Patrick A. Reed

This is a really important corrective to a lot of reporting today. Trump did not—and cannot—federalize MPD. The police force remains under the ultimate control of the mayor.

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.

Best uses of the ABBA 'descending piano' motif, in chronological order:

1) ABBA, Waterloo
2) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Thunder Road
3) ABBA, Dancing Queen
4) Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Oliver's Army

How Giving $750 a Month to L.A.'s Homeless Proved Basic Income Works 100 of L.A.'s homeless were given $750 a month for a year, and a new study reveals how it was spent, dispelling a prevalent myth in the process

Another solution that isn’t a police state: universal basic income. We have proven ideas kids!

One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes

US effectively moving to a system where tax policy is set by the executive branch, fully adhoc, unpredictable, and bespoke per company, and based in large part on the presidents' personal relationships with the company's leadership

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

I'm in PA this week, and have experienced this issue thrice in three days.

Trump announces he's taking over the DC police department to rescue the city from "crime, bloodshed, and bedlam."

Violent crime in DC reached a 30 year low in 2024 and is down sharply again this year.

A rent-burdened household is officially defined as when rent makes up over 30% of a household's income. Andrew Cuomo is explicitly saying that the only way you should be able to live in over a million apartments in New York City is to become rent-burdened. A completely unserious proposal.

Zohran should propose “Cuomo’s Law”, a law that bars sex offenders from being mayor of New York City

Williams’s argument has found purchase among journalists he might consider fellow travelers — Yascha Mounk, Bari Weiss and Conor Friedersdorf, among others. It’s also not so new; it might remind some people of the debates about political correctness that raged in the 1990s, though Williams might balk at the comparison. He would prefer that we not invoke history (or context, or ideology, or ideas of “moral clarity”) in our debates. He’d rather we understand current events through the facts of what is happening in the here and now. We shouldn’t have tried, he says, to understand the killing of Trayvon Martin on a continuum of racial violence that includes the lynching of Emmett Till, because doing so flattened the incident into a racial drama and did not deal with specific individuals and their actions. Similarly, he argues, the murder of George Floyd should not be seen in the context of racism and police behavior, but in the light of Floyd’s poverty and drug addiction (and I suppose we are not allowed then to contextualize those factors in terms of race, or the history of labor markets, or the pharmaceutical industry — they are just individual characteristics).

a sharp review of the chatterton book that notes the author’s total refusal to engage with history and his insistence that a “serious” or “good faith” discussion requires participants to exist in an eternal present where individuals exist free of context www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

The historical cognate for what is happening in the United States right now is the period known as the Redemption. And the restoration of Confederate iconography, just like when they were originally installed, is to signal to the nation the return of white power.

At 6 months, 33.3% of infants exhibited cognitive delays, 20% communication delays, and 40% motor delays, increasing to 35.71%, 64.29%, and 57.14% at 24 months, respectively.” Brutal.

i have been an observer to a decade in which the central figure of american politics has achieved significant victories by simply remaining on the offense and capturing attention all the time. maybe there’s a lesson there? i don’t know, i’m not a highly paid consultant.

Will journalists across the world speak out on the murder of their fellow journalists? Or will many remain quiet as they have before on the intentional murder of their colleagues for doing their work?

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

To be clear, he’s saying conservatives are … “restaurantless” … because they themselves have chosen to avoid places they think are too “woke,” and they’ve expanded that definition to include a place literally called Cracker Barrel, and that’s all a sign that they are, once again, the Real Victims

Landlords Commit $2.5 Million to Help Cuomo's Mayoral Campaign The money, the largest example of outside spending by a single donor in the New York City mayor's race, will go toward campaign ads on Andrew M. Cuomo's behalf.

When you see Cuomo attacking Mamdani over his rent stabilized one bedroom in Queens, do recall this please:

If this woman believed a rapist and convicted felon, she's far too stupid to have a position as an expert commentator. It's genuinely dangerous for her to have a platform.

This is uncharacteristically great messaging coming from a Democrat.

Screenshot from Twitter: Andrew Cuomo: Today, I am proud to announce that I will be proposing “Zohran’s law," a law that will keep the rich out of New York’s affordable housing. @ZohranKMamdani : you say freeze the rent. But for who? Rich people like you? Hardworking, working class New Yorkers are being pushed from their neighborhoods. Let’s build affordable housing that helps the people who need it. Under Zohran’s law, landlords can no longer rent vacant rent-controlled units to the wealthy. You are a rich person stealing affordable housing from the poor. And you’re not the only one. It’s past time we address this injustice. Let’s build a new NYC that works for the people who need it.

Run him the fuck out of town. Now.

The anti-sunscreen movement and what to know about its claims A growing anti-sunscreen movement on social media is causing concern among dermatologists, who warn that avoiding sunscreen increases long-term health risks.

This is nuts, FAFO-level nutz. The US is already decades behind Europe in approving better sunscreen formulations. And the kook in charge of HHS won't improve that. (gift link)
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JD Vance is too smart to be this dumb. Bootllicking at its finest.

ICE looted their restaurant and tried to break into the safe. News chopper footage caught them backing their cars up to the door and carrying out cases of food.

Mark Knopfler says three bouts of COVID have stunted his abilities – but he'll get over it “You develop lazy techniques. I’m forever doing that. It wouldn’t make a teacher very happy.” Mark Knopfler on Brothers In Arms and what happens when you don't practice enough

www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/m...

“Lack of use, plus three bouts of COVID, probably phased out the plectrum for me”: Mark Knopfler tells why he’s ditched the pick in favor of fingerpicking The former Dire Straits guitarist told us why he moved away from the plectrum but still regards the pick as “a superior thing”

“I probably wouldn’t be able to play them so well now [..] Lack of use, plus three bouts of COVID, probably phased out the plectrum for me”

Legendary Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler on how SARS-CoV-2 infection affected his ability to play music

#LongCovid

www.guitarplayer.com/players/mark...

i joked with the technician administering the shot, then got teary and looked up at this lovely light coming through the windows at the top of the javitz center. could almost hear angels singing. hope goddammit. that was hope.

This is not just HHMI. All Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding calls are CLOSED. The Gates Foundation has no Grand Challenges funding opportunities. I've never seen anything like this. Private foundations have just decided to stop supporting biomedical research.

200 days in, checking in on HHMI funding opportunities:

Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program - not accepting applications

Gilliam Fellows Program - not accepting applications

Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program - not accepting applications

Investigator Program - not accepting applications