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Ryder Kessler

@ryderkessler.bsky.social
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Building a city and state that make it easier, cheaper, and faster to provide New Yorkers with what we need to thrive • Co-founder @abundanceny.bsky.social (opinions mine)

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
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Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice
OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I can’t believe people are still posting this meme when Obama signed the Iran deal, Biden withdrew from Afghanistan, and Trump started a war in Iran
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Two races I think people aren't paying enough attention to: Gina Hinojosa in TX and Angie Nixon in FL. In any other year, I'd get it. But in this year -- and with *these* candidates -- it's worth having thinking big about what we could win...
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Ryder Kessler @ryderkessler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Truly remarkable motivated reasoning. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They all say “I’ll leave!” and then what actually happens is they stay and pay the taxes they just do it like Paul Rudd cleaning up the cafeteria in Wet Hot American Summer
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10/09/2026
it wasnt that long ago they pretended it was outrageous to suggest they'd support a policy like this
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
a nazi pedophile that loves data centers is fully funding the republican partys midterm efforts
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Hasan Piker discourse would be a lot different if he was a White South-African billionaire
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Backing Prop G is madness. We have already voted on this TWICE. Chan is the new avatar of SF NIMBYs, always opposed to parks and transit and housing.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“I write everything using AI now." No you don't. Your little computer girlfriend summarizes the internet's thoughts for you. You went to the word ATM and gave the receipt to the Wall Street Journal.
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Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s WSJ Op-Ed Criticizing Bessent Was Written With AI
“I write everything using AI now,” Druckenmiller, who questioned the treasury secretary’s bond market interventions, said.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There’s just been a total collapse in the quantity and breath of city coverage in New York City that isn’t entirely evident until you pick up another city’s major paper — and, well, maybe there’s just no news in New York anymore.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I really think the fact that it takes decades to build critical infrastructure plays a significant role in blackpilling young people. government should be able to do things on a reasonable timeline
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I coulda used this when i was 21 (im 32 now)
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can you just fucking build it
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Building more market-rate rental housing causes rents in the area to fall and helps reduce homelessness.
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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Surely there is some mistake! There's no way this tax applies to me, a retired diplomat who lives in Paris who spent millions of dollars renovating the 12 million dollar apartment I never intended to live in. There must be some mistake
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Weird how there always seems to be a ton of money for ~being shitty to people who annoy you on the internet~ but rarely enough funding for organizing or infrastructure work that builds long term power.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
But they will be
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
finally, the Democratic party has a plan.
An email from Democrats.org that just says, "we're getting hammered"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The White House Correspondents Association is having a dinner for this man tonight.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"Road rage" is what they call murder when a car is involved. It waters down the reality of the violence and the crime. When someone murders a fellow human with a gun, it's rarely called anything other than what it is: murder.
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Ryder Kessler @ryderkessler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"Cities are humanity's greatest invention" 🔥🔥🔥
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Ryder Kessler @ryderkessler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that ostensible champions for the working class are on the fence about the fight for more homes is continually mind-boggling.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wisconsin's election commission found probable cause that Elon Musk broke state law with his promise of $1 million to voters and referred the case for possible prosecution to the Brown County DA's office. www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/p...
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Elon Musk likely broke the law by giving voters $1 million, Wisconsin board says | CNN Politics
Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"The uprising against the Democratic establishment is coming from the voters, and it cannot be contained." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
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Opinion | The Democratic Establishment Had This Coming (Gift Article)
The Democratic Party needs shaking up.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE killed a person they weren't even looking for AGAIN. Second time in the past week.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Most gourmands eschew human organ meat, but Hannibal Lecter has taken a different tack.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
‪People are hungry for optimistic, positive visions of what might be possible. They don’t want to settle for the status quo bc the status quo is not working. Municipal leaders in particular have the power to actually *do shit* on housing, which is often the root of the concerns about cost of living.
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Sophia Lebowitz @sophlebo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
NEW: Best friend of cyclist who was killed on the Queensboro Bridge in a collision with someone on an illegal e-scooter (who also died) demands action from the city to curb the illegal vehicles and implement better street design.
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Dead Cyclist's Best Friend Demands Action Against Illegal Vehicles on City Streets
The best friend of Dmytro Stechenko, who was killed in a head-on collision with an illegal scooter-rider on the Queensboro Bridge, is calling on the city to do more.
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StreetsPAC @streetspac.org · 12/06/2026
Ryder Kessler is our pick in the Democratic primary for the open seat in Manhattan's 66th Assembly District. The co-founder of Abundance NY believes the design of the streetscape should reflect the fact that 95% of district residents don't commute by car. More: www.streetspac.org/2026_nys_pri...
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StreetsPAC @streetspac.org · 05/06/2026
We're excited today to announce our endorsement of 27 candidates running in the June 23 primary election for New York State's Legislature–five for State Senate and 22 for the Assembly–in districts stretching from NYC to Buffalo. Read about all our endorsees here: www.streetspac.org/2026_nys_pri...
Photo montage of all 27 StreetsPAC primary endorsees and the StreetsPAC logo.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Purcell principle now officially just means “Republicans win.” For the reasons Sotomayor lays out here, SCOTUS’s eleventh hour intervention for Alabama Republicans is indefensible. It’s going to unleash massive chaos on the ground for both voters and election administrators. What a disaster.
First, the Court's decision will cause havoc. The so-called
"Purcell principle" "generally holds that, because late-breaking changes to election procedures can cause chaos, federal courts should hesitate before exercising their equitable discretion to alter state election laws close to an elec-tion." Malliotakis v. Williams, 607 U. S. _, —
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(SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 10). Today's decision tramples on that principle of restraint.
As the District Court explained, the path of least change in Alabama is keeping the District Court's remedial plan in place. According to Alabama Director of Elections Jeff El-rod, all voters in Alabama are currently assigned in county-level voter rolls to congressional districts based on the remedial map that the District Court previously ordered and that the State used for the 2024 election cycle. 2 App. 135.
To run an election using the remedial map, then, the State need not make any changes to its voter rolls or change the status quo.
To switch to the 2023 Redistricting Plan now, however, county elections officials will have to reassign hundreds of thousands of voters across the State to new congressional districts. Three of Alabama's counties will be particularly hard hit because they are split across two congressional dis-tricts. 2 App. 121-122. These counties have about 600,000registered voters between them (roughly 15% of the State's total number of registered voters).2
Elrod testified below that county elections officials would have to reassign those 600,000 voters manually. "The sys-tem," he explained, "is not automatic" and "requires manual input" from elections officials who must "physically manually interface with the system." Id., at 146. Reassigning voters in precincts split across two districts is particularly complicated, he continued, as it "cannot be done with a simple click" and instead requires officials to check street-level data to determine how to assign individual voters. Id., at 156-157. Worse yet, Elrod warned that reassigning voters requires using complicated computer software that officials must be trained to use, as "most of the counties' registrars are not tech savvy" and "registrars are the only ones who can make the changes ... to a voter's record." Id., at 147-
148. This process also requires many prechecks and backend quality control steps, all of which add to its time-inten-sive nature. Id., at 140.
Given these complexities, the process for reassigning voters typically takes months. Alabama knows (or at least knew) this. In 2021, at the first preliminary-injunction stage in these cases, Alabama filed a declaration from El-rod's predecessor representing that voter reassignment
"can take a county's Board of Registrars 3 to 4 months to accomplish." ECF Doc. 82-7, p. 4.3 For example, after the Alabama Legislature redrew its state legislative districts in 2017 following litigation, "local election officials struggled to complete the district assignment process in up to 4 months." Ibid.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/06/2026
After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Because the service had been arranged last minute, the funeral home on a busy street in Atlanta could only offer them one hour.
Orlin wore a long-sleeved shirt and a tan vest with a striped bow tie and matching pants.
The clothes concealed his injuries. A new teddy bear was tucked beside him.
Embroidered into the satin lining of his casket was "Principito," or "Little Prince."
His full name was embossed on the coffin:
Orlin Josue Hernandez Reyes.
McCaffrey and Hernandez's sister had to hold Hernandez up as she walked trembling toward her son. Once she regained the strength to stand, she stood over him and stroked his face and chest.
"I never wanted to leave you," she whispered repeatedly. "I wanted to bring you with me.
My son."
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Ryder Kessler @ryderkessler.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It's deeply meaningful to receive a 100% rating from @ppesacts.bsky.social/@ppgnyact.bsky.social. I learned political activism watching my mother fight for abortion access and hearing her stories of going to Albany to demand reproductive rights. I can't wait to take that fight to Albany myself.
