'It’s safer in a way to run on the vibes-based approach of 'restoring Roe' than to have to deal with issues that may raise uncomfortable questions for Democrats—about their having done too little too late to save Roe and their resistance to asking for more.' Melissa Gira Grant 🔥🔥🔥

Thank you, Melissa Gira Grant, for covering this and sharing our new blog series on #Project2025 - we've already felt the effects of a fraying democracy, and we believe everyone should understand the threat of Project 2025. The New Republic

The narrative right-wing groups are using to obstruct AIDS funding hinges on their claim that, now that Roe has been reversed, the Biden administration is trying to smuggle funds for abortion into HIV/AIDS funding. trib.al/EphbrVK

NEW from The New Republic: Right-wing activist Leonard Leo is behind the effort to defund PEPFAR, a widely popular and previously bipartisan AIDS prevention program that has saved 25 million lives. newrepublic.com/article/178208…

TJA members! Tune in for a conversation with Melissa Gira Grant next week!

We're very excited that she's speaking to our members on reporting driven by legal filings, based on her story newrepublic.com/article/173987…

You can register at members.transjournalists.org for the members-only event!

Ohio governor Mike DeWine is not going to ban gender-affirming care for minors—he's just going to make it impossible, Melissa Gira Grant writes.
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Today, I resigned from the Biden-Harris Administration. I cannot represent an administration that systematically dehumanizes Palestinians and enables their ethnic cleansing. The President must call for a permanent ceasefire. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

📽️CEASEFIRE NOW📽️

An autonomous group of culture workers projected messages of support for a Free Palestine & Ceasefire Now onto the Brooklyn Museum — an institution whose major funders are currently supporting & profiting off of the Israeli occupation & ongoing genocide.

Tonight I disrupted Reps. Ritchie Torres and Mike Lawler, who are not only supporting a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza but enabling it. As a Jewish New Yorker and as a former employee of the 92nd Street Y, not in my name.

“It doesn’t get any worse,’’ said Arif Husain, chief economist for the U.N.’s World Food Program. “I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza. And at this speed. How quickly it has happened, in just a matter of two months.”

In 2014, two Brooklyn businessmen took the NYPD chief of department on an all-expenses paid trip to Israel. The businessmen would later be convicted of bribing public officials. The NYPD chief is now the deputy mayor. This is the photo album of their trip: hellgatenyc.com/evidentiary-ph…

i was invited to PEN World Festival & declined the invitation by writing them this letter. I strongly urge the other writers who were invited to the festival to also decline.

“I do not consent to my death being passing news. Say, too, that I love life, happiness, freedom, children’s laughter, the sea, coffee, writing, Fairouz, everything that is joyful—though these things will all disappear in the space of a moment.” - Nour al-Din Hajjaj

Read the Cologne Court’s decision: openjur.de/u/2479560.html
In this decision, the judge recalled that “the assembly slogan [Stop the genocide in Gaza] is a claim that is based on a truthful fact - here: signs of genocide” and quoted a statement from UN Special Rapporteurs. /5

On Monday December 11th, hundreds of Chicago media workers held a candlelight vigil memorializing journalists killed in the war in Gaza. Reader Assistant Managing Editor Savannah Hugueley writes about her experience. chicagoreader.com/columns-opinio…

JUST IN. Over 200 Queer artists including A N G E L I C A Lucy Dacus Joel Kim Booster Sasha Velour CEASEFIRE 🇵🇸 penned an open letter demanding a permanent ceasefire, an end to pinkwashing, and a commitment to BDS of Israel. Read and sign-on here: queerartistsforpalestine.org

NEW: The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys has joined the call for a #CeasefireNOW .

The union passed a ceasefire resolution this week after a judge dissolved a temporary restraining order which had blocked members from voting on it for almost a month.

NYPL vigil for Palestinian journalists

The next time they try to tell you Palestinian journalists are not journalists, show them these two tweets with Israeli journalists boasting of their participation in attacks--or apparently actively participating in attacks--against Gaza. Are these journalists?

If you’re in NYC, and appreciate the heroic work Palestinian journalists in Gaza have done informing and mobilizing the rest of us - in nearly a hundred cases, at the cost of their lives - join NewsGuild-CWA, NationalWritersUnion, Writers Against the War on Gaza, and many others in showing up for them tonight.