Happy valentine's day ❤️

Don't miss @ngusdorf.bsky.social in conversation with Josh Wallack, who helped deliver Pre-K for All to New York--covering the de Blasio Pre-K experience, voucherization, universal provision, private providers, & the Hochul-Mamdani childcare announcement. nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

NYC Policy Forum has a publishing platform/newsletter designed to take policy conversations out of white papers & into the public sphere. It will provide a range of viewpoints & insights on the difficult tasks of governing as we work together to build an affordable NYC. nycpolicyforum.substack.com

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Today, three of our staff members joined the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social admin's transition committee: 🏢 Executive Director Nathan Gusdorf on Government Operations 🏘️ Chief Economist Emily Eisner on Housing 🏥 Director of Health Policy Michael Kinnucan on Health www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

The Gathering Storm Over the American Dream The Trump admin fired a civil servant over a jobs report, but the real story is bigger. I spoke with @ngusdorf.bsky.social of @nyfiscalpolicy.bsky.social about how politicizing data & gutting public jobs is shaking the American Dream.

Republicans began this process insisting that they weren’t cutting Medicaid. “We’re just telling Energy and Commerce to find savings, but it won’t be Medicaid.” And now they’re about to pass the biggest Medicaid cut in history, at least four times the size of the current largest cut in history.

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the Founders intended for presidents to have standing armies to suppress free speech, because once upon a time, kings did.

Yesterday the CBO released its newest estimates of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”. $3.8 trillion in tax cuts and $1.2 trillion in spending cuts. This will cost New York State $15.4 billion per year and 1.5 million New Yorkers will lose their health insurance. 🧵

Some very interesting reporting here on Big Law going penny wise and pound foolish. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

New York State’s budget is currently being negotiated, but they’re failing to prepare for federal budget cuts. Even worse - we’ll likely see the problem compounded with $2 billion in new tax cuts. Op-ed with @emmurpheis.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/27/a...

City of Yes is up for votes this morning in the zoning committee and Land Use committee. The council is looking for a deal that includes budget commitments from the mayor towards affordability measures (what they call “City for All”)