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Trans folks, I know the world feels dead set against you right now, but you are all the shining lights of creation, and your lives are pathfinders to the future. I won't give you platitudes of everything being ok, but I promise that you are loved, wanted, and needed just as you are.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

as always solidarity with my trans brothers and sisters now and forever

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Gender affirming care is health care

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I am significantly more likely to attend events that require masking! Not only does it make me feel safer on a physical level, it also speaks to the values of the organizers and community. More masking please!!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

An hour ago in Falls Church, Virginia.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it. And today showed us that beautifully. No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.

submitted 9 days ago • 114 comments

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 301 comments

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

submitted 10 days ago • 100 comments

As we discussed the state of the world I told the old punk that now more than ever I felt I was without hope and in response the old punk told me: hope is not the belief that things will get better, hope is the belief that they might.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The public library doesn't care about your immigration status. The public library will not (or should not, and in Whittier does not) work with ICE.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, @fetterman.senate.gov, just curious, do you think anyone specifically was at fault for what happened to your friend and colleague?

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

submitted 12 days ago • 225 comments

NYC doesn't owe the rest of us anything, but we would all be so very grateful if you ended Cuomo's political career

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

🧵GAZA I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can. If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza. Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

submitted 19 days ago • 107 comments

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submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

submitted 31 days ago • 37 comments

I do-- I've gotten every one I'm eligible for. And I desperately want that protection-- and the protection of having her peers and caregivers be able to get them-- for my kid.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This world does all that it can to harden our hearts and push us to reciprocate the cruelty unleashed on so many of us. I refuse to concede my humanity.

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 32 days ago • 127 comments

If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)

submitted 34 days ago • 27 comments

USians: Two more days to say that COVID vaccines should be available and promoted to everyone. (I think those of us who are just random people on the internet fall into the Consumer class of the drop-down menu.)

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I've done my own research and I'd like the SARS-CoV-2 booster.

submitted 34 days ago • 17 comments

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

submitted 34 days ago • 151 comments

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 34 days ago • 17 comments

Found instructions on how to leave a public comment, we have until May 23rd (do it soon): peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

i am tired of living in Bad Times and would prefer Good Times

submitted 38 days ago • 55 comments

random thought about AI and automation. it’s not just about efficiency, it’s about exhaustion. we’re tired, but still craving more. more output but with less friction. AI feels like a mirror to that tension. so we build tools to stretch us further, hoping they’ll also save us from ourselves

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Nowhere in the Constitution is it specified that the parts written in ink are more valid than the white background. by Jonathan Turley

submitted 38 days ago • 16 comments

NYU has announced that they're withholding this young scholar's diploma over this speech. I'm an American-Israeli Jew and I agree with every word he said. I have degrees from Tel Aviv University, University of Chicago, and Dominican University (Chicago). Perhaps I should be stripped of them?

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

1) Make a basic understanding of consent mandatory for all STEM anything. 2) Actually, enshrine consent for tech into our laws & regulations. 3) If these generative tools are so mind-bogglingly amazing, why are they all giving access away more desperately than AOL mailing you CD-rom after CD-rom?

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 41 days ago • 485 comments

New York City voters, I am begging you not to rank Andrew Cuomo!!!!!

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

A Disability Studies scholar fundamentally put me right a few years ago by pointing out two concepts: 1. Disability is only disability relative to a social form. Stairs instead of ramps create a boundary. 2. Everyone needs ability aids at the start and end of life, and often some in the middle too

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

submitted 44 days ago • 1021 comments

Masked agents are flat out disappearing mothers from the street and this is what makes it out of the eleventy billion consultant-assisted and poll-tested layers of approval in the DNC's comms shop. As responsive to reality as a Soviet tractor plant.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

She was also the director of Baltimore's library system when Freddie Gray was murdered by police and kept the libraries open during the "riot" because community members needed a safe place to go. That ethic of care is just not welcome in our federal government anymore.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

To be dissed by one pope, Mr Vance, may be regarded as a misfortune; to be dissed by two popes looks like carelessness.

submitted 46 days ago • 22 comments