JSelden
@jselden.bsky.social
NYC-based climate activist who believes that Robert Moses has had his way with our streets long enough.
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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We do not need elected officials to pay lip service and wait until it’s too late for meaningful change. We need them to fight to protect our pensions and our city.
Comptroller-elect Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social, we hope that's you.
Comptroller-elect Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social, we hope that's you.
December 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
We do not need elected officials to pay lip service and wait until it’s too late for meaningful change. We need them to fight to protect our pensions and our city.
Comptroller-elect Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social, we hope that's you.
Comptroller-elect Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social, we hope that's you.
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Very disappointed that Comptroller Lander and the NYCERS trustees did not vote to protect the hard-earned money of city workers by taking business away from asset managers that ignore the financial risks of climate change.
Breaking: A bad end to the year for NYC to protect the pension funds and the planet.
We’re Looking to Levine as the Pensions Punt
We’re Looking to Levine as the Pensions Punt
December 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Very disappointed that Comptroller Lander and the NYCERS trustees did not vote to protect the hard-earned money of city workers by taking business away from asset managers that ignore the financial risks of climate change.
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Romeo supports #PupsForPRRIA! @cheastie protect our pups from plastics and bring the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (A1749/S1464) up for a vote ASAP! #PeopleOverPlastic
December 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Romeo supports #PupsForPRRIA! @cheastie protect our pups from plastics and bring the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (A1749/S1464) up for a vote ASAP! #PeopleOverPlastic
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NEW: Outgoing NYC Comptroller Brad Lander wants the city pension funds to pull $42 billion from BlackRock over climate concerns.
This Wednesday is their last chance to take action before his term runs out. nysfocus.com/2025/12/15/b...
This Wednesday is their last chance to take action before his term runs out. nysfocus.com/2025/12/15/b...
Will New York City Drop BlackRock Over Climate?
Outgoing Comptroller Brad Lander wants the city’s pension funds to reconsider $42 billion in investments with the firm, but it may fall to his successor…
nysfocus.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
NEW: Outgoing NYC Comptroller Brad Lander wants the city pension funds to pull $42 billion from BlackRock over climate concerns.
This Wednesday is their last chance to take action before his term runs out. nysfocus.com/2025/12/15/b...
This Wednesday is their last chance to take action before his term runs out. nysfocus.com/2025/12/15/b...
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New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
December 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
Apollo is all in for #PupsForPRRIA!
@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social , please protect our pups from the hazards of plastic by bringing the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act (A1749)up for a vote ASAP! #PeopleOverPlastic @beyondplastics.bsky.social
@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social , please protect our pups from the hazards of plastic by bringing the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act (A1749)up for a vote ASAP! #PeopleOverPlastic @beyondplastics.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Apollo is all in for #PupsForPRRIA!
@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social , please protect our pups from the hazards of plastic by bringing the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act (A1749)up for a vote ASAP! #PeopleOverPlastic @beyondplastics.bsky.social
@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social , please protect our pups from the hazards of plastic by bringing the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act (A1749)up for a vote ASAP! #PeopleOverPlastic @beyondplastics.bsky.social
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Finn supports #PupsForPRRIA!
@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social, please protect our pups from plastics & bring the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act (A1749) up for a vote ASAP! #PeopleOverPlastic @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
@foodandwater.bsky.social @beyondplastics.bsky.social
@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social, please protect our pups from plastics & bring the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act (A1749) up for a vote ASAP! #PeopleOverPlastic @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
@foodandwater.bsky.social @beyondplastics.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Finn supports #PupsForPRRIA!
@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social, please protect our pups from plastics & bring the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act (A1749) up for a vote ASAP! #PeopleOverPlastic @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
@foodandwater.bsky.social @beyondplastics.bsky.social
@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social, please protect our pups from plastics & bring the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act (A1749) up for a vote ASAP! #PeopleOverPlastic @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
@foodandwater.bsky.social @beyondplastics.bsky.social
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My statement on the Trump Administration’s recently announced Executive Order on AI regulation.
December 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
My statement on the Trump Administration’s recently announced Executive Order on AI regulation.
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New York City's air quality has been improving over time, but now it's improving much faster, thanks to congestion pricing.
What previously took nine years — the 22% drop in air pollution between 2015 and 2024 — was reached in just *six months* of congestion pricing.
What previously took nine years — the 22% drop in air pollution between 2015 and 2024 — was reached in just *six months* of congestion pricing.
New Yorkers Are Literally Breathing Easier After Congestion Pricing
And other links to start your hump day.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
New York City's air quality has been improving over time, but now it's improving much faster, thanks to congestion pricing.
What previously took nine years — the 22% drop in air pollution between 2015 and 2024 — was reached in just *six months* of congestion pricing.
What previously took nine years — the 22% drop in air pollution between 2015 and 2024 — was reached in just *six months* of congestion pricing.
Take Action: Urge Comptroller Lander to finish the job and dump BlackRock (the world’s largest funders of fossil fuels)!! share.nwmd.social/s/kh5DNZe0
Tell Comptroller Lander: Finish the Job and Dump BlackRock!
