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Tom Waters, 9/26/63-4/4/20

@slowboring

Housing, neighborhoods, organizations, politics, punk rock, free jazz, and operas. Not representing @CSSNYorg, @tenantneighbor, @BarnardCollege, or @GC_PoliSci.

 The Northwest Bronx of America
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Here is the final version of @CSSNYorg's analysis of the Democratic presidential candidates' housing platforms and their effect on New York City. We compare Biden and Sanders and also bring back all the former candidates for context.cssny.org/news/entry/how-wil…
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katie goldstein@katiegoldstein219 Jul 2020
Honored the life & legacy of Tom Waters @slowboring, lost to COVID, by taking a walk while many others took walks to remember him yesterday. Can’t wait to be in a dark bar with weird music with the whole tenant movement someday to honor him.
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Tenants & Neighbors@tenantneighbor28 Mar 2020
.@NYGovCuomo our members are asking you to define "home" because 92K New Yorkers are homeless and you are demanding they #StayHome during #COVID19. You say: #PublicHealth before the #economy. Whose #health?
VOCAL-NY (@VOCALNewYork) profile pictureVOCAL-NY@VOCALNewYork25 Mar 2020
Why we yell and scream “HOUSING SAVES LIVES” @NYGovCuomo & @NYCMayor’s policing of poor people and failure to deal with the homelessness crisis is the backdrop to this public health crisis. Act now, center the most vulnerable, or more will die. #HomelessCantStayHome
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piedpipertheatre@PPCTINWOOD28 Mar 2020
Pied Piper's cast of Once Upon a Mattress doing a virtual run-through now, in celebration of what should have been our opening night!
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This is great. I hope the RGB staff is able to publish its excellent research anyway, though.
@jeffcmays.bsky.social (@JeffCMays) profile picture@jeffcmays.bsky.social@JeffCMays27 Mar 2020
#NYC wants to suspend rent guidelines process and create a #rentfreeze for rent stabilized apartments and new leases in light of the #coronavirus says @NYCMayor
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piedpipertheatre@PPCTINWOOD27 Mar 2020
Tonight would have been our opening night for Once Upon a Mattress. Very disappointed, but PPCT is confident that we will all get through this together, and we look forward to still performing the show for our fantastic WaHi/Inwood community in the near-future! Stay healthy!
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Steve Berg@sberg027 Mar 2020
Convince your state and local leaders that helping people keep their homes and not become homeless is an excellent use of this money. The scale is there
Center on Budget (@CenterOnBudget) profile pictureCenter on Budget@CenterOnBudget26 Mar 2020
The bipartisan Senate #StimulusPackage contains a $150 billion #Coronavirus Relief Fund, which state, tribal, & local governments can use this year to meet costs connected to #COVID19. How much does your state get? We got the numbers. cbpp.org/research/how-much-e…

How Much Each State Will Receive From the Coronavirus Relief Fund in the CARES Act

The new bipartisan economic stimulus legislation — known as the CARES Act — contains significant new resources to help states address their massive, immediate budget problems due to COVID-19, though...

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This says he just finished a movie about Boston City Hall! pleasekillme.com/frederick-w…

FREDERICK WISEMAN: THE DIRECTOR WHO MAKES THE ORDINARY EXTRAORDINARY

At age 90, Frederick Wiseman is one of those living American masters who would, in a better world, need no introduction. And yet, as a pioneer of documentary filmmaking, he has often worked on the

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Brian Wilson@BrianWilsonLive26 Mar 2020
Literally, the master tapes. #1966 #petsounds #master #godonlyknows
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Tenants & Neighbors@tenantneighbor26 Mar 2020
.@NYGovCuomo Our members are worried about what will happen come April 1st when #Rent is due and there is no #PayCheck! Your silence on #RentRelief is making this difficult situation worse for millions of #NewYorkers!
The NYS Tenant Bloc (@TenantBloc) profile pictureThe NYS Tenant Bloc@TenantBloc26 Mar 2020
Replying to @TenantBloc
Clayton from @VOCALNewYork continued: "@NYgovCuomo could change the course of this crisis in an instant. There are more billionaires in this state than any other. Why aren't we taxing them for emergency housing and services? Cuomo is ignoring the homeless, he is no hero."
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It is not safe for the RGB to hold public hearings during a pandemic. Stabilized tenants need a rent freeze in 2020! #DeBlasioFreezeRent #RentFreeze2020 #CancelRGBVOTE
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The NYS Tenant Bloc@TenantBloc26 Mar 2020
April 1st is 6 Days Away. The State Budget is Due in 6 Days. The Rent is Due in 6 days. What's the plan for homeless New Yorkers? What's the plan for public housing residents? What's the plan for tenants? @NYGovCuomo @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie
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"Since the 1970s, the United States has relied on one primary strategy to deal with poverty, pollution, and various other social problems and challenges: quarantine." citylab.com/perspective/2020…

In Coronavirus, the U.S. Faces a Problem It Can’t Fix by Segregation

For decades, the U.S. has used spatial barricades to isolate advantaged people from serious social ills. To defeat Covid-19, that won’t work.

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Molly Griffard@MollyGriffard25 Mar 2020
Our analysis from @LegalAidNYC is out and the numbers are gut-wrenchingly awful. #FreeThemNow
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Washington Heights represent!
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens (@PP_Rubens) profile pictureDr. Peter Paul Rubens@PP_Rubens25 Mar 2020
Humble Virgin Mary, sitting on the floor at home, her reading interrupted by arrival of an angel she is trying hard to ignore. From the Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, 1430, for the feast day of the Annunciation.
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This is as good as "My Girl."
Richard Nelson (@Richard36971987) profile pictureRichard Nelson@Richard3697198725 Mar 2020
Horned Grebes Central Park Reservoir 03/22/20 While the female Horned Grebe was an exciting "lifer" for me, I could never match the enthusiasm the male Horned Grebe expressed! @BirdCentralPark
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Michael Busch@michaelkbusch25 Mar 2020
Excellent new piece up at @Warscapes by @joonhai on the value of reading Wole Soyinka’s “Madmen and Specialists” amidst the #COVIDー19 crisis warscapes.com/opinion/readin…

Reading Wole Soyinka’s "Madmen and Specialists" in a Time of Pandemic

Can African literature offer a sense of guidance through the current pandemic of COVID-19? Articles have circulated online about “pandemic literature” and the “pandemic imagination,” with the usual

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Stephen La Rivière@la_riviere24 Mar 2020
Pre-lockdown and post-lockdown.
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Beth Popp Berman (epopppp@bsky)@epopppp25 Mar 2020
Great thread on poor use of research to inform policy by UK Nudge Unit. Reminds me of weak research used to justify US welfare reform in the 1990s, when a lot of people really wanted to believe that "just get recipients *any* job" was the answer. 99percentinvisible.org/episo…
The Magic Bureaucrat and His Riverside Miracle - 99% Invisible

The Magic Bureaucrat and His Riverside Miracle - 99% Invisible

In 1996, President Bill Clinton and the Congress undertook a reform effort to redesign the welfare system from one that many believed trapped people in a cycle of dependence, to one, that in the...

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Sophie Hill (@sophie_e_hill) profile pictureSophie Hill@sophie_e_hill24 Mar 2020
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The goal of this intervention is to increase "off-flow". Basically to try to get people to stop claiming jobseekers benefit as quickly as possible. (Note: they are not measuring transitions into work, just when people stop claiming the benefit...)
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