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Helen Bolton 🖤

@hbolton

5 years

The cops killed a 16-year-old kid as part of an undercover sting operation, then arrested his girlfriend, Masonique, also 16. The county prosecutor charged her with murdering her boyfriend (the one the cops shot) under the felony murder rule and threatened to try her as an adult

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@wosunews

5 years

BREAKING: Masonique Saunders reaches plea deal to avoid being tried as an adult. She pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

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Still losing my mind that the Times captioned their photograph OF THIS EXACT ARREST with “The police said some in the crowd had shoved officers and refused to follow direction,” the levels of bootlicking these manage to ascend to each and every time man

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I actually remember being very explicitly told that this kind of money wasn’t a big deal at all when my student loan payments started being required again

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🤣🤣🤣

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1 year

Everyone pray that the people who actually work at the Dallas Zoo find this leopard before a Dallas cop shoots it

Dallas Zoo

@DallasZoo

1 year

Dallas PD is onsite assisting with the search efforts. The Zoo is closed today as our teams work to find and recover the animal. Given the nature of these animals, we believe the animal is still on grounds and hiding. We will share updates and more information as soon as we can.

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2 years

Getting a higher salary is cool but getting that higher salary enshrined in a legally binding contract so that it cannot be taken away when they’re no longer scared of you is even cooler

Jonah Furman

@JonahFurman

2 years

As Starbucks workers learned this week, employers often respond to union efforts by trying to sweeten the deal w/o recognizing the union. As one organizer told me, “We often win more in the organizing drive than at the bargaining table.” Union recognition >>> one-off benefits

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2 years

I'm not gonna lie one of the only things that has made me happy today is seeing the Starbucks and Amazon unions coming out strong for us

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@Shut_downAmazon

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Foley Square 5pm #RoeVWade NYC

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5 months

The protesters are also UAW workers and they are chanting the official stated position of the UAW, it's horrifying that they were treated this way

Katie Rogers

@katierogers

5 months

Gaza protesters dragged out on the floor by their hands at this Biden speech. UAW workers trying to drown them out.

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2 years

“Hi I’m Rebecca and I wrote one of HarperCollins’s best-selling fiction titles of the year. It happens to be about the power of strikes and collective action.” lmao

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1 year

Two NYPD cops hit and killed a man with their police van, dragging him 40 feet, because they were aggressively speeding during a non-emergency trip (and also likely watching a soccer game on a cell phone)

Video Shows Cop Speeding in NYPD Van — And May Have Been Watching a Soccer Game Before Fatal Crash...

On video, a cop pulls out his phone to make a call — and the phone is still playing a soccer game, suggesting that he was watching the match as he was driving.

nyc.streetsblog.org

Joe Gabriel Simonson

@SaysSimonson

1 year

You could try policing this more, but you might not like the results

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5 years

The entire point of these stings was to catch people committing armed robberies. The cops intentionally set up a situation where they knew a kid would point a gun at them, then shot and killed him when it happened. At least two of these stings resulted in cops shooting someone

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5 years

Masonique would pretend to sell something online. When the person showed up to get the thing, Tate would rob them. That is not a good thing to do, but do they deserve death? Life in prison? Because he is dead now, and they tried to send her to prison for life. 16-year-olds.

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28 days

You’re whipping votes for a PLEDGE???? A pledge from the lady who needs you to do this in the first place because she abruptly backed out of a commitment???????

Jon Campbell

@JonCampbellNY

28 days

Hearing this measure is set to include language that pledges $1b a year for 15 years to back the MTA’s bonds, but doesn’t identify a source. The payroll tax hike is dead dead. Assembly whipping votes now; Senate discussing, too.

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She took something that 99% of people would have been over by November (because it only impacts about 2% of people *who commute into Lower Manhattan,* not 2% of all people) and did such an incompetent job killing it that every Republican can run on it no matter what she does next

Bernadette Hogan

@bern_hogan

24 days

MTA board said last week that certain transportation projects will get “deprioritized.” Hochul in The Bronx now: “To assume the only funding source had to be congestion pricing shows a lack of imagination,” @GovKathyHochul .

