is it ethical/worthwhile to *incentivize* people to join PTA/come to meetings by giving away a $50 HEB gift card to one person who comes to the in-person meeting each month?
ashley fairbanks
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asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
ok so now we all have to make sure that AES wins in MI in November so the libs have to shut up already Holscher in kansas too gotta show that anti-billionaire candidates are as electable as we’ve known they are
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ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 13h agotell me about your town’s weird mall
i keep eating the spiciest tteokbokki. it is all i want to eat even though it hurts so so much. i think i go into a little haze. a spicy alternate reality.
the hair salon appointment is in 48 minutes. will it be a chop or a trim? only time will tell.
our rent is currently adjusted because our casita is unliveable. but the management co keeps forgetting to change the rent online. yesterday i ask again: adjust the rent so i can pay it. no response. today: email, rate adjusted, and they added a $312 late fee. i should 100% not pay that, right?
oh my god will one of you talk about the judy chicago reference in the orange county tablescape contest
episode 2 of the OC Fair tablescape competition is here and Marlena, my love…a word in my office please
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my kid was freaking out because we spent the afternoon thrifting in the western suburbs of Minneapolis and we did not see *one* person of color she often worries that no one clocks her as mexican and now she really understands why i tell her she is not white passing in all white spaces
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
guys help, oh no, our new house charges pet rent and it has been months and waffles hasn’t been able to find a job to pay his $40/month. today i found pictures on his iPawd. i think he’s been trying to make his rent money on OnlyPups. 😭
i just want to go a whole day where i don’t have perfect day (from legally blonde, not lou reed) stuck in my head
The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists who oppose the Trump administration's deportation agenda. n.pr/3TyDYsK
The DOJ is increasingly charging ICE protesters with criminal conspiracy
The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists who oppose the Trump administration's deportation agenda.
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The 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.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Relief efforts for Northwest fires: ‘The whole rez is on fire’ As wildfires burn through Native nations in OR and WA, communities have banded together to set up sites to donate and support families impacted by the fires. How to help details are in article. ictnews.org/news/northwe...
Relief efforts for Northwest fires: ‘The whole rez is on fire’ - ICT
As wildfires burn through Native nations in Oregon and Washington, communities across both states have banded together to set up sites to donate and support families impacted by the fires.
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the most critical question plaguing women right now: should i get a bob?
it’s weird to be back in minnesota and be like wtf do yall even eat for breakfast? no tacos?! no kolaches?!
thinking about becoming an atmospheric designer & olfactory curator for the wealthy how do we design the scent for your home that allows you to operate at peak performance? what smells do you want your grandchildren to remember in your home? scent is the strongest sense, you know.
there should be summer camps for husbands mine would like a ranch camp. so he could ride a horse and eat beans around a campfire.
did people already emergency buy up the nut goodies because pearsons is closing??? i cannot find a fucking nut goodie anywhere in this town
i got back to my besties house and fried her up a piece of frybread and made the fanciest frybread taco with the bison adovada and lentils from indígena it was so glorious, even though it felt incredibly sacrilegious to our beautiful indigenous food systems reclamation establishment. so. so. good.
it does feel like the silliest, bougiest modern native thing, to win a jackpot at mystic lake and use the money to take your family to a feast at Indigena by Owamni an entire salmon skin as a cracker! what!
people love to leave out that you can’t really do serious harm reduction without also housing people wild, that people ALSO need a safe place to sleep, to eat, to have stability, in addition to needing safe injection sites and clean needles almost like we should call things…basic..needs…
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d agoIt was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.