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Ethan Pants (he/him)

@ethanpants.bsky.social

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East Coast born, Minneapolis living//Ward 1. Visibly able, white, queer & trans, parent, spouse. I’m trying, I promise. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 24d

My main squeeze sent me this from the garden today!

Female eastern tiger swallowtail: deep black and blue butterfly spread its wings over a red sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia).

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 3h

I realize I don’t *look* psyched but that’s because of *gestures around*.

Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 3h

Psyched about my new shirt from @sweatermuppet.bsky.social ! Get yours here: www.bonfire.com/pluckii/

Me wearing black glasses, a San Diego hat, and a red tshirt that says “don’t want to see trans people? Pluck out your eyes.”

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 6h

If it weren’t for all these dang Ring cams, I could pull a hilarious prank there tonight.

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 10h

If the Trump administration said the sun rises in the West, the New York Times would run a dozen "who can say?" articles by the end of the week.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 10h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 10h

AI slop

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

How do I let it be known that I’ll hide my neighbors without letting my conservative neighbors know I’ll hide our neighbors?

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry caps lock excitement

Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

ECUATORIANO VEGETARIANO!!

Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

..and dill!

Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

It’s everything or nothing. 🥯

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 1d

The bit about MPD being present was confirmed by three neighbors. Jacob Frey continues to lie and O’Hara continues to help ICE. Neighbors assumed at first it was a car crash based on how the squads and SUVs were parked.

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

My taste buds fell asleep as I read this.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

When Cynthia Nixon ran for governor her bagel order was a city-wide scandal for WEEKS

They called it her Howard Dean scream.

(plain cream cheese, lox, tomatoes, red onion, and capers on a cinnamon raisin bagel)

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

For everyday: everything bagel with chive and bacon cream cheese.

Special occasions: everything bagel with lox, paper-thin red onion slices, sliced tomatoes, cream cheese, capers.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 1d

The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

Appreciating my colleague rn

Google chat screenshot. I said: “What if we didn’t meet today!” and they posted a gif of Obiwan with the text “This meeting did not happen”.

Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

So the collusion with MPD continues. Fuck Frey, fuck ice.

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

Hey quick question: what is “antifa” short for?

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Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social · 2d

#28: Priscilla

A screengrab of a headline to a Guardian Adrian Chiles column. It reads 'I met Priscilla Presley this week - and couldn't believe she was in the same building as me'

At first I thought it was a trick of the mind, another ruse by the building in which I had been imprisoned these long weeks…months…years…?—another attempt to addle my wits, turn me into one of those pitiful, loathsome Unmen who range the desolate landscape which surrounds The Old House, their brains destroyed, their bodies become little more than flesh-draped skeletons, lurching on unsteady feet as though strung like marionettes. But quickly I realised that the woman I saw, wandering distressed through the cavernous hallways, confused at finding herself untethered from her own reality, was as much a captive as I.
How Priscilla—for that was the name that she gave—came to be trapped here too, in this crumbling, shifting, ever-deceitful puzzle of a building, I could not fully discern, for her memories were as confused as my own. I asked her if she too had read that mysterious journal which I had found abandoned at the castle ruins, but she knew not of what I spoke. Instead her tale was one of ‘television studios’ and ‘PR junkets’ and other things beyond my ken. I began to surmise that this dreadful structure in which we were contained was not only at the nexus of other universes but also served as a waypoint for travellers through time. And another revelation came too—that the house was growing hungrier.

It has now been a week since myself and Priscilla joined forces to fortify the defences of this malevolent edifice. The keening of the Unmen has become only louder, and has been joined by another, more unsettling sound—the expectant gnashing of swinish teeth. I fear we have not yet seen the worst inhabitants of the boundless nightmare landscape beyond these walls and I shudder to think of what that means for maintaining our safety. All I know is that with the arrival of Priscilla—whose courage and resilience is both boundless and vitalizing—I have, for the first time in months, found a reason—even in the midst of this mind-bending terrror—to hope.

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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

😬😬😬

✨🚲 scoops 🚲✨ @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 2d

On my flight back from Indy just now. Suddenly the plane pitches one direction and re-centers. Like a car swerving. Coffee nearly knocked off my tray. People very tensely sucking in their breath

Pilot got on the horn and says we had to swerve to avoid another plane, wasn't supposed to be there. jfc

Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 1d

Mpls: that’s thunder, right?

Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 2d

My MIL said to my spouse “Well I don’t need *that* much help, do I?” as my spouse was pulling up MIL’s pants in the bathroom.