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Meanwhile the person who actually shot Julius Tate, Officer Eric Richards, was literally named SWOT Officer of the Year. For the year he shot and killed a 16-year-old kid

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1 year

Uber does not make money and it’s business model to eventually make money fundamentally relies on making sure the person driving you home from the bar doesn’t make minimum wage or get any sick days or health insurance

Max Nesterak

@maxnesterak

1 year

Inbox: Uber says it will cancel service in greater Minnesota and only provide “premium” services in the Twin Cities if Gov. Tim Walz signs the Uber/Lyft regulations into law

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Helen Bolton 🖤

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1 year

Get into the union, make friends 🥲

Luis Feliz Leon

@Lfelizleon

1 year

Make it go viral! "The strike threat is why the Teamsters have won so much already. And if they reach a deal by the deadline, this will be the reason why—that UPS knew, Wall Street knew, the workers knew, everybody knew how very ready they were to walk."

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Helen Bolton 🖤

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@andreaguinn As someone from Kansas I don't think I knew anyone with a trust fund growing up, but also rich people who want to move from a place where they can buy a giant house and don't pay much in taxes move to places like Phoenix and Dallas, they absolutely do not want to come here lol

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1 year

Imagine having Eric Adams as your mayor and Kathy Hochul as your governor and New York's election laws and a viability ban and thinking you're doing something with this

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@ncardenastx

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🥴🥴🥴

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2 years

I’m sorry you banned TEENS from the MALL???????

News12NJ

@News12NJ

2 years

TEEN BAN: On Dec. 26, police started enforcing a teen ban at the Cherry Hill Mall. Teens must be with a parent or supervised by someone 21 years of age or older. MORE:

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This is somehow so much worse than I could have even imagined??? She compares being judged based on somewhere you worked or something you said to racism??? She mentions the opposition to LaSalle in the same sentence as the literal assassination of Dr. King??? Bananas offensive!

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*

@HellGateNY

1 year

"Dr. King called upon us to be just and to be fair, and to not judge people. And that has not been afforded to an individual named judge Hector LaSalle," @GovKathyHochul told a Sunset Park congregation on Sunday. Read the full transcript here:

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7 years

Do refrain from making a big thing of "no arrests," we don't want to be pawns in attempts to delegitimize protests where POC are arrested

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@hbolton

3 months

Catching up on @whoweekly and am losing my mind that Valerie Bertinelli’s mystery man was THIS GUY

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1 year

The thing about this story is that all of the consequences laid out in it are the point of these bans. She gets engaged, she has to stay home and do all the childcare while he works all the time, and they stay poor. It's a success story for conservatives

What It's Like to Have an Abortion Denied by Dobbs

Dobbs will throw many lives into disarray. Lationna Halbert’s is one of the first.

inthesetimes.com

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Helen Bolton 🖤

@hbolton

9 months

I would pay money to watch someone asking Meghan McCain to name the last war the US won

Meghan McCain

@MeghanMcCain

9 months

Israel is the only country in the world not allowed to win a war, apparently.

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1 year

In like 99% of cases, if support for an argument includes citing to someone whose title (that is ostensibly meant to communicate their authority on the subject) includes the word “entrepreneur,” it should make you think worse of the argument, not better. Immediate red flag lol

Michael Hobbes

@RottenInDenmark

1 year

Every article on the lab leak theory is like, "New Evidence Emerges: A random guy wrote a thing on Medium."

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1 year

Hey @LincolnRestler as my council member can you tell me what all you will be doing about this? NYPD is seriously allowed to shut the actual residents of New York City out of a public building, that is located in OUR city, so the suburbanites don’t have to see any of us be angry?

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4 years

"Both police officers on the scene had received crisis intervention training to deal with people in emotional distress, according to NYPD." You can't reform this.

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2 years

@RFS_Harlem @themaxburns Roberts does not want to save Roe, he wants to overturn it in a way people will see as less gauche

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Helen Bolton 🖤

@hbolton

5 years

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Join me in contributing today!

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It's hard to convey how hopeless things with McGuinness and congestion pricing make me feel about ever addressing climate change, let alone quickly enough. This is by far the most transit-friendly city in the US and at every level, down to the tiniest projects, we can't do things

Second Ave. Sagas

@2AvSagas

8 days

It's discouraging to think about how close we were to a truly transformed New York, even with a less-than-perfect congestion pricing plan. Watching it slip away is depressing. Watching people excuse all of this is depressing. We have to keep fighting. A better city is possible.

