Melissa Ader

I ALSO GOT THROUGH TO A HUMAN AT SCHUMER'S 202 NUMBER - 202-224-6542

Make those calls, friends! Tell them to vote NO on any bill that cuts trans health care - tell them that trans healthcare saves lives and defending this is worth a shutdown.

They should not have been in custody.

Today, senator Ron Wyden will raise a point of order to remove the Medicaid and CHIP ban on gender affirming care. The Republicans need 60 votes to keep it in but they only have 53. Call your Dem senator today and urge them to vote to strip the ban from the bill. Senate switchboard 202-224-3121.

‘Who Can I Talk to That Has a Human Heart?’: New York Times doubles down on harming trans people — Assigned The mom of a trans girl pleaded with a New York Times producer not to use audio captured in a vulnerable moment. Against her will, the company is slated to use the clip for its new podcast.

The New York Times is back at it again (derogatory).

An upcoming New York Times podcast on trans youth healthcare used audio from the mother of a trans girl against her will, after producers caught a vulnerable moment on tape.

a graphic that reads: Picket at The New York Times 620 Eighth Avenue (Manhattan) Thurs, June 5th | Starting 9 AM Tomorrow, the Times is launching a 6-part podcast aimed at covering transgender healthcare for minors. Join us in rejecting their harmful, bigoted, one-sided coverage. With the TRANSEXUAL MENACE logo beneath it. the word menace is written in a dripping horror-esque font.

Enough is ENOUGH! Come out and help demand the NYT show some backbone and lose their bias, or back off.

Advocates rally at City Hall for increased Human Rights Commission funding | amNewYork Dozens of community advocates and local leaders called on the city to increase funding for the New York City Commission on Human Rights.

NYC's Human Rights Law is one of the most robust local human rights laws in the country, but we need expanded resources for @nycchr.bsky.social to ensure its full implementation. We must increase their budget by $6M to enhance their capacity and effectiveness.

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Use the tool, and also call!

Action Alert: Protect Our Healthcare Now! Congress is moving forward on a bill that would end Medicaid coverage of our healthcare. It takes two minutes to send an email to your senator!

Use our tool linked below to contact your senator now. Urge them to vote NO on this bill.

Tell your Senator today: Protect Our Healthcare! Protect Trans People! (4/4)

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Young NYC Trans Patients Face a Limbo With Devastating Implications   — Assigned A series of interviews conducted by Assigned Media reveals that even a step forward in resuming care is accompanied by major limitations and ongoing anxiety.

NEW: After an NY state senator told our reporter that NYU Langone had resumed treatment for trans youth, families shared their ongoing difficult obtaining necessary treatments.

Are reports that care has resumed just empty promises?

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Thousands Wait for Long-Term Help While Hochul Pushes Involuntary… In some counties, the waitlist for state-funded mental health treatment programs can exceed two years.

NEW: While Governor Kathy Hochul pushes an expansion of involuntary commitment in this year's budget, thousands of New Yorkers sit on waitlists for voluntary state-funded mental health programs.

In some cases, they wait for as long as two years.

Protect Kalief's Law in New York - Innocence Project Kalief's Browder's tragic suicide after his release is a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of unjust discovery practices.

We can’t let this happen.
Repealing discovery reform means more wrongful convictions and more injustice. Call your lawmakers at 516-916-7076 or fill out our form and urge them to #ProtectKaliefsLaw today. innocenceproject.org/petitions/ne...

URGENT: New York is on the brink of a major rollback that could lead to more wrongful convictions.
Discovery reform — which helps prevent innocent people from incarceration — is under attack. And the process is happening behind closed doors. #ProtectKaliefsLaw

Scoop 🚨

NYC's Under-Resourced Human Rights Commission Has a Years-Long Backlog of Cases

Immigrant Workers Pay the Price

One House Cleaner Filed a Sexual Assault Complaint Against Her Boss in 2019. Her Case is Still Open

My latest @documentedny.bsky.social
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NYPD Commissioner Tisch Is Lobbying Hard to Bring Back the System That Failed Kalief Browder. Her Argument Doesn’t Add Up Tisch keeps blaming recidivism on discovery reform, but offers no evidence.

A lot going on right now but I still think it's crazy that the NY state budget is a week overdue because the governor is holding it hostage to a retrogressive policy demand based on a claim for which neither she nor anyone else have offered *any* supporting evidence. hellgatenyc.com/tisch-cant-s...

