PEOPLE >>> $$$ EVERY DAY

i need everyone to understand

prisons have now officially become forced detransition conversion camps

i am begging you all to stay safe, things are getting dark

for cis people, they are making new laws to imprison us and now this when they do, this. do the math, this is a genocide. we need help.

Taking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts Library advocates called the mayor’s proposed budget “terrible.”

““If you're just going to say, ‘Oh, I love the library,’ but you’re not actually supporting them, then that’s a real disappointment and, frankly, bulls---,” said Abby Emerson, a member of the NYC Public Library Action Network, or NYC PLAN.” gothamist.com/news/taking-...

Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth

This is a disturbing decision from NYU Langone.

Gender-affirming care helps people live as their authentic selves and can be lifesaving. As the Trump administration continues to punish already-vulnerable people simply for being themselves, we will fight to uphold the rights of trans New Yorkers.

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.

Hi, I was very disappointed to see that the preliminary budget does not include the stable 0.5% of the city expense budget to public libraries that Mayor Mamdani repeatedly promised. Per his campaign website: As Mayor, I will end the practice of using library funding as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations and commit 0.5% of NYC’s budget to libraries, ensuring we have enough revenue for robust services and well-staffed facilities. .5% would be approximately $635 m and we are not even close. The new budget currently allocates $491 million, or .39% As you are well aware, our libraries are in desperate need of increased funding. Please put pressure on the administration to make good on their promise. More than ever, we need libraries! Thank you,

Email to copy and paste for NYC residents re library funding in budget (in alt text)

Libraries Are for Everyone: Invest in Libraries New York City's public libraries offer vital support to all, regardless of background, income, birthplace, or beliefs.

This funding increase to 0.5% is a core demand of NYC PLAN - one which has been amplified by our library systems to help ensure that every branch has the staffing and resources to provide robust services to their communities.

Help us get NYC libraries the raise they deserve

investinlibraries.org

Tan colored square with red and brown text on top that reads “We need the NYC council to stabilize and properly fund NYC public libraries in the city budget” and then in smaller text below there is text that reads “send your council person a letter today!” With arrows pointing to a website located at “bit.ly/nyccouncil2026”

City Council will negotiate and approve this budget, and NYC PLAN is working to convince each and every member that our public libraries deserve more.

Join us in calling our council members to demand 0.5% funding for libraries & hold the mayor accountable to his word:

nycplan.org/actions/call...

Image showing Mayor Mamdani looking frustrated, with a text overlaid that reads “NYC Public Library Action Network” at the top, and in large bold letters text that reads “Mayor Mamdani did not honor his commitment to allocate 0.5% of the city expense budget to NYC public libraries in his preliminary budget” and then in smaller font below, there is text that reads “visit NYCPLAN.ORG for more information”

While a candidate, @mayor.nyc.gov pledged to commit 0.5% of the city’s budget to public libraries.

Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani has broken this promise in his preliminary FY27 budget, released yesterday, where he allocated 0.39% to libraries.

This amount is well below the promised 0.5%

Open borders create more safety than closed ones, and most of the benefits of safety are downriver from being the sort of people who keep their borders open, thereby avoiding the terrible dangers inherent to being the sort of people who would keep their borders closed.

Absolutely. And yet, these LLMs don’t actually know anything. Just like they can’t “promise” anything. They’re just a pile of math that extrudes text strings onto which we project meaning because there’s truly none there

Statement from Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal: This afternoon, nearly a year after we won the Oscar, the same settler who attacked me shortly after l returned from Los Angeles-Shem Tov Lusky-again led an attack against my home and my family. Four of my family members are currently arrested and one is in the hospital. I invite all journalists and diplomats to come visit me and my family this Tuesday, February 17, to hear about how the situation has gotten worse in the year since we won the Oscar, as it has across the West Bank. Email me to coordinate your visit: hamdanalhrane90@gmail.com Two weeks ago we managed to get a decision from the Israeli court that the area around my home is closed to non-residents, but the settlers break that order and still come with their flocks almost every day. We call the police, they do nothing. The army comes, they do nothing. Today, Shem Tov Lusky-the settler who attacked me in my home shortly after I won the Oscar last year-came with his flock to my home. My brother called the police to report the incursion. The army came first and immediately raided our house, attacking everyone inside. Then they arrested two of my brothers, a nephew, and cousin. Another brother was badly injured and is now in the hospital. The Israeli court decision was supposed to make things a bit quieter for us. But the opposite has been true. The settlers have ramped up their harassment and the Israeli authorities have done nothing to enforce the decision, and today they joined the settlers in the attack. 8 hours ago

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

"Invisible whips directing invisible labor." This really gives the game away.The agent-orati are getting a dopamine hit from the power over automation, docile bodies.

"Reading a novel feels indulgent." As if enriching oneself is a waste. You could be exercising your power over something instead.

the main story of the last 10 years is a tiny handful of very rich racists paying vast sums of money to manufacture the illusion of popularity

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Alice Wong Writer, editor, and disability justice activist. Born on March 27, 1974 in Indianapolis, IN, USA, she died from an infection on Nov 14, 2025 in San Francisco, CA, USA, aged 51 years.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3

Nonprofit libraries ordered by State Department to stop processing passport applications The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall, informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport...

Just when demand for passports is rising…

Chatbots are the engine of digital McCarthyism.

Oh no! Another podcast that I should be listening to! Hell Gate does such great reporting, I know it’ll be fire, but I need quiet time & reading time, too! (That said, if you listen to the Daily or other such trash replace it w this asaptually!)

I don't know why Newsom's 2026 Ronald Reagan Day proclamation is suddenly going viral but for the record he has done this every year in office and I have the receipts for you. (I make this thread only to further point out that Gavin is a shitheel but also proclamations like this are widespread.)

Saying the Epstein files are proof of a secret Jewish cabal controlling the world, instead of simply proof Epstein and his cohort were horrible, is antisemetic and shitty. Also don't engage with the larger truths those files are revealing about society and power. Leave Jewish people out of this.

Cardi up DHS down

This is it right here, in part because it speaks directly to all the folks who will, once this round of awareness passes, rehabilitate their images and wind up wielding even more power than they had yesterday without contending with their complicity. Unless something changes. Which it can

This is really what I want people to appreciate. I get that it feels good to be like "well that person's a pedophile too!" But in many cases they weren't. They were just people who didn't think it was a big deal. That's terrible in its own particular way.

“Since the end of Roe, there have been over 400 pregnancy-related arrests that we know about; and a new Pregnancy Justice report shows that nearly half of U.S. states have laws that make these prosecutions possible.”

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Plan to Cut $600 Million in Health Funds

This is by now a familiar routine. Trump administration announces cuts that may be illegal. States sue. Judge issues TRO. Here’s step 3 in the events that began Monday with an announcement of $600 mil in cuts to 4 blue states

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

The US administration is going to kill its people while they cheer.

In January, Moderna’s announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: “You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.”

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So close. So grateful. So hopeful.✨

£351 is all that stands between us and a secure month ahead.

Together, we’ve already moved mountains.
Let’s finish this one. 🙏

Thank you for believing in us.❤️

NYCs preliminary budget is expected to come out soon, & NYC PLAN is expecting @mayor.nyc.gov to keep his promise to fund our NYC Libraries at a minimum of 0.5% of the City’s operating budget.

We look forward to the City Council also maintaining this minimum fiscal amount for our libraries.

My apologies, Charles Darwin. I wasn’t familiar with your Hater Game