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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲
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Be realistic; demand the impossible!

Orion's father; Lauren's partner; @beta.nyc's Executive Director; 20+ years in Public Interest Tech; NYC COPIC Member; #ASL beginner; #OpenData; #civictech; #PiTech; 🇵🇷; #BikeNYC; Opinion = Own
I really want to know what app the ICE agent is using to register this person.
This black man, who was racially profiled by ICE in a gas station in Minneapolis today, would not have walked away if it weren’t for brave Americans who stood up for him and for those whose deaths have brought ICE’s savagery to the epicenter of national attention.

Keep calling them out, America!
January 11, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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"People drive the design, not the sign." --unknown
you don’t need traffic signs to create safe streets, you need good design. 👇
January 10, 2026 at 11:47 PM
The War on Cars has some wealthy friends
A copy of the comic book that introduced the world to Superman in 1938 has been sold to an anonymous collector for $15 million. The history of this particular copy of Action Comics No. 1, which originally sold for 10 cents, is a saga of its own.
Rare Comic Introducing Superman Sells Privately for $15 Million
The copy of Action Comics No. 1, published in 1938, was stolen from the actor Nicolas Cage in 2000 and recovered more than a decade later.
nyti.ms
January 10, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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Doc Rivers: "What happened in Minnesota was a straight-up murder"
January 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
ONLY 150?!?

When I read this number, my jaw dropped. This is barely a drop of H2O in a vast ocean of cars and trucks across the city.

This tech is proven to nudge people's behavior to drive safer.

A responsive government that cares about its residents should have expanded these tools YEARS ago.
New York City currently has the cameras in place at 150 intersections: gothamist.visitlink.me/viwrSn
January 10, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism and procedural tricks to prevent her release.
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...
The last Columbia protester in ICE detention: Leqaa Kordia on her 9 months in captivity
Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using…
mondoweiss.net
January 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Black Photojournalism at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art brings together the work of nearly 60 photographers to present a nuanced, stirring story of Black history in America www.dazeddigital.com/art-photogra...
These photos excavate four decades of Black life in the US
Black Photojournalism at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art brings together the work of nearly 60 photographers to present a nuanced, stirring story of Black history in America
www.dazeddigital.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Growing up in the 80s & 90s, it was the "Free Leonard Peltier" signs.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...
January 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The Working Class Uprising They Don't Teach You About
YouTube video by PBS Origins
youtu.be
January 10, 2026 at 1:10 PM
This SUV must pass two separate security checkpoints — One NYPD, the other USMS.

They are parking at the jail where Jeffrey Epstein died.

This federal law enforcement person very clearly thinks they are above the law.

@nyc.streetsblog.org

howsmydrivingny.nyc/r1io8n7w
January 9, 2026 at 1:40 PM
God forbid Billionaires don't have direct access to the Mayor or First Deputy Mayor.

gothamist.com/news/the-mam...
January 8, 2026 at 7:55 PM
When climate arsonists who claim to be capitalists say that the market isn't asking for change, they are shoving their heads into ant hills and refusing to accept that they are the problem.
After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.

Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.

More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
January 8, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.

Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.

More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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48 years ago
The January 1978 Record Mirror bizarrely described punk pioneer Poly Styrene as a “sex symbol”.

Poly, who fought against all oppression and sexism and abhorred any form of conformism, was certainly not and did not want to be a sex symbol

#polystyrene #womanofpunk #punkrockhistory
January 8, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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TURN THE VOLUME UP
January 8, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Welcome!
Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.
January 8, 2026 at 2:05 PM
We don’t need more driverless cars, we need fewer cars and drivers.

youtu.be/uDNXjnOqJ-A?...
Nvidia Live CES 2026: Everything Announced in 9 Minutes
YouTube video by CNET
youtu.be
January 7, 2026 at 11:52 PM
SOLID.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @nyc-dot.bsky.social say they will in fact move QNS 31st street redesign forward while appealing the novel court ruling that was wildly outside of the boundaries of the law. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥳🥳🥳
January 7, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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The premise of this WSJ article is incorrect. We can debate the effects of the 2019 laws on the rental market, but Pinnacle was a bad actor long before them. Their model for decades was to buy up RS properties and let them fall into disrepair to push tenants out. www.wsj.com/opinion/new-...
Opinion | The Rent-Control Slums of New York
Mayor Mamdani tries to stop a bankruptcy his new housing czar caused.
www.wsj.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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See you there?
Calling tech workers, artists, students, community organizers, and the civic-curious:

Spend an afternoon at the NYC PIT Pop-Up Open House & Relaunch and connect with people building technology for the public good!

📆 Friday, January 9, 12 pm to 6 pm
🎟️ RSVP: www.beta.nyc/event/e260109
January 6, 2026 at 7:42 PM
My Post-Soviet Eastern European, Christian, truck driving landlord looked me dead in the eye and asked "how much can we keep on giving [to refugees & migrants] until enough is enough?"

I'm truly baffled how all of these people want to destroy the world. They do not see the suffering they create.
Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.
January 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Calling tech workers, artists, students, community organizers, and the civic-curious:

Spend an afternoon at the NYC PIT Pop-Up Open House & Relaunch and connect with people building technology for the public good!

📆 Friday, January 9, 12 pm to 6 pm
🎟️ RSVP: www.beta.nyc/event/e260109
January 5, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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One of the new @cambridgemass.bsky.social EV recycling trucks serviced my street today, and it is SILENT. What a shared win for climate AND quality of life!
January 5, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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yes please @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, move to bluesky and mastodon, which use open protocols, and away from proprietary platforms like x and facebook that incite hate and promote lies for profit.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here?

And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?

No money for Musk, ever, please.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM