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We are mostly taught about protest as being about convincing people in power to change their ideas, when it’s actually about convincing people in power that we can make them lose power. We are taught the former because it doesn’t work.
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I absolutely love watching everyone watch the eclipse together and share glasses and say “whoa cool” with strangers and just pause for a minute to be on the planet together
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probably very obvious, but the 'bike lock as smoking gun' makes clear that the mayor and nypd's comms strategy is not directed at new yorkers
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we live in a world where yelling about being hungry is considered more violent than being left hungry. Where unhoused people existing in public space is considered more dangerous than someone murdering them in front of all of us.
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Spending money on PSAs about drowning but not wages for workers to save people from drowning perfectly distills the state of politics in this country
Mayor Adams says they are “leaving no stone unturned” when it comes to the lifeguard shortage. Talks about rolling out a public campaign for awareness about drowning at beaches.
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Here’s how NYU talks about student activism on its website
Friend just sent me a video of them barricading Cadman Plaza at NYU where the demonstrations took place yesterday.
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re delivery workers in last night's flood (or a blizzard, or the pandemic...): the collective action we need is not among consumers agreeing to tip big or not order, it's regulation of gig work platforms and rights for gig workers
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Your daily reminder not to vote for Andrew Yang or Eric Adams. Do not rank them anywhere on your ballot.
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i am once again asking local reporters covering housing to replace the term "market-rate" with "unregulated" and "affordable" with "income-restricted" "income-targeted," or even "regulated," or "lottery" or some combination or any more accurate innovation
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I am in prospect park and there is a screening of Black Panther and unfortunately I just had to hear chuck schumer say Wakanda Forever
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How many cops does it take to open the door of the van they locked themselves out of?
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It’s freezing. Keeping the subways open tonight could save lives and would definitely reduce suffering for those sleeping on the streets.
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Watched abbot elementary with my parents and my mom said Ava seems like she’d be in Eric Adams’ circle
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Why didn’t I know that the Jane Fonda workout videos were owned by the campaign for economic democracy and only created to fundraise for it
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perhaps landlord groups don't want free public money to make the repairs they say are necessary to rent out their apartments because they're lying about this problem and they just want to deregulate thousands of apartments
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people are dunking on this but they're pretty explicitly saying they're investigating organizers as terrorists?
"Somebody is radicalizing out students" Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz spoke after NYU and New School raid this morning, "we will find out who that is". Chief of Patrol John Chell showed literature found inside the New School 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment' after it was
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“I want my fellow NYers to know what happens once you are viewed as one of the homeless. People talk abt you on tv, radio & in person as if you are a class of human being unworthy of the same oxygen...not one person with any power is coming to our rescue.”
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I don’t know what I thought was inside of these but it wasn’t this
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Wow, just heard a radio ad from the corrections officers union telling people to call their council members to demand support for solitary confinement
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was in denial about the air quality warning and went for a walk and now i'm woozy??
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Happy Halloween from me and my limited edition metrocard machine, where you can donate to help asylum-seekers living in NYC get subway & bus fare!
Donate on venmo @/southbkmutualaid or
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1947 letters between Edward Hopper and Robert Moses about NYU displacing tenants and expanding its campus around Washington square park
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I’ll repeat what I say every summer about private cafes in NYC parks: it’s racist & classist to have a paywall on public alcohol consumption. We should fully legalize drinking in public. We can’t talk about extending sidewalk cafes into city streets without confronting it.
NYC May Allow Restaurants To Use Street Space For Outdoor Seating During Pandemic
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My friend just found out BDB is running bc she saw him canvassing at the farmers’s market, assumed he was there for another pol, went to a canvasser to say she won’t support anyone affiliated with him & then was so horrified by the news she started shouting WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS
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Your daily reminder not to vote for Andrew Yang or Eric Adams. Do not rank them anywhere on your ballot.
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mayor adams with the political strategy of an 8 year old sylvia
I asked Mayor Eric Adams what he’d say to New Yorkers who are feeling whiplash over his budget cuts. He says they aren’t feeling whiplash; they’re thanking him for restoring police hiring and preventing further cuts to libraries.
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This is probably a silly point, but I’m thinking about how de Blasio limited entry to parks for social distancing because of a few viral photos with forced perspective, but repeatedly says that the hundreds of videos of police beating people aren’t what they seem
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I find it so weird that we still often talk about the downward mobility & low homeownership rates of millennials without acknowledging that white millennials' inheritances (incl property) from our boomer parents is/will likely be the greatest wealth transfer in U.S. history
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Which Brooklyn councilmember is going to finally step up and introduce legislation to ban this wallpaper?
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genuinely want to know how people who tweet almost exclusively about housing supply in nyc think that <3,000 units 10 years from now are more important than 60,000 (or 80,000!) units today
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Many have pointed out the sick contrast of outdoor dining structures w policing of homeless people. It enrages me that calls to use eminent domain to create shelter are called radical/infeasible, but when we give away land for business to build on we’re surprised that they do it
Outdoor dining has gradually escalated into what might reasonably be called a buildings.
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abolitionists organizing against the borough-based jails plan were dismissed as hysterical for saying this would happen
scoop: The new jails in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan & the Bronx that are replacing Rikers are GROWING in capacity. NYC has too many people to incarcerate, so they're cutting space for detainees with mental illness while tripling the # of beds for women.
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MTA leadership has blood on their hands too. Years-long racist classist fearmongering campaign against unhoused and poor people
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New York is pleasant
when the rich people are gone
I’m eating ice cream
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Post-post-9/11 politics is not even bothering with the pretense of the threat of terrorism (the original justification for random bag check policy and the courts upholding it)
Mayor Adams says the city is deploying an additional 1,000 NYPD officers to patrol the subway.
The state is planning to deploy personnel to assist police with bag checks, according to a spokesperson for Gov. Hochul.
Read more:
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They cancelled the event!
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@MusicHallofWB
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@bowerypresents
, I'm disgusted that you are hosting bigots like Charlie Kirk & Candace Owens who encourage violence against trans & queer people--incl many of your patrons. Telling everyone I know to boycott you til you cancel this Saturday's BLEXIT/TPUSA event!
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makes me sad that hating meetings has just become an accepted workplace norm but meeting facilitation still isn't widely recognized as a skill that can and should be learned and shared
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@CUNY
@ChancellorCUNY
As a Hunter graduate, I feel disgusted and betrayed by this statement. If only you understood as well as your students the importance of resisting racist propaganda like the New York Post.
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This has all been said before, many times and more clearly. But it's still hard to really know and understand. To know how to fight.
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NYC's housing crisEs have been growing for a long time. I think we need our policymakers to understand and respond to this moment as a *rent-gouging emergency.*
The extraordinary surge in median asking rents continued last month.
Over the last 12 months median asking rents in New York City have risen by *29%*.
This is a housing crisis.
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Yang is polling third and fourth and dudes are still yelling about choosing between him and Adams. Patriarchy is boring as hell.
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I understand why people like the open restaurants program but those who like that it reduces parking should concede that businesses expanding their footprint (like, w little buildings) for free on public sidewalks & streets is something to reevaluate before it becomes permanent
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fellow white people who say we support BIPOC self-determination: sometimes people are going to make decisions you disagree with
if you question/withdraw support from their right to decide bc it's not the decision you think you'd make
you might not believe in self-determination
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No, YOU tax the rich
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How did I miss this? "Vicki Been, of NYU’s Furman Center, [& former Deputy Mayor] [who said I was the equivalent of a climate change denier for questioning racial impacts of zoning policy] sold her townhouse (purchased for $1.88M in 2002) for $18.8M."
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@rosadona
Your tweet just made me realize that perhaps this sign that has been bothering me for a year is advertising one product two ways
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so this is what it feels like when the internet has run through 50 stages of discourse and turned your neighborhood and the people in it into a symbol before you and your neighbors are still just trying to be safe and calm
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“We have to get street homelessness down so that when people go to neighborhoods they feel welcome” -Yang, clarifying that he does not see homeless people as people, or housing them as a priority for making them feel welcome in their own city
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Incomplete thread of some places that used to be hospitals in NYC.
Starting with: the former Caledonian Campus of Brooklyn Hospital Center, closed in 2003, now “The Parkside” (self-described) luxury rental apartments.
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Realizing that ppl think we❤️nyc is run by the city. It’s by pro-cop, corporate lobbying group
@Partnership4NYC
, that’s spent the past 2 years blaming unhoused people for workers’ resistance to going back to the office bc their commercial landlord members don’t know how to adapt
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The problem with "more affordable housing won't pencil out" is that it leaves out a big part of the why: the high price they shelled out for the land based on projected rents. You're saying rents must be set by speculators, we're saying curb speculation through regulation. 1/
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proposed library cuts led me to thinking about when bloomberg slashed arts funding and then personally donated $10M to big cultural orgs to limit their pushback, and then I was like wait did that really happen or am I misremembering and nope yup of course it did
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FWIW my rent-stabilized bldg/apt is pretty well-maintained, LL bought 30 yrs ago, paid off mortgage 10 years later, keeps things in shape, isn't evicting ppl. Meaning, RS works & there's plenty of money to maintain decent housing when you're not gambling it to exploit more ppl
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Should I scream into the void by tweeting daily reminders not to rank Yang or Adams from now til June 22
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Starting today, job postings in NYC must include salaries! Finally!
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Exclusive look at how I am evaluating mayoral candidates at this point
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Your daily reminder that you do not have to choose between Eric Adams and Andrew Yang for mayor. Get behind a candidate you like and support their campaign now. On June 22nd, rank only the people you could stand to be mayor.
