Deborah Wolfson
@howlinwolfson.bsky.social
Water towers. Dog pictures. Withering remarks.
I talk about New York history here: https://leavesofglass.substack.com
(she/her)
I talk about New York history here: https://leavesofglass.substack.com
(she/her)
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Brooklyn, home of 2.8-million people had 47 shooting drafts and 91 homicides overall.
For those of us anywhere in NYC during the 70s-90s this is like an urban legend in reverse. I think we’ve eliminated the CHUDs once and for all.
For those of us anywhere in NYC during the 70s-90s this is like an urban legend in reverse. I think we’ve eliminated the CHUDs once and for all.
Brooklyn Finishes 2025 with Fewest Murders, Shootings, Shooting Victims and Shooting Homicides in Recorded History – The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office
brooklynda.org
January 2, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Brooklyn, home of 2.8-million people had 47 shooting drafts and 91 homicides overall.
For those of us anywhere in NYC during the 70s-90s this is like an urban legend in reverse. I think we’ve eliminated the CHUDs once and for all.
For those of us anywhere in NYC during the 70s-90s this is like an urban legend in reverse. I think we’ve eliminated the CHUDs once and for all.
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transit sickos, our time is now
January 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM
transit sickos, our time is now
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Obsessed with this juxtaposition
January 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Obsessed with this juxtaposition
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it's a real symptom of widespread anti-progressive media bias that an explicitly progressive candidate is expected to feel a need to be apologetic about being progressive.
It's so weird to say a politician "doubled down" on.....the very explicit promises he made during the campaign?
Isn't that what promises are?
Isn't that what promises are?
January 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
it's a real symptom of widespread anti-progressive media bias that an explicitly progressive candidate is expected to feel a need to be apologetic about being progressive.
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doing one of my semiregular Sale Alert posts, this time specifically for my plus size girlies:
Eloquii, a site which has sizes ranging from 14 to 32 from which I've gotten many a work/function outfit (see, e.g., these photos), is having their semiannual clearance sale - up to 85% off!
Eloquii, a site which has sizes ranging from 14 to 32 from which I've gotten many a work/function outfit (see, e.g., these photos), is having their semiannual clearance sale - up to 85% off!
January 2, 2026 at 4:12 PM
doing one of my semiregular Sale Alert posts, this time specifically for my plus size girlies:
Eloquii, a site which has sizes ranging from 14 to 32 from which I've gotten many a work/function outfit (see, e.g., these photos), is having their semiannual clearance sale - up to 85% off!
Eloquii, a site which has sizes ranging from 14 to 32 from which I've gotten many a work/function outfit (see, e.g., these photos), is having their semiannual clearance sale - up to 85% off!
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It's amazing how many corporations -- much less private individuals -- still believe they need to stay active on the white nationalist forum and CSAM generator.
Sure, you may have succeeded in blocking yourself from seeing these things there, but all of us still see you there alongside those things
Sure, you may have succeeded in blocking yourself from seeing these things there, but all of us still see you there alongside those things
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 1:13 AM
It's amazing how many corporations -- much less private individuals -- still believe they need to stay active on the white nationalist forum and CSAM generator.
Sure, you may have succeeded in blocking yourself from seeing these things there, but all of us still see you there alongside those things
Sure, you may have succeeded in blocking yourself from seeing these things there, but all of us still see you there alongside those things
No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.
January 1, 2026 at 11:23 PM
No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.
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Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.
January 1, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.
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They gentrified the tinfoil hat
January 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
They gentrified the tinfoil hat
“We will govern expansively and audaciously.”
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
January 1, 2026 at 7:49 PM
“We will govern expansively and audaciously.”
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
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It is unsurprising to learn that Sulzberger, Kahn, and Ryan are also responsible for the paper's "fairness" to Trump's fascism. You have never met an otherwise liberal person who's "only" transphobic. That train's never late.
January 1, 2026 at 7:11 PM
It is unsurprising to learn that Sulzberger, Kahn, and Ryan are also responsible for the paper's "fairness" to Trump's fascism. You have never met an otherwise liberal person who's "only" transphobic. That train's never late.
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Remember kids, De Blasio is watching. He's always watching.
January 1, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Remember kids, De Blasio is watching. He's always watching.
The Mamdani livestream is narrated by Bernie Wagenblast!! A transit queen!
January 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
The Mamdani livestream is narrated by Bernie Wagenblast!! A transit queen!
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We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.
January 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM
We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Mandy Patinkin just showed up at City Hall ahead of Zohran Mamdani's inauguration and sung with a bunch of kids from the PS22 chorus.
January 1, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Mandy Patinkin just showed up at City Hall ahead of Zohran Mamdani's inauguration and sung with a bunch of kids from the PS22 chorus.
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Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...
December 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...
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any discussion of city transit improvement online ever
January 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM
any discussion of city transit improvement online ever
Aleph-Bet Coin.
Maybe Adams has legitimately stumbled on an ingenious way of combining two of the longest-running preoccupations of his mayoral term... or maybe, true to form, he's profoundly full of it.
Eric Adams Says His Next Gig Is Fighting Antisemitism With Cryptocurrency
How? Don't ask.
hellgatenyc.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Aleph-Bet Coin.
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majorie taylor green is a bigot and she sucks ass. it's good if her publicly complaining about trump being a dumb little bitch gives people an off ramp, or cracks the maga coalition, etc, but as we rebuild our society, she's not to be given any power
December 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
majorie taylor green is a bigot and she sucks ass. it's good if her publicly complaining about trump being a dumb little bitch gives people an off ramp, or cracks the maga coalition, etc, but as we rebuild our society, she's not to be given any power
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Ten great cultural, artistic or literary achievements of 1925:
1. “The Great Gatsby.” bsky.app/profile/100y...
1. “The Great Gatsby.” bsky.app/profile/100y...
100 years ago news (@100yearsagonews.bsky.social)
April 10, 1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” is published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. The quintessential portrait of the Jazz Age and tragic indictment of the American Dream is a…
bsky.app
December 30, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Ten great cultural, artistic or literary achievements of 1925:
1. “The Great Gatsby.” bsky.app/profile/100y...
1. “The Great Gatsby.” bsky.app/profile/100y...
If you want to know about the station where Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor this week, I can help with that!
open.substack.com/pub/leavesof...
open.substack.com/pub/leavesof...
The Tunnel That Used To Be A Subway Station
On the Underground Underground.
open.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If you want to know about the station where Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor this week, I can help with that!
open.substack.com/pub/leavesof...
open.substack.com/pub/leavesof...
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Good news, New York!
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Drop to Pandemic Levels in Sign of Local Climate Laws’ Impact
Phasing out fuel oil in buildings, improved energy efficiency and cleaner, greener cars contributed to a 5% decline between 2023 and 2024.
buff.ly
December 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Good news, New York!
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This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
"'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in Minneapolis
Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
www.mprnews.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
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This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
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Just a few days until the new year begins and movie releases suddenly collapse into the official two genres of January: “Horror” and “Whoops”.
December 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Just a few days until the new year begins and movie releases suddenly collapse into the official two genres of January: “Horror” and “Whoops”.