Toni Gatlin
@tonigatlin.com
Jesus follower.🕊️ Ex-fundygelical/cultie.❤️🩹 Married again.👩❤️👨 Dog mom.🐶 Wordy/bookish.🤓 Neurosparkly.✨ Contemplative.🧘🏻🙏🏻🌗 Methodist.💒 Seminarian.📚 Texan-American.🌮 Democracy defender.🇺🇸 Suffragette.🗳️ Slow hiker, busy admiring birds/bugs/flowers.🌻
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And just to further put a point on it, this is very explicitly the point of militant nonviolent protest.
To demonstrate incontrovertibly to even the low info news consumer that agents of the oppressor are engaging in an entirely one-sided brutality against the vulnerable
To demonstrate incontrovertibly to even the low info news consumer that agents of the oppressor are engaging in an entirely one-sided brutality against the vulnerable
So believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 12:53 PM
And just to further put a point on it, this is very explicitly the point of militant nonviolent protest.
To demonstrate incontrovertibly to even the low info news consumer that agents of the oppressor are engaging in an entirely one-sided brutality against the vulnerable
To demonstrate incontrovertibly to even the low info news consumer that agents of the oppressor are engaging in an entirely one-sided brutality against the vulnerable
Amen
Y'all, it's February. Let's not January like we Januaried this year ever again. 🥹
February 1, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Amen
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Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face.
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
What To Do If You Get Pepper Sprayed
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face.
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
Saw Menefee on a panel at Texas Tribune Festival in 2024 & at end of session, sat there stunned at his smarts & husband says “That guy is GOING places.” So so so glad to see it happen!
Houston Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election to complete Sylvester Turner’s term in Congress.
Menefee defeats Edwards in special election for Congress
The former Harris County attorney defeated Amanda Edwards in Texas’ 18th Congressional District. The two will face off again in the March 3 primary for a redrawn version of the district.
www.texastribune.org
February 1, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Saw Menefee on a panel at Texas Tribune Festival in 2024 & at end of session, sat there stunned at his smarts & husband says “That guy is GOING places.” So so so glad to see it happen!
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Sincerely love that the chuds think this is all based on folks in Minnesota reading the works of Uncle Ho, rather than being built on the same social structures that organize the annual spaghetti fundraiser
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 27, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Sincerely love that the chuds think this is all based on folks in Minnesota reading the works of Uncle Ho, rather than being built on the same social structures that organize the annual spaghetti fundraiser
You love to see it
February 1, 2026 at 5:33 AM
You love to see it
This is EXACTLY why fundy parents restrict their kids’ media consumption: they know that if kids learn from anyone else, they’ll develop “an independent spirit.”😱
(We didn’t have tv for much of my childhood [born 1977], & I couldn’t get library books published after 1969 w/o asking permission.)
(We didn’t have tv for much of my childhood [born 1977], & I couldn’t get library books published after 1969 w/o asking permission.)
February 1, 2026 at 5:23 AM
This is EXACTLY why fundy parents restrict their kids’ media consumption: they know that if kids learn from anyone else, they’ll develop “an independent spirit.”😱
(We didn’t have tv for much of my childhood [born 1977], & I couldn’t get library books published after 1969 w/o asking permission.)
(We didn’t have tv for much of my childhood [born 1977], & I couldn’t get library books published after 1969 w/o asking permission.)
These are brilliant!
Instructions on building your own CR box. These are also useful for COVID mitigation and wildfire smoke.
corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/
corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/
How to build your own Corsi-Rosenthal Box - Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation
Dedicated to providing cleaner safer air for all.
corsirosenthalfoundation.org
February 1, 2026 at 5:05 AM
These are brilliant!
We got there an hour early and weren't far from the stage; we had no idea until we were leaving how many people had filled in on the sides and behind us, even in every level of the parking garage across the street. Heartening to be in a huge crowd all cheering to protect our neighbors!
5,000+ people showed up to rally against ICE with James Talarico, Gina Hinojosa, Joaquin Castro, and Greg Casar
February 1, 2026 at 4:50 AM
We got there an hour early and weren't far from the stage; we had no idea until we were leaving how many people had filled in on the sides and behind us, even in every level of the parking garage across the street. Heartening to be in a huge crowd all cheering to protect our neighbors!
About 5,000 people and some really great protest signage turned out in East Austin today
January 31, 2026 at 11:26 PM
About 5,000 people and some really great protest signage turned out in East Austin today
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Here's the whole of Judge Fred Biery's scathing order, compelling the release of 5-yr-old Liam & his father. Well worth a read.
Particularly noteworthy that Biery attached a picture & Bible verses at the end... "Suffer the children..." and "Jesus wept."
Particularly noteworthy that Biery attached a picture & Bible verses at the end... "Suffer the children..." and "Jesus wept."
January 31, 2026 at 11:09 PM
🔥
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The new Harriet Powers USPS postage stamps are so moving. Featuring details from formerly enslaved Powers’s “Pictorial Quilt” of 1898, I’m so glad these stamps will bring her work & life story to more people, especially when so much Black history is being erased from the public realm right now 💌
January 28, 2026 at 6:05 PM
The new Harriet Powers USPS postage stamps are so moving. Featuring details from formerly enslaved Powers’s “Pictorial Quilt” of 1898, I’m so glad these stamps will bring her work & life story to more people, especially when so much Black history is being erased from the public realm right now 💌
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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. You no longer have to ask yourself what you would do if you were in Nazi Germany. You just have to ask if you’re doing enough in Trump’s America now while there’s still time.
January 27, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. You no longer have to ask yourself what you would do if you were in Nazi Germany. You just have to ask if you’re doing enough in Trump’s America now while there’s still time.
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Just a reminder that Jesus spent so much time defending the vulnerable and endangered people around him that it threatened the powers and principalities to the point that the government brutally and publicly executed him for it.
January 27, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Just a reminder that Jesus spent so much time defending the vulnerable and endangered people around him that it threatened the powers and principalities to the point that the government brutally and publicly executed him for it.
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Last chance to register! Join us today at noon ET for a free virtual event with reporter Jack Jenkins and two Minneapolis faith leaders involved in community responses to ICE. Register below to attend live or receive a recording of the discussion: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Last chance to register! Join us today at noon ET for a free virtual event with reporter Jack Jenkins and two Minneapolis faith leaders involved in community responses to ICE. Register below to attend live or receive a recording of the discussion: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Terror on the streets?
Contemporary neo-fascism at large ...
Contemporary neo-fascism at large ...
January 19, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Terror on the streets?
Contemporary neo-fascism at large ...
Contemporary neo-fascism at large ...
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“Fear not those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow.”
www.instagram.com/amandascgorm...
www.instagram.com/amandascgorm...
January 25, 2026 at 10:05 PM
“Fear not those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow.”
www.instagram.com/amandascgorm...
www.instagram.com/amandascgorm...
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"This isn't who we are!" - false, ignores history, keeps harmful systems in place
"This isn't who we should be!" - true, imagines a better future, includes everyone.
"This isn't who we should be!" - true, imagines a better future, includes everyone.
January 26, 2026 at 12:35 AM
"This isn't who we are!" - false, ignores history, keeps harmful systems in place
"This isn't who we should be!" - true, imagines a better future, includes everyone.
"This isn't who we should be!" - true, imagines a better future, includes everyone.
Our own Tank Man.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Our own Tank Man.
Husband in the kitchen making coffee and he’s whistling Bob Marley… Get up, stand up, stand up for your right
January 25, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Husband in the kitchen making coffee and he’s whistling Bob Marley… Get up, stand up, stand up for your right
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January 25, 2026 at 4:05 AM