Shira
@shiraberk.bsky.social
PROMO Missouri’s Sr. Policy Director | campindigopoint.org Camp Director, Founder | here with political opinions and time spent over ☕️ 🚴🏼♂️ 🩵 | (they/them)
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Shira
@shiraberk.bsky.social
· Feb 6
A summer safe haven for LGBTQ+ kids
Photos from Camp Indigo Point, where the yurts are decorated with pride flags and campers have a liberated freedom of expression.
www.washingtonpost.com
Feels like a good time to lift this up:
Camp Indigo Point is entering its 5th summer, and I can’t wait to find myself back here at the end of a marathon legislative session 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Camp Indigo Point is entering its 5th summer, and I can’t wait to find myself back here at the end of a marathon legislative session 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Chicago-area and other IL proximate (STL!!) Jews!
Buncha August events and retreats at this groovy Jewy regenerative agriculture community:
Buncha August events and retreats at this groovy Jewy regenerative agriculture community:
Events + Programming — Zumwalt Acres
www.zumwaltacres.org
July 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Chicago-area and other IL proximate (STL!!) Jews!
Buncha August events and retreats at this groovy Jewy regenerative agriculture community:
Buncha August events and retreats at this groovy Jewy regenerative agriculture community:
Currently #mohouse is debating HB089, a bill adding antisemitism to protected discriminations in education settings. This body, or any government body, should not be codifying this working and offensive definition in statute that was never meant to be defined in law.
April 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Currently #mohouse is debating HB089, a bill adding antisemitism to protected discriminations in education settings. This body, or any government body, should not be codifying this working and offensive definition in statute that was never meant to be defined in law.
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If you're thinking to yourself: huh, I actually do have too much money, don't I--
here's a sleepaway camp for queer and trans youth that could not be more lifesaving now-- and they're committed to making sure nobody is turned away for lack of funds.
It's run by @ravbogard.bsky.social, mensch.
here's a sleepaway camp for queer and trans youth that could not be more lifesaving now-- and they're committed to making sure nobody is turned away for lack of funds.
It's run by @ravbogard.bsky.social, mensch.
Camp Indigo Point – A summer camp for LGBTQ+ youth!
www.campindigopoint.org
March 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
If you're thinking to yourself: huh, I actually do have too much money, don't I--
here's a sleepaway camp for queer and trans youth that could not be more lifesaving now-- and they're committed to making sure nobody is turned away for lack of funds.
It's run by @ravbogard.bsky.social, mensch.
here's a sleepaway camp for queer and trans youth that could not be more lifesaving now-- and they're committed to making sure nobody is turned away for lack of funds.
It's run by @ravbogard.bsky.social, mensch.
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Trump said we're a country of survivors and I don't think he knows how true that is - for LGBTQI+ people. Trans folks, above all else, know how to survive. We existed before Trump, we will exist after him.
We've got us, no matter what.
We've got us, no matter what.
March 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Trump said we're a country of survivors and I don't think he knows how true that is - for LGBTQI+ people. Trans folks, above all else, know how to survive. We existed before Trump, we will exist after him.
We've got us, no matter what.
We've got us, no matter what.
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Trump claims he criminalized best practice medical care for trans youth. It is imperative that folks understand - he did not. Executive orders do not create new crimes.
Trans medical care is life-saving, best practice care. Read more about it here.
www.americanprogress.org/article/tran...
Trans medical care is life-saving, best practice care. Read more about it here.
www.americanprogress.org/article/tran...
Transgender Medical Care: What You Should Know and How To Preserve Access to Care
Transgender medical care is safe, effective, lifesaving—but access to it is under attack.
www.americanprogress.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Trump claims he criminalized best practice medical care for trans youth. It is imperative that folks understand - he did not. Executive orders do not create new crimes.
Trans medical care is life-saving, best practice care. Read more about it here.
www.americanprogress.org/article/tran...
Trans medical care is life-saving, best practice care. Read more about it here.
www.americanprogress.org/article/tran...
