FYI the library committee hearing on the preliminary budget has been moved from March 12 to March 18. I think you have to sign up anew if you signed up previously to testify in person or via zoom. docs.google.com/document/d/1... - I just signed up again but this time for March 18.

You won't be able to fix it all. You will be able to love. - Helms Jarrell

I know that @fractalecho.bsky.social and @lizjackson.bsky.social wrote a great piece on a related topic: how disability tech and technologies of war and violence are entangled for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social It’s a must read to understand disability and AI discourse newrepublic.com/article/1793...

Clown shit

my beloved trans community: do you feel like you transitioned late? (whatever that means to you!) if so, I'd love to hear from you for an essay I'm working on 🙏 🐛 forms.gle/AMd8zWnWvEro...

Every crashed F15 could solve homelessness in a mid-sized city

Woke up feeling immobile and then realised I was actually furious and needed to let myself be mad. Fuck these warmongering deranged gender-deluded white supremecist pieces of shit.

SAVE THE DATE for next Thur, Mar 12 - the NYC city council libraries subcommittee is meeting to talk about the prelim budget. Register to testify and say "booo, where is the promised 0.5%?" at: council.nyc.gov/testify/

"our time here is unearned... That's the definition of a gift."

Jesus Christ.

Had such a great time shoveling with DSNY today!!! I will be going back

Sam Altman is older than 20 though, so what happened?

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A comparison of a cut to the police budget with a cut to library budget should start with the fact that the line item for police is $6 billion+ and that they always receive far more than this in overtime etc.

Don't appreciate the most prominent socialist mayor in the country's spokesperson using the phrase "achieving efficiencies and cutting waste" when it comes to THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES that his budget did not even fund sufficiently to keep up with inflation. gothamist.com/news/taking-...

BREAKING NYT: The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department's headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had sexually assaulted them, according to people familiar with the decision and a police report obtained by The Times.

As an immigrant from India, the first thing I noticed was how easy to breath the air was in the US. 😟

Normally not a fan of cute names for bills but there are exceptions to every rule

This is beyond cruel, beyond evil

The Supreme Court:

Happy Friday to everyone but especially Alyssa Liu!!! What magic, ease, and art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...

This is a great thread on budgets in NYC!

From @gothamist.com : ““If you're just going to say, ‘Oh, I love the library,’ but you’re not actually supporting them, then that’s a real disappointment and, frankly, bulls---,” said Abby Emerson, a member of the NYC Public Library Action Network, or NYC PLAN. gothamist.com/news/taking-...

I'll tell you what strategy will not work and that's 'let's be quiet church mice'. Wait until June is surrender not a strategy.

Abby is spot on. Absolute bull—— that Mamdani is proposing % cuts to the library budget!! Fantastic reporting by @gothamist.com

"Mayor Zohran Mamdani rode into office on a wave of progressive promises, including pledges to boost funding for parks and public libraries. But his first major spending plan falls short on both fronts..." www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/19/m...

OK, let’s discuss what’s happened with the proposed NYC public libraries budget for FY 27. Mayor Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov released his preliminary budget yesterday. This kicks off the city budget process. [Long thread]

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

Happy Year of the Fire Horse to us all!!

Like Adams, he also broke his promise of 1% for parks, which appear to be allocated only 0.51% in this preliminary budget.

It’s not just a broken promise, it’s even worse than Adams’ percent for libraries in the FY 2026 preliminary budget.

@mayor.nyc.gov preliminary budget is full of broken promises nycplan.org/new-york-cit...

On Feb 12th 2025, as a rep of @nycplan.org, I asked Zohran Mamdani the candidate if he would support 0.5% of the budget for libraries and he said yes without skipping a beat. A year later his actions have not matched his promise. Ngl I'm super disappointed 1/

BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi. Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.

Did y'all know that NYC was such a slave city that Mayor Fernando Wood proposed that NYC secede from the Union? www.untappedcities.com/on-this-day-... How many New Yorkers do we think know this today?

Watching tomorrow for the first financial plan to be released under the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social mayoralty. It's the "first draft" of NYC's FY 2027 budget, called the Preliminary Budget. Hoping he keeps his campaign promise of at least 0.5% for public libraries... www.nyc.gov/content/omb/....

Please take 30 seconds to send this letter. It's @nycplan.org's campaign targeting City Council members to increase and stabilize public library funding. We'll see if our demand is incorporated in the Preliminary Budget to be released by @mayor.nyc.gov on 2/17... actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs. This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless." www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

NYC's pension system is a significant shareholder in Palantir. We are using that leverage. I have made a formal request for the company to secure a third-party assessment of the legal, reputational, civil-rights & human-rights risks associated with their work with ICE.

My office and a group of AGs secured over $17 million from drug companies Bausch and Lannett for inflating the prices of medication for diabetes, cancer, ADHD, and more.   New Yorkers who may have been cheated can claim the money they're owed.

Get ready to take in history from new heights. Starting in June, see the city from a new angle with breathtaking 360 views and don’t forget to schedule a free tour.

5 year old Liam is home, according to @ilhanmn.bsky.social and @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social!

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

Immigrants used to be able to vote and had other rights. Those racially eligible for citizenship. Basically, mainly white immigrants. Hiroshi Motomura's book details this history. I first learned of this from Charles Barron's campaign for NYC immigrant voting rights. global.oup.com/academic/pro...