Mayor Mamdani speaks at a podium with brick buildings and bright greenery in the background.

The side of a brick building with temperature control units in four windows.

Happy Earth Day, NYC!
 
An affordable city is a sustainable city. I'm proud to support NYCHA’s ambitious new Sustainability Agenda, which includes heat pumps, electric vehicle charging stations, induction stoves, and other energy-efficiency upgrades for NYCHA residents over the next five years.

The housing affordability crisis isn’t just crushing millennials—it’s squeezing out buyers in their 50s and older, too | Fortune “When purchasing power declines, fewer people buy homes at 28—but also fewer purchase at 38 or 48,” writes Housing Center codirector Ed Pinto.

“When purchasing power declines, fewer people buy homes at 28—but also fewer purchase at 38 or 48,” writes the author, Housing Center codirector Ed Pinto. “The result is a broad-based drop in homeownership.”
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The housing affordability crisis isn’t just crushing millennials—it’s squeezing out buyers in their 50s and older, too | Fortune “When purchasing power declines, fewer people buy homes at 28—but also fewer purchase at 38 or 48,” writes Housing Center codirector Ed Pinto.

I don't have a gift link, but this headline grabbed me. #GenX
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They'll have to let some younger folks get elected

Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"

@reprheingans.bsky.social is one of the most progressive members of the Michigan legislature.

She also happens to be my state representative.

Now she’s facing an absurd primary challenge.

No thanks.

Let’s show Carrie (and her opponent) we’ve got her back ➡️ secure.actblue.com/donate/carri...

I walk through there twice a day on my way to and from work. It is my happy place.

Tell The State: Michiganders Deserve More Options For Homes We Can Afford! Michigan is currently facing a severe shortage of 119,000 homes, in part because overly restrictive laws are stalling the construction of affordable starter homes and driving up costs. Recent polling ...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell The State: Michiganders Deserve More Options For Homes We Can Afford!.

Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/make...

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Yup.

Philip Bump: How recent is America's past? Things that Americans think of as having long ago were, in fact, within the lifespans of most of us.

The thing about Palantir’s cultural chauvinism is also the thing about the anti-woke rejection of the effects of explicit racism. In each case, the victors often cheated — and not even a lifetime ago.
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I just finished writing my reflections on tonight's big win in Virginia. I've been fighting this fight for ten years, including three cases in SCOTUS. Tonight we won a big one at the ballot box.

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Grey heron in a small pond at West Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The sun is shining, and it feels like spring!

The West Park heron is back! #AnnArbor

Indeed. Complaints about redistricting are invalid. Republicans did it everywhere and invalidated a Constitutional Amendment so they could do it on explicitly racial lines.

There are two choices: use the same levers of power as Republicans do, or let them win. There is no "principled" opposition.

This is the thing, if "academia" wanted to stop this, we could easily tomorrow. Over 3 incorrect references? Rejected and forbidden to submit next year.

The purpose of a system is what it does!

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

Street safety and housing advocate announces run for Ann Arbor council Hannah Stanton-Gockel, a cycling advocate known for organizing “Bubbles for Bike Lanes” demonstration rides, is running for Ann Arbor City Council.

It’s great to see a candidate centering Vision Zero in her campaign!

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Listen, they are building concentration camps and threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people. There is not a single remotely legal tactic that is impermissible when it comes to stopping them.

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

Ugh, I am so sorry!

This is pretty close to what the A2 Community Land Trust is requesting (3 houses by right per lot), and yes, it would make a big dent in affordability.

She's such a good communicator.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.

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This year, we're not just going to send Mike Rogers back to Florida.

We're going to flip the 4th, the 7th, the 10th, the State House, and expand our State Senate majority.

The rest of the country is counting on us. Let’s show ‘em how it’s done.

Need train now

#A2Council, let's create a community in which kids are empowered to go places independently and safely!

And as for antisemitism, well, Acker loved to claim that any critique of his behavior was "antisemitism", a move that cheapens a very real threat and makes us all less safe. He's the boy who cried wolf.

A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.

BREAKING: Mallory McMorrow just brought down the house at the Michigan Democratic Party Women's caucus. Let's go!