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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Nothing like paying your taxes while also donating to legal fights against the actions now funded by said taxes while donating to the essential services that are supposed to be funded by, yep, your taxes while your taxes are used to line the pockets of living caricatures of evil villains.

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Still can’t believe how many folks separately messaged me a kind note that contained the phrase, “I believe in you” over the past few days. Like 🥹😭 it’s got me all in my feelings. What incredibly powerful words to receive.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

To avoid civilisation collapse the amount invested in fossil fuels needed to be NEGATIVE for a few years already. This isn’t good news. That we are still investing in fossil fuels is not only catastrophically horrific. It is insane.

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Hey, new faces around here! I imagine some of you found me because of that (accidentally) viral (eek) Facebook (ugh) post. Welcome! I’m a full time farmer, but my background is in journalism, education, and climate activism, so if you thought maybe I was doing something intentional in that post, 1/?

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Rua Lupa 🐾 @rua-lupa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Don't be fasc

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025

Incredible news! The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order. The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care. ACLU statement here:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 13, 2025

CONTACT

Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org

Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org

BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon.

The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen.

“Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.”

“Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that…

In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide.

On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals.

"Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse.

“The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

“Blistering” is a little strong for what happens here, but I am glad that of all the assholes in congress, Jim McGovern is ours. (When that Worcester accent peaks through, ugh, I feel a weird amount of affection for him.)

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The last three weeks have been a disaster for America’s farmers and rural communities.

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’m a cis woman and being in community with trans and nonbinary people is the privilege of a lifetime. The monsters in power want to convince us that we are threats to each other, but it’s more clear all the time that our dignity and liberation are closely intertwined.

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

So dang proud of the National Young Farmers Coalition for taking clear and firm political stances and so grateful to get this email today.

Despite these threats, the new administration’s actions will not stop our commitment to advancing the policies and programs that serve our farmers, or our celebration of the achievements of Black farmers and communities.

The new executive orders that claim federal equity initiatives “threaten the safety of American men, women, and children across the Nation by diminishing the importance of individual merit, aptitude, hard work, and determination” are not only dangerous, but deeply hypocritical. Today only 4% of our country’s farmers are Black. The exclusion of Black farmers from USDA programs as recently as 1996 is well documented. Black farmers were systematically dispossessed of farmland and livelihoods, shrinking ownership from 15 million acres in 1900 to roughly 1 million acres today.

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Support your local community herb farm: sign up for PYO herbs this year! Pay what you can; pick what you want! www.foxtrotherbfarm.com/pyo

foxtrotherbfarm.com

Pick-Your-Own — Foxtrot Farm

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

NIH Office of Research on Women's Health-gone. bsky.app/profile/docb... 3/x

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We don't have to be praying people to employ this. If there's a thing you're yearning for or principles you believe in, ask yourself: how, even in small ways, am I working to make these things a reality? And if you're answer is, "I'm not," how are you going to change that?

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Last year, I listened to an interview with Reverend Muther Issac— whom you might remember as the Palestinian reverend in Bethlehem on the West Bank who cancelled Christmas. And he said: If you're not working to be the answer to your own prayers, you're not praying right. That changed me.

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

And just a reminder that everything, including farming is political and affected by politics! So many farmers (including us) were counting on Climate Smart funding for the next four years. Funding was intended to help farmers make adaptations to survive the effects of climate change.

Screenshot of CLIMATEWIRE by Politico. Headline reads: "Biden's agricultural climate spending among first programs hit by funding freeze"

by Maria Brown / 01/24/2025 06:11 AM EST

USDA designated $3.1 billion for Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities under former President Joe Biden.

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Delighted to announce that I wrote a few very political things in a newsletter today and only had 4 people unsubscribe. This tells me that I've been doing a good job of communicating my values up to this point!

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thanks for guessing @perennialhomestead.bsky.social ! You're so close! That 1793 of fresh herbs dried down to 296#.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

In this total lie, falsely claiming he has given California unlimited water, Trump normalizes the idea that the military "entering" a blue state at his command has magically solved an environmental problem. Incredibly dangerous stuff, as #climatechange accelerates.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are
OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!
5.67k ReTruths 18.7k Likes
Jan 27, 2025, 8:12 PM

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Ok, here's a fun game. In 2024, we grew 1793 lbs of fresh herbs that we then dridehydrted and processed. Anyone want to guess how many pounds we had total once the herbs were dried?

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Brianne Benness @bennessb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

a dear friend of mine is in labor today so I’m making some sage shortbread with the last of my @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social sage. plus, my mom gave me an old tin biscuit cutter of my grandmother’s over the holidays, so I particularly feel like I’m opening an ancestral portal today.

“Culinary herbs like sage are deeply embedded in culture and cultural memory (and rosemary and lavender and thyme), having accompanied us through the ages in our most comforting foods and recipes. Using them is a direct portal to ancestral experience and medicine.

We are all possibly entering an intense few weeks as we approach the presidential election. Sage can be an ally for us as we live through what can feel like unprecedented or even unlivable times, reminding us how much our ancestors lived through before us and how much beauty and safety we can find in small moments of care for ourselves and each other.”

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

[my generation upon graduating from college: sells our cars, starts bike commuting, stop buying fast food, become organic farmers, protest pipelines, have less kids] Our parents generation: "No, not like that!"

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

If only it felt better to be right. Alas, our smugness does not keep me warm.

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Been talking with other small ecologically-motivated farmer friends about ways that we are bracing/preparing for the changes that the new administration will bring to our work, and I thought I'd share some of the challenges and then, in another thread, some of our solutions. 🧵 (1)

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Foxtrot Farm @foxtrotfarm.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hi! I'm Abby, farmer at Foxtrot Farm in Ashfield, MA. We're a 6-acre farm that grows mostly botanicals, elderberries, and weird foods that walk the line between food and medicine. I started this farm eight years ago with the goal of growing climate resilient crops in climate resilient ways.

A white farmer crouches in harvest with a bouquet of purple leaves in her hands. She is wearing a black t-shirt, red bandana, work jeans, and a blue had with pins on it. Behind her, pink echinacea and white yarrow flowers extend into the background.

Abby, the farmer, stands in a field of waist-high purple echinacea blossoms on a gray spring day. She is wearing a black t-shirt, bed bandana, and blue baseball cap that reads "Climate Adaptation Fellowship." She is tan in the way that white people with Italian heritage get in the summer, making kind of a derp face and looking off to the right, smiling in a way that reveals small dimples.

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