* News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.
* I am still living in Contractor Hell Debris Field. I am extremely behind on posting prepped news. I'm cutting this off very early because of urgent action Items.
* "US strikes failed to destroy Iran's nuclear sites, intelligence report says:"
https://archive.ph/vnWc0* "Trump to limit sharing classified info with Congress after leak on Iran bombing damage:"
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/iran-bombing-intelligence-trump-congress* "Pentagon launches probe into Iran strike intel leak:"
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-pentagon-investigation-iran-intel-leak-pete-hegseth-donald-trump-rubio/* "Trump's Iran lies begin to crumble into an embarrassing mess:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-iran-lies-begin-to-crumble-into-an-embarrassing-mess-242214469902* "Pete Hegseth melts down over media coverage & gender questions in explosive Pentagon press conference:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-hegseth-pentagon-meltdown* "Trump reruns the Sean Spicer post-inauguration playbook with Hegseth presser :"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-reruns-the-sean-spicer-post-inauguration-playbook-with-hegseth-presser-242335301935* "Trump team frantically moves goalposts, throws tantrums to preserve Trump Iran bombing story:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-team-frantically-moves-goalposts-throws-tantrums-to-preserve-trump-iran-bombing-story-242346053555* "Life every decision he’s made in his life, Trump deciding to bomb Iran didn’t work:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/opinion-iran-israel-trump* "Watch Anderson Cooper dismantle Pete Hegseth's claims about CNN's reporting on Iran attack:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/anderson-cooper-hegseth-claims-false* "The US Just Bombed Iran... Now What?:"
( Embed: )* "How Trump's attack on Iran may have created a worst case scenario for an Iranian nuke:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/how-trump-s-attack-on-iran-may-have-created-a-worst-case-scenario-for-an-iranian-nuke-242217029812* "New reporting: How Fox News influenced Trump’s decision to strike Iran:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-reporting-how-fox-news-influenced-trump-s-decision-to-strike-iran-242135621519* "MAGA demands Nobel Peace Prize for Trump after bombing Iran:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maga-demands-nobel-peace-prize-for-trump-after-bombing-iran-242206277505* "Trump Gains and Loses Nobel Peace Prize Nomination in One Day:"
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-gains-loses-nobel-peace-prize-nomination.html* "White House tries to find messaging balance on Trump’s regime change comment:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/23/leavitt-trump-regime-change-comment-00418478* "Trump signals deescalation in response to Iranian strike on US air base in Qatar:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/23/trump-convenes-situation-room-meeting-as-iran-claims-attack-on-us-base-in-qatar-00418756* "After lashing out at Israel and Iran, Trump says the 'ceasefire is in effect':"
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/nx-s1-5443201/israel-iran-ceasefire-trump* "Trump's poor choices for national security staffing have new relevance after Iran bombing:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-poor-choices-for-national-security-staffing-have-new-relevance-after-iran-bombing-242145349790* "Iran, Beyond the Headlines with Maziar Bahari:"
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/iran-beyond-the-headlines-with-maziar-bahari/id1583132133?i=1000714626073* ""Iran Is Not A Monolith" - Clarissa Ward Reports From Jordan On The Israel-Iran Ceasefire:"
( Embed: )* ""We're Paying For The Weapons And We're Giving Them Cover" - Clarissa Ward On U.S. Actions In Gaza:"
( Embed: )* "Trump says ‘everyone’ should keep oil prices lower or they’re playing ‘into the hands of the enemy’:"
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/trump-oil-prices-iran-israel.html* "Oil prices tumble as Iran attack avoids crude infrastructure:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/23/oil-prices-tumble-iran-attack-avoids-crude-infrastructure-00418774* "Terrorism advisory bulletin warns of "heightened threat environment" in U.S. after strikes on Iran:"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/terrorism-advisory-bulletin-threats-us-iran-strikes/* "MAGA largely falls in line on Trump’s Iran strikes:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/21/maga-largely-falls-in-line-on-trumps-iran-strikes-00416450* "'I have the Trump antibodies': GOP rep on why he's defying Trump over Iran:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-i-have-the-trump-antibodies-gop-rep-on-why-he-s-defying-trump-over-iran-242134597870* "Democrats assail Trump on Iran:"
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/22/2025/democrats-assail-trump-on-iran* "Trump and AOC exchange blows over impeachment push:"
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/24/trump-aoc-iran-impeachment-israel-middle-east* "Most House Democrats vote to kill Al Green’s impeachment measure:"
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/24/congress/most-democrats-vote-to-kill-impeachment-measure-00421254* "Trump Bombed Iran and Didn't Tell Congress. This is Bad.:"
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* "Trump doesn't rule out sending Ukraine more Patriot missiles after Zelenskyy meeting:"
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-rule-sending-ukraine-patriot-missiles-after-zelenskyy/story?id=123199009******
* "145 people at France music festival report being pricked with syringes after online calls to target women:"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-music-festival-syringe-pricking-online-calls-target-women/
* So much blood on our hands. "US to stop financial support of global vaccine alliance Gavi, health secretary says:"
https://archive.ph/e32NM* "Trump casts doubt on Article 5 commitment en route to NATO summit:"
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-nato-summit-sidesteps-article-5-mark-rutte-eu-defense-budget-russia-vladimir-putin-iran-israel-strikes-qatar/* "NATO's Trump flattery buys time but dodges tough questions:"
https://archive.ph/heIH6* "NATO allies formally agree 5% defense spending target:"
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/25/2025/trump-says-committed-to-nato-all-the-way-at-key-meeting* "NATO chief calls Trump ‘Daddy’:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/nato-chief-calls-trump-daddy-00423485* "Trump embraces NATO allies — except for Spain:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/trump-embraces-nato-allies-except-for-spain-00423395* "Immigrants drive population growth in a graying America, census shows:"
https://archive.ph/ioqVc* "Trump administration to end deportation relief for Haitian migrants:"
https://archive.ph/GxZJbThese are refugees and only a monster would send them back knowing how things are right now in Haiti.
