During the AIDS epidemic, gay rights activists in San Francisco transformed an SRO into a center for holistic care & community. The residential hotel, which accepted people no matter their ability to pay or their degree of sickness, became a refuge for queer kinship. The latest, from Stathis Yeros:

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This is a big deal, it shows DOGE trying to do the thing that I and @nathantankus.bsky.social and everyone freaking out suspected: using the payment system to cancel spending they don't like edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...

It's about damn time. Keep up the pressure on their asses and don't let up.

Meanwhile, somewhere in New Jersey… I love the Visibility Brigade. Musk raided the Treasury Musk stole your tax data Musk has your SS# Stop Musk Coup

Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:

"Stop the Coup!" Scene at Treasury.

Hospitals that are cutting off care to trans people under nineteen are the very definition of "complying in advance"—some, as I report in this story, even claiming, incorrectly, that Trump has "prohibited" gender-affirming care. He has not. They are caving. More here: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

There’s a strong crowd here, I’d say 1-2,000 people. Cynthia Nixon, whose son is trans, just spoke. Event is protesting NYU Langone cancelling appointments for trans patients, following Trump White House order. hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...

We are in such, such profound danger. They are doing the Reichstag fire to the most crucial and foundational payments layer of the Federal Government.

When brilliant educators get inspired by America Redux and collage the book into their notes the way I collaged the archives into the book—I just love this so much!

Hiiiiiii. Brand new here and still getting set up, but wanted to say that if you're in Boston at #ncte24 this weekend there is a RAD America Redux poster at the @harpercollins.bsky.social booth. Go get it! So bummed I can't be there with you all 😭