It would be great if the MTA wasn’t the only organization telling riders to pay their fare.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/n...
Spikes, Fins, Guards: How New York Is Trying to Stop Subway Fare Evasion
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It would be great if the MTA wasn’t the only organization telling riders to pay their fare.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/n...
“When pledges turn out to be empty words, liberal democracy and the Democratic party that stands for it will be further tarnished.” - @dacemoglumit.bsky.social
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Liberalism can win back the working class. Here’s how
Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on Zohran Mamdani’s rise, the problem with cultural politics — and the case for pro-worker AI
www.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“When pledges turn out to be empty words, liberal democracy and the Democratic party that stands for it will be further tarnished.” - @dacemoglumit.bsky.social
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www.ft.com/content/96aa...
“These are the people that did everything for a taste of freedom. They had children die on their way here. They’re mostly Catholic, they are so into their families. They love America more than most Americans.”
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She’s torn over her love for Trump and her work with migrants
A conservative woman detects a lack of empathy — and a broken promise — in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“These are the people that did everything for a taste of freedom. They had children die on their way here. They’re mostly Catholic, they are so into their families. They love America more than most Americans.”
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They are not dumb people, and they’re not crazy in the sense that they’re out of touch with reality. Rather, years of antisemitic, nationalistic propaganda closed off whatever was left of their basic humanity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
They are not dumb people, and they’re not crazy in the sense that they’re out of touch with reality. Rather, years of antisemitic, nationalistic propaganda closed off whatever was left of their basic humanity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
Interesting piece by @betsyplum.bsky.social from @ridersalliance.org. Don't agree with everything, but this is a no-brainer: Fair Fares should automatically enroll eligible residents earning up to 150% of the poverty level, fully covering their transit costs.
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Fast, free and fair – a universal and targeted affordability agenda for transit riders
Our next mayor should fund free buses for every rider, free subway rides for very low-income New Yorkers, and half-fares for more workers.
www.cityandstateny.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Interesting piece by @betsyplum.bsky.social from @ridersalliance.org. Don't agree with everything, but this is a no-brainer: Fair Fares should automatically enroll eligible residents earning up to 150% of the poverty level, fully covering their transit costs.
www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
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“That’s what the gods do, they spin thread of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.” - Cloud Cuckoo Land
Keep shining, Anita Datar. Ten years later, your memory lives on.
Keep shining, Anita Datar. Ten years later, your memory lives on.
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“That’s what the gods do, they spin thread of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.” - Cloud Cuckoo Land
Keep shining, Anita Datar. Ten years later, your memory lives on.
Keep shining, Anita Datar. Ten years later, your memory lives on.
A direct correlation to the rise of authoritarianism and illiberalism across the globe.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The World Is Failing Women and Children
As many of the world’s leaders convene in South Africa for the G20, we face a sobering truth: Progress for women, children and adolescents — the foundation of human development — is faltering. Decades...
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A direct correlation to the rise of authoritarianism and illiberalism across the globe.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
These women are not famous or well connected, but they matter. Their pain matters. Their names matter. We should not co-opt their suffering for our own agenda.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
Opinion | How to Utterly Miss the Point of the Jeffrey Epstein Story
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
These women are not famous or well connected, but they matter. Their pain matters. Their names matter. We should not co-opt their suffering for our own agenda.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
The sad truth about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that the most honest depiction would be uncomfortable. That confrontation with reality is what we need to prevent the past from turning into our future.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Opinion | What ‘A House of Dynamite’ Didn’t Show
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The sad truth about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that the most honest depiction would be uncomfortable. That confrontation with reality is what we need to prevent the past from turning into our future.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
“Savvy investors know that a mayor only has so much power and is term-limited. If Mamdani scares some investors away, others will see an opportunity. The market will decide.”
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Mamdani panic attack: What if he freezes market-rate rents?
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has caused such panic among some people that they think he could make the city a socialist state.
therealdeal.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“Savvy investors know that a mayor only has so much power and is term-limited. If Mamdani scares some investors away, others will see an opportunity. The market will decide.”
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"Despite all the handwringing about democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani and his perceived negative impact on the real estate market, 24 of the 41 contracts were signed in the days after Mamdani’s victory.”
www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...
www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...
Manhattan luxury home sales surge in days after Mamdani victory
The top contract was for a penthouse condo at 15 Hudson Yards, asking almost $30 million.
www.crainsnewyork.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"Despite all the handwringing about democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani and his perceived negative impact on the real estate market, 24 of the 41 contracts were signed in the days after Mamdani’s victory.”
www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...
www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...
“You have whitewashed your hands, soothed your conscience, and may now look in the mirror with the impression that you have done something. Did you stop to ask yourselves what change your decision has truly achieved?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
Israeli Academics Find Themselves Isolated Despite Gaza Cease-Fire
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“You have whitewashed your hands, soothed your conscience, and may now look in the mirror with the impression that you have done something. Did you stop to ask yourselves what change your decision has truly achieved?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
Key line and the biggest open question: “If Mamdani becomes mayor and can’t or won’t defy the interest groups that oppose housing reform, housing won’t get built.”
