Daniel Fischer
@danielfischer.nyc
Brooklynite riding bikes & BMT
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I think it's shameful that during a second Trump administration, and after NYC voters rejected a return to moderate, conciliatory governance, that a Democrat would tout the entirety of the Council's Republican caucus as her supporters.
Menin says she'll work with Mamdani "on a shared agenda that makes New York more affordable."
GOP members backing Menin, tho, are likely to look to her to be a check on Mamdani. Vickie Paladino said she's with Menin because she "understands all perspectives." www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/26/j...
GOP members backing Menin, tho, are likely to look to her to be a check on Mamdani. Vickie Paladino said she's with Menin because she "understands all perspectives." www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/26/j...
Julie Menin claims victory in NYC Council speaker race with more than 65 percent support
Manhattan Councilwoman Julie Menin claimed victory Wednesday in the City Council speaker’s race after saying she’s secured commitments of support from a super majority of her colleague…
www.nydailynews.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I think it's shameful that during a second Trump administration, and after NYC voters rejected a return to moderate, conciliatory governance, that a Democrat would tout the entirety of the Council's Republican caucus as her supporters.
"public workers are all corrupt" is a lazy and dangerous reactionary stance that mirrors decades of Republican talking points straight from Reaganism into "drain the swamp"
This misguided antipathy doesn't compel reform, it only gives justification to those who seek to dismantle public services.
This misguided antipathy doesn't compel reform, it only gives justification to those who seek to dismantle public services.
nyc transit unions and workers are some of the most corrupt public servants in the US. they need to be forced to play nice with the public interest
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"public workers are all corrupt" is a lazy and dangerous reactionary stance that mirrors decades of Republican talking points straight from Reaganism into "drain the swamp"
This misguided antipathy doesn't compel reform, it only gives justification to those who seek to dismantle public services.
This misguided antipathy doesn't compel reform, it only gives justification to those who seek to dismantle public services.
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the most obvious way for Zohran to tie his climate and affordability promises together is to get New York to build hundreds of thousands of transit-oriented apartments
An absolute must-read from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social dissecting Mamdani's past work on climate, his campaign pivot to affordability, and the challenge ahead to thread them together heatmap.news/politics/zoh...
Zohran Mamdani’s Muted Climate Politics
The self-described “ecosocialist” ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for New York City mayor. Once he’s in office, the climate issue could become unavoidable.
heatmap.news
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
the most obvious way for Zohran to tie his climate and affordability promises together is to get New York to build hundreds of thousands of transit-oriented apartments
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Cuomo kept the GOP in charge of New York's Senate to block progressive policies for him.
He signed an extreme gerrymander—breaking a campaign vow—& backed turncoat Dems who empowered the GOP after Dems won a majority.
Any generic progressive Dem who vetoed the gerrymander could've passed far more
He signed an extreme gerrymander—breaking a campaign vow—& backed turncoat Dems who empowered the GOP after Dems won a majority.
Any generic progressive Dem who vetoed the gerrymander could've passed far more
November 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Cuomo kept the GOP in charge of New York's Senate to block progressive policies for him.
He signed an extreme gerrymander—breaking a campaign vow—& backed turncoat Dems who empowered the GOP after Dems won a majority.
Any generic progressive Dem who vetoed the gerrymander could've passed far more
He signed an extreme gerrymander—breaking a campaign vow—& backed turncoat Dems who empowered the GOP after Dems won a majority.
Any generic progressive Dem who vetoed the gerrymander could've passed far more
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It’s because it is socially acceptable to hate cities and the people who live in them, and even virtuous to do so. Urbanites themselves are expected to perform this self-hating virtue. If they do not, this proves that they are snobs who deserve things like being shat on from the sky by a mad king.
A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities
October 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It’s because it is socially acceptable to hate cities and the people who live in them, and even virtuous to do so. Urbanites themselves are expected to perform this self-hating virtue. If they do not, this proves that they are snobs who deserve things like being shat on from the sky by a mad king.
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The Phil Murphys and Josh Gottheimers of the world who praised Trump when he tried to cancel congestion pricing were making a fool's bet that he was only doing it because he hated the idea of tolling drivers like they did and not because he hated a place that didn't vote for him.
“Trump’s tunnel threat draws backlash from NJ commuters” — apple.news/ASm_PTAvGTuS...
Trump’s tunnel threat draws backlash from NJ commuters — News 12 New Jersey
President Trump is threatening to pull federal funding in the multibillion-dollar Gateway Rail Project.
apple.news
October 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Phil Murphys and Josh Gottheimers of the world who praised Trump when he tried to cancel congestion pricing were making a fool's bet that he was only doing it because he hated the idea of tolling drivers like they did and not because he hated a place that didn't vote for him.
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We may be underestimating how singularly effective “Fuck off” is as a tactic with him. He’s a profoundly lazy man.
Congestion pricing is actually the perfect example here. Trump declared that “congestion pricing is dead” (and that he is the king)
Hochul and the MTA told him to fuck off, and now, more than 6 months later, congestion pricing is still alive and working exactly as planned
Hochul and the MTA told him to fuck off, and now, more than 6 months later, congestion pricing is still alive and working exactly as planned
August 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We may be underestimating how singularly effective “Fuck off” is as a tactic with him. He’s a profoundly lazy man.
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Zero-sum politics is when you build more housing and reallocate the street space to more efficient uses, and the more housing you build and the higher throughput the streets are, the more zero-sum it is
July 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Zero-sum politics is when you build more housing and reallocate the street space to more efficient uses, and the more housing you build and the higher throughput the streets are, the more zero-sum it is
Modern red states are fundamentally uninterested and incapable of addressing these hazards through investment in the public sphere.
