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Texas Feminist, Progressive Pastor, Writer, 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Ally, Aunt, Wife, and Yoga enthusiast!

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TX Feminist (she, her) @txfeminist.bsky.social · Feb 22

🏳️‍⚧️ I 🏳️‍⚧️ am 🏳️‍⚧️ a 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans 🏳️‍⚧️ Ally!!! 🏳️‍⚧️

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Feb 22

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4d

A win! Trump administration ordered to pay SNAP benefits during shutdown. Thank you Judge John J. McConnell!

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 5d

Folks the short answer to why government is shut down: GOP holds White House, House, and Senate; refuses to compromise; does Trump's bidding; and doesn't care about the damage to our country or people's lives. End of story.

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TX Feminist (she, her) @txfeminist.bsky.social · 7d

What would Molly Ivins say about this nonsense? 💩

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 7d

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleged Johnson & Johnson deceptively marketed the drug as safe for pregnant Texans. bit.ly/3JyTzDQ

TX Feminist (she, her) @txfeminist.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote this piece to make meaning out of my deep grief over the demolition of the East Wing of OUR White House. I found unexpected hope from Nikki Giovanni's poem, Quilts, and in the quilts of survival and community we’ve all inherited.

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The Quilt We’re Stitching Now

What quilts teach us about survival and restoring our community

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TX Feminist (she, her) @txfeminist.bsky.social · 17d

This is what democracy looks like in the Woodlands, TX (north Houston)! #nokings #thisiswhatdemocracylookslike

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20d

👇NAMI is maintaining a list government health services impacted by the shutdown.

The NAMI HelpLine is available M-F, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. ET. Call 800-950-6264, text “NAMI” to 62640, or email [email protected]. If you are in a crisis, call or text 988 or chat online at 988Lifeline.org.

Shutdown Resources

2025 Federal Government Shutdown As of 12 AM ET on October 1, 2025, the federal government has shut down due to lack of an agreement for funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. Some federal services and fu...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20d

Apparently $20B of our taxpayer money wasn't enough to bail out Argentina.

Now Trump wants U.S. banks to divert ANOTHER $20B away from lending to American businesses, farmers, and families to prop up Milei's corrupt presidency and failing economy.

So much for America First.

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 22d

"The news hasn't changed a thing," Claudia Corletto writes about her morning commute along a Houston bayou. bit.ly/4n0hsSs

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 22d

George Edward Pickett wrote that if he ever captured a Black soldier, "I should have caused him to be immediately executed." Pickett did not believe Black people could be equal to white people. A military base in Virginia once again bears his name.

Fort Pickett, Virginia

Pickett did not believe Black people could be equal to white people.

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 24d

More than 50 years later, hate crimes laws have expanded:

💥 46 states + D.C. protect against bias based on race, ethnicity or religion.

💥 34 states + D.C. protect sexual orientation.

💥 34 states + D.C. protect disability.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 24d

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“When it comes to Venezuela, silence is violence,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes. “Choosing to ignore the catastrophe there only serves to perpetuate it.”

Opinion | A Worthy Nobel Peace Laureate

And a reminder of the need to depose the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

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TX Feminist (she, her) @txfeminist.bsky.social · 26d

I had my annual mammogram today and wrote a reflection about having to pay extra because the imaging center was out of network of my health insurance provider. To all my girly friends, here's your friendly reminder to get your annual mammogram!

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Hold Your Breath

A mammogram, a government shutdown, and the price of being a woman in America’s healthcare system today

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26d

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TX Feminist (she, her) @txfeminist.bsky.social · 27d

Come and get me. I am a proud liberal Texas Feminist pastor!

Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 27d

Attorney General Ken Paxton is launching undercover investigations of "left-wing political violence" in Texas.

AG Ken Paxton announces undercover operations of ‘leftist terror cells’

Attorney General Ken Paxton is launching undercover investigations of left-wing political violence in Texas after recent attacks against ICE.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · Oct 4

Some times in America we have the exact right President in office to lead in crucial moments (i.e. Lincoln). But at other times we have the exact wrong President in office (i.e. Andrew Johnson). Today we have the worst President in our history in office at a most crucial moment.

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TX Feminist (she, her) @txfeminist.bsky.social · Sep 29

Why America explains away white violence, demonizes communities of color, and accepts bloodshed as ordinary

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When Gunfire No Longer Shocks Us

Why America explains away white violence, demonizes communities of color, and accepts bloodshed as ordinary

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TX Feminist (she, her) @txfeminist.bsky.social · Sep 26

Wow. No. Words. 😡

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 26

IOWA: “ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa’s largest public school district…” 🤔 www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · Sep 19

There is no way to avoid turbulence or conflict now. This is going to cost us all something.

The question is whether or not we have the intestinal fortitude to save what’s left.

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TX Feminist (she, her) @txfeminist.bsky.social · Sep 18

Yea, Alabama! Go, Katie and your banned book pickup truck store!!!

Alabama Political Reporter @alreporter.com · Sep 18

Fueled by censorship battles across the state, Karie Fugett transformed a 1940 Ford pickup into a roving banned book store.

The Banned Wagon: Alabama woman starting state's first traveling banned book store

Fueled by censorship battles across the state, Karie Fugett transformed a 1940 Ford pickup into a roving banned book store.

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · Sep 18

Texas is tough enough to handle free, even offensive, speech. Maybe our leaders have gotten a little soft in Austin. bit.ly/4na9neM

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · Sep 18

“I thought we were better than this,” writes Aggie Nick Holloway. bit.ly/4pvq5a9

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · Sep 18

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 18

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TX Feminist (she, her) @txfeminist.bsky.social · Sep 16

This one guts me. What an amazing actor and progressive leader. Rest in peace, Mr. Redford.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 16

Robert Redford, the big-screen idol turned Oscar-winning director, Sundance Film Festival founder and environmental activist, died on Tuesday. He was 89. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...