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

A plant to plant, not a plant to dose. Cha bhris am freumh — the root does not break. What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished? #BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

Tall wild yellow daisy-like flowers rise above dense green foliage in a meadow, with a backdrop of leafy trees.

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

Prairie is among the most destroyed habitats on this continent, and this is one of its markers. Everything you can see of it is built to be burned off. The taproot goes fifteen feet down into ground nobody has broken since before there was a state there […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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

Nine feet up in the tallgrass, leaves turned north and south to duck the midday sun. That's how it got the name — and how people once took a bearing on open ground with nothing else to sight on. Silphium laciniatum. Blooming right now through September […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Six eggs. Twelve ounces of sucuk. One grated tomato, four minutes under a lid. Dinner for three, about $11. What's your cheapest good dinner? […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

A slice of cheesy flatbread pizza topped with several fried eggs and round slices of sausage or pepperoni, sprinkled with herbs, sits on a green plate beside a large piece of bread.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

A delegate named LGBTQ History Month "transing the kids month." #Loudoun's schools chief: erasing people protects no child, dumbass. Nobody got transed by a footnote […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

A smiling teacher stands behind a group of seven cheerful elementary students in a classroom, with a chalkboard and whiteboard in the background. The children wear backpacks and hold notebooks, posing together for a school portrait.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

A $TRUMP coin minted three days before the oath. A Speaker telling donors half of them "will be targeted." It's almost subpoena time, Mike. Lube up that asshole. Who sits first? […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

Two suited men stand in a vaulted hallway; the man on the left wears a blue suit and red tie, while the man on the right wears glasses, a black suit, and gestures with his raised hand as if speaking.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

400 trees cut for the GolfCart Goblin's 18 holes. Judge Reyes slowed it; he called her a "crazed lunatic." Threats followed. Who sics a mob over a goddamned fairway? […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

A man in a red cap and white golf attire stands on a golf course, holding a club with one gloved hand and looking off to the side. The background is a blurred green landscape.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Thursday the flyer-mill gets the long version, live on a server I run myself — nobody's plug to pull. Iowa's mailers or Nebraska's fine print: Where do I start? live.thistleandmoss.org Fuck Trump #Trans #Politics #Fediverse #Vote #Owncast #Fediverse #IndieMedia #QueerMedia

Donald Trump stands on stage giving a thumbs-up, wearing a dark suit and red tie against a blue and red background. Large text at the bottom reads, “I’M DONALD TRUMP AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE,” with a small “imgflip.com” watermark in the lower left.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

GOP Candidate in 2023: "Teach Kids to Change Gears Not Genders." Saturday: police say he hit five parked cars. Sunday: Shawn Oliver drops out faster than a Trump Voter does outta highschool […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

A man in a suit stands outdoors in front of a building, with the large word SAFETY across the center of the image. The name SHAWN appears near the bottom.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Sixty years of pulpit. Tammy Sue Bakker told queer people that she was fucking sorry for all the damage her father did to us all. It is time someone fucking did […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Measure 442's summary hides who it bans. Nebraska's court: voters "need only flip over the page." What bullshit is this? Rights go on the back now, bitches? […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

He calls 31% approval polling fake. Iran strikes in February, the pump climbing, 37% of his own party against his economy. Who pays the fake gas bill, motherfucker? […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

Donald Trump, wearing a dark suit and red tie, gives a thumbs-up on a stage with a blue-purple background. Large text across the bottom reads: I’M DONALD TRUMP AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

A fearless breakdown of Trump's press ban defied by his own judge, lesbian survivors left unsheltered, Arctic refuge, and the survival tactics that sustain us—woven with resistance and resilience. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Miller-Meeks mailed Iowa a locker room. Bohannan ran against her and ran high-school track, read out $4M in drug money that the bitch Meeks took. Receipts […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

A fearless breakdown of Trump's threats at the UN, straight women rejecting bi men, Kid Rock's six-ticket disaster, and the queer resistance woven through a world demanding we pick a side. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

October 10, Water's Edge Park, Corpus Christi. Pride marched with handmade signs. Same state, still paying lawyers to defend a drag law a federal judge has struck down twice. What's the best sign you've seen this month? I mean Ive seen hundreds and they […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

A child on a decorated parade float holds a rainbow flag that reads “Y’ALL MEANS ALL.” Another person sits nearby, and the float is trimmed with rainbow garlands under a clear blue sky.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

A fearless breakdown of Boebert's past, a president's catering truck escape, compressed air batteries, and survival herbs—finding truth in the absurd moments that expose everything. #trans #queer #lgbtqia #author #writing #breaking #usnews #uspolitics […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

A fearless breakdown of Vance's WNBA moment, 23,000 jobs lost, Blanche's midnight confirmation, and the survival strategies that sustain us when power operates in darkness—rooted in what endures. thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-…

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

A fearless breakdown of press censorship at the White House, "lesbian" weaponized in politics, Japan's trash lesson, and the kindness being criminalized—cutting through the noise to find what matters. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

A fearless reflection on birthdays, isolation, and mental health—honoring the resilience it takes to survive our own stories, with gratitude for the community that sustains us. #trans #queer #lgbtqia #author #writing #breaking #usnews #uspolitics thistleandmoss.com/p/mental-health-…

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

A fearless breakdown of Giuliani's transgender conspiracy, machine-speed political offense, survival economics, compass plants with fifteen-foot taproots, and queer resistance—finding what endures when the world gets loud […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

A fearless breakdown of seized press badges, trans youth under attack in 42 states, a Democrat weaponizing anti-trans rhetoric, and the survival tactics we need when the world turns cruel. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics #News #Journalism […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Your senators are within driving distance for thirty-five days. That is not a vacation. That is a venue. What are you going to ask yours, and where are you going to ask it? #USPolitics #Senate #Blanche #JusticeDepartment #Economy #Jobs #Labor #Journalism […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Here's what they had on the table instead. Nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July against a forecast of an 83,000 gain. The prior two months revised down by a combined 103,000. Participation at 61.4%, lowest in more than five years. The unemployment rate […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Cassidy, whom everybody had penciled in as the last adult in the room, announced Friday he was a yes — days after Blanche quietly rescinded a $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund pointed at Trump allies and January 6 defendants. A number priced like a […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The Senate confirmed the president's personal attorney to run a hundred-thousand-person Justice Department at 4:34 in the morning. Fifty to forty-nine. On a Saturday. And then adjourned for five weeks. Nobody schedules a proud moment for four in the goddamn […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

The whole issue, and the question I'm asking under it — what have you built with your own hands that nobody asked you to build? I answer every one in the comments: thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-… […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

— the first same-sex civil marriage on the books in Bolivia. Article 63 still says a woman and a man. This was won case by case, not by statute. David Aruquipa, whose own union was the 2020 ruling that made dozens of later registrations possible, refused […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

They applied on 12 October 2022. A registry that said no. A long administrative grind. Two constitutional injunctions filed by IGUAL Bolivia's team. Three years and ten months of being told their family wasn't the kind the state writes down. On Friday, in […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Four days later the Senate confirmed the man Sullivan had already found in violation of that same Act. One reporter. One statute. One filing cabinet the entire federal government would rather she had left alone. When did one person last make this government […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

An attorney with a license to protect, a byline, and a working client list filed the first lawsuit anyone has ever brought to enforce the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Against the Justice Department. Alone. Judge Emmet Sullivan sided with her. Ordered the […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

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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