David Garten
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“New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.” - Robert Pirsig
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The Associated Builders and Contractors trade group estimates that the construction industry is short roughly 439,000 workers, mostly among skilled workers who do things like lay pipe and wire electrical panels.
wsj.com
Surging demand for workers means six-figure pay and more perks.
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“When pledges turn out to be empty words, liberal democracy and the Democratic party that stands for it will be further tarnished.” - @DAcemogluMIT
ft.com
Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on Zohran Mamdani’s rise, the problem with cultural politics — and the case for pro-worker AI
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“These are the people that did everything for a taste of freedom. They had children die on their way here. They’re mostly Catholic, they are so into their families. They love America more than most Americans.”
washingtonpost.com
A conservative woman detects a lack of empathy — and a broken promise — in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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10s of 1000s are building new lives here in peace & are contributing to their communities. They shouldn’t be blamed for the violent act of one man. Collective punishment of all Afghans in the US won’t make America safer & it might embitter more against us.
wsj.com
The alleged shooting by an Afghan ‘partner’ shouldn’t condemn all who assisted the U.S. and now live here.
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They are not dumb people, and they’re not crazy in the sense that they’re out of touch with reality. Rather, years of antisemitic, nationalistic propaganda closed off whatever was left of their basic humanity.
nytimes.com
With the help of A.I., a historian has identified the killer in a 1941 image that defined the savagery of the Nazi regime.
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Good piece by @greg_ip. It's easier to campaign on affordability than to actually solve it. https://t.co/7UZO91JJK6
wsj.com
President Trump and New York Mayor-elect Mamdani both campaigned on affordability, but the issue is amorphous and poorly defined.
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To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” internal documents said.
Two more studies show that when young people quit or reduce social media for as little as one week, their anxiety/depression drops. One (with no control group) was written up in the NYT: https://t.co/Db550YmolN The other, much more rigorous, was conducted by Meta and then
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Interesting piece by @betsyplum from @RidersAlliance. I don't agree with everything, but this is a no-brainer: Fair Fares should automatically enroll eligible residents, fully cover the cost of transit for those earning up to 150% of the poverty level.
cityandstateny.com
Our next mayor should fund free buses for every rider, free subway rides for very low-income New Yorkers, and half-fares for more workers.
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This is from a California state senator but it can easily apply to New York.
To solve our biggest problems — e.g., housing & climate — & make life more affordable we need to get out of our own way & make it easier to build the infrastructure to solve these problems. Yet our system is designed to bog it down & make it more costly. That needs to change.🧵
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Almost without the world noticing, the Sahel has become the epicentre of global terrorism.
ft.com
West needs a strategy to counter southern spread of instability into coastal states
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467m is one of the biggest pro-housing/pro-affordability programs that New York has adopted in years and it really should be talked about more.
nypost.com
A new RentCafe report shows one 9-to-5, and very touristy, neighborhood stands to become quite the residential hot spot.
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I thought it was all about affordability?
nytimes.com
Several Democratic incumbents are facing primary battles after Zohran Mamdani’s win suggested that being pro-Israel was no longer a universal selling point.
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“In America’s competitive federalist model, no state can rest on its laurels. As California and New York demonstrate, taxpayers can and do vote with their feet.” @tejparikh90 is right.
ft.com
High costs have created a self-reinforcing exodus of business and workers
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Borough President
i can tell what kind of person you are by what you think of when you read “bp”
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“That’s what the gods do, they spin thread of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.” - Cloud Cuckoo Land Keep shining, Anita Datar. Ten years later, your memory lives on.
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A direct correlation to the rise of authoritarianism and illiberalism across the globe.
bloomberg.com
As many of the world’s leaders convene in South Africa for the G20, we face a sobering truth: Progress for women, children and adolescents — the foundation of human development — is faltering....
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These women are not famous or well connected, but they matter. Their pain matters. Their names matter. We should not co-opt their suffering for our own agenda.
nytimes.com
Women’s pain is not entertainment.
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BronxProGroup manages 93 subsidized apartment buildings containing more than 3,300 affordable apartments, mostly in The Bronx. One in three units are in buildings where this year expenses are greater than the rents collected.
thecity.nyc
Landlords who run subsidized buildings say the numbers increasingly don’t add up — and that a rent freeze will put their tenants in a more precarious position.
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