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While this administration has another two years in office, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes wherever we have the power to do so, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future.

Sam Forstag takes the lead in Montana! When asked about transgender people and sports and healthcare bans, he said, "government has no business sticking their nose in our personal lives." And then says its a distraction while "they pick our pockets" WOW.

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr@zoandbehold.bsky.social · 4w ago

Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.

You can thank Southerners by no longer shitting on this region of the country. There is a legacy of radical organizing here that never stopped, and it goes far beyond election season.

An appropriately Halloween bit to end Optimism October on: we just discovered a whole new species of spider on the Mauritian island of Ilot Vacoas, dubbed the Mauritian tidal trapdoor spider (Idioctis marevallum). Even now there are whole animal species yet undiscovered. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Spider found in Mauritius like discovering 'hidden treasure'

The new species of trapdoor spider is discovered by scientists from Durrell working in Mauritius.

bbc.com

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · last mo.

Fuck it, I'm putting it out there: Optimism October.

"I have great respect for my grandparents and parents for the extraordinary efforts they took to protect us children from the transgenerational trauma [of] the Genocide.. Herero men would never mention the genocide. They would only speak about the war of resistance." Germany's genocidal trial run.

Reckoning with the 20th century’s first genocide in Namibia

German abuses of the Herero and Nama were the 20th century’s first genocide, a harbinger of the Nazis' WWII Holocaust.

aljazeera.com