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Sherwin(self) 2 [BOOK] The International Responsibility of the European Union: European and International Perspectives by Malcolm Evans and Panos Koutrakos; Hart Publishing (1st edition, 2013)(self) 5 [Article] Attributing Responsibility to International Organisations: Lessons from the EU–Singapore Investment Protection Agreement, European Investment Law and Arbitration Review Online by Christine Sim (Brill Nijhoff, 2018)(self) 1 [Article] Severe Autoimmune Adverse Events Post Herpes Zoster Vaccine: A Case-Control Study of Adverse Events in a National Database(self) 4 [ARTICLE] Empowerment Guarantee Act(self) 5 [BOOK][Chapters 1, 3, 6] Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective(self) 1 [BOOK] Trends in Quorum Sensing and Quorum Quenching New Perspectives and Applications(self) 1 [Book] The Skills Training Manual for Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol(self) 1 [Chapter] Odor Coding in the Olfactory Bulb(self) 11 [BOOK] 'The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis' (2019) Edited by Richard G.T. 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Beebe(self) 6 [Book] (JSTOR) Introduction to the Primates by Daris R. Swindler(self) 1 [Book] Novel To Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Film Adaptation, by Brian McFarlane(self) 4 [ARTICLE] Hope at the End of the World: Creation Stories and Apocalypse in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria and The Swan Book, by Adelle L. Sefton-Rowston(self) 1 [BOOK] Reconceptualizing Indian Democracy: The Changing Electorate BY Chakrabarty, Bidyut, and Rajendra Kumar Pandey; Sage Publications Pvt. Limited, 2020(self) 3 [ARTICLE] Organizational Behavior in Megaprojects(self) 1 Testicular Microlithiasis: Is Sonographic Surveillance [Article] Necessary? 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The Game Corner has been missing since the fourth generation of games, most likely due to associations with gambling. While it is only a side feature and is unimportant in the grand scheme of things, I miss the Game Corner dearly. I want to start a discussion on the Game Corner, how to bring it back, and brainstorm ideas for a new Game Corner.

Why the Game Corner was Removed

The most likely reason for the removal of the Game Corner is its association with gambling. With games like roulette and slot machines, the gambling comparison is almost too obvious. Bulbapedia states that games with gambling must have an age rating of at least 12, something that Pokemon will not do. Because the Game Corner is such an insignificant feature to Pokemon games, it is simply easier to remove it entirely than to rework it.
The increased PEGI age rating comes from the presence of simulated gambling. In order for something to be defined as gambling, there must be consideration, risk, and prize. All three must be present for it to legally be considered gambling.
Consideration is the wager. It can have any value and as such, almost anything can be a consideration, even cryptocurrencies. This site uses World of Warcraft gold as an example of consideration, so in game currencies absolutely could be defined as a form of consideration.
Chance is the uncontrollable element that can determine the winner. The amount of randomness required for something to be defined as ‘chance’ can vary though.
Prize is similar to consideration, but it is what you receive if you win. Also similar to consideration, it does not need official value to be defined as ‘prize’.
As stated before, all three of the above must be present for something to be defined as gambling. Since in a game like roulette, the coins could be a form of consideration and prize and the nature of the game obviously has chance involved. That said, by removing just one of those elements, the roulette game could make a comeback.

Bringing Back the Game Corner

Unless the gambling laws drastically change in the near future, it is very possible to work around gambling regulations by playing your cards right. For example, roulette could be brought back as it is if the player was not required to risk any coins. I noticed this exact same strategy in the recent Super Smash Bros. direct when revealing the new spectate mode feature. In it, they clearly state that “there is nothing to lose”, removing the possibility of there being consideration; therefore, this new spectate mode cannot be gambling. The same strategy can be applied to Pokemon’s Game Corner games, making them perfectly legal.
But given the current gaming environment filled with controversies over loot boxes and other gambling-like mechanics, it may not be very tasteful to bring back the roulette wheel even with this legal loophole. Which is why I think the Game Corner needs to be re-branded as an arcade. Arcade games do not carry the negative connotation of gambling and they often enjoy the luxury of being exempt from gambling laws. Additionally, changing the vibe from a casino to an arcade means that there is more flexibility with prizes. High scores or world record times make for a satisfying reward without involving money. Additionally, the Game Corner could be found in more environments than just its own building in a single city. Many cities could have their own Game Corners (maybe with their own assortment of games) and they could be found inside other buildings too. A Game Corner on the S.S. Aqua in particular sounds fun to me. I see this re-branding benefiting the Game Corner in every way with no drawbacks.

Building a Better Game Corner

While reworking the old Game Corner to be compliant with the law is nice, there is still so much that could be done with the Game Corner. Mainly, new games! There are loads of areas to pull inspiration from to build up a good group of games.
Classic arcade games could have a Pokemon twist added to them. Snake is almost too easy of an example. Put in a purple snake, have it eat Oran berries and call it Ekans. Or maybe a Pac-Man clone where you play as a Munchlax while trying to avoid Ghastlys. Or perhaps Doodle Jump but it’s Jumpluff Jump. So many simple games already exist that could easily be made for the all new Game Corner.
Inspiration could also come from what we already know of the Pokemon World. Charjabug Racing could be turned into a simple top-down racing game. The Bug-catching Contest could also be brought back in the form of an arcade game. But the best idea would be to bring back old side games into the Game Corner to continue being enjoyed. Pokemon Pinball fits so well it hurts. Pokemon Snap might be a bit complex, but bringing back a simple map to play could easily fit into a modern game.
Multiplayer games have their own place too. Though I never played them, Pokemon Jump and Dodrio Berry Picking were multiplayer only games in gen 3. I would like to see more of these kind of games, especially with online capabilities. Imagine Pokemon Stadium mini-games making a comeback with online play in this new Game Corner. As suggested in this thread (I thought of this concept days ago, but they posted the same idea mere hours before I actually started writing this so they win), the trading card game could be added to the main games as well and the Game Corner is by far the best place. Alternatively, abandoned mobile games such as Pokemon Duel could fit in well too. And if you want to play online but no directly against someone, spectating matches (similar to the example above with Super Smash Bros.) could be done, as well as high scores and leader boards for the other arcade games.
I realize that the list of games I suggest is a lot and asking for way more than what the Game Corner deserves. The Game Corner as we know it serves basically no purpose other than to hide Team Rocket’s secret base and maybe lock away some Pokemon or TMs. There is no reason to bring it back or to build a better one (especially to the degree I would like), as it is side content that will certainly not sell more copies of a game. However, there is value to be found in the Game Corner and there is value in past side games. I hope that one day the Game Corner returns and brings with it new and old games to make for a more complete gaming experience, no matter how crazy I might dream.
What do you hope to see in a theoretical future Game Corner? Any new game ideas? Or maybe it is too closely tied to gambling and should stay out of Pokemon. Lets share some ideas to make this small part of Pokemon a little bit better.

The humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico worsened with the inadequate response by the federal government. Amid criticism, Trump threatened to pull out, but later backed off. Although the death count officially stands at 45, reporting revealed possibly hundreds more preventable deaths related to the Hurricane Maria.
Trump remains silent on both California’s deadliest wildfires and the deadliest combat incident since he took office. He continues to focus on undoing Obama’s legacy, piece-by-piece. The Mueller investigation hit Trump’s inner-circle, and social media’s role in aiding Russia continues to unfold.

