Peter M. Catapano
@petermcatapano.bsky.social
Author of The Hollywood Brand: Movies & American Modernity. Professor of Immigration and Cultural History at NYCCT.
Reposted by Peter M. Catapano
Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NY’s rent stabilization laws.
The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated.
www.politico.com/states/new-y...
The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated.
www.politico.com/states/new-y...
Another Cuomo noninterference story falls apart
Andrew Cuomo has always been careful to maintain a plausible-looking deniability when it comes to his role in keeping his own party out of power in the State Senate.
www.politico.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NY’s rent stabilization laws.
The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated.
www.politico.com/states/new-y...
The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated.
www.politico.com/states/new-y...
Lincoln fired McClellan before he promoted Grant. Schumer is no Grant.
March 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Lincoln fired McClellan before he promoted Grant. Schumer is no Grant.
It makes it easy to imagine all the bullshit articles written about the abolitionist movement during the 19th c.
February 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It makes it easy to imagine all the bullshit articles written about the abolitionist movement during the 19th c.
Whether Musk is Rasputin or the Czar is debatable, but they are a disaster in either case.
February 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Whether Musk is Rasputin or the Czar is debatable, but they are a disaster in either case.
Progressive opposition should not embrace MAGA assumptions regarding the size of government. Clinton was a go along, mediocre President who did little to stem the tide of Reaganism.
February 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Progressive opposition should not embrace MAGA assumptions regarding the size of government. Clinton was a go along, mediocre President who did little to stem the tide of Reaganism.
He's afraid that congestion prices will be adapted in other cities. Hostility to mass transit and cities are core MAGA "values."
February 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
He's afraid that congestion prices will be adapted in other cities. Hostility to mass transit and cities are core MAGA "values."