Alice Jane Grimm (she/her)
@alice-j-grimm
Sparkling Sapphic on Lisjan Ohlone land (Oakland) / math PhD drop-out, former high school teacher, working in tech these days / potato powered princess Jew by choice Former Trans Educator Core Collective
Actual title: The Golem and the Jinni What I call it: The Fuckboy and the Tradwife
So you and @botmatrix.myatproto.social have both mentioned 9/11 as a departure point but I am really seeing the 90’s as MUCH more of a growth period, or even the past two years With 2001-2005 being a time the budget and number of cops shrank ibo.nyc.ny.us/RevenueSpend...
In a word “no” We are spending more money than ever before, it’s just that we’re miserable a about it fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCEC96
Would cutting out two majority Black states help? Like if Lower Mississippi and Black Belt were two new states, with their own state police, their own national guards, their own Senators, would that be an improvement? Cut out a third state from S. Carolina and Georgia?
My truly spicy StarWars take is that since Disney is a top BDS target I hope no one is paying for D+ or seeing movies in theaters 😅😅 bdsmovement.net/economic-boy...
Based on this result I think I need to apologize to everyone I work with 😭😭😭
To put Trump’s 49% white approval in context, W Bush spent most of 2007 at 37% white approval news.gallup.com/poll/101695/...
Imo it’s more accurate to say that the electorate is split and Green Transition Now got the IRA and My Car is my Freedom is (maybe) getting gas tax suspensions W/ our institutions would need >80% supermajority for bipartisan strategy news.gallup.com/poll/708050/...
1971 (I’m also seeing others reference Robin Hood and Les Mis)
What do you think of how Resource Generation sorts resourcegeneration.org/breakdown-of...
If they had achieved a sustained measurable reduction then that would be great! e.g. if killings by police had gone down by 10% then the incrementalist in me would love them. Instead we have something like the graph below. www.statista.com/statistics/1...
A few years ago a friend did a boudoir shoot with me and it was SO MUCH FUN 100% would recommend if you have a friend who enjoys photography
FRED graph of unemployment since 1950 Looks like 2001-2003 is only comparable time, 18 month period that unemployment rose 0.6% We’ve had 2022-2025 more like 30 month periods and increase of 0.9% Basically unprecedented for unemployment to slowly grind up like this
Buchanan vs Reagan? And like this has to be a crime against humanity and even though the war on drugs was seeded by Nixon, Reagan oversaw its blossoming, right?
This lost of most checked-out authors makes me feel a lot better about my neighbors