1. On Saturday night, Richard Spencer led another white supremacist torch-lit rally at University of Virginia. The rally lasted 10 minutes and 40-50 people attended. Spencer vowed, “we will keep coming back.”
2. On Sunday, Trump attacked former ally Sen. Bob Corker in a series of incendiary tweets, saying “Corker “begged” me to endorse him for re-election” and “wanted to be Secretary of State.” Trump claimed to have said no to both.
3. Corker responded, tweeting it’s a shame the WH has become an “adult day care center,” and that someone “missed their shift this morning.”
4. On Sunday, Pence left a Colts game after a protest during the national anthem. Pence later issued a full statement opposing the protests. The Colts were playing the 49ers, a team known to protest.
5. Before the game, Pence tweeted a photo of him and the Second Lady wearing Colts gear. The photo was one he originally tweeted in 2014.
6. Shortly after, Trump tweeted he had asked Pence to leave the game “if any players kneeled,” and said he was proud of Pence and the Second Lady.
7. The pool of journalists covering Pence were not allowed into the stadium, and were told, “there may be an early departure from the game.” ABC estimated Pence’s flight cost taxpayers nearly $250k.
8. Bowing to pressure from Trump, the Cowboys’ Jerry Jones, after kneeling with players in week 3 of the season, changed course saying any player who “disrespects the flag” by kneeling will not be allowed to play.
9. On Tuesday, Trump threatened the NFL over protests saying the league is “getting massive tax breaks” and the law should be changed. This claim is false: the NFL gave up its 501(c)(6) tax-exempt status in 2015.
10. On Tuesday, bowing to pressure from Trump and fans, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who previously had said players had the right to voice their opinions, sided with owners opposed to letting players demonstrate.
11. On Monday, Pence headlined a fundraiser in CA for Republicans including controversial, Kremlin-ally Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher had a previously undisclosed meeting in Russia with Veselnitskaya described in Week 47.
12. University of Wisconsin approved a policy which calls for suspending or expelling students who disrupt campus speeches and presentations. The policy mirrors Republican legislation passed by the state Assembly.
13. On Columbus Day, unlike Obama, Trump celebrated the “arrival of Europeans,” but did not mention of the suffering of Native Americans.
14. On Sunday, the Trump’s DHS allowed the Jones Act waiver, which helped speed relief to Puerto Rico, to expire. No explanation was given.
15. Trump’s EPA announced it would repeal the Clean Power Plan, Obama’s signature policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The statement described the regulation as the “so-called Clean Power Plan.”
16. On Friday, Trump addressed the Value Voters Summit hosted by the Family Research Council, which has been classified by SPLC as an anti-gay hate group. Trump is the first US leader to address the group.
17. Reuters reported the Trump regime has been quietly cutting support for halfway houses for federal prisoners, severing contracts with as many as 16 facilities, necessitating some inmates stay behind bars longer.
18. ABC reported the Treasury Dept’s inspector general is looking into allegations reported by BuzzFeed in Week 47 that agency officials have been illegally looking at private financial records of US citizens.
19. A report compiled by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) at House and Senate Democrats’ request, found the Trump transition team ignored ethics officials and refused to cooperate with the GAO.
20. Trump named Kathleen Hartnett White to the WH’s Council on Environmental Quality. Hartnett White, a climate science denier, once also said, “fossil fuels dissolved the economic justification for slavery.”
21. In response to a filing by CREW, Trump’s DOJ told a court in DC that Trump can destroy records without judicial review, including tweets.
22. Brian Brooks became the second candidate under consideration for deputy Treasury Secretary to withdraw from consideration. Mnuchin said he has no plans to fill the number two slot in his agency.
23. WAPO reported at the Interior Dept, when Zinke enters the building a staffer takes the elevator to the seventh floor, climbs the stairs to the roof and puts up a special flag. The flag comes down when he leaves.
24. On Wednesday, NBC reported Tillerson calling Trump a “moron” was provoked by Trump suggesting a tenfold increase in the US nuclear arsenal during a July 20 meeting with the high-ranking national security leaders.
25. In response to the story which he called “Fake News,” Trump tweeted a threat to revoke the broadcasting licenses of “NBC and the Networks.”
26. Later that afternoon, at a news conference, Trump again lashed out at the independent news media saying it’s “frankly disgusting the press is able to write whatever it wants to write.”
27. In a statement Wednesday night, Republican Sen. Ben Sasse asked Trump if he was “recanting” his oath to protect the First Amendment.
28. Indiana Republican lawmaker Jim Lucas drafted a bill that would require professional journalists to be licensed by state police.
29. Under pressure to confirm Trump’s judicial nominees, McConnell will no longer allow “blue slips,” used by senators to deny a nominee from their state a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and vote on confirmation.
30. The Trump regime withdrew from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing anti-Israel bias and a being in arrears on a $550 million payment. Israel remains part of UNESCO.
31. NYT published an interview with Corker in which he said Trump is treating his office like a “reality show” with reckless threats at other country that could put our country “on the path to World War III.”
32. Corker said he is concerned about Trump, and Trump’s behavior should concern “anyone who cares about our nation.” He added there is no ‘good cop, bad cop’ underway with Tillerson — Trump is undermining diplomacy.
33. Corker said nearly all Senate Republican share his concerns: “the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here.”
34. WAPO reported Trump is frustrated by his cabinet and that he is not getting enough credit for his handling of three hurricanes. Trump is lashing out and rupturing alliances with both Republicans and Democrats.
35. One confidant said Trump is like a whistling teapot, saying when he does not blow off steam, he can turn into a pressure cooker and explode: “I think we are in pressure cooker territory.”
36. Politico quoted 10 sources current and former WH aides who employed strategies like delays and distractions as “guardrails” in trying to manage Trump’s impulsivity.
37. Vanity Fair reported sources say Trump is “unstable,” “losing a step,” and “unraveling.” They say the WH is in crisis as advisers struggle to contain Trump who is increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods.
38. Trump allegedly told his former bodyguard Schiller, “I hate everyone in the White House!” Kelly is allegedly miserable in the job, and is staying on in a sense of duty and to keep Trump from making disastrous decisions.
39. One former official speculated Kelly and Mattis have discussed what they would do if Trump ordered a nuclear strike — “would they tackle him?”
40. According to sources, Bannon said the risk to Trump’s presidency wasn’t impeachment, but the 25th Amendment. Bannon thinks Trump has only a 30% chance of making it the full term.
41. In a column “What Bob Corker Sees in Trump,” conservative columnist Peggy Noonan urged Republicans they have a duty to speak on the record about what they see happening with Trump.
42. On Thursday, at a signing ceremony for his health care executive order, Trump nearly walked out of the room without signing the order. Pence pulled him back in.
43. On Tuesday, Trump said in an interview with Forbes that he could beat Tillerson in an IQ test. Trump met with Tillerson later that day at the WH.
44. On Friday, Corker called out Trump for his effort to disempower Tillerson saying: “You cannot publicly castrate your own secretary of state without giving yourself that binary choice.”
45. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria said, “It’s very clear now that we essentially have no diplomacy going on in the United States,” adding the way Trump has treated Tillerson is “the most dramatic example of it.”
46. On CBS’s 60 Minutes, Parscale claimed he fine-tuned ads on Facebook to directly reach voters with the exact messages they cared most about. He also claimed he handpicked Republican Facebook employees to help.
47. Daily Beast reported the Kremlin recruited two black video bloggers, Williams and Kalvin Johnson, to produce incendiary YouTube videos calling Hillary a racist. The videos were spread on social media platforms.
48. WAPO reported Google has uncovered evidence about $100k of ads purchased by Russian agents to spread disinformation on across the company’s many products, including YouTube, during the 2016 election.
49. Google said the ads do not appear to be from the same Kremlin-linked troll farm that bought ads on Facebook. Some ads touted Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Jill Stein, while others aimed to fan the flames of divisive issues.
50. Rep. Devin Nunes, who recused himself as Chair of the House Intel Committee’s Russia probe, unilaterally signed off on subpoenas to Fusion GPS, the research firm that produced the Steele dossier. Democrats were not consulted.
51. Reuters reported Chuck Grassley, the Republican chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is also taking steps to discredit the dossier according to Democrats on the committee.
52. Carter Page told the Senate Intel Committee that he will not cooperate with any requests to appear before the panel on Russia, and will plead the Fifth.
53. Daily Beast reported the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is looking at Cambridge Analytica’s work from the Trump campaign as part of its Russian probe.
54. Cambridge Analytica, which has ownership ties to the Mercers and Bannon, was brought in to help the campaign by Kushner. The company is also under investigation in the UK watchdog for its role in Brexit.
55. NYT reported Israel caught Kaspersky Lab working with the Russian government to search the world for US secrets, using Kaspersky software to scan for classified words. Kaspersky software is used by 400 million people.
56. WSJ reported that Russia’s use of the Kaspersky program to spy on the US is broader and more pervasive than the operation against one individual in Week 47. Trump continues to deny Russian meddling in the US election.
57. Politico reported as part their posture to cooperate, Trump’s attorneys may offer Mueller a meeting with Trump. If Mueller doesn’t ask by Thanksgiving, attorneys may force the issue by volunteering his time.
58. Legal experts were surprised by Trump’s lawyers strategy noting Trump would be speaking under oath and he routinely distorts facts, and that Trump would be interviewed in connection with a criminal investigation.
59. CNN reported Russian operatives used YouTube, Tumblr, and even Pokémon Go as part of their effort to interfere in the election, using a campaign titled “Don’t Shoot Us” to spread a divisive message.
60. NBC reported Manafort had a previously undisclosed $26 million loan from Deripaska through a series of transactions. It is unclear if the $26 million is a loan or an indirect payment from the Russian oligarch.
61. The loan brings the total financial relationship between Manafort and Deripaska to $60 million over the past decade, according to financial documents filed in Cyprus and the Cayman Islands.
62. Manafort’s spokesman, Jason Maloni, initially responded to NBC with a statement including: “Mr. Manafort is not indebted to former clients today, nor was he at the time he began working for the Trump campaign.”
63. Maloni’s statement was later revised and that sentence was removed. Both Manafort and Maloni have received subpoenas to supply documents and testimony in the Mueller probe.
64. Yahoo reported Andrew Feinberg, former correspondent for Sputnik, provided a guide and emails to FBI investigators looking into possible violations of the law which requires agents of foreign nations to register with the DOJ.
65. Further, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is investigating RT and Sputnik as possible parts of the Russian state-run propaganda machine in the broader probe into Russia’s election meddling.
66. On Friday, Mueller’s team interviewed Trump’s former chief of staff, Priebus. Priebus’ lawyer said he voluntarily met with investigators and “was happy to answer all of their questions.”
67. Priebus was present during Trump’s efforts to limit the Russia probe, and for discussions that led to the firing of Comey. He was also asked to leave the Oval Office before the infamous Trump-Comey conversation.
68. Politico reported Twitter deleted tweets and other user data of potentially irreplaceable value to investigators in the Russia probe.
69. Federal investigators believe Twitter was one of Russia’s most potent weapons. Bots and fake accounts launched recurring waves of pro-Trump, anti-Clinton story lines that were either false or greatly exaggerated.
70. AP reported Twitter has turned over 201 accounts linked to Russian attempts at influencing the 2016 election to Senate investigators. It is unclear if the posts associated with these accounts have been deleted.
71. CNN reported an attorney for Roger Stone said he has complied with the House Intel Committee request to provide the identity of his intermediary to WikiLeaks’ Assange.
72. WSJ reported Congressional investigators are homing in on connections between the Trump campaign, and Facebook, and Twitter. Digital director Parscale was paid $88 million during the campaign, the highest paid vendor.
73. Every vendor that worked with Parscale on the Trump campaign signed a nondisclosure agreement, and there are no federal disclosure requirements for online ads.
74. Both Congress and Mueller are investigating the role activity on Facebook and Twitter played in the 2016 election, and whether the Russian social-media activity was in any connected to the Trump campaign.
75. A Morning Consult poll found Trump’s approval has fallen in every state since he took office. The swings were as high as 30 percentage points in blue-states IL and CA, to 11 points in red-state LA.
76. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found Trump’s popularity is eroding in small towns and rural communities: in September 47 approve/47 disapprove, down from 55/39 in his first four weeks in office.
77. WAPO reported as of October 10, Trump’s first 263 days in office, he has made 1,318 false or misleading claims.
78. The Brookings Institute released a 108-page report which concluded Trump “likely obstructed justice” in his firing of Comey. If Mueller agrees, there are legitimate articles of impeachment that could be drawn up.
79. In a letter to Mattis, over 100 Democrats are demanding proof that Trump did indeed consult with the Pentagon as he claimed in a tweet, prior to announcing his ban of transgender individuals from military service.
80. A Kaiser Foundation poll found 62% of Americans say Puerto Ricans aren’t getting the help they need. 76% were aware Puerto Ricans are US citizens.
81. On Thursday, in a series of tweets, Trump threatened to abandon Puerto Rico’s recovery effort, blaming the island for its infrastructure problems and saying and relief workers would not stay “in P.R. forever.”
82. The tweets follow harsh criticism from Puerto Rico of the Trump regime’s response to Hurricane Maria. One Puerto Rican said, “He doesn’t think of us as Americans.”
83. Trump also quoted a Sharyl Attkisson, a television journalist with Sinclair Broadcasting, in saying that while Puerto Rico survived Hurricane Maria, now “a financial crisis looms largely of their own making.”
84. Later Thursday, the WH issued a statement committing “the full force of the U.S. government” for now, but adding “successful recoveries do not last forever.”
85. At a House Energy and Commerce hearing about efforts to rebuild the island’s energy grid, Sec. Rick Perry referred to Puerto Rico as a country.
86. Next day, Trump referred to the Virgin Islands’ governor as a president.
87. VOX reported although the official death count in Puerto Rico is 45, they found 81 death linked to Hurricane Maria, as well as 450 more reported deaths, most of causes still unknown, and 69 still missing.
88. Puerto Rico’s governor said four deaths are being investigated as cases of leptospirosis, a disease spread by animals’ urine through contaminated water. A total of ten people have come down with the disease.
89. Rachel Maddow reported a doctor resigned from the disaster response team in Puerto Rico after seeing medical workers getting manicures and pedicures from residents of the island in medical triage tents.
90. NYT reported on Puerto Rico’s health care is in dire condition, and continues to suffer from mismanagement. The US Comfort ship with 800 medical personnel which can serve 250, has seen 82 patients in six days.
91. CNN reported Puerto Ricans are drinking water from a hazardous-waste site, having no other options for water.
92. A Politico/Morning Consult poll found just 32% of registered voters think the federal government has done enough to help Puerto Rico.
93. Bloomberg revealed one of its reporters was inadvertently put on the Pentagon’s internal email list which detailed how to spin Hurricane Maria to convince the public that the government response was going well.
94. On Thursday, Trump also signed an executive order ending Obamacare subsidies for the poor. Not paying the subsidies could boost premiums for millions and send the health insurance exchanges into turmoil.
95. NPR estimated consumers who earn 400% of the federal poverty level — $48k for individuals or $98.4k for a family of four — will see their the cost of their plans rise by, on average, 20% nationwide.
96. Doctors, hospitals, insurers, state insurance commissioners and patient advocates denounced Trump’s move. Trump actions puts pressure on Congress to protect consumers from soaring premiums.
97. WSJ reported if Congress doesn’t succeed, WH aides said Trump “will claim victory” for ending the Iran deal, cutting billions in payments to health insurers, and deporting hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
98. On Friday, a coalition of attorneys general from 18 states and DC filed a lawsuit to block Trump’s halt to subsidy payments under Obamacare.
99. NYT reported as of Friday, Trump has taken 12 actions which could weaken Obamacare and curtail enrollment, including spreading negative news releases and posting infographics criticizing the health law.
100. On Saturday, Trump boasted on Twitter that health insurance companies’ stocks “plunged yesterday” after his steps to dismantle Obamacare.
101. A Kaiser Health poll found 71% of Americans say the Trump regime should work to improve Obamacare, while just 21% say make it fail.
102. On Friday, Trump slammed Iran as a “menace” and called for “decertification” of the nuclear deal, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA), saying Iran is “not living up to the spirit of the deal.”
103. Trump sent the deal back to Congress with a 60-day window to address its “many serious flaws” or see it “terminated.”
104. Top officials on Trump’s national security team, including Mattis and Tillerson, said Iran has technically complied with its restrictions. The International Atomic Energy Association also confirmed compliance.
105. Daily Beast reported while McMaster also wanted to save the Iran Deal, Trump consulted Fox News’ Sean Hannity and former UN Ambassador John Bolton, two neoconservatives who pushed for decertification.
106. The leaders of Britain, Germany and France declared their commitment to stand by JCPoA. They deal was the culmination of 16 years of diplomacy.
107. After being added to Trump’s travel ban, Chad pulled its troops from the fight against Boko Haram in Niger. US officials had warned Trump his decision would have major consequences for the fight against terrorism.
108. California’s deadliest wildfires charred more than 221,754 acres of land in Northern CA, and left at least 35 dead and hundreds more missing. Trump has yet to publicly comment or tweet about the wildfires.
109. Nor has Trump publicly commented on the deadliest combat incident since he took office, which took place in Niger last Saturday while Trump was golfing. The ambush by ISIS left four soldiers dead and two wounded.
110. As the week ended, 24 days after Hurricane Maria, just 64% of Puerto Ricans had access to drinking water, and only 14.6% had electricity.
111. Trump spent his fourth weekend since Hurricane Maria golfing. On Saturday, he visited Trump National Golf Club in VA, his 72nd day of golf since taking office.

Among the more frequently mentioned G+ alternatives at the Google+ Mass Migration community, and others, is MeWe with over 250 mentions. The site bills itself as "The Next-Gen Social Network" and the "anti-Facebook": "No Ads, No Political Bias, No Spyware. NO BS. It is headed by professed Libertarian CEO Mark Weinstein.
As the site reveals no public user-generated content to non-members, it's necessary to create an account in order to get a full impression. I thought I'd provide an overview based on recent explorations.
This report leads of with background on the company, though readers may find the report and analysis of specific groups on the site of interest.

Leadership

Founder & CEO Mark Weinstein.
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Jonathan Wolfe (no longer with company).
Weinstein previously founded SuperFamily and SuperFriends, "at the turn of the millennium". Weinstein's MeWe biography lists articles published by The Mirror (UK), Huffington Post, USA Today, InfoSecurity Magazine, Dark Reading, and the Nation. His media appearances include MarketWatch, PBS, Fox News, and CNN. He's also the author of several personal-success books.
His Crunchbase bio is a repeat of the MeWe content.

Advisory Board

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web.
• Jack Canfield: Legendary Founder, Chicken Soup For The Soul.
• John Friedman: Founding Partner, Easton Capital.
• Cullen Hoback: Director, Terms and Conditions May Apply.
• Dianne Morrison: Partner, MorrisonMcNabb, LLC.
• Colin Sebastian: Director, Equity Research/Internet, RW Baird.
• Brett Shevack: CEO, Brand Initiatives; Former Vice Chair, BBDO.
• Marci Shimoff: author, Happy for No Reason.
• Sherry Turkle: Professor, MIT; author Alone Together.

Ownership & Investment

MeWe is the dba of Sgrouples, a private for-profit early-stage venture company based in Los Angeles, though with a Mountain View HQ and mailing address, 11-50 employees, with $10m in funding over five rounds, and a $20m valuation as of 2016.
Sgrouples, Inc., dba MeWe Trust & Safety - Legal Policy c/o Fenwick West 801 California Street Mountain View, CA 94041
Crunchbase Profile.
Founded: 2012 (source)
Secured $1.2M in seed funding in 2014.
2016 valuation: $20m (source]
Backers:

• John Friedman, venture capitalist, founder & MD, Easton Capital, New York, NY.
• Jack Canfield, author, Chicken Soup for the Soul.
• Marci Schimoff, author, Love for No Reason, Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul.
• Tom Myers, investment advisor.
• Mykola Latansky, personal improvement guru, Ukraine.
• Dan Phillips, entrepreneur, co-founder, CloudHealth Technologies.
• Jack Sweeney, CEO, SevOne, operating partner, Bain Capital Ventures. (WSJ Profile)
• Rachel Roy, fashion designer.
• Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com.

Despite the business address, the company claims to be based in Los Angeles County, California and is described by the Los Angeles Business Journal as a Culver City, CA, company.

Business

• MeWe Raises $3m in Funding FinSMEs (March 9, 2016).
• Facebook Alternative MeWe Raises $5.2M Los Angeles Business Journal (July 7, 2018).

Policy

In an August 6, 2018 Twitter post, Weinstein promotes MeWe writing:

Do you have friends still on Facebook? Share this link with them about Facebook wanting their banking information - tell them to move to MeWe now! No Ads. No Spyware. No Political Agenda. No Bias Algorithms. No Shadow Banning. No Facial Recognition.

MeWe provide several policy-related links on the site:

• Privacy
• Terms of Service
• FAQ
• Values
• Privacy Bill of Rights

Highlights of these follow.

Privacy

The privacy policy addresses:

• Content Privacy Policy: You own your content.
• Tracking Privacy Policy: We respect your privacy.
• Message disappearance (self-expiring messages).
• California Disclosures -- Do Not Track, 3rd-party cookies, and California Privacy Rights.
• Your Identity: We protect it to the extent the law allows
• Linking to Third-Party Sites: These are your decisions and responsibilities
• Security: HTTPS and Encryption
• Children's Privacy
• Notifications
• Privacy Policy Changes

Terms of Service

The ToS addresses:

• Your acceptance
• Allowable Content and Acceptable Use
• Rights Reserved
• Who Our Services are For
• Privacy
• User Content Ownership
• Passwords
• Misuse of Usernames, Page names, Group names
• Fake Accounts (pseudonyms allowed, misleading is not)
• More on Spam
• Our Commitment to Data Security
• MeWe Content Data
• MeWe Log Data
• Your Data Portability
• Deleting Your Account -- Right to Erasure
• MeWe Secret Chat
• MeWe Invitations and "Add Automatically"
• Additional Policies for Pages, Groups, and Events Notifications of Requests for Account Information
• Guidelines for Law Enforcement Seeking Customer Data (Worldwide)
• MeWe Rights
• Indemnity
• Ownership In and To the Site and Services
• Other Provisions

Effective: November 6, 2018.

FAQ

The FAQ addresses:

• What is MeWe (emphasises privacy)
• The Politics of MeWe ("absolutely no political agenda")
• How can MeWe be free and make money? (additional services/freemium)
• Which devices is MeWe available on? (Android, iOS)
• What content can I share on MeWe (photos, videos, documents, voice messages, privacy mail, chats, gifs, memes, doodles)
• What are some unique features of MeWe?
• Who can see the posts I share?
• Can I delete my MeWe account and is it easy to do this?

Values

This emphasises that people are social cratures and private people by right. The service offers the power of self expression under an umbrella of safety. It notes that our innermost thoughts require privacy.
Under "We aspire...":

MeWe is here to empower and enrich your world. We challenge the status quo by making privacy, respect, and safety the foundations of an innovatively designed, easy-to-use social experience.

Totalling 182 words.

Privacy Bill of Rights

A ten-item statement of principles (possibly inspired by another document, it might appear):

1. You own your personal information & content. It is explicitly not ours.
2. You will never receive a targeted advertisement or 3rd party content based on what you do or say online. We think that's creepy.
3. You see every post in timeline order from your friends, family & groups. We do not manipulate, filter, or change the order of your content or what you see.
4. Permissions & privacy are your rights. You control them.
5. You control who can access your content.
6. You control what, if anything, others can see in member searches.
7. Your privacy means we do not share your personal information with anyone.
8. Your emojis are for you and your friends. We do not monitor or mine your data.
9. Your face is your business. We do not use facial recognition technology.
10. You have the right to delete your account and take your content with you at any time.

Press

There are a few mentions of MeWe in the press, some listed on the company's website, others via web search.

Self-reported articles

The following articles are linked directly from MeWe's Press page:

• Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America (LeadPages)
• 2018 "One to Watch" Tech Trends Report (Helt.Digital)
• SXSW Start-Up of the Year Finalist (LeadPages)
• MeWe CEO Talks About Europe's Privacy Rules (PBS)
• Inventor of the Web Tweets About MeWe (Twitter)
• Should You Delete Your Facebook Account? (Mirror - UK)
• Send Facebook & Twitter a message: Use MeWe Insteat (Appleworld)

The page also lists a "Privacy Revolution Required Reading" list of 20 articles all addressing Facebook privacy gaffes in the mainstream press (Wired, TechCrunch, Fortune, Gizmodo, The Guardian, etc.).
There are further self-reported mentions in several of the company's PR releases over the years.

Other mentions

A DuckDuckGo search produces several other press mentions, including:

• Facebook Alternative MeWe Raises $5.2M, Los Angeles Business Journal (July 7, 2018) "The latest round, as well as MeWe’s total $10 million in fundraising, was predominantly backed by celebrity investors, such as author Marci Shimoff, Rachel Roy, and Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com, which sold to Linkedin in 2015 for $1.5 billion. Jack Canfield, creator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series, also invested in MeWe."
  
• Full Page "Dear Facebook" Letter In The New York Times from MeWe, the Competitor Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Name Yahoo Finance/PR Newsire (May 28, 2018) "Facebook competitor MeWe, in its first-ever advertisement on any medium, took a full-page in the New York Times on Sunday, May 27th. MeWe's "Dear Facebook" letter is a direct response to Mark Zuckerberg's letter ad on March 25th, and a response to Zuckerberg's refusal to name a Facebook competitor in front of Congress."
  
• Is building a Facebook alternative worth the effort? MeWe thinks so VentureBeat (July 5, 2018) "[T]here are still companies hoping to make their mark in the social networking realm with “Facebook alternatives.” One of those is MeWe, a “next-generation” social network that positions itself as the anti-Facebook: “Your private life is not for sale. No ads. No Spyware. No BS,” its website proclaims." Continues to mention "modest $5.2 million" funding round. Also a "sister product", MeWePRO, a Slack competitor.
  
• 5 easy and simple ways to protect your privacy online — how to prepare for the next big threat Medium/Mark Weinstein (November 16, 2016) "If there’s one thing everyone wants to protect it’s their privacy and information online."
  
• Startup MeWe Launches Free, 'No Ads' Social Network eWeek (March 16, 2016) "MeWe, a new network engineered with its users' data privacy built in, is betting that a lot of people will say yes to both of those questions. The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup, whose parent company is Sgrouples.com, launched its freely available social network out of beta March 9 with more than 200,000 members already using it.... Sir Tim Berners-Lee, co-architect of the World Wide Web, found out about MeWe on his own and approached the company about getting involved."
  
• Facebook Alternative MeWe closes $5.2M Series A Yahoo/PR Newswire (July 5, 2018). "The investment brings MeWe's total funding to $10 million, to support the engineering of MeWe and the enterprise version MeWePRO.... The company has relied on high net worth individuals for all of its funding including Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com ...; Marci Shimoff, a #1 New York Times bestselling author ...; Rachel Roy...; and Jack Canfield."
  
• Exactis Data Leak 2018: 340 Million Records Exposed InvestorPlace (June 29, 2018) "'Today's cookies can link your mobile phone to your laptop, to your home monitoring devices, and much, much more. Creepy? Scary? Orwellian? Yes, yes, yes,' Mark Weinstein, the privacy expert and founder of social media company MeWe, told MarketWatch. 'So imagine that Exactis, like Facebook, knows everything about you — really.'"
  
• MeWe Raises $3M in Funding FinSMEs (March 9, 2016) "Sgrouples, Inc., the Mountain View, CA-based developer of MeWe, a social network with neither ads nor tracking, raised $3m in funding."
  
• MeWe Raises $4.8 Million, Launches Next-Gen Social Network Cision/PRWeb (March 9, 2016) "The company also announced the completion of its $3 million Seed III round of funding at a $20 million valuation, bringing MeWe’s total funding to date to $4.8 million."
  
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s app MeWe is used by neo-Nazis and perverts The Times of London (January 8, 2019) "The social network that Sir Tim Berners-Lee hoped would be free from abuse has been found to contain gun sales, drugs and antisemitism."
  

Technology

This section is a basic rundown of the user-visible site technology.

Mobile Web

The site is not natively accessible from a mobile Web browser as it is overlayed with a promotion for the mobile application instead. Selecting "Desktop View" in most mobile browsers should allow browser-based access.

Mobile App

There are both Android and iOS apps for MeWe. I've used neither of these, though the App store entries note:

• MeWe Android 4.4 rating (13.1k ratings). Permissions: Contacts (read), Location (approximate/precise), SMS (receive), Phone (read status & identity), Photos/Media/Files (read, modify, & delete contents), Storage (read, modify, or delete), Camera (take pictures/videos), Microphone (record audio), Device ID & Call Info (read status & identity), and numerous elements under Other.
  
• MeWe iOS 4.3 rating (18.1K ratings) In-app purchases (additional features).
  

Crunchbase cites 209,220 mobile downloads over the past 30 days (via Apptopia), an 80.78% monthly growth rate, from Google Play.

Desktop Web

Either selecting "View Desktop" or navigating with a Desktop browser to https://www.mewe.com your are presented with a registration screen, with the "About", "Privacy Bill of Rights", "MeWe Challenge", and a language selector across the top of the page. Information requested are first and last name, phone or email, and a password. Pseudonymous identities are permitted, though this isn't noted on the login screen. Returning members can use the "Member Log In" button.
The uMatrix Firefox extension reveals no third-party content: all page elements are served from mewe.com, img.mewe.com, cdn.mewe.com, or ws.mewe.com. (In subsequent browsing, you may find third-party plugins from, for example, YouTube, for videos, or Giphy, for animated GIFs.)
The web front-end is nginx. The site uses SSL v3, issued by DigiCert Inc. to Sgrouples, Inc.

