Helen Bolton
@hbolton.bsky.social
I work at the Center for Reproductive Rights (union with UAW 2110) but I am not even kind of in charge of anything. Perma pedestrian. I like abortion and unions and flowers and knitting and New York and Kansas. Organizing with Repro Workers
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Today in @thenation.com: Noor Alyacoubi spoke to people in Gaza about Trump's desire to expel them from their home.
Their answer was very, very clear: "I will never, ever leave my land." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Their answer was very, very clear: "I will never, ever leave my land." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Gazans Have a Message for Trump: We're Not Going Anywhere
The president wants to clear the territory and take it for the US. But people here are adamant: "I will never, ever leave my land."
www.thenation.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Today in @thenation.com: Noor Alyacoubi spoke to people in Gaza about Trump's desire to expel them from their home.
Their answer was very, very clear: "I will never, ever leave my land." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Their answer was very, very clear: "I will never, ever leave my land." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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My takeaway here on what this means for abortion care? Innovative little start ups were never the answer. Our movement is not in a place to innovate with compassion to both workers and patients without being beholden to the absurd whims of random donors. It’s all a savior complex.
Oh cool, an article about my ex-employer who laid me off after stringing me along. Fascinating to see Julie STILL misleading people in her quotes here. I guess once you start, it’s hard to stop?
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/02/05/j...
rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/02/05/j...
Just the Pill Promised to Revolutionize Abortion Care Delivery. What Happened?
Laid off staffers allege union busting and misrepresentation at an organization that promised a fleet of mobile abortion clinics.
rewirenewsgroup.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My takeaway here on what this means for abortion care? Innovative little start ups were never the answer. Our movement is not in a place to innovate with compassion to both workers and patients without being beholden to the absurd whims of random donors. It’s all a savior complex.
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A quick hit from me after the protests over the last week, despite all the claims that people were too exhausted to protest and were sitting Trump II out. It's true, much of the Trump "resistance" appeared to have gone home when Biden was elected. But plenty of people never left the fight:
The #Resistance Lives. It Just Looks Different This Time.
Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.
newrepublic.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A quick hit from me after the protests over the last week, despite all the claims that people were too exhausted to protest and were sitting Trump II out. It's true, much of the Trump "resistance" appeared to have gone home when Biden was elected. But plenty of people never left the fight:
They're just so clearly using this stuff to attempt to purge the federal government's unions and blatantly violate their CBA's, if you're not talking about that because you think certain academics and people who post a lot are annoying to you personally I don't think you're a serious labor advocate
i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist
Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing
Many Democrats and activists are rallying to defend diversity programs, but others say they distract from deeper efforts to address inequality.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
They're just so clearly using this stuff to attempt to purge the federal government's unions and blatantly violate their CBA's, if you're not talking about that because you think certain academics and people who post a lot are annoying to you personally I don't think you're a serious labor advocate
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perfect quote www.wired.com/story/edward...
February 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
perfect quote www.wired.com/story/edward...
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Federal workers got another unsigned email at 1 a.m. from a newly created OPM email, urging them to do the deferred resignation before it supposedly ends today. Feels a bit sweaty and desperate!
February 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Federal workers got another unsigned email at 1 a.m. from a newly created OPM email, urging them to do the deferred resignation before it supposedly ends today. Feels a bit sweaty and desperate!
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insulin is a hormone. if you depend on synthetic insulin to survive, congratulations, that’s hormone replacement therapy. fix your hearts or die (and if you’re #t1d and a transphobe I mean that quite literally)
February 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
insulin is a hormone. if you depend on synthetic insulin to survive, congratulations, that’s hormone replacement therapy. fix your hearts or die (and if you’re #t1d and a transphobe I mean that quite literally)
This story is, among many many things, about how destructive rich people's obsession with funding "innovation" over everything else is. Mobile clinics along state borders never made any sense! The places along borders that do make sense (KC & St. Louis areas, El Paso area, etc) already have clinics!
NEW: On January 17, Just the Pill laid off nearly all of its staff. Former employees allege union busting, mismanagement, nepotism, and that the organization condoned widespread misrepresentation of its use of mobile clinics.
@garnethenderson.com reports: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/02/05/j...
@garnethenderson.com reports: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/02/05/j...
Just the Pill Promised to Revolutionize Abortion Care Delivery. What Happened?
Laid off staffers allege union busting and misrepresentation at an organization that promised a fleet of mobile abortion clinics.
rewirenewsgroup.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This story is, among many many things, about how destructive rich people's obsession with funding "innovation" over everything else is. Mobile clinics along state borders never made any sense! The places along borders that do make sense (KC & St. Louis areas, El Paso area, etc) already have clinics!
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I think you all should really read @nicolefroio.bsky.social’s reporting for @prismreports.bsky.social about Just The Pill…
Laid-off workers accuse Just The Pill of toxic work environment
The reproductive health care organization Just The Pill laid off 14 workers in January, as staff raised multiple concerns about leadership
prismreports.org
February 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I think you all should really read @nicolefroio.bsky.social’s reporting for @prismreports.bsky.social about Just The Pill…
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oh wow a SECOND article lmao prismreports.org/2025/02/05/j...
February 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
oh wow a SECOND article lmao prismreports.org/2025/02/05/j...
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One thing Musk's power grab suggests is that IT systems are *the* central chokepoint in contemporary capitalism — and that tech workers have potentially huge disruptive leverage, in both the federal government and within corporate America
February 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
One thing Musk's power grab suggests is that IT systems are *the* central chokepoint in contemporary capitalism — and that tech workers have potentially huge disruptive leverage, in both the federal government and within corporate America
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personally would love to live in a normal world where everything isn’t cartoony and insane!
September 18, 2023 at 3:36 AM
personally would love to live in a normal world where everything isn’t cartoony and insane!
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We are absolutely disgusted with All Above All management’s decision to lay off their entire staff, while keeping every single executive on the payroll, shortly after staff detailed anti-Blackness within the organization. Please donate to help support these workers www.gofundme.com/f/repro-work...
Repro Worker Aid Fund, organized by Repro Workers
We are union workers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement--we work at clinics… Repro Workers needs your support for Repro Worker Aid Fund
www.gofundme.com
September 13, 2023 at 1:23 AM
We are absolutely disgusted with All Above All management’s decision to lay off their entire staff, while keeping every single executive on the payroll, shortly after staff detailed anti-Blackness within the organization. Please donate to help support these workers www.gofundme.com/f/repro-work...
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New offerings from the obviously AI-generated kids’ clothing website, many of which are allegedly also available in adult sizes????? And again I’m extremely tempted???
September 8, 2023 at 7:38 PM
New offerings from the obviously AI-generated kids’ clothing website, many of which are allegedly also available in adult sizes????? And again I’m extremely tempted???
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! "The complaints have cropped up around New York for weeks: strangers appear on a voter's doorstep to question his or her voting address and — in some cases — make alarming accusations." lohud.com/story/news/p...
lohud.com
September 8, 2023 at 2:04 PM
! "The complaints have cropped up around New York for weeks: strangers appear on a voter's doorstep to question his or her voting address and — in some cases — make alarming accusations." lohud.com/story/news/p...
I actually feel like they are all displaying different strains of a tantrum over the fact that they all were mostly let into polite society in the ways they cared about (fancy law schools, journalists, Scalia on stage at the opera with Ginsburg and such), and they feel like people changed the rules
i find brett kavanaugh weirdly interesting for how much he very obviously has a desperate need for the approval of polite society in a way that just isn’t true of thomas and alito (or before them, scalia and rehnquist) www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/p...
September 8, 2023 at 1:56 PM
I actually feel like they are all displaying different strains of a tantrum over the fact that they all were mostly let into polite society in the ways they cared about (fancy law schools, journalists, Scalia on stage at the opera with Ginsburg and such), and they feel like people changed the rules
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Illegal rentals accounted for about one-third of active city listings on Airbnb. It will be an uphill battle for the agency charged enforcing the new regulations that come into effect Tuesday.
www.thecity.nyc/housing/2023...
www.thecity.nyc/housing/2023...
September 5, 2023 at 8:04 PM
Illegal rentals accounted for about one-third of active city listings on Airbnb. It will be an uphill battle for the agency charged enforcing the new regulations that come into effect Tuesday.
www.thecity.nyc/housing/2023...
www.thecity.nyc/housing/2023...
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The indictment is egregious, treating mutual aid and solidarity as pre-crime activities. Guilt by association is the point. Egregiously, it casually refers to the 2020 police execution of Rayshard Brooks as “justified” — and the indictment is from the same Fulton County that indicted Brooks’ killers
Georgia has filed RICO charges against 61 Stop Cop City activists, marking the state's latest escalation of an authoritarian crackdown on the movement. Organizers say the charges send the message that "any dissent to Cop City will be punished with the full power and violence of the government."
Cop City Protesters Hit With RICO Charges in Latest Act of Political Repression
The RICO charges levied against Stop Cop City protesters can result in a fine or a five to 20 year prison sentence in Georgia.
theappeal.org
September 5, 2023 at 8:10 PM
The indictment is egregious, treating mutual aid and solidarity as pre-crime activities. Guilt by association is the point. Egregiously, it casually refers to the 2020 police execution of Rayshard Brooks as “justified” — and the indictment is from the same Fulton County that indicted Brooks’ killers
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the cop city fight is one of the most important challenges to the supremacy of the security state in living memory, and the fact that they are going after it with this much repressive force shows that they know this
Georgia has filed RICO charges against 61 Stop Cop City activists, marking the state's latest escalation of an authoritarian crackdown on the movement. Organizers say the charges send the message that "any dissent to Cop City will be punished with the full power and violence of the government."
Cop City Protesters Hit With RICO Charges in Latest Act of Political Repression
The RICO charges levied against Stop Cop City protesters can result in a fine or a five to 20 year prison sentence in Georgia.
theappeal.org
September 5, 2023 at 8:05 PM
the cop city fight is one of the most important challenges to the supremacy of the security state in living memory, and the fact that they are going after it with this much repressive force shows that they know this
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it's true that Labor Day is in some sense a fake labor day for cops compared to the REAL labor day (May 1), but also we don't have enough holidays and we should just work towards having two labor-based holidays the same way we have two "salute da vets" holidays
September 4, 2023 at 3:41 PM
it's true that Labor Day is in some sense a fake labor day for cops compared to the REAL labor day (May 1), but also we don't have enough holidays and we should just work towards having two labor-based holidays the same way we have two "salute da vets" holidays