Samantha Wood
@cornerrobot
Arts, writing | Exploded View artist | MFA Poetry UMassAmherst | Grants Developer in Higher Ed | farmer | former ME newspapers
Important reporting.
"There is mounting evidence that Lorna McMurrey’s death could be part of a systemic problem with working conditions for many in the cannabis industry." Here's our feature by @dustyc123 on working in the weed industry co-published with @thenation. theshoestring.org/2023/05/01/gro…
Holy shit, this story.
“Grief is built into the infrastructure of our lives," @Charley_Burlock writes. "We may cross it every day, but we never get over it" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… 280 characters are nowhere near enough to thank everyone I need to. In the meantime, thanks to @TheAtlantic for the trust
I am glad to see this piece.
.@Sarah_Smarsh on undervalued lives, for the @nytimes xoxox nytimes.com/2022/12/21/opi…
The trial of two brothers charged in the car-bomb assassination of a Maltese journalist who investigated corruption in the tiny island nation began Friday, nearly five years after the slaying that sent shockwaves across Europe. apnews.com/article/journa…
Anna Politkovskaya was murdered 16 years ago today. From her book "A Small Corner of Hell":
This week we interview author/lawyer @DavidPepper. Pepper has witnessed Ohio devolve into an electoral autocracy—a trend across the US. He explains how we got here and what can still be done about it, and offers reasons and strategies to fight like hell: patreon.com/posts/laborato…
Shoutout to Room Project in Detroit, to Kiley Reid, Rochelle Marrett, & @racheldewoskin for the #BookTheVote reading in celebration of #NationalVoterRegistrationDay! #VoteReady @NatlVoterRegDay
If your cycling infrastructure isn’t good enough for them, it isn’t good enough.
Protests are sweeping Iran & women are burning their hijabs after the death last week of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest by the “morality police”. Human rights groups say at least 8 have been killed. Last night, I planned to ask President Raisi about all this and much more. 1/7
Spotted on 95S: some Orange Line cars headed to a farm upstate (a scrapyard in Middleborough to get torn apart)
Happy birthday to electronic music pioneer @LaurieSpiegel. Here she is in 1977 performing “Improvisation on a ‘Concerto Generator,’” which she described as "one of the earliest examples of purely digital realtime audio synthesis.”
On this day in 2011, Occupy Wall Street began in New York City's Zuccotti Park. The movement shaped over a decade of dramatic protests and radical politics. inthesetimes.com/article/occupy…
"It is very bad in America to be right too early." vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/h…
📢We're excited to announce our new #BookTheVote partner: @MilwaukeePubLib! Check out their National Voter Registration Day Mini Carnival, where @jackilyden will be representing WDA at Central Library. Come celebrate democracy, and bring friends and family!
A spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence claims that Russian troops are surrendering en masse as Ukraine reclaim a wide swath of territory. Ukraine is running out of space to accommodate the POWs, a presidential adviser said. apnews.com/article/russia…
Yet even amid Ukraine’s ebullience, the casualties kept mounting. Ukraine’s presidential office said Monday that at least four civilians were killed and 11 others were wounded in a series of Russian attacks.
This should cheer you up @Faybe1989. My friend went to Wales and checked into her Air BnB and look who was waiting for her….
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