Proposals 2, 3, and 4 are all about making it easier to build more affordable housing. Gothamist has a great explainer on the proposals and why they matter, as does The City. Read all the details if you want. If you simply want to trust me: I’ll be voting yes on all these because right now, among other solutions, NYC needs to build more housing ASAP. The City Council has been sending a ton of (possibly illegal?) mailers against the proposals because from their perspective, the changes would undermine the council’s power. I think this is a feature, not a bug. Right now, individual city councilmembers can kill new housing in their districts, usually in response to community boards or individual criticism — that has led to wildly inequitable development with some (usually wealthier) communities building basically no new units in the last few years. The housing crisis is too urgent to let egos or local cranks have the final say in how we solve it (and if you’ve ever been to a community board meeting, you know what I mean.) Time to try something new. Proposal 5 is to create a new digitized unified city map. This feels like a no-brainer; I’ll be voting yes. Wild we have to vote on shit like this! Proposal 6 moves local elections to even-numbered years. I’ll be voting yes on this, too. It’ll help increase voter turnout and save the city money. It won’t take effect immediately because it requires a constitutional amendment so the state legislature has to vote affirmatively on it in two consecutive sessions, then go to a statewide ballot, but this is a good first step.

I'll be voting yes on all the NYC ballot referendums because we've got to disrupt the current system that has gotten us into this housing crisis in whatever way we can. amandalitman.substack.com/p/your-2025-...

during the 2016 campaign, the Boston Globe ran a scary mockup front page of what a world where Trump was president would look like, and it’s pretty tame compared to a random Friday morning’s headlines now

"They text on Signal. They keep their heads on a swivel looking for suspicious cars. They have their phone cameras ready-to-hand." They're not looking out for criminals; they're looking out for ICE.

The latest Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/three-days...

mika has played well to be fair

JT miller not playing well either

Trump's favorability has fallen among Hispanics since January, a new AP-NORC poll finds A new poll shows President Donald Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure his victory...

New AP-NORC poll:

– 25% of Hispanic adults have a favorable view of Trump, down from 44% in January
– It's Trump's lowest favorability with Hispanic voters since 2019.
– "About two-thirds of Hispanic adults under age 45 and Hispanic men now view Trump unfavorably."

apnews.com/article/hisp...

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

only a matter of time before this comes to NYC

I am as YIMBY as it comes but the one exception is for housing ICE. use every NIMBY trick in the book to fuck then over

What do the housing ballot referendums mean and how should I vote on them? Understand the big proposals that claim to streamline new affordable housing

I took a bath in my too-small tub, read the Charter Revision Commission report and came up with this explainer on the ballot referendum questions about housing policy nygroove.nyc/housing-refe...

Trump raises the price of the ballroom to $350 million

(It changed from $200 million, then $300 million, now $350 million within the course of a few days)

the only thing worse than having eric adams and andrew cuomo as brothers in your family would be having chris and andrew cuomo as brothers in your family

just run this quote in every dem campaign ad for the midterms

It’s an atrocity. bsky.app/profile/bria...

Trump administration denies Maryland’s final appeal for FEMA money The Trump administration rejected Maryland’s final appeal for federal disaster relief for Western Maryland communities that are still recovering from May’s historic flash floods.

Trump administration denies Western Maryland’s final appeal for FEMA money

his index finger in the trigger well, my god

Questions remain about MPD’s work with ICE. Activists want lawmakers to step in They say the D.C. Council should publicly question MPD about cooperation on immigration enforcement.

NEW: As D.C. residents continue seeing MPD officers working with ICE agents, there's been silence from a key place – the D.C. Council. Activists and some members now say the council should hold a public hearing to get answers. For @51st.news: 51st.news/mpd-dc-polic...

A graphic with a black background and two glowing lines running vertical from top to bottom, one blue and one red, to represent light sabers. A screenshot from a case filed on behalf of Sam O’Hara by the ACLU-D.C., suing an Ohio National Guard member and four Metropolitan Police Department officers for violating his constitutional rights and D.C. law. The ACLU-D.C. logo is in the bottom right corner.

A graphic with a black background and two glowing lines running vertical from top to bottom, one blue and one red, to represent light sabers and white text that reads: “The government doesn’t get to decide whether or not your protest is funny.” The ACLU-D.C. logo is in the bottom right corner.

BREAKING NEWS: Today, on behalf of D.C. resident Sam O’Hara, we’re suing an Ohio National Guard member and four Metropolitan Police Department officers for violating his constitutional rights and D.C. law—simply for playing a song. 🧵

A screenshot of a post on X that reads: Cuomo, talking to conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg this morning: "God forbid, another 9/11—can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" Cuomo asks. "He'd be cheering," Rosenberg says. Cuomo paused and chuckled before saying: "That's another problem."

Just disgusting.

like why is julie won (astoria/LIC) sending out newsletters urging her constituents to vote against 2-4

Kathy Hochul has been outflanking some ostensibly more progressive NYC City Councilmembers on this

is it because they completely sold out what journalism stands for and wildly miscalculated their reader base oh and have also been union busting as the cherry on top

Ohio National Guard member Sgt. Devon Beck was not amused by this satire. On September 11, 2025, Mr. O’Hara saw Sgt. Beck, along with several other Guard members, walking in uniform in the Logan Circle neighborhood, near the intersection of 14th and R Streets NW. Mr. O’Hara calmly walked behind the Guard members, began playing The Imperial March aloud on his phone, and started recording. In less than two minutes, Sgt. Beck turned around and threatened to call D.C. police officers to “handle” Mr. O’Hara if he persisted. Mr. O’Hara continued recording and playing the music. Sgt. Beck contacted the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Defendant MPD Officers Brown, Campbell, Reyes-Benigno, and Lopez Martinez came to the scene and, in essence, did what Sgt. Beck had threatened, putting Mr. O’Hara in handcuffs and preventing him from continuing his peaceful protest.

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

zohran if you do this, i finally may be able to come back to NYC. don’t tempt me with a good time, brother.

you can’t really call this anything other than cowardice

Safe parking lot for unhoused schoolchildren appears to have new lease on life San Diego leaders move forward with a plan to help homeless students and their families with secure overnight parking at a former school in City Heights.

Wild how normalized the words "safe parking lot for unhoused schoolchildren" have become in this country.

knicks win stop the count

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

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