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As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

We’re hiring!

Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.

Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply

Zohran Mamdani looking at the camera with a smirk and saying, "Hope you're well."

@ Andrew Cuomo

Would you believe me if I told you that what anime & manga fans like are drawings

If you have any trouble voting or have questions about your rights, call the non-partisan Election Protection Hotline. English: 1-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683 Spanish: 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA / 1-888-839-8682 Arabic: 1-844-YALLA-US / 1-844-925-5287 For Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and more: 1-888-API-VOTE / 1-888-274-8683

If you run into any problems or have questions when casting your vote today, call the Election Protection Hotline.

Polls are open until 9pm: zohranfornyc.com/vote

IT'S DOOONE!! $17,933?!? that's 2 years + 1 issue of year 3 funded!! TWO WHOLE YEARS!

we have late pledges up for a week for subscriptions or if you want to sponsor a poem, story, or cover art!! but omg time for a NAP and some CRYING because I'm FULL OF EMOTIONS. thank you all so much for this 😭💜

POLLS ARE NOW OPEN.

Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️
findmypollsite.vote.nyc

There is a ton that I hate about this timeline, but if you had told me as a brown girl in Trinidad who was raised by her chutney-playing late maternal grandparents that a future NYC mayoral candidate would have tassa drums beating during his walk to a debate, I would have doubted your ass galore! 🤣

"republicans weren't racist in early aughts"

[laughs in post-9/11-brown-person]

hi yes $403 to go until NONFICTION!? I love an essay, and essays from queer writers on a breadth of topics no less!!

however

I'm here to beg 8 of you to let me have a good time—because if we get 300 backers @mruthrobinson.bsky.social will play alien: isolation while Ash and I watch and laugh 😂💜

A New Yorker’s Guide to Inflation Refund Checks How to know if you’re eligible, when to expect the check and what to out watch for when you’re filing taxes.

Did you get your check yet? If not, read on:

The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.

The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet.

They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.

grist.org/global-indig...

#Youth #Climate #Law #Legal #Indigenous

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

We are $225 from MORE ART! We want to be able to commission one or more additional queer artists to create even more art! Think headers, dividers, the little flourishes and interior art details that bring things to life! Help us support more queer art! 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.

A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

@othersidespec.bsky.social's Kickstarter now has an add-on to gift subscriptions! If you'd benefit from a gifted subscription, email the editors fmi: editors(at)othersidespec.com. Get that queer community mutual aid network going folks- there's queer art to share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." The first three goals, of $6900, $8300, and $9700 are now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to them. The remaining goals of $11000 (Issue 8) and $12000 (Reprints!) and $13000 (More Art!) show a closed lock next to them.

This is the second time our co-founders have woken up to a STRETCH GOAL HIT!! You hit our $9,700 goal overnight—that means ISSUE 7 IS FUNDED! We are now ONLY ONE STRETCH GOAL AWAY FROM YEAR 2 FULLY FUNDED!!

AND spot our next revealed stretch goal? 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Because the Deaf community is extremely funny politicians definitely cannot count on a loving and complimentary sign name like this one—it really demonstrates people’s genuine enthusiasm

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

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

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb... (and no I will not stop posting about this 😇)

OTHERSIDE'S KICKSTARTER IS HERE IT'S TIME PLEASE GO SUPPORT OUR QUEER MAGAZINE'S KICKSTARTER SO WE CAN EXIST AND MAKE A COOL GAY MAGAZIIIINE ✨

OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

How Trump’s Attacks on Environmental Justice Will Cost Lives Trump’s roll-backs of environmental justice funding and programs will directly harm communities already bearing the brunt of pollution.

How Trump’s Attacks on Environmental Justice Will Cost Lives - Food and Water Watch www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/24/t...

Most generously considered, what is happening with your Ezra Kleins and even your David Frenches of the world is to attempt to broker a compromise between racists and anti-racists, bigots and anti-bigots that might leave things stable for those who prioritize stability over racism or anti-racism.

Kimmel is back! Now leverage that same "power of the people" to encourage the show to make all of his guests for the next few weeks people who have been recently fired in the same situation.

Karen Attiah would make for an amazing start to this, y'know? 💖

(No, I'm not watching a 30 min monologue.)

YouTube video by Chris Cinneas - The Painting Pirate TANKMAIN vs Henry Halfhead

It's #TANKMAIN Tuesday, and this time we take on Henry Halfhead!

It's an adorable game full of chaos and, as is apparently a theme for @spacevalkyries.bsky.social and I, throwing things out of windows.

youtu.be/y8NAjFXeHxw

several SnailBonez™️ skeleton snails with a skull for a shell that actually look pretty sick but I mean,

several OctoBonez™️ brand octopus skeletons on a shelf along with a SpiderBonez™️ spider skeleton

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”