Onboarding

The onboarding experience is stark. There is no default content presented. A set of unidentified icons spans the top of the screen, these turn out to be Home, Chats, Groups, Pages, and Events. New users have to, somehow, find groups or people to connect with, and there's little guidance as to how to do this.

Interface

Generally there is a three panel view, with left- and right-hand sidebars of largely navigational or status information, and a central panel with main content. There are also pop-up elements for chats, an omnipresent feature of the site.
Controls display labels on some devices and/or resolutions. Controls do not provide tooltips for navigational aid.

Features

Among the touted features of MeWe are:

• My Cloud - Seamlessly organize all your content in My Cloud; it's your personal cloud. My Cloud offers an interactive dashboard for you to control everything you’ve posted or shared - making it simple to delete or reshare.
• Unique profiles - Be yourself, free from any tracking and spying. Customize your profile for every group you create or join.
• Voice integration (on any or all content) - Post pictures, videos, or documents and include a voice message. Respond to a shared post or just chat. MeWe’s voice integration works for you and your contacts throughout the entire platform.
• Universal tagging - This is a new, convenient way to sort and organize all the content you receive and share, making it easy to find everything, anytime.
• Enhanced permission control (patent issued) - Manage permissions on a granular level and decide exactly who sees what. You can also remove yourself from the search directory, make yourself invisible to other members online, and much more.
• Much More – join MeWe today and take a look inside! MeWe is the next-gen social networking experience designed for you to have fun, stay in touch, collaborate, organize, and simplify.

Community

A key aspect of any social network is its community. Some of the available or ascertained information on this follows.

Size

Weinstein claims a "million+ following inside MeWe.com" on Twitter.
The largest visible groups appear to have a maximum of around 15,000 members , for "Awesome gifs". "Clean Comedy" rates 13,350, and the largest open political groups, 11,000+ members.
This compares to Google+ which has a staggering, though Android-registrations-inflated 3.3 billion profiles, and 7.9 million communities, though the largest of these come in at under 10 million members. It's likely that MeWe's membership is on the whole more more active than Google+'s, where generally-visible posting activity was limited to just over 9% of all profiles, and the active user base was well under 1% of the total nominal population.

Active Users

MeWe do not publish active users (e.g., MUA / monthly active users) statistics.

Groups

MeWe is principally a group-oriented discussion site -- interactions take place either between individuals or within group contexts. Virtually all discovery is group-oriented. The selection and dynamics of groups on the site will likely strongly affect user experience, so exploring the available groups and their characteristics is of interest.
"MeWe has over 60,000 open groups" according to its FAQ.
The Open groups -- visible to any registered MeWe user, though not to the general public Web -- are browsable, though sections and topics must be expanded to view the contents: an overview isn't immediately accessible. We provide a taste here.
A selection of ten featured topics spans the top of the browser. As I view these, they are:

• MeWe Favorites
• Music
• Entertainment
• Lifestyle
• Travel
• Health & Fitness
• Foodies
• Cars & Motorcycles
• Technology
• Fashion and Beauty

Specific groups may appear in multiple categories.
The top Groups within these topics have, variously, 15,482, 7,738, 15,482 (dupe), 7,745, 8,223, 8,220, 1,713, 9,527, 2,716, and 1,516 members. Listings scroll at length -- the Music topic has 234 Groups, ranging in size from 5 to 5,738 members, with a median of 59, mean of 311.4, and a 90%ile of 743.5.
Below this is a grid of topics, 122 in all, ranging from Activism to Wellness, and including among them. A selected sample of these topics, with top groups listed members in (parens), follows:

• Activism: QAnon+++ (2,572), PATRIOT PREPPERS USA (2,430), Deplorables Republic (2,48), The War Drummer (1,898), Patriots for a United America. (1894), Anonymous (1,700).
  
• Alternative Energy: Reiki, Crystals, and alternative healing (2,114), 💜Starseeds & Empaths💜 (345), Living in Colour (365).
  
• Alternative Lifestyle: Natural Healing and Home Remedies (3,045), Backyard Farming of All Things (2,696), WeTheSheeple (2,251).
  
• Alumni Connections: Google Plus Refugees (271), Google+ Refugees (186), Frog Pond (156), Carlsbad NM High School alumni (57).
  
• Animals: I Love My Dog (4,421), Pussy Shots (4,619).
  
• Astronomy: Spherical Earth Truth, Flat Earth is Wrong (278), Nibiru, Nemesis, Hercolobus, The Destroyer (187).
  
• Biology: Trees (344), Field of Birds (104), Patriots of Australia (51).
  
• Blogs: Women Bloggers (1,439), Urban & Wilderness Survival & Preparedness (1,367), Conservative Patriots & Oath keepers (742).
  
• Books and Book Clubs: PNW Book Club (1609), Bookworms (1,464), Erotica and Erotic Romance Book Lovers (1,219).
  
• Business: Small Business Connect (2,565), Deep Survival (1,183), Marketing and Social Media Tips (1,173).
  
• Career Building: Marketing jobs and opportunities (698), Famous Quotes (184), Automotive Technicians (57).
  
• Celebrities: Madonna Mania (116), Katy Perry (Hot!) (103), Trance Gemini of andromeda 2.0 (16).
  
• Classrooms: Are YOU Awake too? (1331), CRT (Crystal Resonance Therapy) Student Support (28).
  
• Clubs / Associations: RCBS Reloading Equipment (685), Boat Owners United (670), The Caliber Canteen (Reloading/ Firearms Buy/Sell) (505).
  
• Co-workers: Money Making sites to SHARE (235), Cop and retired cop friends (85).
  
• Coders: Hacker (978), Delphi Developers (269), Python (258).
  
• Colleges and Universities: SEC Football (832), Christian Apologetics: Campus Apologetics Alliance (221).
  
• Cooking: *recipies/homecooking* (2,618), Low & Slow BBQ (1,582), Mexican Foods and Recipes (1,503), Budget Meal Recipes (1,004).
  
• Culture: Destroying the Illusion Fans (1147), my friends (551), Coffee Addicts (542).
  
• Cyclists: Car Free Cities / Cycle communting (26).
  
• DIY: Homesteading DIY (5843), Prepper Living (3110), Knucklehead Homesteading (2102), 1911 owners forum (1,474).
  
• Dating: 🌸something Beautiful just for you too🌸 (237), Relationship Junction (171), LDS Dating (114).
  
• Education: Q-Anon Patriots (1,616), InfoWars.com (1,217), Constitutional Liberty for All (907), Prepping, Homesteads skills and Community (887), Shamanic Community (756), Truther Talk (665).
  
• Environmental: Geoengineering, Chemtrails, HAARP (455), ShareYourLove (253), The Seasons (193), Near Term Human Extinction Love (174).
  
• Family: Raising Natural Kids (1,496), Dogs (1,075), VACCINE DANGERS (583).
  
• Fraternities: Freemasonry (1072), Brotherhood of the Blade (313), Proud Boys Canada (74).
  
• Friends: MEWE FRIENDS ( NO NUDES ) (2,416), FIREARMS UNLIMITED...MEWE Version (1,517).
  
• Gamers: Tabletop RPG's and Boardgames (1,936), Dungeons & Dragons (1,499), OSR (1,485).
  
• Green: Aquaponics and Self SustainingLlifestyle (655), ENVIRONMENT and CLIMATE (583), Chasing Butterflies - Vaccine Free (385).
  
• Health & Fitness: NATURAL HEALING AND FOODS (8,221), Bodybuilding (5,321), Natural alternatives for Modern Health (4,680), Vaccine Free (3,285).
  
• Heart of All Women: Christian Women Talk About ANYTHING (39).
  
• History: 9/11, False Flags, & NWO Truth (1,872), The American Cowboy (1,065), "This Day in History" by Tara Ross (590).
  
• Hobbies: CinDes Embroidery (1,974), Another Caliber to Conquer (1,800), Sonia Showalter Machine Embroidery Designs (1,696).
  
• Home Improvement: Renovations With Grace❤️ Question & Answers (723), Home improvement DIY Group (79), Buildings churches castles etc (33).
  
• Homeschooling: Christian Homeschool Parents (889), Open Path Homeschool: Secular, Buddhist, Pagan, UU (145), The Lords Prophets (33).
  
• Hunting & Sportsman: GUN POST Group (Canada) (5,097), Guns, Ammo, and Supply's (5,023), OLD GUNS AND OLD FARTS (4,902).
  
• Innovation: Bitcoin/Crypto/Blockchain (759), CRYPTO 24/7/365 (28), 2 Real News (372), Tisk 3D modelů - 3D print (26).
  
• Jewelry: DFW Gold And Silver Coins And Currency (449), FIRE AGATE GEMSTONES (106).
  
• LGBT: HOUSE OF KNIGHTS - ENTERTAINMENT & MAIN GROUP (680), HOUSE OF KNIGHTS - HISTORY (421), HOUSE OF KNIGHTS - CARTOON (409).
  
• MEMES: MeMe Wars (3,758), MILITARY MEMES/FUNNY MILITARY MEMES (2,616), Shitposting Dumpster Fire (2,318).
  
• MLM: Post your biz opp here. (855), Make Money Moms Work at Home (612), Work From Home Opportunities (428).
  
• Medicine: Dinosaur Docs (120), MEDICAL MALPRACTICE (88), Zhong - Beroepsvereniging voor TCG (56).
  
• Medicine & Herbs: Herbal Survivalist Spot (2,353), There's an Oil for That™ (1142), 🌴Weed News🌴 (880).
  
• Meetups: light workers (1,203), MeWe Welcome (or "It's Not a Ghost Town") (729), The Banter Lounge (223).
  
• Movies and Film: Digital Movies (4K, HD, iTunes, MA, UV) (2,519), Ultraviolet Digital UV & MA Codes (Buy/Sell/Trade) (2,073), Science Fiction (1,483).
  
• Music: 60's 70's 80s Music (5,739), Musicians of MeWe! (5,194), Guitar Playing (3,921).
  
• Neighborhoods: Texas Issues (317), Cascadia Circles (235), Houston tx (214).
  
• Nerds: Cosplay (1,856), Classic Sci-fi Kingdom (1,292), Marvel (410).
  
• News: Judge Jeanine Pirro has Fans (7,808), Qanon News (3,466), Unfiltered News (2,913).
  
• Non-Profit: TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT (190), Flat Earth Database - 地平論資料庫 (127), Florida Carry (99).
  
• Organic: Gardening Guru's Unlimited (1,381), GMO FREE for me! (1,076), Americans For Cannabis (874).
  
• Organizations: TRUMPANDPENC2016 (1,454), Low Country Survival Prepping & Camping (1,064), Wisconsin Firearms Trader (614).
  
• Parenting: Vaccines Empower Warrior Voices (391), Moms talk (360), Peaceful Parenting (131).
  
• Personal Improvement: For Introverts. (1,214), Anarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, and Spirituality (679), Positive Affirmations (447).
  
• Philosophy: In5d Esoteric Metaphysical and Spiritual Database (1,764), Thought Bouncing (1,137), Obtectivists - Galts Gulch - Ayn Rand fans (561).
  
• Poetry: Dead Poest (1,407), Palacio de Poetry (451), Poets Corner (412).
  
• Politics: Donald J. Trump 2016 - Present (11,486), The Conservative's Hangout (8,345), Qanon Follow The White Rabbit (5,600), Drain The Swamp (4,978), Libertarians (4,528), United We Stand Trump2020 (4,216).
  
• Pop Culture: The Loftus Party (116), The Walking Dead: The Stalking Dead (100), Tyler, Texas (71).
  
• Privacy: Join the Open/Privacy Movement (3974), Kingsport tn gun trader (1,157), Safer Computing (555).
  
• Psychology: Inspiring Spirituality༺❉༻ non-religious~ universal (1,486), sacred plants & psychedelix community (1,212), OUR.Psychology (701), Dream Interpretation (537).
  
• Recreation: Everything Reloading (3,252), Redeye Reloading (1,980), Fishing (1,549).
  
• Relationships: Complementarian Thought (50).
  
