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planted squarely in the common-sense middle
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Fact:. People would be less upset about congestion pricing if the MTA even pretended to care about collecting fares . People would be less upset about congestion pricing, if all of the people pushing for it, also demanded to limit the number of Ubers and for hires. People would.
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@JuliaCarmel__ Perhaps its time to rethink some of your policies? .Many of us have been the victims of crime & had loved ones victimized, leading us to fight for safe streets. Perhaps time for you to stop gaslighting & start acknowledging tragedies like this ARE avoidable if pols took action.
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This won’t end here. The plan is to expand the regressive tax congestion pricing uptown and outerboros. I wish everyone was this mad years ago when we were warning you all to fight it. Wait until it seeps into Bklyn, Harlem & LIC
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A black homeless woman set on fire while she slept & was murdered in the most horrific way possible. Where are all of the politicians and fake activist grifters screaming that “being homeless shouldn’t mean getting killed”. Unlike Neely, she was asleep, not threatening anyone,.
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I’ve said this before. The far left has normalized the abnormal. They will come on here and on television and say that the subways are safe and only the privileged drive cars . 10 years ago if this were to happen, it would have been horrifying and mobilizing. The city would.
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I love the texts I receive from my teen, telling me he’s arrived safely at school. This morning he had an educational trip, immersive experience into failed progressive policies before he even entered the school building. This is what teens experience just trying to get to
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The problem w comparing a public bathroom in Tokyo to one in NYC . Here’s a photo from train ride I took w my son at midnight in Tokyo. And the 2nd pic is a photo he sent me on the way to school . We can’t have nice things until we do better as a city and a society
@leahfrombklyn @nytimes That's something I almost immediately noticed when my family and I fly to Tokyo. Bathrooms are in abundance, and makes traveling around with kids a less stressful experience. Having to struggle to find a restroom with a toddler in NYC shouldn't be as much of a hassle as it is.
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The scary part is, these 15,17,19 year olds will be full grown “men” soon with very little prospect of being productive members of society. How do you go from this to a career & family? . One lane for this behavior and it’s a dead end/prison.
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@JuliaCarmel__ Disgusting & cruel?.I was polite, but since gloves are off, I’d say feigning sympathy & shock at a random murder bcse the victim is a friend, is disingenuous & immoral. You’re responsible for creating the environment that emboldens criminals & leaves dangerous EDPs on the street.
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The worst part of Congestion Pricing is seeing all of these pale, weak, transportation simps in my feed. I’ll pay $15 to make these transplants crawl back into their basements w their bikes & kleenex and stop talking to me.
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JUST HAPPENED: Walking along 14th St, 5:15 pm, I saw a guy pulling a food drop scam. Woman handing him money. 1 block away, another woman is pulling same scam on young Japanese woman. Only this time I hear her say, “lets go to the bank”. I step in & say “Wow what a coincidence, a
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82 degrees and sunny. Is this gentleman . A) Cold & afraid of Covid. or. B) Up to nefarious activities and concealing his identity?
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@bennyjohnson @AOC @elonmusk Disgusting to eat while speaking and record it. Who raised these people? . Zero class. 100% narcissist.
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I’ve said it before. Most NYers are multimodal. We walk, train, bike and drive, depending upon the task. I’ve found myself now paying $9 to run downtown to an obscure, hard to reach by train, location that would take 50 mins ea way WITHIN Manhattan. Then returning to UWS to park
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@JCAndersonNYC Totally normal. My church sends similar messages when one of our congregation commits a terrorist act. Actually, no they don’t.
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One train ride home.One car.One massive failure by NYC @NYCDSSCommr . Why are these men housed on the subway at 1030 pm
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Apparently this tweet is so awful it justifies various death threats to me, my business, my family. Not just on twitter, but also off. Authorities have been notified. I’ve seen many awful tweets about this murder & the policies resp for it. Mine doesn’t even come close 2worst 1/2
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Local politicians are angry and shocked about the chokehold death. The reason we’re not shocked, is because we’ve all been on the train when some random, surely unreported, incident happens. Hoping someone will step in and help. Pols wouldn’t understand, they don’t ride trains.
This video was shot a little while back. What should I do if I'm the girl in the video? The unhinged man has no weapon. Does he seem like a threat? That's why I haven't taken the subway in a long time. Mentally ill needs help and criminals need to be locked up.
