@woodbldg

@woodbldg

@woodbldgs.bsky.social

Writing and thinking about #architecture #design #culture #tech RT ≠ Endorsement, Opinions my own

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1 year ago

You know how I was screaming about this weeks ago? Well, they came right out and said it; the Trump admin would rather go after migrants than pedophiles, drug traffickers, and terrorists.

Funnily, Fox News is eerily silent about this. Because of course.

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See inside DOGE’s playbook for eliminating DEI Documents detail step-by-step plans by the U.S. DOGE Service to purge federal agencies of diversity, equity, and inclusion workers and offices. Here’s what comes next.

Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.

Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing. Raymond Williams.
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1 year ago

or to quote the immoratal words of Le Tigre "It feels so eighties
Or early nineties
To be political
Where are my friends?

(Get off the internet)
I'll meet u in the street

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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

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1 year ago

I think we need to change the narrative on DEI/woke/ whatever, What's being attacked is Civil Rights, Individual Liberties, and Human Rights of all of us and we should be naming that loudly and clearly.

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The team going after price-gouging landlords is now tracking renters facing eviction due to the fires.

Fill out this form and you’ll also get connected to resources: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Fascists need made-up enemies to distract you from what they, and their super-rich funders/bosses, are taking from you. They want you constantly mad, scared and distracted. And they love picking enemies that could help teach you to reason and see through through fascist lies.

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Thinking about LA endlessly with so many friends and family and colleagues affected by the fires. I don't have much to add from afar but there are many, many folks who need support and a heartwarming amount of mutual aid and recovery initiatives underway.

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LA Asks: Was Mike Davis Right? As Los Angeles burns, the writer Rosecrans Baldwin hears echoes of the furious, compassionate late intellectual.

Interesting that this is showing up in GQ of all places but positive to have Mike Davis (RIP) back in the conversation
www.gq.com/story/was-mi...

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Endnotes 1-5 (pdfs)

Endnotes 1 (2008): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 2 (2010): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 3 (2013): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 4 (2015): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 5 (2019):
files.libcom.org/files/2022-0...

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Pain, hope, history share the ride as Dakota Exiles commemorate Mankato hangings A nearly 300-mile journey ends in Mankato this week to mark the 161st year anniversary of one of the grimmest chapters in Dakota history, the hanging of 38 men after the U.S.- Dakota War. Riders hope ...

The ride is meant to honor those hanged in Mankato but also the thousands of people later forced from their homelands. Riders also want to preserve this painful history of the Dakota in the hope of helping heal the intergenerational trauma it created.

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Amazon workers in 20 countries to protest or strike on Black Friday Workers and their representatives to press US retailer to respect their rights and take action on the climate crisis

Two vital pieces of info b4 Black Friday:

1. Price trackers have proven that Amazon has been slowly hiking prices so they can pretend to slash them on Black Friday/Cyber Monday. There are no actual deals. Just the appearance of them.

2. Amazon workers are on strike

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...

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“could”

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This is priceless….

The moment that Doug Ford realized he didn’t understand what Trump’s tariff promise actually meant.

Let’s not forget Doug has given Donald his “unwavering support” for years.

Tariffs, Trump & Ford - none are good for workers

#OntLab #OnPoli @oflabour.bsky.social

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corrected, a bit closer. 218km / 130 ish miles

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Champaign to Chicago IL on Amtrak similar distance between 17-37 $USD one way and about 2h45m

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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

“…now is the time to stick your fingers down your throat and get that sick tech bro poison out of your system.” - essential survival tactics by the brilliant @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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