Craig Gurian
@craiggurian.bsky.social
Executive Director, Anti-Discrimination Center (antibiaslaw.com); Editor, Remapping Debate (remappingdebate.org). Posting for myself, not orgs, except if [ADC] or [RD] tag is appended to end of post.
"Non-platform" issues come to the Mayor's attention every single day. "What will the candidate do once in office about X, Y, or Z?" is not an unreasonable inquiry. We tried to get answers to 13 questions; the Mamdani campaign didn't respond. www.remappingdebate.org/article/ludi...
The ludicrous "it's not part of the platform" dodge
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September 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"Non-platform" issues come to the Mayor's attention every single day. "What will the candidate do once in office about X, Y, or Z?" is not an unreasonable inquiry. We tried to get answers to 13 questions; the Mamdani campaign didn't respond. www.remappingdebate.org/article/ludi...
If you believe that President's Trump's actions are horrifically consequential, doesn't that mean that those actions will have . . . consequences? From @knecessary.bsky.social. www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...
Believe the warnings, not the reassurances
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July 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If you believe that President's Trump's actions are horrifically consequential, doesn't that mean that those actions will have . . . consequences? From @knecessary.bsky.social. www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...
Sought answers from Cuomo campaign to basic Qs arising out of @errollouis.bsky.social/@andrewcuomo.bsky.social walk & talk. remappingdebate.org/article/cuom....
Specifics on how Cuomo sees NYC-run rent reg working to help tenants?
Does he really want to open all valves to construction?
No dice.
Specifics on how Cuomo sees NYC-run rent reg working to help tenants?
Does he really want to open all valves to construction?
No dice.
Cuomo fails to answer questions about his new promises
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July 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Sought answers from Cuomo campaign to basic Qs arising out of @errollouis.bsky.social/@andrewcuomo.bsky.social walk & talk. remappingdebate.org/article/cuom....
Specifics on how Cuomo sees NYC-run rent reg working to help tenants?
Does he really want to open all valves to construction?
No dice.
Specifics on how Cuomo sees NYC-run rent reg working to help tenants?
Does he really want to open all valves to construction?
No dice.
Remapping Debate (remappingdebate.org) is looking for a highly experienced reporter or three to do freelance pieces for us from time-to-time. They’d be deeply reported stories generally ranging from approximately 2,500 to 3,500 words for which we’d pay $1.25 per published word. 1/4
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July 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Remapping Debate (remappingdebate.org) is looking for a highly experienced reporter or three to do freelance pieces for us from time-to-time. They’d be deeply reported stories generally ranging from approximately 2,500 to 3,500 words for which we’d pay $1.25 per published word. 1/4
Remapping Debate's 80-minute audio interview w NYC mayoral candidate @jimfornyc.bsky.social. He's a genuine regulation-skeptic. I focused on probing his housing plans. Education, civil rights, consolidation-of-field also discussed. Some excerpts follow. 1/5 www.remappingdebate.org/article/wald...
Walden really is a true believer in "free markets" -- with a lot of government assistance
Extended audio interview, with interactive transcript, on housing, education, and civil rights.
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July 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Remapping Debate's 80-minute audio interview w NYC mayoral candidate @jimfornyc.bsky.social. He's a genuine regulation-skeptic. I focused on probing his housing plans. Education, civil rights, consolidation-of-field also discussed. Some excerpts follow. 1/5 www.remappingdebate.org/article/wald...
My first look at the new @slingshotstrat.bsky.social poll. www.remappingdebate.org/article/win-...
A win is a win is a win, right? Yes and no.
How big or small a Mamdani victory turned out to be would be quite consequential.
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July 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My first look at the new @slingshotstrat.bsky.social poll. www.remappingdebate.org/article/win-...
Remapping Debate has just published the full text of Eric's campaign kickoff speech. Annotated to help you decode it. If you didn't know, NYC "is not a city of socialism." And what the Mayor didn't say may be as important as what he did say. www.remappingdebate.org/article/full...
Full transcript of Eric Adams campaign kickoff speech, annotated
Full text, with annotations to help decode the speech.
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June 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Remapping Debate has just published the full text of Eric's campaign kickoff speech. Annotated to help you decode it. If you didn't know, NYC "is not a city of socialism." And what the Mayor didn't say may be as important as what he did say. www.remappingdebate.org/article/full...
K-12 platform of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on his website: It's 171 words in all, most of which don't have to do with what goes on in the classroom. And it's strikingly devoid of planks addressing deep-rooted problems. How will he fill in the blanks? www.remappingdebate.org/article/how-...
How much meat is on the bones of Mamdani's K-12 platform?