This is *exactly* the kind of outcome their policy positions lead to. No flood alert systems? Fragile power grids? Killer trains? That's just life under Republicans!
This is *exactly* the kind of outcome their policy positions lead to. No flood alert systems? Fragile power grids? Killer trains? That's just life under Republicans!
It's easy to blame the deaths along Brightline's corridor on individual drivers.
But when this many people have and continue to perish, we must divorce ourselves of the rugged individualist narrative and ask what has allowed this very specific and unfortunate situation to occur with such frequency.
But when this many people have and continue to perish, we must divorce ourselves of the rugged individualist narrative and ask what has allowed this very specific and unfortunate situation to occur with such frequency.
July 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Modern red states are fundamentally uninterested and incapable of addressing these hazards through investment in the public sphere.
This is *exactly* the kind of outcome their policy positions lead to. No flood alert systems? Fragile power grids? Killer trains? That's just life under Republicans!
This is *exactly* the kind of outcome their policy positions lead to. No flood alert systems? Fragile power grids? Killer trains? That's just life under Republicans!
Already erased last year's gains. Everybody who voted for 2019 prices again might just get them!
April 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Already erased last year's gains. Everybody who voted for 2019 prices again might just get them!
"We know you voted for us because eggs were too expensive, but now we gotta ask you to be okay with chopping off your fingers for us.
Oh and we're not fixing the egg thing."
Oh and we're not fixing the egg thing."
Kudlow: "Very smart people are telling me the Feb. jobs number coming out Friday could be flat, even negative. The GDP tracker from Atlanta Fed is showing for the Q1 a -2.5 or -2.8%. We've had lousy numbers on things like housing & biz investment ... we're gonna have to suffer through some bad news"
March 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"We know you voted for us because eggs were too expensive, but now we gotta ask you to be okay with chopping off your fingers for us.
Oh and we're not fixing the egg thing."
Oh and we're not fixing the egg thing."
The immigration gold card got replaced with a "$5m dinner with Trump"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
March 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The immigration gold card got replaced with a "$5m dinner with Trump"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I do not want to think about what these ghouls are going to do in four years to avoid prosecution.
The deeper they dig their holes the more they will panic. At this rate they'll be at the Earth's core by 2028 if not 2026.
The deeper they dig their holes the more they will panic. At this rate they'll be at the Earth's core by 2028 if not 2026.
This sort of comic book corruption is quite literally illegal in every single country in the world that has written laws. I don't even know what else you say about this, it's amazing
March 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I do not want to think about what these ghouls are going to do in four years to avoid prosecution.
The deeper they dig their holes the more they will panic. At this rate they'll be at the Earth's core by 2028 if not 2026.
The deeper they dig their holes the more they will panic. At this rate they'll be at the Earth's core by 2028 if not 2026.
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notice how they always go after places like california, nyc, and chicago. they constantly tell you these places are failures while simultaneously plundering their resources. they hate that these places are successful and diverse and pump out constant propaganda to try to turn people against them.
Stealing the infrastructure we paid for. They're treating blue states and cities like we're conquered territory to be plundered.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is booed by protesters as he announces Trump is cutting off funding for high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Instead of dealing with all the planes crashing everywhere, the former “Real World” star is abandoning investments in US infrastructure.
February 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice how they always go after places like california, nyc, and chicago. they constantly tell you these places are failures while simultaneously plundering their resources. they hate that these places are successful and diverse and pump out constant propaganda to try to turn people against them.
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everyone thinks we're gonna throw a mass protest and toss the bums out and like. that is a bunch of steps down the list right now. trump won the popular vote! we do not yet have the general will on our side!
most americans do not even know that anything has happened yet
February 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
everyone thinks we're gonna throw a mass protest and toss the bums out and like. that is a bunch of steps down the list right now. trump won the popular vote! we do not yet have the general will on our side!
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democracy in michigan and wisconsin was crushed to the point of near-irreversibility until 2020 -- vastly worse than what trump seems likely to be able to do before 2028 -- and we fought back, inch by inch, until we took it back, despite Republicans having both structural advantages and real support
I have no respect for any of these people that just doom post all day when the exact path to turning back the clock on democratic backsliding can be seen in Michigan and Wisconsin. But they don't want to deal in factuals, only hyperbolic hypotheticals
February 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
democracy in michigan and wisconsin was crushed to the point of near-irreversibility until 2020 -- vastly worse than what trump seems likely to be able to do before 2028 -- and we fought back, inch by inch, until we took it back, despite Republicans having both structural advantages and real support
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He's about to delete system32
Elon Musk claims to have "deleted" the office in the IRS which has enabled people to file their tax returns electronically, simply, and for free.
February 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
He's about to delete system32
I'm fucking losing it. There's a nazi-run deep state illegally dismantling our government and their logo is this fucking AI slop mascot that belongs in a children's cartoon. What the fuck is going on!!!
February 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'm fucking losing it. There's a nazi-run deep state illegally dismantling our government and their logo is this fucking AI slop mascot that belongs in a children's cartoon. What the fuck is going on!!!
I wonder if this will get as much coverage as Hillary's emails?
(It will not)
(It will not)
3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…
February 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I wonder if this will get as much coverage as Hillary's emails?
(It will not)
(It will not)
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Tuned out of the lunch conversation until I heard my friend say he has a "very chokeable neck" (according to his jujutsu instructor)
January 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Tuned out of the lunch conversation until I heard my friend say he has a "very chokeable neck" (according to his jujutsu instructor)