Brad Lander
@bradlander.bsky.social
Personal account of @nyccomptroller.bsky.social
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Fight don’t fold.
Attacking pre-school teachers because they don’t think Palestinian kids should be bombed to death? Declaring NYC’s first Muslim mayor “our enemy?” Fomenting hatred, even within the Jewish community?
You’re not making anyone safer.🧵
You’re not making anyone safer.🧵
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Attacking pre-school teachers because they don’t think Palestinian kids should be bombed to death? Declaring NYC’s first Muslim mayor “our enemy?” Fomenting hatred, even within the Jewish community?
You’re not making anyone safer.🧵
You’re not making anyone safer.🧵
Read these words. This is your country doing this:
“Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.”
Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors
“Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.”
Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors
(1/4) ICE detention has become a black box. Oversight has been gutted. Families are being separated. Pregnant and postpartum women report starving in custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, and their pleas for help going unanswered.
Miscarriages, infections, neglect: The pregnant women detained by ICE
Until last year, Congress required reports on the pregnant, postpartum or nursing women in ICE custody, including ‘detailed justification’ for their detention. This requirement no longer exists, Kelly...
www.independent.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Read these words. This is your country doing this:
“Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.”
Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors
“Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.”
Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors
My Fair Work Week law requires fast-food restaurants to give workers stable schedules & pathways to F/T jobs.
Starbucks has cheated 15,000 baristas—now they have to pay up.
Props @sbworkersunited.org & @hellodcwp.bsky.social for the biggest workers’ right enforcement action in NYC history.
Starbucks has cheated 15,000 baristas—now they have to pay up.
Props @sbworkersunited.org & @hellodcwp.bsky.social for the biggest workers’ right enforcement action in NYC history.
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses https://gothamist.com/news/starbucks-to-pay-35m-to-nyc-workers-after-city-alleges-years-of-abuses
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses
Baristas at a Starbucks on Broadway where workers went on strike in February.
The city says about 15,000 employees will get paid $50 for each week worked over a three-year period. For some workers, that's thousands of dollars. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My Fair Work Week law requires fast-food restaurants to give workers stable schedules & pathways to F/T jobs.
Starbucks has cheated 15,000 baristas—now they have to pay up.
Props @sbworkersunited.org & @hellodcwp.bsky.social for the biggest workers’ right enforcement action in NYC history.
Starbucks has cheated 15,000 baristas—now they have to pay up.
Props @sbworkersunited.org & @hellodcwp.bsky.social for the biggest workers’ right enforcement action in NYC history.
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today.
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today.
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
This Thanksgiving, there are a lot of broken things to heal. And a lot to be grateful for.
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Gratitude
For those who help heal what's broken, especially.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This Thanksgiving, there are a lot of broken things to heal. And a lot to be grateful for.
open.substack.com/pub/bradland...
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My parents have been taking me to help serve Thanksgiving meals for as long as I can remember. Great to have Marek in on the tradition today.
One takeaway: people love pies!
Thanks CHIPS soup kitchen for helping us remember some of what we’re grateful for.
One takeaway: people love pies!
Thanks CHIPS soup kitchen for helping us remember some of what we’re grateful for.
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My parents have been taking me to help serve Thanksgiving meals for as long as I can remember. Great to have Marek in on the tradition today.
One takeaway: people love pies!
Thanks CHIPS soup kitchen for helping us remember some of what we’re grateful for.
One takeaway: people love pies!
Thanks CHIPS soup kitchen for helping us remember some of what we’re grateful for.
Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks CHIPS soup kitchen for bringing neighbors together to look out for each other — today and every day.
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks CHIPS soup kitchen for bringing neighbors together to look out for each other — today and every day.
Glorious morning in @prospectparking.bsky.social for the Prospect Park Track Club #TurkeyTrot aka run for reconciliation benefitting the American Indian Community House.
So grateful for those who tend our most treasured places, and work to repair what’s been broken.
#HappyThanksgiving
So grateful for those who tend our most treasured places, and work to repair what’s been broken.
#HappyThanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Glorious morning in @prospectparking.bsky.social for the Prospect Park Track Club #TurkeyTrot aka run for reconciliation benefitting the American Indian Community House.
So grateful for those who tend our most treasured places, and work to repair what’s been broken.
#HappyThanksgiving
So grateful for those who tend our most treasured places, and work to repair what’s been broken.
#HappyThanksgiving
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Earlier today, I was honored to attend the @nypd.bsky.social Promotion Ceremony at which Det. Brett Grape, who has served on my protection detail all four years, was promoted to Detective 2nd Grade! A perfect activity for Thanksgiving week. 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Earlier today, I was honored to attend the @nypd.bsky.social Promotion Ceremony at which Det. Brett Grape, who has served on my protection detail all four years, was promoted to Detective 2nd Grade! A perfect activity for Thanksgiving week. 🧵
This morning @Harvey4council and I accompanied Ibrahima (who arrived here from Guinea when he was 17) to immigration court.
He’s seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) — and his GED, too.
Thankfully, a federal judge recently ordered the Trump Admin to protect SIJS.
He’s seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) — and his GED, too.
Thankfully, a federal judge recently ordered the Trump Admin to protect SIJS.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This morning @Harvey4council and I accompanied Ibrahima (who arrived here from Guinea when he was 17) to immigration court.
He’s seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) — and his GED, too.
