AlisonAF
@alisonaf.bsky.social
Longtime theater person, everyday climate person. Humans are born with rights.
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See my commentary in @nytimes.com in re climatic & non-climatic factors pushing down home prices (always excellent work of @benkeys.bsky.social & P. Mulder) Amazing to see how far prices have tanked in Nola. Good News: homes w/ Fortified Roofs are holding their value. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas (Gift Article)
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
See my commentary in @nytimes.com in re climatic & non-climatic factors pushing down home prices (always excellent work of @benkeys.bsky.social & P. Mulder) Amazing to see how far prices have tanked in Nola. Good News: homes w/ Fortified Roofs are holding their value. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Think of the cowardice of HELPING Musk terrorize his child. That's the cowardice of the trans panic in general.
Even if it weren't a vicious lie, it's obviously the "OP" of Elon's life and unprecendented in US history.
Like if Citizen Kane became president and started killing people with a sled.
Even if it weren't a vicious lie, it's obviously the "OP" of Elon's life and unprecendented in US history.
Like if Citizen Kane became president and started killing people with a sled.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Think of the cowardice of HELPING Musk terrorize his child. That's the cowardice of the trans panic in general.
Even if it weren't a vicious lie, it's obviously the "OP" of Elon's life and unprecendented in US history.
Like if Citizen Kane became president and started killing people with a sled.
Even if it weren't a vicious lie, it's obviously the "OP" of Elon's life and unprecendented in US history.
Like if Citizen Kane became president and started killing people with a sled.
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Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
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NEW:
An NYPD sergeant, Atickul Islam, faces federal charges he impersonated an ICE field office director and demanded a victim report with their family to an ICE location.
Indictment is only one-paragraph, so details are still developing on this one.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/18/n...
An NYPD sergeant, Atickul Islam, faces federal charges he impersonated an ICE field office director and demanded a victim report with their family to an ICE location.
Indictment is only one-paragraph, so details are still developing on this one.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/18/n...
NYPD sergeant accused of posing as ICE agent, ordering family report to immigration facility
An NYPD sergeant faces federal charges he impersonated an ICE official and demanded a victim report with their family to an ICE location. Sgt. Atickul Islam, 29, who joined the NYPD in 2018 and bec…
www.nydailynews.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
NEW:
An NYPD sergeant, Atickul Islam, faces federal charges he impersonated an ICE field office director and demanded a victim report with their family to an ICE location.
Indictment is only one-paragraph, so details are still developing on this one.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/18/n...
An NYPD sergeant, Atickul Islam, faces federal charges he impersonated an ICE field office director and demanded a victim report with their family to an ICE location.
Indictment is only one-paragraph, so details are still developing on this one.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/18/n...
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An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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People seriously need to attend to the possibilities that capitalism has displaced in their imaginations.
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
People seriously need to attend to the possibilities that capitalism has displaced in their imaginations.
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Sister JoAnn Persch, immigrant rights activist who prayed the rosary outside Broadview every week since 2007, has died. Block Club’s Lucia Preziosi
with the obituary blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/18/s...
with the obituary blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/18/s...
Sister JoAnn Persch, Trailblazing Immigrant Rights Activist, Dies At 91
Sister JoAnn Persch spent decades with the Sisters of Mercy, fighting for immigrant and refugee rights in Chicago and across the country. She prayed the rosary outside the Broadview ICE facility every...
blockclubchicago.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Sister JoAnn Persch, immigrant rights activist who prayed the rosary outside Broadview every week since 2007, has died. Block Club’s Lucia Preziosi
with the obituary blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/18/s...
with the obituary blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/18/s...
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Do you know what kind of writing we might have had if some of the white girls who didn’t sleep with sources got a shot.
Mang can you imagine if the babies from Teen Vogue had a crack at RFK JR.
Mang can you imagine if the babies from Teen Vogue had a crack at RFK JR.
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Do you know what kind of writing we might have had if some of the white girls who didn’t sleep with sources got a shot.
Mang can you imagine if the babies from Teen Vogue had a crack at RFK JR.
Mang can you imagine if the babies from Teen Vogue had a crack at RFK JR.
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In recent weeks, at least 23 infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulism in an outbreak linked to ByHeart powdered infant formula
Experts Explain How Botulism Toxin Can End Up in Baby Formula
In recent weeks, at least 23 infants in the U.S. have been infected with botulism in an outbreak linked to ByHeart powdered infant formula
www.scientificamerican.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
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Harvard Management Company increased investment in an exchange trade fund tracking the value of Bitcoin in the third quarter, making the iShares Bitcoin Trust its largest disclosed U.S. equity holding.
