The Progressive Parent

If anyone wants to know what to get me for Valentine's Day, I wear a size FUCK THE SYSTEM.🖕🏽🧊🚔🤡🚫

Cannibal Jellyfish Take Over Venice's Lagoons » Explorersweb The bizarre species came to the Adriatic accidentally in the ballast water of cargo ships. It is devastating the Italian city's lagoon ecosystem.

CANNIBALISTIC JELLYFISH WITH DISAPPEARING ANUSES CAUSE CHAOS IN VENICE.

🤨🪼🙈🍑🕳😱🌊🛶🏘

Anyhow, sweet dreams...

Anytime one of my kids says 6 7, I ask them, "Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9!" and they look at me with the same 😑 face I just made and I feel like nature is healing a little.

BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism

SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism

(around the No Kings logo, images of megaphones, and a photo of protesters holding signs that read “ICE OUT”) MARCH 28 NO KINGS NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.

The date for the next No Kings Day is set.

But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵

Maintaining boundaries, especially with children, does not have to be harsh- having a stone wall is better for them to touch than an electric fence, especially if we want them to trust that it is/we are a safe, healthy place for them to lean on in troubled times. 2/2

Gentle parenting doesn't mean permissive parenting- and those that equate the two often equate the polar opposite as being harsh with being loving and should probably sit with that. 1/2

Happy birthday to both Dolly Parton and Janis Joplin, both born on this day, three years apart. 🥳🎶✨️

“I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence... Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.”

- Coretta Scott King

Someone tell Trump we don't need a new war, we have plenty of conflict at home.

Sending love to any and everyone struggling this holiday season. 🎄🫶🏻✨️

#SendingLove #Holidays #Holidaze #SingleParents #SingleMoms #SingleDads #CommunityCare #MentalHealth #Grief #CommunitySupport

Easier on the budget, environment, and mind. 🫶🏻🎁😌✨️

It takes a village sharing what we can, not individuals grinding themselves into oblivion for performative capitalism. It's about supporting each other and making memories, now and the rest of the year, too. 💚

#Holidays #SecondHand #MutualAid #Gift

MASSIVE FUCKING SHOUT OUT to single moms trying to pull off magic right now with limited support. I see you. You're doing great. Your kids are going to love it and you. 🤞🎄🪄🎁✨️

He really just said, "Let them eat cake." 🖕🏽😤🫸🎂

What kind of leader wants to actively take food out of the mouths of its country's most vulnerable population? Absolutely vile behavior.

www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...

Domestic workers count on SNAP. Trump's shutdown is hitting hard. Cleaners, nannies, and home health aides work full-time—and still disproportionately rely on food stamps.

“The ripple effect on families, children, and communities is going to be enormous.”

Cleaners, nannies, and home health aides work full-time—and still disproportionately rely on food stamps. Trump's shutdown is hitting them especially hard.

My phone has a block/cord combo that is so slow, it barely keeps it from dying. If I unplug it to utilize a function, it plugs back in and stays at a now lowered rate until it has a large chunk of time to recharge and do nothing else.

This post is about Capitalism.
Fix the block.

#PovertyTax

*rolls apocalypse headline dice* 🎲

Yikes, "Aggressive monkeys, okaaay... 😅😈🐒

*nervously rolls again*

...with Covid ~AND~ STIs?! 💉🤨

*rolls a last time*

ESCAPE FROM AN OVERTURNED TRUCK, I'm out.

This timeline is cooked.

Poor people aren't the problem, the fact that society creates them and then punishes them for being poor is. ❤️‍🩹

#PovertyTax

Absolutely. I'm so here for literally any break in the madness right now.

Finally, some good news- and it's from The Bay, too! 🌉✊🏼

"A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday indefinitely barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees during the government shutdown."

#GovernmentShutdown #Meliorism #SanFrancisco #SF #California #NorCal #Resist

In March, Trump cut $500 million in deliveries to Food Banks (about a quarter of their federal funding) causing millions of pounds of food to go to waste and food banks to struggle to fill the gaps at a time where food insecurity is at its highest since The Great Recession. 😒🤬🖕🏽

This is diabolical.

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

They've officially announced no food aid in November- it's about to get realllyyyy rough for millions of families. And for what?

Giving shelf stable foods before an EBT pause is good, but give it *to the parents*.

Ramen isn't a treat. Kids are trick or treating for candy, and even the ones that are about to be food compromised deserve to have treats- and may have no other way to get them. 🎃🍭🍫🍬

#Halloween #TrickOrTreat

Right wing american christianity is an interesting religion. It grants privileges to its adherents, but obligations to everyone else. bsky.app/profile/razz...

If you learn of someone suffering and reach out to shake a finger instead of lending a hand, you are a bad person, and I feel sorry for any children in your care.

Stop fucking judging how people suffer, assholes.

The rumors about ICE getting glitter bombed are just that- until someone makes them true... 💁🏼‍♀️👮‍♂️✨️ 🔫

Two people in Portland got 5 days in jail for dousing cops with glitter and lube in 2019- one cop said the glitter "remained in his service weapon afterward". 😂

Terrifying. An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety and fluoride have been introduced in statehouses across the US so far this year. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted.

For my forever Space Sis: 🎂

💞

Using the National Guard to support food banks > using the National Guard as a personal army to hunt brown people and anyone protesting doing so.

California gets it. 🍽🌁 ❤️‍🩹

(Also there's a Karl emoji?!)