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Rich Mintz

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Refugee from the bad place. Street safety advocate. Fmr Housing/Homelessness committee chair, Manhattan CB6. LGBTQ person. Trans people exist. 🗣️🇺🇸+🇩🇰+🇪🇸(🇦🇷) he/him/🚲/🚍/🏍️

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 6h

For the record their names are Colm and Ruadhan and they are so nice to me, if you also go here, please tip well

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 6h

Also maybe I remind them of their charismatic winky leprechaun uncles from the old country idk

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 6h

Look I know this isn’t rocket science, show up regularly and know their names and look them in the eye and tip $3 a drink, but I still marvel at it

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 6h

they just brought me another “usual” I didn’t order just as I was finishing the first

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 6h

handed me “the usual” and shrugged his shoulders and said “I saw him sit down”

Am I NORM PETERSON now??

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 6h

Omg I walked into a bar I go to and sat down and it was busy and about 2 minutes later hot Irish bartender 1 walked up and shook my hand and said “nice haircut” and “the usual?” and I said yes and he turned around and hot Irish bartender 2 was right behind him and //

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 1d

lol

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me Waterside Plaza but what is this

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 2d

God willing I (age 59) will live long enough to see Pam Bondi thrown in prison for the rest of her life

furbabies.bsky.social @furbabies.bsky.social · 2d

After yelling and obfuscating to senators for hours, Dick Durbin hit her with this one: "Eventually you are going to have to answer for your conduct in this. You won't do it today, but eventually you will." Suddenly, she went SILENT.🔥 She knows.

You're phucked, Pam....just sayin'

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11d

the strategy to deter blue state incursions of federal troops is to promise, repeatedly, that when you are in power you will prosecute everyone involved, starting with top officials and going down to troops on the ground.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11d

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 15d

Oh no

Grand Prospect Hall is closed

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 16d

We need some UN investigators here, stat

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 16d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 16d

here in the bro zone (Murray Hill) I see them all summer, there’s even one in my building

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 18d

that is definitely part of it, you’re right

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 19d

Last night I was scrolling thru the “updates on the Trump administration” NYT page with the blog type reporter updates and… it was just one batshit crazy unilateral move after another, the only common thread is “blow everything up“

Coming back from this will take 20 years

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 20d

Did an AI write this

BITEE COFFEE

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 20d

[spokesmodel voice] Thanks to LinkNYC, I can doomscroll through the collapse of American civilization faster than ever!

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 21d

Why does he think they are the “so-called Democratic Socialists of America.” That is what they are called even if you don’t like them

Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 21d

Resign, then. You cost the Democrats the House anyway, you inept clown.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 23d

1) 2pm: “nobody ever rides these, they just sit here blocking parking spaces”

2) same station, same day, 7pm

citi bikes

No citi bikes

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 25d

Agree!

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 26d

Yeah those people can just be shoved into the pit (also hi Adam!)

Although I recently learned that TECHNICALLY email addresses (left of the @) are case-sensitive but most hosts including Gmail treat them as not

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 26d

like folks you’ve had literally thirty years of complaints from the QA team

Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 26d

Look I definitely oppose the death penalty but people who code apps that don’t strip whitespace off email addresses force me to reexamine my priors

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 26d

wow hard to believe that professors and teachers — the people Kirk made a literal career out of *putting on a watchlist* — don’t have nice things to say about him

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 26d

Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didn’t like about Charlie Kirk.

I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 26d

It’s important for people to realize where we are in history. This. This is one of those moments.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."