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Rorial

@queerlyhere.bsky.social
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Writer, Poet, the queer witch next door, always seeking the company of trees. Neurodivergent spoonie. [they/them]

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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Almost all of the pagans, witches, atheists, and agnostics in my life are behind Pope Leo right now. This is the best example I can think of to combat the far right extremist claim that christians are always hated because of who they are instead regardless of what they do.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Crowds of Kansans waiting outside #Leavenworth commission erupt in grief and anger to news of for-profit i🧊 detèntion prìson being greenlighted in 4-1 vòte. #kansas #freestate #kc #leavenworthks #johnbrown
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Crowds of Kansans waiting outside #Leavenworth comission erupt in grief and anger to news of for-profit 🧊 #detention prison being greenlighted in 4-1 vote. #kansas #directaction #iceout #abolishice #activism #kc #corecivic
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Here's what happened last Leavenworth, KS city meeting over #CoreCivic 's bid for an 🧊 #detainment facility. Less than a week until the next. onepageofswords.substack.com/p/the-fiery-... #Kansas #ice #Leavenworth #detentioncenter #communityorganzing #iceout #kansascity #activism #concentrationcamp
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
50+ people held a "pee-in" at the Kansas State Capitol after legislators last week passed a "gut-n-go" (when a bill is copy/pasted into the body of another passing bill to avoid public testimony hearing) anti-trans, bounty hunter bathroom bill #topeka #transrights #ksleg #bathroombill #trans #kansas
A group of trans people and allies stand in front of the Brown v. Board mural in the Kansas Capitol Building
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Leavenworth, Kansas, residents have currently packed City Hall for the committee's hearing about CoreCivic who is trying to win special-permit permission to establish a Kansas detention center. CoreCivic is a known prìson contractor with IC E.(1/2) #Kansas #corecivic #iceprotest #communityorganizing
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This morning, evangelical churches across the country will be praising God for the b0mbs dropped in the name of their own 'safety.' This is what Christian nationalism does for power. This is what 'gaining the world but losing your soul' looks like. And this is all connected to the ongoing gènòçìdè.
On a background picture of massive explosions are two text boxes. One is a quote next to a cut-out of DJT giving a press conference. The quote reads: "I just want to thank everybody and, in particular, God. We love you, God." The other, smaller text reads "STATEMENT FROM DONALD J. TRUMP FOLLOWING THE DROPPING OF "BUNKER BUSTER" BOMBS ON IRAN June 21, 2025"
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I am watching as outlets that haven't covered bombings in the last 2 years of genocide now publish footage of the damage to Isràelì buildings. We cannot allow empathy to be conditional. Palestinian lives and homes are not worth less. Watch the narrative being spun these next few weeks.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 22/06/2025
again I hate to sound like an old lady, but the Iraq War directly influenced the two presidential elections that followed for Democrats, especially, and Barack Obama won in 08 because he wasn’t in the Senate to cast a vote on the Iraq War and got to say he opposed it when Hillary Clinton didn’t
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Dr. Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is what I grew up with. And when I reference the genocide of Palestinians and the war with Iran to my parents, they say, “I’m glad, it means Jesus will come back soon.”
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Collin Kelly -> NYCC!!! @collinkelly.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The Mayor has imposed a curfew on DTLA tonight. For those who whom might not understand the geography of this city, or the scope of this “violence”… The curfew boundary is *literally* across the street from me… …and I haven’t seen a single ANYTHING. LA IS NOT RIOTING
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Patriot Front nazis on the ground in #kansascity this past weekend. Folks are working to spread the word + footage. Two U-Hauls of men in masks, caps, & sunglasses marching with confederate flags are reported as being escorted by c0ps while they blocked streets. Keep being vigilent, friends.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My thoughts and prayers are with everyone who watched Conclave but were unable to lore dump about how the process works before the new #Pope was chosen irl. The opportunity is gone but not forgotten.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I am deeply worried about folks knowing where to find each other as surveillance gets worse. There are so many people who - if their social media accounts were terminated tomorrow - wouldn't know their friends/allies phone#s or addresses. How will folks keep each other safe in the dark? #organizing
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
And what will be deemed anti-Christian? Everything street preachers have yelled for decades: LGBTQIA+ rights. No-Fault Divorce. Birth Control. Abortions. Pàlèstìnìàn's right to LIVE. Free speech. Read @swordsjew.bsky.social 's #wildfaith for a list. Our parents taught us this was always the plan.
