some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

In 1985, a senior Reagan official declared: "We're getting out of the housing business. Period." The result? Millions of people forced into housing precarity and homelessness. Now, history is repeating: the Trump administration plans to gut HUD, pouring gasoline on an already catastrophic crisis.

Governor Hochul should remove Eric Adams from office.

Here's our reaction to the CA FAIR plan bailout with a quote from @carolinenagy.bsky.social. CA is basically asking insurers to split the $1b bill with the public. Two things you might not realize though: ourfinancialsecurity.org/2025/02/news...

It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: if a political party withholds the effort to earn votes and you use their inevitable loss as an excuse to scold strangers on the internet instead of holding that party accountable: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.

A lot is really discouraging about the rise of fascism in the US. I feel particularly distressed at how difficult and unlikely a popular front between liberals and the left is, largely as a result of the horrible turn of liberalism this last year. 1/19 🧵

Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.

In the next four years, tenant unions will deepen their organizing. They'll win safer homes, fairer leases, and local regulatory policies, all of which can build the blueprint for national change. Great to write some on this and more w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @theprospect.bsky.social

That face AND he shit on Matty?

While billionaire industry tech, Elon Musk cries for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be deleted, the CFPB continues to stand up for the little guy and stop industry that gouges us with junk fees, high prices, and unfair treatment #ProtectConsumers www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Clearly, Gaza alone does not explain Trump's sweeping victory. But the evidence shows that Harris’ failure to break with Biden’s policy came with a political cost—one that was higher than many had expected. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Why did so many working class New Yorkers vote for Donald Trump last week — and even more not vote at all? I went to Hillside Ave in Queens and Fordham Rd in the Bronx to find out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...

Inspiring: A Meta AI chatbot called "FungiFriend" got added to a mushroom forager Facebook group and immediately told members there it is safe to sauté a mushroom known to often contain deadly amounts of arsenic. Moderators say the bot was added automatically www.404media.co/ai-chatbot-a...

Hi there! A lot of talk about how the Harris campaign/dems didn’t do enough on rents and affordable housing. Some of us have been screaming about this for awhile. My friends at @aforhj.bsky.social made this cool follow list if you want to talk housing justice! go.bsky.app/Br1s7ov

Centrist dipshits: all this horrible shit is smart politics, we know how to win [They do not win] Centrist dipshits: our foolproof politics can be thwarted by one viral tweet from an enby portland barista

Climate change is creating an insurance crisis. In a new piece with @carolinenagy.bsky.social we describe why we're forming the new Equitable and Just Insurance Initiative to advocate reforms shelterforce.org/2024/10/25/h...

The hillbilly is from Greater Dayton

It’s amazing how some leftists see being unpleasant to be around as an indicator of personal integrity rather than the impediment to social change that it actually is.

the best that any of us can hope for is to die free. rest easy, king.

NEW: Hours before a top operative for Mayor Eric Adams got into a physical altercation with migrant shelter guards on Tuesday after attempting to enter without identifying himself, he’d pulled a similar maneuver at another shelter according to a report.

Chess is a game about a powerful woman needing to protect a frail man with extremely limited capabilities

"This is what we describe as the financialization of human shelter."

This weekend's sad curb find: guess they got sick of exploring with each other 💔