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Personal account of @NYCComptroller . For a more just, more equal, and more sustainable future. Tweets about politics, policy, and occasionally dad jokes.

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Brad Lander
4 years
OK, lemme get this straight. If @ewarren 's wealth tax had been in place from 1982, Bezos would still have $49B, Gates $14B, Bloomberg $12B And we'd ALL have child care & health care. Student debt relief. 4X more Fed $ for public schools Can we vote now?
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Just right, @AOC : “Criticizing the Occupation doesn't make you anti-Israel. It means that you believe in human rights, and it's about making sure that Palestinian human rights are equal to Israeli human rights.”
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. @AOC never stops organizing. Before endorsing Council candidates: climbing the fence to join the students protesting for #policefreeschools .
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At a Jackson Heights town hall on public education, @AOC exhorts the crowd to fight for “public education not only as a right but as a blessing, one of the greatest public goods, the greatest gems of a democratic society.”
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I will not vote for a budget that does not meaningfully cut the NYPD.
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Communities United for Police Reform
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. @NYCCouncil can show we hear the cries of Black NYers against abusive policing & for a different approach to Public Safety by ensuring that budget cuts are shared by NYPD. I will not vote for a budget that does not significantly #CutNYPDBudget - @bradlander #NYCBudgetJustice
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Barcelona is requiring landlords to rent vacant units to make more housing available, w/the threat that otherwise the city will acquire them an 1/2 mkt value & rent them out as social housing. Time for cities to get more ambitious in our housing policy.
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4 years
You know @AOC stands against xenophobia, against racism, against Islamophobia. So it’s no surprise she was out on the Brooklyn Bridge against anti-Semitism today. Proud to stand with her against hatred & bigotry of every kind. Our liberation is bound up together. #NoHateNoFear
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Brad Lander
4 years
I committed to vote no on the City's FY21 budget if it did not cut at least $1B from the NYPD. Not moving budget lines around. But real, meaningful cuts. The budget being voted on tonight does NOT cut $1B from the NYPD. So I will be voting NO. THREAD
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2 years
I checked with the statisticians here at the Comptroller’s office, and this the largest 7.5% increase that we’ve ever seen. 🧐
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5 years
It has become a maddening refrain, every time she drops a smart new policy proposal. Yes, @ewarren has the best policies, BUT … I’m done with that “but.” I’m endorsing Elizabeth Warren for President of the United States.
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Family members & activists are keeping their vigil outside the Sunset Park jail. The prisoners reply by banging on their windows. It is a chilling, appallingly unnecessary, and yet still beautiful form of solidarity.
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In Union Square & Prospect Park, Jews gathered w/Muslim, immigrant & other allies to say Kaddish, to mourn, to sing, to pray fiercely. We will never give in to fear. We are indeed like the murderer’s worst nightmare: a caravan, marching in solidarity, toward a world of justice.
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Brad Lander
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Columbia should not be calling the cops on its own students for engaging in nonviolent protest. The university has a long history of respecting free speech on campus, and I support the faculty who are pleading with their administration to continue that tradition.
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Brad Lander
5 years
No secret that I'm @TeamWarren , but wishing a great day to all my friends going to see @BernieSanders in Queens today. Congrats on the @AOC +Squad endorsements ... of course we're a little jealous! Looking very forward to when we're back on one big justice-seeking team together.
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Brad Lander
4 years
The US Bureau of Prisons pepper-sprayed a man to death today at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park (where we have protested inhumane conditions time & time again, and will be back, tragically, tomorrow). He was 35. #SayHisName : Jamel Floyd.
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Elizabeth Kim
1 year
Mayor Adams is now on CNN, talking about the chokehold death of Jordan Neely. He calls @NYCComptroller irresponsible for his tweet calling the incident vigilantism.
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Brad Lander
5 years
Amazon just affirmed they provide facial recognition technology to ICE. "We think the federal government should have access to the best technology." - Brian Huseman, Amazon VP for Public Policy. In pursuit of profit, they are willing partners in Trump's deportation machine.
