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I am an elementary music teacher, former high school band teacher, small scale organic farmer, DJ (vinyl and digital), low brass musician (trombone, euphonium, tuba), decent guitar player, and a life long leftie (handed, and my social/political views

What happens over there happens over here. When America’s foreign policy is brutal, inhumane, a fascistic, America’s domestic policy will reflect that, too. Why? Because the same policy makers are setting the policy.

The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

Welcome to the resistance! Over 1 million brave souls have answered the call this week. The Empire—Trump’s administration and Musk—may believe its grip is unbreakable, but every day, more join our ranks. We’ve always known—tomorrow, there will be more of us.

1. Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington have filed suit to stop Trump's under-19 trans ban executive order. They allege it violates separation of powers and the 5th and 10th amendments. The latest analysis of the legal filing from writer Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington Sue Trump To End Under 19 Trans Care Ban

The lawsuit is one of several moving against Trump's executive orders targeting transgender people in the military, healthcare, and international travel rights.

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Hello to all human beings in the Bluesky cosmos. I heard it's pleasant vibes over here. I like to yell good morning off my front porch to my neighbors so maybe I will holler at you sometimes. No interest in hate and disinformation though sorry to say, though beauty and creation do interest me. -III

I know we can’t run around on fire every time Trump says something but he appears to have just announced the new US policy on Gaza which is to take ownership of it, ethnically cleanse it of the 1.8 million Palestinians there and maintain a long term ownership stake as it’s “developed.”

Does anyone ever why @cnn.com doesn't have a panel of 8 people discussing the weather? Like, they do it for every other news story, 20 seconds of 'news' and then round table discussion on the topic. I want to see that with clouds. And get that one Trumper that says it's all chem trails too.

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.