some good things (a post)

Dec. 6th, 2025 11:28 pm
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  1. Breakfast in bed, accompanied by completing my first ever playthrough of the main body of Monument Valley. I think I wound up getting two prompts from A, who also spent a significant chunk of the afternoon attempting to get it working on two different large-format touchscreen devices -- I'd been struggling with the trackpad, and was gratified when A reported that they'd had a go at playing the very first level with a trackpad and it really was kind of wretched. (Made it to approximately halfway through Appendix 1 before deciding I needed to call it for the day...)
  2. smitten kitchen's braised chickpeas with zucchini and pesto continues fantastic.
  3. 'tis The Season for my current Favourite Chocolate (I'm not sure if it's available year-round but the company we get groceries from only carries them during the winter, and I honestly probably enjoy them more because of the Seasonal Availability). I am writing this post with one of them + a mug of warm milk.
  4. The box of meds I dropped in an airport this Monday gone has successfully been picked up! First step in a pass-the-parcel that will hopefully conclude weekend after next...
  5. Got a substantial increase on my highest score in one of the silly clicky games in Flight Rising :)

Spotify Wrapped 2025

Dec. 6th, 2025 06:09 pm
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It's Spotify Wrapped time of year! I always think it's fun, so I thought I'd share mine here if anyone's interested in seeing the extent to which t-pop has overtaken my listening in the past six months :)

    


But uh speaking of Spotify, I have been hearing some not great things about it lately (ICE ads, donations to Trump, AI "artists", etc.). Not that I actually really like it anyway, it's just convenient. So I'm thinking of switching, I'm just not sure what site/app is better. Anyone have recs?
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see the rest H E R E over @ my journal. :)


Update to a fustercluck

Dec. 6th, 2025 12:59 pm
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[Originally posted in chat; I have added paragraphs for readability]

My brother has organized an ill-advised surprise party for my father's 75th birthday.

Our father is a complete introvert and also very exacting. He likes things to be a certain way, and gets tense and angry if everything is not perfectly to his taste. He hates loud places and large groups of people. Unfortunately, he's always used excessive alcohol to handle social engagements and gets belligerent when drunk.

Because of all of this, I was surprised when my brother, "James" told me that he'd planned a surprise birthday party of 30 guests for my dad at a new restaurant. The guest list includes the following extremely awkward confirmed attendees: our aunt (dad's semi-estranged sister) who is an overbearing religious fanatic none of us can stand; our mother (dad's ex-wife) who is resented by our dad and hated by our aforementioned aunt because of the divorce; and a number of neighbors who our dad has been feuding with off and on for the last 20 years.

I asked my mom why she was going along with this and she said James called in a big favor she owed him and she felt like she couldn’t say no, so he’s pulling out all the stops to make this happen.

I don't know how James could possibly think this is a good idea, except that he has a huge ego and believes this will be some fairy tale reunion where everyone will suddenly make nice. I don't mean that James is a bad guy but he has a tendency to steamroll over people and do things "for their own good." Every argument I've made against this party has prompted him to lecture me and act like he knows so much better because he's 7 years older than me.

It's true that my Dad can be difficult but I don't want him to feel ambushed on his birthday. If James keeps refusing to cancel should I warn my dad? Or do I just kick back with a glass of wine and watch the drama unfold?


response and update )

New story in anthology -- out now!

Dec. 6th, 2025 03:29 pm
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I have various longer posts to make (job transition news, a write-up of a truly hilarious theater experience, etc), but in the meantime, a quick post to let you know that the Murderfish anthology, which I have a story in, is now officially out and available for purchase!

Murderfish is, as it says on the tin, an anthology of stories about murderous fish. (Its predecessors were Murderbirds and Murderbugs, which cracks me up every time I think about it.) Each story features a different kind of sea life, as well as very cool art of them all! I haven't read all the rest yet, but I'm excited to, and it looks like there are a whole lot of genres involved. My story, "In Sheets of Seaweed," is about a woman in the simultaneously privileged and precarious position of being a prince's mistress, who dreams increasingly of sharks calling to her; I called it my "shark selkie" story for a long time before I thought of a title, and in fact after. I'm very fond of this story, and I'm delighted it's found a home at last.

The ebook is available here and the paperback here. The audiobook is coming soon, but hasn't been unveiled quite yet.