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All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.
March 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.
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This is not a presidential speech. It is a disinformation operation.
All this "age of Social Security recipients" stuff is b/c DOGE dudes miscalculated in their analysis.
AS TRUMP'S OWN SOCIAL SECURITY CHIEF INDICATED: www.cbsnews.com/news/social-...
AS TRUMP'S OWN SOCIAL SECURITY CHIEF INDICATED: www.cbsnews.com/news/social-...
New Social Security chief refutes claims of deceased people over 100 years old getting checks
Elon Musk had claimed that DOGE found evidence of 150-year-olds receiving Social Security benefits.
www.cbsnews.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is not a presidential speech. It is a disinformation operation.
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With everything bad in the world, I’m taking my traditional pun-filled Oscars menu and turning it into something good for LGBTQ+ youth. For a donation of $5 or more, get a cookbook inspired by this years movies and filled with terrible photoshops. Ya gotta give. gofund.me/f20ca6f6
gofund.me
February 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
With everything bad in the world, I’m taking my traditional pun-filled Oscars menu and turning it into something good for LGBTQ+ youth. For a donation of $5 or more, get a cookbook inspired by this years movies and filled with terrible photoshops. Ya gotta give. gofund.me/f20ca6f6
Mo Sen voted down an amendment that would revert the 2001 amended definition of marriage claiming such a commitment could only be between a man and a woman back to being between 2 people. A STL Dem voted it down - voted gay marriage down - in 2025. How are we still here?
February 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Mo Sen voted down an amendment that would revert the 2001 amended definition of marriage claiming such a commitment could only be between a man and a woman back to being between 2 people. A STL Dem voted it down - voted gay marriage down - in 2025. How are we still here?
There’s not a day that’s occurred this session in which #moleg hasn’t attempted to ban being queer or trans in Missouri. Today #MoSen is back on their construction bill stacked with amendments to permanently ban trans gender affirming care and trans athlete participation in sports.
February 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There’s not one Missourian #MoAG cares about- not trans kids, not our workforce, not farmers.
Missouri farmers and rural businesses are reeling in the wake of Trump and Musk's #DOGE cuts and directives. Where is #MOAG Andrew Bailey's suit to protect Missourians? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u... #MOGov #MOLeg
Trump’s Funding Freezes Bruise a Core Constituency: Farmers
A rapid-fire array of directives by the Trump administration have left farmers and businesses in rural America reeling.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
There’s not one Missourian #MoAG cares about- not trans kids, not our workforce, not farmers.
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BREAKING: A federal court temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order aiming to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under age 19 nationwide.
This is a major victory for our freedom to access life-saving care.
This is a major victory for our freedom to access life-saving care.
February 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
BREAKING: A federal court temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order aiming to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under age 19 nationwide.
This is a major victory for our freedom to access life-saving care.
This is a major victory for our freedom to access life-saving care.
About #MoSen last night:
Don’t sleep on the Freedom Caucus’ conniving behavior to ban gender affirming healthcare in any bill.
Don’t sleep on the Freedom Caucus’ conniving behavior to ban gender affirming healthcare in any bill.
Missouri Senate votes to make restrictions on transgender care for minors permanent
Missouri’s current law, which prevents minors from accessing cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers for gender transition, is set to expire in 2027. The Senate voted to remove the expiration date.
www.stltoday.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
About #MoSen last night:
Don’t sleep on the Freedom Caucus’ conniving behavior to ban gender affirming healthcare in any bill.
Don’t sleep on the Freedom Caucus’ conniving behavior to ban gender affirming healthcare in any bill.
Feels like a good time to lift this up:
Camp Indigo Point is entering its 5th summer, and I can’t wait to find myself back here at the end of a marathon legislative session 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Camp Indigo Point is entering its 5th summer, and I can’t wait to find myself back here at the end of a marathon legislative session 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
A summer safe haven for LGBTQ+ kids
Photos from Camp Indigo Point, where the yurts are decorated with pride flags and campers have a liberated freedom of expression.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Feels like a good time to lift this up:
Camp Indigo Point is entering its 5th summer, and I can’t wait to find myself back here at the end of a marathon legislative session 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Camp Indigo Point is entering its 5th summer, and I can’t wait to find myself back here at the end of a marathon legislative session 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
It’s been years in this 1/2 week of #moleg.
