Andrew Holt

Opinion: New York needs a point guard, not pickleball The next mayor should appoint a Basketball Czar to advocate for the city’s basketball courts.

“With the city’s basketball courts falling into disrepair or being repurposed for sports like pickleball favored by wealthier New Yorkers, the next mayor should appoint a Basketball Czar to ensure equitable access to city sports.” www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...

Housing New York: Insights and discussions on NYC Housing Policy with Kenny Burgos — New York Apartment Association Housing New York with Kenny Burgos explores the politics and public policy shaping NYC housing. As CEO of the New York Apartment Association (NYAA), Kenny provides expert analysis on critical issues a...

Last year we launched a new podcast called Housing New York with Kenny Burgos. Each week we take a look at the biggest housing news and explain why it matters. Listen at housingny.org/housingnypod...!

Here is a look back at our recent episodes (🧵):

Saturday haul at McNally Jackson:

New kits are 🤤🤤🤤

The invite system creates an interesting power dynamic now. Like, I am considering changing it. I am beholden!

More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery Reuters explores what the U.S. elite's ancestral connections to slavery mean to presidents, governors, lawmakers and Supreme Court justices – and to America itself.

https://t.co/j2H17vfESa

Hahahahahahaha….I was making an “alternative” joke … but I will do chocolate bagel run. Let’s pick July day!

Isn’t it the other way around?

Social media has a reputation for being emotionally chaotic.

If we’re going to succeed in creating social media as a sustainable public commons, then our moderation and safety tools need to not just be good in theory, but actually help create a better social space than what has come before.

Good morning to everyone except the cloaked priest who's chasing me through the catacombs

Other Republicans announcing their presidential campaigns today via @cushbomb.bsky.social:

This is Mochi

iMessage did a cute thing with their reply/thread graphic:

‎Citations Needed: News Brief: 2000s Zombie Neoliberalism Lives On in Obama's New Netflix Doc on A... ‎Show Citations Needed, Ep News Brief: 2000s Zombie Neoliberalism Lives On in Obama's New Netflix Doc - Jun 21, 2023

Good review of Obama’s new Netflix series on Citations Needed podcast w/ @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social.

Presents Obama as having “a worldview with victims, but no victimizers…” a la Norman Solomon.

Good listen:

Not many people know this, but there's an exclusive set of lightly moderated and mostly invite-only social media apps wealthy and prominent people use to post on a regular basis. They are called "newspapers."

date: I like to tell dad jokes

me: does he laugh

date: what

Opinion | How ‘Ted Lasso’ Explains America Times columnists chose the TV shows, movies, books and songs that capture the country as they see it.

Great @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for NYT Opinion:

“Ted Lasso emerged as a pop culture Ronald Reagan. Our politics may be beyond repair, but our entertainment could offer a new dawn in America, even if we had to move to Britain to get it.”

Oof. The @pitchfork review generator gave my album a 1.9, calling it “eye-rollingly trite.”

pitchforkgenerator.com

Here’s a rough estimate of how many people recent SCOTUS rulings might kill In addition to deaths, the decisions will lead to significant morbidity.

More pieces like this relating to municipal, through state, and up to federal policies would go a long way.

What You Don’t Understand About E-Bikes Until You Ride One Mine changed my life. One could change yours, too.

a wonderful piece from my old colleague dan kois on the joys of ebikes https://slate.com/business/2023/06/e-bike-buying-changed-my-life.html

Opinion | Your Most Ambivalent Relationships Are the Most Toxic Science shows that seesaw relationships can be more damaging than those that are purely negative.

This is such a good / interesting read:

“We agonize about ambiguous comments, unsure what to make of them and whether to trust the people who make them. We dwell on our mixed feelings, torn between avoiding our frenemies and holding out hope that they’ll change.” (via @nytimes.com)