Parents For The Planet

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

Your periodic reminder that if you can’t get into nature, get into art. On terrible days when your heart is breaking but there’s snow all around, art can be soul-soothing too.

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

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The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it.

WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

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"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Great Backyard Bird Count – Join us each February when the world comes together to watch, learn about, count, and celebrate birds. Each year people from around the world come together to watch, learn about, count, and celebrate birds. Join us in February!

2026 Great Backyard Bird Count is on! Feb 13-16. Report your sightings on eBird or just follow along and watch sightings accumulate around the globe in real time. It’s getting birdy! #birds www.birdcount.org

This is … I don’t know the word. Murderous?

That’s a good stab-the-universe craft. I’ve recentered embroidery for similar mental wellbeing purposes.

Oh that sucks. Sometimes there’s not much else to say. I’m so sorry. Take care of yourself. Rage craft as needed.

checkoutchrisb (IG) has an urgent request. His wife, Stephanie has been detained in an ICE detention center for nearly 2 months & they need our help.

Please go to FreeSteph.com & then share this post widely.

Let’s get Stephanie home. Remember, the only thing more powerful than hate is LOVE.

Yeah, you are not alone there. Which may or may not be comforting.

I know it's rough out there. But also The Muppet Show is back, Sabrina Carpenter is backed by a chicken chorus, and this is a little bit of the escape I needed.

The cover of the Feb 9 New Yorker shows the Statue of Liberty as a shooting gallery target with bullet holes in it.

Well that’s a cover.

Oh dear . . .

Angela Thirkell wrote really light funny books about English village life.

A house district in Houston shaped to show the outline of a head of a cow, I think? As a cutout in the center. It’s pretty stunning

I know I’m supposed to be following the Taylor Rehmet election, but let’s take a minute to appreciate the gerrymandering glory of the other Texas special election running today, the Texas 18th primary.

We are relistening to @nightvaleradio.bsky.social Alice Isn’t Dead. Just got to Part 3, Chapter 6: Defining America. We are a country waiting to be organized, full of people who know but pretend they don’t. Maybe it’s a good time to get back in the truck with Keisha.

🎧 listen this is heartbreaking 💔

@coldfishstix on TikTok for the whole track

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Yes please!

As usual, Charlotte says the exact right thing.

Whee! That’s great! Congrats to all future book devourers. And you, of course. Celebrate thoroughly and with gusto.

I have the stuff, still figuring it out. Maybe we should buddy up. Or I should give you my stuff? Or I should stop enabling someone else’s hobby switching habit and step away. Yeah, probably that one.

Week of action in honor of Alex Pretti, RN and all others killed by ice Join National Nurses United RN members in a week-long series of actions to honor Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE, as well as demand that Congress vote to immediately abolish this violent,...

National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE

www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...

YouTube video by Billy Bragg BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

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Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · No Kings On Saturday, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in...

Monday, January 26
8 – 9pm EST

TONITE⌚🧐

".. We will talk through rights when documenting and recording law enforcement encounters .."

#NoKings #Indivisible #FreeDC

“Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - Mobilize
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STATEMENT FROM MATT MOBERG, CHAPLAIN OF THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET. MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS YOU ONLY WEAR WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS. DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING." DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP. TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR, LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME, "WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON." NOT METAPHOR. NOT HYPERBOLE. A THREAT DRESSED UP IN A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK. PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK. PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED. UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL. UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS. STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM. STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM." STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH. YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY, WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE. YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO "HEAL THE LAND" IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND. THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE THAT ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH. THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING. THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM. THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT. IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE-GOOD. GROWTH ALWAYS IS.

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