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Jacobin

@jacobinmag.bsky.social

Zoning reform measures have divided tenant advocates in New York. Yet loosening the city’s anti-housing regime is essential if we ever want to build social housing at scale.

You Can’t Have Social Housing Without Building Housing

Zoning reform measures have divided tenant advocates in New York. Yet loosening the city’s anti-housing regime is essential if we ever want to build social housing at scale.

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October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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nic🍁le

@nicoleamurray.bsky.social

NYC: Vote YES on ballot props 2-4. We at DSA' Social Housing campaign @housethefuture.bsky.social support them to move affordable and social housing along at the city AND state levels.

October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

September 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM

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yoshimi red

@yoshimired.bsky.social

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

September 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM

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rev. howard arson

@theophite.bsky.social

one thing to remember about "ICE is going to occupy Democrat strongholds" is that ICE, if it hires to capacity, will employ about 26k people by the end of 2026, which is 1/3 smaller than the NYPD, which is not a large enough police force to occupy New York City itself.

August 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Eddie

@eddiesiegel.bsky.social

Anthony Weiner's best performing precinct was a block from the Museum of Sex

July 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM

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Keith

@mosheroperandi.bsky.social

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists *say* they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 25

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

June 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM

Eddie

@eddiesiegel.bsky.social

Glad to be in Reims France where I can I have the real authentic thing instead of sparkling blockchain

June 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM

Eddie

@eddiesiegel.bsky.social

Metro Paris is as almost as dense as Manhattan (and much denser than Brooklyn and queens) despite no high rises because nearly everything is 4-6 stories. It’s not a difficult special problem!

Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · Jun 18

This dynamic of high rises only being financeable in areas with very high market rents is why upzoning NYC’s suburbs (incl w/in city limits) is so important to lowering costs more broadly and why it’s so troubling that Cuomo has already ruled out rezoning these low-density areas if he becomes mayor.

3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · Jun 18

Another project in JC's outlying areas decides it can't justify the cost of going high-rise. Despite being allowed about 15 floors, they're only doing 6 floors at 51 Morton Pl.

Increased height & density can only compensate for added costs imposed by cities up to a point, especially as rents fall.

June 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM

Eddie

@eddiesiegel.bsky.social

@matt-levine.bsky.social is it securities fraud to leak that the president is in the Epstein files

June 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM

Eddie

@eddiesiegel.bsky.social

It combines the job duties of some of our worst professions — call center, door to door mlm salesperson, Twitter poster

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Jun 1

The thing is that running for office is probably legitimately one of the worst white collar professional experiences you can have that doesn’t involve physical or legal risk. It fucking sucks and is horrible. And the higher quality the candidate is the worse it is compared to their other options.

June 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM

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Ilya Somin

@ilyasomin.bsky.social

US Court of International Trade just issued decision in case against Trump tariffs filed by Liberty Justice Center and me. All "Liberation Day"/IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal, and blocked by injunction! See link for opinion. I will have much more to say soon: www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/fi...

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May 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM

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shira mitchell

@shiraamitchell.bsky.social

New post: "Struggles with surveying nonvoters and young voters"

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/16/s...

Struggles with surveying nonvoters and young voters | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

May 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM

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David Shor

@davidshor.bsky.social

Excited to signal boost @shiraamitchell.bsky.social and @ccgilroy.bsky.social 's response to the @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social and Caroline Soler's critiques of our estimates of Harris support among non-voters and youth voters.

Our main points:

shira mitchell @shiraamitchell.bsky.social · May 16

New post: "Struggles with surveying nonvoters and young voters"

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/16/s...

Struggles with surveying nonvoters and young voters | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

May 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM

Eddie

@eddiesiegel.bsky.social

this is the first pope who probably had a margarita at the ohare tortas frontera

May 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM

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southpaw

@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

Tricia McLaughlin &
@TriciaOhio
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The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.
He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.
This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had
it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document.
Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained
"at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error.
Hermosillo said he was detained with about
15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because
"they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!*

@hellgatenyc.com

After Passing Legislation That Decimated Outdoor Dining, NYC Council Demands to Know What Killed Outdoor Dining

Councilmembers and DOT officials traded blame at a hearing on Wednesday, while both sides said they’d be open to making changes to the program.

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April 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM

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Will Weisser

@willweisser.bsky.social

Didn’t Ben Franklin say that those willing to trade safety for parking deserve neither safety nor parking?

April 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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Greg Sargent

@gregsargent.bsky.social

SCOOP --> The cop who initially attested to Abrego Garcia's alleged MS-13 membership was subsequently suspended and indicted for serious professional misconduct: Sharing case info with a sex worker. This undermines Trumpworld's smears.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1940...

Trump’s Case Against Man Deported in “Error” Just Took Another Big Hit

Trumpworld claims Kilmar Abrego Garcia was in MS-13. But new information concerning the local cop who attested to that charge at the time raises fresh questions about it.

newrepublic.com

April 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM

Eddie

@eddiesiegel.bsky.social

Bukele is also too Online in right wing brainrot circles and is going to overconfidently tweet something that will blow up the administrations case if they don’t do it for him

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Apr 12

UPDATE: Trump seems to say for the first time that U.S. lacks ability to recover those sent to El Salvador if government deports someone erroneously. Says it’s totally up to Bukele. Seems to leave out that he could … ask Bukele to help fix an error. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...