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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 29m

Today's Monday show: why a president at 33 percent still gets to decide who plays Seymour in Grand Prairie. The long version a 9-minute read couldn't hold. 3PM EST Our own server first — nobody owns this pipe but us: live.thistleandmoss.org What should I chew on? #USPol #Midterms […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 1h

This is why we cant have nice things. On October 6, Grand Prairie ISD told senior Ana Mota she'd earned Seymour but couldn't play him. Take half of Audrey instead. She said no. The district canceled Little Shop of Horrors for the whole cast. They blamed the themes. Same show the school staged […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 2h

[murder, anti-trans court ruling] Paris Lee. 36. A Black trans woman, shot six times in 2022. Samuel Ward Jr. admitted it. A jury convicted him. On October 5 a Tennessee appeals panel threw it out because jurors weren't told she was trans. Six bullets. Same confession. When did a jury last […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 3h

Queer Media is in Trouble, and we are barely making it. The Advocate was born in the 1960s covering cops kicking in gay-bar doors. Sixty years later the raid wears a lanyard and calls itself brand safety. The administration stamps queer outlets DEI, sponsors bolt, reporters eat the layoffs […]

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Wendy @thistleandmoss.com · 4h

He promised cheaper groceries on day one. Sunday's Post-ABC-Ipsos poll: 33% approve, 66% disapprove, 52% strongly. Lower than any point of his first term. Thirty-three isn't the floor. It's a landing. What did your receipt say this weekend? #Politics #Trump #Midterms #Democracy #Resist #Vote

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 4h

33 percent. Sunday's Post-ABC-Ipsos poll: 66 disapprove, 52 strongly. Lower than any point of Orange Shitcalf's first term. He promised cheaper groceries on day one. Fifteen days to Nov 3 […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 18h

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 · 19h

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 · 16/10/2026

The question I asked in today's issue, and I mean it as a real one: what have you actually turned your face toward this week, and what did it cost you to keep looking? I'm answering every one of these in the comments under the piece. #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Alba #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The goldenrod does not check the roll call, and tonight neither do you. Carry what's yours. Set the rest down at the door like muddy boots — because it is muddy, and it isn't yours, and you've been hauling it up the stairs all week like a martyr with a subscription. #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Alba […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Tha sinn fhathast an seo, agus tha an talamh a' cuimhneachadh — we are still here, and the earth remembers. Put one hand flat on the nearest solid thing. Table, wall, tree, floor. Leave it there for one whole breath before you read another headline. The empire can schedule its shabby little […]

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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 · 13/10/2026

Different plant, same name, do not confuse them. What's the cheapest real protein in your kitchen right now? #FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodSovereignty #Frugal #MutualAid #Mediterranean Today's issue, with the rest of the food notes — free […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Raw they're bitter — quinolizidine alkaloids, days of soaking and rinsing — so buy them brined, rinse them, pop them out of their skins, and hit them with olive oil, lemon and far more black pepper than feels reasonable. Two cautions I won't bury: lupin is a recognized allergen with real […]

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Forty percent protein by dry weight. That's among the highest of any plant food there is, and it costs less than a cup of coffee. Lupini fed Mediterranean and Andean households for thousands of years before an American grocery store decided they were a novelty in a jar by the olives […]

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

The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times. That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve. Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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

Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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

The light has changed its angle. Gold an hour earlier than July, shadows longer across the red clay by four, and my body knew before the calendar did. The second harvest is on. Not the green rushing kind of growing — the other kind, where the field has […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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

A fearless breakdown of Republican attacks on trans rights, Canada's complicity, Log Cabin Republicans' betrayal, and the survival tactics that sustain us when cruelty becomes policy—rooted in resistance and what grows in shade […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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

A fearless breakdown of Trump's press bans, schools crushing queer clubs, Indonesian sago farmers defying palm oil giants, and the survival tactics that keep us warm when everything else tries to take it away. #Trans #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #Politics […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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

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 · 09/10/2026

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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