@va.coach
Inhabiting the forests of western NC. Former queer community organizer and builder of several companies. I coach and support leaders in their development of self and the organizations around them. https://va.coach
Today in reasons journalists drink: I was writing alt text for the lead photo on this story and realized that all the graves seen here are not enough for the current death toll.
Fuck yeah Ben.
Read an article of a white woman wrongly arrested based on this. She recorded her conversation with the sheriff who freely, joyfully admitted that he didn’t care that she had proof she wasn’t the one Flock recorded. His glee triggered my PTSD. Cops are having a blast with this.
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
A. This is awful and no one, wherever you stand on the death penalty, should be okay with it
B. This is a good headline that refuses to equivocate
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
Jessica Chang, “In the modern/colonial world, we are disciplined to be lonely. The oppressors call this loneliness ‘individuality.’”
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
Read this thread ⤵️
They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that
Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
I think it’s telling that ICE’s rouses target the most prosocial human behaviors, as though they understand our universal impulse to help and support others in need, as though they aim to kill those very impulses as they tear apart our society
Charm is often self-esteem and grounded self-confidence.
the maxxing crowd… i don’t even need to finish this thought.
Crisis leadership primer from @jerrycolonna.bsky.social:
Put solutions on pause
Listen deeply
Honor your team's pain
Stand on your values
When navigating disaster, true leadership requires compassionate presence, not perfect responses:
We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.
once again, i am begging everyone to turn some of their energy towards abolishing the concept of legal gender. there is no reason gender has to be on driver's licenses and passports, and for most of history, it wasn't!
It bothers me how nobody seems to understand that this, trans people getting booted out of the military without their contractually obligated benefits, etc. is ultimately about if the promises of the government are worth a goddamn thing as long as the Republican Party exists.
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
This is so fucking scary.
The solution to male loneliness is running for office as a progressive
Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
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We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts.
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Read Cat!
This is by far one of the most dynamic psychological chapters I’ve ever witnessed. Underestimating the enormity of transitions, of human change leads to some pretty undesirable outcomes!
film poster. black text on cream. black panther in the corner. poster reads: Power to the People Y'all. A tressie mcmillan cottom film.
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The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.
This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
A good day to say Fuck The New York Times.
So here’s the piece I wrote about how Epstein didn’t corrupt the people he reaches out to, he found the already corrupted.
newrepublic.com/article/2068...
love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