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laura yan retweeted
NYC libraries are closed on Sundays due to a $58 mil budget cut
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another bird i love is this one!! not migratory, but perfect. no explanation needed. tufted titmouse! i'm obsessed birds with crests!! (quails obviously fit in)
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everyone should get into birding because you'll never know who you'll discover. i would have never guessed that my favorite bird would be a wood thrush BUT it was love at first sight - that brown! the spots! the roundness!!!! it's migration in nyc and you too can go see them!!!
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if you're having a bad time may i suggest watching some quails: youtube.com/watch?v=JdkXdh_-…
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this is the only good take. thank you and goodnight
the students are behaving like students — it's the adults that have to grow up !!
a perfectly calibrated, completely correct rage rant from @NatalieShutler slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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laura yan retweeted
A question Gallup asked in 1961, about what has been remembered as one of the most iconic and effective protest movements in American history.
as a PSC member it was so disheartening to see this as a response to hundreds of rank and file teachers' act of care and solidarity. please sign and share (anyone can sign, no affiliation needed) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
As CUNY rank and file organized a sickout, leadership emailed their 30k members telling them not to miss work. After students were brutalized, they issued a milquetoast Instagram post with zero binding demands. The comments say it all.
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laura yan retweeted
📣📣📣Happy May Day! Today we launch the #FreelanceSolidarityChallenge. Starting today, for the next year, we invite all freelancer media workers to submit your project rates to FSP’s rate-sharing database.
Sign up here:
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You cannot watch your students be brutalized by NYPD and go to school tomorrow. If you are CUNY faculty, commit to tomorrow’s work stoppage by 10pm tonight: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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NO BUSINESS AS USUAL
NO CLASS AS USUAL
HANDS OFF OUR STUDENTS
SICK OUT TOMORROW
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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NOW: Officers line up in front of the gates to CCNY at 139th and Amsterdam leading to the encampment
Protesters are now reportedly occupying the administration building
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NOW: Hundreds of police stage outside Columbia on 114th and Broadway.
The NYPD is seen preparing ziptie handcuffs and the LRAD.
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Sensible Adults: Get offline & stand for something! Go outside & touch grass!
The Youth: OK
Sensible Adults: I am calling the National Guard
so do you just like go on living like nothing has happened in this post earthquake city what does one do ???
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