Emma Montoya Hills
@esmhills.bsky.social
Art and art making across the five boroughs and beyond | VP of Ops at LMCC | She/Her 🏳️🌈
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Time for debate night bingo ✅ We're co-hosting the final NYC mayoral debate tonight with NY1 and WNYC. Let's play.
(Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)
(Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)
October 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Time for debate night bingo ✅ We're co-hosting the final NYC mayoral debate tonight with NY1 and WNYC. Let's play.
(Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)
(Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)
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i have really come to believe that this — treating the public like its too stupid to understand anything complex — is one of our big problems.
Savvy operative types in DC truly believed then and believe now that average Americans are too dumb to understand how government works or why it exists. Educating and defending the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—with its profound impact on people for negligible taxpayer cost—was a layup.
July 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
i have really come to believe that this — treating the public like its too stupid to understand anything complex — is one of our big problems.
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firmly convinced that the ideal American mayor is a genial transit nerd
The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.
So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
July 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
firmly convinced that the ideal American mayor is a genial transit nerd
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This is hilarious and wholesome
Also the dude saying "I voted for someone who won!" is so real for that lmao
Also the dude saying "I voted for someone who won!" is so real for that lmao
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This is hilarious and wholesome
Also the dude saying "I voted for someone who won!" is so real for that lmao
Also the dude saying "I voted for someone who won!" is so real for that lmao
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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Do you want to win elections or do you want to be right? Because you can start from the latter and work to the former but there’s serious work involved and yes, you’ll have to appeal to white males.
July 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Do you want to win elections or do you want to be right? Because you can start from the latter and work to the former but there’s serious work involved and yes, you’ll have to appeal to white males.
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Not gonna lie, I’m kind of turned on right now
June 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Not gonna lie, I’m kind of turned on right now
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This guy is cool in the most important and perhaps the only way a guy like him can be cool- by not giving a single shit whether other people think he's cool
June 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This guy is cool in the most important and perhaps the only way a guy like him can be cool- by not giving a single shit whether other people think he's cool
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People may not like this take but I think this is spot on for how modern politics & comms works (and tbh, I don’t think that’s a bad thing!)
Either politicians become YouTubers or YouTubers become politicians. That is your choice.
June 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
People may not like this take but I think this is spot on for how modern politics & comms works (and tbh, I don’t think that’s a bad thing!)
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Andrew Cuomo has the experiences and character to save the nation. He is an exceptional choice for mayor of New York, a city I’ve never stayed in for more than 45 minutes. I’m afraid to cross a street that has more than two lanes. I think the American Airlines chatbot is a real person who likes me
June 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Andrew Cuomo has the experiences and character to save the nation. He is an exceptional choice for mayor of New York, a city I’ve never stayed in for more than 45 minutes. I’m afraid to cross a street that has more than two lanes. I think the American Airlines chatbot is a real person who likes me
It cannot be overstated just how much Andrew Cuomo HATES New York City.
The thing about Cuomo is that it doesn't even seem like he actually wants to be mayor of New York, y'know? He wants a job, he wants prestige, he wants a stepping stone, he wants power, he wants "redemption". But you don't get any sense that he has any actual interest in running the city.
June 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It cannot be overstated just how much Andrew Cuomo HATES New York City.
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yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP.
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
April 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
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Just me banging on again that BROADWAY employs more people than coal.
April 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just me banging on again that BROADWAY employs more people than coal.
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Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.
April 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.
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Honestly this is too much perspective
April 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Honestly this is too much perspective
Summer is around the corner— what better time to way to enjoy the weather then a low key friend hang with a million new friends???
The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
April 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Summer is around the corner— what better time to way to enjoy the weather then a low key friend hang with a million new friends???
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JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN 85 thumbs up, excellent play, fantastic production & the audience was completely hyped
April 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN 85 thumbs up, excellent play, fantastic production & the audience was completely hyped
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This.
The speech mattered as a rallying point.
How do you join people in shared cause?
You model it.
You project it.
You shout the sincerity of it.
You inspire.
You rally people to pay attention...and respond.
You create a "we."
The speech mattered as a rallying point.
How do you join people in shared cause?
You model it.
You project it.
You shout the sincerity of it.
You inspire.
You rally people to pay attention...and respond.
You create a "we."
Cory Booker's speech didn't "achieve" anything. But it meant something. To me.
A long discourse on what it meant, and why, here. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-cory-b...
A long discourse on what it meant, and why, here. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-cory-b...
Why Cory Booker’s Speech Matters
Booker didn’t “accomplish” anything. He was a voice of one crying in the wilderness. And that’s how you build a dissident movement: with simple acts of witness.
www.thebulwark.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This.
The speech mattered as a rallying point.
How do you join people in shared cause?
You model it.
You project it.
You shout the sincerity of it.
You inspire.
You rally people to pay attention...and respond.
You create a "we."
The speech mattered as a rallying point.
How do you join people in shared cause?
You model it.
You project it.
You shout the sincerity of it.
You inspire.
You rally people to pay attention...and respond.
You create a "we."
Art that prioritizes community and connection is the best kind of art — it’s been wildly impressive to watch how @powerhousearts.bsky.social has doubled down on that idea.
Between all the stuffiness and pressed blazers of years past, it's hard to believe that an art fair could actually be fun — until checking out the inaugural edition of the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair in Gowanus.
Brooklyn’s First Print Fair Puts Community Over Commercialism
At Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, independent shops, galleries, and high-profile publishers come together in shared passion for the craft and the connection it elicits.
hyperallergic.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Art that prioritizes community and connection is the best kind of art — it’s been wildly impressive to watch how @powerhousearts.bsky.social has doubled down on that idea.
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I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.
April 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.
It is wild that not even 5 years later we’re willing as an industry to let back in one of the truly worst bad-actors— if you need a refresher, go read the literally hundreds of testimonials from Scott Rudin’s former assistants.
Scott Rudin, who stepped back from producing four years ago amid reports of abusive behavior, is planning to stage several plays next season. He is at peace, he said, with the reality that not everyone is likely to welcome him back.
Scott Rudin, Producer Exiled for Bad Behavior, Plans Return to Broadway
Rudin stepped away from show business four years ago amid reports that he had bullied assistants. He says he has “a lot more self-control” now.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It is wild that not even 5 years later we’re willing as an industry to let back in one of the truly worst bad-actors— if you need a refresher, go read the literally hundreds of testimonials from Scott Rudin’s former assistants.
10/10 would attend this seminar
The strategy of “concede a small point to win the greater point” should be replaced by the “Lol, no” offensive. More effective AND more fun and easy to learn. Resonates across demographics. I am avail to give a seminar on this
“We preface everything with an admission that our opponents are right and somehow we’re losing the messaging war. We don’t understand why this isn’t working.”
March 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
10/10 would attend this seminar
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They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
I adore everything about the Frick: building, collection, all of it. Cannot wait for my next visit
When the Frick Collection temporarily took over the Brutalist Breuer building, it was a peculiar fit. Thankfully, the collection has returned to its original Fifth Avenue home, arguably New York City’s most beautiful museum, after a five-year, $220 million expansion.
What The Frick Changed?
The Manhattan museum’s Gilded Age mansion reopens next month, bringing its world-famous collection of works by the likes of Vermeer and Rembrandt back on public view.
hyperallergic.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I adore everything about the Frick: building, collection, all of it. Cannot wait for my next visit