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@organizer.bsky.social
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Person of @LizzieTask. Organizer, unpaid + uninsured worker w an MBA & PhD & student debt, mistake maker, complexity holder, queer as in who I ♥️ + #anticapitalist #abolitionist #StopTheSweeps #HarmReduction #JustTransition displaced from #bospoli => ME
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organizer.bsky.social
On LinkedIn a recruiter asked people how they felt about being interviewed by AI and the best response was basically: "if you want to interview me with your AI to be efficient, I get to send my AI to be efficient."

I don't use generative AI but did listen to Shell Game (& highly recommend)
Shell Game
One man secretly hands off more and more of his life to an AI voice clone.
radiolab.org
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group
organizer.bsky.social
ICE took a 7th grader in Massachusetts and moved him over state lines and some of you are not ready for WHEN this happens on your block

Do not miss that next community training, friends
marisakabas.bsky.social
NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.
www.thehandbasket.co
organizer.bsky.social
Trump Tariff Maths
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Trump: "It's over $18 trillion being poured into our country." (The entire GDP of the US is $30 trillion ... )
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boltsmag.org
Residents of one rural Arkansas county have fought plans for a new prison in their community.

“They thought we were just white trash rednecks and that we would just roll over and take it and not say anything,” one resident says.
The Prison Next Door
How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.
boltsmag.org
organizer.bsky.social
That amanda college republican post is ridiculous. All of my tires were slit and I had to be moved off campus early 90s. People have ”shiny thing syndrome” to not acknowledge their part on what got us here, who has been fighting (esp Black women), and that the very foundation of the US is violent.
organizer.bsky.social
You can’t “both sides” the science. I’ve been struggling through most of the pandemic without access to healthcare — asking people to mask shouldn’t be too much. It’s really a small inconvenience to keep each other well. I go without so many basic things because others won’t clean air & wear masks.
emilyesfraser.bsky.social
To the many people who say “I’ll mask or stay home if I’m sick, but you’re CRAZY if you want me to mask regularly, & btw I haven’t even been sick in years”… yeah you have, & you probably spread it to a bunch of other people, some of whom, statistically speaking, lost their lives as they knew them
Graphic from Yale School of Public Health:

49% OF COVID INFECTIONS
ARE ASYMPTOMATIC,
which means you may not know if you are actually sick. This is why it's important to take a multilayered approach (one or more of the following) to protect yourselves and others:
N95 and
KN95 masks
HEPA air filtration
Good ventilation (carbon dioxide <800 parts per million)
Up-to-date vaccinations
Rapid tests before gathering
Attention to wastewater levels of COVID-19

Yale SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Sources: The Lancet Regional Health, CDC
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I'm sharing a pre-order link! The price is nice for this slim volume. Your support is appreciated & you get a good story out of it!
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organizer.bsky.social
Kash simultaneously failing constitutional law, statistics, and criminal justice reform in a poster session on live TV
Kash Patel at a white house briefing pointing to misleading charts about “operation summer heat” in the fall of 2025
organizer.bsky.social
Oh no. This is why we need popular education for all levels of government funding. It can actually be really accessible if we listen to the community’s concerns.
organizer.bsky.social
It’s just my opinion, but I think if society took mental health more seriously every prescription drug for refractory depression wouldn’t have a long list of potential side effects including “increased suicidality.” Just maybe, maybe we’d have something between a pill and RFK JR’s proposed farm.
organizer.bsky.social
Halloween stories:

Buried deep inside your abandoned gmail is cryptic correspondence from corporate student loan servicer MoHELLa demanding login into a data-sharing portal. Knowing the authoritarian regime is compounding interest and criminalizing intellectualism, you turn off your laptop and…
organizer.bsky.social
Tonight my sound track is Lizzie’s tummy. I think the small kong of sweet potatoes, banana & rice w a dash of probiotic was gentle enough but we’ll see

If I had to guess she ate some type of berry on the ground or grass sprayed with something.

We walked 4 miles yesterday, she’s hydrated & herself
organizer.bsky.social
If we want long term change we need popular ed, frontline intellectualism, study & struggle, and mutual aid to move us to lasting systems change (the end of the carceral state and racial capitalism => just sustainable futures). Comms is short term, performative and gets us, well, the DNC & NPIC
organizer.bsky.social
So, that’s me in the chat citing those who came before us and the lineage of your organizing tools.

You can pretend you are the “shiny new thing” to philanthropy but don’t try that bullshit and call it organizing.
organizer.bsky.social
I’m so old that when I go to an organizing meeting & part of the training is from “NPIC” what I bring are the citations. I’m not dismissing that role — and I’m a bit shocked that people aren’t 1) citing people 2) deriving hope from past struggles won 3) offering context.

People = White People
organizer.bsky.social
I'm trying to stay awake for an organizing meeting and now I need to clear my feed again. lol
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@jenniekermode.bsky.social
Please quote help my sister share her happiness 🥹😭💕
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malak61.bsky.social
For the first time, we are happy in Gaza despite the destruction and ruin. My sister studied hard and achieved a score of 96% at the end of high school. Share our joy and help her continue her studies.
Congratulations Mais🎉🎉😭
@mommunism.bsky.social
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Since last fall, sheriffs in MA have been accused of misusing campaign funds (funneling cash to their personal business, one sheriff purchased a $700 course to start a podcast), drunken driving, and extorting a cannabis company, respectively. They have a $162M deficit on their $737.2M annual budget.
organizer.bsky.social
Until we have guaranteed public services and safety nets we're always going to have these incumbency issues because incumbents (esp with seniority) deliver "constituent services" (or what I call favors) -- they don't do it equitably (and everyone who has worked on a campaign knows that)