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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

“The son of the man who ran the 1975 NYC Financial Control Board is writing for NYT Opinion encouraging the Mamdani administration to adopt Donald Shoup Thought”…what a time to be alive www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

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Opinion | We Have a Way to Pay for Free Buses. It Means Free Street Parking Is Over.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Not only did Shahana Hanif win, but she easily won in the parts of the district closest to the rezoning where she pissed off local NIMBYs (EDs 31-36). They're all talk! enr.boenyc.gov/CD26925AD443...

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Member of the City Council 39th Council District

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Closing down the blocks in front of schools to cars is such a no-brainer on a policy level, but would likely trigger a community board thermonuclear war.

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is true and it cuts both ways IMO: He will need competent progressives who normally wouldn’t touch City govt with a 10-foot pole, and he will need competent progs who are already in City govt to help him manage it. Activist/organizer mindset has to cede ground to actually delivering the goods.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Sewer Socialism is back, baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl) slate.com/business/202...

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The Best Chance for the Left to Run Cities Again Starts With the Trash

It's worked before.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

weird that running a disgraced sex pest who killed more New Yorkers than Bin Laden was a bad idea

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

BREAKING: the Murdoch Broadsheet has discovered historical materialism

WSJ notification: “New York’s housing crisis has gotten so bad that a socialist might become mayor”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025

still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The Dodgers announce they are donating $1 million toward direct financial assistance for families of immigrants impacted by recent events in the region, with more announcements to come.

LOS ANGELES - In partnership with the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Dodgers have committed $1 million toward direct financial assistance for families of immigrants impacted by recent events in the region.
The Dodgers and the City of Los Angeles have a proven ability to get financial resources to those in critical need, most recently seen in their efforts to aid victims of the January wildfires. Through our support of the city's efforts, the Dodgers will encourage those organizations in a similar position to use their resources to directly support the families and workers who have suffered economic hardship.
In the coming days, the Dodgers intend to make additional announcements with local community and labor organizations, including the California Community Foundation, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and others who are directly supporting our communities to aid youth and families with food insecurity, basic essentials and mental health services.
"What's happening in Los Angeles has reverberated among thousands upon thousands of people, and we have heard the calls for us to take a leading role on behalf of those affected," said Stan Kasten, President & CEO, Los Angeles Dodgers. "We believe that by committing resources and taking action, we will continue to support and uplift the communities of Greater Los Angeles."

with food insecurity, basic essentials and mental health services.
"What's happening in Los Angeles has reverberated among thousands upon thousands of people, and we have heard the calls for us to take a leading role on behalf of those affected," said Stan Kasten, President & CEO, Los Angeles Dodgers. "We believe that by committing resources and taking action, we will continue to support and uplift the communities of Greater Los Angeles."
"I want to thank the Dodgers for leading with this action to support the immigrant community of Los Angeles," said Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles.
"These last weeks have sent shockwaves of fear rippling through every neighborhood and have had a direct impact on our economy. My message to all Angelenos is clear: We will stick together during this time and we will not turn our backs on one another
— that's what makes this the greatest city in the world."

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Max Read @maxread.info · 18/06/2025

"hey 35 to 50 year old newsreading liberals what was the run-up to the iraq war like" is the most precision crafted bait possible on this website

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I’m An Urban Planner Who Thinks Every Marginal Operating Dollar Should Fund Better Service, Not Free Fares, And I Vote (for Zohran)

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Post-2020 backlash was IMO a combination of this and the first time in decades there was a genuinely tight labor market

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Something I’ve been thinking about recently: When we talk about asking older people to stop driving, the thing we’re expected to be most sensitive to is their feelings of lost autonomy. As if it’s gauche to insist on other people’s right to live w/o being menaced by seniors operating deadly machines

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Jon Orcutt @jonorcutt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is just the Adams Administration/Adams DOT allowing "member deference" to apply to street design. The City Council has no formal power over this decision

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Someone should write the sequel to the original and call it “Albion’s Seed (And That’s Bad)”

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Frank Matt @fxmatt4.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

An American from a blue collar background, who spent their early career in Peru before rising to a prominent position in Europe? Congratulations Pope Lydia Tár!

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

One of the reasons I’m so skeptical of a lot of received wisdom on when kids are “best” is that 2 is a famously difficult age and hanging out with my 2 year old is pretty much my favorite activity

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Plenty to criticize about how CAHSR has been mismanaged but fundamentally I think normie Californians think traffic and flight delays suck and they want an alternative— it’s that simple

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

Bissau 10%
Palau 10%
Avalon (UK) 10%
Fiji 32%
Tyree (UK) 10%
Isles of Ebony (UK) 10%
Peru 10%
Cebu (Philippines) 17%
Babylon (Iraq) 39%
Bali (Indonesia) 32%
Cali (Colombia) 10%
Beneath the Coral Sea (Australia) 10%
Ebudæ (UK) 10%
Khartoum (Sudan) 10%
Deep Sea of Clouds 10%
Island of the Moon (Madagascar) 47%
The Ross Dependency (Antarctica) 10%
Tripoli (Libya) 31%

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Something you’re hearing more and more is that “Having opinions about politics and sharing them in the media” is not a real job and these people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and learn some real skills so they can experience the dignity of work

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame

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Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Excited! Thrilled! Verklempt, even!