* "ICE holding a record 59,000 immigrant detainees, nearly half with no criminal record, internal data show:"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-record-59000-immigrant-detainees-half-no-criminal-record/* "Stephen Miller Has Financial Stake in Company Helping ICE With Deportations: Report:"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/stephen-miller-financial-stake-palantir-ice-contractor-1235371343/* "Supreme Court eases rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/23/supreme-court-third-party-country-deporations-00419210* "DOJ sues all federal judges in Maryland over deportation order:"
https://archive.ph/mtRL9* "Andry Hernández Romero’s family desperate for word on gay asylum-seeker who Trump vanished over 100 days ago:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/andry-romero-family-worried-cecot* "Magistrate judge rejects Trump admin bid to jail Kilmar Abrego Garcia ahead of trial:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/22/magistrate-judge-rejects-trump-admin-bid-to-jail-kilmar-abrego-garcia-ahead-of-trial-00417789* "ICE Plans to Send Abrego Garcia to an Unnamed Nation That Isn’t El Salvador:"
https://www.notus.org/immigration/abrego-garcia-third-country-ice-doj-court* "A judge ordered Abrego Garcia released. His future remains uncertain:"
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/25/nx-s1-5445168/abrego-garcia-prison-immigration* "Full interview with Mahmoud Khalil and his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-primetime/watch/msnbc-exclusive-full-interview-with-mahmoud-khalil-and-his-wife-dr-noor-abdalla-242421317984* "Purple Heart Veteran Self-Deports With ICE Breathing Down His Neck:"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/purple-heart-veteran-self-deports-with-ice-breathing-down-his-neck/* "U.S. Marine veteran says father's violent arrest by immigration agents was 'inhumane':"
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/nx-s1-5442653/father-of-u-s-marines-violently-arrested-by-ice* "‘I feel betrayed’: ICE beat and detained his father. Now this Marine is speaking out.:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-i-feel-betrayed-ice-beat-and-detained-his-father-now-this-marine-is-speaking-out-242203206000* "ICE detained a Marine veteran's wife. He doesn't know how to tell their children where she went.:"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-detains-marine-corps-veteran-wife/* "“They’re taking Shirly”: An Army sergeant in Houston thought his family was safe, then ICE deported his wife:"
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/texas-army-sergeant-wife-deported-honduras-ice-undocumented/* "Trump opposition grows as he betrays U.S. service members' immigrant family members:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-opposition-grows-as-he-betrays-u-s-service-members-immigrant-family-members-242145349965* "Prosecution of Congresswoman Is A Joke:"
( Embed: )* "Trump admin sued by Honduran family detained by ICE including six-year-old son with leukemia:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-primetime/watch/trump-admin-sued-by-honduran-family-detained-by-ice-including-six-year-old-son-with-leukemia-242425925856* ""Project 2025 Is Florida 2020" - Rep. Maxwell Frost On DeSantis, ICE Detentions And Due Process:"
( Embed: )* "If They Can Do That To A Senator, What Are They Going To Do To Me When I Speak Up? - Sen. Duckworth:"
( Embed: )* "Huntington Park mayor directs police to enforce ICE agents’ self-identification:"
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/huntington-park-mayor-directs-police-to-enforce-ice-agents-self-identification/* "Calls to investigate ICE facility in Mass. over claims it's overcrowded:"
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/burlington-mass-ice-zoning-investigation/3744635/* "Locals take a stand against Trump's immigration roundups, street snatchings:"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/locals-take-a-stand-against-trump-s-immigration-roundups-street-snatchings-242147909968* "Don't become the person your abuela warned you about:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/cuban-immigrant-experience****Illegal Military Occupation/Authoritarian takeover and related issues here****
* 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* "7 Democrats vote for GOP resolution condemning LA protests:"
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5373771-la-riots-gop-resolution-democrats/* " City of LA must turn over anti-ICE protest-related documents to Congress by Friday :"
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/city-of-la-must-turn-over-anti-ice-protest-related-documents-to-congress-by-friday/3733678/* "Veterans’ advocates warn of low morale amid L.A. deployment: ‘This is not what we signed up for’:"
https://archive.ph/jh0V0* "California hopes law from bloody era of U.S. history can rein in Trump’s use of troops:"
https://archive.ph/eCqCa
* ""It Was Meant To Be An Ego Stroke For Donald Trump" - Sen. Duckworth On Trump's Military Parade:"
