Witchy Gemini

I’m a teacher and writer using astrology and spiritual tools to build community for modern seekers. Currently working on a novel.

[Witchy Gemini @thewitchygemini]

@MarcoFoster_ What the fuck kind of man would I be if I didn’t tell him to go fuck himself?”

Ted Cruz. He’d be Ted Cruz.

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[Witchy Gemini @thewitchygemini]

@MarcoFoster_ What the fuck kind of man would I be if I didn’t tell him to go fuck himself?”

Ted Cruz. He’d be Ted Cruz.

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

It’s impossible for me to overstate how much I fucking hate this shithole country

[Witchy Gemini @thewitchygemini]

@Phil_Lewis_ Cause they found a solution to the problem?

[Witchy Gemini @thewitchygemini]

@xoxo_glenn And if I remember correctly, Lisa Loeb was singing the song.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Fox News and Facebook did to our parents exactly what they said video games would do to us.

[Voters For Animal Rights @theanimalvoters]

Gracie was born in a breeding facility that sells wild animals as pets — and possibly to be shot in canned hunts.

She escaped. If she's caught, she could be sold right back into that pipeline.

She chose to run. That choice deserves to mean something.

Demand Gracie goes to an accredited sanctuary — not back to a breeding facility. 🦒

Sign the petition 👇

https://t.co/3HlzcpQ4OT

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

On June 19, 1865, African American communities in Galveston, Texas, finally learned of their freedom from slavery — two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect.

For 161 years, Juneteenth has been a day of remembrance for the freedom that was delayed. It is also a celebration of the joy and resilience that flourished despite that delay.

The contributions of African Americans, whose struggle for freedom shaped our nation, are immeasurable. Yet too many Black families continue to bear the brunt of an affordability crisis that has pushed them out of the neighborhoods and communities they've built.

True freedom has a tangible impact on daily life: the ability to afford housing, earn a living wage, put food on the table, support a family, and create a future for generations to come.

As we celebrate today, we must recommit ourselves to ensuring this freedom is fully realized.

Happy Juneteenth, New York City.

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

“I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.”

— Nina Simone

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[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, US Capitol Rotunda, 1965.

[Witchy Gemini @thewitchygemini]

I’m really excited about this upcoming #WNBA season. Even more so for ‘27! Let’s Go #Comets

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

The FBI cut the phone lines during the 1977 disability rights sit-in. Then they turned off the hot water.

They locked the doors from the outside. One hundred and fifty people were trapped on the fourth floor. Half of them used wheelchairs. The government assumed they would leave.

Kitty Cone was thirty-three. She had muscular dystrophy. Her muscles were failing, but her logistics were flawless. She knew how to organize people.

The federal government had promised to sign regulations protecting disabled Americans from discrimination. The policy was known as Section 504. They printed the promise on paper. Then they stalled. Without a signature, it was just typography.

The protesters entered the regional Health, Education, and Welfare building in San Francisco on a Tuesday morning. They took the elevators to the director's office. They brought sleeping bags and catheters. They informed the staff they were not leaving until the law was signed.

By sunset, the police surrounded the exits. Kitty sat near the windows. She organized the floor plan. She assigned committees for security and sanitation. She kept her medication in a small cooler.

According to federal memorandums released decades later, the strategy to end the occupation relied on medical attrition. The building was not equipped for long-term habitation. The FBI calculated that a population requiring ventilators, specialized diets, and daily medical aides would voluntarily evacuate if the environment became sufficiently hostile. They instituted a blockade.

The blockade went into effect immediately. No food deliveries allowed. No medical supplies permitted through the lobby. Guards stood at the main doors checking identification.

Kitty's muscles deteriorated faster under the physical strain. She couldn't walk. When the phone lines went dead, the fourth floor lost contact with the press. The government waited for the quiet.

Kitty dropped to the floor. She realized the barricades were designed for standing adults. The police had blocked the hallways at waist height. They hadn't blocked the linoleum.

The floors were covered in cigarette ash and spilled coffee. She dragged her body through it. She crawled under the barricades to reach the restricted elevator shafts and unguarded offices.

She carried notes in her pockets. She found a single working payphone the FBI missed. She called the local news desks. She called the mayor's office.

She crawled back. When her arms failed, someone pulled her by her ankles. The Black Panthers heard the news reports. They crossed the police lines with hot meals. The FBI could not stop them without a riot.

They shut off the elevators, so she crawled.

The occupation lasted twenty-five days. It remains the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in American history. On April 28, the Secretary of HEW signed the regulations without a single alteration.

The protesters left the building the next morning. They went back to their apartments. The Rehabilitation Act regulations laid the groundwork for every accessibility law that followed. The HEW building still stands on United Nations Plaza. The elevators run on a schedule. The doors are heavy glass.

Kitty Cone: the woman who crawled under the barricades.

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

Today we’re launching CENSORED, our spring fundraising campaign.

We’ve lost critical funding for telling uncomfortable truths. But we didn't build Scalawag for comfort. We built it for liberation. For stories that big funders won’t touch.

Donate today https://t.co/qlZhivvoRj

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Wake up, kids
We got the dreamers disease.

‘Radical’ comes from a Latin word meaning "root."

Because roots are the deepest part of a plant, ‘radical’ came to describe things understood as fundamental or essential.

‘Radical change’ was a change at the root of a system.

[Witchy Gemini @thewitchygemini]

Let’s start simple.

The Houston Comets won the first 4 WNBA championships.

Not one. Not two. Four.

And yet somehow this isn’t common knowledge.

That’s the work.

[Dr. Allison Campolo @AllisonCampolo]

As you watch Republicans cancel Cesar Chavez in real time for the sexual abuse we just found out about today, ask yourself why they can't do the same for anyone in their party.

They know it's wrong. They just refuse to do anything about it.

President Trump raped children.

[Mwende Ngao @mwendesusu]

There's a psyop to get us to stop reading. So now more than ever, we must double down on reading, writing & critical thinking. And those with children or with children in their realm of responsibility, must double down on making sure they can read, write and think for themselves!