It’s worth mentioning with this that state assembly candidate @eonforassembly.bsky.social was quick to speak about this when Carmella was arrested last week. He’s also endorsed and canvassed with her for District Leader.
His opponent, Stefani Zinerman, has yet to take a stance on this.
the Becerra surge and the DNC $0 are two stories that together really tell the story of the Democratic Party
its brand is in the mud and its capacity is limited, and also party aligned validators and various para party groups still have huge capacity to move votes within primaries
Auto insurance rate evasion via false addresses and out-of-state license plates surged under Gov. Hochul’s watch, yet she has released few details on how she plans to deal with it beyond a task force. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/21/a...
mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally
there is this big dust-up on the other site where a certain set of tenured / Verso leftists are saying that "abundance" has "bent the knee" to Mamdani's "communitarian" politics
and every Mamdani video is him talking about what a great city this is and touting various improvements to city services
I love it when we refuse to settle for the way things are as the way they have to be. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...
Very good news. And a five-year timeline is pretty fast by municipal standards.
Also:
"The city has roughly three million parking spaces, and full trash containerization is expected to take about 150,000 spaces, or 5 percent."
my most cringe lib belief is that all the social-emotional curriculums in modern elementary schools are amazing and they're teaching kids incredibly useful skills for life
and now I have some data!
i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”
$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...
WHAT WE KNOW, 11pm:
—Liberals flip seat on Wisconsin supreme court.
—Also flip important school board seats in WI, OK, MO.
—Dems win Waukesha mayor race.
—GOP defends MTG's seat, but Dems way overperform.
—Big MO county rejects property tax freeze.
and both the libs and the mods are 100 percent correct
![On March 9, 2026, a large basij [IRGC’s paramilitary volunteer militia] base in Tehran’s Resalat Square was struck by missiles. Slightly above the square, in an alley on one of the connecting streets, densely populated residential homes near the base were destroyed. Even by [March 12], three days after the strike, heavy traffic of rescue and firefighting forces continued. One resident said, “that morning, people were preparing to leave the area. One family waited for their daughter to return from work, so they could all leave together. But, the explosions happened at 2:30 pm, before the girl arrived. The entire family was killed.” Some residents stated about 40 people died in that neighborhood in the early days [of the war], though there are no exact figures.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:whdyuznluo6jkl664y5xylr6/bafkreif7ds4kgmkgowoaxsu3w2feapvgll35s57kzcaogj26qod5bl3uwa)
On March 9, 2026, a large basij [IRGC’s paramilitary volunteer militia] base in Tehran’s Resalat Square was struck by missiles. Slightly above the square, in an alley on one of the connecting streets, densely populated residential homes near the base were destroyed. Even by [March 12], three days after the strike, heavy traffic of rescue and firefighting forces continued. One resident said, “that morning, people were preparing to leave the area. One family waited for their daughter to return from work, so they could all leave together. But, the explosions happened at 2:30 pm, before the girl arrived. The entire family was killed.” Some residents stated about 40 people died in that neighborhood in the early days [of the war], though there are no exact figures.
being "anti war" is one of those ideas that's so obvious that people spend entire intellectual lives probing the boundaries and precise extent of it but mostly it's just important and true
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New: Zhan “Johnny” Petrosyants, a close friend of former Mayor Eric Adams, was hit with a superseding fraud indictment yesterday that implicates two other individuals with ties to Frank Carone, another key Adams associate. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
An immigration judge on Thursday ruled against the deportation of a Pennsylvania man who had spent 43 years in prison and was set to be freed after his murder conviction was overturned, only to be picked up by immigration agents immediately after. Subramanyam Vedam, 64, was a green card holder who came to the United States with his parents from India when he was 9 months old. He was exonerated in October, after a judge vacated his murder conviction based on ballistics evidence that prosecutors had failed to disclose during his trials.
exonerated after FORTY THREE years in prison, only to end up falling in ICE detention immediately
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
Council Member Sandy Nurse smiling with a man in a cap and jersey jacket outdoors on a sunny day with police officers and a chain-link fence in the background.
Please join us in wishing Council Member Sandy Nurse a very happy birthday! 🎂
Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants! New Regime leadership knows what has to be done, and has to be done, FAST! President DONALD J.TRUMP
Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.
may this be the beginning of something
really good piece at the Argument by Maibritt Henkel on the actual polling data on young men, in contrast to the insane discourse about them
they're pretty liberal www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-bros-a...
people really really don't understand how bad this already is in Asia and Africa and how bad it's going to get everywhere else very soon
We'll say it again: We are beyond tired of the Brooklyn Democratic Party being implicated in corruption scandals.
Text from City and State article: Things are not going well for the leader of the Brooklyn Democratic Party. And Bichotte Hermelyn’s six-year reign as county leader may be coming to an end. Will she be reelected this summer? “I hope she isn’t,” said New York City Council Member Sandy Nurse, a fellow Brooklyn Democrat. “I think the county chair has demonstrated a lack of sensibility on a number of things. Most important, the total failure to make the largest party in the country a resounding success.”
We agree with @sandynurse.bsky.social.
There's enormous potential in the BK Democratic Party — but we need leaders who want to unlock it.
www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
Bret Stephens: I'm flabbergasted by the relentless pessimism I'm seeing in much of the commentariat. We are less than two weeks into a war that will almost surely be over by the end of the month, and already there are predictions that it's “another Iraq." American casualties, heartbreaking
just a few minutes away from Bret Stephens getting another prediction wrong
Yet never has so much been seen, so precisely, by so many people who understand so little of what they are seeing. A system can tell you where a man is. It cannot tell you what his death will mean for a nation. Such systems are trained on behavior, not on meaning — they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honors, remembers or would die for.
I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...
Worth reading. The UK was almost 100% renewable power on Wednesday!
The world’s going to solar, wind & batteries. Less expensive, doesn’t cook the planet!
Meanwhile, in NY, Hochul acts as a Republican trying to gut NY’s climate law. Gah!
Stop her, legislators!
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SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings?
CPAC CROWD: *cheers*
SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.
This new two-way bike lane on Lafayette from Prince Street to Astor Place will be a game changer for Manhattan's bike network. buff.ly/8DMjnff
"What do you expect from peace negotiations?"
"The right to re-commence this same exact war for any reason at any time in the future."
I feel like it's kinda hard to call that peace yknow
