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Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social · 3d

Affordable housing providers are sounding the alarm, with some of the city's most vulnerable tenants at risk.

Side note: Is your building in foreclosure? Talk to me about it.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/a...

Affordable Housing’s Slow-Motion Financial Collapse

Nonprofit groups say swelling operating costs exceed the rent they collect for more than one in five of their apartments, housing some of the city’s most vulnerable tenants.

www.thecity.nyc

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3d

ICE will not have fun in New York City.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc

ICE vs. NYC

The feds will not have a good time here.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 3d

Updating my LEGO White House

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 4d

Out today: Forbes' "America’s Most Powerful Women In Sports 2025"

Most importantly, No. 5: @washingtonspirit.com owner Michele Kang

#nwsl #woso #thatsthespirit

Forbes America's Most Powerful Women In Sports 2025

From the wealthiest owners to groundbreaking players to innovative executives, meet some of the most influential female leaders and game-changers.

www.forbes.com

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. Thank you for sharing this!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6d

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 6d

This weekend's marches did stir the pot a little bit causing that very reactionary *shit post*, but he is an entertainer and would have found another way to get a laugh from his court. Just a lot of energy from 7M to further highlight his crassness.

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 6d

We used to point this out a lot in our neighborhood FB group. People would put up a post about, say, the trash and the dumping. The act of posting made the neighbor feel like they did something about the trash but in fact they did nothing actionable.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 6d

sums it up. headlines on crowd sizes and the feeling that maybe something happens (somewhere else) aren’t action, and getting a bunch of people to show up to a party for nothing isn’t organizing.

find your people and build something real.

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 6d

Was immediately reminded of this article when I woke up and half my apps had lost functionality.

I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible. - The New York Times share.google/sxhebPkf8jez...

I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible. (Published 2020)

As lawmakers debate whether Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are monopolies, a reporter recalls her attempt to avoid interacting with the companies.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 7d

“Although there aren’t available statistics on how many N.F.L. players have made nursing their second career, The Times spoke to five current and former athletes about their decision. Some are still playing and plan to pursue nursing when they leave… while others made the shift after retirement.”

The N.F.L. to Nursing Pipeline

www.nytimes.com

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 7d

Unless you got up everyday and had to face it I can see how the scope of devastation was lost. I also think the pressure of acutely losing independence without that context made many quite bitter. Leaving jobs to homeschool kids, losing jobs, no vacations, just the four walls of where you lived.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 8d

Hahahaha! I did the same thing last Sunday at 7:30am. Then followed it up with Midsommar and Beau is Afraid. By the third movie I was like, what am I doing!

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 8d

Every 20 North/South blocks is one mile. So if they are traveling north to South that is 1.5 miles x 70 ft wide (average width of street and sidewalk) of humans who showed up.

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 8d

Is that a shield of bullet proof glass?

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 8d

Where my Espelette people at?

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 11d

Zohran Mamdani uses his appearance on Fox News to "speak directly to the president," since "he might be watching right now."

Mamdani looks straight into the Fox camera as he says this >>>

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 11d

Chef's kiss.

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 12d

Also fun fact about the evolution of vanity sizing. I buy a lot of vintage clothes and have a library of size charts from the '70s, '80s and '90s. During that time I'm a size 6-8.

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 12d

Sizes in the US are vanity sizes. Uniqlo does not size down clothes, they stick to standard measurements and size accordingly. Example: I am a size 4 which is accurate based on measurements. JCrew has me as a double zero. Please.
As for availability, agree, Uniqlo should stock larger sizes.

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 12d

What our electeds need to do for us is to facilitate the things that we ask for to get that work done. That is the role going forward.

Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 12d

I finished 107 Days. In the last chapter, Harris acknowledges that working from the inside may not be the right approach going forward. And I agree it should be community driven. It should be neighborhood by neighborhood.

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Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 12d

I once had a patient physically attack me at the nurses station then proceeded to shred every page in the chart I was working on, all because he wanted Uncrustables.
True story.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 12d

I have eaten

the Crustless Peanut Butter & Strawberry Jam Sandwiches

that were

Smucker's valuable intellectual property

and in which

it probably made

a substantial investment

and had valuable goodwill

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so Unscrustable™️

Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 12d

Okay, so a lot going on in one short paragraph.

1) Being a "copycat" isn't necessarily the same as being an infringer.

2) Does anyone really think TJ's is trying to "trade off of Smucker’s valuable goodwill" here? Or are they just trying to compete?

Jo Ann Brown @citizeneater.bsky.social · 12d

I know you're talking NWSL but have a look at the USL Brooklyn FC prices for this season. This is a baseball stadium.

Map showing the 2025 Brooklyn FC ticket prices.
Season ticket for supporters is $323, single ticket $24

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12d

“Patrek Chase, kidney transplant program director at Parkland Health in Dallas, claimed that patients at his hospital – which generally serves a poorer population – were passed over for a healthy organ in favor of patients at UT Southwestern Medical Center, which generally helps the affluent.”

Whistleblower claims Dallas hospitals kept kidneys from poorer patients

Kidneys that were deemed unsuitable for patients at Parkland hospital were allegedly given to others at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

www.texasstandard.org

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