Those are both Amazon links, though not affiliate ones. If you're like me and prefer to avoid buying things through Amazon, full support, but for the moment that's all I have. I've asked if it'll be available on other sites as well, and I'll update when I get an answer.

12/1/25 - 12/6/25

Dec. 6th, 2025 12:19 pm
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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/

******

* "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
* "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
* "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/




* "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
* "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

* 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/
* "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/


* "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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Dec. 6th, 2025 01:33 pm
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I am home! with my own cats! and my own computer!! This is very exciting because I have spent most of the last two weeks traveling, including last Monday when I spent about 24 hours total stumbling through different airports getting rerouted onto different flights before finally getting to achieve my dearest wish at that point, Be Horizontal.

In the course of that extremely long day I watched two French movies on planes:

Au revoir là-haut/See You Up There )

La venue de l'avenir/Colors of Time )
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At Midnight Comes the Cry

3/5. Tenth in this series of mysteries about the episcopal priest and the police chief (they are married with baby at this point).

I’m always happy to spend more time with these characters, but I’m gonna be honest here: I come to this series for small town stuff and mysteries and a light but intense approach to relationships. I do not come for white nationalist terrorism or action movie stuff. And yet, guess what I got here.

This also feels like a final book, with a weirdly pasted on ‘five years later’ epilogue. Which is fine if that’s how it is, but I was disappointed in the treatment that a secondary couple got. She is so good at relationships that shouldn’t work but do. In this case, a divorced woman in her thirties with young kids and a history in the porn industry, and an early twenties rookie on the police force. She does messy but magnetic so well, and she let them develop over many books. So I found the conclusion(?) to their story here, and how little attention was paid to the thorny emotional stuff between them, to be uncharacteristic and disappointing. Same take on the resolution(?) of the addiction plotline.

Content notes: White nationalism of several flavors, violence (domestic and otherwise)

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YULETIDE YELLING HERE

Dec. 6th, 2025 09:30 am
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How are your Yuletide assignment/treats/etc going? Feel free to share in the comments. Capslock welcome.

I have very promising starts on two treats and zero words on my assignment. I might have an idea for my assignment? I'm going to start it and find out this weekend.

Sunday Online Chat

Dec. 6th, 2025 09:25 am
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I need to remember to mention these (rare) things in case one or two of you have free time at 9:00a.m. Pacific time Sunday the 7th. B Cubed Press Sunday Brunch, on Youtube, hosts a live chat. Tomorrow I'm to be included, for what will begin as a chat about preparing for readings, but might go in any direction.

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Dec. 6th, 2025 05:22 pm
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Dec. 6th, 2025 03:57 pm
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What is this that this thing is, when, okay, one is aware of all the woozing and grumbling about the various delivery services, but here is the ROYAL MAIL being pretty bad.

Yesterday I had an email saying they had delivered a parcel.

There was no parcel.

I looked at the proof of delivery and behold, that was Not Our Front Door they were sticking it through, it was the wrong colour and one could see the corner of a glass panel (ours is solid wood).

So I went on to their site to try and delve a bit further and, my dears, it is HORRENDOUS, one suspects it is designed to make people Just Give Up.

For example, the 'contact us' link, that actually goes to a 'Help and Support' page that lists a whole range of possible contingencies that one has to sort through to discover one that matches the occasion.

And once I had come across the Advice relating to item (presumably) misdelivered to wrong address, advice was, to contact the sender.

I have no bloody idea who the sender was being as how I was not even expecting a Royal Mail delivery, have been back over my emails and texts and no, I did not receive any previous message involving that particular tracking code.

There is a passing allusion to possible scanning errors.

The only means of contacting them is by phone, and when I tried, and had made my way through the menu options, the wait to speak to a person was 50 minutes.

I am leaving all this pro tem in case a) it was misdelivered and gets put back into the system b) it never actually existed in the first place.

But, really.

And in other, perhaps more minor (?) annoyances of Modern Life, what is this thing that this thing is of 'Cooking Instructions on Back of Label'? that you then have to detach, in the hope that it will actually come off in one piece that one can actually decipher....

ETA Parcel has now turned up, either in today's post or popped through letter box by neighbour to whom it was delivered in error.... Is friend's book I was in anticipation of.

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