Terrible outcome. Is Governor Kathy Hochul mostly to blame? Yes. But in order to produce a change, knowing who to be mad at is only half the formula. The other half lies in the question: how can we force Hochul to act differently? And the answer is hard but simple: change who's in the Assembly. 🧵

Across her life, Coretta Scott King criticized the prioritization of war & colonialism over human rights. An early supporter of US divestment from South Africa, she traveled to South Africa in 1986, where she met Winnie Mandela who "acted with so much strength herself..But she also paid a price."

“It was always the Senate and Assembly vision to want to get this done,” said @kristengonzalez.bsky.social. “The budget is called the executive budget for a reason… If the governor wanted there to be money for it, there certainly would be.”

“There was clearly a time not that long ago where [Governor Hochul] was very vocal about trans issues,” said Babine of Equality New York. “And so it’s very disappointing to see now that that isn’t the case.” prismreports.org/2026/06/15/n...

“The winners in this budget saw funding cuts,” said Allie Bohm, senior policy counsel at @nyclu.org. “The losers saw no funding at all.” prismreports.org/2026/06/15/n...

“There’s so much that needs to go along with gender-affirming care...” said Ceyenne Doroshow. “We’re thinking more about the aesthetic than the real-life situation, which is—after you get all this care, where are you working? What are you doing with your life?” prismreports.org/2026/06/15/n...

BREAKING: Idaho's criminal trans bathroom ban that could result in felony charges and up to 5 years in prison has been enjoined by a federal court. However, this decision is a practical mess. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“A budget is a moral document. It’s a document that shows your values,” said Kei Williams of the New Pride Agenda. “At the end of the day, [the funding] is not there. That’s the baseline impact.”

“It was always the Senate and Assembly vision to want to get this done,” said @kristengonzalez.bsky.social. “The budget is called the executive budget for a reason… If the governor wanted there to be money for it, there certainly would be.”

“They left transgender people hanging,” said Amanda Babine of Equality New York. “We’re absolutely furious about that.”

For @prismreports.org, I learned about the gender affirming care fund that legislators and advocates pushed to include in the NYS budget and how those millions of $$$ ended up getting nixed. Thanks to @kristengonzalez.bsky.social @nyclu.org + others for speaking w/me prismreports.org/2026/06/15/n...

Millions for gender-affirming care nixed from New York state budget after months of reassurances, advocates say. The decision comes amid Trump admin’s mounting attacks on gender-affirming care & NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani pulling back on his own funding promise, reports @stahlidarity.bsky.social.

I wish all of your newsletters were in one place. In what they call . . . a newspaper. <a girl can dream>

yesterday in NYC, jewish voice for peace organized a protest against arms sale to israel. 90 people got detained after a traffic sit in held right in front of chuck schumer's office. as usual, chelsea manning has the coolest perp walk photos. cop's name is "anger" lmfao.

Yeah I'd say holding public health funding hostage over mining rights is indeed colonialist.

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When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.

How can therapy be regulated as an evidence based therapeutic intervention if therapists have a First Amendment right to say anything to any client? If therapy can't be regulated as a therapeutic intervention, why would insurance pay for it any more than it pays for newspaper subscriptions?

As the parent of transgender child, I can testify that the standard of care was EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE even before the recent moral panic. I cannot stress this enough. EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE. Anyone who says otherwise is completely uninformed or blatantly lying. Period.

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

The Department of Justice has sent a letter to NY AG Letitia James regarding her order to NYU Langone to resume provision of gender affimring care to trans youth. DOJ says they will defend NYU Langone if the AG takes action against the hospital

With @schwellenbach.bsky.social, I've written two exclusive stories pointing out issues with how DHS gave Salus a contract worth up to $915B, and other business. Last fall we broke news on favorable treatment DHS officials gave Salus prior to that contract award. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm super late on this but critical reporting from @victorialaw.bsky.social, plz read & share! truthout.org/articles/the...

This is terrifying an an indiction that the assault on gender affirming care will not stop at kids, nor will it stop at the public sector (whether the NHS or Medicare/the federal portion of Medicaid). Even adults with the $$ to seek care privately are at risk. www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/n...

What @readlux.bsky.social is doing is beautiful, and we love to see @lexmcmenamin.com covering it as only they can ♥️

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 18 PinkNews NHS, which already has a waiting times for adults stretching over a decade in many places, is considering shrinking the number of private clinics which can prescribe, worsening the bottleneck worse and increasing its control over adult GAC.

Mamdani's promised $65m for gender affirming care doesn't appear to be in his preliminary budget. In my first for @prismreports.org, I explored why that might be, and what trans advocates and activists have to say about it. prismreports.org/2026/03/18/m...

On Feb. 17, the Mamdani administration released its $127 billion preliminary budget for fiscal year 2027, but, according to an analysis by @stahlidarity.bsky.social for Prism, the promised $65 million for protecting gender-affirming healthcare has not been explicitly allocated.

"The case was seen as a major test of the first amendment and whether the government could use a broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters. It marked the first time the government alleged individuals were part of an antifa terrorist cell in a criminal prosecution."

Thanks @chrisgeidner.bsky.social for this great writeup of our victory at SCOTUS against GEO Group and why it matters! www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-rej...

The EEOC just reversed its own position, which it held for over a decade, that Title VII not only protects trans workers from discrimination but specifically that banning a trans worker from using a bathroom aligned with their gender identity is against the law www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...

NEW: Two women incarcerated in a CA prison have come forward to report sexual assaults by a staff cook while they were working in the kitchen, paid 12¢/hr. They told me he threatened discipline if they spoke up. The prison concluded abuse occurred, a very rare outcome, but he hasn't faced charges.

Time for Mayor Mamdani to live up to his campaign promises and ensure care is kept safe for New York trans kids. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov

In a blatant violation of NY state and NYC law, NYU Langone has shut down its youth gender clinic and caused a potential forced detransition to its patients. Where is the NY AG and Mayor Mamdani? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...

1. Terrible news for trans people in Idaho. The state's House just passed one of the first private business bathroom bans in the United States. It allows you to sue any private business that lets trans people pee if you think they're in the wrong bathroom. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fascinating new interview of Philosopher Rowan Bell by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social asks whether the concept of gender identity is outliving its usefulness, and what might come after. Food for thought. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Democrats in Congress have rightly expressed concern about the Trump admin's overreach in demanding user data related to 1st amendment protected activities. But many of these same Democrats are supporting misguided age verification laws that will help Trump and other authoritarians censor & spy.

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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

the atlantic is right back on its bullshit again

The US is deporting people back to certain death. There is blood on the hands of ICE. www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-abductio...

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

This debate or discourse or discussion about why Bezos is dismantling WaPo or whether or not more subscriptions or boycotts could change things or how he could fund it easily is pointless. It’s moot. Bezos bought the Post to control the narrative and push his agenda. Financials don’t matter.

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

reading this by @tanvi.bsky.social 'as the new mayor takes office, the bigger question is not what he symbolizes for immigrant communities but what benefits he might deliver for them if he can realize his vision of an affordable city.'

Occasional reminder that Joe Lonsdale recently bragged about co-founding Palantir to cleanse the western hemisphere of communists — a term which, per this Politico piece, he defines extremely broadly.

In Skrmetti, they said it wasn't discrimination on the basis of sex because it applied to both trans girls and trans boys. Now that the sports ban only applies to trans girls, it's not discrimination on the basis of trans status. The only logic that is consistent is that trans people lose.

Nearly 15,000 NYSNA nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian are on strike today because greedy hospital management have given frontline nurses no other choice.