You can take my em dashes—from my cold, dead hands.

tfw ZoLa has finally been updated to include the One LIC rezoning 😎 zola.planning.nyc.gov?layer-groups...

Finally put all of my microblogged thoughts into one place! Why groceries in NYC are so expensive and low-quality, and what can be done to fix it...

I do appreciate how thoroughly Hochul is willing to repudiate Andrew Cuomo’s terrible legacy—in this case, his (RFK jr-inspired) decision to close Indian Point

I hadn’t realized Zohran was a Jersey City booster — really proves he’s decently steeped in the NYC YIMBY scene www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...

Wow – real asking rents in Jersey City are completely flat since 2017 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n... (🎁🔗)

‘Better Call Saul’ nailed its landing, and far better than ‘Breaking Bad’ imo—the audience can feel that Jimmy has earned some measure of redemption

The real question is if he’s hitting that 4/5 transfer at 59th and Lex or staying on the W for a one-seat ride

The real question is if he’s hitting that 4/5 transfer at 59th and Lex or staying on the W for a one-seat ride

Great news: Gov Hochul has reportedly decided to veto a bill requiring two-person train operation. This poorly-considered bill would've mmediately impacted services that are currently run with one person, and would've make it impossible to fully automate new lines like the IBX.

It feels very unfair to compare Cuomo-era climate plans with Hochul-era climate reality, while ignoring that the Cuomo-era reality was that 2 gigawatts of clean power came *off* the grid in one fell swoop at Indian Point – more than twice the solar/wind we have in total today!

My inclination is actually that Britain could probably get more of the pre-2016 settlement than many expect, merely because the prospect of Bre-entry would be a propaganda coup for the EU in and of itself

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heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy — www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

Excited for New Haven to try and outshine New Rochelle’s boom 👀

Midtown Manhattan looking ✨ aesthetic ✨ tonight

Mississippi 👀

North Shore (Staten Island) rezoning dropping 👀 edc.nyc/press-releas...

Trying to think of what the Westchester equivalent of Marin Kombucha would be lol

Credit where due, I’m pleased to see my council member pass this rezoning—I suspect in a few years, it’ll be obvious it was the right move for the neighborhood www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/n...

Please do not fold this easily when Adams and Mastro have six weeks left to ratfuck you

Hey, sometimes New Yorkers have *a breathtaking dance of radiant light and color across the entire night sky* from that Con Ed plant that exploded in Queens www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/n...

Josh’s post is worth reading in its entirety. The points: 1) kill the filibuster 2) court reform 3) DC/PR statehood 4) clean up laws on presidential power 5) outlaw extreme gerrymandering These strike me as a really good starting point of foundational necessities.

I still find it noteworthy that these stories came out right after the GOP tax cut passed, i.e. when Trump fully became a lame duck for the Wall Street rich guy set

This is going to get lost in the fray of his victory but it’s an appallingly antidemocratic position from someone who purports to support redistribution of political power

Take it from trusted NYC leaders @bradlander.bsky.social @marklevinenyc.bsky.social @drichardsqns.bsky.social Antonio Reynoso: Vote YES on Affordable Housing Ballot props 2-5!

NYC: early voting starts today! Come out and vote yes on Props 2-5!

Objectively the funniest quote on Bad Bunny I have ever read www.newsweek.com/entertainmen...

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The West Village is really something else; 15 condos and 20 parking spaces lol newyorkyimby.com/2025/10/faca...

Excellent illustration of how existing housing can filter up to billionaires under a tight zoning and landmarking regime

This is utter nonsense. The status quo gives MAGA nimby councilmembers disproportionate power to block housing that benefits the entire city. I trust Zohran with the power to approve housing far more than Vickie Paladino. Vote YES on the pro-housing ballot initiatives

Shutting down Indian Point was a massive, expensive mistake: "NY's electric grid operator warns of looming 'reliability shortfalls'" -- www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

As I have said before, the choice of who to vote for in the upcoming New Jersey gubernatorial election is not hard.

I strongly think SCOTUS should become a rotating body of circuit court judges. It'll make it that much harder to corrupt

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

While he’s in the news, Bad Bunny—his politics lean towards a Puerto Rican nationalism that verges on advocating for independence from the US, whereas I think the US and Puerto Rico would both benefit more from full statehood; Dems may need (but wouldn’t be guaranteed) their votes in the Senate

If you live in California, please call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and urge him to sign SB 79. Here's my post about why the bill is so important: publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Every once in a while I do find it fun to look at what these guys are up to—I remember looking into the heir of the House of Hapsburg and finding this racecar driver en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdina...

love to see Connecticut unleashed

After 8 years, we did it! SB 79, the biggest upzoning bill in state history, just passed the Legislature. Brief 🧵, with some important thank yous. 1/x

I am in @theatlantic.com today on the NYC Council's effort to kill the city's upcoming housing referendum www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I do think it’s wild that these guys are at DEFCON 1 seemingly just because Mamdani openly calls himself a socialist, esp when compared to Bill ‘hasta la victoria siempre’ de Blasio, who I guess was a capitalist to his bones

Tough to view Klein as a Fascist Trojan horse when he writes like this.

JD Vance has not made many posts on his troll Bluesky account, so I thought it was quite telling that one of his first was a crude attempt to bait Jamelle, who obviously has him read to shit.

This would be an outrageous abuse of the Board of Elections role in order to override the democratic process.

I'll believe this when they're blasting Memories from Cats and not a moment sooner lol

Assuming some of the reforms the Germans pushed them to take actually paid off? Mildly curious which ones did