“With the city’s basketball courts falling into disrepair or being repurposed for sports like pickleball favored by wealthier New Yorkers, the next mayor should appoint a Basketball Czar to ensure equitable access to city sports.” www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: New York needs a point guard, not pickleball
The next mayor should appoint a Basketball Czar to advocate for the city’s basketball courts.
www.cityandstateny.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“With the city’s basketball courts falling into disrepair or being repurposed for sports like pickleball favored by wealthier New Yorkers, the next mayor should appoint a Basketball Czar to ensure equitable access to city sports.” www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
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Last year we launched a new podcast called Housing New York with Kenny Burgos. Each week we take a look at the biggest housing news and explain why it matters. Listen at housingny.org/housingnypod...!
Here is a look back at our recent episodes (🧵):
Here is a look back at our recent episodes (🧵):
Housing New York: Insights and discussions on NYC Housing Policy with Kenny Burgos — New York Apartment Association
Housing New York with Kenny Burgos explores the politics and public policy shaping NYC housing. As CEO of the New York Apartment Association (NYAA), Kenny provides expert analysis on critical issues a...
housingny.org
January 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Last year we launched a new podcast called Housing New York with Kenny Burgos. Each week we take a look at the biggest housing news and explain why it matters. Listen at housingny.org/housingnypod...!
Here is a look back at our recent episodes (🧵):
Here is a look back at our recent episodes (🧵):
Saturday haul at McNally Jackson:
July 15, 2023 at 9:28 PM
Saturday haul at McNally Jackson:
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Social media has a reputation for being emotionally chaotic.
If we’re going to succeed in creating social media as a sustainable public commons, then our moderation and safety tools need to not just be good in theory, but actually help create a better social space than what has come before.
If we’re going to succeed in creating social media as a sustainable public commons, then our moderation and safety tools need to not just be good in theory, but actually help create a better social space than what has come before.
June 23, 2023 at 9:53 PM
Social media has a reputation for being emotionally chaotic.
If we’re going to succeed in creating social media as a sustainable public commons, then our moderation and safety tools need to not just be good in theory, but actually help create a better social space than what has come before.
If we’re going to succeed in creating social media as a sustainable public commons, then our moderation and safety tools need to not just be good in theory, but actually help create a better social space than what has come before.
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Good morning to everyone except the cloaked priest who's chasing me through the catacombs
June 23, 2023 at 12:44 PM
Good morning to everyone except the cloaked priest who's chasing me through the catacombs
Other Republicans announcing their presidential campaigns today via @cushbomb.bsky.social:
June 23, 2023 at 9:59 AM
Other Republicans announcing their presidential campaigns today via @cushbomb.bsky.social:
iMessage did a cute thing with their reply/thread graphic:
June 23, 2023 at 12:44 AM
iMessage did a cute thing with their reply/thread graphic:
Good review of Obama’s new Netflix series on Citations Needed podcast w/ @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social.
Presents Obama as having “a worldview with victims, but no victimizers…” a la Norman Solomon.
Good listen:
Presents Obama as having “a worldview with victims, but no victimizers…” a la Norman Solomon.
Good listen:
Citations Needed: News Brief: 2000s Zombie Neoliberalism Lives On in Obama's New Netflix Doc on A...
Show Citations Needed, Ep News Brief: 2000s Zombie Neoliberalism Lives On in Obama's New Netflix Doc - Jun 21, 2023
podcasts.apple.com
June 21, 2023 at 6:01 PM
Good review of Obama’s new Netflix series on Citations Needed podcast w/ @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social.
Presents Obama as having “a worldview with victims, but no victimizers…” a la Norman Solomon.
Good listen:
Presents Obama as having “a worldview with victims, but no victimizers…” a la Norman Solomon.
Good listen:
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date: I like to tell dad jokes
me: does he laugh
date: what
me: does he laugh
date: what
June 20, 2023 at 9:49 PM
date: I like to tell dad jokes
me: does he laugh
date: what
me: does he laugh
date: what
Great @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for NYT Opinion:
“Ted Lasso emerged as a pop culture Ronald Reagan. Our politics may be beyond repair, but our entertainment could offer a new dawn in America, even if we had to move to Britain to get it.”
“Ted Lasso emerged as a pop culture Ronald Reagan. Our politics may be beyond repair, but our entertainment could offer a new dawn in America, even if we had to move to Britain to get it.”
Opinion | How ‘Ted Lasso’ Explains America
Times columnists chose the TV shows, movies, books and songs that capture the country as they see it.
t.co
June 20, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Great @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for NYT Opinion:
“Ted Lasso emerged as a pop culture Ronald Reagan. Our politics may be beyond repair, but our entertainment could offer a new dawn in America, even if we had to move to Britain to get it.”
“Ted Lasso emerged as a pop culture Ronald Reagan. Our politics may be beyond repair, but our entertainment could offer a new dawn in America, even if we had to move to Britain to get it.”
Oof. The @pitchfork review generator gave my album a 1.9, calling it “eye-rollingly trite.”
pitchforkgenerator.com
pitchforkgenerator.com
June 20, 2023 at 2:29 PM
Oof. The @pitchfork review generator gave my album a 1.9, calling it “eye-rollingly trite.”
pitchforkgenerator.com
pitchforkgenerator.com
More pieces like this relating to municipal, through state, and up to federal policies would go a long way.
Here’s a rough estimate of how many people recent SCOTUS rulings might kill
In addition to deaths, the decisions will lead to significant morbidity.
arstechnica.com
June 20, 2023 at 2:27 PM
More pieces like this relating to municipal, through state, and up to federal policies would go a long way.
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a wonderful piece from my old colleague dan kois on the joys of ebikes https://slate.com/business/2023/06/e-bike-buying-changed-my-life.html
What You Don’t Understand About E-Bikes Until You Ride One
Mine changed my life. One could change yours, too.
slate.com
June 20, 2023 at 1:52 AM
a wonderful piece from my old colleague dan kois on the joys of ebikes https://slate.com/business/2023/06/e-bike-buying-changed-my-life.html
This is such a good / interesting read:
“We agonize about ambiguous comments, unsure what to make of them and whether to trust the people who make them. We dwell on our mixed feelings, torn between avoiding our frenemies and holding out hope that they’ll change.” (via @nytimes.com)
“We agonize about ambiguous comments, unsure what to make of them and whether to trust the people who make them. We dwell on our mixed feelings, torn between avoiding our frenemies and holding out hope that they’ll change.” (via @nytimes.com)
Opinion | Your Most Ambivalent Relationships Are the Most Toxic
Science shows that seesaw relationships can be more damaging than those that are purely negative.
www.nytimes.com
June 20, 2023 at 3:12 AM
This is such a good / interesting read:
“We agonize about ambiguous comments, unsure what to make of them and whether to trust the people who make them. We dwell on our mixed feelings, torn between avoiding our frenemies and holding out hope that they’ll change.” (via @nytimes.com)
“We agonize about ambiguous comments, unsure what to make of them and whether to trust the people who make them. We dwell on our mixed feelings, torn between avoiding our frenemies and holding out hope that they’ll change.” (via @nytimes.com)