Shanna

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

DoorDash is my generation’s casserole Author’s Note: This is a repost from my erroneously created other Substack, ShayPC.

open.substack.com/pub/scrumley...

Trump Officials Demanded Confidential Data About Transgender Children Seeking Care

Discovered this week.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

Nothing like #americanairlines, #tsa, and friendly fellow passengers to destroy, restore, destroy and then again restore my faith in humanity in a mere 45 minutes! #travel #genzstare #airport

Finally, in the long term, these cuts to public information are going to further isolate and polarize rural communities from fact based journalism, world news and free access to information that's in the public interest (aka not cable and not Facebook.) That math speaks for itself. /f

In the medium term, the cuts to foreign aid will further destabilize regions and countries tied to the US in various ways. Destabilization is proven to lead to conflict and migration, which in trade math is bad - stable countries are stable partners.

In the short-term, these cuts to public information are going to further screw up your weather and emergency alerts - we just had flash floods last week and alerts didn't go out (that's a problem from a combo of city and federal failures.)

As a graduate of communications and international affairs (and lifelong beneficiary of local and rural public news and alerts), today's cuts to #foreignaid #npr and #pbs are more than sickening: they're going to have consequences generationally, here at home.
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@npr.org and @wnyc.org, I just donated to the national network and my local station.

But I'm wondering...are there stations most at risk of extinction due to this fed funding cut? would love to pay it forward in the name of freedom of information.

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#npr #pbs #foreignaid

Israel allegedly drugs flour bags distributed as aid to Palestinians; at least 62 killed today in Gaza Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) on Friday confirmed reports regarding narcotic pills of the type "Oxycodone" being found in flour bags distributed as

Israel allegedly drugs flour bags distributed as aid to Palestinians; at least 62 killed today in Gaza share.google/uLWY3rjuKHxv...

Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline

Where are our representatives, our leaders?

Why are the people the only ones protesting?

Do they not see the blood coming is on their hands already, too?

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...

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Childcare costs are up 43-79% since 2019 in #NYC (home vs center care), meaning a family needs to earn $334k to comfortably have 1 kid in daycare.

Kind of a big deal if NYC wants to continue to attract #talent and #innovation.

1 of 2 This is one of the overlooked issues at stake in this's mayoral election here in #nyc #childcare #affordability

"Child Care Affordability and the Benefits of Universal Provision - Office of the New York City Comptroller Brad Lander" share.google/c2VyQOUcRPXv...

Protesters filled plazas, streets and parks across the U.S. on Saturday, gathering at demonstrations to call for protecting American democracy from President Trump. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4e3BIzD

Protesters Take Over New York’s Fifth Avenue Rain didn’t stop thousands of protesters from coming out in New York’s midtown Manhattan. Demonstrators held American flags and signs that said “No Kings” and “I Prefer My Ice Crushed.” Police said they closed about a mile of Fifth Avenue to traffic for the protest. The owner of a store selling umb

Rain didn’t stop thousands of protesters from coming out in New York’s midtown Manhattan. Demonstrators held American flags and signs that said “No Kings” and “I Prefer My Ice Crushed.” https://on.wsj.com/4jQQpaK

On a similar note, I’d love to hear from #businesses and the #tourismindustry about the impacts of federal turmoil on tourism numbers this month! What are you seeing?

Anecdotally around NYC, it’s been a little quieter.
@nyctourism.bsky.social @nyctourismnews.bsky.social

MSNBC is covering the No Kings protests in NYC.

CNN is covering Minnesota assassinations and urging you not to march.

Fox News is covering Trump’s birthday parade.

We need to see employers and businesses (esp big ones) speaking up about the impact of #ICE and #illegaldeportation on their bottom lines and business operations…it’s not just friends, families and neighbors who are impacted. #losangelesprotests #employers #business

The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”

The WSJ news pages expands on the NYT: since Stephen Miller demanded ICE increase its numbers, they’ve started grabbing people without even checking their immigration status, let alone their criminal history. Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

"Putting out a fire you purposely start – doesn't make you a firefighter – it makes you an arsonist with a hose."

Jimmy Kimmel

DoorDash is my generation’s casserole As a millennial*, I'm young enough to remember new neighbors stopping by to welcome us with a tin foil wrapped casserole dish and a "howdy." The greeting, like the casserole itself, differed from stat...

I wrote a little thing about community. #casseroles #doordash #community #millennials
open.substack.com/pub/shannacr...

For some reason, this doesn't apply to DOGE? 🤔

For my fellow former #government and #aid folks...(Also, where are we hanging out on here? I'm new to Bluesky)

www.devex.com/news/exclusi...

ICE agents denied entry at a Chicago elementary school, CPS officials say Chicago Public Schools prevented officers from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from going into an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side Friday and talking to students, according t…

ICE showed up Friday morning to Hamline Elementary School, located in the New City neighborhood, principal Natasha Ortega said at a news conference.

“We will not open our doors for ICE, and we are here to protect our children and make sure they have access to an excellent education,” Ortega said.

*enters the chat on Bluesky*

*dusts off old Signal account*

*Googles 'what the hell is Discord?'*

The White House took down the Spanish language version of its webpage.
www.instagram.com/p/DFGtINaxZa...

TikTok CEO Seated Next to Intelligence Pick Tulsi Gabbard at Inauguration TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew was seated next to Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump’s nominee to be the director of national intelligence, at the Capitol as Trump was sworn-in. The seating at the Capitol…

The CEO of TikTok, which is under scrutiny for national security concerns, was seated next to Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump’s nominee to be the director of national intelligence, at the Capitol as Trump was sworn in

‘He is power’: Billionaires line up for Donald Trump’s inauguration Top business leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos flock to watch ceremony at the Capitol

‘He is power’: Billionaires line up for Donald Trump’s inauguration

https://www.ft.com/content/52ca150d-35c9-4a73-a366-f5b323fcf2a4

Literally same

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...