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ARuralQueer
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Rural. Queer. Always learning. Recovering from fascist parents.
In-laws are having everyone get a small stocking stuffer for everyone else rather than normal gifts to cut back on cost. Is it acceptable to put political zines in everyone's stockings?
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the wind.

-Ohioans 14:12.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Every Will Ferrel movie has a homoerotic subtext.
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Happy Resistance Day.

We exist. We resist. We revitalize and tell the old stories.

Nonhelema & the Moravian Lenapes spent too long being erased and forgotten.

It's a good day to be Indigenous

so glad I shared this story w/ @margaret.bsky.social and that she told it to @jamieloftus.bsky.social
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.

@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
There have been lots of deportations near me recently. Just found out a parent of some students at my school got deported last week. He'd been here for over three decades. Fuck this world sucks.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Two years ago tonight we were setting up dumpster dived pink tents for migrants in the freezing cold and wind in the desert, they were held there for days without food water or shelter other than what we could share with them. That was the Biden admin, in case anyone thinks it was all good before.
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Started the day with one student singing Erika, the Wehrmacht March. Then I had a student in another class making racist comments. It's going to be quite the day.
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Maybe this is just cope, but I wonder if the march towards more and more surveillance will have an unintended backlash. I know the more I realize how much of my data is out there, the less I feel the need to hide what I think about the state. If they already know it, I might as well tell others too.
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Baristas are locking arms in front of lines of trucks.

This is in front of a Starbucks distribution center - their largest on the East Coast!

The unfair labor practices strike is in its 7th day, and these baristas mean BUSINESS.

Please support them by not buying Starbucks.

#NoContractNoCoffee
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I will never understand teachers that act like a dictator in the classroom. I'm far from perfect, but it's our job to mold to their needs where we can. It's not their job to mold to ours.
November 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Repost if you support Starbucks’ striking workers!!! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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The British Royal family should be stripped of all their properties and wealth. It should become the basis of a sovereign reparations fund.
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Walmart has a habit of not vetting products submitted by individual vendors very well. Please give this a search and report them down, they're still up.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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This is appalling
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm very worried about what the next month is going to look like for my students without SNAP.
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Food stamps are set to run out of funding in early November & I’m just here to remind you that if you catch someone stealing food at the grocery store then you should immediately call the ghostbusters because you clearly saw a ghost and they clearly vanished into thin air and you didn’t see nothin.
October 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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No Kings means this wretched parasite too
October 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Holocaust was legal, hiding Jews was not.

Slavery was legal; freeing slaves was not.

Segregation was legal; fighting for equality got you killed.

Being a wealthy child molester is legal; abortions is not.

Laws are not a guide for human decency and morality.
October 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.
September 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Trying to get people to actually do something is exhausting. I've been trying to get people to get together to talk about what we can meaningfully change in our area, but the only person who actually showed up was a BlueAnon person who was shocked when I said I'm not a fan of the Dems.
September 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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it's hard to be queer in appalachia, and someone I care a lot about was arrested seemingly for walking home on rural roads while queer after losing his keys. He's trying to raise funds for his court costs.

www.gofundme.com/f/5d3hr-help...
Donate to Help Grier with Court Costs!!, organized by Grier Low
Hey y'all -- my name is Grier & I'm a queer transmasc person living in rural West Virginia. I'… Grier Low needs your support for Help Grier with Court Costs!!
www.gofundme.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Anyone willing to share tips/resources for organizing in rural spaces? I've been trying to get the ball rolling on a few things but I'm struggling to figure it out. I can't find anyone in the area organizing other than official Reps and Dems. My Google searches haven't helped much.
September 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Reading this on loop today.
September 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM