The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Made it onto the paper of record!

I wish for the proper procedures of federal law to be carried out regarding the president.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

Menin has completely failed the “would your reaction have been as weak if Paladino had said ‘Jews,’ ‘Hispanics’ or ‘Black people’ instead?” test. It’s disqualifying really.

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

Congressman Henry Cuellar was indicted for money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy, allegedly taking about $600,000, mostly from Azerbaijan, to influence U.S. policy. President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.

This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.

I think it's shameful that during a second Trump administration, and after NYC voters rejected a return to moderate, conciliatory governance, that a Democrat would tout the entirety of the Council's Republican caucus as her supporters.

Parts of this almost meet the standard of being newsworthy (the president is saying it; the thing he’s saying is that the opposition should be killed). However we must remember that there is a key countervailing fact (the president is Donald Trump, and he’s just a big ol’ joker, you silly goose).

a lot of poor urban governance is because local politicians and powerful stakeholders like unions are simply incapable of grasping the concept of second-order effects of any policy (in this case, a ton of 99 unit affordable housing projects)

let's take a moment to appreciate what this goofy city council mailer is really saying: we can't get transit upgrades, parks, school upgrades etc unless a condo developer is involved.

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

This to me is the game. I don’t care if Schumer doesn’t like Mamdani, but for him to stand silently by while sex pest Cuomo leans into gutter racism and Islamophobia while accepting endorsements from Trump, Musk and Miller is outrageous from the Senate Minority Leader.

As you prepare to vote, NYC, please read my op-ed about the importance of NYC voting yes on questions 2 through 5: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/fli... These changes aren’t about the needs of politicians. They’re about the needs of New Yorkers. /1

@drichardsqns.bsky.social is right and the council is being duplicitous: Props 2-5 are the housing reforms we need, and the public will still have a voice. Vote yes. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/17/w...

shout out to the “Hot Girls 4 Zohran” page for a great ballot question explainer and endorsement of voting YES on ballot measures 2-4

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Another year, another NYC Mayoral costume! This was by far the most I've ever been stopped on the street or had people recognize my costume. So many "do you ride cabs?" "do you smoke cannabis?" and "who likes to slap fannies and kill grannies?" Make sure to go to findmypollsite.vote.nyc and vote!

So who’s the hater and who’s the waiter?

This is reprehensible. It's blatant Islamophobia that is an afront to NYC's entire Muslim community. This hatred has no place in our city, our politics, or our party.

it’s honestly crazy how the New York City council, at the behest of speaker Adrienne Adams, is illegally spending millions of your taxpayer dollars on an unhinged NIMBY propaganda campaign if you live in NYC vote YES on measures 2-5 to make it easier to build affordable housing

my kink. getting my mouth taped shut by Vickie Paladino and Bob Holden when I try to build affordable housing in Queens

Gross that Council is spending public money on illegal electioneering. Ballot proposals 2-4 push every neighborhood to add new affordable housing, and I'm disgusted to see Council waste money breaking the law instead of ensuring New Yorkers have the housing we desperately need.

Fuck this executive overreach. It's a BUS WAY. Calm tf down. The DOT should not give into this pressure. Just ignore it and it'll go away, a la the congestion pricing threats.

We're in an unprecedented housing shortage. We need more affordable housing in every neighborhood of NYC. If you're not voting for Curtis Sliwa, you should vote @YesOnAffHousing.bsky.social Props 2-5!

You couldn't ask for a better endorsement of Ballot Props 2-5 than Sliwa going on an unhinged rant about them. Is Adrienne Adams still sure she wants to hitch her wagon to that sinking ship?

Not a really tough choice on the ballot propositions... Vote YES on 2-5! I do not want to be aligned with the Republican Candidate, Curtis Sliwa, and neither should you!

Perfection.

Finally. Hopefully the city can do the sidewalk extensions in concrete rather than paint and planters. The planters usually end up hogging all of the added pedestrian space. bsky.app/profile/vinb...

This is so easy and sensible. Somehow @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social will find reasons not to even try. Why would they want to get Republicans on record in support of racial profiling?

This is undemocratic and brazenly illegal. This Board of Elections coup could deny NYC voters the chance to help end our housing crisis.

This would be an outrageous abuse of the Board of Elections role in order to override the democratic process.

Here you have a developer arguing against a broad upzoning. Politically connected and deep-pocketed developers actually benefit from strict zoning, because it puts up barriers to competition for small fry who could compete with them. YIMBY is anti-monopoly.

"The worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery." This is a good answer in a great interview that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social gave the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

A devastating crash in Astoria has left three people dead. I'm heartbroken for the victims and their loved ones. We can't normalize this. It's time to commit to streets that are safe for everyone.

Enough with the goddamn horses. Ban this.

Begging you to just build more housing

The same pattern showed up in NYC. This stuff works! But a lot of places still affirmatively ban speed cameras. We just don't want to stop speeding as a culture, regardless of how many traffic deaths we end up with.

if bike lanes are not major transportation projects then i look forward to the mamdani DOT installing lanes without a single community input meeting

Mamdani: "[Congestion pricing] is an opportunity to reshape the streetscape of the central business district of Manhattan. We have an opportunity here to do immense amounts of pedestrianization for the entire congestion pricing zone..."

The Brooklyn Heights Promenade is closing at 2pm, so I figured I'd be fine to bike the bridge at 11:30am.... I guess not...

new york should install a series of Eric Adams Zoltar machines that spit out Eric Adams-isms like “go to sleep with the boys and wake up with the men”

Seems like we really ought to make it easier to build housing ASAP so more families can afford to have Americans in California

I get the point but also