( Embed: )* "Hegseth and Gabbard Make Trump Even More Dangerous, Top Dem Warns:"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-pete-hegseth-and-tulsi-gabbard-make-trump-more-dangerous/* "Why US army swore in tech executives as lieutenant colonels:"
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/army-tech-executives-sworn-in/* "Pete Hegseth gloats about the Navy erasing LGBTQ+ rights icon Harvey Milk's name from ship:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-hegseth-harvey-milk-ship* "Harvey Milk is an icon. Pete Hegseth is an idiot:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/harvey-milk-pete-hegseth* "How one trans veteran secretly transitioned under Trump’s first presidency:"
https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/trans-veteran-transitioned-under-trump* "Musk Accuses Trump Aide of Federal Crime as Feud Explodes:"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-accuses-trump-aide-sergio-gor-of-federal-crime-as-feud-explodes/* The Republican War on the Environment Continues. If you want to complain, I suggest stressing things like hunting and fishing. "Trump to rescind 'Roadless Rule' protecting 58 million acres of forest land:"
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g-s1-74136/trump-to-rescind-roadless-rule-which-protects-58-million-acres-of-forest-land* "As visitors flock to parks, deep cuts leave rangers and wildlife at risk:"
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5393641/trump-budget-cuts-national-parks-joshua-tree-safetyGovernment Cuts endanger people and animals so that a handful of Billionaires can get tax cuts.
* "Asked to flag 'negative' National Park content, visitors gave their own 2 cents instead:"
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5444323/national-park-trump-signs...And they are censoring national parks signage, etc..
* "Trump’s plan to shutter FEMA leaves U.S. ‘more vulnerable,’ says former head of agency:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/deanne-criswell-trump-fema-plan* "US CDC vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says:"
https://archive.ph/13NCB* "Kennedy’s vaccine panel to review childhood immunization schedule:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/kennedys-vaccine-panel-to-review-childhood-immunization-schedule-00423759RFK Jr. has fired the experts and plans to move forward based on vibes, disinformation, pseudo-science, and ChatGPT.
Children will die or be permanently harmed.
* "Outside groups organize to form unbiased, independent vaccine panel:"
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/groups-organize-form-unbiased-independent-vaccine-panel-rcna212468?
* "When they silence our science: The LGBTQ+ research purge & why it matters:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-research-grant-cut-impact* "Majority of staff axed at Voice of America:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/20/voice-of-america-staff-terminations-00415425
* "The Supreme Court gives Trump a wave of victories in a blockbuster final week:"
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/g-s1-74738/scotus-decisions-birthright-aca* "The protests were practice: Americans are prepared for Supreme Court's obstacles to opposing Trump:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/the-protests-were-practice-americans-are-prepared-for-supreme-court-s-obstacles-to-opposing-trump-242410053916* "Supreme Court rules in Planned Parenthood Medicaid case:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/scotus-medicaid-planned-parenthood* "Supreme Court clears way for states to kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/26/supreme-court-planned-parenthood-decision-00425785* "‘Horrific’: Planned Parenthood head reacts after Supreme Court backs bid to defund org:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-horrific-planned-parenthood-head-reacts-after-supreme-court-backs-bid-to-defund-org-242340421604* "What's really going on: Why the Supreme Court's Planned Parenthood ruling is such a big deal :"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/what-s-really-going-on-why-the-supreme-court-s-planned-parenthood-ruling-is-such-a-big-deal-242348101752* "SCOTUS trans care ruling opens harmful loophole to take access from all trans people, says Leah Litman:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/leah-litman-warns-skrmetti-loophole* "Trump exploits Supreme Court ruling to attack transgender people in reality-challenged White House briefing:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/scotus-ruling-transgender-trump-briefing* "For some immigrants, Trump’s policy to end birthright citizenship can go into effect :"
https://www.advocate.com/news/birthright-citizenship-scotus-trump* "Supreme Court birthright citizenship ruling sparks new round of legal fights:"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-ruling-sparks-new-legal-fights-rcna215626Birthright citizenship is in the US Constitution. An executive order legally can't erase the 14th Amendment, so SCOTUS is cutting apart the power of the Federal Judiciary to help Dear Leader steal the rights of US citizens in red states.
