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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Menin asks the AI execs to "raise your hand if your company has insurance for catastrophic risks." No one does. "Okay, I'm going to take that as a no... So then the public, I assume, will be asked to absorb the costs." Each of the execs then scramble to clarify that they actually don't know.
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The first baby born in Brooklyn on September 4, 1997 was to be granted free access for life to group music lessons at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. You’ll never guess who got it… (unless you’re a huge Gracie Mansion nerd)
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You'll Literally Never Guess the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music's Centennial Baby
Hint: He lived in Gracie Mansion.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
ICE has increased operations in NYC, with an uptick in reported sightings across Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Most recent sightings were in Coney Island (BK), Corona (QNS), Jackson Heights (QNS), and Bushwick (BK). The ICE hotline is back online after being down for a month: 229-304-8720
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NYC ICE HOTLINE

THE HOTLINE IS BACK
CALL OR TEXT

SEE ICE?
TAKE A PICTURE & TEXT US THE INFO
+1(229) 304-8720
EVERYDAY FROM 6 AM to 8 PM
ENGLISH & SPANISH
PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBORS
NYCHOTLINE.NET
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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“On the campaign trail, the mayor promised libraries would get .5% of the city budget. The reality is less, to the disappointment of city librarians. The budget includes $538 million for libraries, about .4%…” www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2026/...
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What’s NOT in the New York City budget?
From extra cops to 1% for parks, $126 billion and still not everything gets funded.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The FY27 NYC budget funds libraries at 0.43% of the budget, which still leaves libraries $91 million short of 0.5%. This means continued vacancies, less books purchased, fewer services for patrons, and stagnant compensation for library workers. We need 0.5% allocated for libraries going forward.
Bar chart showing NYC public library funding: FY26 at 523 million, FY27 adjusted for inflation at 545 million , FY27 at 538 million, and FY27 at 629 million if 0.5% of the budget. Title: "A Broken Promise Leaves NYC Libraries Underfunded.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
All 3 NYC Library Systems now have asks that people send a letter to the City Council calling for increased funding. In some uninformed quarters, people are claiming that our public libraries are "fully funded" when in actuality they are slated for lower funding than last year in real dollars.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Saturday in Brooklyn! Join the docents for a walk through of The Warehouse exhibit. The Warehouse is a collaboration between artist & writer Vic Liu, IC cofounder Mariame Kaba, & the Bedford branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. FREE - click to register
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Exhibit Walk Through | Brooklyn Public Library
Join our docents for a walk through of The Warehouse exhibit.Running from April 4 through June 28, 2026, The Warehouse is a collaboration between artist and writer Vic Liu, abolitionist organizer Mari...
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Books Through Bars Philly @booksthroughbars.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We need dictionaries! They are one of our most requested books, soft-cover strongly preferred. Email us at donations@booksthroughbars.org to set up a drop-off!
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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The surprise rollout of ChatGPT Edu across the California State University system provoked outrage and opposition. The California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social is fighting the initiative “on every front,” Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social and Martha Kenney write in #Academe
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Cal State’s War on Working-Class Education
The surprise rollout of ChatGPT Edu across the California State University system has provoked outrage and opposition.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Hmmm. Whose picture is the headline image for this article? Your congressmember shouldn't work for crypto billionaires. They should work for you. Keep big money out of NY-10 and out of our politics entirely.
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Deep-pocketed crypto super PAC eyes New York House races in 2026
Fairshake has nearly $200 million on hand, and that’s just one way the cryptocurrency industry could play in Empire State elections.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 14/03/2026
It's #PiDay – which means it's time for our annual report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 🥧 Last year, the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. increased again. But why? We answer that & bust the biggest myths of the carceral system🧵
Pie chart showing that nearly 2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S.
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NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org · 08/03/2026
@mayor.nyc.gov It’s clear : New Yorkers want increased funds for our public libraries.
Photo of NYC Mayor Mamdani smiling, with text in bold letters superimposed that read “New Yorkers want more funding for libraries”. A small header reads “NYC PLAN : Public Library Action Network”
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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/02/2026
Brad Lander: “It’s pretty outrageous…once people think that they don’t have to follow the law because the president doesn’t, workers suffer, our universities suffer, students & faculty suffer.” St. John’s University can’t just UNrecognize faculty unions after 56 years. That’s not the law works.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Solidarity to the NYU faculty members as they prepare to strike. University leadership must offer a deal that meets the moment: Stronger job security, higher wages, and academic freedom protections. NYU, it’s time to give CFU-UAW a fair contract and also pay your RAs!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/02/2026
AAUP members are rejecting the Commission for Public Higher Education accreditation standards, which threatens to introduce unprecedented partisan influence over universities. Check out this thread and graphics explaining what is at stake nationally, especially at southern universities⬇️
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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You can help! Send a letter to your city council member making this 0.5% funding demand: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it. www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...
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Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My latest =>
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Katie (she/her) @librariankqm.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Higher Eduation Labor United is holding a training tonight (11/5) for library workers! higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/17/n...
