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Ryder Kessler

@ryderkessler.bsky.social

Building a city and state that make it easier, cheaper, and faster to provide New Yorkers with what we need to thrive • Co-founder @abundanceny.bsky.social (opinions mine)

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Aaron Blackshear@aaronblackshear.bsky.social · last wk.

They all say “I’ll leave!” and then what actually happens is they stay and pay the taxes they just do it like Paul Rudd cleaning up the cafeteria in Wet Hot American Summer

Groundwork Collaborative@groundwork.bsky.social · last wk.

In New York, tax opponents have repeatedly claimed – without evidence – that any new taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers would cause tax flight. Fact: NY added ~2,000 millionaire tax filers in a single year, shortly AFTER the state raised its top tax rate on high earners.

Nolan Hicks@ndhapple.bsky.social · 3w ago

There’s just been a total collapse in the quantity and breath of city coverage in New York City that isn’t entirely evident until you pick up another city’s major paper — and, well, maybe there’s just no news in New York anymore.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · last mo.

I really think the fact that it takes decades to build critical infrastructure plays a significant role in blackpilling young people. government should be able to do things on a reasonable timeline

Help us shape the IBXP (Interborough Express) The MTA wants your thoughts on the light rail line that will connect Brooklyn and Queens. Brooklyn MTA + 13.3K MTA 470 684 MTA • Photo Interested in the future of the Interborough Express (IBX)? Throughout August and September, we're hosting pop-up events about the nronosed liaht rail connectionHelp us shape the IDY 470 comments = I coulda used this when i was 21 (im 32 now) 2h Reply can you just fucking build it 20h Reply View 6 replies v • 2,176 • • u gonna finish this when im dead 20h Reply View 8 replies v 2,605 can we get this by next weekend 20h Reply View 2 replies v
Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · last mo.

Weird how there always seems to be a ton of money for ~being shitty to people who annoy you on the internet~ but rarely enough funding for organizing or infrastructure work that builds long term power.

Ryder Kessler@ryderkessler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The fact that ostensible champions for the working class are on the fence about the fight for more homes is continually mind-boggling.

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This lady in a business I’m in all the time and I got to talking. She gets off at 10 pm, drives two hours to Turlock—powered on red hot Doritos and nacho sauce—hopes to get 8 hrs of sleep before she drives 2 hrs back for a noon shift tomorrow. We must build more housing.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wisconsin's election commission found probable cause that Elon Musk broke state law with his promise of $1 million to voters and referred the case for possible prosecution to the Brown County DA's office. www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/p...

Elon Musk likely broke the law by giving voters $1 million, Wisconsin board says | CNN Politics

Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found.

cnn.com

Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

‪People are hungry for optimistic, positive visions of what might be possible. They don’t want to settle for the status quo bc the status quo is not working. Municipal leaders in particular have the power to actually *do shit* on housing, which is often the root of the concerns about cost of living.

Sophia Lebowitz@sophlebo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: Best friend of cyclist who was killed on the Queensboro Bridge in a collision with someone on an illegal e-scooter (who also died) demands action from the city to curb the illegal vehicles and implement better street design.

Dead Cyclist's Best Friend Demands Action Against Illegal Vehicles on City Streets

The best friend of Dmytro Stechenko, who was killed in a head-on collision with an illegal scooter-rider on the Queensboro Bridge, is calling on the city to do more.

nyc.streetsblog.org

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Purcell principle now officially just means “Republicans win.” For the reasons Sotomayor lays out here, SCOTUS’s eleventh hour intervention for Alabama Republicans is indefensible. It’s going to unleash massive chaos on the ground for both voters and election administrators. What a disaster.

First, the Court's decision will cause havoc. The so-called "Purcell principle" "generally holds that, because late-breaking changes to election procedures can cause chaos, federal courts should hesitate before exercising their equitable discretion to alter state election laws close to an elec-tion." Malliotakis v. Williams, 607 U. S. _, — (2026) (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 10). Today's decision tramples on that principle of restraint. As the District Court explained, the path of least change in Alabama is keeping the District Court's remedial plan in place. According to Alabama Director of Elections Jeff El-rod, all voters in Alabama are currently assigned in county-level voter rolls to congressional districts based on the remedial map that the District Court previously ordered and that the State used for the 2024 election cycle. 2 App. 135. To run an election using the remedial map, then, the State need not make any changes to its voter rolls or change the status quo. To switch to the 2023 Redistricting Plan now, however, county elections officials will have to reassign hundreds of thousands of voters across the State to new congressional districts. Three of Alabama's counties will be particularly hard hit because they are split across two congressional dis-tricts. 2 App. 121-122. These counties have about 600,000registered voters between them (roughly 15% of the State's total number of registered voters).2 Elrod testified below that county elections officials would have to reassign those 600,000 voters manually. "The sys-tem," he explained, "is not automatic" and "requires manual input" from elections officials who must "physically manually interface with the system." Id., at 146. Reassigning voters in precincts split across two districts is particularly complicated, he continued, as it "cannot be done with a simple click" and instead requires officials to check street-level data to determine how to assign individual voters. Id., at 156-157. Worse yet, Elrod warned that reassigning voters requires using complicated computer software that officials must be trained to use, as "most of the counties' registrars are not tech savvy" and "registrars are the only ones who can make the changes ... to a voter's record." Id., at 147- 148. This process also requires many prechecks and backend quality control steps, all of which add to its time-inten-sive nature. Id., at 140. Given these complexities, the process for reassigning voters typically takes months. Alabama knows (or at least knew) this. In 2021, at the first preliminary-injunction stage in these cases, Alabama filed a declaration from El-rod's predecessor representing that voter reassignment "can take a county's Board of Registrars 3 to 4 months to accomplish." ECF Doc. 82-7, p. 4.3 For example, after the Alabama Legislature redrew its state legislative districts in 2017 following litigation, "local election officials struggled to complete the district assignment process in up to 4 months." Ibid.