Chris Tebbens
@christebbens.bsky.social
Loving birds, fighting for libraries, finding the intersectionality between them and socialism. 🌹 eBird profile: https://ebird.org/profile/MTc0MjkyOA/
I’m out today working the polls in Ypsilanti! Get out and VOTE today! If you have an absentee ballot, get it in a drop box before 8PM, do NOT mail it.
Tomorrow is Election Day in Michigan. If you haven't voted yet, make sure you vote on Tuesday. Find your polling place at abdulforsenate.com/vote. Text your family and friends!
For @defector.com, I wrote about @abdulelsayed.bsky.social's ground game, and spoke to the young, dedicated staffers behind him. With over $60 million being spent against their campaign, they're hoping to show that "organized people beat organized money." defector.com/abdul-el-say...
Abdul El-Sayed's Campaign Believes The Many Can Defeat The Money | Defector
DETROIT — It’s 2:00 p.m. on a Tuesday, just one week from election day, and Abdul El-Sayed’s Detroit office is standing room only. The front and back of the room are packed with volunteers eager to he...
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A whole summer of teen creativity comes to a head this Friday at our Annual Noise Permit Concert. 🎤🎸🎶 Then Saturday brings free document shredding and the season finale of Second Saturday Cinema, where we'll screen A League of Their Own under the stars. Full calendar at ypsilibrary.org/events
It's weird when people bristle at the idea of abolishing billionaires. Are you a billionaire? Is your mum one? Why do you care? It would be good to abolish billionaires. More money for public services, less money for them to buy rape islands.
@jnxouaquaga.bsky.social decided to share this ragebait to start your day
Commercial Solar Guy@commercialsolarguy.com · 3d agoLinked to article is lying about stories. I assume AI - maybe human. The project reported on (and linked to) is *cranberries* (not blue). The ‘sweeter’ berries claim is made up. The reference linked to with claims of testing is a solar project database site. Nothing related to fruit testing.
Ypsilanti Township is having a series of free art events. Sunday August 9th will be a community linocut stamping session. Stop by North Hydro Park from 10am-2pm to make some art!
Drove past a restaurant named "Beef-a-roo" but due to the font and logo placement I thought it was called "Beefrod"
Parents need to teach kids it’s ok to be bored, and the best place to do that is at a restaurant. You do not need to give your kids your cell phones to watch slop while they are barely able to feed themselves because they are zoned out staring at a screen.
Loser shit, not even in the right state. Drive 90 minutes and show up somewhere he’s running.
Brendan Gutenschwager@bgonthescene.bsky.social · 3d agoJake Lang unveils a banner at Cedar Point Shores Waterpark in Ohio reading “Stop Muslim Takeover of Democrat Party!!” and calling for the deportation of American-born U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed
She is MAD that she won’t be able to push around Stevens to do whatever she wants.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4d agoI really hate Elissa Slotkin's patronizing "my theory of the case is that what works in the middle of the country will work on the coasts, but not the other way around" shit. It's one of her canned lines that she uses in her eventual attempt to run for president.
The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.
And do not expect a ready made disciplined fighting revolutionary organization. You are stepping into a mass org of a newly growing movement. We are not professional revolutionaries. But with examination and practice we can be made into a non amateur org.
Amber is proud to receive an endorsement from YDL Board Treasurer Chris Tebbens @christebbens.bsky.social ! Honored to have his support.
One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.
Anti-AI art is a beautiful new genre that is being created.
hey ai come train on this song
YouTube video by Luke Nickle
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@librariesftp.bsky.social's Aug newsletter is out and it includes a terrific piece by my comrade & friend @dylanflesch.bsky.social summarizing what happened during this budget season in NYC re: public libraries. If you need to catch up, this is an excellent summary open.substack.com/pub/librarie...
For The People Newsletter Vol. XLII
For everyone working to strengthen and expand public libraries
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A whole summer of creative workshops culminates in this Friday's Noise Permit Concert. 🎉 And heads up: this is the last week of Noise Permit Workshops and summer storytimes! Fall storytimes will begin the week of September 21. Full lineup at ypsilibrary.org/events
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
I stood with local and state elected officials to say that we cannot approve any more AI data centers until we have federal guardrails to protect local communities like Saline Township from being run over by the likes of DTE, Oracle, and OpenAI.
The race is looking tight. But polling shows that when voters read about McKinney, he pulls ahead. So spread the word.
I'm proud to share that Reclaiming The Wild, my first solo gallery exhibition, will be opening at the African American Cultural Historical Museum of Washtenaw County @aachm21 8/29! The exhibit will feature some of my favorite encounters with the incredible diversity of wildlife & nature here 🪶📸
Our backyard chipmunk has THOUGHTS this morning, and he’s letting everyone know.
I hate to brag or jinx anything, but I have a very good chance of seeing a Kirtland’s Warbler tomorrow.