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[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

Weird new genealogy discovery: my husband’s great grandfather (Max Leiserowitz) probably lost his mother and other family in the sinking of the Norge!

[Michelle Macleod @MichelleRobson8]

A really interesting exhibition coming up at @anlanntair next month on SS Norge 1904. Such a sad story but one that not many people know about. More than 600 lives were lost. Some of the very few who survived were treated in the old Lewis Hospital, Stornoway #Titanicpredecessor

[Paula Pant @AffordAnything]

What happens to the NYC housing system after you distort the math?

1) Random people who got lucky end up benefiting at the expense of everyone else.

Rent stabilization is not means tested. There's no upper income limit. You can make $250,000 and live in a rent-stabilized home. Plenty do.

30 percent of rent-stabilized tenants earn six figures.

2) The risk of developing new housing increases. This means lenders are less willing to lend. Investors are less willing to invest. Capital flows to other states, where the risk-adjusted returns are better.

3) The lowest income tenants are likely to live in declining conditions because maintenance is the first to get cut.

4) Tenants get locked in place because a valuable, stabilized unit is too attractive to give up. This means that when the family size grows or shrinks, they can't adjust their housing accordingly.

5) Market rate rents increase -- which means the city becomes even more expensive.

This means the political pressure to rent-stabilize even more units increases, until you have an increasingly smaller and smaller pool of market-rate tenants who are subsidizing everyone else.

And remember, because there's no means testing, plenty of low-income people pay market rate, while many high-income people are rent stabilized.

6) Newcomers get locked out because they don't have the connections to score a rent-stabilized place, and they can't shell out for market rate.

Fewer young people can move to the city to try to start their career.

The wealthy kids with family support will still come here. The low-income kids will lack that mobility, because of this market distortion.

7) Politicians keep themselves in power by giving away other people's money for "free."

The result is declining conditions and an increasingly expensive city.

[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

@eddyportnoy In the model of Handsome Karl Lueger. Be good looking. Hate Jews. Win elections.

[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

RT @NBA: "This is everything we dreamed of!" 🥹

After winning the 2026 NBA championship, Jalen Brunson was able to celebrate this special m…

[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

@eddyportnoy I had to google it. Sad.

[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

@eddyportnoy My uncle Gustavus is copying your look.

[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

@yimbytweets “1-be rent of $2,117 for incomes ranging from $81,223 to $116,640, 3-bedrooms with a monthly rent of $2,797 for incomes ranging from $112,903 to $160,720.” So if you earn less than $81,000 you’re gonna have to keep paying $6kfor a walkuo railroad w a flex wall and 2 roommates.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Oh, and the timing for Kristof's propaganda piece was to get ahead of this.

He wasn't tasked with revealing sexual crimes, but with covering for them. And it worked.

https://t.co/w5ymheQQ84

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Today, a man ran through Golders Green, a Jewish neighborhood in London, stabbing Jews outside a synagogue in broad daylight.

The UK PM called it "utterly appalling."

Here's what's actually appalling:

For two years, Western streets have hosted marches calling for the elimination of Israel. Universities have celebrated it. Politicians have legitimized it. The media has normalized it.

You don't get to spend two years mainstreaming the idea that Jews and their state have no right to exist and then act shocked when someone takes the message literally.

Words have consequences. "From the river to the sea" isn't poetry. "Globalize the intifada" isn't a metaphor.

When you spend years telling the world that Jewish presence in the Middle East or in Golders Green is a problem to be solved, don't be surprised when someone shows up with a knife to solve it.

The ideology and the blade are the same weapon. One just has a longer handle.

[Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK]

@NYCMayor You're such a classic third world Islamist. You and your pro Illegal Immigrant, pro Hamas friends can protest against America all you want, all we ask is you do it 100 feet away from SCHOOLS so young kids aren't being yelled at. Go back to Uganda.

[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

@Gamesis @EYakoby

[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

@Gamesis @EYakoby https://t.co/7eGgmcvvm3

[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

@EYakoby Abdallah Aljamal, a Gaza-based journalist and Hamas operative, held three Israeli hostages—Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv—captive in his family's home in Nuseirat. They were rescued by the IDF on June 8, 2024, at which time Aljamal was killed.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

This didn't get enough attention.

[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

@_SAFECAMPUS Dumb question about FIFA. The stadium holds a fixed number of people?Same number at a concert or Jets Giants game. Why are the security needs so massive? Are there extra people lurking about? My soccer knowledge is limited to what I learned as a mom at Supersoccerstars. Cough

[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

@eddyportnoy Your reminder that foods that are usually gluten free may not be gluten free in the KFP version.

[Daniel S. Loeb @DanielSLoeb1]

This is what the the pathetic @Cornell students voted to boycott.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

BREAKING 🔴

Israeli ambassador to Washington:

“I believe we need ground forces, but they should be Iranian, and I believe they are coming.”

[David Keyes @DavidMKeyes]

People forget: By killing Hitler, the allies only radicalized the Nazi party. Also, it created 1,000 new Hitlers. This is obvious. We need to think more strategically about the unintended consequences of killing genocidal tyrants.

[🤷‍♀️ @ilonacohen]

@eddyportnoy @havivrettiggur