Drink from the #CupOfJoe that @warnock.senate.gov consistently serves. If you haven’t already contacted @schumer.senate.gov & told him to get his Dems in line, do it now. Call your Senators, D or R! Use your voice! Vote NO ON more ICE funding. 📞 202-224-3121 #DefundICE

New York City looking north up the Hudson

When I organized tenants to buy out their building, its slumlord owner could never imagine I wasn’t doing it for myself, or at least taking a cut. They project their evil motivations onto everyone else.

New Yorkers, please contact Sen. Schumer to demand ICE be fully defunded Call 202-224-3121 (Capitol switchboard), ask to be connected to Schumer. If no one answers, leave a VM. If mailbox is full, try this number: 212-486-4430 Use script below if it helps! Let's get #IceOutForGood

The DHS funding bill can’t pass the Senate without Democratic votes. We must flood Senate Democrats’ offices with calls and force them to use their leverage to rein in ICE. Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... Or send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

@democrats.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov NO MORE of OUR tax dollars for ICE! SHUT IT DOWN!

New York City

The words “make no law” must mean something different in Kacsmaryk’s head from what it actually means

No room for both-sider-ism, say Bluesky critics of Trump and Walz

RT this with your home river? Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present...the Los Angeles River! Don't all applaud at once!

The best use of this site isn't shaking your fist at a cloud, it's doing what this post is doing -- encouraging people to take a specific, concrete action to move people on a specific issue.

Very few press conferences by senators or governors ever appear on TV

Mr Kristof should ... well, first, get off X. But second, he should have a word with his publisher.

To place this in a perspective: these are more nurses than there are coal miners in West Virginia, and the work the nurses do has a far greater impact

It's like a Bizarro World version of Norman Rockwell's painting of six-year-old Ruby Bridges getting escorted past racists by federal marshals.

To place this in a perspective: these are more nurses than there are coal miners in West Virginia, and the work the nurses do has a far greater impact

If he wanted to stop hateful rhetoric he’d begin with his own and invite people of all nations to come and contribute to our country and to our communities

NYC landlords have what they need to defend their interests. It’s called money.

This is one of the most cost effective ways to promote economic growth

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

Um, that’s not what the law says

There is a certain lack of self awareness in posting a strongly worded statement on this site complaining about some Democratic senator’s strongly worded letter

People might not appreciate how revolutionary it is for a mayor to order NYC’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development to listen to tenants. Previously the only way to get it to listen was to literally sue it and it responded with all the grace you’d expect of an agency being sued

The NYC trade association for those most responsible for absurd housing costs - landlords - bemoans the lack of more opportunities to overcharge tenants (Alternate reading: direct public development of affordable housing would be more efficient than subsidizing the private sector developments)

You don't have to give a big speech. They're counting numbers - seeing how many constituents care enough to call in. Just tell them to impeach for this illegal war. Also, make sure you only call YOUR reps - they don't care about out-of-district calls. You can do this. It'll just take a minute. 💪

Thanks to Pataki and Andrew Cuomo rent laws, Pinnacle and other large investors scarfed up hundreds of NYC buildings with financing based on the premise that they could rid themselves of all their tenants and jack up rents on the vacant units. Thousands of families lost their homes in the process.

Something comes to mind about patriotism, last refuges, and scoundrels

The meaning of e pluribus unum escapes some people

I assume it must be pretty true across the board now at @nytimes that instead of reporting the news they’re just confirming their prejudices

Any real New Yorker recognizes any other person to be a real New Yorker if that person 1) was born in New York, 2) was raised in New York, or 3) stepped onto a New York sidewalk and said “wow” #NYC

Congratulations to Duffy for accidently using the phrase "begs the question" correctly.

Doesn’t what someone stands for mean anything anymore?

We should set up tollbooths on the sidewalks so billionaires can’t use them for free

I’d like to know where Republicans are doing their shopping

Here's the easy lookup link: www.congress.gov/members/find... All you need to do, is call the GOP and complain. Are your costs about to go up? Are you angry about cost of living? Mad they're not improving things in your state? Mad they chose ego over the health of Americans? It's your time.

Future historians will understand that the key factor in the slide to authoritarianism was the total collapse of the GOP as a pro-democracy party, & the total failure of its not-actually "moderate" & "pro-democracy" rump minority to ally with Democrats & put an end to fascism. But sure, Murc's Law.

So they really are planning to destroy any vestiges of civil society outside of their orbit. It’s time to dust off the word “totalitarian”

The @nytimes.com discovers the law of the excluded middle

Fire Island lighthouse

To be fair, this is a pretty good summary of the current thinking of six Supreme Court justices and of the majority party in Congress

We shouldn’t have to remind ourselves that you can’t just go around killing people

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The @nytimes.com has discovered the limited equity co-op. They could have found them in the Bronx but that would have meant sending a reporter there instead of Lausanne

Out of respect for reality and our wellbeing, we probably need way less talk about what “Democrats” should do and way more talk about what “we” can do. We’re not going to look back and wish we complained about Democratic leadership more, especially when we’re clear enough to get why they’re stunted.

Just talk like normal people, for Christ’s sake. If you’re thinking about it, you’re already overthinking it. Stop looking over your shoulder for the hall monitor and just speak from the heart.

People are thinking in easy tropes -- Obama had a supermajority! Get rid of the filibuster! Biden gave up! -- and they're drawing facile conclusions from them, rather than looking at the complexities behind them and learning from those complexities.

Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!

Anytime Cuomo's opened his mouth about housing in this campaign, it's been word-salad double talk. (That's true about any topic he's discussed, actually.) It has the virtue, though, that if you know nothing about what he's talking about, you don't realize he knows even less

Disgrace. Now and forever.

Landlords constantly frame rent stabilization as a program for the poor that the rich take advantage of. Its real purpose is to protect all tenants from the shock of sudden high rent increases, in the same way homeowners with variable rate mortgages are protected by caps on interest rate increases.