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Call your senators' offices this morning (Monday 3/3), speak to a staffer, tell them you need & expect them to vote NO on S.9, & tell them why.

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ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped monday. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

I understand Susan Collins is still concerned.

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This spring I'll be sharing my labor of love, WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE, in a series of readings across the spring. The book sprang from a quest to ride every NYC subway line end to end. Pre-order now >>> bookshop.org/a/110446/979...

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Fellow New Yorkers, this might be the closest we get to a TOWN HALL with @schumer.senate.gov Please attend this zoom on Wednesday, February 26 at 8PM. RSVP: stv.fm/7aiu8v We're mad as hell and ready to fight back. Join the call on Wednesday night. Resistance is contagious! #StopTheCoup #Resist

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

DOGE has spent $40 million in one month

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

Calling all poets! Enter the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize for a chance to win $2,000 and publication. Submissions open until April 30th! ✍️✨ #PoetryContest #WritingCommunity

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the @singal.shame.wtf labeller is illuminating

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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 13 days ago • 137 comments

Fight back and protect congestion pricing: 📅 Today at 3:30 p.m. 📍Grand Central Station - Subway fare array located at One Vanderbilt beyond turnstiles that lead to the S shuttle We'll see you there! Don't bring back the traffic!

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“Forty-one U.S. senators could use the filibuster to block most legislation that enables the funding of Musk’s companies. With 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and two independents in the Senate, such a push is numerically possible, though politically difficult.“

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

Now available for pre-order—my new book of poems, WHAT TO CARRY INTO A FUTURE. bookshop.org/a/110446/979...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

In addition to calling Hochul about removing Adams, call your state assembly person and state senator. Our reps (Kevin Parker and Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn) have not formulated a position yet—suggesting they can be influenced!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

We will never stop fighting.

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

submitted 20 days ago • 128 comments

This morning, President Trump and his crony Elon Musk illegally seized $80M in congressionally-appropriated FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts. Trump and Elon stole tens of millions of dollars straight from our bank accounts--this is highway robbery, and NY cannot take this lying down.

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"The speed and thoroughness of Trump’s anti-transgender initiatives, bearing on virtually every aspect of transgender people’s lives, has been both relentless and heartbreaking." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

go birds

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

“Only following orders.”

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I think what's being done to trans people in this country is a FUCKING SCANDAL. It's absolutely an attempt at eradicating trans people from public life and ALL OF US must refuse this. Everyone. Stop being a loser mealy mouth person. This is bullshit. You should say so in all the places you inhabit.

submitted 27 days ago • 115 comments

Thank you, NY AG Tish James!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

So many good scripts being shared—here’s one that I will definitely be using on repeat in calls to reps.

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Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care. The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care. This one at UVA Hospital.

submitted 32 days ago • 72 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 32 days ago • 510 comments

People aren’t just standing by amidst this intensifying, militarized attack on immigrants. Years of organizing, educating and empowering people to defend themselves from racist policies are showing results.

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

Feeling very validated by this notecard in today’s mail. Text by Elizabeth Willis, with illustration by Nancy Bower, published by Litmus Press.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.

submitted 35 days ago • 64 comments

It’s Tuesday, the Monday of Februaries.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

It’s funny because it’s true.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

from Danez Smith, a prayer/intention to implement: “let us not be idle or stunned by fear/not be so comfortable that we ignore/another's grieving instead/of ending what forces her grief. //let us not be scared of the work/ because it's hard/ let us move the mountain/because the mountain must move.”

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Every family and child deserves to feel safe and secure in the place they call home. Every resident of Illinois should know their rights. I intend to protect those rights and ensure our state laws are followed.

submitted 45 days ago • 223 comments

A few years ago, I was looking for a way to feel ok in a world that is not ok, and I sought sanctuary on the NYC subway, using the trains as my writing studio. I rode (wrote) every subway line from end-to-end, and these are the lines that emerged. Coming in March 2025 from Roof Books.

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New original reporting on bias at the New York Times: Evan Urquhart has the story of @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, once an editor on the NYT international desk, and how she tried, and ultimately failed, to improve the paper's coverage of trans issues from the inside.

submitted 55 days ago • 31 comments

One of the many delights of Stacey D’Erasmo’s THE LONG RUN is Samuel Delaney describing his teaching ethos: “You need to teach people that they’re important enough to say what they have to say.” Repeating for whoever needs to hear this today: you’re important enough to say what you have to say!

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New Year by Zaina Hashem Beck (click through for thr rest): www.instagram.com/p/DEQfvmHSUF...

submitted 61 days ago • 6 comments