Jeremy Espenshade
@jeremyke.bsky.social
Urbanist Software Engineer in NYC
Dad | Google Maps Technical Lead | ex-MSR,IBM | Licensed NYC tour guide ( thepowerbiker.com ) | NYU Urban Planning part time
Dad | Google Maps Technical Lead | ex-MSR,IBM | Licensed NYC tour guide ( thepowerbiker.com ) | NYU Urban Planning part time
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If a politician texts me asking for money right now, they better be asking for -bail- money so they can get out and commit more civil disobedience.
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
If a politician texts me asking for money right now, they better be asking for -bail- money so they can get out and commit more civil disobedience.
Sad commentary that by missing 'Nigeria' on first read, I assumed this was about ICE
At Least 52 Kidnapped From Nigeria School in Second Mass Abduction This Week
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Sad commentary that by missing 'Nigeria' on first read, I assumed this was about ICE
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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As promised, here's a longer explanation of why you should vote YES on all the NYC ballot initiatives EXCEPT #6
✅ YES on #1
✅ YES on #2
✅ YES on #3
✅ YES on #4
✅ YES on #5
🚫 NO on #6
✅ YES on #1
✅ YES on #2
✅ YES on #3
✅ YES on #4
✅ YES on #5
🚫 NO on #6
I'll write a longer post on why, but here's how I'm voting on the ballot initiatives, and I strongly encourage you to do the same.
✅ YES on #1
✅ YES on #2
✅ YES on #3
✅ YES on #4
✅ YES on #5
🚫 NO on #6
✅ YES on #1
✅ YES on #2
✅ YES on #3
✅ YES on #4
✅ YES on #5
🚫 NO on #6
Go vote! And remember to flip your ballot for the charter amendments!
October 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
As promised, here's a longer explanation of why you should vote YES on all the NYC ballot initiatives EXCEPT #6
✅ YES on #1
✅ YES on #2
✅ YES on #3
✅ YES on #4
✅ YES on #5
🚫 NO on #6
✅ YES on #1
✅ YES on #2
✅ YES on #3
✅ YES on #4
✅ YES on #5
🚫 NO on #6
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
No Kings and No Cuomo @dreamfornyc.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
No Kings and No Cuomo @dreamfornyc.bsky.social
I already voted against Cuomo. Guy seems to have a hard time taking no for an answer...
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I already voted against Cuomo. Guy seems to have a hard time taking no for an answer...
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Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.
"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
October 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.
"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
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we should let people build housing near it
![Tweet via Basil @LinkofSunshine:
The Lex Avenue Line has equivalent higher daily ridership to 2/3rds of the entire population of Paris
The best subway line in the world baby
[Map of Lexington Ave subway line in Manhattan]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mrl6nipsxggr5e2zgozzpv3g/bafkreibzbv7vtnollbigjj2zcnz265wei3cincvj7u744myhetbp3waciy@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
we should let people build housing near it
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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September 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's sad that my "Don't Rank Eric or Andrew for Mayor" hat is once again obsolete 🤣 @dreamfornyc.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It's sad that my "Don't Rank Eric or Andrew for Mayor" hat is once again obsolete 🤣 @dreamfornyc.bsky.social
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I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.
The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."
September 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.
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Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.
Y'all are sleeping on how good @arstechnica.com 's political coverage is.
September 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Y'all are sleeping on how good @arstechnica.com 's political coverage is.
My 2c on shutdown positioning: Democrats demand removal of RFK Jr and Carr.
We cannot lose our right to free speech or our right to access medicine. The government running under their leadership is more harmful than a shutdown.
@schumer.senate.gov
We cannot lose our right to free speech or our right to access medicine. The government running under their leadership is more harmful than a shutdown.
@schumer.senate.gov
September 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My 2c on shutdown positioning: Democrats demand removal of RFK Jr and Carr.
We cannot lose our right to free speech or our right to access medicine. The government running under their leadership is more harmful than a shutdown.
@schumer.senate.gov
We cannot lose our right to free speech or our right to access medicine. The government running under their leadership is more harmful than a shutdown.
@schumer.senate.gov
This!
I really think that Dems should demand firing RFK Jr. as a condition to fund the government
his negative value over replacement cabinet member is undoubtedly the highest in the administration
his negative value over replacement cabinet member is undoubtedly the highest in the administration
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This!
You may not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like!
These hairy spiders spend almost all of their lives underground. But when it's time to mate, they must brave the great outdoors before they perish.
Male tarantulas are moving and wooing their way across Colorado
These hairy spiders spend almost all of their lives underground. But when it's time to mate, they must brave the great outdoors before they perish.
n.pr
September 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
You may not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like!
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The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
September 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
I respect the Texas dems for walking out. It exercised the little power they had to represent their voters. But I really don't understand returning. All they accomplished was a delay, which is possibly counter productive given there's less time for blue states to respond now.
August 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I respect the Texas dems for walking out. It exercised the little power they had to represent their voters. But I really don't understand returning. All they accomplished was a delay, which is possibly counter productive given there's less time for blue states to respond now.