Certainly doesn’t seem robust. Strikingly devoid of planks addressing deep-rooted problems.
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June 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
K-12 platform of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on his website: It's 171 words in all, most of which don't have to do with what goes on in the classroom. And it's strikingly devoid of planks addressing deep-rooted problems. How will he fill in the blanks? www.remappingdebate.org/article/how-...
This won't draw 👀 like "how hot is Zohran?" does, but, OTOH, it has a lot more to do w what either he or Cuomo will be able to accomplish (or block). Pay more attention to Council's role. It can be quite consequential, as with City of Yes. My latest. [RD] www.remappingdebate.org/article/city...
The City Council part of the mayoral equation
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June 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This won't draw 👀 like "how hot is Zohran?" does, but, OTOH, it has a lot more to do w what either he or Cuomo will be able to accomplish (or block). Pay more attention to Council's role. It can be quite consequential, as with City of Yes. My latest. [RD] www.remappingdebate.org/article/city...
I can confirm that you can search through the by-laws of every Junior High School student government and not find any such requirement. Is that the standard by which one really wants to abide?
"There is no rule or law that states who we have to call on. …that's the beauty of this country" - the mayor, just now, on his ongoing refusal to take questions from @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social (www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...)
June 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I can confirm that you can search through the by-laws of every Junior High School student government and not find any such requirement. Is that the standard by which one really wants to abide?
New reporting from Remapping Debate: A large % of municipalities in Westchester & Nassau Counties aren't participating in Gov. Hochul's "Pro-Housing Community" program, especially those with lowest percentage of non-Hispanic Black residents (3% or less). www.remappingdebate.org/article/hoch...
Hochul's "Pro-Housing Community" program so far falling flat
Two of the beating hearts of exclusionary zoning in the New York City metropolitan area are saying in effect, “No, thank you, we like our exclusion just the way we have it.”
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June 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
New reporting from Remapping Debate: A large % of municipalities in Westchester & Nassau Counties aren't participating in Gov. Hochul's "Pro-Housing Community" program, especially those with lowest percentage of non-Hispanic Black residents (3% or less). www.remappingdebate.org/article/hoch...
Make America Healthy Again? The administration is conscientiously pursuing precisely the opposite agenda.
@knecessary.bsky.social's editorial cartoon, only in Remapping Debate. 1/2 www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...
@knecessary.bsky.social's editorial cartoon, only in Remapping Debate. 1/2 www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...
Unmasking MAHA
It’s the opposite of making America healthy again.
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June 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Make America Healthy Again? The administration is conscientiously pursuing precisely the opposite agenda.
@knecessary.bsky.social's editorial cartoon, only in Remapping Debate. 1/2 www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...
@knecessary.bsky.social's editorial cartoon, only in Remapping Debate. 1/2 www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...
Last night's debate: fine work from MelissaRusso and SallyGold. Education portion: too many below proficient and well below proficient answers. (Education-section transcript accompanies commentary.) www.remappingdebate.org/article/mayo...
Mayoral debate on education: Fine question, largely depressing answers
What was striking last night was how many candidates didn’t have the substance to fill even 30 seconds, or revealed in that time an under-appreciation of the problems that are going on.
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June 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Last night's debate: fine work from MelissaRusso and SallyGold. Education portion: too many below proficient and well below proficient answers. (Education-section transcript accompanies commentary.) www.remappingdebate.org/article/mayo...
Here's an aspect of former Governor Cuomo's record that has gotten zero attention so far (from Remapping Debate's archive, originally published 2013). 1/2 www.remappingdebate.org/article/out-...
Out-of-network coverage in New York? We left it up to the insurers
A forgotten policy of the Cuomo administration that still harms New Yorkers.
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June 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Here's an aspect of former Governor Cuomo's record that has gotten zero attention so far (from Remapping Debate's archive, originally published 2013). 1/2 www.remappingdebate.org/article/out-...
There's a lot that doesn't add up, at least if voters want to be able to make informed choices. Many substantive issues remain unexplored or underexplored, and the rhetoric often doesn't match what the winning candidate would be able to do as mayor. www.remappingdebate.org/article/cent...
Central paradoxes of the NYC mayoral primary
There’s a lot that doesn’t add up.
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June 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
There's a lot that doesn't add up, at least if voters want to be able to make informed choices. Many substantive issues remain unexplored or underexplored, and the rhetoric often doesn't match what the winning candidate would be able to do as mayor. www.remappingdebate.org/article/cent...
Luxury condos keep rising w ZERO condo units dedicated to affordable hsg rentals. Huge potential cross-subsidy wasted. New preservation law suggests mixed-condos can work for new construction, too, w/o subsidizing mkt units. But not on radar of NYC candidates. www.remappingdebate.org/article/mark...