Trans Athlete Claims Amateur Brooklyn Tennis League Kicked Her Out Cammie Woodman claimed she was booted from an amateur league that uses Parks Dept. courts after a cisgender woman complained about losing to a trans player.

Cammie Woodman, who is trans, claims her amateur tennis league in Brooklyn kicked her out after another member complained about playing against her. She is calling on the Parks. Dept to investigate the league, which helps players arrange match-ups on public courts.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/01/t...

Only 24 staff! And no virtual hearing option, all hearings are in Albany!

Call Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil. - JVP A permanent resident of the United States could face imminent deportation because he stood up for Palestinian rights. We must act now.

Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest

www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...

Jews Demand: Release Mahmoud Khalil We refuse to be used by Trump to enact his authoritarian agenda.

ADD YOUR NAME: American Jews demand that Mahmoud be released from custody and returned to his family immediately with his green card intact. For Mahmoud’s safety and all of our safety.

www.bendthearc.us/release_khalil

Hi, my name is ____. I'm a constituent, zip code _____, phone number _____. I'm calling to ask you to speak out for and fight for the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident who was abducted from his Columbia dorm room over the weekend in what looks like a violation of his First Amendment and due process rights. This is not only a terrible injustice to him, but it affects us all. Please speak out and fight for his release now.

UPDATE: Called all my NY reps - national and state, as well as my city councilperson, to ask them to speak out for and fight for the release of Mahmoud Khalil. Here's a quick script if you need one and want to make calls yourself. You can find your reps here: reps.fyi

Seeing every major political power broker in New York agree that serial sexual abuse is not only okay, but getting into a position to abuse new victims is a "comeback," is absolutely disgusting.

Do not rank Cuomo.

The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE ALITO would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari. JUSTICE THOMAS, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. In Hill v. Colorado, 530 U. S. 703 (2000), this Court upheld a state law restricting peaceful speech within 100 feet of abortion clinics. It was clear at the time that Hill’s reasoning “contradict[ed] more than a half century of well-established First Amendment principles.” Id., at 765 (Kennedy, J., dissenting); see also id., at 742 (Scalia, J., joined by THOMAS, J., dissenting). A number of us have since described the decision as an “absurd,” “defunct,” “erroneous,” and “long-discredited” “aberration” from the rest of our First Amendment jurisprudence. See City of Austin v. Reagan Nat. Advertising of Austin, LLC, 596 U. S. 61, 86– 87, 92, 103–104 (2022) (THOMAS, J., joined by GORSUCH and BARRETT, JJ., dissenting) (internal quotation marks omitted). We have long stopped applying Hill. See, e.g., City of Austin, 596 U. S., at 76. And, a majority of this Court recently acknowledged that Hill “distorted [our] First Amendment doctrines.” Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U. S. 215, 287, and n. 65 (2022). Following our repudiation in Dobbs, I do not see what is left of Hill. Yet, lower courts continue to feel bound by it. The Court today declines an invitation to set the record straight on Hill’s defunct status. I respectfully dissent.

This is a big one: SCOTUS will *not* revisit its precedent allowing states to create "bubble zones" that limit protests outside abortion clinics. Thomas and Alito dissent.

Very surprising—I really thought they'd overturn those precedents after Dobbs. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Hochul’s Criminal Justice Plan Could Leave Defendants in the Dark Prosecutors have urged the governor to roll back some of New York’s discovery reforms. Public defenders worry about reverting to a time when they had to…

Prosecutors have urged the governor to roll back some of New York’s discovery reforms.

Public defenders worry about reverting to a time when they had to fight their cases “blindfolded.”

Saturday in NYC 🏳️‍⚧️

Protect Trans Kids On January 29th, Donald Trump signed an illegal executive order that attempts to ban gender affirming care for youth under the age of 19, an attempt to detransition all trans children in the US. Despi...

NYC Protect Trans Kids rally tomorrow, Monday 2/3 6:30 PM

St. Vartan Park• 1st Avenue &, E 35th St, New York, NY 10016 US

Protesting NYU Langone denying healthcare to a trans kid in response to Trump’s executive order

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This is despicable. American health care providers, particularly deep-pocketed institutions in this city, should be fighting for their trans patients, not rolling over because they got a memo.

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.

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-...

Call Kathy Hochul's office and tell her not to back down. Congestion pricing works.

518-474-8390

The heinous, brutal killing of Robert L Brooks is an indictment of our entire criminal legal system.

These officers must be fired and held accountable, Marcy must be closed, and the violence + impunity showcased in this video have to be recognized as a reality across many of our prisons and jails.