Sam Witmer 🏗️🏙️
@buildmorehousing.bsky.social
The world would be a better place with less community input
Great to see the state is looking to take big steps toward making it easier to build in New York. Thank you to people like @governor.ny.gov and @srachelmay.bsky.social for pushing for things like this
🚨 NEW: New York State is modernizing its environmental review process to ensure that infill housing, clean energy, and climate resiliency infrastructure doesn’t get blocked by endless lawsuits and delays.
January 13, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Great to see the state is looking to take big steps toward making it easier to build in New York. Thank you to people like @governor.ny.gov and @srachelmay.bsky.social for pushing for things like this
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cope, seethe, etc
January 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
cope, seethe, etc
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Props to @srachelmay.bsky.social for pushing pro-housing legislation like this in Albany. We love to see it.
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Stop abusing the environmental review process to block housing
The Sustainable Affordable Housing and Sprawl Prevention Act will reform the process to promote more housing development in walkable, transit-friendly neighborhoods.
www.cityandstateny.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Props to @srachelmay.bsky.social for pushing pro-housing legislation like this in Albany. We love to see it.
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
Fantastic year from @governor.ny.gov I don’t think a lot of people realize how good she has been
Gov Hochul will veto a bill to require both a conductor and a driver on every subway train, according to two sources familiar with the decision. Story to follow. Details on the bill here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
Does the Subway Still Need Train Conductors?
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Fantastic year from @governor.ny.gov I don’t think a lot of people realize how good she has been
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The fact that CBP was dispatched to menace a press conference by the duly elected governor of California should really put to bed any argument about whether these federal deployments are a response to crime rates. As if it weren't already obvious what this is about.
August 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The fact that CBP was dispatched to menace a press conference by the duly elected governor of California should really put to bed any argument about whether these federal deployments are a response to crime rates. As if it weren't already obvious what this is about.
Seems like a harbinger of bad things to come when the data just starts being manipulated to appease the temper of the executive
US consumer prices likely increased marginally in July; data quality concerns rising reut.rs/4mIuSD3
US consumer prices likely increased marginally in July; data quality concerns rising
U.S. consumer prices likely increased moderately in July, though rising costs for goods like household furniture and apparel because of import tariffs probably resulted in a measure of underlying inflation posting its largest gain in six months.
reut.rs
August 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Seems like a harbinger of bad things to come when the data just starts being manipulated to appease the temper of the executive
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Awful: Delivery of life saving treatment to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is in doubt amid USAID firings, the product's manufacturers tell me.
The treatment is a paste made of peanuts, milk and sugar for kids on edge of starvation.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1919...
The treatment is a paste made of peanuts, milk and sugar for kids on edge of starvation.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1919...
Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Ugly Turn, Putting Starving Kids at Risk
Two U.S. nonprofits that manufacture a treatment sent by USAID to help severely malnourished children abroad say the process is in chaos. This isn’t what Marco Rubio said would happen.
newrepublic.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Awful: Delivery of life saving treatment to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is in doubt amid USAID firings, the product's manufacturers tell me.
The treatment is a paste made of peanuts, milk and sugar for kids on edge of starvation.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1919...
The treatment is a paste made of peanuts, milk and sugar for kids on edge of starvation.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1919...
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Gov. Hochul: "Think about this next time you're stuck in traffic." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFl...
February 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Gov. Hochul: "Think about this next time you're stuck in traffic." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFl...
Of course
Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365
Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine
The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's company at the time of Musk's assault.
gizmodo.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Of course
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