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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Aug 8

Me packing for a 1.5 day camping trip: “maybe I should bring my home MRI machine in case I need it”

Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Aug 4

I feel like Liz could direct that comment to herself and her party as well tbh.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jul 31

Hit 7500 miles on my Tern GSD right as I went by east side Stellantis. The past and the future in one photo. It is, in fact, possible to be car free in the motor city. ❤️🚲✊

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jul 30

It’s absurd that every article I’m trying to read about a tsunami about to hit Japan is paywalled.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jul 22

The very same week Dana Nessel made a media splash with her sternly worded letter criticizing Trump’s use of masked agents who refuse to identify themselves … she sent masked agents who refused to identify themselves to the homes of U-M pro-Palestinian student activists.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jul 21

We need a USB-C type consortium for the Deli Container and Lid industry.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jul 19

Revolution as a process is inevitable. Revolutionary socialist politics simply account for that. We can no more summon a revolution than we can summon a windstorm. But good politics can help us build shelter or sails, as needed.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jul 9

The point of struggle is to STRUGGLE. When the boot is on your neck and the hand is around your throat you don’t wait for proper channels. You fight.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jul 8

There are no bystanders in fascism. Each of us is either grease for the machine or a wrench in the gears.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jul 8

Signal names be like “Jēsū ☭ (h/t) 🧑‍🎤 ⚖️ 🌅🇵🇸 (unavail. for 3 days until risen again)”

Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jul 4

If you think Hakeem Jeffries is here to help us you have not been paying attention.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jul 2

Always talk to friends.

Never talk to cops.

ONLY talk to media about cops.

NEVER talk to media about friends.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jul 2

…the clean laundry pile of Theseus at the foot of my bed…

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 28

Unless you’ve been very clever with VPNs and blockers, doing so still provides NYT with digital tracking data for them to resell or monetize. There are Wordle clones out there w identical functionality that don’t interact w NYT servers. I’d look at those if you want to opt out of the NYT dataverse.

Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 27

NYT puzzles are the circus they use to keep you eating their moldy bread. I know a lot of you who are smarter than to keep reading it. Give up Wordle. There’s other apps or go buy a puzzle book. You’ll be fine and you’ll stop being dosed w transphobia, nationalism, militarism, and NGO corporatism.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 26

This is kidnapping. Bystanders and community defense orgs should use force to defend against these “officers”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’

Andrea Velez, 32, a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister

www.theguardian.com

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 26

You’re driving a car approaching a turn and a bicyclist is in front of you: Please just wait and make the turn behind them. Don’t speed up to pass, don’t tailgate or crowd.

You’ll survive if you arrive 20 seconds late; I may not if you put your schedule before my life.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 20

Seeking a dive bar with food in Indianapolis. Bonus if live music.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 14

No Kings 2/2

Consider working with others to pose questions, make proposals, offer criticism, and start discussions. You’re not an audience member at a concert, you’re part of a young mass movement that needs your political engagement in order to grow.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 14

No Kings 1/2

Everyone should show up for things tomorrow. Massiveness is what’s most important politically. The more people who do the safer it will be. Experienced folks are happy to help newer folks land somewhere within their risk tolerance.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 14

PSA: You never need to register or RSVP for a protest. If you really want to get all the emails and be plugged into that stuff, good for you go for it. But it hurts nothing and nobody to simply show up. Do not let these orgs pressure you into registering.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 13

People are under attack rn I’m not really interested in this cool pope circus. I’ll give a shit about cool pope when he uses his White Sox hat to throw a CS canister back at the police, or when he is tackled entering an ICE facility to free kidnapped families.

Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 13

One of the first deaths reported in Tehran was a child. Israel is killing children in a whole new country now. The children of Gaza and the West Bank in Palestine are not safe. The children of Lebanon are not safe. Now children in Iran are in the genocidal state’s crosshairs.

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 12

Hell ppl can criticize PSL for non masking, settler chauvinism, authoritarian vanguardism, hijacking protests–whatever you want–but is it really that hard to say “no congress should not be hauling socialist parties and Latinx political orgs in front of counterterrorism subcommittees”?! ffs

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Car free in the Motor City @hollerbach.bsky.social · Jun 11

Liberation is a question for us all to answer together. There is no way to build it in siloes.