Avani B. Rai and Saketh Sundar report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Avani B. Rai and Saketh Sundar report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Bitcoin Now Harvard’s Largest Publicly Disclosed Holding, Tripling in Size in Third Quarter | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Management Company dramatically increased its investment in iShares Bitcoin Trust, an exchange trade fund tracking the value of Bitcoin, in the third quarter of this year.
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Harvard Management Company increased investment in an exchange trade fund tracking the value of Bitcoin in the third quarter, making the iShares Bitcoin Trust its largest disclosed U.S. equity holding.
Avani B. Rai and Saketh Sundar report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Avani B. Rai and Saketh Sundar report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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ICE agent arrested in southern California for pulling a gun on a 17 year old teenager…
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November 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
ICE agent arrested in southern California for pulling a gun on a 17 year old teenager…
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This story is honestly insane. Faraway investors buying up Detroit homes and turning them into crypto tokens; letting housing fall into disrepair, and evicting residents. This is what happens in an extraction economy.
Housing + Private Equity = A recipe for profit over people.
As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This story is honestly insane. Faraway investors buying up Detroit homes and turning them into crypto tokens; letting housing fall into disrepair, and evicting residents. This is what happens in an extraction economy.
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Speaking of Larry Summers.
Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...
Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Speaking of Larry Summers.
Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...
Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...
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In the Oak Park neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, on November 17, 2025, an ICE goon tased a non-resisting woman and then threw her non-responsive body into his truck like a rag doll.
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In the Oak Park neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, on November 17, 2025, an ICE goon tased a non-resisting woman and then threw her non-responsive body into his truck like a rag doll.
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“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
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This is bullshit! What are the charges?
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is bullshit! What are the charges?
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
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From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
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“ABC11 spoke with Lori Lober, a study participant. Initially, she was given a grim prognosis, with median survival rate of less than 2 to 3% for five years. However, the trial at Duke Health gave her new hope. She has remained disease-free for 24 years.”
I could cry.
I could cry.
Duke Health researchers announces breakthrough in breast cancer vaccine trial
A small group of women with advanced breast cancer participated in a trial where they received a vaccine, and all are alive today.
abc11.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
“ABC11 spoke with Lori Lober, a study participant. Initially, she was given a grim prognosis, with median survival rate of less than 2 to 3% for five years. However, the trial at Duke Health gave her new hope. She has remained disease-free for 24 years.”
I could cry.
I could cry.
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Cops Arrest ICE Agent For Whipping Out Gun on Driver
Police arrested ICE agent for assault with a deadly weapon.
He approached a 17-year-old boy on a dark street in Riverside CA with his sidearm drawn and pointed toward the window.
www.thedailybeast.com/cops-arrest-...
Police arrested ICE agent for assault with a deadly weapon.
He approached a 17-year-old boy on a dark street in Riverside CA with his sidearm drawn and pointed toward the window.
www.thedailybeast.com/cops-arrest-...
Cops Arrest ICE Agent For Whipping Out Gun on Driver, 17
A lawyer says things have “gotten so bad” that the official thinks he can “turn his own block into his personal ICE checkpoint.”
www.thedailybeast.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Cops Arrest ICE Agent For Whipping Out Gun on Driver
Police arrested ICE agent for assault with a deadly weapon.
He approached a 17-year-old boy on a dark street in Riverside CA with his sidearm drawn and pointed toward the window.
www.thedailybeast.com/cops-arrest-...
Police arrested ICE agent for assault with a deadly weapon.
He approached a 17-year-old boy on a dark street in Riverside CA with his sidearm drawn and pointed toward the window.
www.thedailybeast.com/cops-arrest-...
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Wow, it seems like we just need to stop poisoning the world.
Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
@paneurope.bsky.social
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Wow, it seems like we just need to stop poisoning the world.
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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If you don’t want to hate read any part of that book, this was a great year for books that are actually good! I’d recommend Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin, Discontent by Beatriz Serrano, Audition by Katie Kitamura, Boom Town by Nic Stone, and The Payback, by me.
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If you don’t want to hate read any part of that book, this was a great year for books that are actually good! I’d recommend Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin, Discontent by Beatriz Serrano, Audition by Katie Kitamura, Boom Town by Nic Stone, and The Payback, by me.
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The beginnings of elite art collection coincided with the rise of the robber barons and the suppression of the labor movement. Kin connects this to Taylorism and the idea of scientific management, that further extenuated the rift between the mind and the body, intellectual activity and labor.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The beginnings of elite art collection coincided with the rise of the robber barons and the suppression of the labor movement. Kin connects this to Taylorism and the idea of scientific management, that further extenuated the rift between the mind and the body, intellectual activity and labor.
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...