The world feels heavy & exhausting sometimes. If you need a break, I invite you to join me for deep rest practice. Friday, 11/21/25, 6:30-7:30 PM EST, online at MysticNidra.com. Open to all. Pay what you can. Please spread the word to anyone who could use the rest. 🌙💚 #RestMedicine #YogaNidra

For those carrying grief: You are not alone. To those exhausted by sorrow: Come be supported. We begin tonight. Come as you are. Join from anywhere. We have room for you. Grief, Love, & Rest: online, Fridays, 6:30 p.m. ET, starting 11/14. More info at mysticnidra.com 🌙❤️ #GriefSupport #YogaNidra

Last night, in Hartford, with @noh8campaign.bsky.social. Our 3rd time being photographed for the campaign. Now it's your turn, Great Lakes friends: show your support for human rights & get a great photo out of it! 7/22: Dearborn 7/23: Chicago 7/26: Milwaukee Link to full schedule in comments

It's that time again! Time for Pride in the Park on June 7th! You _know_ Stonington Pride is gonna be there! Before Pride in the Park, there's going to be an event at Donahue Park in Stonington where we're meeting at 11. ‪@stoningtonpride.bsky.social‬ is doing so much, & you won't want to miss it!

The House budget is a health care cataclysm for America. 15 million Americans will lose their health care. That's the total combined population of: West Virginia Hawaii New Hampshire Wyoming Vermont DC Alaska North Dakota South Dakota Delaware Rhode Island Montana Maine

This is how much Congress, in a bill the House passed this morning, proposes to spend _just to hold migrants in detention_ over the next 4 1/2 years. From this new WOLA explainer: bit.ly/2025-05-wola...

Trump lies.

Want to schedule a GSA visit with Q Plus? We will come to your school! Email [email protected].

"In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity." Fritjof Capra, systems theorist and author of The Tao of Physics

Join the fight against book bans at buff.ly/BTP1NXR

Great speech

We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

It's almost time for the 2025 Sweet Treat Gala! Don't miss the SWEETEST event of the year. Get your tickets for our April 5 gala today at qplusct.org/sweet-treat-gala

“Breaking The News,” an award-winning documentary about The 19th’s early triumphs and challenges, is available to stream for free on the PBS App and PBS website through March 30. Here’s how you can watch ⬇️

If you are a healthcare provider who encouraged patients to use 23andMe to provide analysis of genetic data--you should contact all of those patients immediately and help them protect their privacy as best they can.

Do not forget where you came from

HANDS OFF OUR LIBRARIES!! Trump signed an Executive Order attacking Federal Funding for Libraries. Please send an email to your legislators and governors before it's too late! action.everylibrary.org/emaileo2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

#Connecticut folx

And in case you need healthcare, here is a directory of LGBTQ+ friendly healthcare providers: lgbtqhealthcaredirectory.org Doctors, sign up for the directory so you can be found as a safe space! #MedSky #QueerSky #LGBTQ

Join the League of Women Voters of Southeastern Connecticut and Attorney General William Tong for a Forum on Women's Health. March 25, 6:00 PM, Groton Public Library

The significance of #InternationalWomensDay 2025 cannot be overstated. It is no longer a case of addressing unfinished business on the gender justice front, but bracing ourselves to resist regression and a mounting assault on our rights. Read more 👇

Reminder: Amazon Blackout—starting tomorrow. Amazon ❌, Whole Foods ❌ off the to-do list!

Transgenic mice are genetically modified mice in which scientists introduce human diseases in order to study them. Biden did not spend millions on transgender mouse experiments. When Trump spoke of transgender mice, it’s because he’s stupid or believes you are, or both.

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

Give em hell, Jasmine

This is the ad Washington Post refused. Post it all over the Internet.

Chrissy King on weight loss ads co-opting the language of body liberation, anti-racism, and anti-diet culture. Something is Broken, and It's Not Our Bodies. It's the System. open.substack.com/pub/chrissyk...

For #ValentinesDay2025 I am reclaiming love as a force for justice. #RevolutionaryLove is the call of our times.

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

This is very cool

"We need to remember there is always a third option--to stand together and fight back. That's what we are going to do."

We are many, they are few.

Every other week I host an online meet-up for queer folk to vent anger/anxiety, and to organize. We're based in Connecticut, but work locally and nationally. If you'd like to join us on our next call, please do! Right now, we're focusing on intersectional work of fighting for immigrant rights.

"Create community. Build community. Be community. Community care can seem impossible when you are exhausted. It is possible. Community is anywhere two or more or gathered...Supported in rest, care, & love. Demand the collective as a source of inspiration & change." --Tricia Hersey, We Will Rest!

CDC employees are among the smartest and most dedicated people I’ve worked with in my career. The stakes are high—having people in government who follow the scientific method is a matter of life or death for Americans.

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, January 29th, 7 pm to learn about Chicago Rents, an All Chicago housing first initiative in the work to end homelessness. See below for more information.

"I’ve worked hard to keep these kinds of men out of my personal life, to keep them away from me, out of my goddamn sight. Now they are in my face daily, not only influencing the world for the worse but making me nauseous at how uncool and pathetic they are..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I concur. Time in forest is excellent for your health, and you might meet a nice herbalist out there.

Exactly. They should probably have consulted with someone who actually understands fetal development before they wrote this order. TL;DR: every fetus is female at conception (X chromosomes only); Y chromosome switches on ~week 6-7. Therefore, per Executive Order, all of us are "female".

“In 150 characters or less” by @nikitagill.bsky.social