Allison C (she/her)

Palestine is a domestic issue. It will literally determine whether or not we have an actual First Amendment.

So yes I want my governor, mayor, local dogcatcher talking about it and on the right side.

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

I only read the first Dune book so until quite recently I thought a Butlerian Jihad was something to do with gender studies.

And we also have to release false indoctrinated pasts & understand that the United States from its establishment as a settler settle founded on native genocide & chattel slavery has always been fascist & imagine a world beyond this empire's constructs.

A reminder that Meta (and anyone with a six legged horse in the AI race) needs as many people as possible wearing smart glasses capturing real world video for training world models.

Interview with R.L. Stollar a conversation about creating safer communities for children

It would be really cool if Christians could listen to and share this podcast interview with @rlstollar.bsky.social. If you care about keeping children safe, it is essential to look at the reality of who is hurting kids and how we can stop abuse: strongwilled.substack.com/p/interview-...

You're going to get on my last nerve if you tell me it's a pain in someone's ass to paint one wind turbine blade black to reduce bird strike. Or not to put them on bird migration routes. Biodiversity loss will also kill us. And, yes, keep your fucking cats inside + use bird safe glass.

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

I mean really what we are seeing is people feeling comfortable revealing in various ways that they agree with the authoritarian white supremacists on at least one thing: 2020 anti-racism went too far and so did trans positive feminism

Hence the “stop overreacting” and bizarre nostalgia for the 90s

Art can't just be a luxury for the few. That requires a city where artists can actually afford to live and create, and where musicians don't just receive recognition but fair pay.

That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.

I didn’t start out thinking there was some genuinely incriminating info about Trump in the DOJ files on Epstein but I’m definitely changing my mind!

40 years in the making: A timeline of the Southern Baptists' sexual abuse crisis (RNS) — Controversy over the Southern Baptist Convention’s handling of sexual abuse began long before 2000, when a new, scathing report takes up the story.

But also Father Knows Best culture makes sexual abuse easier to get away with and it's at the very heart of MAGA's patriarchal family values. religionnews.com/2022/05/23/a...

Everything else aside, if you can make it through, say, the next 5 years without succumbing to online brain rot, cultic belief spagettification, or being force teamed into fascist fantasism, that should count as a strong personal win condition to aim for

There are far more disabled people pretending to be well than there are pretending to be sick.

Being on disability is not fun.

You’re forced into legislated poverty. Treated like a “useless eater”. Shunned, abandoned and constantly questioned.

It’s dehumanizing 🧵

I really do block and list people who call copyright slavery and ones who think I’m an idea landlord.

Fuck yeah, I own my work.

You’re jealous pieces of shit who can’t create, desperately demanding coddling, like a toddler yelling for sweets.

Feeling angry? That’s defensiveness cuz I’m right.

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.

Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

l once heard ska described as "what plays thru the proletariat's head when they realize that despite their identity, they're cogs in the capitalist machine, and organizing their labor power while dismantling systemic oppression is the only path toward liberation" and nothing is more accurate

Sorry Superman ain't flying around, randomly putting brown people in swamp prisons. That must be hard for you. Thoughts and prayers and whatnot.

Marc Andreesen keeps coming up with fascist ideas because Marc Andreesen is a fascist.

"having a moderate position" is just amoral and unthinking at this point - a self-satisfied position for people who want to sound Serious™ because they agree with the average of two assholes on cnn

but really: always has been

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The homeowner class has really destroyed so many communities.

You cant have a park cause they dont want “undesirables” there.

You cant have murals or art installations because they dont want it bringing down their property values.

Cant have nursing homes b/c they petition against them

The truth is that higher education in the United States should be free and accessible, and people like Andreessen are the reason it isn't.

The truth is that people like Andreessen are advocating for segregation and discrimination for ideological reasons, not because it's fair for any students.

Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’ DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

New: DHS tells police to brace for the anti-ICE movement to grow much bigger in threat bulletins last month that lists ordinary behavior, like riding a skateboard or livestreaming, as threatening to law enforcement.

By me w/ records by @propertyofthepeople.org:

The federal government is still at war against Los Angeles.

It has not stopped.

I'm sure that some people find it traumatizing, but the day I realized I was never going to read everything worth reading was absolutely spirit-lifting, plus it gave me permission* to reread things I love a half dozen (or far more, I'm looking at you, Up the Down Staircase) times.

The news: "Mamdani is a socialist who will destroy NYC!"

Wonks: "Free busing can be good but it is not clear if the conditions for it to success are currently present in New York City. Also here are some other ideas to improve transit access that Mamdani might consider."