J. Smith
@jooltman.bsky.social
Professional Citizen. Adores Poetry/Bikes/Textiles.
Good. (Because rich New Yorkers might think twice before abandoning their cars over vacations.) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/n...
The New York City Parking Sticker of Shame Is Back
After 14 years, the city has returned to slapping bright stickers on cars that do not move for street sweepers.
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It’s nice @cmrestler.bsky.social that she got to eat a superlative croissant, but did you tell her there is no small business on a dead planet? @governor.ny.gov sabotaging our hard won climate laws should preclude her from Montague treats.
I am a grown ass woman (5’6”) and can’t believe we have to share our streets with vehicles like this. This should be an automatic tow and crush. @usdot.bsky.social
It's official: @wewill2026.bsky.social campaign has knocked 100k voters' doors. Tens of thousands of doors is hard work, but Sunrise volunteers are FIRED UP. This is what a grassroots campaign looks like!!
This American girl will grow up without her father. What has been gained?
Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 2d agoA 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
counterpoint: I would really like it, actually, if my taxes went to subsidizing helpful services for those in need.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Haitian TPS holders walk out with a fitted ankle monitors after mandatory ICE office check in at Blue Ash Ohio facility. After Supreme Court decision to terminal Temporary Protective Status, many Haitian community members received notices to appear at the location.
One thing I document in my book is that companies that engage in slave labor are also going to have all kinds of other health, safety, and labor violations.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d agoThe diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
Just a cute potato. (At the Nederland Mountain People food coop.)
Mistakenly staying at ICE-loving Hilton brand hotel (via hidden bargain rate) and the room art is especially creepy towards women which tracks.
Leveled up bollard game in Boulder, CO. Really attractive, yet entirely immovable.
Perhaps the most genius use of a babybel ever.
Assistant@assistant.bandcamp.com · last wk.A debut short film by my son, 6. It is called “Splat Man”. Worth having the sound on.
Always appreciate when people make the street safety signs municipalities should be making.
The medical deprivation described in this ICE facility report are EXACTLY those at FCI Danbury camp for non-violent women. In addition, we had a “doctor” who influcted unnecessary internal exams during which he intentionally would butcher women’s sexual organs. apple.news/AAxDTVffXQnq...
‘Nightmarish’: Report exposes medical failures at California ICE detention center — San Francisco Chronicle
A court-appointed doctor charged with investigating the standard of medical care at California's largest ICE detention center issued a searing indictment of the facility’s health care system in a repo...
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Who has favorite places to cool off near Boulder? It’s going to be very hot when we visit soon. #heatdome
While new, meaningless wars exacerbate #climatechange, that same climate change is fueling extreme weather which is causing fires that are exploding leftovers from old wars. Head spinning twist cone of human stupidity and destruction. apple.news/AtAI9rtIhS5S...
France and Spain race to curb wildfires before new heatwave arrives — Reuters
Firefighters sought on Monday to take advantage of more favourable weather conditions to subdue massive wildfires threatening the French city and tourist region of Bordeaux and a number of sites in n...
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Doing my little part to make this less quiet. Six hundred Americans injured for no reason. 38 billion dollars for nothing. All of it illegal. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Pentagon reports more than 600 Iran war casualties in quiet database update
Figures are source of dispute as US defense department days ago reduced record of troops killed and wounded
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The thing about Lotus, it gets stuck in your teeth. But I guess you don’t care.
I once worked for a stapler thrower and can say with certainty, the kind of man who responds to stress by throwing hard objects at a young employee is unfit to lead anything, much less the party apparatus standing between us and fascism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party
The Democrats should be well positioned to make gains in this year’s midterms. But inside party headquarters, every week brings paranoia, worries about money and, on occasion, emotional eruptions.
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Ironic because of all the petrochemical and petrostate sponsorships: Tour de France shortened the final stage in a spirit of national solidarity due to wildfires in southwest France, also because officers initially mobilized to provide security for the race are needed in areas affected by the fire.
Tour de France final stage to be shortened due to wildfires
Organizers said they would shorten and adapt tomorrow's stage 'in a spirit of national solidarity.'
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El Niño is a major threat to our safety but elected leaders aren't preparing. Join scientists, meteorologists, and concerned citizens who are telling elected leaders to protect us: elninowarning.com?source=blues...
El Niño Warning Letter | Public officials: Stop ignoring, start preparing.
This El Niño is a public safety emergency. Join the open letter from scientists, meteorologists, and concerned citizens.
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Donuts over Brooklyn at 300 ft.? Is this an unmarked NYPD craft or some other run of the mill psycho pilot? Who knows given how unregulated helicopter traffic in NYC is! @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @stopthechopnynj.bsky.social
Among the many great things about this clip, the best is the kindness and respect with which @aoc.bsky.social greets her young admirer at the very end. More decent people in office, please.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2w agoReporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism? AOC: They want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here
Just received this from immigration attorney Mo Goldman. This is why ICE is in the airports. Please share! @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Why does @nytimes.com think the world cares about what one demographic is doing enough to warrant not one but two front page articles? (Aside: If they dislike work and sex, what are they doing?)
Asked NYPD to provide some trafffic enforcement during emergency @nycwater.bsky.social repairs last night to manage irate drivers, protect pedestrians. Patrol Borough South told me “There aren’t any extra officers ‘these days’.” LOL there are 35k of them!!! Do your damn jobs. @mayor.nyc.gov
This person doesn’t allow comments or quote posts, so just saying here that it’s hysterical to imagine ONLY Nolan having this extremely pervasive and reasonable fear.
No training at the ICE facility in Maine Markey visited. What other job in the US provides no training?
Senator Ed Markey@markey.senate.gov · 3w agoToday I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.
"DHS/ICE should have NO ROLE WHATSOEVER in the state election administration." @amandacarpenter.bsky.social art by @anntelnaes.bsky.social
Amanda Carpenter@amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 3w agoThis, to me, is the important part of the speech that mattered. Trump clearly wants DHS to take a greater role in interfering in elections. DHS should have NO ROLE WHATSOEVER in the state election administration. PERIOD.