It is #BisexualAwarenessWeek and #LatinxHeritageMonth so I'm going to be incredibly insufferable by reminding you my story collection I'M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT features messy bisexual Puerto Rican men for all of your reading pleasures 😊💜💙💗🇵🇷 sfwp.com/books/not-hung…

A lot of adults have opinions about the tragic death of Nex Benedict. So I reached out to a handful of trans, queer, and gender non conforming teenagers to hear what’s it’s like growing up trans in the U.S. Their answer: “That could have been me.” rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Everyone deserves to feel safe on their commutes. But militarizing the subways as we disinvest in housing, homeless services, and mental health care is not how we achieve safety. This misguided policy risks repeating the worst abuses of stop-and-frisk.

BREAKING: @PENAmerica’s staff union has gone public about the organization’s attempts to suppress the “political activity” of its workers—a striking blow to (what is left of) the org’s reputation for protecting free speech. Read our statement on the state of the org below:

"Under arrest for trespassing" at their own goddamn school, sanctioned by their own goddamn school, that they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to attend, that is supposed to care for them. These students are braver than any NYPD officer.

NYPD mass arresting Jews holding a public seder during Passover:

Bus drivers refused to transport protestors from last night's Seder in the Streets to the precinct, forcing cops to drive the busses. Power and solidarity to the union bus drivers with twu 100 who refuse to collaborate with the NYPD, which commandeers MTA busses for mass arrests.

700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style

We should all be very clear. The NYPD is about to escalate the situation by attacking students. This is Eric Adams saying exactly that.

watching this happen in real time and knowing it will go down as a deeply shameful moment in history for both columbia and new york city is just… surreal. my heart is with the students

The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968:

so very thrilled to premiere ANNA ALTMAN's (lucia :)) new single "Balloons" from their upcoming album "Annatomic"! post-trash.com/news/2024/5/10…

sitting on the ground eating a deli sandwich has gotta be one of the top 10 activities a person can do

googling "how much money can I get for my plasma and also how do I sell my plasma?" on my work computer

SO BASICALLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE JUST 0.4% OF THE NEW YORK CITY BUDGET, BUT THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO CUT THE LIBRARY'S BUDGET WAY BACK. I’M TALKING $58.3 MILLION! LIBRARIES ARE ALREADY CLOSED ON SUNDAYS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS CUTS AND MOST BRANCHES WILL BE OPEN FOR JUST FIVE DAYS A

when carrie bradshaw said “I couldn’t help but wonder” I really felt that

Stay alive. Even if it’s out of spite, stay alive. Be present. People care about you, even if your country doesn’t.