Josh

Yeah I don’t care if you’re a socialist, a Blue Dog or Bill Kristol, if you’re an enemy of fascism then you’re my ally, and if you care more about your status in the democratic coalition than about beating fascism then you have to go.

Best city in the world, baby!

If you want a mayor who will make crime illegal... the choice is clear

Flyer for Whitney Tilson in which he is labeled a "problem solver" as opposed to the label "career politicians" under pictures of his adversaries in the Democratic primary. There's a table contrasting his policies compared to theirs: "bold solutions" vs. "more of the same"; "integrity" vs. "scandals"; "build New York" vs. "bankrupt New York"; "grow tax base" vs. "increase tax rates"; "harness businesses" vs. "hobble businesses"; "make crime illegal" vs. "defund the police"; "support strong schools" vs. "protect failing schools"

Today I got a flyer in my door for Whitney Tilson (lol) and while I expected it to be dumb I was not ready for how bizarre it is

What's deemed newsworthy enough to merit continued discussion the day after it happens is in fact something that can/should be critiqued! You're right that it was covered on the front page of the print edition, but the claim is about the website today. Also, NYT has 11M digital subs vs 600k print!

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

What happened to Cuomo's bridge lights program? Don't ask the governor. Some breadcrumbs, at least, were to be found in the authority's board documents.

2025: www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
2018: www.politico.com/states/new-y...

Screenshot of a list of the 27 specific grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump has committed at least 15 of them in whole or in part, highlighted in yellow and listed below: "1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. 3. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither (partial offense) 4. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. 5. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 6. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 7. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 8. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 9. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 10. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 11. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 12. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 13. (Partial offense), abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 14. (Partial offense), and destroyed the lives of our people. 15. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and (partial offense)"

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III, and I count at least 15 of them that Donald Trump has also committed in whole or in part.

Particularly notable right now:
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

@nateschweber.bsky.social not sure if it was an editing error or what but the piece currently (inaccurately) states that Congresspeople, not just their staff, are required to give 24 hours notice prior to being given access to DHS facilities

Of note, the visitation guidelines that are linked directly in the piece (www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...) correctly reflect the law, and directly belie what both the authors of this article and DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin are claiming. No notice is needed, they were illegally denied access.

The claim that members of Congress need to provide 24 hours notice to gain access to DHS facilities is very specifically false. 24 hour notice is needed for their staffers to gain access but NOT for Congresspeople. It's VERY explicitly spelled out.

There’s maybe no better demonstration of how centrism works than a guy tanking any kind of positive agenda and his own personal likability to move from -77 to -76 approval from the center-right party

Q: What do Bill Ackman, Anthony Scaramucci, Tanya Zuckerbrot, Randy Levine, Jonathan Kushner, and Geoffrey Berman have in common?

A: They're prominent Trump supporters who are funding Andrew Cuomo's campaign for mayor.

Yikes!

The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich.

THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.

Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

Screenshot from the New York City Campaign Finance Board website showing that Arthur Caplan, of Ridgefield, CT and employed as a professor at NYU Langone, donated $500 to Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign on 3/2/2025

Gotta say I don't feel all that great about one of the biggest names in bioethics donating $500 to the mayoral campaign of one of the most glaringly unethical politicians in recent history

I’m not going to share the Noem video. But it is a case study in the sort of dehumanization and bigotry that has led to even worse horrors throughout history. We should all be ashamed that this is being done in our name.

YouTube video by WCVB Channel 5 Boston Surveillance shows Tufts graduate student detained

Jesus this is a kidnapping video of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by plain clothes immigration forces. Remember that Columbia agreed to a "no masks" policy for its fucking students while these thugs keep their faces covered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFI...

you are a shande and make me embarrassed to be a new yorker

the constitutional crisis is already here. you're living through it right now. shredding the rule of law and ruling by decree and treating america like it's occupied territory to loot.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Also he is not the same as the university administration! He does not control the actions of the president or the board of trustees! I'm actually quite sure he vehemently disagrees with how they have handled themselves over the past week. This all feels very intellectually dishonest and/or lazy.

Really strongly disagree with this interpretation. If he were telling students who are American citizens to censor themselves that would be one thing (and deserve condemnation), but here he is just accurately stating that the school can't protect these students from a lawless executive branch.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

The fact that you are serving up empty platitudes in this moment when you hold yourself up as one of Congress's foremost defenders of immigrants' rights is laughable, though not surprising.

This is a monstrous statement. The rule of law and due process have already been thrown out the window. This is a brazen denial of a constituent's 1st + 5th amendment rights and it is clear you are too beholden to a right-wing special interest to fight back

-a terrified Jewish NY-13 constituent

But it really seems like his concern about immigrants' rights and civil liberties is very selective! Apparently if you engage in speech that he and his donors don't approve of, he might not care quite so much as he claims to.

In the time since Kahlil's detention was first reported on, he has posted nine times, including two clips of himself on TV. Just four days ago he posted about how Republicans "profil[e] and l[ie]" about "anyone who doesn't look like them." bsky.app/profile/repe...

Adriano Espaillat, who represents both me and Mahmoud Kahlil and whose entire political brand is built on fighting for immigrants' rights, has yet to publicly comment on the illegal detention and threatened deportation of a green card holder from his district. Instead he is posting about this.

Investigation: NYPD Nixed Thousands of Calls at Coney Island Station Before Horrifying Fire Attack - Streetsblog New York City Nearly two-thirds of calls from the station were closed out just seconds after they were assigned to a police unit, evidence that nothing is being done to help troubled people like Debrina Kawam.

NEW: NYPD data shows that, in the months before Debrina Kawam was set on fire at the Coney Island-Stillwell Ave. station, nearly ⅔ of calls about NYers suffering from mental illness there were closed out seconds after they were assigned to a police unit.

From @ndhapple.bsky.social