“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Pete Hegseth would rather make everyone in the military be beardless, skinny, and spiteful than just admit he’s into twinks

So I’m re-reading a book in which a community is invaded and the ppl imprisoned (which happens to be the part I’m on). Also listening to an audiobook in which the protagonist is imprisoned. While watching cell phone video of ppl being kidnapped & imprisoned. And then I wonder why I have bad dreams.

Happy new free episode Monday! Join @laedrys.bsky.social , @jess-does-lyfe.bsky.social , and me for an unhinged August recap episode! Season 2 Episode 27: Holding Out On Hinges youtu.be/jhcr7-gYVlk

Between the disaster of Helene, the rise of fascism, and crossing the rubicon into passing land - I have never before been so aware of white privilege.

It’s time for Ezra Klein to have a time out. Like - he needs to be quiet for a while and reflect on his effect on the world. Dude is the poster boy for assimilationist politics and we just do not need any more of that.

Thread. A year ago today phone, internet and the water system had collapsed. Some trusted friends and I were spending the day getting water to those who needed it, and confirming some elders in our communities were still alive.

Did the annual apple picking today 🍎🍏 It always amazes me how many people walk around these orchards eating apples straight from the tree. You can SEE the pesticide / fungicide on them folks. Just wait and wash them first. 😬

Since I shared the photo that brings up the most grief, might as well also share the one that gives me the most hope. Hope…even when the creek rises. #Asheville #Helene

🐈 Don’t mind me - just making out with my sea lion. #Caturday

Everyone in the US probably remembers Hurricane Helene last year. What most people likely don’t know b/c it’s not fast and flashy news is that the majority of people in Asheville (roughly 70% of the 100k residents here) were without clean running water in our homes for almost 2 months. 1/2

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.” - Chief Seattle I took this photo 1 year ago, and it has haunted me ever since. Every parent wants to avoid this inevitable moment, when your child experiences a trauma completely outside of your control. #Helene 🧵

Speaking on behalf of all the folks in Asheville & WNC on this 1st anniversary of Hurricane Helene — it’d be great if Imelda could just…. not.

This is the real “leopards are eating my face” that most chalky people have yet to acknowledge.

I thought there was a rock in my shoe, but instead it’s a HAIR IN MY FOOT 🦶- what?!?

I’m not a medical professional. But I’ve been through 2 major surgeries in the last 5 years. Because of those procedures I learned that combining Advil and Tylenol is as effective for pain as commonly prescribed opiates. I just find that quite interesting considering…

Jesus, looking pensively down at Earth… Saint Peter: They’re saying your return is tomorrow. Jesus: That’s what I hear. Saint Peter: Well, are you going then? Jesus: 🤔 …the Americans always ruin it, don’t they? Saint Peter: What do you mean? Jesus (shrugs): Meh. Let them cook.

If I take a book to the gym, am I being a performative male while performing maleness?

Paused the mowing for this praying mantis today. Totally worth it. #BugSky

I keep seeing the same posts about Trump not understanding the different meanings and uses of the word: asylum. Folks. This is not new. He knows. This is an information war. He is conflating the two for his base.

Why does "expand the tent" always mean the left has to endorse right-wing Democrats and never that the center has to endorse socialists like Zohran Mamdani?

Walz was the better pick anyway.

Haircut 💈 Beard trim tmrw perhaps..

Went pumpkin shopping and my kid has yet again become attached to a green acorn squash (named Greenie), and is carrying it around the house - talking to it about all sorts of things. This never ends well.

Overpowered by the urge to nap, the domesticated feline is defeated by yarn feather #Caturday

Watching Sneakers in honor of Robert Redford. 🎥🍿

My dad called me twice at 8 am and then texted, asking me to call back. I took the bait ofc and called right away. He wanted me to help him determine if an email was a scam. 🙈

PSA: There is no such thing as transgender ideology. We literally cannot agree on anything as a group. Except that maybe authoritarianism is bad. So violent. So extreme. 🙄

So, that is what I am bringing to this moment, and what I am trying to offer other people by writing about it. It is necessary to accept that you might lose everything and find ways to keep on going. It is necessary to get a little hardened, and possible to keep some of your softness.

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks. It leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.” - Nemik’s manifesto Which has been rolling around in my head the last couple days for no reason in particular. This mix is my fave. youtu.be/wQd4JdFP0d0?...

My mother just tested positive for Covid so on top of *gestures around wildly* - I am now worried about my parents who are both in their 70s. GET THE F*ING VACCINE PEOPLE!!! WEAR A MASK!!! 😷

Billionaires funding centrist policies and candidates are not going to save us.

Among escalating tensions and whatnot - I still have the opinion that most people in the US would very much like to *not* do a civil war. As much as the far right pitches it as inevitable, it kinda seems a bit dog and pony-ish / Orwellian.

Wanna go on an adventure? #Nature

Ezra Klein is the epitome of a day late and a dollar short. One can imagine him explaining Kristallnacht to Germans well after it had ended, after tens of thousands of Jews had been put behind barbed wire in concentration camps, saying of course it was all wrong but here's why Nazis feel threatened.

At the fair this past weekend there was a booth selling concealment cabinets (for 🔫) - the majority of which were disguised as wall hangings or coat racks adorned with Bible verses.

Ok this one got me 😢

Starting to see the thru lines.. #TransPanic

Stop scrolling. Go outside 🥾 Your soul will thank you. Fawn Lake in DuPont State Recreational Forest 🌳

Spent a chunk of the day doing this 10/10 - recommend 🏊🥾🌲

Instead of pointing the finger at the other political side, we should turn our attention to the tech companies who make billions off our hate and rage. They literally engineer our emotions to fill their pockets and fulfill their anti-social aspirations of power and domination.

This whole thread is great but this is part is really the heart of it, imo

Took the kid to pick out a betta fish the other day. It’s some double tail male variety but the kid referred to it as she in the parking lot. I said “it’s a male fish but if you want to use she words for it that’s up to you.” She paused, thoughtful, and said “Her name is Precious.” May I present -

The great thing about being a parent of a young kid is that they’re thrilled to open all your birthday presents for you.

Ah yes - this tracks actually..

This particular verse from Octavia E. Butler has been alarmingly on point recently. A parable - one might say.

You want us to believe an elite transgender marksman escaped in tactical gear only to leave their bullets & weaponry behind, carefully ensuring they had “transgender ideology” inscribed on it for law-enforcement to find?? Of all the things that never happened, that never happened the most

When you see politicians condemning the Kirk shooting as political violence you have to remember that all state violence is political violence and politicians love that shit as long as it serves capital and imperialism.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.