Increasing taxes on wealthy people in NYC may have the horrific consequence of improving the city they live in

It's genuinely funny that the city rebranded Midtown East as "east midtown" (rounded font)

remember all those hot takes during the primary about how Mamdani was the candidate for rich white liberals? a "champagne socialist" ? yeah, about that

EXCUSE ME, WHAT!? how is it even possible that good things are already happening

Just a normal guy who loves his city. It’s not about him. It’s about what he wants

This is, among many reasons, a good reason to be a paying subscriber to The Handbasket. This man promised to leave and should be held to it.

Sorry, still wrapping my head around something good happening after a full year of No Good, Only Bad

Give Zohran a nap! He needs it I think

IF YOU'RE IN LINE AT THE LIQUOR STORE, STAY IN LINE

They’ve all gone mad. Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”

ONE MILLION people in New York City are only staying here because they love Eric Adams so much?

"HOW WILL ZOHRAN PAY FOR FREE BUSES" screamed the Staten Islanders who have a free ferry

Untitled (flipped), by Marsden Hartley, early-mid 20th c, 📸 via @BlakeHHarris

as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism

it's so unintentionally funny for them to have never heard of "aunties"

All other points aside, there's so much rhetoric about NYC being too important and complicated to hand to anyone other than a Serious Adult like Cuomo, ignoring the fact that our current mayor is ERIC ADAMS

A house is not a home, by Rein Kooyman, 2025, 📸 via @mlbonfox

8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for baseball

Zohran Mamdani is so scary because he is planting the idea that you can tax billionaires and use the money to help people instead of debating what services to cut to pay for tax cuts. Which is literally why the US government is currently shut down. He is destroying decades of political messaging.

every debate question is like “zohran, you want to make life better for all new yorkers. number one, is that realistic? and two, are you fucking stupid?”

Heavens to Betsy Betsy to Heavens Heavens BACK to Betsy Betsy GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL

when was the last time you heard someone mention NFTs? gotta remember to savor these little things

Today I needed a bit of code, but instead of asking an LLM I tried writing it myself and wow, this could be a new paradigm

peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands? chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨ Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:

gm

My main complaint with this framing is that "experts" is commonly qualified as "SOME experts". Some experts say the Earth is round. I am a Serious Journalist who won't take sides. It's up to you to decide what I meant by it.

look at my opposition party bro

Remember when the old tower records in NYC was the "MLB Fan Cave"? Some MLB reporters worked from there. My favorite halal cart sometimes parked there. I @'d one of the reporters to ask if the lamb and rice guy was there, and he replied, "I don't know, I'm in St. Louis for the world series".

i'm pretty sure everyone who works at the nytimes thinks that what goes on at ivy leagues is Real Life and everything else is a distraction

“Either this machine will be powerful enough to take your job or it’ll blow up and you’ll lose your job in a recession” is a tough outlook for white collar workers over the next few years.

We don't need to single out NY here - I think we all can agree that it would be hilarious for a Canadian team to win the world series this year. I'm rooting for it now.

the financial district is too funny … tell me why every old office building has a name etched in stone like The Amalgamated Steamship, Corn Refining and Horse Insurance Co., 1888 and now it’s a WeWork with a salad place

I feel attacked

I'm so angry all the time now.

What is going on here buddy

big things are happening in the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

I feel like everyone except Johnathan Greenblatt saw this coming when these guys were openly doing "roman salutes" and the ADL defended them

I'm a single issue voter in that my single issue is that Andrew Cuomo should never hold public office ever again

Crash imminent

We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.

Well don't I feel stupid

This is why I didn't get raptured

yeah i dunno dude incrementalism starts to look real fuckin dumb when an opposition party can completely wipe away 50-75 years of progress in just a few months

amazing, the private sector re-invented petrodollar recycling

Almost as good as Croatian Eric Adams

Trump at the Charlie Kirk event has a professional wrestling entrance with pyrotechnics. For a funeral.

"expanding the tent" means "move to the right" 100% of the time If the "big tent" meant anything, it would be big enough to include the Democratic nominee for NYC