libramoon

@libramoon4.bsky.social

poet/writer, astrology student, progressive, pagan, music lover, nonbinary (not just for gender), world viewer

I know there’s something better down the road. We need to find a place where we are safe. We walk into that which we cannot yet see. —Elizabeth Alexander with the poem wrote for Barack Obama's first presidential inauguration; today is Obama's 65th birthday. #PoemOfTheDay https://bit.ly/4vH8Xjz

Praise Song for the Day

Praise song for struggle, praise song for the day. Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself, others by first do no harm or take no more than you need.…

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If I love me completely, I need hate none if I am love manifest when my happy best if love is always both core and quest, soar and rest, inhale-express how exist apart unless as cruel, yes stupid, game? If Love reveals as each true secret name, we are ultimately indeed all one in love.

Breaking: ICE is funneling massive DNA data into the FBI’s database, targeting immigrants, children, & even peaceful protesters. Expanding government reach to track families & build a nationwide surveillance system is terrifying. We must fight for privacy & justice! newrepublic.com/post/213887/...

ICE Is Using Immigration Arrests to Build a Massive DNA Database

A new report accused the agency of “abusing” its power for policing.

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An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools.
Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez
By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power. Those physicals, Maria explains, are usually perfunctory: “Like, Are you walking normally? Are you lightheaded? I have never had to take any clothes off. I’ve never felt uncomfortable or violated.” If IL26-638 were to pass and Maria were still in school, she says she would likely drop out of her team. (We’re withholding Maria’s real name to protect her privacy.) “I honestly don’t know if I would be able to do these tests,” she adds. “It would also make me question, If I do it, are all my teammates going to too? Or would I just play with the three or four girls who are willing to or have access to do it?”

Sanders: Look at what Mamdani is doing and contrast that with Trump. Trump cuts funding for child care. Mamdani thinks we should have free, universal child care. Who do you think is on the side of the American people on these issues?

We disgrace ourselves as a nation each and every day Donald Trump remains in office. The drafters of the United States Constitution provided a remedy for a criminally insane president like the one we have—impeachment and removal ...

Isaac Asimov: There is a cult of ignorance in the U.S., and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism is a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.

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I’m leading an amicus brief to the Supreme Court with Senator Whitehouse to allow states and local communities to hold Big Oil accountable for knowingly contributing to and lying about climate change. No immunity for Big Oil.

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Democrats only have to viable in the Midterms. Trump is stealing your money, grifting off the Presidency and doesn't give a crap about you. You're paying higher food prices, higher gas prices and making less money. People don't have HC and food. Trump wants all of us to suffer.