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woman in construction working on climate adaptation - magpie - twin mama - Flatbush public school parent - beachlarker - mutual aid welcoming our newest neighbors in Flatbush -

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We stayed with my aunt the nutritionist for a long summer month in the 80s and the smell of the lemon pepper that is somehow not spicy combined with that no salt potassium salt stuff makes me want to curl up in a little white ball and cry.

And the odd margarine that just made toast wet.

12.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spot the find!
Will I go to the gym and do that exercise where you shuffle side to side that’s really good for your hips? Absolutely the fuck not.

Will I go to the beach and kick thousands of pounds of shingle aside because I thought I saw a pipe stem over here? Absolutely yes.

#mudlarking

11.03.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How pollution in Memphis inspired generations of advocates Memphis, Tennessee, is celebrated as the home of the blues. Beale Street is one of the most recognizable creative spaces for musicians in the South. It’s inspired authors from James Baldwin to Alice W...

A lot of what people lump together with NIMBYism is actually built on the infrastructure created by environmental racism organizers

plantationstopollution.selc.org/memphis-tn/

11.03.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 263 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

weird way to write "majority opposes"

republicans are not gonna give you back your funding no matter how much you do this

11.03.2026 11:19 πŸ‘ 482 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

10.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 1134 πŸ” 543 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 10
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Donate to Help My Family Recover from the Church Ave Fire, organized by Bianca Dubourg On Friday, everything changed for my family. A devastating fire… Bianca Dubourg needs your support for Help My Family Recover from the Church Ave Fire

My neighbor in Flatbush lost everything in a fire and coned and her landlord are doing a lot of this πŸ€¬πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘ˆπŸ»πŸ€¬ while she is in a city shelter and tries to replace all her family’s documents and care for kids.

She’s got deep roots in the neighborhood and I want her to stay.

gofund.me/601aba5eb

10.03.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s even worse than the blurry images that they posted on the RFP.
This is a concentration camp.
It is a death trap.

09.03.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Look at my cute spouse and admire all the absolutely devastating puns from friends and strangers.

Also, before I made fun of him, I scrubbed the wound, set him up on the couch and then put on a pressure bandage after a while since it kept bleeding.

09.03.2026 12:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow: when I was in Ireland this summer, I had a *very* different discussion with people who asked me this. β€œNot him!”

Then we talked of resistance & how seeing Irish support of Palestinian footballers made us weep & hope for better, how we knew folks who’d been helped by Irish aid in south Lebanon.

09.03.2026 11:33 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m with you on both!

08.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am so mad

08.03.2026 13:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

These are so badly structured. I panicked just now when I saw it

06.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

06.03.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 2055 πŸ” 645 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 20

First they came for the journalists.

We don't know what happened after that.

06.03.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Zaron for your service.

05.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A perfect slotted spoon with a wooden handle on a quartz countertop.

A perfect slotted spoon with a wooden handle on a quartz countertop.

I don’t know! Maybe because many are old and higher quality? Obvs not this silicon wonder spatula, but I found an exact replica of my ma’s perfect slotted spoon at a stoop sale which meant I didn’t need to steal hers.

05.03.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Today in Good News (and an absolutely Gen X triumph): I managed to make a full FIVE PB&J sandwiches using the jar of peanut butter that both of my 14 year olds told me was empty.

I found a skinny silicone spatula at a stoop sale and, my darlings, it is a wonder.

05.03.2026 13:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

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The majority of Americans want this agency abolished.

05.03.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I was part of a project in NYC that found photos of, then posted something humanizing beyond their age and rank about each of the American servicemembers killed in Iraq and posted them during the GOP convention.

We probably leaned on your site so thank you.

web.archive.org/web/20050405...

03.03.2026 23:52 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Part of being β€œI have zero fucks to give” years old is doing the repeat-phrases-aloud portion of your Haitian Creole language audiobook as you walk home from the bus and having people giggle as they walk behind you or responding in confusion to the questions you are learning to ask.

03.03.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t usually like atole because it’s often too sweet and it can be gloopy if it sits but the owner insisted I try some and the texture was silky and perfect.

03.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Two tamales in a paper boat with a banana leaf at the bottom: OaxaqueΓ±o and Pollo salsa Verde.

Two tamales in a paper boat with a banana leaf at the bottom: OaxaqueΓ±o and Pollo salsa Verde.

A a californiana, I don’t say this lightly, Tamaleria La Madrina on Nostrand has the best tamales I’ve had on this coast.

The masa is delicate and actually seasoned and fillings and salsa are incredible.

www.tamalerialamadrina.com

03.03.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Woke up stomping around yelling about being called hysterical by people who didn’t want to vote for her because *they didn’t like her laugh and she laughed too much.*

β€œBut they’ve published their bullet-pointed plan to bring about Armageddon….”

β€œEh. I don’t trust a woman who dances at a rally.”

03.03.2026 12:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

anyway there's no reason to be on substack

you can leave the nazi bar any time

you aren't making the nazi bar less nazi by hanging out with the nazis

the nazis just think it's cute you're buying their drinks

and you're doing a grave disservice to the readers who don't yet know the difference

03.03.2026 05:32 πŸ‘ 344 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Standing at the window in brooklyn thinking β€œit’s cosmo’s moon” but it’s cloudy.

Maybe the clouds will be lit pink by the eclipse in a couple hours.

03.03.2026 06:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More than 70,000 North Carolinians have incomplete voter registrations. Check the database below to see if you’re on the list. If you are, you can still vote, but you should bring your driver’s license with you, and you may be required to cast a provisional ballot.

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Screenshot showing cost of water at the TDCJ commissary. Source: https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/documents/bfd/Commissary_Price_List.pdf

Screenshot showing cost of water at the TDCJ commissary. Source: https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/documents/bfd/Commissary_Price_List.pdf

Incarcerated people in one TX prison are warned by some staff & doctors to "drink bottled water" because the tap water is too risky.

...except a water bottle from commissary is completely unaffordable when you make $0 per day, as incarcerated folks in TX do.

02.03.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

$300 million mistake

That's the same cost as 25,000 Head Start slots

02.03.2026 12:57 πŸ‘ 715 πŸ” 230 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 9
Trying to remember the color of the sky on that September morning β€” Spencer Finch

Have you seen this piece?
I hadn’t cried in years about that day and then I saw this and had to go outside.

www.spencerfinch.com/trying-to-re...

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