josephine

Sick & tired of GOP marshmallows reporting me & my cohorts to Twitter. Just because they can’t take a little honest criticism. Grow a pair or take testosterone.

[United Bronx Residents @FoilCorruption]

How many more senseless tragedies must the Bronx endure before Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson and District Attorney Darcel Clark are held accountable for their disastrous leadership? It is sickening that a citizen can’t drive through the borough without a high definition camera capturing their license plate for a government payout, while violent criminals operate in the shadows because those same politicians refuse to secure our highest-crime areas. This isn't just governance failure, it's a betrayal of our Bronx communities. 😠

[Crime In NYC @Crime_In_NYC]

An investigation is underway after a man was shot to death in the Bronx on Monday.

The shooting happened in front of 413 East 187th St. in the Belmont section just before 7 p.m.

Surveillance video shows a gunman walking along 187th Street towards the victim, a 21-year-old man, who was standing on the sidewalk before he was shot in the head.

The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

He has not yet been identified.

No arrests have been made so far, and the investigation is ongoing.

https://t.co/L7h6QZnfjX

[United Bronx Residents @FoilCorruption]

Puerto Rico is trapped in a disgraceful water catastrophe born not of natural disaster, but of systemic political neglect. While tens of thousands of residents live without running water, forced to haul heavy jugs up stairs and rely on the National Guard for basic hydration, a comfortable class of well-connected mainland politicians and power brokers treat the island as a backdrop for vanity and profit. Armed with direct access to federal funding channels and media platforms, these leaders routinely choose the ease of parades and galas over the grinding legislative warfare required to rebuild a collapsing territory.
Nowhere is this moral bankruptcy clearer than the annual SOMOS Puerto Rico conference. What began as civic engagement has calcified into an indulgent junket where mainland lawmakers and lobbyists clink glasses at luxury resorts while the island's multi-billion-dollar water system crumbles around them. A token "Day of Service", a staged hour packing boxes, serves as a convenient moral shield, doing nothing to replace the institutional muscle needed to secure heavy federal capital. While tourist dollars pad private hotel coffers, local residents are left waiting on water tankers, receiving nothing but a good Instagram angle from their supposed champions, prominent Stateside Puerto Rican officials like Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nydia Velázquez, and Ritchie Torres of New York, Representative Darren Soto of Florida, and local power brokers like Chicago Alderman Gilbert Villegas or New York State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who regularly join the massive political migration to the island's premier networking retreats.
Technically and financially, the crisis is as straightforward as it is devastating:
Ruptured Infrastructure: The system is paralyzed by failures along the 72-inch Superaqueduct and antiquated filtration facilities like the Sergio Cuevas plant (built in 1948).
The $7 Billion Deficit: The Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) faces a massive capital backlog, with $4.7 billion in modernization projects entirely gridlocked in administrative delays.
The Power Grid Failure: The water system remains tethered to a bankrupt electric utility (PREPA) buried under $9 billion in unresolved debt. Because pumping water requires immense power, every grid failure renders even repaired pipelines useless.
This scandal is entirely avoidable. If the mainland political class redirected even a fraction of their collective lobbying weight, donor networks, and media influence into a coordinated federal assault on Washington, the administrative backlog could be broken and emergency capital unlocked. Instead, they consistently prioritize spectacle and mainland political positioning while Puerto Ricans thirst. It is time to hold this elite accountable: stop the junkets, stop the selfies, and demand that those who claim to represent the diaspora finally use their leverage to deliver the structural billions Puerto Rico desperately needs. 🇵🇷

[United Bronx Residents @FoilCorruption]

The first day of summer arrives against a grim, unforgiving backdrop: New York City under Zohran Mamdani’s inept administration is actively teetering on fiscal collapse, and violent, contraband fueled crime is exploding inside a Bronx detention facility. It is an absolute indictment of local elected leadership supported by the corrupt Bronx party bosses. Meanwhile, our streets and detention facilities are being completely taken over by criminals 🔥
Governor Hochul is apparently completely fixated on the Winter Olympics? Her brain 🧠 is somehow stuck on establishing speculative committees for future games instead of confronting immediate, violent crises? Wtf? 🤨
Please Vote 🗳️ for Change!

[United Bronx Residents @FoilCorruption]

