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Poet (Misprison, 2018), clinical psychologist using CBPR to co-develop interventions to support recovery from traumatic and acculturative stress via storytelling. Gardener, she/her, Flatbush DSA, extra sauce. marinaweiss.com
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We heard there's a new mayoral candidate on the block. Jews For Racial & Economic Justice aka the Anti-Cuomo Social Club have something to say about it. #HellNoCuomo #JewsSayNo2Cuomo

Oh nothing, the kid who Elon allowed to access our sensitive information was a eugenicist who "was racist before it was cool."

Please enjoy this baby tapir with fawn-piglet vibes and the tenderest lil snout.

The Spectacle has reached Peak Spectacle.

So much of this current fuckery is strategically focused on disempowering women and taking them out of the work force. No surprises there except perhaps how egregious it is.

Someone: is there a doctor here?! it’s an EMERGENCY poet: I HAVE TEAR FACTS

As a scicomm professor, the list of forbidden terms (which I haven’t verified yet and so haven’t commented on in a professional capacity yet) makes me go cross eyed because HOW DO YOU EVEN DO SCIENCE without using words like “female,” but this suggestion is delightful

Maybe the Grammies are actually better when they can be openly anti-administration, and they feel like they know that their progressive values are what enliven us. That said, if anyone has a link to a non-blurry video of Doechii's performance from last night, please share the link.

I don’t just want the democrats to not vote to approve Trump’s appointees, I want them to chain themselves to the doors or gates of the Capitol until we do not have a plan for a 30,000 bed concentration camp at Guantanamo. The word for people who continued to work in the Nazi government is Nazis.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but a major crisis of this moment is that the state is abducting people, gestapo-style, for having moved here recently. Please consider attending a Know Your Rights training to learn what you can do to protect yourself and your neighbors.

📢#JusticeforRobertBrooks - Take action and make the demand for systemic accountability! www.bit.ly/JusticeforRobertBrooks

your salary is your employers monthly subscription fee for you

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine discusses persistent gaps in women’s health research and key recommendations that would require $16 billion in congressional funding. Learn more from this Medical News article.

Will be drip feeding some of my research in the coming weeks to (re)introduce myself to folks on here! Going to start with this one where a bunch of us wrote about the impact of white supremacy in body image research and practice: doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...

Please PLEASE go comment in favor of this rule. The subminimum wage for disabled folks is vile and evil and *must* be eliminated. The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.

New York State Assembly Member @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is one of the mayoral hopefuls this year. We spoke with him today about why he's running. www.wnyc.org/story/mayora...

t-minus 4 days to the filing deadline, aka the perfect time to get a ticket for our campaign’s concert fundraiser tomorrow night get your ticket: t.co/NXpR7Q5TWh

The parallels between suddenly seriously dating someone you’ve known for 14 years and Rick rolling yourself are definitely there

from the @/strandbooksellers on Instagram, some things you can do to support their strike if you can't join them on the picket line:

The Strand owner Nancy Bass-Wyden is reportedly worth more than $50 million and received $2.7 million in COVID loans. The Strand union said they are asking for $.50 raises.

Lust (I) by Natasha Oladokun in the @yalereview.bsky.social

Earlier this year, Mayor Eric Adams rejected efforts to expand New York’s voucher program for homeless families—despite a record *1 in 8* public school students experiencing homelessness—because it was “too expensive." www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/n...

Having one of those moments where you see people using new slang, and then immediately multiple examples pop up. The word today is “homunculus” (pejorative)

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned #onhere putting together a mini-series of workshops for people new to activism and organizing. Well I put in the work last week to pull it together. “How Do I Take Action Where I Am” is a series of 5 sessions in Dec and Jan.

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

Folks, remember again that "block lists" on Bluesky are being used for mischief, by putting a lot of people on them and then giving them names that sound reasonable as people to block. Don't use them. Curate your own blocks - it's still small enough here to do that.

I keep thinking about those congresspeople kneeling in the rotunda wearing kente cloth scarves, very performative. There has been no loud, visible, unified support for Sarah McBride from the democrats. It’s a real disgrace. That is your colleague! They are bullying her in your faces. And silence!

great thread and this has been one of my obsessions in my column, to point people away from the european example and toward the american one.

1. This week alone, in NYC—a huge place where only a tiny percentage of people even pay attention to City Council—we made change. 🧵

Just walked by a huge dude miserably telling his dog, “Muffin, it’s *pouring*” and watched Muffin stop sniffing and peeing to begin to trot home. NY is getting some much-needed rain! And I need a dog.

If you are feeling weltschmerz, consider organizing. Join an organization that is building power for people, like a union in your workplace, a mutual aid org, or @demsocialists.bsky.social. If your workplace doesn’t have a union, you can start one using the tools at workerorganizing.org.

I really enjoyed drawing this portrait of my brother’s sweet dog Callum with markers and I’m kinda a fan even though I’ve Wallace-and-Gromit-ified the distance between his eyes. 🐶 🖼️ 🎨