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Brad Lander
4 years
This is McCarren Park in Williamsburg right now. Thousands of people kneeling and sitting in silence. Seriously, listen. Our wounded city is indescribably beautiful in its hunger for justice.
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Brad Lander
2 years
Apologies to anyone who missed the irony in my tweet (I thought the 🧐 would help 🤷🏻‍♂️) Here’s a better visualization of crime trends in NYC in recent years - h/t @cooperlund One violent crime is one too many. But distorting the data to amplify fears doesn’t help solve problems.
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Brad Lander
4 years
Here is the crowd at Barclay’s Center that the Mayor is planning to impose a curfew on in 30 minutes. Take a listen and see if you think they should all be arrested. #BlackLivesMattter
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Brad Lander
4 years
My mom & dad are voting for @BernieSanders in the Missouri Primary tomorrow! Like me, they were big @ewarren supporters & voted for Hillary in 2016. They know we need big structural change & serious attn to rampant inequality. (Sometimes the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!)
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Brad Lander
2 years
This pic was taken before the bedeken. Then we did kiddush, sheva b’rachot & they broke a glass (before dancing a bhangra hora). Don’t remember any calls to eradicate the Jewish nation. Tho I did recite Quran 49:13 abt diff nations coming to know one another. If not now, when?
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StopAntisemitism
2 years
Waleed Shahid recently married Emily Mayer, co-founder of the radical fringe group IfNotNow. IfNotNow frequently calls for the eradication of the Jewish nation.
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Brad Lander
4 years
Workers at Amazon & Instacart are keeping our economy going & making it possible for so many of us to stay-at-home right now. But they aren’t getting health & safety protections, adequate pay, or basic dignity from their mega-corporate employers. Support them today.
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Brad Lander
1 year
NYC is not Gotham. We must not become a city where a mentally ill human being can be choked to death by a vigilante without consequence. Or where the killer is justified & cheered.
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2 years
One fierce fighter for justice swearing in another (and giving the rest of us an oath, too). @tiffany_caban @AOC
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Brad Lander
4 years
Setting a curfew for New York City at 8 pm feels like willfully asking people to defy it, with all the consequences that will likely follow. It is tone deaf and genuinely reckless.
@NY1
Spectrum News NY1
4 years
UPDATE: On NY1, Mayor Bill de Blasio just announced that there will also be a curfew in effect Tuesday. That curfew will be in effect from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. - it will start three hours earlier than Monday night's curfew.
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Brad Lander
3 years
Our city needs a just recovery. That’s why I’m running for NYC Comptroller. So proud to have @AOC @ewarren @JumaaneWilliams @JerryNadler in my corner. But to truly achieve a more equitable future for ALL in NYC, we need you on the team:
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4 years
Another night of #PeacefulProtest in downtown Brooklyn.
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Brad Lander
5 years
Family members, neighbors, and activists will be holding a constant vigil until power & conditions are restored at the #SunsetParkGulag . Stop by with food & coffee if you can. I’ll post what I saw inside in a little bit.
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Brad Lander
3 years
Of course I was excited to be endorsed by @aoc and @ewarren and @jumaanewilliams . But there’s no question that Rosa’s endorsement is the one that I am most proud of. Check out our new ad "Dad Jokes" 👉
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7 months
Today’s DSA rally – which effectively celebrated Hamas’ murder & kidnapping of hundreds of Israeli civilians, including children & grandparents – was abominable. There is no place for glorifying terror, left, center, or right.
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5 years
A few thoughts on Amazon (in light of their carefully-timed threats yesterday), and their constant monopolistic certainty that they have the right to make their own rules & dictate them to the rest of us.
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Brad Lander
7 years
Trump took time to condemn the thoughtful plea of the @HamiltonMusical cast. But not the swastikas in his name in a Brooklyn playground.
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Donald J. Trump
7 years
Our wonderful future V.P. Mike Pence was harassed last night at the theater by the cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing.This should not happen!
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3 years
Thank you NYC! I promise to work hard every single day to help our city recover from the pandemic more just, more equal, and better prepared for future crises than we were for this one.
