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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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2025 is on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst year for pedestrian crashes. We talk with @crashesinannarbor.bsky.social's Peter Houk who complied these data.
#a2Council
www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/2025...
#a2Council
www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/2025...
2025 on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst for pedestrian crashes: an interview with Crashes in Ann Arbor's Peter Houk
Serious and fatal pedestrian crashes by year from Crashes in Ann Arbor . 2025 data is year to date. Ann Arbor has an ambitious Vision Zero ...
www.damnarbor.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
2025 is on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst year for pedestrian crashes. We talk with @crashesinannarbor.bsky.social's Peter Houk who complied these data.
#a2Council
www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/2025...
#a2Council
www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/2025...
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Great to see Michigan’s Dana Nessel on this list.
On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
www.assignedmedia.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Great to see Michigan’s Dana Nessel on this list.
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This is what privacy advocates have been warning about for a long time. Locally, despite attempts at a ban Ann Arbor has a facial recognition policy that’s basically “yup, we use facial recognition.” Ditto drones. Countywide, there has been public pushback against ALPRs it’s not settled. #a2council
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
September 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is what privacy advocates have been warning about for a long time. Locally, despite attempts at a ban Ann Arbor has a facial recognition policy that’s basically “yup, we use facial recognition.” Ditto drones. Countywide, there has been public pushback against ALPRs it’s not settled. #a2council
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The DSCC’s pick for MI senate is Haley “Endorsed non-Democrat Michael Bloomberg for President” Stevens. Vote McMorrow!
Politico reports that Senate Democrats are planning to spend the government shutdown holding a fundraiser at a Napa Valley luxury resort/spa and wine cave, where they will be bankrolling the conservative candidate that they are trying to buy Michigan's Democratic primary for.
September 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The DSCC’s pick for MI senate is Haley “Endorsed non-Democrat Michael Bloomberg for President” Stevens. Vote McMorrow!
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NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
www.404media.co
September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
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genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.
September 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.
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donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
www.washingtonpost.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Someone should post this to the Ann Arbor Reddit. I’ve seen so many posts claiming that Dunbar Towers will be bad actually bc people who are homeless are all criminals and drug users who are unhoused because they are bad people. #a2council
The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity.
As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support.
apnews.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Someone should post this to the Ann Arbor Reddit. I’ve seen so many posts claiming that Dunbar Towers will be bad actually bc people who are homeless are all criminals and drug users who are unhoused because they are bad people. #a2council
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As universities are pushing students to use generative AI for all kinds of things, even going so far as to call it an “ethical responsibility,” I hope this will be a resource for people who supervise student workers and need to gently push back.
STPP asks our research assistants & experiential learning students not to use generative AI in their work with us. We created a one-pager explaining why the pitfalls of GenAI tools make them ill-suited for the partnerships and policy analysis that we do. stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/research/com...
Why we do not use generative AI in STPP
stpp.fordschool.umich.edu
September 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As universities are pushing students to use generative AI for all kinds of things, even going so far as to call it an “ethical responsibility,” I hope this will be a resource for people who supervise student workers and need to gently push back.
Voting YES on A and B to solve two important Ann Arbor issues — paying for a new library without raising taxes *and* finally getting a well-managed outdoor plaza — and to help address another — more affordable housing.
July 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Voting YES on A and B to solve two important Ann Arbor issues — paying for a new library without raising taxes *and* finally getting a well-managed outdoor plaza — and to help address another — more affordable housing.
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I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court
The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.
ballsandstrikes.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
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Library Green supporters attacking A/B as lacking in “guarantees” is an awkward pivot for a group of ppl defending a project that has no $ and no plan, and who support an org whose former pres used to get high on camera during the official mtgs that #a2council set up to plan said project.
July 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Library Green supporters attacking A/B as lacking in “guarantees” is an awkward pivot for a group of ppl defending a project that has no $ and no plan, and who support an org whose former pres used to get high on camera during the official mtgs that #a2council set up to plan said project.
Happy to be of assistance! And very nice meeting you!
OK, we are back in business, thanks to @ivancich.bsky.social!
July 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Happy to be of assistance! And very nice meeting you!
