They should not have been in custody.

Today, senator Ron Wyden will raise a point of order to remove the Medicaid and CHIP ban on gender affirming care. The Republicans need 60 votes to keep it in but they only have 53. Call your Dem senator today and urge them to vote to strip the ban from the bill. Senate switchboard 202-224-3121.

The New York Times is back at it again (derogatory). An upcoming New York Times podcast on trans youth healthcare used audio from the mother of a trans girl against her will, after producers caught a vulnerable moment on tape.

Enough is ENOUGH! Come out and help demand the NYT show some backbone and lose their bias, or back off.

NYC's Human Rights Law is one of the most robust local human rights laws in the country, but we need expanded resources for @nycchr.bsky.social to ensure its full implementation. We must increase their budget by $6M to enhance their capacity and effectiveness. www.amny.com/housing/advo...

Use the tool, and also call!

Use our tool linked below to contact your senator now. Urge them to vote NO on this bill. Tell your Senator today: Protect Our Healthcare! Protect Trans People! (4/4) action.transequality.org/a/stopmedica...

NEW: After an NY state senator told our reporter that NYU Langone had resumed treatment for trans youth, families shared their ongoing difficult obtaining necessary treatments. Are reports that care has resumed just empty promises? www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

NEW: While Governor Kathy Hochul pushes an expansion of involuntary commitment in this year's budget, thousands of New Yorkers sit on waitlists for voluntary state-funded mental health programs. In some cases, they wait for as long as two years.

We can’t let this happen. Repealing discovery reform means more wrongful convictions and more injustice. Call your lawmakers at 516-916-7076 or fill out our form and urge them to #ProtectKaliefsLaw today. innocenceproject.org/petitions/ne...

URGENT: New York is on the brink of a major rollback that could lead to more wrongful convictions. Discovery reform — which helps prevent innocent people from incarceration — is under attack. And the process is happening behind closed doors. #ProtectKaliefsLaw

Scoop 🚨 NYC's Under-Resourced Human Rights Commission Has a Years-Long Backlog of Cases Immigrant Workers Pay the Price One House Cleaner Filed a Sexual Assault Complaint Against Her Boss in 2019. Her Case is Still Open My latest @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2025/04/10/i...

A lot going on right now but I still think it's crazy that the NY state budget is a week overdue because the governor is holding it hostage to a retrogressive policy demand based on a claim for which neither she nor anyone else have offered *any* supporting evidence. hellgatenyc.com/tisch-cant-s...

Cammie Woodman, who is trans, claims her amateur tennis league in Brooklyn kicked her out after another member complained about playing against her. She is calling on the Parks. Dept to investigate the league, which helps players arrange match-ups on public courts. www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/01/t...

Only 24 staff! And no virtual hearing option, all hearings are in Albany!

Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...

ADD YOUR NAME: American Jews demand that Mahmoud be released from custody and returned to his family immediately with his green card intact. For Mahmoud’s safety and all of our safety. www.bendthearc.us/release_khalil

UPDATE: Called all my NY reps - national and state, as well as my city councilperson, to ask them to speak out for and fight for the release of Mahmoud Khalil. Here's a quick script if you need one and want to make calls yourself. You can find your reps here: reps.fyi

Seeing every major political power broker in New York agree that serial sexual abuse is not only okay, but getting into a position to abuse new victims is a "comeback," is absolutely disgusting. Do not rank Cuomo.

This is a big one: SCOTUS will *not* revisit its precedent allowing states to create "bubble zones" that limit protests outside abortion clinics. Thomas and Alito dissent. Very surprising—I really thought they'd overturn those precedents after Dobbs. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Prosecutors have urged the governor to roll back some of New York’s discovery reforms. Public defenders worry about reverting to a time when they had to fight their cases “blindfolded.”

Saturday in NYC 🏳️‍⚧️

NYC Protect Trans Kids rally tomorrow, Monday 2/3 6:30 PM St. Vartan Park• 1st Avenue &, E 35th St, New York, NY 10016 US Protesting NYU Langone denying healthcare to a trans kid in response to Trump’s executive order actionnetwork.org/events/prote...

This is despicable. American health care providers, particularly deep-pocketed institutions in this city, should be fighting for their trans patients, not rolling over because they got a memo.

NYU-Langone is cancelling appointments for gender-affirming care for young trans people, parents say. The cancellations come after Trump's order directing institutions that receive federal funding to end gender-affirming care for patients under 19. hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...

Call Kathy Hochul's office and tell her not to back down. Congestion pricing works. 518-474-8390

The heinous, brutal killing of Robert L Brooks is an indictment of our entire criminal legal system. These officers must be fired and held accountable, Marcy must be closed, and the violence + impunity showcased in this video have to be recognized as a reality across many of our prisons and jails.

More than 20 million people in the US are barred from jury service because of criminal records – an unnecessary and discriminatory norm across the country So much for the promise of a "jury of peers"

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨 Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

"An investigation into Home Healthcare Workers of America by THE CITY, based on interviews with past & current members, legal records & other public statements, reveals that this fast-growing union is a tool of company management in the form of a labor organization." www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/19/h...

Hochul is weighing a labor-backed warehouse safety bill as injury rates continue to climb in the industry. The Business Council – whose members include major warehouse owners like UPS and Amazon– is pressing Hochul to veto or amend the bill. nysfocus.com/2024/12/13/a...

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