Julia Paleski

This #BannedBooksWeek it is more important than ever to celebrate the freedom to read and step into roles that continue to fight for one of the last free spaces, libraries. We created a Friends of the Library zine so you can learn how! www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...

There have been discussions lately about what a difference it makes when city leaders actually seem to like the city they live in and represent. It’s clear this council doesn’t like Seattle, and seeks to punish our city via over-policing and under-funding.

Can’t stop thinking about this. The CMs that voted in favor clearly came into this meeting with their minds made up, zoned out for 2.5hrs of public opposition, called the public commenters privileged for giving comment (??) and then voted yes.

I love riding the bus so much.

Feds, WA police share surveillance data on an obscure SPD email list As civil liberties groups warn that surveillance info can wind up in the wrong hands, the Seattle Police Department is already hosting a space for sharing data with little oversight.

Great reporting by @divestspd.bsky.social, more info on how much police departments share surveillance data, including with the Feds, and how cops make up reasons to justify searching surveillance data for specific vehicles & people

www.divestspd.com/p/feds-wa-po...

I love listening each week but especially this week! Thank you for the great coverage of the No Azure for Apartheid protests. After seeing some bad takes in response to the protests, your discussion was refreshing - thank you for commending the workers who risked their jobs to take important action.

I’ve gotten this line of questioning as pushback to continued masking before and it always confuses me. We all learned an effective way to prevent respiratory illness from spreading - just because we weren’t doing it before, why wouldn’t we take those precautions now?

It’s bananas to me that no one is talking about the CDC shooting. Relatedly, the Minnesota shooter was motivated by anti-vax/anti-covid violence. At least 1x/week I’m harassed for wearing a mask in NYC, and it doesn’t feel great!! The #1 thing you can do is wear a mask so there are more of us.

Wearing a mask is one of the easiest ways to ensure you are in solidarity with those most impacted by our authoritarian present. Taking action to prevent the spread of a deadly&disabling neuroinvasive vascular virus—among other airborne pathogens—as our institutions crumble is an antifascist choice.

Thank you for writing such a beautiful piece and summing up so well what myself and this community feel ❤️

Not masking & cleaning indoor air sufficiently is our generations’ smoking habit. We will look back on it with shame & awe. I’m talking to you, Gen X & Millenials. Use some of that famous “nonconformity” and “undoing generational harms” productively on this v real, mundane, serious problem. Please.

In order to get there I’d have to take the 8 there which means I’d probably be late!

LOOK AT NYC IF THEY CAN DO IT WE ALL CAN

@fixthel8.bsky.social there’s just no westbound 8s today?

Freedom is reliable public transit and not fearing for your safety as a pedestrian!

And on the nearly one year anniversary of Google firing 50 employees for protesting their contract with the Israeli military (Project Nimbus), these companies are evil and these workers are courageous

For years, folks looked the other way as millions died or became disabled by Covid. They shouted “your health is not my responsibility” or “only the vulnerable” were at risk.

This callous disregard for human life has desensitized us. It helped pave the way for the current atrocities.

not everything you love in your teenage years holds up but Green Day was cooking with American Idiot

The heroes we need.

What is your plan tho?

Now would be an excellent time to start wearing a respirator.

Do it as a show of solidarity with those who’ve spent five years being told they’re expendable

Do it for yourself. You don’t want to become disabled in the MAHA era

Your health is a gift. You have agency and resilience. Don’t waste it

Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

Bad Bunny Phoned Home His new album, a spirited homage to Puerto Rico, smokes its predecessor.

i wrote about bad bunny and studio album as musicology exercise and political rally point www.vulture.com/article/deb-...

Imagine if part of the federal gov's early response to the pandemic was to get a HEPA and carbon air purifier into every household - those would be doing double duty right now in LA protecting people from Covid AND wildfire smoke. See how every problem intersects?

Hell yeah LFG

No way to truly understand Bad Bunny ‘s new album & want Puerto Rico 🇵🇷to be a US State 🇺🇸

For decades Hawaii was used by US Statehood supporters as an example of how diverse ppls could become “equal” to USians

Understanding DTMF is to know that “equality” was a false promise