wendythedruidJun 4
Hard news / Iowa upset
The orange one swore he owned Iowa. Tuesday his hand-picked man lost. Randy Feenstra — endorsed days before the vote — got beaten in the governor's primary by a businessman the president never blessed. The winning streak? Snapped, in the one state he was sure of.https://twp.ai/4hs7Bw #Politics #Election2026 #Resistance #Democrats #Trump #News #USPolitics #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering
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The pastor / queer culture
A far-right pastor told American men that marijuana makes them "spiritually gay" — and that the cure is a cigarette. He praised a tobacco brand by name and called 60 years of cancer warnings a psyop. A man so terrified of softness he'd rather have cancer isn't a warning about us. He's a confession about him.https://twp.ai/4hs7Bv #QueerNews #Homophobia #Pride #TransRights #Masculinity #ChristianNationalism #Queer #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering
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Science / the fossils
62 million years ago, 4 million years after the asteroid, a stretch of Egyptian seafloor filled with fish — and held them in stone. 500 specimens. Paleontologist Sanaa El-Sayed pulled them from blistering desert, closing a ten-million-year hole in how life rebuilds after catastrophe.
https://twp.ai/4hs7C2
#Science #Paleontology #Fossils #Egypt #Extinction #Ocean #Climate #NatGeo #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering
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Wellness / somatic
Before you open the news, press both feet flat to the floor and name three things you can hear. Your nervous system needs proof you exist before the feed tells you to be afraid. The held breath tells your vagus nerve the emergency has passed, and the heart rate follows like a dog called home.
https://twp.ai/4hs7C1
#Mindfulness #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #MentalHealth #Grounding #Wellness #Breathwork #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering
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History / Hemphill + Rivera
Essex Hemphill wrote in the teeth of a plague, when the men in pulpits called the dying deserved. Thirty-four years later a pastor recycles the same machinery. We kept reaching for each other anyway. The fear was theirs. The tenderness was ours.
https://twp.ai/4hs7C0
#QueerHistory #EssexHemphill #SylviaRivera #Stonewall #LGBTQHistory #Pride #Poetry #QueerPoets #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering
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Iowa cracked a tooth in the machine. A fossil bed proved the ocean rebuilds richer. A pastor confessed his own fear and called it health advice. We held all of it today. No billionaire, no ad network — just readers who keep a queer voice with dirt under its nails lit. Click an advertiser. Every click is the next morning we get to write.
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