Seth Pollack
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left/progressive politics, seltzer, bikes. Director of Advocacy @housingworks , personal account.
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I'm very proud to have worked on this
@housingworks
op-ed STRONGLY opposing Randy Mastro, Eric Adams' pick for NYC's top legal job.
Mastro's long, toxic track record includes attacks on Housing Works that a judge called “vindictive and retaliatory.”
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My landlord had told me he planned to increase my rent 11% but has decided instead to increase it 25%. Has anyone considered passing some kind of law about this
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“One last thing, Mr. Peppino. What do you want the front of the pizza boxes to say?”
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anyone flattened in a warehouse by a tornado while doing wage labor did not “pass away,” they were killed
We’re deeply saddened by the news that members of our Amazon family passed away as a result of the storm in Edwardsville, Illinois. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their loved ones, and everyone who has been impacted by the storm’s path across the U.S.
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If your coverage of Andrew Yang doesn’t explain that his plan for “giving people money” is based on also shredding the social safety net, you have failed to explain Andrew Yang.
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Got to see some of Eric Adams’ asinine policing late last night.
Took a train downtown from the Bronx. In midtown, cops got on the train at a few stations, delaying everyone to noisily wake up some people sleeping. No compassion, no housing, just delays and NYPD overtime.
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my aunt obviously meant well but does not entirely get what I’m about.
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inspiring to watch powerful institutions do the right thing at literally the latest possible moment.
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If the filibuster is so important, Joe Manchin should simply go to 21 funerals and explain why
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This is what “enforcing rules against unlicensed street vendors” looks like.
You know what I hear over and over again - that NYC is not enforcing rules against unlicensed street vendors. I’m for increasing licenses but we should do more for the retailers who are paying rent and trying to survive.
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A major Queens landlord refused to renew the lease of the last movie theater in Sunnyside.
Someone redid the marquee to criticize the landlord, and he’s so furious about it that he skipped the NYPD & says he’s demanding the district attorney prosecute
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SO MANY PEOPLE are DMing me and saying “No way can your landlord jack your rent up 25%! There must be a law!”
NYC is supposedly “pro-tenant.” Yet my landlord can raise my rent as high as he wants… he just has to warn me if it’s increasing by 5% or more.
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Joined a Facebook group for NY landlords to do reconnaissance. Almost every post includes them telling each other about doing illegal, often discriminatory things.
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Last month, someone made a 311 complaint about a Flatbush dad playing "Baby Shark" outside for his baby son. NYPD came, pushed him while he held his son, arrested him, held the baby at the precinct for 10 hrs, & called ACS, who ended his custody of his son
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@christapeterso
decided that my favorite aspect is including more detail on the break even point of a meat slicer than on the number of children involved
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Going for a regular run on the day of the NYC marathon is like being one of the pigeons who show up in the zoo
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NO NO NO NO NO
NEW YORK CITY IS NOT A SUBREDDIT THOUGHT EXPERIMENT STARTUP BRO BETA TEST
PEOPLE NEED BUSES THAT WORK
.
@elonmusk
you would have a very large customer/partner if you want to get into electric buses, garbage trucks and other vehicles that NYC needs. 👍
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Incredible sentence told to, edited, and published by a New York City newspaper
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They just announced that we don’t have to cover our faces when we sneeze anymore. Everyone at the bar is cheering and spitting in each other’s drinks
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Bernie tweets like “Call me crazy, but I believe in the radical idea that working people deserve to go to a doctor who doesn’t sell their spinal fluid on the dark web”
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Oh god what did he do
#BREAKING
: Effective Monday, April 19, the curfew currently in place for bars & restaurants will be moving from 11pm to midnight.
The curfew for catered events will move from midnight to 1am.
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So I had late dinner at Veselka last night and think I can shed some light on this whole situation.
Thread: 1/x
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Took the F train from Manhattan to Brooklyn and there was a man talking to himself. What he was saying was: “Just minding my own business. Just minding my own business”
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@sarahnadav
@mynameisjro
Can we also reverse the billions in US tax dollars to prop up the IDF? Or are you just worried about strangers’ genitals?
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33 years old, and still meeting other native New Yorkers and getting asked where I went to high school
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People in New York used to say goodbye with “have a good one” but lately people have started saying “have a great one.” Inflation is out of control
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How NY elected officials are handling our housing crisis:
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@NYCMayor
’s Rent Guidelines Board jacked up rent on 2 MILLION tenants
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@GovKathyHochul
allocated $600 mil of public money to the Buffalo Bills
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@CarlHeastie
@AndreaSCousins
didn’t allow a vote on Good Cause Eviction
The extraordinary surge in median asking rents continued last month.
Over the last 12 months median asking rents in New York City have risen by *29%*.
This is a housing crisis.
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This headline is from 5 days ago. Police can’t prevent crime— not the FBI and not the local ones.
New York governor says there will be an investigation into how the Buffalo shooter was able to get away with it when he’s been on authorities radar since high school
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Andrew Yang's UBI program is for CITIZENS ONLY, which is why some white nationalists loved it. This would have excluded ~2.5 million noncitizen residents of NYC. He has a 25-question UBI FAQ, but nothing on how to support noncitizens.
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NY Post: CHRIS ROCKED
Daily News: Everybody Hates Chris
NY Times: Has Chris Rock Been the Latest Victim of Cancel Culture?
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would it kill them to put a picture of a duck or something on this page that I see at least three times a day
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NYC just canceled $900 MILLION owed to teachers, then handed a blank check to the NYPD.
Unacceptable.
@bradlander
@NYCSpeakerCoJo
@NYCMayor
#NYPD
Rank and file gearing up for a “highly contested presidential elections” policing season. Overtime moratorium is over. Officers are expected to begin working 12 hour shifts Oct. 25 & onward.