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ceddanne rafaela enjoyer 🧦⚽️🦅 @stylo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Oh btw I look forward to the conflicts this spurs when neighboring jurisdictions have radically different sewage standards for their shared watershed.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

darkly funny that it was the ascendant right wing (not the degrowth left) that is launching the trade policies that threaten to Take Banana

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

When I had a kid I was able to use NYPFL to space out my leave and supplement the truly pathetic amount I got from my company (6 weeks!) but the NYS program is so haphazardly administered and you get taxed on it twice. No one with a new kid wants to do more paperwork.

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We love touching the stove don’t we folks? Sleepy Joe never touched the stove but America is back and we’re going to be touching it very strongly

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I have fantastic news for all the zoomers romanticizing early 10s millennial lifestyles. tho you won't get the cheap Ubers or the rest of the ZIRP goodies, that ship has sailed.

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Not the main point, but: Why are you, a grown adult man with a prominent position in government, going by the name “Miki.” What is that doing for you

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Andrew Cuomo, in addition to being a serial sexual harasser, knowingly sent people with Covid into old folks homes, leading to a massive rate of infection and death for the elderly. Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.

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“Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It.

A nursing home in Troy, New York, followed the governor’s order to accept patients being treated for COVID-19. Six weeks later, 18 residents were dead of the disease.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Also, Cuomo almost single-handedly cost Dems the House. He let the GOP gerrymander NY’s Senate to thwart progressives, pushed through an amendment to try to block future Dem maps, & chose conservative judges who blocked Dems from gerrymandering after 2020 while the GOP ruthlessly drew TX, FL, etc.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Now this is some unambiguously funny stove touching

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

'americans have oppositional defiant disorder' is both the country's curse and its potential salvation

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

One reason I felt OK leaving media almost a decade ago is I saw where this was going — opinions undergo almost no scrutiny and people will accept very little money to share theirs, which makes it attractive for bosses to publish more pontificating and less reporting.

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Update for those following along at home: This kicked off a vigorous discussion in the group chat about whether Cambridge, Santa Monica, and Berkeley are properly considered suburbs

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

All suburbs are bad and yadda yadda, but Silver Spring is probably a top 5 suburb of a major metro in the U.S.

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Something I fear is that “These people choose to make less $ than in private sector bc they care about what they do and want to serve the public” is not persuasive to most Americans, and that the modal response is “Yeah, we know, you guys are suckers and losers for doing that, go get a real job”

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 20/02/2025

In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!

A cartoon with a sign that looks like a classic NYC no parking sign but is modified to say "No King Any Time", above a cartoon showing a cybertruck with a crown on it running over speed bumps and sawhorse barricades labeled Congress, Executive Branch, and Courts. It is stopped in front of bollards with a Congestion Pricing sign above it. In the background on the left is the Washington DC skyline with tire tracks coming out of a building. On the right behind the congestion pricing sign are the Statue of Liberty in front of the Jersey City skyline, an NYC walkup apartment with a bodega, people on bikes and walking, the Manhattan skyline, a subway train, and a bus in a bus only lane, and Pizza Rat.

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

M forced out as part of the newly elected Labour govt’s “Back to Basics, Getting Things Done” austerity program, Control revived as a zombie to run the agency again, Bond nearly comes to blows with his new direct supervisor George Smiley over whether it’s his job to follow a basic paper trail

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Ironically I missed the congestion pricing tsuris because I was driving all day

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Straightforward from here: 1. Self-proclaimed King Trump declares war on congestion pricing 2. Sends red-hats into NYC to impose his will 3. Surprisingly robust urbanist militias resist, the "15-minute-city men"

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Waterways @waterways-project.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We can't promise we'll fix all of your problems But we promise not to become one of them Follow @waterways-project.bsky.social

The Ship Stuck in the Suez Canal Meme

The large ship bears the caption "The existential dread of knowing the political order you grew up in is coming to a likely violent end."

The small shovel on the side reads "Me making daily posts about how water is cool."

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

He just told two and a half million people they can’t work from home any more

“It's beautiful that Musk brings his son into the workplace––a subtle, frequent reminder that parents of young children should not always have to choose between career ambition and being present for their kids. A society that values children is a healthy one with a bright future.”

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Jordan Fraade @jordanfraade.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The giant schnauzer who just won Best in Show at Westminster, like all schnauzers, is Jewish

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