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  "Hope will never be silent." — Harvey Milk, activist and politician Survival Tactic for the Day: If you've been holding your breath around someone who makes you shrink — and you know who they are — exhale the moment you leave the room. Audibly. Let your lungs hear themselves. You don't owe quiet to anyone who costs you air https://thistleandmoss.com/p/3-4-2026-mourning-a-loss #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia

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  There is no Gaelic name for the pawpaw. It never grew where the old tongue could reach, which is its own argument about who a land belongs to. Asimina triloba. Largest native fruit on this continent, and the only one here that thinks it's tropical. Bottomland shade, Georgia to Michigan. Don't pick from the tree — shake the trunk and take what falls. Here's the part worth keeping. The seed cannot be dried. Let it dry and it dies. 1/2

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  "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." — James Baldwin, "As Much Truth As One Can Bear," The New York Times Book Review, 1962 https://thistleandmoss.com/p/i-want-to-know-why-motherfuckers-queer-refugees-shackled-to-bangui-a-five-grand-ballot-bribe-a-plane#the-practice-armor-you-can-wear-tom #BannedBooks #FreedomToRead #Libraries #LGBTQ #QueerBooks #QueerNews #Pride

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  Nine feet up in the tallgrass, leaves turned north and south to duck the midday sun. That's how it got the name — and how people once took a bearing on open ground with nothing else to sight on. Silphium laciniatum. Blooming right now through September. #BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #Solarpunk 1/3

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  I've spent 50 years watching straight folks treat a bi friend's history like black mold behind the drywall — something to scrub out with bleach or sell back as a kink — and I am sick to my fuckin stomach that "just a preference" is still the fig leaf this rotten bigotry does. #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #Photography #Resist https://thistleandmoss.com/p/pick-a-fucking-side-trump-auditions-fuckspeak-at-the-un-straight-women-ghost-bi-men-kid-...

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  We have all spent ten goddamn years watching this Orange FartBlimp, and I am still not numb to a head of state auditioning extinction verbs at the UN — because every one of those lands, sooner or later, on a kid in Tehran and a 19yo on a destroyer, and neither voted for this shit. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/pick-a-fucking-side-trump-auditions-fuckspeak-at-the-un-straight-women-ghost-bi-men-kid-rock-sells-s?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica #Trans #TransRights #...

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  They applied on 12 October 2022. A registry that said no. A long administrative grind. Two constitutional injunctions filed by IGUAL Bolivia's team. Three years and ten months of being told their family wasn't the kind the state writes down. On Friday, in Santa Cruz, Fabiana Banzer and Scarlett Rocha were recorded as married #Bolivia #MatrimonioIgualitario #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Lesbian #MarriageEquality #LatinAmerica #QueerHistory #TransRights #Solidarity #Journalism #History 1/3

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  Sausage gravy → Brown 1lb of breakfast sausage in a wide skillet about 5 minutes; sprinkle 3 tablespoons of flour over the fat and stir one minute; pour in 2.5 cups of milk, stirring until it thickens and bubbles, about 3 minutes. #Recipe #Cooking #CheapEats #FoodAsMedicine #BudgetCooking #Food #Photography #QueerJoy #MutualAid https://thistleandmoss.com/p/carry-your-own-goddamn-garbage-the-press-padlocked-out-lesbian-loaded-like-a-slur-and-kindness-haule#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_sour...

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  What Survives The Morning #trans #queer #lgbtqia #author #writing #breaking #usnews #uspolitics https://thistleandmoss.com/p/pay-the-fucking-rent-gratitude-doesn-t-cash-bessent-bails-out-the-bond-market-spain-guards-its-own-a

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  ▪ Educators in forty-two states report what the bans are doing to trans kids ▪ Three newsrooms sue after reporters' White House badges are seized at the gate ▪ A Democrat's anti-trans ads, a crosswalk tribunal, a WNBA star done being used #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy https://thistleandmoss.com/p/they-know-better-the-cock-weasels-seized-press-badges-sacrificed-trans-kids-a-hostage-car-and-a-demo?utm_sourc...

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  What Survives The Morning #trans #queer #lgbtqia #author #writing #breaking #usnews #uspolitics https://thistleandmoss.com/p/half-staff-for-a-woman-he-couldn-t-buy-dolly-s-gone-trump-s-numbers-are-in-the-goddamn-cellar-and-th

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  Hawthorn Berry - A spoonful stirred into warm water, the sweet-sour tang settling at the back of the tongue, is an old way of taking a berry herbalists have long turned to for the heart. Hawthorn can interact with heart medications so talk to your doctor before making it a habit, and skip it in pregnancy. #Herbalism #Pagan #Homeopathic https://thistleandmoss.com/p/they-know-better-the-cock-weasels-seized-press-badges-sacrificed-trans-kids-a-hostage-car-and-a-demo#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?u...

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  Today's work. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/windows-up #BannedBooks #FreedomToRead #Libraries #LGBTQ #QueerBooks #QueerNews #Pride #Reading #Books #Resist #Solidarity

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  Three stories today and every one is the same machine: make the count small enough to ignore. The Senate half of that gets the length it deserves, out loud. #Owncast #Peertube #Trans #Queer #QueerNews #uspol #LGBTQ #Journalism https://live.thistleandmoss.org · https://spectra.video/a/wendythedruid/video-channels

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  An attorney with a license to protect, a byline, and a working client list filed the first lawsuit anyone has ever brought to enforce the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Against the Justice Department. Alone. Judge Emmet Sullivan sided with her. Ordered the department to unredact key documents and publish a redaction log, and then declined to pause his own order so the government could appeal. #Epstein #Journalism #PressFreedom #Accountability #Law #Courts #News #USPolitics #FOIA 1/2

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  Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off A teaspoon or two of dried cut bark, just-boiled water, lid on, fifteen minutes. Wet fence post with a bitter finish that arrives late #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking...

