Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisNina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Boycotting Target is the correct thing to do. We also must ensure the Black & other minority-owned businesses that sell their products in Target are supported. It’s important to note that Target is rolling back the program that brought so many of these brands to their stores. 🧵 16653101
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisDetroit Greenways Coalition @detroitgreenways.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Some bad news: MDOT $17.5m Reconnecting Communities funding request for repairing/replacing five Lodge pedestrian bridges was *not* awarded. Waiting to hear about next steps. Grandmont-Rosedale Streetscape Design, RTA Woodward transit & I-375 planning grants also not funded.buff.ly 232
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Making art makes me feel better. But to make art I have to feel better. What is this nonsense. 2334981573
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashestechcrunch.comExclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, FlashesMore good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a 20075961667
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisThe Detroit News @detroitnews.com · 15/12/2024Metro Detroiters driving through Southfield were in high spirits despite low temperatures on Saturday as activists, firefighters, police officers and city officials distributed free children's holiday gifts to families in need. Demetrius Williams, 53,… #MetroDetroit #HolidayGiving #Christmas2023detne.wsMetro Detroiters in need line up for Holiday Sleigh of GivingMetro Detroiters driving through Southfield were in high spirits despite low temperatures on Saturday as activists, firefighters, police officers and city officials distributed free children's holiday gifts to families in need. Demetrius Williams, 53,… 041
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Hey all, I’ve been co-coordinating a journalism workshop for DMV-area high school students for the last few years and applications have opened for next year’s program. It’s completely free. Please share with someone you know!wabjdc.orgUrban Journalism WorkshopAbout UJW The Urban Journalism Workshop (UJW) is an annual program that teaches D.C. area high school students the fundamentals of journalism through interactive lectures, hands-on training, and field... 121065648
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14/12/2024In the US billionaires and their corrupt politician lackeys sell the school shooters the weapons then put all the victims into lifelong medical debt, then gaslight them while praising God. All along the way they squeeze hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions from the entire process. 1063396880
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisis☮☮😸😸☮☮ @catsforpeace2.bsky.social · 14/12/2024We MUST keep vaccines. have you written your Senator to let them know? 354367805952
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisAmy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 15/12/2024Cancer is a common cause of line-of-duty death for firefighters. We worked across the aisle to reauthorize the Firefighter Cancer Registry so we can improve research into health and safety standards for these heroes who put their lives on the line for us every day. 390157361720
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/12/2024In Washington, DC, a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.npr.orgHow D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the richIn Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment. 432610594
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisLake @lakerjones.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Crazy how this keeps happening to whistleblowers 11594
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisis🔞📛 illegal lesbian woman @180426900727261gay.bsky.social · 15/12/2024clearly we need to address the mental health crisis in the whistleblower community 1621
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Key OpenAI whistleblower found dead by apparent suicidesfstandard.comKey OpenAI whistleblower found dead by suicide in SF apartmentPolice found Suchir Balaji, 26, dead in his Lower Haight apartment last month. 53976322
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/12/2024To no one's surprise, RFK Jr's weird job application which asks people if they like poetry, want to have sex or have ever had bizarre fantasies, was created by Jordan Peterson. Peterson, who Trudeau recently testified under oath is a paid propagandist for Putin, has left Canada and moved to the US. 40661342220
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisProPublica @propublica.org · 24/11/2024Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. We built a database so you can more easily search these organizations' finances — which we just updated with a total of ~350k new contributions and expenditures: propub.li/4i01FSv 391561626
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisProPublica @propublica.org · 24/11/2024A team of lawyers and public safety specialists has the power to recommend that Chicago and its police department be punished for failing to meet the terms of its court-ordered reforms. Despite pleas from reform groups, it has never done so.propub.liIn Five Years, Chicago Has Barely Made Progress on Its Court-Ordered Police Reforms. Here’s Why.Chicago police agreed to judicial oversight in 2019. Since then, a series of mayors and police chiefs let efforts languish and no one in a position of oversight has pushed forcefully to keep the… 15563133
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Louisiana Pro-Trump lawmakers passed income and corporate tax cuts, raising the statewide sales tax to pay for it. They are making the poor pay more while the rich pay less, and this is only going to get worse for the rest of the US.apnews.comLouisiana lawmakers pass income and corporate tax cuts, raising statewide sales tax to pay for itLouisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income on Friday in exchange for a statewide sales tax increase. 931863729
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisProPublica @propublica.org · 25/11/2024What happens inside America's vast network of privately run deportation flights? Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.propub.liAt Seattle’s Boeing Field, Real-Time Video Offers a Rare Glimpse of America’s Troubled Deportation FlightsKey details about what happens inside ICE Air would still be hidden if not for a group of Washington activists and researchers, who are now using a live video feed from the tarmac to document the… 20677277
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/11/2024YouTube is out of control with the ads these days. I got hit was 4 ads for a 3 minute video! 4215191478
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisProPublica @propublica.org · 25/11/2024NEW: From 2018 through 2022, Palatine, Illinois, police ticketed students nearly 400 times. Black and Latino students sometimes received tickets when white students were given lesser punishments or offered help to cope with substance use, the probe found.propub.liIllinois’ AG Said It’s Illegal for Schools to Use Police to Ticket Students. But His Office Told Only One District.Despite the attorney general’s declaration that Illinois schools should stop using police to discipline students, officers statewide continue to ticket kids with costly fines. One lawmaker will again… 15515160
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024"An unidentified hacker has reportedly gained access to a computer file shared in a secure link among lawyers whose clients have given damaging testimony related to Matt Gaetz"nytimes.comHacker Is Said to Have Gained Access to File With Damaging Testimony About GaetzThe computer file is said to contain testimony from the woman who said she had sex with Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be attorney general, when she was 17. 771863347
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisCoronado31 @debiburns31.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Thanks! Found it and officially deactivated! 021
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Number of older adults who lost $100,000 or more to fraud has tripled since 2020, FTC sayscnbc.comNumber of older adults who lost $100,000 or more to fraud has tripled since 2020, FTC saysAdults age 60 and older are especially devastated by big fraud losses because they have less scope to recover those funds. 41962272
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisChiara De Franco @chiara-defranco.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Being here and no longer on X as a small act of resistance 22813659813
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024The DOJ reportedly plans to ask a federal judge to force Google to sell off its Chrome browser to break search monopolybloomberg.comDOJ Will Push Google to Sell off Chrome to Break Search MonopolyTop Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the biggest tech c... 34850177
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18/11/2024It's not a difference of political opinions if the opposing side's opinion is that you aren't human or shouldn't exist. That's not how anything works. 238173783183
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisDurand Bernarr @durandbernarr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Update: “Man, can we work?” - Usher? Me: 1493065458
Reposted by FlintWaterCrisisDurand Bernarr @durandbernarr.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Alright y’all, Are we gon’ be tf still or what? 8680892