lars
@silverhelme.bsky.social
30s, all pronouns. nyc cat parent. trans rights NOW. big fan of polar explorers getting eaten
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Reminder:
Being poor does not make you immoral.
Missing teeth, illiteracy, drug use, does not make you immoral.
Nuerodivergence & mental health issues do not make you immoral.
Being a sexist, racist, violent fascist does! Hope this helps with your messaging about current events!
Being poor does not make you immoral.
Missing teeth, illiteracy, drug use, does not make you immoral.
Nuerodivergence & mental health issues do not make you immoral.
Being a sexist, racist, violent fascist does! Hope this helps with your messaging about current events!
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Reminder:
Being poor does not make you immoral.
Missing teeth, illiteracy, drug use, does not make you immoral.
Nuerodivergence & mental health issues do not make you immoral.
Being a sexist, racist, violent fascist does! Hope this helps with your messaging about current events!
Being poor does not make you immoral.
Missing teeth, illiteracy, drug use, does not make you immoral.
Nuerodivergence & mental health issues do not make you immoral.
Being a sexist, racist, violent fascist does! Hope this helps with your messaging about current events!
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It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text
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the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
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Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
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NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! 🥳
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! 🥳
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
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I passed these two U-Haul box containers in someone's yard and wondered what the heck was going on, and then I realized that someone had set up a pantry. #neighborhoodpantry #feedthehungry #SNAP
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I passed these two U-Haul box containers in someone's yard and wondered what the heck was going on, and then I realized that someone had set up a pantry. #neighborhoodpantry #feedthehungry #SNAP
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your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court
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New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
commemorating 50 years by reading this BANGER of an article & playing my gordon lightfoot cassette tape on repeat 🫡
new article on AO! about the HOT NEW TREND ON TIKTOK, memes about "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," just in time for the 50-year anniversary of the disaster
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/edm...
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/edm...
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
commemorating 50 years by reading this BANGER of an article & playing my gordon lightfoot cassette tape on repeat 🫡
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Today @bradlander.bsky.social wrote an op-ed on Zohran Mamdani’s historic win — and the work ahead.
“When Donald Trump sends troops here, it won’t be Trump vs. Mamdani. It’ll be Trump vs. New York City.”
“When Donald Trump sends troops here, it won’t be Trump vs. Mamdani. It’ll be Trump vs. New York City.”
Brad Lander on Mamdani's Win: "It’s not only on Zohran. It’s on all of us."
In an op-ed for In These Times, Lander writes that in response to looming threats from Donald Trump, "We’ve got to rise to the challenge together—as New Yorkers."
inthesetimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Today @bradlander.bsky.social wrote an op-ed on Zohran Mamdani’s historic win — and the work ahead.
“When Donald Trump sends troops here, it won’t be Trump vs. Mamdani. It’ll be Trump vs. New York City.”
“When Donald Trump sends troops here, it won’t be Trump vs. Mamdani. It’ll be Trump vs. New York City.”
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some “cease” fire
Attacks continue in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza as Israeli forces expand military action beyond 'yellow line'.
Israel kills more Palestinians in Gaza as US peace plan presented to UN
Attacks continue in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza as Israeli forces expand military action beyond 'yellow line'.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
some “cease” fire
as a former barista of this corporate hellhole, please go elsewhere for your coffee at all times but ESPECIALLY now!! support your local coffeeshop & don't cross the picket line, Starbucks workers deserve better 🫶
Okay Starbucks has started the huge ass strike so if you weren't already boycotting, now is the time! No Starbucks for the holiday season!
Yeeehaaawww I love collective action
Yeeehaaawww I love collective action
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
as a former barista of this corporate hellhole, please go elsewhere for your coffee at all times but ESPECIALLY now!! support your local coffeeshop & don't cross the picket line, Starbucks workers deserve better 🫶
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If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.”
www.transition2025.com/apply
www.transition2025.com/apply
A New Era for NYC
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is ready to work to make New York safe and affordable for all of its residents.
www.transition2025.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.”
www.transition2025.com/apply
www.transition2025.com/apply
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Donate to Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE, organized by Erin Horetski
Our beloved teacher, who was not just an educator but a central part … Erin Horetski needs your support for Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE
www.gofundme.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
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A wind came.
It blew across the land.
It blew across the land.
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A wind came.
It blew across the land.
It blew across the land.
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To recap, among young voters…
Prop 50: +58
Sherril: +37
Spanberger: +40
Mamdani: +61
I better see the media start retracting some of those stories saying Gen Z is the most conservative generation.
Prop 50: +58
Sherril: +37
Spanberger: +40
Mamdani: +61
I better see the media start retracting some of those stories saying Gen Z is the most conservative generation.
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
To recap, among young voters…
Prop 50: +58
Sherril: +37
Spanberger: +40
Mamdani: +61
I better see the media start retracting some of those stories saying Gen Z is the most conservative generation.
Prop 50: +58
Sherril: +37
Spanberger: +40
Mamdani: +61
I better see the media start retracting some of those stories saying Gen Z is the most conservative generation.
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Big day for people who care about other people
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Big day for people who care about other people
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Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."