Breathe a little easier in you live in a city in any blue state, not just California, per nyt legal expert Charlie Savage. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
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Breathe a little easier in you live in a city in any blue state, not just California, per nyt legal expert Charlie Savage. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
Tbh, he was like inhabited by an alien normal-person spirit from Tuesday to Thursday, by Friday resumed being Rudy. Also, he then brought in the Ground Zero cleanup ahead of schedule, under budget, and without fatalities, an all-NYC effort, no intl contractors (no Bechtel etc). All out of character.
This is exactly the classy tribute Jerry Nadler deserves—so happy you posted it.
I don't know what the 80 are. I do know that Jerry Nadler is a mensch.
Nate Silver is like people who cancel their nytimes subs, refuse to read it, then without ever looking at it won't shut up how bad the nyt is. How can Silver presume to badmouth bsky if he never reads it?
Smith's answer reminds me that he is the son of a Republican NY state judge.
I first fought alongside Jerry Nadler when we took on a corrupt bankruptcy system that was rigged against working families. When New Yorkers needed a champion, Nadler always had their backs. He’s a man of principle, and I’m deeply grateful for his years of public service.
I see RFKjr—like his no-good brothers, unlike his cousins—more as a Skakel than a Kennedy myself.
As somebody eager to see the Dem gerentocracy out—hey, Jerry, we didn't mean you. A UWS Jew, he says he doesn't even know what to say about Israel at this point. Alone among NY Dems, jumped to endorse Mamdani immediately after the primary. Young in spirit if not years, JN's instincts are infallible
Giuliani had three good days as mayor—Tuesday through Thursday of 9/11 week. By Friday the inexplicable angelic spirit that had invaded his soul realized it was in the wrong place and flew off. He did bring in the WTC cleanup ahead of schedule, under budget, w/ no fatalities, a totally NYC effort.
Don't be fooled. If you don't already know, Manhattan Institute is a deceptive name.
Was Sinema ever actually a Dem?
"For the love of sentences" is worth the price of admission every time. The rest is icing. What a writer!
I once ddg'd "smoothies for people who hate leafy green vegetables." Plenty of response but I never followed up. I theorize that if I liquify them w/ a spicy dressing I might be able to swallow it all fast enough …?
Now they tell us. This is right up there with Biden, RBG, and Dianne Fienstein favoring vanity above duty to country.
This is among the most fanciful, delusional political coverage I've seen in the last several months. More accurate would be this: In Virginia, Democrats and Republicans agree that expansion of Manhattan's 34th Street bus corridor is not an important issue for them. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
We've heard so much over the past decade about malignant narcissism etc, I wonder why nobody has explored sadism. The narcissism applies to one, where nobody studies a whole admistration performing sadistically—blithely and without blowback. It's puzzling.
Now, may I ask who 'we' are? Royal? editorial? political? woke?
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Hi, Ana. The thread I mentioned is in the 'Confession, lament' newsletter Comments (2/3). The second—'Hurry up'—too contains a long thread on Maine and Platner, but was written before your piece ran (3/3). Neither LKTiv essay refers in any way to you or Maine or GP. Hope this helps. —diane fisher
The Platner was a reminder: The girl can write. The piece inspired a long, admiring thread on a substack I follow. But sorry for the intrusion and all good wishes for quick recovery.
Hope this means who I think it means.
This makes me sick. My WWII combat infantry father was buried at Arlington with full military honors. To think of this traitor being granted the same ceremonial respect is grotesque—like so much else now.
Cutting loose in Mr Shawn's absence? Was I wrong to keep seeing Molly Jong-Fast as one of Lillian's girls?
Reality-tv/rural 'justice' meets urban values: For a third time, a D.C. grand jury humiliated trumpy prosecutors by refusing to overcharge a victim of his wannabe police state. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
After a zillion rock concerts, sat almost at the foot of the podium as Leonard Bernstein conducted NY Phil in Central Park; afterward, uninvited, joined him & entourage strolling to his trailer, sat a while, and walked back into the warm summer night—a woman alone in the park, not attacked.
SORRY—RFKjr of course!
PLEASE stop repeating stupid old news JFKjr animal scandals that everyone knows and start talking about what he's doing to people—you know, like men, women, and children+etc—now and in future.
'Mr. Sharpton said he had invited two of Zohran Mamdani’s rivals, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Eric Adams, and made a point of telling the crowd that they had declined to show up.' Mamdani spoke.
Ah, yes, that would be Eric Adams's NYPD.
