* News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.
* "94 Palestinians killed in Gaza, including 45 people waiting for aid, authorities say:"
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/94-palestinians-killed-in-gaza-including-45-people-waiting-for-aid-authorities-say* "New reporting on Palestinians killed while waiting for food"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-reporting-on-palestinians-killed-while-waiting-for-food-242731077896******
* "U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran could enrich uranium again in 'a matter of months':"
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/29/nx-s1-5450282/u-n-nuclear-watchdog-says-iran-could-enrich-uranium-again-in-a-matter-of-months* "Israel and U.S. Smashed Iran Nuclear Site That Grew After Trump Quit 2015 Accord:"
https://archive.ph/y2Vw2* "Intercepted call of Iranian officials downplays damage of U.S. attack:"
https://archive.ph/9oIU3* "Trump Threatens to Sue The Times and CNN Over Iran Reporting:"
https://archive.ph/4D5KB* "Senate rejects push to rein in Trump on Iran:"
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/27/congress/senate-rejects-push-to-rein-in-trump-on-iran-00430403******
* "Pentagon Under Scrutiny Over Decision to Halt Weapons to Ukraine:"
https://archive.ph/cjmTo******
* "Fearing war with Russia, Finland hardens NATO’s north frontier:"
https://archive.ph/Ho5Ju
* "Multiple bodies found with hands and feet tied in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain:"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bodies-found-hands-feet-tied-mediterranean-mallorca-spain/* "Jewish Teen Threatened at Knifepoint in France Amid Surge in Antisemitic Attacks:"
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/06/25/jewish-teen-threatened-knifepoint-france-amid-surge-antisemitic-attacks/
* "USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says:"
https://archive.ph/LqKtq* "Canada drops digital tax that angered Trump to resume US trade talks:"
https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-drop-digital-tax-angere-donald-trump-resume-trade-talks/* "US Reaches Vietnam Trade Deal With 20% Import Tariff, Trump Says:"
https://archive.ph/fQyJN* "Powell says Trump's tariffs have delayed lower rates but won’t rule out July cut:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/fed-powell-tariffs-trump-rates-00435012* "Trump attacks Fed again in open letter calling for lower rates:"
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/trump-fed-powell-interest-rates* "Supreme Court lets Trump admin deport men detained in shipping container for 6 weeks to South Sudan:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/03/supreme-court-third-country-deportations-south-sudan-00439701* "Judge blocks ‘sweeping’ asylum crackdown after Trump declared ‘invasion’ at southern border:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/02/donald-trump-immigratin-border-asylum-ruling-00437708* "The Concentration Camp Re-imagined As A Hype House:"
https://www.garbageday.email/p/trump-s-big-beautiful-gulag-eceef93f0f861d7b* "Trump administration sues Los Angeles over its 'sanctuary city' policies:"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-administration-sues-los-angeles-sanctuary-city-immigration-polic-rcna216011* "New Marines arrive in Los Angeles as first wave heads home:"
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/new-marines-rotating-into-la/* "Immigration enforcement protesters march on downtown LA streets on July 4th:"
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/immigration-enforcement-protesters-take-to-downtown-la-streets/* "The media may not care, but ICE is still running roughshod over LA this July 4th:"
https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2043483.html* "DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship:"
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement* "Trump again floats deporting U.S. citizens: ‘Maybe that’ll be the next job’:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-again-floats-deporting-u-s-citizens-maybe-that-ll-be-the-next-job-242566725803* "Man Born on Army Base to US Soldier Deported to Jamaica:"
https://www.newsweek.com/man-born-army-base-us-soldier-deported-jamaica-2092017* "Handcuffing Dissent: If This Is How They Treat Senator Alex Padilla, How Will They Treat You?:"
( Embed: )* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:
Immigrant Defenders:
https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkoutThe Bail Project:
https://bailproject.org/National Bail Fund Network:
https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directoryAmnesty International: protect asylum-seekers:
https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1The Young Center for Immigtrant Children's Rights:
https://www.theyoungcenter.org/CHIRLA:
https://www.chirla.org/AL Otro Lado:
https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fundMid-South Immigration Advocates:
