This is a victory for the LGBTQ+ community and for our entire city. It’s a reminder that New Yorkers won’t let our history be rewritten.
Our administration will keep working to ensure LGBTQ+ New Yorkers can live safely and with dignity in our city.
more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
I don’t think a lot folks understand how massive Péter Magyar’s election was today in Hungary over Viktor Orbán.
It was a massive 33% swing in votes. That’s insane. That would be like a Democratic supermajority being created in Congress overnight.
Holy shit.
If only there was a website with all the info parents need to find child care in New York City, including a map with every licensed provider in each neighborhood…
Oh wait! Now there is: nyc.gov/childcare
This is Stan. He is the guardian of the stairs. It's his first day and he's a little nervous. Really hoping you don't try to pass. 12/10 (TT: stanthehotdawg)
ICE doesn’t belong at our airports.
Our Office of Immigrant Affairs has updated guidance and you can call their legal hotline at 800-354-0365.
Jasmine Crockett: "I am gravely concerned about Liam Ramos and all the children we were able to see. They are depressed, not getting education, not eating, throwing up, there are reports of issues with the water - his eyes never opened the entire time we were there."
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
The people of Minnesota > ICE.
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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.
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.
There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.
This is my favorite guide.
Noem:
"An individual approached US border patrol officers... The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently."
Video footage from multiple angles proves that this is outright bullshit.
Alex Pretti did not approach ICE officers nor did he react violently.
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.
Here's a little history of notable general strikes: 1/x 🧵
Why is May 1 Workers' Day?
On 1 May 1886, nationwide general strike for 8-hour day, w/hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the US. In Chicago, protests against police escalated into the Haymarket riot, w/hanging of 8 organizers.
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
genuinely stunning image
Another finding of war crimes & atrocities by the RSF in Sudan.
No country should be fueling this murderous group.
That's why we must pass my bill with @sarajacobs.house.gov to stop arm sales to the UAE so long as they keep arming the RSF.
The people of Sudan have suffered for too long.
Trump on NATO:
"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".
We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
"[M]asked agents apprehended 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway on Tuesday...[the agent] led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.
Occasional public reminder that trans and non-binary readers are welcome in my books and always will be. The world is a nightmare at the moment, but I won’t stop speaking for whatever value my voice might have. Stay alive, you beauties. Happiness is the best revenge.
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
A graphic from NYC Public Schools that reads “Learn about 3-K and Pre-K admissions” at nyc.gov/3K and nyc.gov/PreK
Exciting news! The 3-K and Pre-k applications are open from January 14 through February 27!
Families can apply:
💻 Online at MySchools.nyc
📞 Calling 718-935-2009
😊 Visiting a Family Welcome Center
