Writer, urban planner
Rhode Island
Joined March 2010
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In my latest for @curaffairs , I show how the administrative state was once a powerful force for good in many Americans’ lives, and how it can be again: currentaffairs.org/news/make…
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The irony is this “shariah compliant way” sounds nothing like Abdul but very much like the modern right’s agenda for women.
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Meet the most famous living residents of Green-Wood cemetery.
This is the story of Green-Wood’s Monk Parakeets and the New Yorkers they share a city with.
Watch the full documentary on our YouTube (@nycmayor).
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If Zohran or El Sayed ever said “from a global allocation perspective” we’d hear about it forever
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The fundamental issue that climate hushers are missing is that the economy needs a steady engine. AI’s not it. That only leaves on option: joint investments in prosuctive green infrastructure, urban devt (housing & transit), and care. Aka, the GND 2.0.
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The ACA was always a massive subsidy to the insurance industry and other narrow interests.
We need enhanced Medicare for All. I’ve fought for it for over 30 years and would bring the fight to the House with a vengeance.
If the government isn’t going to provide health coverage, then what’s the point of taxes?
Breaking News: Obamacare premiums will rise by 13% next year, hitting middle-income people already struggling with health care costs. nyti.ms/4sCuytF
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"We are accustomed to only caring about “children” as long as we can see them as passive and innocent, as undeserving of the brutality they face every day."
On October 29, 2000, Faris Odeh threw a stone at an Israeli tank.
"The Child in Wartime."
yasminnair.com/the-child-in-…
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Boo fucking hoo
Non-stop scolding and demands to ditch anything popular with the base, she’s a liability
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Exactly backwards. Obama distanced himself from some of Wright's rhetoric, but the headline was that he *refused* to disavow him, saying it would be like disavowing his own mother. Liberals correctly interpreted that as an act of defiance against people like you.
When the Jeremiah Wright story broke in 2008, Obama delivered a speech explaining exactly why Wright’s anti-American garbage was wrong. That ended the crisis. Abdul has not done anything like that. So what are Haley’s supporters supposed to think. He won a 51-49 primary and has done nothing to win over the 49. That’s not Haley’s fault. That’s on Abdul.
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How architecture can contribute to healing
Switzerland’s largest children’s hospital is designed to emulate small wooden houses. Includes 250 newly planted trees to boost health and recovery
By Herzog de Meuron
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“As it was in the beginning of the automotive era, today’s war on cars is really about fighting for people.”
— Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek
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My heart breaks for the parents of the UWS barn owl nest. You don’t get the first barn owl nest in Manhattan in modern history without them, of course. They already overcame so much adversity to hatch and rear five owlets before the nest was destroyed.
Cont’d
#birdcpp
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"political coalition of Black and Jewish voices"
When someone uses the "voices" euphemism for a person or for people it usually means they have no intention of listening to actual people. It indicates instead claiming, almost always falsely, to represent the marginalized.
On the eve of the eve of the eve of our BIG and important election, a unifying moment has arrived, our democratic nominee for U.S Senate disavows the Rebellion PAC ad made by Hasan Piker’s uncle that claims Jews are responsible for America’s economic woes. We have learned from party leaders and emissaries, as reported in the news media that he has.
On Sunday I will join with the Great Democratic leader, Jim Clyburn and Dr El Sayed for a church service in the beautiful city of Detroit.
The political coalition of Black and Jewish voices that have carried Michigan and this country through so many storms to the righteous path of liberal democracy and equal opportunity for all will ring out. Full statement here:
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For too long, Third Avenue in Brooklyn has been deadly. We are changing that.
We will transform Third Avenue to protect pedestrians, cyclists and drivers. And across this city, we are making the most dangerous streets safer for New Yorkers.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/…
This is great
EL-SAYED: RFK JR. was in town this week. He said that the 500 million Arabs in the world had never contributed anything to science. But to be fair, he is an expert on people who never contributed anything to science.
He didn't bother to show up when 8000 people were infected by the shit lettuce. But he wants to come here and lecture you about potentially electing and arab-american to the U.S. Senate
My guy has zero doctorates. I have two of them
