Tilly the Doggo

What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

• the dog, Tilly, playing
• the sun shining
• the leaves rustling
• the birds singing
• the world of the future: when we’ve beaten the fascists, dictators, small business tyrants, landlords, and overlords, and direct democracy and real peace and freedom are achieved.

Tilly is always playing.

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House Votes #2, 17-6-19

This week, June 17, the House of Representatives is voting on some notable issues, locked inside of an omnibus spending bill. Call your House member to inform them how you would like to see them vote. Also to learn more about what’s included in this monstrosity. Call now!

1-202-224-3121

To inform yourself regarding the following, start with https://www.congress.gov/ and then whatever methods of information gathering you use for your decision-making on these issues. I like to use Twitter because the amount of opinions out there. But that’s just me. Maybe you ask your parents, or your friends. Whatever you do, democracy needs you. Make your voice heard.

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The Omnibus Appropriations Bill – H.R. 3055

H. R. 3055 – Commerce, Justice, Science, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2020.

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House of Representatives’ Slate: House Votes #1, 10-6-19

Update: H.R. 1957 – Taxpayer First Act of 2019 was insufficient. Introduced to be voted on this week is H.R. 3151, another version of the Taxpayer First Act of 2019. It was introduced by Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) yesterday, June 6.

Considering myself a watchdog, I’m starting this additional series. This is for friends, family, and readers. Anyone interested in following with the news before it’s news, especially as it pertains to Congress, can come here to further inform themselves and their representatives.

I’ll also be sharing these as posts to my Facebook Page, whenever I can, and hopefully will maintain consistency in this work from here on in. I’m not paid for this service. However, if you like what I’m doing, please consider becoming a Patron on my Patreon. Thank you.

This week, June 10, the House of Representatives is voting on some notable resolutions and bills. Call your House member to inform them how you would like to see them vote. Call now!

1-202-224-3121

To inform yourself regarding the following, start with https://www.congress.gov/ and then whatever methods of information gathering you use for your decision-making on these issues. I like to use Twitter because the amount of opinions out there. But that’s just me. Maybe you ask your parents, or your friends. Whatever you do, democracy needs you. Make your voice heard.

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PHOTOS: Snow Day in Port Jervis

Today is International Women’s Day. My drive to take photos of mother nature today was thus uncompromising. Enjoy!

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• snowman spotted on Fowler (not mine)

300: The Raw List of Literature for Us to Read in 2018

This is it. The uncut, unabridged, uncensored, list of 300 books that I’d LOVE to read in 2018, but likely will only read two of. With any luck, maybe six.

Ordered by highest average Goodreads rating first:

