Rondel d'Espoir
@rondeldespoir.bsky.social
I chose this user name because we most need hope when we are close to despair. I am, in no particular order, a musician, an artist, a mother, a computer person, a Social Justice Bard, and a huge nerd. My pronouns are she/her. Gender non-compliant.
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TRUMP’S MILITARY BIRTHDAY PARADE WAS A GROSS FAILURE
“The president’s military parade, which reportedly cost up to $45 million, was short on attendees, long on political speeches”
From @rollingstone.com
“The president’s military parade, which reportedly cost up to $45 million, was short on attendees, long on political speeches”
From @rollingstone.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
TRUMP’S MILITARY BIRTHDAY PARADE WAS A GROSS FAILURE
“The president’s military parade, which reportedly cost up to $45 million, was short on attendees, long on political speeches”
From @rollingstone.com
“The president’s military parade, which reportedly cost up to $45 million, was short on attendees, long on political speeches”
From @rollingstone.com
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We’re closing in on the 3.5% rule! 8.6 million and counting! We’re in awe. Lots of events still happening make sure to be counted. Big towns, small towns you showed up.
June 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We’re closing in on the 3.5% rule! 8.6 million and counting! We’re in awe. Lots of events still happening make sure to be counted. Big towns, small towns you showed up.
I lived through the early years of the AIDS crisis. We lost so many, needlessly, to dehumanizing policies by government and health care organisations and providers alike.
It sickens me that I am seeing this abandonment to death happen again, all in the name of enforced cisheteronormativity.
It sickens me that I am seeing this abandonment to death happen again, all in the name of enforced cisheteronormativity.
From today until 16 June, Tate Modern will host the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt. Begun around 1989, this vast work consists of 42 quilts and 23 individual panels which represent 384 individuals affected by HIV and AIDS.
yassmagazine.org/2025/06/13/u...
#tate #tatemodern #aidsmemorial
yassmagazine.org/2025/06/13/u...
#tate #tatemodern #aidsmemorial
June 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I lived through the early years of the AIDS crisis. We lost so many, needlessly, to dehumanizing policies by government and health care organisations and providers alike.
It sickens me that I am seeing this abandonment to death happen again, all in the name of enforced cisheteronormativity.
It sickens me that I am seeing this abandonment to death happen again, all in the name of enforced cisheteronormativity.
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From today until 16 June, Tate Modern will host the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt. Begun around 1989, this vast work consists of 42 quilts and 23 individual panels which represent 384 individuals affected by HIV and AIDS.
yassmagazine.org/2025/06/13/u...
#tate #tatemodern #aidsmemorial
yassmagazine.org/2025/06/13/u...
#tate #tatemodern #aidsmemorial
June 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
From today until 16 June, Tate Modern will host the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt. Begun around 1989, this vast work consists of 42 quilts and 23 individual panels which represent 384 individuals affected by HIV and AIDS.
yassmagazine.org/2025/06/13/u...
#tate #tatemodern #aidsmemorial
yassmagazine.org/2025/06/13/u...
#tate #tatemodern #aidsmemorial
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Update: Democratic House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.
June 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Update: Democratic House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.
Even the LAPD is saying the protests are peaceful and managed (i.e it is not an uncontrolled insurrection requiring the national guard)
Do you know how fucking out of line you have to be, to be so authoritarian that the LAPD is siding with the protesters?!
Do you know how fucking out of line you have to be, to be so authoritarian that the LAPD is siding with the protesters?!
June 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Even the LAPD is saying the protests are peaceful and managed (i.e it is not an uncontrolled insurrection requiring the national guard)
Do you know how fucking out of line you have to be, to be so authoritarian that the LAPD is siding with the protesters?!
Do you know how fucking out of line you have to be, to be so authoritarian that the LAPD is siding with the protesters?!
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Trump got up thinking, it's my Birthday! I'm getting a parade of soldiers, tanks, and marching bands because I'm so awesome!
Then millions of people took to the streets to rain on his parade.
When he turns on the TV tonight, that's what he's going to see on every channel.
Then millions of people took to the streets to rain on his parade.
When he turns on the TV tonight, that's what he's going to see on every channel.
June 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Trump got up thinking, it's my Birthday! I'm getting a parade of soldiers, tanks, and marching bands because I'm so awesome!
Then millions of people took to the streets to rain on his parade.
When he turns on the TV tonight, that's what he's going to see on every channel.
Then millions of people took to the streets to rain on his parade.
When he turns on the TV tonight, that's what he's going to see on every channel.
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If you're outside in a dense crowd setting today, please remember that Covid and other viruses CAN spread outside, and you're creating the perfect conditions for them to do so. Mask up for liberty!
