org/National Bail Fund Network:
https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directoryAmnesty International: protect asylum-seekers:
https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1The 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-fundMid-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/
* "Jonathan Karl Reveals Mike Pence's Dramatic Handwritten Notes From January 6, 2021:"
( Embed: )* "Trump taps Ingrassia for new role after texting scandal:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/13/trump-ingrassia-gsa-texts-00651340* "Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts:"
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group* "New report exposes massive corruption in Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/new-report-exposes-massive-corruption-in-kristi-noem-s-department-of-homeland-security-252111429843* "TSA officer sues Kristi Noem over trans personnel being banned from doing pat-downs:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-tsa-officer-sues-noem* "Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage:"
https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-coverage-trump-executive-order* "Will Trump’s Goons Ever Be Held Accountable?:"
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* "Judge appears skeptical of DOJ arguments for keeping Lindsey Halligan as prosecutor in James Comey and Letitia James cases:"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/hearing-lindsey-halligan-trump-comey-james-rcna243270* "Swalwell is latest Trump foe targeted for alleged mortgage fraud:"
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/trump-california-mortgage-taxes-fraud-democrat-justice-department**** Trump/Epstein/Maxwell, etc. CW: CSA ****
* "Bizarre Epstein files reference to Trump, Putin, and oral sex with ‘Bubba’ draws scrutiny in Congress:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-blowing-bubba-epstein* "Jefrey Epstein’s brother says the ‘Bubba’ mentioned in Trump oral sex email is not Bill Clinton:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/mark-epstein-bubba-not-clinton* "The 9 most shocking revelations in the Epstein docs:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/here-are-9-of-the-most-shocking-revelations-in-the-latest-batch-of-epstein-documents-00649853?cid=apn* "Epstein Implicates Trump:"
( Embed: )* "'A slap in the face': Family members rage at Trump defenders hijacking Epstein victim's remarks:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/-a-slap-in-the-face-family-members-rage-at-trump-defenders-hijacking-epstein-victim-s-remarks-252029509618* "New document appears to validate photo of Epstein victim with former Prince Andrew:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/new-document-appears-to-validate-photo-of-epstein-victim-with-former-prince-andrew-252031045716* "Trump’s morality problem becomes full-blown crisis as Epstein returns to headlines:"
https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-morality-problem-becomes-full-blown-crisis-as-epstein-returns-to-headlines-252111941833* "Rep. Lauren Boebert helps force House vote on release of Epstein files:"
https://www.cpr.org/2025/11/12/boebert-name-on-petition-demanding-epstein-files-released/* "Republicans expecting mass defections on Epstein vote:"
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/12/congress/house-epstein-vote-gop-defections-00649624* "Epstein survivors keep the pressure on Congress:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/epstein-survivors-keep-the-pressure-on-congress-252021317996* "Trump yanks support for ‘lunatic’ Marjorie Taylor Greene in unhinged rant as Epstein scandal squeezes him:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-dumps-marjorie-taylor-greene* "Trump frantic to deflect attention from his prominence in Epstein emails:"
https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-frantic-to-deflect-attention-from-his-prominence-in-epstein-emails-252115525973* "Epstein scandal is a reminder of what sparked the Me Too movement:"
https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/epstein-scandal-is-a-reminder-of-what-sparked-the-me-too-movement-252104261860* "Democratic lawmaker calls Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik a 'pedophile protector':"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/libs-of-tiktok-rosa-delauro
* "‘No hire’ job market leaves unemployed in limbo as threats to economy multiply:"
https://apnews.com/article/jobs-hiring-economy-c48fd84dfaa71eee962feb3a88fd8575?u* "New foreclosures jump 20% in October, a sign of more distress in the housing market:"
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/foreclosures-rise-october-housing-market-distress.html* "Wall Street drops to one of its worst days since April on worries about AI stocks and interest rates:"
https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-trump-government-shutdown-c388d97a4e4acf5cca538fd901e46b2d* "Massachusetts's Millionaire Tax Still Going Very Well, Thank You!:"
https://www.wonkette.com/p/massachusettss-millionaire-tax-still* "Starbucks workers kick off 65-store US strike on company’s busy Red Cup Day:"
https://apnews.com/article/starbucks-workers-strike-stores-union-6d9a5c8761fb7a251cb9bf7c13908877* "Provision Killing Food Safety Rules Into Shutdown Bill :"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/government-funding-bill-axes-food-inspection-regulations* "Newly sworn-in Rep. Adelita Grijalva vows to protect LGBTQ+ rights in fiery floor speech :"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/adelita-grijalva-first-floor-speech* "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* Interview with Rep. Clayburn
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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.phpSnail 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-representativesThis tracks legislation:
https://www.govtrack.us/"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):"
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=shareRun 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=shareProtests: "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/
* "DOJ joins California Republicans’ lawsuit against Gavin Newsom over Prop. 50 vote:"
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article312906418.html* "Clash over healthcare subsidies threatens to reshape 2026 midterms:"
https://archive.ph/IDjIG* "Gay NYC city council member Erik Bottcher joins Jack Schlossberg in packed race for Jerry Nadler’s House seat:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/erik-bottcher-new-york-congress* "Meet the Michigan state senator pushing to enshrine marriage equality protections in the state constitution:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/jeremy-moss-michigan-marriage-protections* "Marginalized communities turn to gun ownership in fear of Trump’s authoritarianism:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/liberals-lgbtq-embrace-gun-ownership* "Texas A&M bans teaching 'race or gender ideology' at universities:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-am-gender-ideology-ban* "Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.:"
https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx* "Catholic Church formally bans gender-affirming care at its hospitals:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/catholic-church-gender-affirming-care* "Groundbreaking study could revolutionise HRT for trans women:"
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/12/hrt-trans-women-study-feminising-hormones/* "Gen Z men do care about abortion, actually:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/gen-z-men-abortion* "A devastating reality: New report finds violence and erasure ahead of Transgender Day of Remembrance:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-violence-erasure-report* "Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens:"
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2834486* "Future mRNA vaccines may prevent food and seasonal allergies:"
https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/future-mrna-vaccines-may-prevent-food-and-seasonal-allergies* "Coffee may protect people against irregular heartbeats, study finds:"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/10/coffee-irregular-heartbeat-protection-study?
* "Protests return to climate summit with calls for Indigenous rights (and a dash of Trump mockery):"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/15/protests-climate-summit-brazil-00653476* From here down, many items are older.
* "How Social Media Exacerbates Disaster & Disinformation | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart:"
( Embed: )* "AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring:"
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/* Nope. Nopenopenope. "Watching AI Testimony at a Real Murder Trial:"
( Embed: )* "Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art:"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art* "The AI that we'll have after AI:"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/post-ai-ai/#productive-residue* "Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show:"
( Embed: )* "Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post:"
https://futurism.com/ai-browser-hackers-drain-bank-account-public-reddit-post* "YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality:"
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission* "TikTok tradwives: femininity, reproduction, and social media:"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540253.2025.2546050#abstract* "The urgent question about AI: How will replaced workers make a living?:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/ai-replacing-workers* "Nuclear codes, voicemail hacks and businesses going bust. These are some of the biggest password blunders:"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/europe/louvre-heist-weak-password-blunders-hackers-intl?
* "Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels, report finds:"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-10-07/humpback-whales-eastern-population-numbers-rebound-estimate/105843256* "Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia:"
https://apnews.com/article/australia-koala-chlamydia-vaccine-endangered-8fd0b6bf87ebe1e65c27b5f910a20ff1* "Playing for both teams: 6 LGBTQ+ spies from history :"
https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-queer-spies-double-agents* "15 secret symbols queer people used throughout the ages :"
https://www.advocate.com/history/guide-to-queer-symbols-in-history#rebelltitem1* "Conquest Archaeology: The Military Occupation of Babylon in the Iraq War:"
https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_301-2* "The Legend Lives on From the Chippewa on Down:"
https://slate.com/technology/2025/11/edmund-fitzgerald-wreck-sinking-lyrics-gordon-lightfoot.html* I did do the primer and later the paint before bed last night on the lower sections of the conduit New Millennial did the upper parts of and it looks fine. Most of it is behind the bookcase that is now where it goes in any case. We just painted it the same as the wall so it is now reasonably unobtrusive. The plan is for the to do the other two the same. These are less urgent though as they aren't essential to migrating the room back.
I spent six or seven hours today doing things like putting books back on shelves, moving small stuff, and doing clean and sort type things, luckily mostly sitting down, ahead of the big nightmare furniture move. Once I start this part I can't really stop as I will need to block the patio door to make space for the re-configuring and for part of it the room is effectively cut in half. So I have to commit entirely, I get no help and I don't get to stop until the furniture is all migrated left where it belongs.
Friday I have forage delivery. I'm also supposed to go to the library, but the recycling is blocking the exit because Squirrel keeps coming home utterly thrashed from work. So I need to either move it or try to take it out myself if I literally want to leave the apartment.
I figure I'll try to do more advance cleaning and organizing and do the big push Saturday or Sunday if I wake up with the shakes again.
This all hurts so much Last two days I keep pushing the mechanical limits of my artificial shoulder and it feels like I've been stabbed with a stiletto I can't remove.
