at some point it’s just adopting prime ministers and feeding them to the cat

Below is a really fantastic and accessible overview of how property taxes manifest across NYC.

Yeah, I mean, he made three specific campaign promises about the NYPD and he’s walked them all back. They weren’t particularly ambitious promises either www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/n...

When you call your senator's office and it just rings and rings and rings, just remember they're busy posing for national seersucker day with their pals who are locking up little babies in disease-ridden camps and shooting mothers dead in the street.

Ed Markey tears into Seth Moulton: "Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids." The crowd goes fucking wild.

the fact is these democratic governors do not have actual control over their own state police forces, and that’s a seriously scary problem that no elected wants to talk about or deal with

Kirsten Gillibrand is one of 23 Senate Democrats who felt Sean Duffy was qualified to serve as Secretary of Transportation and voted in favor of his confirmation.

If we don’t have the moral clarity to see second-tier villains like Giuliani as they are — the ones who have spent their considerable power and social credit propping up monsters — how will we ever deal with the thousands of garden-variety sociopaths in the third tier, e.g., every MAGA legislator?

Dan Goldman is quick to express outrage over the weaponization of Federal agencies when the target is someone in his social circle. When it was students being abducted from their dorm rooms his reaction was "let's let this play out in the courts."

Oh well! www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup...

I call this "the Andrew Cuomo maxim".

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

I saw this several years ago when we were planning a trip and it really is worth a watch.

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Danielle Welch has stepped up to primary Tom Suozzi, who recently voted in favor of deporting folks without due process (HR1958). She's a public defender offering folks in #NY03 a better alternative.

Nowhere in this article is mention made that the American Institute of Architects awarded Shalom Baranes Fellow status or that the organization has made no effort at disciplinary action against him.

Also imagine if Andrew Cuomo had somehow won the election in NYC. There would be a major ICE operation running full tilt with Cuomo saying there was nothing he could do about it

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Per i miei connazionali: video dei due giornalisti Italiani fermati e minacciati dall'ICE a Minneapolis.

Every administration, every faculty senate, every board of trustees who forced their institutions to bend the knee over this shit should immediately be fired. Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.

The lesson the NY Times should learn from this reporting is that the White House lies--all the time. That their reporters and editors fail to learn this lesson demonstrates that they cannot be relied on to accurately collect and sort the information citizens need to make smart decisions.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

There's a lot going on today but, as regards the debates over the ACA, this shouldn't get lost in the mix.

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

Peter Coviello with another dynamite piece. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

As a dual-citizen Italian-American I recognize Andrew Cuomo's gutter racism as an extension of the same racism my family faced after arriving in the U.S. I just called Senators Gillibrand (212/688-6262) and Schumer (212/486-4430) to ask if they also question dual-citizens' loyalty to the U.S.

Dan Goldman, TV Lawyer, can't make a declarative statement that serial sexual harassment is disqualifying for public office.

What a fantastic and effective message. It centers the humanity of trans New Yorkers, it reminds us of the debt we owe for not adequately supporting those that came before us, and clearly identifies steps we can take in the short term to provide that support to current and future generations.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

This took less than two minutes and the person answering the call seemed to genuinely register the positive comment. My impression is that they are tallying feedback.

Looking forward to all the titans of industry and "respected leaders" calling out the Republican party's attack on New York City. @nybuildingcongress.bsky.social, the ball is in your court.

One concrete thing folks can do that are outraged by this is to call @governor.ny.gov Hochul at 518-474-8390 and demand she recall the legislature to pass the New York for All Act (A3506/S2235) that would prevent state and local agencies across the state from coordinating with ICE.

It sounds like there's really no need then to for Democrats to participate in budget negotiations if the President can nullify any agreement he wants after the fact. @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should pull their caucuses away and let the Republicans pass their budget.

I don't know how to make it clearer to Dems that the more you waffle on this and invite debate, the more it's a political vulnerability. The more Dems equivocate the more they invite these types of heinous ads. You either stand up for trans folks proudly or you get hit with these ads.

I didn't realize that the Disney B&M stores were still a thing.

Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to announce New York’s involvement in the initiative on Thursday morning. The effort is similar to the West Coast Health Alliance — a bloc of four Democratic-controlled Western states, including California — that issued its own vaccine guidance this week.

Coming soon in the Chronicle: "Len Gutkin's exclusive dialogue with Secretary Linda MacMahon on the pros and cons of faculty being rendered without trial to El Salvador's CECOT or merely detained indefinitely in Alligator Alcatraz."

WASH POST: “Trump has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks… including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

One of the biggest cultural issues we have is that no major media or journalistic institutions have been reinforcing norms of what things *should* look like. That corruption isn’t normal, that cronyism isn’t normal, that lies and scandals should be punished, that incompetence is disqualifying.

The icing on the cake will be when NYPD declares they didn't find any cash in the envelope.

Tell me your Board of Trustees are made up of folks that never step foot on mass transit without telling me....

If you concede young progressives were right about Gaza then you might have to acknowledge they’re right about Mamdani, and who knows where it goes from there? Totally slippery slope.

As a fellow alum, I am also dismayed with the capitulation of Columbia. To what end is power, privilege, or money if not brought to bear in a moment of crisis which threatens the very identity & values of the institution?

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

If they actually cared about the law, they wouldn't be endorsing a mayor who breaks it regularly and in high-profile ways. But they don't care about the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/n...

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

@bradlander.bsky.social please primary this guy in NY-10. Here's something you might want to use in your campaign.

Maybe the real explanation is that Cuomo is a terrible manager and what everyone said about his poor management of the COVID response, CUNY/SUNY, the MTA and countless other state matters were right all along.

the democratic stance on immigration should be neil diamond and statue of liberty not trump lite