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Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn @lidbk.bsky.social · 2h

Happy National Coming Out Day NYC! We can't wait to have a mayor who unambiguously stands up for trans and queer rights.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2h

One week from right now, millions of Americans will gather in every state for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history. Join your local No Kings Day event to make it clear that We The People won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn @lidbk.bsky.social · 2d

Join us this weekend as we knock on doors for Kayla Santosuosso for City Council with our friends @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social and @bkindivisible.bsky.social -- let's elect an awesome new Councilmember for southern Brooklyn!

www.mobilize.us/crystalhudso...

CM Crystal Hudson, INBK, LID, & Friends Canvass for Kayla Santosuosso · Crystal Hudson 2025

Join Council Member Crystal Hudson and Indivisible Brooklyn as we knock doors in support of Kayla Santosuosso! Kayla is running to ensure a more affordable, livable, and safer Southern Brooklyn! Her g...

www.mobilize.us

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 4d

if I'm not mistaken, this is the first UBI scheme where they aren't in some stupid endless "study" and finally have enough data to just simply DO it, and of course like all the studies showed, the result is a huge boost for the economy

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 5d

Good morning, Citizens' Impeachment!

Check your inboxes for today's action: Calling and emailing your representative to remind them of their oath of office.

If everyone who gets this email in their inbox does this, Congress will absolutely take notice.

eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

🚨 Tell Congress: Remember your Oath | 📤 Monday Morning Message

Defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign AND domestic

eocampaign1.com

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Patrick Hart @patrickhart.bsky.social · 5d

Had a great time yesterday canvassing for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social in Sunset Park! Great to be out spreading the word about leaders who will fight for our city and against all the awful fascist policies emanating from Washington.

Patrick holding fliers for Zohran Mamdani and Alexa Aviles in Sunset Park out canvassing on Saturday, October 4th.

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Gaal Dornick @onthecountof3.bsky.social · 6d

Brooklyn. Have you seen this lady? Her family fears that she may have been picked up by ICE.

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Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn @lidbk.bsky.social · 6d

These heartbreaking stories about how Texas schools are treating trans and queer kids are a reminder of why it is critical to stand up for schools that are welcoming for all. NYC public schools need to stay the course on welcoming and affirming LGBTQIA+ students! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

Texas L.G.B.T.Q. Teenagers and Families Navigate a Public School Clampdown

www.nytimes.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 8d

This is a horrific story of an American basketball player facing possible lifetime imprisonment or even death over possession of a few cannabis gummies.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

‘I use cannabis as medicine’: the US basketball player facing execution in Indonesia over $400 of gummies

Unlike his fellow basketball player Brittney Griner, Jarred Shaw has received scant attention after being arrested for a drugs offence overseas

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Hart @patrickhart.bsky.social · 8d

Time for a blue state governor coalition to start withholding all state and local employee income tax payments to the federal government and diverting those funds to projects the Trump Admin is illegally defunding.

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 8d

US DOT is putting another transit project on hold—the Red Line Extension in Chicago—because the transit authority pursued Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goals as part of the project, which the DOT claims are discriminatory.

The thing is, US DOT & Congress put DBE in place.

www.transportation.gov

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Crimson Courage @crimsoncourage.bsky.social · 8d

Check out our op-ed in @usnews.com today, co-authored by Crimson Courage co-chairs Patty Nolan and Miles Rapoport! Please share widely.

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 8d

Since many of you are distracted by other things or not following any Jewish media, you should know that today, on one of the holiest days of the year, a man drove his car into a crowd gathering to go into a Synagogue in Manchester then got out and started stabbing people. Two people are dead.

The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 8d

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’

Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall

manchestermill.co.uk

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Patrick Hart @patrickhart.bsky.social · 9d

It really is as simple as that.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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Patrick Hart @patrickhart.bsky.social · 10d

Just signed on to this letter and encourage you to sign too! Let's stand up for trans kids in NYC schools and say no to Trump DOE bullies!

Families for Change NYC @familiesforchange.bsky.social · 12d

The Education Council Consortium, NEW Pride Agenda, PFLAG-NYC and Transformative Schools put together a letter in response to the Trump administration’s attacks on the DOE. We aren’t abandoning any of our kids to bullies - refusing to stand up for some harms them all. Sign-on and share!

Sign-On: No Hate in New York City Schools

The Education Council Consortium, New Pride Agenda, PFLAG NYC, and Trans formative Schools invite you to sign-on in strong support of the current New York City Department of Education (DOE) trans incl...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11d

This passage nearly broke me.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 13d

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

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Patrick Hart @patrickhart.bsky.social · 15d

First it was Haven Green, now Just Home - the Adams Administration keeps on trying to kill affordable housing. Just Home would provide much-needed housing for people returning from Rikers, and it's shameful to see the city backpedalling on this project. www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/25/n...

NYC Council greenlights Bronx housing plan for former inmates in face of Adams’ opposition

The City Council approved a plan Thursday to build a housing complex in the Bronx for former inmates with serious health issues in spite of opposition from Mayor Adams, whose team said the vote is …

www.nydailynews.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16d

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.

The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 17d

I genuinely think he'd fall apart in the face of a challenge from Chi Osse. He just doesn't have the juice.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17d

I don't think this a very good argument for voting to honor a man who thought Jim Crow should have stayed legal. democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-...

AL SHARPTON: Mr. Minority Leader, great to have you on PoliticsNation again and great to have you in studio. I want to start with this bipartisan resolution honoring Charlie Kirk that divided your Caucus this week. You voted in favor along with a hundred Democrats, but 58 of your colleagues voted against it, most of them members of the Congressional Black Caucus who criticized the measure as, quote, an attempt to legitimize Kirk's worldview that includes ideas many Americans find racist, harmful and fundamentally un-American. As a CBC member yourself, what's your reaction to this critique?

LEADER JEFFRIES: Well, I understand fully the CBC critique and participated in a variety of different CBC conversations that we had particularly toward the end of the week in advance of the resolution. One thing I can say is that every single House Democrat does not endorse the views espoused by Charlie Kirk in any way, shape or form. And every single House Democrat does not endorse political violence against any person, at any time, for any reason. And this probably was an attempt by some on the right to try to divide the Congressional Black Caucus or divide House Democrats. And we will continue to be as unified as ever in pushing back against Donald Trump and his extremism. The other thing I'd say from my perspective is that I look at it as a two-page resolution that doesn't even have the force of law. It certainly wasn't about a Congressional Gold Medal, wasn't about a national holiday, wasn't about a statue. It was a two-page resolution. And, you know, we're not going to let Republicans divide us or distract us from the mission of protecting the healthcare of the American people, pushing back against the effort to shut down the government and trying to actually create an America that turns back the clock, which is what Republicans are doing, as opposed to what we want to do as Democrats—move the country forward.

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Vivian McCall @vivmccall.bsky.social · 17d

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood.

According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. The kicker?

www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men

Warning: This story contains descriptions of violence. “Go to Pony, go to Pony, go to Pony—there’s more people there,” said a frantic woman as she approached Madison Carstens and her friends next to t...

www.thestranger.com

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