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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Three stories today and every one is the same machine: make the count small enough to ignore. The Senate half of that gets the length it deserves, out loud. #Owncast #Peertube #Trans #Queer #QueerNews #uspol #LGBTQ #Journalism live.thistleandmoss.org · […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 16h

A fearless breakdown of Florida's medical censorship, the Fed's affordability collapse, heat as policy, and survival tactics—exposing how systems rob us while nature teaches resistance. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off A teaspoon or two […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"My goal is to be a walking piece of political art every time I show up." — Billy Porter, actor and singer, 2019 #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #Photography #Resist #Solidarity #QueerNews […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers." — Susan Sontag, essayist and critic, 2003 #LGBTQ #Pride #ProgressPride #Toronto #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #Photography #Resist #Solidarity […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"Do whatever it takes to make your life more worth living. Just don't be mean." — Kate Bornstein, 2006 #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #Photography #Resist #Solidarity #QueerNews […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

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Spocko @spocko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@wendythedruid here is Denny Hastert, Republican Speaker of the House, in prison for hiding hush money payments to one of the 4 high school students he molested. He never was charged with the molestation because the statute of limitations expired.

Dennis Hastert in Prison and him as a high school wrestling coach at a high school in the 70's

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Dennis Hastert, A GOP member, died this weekend at 84. In 2016 he was sentenced to 15 months after admitting he had sexually abused teenagers as a teacher, the judge called him a serial child molester. #History #Abuse #GOP #WeKnowWhoDoesThisShit #Trump #Remember #NeverForget

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Bambi Gauthier, 58, and Matt Bucy, 63, sit down in White River Junction, Vermont, and assemble RFD, a queer quarterly born in 1974 to help gay men scattered across rural America find each other. #Gay #LGBTQIA #Pride #QueerNews #Solidarity […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

October 5, 2026: the night an American president offered a hostile government ten million of his own citizens and called it thrift. #Iran #LosAngeles #SanDiego #Trump #FuckThis #QueerNews #Journalism […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

A fearless breakdown of election interference plots, hacked surveillance networks exposing 1.6 million photos, and 124 land defenders killed in 2025—finding survival in resistance and herbal medicine for the sleepless nights ahead. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I've read ten years of shit falling out of that mouth, and this is the first time I've heard an American president volunteer his own cities to the other side's target list. #Iran #LosAngeles #SanDiego #Trump #FuckThis #DomesticTerrorism […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Why are #spammer account registrations so bad on mastodon. I mean I reject 110 registrations a day , I imagine that larger instances are worse

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom." — bell hooks, "Love as the Practice of Freedom," in Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (1994) #LGBTQ #Pride #ProgressPride #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #Photography thistleandmoss.com

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"You are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are." — Agrado, in Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother (1999) #LGBTQ #Pride #ProgressPride #Toronto #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #Photography #Resist #Solidarity #QueerNews

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#Cuban #Picadillo → one pound of ground beef, one onion, three garlic cloves, an 8-ounce can of tomato sauce, a third of a cup of pimento-stuffed green olives, ground cumin, and 1.5 cup of rice. #Recipe #Cooking #CheapEats #BudgetCooking #Food […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Here is the good news: with four weeks left, more than a million Americans have already voted, and the most powerful man on earth is on camera begging his people to do the thing he spent six years calling a crime […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#Ingraham, a Fox lifer, looked at #MehmetOz who said a stick of butter costs a dollar and said: "Where are you shopping? It's not a buck." #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Now The #DailyWire is shooting a pro-ICE feature called Pawn Shop in #Livingston, MT. Livingston's residents hit the sidewalks. On Saturday the town commissioners voted to immediately, temporarily suspend the #filming permit #Queer #LGBTQIA #ReneeGood […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Some day, if people wanted to hear, Id love to talk about #FlockSafety and all the work I did for them, and how all the shit they are doing is not near as far far worse as the future plans I go to look at while I worked there. And the fact that they actually got away with firing me for being a […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Enter the Rev. Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, #Christian #Nationalist #megachurch man, who said a GOP ad was grotesque, his flock mustn't watch it, #lesbianism among young women and girls was an actual pandemic. #Queer #LGBTQIA #Christians […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Today's issue: 3 stories, Many sources read, 3 hours, and zero ad networks. I could use them, but I dont want to. The #Blanche transcript got pulled and read against his confirmation answers, because "he said it on television" isn't real enough. The #GLAAD number got checked against the study […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

What Shitler said: "a midterm victory that is too big to rig." Too big to rig, Donnie? Darling, your dick is too fucking small to scare me. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