RFKjr's dad was infamous for his ruthlessness. Jr puts him to shame. No depth too low to make some deadbrainworm point.
In my experience, the WTC attack was the beginning of the undeniable increase in concern for strangers here. Always there, but magnified immeasurably since the shared trauma.
I've lived downtown forever near Holland Tunnel approach. The traffic reduction has been life-changing. But here come the self-driving cars. After all, *somebody* has to thin the herd.
A Canada goose pair made their home in a flowerbox at the river end of Pier 25 in the '00s. No amount of close scrutiny ruffled their feathers even when she was sitting on eggs or training the gorgeous chartreuse goslings. Even strangers were instinctively protective.
Nah—never happen. He made DoJ humiliate themselves. He deserves a much better job for honorable people.
Sean Dunn. Say his name. Braver than Luigi. No running off to Pennsylvania for Sean. 'I did it! I threw the sandwich!'
Anything that wastes their collective time has to be a good thing.
tl;dr but worth the long read. A shocking, informative surprise if you're not Chinese.
The last time I was afraid on Manhattan streets was when all I knew about them was what I saw on local tv news—mid-'70s, traveled by taxi. Soon as I started walking downtown, woman alone, all hours, I discovered only cool adventures, no trouble ever, not once.
Somebody I know never married because she'd have to give up her rent-controlled closet, and where would she live after they broke up? Near 90, still there, contentedly alone, best friends are exes and their wives.
Fascinating! As surprising to others as to me, I'll bet.
After hearing on WNYC-AM that airliner had just struck North Tower, with WCBS-TV now on, watching second plane hit the South Tower behind the not-yet-aware anchor. I got in gear to vote(!), hit bank, get usual bkfst muffin, and sprint to the site. Autopilot. The debris cloud stopped me at Chambers.
It appears this Aakash Singh worked for Sen. Tillis and is a 2017 law grad. He needs to be infamous.
So preposterous no comment possible? She must have been in the Hamptons the day before when Mamdani's scavengers were hunting.
Israelis who think that when this is over their country will be remembered more kindly than nazi Germany or apartheit South Africa are deluding themselves.
Thanks for keeping this up, Ken. To NY pols: While I'm not in Jeffreys's district, I won't be supporting Dem leaders who don't endorse Dem voters' mayoral choice, Mamdani. Do the right thing, Dan Goldman. I have a hunch Hocchul will come around, no others. Real estate, Wall St, AIPAC too formidable.
"I don't think we've withheld an endorsement [of Zohran Mamdani]," says Hakeem Jeffries. "We've gotta figure out, moving forward, how we turn proposals into actual plans so that he is successful if he becomes the next mayor"
Just when Christie thought it was safe to sprawl in a beachchair again.
The word I should have used was whine. I didn't mean complwin in any formal sense.
Since when are candidates expected to invite competitors to their campaign events? A nutty complaint.
These people really have some nerve, appropriating the most inappropriate name possible to brand their malignant projects.
Some imaginative art was done on that landfill, which had been formed from the recent WTC excavation. creativetime.org was the innovator. I also saw Jane Fonda do a rally for some cause I've forgotten. Now it's all built up except for parks named for one ex-governor and one ex-mayor.
Michael Bloomberg is probably still pushing that meme.
And we thought the IDF was brutal before …
DOUBLE TALK. What right does the party have to horn in after voters elect a candidate party leaders refused to endorse? "I don't think we've withheld an endorsement" doesn't even rise to the level of gaslighting. Jerry Nadler's the only mensch in sight.
So sorry, Lisa. My own father died near there—the WVU hospital. He and my mother lived in Suncrest for decades. Coal dust got credit for the sunsets that graced Morgantown skies when I was getting my degree.
Oh! Look at all those people shaking in fear, terrified of crime … oh, wait. Remind me. Now just where is that supposed to be?
Astoria seems settled not far from where my favorite Manhattan avians—cormorants, swallows, terns, a Canada goose couple, migratory bnbers—wheeled, frolicked, and parented, beloved by many downtowners at then-rickety Pier 25 and its ancient pilings before the state paved paradise.
Andrew's base nature has always pretty much broken through in news coverage. His resignation was probably inevitable, and so is his uninvited attempt at resurrection. He seems barely able to go through the motions of interacting with voters. We can hardly blame Mario. So is he Matilda's fault?
Not just tech billionaires. I've always been struck by moderate pols who want every American to go start a business, with no awareness that some people have things more creative to do with their time.
Andrew is assumed to have been the author of the "Vote for Cuomo, not the homo" slogan used in his father's losing mayoral campaign against Ed Koch. The nepo brat denies it.
