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what’s permuting itself around in my head, part one:
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solarbirdI never got a chance to write an article about how much worse 2026 is going to be than 2025; it all got going with Trump’s invasion of Venezuela literally as I was getting to write it all out. But before I could, well, here we were, already ass-deep in it.
Today, I wanted to talk about subverting this year’s elections – a work already in progress – but we should probably start with what’s most loudly and visibly in front of us this week before going into that.
The first thing you have to remember – the first thing you have to keep in mind – is that the US Government is now a white nationalist government. Straight up. Little hedging or pretence remains; it’s a white nationalist government, and don’t try to tell me otherwise when the Shitweasel is openly condemning the civil rights movement and official US government accounts are openly sending out white nationalist propaganda and promoting white nationalist goals.
Which they are, if you missed it over new year’s.
Like here, for example, where the Department of Homeland Security posted how peaceful and great America would be after 100 million deportations of people from the “third world.”
There aren’t 100 million immigrants at all in the United States, much less ones from the “third world.” But if you take all immigrants (of all races) and all non-white American citizens, and yes, that includes those who have citizenship by by birth and add those numbers up…
…that’s right about 100,000,000.
They know that, of course. So given that, I have to assume that’s who they’re saying to get rid of. Everyone not white and every immigrant.
They’re literally propagandising for a mass ethnic purge of 100,000,000 people, most of whom are US citizens of colour.
Elon Musk has become even more openly white nationalist, by the way. The movement isn’t even pretending otherwise anymore.
(As an aside, why is anyone still on X? Particularly given all this? Why? Was it not obvious enough before? How about now that it’s an AI child porn generation site? Is that obvious enough? Seriously – WHY IS ANYONE STILL THERE?! If you are, get the fuck off X. For good. Now. I’m sick of excuses, get off of X, right the fuck now. If you have followers you care about, lead them off too. Now.)
But I digress.
The DHS “X” account is an official US government account owned and maintained by the Department of Homeland Security, which runs ICE. It’s not some unofficial fan club, it’s literally the US government in control of it, and they’re posting white nationalist propaganda.
The “100 million” post is only one example of such propaganda; there are many others. Not only have they not taken down this particular piece of white nationalist propaganda, when I started writing this, it was still pinned to the top of the account. They weren’t hiding it, they were highlighting it.
They’re proud of it. It’s the goddamn goal. They are telling you it’s the goddamn goal. When will people listen?
(This is, by the way, what every single person who didn’t do everything they could to get Harris into the Presidency brought us, and amongst the many things I will never forgive are those people who sneered, jeered, and slandered me, accusing me of being pro-genocide, all for doing what was absolutely necessary to keep literal fascists out of the White House. And so they played saboteur, buying into bullshit, discouraging voting, depressing turnout, and now look where we fucking are.)
But again, I digress. I digress a lot, lately, I admit.
So. As MAGA leadership is white nationalist, DHS is also white nationalist. As DHS is white nationalist, ICE is white nationalist.
Remember again that ICE is DHS’s enforcement arm, their national semi-secret police intended to execute DHS policy. Their street white nationalism is the implementation of the political white nationalism.
One way you can tell is their recruitment of white nationalists, often using literal Klu Klux Klan language. “Defend Your Culture,” which is big in their advertising, was literally a KKK slogan, and the “culture” of the Klan was white supremacy through violence. I assure you, the white supremacists don’t miss it – Proud Boy leadership started telling their membership to sign up months ago, and I promise you that they are, where they can. The people they recruit will be onboard with the agenda.
(See also how the Republican Party’s MAGA wing – when it was only a wing, and not the whole party – gave the Proud Boys a quiet tryout as a militant street action wing, a kind of enforcement brigade without official status. It didn’t work out; the PB were too undisciplined and too independent. This is their solution. Their explicitly political recruitment, targeting the far-right of the GOP base, helps make the connection clear.)
They’re only starting with this purge of actual undocumented people.
Initially moving against undocumented workers – already an expansion after promising to only go after “violent criminals” – they’ve been generating new “illegals” since day one. They’ve been making people applying for refugee status into “illegals,” arresting them as they show up for entry interviews and appointments and court dates. They’re making people here with longstanding legal status “illegals,” breaking promises and revoking already-signed papers, often breaking the law to do so. The leadership are explicitly looking for ways to “de-naturalise” people, and going after the very explicit, very intentional birthright citizenship guaranteed by the US Constitution.
They’re openly setting up the concentration camps they need for such a mass expulsion. They brag about it. They’ve published the structure of how they’ll work.
It is, as it was always intended to be, a mass ethnic purge. It is, to use their word, “wartime” in America. And yes, they will get to citizens, unless we stop them before they can.
As with any such purge, it will be bloody. It already is bloody, of course, with ICE beating down citizens they have no authority to arrest and occasionally just murdering people in the streets. Good was not the first, she was just the most recent, and the first that looked like she could turn up at a MAGA rally. That whiteness is what’s made the difference in popular reaction. But it will get far, far bloodier – which is exactly what MAGA leadership want it to become.
Vance says ICE agents have “absolute immunity,” and are above all state and local laws. That’s not the law and never has been, it’s just fascism. But it’s more specifically giving ICE informal – but clear – permission to do whatever the hell they want, up to and including murder more ‘lesbian bitches‘ like Renee Good, a threat reportedly made by more than one ICE agent this past weekend.
And, as you’d expect once given the go-ahead like that, they’re using their murder of Renee Good to intimidate Americans, threatening citizens with the same kind of violence.
It will not stop in hotspots. Vance also says he wants ICE agents going door to door all across America. They’ve been doing that this past weekend in Minnesota, sweeping through neighbourhoods. Yes, of course they include citizens in that door-to-door, and yes, it’s government terrorism. They don’t care if it’s your property, they don’t care that you’re an American, they threaten to smash down your door if you demand to see a warrant and they threaten you with prosecution if you stand up for your rights.
Do I have an example on video? Of course I do. The terror you see and hear from this American family in their own home is what they want. Listen, you’ll hear them tell the family with infant child that if they make ICE wait for a warrant they’ll smash the door down. Listen, you’ll hear them threaten the family with Federal charges for not letting them in right the fuck now.
But stand your goddamn ground, and have your whistles, and get your neighbourhood out and loud. If you don’t know what the whistles are, find out, and if you hear them, learn to respond. This particular neighbourhood did. And, being mostly cowards, ICE left – for now. But they’ll seethe, and take it out on someone else later.
They want violence, they want fear, they want and have basically received permission to spill blood. None of that is compatible with a republic, but MAGA doesn’t really want that either.
I’m further pretty sure that MAGA leadership does want resistance, however. Underneath it all, it sure seems clear to me that Trump and Vance and Miller et al are salivating to use the Insurrection Act and declare martial law. Trump’s been openly talking about it since his first term, just like he’s talked about how it’d be “good” for America to have a “president for life.” He wants dictatorial power and he wants it bad, because he knows it’s the only way the party survives the 2026 elections, and without the party, he’s vulnerable.
He knows his movement is starting to come apart. He knows everyone not in his movement is done with his shit. So he’s going to do whatever he can, with absolutely no limits, to stay in power. That includes false prosecutions against political opponents, that includes declaring war on allies, that includes declaring war on citizens (as above), and yes, that does include subverting, stealing, or just trying to overturn the 2026 elections.
That last part can’t be surprising, can it? Are we going to pretend it’s a surprise, when he tries? It’s what he did in 2020, and he didn’t go to jail, so why wouldn’t he try it again? It’d only be surprising if he didn’t try. So, I think it’s clear that he will.
I have some thoughts on how it’ll go. You can figure them out for yourself if you paid attention in 2020, because basically it’s the same plan. But this mess of an article is already too damn long, so that’ll have to wait. We’ll call that part two.
And if you’ve made it down this far through this absolute mess of an article, good job. Because holy crow, it is a mess. But that doesn’t make me wrong. Moments in history like this are messy, too.
So get organised and get used to turning out, because all this is going to keep getting worse. If there’s no ICE around, today’s a Tesla Takedown day; you might join an existing protest, or start a new one. I’ll see you again in a couple of days with part two.
Be good out there.
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1/8/26 - 1/12/26
Jan. 12th, 2026 07:09 amgwydion* Julia Ioffe Extended interview:
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* ""What Can We Get Away With?" - Chris Hayes Identifies The Trump Administration's Operating Principle:"
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*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News ***
* "Who is Jonathan Ross? ICE agent who killed Renee Good once broke a suspect's car window :" https://www.advocate.com/news/who-is-jonathan-ross-ice
* "ICE agent shooter’s own cellphone video undercuts Trump administration's account of Minneapolis killing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ice-agent-shooter-video-minneapolis
* "We've all seen the video. Do Kristi Noem and mainstream media think we're stupid?:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/renee-nicole-good-murder-dhs
* " Wife of Minneapolis woman killed by ICE speaks out for the first time :" https://www.advocate.com/news/becca-good-speaks-out
* "VIDEO ANALYSIS: Jen Psaki breaks down multiple video angles of ICE killing Minneapolis mom:"
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* "‘I’m not mad at you’: Renee Good’s last words captured by ICE agent who killed her:"
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* "Lesbian Minn. rep confronts Republican lawmaker over ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/angie-craig-tom-emmer-confrontation
* "'OUTRAGEOUS': Klobuchar blasts Trump, Vance smears of Minneapolis mom killed by ICE:"
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* "Gay Minneapolis pastor says ICE agent pointed gun at his face, blocks from Renee Good’s killing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/detained-pastor-ice-shooting
* "Trump officials urged to halt violence against journalists amid ICE protests:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/12/journalists-homeland-security-ice-trump
* "Nationwide anti-ICE protests call for accountability after Renee Good's death:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/10/nx-s1-5673229/ice-protests-minneapolis-portland
* "Thousands march and dozens arrested in Minneapolis protests against ICE :" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgpnwnqygro
* I would like to thank all of you who protested and are continuing to protest.
* 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/
* "Sen. Mark Kelly - “I’m Not Backing Down” | The Daily Show:"
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* "Gen. Stanley McChrystal presides over historic farewell for five transgender troops forced into retirement:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-service-members-retirement
* "Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence:" https://apnews.com/article/public-broadcasting-pbs-npr-b68f441c227ec7e076c038821b4a5931
* "Bari Weiss’s CBS newsroom reportedly clashed over how to cover transgender people:" https://www.advocate.com/news/bari-weiss-cbs-transgender-coverage
**** Corruption of the Justice System, Pushback, and Related ****
* "Judge disqualifies US attorney in New York, tosses Letitia James subpoenas:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/john-sarcone-ruling-us-attorney-00716067
* "7 takeaways from Jack Smith’s congressional testimony:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/takeaways-jack-smith-congressional-testimony-00708747
* "U.S. Supreme Court to hear major court cases on trans women in sports on Tuesday:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-sports-cases-supreme-court
* "A world without people: To be a billionaire is to be a solipsist :" https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/#billionaire-solipsism
* "[phone script] Remind your senators that they can do something even as the minority party:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/320247.html#cutid1
* "Emailing my federal legislators:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2744258.html
* 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/
* "Tim Walz drops out of Minnesota governor’s race, Klobuchar considers jumping in:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/tim-walz-out-minnesota-00710541
* "Mamdani says New York child care expansion a real step to fulfilling campaign pledge:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/08/nx-s1-5671045/nyc-mayor-mamdani-discusses-new-york-state-expansion-of-childcare-funding
* Items below this point may be a little older.
