I'll be honest, a "20% additional tax to not have Fascism shoved down your throat" sure is an... interesting business model. We'll see how it plays out. Or, just continue canceling your Disney+ subscriptions y'all.

🗃️ Every religion goes through a maturation process where they have to decide to stop specifically predicting when the rapture will happen, or they fabricate some suicide pact as a deus ex machina. They never admit they’re WRONG. Even the Jehovah’s Witnesses wisely switched tactics in 1989.

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

This Thursday!!!

🧵 In NYC, ICE continues to focus its kidnapping efforts in the courts. Some of us who have been observing this all summer have begun documenting what we have seen. Hopefully, as this grows, it can help people who are less tuned in to become aware of the atrocities happening so close to them.

I work in the development office for a public university. If someone accidentally buys a $3 coffee with one of the university's credit cards we need to refund it and document it with ~10 different forms before we get audited every year lest we lose tax-exempt status just for that. #academiasky

🗃️ The Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and so many modern atrocities began the same way. Sorting entire groups of people into camps is complex, and hard. It will ALWAYS turn into chaos because evil people are also incompetent. Historians aren't wrong if they say this is how it always goes.

I really thought the anti-bike people had run out of ideas but this one even shocked me. "By building Citi bike docks, people will dump Citi bikes in your yard and then people will trip on them and then they will sue you AND it will change the character of the neighborhood.” #urbanism

As a union rep for an educational entity engaged in a constant tug of war with a hostile admin, this quote is the funniest goddamn thing I've ever read. Our activists show up for free and even get arrested for the cause, yet Charter schools (which suck) have to the threaten their employees jobs. 🤣

A lot of my family is from Newtown Connecticut. Charlie didn't give a damn about their, or the hundreds of other children that have been murdered in schools. Crazy that all of their murderers are allowed to have these undeniable "wins" and yet now this is suddenly preposterous. Hypocrites.

Once again, an NYC "Democrat" endorses a Republican for mayor instead of their own nominee. For a district that is 74% minority voters, supporting the nominee for the party that wants to hurt all of them seems especially stupid. A reminder that party reform needs to start at the most local level.

Not hyperbole at all. The whiniest, most uncompromising people control all the levers of society right now. From the White House and it's narrow-minded autocracy, all the way down to people who drop everything to combat a fucking bike lane that would save lives in the densest city in the country.

ICE just arrested 11 New York lawmakers on the 10th floor, and now the NYPD is helping them clear the space outside the building. It shouldn't shock anyone that local law enforcement is complicit with the federal government's goal of protecting masked ICE agents at all costs.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Always remember that sick, twisted people find camaraderie in their shared love for hurting others. Woody Allen's actions, in particular, deeply disgust me. Story time 🧵/ I grew up in New Milford, Connecticut. Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, and their children were seen around a lot when I was young.

Yo @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, what you got planned tomorrow about how Jimmy Kimmel had been practicing comedy the right way? What's that? You have nothing? Weird!

Oddly, this poll didn’t ask me about the even more nepotistic candidate at all who not only has never experienced hardships, but has personally made millions of New Yorkers lives harder while governing. 🤷‍♂️

A shutdown in October is not like the shutdowns of yore. As it stands, like 90% of the good people and the good things the federal government does have been eliminated or restrained in their duties anyway. The thing that would be affected the most today is ICE, and that's not a bad thing.

One would expect better from @gothamist.com of all places than a totally speculative article that two inspiring progressive leaders are "feuding" where one of the only direct quotes comes from former Cuomo-appointee Joe Lhota, but I guess not... Do better.

While I can still admire that @historians.org helps bring attention to the work of talented, worthy historians, their patting themselves on the back for "defending academic freedom" is rich after their 10 council members overrode a 428-to-88 vote to condemn Scholasticide in Gaza in January. 🗃️

🗃️ YES! There is a reason that people who know almost nothing about the past know who Neville Chamberlain was. Why the Democrats seem to want to embrace that kind of legacy is beyond me.

Do you want your politics principled or poll-tested? Our options are clear. Zohran spoke out against Netanyahu when it was unpopular, but the right thing to do. Cuomo was literally Bibi’s personal lawyer. I’m glad the political tides are shifting, but this is cynical at best.

"Let's see how other New York Democrats are treating Kathy Hochul's endorsement of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!" On second thought... let's not!

I feel this quote. Deeply. Trying to do what little I can to thwart, document, and stop this - I often feel useless. But, I know that if everyone does SOMETHING it will do more than the self-congratulating politicians "stopping Trump." Talk to your neighbors, get out there. HELP. Any way you can.

