Jen Rosenberg

in NYC?

when hospitals end trans youth care programs, it’s time to ask mamdani about his platform:

“…hold private hospital systems denying GAC accountable—hospitals that continue to deny trans youth access to gender affirming care are in violation of NYS Constitution.”

www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Yeah it's so crazy that a new tech being pushed with a narrative of "it's taking your jobs" by the people who got rich precaritizing everybody with the gig economy and just recently went fully mask off with right wing politics is seen as inherently right wing

Such a mystery, wow

If you haven't read Terry Pratchett

Please

*I beg you*

Do so.

And this is the best deal I've ever seen for his work.

We’re All Minnesotans Now Let the North Star State give us direction.

"My main takeaway was less the specialness of Minnesota, and more that the rest of us need to follow in Minnesota’s footsteps." Maybe it's the North Star State for a reason.

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3MCBgiK

An old stone building, with a rounded area. Slender trees with golden leaves obfuscate some of the windows. A chandelier is aglow inside the bottom level shown. This is part of the Morgan Library and Museum in NYC.

I ventured outside yesterday. Needed a reset.

Seeing lots of folks new to bluesky or returning after a long absence, so worth a reminder that you can increase your reach here by including alt text on your book promos or art! It is also a very kind and thoughtful thing to do in a world desperate for kindness and care💜

What we are asking if you live in NYC is that you not passively sit back and expect that things will "happen" or "change" but to be actively involved in making things happen and to change them. Do the very small thing of sending a letter to your Council member & CALL THEM. It's really easy to do.

We were in a grocery store today, and I don't know if it was just aired on the radio or what, but there was a highly disturbing anti-immigrant "ad" telling people to deport themselves. Really disgusting propaganda.

1. Book a ticket.
2. Spend the intervening time enjoying Tom Mayhew's BBC Radio series - BBC Radio 4 - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
3. Profit??

It snowed again last night. Not like last time, but enough to make everything look clean again.

(around an image of a masked ICE agent holding a gun) Republicans "One Big Beautiful Bill' nearly tripled funding for ICE. That money came from your benefits: paid for by cuts to reproductive health care paid for by cuts to Medicare & Medicaid paid for by cuts to SNAP paid for by cuts to clean energy projects paid for by cuts to obesity prevention paid for by cuts to disaster response paid for by cuts to energy tax credits

Job-seekers SHOULD withdraw from jobs that don’t feel like the right fit. Whether that’s a tool the newsroom uses, questionable editorial judgment, an employee policy that seriously mismatches your needs… It respects the employer’s time and shows a clear sense of purpose in your job hunt.

This is not the type of development you would normally expect a pharmaceutical company to broadcast. But that’s because there’s nothing normal about the way the federal government is behaving.

The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4694wEk

Good morning!

We're 15 days through February.
We're 32 days from the Spring Equinox.
We're 20 days until Daylight Savings.

Sunset is at 5:32 pm ET in the northeast with civil twilight at 6:00 pm!

The long night is almost over!!!

A Pivotal Paper Once Used to Justify Roundup’s Safety Has Been Retracted Over ‘Serious Ethical Concerns’ In 2000, a scientific paper reported no evidence that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, caused cancer — a conclusion that shaped regulatory views for decades. Years later, questions surfac...

www.foodandwine.com/roundup-weed...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

I needed some time away from screens today, so I baked banana bread muffins. I decided to use cardamom instead of cinnamon this time, and it's lovely. Goes beautifully with the banana.

The SAVE Act and the Election Power Grab The revived bill is a serious threat to voting rights.

The SAVE Act — which would stop millions of American citizens from voting — is Trump’s election power grab in legislative garb. bit.ly/4qrNeJO

They have no common sense, Senator. They gave up their free will to side with evil.
The Republican party has proven that they can't be trusted. @schumer.senate.gov abusers don't change. Fight back.

😱

We can still STOP the SAVE Act in the Senate.

Call you Senators now and say no to the SAVE Act!

Call 202-224-3121

Like many survivors, I am facing down my PTSD frequently while our government fights to save vile perpetrators and further traumatize the people they hurt.

Roughly 25% of people are survivors.

This is psychological warfare.

Funding national security should mean funding housing, food, and healthcare.

For everyone. That's what makes us safe.

I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs.

It is fact now. Sorry.

The Shore Leave Vendor Room is always a hit with our attendees! We have over 15,000 sq ft stuffed with the most amazing items!
We are currently accepting applications for returning and new vendors! Be sure to review the Vendor info & rules on our website -
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He *is* my Dem senator. I'm so disappointed. I feel like the calls, emails, postcards, petitions, tagging on socials, and even visiting his office in DC and talking to his staff has had no effect. He still acts like the fascists follow etiquette.

Just once I’d like Schumer and Jeffries to show up on tv and not sound like wet noodles. Today isn’t that day. We’re faced with fascist thugs trying to destroy everything we believe in and the both of them are playing out of the safe consultant playbook like it’s still 1993.

ICE shot Marimar Martinez 5 times

They shot & killed Silverio Gonzalez, Keith Porter, Renee Good and Alex Pretti

They kidnapped Liam Ramos & other innocent children

They’ve detained over 4,000 people illegally

The shutdown is well deserved, but ICE should not be paid

They should be abolished

It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.

Mummy's from the future lookout! The amazing Oded Fehr is coming to Lancaster, PA for Shore Leave. Won't you join us in July?
#starfleetacademy
@fehr.oded
#shoreleavecon

Curious to know: has anyone else encountered humans who genuinely believe that they are "part hobbit" or "part elf" or other fantasy being?
Or am I just a beacon for those who do?
I've experienced this three times in different locations.