Puerto Rico is trapped in a disgraceful water catastrophe born not of natural disaster, but of systemic political neglect. While tens of thousands of residents live without running water, forced to haul heavy jugs up stairs and rely on the National Guard for basic hydration, a comfortable class of well-connected mainland politicians and power brokers treat the island as a backdrop for vanity and profit. Armed with direct access to federal funding channels and media platforms, these leaders routinely choose the ease of parades and galas over the grinding legislative warfare required to rebuild a collapsing territory.
Nowhere is this moral bankruptcy clearer than the annual SOMOS Puerto Rico conference. What began as civic engagement has calcified into an indulgent junket where mainland lawmakers and lobbyists clink glasses at luxury resorts while the island's multi-billion-dollar water system crumbles around them. A token "Day of Service", a staged hour packing boxes, serves as a convenient moral shield, doing nothing to replace the institutional muscle needed to secure heavy federal capital. While tourist dollars pad private hotel coffers, local residents are left waiting on water tankers, receiving nothing but a good Instagram angle from their supposed champions, prominent Stateside Puerto Rican officials like Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nydia Velázquez, and Ritchie Torres of New York, Representative Darren Soto of Florida, and local power brokers like Chicago Alderman Gilbert Villegas or New York State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who regularly join the massive political migration to the island's premier networking retreats.
Technically and financially, the crisis is as straightforward as it is devastating:
Ruptured Infrastructure: The system is paralyzed by failures along the 72-inch Superaqueduct and antiquated filtration facilities like the Sergio Cuevas plant (built in 1948).
The $7 Billion Deficit: The Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) faces a massive capital backlog, with $4.7 billion in modernization projects entirely gridlocked in administrative delays.
The Power Grid Failure: The water system remains tethered to a bankrupt electric utility (PREPA) buried under $9 billion in unresolved debt. Because pumping water requires immense power, every grid failure renders even repaired pipelines useless.
This scandal is entirely avoidable. If the mainland political class redirected even a fraction of their collective lobbying weight, donor networks, and media influence into a coordinated federal assault on Washington, the administrative backlog could be broken and emergency capital unlocked. Instead, they consistently prioritize spectacle and mainland political positioning while Puerto Ricans thirst. It is time to hold this elite accountable: stop the junkets, stop the selfies, and demand that those who claim to represent the diaspora finally use their leverage to deliver the structural billions Puerto Rico desperately needs. 🇵🇷

[United Bronx Residents @FoilCorruption]

The violent riot at Horizon Juvenile Center is not an isolated failure, it is the predictable outcome of years of political negligence and willful misgovernance by the very people elected to protect this district. Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, Borough President Vanessa Gibson, and the broader slate of local Democratic officials have repeatedly prioritized ideology and political optics over basic safety and accountability. Their progressive experiments have not only stripped away necessary deterrents inside secure facilities but have normalized a permissive culture that enables contraband fueled violence and endangers staff and youth alike.
The Bronx Democratic Party must shoulder responsibility as well. For too long, the party machine has rewarded loyalty and rhetoric instead of results, shielding officials from scrutiny and enabling policies that have hollowed out institutional controls. This culture of political protectionism has turned public safety into a bargaining chip, and the community, correctional staff, and vulnerable children are paying the price. If Bronx elected leaders and the party apparatus continue to put ideology and political survival ahead of enforcement, transparency, and real consequences, they will be judged not on intentions, but on the blood and broken bodies that their choices have already produced. 😠

[Bronx Borough President @foilcorruption2]

@bronxbp Your face, wig and altar need a good cleaning. So so oily .

[Time4Change2029 @PAC4_RealChange]

In our opinion, competency based education deepens systemic Inequality in the Bronx, when viewed against the backdrop of deliberate underinvestment and structural disadvantage, the state’s aggressive push for competency based learning emerges not as a progressive educational reform, but as a policy driven transfer of burden that will heavily penalize vulnerable students. Framed by polished officials as a tool for equity, this overhaul operates as a cruel bait-and-switch. By diluting objective, standardized benchmarks without simultaneously closing severe resource and funding gaps, the state passes the true cost of its experiment onto the students who can least afford it. While lobbyists and affluent suburban families remain insulated from the fallout, children in historically marginalized communities like the Bronx already wrestling with overcrowded classrooms, understaffed schools, and the daily realities of poverty, are left to bear the consequences.
The first major flaw in this transition lies in the administrative trap it erects for underfunded schools. Shifting from standardized, machine graded assessments to labor-intensive portfolios and mastery defenses places immense demands on an educational system’s workforce. While standardized exams are undeniably imperfect, they possess the critical virtues of being inexpensive, uniform, and auditable traits that are vital when resources are scarce. Conversely, individualized portfolios and capstone projects require extensive, one-on-one coaching, iterative feedback, and nuanced grading. In wealthy districts, schools can easily afford to buy out this labor by hiring dedicated coordinators, mentors, and paid interns. In struggling urban schools, however, this massive burden falls directly onto the shoulders of exhausted teachers who are already managing inflated class sizes and covering gaps left by chronic staff shortages. By demanding individualized assessment without providing the staff to execute it, the state transforms innovation into a high stakes administrative weight designed to make underfunded schools fail.
Furthermore, the policy’s "learning outside the classroom" exposes a profound geographic and class bias. The framework naively treats internships, industry mentorships, and community partnerships as if they are evenly distributed, easily accessible commodities. In reality, high-value professional placements heavily cluster in affluent commercial hubs and wealthy suburbs, brokered through social networks that low-income students rarely inhabit. While privileged families can seamlessly convert their social capital into glittering resume building experiences for their children, students in isolated or impoverished neighborhoods are entirely shut out. Consequently, this model transitions public education toward a graduation framework that rewards zip codes and elite social connections far more than raw talent, grit, or academic merit. What is marketed as real world relevancy functions in practice as a mechanism that formalizes systemic privilege.
The promise of “self-paced” progression is a luxury trap that accelerates student attrition. Flexibility blindly assumes a baseline of stability secure housing, predictable schedules, and access to tutoring, that does not exist for students juggling jobs, caregiving, or language barriers. Without massive funding for extended day programs, paid mentors, and clinical counselors, "pacing" is just a sanitized euphemism for institutional abandonment, leaving vulnerable students to drift indefinitely. https://t.co/5TkwsJH9MH

