Molly Raven

Fiscal Satanist

[Molly Raven @mfraven7]

It's been at it for a half an hour wtf go away

[Molly Raven @mfraven7]

It is 3AM why the fuck is there just a helicopter circling a neighborhood in Oakland???

[streetsblogkea @streetsblogkea]

I have written 4-6 articles a week for 4.5 years about why car domination is terrible, and yet this paper STILL surfaced a bunch of stuff I had never thought about before. Digest below, short thread of some of the most surprising ones in the🧵. https://t.co/dwkXLGE9Ln

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Just days after the CDC weakened its COVID isolation guidelines, the White House is suspending its free home rapid test program.

This week is your last chance to order free COVID rapid tests here: https://t.co/UNk1uTBdQO

[Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1]

This open letter from Jewish students just arrested at Brown made me actually cry.

These are my Jews.

So many of us.

I'm so proud of them for standing up and sitting in.

https://t.co/7E0bIfPQ8Q

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Some useful context, this magazine is run by a guy who

✅ Lied about Iraqi WMD
✅ Lied about Iraqi ties al Qaeda
✅ Lied about Hezbollah sleeper cells
✅ casually admitted in his memoir to covering up the torture of a Palestinian prisoner while he was a volunteer IDF solider

[realcatbrooks.bsky.social @realcatbrooks]

Ima keep bumping this up cause ummm - it needs to happen like now

[Molly Raven @mfraven7]

what the absolute fuck

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

I’ve read this three times and I’m now convinced this is the most American story ever. This article is now the lyrics to our national anthem. https://t.co/fJkWuLMXAj

[ProPublica @propublica]

A bishop decided that as a precondition of receiving welfare, Danielle would have to embrace LDS scripture. Church members came by her apartment to decide what food items she did & didn't need while pressuring her to attend services, she said.

https://t.co/0j7ZpclBZC

[Paolo Bacigalupi not here much tho. @paolobacigalupi]

Imagine 2200, @grist's climate fiction story contest for positive futures, is open for submissions. I'm a judge and would love to see your ideas and imaginings of where we can go and what we can be.

Please retweet, and please submit your stories!

https://t.co/wSqTXxZcUm

[VICE @VICE]

A new independent autopsy shows that the “Stop Cop City” activist was likely sitting cross-legged on the ground with their hands raised when they were shot 14 times by police. https://t.co/bHEp9x2WX5

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

THREAD: How to verify images online?

Social media is awash with false or misleading images, some of which get millions of engagements.

So, here's a simple guide on ways you can quickly check the veracity of an image you see on your social media feeds.

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

In the 1970s, Dutch cities like Amsterdam were full of traffic and air pollution.

Now they are models of sustainable urban planning.

Here's the story of how the Netherlands started building their cities for humans, not cars.

🧵

[Jenny Stojkovic @jennystojkovic]

💧 For the first time in history, the US has entered a WATER war and the media refuses to cover the true cause: cows. A must-read on the water crisis. 🧵👇🏼

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

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UPDATE:

I've spoken to 13 current and former @RepMattGaetz staffers, three close friends, a relative, two ex lovers, a bartender from his favorite bar, two former stylists, a desk clerk at a hotel he frequents, and two things stand out with every one of those conversions:

[Welcome back, 😷 Cotter ☮️🟦🤟🏻 @cacotter]

@_jessicastovall I just downloaded the ACLU’s app Mobile Justice. If you record an interaction w/ (hypothetically) cops, it streams the footage 2 their server. That way, even if they get your phone & delete footage, the ACLU has it on their server.
Be safe, obvs, but let them know you’re watching

[Vagina Museum @vagina_museum]

If you don’t have a building, you can still help! Please consider making a donation; a donation of any size makes a huge difference and will help us to weather this storm, just as we’ve weathered storms before. https://t.co/91ythf66zs

[Richard D. Wolff @profwolff]

New study: Since beginning in 16th century Europe, capitalism worsened mass living standards often below subsistence there & worse in rest of world. Living standards rose only in late 19/20th centuries when labor, socialist, anti-colonial movements made it https://t.co/6mU1FlDHy9

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

This isn't a thought exercise. I've been writing about abortion every day since Roe was overturned—reading stories from different states, small towns, random counties.

And my biggest takeaway is that the men enforcing abortion bans are literally the worst people you've ever met