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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026
Woke at five, window cracked, pollen already on the tongue — what the body knew before the phone did was this: something hollow has been put in charge of something enormous. Jaw clenched since February. Not metaphor. Data. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026
Tha an talamh a' dùsgadh — the earth is waking — and along the Appalachian ridges the dogwoods have opened into their four-petaled cross, the red clay after last night's rain smelling of iron and something older. She who holds does not forget. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026
A former White House lawyer went on cable Wednesday night and said what the Beltway has been miming for months. Ty Cobb told Ari Melber on MS NOW that the president displays "the classic symptoms of Alzheimer's," including sleep-wake reversal producing four-a.m. Truth Social screeds also https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026
What Ty Cobb said: "This is somebody who just is lost. He gets into these screeds at odd times. And one of the classic symptoms of Alzheimer's is the sleep-wake reversal." The deterioration gets reported as spectacle while the governing gets reported as normal politics. It is not. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026
March closed at 20.97°C average sea surface temperature — second-highest ever recorded for the month, behind only last year's El Niño peak. The European Copernicus Climate Change Service published the number Friday. It reads like a thermometer. It is actually a verdict. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026
At least six openly queer people made the 2026 Time 100 — Minter, Chanel creative director Matthieu Blazy, and Olympic hockey forward Hilary Knight among them. The spray-tanned fascist has spent his second term trying to cancel us by decree, it just didn't happen. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026
"The moment of change is the only poem." — Adrienne Rich Rich wrote that line inside a war she could not stop, in a language just beginning to include her. The change she meant was not triumphant. It was the moment the mind refuses to accept what the world has just told it. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026
"People don't just happen. We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us." — Saeed Jones The self you are now was paid for. In losses you chose and losses you did not. In the people you became visible to and the people who could not bear your visibility. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans /|\
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 17, 2026
"I speak into the silence. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice; measure the emptiness by its small sound." — Carmen Maria Machado What Machado is giving you at the close of a hard day: the story you tell may land in a place that does not echo back, and the not-echoing is not proof of nothing. The stone still fell. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-deterioration-is-the-point #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid /|\
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 15, 2026
Trump's out here torching the very motherfuckers who crowned him—Carlson, Kelly, Jones, Owens—because they dared oppose his Iran war. Called them losers. Greene said he's the one who changed. And ain't that always the story? Power doesn't reveal character; it devours it whole. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-tucker-carlson-was-never-the-end-goal #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 15, 2026
Tha an samhradh a' teannadh dlùth — the summer draws close — and the redbud's last purple has already fallen into mud, replaced by a green so new it stings. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-tucker-carlson-was-never-the-end-goal #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #druid #nature #pagan /|\
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 15, 2026
The spray-tanned shit swizzling heavens gate looking motherfuckering fascist threatened to blockade the planet's most critical oil artery on Easter Sunday while his former DHS chief's husband was allegedly begging to become a woman named Crystal. The week tastes like jet fuel and mascara. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-tucker-carlson-was-never-the-end-goal #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 15, 2026
Emperor penguins need sea ice the way a lung needs air — not preference but biological prerequisite. The IUCN reclassified the emperor penguin from "Near Threatened" to "Endangered" last week, projecting population will halve by the 2080s. The Antarctic fur seal jumped two categories — "Least Concern" to "Endangered" — after a nearly 50% population crash between 1999 and 2025. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-tucker-carlson-was-never-the-end-goal #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 15, 2026
"The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's a culture of brothers doing what they can to save each other's lives." — Larry Kramer, playwright, ACT UP co-founder, Reports from the Holocaust (1989) https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-tucker-carlson-was-never-the-end-goal #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 14, 2026
#Catholic coalition fracturing: Three American cardinals condemned the Iran war on 60 Minutes the same evening. NBC polling shows voters view #PopeLeo more favorably than the president by 12 points. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-a-dumbass-a-pope-a-war-no-one-wanted-walk-into-a-bar #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 13, 2026
Wendy's Thoughts About Today: The first American pope told the truth about war and the spray-tanned fascist called him weak for it. My chest hasn't unclenched since sunrise. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-pope-leo-tells-trump-to-sit-the-fuck-down #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 13, 2026
The narcissistic spray-tan charlatan spent his Sunday night attacking the Bishop of Rome for suggesting that maybe — maybe — bombing an entire civilization into ash is goddamn immoral. Let that sentence sit in your mouth and taste it. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-pope-leo-tells-trump-to-sit-the-fuck-down #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 13, 2026
Pope Leo XIV — first American-born pontiff, a Chicago kid — stood aboard his plane to Algeria Monday and said it flat: "I have no fear of the Trump administration." https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-pope-leo-tells-trump-to-sit-the-fuck-down #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Apr 08, 2026
Marshmallow Root — Althaea officinalis Mucilage polysaccharides coat the esophagus, stomach, and intestinal wall. Anti-inflammatory without systemic absorption. Protects tissue. Cold infusion — 1 tbsp dried root in cold water overnight. Strain. Drink throughout the day. https://bit.ly/3NOxELi #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture #meditation #spirituality #druid #earth #nature #eco #gaia #brigid #pagan #trans #queer #lgbtqia /|\
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