THREAD. Something must be said about the New York Times. We are in the midst of a full-blown fascist takeover, and the NYT let one of its most dishonest reporters publish an article today full of misinformation arguing for massive new investments in police and surveillance.
07.07.2025 15:53 β π 826 π 277 π¬ 6 π 22
Farm workers are being terrorized, imprisoned, and deported without due process. Trump's immigration sweeps unjustly target farm workers, Latinos and other vulnerable communities. This goes against American values. This July 4th weekend, take action and message your Congress Members. Link below. β¬οΈ
04.07.2025 16:19 β π 401 π 179 π¬ 10 π 10
Hey.
Two-thirds of people DON'T KNOW what's in Trump's budget bill, even though it will affect all of us. Polls show when people know what's in it, they don't want Trump's Big Ugly Bill.
So let's make sure more people know what's in it π§΅
27.06.2025 14:02 β π 581 π 362 π¬ 11 π 23
not great!
25.06.2025 11:25 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I am sure everyone will look the other way, but the guy who just won the Democratic mayoral primary in NYC _ran on expanding access to trans healthcare._
25.06.2025 05:08 β π 2413 π 430 π¬ 7 π 12
We can do with more defiance. Seeing Mahmood Khalil leading people in protest is a good way to kick off this week. Cowardice is contagious but so it courage.
22.06.2025 22:53 β π 1097 π 194 π¬ 4 π 0
βLegal path to transitionβ might be one of the most violent anti-trans phrases Iβve ever heard.
20.06.2025 01:46 β π 1183 π 254 π¬ 14 π 13
A messy pile of pink and purple rubber stamped and initialed booklet covers.
I prepped another slew of 40 more covers for my booklet Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? The print run is up to 885 since May 1 now. Tomorrow Iβll change gears and start printing a new booklet. halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...
15.06.2025 15:43 β π 166 π 30 π¬ 6 π 3
Folks, @resnikoff.bsky.social is right
12.06.2025 13:31 β π 4713 π 1026 π¬ 43 π 17
Listen to what she said. They are "liberating the city" from the ELECTED governor and mayor. Think about what that means.
12.06.2025 18:36 β π 11 π 14 π¬ 0 π 0
These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.
07.06.2025 22:46 β π 5103 π 1868 π¬ 29 π 21
hi, cis folks!
if youβre calling democratic reps about the maga murder budget, you should *specifically mention* itβs unacceptable to pass a bill blocking funding for lifesaving transition care FOR TRANS PEOPLE OF ALL AGES.
if you want to stand with trans people, this is a big moment. π§΅
reps.fyi
22.05.2025 02:21 β π 2894 π 2328 π¬ 4 π 27
"Amends Sec. 44125 to ensure federal Medicaid does not fund gender transition therapies or procedures for minors or adults."
It's eugenics and murder by policy, all the way down.
22.05.2025 02:09 β π 252 π 79 π¬ 5 π 10
I have said this before, but I must say it again; it is remarkable how much the GOP wants to kill us and how little anyone outside of our community seems to care.
22.05.2025 03:11 β π 65 π 19 π¬ 2 π 0
'How come I can't breathe?: Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company's turbines-enough to power 280,000 homes- run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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An aerial view of the xAI, data center. | Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for SELC
By ARIEL WITTENBERG 05 /06/2025 10:32 AM EDT
States chase OpenAl's $100 billion AI American Dream
Local and state officials are vying nost , parts of a massive artificial inteligence project called Stargate, backed by OpenAI, even as some communities turn against data center development.
Today at 8:05 a.m. EDT
10 min
Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones
10.05.2025 16:37 β π 1666 π 790 π¬ 27 π 49
just a reminder that large scale data centers want unlimited use of giant diesel generators to provide stability for LLMs
enormous diesel generators directly adjacent to major cities. on top of all the demands on the grid and the water use. asthma machines.
11.05.2025 00:20 β π 391 π 164 π¬ 4 π 1
great news! also I really loved Woodworking <3
22.04.2025 18:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
MUNICIPAL ID
Take action to help your neighbors. Get a muni ID!
Kalamazoo County
β’ https://www.kalcounty.gov/858/Kalamazoo-County-ID
Washtenaw County
β’ https://www.washtenaw.org/280/Apply-for-a-Washtenaw-County-ID-Card
Detroit
β’ https://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit- health-department/programs-and- services detroit-id
MIRC
michiganimmigrant.org
@michiganimmigrant.bsky.social asks supporters to get municipal ids (presumably to dilute the number of undocumented people in the pool of id holders).
i'll do it this week. please join me.
20.04.2025 01:02 β π 88 π 49 π¬ 4 π 3
EMU has no plans to close its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
While sadness and anger are being expressed down the road in Ann Arbor, Eastern Michigan University says its Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will continue. WEMUβs Kevin Meerschaert has this...
Yet another example of the lesser-ranked schools taking the stand that the bigger schools are too scared to.
Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not.
The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.
31.03.2025 13:01 β π 1934 π 491 π¬ 31 π 53
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
One of many moments in Omar El Akkadβs new book, βOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,β that will stop you in your tracks.
29.03.2025 20:31 β π 11678 π 4451 π¬ 136 π 170
Just in one year, just the clean air act, prevented hundreds of thousands of early deaths. The lowest possible estimate of the benefits found that benefits outweigh the costs by 3 to 1. The most likely estimate is 30 to 1. The high estimate is 90 to 1. Ninety. Nine Zero. www.epa.gov/clean-air-ac...
24.02.2025 20:43 β π 1497 π 539 π¬ 15 π 21
i really am not being glib at all when i say that i do not want nazis to know everything about us or crash our planes or forcefully separate our neighbors from their children or detransition the coolest kids in our lives
18.02.2025 18:44 β π 123 π 23 π¬ 1 π 0
Part of a handbook which reads, a computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision
IBM 1979
16.02.2025 19:36 β π 322 π 76 π¬ 3 π 4
kidnapping. abuse. state violence.
17.02.2025 20:38 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
No
BY ANNE BOYER
Originally Published: April 13, 2017
History is full of people who just didn't. They said no thank you, turned away, ran away to the desert, stood on the streets in rags, lived in barrels, burned down their own houses, walked barefoot through town, killed their rapists, pushed away dinner, meditated into
A useful reminder: www.poetryfoundation.org/featured-blo...
09.02.2025 14:02 β π 39 π 8 π¬ 1 π 1
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