* "‘Disaster looms’: Justice Jackson warns the nation after latest Supreme Court ruling:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disaster-looms-justice-jackson-warns-the-nation-after-latest-supreme-court-ruling-242402885611* "Rep. Jamie Raskin: The Supreme Court has 'unleashed chaos' with birthright citizenship ruling:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-primetime/watch/rep-jamie-raskin-the-supreme-court-has-unleashed-chaos-with-birthright-citizenship-ruling-242422853797* "The protests were practice: Americans are prepared for Supreme Court's obstacles to opposing Trump:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/the-protests-were-practice-americans-are-prepared-for-supreme-court-s-obstacles-to-opposing-trump-242410053916* "BREAKING: Supreme Court rules to save free access to PrEP and other preventive care:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/supreme-court-braidwood-ruling* "Supreme Court hands RFK Jr. new power over Americans’ health, buried in PrEP case ruling:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/braidwood-prep-rfk-power* "Supreme Court clears the way for increased age verification for porn sites:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/scotus-age-verification* "Supreme Court allows Maryland parents to opt their kids out of LGBTQ+ lessons in schools:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/scotus-ruling-mahmoud-v-taylor* "Sonia Sotomayor: LGBTQ+ book opt outs 'threaten the very essence of public education':"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/sonia-sotomayor-mahmoud-taylor-dissent*
We need to fight the Budget BillNOTE: Numbers subject to change.
If this budget passes, 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.
They are sacrificing people for the billionaires that bought them.
STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND CONTACT YOUR SENATORS NOW!!!Remind Red State Senators that they are killing their own base with this bill!
These Senators are vulnerable in 2026, so it is particularly important to contact them if they represent you:
Collins (ME)
Tillis (NC)
Sulliven (AK)
Husted (OH)
Moody (FL)
Cornyn (TX)
Ernst (IA)
They are stealing healthcare from 7.8 million in the near future and 10.9 million peopleat minimum over the next decade.
1 Million 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 by stealing their health care while ballooning the deficit by 3.3 trillion by giving tax cuts to billionaires.
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.
Reminder: They are also immunizing the executive branch against Contempt of Court so they can just ignore the judicial branch in future.
* "Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ clears key Senate hurdle after high drama :"
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/28/trump-spending-bill-senate.html* "Senate advances massive Trump bill for domestic policy agenda:"
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/senate-advances-massive-trump-bill-for-domestic-policy-agenda-242428997532* ""This Is An Evil Bill" - Rep. Maxwell Frost On The GOP's Budget Bill:"
( Embed: )* "GOP budget bill could transfer wealth from young Americans to older generations, study finds:"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-big-beautiful-bill-young-old-wealth-transfer-penn-wharton/* "Medicaid changes don't meet Senate rules in 'big, beautiful bill' says parliamentarian:"
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5446005/senate-republicans-parliamentarian-medicaid-reconciliation-big-beautiful-bill* "U.S. Senate parliamentarian blocks GOP’s plan to ban gender-affirming care under Medicaid:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/parliamentarian-rejects-trans-care-ban* "US Senate Republicans face new roadblocks on Trump bill as deadline nears:"
https://archive.ph/u7pKV* "Republicans panic as Trump team presses for unpopular bill:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/-they-will-not-get-over-it-republicans-panic-as-trump-team-presses-for-unpopular-bill-242218053810* "Capitol Police Zip Tie Seniors in Wheelchairs During Medicaid Protest:"
https://www.newsweek.com/capitol-police-zip-tie-seniors-wheelchairs-video-medicaid-protest-2090910* "Congressional Equality Caucus rips House Republicans’ bill abandoning transgender veterans’ health care:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/gop-strips-trans-vets-care* 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* "Emil Bove, now a nominee to the federal bench, proposed defying court orders, former DOJ colleague says:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/24/emil-bove-court-orders-judge-nominee-00420717* "'The lamest excuse I've ever heard': Trump lawyer falls flat at Senate Judiciary hearing:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/-the-lamest-excuse-i-ve-ever-heard-trump-lawyer-falls-flat-at-senate-judiciary-hearing-242283077640* "What this Trump nominee says about his potential SCOTUS picks:"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/trump-judges-emil-bove-scotus-00424658
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Our job for the next two years is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.
We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.