https://miamemphis.org/"Know Your Rights:"
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
* The next big 50501 protest is July 17th:
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events* "Who was Oscar V. Peterson, the man replacing gay rights icon Harvey Milk on a U.S. Navy ship?:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/oscar-peterson-replaces-harvey-milk* "Democrats urge gay Treasury Secretary Bessent not to scrap protections for LGBTQ+ federal workers:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/democrats-eeo-protection-scott-bessent* "Revenge of Transportation head Sean Duffy, wronged by a lesbian and a gay man: banning rainbow crosswalks:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/duffy-trump-rainbow-crosswalks* "Justice Department abruptly fires 3 prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 criminal cases, AP sources say:"
https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-prosecutions-capitol-riot-trump-bondi-1107441a68cef171dfff4e680e438452* "Justice Department Hires Infamous January 6 Rioter to Take Revenge:"
https://newrepublic.com/post/197516/justice-department-hires-january-6-rioter* "‘None of us were worrying about this’: Trump’s latest school money move has state authorities scrambling:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/02/trump-school-money-state-authorities-scrambling-00436737* "Harvard inches closer to losing more federal money after civil rights accusation:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/30/trump-harvard-federal-funding-antisemitism-00432450* "UPenn caves to Trump and bans trans women athletes, stripping Lia Thomas of titles:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/upenn-bans-trans-women-athletes* "Paramount will pay $16 million in settlement with Trump over ’60 Minutes’ interview:"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-harris-minutes-paramount-6415042fe910ae60b432dd8c73ef61b2* "Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for $787M in defamation case over Trump call:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/27/newsom-sues-fox-news-defamation-case-00429168
* "Supreme Court to decide whether states can ban transgender women & girls from sports:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/scotus-transgender-sports-ban* "Supreme Court orders judges to reconsider protections for transgender people in four states:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/scotus-erode-transgender-protections* "Mass. teacher sued after being fired over transphobic posts online. The Supreme Court just rejected her case:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/supreme-court-nixes-transphobic-teacher* "Supreme Court to hear case that could upend campaign finance coordination rules:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/30/supreme-court-nrsc-fec-coordination-limits-00432699* "10% of new business owners are LGBTQ+ — and they're offering better benefits:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-business-owners-report* "Inside the Dollar General Workers’ Fight for Safety and Fair Pay:"
https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-129-summer-2025/inside-the-dollar-general-workers-fight-for-safety-and-fair-pay?
* The Budget Bill has past and Donald Trump is signing it on the 4th of July as if it isn't a terrible and shameful thing that will kill people who voted him so a handful of billionaires can pay fewer taxes.
People die because they won't be able to afford the copays, especially as Trump economic policies kill jobs and keep causing prices to rise.
People die because most of the remaining rural hospitals will close as they need Medicaid money to survive. Slapping a temporary Bandaid on the funding bleed won't save them as the amount is minuscule compared to what they are losing.
They are sacrificing people for the billionaires that bought them.
They are stealing healthcare from 11.8 million in the near future about a third of them children.
3 Million people, 1 Million of them children, will lose food assistance.
They are making the bottom 10% of Americans 4% Poorer.
This is all so they can make the Wealthiest 10% 2.3% richer.
The goal of this legislation is to harm or kill as many ordinary people as possible while ballooning the deficit by 3.3 directly over the next decade by giving tax cuts to billionaires, but more likely 4.45 trillion if one considers things like interest. (Republicans have decided to no longer count the billionaire tax cuts and related interest costs because the real figures make them look bad. Lying that a 4 trillion increase is a $508 billion decrease is better for them politically).
A budget is a moral document. It says what a society's priorities are.
Not all deficit is bad. Deficit to invest in things like education or health or infrastructure is good for obvious reasons. This deficit is entirely about sucking money out of the economy and into billionaire bank accounts. It gives nothing back; it only harms.
