Two heat domes have joined hands over this continent. The old word for this stretch past the solstice is na laethanta madaidh — the dog days, when the land goes still and waits.
Tha an talamh a' cumail a h-anail — the earth is holding her breath.
Listen for the first evening cicada anyway. She sings into the heat, not against it. So can you.
#Nature #Phenology #Summer #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Druid #EarthBased #Trans #LGBTQ #Pride #Queer #Seasons
JB Pritzker signed 3 trans-rights bills into law in Illinois. Then he walked in a Pride parade that same afternoon.
That is how you know he means it. Not the signature — a body in the street, after, in the open, in the heat.
"We are a few steps closer to a state where all can live without fear of hate," he said.
#LGBTQ #Pride #Trans #Transgender #TransRights #Queer #Illinois #Politics #News #Solidarity #ElderTrans #LGBTQIA #Resist
All in today's Daily Gathering → https://twp.ai/4hrwFR
Linden flower — teile, the lime tree. A spoonful steeped covered ten minutes, drunk cool in the evening when the heat won't release the night.
The old people kept it for exactly this: a tea that loosens the jaw you didn't know you were clenching.
Tha do chorp a' cuimhneachadh — your body remembers.
What do you reach for when the night won't cool? Comments?
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Ninety-one years. That is how long Humphrey's Executor stood — the rule that a president cannot simply fire the people meant to check him.
Monday, in a 6-3 vote, 6 justices struck the match. Trump v. Slaughter. They let him fire an FTC commissioner without cause and torched the precedent that kept independent agencies independent.
Justice Gorsuch — a Trump appointee — wrote it into the record himself: the fourth branch's powers "have just been reassigned to the President."
When the man Trump seated on the bench warns you the brakes are gone, the question is no longer whether the car is speeding. It is who it hits.
How is the warning coming from his own appointee, and we're meant to call it routine?
#Politics #News #Journalism #SCOTUS #Democracy #Resist #USPol #Fediverse #Newsletter #Trans #LGBTQ #Solidarity
↳ Full piece, with the FCC thread and what to call your senators about → https://twp.ai/4hrwFW
A stranger picked up a phone and told Michigan Child Protective Services a lie about a gay father and his four-year-old twins.
By nightfall: a CPS worker and a state trooper at the door in Traverse City. Forensic interviews arranged for the children. The father ordered not to be alone with them. He spent the night away, awake the whole of it.
He called it the ugliest thing that has happened to him since he entered public life.
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They are not afraid of who we are. They are afraid of who our children will get to become — and so they reach for the children first.
When the lie weaponizes the very system meant to protect kids, who does that system actually protect?
↳ (self-reply) In his own words, in today's issue → https://twp.ai/4hrwFU
@wendythedruid @F3715H "national, racial, religious or ethnic group" see how gender and sexual minorities are not in that list?
Strikingly similar to how they are not in the German constitution as the only group targeted by Nazis not in Art. 3 GG...
Digging up German history you'll find that §175 criminalising gay people was kept after the war and gay concentration camp survivors were often put into prison. The group that wasn't liberated by the allies. Oh, not to forget the fate of Alan Turing.
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