Kevin C (he/him)

🌎 sustainability advocate |📱/📧 your elected reps about issues care about! | Opinions are mine | LI ➡️🗽| 🌱🚲🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 #CongestionPricingNow

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

@GatewayNPS does Jacob Riis have a lost and found? Left my running shoes on the boardwalk when the rain came.

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

@avianca experiencing really bad customer service from your website and WhatsApp. How can I spread to a human?

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

@FilmThePoliceLA Trains move people faster 🛤️🚊🚉🚇🚞🚂🚆🚄🚅🚃🚟🛤️

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

@GovKathyHochul if you send me $500, I’ll take it, but it’s absolutely asinine. Give NYers that money in #Metrocards, municipal bus and #commuter #rail tickets to get people out of cars, or give people that money in farmer’s market money so we can buy local, fresh & healthy food

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

@GovKathyHochul I have really choice words for you re the Legislature’s issue with funding the @MTA Capital Program. $33B gap? No shit. $9 ≠ $15. #congestionpricing for $15, not $9.

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

A beautiful thing

[Ana Ley @La__Ley]

NEW: Liman rules against critics of congestion pricing and rejects request for preliminary injunction, clearing several legal threats against the tolling program

[Jessica González-Rojas (votejgr.bsky.social) @votejgr]

Faster buses and trains, clearer streets, and cleaner air. That is the promise of congestion pricing and @RidersAlliance is helping us get there.

See their new ad here:

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

@GovKathyHochul @JFKairport More money for public transportation #CongestionPricingNow

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

@GovKathyHochul @nyliberty @WNBA #CongestionPricingNow

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

@GovKathyHochul I imagine the subway will look like this without adaptation paid for by congestion pricing

[Tony Simone @tonysimone]

It is OUTRAGEOUS that less than 30% of our subway system is accessible by elevator. We had billions of dollars set. We had the cameras ready. And then the rug was pulled from under us. Here is the deal. Flip the switch! Start the funding! ADD THE ELEVATORS!

[Pete Sikora @PeteSikora1]

I’m paying $16 to take an MTA train to Mamaroneck, a near-NYC suburb, right now. One way, peak.

Remind me again why @GovKathyHochul says it’s just too much to charge $15 for peak congestion pricing to drive a car into midtown Manhattan?

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

12 minutes between trains at midday on Saturday is unacceptable. @GovKathyHochul we need congestion pricing now

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

@AndrewDonovan @GovKathyHochul Doing right by New Yorkers would be unpausing CP

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

Thinking back to when the Mayor, “listened to New Yorkers” by ignoring 10k supporters of making McGuinness Blvd safe after a wealthy business (and donor) whispered in his and Ingrid’s ears.

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

@susanleenyc @bradlander Brad handled himself just fine. The heckler was was abusing his constitutional right to free speech to be a total disrespectful, obnoxious jerk that drowned out others’ ability to use their constitutional right to free speech.

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

Just subpoena everyone at this point

[Jake Offenhartz @jangelooff]

NEW: Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the head of @NYCMayor's asylum seeker office, Molly Schaeffer, according to a source familiar. https://t.co/1H47N6qTdO

[🚇 Riders Alliance @RidersAlliance]

The role of @GovKathyHochul is not to say who matters. We all matter and we all need elevators and we all need congestion pricing!

It’s time to dismantle the practice of letting luxury and convenience for some interfere with justice for everyone.

-@EmilyAssembly

[Kevin C (he/him) @hemolo]

@GovKathyHochul @RidersAlliance @MTA @NYCSierra

[hassaan! @hqazi_]

love having a governor so disreputable that her stained legacy’s chasing me all the way to a Chicago beachfront while on vacation 🙃

flip the switch already, @GovKathyHochul