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it's honestly hilarious to argue that a law that would regulate rent increases will drive prices up
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The “community input” convo shows how many of us think of democracy as voicing complete positions, not the process of shaping our positions through shared learning and deliberation (which, in a more functional democracy, is facilitated across the group, across factions).
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Many people have been calling out the city for plowing streets but not sidewalks—I’m just going to add that it’s a perfect example of the failure of privatization (building owners are required to shovel sidewalks) & the success of adequately-funded/run public services
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McKinsey won’t be brave enough to include this containerization strategy
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Had a dream about a squatters movement that took the “outdoor” dining cabins
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Cuomo is basing his entire response on the idea that women are more likely to lie about harassment and assault than to experience it
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Gonna slightly adjust the daily reminder: you do not have to choose between Eric Adams and Andrew Yang for mayor. Get behind a candidate you like and support their campaign now. On June 22nd, rank only the people you could stand to be mayor.
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“It tells me on the app that I can show you guys something...and you can’t arrest me”
#deliverjustice
This delivery guy thought he’s an essential worker, police seemed to disagree. The rules issued before the curfew very unclear but according to the state, restaurants, bar & food industry workers are classified as essential.
#nycurfew
#NYCPolice
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Lot of replies calling to expand Citibike but none to municipalize it
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At MDC where Jamel Floyd was killed this year, there is currently no heat (like every winter), & there is a COVID outbreak. Joining protestors to demand immediate release of immunocompromised people, restored visitation rights, consistent heat/hot water & justice for Jamel Floyd!
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seems a pretty clearcut violation of the city charter? the reason chirlane didn't take a salary in her role? are we just shouting into the void and nothing matters anymore?
NEW: Mayor Eric Adams has tapped his younger brother to serve as a deputy NYPD commissioner, The Post has learned.
Bernard Adams, also a retired NYPD cop, will oversee governmental affairs. The full scope of his responsibilities was not immediately clear.
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Just wrapped up my first day as Policy Program Manager
@prattcenter
, where I’ll be working on housing justice initiatives, among other things! Excited to be part of this great team.
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also of course cuomo was misogynistic & calculated in his resignation, very deliberately reframing sexual harrassment as a matter of making women feel "offended" rather than unsafe. He will go on a witch-hunt/cancel culture pity tour & further align himself w conservatives
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please don't QT/comment on this to make sweeping insults about people who don't live here and might have a normal reaction to our bonkers bike chains. The problem is the lying fascists
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Support Maria on v*nmo @/Maria-Falcon-65
Tell your
@NYCCouncil
member to lift the cap on street vendor permits
Follow
@VendorPower
to learn more about street vendor organizing
(amidst the bigger fight against policing)
Horrific treatment of Maria, a mother, immigrant entrepreneur & her *daughter* who filmed
Earlier this week, Maria was arrested for selling mangoes & kiwis to customers she's served for 10+ yrs
Shame on our city for choosing cruelty, instead of supporting hardworking mothers
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I’m uncomfortable writing this, but: a reminder that Tom Angotti and I were co-editors of Zoned Out.
I worked hard on the book, as did the other contributors. It hurts to see my name erased in the NYT or in meetings or on here. It took me a while to admit and accept that.
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I will say it’s messed up that this is probably the most coverage the Morales campaign has gotten
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chanting in a public meeting is a threat to public safety but raising rents while tenants struggle to cover basic costs to survive isn't?
After tenant protests at a rent board hearing raised safety concerns, landlord groups have advised their members to sit out in-person meetings.
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Why is adams’ subway and bike riding PR working on uuuuuu please stop
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The landlord lobby’s vacant apartment campaign has us saying “open your books” or “let’s debunk these numbers.” But wait, that’s accepting their logic. These are slumlords voluntarily parading evidence of years of deferred maintenance.
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The only bodega discourse I care about is when the bodega guy says “that’ll be $300” and we both laugh for the 300th time
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In 2019, at age 32, I got my name on a lease for the 1st time & my 1st apt of my own--only possible bc of the 2019 rent reforms. This is the longest I've lived in an apt, only possible bc it's stabilized & the 0-1.5% kept my rent from being more unreasonable than it already is
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@LosDeliveristas
how can delivery customers and fellow New Yorkers support delivery workers today? Do you have a fund where people can donate to help workers take time off to protect themselves?
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Mayor Adams is arguing that Jordan Neely was murdered because the government doesn’t involuntarily commit enough people
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Made the mistake of reading a nextdoor post abt package theft. Commenters called for: better images of the person’s face, citizens arrests, denying cell phone accounts to “repeat offenders,” & of course more cops, bail reform rollback
The stolen item? kombucha maker
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Occurring to me that a lot of the fearmongering about crime on the subway, etc in this election is aimed at people who have not been back on the subway
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