Donald Trump and Melania Trump stand at side-by-side voting booths in a polling place, with two men in suits behind them and yellow walls in the background. The booths display an American flag and the word VOTE.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Mail In voting is Allowed: I have watched this carnival-barking chaos dick goblin torch faith in the ballot mail box for six years, so forgive me if I don't clap now #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

Mary Trump looking dismayed by her Uncle's assertion that mail in voting is allowed now.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The leaf is fan-shaped and split down the middle like a small green pair of lungs, on a tree that has been around for fuckin longer than most of us have. Standardized extract is the measure, usually 120–240mg daily, and it honestly helps your memory state […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Here's what I want understood: a piece of shit who publicly wished a noose on people like me is not an aberration in that party, he is a résumé, and the only thing dividing him from the ones with better tailoring is that he wrote the quiet part down where a reporter could screenshot it. We are […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Rumbledethumps → The Scottish answer to a hard week: instant potato flakes, half a small green cabbage, an onion, 3 tablespoons of butter, milk, 4 ounces of sharp cheddar, and a 13oz sausage. #Recipe #Cooking #CheapEats #FoodAsMedicine #BudgetCooking […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door." — Harvey Milk, San Francisco supervisor, tape recorded November 1977 for playing after his assassination #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #QueerNews […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

A black-and-white photo shows a smiling man seated with his arms crossed in front of signs; the large poster at left reads “DON’T LET IT HAPPEN HERE REGISTER TO VOTE,” with “HERE AND NOW” at the bottom. A smaller handwritten sign hangs behind him, but most of that text is hard to read.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Palm Beach County Republican Party endorsed Mike Caruso for clerk of the circuit court and comptroller. In August police arrested him on five felony charges — kidnapping, molestation, and child abuse. #GOP #MAGA #Desantis #News #Journalism […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I've watched this for a decade and I'm still not numb, which my doctor says is either a moral achievement or a cardiovascular event; either way, the punchline was dead queers. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #Democracy […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Last March, Kayleigh McEnany let Christian YouTuber Gabe Poirot plug his memoir about meeting Jesus during an 18-day coma. #Jesus #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Solidarity #Democracy […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

A blonde woman in a white sleeveless top speaks at a podium with a microphone, in front of red and white striped background panels. The podium sign shows the word “TRUMP” in large blue letters.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Share this post, drop a tip, or taking a look at my our publication means the world to me and keeps me afloat. Thank you so much for always showing up for each other. #MutualAid #CommunityCare #MutualAidRequest #HelpOut #MutualAidFund #CareEconomy […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Rally after rally the recipe never changes: one lie, one slur, one trans kid as the laugh line. He drags trans women in sports into every speech he can. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism #HumanRights #Resist #Democracy […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

A roll of round stickers reading “I VOTED TODAY” sits on a rainbow pride flag laid over a U.S. flag with stars and stripes.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

October 3, 2026, a president got a laugh out of queer people vanishing, and the room clapped, and every pair of hands that clapped belongs to somebody who'd hold the door for it to be done #LGBTQ #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #News #QueerNews […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

A man in a red USA cap, navy suit, and red tie speaks at a rally, with a blurred crowd behind him holding up phones and an American flag.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A fearless breakdown of a white nationalist on Florida's ballot, MAGA money infiltrating queer media, a columnist's drool forecast, and the survival tactics we need when the world gets loud—rooted in resistance and refusing to flinch. #Trans #TransRights […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The heel of the loaf and the two hard slices nobody wanted. Tear them with your hands — never a knife, the ragged edges are the entire point. Dry skillet, medium, a glug of oil, a smashed clove, salt. Six minutes, shaking. They go the color of a paper bag […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Curcumin calms inflammation, several trials found modest pain relief in knee osteoarthritis, in some roughly on par with ibuprofen. #DeepSummer #Nature #Foraging #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased #Phenology #Georgia #Garden #Solidarity #Photography […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"Resist much, obey little." — Walt Whitman, "To the States," Leaves of Grass (1860) #BannedBooks #FreedomToRead #Libraries #LGBTQ #QueerBooks #QueerNews #Pride #Reading #Books #Resist #Solidarity #Photography

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen." — Brené Brown, researcher and author, Daring Greatly (2012) #BannedBooks #FreedomToRead #Libraries #LGBTQ #QueerBooks #QueerNews #Pride #Reading #Books #Resist #Solidarity #Photography […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

Eight Brené Brown books are arranged in two rows on a wooden surface, including I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t), The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, Dare to Lead, You Are Your Best Thing, Atlas of the Heart, and Strong Ground.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

On September 28, a researcher posting on X as Esoteric Shaggyism claimed that #CandaceOwens had four dating profiles in 2007 and 2008 aimed at women. #Trans #lgbtqia #queernews #transrights #sapphic #wtf #grindr #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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