Thankfully, a federal judge recently ordered the Trump Admin to protect SIJS.
He’s seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) — and his GED, too.
Thankfully, a federal judge recently ordered the Trump Admin to protect SIJS.
Happily, Rosa and I already had a message ready for the moment when Donald Trump’s baseless lawsuits against @tishjames.bsky.social and James Comey were dismissed:
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Happily, Rosa and I already had a message ready for the moment when Donald Trump’s baseless lawsuits against @tishjames.bsky.social and James Comey were dismissed:
I love the @metmuseum.org. It enriches the lives of NY’ers and visitors from across the world.
That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org
Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!
That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org
Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!
Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.
Met Museum Workers Push to Unionize
Staffers at the New York City institution have filed a petition for a union vote with the National Labor Relations Board.
hyperallergic.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I love the @metmuseum.org. It enriches the lives of NY’ers and visitors from across the world.
That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org
Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!
That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org
Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!
The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.
After Arrest by ICE, City Comptroller Rejects Deal and Seeks Trial
Other officials arrested while protesting at 26 Federal Plaza in September will have their federal charges dropped if they avoid arrest inside a federal building for six months.
www.thecity.nyc
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
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'Communities are living in fear' from Chicago to Charlotte, as Trump's immigration crackdown expands
President Trump's immigration enforcement crackdown is expanding across the country and New York City could be next. Professor Christina Greer and New York Comptroller Brad Lander discuss.
President Trump's immigration enforcement crackdown is expanding across the country and New York City could be next. Professor Christina Greer and New York Comptroller Brad Lander discuss.
'Communities are living in fear' from Chicago to Charlotte, as Trump's immigration crackdown expands
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November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
'Communities are living in fear' from Chicago to Charlotte, as Trump's immigration crackdown expands
President Trump's immigration enforcement crackdown is expanding across the country and New York City could be next. Professor Christina Greer and New York Comptroller Brad Lander discuss.
President Trump's immigration enforcement crackdown is expanding across the country and New York City could be next. Professor Christina Greer and New York Comptroller Brad Lander discuss.
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the guy he's hugging in that last picture is
@bradlander.bsky.social and the service was organized in partnership with @jfrejnyc.bsky.social
@bradlander.bsky.social and the service was organized in partnership with @jfrejnyc.bsky.social
the day after rev. jesse saved our sukkah and the medical tent from being taken down by the nypd at occupy wall street he dropped by the sukkah to say hello while we were doing a prayer service
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
the guy he's hugging in that last picture is
@bradlander.bsky.social and the service was organized in partnership with @jfrejnyc.bsky.social
@bradlander.bsky.social and the service was organized in partnership with @jfrejnyc.bsky.social
GREAT NEWS!!! Federal District Court Judge Cathy Seibel ordered that Joel must be released from custody!!!
The judge blasted the Trump Administration as "either Orwellian or Kafkaesque."
Thank you @nyclu.org and The Door for fighting so hard for Joel & so many others.
The judge blasted the Trump Administration as "either Orwellian or Kafkaesque."
Thank you @nyclu.org and The Door for fighting so hard for Joel & so many others.
ICE will arrest anyone—even a 16-year-old who just wants to get back to class.
Joel Camas may be the first unaccompanied minor detained by Trump this term.
Joel Camas may be the first unaccompanied minor detained by Trump this term.
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
GREAT NEWS!!! Federal District Court Judge Cathy Seibel ordered that Joel must be released from custody!!!
The judge blasted the Trump Administration as "either Orwellian or Kafkaesque."
Thank you @nyclu.org and The Door for fighting so hard for Joel & so many others.
The judge blasted the Trump Administration as "either Orwellian or Kafkaesque."
Thank you @nyclu.org and The Door for fighting so hard for Joel & so many others.
ICE Ads On Spotify? NYC Comptroller Says The Platform Has Explaining To Do.
www.huffpost.com/entry/spotif...
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Spotify Faces Heat After ICE Recruitment Ads Surface — NYC Comptroller Wants Answers
Brad Lander, a trustee of New York City’s pension funds, expressed concern about “reputational risks” to Spotify.
www.huffpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
ICE Ads On Spotify? NYC Comptroller Says The Platform Has Explaining To Do.
www.huffpost.com/entry/spotif...
www.huffpost.com/entry/spotif...
Trump is about to throw 170,000 formerly homeless families out of supportive housing onto the street.
This is not “housing policy.” It is one more step from the authoritarian playbook to elevate cruelty, scapegoat the vulnerable, punish cities & provoke disorder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
This is not “housing policy.” It is one more step from the authoritarian playbook to elevate cruelty, scapegoat the vulnerable, punish cities & provoke disorder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Trump is about to throw 170,000 formerly homeless families out of supportive housing onto the street.
This is not “housing policy.” It is one more step from the authoritarian playbook to elevate cruelty, scapegoat the vulnerable, punish cities & provoke disorder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
This is not “housing policy.” It is one more step from the authoritarian playbook to elevate cruelty, scapegoat the vulnerable, punish cities & provoke disorder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
If you are sick of your favorite businesses getting displaced, this event is for you.
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@emilyassembly.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social
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@emilyassembly.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If you are sick of your favorite businesses getting displaced, this event is for you.
actionnetwork.org/events/come-...
secure.actblue.com/donate/stopc...
@emilyassembly.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/events/come-...
secure.actblue.com/donate/stopc...
@emilyassembly.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social
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Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.