* "House passes GOP megabill and sends it to Trump; Hakeem Jeffries delays vote with record-breaking floor speech:"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-big-beautiful-bill-house-taxes-immigration-live-updates-rcna215842* "5 ways Trump's megabill will limit health care access:"
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5453870/senate-republicans-tax-bill-medicaid-health-care* "Why LGBTQ+ advocates hope Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' costs the Republicans in the midterms:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/republicans-pass-unpopular-big-beautiful-bill* "‘Swag bag’: Trump reportedly won over GOP holdouts with signed merch :"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-swag-bag-trump-reportedly-won-over-gop-holdouts-with-signed-merch-242688069522* "The backlash begins: Republicans heading home from D.C. face local protests over Trump bill:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/the-backlash-begins-republicans-heading-home-from-d-c-face-local-protests-over-trump-bill-242696261879* "'The ultimate betrayal': Congressman appalled at Republican colleague's indifference to constituents:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/-the-ultimate-betrayal-congressman-appalled-at-republican-colleague-s-indifference-to-constituents-242698309977* "‘Really bad’: Ex-Sen. Jon Tester says Republicans can’t defend this bill:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-really-bad-ex-sen-jon-tester-says-republicans-can-t-defend-this-bill-242691141851* "Here's what Pete Buttigieg had to say about Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' passing Congress:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-one-big-beautiful-bill* "‘Lipstick on a pig’: Trump, Republicans try to hide ‘terrible’ impact of megabill:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-lipstick-on-a-pig-trump-republicans-try-to-hide-terrible-impact-of-megabill-242728005670* "'Not hyperbole': Trump’s 'popular' law is actually the most unpopular in 30 years:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-not-hyperbole-trump-s-popular-law-is-actually-the-most-unpopular-in-30-years-242728005885* "‘Completely beatable’: Dems go on offensive over unpopular Republican budget:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-completely-beatable-dems-go-on-offensive-over-unpopular-republican-budget-242730053840***I'm leaving in the advance coverage as it details a lot of the harm Republicans are inflicting on America and the world and I'm not up to figuring out what is still relevant and what isn't***
* " Senate Republicans shock the House with a supercharged megabill:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/senate-republicans-supercharge-megabill-00435873* "J.D. Vance Dismisses Kicking Millions Off Medicaid: ‘Minutiae’:"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jd-vance-dismisses-kicking-millions-medicaid-minutiae-1235376453/* "Mitch McConnell Says People Worried About Medicaid Cuts Will 'Get Over It':"
https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-medicaid-get-over-it-report-2090245If they live, I doubt they will forget who killed grandma or their kid or their spouse.
Let them eat cake!
Cruelty is the point.
* I'm doing two "What's in the Bill" articles, because while they overlap, they each have things the others don't. It's a big bill. I'm also going to throw in some specific focus articles.
* "What’s in the Trump Tax Bill That Just Passed the Senate:"
https://archive.ph/zqSa4* "Here's what's in Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that passed the Senate:"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-in-trump-big-beautiful-bill-senate-version/* A small piece of good news. Thank you to all who complained to your senators. "Senate drops plan to ban state AI laws:"
https://www.theverge.com/politics/695495/senate-drops-ai-moratorium-budget-bill* "At least 17 million Americans would lose insurance under Trump plan:"
https://archive.ph/5qWsL* "How Trump’s ‘one big beautiful’ tax bill could impact women, children and LGBTQ+ Americans:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-tax-bill-impact-americans* "How SNAP cuts will disproportionately impact some LGBTQ+ people:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/snap-benefits-cuts-lgbtq-adults* "Gender-affirming care funding ban out of budget bill, but it still will devastate LGBTQ+ people:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/budget-bill-devastating-lgbtq* "'Why the hell did you vote for the bill?': GOP senator slammed for megabill whiplash:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-why-the-hell-did-you-vote-for-the-bill-gop-senator-slammed-for-megabill-whiplash-242563653797* "Frost: Republicans short on votes for Trump budget bill as Democrats raise public alarm:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/frost-republicans-short-on-votes-for-trump-budget-bill-as-democrats-raise-public-alarm-242569797709* "Hey look, an alligator!: Trump, Republicans eager to distract public from bad news budget bill:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/hey-look-an-alligator-trump-republicans-eager-to-distract-public-from-bad-news-budget-bill-242570309875* "“PORKY PIG PARTY!!”: Musk continues criticism of big, beautiful bill, floats new US political party:"
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/30/porky-pig-party-musk-continues-criticism-of-big-beautiful-bill-floats-new-us-political-party/* "Trump: ‘DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon’:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/trump-doge-is-the-monster-that-might-have-to-go-back-and-eat-elon-00434819* "The deadly 'big beautiful' budget bill will turn America into a morgue:"
https://www.advocate.com/big-beautiful-bill-morgue-opinion* "House GOP struggles to win over holdouts on Trump’s tax bill in late-night session:"
