Non-tenure-track faculty have long been second-class citizens in academia. Now they're on the front lines of MAGA attacks on academic freedom and immigrants. In NYC, they're also grappling with an affordability crisis. It's time NYU delivers the @uawregion9a.bsky.social CFU a fair contract.

“The era of empty promises ends.” The mayor needs allies in Albany to secure his vision: ☑️ Universal childcare and healthcare ☑️ Lower energy bills and emissions ☑️ Better public transit ☑️ Affordable housing for all I’m running to be that ally—and deliver on those promises.

Ice out

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Washington Square Park used to be a parking lot. Then neighbors organized to change it. Today, homes that used to house working families are changing into mansions for billionaires. Change is inevitable—let's choose the kind that keeps our neighborhoods affordable and vibrant.

I’m incredibly proud to earn the endorsement of CUFFH Action. CUFFH has spent decades standing up for tenants and keeping New Yorkers in their homes. In the Assembly, I’ll be a relentless advocate for strong tenant protections, affordable housing, and putting people over profit.

“Please get the truth out about our son.”

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

If you can’t run against the fucking Gestapo, then get out of the way for those who can.

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

"You mean I might have to leave New York City?!" My niece Isla’s only 8, but she knows our playgrounds are at risk of becoming a playground for the super-rich. It doesn’t have to be this way. I’m running for Assembly to tackle the affordability crisis and fight for our future.

We are now 30 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files

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I’m running for Assembly in District 66! Why? Because I love New York more than anything—and that means fighting for its future. It’s time for leaders who aren’t just progressive, but aggressive. Not just resisting, but rebuilding. Not just demanding, but delivering.

i will never get over this rebecca tiffany quote: the goal of yimbyism is a world where "every trans eighteen-year-old who is stuck living with unsupportive family [is] able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space with transit on a minimum wage job." www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...

This is the current front page of the Times. The Washington Post is even worse. Their headlines are privileging the accounts of the administration with a track record of lying as being as valid as eye witness accounts and videos.

I can’t remember being angrier.

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

LFG

"bigger moves to rein in dangerous driving are necessary to eliminate the carnage on our streets, such as graduated parking and traffic violation fines that reward those who choose safer vehicles, and much stiffer penalties for recidivist speeders and red light runners" - new DOT commissioner Flynn

Hands Off NYC is a movement of tens of thousands of people & growing in neighborhoods all over the city: training people on their rights, sounding the alarm, connecting people to lawyers, bearing witness, (nonviolently) fighting back.    Join up: www.handsoffnyc.com

Speech has never been freer! Not performing for the president is now illegal.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

The point I wish got emphasized more is that the big winners from congestion pricing are *people who urgently need to drive*. Because they are ones that travel times really matter for. I always thought that instead of congestion pricing it should be called "free streets" - free from other cars.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Generations of renters have been left behind by the home shortage and skyrocketing costs we've inherited. Blue city and blue state electeds had better wake up and deliver results. If not, why would young people continue to have faith in Democrats—or democracy—as capable of solving problems?

This guy gets it

Anyone who tells you that mass deportations are a solution to the housing crisis is lying to you.

A bill like this is an affront to good transit planning. Rules like bus lane enforcement exist to keep transit riders—the clear majority of New Yorkers—moving. No neighborhood should have an exemption to transit rules.

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

Disgusting. We can be so much better than this.

Hilarious juxtaposition of belligerent rhetoric about “doing what we need to do” and what they actually did, which was unilaterally surrender, achieving nothing

This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.

feckless and stupid people play acting at political strategist when they should be denouncing a *substantively* corrupt move

The GOP’s coalition is holding on by a bare thread and when Trump is gone it will fall apart. Our task (and it’s not easy!) is to build a Democratic Party capable of picking up the pieces.

uh, holy shit? apnews.com/article/trum...

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

Subvert democracy. Face legal consequences. Get pardoned by the subverter-in-chief. Rinse, repeat.

Any deal that counts on GOP being good faith partners in governance misunderstands the modern Republican Party. Idiotic and out of touch!

We need leaders who will unceasingly fight for our futures—and against fascism. Too many of the old guard won't; it's time for a new generation.

Tim Kaine saw Dems win by generational margins in his home state just a few days ago and then decided to cave to the fascists. fucking insane. primary him tomorrow

Am out w a non-online more-moderate normie, and when I mentioned that Schumer may be caving his reply was almost unprintable. Even that random Long Island couple that lives in Chuck’s head think he should hold the damn line. What is wrong with these people?

yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.

NEW. Powerful piece by Miles Bruner. "I know the thought of walking away from your career and your social network is terrifying...I urge you to recognize that our nation is heading down a very dark path. But it’s not too late to change direction...Take a stand." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The media’s overriding concern is not being accused of bias by the right, which means all coverage is framed around granting the right the maximum benefit of the doubt, however implausible. Such that sewage becomes “a brown liquid” until other possibilities are ruled out. Maybe it’s cake batter!