Rich Mintz

Street safety, housing, and democracy advocate. Fmr Housing committee chair, Manh CB6. Opinions mine. He/him. (richmintz bsky social)

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

@StatisticUrban @LinkofSunshine As a New Yorker who works in issue advocacy and yet never hear a peep out of her or a word about her, I find this a mystery

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

I can’t speak for the whole state, but in NYC Schumer shows up EVERYWHERE. Just a few years ago on a day he’d started in DC he showed up personally at our 7pm community board meeting alongside the 23-yo staffers for our other electeds, and took policy questions off the cuff

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

The old Schumer senate races were so insane lol how did he do this

Outran the margin on Trump by 20 in 2016!!!

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Josh doesn't even mention the worst part of Fetterman's irresponsibility. Because he won't wear a suit, he's *literally not allowed on the Senate floor*. That's where negotiations happen. He just doesn't go. He sits in the hall and signals thumbs up/down through the doorway.

The Senate is very much built on bargains and personal back-and-forth. Fetterman just sits all of it out. He plops himself on a chair in the hallway, alone, scrolling his phone, until an aide taps his shoulder to tell him it's time to peek his head in and vote.

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

@ryan932ljfldjf3 i LITERALLY have done this lol

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

I came back to Darling Jack’s because the last time I had this wedge salad 10 months ago I judged it the best in America, and it has held the title

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

“never a bad meal in Philadelphia,” Exhibit B

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

I’m not saying Philadelphia is America’s best food city because I haven’t eaten in every city in America, but I have never had a bad meal here

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

“Conveniently” implies something nefarious — what’s the public policy reason to object? The state facility is under the hyperscale threshold and a fraction of the size of some proposals, not served by commercial utilities, was not developed for profit, and already exists

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

Conveniently NYS is excluding its own 15-megawatt AI facility from its ban.

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

@GoodGuyGuaranty Lol damn

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

One of Andrew Fine’s cohort showed up at a Manhattan CB6 full board meeting, approached our chair during the session, and was so neck-vein-bulgingly hostile to her that I instinctively stood up and moved my large body next to him while our vice chair punched 9-1-1 into his phone

[Jessie Singer @JessieSingerNYC]

These “protesters” threatened to burn my book and called me a murderer, multiple times.

[emily lipstein @emily_lip]

i routinely get more threats of violence and targeted harassment from people like this than i did when i covered literal neo-nazis and sex traffickers at vice

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

@tanner_roscoe @RossBarkan Definitely a real person lol

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

Someone should tell Steyer that people in their 60s like us don’t have to do every meme, Jesus Christ

[Peter Twinklage @PeterTwinklage]

what the hell, sure

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

@LinkofSunshine @sfmhmmad Lol I didn’t even think of that, I started doing the math like a dumb LLM (that knew how to do math) would and after 3 years I knew the (correct) answer

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

I go all the way to Philadelphia and get off the bus and walk into an open street lol

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

@FrankBraconi @aarmlovi But (and we are not in a fight, i’m asking you earnestly as someone who is following this closer than me) the tactic seems to have succeeded in forestalling gentrification, so isn’t that a good outcome (and related, is more social/less market inherently a bad thing)?

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

@NYHammond What I am saying is that (aside from whatever else it may do in cases of surrogacy) it forecloses bad-faith obstruction by a counterparty who would litigate the definitions of words like “mother” based on the legally recognized genders of one of the parties

[Rich Mintz @richmintz]

Asking seriously: who does this hurt? It’s easy enough to imagine who it might help (someone aiming to bring proceedings in which one of the parties is legally recognized by a gender other than their gender assigned at birth, facing a hostile and obstructionist counterparty)

[Bill Hammond @NYHammond]

Holy Gestating Parent of God, this is ridiculous