This morning, I became the first New York City Mayor to visit Housing Court. And what I saw will stay with me for a long time. Families on the brink of losing their homes. Tenants navigating unsafe conditions, harassment, and uncertainty, searching for justice in an overwhelming system. Small property owners trying to keep up with their mortgage payments. I met with Chief Administrative Judge Joseph Zayas, New York City Administrative Judge Shahabuddeen Ally, and other members of the bench, and I walked through Resolution, HP, and NYCHA Parts. I spoke with people in intake, with legal service providers, and with the advocates who show up every day to stand beside New Yorkers who need support. Housing court is where the promises we make about dignity, stability and public excellence are tested in real time. In the months ahead, my team will work closely with the Chief Judge and the Chief Administrative Judge to confront the concerns we heard - directly from judges, tenants, landlords, legal service providers, and advocates.

What Happened to the SPLC—and Me Union breaking, Gaza, and fear of MAGA turned the SPLC into an organization that abandoned its own civil rights principles.

New: I wrote about how the SPLC let union breaking and fear of MAGA drive it away from its own civil rights principles.

After I spoke up about Gaza, the SPLC disciplined me and terminated my employment—leading to a discrimination settlement: substack.com/home/post/p-...

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

It’s incredible. Something that nobody has ever seen before is actually like nothing anyone has ever seen before. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Same result, just two slightly different theologies. Equally inhumane

Liz Truss’ cabbage right now seems like a utopian dream of a leader of a country

7 minutes ago Helene Cooper, Pentagon reporter Trump has concluded speaking after 19 minutes. Nothing new was said tonight. This was a rehash of his Truth Social posts over the past month.

most helpful summary
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Life goals! Congrats on the woke pocket, constitution guy!! I guess the woke pocket stirs up envy among the asshats?

Graham Platner boosts antisemitic conspiracy theorist online The Maine Senate candidate quickly deleted his post, in which he approved of a message by neo-Nazi radio host Stew Peters

i should hope if you’re running for elected office, you & your social media team know who not to retweet, or at least know that not every voice saying something simple is one to support.

especially if you’re fighting to get distance from some really ugly skeletons in your closet.

Let’s be crystal clear by not canceling or moving classes and work remote in such a moment, Columbia is actively contributing to the current regime’s project of terrorizing our noncitizen community members.

It is simply obscene

UH professor refuses to sign indoctrination memo, calling it a ‘red line’ The memo was issued as a result of Senate Bill 37, an overhaul of the public higher education system passed by the Texas legislature that took effect in September. UH is one of several large state institutions imposing increased authority over course curricula in an attempt to comply with the law.

A UH history professor is speaking out after the school asked honors college professors to sign a memorandum certifying that their course curriculum does not “indoctrinate” students, calling the request a “red line” for many faculty. 

12 Columbia Professors and Students Are Arrested at Anti-ICE Protest

“Columbia was the test case for this government strategy of kidnapping people first and then asking questions later” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/n...

Hervorragender Artikel, der präzise und klug der allzu oft ungenauen defätistischen dt Berichterstattung entgegenwirkt

Es sind mE nach auch alle sehr realistisch, dass man nicht weiß wie das hier ausgehen wird. Aber es ist ermutigend u beeindruckend, auch v.a. was Minneapolis vorlebt. Und das „they can’t shoot us all“ ergibt sich auch aus d Einsicht, dass der Staat ja nie aufgehört hat Indigene u Schwarze zu morden

Aber die mutual aid u lokale Orientierung d Widerstandes ist auch wirksamer als immer sofort auf d Institutionen m nationaler Reichweite zu blicken. Weil man lokal die kollektive politische Handlungsfähigkeit erfahren kann. Um regional u national etwas zu erreichen, muss man lokal organisiert sein

Natürlich sind die Eliten eingeknickt u die Integrität d Wahlen ist keine Selbstverständlichkeit. Aber wir sehen auch - wie der Artikel beschreibt - eine enorme Solidarisierung u Politisierung in der Bevölkerung, die auf sehr lokaler u konkreter Basis steht u u.a an d Bürgerrechtsbewegung anknüpft.

Danke für diesen ausgezeichneten Artikel, der dem dt „wo sind die Proteste“?? Diskurs so präzise entgegen wirkt. V.a in West D scheint die Annahme zu sein, dass man Faschismus letztlich nicht v innen niederringen kann. Weil das die Erfahrung m dem NS war. Aber sind nicht d Referenzpunkte in d USA

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Snow angels are very important contributions to the public good 💚

And by wanting to understand, I mean, I want to understand why leftist commentators & even podcasters, who generally are v well informed & research stuff well, seem so bent on the “ICE = Gestapo”

The SA/brownshirts analogy is salient & terrifying. But also shows how on point the principled resistance has been & is. So what’s with the obsession of “ICE = Gestapo”? Is it bc to the USian left all Nazis are “Gestapo”? — No snark. Just want to understand

The FBI is much more likely, if we allow it, to be formed into this regime’s Gestapo. And historically has functioned not unlike the Gestapo (cf the persecution of the Black Panthers). — Also calls for more training of ICE, are calls for “turn the brownshirts into the SS.”

Fun fact: The majority of the cases the Gestapo “investigated” came from tips by the population. — But the Gestapo didn’t roam the streets to pick up, beat up, and kill people in the open. That was what the brownshirts, the SA did. Like ICE.

Yes there’s a parallel to “administrative warrants,” bc the Gestapo didn’t need to go the official court process — not that the courts would have made a difference, since the judiciary was fully captured quickly. The Gestapo fabricated evidence & tortured people in its prisons. But away from sight

But once the NSDAP got to power, they didn’t like how the Gestapo did intelligence gathering on political opponents. So the newly formed SD (Sicherheitsdienst, security service) got to do that & the Gestapo investigated & administered punishments, which could be fines up to executions

The Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei, secret state police) goes back to the Prussian state. It was formed in light of the 1848 revolution to covertly monitor political activities that might lead to the overthrow of the state. — OK, so maybe a parallel here because ICE was formed under GW Bush…

The SA were untrained thugs, which started as the NSDAP’s security service. Later members of other right wing paramilitaries joined the brownshirts, like ICE recruiting from right wing militias. Initially members even had to buy their own uniforms, like ICE ppl seem to bring their own gear

Can someone explain to me please why the USian left is so invested in “ICE = Gestapo”? — I agree we see fascism & no objection to the Nazi analogy. But ICE is the brownshirts (Sturmabteilung, SA) dispatching to cities to terrorize people. What’s the Gestapo obsession???

Whereas ICE reportedly has 22,000 officers, the NYPD has around 35,000. I have no hope for policing to get us out of this, but, just food for thought