Ben Carlos Thypin
@bct.bsky.social
Moral high ground?!? That's the most expensive real estate on the face of the earth! - Larry Ellison (who otherwise sucks but this is a good quote)
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Lefty Fiscal Policy Institute joins a pretty large coalition whipping the City Council against three bills that would dramatically increase subsidy requirements for new housing developments: fiscalpolicy.org/city-council...
City Council’s Housing Bills Would Make Housing Less Affordable - Fiscal Policy Institute
These bills would drive up the cost of developing new affordable housing and obstruct Mayor-elect Mamdani's affordable housing agenda.
fiscalpolicy.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Lefty Fiscal Policy Institute joins a pretty large coalition whipping the City Council against three bills that would dramatically increase subsidy requirements for new housing developments: fiscalpolicy.org/city-council...
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Breaking News: Kathryn Garcia, a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, is expected to be named the next executive director of the Port Authority.
Kathryn Garcia Expected to Be Named New Head of the Port Authority
Ms. Garcia, who ran for mayor of New York in 2021 after serving as the city’s sanitation commissioner, would succeed Rick Cotton, who is retiring.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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These people fundamentally do not want to be human.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
These people fundamentally do not want to be human.
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“I didn’t expect so many people would be so risk-averse.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“I didn’t expect so many people would be so risk-averse.”
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U.S. journalists at this point should do trainings with LatAm counterparts to better understand how to cover Ruling Families totally enmeshed in the government and corporate uni-state
December 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
U.S. journalists at this point should do trainings with LatAm counterparts to better understand how to cover Ruling Families totally enmeshed in the government and corporate uni-state
The city should take this as an opportunity to rezone all of Dumbo for mixed-income residential! Cc @cmrestler.bsky.social @nycplanning.bsky.social www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...
CIM Group seeks to convert Panorama complex into mixed-use residential development
CIM Group, then along with LIVWRK and Kushner Companies, purchased the former campus in 2016 for $340 million.
www.crainsnewyork.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The city should take this as an opportunity to rezone all of Dumbo for mixed-income residential! Cc @cmrestler.bsky.social @nycplanning.bsky.social www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...
One of the City of New York’s shittiest office buildings will be replaced by 3,700 homes, at least 25% of which would be permanently affordable. commercialobserver.com/2025/12/nyce...
NYC Selects GFP to Redevelop 100 Gold Street Into 3,700 Housing Units
The NYCEDC has chosen GFP Real Estate to redevelop 100 Gold Street in the Financial District into a mixed-income residential building.
commercialobserver.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
One of the City of New York’s shittiest office buildings will be replaced by 3,700 homes, at least 25% of which would be permanently affordable. commercialobserver.com/2025/12/nyce...
Over the weekend I exchanged a few sentences with a fellow American and they proceeded to ask me where in England I am from and I’ve been questioning what kinda vibe I’m giving off ever since.
December 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Over the weekend I exchanged a few sentences with a fellow American and they proceeded to ask me where in England I am from and I’ve been questioning what kinda vibe I’m giving off ever since.
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Lynchings, he wants to see people lynched.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Lynchings, he wants to see people lynched.
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the pmc is achieving self-consciousness as a world-historical class
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
the pmc is achieving self-consciousness as a world-historical class
It’s below freezing out and I just saw a guy walking around with wearing slides and no coat or sweatshirt. Dudes rock.
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It’s below freezing out and I just saw a guy walking around with wearing slides and no coat or sweatshirt. Dudes rock.
The circumstances surrounding this are more complex than “Planned Parenthood sells its only Manhattan clinic to condo developer” but nevertheless it’s still a grim statement on where we are as a country rn. commercialobserver.com/2025/12/plan...
Planned Parenthood Sells Only Manhattan Clinic to Izaki Group for $38M
Planned Parenthood has officially sold its only Manhattan clinic for $38.1 million, after first putting it up for sale in March.
commercialobserver.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The circumstances surrounding this are more complex than “Planned Parenthood sells its only Manhattan clinic to condo developer” but nevertheless it’s still a grim statement on where we are as a country rn. commercialobserver.com/2025/12/plan...
