Ren

Organizer. Abolitionist. Data whisperer. Urban cyclist. I like maps & good bagels. they/she/any
thisname @sfba.social
& @DataScixDesign

[Ren @RenRidesCycles]

Making pro-bike, pro-bus, anti-car[ceral] communal art physically out of the poison cars create, in public space we temporarily created is possibly one of the best things I've ever done
#CriticalMass
#ACAB
#BikesBaby
#RideTheBus
#TransitMonth
@SafeStreetRebel

[y🏳️‍🌈şenaz @aysenein]

They are just gonna profile everyone wearing a mask and a jacket lol, soooooo wouldn’t it be fun if everyone wore masks when outside so they never ever find this guy?

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

At the start of COVID, the government implemented many social programs that helped people who were struggling. These programs were immensely popular.

Yet instead of fighting hard to extend and expand them, Democrats prematurely declared the pandemic was over and let them expire.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

6/ TLDR - The headline of this piece attributes violence in Amsterdam to antisemitism yet provides in the text evidence primarily of anti-Arab racism. Seems like incredinly shoddy and biased reporting.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

4/ The piece actually mentions video footage of Maccabi fans chanting anti-Arab slogans. The New York Times actually verified this footage. (left)

It doesn't mention antisemitic slogans, on the contrary, it mentions 'anti Israel slogans" (right)

[Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area @JVPBayArea]

Wiener later felt mixed about the efficacy of boycotting anti-LGBTQ states. That’s fine. You can argue about boycotts.

But at no point did anyone say Wiener’s boycott meant he wanted to “destroy” Florida, Alabama, Texas, or 14 other states.

To do so would’ve been bad faith.

[Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area @JVPBayArea]

Boycotts for me but not for thee

https://t.co/oxN7d65Y3Y

[Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area @JVPBayArea]

It’s not a radical nor antisemitic stance, it’s a simple call for actions to align w/morals: You wouldn’t buy products made in apartheid South Africa, or perform there, or participate in cultural exchanges there

The same should be true for Israel

Listen to Desmond Tutu himself

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

And yet they’ve managed to persuade much of the media and political establishment that they are the victims, much as Israel itself postures as a victim while raining death on Gaza every day.

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

Did another little pass by invitation, saw that there’s a medical tent and a mental health tent being set up. Quite apart from the justness of the cause, it’s a beautiful little experiment in building a better kind of society amid the sterile corporate campus space.

[Ethan M. Aldridge @EthanMAldridge]

This is a really common question, probably because the library/author relationship can seem pretty opaque from the outside. But libraries do benefit authors! A lot! Here’s how-

[Ren @RenRidesCycles]

@jerdanmartins @zackbeauchamp How does someone write a piece decrying "polarization" yet link to Judith Butler... expressing nuance.

@zackbeauchamp do you consider referencing colonization and dispossession to be "extremism"? Calling it resistance instead of a terrorist attack?

[Sim Kern @sim_kern]

Jews in 1930s Germany had far more in common with Palestinians today than w/Israeli Jews, in terms of oppression.
Because antisemitism in Germany THEN was white supremacy. And anti-Palestinian hate NOW is white supremacy. All that’s changed is who gets to define whiteness. 16/