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4 years
“Child care is infrastructure for families.” I never tire of listening to @ewarren help us understand the economy — and what really has value — a little better.
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Horrific. As we prepare for Passover, Jews around the world have the responsibility to make clear that this is not what we mean by “next year in Jerusalem.” Our holiday of liberation demands that we speak up.
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4 years
Just a quiet Saturday night with Gov. Cuomo announcing $10.1 BILLION in spending cuts, including $8.2 BILLION TO LOCALITIES responsible for, oh, public schools, higher ed, public hospitals, fire, police, mass transit.
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Nick Reisman
4 years
New: The Cuomo administration has announced $10.1 billion in spending cuts. Financial plan released as well:
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Brad Lander
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Celebrating the 8th night of Hannukah w/ @Ocasio2018 and @JFREJNYC ! Alexandria spoke abt our need for resilience & light amidst darkness, for personal transcendence & solidarity toward justice. (I told her the miracle of the oil could be a good metaphor for the #GreenNewDeal )
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Brad Lander
8 months
My office will review these proposed budget cuts, but one thing is immediately clear: Scapegoating asylum seekers will not improve education, public safety, housing affordability, or quality of life for New Yorkers.
@politico
POLITICO
8 months
Citing NYC migrant crisis, Adams calls for steep budget cuts, hiring freeze
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Brad Lander
5 years
@powellnyt @freedlander @AOC It was pretty amazing. I was there today (that’s my shoulder & balding head in the right side of David’s video :-). The way @AOC conveyed genuine compassion for the critics, narrated her own experience, and connected it to broader structural dynamics was truly remarkable.
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Brad Lander
4 years
OK, after deliberation, I'm with @staceyabrams . Yes, it's deeply depressing to live in a country where so many (white) people vote for racist authoritarianism. BUT: there are many millions of absentee ballots to count. They are overwhelmingly for Biden. We're in for a long count.
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Stacey Abrams
4 years
Keep calm. Be patient. Allow local elections officials to do their jobs. What is most important isn’t the speed of the count; it’s that every eligible vote is counted. Americans made their voices heard in record numbers, and their votes must be counted. #Election2020
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Brad Lander
4 years
The unmarked van into which plainclothes NYPD officers grabbed a protestor puts NYers safety at risk by speeding in school zones, running red lights & parking in bus lanes. And then fails to pay the violations. But no one thinks the driver should be kidnapped off the street.
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How's My Driving NY
4 years
@bradlander #NY_JGB1864 has been queried 394 times. Total parking and camera violation tickets: 22 9 | School Zone Speed Camera Violation 8 | Bus Lane Violation 2 | Mobile Bus Lane Violation 1 | No Standing - Except Truck Loading/Unloading 1 | Fire Hydrant 1 | Failure To Stop At Red Light
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Brad Lander
3 years
Thank you, New York City. Let’s get to work.
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Brad Lander
5 years
Rabbi @JoshuaMZStanton says the prayer over the Shabbat candles at #Lights4Liberty & makes clear why we are observing it here with our immigrant neighbors: “There cannot be a Shabbat Shalom (a sabbath of peace) when there are kids in cages.”
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Governor Cuomo should have resigned in March. He should resign now. If he does not, he should be impeached. If he is not, he should be defeated at the polls.
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Brad Lander
3 years
A bloated police department that sends hundreds of cops in riot gear to enforce a curfew but has failed to stop rising shootings is a failure of public safety. A 10 year old was shot and killed in Queens yesterday. More NYPD ≠ more safety.
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Read Let This Radicalize You
3 years
The NYPD has now moved into the village for no clear reason.
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Brad Lander
4 years
If you're calling our office today to complain that your right to free, city-provided, car-storage (avail 24/7 w/o interruption) is more important than educating our kids & keeping teachers safe during pandemic school hours: We will get back to you. But it might take a while.
