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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A good friend of mine is in Ukraine for 2 weeks and staying in cities that are heavily bombed, and constantly wondering if she is hurt is overwhelming. My heart breaks for people whose loved ones live in war zones. Holding that uncertainty with no end must be torture. Fuck war, fuck cruelty.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just having a competitive race this time feels like a big deal

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As I sit here looking up NJ open meeting law because I watched an episode of Bob's Burgers where school board members got together on school business and my brain immediately jumped to "I hope someone put out a public meeting warning", I am reminded that 5 people have told me I have "notary energy"

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 01/10/2026

The 988 hotline's LGBTQ+ youth services have been returned over a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Advocates say this is a crucial step to address a growing mental health crisis among LGBTQ+ youth. bit.ly/3TAna4Y

Colorful artwork showing two hands holding phones, with a rainbow emerging from the screens. Text reads: "A critical suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ+ youth is back. LGBTQ+ young people can once again press 3 after calling 988 to be connected with specially trained counselors."

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The woman who raised me was killed when I was 12. It was one of the most painful things I have experienced and the grief is still fresh over 30 years later. The government executing the killer wouldn't have changed any of that. The death penalty should be abolished.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't mind me, just getting water for tea out of the bathroom sink because one of my cats is asleep on the floor in front of the kitchen sink and I don't want to wake her up...

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's true. But you rarely upset me.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One lesson I've learned from the zoom era is that unless I monitor and consciously make a different facial expression, I will look annoyed, not neutral. Permanently annoyed. My wife and I have been together for 19 years and she still can't tell when I'm actually upset or just not monitoring my face.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Now we're three for three on cats we've been asked to drug before they get care anywhere

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And I work from home and have a ton of work I had planned to do today but I can't concentrate so that's also great

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's three of my least favorite things: a disruption to my carefully constructed routine, strangers in my house, and extremely loud noises

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The communication from our neighbor on this has not been what I would hope, given this is our only home and bathroom, but she has two condos and a house so....

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I did not expect this morning to include a visit from our downstairs neighbor's plumbers to take out the toilet and part of the wall of our only bathroom, but here we are. Happy Monday, everyone. @loveandcrossbones.org and I are having just a great, great time.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I thought I remembered the Albany GA police for something other than targeting old men who pick up $30. 5 of their cops were fired for misusing Flock - www.wjcl.com/article/alba...

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5 officers ousted from Georgia police department, charged after internal investigation

Five Georgia police officers are out of a job after an internal probe found serious misuse of license plate reader technology.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you, like me, have a sore throat that is so bad it's keeping you from eating solid foods, go get a strep test. Seriously. I waited 7 days to find out I had strep and the nurse practitioner at urgent care felt sorry for me because my throat looked so inflamed. Don't wait till an NP pities you!

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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's here! It's here! My solo dance show film A Singular They can now be rented on demand, from anywhere, by anyone (you??!). Come with me through the fluid embodiments that hold my core self. Audience feedback includes things like "gorgeous", "intimate", and "accessible" 💜💛🖤♿ tobymacnutt.vhx.tv

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A Singular They full access package

Access your choice of versions of the show with: - original audio with captions, switchable to audio description - always-on audio description, optional captions (for description and sound) This is a...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 19/08/2026

60 yrs ago, sex workers, drag queens and street youth held a landmark riot against police in SF's Tenderloin—the world's 1st Trans District now that space is held by Geo Group. trans people are still arrested at SF Pride—over tagging Flock cams. the trans fight against police in '66 and today:

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The fight to protect a trans landmark in California from ICE’s biggest contractor

Compton’s Cafe is one of the earliest examples of LGBTQ+ resistance. Today, a prison company occupies the site

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

if that stupid as fuck terf t-shirt was ACTUALLY* biologically accurate * don't get me started on XX/XY mosaicism, Swyer syndrome, de la Chapelle syndrome and more, we only get the one t-shirt

#SciArt silly doodle of a stickfigure in sunglasses on a white background wearing a really long black t-shirt basically a dress with a series of neon green text on it:
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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

That sculptor knows how to sculpt a butt. 10/10

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is hilarious, tbh. The Third Way folks have clearly never been to a DSA meeting. The "dirt" is that it takes forever to organize anything and half of the electoral committee members don't believe in electoral politics so endorsements take months

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is my 6th primary cycle as a campaign manager in VT and this work has aged me more than anything else I do

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You know, historically it always goes really well for rulers when they intentionally starve their people...

