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Dear MoveOn member,

 Dear MoveOn member,

Pride Month is just a few days away, and this year's celebration of community, solidarity, and the fight for equality could not come at a more important moment for our nation.

The MAGA GOP's attacks on our rights and our humanity have reached a fever pitch. "Don't Say Gay" is now the law in Florida and Alabama and being considered in at least 19 additional states.¹ States are barring trans youth from receiving gender-affirming—and lifesaving—health care. And the GOP's all-out assault on reproductive freedom that will rip away access to abortion will open the door to rolling back marriage equality.

It is a frightening and uncertain time—and that is exactly how the Republicans behind these attacks want us to feel. They want to beat us down, divide us, and make us feel defeated.

But we've got bad news for them: Pride has always been a protest. We will never stop fighting fiercely for our rights and standing in solidarity with other marginalized communities.

To honor this moment, MoveOn is proud to announce the first items in our special-edition "Equality For All" Pride collection: a custom T-shirt (available in sizes 4XL-XS) and a beautiful enamel pin. Both are union-made right here in the United States.

Head to our store now to get yours! But hurry, these items are extremely limited and will sell out quickly!

The first Pride celebration took place in June of 1970, commemorating the Stonewall Uprising of 1969, a five-day-long rebellion led by trans women of color Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and others—particularly trans folks and people of color—fed up with the police violence and brutality they faced simply for being part of the LGBTQ+ community.

The uprising sparked a movement that later would lead to powerful AIDS activism, including the formation of groups like ACT UP, and to the global effort to fight for bodily autonomy and equal rights.

That fight is far from over, but together we will win.

Click here to order your "Equality For All" pin or shirt from MoveOn now. Every dollar you spend will go directly toward defeating bigoted GOP politicians, passing laws like the Equality Act, and stopping the attacks on our community.

Thanks for all you do. 

–Kelly, Elizabeth, Amanda, Alexis, and the rest of the team

P.S. Keep your eyes on your inbox in the coming weeks as we'll be announcing more great merch in the collection soon!

Source:

1. "This Florida teacher married a woman. Now she’s not a teacher anymore." The Washington Post, May 19, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/162855?t=5&akid=324146%2E38938583%2Ey706_u

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Biden: ‘When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?’

 

Biden: ‘When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?’

President Biden on Tuesday implored Congress to “stand up to the gun lobby” and pass firearm restrictions after a gunman shot and killed at least 18 young children at a Texas elementary school.     Biden grieved for the victims in an address from the White House and expressed outrage at the failure of lawmakers to enact stricter gun laws he said would prevent school shootings.     “As a nation, we have to ask when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?” Biden said in remarks from the Roosevelt Room. “I am sick and tired of it. We have to act. And don’t tell me we can’t have an impact on this carnage.”  You mean the God whose name you have blasphemed, Biden? You mean that God? Good luck on ever getting Him to stop laughing His royal sides off when you invoke His Name

By Your Hand Haʻåni Lucia Falo San Nicolas for Deon

 

By Your Hand

Haʻåni Lucia Falo San Nicolas

for Deon I peer at the ridges of your palm rested along the crevice of mine, while tracing your jagged vasculature with a delicate press of my finger, and I explore every uneven wrinkle, every pronounced callus, every rounded mole like it is the hilly, stone-ridden backyard of my childhood home in Mongmong. I know this place. I have been here before. I read the swirls inscribed into your firm dark skin, sound out each node and connecting branch, sew syllables into words that spell out gima’: home. I raise your hand transposed against the evening sky, clear of clouds, and I can find the constellations within you. Did you know our forefathers did this at sea— placed their arm to the heavens to translate the stars? Master navigators of the open ocean, yet you, my love, are more than a map; I dare not fold nor decipher your complexity. You are the beloved, longed-for destination at the end of the journey, the place that our ancestors craved return, the reason for the expedition—refuge, promise, hope. You are home.

Noah’s Prayer Against Demons

 This excerpt is from the Book of Jubilees, a second-century BCE Jewish work. Though this book was never considered canonical, some have called it “Little Genesis” because it retells many of the stories from Genesis, including interpretive commentary and additional details. The value of Jubilees is the insight into the ancient traditions the book preserves, giving us a window into certain Jewish beliefs before the New Testament was written. The following passage, which describes Noah interceding for his children, is remarkable because it contains several terms related to the unseen spiritual realm. In this single text, the author mentions demons, evil spirits, the watchers, the chief of spirits called Mastema, and Satan. How they are all related is unclear at times, but this extraordinary passage shows how ancient Jews perceived the world beyond our own earthly realm. 

1 In the third week of that jubilee the polluted demons began to lead astray the children of Noah’s sons and to lead them to folly and to destroy them. 2 And the sons of Noah came to Noah, their father, and they told him about the demons who were leading astray and blinding and killing his grandchildren. 3 And he prayed before the LORD his God and he said, “God of the spirits which are in all flesh, who has acted mercifully with me and saved me and my sons from the water of the Flood and did not let me perish as you did the children of perdition, because Great was your grace upon me, and great was your mercy upon my soul. Let your grace be lifted up upon my sons, and do not let the evil spirits rule over them, lest they destroy them from the earth. But bless me and my sons. And let us grow and increase and fill the earth. 5 And you know that which your Watchers (עִירִין; irin / Greek: ἐγρήγοροι; egregoroi), the fathers of these spirits, did in my days and also these spirits who are alive. Shut them up and take them to the place of judgment. And do not let them cause corruption among the sons of your servant, O my God, because they are cruel and were created to destroy. 6 And let them not rule over the spirits of the living because you alone know their judgment, and do not let them have power over the children of the righteous henceforth and forever.”

