It gets more niche every time 💀

the same people who are always more concerned about homeless pets than homeless humans are the same people who are more concerned about the animals at the zoo than the people who live in just as close proximity to the proposed data center. we all care about animals, does your care extend to humans?

Even the NDP lobbyist was shocked to see a CM care so much (about a procedural vote that will soon pass) to nearly come to blows on the council floor. Unhinged behavior Huffman keeps saying we're "one incident away" to push more police & surveillance tech and I'm wondering if he's the one incident.

Our dearest friend @purplewitch11.bsky.social is abandoning us for Colorado because our state legislation is bullshit. You can help her on her journey find safety there. She’s heading out tomorrow 💔 Anything is appreciated!

It's worth investigating all of the other surveillance vendors who do the exact same thing. The problem is bigger than Flock.

Just like the first year+ use of Fusus, the drone as first responder trial is an illegal implementation of surveillance tech that directly violates the 2017 surveillance statute that Dave Rosenberg (now in the mayor's office) authored. These people are absolute snakes who should never be trusted.

This would be huge. Don't have high hopes but glad to see some politicians on a federal level see the very real dangers and are willing to act.

Woodbine United Methodist Church had its windows smashed out recently. Their insurance deductible is $10k. They're raising $ to cover the deductible & to do some other needed repairs. This church is a complex that houses community groups including @bikefun.bsky.social givebutter.com/repairing-wu...

Just left Riverbend prison, where an execution vigil and a long, confusing wait eventually culminated with the news that Tony Carruthers was taken off the gurney after failed attempts to find a vein for lethal injection. A mix of relief, joy, and horror among the people outside.

Important thread from Steven on yet another horrific state murder that will almost certainly be carried out tomorrow, despite everything laid out below. If you'd like to join us for the vigil for Tony Carruthers at Riverbend tomorrow morning, make sure you're on the property before 9:30a.

the local police foundation that says they are not a police foundation & are in fact, an "independent nonprofit" (started by Pat Shea, known to be close friends with Chief Drake) commissioned a report (by former Cooper staffer 😂) on our successes fighting surveillance tech. Copaganda never sleeps!

Because some performative bullshit that will have no real impact on individual families but is something that Freddie can point to in his campaign is worth more than our neighbor's lives.

“They approved the single largest publicly funded, privately owned sports stadium in human history, which the NFL wants to reward so other cities do it next” is the actual answer.

This is so incredibly embarassing and out of touch. The fact that this made it out of drafts...

new hub hack unlocked

Paging @jesusurbanist.bsky.social @jspencersharpe.bsky.social @kellykitty.bsky.social @themanaen.bsky.social

i too need 2.9 million dollars for something absolutely useless

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Waymos are surveillance mobiles. That is what they are designed to be.

Four people died over Easter weekend on our roads, all under 31 years old. Two more people were killed crossing Lafayette, after someone was seriously injured a week prior. Pedestrian fatalities are up significantly year-to-date. We need more resources and urgency for Vision Zero, not less

Another example of exactly what we all said was being done and would continue to be done using LPRs. They're functioning & being used as designed. Any politician who attempts to or votes to implement LPRs in 2026 is complicit in stalking, harassment and kidnapping of our neighbors.

5 new benches downtown! (3 of them pictured below). Thank you to everyone who joined us. A beautiful day for our library to reopen and for more seating for everyone. We will not rest until everyone has the right to rest! We will not stop until the dozens of benches removed downtown are reinstalled.

Surveillance is a one-way ratchet toward authoritarianism. Yes, even by private companies. Even when people “consent.” Even when the company gives you “free” stuff, or let you stand in a shorter line, or make your life more convenient somehow.

Join us on Monday to celebrate the reopening of the Downtown Library & place some benches! These will be just a fraction needed to replace all of the benches the city has removed downtown over the years, most recently on KVB. Our bench movement builds upon the work of those before us 🙏🏼💪🏼❤️

We're about to see a big license plate reader push via MNPD budget request & everyone better get on board with fighting it. We're one of the last major cities in the country to have held off mass implementation of LPRs. If you give a shit about yourself, your kids & other people, you'll fight this.

“We spoke with The Hamburglar about the new beautiful hamburgers the community provided to replace the ones he took”

read Robin's whole thread! this article misses the mark in every way possible. the reporter only speaking to the council member who helped get the benches on KVB removed is certainly... a choice.

so cool to see Paris keep electing bike and pedestrian advocates as mayor and wishing ours would actually do something meaningful.

lol thought this guy was supposed to be the bike mayor or something

today was beautiful 🥹 50+ new benches out into our communities. Thank you all! We couldn't do this without you ❤️

Some good news, for now 🙏🏼

People like Robin Owen are such a shining light of what this city is and can strive to be. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Very important piece that includes details of how Flock and Fusus - 2 companies we have been fighting (& beating) for years in Nashville - are 2 of the main tools used to fuel the terror & kidnapping of our neighbors. We will never stop fighting the billionaires, politicians & lobbyists behind this.

Surely if @nashvilledot.bsky.social can remove 17 benches in (allegedly) a few days, they can get rid of these Titans signs in the ROW all over town in a single morning.

Out winter canvassing & just met a woman who was in tears telling me how WeGo's security, Archangel, kicked her out of the station last night into the rain & dangerous storms while threatening to call the cops. WeGo consistently treats poor people worse than any entity in this city (besides cops).

This is not the first time this country does this to Latinos. They did it to my grandfather during the Bracero Program. This is torture. Abolish ICE.

This is horrifying 😭🤬💔

"At the end of those five days, the filing reads, she was brought to a shower room and told to strip naked. An officer poured a disinfecting liquid — possibly used to clean floors — over her body. Rodríguez said her eyes burned. The woman who’d helped her was watching and began to cry." 🤬sickening

But even more importantly, after seeing a bench rescue picture from today, Elizabeth has named @jspencersharpe.bsky.social , @themanaen.bsky.social and I "bald, beard and beanie" 💀💀💀

benches goa

Many are like this one I replaced today at Shelby Ave & S 8th Street. There are no ADA or ped facilities whatsoever. Thus, there is no ADA violation by placing it here. Please also note the desire path trodden down at this stop by our fellow community members. All the best. /end

I’d like to respond to the boilerplate NDOT response circulating to CMs and the public regarding benches put in the right of way: Those who’ve put out benches have been incredibly judicious and caring about violating ROW and ADA concerns. 1/2

We have painstakingly placed our benches in the most considerate of ways. If you don't think we are always concerned w/ blocking walkways, wheelchair access, etc, then you don't know us. This is THE highest priority of every single bench we've placed. Suggestions to the contrary are insulting.

NDOT removed the benches because ALLEGEDLY they were in the ROW but they're working to permit our benches in the ROW. Make it make sense.

Happy to report the benches were all rescued in an operation conducted this morning. They are in a secure location, ready for their imminent return to the streets & the people of Nashville.

We WILL repeat this mission for our 17 benches currently being held hostage. FREE OUR BENCHES

This is so shitty. Nashville is a corporate free-for-all. Whataburger is allowed to block sidewalks, that horrific stadium practically blocks the sun, a bunch of bar owners can blow up the library BUT NASHVILLE WILL NOT TOLERATE CITIZENS HELPING EACH OTHER. “Music City” my ass 🤡

Mayor to people who campaigned for him because they wanted to stay and who are simply trying to create community and public safety in this increasingly technofascist city where only the ultra-wealthy are comfortable: drop dead