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Being a NYC parent presents its own challenges. Seeing your kid set out on his own, heading to school is concerning on a good day. We take a deep breath and trust they’ll be OK. But the fact is, they’re not always OK. Like the time, my son, seen here at different ages, was 13 and
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Ppl thinking Kathy Hochul is unpopular because of congestion pricing is pretty funny. Most of us remember her constantly extending the covid state of emergency while doling out crazy lucrative no bid contracts to her campaign donors. Or when she hired Brian Benjamin as her
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Report on today’s event:. Once I saw there was another protest planned at another NYC hospital, I decided that I needed take a stance. I thought that ppl may need to be escorted into the hospital and we should provide positive safe passage. On Saturday I posted an invitation to
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If you go to work today and it doesn’t involve hunting down a museum stabber or a serial killer, thank a cop today for doing it for you. I 👀 you officers and I appreciate you. 🇺🇸🗽🚔.
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It’s with a heavy heart but I can’t imagine another year of dealing with NYC politics and policies . Time for me to move. I’m house hunting in San Francisco. Safety and QoL first.
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Here’s the thing, I love wide-eyed- excited-to-live-in-NYC, transplants. I love this city too!. For too long they ignore life long NYers warnings that crime is real, safety is once again an illusion . This young woman was so happy to be living life in NYC, backdrops for her
Stop staring at your phone. Head on a swivel. And mace in your hand. This isnt victim shaming. It’s advice from a lifelong NYer.
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Late model Mercedes c400 driving like a maniac on Amboy Rd (Staten Island) without any plates & pitchblack tint, yesterday . Called 911, they couldn’t (?) do anything about it because the vehicle was on the move & not at a set address . Even tho there are 10 cops at Verazzano
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If this was a gay pride flag being ripped down, NYC pols wild have an extensive investigation and 24/7 protests.
Elon Musk tweeted and asked:.“Did they just tear down an American flag on Veterans Day in America? Am I understanding this correctly?”. Yes! You are understanding this correctly! The silent majority better not stay silent anymore!
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So… the only way to recognize this as being in NYC instead of a prison yard, is by the empty kermit bike lane. Remove the background and what do you see? Savagery . This is NOT how things have to be here.Shame on all of the gaslighting NYC politicians . This scene would have
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For the love of God, we cannot allow Jumaanae Williams to be Mayor. Adams must stay.
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Overregulating a handful of old school pizzerias is ridiculous. 11 or so businesses aren't impacting the climate. But sure. Ruin the last of the great pizzas. I hate these pll. NYC rules crack down on coal, wood-fired pizzerias
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We’re just a few people on a corner on the UWS. With a pocketful of American flag pins.No agenda but to remind ppl how blessed we are to be American. The majority of ppl love our country.Is there room for change or improvement? Always.Dismantling? Never. Standing proud and
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NYC subways. Where an illegal immigrant homicidal maniac set a vulnerable homeless woman on fire, while she slept and the next day you can enjoy actual icicles growing from whatever bio hazard slime is dripping from the ceiling. Congestion pricing will NOT in fact fix this.
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I used to think buying an apt in NYC was a safe investment. Have spent the past 2 years debating to open a brick & mortar store. Between the lack of political competency, QoL decline & now migrant crisis, I can’t pull the trigger on signing a commercial lease. And Im a small fish.
New York City has extended its contract with local hotels to help house foreign itinerants for up to three more years, with a projected total price tag of $1.365 billion — nearly five times what the original deal called for. The old contract was for $237 million, for 2023 alone.
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Drove about 700 miles up and down the great state of New York. Didn’t see a single Biden or Harris sign.Not one. The countryside is covered in Trump signs and flags. And putting political signs aside, every Main Street is lined with American flags. Hungry? Get yourself fried
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Today is my birthday. No gifts please, unless its a vote against a progressive NYC City Council member. And if they’re unopposed, feel free to write my name in as a protest vote . 🇺🇸
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Sleeps on the job.Still has a Passover out of office message.But Dems will vote for him out of blind allegiance to party over substance . Shame on every dummy who re-elected @JerryNadler
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Stop staring at your phone. Head on a swivel. And mace in your hand. This isnt victim shaming. It’s advice from a lifelong NYer.
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Upstate NY. As seen from a pickup truck. Welcome to a very different reality
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Calling Americans Nazis for attending a Trump rally in MSG is disgusting. It diminishes the atrocities of the actual Nazis. It pushes moderates even further right. Using the Nazi label so freely is shameful. Most Trump supporters I know don’t love everything about him. But.
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This tweet sums up the pettiness, cultism and disrespect people like Kuntzman have for NYC. The resentment they have for men and women who actually serve the city and not special interest groups is on full display . Mocking “heroes” to beg for congestion pricing is a new deranged.
