Ed Y.
@moogman2268.bsky.social
Director of Strategic Research, NYSNA. Katie's husband. Josie and Charlie's dad. I like to bike places and wish there were fewer cars. I hope one day health care will not be a commodity. Content is my personal view and no one else's.
Where will Trump voters from Long Island buy their knockoffs now?
ICE just escalated NYC enforcement in the most visible possible way: sweeping in and arresting immigrant vendors on Canal Street, where tourists have forever flocked to buy knockoff designer handbags.
Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors
Spontaneous protests were met with an armored military vehicle and assault rifles in a crackdown that escalated the Trump administration’s focus on NYC.
www.thecity.nyc
October 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Where will Trump voters from Long Island buy their knockoffs now?
I can’t think of a journalist who has low key done more destruction to literacy curricula than @nytimes.com @danagoldstein.bsky.social. There were legitimate criticisms of Lucy Calkins to be made, but what she’s left in her wake appears to be chaotic and inconsistent leading to kids falling behind.
September 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I can’t think of a journalist who has low key done more destruction to literacy curricula than @nytimes.com @danagoldstein.bsky.social. There were legitimate criticisms of Lucy Calkins to be made, but what she’s left in her wake appears to be chaotic and inconsistent leading to kids falling behind.
I live in Mike Lawler's district and I had to hear him say something very similar about this basement dweller on Medicaid.
Most people on Medicaid are seniors and children. That is who Ashley Hinson is punishing. Not some incel idiot who probably voted GOP anyway.
Most people on Medicaid are seniors and children. That is who Ashley Hinson is punishing. Not some incel idiot who probably voted GOP anyway.
Hinson on Medicaid benefits: "They shouldn't be going to a 29-year-old guy who's living in his mom's basement choosing not to work."
July 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I live in Mike Lawler's district and I had to hear him say something very similar about this basement dweller on Medicaid.
Most people on Medicaid are seniors and children. That is who Ashley Hinson is punishing. Not some incel idiot who probably voted GOP anyway.
Most people on Medicaid are seniors and children. That is who Ashley Hinson is punishing. Not some incel idiot who probably voted GOP anyway.
I'm from NJ. This is unsurprising. Because people from NJ are stupid (myself included), especially NJ conservatives.
folks in hometown NJ are now denying themselves Bruce songs because of woke www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Bruce Springsteen Cover Band Told Jersey Shore Gig 'Too Risky' After Real Bruce's Anti-Trump Comments
A Bruce Springsteen cover band's gig was put in jeopardy due to the real Springsteen's anti-Trump comments.
www.rollingstone.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I'm from NJ. This is unsurprising. Because people from NJ are stupid (myself included), especially NJ conservatives.
This is a bad take. National Review is on brand here at least, let's not obliterate Medicaid, but still eliminate helpful expansions that cover more people who can't afford health care. Also, the provider tax is a weird move states make, but it's necessary because of high cost of care.
"Republicans have a great opportunity to make Medicaid more fiscally sustainable for the rest of the 21st century, but Trump’s insistence on trade policy from the 17th century is getting in the way," Dominic Pino writes. wapo.st/3H6hxoh
Opinion | The GOP has a chance to improve Medicaid. Trump is making it harder.
Eliminating perverse incentives would strengthen the health-care program’s long-term prospects.
wapo.st
May 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is a bad take. National Review is on brand here at least, let's not obliterate Medicaid, but still eliminate helpful expansions that cover more people who can't afford health care. Also, the provider tax is a weird move states make, but it's necessary because of high cost of care.
Governor Hochul thought delaying this would help the race in #ny17 (it didn't). Josh and Phil over in NJ thought it would doom the bridge and tunnel people (it didn't). It made things better almost immediately, and those of us that still need to drive happily pay the fee. #congestionpricing FTW.
Policy changes often take years to show results.
And then there is congestion pricing in New York.
Here are all of the ways we could find it having an immediate effect: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
And then there is congestion pricing in New York.
Here are all of the ways we could find it having an immediate effect: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Just About Everything That’s Changed Since Congestion Pricing Took Effect (Gift Article)
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Governor Hochul thought delaying this would help the race in #ny17 (it didn't). Josh and Phil over in NJ thought it would doom the bridge and tunnel people (it didn't). It made things better almost immediately, and those of us that still need to drive happily pay the fee. #congestionpricing FTW.
My wife got blocked in her designated teacher parking spot by this superstar whose engine has been idling for half an hour at least. (Yes she drives in occasionally because of our childcare schedules in suburbia. And we 100% believe in #congestionpricing.)
