"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

I live in Iowa. My second miscarriage took almost a month. A month of blood hormone tests. A month without medication. A month of knowing that this thing I hoped for was not to be while my body was so ill that I ended up leaving my job. The trauma changed my life. Six week abortion ban here.

“When Evil-Doing Comes Like Falling Rain” by Bertolt Brecht

More than a death, more than a victim. An artist and performer sharing a lovely moment with us. Human. A blessing indeed.

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

Chronic illness looks like immobilizing your shoulder and missing work because of pain - not an “injury”, just pain. And the laundry isn’t folded & the dishes aren’t done & there’s no food made but your arm is literally tied to your chest. There’s nothing a doctor can do to heal it. You just wait.

Today my third grader is bringing this book to read to a kindergartner in Iowa public schools. We’ll see what happens… We *love* this book.

Today is trying to emotionally damage me.

Motherhood is hard. I love my kids and I am loved by my kids. My partner appreciates me as a person and admires me as a mother. I’m estranged from my birth family. I’ve experienced multiple pregnancy losses. The world is cruel. Trying to have a gentle day.

Men* hate women. Men hate children. Men hate anything that isn’t a man that is like them. *”Men” as a societal group.

I wish more leftists would understand that the idea that fatness is unhealthy isn't some kind of objective truth, but a myth created to make profit for the weight cycling industry, using a racialized, gendered, classed body ideal.

THIS.

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

Asking white supremacists to acknowledge their white supremacy is like asking a fish to acknowledge the water around it. If it does happen to evolve into some amphibious creature that can also exist on land it will never stop talking about the different perspectives. If it doesn’t, “what water?”

Republicans in Iowa have killed public libraries and parks.

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

The enslavement/displacement of ppls involves cutting familial ties. In colonizer mindsets, blood ties are of primary importance. But the communities built by the formerly enslaved and indigenous people w/o that emphasis led to support systems that disenfranchised white ppl resent and punish. 1/

Shoulder subluxation is supposed to involve 4-6 wks of recovery. If all your joints sublux regularly, imagine trying to survive any sort of lifestyle that includes “hustle”. There’s so much I want to do, so much I need to do, but I should be resting my right shoulder because of PAIN. Pills pls.

The world is bad. Apple blossoms are good.

I see we’re doing 90% of men have a Nazi phase again, but even if that was true, which it isn’t (non-white men exist), I have a lovely garbage can that’s for them, it’s named the 90% of men garbage can, the men fucking love it

The overriding goal of America's right wing is to restore chattel slavery so they can own Black people. That's it. Whether they will admit it or not, whether they'll even admit it to themselves, their goal is legal domination and subjugation through violence of Black people. Everything leads there.

"On May Day we dance, On May Day we sing, For this is the day That we welcome the Spring!"

Plum Subluxation

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Ex refuses to find an out of network ortho for our eldest. Ok… But the closest in network provider is 100 mi away and each visit costs me $120 out of pocket in missed work and transportation. Not to mention 4-5 hours of drive time w/ a 9yr old who misses a day of school. #ruralhealthcare

Sums it up.

Timeline cleanse. Work in progress from this weekend. Painted wooden box.

Living in a state where human rights are actively being stripped from city codes and I can’t take my children and leave because their dad - cis, able bodied, white man - thinks it’s perfectly fine here and safe for the kids since they don’t show signs of being queer or disabled to him. But I do.

Of course a country built on the bodies of enslaved people would create a system like this. White people need to be banned from positions of political influence or power for at least 6 generations.

Shocking that white, male unpaid interns in Donor Relations are all planning on working for Republicans. Shocking. I am shocked. (Reader, she was not, in fact, shocked)

Ooof, right in the feels. As an adult with ND children & consistently letting them know they don’t have to apologize for *feeling too much* means having to relive my own experiences of being intimidated, manipulated, or ostracized by my birth family as a kid for simply being autistic on the reg.

Wouldn’t it be great if the Pope eventually admitted that if transubstantiation has been real this whole time… then trans people are completely sacred & will be celebrated? My brother, if this wine can look like wine, taste like wine, and yet *be* the blood of god… you see where I’m going?

I am seeing so many cars driving around with major body damage. From missing bumpers to majorly dented doors to mismatched paint jobs on replacement parts.

In the wake of her passing and her recent celebration of life, @loscharlos.bsky.social shares how Alice Wong taught him the power of Disability Justice and how she wielded it to bridge the hesitancy between disability, Long Covid, and COVID-cautious communities. bit.ly/4mohc12

Good guys rape. Friendly guys rape. Guys everyone likes rape. Democrats rape & so do socialists & anarchists. Get them out of your fold.

This is why my birth family is cut off from contact with me - they are responsible for this.

Me: “I just feel like hiding under my desk while simultaneously torturing my brain with all the reasons why this isn’t supposed to be how we are living.” Supervisor: “Great! Anyone else have anything to check in about?” (Coworkers shuffle)

This 😤

Seven months before the midterms, Trump's approval rating is below 50% in 135 Republican-held districts, meaning many of those seats could be in deep trouble.

As someone who has escaped this sort of personal abuse — it shortens your life. You may be murdered or you may just have early organ failure due to chronic stress and adrenaline. You are forever physically changed and traumatized. This will impact generations of the global population.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I was going to write today, but until we know more, I don't have any new words for this moment. What I will say is that if you are reeling, and you know you want to be part of making things better, Mariame Kaba and I wrote a book for you. I hope it helps.

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! ✨🏳️‍⚧️✨

NEWS: The Supreme Court waited until Transgender Day of Visibility to release its opinion that says that therapists can tell trans kids that they don’t exist. www.advocate.com/news/scotus-...

Crowd sourcing information: Is there a supercut video of SheRa Princesses of Power (formerly of Netflix) set to “Princess of Power” by MARINA?

The people who claim to dislike Trump but still voted for him and support him. The people who tell you they love you despite your queerness/disability/moral compass/propensity to challenge them. Same people, same lies. What is it with their brains that their words and actions don’t match?