Totally normal folks in a totally normal country. Saw this in Cumberland, Maryland today 😧

Listened to the BBC's coverage of ICE raids in New Orleans on my public radio this morning. Couldn't help but notice the on the ground reporter had the same tone as when they cover gang violence and war zones 💀

Watching Hilary Clinton say that young people are being manipulated by “fake images” from Gaza makes me wish hell is real. Fuck her.

The slogan is no judgement, I say as I realize mid workout at Planet Fitness that my t-shirt is inside out.

Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.

Not often I find cool slaps in the small town nearest me (pop ~400). Made my day honestly! Also, 💯 - John Brown would've shot ice agents

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Jimmy Cliff passed, after 81 years of spreading love. You Can Get it if You Really Want was the mantra of my 20's and I doubt I've been to a protest without my inner dialogue signing Stand Up and Fight Back. If ya partake roll one up and listen to this revolutionary. youtu.be/qeXeVMvW-ZI?...

I can't tell you how many times I've had this conversation in person - mostly pertaining to the civil war. I attend a lot of local history meet ups and volunteer at a colonial fort. So many folks who claim to "know their history" don't even know the definition of the word slave 😮‍💨

Things have felt somber in my house. Things suck nationally and we aren't immune to feeling the weight of it. Solutions? Starting impromptu dance parties, baking new things, and buying the leftover masks for 50¢ at the dollar store and creeping on my partner through the window aka the cute scare 😼

"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...

Texas' abortion ban has killed yet another woman. Here's exactly what the anti-abortion response will be: They’ll claim doctors were legally allowed to “intervene” or “treat” Tierra Walker with "care." They won't say she could have had an abortion because they don’t believe in life-saving abortions

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Trying to absorb all the colors before the SAD sets in for the winter.

Tfw you find exactly what you were looking for ✨💜💚✨

Not quite a @bodegacats.bsky.social but my warehouse job had a kitty ambassador for the first time today 😻

Actually, I think the sensible centrist position here is just shooting ICE agents en masse. Nuremberg trials are for the political class. The footsoldiers can wind up the same way collaborationists and quislings did in 1944-46.

🎶 I like giant puffballs, I cannot lie. Found a bunch of these puffball mushrooms today and took the smaller sibling home for dinner.

When lots of trans folks were excited to apply for passports many of us were advising caution. I have real fear for people who did and signed Trump's agreement. I don't want to be a doomer, but I think at this point realist do not trust SCOTUS or advocates asking folks to put their names on list.

I think sometimes the Discourse forgets that religions are ideologies and being opposed to ideologies is normal and fine I bet there are a few that you are opposed to lmao

Perks of starting work at 4am are seeing the moon/stars and sunrise every day. Sometimes I have enough time to take a pic of the nice ones and share them with my partners...when they wake up 😅

Took a friend to the doctors in Virginia (us rural folks regularly drive 2 hours to dr's appts). Heard a Winsome Earle-Sears ad on the radio. It was straight up ScArY CoMmuNiSt will LET MEN IN YOUR DAUGHTERS LOCKER ROOM. If she wins I won't believe it is because of kitchen table issues.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

There are reasons that many folks who lost loved ones to opioid addiction, like my family did, chose not to sign up to participate in state legal actions. The West Virginia First Foundation is giving lots of money to cops- if they keep it. Greed is the worst addiction. apnews.com/article/gene...

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Today he'll take a walk in his annual rainbow outfit, but last night he got some new Halloween swag 🎃🐶🧙

Appropriate day for some false shaggy mane mushrooms 🎃🍄

Will the castle owning white nationalist who made a living exaggerating BIPOC on white crime (VDARE) even allow a white person to be a murderer? Another reminder that Berkeley Springs, WV is a Nazi town. Complicit business owners who would rather embrace racist than alienate tourist gave it away

Checking in on the “ceasefire”

In Vegas finding places I vibe with.

Honestly, I don't care what people seeking assistance at food banks do for a living, whether they work or not, what they drive, etc. People are hungry. Give them food to eat. Plain and simple.

I'm on family vacation this week. Being at the Grand Canyon during the shutdown is weird. No fee, and saw several drones (not allowed normally), and lots of grumpy staff. The only ranger we saw was at the entrance. He said "please come back to the gatehouse to let us know if anything is wrong".

They just dumped the asbestos- and lead-laden White House rubble on a golf course near the Potomac since dumps require certification that rubble doesn't contain those harmful elements. They're gonna bury it to create golf course mounds and it's expected to contaminate our groundwater aquifers here.

Israel has violated ceasefire 80 times in over one week. And politicians (who take money from Israel and its lobby) tell us “we can trust Israel.”

Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K

Folks in West Virginia helping their neighbors. This is just a small example. Lots of mutual aid happening off line. We'll survive like we always have - despite the rich folks who want us dead

harry potter tattoos have a significantly higher regret rate than any gender affirming surgeries

Flew today. Sad that Nathan Fielder was not a co-pilot on my flight 😞 Fingers crossed for the return trip!

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Thanks for choosing our yard for your reproduction. I hope we can meet all your growing family's needs 🕷️

Here's the sign I marched with at No Kings DC yesterday. I was really impressed with the cross-cause solidarity. Details in alt text. I'll add other pics I took 🧵

Photo from a review of the exhibition that opens on the 23rd: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Shiitake sisters, mushrooms mirrored, tasty twins, like Lentinula edodes, fellow fungus, 🍄✌️

you simply do not "have to hand it to" any generation of the young republicans, and if you're a reformed former young republican the appropriate place to discuss your feelings about it is a therapist's office

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

New guy at work straight up telling people he took this job because he "can't stand to be home" because his wife has post partum depression after having their twins last month. Dude our empathy problem is way bigger of an issue than isolation & young men needing attention or whatever.

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

I feel like it should be a slightly larger story that amid all the administration’s screaming about “antifa” (whatever that is for them), Trump and his cronies are more aggressively and more frequently calling journalists they don’t like terrorists.

SCOTUS just heard Chiles v. Salazar, a case that could reopen the door to LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy.” The same justices taking luxury trips from billionaires still have no binding code of ethics. 👉 Tell Congress to back SCERT: americanhumanist.org/scert