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www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Mamdani Has a Point About Rent Control
In an interview, the candidate argued that the policy is essential to get voters on board with pro-housing reforms.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Key line and the biggest open question: “If Mamdani becomes mayor and can’t or won’t defy the interest groups that oppose housing reform, housing won’t get built.”
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
“The problem is that, sooner or later, in one form or another, everyone ends up paying.”
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www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Mamdani Is Benefitting From New York City’s Changing Workforce
Is the city that defines modern capitalism really about to elect a self-described democratic socialist as mayor? If the answer turns out to be yes, as seems likely, then the explanation may lie in New...
www.bloomberg.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“The problem is that, sooner or later, in one form or another, everyone ends up paying.”
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www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
“The biggest danger may be that the city’s success makes it complacent about its flaws and challenges.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
New York’s Golden Handcuffs: Why the City Has a Special Hold on the Rich
Don’t bet on a millionaire exodus if Mamdani wins the mayorship.
www.bloomberg.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“The biggest danger may be that the city’s success makes it complacent about its flaws and challenges.”
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www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
This is the best. Sports and food are the biggest unifiers.
November 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is the best. Sports and food are the biggest unifiers.
Climate doomerism helps sell movies and generate clicks, but it doesn’t help people, which really isn’t the goal of climate doomers in the first place.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
Opinion | Bill Gates Has a Point
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Climate doomerism helps sell movies and generate clicks, but it doesn’t help people, which really isn’t the goal of climate doomers in the first place.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
This is awful and heartbreaking. Fascist, religious extremists are about to take over Mali.
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www.ft.com/content/36fa...
Jihadis encircle Mali’s capital as they close in on power
Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists tighten blockade around Bamako as military regime reels
www.ft.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This is awful and heartbreaking. Fascist, religious extremists are about to take over Mali.
www.ft.com/content/36fa...
www.ft.com/content/36fa...
Al Qaeda militants are moving closer to seizing the capital of the West African nation of Mali, which, should the city fall, would become the first country in the world run by the U.S.-designated terrorist group.
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Al Qaeda Is on the Brink of Taking Over a Country
If the jihadists succeed in taking Mali, it would become the first country run by the group. The U.S. has warned its citizens to leave the West African nation immediately.
www.wsj.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Al Qaeda militants are moving closer to seizing the capital of the West African nation of Mali, which, should the city fall, would become the first country in the world run by the U.S.-designated terrorist group.
www.wsj.com/world/africa...
www.wsj.com/world/africa...
From the same paper, on the same day. Something tells me that it’s not about “universal human rights.”
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
From the same paper, on the same day. Something tells me that it’s not about “universal human rights.”
Do not stand on the left side of the escalator.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Do not stand on the left side of the escalator.
“Non-wealthy New Yorkers, though, would be a captive audience for Mamdani’s anticipated bold experiments in governance.” - Nicole Gilenas with incontrovertible facts.
www.city-journal.org/article/zohr...
www.city-journal.org/article/zohr...
Mamdani’s Experiments Won’t Faze the Rich
Everyone else, on the other hand, will have no choice but to bear the brunt of his untested ideas.
www.city-journal.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
“Non-wealthy New Yorkers, though, would be a captive audience for Mamdani’s anticipated bold experiments in governance.” - Nicole Gilenas with incontrovertible facts.
www.city-journal.org/article/zohr...
www.city-journal.org/article/zohr...
In sum, “free buses” costs more than what’s been touted and wouldn’t actually make buses faster, but it sounds good on the campaign trail.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Can Faster Buses Really Be Free?
An analysis of the possible promise and fundamental tension in one of Zohran Mamdani’s big plans for New York.
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
In sum, “free buses” costs more than what’s been touted and wouldn’t actually make buses faster, but it sounds good on the campaign trail.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The first American killed in a hate crime after 9/11 was a Sikh man named Balbir Singh Sodhi. He was shot by a man who thought he was Muslim as a retaliation for the attacks.
A real leader of NYC should know the consequences of such lame, stupid rhetoric.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/n...
A real leader of NYC should know the consequences of such lame, stupid rhetoric.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/n...
After Remark About Mamdani and Sept. 11, Cuomo Faces Democratic Rebukes
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The first American killed in a hate crime after 9/11 was a Sikh man named Balbir Singh Sodhi. He was shot by a man who thought he was Muslim as a retaliation for the attacks.
A real leader of NYC should know the consequences of such lame, stupid rhetoric.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/n...
A real leader of NYC should know the consequences of such lame, stupid rhetoric.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/n...
If you help sustain the civic and cultural life that first drew you in and act like a neighbor rather than an investor, then buying the home you once dreamed of isn’t just defensible; it may even soften, in some modest way, the forces you’re worried about.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
Is It Bad to Buy Into a Gentrified Neighborhood?
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If you help sustain the civic and cultural life that first drew you in and act like a neighbor rather than an investor, then buying the home you once dreamed of isn’t just defensible; it may even soften, in some modest way, the forces you’re worried about.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...