@bschaitkinnyc.bsky.social
New Yorker interested in economics, local politics, questions of federalism, and implicit bias. A believer in New York City and supporter of cities everywhere.
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Brad Lander IS having a great day
(Also: don’t I always look like an off-duty rock star? ;-)
www.thecut.com/article/brad...
(Also: don’t I always look like an off-duty rock star? ;-)
www.thecut.com/article/brad...
Brad Lander Is Having a Great Day
Ain’t no party like a Zohran Mamdani victory party (attended by New York City comptroller Brad Lander).
www.thecut.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Brad Lander IS having a great day
(Also: don’t I always look like an off-duty rock star? ;-)
www.thecut.com/article/brad...
(Also: don’t I always look like an off-duty rock star? ;-)
www.thecut.com/article/brad...
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Shout out to
@lindseyboylan.bsky.social who put it all on the line four and a half years ago and then was hitting the pavement hard since Cuomo got in the race and through today. A portrait in bravery.
@lindseyboylan.bsky.social who put it all on the line four and a half years ago and then was hitting the pavement hard since Cuomo got in the race and through today. A portrait in bravery.
June 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Shout out to
@lindseyboylan.bsky.social who put it all on the line four and a half years ago and then was hitting the pavement hard since Cuomo got in the race and through today. A portrait in bravery.
@lindseyboylan.bsky.social who put it all on the line four and a half years ago and then was hitting the pavement hard since Cuomo got in the race and through today. A portrait in bravery.
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Some of the best money I spend is to support @hellgatenyc.com. If you live in NYC, you really should too. I am planning to subscribe to @thecity.nyc starting in July. Their coverage is stellar. Thank you to both of these publications.
June 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Some of the best money I spend is to support @hellgatenyc.com. If you live in NYC, you really should too. I am planning to subscribe to @thecity.nyc starting in July. Their coverage is stellar. Thank you to both of these publications.
Truly an amazing experience campaigning for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Support and enthusiasm from the breadth of our wonderful city. Much work to do, but feeling a more community minded NYC coming within our grasp.
June 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Truly an amazing experience campaigning for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Support and enthusiasm from the breadth of our wonderful city. Much work to do, but feeling a more community minded NYC coming within our grasp.
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
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Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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I have never been prouder of a political donation than the one I made just minutes after Zohran announced
🙌🏽
🙌🏽
June 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I have never been prouder of a political donation than the one I made just minutes after Zohran announced
🙌🏽
🙌🏽
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Rank me #1.
Rank Zohran #2.
Rank the rest of the WFP Slate.
And Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo.
Rank Zohran #2.
Rank the rest of the WFP Slate.
And Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo.
June 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Rank me #1.
Rank Zohran #2.
Rank the rest of the WFP Slate.
And Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo.
Rank Zohran #2.
Rank the rest of the WFP Slate.
And Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo.
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if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost
May 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost
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Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.
May 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.
Love this piece, @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social what else can we read to better appreciate 1) access to pop culture in late 80s Yugoslavia and 2) feelings of Yugoslav nostalgia and identity today?
i wrote about Eurovision, coming from a country that no longer exists, nostalgia, and more for one of my favorite literary magazines, @electricliterature.com. this essay has been in my head for years—thank you for giving it a home. electricliterature.com/eurovision-r...
Eurovision Reminds Me of a Country That No Longer Exists - Electric Literature
Europe’s pop music Olympics makes me nostalgic for my motherland before war splintered it
electricliterature.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Love this piece, @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social what else can we read to better appreciate 1) access to pop culture in late 80s Yugoslavia and 2) feelings of Yugoslav nostalgia and identity today?
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With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.
(Published 2019)
(Published 2019)
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
www.propublica.org
April 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.
(Published 2019)
(Published 2019)
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Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
March 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
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Eat the rich is coming
A full moon, lunar eclipse AND the Ides of March tomorrow.
Big rebellion energy right now.
Big rebellion energy right now.
March 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Eat the rich is coming
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honestly this stuff is insulting
I will continue to fight against Donald Trump’s reckless, and in many instances, illegal attempts to gut the federal government. He is testing our system of checks and balances like they haven’t been tested in my lifetime. The fight continues.
March 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
honestly this stuff is insulting
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I genuinely hope the Democrats who voted to gut communities have an itch on their back they can never scratch and that people boo them everywhere they go.
March 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I genuinely hope the Democrats who voted to gut communities have an itch on their back they can never scratch and that people boo them everywhere they go.
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folks have asked me, "why silver spring?" there's lots of reasons but here's one: "Even when children grow up next to each other with parents who earn similar incomes, black boys fare worse than white boys in 99 percent of America." You know what city is among the 1%? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys (Published 2018)
A study of 20 million children shows the fragility of the American Dream.
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
folks have asked me, "why silver spring?" there's lots of reasons but here's one: "Even when children grow up next to each other with parents who earn similar incomes, black boys fare worse than white boys in 99 percent of America." You know what city is among the 1%? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...