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!).
I am absolutely living for this swearing-in venue!
EXCLUSIVE: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will be sworn in as mayor on midnight on January 1 inside the old abandoned City Hall subway station, saying that he sees the venue as a symbol for the aims of his upcoming administration.
EXCLUSIVE: Mamdani Will Be Sworn In At Abandoned Original City Hall Subway Station
The mayor-elect will kick off a new era by throwing things back to an older one.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I am absolutely living for this swearing-in venue!
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They are $55,000 away from their goal. If they don't reach it by the end of the month, then they cannot open in the New Year.
We are behind schedule for hitting our end of year goal, making it very likely that we’ll be starting 2026 off with a closed intake line.
We need your help to make sure this doesn’t happen.
Give before December 31 → tinyurl.com/PSAFSupport
We need your help to make sure this doesn’t happen.
Give before December 31 → tinyurl.com/PSAFSupport
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December 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
They are $55,000 away from their goal. If they don't reach it by the end of the month, then they cannot open in the New Year.
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Watch a 7 year old have more compassion for homeless New Yorkers in the subway than your typical centrist marinating their brains on posts on X and The New York Post.
Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.
December 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Watch a 7 year old have more compassion for homeless New Yorkers in the subway than your typical centrist marinating their brains on posts on X and The New York Post.
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I always try to emphasize this: in the big picture, the median liberal, aka the kind of person who donates to ActBlue, or is a campaign volunteer, or who makes up part of one of many of the legacy liberal organizations, is to the left of the median liberal think tanker or Congressman on Palestine.
The latter very feverishly thinks Israeli ultranationalism is just plainly good and that Palestinians should suffer under it for eternity and also that the US should for whatever reason underwrite this arrangement with its full soft and hard power
December 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I always try to emphasize this: in the big picture, the median liberal, aka the kind of person who donates to ActBlue, or is a campaign volunteer, or who makes up part of one of many of the legacy liberal organizations, is to the left of the median liberal think tanker or Congressman on Palestine.
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I think most researchers and policymakers underestimate how much people really do not understand the difference between college sticker and net price. And the way high prices at a select few influences feelings about all.
December 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I think most researchers and policymakers underestimate how much people really do not understand the difference between college sticker and net price. And the way high prices at a select few influences feelings about all.
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Has anyone written the definitive piece about Jake Sullivan’s world-historic errors on Gaza and Israel that got Trump elected, and how he and his team were a bunch of overconfident, uninformed ninnies who should be nowhere near power ever again?
We need a President AOC just to break from this past
We need a President AOC just to break from this past
December 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Has anyone written the definitive piece about Jake Sullivan’s world-historic errors on Gaza and Israel that got Trump elected, and how he and his team were a bunch of overconfident, uninformed ninnies who should be nowhere near power ever again?
We need a President AOC just to break from this past
We need a President AOC just to break from this past
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Good news that throws into sharp relief how craven so many hospital systems complying in advance was. The legal attacks from the federal government can absolutely be fought and defeated. Institutions that choose not to are choosing to treat trans people as expendable.
On Wednesday, a federal judge in Pittsburgh blocked parts of the Justice Department’s invasive subpoena seeking personally identifiable information about those minor transgender patients at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center who are or have received gender-affirming medical care.
Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
www.lawdork.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Good news that throws into sharp relief how craven so many hospital systems complying in advance was. The legal attacks from the federal government can absolutely be fought and defeated. Institutions that choose not to are choosing to treat trans people as expendable.
Merry Christmas to all celebrating from me and @scottstorm.bsky.social ! Best wishes for a joyous holiday!
December 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Merry Christmas to all celebrating from me and @scottstorm.bsky.social ! Best wishes for a joyous holiday!
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A new NYC City Council bill would create an agency deploying mental health teams to respond to certain 911 calls, advancing a priority of Mayor-elect Mamdani. And it has strong early support. From @nytimes.com, one way the new admin is seeking to reshape local government:
City Council Introduces Bill to Create Mamdani’s Community Safety Agency
The proposed Department of Community Safety would send mental health teams to respond to 911 calls, rather than the police, according to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plans.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A new NYC City Council bill would create an agency deploying mental health teams to respond to certain 911 calls, advancing a priority of Mayor-elect Mamdani. And it has strong early support. From @nytimes.com, one way the new admin is seeking to reshape local government:
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NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Mustapha Kharbouch, the Palestinian student who was falsely accused last week of being the Brown University shooter by various racists and conspiracy theorists.
