Tokyo didn't know they had to grease the poles
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Tokyo didn't know they had to grease the poles
Birds win feels like a people’s victory
Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.
unfortunately for these folks the odds are that they aren’t going to go after violent criminals at all — too hard — and going to go exclusively over the easiest targets, which are law abiding workers
ICE On Your Campus Questions to Ask Your Administration 1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities? 2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents? 3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant? 4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant. 5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance? 6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE? What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now 1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact. 2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night. 3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan 4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney. Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators: 1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so. 2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …
From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.
Dear friends, it's too late for next year, but please don't use AI for statements of purpose for writing programs. (Or anything.)
This includes for research about specific program. AI gets facts wrong. Those mistakes are glaring. Just look at the program's website directly.
Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.
If you have students who are trans no you don’t. If you have students of color who may be affected by ICE no you don’t. If anyone asks you gender or racial the makeup of your class you don’t have to tell them.
Protect your class and protect your students by not complying in advance. They trust you.
Brown dog asleep on a blue blanket
Mimi is asleep…but she still says hi 💛
headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Rebecca Solnit on Facebook: I spent much of the last almost 24 hours not doing my usual job--the one I do for a living, which is at present writing my current book (plus answer endless emails)--to do the job the legacy media and major news outlets were not doing: reporting on the impact and illegality of the latest coup attempt by the Trump team. If we had the press I wish we did, I might've urged you here and there to contact your representatives or commented a little but I would not have been scouring for informed and expert opinions and interpretations on what was happening and posting them madly, because you would've been reading and listening to them in that mainstream media. Most of what I shared did not come from them because they were pretty useless and behind the curve, these institutions valued in the hundreds of millions with immense salaried staffs. It came from legal scholars and experts, independent journalists--including Marisa Kabas, an independent journalist at The Handbasket who was the first to report the leaked order to cut off all that funding. The New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. didn't get the scoop. She did, and even the next morning a lazy, lackluster underreporting and playing down of what happened. Really you can blame the outcome of the November election in part on that kind of sanewashing and normalizing and softening up of all their Trump coverage and the consequences of what he has done and threatened to do--and is doing now.
wow, many thanks to the amazing @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for the kind words. and i share in your frustration.
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if you’re not trans & don’t know about the cass review, when this report comes out, it will look very much like the cass review. the NYT will treat it as legitimate.
i know this because they already did it with the cass review & said it should be the new model for america. tap the thread to learn.
Very recently, I was talking to people about the lack of a good outlet for ebooks, and I cannot tell you how utterly delighted I am by this news. It’s awfully nice to be utterly delighted about ANYTHING at the moment. bookshop.org/ebooks
Region 4-Philadelphia conducted a ballot count today for 297full-time and part-time employees at Whole Foods in Philadelphia, PA to vote on union representation by UFCW Local 1176 Keystone State. Workers voted 130 to 100 for union representation. There were three challenged ballots that won’t be counted, because they aren’t determinative to the outcome of the election. The employer must begin bargaining in good faith with the union. Parties have five business days to file objections to the election. If no objections are filed, the result will be certified. Total number of eligible voters: 297 Void ballots: 1 Votes for union: 130 Votes against representation: 100 Challenged ballots: 3 Total valid votes cast: 233
Workers at a Philly Whole Foods have just released the results of their union election—AND THEY WON!!!! 130-100, baby! 🦅
Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!
I know it is like the 437th day of January but I can’t just read the news and rage at this screen, so I thought I’d break out the arts and crafts and see what happens!
colorful paper, markers and heart stickers on a table
💌 Hello would you like a valentine?? 💌
Make a donation to the Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund (on Venmo @/iowatransmutualaidfund) or @genderlib.com and I’ll mail you a cute valentine.
Help trans orgs, get mail, everyone wins 💘 Just DM a screenshot of yr donation + yr address. With love + glitter xo
Brown dog napping on a yellow blanket
Mimi says hi 💛
Romance For Los Angeles
The ROMANCE FOR LOS ANGELES auction is live!
I’ve offer up a signed set of my Beards & Bondage trilogy and a cute HARBOR character postcard.
www.32auctions.com/organization...
If the publishing world is a total mystery to you, we have exciting news! You're cordially invited to join us for our FREE opening night class of Pub Crawl 2025 with @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social --- Overview of Publishing. This happens Sunday, Feb. 2. Register here: https://buff.ly/3Ck0gWR
#writers
Feeling all of the feelings today, especially the jagged ones? Me too.
But here’s some counter-programming: A surprise episode of @bitracial.bsky.social’s podcast THE STACKS! I join her to talk about Toni Morrison’s lecture “Goodness and the Literary Imagination.”
Dog in yellow coat in the snow
Mimi says hi 💛