My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
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My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
Driver 8 or Gardening At Night.
can’t believe they’re doing eugenics, that’s not what fascism is supposed to be about
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich - WSJ share.google/n0k5Jf5qMjuh...
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Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Could it possibly be Memorial?
I still shudder to think about the old token-operated High Entrance Exit Turnstile on the 8th Ave end of the 7th Ave F stop in Park Slope. That thing was a death trap.
Folks got to the National jokes already, so let's try this one: It's simply a special form of socialism that allows America to win or 'master' the competition or 'race' with other countries. A 'master race socialism,' if you will.
Well, it's worth noting these are crypto enthusiasts. They're used to setting money on fire for the worst reasons imaginable.
Pretty much everyone's a *former* smoker, at least as far as they know. You smoked back in high school when you had that girlfriend who lived in Canada.
“I’m going cook up an absurd thought experiment where it’s okay to kill little kids and change the laws of war so that I can claim my thought experiment describes literal reality. Then when we blow up an elementary school I can just say after the fact it was Cobra Commander’s secret headquarters.”
Seeing people in the US of States glazing Newsom's dank memes and being all "Gavin slayyyy" is giving Starmer Fever 2024 and, American pals, it's equally embarrassing to witness.
Game on.
How I learned: "The mites crawl up, so the tites come down."
The Times saw the mayor's people handing out bribes in public last month and refused to write about it till after somebody else broke a related story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon
20 Aug 25 -- Bluesky has suspended multiple trans users for anti-J.K. Rowling posts even when they didn't mention threats or violence. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
*Chasing goose meme* Marketing for what? MARKETING FOR WHAT? (The goose is not chasing you, obv)
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Social media should be safe for trans people. Therefore, social media should be unsafe for transphobes. Pass it on.
Tuba-heavy circus music. It makes their very serious marching look particularly ridiculous.
Hi, I'm Andrew Cuomo. I'm sorry I groped your mom and killed your grandma, but if you give me a fifteenth chance, I promise to throw you out of your apartment.
The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.
Goldman won with 23k votes out of nearly 300k registered Dems in the last primary. Anyone even approaching ZKM in terms of skill and org could wreck Goldman. I for one would dearly love to vote for a halfway decent not-Goldman.
Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
Mamdani on Cuomo: "I don't need to do much to make the governor appear extremely dislikable."
"To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn't care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet." Omar El Akkad, ONE DAY EVERYONE WILL ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS
#ReleaseTheCuomoList
jesus christ what government agency uses a Fraktur-adjacent typeface unless they are sending the most blatant dog whistle of all time When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in all the signifiers of literal 1940s Nazi Germany because lol nothing matters
This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.
Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NY’s rent stabilization laws. The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated. www.politico.com/states/new-y...
one thing that's making me feel particularly insane lately is how there is no longer any limit to the amount of wrong you can be
“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said. “Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.
Tottenville SIR?
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on. It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.
Andrew Cuomo couldn’t allow his first, tepid recognition of reality — that the Israeli government, with the full support of the Trump administration, is starving the people of Gaza — last more than a few hours without walking it back. This is someone who believes in nothing.
You’ve heard me say it before: the only thing New Yorkers hate more than a politician they disagree with is one they can’t trust. And you can’t trust a word Andrew Cuomo says.
Global Voices' co-founder @ethanz.bsky.social wrote about GV's unique work, history and how you can support it: "Throughout it all, Global Voices has been here, presenting a wider world for anyone who’s wanted to learn about it." #KeepGVStrong🌱 ethanzuckerman.com/2025/07/30/k...
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This is also a big win for RCV. Voters starting to get comfortable with stating relative preferences, and (some) politicians grasping the power of coalitions, cross-endorsements, and slates.
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
No cheating, post your lock screen (with alt text).
In politics partisan actors are often rational. However, an exception is about to occur in the form of mid-decade redistricting. Republicans and now Democrats are threatening a wave of new gerrymanders. I will skip the part about it being wrong. More importantly in our amoral age: it will not work.
But Greg, who's going to stand outside your house and watch while you get murdered and then wait an hour to eventually fly a drone in to check if you've finally died?
They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
Democrats: What do we need to do to win back disillusioned voters? Voters: Stand up to Trump and fight him like our lives depend on it. Democrats: Alienate our base while we chase bros who will never vote for us. Got it. Voters: That's not- Democrats: Can you give us five dollars right now?
Done.
Cop Mayor is at it again. New Eric Adams ‘Donors’ Say They Never Gave to His Reelection Campaign www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
For the children.
