Olga Rych, MSc
@olgarych.bsky.social
Harm reductionist, global public health and SRHR advocate, (queer)feminist, lover of libraries, believer in kindness. We can do better than capitalism. Also, dogs.
Let’s gooooo! And invest the money in medicare for all, free quality childcare, education, senior care and a bunch of other stuff that make everyone’s life better and fuel a thriving economy.
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Let’s gooooo! And invest the money in medicare for all, free quality childcare, education, senior care and a bunch of other stuff that make everyone’s life better and fuel a thriving economy.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Want to organize around NYC public libraries to secure stable & expanded funding? NYC Public Library Action Network’s next meeting is this Sunday Nov 16 from 2 to 4:15 pm in Brooklyn. If interested, email info@nycplan.org.
More about our work here: nycplan.org
More about our work here: nycplan.org
NYC Public Library Action Network
Send our letter to all the mayoral candidates demanding increased funding for our public libraries! Fill out this Google Form and we’ll follow up with a how-to guide on meeting with your City Council…
nycplan.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Want to organize around NYC public libraries to secure stable & expanded funding? NYC Public Library Action Network’s next meeting is this Sunday Nov 16 from 2 to 4:15 pm in Brooklyn. If interested, email info@nycplan.org.
More about our work here: nycplan.org
More about our work here: nycplan.org
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The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport
The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year
www.the-independent.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
Nothing like a hike in high altitudes to regain the perspective. The human race is busy destroying the natural world, but we’ll be gone due to own destruction, and these giants will still be standing.
Shot on my old #Sony a6000 with 35mm/F1.8 - my fave lens.
Shot on my old #Sony a6000 with 35mm/F1.8 - my fave lens.
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Nothing like a hike in high altitudes to regain the perspective. The human race is busy destroying the natural world, but we’ll be gone due to own destruction, and these giants will still be standing.
Shot on my old #Sony a6000 with 35mm/F1.8 - my fave lens.
Shot on my old #Sony a6000 with 35mm/F1.8 - my fave lens.
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The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is playing chess and making really good moves.
Tapping former FTC chair Lina Khan for his transition team has put fear into Wall Street. They absolutely loathe her John Wick approach to antitrust cases.
She’s brilliant and unyielding.
Great pick!
Tapping former FTC chair Lina Khan for his transition team has put fear into Wall Street. They absolutely loathe her John Wick approach to antitrust cases.
She’s brilliant and unyielding.
Great pick!
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is playing chess and making really good moves.
Tapping former FTC chair Lina Khan for his transition team has put fear into Wall Street. They absolutely loathe her John Wick approach to antitrust cases.
She’s brilliant and unyielding.
Great pick!
Tapping former FTC chair Lina Khan for his transition team has put fear into Wall Street. They absolutely loathe her John Wick approach to antitrust cases.
She’s brilliant and unyielding.
Great pick!
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If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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Cuomo, the man who resigned in disgrace after a state attorney general’s report found that he had sexually harassed nearly a dozen women, was asked if he had any regrets.
He said he regretted not being better at social media.
He said he regretted not being better at social media.
Zohran Mamdani drags the Democratic Party into the future
This was a local race with national implications, whether the party's leaders liked it or not.
www.motherjones.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Cuomo, the man who resigned in disgrace after a state attorney general’s report found that he had sexually harassed nearly a dozen women, was asked if he had any regrets.
He said he regretted not being better at social media.
He said he regretted not being better at social media.
So powerful. Read the responses and where folks are from. I hope @housedemocrats.bsky.social are taking notice.
What are three policy proposals that you heard from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social during his campaign & where do you currently live? [I want to see something/ I allowed QP on this]
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
So powerful. Read the responses and where folks are from. I hope @housedemocrats.bsky.social are taking notice.
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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
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And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
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YASSSS 👇
It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time
billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...
Climate Gates
Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything
billmckibben.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
YASSSS 👇
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Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”
Come New York, show up! You know what to do 💪
Let’s elect us the best mayor and work with that mayor to make the city and everyone in it thrive.
