Mom Casually Mentions Her Bunco Group Threw Molotov Cocktails At ICE Last Week https://theonion.com/mom-casually-mentions-her-bunco-group-threw-molotov-cocktails-at-ice-last-week/

The corrupt leaders of the Brooklyn Democratic Party are used to running unopposed for reelection. But this June, they're facing the very real possibility of being swept away at the ballot box, and apparently it's making them so desperate that their minions are resorting to violence:

Don’t mess with the Rules Committee! Listen to Janice & Gina, vote for Akel and Nakisha!

A strong Brooklyn Democratic Party would encourage grassroots participation and empower dedicated volunteers like these County Committee members, not push them aside. Let's elect the Brooklyn Can't Wait slate and build the party we deserve.

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Free Speech Champion(tm) Bari Weiss demanding CBS News smear an American executed by her government for protesting bsky.app/profile/elio...

I appreciate @agounardes.bsky.social standing strong as the ONLY Dem in the entire New York State legislature to do the right thing and vote against enshrining operational inefficiency on the NYC Subway by banning OPTO expansion. If this bill becomes law, it’ll make IBX significantly less useful

AS THE SEDDIO TURNS: On Wednesday afternoon, Frank Seddio took this "it wasn't me" defense one remarkable step further: He claimed that someone else had repeatedly filed legal paperwork using his login credentials without Seddio's knowledge.

Subway mess turned into running into someone I haven't seen in like four years on the platform and we ended up walking across the bridge and caught up as we got back to Brooklyn. Even when New York doesn't work, it still works.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

We're going to declare war on things like Twinkies (again) to achieve some untenable "wellness" goal when we still live in a country where someone will avoid going to the doctor to get checked for diabetes until their foot falls off because healthcare is so expensive. Stupid stupid stupid.

the supposedly "originalist" unitary executive theory has led us to a point where the president is claiming the sovereign authority to force all institutions, public or private, to bend to his will or suffer the consequences www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

The companies selling legal and safe e-bikes need to be much more vocal about this, otherwise pedal-assist bikes that top out at, say, 18 mph are either going get swept up in a broad ban of all e-thingies or find themselves subject to licensing and registration, which would be a de facto ban.

Reporters @thecity.nyc spent months acquiring & analyzing every habeas petition filed by immigrants around NYC We identified 430 street arrests, far outnumbering courthouse arrests 93% targeted Latinos Latinos make up 66% of the undocumented population projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a...

I see your Jake Auchinloss is a piece of shit and raise you a Melissa DeRosa. Guess you don't care about abortion rights, or democracy, or immigration. Just horrible people. And I say this as somebody who thinks we need to moderate on certain issues to win votes!

this is a good spot and also kudos to whoever is doing sound for the team, talarico's voice sounds great

This is why it is so so so important that everyone, especially those of us who are “safe,” learn how to look out for ICE, how to warn people responsibly, and how to delay them as much as possible. The less these abductions happen in a vacuum the less lives will be ruined.

My colleagues @rosalindadams.bsky.social @haidee.bsky.social and I at @thecity.nyc spent the past several months tracking hundreds of ICE street arrests across the region through federal court records..🧵🧵 projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a....

What if taxing the rich works?

Some of us who are at this court in NYC constantly witnessed this on Friday and were trying to make sense of it. Just a judge reading off a list of 70 names and saying “dismissed, dismissed, dismissed.” It didn’t make sense but now I know why. They just keep making up new rules to hurt people.

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

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Troopers in a rogue NY State Police unit based in the city routinely blew off their supposed duties of patrolling MTA bridges and tunnels to listen to music, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault.

turnout numbers from the GA primary 1,079,721 D 933,052 R that's a 7-point Dem advantage (53.5-46.5) while Dems failed to leverage this into non-partisan judicial election victories, this certainly looks like the blue wave kind of stuff the polls have been showing www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

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this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

there are moderate Democrats who want Democrats to win elections and govern, and there are moderate Democrats who want Democrats to lose this is wrecker behavior

The driver was going 108 miles per hour. On the Upper West Side. Cars should literally not be allowed to go that fast. pix11.com/news/suspect...

We’ll win a new Brooklyn Democratic Party on June 23 if we talk with voters starting TODAY. 2 canvasses at noon: #1: Sandy Nurse & Alan Gamboa w/ Christian in Bushwick: act.cct4nyc.com/canvassing-f...

Brooklynites, please spread the word: The leaders of our local Democratic Party care more about holding up their own corrupt schemes and disenfranchising you, the voter, than they do about beating Republicans. But this June, you can vote to change the party's leadership: brooklyncantwait.com

"I was eventually called to testify. While her colleagues were in Albany negotiating the budget, the Party Chair and the party’s lawyer grilled me about my handwriting and how I gathered signatures. I had done nothing wrong, but I had to prove it in court to protect the voices of my neighbors."

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

It's not enough just to elect more Democrats. We must elect better Democrats — and make the Democratic Party better, from Brooklyn to NYS to the DNC. @newkingsdems.bsky.social has been fighting for a better, more accountable Democratic Party for nearly two decades. (1/2)

Reformers say the Brooklyn Democrats have been "spamming" the legal system to block insurgents like anti-deed theft campaigner Carmella Charrington from appearing on the primary ballot. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-dem...

Demolition isn’t so clear cut under New York’s Good Cause legislation. The gray area is one of the few reasons a landlord can evict rent-paying tenants in unregulated apartments under the 2024 tenant protections law. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/13/g...

You might be impacted by expanded SNAP work requirements. See if you meet the criteria: nysfocus.com/2026/04/27/s...

"For years, leaders of the reform-minded political club New Kings Democrats have been working to elect Brooklyn district leaders who are willing to wrest power from the establishment—including when it comes to the BK Democratic Party’s judicial nominees."

On April 24, New Kings Democrats voted to endorse @bradlander.bsky.social for Congress in #NY10 Brad knows we need to build a Democratic Party that fights against corruption and for affordability. Together we’ll make it happen this June!

Despite the best efforts of BK Democratic Party incumbents, the Brooklyn Can't Wait Slate will be on the ballot this June. They're ready to bring new leadership to our Party—now let's get them elected!

wonder if the path for Democrats in 2026-2028 is Radical Liberalism** the party lacks clear ideas right now on major new social program expansions and it's fairly likely they won't have fiscal space to work with anyway but the need for political reform is massive **they shouldn't call it that

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

I actually can’t earn that much for a lot of reasons. The biggest of which, though, is that I’m enough of a human being to recognize that no single person NEEDS that much.

"For the first time, New York City has a mayor who has made riding a bike a seemingly genuine part of his political identity." Yes, however, I think it's more that Mamdani has made *not driving* part of his political identity. This is a man who gets around like most New Yorkers do.

Converting Dean and Bergen into bike boulevards has been my dream since I got into advocacy and experienced my first Dutch fietsstraat. The devil is in the details, of course, but I hope @nycdot.bsky.social really goes for it and makes these as good as they possibly can be.

NEW: An ICE agent tased a man several times while another agent tried to forcefully drag him out of his car as the man screams in pain and begs for help, as captured in a video obtained by THE CITY. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/04/v...

you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals

This is such an important point about speed cameras. We have overwhelming data that the vast majority of drivers quickly learn where they are and adjust their driving habits to avoid getting ticketed. This makes them a bad way to generate ticket revenue but a super effective way to reduce speeding