* " Punished for bleeding: How periods in prison become a trap :" https://www.advocate.com/health/periods-tampons-prison-punishment
* "Instructor who gave U of Oklahoma student a zero on anti-trans paper removed from teaching:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-oklahoma-graduate-assistant-removed
* "Another University of Oklahoma instructor suspended in biblical psychology paper grading controversy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/second-ou-instructor-suspended
* "I do not want to be commenting on this but the situation with the student submitting a bullshit paper and then getting her trans instructor (a TA!!!) fired for giving it the failing grade it deserved is such an infuriating and terrifying consequence of the blatant anti-intellectualism in the last handful of years.:" https://www.tumblr.com/darlingofdots/802648173222985728/i-do-not-want-to-be-commenting-on-this-but-the
* "Texas launches plan to open Turning Point USA chapters in every high school:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/abbott-charlie-kirk-turning-point-usa-texas-schools
* "Tennessee whistleblower says library board chair sought private data as part of state's book purge:" https://www.advocate.com/news/tennessee-library-books-purge
* "North Carolina county dissolves library board for refusing to toss book about a trans kid:" https://www.advocate.com/news/north-carolina-library-dissolved-transgender
* CW: CSA "Pastor’s arrest brings sex abuse survivors closer to justice:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/pastor-s-arrest-brings-sex-abuse-survivors-closer-to-justice-2479013955996
* CW: Rape "The story queer survivors aren't allowed to tell:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-sexual-assault
* "Nearly all women in STEM secretly feel like impostors:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260105165811.htm
* "There’s a testosterone crisis, the FDA says — for cisgender men:" https://www.advocate.com/health/testosterone-crisis-cisgender-men
* "Texas expands lawsuits against doctors accused of providing gender-affirming care to youth:" https://www.advocate.com/texas-doctor-lawsuit-transgender-youth
* "Florida sues leading medical groups for supporting gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/florida-medical-groups-transgender-lawsuit
* "Can West Virginia ban Medicaid coverage for adult gender-affirming surgery? Appeals court to decide:" https://www.advocate.com/health/wv-gender-affirming-surgery-ban
* "Connecticut hospitals sued after cutting off transgender youths’ access to care, despite state protections:" https://www.advocate.com/news/connecticut-hospitals-transgender-care-lawsuit
* " A trans woman's cancer symptoms were almost missed — until gender-affirming care saved her life :" https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/gender-affirming-detected-cancer
* "Wyoming Court Stops Abortion Bans:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/wyoming-court-stops-abortion-bans/
* CW: Suicide. "Transgender and nonbinary youth whose pronouns are respected attempt suicide less: report:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/pronoun-respect-transgender-suicide-attempts
* CW: Suicide. "Transgender youth who receive hormone therapy are less suicidal: study:" https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-youth-hormone-therapy-suicide
* "Kazakhstan bans so-called LGBTQ+ propaganda:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kazakhstan-bans-lgbtq-propaganda
* "Burkina Faso issues first sentence for 'homosexuality and related practices':" https://www.advocate.com/world/burkina-faso-homosexuality-conviction-africa
* "Budapest mayor could face charges for hosting LGBTQ+ Pride march:" https://www.advocate.com/world/budapest-mayor-charges-lgbtq-march
* "In 2025, being trans in America means living under conditional citizenship:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trans-rights-in-america-2674433270
* "Texas judge who refused to officiate same-sex weddings sues to overturn marriage equality:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-judge-marriage-equality-lawsuit
* "Is Texas using driver's license data to track transgender residents?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-collects-gender-change-requests
* "Texas city votes to overturn LGBTQ+ antidiscrimination protections:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/arlington-texas-lgbtq-discrimination-vote
* "Texas city cancels 2026 Pride after local council rescinds LGBTQ+ protections:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/arlington-pride-canceled-city-council
* "Texas city will remove rainbow crosswalks under orders from Trump administration:" https://www.advocate.com/san-antonio-remove-rainbow-crosswalks
* "Massachusetts removes rule requiring foster parents to support LGBTQ+ youth:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/massachusetts-foster-care-lgbtq-protections
* "This Maine school district passed trans-inclusive policies. Online comments forced it to up security:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/maine-school-district-security-transgender
* "Indiana town sued for blocking LGBTQ+ Pride festival (again):" https://www.advocate.com/politics/loogootee-indiana-lgbtq-pride-lawsuit
* "Florida city installs Pride bike racks after being forced to remove rainbow crosswalks:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/st-petersburg-rainbow-bike-rack
* "San Francisco green-lights affordable housing for LGBTQ+ seniors:" https://www.advocate.com/news/california-affordable-housing-lgbtq-seniors
* "At 50, passing isn’t the goal. Living is:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/passing-trans-woman
* "British Ice Skating will now allow same-sex partners to compete:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/british-ice-skating-will-now-allow-same-partners-to-compete/
* "I didn’t just run the world’s major marathons. I changed them:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/cal-calamia
* "An unsuspecting group of women is getting HIV. Geography is in part to blame.:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/12/01/hiv-black-women-south/87111487007/
* "New mutant mpox strain discovered in England — how concerned should people be?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/mutant-mpox-strain-discovered-england
* "you're not lazy: the ethics of rest:"
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* "SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System:" https://johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars-cov-2-leaves-a-lasting-mark-on-the-immune-system/
* "Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water:" https://archive.ph/d0GDA#selection-2071.590-2071.646
* "‘If you aren’t lying, you aren’t flying.’ Airline pilots hide mental health struggles:" https://www.reuters.com/investigations/if-you-arent-lying-you-arent-flying-airline-pilots-hide-mental-health-struggles-2025-12-03/
* "A medical examiner's testimony put a father behind bars for life. Now he says he 'made a mistake.':" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dr-bruce-levy-backtrack-shaken-baby-syndrome-russell-maze-prison-rcna248219
* "Dyslexia and the Reading Wars:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/29/dyslexia-and-the-reading-wars
* "The Congolese amputee giving new prosthetic limbs to the wounded:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/congo-security-amputees/
* "Oceans are supercharging hurricanes past Category 5:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251225080725.htm
* "A stunning new forecast shows when thousands of glaciers will vanish:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251219030455.htm
* "The western U.S. Tried to stop wildfires and it backfired:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251218060550.htm
* "Climate change, resistance, and doing the right thing now:" https://www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/climate-change-resistance-and-doing
* "‘An incomprehensible nightmare’: grief turns to anger over Swiss bar fire as Le Constellation owner arrested:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/09/swiss-bar-fire-le-constellation-owner-arrested
* "Tehran’s water crisis is a warning for every thirsty city :" https://grist.org/drought/tehrans-water-crisis-is-a-warning-for-every-thirsty-city/
* "How a US home insurance fix is becoming a problem:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ECONOMY/FAIR-INSURANCE/lgpdqnqamvo/
* "Florida keeps packing people and buildings on barrier islands. It comes at a high cost:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article312870949.html
* "2,500 ‘high-risk’ U.S. dams are sinking into the ground:" https://www.popsci.com/technology/most-dangerous-us-dams/
* "A.I. Slop Will Crescendo Into A Cultural Shift - Chris Hayes:"
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* "Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show:"
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* "AI’s Memorization Crisis:" https://archive.ph/jFFwO
* "We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.:"
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* "“Tinder for Nazis” hit by 100GB data leak, thousands of users exposed:" https://cybernews.com/security/investigator-exposes-white-supremacist-sites-users/
* "Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It’s protection against Russian propaganda:" https://apnews.com/article/fake-news-classrooms-finland-russia-194b32d8829838bfe47469d6ff357689
* "Opinion: When museums go silent, erasure speaks louder:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/illinois-holocaust-museum-and-education-center
* "All about the Mattachine Society, the first enduring U.S. gay rights group:" https://www.advocate.com/history/all-about-mattachine-society
* "All about the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/history/first-national-march-washington-1979
* "How this Minnesota city redefined LGBTQ+ rights 50 years ago:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/minneapolis-lgbtq-discrimination-ordinance
* "Rock Hudson had a 'legendarily large penis,' Armistead Maupin says:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/rock-hudson-large-penis-armistead-maupin
* "AIDS activist group ACT UP changed the world. Here's why its work still matters today:" https://www.advocate.com/news/why-act-up-mattered
* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Republican congressman from California dies suddenly:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-doug-lamalfa-dies-suddenly
* "Notorious anti-LGBTQ+ New York Archbishop Dolan retires — here are his worst moments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/homophobe-timothy-dolan-record-successor
* "As groundbreaking trans politician Andrea Jenkins retires, a look at her life and career:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender-groundbreaker-andrea-jenkins-retiring
* "Public Domain Day 2026!:"
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* Friday: I have awakened to find Livia sleeping on me three times in the last 48 hours, which is huge progress. Twice she was in Hector's old favorite sleeping position. No one's slept on me in that position since he died over a decade ago. Tavy hadn't the balance for it, and Livia couldn't use it when Tavy was in his most common sleeping spot on me because of his head position.
I have started carrying her weight on my hip into Dream, the way I have carried Hector's since 1998.
* "Trump Kidnaps President Maduro, Targets Venezuelan Oil & Ditches "America First" | The Daily Show:"
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* "ICE Killing in Minnesota Ignites Protests as Trump and Kristi Noem Double Down | The Daily Show:"
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* "Jan 6 Is A Permanent Stain On Trump's Legacy | The Pokémon President | Colbert Out-Rates The Don:"
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* "Meet Benny Johnson: The YouTube Star Cosplaying as White House Press Commentator | The Daily Show:"
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* "Hasty Hermes:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FKoV3Vs2bbg
* "Aesthetic Aphrodite:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cpcE-Smd4R0
* "Antithetical Athena:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z-TZoEqUOJs
* "Patrician Parents:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q0Yw1JiNGmM
* "S.P.Q.R Society:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8bbqaXBZwU0
* "Gladi-Mania:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kwWLqt8acWk
* "Neurodivergent Nobility:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wT7i1fBzxEM
* "Neurodivergent Nobility 2:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tlj_veR57L8
* "Thought Trains:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/51NUjCPPXlQ
* "Vitamin Plastic Water: Don’t Just Consume Microplastics, Enjoy Them! | The Daily Show:"
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* "Unforgettable Lindy Hop Moments: Camp Hollywood 2023 Open Lindy Finals:"
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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/
* If you need help with chest binders:
* "Free Chest Binders:" https://www.pointofpride.org/free-chest-binders
* "Brother 2 Brother Binder Program:" https://blacktransmen.org/binder-program/
* "Morebinders:" https://www.morebinders.com/about
* "The Queer Trans Project :" https://queertransproject.org/
* "Free Gender Affirming Gear Program:" https://www.ftmessentials.com/pages/ftme-free-youth-binder-program
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Weekend protests – SHOW UP
Jan. 9th, 2026 08:45 pmsolarbirdPROTESTS. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. LOTS OF THEM. SHOW UP.
Here’s a bunch on the Washington State wet side. All over the place, and I do mean all over. Like Tulalip, and Sequim. Don’t get me wrong, I like Sequim, but it is not a big place. Here’s the list. All kinds of times, all kinds of places.
Sundays are further down but this list isn’t in good date order, idk why. So keep scrolling.
I’m sure wherever you are has some too. Pick one and get out there.
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1/4/26 - 1/8/26 Urgent Action Items Included
Jan. 8th, 2026 11:23 pmgwydion* Not fished with the aggregate, but there are a ton of urgent action items so I'm cutting here.
* "Israeli forces kill seven in Gaza, say they hit rocket launch site:" https://archive.ph/LGh4H
******
* "Trump Threatens Venezuela’s New Leader With a Fate Worse Than Maduro’s:" https://archive.ph/FSx4o
* "China Slams US ‘Bullying’ Over Pressure on Venezuela to Cut Ties:" https://archive.ph/C9jJl
* "‘We set the terms and conditions’: Stephen Miller asserts US authority over Venezuela:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/stephen-miller-asserts-us-authority-venezuela-00711940
* "Maddow calls out the real reason Trump invaded Venezuela:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-calls-out-the-real-reason-trump-invaded-venezuela-2479734851702
* "Psaki: Donald Trump is ADDICTED to power; planning, not so much:"
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* "Americans do not want war with Venezuela:" https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americans-do-not-want-war-with-venezuela
* "Rubio says US will press change in Venezuela with oil embargo, while Trump insists ‘we’re in charge’:" https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-maduro-trump-military-operation-85041a1ec03bafe839b785a95169d694
* "Rubio and Hegseth brief lawmakers on 'threefold process' for Venezuela:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/g-s1-104905/rubio-hegseth-lawmakers-venezuelas-future
* "US seeks to assert its control over Venezuelan oil with tanker seizures and sales worldwide:" https://apnews.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-tanker-77f2c1441dda8217b37f9e38c3ae9131
* "Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/trump-us-taxpayers-oil-firms-venezuela-investment
* "US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker, in challenge to Moscow:" https://www.semafor.com/article/01/07/2026/us-seizes-russian-flagged-oil-tanker-in-challenge-to-moscow
* "'Reckless and illegal': LGBTQ+ politicians blast Trump's military strike on Venezuela:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/lgbtq-politicians-denounce-trump-venezuela
* "Pete Buttigieg blasts 'ideological bull' behind Trump's takeover of Venezuela:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/pete-buttigieg-blasts-venezuela-takeover
* "Trump Violated International Law:"
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* "Venezuela Invasion Is A Crime:"
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* "The Context You Need To Know About Maduro's Capture EXPLAINED:"
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* "Maduro, wife plead not guilty as ousted Venezuelan leader says he was ‘kidnapped’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/maduro-pleads-not-guilty-court-hearing-00711006?nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nname=playbook-pm&nrid=0000014e-f104-dd93-ad7f-f905509f0002
* "Venezuelan Opposition Politician on Maduro Capture & the Uncertain Future | Amanpour and Company:"
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* "Someone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture:" https://www.theverge.com/news/853765/someone-made-a-ton-of-money-betting-on-maduros-capture
**** Urgent Action Item! "Senate votes to limit Trump on Venezuela:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/senate-votes-to-restrict-trump-on-venezuela-00716127
This is not a final vote. Contact your Senator now!
These Republicans voted to check Trump's wild invasion of random countries. If this is your Senator, thank them and ask them to keep supporting the measure!
Rand Paul of Kentucky
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Susan Collins of Maine
Todd Young of Indiana
Josh Hawley of Missouri
John Fetterman of Pennsylvania did the right thing for once. If you live in Pennsylvania please thank him and ask him to hold firm.
We need more votes, obviously, so contact your Republican critters in House and Senate and beg them to do the patriotic thing.