https://apnews.com/article/big-beautiful-bill-trump-tax-cuts-3b525482be43fdf956366cebd84dcaac* "MAGA world figures take aim at GOP holdouts:"
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/02/congress/maga-pressure-campaign-00438192* "The GOP's massive bill would add trillions of dollars to the country's debt:"
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5454598/the-gops-massive-bill-would-add-trillions-of-dollars-to-the-countrys-debt* "‘Ruinous’: Trump bill ‘screws over his own voters,’ says Hayes:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ruinous-trump-bill-screws-over-his-own-voters-says-hayes-242631237570* "Psaki: Republicans will regret passing Trump's bill as Democrats look to reprise 2018's House flip:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/psaki-republicans-will-regret-passing-trump-s-bill-as-democrats-look-to-reprise-2018-s-house-flip-242636357956******
* RE: SAVE ACT "Do This Today: Call Senators:"
https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2036106.htmlIf these are your Senators, please stop what you are doing and call now:
KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)
* This one is a super dangerous attack on the judiciary's ability to protect citizen's rights. "H.R. 1526: NORRA of 2025:"
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr1526* "A Reckless Judicial Nomination Puts the Senate to the Test:"
https://archive.ph/d2IAA* "Trump Officials Rejected Shocking Allegations from a DOJ Whistleblower. Former Colleagues Believe Him.:"
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/02/erez-reuveni-justice-department-whistleblower-00435486* "Trump’s surgeon general pick criticizes others’ conflicts but profits from wellness product sales:"
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/honorable-mention/2025/trumps-surgeon-general-pick-criticizes-others-conflicts-but-profits-from-wellness-product-sales/* "Bipartisan bill looks to sanction foreign officials who attack LGBTQ+ human rights:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/lgbtq-human-rights-sanctions-bill* "Cassidy calls to delay meeting of CDC’s vaccine panel in challenge to RFK Jr.:"
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/23/bill-cassidy-calls-for-acip-vaccine-panel-delay-after-rfk-jr-purge/* "Sen. Adam Schiff introduces bill to support LGBTQ+ people in starting families:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/adam-schiff-assisted-reproduction-bill* "A bipartisan effort looks to rectify tax inequities for same-sex married couples:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/warren-collins-bipartisan-same-sex-married-taxes* "New congressional resolution would make June 26 'Equality Day' celebrating LGBTQ+ victories:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/equality-day-resolution-supreme-court* "Bipartisan House coalition demands RFK Jr. reverse Trump’s plan to end LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/bipartisan-effort-lgbtq-988-line* "Gay U.S. Rep Robert Garcia elected top Democrat on powerful House Oversight Committee:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-ranking-member-oversight* "Democrat Melanie Stansbury triggers Marjorie Taylor Greene into gavel-banging meltdown at House hearing—again:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/melanie-stansbury-triggers-greene-meltdown
*
Our job for the next two years is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.
We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.
Please add more below if you have them.* "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* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:"
https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:
Five Calls to your critters:
https://5calls.org/Here is one that will send your reps a fax:
https://resist.bot/And another:
https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.phpSnail Mail Campaigns:
https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html"Congress. gov:"
https://www.congress.gov/White house (Possibly Dangerous):
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ACLU advice for writing to your Critters:
https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representativesThis tracks legislation:
https://www.govtrack.us/"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):"
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=shareRun for Something:
https://runforsomething.net/"Vote Smart:"
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/Useful organizing links and resources:
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=shareProtests: "50501 Events:"
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/eventsHow to render emergency aid in a riot:
https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf"How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:"
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely"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/
* "How, under Donald Trump, we are increasingly becoming unapologetically unapologetic:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-era-unapologetically-unapologetic* "Number of out elected officials continues to grow, but more needed for equal representation:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/number-lgbtq-elected-officials-grows* "How dark will our skies be on July 4, 2026?:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/how-dark-july-4-2026* "Conservatives Are Already Losing Their Minds Over Mamdani’s Apparent Win:"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/conservatives-are-already-losing-their-minds-over-mamdanis-apparent-win/* "Trump questions Mamdani’s citizenship status:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/trump-zohran-mamdani-citizenship-00435613* "Zohran Mamdani on winning over the Democratic establishment:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-primetime/watch/zohran-mamdani-on-winning-over-the-democratic-establishment-242444869908* "Can Zohran Mamdani make his progressive vision a reality?:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-primetime/watch/can-zohran-mamdani-make-his-progressive-vision-a-reality-242443333702* "New Texas law will require Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom:"
https://apnews.com/article/texas-ten-commandments-law-3f1ea84acd67a028ad9b7c01c3c2368c* "Federal appeals court blocks Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms:"
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-appeals-court-blocks-louisiana-law-requiring-ten-commandments-in-classrooms* "Iowa now allows anti-transgender discrimination:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/iowa-gender-identity-protection-undone* "Democrats lash out as Legislature bans school clubs that support gay teens:"
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/31/texas-house-tempers-flare-gay-club-ban/* "How the right-wing media machine turns violence & tragedy into using trans people as scapegoats:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/jo-ellis-trans-scapegoats* "Man shot Idaho firefighters who had asked him to move his vehicle, killing 2, sheriff says:"
https://apnews.com/article/coeur-dalene-idaho-shooting-firefighters-024d26274e0faacec1687f6dde789ced* " 16-year-old girl in critical condition after shooting near Stonewall Inn :"
https://www.advocate.com/crime/stonewall-shooting-two-teenage-girls* CW: Child Death. "The Man Who Unsolved a Murder:"
https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/public-defense-investigators/* ":"
* ":"
* ":"
* "Largest U.S. private prison operator faces lawsuit after inmate was killed a day before his release:"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/private-prison-operator-corecivic-lawsuit-inmate-killed/* "I Spent Over 40 Years Working in Corrections. I Wasn’t Ready for Rikers.:"
https://mailchi.mp/themarshallproject/ke745a0zah* "'Everyone is Welcome Here' signs spark Idaho legal debate:"
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/house-bill-41-goes-into-effect-july-1-heres-what-that-means-for-schools-sarah-inama-update-flag-law-in-idaho/277-e24c42c3-691e-4e1f-9709-363414db1e3b* "Appeals court rules transgender Florida teacher cannot use female pronouns in school:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-transgender-teacher-pronoun-restrictions* CW: Abuse. "The P. Diddy Trial Circus:"
( Embed: )* CW: Abuse. "Justin Baldoni Obliterated in Court:"
( Embed: )* CW: CSA, Sexual assault. "Kevin Spacey's arrogant comeback is a gut-punch for survivors like me:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/kevin-spacey-comeback-opinion* "Stanford Medicine caves to Trump Administration, ends gender-affirming surgeries for youth:"
https://www.advocate.com/health/stanford-medicine-gender-affirming-surgery* "Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down abortion ban from 1849:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-1849-abortion* "What we know about Georgia woman reportedly kept on life support so baby could survive:"
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/24/adriana-smith-baby-georgia/* "Chinese police arrest dozens of gay erotica writers in pornography crackdown:"
https://www.advocate.com/world/china-gay-erotica-writers-arrested* "U.K. Prime Minister pushes to ban trans people from single-sex bathrooms, sports, and beyond:"
https://www.advocate.com/world/keir-starmer-trans-ban* "Indian court rules trans women are women and ‘legally entitled to recognition’:"
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/26/india-trans-women-high-court-decision/* "South Carolina city caves to Republican attorney general's demands to lift ban on conversion therapy:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/sc-capital-repeals-ban-conversion-therapy* "Florida judge dismisses case against trans woman jailed for using restroom at state capitol:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-trans-woman-restroom-capitol* "Several anti-LGBTQ+ incidents reported in eastern Massachusetts:"
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/massachusetts-anti-lgbtq-incidents/* "A man in Provincetown was called a homophobic slur and assaulted. Police need information:"
https://www.advocate.com/crime/provincetown-massachusetts-gay-hate-crime* "NYPD investigating assault, choking of woman after suspects hurled anti-LGBTQ+ slurs:"
https://www.advocate.com/crime/nyc-woman-assaulted-antigay-slurs* "Catholic school fires Louisiana band director after husband's obituary reveals he is gay:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/catholic-school-louisiana-fired-obituary* "Andrew Sullivan represents everything wrong with the gay rights movement:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/andrew-sullivan-everything-wrong* "How a parade invite became a fight for LGBTQ+ visibility in Appalachia:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/strawberry-festival-west-virginia* "Trans teen’s chess win in Germany prompts backlash:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/german-transgender-teen-chess* "‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home:"
https://archive.ph/1vL8M
* "At least 47 dead in central Texas in devastating flash floods, over two dozens remain missing, officials say:"
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/texas-hill-country-severe-floods/
* "Woman transforms clothing waste into building materials to solve 'global south housing crisis':"
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/housing-from-clothing-waste-texiboard* "Who was Jimmy Swaggart, the late, anti-LGBTQ+, disgraced televangelist?:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/jimmy-swaggart-anti-lgbtq-televangelist* So Saturday, I wrapped up the aggregate, then started posting more links in the hour or so before bed.
