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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 25/06/2025

In honor of last night's mayoral primary, here's Andrew Cuomo blowing through a stop sign in his Dodge Charger in Manhattan on Monday.

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 21/06/2025

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate targeted by the Trump administration, was released from ICE custody and arrived in Newark Airport Saturday. “I continued to advocate for Palestinians, for the immigrants who are left behind in that facility.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/21/m...

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Mahmoud Khalil Returns to NYC After 104 Days in ICE Detention

The Columbia graduate and activist was greeted by supporters at Newark Airport and accompanied by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as he denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to ‘dehumanize’…

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Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Someone just say immigration is good actually! Higher Education is good actually! Paying higher tax is good actually!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

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Michael 🚲🚲 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Incredible that we're 10 years into Republicans implementing "art of the deal" bullshit and the recurring theme is "we're so bad at negotiating that we don't have anything specific to ask for." Every budget showdown, Obamacare, etc. It keeps happening!

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Trump has indefinitely withdrawn federal funding for: • Investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against kids; • Responding to reports of missing children; • Preventing youth violence New, @propublica.org

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The Trump Administration’s War on Children

The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/04/2025

Everything you need to know about "pronatalism" in one tweet.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

NYC republicans are really a unique breed of evil

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Have you tried looking both ways?
I learned that in kindergarten and it seems to have worked.
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We just want to be able to see whether someone's crossing the street (or turning in a vehicle) over the hood of an SUV, Seth - it's the law in the rest of the state.

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 18/04/2025

I don't wish to sound alarmist but literally every single supply chain professional I know is in 5-alarm panic mode.

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Jehiah @jehiah.cz · 18/04/2025

This whistleblower report is worse than you can imagine and should land Musk and all of DOGE in jail.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 15/04/2025

Now there's a memorable stat! "Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined." wapo.st/3EvzMCI

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Opinion | Trump is killing one of our strongest exports

The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 14/04/2025

lol at Matt Yglesias forgetting to switch to his sock puppet account

Series of Bluesky posts:

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social
Some of the big ideas I've been associated with in my career:
1. Supply and demand applies to housing
2. People like politicians who take popular positions
3. Police help prevent crime
4. The Orange Man is bad
5. China's large population matters a lot for power politics

Matthew Yglesias (reply to above post)
@mattyglesias.bsky.social
I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that obviously true things are in fact true.

The Gripe Gazette @gripegazette.bsky.social
Forgot to switch to a sock puppet account?

Large text on top from Felix Biederman’s Instagram account reading “sometimes you have to be your own biggest fan”

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

They're building concentration camps for political dissidents

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Dan Mauler 🎃 @meelar.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is just insulting the city to its face. Don't rank Cuomo.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/04/2025

Video shows Palestinian schoolchildren running in fear as Israeli military vehicles storm Al-Fawar refugee camp near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

guy who spent $44B to purchase and control the most influential social media network says that he is the victim of a propaganda war

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The inevitable outcome of having a political propaganda war waged against me while I have almost no countervailing campaign and, at times, digging my own grave way better than my enemies do 5

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I really can’t get over the fact that it took so many major U.S. companies and institutions less than 100 days to Orbanify and become vessels for Trump

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

“Appeasement right now is a disastrous policy… What’s at stake here is freedom. If you give up your freedoms to someone who wants more power, they’re going to take more of your freedom.” -Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

JPMORGAN: “.. The rest of the world will be hit by US tariffs (and retaliations). But the US will be hit by tariffs on all countries. This makes this a uniquely American shock.” 🇺🇸

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. @lostphantasm.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

love the people you share this world with more than you hate the people trying to destroy it.

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NYC-DSA 🌹 @socialists.nyc · 04/04/2025

Cuomo is a sexual harasser who hates unions, attacks the press, and hands favors to his rich buddies. What’s there for Trump to dislike?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Tough language from JPMorgan tonight: “.. we view the full implementation of these policies as a substantial macro economic shock not currently incorporated in our forecasts. .. these policies, if sustained, would likely push the US and global economy into recession this year.”

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Steven Bodzin, concerned living being @stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

There was supposed to be a pedestrian lane open by now. It's all built and signed and there was to be an opening ceremony weeks ago. But for some reason, most likely fear of Trump, Mayor Adams refuses to open the ped lane.

