Charlie Iwato Nichols
@charlieiwato.bsky.social
she/her
A queer Jewpanese eco-witch and writer 🌸📿
Decolonizing my practice 🌙💖
Public IG: @persimmons_pomegranates
Bookstagram: @vesta9thhouse
Substack: Persimmons & Pomegranates
A queer Jewpanese eco-witch and writer 🌸📿
Decolonizing my practice 🌙💖
Public IG: @persimmons_pomegranates
Bookstagram: @vesta9thhouse
Substack: Persimmons & Pomegranates
Reposted by Charlie Iwato Nichols
THE GUARDIAN: US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
THE GUARDIAN: US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Charlie Iwato Nichols
At what point do we call this a constitutional crisis?!
Russell Vought is Trump’s path to authoritarianism.
“He was so clear to us that he believes that it’s a President’s power to ignore the laws as written, that it’s a President’s power to ignore the Constitution.” - @jeff-merkley.bsky.social
Russell Vought is Trump’s path to authoritarianism.
“He was so clear to us that he believes that it’s a President’s power to ignore the laws as written, that it’s a President’s power to ignore the Constitution.” - @jeff-merkley.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
At what point do we call this a constitutional crisis?!
Russell Vought is Trump’s path to authoritarianism.
“He was so clear to us that he believes that it’s a President’s power to ignore the laws as written, that it’s a President’s power to ignore the Constitution.” - @jeff-merkley.bsky.social
Russell Vought is Trump’s path to authoritarianism.
“He was so clear to us that he believes that it’s a President’s power to ignore the laws as written, that it’s a President’s power to ignore the Constitution.” - @jeff-merkley.bsky.social
Reposted by Charlie Iwato Nichols
Reposted by Charlie Iwato Nichols
In the US city of Cincinnati in Ohio, armed Nazis decided to hang flags over an overpass, they were promptly removed by locals who chased them away and burned the Nazi flags. The police tried to protect the Nazis.
February 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In the US city of Cincinnati in Ohio, armed Nazis decided to hang flags over an overpass, they were promptly removed by locals who chased them away and burned the Nazi flags. The police tried to protect the Nazis.
Reposted by Charlie Iwato Nichols
So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
January 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
DUTY to overthrow.
DUTY to overthrow.
February 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
DUTY to overthrow.
DUTY to overthrow.
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"Donald Trump's administration is lying to you."
Gov. J.B. Pritzker slammed the White House for saying the freeze wouldn’t affect Head Start and Medicaid.
This is how we do it. Call out Trump’s lies to the camera, bold, strong action. Hold him accountable, every single time.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker slammed the White House for saying the freeze wouldn’t affect Head Start and Medicaid.
This is how we do it. Call out Trump’s lies to the camera, bold, strong action. Hold him accountable, every single time.
January 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"Donald Trump's administration is lying to you."
Gov. J.B. Pritzker slammed the White House for saying the freeze wouldn’t affect Head Start and Medicaid.
This is how we do it. Call out Trump’s lies to the camera, bold, strong action. Hold him accountable, every single time.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker slammed the White House for saying the freeze wouldn’t affect Head Start and Medicaid.
This is how we do it. Call out Trump’s lies to the camera, bold, strong action. Hold him accountable, every single time.
As I dig into deepening my community care practice, I wanted to send Valentines 💌 to my friends.
Then I thought:
I can send some to my reps and senators. I figure they prob don’t get cute cards often.
Time to thaw some hearts 🫀 with some good old-fashioned whimsy and love babyyyy 💘💝🧚♂️💖✨💕💐
Then I thought:
I can send some to my reps and senators. I figure they prob don’t get cute cards often.
Time to thaw some hearts 🫀 with some good old-fashioned whimsy and love babyyyy 💘💝🧚♂️💖✨💕💐
January 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
As I dig into deepening my community care practice, I wanted to send Valentines 💌 to my friends.
Then I thought:
I can send some to my reps and senators. I figure they prob don’t get cute cards often.
