Dylan Flesch

We must unlearn the deception that public funds "come from" taxes. The truth is that taxes are public collections of private funds created by private banks using credit that they were granted BY THE PUBLIC. To demand full funding of all basic needs, organized majorities must understand this fact.

We’re excited to introduce our new Executive Director, Zachary Hendrickson! 💫 Zach comes from City Parks Foundation where he put millions of dollars into the hands of grassroots orgs through the NYC Green Fund. Together we’re going to deliver a safer, more affordable city for everyone.

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

Detroit's proposed $251 million spending plan includes $8.7 million to restore school libraries www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2026...

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

The Landscape of Prison Censorship in an Era of Increased Book Bans During the last five years, school and public library book bans have been on the rise. But prison censorship continues to rise, too. bookriot.com/prison-censo...

The full zine shows how library spending compares at several locations across the USA. For NYC, do you know how our funding stacks up? See a few snapshots from this amazing resource below:

Budgets represent our values, and crumbs are not enough for our public goods. Our friends at For The People have asked - what would it look like to fund public libraries the way we fund police depts? How would that transform our city? See the full zine: www.librariesforthepeople.org/snapshots

Children's content creator and YouTuber Ms. Rachel donated $3,000 to a GoFundMe for a young boy whose family's experience at a Connecticut library sparked attention on social media. on.nbcboston.com/P5BmYw7

I think one of the best aspects of this story is just how *average* the cop is. This is pretty much what most cops are like. They believe they are doing a good job.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis). Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...

For those in NYC, the Soft Power Voter guide dropped yesterday. Interesting to see what they said about prop #3. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Today's the day: the NYC Council will vote on the Community to Purchase Act—and this time, it'll have a mayor who'll sign it. CLTs and other nonprofits will get the first chance to buy over 3,000 buildings, thereby making them permanently affordable. #ShareGoodNewsToo citylimits.org/opinion-pass...

The analysis also explored how the money could potentially be spent elsewhere, on education, healthcare, and benefits.

I really appreciate all the expansive thinking and ideas for how to move forward at the local level. Let’s collectively “repudiate the fatal premise that revenue is the primordial origin of human capacity.”!

The dept. claimed the vehicle helped “locate foster children who have been victims of sex trafficking… Lawmakers questioned why nearly $1 million was spent on mobile surveillance while foster children face shortages in trauma therapy, caseworker support and basic transportation for family visits.”

Prisons and jails ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined.

30 Women and 1 Man: A Brief History of the Library School at NYPL (1911-1926). $45/year for locals. 📚 www.nypl.org/blog/2025/04...

The person who made this great development happen was CHARLES BARRON, 1 of just 3 Council members in the past decade who understood the power each Council member had to demand affordable housing from developers. Barron's approach was the opposite of that taken by Z and most Council members today.

NYPD keeps doing what it's doing because there's never been an organized voting majority that can instill more fear in City Hall than the police. Constructing such a majority is the governing-power Left's responsibility; until our orgs undertake it, the city will never be safe—let alone affordable.

Between 2019 and 2023, police misconduct cost New Yorkers $427 million. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social must break with the policing tactics tolerated by past administrations and show it's possible to enforce laws without singling out Black and Hispanic men. amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/10...

I'd love to see progress towards either or both of these visions, but for our public libraries in NYC. We should have regular library users (rather than exclusively millionaires) on our public library boards of trustees. But I also believe in a bigger vision, which we could start tomorrow...

Grateful for Johanna Fernández and her radical history of the Young Lords. Thinking about the East Harlem Health Council's 10 Point Health Program and specifically the "lay health advisory boards" and community-worker control. She described a couple different visions for these boards from the time:

“With banking, hiding the plasticity & infinitude of money is a genre that limits the public demands we might make of the monetary medium.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social

Any definition of a “great economy” that is compatible with higher education and libraries being gutted is unserious

The goal: to catalyze the next phase of the public banking movement at a moment when questions of economic justice and democratic resilience are reshaping the national conversation.

Thanks to @currentaffairs.bsky.social for letting me put pen to paper here, and to the local organizers who stood up for their communities. www.currentaffairs.org/news/no-king...

How? If you vote on the Working Families Party line! Join this training Tuesday night to help mobilize people to vote @nywfp.bsky.social:

As someone who understands governments' current flaws all too well, I would NEVER tell anyone that "you must vote." But for New Yorkers ALREADY planning to vote, I ask that you vote for ✨Kathy Hochul on the Working Families Party line.✨ Here's how doing so will help build Left governing power. 🧵

Time flies when the Left is making historic moves! Early voting starts in NINE DAYS, NYers – and to help you navigate your ballot, we’ve launched our updated voter guide just for you! Read more about the candidates & ballot measures on your ballot, and make your plan to vote: jfrej.org/ballot

The NYC Department of Correction’s record-high overtime costs cannot become the norm. In FY26, overtime hit $358.9M, an increase of 140% since FY20. Our office has launched a new feature on the DOC Dashboard to track overtime spending & bring greater transparency to DOC’s escalating overtime costs.

You don’t want late night libraries you want union halls