alicebagley.bsky.social
TimeBank Organizer and Vegetable Farmer living in Detroit
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that folks might think they were being racist by suggesting that Black folks (Detroit is ~80% Black) should have their babies sleep in boxes. For all I know those baby boxes are still in storage or have perhaps been destroyed.
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So my friend used to work for a national non-profit here in the Detroit area. They had a plan to distribute baby boxes in Detroit. They in fact had purchased hundreds (maybe thousands?) of these boxes and had them in a warehouse ready to distribute. They were never distributed because of concern...
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WOW
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Also Haley Stevens
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File this under things from my youth I had totally memory holed.
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The parade today by contrast moves west to east, outside to in. It starts at the Pentagon not Arlington National Cemetary. It follows the symbolic route of troops entering to quell or occupy the city, not leaving with love and thanks. 8/
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And it ends at the White House not the Capitol. Symbolically it the route is troops called from the Barracks/General Staff to render obeisance to the King, while demonstrating how the King can call in troops to awe the cities. 9/
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Kai- do you feel safer?
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This video just sent such a chill down my spine.
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TL;DR no I do not have to go buy ladybugs to help with the aphids. I’ve already bought them with a dozen years of benign neglect.
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P.S. Take some time to disconnect from the internet and focus on yourself today. The world sucks unwashed ass and balls and you deserve a moment of sanity
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Masculinity and also anti-"elite"/anti-intellectual
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It's some pretty dumb teen stuff- pretty mild by teen standards tbh- it sucks that for some kids the stakes are so high.
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And so glad it is outside so there isn't a hard capacity cap.
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WHAT! Big news!
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This is why Hope in the Dark by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is one of the books I read and re-read all the time.
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BTW, the tactic Gov Abbot and Gov DeSantis used of bussing asylum seekers to cities in blue states ended up being one of the most cynical but effective propaganda ops ever.
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"Ignoring the Supreme Court is unconstitutional!" OK, what about "If he doesn't have to listen to the courts, he becomes a king, that's why they wrote the separation of powers into the founding document of the nation."
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"Suspending due process is unconstitutional" OK...but what about "Without due process, anyone can be punished for any reason, that's why they wrote it into the founding document of the nation."
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Friday it wasn't my lungs but my eyes that were letting me know that the world was not right.
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My grandma’s first fiancée, whom she met in the ghetto, could only afford one set of false papers, so he bought them for her.
She looked for him after the war at the place they agreed to meet up, and he never came.
Fucking LET PEOPLE IMMIGRATE AND LET THEM STAY. I DONT CARE HOW THEY GOT HERE
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Folks who think the point of transit is mostly to serve the elderly instead of, ya know, all of us.
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Watched online. Mostly confirmed my priors. Definitely showed who understands how transit works and who doesn't. Two things that interested me: folks using words other than disabled to describe disabled folks- when one of the sponsoring orgs is Detroit Disability Power and...