Reposted by Melissa
Roughly 200 protesters occupied the lobby of Maersk’s Manhattan headquarters on Wednesday, June 11, to demand that the multibillion-dollar shipping conglomerate stop sending military cargo to Israel amid the genocide in Gaza.
200 Protesters Flood Maersk’s Manhattan HQ to Demand End to Military Shipments
The protest targeted a transnational company that plays a critical role in supplying F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel.
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June 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Roughly 200 protesters occupied the lobby of Maersk’s Manhattan headquarters on Wednesday, June 11, to demand that the multibillion-dollar shipping conglomerate stop sending military cargo to Israel amid the genocide in Gaza.
This interview with Kelly Hayes & Margaret Killjoy is so wonderful and articulates a lot of what makes sense to me about how to organize and how to just be in these increasingly perilous times. Also it's the 2nd time recently I heard people on the left encourage go bags! truthout.org/audio/lets-l...
Let’s Learn and Live Lessons in Collective Survival Together
“We are really good at finding what’s wrong with each other,” says author and podcaster Margaret Killjoy.
truthout.org
February 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This interview with Kelly Hayes & Margaret Killjoy is so wonderful and articulates a lot of what makes sense to me about how to organize and how to just be in these increasingly perilous times. Also it's the 2nd time recently I heard people on the left encourage go bags! truthout.org/audio/lets-l...
Appreciating this grounding. "Who is fed, housed, given health care, safety, and security by what we’re fighting about? Does the fight we’re in lead to a change that can alter people’s lives for the better or advance us toward a revolutionary shift?"
I wrote about the importance of not getting caught up in useless conflicts. Some fights are so big and decisive that they demand our focus and participation. So, choosing what's worth our time and what isn't will make all the difference in these moments. prismreports.org/2025/01/23/f...
Another way out: In fighting fascism, we must choose wisely
If we plan to defy the order of the day, we must decide between what’s worth fighting about and what’s not the best use of our time
prismreports.org
February 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Appreciating this grounding. "Who is fed, housed, given health care, safety, and security by what we’re fighting about? Does the fight we’re in lead to a change that can alter people’s lives for the better or advance us toward a revolutionary shift?"
Some work from former Brooklyn PL colleagues is part of this exhibit! Moving and important. Remember that Rikers with all its horrors was originally established to be "the most perfect prison in the world." archive.rikersmemoryproject.org/items/show/247
February 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Some work from former Brooklyn PL colleagues is part of this exhibit! Moving and important. Remember that Rikers with all its horrors was originally established to be "the most perfect prison in the world." archive.rikersmemoryproject.org/items/show/247
"'I fear suicidality, bc it's such an extreme discomfort in one's body & identity,' the therapist said. 'For someone who's been living their whole life, for them to then have to deal with a body that is changing in ways that feels even more uncomfortable & wrong, I worry about their mental health.'"
NYU-Langone is cancelling appointments for gender-affirming care for young trans people, parents say. The cancellations come after Trump's order directing institutions that receive federal funding to end gender-affirming care for patients under 19. hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...
NYU-Langone Is Cancelling Gender-Affirming Care Appointments for Trans Kids, Parents Say
The cancellations come on the heels of an executive order signed by President Trump directing institutions that receive federal funding to end gender-affirming care for patients under the age of 19.
hellgatenyc.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"'I fear suicidality, bc it's such an extreme discomfort in one's body & identity,' the therapist said. 'For someone who's been living their whole life, for them to then have to deal with a body that is changing in ways that feels even more uncomfortable & wrong, I worry about their mental health.'"
I signed the @nymagunion.bsky.social pledge. I legitimately love NY Mag (and subscribe to print) bc the combo of investigative reporting, local political analysis, cultural crit, and photos of whacked-out overdesigned apartments makes me feel like a truly tapped-in NYer. nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
READER PLEDGE — New York Mag Union
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January 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I signed the @nymagunion.bsky.social pledge. I legitimately love NY Mag (and subscribe to print) bc the combo of investigative reporting, local political analysis, cultural crit, and photos of whacked-out overdesigned apartments makes me feel like a truly tapped-in NYer. nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
There's a lot in here but this is what my brain snagged on. 18% of Americans is a lot of people. 😳 From @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/maj...
January 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
There's a lot in here but this is what my brain snagged on. 18% of Americans is a lot of people. 😳 From @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/maj...
Told someone about today's blood-drawing fight between two ppl over a public computer, and they responded, "Hoping folks got to a place of calm and received the care they needed. And especially hoping that you are okay," which are exactly the sentiments I try to have re violence in the library.
January 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Told someone about today's blood-drawing fight between two ppl over a public computer, and they responded, "Hoping folks got to a place of calm and received the care they needed. And especially hoping that you are okay," which are exactly the sentiments I try to have re violence in the library.
I got up to Harlem too late to actually join in, but I endorse this message!
JFREJ members are out in the cold today with our fellow New Yorkers to say what the REAL state of the city is under Mayor Adams: budget cuts, chaos, cronyism, corruption, and cruelty. WE DESERVE BETTER!
January 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I got up to Harlem too late to actually join in, but I endorse this message!
Via a friend from NY Health Act activist circles: "A colleague lost his wife, partly because United Healthcare determined after two surgeries, she was not permitted to have her mass removed a third time. She died soon after, leaving five children....I think of her whenever I hear about the UHC CEO."
