Ruben Abrahams Brosbe
@rubenlev.bsky.social
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BREAKING: RealPage is suing New York, challenging a new state law that bans landlords from using algorithms to set rents.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
BREAKING: RealPage is suing New York, challenging a new state law that bans landlords from using algorithms to set rents.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
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If you don't know who your City Council representative is, you can use this website to find out www.mygovnyc.org
Call them and tell them you do NOT want them to support Julie Menin for speaker.
Call them and tell them you do NOT want them to support Julie Menin for speaker.
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If you don't know who your City Council representative is, you can use this website to find out www.mygovnyc.org
Call them and tell them you do NOT want them to support Julie Menin for speaker.
Call them and tell them you do NOT want them to support Julie Menin for speaker.
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CRIMINALMENTE
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CRIMINALMENTE
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Hi, I'm a NY times bestseller and a multiple National Magazine Award-winning journalist.
I've had FT jobs or multiple gigs going ever since I moved to New York a decade ago.
I've had FT jobs or multiple gigs going ever since I moved to New York a decade ago.
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Hi, I'm a NY times bestseller and a multiple National Magazine Award-winning journalist.
I've had FT jobs or multiple gigs going ever since I moved to New York a decade ago.
I've had FT jobs or multiple gigs going ever since I moved to New York a decade ago.
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We have gotten so used to Great Replacement becoming normalized that most people hardly noticed that a racist, antisemitic, xenophobic conspiracy theory popularized by mass shooters and 4chan trolls is now government policy.
The U.S. State Department is repeating a white nationalist conspiracy theory.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We have gotten so used to Great Replacement becoming normalized that most people hardly noticed that a racist, antisemitic, xenophobic conspiracy theory popularized by mass shooters and 4chan trolls is now government policy.
Zohran seems to be making moves to avoid expending political capital but this is definitely making me wary. Meanwhile he's also meeting with Trump?
hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-dodg...
hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-dodg...
Mamdani Suddenly Can't Give a Straight Answer On His NYPD Promises
After NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch agreed to work in his administration, the mayor-elect has gotten cagey on disbanding the SRG, scrapping the gang database, and giving the CCRB the final say in po...
hellgatenyc.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Zohran seems to be making moves to avoid expending political capital but this is definitely making me wary. Meanwhile he's also meeting with Trump?
hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-dodg...
hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-dodg...
I assume this will get the same amount of attention as Jussie Smollet, right?
SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement
A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.
www.justice.gov
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I assume this will get the same amount of attention as Jussie Smollet, right?
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"In any other administration, at any other time in American history, this level of corruption would be a political disaster — a scandal that could bring down the administration. For the Trump administration, it is a Tuesday."
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"In any other administration, at any other time in American history, this level of corruption would be a political disaster — a scandal that could bring down the administration. For the Trump administration, it is a Tuesday."
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Another lesson Alice taught me: interdependence > independence
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Another lesson Alice taught me: interdependence > independence
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Violence against clinics has been on the rise since the end of Roe. Yet one of Trump's first acts was to pardon two dozen anti-abortion extremists and direct the DOJ to no longer enforce the FACE Act—the federal law that prohibits violence against clinics.
jessica.substack.com/p/god-demand...
jessica.substack.com/p/god-demand...
"God Demands Justice": The GOP's Chilling Plan to Attack Clinics
Clinic harassment has always been bad. It's about to get worse.
jessica.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Violence against clinics has been on the rise since the end of Roe. Yet one of Trump's first acts was to pardon two dozen anti-abortion extremists and direct the DOJ to no longer enforce the FACE Act—the federal law that prohibits violence against clinics.
jessica.substack.com/p/god-demand...
jessica.substack.com/p/god-demand...
I think Elizabeth Warren would've been a great president.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I think Elizabeth Warren would've been a great president.
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politicians and executives know that unnecessary everyday chemicals are leading to death and suffering for millions of us with loved ones who get cancer and parkinson’s. journalists don’t treat it as an urgent “public safety” issue like they treat shoplifting by poor people.
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
politicians and executives know that unnecessary everyday chemicals are leading to death and suffering for millions of us with loved ones who get cancer and parkinson’s. journalists don’t treat it as an urgent “public safety” issue like they treat shoplifting by poor people.
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I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.
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Long-term suspensions dropped considerably. But Black students and those with disabilities are still disproportionately suspended in NYC schools.
NYC suspensions fall to lowest level in years. Big disparities persist.
Long-term suspensions dropped considerably. But Black students and those with disabilities are still disproportionately suspended in NYC schools.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Long-term suspensions dropped considerably. But Black students and those with disabilities are still disproportionately suspended in NYC schools.
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
There’s a decent number of people who seem to judge success for Dems as their ability to piss off progressives. I’m obviously biased but this seems flawed
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
There’s a decent number of people who seem to judge success for Dems as their ability to piss off progressives. I’m obviously biased but this seems flawed
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Caving now means they literally did it for nothing and caused harm to people for nothing. Just absolute failure on every level.
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Caving now means they literally did it for nothing and caused harm to people for nothing. Just absolute failure on every level.
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Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
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Call for Art via @justseeds.bsky.social: Abolish ICE / ICE Out of Everywhere. The deadline to submit work is Thursday, November 20, 2025. justseeds.org/call-for-art...
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Call for Art via @justseeds.bsky.social: Abolish ICE / ICE Out of Everywhere. The deadline to submit work is Thursday, November 20, 2025. justseeds.org/call-for-art...
I regularly think about how supposedly serious people anointed this man the future of the Democratic party
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Cm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Cm...
ERIC ADAMS IS AN ICONIC GUEST | ZIWE INTERVIEW
YouTube video by Ziwe
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I regularly think about how supposedly serious people anointed this man the future of the Democratic party
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Cm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Cm...
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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a lot of our press and political sphere horribly over accounted for how right wing they think everything is or will get or remain (and as such needs them to be) and they look bought as fuck but i'm excited for the future bc more and more people can tell
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
a lot of our press and political sphere horribly over accounted for how right wing they think everything is or will get or remain (and as such needs them to be) and they look bought as fuck but i'm excited for the future bc more and more people can tell
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM