Emma Walters
@emmawalters.bsky.social
PhD student at UIUC | Housing, shrinkage, urban decline | Champaign by way of Boston by way of Maine | Queer | she/her/hers
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Here is the fundraiser for Renee Good’s wife and son, from a very trusted source.
Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son
www.gofundme.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Here is the fundraiser for Renee Good’s wife and son, from a very trusted source.
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👀 Wash Post Poll: Americans aren’t rallying around Trump's attack on Venezuela.
* 63% agree military action should have “required approval from Congress
* 45% oppose US "taking control of Venezuela (24% support)
Details: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
* 63% agree military action should have “required approval from Congress
* 45% oppose US "taking control of Venezuela (24% support)
Details: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 6, 2026 at 1:15 AM
👀 Wash Post Poll: Americans aren’t rallying around Trump's attack on Venezuela.
* 63% agree military action should have “required approval from Congress
* 45% oppose US "taking control of Venezuela (24% support)
Details: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
* 63% agree military action should have “required approval from Congress
* 45% oppose US "taking control of Venezuela (24% support)
Details: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
You ever try to hit a G5 note after drinking eggnog? What was I thinking!?
December 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
You ever try to hit a G5 note after drinking eggnog? What was I thinking!?
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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watching my Obamacare premiums go from $422/month to $1455/month on the Senate floor right now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
watching my Obamacare premiums go from $422/month to $1455/month on the Senate floor right now.
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Joy receptacle
Joy, IL
Joy, IL
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Joy receptacle
Joy, IL
Joy, IL
Beating my depression by playing a mind numbing amount of Stardew Valley. Currently single-handedly deforesting the entire town in order to deliver Robin 1000 pieces of wood.
October 31, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Beating my depression by playing a mind numbing amount of Stardew Valley. Currently single-handedly deforesting the entire town in order to deliver Robin 1000 pieces of wood.
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“What we’re seeing today in the U.S. is increasingly fascist. MAGA, I believe — and I study fascism, I don’t say this lightly — is a fascist movement.”
Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Fearing for His Family’s Safety Amid Trump’s “Antifa” Fearmongering
We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The ...
www.democracynow.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“What we’re seeing today in the U.S. is increasingly fascist. MAGA, I believe — and I study fascism, I don’t say this lightly — is a fascist movement.”
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Ya think
"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."
A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley
Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.
www.bbc.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Ya think
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HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts
Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.
www.bloomberg.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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October 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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“… the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority …”
1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.
Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.
Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.
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Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.
Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To
After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“… the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority …”
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Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025
October 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025
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““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
Growing up in rural Maine & spending the last 6ish years in the Rust Belt has not prepared me for west coast mobile home gentrification. Checking out zillow to see housing market of places with academic jobs only to see a double wides going for $300k+! I guess I shouldn't be shocked but...
September 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Growing up in rural Maine & spending the last 6ish years in the Rust Belt has not prepared me for west coast mobile home gentrification. Checking out zillow to see housing market of places with academic jobs only to see a double wides going for $300k+! I guess I shouldn't be shocked but...
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Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.
Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
September 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.
Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
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As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women.
The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.
The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.
September 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women.
The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.
The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.
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guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever
June 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever
Shaming and/or restricting never works. You know what would increase healthy food consumption for households that use SNAP? More funding and less means testing. Make healthy foods more financially accessible - people WANT to feed themselves and their families well.
Should Food Stamps Pay for Soda?
www.nytimes.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Shaming and/or restricting never works. You know what would increase healthy food consumption for households that use SNAP? More funding and less means testing. Make healthy foods more financially accessible - people WANT to feed themselves and their families well.
throwing some joy and giggles into this hell scape of a feed: my girlfriend is describing finding a sticker dispenser at the grocery store that dispenses cartoon BUTT stickers & goes "so I said to myself 'I MUST get a butt sticker for my lady'". Anyway, get you a partner that gets you silly gifts.
July 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
throwing some joy and giggles into this hell scape of a feed: my girlfriend is describing finding a sticker dispenser at the grocery store that dispenses cartoon BUTT stickers & goes "so I said to myself 'I MUST get a butt sticker for my lady'". Anyway, get you a partner that gets you silly gifts.
New vase in progress
April 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
New vase in progress
I did the damn thing!
Congratulations to @emmawalters.bsky.social for slaying her dissertation proposal defense and advancing to candidacy earlier this month. Emma’s work focuses on the politics of repair in left behind places and stands to make a major contribution to our understanding of urban governance.
April 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I did the damn thing!