Ben Carpenter

A New Yorker in Kansas City. Social scientist, fiction writer, a planter of very fine trees.

[Lucia Osborne-Crowley @LuciaOC_]

Johnny Depp won’t see your posts turning Amber Heard’s graphic rape allegations into a humiliating meme, but your friends who have survived sexual violence will. #DeppVsHeard

[Ben Carpenter @foster8243]

@AnnieWindholz

[Ben Carpenter @foster8243]

Folks tweeting that #DontLookUp is specifically about Covid and not climate change feels very on the nose

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Today would be a great day for President Biden and Vice President Harris to #CancelStudentDebt.

[☀️ @WickedWellYes]

The CDC:

[The Kansas City Star @KCStar]

Breaking News: Kevin Strickland has been officially released from the Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron, ending one of the longest wrongful convictions in U.S. history. https://t.co/KblcOTa63s

[Kansas City @KansasCity]

Complete streets improvements taking shape on Gillham Rd & on 27th St! Cycle track extension (3.5 total miles), shorter crossing distances, slower-moving traffic. Safer for all! #KCMO #VisionZero
https://t.co/S1kOTvJ7IE

[KC Tenants @KCTenants]

Our leader Javon:

[KC Tenants @KCTenants]

Nick: “Myself and nine of my neighbors got notices at the beginning of the month that we had to be out by October 31st so they can double the rent… Mayor Q, your Developer Slush Fund will not help me.” Nick, we have your back! Does @QuintonLucasKC ?

[KC Tenants @KCTenants]

RIGHT NOW:
KC Tenants leaders are in Mayor Q’s office to demand he stop selling us out and start to actually #HouseThePeople. @QuintonLucasKC

[Oliver Willis @owillis]

I don't care "what the founders would have wanted." I really don't. That was hundreds of years ago, they owned people and thought women shouldn't vote. What they think of modern affairs doesn't matter.

[Chris Sheridan @ChrisSheridan34]

If you haven't watched colleague @johnholman100 story on the treatment of Haitian migrants at the US border, this is worth a watch. @PressSec says she's seen the video and says "it's horrible to watch."

[CMT St. Louis @CMT_STL]

@RideKCTransit CEO @RMakinen talking zero fare As part of silver lining of pandemic. #MOTransit

[Ben Carpenter @foster8243]

@QuintonLucasKC Thank you for this. Removing the mask mandate for vaccinated folks proved an ineffective incentive to get vaccines in arms. Masks will have to do until we figure it out.

[Mayor Q @QuintonLucasKC]

I have stuck with CDC guidance throughout the pandemic and today is no different.

I will return Kansas City to a mask mandate indoors based upon national and regional health guidance and discussion with other Kansas City leaders. I will provide further details in the morning.

[Ben Carpenter @foster8243]

Follow our June travels! Starting with "Birdshit Mac ’n Cheese" by @AnnieWindholz https://t.co/4sFPZ4lGQn

[KC Tenants @KCTenants]

FREE PALESTINE. In Saturday’s tenant mtg, we reflected on global struggles over land, as connected to ours and otherwise.

Our leaders discussed @m7mdkurd’s diagnosis of what’s happening to his family in occupied Palestine— a violent ethnic cleansing, not an eviction.

[David Hansen @runandbikeKC]

BREAKING: KCPD admits to holding the city and its budget hostage

[Bridging The Gap @BTG_KC]

There’s a new way you can help protect and conserve Kansas City’s wild places. Stay tuned for details announced Monday! #KeepKCWild #KCWildLands

[FlatlandKC @FlatlandKC]

🌎🌳Happy #EarthDay! Hug a tree today! Or, go a step further like the environmental nonprofit Bridging the Gap @BTG_KC and plant one. Here's how the #HeartlandTreeAlliance plans to expand the metro area’s total tree count. https://t.co/lhUcUs0GZI