Yea housing is complicated but also most people’s lived experience is, like mine, that 15+ massive new apartment buildings have opened in my neighborhood in the past 10 years and rent has only gone up. That’s not a NIMBY take, it’s a political challenge & policy question.

how far we are from zendaya is meechee

I saw someone used Ig/TikTok and got @mayor.nyc.gov to fix some water fountains at Prospect Park, so here’s hoping this website can leverage its extraordinary influence to remedy this water fountain that has flooded like this for at least ten years 👀

would anyone else need the t-shirt that says “I freelanced for national publications in the mid-2010s and all I got was $250 per article and multiple notices of data breaches including my personal information”

so many people these days on the pilates reformer, but not enough on the pilates abolitioner

Don’t want to scare anyone, but I was able to make an appointment online for the DMV in Brooklyn and then get in and out in 35 minutes. Government at work!

"This is about making it easier for small businesses to thrive while creating more vibrant neighborhoods for New Yorkers and visitors alike,” said Council Speaker and former restaurant owner Julie Menin. buff.ly/n0iIRUQ

Year-Round Outdoor Dining Poised to Return Under Council Bill - Streetsblog New York City

Boosters predict an expansion of the popular "streeteries," thanks to all-year set-ups.

nyc.streetsblog.org

absolutely incredible “I’m a bozo who did crime” photo choice here

Celebrity family home Instagram videos are cute until you stop to think for one literal second — I hadn’t! — about the fact there is a social media producer just there recording.

Sure there’s some time yet to go, but the start of the Mamdani mayoralty vs the start of the Adams mayoralty sure as hell suggests that giving a shit about your constituents is far more important than experience in government.

*customary cycles-late discourse post* why were people saying The Drama has a “twist”? there’s no twist! that’s just a good plot!

As a Jewish American, I’m deeply, genuinely scared about the threat MAGA, Musk, and the neo-Nazis in the government pose to me and my family. The ADL hasn’t done jack shit to protect Jews like me, but has thrown all their weight behind destroying my friends and allies. They have betrayed us.

The ADL has a website dedicated to attacking Mamdani staffers—including my friend Waleed Shahid. The ADL is applying a level of scrutiny to him they aren’t applying to literal neo-Nazis working in the federal government. Waleed has a Jewish wife and child. The ADL is a disgrace.

Personnel

We expect the Mamdani administration to uphold a simple, non-negotiable standard: no one with a history of antisemitism or hostility toward Jews, Zionists, Israelis or Jewish institutions should be ap...

mamdanimonitor.com

just debased myself with a donut peach, which reminds me to remind you we are once again at the peak of Sink Food season www.bonappetit.com/story/sink-f...

Everything Tastes Better When You Eat It Over the Sink

Tomato sauce pan scrapings! Blender blade hummus! A very ripe peach! Sink foods are the best, and these are the best sink foods.

bonappetit.com

This is the undeniable reality and yet, of course, it will be the battle of our lifetime to make sure certain people in the Democratic Party with a lot of money & power are forced to accept it.

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · last wk.

If you want to lose, run a household name normies have seen before. Stop overthinking this. People want change. They're voting for NOT THIS. Anything that doesn't represent the universe they've known for the last decade has a better chance at winning than a re-tread.

can’t believe this president is so fucking dumb you can be a hardened anti-war leftist and still feel a certain passion for rockets reading this shit

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.

Strategic Defeat Update: "It could take more than 2 years for the US to replenish the more than 1,500 Patriot interceptor missiles that have been used in the Iran war. "The current inventory of those missiles is fewer than 1,700." Must-read/gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...

data center? data ought to try *receiving* her first

does anyone remember a time when you got on the plane and then the plane left the gate and then the plane left the ground in a direct sequence? it was pretty good

I told an old neighbor in Colorado this AM that Mamdani’s NYC was feeling great. He said “Well do they know you’re Jewish?” So here’s another update on the guarantee that this mayoralty would be a danger to Jews — & a reminder these “leaders” have neither faced consequences nor shown remorse.

Stephen Lurie@luriethereal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Many Jewish institutional leaders have spent the past few months promising that New York Jews will be in danger if Zohran wins. We’re about to see exactly how wrong they were. Will they admit it? empty-brain.ghost.io/will-jewish-...

I told an old neighbor in Colorado this AM that Mamdani’s NYC was feeling great. He said “Well do they know you’re Jewish?” So here’s another update on the guarantee that this mayoralty would be a danger to Jews — & a reminder these “leaders” have neither faced consequences nor shown remorse.

Stephen Lurie@luriethereal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Many Jewish institutional leaders have spent the past few months promising that New York Jews will be in danger if Zohran wins. We’re about to see exactly how wrong they were. Will they admit it? empty-brain.ghost.io/will-jewish-...

Well, “government corruption is making your life worse while the corrupt get rich off your taxes” is right there for any opposition party who wants it!

NPR@npr.org · last wk.

The Senate confirmed Blanche by a 50-49 vote early Saturday morning, elevating President Trump's former personal lawyer to head the Justice Department.

To add to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s 🎯: they’re not just campaigning like organizers, they often *are* organizers. In addition to Pearson, there’s Valdez, Chevalier, Mejia, Lawrence, McKinney who have won and Larkin still to come.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · last wk.

“…the latest crop of progressive candidates are campaigning like organizers. In doing so, they’re revealing weaknesses in the Democratic machine that have existed since Barack Obama ran for president—the first time.” - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

It is an absolute disgrace on both personal & professional levels that non-Muslim Democrats in Congress operate as if it’s okay to continue doing business with other congresspeople who speak this way about their colleagues. They don’t have to sanction it.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · last wk.

Replace Muslim with most any other minority community and it would warrant expulsion or at least censure But this vile dehumanizing hate targeted at Americans who are Muslim is accepted as legitimate political discourse and no one blinks

Replace Muslim with most any other minority community and it would warrant expulsion or at least censure But this vile dehumanizing hate targeted at Americans who are Muslim is accepted as legitimate political discourse and no one blinks

it’s pretty crazy to me that it feels like a near biological moment of human maturation from thinking “war is cool” to “war is so stupid” and yet there are all these people we put in charge of things who live their whole lives thinking war is cool?

Not only does AES crush this interview with the “right” answers politically, those answers are so clearly from a real person & perspective rather than a consulting triangulation lab. That’s a rare combo.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · last wk.

Abdul El-Sayed understands the assignment. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u...

I really believe that the Jewish left should set up organizations in every state called something like “Jewish Democrats of Michigan” and it would be extremely successful at busting this kind of garbage narrative.

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yeah I'm sorry these people aren't Democrats.

“We just witnessed a pogrom.” - Daniel (IfNotNow DC chapter member)

Settlers assaulted a young boy, Joud Mahmoud Awad. He had been asleep inside one of the homes that was set on fire. According to eyewitnesses, several settlers choked him, kicked him, and dragged him out of the house while others were setting his house on fire.