Eric van der Vort

The next CDC director will have a PhD in folklore. Their research will largely have focused on essential oils and homeopathic cures.

This is correct.

Who wants to hear me babble about the political development of social movements and how this proves my point that I need to write this damn article already? No one? Okay.

Proud to pass my Sustainable Housing and Sprawl Prevention Act, a major step to align our housing permitting process with our environmental and affordability goals. This bill will help build affordable housing, reduce harmful emissions, and build walkable, transit-friendly communities!

Rewater the Canal! Build green space around it.

Everyone is talking about it.

King and Smith ‘05 would like a word.

Sometimes a question comes up at work you just can't answer.

Like, say... can you REALLY reuse vinyl siding?

How do you answer that question quickly and with 100% certainty that it's more or less correct?

Find the collective wisdom of the appropriate subreddit.

Thanks r/HomeImprovement!

Don't you dare turn your eyes away from history, even the awful, scary parts. If you don't watch it with your own eyes, you rely on others to tell you what you saw. We must all bear witness to what's coming.

For years, AM Anna Kelles and I have led the fight for public broadband here in the Empire State. We are thrilled to see Governor Hochul propose the Excelsior Broadband Network, to provide new infrastructure to improve high speed internet and cell service across the state.

No better way to build the bench, turn the tide a bit, and actually have a real impact. Give some money for these mayoral races. Then figure out what local races you can support. And if no one’s running for a winnable office you are eligible for… tag, you’re it!

Lawmakers want Indiana University to be defunded over Kinsey Institute Almost a year after IU pursued "accounting solutions" to keep the Kinsey Institute on campus, state officials say IU is still violating state law.

These continued attack on the Kinsey Institute are so bad-faith and silly. God forbid we should have a full and comprehensive view of human sexuality -- but that's the point for these people. www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/e...

I’ll just let Joan Rivers say what needs saying about Anita Bryant, of cursed memory.

What was wrong with the one pack of chicken though

With the new session comes a new chair: Consumer Protection! Chairing the Cities 2 or, as I often call it, the Committee on Upstate Cities has been a privilege. I’m grateful to the Majority Leader for this new chance to help protect all New York consumers from greed and grift.

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Sorry, who is this?

I'm gonna reference this at random for like 2 weeks and no one is gonna know what the hell I'm talking about.

They’re essentially changing the bunting.

This is the correct take.

I’ll go farther: fact checks don’t even matter, most of the time. People will just dismiss them. They are performative.

People 1) need to be equipped with better media literacy and 2) can be persuaded by trusted sources.

Facebook fact checkers are not trusted sources.

@sgadarian.bsky.social JUST NOW you follow me?!

We can get the one that will do funny faces!

If we’d kept this up, Trump would never have had a chance.

Happy Erev Congestion Pricing to all who celebrate!

I think one of the things people don't always get about working in legislative politics is that, despite headlines, so much of the work is not flashy or high-profile. I'm working on introducing a bunch of bills for the start of session in NY. Here's a partial list. Much of it is pretty mundane!

Used to be the case that the US Supreme Court was once widely cited as a guiding voice on broad questions of law and jurisprudence, even in civil law jurisdictions.

That’s declined in recent years in favor of other constitutional courts.

Now this.

When I tell you how quickly I threw my credit card at Yale Press.

Would totally give like $5 a month to a podcast that did episode by episode breakdowns of the greatest cartoon ever made:

The IRA will deliver a fourfold return on taxpayer investment, says ACP The Inflation Reduction Act could generate $2.7 trillion in U.S. economic benefits from 2025 to 2035, says a report commissioned by the American Clean Power Association.

New report finds: "The Inflation Reduction Act could deliver over $2.7 trillion in net benefits from 2025 to 2035, against $656 billion in costs."

Let some bird-related "yes and!" cleanse your timeline:

I started actively doing this a few years ago. Eye contact and some nodding is all it takes! Guarantee every so often, someone will come up after they're done speaking and thank you.