Cliff Poole 🌹
@cpoolenyc.bsky.social
Inwood NYC Dad, husband, writer, sometime-activist. I enjoy hiking, reading, art museums, video games & not living under fascism. Pro democracy, unions, LGBTQ+ rights, racial justice and non-carceral means to public safety.
The business of "A.i." is based on a lack of consent. The corporations pushing it don't ask if anyone wants it; they force it on us. They use it to surveil. They offer it to creeps to create nudes of others without permission. It's a business run by creeps with the ethics of creeps.
"A.i." is a tool of exploitative capitalism, not a leveler or equalizer. Its function is fraud and exploitation, not liberation.
“Sandwich guy case” “Harvard clawed frog embryo smuggling case” “Olympic canoeist reflecting pool vandalism case” “James Comey seashells Instagram post case” New rule: If the case sounds like a Mad Libs story, it’s probably about to implode.
people will post anything on the internet “not reeking like hot garbage in the summer and having rats crawling all over your feet as you stroll the sidewalks is gentrification” no it’s not, that isn’t trueb
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · 4d agoFound maybe the worst take in history
"Hey, have you thought about arresting drug users?" isn't a bold new idea, it is what we did for decades — and are still doing. Powell even admits this: The new mayor is doing encampment sweeps... Just like the last mayor. And the one before that.
It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs
Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”
theatlantic.com
I just did this. It was quick and easy. Please help send a message to the mayor that we need an AI moratorium in NYC schools!
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 5d agoHey, friends! I put my big face in a video like the kids do! Time to join the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and tell @mayor.nyc.gov to enact a moratorium on "A.i." in the schools! Please share - and please tell the mayor you want a moratorium! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
Hey, friends! I put my big face in a video like the kids do! Time to join the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and tell @mayor.nyc.gov to enact a moratorium on "A.i." in the schools! Please share - and please tell the mayor you want a moratorium! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
I am so fucking angry about this I can’t even put words around it.
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 6d agoHaley Stevens quote-tweeting a clip from an interview with Abdul El-Sayed: “Everyone in America understands you want to blame all of your problems on Jewish Americans.”
We're using City-owned land to build the affordable homes New Yorkers need.
I wrote about how the Israeli government rushed to blame Mamdani for an unrelated antisemitic attack in New York - even while they also rushed to absolve Trump for the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, for which he bore far greater responsibility. forward.com/opinion/8409...
Israel's government doesn't want to protect American Jews. It wants to use us.
Leaders’ silence when the Tree of Life massacre followed Trump’s anti-immigration tirades speaks volumes about the current campaign to tie Mamdani to a violent attack.
forward.com
We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis
A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.
theatlantic.com
it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank
the thing that scares the middle and right so much about DSA is that they don't believe in oligarchy. the idea that the richest have not earned the right to govern the rest of us is the thing that makes them furious.
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 6d agoRemember Chris Cillizza? He’s sweating.
Funny how the Emoluments Clause just isn’t a thing anymore. If the president can just negate parts of the Constitution they don’t like, can the next Dem president just decide that the Second Amendment isn’t a thing anymore because we don’t feel like it?
Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 6d agolol okay www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...
This is a massive scandal. Not "should be," but "is."
Ways and Means Committee Democrats@waysmeanscmte.bsky.social · 6d agoEvery day, this Administration unlocks new levels of corruption never thought possible. At a time when families are struggling to stay afloat, they’re being denied jobs and opportunities by their president because of their political views.
The Islamophobia **FROM THE TOP** coming out of Michigan is one of the biggest stains on the modern Democratic Party.
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · last wk.This is absolutely insane, imagine if a progressive elected official was refusing to support Haley Stevens if she won! You’d never hear the end of it. Centrists are the ones who are dividing the Democratic Party with their Islamophobia and purity tests.
This is absolutely insane, imagine if a progressive elected official was refusing to support Haley Stevens if she won! You’d never hear the end of it. Centrists are the ones who are dividing the Democratic Party with their Islamophobia and purity tests.
man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
“You saved millions of lives, but I had to stop going to TGI Fridays for three months and I will never ever stop being mad about that!”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
american jewish leaders had every chance to resist netanyahu’s continued role as israeli premier after it became clear that he was essentially responsible for oct 7 and ordered unbridled bloodshed in an effort to clean up his mess, making it far worse, but instead they chose to be his backstop
Julie Zebrak@juliezebrak.bsky.social · 2w ago“Mamdani’s theatrics are 1 more sign of how untethered the American conversation abt Israel has become from what’s actually at stake on the ground. American Jews should stop reacting to him & start paying attention to people w power to actually change Israel’s future.” forward.com/opinion/8403...
Our government should stop killing people in pursuit of ethnic cleansing. I would like to vote for Democrats who share this belief, and it seems like an incredibly low bar.
BlueCollarJazz@domguan.bsky.social · 2w agoNear the ICE facility in Broadview, IL, protesters just marched again in memory of those killed by immigration enforcement. Marchers hold tombstone signs labeled with, and recite the names of over 200 dead since 2018.
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
“Work and pray (Work and pray), live on hay (Live on hay) You'll get pie in the sky when you die (That's a lie!)” -Joe Hill
Ms. Wong@mauiwong.bsky.social · 2w ago“The people that built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky." —Nina Simone
It's right to be outraged. Just as it's right to be outraged when ICE guns someone down. But I also want us to remember all of the people dying due to deplorable conditions in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers, bc they are also being murdered by the state.
🧵 Suggesting that Mayor Mamdani's positions on Israeli government actions stem from a deep-seated hatred of Jews is unfounded, inflammatory, and divisive. 1/3
