Clara T Green
@claratgreen.bsky.social
organizer and advocate. from atlanta, for atlanta. she/her.
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One woman chewed through her umbilical cord after giving birth in jail — another delivered into a cell toilet
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies are dying in jail
Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
One woman chewed through her umbilical cord after giving birth in jail — another delivered into a cell toilet
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
WFP knocked on over 60K doors in Georgia. Fund the work.
This movement that we are watching unfold - Zohran Mamdani, Prop 50 in CA, regular people everywhere who are taking power from those at the top -
this movement doesn't build itself.
Funding the work is essential. We power the party, not billionaires: wfpus.org/JoinUs
this movement doesn't build itself.
Funding the work is essential. We power the party, not billionaires: wfpus.org/JoinUs
Become a dues-paying WFP member today!
Will you join me in our fight for the many, not the few?
wfpus.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
WFP knocked on over 60K doors in Georgia. Fund the work.
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i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
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This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08
They watched ICE detain their dad. Now D.C. neighbors escort them to school.
Immigrant neighborhoods across the District have organized “walking school buses” to shuttle kids to classes during President Donald Trump’s federalization of D.C. police.
wapo.st
September 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08
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Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
SACRAMENTO, CA—Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who targets the homeless populat...
theonion.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
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This was Cuomo’s only playbook. Spend a fuckton of money on ads (including mail), coast on name ID and fear mongering from centrist scolds, and do nothing to organize or coalition build.
Really can’t overstate how many anti-Mamdani ads were running on local networks over the last week. Basically constant.
June 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This was Cuomo’s only playbook. Spend a fuckton of money on ads (including mail), coast on name ID and fear mongering from centrist scolds, and do nothing to organize or coalition build.
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Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."
June 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."
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it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"
Despite his own privileged path to power, or perhaps because of it, the son of a Columbia University professor and a movie director is campaigning as a socialist intent on redistributing New York’s wealth.
Here’s How Much New York City Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Is Worth
Despite his own privileged path to power, or perhaps because of it, the son of a Columbia University professor and a movie director is campaigning as a socialist intent on redistributing New York’s wealth.
www.forbes.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"
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Schumer stopped the Senate to announce that this happened, in the middle of debate on a bill where Democrats were collaborating with Republicans on crypto legislation.
How you can compartmentalize these two things is beyond me.
How you can compartmentalize these two things is beyond me.
Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed.
(video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)
(video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)
June 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Schumer stopped the Senate to announce that this happened, in the middle of debate on a bill where Democrats were collaborating with Republicans on crypto legislation.
How you can compartmentalize these two things is beyond me.
How you can compartmentalize these two things is beyond me.
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the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
June 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
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Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.
Nonprofit Killer Provision Quietly Disappears From Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”
The infamous “nonprofit killer” provision quietly disappeared from Donald Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" as it winds its way through Congress.
theintercept.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.
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May 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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This is also one reason they attack the department of education-if you end up NEEDING to homeschool children because their education has been gutted and left in tatters it gets those pesky moms out of the work force and back to fully unpaid labor.
They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
May 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This is also one reason they attack the department of education-if you end up NEEDING to homeschool children because their education has been gutted and left in tatters it gets those pesky moms out of the work force and back to fully unpaid labor.
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A new Florida law creates new felony charges for people who volunteer for ballot initiatives. People subjected to those charges could be disenfranchised themselves. “Here you are, trying to keep democracy going, and you can lose your right to vote." boltsmag.org/florida...
A New Crackdown on Ballot Initiatives Unnerves Florida Organizers
The new Republican law threatens volunteers with more investigations and criminal punishment, even as Ron DeSantis faces allegations of illegally meddling in ballot measures.
boltsmag.org
May 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A new Florida law creates new felony charges for people who volunteer for ballot initiatives. People subjected to those charges could be disenfranchised themselves. “Here you are, trying to keep democracy going, and you can lose your right to vote." boltsmag.org/florida...
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Good morning! I am in an office tower in midtown Atlanta where the marta board and senior leadership is having a "retreat". They will be discussing the draft operating and capital budgets for the first time, and also receive briefings on federal grants.
Follow me and @thexylom.com for more updates:
Follow me and @thexylom.com for more updates:
May 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Good morning! I am in an office tower in midtown Atlanta where the marta board and senior leadership is having a "retreat". They will be discussing the draft operating and capital budgets for the first time, and also receive briefings on federal grants.
Follow me and @thexylom.com for more updates:
Follow me and @thexylom.com for more updates:
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are you an early career journalist in the South who is working to inform your community about safety - what actually threatens it, how it can be protected, and what truly keeps people safe? if so, please apply for this cohort! a little more info in this thread:
justjournalism.org/page/better-...
justjournalism.org/page/better-...
Building a Better Beat: Fall 2025 Cohort
Fall 2025 Cohort
justjournalism.org
May 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
are you an early career journalist in the South who is working to inform your community about safety - what actually threatens it, how it can be protected, and what truly keeps people safe? if so, please apply for this cohort! a little more info in this thread:
justjournalism.org/page/better-...
justjournalism.org/page/better-...
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…
www.propublica.org
May 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
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Given Trump’s massive proposed cuts to affordable housing programs revealed in the last couple years of days, I am reupping my brief piece on how affordable housing impacts all sorts of things. Such cuts will greatly worsen so many problems.
May 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Given Trump’s massive proposed cuts to affordable housing programs revealed in the last couple years of days, I am reupping my brief piece on how affordable housing impacts all sorts of things. Such cuts will greatly worsen so many problems.
A must read ⬇️
City of Atlanta Tree Protection Ordinance work session live thread.
May 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A must read ⬇️