Notices by PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt: (pedestrianerror@towns.gay)

One more reason to decouple parking from housing: owners of yuppie apartment complexes, saddled with expensive excess mandated parking that their tenants don't use, are increasingly renting the space out to ICE. Imagine just being a bougie young professional living in a trendy apartment complex in an "arts district" & suddenly it's full of recklessly driven gestapo wankpanzers & drunk ICE agents carousing after work harassing the local women.

Trump says a sewage pipeline owned by DC water and managed by the federal government collapsed because the governor of Maryland is incompetent because he's Black. State spokesperson says correctly that pipeline is federally managed. Local news in Baltimore covers the issue as a bothsides political kerfuffle instead of bothering to look up who owns & manages the pipeline.

How to kill your community 101:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/data-center-pennsylvania-town

@dalias @futurebird @TheServitor Claiming that AI "empowers" some group is saying between the lines that the group in question is naturally disempowered, not by discrimination but by inherent inferiority, and that what they need to compete on an equal playing field is not an end to discrimination but some kind of cheat tool to make work easier for them. Almost any statement involving the word empower is infantilizing bullshit.

Well well well. The well documented ICE murder of a white US citizen in Minneapolis is leading media and local police to belatedly question their credulity towards ICE officers who shot/injured two men in suburban Baltimore on Christmas Eve. They're now saying the victim they claimed was a passenger in the vehicle ICE shot into was actually already in custody in an ICE vehicle when they fired on the other victim.

https://www.wmar2news.com/news/region/anne-arundel-county/anne-arundel-county-police-contradict-dhs-account-of-christmas-eve-ice-shooting

@artemis Also, for anyone who manages or has some control over a public indoor space: clean the air! Use HEPA air purifiers or Corsi-Rosenthal boxes and make sure you have fresh filters. Make sure your building HVAC system is bringing in outside air and running with the highest MERV level filter it can handle. Check CO2 levels. There's plenty of info out there on how to improve & monitor indoor air quality, but even doing just a little is better than nothing and may prevent a few illnesses.

@Nonilex If local police really want to serve & protect their residents, they need to use all their fancy spyware and the fact that the Trump administration leaks like a sieve because they all using insecure chat apps to communicate to find out where these attacks are planned and surround the buildings with local police, other city staff and their equipment. Some of these chuds are too lazy to walk a block if the street's blocked with trash trucks so they could be deterred.

@artemis When Trayvon Martin, a child, was murdered in a much more personal way by an adult for walking home from a convenience store with a bag of skittles, these same people were quick to announce that it was all perfectly justified because he was wearing a hoodie and may have once been caught smoking marijuana. Their kids smoke pot and wear hoodies AND spew hate but they must be protected - not just from murder but even from rude comments - while doing all those things.

@artemis I'm worried for leftist leaders, prominent moderate Democrats they've been told are socialists, and all visibly queer or otherwise nonconforming people right now. The only way Kirk's fans have been conditioned to respond to heartbreak is to go around trying to break other people's hearts and bodies as violently as possible. I really hope they go to church and pray or something and don't run over anybody driving there.

@artemis And bombing and beating protesters and trying to overthrow the government of every global south country that elects a socialist and promoting ecocide... there is hardly anything left in this country but political violence. Even the arts the fascists want to limit to copaganda in which the cops are heroes for beating and summarily executing people, pro-war propaganda, and Christian propaganda in which husbands are exalted for beating &/or intimidating their wives into submission.

@inthehands Yeah I'm aware of work on the issue but right now those folks are largely playing defense and trying to deal with the Trump/Vance/Andrew Tate-ification of such a large portion of their male students. It always seems to be two steps forward, two steps back, 'won't anyone think of the poor white males who have had their academic careers so unfairly harmed by being slapped on the wrist for showing total disrespect for their classmates?'.

@inthehands Some of it is also "I'm perfectly capable of doing the work but I'll be bullied/sexually harassed if I take those classes." A female or gender nonconforming humanities or even social science major stepping into an advanced math class that is a prerequisite for other things they might be interested in knows they're likely stepping into a hostile environment and have to be twice as good/confident as most of their classmates to prove themselves. The atmosphere can be a big problem.

@artemis The only good capitalist is a bankrupt capitalist who has lost all their connections as well as their money and finds themself in a homeless encampment begging the cops not to bulldoze their tent and all their belongings. Then they have a chance at redemption.

@mastosalo @cmconseils Uh... no. Women get asked that one too. The point is that the question is sexist and reduces half the population to their reproductive function even when their health concern has fuck all to do with reproduction.

Crucially these days, the period question creates a record of when you menstruated which can be used by law enforcement in fascist states to accuse you of having an abortion. No one should answer it unless it's clearly relevant to their complaint.

We need to fight back more forcefully against this bullshit about "women's privacy". Women (cis or trans) go in a stall and lock the door before taking off any clothes in a public bathroom. It is cis men who often have their penises out in common areas of public restrooms, leaving them much more vulnerable to alleged privacy violations. Trans panic is about reinforcing patriarchal gender roles. It can't be separated from misogyny.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-women-protest-bathroom-bill

@mcnado Offer them one deal: 100% of the new funds allocated to ICE are reappropriated to hospitals and clinics for providing direct care to patients at no cost to them, addressing maintenance backlogs, or doing research.

@KimPerales If she hadn't pulled so many strings to keep Bernie from winning the 2016 primary, we might live in a functional democracy now.

@Impossible_PhD Making higher education and especially broad liberal arts education that encourages critical thinking inaccessible to the working classes and especially women and minorities is the point. Conservatives (with substantial help from so-called liberals) have been chipping away at it since the Reagan era. This is just an acceleration and laying bare of what the plan has been for decades as they cut budgets and shifted what was left away from academic instruction.

Oh, excuse me. I should specify that straight white male Christian students who hold bigoted views and think the solution to poverty is hustle culture (the only students who matter but a minuscule percentage of art students) can still express themselves, as can straight white Christian female students who aspire to be college educated tradwives who give their homeschool kids cute craft projects to do instead of learning science. How many of those chose to attend school in Baltimore?

Jesus fuck. Imagine spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to study art at an art school in a blue city and state and suddenly being told when you're about to graduate with a boatload of debt that you're... not allowed to make art because Donald Fucking Trump said so.

#censorship #art #uspol #maryland #Baltimore

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/mica-apparent-policy-update-creative-expression-art/64581508