Congrats to LID's new board and new president @smfox.bsky.social ! Here's to another year of fighting back in Brooklyn!

Great news to end the week with some solid bus and bike infrastructure projects moving forward and more harmful Adams Administration decisions reversed!

Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad: "NYC still struggling to replace emergency housing vouchers set to expire under Trump" -- gothamist.com/news/nyc-sti...

Join us for our annual organizing meeting and the beginning of our 2026 endorsement cycle on Zoom tonight! Let's keep on building queer and trans political power and community in Brooklyn! lidbk.com/events/feb20...

RFK Jr/MAHA world say they're not reducing access to vaccines for anyone who wants them, only giving people "choice" to opt out. But by refusing to even review new vaccines, yes, they are absolutely blocking those who want a new immunization from ever having access to it.

This piece on how the federal government is treating trans migrants is so infuriating -- the toxic combination of Trumpist xenophobia and transphobia. We need to #AbolishICE but that's just the start -- we need a whole new system grounded in human rights and dignity. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Wonderful news for NYC. Our new CTO, Lisa Gelobter, is a brilliant technologist and a deeply principled leader who has spent her career ensuring technology serves people, not the other way around. Mayor Mamdani continues to assemble a remarkable team. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...

Join us tomorrow at Stonewall!

🪡 So, what can you do? I encourage you to donate to independent groups even if you’re avoiding party committees. You can support @runforsomething.net’s candidate recruitment programs, our youth mobilization efforts at @votersoftomorrow.org, or mass protest with @indivisible.org.

Appreciate this message from our new NYC City Council LGBTQIA+ Caucus Chairs (including Brooklyn's own @chiosse.bsky.social!) and @speakermenin.bsky.social -- bring the Pride flag back to Stonewall! council.nyc.gov/press/2026/0...

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

I don’t keep up with explosive technology, so learning about these new bombs is giving me the same feeling as learning about Hiroshima as a child. Deep, deep sadness that we are capable of such things. Both kinds of weapons killing so utterly that there’s nothing left to grieve.

We have a groundbreaking technology that could prevent untold death and suffering. But its development is being hindered because HHS is led by a eugenicist roadkill enthusiast and an assortment of cranks and quacks who think their own self-serving contrarianism trumps established health science.

ProPublica is publishing the letters of children incarcerated inside ICE facilities. If you are from another country, do not come here. Not even to visit. Some of these children have been inside almost a year and only came here for family vacation.

Looking forward to kicking off this training session tonight with awesome folks from @lidbk.bsky.social and @repyourblock.bsky.social -- if you're a Brooklynite looking to build progressive power and a Dem Party that actually fights back, check it out!

When a headline says it all:

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Check out our gubernatorial forum with Lt. Governor Delgado streaming now! www.youtube.com/live/Z_LY9LL...

PLEASE PAY ATTENTION THIS STORY THIS WOMAN SHOULD NOT BE ROTTING IN A PRISON CAMP (no one should be)

William Medina has been a delivery worker for over a decade. During the pandemic, he began organizing with Los Deliveristas Unidos. Last week, a car driver crashed into him, breaking bones in his left leg. William now faces months of recovery. If you're able, please donate to support him:

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy! When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship. There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.

“Some people say we can’t get rid of an institution, but didn’t Donald Trump with just a few words in an executive order defund USAID? The reality is we could do it if we wanted to.” This whole interview— yes to all of what Rep. Ramirez says!!

Man, the Trump Administration is just a flat-out all-around disaster for America. They're not even doing the fake BS "Infrastructure Week" this time around. bsky.app/profile/pear...

"But what can Democrats do, they're out of power?" I get that question a lot. So I made this guide. Because members of Congress have a lot of power, even in the minority - especially in the Senate. AlexRikleen.us/minoritypowers

I have a low opinion of Schumer, but this is mostly a good list of concessions that would be good to win. There's no mention of how any of it would be enforced or what the consequences for violating things are, but it's mostly a good list. One exception: body cams. They'll only use them for evil.

In a world of Jeff Bezos', be a MacKenzie Scott.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The White House is holding this project hostage—unconstitutionally, as it was funded by Congress—because: (a) it followed contracting rules the Trump admin doesn’t like, but which were the law when the project was contracting. (b) Sen. Schumer likes the project. (c) Something, something immigration.

Great to see our boss at @cunyislg.bsky.social weighing in on @mayor.nyc.gov's historic appointment of Stanley Richards as DOC Commissioner!

On Saturday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani tapped Stanley Richards for one of the toughest jobs in his new administration: ending the endemic violence on Rikers Island while simultaneously shutting the jails on the island down. hellgatenyc.com/stanley-rich...

Fuck this! RIP, legend. www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...

NEW YORK CITY! The ICE Hotline is ☎️ 229 304 8720. If you see ICE, snap a photo, call & report as much info as possible. They'll alert the neighborhood. Help spread the word! Resources & posters: www.handsoffnyc.com/get-involved @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @indivisible.org #AbolishICE #HandsOffNYC

The administration is announcing this today at a food hall in Long Island City!

One of the best decisions I made in the last few years was getting involved with @lidbk.bsky.social -- a great org that works on building LGBTQ+ political power and community in Brooklyn, and fighting to drag the Democratic Party in a more progressive direction. Join us on February 12!

"Being angry at my senators for failing to meet the moment" is basically an ongoing state of being for me now. Will be calling @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social again today to say no funding for ICE/DHS!

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Appreciate this point from @2avesag.as -- NY has been quite successful on the transportation lawsuit front with congestion pricing. Feels like it's past time to file this lawsuit and get Gateway funds flowing again.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

Free Liam.

They're throwing Bovino out of the moving vehicle in the hopes that we'll abandon the pursuit. Keep the foot on the gas.

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm via hearts530

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Abolish ICE, full stop. Our Dem electeds in DC should not be voting for another dime for this agency or any part of Trump's fascist machine. @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social FFS step up and make clear that ICE needs to be abolished and defunded.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

ICE is kidnapping and murdering people in Minneapolis (and all over the country). Voting to defund them should be the absolute bare minimum and no Dem congressperson (or any congressperson, really, but I have no hope for the GOP ones) should be voting to fund this reign of terror.

Everyone who seriously, genuinely considers themselves left of center in any capacity should be actively asking themselves and their immediate colleagues and comrades: "what would a constitutional and political state of affairs look like where these events are made functionally impossible"?