When Trump glorifies one, we inevitably get the other.
If you don’t see how uplifting the McCloskeys emboldens people like Kyle Rittenhouse then you’re not paying attention.
Queens residents are not confused.
@Ocasio2018
pushes bold change at a time people are sick of politics as usual. National Dems should learn rather than deride
To my friends on the other side of the aisle like
@AOC
and
@SenGianaris
taking a "victory lap" on the recent
@amazon
news, get a grip. They're only bringing in 1,500 jobs. The deal you torpedoed would have brought 25,000 jobs and $27 billion in tax revenue to NY.
So let’s see...
In 1.5 yrs since Amazon “pulled out” of NYC, they announced 1 mil sq ft of new office space and added or announced 5,000 new office jobs.
HQ2 was over 15 yrs, so they’re on pace to exceed what was planned.
All without massive subsidy.
I am donating all contributions received from police PACs for my re-election to bail funds and mutual aid organizations, and I will not accept them going forward.
We need to call out injustice, but most of all we must act.
This is the scene at the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights, Queens, where people are fed up.
No more violence. We deserve a police force that acts with empathy.
And we deserve a police force that is held accountable for racist behavior.
#BLACK_LIVES_MATTER
BREAKING: We’ve LEGALIZED recreational marijuana in New York!!
The new law will include social equity programs and will allocate revenue to the communities most affected by the ineffective war on drugs 😌🌿
The need to
#CancelRent
for 90 days cannot be overstated
Over the past ten days I’ve heard countless stories of tenants in distress and one basic fact remains:
People CANNOT pay rent if they don’t have a paycheck
WESTERN QUEENS, NY — We’re seeing a spike in
#COVID
positivity rates, especially in Astoria. Please folks:
Trust science 🧪
Wear a mask 😷
And social distance 🙅♂️
This pandemic must be taken seriously.
Yet again, drive for corporate profit pits people against each other.
Problem isn’t recliner or reclinee but damn airlines treating humans like luggage and squeezing as many of us into cabins as possible.
FAA should do its job and regulate seat space!
The burden should not be on the 99 percent to prove we are worthy of the 1 percent’s presence in our communities, but rather on Amazon to prove it would be a responsible corporate neighbor.
Corporate responsibility should take precedence over corporate welfare.
Working with
@AOC
and our Western Queens Small Business Council to help restaurants and other small businesses survive the pandemic
Federal relief is not just aid for struggling businesses, but a lifeline for working people and their families in this difficult time
#SaveSmallBiz
I believe Justice LaSalle represents a continuation of a status quo that sullied the Court’s reputation and ruled inconsistently with NYers values. I will vote ‘no’ should the nomination be brought to the Senate floor
Congestion pricing was a hard-fought, deliberatively-achieved policy to tackle NYC’s congestion crisis, improve the environment, and obtain vital funding for mass transit. Halting its implementation as it was about to begin is a big mistake
Thank you
@BernieSanders
We’re fighting to
#CancelRent
in NY and hope leaders across the nation realize help needs to go first to those who need it most
Along with pausing mortgage payments, evictions, and utility shutoffs, we must place a moratorium on rent payments, especially in states hardest-hit by the coronavirus like New York. We must build on the important work
@sengianaris
and others are doing to make this happen.
Our criminal justice system *should* see people as innocent until proven guilty—not guilty unless they can pay their way out. Bail keeps the poor incarcerated without requiring conviction of a crime. So proud we changed that
This is the scene at the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights, Queens, where people are fed up.
No more violence. We deserve a police force that acts with empathy.
And we deserve a police force that is held accountable for racist behavior.
#BLACK_LIVES_MATTER
Automatic Voter Registration is now the law in New York!
Proud to have authored this bill, paving the way for over 1 million eligible voters to be added to the rolls
#AVR
State Sen. Michael Gianaris plans to introduce a measure that will offer 90 days of rent forgiveness to residential and commercial tenants if they lose work or are forced to close because of the pandemic.
