#156. Pep Talk Speed Round (Food Bank Donation Edition) Hi everyone, This month marks three years of That's Marvelous which blows my mind. I started this newsletter as a repository for stray thoughts and bits and anecdotes while I was between jobs (I'd ju...

This week's That's Marvelous newsletter is about Halloween plus a speed round of pep talks for people who have been donating to food banks and ALSO a very aughts song I like a lot!

real feel of 104 on the Manhattan Bridge. 1/10 don't recommend

I was a teenager in the early aughts, and it felt out-of-step with so much mainstream opinion to speak out against war. What is happening now is cruel and sad and wrong, and you don't have to let anyone make you feel bad for thinking and saying so.

Hope you are well!!!

A hydrant rainbow is no promise of covenant in The South Bronx but more a strange and quiet elegy for all that could have been and never was.

Hi Gay

there should be a Brooklyn Vegan or ohmyrockness for every city

so good

Party like it’s 1799

incredible 😍

that's an amazing lineup

i know it literally was his job but the "well liked 20+ year public high school teacher" vibes just RADIATE off walz. every time i see him talk i feel like some teens are about to get up and give him a shitty plaque

he was INCREDIBLE

Happy Abortion Provider Appreciation Day! 🧵ed below are the insta/blueskys and donation links for independent abortion clinics around the country (in alphabetical order by state):

Thanks ally!!

I bet being a low information voter feels incredible, like going into a Chinese food takeout place and pointing at the picture of the entree that looks the best.

Thomas Hoepker
Lovers Lane
Jersey City 1983

I'm obsessed with this photo

Between today & Dec 23 EV is partnering with 7th St Burger to do a coat drive. 1 donated coat at any of the 7th St Burger locations in NYC = 1 free burger & free drink! We received close to 200 last year so hoping to have a bunch to distribute beginning on 12/25
@protagonistsoccer.bsky.social

A relic of the past! It was in Jackson Heights. I remember the G before the 2010s served more parts of Queens so maybe this was just archaic evidence of our early 2000s train system from that recent MTA sale

Mayor Adams Has Turned Roosevelt Avenue Into a 'Hunting Ground' for Immigrant Vendors As Donald Trump prepares to begin mass deportations, the mayor has launched a crackdown on immigrant street vendors.

The NYPD raids on vendors on Roosevelt Ave. are being spurred by a disgraced ex-pol who drifts between whatever gets him attention...and he might soon be back in office.

Read this fantastic Erin Durkin piece on the impact the raids are having on Queens immigrants:

hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-...

If you are concerned about pregnancy criminalization, unfortunately, what you most need to worry about is what you say to friends, family and health-care workers.

That said, a lot of these apps play extremely fast and loose with people’s data and imo it’s a good idea not to support that

Two Very Different Manhattan Murder Investigations The NYPD spent countless hours and resources searching for a CEO’s killer, but has made little evident progress on the fatal stabbing of a migrant teen.

As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...

The last week has made it clear most Americans have been fucked by their insurance providers. I don't think enough people know about this very nifty tool from ProPublica that helps you customize a letter requesting why your health insurer denied your claim. It's very useful!

amazing

Daniel Penny being acquitted is just going to inspire an increase in people playing vigilante and choking mentally ill and homeless people to death on the subway for being mentally and homeless but apparently most people are cool with that so

yeremi colino, a teenager stabbed to death in NYC last night by a group of men after he told them he didn’t speak english, deserves as much attention as the healthcare CEO, if not more. let’s give it to him. www.amny.com/new-york/man...

Judge dismisses manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny in subway chokehold trial The jury said it was unable to come to a unanimous decision on the charge of manslaughter.

murder it was a murder gothamist.com/news/jury-st...

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