1. The Decline of Black Politics: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama
2. Dictatorship of Capital: Politics and Culture in the 21st Century
3. The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change
4. The Law of Clean Energy: Efficiency and Renewables
5. The Transgender Issue
6. trans/formation: A life on both sides of the gender divide
7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
8. Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon
9. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
10. Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures
11. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
12. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
13. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
14. Digital Sociologies
15. Structures of Judicial Decision Making from Legal Formalism to Critical Theory
16. Covering Government: A Civics Handbook for Journalists
17. Emotive Language in Argumentation
18. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
19. The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics
20. Fame and Obscurity
21. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race
22. Musashi
23. The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
24. If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
25. Pantheism
26. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
27. Ultimate Guide to Local Business Marketing
28. The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
29. Sociolinguistic Typology: Social Determinants of Linguistic Complexity
30. Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
31. Harry Potter: A History of Magic
32. Revolutionary Suicide
33. Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy
34. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
35. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
36. Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
37. No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
38. Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs
39. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
40. Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper
41. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
42. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
43. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
44. Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
45. We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
46. Food Movements Unite!: Strategies to Transform Our Food System
47. Postposttransexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies
48. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
49. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States
50. Matilda
51. Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy
52. The Transgender Studies Reader
53. Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?
54. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
55. With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
56. Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say
57. What Do You Care What Other People Think?
58. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
59. Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism
60. Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam
61. And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice
62. Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
63. Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
64. Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement
65. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
66. Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals
67. Transgender Rights
68. How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life
69. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
70. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
71. Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
72. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
73. Sex and Social Justice
74. Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution
75. The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind
76. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
77. The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class
78. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
79. Cat’s Cradle
80. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
81. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
82. Crow After Roe: How “Separate But Equal” Has Become the New Standard in Women’s Health and How We Can Change That
83. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990
84. Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose
85. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
86. Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
87. Associated Press Guide to News Writing: The Resource for Professional Journalists
88. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise and Other Bribes
89. No Exit
90. The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard
91. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
92. Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar
93. The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
94. The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
95. A Primer of Libertarian Education
96. Sappho Is Burning
97. The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier
98. The Unkillable Kitty O’Kane
99. Confronting Authority:Reflections of an Ardent Protestor
100. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
101. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
102. Nevada
103. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
104. The Language of News Media
105. The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week
106. The New Journalism
107. The Fall
108. In Cold Blood
109. Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction
110. The New New Journalism: Conversations with the Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
111. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
112. Transgender History
113. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
114. Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs
115. Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary
116. America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
117. Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
118. The Lives of Transgender People
119. Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come
120. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
121. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
122. Fear and Trembling
123. Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship: Towards a Politics of Difference
124. The Universal Journalist
125. Working as a Journalist
126. The Reuters Handbook for Journalists
127. Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
128. Writing for Broadcast Journalists
129. The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness
130. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
131. Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
132. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
133. Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
134. Boys Like Her: Transfictions
135. How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
136. Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline
137. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
138. Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies that Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
139. Mcnae’s Essential Law for Journalists
140. The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
141. The Jargon of Authenticity
142. Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System
143. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
144. The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
145. The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies – and What They Have Done to Us
146. Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology
147. Chicken Soup for the Soul
148. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
149. The Politics of Aesthetics
150. Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System
151. Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
152. The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
153. Media and Cultural Studies: Key Works
154. Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender
155. A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations
156. Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
157. Men Explain Things to Me
158. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
159. She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders
160. Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
161. Nausea
162. What Every Person Should Know About War
163. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
164. Transgender Explained for Those Who Are Not
165. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies and Subcultural Lives
166. Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism
167. Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
168. Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
169. The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story from Egypt to EBook
170. Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times
171. Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity
172. Why not Me?
173. Practical Strategies for Technical Communication
174. The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for the New Era
175. Wall and Piece
176. Global Climate Change and U.S. Law
177. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
178. Managing the Mental Game: How to Think More Effectively, Navigate Uncertainty, and Build Mental Fortitude
179. No War
180. One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
181. In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence
182. The Story of English in 100 Words
183. The Fine Line
184. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
185. Girl with a Pearl Earring
186. Scoop
187. Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of  a Category
188. Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
189. Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
190. What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
191. The Dip: A Little Book that Teaches You When to Quit
192. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
193. Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
194. Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
195. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
196. With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
197. The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story
198. Picasso: Creator and Destroyer
199. Feminism and Linguistic Theory
200. Power and Politeness in the Workplace: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Talk at Work
201. Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
202. The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution
203. Here Comes Everybody; The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
204. Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United
205. Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
206. Adultolescence
207. The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again
208. Everything I Never Told You
209. The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities
210. Journalists Under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War
211. Post-Democracy: A Sociological Introduction
212. The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America
213. Writing About Art
214. Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy
215. Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet’s Ace Reporter
216. Transgender Nation
217. Food Rebellions!: Forging Food Sovereignty to Solve the Global Food Crisis
218. How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter
219. MAsters of the Universe: NATO’s Balkan Crusade
220. 24 Hours in Journalism
221. The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations & Books
222. The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights
223. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
224. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
225. Fascinate: Unlocking the Secret Triggers of Influence, Persuasion, and Captivation
226. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
227. Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
228. State of War:  The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
229. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
230. Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations
231. Mindwatching: Why We Behave the Way We Do
232. 100 Deadly Skills: The Seal Operative’s Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation
233. Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World
234. Wishful Drinking
235. Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult, and Imitation in American Popular Culture
236. Trans-Sister Radio
237. How to Be a Woman
238. When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World  and the Birth of a New Global Order
239. The Jungle
240. The Man Who Quit Money
241. As I Lay Dying
242. Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism
243. I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted
244. It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree
245. The Alchemy of Finance
246. The Satanic Verses
247. I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
248. Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India
249. Holding Still for as Long as Possible
250. Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
251. Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
252. Audition: A Memoir
253. Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
254. Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload
255. Finnegans Wake
256. The Activists’ Handbook: A step-by-step guide to participatory democracy
257. Texts from Jane Eyre: and Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
258. War Reporting for Cowards
259. But What If We’re Wrong? Thinking About the Present as if It Were the Past
260. Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary
261. The Worrier’s Guide to Life
262. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
263. Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
264. Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
265. Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism
266. Law Made Fun through Harry Potter’s Adventures: 99 Lessons in Law from the Wizarding World for Fans of All Ages
267. Conglomerates and the Media
268. Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice
269. Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
270. What Happens When We Die?: A Groundbreaking Study into the Nature of Life and Death
271. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
272. The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism
273. Democratic Legitimacy: Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity
274. Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy Seal’s Journey to Coming Out Transgender
275. The Art of Always Being Right
276. The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom
277. Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity
278. Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
279. Supermedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World
280. Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times
281. Myra Breckinridge
282. The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
283. The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered
284. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
285. Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical
286. Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life
287. An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture
288. Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation is Remaking America
289. Swearing is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
290. Covering the Courts: A Handbook for Journalists
291. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
292. Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
293. How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All – And Then Some!
294. Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media
295. The You in Journalism: A Handbook for Journalists
296. The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male
297. The Transformation of the American Pension System: Was It Beneficial for Workers?
298. Working with Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists
299. A Reference Guide to Journalism: Areas, Genres, Social Impact, News Media, Roles, and more
300. Covering Politics: A Handbook for Journalists