I've watched every minute of the recorded oral comments & read the hundreds of written submissions to @ripta.com in response to the painful service reductions and segment and outright eliminations on the table. This 🧵 is strictly my own and is not an official RIPTA statement.

I’ve heard multiple analysis of Momdani and something something Dems How many Dems have been on public television discussing rights and how to protect immigrants and kids from masked bands of roving Ice agents

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

ware =🍽️ where = 🗺️ weir = 🐟 wear = 👚

We feed you. They hunt us.

I hope people in uniform know that eventually you take off that clothing and come back to the real world where we will all know the choices you made while wearing it. We're not in "normal times". Despite what you may think, there are choices to be made and they will determine our future.

BEGGING LIBERALS TO READ THIS

To everyone in PA, I know there is a ridiculous amount going on right now BUT, please take a minute (a literal minute) to contact our state reps about funding septa. Transit is absolutely necessary for a functioning Philly, *and* for meeting climate goals. www.transitforallpa.org/takeaction/

As are the cuts in funding for science research, arts and labor. Anything happening in these areas are not “distractions.”

Dear New York Cuomo is backed by the MAGA investors who gave us Trump If we elect him he is handing them the city

Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

We’re thrilled to share that Meshtastic is featured in WIRED! 🎉 A few of our devs were interviewed about building resilient, off-grid mesh networks—and our amazing community made it all possible. 🔗 Read it here: wired.com/story/your...  #Meshtastic #MeshNetwork #OpenSource

25k! You did it! Let's keep it going. 👉 savewot.com #SaveWOT #TheWheelOfTime

Note : Floodplain mapping

When he died on Monday, Pope Francis had been on the cusp of signing into canon law a huge reform of Opus Dei, an abusive cult at the heart of the Church Those reforms may now never happen A THREAD 🧵

This is why I get so Aggie about some of the “report everything thing they say” These people want kids to kill themselves . They WANT this I don’t have to care why. I have to STOP IT

Donald Trump's America

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

Look if we’re ignoring Supreme Court rulings then every American woman has a right to an abortion again

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

so just fyi we’re pretty deep in the “they came for” part of that poem

*checks watch ten days later*

Thank you to MediaJustice for organizing this series and inviting me to speak about AI hype and real harms of sociotechnical systems. Join us on Wednesday.

Who do you think was participating? Lmao.

Good morning. A reminder that historically when the US has wanted to punish other countries, it imposed sanctions on them, cutting their people off from global trade, hoping to create enough economic havoc that they rein in their leaders. Trump has imposed economic sanctions on the American people.

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

i don't think we should gatekeep the enormous 28 pound bunny that works as a service animal at giants games sometimes. i think we should share news of the 28 pound bunny with the wider internet

The fact that we colloquially refer to the ongoing illegal gutting of the federal civil service as "firings" and "reductions in force" is an example of successful propaganda

Gotta love this collection of protest signs down by the Washington Monument. #handsoff2025

So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff

Come for one, face us all. Join us as we fight to free Rümeysa. Tomorrow (April 1), 6 pm, JFK Federal Building.

Yep

Hi everyone – Irish or not, we need your help. An anti-trans conference is set for April at The Johnstown Estate in Ireland. Please take 10 minutes to contact the venue and let them know that platforming transphobia is unacceptable Phone: +353469540000 Email: [email protected]

keep thinking about that post about the left is too mean on social media & the dissonance between that veneer of an idea and the news about hundreds of students having their visas revoked and people being taken by the state. The problem has never once been decorum, it has always been power

…fuckin send her a letter and let her know she has 45 days to leave or something. Dispatching the plainclothes goon squad is purely a terror tactic.

Honestly: From the 2013 failure of healthcare.gov to today, the government *almost* learned how to build software. We were close. Then a bunch of white men in suits swooped in to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Maybe they are just incompetent. But I think it's worse than that.

Then Maine shouldn’t send a dollar into the federal government and divert that money to make up for the shortfall.

Cis allies, here's a super simple way to support trans people - and you don't even have to talk to anyone on the phone! Just add a public comment saying medical care for transgender people is essential and should not be banned from ACA plans.

It's almost as though we need some type of actual public housing and measures like rent control to stop the housing market from being treated as an ATM by those who are already wealthy.

This is, quite literally, how democracies die www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

Between this and the doctor from Brown, I would say green card holders should not travel abroad now, and if they must, they need to avoid Logan. Both incidents happened there. They have at least one nazi employed. Also, folks should probably start protesting at that airport.

Hello, I'm looking to speak with trans transit and urbanist enthusiasts, professionals, and experts for a piece I'm planning to write soon. My DMs are open!