sarah
@sarah_a_riley
researching carceral systems, race/ism, and cumulative theft. mostly a Gina 🐶 fan account.
No one who defended Israel’s conduct the last two years, or did not use all of the power they had to try and stop this, should ever hold elected or higher office in the United States ever again.
Your boss is a rapist and a pedophile, you vile, unqualified, heinous cunt
After a thorough investigation, @usedgov has found 5 northern Virginia school divisions are violating Title IX. We expect these divisions to update their policies to align with commonsense and federal law. Boys do not belong in girls sports, locker rooms, or bathrooms.…
If Columbia has this kind of money to pay the extortionists in DC, then they should have no problem paying their fair share in property taxes to the City. nytimes.com/2025/07/25/nyr…
I love this article ! And this is why the distribution of public trash receptacles matters. Yes, people shouldn’t litter. Also, cities should make it easy to throw trash away. Residents notice when trash cans are scarce and sanitation is slower to pick up their neighborhoods
"Very soon, I realized how the small things we do every day, the split-second choices we make when no one’s watching, don’t just add up — they define what kind of city we’re building together." Read Sanitation Foundation Chair Caryl Englander's op-ed on "small acts" and…
Using a little extra juice to power Christmas lights shouldn’t bring the cops to your door — but police looking for cannabis are using power meters as home-mounted spies. eff.org/deeplinks/2025…
Get a life, Brad!
This is a policy choice. We are choosing dogs over children. If we want cities that support families—rather than replacing them—we need to start acting like it. Full post on Thesis Driven: thesisdriven.com/p/on-urban-dogs
Did you notice your electricity bill went up this summer? Eliza Martin reviewed nearly fifty rate cases and found a troubling trend: utilities are increasingly shifting the costs of data centers’ electricity consumption on to everyday consumers. lpeproject.org/blog/youre-pay…
Unfortunately, I have learned of the bog turtle. And now I must find one 😞
Trump has revealed that people are generally so venal and shortsighted that if you give them what they want, they will disregard the fact that you are delivering it through wildly illegal means. In the long run, of course, this will destroy the foundations of the country. 🤷♂️
Based on what I have read and heard so far, the agreement reached between the Federal government and @Columbia is an excellent template for agreements with other institutions including @Harvard. First, academic freedom is preserved as the University maintains academic autonomy.…
I’d love the option to temporarily sever my brain/body. Ya know so that every time my nervous system was activated I wouldn’t feel like I might shit myself at any moment. Is anyone working on that?
yes, nonprofits are shit. but i never thought i'd get paid to do research and community-based work, and i feel really grateful for that.
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An investigation by THE CITY uncovered donors who insist they didn’t donate to Eric Adams’ campaign, a donor who paid with a credit card linked to their employer and donors who don’t live where they claimed to. thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/eri…
Zohran Mamdani is calling for city-owned grocery stores. NYC already has them. gothamist.com/news/zohran-ma… via @gothamist
BREAKING HUGE WIN! 🚨 New York just announced that phone calls will soon be FREE in New York prisons, bringing around $13 million in relief annually to incarcerated people and their families. The new policy is expected to go into effect on August 1st. Spread the news!
I realize it’s twitter, but what an insane extrapolation
More evidence that just giving low-income adults money isn’t enough to meaningfully improve their lives…
If you’re in NYC you DON’T need to do that, and if you’re in upstate NY, you can do citizen science and document your sighting here: survey123.arcgis.com/share/a08d60f6… 😉
this is going to sound awful but you gotta kill it
CCA organizer Ismael Diaz is featured in this @cleanslateny PSA, For the Record, which won a Telly award! Do you have an old conviction record and want to know what Clean Slate means for you? Join our organizers on the second Monday of every month to learn more about your own…