Very Tired Lesbian
@mistinguettes.bsky.social
LitFic & essay whisperer
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Nonprofit/philanthropic wrangler
MPA. INTJ.FAFO.
Do you want to help with the current and expanding food emergency? Is that a food bank? a food pantry? a meal site?
Here are some words that can help you find the place you want to connect 🧵
Here are some words that can help you find the place you want to connect 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Do you want to help with the current and expanding food emergency? Is that a food bank? a food pantry? a meal site?
Here are some words that can help you find the place you want to connect 🧵
Here are some words that can help you find the place you want to connect 🧵
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Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.
October 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.
This is why it’s important to use old-fashioned plain words, like “racial segregation” instead of DEI.
“DEI” for these people just means integration and the enforcement of civil rights laws www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...
Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is why it’s important to use old-fashioned plain words, like “racial segregation” instead of DEI.
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Over the span of 14 days, nearly 200 people marched from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in defense of democracy.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
160-mile march for democracy arrives in Washington from Philadelphia
Over the span of 14 days, nearly 200 people marched from Philadelphia to Washington, D
abcnews.go.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Over the span of 14 days, nearly 200 people marched from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in defense of democracy.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
So do I have this right? The current regime’s plan: Restore white supremacy by (1) Removing working class Latinos to prison camps & traumatized silence thru Dirty War means, while (2) Creating massive middle class Black unemployment to force them into the “Black jobs” for which they are “qualified”
September 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
So do I have this right? The current regime’s plan: Restore white supremacy by (1) Removing working class Latinos to prison camps & traumatized silence thru Dirty War means, while (2) Creating massive middle class Black unemployment to force them into the “Black jobs” for which they are “qualified”
Katie Kitamura @ Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator writing conference is generous,sonorous and inspiring.
September 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Katie Kitamura @ Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator writing conference is generous,sonorous and inspiring.
It’s important to amplify every example of our refusal to submit to brutality and oppression
Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.
Photos capture Chicagoans’ protest against ICE and Trump’s intervention plans
CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.
bit.ly
September 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
It’s important to amplify every example of our refusal to submit to brutality and oppression
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I just watched a robin chase a red squirrel for a quarter mile, repeatedly diving to peck the rodent’s head. I’m taking this as my cue from nature to continue to resist petty tyrants.
June 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I just watched a robin chase a red squirrel for a quarter mile, repeatedly diving to peck the rodent’s head. I’m taking this as my cue from nature to continue to resist petty tyrants.
After each visit, I wonder if this is the last time I will ever see this place, this colleague, this friend.
June 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
After each visit, I wonder if this is the last time I will ever see this place, this colleague, this friend.
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🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
June 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
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Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.
This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.
The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality
June 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.
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ICE has blanketed the entire neighborhood in a massive cloud of tear gas. The Home Depot and several other local businesses have closed for the day due to the tear gas.
June 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
ICE has blanketed the entire neighborhood in a massive cloud of tear gas. The Home Depot and several other local businesses have closed for the day due to the tear gas.
Yesterday, I was next door to my local Target store in a n exurban semi-rural area of Ohio. There were 16-20 cars in the whole parking lot. I reflected on how few private companies loudly rescinded their DEI programs after the Target Fast and the Tesla takedown.
When we fight, we win.
When we fight, we win.
June 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Yesterday, I was next door to my local Target store in a n exurban semi-rural area of Ohio. There were 16-20 cars in the whole parking lot. I reflected on how few private companies loudly rescinded their DEI programs after the Target Fast and the Tesla takedown.
When we fight, we win.
When we fight, we win.
I called my Senate-things today, to ask "Does Senator Husted/Moreno think that I am stupid, or simply think I can't do basic math?" Then I described the $3.8T deficit the Billionare Bill will cause, which they describe as "savings." I requested a response. Won't change a thing, though.
June 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I called my Senate-things today, to ask "Does Senator Husted/Moreno think that I am stupid, or simply think I can't do basic math?" Then I described the $3.8T deficit the Billionare Bill will cause, which they describe as "savings." I requested a response. Won't change a thing, though.
I just learned the term “hypernormalization.”
How are you coping with the cognitive dissonance between understanding what is actually happening and the need to have some meaning and predictable contours in daily life? www.yahoo.com/news/does-ev...
How are you coping with the cognitive dissonance between understanding what is actually happening and the need to have some meaning and predictable contours in daily life? www.yahoo.com/news/does-ev...
Systems are crumbling - but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
www.yahoo.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I just learned the term “hypernormalization.”
How are you coping with the cognitive dissonance between understanding what is actually happening and the need to have some meaning and predictable contours in daily life? www.yahoo.com/news/does-ev...
How are you coping with the cognitive dissonance between understanding what is actually happening and the need to have some meaning and predictable contours in daily life? www.yahoo.com/news/does-ev...
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their *lawyer* has also been disappeared now? uh holy shit
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
their *lawyer* has also been disappeared now? uh holy shit
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Alison Bechdel has a brand new book out! It's called Spent! @mistinguettes.bsky.social, I think that "very tired lesbian" is highly relevant. And the book tour starts Monday in NYC! Tons of info about where Alison is going to be at the link: dykestowatchoutfor.com/spent-book-t... 📚💙
Dykes to Watch Out For » Blog Archive » SPENT book tour!
dykestowatchoutfor.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Alison Bechdel has a brand new book out! It's called Spent! @mistinguettes.bsky.social, I think that "very tired lesbian" is highly relevant. And the book tour starts Monday in NYC! Tons of info about where Alison is going to be at the link: dykestowatchoutfor.com/spent-book-t... 📚💙
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This is one of the cowardly Brownshirt collaborators who let ICE run roughshod over Worcester. Name and shame him. Patrick Hanlon. #PatrickHanlon #NaziCollaborator
It is the duty of the police to protect their community, not to assist in a kidnapping.
It is the duty of the police to protect their community, not to assist in a kidnapping.
May 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is one of the cowardly Brownshirt collaborators who let ICE run roughshod over Worcester. Name and shame him. Patrick Hanlon. #PatrickHanlon #NaziCollaborator
It is the duty of the police to protect their community, not to assist in a kidnapping.
It is the duty of the police to protect their community, not to assist in a kidnapping.
Now it’s straight up importing Afrikaaners.
When will we stop shying away from saying that a core tenet of this regime is to “restore white supremacy”?
Did we forget that DEI and being politically conscious (“woke”) were ways to abolish institutionalized, legalized white supremacy?
When will we stop shying away from saying that a core tenet of this regime is to “restore white supremacy”?
Did we forget that DEI and being politically conscious (“woke”) were ways to abolish institutionalized, legalized white supremacy?
May 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Now it’s straight up importing Afrikaaners.
When will we stop shying away from saying that a core tenet of this regime is to “restore white supremacy”?
Did we forget that DEI and being politically conscious (“woke”) were ways to abolish institutionalized, legalized white supremacy?
When will we stop shying away from saying that a core tenet of this regime is to “restore white supremacy”?
Did we forget that DEI and being politically conscious (“woke”) were ways to abolish institutionalized, legalized white supremacy?