9/11 has the year's worst traffic . because, of course, heroes can't possibly take the subway like us mere mortals. Important People must drive because that's what Important People do (though if #CongestionKathy hadn't killed congestion pricing, these heroes wouldn't be stuck)
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They should sue @ManhattanDA . How many criminals from NYC are released only to continue criminal activities in other states?. If he was behind bars, this young lady would be alive. The blood trail leads directly to the Manhattan DA.
#BREAKING DHS sources confirm that Jose Antonio Ibarra was arrested 5 months ago in New York. Records show he was arrested on 9/14/23 in Queens, NY for injury to child less than 17 and no license.
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I’m disgusted to think how many anti cop politicians are going to attend slain officer Rivera’s service tomorrow. Just a few who shouldn’t show their faces:. @JumaaneWilliams @NYCComptroller @bradhoylman @tiffany_caban @Kristin4Harlem @AOC .Who am I missing?. No more photo ops.
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Incredibly dangerous . After 9/11 I never imagined NYC would become a terrorist breeding ground. Disgusting.
Nonviolent resistance isn’t terrorism, but in NYC it openly supports terrorism.
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I’m disgusted we’re allowing Grand Central doors to be smashed. NYPL defaced. Historic events to be disrupted.American flags torn down. This is our city. Not a fringe cult intent on ruining NYC. If we didnt dole out $ for every frivolous lawsuit against NYPD we could enforce laws.
@NYCComptroller @andrewrsorkin @Tesla Yet no comments about this anti-Semitism in New York City, @bradlander. Why?
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@CrimeInNYC “Its Friday, hes not going to see a judge til Monday”. Pro tip fellas: .Criming should be limited to Sun-Thurs .🚔. Pro Pro Tip:.Don’t go criming to begin with.
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Traffic slow at the GW. But at least you can buy mangoes and candy from women and children on the highway . How is this better for them?
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@njburkett7 @MTA @AAA_Travel @RidersAlliance @ABC7NY Odd to celebrate no one heading into Manhattan on a Saturday night. Do you think the bridge n tunnel crowd suddenly decided they want to get dressed for a night out and take the ferry?. Come on. Why are you tagging ridersalliance?.As someone else noted: this is why we don’t trust.
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Yesterday I posted my kid on the train w a guy doing drugs & another passed out on the floor on his way to school. Today, he had to walk home fr 42nd St bcse some loser pulled the emergency brake on his train line heading back to UWS fr school. So tired of the gaslighting by.
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Its official, we have a street walker on w72. Try to speak with her? As I did. Thinking she may need someone to help her, and she got mad and signaled at someone. She walks up and down the same block as @LindaBRosenthal office on the UWS. You can see her office top left of photo
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This is unsustainable. Unacceptable. Kiss the NYC you love, goodbye unless we close these borders and get control over this situation . We can’t possibly, indefinitely, support 100,000 people especially when the businesses that fuel our economy are closing shop.
Danny Meyer is closing two restaurants because the hotel where they are located is now a migrant shelter.
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Ppl in NYC are funny. Totally fine w kids smoking weed & blasting drill rap. Cool w babies used as panhandling pawns on subway. Fine w unvaxxed kids in school. But God forbid you pack ur kid non organic potato chips or let them drink Mtn Dew for breakfast they call CPS. 🤣🤣🤣🙄.
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@CrimeInNYC This is the experience when you exit Jetro in Brooklyn .I complained about this, feeling unsafe as the guys all rush to approach as you exit the store. An anon source shared this video w me
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Because I said the jobs that are growing are food app jobs. Which is a fact. But facts don’t matter to these ppl. What other industry is growing due to the flood of migrants?. We’re not seeing teachers, nurses, tech workers strolling across our border
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Four adults.One baby.Selling candy Westside Hway at 34th.How does this improve for these folks?. If they had work permits, what work will they do? How many of those jobs are there? 200,000 of them?. Stop importing ppl to do the same thing here that they did in their homelands.
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The more I think about this the more it makes sense. A week ago, if you were arrested, you’d be set free in no time. But these gang bangers now must realize, that if they get arrested, there is a real good chance that they can be deported. Amazing what can happen when you.
Could the lack of shootings in NYC be due to illegal migrant criminals laying low?. @DominicTV @rosannascotto . 🤔.
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@CrimeInNYC Let’s take a moment to thank @bradhoylman for protecting rapper’s lyrics fr being used against them in court. They used these platforms to glorify their criminal lifestyle and Hoylman is concerned about protecting them fr prosecution. NO gray area here. He protects criminals.
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Gas stoves are bad but somehow there’s no PSA about people smoking weed w kids in the house?. Cooking is dangerous but second hand smoke is cool bruh.
