Joanne Rixon

Puyallup

see also: Sequim

yes please

Help Kimberly flip NC-07! Kimberly is a mom, educator, and social worker running against a MAGA extremist.

Ope this is going off

Ok folks! My Congressman is a MAGA clown who's on multiple ag committees.

As a farmer, I need ag policymakers who tell Trump no.

So for every donation to Kim Hardy, who's running against my
Congressman, I will post one (1) ag fact.

secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...

I'm sad about it, too. He really was one of those people who quietly grew connections all over the community 💚

Queen of the Andes - Lightspeed Magazine Every morning before work, I measure the Queen of the Andes. I’ve nicknamed her Nova because her trunk is a ball of spikes that reminds me of a supernova in slow motion, an explosion of leaves pointin...

rounding up some of my most Latinx work for #LatinxHeritageMonth 🧵

1/7: "Queen of the Andes," a story about climate refugees in the Andes attempting to save the titular plant, a rare species of bromeliad, from extinction. published in @lightspeedmagazine.com and listed as notable in BASFF!

have similar/related beliefs. Which is not to say that everyone saying 'christianity is the problem' is wrong--there's certainly something to that--but I do sometimes wonder how much indigenous beliefs have changed N. Am christianity without the mainstream realizing

In Coast Salish tradition ghosts are the remnants of the dead but don't retain any of the individual characteristics of the dead person--they're just like the spiritual shadow of the person, which can bring illness (physical/spiritual) if it falls on you. I know other indigenous N. Am cultures

"you can't get people to participate in other modes of living by just showing them the wound and asking them to feel how much it really hurts" turns out this is true for literally every single catastrophe we're facing right now, who knew

I almost always bike to the doctor! Annoyingly, I can't right now, because I have a knee injury and I'm supposed to rest it for two weeks but like. There are so many things I go to the doctor for that are compatible with biking! Last time I was in a full hospital it was to visit a friend anyway!

Never forget how many more of us there are than them.

Never forget how much more power we can have, when we act in solidarity and simply take it for ourselves.

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day - a reminder that one person saying "No" can make an unimaginable difference.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

and Gluesenkamp Perez 🙃

1/1🧵 Immigration enforcement report: WA State | July 16-31, 2025
In the last two weeks of July, the WAISN Deportation Defense Hotline received 445 calls from people documenting or verifying immigration activity in their area. Here’s what we’re seeing 👇

I just love the way he talks so dang much. That rising tone on "neighbors" 🤌

if you're interested in pop culture that actually pushes back against the erosion of freedoms, you'll get more of it from one issue of an SFF zine than you will in a year of every streaming service combined

I Can't Tell You What's Coming or: how to face the news

"I’m not afraid of the fallout of last week’s news because everything bad that might come out of it was already being planned." open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

It’s natural & correct to love big trees. But it’s NOT natural or correct to love a few big trees in your own nbhd at the expense of housing our neighbors, fighting climate change, saving many more old trees elsewhere, growing the next gen of plants, & building a just city free from car dependence.

Wednesday! Our annual hygiene drive with @ywcapierceco to assist them in providing needed items for clients in all of their programs! YWCA has always advocated for those in our community who require housing, counseling, legal assistance, emergency shelter, and much, much more.

Public transit and science fiction!! You know you want it! Check out this incredible FREE event tomorrow, 9/16, in San Francisco. The good news is that this event will be livestreamed, so you can sign up to watch remotely at the link!

I know this is such a hard grief to bear. I'm so sorry 💚

Adult Fiction Books to Celebrate Latine Heritage Month 2025 Celebrate Latine Heritage Month with Bookshop.org’s curated recommendations of Latine authors.

Bookshop is offering 20 percent off select titles to celebrate Latin American Heritage Month, including THE BEWITCHING and other books (The Great Divide, Pink Slime, etc). Use code LHM25 at checkout to receive 20% off. bookshop.org/lists/adult-...

I wrote a book called "Stories Are Weapons" which is a history of psychological war in the United States. In it, I describe how the US military came to a simple definition of rhetoric used for destructive purposes in war (so-called psyops) vs. for democratic debate. Want to know what it is? (1/3)

R.F. Kuang's Babel: An Arcane History

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Black people are experts on how America works. If you want to survive this country and hopefully meaningfully transform it, you’d do well to listen to us.

My favorite Holmes-and-Watson type stories manage to combine the eccentric savant detective with the sidekick who knows rent is due on Thursday!

I keep thinking about how a couple of years ago someone walked into an apartment maybe 20 minutes away from mine and murdered a trans woman named Unique Banks and shot her mom, her boyfriend, and two other trans fems and it barely got a news story and meanwhile

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Already building up their narrative. “It prob wasn’t a trans but it COULD have been a trans. You probubly thought it was a trans at first for absolutely no reason and not at all because it’s what we’ve been propagandizing for years at this point, no it’s just cause the transes are bad.”

I don't think I've ever seen anything more Seattle lmao
She better win!

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