#thistleandmoss — Public Fediverse posts

The Fed surrendered. A World Cup field will be too hot for human bodies. A pastor lied about science on camera. The Gathering held all three — and tended to you after. Every advertiser click, every subscription keeps this work alive. Read today's issue: https://twp.ai/4hrJ8S
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The Fed surrendered. A World Cup field will be too hot for human bodies. A pastor lied about science on camera. The Gathering held all three — and tended to you after. Every advertiser click, every subscription keeps this work alive. Read today's issue: https://twp.ai/4hrJ8S
#ThistleAndMoss #IndependentMedia #QueerJournalism #AdvocacyJournalism #LGBTQ #TheGathering #Fediverse #MutualAid #SupportIndieMedia #Newsletter

The Fed surrendered. A World Cup field will be too hot for human bodies. A pastor lied about science on camera. The Gathering held all three — and tended to you after. Every advertiser click, every subscription keeps this work alive. Read today's issue: https://twp.ai/4hrJ8S
#ThistleAndMoss #IndependentMedia #QueerJournalism #AdvocacyJournalism #LGBTQ #TheGathering #Fediverse #MutualAid #SupportIndieMedia #Newsletter

The Fed surrendered. A World Cup field will be too hot for human bodies. A pastor lied about science on camera. The Gathering held all three — and tended to you after. Every advertiser click, every subscription keeps this work alive. Read today's issue: https://twp.ai/4hrJ8S
#ThistleAndMoss #IndependentMedia #QueerJournalism #AdvocacyJournalism #LGBTQ #TheGathering #Fediverse #MutualAid #SupportIndieMedia #Newsletter

The Fed surrendered. A World Cup field will be too hot for human bodies. A pastor lied about science on camera. The Gathering held all three — and tended to you after. Every advertiser click, every subscription keeps this work alive. Read today's issue: https://twp.ai/4hrJ8S
#ThistleAndMoss #IndependentMedia #QueerJournalism #AdvocacyJournalism #LGBTQ #TheGathering #Fediverse #MutualAid #SupportIndieMedia #Newsletter

Box breathe. Four in, hold four, out four, hold four. Passionflower binds GABA-A receptors — drops cortisol without sedative rebound. Text one person what you genuinely noticed about them. Not a check-in. An observation. Connection is the immune system of a community under pressure.
#MentalHealth #HerbalMedicine #SelfCare #NervousSystem #HolisticWellness #Breathwork #QueerWellness #CommunityHealing #HealingJustice #ThistleAndMoss

Box breathe. Four in, hold four, out four, hold four. Passionflower binds GABA-A receptors — drops cortisol without sedative rebound. Text one person what you genuinely noticed about them. Not a check-in. An observation. Connection is the immune system of a community under pressure.
#MentalHealth #HerbalMedicine #SelfCare #NervousSystem #HolisticWellness #Breathwork #QueerWellness #CommunityHealing #HealingJustice #ThistleAndMoss

Box breathe. Four in, hold four, out four, hold four. Passionflower binds GABA-A receptors — drops cortisol without sedative rebound. Text one person what you genuinely noticed about them. Not a check-in. An observation. Connection is the immune system of a community under pressure.
#MentalHealth #HerbalMedicine #SelfCare #NervousSystem #HolisticWellness #Breathwork #QueerWellness #CommunityHealing #HealingJustice #ThistleAndMoss

Box breathe. Four in, hold four, out four, hold four. Passionflower binds GABA-A receptors — drops cortisol without sedative rebound. Text one person what you genuinely noticed about them. Not a check-in. An observation. Connection is the immune system of a community under pressure.
#MentalHealth #HerbalMedicine #SelfCare #NervousSystem #HolisticWellness #Breathwork #QueerWellness #CommunityHealing #HealingJustice #ThistleAndMoss

Box breathe. Four in, hold four, out four, hold four. Passionflower binds GABA-A receptors — drops cortisol without sedative rebound. Text one person what you genuinely noticed about them. Not a check-in. An observation. Connection is the immune system of a community under pressure.
#MentalHealth #HerbalMedicine #SelfCare #NervousSystem #HolisticWellness #Breathwork #QueerWellness #CommunityHealing #HealingJustice #ThistleAndMoss

Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
#AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
#AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
#AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
#AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
#AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

Adrienne Rich called heterosexuality an institution in 1980. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums refusing to shrink. We're still here. #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #Resistance #LGBTQHistory #ThistleAndMoss https://twp.ai/4hrJ8U

