Kristi Riley
@itstheriles.bsky.social
Abolitionist. Feminist. Gemini. CUNY GC Sociology PhD candidate.
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The cops shot and killed an activist during STOP COP CITY and then the state criminalized the protesters for indicting over 60 people on RICO charges... THAT IS STILL HAPPENING NOW. Those charges have not been dismissed. The first trials are underway.
December 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The cops shot and killed an activist during STOP COP CITY and then the state criminalized the protesters for indicting over 60 people on RICO charges... THAT IS STILL HAPPENING NOW. Those charges have not been dismissed. The first trials are underway.
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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I'd like to speak to an expert who could help explain the implications of classifying fentanyl as a WMD. Drop your recommendations or reach out.
December 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I'd like to speak to an expert who could help explain the implications of classifying fentanyl as a WMD. Drop your recommendations or reach out.
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instead of foisting AI on us... how about they just fix search?
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
instead of foisting AI on us... how about they just fix search?
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Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.
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Be safe out there today, friends. If you see anything particularly notable or experience any major issues, contact me on Signal at marisakabas.04
October 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Be safe out there today, friends. If you see anything particularly notable or experience any major issues, contact me on Signal at marisakabas.04
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Even those with insurance will have to travel further to get both primary care and urgent care. People will delay care, others won’t get it at all.
There will be health care deserts.
People will die.
There will be health care deserts.
People will die.
October 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Even those with insurance will have to travel further to get both primary care and urgent care. People will delay care, others won’t get it at all.
There will be health care deserts.
People will die.
There will be health care deserts.
People will die.
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🧵 regarding the shutdown:
The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.
If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.
The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.
If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.
October 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
🧵 regarding the shutdown:
The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.
If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.
The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.
If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.
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Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.
October 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.
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Glad to be working with UMedics on a protester health and safety training tomorrow. We need more of these around the city. We’ve got great street medics in Chicago, but we’ve learned lately that we need more people to know the basics of how to care for each other in protest scenarios.
October 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Glad to be working with UMedics on a protester health and safety training tomorrow. We need more of these around the city. We’ve got great street medics in Chicago, but we’ve learned lately that we need more people to know the basics of how to care for each other in protest scenarios.
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We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.
October 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.
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Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.
State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.
October 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.
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This would be a fascinating paper.
I would surmise that ~80% of these new lexical tropes are just ways for people to avoid using words like “Nazi” and “fascist” and “coup” because we’re all still worried it makes us sound crazy/histrionic + irrational fear that naming something makes it true.
I would surmise that ~80% of these new lexical tropes are just ways for people to avoid using words like “Nazi” and “fascist” and “coup” because we’re all still worried it makes us sound crazy/histrionic + irrational fear that naming something makes it true.
Someone could and maybe should write a paper on the developing lexicon for talking about This Moment, especially in higherEd and non-profit type spaces.
Maybe that already exists? But it’s wild to me how I go to meetings full of people who say things like, “all of this” and “these times” etc.
Maybe that already exists? But it’s wild to me how I go to meetings full of people who say things like, “all of this” and “these times” etc.
September 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This would be a fascinating paper.
I would surmise that ~80% of these new lexical tropes are just ways for people to avoid using words like “Nazi” and “fascist” and “coup” because we’re all still worried it makes us sound crazy/histrionic + irrational fear that naming something makes it true.
I would surmise that ~80% of these new lexical tropes are just ways for people to avoid using words like “Nazi” and “fascist” and “coup” because we’re all still worried it makes us sound crazy/histrionic + irrational fear that naming something makes it true.
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the other half of this that I've never really gotten over: this all but explicitly amounts to valorizing being "asleep". people are really out here wielding "I have no idea what's going on, historically speaking" as a credential
This is, after all, the original and authentic meaning of "stay woke." In fact, the perversion of "woke" into an epithet is perhaps the defining metaphor of our moment: Historical victims are not only being revictimized, but also mocked for never forgetting this is always a possibility in the US.
September 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
the other half of this that I've never really gotten over: this all but explicitly amounts to valorizing being "asleep". people are really out here wielding "I have no idea what's going on, historically speaking" as a credential
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Her wisdom and bravery continue to guide us and all those struggling to free oppressed peoples.
open.substack.com/pub/phillewi...
open.substack.com/pub/phillewi...
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
open.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Her wisdom and bravery continue to guide us and all those struggling to free oppressed peoples.
open.substack.com/pub/phillewi...
open.substack.com/pub/phillewi...
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Menstrual products can be a huge help, too! And are covered by FSA funds, in case you’re starting to think about use-it-or-loose-it season.
Trying to connect with your unhoused neighbors? Here’s supplies we’ve found are always welcome & needed:
- socks
- bug spray in summer
- hand warmers in winter
- batteries (AA & AAA always, D or C for fans & radios)
- water
Pack em in a ziploc, bring a $5 & go meet your neighbors that live outside
- socks
- bug spray in summer
- hand warmers in winter
- batteries (AA & AAA always, D or C for fans & radios)
- water
Pack em in a ziploc, bring a $5 & go meet your neighbors that live outside
September 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Menstrual products can be a huge help, too! And are covered by FSA funds, in case you’re starting to think about use-it-or-loose-it season.
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I absolutely cannot fathom living my life in such a way that leads me to have strong feelings about the Cracker Barrel logo.
August 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I absolutely cannot fathom living my life in such a way that leads me to have strong feelings about the Cracker Barrel logo.
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Additionally no other country on earth has the policing capability of the U.S. And those of us who have spent our adult lives warning about what this would mean, can only say that people should have moved decades ago to shrink law enforcement and in some of our estimation to abolish it.
August 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Additionally no other country on earth has the policing capability of the U.S. And those of us who have spent our adult lives warning about what this would mean, can only say that people should have moved decades ago to shrink law enforcement and in some of our estimation to abolish it.
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If you live in NYC and you care about our public libraries, SAVE Oct 4 to attend NYC Public Library Action Network's People's Assembly in Manhattan. This is a place for you if you want to learn how public libraries function and want to actually organize to expand and strengthen them. More soon,
August 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If you live in NYC and you care about our public libraries, SAVE Oct 4 to attend NYC Public Library Action Network's People's Assembly in Manhattan. This is a place for you if you want to learn how public libraries function and want to actually organize to expand and strengthen them. More soon,
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FYI: I'm currently in the process of interviewing and hiring a virtual assistant with a 9/1 start date. If you are U.S. based, have experience assisting academics, can provide references and/or know someone who might be a good fit, feel free to reach out! Finding my email address isn't difficult..
August 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
FYI: I'm currently in the process of interviewing and hiring a virtual assistant with a 9/1 start date. If you are U.S. based, have experience assisting academics, can provide references and/or know someone who might be a good fit, feel free to reach out! Finding my email address isn't difficult..