Mardi Gras Sunday

🩷you are not hard to love🩷 ❤️you deserve good things❤️ 🧡you are always enough🧡 💛you are not behind in life💛 💚you shine so bright💚 🩵you are important to people🩵 💙self love is essential💙 💜you are not alone💜

i went to minneapolis and wrote about what i saw (a massive, robust mutual aid network that is ultimately just a bunch of regular people) and what i didn’t see (thousands of people who are terrified to leave their homes)

Some of the performers from the Bad Bunny halftime show kept the music going outside the stadium after the show and it turned into an impromptu street party.

Unidos somos América.

The Mayor of Portland, OR after ICE shot tear gas into a crowd “To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”

This is a must listen interview - the owner of Twin City Leather talks about the reality in the ground in Minneapolis and how the queer community is leading the way in mutual aid. 31 min in - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... Amazing work @pupamp.bsky.social @mrkristofer.bsky.social!

ICE is quietly reshaping daily life in greater MN, too. In Willmar, more than 1,200 of 4,000 students were absent recently -- both white and BIPOC, teacher Tammy Knapper says. ICE detained a 19-year-old student for five days. Trauma takes the place of learning. Something must change. #edmnvotes

Minnesota is the dam holding back the flood of tyranny. The resistance is stronger than ever but we need your help. There is safety in numbers and already thousands in the streets. Minnesota is drawing a line in the sand. What are you waiting for? A poster. crimethinc.com/posters/minn...

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

It’s day 54 of the ICE occupation of MSP. We are once again a city in mourning. We are mourning Alex. We are still mourning Renee. And we’re mourning all the neighbors who have been abducted by ICE. We stand shoulder to shoulder with neighbors across the state, saying ICE OUT.

This also happened yesterday at the big march and when I was part of a presser at the Renee Good site.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

For Alex Perreti and Renee Good. For our neighbors. For our city. For this awfulness to end.

Reporter: “Do you have any moral or ethical qualms about detaining a five-year-old on his way back from preschool?” Bovino: “I’ve got no qualms about making America a safer place when we arrest those illegal aliens.”

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

Sunday was our annual Atons officers banquet, where I was installed as Secretary for a second year. When we reserved our place, they said there would still be "some" decorations up 🤣

A great post by @lthriain.bsky.social that is a good reminder in these times and in our community.

I just bumped into a friend who told me how much his health insurance is going up now because of the ACA subsidies being taken away. He literally broke down in tears in front of me. Trump and Republicans are monsters. All of them. They let this happen. They love money more than humans. Disgusting.

Colors are silent storytellers, each hue holding its own narrative, waiting to be deciphered.

Trump, Rubio and Musk's death count keeps mounting hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Blocking trans kids from care is evil. Its not 'caring'. Its not 'being a concerned parent'. Its evil. Its staring someone who is telling your their truth in the eye and saying truth means nothing, and your ignorance means more. Trans kids want to live. Deny them, and you want the opposite.

When thinking, think. When walking, walk.

Dec 1, World AIDS Day Casual reminder that Undetectable means Untransmittable.

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

From @herreraimages.bsky.social on this World AIDS Day.

Our nation's leadership has 'decreed' we not longer recognize this day. Let us not forget those we have lost and loved, those still living with HIV/AIDS, and those still working on a cure.

Remembering Harvey Milk, who was assassinated on this day, November 27th, in 1978. Watch Jenni Olson's beautiful meditative short film, shot in the re-creation of Harvey's Castro Camera Store, made for Gus Van Sant's film Milk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=klcAJNkmlpw

Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.

„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences. It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.

@everettallenphoto.bsky.social making me look so good!

It's @roughian70.bsky.social birthday! Our 20 year friendship has covered a lot of ground, and he's been one of the key people to bring me to where I am in my leather & kink journey.

Photo credit IG @themiljam

Trans people will always have a home in any of my spaces 💖 I will always see you, hear you, and love you exactly for who you are My heart is with you always, but especially today, for Trans Day of Remembrance 🏳️‍⚧️

Pic 1: @everettallenphoto.bsky.social and myself with the new Mr. Twin Cities Leather and the first ever Twin Cities Fetish, Rev CK Pic 2: Atons and the winners Pic 3: @everettallenphoto.bsky.social making me look good

Thank you Twin Cities Leather for the new formals. I'm feeling so sexy and the fit is 🥵

Day 2 - Twin Cities Leather Fetish Weekend

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump & USDA going to Supreme Court to try and STOP SNAP Benefits from being distributed. This is truly the MOST evil thing I have ever witnessed by a sitting Administration. Absolutely DESPICABLE! www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...