SEQ consistently produces high voter turnout but receives less resources to address climate catastrophe. It's also where waste-transfer stations are placed and battery plants proposed. SQREJC.org, of which Oster is a founding member, is the frontline EJ org for this majority-Black part of Queens.

It’s impossible to always follow every race in this city or state. When I’m trying to figure out my leanings and thoughts I always look to groups like @caringmrising.bsky.social to see what they are seeing and assessing. It cuts out the noise and the grifts. With them on Team Drew

Important reporting in @forward.com demonstrating one of the reasons why so many New Yorkers are concerned about buffer zone laws: "the security at Park East showed how that discretion can, in practice, expand protest-free zones by granting the NYPD wide latitude to set the distance themselves."

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

It's been said politics begins where the masses/millions are. Those already engaged in organizing of any kind know we need many more engaged, in every kind. NYC's Office of Mass Engagement aims to shift NYC's culture—and under Tascha, it's also got a Solidarity Tech map. www.nyc.gov/content/orga...

From Stonewall to No Kings, protest is part of New York City's DNA.⁠ ⁠ But the so-called "buffer zone" legislation recently passed by the City Council would seriously restrict rallies, marches, and other forms of protest - essentially outlawing protest across large swathes of the five boroughs. ⁠

We're launching the national Working Families Guarantee. We can win a real agenda for working people — but only if we fight for it. wfpus.org/guarantee

@governor.ny.gov what side are you on? The working class and the Planets side or billionaires and fossil fuels side?

Trump has launched a war of “fury,” to “raze” and “annihilate,” that has already killed dozens of Iranian girls, reportedly cost the lives of U.S. servicemembers, and will kill many more of both. He is acting without authorization by Congress and flouting international law.

As we plunge headlong into another catastrophic war, Sen. Schumer and Rep. Jeffries’ throat clearing and process critique only serves Trump and the war machine. Democrats should speak clearly and with one voice: no war.

Shared suhoor before dawn with DSNY workers before they headed out to prepare New York City for the blizzard. Up before the sun, doing the work that keeps our city moving. They’re called NY’s Strongest for a reason.

Reject colonialism. Reject imperialism. Embrace the working class struggle.

Got phone banked by the Tax the Rich campaign to remind me about the coolest field trip to Albany. Come join @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social @investinourny.bsky.social @socialists.nyc and so many other groups to demand Albany Tax the rich act.ourtime.nyc/field-trip-t...

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨! Three of the CUNY Fired Four have been reinstated. We celebrate this victory but will keep fighting until all four PSC members dismissed have been rehired. Send this 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 to Management today! --> psc-cuny.org/issues/reins...

The G train has 50,000 more daily riders than it did in 2010—when the MTA cut service between Long Island City and Forest Hills. @emilyassembly.bsky.social has led on this for years. I’m with her: bring it back. Read @johnsurico.bsky.social's s op-ed at @nyc.streetsblog.org.

Send this letter to Gov. Hochul and the state legislature to demand they tax the rich to fund universal child care. It’s Our Time ⏰ to win a city that we can afford: bit.ly/childcare-le...

Standing with nurses across the city. They deserve a fair contact that provides provisions of safe staffing, workplace safety and fair wages and benefits. @nynurses.bsky.social

We know that clean, renewable wind and solar energy are now the cheapest sources of power. But rather than embracing the transition to clean energy, Gov. Hochul is promoting expensive, slow to build and dangerous nuclear power and other false solutions including bio-fuels and renewable natural gas.

It’s necessary, all other talk is hollow

I'll never say it's too late. But the hour is late. I hope you'll take the time in the next weeks and days and hours to find your organizing home and do what you can to push back against fascism.

I do kind of wish we were living in less interesting times

If your NYS elected is speaking out about ICE but hasn’t signed onto NY for All, they are just throwing out empty words into the universe.

Words matter, they didn’t just fatally shoot her. They murdered her in daylight.

Universal Childcare✅ Rent Freeze Fast and free busses. 1 out of three in less than 10 days. We’re going to get the city every New Yorker deserves

Recently was contemplating what other feelings invoke home. Today I’m sitting in PYO Chai and eating momos and the music reminds me of long car tips with my dad filled with desi ghazals. It wraps me in a childhood hug

Good! Bans only endure unsafe abortions happen

Ensuring that local law enforcement will not collude with ICE makes everyone safer. Crimes and abuses can be reported without fear of deportation. @governor.ny.gov pass New York for All! 🗽 #NewYorkforAll #NewYork4All #NY4All gothamist.com/news/albanys...

A 60-year old man competed in the Olympic trials for speed skating today, that made me smile

So exciting! Go @lindseyboylan.bsky.social

NYC's immigrant communities, as well as their friends and advocates, are brimming with hope under their new mayor. They look forward to living in a New York that actually follows its sanctuary policies, and where collusion with ICE is a thing of the past. documentedny.com/2026/01/02/m...

Oooo, I wonder what jacket Eric Adam’s will wear to Inauguration.

I love this, greatest hidden gem so many folks don’t even know about.: The thrill of riding the 6 trains hoping to stay on for the loop around to just catch a glimpse.

This man made sure average New Yorkers struggled. He cut school funding, parks funding, immigrant resource funding, while he spent the 4 years clubbing and taking gifts. Bye see ya never.

New York’s ultra-rich and corporations just got a $12 billion federal tax break. They can afford to pay their fair share of state taxes, and we need progressive taxation to win universal childcare, fast and free buses, and a fully-funded @cuny.edu system.

New rule for running for office, candidate must of participated in 3 mutual aid events in the district to even be allowed to form a committee.

Only a matter of time until a UC Berkeley law professor writes a memo justifying torture, a brave Vanity Fair writer gets tortured to say whether it hurts, and we have a national discussion about whether certain people should be tortured for our safety.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated due process by deporting Venezuelan men after invoking the Alien Enemies Act. This is an important ruling for these men who were tortured, and for the rule of law.

Lately iv had friends over for small dinner parties on a weekday. A easy simple meal, enjoyed with community. Iv had them three weeks in a row and all three times its been pure conversation with folks forgetting their phone exist. New tradition I’m keeping for the new year.

Running for office in NYS in 2026. The @nywfp.bsky.social endorsement questionnaire is live. workingfamilies.org/apply-for-th...

We are so proud to announce @votejgr.bsky.social as Queens’ FIRST endorsed candidate of the 2026 cycle!!

Let’s Go!

Despicable

While I’m glad Commissioner Tisch let Ricky Patel (Special Agent in Charge at HSI) know that she’s not happy with their raids, I’m disturbed by footage of NYPD officers clearing the way for ICE vehicles. It’s a violation of our sanctuary city law to facilitate deportations. x.com/emmagf/statu...

🚨 STATEMENT: NYers Rally to Protect Neighbors on Canal Street, NYPD Clears ICE’s Path "New York is a sanctuary city, and the NYPD has no business collaborating with ICE." Murad Awawdeh

The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.

Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid. A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.

NYC Strong , it’s an immigrant city and 🧊isn’t welcome here.

Impt info for folks flying into LaGuardia Airport

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures. ...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

Good Bye Eric! You could have been such an amazing mayor if you had made everyday Nyers your priority.