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@mkranz.bsky.social
Software engineer by trade, trying to be a decent person in my time off. Just wanna make this watery rock a little better by my work and have some fun along the way
““If you're just going to say, ‘Oh, I love the library,’ but you’re not actually supporting them, then that’s a real disappointment and, frankly, bulls---,” said Abby Emerson, a member of the NYC Public Library Action Network, or NYC PLAN.” gothamist.com/news/taking-...
Taking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts
Library advocates called the mayor’s proposed budget “terrible.”
gothamist.com
February 20, 2026 at 12:38 AM
““If you're just going to say, ‘Oh, I love the library,’ but you’re not actually supporting them, then that’s a real disappointment and, frankly, bulls---,” said Abby Emerson, a member of the NYC Public Library Action Network, or NYC PLAN.” gothamist.com/news/taking-...
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This is a disturbing decision from NYU Langone.
Gender-affirming care helps people live as their authentic selves and can be lifesaving. As the Trump administration continues to punish already-vulnerable people simply for being themselves, we will fight to uphold the rights of trans New Yorkers.
Gender-affirming care helps people live as their authentic selves and can be lifesaving. As the Trump administration continues to punish already-vulnerable people simply for being themselves, we will fight to uphold the rights of trans New Yorkers.
Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:16 PM
This is a disturbing decision from NYU Langone.
Gender-affirming care helps people live as their authentic selves and can be lifesaving. As the Trump administration continues to punish already-vulnerable people simply for being themselves, we will fight to uphold the rights of trans New Yorkers.
Gender-affirming care helps people live as their authentic selves and can be lifesaving. As the Trump administration continues to punish already-vulnerable people simply for being themselves, we will fight to uphold the rights of trans New Yorkers.
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What we are asking if you live in NYC is that you not passively sit back and expect that things will "happen" or "change" but to be actively involved in making things happen and to change them. Do the very small thing of sending a letter to your Council member & CALL THEM. It's really easy to do.
February 18, 2026 at 2:49 PM
What we are asking if you live in NYC is that you not passively sit back and expect that things will "happen" or "change" but to be actively involved in making things happen and to change them. Do the very small thing of sending a letter to your Council member & CALL THEM. It's really easy to do.
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Email to copy and paste for NYC residents re library funding in budget (in alt text)
February 18, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Email to copy and paste for NYC residents re library funding in budget (in alt text)
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This funding increase to 0.5% is a core demand of NYC PLAN - one which has been amplified by our library systems to help ensure that every branch has the staffing and resources to provide robust services to their communities.
Help us get NYC libraries the raise they deserve
investinlibraries.org
Help us get NYC libraries the raise they deserve
investinlibraries.org
Libraries Are for Everyone: Invest in Libraries
New York City's public libraries offer vital support to all, regardless of background, income, birthplace, or beliefs.
investinlibraries.org
February 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM
This funding increase to 0.5% is a core demand of NYC PLAN - one which has been amplified by our library systems to help ensure that every branch has the staffing and resources to provide robust services to their communities.
Help us get NYC libraries the raise they deserve
investinlibraries.org
Help us get NYC libraries the raise they deserve
investinlibraries.org
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City Council will negotiate and approve this budget, and NYC PLAN is working to convince each and every member that our public libraries deserve more.
Join us in calling our council members to demand 0.5% funding for libraries & hold the mayor accountable to his word:
nycplan.org/actions/call...
Join us in calling our council members to demand 0.5% funding for libraries & hold the mayor accountable to his word:
nycplan.org/actions/call...
February 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM
City Council will negotiate and approve this budget, and NYC PLAN is working to convince each and every member that our public libraries deserve more.
Join us in calling our council members to demand 0.5% funding for libraries & hold the mayor accountable to his word:
nycplan.org/actions/call...
Join us in calling our council members to demand 0.5% funding for libraries & hold the mayor accountable to his word:
nycplan.org/actions/call...
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While a candidate, @mayor.nyc.gov pledged to commit 0.5% of the city’s budget to public libraries.
Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani has broken this promise in his preliminary FY27 budget, released yesterday, where he allocated 0.39% to libraries.
