One thing I love about New York right now? How people pull up their masks as they approach strangers on the street. It’s a sign of respect, community and common sense. Just call us the heartland.
This is both anecdotal and early, but many long covid survivors are feeling significantly better after receiving their first vaccine dose. Including me. Fascinating.
All jokes aside: an entire generation of New Yorkers has been completely priced out of buying homes in their own communities. I think we help people most in need first (homeless, the working poor). But the inability of middle class to put down roots in nyc is a real problem.
One thing that amazes is the distance between the daily suffering of those who’ve lost someone to this virus, or like me are in the battle of their lives to recover from it, and those for whom missing one Thanksgiving dinner is too big a sacrifice to make. They have no idea.
Can’t find the words to express my pain and disgust at seeing Rush Limbaugh receive the nation’s highest honor in the house that my ancestors built. But in their name, I say that this is not the end. We will overcome this hate and live to see a better day. This too shall pass.
I’m angry. When a man who made millions undermining democracy gets a slap on the wrist, it’s hard not to think about the people who built this country, served in its wars, and were treated like common criminals every day of their lives because of the color of their skin.
Korey Wise, a member of the Central Park Five, who spent years in prison for a crime he did not commit, giving gifts to kids in Harlem. Merry Christmas from the heartland, America
Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, is now explaining the importance of hard work to Donald Trump. Kind of delicious when you think about it.
“On Thursday, in a conference call with a group of lobbyists, Mr. McConnell vented that the party’s Senate candidates are being financially overwhelmed because of small-dollar contributions to ActBlue, the online liberal fund-raising hub.”
“They hired more Black and brown officers, began training programs based on best-practices, required any officer who uses force in any way to report it in detail, and for the supervisor to review it. The bad cops were suddenly outed.”
Today, New York will repeal 50-A, the law that keeps police records secret. Activists have worked to overturn it for years. But just a year ago, it was nowhere. This victory is happening because of the protesters. It belongs to them.
Don’t ignore the racism. Go right at it. Talk about it for what it is: a threat to democracy, a campaign of terror, the biggest con-job in our 400-year history, and a cancer on the human soul.
Kavanaugh protesters on their way to Trump Tower. I’ve seen a lot of protests in New York since Trump got elected. The anger feels very different today
How do you thank the friends who brought you homemade soup and groceries, lilacs and Zingerman’s, who lent you their oximeter, and walked you to the ER, and checked on you every single day? I am still searching for a way, but nothing is good enough.
Hello from vacation, where I ran my first three miles post-covid. To those of you with long (long!) recoveries, this one is for you. You aren’t alone. Keep fighting. We will get there, together.
🔥🔥 After
@malcolmkenyatta
points out their lies about this abortion rights ban and hypocrisy saying they “want voters to decide” after majority of
@PAHouseGOP
tried to help Trump overturn PA’s election, GOP shuts off his mic then shuts the public from the debate.
#StopPABans
If this is the way a police union talks about an elected official almost certainly headed for Congress in January, how do its gun-carrying members treat New Yorkers?
Mayor de Blasio asks President Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act, says, rightly, that NYC needs more at-home tests, more monoclonal antibody treatments, and fast-tracking of Pfizer’s antiviral pill, Paxlovid.
The last word goes to you, Congressman.
“Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.”
John Lewis’ final op-ed to the country he loved.
Trump told governors this morning they are on their own:
“Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” Mr. Trump told the governors during the conference call, a recording of which was shared with The New York Times.
My dad just reminded me that today is my two-year anniversary of working at The New York Times. Still pinching myself, and am so grateful I get to write about New York every day.
If getting out of bed this morning was an act of courage, you aren’t alone. Be kind to yourself today, and dream of the happy Christmas mornings to come.
“Doctors and nurses would gasp with joy when they saw her smile as they entered her room. She adored music therapy and had some of her first big laughs playing with a balloon of Elmo, her favorite Sesame Street character.”
The most painful thing is not the racist things Donald Trump says. The most painful thing is that we told America who he was and half of the country didn’t believe us, or care
One time not long after I graduated, I complained to my dad about how much I was paying in taxes on $40K in income. He smiled but admonished me, said it was my duty as a citizen, and told me I should be proud to contribute to our democracy. Go figure.
Today, a Jeffrey Epstein assault survivor was able to sue his estate because of New York’s child victims act, passed this year. A great reminder that local elections matter.
In the days and weeks to come, we will publish essays demonstrating that nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.
@nytimes
You quote a mighty and historic speech by the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass, but, without context, many modern readers will misunderstand. Two critical points:
Most New Yorkers in my neighborhood are still masked up this morning. This is a community that believes in science, but it will take us time to feel comfortable.
If you had been through what we have, you might feel the same way.
“I get so angry when I see people not wearing masks,” Hart said. “It makes me want to take a bar of soap and write on my car’s rearview window that ‘My husband who saved so many lives died of COVID-19. Wear a mask!’
A reminder that the way to fix this is for Gov. Cuomo and the State Legislature to create a nonpartisan body to administer elections, and to set clear standards for those appointees.
Today is six months as a Covid-19 survivor. I am running, thriving and stronger every day.
Recovery is hard work. I’m doing it not only for me, but for the many others who are fighting their way back to full health, and the more than 200,000 of our fellow Americans who died.
These workers have every right not to get vaccinated.
They don’t have the right to keep jobs in which they needlessly endanger those around them. Personal decisions carry consequences.