People who work for Zohran should talk to child care workers. You cannot build a system based off of a parent survey, or by talking to a handful of program owners and big nonprofit administrators. Child care teachers and providers are workers and they make less than almost every job in NYC.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

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The Largest Physician Organization In The US Reaffirms Gender-Affirming Care Is Medically Necessary The American Medical Association is setting the record straight on trans people’s health care—expressing its full support of keeping decisions in the hands of doctors, patients, and their families.

1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary.

It disavowed the New York Times reporting.

Incredible development for trans youth.

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Brutus holding up a “This is not normal” auction paddle

Someone should ask Mayor Mamdani at his press conference if he intends to direct H+H to absorb the trans youth patients from NYU Langone and other regional hospitals that illegally ended care, and if he plans to hold them accountable with NYC’s human rights ordinances.

He still has no comment.

can't "love libraries" and not fight for them to be fully funded.

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

A Group of Trans Women in India Helped Vaccinate Almost 1,500 Children “People started inviting us in, offering us tea, and asking for advice,” one trans woman involved in the campaign said.

“Looking to combat vaccine skepticism and mistrust of officials among migrant residents — especially those who are undocumented — organizers enlisted trans women to bridge the communication gap.“

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AG Letitia James Just Stood Up For Trans Youth In New York. Now, Will Mayor Mamdani Act? Attorney General Letitia James has demanded NYU Langone restart care for transgender youth. Will NYC Mayor Mamdani act as well?

1. In a major move, AG Letitia James has given NYU Langone 10 days to resume trans youth care, or face legal consequences.

Now many are asking: Will Mayor Mamdani follow suit and take action to protect trans youth from the Trump administration and capitulation?

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For Israel & the U.S. to go to war during Ramadan is also a message.

Hilary Cass Shocked to Find Youth Gender Medicine Debate Politicized and Ignoring Evidence — Assigned “There are no new research findings and the MHRA hasn’t presented any new evidence,” Cass told the Observer, in response to the shut down of the clinical trial she proposed.

Hilary Cass, the inexperienced pediatrician tapped by a Tory government to shut down youth gender medicine in the UK, is apparently shocked to find that youth gender medicine has been politicized in the UK.

@evanurquhart.bsky.social has more here:

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Thank you!

Does someone have a gift link?

I listened to an interview with Alysa Liu yesterday and I can see that the interviewers are unsettled by her and do not know what to do with her responses.

She challenges so much of what USians are taught about competition and frankly about how to live a life.

I'm asking that we all raise our political expectations. We deserve good things.

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

Taking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts Library advocates called the mayor’s proposed budget “terrible.”

Don't appreciate the most prominent socialist mayor in the country's spokesperson using the phrase "achieving efficiencies and cutting waste" when it comes to THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES that his budget did not even fund sufficiently to keep up with inflation.
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Thank you!

A. Month. In. Detention.

My god.

STAGES 🙏🏼

Outside Agitators “Outside agitators” is a trope used throughout history in response to slave resistance, Reconstruction, the labor movement, the anti-apartheid movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and more to dismiss ...

Vocubulary lesson:

“Outside agitators” is a trope used throughout U.S. history in reference to slave resistance, Reconstruction, labor movement, the anti-apartheid movement, the Civil Rights Movement, & more to dismiss and repress the legitimate agency, intellect, and concerns of local people.

Elected officials have to stop posting like bystanders who have no power.

This could actually be a golden age of radical public history. So many people are looking to better understand the antecedents to our current moment. We have good scholarship that can be shared with the public in myriad ways. Revive freedom schooling across the land.

A typed poem titled "REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #96: POEM AT DAWN" reads, "Empire is its own undoing." The author, Diane di Prima, is credited below the poem. The text appears on a plain white background.

Do people know that there are almost 1 million Muslims in NYC? Where are the stories about how Muslims are feeling about the first Muslim Mayor in NYC?

To the trans kids who have been left out and left behind by Republicans' callousness and cruelty:

You belong. You are enough. You deserve to show up in this world as your authentic self. And you deserve to grow old.

In other news, "No shit" and also "Sherlock"

Elon Musk just became the first person ever worth $600 billion.

To put this in perspective, here are some things Elon Musk could do and STILL be a billionaire:
- Pay the salaries of every elementary school teacher in the U.S.
- Fight hunger by fully funding SNAP
- House every person living in homeless shelters

Tax the damn rich.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:

I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care. 

Your health care is still legal and protected. 

I'll always fight for you.

i am agog that Newsom actually said out loud that he never really thought about affordability until he talked to a streamer who wouldn't let it go.