Fare free transit is not a given in any large European city please be so for real

I can't believe according to the New York City Charter Cuomo now has to be held in a cage in the Central Park Zoo until June when he must be fed to sharks off the coast of Rockaway Beach. But them's the rules!

I bet rezonings along the IBX will be among the first times that the Affordable Housing Appeals Board comes into play (implicitly if not explicitly.) Queens and Brooklyn have pro-housing Borough Presidents for the next 4 years but their successors may not be - we must strike while the iron is hot.

An affordable housing mandate.

If I can get a little too sincere: Tonight is the first time where I can believe with my whole heart that I can live in the place I love for the rest of my life, and live in the way I want to, and I am jubilant at the possibility. This is what politics is supposed to feel like.

BREAKING: Cuomo spotted fleeing NYC in a white Ford Bronco

I am hearing that on his deathbed Andrew Cuomo received the light of democratic socialism and unhesitatingly sang the Internationale. Even now he looks down on Bushwick from the gardens of Astoria. Truly there is no god but DSA, and Zohran is his prophet!

Socialism is alive and Dick Cheney is dead

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has already proven that nothing changes unless we change it. Today, by joining Zohran and voting YES on Proposals 2 through 5, New Yorkers are wielding the power of our votes to change the course of our city’s future. @opennewyork.org

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

It’s a great day to talk to voters about affordable housing. Tomorrow, flip your ballot and vote yes on Prop 2, 3, 4 and 5!✅ Learn more: yesonaffordablehousing.com With Gov. Kathy Hochul, @bradlander.bsky.social, @marklevinenyc.bsky.social & @keithpowersnyc.bsky.social @opennewyork.org

NYC is the queerest place on the planet. From trans youth who need supportive housing to queer elders who need affordable housing, we just cannot get it built fast enough. Keep NYC the beacon it is for our communities — vote YES on Props 2-5 for a New York we can actually afford.

Completely and utterly disqualifying to even ask for this endorsement. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

"do something democrats" mr president you have a majority in the house and senate

Short explanation of what the deal is with "affordability" in the housing ballot proposals, since people have lots of questions - mainly stemming from the fact that our existing system is so complicated to begin with! (Explanation first, some personal commentary after)

I think keeping local elections odd-year would be a big fuck you to New Yorkers. I have so much respect for local media but please be so for real.

This new map based on @theNYHC data makes it clear: it’s too easy to block affordable housing in wide swaths of the city. If you agree every neighborhood needs to do its part in solving our citywide housing crisis, vote YES on Props 2-5.

As you prepare to vote, NYC, please read my op-ed about the importance of NYC voting yes on questions 2 through 5: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/fli... These changes aren’t about the needs of politicians. They’re about the needs of New Yorkers. /1

NYC: Vote YES on ballot props 2-4. We at DSA' Social Housing campaign @housethefuture.bsky.social support them to move affordable and social housing along at the city AND state levels.

It's true! Many DSA members and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social supporters *also* support questions 2-4! At the 41-minute mark in this segment, you can hear me and @aschierenbeck.bsky.social on the Brian Lehrer show on @wnyc.org discussing why these are pro-labor proposals: www.wnyc.org/story/the-ho...

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Me voting against Cuomo this week for the second time in 4 months

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's speech on Islamophobia today at the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx is well worth watching. youtu.be/3P6hz5ei_Xs?...

my kink. getting my mouth taped shut by Vickie Paladino and Bob Holden when I try to build affordable housing in Queens

City Council is spending your taxpayer dollars on Facebook ads in a petty attempt to maintain their ability to block housing.

@council.nyc.gov is blatantly violating the City Charter's prohibition on using government resources for electioneering with their mailers and social media posts opposing pro-housing measures 2-4. Chapter 49, §1136.1: there is no ambiguity about how illegal this is. www.nyccfb.info/law/charter/...

“You’re familiar” with the idea that a law has to be followed after it’s passed? Errol Louis to Andrew Cuomo. NYC passed a law to close Rikers in 2019.

So he's voting for Curtis Sliwa?

Guys, simply block the government on here and they’ll go away. It’s a government of posters and they’re looking for fodder, just treat them like the trolls that they are.

I believe Zohran should condemn Hasan because I believe all streamers should be condemned

“I will build 200,000 units of affordable housing… and I’m going to make it easier for the private sector to build housing, because what we see today is it’s not labor, it’s not materials—it’s the wait that is actually costing so many so much to build the housing we need” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

ok here's my nyc policy idea: create the post of Chief Weirdo. The job goes to an iconic freak whose job it is to maintain our world-leading weirdo levels. Curtis Sliwa can be the inaugural officeholder

GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa says he opposes City of Yes and ballot props 2-5, which he says will "take away your homes and provide you with lithium ion batteries, which are like mini-Chernobyls" Fact check: False. They won't do that, but they will make your rent more affordable.

Good lord. Just got my second NIMBY mailer from Adrienne Adams opposing the ballot measures that streamline affordable housing. This is likely illegal electioneering and definitely a waste of my taxpayer dollars being used to spread anti-housing propaganda

Welcome to the war on cars..... Jeep?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

a lot of people who boiled their brains with IDF atrocity footage and believe that only Israel killed civilians on 10/7, a thing Hamas doesn't even believe, are extremely mad Zohran is like, normal.

My kingdom for a city that has historic preservationists who want to talk about historic preservation instead of their aversion to tall buildings. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/n...

But today preservationists are in the NYTimes saying that as-of-right development in two of the whitest and wealthiest neighborhoods in NYC shouldn't be permitted because the buildings (in NYC of all places!) are too tall. Really gives the game away. Historic preservation isn't about preservation.

It's one thing to talk about the 1 in 20 Americans who live in households without cars. But it's another to talk about all the people who live in households with fewer cars than people who need to drive to participate in an autocentric society, particularly kids, elders, and people w/disabilities.

The current homepage of HUD.gov. This is unhinged. This should not be legal.

A scene from Zohran Mamdani's first State of the City address: Mamdani: We must protect health care for all New Yorkers. Eric Adams, Mamdani's weirdness translator, on the side of the stage: If you can't go to the hospital after a unicorn attack, YOU WILL PERISH. *crowd murmurs in appreciation*

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

The waiters said I couldn’t do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the waiters

Car free Sunday might be the reason for an annual visit to Brussels going forward

The takeaway of this discovery is that the Red Fort should be cleaned more/treated to protect it, which is all well and good, but shouldn't the real takeaway here be to take steps to reduce air pollution? If this is what's happening to a stone structure, imagine what it's doing to people's lungs!

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

Read this right now or else you're a homophobe! I don't make the rules!

The City Council should try to solve the housing crisis instead of being reactionary NIMBYs most of the time if it doesn't want to get railroaded by people interested in actually solving the housing crisis.