Monday: 8 hours of public testimony on 7 anti-trans bills
Tuesday: 7 hours of public testimony on 5 anti-trans bills
Wednesday: 1st Senate filibuster… an anti-trans amendment, still going
#protecttranskids #stopwastingmissouritaxesattackingtranskids
Monday: 8 hours of public testimony on 7 anti-trans bills
Tuesday: 7 hours of public testimony on 5 anti-trans bills
Wednesday: 1st Senate filibuster… an anti-trans amendment, still going
#protecttranskids #stopwastingmissouritaxesattackingtranskids
February 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It’s been years in this 1/2 week of #moleg.
Monday: 8 hours of public testimony on 7 anti-trans bills
Tuesday: 7 hours of public testimony on 5 anti-trans bills
Wednesday: 1st Senate filibuster… an anti-trans amendment, still going
#protecttranskids #stopwastingmissouritaxesattackingtranskids
Monday: 8 hours of public testimony on 7 anti-trans bills
Tuesday: 7 hours of public testimony on 5 anti-trans bills
Wednesday: 1st Senate filibuster… an anti-trans amendment, still going
#protecttranskids #stopwastingmissouritaxesattackingtranskids
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"Equality is an issue in women's sports, but trans people aren’t the reason why women's sports are underfunded and under-resourced." — @caitesmith.bsky.social 👏👏👏
Bills extending gender-affirming care restrictions spark passionate testimony
Bills lifting expiration dates on gender restrictions passed in 2023 were included in a hearing that lasted hours.
www.columbiamissourian.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Equality is an issue in women's sports, but trans people aren’t the reason why women's sports are underfunded and under-resourced." — @caitesmith.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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Here we go---Rep Christ, the Chair, is introducing anti-trans day of hate in the Missouri Legislature. Here's how it's going to go: the four identical bills will go first, with each of the bill sponsors getting 5 minutes each to create hateful media moments and raise money. #MOLeg #ProtectTransKids
February 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Here we go---Rep Christ, the Chair, is introducing anti-trans day of hate in the Missouri Legislature. Here's how it's going to go: the four identical bills will go first, with each of the bill sponsors getting 5 minutes each to create hateful media moments and raise money. #MOLeg #ProtectTransKids
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Fixed it.
January 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Fixed it.
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This isn't a culture war. This is the only trans congresswoman, ever being bullied through the press and legislation, and having only 1 of hundreds of colleagues stand up for her. They can do more than 1 thing at a time. Defending her will not take so much effort that they can't do their jobs.
Defending Sarah McBride is absolutely the right thing to do, and yet there’s also the risk of being baited into yet another culture war cycle that distracts from the Republican grift. Her statement suggests she wants to move forward, and I think it’s wise to take the cue from her.
November 21, 2024 at 4:10 AM
This isn't a culture war. This is the only trans congresswoman, ever being bullied through the press and legislation, and having only 1 of hundreds of colleagues stand up for her. They can do more than 1 thing at a time. Defending her will not take so much effort that they can't do their jobs.
Hope this doesn’t indicate a fallback on Bailey though
JUST IN: Allegations of sex trafficking and drug use threatened to derail Matt Gaetz's nomination as attorney general.
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdraws as attorney general nominee
Allegations of sex trafficking and drug use threatened to derail Matt Gaetz's nomination as attorney general.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Hope this doesn’t indicate a fallback on Bailey though
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You know that report is real bad. I hope it gets leaked. In any case Gaetz fucked himself into unemployment.
November 21, 2024 at 5:48 PM
You know that report is real bad. I hope it gets leaked. In any case Gaetz fucked himself into unemployment.