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November 5 – Library Workers Organizing Meeting & Strategy Session – Higher Education Labor United
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Alarmed by efforts to publicize its violence against Palestinians during the olive harvest, Israel is moving to expel international solidarity activists from the occupied West Bank, Maya Rosen reports. jewishcurrents.org/the-olive-ha...
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The Olive Harvest Deportations
Alarmed by efforts to publicize its violence against Palestinians, Israel is moving to expel international solidarity activists from the occupied West…
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/11/2025
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
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Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 27/10/2025
ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
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Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe t...
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The Fest @thefestfl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Not going all 3-days? Still want to experience FEST?! We have single showcase tickets available! Visit our 🔗🌴 in our bio for the full list of showcases available. Here's a small look, these are all the Friday showcases available for purchase!
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jonathan4212.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Important tenant strike+victory here - solidarity with all renters facing off against corporate landlords! @debtcollective.bsky.social @lapublicpress.bsky.social lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-t...
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These LA tenants saw some utility fees double. So they went on strike
The controversial billing system their landlord uses was banned in West Hollywood three years ago.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's. If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too. It's just a question of political will.
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New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free
The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/08/2025
Re-up for the afternoon crew.
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/06/2025
'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 🔗 www.404media.co/a-black-hole...
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'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
Details about how Meta's nearly Manhattan-sized data center will impact consumers' power bills are still secret.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Tomorrow is ours if we want it. zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We can knock one million doors across the five boroughs by the start of early voting Saturday—if you sign up now! You can always watch the debate on YouTube after your shift 😉 zohranfornyc.com/events
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New TV ad starts airing tonight. We are done settling for less.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Quid pro Cuomo. "Many of the donations came after Mr. Cuomo made a rare appearance at the Real Estate Board of New York, where Politico reported that he expressed regret for signing rent reforms as governor that landlords bitterly opposed."
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The Business Interests Bankrolling Andrew Cuomo’s Run for Mayor
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Jeffery C. Mays @jeffcmays.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The costly sanction came hours before the Working Families Party ‪chose Mr. Cuomo’s leading rival, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, as its top choice among its slate of @nywfp.bsky.social‬ ranked candidates: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/n...
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Cuomo Loses Another $675,000 as Mamdani Lands Major Endorsement
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Good afternoon, Bed-Stuy.
Hundred volunteers post together in a big group shot at Herbert Von King Park.
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REI Union @reiunion.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Chicago is a Union Town! Last weekend, we rallied outside the Chicago REI store to stand up against union busting and demand that REI bargain a fair contract. ✊🔥
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Open Letter to College & Research Libraries from the academic wing of #CripLib
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Open Letter to CRL from the academic wing of #CripLib - ACRLog
Editor's note: We welcome a guest blog post from the academic librarians of #CripLib, which focuses on the intersection of disability and library work. Note: The focus is on our concerns about the qua...
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
If you keep seeing @hellgatenyc.com's reporting referenced, or you keep reading the beginning of our stories before you hit the paywall, or if you just want to do something to sustain local journalism in this dark time, you should know we're having a sale right now: hellgatenyc.com/vote-hell-ga...
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Vote Early, Vote Often, Vote HELL GATE During Our Election-Themed Sale!
Get three months of premium Hell Gate for only $6.24/month! Get it? The primary is June 24? You get it.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
​​Companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Google are reportedly in favor of “a milder national law” regulating AI “as long as it would supersede state rules” that more explicitly aim to protect the public from harm. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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How Big Tech is trying to shut down California’s AI rules
Tech giants plan to use their Trump-era lobbying muscle to head off state AI regulations. But can they agree on what they want from Washington?
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UAW @uaw.org · 14/05/2025
"My colleagues, many of whom are, like me, foreign scientists, are terrified of being detained or having their visa status revoked." Read UAW member Kseniia Petrova's @nytimes.com op-ed, written from immigration detention in Louisiana. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The polls, the endorsements, the energy—momentum is unstoppable. And with @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social, we’re competing for The Bronx, whose people deserve so much better than Cuomo. @nbcnewyork.com reports from Co-op City this morning:
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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🔥 BIG win for labor in Alabama! Baristas at the third Alabama Starbucks store, this one in Huntsville, just voted to unionize! 👏 8–2 vote 👏 586th union store nationally 👏 Workers building power in the South Solidarity forever. 💪 #Unions #Alabama #StarbucksUnion www.alreporter.com/2025/05/13/t...
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Third Alabama Starbucks votes to unionize in Huntsville
With an 8-2 vote, a Starbucks in Huntsville became the third in the state to unionize and the 586th nationwide.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 13/05/2025
We’ve been gearing up for a BIG fight. Tomorrow, it begins—see you then. #standupforscience
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
BREAKING: WE WON BIG-again! In 2023 the Supreme Court correctly decided Alabama’s congressional map likely violated the Voting Rights Act. After Black voter elected Rep. Shomari Figures from a new fair map in 2024, we went to trial earlier this year to defend it. 1/5
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
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Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle
After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Our plan: zohranfornyc.com/revenue
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REI Union @reiunion.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We’re officially in the last THREE days of REI’s Board election! If you haven’t yet, can you take 5 minutes to visit votenorei.com and select ‘withhold’ for each of REI’s hand-picked, corporate Board candidates?
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