Thomas Lamadrid

Congratulations to Archbishop Ronald Hicks on today’s installment and welcome to NYC. Archbishop Hicks and I share a deep and abiding commitment to the dignity of every human being and look forward to working together to create a more just and compassionate city where every New Yorker can thrive.

Congratulations to @uaw.org workers at Volkwagen’s Chattanooga plant on their historic tentative agreement. This life-changing first contract shows what is possible when workers stand up to demand their fair share.

Counterpoint: Democrats want ICE razed more thoroughly than Carthage in 146 BC, the ideological territory in which it operates salted so thoroughly it never grows again, and every single one of these goons in front of a judge to face justice for their crimes.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

🚨 STATEMENT FROM UAW PRESIDENT SHAWN FAIN ON THE KILLING OF ALEX PRETTI 🚨 “The UAW stands in solidarity with the family and loved ones of our fallen union brother Alex Pretti and all those standing up for justice in Minneapolis and beyond.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

#AlexPretti was one of us. May he rest in peace. #bicycle

They will create a world so dangerous that you feel you have no choice except to drive a car, or own a gun, or flee a country that they violently destabilized. And they will use that car, that gun, that decision to seek asylum as an excuse to shoot and kill you.

The ICE Seven

It’s time. I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight. A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.

Another murder by immigration enforcement in my district. I am absolutely horrified that federal agents are targeting and executing our residents instead of protecting them. ICE and CBP must leave Minnesota immediately. Kristi Noem must be impeached. Enough.

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

This is the way. 20 NY State Senators sponsor S8462/A8908 to ban masked law enforcement. (❤️ @patriciafahy46.bsky.social ; spread the word!) Why has it not passed? Andrea Stewart-Cousins thinks it's ok to take 6 months off from passing legislation in our current day and age.

Agents like this should be identified and their name and picture posted on a searchable web site with videos and content like this linked to their names

since it's the chatter this morning, @kimkelly.bsky.social from 2020

it is impossible for mayors or cops to learn positive lessons about protest response because they all have two immovable beliefs: 1. it is evil and childish to hold police officers accountable for violent acts 2. cops must be present at all times during protests

that’s why they say “all cops” and not “some cops”

British police have killed fewer people in the last 100 years than American police kill in an average month. Policing in America is an ongoing tragedy.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

. @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social why won’t you tell Tisch to stop the war on cyclists?? You ruined your streak of not disappointing the livable streets movement

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

Senators Durbin, Hassan, Kaine, King, Klobuchar, Shaheen, and Welch voted to confirm a man to a lifetime judicial appointment days after the president who nominated him invaded a foreign country without even giving notice to Congress and the day after federal agents killed a person in the U.S.

Ameen.

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

NEW INVESTIGATION: What Is A Life Worth In NYC? In Fatal Crashes, Sometimes Just $50. Drivers who kill pedestrians often face minimal punishment, including just a $50 fine in one case, a Streetsblog investigation found. -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/08/w...

whichever candidate runs on prosecuting every single ice agent fuck to the fullest extent of the law has my vote

Fucking murderers.

Due to American Imperialism, Park Row's protected bike lane and sidewalks are closed. This morning, I was told they would be "frozen" whenever the foreign dictator and spouse are in court. #BikeNYC

Everyone wish congestion pricing a happy birthday!

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

This is all so egregious too because wasn’t Rubio like visibly coked up at a press conference just a few days ago?

there is no constituency that needs you to fall all over yourself to call Maduro illegitimate before you dare criticize Trump. Voters have been down this road before. No one thought Saddam Hussein was a nice guy. Criticism of Maduro at this stage correctly reads as a defense of Trump to most people.

. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social why are we paying @nypdnews.bsky.social to park in crosswalks, idle, and play games on their phones? This is the 13th Precinct on 35th St. and Broadway @ebottcher.bsky.social @nypdparking.bsky.social

2025 stats! Service requests submitted: 30187 - Police action not necessary: 19432 (64%) - Fixed the condition: 8211 (27%) - No evidence: 1749 (6%) - Gone: 170 (1%) - Issued a summons: 111 (0%) Avg response time: 45 mins Median response time: 25 mins (CSV available by request)

Trump and his cabinet should be impeached before dinner time. This is so far beyond what I even have words to describe.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

all these fucks are like bro you don't understand how precise this operation was bro no one's ever done this bro it was epic, expecting us to be like oh well in that case

They've spent months sinking fishing boats in order to provoke some response that would provide a better pretext for this. They got nothing and did it anyway, now they are stuck with "narcoterror," which everyone knows is complete horseshit

great day to be an “america first” bootlicker who voted for the most israel first admin that guts social programs, won’t fix infra, cuts taxes for the super wealthy & spends all its money instead on bombing venezuela & stealing its oil for super profits of the pedophilic elite!

So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago

Listening to this interview the evening before this Venezuela attack gave me a lot of good context.

Congressional leaders must immediately act to prevent further destabilization to the region and prevent this spiraling into another war.

We cannot let this president drag us into more endless wars that risk the lives of American service members and civilians abroad. The attack last night on Venezuela was unnecessary and unauthorized. The President’s actions are reckless and illegal.