Please add more below if you have them.* "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/
* "Andrew Cuomo concedes to Zohran Mamdani in New York City mayoral primary:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/cuomo-concedes-nyc-race-mamdani* "4 things to know about Zohran Mamdani, presumptive Democratic nominee for NYC mayor:"
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/25/nx-s1-5444846/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-race* "What Zohran Mamdani's mayoral primary win means for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers :"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/zohran-mamdani-primary-win-lgbtq-promises-support#rebelltitem1* "‘Seismic’: Zohran Mamdani’s primary win is a ‘wake up call’ for Democrats, says Hayes:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-seismic-zohran-mamdani-s-primary-win-is-a-wake-up-call-for-democrats-says-hayes-242272325747* "'Brilliant campaign': Sanders reacts to Cuomo conceding to Mamdani in NYC mayoral race:"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-brilliant-campaign-bernie-sanders-reacts-to-zohran-mamdani-s-primary-win-242272837585* "Yes, establishment Democrats of New York, “vote blue no matter who” still applies:"
https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2042327.html* "Democratic strategist: Racist attacks on Zohran Mamdani obscure the substance of his platform:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-primetime/watch/democratic-strategist-racist-attacks-on-zohran-mamdani-obscure-the-substance-of-his-platform-242424389895* "Zohran Mamdani victory inspires change and division within Democratic:"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-primetime/watch/zohran-mamdani-victory-inspires-change-and-division-within-democratic-242426437983* "Political violence is becoming the new normal of Trump’s America:"
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-political-violence-shootings-riots-january-6-b2775153.html* CW: Sexual Assault. I believe the women. "Jared Leto Accused of Sexual Misconduct by 9 Women:"
https://www.vulture.com/article/jared-leto-sexual-misconduct.html* "Largest trans survey ever finds the top reason transgender people stop transitioning is transphobia:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/largest-trans-survey-transphobia-detransitioning* "Texas’ abortion bans are here to stay despite narrow clarification:"
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/10/texas-abortion-ban-repeal-exceptions-unlikely/* "Texas hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy violated the law, a federal inquiry finds:"
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/texas-abortion-seton-williamson-ectopic-pregnancy/* "Florida Republican who almost died from ectopic pregnancy blames Democrats, not abortion ban:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-republican-ectopic-pregnancy-abortion* "New study shows that sports help transgender teen's mental health:"
https://www.advocate.com/lgbt-youth/sports-help-trans-teens-mental-health* "Budapest Pride to proceed despite Hungary's LGBTQ+ event ban:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/hungary-budapest-pride-events-ban* "A trans woman, forced to compete against men, swims topless in protest:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-woman-swims-topless-england* "Texas sued over 'Don't Say Gay' law that bans LGBTQ+ student clubs:"
https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-lgbtq-clubs-lawsuit* "Federal appeals court says transgender girl has right to bathroom access in Wisconsin school district:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/court-protects-wisconsin-trans-girl* "Spa can't discriminate against trans women, federal appeals court rules:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/spa-cant-discriminate-transgender* "A gay man in D.C. was attacked in his home with a rock. He believes it was a hate crime:"
https://www.advocate.com/crime/dc-gay-man-rock-attack* "Judges forced a Florida Pride drag show indoors at the last minute:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/judges-naples-pride-drag* "As companies stop sponsoring Pride, this NYC brewery is giving money directly to trans people:"
https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/brooklyn-brewery-transgender-fund-pride* "'Hetero Awesome Fest' in Idaho concludes with fighting, low attendance, and racism scandal:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/hetero-awesome-fest-idaho-racism* It's not clear from the headline, but she was defending the women against a Terf. "Simone Biles deactivates X account after comments about transgender athletes:"
https://www.advocate.com/sports/simone-biles-deactivates-x* "600,000 same-sex couples have tied the knot since Obergefell ruling made marriage equality legal:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/600000-same-sex-marriages-obergefell* "Mary’s House provides a safe living space for LGBTQ+ seniors:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/living-space-for-lgbtq-seniors* "FDA approves breakthrough drug that reduces risk of contracting HIV by 96 percent:"
https://www.advocate.com/health/fda-approves-hiv-drug-lenacapavir* "'New pathway' to cure for HIV discovered using tech from COVID-19 vaccine:"
https://www.advocate.com/health/hiv-cure-breakthrough-mrna* "San Francisco is fighting opioid overdoses by giving out Narcan at drag shows — and this queen started it:"
https://www.advocate.com/health/opioid-overdose-preventions-drag-queens
* "Parents Face Charges After Driver Kills 7-Year-Old Crossing The Street:"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/parents-charged-son-died-crossing-unsupervised_n_68430b92e4b004bd540a4a94* "'Meth is what makes you able to do your job': AI can push you to relapse if you're struggling with addiction, study finds:"
https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/meth-is-what-makes-you-able-to-do-your-job-ai-can-push-you-to-relapse-if-youre-struggling-with-addiction-study-finds* "“My Brain Finally Broke” with Jia Tolentino:"