June 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
If you're outside in a dense crowd setting today, please remember that Covid and other viruses CAN spread outside, and you're creating the perfect conditions for them to do so. Mask up for liberty!
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Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents.
While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⤵️
While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⤵️
What Are My Rights During an ICE Raid?
Immigration law can be tricky, but here's what you should know.
www.teenvogue.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents.
While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⤵️
While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⤵️
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No one from the LGBTQIA+ community has ever knocked on my door and offered me pamphlets or invitations to come be gay with them. But religious people are always in my comments or at my door wanting me to pray to their god. So who’s shoving their agenda down whose throats?
June 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
No one from the LGBTQIA+ community has ever knocked on my door and offered me pamphlets or invitations to come be gay with them. But religious people are always in my comments or at my door wanting me to pray to their god. So who’s shoving their agenda down whose throats?
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.
June 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.
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That this even needs to be said.
Basic human decency.
Humanity.
PERIOD!!!
And if you're not saying it?
And not living it?
YOU ARE the problem.
Basic human decency.
Humanity.
PERIOD!!!
And if you're not saying it?
And not living it?
YOU ARE the problem.
June 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
That this even needs to be said.
Basic human decency.
Humanity.
PERIOD!!!
And if you're not saying it?
And not living it?
YOU ARE the problem.
Basic human decency.
Humanity.
PERIOD!!!
And if you're not saying it?
And not living it?
YOU ARE the problem.
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Haunting Portrait: NASA’s Webb Reveals Dust, Structure in Pillars of Creation - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2nWpPiz
June 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Haunting Portrait: NASA’s Webb Reveals Dust, Structure in Pillars of Creation - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2nWpPiz
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If something happened in America, it's American history. That includes the parts people don't want to think about. "Knowing we stole land from Native Americans/stole people for the slave trade/stole property from incarcerated Japanese citizens makes me feel icky" is not a counterpoint to reality.
The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signage nationwide by June 13, asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history.
National Park signage encourages the public to help erase negative stories at its sites
The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signage nationwide by June 13, asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history.
n.pr
June 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If something happened in America, it's American history. That includes the parts people don't want to think about. "Knowing we stole land from Native Americans/stole people for the slave trade/stole property from incarcerated Japanese citizens makes me feel icky" is not a counterpoint to reality.
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What they aren’t showing on Fox News
June 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
What they aren’t showing on Fox News
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Every time I get sick— even “just a cold”— it makes ALL my chronic illnesses flare…
Every. Time.
I never return to a baseline anymore. Every flare becomes my new normal, to the point I can no longer walk independently.
We aren’t just making this shit up.
Your maskless faces are ruining my life.
Every. Time.
I never return to a baseline anymore. Every flare becomes my new normal, to the point I can no longer walk independently.
We aren’t just making this shit up.
Your maskless faces are ruining my life.
“You’re already sick, what are you afraid of?”
This question is used to get disabled people to take unnecessary risks.
We’re afraid of losing our baseline.
It means everything to us. We are afraid of losing what small amount of function we have left.
No one protects your baseline like you will.
This question is used to get disabled people to take unnecessary risks.
We’re afraid of losing our baseline.
It means everything to us. We are afraid of losing what small amount of function we have left.
No one protects your baseline like you will.
June 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Every time I get sick— even “just a cold”— it makes ALL my chronic illnesses flare…
Every. Time.
I never return to a baseline anymore. Every flare becomes my new normal, to the point I can no longer walk independently.
We aren’t just making this shit up.
Your maskless faces are ruining my life.
Every. Time.
I never return to a baseline anymore. Every flare becomes my new normal, to the point I can no longer walk independently.
We aren’t just making this shit up.
Your maskless faces are ruining my life.
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Yesterday at Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in Seattle barriers were built with scooters and bikes in front of the buildings garage exit.
This comes as it was announced today that ICE will be deploying tactical teams to 5 cities in the US to assist in “mass deportations”
This comes as it was announced today that ICE will be deploying tactical teams to 5 cities in the US to assist in “mass deportations”
June 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yesterday at Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in Seattle barriers were built with scooters and bikes in front of the buildings garage exit.
This comes as it was announced today that ICE will be deploying tactical teams to 5 cities in the US to assist in “mass deportations”
This comes as it was announced today that ICE will be deploying tactical teams to 5 cities in the US to assist in “mass deportations”
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Vindicated as a wheelchair user right now, honestly. These things are shitty roadblocks. Assembling them together? Brilliant.
State of the parking garage blockade right now. Protesters are zip-tying and duct taping the Lime scooters and bikes in a 21st century answer to the barricades of Paris
June 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Vindicated as a wheelchair user right now, honestly. These things are shitty roadblocks. Assembling them together? Brilliant.