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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 14/09/2026

Reminder that this community workshop is tomorrow! This is a huge opportunity for more housing and affordable housing in Kensington and Flatbush, and I hope to see you there!

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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 10/09/2026

It's incredible to see people who are lucky to not have to regularly use hospitals and at least semi-regularly use emergency rooms in NYC talk about how unnecessary more hospital facilities are. typed from my laptop in the er

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Democrats shouldn't be the party of anti-democratic power grabs and denying elections. Enough is enough. Our full statement:

This June, Brooklyn Democrats elected 22 District Leaders from the Brooklyn Can’t Wait coalition who had pledged to bring a new era of leadership to a Brooklyn Democratic Party that for too long has been weak, corrupt, and visionless.

Those 22 District Leaders make up a majority of the 42-member executive committee that will elect the party chair once they are seated at the party’s yet-to-be-announced organizational meeting. Last month, the Brooklyn Can’t Wait coalition announced their united intent to elect Julio Peña III as the new party chair.

Today, the outgoing party chair, Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, announced a vague plan to throw out the party rules and pack the executive committee with more than two dozen of her handpicked party officers so that she can overrule Brooklyn voters and hang on to her position. This would be a flagrantly anti-democratic power grab, a return to the worst days of bossism — Vito Lopez tried the same trick two decades ago before he resigned in disgrace. It would go against everything our party should stand for. All Democrats should reject it.

At a time when faith in politics is at an all-time low, our party should be working to rebuild trust with voters, not telling them once again that their voices don’t matter. The Trump Republican Party is the party of lawlessness, of authoritarian leadership, and of denying election results. Democrats must be better.

Our party should be focused on winning elections in November. We have competitive races right here in Brooklyn, across NYC, and statewide. Yet the party chair is once again showing she is only concerned about herself, threatening to throw the party into chaos and sapping attention and resources away from great candidates who want to deliver for the people of New York. This adds to a long history of feckless leadership that includes botched endorsements, borrowing and spending huge sums of money to kick other Democrats off the ballot while raising nothing to support Democratic candidates in competitive general election races, and repeated allegations of corruption.

Enough is enough. We call on Assemblymember Bichotte Hermelyn to withdraw this anti-democratic scheme before she does even more damage to the Democratic Party and to the public’s trust in our elected leaders. And we call on every Democratic elected official in Brooklyn and beyond to stand up and make sure our party respects the will of the voters. Our party needs an orderly transition of power, following the rules, so we can organize and win in November.

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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Huge story breaking right now in NYC: BK Dems party boss Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn announced that she's subverting the will of Brooklyn's voters (a majority of whom recently voted to change party leadership) by dramatically changing the rules in order to hang onto her position as party boss.

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 29/07/2026

The DNC has about $16M in cash assets and about $19M in debts, including a line of credit on its own headquarters. DSA has a _surplus_ of $12M. Can the DSA just buy out the DNC?

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 17/07/2026

In yet another victory for nominative determinism, the best air quality in the greater NYC area appeara to be near Pleasantville and Valhalla.

A screenshot of an air quality map of the NYC area on a phone, showing mostly orange, a small pocket of green near Pleasantville and Valhalla, and brighter red towards Manhattan and Brooklyn in the southwest.

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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

the world falling apart sucks real bad, but it's amazing that New York somehow slipped into an Disney Channel Original Movie alternate reality where our problems are fixed by Mayor Socialism and the Power of Friendship wins basketball championships.

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 05/06/2026

Get their asses, DOT.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My mayor is Muslim My bagel is Jewish Christ is alive! KNICKS IN FIVE

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"Welcome to Mohawk and Hudson Railroad Takes, what's your take?" "The degraded Black Irish swarming into our fair cities of New York and Brooklyn from their wretched Papish isle to take jobs and apartments from the Anglo-Saxons who grew up here shall never be real New Yorkers." "100% agree"

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Regional Plan Association @rpa.org · 03/06/2026

If the Knicks win the finals this year we're ripping this down with our bare hands

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Bernát Gábor @gjbernat.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Just published my notes from this year's Python Packaging Summit at PyCon US. If you've ever been curious what one of these is like from the inside: Wheel 2.0 + Zstandard, PyPI abuse vectors, conda vs pip, nab as a pip-resolver candidate. 🐍📦 bernat.tech/posts/pycon-... #PyConUS

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PyCon US 2026 Packaging Summit Recap

Per-talk notes from the PyCon US 2026 Packaging Summit in Long Beach: Emma Smith on Wheel 2.0 and Zstandard compression, Mike Fiedler on PyPI abuse vectors, Mahe Iram Khan on ecosystems, lightning tal...

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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 15/05/2026

Also what's up with CB1 Chair Tammy Meltzer asking DOT to AVOID Chambers St, even though the CB1 full board resolution speaks to the importance of a direct route? The full resolution speaks even MORE to the issues of other streets: web.miniextensions.com/api/public-a...

WHEREAS: Criteria for selecting the best east-west route for traveling between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Hudson River Greenway should include that it: (1) is direct, (2) is an obvious path for riders to find, (3) does not have a Belgian block road surface since riding on them stresses the bike frames and makes cycling difficult - reasons cyclists use the sidewalk, and (4) links important destinations for intra-district travel; and

Chambers is the most-popular crosstown cycling route in the area, according to data from fitness app Strava, because it provides the only direct connection from the Brooklyn Bridge’s popular bike lane to the greenway, the continent’s most-used bike path.

Still, Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Council Member Chris Marte (D-Chinatown) and Manhattan Community Board 1 Chair Tammy Meltzer asked the Mamdani administration not to give those cyclists a protected bike lane, and instead attempt to direct them elsewhere.

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Liz Denys @liz.nyc · 05/05/2026

With super speeders like this, our families are at risk of dying, too! New York State legislators (I'm looking at you Carl Heastie), please help us allby passing the Stop Super Speeders Act (S4045/A2299) in the budget!

dril tweet candles meme redone with $60,000 of speeding tickets instead of $3,600 of candles:

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Speeding tickets $60,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 31/03/2026

The current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing: "NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 13/03/2026

And a vision came to me. I looked, and behold, I was stuck in traffic, paying $6 a gallon. I had been utterly put to shame by BART, and my humours were sore imbalanced within me. Then I looked again, and I was flying down the rails at 70 mph on clean electricity, and behold, my heart was made glad.

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e. hashman @eha.sh · 06/03/2026

Someone said something about ingesting libc and this is what popped into my head

A blank, generic cereal box with the caption "libc-rial! it's .so good"

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 27/02/2026

It is interesting (and quite bad for our civic life) that he didn't lose anything from his "Bob Martin from Flatbush" stunt at the City of Yes hearings, and that he knew he wouldn't. Imagine if anyone on the pro-transit or YIMBY side had used a fake name to testify twice about anything.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 04/02/2026

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 22/01/2026

>looking for a new enterprise contract >ask the microsoft sales rep if their SaaS is azure or copilot >she doesnt understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is azure and what is copilot >she laughs and says “it’s a good SaaS sir” >sign the contract >its copilot

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 12/01/2026

*reading dmesg* me: why is this critical process no longer running? my server: that's oom 😭😭😭😭

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 14/12/2025

When the moon sings your doom Like "In Paradisum" That's a Fauré!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 04/12/2025

*youth pastor voice* Hey kids, let me tell you about another creator who also streamed from afar....

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nic❄️le @nicoleamurray.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

let's take a moment to appreciate what this goofy city council mailer is really saying: we can't get transit upgrades, parks, school upgrades etc unless a condo developer is involved.

Mailer from the NYC City Council that says "Your neighborhood essentials are at stake this election". the words "transit upgrades, better parks, affordable homes, and school upgrades" are crossed out.

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Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth 🌹🦾 🐜 @oliviakillingsworth.com · 03/11/2025

Love to have an early voting electorate bigger than the population of Denver (h/t @ldpreload.com)

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 26/10/2025

Yes on 2 and 4 too IMO. 2 is like 3, fast tracking public housing and districts where CMs have blocked new affordable housing and driven pressure to other neighborhoods. 4 also reduces power of individual CMs who like to say no to everything. NKD has detailed analysis: tinyurl.com/NKDVoterGuid...

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November 2025 NKD Voter Guide

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 17/10/2025

You couldn't ask for a better endorsement of Ballot Props 2-5 than Sliwa going on an unhinged rant about them. Is Adrienne Adams still sure she wants to hitch her wagon to that sinking ship?

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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 20/09/2025

You can only upzone one region of NYC for the rest of your life. Which one are you choosing?

Map of NYC with 8 sections lettered A through H, starting clockwise with a section containing Astoria and upper Manhattan

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Azraël (עזראל) 🐉 @emilia.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

New York City calls itself a refuge for queer and trans Americans, but that promise is at risk if we don't take on the housing crisis head on. Read my op-ed about the need to build more housing to reduce rents, in this case, via the OneLIC project: gaycitynews.com/new-york-rem...

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For New York to remain a queer haven, we must build more homes

People move to New York because they believe in certain promises: a place where you’re free to be yourself, to thrive, and to find community. Especially for

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 27/08/2025

Apparently London has both a “Mayor of London” (does normal mayor stuff) and a “Lord Mayor of London” (does civic events in costumes) and like, not to hand it to England, but I think I’ve figured out what we can do with Eric Adams

The Lord Mayor of London in a golden fucking carriage

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 15/08/2025

A zine is like a magazine, but without the MAGA.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 13/06/2025

Too long have I had to live among the enemies of peace. I am on the side of peace, but when I speak of it, they are for war.

Psalm 120 (NRSV) from a hymnbook, which ends with the two quoted verses.

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 20/06/2025

To be clear, I fully agree with you. (Maybe my phrasing was unclear?) I think it could have gone a little better if we weren't set up for failure, but I mostly mean that Biden had the option to reject the withdrawal and recommit troops, and he didn't, and he deserves so much credit for that.

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Shahana Hanif @shahanafrombk.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

When Trump's attacked our city, I’ve fought back and won. With Brooklyn families being priced out of our homes & neighborhoods, I know we've got more work to do. This is my community. I’m in this fight for you. VOTE BY TUESDAY. Confirm your poll site: FindMyPollSite.Vote.NYC

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Re-elect Council Member Shahana Hanif

YouTube video by Shahana From Brooklyn

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 19/06/2025

I don't know why we keep ignoring Biden's Afghanistan retreat. Yes, the previous admin set him up for that and for it to go poorly, but he could have made different choices, and he didn't. To me, that outweighs everything negative of his admin. I wish other anti-war folks would see it like that.

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 19/06/2025

You might like this, from one of the local YIMBY orgs: abundanceny.substack.com/p/a-pride-mo...

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A Pride Month Message

A New York We Can Be Proud In—and Proud Of

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Memento Mori Kira @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This is the primary reason I’m a YIMBY and want to see more housing (of all kinds) in California.

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 19/06/2025

They can and they have. ICE's "sensitive sites" policy was dropped the first morning of this term: apnews.com/article/immi... Not that this stopped them previously. Here's an article about them awkwardly wandering around my old church in 2018: theintercept.com/2018/01/19/i...

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Trump administration throws out policies limiting migrant arrests at sensitive spots like churches

Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests ...

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Geoffrey Thomas @ldpreload.com · 19/06/2025

"We put 'Love is Love' signs in the windows of our co-ops and then refuse to allow new homes to be built next door." "To all NY politicians waving 🏳️‍🌈 this month: we cannot pass laws to enshrine the rights of the marginalized and then deny them entry." abundanceny.substack.com/p/a-pride-mo...

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A Pride Month Message

A New York We Can Be Proud In—and Proud Of

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