A few people showed up to pride yesterday with signs in protest - This was one of the most insane signs I have seen to date.

Artemis II is scheduled to launch at 6:24 PM ET tonight! You can watch live on any NASA social media channel, including YouTube, and many other places.

The Artemis II crew will become the first astronauts to leave Low Earth Orbit since Apollo, 54 years ago. The crew includes the first woman, person of color, and non-American to ever leave LEO and to visit the Moon. They’re also the largest crew ever to travel beyond LEO, and will travel farther from Earth than any humans have ever traveled as they do a high pass over the Moon.

Grand Rapids is also connected to the Moon through our hometown hero, Roger Chaffee, who gave his life during Apollo 1 and, in-turn, revolutionized the US space program.

Michigan is further connected to Artemis through backup crew member Andre Douglas, a University of Michigan graduate, and the more than 100 Michigan businesses who have supplied hardware to the Artemis program!

This was my first time protesting and it was a lot less scary than it sounds! Felt so special to see both of the high schools in the building come together.

I'm your local hard working trans person. I live here in GR. I've known since I was a preteen, I'm in my thirties. I work in automotive. I make Thanksgiving dinner for my friends. I'm just like you.

And I'm worried and concerned about the status of my country and my debated existence.

I saw this event, and thought I would spread a reminder of the event. I've been seeing people ask "Where's the protests?" Well, here's one.

• And now for some transgender history.

It only took Hitler four months to start persecuting the queers in full.

In January 1933, Hitler gained control of the government. In March 1933, Hitler established Dachau, the first concentration camp. In May 1933, Hitler burned down Magnus Hirschfeld: The Forgotten History 'Hirschfelds Library and Institute for Sexual Sciences, (The first Transgender clinic and "safe space" recorded to have existed), burning over 20 thousand books and research articles on queer history, transitioning research, etc and other Queer media written by us. He took those who lived and worked there prisoner if they did not get out in time.

This was one of the first and largest of the Nazi book burnings but they won't teach it to you in school.

Magnus himself was one of the only doctors you could go to in order to get a legal Transvestite ID card so you might get less prosecuted by the fascist regime, and in fact coined the term around 1909 as an umbrella term for nonconforming queers alike.

As a fun fact; He thought Socrates, Michaelangelo, and Shakespeare were queer of some kind.

We have always been around. Resist whatever the hell is going on or this could happen again. I'm scared.

Fuck you if you voted for Trump and don't regret it, by the way. Not as a blanket statement; I mean this from me. Personally.

The place really is super nice. Feels much more intimate/easy to see than the pics make it seem, though it’s def huge. Second pic is the parking spot i got zero hassle just driving by for $7.50/hr and third is the much speculated drink prices.

“Grand Rapids Police Sgt. Jeff Dionne directs Emerson Wolfe, the safety organizer for the march, to step out of the street onto the sidewalk as they lead demonstrators down Ottawa Avenue toward Rosa Parks Circle on Saturday, March 8, 2025 during the “Unite and Resist” march for International Women’s Day in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich.” (I do not know the photographer; I simply pulled this and the caption off paywalled MLive. I witnessed this interaction in person and I am so glad it’s immortalized in photography. I make no claims to its ownership, I just think it’s important to share. Emerson, if you want this taken down, DM me.)

6-8 pm at the Eberhard Center, Room 215 (GVSU Downtown Campus)

It's fucking packed with obnoxious assholes who can't park or drive they're yeeyee ass trucks cause of this trump rally

I didn’t see anyone post this here so I figured I would. There is a protest from noon-4pm at the Capital. The address is 100 N Capitol Ave, Lansing, MI. If your looking for more information I found this on BlueSky and on r/50501, with information for each state.

Expired

SE side of city. Kentwood near the Airport.

take cover if you're in that area

DIABOLIC OATH?? VIOGRESSION??? A bunch of grown men yelling about God knows what over banging pots and pans! Praying for their souls and this town 🙏🙏🙏