A screenshot of the Politico Exclusive headline: "State tells employees to report on one another for 'anti-Christian bias"

A link to the article is in the comments.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
My father was radicalized under Reagan. He often told us with pride how R.R. had called on Germany to tear down its wall. I am thinking on that as those who backed RR continue to build walls out of both brick and policy. #Evangelical ideals are always conditional. #christianright #iblp #project2025
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I get it. It's hard for some folks to come to terms w/ how the institutions that are supposed to protect our rights, to be the firewall, are...not that. The sooner we abandon the idea that America is somehow "exceptional" in its ability to be fascist-resistant, we can be honest about what we face.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
A Christianity that gets offended at the idea of a society using its resources to care for one another is a Christianity that has abandoned Jesus a long time ago.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
hey #HandsOff protest folks. What do you plan to do this coming week that will bolster your community's defense against neighbors being disappeared by 🧊 and that will help fund or volunteer-staff local orgs who are working to care for our most vulnerable right now? How do you plan to join the work?
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Many people are deeply resistant to the idea that fascist strategies are in use, bc in their minds (&the mind of Hollywood) 'fascism' is defined not as a set of targeted rule but as 1940s Germany. I don't know how to convey it looks different when the country is much larger and in the age of tech.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I think we can appreciate #corybooker taking a stand without turning him into a hero. Yes, it was an commendable step, plus he broke the record held by a racist yt guy. But be clear on why he did it: "our constituents are asking us" Folks calling, showing at #townhall did this. Keep the pressure on.
A photo of Cory Booker in a suit speaking at a podium is accompanied by a quote by him which reads: "I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the U.S. Senate for as long as I am physically able. Our constituents are asking us to acknowledge that this is a crisis. I am going to stand here until I no longer can."
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Apparently, on Trans Day of Visibility, MTG posted saying trans kids aren't real. In light of this news that we apparently just get dropped into life midgame, I'm curious what y'alls spawn points were. I must have generated in a book shop. #tdov #transdayofvisibility #transrights #lgbtq
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 28/03/2025
Marginalization isn't morally exculpatory. We can be marginalized on one axis (by being trans for example) and do harm on another (say, through whiteness). Ta Nehisi Coates wrote about this in The Message and he's absolutely right.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This was outside the #Kansas state capital today.A Satanic group was barred from their scheduled Black Mass inside the rotonda & this is one of the #nationalists who stood in opposition as they gathered outside.When we tell you they want another Holy War,please believe us🫠 #authoritarian #freespeech
A man dressed in military camo and boots wears sun glasses, a mask, and a helmet with goggles pulled up. Above this he wears a white tunic and robe with a large, brown cross on the front. He is taking a knee across the street from the Statehouse. In his right hand he grasps a large cross, in his right hand he holds a bicolored flag. The top half is dark blue and the bottom half is white. Stitches upon the flag is a red x-like symbol reminiscant of the old crusades. A police car and police stand near a group of protesters on the capitol driveway.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Despite legislators editing rules to target TSG, they still came. Nationalist Xians did, too. Pay attn to the language: "[Slobodnik] praised [xians] referring to them as the Navy Seals of the Catholic faith. He said these activists were willing to confront God’s enemies..as if on a field of battle"
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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This energy right here.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Watching #lotr extended on streaming vs dvd is great because of the sharper image, but nothing prepared me for Elrond's line: "He turned from that path a long time ago. He has chosen exile" followed by "looking for gluten free options that are affordable" Ads. I remember why we moved to dvds.
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a man wearing a crown on his head looks angry
ALT: a man wearing a crown on his head looks angry
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Constantly worried about the number of people conflating "I / they haven't been targeted yet" with "I am / they are safe" P0tus& Rubiọ have talked about 'public enemies' like #teslatakedown protesters being sent to non-US prisons. #immigration #deportation #project2025 #firsttheycame #wekeepussafe
A message in white text on a blue background reads "well if she's a citizen then she has nothing to worry about"
Something in the bottom right corner has been blotted out.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I hope people realize that Trump is trying to make it illegal to criticize his regime. They are trying to give themselves the ability to spy on, target, and arrest anyone who criticizes them. They want to end freedom of speech in America. Let’s be clear about what they’re doing.
