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  The Invisible Womxn The New York Women’s Foundation launched The Invisible Womxn: Creating a Climate-Resilient New York City that Centers Gender Equity, a report exploring how the climate crisis disproportionately affects women and gender-expansive people of color in New York City. Commissioned by The New York Women’s Foundation in 2025, the report was written by urban sociologist Tiasia Obrien-Shah. It draws on field visits, focus groups, and interviews with a gender- and racially inclusive cohort across the city. The research highlights how climate-vulnerable workers are often overlooked in the data systems that shape climate policy and funding. At the same time, it documents the critical role that community-led organizations in Environmental Justice neighborhoods play in advancing climate resilience. “You cannot solve compounding harm with single issue policy,” said Tiasia Obrien-Shah, author of the report, “You need spatial intelligence, You need to understand place, people, ...

Michael Bloomberg on a possible 2020 run as a Democrat “The Republicans did not exercise the check and balance on the White House that the Constitution calls for,” Bloomberg says. He says he doesn't regret not running for president in 2016, but he says he could possibly run in 2020: "I've looked at it and I've said we'll, beginning of the year, focus on it." "What I have asked for, and most of my friends have asked for are background checks," Bloomberg says of gun control. "We shouldn't be selling guns to minors, to people with psychiatric problems or people with criminal records. Other than that, the Second Amendment gives you the right to own weapons and there's nothing wrong with that. It's the Constitution — we're not going to change it." Bloomberg On Climate Change -- The former NYC mayor reacts to the White House saying climate change report isn't based on fact: "When you ... see the...