• Religion / Spirituality: LoveHasWon (3,245), The Christian Underground (2,604), Pagan Friendly Folk (1,630).
  
• Robots: Arduino Hexapods, Balancing Robots, and projects (137).
  
• Romantic: Snapchat Add Party (2,681), Green Heart (1,270), ROMANCE COMMUNITY (205).
  
• Science: Consciousness (1,327), Steven's Private Alien/UFO Group (668), BIGFOOT HAPPENINGS (538).
  
• Self Help: * SURVIVE and THRIVE* (858), Preparedness and Off Grid Living (763), Free (631).
  
• Self-Directed Learning: Exposing the Matrix of Lies (997), WAKE THE FUCK UP (474), Wake the Fuck Up. The Next Dimension (287). WTFU when SHTF (126).
  
• Social Change: Armed with Truth and Knowledge (1,986), VEGANS UNITE (766), ACTIVISM universal headlines ~❉~ (729), Meet Earth's Cosmic Neighbors (MECN) (663).
  
• Space: Space (579), ** THE AMAZING UNIVERSE and OUR WORLD** (546), WE ARE NOT ALONE... (488).
  
• Sports: Australian IPSC Buy And Sell (591), Formula 1 (295), Border War Rifle Series, Iowa PRS Matches (280).
  
• Sports Teams: Liverpool FC (228), GEORGIA BULLDOGS (129), The Black and Gold (89), Dallas Cowboys Fans (80).
  
• Subculture: Neon Revolt (3,696), Redneck Funnies (2,042), Serial Killers And True Crime (724).
  
• Surfers: NZBM BEACH VIBES (416).
  
• Sustainability: Common Sense Home (1,746), The Survivalist (1,603), Barter For Prepping/Survivalism/Homesteading Goods (1,274).
  
• Techies: MeWe Help And Support (948), Geek Time (220), GZOSP (124).
  
• Technology: Apple Discussions (2,722), Linux and Open Source Users Group (3,423), Cutting Edge Military Technology (3,201).
  
• Transportation: Truckers Life (431), Aviation (316), Duramax Diesel (312).
  
• Travel: Travel Tips and Recs (8,234), Travel, Food & Wine, Cocktails + Craft Beer Lovers (6,071), Texas (2,694).
  
• Trending News: **UNDER ATTACK & FIGHTING BACK!** (1,138), US News Page (691), THE AMERICAN PATRIOT (609).
  
• Twitter: Twitter Hates Conservatives (198), Cstle Ricochet (35).
  
• Videos: ♥ MY FAVORITE YOUTUBE VIDEOS ♥ (926), Video Meditations (196), The 80's Again - My Retro 80's Music And Video (180), Deep Space Seven (127), Naked Male Celebrities (74).
  
• Wellness: Minds Awaking Consciousness Restored (1,855), Hemp Earth (1,164), Mind-Body-Spirit (993).
  

To be clear: whilst I've not included every topic, I've sampled a majority of them above, and listed not an arbitrary selection, but the top few Groups under each topic.

Google+ Groups

• Google Plus expats (1,862)
• Google+ Refugees (186)
• G+ Refugees (101)
• my Google+ expatriates

The Google Plus expats group seems the most active of these by far.

Political Groups

It's curious that MeWe make a specific point in their FAQ that:

At MeWe we have absolutely no political agenda and we have a very straightforward Terms of Service. MeWe is for all law-abiding people everywhere in the world, regardless of political, ethnic, religious, sexual, and other preferences.

There are 403 political groups on MeWe. I won't list them all here, but the first 100 or so give a pretty clear idea of flavour. Again, membership is in (parentheses). Note that half the total political Groups memberships are in the first 21 groups listed here, the first 6 are 25% of the total.

1. Donald J. Trump 2016 - Present (11486)
2. The Conservative's Hangout (8345)
3. Qanon Follow The White Rabbit (5600)
4. Drain The Swamp (4978)
5. Libertarians (4528)
6. United We Stand Trump2020 (4216)
7. The Right To Self Defense (3757)
8. Alternative Media (3711)
9. Hardcore Conservative Patriots for Trump (3192)
10. Bastket Of Deplorables4Trump! (3032)
11. Return of the Republic (2509)
12. Infowars Chat Room Unofficial (2159)
13. Donald Trump Our President 2017-2025 (2033)
14. Berners for Progress (1963)
15. Sean Hannity Fans (1901)
16. The American Conservative (1839)
17. I Am The NRA (1704)
18. Tucker Carlson Fox News (1645)
19. We Love Donald Trump (1611)
20. MAGA - Make America Great Again (1512)
21. Q (1396)
22. ClashDaily.com (1384)
23. news from the front (1337)
24. Basket of Deplorables (1317)
25. Payton's Park Bench (1283)
26. Convention of States (1282)
27. Britons For Brexit (1186)
28. MoJo 5.0 Radio (1180)
29. MeWe Free Press (1119)
30. The Constitutionally Elite (1110)
31. Libertarian (1097)
32. WOMEN FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP (1032)
33. AMERICANS AGAINST ISIS and OTHER ENEMIES (943)
34. #WalkAway Campaign (894)
35. ALEX JONES (877)
36. The Lion Is Awake ! (854)
37. We Support Donald Trump! (810)
38. The Stratosphere Lounge (789)
39. TRUMP-USA-HANDS OFF OUR PRESIDENT (767)
40. Official Tea Party USA (749)
41. Mojo50 Jackholes (739)
42. Yes Scotland (697)
43. "WE THE DEPLORABLE" - MOVE ON SNOWFLAKE! (688)
44. Judge Jeanine Pirro Fans (671)
45. Anarcho-Capitalism (658)
46. Ted Cruz for President (650)
47. No Lapdog Media (647)
48. Q Chatter (647)
49. Daily Brexit (636)
50. Tucker Carlson Fox News (601)
51. The Trumps Storm Group (600)
52. QAnon-Patriots WWG1WGA (598)
53. 100% American (569)
54. Ladies For Donald Trump (566)
55. Deep State (560)
56. In the Name of Liberty (557)
57. Material Planet (555)
58. WikiUnderground (555)
59. Trump NRA Free Speech Patriots on MeWe Gab.ai etc (546)
60. Magna Carta Group (520)
61. Constitutional Conservatives (506)
62. Question Everything (503)
63. Conspiracy Research (500)
64. Bill O'Reilly Fans (481)
65. Conservative Misfit's (479)
66. Canadian politics (478)
67. Anarchism (464)
68. HARDCORE DEPLORABLES (454)
69. Deplorable (450)
70. Tampa Bay Trump Club (445)
71. UK Politics (430)
72. Bongino Fan Page (429)
73. Radical Conservatives (429)
74. RESIST THE RESISTANCE (419)
75. The Deplorables (409)
76. America's Freedom Fighters (401)
77. Politically Incorrect & Proud (399)
78. CONSERVATIVES FOR AMERICA ! (385)
79. Political satire (383)
80. RISE OF THE RIGHT (371)
81. UK Sovereignty,Independence,Democracy -Everlasting (366)
82. The Patriots Voting Coalition (359)
83. End The Insanity (349)
84. Coming American Civil War! (345)
85. Constitutional Conservatives (343)
86. United Nations Watch (342)
87. A Revival Of The Critical Thinking Union (337)
88. The New Libertarian (335)
89. Libertarian Party (official ) (333)
90. DDS United (Duterte Die-hard Supporters) (332)
91. American Conservative Veterans (331)
92. Anarchism/Agorism/Voluntaryism (328)
93. America Needs Donald Trump (326)
94. The UKIP Debating Society (321)
95. Coalition For Trump (310)
96. Egalitarianism (306)
97. FRIENDS THAT LIKE JILL STEIN AND THE GREEN PARTY (292)
98. 2nd Amendment (287)
99. Never Forget #SethRich (286)
100. Green Party Supporters 2020 (283)

It seems there is relatively little representation from the left wing, or even the centre, of the political spectrum. A case-insensitive match for "liberal" turns up:

• 104: Conservatives Against Liberal Beliefs C.A.L.I.B (273)
• 184: Progressive and Liberal Politics (119)
• 301: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder (33)
• 302: Resistance Against Liberal Socialism (33)
• 358: NOT For Liberals (17)
• 367: Drinking Liberally Houston (14)
• 400: Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Army (6)

Mainstream political parties are little represented, though again, the balance seems skewed searching on "(democrat|republic|gop)":

• 11: Return of the Republic (2509)
• 161: Death to the Democrat Party! (138)
• 188: Republican Liberty Caucus (113)
• 306: Twin Cities South Metro Republicans (32)
• 316: Non-Conspiracy, Non-Republican Libertarians (30)
• 323: Democrats and Veterans Party (28)
• 364: GOP Fireworks (15)
• 391: Saving The Republic: Video News & Opinion (8)

The terms "left" and "right" provide a few matches, not all strictly political-axis aligned:

• 7: The Right To Self Defense (3757)
• 80: RISE OF THE RIGHT (371)
• 150: POLITICS ON THE LEFT (156)
• 157: 1st Amendment Rights Protected By The 2nd Amendmen (141)
• 209: On The Left With Jeremy Corbyn (84)
• 262: Eyes-Left Labour & PP - Social Media (49)
• 300: Gather Left (33)
• 385: Defend Washington State Gun Rights (9)
• 390: Left Coast Conservatives (8)

Socialism and Communism also warrant a few mentions:

• 121: Revolutionary Socialists United (204)
• 216: Socialist Thought (79)
• 220: Stories Of Communism (76)
• 262: Eyes-Left Labour & PP - Social Media (49)
• 288: Snuggly Wuggly Socialists (38)
• 302: Resistance Against Liberal Socialism (33)

And there are some references to green, laboulabor parties:

• 97: FRIENDS THAT LIKE JILL STEIN AND THE GREEN PARTY (292)
• 100: Green Party Supporters 2020 (283)
• 262: Eyes-Left Labour & PP - Social Media (49)
• 320: Green Party of Ohio Issues & Discussion Group (29)

Conclusion

Whilst there may not be a political agenda, there does appear to be at least a slight political bias to the site. And a distinctive skew on many other topical subjects.
Those seeking new homes online may wish to take this into account.

Updates

• Various typos and tagging corrections. 2018-11-29 - 30
• Added G+MM references count for MeWe to lede paragraph. 2018-12-2
• Wolfe status, Times of London story, typos.