New York is a state *without* early voting, mail-in ballots, or no-excuse absentee.
You can only cast a ballot from 6am-9pm. Election Day isn’t a holiday.
When pollsites break down, it has enormous consequences for election turnout.
Enough. We need voting reform in New York.
Many of the more than 2,000 disqualified affidavit ballots in the
#QueensDA
election were submitted by undisputed registered Queens Dems who simply didn’t complete one question on the affidavit form.
This is anti-democratic. Count the votes!
@CabanForQueens
This is not good.
First Bill Gates and now Eric Schmidt. These are not people who should determine for us how best to provide services to everyday New Yorkers.
Instead, we should tax them more so people whose job it is to decide state policy can do so more effectively
NEW:
@NYGovCuomo
has tapped
@Google
CEO
@ericschmidt
to head a new Blue Ribbon Commission reimagining New York State’s current systems of health and education.
Animals should be treated as living beings with feelings, not products on a store shelf.
I'm proud the Senate passed my bill to combat puppy mills by banning the retail sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits. It's time we do the right thing for our animals. 🐰🐶🐱
We are not moving fast enough. We must
#CancelRent
and provide other relief ASAP
“Most working-class workers rent their home. Non-debt financial obligations—a category that includes rents—are higher than before the financial crisis.”
NYPD encrypting radios and actively directing media narratives will have a grave chilling effect on the free press - we are seeing it happen before our eyes. It is vital that we pass my Keep Police Radio Public Act to maintain transparency and accountability for law enforcement
The NYPD has also begun encrypting their radio transmissions.
When the police and universities block the press, but the head of the NYPD’s press office rolls up to scene on the roof of an MRAP truck, the narrative will only be controlled by
@NYPDnews
What’s really disgusting is when people exercising their right to protest injustice get assaulted by the same officers who are supposed to protect that right.
Take a seat you Trump sycophant
Citizen's Arrest is bonkers to begin with, and it shouldn't be used by aspirational despots to go after perceived enemies. We must get rid of it once and for all.
Glad our Senate passed my bill to do just that.
In a dangerous move, Donald Trump just reposted a statement calling for a citizen's arrest of AG James and Judge Engoron.
New York law only allows for a citizen's arrest when a person has 'in fact' committed a felony in the presence of that citizen, according to
@lawofruby
.
This is why I wrote the Democracy Preservation Act, which would take foreign corporate money out of our elections, and why we need to keep fighting to pass it
Foreign investors now own a whopping 40% of U.S. corporate stock shares — up from just 5% in 1982.
What are they doing with the excess cash? Pouring millions into US elections.
New York has an opportunity to curb this corruption by passing the Democracy Preservation Act. Do it!
NO WAY New York elects an anti-choice, pro-gun, extremist, insurrectionist, wanna-be Donald Trump like Lee Zeldin to lead our state.
@kathyhochul
is our best choice for Governor. VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
Bill de Blasio. Jesus Christ.
This is how he responds to the NYPD dragging an 18 year old homeless trans woman into an unmarked van for allegedly damaging police cameras.
This is the man who literally ran on police reform. The cowardice never ceases to amaze me.
Continue to be struck by the strength and dignity of
@ninaturner
.
So much crap slung
@BernieSanders
and his supporters on this channel. Great to see her setting things straight!
#NotMeUs
Anyone confused by Amazon’s effect on local businesses should read this
“It’s put me out of business,” said Mr. Knight, who is especially aggrieved by government subsidies to the company in the name of job creation; he will be laying off 40 employees
The data is clear - while rising crime is a great concern, the media's fixation with crime reporting is wildly disproportionate to reality. We must improve public safety in the context of actual facts, not sensationalism. Thanks to
@_AlanaSivin
@fwdus
for putting this together
I continue to appreciate
@BernieSanders
. Still dedicated to the movement and committed most of all to defeating Trump. I look forward to Sunday’s debate
@BernieSanders
is still in it. And he’s doing it his way. Clearly doesn’t see
@JoeBiden
as the person that he wants defeated but will hold his amigo accountable.
