Today is Thanksgiving Day, and it is also the National Day of Mourning, which remembers the genocide of millions of Native Americans and their ongoing erasure today.

In giving thanks today, let us also reflect and act to stop the ongoing genocide of America's Indigenous Peoples.

Protecting children by <checks notes> threatening to disrupt a local bookstore's holiday toy drive and fundraising event that requires attendees to be over 18 unless accompanied by parent or guardian and includes a drag performance. Got it.

#protest #drag #lgbtq #fascism #terrorism

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how much do we love the German football squad this morning?

context: The German national football team posed wearing kit with rainbow stripes and their hands over their mouths in protest of pro-LGBTQ+ OneLove armbands being penalised during the World Cup in Qatar.

The players made a stand in a team photo ahead of their match against Japan yesterday, after teams were threatened with yellow cards if they wore the rainbow armband.

#lgbtq #worldcup #onelove #germany

When I get to 100,000 followers on Mastodon I will officially bring Mastodons back from extinction.

Boost and favorite this post to help make this happen ASAP.

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.

The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him

Researchers have estimated that if we still had a federal assault weapons ban, we would see 70% fewer mass shooting deaths.

S-E-V-E-N-T-Y PERCENT.

Reinstating it should be a no-brainer.