@jherbstman.bsky.social
Data scientist based in SW Detroit. I want to pet all the dogs
The Thečhíȟila Collective hoped to buy lots from the Land Bank for its listed price of $7,000. But months after the group expressed interest the Land Bank raised the price of the parcel by nearly 2,000% to $136,500. www.bridgedetroit.com/thechi%c8%9f...
09.06.2025 14:34 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Good advice……
24.05.2025 18:17 — 👍 3792 🔁 977 💬 95 📌 43
Once drawn to the U.S. as a haven, some int'l students find it is not the bedrock of free speech they expected. “That respect in the American system has kind of faded away and been replaced with this bitter animosity."
w/ the wonderful @holpuch.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
Detroit is a union city.
It is not talked about enough how unions that overwhelmingly voted for Obama a decade ago have since shifted right, towards Trump.
Republicans fuck over the working class yet win the hearts and minds of those they’re actively screwing.
Another media fail. Bribes are factored into the cost of doing business in many parts of the world. In the United States it is illegal and unconstitutional.
Article II, Section 4, makes this an impeachable offense, but since we don’t have a legitimate third branch of government, it’ll just ✈️ by.
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work focused on the evils of totalitarianism, has died at age 89, according to his family. cnn.it/43R9Mw7
14.04.2025 02:03 — 👍 333 🔁 68 💬 19 📌 13
Since taking office Trump has launched an all-out war on kids, from slashing funding for research into childhood cancers, to proposing cuts that would take school lunches, SNAP support, healthcare, education and more away from children in every community.
10.04.2025 15:00 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 2Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.
31.03.2025 16:49 — 👍 19652 🔁 5188 💬 263 📌 181China, Japan, and South Korea agree to “closely cooperate” in response to U.S. tariffs
31.03.2025 19:39 — 👍 1884 🔁 414 💬 101 📌 542Right now @booker.senate.gov is filibustering on the senate floor “for as long as [he is] physically able.”
Grateful to see Dems with some fight in them! This part about John Lewis is particularly meaningful.
Check it out and then go find Senator Booker live on every platform!!
Senate Democrats will launch a war room Tuesday dedicated to fighting back against the Department of Government Efficiency's cuts to Social Security.
01.04.2025 03:12 — 👍 1880 🔁 459 💬 108 📌 63NOAA’s office of Oceanic Atmospheric Research has had IT and other support contracts canceled in the last day or so that will fundamentally affect its operation. One source there said “It will seriously hurt our ability to improve weather forecasting and climate projections.”
01.04.2025 03:36 — 👍 964 🔁 446 💬 35 📌 47One reason they won’t bring any of these people back is they don’t want them around to testify to what’s happening
01.04.2025 02:33 — 👍 1360 🔁 376 💬 27 📌 9Treating American democracy like Publishers Clearinghouse
31.03.2025 07:56 — 👍 38 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Household income needed to be considered middle class in the US ranges from $36k (Mississippi) to $200k (Massachusetts), depending on your state
Middle class in this graph is defined as earning between two-thirds and double the median household income. (February 2025)
An illustration in a limited palette of muted red-browns, dark greys, white and greens of my custom female Hawke from Dragon Age 2. She is hugging her arms to her body and looking down. Behind her grow daisies.
Why fear death
Be scared of living
[Ophelia Hawke]
underground bike parking
Where do you park 12,500 bikes?
In Utrecht, the answer is: underground, right beneath the train station.
The Netherlands leads the world in bike parking infrastructure, treating it as an essential part of the cycling journey.
Trump: ‘I couldn’t care less’ if auto prices rise because of tariffs
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump and Musk have cancelled more than $4.2 million in food assistance for Michigan families—more than 2 million meals.
And our weak and fearful GOP congressmen have just let them, instead of standing up for families in their districts.
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
It is utterly fucking bonkers that the VP of the United States held a press conference on the soil of another country, declared his intent to take over that country, and implicitly threatened military force if that country didn’t comply.
31.03.2025 11:53 — 👍 4096 🔁 1049 💬 155 📌 66This is not the Republican Party of Reagan or Romney. This is the MAGA party.
We need Democratic leadership who understand that, and who are ready to fight back.
USDA cancels $4.3M in poultry, cheese, eggs to Michigan food banks
The government's decision to cancel the food shipments has caught food banks off guard, and could lead to shortages.
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It's ok to be scared and anxious and angry about what's happening right now.
But we'll get out of this. The way we do it is by showing up in our communities, using our voices, every single day.
We said what we said. And let us add, under MAGA Matt Hall and his extremist minions, the MI House is being run by 🤡🤡🤡
29.03.2025 13:00 — 👍 27 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
University of Michigan abruptly closes DEI offices and ends strategic plan to promote diversity
michiganadvance.com/2025/03/28/u...
Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty
michiganadvance.com/2025/03/28/t...