April 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My wife got blocked in her designated teacher parking spot by this superstar whose engine has been idling for half an hour at least. (Yes she drives in occasionally because of our childcare schedules in suburbia. And we 100% believe in #congestionpricing.)
Can the media never again give the GOP a pass on talking about debt and the deficit seriously? They are not allowed to do it anymore. They should not be given air time to talk about these things when they lose power.
In 2018, Trump tweeted: "Because of Tariffs we will be able to start paying down large amounts of the $21 trillion in debt that has been accumulated."
That’s not how it played out.
(Published 2021)
That’s not how it played out.
(Published 2021)
Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years
The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president.
propub.li
April 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Can the media never again give the GOP a pass on talking about debt and the deficit seriously? They are not allowed to do it anymore. They should not be given air time to talk about these things when they lose power.
I posted about this a few weeks ago, really important. Cutting #Medicaid will mostly harm seniors and children. Who I suppose are the freeloaders that morally charged GOP idiots are worried about, but maybe we should give kids and seniors a pass on this one?
Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
February 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I posted about this a few weeks ago, really important. Cutting #Medicaid will mostly harm seniors and children. Who I suppose are the freeloaders that morally charged GOP idiots are worried about, but maybe we should give kids and seniors a pass on this one?
There’s 50 billion of fraud so we need to cut 880 billion.
Fucking assholes.
Fucking assholes.
REPORTER: Can you say unequivocally that down the line, there won't be cuts to Medicaid programs?
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.
February 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
There’s 50 billion of fraud so we need to cut 880 billion.
Fucking assholes.
Fucking assholes.
There 197k Medicaid participants in #NY17. That's 1/4 people. And it's mostly seniors and children. And it's in communities that overwhelmingly voted for #mikelawler. Three zip codes that went for Lawler in #rocklandcounty account for 1/2 of all district enrollees. @indivisrockland.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
There 197k Medicaid participants in #NY17. That's 1/4 people. And it's mostly seniors and children. And it's in communities that overwhelmingly voted for #mikelawler. Three zip codes that went for Lawler in #rocklandcounty account for 1/2 of all district enrollees. @indivisrockland.bsky.social
I lived in NYC for 15 years. Back to the burbs now. Agree 100%. Driving in a car is a daily reminder of how safe the subway was in comparison.
I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier
February 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I lived in NYC for 15 years. Back to the burbs now. Agree 100%. Driving in a car is a daily reminder of how safe the subway was in comparison.
People are allowed to drive to work now, it just costs an additional $9 in the congestion zone. About what a large fancy espresso drink costs.
Alina Habba: "New York used to be one of the greatest cities in the country. And we will make it that way again. We will make it safe and we will allow tourism, we will allow people to drive to work, not have to take unsafe subways."
February 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
People are allowed to drive to work now, it just costs an additional $9 in the congestion zone. About what a large fancy espresso drink costs.
#mikelawer comments immediately on #congestionpricing. Silent on #medicaid cuts in the house reconciliation bill. #ny17 residents on Medicaid probably aren’t driving into the congestion zone. Stand up for us instead of cynically trying to score points for your governor’s race.
February 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#mikelawer comments immediately on #congestionpricing. Silent on #medicaid cuts in the house reconciliation bill. #ny17 residents on Medicaid probably aren’t driving into the congestion zone. Stand up for us instead of cynically trying to score points for your governor’s race.
People on #Medicaid are already working. People who are sick/chronically ill literally can't work and if they can't afford private insurance need Medicaid. In the meantime rich people keep getting subsidized as do corporations. Call your legislators. Keep calling them.
CBO has estimated that a work requirement in Medicaid would save the federal government $109 billion over a decade. So, that alone doesn't come close to the Medicaid cuts the House budget resolution calls for.
February 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
People on #Medicaid are already working. People who are sick/chronically ill literally can't work and if they can't afford private insurance need Medicaid. In the meantime rich people keep getting subsidized as do corporations. Call your legislators. Keep calling them.
Calling Seb Gorka a "counterterrorism advisor" without qualification is like calling a serial killer a "population management expert". Good job @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Update from Glenn Thrush
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Calling Seb Gorka a "counterterrorism advisor" without qualification is like calling a serial killer a "population management expert". Good job @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Hi #NY17. #mikelawler still hasn't said shit about the funding freeze. If anyone is curious, here's what's imperiled in our district, and this doesn't even account for grants to schools, hospitals, infastructure: #medicaid #fundingfreeze
www.faseb.org
January 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Hi #NY17. #mikelawler still hasn't said shit about the funding freeze. If anyone is curious, here's what's imperiled in our district, and this doesn't even account for grants to schools, hospitals, infastructure: #medicaid #fundingfreeze
What happens when OK Trump voters lose access to "soonercare" or MS voters lose access to "MississippiCAN"? Well, they may finally realize that they're on #medicaid. They may realize that Trump and the #GOP are cutting Medicaid to pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy. Will they care?