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9 months

Oh well if former President George W. Bush thinks it’s important not to seek peace

Jim VandeHei

@JimVandeHei

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🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE - Former President Bush warns of "ugly" war and temptation to buckle or seek peace. "My view is: One side is guilty. And it's not Israel."

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Ok now they’re just fucking with us

NYPD NEWS

@NYPDnews

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A heat advisory has been issued for NYC. Follow these tips to stay cool. ✔️stay hydrated ✔️limit strenuous activity ✔️check in on family and neighbors who could be negatively impacted For cooling centers, follow this link ⬇️

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1 year

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

1 year

Today 2,000 nurses launched their largest ever strike in Texas, and their first ever strike in Kansas. They’re striking at three hospitals in the Ascension network. Ascension is a Catholic nonprofit. It also operates an investment firm managing over $41 billion. Thread.

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8 years

6 week bans are bad. 20 week bans are bad. D&E bans are bad. Abortion bans are bad. #stopthebans

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2 years

If there is one thing we are gonna do IT WILL BE REFERENCING JOHN BROWN

KS Young Democrats

@KansasYoungDems

2 years

With nearly 90% of votes in, Kansans were the first to answer the country’s biggest question in historic fashion. Abortions are a fundamental right. Let this also be a lesson for the coasts: Once a Free State, Always A Free State 𝖇𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖟🌻 #ElectionDay #ksleg #VoteNo

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1 year

Again the issue with Uber was not the CEO, the issue is “cab company that also has to pay the salaries and expenses of a massive tech company intentionally entering markets with no demand for cabs unless they’re aggressively subsidized” has literally never made any fucking sense!

Edward Ongweso Jr

@bigblackjacobin

1 year

I think a lot abt how when I was in college & met gig workers living in their cars for the first time, the vast majority of gig economy coverage was delusional/masturbatory and either breathless repeating of talking points or weird “I did this for a day and it was fun!” posts

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2 years

“And I just think that if HarperCollins wants me to keep writing books for them they should treat the folks who put my books on shelves ( @hcpunion ) with dignity and respect” - @kuangrf

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@hbolton

2 years

No you cannot (and that’s not even getting to the dishes of it all), why are cooking sites so obsessed with lying about how long cooking takes

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

You can make pancakes from scratch in about as much time as it takes to make toast 🥞 Get the recipe:

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The dumbest people in the world are in charge of everything

Dana Rubinstein

@danarubinstein

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"You're absolutely right. I've said that before." - @kathyhochul to CNBC host who suggests the governor could simply replace the foregone toll revenue by cracking down on farebeaters.

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I am so fucking sick of this, I work with people doing work on US maternal health, repro workers love children, and we fight for the rights of people under 18 to have abortions, access contraceptives and sexual education, *and* to parent. We also just personally gush over babies!

Sarah Jones

@onesarahjones

2 years

what a strange, cowardly piece

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1 year

Also jfc I have been deep in the repro movement for awhile now, including 8 years with an organization that’s had a policy of gender neutral language the entire time. If “bodies with vaginas” was actually being used as “inclusive language” a lot, I would know, but it just isn’t!

Michael Hobbes

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1 year

I don't understand how minor linguistic changes "empower the right" but prominent national columnists constantly complaining about them doesn't.

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If you wanna feel nuts, follow the debate on this bill, which would let New York City set the speed limits in New York City, rather than letting Long Island and the Hudson Valley set the speed limits in New York City. That’s what this law would do and people are losing their shit

Streetsblog New York

@StreetsblogNYC

1 year

Moral clarity, physical leadership: Two @nyc_safestreets members will start a hunger strike at the state Capitol this morning to protest inaction on Sammy's Law. We'll be there:

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I know @EmilyAssembly & @Gonzalez4NY would never vote for something that would permanently kill congestion pricing, which is what covering the Governor's ass here would do. We don't need the legislature to pass anything, they already passed congestion pricing! Implement it!

Bernadette Hogan

@bern_hogan

28 days

New: Source says the legislature is expected vote on a bill as soon as tonight that would commit $1B in state funding for the MTA. Legislature and gov are working towards a deal. Money would come from general fund/bonded out - still unclear.