Adrienne Rich called heterosexuality an institution in 1980. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums refusing to shrink. We're still here. #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #Resistance #LGBTQHistory #ThistleAndMoss https://twp.ai/4hrJ8U

A pastor said liberalism makes men gay. Science: prenatal testosterone shapes neural architecture before birth. Epigenetic womb modification. Each older brother raises male homosexuality probability ~33% via maternal immune response. Homosexuality documented in 450+ species. Zero of them vote.
#LGBTQRights #QueerScience #HomophobiaKills #Science #ChurchAndState #LGBTQ #EqualityNow #FactsMatter #QueerJustice #ThistleAndMoss

A pastor said liberalism makes men gay. Science: prenatal testosterone shapes neural architecture before birth. Epigenetic womb modification. Each older brother raises male homosexuality probability ~33% via maternal immune response. Homosexuality documented in 450+ species. Zero of them vote.
#LGBTQRights #QueerScience #HomophobiaKills #Science #ChurchAndState #LGBTQ #EqualityNow #FactsMatter #QueerJustice #ThistleAndMoss

A pastor said liberalism makes men gay. Science: prenatal testosterone shapes neural architecture before birth. Epigenetic womb modification. Each older brother raises male homosexuality probability ~33% via maternal immune response. Homosexuality documented in 450+ species. Zero of them vote.
#LGBTQRights #QueerScience #HomophobiaKills #Science #ChurchAndState #LGBTQ #EqualityNow #FactsMatter #QueerJustice #ThistleAndMoss

A pastor said liberalism makes men gay. Science: prenatal testosterone shapes neural architecture before birth. Epigenetic womb modification. Each older brother raises male homosexuality probability ~33% via maternal immune response. Homosexuality documented in 450+ species. Zero of them vote.
#LGBTQRights #QueerScience #HomophobiaKills #Science #ChurchAndState #LGBTQ #EqualityNow #FactsMatter #QueerJustice #ThistleAndMoss

A pastor said liberalism makes men gay. Science: prenatal testosterone shapes neural architecture before birth. Epigenetic womb modification. Each older brother raises male homosexuality probability ~33% via maternal immune response. Homosexuality documented in 450+ species. Zero of them vote.
#LGBTQRights #QueerScience #HomophobiaKills #Science #ChurchAndState #LGBTQ #EqualityNow #FactsMatter #QueerJustice #ThistleAndMoss

1 in 4 World Cup 2026 matches hit dangerous heat. 15 researchers confirmed. FIFA scheduled peak windows at noon regardless. The earth doesn't care who won. #WorldCup #Climate #FIFA #Athletes #ClimateJustice #Sports #ThistleAndMoss https://twp.ai/4hrJ8O

Most partisan Fed vote in history. Warsh confirmed 13–11. Trump promised rates "by a lot." A century of independence, handed away in an afternoon. #Fed #KevinWarsh #EconNews #Democracy #Resistance #USPolitics #ThistleAndMoss https://twp.ai/4hrJ8P

The most partisan Fed chair vote in US history. Kevin Warsh confirmed 13–11 while Powell's seat was still warm. Trump promised he'd only appoint someone who believes in lower rates "by a lot." Either Warsh lied to the Senate — or Trump lied to his base. A century of independence, gone in one afternoon.
#FederalReserve #KevinWarsh #FedIndependence #EconomicJustice #USPolitics #Democracy #CentralBank #Resistance #NewsAnalysis #ThistleAndMoss

$4 gas. Cancer air drifting past schools. A trans MSP now representing the woman who spent a fortune trying to erase her. Three stories, one week, one body — yours. We tell what others won't. Click our advertisers. It's what keeps the goddamn lights on and the hawthorn coming back.

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#inflation #environmentaljustice #transrights #newsletter #independentmedia #supportindie #queermedia #ThistleAndMoss #mediamatters #pressfreedom

39% of trans people experience serious psychological distress — not because of who we are, but because of how the world treats us. Mother's Day belongs to me too. Here's the column and the research behind why.
https://twp.ai/4hr9pe
#TransMom #TransMother #MothersDay #LGBTQ #TransRights #QueerFamily #Motherhood #ThistleAndMoss #Trans

I spent 37 years trying to silence the voice that knew I was a woman. At 46 I stopped. At 53 I'm asking what it means to be a mother — and why parenting research has better answers than any legislature.
https://twp.ai/4hr9pX
#TransMom #LGBTQ #Trans #TransWomen #Motherhood #MothersDay #QueerParent #ThistleAndMoss #TransRights

The argument they don't want stated plainly: motherhood was never about biology. It was assigned there. I'm 53, trans, and I've been doing the labor of motherhood my entire life. I wrote the column.
https://twp.ai/4hr9pY
#TransMom #TransMother #LGBTQ #TransRights #Motherhood #MothersDay #QueerFamily #ThistleAndMoss #Trans

The Doomsday Book is real. Buttigieg said 'save me a seat.' Matlovich's tombstone still stands. Manford's eight words still move. Today's Gathering carries every live wire. This work runs on reader support — click our partners, keep queer journalism funded.
https://twp.ai/4hrC80
#ThistleAndMoss #DailyGathering #QueerNews #LGBTQ #QueerJournalism #IndieMedia #SupportUs #TransRights #QueerMedia #Subscribe #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

The Doomsday Book is real. Buttigieg said 'save me a seat.' Matlovich's tombstone stands. Eight words still move. Click our partners. Keep queer journalism alive. https://twp.ai/9OWRK4 #ThistleAndMoss #QueerNews #LGBTQ #SupportUs #QueerJournalism

The Doomsday Book is real. Buttigieg said 'save me a seat.' Matlovich's tombstone still stands. Manford's eight words still move. Today's Gathering carries every live wire. This work runs on reader support — click our partners, keep queer journalism funded.
https://twp.ai/4hrC80
#ThistleAndMoss #DailyGathering #QueerNews #LGBTQ #QueerJournalism #IndieMedia #SupportUs #TransRights #QueerMedia #Subscribe #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

The Doomsday Book is real. Buttigieg said 'save me a seat.' Matlovich's tombstone still stands. Manford's eight words still move. Today's Gathering carries every live wire. This work runs on reader support — click our partners, keep queer journalism funded.
https://twp.ai/4hrC80
#ThistleAndMoss #DailyGathering #QueerNews #LGBTQ #QueerJournalism #IndieMedia #SupportUs #TransRights #QueerMedia #Subscribe #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

The Doomsday Book is real. Buttigieg said 'save me a seat.' Matlovich's tombstone stands. Eight words still move. Click our partners. Keep queer journalism alive. https://twp.ai/9OWRK4 #ThistleAndMoss #QueerNews #LGBTQ #SupportUs #QueerJournalism

The Doomsday Book is real. Buttigieg said 'save me a seat.' Matlovich's tombstone still stands. Manford's eight words still move. Today's Gathering carries every live wire. This work runs on reader support — click our partners, keep queer journalism funded.
https://twp.ai/4hrC80
#ThistleAndMoss #DailyGathering #QueerNews #LGBTQ #QueerJournalism #IndieMedia #SupportUs #TransRights #QueerMedia #Subscribe #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

The Doomsday Book is real. Buttigieg said 'save me a seat.' Matlovich's tombstone still stands. Manford's eight words still move. Today's Gathering carries every live wire. This work runs on reader support — click our partners, keep queer journalism funded.
https://twp.ai/4hrC80
#ThistleAndMoss #DailyGathering #QueerNews #LGBTQ #QueerJournalism #IndieMedia #SupportUs #TransRights #QueerMedia #Subscribe #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

In 1972, Jeanne Manford walked the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade with her son Morty and a handmade sign: 'Parents of Gays: Unite.' Letters came from everywhere. PFLAG was the direct result. She lived to see marriage equality. Eight words. One movement. The love that got there first.
https://twp.ai/4hrC82
#JeanneManford #PFLAG #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #Pride #QueerActivism #QueerParents #GayRights #ThistleAndMoss

Leonard Matlovich: Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Vietnam veteran. In 1975 he handed his CO a letter saying he was gay — discharged anyway. His tombstone: 'Medal for killing two men. Discharge for loving one.' Honor and exclusion running on the same institutional fuel.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7v
#LeonardMatlovich #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #GayRights #QueerVeterans #MilitaryPride #QueerActivism #AIDSHistory #NeverForget #ThistleAndMoss

Conservation groups lose the communications war through abstraction. 'Six hundred square kilometers of habitat loss' and the mind walks. One named animal with a documented arc holds. Stories exist in field notes at 9 PM. Someone has to say the name.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7w
#Conservation #AnimalRescue #Wildlife #Storytelling #EarthJustice #ClimateAction #AnimalWelfare #WildlifeRescue #NatureWriting #ThistleAndMoss

