What continues to happen at Bedford is horrific. www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley... [gift link]

Anyone recall when AOC was speaking at Davos and the Vichy NYT included every um and uh and stutter in her statement, because I sure fucking do.😒

19 out of 55 members of the US Constitutional Convention had been born outside the territory that became the US.

Yuppies has a cover! And a release date! Out May 12 with @harvardpress.bsky.social.

Every day, we're pursuing small changes that make a huge difference: like building a map of licensed childcare providers in New York City at @ nyc.gov/childcare.

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

Join us to canvas and win this election! lindsey-boylan-for-city-council.solidarity.tech/lindsey-boyl...

These doctors got their wish.

The horrors inside these ICE facilities are stunning. Don't look away. For a year, we’ve been working to call attention to the lawlessness & inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza and across the country. (1/2)

In New York City, local elected officials have been working to beef up immigrant protections across the five boroughs. They’re looking for lessons on how to deal with a mass ICE deployment from cities that have already experienced them.

Remember kids: means testing is for smug busybodies and jackasses who want to waste money punishing people for being poor!

Happy Passover, New York. Here's to building a city where even the poorest among us know that their cup will be filled. Where all who are hungry can come and eat. Chag Sameach and a koshern un freilichen Pesach.

Reminds me of this from Hamilton Nolan

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

a cool thing the ruling class does is run articles like this to convince you the wealthy are undeserving of a free resource, and therefore it shouldn't be universal. then they switch to convincing you that the poor are cheating, and also don't deserve it

Please join us in wishing Council Member Sandy Nurse a very happy birthday! 🎂

yes. they pay more based on income in taxes for the thing that is then “free” for everyone. this is how public services work

Truly some of the silliest sentences ever written. Oh no! What if everyone benefits from public goods?

It is, in fact, the stuff of populist campaigns! Everyone means everyone!

This is 100% evidence based. Universal services persist and are comparatively generous and the best way to help those who need more. Think Medicare vs Medicaid.

The Upper East Side has public schools, public parks, public streets, public buses and subways, public fire stations, and public libraries. Extremely silly to treat public daycare centers as categorically different. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

lol a $7 million apartment AND a $22 million Hamptons mansion

I'm just saying if I owned a 4-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom apartment in a city with a widening chasm of wealth inequality, I would not be proposing a budget that would force service cuts to people who can't even afford the rent

The wealthiest New Yorkers includes Speaker Julie Menin, who reportedly bought a $7.8 million apartment on the UES in 2017

Also if you live in NYC, a low lift thing you can do to support adequate funding for our libraries is to make a copy of these half sheets and drop them off in public places in your communities. Also share with co-workers, family members, etc.. drive.google.com/file/d/1Cm2L...

A way better use of your money than donating a congressional candidate *and* we wont text you incessantly after!

For lack of heat, it doesn’t just feel like tenants’ complaints are going unanswered; in some cases, they actually are. My @citylimitsnews.bsky.social investigation on how a duplicate-tagging system shortchanges some tenants to maximize efficiency + what the mayor might do about it buff.ly/gpAKiTx

This Day in Labor History: April 2, 1992. Seattle mayor Norm Rice created the Child Care Staffing Task Force to deal with the city’s low-wage child care workers and how to improve their working conditions. Let's talk about care work and the recent history of protecting care workers!

We'll say it again: We are beyond tired of the Brooklyn Democratic Party being implicated in corruption scandals.

She also said on this forum tonight that she supports prosecuting members of the Trump cabinet

that's right

The NYS budget is due tomorrow, which means you should contact Hochul and your legislators TODAY and tell them to TAX THE RICH! Hochul ☎️: 518-474-8390 Legislators: act.ourtime.nyc/email-your-l...

Pretty compelling essay from Daniel Biss in The Nation, in which he reiterates his support for -The Block The Bombs Act (strongest arms embargo on Israel legislation ever unveiled in Congress). -Unilateral recognition of the State of Palestine. -Naming and shaming AIPAC intervention in elections.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Our big end-of-quarter deadline is tomorrow night. Unlike our opponent, we're running a grassroots campaign. We reject money from the likes of AIPAC and MAGA crypto billionaires. Could you chip in today to help us take back NY-10? secure.actblue.com/donate/lande...

chicago pope could do the funniest thing ever by excommunicating him on june 15

Let's go @bradlander.bsky.social - Folks in NY-10, please read up on Brad's plans and let's all work to send him to Washington to fight on our behalf.

Detainees and families dial 311 to report freezing cells, hallucinations and denied medical care. Many complaints are routed as “customer comments” and vanish without action. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/31/r...

The threat of AI to minimize labor's ability to organize is one of the central issues on our political horizon. Few in government are seeing (let alone addressing) it. But @alexbores.nyc is one of the few. That's why the NY-12 race is of national importance—and why RWDSU and DC 37 are with him.

NY’s budget is due tomorrow, so we’ve got a new ad right in front of the Capitol to make sure Hochul knows we’re watching. 👀 Trump is letting the rich run our democracy into the ground. Will @governor.ny.gov join him, or stand up for New Yorkers & tax the rich?

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it is that time of year where the sun is out and suddenly we remember just how beautiful the city is

one thing that I think we need to realize is that not all political persuasion needs to be in the "convince a person to vote for a candidate" form — finding ways to demoralize and de-energize your opposition who would never vote for you is very valuable too

It’s extremely important to be able to criticize good progressive politicians and hold them to account without treating them as enemies. It would be better if fewer people tended towards both extremes!