Crista🔵
@gratefulstray.bsky.social
💙Photographer. Adoptee. Student of ASL. 🏳️🌈 ally and 🏳️⚧️step mama bear. Long Covid survivor. Quiet quitter since 2025. Love wins. (She/her)
Photos are mine except reposts.
Photos are mine except reposts.
Reposted by Crista🔵
Fwiw the environmentalists have developed a deep inventory of nonviolent direct action tactics -- "change outside the political process" as earth first says-- that are easy to learn in a group, guide you through planning, can stop them from picking you off, and can take ground from them and hold it
mutualaiddisasterrelief.org
January 25, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Fwiw the environmentalists have developed a deep inventory of nonviolent direct action tactics -- "change outside the political process" as earth first says-- that are easy to learn in a group, guide you through planning, can stop them from picking you off, and can take ground from them and hold it
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Very curious to see how the 2nd Amendment worshippers try to pretend this was not a clear violation of that. And a legally concealed gun is not a brandished weapon. Insane times.
January 24, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Very curious to see how the 2nd Amendment worshippers try to pretend this was not a clear violation of that. And a legally concealed gun is not a brandished weapon. Insane times.
Reposted by Crista🔵
Reposted by Crista🔵
ICE executed a U.S. citizen today. Unarmed. Unprovoked. Then they lied to justify it.
Congress funds ICE. Congress sets the rules. Congress can stop this violence if we force them to act.
Use the tool. Flood their offices. Accountability or complicity.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
Congress funds ICE. Congress sets the rules. Congress can stop this violence if we force them to act.
Use the tool. Flood their offices. Accountability or complicity.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
USE THIS TOOL: Tell Congress to DO THEIR JOBS.
We've created a form letter you can adapt and send to your members of Congress in less than two minutes.
open.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:57 PM
ICE executed a U.S. citizen today. Unarmed. Unprovoked. Then they lied to justify it.
Congress funds ICE. Congress sets the rules. Congress can stop this violence if we force them to act.
Use the tool. Flood their offices. Accountability or complicity.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
Congress funds ICE. Congress sets the rules. Congress can stop this violence if we force them to act.
Use the tool. Flood their offices. Accountability or complicity.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
Thank you, @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social, for spelling out my resolution for 2026.
To The People I Know Who Voted for Him,
To the people I know who voted for him,
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Thank you, @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social, for spelling out my resolution for 2026.
I’ve never felt more seen. Sobbing-over-my-eggs-and-toast seen. This is why I’m cutting off friends, family, acquaintances.
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I’ve never felt more seen. Sobbing-over-my-eggs-and-toast seen. This is why I’m cutting off friends, family, acquaintances.
Rainy day = perfect light.
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Rainy day = perfect light.
Let’s all keep fighting these monsters. Resist!
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Let’s all keep fighting these monsters. Resist!
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After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
If you’re struggling, please consider rescuing a pup. You’ll figure it out if you lead with love. Welcome to the family, Indy!
August 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
If you’re struggling, please consider rescuing a pup. You’ll figure it out if you lead with love. Welcome to the family, Indy!
Reposted by Crista🔵
here's today's post: "he’s so fucking guilty — and everyone knows it" — what a ridiculous charade.
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he’s so fucking guilty — and everyone knows it
what a ridiculous charade
bit.ly
July 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
here's today's post: "he’s so fucking guilty — and everyone knows it" — what a ridiculous charade.
thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
These amazing folks are feeding our at-risk neighbors. Please help if you can.
June 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
These amazing folks are feeding our at-risk neighbors. Please help if you can.
Let's get to work!
Home - ICE List
The ICE List: Tracking Deportation Agents Across America Crowdsourced database of individuals involved in deportations, ICE operations, and associated abuses. The ICE List is an open journalistic pro...
icelist.info
June 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Let's get to work!
Happy Loving Day! Thank you, Mama Bear, for being so good to my dad.
June 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Happy Loving Day! Thank you, Mama Bear, for being so good to my dad.
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Gifts+serindipitous purchase= my favorite corner at home.
June 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Gifts+serindipitous purchase= my favorite corner at home.
Small moments when we aren’t fighting the patriarchy
May 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Small moments when we aren’t fighting the patriarchy
To all of the step parents and queer parents who work just as hard but are not acknowledged as a “real parent;” to pet moms; to anyone separated from their mama today by loss or incarceration or estrangement or something else: I see you and celebrate you.
May 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
To all of the step parents and queer parents who work just as hard but are not acknowledged as a “real parent;” to pet moms; to anyone separated from their mama today by loss or incarceration or estrangement or something else: I see you and celebrate you.
Heirloom photography: I created these collections to metabolize loss. Creating art saved me in 2021 during the worst of Covid.
May 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Heirloom photography: I created these collections to metabolize loss. Creating art saved me in 2021 during the worst of Covid.