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Are they all canvassing the streets and subways to help ppl like Neely?. Like this guy I encountered today. Where are all of the compassionate community members helping black men in need?. This guy is hi or drunk. Harassing random people on 2/3 platform. We only hope he doesn’t
Jordan Neely is loved. We will let the world know that.
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Imagine being in a country, illegally, living for free, room and board, and yet you go out and score $30 in drugs and booze every day?!. I have 3 jobs, and don’t have $30 a day to waste even on coffee or lunch out. New idea, drug test anyone sleeping on a city funded cot. Fail
This is the plan of @NYCDSSCommr to continue to “meet people where they are”. Using mood altering drugs and ETOH w/o repercussions in taxpayer shelters. Inevitably we are the collateral. She needs to be fired immediately. @JCAndersonNYC.
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Fairly certain that NYers would gladly support anyone who runs against Bragg. I campaigned for Kenniff (currently defending Daniel Penny) when he opposed Bragg and folks on the street only cared about party lines. Look where that got us. Who will throw their hat in the ring and.
Controversial NYC DA Alvin Bragg favored to win re-election: ‘New Yorkers are crazy’
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Such a safe place to spend a day🤬. The kids are the ONLY innocents in this crisis
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In NYC, if u acknowledge the obvious failures of progressive politicians, a mob comes after you. Not just you, but family & livelihood. There was zero disrespect in my post. Yes. She needs to rethink policies. Shame on these ppl & the politicians that condone this behavior 2/2.
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I’m so mad about these ebike fires. Prior to NYC legalizing ebikes, we didnt have spontaneous middle of the night blazes killing families & destroying their homes. We didn’t have ebike delivery guys terrorizing pedestrians . Ebikes are NOT A NECESSITY .They should, once again, be.
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96th & FDR. Why is this allowed?. We have free childcare for undocumented families. Only one reason to have this baby w her is to make more $$ . Dangerous and unacceptable that NYC has normalized this
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Selling candy w a toddler on the Westside highway in 30 degree weather, is child endangerment. Not up for debate. There are ALWAYS kids here, selling candy now, mangoes in summer. At least the kid has a cellphone in his hand. Where is CPS?. @MarkLevineNYC you worry more about
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How much is this fine man costing us?. With every arrest we pay for the damages he’s done, cop salaries, public defenders and he goes back to a shelter for 3 hots and a cot at a local hotel. Lunacy. Return him to sender.
Look at this charmer coming out of court today. Illegal alien comes to New York, allegedly attacks NYPD officers with a gang of fellow illegals, is arrested - and released without bail. Is there a single American who would object if he were deported?
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@MarkLevineNYC You sit around being shocked and confused, while accusing ppl w genuine fears and experiences of being hate mongers. You and your inept transplant fellow leftie politicians, with your failed social experiment laws, are the reason for these deaths. If you don’t see how you’re.
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Even my most progressive of friends know migrant disaster needs to stop. They’ve had enough of the mopeds & ebike & pols refusing to regulate . Fed up w overall Q of L diminishing while pols worry about bike lanes. The left is crafting its own demise .Real Dems hate socialsts too.
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Amazing day out w my commonsense friends! . We shared no political views or discussions, only positive patriotism. Set up a table, and waited for ppl to engage w us. We spoke of how blessed we are to live here in America. There are problems but we need to work together to fix
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De Blasio 2.0. What is this awful video he issued?.Insane listening to this voice and vapid opinions for years?. This is our opportunity to never see him again. #NeverMayorLander
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On a more serious note. It’s been a decade since I’ve been this concerned about terrorists in NYC. Thanks to open borders and inept politicians/policies . Anyone who isn’t concerned, probably didn’t live through 9/11.
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“Passing”. This man was brutally murdered by policies he supported and @NYCCouncil is crafting . Wake up people. These politicians are experimenting and society is paying the price for their failures. For those who don’t want to see their loved ones murdered, change how you vote.
Our team was devastated to hear of Ryan Carson’s passing today. Ryan was a dedicated environmental advocate who worked tirelessly to protect our communities and ecosystems from the climate crisis. I send my condolences to all of his family and loved ones who are grieving.
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NYC politicians . “Abolish the gang database!!!”. Also NYC politicians . “Lets welcome all the Venezuelans”. Those Caracas gangs are so scary these ppl are running for safety here? Or are they just setting up Caracas Norte?. We need a gang database more than ever.
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I’m not even a Trump supporter but I’m about to buy MAGA spite hat. #spitestore . Hoylman is running around saying @NYCMayor doesn’t deserve the constitutional right of “innocent until proven guilty” then, after ignoring hamas terrorists terrorizing NYers, he’s demanding a.
