Sixty-two percent of this country has looked at the man in the Oval Office and said no. That is not a whisper. That is a hull breach. But a cornered animal doesn't retreat — it reaches for the nearest sovereign nation and flings it at the wall. Cuba. An aircraft carrier. An executive order before lunch. The disapproval is real.
#News #Politics #Democracy #TrumpDisapproval #Cuba #CorneredAnimal #Authoritarianism #PollNumbers #Resistance #lgbtqia #trans
While Washington guts every protection that ever restrained a corporation, a Green Party MP in Wellington walks into parliament and says: a whale is a person. The Tohorā Oranga Bill would grant Pacific whales freedom of movement, habitat restoration, protected social structures. 22% of New Zealand's marine mammals face extinction.
#Nature #Law #WhalePersonhood #NewZealand #IndigenousRights #TohorāOranga #EnvironmentalLaw #PacificOcean #Conservation #lgbtqia #trans
A teacher in Rockford holds Heather Has Two Mommies against her chest and decides to leave it on the shelf. Third grade. The DOJ has just told 36 Illinois school districts that book might be a civil rights violation. No specific incident cited. The investigation is the punishment. A child reading about a family that looks like hers is not a crime.
#Education #LGBTQ #BookBans #CivilRights #SchoolLibraries #QueerFamilies #DOJ #Censorship #lgbtqia #trans
May 4, 1970. Four students killed at Kent State. May 4, 1886. Haymarket. May 4, 1626. Peter Minuit "purchased" Manhattan — the founding fraud. The dead are watching, and they are not impressed. We remember not as ceremony but as muscle memory. The body knows the sound of a federal letter the way a deer knows a footstep.
#History #KentState #Haymarket #May4 #Memory #Protest #StudentMovement #NeverForget #AmericanHistory #lgbtqia #trans
Beltaine has come. The honeysuckle along Ponce de Leon opened over the weekend. The earth beneath your feet has been here through every empire that called itself eternal. Inhale four. Hold four. Exhale six. Hold two. Your body remembers that you have always known how to come down from a fight. Beannachd na talmhainn fo do chasan.
#Spirituality #Beltaine #Herbalism #Grounding #NervousSystem #Gaelic #Healing #Mindfulness #lgbtqia #trans
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