Considering that NYCHA needs ~$78,000,000,000 to fix most of the 177,000 buildings, this is the announcement equivalent of me telling my wife I found a nickel in the couch as we drown in debt. Also, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social doesn't email that often, and this is what he chose to announce...

Let's do this one time in good faith: Wealthy private universities in blue states should be bastions of humanistic education (including basic science), fully protected from the anti-education laws being passed in red states that afflict private and public schools alike. But instead .... /1

Public university, in a blue state… this keeps happening. The real war on free speech looks a lot more like this and we would all do well to remember that. Shame on the University of Washington.

It costs more money to means-test things. Personally, I believe the Uber-wealthy have too much money and that it should be taxed and then spent on social services, for EVERYONE, including their kids. I am also not weird. They’re the ones who are weird for thinking this is a compelling argument.

Probably notable that Trump has only fired women from high profile cabinet positions so far. Evil, repugnant, Irma Grese-like women, but women all the same. Meanwhile Hegseth and Miller are just wonton killing people and humiliating themselves at every turn.

Real grateful that we have someone as passionate, and qualified as @dianaforqueens.com to speak on behalf of everyone whose lives would be improved if we passed New York For All. Although she’s been in the assembly for less than 2 months, she’s already doing more work than most of her peers.

HOLD UP. The author of @theatlantic.com article telling us that noting the danger of the word "illegal" is a moral problem is ALSO the shitty Notre Dame professor who made waves a few weeks ago telling everyone here that they were mean because they didn't suck off AI? Why am I not surprised?

WIRED analyzed Border Patrol use-of-force reports alongside body cam footage and public records to identify masked agents involved in incidents with US citizens. We found hundreds of names. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d73...

This is fascinating. And even though my coding knowledge is surface level at best, even I can tell that this all sounds stupid. “Brute-forcing” requests thousands of times by boiling metric tons of water so you can translate your dumb ask into a different coding language, poorly. The future is dumb

My whole childhood, and even much of my adult life, I always felt "We should work to make everything better here. We should also explore space though! Those things are not interdependent!" But like @divyampersaud.com, I don't really feel that way anymore. And I hate it.

So many of the hurdles we need to get over in NYC stem from petty corruption at the most granular municipal level. We're lucky that the organizing to fight that deep exists, and that it is so motivated. A few people donating $5 and it getting matched for a district leader race goes incredibly far.

Every time someone tries to re-litigate "who gets to be an American citizen," remember that they are always acting in bad faith. And, even if they got their way, it wouldn't work the way they think it will. Nationalism, is always fake, but is also flexible, depending on who holds the keys.

I'm dying here. Never change NYC's Radical Centrist establishment. Never, ever change.

We agree with @sandynurse.bsky.social. There's enormous potential in the BK Democratic Party — but we need leaders who want to unlock it. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

🗃️ Should the 14th Amendment be repealed? Lawyers: "Well, based on an extremely letigious interpretation of this 158 year old text, our well paid legal experts have come to interpret it’s true meaning to mean that..." Historians: "No." If only they listened to us more…

@brendandavey.bsky.social explains well why it's hard to create a good short-term solution for the problem faced by these NYCHA developments. But in the longer term, part of the solution must include @cvhaction.bsky.social's push for $4B in NYS funds for NYCHA repairs. cvhaction.org/2026-platform

Just did this. Everyone should do this. @gregpak.net's instructions make this super easy.

I contributed my voice to this story because it is an important issue: the Atlantic and NYT are regular vehicles for empowering a white supremacist, heterosexist and transphobic ruling class, and it's important to understand the mechanics of how that works.

"Holy shit this is crazy! How could they possibly let this happen?!?" ... "Oh, yeah, that adds up." www.thecut.com/article/a-lu...

🗃️The debate over what to do with the Chelsea & Fulton Houses is not only at the center of the race in Congressional District 12, but also in the special election for Council District 3, which is in less than a month (April 28). So, some history and reason on what this debate really is. 🧵 1/

When I worked for private non-profits, I was almost always the only guy there. There is nothing wrong with that. But, it is a product of the fact that non-profits pay like SHIT(I still made $42,000 in NYC...in 2021), and that all my coworkers had husbands or parents who made much more 1/

Different rules for people based on race or ethnicity is Apartheid. That is literally the definition Killing people based on race or ethnicity is genocide Neither of those are up for debate, and this is codified in Israeli law even more now Shameful that so many STILL can’t call this what it is

Neil Young not only wrote better music, but he’s also always been less of a selfish hack. Lest we finally decide to re-litigate who our iconic folk singers of yore are…

Um… absolutely not gonna help at all on this one @workingfamilies.org… Susan Collins is horrendous and needs to go. But, Platner has so many red flags that I’d really appreciate it if pols and orgs I respected just sat this primary out, or helped someone like @andrealaflamme.bsky.social earlier.