“Theseus’s Putin.” The future really is bleak and scary.

Yup, Kathy “I’m pausing congestion pricing because I am concerned about people who drive to Midtown to eat at diners” Hochul officially understands NYC more than @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social; @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social. Who would have guessed?!

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

Once again, the only “dangerous” thing happening on the streets of NYC is that you can so easily be killed by a driver who is piece of shit, or just not paying attention. You’re much safer on the subway than you are simply walking down the street. #urbanism

Once upon a time, NYFW was said to be the coolest time in the coolest city in the world. But, at its heart, it was always the uncool wealthy elite green-lighting events to tell you what was “in.” Want definitive proof that it’s over? Take the “debut” of “washed up sexual abuser in an ugly suit.”

Perhaps, but it is also worth noting that every major American assassination attempt is, at its core, a whiny, jealous POS with a gun. Much like all school shooters. 🗃️ For example: John Wilkes Booth > Whiny and jealous of his more famous brother, also a total piece of shit. 🧵/

I want to point out, as someone who (not proudly) spent a lot of time on 4chan 20 years ago, even total shithole sites like that don't MAKE anyone into a violent person. A lack of empathy and the use of violent words or actions to justify one's jealousy is a universal phenomenon. 👇

"Omg omg, did someone just say we can blame VIDEO GAMES again for the rampant gun violence in American society?!" -Ghost of Joseph Lieberman, probably.

Very cool of my representative, the ever competent @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, to email all his constituents telling them to attend the career fair that happened... 6 days ago. Your comms staff is about as effective as you are...

A bit about some of these bonafide government assholes.🧵

One day I'll explain to my kids that Brazil used to be the butt of every joke about a functioning fair and responsible democracy. Miss those days, honestly. Props to my Brasileiros.

I find myself thinking about this 1941 Harper's magazine article a lot. Point being, good, happy people don't turn into Nazis. Also, @cuny.edu (represent!) students seldom turn into Nazis. But the "scared spectator" and the "spoiled sons" often do. 🗃️ Archive Link below 👇

Ezra, my guy, I know you know better. What the actual fuck is this? Which Manhattan basement were you about to be chained up in by your bosses if you didn’t slap your name on this crap? Be honest. No amount of “abundance” makes up for the damage you’re doing here man.

Honestly, pretty good analogy. Still don’t think anyone should shoot anyone else. But, Charlie Kirk is an odd person to be immediately canonized by America. Maybe not though, many of the figures we put on a pedestal were terrible people…

L... O... Fucking... L. I don't think anyone should be shot. I also hate that Charlie Kirk will become a martyr for the Far-Right. Political violence is bad. But I do NOT need to "engage" with his twisted ideology through "spirited" discourse. Seriously, Gavin, shut the fuck up.

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

Right. Did I wish that someone would punch him in the face every day for the last few years? YES. Did I want this to happen? Hell No.

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

Easiest decision I've ever made to sign and share a petition. We the people deserve to watch a World Cup match too!

On "Mainstream," the app set up by "Fix the City" (the Bloomberg/Doordash PAC) there are many pre-written, terribly misleading, and evil posts sharable directly to Facebook and X. Only a sick campaign would use things like 9/11 this way. I wouldn't expect anything less from Cuomo + his friends.

Unsurprisingly, the people that join ICE near NYC are concerned about the one thing that doesn't plague any of us who actually live and work on the isle of Manhattan... parking. Congestion pricing and parking is a craw in their side, but not, you know... ruining lives. #urbanism

Along with the Quran, I had to read the Bhagavad Gita my Freshman year in college. I blame Northern Arizona University for indoctrinating me so hard that I still have a shrine to Shiva in my apartment.

I was an assistant to Arthur Aidala’s publicist once upon a time. That dude fucking sucks. Just the exact stereotype of a scummy NYC lawyer. Why he gets to have an audience on CNN is beyond me.

Mamdani began the event by acknowledging @psc-cuny.org, the main labor union for faculty at the City University of New York, where 4 professors say they were fired for their pro-Palestinian activism. “No faculty member should be fired for supporting Palestinian rights” forward.com/news/767107/...

This is a Dutch principal of designing public/active transportation infrastructure and you see how much it has benefited their entire society.

Canvassing with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - join a group of tens of thousands of enthusiastic volunteers knocking on every door in the city to try build something better. Canvassing with Cuomo: join 4 other people to hand out flyers to people leaving the SI Dave & Busters. Choices…choices.