each time it airs hochul should forcibly upzone a village

PSA today is Santacon do not I repeat DO NOT venture into the Manhattan CBD (if you're participating in Santacon I don't think we're friends)

Yeah it's really unbelievable how many people want to incarcerate (make it harder to drive drunk) people whose most basic civil liberties (killing people with cars) are at risk

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify. Another agent, accompanied by a dog, was hiding nearby and released the dog on Wilmer shortly after he stepped outside.”

[showing you a picture of children frolicking] isn't this horrible? aren't you scared? wouldn't you hate it if your neighborhood looked like this? wouldn't you rather have an expressway? aren't you scared? aren't you scared? aren't you scared?

NYC politicians throw around the term "e-bike," and dealing with the so called "e-bike problem" is brought up constantly, but it's important to know what the rules are now because a lot of what you see that seem like e-bikes are already not street-legal.

The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net cannot reliably get a homeless person in psychiatric crisis out of the subway and into a hospital bed, a Streetsblog investigation by @ndhapple.bsky.social has found.

oops ruined thanksgiving day football by saying that professionalization and specialization of child athletes has done more harm than good and now my sister-in-law is staring daggers at me

Menin got over $100K spent on her by Uber, $1,600 donation from Tony Argento, $1,000 from Randy Mastro, no response to questions about it:

I think it's shameful that during a second Trump administration, and after NYC voters rejected a return to moderate, conciliatory governance, that a Democrat would tout the entirety of the Council's Republican caucus as her supporters.

The context of all of this is that the Trump Administration has undone a Biden Era rule requiring U.S. airlines to reimburse passengers for lengthy delays, and they want you to talk about airplane dress codes, slippers and snacks instead. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...

I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.

If you had shown this to Bobby Kennedy in 1968 he would have pried the gun out of Sirhan Sirhan's hand and shot himself

Insane that pushing back on an election outcome as a mandate is only a thing with Mamdani. Where have these people been when the media has treated the 2020 election as a mandate for Trump to do whatever he wants? Elections aren't mandates and we should push back on this idea universally.

Good take

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