* I did end up staying up to do a library run and bring in and sort forage Friday, which meant a very late start. It could not be helped. And as expected I was exhausted and in pain and had the shakes. The thing I planned to do was pull things out from under the desk with the four shelf book case, and clean there and also rewire to spread out the load, which also involved untangling all the wires and pulling out any not currently attached to anything. I have set those aside for later. I actually know what most of them are meant to go to, but this was a lot of crawling around on the floor and randomly injuring myself and I'm already covered with scrapes and bruises from Thursday and also my dominant arm wasn't really load bearing after the things I did to it Wednesday and Thursday.
I did not alas finish reorganizing that desk, but I got most of it Thursday and worked on it a little Friday night. This is fine. I'm well past the bits that are annoying to work with when the sofa is on the Left where it belongs, which is what really matters.
This is why I wanted to do the desk area now. It is just way easier to do this, particularly the rewiring part with the main desk and sofa moved. I also wanted a little time to just sort of live with it a bit and notice things like: I forgot to tuck a power strip back in (I tuck them back under the table and put a little box over them to keep cats from messing with them and to make it less likely things might fall or spill on them. Some of them unplug when even mildly jostled including the modem and the emergency alert system for me). or that two wires were hung up on a boot in a way that would likely lead to disastrous breakage later on unless I untangled them from my boots. This is a thing that literally happened while I was typing this paragraph. <.< >.>
Livia's still really struggling with the furniture and just generally scared of this uncanny valley version of the living room, possibly even worse than last time, given it coincides with her loss. I keep having to go to her room and reassure her when she panics, poor Button.
We all really can't wait for things to be normal.
I am really not looking forward to trying to move all the furniture back. There are a ton of smaller things needing to be put back and/or cleaned and organized after this, but the sofa/two desks/filing cabinet step is going to completely thrash me and will likely eat so many spoons, most of which will be borrowed from future days and my body charges loan shark interest.
This would be so much easier with help, but there isn't much chance of it.
* I did manage to get the desks, filing cabinet stack, and sofa back in place Saturday. It took everything I had really. There is so much moire to do to get the living room back properly, but Sunday both my dominant arm and the hip joint on that side were not having it, even though the next logical step is mostly kneeling or sitting.
Livia hid all Saturday from the Scary sounds. She barely ate her meat. She did have food and her box in my room and I did periodically visit her, but she is still not really recovered, though she was darting out to my bathroom for litter and was drinking her water.
The Millennials came and did cleaning and brought dinner, which was a massive help Sunday. After they left, Livia decided she can handle pettin throne pets as the office part of the living room is back to normal so not scary.
At some point this week, we get new smoke detectors, at which point we schedule city inspection and sign off.
* I'm still running the horror movie Tournament poll:
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls/tagged/Horror%20Movies* "Nick Offerman: America's Small Farms Are Being Slaughtered by Corporations | The Daily Show:"
( Embed: )* "Epstein Emails Implicating Trump Surface as Ghislaine Gets VIP Treatment in Prison | The Daily Show:"
( Embed: )* "Epstein-Trump Saga Gets 20K Pages Longer & Megyn Kelly Splits Hairs on Pedophilia | The Daily Show:"
( Embed: )* "Is AI Making College Students Dumber? Ronny Chieng Investigates | The Daily Show:"
( Embed: )* "Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"
( Embed: )* "America's Arctic Blast | Trump Threatens Air Traffic Controllers | The Math On 50-Year Mortgages:"
( Embed: )* ""Of Course [Trump] Knew About The Girls" | Probably Illegal $1 Coin | The Ghost Of Abraham Lincoln:"
( Embed: )* If you want to bid to help PBS: JohnOliversJunk.com
* "Stephen Colbert's Cyborgasm: A.I. Matthew McConaughey | "Walk My Walk" | Russian Robot Fail:"
( Embed: )* "What a week as a Hobbit taught me about Capitalism:"
( Embed: )* "The Donald J. Trump 50 Year Mortgage:"
( Embed: )* "A.I. Love Country:"
( Embed: )* "Epstein White House Briefing Cold Open - SNL:"
( Embed: )* "AI Photos - SNL:"
( Embed: )* "I Miss My Ex's Dad - SNL:"
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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.
* Want to help Nathan Sage against Joni Ernst?
https://www.sageforsenate.com/* Want to help Dr. Annie Andrews beat Lindsey Graham?"
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_annie_fr_txt_q22025?refcode=LOC_RTL_FR_2025.05.29_Lindsey-Bad-Job_B1_C1_Pros_N_Peony_RG-T1&amount=5* Want to help Mike Pruitt in Virginia?
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mike-pruitt-1?refcode=directory* Want to help Roy Cooper in North Carolina against Michael Whatley?
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/roy_cooper_email?refcode=directory* Want to help James Osyf in Virginia Beach?
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/james-osyf-1?refcode=directory* Want to help Omar Fateh in Minneapolis?
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