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-brain-finally-broke-with-jia-tolentino/id1382983397?i=1000714319374* "Rise in anti-LGBTQ+ content on Meta platforms since rollback of protections: GLAAD study:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/hateful-content-rises-meta* "Archaeologists Reveal Early Humans Used Fire in a Surprising Way As Early as 1 Million Years Ago:"
https://scitechdaily.com/archaeologists-reveal-early-humans-used-fire-in-a-surprising-way-as-early-as-1-million-years-ago/* "When a Knight meets a Dragon Maiden: Human Identity and the Monstrous Animal Other:"
https://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/when-a-knight-meets-a-dragon-maiden-human-identity-and-the-monstrous-animal-other/* This is from tumblr. It builds on earlier research I've read. I didn't have access to the sources for Bohemia, but I believe this person is who they say they are and I'd love to read their dissertation. "Sexuality, Acceptability, Risk, and Medieval Bohemia:"
https://www.tumblr.com/croquettish/784728048511729664/sexuality-acceptability-risk-and-medieval* "Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator:"
https://archive.ph/xaFXP* "These 22 pics from 1970s NYC Pride marches show 'a moment without society’s prejudices' :"
https://www.advocate.com/news/nyc-pride-1970s-photos-exhibit#rebelltitem1* "1985: the year the AIDS crisis finally broke through the silence:"
https://www.advocate.com/history/1985-aids-crisis-broke-silence* "Reflecting on 10 years of marriage equality: Frankie Frankeny on the stories behind the movement:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/10-year-marriage-equality-frankie-frankeny* "The road to Obergefell: Looking back on a decade of marriage equality:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/10-years-of-marriage-equality#rebelltitem12* "From legitimacy to uncertainty, Advocate readers reflect on 10 years of marriage equality and what comes next:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/advocate-readers-marriage-equality* "Iconic marriage equality activist Evan Wolfson on the future of marriage equality:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/marriage-equality-evan-wolfson-future* "Jim Obergefell: 10 years after my Supreme Court win, marriage equality is under attack:"
https://www.advocate.com/voices/jim-obergefell-ten-years-opinion-marriage-equality* "Marriage equality history in photos: Images of celebration and hope after Obergefell:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/celebrating-marriage-equality#rebelltitem1* "Everyone knew Pee-wee, but few knew Paul Reubens. His sister talks about her very private brother:"
https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/paul-reubens-sister-interview* "4 men arrested on charges of using curry spices as weapon in robbery attempt:"
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/4-men-arrested-on-charges-of-using-curry-spices-as-weapon-in-robbery-attempt* Tuesday morning three early twenty-somethings cam around 11:35AM to peer at the room. They did not care about that one poster I forgot because I couldn't reach with the furniture there, raising the question if management was full of shit Monday when they said all my art had to go. Management was definitely lying that I had to somehow relocate the massive, heavy, and surprisingly delicate bed parts.
The cruelty of well off white straight cis boomers is endless.
I really did hurt myself yesterday. Several things are painful and wrong, but I can't do much about it beyond last night's hot bath. It's not like take a muscle relaxant and go back to bed is an option. I am already in serious danger of damaging joints in my sleep by letting them bend the wrong direction.
I did eventually drag a too heavy for me to be carrying container of meds and electronics to balance precariously over the tub and manage to move the TV (though it made some alarming noises and I'm really scared I damaged or killed it. Modern TVs are stupid fragile.), which cleared just enough space for terrible, painful and extremely low quality sleep. There is not close to enough space for my body to lie out or position properly and I can only lie in the one position without serious risk of damage. My deteriorating natural shoulder and my four decades of AS damaged hip hates it, but I can at least protect knee and elbows. Mostly. Not my neck, of course. Sigh.
I still have zero idea of how many days or even weeks we must try to live with the debris of my life all around me. Tavy is still incredibly distressed, but he's coming to accept that we basically only live in the livingroom now. He'll periodically go into my room to pace in distress, but even with the Pillow based obstructions, he can use his Special Bed, so when he's not clinging to me desperate for reassurance, he's mostly in his desk bed, poor little bug. He's not allowed in Squirrel's room as Squirrel isn't up to covering my mattress when he's not in it and Tavy is hard put for non-liter box peeing options.
I am extremely worried about Livia, who even by cat standards is incredibly bad at change. Early last week she just started hiding in the morning, not even coming out for food water and litter until the building quiets after 4:40ishPM. She WAS coming out for evening pettins and normal things in night and evening last week. Then the valiant Gallivant Army (A friend dubbed the young queer folk from Sunday that as they came to save the day) arrived and she hid and when she came out her room was ruined and her bed GONE. I think this was one thing too much for her.
Sunday night two of them spent hours milling about in distress in between reassurance pets. After they'd settled to sleep I got up to pee and switch laundry over. Livia hailed me and led me to her room to alert me to the bed being missing. She kept showing me the No Bed and complaining and signalling pet on bed please. I am a Monster! I didn't fix it, and I think on some fundamental level She Gave Up. She spends most of her time in the living room debris maze or her hide. She only ate about a third of her dinner Monday and she was furtive about it. She barely comes out for basic necessities. (She has my bedroom box in there in the fish tank corner, which is completely out of reach. The things I'd have to move to feed them I'm physically too damaged to lift out now). Unless I'm sitting down at the desk she's scared of me.
