hey cbus pals—we had way more people sign up for bench building than we could accommodate in the space we booked. anyone aware of a spot in town that would fit ~40 people (+ tools and assembly) that would either donate the space or rent for very cheap?

This year, in honor of Transit Equity Day and Rosa Parks, Transit Columbus and Strong Towns Columbus volunteers cleared bus stops and sidewalks around the city to provide dignity for riders. We built benches to increase accessibility and enable people to rest safely as they journey around Columbus.

grateful to @brentincolumbus.bsky.social for pointing out why someone might be walking in the street. i urge other journalists covering traffic fatalities to follow his lead. it *does not have to be this way* and the more we ID the actual problem, the more we can push for the right solutions.

in organizing as in all things you don’t get the goods without making the mistakes and wrong turns. that is because no one knows the future or even really knows themselves let alone the intricacies of all other people. the wrong turns are part of the organizing, once you admit that it gets better

Context: collecting Skymiles to fly people home who were kidnapped in Minnesota and released in Texas.

The officer who executed Renee Good filmed it and posted the footage with his own phone.

A driver hit a pedestrian last night in Columbus, severely injuring them. The article says the pedestrian was "was walking in the roadway" but fails to mention there's no sidewalk in that area

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west

my spanish is v rusty but i’ve been using it a lot lately to talk to folks. it’s amazing how much of the language is lurking in the back of my brain. words i didn’t know that i knew will just come out. it’s also amazing how easy it is to try to say something basic and just forget everything. :p

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

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thread of actions you can take instead of just posting about it: - join a group working on the issue that does canvassing operations. we are not reaching enough people, and we can’t without everyone pitching in.

i am not saying yall shouldn’t do the whistle thing or that it hasn’t been useful in some contexts, but as an immigrant who spends a lot of time talking to other immigrants, almost none of them know what i’m talking about when i ask them about it and i think that is something worth considering.

we all watched ICE murder people from multiple camera angles while the administration lied to our faces and the democrats still want us to believe that body cameras are going to stop this.

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

Come make our city a little more pedestrian and transit friendly! If you can't be there (like me, unfortunately), you can also donate to support the effort!

According to Tacoma, WA area Redditors, this was the work of ILWU Local 91 in Oakland, CA

did anyone know that this was a thing???

"knowing who to be angry at" is one of the hardest lessons of organizing to internalize and then genuinely practice. it requires a level of humility, strategy, and genuine commitment to being a productive part of a larger cause that really separates who gives a shit from attention-seeking dipshits

“CBP stays at the border” The border:

a first for me: i was shoveling all the sidewalks and walkways in my little apartment complex area last night and as i was clearing off the steps for one of my neighbors, she scared the shit out of me by thanking me through her ring doorbell thing

War on Cars accomplished through Level 3 Snow Emergency - 🥳 War on Cars event cancelled due to Level 3 Snow Emergency - 😭 Thanks to our friends at @matternews.bsky.social for this article!

Celtics legend

Stewie in her walk up this afternoon. Good stuff. #Unrivaled

This reminds me of how people often have a faulty sense of the dynamic between belief and action, viewing only that action stems from belief --- when, far more often, belief stems from action.

Still worth calling your senators given those statements from the Sens currently committing to vote no both read like “I’ll vote no unless training and guardrails” and I don’t trust that at all 😬

It's worth noting that the killer this morning was not a freshly minted ICE officer but a veteran Border Patrol agent who has theoretically been through years of "training."

If neighbors in a small town help rebuild houses after a tornado, they're correctly lauded for their compassion and hard work to support people in need. They're held up as exemplars of Heartland Values. What we are doing in Minneapolis is the same thing, fundamentally.

All the major media outlets keep using the term "protesters" when it's just random residents using Signal to help their neighbors get diapers, or making noise when they see armed thugs terrorizing their neighbors. That's not protesting, it's just helping. It's being part of a community.

what’s wild to me about “get ICE out of MN” is this: where do they go once they’re “out”? they go to Maine and to Ohio and to everywhere else. i don’t care how they phrase it, but dems must explicitly call for the permanent dismantling and shuttering of this agency and its functions.

we are begging politicians to act (and we’re right to). but consider asking the same of yourself. yesterday the people of MN staged the largest strike in the US recent memory. they refused to participate in the system that is killing us. we need more of that. it won’t stop until we make it stop.

I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.

This point really needs to be stressed. Jeffries deliberately leaked to the press that he wasn't whipping votes against ICE funding. The Democratic Party position is that this bill should go through, it's not just the view of the 7 people who voted yes.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

An unreformable agency. Don’t settle for half measures.

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Local journalist owned outlet in Minnesota is confirming reports ICE shot a man at extremely close range in Minneapolis. CW: video embedded within the story. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

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Solidarity with the people of Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the state of Minnesota.

i have seen The Discourse around “abolish ice” being a bad slogan, but have we considered that having this kind of moral clarity and approachability is a good thing?

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it is possible to build a better future! it is possible to implement big policies with big impact! this man has only been in office for a couple weeks!

The takeaway so far: courage and organize, organize, and organize. Courage is contagious! Stand with your comrades!

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*