Reposted by Molly KleinmanGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/10/2026a thing anyone can do is look up jury nullification 6802219
Reposted by Molly KleinmanCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players. 31291211
Reposted by Molly KleinmanJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026new: A third-party surveillance company is telling cops that it wants to add facial recognition to Flock footage and ALPR reads to help them "close the gap" in what Flock offers. Company offers racial analysis, gender analysis, behavior analysis www.404media.co/surveillance...404media.coSurveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock CamerasA surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras. 511888
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I recently asked my kids what kinds of things they want me took cook for dinner, when I have the time and energy to cook. Kid 1: No more chicken! I don’t like it anymore. It’s gross. I can’t even look at it. I hate it. Chicken is the worst. Kid 2: I like all the things you make with chicken. 3110
Reposted by Molly KleinmanSandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ultimately defending trans children should be a no brainer, for Dems. 192
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I just realized I haven’t seen a single ad for the Michigan governor’s race for or against either candidate. It’s all senate all the time. I’m not 100% sure I even know who the Republican candidate is? I must. I literally just looked up my ballot today, but I scrolled straight to the local props. 260
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My kid was practicing Twinkle Twinkle variations and I learned that there’s now one called “Wish I Had a Million Takis.” It’s now stuck in my head to the tune of the BNL song. 🎵 If I had a million Takis (if I had a million Takis)… I’d be sick🎵 081
Reposted by Molly KleinmanAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542321628
Reposted by Molly KleinmanMore Neighbors Ann Arbor @moreneighborsa2.org · 21/09/2026Now you can easily contact all of #A2Council about road safety through this form. It only takes a minute. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...actionnetwork.orgTell City Council: Safety Can't WaitFill out this form and go to the next page to send an email to all City Council members. Show up at the Council meeting Tuesday for a rally and public comments. Share this message with friends! 🚸 S... 0128
Reposted by Molly KleinmanNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Fears of small AI drones autonomously killing civilians are a great example of this distortion. People are using small drones to kill civilians. Right now! I'm not saying no one should ever think about the possibility—I've written about it—but way more should focus on what's already happening. 1038344
Reposted by Molly KleinmanMore Neighbors Ann Arbor @moreneighborsa2.org · 16/09/2026Only a couple days until we convert a parking space on S. State at Liberty into a space for people, not cars! We'll have comfy furniture, activities, and friendly faces. Urbanism Club and Wolverines on Wheels will also have parklets. Come through! Then, find us at Green Fair on Main St. downtown! 0136
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Anti-safety advocates tried to stop the city from putting in this sidewalk on a route to 3 schools. They fought it at every step, driving in from across town to pack public meetings and the neighborhood walk-through. It’s exhausting having to battle for every foot of sidewalk. But we won! #a2council 98811
Reposted by Molly KleinmanYan Basque @yanbasque.com · 10/09/2026Everyone claiming this is an "accessibility feature" for Deaf people, I urge you to familiarize yourself with the term "disability dongle." blog.castac.org/2022/04/disa...blog.castac.orgDisability Dongle | PlatypusDisability Dongles are contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination by presenting a heroic designer-protagonist whose prototype provides a techno-utopian (re)solution to the design pr... 314379
Reposted by Molly KleinmanChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.” 12561121622
Reposted by Molly KleinmanShannon Hautamaki @smhred.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Returning to Ann Arbor from summering in France to speak out against the sale of a surface parking lot because it will become “luxury housing,” what a hero. #a2councilstatic.klipy.comMarie's Sassy Eye Roll (The Aristocats)ALT: Marie's Sassy Eye Roll (The Aristocats) 1263
Reposted by Molly KleinmanMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply. 212428516
Reposted by Molly KleinmanDr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026I live and work in a state where Jim Crow laws mean that public employees (like UNC system faculty) have no collective bargaining rights. The UN has declared that ban a violation of public employees’ human rights. My workplace is closed today for Labor Day but that feels kind of performative.ue150.orgCollective Bargaining - UE Local 150Collective bargaining is the basic process of negotiation between workers who have organized a union and their employer on issues such as wages, work rules and policies, child care, staffing ratios, health and safety on the job, benefits, insurance premiums, work schedules, vacation, etc. 1136
Reposted by Molly Kleinmankat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026are you in the greater detroit area? ann arbor, ypsi, and beyond? please take a class at book arts detroit www.bookartsdetroit.orgbookartsdetroit.orgCenter for the Book Arts DetroitBAD aims to foster community in the book arts and the mediums that make up the discipline. 1214
Reposted by Molly KleinmanTom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop. 3346831900
Reposted by Molly KleinmanAlex Contreras 🍉 @alexbikes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I will die on this hill - having a friendly archnemesis makes life so entertaining, if you don't have one yet get one. 091
Reposted by Molly KleinmanMark Madonna @awesomark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A brief history of Ann Arbor roads have too much traffic 🧵 #a2council 2245
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026My kingdom for a smoke detector that only alerts you about low batteries during daylight hours. 5252
Reposted by Molly KleinmanRacheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Anyway, someone talks shit about our mayor who was 9? Someone lauds goddamn Giuliani? Someone tells someone who was there the thing that happened couldn’t have happened? Someone tells you “homeland” isn’t a Nazi word? You give them a fuck you from NYC and you will be blessed by the pizza rat 2366
