Friends, happy snow day! Would love if you can come and join our team to petition and canvass and phone bank! We are kicking off our shifts! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

My neighbor and colleague @yuhline.bsky.social is running for NYS senate, after serving in the state assembly for 6 years, where she was instrumental in the passage of campaign finance reform. Now she can benefit from it! Contributions to her grassroots campaign: secure.actblue.com/donate/yuh-l...

In light of recent killings, Amnesty International encourages Americans to call their senators and tell them not to pass a funding package as is, not without removing funding for ICE. www.instagram.com/p/DT6Dag3k81...

Labor Secretary Frances Perkins’ first challenge in office was figuring out what to do with Section 24, a gang of immigration agents who were causing chaos with “highly visible and extreme” raids on immigrant communities. So she defunded them. More @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/a-pie...

This is Alex Pretti.

Go to the bank this week to name beneficiaries on your accounts, including retirment accounts, brokerage accounts, etc., if you haven't named them already. Beneficiaries override a will, and make it easy to simply transfer money to anyone you choose when the account holder dies.

Local news in MN reporting another murder by ICE, this time a person on the ground, shot five times. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

My book Unbroken Chains on the current MacDowell Fellows shelf at the marvelous Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough, NH

Toadstool Books in Peterborough, NH is a great store, with another branch in Keene, NH toadbooks.com

Anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr circulates false assertions amid measles outbreak

I'm at @macdowell1907.bsky.social reading by the fire and listening to Rodeo in my studio, which was once occupied by Aaron Copland. Almost as good as finding books by my friends in the library!

The last day to register to vote is this Saturday, October 25! NYC voter registration: vote.nyc/page/registe...

Florida sheriff's department used ICE to round up sex workers under pretense of fighting human trafficking and child exploitation. Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

I'll speak at the Westport (CT) Public Library this evening about human trafficking. Please come if you are in the neighborhood! I will bring some light to a dark topic in dark times. westportlibrary.org/event/unbrok...

My neighbors campaigning for Mamdani for mayor: www.instagram.com/reel/DOeEhjQ...

Wow, MO democrats are sitting in session this wee3kend to block gerrymandering, and it's not in the news www.kfvs12.com/2025/09/05/m...

Defend Public Health has released a report here about the science:

a encruzilhada da Makumba é impressionante: alguém comentou num post meu informações sobre mulheres judias polonesas q migraram ao Brasil séculos atrás e aqui acabaram sendo vendidas para o mundo da prostituição. Mulheres judias estas q dps de desencarnadas aparecem em giras como POMBOGIRAS:

US people: If you are want to get a covid vaccine this fall, consider writing to your representatives to ask if they will be available to us. It's not guaranteed, and is most urgent for older people and those with conditions that make illnesses particularly risky. actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

I'll speak at the public library in Westport, CT, on September 17th - please come if you are in the area! westportlibrary.org/event/unbrok...

I spoke about PEPFAR funding's roller coaster on South Africa's Power FM radio this morning, highlighting the US grassroots movement of thousands of public health workers targeted advocacy focused on key republican senators.

today in 1970 the Young Lords staged a 12-hr takeover of the Bronx's Lincoln Hospital—overcrowded, overrun by rats, called the "butcher shop" b/c medical residents trained on poor people of color the takeover led to one of the first patients' bill of rights in history, and other wins @teenvogue.com

If you can't afford to take a helicopter to your private doctor, here is a video about how your healthcare may be affected by the Republican administration's big brutal bill: www.youtube.com/live/l8zSFiu...

JUST RELEASED: In collaboration with @rightscon.org @getdweb.net @strangehorizons.bsky.social @dragoncon.org & @compost.bsky.social: a new resource has emerged for storytellers to clap back at encroaching fascism: stopcopaganda.compost.digital

Murkowski voted for the ugly move workers' money to billionaires bill, and so it passed. How many people will lose health care in your state? 40k in AK, 1M in NY where I live

Incredibly important read. This is exactly what LAPD did to me and two other legal observers standing on a quiet street corner this past weekend—except with rubber bullets, not pepperballs, and aimed at our heads, not our feet. …oh, and the officer waved tauntingly right before shooting at us.

NYC update: ICE has detained NYC Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander, so people are protesting at Foley Square.

US citizens caught up in anti-trafficking raids have been deported, and now we are seeing a much larger scale round up of citizens, people with legal status, and people without status. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

NYC people, if you are not registered to vote in the primary, you have all day! The deadline is tomorrow: e-register.vote.nyc

This is real. This person knows what she is talking about. Tell local NJ reporters who can get to the facility and NJ-based advocates and Sympathetic politicians

The creative industries contribute $2 trillion to our economy and employ 11+ million people. Let's protect this vital sector from unlicensed AI training. #copyright #AI copyrightalliance.org/get-involved...

As an author, I believe AI companies should license creative works for training, not take them without permission. Join me in urging Congress and the president to protect creators' rights! #copyright #AI copyrightalliance.org/get-involved...

This article describes some of the data that the republican administration is trying to wipe, how it affects science and invidivual researchers, and efforts to preserve data taxpayers have paid for over the past half century and longer. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Do you have questions about Ranked Choice Voting, how it works, and how it will be used in this June's Primary Election? Join us, NYC Votes, Brooklyn Public Library, and The New York Public Library for our informational webinar on Wednesday, June 11 at 5PM! Register Now: queenslib.org/4G3h

@hellgatenyc.com has an incredibly fun game which visualized how ranked-choice voting works -- the 2025 New York City Bridge Primary. Forward to your NYC-voting friends!

Arrests now at Broadway and Duane as protesters tried to block Duane a street where only federal vehicles can enter and exit.

March of thousands that left Foley Square an hour ago has now reached 201 Varick Street, one of three buildings in NYC that houses immigration court and where ICE agents have been arresting people at their court hearings.

Over the course of a single day, the Trump administration canceled thousands of USAID grants and terminated funding for the @uiiwp.bsky.social‬ at the University of Iowa. (1)

Senator Baldwin: NIH is behind in its pace in awarding NIH grants. Who is withholding funding? You, DODGE, OMG? Bhattacharya: a non answer. #JayLies

NIH public health personnel leading with the Bethesda Declaration promoting evidence and science www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...

If they suspend Habeas Corpus, it won't just be for "migrants" or "illegals" or "criminals." If they suspend Habeas Corpus it will be for you and me and whomever this regime decides is unfit, undesirable, and a threat or a problem. This is how it works. This is how it's always worked.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@emilydwarfield.bsky.social I thought of you when I found a 110-year-old headline about a bear chasing Alfred Hertz, conductor, across the Metropolitan Opera stage. The article included “The conductor fled precipitately across the stage, pursued by the bear".

La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos publica el Informe sobre la responsabilidad internacional de Estados Unidos por violaciones a los derechos a la vida, la integridad personal y el acceso a la justicia de Hernández Rojas. www.oas.org/es/CIDH/jsFo...

New Anti-Trafficking Review issue out now! This issue focuses on the overlooked voices of families - parents, siblings, spouses, children - behind every migration & trafficking story. @atrjournal.bsky.social

If you rent, don't rank Eric or Andrew gothamist.com/news/real-es...

I'm honored to be a finalist for the James Patterson Grant offered by the @authorsguild.bsky.social. My work-in-progress looks at girls who were arrested, innocent of any actual crime, and held on charges of being “ungovernable,” disobedient, immoral, delinquent, disorderly, or wayward.

May 1 is Labor Day: In the US, the federal workers union is under attack, tens of thousands of people have been fired, and working conditions will worsen under the nominee to run the office that addresses working conditions. Protest & tell your representatives to support working people!