THROWBACK 🗽: Did you know NYC has privately owned public spaces (POPS) that are legally required to be open to the public?
I went to 780 Third Avenue in Manhattan after learning that people were allegedly being prevented from sitting in a space meant for public use.
I'm of the opinion that we have to let all of the 20th century beefs go. The men who decided we hate each other are either dying or dead, the new gen shouldn't continue that just because.
It's a good first building block to a healthier republican party.
Insane exchange. Newly elected Democrat Adam Hamawy refuses to call Iran an adversary.
BROWN: Do you see Iran as the adversary?
HAMAWY: "We pushed them into a fight"
BROWN: But are they the adversary?
HAMAWY: "We should be making friends"
BROWN: They've been saying "death to America" for decades
HAMAWY: "We've been saying 'death to Iran'"
BROWN: They've killed a lot of Americans
HAMAWY: "And we've killed a lot of them"
BROWN: So you don't see Iran as an adversary?
HAMAWY: "I see that we are pushing Iran into a fight"
Every time I resign on the hakeem jefferies shit he gives me a reason to not fuck with him again
You can't threaten to ruin niggas lives when you actively don't do your job, fuck yourself
House Democrats are having attendance issues again. If the caucus actually showed up to vote tonight, Hegseth would be impeached. This is a serious leadership problem.
@MargBarAmerica Very torn on all parties involved (besides Hakeem, fuck em) because we all call ourselves the same thing but I'm not quite a fan of how each person is choosing to go about it, and I'm sure if I was in charge of anything they'd feel the same about me
@undamipengting It's really the same argument as they're making in the middle of the country that they're running from: an unwillingness to assimilate and just live in a place without terraforming the joint to what they imagined
Toyota is relaunching the Scion brand, and its first product is the KEI-01, a tiny truck with a 660-cc engine. The KEI-01 is basically a rebadged Daihatsu Hijet Jumbo, but will be assembled in Princeton, Indiana. Initial sales will be via a fleet-focused trial program, but limited retail sales could come if there is strong enough demand.
@SeanMcCarthyCom I feel like I'm parroting myself a lot, but the hesitation with zohran oger a brad lander was that zohran felt less like he was building a NYC for those here and more like he intended to build an NYC for who's coming. Not that he's doing a bad job but these are blind spots.
Modern American “democratic socialism” is by and for downwardly mobile people with college degrees. Those without degrees are socially excluded from its internal culture and are first on the chopping block when cuts have to be made
@nodisplacement This was my concern. I was in the tank for brad lander and I do like zohran, but my hesitation with zohran always has been that he's not building a new york for who's here, he's building a new york for who's coming
Many of Mamdani’s yimby-adjacent policies are for his gentrifier base, not necessarily for low income, long-time NYers who require policies that need deeper structural change that Mamdani so far has been unwilling to engage in.