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2 years

Am not in DSA but the education budget vote is a solid example of why I’m probably always going to opt for their pick in a race where they’ve endorsed, I haven’t seen any evidence of actual discipline or organization among “the progressives” as a broader category and am v over it

SocialistSocialWorker

@SocialistSocWrk

2 years

Time after time this year, we've seen socialists do it right and progressives not so much. In the City Council elections, Shahana Hanif and Crystal Hudson argued they were the same as Brandon West + Michael Hollingsworth then got to City Hall and voted to defund public schools.

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1 year

It feels like most politicians are really not grasping the way, psychologically, student loan payments are not going to feel like a continuation of an ongoing thing to borrowers who paused them anymore. It’s now a brand NEW bill that we have to pay every month in all our brains!

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2 years

Now THAT’S how you know you made a catastrophically terrible choice

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@hbolton

2 years

@ryangrim @maximillian_alv Why did you not mention that Guttmacher management is currently paying Jackson Lewis to bust their union, or that many of the other organizations you cited (Audubon, PPFA, etc) are in the middle of contract bargaining?

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1 year

“I didn’t fuck up with the Senate, he would have been confirmed if the Senators in the Senate where completely different people than the ones who are actually the Senators”

Zack Fink

@ZackFinkNews

1 year

. @GovKathyHochul denies her office fumbled the nomination of Hector LaSalle for Chief Judge. Says it has “nothing to do with staffing.” Reiterates that she believes LaSalle would have passed the Judiciary before new members were added this month who said they would vote “no”

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I can’t get fired without cause, I am guaranteed at least a 3% raise every year, my employer can’t unilaterally cut my benefits, including health insurance, parental leave is 4 weeks longer, and that’s on top of new salary minimums that gave us raises worth more than dues cost

National Right To Work Foundation

@RightToWork

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Without Right to Work protections, Michigan workers would be forced to pay money to UAW bosses or else be fired...

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2 years

The Kansas Supreme Court has more justices who think abortion is a fundamental right than the New York Court of Appeals btw

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3 years

“We just want celebrities not to weigh in on politics, also our Entertainer of the Year is Toby Keith, who displays a picture of Natalie Maines photoshopped next to Saddam Hussein at concerts during his song about how ‘lighting up’ other countries is ‘the American Way’”

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By the way Eric Adams is deliberately colluding in these grotesque PR stunts by calling press conferences announcing that New Yorkers should expect to suffer because these migrants are taking everything instead of setting our city up to help

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@davenewworld_2

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It's Christmas Eve and about 50 migrants were dropped off in front of Kamala Harris' residence with the temperature in the teens. Another stunt by Greg Abbott.

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“Your constituency is those Arabs in Michigan” what a fucking piece of shit man

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@metzgov

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This was the point during the LWV debate where George Latimer said to Jamaal Bowman: "Your constituency is Dearborn, Michigan, your constituency is San Francisco, California."

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@ryangrim @maximillian_alv I’m not just trying to be a dick, this is an earnest question. You gave the executives anonymity so for all we know you are quoting one side in an active contract dispute completely trashing the other side with no option to respond. I don’t see “wages and benefits” mentioned once

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I am being 100% serious that I think this should be disqualifying for any major municipal gig. Like only a tiny fraction of the fraction of New Yorkers who own cars literally never take the bus or the subway, a car is often both the slowest and the most expensive option!

Chris Sommerfeldt *on vacation*

@C_Sommerfeldt

1 year

Lewis-Martin, an avowed opponent of congestion pricing who said in December that the concept “sucks,” also told NY1 that she hasn’t taken the subway since she was 19.

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"Institutionalists...think being against The System is an inherently adolescent and silly mindset. But believing in things like “the integrity of the Supreme Court” has proven to be, I think, much sillier, and much more childish"

The Institutionalist's Dilemma

On trusting the process after it's openly failed

theap.substack.com

Law Boy

@The_Law_Boy

2 years

this argument boils down to "law can't be just politics, because that would be very scary to me." what these people miss is that legal realism isn't just a normative claim, it's a description of reality.

