Notices by Miss Gayle (missgayle@urbanists.social)

@_L1vY_

All court hearings for immigrants should be moved to Zoom or some such immediately. They can't round up people who aren't there.

This is a way bigger problem than people realize. If you can't afford insurance, or it isn't offered at all for your location, you cannot get a mortgage or a business loan.

The insurance crisis will grind the economy to a screeching halt.

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-06-15/no-safety-net-insurance-starts-to-go-away/

"Not only are insurance premiums rising, but insurers are abandoning homeowners altogether with polices declining by 19 percent in the riskiest areas between 2015 and 2023."

#Insurance #Housing #Mortgage #Business #Economy

We have now migrated to the CNU conference - same city, different hotel (Congress for New Urbanism). Liking this place better so far...

Looking for train museum(s) to hit on the way back to KY from RI. Any suggestions?

We've been to Steamtown, and Strassburg(sp?), and the C&O place in Virginia (something springs...?).

Willing to go a bit out of our way, if it's not too far.

#StrongTowns #CNU #urbanism #trains #railroad #museum

@gwaldby

I hate to admit that I agree with Massie about anything, even if for different reasons. But this bill and all of project 2025 is designed to crash the economy for the purpose of overthrowing the government and installing a white nationalist christo fascist theocracy. It never had any other purpose.

@gerrymcgovern

DeGrowth is going to happen whether the oligarchs want it or not. The only question is whether it will be a logical egalitarian controlled rollback or a crash and burn that cripples the economy entirely.

@Dianora @gerrymcgovern

It's not a preoccupation with growth per se, it's a preoccupation with profit and greed. A steady-state economy can provide enough for everyone to live comfortably - but it can't support lavish lifestyles. And the rich don't want to live comfortably. They want ridiculous lavishness.

@Dianora @gerrymcgovern

And GDP is a deeply flawed mechanism for measuring economics in the first place, as it completely devalues the "work" done by nature that is left alone, etc etc.

A lot of planning and zoning offices across the US apparently think it's still 1995, and that snout houses and mcmansions are or should be the norm to build.

That is a very outdated and short-sighted philosophy.

They're trying to preserve an aesthetic that was frankly ugly to start with, and not what people or the communities actually need.

It's time to create realistic norms & affordable housing.

Link: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/5/8/what-one-first-time-developer-can-teach-us-about-housing-solutions

#Housing #Affordability #Sustainability #Community #Urbanism

Everything maga hates, in one convenient place...

#CivilRights #HumanRights #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomOfReligion #SeparationOfChurchAndState #LGBTQ #Abortion #Contraception #Capitalism #Racism #WhiteNationalism #ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism #ClimateCrisis #Immigration #Healthcare #WomensRights #Science #History

@dalias @EricFielding @melanie @blogdiva

Oh, how sweet. You think some judge is going to stop them. And that if there is a ruling against them, they'll obey it.

Did you forget the part where this is a coup? And they do not accept that any laws they don't like apply to them? And that they are now arresting judges who "interfere" in their coup? You think they're going to stop at brown people?

Bless your heart.

@dalias @EricFielding @melanie @blogdiva

Bologna. They've already sucked all the money out of people's accounts, lying and claiming they "died" months ago and got SS benefits "illegally." They stole every dime.

One example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/doge-wrongly-declared-elderly-man-dead-causing-bank-to-take-thousands-from-his-account-take-it-up-with-social-security/ar-AA1B7s1X

@EricFielding @melanie @dalias @blogdiva

I suspect it may be a bit more pragmatic. After dog-e stole every bit of financial information from the IRS and SS, cheeto can just order the entirety of someone's bank, savings, investments, and retirement accounts drained and the money never returned.

Predatory capitalist CEOs might want to meditate on this a bit.

Link: https://abovethelaw.com/2025/04/healthcare-companies-screwed-over-so-many-people-that-its-hard-to-find-luigi-mangione-a-neutral-jury/?ICID=ref_fark

Personally, I'd say a jury full of people whose friends and families have been murdered for profit are exactly the right kind of jury.

You know, a jury of our peers, just like it says in the Constitution. If you have to hunt for exceptional people, whose lives are unusual, they're not our "peers."

#Luigi #Healthcare #MurderForProfit #USHealthcare #Law

I stand corrected. Yes, Uber is a sh!t company, but apparently so are many of their drivers - and you should still not use them.

Link: https://fortune.com/2025/04/15/meta-uber-facebook-black-market-groups/

#Uber #Facebook #Zuckerberg #Meta #Crime

"What we need more than new solar-powered factories is the normalization of people turning away from destructive affluence, living simpler and happier lives, and sharing those lives with others. Not utopian lives, of course, but better lives. That will take different forms for different people, and some will be able to make larger changes than others."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-04-24/business-in-the-age-of-overshoot/

#DeGrowth #Localization #Sustainability #Community #Economy

@ashwin @ai6yr

Did you miss the part where cheeto admitted they had hacked voting machines in swing states?

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-elon-musk-voting-machine-2017657

I don't believe he *was* elected. They mercilessly went after states that had certain types of more secure voting machines, but were strangely silent about the brands that were more hackable. And now we know why.

I cannot urge you enough to not travel to the states shown here in dark maroon. It's not safe for *any* woman or lgbtq person.

Also do not buy products manufactured in any of those states - including Ky Bourbon.

Boycott any biz that has their headquarters in these states unless you know for a *fact* they support LGBTQ rights and are not right wing nut jobs. There aren't two sides here. No money for fascists.

Link: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-national-risk-assessment

#CivilRights #HumanRights #LGBTQ #RedStateHellhole

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@TheCoolest @jcrabapple @toddtyrtle @wiredfire @MyWoolyMastadon @vmstan

Thunderbird is part of Mozilla, and now they've got issues of their own, according to the posts going around today about their new terms of service.

@MyWoolyMastadon @jcrabapple @vmstan @protonprivacy

Someone should introduce proton to the concept of interns. Fascists love them. Low or no pay slave labor! Just what republicans want.