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Two Chinese supertankers slid out of Hormuz carrying 4M barrels. Brent at 2022 highs. The U.N. cuts global growth to 2.5%. Low-income families eat it first. https://twp.ai/4hqTwf #Iran #Hormuz #WarPowers #OilCrisis #Geopolitics #USPolitics #Journalism #Introduction to the Thread

160 megawatts of data center proposed on golf course land in a city still scarred by Day Zero. No water-use disclosure. The land remembers what the contracts forget. https://twp.ai/4hqTwe #CapeTown #WaterJustice #DataCenters #BigTech #ClimateJustice #Equinix #SouthAfrica

A child in South Carolina walks past her classmates to a plastic toilet on the grass because HB 4756 locks the bathroom door. The 22nd state. A child. https://twp.ai/4hqTwd #TransRights #LGBTQ #SouthCarolina #TransKids #HumanRights #ACLU #QueerLiberation

"To survive in the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras — be a crossroads." Anzaldúa, 1987. Witness is the first form of refusal. https://twp.ai/4hqTwk #Anzaldúa #QueerTheory #Borderlands #Mestiza #LiteraryQueer #Resistance #ChosenFamily

Motherwort for the anxious pulse. Marshmallow for the gut burned raw. Bilberry for screen-fatigued eyes. The body keeps two ledgers — tend the one the news ignores. https://twp.ai/4hqTwj #Herbalism #PlantMedicine #Motherwort #SomaticHealing #SlowMedicine #Druid #EarthBased

A paused war, a thirsty server farm, a child's locked bathroom — and the elderflower opening anyway. We survive because readers refuse to let us go dark. Click an ad. Share. Keep us here. https://twp.ai/4hqTwi #IndependentMedia #SupportJournalism #QueerMedia #Substack #MutualAid #ReaderSupported