The Librarians are done shushing. They’re armed with snowblowers. Winter, we see you. Don’t mess with your local public library. ❄️ #brooklyn

The Con Edison parking lot at 14th and 3rd ave in Manhattan can be rezoned for a 50-story residential tower, just have coned parking in it. Kinda wild it’s just 35 parked cars today.

11.9% of homes in Louisiana had seriously underwater mortgages in the third quarter of 2025 (and prices will keep falling). 😱 (the balance of the mortgage is greater than the current market value) www.dailymail.co.uk/real-estate/...

Imagine if the next mayor looked at that useless surface parking lot in NOHO and just… turned it into a 90-story residential tower. Market-rate units pay the bills → property taxes from it can fund new affordable housing in Staten Island. More homes here, more homes there. Win-win. Do it! #yimby

Trump could literally take this old parking garage in Little Italy/SoHo, rezone it for a 90-story residential tower tomorrow, and bake the same parking back into the building. Nothing lost, just hundreds of new homes. Federal property, easy rezoning. Someone tell him to go for it #yimby

I dunno Maybe we need to build some new homes

Why did international markets CRUSH the S&P 500 this year? What did America do wrong @grok

According to the USDA, beef prices were 13.9% higher in August 2025 than in August 2024. “I have been buying the same groceries for the two years that I have been here. When I used to spend $90, now I am spending like $120 or $110,” Reyes said.

Tulsa King is low key a Trump-era allegory: NY outsider gets exiled, rolls into red America, and builds his own empire from scratch with old-school tactics. The whole ‘drain the swamp’ energy, loyalty, transactional, strongman appeal, and institutional distrust? It’s all there.

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Why is an individual changing their own life to find authenticity considered a dangerous, unnatural upheaval, while corporations and nations collectively changing the life-support systems of the planet for profit is considered neutral or even righteous?

The Supreme Court decided some arms are too dangerous for civilians. Grenades: no. Howitzers: absolutely not. AR-15s: jury’s still out, check back later. It’s second amendment constitutional interpretation by the “I’ll know it when I see it” method. Very scientific.

It’s time to toll the BQE, FDR, and West Side highways in NYC www.economist.com/united-state...

“The most likely medium-term outcome in the United States is neither entrenched authoritarianism nor a return to stable democracy. Rather, it is regime instability: a protracted struggle between authoritarian impulses and democratic solidarity.” foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The real story isn't just that a major news report on CECOT was shelved. It's that for months, our own feeds, curated by algorithms designed to amplify outrage and emotion, failed to tell us about the hundreds of people deported by the U.S. to a prison with documented torture.

The affordability crisis isn't complicated. It's just a shortage. A shortage of new apartments near transit. A shortage of walkable neighborhoods. 🚶‍♀️ A shortage of choices other than a car. 🚌 🚲 🚊

NYC & NY need a boost for vocational training & apprenticeships. Great goals (30K apprenticeships by 2030) & funding exist. We want MORE: more free pre-apprenticeship pathways, broader access, faster tracks to become electricians, plumbers, & welders.

Downtowns Less Dense than the residental suburbs of Hudson County, NJ (15,700 people/sq mi): · Phoenix, AZ: 9,405 people/sq mi · Dallas, TX: 7,680 people/sq mi · Houston, TX: 5,520 people/sq mi

Mass transit was once a luxury & is far safer than driving. But in America, segregation stained it, framing city transit as "poor" and suburban cars "wealthy." We inherited that bias.

NYC's rent stabilization is meant to help but can hurt the most vulnerable. With no income limits, it locks in cheaper rents for some higher earners. The result? A crippled housing supply & skyrocketing market rents that low-income workers pay. Who really gets stabilized?

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Donald Trump has faced multiple accusations from former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants that he walked into their dressing rooms while they were undressing. He has also made comments in a 2005 interview where he bragged about doing this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...

Putin has not abandoned his aims of capturing all of Ukraine and reclaiming parts of Europe that belonged to the former Soviet empire www.reuters.com/world/europe...

"You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it requires people to make the dream a reality” Walt Disney (Greenpoint, Brooklyn 2007-2025)

America's next $1 trillion tech innovation isn't a new app. It’s banning smartphones & social media for all minors. Nationwide The ROI? Kids in parks, on sports teams, reading books, with friends. watching Mr. Rogers. We’re not selling a product. We’re giving childhood back.