January 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Via a friend from NY Health Act activist circles: "A colleague lost his wife, partly because United Healthcare determined after two surgeries, she was not permitted to have her mass removed a third time. She died soon after, leaving five children....I think of her whenever I hear about the UHC CEO."
Agreed - "From Ground Zero," shorts created by dozens of people experiencing the genocide in Gaza, is illuminating and powerful. Still thinking about the filmmaker who broke in at the end of her own footage to explain why she couldn't bring herself to finish it.
January 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Agreed - "From Ground Zero," shorts created by dozens of people experiencing the genocide in Gaza, is illuminating and powerful. Still thinking about the filmmaker who broke in at the end of her own footage to explain why she couldn't bring herself to finish it.
Just finished @librarianjones.com's "That Librarian." Not that we don't have effects of societal decay seeping into NYC public libraries, but the right-wing Christian supremacist hysteria she details is waaaay beyond what I have to deal with. It'd make me truly wrestle to keep my faith in humanity.
January 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Just finished @librarianjones.com's "That Librarian." Not that we don't have effects of societal decay seeping into NYC public libraries, but the right-wing Christian supremacist hysteria she details is waaaay beyond what I have to deal with. It'd make me truly wrestle to keep my faith in humanity.
Rest in power, 88 open tabs in my mobile browser that are now toast since I had to factory reset my phone.
January 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Rest in power, 88 open tabs in my mobile browser that are now toast since I had to factory reset my phone.
1. Fly Girl.
2. Plumber.
3. The good kind of lawyer.
2. Plumber.
3. The good kind of lawyer.
What are your top three alternative careers, if you could start over and do something entirely different?
For me it's probably:
1. Academic work in the history of medicine
2. Found and run a museum of the American counterculture
3. Found and run a hands-on, interactive, low-tech children's museum
For me it's probably:
1. Academic work in the history of medicine
2. Found and run a museum of the American counterculture
3. Found and run a hands-on, interactive, low-tech children's museum
January 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
1. Fly Girl.
2. Plumber.
3. The good kind of lawyer.
2. Plumber.
3. The good kind of lawyer.
Come on peoples, it's grackle time.
January 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Come on peoples, it's grackle time.
So far air fryers have not revealed their special magic to me.
December 12, 2024 at 2:29 PM
So far air fryers have not revealed their special magic to me.
Love that Hochul refuses to take steps towards actual public safety such as supporting strong tenant protections including Good Cause Eviction to keep people stable, just filling the subway system with cops and the National Guard as a counterproductive band-aid. www.404media.co/governor-say...
March 6, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Love that Hochul refuses to take steps towards actual public safety such as supporting strong tenant protections including Good Cause Eviction to keep people stable, just filling the subway system with cops and the National Guard as a counterproductive band-aid. www.404media.co/governor-say...
Report from the Brooklyn Heights Association annual meeting tonight featuring Sen Gillibrand! #ceasefireNOW
March 5, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Report from the Brooklyn Heights Association annual meeting tonight featuring Sen Gillibrand! #ceasefireNOW
With City Workers for Palestine and lower-case city workers for Palestine (and other activists) at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Some speakers linking starving public services with official support for imperialism and genocide. Demands include a ceasefire resolution by the NYC government.
January 25, 2024 at 11:35 PM
With City Workers for Palestine and lower-case city workers for Palestine (and other activists) at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Some speakers linking starving public services with official support for imperialism and genocide. Demands include a ceasefire resolution by the NYC government.
Obviously not against clearing out some people's medical debt, but how about we abolish it for everyone forever (by instituting a universal coverage system). Last I heard NYC officials were not in favor of the New York Health Act, too bad...
www.bkreader.com/news/city-to...
www.bkreader.com/news/city-to...
January 24, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Obviously not against clearing out some people's medical debt, but how about we abolish it for everyone forever (by instituting a universal coverage system). Last I heard NYC officials were not in favor of the New York Health Act, too bad...
www.bkreader.com/news/city-to...
www.bkreader.com/news/city-to...
Love this by @victorialaw.bsky.social and Erica Meiners about lessons from Australia's Sisters Inside conference, including "Grassroots Networks Are Crucial!" and conferences are (or, well, can be) sexy and fun. truthout.org/articles/abo...
January 10, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Love this by @victorialaw.bsky.social and Erica Meiners about lessons from Australia's Sisters Inside conference, including "Grassroots Networks Are Crucial!" and conferences are (or, well, can be) sexy and fun. truthout.org/articles/abo...
To NYC public library folks and other public sector workers here! Rank & File meeting this Wed at 7 on Zoom. Register at bit.ly/PSRFJan10 .
January 8, 2024 at 2:29 AM
To NYC public library folks and other public sector workers here! Rank & File meeting this Wed at 7 on Zoom. Register at bit.ly/PSRFJan10 .
My rep Yvette Clarke featured (along with other NY electeds) on this projection at the big unionized worker-led march for a ceasefire tonight. "Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel's crimes!"
December 22, 2023 at 12:46 AM
My rep Yvette Clarke featured (along with other NY electeds) on this projection at the big unionized worker-led march for a ceasefire tonight. "Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel's crimes!"
Noticing this small detail in Eric Umansky's "The Failed Promise of Police Body Cameras" as I contemplate our austerity mayor and his budget cuts. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/m...
December 19, 2023 at 2:26 PM
Noticing this small detail in Eric Umansky's "The Failed Promise of Police Body Cameras" as I contemplate our austerity mayor and his budget cuts. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/m...