December 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Mustapha Kharbouch, the Palestinian student who was falsely accused last week of being the Brown University shooter by various racists and conspiracy theorists.
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When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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Never forget that "more conversations need to be had first" is a primary tactic that neoliberals use to kick the can down the road to avoid ever having to do anything
this, from Bari Weiss's 9pm editorial call, is just complete and utter horseshit. she can't even do damage control right
December 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Never forget that "more conversations need to be had first" is a primary tactic that neoliberals use to kick the can down the road to avoid ever having to do anything
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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One big takeaway from Mamdani bringing YIMBYs into his transition is that advocates can often gain a lot of power by
1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information
2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials
3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government
1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information
2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials
3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government
December 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
One big takeaway from Mamdani bringing YIMBYs into his transition is that advocates can often gain a lot of power by
1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information
2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials
3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government
1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information
2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials
3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government
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Call your senators and make it very clear they need to stand up for trans people
NEW: Many Democratic Senators said they hadn't seen Marjorie Taylor Greene's anti-trans bill and didn't say if it would fail. The only one who gave a hard commitment? Greene's fellow Georgian Raphael Warnock.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Democratic senators balk on vote against Marjorie Taylor Greene’s anti-trans bill
The bill would need seven Democratic senators to join Republicans
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Call your senators and make it very clear they need to stand up for trans people
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Would love to get this to 100 reposts today. I trust you with my goals.
Because my friends are extremely normal people who are not online, my posts will be the only ones on here with the link to support them through bone cancer. This site has saved my life more than once, and now I’m hoping it can do the same for them.
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Would love to get this to 100 reposts today. I trust you with my goals.
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Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
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This is so bad. I know it's not the ivies, so many won't care. But we all really should care more about what is happening at public universities.
The killing of these “regional centers” will make U.S. academia and society even more parochial and, ultimately, less competitive and safe.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
dailytarheel.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is so bad. I know it's not the ivies, so many won't care. But we all really should care more about what is happening at public universities.
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LID stands with our trans community here in Brooklyn and everywhere and stands against the cruel transphobic policies of this fascist administration in DC.
December 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
LID stands with our trans community here in Brooklyn and everywhere and stands against the cruel transphobic policies of this fascist administration in DC.
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A faster, more reliable A train.
A faster, more reliable C train.
Five more accessible stations.
Brought to you by congestion pricing!
A faster, more reliable C train.
Five more accessible stations.
Brought to you by congestion pricing!
December 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A faster, more reliable A train.
A faster, more reliable C train.
Five more accessible stations.
Brought to you by congestion pricing!
A faster, more reliable C train.
Five more accessible stations.
Brought to you by congestion pricing!
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The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
Trump moves to shut down Boulder climate research lab NCAR, drawing rebukes from Colorado officials
Federal lawmakers called the planned NCAR closure “deeply dangerous” and “blatantly retaliatory.” Gov. Jared Polis said: “If true, public safety is at risk and science…
www.denverpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
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I do think more people should appreciate that Sarah has to be selective about when she draws attention to her identity given the obsessive focus on it by some of her colleagues--she is in a uniquely impossible position. But it also makes it more impactful when she does.
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I do think more people should appreciate that Sarah has to be selective about when she draws attention to her identity given the obsessive focus on it by some of her colleagues--she is in a uniquely impossible position. But it also makes it more impactful when she does.
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FYI: If it passes tomorrow, the Safer Sanctuary Act would be the most significant update of New York’s sanctuary city laws in nearly a decade, and the first major piece of immigration legislation to be passed by the Council during the second Trump administration.
Our city needs and deserves the Safer Sanctuary Act. ICE cannot be allowed to interfere with the right to due process. If these rules and norms cease to exist for the most vulnerable among us, they cease to exist for all of us. Tiffany Cabán NYC Council Member Alexa Avilés
December 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
FYI: If it passes tomorrow, the Safer Sanctuary Act would be the most significant update of New York’s sanctuary city laws in nearly a decade, and the first major piece of immigration legislation to be passed by the Council during the second Trump administration.