Just finished the second of the trilogy and what a gift to give the gift of being so engrossed! (What I’m saying is these books & this org are awesome.)

NY city council meeting next Tuesday

This curfew is inept in conception and dangerous in effect and it needs to end.

for friends in nyc looking for grocery delivery: highly rec southeastnyc.com. Good produce, good customer service, great sauce selection. I’m a fan!!!

Mugshot galleries have always seemed like the obvious worst of open data applications...

Wow, this sold out so quick, would have loved to have listened in!

Scanners say that the crowd outside Brooklyn Museum for Black Trans Lives is over 12,000. #BlackTransLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter

My brother on isolation and community in pandemic times

If you are a tech person having an epiphany about the climate, some thoughts: - Don’t launch a startup about it without a LOT of validation from non-tech experts - Convince your company to stop making tech for fossil fuel companies 1st - The final boss is extractive capitalism

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1/ I've worked in tech policy for a decade. In most rooms, I'm usually the only Latino - almost always the only Latinx immigrant. If you care about immigrants or Latinx people, if you care about kids, I need you to care about Palantir's IPO next Tuesday. slate.com/technology/202…

A reminder as we see historic turnout across New York City for early voting this morning: For years, Republicans in the New York State Senate blocked legislation allowing early voting. Democrats took the Senate back last year and passed it. Your vote matters more than you know

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "There is no place in the United States of America where two, three, four hour waits to vote is acceptable -- and just because it's happening in a blue state doesn't mean that it's not voter suppression."

Marc Caputo Brennan Center Let NY Vote Here is a 2018 oped by my Brennan Center colleagues Sean Morales-Doyle and Chisun Lee criticizing NY for having "some of the most retrograde voting laws & practices in the nation." Fortunately, NY has been moving in the right direction. It has more work to do. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…