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Zohran should create little schools everyone has to go to that teach you to still talk with a 1987 nyc dirtbag accent the way the Irish do with Gaelic
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Zohran should create little schools everyone has to go to that teach you to still talk with a 1987 nyc dirtbag accent the way the Irish do with Gaelic
My barbershop has switched from dum dums to organic lollipops, demonstrating this neighborhood has entered the next stage of gentrification.
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
My barbershop has switched from dum dums to organic lollipops, demonstrating this neighborhood has entered the next stage of gentrification.
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my complete, map-filled, analysis of the 2025 election in New York City
-How Zohran won the primary
-How Zohran won the general (different story!)
-How this election, beneath the surface, actually offers some of the best evidence of a developing blue wave www.expectinggoals.com/p/how-zohran...
-How Zohran won the primary
-How Zohran won the general (different story!)
-How this election, beneath the surface, actually offers some of the best evidence of a developing blue wave www.expectinggoals.com/p/how-zohran...
How Zohran Mamdani Won, and What the 2025 Election in New York Can Teach Us About the National Political Environment
More than you think, but not in the way you’re thinking.
www.expectinggoals.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
my complete, map-filled, analysis of the 2025 election in New York City
-How Zohran won the primary
-How Zohran won the general (different story!)
-How this election, beneath the surface, actually offers some of the best evidence of a developing blue wave www.expectinggoals.com/p/how-zohran...
-How Zohran won the primary
-How Zohran won the general (different story!)
-How this election, beneath the surface, actually offers some of the best evidence of a developing blue wave www.expectinggoals.com/p/how-zohran...
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One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.
Watching the pilot for How to Make It in America for the first time since it originally aired and its depiction of socializing in late oughts NYC is so deeply triggering.
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Watching the pilot for How to Make It in America for the first time since it originally aired and its depiction of socializing in late oughts NYC is so deeply triggering.
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15 years of Gale Brewer promising and failing to get money for a church to do some repairs, while insisting the crumbling building just keep existing gothamist.com/news/upper-w...
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
15 years of Gale Brewer promising and failing to get money for a church to do some repairs, while insisting the crumbling building just keep existing gothamist.com/news/upper-w...
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Footnote: this superfluous federal parking garage should have been an affordable housing development site years ago
ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Footnote: this superfluous federal parking garage should have been an affordable housing development site years ago
Watching The Way We Were (1973) for the first time, which is excellent, and spotted the Department of Education building that’s a major part of the recently approved Long Island City rezoning. This whole part of the waterfront has barely changed in over 50 years!
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Watching The Way We Were (1973) for the first time, which is excellent, and spotted the Department of Education building that’s a major part of the recently approved Long Island City rezoning. This whole part of the waterfront has barely changed in over 50 years!
“there’s nothing you can say to convince people to not project what they’re projecting onto you.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
American TV wasn't the place for Renate Reinsve. She's back at home in 'Sentimental Value'
With remarkable correspondences to her sometimes 'chaotic' past, Reinsve's Oscar-tipped turn blurs the lines between art and life — just where the actor likes to be.
www.latimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“there’s nothing you can say to convince people to not project what they’re projecting onto you.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Can confirm that watching Mallrats in a Central New Jersey basement was a transcendent experience.
wrote about the kind of cinema that can only be appreciated in a friend's basement. that's right, I wrote about MALLRATS!
www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30
In the fall of 1995, Kevin Smith’s second film was a box office humiliation. Now, it’s become an embarrassment of riches. We chat with Smith about the movie and how it forever altered his career.
www.theringer.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Can confirm that watching Mallrats in a Central New Jersey basement was a transcendent experience.
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This is a win for the forces that backed Cuomo.
NEW: Julie Menin is claiming victory in the City Council speaker's race after securing commitments of support from 35 of her colleagues, putting an early end to the contest and teeing up potential tensions with incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Story coming shortly
Story coming shortly
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This is a win for the forces that backed Cuomo.
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Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