Look, it’s not complicated. If we need more housing now we should have built it 100 years ago.
So many of Ann Arborites’ favorite spots would be illegal today — Jefferson Market, Washtenaw Dairy, and this lovely apartment building. Legalize housing and logical density! @moreneighborsa2.org
June 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Look, it’s not complicated. If we need more housing now we should have built it 100 years ago.
If Library Director Neiburger wasn't so nice & more willing to exercise raw political power, he'd move this to July & leverage used VHS tapes to flip some of the 70+ crowd, many of whom are now fighting tooth & nail against the most amazing possible new downtown library that won't need new taxes.
ha ha YES
Exhibitor and vendor applications are now open for AADL's first-ever Dead Media Day! Dead Media Day will feature everything from old TVs, VHS, audio cassettes, film, cameras and projectors, HiFi audio equipment, vintage electronics & video games, pulp novels, and more!
aadl.org/deadmediaday
aadl.org/deadmediaday
June 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
If Library Director Neiburger wasn't so nice & more willing to exercise raw political power, he'd move this to July & leverage used VHS tapes to flip some of the 70+ crowd, many of whom are now fighting tooth & nail against the most amazing possible new downtown library that won't need new taxes.
Nevertheless, she persists. And I count myself among the many who are grateful.
I’m a woman who advocates publicly for things like sidewalks and libraries, so my kids are getting used to old men yelling at me when we go places. #a2council
June 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Nevertheless, she persists. And I count myself among the many who are grateful.
Great explainer for what a Comp Plan is (and what it is not). www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj3fJtmo/
My city is in the midst of the first major comprehensive planning overhaul in decades. The City Council agreed unanimously that this plan needs to call for the addition of housing across Ann Arbor — i...
TikTok video by Neighborhood Institute
www.tiktok.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Great explainer for what a Comp Plan is (and what it is not). www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj3fJtmo/
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The Ann Arbor chapter of Neighbors for More Neighbors just updated their site—it’s beautiful and full of great info on the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, how to get involved, and why making room for more neighbors matters. #a2council
Check it out: www.moreneighborsa2.org
Check it out: www.moreneighborsa2.org
Home | Neighbors for More Neighbors A2
www.moreneighborsa2.org
June 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Ann Arbor chapter of Neighbors for More Neighbors just updated their site—it’s beautiful and full of great info on the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, how to get involved, and why making room for more neighbors matters. #a2council
Check it out: www.moreneighborsa2.org
Check it out: www.moreneighborsa2.org
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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
June 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
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it's unfathomably messed up that the president of the United States is using the power of his office to go after a single high school kid.
he is talking about a trans child in sports
May 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
it's unfathomably messed up that the president of the United States is using the power of his office to go after a single high school kid.
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#a2council, what do we think the Venn diagram of those who supported last year's proposals C&D + those who supported the parking lot into perpetuity + oppose the CLUP looks like?
May 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#a2council, what do we think the Venn diagram of those who supported last year's proposals C&D + those who supported the parking lot into perpetuity + oppose the CLUP looks like?
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The “Pause the Plan” campaign isn’t about better planning. It’s about stopping Ann Arbor from growing. 🧵 #a2council
May 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The “Pause the Plan” campaign isn’t about better planning. It’s about stopping Ann Arbor from growing. 🧵 #a2council
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This flyer undercuts trust in our public institutions.
At no point does it direct people to the *ongoing public engagement process,* the actual draft of #A2Council's comp plan, or how to sign up for more information.
To learn more, see engage.a2gov.org/comprehensiv...
At no point does it direct people to the *ongoing public engagement process,* the actual draft of #A2Council's comp plan, or how to sign up for more information.
To learn more, see engage.a2gov.org/comprehensiv...
April 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This flyer undercuts trust in our public institutions.
At no point does it direct people to the *ongoing public engagement process,* the actual draft of #A2Council's comp plan, or how to sign up for more information.
To learn more, see engage.a2gov.org/comprehensiv...
At no point does it direct people to the *ongoing public engagement process,* the actual draft of #A2Council's comp plan, or how to sign up for more information.
To learn more, see engage.a2gov.org/comprehensiv...