Conservation groups lose the communications war through abstraction. 'Six hundred square kilometers of habitat loss' and the mind walks. One named animal with a documented arc holds. Stories exist in field notes at 9 PM. Someone has to say the name.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7w
#Conservation #AnimalRescue #Wildlife #Storytelling #EarthJustice #ClimateAction #AnimalWelfare #WildlifeRescue #NatureWriting #ThistleAndMoss

Conservation groups lose the communications war through abstraction. 'Six hundred square kilometers of habitat loss' and the mind walks. One named animal with a documented arc holds. Stories exist in field notes at 9 PM. Someone has to say the name.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7w
#Conservation #AnimalRescue #Wildlife #Storytelling #EarthJustice #ClimateAction #AnimalWelfare #WildlifeRescue #NatureWriting #ThistleAndMoss

Conservation groups lose the communications war through abstraction. 'Six hundred square kilometers of habitat loss' and the mind walks. One named animal with a documented arc holds. Stories exist in field notes at 9 PM. Someone has to say the name.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7w
#Conservation #AnimalRescue #Wildlife #Storytelling #EarthJustice #ClimateAction #AnimalWelfare #WildlifeRescue #NatureWriting #ThistleAndMoss

Conservation groups lose the communications war through abstraction. 'Six hundred square kilometers of habitat loss' and the mind walks. One named animal with a documented arc holds. Stories exist in field notes at 9 PM. Someone has to say the name.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7w
#Conservation #AnimalRescue #Wildlife #Storytelling #EarthJustice #ClimateAction #AnimalWelfare #WildlifeRescue #NatureWriting #ThistleAndMoss

Pete Buttigieg spent half of 2026 in five battleground states, building before anyone watched. At the National Action Network, Sharpton asked if he was running in 2028. Buttigieg: "You save me a seat." A gay married veteran may run — and the country that made it impossible is still making it hard.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7x
#Pete2028 #LGBTQ #QueerPolitics #Election2028 #GayRights #OutPolitics #Democrats #Buttigieg #QueerLeader #ThistleAndMoss

Pete Buttigieg spent half of 2026 in five battleground states, building before anyone watched. At the National Action Network, Sharpton asked if he was running in 2028. Buttigieg: "You save me a seat." A gay married veteran may run — and the country that made it impossible is still making it hard.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7x
#Pete2028 #LGBTQ #QueerPolitics #Election2028 #GayRights #OutPolitics #Democrats #Buttigieg #QueerLeader #ThistleAndMoss

Pete Buttigieg spent half of 2026 in five battleground states, building before anyone watched. At the National Action Network, Sharpton asked if he was running in 2028. Buttigieg: "You save me a seat." A gay married veteran may run — and the country that made it impossible is still making it hard.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7x
#Pete2028 #LGBTQ #QueerPolitics #Election2028 #GayRights #OutPolitics #Democrats #Buttigieg #QueerLeader #ThistleAndMoss

Pete Buttigieg spent half of 2026 in five battleground states, building before anyone watched. At the National Action Network, Sharpton asked if he was running in 2028. Buttigieg: "You save me a seat." A gay married veteran may run — and the country that made it impossible is still making it hard.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7x
#Pete2028 #LGBTQ #QueerPolitics #Election2028 #GayRights #OutPolitics #Democrats #Buttigieg #QueerLeader #ThistleAndMoss

Pete Buttigieg spent half of 2026 in five battleground states, building before anyone watched. At the National Action Network, Sharpton asked if he was running in 2028. Buttigieg: "You save me a seat." A gay married veteran may run — and the country that made it impossible is still making it hard.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7x
#Pete2028 #LGBTQ #QueerPolitics #Election2028 #GayRights #OutPolitics #Democrats #Buttigieg #QueerLeader #ThistleAndMoss

Pre-drafted White House orders authorize one person to censor press, detain civilians, and declare martial law. Former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor says Trump has decided to use them. NSPM-7 names transgender communities as a pre-crime category — with $38.3 billion in ICE construction allocated to act on it.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7y
#DoomsdayBook #NSPM7 #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #MartialLaw #Fascism #Resist #QueerSurvival #ThistleAndMoss

Pre-drafted White House orders authorize one person to censor press, detain civilians, and declare martial law. Former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor says Trump has decided to use them. NSPM-7 names transgender communities as a pre-crime category — with $38.3 billion in ICE construction allocated to act on it.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7y
#DoomsdayBook #NSPM7 #TransRights #LGBTQ #QueerNews #MartialLaw #Fascism #Resist #QueerSurvival #ThistleAndMoss