None of this content makes sense // front end dev, wife guy, local advocate, social justice, bike advocacy & profane jokes

New York City
Joined March 2008
I was a teacher before law school. I couldn’t convince teenagers to wear deodorant. The idea that teachers are convincing kids that they should get sex changes is utterly ludicrous.
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"You've got to clap like a seal when some 38 year old in the early-middle stages of alcohol-induced liver failure mumbles out 'women are whores' on SNL or white men will have no choice but to vote for fascism"
The response to Shane Gillis's joke is why we lose elections, by the way.
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The e-bike licensing/registration safety argument completely falls when you point out that we have thousands of vehicles in the city with unreadable, ghost, or no license plates. The drivers of these vehicles are overrepresented in speeding or illegally parking
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The trailer Musk and Zuckerberg refuse to air. You know what to do.
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Can’t sleep on student newspapers. A few years ago Stanford’s president had to resign because of a freshman’s reporting
THE CORNELL R@PISTS STORY WAS BROKEN BY THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER????
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“e-bike collision”? The driver of a giant truck ran over and killed a child
Heartbroken by the death of a 15-year-old following last night’s e-bike collision at East 14th Street and First Avenue. My thoughts are with her loved ones grieving this unimaginable loss, and I’m wishing the other young rider a full recovery. The investigation remains ongoing, and I am closely following it as we learn more.
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"Neither of the teens was wearing a helmet" Next paragraph: "Bystanders were 'screaming at the truck, 'stop, stop, stop'" The lack of helmets was not the problem here
Truck plows into 2 teens riding bike in NYC, killing one of them: cops trib.al/EjjCVwj
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I want to address this bc I think it’s important to understand. It’s not just SEC frat bros. As part of my background reporting, I kept a spreadsheet of maybe 50-60 handles that shared Maddie’s video/screenshots, etc when it first started going viral. Using various OSINT tools, reverse image search, etc, I tried to ID some of the people behind the accounts. Some were impossible to trace. But not all of them. The emails, LinkedIns, etc associated with these burner accounts came from all over the country (and, in one case, from the UK). They were current SEC students, yes, but there were also high school kids, Big 10 kids. Guys in their 20s and 30s. Dads. Husbands. Old-ass men. There was a HUGE range. These weren’t just UF frat bros dogpiling a sorority girl. They were often many, many years out of college. Grown men from all over the country taking pleasure in one girl’s sexual humiliation. Because they had the benefit of anonymity, they didn’t think they’d be held accountable for the disgusting things they were doing and saying. And as Maddie’s case proves, they were wrong.
Replying to @ejdickson
You hit the nail on the head EJ it is ONLY THE SEC BURNERS. Great journalism here honey
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what it feels like when a 16yo tells you you didn't watch the towers fall on a tv during the school day
In 1982, Titanic survivor Ruth Becker was giving an interview in which she stated that the ship had broken in two. The treasurer of the Titanic Historical Society actually took the microphone away from her and said she had been mistaken. Three years later, they found the wreck broken in two…
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NBC setting a high bar for bump shots for the 2026 NFL season. Putting a fresh spin on the tired Pike Place fish toss by strapping a camera to a fish is innovation we should all applaud.
WE PUT A CAMERA ON THE FISH! 📺 NFL Kickoff on NBC & Peacock
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Reading the New York Post is really where you get the feel for this Bizarro NYC, where the headlines are like, "NEW YORKERS TO MAMDANI: GET OUTTA HERE!"
It really does seem there’s a parallel New York in the heads of Boomer editors, 501c3 heads and clergy, a city where Park Slope is far-left, Bensonhurst is Italian, Gerson Borrero’s columns carry weight, every Black pastor is an influential leader and the Irish a key bloc vote
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Everyone complains about “transplants” and the like, but what they’re complaining about is that the population of NYC is no longer dominated by a bunch of old school ethnic blocs or votes being swung by church leaders and instead has a lot of atomized residents not part of a bloc
It really does seem there’s a parallel New York in the heads of Boomer editors, 501c3 heads and clergy, a city where Park Slope is far-left, Bensonhurst is Italian, Gerson Borrero’s columns carry weight, every Black pastor is an influential leader and the Irish a key bloc vote
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This is unusual: a Washington Post columnist is calling for the prosecution of the newspaper’s sources
Whoever leaked this is a traitor and ought to be prosecuted
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Pretty incredible that the New York Times has the manpower to run twice-weekly hit pieces on NYC DSA members but hasn't run a single story (I searched!) on Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn overturning an election to coup the Brooklyn Democratic party.
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she stands on business I’ll give it to her
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NYC’s original YIMBY politician, who cut the deal with the *Bloomberg* administration to develop senior housing on the site of Elizabeth Street Garden, has emerged from retirement to decry the reported settlement that would result in no housing being built on the site.
Replying to @CM_MargaretChin
Mayor Mamdani must keep his promise of building affordable senior housing on the ESG site! It was a crime that former Mayor Adam and his DM Mastro illegally switched the site from HPD to Parks!
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"in response to the accusation the council is nimby, the council has officially decided to be more nimby. have a good day"
Replying to @C_Sommerfeldt
In an especially bad sign for Mamdani's pick, John Mangin, Council Public Housing Committee Chair Chris Banks told me today "it would be suicidal" for the Council to confirm him. Banks noted Speaker Menin's team urged him to reach out to share his views. politico.com/newsletters/new…
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questions for our times
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Me, pointing a finger at this podcast and telling you to listen
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I don't know if it's age or what but lately I have noticed a TON of pundits making obvious errors like this that really show they have not even a basic knowledge of politics, it's crazy. People being like "incumbent Rep Reynoso" no!!!
Apparently the Atlantic has continued NY Mag’s tradition of not fact/checking @jonathanchait’s lazy, error-laden columns (Chevalier won a primary for Congress, not state House).
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