* A model letter to your Congress Critters asking them to DO something: "Emailing my legislators:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2741130.html
* "Fraudster George Santos claims he’s going to Venezuela ‘to help with aid’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/george-santos-venezuela-trip
* "Here's everything to know about LGBTQ+ rights in Venezuela:" https://www.advocate.com/news/venezuela-lgbtq-rights-marriage-transgender
******
* "Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’:" https://archive.ph/KV5NY
* "After Maduro, who’s next? Trump spurs speculation about his plans for Greenland, Cuba and Colombia:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-greenland-cuba-571aac35e259857fd512c46f5af11e4d
* "Trump on return trip to Washington predicts demise of Cuba, warns Colombia, threatens Greenland:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/04/trump-on-return-trip-to-washington-predicts-demise-of-cuba-warns-colombia-threatens-greenland-00710410
* "‘Life and death stakes’: Hayes blasts Trump threats against Cuba, Mexico, Greenland:"
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* "US ‘has no right’ to take over Greenland, Danish PM says after renewed Trump threats :" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/04/greenland-denmark-us-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-donald-trump
* "Trump hammers NATO allies while Greenland crisis deepens :" https://www.politico.eu/article/us-donald-trump-nato-allies-greenland-crisis-deepens/
* "Rubio to meet Denmark leaders next week, signals no retreat on Trump's Greenland goal:" https://archive.ph/6feFw
* "Why Greenland is strategically important to Arctic security:" https://apnews.com/article/greenland-denmark-security-trump-arctic-north-6066195d0c6b9e1bbe6da27d55b26ece
We already have a base there and have had foe three quarters of a century. Denmark is our ally. Fuckssake!!!
* "Trump says his Greenland fixation is about national security. Europeans are skeptical.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/trump-says-his-greenland-fixation-is-about-national-security-europeans-are-skeptical-00712149
As am I.
* "Congress starts to take Trump’s interest in Greenland more seriously:" https://www.semafor.com/article/01/05/2026/congress-starts-to-take-trumps-interest-in-greenland-more-seriously
Now is a GREAT time to contact your Congress Critters, BEFORE we break NATO.
* "What to know about the intensifying protests shaking Iran and putting pressure on its theocracy:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-to-know-about-the-intensifying-protests-shaking-iran-and-putting-pressure-on-its-theocracy
* "Footage shows violent clashes as Iran protests spread to more areas:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm4y0ewe93o
* "Ian Bremmer: Trump’s “Political Revolution” Is 2026’s Top Global Risk | Amanpour and Company:"
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* "Trump withdraws U.S. from 66 international organizations and treaties, including major climate groups:" https://archive.ph/xAAr9#selection-2375.64-2481.0
* "Trump withdrawal from bedrock UN climate treaty raises legal questions:" https://archive.ph/kDBSM
*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News ***
* "Tiny Pacific nation of Palau to take migrants from US in return for aid:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/25/tiny-pacific-nation-of-palau-to-take-migrants-from-us-in-return-for-aid
* "Homeland Security plans 2,000 officers in Minnesota for its ‘largest immigration operation ever’:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-ice-noem-minnesota-somali-db661df6de1131a034da2bda4bb3d817
* "Avelo ends ICE flights as Delaware lawmakers seek transparency on companies profiting from deportations:" https://whyy.org/articles/avelo-airlines-deportation-flights-cancel-delaware-transparency-laws/
* "Trump’s ICE prison escalation collides with American resistance:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-ice-prison-escalation-collides-with-american-resistance-2479740995856
* Short version of the The Cold Blooded I.C.E. Murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis:
ICE decided to shoot a mother point blank four times in the face for just being in the way a few blocks from where the police murdered George Floyd for pleasure the last time Trump was in office. They are now lying that somehow being in the way constitutes violent terrorism and that after they killed her, her foot pressed down on the accelerator which retroactively justifies them killing her since their shooting her in the face for fun so many times caused her corpse to endanger ICE officers.
They tell these lies knowing that multiple people filmed the incident. I saw footage before hearing or seeing what people were saying, and I thought they were yelling at her to get out of the way. They claim they were yelling for her to get out of the car. Odds are they were yelling both as screaming contradictory orders give police and ICE a pretext to murder people for fun so they do it a lot.
They refused to let a physician on the scene try to resuscitate her and deliberately blocked the ambulance that arrived 15 minutes later so they had to carry her body away by hand.
Warning: video news items include footage of the murder (though not the victim), and images of the car's blooding interior after the murder.
* "Eyewitnesses say Renee Good posed ‘no threat’ to ICE agents:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/shooting-south-minneapolis-ice-agents-federal-operation
* "‘Point blank in the face’: Eyewitness details deadly ICE shooting:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/point-blank-in-the-face-eyewitness-details-deadly-ice-shooting-2480150595917
* "What Happens Next In Minnesota?:"
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* "‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent:" https://www.startribune.com/she-was-an-amazing-human-being-mother-identifies-woman-shot-killed-by-ice-agent/601559922
* "Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting:" https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-ice-killed-wife
* "Who was Renee Nicole Good? Remembering the Minneapolis poet and mother killed by ICE:" https://www.advocate.com/news/who-was-renee-nicole-good
* "‘They decided on a narrative’: Hayes rips DHS ‘lies’ after deadly ICE shooting:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/they-decided-on-a-narrative-hayes-rips-dhs-lies-after-deadly-ice-shooting-2480159811622
* "Thousands gather to mourn Renee Good, Minneapolis woman shot and killed by ICE agent:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/renee-nicole-good-vigil-south-minneapolis-ice-agents
* "State, city leaders clash with feds after deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/state-city-leaders-clash-with-feds-after-deadly-ice-shooting-in-minneapolis
* The victim blaming continues. "Minneapolis ICE shooting live updates: Vance calls fatal shooting 'tragedy of her own making':" https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/minneapolis-ice-shooting-live-updates-tensions-flare-minneapolis/?id=129018634
* "‘The lies are easily disproven’: Hayes dismantles JD Vance’s ICE shooting claims:"
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* "'The truth matters here': Minneapolis mayor REJECTS Trump narrative on deadly ICE shooting:"
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* "‘ICE is hurting our people’: Minnesota Lt. Gov. Flanagan reacts to fatal shooting:" https://www.ms.now/ms-now/watch/ice-is-hurting-our-people-minnesota-lt-gov-flanagan-reacts-to-fatal-shooting-2480165443676
* "Schumer questions ability of Trump-corrupted FBI to investigate Minneapolis ICE shooting:"
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* "NYC Mayor Mamdani calls for ACCOUNTABILITY for ICE killing of Minneapolis mom:"
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* "Gov. Shapiro: No 'absolute immunity' for Minneapolis ICE shooter:"
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* "Vigil for Renee Nicole Good becomes a call to action against ICE:" https://www.advocate.com/news/vigil-renee-good-ice-shooting
* "‘Animals’: Feds TACKLE staff, gas students at Minneapolis high school, witnesses say:"
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* "Feds freeze Minnesota officials out of probe around killing of Renee Nicole Good :" https://www.advocate.com/news/fbi-conducts-ice-investigation-alone
* "Photos: Protests grow over the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/08/nx-s1-5671719/ice-shooting-minneapolis-protest
* "Husband and Wife Shot by Border Agents in Portland 1 Day After Woman Shot and Killed by ICE in Minneapolis: Reports:" https://people.com/2-people-shot-by-federal-agents-in-portland-1-day-after-woman-fatally-shot-by-ice-in-minneapolis-police-11882122
* Once again I want to thank everyone risking their lives to protest. You are heroes.
* 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/
* "‘Dictator’ Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/dictator-trump-floats-idea-of-canceling-midterm-elections/
* "Donald Trump uses the anniversary of the Capitol insurrection to attack transgender people:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-transgender-republican-retreat
* "Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Incoming As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nationwide-trans-youth-care-ban-imminent
* How to complain: https://www.tumblr.com/botheryourreps/805047264878968832/nationwide-trans-youth-care-ban-incoming-as-trump
* "Trump pushes to limit Wall Street’s footprint in housing:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/trump-wall-street-housing-affordability-00714178?nid=00000170-c000-da87-af78-e185fa700000&nname=politico-nightly&nrid=00000156-381b-d0c4-ab5f-7a5f5f5a0001
* "Amid fraud claims, Trump admin announces more changes to federal child care funding:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/05/nx-s1-5667019/hhs-child-care-federal-funding
* "Trump admin official reportedly made millions from fast-tracked lithium mine:" https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/naked-corruption-interior-mine-deal-21279567.php
* "Pentagon moves to punish senator for anti-Trump video:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/hegseth-kelly-punish-video-00710555
* "Why Donald Trump is still freaking out over Senator Kelly’s simple statement:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/why-donald-trump-is-still-freaking-out-over-senator-kelly-s-simple-statement-2479723075702
* "HHS dramatically overhauls childhood vaccine schedule, downgrading advice for flu, meningitis, other shots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/hhs-to-weaken-childhood-vaccine-schedule-for-flu-meningitis-00711252
* "Flu Infections Hit Highest Level in US Since Covid Pandemic:" https://archive.ph/SLcIp
* "RFK Jr. says to eat more protein, less sugar in new dietary guidelines:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/rfk-trump-dietary-guidelines-protein-sugar-00713828
The Nutritional guidelines are a mixed bag, unlike the plans to kill the children of the poor by depriving them of the vaccines the children of the rich will likely still get.
* This one's going to kill a lot of older people: "Why RFK Jr.'s Health Department repealed rule for 24/7 nurses in nursing homes:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rfk-jr-health-department-nurses/
* "Trump calls for record $1.5 trillion defense budget, a 50 percent jump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/trump-calls-record-defense-budget-00715298
He wants this to pay for all his planned illegal invasions.
Angry about it? Contact your Congress Critters to support this Amendment:
* "Gallego Introduces Amendment to Block Military Force Against Greenland:" https://www.gallego.senate.gov/press-releases/gallego-introduces-amendment-to-block-military-force-against-greenland/
* This Bill: "S.3595 - A bill to prohibit the use of funds for the deployment of United States military or intelligence personnel in Venezuela for certain purposes. :" https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3595
* "To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress. :" https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/68
* "House passes three-bill spending package with weeks left to avoid a shutdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/house-passes-three-bill-spending-package-with-weeks-left-to-avoid-a-shutdown-00716935
* "House passes bill to extend health care subsidies in defiance of GOP leaders:" https://apnews.com/article/house-democrats-republicans-vote-health-care-subsidies-7d69148c6619a190f8d4abb85a7344b8
* "Emailing my federal legislators:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2742159.html
* 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/
* "Fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack brings fresh division to the US Capitol:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-anniversary-trump-democrats-1ef8f91dcdf0f209ba7316139df7e9c6
* "This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It’s nowhere to be found at the Capitol:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-jan-6-anniversary-police-plaque-f6fd39b437c339fa9ff477318a7d36e2
* "How Jan. 6 was remembered — and rewritten — on its 5th anniversary:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/january-6-anniversary-capitol-riot-00713422
* "Republicans silent and Democrats incensed on fifth anniversary of US Capitol attack:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/06/january-6-us-capitol-attack-fifth-anniversary
* "Ahead of 5-year anniversary of Jan. 6, report examines aftermath following Trump's return to office:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/ahead-5-year-anniversary-jan-6-report-examines/story?id=128912756
* "Trump White House attempts to rewrite history of Jan. 6, accuses Capitol Police of escalating tensions:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-white-house-attempts-rewrite-history-jan-6/story?id=128953694
* "Ashli Babbitt and the making of a MAGA martyr :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/maga-martyr-ashli-babbitt
* "Pardoned Jan. 6 rioters return to Capitol on 5th anniversary of insurrection:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pardoned-jan-6-rioters-return-to-capitol-on-5th-anniversary-of-insurrection
* "Fascism Expert Jason Stanley on the 5th Anniversary of Jan. 6 Capitol Attack | Amanpour and Company:"
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* CW: Rape, CSA. "Five years after January 6, dozens of pardoned insurrectionists have been arrested again :" https://www.advocate.com/news/crime/five-years-january-6-arrested-again
* I keep needing a stupid amount of rest. This is coinciding with Livia deciding to go back to stretching out on top of me for loves, like she used to before Tavy's health started to deteriorate. She is doing way more often, and even taking short naps on occation, despite no longer being ill. She has also been experimenting with some new positions, ones that were Tavy's. She has days when her appetite is winter normal, and days when she is extra sad and not eating much. She is still weird about the sofa and desk mesting spots, where I think absense is loudest, though I see her scouting her old spots now and then and even sitting very briefly. I miss having her in her desk box while I'm at the computer, but she clearly needs more time.
Last week we did physio preliminaries. Wednesday afternoon, we started in earnest. The physio is really good I think. She is treating hipes, upper legs, butt, and core muscles all as a connected system. The excercises are subtle, but challenging. She printed them out, but I left without them. Sigh. I also sabandoned the new rubber thingie I need to do one of the excercises. I'll see if I can dig up an arm one of the same strength and get help tying it right. Let's also hope I remember all five excercises tomorrow.
I had already spent the gas to get that far. The plan was to go up one more exit to the Ethical grocery. Only my brain autopilot tried to taker me home while I was mentally running over my grocery list, which meant I had to go down one exit, then up two. No disabled parking, of course and my ankle dislocated again second time this week as I hobbled across the parking lot. I had planned to use the riding cart anyway as physio takes a lot out of me, but still.