Let’s be clear. Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939 2/3.
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To be clear:. Two migrants, here illegally, previously arrested for sex crimes, and released, have now been rearrested for raping a woman in Coney Island. A) They shouldn’t be here to begin with. B) Should have been immediately deported when arrested the first time. C) Absolutely.
Migrants previously accused of sex crimes plead not guilty in Coney Island rape
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Beautiful day today. Decided to pass thru Union Square farmers mkt. Such a pleasant day until this woman had a bowel movement on the sidewalk next to me
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So, we are paying these schmucks in vests to “guard the doors” while they swing them open for fare evaders to use?. Oh, AND we’re supposed to pay our fare AND pay congestion pricing . Pay vest guys.No one else pays fares while we do.Pay CPToll. Man, we really are suckers.
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Today is my birthday .I thought I would share this photo of me on my (10th?) bday when I used to be a little boy. I hated everything about being a girl and if anyone asked I would have jumped at the opportunity to stop my breasts from growing. Boys and babies were the furthest
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NYC hates women and families. This piece of garbage human is free to assault some other helpless woman and we’re supposed to pretend the subways are safe?. Yeah, they’re safe if you don’t make eye contact, or accidentally bump into a maniac . Shame on this city. Garbage humans.
Cops let suspect walk in heinous caught-on-camera NYC subway beating of 60-year-old woman: sources
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For those who have been following this week, I’ve been on the street in NYC, not pushing a political agenda, but sharing gratitude for our country and reminding ppl, we are all Americans. Not to allow the noisy minority to tear us apart, but stand united. Yes we have problems,
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When you attack Jerry Seinfeld in NYC you have reached a new level of desperation. I wish someone could individually profile these terrorists. Who raised them? Where they work, if anywhere other than being a paid agitator . The idea that they have families, go to the dentist,.
Activists yelling “F U Nazi scum” at Jerry Seinfeld (who is clearly Jewish and not a Nazi). Many of these activists are actually BLM members who have no connection to Palestine except their open hatred of Jews and whites.
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I’m back. Seems some people didn’t like my show of unity yesterday . My takeaway?.We need more of it. More flags.More smiles.More people by my side. Let’s go!.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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I wonder what NY would look like today if @GovKathyHochul lost. Very narrow win over @leezeldin considering NYC is brainwashed into voting party lines. There are many purple counties that are lagging behind in recognizing the failed policies of far left politicians . Curious to
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Proudly stand against the DSA in NYC politics . @NYCComptroller @bradlander is a proud Socialist who has no business or qualifications being the city’s financial safeguarder. He’s actively campaigning for his Mayoral run while supposedly at “work”, impressively ALWAYS on the side
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200 years after slavery was banned in NY this Gov is exploring reparations?. Amazing obvious attempt at stopping the exodus of Dem voters by buying them w promise of reparation$. Lets hope ppl wake up. Oh yeah, BTW, this is not my debt, so don’t count on me repaying it.
I’m signing legislation to authorize a community commission on reparations in New York State. Watch live:
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Politely asked the folks at Pizza Collective on UWS why their delivery moped doesn’t have a plate showing who they work for. Guy said “it’s electric, like a bicycle”. Except no, its not a bike.Its a motor vehicle & pedestrians have no recourse if they are hit by it. Time to start
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Go to any NYC public school at recess, and you’ll see quite a few teachers getting in cars. CP proponents say driving is for the rich & privileged . Yet, check the comments ⬇️ ppl are yelling at teachers for driving. Which is it?.Teachers are notoriously underpaid or they are.
Today, our union, along with teachers who work at schools in Manhattan and the Bronx as well as Staten Island Borough President @SIBPVito, filed a federal lawsuit asking the court to halt the implementation of congestion pricing in Manhattan.
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But….“Parks are for people!!!”. Unless you’re a progressive NYC pol.(driving a $150,000 car). Then suddenly bike mob doesn’t care.
Breaking: @dr_yusefsalaam, who drives from Harlem to City Hall, has a NYS plate! (But still has tinted windows.)
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Names changes that don’t stick. Triboro Bridge not RFK.Battery Tunnel never Hugh L Carey.Twitter not X.Monkey Pox not M Pox. Feel free to add to the list.
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Who is the rep for Junction Blvd, Qns?. Precinct?. This is exactly the child abuse I’ve been posting about. We’re paying for childcare services for these migrant children. This is unacceptable. NYC is not protecting children. Where is CPS?!.@NYCMayor shame. NYCMATTERS on IG
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