Livia, who is really not doing well with all the disruption went on the lemon laptop instead of around it, as she normally would. sat on it about 30 seconds, then jostled it jumping over the back.
It black screened. I’ve tried everything. I can see the Lenovo logo on restart, but it just gives flash of the lockscreen before blacking out. Tech support hung up on me in the middle and went home on Sunday.
So far I’ve invested about eight hours trying to resuscitate it. Two friends have tried as well.
All the links, all the data are locked in there.
I still have the refurbished lap top, which is what I’m writing on now. I hadn’t the heart to try to start over, especially while rebooting Edward Laptop over and over, etc.. It’s harder to work on this one for a variety of reasons.
If Edward is really done, I will start again. On top of the not enough sleep. (I got four hours today as it seems the sofa cushion foam may be deteriorated to the point that the metal will grind my hip every time I try to sleep). On top of having to use all the spoons every day trying to cope with construction hell. On top of every other thing.
Restarting all the news set up things on this computer means I will be even slower on news, etc., likely for a few weeks. It takes a while to migrate functions and re-establish work flow. This computer is a little slower and also isn’t quite up to hosting modern waterfox, which means figuring out how to do things without.
This month has been an absolute nightmare.
* Monday: The fire inspector came along with the nice man who did the fire upgrade part at 10:30. They were gone at 10:37. The fire inspector praised the guy who did the installation, which made me happy. He had this warm, gentle vibe and a soft spoke competence that reminded me a lot of my beloved late Uncle, though they looked nothing alike.
After I ate, I started in with the phone. new Millennial was having trouble claiming their home care aide hours (They worked them, but the whole system is super glitchy). Today is the last day to fix it. New Millennial is getting most of my hours. we are going to try to hire someone to do the heavier lifting jobs once a week, like taking out the trash with the rest of the hours. Because of the employment change over, I needed to make sure the trouble wasn't to do with that. *digits cruciform it is sorted now*
Then it was back to trying to ave Edward Lap top. I and New Millennial and
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steampunktoy put in about nine hours total trying to save him Saturday and Sunday. I went back to try to trick tech support AI into letting me talk to a live human. Apparently the trick is just to say nonsense until it gives up. I got really good results reading to it from the Dracula Daily Tumblr feed which was weirdly way faster than just repeated things like live agent and advanced technical support and I refuse to do that. This took a few tries to get it right. I wasted one by foolishly cooperating and that just kicked it into sales mode. I got through and the phone cut out on our end during transfer to advanced technical support. Whee!
I fucking hate GenAI I do not like this outwit the sphinx aspect of everything nowadays. Oooo! I wonder if the tumblr trick works on Social Security chat bots! Let's hop I don't have to find out this year.
The third tech support guy walked me through some things, but odds are it's the same hardware problem from when Lenovo decided to enshitify. They wanted me to mil it back, which I don't know how to do and don't have the box for and the diagnostic is over a hundred and fuck that. I got him to suggest I take it to Best Buy.
So I guess I'm doing that in a car that now smokes if I take on the highway for repairs of an unknown amount.
It is still better than buying a new computer, I suspect.
Fuck! I got this new in January.
We can't afford this monetarily. I can't afford all these spoons. I got six hours of sleep today and four yesterday and I feel like I'm getting beaten with baseball bats in my "sleep" every night. I've started dreaming of scorpions which I just realized are likely symbolic reinterpretation of the damned sprinklers that are the reason they are doing this terrible thing to me and the cats. Like, every time I see the scorpion in my dream, I think: that is a weird pattern for a scorpion's collaboration, yet strangely familiar. It's the sprinkler head abstracted. It's kind of beautiful.
Tavy clings and claws and bites. Livia panics if she can't instantly see me. The tiny meeps of terror break my heart. I am literally just on the other side of the debris, but if that's not where she suspected, she makes those lost kitten sounds.