[United Bronx Residents @FoilCorruption]

These severe educational failures being proposed by the State, policy driven abandonment, administrative death traps, and the systematic sabotage of Bronx youth, are exactly the structural crises a competent, fierce Bronx Borough President should be screaming about. True leadership demands aggressive, unyielding advocacy for a borough that has been historically starved of resources.Instead, career politicians like Vanessa L. Gibson treat the people’s office, as a glorified personal piggy bank. For her and Justin Pendejo Cortes it’s the ultimate grift: high-paying, unaccountable government jobs with zero expectations, zero metrics for success, and a mountain of taxpayer-funded insulation. While Bronx classrooms overflow and exhausted teachers absorb the state's failures, Gibson enjoys a ridiculous caravan of personal perks, complete with taxpayer-funded chauffeurs and an entourage of handmaidens dedicated to adjusting her spandex, spanx, and tacky wardrobe. It is a grotesque display of political decadence: local Bronx leadership indulging in the ultimate luxuries of office while entirely abandoning the very children they were elected to protect.

[Bronx Borough President @foilcorruption2]

@Crime_In_NYC @CBSNewYork Hey, Vanessa Gibson, Bronx Borough President got anything to say? Your silence 🤐 speaks volumes. You are useless and clueless. @bronxbp @BPGibson2025

[katie wright @katiewr31413491]

@FoilCorruption She does NOTHING

[GEMforCommonSense @GillianGEM]

@FoilCorruption BX DA Darcel Clark👺💩 has been BX Boro President Vanessa Gibson's twin when it comes to coddling & promoting criminals!(as a former criminal defense atty in the BX I was more of a prosecutor!) Notice she has NEVER called on the NYS Legislature & Governor to reform Bail Reform?!

[United Bronx Residents @FoilCorruption]

The leadership in Bronx Borough Hall is a total fraud, a hollow display of performative theater while the Bronx actively burns 🔥. Bronx Borough President Vanessa L Gibson, easily the worst borough president ever, treats the office like a public relations firm, staging insulting photo ops, handing out meaningless “Gun Violence Awareness Month” proclamations, and cutting ribbons at youth job fairs, all while the crimes that terrorize working class families rage completely unchecked. These glossy press releases are cheap, pathetic theater, but it is the residents who pay the brutal, everyday cost.
Local leaders and abandoned residents are entirely right to point fingers: public safety has been allowed to decay in the Bronx, into absolute, lawless chaos under Gibson’s watch. While citywide gun violence has fallen, the Bronx has been actively sacrificed and left behind, forced to endure spikes in major crime even as the rest of New York gets safer. That disparity is no accident; it is the direct, damning result of feckless, cowardly leadership and a corrupt Black Bronx Democratic Party bosses that’s not touched by the crime they ignore so they promote tools like Vanessa Gibson.
The rage simmering among neighbors is justified, it is a righteous demand for survival, for an end to political malfeasance. When open air drug markets, rampant shoplifting, and skyrocketing auto thefts are met with feel good community circles and toothless “violence interrupters” instead of handcuffs and jail cells, the message sent to criminals is unmistakable: the Bronx has been transformed into a criminal’s playground where lawlessness carries zero consequences. By treating law enforcement as a political inconvenience and prioritizing progressive optics over public safety, this administration has effectively surrendered entire swaths of our borough to the criminal element, leaving law abiding citizens to fend for themselves in a war zone these bastards created!😠

[josephine @2BronxGeniuses]

@bronxbp @NYCMayor @bradhoylman @ReynosoBrooklyn No dental insurance? Disgusting missing teeth.

[Chris Andrews @ChrisAn24242424]

@bronxbp Self aggrandizing woman in a borough that’s nearly forgotten!

[Chris Andrews @ChrisAn24242424]

@bronxbp You are such an attention seeker! Nobody pays attention to you there in the Bronx so you create your frivolous narrative by canceling the Bronx parade only to bring it back on a few days later!
I hope you get time-limited out soon-you and your freaking charade!

[Hector Feliciano @Hecfeli4547]

@bronxbp No more zombies 🧟‍♀️ in zombie land let’s see how long tho

[Dems With Balls @Dems_withBalls]

@BPGibson2025

[Dems With Balls @Dems_withBalls]

@BPGibson2025

[Bronx Borough President @foilcorruption2]

@bronxbp @BronxDAClark @QnsBPRichards @CMKevinCRiley Show pictures of you at a game! Stop pretending that you are a fan. Stop the thirst. Clown