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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch

@teresapalomar.bsky.social

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Transgender teacher (ret'd.) She/her. Transitioned in 1983 and kept my teaching job with Baltimore Schools. Support trans kids.

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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · Nov 17

I'm kind of a transgender matriarch.
I transitioned in 1983, the Reagan Era, and kept my teaching job with the Baltimore City Public Schools in Maryland, USA.
Here's an image from my first year of teaching as my authentic self. It's hard to believe that that was 41 years ago.

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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 21h

The Watergate Seven is being replaced by the
Treasonist Nine.

Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 1d

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Cinse Bonino @cinse.bsky.social · 22h

I choose to live

on the edges
of this timeline in the blots
and smudges bleeding from
the sides I appreciate the
conveniences of science
and commerce but I have
traded money for time realizing
too many in the rat race have
hungry teeth

Cinse Bonino
2025

#selfawareness #authentic #intention

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 1d

Missouri certainly does NOT welcome me!

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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 1d

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know where you got your info from, but that isn't the ornament she's selling. It's this one for $90. And for that extra $15 you get her "engraved signature"! That's worth something, right? . . . . Right? . . . . [crickets]

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Endless Voyage @joaoestellita.bsky.social · 1d

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Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 2d

Can you have loss if you come out? Yes. I lost a spouse and more. But I gained so much, it exceeds and eclipses. I have grown. I have love again and many more friends. I have community.

I will no longer die a lonely old man asking "what if."

I have nearly always jumped against odds and done well.

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 2d

Once you take the first steps, the courage feeds on itself. Coming out can change you, more than you might expect.

Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 2d

I was told by my ex even a few years ago that it was not a good atmosphere to be coming out.

It wasn't a choice, like wearing a bow tie. I'm me, I must live my life as my true self. I was afraid but I drove forward, as I had turned back too often and that hurt more.

I am out, free, me. Happiness.

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Edge of LOL @edgeoflol.bsky.social · 2d

Via @joyannreid.bsky.social

They’re arresting journalists now. Be vigilant. We are in full fascism. Her name is Debbie Brockman of @wgnnews. If anyone has tips or updates please send to [email protected].

🎥: @jessicayellin (IG)

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 3d

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Two beetles on a stick.
One beetle says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out to reveal that they are in a glass case with two scientists studying them.
One scientist says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out into space. Abouard a spaceship, two aliens watch the scientists on a screen.
One alien says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
The aliens turn to look out at the reader.

Text below the cartoon reads:
From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. Preorder it at www.tomgauld.

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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 2d

I knew this wonderful man. When I think of the term "mensch," I think of him.

Cinse Bonino @cinse.bsky.social · 5d

Today is my father's death day. My father didn't save my life but he saved my soul. I see him every time I look at how my son loves. Thanks, Daddio, for everything. #fatherslove

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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 5d

LIAR! Mike Johnson keeps closing the House! Democrats show up, but the other side of the aisle is [crickets].

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Welker: They say the house is not in session because you don't want to swear in the newly elected democratic congresswoman who would be a critical vote to releasing the Epstein files.

Johnson: It's totally absurd. This has nothing to do with that. It's another red herring.

Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 7d

This isn't real folks. Yes, he's an idiot, but a simple internet search shows that this was just created by someone to make him look even more stupid.

Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 7d

Preach it, sister.

Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 9d

Would you like your blood pressure to rise? Take a few minutes of listening to this report and try not to be furious about what Trump and Noem are doing to this country.
". . . preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." my pasty white ass!

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 10d

When you control the House, the Senate, the White House, *and* the Supreme Court, you don’t get to blame the minority party for your failures.

That’s not how this works. At all.

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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 9d

As soon as the golf ball ricocheted back from the tree 10 feet in front of me and hit me in the breast, my first thought was, "Damn! That hurts!"
My second thought was, "That's going to be painful again when I get my mammogram this afternoon."

a woman in a blue shirt is swinging a golf club in the dark

ALT: a woman in a blue shirt is swinging a golf club in the dark

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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 21d

I gotta agree with Pig.

Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 22d

Stolen from FB.
From President Lyndon Johnson to the Smothers Brothers.
Ah, those were the days.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 24d

What is antifa, and why should you care that Trump wants to outlaw it?

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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 24d

Watch out folks. This scam is scary good.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

I’ve Written About Loads of Scams. This One Almost Got Me.

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Teresa Palomar - Your Trans Matriarch @teresapalomar.bsky.social · 24d

In the 1930s and 1940s, Hitler's fascism rose to threaten the world and the rest of the world rose to defeat it.
Now, Trump's fascism is rising, but he's so repulsed the rest of the world that we can't count on anyone coming to help us defeat him.
We must do it ourselves. Now.
Resist.

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@gloria🕊️🟧 @gloriaprosperi.bsky.social · 25d

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