Samir

Make sure to rank me #1 if you're voting in Lower Manhattan 🫡🙏

It's incredible to see people who are lucky to not have to regularly use hospitals and at least semi-regularly use emergency rooms in NYC talk about how unnecessary more hospital facilities are. typed from my laptop in the er

If you want there to be a movie theater there, have the city purchase it to operate a theater. Or raise money to build a theater. But "neighborhood busybodies micromanage commercial property transactions" is the most untenable form of governance imaginable.

I don’t want NYC to become a museum. It should be a living, breathing testament to the working people of our city.

it’s pretty cool how left-NIMBYs suddenly become all “republicans deserve representation too” when you point out that they are pushing MAGA policies counterpoint: NIMBY republicans do not deserve representation in a deep blue district in Manhattan

Terrible idea. Business owners – capitalists! – don’t need rent control. Giving it to them is a great way to ensure our streets are full of a bunch of past-their-prime businesses stocking a bunch of crap that nobody wants.

Trump is threatening war crimes to annihilate "a whole civilization". Republicans in Congress repeatedly voted for Trump’s war and still won't do their job to end this madness. Enough. Bring Congress back into session. Republicans must grow a spine and stop this catastrophe.

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

This is abundance, in practice. Nothing fancy, no grand ideological disputes, just ... get the fucking snow off the sidewalks in a reasonable amount of time.

I’m so proud to be endorsed by @nywfp.bsky.social! As costs rise and Trump attacks our communities, we need bold leadership—to deliver homes we can afford, universal healthcare and childcare, and protections for immigrant New Yorkers. WFP is leading that fight. Together, we’ll win it. 💪

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Made it onto the paper of record!

I wish for the proper procedures of federal law to be carried out regarding the president.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

Menin has completely failed the “would your reaction have been as weak if Paladino had said ‘Jews,’ ‘Hispanics’ or ‘Black people’ instead?” test. It’s disqualifying really.

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

Congressman Henry Cuellar was indicted for money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy, allegedly taking about $600,000, mostly from Azerbaijan, to influence U.S. policy. President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.

I think it's shameful that during a second Trump administration, and after NYC voters rejected a return to moderate, conciliatory governance, that a Democrat would tout the entirety of the Council's Republican caucus as her supporters.

Parts of this almost meet the standard of being newsworthy (the president is saying it; the thing he’s saying is that the opposition should be killed). However we must remember that there is a key countervailing fact (the president is Donald Trump, and he’s just a big ol’ joker, you silly goose).

a lot of poor urban governance is because local politicians and powerful stakeholders like unions are simply incapable of grasping the concept of second-order effects of any policy (in this case, a ton of 99 unit affordable housing projects)

let's take a moment to appreciate what this goofy city council mailer is really saying: we can't get transit upgrades, parks, school upgrades etc unless a condo developer is involved.

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

This to me is the game. I don’t care if Schumer doesn’t like Mamdani, but for him to stand silently by while sex pest Cuomo leans into gutter racism and Islamophobia while accepting endorsements from Trump, Musk and Miller is outrageous from the Senate Minority Leader.

As you prepare to vote, NYC, please read my op-ed about the importance of NYC voting yes on questions 2 through 5: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/fli... These changes aren’t about the needs of politicians. They’re about the needs of New Yorkers. /1

@drichardsqns.bsky.social is right and the council is being duplicitous: Props 2-5 are the housing reforms we need, and the public will still have a voice. Vote yes. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/17/w...

shout out to the “Hot Girls 4 Zohran” page for a great ballot question explainer and endorsement of voting YES on ballot measures 2-4

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Another year, another NYC Mayoral costume! This was by far the most I've ever been stopped on the street or had people recognize my costume. So many "do you ride cabs?" "do you smoke cannabis?" and "who likes to slap fannies and kill grannies?" Make sure to go to findmypollsite.vote.nyc and vote!

So who’s the hater and who’s the waiter?

This is reprehensible. It's blatant Islamophobia that is an afront to NYC's entire Muslim community. This hatred has no place in our city, our politics, or our party.

it’s honestly crazy how the New York City council, at the behest of speaker Adrienne Adams, is illegally spending millions of your taxpayer dollars on an unhinged NIMBY propaganda campaign if you live in NYC vote YES on measures 2-5 to make it easier to build affordable housing

Gross that Council is spending public money on illegal electioneering. Ballot proposals 2-4 push every neighborhood to add new affordable housing, and I'm disgusted to see Council waste money breaking the law instead of ensuring New Yorkers have the housing we desperately need.

Fuck this executive overreach. It's a BUS WAY. Calm tf down. The DOT should not give into this pressure. Just ignore it and it'll go away, a la the congestion pricing threats.

We're in an unprecedented housing shortage. We need more affordable housing in every neighborhood of NYC. If you're not voting for Curtis Sliwa, you should vote @YesOnAffHousing.bsky.social Props 2-5!

You couldn't ask for a better endorsement of Ballot Props 2-5 than Sliwa going on an unhinged rant about them. Is Adrienne Adams still sure she wants to hitch her wagon to that sinking ship?

Not a really tough choice on the ballot propositions... Vote YES on 2-5! I do not want to be aligned with the Republican Candidate, Curtis Sliwa, and neither should you!

Perfection.

Finally. Hopefully the city can do the sidewalk extensions in concrete rather than paint and planters. The planters usually end up hogging all of the added pedestrian space. bsky.app/profile/vinb...

This is so easy and sensible. Somehow @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social will find reasons not to even try. Why would they want to get Republicans on record in support of racial profiling?

This is undemocratic and brazenly illegal. This Board of Elections coup could deny NYC voters the chance to help end our housing crisis.

This would be an outrageous abuse of the Board of Elections role in order to override the democratic process.