What Republicans Could Cut to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts: Medicaid and More
President Trump wants a massive tax cut and immigration crackdown bill. Now Republicans must decide what to cut to help pay for it.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is a really cool bit of analysis, and also something @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social mentions quite a bit on Panic World.
Incredible new piece of data journalism from a crack team at Bloomberg, led by @davey.bsky.social and @leonyin.org 🔥
bloom.bg/4jnaKW1
bloom.bg/4jnaKW1
How Popular YouTubers Pushed Young Male Voters Toward Trump
How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc
bloom.bg
January 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is a really cool bit of analysis, and also something @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social mentions quite a bit on Panic World.
“A lot of organizations thought DEI was the way forward because it sounds nice, but corporations are not supposed to be the moral compass of the country,”
Nor are they duty bound to adhere to the covenants/police constitutional amendments. That expectation is ludicrous.
Nor are they duty bound to adhere to the covenants/police constitutional amendments. That expectation is ludicrous.
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?
For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.
www.wsj.com
January 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“A lot of organizations thought DEI was the way forward because it sounds nice, but corporations are not supposed to be the moral compass of the country,”
Nor are they duty bound to adhere to the covenants/police constitutional amendments. That expectation is ludicrous.
Nor are they duty bound to adhere to the covenants/police constitutional amendments. That expectation is ludicrous.
My sister is a Lt. Colonel in the Army. Hegseth finished as a major over a decade ago. Bananas that he's gonna be secdef, but I guess if you want to use the Army domestically you gotta put a bootlicking chad in there.
Please please please watch this. Please.
Ex-Sniper reacts to Pete Hegseth Hearing
YouTube video by Hillary Clinton
www.youtube.com
January 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My sister is a Lt. Colonel in the Army. Hegseth finished as a major over a decade ago. Bananas that he's gonna be secdef, but I guess if you want to use the Army domestically you gotta put a bootlicking chad in there.
People generally want #medicaid to at least stay the way it is, and in non-expansion states people want it to be expanded. There are not many regular people out there who want deep cuts to this program to pay for #billionaires getting more mega-yachts and deporting working migrants.
Public Opinion on the Future of Medicaid: Results from the KFF Medicaid Unwinding Survey and KFF Health Tracking Poll | KFF
While majorities tend to support expanding Medicaid in non-expansion states and keeping Medicaid funding as is, differences arise in comparing the opinions of Medicaid enrollees and the general public...
www.kff.org
January 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
People generally want #medicaid to at least stay the way it is, and in non-expansion states people want it to be expanded. There are not many regular people out there who want deep cuts to this program to pay for #billionaires getting more mega-yachts and deporting working migrants.
I hate this idea that #congestionpricing is "mooching" off us suburbanites. Every time we drive into NYC it's a huge burden on city infra. I used to #bikenyc, I saw what #drivers do to roads. City residents pay for millions of dollars of road repair. $9 is still a huge fucking discount for us.
So New Jersey Transit is free now for New Yorkers and turnpike tolls are waived? Great! Glad to hear it.
January 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I hate this idea that #congestionpricing is "mooching" off us suburbanites. Every time we drive into NYC it's a huge burden on city infra. I used to #bikenyc, I saw what #drivers do to roads. City residents pay for millions of dollars of road repair. $9 is still a huge fucking discount for us.
Ok but when it gets hard is he gonna call his mommy to help him again like a big boy?
Christ. These fucks infantilize us and get kid glove treatment when they behave like children.
Christ. These fucks infantilize us and get kid glove treatment when they behave like children.
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s Pentagon pick, is expected to face sharp questions at his confirmation hearing. Watch live.
Pete Hegseth, Trump's Pick to Lead Pentagon, to Face Confirmation Hearing: Live Updates
Democratic senators are expected to grill President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for defense secretary over his qualifications, past comments and alcohol use. Mr. Hegseth arrived to cheers of “U.S.A.,...
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Ok but when it gets hard is he gonna call his mommy to help him again like a big boy?
Christ. These fucks infantilize us and get kid glove treatment when they behave like children.
Christ. These fucks infantilize us and get kid glove treatment when they behave like children.