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We all saw exactly what your cops dealt with, it was mostly people yelling “fuck you” and calling them killers. Go to any abortion clinic and watch the volunteers who escort people past protesters and you will see people responding to similar without the pathetic violent response

Edward A. Caban

@NYPDPC

4 years

5/6 I only wish that those who castigate you from afar had the first-hand experience of being a New York City cop for just one evening. You and I both know that perspectives, opinions, and outlooks would drastically be changed as a result.

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"it makes one wonder if Netflix, in its sprawling project of content categorization, has created a digital basket for work by male writer-directors dawdling through their artistic insecurities while caricaturing critics into the villains of their self-aggrandizing genius porn."

Soraya Nadia McDonald

@SorayaMcDonald

3 years

Ahem

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@melissagira "I find these numbers surprising" I love that the entire conceit of this is "man writes about thing he has never looked into before and knows very little about" what a great thing to put out into the world!

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I am on the bathroom’s side, you bought a $5 million condo without visiting it a bunch of times??? Part of their lawsuit also involves being mad they can hear the BQE??? You are supposed to already have looked into that before you spent $5 million???

Loud Loo? Park Dwellers Want City to Pay for Quieter Public Bathroom

A couple that lives in a condo in Brooklyn Bridge Park say toilet sounds are keeping them up at night. Park officials are fighting their lawsuit while looking for solutions.

www.thecity.nyc

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@hbolton

2 years

The thing they believe is the most important part of their job is “we all go home to *our* families tonight,” and they will kill you if they think that will help them at all, and they will let someone else kill you if they think that will help them at all

inverted vibe curve: burgertown has fallen

@PatBlanchfield

2 years

US police are trained to maximize control over situations while minimizing their personal risk. that translates into beating parents while a rampage shooter executes their children just as easily as it does their rolling up on a kid with a toy guy and executing him seconds later

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Idk that I have ever sincerely used the word “cuck” before lol but genuinely struggling for a better term for stuff like this or the way MTA let’s these companies run ads shitting on the subway inside the subway cars

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You know who doesn’t fucking live in Greenpoint? This fucking asshole, who not only hasn’t even taken public transportation since the 80s but is PROUD of that fact

Jesse Coburn

@Jesse_Coburn

1 year

New: @nycmayor is bowing to pressure from a powerful local business (and from one of his own top advisers) and ordering @nyc_dot to come up with alternatives to the long-planned redesign of deadly McGuinness Boulevard in Brooklyn.

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@hbolton

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Literally why did I get a push notification about this tho?

Michael Hobbes

@RottenInDenmark

1 year

FINALLY the nation's most prestigious newspaper is covering a low-stakes controversy at an elite school.

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@hbolton

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I live east of McGuinness so I *have* to cross it. At least once a month I watch someone drive full speed through a red light, and have to just hope I won’t be walking there next time. Why do my neighbors and I have to live like that so drivers can have a shortcut to the LIE?

Armin Rosen

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1 year

One way to avoid the dangers of McGuiness Boulevard, which is a legitimately terrifying place to bike, is to bike on a *different street*

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Undergraduate degrees are v rarely professional credentials and viewing them as if they must be is how we’ve ended up with so many public universities pushing the actually scammy BAs in like leadership studies and business. It’s okay for people to learn just to learn! Good even!

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I mean I am personally mad at her because she epitomizes the economist practice of parachuting into an area she doesn’t have any expertise in with a thought already in her head and then running regressions to get that answer, but I can see why pundits would be into that idea!

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@hbolton

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Since I’m seeing chatter about “compromising” just wanted to do my periodic reminder that Roe/the viability standard quite literally WAS the compromise position

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@hbolton

2 years

@ryangrim @maximillian_alv You don’t think that things like an executive’s personal bonus being at stake is relevant context in their opinion of their staff’s concerns?

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@hbolton

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I genuinely cannot name a single specific policy or piece of legislation this woman supports aside from opposing the McGuinness redesign, it’s all just “yeah I’d love to look into that eventually someday”

aaron from queens 🇵🇸

@aaronnarraph

12 days

this is a real candidate running in *greenpoint and williamsburg*

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@hbolton

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I didn’t think this was legal

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@hbolton

10 months

I found a lot of this interesting/empathetic but we gotta make it unacceptable to declare “I don’t like kids.” Being child free is fine, I’m gonna be, but no one is asking you to be a parent. “I categorically hate a massive swathe of humanity” is deranged!