I pulled into the motel parking lot, making sure to park my rig next to the other semi-trucks. Beloit Wisconsin was a truck stop town of fewer than 40,000 people but that number was nearly double from twenty years ago. This town was home to the largest high school in the state; a massive structure housing a pool, football field, and god knows what else in its ever-expanding radius. And on the other side of town, what was once a factory was now Beloit University, a prestigious and expensive private college that specialized in bio-engineering and political science. The question was- why? I know, in my gut, this was somehow connected to my friend Alicia’s Wendigo linage. She was from Beloit and last I saw her, she was visibly pregnant and heading back to marry her sugar daddy, despite the fact he was not the biological father. (The 'self-sufficient con-artist' Alicia I knew, seemed relatively proud of that fact.) The one thing I always loved about truck stops was their wide array of lodging. And the motel I picked seemed as good a place as any to start. I walked in, fishing out my credit card and ID. “Leonardo Riveria,” said the check-in clerk reading from my documents. The middle-aged Indian man looked way too formal for such a position. “How long will you be needing the room?” “I’m in town for work, so I’ll prepay for a week and go from there.” My answer was deemed acceptable probably because my credit card was able to be charged for the total amount (just a little under $500.) That was one of the perks of Beloit; cheap hotels but even then they were starting to get “revamped.” Across the street was a brand-new Hilton that was in the $200 a night range, nearly as expensive as the hotels near the university. I took my key-card and walked to room 130, just down the hall. “Where to start?” with my rig as my only means of transportation I would have to go exploring on foot. Unfortunately, Wisconsin was notorious for being unbearably hot or unbearably cold, with little in-between (for warm blooded-humans like me). Today, according to the local news, was a “lovely, sunny” thirty-five degrees Fahrenheit. Tolerable enough for a walk, but cold enough to freeze my balls off. I went across the street to Walmart for a bite to eat and maybe find a nice sweatshirt. With my long hair and west coast style, I stuck out like a sore thumb, but not as much as a certain blue-haired technopath. “Hey, Q.” The teenage girl grabbed my arm, pulling me towards the garden center. “Walk with me.” As expected, every step she took caused lights to flicker and cameras to suddenly short out. “What the hell happened to Alicia?” “That’s what I came here to find out.” I was a little shocked that Q thought I had more information than she did. Q was the ultimate hacker; she could literally see and hear anything from any piece of technology. “She walked out of the party and I stayed behind for a few more hours before heading south.” “So, you didn’t go after her?” “No, I mean, I knew she lived in Southern Wisconsin. And after what I saw, I wanted to make sure she was ok.” “What did you see?” she pushed me into a corner. “I know what you are, and I know she asked for your help.” “She asked to join me, as a hunter, to take a vow of heaven and hell. I think she thought it might bring balance to her soul. But instead, I saw her past, her childhood. I think something broke inside her.” “Well that explains a lot.” Q sighed and stretched her back. “I tracked Alicia down to Clinton where she’s playing Sally-Homemaker-Barbie.” “Seriously?” The Alicia I knew was a bad-ass who'd been hooking up with sugar daddies ever since she was old enough to pass as eighteen. “Maybe it’s for the best. She told me that she wanted to rein in her anger.” “Alicia is a Wendigo; her anger cannot be contained- her anger is who she is.” I knew what Q meant. Nothing good could come from a ‘spiritually lobotomized’ Wendigo. “Look, I just got into town, I was going to try to search for some intel.” “I think I know where to start,” Q said confidently. “You want to be my wingman?” “Sure, why not, where’re your wheels?” Q had a broken-down red Ford that I was pretty sure ran only for her. “Where did you find that hunk of junk?” “My hunks find me.” We drove to a local bar that appeared to be a former townhouse. The plain white building stood in the shadow of a forested area, overlooking a lake. The parking lot was around the corner and already filled with cars, despite the early hour. (It’s five o’clock somewhere, right?) This was clearly where the locals gathered to just be themselves. Entering the double doors, we were greeted to the sight of a central bar. To the left were pool tables, and to the right were people playing cards. And near the back, there were a few slot machines. I looked to Q for her next move. “Get us a table.” “Are you even twenty-one?” “My ID is, but don’t worry I won’t be drinking. I just need to gather a few ingredients for a sight spell.” A sight spell? I took a seat and waited for Q. She knew something, or at least I hoped she did. “Here,” Q said quietly, taking a seat. She handed me an ice-cold bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon. The beer was a classic staple of the Midwest, but not really my taste. “Don’t swallow it, just let the liquid touch your lips long enough to feel the cold.” I closed my eyes and did as she instructed, careful to not actually taste the beer. A wave of coldness swept through the room. What were once people were now animals. A giraffe behind the bar, a rabbit shooting pool, a fox ordered a drink, but among all the imagery my eyes were drawn to one large buck. He was sitting at a table, playing cards, with a large glass of scotch. I could feel Q gripping my hand. “Do you see their king?” “I see a lot of things, what do you see?” “I can sense expensive watches, smartphones, digital car keys, etc they’re buzzing around me like a swarm of hornets.” She motioned to the table with the deer. “What do you see at that table?” “A buck.” “What’s it’s quirk? Too many limbs? Joints that bend backward?” I took another look, just as the light from the opening door hit the creature’s face. “Gold antlers,” I said in a whisper. “I see golden antlers like something out of the Bible.” “Now, we wait.” Q confidently stood up, taking my hand. “Don’t let go of me until I say it’s safe.” Her touch sent a shock wave through my body. It wasn’t painful, more like the pins and needles sensation when your foot falls asleep. “Our molecules are moving at a frequency that they can’t see.” “So, do they think we just disappeared?” “If any of them even noticed us…” Q stood up. “All they will see are two shadow-like forms made of pixels.” I took her word for it. We slipped out back, sitting on the warm concrete of the parking lot. It took about an hour for the deer to leave the bar. “Let go of my hand and hide in the car,” Q said, her opposite hand was already holding something. “The door should already be open.” I quickly did as she asked, slipping into the passenger seat just in time to watch her drop a coin-like item on to the back bumper of a silver BMW. “Let’s roll.” Q got in the driver’s seat next to me and turned on the car using only her touch. “The deer king isn’t going to notice a tracking device?” “Their kind knows very little of the ways of the modern world: it’s one of the few advantages we have.” We followed the car to the hospital of all places. “Beloit Memorial?” I read out loud. I knew for a fact this was the only public hospital for miles but it never seemed to be mentioned in the same breath as the Highschool or the university which always lead me to believe that there were lesser known private hospitals for the wealthier citizens of the county. The strange, golden, buck, parked and exited his car. At first, I was impressed, if not a little confused about how he managed to enter and exit a car with his massive anthers. My curiosity was placated when he then proceeded to walk through the hospital’s revolving doors, like a ghost. I exited the car, with Q following close behind but as we passed through the doors (the normal way) there was no trace of the buck. The lobby was run by a small herd of buffalo sitting at computers. I had a feeling that Q saw actual humans, so I kept quiet and looked around. The gift shop was run by an ostrich and a fox. Where there were once bouquets of flowers, there were instead groups of colorful butterflies arranged for sale. The lobby was decorated in landscape paintings that all seemed to connect into one massive scene. This led me to the elevators and a massive bronze plaque. “I think I found him.” “The deer?” The plaque had the names and portraits of the affluent donors who made the various wards of the hospital possible. In my vision I saw them as animals; foxes, bears, a few birds, but the top row were all bucks and deer. “Dace Montgomery. His family apparently funded the cardiology, pediatric and hematology departments. And by that, I mean he built this hospital over a hundred years ago.” What did it all mean? Q placed her hand on my shoulder. “You need to look with more than your eyes.” I took a step back, looking at the edge of the plaque. It was a different, grayish color. As I touched the metal, a jolt of icy cold shot through my hand. The wall started to crack, forming beautiful diamond-like lines. “Ice?” I took a step back, glancing at Q. “What do you see?” “You can’t see this?” “All I see is a wall.” “I see…” The lines started to form an image. “I see an eye.” It looked like a sketch from some high school girl’s drawing book. “I see you? ICU?” “Worth a shot,” Q muttered. “Hospice ICU? Or pediatric ICU?” “Hospice, please. Seeing sick and dying kids, in this place- I don’t think I’m ready for that.” “To the fourth floor, we go.” The Hospice ICU floor greeted us with a gallery of Christian artwork. Images of Jesus with lambs, chickens, cows, interlaced with the words; Love, hope, faith, and family. At the very end was a table with a single sign. 'Ring bell for entry.' The only bell was a doorbell with no intercom, leading to a set of double doors. I pressed it, waited a moment and heard another buzz from the opposite side. The doors opened. The ward was filled with rabbits and foxes running from room to room carrying iv bags filled with colorful liquid. I made sure not to step on anyone, but no one seemed to notice our presence. Each of the patient rooms had clear walls with no doors, allowing me to see the contents. This made me grateful that I chose to not visit the pediatric ICU; every single patient was a human. Walking slowly, I studied the first room. An elderly woman was comatose, surrounded by her human family. A warthog and a giant snake were speaking to an elderly man (I assumed her husband or some other relative.) They were speaking English, and I could make out the word, ‘D-N-R.’ A DNR or (do not resuscitate) was a document to end someone’s life. The woman had about five IV bags attached to her, each filled with a black liquid. “Where are the colors?” I asked out loud. I looked around and picked a rabbit to follow. I needed to know where their colorful IV bags were coming from, that was the secret. That was the key. The further down the hall, deeper into the ward, the fewer animals I saw. This led me to a room at the end of the hall. “Keller, Anthony,” I read from the door. “Why does that name sound familiar?” Q gasped.“He’s the father of Alicia’s baby. B-But the last time I saw him, he was in rehab.” Q entered the room, rushing to the boy’s side. The patient looked to be in his late teens with long brown hair and tan skin. “His father did this!” “How do you know?” “His father is Alicia’s sugar daddy, maybe he got wise to her con and…” Q stopped as the boy’s eyes fluttered open. “Tony?” Tony had an oxygen mask, but no breathing tube or other speech obstruction. His voice came in a series of soft gasps. “Help, me.” I walked around his bed, observing his IV lines. “Who put you here?” “T-The rehab clinic,” Tony said, coughing up wisps of blood. “T-They had me transferred.” Unlike the elderly woman, his IV’s were clear. At least the ones in his arms. His lower body was covered in a thin, opaque hospital blanket. “Q, check his legs” Q was holding his hand. “I’m going to remove the blanket, ok?” Tony nodded, his body clearly in pain. Q lowered the blanket revealing his abs, and hips. There were seven tubes draining fluid from his abdomen, in the seven colors of the rainbow. “What the fuck?” I got on my knees to find where the tubes led. The plastic feeds seemed to attach to the bed itself. “Q, I need you to tell me what you see.” “I see tubes and scar tissue. It’s like they’re growing out of his body.” With that knowledge, I knew what had to be done. “Lock the door.” “What are you going to do?” Q asked as she locked the door and started to barricade it with whatever furniture was in the room. I needed a holy blade, fast. I punched the mirror with the goal of taking the largest piece of glass and purifying it. But as my fist sank into the glass surface, my hand was enveloped by a dense liquid. I assumed the mirror was trying to pull me in. (Well, two can play at that game.) I opened my hand, grabbing a hold of whatever material I could. And I gave it a hard yank. The subsequent sensation was akin to getting hit with a massive tidal wave. I know I blacked out but just as quickly, I awoke to the sound of banging at the door. Hooves, howling, scratching, accompanied by Q’s cries for help. “Leo, do something!” When I opened my eyes, I was on the floor, holding a massive sword made of some kind of reflective material. This was a start. But was I really planning on fighting my way out of here? We were on the fourth floor, there was no way we would make it to the elevator. “I’m going to break the window.” I took a brief look out the window, as I stood up. We were directly over one of the many parking lots. I could even see some power lines. “Q, can you ask your ‘friends’ to set a trap?” She looked at the door, then the window. “I can try.” “That’s all I can ask.” I lifted the sword and with one swipe I cut the rainbow cords. There was colored water or paint all over the floor. Part of me was afraid it was actually blood, and this kid was going to bleed out before we reached safety. That was a risk I was willing to take since there was no way I was leaving him behind. The halogen lights blew up with a sickening pop. I covered Tony’s body with my own, removing my shirt to cover my face. I knew what was about to happen. Or at least what I hoped would happen. Thick, black cables crashed through the window, tearing open the wall. They parted like the red sea, creating a slide. I turned my head to see Q with her hands in front of her face, controlling the visible electricity like a shield. “It’s too much power!” she screamed as she struggled against the transparent wall of cracking energy. “And it won’t go any further into the hospital.” I knew what she meant; the animal spirits were too powerful to be destroyed by a power surge. “We have to jump!" Carrying Tony's limp body in my arms I ran and jumped through the hole in the wall. My only goal was to land in a way that would not leave me crippled. (Because the idea of getting dragged into the hospital for ‘treatment’ was not my idea of a good time.) My eyes were forced closed by the pressure of the energy ball but I never felt the impact of the ground. We were floating. “Q?” “Keep still,” she said softly. “I think I can get us out of here.” My whole body felt warm, but I kept my focus on Tony. His body felt limp, dead, but little by little he started moving. I could feel his hand gripping my arm, his face cuddling close to my chest. It was a comforting sensation that allowed me to fall into a meditative state. After what felt like hours we landed in a field. Looking up I could see why; Q had been following a series of telephone poles and power lines. It appears she took us as far into the rural country as she could. “Where are we?” Q dusted her self off and stood up. She pulled her phone from her pocket, it was fried. “Give me a second.” With a few soft squeezes, her phone screen flickered to life. “Iron County, Michigan.” “Are we safe here?” “As safe as we can be,” she sighed. “I’m going to try to find shelter. You stay with Tony. If I’m not back in an hour I want you to keep moving. I don't care what direction you go, we just need to stay one step ahead of the Wendigos.” “Sure,” I said with a nod as I watched Q leave with her phone. We just needed to stay one step ahead of the mythical creatures who apparently ran all of Wisconsin. But I understood Q's wishes. Night had fallen and our little trip had knocked out power to the surrounding area. If we didn't find shelter we would be sitting ducks. Tony let out a sharp moan. "Ow." I could feel him placing pressure on my arm as he was attempting to sit up. “Hey, man, just relax. We’re safe.” It was only then I noticed his legs; everything below his hips was robotic. "Did the hospital do this?" "No, I was born without legs," he explained. "My mother designed these. I guess I should be grateful they weren't stolen off my body." Tony continued to sit up, his body trembling in pain. “Those monsters, t-they were harvesting.” He removed what remained of the tubes from his abdomen. A few fragments took a bit of effort, causing him to bite his lower lip until it bled. One piece seemed to be firmly stuck higher up in his chest cavity. “Little help? I don’t think my hand can reach that far.” “Sure.” I carefully pulled out the piece of cord, working slowing. The electric ride we took seemed to dislodge any attachment mechanisms but it felt like the cord had been attached somewhere near his heart. “What happened at the rehab clinic?” “Money, insurance- you know the drill. The state wouldn’t be willing to pay for my stay so I was going to get kicked out. I met with a social worker to try to arrange for help paying for my medications. I was hopeful then, just hours later,” Tony paused to take a much-needed breath, “I had a seizure. The last thing I remember is someone telling me that I was spiking a fever and would be transferred to the main hospital.” I helped Tony lay comfortably, using my shirt as a pillow. “Get back to the part about harvesting.” “When I was checked in to the ICU, the doctors said my organs were failing. I fell asleep again and when I woke up three of the tubes were inside me.” “Three of the seven?” “Yeah, I remember I had two IV’s in my arm and three tubes in my chest. The doctors and nurses, they kept telling me they were giving me medicine; blood, immune suppressors, antibiotics- but they wouldn’t explain anything. I asked for my mother but since I’m not a minor they said there was no legal requirement.” "Is your mother a doctor?" I asked, if only to charge the subject to something less traumatic. "She's an engineering professor at the University." The University? That brought up a whole new set of questions. His mother had to be someone of importance. “You were being held against your will, unable to make contact with her?” “Yeah, everyone at that hospital, they just kept taking samples. They needed blood and urine and spinal fluid, and God knows what else. After a while, they took out the IV’s from my arms and put me under local anesthetic to put in the other chest tubes.” “What do you think they were trying to harvest?” Tony pursed his lips, his eyes looking innocently at the setting sun. “You’ll think I’m crazy.” “Trust me I won’t.” “I think they’ were harvesting hope.” “Hope?” “Life energy, will to live,” Tony chuckled and shook his head. “I don’t know what I’m talking about. I know I have a reason to live; I’m going to be a big brother.” “Did you say you're going to be a brother?” “Yeah, um, I know you're a friend of Q's but do you know Alicia Keller?” “I do," I said, trying to maintain composure. I needed to know more, so I needed Tony to trust me. "She's that trashy red-head who claims to be a witch." Tony laughed. "Yup." "But isn't Keller the name of her sugar daddy?” “Keith Keller, my dad: she’s having his kid.” “You think Keith Keller is the father of her baby?” “That’s why she’s marrying him.” Tony shrugged. “That’s why I have to live, to protect my baby sister.” Now I was confused. “Alicia's having a girl? Did she tell you that?” Tony shook his head. “No, again, you’ll think I’m crazy.” I laid by Tony’s side, just close enough for my arm to touch his. “You can trust me.” It was only then I realized I'd never told him my name. "I'm Leo, I-" I was about to say more when Tony turned to look at me, his brown eyes, sparkling with innocence and beauty. “My baby sister talks to me in my dreams." "Do you think you'll meet her someday?" Tony shrugged. "I-I’m really sick, I know I don’t have much time left. But she’s like my guardian angel.” Before I could ask anything further, Q reappeared. “I found a place for us to stay, it’s not far. Tony, are you ok to walk?” Tony nodded. “I think so.” I watched as he stood up slowly, like a baby bird, before nearly collapsing. “Here, hold my arm. You sure you’re ok? I could probably carry you.” “Nothing I can’t handle.” Tony still took my arm. As his legs locked in an impressive show of strength, the mechanics of his body become clear; the robotic components were controlled by his actual nerves and muscles. “I mean, I’ve been through worse.” “How so?” I asked as we followed Q. I wanted to keep him talking, if only to confirm he was conscious. “My dad, he’s a real bastard. He married my mother to give her citizenship, but then he just took everything. He would beat her, rape her, and when I was born….” Tony fell to his knees as the breath left his lungs. He was crying. “He wanted to kill me. I was a mistake, an abomination.” “You’re in good company,” I said to lighten the mood. Tony laughed ever so softly. “Well, that’s why I know I need to survive. I’m pissed as Alicia for marrying the bastard, but I know she’s only doing it for his money. Someone needs to save her, and her baby from a lifetime of abuse.” Q lead us to what looked like an abandoned house, complete with a wood-burning stove. “It’s not much, but it’s a roof. I figure we can pull in the hay from outside to make a place to sleep.” On a comfortable area of the dirt floor, I fell asleep with Tony in my arms while Q left to gather supplies. I learned a lot today; Wendigo’s fed on hope, they used the public hospital for their hunting ground, and Tony- he was clearly more powerful than he appeared. But there were still many questions on my mind, like how the hell I was going get my rig back? We had to go back to Wisconsin- that was where the final battle awaited. We just needed to be prepared.

