CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Replaced w/o notice or allowing them to bid with 1.69 million dollar contract to a Virginia LLC weartv.com/news/local/p...
Pensacola’s 'Sewing Box' loses Blue Angels flight suit contract after 43 yearsPENSACOLA, Fla. -- After more than 40 years, a Pensacola business says they will no longer make the Blue Angels' ceremonial flight suits.weartv.comSmall on the scale of corruption, but I can’t stop thinking about this story about the Pensacola ladies who have been sewing suits for the Blue Angels for over 40 years. Their contract was for 127k a year, which basically kept them in business.
Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words
The BulwarkRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
This is absolutely my experience in spades. The average “resist lib” is extremely happy to see leftists march with them, and lend their aid to leftist work. People who go out and help others are (not surprisingly) much more likely to get along than people who spend all day arguing!
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury
I would go just for Baryshnikov's Tharp-choreographed Vysotsky solo. But I'd stay for the whole film.
Like these are voters in the base, by and large. They’re not illegitimate insurgent outsiders, they are Democrats who would merely like the party to look a certain way. Precisely the same as any other voters. This is not weird or bad, it’s politics
While I’m as much a fan of the power structure of the mainstream national Democratic Party as many of not most of the people on here, I think it would be cool if more people across the board would internalize that voters who like DSA-coded candidates are in fact basically all Democratic voters
Big Lie costing James 5% has got to be goal. Simple race between a guy who’d steal our votes and anything Michigan has to please Trump and a candidate who will step on glass to make sure our ballots count.
Aaron RuparRep. John James: "Thank you Mr President for coming back to Michigan, where you won three times" (Trump in fact lost Michigan in 2020)
You have good ears: when Leon Theremin invented his instrument, the saw was a popular musical instrument & Leon aimed to imitate its sound electronically. He did a great job! (This was told to me by his protege, amazing thereminist Clara Rockmore). cc: @chris.zahller.me @bullcityfats.bsky.social
Here’s a pitch: @mayor.nyc.gov should announce a contest to redesign NYC’s hideous flag which sucks and is ugly.
9. Oil and gas companies to pay for solar panels for everyone. (From Jack, aged 10)
Jane[Count Binface Clacton manifesto with alt-txt] #BinFarage