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New York, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, candidate for Mayor of New York City, today announced ‘Zohran’s Law,’ a plan to protect the city’s rent-stabilized apartments from being occupied by high-income individauls, ensuring these limited, affordable units go to New Yorkers who actually need them. Under Cuomo’s proposal, when a rent-stabilized apartment becomes vacant, the incoming individual income would be capped so that the annual rent makes up at least 30 percent of that income. For example, if an apartment rents for $2,500 a month ($30,000 per year), the new tenant’s income could not exceed $100,000. New York City is in the grip of a housing emergency. The city does not have enough units, and the drastically low vacancy rate is driving up prices, squeezing families, and forcing many to leave in record numbers.

In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.

"(modern right-wing thing) only happened because (ethnic group, sexual minority or women) went too far with (minor inconvenience) in the 2010s" living in a moment of apparent reactionary hegemony is already pretty grim but do they have to be so fucking whiny about it

Is the coming American line going to be that Russia "earned" the parts of Ukraine they stole via an illegal invasion?

Norm MacDonald, Tim Powers, and yeah, Clint

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Yeah but I think she’s like the one person on earth who doesn’t get to say all this to anyone else

I did not dig on Springsteen until 2006, 2 years after I moved away

Wikipedia: ^ In popular culture In the 1980s NBC series Crime Story, the character of mobster Ray Luca is based on Anthony Spilotro. Show creator Michael Mann said in a 2015 interview "The people who Crime Story is about are all people l knew. I went to high school with Tony Spilotro..."[38] Martin Scorsese's film Casino (1995) is based on the Las Vegas careers of Spilotro and Rosenthal, on whom the characters Nicholas "Nicky" Santoro (played by Joe Pesci) and Sam "Ace" Rothstein (played by Robert De Niro) were based. Nearing the end

TIL Michael Mann went to high school with Joe Pesci’s character from Casino

And yesterday the fucking Arizona Supreme Court used an AI “reporter” to announce that a man’s death sentence was being upheld:

My partner’s stepfather got a labradoodle about 2 years ago, and they travel a lot so we end up taking care of it about half the time. She is the most high strung dog I’ve ever met and I hate her

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NO AGE CAP

man, they're just saying it out loud now

this is the simultaneous normalization of forcing the elderly to work until their dead but also to open up
"Conversations" about the age of consent and also the minimum age of people allowed to enter the workforce.

how is this still up lol

Ad-Rock: his coconut GUN can fire in SPURTS! if he shoots ya

Beastie Boys in unison: IT’S GONNA HURT

yesterday @davidjroth.bsky.social used the phrase “their brains were defeated by their phones” and i genuinely think we’ve lost like meaningful swaths of some generations to this

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

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YOU - “The people who built this world intended it to be better for you, but they failed. It is easier to live in their failure with this by your side.” (Tap on the tape recorder.)

us politics is like the monstars going "beat us at basketball or we explode your planet" and matt yglesias quips "there's no rule against dogs playing basketball" and democrats field five dogs and the dogs get shutout because they're pissing and shitting and are dogs and the planet explodes

The trains got way worse, but the state media TOLD everyone they were running on time.

We're seeing a lot of this, like with how we're all going to be healthier, somehow, without vaccines, testing for food-borne pathogens, cancer research, Medicare or Medicaid, reproductive healthcare, and so on.

There is a belief among upper class Americans that society would be better if its lower levels were composed of worker bees who don’t have to bother with critical thinking or general life enrichment (and that they’d be happier this way) and this attitude pervades across political parties

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About half the time

A man who looks like a cross between basically every silent film comedian. His name is Charles Dorety. His credit is listed as "Stunned Pepperino Eater (uncredit..."

The 5.8 words every girl wants to hear

"You're in a leftwing echo chamber" Man, I live in America. No I'm not.

one of the coolest things about America is that every hour or so as you drive across the country you can randomly encounter a bastion of learning filled with oddballs and geniuses of every stripe and character, whose mere presence transforms otherwise typical towns into havens of Idea

We just don’t know

logging onto Bluesky

I overheard a guy at the airport bragging about being at January 6th and I walked by him sitting in first class. Wealthy business owners stormed the capitol. January 6th was loaded with people who had the leisure time and travel budget to be there. Interrogate who is telling you to hate the poor.

I'm not saying it would change much but I do kind of wish reporters with access would repeatedly, like every day, ask Republicans in Congress why they have decided that blatant corruption of the sort that has been consensus illegal for centuries is now basically entirely legal for this one guy.