Notices by ts 🚉 (tsyum@thepit.social)

Breaking #Boston news:

CEO announced (quietly) that DotHouse pool may close as early as mid-January. This, only months after the large Boston neighborhood of Dorchester lost it’s only hospital. Apparently the pool hasn’t been bringing in enough money. I hope this person will realize the incredible value that such a resource is to us. At least give a proper announcement and some real notice. Swimming is important. You owe it to your community to put in some effort toward a solution

Friends, if you can this week, give the mayor’s office a call. Reach out to your city counselor. I want to know where John Fitzgerald is.

Please boost whether or not you live in the area. I think we can save this pool 🏊♀️

#Boston #DorchesterMA #greaterBoston

@ianrogers "We do not need to accept a trade-off between well-being and ecology, and we do not need to accept the continuation of imperialist arrangements. The problem can be resolved with a different approach to the question of growth and poverty. Good social indicators can be achieved with substantially less aggregate production than what characterizes today’s high-income countries, which are highly inefficient at converting throughput and output into human well-being."

@ianrogers the part that you've highlighted puts some helpful numbers to this reality. Incredible to think we can get everybody out of poverty while cutting our current resource and energy use by 70% at the same time.

#climate #economics #LCA #policy #poverty

Like me, I bet a lot of you have been thinking that Social Security is running a deficit. Not so! Social Security contributes *nothing* to our national debt, either. In fact, the fund has a $2.5 TRILLION SURPLUS. Joy Ann Reid provides a great explanation in case you can spare a few min:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYQ1CHkp/

Congress has been taking from Social Security over time, essentially b/c the PENTAGON and literal HANDOUTS TO THE RICH are putting us into debt. Social Security has nothing to do w/ it

What are some of your favorite #music collabs, fam?

I love the song “Carnavalera” by Bomba Estéreo and Systema Solar. I’m wanting to learn more about Yo Yo Ma as well.

Does your #Mastodon app say how long someone’s account has existed? Newness isn’t necessarily a reason to distrust, but this can often be useful information for deciding how to engage here.

#fediverse

@ryanhoulihan whaaat, how has the Biden admin messed this up so badly?

Sandra Hemme spent 43 years wrongfully imprisoned. Missouri would pay little if she is freed | KCUR

https://www.kcur.org/news/2024-06-30/sandra-hemme-spent-43-years-wrongfully-imprisoned-missouri-would-pay-little-if-she-is-freed

This is a great time to learn about forced confessions. They happen in the U.S.

We #remember the exonerated five.

That people get put into cages at all upsets me, and our legal system is pretty fucked on top of that. Pls read “Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)” if you can find a copy.

#abolition #Missouri #news #USPol

@aral @RustyBertrand @kittylyst thank you, Aral. I’d boosted the OP but have to undo for now

With the #Boston Globe reporting on yesterday’s event, my estimate is that hundreds of people gathered to say No #Pride in Genocide. It was powerful - especially considering that some of our active protestors had departed the previous night to be in Washington 🇵🇸
At Boston’s Saint James Ave and Berkeley St, I felt the energy under my feet. Numerous pple in the parade were expressing their support for Palestine, too. On Boston Common, we connected the past and present struggles of our community.

TIL that Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm, and the night of her funeral was the Stonewall riot - in 1969.

#history #pride

Man, the idea endowments keep the cost of college low? 🤦♂️
We see this b.s. People are drowning in debt.
We divested from South Africa years ago. We can absolutely divest from Israel. And we must.
#education #USPol

Boston Globe/NYT: US military ships are working to build a pier for Gaza aid. It’s going to cost at least $320 million.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/30/world/us-military-ships-are-working-build-pier-gaza-aid-its-going-cost-least-320-million/

It seems to me that $320 million is a *tiny fraction* of what we’ve given the terrorist state next door.

@Adam_Cadmon1 @tillshadeisgone Jameelah (Jones) posted an *excellent** video with tips and reminders for this moment: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLuDk8b6/

Protesters block private jets at Hanscom Airfield - The Lexington Observer

https://lexobserver.org/2024/04/20/hanscom-extinction-rebe/

Thank you to everyone that is addressing the reality we’re increasingly faced with - a system that destroys our future. The #climate crisis is here. We have to stop the insanity of believing in trickle-down economics and imagine with open-mindedness a different way of doing things

#MAPoli #transportation

Federal judge orders City of Houston to stop ticketing 'Food Not Bombs' for feeding homeless downtown

https://abc13.com/food-not-bombs-wins-injunction-houston-volunteers-ticketed-for-feeding-homeless-downtown-free-meals-near-city-hall/14426341/

🥳 congrats to everyone involved. I know there are some good Texans fighting for our human rights. Much love from Boston 🤟🏼

South Africa’s Legal Case Is a Devastating Indictment of Israel’s War on Gaza

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/south-africa-icj-isarel-gaza/

“The intent to destroy a group is often seen as the most difficult element of genocide to prove and is often the distinction between a brutal war and a campaign of genocide. South Africa’s [case] submission shows how the genocidal rhetoric that has accompanied Israel’s campaign in Gaza has been overt and omnipresent from the outset. The running database of Israeli statements of genocidal intent and incitement compiled by the legal group Law for Palestine has now passed FIVE HUNDRED entries.”

@AnarchoDoggo @SallyStrange gift link? Can’t read…