Reposted by Molly KleinmanHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026“In 15 years of studying policies undertaken in the name of safety, I’ve seen a clear pattern: Powers touted as required temporarily in a crisis become normalized. Meanwhile, the promised safety is never quantified or proven.”tampabay.comFlock sells fear. Government buys power. Citizens lose | ColumnA Tampa Bay economist explores the tension between safety and freedom. 522374
Reposted by Molly KleinmanScott Trudeau @sstrudeau.bsky.social · 31/08/2026#A2Council I've been seeing many hyperbolic posts and messages about the proposed Broadway Bridge/Division Bikeway changes with calls to contact Council, so I did. You can too. (The proposed changes are good) sstrudeau.com/posts/broadw...sstrudeau.comLetter: Broadway Bridge Reconfiguration Support 5327
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026✨Some personal news✨ Today I started a new role as managing director of the U-M Institute for Energy Solutions (IES) & the Great Lakes Energy Accelerator at Michigan (GLEAM). I’m grateful & excited to be moving into work on renewable energy; the week I accepted this job the AQI in Ann Arbor hit 500. 1250
Reposted by Molly KleinmanAnn Arbor District Library @aadl.org · 27/08/2026AADL will celebrate the amazing life of Dolly Parton with Dolly Day on 9/25 at the Downtown Library. More details as we get closer to the date! 013535
Reposted by Molly Kleinmaneli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 27/08/2026I hope you'll join us on, yes, 9-25 for Dolly Day to celebrate the life of this icon and legendary supporter of books and reading! Details to come. 0179
Reposted by Molly KleinmanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs. 333157669
Reposted by Molly KleinmanMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Rank and file Republicans are turning against LGBT acceptance and GOP politicians are leaning into bigotry in both rhetoric and policy. But it is you, the progressive queer or ally, who needs to open your mind and consider other people's feelings. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/... 484473576
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities. 0142
Reposted by Molly KleinmanHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026Ironclad surveillance dictum: any failure of surveillance tech will be used as a rationale for more surveillance tech, and any success of surveillance tech will also be used as a rationale for more surveillance tech.vanityfair.comExclusive: The Founders of Flock Say Their Surveillance Tech Would’ve Solved the Nancy Guthrie CaseIn their first joint interview at the company’s sleek but rather deserted HQ in Atlanta, Flock cofounders Garrett Langley and Paige Todd deflect all the criticism and lament that they haven’t megaphon... 17791227
Reposted by Molly KleinmanJennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 14/08/2026If you have teenagers: they aren't reading enough; keep them away from LLMs if you care about their cognitive functions & their mental health; betting apps should fucking terrify you and kids are using them. Talk to your kids/check their phones. 0617
Reposted by Molly KleinmanMelody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 05/08/2026">900 people in Washtenaw County, MI, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called >100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced." kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...kffhealthnews.orgNurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health NewsYes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p... 315378
Reposted by Molly KleinmanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs. 181659300
Reposted by Molly KleinmanAidan Sova @aidansova.bsky.social · 03/08/2026My first visit to Ann Arbor was as a boy. Raised by a single mother in poverty, I found even making the trip from the south side of Jackson to be a struggle. But arriving here, I was struck by the beauty, community, and simple fact that other kids were thriving in ways I was not. 🧵 #A2Council 1184
Reposted by Molly Kleinmandamnarbor.bsky.social @damnarbor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026#a2Council endorsements: There is still time to vote. If you want a more sustainable and more affordable Ann Arbor, vote for Taylor. www.damnarbor.com/2026/08/elec...damnarbor.comElection Endorsement: Reelect Mayor Taylor for a Progressive FutureThe short endorsement In recent months, rents in Ann Arbor have declined faster than the national average. Via: Realpage . Housing and affor... 33010
Reposted by Molly KleinmanFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/08/2026The kids are out here getting looks mogged when they could be getting books mogged, is what I’m saying 1256671
Reposted by Molly Kleinmanjj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 01/08/2026just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights 92441799
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Finally did what I always mean to do every time @mostlybree.kitrocha.com has a sale: Stocked up on cute fidgets for birthday presents! No more running out during the party to pick up random crap. Now my kids’ friends will receive only the highest quality 3d printed rainbow cupcake clickies. 130
Reposted by Molly KleinmanJesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️⚧️💗🏀💗 24666995
Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I keep saying that data centers are Democrats’ issue to lose, especially here in Michigan where the tax incentives passed last year sent us from almost none to dozens in the pipeline almost overnight. 120
Reposted by Molly KleinmanPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Haley Stevens is going to be Kyrsten Sinema in the Senate. Don't say you weren't warned. 412200409
Reposted by Molly KleinmanDani Finn 🐙 🏳️⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 26/07/2026“Fascism is on the rise in the US. Here’s why you should be concerned.” <substack link> 37819
Reposted by Molly KleinmanRachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/07/2026uh oh I’m emotional about the 72nd St. Q train mosaics again 241373265
Reposted by Molly KleinmanMore Neighbors Ann Arbor @moreneighborsa2.org · 22/07/2026More Neighbors A2 president @gmatthews.bsky.social spoke to @cbsdetroit.bsky.social about why this project benefits everyone in #AnnArbor. Our city should welcome people of all incomes. Projects like this mark important progress in making our vision a reality. #A2Council youtu.be/hWXFEvTtoWY?...youtu.beTax breaks approved for Ann Arbor affordable housing developmentYouTube video by CBS Detroit 1263
Reposted by Molly KleinmanKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/07/2026eliminating public transportation systems forced most American families to buy a second car. that was a government decision made for you before you were born. 2755234