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December 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Take Action: Urge Comptroller Lander to finish the job and dump BlackRock (the world’s largest funders of fossil fuels)!! share.nwmd.social/s/kh5DNZe0
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Congestion pricing improves your ride to work — and the air you breathe.
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
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Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Congestion pricing improves your ride to work — and the air you breathe.
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
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Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Musk himself, who is the world's richest man.
Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders
The philanthropy has become one of America’s biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world’s richest man.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Musk himself, who is the world's richest man.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
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December 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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✅ implement & enforce Local Law 97 (city’s made huge progress since it passed in 2019)
✅ fast & free buses
✅ cut energy bills & pollution from small buildings
✅ protect the pension funds from climate risk
Lower pollution. Good jobs. Lower energy bills. Let’s go!
✅ fast & free buses
✅ cut energy bills & pollution from small buildings
✅ protect the pension funds from climate risk
Lower pollution. Good jobs. Lower energy bills. Let’s go!
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
✅ implement & enforce Local Law 97 (city’s made huge progress since it passed in 2019)
✅ fast & free buses
✅ cut energy bills & pollution from small buildings
✅ protect the pension funds from climate risk
Lower pollution. Good jobs. Lower energy bills. Let’s go!
✅ fast & free buses
✅ cut energy bills & pollution from small buildings
✅ protect the pension funds from climate risk
Lower pollution. Good jobs. Lower energy bills. Let’s go!
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The NYC Comptroller has formally recommended to 3 public pension boards that they search for a replacement to BlackRock to manage their $42 billion in pensioners' savings because BlackRock is failing on investing for a safe and healthy future. We love to see it!
🚨BREAKING: @bradlander.bsky.social today announced recommendations to end $42+ billion in investment with BlackRock, as it leads funding of fossil fuels.
It’s now time for our pension trustees to follow Comptroller Brad Lander and deliver pension funds that don’t invest in our city’s destruction.
It’s now time for our pension trustees to follow Comptroller Brad Lander and deliver pension funds that don’t invest in our city’s destruction.
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The NYC Comptroller has formally recommended to 3 public pension boards that they search for a replacement to BlackRock to manage their $42 billion in pensioners' savings because BlackRock is failing on investing for a safe and healthy future. We love to see it!
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Earlier this week, two RPA staff and three board members were named to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social transition committees.
We already have some ideas on how to make NYC work for everyone. Here's our recommended planning priorities for the incoming admin:
We already have some ideas on how to make NYC work for everyone. Here's our recommended planning priorities for the incoming admin:
Planning Priorities for New York City’s Next Mayor
RPA’s concrete strategic planning recommendations to help the next mayor deliver a more efficient, healthier, and more prosperous city for all.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Earlier this week, two RPA staff and three board members were named to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social transition committees.
We already have some ideas on how to make NYC work for everyone. Here's our recommended planning priorities for the incoming admin:
We already have some ideas on how to make NYC work for everyone. Here's our recommended planning priorities for the incoming admin:
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People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)
Everything changed in the last few weeks. The Republicans, assumed by themselves and too many others, to be unstoppable got stopped again and again. Public opinion manifested in many ways: as an elect...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
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Jean C, a retired nurse for cancer patients, calls on @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social to bring the PRRIA to a vote ASAP in January, as his Senate counterpart @leaderasc.bsky.social has managed to do successfully for the last two years. Read Jean's letter in @timesunion.com.
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Jean C, a retired nurse for cancer patients, calls on @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social to bring the PRRIA to a vote ASAP in January, as his Senate counterpart @leaderasc.bsky.social has managed to do successfully for the last two years. Read Jean's letter in @timesunion.com.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The Epstein emails “together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom,” Anand Giridharadas writes. “Saying that isn’t extreme. The way this elite operates is.”
The Epstein emails “together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom,” Anand Giridharadas writes. “Saying that isn’t extreme. The way this elite operates is.”
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
This power elite was already used to ignoring the powerless. Redeeming a disgraced sex offender was a logical next step.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The Epstein emails “together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom,” Anand Giridharadas writes. “Saying that isn’t extreme. The way this elite operates is.”
The Epstein emails “together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom,” Anand Giridharadas writes. “Saying that isn’t extreme. The way this elite operates is.”
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Zohran Mamdani should revive a DOT plan to transform Fifth Avenue shelved by de Blasio and Adams at the behest of powerful corporate interests.
Memo to Mamdani: Fifth Ave. Belongs to the People — Not the Ultra-Wealthy and Gridlock - Streetsblog New York City
Zohran Mamdani should revive a DOT plan to transform Fifth Avenue shelved by de Blasio and Adams at the behest of powerful corporate interests.
buff.ly
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Zohran Mamdani should revive a DOT plan to transform Fifth Avenue shelved by de Blasio and Adams at the behest of powerful corporate interests.
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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Jon Stewart and I agree:
AI must work for everybody, not just a handful of billionaires.
AI must work for everybody, not just a handful of billionaires.
November 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Jon Stewart and I agree:
AI must work for everybody, not just a handful of billionaires.
AI must work for everybody, not just a handful of billionaires.