This amount is well below the promised 0.5%
Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani has broken this promise in his preliminary FY27 budget, released yesterday, where he allocated 0.39% to libraries.
This amount is well below the promised 0.5%
February 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM
While a candidate, @mayor.nyc.gov pledged to commit 0.5% of the city’s budget to public libraries.
Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani has broken this promise in his preliminary FY27 budget, released yesterday, where he allocated 0.39% to libraries.
This amount is well below the promised 0.5%
Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani has broken this promise in his preliminary FY27 budget, released yesterday, where he allocated 0.39% to libraries.
This amount is well below the promised 0.5%
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Open borders create more safety than closed ones, and most of the benefits of safety are downriver from being the sort of people who keep their borders open, thereby avoiding the terrible dangers inherent to being the sort of people who would keep their borders closed.
The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.
February 18, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Open borders create more safety than closed ones, and most of the benefits of safety are downriver from being the sort of people who keep their borders open, thereby avoiding the terrible dangers inherent to being the sort of people who would keep their borders closed.
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From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.
February 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM
From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.
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"Invisible whips directing invisible labor." This really gives the game away.The agent-orati are getting a dopamine hit from the power over automation, docile bodies.
"Reading a novel feels indulgent." As if enriching oneself is a waste. You could be exercising your power over something instead.
"Reading a novel feels indulgent." As if enriching oneself is a waste. You could be exercising your power over something instead.
February 16, 2026 at 1:32 AM
"Invisible whips directing invisible labor." This really gives the game away.The agent-orati are getting a dopamine hit from the power over automation, docile bodies.
"Reading a novel feels indulgent." As if enriching oneself is a waste. You could be exercising your power over something instead.
"Reading a novel feels indulgent." As if enriching oneself is a waste. You could be exercising your power over something instead.
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the main story of the last 10 years is a tiny handful of very rich racists paying vast sums of money to manufacture the illusion of popularity
It’s unreasonably important to me that people know JewBelong isn’t some big org, it’s just Archie Gottesman, a hugely shitty racist rich white woman who used to make billboards for her daddy’s company and pivoted to vomiting her bullshit racist crybullying onto them in the name of “antisemitism”
This is the pet project of one rich AF Jewish nepo baby white lady who lives on the upper east side and claims to speak for all Jews and throws her money around to control the messaging and it is a fucking nightmare
February 15, 2026 at 9:46 AM
the main story of the last 10 years is a tiny handful of very rich racists paying vast sums of money to manufacture the illusion of popularity
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Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.
www.eff.org
February 13, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3
Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3
Alice Wong
Writer, editor, and disability justice activist. Born on March 27, 1974 in Indianapolis,
IN, USA, she died from an infection on Nov 14, 2025 in San Francisco, CA, USA, aged
51 years.
www.thelancet.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:08 AM
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3
Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3
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Just when demand for passports is rising…
Nonprofit libraries ordered by State Department to stop processing passport applications
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall, informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport...
www.pbs.org
February 14, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Just when demand for passports is rising…
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Chatbots are the engine of digital McCarthyism.
What a perfect example of how these people are not just incompetent, they’re lazy.
February 14, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Chatbots are the engine of digital McCarthyism.
Oh no! Another podcast that I should be listening to! Hell Gate does such great reporting, I know it’ll be fire, but I need quiet time & reading time, too! (That said, if you listen to the Daily or other such trash replace it w this asaptually!)
NEW EPISODE OF THE HELL GATE PODCAST
We're joined by Brad Lander to talk about his congressional bid and what he thinks of Mamdani’s first few weeks in office.
Then—a message for all of Hell Gate’s haters. (We’re not mad.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
We're joined by Brad Lander to talk about his congressional bid and what he thinks of Mamdani’s first few weeks in office.
Then—a message for all of Hell Gate’s haters. (We’re not mad.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Brad Lander Thinks You Should Maybe Stop Posting (feat. Brad Lander)
Podcast Episode · The Hell Gate Podcast · 02/13/2026 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Oh no! Another podcast that I should be listening to! Hell Gate does such great reporting, I know it’ll be fire, but I need quiet time & reading time, too! (That said, if you listen to the Daily or other such trash replace it w this asaptually!)
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I don't know why Newsom's 2026 Ronald Reagan Day proclamation is suddenly going viral but for the record he has done this every year in office and I have the receipts for you. (I make this thread only to further point out that Gavin is a shitheel but also proclamations like this are widespread.)
February 13, 2026 at 10:57 PM
I don't know why Newsom's 2026 Ronald Reagan Day proclamation is suddenly going viral but for the record he has done this every year in office and I have the receipts for you. (I make this thread only to further point out that Gavin is a shitheel but also proclamations like this are widespread.)
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Saying the Epstein files are proof of a secret Jewish cabal controlling the world, instead of simply proof Epstein and his cohort were horrible, is antisemetic and shitty. Also don't engage with the larger truths those files are revealing about society and power. Leave Jewish people out of this.
You really don’t need to be antisemetic about Epstein.
He’s evil because he’s evil. Not because he’s Jewish.
He’s evil because he’s evil. Not because he’s Jewish.
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Saying the Epstein files are proof of a secret Jewish cabal controlling the world, instead of simply proof Epstein and his cohort were horrible, is antisemetic and shitty. Also don't engage with the larger truths those files are revealing about society and power. Leave Jewish people out of this.
Cardi up DHS down
February 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Cardi up DHS down
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This is really what I want people to appreciate. I get that it feels good to be like "well that person's a pedophile too!" But in many cases they weren't. They were just people who didn't think it was a big deal. That's terrible in its own particular way.
I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity
February 3, 2026 at 7:38 PM
This is really what I want people to appreciate. I get that it feels good to be like "well that person's a pedophile too!" But in many cases they weren't. They were just people who didn't think it was a big deal. That's terrible in its own particular way.
“Since the end of Roe, there have been over 400 pregnancy-related arrests that we know about; and a new Pregnancy Justice report shows that nearly half of U.S. states have laws that make these prosecutions possible.”
These cases continue to arise, reminding there’s seemingly no ‘correct’ way to dispose of pregnancy remains that will protect us from criminal investigation—not while abortion bans and fetal personhood laws exist:
Breaking: Another Kentucky Woman Arrested for Miscarriage
She's sobbing in her mugshot
abortioneveryday.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:36 PM
“Since the end of Roe, there have been over 400 pregnancy-related arrests that we know about; and a new Pregnancy Justice report shows that nearly half of U.S. states have laws that make these prosecutions possible.”
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This is by now a familiar routine. Trump administration announces cuts that may be illegal. States sue. Judge issues TRO. Here’s step 3 in the events that began Monday with an announcement of $600 mil in cuts to 4 blue states
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
Federal Judge Blocks Trump Plan to Cut $600 Million in Health Funds
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
This is by now a familiar routine. Trump administration announces cuts that may be illegal. States sue. Judge issues TRO. Here’s step 3 in the events that began Monday with an announcement of $600 mil in cuts to 4 blue states
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
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The US administration is going to kill its people while they cheer.
In January, Moderna’s announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: “You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.”
1/4
In January, Moderna’s announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: “You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.”
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February 13, 2026 at 11:26 AM
The US administration is going to kill its people while they cheer.
In January, Moderna’s announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: “You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.”
1/4
In January, Moderna’s announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: “You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.”
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So close. So grateful. So hopeful.✨
£351 is all that stands between us and a secure month ahead.
Together, we’ve already moved mountains.
Let’s finish this one. 🙏
Thank you for believing in us.❤️
£351 is all that stands between us and a secure month ahead.
Together, we’ve already moved mountains.
Let’s finish this one. 🙏
Thank you for believing in us.❤️
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
So close. So grateful. So hopeful.✨
£351 is all that stands between us and a secure month ahead.
Together, we’ve already moved mountains.
Let’s finish this one. 🙏
Thank you for believing in us.❤️
£351 is all that stands between us and a secure month ahead.
Together, we’ve already moved mountains.
Let’s finish this one. 🙏
Thank you for believing in us.❤️