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Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Mayor Mamdani's housing plan is live! There's big sweeping YIMBY stuff: -Aggressive TOD upzoning -Major permitting reform -Rescuing & transforming NYCHA They're also looking at finer details, like fixing the FDNY inspections that so often delay CofO issuance (& invite petty corruption)
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Ryder Kessler @ryderkessler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Black voters are being diluted into powerlessness by MAGA states, as Trump tries to entrench GOP control of Congress permanently. New York MUST do more to fight back—but Democratic leaders have "no appetite" to treat this democratic crisis with the urgency required. Enough.
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Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The New York State Assembly continues to be the place where good housing policy goes to die www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"To get a bad report back and then not fix it was bad. To promise to release it and then walk that back was worse.... From top to bottom: This was pure incompetence....Ken [Martin] cannot and should not stay DNC chair." – @amandalitman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/amandali...
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Why the DNC autopsy report matters
TLDR: Ken Martin should resign & we should stop settling for mediocrity
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Ryder Kessler @ryderkessler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I remember when pizza, bagels, and coffee all cost a buck—and I'm no dinosaur. It's not just lunch. From housing to childcare to Con Ed. skyrocketing costs aren't just inflation—they’re the result of bad policy. We deserve better. Let's deliver lower costs for Lower Manhattan.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 12/05/2026
The Chambers J/Z station is one of the oldest stations in New York City's transit system — and it doesn't look like it's been touched by the MTA since it was built. But thanks to congestion pricing, it's getting a huge upgrade, reports @davecolon.bsky.social. youtube.com/shorts/0t2DN...
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NYC's worst subway station is getting fixed #nyc #mta #subway #transit #manhattan
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Ryder Kessler @ryderkessler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The grassroots @opennewyork.org community knows the rent is too damn high—and they've been working for years to change that. I've been proud to fight alongside them to legalize more homes, speed affordable housing creation, and protect tenants. Let's take the fight to Albany 💪
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Ryder Kessler @ryderkessler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨 ENDORSEMENT ALERT 🚨 I'm deeply honored to have the support of my home club, @sdnyc.bsky.social, in this race. Stonewall works tirelessly to ensure queer folks can thrive in NYC, fighting for the housing, healthcare, and human rights we deserve. Let's keep up the fight in Albany—and win 💪🌈
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Ryder Kessler @ryderkessler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨 ENDORSEMENT ALERT! 🚨 Proud to have Council Member Shirley Aldebol in our corner. Shirley has spent decades winning for workers at @32bjseiu.bsky.social and City Hall. We both believe working people deserve more than promises—they deserve results. That's the kind of fight I'm taking to Albany 💪
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StreetsPAC @streetspac.org · 26/04/2026
If you're a registered voter in Manhattan's 3rd City Council District, today's your last chance to vote early before Tuesday's special election. For the inside scoop on why we co-endorsed Lindsey Boylan and Carl Wilson, along with links to voting info, visit www.streetspac.org/council_dist....
Headshots of City Council District 3 special election candidates Lindsey Boylan and Carl Wilson.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/04/2026
Sorry, but if you’re mad that the Southern Poverty Law Center paid informants to infiltrate Nazi groups to expose them, then you are a Nazi.
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Ben Vaught @benvaught.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Cities are not museums
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Ryder Kessler @ryderkessler.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Absurd that this is how the NYPD is treating a council member protecting a tenant in an active deed theft dispute. We need answers from the commissioner, and we need @chiosse.bsky.social released immediately.
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StreetsPAC @streetspac.org · 21/04/2026
"We're not trying to take away your car, we're not trying to send you to prison, we're just trying to change your behavior so you don't kill people." Making a few thousand brazenly dangerous drivers obey speed limits is common sense. Unless you're Assembly Speaker. hellgatenyc.com/stop-super-s...
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Stop Super Speeders Bill Hits a Roadblock—Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie
"It's like one guy who doesn't like this stuff, and unfortunately that one guy is the most powerful guy in the State Assembly."
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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
LOVE this collaboration of @nywfp.bsky.social candidates. Check out (and zoom in) on the group photo. 2 things stand out for me. Each candidate is holding someone else’s sign and the incredible diversity of that canvassing crew. @bradlander.bsky.social @yuhline.bsky.social @ryderkessler.bsky.social
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