Time to thaw some hearts 🫀 with some good old-fashioned whimsy and love babyyyy 💘💝🧚♂️💖✨💕💐
Then I thought:
I can send some to my reps and senators. I figure they prob don’t get cute cards often.
Time to thaw some hearts 🫀 with some good old-fashioned whimsy and love babyyyy 💘💝🧚♂️💖✨💕💐
Breathe.
Deep.
Breathe.
The work continues.
❄️
Deep.
Breathe.
The work continues.
❄️
January 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Breathe.
Deep.
Breathe.
The work continues.
❄️
Deep.
Breathe.
The work continues.
❄️
I just think it’s really unfair that there are so many amazing books that exist and I won’t be able to read all of them before I die.
January 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I just think it’s really unfair that there are so many amazing books that exist and I won’t be able to read all of them before I die.
I love wearing a menstrual cup because then on heavy days, I get to say things like, “My cup runneth over!” And it just makes me feel so grateful for all I have in life. 🍷🩸
December 12, 2024 at 2:09 PM
I love wearing a menstrual cup because then on heavy days, I get to say things like, “My cup runneth over!” And it just makes me feel so grateful for all I have in life. 🍷🩸
I’m here for healed masculinity. For a world where “strong” doesn’t mean “stoic” but instead means “emotionally intelligent.” I’m here for the men paving the way for other men to be vulnerable and for the men brave enough to be vulnerable.
December 12, 2024 at 1:35 PM
I’m here for healed masculinity. For a world where “strong” doesn’t mean “stoic” but instead means “emotionally intelligent.” I’m here for the men paving the way for other men to be vulnerable and for the men brave enough to be vulnerable.
Celeb worship culture weirds me out.
Swift, Gaga, and Grande fans get oddly aggressive if you’re remotely critical of their celeb deity, even if the criticism is justified.
Swift, Gaga, and Grande fans get oddly aggressive if you’re remotely critical of their celeb deity, even if the criticism is justified.
November 30, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Celeb worship culture weirds me out.
Swift, Gaga, and Grande fans get oddly aggressive if you’re remotely critical of their celeb deity, even if the criticism is justified.
Swift, Gaga, and Grande fans get oddly aggressive if you’re remotely critical of their celeb deity, even if the criticism is justified.
I never thought I’d be the kind of person who would rather marry into a 5k family but here we are! 💪🏼🏃🏻♀️
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 PM
I never thought I’d be the kind of person who would rather marry into a 5k family but here we are! 💪🏼🏃🏻♀️
Selling insurance isn’t the most fun always, but sometimes I get really funny people, like this guy:
Me: Is your garage a one-car attached garage?
Him: Yep. Just one car. But you can fit a *bunch* of Hot Wheels. 🚗
Me: Is your garage a one-car attached garage?
Him: Yep. Just one car. But you can fit a *bunch* of Hot Wheels. 🚗
November 26, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Selling insurance isn’t the most fun always, but sometimes I get really funny people, like this guy:
Me: Is your garage a one-car attached garage?
Him: Yep. Just one car. But you can fit a *bunch* of Hot Wheels. 🚗
Me: Is your garage a one-car attached garage?
Him: Yep. Just one car. But you can fit a *bunch* of Hot Wheels. 🚗
I don’t know what’s going on but recently I’ve had some mispronunciation issues. 🧵
November 22, 2024 at 3:07 AM
I don’t know what’s going on but recently I’ve had some mispronunciation issues. 🧵
“Yet the entrance [to Takamagahara], to judge from the Ōharai (Great Purification) liturgy, would appear to be a ✨rock door✨, which must be pushed open before the ritual words below can be heard.”
My family’s surname is 岩戸 (Iwato), which means “rock door.” (Not to be confused with surname Iwata.)
My family’s surname is 岩戸 (Iwato), which means “rock door.” (Not to be confused with surname Iwata.)