Oh course the grocery was full of people blocking whole aisles with their carts because other people don't exist and they absolutely needed to stand a cross the mouth of an aisle to have a long think or make a phone call instead of pulling foreward. I accidentally was an asshole myself at check out because I forgot that at least half needs to be groceries to be allowed to write a check and I'd bought all the groceries on EBT. They needed to be seperate transactions, so we had to void out half the groceries to balance the cost of TP on a seperate transaction.
I went in looking for 5-7 things. (Five must gets. Two if they have its). I got six as they hadn't the seventh, which is annoying as I kept forgetting to pick up number seven every time I left the house in the last week including when I was literally in the grocery I knew had it, I think last Friday. I did look for it, but they have limitted range in that area and I need a specific brand and flavour. This week has just been like this.
I had to load the bag, tp, and flat of ramen onto a regular cart to take to the car. Someone had to wait for me to get it and then I couldn't get my coat on because my shoulder wasn't working right. So I'm standing on a dislocated ankly trying not to cry from pain and frustration because my arm wouldn't bend right to go in the coat. I fucking hate being in the way. Being in the way twice because my stupid artificial jointed arm is locked up again is worse. She was nice about it, but it was painful and rude on my part.
I did not cry until after I got the groceries in and away.
At least only one of the physio homework things requires standing at this stage.
* Once again, I low key needed to go to the library, but also I needed to get ingredients for things New Millennial preps for me at home, like the rescue lasagna they turned up with after my physio Wednesday night. Don't worry, they get paid for this. It's a perfectly reasonable accommodation for them as they can just do work to help me whenever they are up to it. They bring prepped things back when they come to work and take ingredients away.
I did fill sets of the three horrible exercises that look like I'm not doing much of anything, but are Exhausting. Livia and I did the thing where she has Rainbow toy pettin time. (She likes me to pet her while she plays the the rainbow catnip toy a friend gave her in December, because otherwise it is Too Much). We then did feather time.
I dragged myself out to do errands yet again. This time my ankle did not pop out, but I just don't have a lot of non-physio spoons right now, so it was A LOT. I am spending way too much money on food, but I've been chasing some vitamin deficiencies the last month and a half. I think today I finally achieved Enough Vitamin C and I hit enough Apple a couple of days ago, but I keep having to buy fresh vegetables and the like trying to find the other shortages.
I remembered the thing I need to get from one of two specific stores, but I was done in, food needed to be put away, and I owed the two more vigorous physio exercises. I just didn't have it in me to stop one more place.
Squirrel's still being yanked around by the same work that gave them an award last month over a work injury that turns out to be a torn rotator cup, so they are having to work with it instead of getting light duty. They are fighting it, but in the meantime they are doing more damage every time they work. So now neither of us can really take out the trash. For me it's hard limit. My arm can't do it. For them they risk serious injury every time. I can't do anything about trash, but I'm trying to do a system that lets me take out recycling in smaller amounts. Which means I have to block the door with sort boxes, but there is no help for it. Every time I have the dolly inside, I put a sort box on there and take it out every time I go. I have done this A LOT the last week and a half.
When I took out paper box today I went to put the dolly in the car and FOUND the band and physio direction. O.o In my defense it was dark when I left physio and there was stuff going on with a dog and I was already exhausted. The physio things ended up under groceries and weren't visible in the dark and shadows when I got home. So I have those now, which meant I could check reps and hold times and also realized I left something off the first horrible exercise I was working on. D'oh! I am not fucking redoing them. I will do the harder version tomorrow. Anyway, the makeshift we did with the band wasn't as good so I now have an exactly correct one.
*****
* 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/
* If you need help with chest binders:
* "Free Chest Binders:" https://www.pointofpride.org/free-chest-binders
* "Brother 2 Brother Binder Program:" https://blacktransmen.org/binder-program/
* "Morebinders:" https://www.morebinders.com/about
* "The Queer Trans Project :" https://queertransproject.org/
* "Free Gender Affirming Gear Program:" https://www.ftmessentials.com/pages/ftme-free-youth-binder-program
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* "Israeli forces kill seven in Gaza, say they hit rocket launch site:" https://archive.ph/LGh4H
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* "Trump Threatens Venezuela’s New Leader With a Fate Worse Than Maduro’s:" https://archive.ph/FSx4o
* "China Slams US ‘Bullying’ Over Pressure on Venezuela to Cut Ties:" https://archive.ph/C9jJl
* "‘We set the terms and conditions’: Stephen Miller asserts US authority over Venezuela:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/stephen-miller-asserts-us-authority-venezuela-00711940
* "Maddow calls out the real reason Trump invaded Venezuela:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-calls-out-the-real-reason-trump-invaded-venezuela-2479734851702
* "Psaki: Donald Trump is ADDICTED to power; planning, not so much:"
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* "Americans do not want war with Venezuela:" https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americans-do-not-want-war-with-venezuela
* "Rubio says US will press change in Venezuela with oil embargo, while Trump insists ‘we’re in charge’:" https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-maduro-trump-military-operation-85041a1ec03bafe839b785a95169d694
* "Rubio and Hegseth brief lawmakers on 'threefold process' for Venezuela:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/g-s1-104905/rubio-hegseth-lawmakers-venezuelas-future
* "US seeks to assert its control over Venezuelan oil with tanker seizures and sales worldwide:" https://apnews.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-tanker-77f2c1441dda8217b37f9e38c3ae9131
* "Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/trump-us-taxpayers-oil-firms-venezuela-investment
* "US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker, in challenge to Moscow:" https://www.semafor.com/article/01/07/2026/us-seizes-russian-flagged-oil-tanker-in-challenge-to-moscow
* "'Reckless and illegal': LGBTQ+ politicians blast Trump's military strike on Venezuela:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/lgbtq-politicians-denounce-trump-venezuela
* "Pete Buttigieg blasts 'ideological bull' behind Trump's takeover of Venezuela:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/pete-buttigieg-blasts-venezuela-takeover
* "Trump Violated International Law:"
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* "Venezuela Invasion Is A Crime:"
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* "The Context You Need To Know About Maduro's Capture EXPLAINED:"
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* "Maduro, wife plead not guilty as ousted Venezuelan leader says he was ‘kidnapped’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/maduro-pleads-not-guilty-court-hearing-00711006?nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nname=playbook-pm&nrid=0000014e-f104-dd93-ad7f-f905509f0002
* "Venezuelan Opposition Politician on Maduro Capture & the Uncertain Future | Amanpour and Company:"
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* "Someone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture:" https://www.theverge.com/news/853765/someone-made-a-ton-of-money-betting-on-maduros-capture
**** Urgent Action Item! "Senate votes to limit Trump on Venezuela:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/senate-votes-to-restrict-trump-on-venezuela-00716127
This is not a final vote. Contact your Senator now!
These Republicans voted to check Trump's wild invasion of random countries. If this is your Senator, thank them and ask them to keep supporting the measure!
Rand Paul of Kentucky
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Susan Collins of Maine
Todd Young of Indiana
Josh Hawley of Missouri
John Fetterman of Pennsylvania did the right thing for once. If you live in Pennsylvania please thank him and ask him to hold firm.
We need more votes, obviously, so contact your Republican critters in House and Senate and beg them to do the patriotic thing.
* A model letter to your Congress Critters asking them to DO something: "Emailing my legislators:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2741130.html
* "Fraudster George Santos claims he’s going to Venezuela ‘to help with aid’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/george-santos-venezuela-trip
* "Here's everything to know about LGBTQ+ rights in Venezuela:" https://www.advocate.com/news/venezuela-lgbtq-rights-marriage-transgender
******
* "Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’:" https://archive.ph/KV5NY
* "After Maduro, who’s next? Trump spurs speculation about his plans for Greenland, Cuba and Colombia:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-greenland-cuba-571aac35e259857fd512c46f5af11e4d
* "Trump on return trip to Washington predicts demise of Cuba, warns Colombia, threatens Greenland:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/04/trump-on-return-trip-to-washington-predicts-demise-of-cuba-warns-colombia-threatens-greenland-00710410
* "‘Life and death stakes’: Hayes blasts Trump threats against Cuba, Mexico, Greenland:"
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* "US ‘has no right’ to take over Greenland, Danish PM says after renewed Trump threats :" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/04/greenland-denmark-us-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-donald-trump
* "Trump hammers NATO allies while Greenland crisis deepens :" https://www.politico.eu/article/us-donald-trump-nato-allies-greenland-crisis-deepens/
* "Rubio to meet Denmark leaders next week, signals no retreat on Trump's Greenland goal:" https://archive.ph/6feFw
* "Why Greenland is strategically important to Arctic security:" https://apnews.com/article/greenland-denmark-security-trump-arctic-north-6066195d0c6b9e1bbe6da27d55b26ece
We already have a base there and have had foe three quarters of a century. Denmark is our ally. Fuckssake!!!
* "Trump says his Greenland fixation is about national security. Europeans are skeptical.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/trump-says-his-greenland-fixation-is-about-national-security-europeans-are-skeptical-00712149
As am I.
* "Congress starts to take Trump’s interest in Greenland more seriously:" https://www.semafor.com/article/01/05/2026/congress-starts-to-take-trumps-interest-in-greenland-more-seriously
Now is a GREAT time to contact your Congress Critters, BEFORE we break NATO.
* "What to know about the intensifying protests shaking Iran and putting pressure on its theocracy:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-to-know-about-the-intensifying-protests-shaking-iran-and-putting-pressure-on-its-theocracy
* "Footage shows violent clashes as Iran protests spread to more areas:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm4y0ewe93o
* "Ian Bremmer: Trump’s “Political Revolution” Is 2026’s Top Global Risk | Amanpour and Company:"
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* "Trump withdraws U.S. from 66 international organizations and treaties, including major climate groups:" https://archive.ph/xAAr9#selection-2375.64-2481.0
* "Trump withdrawal from bedrock UN climate treaty raises legal questions:" https://archive.ph/kDBSM
*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News ***
* "Tiny Pacific nation of Palau to take migrants from US in return for aid:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/25/tiny-pacific-nation-of-palau-to-take-migrants-from-us-in-return-for-aid
* "Homeland Security plans 2,000 officers in Minnesota for its ‘largest immigration operation ever’:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-ice-noem-minnesota-somali-db661df6de1131a034da2bda4bb3d817
* "Avelo ends ICE flights as Delaware lawmakers seek transparency on companies profiting from deportations:" https://whyy.org/articles/avelo-airlines-deportation-flights-cancel-delaware-transparency-laws/
* "Trump’s ICE prison escalation collides with American resistance:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-ice-prison-escalation-collides-with-american-resistance-2479740995856
* Short version of the The Cold Blooded I.C.E. Murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis:
ICE decided to shoot a mother point blank four times in the face for just being in the way a few blocks from where the police murdered George Floyd for pleasure the last time Trump was in office. They are now lying that somehow being in the way constitutes violent terrorism and that after they killed her, her foot pressed down on the accelerator which retroactively justifies them killing her since their shooting her in the face for fun so many times caused her corpse to endanger ICE officers.
They tell these lies knowing that multiple people filmed the incident. I saw footage before hearing or seeing what people were saying, and I thought they were yelling at her to get out of the way. They claim they were yelling for her to get out of the car. Odds are they were yelling both as screaming contradictory orders give police and ICE a pretext to murder people for fun so they do it a lot.
They refused to let a physician on the scene try to resuscitate her and deliberately blocked the ambulance that arrived 15 minutes later so they had to carry her body away by hand.
Warning: video news items include footage of the murder (though not the victim), and images of the car's blooding interior after the murder.
* "Eyewitnesses say Renee Good posed ‘no threat’ to ICE agents:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/shooting-south-minneapolis-ice-agents-federal-operation
* "‘Point blank in the face’: Eyewitness details deadly ICE shooting:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/point-blank-in-the-face-eyewitness-details-deadly-ice-shooting-2480150595917
* "What Happens Next In Minnesota?:"
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* "‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent:" https://www.startribune.com/she-was-an-amazing-human-being-mother-identifies-woman-shot-killed-by-ice-agent/601559922
* "Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting:" https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-ice-killed-wife
* "Who was Renee Nicole Good? Remembering the Minneapolis poet and mother killed by ICE:" https://www.advocate.com/news/who-was-renee-nicole-good
* "‘They decided on a narrative’: Hayes rips DHS ‘lies’ after deadly ICE shooting:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/they-decided-on-a-narrative-hayes-rips-dhs-lies-after-deadly-ice-shooting-2480159811622
* "Thousands gather to mourn Renee Good, Minneapolis woman shot and killed by ICE agent:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/renee-nicole-good-vigil-south-minneapolis-ice-agents
* "State, city leaders clash with feds after deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/state-city-leaders-clash-with-feds-after-deadly-ice-shooting-in-minneapolis
* The victim blaming continues. "Minneapolis ICE shooting live updates: Vance calls fatal shooting 'tragedy of her own making':" https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/minneapolis-ice-shooting-live-updates-tensions-flare-minneapolis/?id=129018634
* "‘The lies are easily disproven’: Hayes dismantles JD Vance’s ICE shooting claims:"
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* "'The truth matters here': Minneapolis mayor REJECTS Trump narrative on deadly ICE shooting:"
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* "‘ICE is hurting our people’: Minnesota Lt. Gov. Flanagan reacts to fatal shooting:" https://www.ms.now/ms-now/watch/ice-is-hurting-our-people-minnesota-lt-gov-flanagan-reacts-to-fatal-shooting-2480165443676
* "Schumer questions ability of Trump-corrupted FBI to investigate Minneapolis ICE shooting:"
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* "NYC Mayor Mamdani calls for ACCOUNTABILITY for ICE killing of Minneapolis mom:"
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* "Gov. Shapiro: No 'absolute immunity' for Minneapolis ICE shooter:"
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* "Vigil for Renee Nicole Good becomes a call to action against ICE:" https://www.advocate.com/news/vigil-renee-good-ice-shooting
* "‘Animals’: Feds TACKLE staff, gas students at Minneapolis high school, witnesses say:"
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* "Feds freeze Minnesota officials out of probe around killing of Renee Nicole Good :" https://www.advocate.com/news/fbi-conducts-ice-investigation-alone
* "Photos: Protests grow over the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/08/nx-s1-5671719/ice-shooting-minneapolis-protest
* "Husband and Wife Shot by Border Agents in Portland 1 Day After Woman Shot and Killed by ICE in Minneapolis: Reports:" https://people.com/2-people-shot-by-federal-agents-in-portland-1-day-after-woman-fatally-shot-by-ice-in-minneapolis-police-11882122
* Once again I want to thank everyone risking their lives to protest. You are heroes.
* 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/
* "‘Dictator’ Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/dictator-trump-floats-idea-of-canceling-midterm-elections/
* "Donald Trump uses the anniversary of the Capitol insurrection to attack transgender people:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-transgender-republican-retreat
* "Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Incoming As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nationwide-trans-youth-care-ban-imminent
* How to complain: https://www.tumblr.com/botheryourreps/805047264878968832/nationwide-trans-youth-care-ban-incoming-as-trump
* "Trump pushes to limit Wall Street’s footprint in housing:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/trump-wall-street-housing-affordability-00714178?nid=00000170-c000-da87-af78-e185fa700000&nname=politico-nightly&nrid=00000156-381b-d0c4-ab5f-7a5f5f5a0001
* "Amid fraud claims, Trump admin announces more changes to federal child care funding:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/05/nx-s1-5667019/hhs-child-care-federal-funding
* "Trump admin official reportedly made millions from fast-tracked lithium mine:" https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/naked-corruption-interior-mine-deal-21279567.php
* "Pentagon moves to punish senator for anti-Trump video:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/hegseth-kelly-punish-video-00710555
* "Why Donald Trump is still freaking out over Senator Kelly’s simple statement:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/why-donald-trump-is-still-freaking-out-over-senator-kelly-s-simple-statement-2479723075702
* "HHS dramatically overhauls childhood vaccine schedule, downgrading advice for flu, meningitis, other shots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/hhs-to-weaken-childhood-vaccine-schedule-for-flu-meningitis-00711252
* "Flu Infections Hit Highest Level in US Since Covid Pandemic:" https://archive.ph/SLcIp
* "RFK Jr. says to eat more protein, less sugar in new dietary guidelines:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/rfk-trump-dietary-guidelines-protein-sugar-00713828
The Nutritional guidelines are a mixed bag, unlike the plans to kill the children of the poor by depriving them of the vaccines the children of the rich will likely still get.
* This one's going to kill a lot of older people: "Why RFK Jr.'s Health Department repealed rule for 24/7 nurses in nursing homes:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rfk-jr-health-department-nurses/
* "Trump calls for record $1.5 trillion defense budget, a 50 percent jump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/trump-calls-record-defense-budget-00715298
He wants this to pay for all his planned illegal invasions.
Angry about it? Contact your Congress Critters to support this Amendment:
* "Gallego Introduces Amendment to Block Military Force Against Greenland:" https://www.gallego.senate.gov/press-releases/gallego-introduces-amendment-to-block-military-force-against-greenland/
* This Bill: "S.3595 - A bill to prohibit the use of funds for the deployment of United States military or intelligence personnel in Venezuela for certain purposes. :" https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3595
* "To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress. :" https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/68
* "House passes three-bill spending package with weeks left to avoid a shutdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/house-passes-three-bill-spending-package-with-weeks-left-to-avoid-a-shutdown-00716935
* "House passes bill to extend health care subsidies in defiance of GOP leaders:" https://apnews.com/article/house-democrats-republicans-vote-health-care-subsidies-7d69148c6619a190f8d4abb85a7344b8
* "Emailing my federal legislators:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2742159.html
* 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/
* "Fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack brings fresh division to the US Capitol:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-anniversary-trump-democrats-1ef8f91dcdf0f209ba7316139df7e9c6
* "This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It’s nowhere to be found at the Capitol:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-jan-6-anniversary-police-plaque-f6fd39b437c339fa9ff477318a7d36e2
* "How Jan. 6 was remembered — and rewritten — on its 5th anniversary:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/january-6-anniversary-capitol-riot-00713422
* "Republicans silent and Democrats incensed on fifth anniversary of US Capitol attack:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/06/january-6-us-capitol-attack-fifth-anniversary
* "Ahead of 5-year anniversary of Jan. 6, report examines aftermath following Trump's return to office:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/ahead-5-year-anniversary-jan-6-report-examines/story?id=128912756
* "Trump White House attempts to rewrite history of Jan. 6, accuses Capitol Police of escalating tensions:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-white-house-attempts-rewrite-history-jan-6/story?id=128953694
* "Ashli Babbitt and the making of a MAGA martyr :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/maga-martyr-ashli-babbitt
* "Pardoned Jan. 6 rioters return to Capitol on 5th anniversary of insurrection:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pardoned-jan-6-rioters-return-to-capitol-on-5th-anniversary-of-insurrection
* "Fascism Expert Jason Stanley on the 5th Anniversary of Jan. 6 Capitol Attack | Amanpour and Company:"
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* CW: Rape, CSA. "Five years after January 6, dozens of pardoned insurrectionists have been arrested again :" https://www.advocate.com/news/crime/five-years-january-6-arrested-again
* I keep needing a stupid amount of rest. This is coinciding with Livia deciding to go back to stretching out on top of me for loves, like she used to before Tavy's health started to deteriorate. She is doing way more often, and even taking short naps on occation, despite no longer being ill. She has also been experimenting with some new positions, ones that were Tavy's. She has days when her appetite is winter normal, and days when she is extra sad and not eating much. She is still weird about the sofa and desk mesting spots, where I think absense is loudest, though I see her scouting her old spots now and then and even sitting very briefly. I miss having her in her desk box while I'm at the computer, but she clearly needs more time.
Last week we did physio preliminaries. Wednesday afternoon, we started in earnest. The physio is really good I think. She is treating hipes, upper legs, butt, and core muscles all as a connected system. The excercises are subtle, but challenging. She printed them out, but I left without them. Sigh. I also sabandoned the new rubber thingie I need to do one of the excercises. I'll see if I can dig up an arm one of the same strength and get help tying it right. Let's also hope I remember all five excercises tomorrow.
I had already spent the gas to get that far. The plan was to go up one more exit to the Ethical grocery. Only my brain autopilot tried to taker me home while I was mentally running over my grocery list, which meant I had to go down one exit, then up two. No disabled parking, of course and my ankle dislocated again second time this week as I hobbled across the parking lot. I had planned to use the riding cart anyway as physio takes a lot out of me, but still.
Oh course the grocery was full of people blocking whole aisles with their carts because other people don't exist and they absolutely needed to stand a cross the mouth of an aisle to have a long think or make a phone call instead of pulling foreward. I accidentally was an asshole myself at check out because I forgot that at least half needs to be groceries to be allowed to write a check and I'd bought all the groceries on EBT. They needed to be seperate transactions, so we had to void out half the groceries to balance the cost of TP on a seperate transaction.
I went in looking for 5-7 things. (Five must gets. Two if they have its). I got six as they hadn't the seventh, which is annoying as I kept forgetting to pick up number seven every time I left the house in the last week including when I was literally in the grocery I knew had it, I think last Friday. I did look for it, but they have limitted range in that area and I need a specific brand and flavour. This week has just been like this.
I had to load the bag, tp, and flat of ramen onto a regular cart to take to the car. Someone had to wait for me to get it and then I couldn't get my coat on because my shoulder wasn't working right. So I'm standing on a dislocated ankly trying not to cry from pain and frustration because my arm wouldn't bend right to go in the coat. I fucking hate being in the way. Being in the way twice because my stupid artificial jointed arm is locked up again is worse. She was nice about it, but it was painful and rude on my part.
I did not cry until after I got the groceries in and away.
At least only one of the physio homework things requires standing at this stage.
* Once again, I low key needed to go to the library, but also I needed to get ingredients for things New Millennial preps for me at home, like the rescue lasagna they turned up with after my physio Wednesday night. Don't worry, they get paid for this. It's a perfectly reasonable accommodation for them as they can just do work to help me whenever they are up to it. They bring prepped things back when they come to work and take ingredients away.
I did fill sets of the three horrible exercises that look like I'm not doing much of anything, but are Exhausting. Livia and I did the thing where she has Rainbow toy pettin time. (She likes me to pet her while she plays the the rainbow catnip toy a friend gave her in December, because otherwise it is Too Much). We then did feather time.
I dragged myself out to do errands yet again. This time my ankle did not pop out, but I just don't have a lot of non-physio spoons right now, so it was A LOT. I am spending way too much money on food, but I've been chasing some vitamin deficiencies the last month and a half. I think today I finally achieved Enough Vitamin C and I hit enough Apple a couple of days ago, but I keep having to buy fresh vegetables and the like trying to find the other shortages.
I remembered the thing I need to get from one of two specific stores, but I was done in, food needed to be put away, and I owed the two more vigorous physio exercises. I just didn't have it in me to stop one more place.
Squirrel's still being yanked around by the same work that gave them an award last month over a work injury that turns out to be a torn rotator cup, so they are having to work with it instead of getting light duty. They are fighting it, but in the meantime they are doing more damage every time they work. So now neither of us can really take out the trash. For me it's hard limit. My arm can't do it. For them they risk serious injury every time. I can't do anything about trash, but I'm trying to do a system that lets me take out recycling in smaller amounts. Which means I have to block the door with sort boxes, but there is no help for it. Every time I have the dolly inside, I put a sort box on there and take it out every time I go. I have done this A LOT the last week and a half.
When I took out paper box today I went to put the dolly in the car and FOUND the band and physio direction. O.o In my defense it was dark when I left physio and there was stuff going on with a dog and I was already exhausted. The physio things ended up under groceries and weren't visible in the dark and shadows when I got home. So I have those now, which meant I could check reps and hold times and also realized I left something off the first horrible exercise I was working on. D'oh! I am not fucking redoing them. I will do the harder version tomorrow. Anyway, the makeshift we did with the band wasn't as good so I now have an exactly correct one.
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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/
* If you need help with chest binders:
* "Free Chest Binders:" https://www.pointofpride.org/free-chest-binders
* "Brother 2 Brother Binder Program:" https://blacktransmen.org/binder-program/
* "Morebinders:" https://www.morebinders.com/about
* "The Queer Trans Project :" https://queertransproject.org/
* "Free Gender Affirming Gear Program:" https://www.ftmessentials.com/pages/ftme-free-youth-binder-program
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Vance: ICE agents have “absolute immunity” from state laws – including murder
Jan. 8th, 2026 11:21 amsolarbirdJD Vance said – in response to a reporter asking why the FBI and Federal agencies were blocking Minnesota’s investigation into the ICE agent murder of Renee Nicole Good – that ICE agents have “absolute immunity” from state laws.
This is not law. This is fascism.
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ICE murdered a woman in the streets today. You need to know, and you need to tell others.
Jan. 7th, 2026 10:31 amsolarbirdICE shot a woman, believed but not confirmed to be an American and confirmed not to be a target of their raids, to death in the streets today, murdering her. They are lying about it, calling her a terrorist and lying about what happened. Tricia McLaughlin in particular is lying about what happened. ICE and Tricia McLaughlin have lied many times, irrefutably, in the past, about ICE violence; this is yet another time.
There is third-party video. I have reviewed it several times. It matches reported eyewitness descriptions taken at the scene. In it, the ICE agent shoots while fully clear of any vehicle – having in fact stepped back from the vehicle to make room to raise his pistol – as the vehicle is moving away from him. Eyewitnesses say he shot directly into the vehicle, from the side, at a near-right-angle (at first), which matches what can be seen in the video itself.
Here’s one posting. If necessary, I have a copy and can make more copies if needed. I think these’ll be disappeared if we don’t put them enough places.
The fash are building a lie, a “false narrative.” That’s just extra syllables for “lie,” one that they’ll all pretend to believe. Debunk it at every turn.
ICE murdered a woman in the streets today for funsies and because they were mad about it, and now they’re lying about what they did, while this woman is indeed quite dead.
ETA: The original video has been moved behind moderation and is no longer visible without a Bluesky account. This is a different video from a different angle, unfortunately lacking earlier context.
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what to do now
Jan. 5th, 2026 09:42 amsolarbirdStop using oil.
That’s it. That’s what to do.
Stop using oil. Stop using natural gas, too. Stop. The sooner you can stop, the better. Do what it takes. I don’t know what that is for any individual – for you – but do it.