#Mamdani #NYCvotes
Let’s elect us the best mayor and work with that mayor to make the city and everyone in it thrive.
#Mamdani #NYCvotes
Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.
As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.
Tomorrow, we win it together.
As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.
Tomorrow, we win it together.
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Nothing so healing as a trek through the high alpine landscape, where the monochrome of snow-clad mountain slopes is interrupted by the fiery orange of turning larch trees.
I never expected that one day I will embrace the arduous high mountain hiking. It’s sweat, tears, and absolute happiness.
I never expected that one day I will embrace the arduous high mountain hiking. It’s sweat, tears, and absolute happiness.
November 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Nothing so healing as a trek through the high alpine landscape, where the monochrome of snow-clad mountain slopes is interrupted by the fiery orange of turning larch trees.
I never expected that one day I will embrace the arduous high mountain hiking. It’s sweat, tears, and absolute happiness.
I never expected that one day I will embrace the arduous high mountain hiking. It’s sweat, tears, and absolute happiness.
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
As an immigrant three times over, I couldn’t agree more.
Even if I say so myself, I contributed to every community I ever lived in, in more ways than one, and each community shared its gifts with me generously as well. We are richer together.
Even if I say so myself, I contributed to every community I ever lived in, in more ways than one, and each community shared its gifts with me generously as well. We are richer together.
October 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
As an immigrant three times over, I couldn’t agree more.
Even if I say so myself, I contributed to every community I ever lived in, in more ways than one, and each community shared its gifts with me generously as well. We are richer together.
Even if I say so myself, I contributed to every community I ever lived in, in more ways than one, and each community shared its gifts with me generously as well. We are richer together.
This made me smile. What an artful and witty capture.
New York City, 1974 | Elliott Erwitt
Gelatin silver print
Gelatin silver print
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This made me smile. What an artful and witty capture.
A question I ask myself everyday: if you are born in a country of stunning natural beauty, do you ever get used to it to the point of taking it for granted?
I am new here and gasp every time I see the peaks behind the most mundane of cityscapes.
I am new here and gasp every time I see the peaks behind the most mundane of cityscapes.
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A question I ask myself everyday: if you are born in a country of stunning natural beauty, do you ever get used to it to the point of taking it for granted?
I am new here and gasp every time I see the peaks behind the most mundane of cityscapes.
I am new here and gasp every time I see the peaks behind the most mundane of cityscapes.
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The Rapid Support Forces in Sudan are massacring civilians.
They're armed by the United Arab Emirates - a key Western ally.
This is yet more genocidal mayhem armed and facilitated by the West.
They're armed by the United Arab Emirates - a key Western ally.
This is yet more genocidal mayhem armed and facilitated by the West.
October 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Rapid Support Forces in Sudan are massacring civilians.
They're armed by the United Arab Emirates - a key Western ally.
This is yet more genocidal mayhem armed and facilitated by the West.
They're armed by the United Arab Emirates - a key Western ally.
This is yet more genocidal mayhem armed and facilitated by the West.
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This is so crazy; expensive; inhumane; maniacal; Trumpian.
ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties.
Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan.
Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.
Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan.
Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is so crazy; expensive; inhumane; maniacal; Trumpian.
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70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.
I am at 52% and I cannot put it down. Deeply researched and so well written. I love it when a book keeps me up at night, when it’s “just one more page” until an accidentally look at the clock tells me it’s past midnight on a school night.
@juliaioffe.bsky.social what a great gift to us readers!
@juliaioffe.bsky.social what a great gift to us readers!
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I am at 52% and I cannot put it down. Deeply researched and so well written. I love it when a book keeps me up at night, when it’s “just one more page” until an accidentally look at the clock tells me it’s past midnight on a school night.
@juliaioffe.bsky.social what a great gift to us readers!
@juliaioffe.bsky.social what a great gift to us readers!