I pulled into the motel parking lot, making sure to park my rig next to the other semi-trucks. Beloit Wisconsin was a truck stop town of fewer than 40,000 people but that number was nearly double from twenty years ago. This town was home to the largest high school in the state; a massive structure housing a pool, football field, and god knows what else in its ever-expanding radius. And on the other side of town, what was once a factory was now Beloit University, a prestigious and expensive private college that specialized in bio-engineering and political science. The question was- why? I know, in my gut, this was somehow connected to my friend Alicia’s Wendigo linage. She was from Beloit and last I saw her, she was visibly pregnant and heading back to marry her sugar daddy, despite the fact he was not the biological father. (The 'self-sufficient con-artist' Alicia I knew, seemed relatively proud of that fact.)
The one thing I always loved about truck stops was their wide array of lodging. And the motel I picked seemed as good a place as any to start. I walked in, fishing out my credit card and ID.
“Leonardo Riveria,” said the check-in clerk reading from my documents. The middle-aged Indian man looked way too formal for such a position. “How long will you be needing the room?”
“I’m in town for work, so I’ll prepay for a week and go from there.” My answer was deemed acceptable probably because my credit card was able to be charged for the total amount (just a little under $500.) That was one of the perks of Beloit; cheap hotels but even then they were starting to get “revamped.” Across the street was a brand-new Hilton that was in the $200 a night range, nearly as expensive as the hotels near the university.
I took my key-card and walked to room 130, just down the hall. “Where to start?” with my rig as my only means of transportation I would have to go exploring on foot. Unfortunately, Wisconsin was notorious for being unbearably hot or unbearably cold, with little in-between (for warm blooded-humans like me). Today, according to the local news, was a “lovely, sunny” thirty-five degrees Fahrenheit. Tolerable enough for a walk, but cold enough to freeze my balls off. I went across the street to Walmart for a bite to eat and maybe find a nice sweatshirt.
With my long hair and west coast style, I stuck out like a sore thumb, but not as much as a certain blue-haired technopath. “Hey, Q.”
The teenage girl grabbed my arm, pulling me towards the garden center. “Walk with me.” As expected, every step she took caused lights to flicker and cameras to suddenly short out. “What the hell happened to Alicia?”
“That’s what I came here to find out.” I was a little shocked that Q thought I had more information than she did. Q was the ultimate hacker; she could literally see and hear anything from any piece of technology. “She walked out of the party and I stayed behind for a few more hours before heading south.”
“So, you didn’t go after her?”
“No, I mean, I knew she lived in Southern Wisconsin. And after what I saw, I wanted to make sure she was ok.”
“What did you see?” she pushed me into a corner. “I know what you are, and I know she asked for your help.”
“She asked to join me, as a hunter, to take a vow of heaven and hell. I think she thought it might bring balance to her soul. But instead, I saw her past, her childhood. I think something broke inside her.”
“Well that explains a lot.” Q sighed and stretched her back. “I tracked Alicia down to Clinton where she’s playing Sally-Homemaker-Barbie.”
“Seriously?” The Alicia I knew was a bad-ass who'd been hooking up with sugar daddies ever since she was old enough to pass as eighteen. “Maybe it’s for the best. She told me that she wanted to rein in her anger.”
“Alicia is a Wendigo; her anger cannot be contained- her anger is who she is.”
I knew what Q meant. Nothing good could come from a ‘spiritually lobotomized’ Wendigo. “Look, I just got into town, I was going to try to search for some intel.”
“I think I know where to start,” Q said confidently. “You want to be my wingman?”
“Sure, why not, where’re your wheels?”
Q had a broken-down red Ford that I was pretty sure ran only for her. “Where did you find that hunk of junk?”
“My hunks find me.”
We drove to a local bar that appeared to be a former townhouse. The plain white building stood in the shadow of a forested area, overlooking a lake. The parking lot was around the corner and already filled with cars, despite the early hour. (It’s five o’clock somewhere, right?) This was clearly where the locals gathered to just be themselves.
Entering the double doors, we were greeted to the sight of a central bar. To the left were pool tables, and to the right were people playing cards. And near the back, there were a few slot machines. I looked to Q for her next move.
“Get us a table.”
“Are you even twenty-one?”
“My ID is, but don’t worry I won’t be drinking. I just need to gather a few ingredients for a sight spell.”
A sight spell? I took a seat and waited for Q. She knew something, or at least I hoped she did.
“Here,” Q said quietly, taking a seat. She handed me an ice-cold bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon. The beer was a classic staple of the Midwest, but not really my taste. “Don’t swallow it, just let the liquid touch your lips long enough to feel the cold.”
I closed my eyes and did as she instructed, careful to not actually taste the beer. A wave of coldness swept through the room. What were once people were now animals. A giraffe behind the bar, a rabbit shooting pool, a fox ordered a drink, but among all the imagery my eyes were drawn to one large buck. He was sitting at a table, playing cards, with a large glass of scotch.
I could feel Q gripping my hand. “Do you see their king?”
“I see a lot of things, what do you see?”
“I can sense expensive watches, smartphones, digital car keys, etc they’re buzzing around me like a swarm of hornets.” She motioned to the table with the deer. “What do you see at that table?”
“A buck.”
“What’s it’s quirk? Too many limbs? Joints that bend backward?”
I took another look, just as the light from the opening door hit the creature’s face. “Gold antlers,” I said in a whisper. “I see golden antlers like something out of the Bible.”
“Now, we wait.” Q confidently stood up, taking my hand. “Don’t let go of me until I say it’s safe.” Her touch sent a shock wave through my body. It wasn’t painful, more like the pins and needles sensation when your foot falls asleep.
“Our molecules are moving at a frequency that they can’t see.”
“So, do they think we just disappeared?”
“If any of them even noticed us…” Q stood up. “All they will see are two shadow-like forms made of pixels.”
I took her word for it. We slipped out back, sitting on the warm concrete of the parking lot. It took about an hour for the deer to leave the bar.
“Let go of my hand and hide in the car,” Q said, her opposite hand was already holding something. “The door should already be open.”
I quickly did as she asked, slipping into the passenger seat just in time to watch her drop a coin-like item on to the back bumper of a silver BMW.
“Let’s roll.” Q got in the driver’s seat next to me and turned on the car using only her touch.
“The deer king isn’t going to notice a tracking device?”
“Their kind knows very little of the ways of the modern world: it’s one of the few advantages we have.”
We followed the car to the hospital of all places. “Beloit Memorial?” I read out loud. I knew for a fact this was the only public hospital for miles but it never seemed to be mentioned in the same breath as the Highschool or the university which always lead me to believe that there were lesser known private hospitals for the wealthier citizens of the county.
The strange, golden, buck, parked and exited his car. At first, I was impressed, if not a little confused about how he managed to enter and exit a car with his massive anthers. My curiosity was placated when he then proceeded to walk through the hospital’s revolving doors, like a ghost.
I exited the car, with Q following close behind but as we passed through the doors (the normal way) there was no trace of the buck. The lobby was run by a small herd of buffalo sitting at computers. I had a feeling that Q saw actual humans, so I kept quiet and looked around. The gift shop was run by an ostrich and a fox. Where there were once bouquets of flowers, there were instead groups of colorful butterflies arranged for sale.
The lobby was decorated in landscape paintings that all seemed to connect into one massive scene. This led me to the elevators and a massive bronze plaque. “I think I found him.”
“The deer?”
The plaque had the names and portraits of the affluent donors who made the various wards of the hospital possible. In my vision I saw them as animals; foxes, bears, a few birds, but the top row were all bucks and deer. “Dace Montgomery. His family apparently funded the cardiology, pediatric and hematology departments. And by that, I mean he built this hospital over a hundred years ago.” What did it all mean?
Q placed her hand on my shoulder. “You need to look with more than your eyes.”
I took a step back, looking at the edge of the plaque. It was a different, grayish color. As I touched the metal, a jolt of icy cold shot through my hand. The wall started to crack, forming beautiful diamond-like lines. “Ice?” I took a step back, glancing at Q.
“What do you see?”
“You can’t see this?”
“All I see is a wall.”
“I see…” The lines started to form an image. “I see an eye.” It looked like a sketch from some high school girl’s drawing book. “I see you? ICU?”
“Worth a shot,” Q muttered. “Hospice ICU? Or pediatric ICU?”
“Hospice, please. Seeing sick and dying kids, in this place- I don’t think I’m ready for that.”
“To the fourth floor, we go.”
The Hospice ICU floor greeted us with a gallery of Christian artwork. Images of Jesus with lambs, chickens, cows, interlaced with the words; Love, hope, faith, and family. At the very end was a table with a single sign. 'Ring bell for entry.'
The only bell was a doorbell with no intercom, leading to a set of double doors. I pressed it, waited a moment and heard another buzz from the opposite side. The doors opened. The ward was filled with rabbits and foxes running from room to room carrying iv bags filled with colorful liquid. I made sure not to step on anyone, but no one seemed to notice our presence.
Each of the patient rooms had clear walls with no doors, allowing me to see the contents. This made me grateful that I chose to not visit the pediatric ICU; every single patient was a human.
Walking slowly, I studied the first room. An elderly woman was comatose, surrounded by her human family. A warthog and a giant snake were speaking to an elderly man (I assumed her husband or some other relative.) They were speaking English, and I could make out the word, ‘D-N-R.’ A DNR or (do not resuscitate) was a document to end someone’s life. The woman had about five IV bags attached to her, each filled with a black liquid. “Where are the colors?” I asked out loud. I looked around and picked a rabbit to follow. I needed to know where their colorful IV bags were coming from, that was the secret. That was the key.
The further down the hall, deeper into the ward, the fewer animals I saw. This led me to a room at the end of the hall. “Keller, Anthony,” I read from the door. “Why does that name sound familiar?”