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  124 land defenders killed in 2025. 43% Indigenous. 85% in Latin America. Colombia 39, fourth year running. Same calendar year: global development aid fell 23%, the steepest drop ever recorded, and Colombia's human rights office let nearly half its staff go. #HumanRights #ClimateJustice #Indigenous #LandDefenders #News #Journalism #Solidarity https://thistleandmoss.com/p/count-the-motherfuckers-back-a-stolen-election-1-6-million-photographs-and-124-graves#what-did-we-do-to-the-mother-today?...

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  Today's issue: 3 stories, Many sources read, 3 hours, and zero ad networks. I could use them, but I dont want to. The #Blanche transcript got pulled and read against his confirmation answers, because "he said it on television" isn't real enough. The #GLAAD number got checked against the study itself, because I wanted to be damn sure. #Journalism #IndependentMedia #Media #NoAI #MutualAid #Solidarity #QueerNews #LGBTQ #TransRights #Fediverse #Community #Politics 1/2

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  I am so tired of being asked to evaluate the wetness of The Orange Shitler Cockwomble’s chin while the apparatus underneath him hands out ballot lines to people who post about executing us. The GravyTrain Gobshite at the top is not the disease. He's the pus. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy https://thistleandmoss.com/p/get-fuckin-ready-for-the-drool-watch-a-white-nationalist-on-florida-s-ballot-maga-money-in-the-que...

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  What Survives The Morning #trans #queer #lgbtqia #author #writing #breaking #usnews #uspolitics https://thistleandmoss.com/p/milo-found-out-what-his-own-goddamn-checkpoints-feel-like-congress-sharpens-the-only-knife-it-owns-a

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  A fearless breakdown of trans resilience amid federal threats, a president's declining grip on power, sustainable resistance in Nairobi, and the survival tactics that sustain us when the world gets loud. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-trump-is-dying-and-we-all-get-to-watch

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  Four separate explanations for one bruised arm. Handshakes. Then chronic venous insufficiency. Then a signing table in Switzerland. Then a forearm no handshake in the recorded history of the species has ever reached. The same government spent a year subpoenaing hospitals for the confidential medical files of transgender children #TransRights #Trans #LGBTQ #QueerNews #News #Journalism #Resist #Solidarity #uspol #MedicalPrivacy #Politics #Accountability 1/3

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  Two heat domes have joined hands over this continent. The old word for this stretch past the solstice is na laethanta madaidh — the dog days, when the land goes still and waits. Tha an talamh a' cumail a h-anail — the earth is holding her breath. Listen for the first evening cicada anyway. She sings into the heat, not against it. So can you. #Nature #Phenology #Summer #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Druid #EarthBased #Trans #LGBTQ #Pride #Queer #Seasons

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  2.5 years of estradiol and spiro in my cabinet. Just in case. Trans women are hoarding meds like it's hurricane season; for us the storm already made landfall. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/bullets-bleachers-bullshit-smokestacks-dallas-chants-for-blood-while-the-epa-sells-your-lungs-to-the?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica #TransHealthcare #Estradiol #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy

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  The Windbag Warlock stood in a #Dallas arena dotted with posters of his own face and admitted he only honks #trans people like a novelty air horn the week before an election. The Bullshit Shitpantser is at it again. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-craptacular-rnc-convention-that-was-a-limp-dick

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  Today, I just read that the #AfD bitch Weidel is a #Lesbian, with two kids, raising her kids in a queer household with a wife, and yet believes that a house should have a father and mother, that Germans are far more superior to other people, and that she is so far right fuck nuts crazy, that she might be #Hitler reincarnated or something. #MindBlown I dont fucking get it. Did people not see this?

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  What Survives The Morning #trans #queer #lgbtqia #author #writing #breaking #usnews #uspolitics https://thistleandmoss.com/p/pay-the-fucking-rent-gratitude-doesn-t-cash-bessent-bails-out-the-bond-market-spain-guards-its-own-a?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS

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  The Senate confirmed the president's personal attorney to run a hundred-thousand-person Justice Department at 4:34 in the morning. Fifty to forty-nine. On a Saturday. And then adjourned for five weeks. Nobody schedules a proud moment for four in the goddamn morning. You schedule a colonoscopy for four in the morning. The hour is the confession. Cornyn folded. Tillis folded. 1/4

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  Forty percent protein by dry weight. That's among the highest of any plant food there is, and it costs less than a cup of coffee. Lupini fed Mediterranean and Andean households for thousands of years before an American grocery store decided they were a novelty in a jar by the olives. #FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodSovereignty #Frugal #MutualAid #Mediterranean 1/3

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  Midnight on Truth Social, the President did two incompatible things in one breath and noticed neither. He said the leakers of these treasonous statements are being hunted down and long-term jail sentences will be sought. He also insists the reports are false. You cannot hunt the leakers of a thing that never happened, and there is no crime in disclosing fiction. #Politics #Democracy #News #Journalism #PressFreedom #Whistleblowers #Pentagon #Accountability #Resist #USPolitics #Military 1/4