I know it’s work. I’m not saying, “here’s the easy no impact thing you can do to feel better about yourself,” I’m saying “this is what you need to do if you want to actually do something,” and those are very different statements. It’s a lift, and it’s a heavy lift, but it’s what to do now.
Being work – being difficult – doesn’t change that it needs to happen. Stopping the Nazis in World War II was a heavy lift too. It was work, it was difficult, and it was very literally very very deadly. Millions of people died. Millions more got fucked up for life. Still needed to happen, just like this still needs to happen now. And both the deaths and the fuckery were going to happen anyway.
So stop using oil.
I started saying this literally decades ago, talking about US adventurism in the Middle East. For the money people – the ones who matter – it was then and is now about oil. You want the US out of the Middle East, do everything you can to stop oil consumption. Starve the beast, and eventually the beast will weaken and die. It’s not fast and it’s not easy and it’s not glamorous, but it’s what will work.
Sure, you can talk about the lunatic fundamentalists who want to start Armageddon and end the world to bring back Jesus – fuck, I hate that typing that out is relevant and important – but without the money people using them as muscle, they’re a bunch of flea-picking determinedly-ignorant dipshits feeling up snakes in strip-mall storefronts. Fuck ’em. The reality is that fossil fuel companies are ass-deep in fascism, and always have been, so:
Stop. Using. Oil.
Internalise that. The problem is oil and the people who extract, refine, and sell it. It’s also natural gas and coal and any other fossil fuel, but mostly, it’s the oil.
Stop using oil.
Hit those goddamn breaks, slow down, and then just. Fucking. Stop. Using. Oil.
Some of that’s easy, some of it’s not, and it’s not fast. Lots of people can tell you ways how, including me, but don’t get me wrong – I’m not a saint on this; our furnace is still natural gas. I want to fix that, and we’re actively stockpiling money to do so, but it’s going to take time. It just is. But we’re actually actively working towards it, and we have been for a while.
Not just at home, either. If things go right at the work I don’t talk about online – ever – we’ll be cutting fossil fuel consumption there by another 91% by late this summer.
Thanks to me.
It’s taken ages. We’ve already cut use by about 77%, thanks again – I stress – to my efforts. This new 91% cut will be 91% of what’s left over after all that. It’ll be a 98% cut from where we started, years ago.
If things go right – and there are supplier questions so it might not go right – we’ll be throwing that switch mid-year. For good. It’ll have been years of effort but we’ll have gone from over two thousand gallons of oil a year to
FUCKING ZERO
…with the remaining 2% being natural gas. (We have a path out of that, as well. But the oil comes first.)
There’s nothing unique about my position in this. My accomplishment can be repeated by others, I am just saying.
The end result of not using oil will be much better than what we have now. Some of the intermediate steps will be improvements, too. Some won’t. Some, people just won’t like. Surveys show Americans want to stop climate change but they also want to keep using gas forever and I’m fucking sorry, but that’s just not how reality works.
Until people internalise that they have to stop using oil, I don’t know how much anything else matters.
Step one is stop using oil. (And natural gas.)
It’s also step 10, step 30, step 3000.
You want to do something?
Stop. Using. Oil.
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what i’m hearing
Jan. 5th, 2026 02:24 amsolarbirdWhat I’m hearing – and hopefully it’s wrong, but it’s what I’m hearing – is that Republicans in Congress know that this is all a hellish dictatorial evil nightmare, but that even now, they won’t cross Trump. One or two will, but not many and not enough. I don’t know that it’s true, but maybe it is.
If you have Republican Representatives or Senator(s), it is your job TODAY to make them fear YOU more than they fear HIM.
This is some serious business last chance shit right here, okay?
Get on it. Good luck.
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12/29/25 - 1/4/26
Jan. 4th, 2026 09:20 pmgwydion* Many items are from earlier in December.
* "During Netanyahu visit, Trump warns Iran of further US strikes if it reconstitutes nuclear program:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-netanyahu-gaza-ceasefire-arab-nations-229253766673f18c1195550572edd2ce
* "Pardons and prizes: five key takeaways from Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/trump-netanyahu-meeting-takeaways
* "Iran threatens 'harsh' response to aggression after Trump warning:" https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/trump-netanyahu-meet-florida-talks-iran-gaza-ceasefire-hamas-rcna251314
* "Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Gaza, local authorities say:" https://archive.ph/enIgn
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/
******
* "What’s Happening in Venezuela? Start Here:" https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2026/01/03/whats-happening-in-venezuela-start-here/
* "Trump’s new world order is taking shape in Venezuela. Five keys to understanding the US military attacks:" https://theconversation.com/trumps-new-world-order-is-taking-shape-in-venezuela-five-keys-to-understanding-the-us-military-attacks-272673
It's about oil, of Course, just like our unprovoked and unjustifiable attacks on Nigeria. Just like the Iraq wars.
* "Were the US actions in Venezuela legal under international law? An expert explains:" https://theconversation.com/were-the-us-actions-in-venezuela-legal-under-international-law-an-expert-explains-272684
* "The US has invaded countries and deposed leaders before. Its military action against Venezuela feels different:" https://theconversation.com/the-us-has-invaded-countries-and-deposed-leaders-before-its-military-action-against-venezuela-feels-different-272682
* "Violation of Venezuelan Sovereignty:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/319169.html
* "Writing to my senators:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2739315.html
* "Trump betrays ‘America First’ voters with Venezuela campaign:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-betrays-america-first-voters-with-venezuela-campaign-2479429187958
* "Trump apparently oblivious to regime change lessons in recent U.S. past:"
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* "Trump botches Venezuela on day one with dismissal of opposition leader:"
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* "With brazen Venezuela raid, Trump dares legal system to stop him :"
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* More things from before our unconscionable, cowardly, and unjustifiable attack on Venezuela:
* "U.S. sanctions 10 people and firms from Iran and Venezuela over drone and missile trade:" https://apnews.com/article/treasury-sanctions-iran-venezuela-6784ee260639811e5d916a055d6b4601
* "Loose lips Trump blabs about covert Venezuela mission; appears to be making it up as he goes:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/loose-lips-trump-blabs-about-covert-venezuela-mission-appears-to-be-making-it-up-as-he-goes-2479013955717
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* "US offers Ukraine a 15-year security guarantee as part of peace plan, Zelenskyy says:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-zelenskyy-peace-b784a9af1803995bfb7152eceb5477f1
No one with any sense can trust us. I certainly wouldn't.
* "Russia again appears to throw cold water on hopes for a Ukrainian peace deal:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/29/russia-again-appears-to-throw-cold-water-on-hopes-for-a-ukrainian-peace-deal-00707625
* "Russia threatens Ukraine after alleged attack on Putin's residence:" https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/trump-zelenskyy-security-guarantees-russia-ukraine-donbas-zaporizhzhia-rcna251321
* "Donald Trump says that Ukraine didn’t target Vladimir Putin residence in a drone strike as Kremlin claims:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/trump-ukraine-putin-drone-strike/
* "Trump says he's 'not thrilled' with Putin over war in Ukraine:" https://archive.ph/KCntY
* "Protests erupt in Iran over currency’s plunge to record low:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-traders-protest-rial-currency-ddc955739fb412b642251dee10638f03
* "Denmark's prime minister says 'stop the threats' of U.S. annexing Greenland:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/04/nx-s1-5666339/denmark-trump-greenland-katie-miller
* "Italian pasta makers win reprieve from Trump tariffs:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/02/italian-pasta-makers-win-reprieve-from-trump-tariffs
* "True Rate of Unemployment:" https://www.lisep.org/tru
* "‘You can’t gaslight people’: MTG calls out ‘billionaire’ Trump on economy hype:"
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* "Fed minutes show officials were in tight split over December rate cut:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/30/fed-minutes-december-2025.html
*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News ***
* "Trump admin can share immigrants’ Medicaid data with ICE, judge rules:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/29/trump-admin-can-share-immigrants-medicaid-data-ice-judge-rules-00707716
* "Caught in the Crackdown: Florida’s mass deportation campaign sweeps up 20,000, including those with clean records:" https://archive.ph/lEjPS
* "Utah judge orders return of man who was wrongfully deported:" https://ksltv.com/immigration-2025/wrongfully-deported-order/862731/
* "A Maryland mom's family says she was born in the U.S. ICE wants to deport her:" https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/a-maryland-moms-family-says-she-was-born-in-the-u-s-ice-wants-to-deport-her/4031546/
They refuse to accept her birth certificate on the grounds that she's brown.
* "‘It’s sad we have to do this’: the US citizens carrying passports out of fear:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/us-citizens-ice-passports
* "2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 31 people who died in custody:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline
It is important to acknowledge the people our government is murdering for fun.
* "Galveston man arrested, accused of wrongfully detaining person while pretending to be ICE officer:" https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/galveston-texas-fake-ice-officer-arrested/285-c3bb0b78-6ed6-43a8-bc43-cd17e5db35ad
* "Man posing as fake ICE agent in Prince William County wanted by police:" https://wjla.com/news/local/prince-william-county-fake-ice-agent-impersonation-woodbridge-police-search-suspicious-individual-immigration-enforcement-public-safety
* This keeps happening. It's as if allowing violent beatings, kidnapping, and murder by masked secret police who need no warrant, probable cause, or to even identify themselves makes in easy for non-secret police members to do the same. An entirely foreseeable thing.
* "FBI deploys more resources to Minnesota amid Trump’s targeting of state:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/28/fbi-minnesota-fraud-schemes-somalia
* "Trump attacks Walz and Omar after freezing Minnesota childcare funding:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-walz-omar-minnesota-childcare-funding
* This is really helpful in explaining what's going on: "Minnesota Fraud Scandal EXPLAINED:"
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* "Trump sent in the National Guard to fight crime in 2025. Results were unclear:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/29/nx-s1-5638882/trump-sent-in-the-national-guard-to-fight-crime-in-2025-results-were-unclear
* "Trump Abandons Efforts to Deploy National Guard to 3 Major Cities:" https://archive.ph/HGE8f
* "Trump claims Memphis crime down 77%, City presents different data:" https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/crime/president-trump-memphis-crime-claim/522-f7a18ea5-bb72-4360-933e-ea4399806fc6
* "Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025:" https://truthout.org/articles/anti-ice-resistance-sprang-up-across-red-states-in-2025/
* Cruelty Remains the point: "Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller Dance to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ at New Year’s Eve Party:" https://www.newsweek.com/kristi-noem-stephen-katie-miller-ice-ice-baby-new-years-mar-a-lago-11292409
* 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/
* "Trump Tells Fans to Donate to Him or Else Dems Will Steal Their Money:" https://newrepublic.com/post/204794/donald-trump-donate-democrats-steal-tariff-money
* "Trump is Selling Pardons:"
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* Let them Eat Cake! "Trump shops for marble, onyx in Lake Worth Beach for White House ballroom:" https://www.wpbf.com/article/trump-shops-in-lake-worth-beach-for-ballroom-for-white-house-ballroom/69904653
* "Kellyanne Conway says Trump critics need a husband — including lesbian Rosie O'Donnell:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kellyanne-conway-rosie-needs-husband
* "How No Kings aims to build 'protest muscle' for the long term:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/no-kings-long-term-plans
* "‘Undo Trump’ gains traction as a Democratic campaign message as Trump’s popularity plummets:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/undo-trump-gains-traction-as-a-democratic-campaign-message-as-trump-s-popularity-plummets-2479358019997
* "Trump’s grip on MAGA slips as supporters depart and redefine movement:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-grip-on-maga-slips-as-supporters-depart-and-redefine-movement-2479360067708
* "Trump’s most successful opponent, the rule of law, wins again:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-most-successful-opponent-the-rule-of-law-wins-again-2479367747774
* "Judge orders Trump administration to continue to seek funding for the CFPB:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/30/nx-s1-5661581/cfpb-funding-order
**** ATTENTION! "USPS postmark shake-up could cost you big — property tax payers warned of surprise late fees:" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/usps-postmark-shake-up-could-cost-you-big-property-tax-payers-warned-of-surprise-late-fees/articleshow/125807036.cms?from=mdr
This is also a way to invalidate mail in votes as part of the Republican voter suppression strategy, so make sure to use drop boxes if you are close to a deadline.
* "Team Trump ensured Tom Homan skipped normal background check amid bribery probe:"
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* " Trump administration bans abortions through Department of Veterans Affairs :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/veterans-affairs-abortion-ban-trump
* "RFK Jr.'s HHS investigates Seattle Children's Hospital over youth gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/rfk-hhs-seattle-childrens-hospital
* "‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/04/donald-trump-disaster-response-preparedness
* "Lauren Boebert Suggests Trump Vetoed Water Project for Stunning Reason:" https://newrepublic.com/post/204832/lauren-boebert-donald-trump-veto-water-epstein-vote
* "Trump's gay Kennedy Center president demands $1M from performer who canceled Christmas Eve show:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-kennedy-center-chuck-redd
* "Kennedy Center renaming prompts a new round of cancellations:" https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-center-new-years-eve-canceled-db4bc44f0d95cb40f794f2cb737562a3
* "Canceled shows and record lows: How Trump is killing the Kennedy Center:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-kennedy-center-cancellations
**** Pretextual Indictments and the Weaponization and Corruption of the Justice System and Related ****
* "7 takeaways from Jack Smith’s congressional testimony:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/takeaways-jack-smith-congressional-testimony-00708747
* "Republicans try to bury Jack Smith’s deposition to hide their embarrassment, Trump’s disgrace:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/republicans-try-to-bury-jack-smith-s-deposition-to-hide-their-embarrassment-trump-s-disgrace-2479369283566
**** Trump/Epstein/Maxwell, etc. CW: CSA ****
* "After missing deadline, DOJ says it may need a ‘few more weeks’ to finish releasing Epstein files:" https://apnews.com/article/senate-epstein-files-trump-justice-department-bipartisan-fe7de7947b4e5b0bd7f8194cdc760f1f
* "Phrase ‘US kill line’ sparks debate on American ordinary people’s economic fragility and social safety nets on Chinese social media:" https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202512/1351475.shtml
* "The Starbucks strike is an important fight for baristas like me:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/starbucks-strike-important-fight-baristas-010409610.html
* 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/
* He fixed it! "A teenager redrew the Alabama voting map – and it’s now state law:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/30/alabama-teenager-election-map-voting-rights
* "Gay NYC Council member Erik Bottcher drops U.S. House bid, will run for state Senate instead:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/erik-bottcher-ny-state-senate
* "After 30 years in uniform, a veteran in Nebraska who survived ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is running for Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kishla-askins-congress-nebraska
* "Scott Wiener, running to succeed Nancy Pelosi in Congress, endorsed by HRC, Victory Fund, and more:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/scott-wiener-endorsed-five-organizations
* "Colin Allred targets first LGBTQ+ congresswoman from Texas for House seat as Jasmine Crockett runs for Senate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/colin-allred-challenges-julie-johnson
* "The Democratic candidate in the Texas Senate race is going to be an LGBTQ+ ally :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jasmine-crockett-james-talarico-lgbtq
* "Is Jasmine Crockett’s Senate campaign an asset or a liability for Democrats? It depends on who you ask.:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/09/jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-democratic-primary-turnout-persuasion-2026/
* "Jasmine Crockett lights up Texas Senate race: Texas wants ‘a fighter’:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/jasmine-crockett-lights-up-texas-senate-race-texas-wants-a-fighter-2474316867773
* "‘Corrupt’: Talarico says Cornyn ‘forfeited his right’ to represent Texans:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/corrupt-talarico-says-cornyn-forfeited-his-right-to-represent-texans-2474636355555
* "Michigan Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers surrounds himself with hardcore LGBTQ+ rights opponents:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mike-rogers-anti-lgbtq-extremists
* CW: CSA, Hate Speech. "California councilmember blames daughter becoming a lesbian on sexual trauma:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/california-councilmember-lesbian-daughter
* "From Riley Gaines to OU, conservatives are making their failures everyone else's problem:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/riley-gaines-samantha-fulnecky
* "They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/23/america-christian-evangelical-discrimination-immigration
* "Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud:" https://azmirror.com/briefs/turning-point-leader-former-gop-rep-pleads-guilty-to-attempted-election-fraud/
* "Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he targeted US political parties because they were ‘in charge,’ memo says:" https://apnews.com/article/pipe-bomb-jan-6-fbi-157854dadb81c4d7663553412fd19383
* "Justice Department says Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect believed election conspiracy theories:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/28/pipe-bomb-justice-department-jan-6-suspect-00707242
* "Trump Accidentally Pardoned the Pipe Bomber?:"
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* "An eyebrow tip and McDonald's footage: Takeaways from Luigi Mangione's evidence hearing :" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrkkm83znpo
* "A mysterious Texas surveillance network told police to search his truck. Watch how it went wrong.:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/texas-traffic-stop-search-bexar-county-21079297.php
* "Pseudoscience in the Witness Box:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/04/fbis-flawed-forensics-expert-testimony-hair-analysis-bite-marks-fingerprints-arson.html
* "In New York Prisons, Lack of Medical Care Led to Preventable Deaths:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/03/new-york-prison-healthcare-deaths
* "Far Right Tradwives are Discovering BDSM:"
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* CW: Sexual Assault. "The Sinners and Stardust Situation is Not What You Think: BookTok, Dark Romance and Consent:"
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* "They Answered an Ad for Surrogates, and Found Themselves in a Nightmare:" https://archive.ph/bcdQt
* CW: sex trafficking "Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims:" https://www.theverge.com/news/827658/meta-17-strike-policy-sex-trafficking-testimony-lawsuit
* " The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture :" https://norasamaran.com/2016/02/11/the-opposite-of-rape-culture-is-nurturance-culture-2/
* "The Anti-Trans Movement Got EXPOSED:"
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* "Girlguiding bans trans girls from joining all groups:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/02/girl-guides-girlguiding-trans-girls-scouts/
* "High Court confirms the right of a trans man to be legally recognised as male while hoping to conceive a child:" https://www.ngalaw.co.uk/high-court-confirms-the-right-of-a-trans-man-to-be-legally-recognised-as-male-while-hoping-to-conceive-a-child
* "If 2025 tested our resolve, 2026 will prove our resilience:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2026-will-prove-lgbtq-resilience
* "Missing Black trans man Danny Siplin found dead in Rochester, New York:" https://www.advocate.com/news/black-transgender-man-found-dead
* "About 40 people dead and 115 injured in fire at Swiss Alpine bar during New Year’s celebration:" https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-crans-montana-bar-fire-ff049a656af75e65703c5febb908786c
This is a bad one. I'm so sorry for the injured, the dead and all the traumatized first responders and those trying to deal with the bodies.
* "Swiss open criminal case against managers of ski resort bar after deadly fire:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdjl303zxlo
* "Legalized Online Betting Is Destroying Sports:"
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* "Live community event: Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order:" https://podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/live-community-event-rachel-maddow-presents-burn-order/id1854194292?i=1000743109688
I love the way this includes both survivors and modern activists.
* "Dancer Carmen de Lavallade Has Died at 94:" https://playbill.com/article/dancer-carmen-de-lavallade-has-died-at-94
* "Isiah Whitlock Jr: The Wire and Veep actor dies at 71:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyw56687z3o
* Short version of this week: for a variety of reasons still running on not enough sleep. We did a quiet New Year's eve with Pizza and more Grand Prix Final ice skating footage as we are still catching up. I got to bed later than ideal for Mummer's so I missed the early parade, but I got up early enough to get half the comics.
UPDATE: An upside to half assing Halloween lights this year is that while I lost some spearmint leaves, I could get them down in like two minutes without a ladder in a break between String Bands.
* I finally did get proper sleep Friday and Saturday. Also time to read. Also So Many Livia Loves.
* "Why Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Actually Understands the Novel:"
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I do think Guillermo del Toro understands the book. I liked the movie very much. There were also things I wanted in it that were in the book that weren't in the movie and choices that weren't entirely to my taste. That is the nature of adaptation.
I have posted good faith analysis on both sides, not entirely agreeing with either, because it's worth thinking about and debating. I will likely keep doing that when I run into good faith analysis worth thinking about.
* My mom adored Friendly Persuasion. "The films of bisexual actor Anthony Perkins: Beyond Psycho's Norman Bates:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/anthony-perkins-beyond-norman-bates
* "Hotel California - Eagles (Vintage Havana Style Cover) ft. Rogelio Douglas, Jr.:"
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* "Part-Time Lover (1930s Speakeasy Jazz Style Cover) ft. Amber Woodhouse:"
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* "Barracuda - Heart (1970s James Bond Style Cover) ft. Kyndle Wylde:"
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* "House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals ('60s / '70s Soul Version) ft. LaVance Colley:"
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* A very cool little Vorkosagan thing: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/804790388028243968?source=share
* "Sunday Sweets For Roy G. Biv:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-for-roy-g-biv-2026
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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/
* If you need help with chest binders:
* "Free Chest Binders:" https://www.pointofpride.org/free-chest-binders
* "Brother 2 Brother Binder Program:" https://blacktransmen.org/binder-program/
* "Morebinders:" https://www.morebinders.com/about
* "The Queer Trans Project :" https://queertransproject.org/
* "Free Gender Affirming Gear Program:" https://www.ftmessentials.com/pages/ftme-free-youth-binder-program
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* "During Netanyahu visit, Trump warns Iran of further US strikes if it reconstitutes nuclear program:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-netanyahu-gaza-ceasefire-arab-nations-229253766673f18c1195550572edd2ce
* "Pardons and prizes: five key takeaways from Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/trump-netanyahu-meeting-takeaways
* "Iran threatens 'harsh' response to aggression after Trump warning:" https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/trump-netanyahu-meet-florida-talks-iran-gaza-ceasefire-hamas-rcna251314
* "Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Gaza, local authorities say:" https://archive.ph/enIgn
How to Help:
Revive Gaza's farmland: https://apnature.org/en/gaza
PCRF: https://www.pcrf.net/
HEAL Palestine: https://www.healpalestine.org/
The Sameer Project: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject
Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://gazasoupkitchen.org/
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* "What’s Happening in Venezuela? Start Here:" https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2026/01/03/whats-happening-in-venezuela-start-here/
* "Trump’s new world order is taking shape in Venezuela. Five keys to understanding the US military attacks:" https://theconversation.com/trumps-new-world-order-is-taking-shape-in-venezuela-five-keys-to-understanding-the-us-military-attacks-272673
It's about oil, of Course, just like our unprovoked and unjustifiable attacks on Nigeria. Just like the Iraq wars.
* "Were the US actions in Venezuela legal under international law? An expert explains:" https://theconversation.com/were-the-us-actions-in-venezuela-legal-under-international-law-an-expert-explains-272684
* "The US has invaded countries and deposed leaders before. Its military action against Venezuela feels different:" https://theconversation.com/the-us-has-invaded-countries-and-deposed-leaders-before-its-military-action-against-venezuela-feels-different-272682
* "Violation of Venezuelan Sovereignty:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/319169.html
* "Writing to my senators:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2739315.html
* "Trump betrays ‘America First’ voters with Venezuela campaign:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-betrays-america-first-voters-with-venezuela-campaign-2479429187958
* "Trump apparently oblivious to regime change lessons in recent U.S. past:"
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* "Trump botches Venezuela on day one with dismissal of opposition leader:"
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* "With brazen Venezuela raid, Trump dares legal system to stop him :"
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* More things from before our unconscionable, cowardly, and unjustifiable attack on Venezuela:
* "U.S. sanctions 10 people and firms from Iran and Venezuela over drone and missile trade:" https://apnews.com/article/treasury-sanctions-iran-venezuela-6784ee260639811e5d916a055d6b4601
* "Loose lips Trump blabs about covert Venezuela mission; appears to be making it up as he goes:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/loose-lips-trump-blabs-about-covert-venezuela-mission-appears-to-be-making-it-up-as-he-goes-2479013955717
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* "US offers Ukraine a 15-year security guarantee as part of peace plan, Zelenskyy says:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-zelenskyy-peace-b784a9af1803995bfb7152eceb5477f1
No one with any sense can trust us. I certainly wouldn't.
* "Russia again appears to throw cold water on hopes for a Ukrainian peace deal:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/29/russia-again-appears-to-throw-cold-water-on-hopes-for-a-ukrainian-peace-deal-00707625
* "Russia threatens Ukraine after alleged attack on Putin's residence:" https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/trump-zelenskyy-security-guarantees-russia-ukraine-donbas-zaporizhzhia-rcna251321
* "Donald Trump says that Ukraine didn’t target Vladimir Putin residence in a drone strike as Kremlin claims:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/trump-ukraine-putin-drone-strike/
* "Trump says he's 'not thrilled' with Putin over war in Ukraine:" https://archive.ph/KCntY
* "Protests erupt in Iran over currency’s plunge to record low:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-traders-protest-rial-currency-ddc955739fb412b642251dee10638f03
* "Denmark's prime minister says 'stop the threats' of U.S. annexing Greenland:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/04/nx-s1-5666339/denmark-trump-greenland-katie-miller
* "Italian pasta makers win reprieve from Trump tariffs:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/02/italian-pasta-makers-win-reprieve-from-trump-tariffs
* "True Rate of Unemployment:" https://www.lisep.org/tru
* "‘You can’t gaslight people’: MTG calls out ‘billionaire’ Trump on economy hype:"
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* "Fed minutes show officials were in tight split over December rate cut:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/30/fed-minutes-december-2025.html
*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News ***
* "Trump admin can share immigrants’ Medicaid data with ICE, judge rules:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/29/trump-admin-can-share-immigrants-medicaid-data-ice-judge-rules-00707716
* "Caught in the Crackdown: Florida’s mass deportation campaign sweeps up 20,000, including those with clean records:" https://archive.ph/lEjPS
* "Utah judge orders return of man who was wrongfully deported:" https://ksltv.com/immigration-2025/wrongfully-deported-order/862731/
* "A Maryland mom's family says she was born in the U.S. ICE wants to deport her:" https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/a-maryland-moms-family-says-she-was-born-in-the-u-s-ice-wants-to-deport-her/4031546/
They refuse to accept her birth certificate on the grounds that she's brown.
