Jessica Murray

Ph.D., Dev Psych @GC_CUNY | | | |

[CIDNY @CID_NY]

This is a problem folks. We have to fix this. @NYCDisabilities

[Britney Wilson @labelleverite]

.Once more, @NYCMayor @NYCDisabilities where is the accessibility information for tomorrow’s @nyknicks parade? We have to plan. We have rides to schedule before 5 pm today. Please do not leave us out of this. We are #Knicks fans too.

[Jessica Murray @jekaanne]

This is egregious, @NYC_DOT

[Anna @Annatated]

It's hard enough getting around broken curb cuts as a wheelchair user without @NYC_DOT putting a traffic light post smack in the middle of one. The ADA is federal law, not a suggestion. This needs to be fixed immediately! W43rd st & 10th Ave in Manhattan. @nyc311 @NYCMayor

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

People will literally die in agony because of this. These people are monsters.

[Shabazz Stuart @ShabazzStuart]

The MTA can install all the ADA compliant features it wants on the subway but little of it matters if the elevators and escalators are down for extended periods of time.

[Cara Liebowitz @spazgirl11]

But will the shuttle be wheelchair accessible, is the question.

[Christopher Alvarez @JournAlvarez]

"Everyone deserves a subway system they can actually use.” Is a true statement from @stephanieruskay but the @MTA needs more help from @Columbia

@CMShaunAbreu did not respond to @StreetsblogNYC's request for comment on the issue. https://t.co/kgMArmEbWM

[Lyric @DecaturTenant]

Why are we celebrating adhering to the ADA ? Every station should be by law accessible.. We should refrain from patting ourselves on the back until every station is accessible.. every .. single .. one.

[breanna 🇺🇸🇩🇪 @txgermanbre]

“Billionaires already pay more taxes than you ever will” is one of the most financially illiterate arguments on this app because it confuses nominal dollars with effective burden.

A billionaire paying $500M in taxes sounds enormous until you remember they gained $20B in asset value while doing it. The relevant metric is percentage, not raw dollars. A teacher paying 22% of a $60k salary is carrying a heavier proportional burden than someone paying 8% while their wealth compounds tax-deferred through stock appreciation.

And this “their money was already taxed” line is mostly fiction at billionaire scale.

Middle-class wealth is usually income that got taxed, then saved. Billionaire wealth is overwhelmingly unrealized appreciation. Tesla stock going vertical did not mean Elon “earned” $100B in taxable salary. The shares appreciated. Under current law, that appreciation can sit untaxed for decades, get borrowed against for liquidity, then receive stepped-up basis treatment at death that can erase the embedded gains entirely.

That is not “double taxation.” In many cases it is functionally zero taxation on the primary mechanism of wealth accumulation.

People also weirdly talk about billionaires like they emerged from the forest carrying capitalism on their backs with no public inputs involved.

Their companies rely on:
public roads
public courts
public contract enforcement
public utilities
public universities
public research grants
public internet infrastructure
public IP law
public military-protected trade routes
public education systems producing labor

The modern corporation is not built in isolation. It operates inside an enormous state-supported framework.

And no, asking whether someone should contribute proportionally to maintaining the system that enabled $100B fortunes is not “greed.” That framing is emotional theater designed to avoid discussing the actual structure of tax law.

The real debate is simple:
Should labor income be taxed continuously while massive asset appreciation can compound largely untouched for generations?

That’s the argument. Everything else is distraction.

[Effective Transit Alliance @eta_ny]

Monthly passes are one of the strongest ways to encourage transit ridership and reduce fare evasion, but the MTA retired the pass when it retired the MetroCard last year.

In ETA's new report, we look at the advantages of a monthly pass and why the MTA should add it to OMNY.

[CIDNY @CID_NY]

Good news. We look forward to the day when the entire NYC transit system is fully accessible for all.

'PHOTOS: MTA Announces Modernized Elevators and Escalators Put in Service Across 11 Subway Lines' https://t.co/rNpsZoVU8q

[Jessica Murray @jekaanne]

@NYCTBus I love walking 10 minutes to catch a bus that disappears off the app when it's supposed to be arriving several minutes later. That's a ghost bus, right?

[Streetsblog New York City @StreetsblogNYC]

Disability justice advocates, the Advisory Committee for Transit Accessibility, accused the MTA of marginalizing the panel, which ex-transit boss Andy Byford created in 2019. https://t.co/CDKnvrs20q

[Christopher Alvarez @JournAlvarez]

In order to push the conversation forward on more sustainable, equitable, and accessible transportation in NYC, city agencies like the @MTA MUST be open to dialogue, suggestions, disagreements and criticism, not shut out the community they’re making the system accessible for.

[Jessica Murray @jekaanne]

There's an ongoing blizzard and 6,300 miles of roads in NYC.

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

Mamdani declared a state of emergency and a travel ban yesterday, yet instead of taking the opportunity to plow, the streets look completely abandoned.

What exactly is going on here? This is the second major snowstorm since he became mayor, and once again the city looks completely unprepared. I have no doubt that soon we’ll get the same videos: Mamdani with a shovel, Mamdani marching alongside sanitation trucks, or Mamdani performing competence for the cameras. Meanwhile, residents are left navigating deep snow, ice, and chaos. And we can already imagine what the garbage situation will be like in a few days.

Does Mamdani think the snow identifies as the sun? When exactly will he start cleaning the streets, next week?

[Celine Halioua @celinehalioua]

Epstein-Barr Virus aka mono is absolutely terrifying. I got it at 21 & the effects lingered for years. It's also a major causative agent of multiple sclerosis.

Regardless of your personal feelings on the COVID vax fallout, we NEED an EBV vaccine. This is insane.

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Snow removal is a disability rights issue.

[Christopher Alvarez @JournAlvarez]

Rumor is that @NYCSanitation is waiting for mother nature to do their job— wait for warmer weather to melt the snow that is blocking curb cuts and pedestrian ramps, preventing @NYCTBus and @LIRR from deploying their ramps for people with disabilities.

https://t.co/dzvHbs9Gj0

[Christopher Alvarez @JournAlvarez]

SCOOP: @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani chooses Nisha Agarwal as the new commissioner to lead @NYCDisabilities.

Thx to @dorapekec and @PenelopeBi81050 for trusting me with the exclusive.

https://t.co/j9h2n63lpv

[Jessica Murray @jekaanne]

@Cat_Victim Sorry, I meant plebeians