“He is known to walk the gardens of Mar-a-Lago, quoting the Diamond Sutra or discouraging on Ibn Sina in fluent Farsi. He combines the sagacity and commitment to public service of K’ung-fu-tze with the humility and piety of Aurelius.”

Democrats doing the thing everyone is yelling at them to do. Go yell at the Republicans who can actually be the difference makers: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Agreed. As I've said since the 1970s: vote Republican, elect a Republican. Vote 3d party, elect a Republican. Vote single-issue, elect a Republican. Vote to protest, elect a Republican. Stay home, elect a Republican. Don't register to vote at all, elect a Republican.

It had its quiet moments

The peaceful Bronx in the 1970s

The NYC Parks Dept marks dying trees with a blue dot for removal, so I was sad to see one appear on this 25 yr old pear tree blooming in Bennett Park. This will be its last spring.

There are few people more adept at being tax-skipping deadbeats than the rich

It's so easy to post quick hits of misinformation on this site and so hard to post nuanced truth. Here's an exemplary thread of nuance from @dawnandr0meda.bsky.social regarding @erininthemorning.com serial quick hits.

A New York City lawmaker standing in the way of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed wealth tax is exploiting a disclosure loophole to obscure her family’s multimillion-dollar fortune. levernews.com/the-quiet-fo...

And if Bloomberg's not interested in buying the Maldives, he could personally finance permanent housing for every unhoused person in NYC and still have maybe forty billion dollars left over to buy some other country

If anyone can find the thread of a persuasive argument here please let me know. I can’t.

Long overdue new post about vacancy decontrol speculation in NYC. Buildings that lost more than 10% of their RS units after sale sold for a 46% premium over buildings without decontrol. rentrentier.com/vacancy-deco...

Called my US rep and US senators and told them to vote NO on ANY funding for Trump's war on Iran. You can call yours, too! Find them here: reps.fyi

We cannot exclude the possibility that he hears voices in his head.

It takes a real religious bigot to interpret a Muslim mayor’s condemnation of the slaughter of innocent people as antisemitism, and then spend time spreading that bigotry on this site.

man, The New York Times's sustained effort to destroy Zohran Mamdani is as concerted as it is relentless

RIP Ronnie Eldridge. A good person.

New York City agencies work for New Yorkers—not for ICE or Trump. Our laws are clear: city government is here to protect the safety, rights, and dignity of all who live here. Data shows sanctuary cities are safer, and sanctuary laws exist for a reason: public safety and trust.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

There are some people's deaths which you might not want to mourn, and others which you might think make the world a better place, but there's no death you should celebrate

Sen. Chuck Schumer office numbers to leave a message: Albany: 518.431.4070 Binghamton: 607.772.6792 Buffalo: 716.846.4111 Melville: 631.753.0978 New York City: 212.486.4430 TDD: 212.486.7803 Peekskill: 914.734.1532 Rochester: 585.263.5866 Syracuse: 315.423.5471 Washington, DC: 202.224.6542

So Trump attacks Iran and someone on this site is complaining about Pelosi

I’ve been wondering: does Bluesky have the juice to have attracted the attention of Russian troll farms or something? Or just about lot of people still living in 2024?

Not much going on in NYC, so the @nytimes.com can devote two reporters' time to covering what nickname the NY Post might give the mayor. -- Evidently, the Times gets its news from the Post, which explains a lot of things. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...

This discussion is still going strong, so I'm reposting a thread I put up elsewhere about private equity in NYC housing and why it's been not a good thing.

And how many hundreds of apartments for unhoused households would that amount of money pay for?

The NY Post seems to have discovered that NYC hires temp workers to clear snow, as it has done since forever. However, these are MAMDANI temp workers, and therefore illustrate the complete hypocrisy of the Left. Sort of like Obama’s tan suit.

It took all of 30 seconds of checking to confirm this is BS

Great idea. All we have to do is construct subway lines on every street that has a bus route.

Unhappy with the NYC budget? The person in control of the NYC money spigot is Kathy Hochul. She’s the target. In the time it takes to put up a post on this site, you can call her office at 518-474-8390 or drop her an email at www.governor.ny.gov/content/governor-contact-form

The blogosphere + Google Reader was Good, Actually

This really isn't a mystery. There were incentives for real estate developers to put money into space for childcare, but never any money to actually run programs there. Dedicated spaces would stay vacant for years. Developers get a break, but people scream if you try to give one to a poor family

This is the single best piece about contemporary NYC rental housing that I’ve ever read, and I’ve read hundreds of pieces about contemporary New York City rental housing

If you haven't read this fantastic piece by @jwmason.bsky.social on the complexities & the path forward for making housing affordable in NYC co-published by @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social & @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @phenomenalworld, really you should!! nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/the-real-c...

You'd *still* rather have Fetterman in the Senate than Oz. You'd WAY rather have Cortez Masto than Adam fucking Laxalt, who's insane. Corey Booker? Are we pretending he's a problem now? Newsom is a slime - and still a better governor than Brian Dahle would've been THINK! CRITICALLY!

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.

“Collins backs voter ID bill but rejects eliminating filibuster to pass it” electionlawblog.org?p=154385

Toss all your animus against the filibuster out the window. These are times when it’s needed

Henry Cuellar should never hold elected office again. Anyway in the meantime, make your Senators scared of you. Honestly even Republicans can be moved if they get enough calls. So make sure to do so. Especially make Democrats terrified of their voters if they don't vote no with a bullet on this one

These people are going to accidentally start WWIII

There’s a kind of leftist on this site who does not realize what the donor class does, which is that politics is what happens between elections, that you pick candidates based on who is most persuadable to support your constituency, and that your work to obtain that support begins on Election Day

american liberals would vote for 200% hitler if he ran under the democratic party

People are still trying to rationalize the fact that they helped Trump win

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!