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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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FinFangFoomed 👩‍🎤💽🏳️‍🌈🍕🎸🖖 @cosmicbuttstuff.com · 22/03/2025
It seems pretty fucked up that protesting outside car dealerships is turning out to be more effective than protesting at political sites. #teslatakedown is getting more heat then any organized letter or phone call campaign in recent memory. Capitalism is a hell of a drug.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
There is no way to fight back that doesn’t challenge ideas like ‘terrorist,’ ‘gang member,’ and ‘criminal.’
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Anytime someone says (and firmly believes) that kids are only #trans or #queer because of outside influences, I feel the magnitude of countering intentional misinformation all over again. I was trapped in a #fundie home. The only time we left was to see church people and family. Still knew by age 6.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I am sitting with this quote tonight from @prisonculture.bsky.social thinking about the interconnected of systems and methods of oppression. As kids in fundamentalism, we were regularly taught to both "other" and label "criminal" those who stood in the way of the holy war. It's front & center rn.
A navy blue background has small gray circle accents, a light gray layer in the center behind the text, and a gray box at the bottom for quote attribution.  In big, white letters is the quote "Criminalization is the indispensable fuel of fascism. I think  people are seeing it now, perhaps, in a way they weren't seeing it before." In the gray box at the bottom, in white and lighter gray letters, reads "Mariame Kaba
Organizer, Prison Abolitionist
Movement Memos: A Truthout Podcast
March 20, 2025 Episode"
A thin white line serves as a divider between the quote text and the attribution text.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Deeply resonating with this level of trust today: "My bottom line is that I can't take people seriously when they romanticize underground work if they can't be bothered with efforts that are risk-free." (Hayes)
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...),  posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
👉Yes, there will be lawsuits, folks. But this is also the excuse some schools have been looking for to roll out additional c0ps for increased detaines- even if the charges don't hold up later. If you are a student, work with co-strugglers to learn/plan ahead /1 #protest
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Comfort #history for this Sunday morn. "In 1973, local people organised an event for the couple to celebrate their 50 years in the village. Museum director Claire Dixon said:"They were known as 'the boys' quite affectionately by the community." #lgbtq #gayhistory #queer www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Gay couple's archive reveals 'peaceful life' in 1920s Dorset
Norman Notley and David Brynley had lived as an openly gay couple in Corfe Castle since the 1920s.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Cis people have been saying that they can't relearn a new name or #gender pronouns because it's too hard / 'not the original' Yet these same folks are out here already talking about the ' #Gulf of America.' I'm not sure how to explain that neighbors are a higher priority than a body of water #trans
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I keep seeing posts about how [news] will be the end of democracy as we know it. Friends, it happened. They got their foot + every plan hatched in church basements in the door. Admit the loss. Process the fear & grief in your body. Then ask: What are we going to do about it? #activism #project2025
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I so appreciate this distinction between what is a total dealbreaker conflict vs what may need to be tabled for another day when we are past key survival stages. The left's tendency to not allow redemption after problematic behavior is also deeply in line with the harm of fundie national culture.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I've been caught up in a lot of feelings as anti #trans laws are pushed through. Expected, yet sucker punches every time. I keep thinking of Sylvia Rivera's words at the 2001 rally for homeless youth: "Don't they realize these [trans, gay] children have suffered enough?" #protecttranskids #transkids
Cut-outs of Sylvia Rivera holding flyers and Marsha P. Johnson in a fur coat, hand outstretched, are in the center of the graphic. The background is pink with trans ribbons and white heart across the middle line, and in the top half, faded white letters reading 'Protect Trans Kids' repeat over and over again. In the bottom half, black letters read "Our mothers taught us to protect trans kids no matter what.”
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A thread. (4 part)
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Laypeople in #evangelical groups can't or won't see it bc we (esp women/gender minorities) were taught that evil appears as a caricature, when in reality it comes through champions of unbalanced power structures. But if we had been taught that, we would have recognized our own abusers. #project2025
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A simple journal search will yield your missing evidence from medical groups like American Medical Association, National Institutes of Health, NASW, American Association of Psychiatry & Psychology, World Health Org, and additional international experts. Trans people have and will always exist.
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