When your job involves standing in front of a classroom and talking with undergraduates, but you don't understand their cultural references and your hip and back are aching, you can kind of get the hint.

Hey @nytimes.com, how about giving some credit when our hometown team wins a championship? When #GothamFC wins the #NWSLChampionship, that's news that's fit to print!

People tanking outside

A table full of zines, posters and buttons

People tabling outdoors

People tabling outdoors

Dozens of folks & a few adorable pups came out at Grand Army Plaza to distribute information and whistles to protect our beloved city and our neighbors. This is how we build a culture of joyful defiance and keep each other safe! #handsoffnyc

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social @indivisible.org

It’s time for new, bolder leadership that will fight fascism, not roll over for it.

@schumer.senate.gov step aside.

@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @nychange.bsky.social @fwwnewyork.bsky.social @jh-indivisible.bsky.social @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social

NYC SAYS: SCHUMER, STEP ASIDE! · NYC Indivisible Protest at Senator Schumer's Manhattan office to hold him accountable for yet another Schumer Surrender! ---- Chuck’s latest deal with MAGA Republicans is bad policy that will raise healthcare prices...

Indivisible groups across NYC are telling @schumer.senate.gov to step aside & make room for leaders who will actually fight!This Fri 11/14 at 4pm at 780 3rd Ave, btw 48th & 49th. See you there!

www.mobilize.us/nycindivisib...

@indivisible.org @nychange.bsky.social @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social

Just called @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social's DC office to ask whether she's joining widespread calls for new leadership of the Senate Democrats.

The polite staffer's response? "I wish I knew."

Let's get these people on record re: @schumer.senate.gov! Call your senator today at (202) 224-3121.

Adam from Brooklyn Indivisible holds a sign reading "WE CAN'T AFFORD ANOTHER SCHUMER SURRENDER"

@bkindivisible.bsky.social's @adamnyc.bsky.social telling it like it is.

Protesters in front of Schumer's Brooklyn home with signs saying "Don't Cave," "Schumer: Hold the Line," "We Can't Afford Another Schumer Surrender," etc.

Call @schumer.senate.gov now at (202) 224-6542 to let him know: We cannot afford another Schumer surrender. #HoldTheLine

White House floats not paying furloughed feds Critics say the move would defy a Trump-signed law that mandates retroactive pay for government workers.

And #HoldTheLine for back pay!

AFGE national promised that furloughed workers would receive full back pay as soon as the shutdown ended. But Trump's OMB has made it clear that federal workers won't get paid if the MAGA CR passed. Giving up is no way to win.

www.eenews.net/articles/whi...

White House floats not paying furloughed feds Critics say the move would defy a Trump-signed law that mandates retroactive pay for government workers.

AFGE President also got it disastrously wrong when he suggested that capitulating on the MAGA CR would "put every single federal worker back on the job with full back pay — today."

Under the MAGA CR, federal workers would not receive back pay. #HoldTheLine

www.eenews.net/articles/whi...

Also wish people would communicate that AFGE President Kelley's statement demanded that we "put every single federal worker back on the job with full back pay — today."

Trump's OMB has said there'd be no back pay for workers if the MAGA CR passed.

Dems have no choice but to #HoldTheLine

Taxi TV Is MAGA Now New York City taxi riders are now served conservative news segments during their trips.

Fascist propagandists are also now hijacking NYC's taxis. hellgatenyc.com/taxi-tv-news...

Canvassers for Zohran Mamdani and Alexa Avilés in Sunset Park

Great day canvassing for Zohran and Alexa Avilés in Sunset Park with @bkindivisible.bsky.social! NYers are excited to vote early for a better NYC!

NYers want investments in our communities. We do not want our communities to be exploited as the next "training grounds" for MAGA's violent attacks on us. Thank you, @agounardes.bsky.social, for working to make sure that outside militias are never used against us for political ends.

#HandsOffNYC

Thank you, Senator!

Republican cowards need to stop bowing to MAGA's unpopular, unaffordable, un-American agenda.

Democrats are united in declaring #NoKings.

#HoldTheLine

Over 3.5% of NYC engaged in active defiance of the regime today!

Next step is to keep people mobilized. Check out handsoffnyc.com for Next Steps.

#NoKings #HandsOffNYC

What a day for an enormous NYC march for the country we love. This is truly what democracy looks like — and there are #NoKings in the USA!

@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social

Building liberty (figuratively & literally) takes work — but it’s so freaking worth it. Community coming together for our biggest art build yet. See it in person in Times Sq at #NoKings 10/18 11am.

@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social

“The legislation that ends the current lapse in appropriations must include express language appropriating funds for back pay for furloughed employees, or such payments cannot be made,” Mark Paoletta, OMB’s general counsel, wrote to White House budget director Russell Vought. By that interpretation, furloughed workers would not be paid when this shutdown ends. Lawmakers are considering a seven-week stopgap measure that would simply extend federal funding at current levels. That legislation passed the House last month but remains hung up in the Senate. It does not include additional language on back pay. ... But Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) told reporters that back pay was “a fairly standard practice” and that he wasn’t familiar with OMB’s argument. “My understanding is, yes, that they would get paid,” he said. “I’ll find out. I haven’t heard this up until now.” Administration officials hope the memo will maximize Republicans’ leverage in shutdown negotiations with Democrats... Democrats indicated the move might have the opposite effect. “Honestly, the impact it seems to have had on Democrats here is people kind of digging in their heels harder and not wanting to give an inch to those kind of hollow threats,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Virginia) told The Post on Tuesday. “And the latest threat to not pay furloughed federal workers at the end of the shutdown I think is in precisely the same category. The law is just very clear.” Excerpted from Jacob Bogage's article, "Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims." Washington Post, October 7, 2025.

tl;dr? Boycotting Bezos? Here are some excerpts.

What next? A MTG skeet?

5 FAILED VOTES... and OMB just blew up Sen. Thune's position.

The MAGA CR cannot pass. Not only will Dems #HoldTheLine -- the GOP is going to have to fix Trump's latest mess.

That means House Republicans need to end their vacation and pass a bipartisan CR.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The #TrumpShutdown shows how callous the GOP has become. They're desperate to take away Americans' healthcare & they'd hurt even more Americans to do it.

But every MAGA cut they make now will become another reversal they'll need to make to earn Dem votes and end their shutdown. #HoldTheLine

We demanded that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & @schumer.senate.gov fight for us. Now they are!

The radical right and radical center are freaking out because Dems refuse to rubber-stamp MAGA cuts. Show some support for Dems who are protecting affordable healthcare and encourage them to #HoldTheLine

Democrats are addressing the affordability crisis.
Republicans just keep getting weirder.
#HoldTheLine

When given an opportunity to protect Americans' access to affordable healthcare, Republicans voted to cut off Americans' access to more services instead.

The only way to fix the Republican healthcare crisis is to #HoldTheLine. No Democratic votes for MAGA cuts.

We can't afford @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social voting for another Schumer Surrender.

No more Dem votes for MAGA cuts!

#HoldTheLine, @schumer.senate.gov!

450,000 NYers are losing healthcare already due to the MAGA budget. Another MAGA CR would be a catastrophe for NYers and all Americans.

No more Dem votes for MAGA cuts. Democrats must hold the line for a short-term CR and bipartisan negotiations to keep the programs we rely on funded. #HoldTheLine

Incredible turnout for our know-your-rights canvass with @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social, Carroll Gardens Association, & Hand in Hand. We had great conversations at 100 local businesses. Join us next time, because we all want our neighborhoods to be safe for the people who live here! #SignsOfSolidarity