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4 years
Spent some time reading about "what comes next." Short story: We're not close to ready. We're not prepared for how long, how invasive, how economically catastrophic it will be. And we probably can't count on the federal gov't to get us there. So we better get moving. 1/
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Brad Lander
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Sunday eve @LocalProgress calls w/progressive local elected officials across the country working to center equity in COVID response were already one of the bright spots of this dark time. Thanks @AOC for joining tonight's call on housing justice & helping light the way forward.
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3 years
I love grassroots mutual aid but this really cannot be how we confront flash floods in the era of the climate crisis.
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NYC Water
3 years
In the fall, catch basins grates can get clogged w/ leaves & debris. With heavy rain expected tonight, if you can, check nearby catch basins & clear the grates (wear gloves & watch for traffic!). Clearing the grates will help them take in as much rain as possible. Stay safe NYC!
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Mayor Brandon Johnson
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Dave Wasserman
1 year
I've seen enough: Brandon Johnson defeats Paul Vallas in the Chicago mayoral runoff.
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Brad Lander
5 years
Did Biden just say that cities should have been (and should be, maybe) allowed to segregate if their City Council voted for it?!
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Brad Lander
7 years
Incredible #JewsForRefugees rally in the freezing rain organized by @HIASrefugees . #OurPeopleWereRefugeesToo . #NeverAgain means for anyone.
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Brad Lander
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How dare you, @nydems ?! Smearing @CynthiaNixon (whose kids are being raised Jewish, BTW) as soft on anti-Semitism & lying about her position on Israel in order to fearmonger and shill for votes is a shameful dead-end for our party. #BeyondThePale #Jews4Cynthia
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The young people are quite rightly impatient at the moment. Hope the leaders in Glasgow are hearing aggressively from their daughters as well.
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Brad Lander
5 years
A white supremacist spouting xenophobic views aligned with those of the President murdered 20 people today with an assault rifle that every sane country bans, but that the GOP protects. Their thoughts & prayers aren’t simply worthless. They are a large part of what caused it.
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Brad Lander
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So tired of Twitter amplifying our worst tribal selves. But now these things must be said: I support the self-determination & human rights of Palestinians. Denying their existence is a form of Islamophobia. And a dead-end for those who care about a Jewish & democratic Israel, too
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Kalman Yeger
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Palestine does not exist. There, I said it again. Also, Congresswoman Omar is an antisemite. Said that too. Thanks for following me.
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Listening to @kunoorojha (who was @ewarren organizing director) tell her story on the @WorkingFamilies Party call as we move to support @BernieSanders tonight brought me to tears. We organize because our personal pain compels us to find solidarity in action together. #NotMeUs
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Would not matter if he had been jailed pending serious charges. No one deserves a death sentence. But it is telling of the injustice of our criminal punishment system that the first fatality among Rikers inmates was there on a technical parole violation.
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Brad Lander
4 years
Bikes for black lives. Like, thousands of them.
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5 years
Never thought prison lights would look as good as this.
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Brad Lander
3 years
You won’t be the least bit surprised to learn that I got all choked up watching @RosaBLander head to her senior prom. But how about when you hear she made this stunning suit to wear to it?
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Brad Lander
4 years
Police Misconduct Records Are Secret. Protests May Finally Change That. Hopefully this week. Thanks @changethenypd for organizing on this for years. And everyone who's in the streets pushing it over the line. #Repeal50A
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Brad Lander
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“We are federal agents, we are part of the Department of Homeland Security, and we’re here to, you know, give a hand to the NYPD” Very troubling video from 88th Pct in BK tonight , from “Andy,” who acknowledges that some of the agents on site are involved in immigrant detention.
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Brad Lander
3 years
One of those nights when I’m putting a lot of tweets in my drafts folder.
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Brad Lander
4 years
The subway ovepolicing we’ve been watching in recent days shows how cruel & corrosive criminalizing poverty is. We don’t want to be a city where we pay public servants to arrest churro vendors. But we are. Thanks @SofiaBNewman for standing up for her, and our better selves.
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Sage Newman
4 years
Tonight as I was leaving Broadway Junction, I saw three or four police officers (one of them was either a plainclothes cop or someone who worked at the station) gathered around a crying woman and her churro cart. Apparently, it's illegal to sell food inside train stations. 1/?
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Brad Lander
3 years
With the delta variant driving up Covid infection rates, it's time for NYC to start requiring vaccination for some activities & jobs. Amid high polarization & low social trust, it's not easy to have a thoughtful conversation about. But we need to.
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Brad Lander
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Companies that decide not to operate in settlements do not pose a risk to New York’s pension funds. If anything, continuation of the occupation poses grave ongoing risks to Israelis, to Palestinians, & to those who care about them. My statement on NYS CRF's letter to Unilever:
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Brad Lander
4 years
We must act far more urgently & collectively today. @NYCMayor & @NYGovCuomo must move together today to close schools, non-essential businesses incl. restaurants & bars, implement aggressive social distancing. And then prepare for what’s coming. #shutdownNYC
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Brad Lander
3 years
The Budget Chair-man knows what it takes to be a Comptroller for the people. Proud to welcome @BernieSanders to #TeamLander !
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Brad Lander
4 years
I’ve gotten many thousands of complaints about subway service. About public safety. About safe streets. About housing affordability. Literally no one has ever complained to me about unlicensed churro-selling
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Joseph Jungermann
4 years
“No one has ever came up to me and said ‘you know what our problem is? People selling unlicensed food.’” - Councilman @bradlander addressing reporters outside Broadway Junction station. #newmarkjreports
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Brad Lander
4 years
Remember when @ewarren demolished Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf and demanded accountability for the exploitation of their workers and customers ...
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Brad Lander
4 years
Wow. Unprecedented call from NYC Board of Correction (the independent oversight body for NYC's jails) calling on the City to rapidly decrease its jail population. Please @NYCMayor , act now before it is (even more) too late.
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Brad Lander
4 years
The 175-year-old Brooklyn Hospital — where Walt Whitman brought peaches & poems to comfort the Civil War wounded and Dr. Anthony Fauci was born has become a war zone. Enormous gratitude to Dr. Sylvie de Souza and the brave medical team leading the fight.
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Brad Lander
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@erinvandermeer @Equinox @nytimes @TheAtlantic @guardian Great to see all the people in this chain who know their rights under our Freelance Isn’t Free Act (which I worked with @freelancersu to pass @NYCCouncil in 2016). It’s illegal for @Equinox to stiff freelancers. File your claim with @NYCDCA here:
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3 years
Ok y’all. Let’s do this.
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Brad Lander
5 years
If Amazon wants to come to NYC, play by our rules, pay their taxes in full, be good neighbors, and play their part in our democracy, they would be most welcome. Just like anybody else. But let’s be very clear: that’s not what they want.
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Brad Lander
5 years
The capacity of New Yorkers to turn into mobs when asked to have a shelter in their neighborhood to prevent people from sleeping on the street is really one of the most disturbing things about our city these days.
@DavidFBrand
David Brand
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Speaker: “I’m here to speak in support of our homeless neighbors.” “GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE,” guy yells. Speaker is completely drowned out.
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Brad Lander
4 years
Tobias is 10 years old. He has Type I diabetes, and he relies on the #USPS for his insulin. The post office is essential to his health. He knows it’s essential to democracy, too. You really gotta listen to him. #SaveTheUSPS
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Brad Lander
3 years
I’m honored to have @aoc 's support in the work ahead to put government to work for the people & our movements for justice. Together we’re building a team to win the just recovery & brighter future NYers are hungry for. Join us!
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Brad Lander
7 years
By far the best response to the confirmation of DeVos as Anti-Education Secretary is today's walkout by NYC public school students.
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Brad Lander
6 years
The brilliance of @AdyBarkan ’s @BeAHeroTeam CrowdPAC fundraiser is not only $3 million for Collins’ 2020 opponent. It’s 100,000+ small donors who found a new way to take action together. The fight for justice & equality is long-term, and we’ll need new organizing tools to win.
@thehill
The Hill
6 years
Collins’ support for Kavanaugh triggers $3 million donation to 2020 opponent
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Brad Lander
4 years
This piece by @BernieSanders on how to fight anti-Semitism, to love & support Israel while insisting on an end to the Occupation & Palestinian freedom, and what it means to be a "member of the tradition of Jewish social justice" is really quite beautiful.
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Brad Lander
5 years
As an American Jew, it is infuriating to see this weaponization of anti-Semitism in the service of white nationalism. We won't stand for this.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
5 years
....they are Anti-Semitic, they are Anti-America, we don’t need to know anything about them personally, talk about their policies. I think they are American citizens who are duly elected that are running on an agenda that is disgusting, that the American people will reject......
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Brad Lander
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It is important to work for Palestinian human rights, lives, and freedom – and I am long on the record calling for an end to the Occupation. But Hamas’ murderous terrorism does not advance that cause. And there’s nothing progressive or liberatory about glorifying it.
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Brad Lander
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Thank to the young Jews of @IfNotNowOrg for reminding us what the Passover story demands of us. Not worshipping Trump like Norm Coleman & the RJC. But fighting against forces of slavery & oppression, and working for freedom & dignity for all.
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IfNotNow🔥✡️
5 years
BREAKING: 10 young American Jews just interrupted President Trump’s speech at the @RJC ! "Jews are here to say, the Occupation is a plague. Jews are here to say, white nationalism is a plague." Freedom and dignity for all! Press release and statement:
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Brad Lander
3 years
NYC's infrastructure is not ready for the climate crisis.
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3 years
A look at a “subway waterfall” at the 42nd Street-Bryant Park station today due to the storms that moved through. Video: @fiona79us
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Brad Lander
6 years
A magnificent crowd of Haitian-, African-, immigrant- and other-Americans of every stripe filled Times Square for the #rallyagainstracism today. This is America, and no racist President can change that.
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Brad Lander
7 months
This is sickening. Calls for genocide are utterly inconsistent with Jewish values, with basic humanity, and also with any future for Israel as a Jewish & democratic state. 1/2
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Brad Lander
4 years
. @BernieSanders did a great job showing that you can simultaneously articulate both a sharp & powerful left vision for justice and the need for a popular front against fascism.
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Brad Lander
5 years
So many #JewsAgainstICE are also Jews Against the Occupation. It is deeply rooted in Jewish values & history to oppose locking up children, whether that’s done by the government of the U.S. or of Israel. For those who love these places, it’s our obligation to protest louder.
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Brad Lander
4 years
This is an important time for liberal Jews to stand with Chasidic & Haredi Jews. While antisemitism threatens all of us, the antisemitic hate crimes of recent days have been on visibly Orthodox Jewish communities. We need to see it and name it.
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Brad Lander
4 years
To @jonnyalvarez and other constituents writing today: I will vote NO on the NYC budget if it does not include at least $1B in real cuts to the NYPD’s FY21 expense budget. Not reshuffling budget lines, but real, meaningful cuts per @changethenypd and other advocates.
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@bradlander ⁩ Will you commit to vote NO on NYC budget if it doesn’t CUT AT LEAST $1B from NYPD's bloated $6B FY21 budget - & REDIRECT the $2B+ in savings to communities devastated by COVID-19 & police violence? I'm your constituent. #DefundNYPD #NYCBudgetJustice
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Brad Lander
4 years
Hard to understand the purpose of this NYPD helicopter circling very low & loud over a totally peaceful, youth-led #Juneteenth march as anything other than infuriating the protestors (and ruining a lovely day in @prospect_park for everyone else). Zero public safety function.
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Brad Lander
7 years
Yet more hatred & anti-Semitism from Trump supporters. Swastikas on the playground equipment in Adam Yauch Park in BK Heights. #NeverIsNow
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Brad Lander
4 years
Really grateful to @NYCSanitation workers picking up garbage on my block this a.m. A pandemic really makes you extra-mindful of every piece of the infrastructure that holds our city together. (Glad these guys get decent wages & benefits. Let’s also pay attn to all who don’t.)
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Brad Lander
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Happy New Year! Everything is under comptrol. Wishing you & yours the very brightest of starts to 2022.
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