7 And the LORD our God spoke to us so that we might bind all of them. 8 And the chief of the spirits, Mastema (מַשְׂטֵמָה, mastemah, Hebrew for “hostility” or “persecution”), came and he said, “O Lord, Creator, leave some of them before me, and let them obey my voice. And let them do everything which I tell them, because if some of them are not left for me, I will not be able to exercise the authority of my will among the children of men because they are (intended) to corrupt and lead astray before my judgment because the evil of the sons of men is great.” 9 And he said, “Let a tenth of them remain before him, but let nine parts go down into the place of judgment.”

10 And he told one of us to teach Noah all of their healing because he knew that they would not walk uprightly and would not strive righteously. 11 And we acted in accord with all of his words. All of the evil ones, who were cruel, we bound in the place of judgment, but a tenth of them we let remain so that they might be subject to Satan (שָּׂטָן, satan: Hebrew for “accuser” or “adversary” / Greek: διάβολος; diabolos) upon the earth. 12 And the healing of all their illnesses together with their seductions we told Noah so that he might heal by means of herbs of the earth. 13 And Noah wrote everything in a book just as we taught him according to every kind of healing. And the evil spirits were restrained from following the sons of Noah. 14 And he gave everything which he wrote to Shem, his oldest son, because he loved him much more than all of his sons. (Jubilees 10:1-14, c. 2nd century BCE, Charlesworth translation)

Gnosis

 

Gnosis: esoteric knowledge of spiritual truth held by the ancient Gnostics to be essential to salvation. Science; knowledge; knowledge of the highest kind; specifically, mystical knowledge.  “Gnostics are first and foremost heretics, always rebelling against an ossified status quo. Gnostics are also mystics, individualists, philosophers, artists, shamans, mythologists and visionaries.” – Adrian Charles Smith

Epitafio del hipócrita (Epitaph of a Hypocrite) by Rosario Castellanos

 

Epitafio del hipócrita (Epitaph of a Hypocrite)

Quería y no quería.
Quería con su piel y con sus uñas,
con lo que cambia y cae; negaba con ‘sus vísceras,
con lo que de sus vísceras no era aserrín, con todo
lo que latía y sangraba en sus entrañas.

Quería ser él y el otro.
Siamés partido a la mitad, buscaba
la columna de hueso para asirse, colgar
su cartilaginosa consistencia de hiedra.

Mesón desocupado,
actor, daba hospedaje al agonista.
Gesticulaba viendo su sombra en las paredes,
deglutía palabras sin sabor, eructaba
resonando en su vasta oquedad de tambor.

Ensayaba ademanes
–heroico, noble, prócer–
para que al desbordarse la lava del elogio
lo cubriera cuajando después en una estatua.

No a solas inunca a solas!
dijo el brindis final,
alzó la copa amarga de cicuta.

(Mas no bebió su muerte sino la del espejo).

 

Epitaph of a Hypocrite

He wanted and he did not want.
He wanted with his skin and with his nails,
with that which changes and falls; he denied with his guts, with all of his gut
that was not sawdust, with all
that throbbed and bled in his entrails!

He wanted to be him and another.
Siamese twins parted in the middle, he searched
the column of bone to seize it, to hang
his cartilage like the consistency of ivy.

Empty inn,
an actor, he gave lodging to the agonized.
He gestured, watching his shadow on the walls,
swallowed words without flavor, belched
resounding in his vast drum hollow.

He tested gestures
–heroic, noble, illustrious–
so as to be overcome by the lava of praise
covering him, congealing afterward into a statue.

Not alone, never alone!
He said the final toast,
raised the bitter glass of hemlock.

(But he did not drink his death, rather that of the mirror).

Charla (Talk) by Rosario Castellanos

 

Charla (Talk)

…porque la realidad es reducible
a los ultímos signos
y se pronuncia en s6lo una palabra …

Sonríe el otro y bebe de su vaso.
Mira pasar las nubes altas del mediodía
y se siente asediado (bugambilia, jazmín,
rosal, dalias, geranios,
flores que en cada pétalo van diciendo una sílaba
de color y fragancia)
por un jardín de idioma inagotable.

 

Talk

…because reality is reducible,

ultimately, to signs,
and is pronounced in only one word …

The other smiles and sips from a glass.
Watches the passage of tall midday clouds
and feels bothered (bougainvillea, jasmine,
roses, dahlias, geraniums,
flowers of which each petal is speaking a syllable
of color and fragrance)
by a garden of inexhaustible language.

The term cis is silly

 .From the Latin preposition cis (“on this side of”). The earliest known gender-related use of the prefix in any language was in a 1914 German-language book on sexology.^[1] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest use of the prefix in the context of gender in English dates from 1994.^[2 

^{How can a CIs person be cis? You by nature are on the same side as yourself!}

Dada poem 2

 For the same thing I am Spartacus.

You are liked by the same thing I am so sleepy😪.

If you're interested in your own personal daughter,

She was just trying out to get her out of her head.

Read your comment history before posting again!

Edit the same question in love with your username

Zero chance to make sure that the numbers were made by Stephen King

Unless you're going into your username and you're right about Pikachu

How can anybody call this cute?