Marcia Biederman

Who have you got from New York’s largest retiree association, @nycretirees.bsky.social ? No one who’s fighting to preserve the health benefits promised to 250,000 retired city workers? That’s what I thought.

Why post spoilers?

If he truly cared about seniors, he would have promised the city’s largest retiree organization, @nycretirees.bsky.social that he’d preserve municipal retiree health benefits—but he never did. We’re not just cute old people.

The real buzz killer is that he has failed to engage with the senior activists fighting to keep their health benefits. Senior centers are all well & good, but he’s ignoring an issue that, as mayor, he would control. @nycretirees.bsky.social

It’s sad that 4 years ago, when the City of NY and, disgracefully, our former unions tried to force 250,000 municipal retirees off Medicare into a for-profit plan, only lawsuits filed by @nycretirees.bsky.social stopped them. Now our fate lies entirely with the next mayor & here’s how things stand:

Updating my LEGO White House

Here’s hoping tomorrow‘s NYC mayoral debate will ask the candidates if they promise to preserve municipal retirees’ traditional Medicare. Will they support a bill to ensure this? @katiehonan.bsky.social @errollouis.bsky.social @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social @nycretirees.bsky.social

Funny, but wife, not girlfriend. Hence, the dilemma.

It depends on what condition you’re in. Let’s stop generalizing. It’s ageist.

Opinion: Birthright citizenship is more fragile than you think: Consider my CT relative A nation had stood by while she and an unknown number of other women were stripped of their birthright.

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You can choose not to take seriously @nycretirees.bsky.social, but if this group hadn’t sued the City of NY, my spouse & I each would have been paying nearly $200/mo. for our now-free retiree health benefits for the past 3 years. Still, we need a bill passed & Mamdani won’t commit his support.

I thought you were referring to a different post. See the political website of @nycretirees.bsky.social which is retiredlaborstrong.nyc and go to the “Our Candidates ” tab. It’s for the primary but it explains. Also he reneged on participating in the group’s mayoral debate.

I took the photo.

Zohran Mamdani may say he believes in Medicare for All, but in NYC he declines to support the 250,000 municipal retirees fighting to preserve the traditional Medicare they were promised & not be forced into Medicare “Advantage.”

The Justice for Seniors sign in that photo is pretty rich. Mamdani has not committed to stopping the city of NY—in collaboration with a union that endorsed him—from forcing 250,000 city retirees off Medicare & into an inferior private plan. He won’t even meet with retirees resisting this.

Seen last night in downtown Brooklyn, on Atlantic near 4th Avenue.

You don’t like “It’s a Simple Little System?” I think it’s brilliant. Oh well.

Some Zohran supporter who claimed that every worker in a Harlem coffee shop was wearing a Zohran pin. I can’t find it now.

But those of us who make coffee at home (to save $) are not, because he has done nothing to support the 250,000 municipal retirees who are fighting to preserve our health benefits. He declined to take part in the mayoral forum hosted by @nycretirees.bsky.social and he has been silent on our issue.

I never had it. Live in NYC, use mass transit, got all vaccines and boosters.

Medicare is for people 65+ and the disabled. Medicaid is for low income people. Why do you think Medicaid cuts affect only “grandma” or seniors?

This is a sad moment for the American labor movement and an attack on democracy as well as on our hard-earned health benefits.

Is this in the US? It’s definitely not New York. Upholstered seats!

Brilliant.

I used to freelance for it and respected it, but that was a long time ago. They finally corrected that “permanent citizen” bit and acknowledged it at the end of the article, but they didn’t thank me, as they sometimes do.

Okay. They made the correction, changing “permanent citizen” to “permanent resident” and noted it at the end of the piece. I wrote to 3 different Times desks before this happened. Reflects the fluffy tone of the piece. They want us to love him, not just recognize his rights.

Okay. They made the correction, changing “permanent citizen” to “permanent resident” and noted it at the end of the piece. I wrote to 3 different Times desks before this happened. Reflects the fluffy tone of the piece. We can defend him w/o loving him.

I think @nytimes.com can defend Mahmoud Khalil’s rights without running a softball feature with this error, which I pointed out but is still there: “Ms. Abdalla hurried up to their apartment to get her husband’s green card. She reminded the officers that he was a permanent citizen.”

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I’ll go along with this for the sake of anti-Trumpism amd unity, but as a Jew, I wouldn’t feel comfortable there now.

Fighting among ourselves plays into our opponents’ hands.