Martha Bridegam
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This is or was Franklin the Fair Housing Fox. Dorky, and at its introduction by the G.W. Bush admin in 2007 the dorkiness already seemed like cynical lip service. But at least it offered lip service to a worthy goal. archives.hud.gov/initiatives/...
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
This is or was Franklin the Fair Housing Fox. Dorky, and at its introduction by the G.W. Bush admin in 2007 the dorkiness already seemed like cynical lip service. But at least it offered lip service to a worthy goal. archives.hud.gov/initiatives/...
Here is the press release:
oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Here is the press release:
oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
In a public letter at content.govdelivery.com/attachments/..., Secy. Turner states HUD is rescinding this and other guidance on fair housing rights and the difference between arrest and conviction: web.archive.org/web/20250930.... The letter asks housing authorities to use existing law more harshly.
content.govdelivery.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In a public letter at content.govdelivery.com/attachments/..., Secy. Turner states HUD is rescinding this and other guidance on fair housing rights and the difference between arrest and conviction: web.archive.org/web/20250930.... The letter asks housing authorities to use existing law more harshly.
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Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
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This new piece from @shannonmattern.bsky.social about the role of libraries in public life is extraordinary. There's so much I want to quote from it, but I'd encourage you to take the time to read it yourself instead...
placesjournal.org/article/extr...
placesjournal.org/article/extr...
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This new piece from @shannonmattern.bsky.social about the role of libraries in public life is extraordinary. There's so much I want to quote from it, but I'd encourage you to take the time to read it yourself instead...
placesjournal.org/article/extr...
placesjournal.org/article/extr...
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On Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and amplify the memories of all those we have lost to anti-transgender violence.
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and amplify the memories of all those we have lost to anti-transgender violence.
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Last week, #NLIHC released a new Disaster Housing Recovery Toolkit!
The #DHRToolkit compiles strategies, tactics, and real-world examples shared by #DHRC members, focused on creating equitable recovery systems.
Download the #DHRToolkit: https://ow.ly/92jW50Xri4X
The #DHRToolkit compiles strategies, tactics, and real-world examples shared by #DHRC members, focused on creating equitable recovery systems.
Download the #DHRToolkit: https://ow.ly/92jW50Xri4X
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Last week, #NLIHC released a new Disaster Housing Recovery Toolkit!
The #DHRToolkit compiles strategies, tactics, and real-world examples shared by #DHRC members, focused on creating equitable recovery systems.
Download the #DHRToolkit: https://ow.ly/92jW50Xri4X
The #DHRToolkit compiles strategies, tactics, and real-world examples shared by #DHRC members, focused on creating equitable recovery systems.
Download the #DHRToolkit: https://ow.ly/92jW50Xri4X
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Her last post was about being laid off from Teen Vogue. Terrible.
Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
May her memory continue to always be a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Her last post was about being laid off from Teen Vogue. Terrible.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
And now Alice Wong is gone. This post was nine days ago.
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
And now Alice Wong is gone. This post was nine days ago.
Awful HUD Continuum of Care NOFO tells local govts to decide which current supportive housing tenants they want to evict. ruralhome.org/hac-news-nov... It's at www.grants.gov/search-resul... - "Related Documents" tab at "Folder: Full Announcement.." Try a browser if phone download doesn't work.
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Awful HUD Continuum of Care NOFO tells local govts to decide which current supportive housing tenants they want to evict. ruralhome.org/hac-news-nov... It's at www.grants.gov/search-resul... - "Related Documents" tab at "Folder: Full Announcement.." Try a browser if phone download doesn't work.
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#MushroomMonday
It’s 80° and winter is coming! These are also right in front of my building. Not a clue what they are. Other than #mushrooms #FungiFriends 📷🍄
It’s 80° and winter is coming! These are also right in front of my building. Not a clue what they are. Other than #mushrooms #FungiFriends 📷🍄
October 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
#MushroomMonday
It’s 80° and winter is coming! These are also right in front of my building. Not a clue what they are. Other than #mushrooms #FungiFriends 📷🍄
It’s 80° and winter is coming! These are also right in front of my building. Not a clue what they are. Other than #mushrooms #FungiFriends 📷🍄
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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
Someone has painted dark gray over the 8th and Brannan mural of Ghostbusters characters drawn in cartoon form as if appearing on "The Simpsons". I'm glad I kept at least this one picture. The mural isn't clearly shown in this twilight-sunset photo but at least you can see the Sta-Puf Man.
San Francisco: the Sta-Puf Man mural and Sutro Tower from under Highway 80 at Brannan.
July 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Someone has painted dark gray over the 8th and Brannan mural of Ghostbusters characters drawn in cartoon form as if appearing on "The Simpsons". I'm glad I kept at least this one picture. The mural isn't clearly shown in this twilight-sunset photo but at least you can see the Sta-Puf Man.
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This story is incredible. Norman Wong is 70. His great-grandfather was Wong Kim Ark. His father was detained at Angel Island in the 20s when he was a teenager when he came here from China. His mother was interned during WWII. So much immigration history in one family.
“Over a century after his great-grandfather Wong Kim Ark fought to establish birthright citizenship in the U.S., Norman Wong is picking up the torch to defend his family's legacy and the rights of all Americans.” documentedny.com/2025/05/14/s...
May 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This story is incredible. Norman Wong is 70. His great-grandfather was Wong Kim Ark. His father was detained at Angel Island in the 20s when he was a teenager when he came here from China. His mother was interned during WWII. So much immigration history in one family.
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I’ll always associate Justice Souter with one of my favorite SCOTUS oral-argument moments, in Chicago v. Morales (anti-gang loitering law), when he asked plaintively why it isn't enough of a "purpose" for being in a public place if you just want to sit outside and watch the cars go by ❤️
May 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I’ll always associate Justice Souter with one of my favorite SCOTUS oral-argument moments, in Chicago v. Morales (anti-gang loitering law), when he asked plaintively why it isn't enough of a "purpose" for being in a public place if you just want to sit outside and watch the cars go by ❤️
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Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?
April 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?