Q gasped.“He’s the father of Alicia’s baby. B-But the last time I saw him, he was in rehab.” Q entered the room, rushing to the boy’s side. The patient looked to be in his late teens with long brown hair and tan skin. “His father did this!”
“How do you know?”
“His father is Alicia’s sugar daddy, maybe he got wise to her con and…” Q stopped as the boy’s eyes fluttered open. “Tony?”
Tony had an oxygen mask, but no breathing tube or other speech obstruction. His voice came in a series of soft gasps. “Help, me.”
I walked around his bed, observing his IV lines. “Who put you here?”
“T-The rehab clinic,” Tony said, coughing up wisps of blood. “T-They had me transferred.”
Unlike the elderly woman, his IV’s were clear. At least the ones in his arms. His lower body was covered in a thin, opaque hospital blanket. “Q, check his legs”
Q was holding his hand. “I’m going to remove the blanket, ok?”
Tony nodded, his body clearly in pain.
Q lowered the blanket revealing his abs, and hips. There were seven tubes draining fluid from his abdomen, in the seven colors of the rainbow. “What the fuck?”
I got on my knees to find where the tubes led. The plastic feeds seemed to attach to the bed itself. “Q, I need you to tell me what you see.”
“I see tubes and scar tissue. It’s like they’re growing out of his body.”
With that knowledge, I knew what had to be done. “Lock the door.”
“What are you going to do?” Q asked as she locked the door and started to barricade it with whatever furniture was in the room.
I needed a holy blade, fast. I punched the mirror with the goal of taking the largest piece of glass and purifying it. But as my fist sank into the glass surface, my hand was enveloped by a dense liquid. I assumed the mirror was trying to pull me in. (Well, two can play at that game.) I opened my hand, grabbing a hold of whatever material I could. And I gave it a hard yank. The subsequent sensation was akin to getting hit with a massive tidal wave.
I know I blacked out but just as quickly, I awoke to the sound of banging at the door.
Hooves, howling, scratching, accompanied by Q’s cries for help. “Leo, do something!”
When I opened my eyes, I was on the floor, holding a massive sword made of some kind of reflective material. This was a start. But was I really planning on fighting my way out of here? We were on the fourth floor, there was no way we would make it to the elevator. “I’m going to break the window.” I took a brief look out the window, as I stood up. We were directly over one of the many parking lots. I could even see some power lines. “Q, can you ask your ‘friends’ to set a trap?”
She looked at the door, then the window. “I can try.”
“That’s all I can ask.” I lifted the sword and with one swipe I cut the rainbow cords. There was colored water or paint all over the floor. Part of me was afraid it was actually blood, and this kid was going to bleed out before we reached safety. That was a risk I was willing to take since there was no way I was leaving him behind.
The halogen lights blew up with a sickening pop. I covered Tony’s body with my own, removing my shirt to cover my face. I knew what was about to happen. Or at least what I hoped would happen.
Thick, black cables crashed through the window, tearing open the wall. They parted like the red sea, creating a slide. I turned my head to see Q with her hands in front of her face, controlling the visible electricity like a shield.
“It’s too much power!” she screamed as she struggled against the transparent wall of cracking energy. “And it won’t go any further into the hospital.”
I knew what she meant; the animal spirits were too powerful to be destroyed by a power surge. “We have to jump!"
Carrying Tony's limp body in my arms I ran and jumped through the hole in the wall. My only goal was to land in a way that would not leave me crippled. (Because the idea of getting dragged into the hospital for ‘treatment’ was not my idea of a good time.)
My eyes were forced closed by the pressure of the energy ball but I never felt the impact of the ground. We were floating. “Q?”
“Keep still,” she said softly. “I think I can get us out of here.”
My whole body felt warm, but I kept my focus on Tony. His body felt limp, dead, but little by little he started moving. I could feel his hand gripping my arm, his face cuddling close to my chest. It was a comforting sensation that allowed me to fall into a meditative state.
After what felt like hours we landed in a field. Looking up I could see why; Q had been following a series of telephone poles and power lines. It appears she took us as far into the rural country as she could. “Where are we?”
Q dusted her self off and stood up. She pulled her phone from her pocket, it was fried. “Give me a second.” With a few soft squeezes, her phone screen flickered to life. “Iron County, Michigan.”
“Are we safe here?”
“As safe as we can be,” she sighed. “I’m going to try to find shelter. You stay with Tony. If I’m not back in an hour I want you to keep moving. I don't care what direction you go, we just need to stay one step ahead of the Wendigos.”
“Sure,” I said with a nod as I watched Q leave with her phone. We just needed to stay one step ahead of the mythical creatures who apparently ran all of Wisconsin. But I understood Q's wishes. Night had fallen and our little trip had knocked out power to the surrounding area. If we didn't find shelter we would be sitting ducks.
Tony let out a sharp moan. "Ow."
I could feel him placing pressure on my arm as he was attempting to sit up. “Hey, man, just relax. We’re safe.” It was only then I noticed his legs; everything below his hips was robotic. "Did the hospital do this?"
"No, I was born without legs," he explained. "My mother designed these. I guess I should be grateful they weren't stolen off my body." Tony continued to sit up, his body trembling in pain. “Those monsters, t-they were harvesting.” He removed what remained of the tubes from his abdomen. A few fragments took a bit of effort, causing him to bite his lower lip until it bled. One piece seemed to be firmly stuck higher up in his chest cavity. “Little help? I don’t think my hand can reach that far.”
“Sure.” I carefully pulled out the piece of cord, working slowing. The electric ride we took seemed to dislodge any attachment mechanisms but it felt like the cord had been attached somewhere near his heart. “What happened at the rehab clinic?”
“Money, insurance- you know the drill. The state wouldn’t be willing to pay for my stay so I was going to get kicked out. I met with a social worker to try to arrange for help paying for my medications. I was hopeful then, just hours later,” Tony paused to take a much-needed breath, “I had a seizure. The last thing I remember is someone telling me that I was spiking a fever and would be transferred to the main hospital.”
I helped Tony lay comfortably, using my shirt as a pillow. “Get back to the part about harvesting.”
“When I was checked in to the ICU, the doctors said my organs were failing. I fell asleep again and when I woke up three of the tubes were inside me.”
“Three of the seven?”
“Yeah, I remember I had two IV’s in my arm and three tubes in my chest. The doctors and nurses, they kept telling me they were giving me medicine; blood, immune suppressors, antibiotics- but they wouldn’t explain anything. I asked for my mother but since I’m not a minor they said there was no legal requirement.”
"Is your mother a doctor?" I asked, if only to charge the subject to something less traumatic.
"She's an engineering professor at the University."
The University? That brought up a whole new set of questions. His mother had to be someone of importance. “You were being held against your will, unable to make contact with her?”
“Yeah, everyone at that hospital, they just kept taking samples. They needed blood and urine and spinal fluid, and God knows what else. After a while, they took out the IV’s from my arms and put me under local anesthetic to put in the other chest tubes.”
“What do you think they were trying to harvest?”
Tony pursed his lips, his eyes looking innocently at the setting sun. “You’ll think I’m crazy.”
“Trust me I won’t.”
“I think they’ were harvesting hope.”
“Hope?”
“Life energy, will to live,” Tony chuckled and shook his head. “I don’t know what I’m talking about. I know I have a reason to live; I’m going to be a big brother.”
“Did you say you're going to be a brother?”
“Yeah, um, I know you're a friend of Q's but do you know Alicia Keller?”
“I do," I said, trying to maintain composure. I needed to know more, so I needed Tony to trust me. "She's that trashy red-head who claims to be a witch."
Tony laughed. "Yup."
"But isn't Keller the name of her sugar daddy?”
“Keith Keller, my dad: she’s having his kid.”
“You think Keith Keller is the father of her baby?”
“That’s why she’s marrying him.” Tony shrugged. “That’s why I have to live, to protect my baby sister.”
Now I was confused. “Alicia's having a girl? Did she tell you that?”
Tony shook his head. “No, again, you’ll think I’m crazy.”
I laid by Tony’s side, just close enough for my arm to touch his. “You can trust me.” It was only then I realized I'd never told him my name. "I'm Leo, I-"
I was about to say more when Tony turned to look at me, his brown eyes, sparkling with innocence and beauty. “My baby sister talks to me in my dreams."
"Do you think you'll meet her someday?"
Tony shrugged. "I-I’m really sick, I know I don’t have much time left. But she’s like my guardian angel.”
Before I could ask anything further, Q reappeared. “I found a place for us to stay, it’s not far. Tony, are you ok to walk?”
Tony nodded. “I think so.”
I watched as he stood up slowly, like a baby bird, before nearly collapsing. “Here, hold my arm. You sure you’re ok? I could probably carry you.”
“Nothing I can’t handle.” Tony still took my arm. As his legs locked in an impressive show of strength, the mechanics of his body become clear; the robotic components were controlled by his actual nerves and muscles. “I mean, I’ve been through worse.”
“How so?” I asked as we followed Q. I wanted to keep him talking, if only to confirm he was conscious.
“My dad, he’s a real bastard. He married my mother to give her citizenship, but then he just took everything. He would beat her, rape her, and when I was born….” Tony fell to his knees as the breath left his lungs. He was crying. “He wanted to kill me. I was a mistake, an abomination.”
“You’re in good company,” I said to lighten the mood.
Tony laughed ever so softly. “Well, that’s why I know I need to survive. I’m pissed as Alicia for marrying the bastard, but I know she’s only doing it for his money. Someone needs to save her, and her baby from a lifetime of abuse.”
Q lead us to what looked like an abandoned house, complete with a wood-burning stove. “It’s not much, but it’s a roof. I figure we can pull in the hay from outside to make a place to sleep.”
On a comfortable area of the dirt floor, I fell asleep with Tony in my arms while Q left to gather supplies. I learned a lot today; Wendigo’s fed on hope, they used the public hospital for their hunting ground, and Tony- he was clearly more powerful than he appeared.
But there were still many questions on my mind, like how the hell I was going get my rig back?
We had to go back to Wisconsin- that was where the final battle awaited. We just needed to be prepared.