#thistleandmoss — Public Fediverse posts
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We carried all of it today — Newark, the spy tier, the killed wind farm, Hemphill's fire. No billionaire funds this. When you click an advertiser, you're not buying anything — you're buying us another morning to write. Every click is the next sunrise we get to meet you in.
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History / Hemphill + Rivera
Essex Hemphill wrote in the teeth of a plague, when the men in pulpits called the dying deserved. Thirty-four years later a pastor recycles the same machinery. We kept reaching for each other anyway. The fear was theirs. The tenderness was ours.
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Wellness / somatic
Before you open the news, press both feet flat to the floor and name three things you can hear. Your nervous system needs proof you exist before the feed tells you to be afraid. The held breath tells your vagus nerve the emergency has passed, and the heart rate follows like a dog called home.
https://twp.ai/4hs7C1
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Science / the fossils
62 million years ago, 4 million years after the asteroid, a stretch of Egyptian seafloor filled with fish — and held them in stone. 500 specimens. Paleontologist Sanaa El-Sayed pulled them from blistering desert, closing a ten-million-year hole in how life rebuilds after catastrophe.
https://twp.ai/4hs7C2
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The pastor / queer culture
A far-right pastor told American men that marijuana makes them "spiritually gay" — and that the cure is a cigarette. He praised a tobacco brand by name and called 60 years of cancer warnings a psyop. A man so terrified of softness he'd rather have cancer isn't a warning about us. He's a confession about him.https://twp.ai/4hs7Bv #QueerNews #Homophobia #Pride #TransRights #Masculinity #ChristianNationalism #Queer #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering -
Hard news / Iowa upset
The orange one swore he owned Iowa. Tuesday his hand-picked man lost. Randy Feenstra — endorsed days before the vote — got beaten in the governor's primary by a businessman the president never blessed. The winning streak? Snapped, in the one state he was sure of.https://twp.ai/4hs7Bw #Politics #Election2026 #Resistance #Democrats #Trump #News #USPolitics #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering -
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 -
$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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