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Sue Landers

@slanders.bsky.social

Poet, pedestrian. My book WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE (Roof, 2025) emerged from riding every NYC subway end-to-end. A love letter to the city, it charts joy amidst catastrophe. suelanders.com (she/her)

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Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trans people have fought and suffered and borne the brunt of the depravity of fascist excess (along with immigrants and Black people), and it looks like the most we can hope for is a decade or more fighting Democrats to restore rights we had in every state in the union as recently as 2020.

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 3w ago

What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass

CNN@cnn.com · 3w ago

"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo ago

This is huge! The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to withhold Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth under 19. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.

npr.org

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3mo ago

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People

An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...

thedissident.news

Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · 3mo ago

All 3 NYC Library Systems now have asks that people send a letter to the City Council calling for increased funding. In some uninformed quarters, people are claiming that our public libraries are "fully funded" when in actuality they are slated for lower funding than last year in real dollars.

NYC Public Library Action Network@nycplan.org · 3mo ago

Are you a writer, author, or scholar based in NYC? New York City deserves the kind of writers and thinkers that only consistently well-funded public libraries can ensure. Help us call on the Mayor and City Council to fund our library systems with our open letter: forms.gle/SvQYwiyiHqXT...

Open letter from NYC based writers, authors, and scholars to the Mayor re: public library budget

NYC Public Library Action Network is asking writers, authors, and scholars based in New York City’s five boroughs to sign on to an open letter to Mayor Mamdani asking him to fulfill the promise he mad...

forms.gle

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3mo ago

1. There has been a major new federal rule proposed governing ALL federal grants. A federal grant recipient will be deemed ineligible if the recipient advances "gender ideology," or denies that "sex is binary." This includes hospitals, schools, nonprofits. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

erininthemorning.com

Billie Jean Sweeney@billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A grand jury in *Texas* is issuing a *criminal subpoena* to a *New York hospital* for *patient records* This is a full-on, escalatory assault on the privacy and civil rights of all Americans from right-wing radical bigots who see the law as their plaything. They won’t stop here.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4mo ago

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

A screenshot of a webpage notice from NYU Langone Health titled "Information for NYU Langone Health Patients." The full text of the notice reads: "On May 7, 2026, NYU Langone Hospitals (“NYULH”) was one of several institutions that received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Texas. Among other requests, the subpoena directs NYULH to provide information pertaining to patients under the age of 18 who received gender affirming care at NYULH between 2020-2026, as well as the names of NYULH providers and others who were involved in offering such care at NYULH in that timeframe. Pursuant to the New York State Shield Law, any entity in New York State that receives a request for information regarding legally protected health activity, such as the provision of reproductive health care or gender-affirming care, must make a reasonable attempt to notify the individuals to whom that request pertains at least 30 days before complying with or providing information in response to the request. More information about the Shield Law is available here. We understand that these developments may be concerning to our patients, providers, and others. Please know that NYU Langone takes the privacy of your protected health information very seriously and we are evaluating our response to the subpoena. We will post updates at this website. For any questions or concerns please email TYHPsubpoena@nyulangone.org."
Sue Landers@slanders.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Lovely moment on the train as a busker with a sweet baritone sings Unforgettable. As a woman gives him money, she chokes up, saying it reminds her of her father. The singer pauses to tell her to let the tears flow, the good water is cleansing. Keep being you, NYC.

Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Is he stealing from the rich or giving them too much stuff? Hard to know I guess. If only there was some way to think about the last set of complaints in relationship to the new ones.

Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 6mo ago

Boy, what a terrible headline. We *need* the wealthy to participate in public services. If only poor people ride the bus, then rich people won't wield their power in support of public transit or, worse, will wield their power *against* it.