If we’re going to have bad policy, I’m glad it’s at least hilarious.

Yeah, but does she know anything about the city government she’s tasked with staffing? Seems more like City Law appointment rather than a co-chair of the transition team.

I hope you at least sent him a condolence dick pic for the near cardiac arrest.

Not the main problem, but the lawyer in me says that if you write DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT (a word he’s broadly defining)…don’t put it in writing in the first place?

Yet another reason to end the filibuster: why support a tool only the other side is willing wield?

Guess his healthcare platform is just “no fat chicks”

And I think tenants’ reactions to wealthier households’ living in rent-stabilized apartments is more a combo of “it’s a brutal market; ya gotta get what’s yours; I don’t want to get evicted if I make it financially” than contempt. People with crazy rent deals are local legends, not objects of scorn.

We *should* break the Dem machine's stranglehold on local politics. But such low voter turnout further strengthens party bosses’ ability to dictate anti-democratic outcomes (and elevate handpicked candidates). It’s easier to dislodge entrenched interests if they control a smaller share of voters!

Focusing on local issues to disentangle local concerns from national trends is a worthy goal, but it’s fatally undermined when only a third (or fewer) of voters are doing the focusing!

Yes, but the differences in turnout are stark. Turnout in NYC was 54% in 2024; 38% in the 2022 midterms; and an anemic 13% (7% in the primaries) in the 2023 local elections.

Sources:

'24: gothamist.com/news/new-yor...
'23: www.nyccfb.info/media/report...
'22: www.nyccfb.info/media/press-...