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -HL Mencken

The most progressive Americans today aren't at rallies, they're developers building new market-rate, mixed-use, multifamily housing.

The U.S. national debt breaks down to about $237,500 for each taxpayer. Divide the ~$38 trillion gross debt by ~160 million taxpayers. It's a guess, not a bill, but it shows the scale of the problem.

Building affordable housing in NYC with union labor puts the cost of one new home at a minimum of $800,000, and over $1 million in most of Manhattan or along the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront- Real Estate Board of NY. www.thecity.nyc/newsletter/t...

Some NYC homeless nonprofits pay execs huge salaries. 5 paid over $700k, 8 more over $500k. Among them: CAMBA Inc. Pres. Joanne Oplustil made >$750k & Acacia Network Pres. Raul Russi took in $935,391, in 2022 alone. Big money, in a homelessness crisis. citylimits.org/homeless-she...

F- The next NYC mayor has one job: house our kids to teach our students. With 154,000+ students homeless, ~35% chronically absent, and ~44% failing math & English, the crisis is clear. Students in shelters are absent 2X their housed peers.

If NYC moves ~40,000 homeless kids and their families from shelters to voucher-based homes in rent stabilization, the annual saving is big: Shelter cost: ~$98.5K × 13,300 families ≈ $1.3 billion Voucher cost: ~$27.4K × 13,300 families ≈ $365 million Potential direct savings: ~$935 million per year.

Our feeds are flooded with hate, racism, and division. It’s no accident, social media algorithms are designed to boost outrage for profit. Isn't it time for a class action lawsuit to hold tech elites personally accountable?

Instead of fixing why housing, healthcare, & childcare are so expensive (regulation, slow permits, limited supply), some politicians just want to use tax money/debt to pay crazy high prices for us. This just funds the problem, letting costs keep skyrocketing, and we all pay the bill later.

America can build Tomorrowland when it wants to

We were promised a 10% credit card cap, groceries prices down on day one, energy prices cut in half, gas under $2, no more income tax, and half-price houses. None of it happened.

Hot Toddy and a Book kinda day 📖 ☕️

NYC’s rental market is just Musical Chairs on steroids. But instead of kids and a birthday song, it’s adults and existential dread.

For every $100 in NYC taxes collected, $10.88 gets sent out to pay for past borrowing. That's money that CAN'T go to schools or clean streets. For the MTA, nearly $48 out of every $100 in your fares is eaten by debt costs.

why is it easier for a stranger with severe paranoia or rage issues to get a gun than it is for me to return something without a receipt? Our kids deserve to feel safe

New York City’s policies actively block the normal economic process that would lower rents. By severely limiting new market-rate construction, NYC forces wealthy buyers to compete for existing, older housing, which drives up prices for everyone else. It’s a supply chokehold.

You can't build the Empire State Building in Nolita today. It would violate every rule: zoning for height/bulk, FAR limits, setback requirements, ADA access, and energy codes. The community board would lose it over shadows, "historic character," and "out-of-scale" disruption

You literally canNOT build the Flatiron Building in the West Village today. It's 285 ft tall with ZERO setbacks, provides NO parking, build by capitalist developers, casts enormous shadows, and would completely destroy historic character and the environment. (B.S.)

How would you fix NYCs jam packed buses?

America: Boomers block new homes, rents for young people are insane. China: Literally built entire empty cities waiting for people. Maybe we're talking about the wrong migration crisis.

NYC need a thousand of these autonomous buses going between Brooklyn and queens, every five minutes, on express bus only lanes. (Have random undercover cops who can remove anyone misbehaving) www.wlns.com/news/msus-au...

The dumbest posts go viral because of the correction loop. You pause, baffled by its incoherence. That pause is engagement. Then you quote it to correct it. The algorithm sees a storm of baffled reactions as a signal to push it further. Virality is just collective disbelief.

AI is making RAM a lot more expensive AInflation

17 degrees in NYC. It’s simple: anyone sleeping outside in this should be brought inside to a warm shelter, with access to help and support. No one can endure this cold.

Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y