Florida Mom
@floridamom
Friend and writer, activist and mom. The blue triangle means I stand with immigrants. (She/her) #BlackLivesMatter #LGBTQ #IStandWithCanada
FFS @apnews.com, what a bleak vision for America, though your picture makes clear this is your advice for American women in particular. What a path to joy, connection and authenticity - not. Do better than this.
StPete absolutely rocks. It’s no King’s reality this morning. We are occupying the city streets of a massive intersection. It’s actually probably several square miles.
I was one of more than 200 Floridians who drove 3.5 hours into the Everglades yesterday to hold vigil for the people being brutalized there. Leaders from the Miccosukee tribal asked people to join them in their daily witness against the atrocity that destroys lives as it destroys their home.
ICE is insisting on doing these raids against unarmed people. Throwing mothers ziptied into vans AFTER stories of rural communities speaking out against the rounding up of the mother who worked at the Waffle diner. They want this. They want this to have the emotional effect that it does. Why?
Bondi could only be played by Denise Gough, who unfortunately now may be typecast as the blonde Nazi.
Who else knew that Battle Hymn was a rewrite of a song called John Brown's Body? It was the Union Army's marching song during the Civil War. While the history of both slavery and abolition are being erased in this country, let's take a minute to remember John Brown's Body. Sing with me:
Just finished reading Magic for Liars, which was a delight, by @sarahgailey.bsky.social. Such a pleasure to get to talk Gailey on the @jococruise.bsky.social last week. Can’t recommend highly enough (the book and the cruise)