Leah

she/her. former baby. also former @uva, @webflow. currently content @runwayml

[Leah @leah_retta]

Female friendship is one friend yelling at the other to stop apologizing

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

Good lord this edit. Insane.

[Leah @leah_retta]

Pope Leo WAKE UP!! #NBAFinals

[Leah @leah_retta]

@SydneyBattle 😭😭😭😭😭

[New York Metro Weather @nymetrowx]

PERFECT 10/10 DAY COMPLETE. #KNICKS

[knicks shitposts @knicksshitposts]

I don’t know what’s worse getting swept by the knicks or living in ohio

[𝒹𝒶𝒾𝓈𝓎 @daisandconfused]

New York is an incredible city where it only rains on weekends

[jess @abolish_jess]

be grateful for every moment you’re alive and not lost in the fulton street station

[Leah @leah_retta]

@chaykak @NewYorker Shoutout out @westsiderag for boots on the ground UWS journalism.

[Leah @leah_retta]

@GusSaltonstall Did anyone tell @ali_sivi

[Leah @leah_retta]

@ali_sivi I always feel so connected to you, queen

[Leah @leah_retta]

Saying the American electorate takes national security for granted when the current administration has wrecked havoc on foreign diplomacy is truly wild

[Sam Altman @sama]

Three general things from this AMA:

1. There is more open debate than I thought ther ewould be, at least in this part of Twitter, about whether we should prefer a democratically elected government or unelected private companies to have more power. I guess this is something people disagree on, but…I don’t. This seems like an important area for more discussion.

2. I think the is a question behind a lot of the questions but I haven’t seen quite articulated: What happens if the government tries to nationalize OpenAI or other AI efforts? I obviously don’t know; I have thought about it of course (it has seemed to me for a long time it might be be better if building AGI were a government project) but it doesn’t seem super likely on the current trajectory. That said, I do think a close partnership between governments and the companies building this technology is super important.

3. People take their safety (in the national security sense) more for granted than I realized, which I think is a good thing on balance but I don’t think shows enough respect to the tremendous work it takes for that to happen.

Also, I am on the whole very grateful for the level of reasonable and good-faith engagement here. It was not what I expected.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

[Leah @leah_retta]

Me to the Oscar’s voters after they snubbed Sorry baby & no other choice

[SK @Djoko_UTD]

Andreeva to the Aus open crowd today :

“Fuck you all 🫶”

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

This is the full 60 Minutes segment on CECOT Bari Weiss and CBS News didn't want you to see.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

I don’t think it’s mentioned nearly enough that Zohran, who was spectacularly successful among young voters, never used memes in his social media posts.

[Sasha @servingcapreal]

the John Oliver team currently debating how much prison time they want to serve for their next episode

[Leah @leah_retta]

@MakeItWayne151 All this pain just for ani to get bodied by Saba next round… 🙊

[Leah @leah_retta]

@Emily_Sundberg Love these graphics, queen

[Leah @leah_retta]

@MadMart05 Carlaw roach

[Leah @leah_retta]

this man knows so little about this city’s housing law that he’s failing to address that the rent will definitely significantly increase from $2300 if mamdani vacates the unit, as well as the chance that the unit could become destabilized if mamdani moved out

[Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo]

Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children again slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman @ZohranKMamdani continue to occupy her rent-stabilized apartment.

It’s been 10 days since the world found out. You went on a weeklong distraction tour as the pressure builds. But the facts have only become more damning.

You claim you didn’t know the apartment was rent-stabilized when you moved in. But you also say you were working as a foreclosure prevention counselor at the time. Your job was to read leases. Rent-stabilized leases clearly and repeatedly say they are “rent stabilized”. Are New Yorkers to believe that you didn’t read your own lease? There’s not a single person in New York who doesn’t know that they are in a rent stabilized unit! New Yorkers are not fools.

In 2020, your state financial disclosure stated you made virtually no income. How did you qualify for the lease and pay your rent? Why the mystery? What are you hiding?

The median income for a household with a rent stabilized apartment is $60,000.  Today, you make $142,000 a year (as the NYT reported, $142,000 is the 90% income percentile in New York City) plus you get paid state stipends and your wife also works. What is your household income?

We are in the middle of a historic affordability crisis. Millions of people desperately need the rent stabilized apartment you occupy. Yet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month, as you have bragged, for a nice apartment in Astoria. Struggling families need this housing.

I’ve proposed Zohran’s law to make sure that moving forward, when rent stabilized apartments come on the market, by law they go to people who need them. In your case, for a man who campaigns on principle and moral clarity, I reiterate my call for you to end your hypocrisy and move out immediately and give your affordable housing back to a family who need it. Time to move out.