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Dan Mauler 🎃 @meelar.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This really shows the substantive hollowness of the moderate faction. They're not out there pushing their own positive vision, just fretting about people who have one.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

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Congestion Pricing is a Policy Miracle

Which is exactly why Trump wants to get rid of it

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Revoking degrees? Is an American University actually claiming they can do this? For free speech and protest? One of the most insane things I’ve heard in an increasingly insane United States Of America.

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

What do you see when you see the cybertruck? For my friends @themorningsnows.bsky.social & @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social it's the Casspir, the armored personnel carrier of apartheid South Africa. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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We’re Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar.

Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

boycott Fortnite

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Internet Celeb @internetceleb.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Elon Musk is on the verge of tears as he contemplates his imploding empire.

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

"I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind." - Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Elon Musk blew up another rocket using your tax money, it was recently reported that his failed experiments and falling satellites are causing severe damage to our ozone layer, risking the entire planet. #3E #EndAutogenocide #EndOligarchy

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12stTales @12sttales.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Enjoy fresh fruit in the winter while you still can!

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12stTales @12sttales.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Today I will be working to pass millions of dollars of tariffs onto you, the American consumer.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 04/03/2025

This comes after a tesla dealserhip in France was set on fire (specifically the outside cars were set on fire)

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

What Cuomo has put @lindseyboylan.bsky.social and other women through is harrowing. Please read her op-ed: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/n...

Although I decided against taking legal action against a man who had already stolen enough of my energy, I’ve been subjected to a string of subpoenas in civil cases to which I am not a party. My choice is to either pay for lawyers of my own or submit to depositions with no one on my side of the table. I am ostensibly there as a witness, but attorneys for Cuomo and his aides have tried to dig into my personal life, obtain years’ worth of phone records from another accuser, and in one instance, have gone so far as to subpoena my college-age former intern. To date, I’ve had to pay more than $1.5 million in legal fees out of my own pocket to protect and defend myself; the physical and mental costs are incalculable.

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 21/02/2025

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

ten years ago telling most people we would end up like this would get you locked up in an nuthouse. all of this makes me less convinced about the ability to project out political outcomes, especially ones that feel immutable in a moment we can't see past

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/02/2025

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers?
Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs
• Current Tax Rate: 3.27%
• Top Federal Tax Rate: 37%

Cost Comparison (Bar Chart):
• Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple)
• Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red)
• Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green)
X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries.

Impact on Federal Workforce:
• Average Federal Salary: $106,000
• Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees)

Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart):
• A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”.

Sources:
• Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica
• Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024)
• Federal Employee Data: USAFacts

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

DOGE recommended firing staff at USDA who were working on the nation's response to bird flu and hundreds of employees working at the National Nuclear Security Administration overseeing our nuclear stockpile. Now the Trump admin is scrambling to hire them back. "Efficiency."

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Trump Administration has started firing "several hundred" FAA probationary employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, according to their union. The move comes not even three weeks since the deadly midair collision over Washington, D.C. - Pete Muntean CNN reporting

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"But at least three of the deputy mayors who attended the Sunday meeting - First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer, Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi, and Deputy Mayor for [H&HS] Anne Williams Isom had already told the mayor of their intention to step down" www.nbcnewyork.com/new-york-cit...

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At least 3 NYC deputy mayors express intent to resign from Adams administration: Sources

New York City Mayor Eric Adams met Sunday with at least three deputy mayors who have expressed their intention to resign from his administration. The meeting on Zoom – according to two sources familia...

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Tesla sales are already falling around the world. In January (YoY): 🇪🇸 75% ⬇️ 🇫🇷 63% ⬇️ 🇩🇪 59% ⬇️ 🇳🇴 40% ⬇️ 🇬🇧 18% ⬇️ 🇺🇸 13% ⬇️ 🇨🇳 11.5% ⬇️ (first decline) *This* is hitting Musk where it hurts.

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Tesla sales are dropping around the world

China is bad and the US is worse so far this year. Don’t even talk about Europe....

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Dan Mauler 🎃 @meelar.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This kind of thing is par for a course when there's a law that NYPD doesn't actually want enforced. It can be combated with an energetic effort from a city council that cares about the issue, but we haven't had one of those for a while either.

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Neil hunt's nonsense pottery @nostradamnus.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It is so tempting to say that the thing that's hurting me is actually my own fault, because then that puts it under my control. If I make myself perfect I will be safe. Much scarier to say this is actually a choice someone else made that has nothing to do with me at all

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12stTales @12sttales.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Who has my copy of the Power Broker?? 😖

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