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Former emergency dispatcher. Currently writing about my experience with protests, misinformation, militias, radicalization and policing in Portland, Oregon. Exvangelical, lesbian, mother, bookworm.
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Putting up a fierce fight at the opening of the poem is the way to stop the rest of the poem from coming true. The fight for migrants and to stop ICE is the same fight as the fight to protect LGBT people (citizens or not), reproductive autonomy, and everyone else the fascists want to fuck with.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

submitted 20 hours ago • 29 comments

AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.

submitted 21 hours ago • 177 comments

Abolish ICE.

submitted 19 hours ago • 32 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 1 day ago • 2376 comments

Proud of you, Los Angeles.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

RIP Jonathan Joss. TURN PRIDE BACK INTO A RIOT.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Republican support for gay marriage has fallen to 41%. For those in the LGBTQ+ community who do not believe they are coming after gay marriage next after their draconian anti-trans restrictions, you're in for a surprise - we are all in this together.

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

Ms. Rachel: Be so ashamed that our religions tell us to give to the poor, feed the hungry and open our arms to all children & you pretend that they mean for only some people & children. They don't. We all know it's not true. Don't lie anymore.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

it’s wild how you hit your 30s and the birdwatching habit just sneaks up on you out of nowhere

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

time.com/5836444/blac...

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A new report shows how little has changed for Black victims of police killings five years after George Floyd's murder www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 155 comments

If I’m ever in close proximity of Stephen Miller I’m going to jail.

submitted 15 days ago • 89 comments

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

submitted 15 days ago • 152 comments

i like how roberts even looks a bit like tim robinson in the hot dog sketch www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 25 days ago • 435 comments

No, you’re not crazy. They are deporting brown people and importing white people.

submitted 25 days ago • 582 comments

Please spread the correct information about Mayor Baraka's arrest. He had apparently been trying for a few days to visit the ICE prison and was rebuffed. Then the members of Congress tried to visit today and were made to wait in the waiting area for 90 minutes. Then 20 ICE Gestapo showed up...

submitted 29 days ago • 86 comments

my vet, who's hard of hearing: can you repeat your cat's name me:

submitted 30 days ago • 421 comments

Reminder on this VE day, we don't tolerate nazis, we punch them.

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc

submitted 31 days ago • 75 comments

Give me the lib pope I MUST see the conservatives split the church in my lifetime Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

submitted 31 days ago • 21 comments

92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.

submitted 33 days ago • 30 comments

The Met Gala with this year's theme of "Black Dandies" is such a delicious "f--k you" to all of the right wing anti-DEI bigots, I could eat it for dessert. Serve them, kings and queens! And come through @voguemagazine! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW2o... #metgala2025

submitted 33 days ago • 65 comments