As traumatic as this has been for me, it is so much worse for them.
UPDATE: One of the teens from Monday before last turned up just before 1PM. Apparently it takes six weeks just to do one apartment. O.o They are moving an entire ceiling pipe apparently?
I am in so much pain. Sitting up is nightmarishly hard as a whole lot of torso muscles are screwed. Lying down would be worse, as there isn't room to lie on my back.
The Sweet Summer Child suggested I do all the things I've already done because he thought they'd have accommodations for disability. A HOA? Accommodate disability? Bwahahahaha!
Update 2: They have done all they can without fire inspection, apparently. They can not say when they'll be back, so I guess I'll be trying to sleep in clothes, which I am terrible at on top of no safe for me space to sleep.
I am having a hard time walking today. Tomorrow I will have to try to pull everything out of the fish corridor again so I can feed them. I physically can't today. I think Livia may have had an accident during the drilling, so I'll need to dig around tonight to check. (Update: Thankfully, it was not Livia. It was Tavy on a pad.)
I am so hungry and dizzy and though I'm not normally a crier I keep crying. I literally don't see how I can live like this until mid-August.
We are entirely dependent on the construction company being willing to do disability accommodations as Complex Management just keeps threatening me in response to me needing information and accommodations. There are no new threats since the one I answered to mid afternoon. I shall check tomorrow.
* Wednesday was so much quieter. I suspect the Construction guys were up in the 4th floor, as they are highest priority and were likely ready for phase two. Livia is doing a little better. She's given up on normal and it trying to adjust to how things are now. She hates it. They both hate it and are understandably in cling mode.
The pain gets worse every time I try to sleep. The pain wakes me over and over and each time it's harder to stand and walk.
New Millennial took a couple of food boxes away to distribute, which meant that I could redistribute more things around the cat asylum. I figured out how to get more sink access in the bathroom and the pile there is much larger and more rational. I started the living redistribution before bed and now people knock over and break fewer of my things.
Thursday I started the day changing the sofa as Tavy got to it while I was bathing. This is in itself exhausting. Then I was moving loose drawers around in the bed debris piles in search of underwear as the second pair I had out went walkabout during laundering and I really can't manage without two pairs as I now "live" in the living room where there is no privacy.
The Taping Teens had said there would be no one here until Friday, so I thought Underwear quest was safe.
It was not. This is actually a good thing. When I heard the knock I grabbed the boxers, put the drawer on top of a bed piece I'd cleared for it and ran for the dryer for my shorts, calling "One minute!" He said "Back in three" and went to get the rest of his gear. Luckily he really did come back.
This was a very soft spoken my ageish gentleman who is a fire system specialist and in charge of the fires system specialist crew. I met him Monday, so he know my circumstances, re: disabled person with nowhere reasonable to sleep. The head office and the site manager and the guy in charge of the contractor crew for the building know this.
The HOA is absolutely against any disability accommodations and threatened me a lot, rather than providing any help or useful information or accommodations. It is cheaper not to provide any accommodations, you see and they have zero sympathy for anyone who can't afford to go on vacation for six weeks on zero notice.
The contractors in charge of the job though? Have universally been kind and sympathetic.
I have said before I heard them working above me four out of the first eight days on the project, which I suspect is them doing a rush job for the paraplegic gentlemen and his sweet elderly parents.
I think the 9AM fire contractor who came to drill a hole in the exterior wall and extend the sprinkler piping etc. was doing the next step in the project instead of waiting a week or two. He let me know he'd need access on the patio, so I moved a bunch of plants while he was working inside. He managed to work around my air conditioner and equipment shelving, the quiet hero that he was.
He came back in the afternoon to check for leaks Next step is city inspection either Friday or Monday. Possibly both, since Friday was Contractor crew timeline and Monday is fire system timeline.
Sweeping, weeding, moving plants about, and watering everything took most of the spoons. I suspect I shall not complete shirt quest, which is my next goal. Shirt Quest should also allow me access to my fish tanks and let Livia get her Window box back. I am stuck with just the one pair of short for the duration as those drawers are stacked in a place I can't reach. It's fine.
Friday is forage delivery and I shall have to move so many things to make that happen. Sigh.
Anyway, no clue how fast expedited for disability renovation is, but I am truly grateful to very nice contractors for quietly making it happen, possibly without telling building management and behind their backs.
* I thought I'd cleared enough stuff for me to attempt to sleep in the other direction so I could spread out the damage sleeping does. Bwahahahaha! No. It was bad. So, so bad. I completely fucked up a couple of hours of attempted sleep. I guess I really am stuck with the one position on my left side. Bonus, I keep doing things think clenching my fist and then it getting trapped or my legs moving in my sleep, I think in response to all the pain. It makes it worse of course.