On the upside, the aggregate scaffold transferred fine. It usually does even without the fail safe of it being open somewhere else to check against, but now and then I end up with an empty page, so I held off opening it until I had no choice. I have no choice.
As I said in the Sunday entry, starting from scratch on news links on a different computer is a pain in the ass, and I'm a browser down, so I'm focusing on essential action item type things and the like right now.
I am so sorry. We have hit my too many things broken limit.
* UPDATE 3:44PM
Squirrel was able to take over Contractor watch so I went out into extreme heat and traffic to go to an in person repair.
It turned out to be a stupid easy fix. One they could have very easily talked me through at the official Lenovo technical support. One that only someone who knew about all the stupid ways enshittified Lenovos Black screen without warning would have known. Like someone at Lenovo tech support, one would think, but they were so fixated on making me reset or mail it back for hundreds of dollars of repair.
One none of us could have guessed, not even someone clever as Newest Millennial or
steampunktoy.
Apparently enshittified Lenovos like to change their settings on their own to things no one would want so why is black screen even a setting, I must ask? Why? Why program a computer to black screen itself? WTF, Lenovo!
The car made it home. Let us hope it starts again.
I dropped off the half dead TV in the place that used to take them, but apparently just stopped. (It was on the way back from TV repair and needed doing. The lady took pity on my barely mobile and tempting heat stroke self with a car more than a decade older than her assistant, I'd guess, and took the TV anyway. "Just this once." I promised never again.
Let us hope the other ancient second hand tv lives a good long life as we can't throw them out either.
Everyone was so terribly kind.
* Wednesday: Not surprisingly, the pain was Extra. Still no contractors today. I did get a call from the citty program. My vote was today and the City is going ahead with the fixes.
I am fascinated to see how this works out with HOA Hell Project.
* Thursday: I slipped out while the contractors were at lunch for produce. I figured they likely wouldn't come today as I hadn't heard construction all week, and I wanted to slip out while the temperature was still reasonable and before the after work crowd came shopping for long weekend provisions. I was late getting back, as I zipped down to the library while i was out which meant I could hit discount grocery. This was a good call as yoghurt and mushrooms were on sale, and not just the normal mushrooms, but two kinds of fancier ones that i like for soup and pasta.
I hope it's all right.
It broke my heart a little when I took the pride flags down as this is likely the last time I'll get to have them up. They were so cheerful, you know. I am fighting the pride ban. Of course I am, but management is utterly unreasonable on all accounts.
Despite the heat, the pinwheels in my patio garden have been going gangbusters since yesterday. It is still and oven down town of course, but I live in a wind tunnel, that funnels the breeze out of Alaska, which helps some.
Monday and Tuesday the sky was uncanny valley empty again. I should be used to this as climate change has been doing this half a decade now.
Today though? Normal for July wispy clouds high up and headed off the Bay towards the mountains as it should be.
* "100 pics from NYC Pride Parade 2025 that prove Pride is still a protest :"
https://www.advocate.com/news/nyc-pride-2025#rebelltitem1* "Yes, The Elsbeth Season 2 Finale’s Ramen Knife Is A Real Thing You Can Actually Make:"
https://screenrant.com/elsbeth-season-2-finale-ramen-knife-real-explained/*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
The help links are at the bottom under the cut.
* "United States Disappeared Tracker:"
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map* "Introducing Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network:"
https://aflcio.org/2025/4/16/introducing-rise-federal-workers-legal-defense-network* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:
Immigrant Defenders:
https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkoutThe Bail Project:
https://bailproject.org/National Bail Fund Network:
https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directoryAmnesty International: protect asylum-seekers:
https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1The Young Center for Immigtrant Children's Rights:
https://www.theyoungcenter.org/CHIRLA:
https://www.chirla.org/AL Otro Lado:
https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fundMid-South Immigration Advocates:
https://miamemphis.org/* Want to help Nathan Sage against Joni Ernst?
https://www.sageforsenate.com/* Want to help Dr. Annie Andrews beat Lindsey Graham?"
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_annie_fr_txt_q22025?refcode=LOC_RTL_FR_2025.05.29_Lindsey-Bad-Job_B1_C1_Pros_N_Peony_RG-T1&amount=5( More Links Underneath: )![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
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