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As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

I think people really forget that the Tea Party started as an astroturf campaign

submitted 9 hours ago • 24 comments

Congrats, NYC, we made it, the forecast says you can go meet your friend in the park this evening and tie a lightweight long-sleeve shirt around your waist in case you get chilly!

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This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.

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hi, cis folks! so senate’s king nerd struck the trans healthcare bans from the budget bill—that’s good! but the GOP may put it back in, meaning dems need to be ready to challenge it on the floor—that’s doable, but they need to know you want them to! today’s a great day to call senators: reps.fyi 🧵

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This is maybe the first weather data loss that I can say will, without any doubt at all, kill people. This is some of the core data we use to diagnose rapid intensification when visible satellite and/or hurricane hunter data isn’t available. Anyone on/near the coast just got a lot less safe

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I wrote a thing about the news coverage of the mayoral election and how it was biased towards Cuomo with.... data Read and share!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Wow. Wow, wow, wow. I sat with a cup of tea & had my mind blown repeatedly listening to this podcast. It’s going to take time to unpack & unwind my brain. You need to hear this.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

living my best life spackling in overalls and drinking Moving Beers, happy goddamn Pride y'all.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I matched today, I added $10. Can you match me and @nora.zone? It is so difficult to figure out new ways to ask, to plead, to tell the story, to say something meaningful. What do we say? How can we make it so that you feel moved to understand, to share, to donate, again and again?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

one of the people I was considering for a grad school advisor 😵‍💫

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One of the things I said over and over again for four years was that Eric Adams succeeded because Wiley/Garcia didn’t form a coalition until it was too late. It was a .5% win, and people treated it like a landslide. This is what RCV can deliver when candidates see success in each other.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Many years ago, Zohran attended a few meetings of Survived and Punished NY. When we launched our #FreeThemAll campaign to free people in women's prisons who were incarcerated for defending themselves against DV/SA, Zohran who was then working on Cynthia Nixon's campaign got us on her radar.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Zohran Mamdani is the only democrat in the mayoral race that released an LGBTQ platform and the only democrat in the country (that I know of) to commit to safeguarding gender affirming care for youth + adults with $$.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

crying screaming throwing up immediately moving away (unrelatedly)

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Whenever I see Dems claim they are out of power, there’s nothing they can do, I think of Brad Lander and how he escorted people to court while being comptroller and running for mayor. Do something or get the f out of the way so there can be more Brad Landers.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

This... THIS is the future that liberals want

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

the thing is you could spend millions of dollars and all your political will and energy feeding and housing people, too???

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Holy shit.

submitted 3 days ago • 380 comments

in terrible news, the cat has figured out that all the stuff in my room is gone and maybe something's weird about that.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

plan for how you are either: -donating to zohran for the general -donating to an org canvassing for him -taking a shift on doors -phone/text banking there is going to need to be an army working against the amount of super PACs the democratic establishment is about to pop up

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

almost enough money to make the buses free.

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IDK, we got a squillion Mamdani canvassers in Bedstuy the last few weeks and all Cuomo sent this assortment of unrelated roommates was a bunch of mailers to the "(my last name) household"

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

as a former (way, way former) local/indy media reporter, I am dorkily psyched to watch @hellgatenyc.com do election night tonight. like, already have the link queued up and ready to go excited.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

With alt text and a note if this happens to you request an affidavit ballot

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Scoop: Florida is building a detention facility for migrants nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” in the Everglades designed to help the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. DHS will help pay for the detention facility with money from FEMA. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 128 comments

Demand an affidavit ballot and submit it. Your vote will count.

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

I don't even start TAing until September and I've already misspelled "biogeography" as "biography" like three times, let's start a swear jar.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

lol what a farce

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

A story about stuff you can do. 1/short Went to vote today and someone was canvassing for Antonio Reynoso outside my polling place. I offered her one of my cold-from-the-freezer water bottles and chatted a bit because I wasn't remembering all his issues positions.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

submitted 3 days ago • 120 comments

Intersection of Dems always being called to defend the craziest thing any random "leftist" said on Twitter and Muslims having to denounce each individual crime ever committed by any Muslim anywhere.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Bottom line is that if you haven't voted yet, please go out to vote tomorrow in the primary and DO NOT RANK CUOMO. I'll be out in the heat wave NOT RANKING HIM. We need to turn the page in this city.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

The bill removes future presidents capacity to cancel debt. It removes health care providers exchange of debt to work for low cost health centers. It dramatically attacks and reduces Pell grants. It will enslave you into debt and result in university closures everywhere.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments