Erik Gullberg

i just clicked "Interested"

first off rent stabilized ≠ rent controlled. second Cuomo is essentially making the case that he, a hugely rich and privileged person, and Mamdani are basically from the same social class. This inadvertently raises the question of why Mamdani seems nice and normal and Cuomo is a gaping asshole

He has now passed the all-important "Is your bagel order basically normal or are you a freak?" NYC candidate test.

(Also, not an accident, I think, that he did this in one of the least Mamdani-friendly nabes in Manhattan. Sends a good message that he is not conceding a single part of the city.)

sam altman tweets on 8/6/2025 an image from Rogue One, of the Death Star peering over the horizon

i'm not sure these guys understand that the Empire was the villain

(also this image was designed and made by human artists)

REIGN OF TERROR // AVAILABLE NOW // VIKING

to what extent does the administration intend to use this money to fund things that congress won't, and also, treating states like conquered territories to be dominated is one of those things that really makes you think the goal of these people is to dissolve the union

Also, Andrew Cuomo spent $20 million of NY taxpayers' money to subpoena phone (& gynecological records!) of women who accused him of sexual harassment. How else might those 20 million have been spent? For instance: on resources and services for needy New Yorkers?

goddamn this guy just sucks

it’s basically trite to note at this point but if this were any other president, and certainly a democrat, spending a ton of money to gild the white house would be a legit scandal

once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them

They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them The government is going to destroy unions if we don't fight now.

Watching someone beat us to death as we consider whether the time has come to escalate.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...

The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA.
I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.

This rocks. It looks like a version of Myst that only Bill Maher can play. It looks like Joe Camel's house if Joe Camel was a real guy.

Every restaurant/bar has a vivid Fall Is Coming energy right now as they manage their panic attacks over a recession summer and a very tariff-y fall. We’ve been at war for weeks now 😱

Enjoyed my “guy on Bluesky” cameo on this week’s Marvelvision 🫡 more where that came from!

*Ahem* I have been lucky enough to see this early and @tristanwright.bsky.social is going to be huge in this business, huge! He's giving Geof Darrow while Matt delivers epic allegories for the ages in BOTH Toxie books, neither of which you want to miss out on!

Fair Fares—50% discount for low income riders—routinely enrolls about 25% of eligible participants. Most people don't know it exists. Gov Cuomo famously kept paying for more cops in the system to fight fare evasion instead. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2019...

Jim Cameron on digital and physical effects: “It’s really the higher question of what are you trying to show, and what are you trying to say? I don’t attach some kind of dogmatic aesthetic around in-camera or practical... It’s really just a means to an end.”

source: youtu.be/v_x3OZlnkwM?...

continue to think that one of pritzker’s
political assets is that he is a bit paulie walnuts coded

wish the Bulwark set would pay more attention to the way Cornyn et al are acting during this era of supposedly unprecedented right-wing overreach. Dude's been a senator since 2002.

This is called extortion. The landlords say they can’t possibly maintain the buildings they currently rent out unless they can constantly raise your rent. The bankers nod. The argument would begin to make sense if Mamdani was proposing rent cancellation. He’s not. Stop taking shakedown artists srsly

Better to investigate the “do we have people with guns” situation now than later, when it might be too late

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Alligator Alcatraz ICE Prisoner Reveals Beatings & Groping of Prisoners "They're going to kill us here," prisoner tells girlfriend about guards violently assaulting prisoners. "They touch us all: our groins, our asses...they treat us like beasts."

"They’re going to kill us here little by little, no one pays attention to us. I’ve been here for 30 days seeing injustice and mistreatment, it doesn’t stop. They abuse us in every way—with the food, in the bathroom, everything, everything." Important reporting from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

Get the fuck outta here Samsung it ain’t your time! Was it right after The Odyssey trailer with a profound amount of treble, like it was yelling at you? It was one of the grosser moments I’d had in an AMC in a few and we’re talking about AMC

a cartoon character has the word easier written on his chest ALT: a cartoon character has the word easier written on his chest

It hurts me that, of all the possible futures, we’re headed straight for the Wall-E timeline

Howling with laughter that after all Eric Adams did to debase himself before Trump — and make no mistake: the mayor of New York traded his own freedom for unleashing state terror on immigrant New Yorkers — Trump doesn’t respect him enough to collude with him to stop Zohran.

Pump it directly into my veins ❤️‍🔥

the thing i don't get about this is that sure, you're some groyper who thinks the posters look cool. but, like, you must know that the nazis lost, and they didn't just lose, they lost to the people they *deemed inferior*: a polyglot nation of shopkeepers on one front & russian peasants on the other

Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on.

It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

This brainwormed monster thinks that if physically compromised people die from infections in big enough numbers, the "herd" will be stronger. And Republican Senators decided it was fine to give him this country as a lab to experiment on. Hell is too good for them, but I'll accept it as a compromise.