We’re fighting to protect trans kids from Trump’s attacks. My new bill with @chiosse.bsky.social @ebottcher.bsky.social @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social is being introduced to the City Council today:

They are saying it out loud.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

This is outrageous. Beyond outrageous.

Wait until you find out that the United States has deported dozens of American citizens in the last decade. 70 between 2015 and 2020. And that was when he wasn’t trying. Oh and I’m an attorney too. This is just factually incorrect.

If the government can arrest a U.S. resident living here legally without charges and deport them, that is a grave threat to the civil liberties of all of us. Politics has no business here. This is a direct attack on free speech and our constitutional rights. www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/...

REI union is asking REI members to select "withhold" on all 3 of these candidates - takes 1 min! vote.escvote.com/REI/

marc andreeson, one of the richest and most vocally hyper-conservative figures in the tech industry hired the guy whose only qualification was that he was famous for killing a black man on the new york subway

"the foreign policy of the most powerful country on Earth has been rapidly reorganised around the fragile ego of a sullen and resentful old man". Zelensky has known for years that the orange is just a "nasty" man.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

The US is no longer reporting flu data to the WHO. "CDC right now is not reporting influenza data through the WHO global platforms, FluNet [and] FluID, that they’ve been providing information for many, many years."

Yes to all of this, and: there’s no savings from laying these folks off because CONGRESS PASSED A SPENDING BILL TO PAY THEM and there’s no constitutional mechanism that lets the executive take back what Congress tells it to spend!

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

yes please!!!!!

Round birds with flouffy feet, new obsession 💚

Thanks, Greer. We wrote about this in our op-ed that was published last year. Sad that we have to keep reminding people about the traumatic experiences of those affected. www.scientificamerican.com/article/anti...

Yesterday, JAMA published a piece showing that abortion bans have led to a 5.6% increase in infant mortality bc (1) bans bans force people to birth babies with severe fetal anomalies that do not survive & (2) bans affect high-risk patients the most. Short thread: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

As I'm going through journal guidelines for a paper, I keep seeing suggestions that non-native English speakers pay $$$ for editing services, and thought it was a good time to remind anyone that needs it that @AnimalesEnEspanol.bsky.social will do this for free, just send us a message!

This is a despicable revision of our history.

Jews say NO to ethnic cleansing! We’re proud to see so many members of the JVP Rabbinical Council represented among the 350 rabbis who took out this full-page ad in the New York Times today, using their voices in this moment to oppose Trump’s plans for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.

Today’s the deadline to update your voter registration online to be eligible to vote in the mayoral primary. You have to be registered as a Democrat or Republican to be able to vote in those party primaries! Register here: e-register.vote.nyc

It gives me no great pleasure to report that the New York Times, like many media outlets before it, appears to have illustrated its beaver story with… …nutria.

This is a raid.

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

Every single professional organization in the country should be speaking out about the news about NCMEC. The administration put a financial gun to the heads of people trying to save children from kidnapping and trafficking demanding they enact policies that will hurt lgbtq kids. That is beyond evil.

We could probably fund 7 more NSFs just by auditing the DOD and getting them to stop buying tanks and putting them in warehouses to rot A 2021 audit found - just in the Navy - $4.3 bil in "untracked materials" (stuff they didn't know they'd purchased) NSF annual budget is ~$9 billion #chemsky 🧪

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Government of South Africa takes Trump to school:

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

Cleaned out underwear drawer this morning. Life is too short to be wearing 30 year old panties that fall down.

On top of 5000 problems here: FEMALE AND WOMEN IS ON THE LIST BUT MALE AND MEN ARE NOT. JUST AN FYI.

Our friends at @socialists.nyc have made this handy tool you can use to send at letter to NYU Langone demanding the hospital resume providing lifesaving healthcare to trans youth. #ProtectTransKids ⬇️

Since Black History Month is no longer official recognized by the U.S., and since the @asm.org has (for now) taken down this page: asm.org/Articles/202... , here is Jane Hinton. As a lab tech at Harvard, she helped develop Mueller-Hinton agar in 1941, then went on to become a veterinarian.

Reminder: Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these. Avoid directly leaking images; instead, request that the information be rewritten and the image recreated

Black History Fashion Fact on the first day of Black History Month: Thomas Jennings was the first African American to win a patent, which he received in 1821 for the invention of “dry scouring” otherwise known as dry cleaning. Newspaper photo from March 13, 1821 New York Gazette.

🧧🐍🎊🏮 Happy #YearOfTheSnake! eSIMS are in more than ever. Help us raise money so people can stay connected. Update from @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social and me disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/01/29/c... #LunarNewYear

Everyone can organize. Everyone can contribute to social movements. Everyone can do something, from somewhere. None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic. Everyone can organize and has something to offer.

ATTN: All feds. I am here. I'm also in D.C. and able to meet in person if needed. Today, I am particularly interested in any information regarding the implementation of Wednesday's OPM memo directing agencies/departments to take action by 5p Friday regarding the anti-trans "sex" definition EO.

gonna post this every day until the deadline: Feb. 14 if you want to vote in NYC's June primary ***YOU HAVE TO PICK A PARTY BY FEBRUARY 14*** New York has closed primaries. if you're unaffiliated, you can't vote in June. if you're WFP or Conservative you ***CANNOT VOTE IN DEM OR GOP PRIMARY**

For everyone who denied that the genocide in Gaza was for the benefit of the United States, here's the United States getting profits and occupying Gaza all at the same time.

OPM employees can contact me securely on Signal at marisakabas.04 www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

here's the full (and now-deleted) reddit post supposedly written by an OPM employee:

JOURNALISTS: The National Science Foundation is now cancelling funding panels. Meanwhile, we just experienced an earthquake in the Northeast this morning, and government-funded scientists are the only reason we understand anything about it. SEE THE CONNECTION? bsky.app/profile/caba...