"Power does not get shared. It gets built or it gets taken." This is a great write up on the few upsetting compromises @mayor.nyc.gov has made so far with the Democratic machine. People have proven they're in the fight for the long haul, there's no reason to not keep fighting.

a very special FUCK YOU to anyone who thinks I should have been forced to stay in the shitty rural town I grew up in

🗃️ Very transparent of @nytimes.com to leave out that while Iran had yet to declare war on anyone officially when we attacked them last month and asked for an unconditional surrender, Germany had already declared war on *checks notes*... The World.

@sanders.senate.gov saying what we’re doing in NYC gives the world hope is inspiring. It is also really weird to hear given all the cynicism I’ve collected fighting the NYC “machine” with others. But I’m glad they see we CAN turn the page. We do not have to kneel and accept the world as is forever.

As someone with deep familial ties to the oppression in Northern Ireland, I’m more than welcome to explain to any rabid Staten Islanders why it’s not the same.

History is not a settled field. We remain in discussion, debate, and research on every event in the past and are likely to forever remain uncommitted to one singular “true” version of the past.

1 Just passed through security at La Guardia. ICE entirely doing security! 100% of ID and identity checks done by ICE…Truly icky and dystopian. Some thoughts.

No Kings is tomorrow, and @gregpak.net is 100% correct that it is good, and that if you can make it, you should go. Big protests build bigger solidarity. Now, if a No Kings protest every few months is ALL you're doing, that's obviously kind of lame. But here's a short🧵about where it all fits in:

Shout out to @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social; @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social; @tiffanycaban.bsky.social; @chiosse.bsky.social & Kayla Santosuosso for being the only ones brave enough to vote no on BOTH measures. 19 opposed the school bill (not enough), their votes can be seen here:

Some version of New York for All is likely to pass; the key question is which one. To prevent Hochul from watering the bill down to allow some collusion with ICE, we need as many people as possible contacting our NYS reps right now so that they hold the line. Use NYCLU's tool to contact them all.

🗃️ I taught myself how to read Ladino in grad school, and it was never the law that I had to learn the Hebrew alphabet growing up. Sure, learning cursive is good, but this bill is performative. Any pol that won't tax the rich more to raise school funding doesn't actually care about educating kids.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

🧵 Please, everyone, call your council member and tell them to vote down this bill. I cannot emphasize how idiotic this is, and how by its very nature it will divide the city and make everyone LESS safe. You can find your council member's office # here 👇

The 🧵 below calling out @samuelmoyn.bsky.social for being complicit in the bad-faith efforts to end birthright citizenship, which really doesn't need to be defended litigiously because it's crystal-****ing-clear what it means, is great. Of course, he has yet to respond...

It's extremely important that anyone who can speak up about this. Fill out the survey @gregpak.net included below too. Students at every level deserve to learn how to think on their own, not to rely on "tools" owned by biased companies that ruin their ability to do so. This should be obvious.

The complicity of universities cannot be understated... The few of us fighting back aren't enough. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

And, a protest isn’t the only thing people need urgently right now, actually? Like these mid 30s professionals complaining about students not showing up are all welcome to start one or find one to attend, but many students are trying to be good citizens of their communities

This is extra offensive for 2 reasons: 1) Students at my campus are organizing like crazy to stand up to ICE. It is inspiring. 2) The last time they protested a war the NYPD stormed the campus, beat a bunch of them up, and then the city installed perimeter fencing that has been up for 2 years…

Sadly, I'm skeptical that the 50+ people I watched get taken in NYC's courts over the last year will receive justice for the criminal overstepping of ICE, or the countless thousands that were taken across the country, whose arrests are essentially voided illegal by this. 1/

Living in New York, I can find decent food from almost any country in the world. And yet, across my 15 years living here I have yet to find a single restaurant that does Arizona-style Mexican food at a comparable level. 😢

I’m asking my SUNY and CUNY followers on here—particularly those with more followers than me—to help spread the word about this effort to align state budget priorities of faculty, staff, and students from every campus and sector and to support system and union efforts. hdl.handle.net/1951/88718

Thank you @dianaforqueens.com, @sarahana.bsky.social & the other brave politicians that showed up today to join those of us with @psc-cuny.org; @thenyic.bsky.social & @socialists.nyc. You made fighting the egregious, sick, twisted injustice in this world legitimately fun, for a much needed moment.

David Simón chiming into a post incorrectly saying what his work is to give an entire 20+year epilogue to The Wire is the kind of thing that truly makes logging into this silly site worth it.

Everyone who can, please speak out. I speak from experience: this bill is terrible. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Besides the blatant corruption from Trump et al, Iran has the ability to completely override the penalty of any and all sanctions by just loading Bitcoin into ceasefire predictions and then being like “lol no” on March 31 and that is ok because the world we live in now is stupid and has no rules.