What can we learn? Well, like the many, many, many other previous UBI experiments, we can learn that it works. What's more interesting is how, after so many successes, people somehow continue to be shocked and confused by yet another success.
Los desaparecidos de Nueva York
🧵 The data you have all been waiting for! The NYC mayoral primary WITHOUT batch elimination (and some early analysis) 1) Zohran's first round (469,642) would have been enough to win against Cuomo's final round (443,229)
I take it as jiven that folks who think like this deserve coal as a Christmas jift. And it's worth noting, in that famous video, Stephen Earl Wilhite had to misspell GIF as JIF to make his pronunciation preference clear.
So beyond the platforming, what's the rationale for deliberately driving engagement for a bunch of fascist and white supremacist influencers by linking to their accounts? It's pretty clear Mehdi didn't know beforehand these were all for-profit bigots, but you certainly did.
hEteRoDOx CenTrISm.
More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests. We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.
zohran’s campaign should consider these in-kind contributions
Generally, people in public do not have an expectation of privacy. So taking a photo in public is typically fine. Consent laws apply to two parties in a private conversation. And even in one-party consent states, like NY, secretly recording *other people's* private conversations is very illegal.
And on a serious note, walking by this thing every day, you can see that the facade is very poorly put together. Nothing's square or lines up, there are gaps all over, and in the winter it collects and drops massive ice chunks onto Flatbush Avenue and the sidewalk.
*Pushes glasses up nose* Well actually, it most resembles Orthanc in Isengard, which was the tower of Saruman, not Barad-Dûr on the Plateau of Gorgoroth, where the Eye of Sauron resided.
After mismanaging the MTA for 10+ years as Governor, Andrew Cuomo would now like to mismanage it as Mayor.
He’s like the Eric Adams of New York
repost if you're part of the anti-newsom troll farm network
Am I reading it correctly, based on her Wiley's Round 1 share compared to her votes exhausted in Round 13, that a major share of Wiley voters must have listed only her and no one else?
This atrocity right here.
The city’s campaign finance watchdog has greatly expanded its investigation into Mayor Eric Adams’ fundraising, targeting alleged illegal straw donations arranged by an agent of the Uzbekistan government.
I did not expect the lesson of the Fyre Festival to be that we'd all be living at the Fyre Festival from now on.
I'm seeing lots of them just walking down the street the past week.
If you're pissed off at the NYT, here's your chance to put my money where your mouth is. This long weekend, I will donate $0.50 to @thecity.nyc for each of: - every new Bluesky follower I get - every new Bluesky follower THEY get - everyone who reposts this post
This is the correct response.
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
@nytimes.com I think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi.
It's always a good day to choose @hellgatenyc.com and @thecity.nyc for metro NYC news coverage instead of NYT but today I'd note both of these newsrooms clear the low bar of "don't use eugenicist freaks perusing FERPA violating data as sources!!"
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
BILLIONAIRE: Lying Zohran Mamdani says that the rich have too much power. Here is the politician I have personally selected to be mayor instead.
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
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As the Congressman representing the 7 most racist towns on Long Island, i am demanding that Zohran Mamdani apologize for not being white
Dan Goldman not be islamophobic challenge (impossible). I dearly wish someone less shitty could be my congressional representative.
Christian Faith An Important Part Of Who Senator Pretends To Be theonion.com/christi...
Two things can be true: that Kirsten Gillibrand is an opportunist who doesn’t care about women and not-so-secretly harbors racist beliefs; and that Gillibrand correctly read the tea leaves with regards to Al Franken’s eight accusers, and people just never heard the “eight accusers” part.
The safety was caught flat-footed. Put up token resistance. Didn't even step to the ball.
Just relaxing on a Friday night going through and memorizing the fix the city donors
Anyway sharing this a last time. This isn’t working. It’s not making people take antisemitism more seriously, it’s not keeping Jews safer, it’s endangering people, it’s totally antithetical to building solidarity forward.com/opinion/7320...
To me, the lesson of De Blasio and the NYPD is different: they will hate you no matter what. NYPD, especially the white well-connected officers who make up the upper ranks, get their news from conservative propaganda and will not respect your authority or cooperate with you no matter what you do.
PRIMARY HER
as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders
US runs abour 240 military commissaries & over 200 VA canteens (PatriotStores), totaling around 440 Fed operated grocery & retail food outlets, just in US. They serve troops, veterans, and their families at bases & VA. 11 to 13 million US citizens are served annually. NY population is 8.5 million.
