We may be living in Hell, but that doesn't mean we have to like it, accept it or surrender.
29.01.2025 18:05 β π 38 π 18 π¬ 2 π 0@jcatehill.bsky.social
Writer. Lover of water, the arts, architecture, books, travel; advocate for voting, civil & human rights for all. Posts reflect my personal opinions.
We may be living in Hell, but that doesn't mean we have to like it, accept it or surrender.
29.01.2025 18:05 β π 38 π 18 π¬ 2 π 0This order doesn't just ban trans people from the military. It states that this administration believes trans people lack "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" and that being trans "is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member."
28.01.2025 04:39 β π 334 π 108 π¬ 21 π 19this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.
28.01.2025 04:26 β π 11211 π 2626 π¬ 370 π 101Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending thatβs been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. Heβs seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
28.01.2025 03:25 β π 7870 π 2781 π¬ 359 π 368Any Canadian thinking that we, as Canadians, would be better off being the 51st state is off their rocker.
#SheShed
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until Iβm six feet in the ground.
24.01.2025 01:24 β π 151060 π 19476 π¬ 4260 π 1988DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized
Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.
www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...
She was and is a real hero.
The bad news is that the world is unpredictable and uncontrollable. The good news is that we are not helpless, and we shouldnβt feel hopeless. We can save ourselves and one another. Hereβs how.
22.01.2025 15:21 β π 632 π 231 π¬ 24 π 31Today would have marked 52 years of Roe as the law of the land. But Donald Trump packed the Supreme Court with anti-abortion extremists to get it overturned.
This week, he cut off access to reproductiverights.gov.
We must keep fighting for womenβs rights.
I meanβ¦
22.01.2025 01:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0we are the adaptation
no oppressor can imagine
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we are building our stamina
we dream of the real world
we carry god, and see god, in each of our faces
your holiness is not too heavy, not for me
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β..There will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blastedβ¦ Butβ¦ we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.β - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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