"We're going to redesign Grand Army Plaza. Tell me something we may not have noticed on first pass" vs "Should we redesign Grand Army Plaza? You tell us."
It's a subtle but key difference.
Marwan Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian alive and has expressed support for a partition along the pre June 1967 borders into a separate state.
Barghouti has been in Israeli jail for two decades and is routinely tortured and even threatened with murder by Israeli politicians and guards.
This article gave me a good dose of hope this morning -- great to read about progressive, people-powered change happening in Nepal: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/w...
Page 1 of a legal Judgment document from the United States District Court, District of Oregon for Case No. 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on 04/18/26. The plaintiffs are listed as "STATE OF OREGON, et al.," and the defendants are "ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, et al." The document is from United States District Judge Kasubhai. It outlines that final judgment is entered in favor of the Plaintiffs on Counts I, II, III, and IV. Item 3 states the Court holds unlawful, sets aside, and vacates the "Declaration of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services RE: Safety, Effectiveness and Professional Standards of Care for Sex-Rejecting Procedures on Children and Adolescents".
Page 2 of a legal judgment document for Case 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on April 18, 2026. The text outlines a court order declaring that defendants lack the authority to unilaterally establish standards of care that supersede professionally recognized standards for gender-affirming care in the Plaintiff States. It permanently enjoins defendants and their agents, including the HHS-OIG, from enforcing the "Kennedy Declaration" against providers in those states. The document is dated April 18, 2026, and is signed by United States District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai.
Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics.
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It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.
Join us on Saturday 4/25 in Fort Greene and help get Antonio Reyonso elected to Congress! www.mobilize.us/reynosoforco...
You decide where the money goes.
Participatory Budgeting Vote Week is your opportunity to fund real projects in your neighborhood, from safer parks to better schools and improved public spaces.
Just 3 days left— make your vote count: https://rnd.council.nyc.gov/PB_Voting/
Nominally independent media institutions celebrating press freedom by serving canapés to president fake news is some bleak, black comedy but the venue is chef’s kiss
Back in February, @analiliafornj.bsky.social shook up the political world, winning the NJ-11 Special Primary Election by campaigning as a fearless champion for working families — something she’s always been. I loved knocking doors & rallying for her.
Tonight, she won a seat in Congress! (1/2)
Still so excited about the Grand Army Plaza redesign! This will create beautiful public space and enhance health, safety, and joy for Brooklynites! Glad that @mayor.nyc.gov is prioritizing public space and social infrastructure!
HUGE NEWS: 72nd Street will get a lot safer!
"After hearing concerns from business owners, DOT, in a departure from its Adams-era capitulation to business interests at the expense of safety, stood by the project."
A perk of owning your workplace as a journalist is that, if you think it's interesting, you can write story after story about an insane legal tangle of alleged scammers, political machers, and conflicted judges, and there's no one to tell you to knock it off.
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One week away! Policy, labor, and research leaders discuss the wage gap facing the human services sector that New York relies on - and what we can do about it.
Free, in-person, with breakfast provided. Livestream available. RSVP:
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Despite a push by advocates to boost voter participation last year, just 621 detainees on Rikers Island even requested ballots, records show.
Now, City Council lawmakers want to make it easier for people in custody to request absentee ballots and get information about candidates.
If Harvard is looking for professors who will provide "viewpoint diversity" in exchange for $10 million, I'll happily preach communism at Harvard Business School or teach courses on anarchy at the Law School.
Hell, throw in a 3BR2BA and I'll be the creationist in your Biology Department as well.
I understand the intuition that subjecting older teenagers to adult-level punishments will reduce crime, but this has been studied and THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. Involving them in the adult system INCREASES RECIDIVISM. Pirro is taking a soft-on-crime position here.
Lots of great stuff in the first 100 days! Lots more that needs to happen on so many fronts, but it is so refreshing to have a mayoral administration unapologetically embracing a focus on sewer socialism and the public good.
"If you can't solve the smallest task in someone's life, why would they ever trust you to solve the biggest one?"
Mamdani's revival of early 20th century "sewer socialism" here is the inverse of Guiliani's "broken windows" approach.
Starting small to do big things, but this time, they're good.
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
Congrats to Yanery Cruz, the new Executive Director of the City Council's LGBTQIA+ Caucus! Yanery is a powerhouse advocate for queer/trans communities across NYC -- we look forward to working with her and our City Council champions to build power, pride, and progress! gaycitynews.com/city-council...
Shoutout to my awesome husband @scottstorm.bsky.social who just edited the new issue of Literacy Today -- lots of great stuff in here (from Scott and other scholars) on disciplinary literacies and building social justice!
Some of the online safety language in the state budget proposals could end up harming LGBTQ+ youth. Our friends from Equality New York explain why here -- let's keep this language out of the state budget! www.amny.com/news/op-ed-a...
Request for Proposals: Project Restore Flatbush. CUNY ISLG and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office are seeking a Flatbush, Brooklyn-serving community organization to launch Project Restore, an innovative, community-centered initiative to reduce gang-related and retaliatory violence, improve community safety, and support young people ages 15-28 most at risk of involvement in gun violence. Applications are due May 22. See the full RFP on CUNY ISLG’s site.
Attn, Flatbush-serving community organizations: bring Project Restore to the neighborhood.
@brooklynda.org & CUNY ISLG are seeking a partner to reduce gang-related and retaliatory violence, improve community safety & support the positive development of young people.
Learn more: buff.ly/YZHfZ6p
Congratulations to Los Deliveristas Unidos for winning the very first deliverista hub right outside City Hall!
Delivery workers work long shifts that keep our city going. The streets are their workplace, and they deserve a place to rest and charge their batteries.
Introducing the Justice Training Institute. A new resource hub for alternative-to-incarceration (ATI) and reentry providers in New York City. This includes: Tools for better understanding the criminal legal system, behavioral health issues, and organizational management, a calendar of upcoming training and events, and On-demand, organization-tailored training. Brought to you by CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance and the NYC Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice.
Criminal justice service providers in NYC have a new toolbox.
The NYC Justice Training Institute, from us and the NYC Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, offers a calendar of trainings, on-demand assistance, and other resources to upskill staff and strengthen services. buff.ly/9caMZFl
The NYT, a paper devoted to spreading the propaganda of rich “centrists” and right wing Trump apologists, isn’t critiquing the wealthy or defending the needy; it’s just trying to stigmatize public services and evangelize for means testing to undermine a socialist mayor.
Just my opinion!
The solve for "Sometimes when a service like free childcare is available to all, marginalized communities get squeezed out," is "Address that racism."
It's not "Therefore waste incredible amounts of time and money trying to means test something that society should just make available to all.🤡"
We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.
