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She was young and beautiful; she wore fine clothes, and was what is called a "lady." And she called him "comrade"! member www.socialists.nyc leadership www.housethefuture.com co-chair www.dsagnd.org

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 6d

DSA members wrapping up at the housing justice for all convention in stony point!

Approx 30 DSA members smiling to the camera with foliage behind

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 10d

"The goal of politics is not to get everyone to think alike, but instead, to get people who think differently to act alike."—Walter Lippman

nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 12d

the people kidnapping newlyweds are the badguys
bsky.app/profile/rafi...

Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 14d

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 12d

Across the US, transit agencies are staring down huge 'fiscal cliffs.' The popular explanation is Covid and inflation.

But experts say there are other, longer-term forces in play, from declining gas tax revenues to 'Baumol's cost disease.'

www.planetizen.com/features/136...

The Wave of Transit ‘Fiscal Cliffs,’ Explained

Covid and inflation played a role. But for many agencies, the crisis goes much deeper.

www.planetizen.com

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 12d

eh, my parents weren't really involved w me but it wasnt bc we were spoiled. i started working when i was 14 so bought my own games and cooked for my own meals (often spaghetti because it was low effort). my version of this pic is me fending for myself. i'm not super nostalgic for it tbh

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 12d

you can still watch TV and make spaghetti

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 12d

Almost two years after the MTA announce it would start using on-board bus cameras to ticket bike lane blockers, the program is nowhere in sight nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/29/o...

Out Of Focus: MTA Slow-Walking Bike Lane Bus-Mounted Camera Enforcement - Streetsblog New York City

It's unclear if the MTA has any plans to pilot bus-mounted camera enforcement of drivers parked in bike lanes.

nyc.streetsblog.org

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 13d

#1 anti-ICE message: the masked men shoving women and old people to the ground are the bad guys

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d

79. American citizen.

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 13d

2 dark 2 early

nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 13d

and if you don't like it you can GIT (or not, it's your choice tbh)

nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 13d

this here is a gesellschaft town

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

going back in time is way more interesting to me than going forward

nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

the ambiguous utopias are the friends we made along the way

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

its An Ambiguous Utopia for a reason

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

🎵 "I shot the sheriff / and now I am the sheriff" 🎶

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

but if you kill the sheriff. you are the sheriff.

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

youtu.be/cLBospQs9Hk?...

Anarchy!

YouTube video by WKUK: Whitest Kids U’ Know

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 15d

Sometimes you need cops to take out the one force worse than cops: homeowners associations

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

but yeah it's giving "Rosa parks was just tired after work". but in this case the message of the book is *right there*, you don't even need other sources.

nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

in my opinion he invented blockchain

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

the entire last chapter is how socialism and democraric planning will help. the book never mentions regulations once, and a 1906 article by sinclair in Cosmopolitan he says the liberal outcry for regulations made his book a failure in it's true purpose.

nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

book: [never mentions regulations]
author: "i consider the uproar for regulations that came after a failure of the book's purpose."
this guy: "it's definitely regulations."

nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

I've never seen a better example of dunning kruger on this app.

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nicoleamurray @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 14d

the message of the book was for worker control of food production. the entire final chapter. again, there is recorded commentary from sinclair about this and his dismay at the outcomes. up to you learn more.

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