If Jack Javits knew what is being done in that building he'd demand his name's removal.
Michael Harrington would have recognized the agents provocateurs for exactly what they are. To my mind, they're the 21st century YAWF. What would Abbie Hoffman say about the contingent from his hometown, Wooster, Mass?
So poignant. It looks like a neutron bomb struck. You and Deborah accomplished something really useful here.
Let's just hope the pressure on Adams to drop out doesn't get strong enough to reduce the field to Mamdani v nepo brat.
THANK YOU! Who knew? Substack too hides useful reader options under what I call a tricon.
It makes an impression on people who know no better, then take it as the norm. I suppose the buried disclaimer does some good.
And you believe this is how reviews are assigned typically—a friend is located?
I knew no victims or people who did. Depended on the kind of work you or relatives did. One friend, a graphics artist, turned out to have a job for a brokerage in the north tower but had that day off. I met a guy months later, suffered staggering losses because many in his family were firefighers.
I ran toward it from not two miles north, on autopilot, not from heroism, and blogged from the perimeter till the cleanup was finished. I tear up as fast now as then. Like right now. Really, you had to be there.
Ironically good news! Let's hope Adams continues to hang in there against all odds, keeping the anti-Mamdani total divided. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/n...
Impeachment or 25th Amendment procedures. Seriously, is there NO line the other side will draw?
Worst idea since the first auto was allowed on a Manhattan street. What does Zohran think? Of course Eric would be all in. Andy? We're talking about putting lives on the line, and not just pedestrians'.
Former, not Formally
Desperately sad DN! story.
Paul Krugman's so much more productive and relaxed as an independent! Almost every day at least one new Substack newsletter, where it seemed like his nyt column had become weekly. I just hope he doesn't burn out, a danger he's probably more aware of than I am. (He has an attentive wife, too.)
All that matters about that is that djt thereby blessed his cult's belief it's true.
Not true for me. From the first moment my fingertips touched a keyboard—before PCs or the internet—i was hooked. Magic, then and now. The value depends on what we bring to it. If it's not working for you, turn it off for a while. You may surprise yourself by not even missing it.
The best part is that Adams keeps insisting he didn't do anything wrong. It's all those sneaks who keep insisting on crowding into offices in City Hall and 1PP when he's not looking.
Question for recent Catholic convert Vance: What does the pope say?
Bacon may be missing the point. The real estate industry, Wall Street, and Israelcentric NYers fear and loathe ZM (so does Rep Dan Goldman). And let's hear it for mensch Rep Jerry Nadler who endorsed immediately after the primary. More accurate NYC grit: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/n...
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The suspicion haunts me that some took all the wrong lessons from the gestapo.
Thanks for the needed nagging. Such a drag putting that damn thing even if only in supermarkets, etc.
Does anyone think massive protests matter in this era? What was the practical effect of the huge women's 2017 inauguration rally? The ongoing, decentralized trump 2 protests have more potential.
Is that signature supposed to be Melaria's? Did her husband teach her to write?
Astute!
Dan Goldman lacked the moral center to stand up for a Columbia student, a soccer coach and a makeup artist that were abducted by Trump's goon squads. He's the last person that should be telling others how to speak out against hate.
Unsurprising. Mamdani has made it clear that he's against Zionist Israel's genocide, so of course Goldman won't endorse him. www.trackaipac.com/states/newyo...
I never knew. As a Goldman constituent, I feel like I've just been disenfranchised. Oof.
I'm pleased in many respects with my congressman's record, but he is one of a bunch of NY pols who won't get my vote again unless they wise up on Mamdani. Never knew till now that Jerry Nadler is one of the few with a backbone.
When Cuomo started this he didn't even know the damn difference between rent-stabilized and rent-controlled. The carpetbagger's credibility exactly matches trump's—zero.
Unembarrass yourself. He doesn't deserve your sympathy.
Back to basics. Never mind the internet. If tv had never existed, none of this would be happening.
I would never ever have believed this wasn't Onionesque parody before I read the politico.eu story. Talk about your you can't make this stuff up!
How I wish the election were tomorrow! Can't wait to vote for Mamdani and see the last of this malignant carpetbagger.
Braver than Luigi: "I did it. I threw a sandwich." —ex-DoJ lawyer Sean Dunn www.cbsnews.com/news/justice... Pirro's judgment has always made her a laughing stock.
I keep a sacrificial free email account dedicated to satisfying demands like that.
LybiaLibya or Sudan?