Margaret Sites

everyone I know is donating to food banks etc. we can feed our communities through the holidays and cancel our travel plans. we can’t mutual aid our way out of NOT HAVING HEALTHCARE

I’m not a law professor but this is what I want to be doing with my law degree right now

NEW: Data shows ICE arrests are surging in Kentucky, and local jails are playing a key role.

Between inauguration day in January and the end of July, Kentucky saw 1,293 ICE arrests. That’s a 37.6% increase compared to the same period in 2024.

up late sending argumentative emails to opposing counsels 😭 take my computer

The protest was downtown; the guard marched miles away from the epicenter of the protests into Black neighborhoods and killed the man at his restaurant

Nat’l Guard killed a man in Louisville on June 1, 2020 when they were called in to quell Breonna Taylor uprising

social movement ideas for summer 2025
-temperance but for the internet
-hippies again (everyone does LSD)
-???

if the constitution means no tenant protections are allowed, we need amend the constitution. create a constitutional right to housing

yeah. we need a new people’s constitution and we need to know how to get it

not the biggest reason social media-declared boycotts don’t work obviously, just one suggestion

they aren’t just stores they’re also platforms

“turn off your phone” needs to be part of any boycott messaging. retailers are also generating revenue from eyeballs, clicks, data

interview with tracy rosenthal (abolish rent) coming out soon(ish). i think you'll like it

if there’s going to be a constitutional crisis, we should try to at least get a better constitution out of it. the constitution sucks

I think some platforms are trickier but there’s no reason for anyone to be posting their takes on X instead of here, it’s basically a 1:1. stop giving money to the hitler salute guy

And it means disabled people could get married without losing benefits.

?! I hadn’t remembered learning what a “labor organizer” was when I was 12 but there’s no telling how much of my beliefs about the world are gleaned from YA lol

one thing basic income would do to restore the social fabric of society is make poor people not have to exploit each other & their families for social security checks to survive. it’s rough out here

The Landlord, the Tenant and a House Fire in Milwaukee A young mother rents a house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, “Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.”

I’m still thinking about this from @propublica.org

www.propublica.org/article/milw...

think I might get into reading. nothing too long though

My Life As a Homeless Man in America An extraordinary firsthand account.

really really good

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

I’ve largely lurked across internet platforms for 20 years but maybe this is finally my time… to post

possible user error of course lol i’ve barely been on here yet

still feels like there are just posts here, not discourse. does this make sense? like I’m not seeing related posts&replies arranged in proximity on the TL to create a sense of conversation

dutifully posting on the new app to hasten the decline of the bad app