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My hands shook before the kettle boiled. A man threatened to murder a civilization by bedtime, and a school district stripped trans kids of their names before the ink dried.

Survival tactic for today: Put both palms flat on a wall. Press until your arms shake. The structure holds you.

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What Survives the Morning: A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight, Because Trump Is A Fuckwad

Witness a poetic reckoning with civilization's collapse under political chaos. Explore what survives when power corrupts, and reclaim your agency amid the darkness.

Wendy The Druid

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wendythedruid 2d ago

Tha an roth a' tionndadh — the wheel is turning. Early April and the dogwoods don't care who's bombing whom. They split their buds anyway, and the red clay of Piedmont Park holds last night's rain like a promise it intends to keep.

What Survives the Morning: A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight, Because Trump Is A Fuckwad

Witness a poetic reckoning with civilization's collapse under political chaos. Explore what survives when power corrupts, and reclaim your agency amid the darkness.

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wendythedruid

The President told seventy million people a civilization would die by nightfall, then posted in all caps like a man ordering room service. His Education Department quietly gutted trans kids' protections in five districts. The cruelty runs parallel....

What Survives the Morning: A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight, Because Trump Is A Fuckwad

Witness a poetic reckoning with civilization's collapse under political chaos. Explore what survives when power corrupts, and reclaim your agency amid the darkness.

Wendy The Druid

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wendythedruid 2d ago

That spray-tanned despot, twelve hours from his 8 PM deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, typed extinction with the same thumbs he uses to doom-scroll cable news. The U.S. military had already struck Kharg Island overnight. Bridges hit. A train station.

What Survives the Morning: A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight, Because Trump Is A Fuckwad

Witness a poetic reckoning with civilization's collapse under political chaos. Explore what survives when power corrupts, and reclaim your agency amid the darkness.

Wendy The Druid

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wendythedruid 2d ago

A trans student in Delaware Valley woke up last week and the bathroom matching their gender identity was administratively locked. Not by a mob. By a memo from Kimberly Richey, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, who called the protections "unnecessary and unlawful burdens"

What Survives the Morning: A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight, Because Trump Is A Fuckwad

Witness a poetic reckoning with civilization's collapse under political chaos. Explore what survives when power corrupts, and reclaim your agency amid the darkness.

Wendy The Druid

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wendythedruid 2d ago

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." — Audre Lorde

The reckoning sits between what you read and what you do next — the half-second where your body decides to scroll or stand. Today drew a line from

What Survives the Morning: A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight, Because Trump Is A Fuckwad

Witness a poetic reckoning with civilization's collapse under political chaos. Explore what survives when power corrupts, and reclaim your agency amid the darkness.

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wendythedruid 2d ago

Food As Medicine
Spring onions → Slice thin, scatter raw over anything hot — rice, eggs, broth. The bite is the season on your tongue. Uinnean earraich

Skip the bagged salad → Head of romaine, bunch of radishes, olive oil, lemon, salt. Under $4. Three minutes.

What Survives the Morning: A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight, Because Trump Is A Fuckwad

Witness a poetic reckoning with civilization's collapse under political chaos. Explore what survives when power corrupts, and reclaim your agency amid the darkness.

Wendy The Druid

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wendythedruid 2d ago

"The Argonauts is the name for those who changed every plank of their ship yet still called it by its name." — Maggie Nelson

So a man threatening a civilization before dinner, children losing their names in bureaucratic silence, the earth warming while the God Squad signs permits, and still, outside your window, whatever is blooming is blooming in complete ignorance of the news.

What Survives the Morning: A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight, Because Trump Is A Fuckwad

Witness a poetic reckoning with civilization's collapse under political chaos. Explore what survives when power corrupts, and reclaim your agency amid the darkness.

Wendy The Druid