adi
@adidz.bsky.social
drawn to nonhuman life, high deserts, dalmatian islands, and baroque chiaroscuro. immigrant.
What a win for the community: Chattanooga’s municipal broadband has generated over six times the value of the city’s original investment and provides nearly 28,000 students and families with free or low-cost home Internet!
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
communitynets.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
What a win for the community: Chattanooga’s municipal broadband has generated over six times the value of the city’s original investment and provides nearly 28,000 students and families with free or low-cost home Internet!
Young Girl Sewing
Artist: Vilhelm Hammershøi; Yr: 1887
Collection: Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen
Artist: Vilhelm Hammershøi; Yr: 1887
Collection: Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen
December 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Young Girl Sewing
Artist: Vilhelm Hammershøi; Yr: 1887
Collection: Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen
Artist: Vilhelm Hammershøi; Yr: 1887
Collection: Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen
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As students and workers resume their routines after the Thanksgiving holiday, Siembra NC is warning that the organization has received credible reports to indicate that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deploying more agents to the Raleigh area for a monthlong operation. #ncpol
Immigrant advocates say 'credible reports' point to new ICE operation in Raleigh • NC Newsline
Siembra NC warns that it has received multiple credible reports indicating that ICE is deploying more agents to the Raleigh area in December for a monthlong operation.
ncnewsline.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
As students and workers resume their routines after the Thanksgiving holiday, Siembra NC is warning that the organization has received credible reports to indicate that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deploying more agents to the Raleigh area for a monthlong operation. #ncpol
Holiday boredom, cont.: So these two were baptized today with South Slavic last names. Meet Lulu Dugorepka 🖤🤎 and Maya Damlajić 🤍🖤.
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Holiday boredom, cont.: So these two were baptized today with South Slavic last names. Meet Lulu Dugorepka 🖤🤎 and Maya Damlajić 🤍🖤.
Saint Agnes
Artist: Francesco Guarino; Yr: 1650
Collection: Galleria Nazionale, Cosenza
Artist: Francesco Guarino; Yr: 1650
Collection: Galleria Nazionale, Cosenza
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Saint Agnes
Artist: Francesco Guarino; Yr: 1650
Collection: Galleria Nazionale, Cosenza
Artist: Francesco Guarino; Yr: 1650
Collection: Galleria Nazionale, Cosenza
holiday boredom. my bad 🙈
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
holiday boredom. my bad 🙈
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VOICES FOR GAZA brought together Palestinian writers, activists, & their allies. Before hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, & struggle: solidarity. Here, we hear from Hannah Lillith Assadi.
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
VOICES FOR GAZA brought together Palestinian writers, activists, & their allies. Before hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, & struggle: solidarity. Here, we hear from Hannah Lillith Assadi.
Udo Kier, du seltsames Tier. RIP 🕯️
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Udo Kier, du seltsames Tier. RIP 🕯️
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If you’ve experienced civil rights violations related to the military or ICE presence in Charlotte, you can report it through our legal intake form.
https://rebrand.ly/ncintake
https://rebrand.ly/ncintake
November 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If you’ve experienced civil rights violations related to the military or ICE presence in Charlotte, you can report it through our legal intake form.
https://rebrand.ly/ncintake
https://rebrand.ly/ncintake
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NC and those visiting NC: add these numbers to your phones and use them. Ice verification via local, respected, deeply rooted organizers is still a number one ask here. Are you a journalist? You can still text or call in what you see. Community first, always.
Document and call it in immediately.
Document and call it in immediately.
November 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
NC and those visiting NC: add these numbers to your phones and use them. Ice verification via local, respected, deeply rooted organizers is still a number one ask here. Are you a journalist? You can still text or call in what you see. Community first, always.
Document and call it in immediately.
Document and call it in immediately.
This is the kind of investigative journalism these times call for. @propublica.org ⬇️
1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
November 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is the kind of investigative journalism these times call for. @propublica.org ⬇️
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
After Mamdani’s election in NYC, there’s interesting news out of Seattle—home to roughly 800,000 ppl—where a young progressive activist has unseated a centrist Democrat. Together, these mayoral wins signal more than a shift in leadership; they remind us what is possible on the ground. Some thoughts:
Katie Wilson will be Seattle's next Mayor. The progressive challenger expanded her lead over current Mayor Bruce Harrell to nearly 2,000 votes in Wednesday's count.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/12/w...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/12/w...
Wilson Defeats Harrell » The Urbanist
# Katie Wilson will be Seattle's next Mayor. The progressive challenger expanded her lead over current Mayor Bruce Harrell to nearly 2,000 votes in Wednesday's count, and The Urbanist and other local ...
www.theurbanist.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
After Mamdani’s election in NYC, there’s interesting news out of Seattle—home to roughly 800,000 ppl—where a young progressive activist has unseated a centrist Democrat. Together, these mayoral wins signal more than a shift in leadership; they remind us what is possible on the ground. Some thoughts:
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This is the facility where masked thugs put our neighbors, friends, and community members after they snatch them off the street. Please note that they are doing this to long-term residents, too. This is not targeted at criminals. They are grabbing tamale vendors, landscapers, preschool teachers.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This is the facility where masked thugs put our neighbors, friends, and community members after they snatch them off the street. Please note that they are doing this to long-term residents, too. This is not targeted at criminals. They are grabbing tamale vendors, landscapers, preschool teachers.
Much of what #Mamdani plans to do as NYC mayor has been tested in cities and countries around the world. And guess what? It works! Turns out, what sounds “radical” in the US is just common sense in places where people’s welfare comes first.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Much of what #Mamdani plans to do as NYC mayor has been tested in cities and countries around the world. And guess what? It works! Turns out, what sounds “radical” in the US is just common sense in places where people’s welfare comes first.
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Way to go! 👏👏
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Way to go! 👏👏
History has its own sense of justice: Zohran Mamdani takes office as New York’s first Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney dies. 👌
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
History has its own sense of justice: Zohran Mamdani takes office as New York’s first Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney dies. 👌
America 2025: Can’t buy a sandwich with food stamps, but you can go to federal court for throwing one. 🤢
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
America 2025: Can’t buy a sandwich with food stamps, but you can go to federal court for throwing one. 🤢
A pause in SNAP benefits would leave more than 41 million people with no food. This is a self-inflicted wound by the U.S. government. We need to come through for each other. Donate to food banks, support mutual aid, and check in on neighbors who may be struggling.
If SNAP benefits are halted next month, it will mark the first time in history the program has not been funded during any government shutdown.
The food stamp program was first established during the Great Depression in the 1930s under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mill...
The food stamp program was first established during the Great Depression in the 1930s under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/mill...
Millions will be impacted by pause in food stamps and other forthcoming changes to SNAP program • The TRiiBE
As the pause in SNAP benefits dominate conversations, the Greater Chicago Food Depository is informing residents about program changes made by the Trump administration.
thetriibe.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A pause in SNAP benefits would leave more than 41 million people with no food. This is a self-inflicted wound by the U.S. government. We need to come through for each other. Donate to food banks, support mutual aid, and check in on neighbors who may be struggling.
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The sheer volume of people showing signs of mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation each and every week on ChatGPT is staggering, alarming, awful, all of it. from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The sheer volume of people showing signs of mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation each and every week on ChatGPT is staggering, alarming, awful, all of it. from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
When any organism sleeps, it takes a kind of leave of absence: it stops interacting with the environment, withdraws from action, and also gives space to others. Sleep is the only time when we are at peace with ourselves and the world outside, as we leave it alone to respite from us.
Two billion humans are doing something bizarre right now: sleeping | Aeon Essays
It is our biggest blind spot, a bizarre experience that befalls us every day, and can’t be explained by our need for rest
aeon.co
October 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
When any organism sleeps, it takes a kind of leave of absence: it stops interacting with the environment, withdraws from action, and also gives space to others. Sleep is the only time when we are at peace with ourselves and the world outside, as we leave it alone to respite from us.
“I come to adore this arc of the day. The way the desert seems to hold its breath before sunrise. The charge of morning photons showering bare skin. The sundial shadows of the mountains. Part of the pleasure is to feel it all mirrored in my own metabolism” — great writing by Rowan Jacobsen.
Rowan Jacobsen chases a good night’s sleep to the Sonoran Desert and examines his relationship to artificial light.
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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Chasing Photons, by Rowan Jacobsen
In pursuit of a good night’s sleep
harpers.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“I come to adore this arc of the day. The way the desert seems to hold its breath before sunrise. The charge of morning photons showering bare skin. The sundial shadows of the mountains. Part of the pleasure is to feel it all mirrored in my own metabolism” — great writing by Rowan Jacobsen.