* "‘It’s sad we have to do this’: the US citizens carrying passports out of fear:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/us-citizens-ice-passports
* "2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 31 people who died in custody:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline
It is important to acknowledge the people our government is murdering for fun.
* "Galveston man arrested, accused of wrongfully detaining person while pretending to be ICE officer:" https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/galveston-texas-fake-ice-officer-arrested/285-c3bb0b78-6ed6-43a8-bc43-cd17e5db35ad
* "Man posing as fake ICE agent in Prince William County wanted by police:" https://wjla.com/news/local/prince-william-county-fake-ice-agent-impersonation-woodbridge-police-search-suspicious-individual-immigration-enforcement-public-safety
* This keeps happening. It's as if allowing violent beatings, kidnapping, and murder by masked secret police who need no warrant, probable cause, or to even identify themselves makes in easy for non-secret police members to do the same. An entirely foreseeable thing.
* "FBI deploys more resources to Minnesota amid Trump’s targeting of state:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/28/fbi-minnesota-fraud-schemes-somalia
* "Trump attacks Walz and Omar after freezing Minnesota childcare funding:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-walz-omar-minnesota-childcare-funding
* This is really helpful in explaining what's going on: "Minnesota Fraud Scandal EXPLAINED:"
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* "Trump sent in the National Guard to fight crime in 2025. Results were unclear:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/29/nx-s1-5638882/trump-sent-in-the-national-guard-to-fight-crime-in-2025-results-were-unclear
* "Trump Abandons Efforts to Deploy National Guard to 3 Major Cities:" https://archive.ph/HGE8f
* "Trump claims Memphis crime down 77%, City presents different data:" https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/crime/president-trump-memphis-crime-claim/522-f7a18ea5-bb72-4360-933e-ea4399806fc6
* "Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025:" https://truthout.org/articles/anti-ice-resistance-sprang-up-across-red-states-in-2025/
* Cruelty Remains the point: "Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller Dance to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ at New Year’s Eve Party:" https://www.newsweek.com/kristi-noem-stephen-katie-miller-ice-ice-baby-new-years-mar-a-lago-11292409
* 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/
* "Trump Tells Fans to Donate to Him or Else Dems Will Steal Their Money:" https://newrepublic.com/post/204794/donald-trump-donate-democrats-steal-tariff-money
* "Trump is Selling Pardons:"
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* Let them Eat Cake! "Trump shops for marble, onyx in Lake Worth Beach for White House ballroom:" https://www.wpbf.com/article/trump-shops-in-lake-worth-beach-for-ballroom-for-white-house-ballroom/69904653
* "Kellyanne Conway says Trump critics need a husband — including lesbian Rosie O'Donnell:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kellyanne-conway-rosie-needs-husband
* "How No Kings aims to build 'protest muscle' for the long term:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/no-kings-long-term-plans
* "‘Undo Trump’ gains traction as a Democratic campaign message as Trump’s popularity plummets:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/undo-trump-gains-traction-as-a-democratic-campaign-message-as-trump-s-popularity-plummets-2479358019997
* "Trump’s grip on MAGA slips as supporters depart and redefine movement:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-grip-on-maga-slips-as-supporters-depart-and-redefine-movement-2479360067708
* "Trump’s most successful opponent, the rule of law, wins again:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-most-successful-opponent-the-rule-of-law-wins-again-2479367747774
* "Judge orders Trump administration to continue to seek funding for the CFPB:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/30/nx-s1-5661581/cfpb-funding-order
**** ATTENTION! "USPS postmark shake-up could cost you big — property tax payers warned of surprise late fees:" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/usps-postmark-shake-up-could-cost-you-big-property-tax-payers-warned-of-surprise-late-fees/articleshow/125807036.cms?from=mdr
This is also a way to invalidate mail in votes as part of the Republican voter suppression strategy, so make sure to use drop boxes if you are close to a deadline.
* "Team Trump ensured Tom Homan skipped normal background check amid bribery probe:"
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* " Trump administration bans abortions through Department of Veterans Affairs :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/veterans-affairs-abortion-ban-trump
* "RFK Jr.'s HHS investigates Seattle Children's Hospital over youth gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/rfk-hhs-seattle-childrens-hospital
* "‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/04/donald-trump-disaster-response-preparedness
* "Lauren Boebert Suggests Trump Vetoed Water Project for Stunning Reason:" https://newrepublic.com/post/204832/lauren-boebert-donald-trump-veto-water-epstein-vote
* "Trump's gay Kennedy Center president demands $1M from performer who canceled Christmas Eve show:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-kennedy-center-chuck-redd
* "Kennedy Center renaming prompts a new round of cancellations:" https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-center-new-years-eve-canceled-db4bc44f0d95cb40f794f2cb737562a3
* "Canceled shows and record lows: How Trump is killing the Kennedy Center:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-kennedy-center-cancellations
**** Pretextual Indictments and the Weaponization and Corruption of the Justice System and Related ****
* "7 takeaways from Jack Smith’s congressional testimony:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/takeaways-jack-smith-congressional-testimony-00708747
* "Republicans try to bury Jack Smith’s deposition to hide their embarrassment, Trump’s disgrace:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/republicans-try-to-bury-jack-smith-s-deposition-to-hide-their-embarrassment-trump-s-disgrace-2479369283566
**** Trump/Epstein/Maxwell, etc. CW: CSA ****
* "After missing deadline, DOJ says it may need a ‘few more weeks’ to finish releasing Epstein files:" https://apnews.com/article/senate-epstein-files-trump-justice-department-bipartisan-fe7de7947b4e5b0bd7f8194cdc760f1f
* "Phrase ‘US kill line’ sparks debate on American ordinary people’s economic fragility and social safety nets on Chinese social media:" https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202512/1351475.shtml
* "The Starbucks strike is an important fight for baristas like me:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/starbucks-strike-important-fight-baristas-010409610.html
* 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/
* He fixed it! "A teenager redrew the Alabama voting map – and it’s now state law:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/30/alabama-teenager-election-map-voting-rights
* "Gay NYC Council member Erik Bottcher drops U.S. House bid, will run for state Senate instead:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/erik-bottcher-ny-state-senate
* "After 30 years in uniform, a veteran in Nebraska who survived ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is running for Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kishla-askins-congress-nebraska
* "Scott Wiener, running to succeed Nancy Pelosi in Congress, endorsed by HRC, Victory Fund, and more:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/scott-wiener-endorsed-five-organizations
* "Colin Allred targets first LGBTQ+ congresswoman from Texas for House seat as Jasmine Crockett runs for Senate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/colin-allred-challenges-julie-johnson
* "The Democratic candidate in the Texas Senate race is going to be an LGBTQ+ ally :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jasmine-crockett-james-talarico-lgbtq
* "Is Jasmine Crockett’s Senate campaign an asset or a liability for Democrats? It depends on who you ask.:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/09/jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-democratic-primary-turnout-persuasion-2026/
* "Jasmine Crockett lights up Texas Senate race: Texas wants ‘a fighter’:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/jasmine-crockett-lights-up-texas-senate-race-texas-wants-a-fighter-2474316867773
* "‘Corrupt’: Talarico says Cornyn ‘forfeited his right’ to represent Texans:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/corrupt-talarico-says-cornyn-forfeited-his-right-to-represent-texans-2474636355555
* "Michigan Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers surrounds himself with hardcore LGBTQ+ rights opponents:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mike-rogers-anti-lgbtq-extremists
* CW: CSA, Hate Speech. "California councilmember blames daughter becoming a lesbian on sexual trauma:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/california-councilmember-lesbian-daughter
* "From Riley Gaines to OU, conservatives are making their failures everyone else's problem:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/riley-gaines-samantha-fulnecky
* "They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/23/america-christian-evangelical-discrimination-immigration
* "Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud:" https://azmirror.com/briefs/turning-point-leader-former-gop-rep-pleads-guilty-to-attempted-election-fraud/
* "Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he targeted US political parties because they were ‘in charge,’ memo says:" https://apnews.com/article/pipe-bomb-jan-6-fbi-157854dadb81c4d7663553412fd19383
* "Justice Department says Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect believed election conspiracy theories:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/28/pipe-bomb-justice-department-jan-6-suspect-00707242
* "Trump Accidentally Pardoned the Pipe Bomber?:"
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* "An eyebrow tip and McDonald's footage: Takeaways from Luigi Mangione's evidence hearing :" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrkkm83znpo
* "A mysterious Texas surveillance network told police to search his truck. Watch how it went wrong.:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/texas-traffic-stop-search-bexar-county-21079297.php
* "Pseudoscience in the Witness Box:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/04/fbis-flawed-forensics-expert-testimony-hair-analysis-bite-marks-fingerprints-arson.html
* "In New York Prisons, Lack of Medical Care Led to Preventable Deaths:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/03/new-york-prison-healthcare-deaths
* "Far Right Tradwives are Discovering BDSM:"
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* CW: Sexual Assault. "The Sinners and Stardust Situation is Not What You Think: BookTok, Dark Romance and Consent:"
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* "They Answered an Ad for Surrogates, and Found Themselves in a Nightmare:" https://archive.ph/bcdQt
* CW: sex trafficking "Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims:" https://www.theverge.com/news/827658/meta-17-strike-policy-sex-trafficking-testimony-lawsuit
* " The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture :" https://norasamaran.com/2016/02/11/the-opposite-of-rape-culture-is-nurturance-culture-2/
* "The Anti-Trans Movement Got EXPOSED:"
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* "Girlguiding bans trans girls from joining all groups:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/02/girl-guides-girlguiding-trans-girls-scouts/
* "High Court confirms the right of a trans man to be legally recognised as male while hoping to conceive a child:" https://www.ngalaw.co.uk/high-court-confirms-the-right-of-a-trans-man-to-be-legally-recognised-as-male-while-hoping-to-conceive-a-child
* "If 2025 tested our resolve, 2026 will prove our resilience:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2026-will-prove-lgbtq-resilience
* "Missing Black trans man Danny Siplin found dead in Rochester, New York:" https://www.advocate.com/news/black-transgender-man-found-dead
* "About 40 people dead and 115 injured in fire at Swiss Alpine bar during New Year’s celebration:" https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-crans-montana-bar-fire-ff049a656af75e65703c5febb908786c
This is a bad one. I'm so sorry for the injured, the dead and all the traumatized first responders and those trying to deal with the bodies.
* "Swiss open criminal case against managers of ski resort bar after deadly fire:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdjl303zxlo
* "Legalized Online Betting Is Destroying Sports:"
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* "Live community event: Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order:" https://podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/live-community-event-rachel-maddow-presents-burn-order/id1854194292?i=1000743109688
I love the way this includes both survivors and modern activists.
* "Dancer Carmen de Lavallade Has Died at 94:" https://playbill.com/article/dancer-carmen-de-lavallade-has-died-at-94
* "Isiah Whitlock Jr: The Wire and Veep actor dies at 71:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyw56687z3o
* Short version of this week: for a variety of reasons still running on not enough sleep. We did a quiet New Year's eve with Pizza and more Grand Prix Final ice skating footage as we are still catching up. I got to bed later than ideal for Mummer's so I missed the early parade, but I got up early enough to get half the comics.
UPDATE: An upside to half assing Halloween lights this year is that while I lost some spearmint leaves, I could get them down in like two minutes without a ladder in a break between String Bands.
* I finally did get proper sleep Friday and Saturday. Also time to read. Also So Many Livia Loves.
* "Why Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Actually Understands the Novel:"
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I do think Guillermo del Toro understands the book. I liked the movie very much. There were also things I wanted in it that were in the book that weren't in the movie and choices that weren't entirely to my taste. That is the nature of adaptation.
I have posted good faith analysis on both sides, not entirely agreeing with either, because it's worth thinking about and debating. I will likely keep doing that when I run into good faith analysis worth thinking about.
* My mom adored Friendly Persuasion. "The films of bisexual actor Anthony Perkins: Beyond Psycho's Norman Bates:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/anthony-perkins-beyond-norman-bates
* "Hotel California - Eagles (Vintage Havana Style Cover) ft. Rogelio Douglas, Jr.:"
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* "Part-Time Lover (1930s Speakeasy Jazz Style Cover) ft. Amber Woodhouse:"
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* "Barracuda - Heart (1970s James Bond Style Cover) ft. Kyndle Wylde:"
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* "House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals ('60s / '70s Soul Version) ft. LaVance Colley:"
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* A very cool little Vorkosagan thing: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/804790388028243968?source=share
* "Sunday Sweets For Roy G. Biv:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-for-roy-g-biv-2026
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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/
* If you need help with chest binders:
* "Free Chest Binders:" https://www.pointofpride.org/free-chest-binders
* "Brother 2 Brother Binder Program:" https://blacktransmen.org/binder-program/
* "Morebinders:" https://www.morebinders.com/about
* "The Queer Trans Project :" https://queertransproject.org/
* "Free Gender Affirming Gear Program:" https://www.ftmessentials.com/pages/ftme-free-youth-binder-program
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lids+lids=storage
Jan. 2nd, 2026 12:49 pmsolarbirdSo I made lids for my Tide laundry detergent lids and since lids+lids=storage the tide lids are now containers (with lids) and people over on Mastodon are surprisingly into this so
I’ve uploaded the lid designs to thingiverse
enjoy lids4lids 😀
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