I was awake and dressed regardless around 7:45AM in anticipation of inspection, but my legs are extra bad in the mornings because of all the damage from trying to sleep.
The inspectors knocked nineish, and I called out things like "Wait, I'm coming," but I needed both crutches and I was too slow. I searched for them, but there was no sign of them and they never came back.
Fuck!
Squirrel came out later and helped with the Great Drawer Migration. I did not find my shirts, which I suspect are in the stack of things I can't access along with the drawer containing my other trousers. At least I have more underwear and we did find some shirts I don't wear. I shall have to see if the fit and if I can get them on and off with my arm.
I still have to move heavy things, but I can crawl along the window bench and If I'm careful about not dislocating my hip, wedge a leg next to the air conditioner tube. The trick is then to shift and get the other leg in range to go over the top, again without dislodging the tube. I didn't see Big Pleco and am a little worried as normally all the algae pellet particulates would have been hoovered up by now.
I also forgot to retrieve the cat litter. Sigh. Maybe next time.
I had a really clever idea about how to rearrange the living room debris maze so there would be fewer heavy things to move twice a day. Unfortunately it was about four hours After I sorted forage boxes which would have been the easiest time to do it. There's another idea I have for storage space expansion, but it's big and hard to break into parts. I'll need to hind spoons for it somewhere.
Instead I had another go at the garden.
On the up side, the Drawer Migration allows Livia to have her beloved window box back. She was in there as I wrote this.
* Saturday I hopefully fixed the metal digging into my hip problem. This was not an issue of not knowing how to fix the issue. It was a matter of selecting yet another throw as a sacrifice, washing and drying it, then messing about under the sofa covers. It took longer than expected because even with hot wash only the on it's last legs washer is failing and I gave up on washing while I was asleep on the fifth attempt the night I tried lying on my other side. The futzing about takes longer each time I need to do this. Yes, I know reupholstery is the correct solution, but I have neither money for that or for a new sofa, so on we soldier on. (I'd rather reupholster. This sofa has a history).
I also stared the big dangerous exhausting shelf migration. Moved everything off the high shelf (dangerous. I'm a fall risk.) Moved pegs up. Cleaned shelf, cleaned stuff and put it back. I moved a large, fragile thing that is normally in my room up there too for safety. My legs started shaking before I was done, but I made it down safely. I had the shakes generally for several more hours, so that is it.
Partway through I remembered why we hadn't done this before. There is some drilling required. In related news during bed deconstruction I realized that my little hand drill with the screwdriver attachment had been reorganized somewhere so clever I have run out of places to search for it. I can't afford a new electric drill/screwdriver, so there is no solution. I do think I've come up with a plan that will be less useful and convenient, but would clear some more stuff out of the debris pile. I need to move the sofa for that part, so I'll likely wait for next sofa change.
I also figured out where my shirts went and there's no solving it until this is over. Sigh.
I think I've worked out how to solve patio problems, but not today, not today.
* "50+ photos of unapologetic queer joy and rebellion at WorldPride 2025 rally and march:"
https://www.advocate.com/worldpride-2025-rally-photos#rebelltitem53* "Photos of Juneteenth celebrations commemorating end to slavery:"
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/juneteenth-june-19-events-photos-b689b4adb532df8c0e3ac2896d580600?
* "18 pics of East Central Minnesota's Pride celebration that show why rural Pride is so important :"
https://www.advocate.com/photography/east-central-minnesota-pride-photos#rebelltitem5* "70 photos of the city of Baltimore celebrating 50 years of Pride :"
https://www.advocate.com/photography/baltimore-pride-2025#rebelltitem1* "AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"
( Embed: )* "Trump's Weird Iran War Speech | Massive Penetrators | More Than A Feeling | Regime Change?:"
( Embed: )* "Trump Drops The F-Bomb | Operation Midnight Hammer Failed | ICE's Everglades Internment Camp:"
( Embed: )* "Mamdani Wins With Relentless Positivity | Lander To Cuomo: "Good F***ing Riddance" | Corporate Pride:"
( Embed: )* "David Dastmalchian opens up about his character in Murderbot: Grief, gore, and the machine behind Gurathin:"
https://www.soapcentral.com/shows/david-dastmalchian-opens-character-murderbot-grief-gore-machine-behind-gurathin* "The ICE Protests: A Film By Ken Burns:"
( Embed: )* "The Word Of The Day Is: F***:"
( Embed: )* "Sunday Sweets: Jim Henson Tribute:"
https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-jim-henson-tribute-2025*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
The help links are at the bottom under the cut.
* "United States Disappeared Tracker:"
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map* "Nationwide Economic Blackout: Boycott Dates for Target, Amazon, Others:"
https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-economic-blackout-boycott-dates-target-amazon-others-2037986* "Introducing Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network:"
https://aflcio.org/2025/4/16/introducing-rise-federal-workers-legal-defense-network* 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 her 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: )![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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