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh no, I'm so sorry, it's so bad! My mother's bills came to me, in a state she has never lived in, for two months after she had a stroke. My car insurance added her to my policy without my permission and it took me months and piles of documents to get her off. Screw all of these companies.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The remaining 50% builds houses that sell for less than $200k. Forget taxing second homes. If you can afford 3/4 of a million dollars, you are going to help others who can't. (2/2)

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My housing plan for VT is that every house that sells for $750K or more gets a $50K tax that goes into a housing fund. 25% of that fund creates supportive housing and pays support staff livable wage salaries. 25% creates non-congregate homes for folks moving out of homelessness. (1/2)

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I love you, just so you know yet again, and I'm glad that if you have to be there all day you at least have a cool breeze ❤️

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Fannie Lou Hamer. The police brutality that disabled her during her civil rights activism highlights the importance of police brutality as a disability rights issue.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We had a good streak going there, but now we're back to 1

A white board with the text "1 Day(s) since a squirrel entered the house"

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just give me 5 minutes with those people. I would love to explain the research I just had to do to make sure a plumber would be safe to reach out to. I would love to explain why I go places first here in frickin VT. I would like them to have to bear 1/100th of the mental stress that we do.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I has not, in fact, been good

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I didn't know I desperately needed an insect fact gumball machine until this very moment

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Every candidate I know and all of us who work on political campaigns are very, very ready for the primary to be done. We're not even able to take in the realities of what the general will be like. This cycle has been brutal.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

All essential viewing!

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My lizard brain is wildly unhappy. Thanks, weather, but I can do massive anxiety all by myself. This is unnecessary.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I grew up with the saying "red sky at night, sailors' delight/red sky in the morning, sailors take warning" but no one said anything about an unnatural peach colored wildfire haze that looks like it's signaling armageddon. Rude, frankly

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Since a whole bunch of people are all of sudden very sympathetic to vets with PTSD, sexual trauma while serving in the military is 4 times more likely to cause PTSD than combat, just fyi

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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/07/2026

Dr. Fred Fay was an activist, psychologist, and computer programmer who was essential in developing assistive technology that helped people with disabilities access the world around them. As a leader in the Independent Living Movement, Dr. Fred Fay helped advance disability rights legislation.

Graphic titled "Disability Pride Month" there is a black and white photo of Dr. Fred Fay, underneath the photo there is a quote attributed to Dr. Fred Fay reading "I am proud of who I am and part of me is the disability. I would rather be me than anyone I know.” Underneath the image of Dr. Fred Fay it reads "Assistive technology pioneer and Disability Rights Advocate."

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm here for a political purity test that includes having comiitted rape as a disqualification for elected office.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Half my feed is swearing about the world cup the other half is swearing about Planter and it's not easy to tell which is which...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I am so fucking tired of woman having to stand on a national stage and tear their hearts open and pour their trauma out in front of the entire country. And still not be believed. Or be told it doesn’t matter because we need her assaulter. I’m so tired of it.

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

For real. I am not 100% and am wondering if I am actually capable of doing all the work I had lined up... I wish I could send whoever decided to pull that shit last night an invoice

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I hope the people who set some serious fireworks off from 10pm till after midnight last night (in this densely populated neighborhood with a bunch of refugees living here) are itchy and inflamed for a month straight

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A dragonfly hanging out in the shade on a very, very sunny day in my backyard, possibly a meadowhawk considering I have them in my yard every year...

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L hale @lhvt.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

What is also brutal is how angry our long haired cat is that we won't let her out to sleep on the porch in that heat. Tabitha is big mad

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