@hbolton
I work at the Center for Reproductive Rights (union with UAW 2110) but I am not even kind of in charge of anything. Perma pedestrian. I like abortion and unions and flowers and knitting and New York and Kansas. Organizing with Repro Workers
Today in @thenation.com: Noor Alyacoubi spoke to people in Gaza about Trump's desire to expel them from their home.
Their answer was very, very clear: "I will never, ever leave my land." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
My takeaway here on what this means for abortion care? Innovative little start ups were never the answer. Our movement is not in a place to innovate with compassion to both workers and patients without being beholden to the absurd whims of random donors. It’s all a savior complex.
A quick hit from me after the protests over the last week, despite all the claims that people were too exhausted to protest and were sitting Trump II out. It's true, much of the Trump "resistance" appeared to have gone home when Biden was elected. But plenty of people never left the fight:
They're just so clearly using this stuff to attempt to purge the federal government's unions and blatantly violate their CBA's, if you're not talking about that because you think certain academics and people who post a lot are annoying to you personally I don't think you're a serious labor advocate
perfect quote www.wired.com/story/edward...
Federal workers got another unsigned email at 1 a.m. from a newly created OPM email, urging them to do the deferred resignation before it supposedly ends today. Feels a bit sweaty and desperate!
This story is, among many many things, about how destructive rich people's obsession with funding "innovation" over everything else is. Mobile clinics along state borders never made any sense! The places along borders that do make sense (KC & St. Louis areas, El Paso area, etc) already have clinics!
I think you all should really read @nicolefroio.bsky.social’s reporting for @prismreports.bsky.social about Just The Pill…
oh wow a SECOND article lmao prismreports.org/2025/02/05/j...
One thing Musk's power grab suggests is that IT systems are *the* central chokepoint in contemporary capitalism — and that tech workers have potentially huge disruptive leverage, in both the federal government and within corporate America
Hm...
personally would love to live in a normal world where everything isn’t cartoony and insane!
We are absolutely disgusted with All Above All management’s decision to lay off their entire staff, while keeping every single executive on the payroll, shortly after staff detailed anti-Blackness within the organization. Please donate to help support these workers www.gofundme.com/f/repro-work...
I don’t think the point here is that he is less of an ideologue; he is an extremely sincere, extremist ideologue, particularly about race and abortion, who has a different approach to tactics than Thomas or Alito and worries the Court might be undermining these causes in some instances
New offerings from the obviously AI-generated kids’ clothing website, many of which are allegedly also available in adult sizes????? And again I’m extremely tempted???
! "The complaints have cropped up around New York for weeks: strangers appear on a voter's doorstep to question his or her voting address and — in some cases — make alarming accusations." lohud.com/story/news/p...
Like Thomas both feels “fuck you I don’t care what you think of me” but also simultaneously “how fucking dare you not get me a table immediately” or whatever lol
I think Kav cares earnestly in this desperate way about how people really FEEL about him but Alito and Thomas seem absolutely livid that the list of places they will be feted and praised and given free stuff has gotten smaller, even though they still get tons from conservatives obvi. All pathetic
I actually feel like they are all displaying different strains of a tantrum over the fact that they all were mostly let into polite society in the ways they cared about (fancy law schools, journalists, Scalia on stage at the opera with Ginsburg and such), and they feel like people changed the rules
Total active listings on Airbnb.com by booking type and minimum nights allowed, March 2015 to present.
Illegal rentals accounted for about one-third of active city listings on Airbnb. It will be an uphill battle for the agency charged enforcing the new regulations that come into effect Tuesday.
www.thecity.nyc/housing/2023...
The indictment is egregious, treating mutual aid and solidarity as pre-crime activities. Guilt by association is the point. Egregiously, it casually refers to the 2020 police execution of Rayshard Brooks as “justified” — and the indictment is from the same Fulton County that indicted Brooks’ killers
the cop city fight is one of the most important challenges to the supremacy of the security state in living memory, and the fact that they are going after it with this much repressive force shows that they know this
it's true that Labor Day is in some sense a fake labor day for cops compared to the REAL labor day (May 1), but also we don't have enough holidays and we should just work towards having two labor-based holidays the same way we have two "salute da vets" holidays
A papaya surrounded by the sentence “support the repro worker aid fund”
This Labor Day, join us in supporting essential abortion workers who have been laid off or lost hours at work. Whether it’s abortion bans or union busting management coming for us, we’ve got us ✊ Donate to the Repro Worker Aid Fund! gofundme.com/f/repro-worker…
WORKERS (underlined for emphasis) MAKE ABORTIONS HAPPEN Graphics of a medical provider showing a patient information about procedural and medication abortion, someone answering a phone with a mask, hands using a manual vacuum aspiration, and someone working with a calculator
Happy Labor Day to all the medical providers, receptionists, counselors, hotline workers, admins, financial planners, cleaning staff, accountants, fundraisers, legal workers, comms and education specialists, and everyone else who makes abortions happen! Our movement runs on LABOR