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Lissa Harris🐀

@lissaharris.bsky.social

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pompe à chaleur. recovering local digital news reporter. volunteer firefighter. climate solutions and NYS policy watcher. feral rural sword queer. Gideon the Sixth your favorite deep state climate bureaucrat’s favorite shitposter she/her/bro

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · Apr 30

anybody know of any examples of people mapping out where federal funding is flowing in their town/city, and what the impacts are if it is cut off?

I’m talking small scale

I’d like to write up a report like this for my town of a few thousand residents

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1h

tbh as a rural town government botherer I would rather we buy a gas bus than invest in EV chargers

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1h

the virgin EV versus the chad fixed loop bus with a bike rack

Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 2h

@lissaharris.bsky.social Just talking about cars and not respecting the entire transport and mobility system change is like being too cishet in modern society

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1h

hahahahahahaha

verily

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 4h

Ask not how many cars you can power with solar power instead of biofuels, but how e-buses, trains, and e-bikes can move people affordably in a clean grid.

#Sufficiency

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 5h

you love to see it

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5h

#ScansionSky

Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 20h

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

do it scared ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

ow ow ow

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1d

That fierce engineer problem-solving brain, after a career detached from societal concerns and ambiguity, without the humanities training... it's like a loose nuke of philosophy.

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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 1d

MIT was MIT when Donald was a pup
And MIT will be MIT when Donald's time is up
And any fascist Son of a Bitch who thinks he's in our class
Can pucker up his rosy lips and kiss the beaver's ass

Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 2d

MIT declares it's not bowing down before the convicted felon in chief and his toadies
www.universalhub.com/2025/mit-dec...

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2d

that’s right, you tell em to name that bridge after Harvard 🦾

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 2d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 2d

MIT’s reply to Trumps shocking attack on education is a master class in deft rhetorical communication and positioning. It refutes without ceding ground. It negates without naming the charge. It accuses and rejects while sounding compliant. What a breath of fresh air after endless disappointments

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 2d

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2d

this is the way

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2d

real ones remember

a cover from Boston’s Weekly Dig 20 years ago: guy in Red Sox uniform making out with guy in Yankees uniform. I was the managing editor. we got an amount of hate mail you would not believe

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2d

hahahahahaha sorry not sorry

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2d

every morning I’m out here making weird joyful noises with my kid while we’re having tea and getting ready for school, and going “look at all this autism”

the autism has enhanced my life, I’m sorry you don’t all get to experience it

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

It is notable that while a lot of important people are running around right now braying about how AI can replace the work of creative people, pretty much no one is saying the same things about using AI to replace pro athletes - even though it would be very technically feasible, and save money.

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2d

mazel?

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 2d

daaaaaaa yankees lose!!!

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 3d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Kevin Duggan @kevinduggan.bsky.social · 3d

Dave basically got Kathy Hochul to back off a highway expansion of the Cross Bronx

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 3d

Holy fucking shit: New York State is not going to expand the Cross Bronx Expressway with a "traffic diversion structure" nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/s...

State DOT Scraps Cross Bronx Expansion Road On Highway Repair Plan - Streetsblog New York City

The state Department of Transportation will not build a "traffic diversion" structure next to the Cross Bronx Expressway — a highway expansion project that Streetsblog exposed.

nyc.streetsblog.org

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 3d

he’s not AI generated, he’s just built that way

two black and white kittens on a bathmat. the bigger one has way too many thumbs

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