Why Can’t Our Friendship Survive Your Baby?

Nothing threatens adult relationships like when some friends have kids and others don’t.

www.thecut.com

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@hbolton

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NYC government is like designed in a lab to make you feel hopeless and crazy and I can’t think of anything that has embodied that for me more than a few very rich people getting to have private access to the Mayor of a city of over 8 million people to block a single road redesign

Emily Gallagher

@EmilyAssembly

7 months

Along w/ @NydiaVelazquez , @CMRestler , @BKBPReynoso + @SenGonzalezNY , we wrote to @NYC_DOT urging full implementation of the McGuinness Blvd redesign approved by @NYCMayor in May. While we appreciate progress on the bike lane, no improvements have been made for pedestrian safety.

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@hbolton

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If I were anti-abortion and notice that nobody around me seemed to give a shit about children or maternal health, I might consider what that says about the anti-abortion movement and the larger political project it's engaged in, but what do I know

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@hbolton

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This is a story about someone encountering some rude medical providers and one nice one who talked to her about her abortion mirroring her own language, something lots of pro-choice people do. Anyway here is a page from “evil late-term abortionist” Dr. Leroy Carhart’s practice

Leah Libresco Sargeant

@LeahLibresco

2 years

I'm in the NYT today talking about Camillian, one of the children we lost through ectopic pregnancy. We got on a train to New Jersey to see a Catholic doctor, because we wanted someone who would *deliver our baby,* not *remove a clump of cells.*

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@hbolton

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Idk WHAT exactly has been going on with the Polish restaurant with the knights out front but whatever it is it’s DRAMATIC, these have been changing over the course of like months now!! (The last two are up now together)

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@hbolton

11 months

"This guy who runs the @UAW , uh, reminds me of Earl Browder...The fella who's running it is just going around telling...I mean he says horrible things. He's talking about a kleptocracy...he is using rhetoric that Elizabeth Warren would say 'keep your mouth shut.'" Lmaooooooooooo

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

11 months

Jim Cramer predicts @UAW is about to lead "the biggest strike our country has had in years." He says union president Shawn Fain "is using rhetoric that Elizabeth Warren would say, 'Keep your mouth shut.'" "He's talking about a kleptocracy... You've gotta focus on this guy."

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@hbolton

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Lol this sentiment always kills me because “younger people haven’t been taking this seriously” about almost any political subject is an opinion you could only have if you yourself don’t do any real regular organizing or volunteer work or anything related to it

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@hbolton

1 year

The median household income in New York City is about $75K. Not the median individual income, the median household income, and not in a smaller city, in New York City

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@hbolton

4 years

@DCPoliceDept Oh is the DC Police Department allowed to lobby on the public's dime? That's legal then?

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@hbolton

4 years

Planned Parenthood does many great things but they *do not provide abortions in Louisiana* so, please donate to local advocates like @LiftingLA @WWAVinc , and if you want to support access, support independent clinics and abortion funds via @AbortionCare and @AbortionFunds

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@hbolton

2 years

This man cannot conceive of any solution besides “more cops.” The idea that someone who drives a car goes “well I will just go ahead and speed now” or “I will park in the bike lane” specifically “because I will not be ticketed or arrested and held on bail” is not how brains work!

Sally Goldenberg

@SallyGold

2 years

. @NYCMayor , at scene of fatal car crash in Bed-Stuy, discusses lack of bail for grand larceny auto, which he says is up 100% in this precinct. "A small # of bad ppl think they can do bad things and get out of jail because we have a bad criminal justice system," he says.

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@hbolton

2 years

If policing isn’t working that’s a reason to abandon it as a solution, not push for more of it. Consider the below from @pareene , plus @JessieSingerNYC ’s point that cops issuing tickets tends to teach people they were unlucky, not to stop the behavior

Second Ave. Sagas

@2AvSagas

2 years

Every time a video of a gang of illegal loud ATVs and dirt bikes running lights on threatening pedestrians in NYC goes viral as one did yesterday, I’m reminded how it’s a perfect example of what’s wrong with NYPD when it comes to enforcing moving violations.