As someone who runs chamber operations for a legislature, I can tell you that Rule
#1
of legislative procedure is whoever has the majority makes the rules.
Get back in there and overrule the Parliamentarian! Working people need help!
#MinimumWage
Eviction moratorium is good but tenants without income won’t be able to pay accumulating rent in 90 days and will then face eviction.
We need to
#CancelRent
for 90 days
#BREAKING
: New York will implement a 90-day moratorium on evictions for residential and commercial tenants.
We will do all we can to help those financially suffering because of the
#COVID19
pandemic.
A vigilante is someone who decides on their own to stop crime. Jordan Neely was not committing a crime. His killer is not a vigilante. He’s a criminal.
RIP Jordan Neely
New York City: We are lifting the curfew, effective immediately. Yesterday and last night we saw the very best of our city.
Tomorrow we take the first big step to restart. Keep staying safe. Keep looking out for each other.
“What I have recommended to the New York delegation is that you find (
@AOC
) a primary opponent and make her a ONE-TERM CONGRESSPERSON," a veteran Democratic lawmaker told me.
"You've got numerous councilpeople and state legislators who've been waiting 20 yrs for that seat.”
Hey
@NYCPBA
, behold the re-election of
@KevinThomasNY
and the 100% Democratic Nassau Senate delegation!
You should really do a better job minding your members’ money
What I don’t get about bail reform opponents is the idea they would somehow feel safer if people accused of crimes just wrote a $1,000 check before being released back into the community.
I appreciate that some honestly disagree but the demagogues on this issue are truly awful
They did not ask a single judge, a single district attorney, a single police chief in the state to comment on this most significant criminal justice reform in the history of New York. And now we are left to pick up the debris that it’s going to create.
I am continually amused by the latent conflict between the NY Post real estate section (“NY is back baby!”) and its front page (“NY is an unredeemable hellhole!”)
Thanks
@nytimes
for the profile. Honestly, I’m just a guy from Queens trying to do right by the state I love. I’ll never let up on that. Promise.
Amazon Wants to Come to New York. This Senator May Stand in the Way. via
@NYTimes
Senator
@SenGianaris
is debating HONDA, his bill to create permanent, truly affordable housing through the conversion of distressed hotels and certain commercial properties.
Watch here:
Here you go, folks. Apparently over 100 ballots disqualified for this reason, even if voters are clearly registered Queens Dems and therefore eligible to vote.
These votes should be counted!
#QueensDA
@CabanForQueens
Here’s what’s happening. Some voters didn’t fill out that blank near the top that says “party enrollment” (to the left of DOB).
The
@BOENYC
says leaving this blank means the affidavit ballot isn’t counted.
People who don’t have rent money for next month won’t magically have 3 month’s rent in 90 days.
We must
#CancelRent
to stave off a housing crisis this summer
So Joe Lieberman, who endorsed McCain over Obama and is on Trump’s short list for a job, goes on Fox News of all places, to tell Democrats that
@AOC
shouldn’t be our future?
thank u, next
Those without a paycheck this month shouldn’t be expected to pay rent in a couple days
We should first help those that typically get left behind
#CancelRent
One of our first acts when we took the Senate majority was to enshrine reproductive rights in NY state law so we’ll be a safe haven if Roe is overturned
Real, maybe dumb, question. What can the NY legislature do to fight against the Texas law against women and pregnant people? Or to support those seeking abortion?
@SenGianaris
The different police response today compared to the summer protests makes my blood boil.
Law enforcement is biased, plain and simple. They don’t even hide it.
City Hall announced on Sunday night that it would order all bars and restaurants to close. Restaurants would be limited to takeout and food delivery, officials said.