Market-rate condos as an affordable housing tool?
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May 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Luxury condos keep rising w ZERO condo units dedicated to affordable hsg rentals. Huge potential cross-subsidy wasted. New preservation law suggests mixed-condos can work for new construction, too, w/o subsidizing mkt units. But not on radar of NYC candidates. www.remappingdebate.org/article/mark...
Trump and the GOP Congress cutting an already depleted federal civilian workforce. Data vizes covering 1978-2004 showing federal executive branch employees -- adjusted for growing population of the country -- demonstrate the point. www.remappingdebate.org/map-data-too...
Federal employment adjusted for population tells a different story
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May 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Trump and the GOP Congress cutting an already depleted federal civilian workforce. Data vizes covering 1978-2004 showing federal executive branch employees -- adjusted for growing population of the country -- demonstrate the point. www.remappingdebate.org/map-data-too...
The "Affordable Housing Retention Act," passed recently as part of the 2025-26 NYS budget, is focused on housing preservation, but it models tools that might be applicable to new construction, too. www.remappingdebate.org/article/mark...
Market-rate condos as an affordable housing tool?
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May 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The "Affordable Housing Retention Act," passed recently as part of the 2025-26 NYS budget, is focused on housing preservation, but it models tools that might be applicable to new construction, too. www.remappingdebate.org/article/mark...
Even before any Trump or GOP Congress cuts this year, overall executive branch civilian employment as adjusted for population is materially down from its peak. www.remappingdebate.org/map-data-too...
Federal employment adjusted for population tells a different story
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May 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Even before any Trump or GOP Congress cuts this year, overall executive branch civilian employment as adjusted for population is materially down from its peak. www.remappingdebate.org/map-data-too...
Our editorial cartoonist, @knecessary.bsky.social, takes a look at some recent American trends. www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...
Ups and downs
Credit down. Lots else, too. But one thing’s on the upswing.
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May 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Our editorial cartoonist, @knecessary.bsky.social, takes a look at some recent American trends. www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...
There's an economy to ruin, a social safety net to shred, alliances to break, anti-discrimination laws to disavow, public health to poison, and a Constitution to defy, but President Trump still has time for some of his other dreams of the good old days. www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...
Those were the days
President Trump taking time to live out his dreams.
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May 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
There's an economy to ruin, a social safety net to shred, alliances to break, anti-discrimination laws to disavow, public health to poison, and a Constitution to defy, but President Trump still has time for some of his other dreams of the good old days. www.remappingdebate.org/editorial-ca...
Trump's already executed and planned assaults on NYC have been rightly described as emergencies w/o modern parallel. So business-as-usual policy planning out the window, yes? But mayoral candidates are not facing up to local consequences of Trump budget cuts. www.remappingdebate.org/article/do-t...
Do they know it's truly an emergency?
Not facing up to the local consequences of Trump budget cuts.
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May 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Trump's already executed and planned assaults on NYC have been rightly described as emergencies w/o modern parallel. So business-as-usual policy planning out the window, yes? But mayoral candidates are not facing up to local consequences of Trump budget cuts. www.remappingdebate.org/article/do-t...
When undermining clean-air regulations just isn't enough. emappingdebate.org/editorial-cartoon/operation-warped-deed
Operation warped deed
The next step in a pro-pollution agenda
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April 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
When undermining clean-air regulations just isn't enough. emappingdebate.org/editorial-cartoon/operation-warped-deed
50 questions, actually (not including subparts). With a bunch of "why?" and "why nots?" Taboo breakers, too. Don't worry, though: I've thrown in some easy ones.
remappingdebate.org/article/few-questions-id-love-nyc-mayoral-candidates-answer
remappingdebate.org/article/few-questions-id-love-nyc-mayoral-candidates-answer
A few questions I'd love the NYC mayoral candidates to answer
Including a bunch of "why?" and "why nots?"
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April 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
50 questions, actually (not including subparts). With a bunch of "why?" and "why nots?" Taboo breakers, too. Don't worry, though: I've thrown in some easy ones.
remappingdebate.org/article/few-questions-id-love-nyc-mayoral-candidates-answer
remappingdebate.org/article/few-questions-id-love-nyc-mayoral-candidates-answer
Lyric of the week: "Keep My Heart In Mind," Kieran Kane & @raynagellert.bsky.social, off their "Volume 4" album. www.remappingdebate.org#lyric
April 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Lyric of the week: "Keep My Heart In Mind," Kieran Kane & @raynagellert.bsky.social, off their "Volume 4" album. www.remappingdebate.org#lyric