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Patrick Hart

@patrickhart.bsky.social

Queer local policy geek in Brooklyn. Gets unreasonably excited about things like nonprofit procurement reform and loves community-building at all levels. Negative 2 dexterity modifier. Works at CUNY ISLG (but all opinions here are my own!).

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Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 3d ago

ICE activity in NYC has increased significantly in recent weeks – and with Trump’s TPS cancellations, we fear they may ramp up detentions of Haitian New Yorkers in the coming days. (1/3)

Molly Crabapple@mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 4d ago

One of the great People’s Scholars, and writer of the definitive book on the Young Lords. Her class on race and empire (offered for free with a radical bookstore) introduced me to thinkers who changed how I saw the world. What a devastating loss

jentrification@jentrification.com · 4d ago

"Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on July 30, 2026, after a years-long struggle with non-small cell lung cancer. She was 55."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 5d ago

El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"

The idea that we can assent to the taking away of anybody’s rights, and think that somehow the government won’t come for all of our rights, is itself the problem. And, look, I don’t need people to understand how they use their rights. I just need people to agree that the government shouldn’t be able to take any of our rights. I put my face on the ground thirty-four times a day, David. Most people don’t understand why I do it. I don’t need them to understand. I just want to have the right to do it. And when people decide that they want to take away my right to do that, I’ve got a problem.Now, I hope that everybody’s going to show up and say, No, no, no. You can’t stop that person or that community from reflecting and praying as they choose. Similarly, when it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s the right to be who you are. It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours, then they come for theirs. And at some point you live in a society where rights are negotiable, and that is not the America I was born in. It’s not the America I know and love. It’s not the America I’m going to allow somebody like Donald Trump to give us.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d ago

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

Patrick Hart@patrickhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's been a great first year of the Civic Engagement Fellowship at @cunyislg.bsky.social -- thrilled to be working with these wonderful CUNY alumni and community-based organizations! islg.cuny.edu/blog/after-o...

After One Year, Civic Engagement Fellows and South Bronx Community Organizations Celebrate the Past and the Future — CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance (ISLG)

Civic Engagement Fellows and their host organizations came together to both look back at the work done engaging and educating community members in the South Bronx over the first year.

islg.cuny.edu

Jessica Pishko@jesspish.bsky.social · last wk.

It is bad news when a perfectly reasonable, well-established pretrial diversion program is being cut by "moderate Democrats," the same people who are all "we cannot abolish ICE" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A fight over a San Francisco nonprofit tests how far Democrats will move on crime

The fate of SF Pretrial, a group that runs diversion programs, reflects the tough-on-crime sentiment emerging even in liberal cities.

washingtonpost.com

Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sociology as a discipline offers people a set of useful lenses for thinking about how people make meaning in the world. Therefore the discipline will continue to exist, regardless of what the reactionaries say or do.

Patrick Hart@patrickhart.bsky.social · 2w ago

This statement from Speaker Menin reads like a commitment to endless bureaucracy and inaction. We need a City government that is capable of actually delivering positive results for NYC, and my first read of the COGE proposals is that they are a step in the right direction.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 2w ago

A spokesperson for Council Speaker Julie Menin says the body is "concerned by the speed and process through which" Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Charter Revision Commission has advanced five ballot questions for November, warning of "unintended consequences."

Justin Zimmerman@jztidecat.bsky.social · 2w ago

With Trump decimating the SNAP program, Mamdani creating subsidized grocery stores seems like a policy more local government should create. Call it socialism all you want, people need to eat.

Bright D Limm 임대중@bdlimm.myatproto.social · 3w ago

1️⃣ Note that most of these locations are library branches; imagine how much more public infrastructure they could provide ✨if funded with ≥0.5% of NYC's budget✨ (Another reason @nycplan.org's work is so important) 2️⃣ May this climate-catastrophic event also remind us: COVID is dangerous + not over. 😷

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

Free KN95 masks will continue to be available at hundreds of locations citywide: on.nyc.gov/freemask. For air quality guidance, visit on.nyc.gov/firesmoke.

Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn@lidbk.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are ecstatic join our partners in the Brooklyn Can't Wait coalition to support longtime LID member, party reformer, Brooklyn community leader, and all-around great guy @juliopenabk.com for the next Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair! Julio is exactly the leader our party needs right now!

New Kings Democrats@newkingsdems.bsky.social · 3w ago

Brooklyn is going to have a new Democratic Party. The Brooklyn Can’t Wait coalition of 22 incoming District Leaders have voted to nominate and elect District Leader @juliopenabk.com as Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair this coming September. 1/x

The next Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Julio Peña III, District Leader, AD 51 Graphic card with a photo of Julio and the Brooklyn Can't Wait logo
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w ago

it’s hard to explain how much shit like this has radicalized people. like i’m a white middle-aged broad who’s always been liberal but i’ve gone full-on “abolish ICE/reform scotus/the next dem candidate must commit to mass prosecutions” and you will not sway me from that position.

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 3w ago

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 4w ago

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

Phil Rocco@philiprocco.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...