please be critical of even your favorite politicians. democracy can only function if we are constantly demanding better.

Imagining the day that Andrew Cuomo had. The glaring. The scowling. The awkward silences. Blessings to us all.

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

Here's how the NYC Department of Transportation will be different under Mayor Mamdani, according to new commissioner Mike Flynn.

Caught up with Mayor Mamdani's incoming DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn, and asked him how he will run the agency differently than the Adams administration. www.youtube.com/shorts/8t-81...

I stg if a single one of you non-New Yorkers try and tell us New Yorkers that we’re not allowed to criticize or yell at Mamdani I’m gonna lose my entire shit at you. Part of the reason we WANT people like him in office is we can tell him when he fucks up.

just saw a billionaire pack all his things in a bindle and start leaving new york city on foot. he turned and looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “maybe one day when this city is safe we’ll return” before walking away

A man prays during Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration. He and his friends flew in from Michigan to attend the inauguration, says it’s an important moment for American Muslims, and that he feels safe praying in NYC in a way he doesn’t in other places.

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"

New York Attorney General Letitia James swears in Zohran Mamdani as New York City's first Muslim mayor in a small ceremony with his family.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

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We were all like how can 2016 be worse then 2015 then Bowie died so do be knocking on wood out here.

I do not think actual government accounts proudly proclaiming the desire to deport roughly a third of the people living in this country is a thing we should blithely accept.

Tons of great answers here, many that I love, but here’s my sentimental favorite.

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?

For pure nostalgia, during breaks my band and I would sit at the main desk of the furniture store we practiced in and try to catch Chop Suey by System of A Down. For me personally, I still think about the woman from the chorus of the Clipse video for When The Last Time.

Yearly reminder that you CAN just become a different person, you're not as imprisoned in your life as you think. You can just be the one who dresses nice or exercises or reads a lot, or whatever. You can just start doing it, some people might make fun of you but they don't really care.

🧊Have you seen ICE agents in your neighborhood? Save this post so you’re prepared next time. As immigrant New Yorkers continue being targeted, it’s up to us to defend our communities. Together, we will keep each other safe! #ProtectOurFutures

The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop. Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...

From Zohran Mamdani’s stunning mayoral win to the arrests at 26 Federal Plaza, 2025 was filled with images of a city filled with hope and determination to defend its values.

A source said the schools chancellor selection process has left some on the Mamdani transition disillusioned after lots of behind-the-scenes jockeying for the various different candidates. "That could have been done better," source said. w/ @caylabam.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/30/m...

This is going to culminate in Pizzagate-style vigilante violence if we do not protect our neighbors www.startribune.com/police-inves...

Mmmmmm

For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.

wrong. living in New York City is about frantically swiping your metrocard as your train arrives, repeatedly getting an error, and in the span of a half second evaluating whether you still have the athleticism to jump a turnstile. if you don’t like that then move to fucking Boston.

Dozens of public housing apartments will get plug-in induction ranges as part of the initiative, which aims to eventually shift 10,000 NYCHA homes off the use of polluting fossil fuel appliances. citylimits.org/nycha-to-rep...

NEW: Unicorn Riot contributor L. Cam Anderson traveled to Phoenix to report on the state of Turning Point USA and the broader right-wing movement on display at the organization's annual political festival. Full story: unicornriot.ninja/2025/america...

🚨 THEY POISONED A WHOLE COMMUNITY. THE EPA HELPED COVER IT UP After the Feb. 3, 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment & chemical disaster in East Palestine, OH, the EPA assured local residents everything was safe. That's not what independent testing expert Scott Smith found... @therealnews.com

"Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty I still love about living in a city, like having a single bagel delivered silently to my apartment door so I don’t have to interact with any of the millions of rich stories unfolding around me." #McSweeneysTop25of2025

Going into 2026

I miss the days before covid, when in New York, in Times Square or a crowded subway, you would sometimes see people wearing masks and think, "Why are they wearing those? Oh, right--it's none of my fucking business." Let's get back to that.

I was given $$$ with explicit instructions to spend it on myself and bought seven disparate used pewter rpg figures to assemble and paint my own sci-fi ship crew that I have no game for but it's the journey not the destination, damnit. #ttrpg

Literal concentration camps

Concentration Camps is less words, less characters and more apt a description than "massive human warehouses".

ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people … with a smaller facility holding up to 1,500 people in Woodbury. wapo.st/4axtwZ4

A small victory for people and direct services organizations who help their unhoused neighbors in California: As of January 1, it should (theoretically!) be illegal to punish people for offering outreach and support.

this is big, and it’s wild that it needed to be crystallized into law. the 2022 anti-homeless craze that afflicted blue state govs and mayors was (and is) so callous and murderous.

Where Eric Adams stands in the pantheon of New York City mayors will be for historians to decide, but in a single respect he joins only one other mayor, long forgotten: A. Oakey Hall.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

A disturbing account from a Queens woman describes immigration detention with her first-grade daughter.

Hundreds of NYC Parents, teachers and privacy advocates are signing a petition asking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for a 2-year moratorium on AI in NYC classrooms. They are using children to train their for-profit learning models while datamining everyone. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

"That dratted Paul Revere woke me up last night with his 'the Redcoats are coming' blather."

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.