November 22, 2024 at 1:01 AM
“Yet the entrance [to Takamagahara], to judge from the Ōharai (Great Purification) liturgy, would appear to be a ✨rock door✨, which must be pushed open before the ritual words below can be heard.”
My family’s surname is 岩戸 (Iwato), which means “rock door.” (Not to be confused with surname Iwata.)
My family’s surname is 岩戸 (Iwato), which means “rock door.” (Not to be confused with surname Iwata.)
Once my brother came to visit.
Bro: Is the water in the fridge ok to drink?
Babe: Yeah why?
Bro: I dunno sometimes my sister does weird shit.
(He meant witchcraft.)
Today I just told my family not to drink the sake in the fridge because it’s an offering to kamisama and the ancestors.
Bro: Is the water in the fridge ok to drink?
Babe: Yeah why?
Bro: I dunno sometimes my sister does weird shit.
(He meant witchcraft.)
Today I just told my family not to drink the sake in the fridge because it’s an offering to kamisama and the ancestors.
November 21, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Once my brother came to visit.
Bro: Is the water in the fridge ok to drink?
Babe: Yeah why?
Bro: I dunno sometimes my sister does weird shit.
(He meant witchcraft.)
Today I just told my family not to drink the sake in the fridge because it’s an offering to kamisama and the ancestors.
Bro: Is the water in the fridge ok to drink?
Babe: Yeah why?
Bro: I dunno sometimes my sister does weird shit.
(He meant witchcraft.)
Today I just told my family not to drink the sake in the fridge because it’s an offering to kamisama and the ancestors.
Reposted by Charlie Iwato Nichols
Here’s all the Democrats have to do on Trumps cabinet appointments: Vote no on all of them. The vast majority of people will not care and it shows your core supporters who are paying attention that you give no quarter to fascism.
November 18, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Here’s all the Democrats have to do on Trumps cabinet appointments: Vote no on all of them. The vast majority of people will not care and it shows your core supporters who are paying attention that you give no quarter to fascism.
How are you ensuring your feminism is inclusive? I’ve noticed a lot of women getting louder with their feminism & an unintended effect is the relative silence from many of them the last four years. Let’s not only practice feminism when it only affects us and people who look like us.
November 18, 2024 at 9:00 PM
How are you ensuring your feminism is inclusive? I’ve noticed a lot of women getting louder with their feminism & an unintended effect is the relative silence from many of them the last four years. Let’s not only practice feminism when it only affects us and people who look like us.
Sometimes I think people think compassion is this naturally-occurring, constant state of being, but it’s not. It’s really fucking hard, conscious work. I’d even say radical and revolutionary.
November 17, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Sometimes I think people think compassion is this naturally-occurring, constant state of being, but it’s not. It’s really fucking hard, conscious work. I’d even say radical and revolutionary.
Me waking from nap: Babe will you go to the snack drawer and bring me the Muddy Buddies?
Babe: You got Muddy Buddies?
Me: Yeah. I have my period. Muddy Buddies for my bloody buddies.
Babe: You got Muddy Buddies?
Me: Yeah. I have my period. Muddy Buddies for my bloody buddies.
November 16, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Me waking from nap: Babe will you go to the snack drawer and bring me the Muddy Buddies?
Babe: You got Muddy Buddies?
Me: Yeah. I have my period. Muddy Buddies for my bloody buddies.
Babe: You got Muddy Buddies?
Me: Yeah. I have my period. Muddy Buddies for my bloody buddies.
Any non-fiction readers out there? I read fiction before bed, but the rest of the day is non-fiction. My only regret is life is too short for all the books waiting to be read. 📚📿
My Thursday stack.
My Thursday stack.
November 14, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Any non-fiction readers out there? I read fiction before bed, but the rest of the day is non-fiction. My only regret is life is too short for all the books waiting to be read. 📚📿
My Thursday stack.
My Thursday stack.
Well, I have arrived! 🦋
November 14, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Well, I have arrived! 🦋