What is supposed to be accomplished at this meeting? The Supreme Court just ruled that Trump (the most notorious liar in history) can ignore whatever they agree to.

Trump’s masked gestapo just shoved a Common Defense member and Air Force veteran to the ground and arrested him for peacefully protesting in Illinois. The lawlessness of this regime must end — and he must be released immediately!

Great. Now, when they find a way to make me buy Mass Effect for the 4th time, Cortez will be gone...

This is not remotely true. In 2021 NYC proposed building a homeless shelter in an empty lot across the street from my home. I and dozens of neighbors supported it, as did our local Community Board. The opponents were commercial landlords who owned adjacent properties. The shelter never got built.

Look, I don't think it's good that we can't make fun of the world's biggest dead pedophile because he was friends with the president. So we kept going. We called every independent theatre we knew in major metro areas to see if they wanted to air Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. Most said yes.

“Palm Beach in the 90s was a different time” is a confession.

TREATED AND 'STREETED': "The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net amounts to a badly frayed patchwork of systems that still cannot reliably get New Yorkers in psychiatric crisis from subway platforms to hospital beds, a Streetsblog investigation has found." - nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/23/t...

Such cowards. They want to be live in a dictatorship so badly and the moment they get a little pushback they run and hide.

Viva no Vegas! A key committee has voted down the third and final casino proposed in Manhattan. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/22/f...

It goes without saying by now, but these are forms of discrimination that have been upheld as FHA violations since immediately after the passage of the Act and which have specific textual grounding. They simply oppose fair housing and don't want to enforce it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Much this conversation around e-bikes and e-vehicles focuses on individual actions and infractions," said @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social "And one of the things that I will do is focus on the systemic drivers of this chaotic streetscape, one of them being the app companies."

I’ve been saying forever that the federal government should condition HUD money on pro-housing reforms. Now the Trump administration is doing it but with anti-housing reforms.

On top of everything, the fascistic tendencies, the cruelty, the tackiness… it’s important to remember these losers are also tremendous dorks.

SCOOP: The Trump administration has installed a new acting director of the Census Bureau, @npr.org has learned. George Cook takes over the federal government’s largest statistical agency after it's been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count

if I were a member of the current Trump administration I would not be excited about the concept of “illegal pardons”

Don't let the door hit you, man. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

New paper in the Journal of Politics uses data from Berlin to evaluate how renters feel about new development after the implementation of rent control. Researchers find that rent control results in renters being more willing to accept new construction in their neighborhood + more immigration.

I gotta give them props, the opening to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was pretty good. 👇

So you're saying having a bunch of drugged up teenagers ask ChatGPT whom to fire did not produce optimal staffing decisions? Huh. Honestly, I hope these guys enjoyed their paid summer off. Elon should have to reimburse the taxpayers for the cost. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

kinda wild that there were four years in power to safeguard against all of this happening and the threat was seen as defeated not imminent

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

We went from "I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free" to "we are going to have to live here with each other" in 167 years.

He has three sons

This is one of the more wildly corrupt things I've ever seen and also very funny that they think people are just gonna be cool with switching.

Yeah I mean for instance one difference is kings have "courts" that are filled with sycophants and yes-men instead of impartial jurists who apply the law as it's written.

It isn’t the American people she should be directing this at, it is just six very specific Americans she should be directing this at

📢 Big News! We’re calling on all New Yorkers: flip your ballot this November and VOTE YES on all 6 ballot questions! These reforms will boost voter turnout, strengthen democracy, and tackle NYC’s housing crisis.

RIP Robert Redford, everyone should watch The Sting

Trump's one consistent political belief is in impunity for a certain type of elite criminal. It's the only thing that explains e.g. his pardon of Gov. Blagojevich. He sees himself in them. Not surprising why he thinks keeping a wanna be dictator out of prison is a US foreign policy priority.

Is that what's supposed to happen when the president attempts a coup after losing an election?

Today, the Center for Building published “Beyond Zoning” by John Zeanah, Memphis’s Chief of Development and Infrastructure. He chronicles the non-zoning barriers faced by Malone Commons, a low-rise multifam/mixed-use project, and how they worked through them www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/...

"There is no housing shortage, the wrong people are moving here" has always been a right wing talking point disconnected from reality and I really appreciate these weirdos embracing it so enthusiastically.

listen, when right-wing freaks straight up put in the newspaper that 20th century zoning and land use laws are meant to keep PoC and poor people out of their neighborhoods, believe them.

What is the transit best practice around announcements? I tend to assume that if the conductor is speaking into the microphone it means a service change and get annoyed when it's just "if you have an emergency, report it." Am I wrong that they shouldn't make announcements that aren't about service?

As many of you know, CPE’s work focuses on the public investment side of housing, energy, and other infrastructure. Our panel at the Abundance conference was appropriately titled “Finance: The Missing Pillar of Abundance?” The space was packed—standing room only.

It's kind of stunning how brazen they are that this is about setting a precedent for using military force against Americans and not actually anything to do with crime. "We're going to go someplace, but we're picking." The actual place doesn't matter.

Ross is doing debate-club politics here. We just went through 4 years of MAGA judges inventing fake laws to say Biden can't do the job of president, then saying Trump is king without bothering to explain why. The courts did not expand "executive authority" they expanded Republican Party authority.

He should have to disclose this as an in-kind donation to Mamdani.

Saying they’re unconstitutional but leaving them in place anyway pretty much sums up everything from the last 8 months

you mean "we're all going to die" wasn't polling well?

City Council stalls on proposed measure requiring gear and training, after Uber and DoorDash spend millions on this year’s elections. A draft of the amended bill shows what Councilmember Gale Brewe calls “stronger penalties for repeat violations.”

Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.

Literal actual cancel culture

You GOTTA read the indictment against Broadway Stages for bribing Ingrid Lewis-Martin: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/21/r...

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

You gotta assume that at least some of their motivation here is to intentionally mock the idea of refugees in general. www.latintimes.com/white-house-...