Great to see this announcement of direct funding to support gender-affirming care for trans youth from @mayor.nyc.gov -- these supports are more essential than ever in the face of federally sanctioned transphobia. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Brooklyn Can't Wait wasn't created to "overthrow" anyone. It united clubs around the District Leader Pledge which formalized a shared standard of transparency and accountability. That's what kept us together through disagreements on candidates and what prevents reform from becoming another machine.

BREAKING: The Rent Guidelines Board on Thursday approved 0% rent increases for about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, delivering on one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s signature campaign promises. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/25/r...

new yorkers en masse have expressed their enthusiasm for democratic socialism. but these forty men surveyed in the waiting room of the coeur d’alene family court have a different perspective

From one of our LID members upon hearing that we won the majority “I waited for this my entire political life in Brooklyn. Since 1983.”

Brooklyn Can't Wait candidates are now uncontested or leading in 22 seats, out of 42 that is a majority, enough to elect a new chair I think we did it

Happy Election Day, Brooklyn! If you haven't voted yet, don't forget to vote today! Polls are open until 9 PM. Please join LID in supporting these awesome candidates!

Authentic question because I can’t find the answer: Which, if any, NYCHA tenant associations have endorsed Claire Valdez?

Happy Pride everyone! Happy to see our LID President @smfox.bsky.social honored as a Pride Trailblazer by City and State New York! Congrats on the well-deserved honor, Stephanie! www.cityandstateny.com/power-lists/...

This month we have a chance to finally turn the page on the Brooklyn Democratic Party machine. But they are going to spend big to defend the corrupt status quo. A donor is currently matching donations 2x — chip in what you can today at brooklyncantwait.com and let's win the party we deserve!

Good to know that if I ever became mayor there would be a desk my size!

love this op-ed by @patrickhart.bsky.social !

Friends, I’ve been around politics for over 50 years. I’ve never seen anything as brazenly crooked and corrupt as what Trump and his cronies did today.

📮HUD is now accepting public comments on the Trump admin’s dangerous proposal to repeal the Equal Access Rule! The Equal Access Rule helps prevent housing discrimination against LGBTQI+ people. Submit a comment urging HUD to preserve the rule here: buff.ly/fOGg7Ea

Despite the downpour, we had a great time knocking on doors yesterday for Antonio Reynoso in Fort Greene! Proud to support this progressive champion for Congress in NY-07!

Very disappointing (but not surprising) to see the Brooklyn Democratic Party fighting to disenfranchise voters, demoralize grassroots activists, and keep community leaders off the ballot. Our County Party deserves inclusive leadership that works to uplift all Democrats.

I very rarely comment on races outside of Brooklyn. But @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is the best pro-affordability candidate in both policy and alignment with the Mayor. If none of that is reason enough, she is also the most anti-Cuomo candidate.

Pam Bondi is out of a job! Now most of media is focused on her Epstein file legacy. However few people are discussing her role in weaponizing the law enforcement system, first in Florida and then nationwide, against trans people.

Trans Day of texting your trans friends “👀”

“We need a functioning DHS” yeah ok, the Thong Song was around before DHS

I'd like to speak with trans adults (18+) whose access to transition care has changed due to state and/or federal policy changes. DM, email [email protected] or Signal joyurcaba.91

You know who’s not starting an economic crisis? The Gays of Hormuz

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

All of this! Bartending taught me more skills than my under grad and grad school combined.

Nelson Mandela walked free from prison on this day 1990. "I was called a terrorist, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists."

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

We're just as confused as everyone else is about the Brooklyn Democratic Party's endorsement flip-flop today. But it does make the need for new Party leadership clearer than ever. Our full statement:

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

An ambitious experiment to give homeless youths money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/c...

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Mamdani: "While only action can change minds, I promise you this: If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor. Regardless of whether we agree I will protect you, celebrate with you, mourn along side you, and not for a second hide from you."

One of the links in our profile is to our archive. Among the things we hold in the LegiAlerts archive are LGBTQ+ Legislative trackers for prior years - not only for the years we've tracked as the bills were filed from 2023 onward, but also stretching back to 2009 and earlier archive.legialerts.org

The craziest case in the Brooklyn courts, involving power broker Frank Seddio and $2 million in missing escrow money, keeps getting crazier. Yesterday, two more judges recused themselves, bringing the total judges who have been assigned the case to FIVE. hellgatenyc.com/judges-dont-...

Due to the organizing of LGBTQ & Palestinian activists fighting to end the genocide in Gaza, @hrc.org has confirmed it is no longer sponsored by weapons companies Northrop Grumman and RTX Corporation Out joint statement w/ @adalahjustice.bsky.social www.adalahjusticeproject.org/hrc-victory-...

the needs of the anxious comfortable white male doing midcentury working class drag are at the very bottom of my list right now

POLLS ARE NOW OPEN. Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️ findmypollsite.vote.nyc

Trump threatening millions of dollars in funding to @nycschools.bsky.social is illegal and cruel. We will never sell out our trans youth. I want to be VERY clear: trans New Yorkers are protected by the NYC Human Rights Law and the NY State Constitution.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

I’m of two minds here. On one hand, I welcome Dems naming point-blank that the system is broken, finally. On the other, it’s been broken, and many, including Harris, would’ve kept it that way if elected. Without bold action, statements like this feel hollow. Just listening isn’t going to cut it.

I’m attempting a well deserved post-primary social media break but still need my local politics news updates. Finally getting a paid subscription to @thecity.nyc and @hellgatenyc.com ! Their coverage is consistent and an invaluable resource!

I began my medical transition at 16 without a doctor or support from my parents. It was dangerous and could have cost me my life. Banning or restricting trans healthcare won’t erase trans people, it only blocks access to safe, legal care!

The NYT's anti-trans fear mongering was cited in a Supreme Court briefing that stripped away the rights of trans kids. They need to be fully blacklisted by queer people and their allies. Don't work for them. Don't use them for book press. Don't speak with them for stories. They made their bed.

Holy airball on this messaging. Stripping kid’s healthcare isn’t a distraction. This is an emergency, not political theater.

Im so grateful to @chasestrangio.bsky.social and everyone who continues to fight for the rights of transgender Americans, and who push back against healthcare discrimination more broadly as well. The front lines of civil rights fights are never easy. But we need good folks there.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

@blainecapatch.bsky.social #ThreeYearsAgoToday

NEW: These families say they're leaving the U.S. because of its anti-transgender climate For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

"A review by @thecity.nyc of thousands of pages of court documents paints a striking picture of how intensely [Cuomo's] legal defense has come after any woman he sees as part of his downfall. And taxpayers have footed the bill, to the tune of $19 million," @rosalindadams.bsky.social reports.