Elizabeth Arestyl

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

Yall never thought about using your freedom of speech to NOT say something!!???!!

Screenshot of the top half of the Our Time webpage for emailing one's NYS legislative reps urging them to tax the rich to fund childcare for all. On the left are the contents of the letter to be sent; on the right is a set of form fields to fill out with one's personal information, including yes/no questions about whether one is a parent, whether one wants to volunteer for the Tax the Rich for Childcare campaign, and whether one is part of a labor union, community org, religious institution, or other similar org.

RESOLVED: We will do the work needed to get our state reps and Governor Hochul to tax the rich this year to fund childcare for everyone.

New Yorkers, please sign this letter to your state reps and then share with others you know in NY. Our goal is 25K this month.
👉 act.ourtime.nyc/email-your-l...

Sensitivity/Authenticity reading Status Currently open for sensitivity/authenticity reading requests. Specialty Areas Biracial Black (African American) & white Genderqueer/nonbinary/agender Asexual/asexual spectrum Aromantic/a…

As you gear up for the new year, a little reminder that I am open to sensitivity reading and authenticity reading. Let me help you make your book as good as it can be.
bookjockeyalex.com/sensitivity-...

a bald man with a beard says well then ... Alt: Samuel L. Jackson, in a black turtleneck sweater, says well then ...

I didn’t realize singles studies was a thing.

15-year-old Queens boy missing from home since last month, NYPD and family say Jafet Jemmott was last seen leaving his house on Nov. 28, according to police.

A Queens family is still looking for their teenage son after he went missing at the end of last month, according to authorities. gothamist.com/news/15-year...

Calendar graphic with heading BSTOX FINAL CLOSING SALE on top. Center text reads: Come through to help us offset the debts of the store *and* benefit a prisoner solidarity org. 12/13, 12/20, 12/27, 12-5 PM, 116 Suffolk Street. Masks required. This text is flanked by an exclamation point outline on the left, art of a megaphone held up on the right, and the Bluestockings logo underneath.

Passing this on from folks who are not on Bluesky: If you're in NYC, Bluestockings is having a final closing sale.

Come celebrate and grieve the closing of the store, and the sunset of Bluestockings Cooperative.

Books, appliances, merchandise, furniture-- everything is going.
Masks are required!

Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling.

“I considered myself a strong person, a resilient person, but I’ve never gone through something like this... Leave your family out of nowhere, the uncertainty of what’s going to happen to you."

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/26/i...

ED Names Five New NACIQI Members The new members of the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity include some outspoken conservative voices.

If you're not paying attention to the weakening of accreditation you are missing a huge piece of the reactionary transformation of higher ed. This is how you create structural change that will last for generations.

The implementation of Project 2025 continues apace.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

ByHeart Infant Formula Recalled for Botulism Risk - Consumer Reports All ByHeart infant formula has been recalled after 13 infants fed ByHeart formula were hospitalized with infant botulism across 10 states.

⚠️#Recall Alert: All ByHeart infant formula has been recalled after 15 infants fed ByHeart formula were hospitalized with infant botulism across 12 states. If you have any ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula, stop using immediately.

That’s what it is, what I was getting at about my texts this morning.

Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

This is an important next step for people who are looking to push Albany. Plug in.

Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

Additionally you have until midnight to sign up for this library mystery box raffle if you are a NYC resident who has signed this letter: forms.gle/aRJ2ncZaJ6iz...

Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

Art: "The government is hearing speech it does not like and, instead of understanding that it's free speech, the government is calling it a riot. The government is calling it violence. The government is calling it terrorism."

How Trump’s Hatchet Man Is Destroying Consumer Protections Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports.

Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports.

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books for Hot Commie Summer - Reactor Tired of the status quo? Try these books featuring revolutionary governments some communal weirdos...

Bringing this post back in celebration of last night's victory. Happy Zohran Mamdani Day New Yorkers! reactormag.com/backlist-bon...

Zohran Mamdani with his mayoral transition team at a press conference on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.

Lina Khan — former Chair of the Federal Trade Commission

Maria Torres‑Springer — former First Deputy Mayor of #NYC

Grace Bonilla — nonprofit sector leader

Melanie Hartzog — expert in city budgeting

Elana Leopold — expert political strategist

Zohran Mamdani announces all-female transition team as he prepares for New York mayoralty Team includes Lina Khan, the FTC commissioner under Biden, and other Democratic former city officials

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani revealed an all-female transition team led by Elana Leopold as executive director. It also includes co-chairs Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor; Lina Khan, the former federal trade commission chair...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.

The Pentagon believes “they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes” and that is partly why the administration has not sought to detain or prosecute the survivors of the strikes, “because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.” trib.al/nYTqzWK

Someone just purchased our military.

I've a systems librarian nerd level paper here co-authored by a friend and colleague. They discuss AI bots scraping the online catalogue, bringing it down by creating thousands of complex faceted searches.

AI takes and takes and does so multiple times per second

journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489

Holiday event planning is kinda hectic. Every year.

The team behind the Oscar-winning documentary ‘NO OTHER LAND’ is planning to self-release the film on U.S. streaming platforms starting October 20.

Including Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, and YouTube, with 100% of VOD proceeds going directly to Palestinian communities of Masafer Yatta.