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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

2025 on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst for pedestrian crashes: an interview with Crashes in Ann Arbor's Peter Houk Serious and fatal pedestrian crashes by year from Crashes in Ann Arbor . 2025 data is year to date. Ann Arbor has an ambitious  Vision Zero ...

2025 is on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst year for pedestrian crashes. We talk with @crashesinannarbor.bsky.social's Peter Houk who complied these data.

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Great to see Michigan’s Dana Nessel on this list.

This is what privacy advocates have been warning about for a long time. Locally, despite attempts at a ban Ann Arbor has a facial recognition policy that’s basically “yup, we use facial recognition.” Ditto drones. Countywide, there has been public pushback against ALPRs it’s not settled. #a2council

The DSCC’s pick for MI senate is Haley “Endorsed non-Democrat Michael Bloomberg for President” Stevens. Vote McMorrow!

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract 404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.

NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Someone should post this to the Ann Arbor Reddit. I’ve seen so many posts claiming that Dunbar Towers will be bad actually bc people who are homeless are all criminals and drug users who are unhoused because they are bad people. #a2council

As universities are pushing students to use generative AI for all kinds of things, even going so far as to call it an “ethical responsibility,” I hope this will be a resource for people who supervise student workers and need to gently push back.

World there be a ”student row“ comprised of minimally maintained houses owned by cheap landlords who maximally raise rents?

Why'd you have to go and bring up the four red dots!? We never ever mention the red dots.

They’re my Allen neighborhood neighbors!!

Buy a >$500K <1,000 sq ft condo in another city for renting, investment, or weekends and then hire a lawyer to undermine their elections. Is that what decent folk are doing these days?

Voting YES on A and B to solve two important Ann Arbor issues — paying for a new library without raising taxes *and* finally getting a well-managed outdoor plaza — and to help address another — more affordable housing.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

Library Green supporters attacking A/B as lacking in “guarantees” is an awkward pivot for a group of ppl defending a project that has no $ and no plan, and who support an org whose former pres used to get high on camera during the official mtgs that #a2council set up to plan said project.

Happy to be of assistance! And very nice meeting you!

Shouldn't it be STOP SELLING PARKING LAND?

Look, it’s not complicated. If we need more housing now we should have built it 100 years ago.

If Library Director Neiburger wasn't so nice & more willing to exercise raw political power, he'd move this to July & leverage used VHS tapes to flip some of the 70+ crowd, many of whom are now fighting tooth & nail against the most amazing possible new downtown library that won't need new taxes.

Nevertheless, she persists. And I count myself among the many who are grateful.

My city is in the midst of the first major comprehensive planning overhaul in decades. The City Council agreed unanimously that this plan needs to call for the addition of housing across Ann Arbor — i... TikTok video by Neighborhood Institute

Great explainer for what a Comp Plan is (and what it is not). www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj3fJtmo/

Home | Neighbors for More Neighbors A2

The Ann Arbor chapter of Neighbors for More Neighbors just updated their site—it’s beautiful and full of great info on the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, how to get involved, and why making room for more neighbors matters. #a2council

Check it out: www.moreneighborsa2.org

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

You are not losing your mind; in fact you see things very clearly.

it's unfathomably messed up that the president of the United States is using the power of his office to go after a single high school kid.

The language is “stop” for the

#a2council, what do we think the Venn diagram of those who supported last year's proposals C&D + those who supported the parking lot into perpetuity + oppose the CLUP looks like?

I wonder if there's something about the geometry there that doomed it, or whether all such raised crosswalks in Ann Arbor will be just as toothless. I dream of spanning the crosswalk with a pipe rather than a gutter; if only there were a phrase for that.