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Strawberry Basil
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Loves cats, gardening, and living in the desert (originally from ABQ and just moved back). Queer. She/her. Mainly here to read, not to interact.
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We keep going for three reasons: Because life is beautiful and people are worth it, because descending into despair is what they want, and out of pure, unbridled spite for their ghoulishness.

Live to see their obituaries, upset them with your joy, protect each other, Stay strong.
July 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Come what may, I will bet on us, every time, because there is no other bet worth placing. I am all in, fam. I will never stop looking for openings and aiming at them. I will never stop reaching for people and saying, “Take my hand. We can do this.” Because we are worth it.
July 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.
June 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Trans people are my people, my family, my friends, my loved ones, my colleagues, my heroes. Solidarity, all day, every day.
June 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I appreciate all of your efforts but the answer is Truth or Consequences, NM
What would be the funniest city for a Pope to come from? I’m going with Tampa
May 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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gavin newsom looks like if a bond villain’s toupee struck off on its own to make it in the big city
April 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Would love to see action or even a statement about this Albuquerque resident from @heinrich.senate.gov @lujan.senate.gov @repstansbury.bsky.social
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
April 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I can never get all the way through this without crying it’s so good
April 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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If a 78-year-old George W. Bush appointee can school DOJ and DOD on anti-trans discrimination, maybe we should expand our definition of what’s possible — and then act on it.
Judge Benjamin Settle, a George W. Bush appointee to the federal bench born in 1947, had this to say to the Trump administration tonight about its defense of its anti-trans military ban: www.lawdork.com/i/159798593/...
March 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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I talked with my friends @prisonculture.bsky.social, @deanspade.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @shaneburley.bsky.social about activism and organizing in 2025 and how we should move into the next phase of struggle.
Wading Into 2025: How to Begin
“We live in chaotic, disastrous times, but amid that madness, we can still find each other and fight for each other.”
organizingmythoughts.org
December 31, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Trans people are my family, my friends, and my community. Every part of my life is better for knowing and loving trans people. Even if that wasn’t my experience, I believe in the right to self determination and dignity for everyone.

I will to do everything in my power to protect trans folks.
My guess is that a lot of trans people will be feeling a ton of stress and worry over SCOTUS today.

If you are a cis person, quote this and say why you support trans people and what you are willing to do to support us if the government comes for us.
December 4, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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hi, cis folks! it's trans day of remembrance & we're mourning our dead. the GOP used it to intro federal legislation barring trans folks from the right bathrooms.

this is bigger than rep mcbride, who can’t or won’t fight for herself. we need folks to stand with us now. call scripts & info follow.🧵
November 21, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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Get a load of this cozy asshole
November 21, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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The correct response to Republican harassment is to clarify that an attack on our transgender colleagues and friends is an attack on all of us. Every Democrat should be saying: "To get to her, you will have to come through me."
November 21, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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“I think we cannot overstate what the emotional impact of this election will have, especially on trans people but queer and trans people as a whole,” Martinez said.
LGBTQ: What’s at risk under a second Trump term - NM Political Report
Within the first two days after the general election earlier this month, LGBTQ crisis lines in the U.S. experienced a 700 percent increase in calls, Marshall Martinez, executive director of Equality N...
nmpoliticalreport.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM