@TweetBenMax ppl: we want the subways to be safer and cleaner
de blasio: you’re lying to make me look bad
meanwhile: crime on subways 📈 & public confidence 📉
conflating ppl’s desire to be safe with a supposed political agenda is lame
“We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can [and] do read worthwhile books.”
W. E. B. Du Bois - February, 1953
Immigrants in NYC send $10 billion+ abroad each year while spending hundreds of millions on remittance fees. We should work to reduce these fees so families are able to keep and spend more on meeting their needs.
8 years ago today Yung Lean posted Ginseng Strip 2002 on YouTube, a song that would quickly blow up and become one of the most iconic tracks of the decade https://t.co/j7xuBLgR5t
In 2020, it cost $447k to support 1 inmate in NYC jails. Up from $334k in 2019.
I heard @AndrewYang talk about this yesterday, checked the numbers & was shocked. Three conclusions:
1. Andrew knows the data.
2. He should be NYC mayor.
3. The prison industrial complex is real.
"Anti-Asian racism is deadly. It is real. It is growing stronger and more powerful."
An emotional @AndrewYang spoke out against anti-Asian attacks after 6 Asian women were shot and killed in Atlanta.