Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

YIMBYism is a left cause opposed by landed interests represented by the center and right, you're hearing it more and more

whoever Russini has hired to stage her comeback, they are *good*

The left does begin at land back and we should start with the people's war supporting indigenous Magyars

Ordered a normally classic double parm but turned out to be more a reduced half chicken half eggplant not double parm. Its a 1x parm. This is what Trump has done to America.

me in 2 years when I build my 16TB Storage 32 GB VRAM NAS can run claude opus 4.7 for 40 dollars because I didn't NIMBY all the data centers and now I pay 20 bucks for electricity because I made OpenAI build out 200k gWh of solar and sam altman killed himself after the company went under

tfw the hyper copium seat projection was spot on (final result: 140-53-6 with no roma representative)

Good, why should we ban data centers. Make them pay for their own energy, sure, and expand public renewables

NJ-11 was a fuck-you to elections analysis -turnout was abysmal, just 22-24%, but Dems did worse relative to Harris than other specials -champagne socialist thesis flopped, Mejia overperformed in working-class areas -prog landslide ruined bc R candidate was ”moderate” and made it 2014 in some towns

Strongly believe that Bogleheadism is the one true ideology that every regular person should follow with every red cent of disposable income (not investing advice etc) www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

We've uncovered what might be the biggest case of petition fraud in NYC's history, and now I'm taking my opponent to court.

Chat I am so fucking confused right now what the hell is going on

I’m sorry to report this, but Jack Schlossberg is definitely the Dem Tea Party candidate here

... other Dems since, likewise over performing 2024 Dem nominee Kamala Harris by 12% — doing best among Working class, and Hispanic voters, and worst among Jewish and upper class/high income voters

she did fraud

Hey guys is it good if the list of issues goes to (q)

curry, liver and veg combo, Grimsby Town FC, £4

Black voters in Emerson: Abdul +7, at 26% Black voters in Data for Progress: Stevens +17, Abdul at 6% Somebody has to be wrong

trying to post through it rn

MTA batting 1.000 against the Trump admin -- www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

fascinating. whatever bsky thinks of the guy Dems in DC are clearly viewing this as a proxy war over Schumer's leadership

Reading between the lines of recent @nyc-dot.bsky.social community board presentations reveals a more confident agency under Mayor Mamdani than under Adams, with DOT actively pushing back against overblown and downright false narratives that bike lanes worsen traffic or block first responders.

Brother.

I don't know what tickles me more about this poll, the sudden Becerramentum or him eclipsing Katie Porter and Matt Mahan right away

So did we get any followup on that guy who's wife got arrested by Target

is Clippers Kawhi the biggest letdown in sports this century?

HAHAHAHAHA

almost an and-1

NY-13 for real: Raised / disbursements / cash on hand: Adriano Espaillat: $234,436 raised | $301,142 disbursements | $1,047,562 cash on hand Darializa: $266,072 raised | $167,224 disbursements | $217,043 cash on hand

Q1 2026 itemized donors ($200+) only: Claire Valdez: $435,163 from 491 donors | $886 avg Antonio Reynoso: $262,591 from 327 donors | $803 avg Julie Won: $610,722 from 365 donors | $1,673 avg

NY-13, first quarter 2026: Claire Valdez: $751,680 raised | $273,559 disbursements | $478,121 cash on hand Antonio Reynoso: $312,527 raised | $117,794 disbursements | $496,674 cash on hand Julie Won: $644,604 raised | $154,248 disbursements | $490,357 cash on hand

NY-07 and NY-13 fundraising coming shortly

what if we made a party that was just for Substack readers???

Bro, MJF is wearin' that Ric Flair powder blue - the color, I might add, Ric was wearing when he dropped the world title to Sting (his first win)... #AEWDynamite

NEW: After an anti-bike lane lawsuit sent the Department of Transportation back to the drawing board on 31st Street in Astoria, the agency is responding… with a plan for an even longer bike lane on the deadly corridor.

Mike Quigley YOU 🫵are the funky white boy of 2027

Okay my main thought is that Abdul 2026 reminds me a lot of Bernie 2020. He's competitive; he might win but he has a very polarizing coalition and he needs this to be a three-way competitive primary.

Details from Adam Carlson

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

One interesting aspect is Steyer's all-of-the-above approach to housing that bridges some of the divides. But he also has a (correct IMO) theory for why housing in California in particular is stuck: Prop 13. prospect.org/2026/03/24/t...

There is a rather elaborate conversation we might have about what their understanding of the words "on the left" was, but it is really quite important that all of you remember that actually there are quite a few countries in Eastern Europe that have had multiple "left" governments since 1991.

if i ever run for office it will be on a “tax the rich assholes” platform, specifically -second homes -helicopters -private jets -luxury cars (based on weight and MPG, with extra fines for loud cars or motorcycles) -yachts -crypto/gambling profits -expensive clubs (zero bond, things of that nature)

Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime,

This stuff is fundamentally incompatible. You can't say one is good and one isn't And if you find one to be better than the other, it says a lot about you, and not in a good way

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

3) if you leave with an item without paying for it they say that's stealing Yeah I bet

"the backers behind AI want to break unions" and the industrialists didn't?