Rachel Martin

You don't go all in on Doug Wilson without agreeing with him and his pseudo intellectual theocracy where manly men sit around drinking microbrews and smoking cigars talking about how all the homosexuals mean God put the nation under a curse because it's not a godly theocracy like it should be.

YouTube video by s_g Nick Cave and Neko Case - She's Not There

And my favorite cover of “She’s Not There,” Neko Case and Nick Cave!

You’re welcome!!! 😁

Jenny Boylan is a personal heroine, btw. “She’s Not There” was so helpful as I began to navigate my own journey of being seen as a woman. Plus, we’re the same age so a lot resonated with me, having experienced so many of the same attitudes, the lack of knowledge and language.

JFB in conversation with Ali V. today on @ms.now

Books open minds and hearts. That's why they keep trying to ban them.

READING IS RESISTANCE.
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a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious

turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration

I recently resigned as D precinct captain in part so I can do just that again. I appreciate our Idaho Democrat representatives and candidates a lot, but where I live we're not going to flip the district. I could be wrong, but the only hope I see to turn things around where I live is reform the R's.

This looks so interesting! There was a time the memory of so many friends lost was too fresh for this title to entice me. Now that it's been 40 years, I might finally be ready.

Beautiful shots!

Honestly a more impressive move would have been covering the missed income of transgender drivers now out of a job

TODAY. Join us to support our kids.

Capitalism, you keep finding new ways to disgust me.

Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” the group's CEO, Roger Krone, said.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 1
Scouting America wastes no time in pushing back on SecDef Hegseth's claims that it agreed to limit membership based on assigned sex: "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” said CEO Roger Krone.

I just joined the club a couple years ago, welcome! Hope there’s still a few spins around the dance floor for all of us!

As you’ve pointed out, people without privilege have had to vote for least harm all their lives. A lesson some of us have had to learn later in life. I can well imagine I’ll vote for a candidate in 2028 (hope we have a vote) who will give away more of my rights, but will be best hope for the future.

I have no animosity toward Boy Scouts, I'm sure it suits lots of people! I have trans women friends now who loved it! It just wasn't for me, I was always envious of the girls and the activities they were enjoying, which were much more in line with my own interests. I'm glad kids have access to both.

I was appointed the troop scribe, which suited me. And I earned one merit badge, for cooking, the scoutmasters said my camp meal (the final test) was the best they'd ever had! Plus, on the drives back and forth to camp, the asst scoutmaster introduced us to Johnny Cash nonstop on his 8-track player.

I slept outside by the embers of the campfire, and in fact woke up one morning and discovered my cloth sleeping bag had burned up around me in the night. So I spent the rest of the campout nights shivering. I wasn't entirely unsuccessful as a scout, though. I did earn my knife and hatchet card, and

But I recall like yesterday it was hot, dry, buggy, and sand got into everything. Snakes, too, despite the lack of water. The opposite of my ideal habitat and the memory of those long, hot, dirty, thirsty days are still fresh. Since I had no friends, I didn't sleep in a tent with the others.

My most vivid memories of those couple years were the "camp." Someone had donated some acres out in the piney woods of central Florida and our Scoutmasters put us to work building what seemed to me a mini-fort. They cut down trees and we hauled and stacked logs, what was accomplished I can't recall.

As part of the never ending project to turn me into a boy/man, my Dad put me into Boy Scouts for a year when I was about 10, and later at 14. My Dad wasn't harsh, but it was always clear I was never boy enough, nor did I try to be. I had my interests and wasn't bothered that they weren't "boyish."

Since BSA Scouts are in the news and GSUSA cookies are making the rounds, I thought I might tell my story of being a trans kid and scouting back in the 70's. Of course I didn't have that language, I just knew I was "different." And everyone else knew I was "different," too.

Posted for protest

Stop the War on Iran Rally at 6 PM today in Anchorage

This is very short notice of course, but if you're angry at what's happening right now then here's a potential outlet for that being put together by PSL Anchorage.

Mirroring History This silver-plated tea set may appear on the surface to be a simple assortment of serving containers. But what has this set seen, what has it heard?

"By serving tea in her home, Joanna Howard could meet with the prominent abolitionists with less fear of violent retribution. These acts helped knit together a network that survived and spanned many generations, involving their own children." - I loved reading about tea & Black history.

hands off I ran Saturday, February 28 2:30 PM Pike Place market 85th Pike Street lots of sponsors

#Seattle please join me at this protest. The US and Israel are bombing schools again this time in Iran.

Yay!!!!!

The weakest & most vulnerable out here are confronting the world while the strong complain how it could make them uncomfortable. The brokest out here are distributing resources to each other in network to survive white the comfortable pinch pennies.

Hope your trip goes without a hitch!

transvestigation is a punishment that happens to cis women who say anything a transphobe doesn't like. they don't even have to actually think you're trans, because the accusation itself is meant to be the insult. it happens to me a lot

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Join us tomorrow 3pm Twin Falls, #Idaho