David Herman
@davidhermanstudio.bsky.social
Designer, editor, photographer, advocate, and a concerned citizen working to make a better Brooklyn and a better world https://linktr.ee/dhermanstudio
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
So @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social’s City Council is willing to put a stop to all the crap Mayor Adams is trying to do or prevent on his way out except when it comes to inconveniencing drivers and their free parking. “Shameful” is too polite a word for not protecting all pedestrians. cc @transalt.org
To get her daylighting bill across the finish line amid , Council Member Julie Won is being "forced" by DOT (her words) to consider compromises, Kevin Duggan reports:
SHAMEFUL: Pro-Parking DOT 'Forced' Lawmakers To Scale Back Daylighting Bill, Says Queens Pol - Streetsblog New York City
A parking-first City Hall has thrown up road blocks against pedestrian safety.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social’s City Council is willing to put a stop to all the crap Mayor Adams is trying to do or prevent on his way out except when it comes to inconveniencing drivers and their free parking. “Shameful” is too polite a word for not protecting all pedestrians. cc @transalt.org
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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Forest Park’s Freedom Drive has been car-free for 5 years, but CB9, NYC Parks and DOT may open up the road to vehicles.
Sign and share the below info and petition from concerned neighbors.
Speak up, Thurs., Nov. 13 , 7:15 PM, Queens Borough Hall, sign: bit.ly/carfreefreedomdrive
Sign and share the below info and petition from concerned neighbors.
Speak up, Thurs., Nov. 13 , 7:15 PM, Queens Borough Hall, sign: bit.ly/carfreefreedomdrive
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Forest Park’s Freedom Drive has been car-free for 5 years, but CB9, NYC Parks and DOT may open up the road to vehicles.
Sign and share the below info and petition from concerned neighbors.
Speak up, Thurs., Nov. 13 , 7:15 PM, Queens Borough Hall, sign: bit.ly/carfreefreedomdrive
Sign and share the below info and petition from concerned neighbors.
Speak up, Thurs., Nov. 13 , 7:15 PM, Queens Borough Hall, sign: bit.ly/carfreefreedomdrive
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Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here
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Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Many Americans are hurting right now because of the shutdown, but caving to Republicans won’t end the hurt.
Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they alone have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like.
Deals with this regime are meaningless.
Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they alone have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like.
Deals with this regime are meaningless.
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Many Americans are hurting right now because of the shutdown, but caving to Republicans won’t end the hurt.
Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they alone have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like.
Deals with this regime are meaningless.
Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they alone have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like.
Deals with this regime are meaningless.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Oh my god the Democrats just won huge margins in VA and NJ. Yes it did, you idiotic dinosaur.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Oh my god the Democrats just won huge margins in VA and NJ. Yes it did, you idiotic dinosaur.
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Chuckles Bites the Dust
Schumer never turned the world on with his smile, and when he's gone, the Democratic party just might make it after all.
by Maureen Dowd
Schumer never turned the world on with his smile, and when he's gone, the Democratic party just might make it after all.
by Maureen Dowd
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Chuckles Bites the Dust
Schumer never turned the world on with his smile, and when he's gone, the Democratic party just might make it after all.
by Maureen Dowd
Schumer never turned the world on with his smile, and when he's gone, the Democratic party just might make it after all.
by Maureen Dowd
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I don't care how Schumer himself votes. The bottom line is that as Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson would have last night had on his desk eight sealed mason jars with the severed hands of every senator who even thought about raising them to vote yes. As a majority leader should.
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I don't care how Schumer himself votes. The bottom line is that as Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson would have last night had on his desk eight sealed mason jars with the severed hands of every senator who even thought about raising them to vote yes. As a majority leader should.
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Quick snapshot of the @runforsomething.net candidate sign-ups -- we're building a party of fighters, not folders.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Quick snapshot of the @runforsomething.net candidate sign-ups -- we're building a party of fighters, not folders.
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As I testified before Congress earlier this year, I thought $56 billion was extremely excessive compensation for a CEO.
But thanks to Elon Musk’s crony Tesla board, a $1 TRILLION pay package for him was just approved. Now shareholders are on the hook for this outrageous sum.
But thanks to Elon Musk’s crony Tesla board, a $1 TRILLION pay package for him was just approved. Now shareholders are on the hook for this outrageous sum.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As I testified before Congress earlier this year, I thought $56 billion was extremely excessive compensation for a CEO.
But thanks to Elon Musk’s crony Tesla board, a $1 TRILLION pay package for him was just approved. Now shareholders are on the hook for this outrageous sum.
But thanks to Elon Musk’s crony Tesla board, a $1 TRILLION pay package for him was just approved. Now shareholders are on the hook for this outrageous sum.
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The junction between the politics of affordable housing and the production of affordable housing is a car crash.
In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.
Cuando se ha aprobó esta medida dije repetidamente que iba a ser un fracaso y que no construirían nada de vivienda asequible. Se ha probado en mil sitios y no funciona.
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The junction between the politics of affordable housing and the production of affordable housing is a car crash.
Too many Democrats in power seem to enjoy losing.
It's time to make them happy and vote them out of office ASAP.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11... via @politico.com and @hellgatenyc.com
It's time to make them happy and vote them out of office ASAP.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11... via @politico.com and @hellgatenyc.com
Senate advances plan to end historic shutdown in bipartisan breakthrough
The framework lawmakers agreed to Sunday night would not guarantee an extension of the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Too many Democrats in power seem to enjoy losing.
It's time to make them happy and vote them out of office ASAP.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11... via @politico.com and @hellgatenyc.com
It's time to make them happy and vote them out of office ASAP.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11... via @politico.com and @hellgatenyc.com
Wish there was a genuine opponent to wishy=washy Hochul on the left, as so many of her policies oppose progress on the environment and many other issues. @bradlander.bsky.social, perhaps, if he's not in the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social admin or running against Dan Goldman or Schumer?
The vibes were good last week!
But the thing about Kathy Hochul? She doesn't really like letting a good thing last.
Enjoy paying for fracked gas infrastructure and polluting Coney Island and the Rockaways, New Yorkers!
hellgatenyc.com/trumps-pipel...
But the thing about Kathy Hochul? She doesn't really like letting a good thing last.
Enjoy paying for fracked gas infrastructure and polluting Coney Island and the Rockaways, New Yorkers!
hellgatenyc.com/trumps-pipel...
Trump's Pipeline Is Now Hochul's Pipeline
And other stories to start your week.
hellgatenyc.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Wish there was a genuine opponent to wishy=washy Hochul on the left, as so many of her policies oppose progress on the environment and many other issues. @bradlander.bsky.social, perhaps, if he's not in the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social admin or running against Dan Goldman or Schumer?
This news story needs to be in the toolkit for all #bikenyc and national #bicycling advocates and organizations.
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This news story needs to be in the toolkit for all #bikenyc and national #bicycling advocates and organizations.
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I love the fact that national politics, and in some way world politics, hinges on the fact that two dudes from Queens hate each other.
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I love the fact that national politics, and in some way world politics, hinges on the fact that two dudes from Queens hate each other.
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Barbara Bel Geddes as Midge in Vertigo. She's supposed to be smart, sweet but plain young woman compared to Kim Novak, but she's actually the one that would cure a lot of men of their agoraphobia and inspire them to buy nice clothes and attend every single event where she might show up.
What’s your all time favorite Hollywood Homely fail? When a woman is meant to be unattractive but she’s gorgeous. Thinking of how Safety Not Guaranteed has a key moment where a man’s ex is in the script old and no longer attractive and she’s a knockout who the movie still plays as old.
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Barbara Bel Geddes as Midge in Vertigo. She's supposed to be smart, sweet but plain young woman compared to Kim Novak, but she's actually the one that would cure a lot of men of their agoraphobia and inspire them to buy nice clothes and attend every single event where she might show up.
Can you please do better than “thoughts and prayers”? How about new ideas or legislation and ways to implement them? cc @transalt.org @streetspac.org
Heartbroken to hear of the tragic loss of a 27-year-old woman struck and killed in the West Village. My thoughts are with her family and loved ones.
We must do more to make our streets safer for pedestrians and hold reckless drivers accountable. Thank you to the NYPD for ensuring justice is met.
We must do more to make our streets safer for pedestrians and hold reckless drivers accountable. Thank you to the NYPD for ensuring justice is met.
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Can you please do better than “thoughts and prayers”? How about new ideas or legislation and ways to implement them? cc @transalt.org @streetspac.org
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
The punchline says it all
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
The punchline says it all