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Surely this is something @mayor.nyc.gov could fix with a phone call.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hate that I have to re-up this today. as I detail in this piece, abandoning trans rights is not only immoral, but it's also BAD POLITICS for Dems, as it will turn away their own pro-LGBTQ base without winning over a single new voter: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

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Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.

Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trans people have fought and suffered and borne the brunt of the depravity of fascist excess (along with immigrants and Black people), and it looks like the most we can hope for is a decade or more fighting Democrats to restore rights we had in every state in the union as recently as 2020.

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Mt Sinai has violated the Hippocratic Oath and sacrificed the health of Trans and Gender Nonconforming youth by capitulating to the Trump admin. A coalition of TGNCNB and LGBTQIA+ activists, and allies will stand up for our youth against @mountsinainyc.bsky.social . JOIN US!

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Update on the legal challenge to Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn’s Brooklyn Democratic Party power grab: 🧵

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/07/2026

This is huge! The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to withhold Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth under 19. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

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Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Please indulge my Gen X Bicentennial nostalgia. As a child in Philadelphia in 1976, the 200th bday was a big deal. 🧵

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fence Books author Amanda Deutch will read from new york ironweed—with poets Sandra Doller & @slanders.bsky.social!—at Unnameable Books next Friday, July 10th. 🎟️ (Sandra Doller has poems in FENCE No. 43!) 🍃 🌞 Friday, July 10th at 7 PM 📍 Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is what the moderates got us.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Anyway there is no "middle." There are just actual policy positions and POWER.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

THE NEW YORK WINNING STREAK CONTINUES

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

thedissident.news

Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People

An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...

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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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NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org · 17/06/2026

Are you a writer, author, or scholar based in NYC? New York City deserves the kind of writers and thinkers that only consistently well-funded public libraries can ensure. Help us call on the Mayor and City Council to fund our library systems with our open letter: forms.gle/SvQYwiyiHqXT...

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Open letter from NYC based writers, authors, and scholars to the Mayor re: public library budget

NYC Public Library Action Network is asking writers, authors, and scholars based in New York City’s five boroughs to sign on to an open letter to Mayor Mamdani asking him to fulfill the promise he mad...

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

“You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” —Jalen Brunson

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/06/2026

1. There has been a major new federal rule proposed governing ALL federal grants. A federal grant recipient will be deemed ineligible if the recipient advances "gender ideology," or denies that "sex is binary." This includes hospitals, schools, nonprofits. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

These fascist attacks on the privacy of young people receiving gender-affirming care should be alarming to all of us. It really is a moment of “First, they came for the trans kids.” (1/3)

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A grand jury in *Texas* is issuing a *criminal subpoena* to a *New York hospital* for *patient records* This is a full-on, escalatory assault on the privacy and civil rights of all Americans from right-wing radical bigots who see the law as their plaything. They won’t stop here.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Lovely moment on the train as a busker with a sweet baritone sings Unforgettable. As a woman gives him money, she chokes up, saying it reminds her of her father. The singer pauses to tell her to let the tears flow, the good water is cleansing. Keep being you, NYC.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“Either whey, what used to be a private practice of mine has gone public.” Same, man, same.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

@ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app laying out why we will all love her new novel, Year of the Mer—incl. mermaid factions, monstrous leaders, hyper-competency, a prologue that is meant to be read, chicks with problems, and def not romantasy.

Screenshot of LD Lewis in conversation with Mia Tsai at Charis Books.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Is he stealing from the rich or giving them too much stuff? Hard to know I guess. If only there was some way to think about the last set of complaints in relationship to the new ones.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

“The train does not care where you come from or where you are going. The train does not care who sleeps in your bunk. The train only cares about one thing: The next stop.” @samanthaallen.bsky.social in a glorious ode to trains in Them www.them.us/story/amtrak...

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The Train Doesn’t Care What Gender You Are

Let's Get Boarding Trains Quickly. An ode to the queerest mode of transportation.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Poetry, its readers, and its practitioners, have always been and continuously will be, alive and well.

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Matt Morrison @senseistarman.com · 25/03/2026

In case anyone needed a reminder about not watching any trailers today.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Feeling seen this rainy Monday morning by a group of preschoolers discovering worms on the sidewalk screaming, “Not dead!”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/03/2026

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

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The Ratchet

In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 16/03/2026

The ICE Warehouse Tracker now has two new data layers — ERO Field Offices and Sub-Offices/Hold Rooms. Some sites overlap. Best viewed on laptop/desktop. tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

A dark map of the United States containing hundreds of colored dots. The light blue dots indicate ICE ERO field offices in major US cities. The pink dots represent sub-offices or hold rooms where people have been detained at check-in appointments.

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

If you’re a cis person (like me) but you don’t know who Jesse Singal is, his whole grift relies on exploiting cis ignorance of gender-affirming care cuz he thinks we’re easy marks. Don’t fall for it

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

All this over three hundred people. Three hundred fucking people!

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I am genuinely confused: @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Tish James made a vid a few months ago promising to help trans people in and OUT of NYS maintain healthcare. But has she done anything to Mt. Sinai & NYU Langone IN NYC for stopping care in violation of NY law? www.instagram.com/reel/DSaU-G_...

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

“We are not customers at the public library, and many in the U.S. simply cannot fathom any other way of relating to institutions...The public library is therefore a basis for reclaiming a grammar of the commons for the average person in the 21st century.” prisonculture.substack.com/p/mayor-mamd...

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Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries

The Struggle Against Defunding Libraries Continues...

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Fabulous! New York electeds, take note!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

“We’re in a race now. We need to act before the administration has the personnel and the detention facilities to broaden the scope of its actions. It’s up to us to break the existing momentum on this front.”

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Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New Yorkers always make it work.

A bicycle stands locked to a pole on top of a large snow pile.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

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