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@hbolton

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@hbolton

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Every time they up police presence in the subway they do it ostensibly to stop violent crime, and every time the cops just ticket food vendors and bust people for fare evasion (because it's easy and they're lazy and also because they can't actually really stop violent crimes)

Julianne Cuba

@Julcuba

2 years

Cops issuing a ticket to this vendor in Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue station

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@hbolton

2 years

Setting aside that she’s prob doing a Bright Eyes reference, “and why do you sing with an English accent, I guess it’s too late to change it now” and “you were in a band when I was born” are two of the rudest lyrics I’ve ever heard just perfect lol

lake micah

@afrofatalism

2 years

phoebe bridgers gave a pun so atrociously facile and ineloquent—so egregiously trite and immature—about having “emotional motion sickness” and everyone just catapulted her to stardom lol. fine, by that token i have, uhhh…synesthesia anesthesia! ok now where’s my celebrity, hmm?!

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@hbolton

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Like the governor of your own state is currently blocking the budget in a fight to make it easier for prosecutors to keep people on Rikers and withhold exculpatory evidence. The New York Democratic Party is the reason Democrats don't control the US House of Representatives

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@hbolton

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@DearSplenda Lol I referenced “the knockout game” in conversation earlier this year as an example of one and everyone thought I was making it up, even tho was not that long ago!!!

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@hbolton

2 years

@_bahhumbug Lol if the people on the picket line outside don’t have masks you have to go inside of a Starbucks where almost everyone will be unmasked?

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@hbolton

8 years

Trans and GNC people deserve safety, respect, and to pee in peace #WeAreNotThis #HB2

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@hbolton

2 years

This is not even the first time they have been caught doing this THIS YEAR

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@hbolton

7 years

Happy Roe Day to all! Time to continue fighting to make sure our bodies are our own & EVERYONE can access care #7in10forRoe #BeBoldEndHyde

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@hbolton

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Exactly zero (0) of the people who have been saying this kind of stuff are even pretending to engage with the fact that we are WORKERS standing in solidarity with OTHER WORKERS in our field. It is not “mission creep,” I am fucking union you moron

Jeremiah Johnson 🌐

@JeremiahDJohns

5 months

It always makes a certain kind of person very angry when I post about Activist Mission Creep. The most telling response is the folks who go "Guess you've never heard of SOLIDARITY 🙄" Guy, I am explicitly criticizing you for putting solidarity over effectiveness.

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@hbolton

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Abortion has already been illegal in Texas, the second-largest state in the country, at 6 weeks for MONTHS and everybody has basically shrugged and moved, on literally what the FUCK are you even talking about???

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@hbolton

1 year

When I was in high school the big language fight was over the way people would call things “gay” as a synonym for “bad,” like they made a PSA with Hilary Duff and everything

luke

@lukeoneil47

1 year

Rewriting distant history is one thing but we cannot let them rewrite yesterday and the actual fucking present while we're still in the midst of it.

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(Also there is a 0% chance cops are not wildly overstating how much this is happening because it gets them off the hook for not being able to solve burglaries, which they have always been bad at it, if they’re all being done by impressive international crime syndicates)

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@hbolton

1 year

Well well well look who can understand this concept all of a sudden!!!

THE CITY

@THECITYNY

1 year

Court Officers Told Jurors Not To Discuss Cases During Deliberations, Says Grand Jury Foreman

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This is a major station that the actual residents of New York City also use to take the subway. It’s also a place we can go to duck out of the rain or cold, or just enjoy how beautiful the building is. But the cops can just take it from us, because one of them murdered someone?

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@hbolton

1 year

West Virginia’s Governor is attacking trans people but when his male state troopers get caught actually invading women’s and girls’ safe spaces, by putting cameras in their locker rooms at the state trooper academy, he says “we owe a lot of gratitude to our state police.”

Carol Fenton

@cfpdx

1 year

The ENTIRE West Virginia State Police department is under sexual misconduct investigation. Here's a 6/8/2023 update.

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@RottenInDenmark Her own story is that only "around a thousand distressed young people came through our doors. The majority of them received hormone prescriptions," with no definition of "young people," which means actual patients under 18 are some unknown fraction of a fraction of ~250 per year?

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