#NewYorkCity
#Election2020
#BidenHarris2020
#Trump2020
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I just learned that the Flushing library, the BUSIEST LIBRARY IN THE COUNTRY, closed last March and will remain closed INDEFINITELY because its HVAC system broke. It’s not ancient, it’s from 1999.
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Finally, a political party devoted to the bedrock principle of selling one book
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Yang:
—skipped a Muslim Democratic club’s mayoral forum
—spent that day appearing on an Islamophobe’s podcast
—who he credited with launching his presidential campaign
—after equating Jewish BDS supporters with Nazis
Unbelievable.
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long before Occupy Wall Street created the mic check, there was one person on the bus yelling “back door” and then a bunch of people yelling “back door”
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I love the flexibility of remote work, but it does rob us of the joys of seeing our coworkers, hearing the 5PM whistle toot, and sliding down a brontosaurus's neck into a footmobile
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My favorite bodega got rid of their shelf of newspapers and replaced it with this wall of gummy snacks. This says a lot about society
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Amazon has BANNED warehouse workers from keeping their phones on them.
Amazon doesn’t keep workers safe and prevents them from keeping themselves safe.
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Wow:
The new PPP survey of
#AZSen
shows Democratic Rep. Gallego with 42 percent of the support, election denier Kari Lake with 35 percent, and Sinema getting just 14 percent.
Most Arizonans don’t think Sinema should run.
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@davidmackau
I haven’t seen The NY Times cover COVID in NY prisons and jails, but I appreciate their ongoing Joe Biden Swag Report
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Yang’s campaign is backed by Bloomberg’s campaign manager who made $100 million off Uber. This isn’t surprising.
NEW:
@Lis_Smith
is working on a pro-
@AndrewYang
PAC with a goal of raising $6M to counter anticipated negative ads against Yang. 2 other pro-Yang PACs have been filed with state Board of Elex. Story w/
@joeanuta
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wow, this blew up. feel free to DM me about literally any other job opportunities
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⚪️ thing I need to do
⚪️ thing I need to do
✅ side quest
Thank you to hero and cyclist
@sethmpk
for finding the shoe and bringing it to us out of pure generosity and kindness. What a neighborly thing to do. Freddie is giddy.
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I felt squeamish about tweeting this, but it’s a month later, and my mom has continued to test positive for COVID. Now she’s in a hospital at death’s door.
Why won’t you support caution instead of vibes,
@NYCMayor
? Why won’t you let city workers work remote? Why let NYC suffer?
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Yang didn't get close to becoming president, and if he somehow did, Congress would never pass his UBI. He wanted it to be funded by a big tax on almost everything that would ALSO raise prices.
(He says it wouldn't raise prices, because businesses would just try harder.)
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This weekend NYC is split between “save the Strand” vs “the Strand is owned by a rich connected landlord,” and “look at these voting lines 😍” vs “making voters wait hours is a failure.”
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I bet many people are going to see this statement from Mayor Adams.
But not enough people know that Adams is pushing cuts to the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene— even though that agency is largely federally funded.
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I wish we could gather to demonstrate without generating a zillion dollars of NYPD overtime. (Not pictured: At least two helicopters)
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I would pay a monthly fee to remove cable TV from other people's homes
🚨 NEW TONE ALERT 🚨
An MSNBC anchor just said President Trump, who days ago instructed white supremacists to disrupt polling places and mocked people for wearing masks, now has a "gentler tone" and his tweet was "heartfelt"!!!
I cannot believe this is happening before our eyes
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Some professional news: I’ve began serving as Director of NY Community Mobilization at
@housingworks
, working to end homelessness and AIDS through relentless advocacy.
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Biking home I turned up Carlton and into a whole open street wedding? There’s food trucks and an Uncle Louie G’s van
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Cuomo picked Trump over de Blasio, picked power and spite over vaccine access for NYC.
Everyone in progressive politics has been trying to warn you.
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My stepmom got me an Ancestry kit as a gift and I decided to be a good sport and send my DNA to some business. Turns out I’m Jewish.
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This headline was written to drive a certain kind of person insane.
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@clapifyoulikeme
Not only are you trying to start briscourse, you might have coined briscourse
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No, the guy who has been on the City Council for 8 years is not “just getting started.” That would be you.
Congrats Carlos on running a campaign for the people of New York! You are just getting started my friend. Look forward to joining you to fight for cash relief, immigrant rights and much more. 👍🗽❤️
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I was having an ok day and then I met this cat and now I’m having a nice day.
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NYC Democratic Reps. who have NOT signed on to
@CoriBush
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@Grace4NY
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@JerryNadler
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@hakeem_jeffries
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@RepGregoryMeeks
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@RepTomSuozzi
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@RepMaloney
This is half the delegation.
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Maybe the most crazy-making part of the Yang campaign is that some people are treating him and the lobbyists running his campaign like a blank slate. Yang has written TWO BOOKS about his politics!
In other words: Yang, like most people who haven’t based their entire career or lifestyle around politics, does not have a coherent ideology but is responsive to various proposals depending on who is framing them and how.
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As someone who once worked for FEMA: New York isn’t ready for the next Sandy or Harvey or Katrina. And FEMA isn’t ready for two or three similarly sized events to happen simultaneously, as they eventually will.
Some subway system ya got there. This is the 157th St. 1 line right now.
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
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“good vibes only” is not a valid response to a coup
"We're not looking backwards we're looking forward" Jeffries says when asked whether the House should impeach Trump over Ga phone call
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I tried to summarize this wild article by
@BaharOstadan
but you really need to read it all. So many details, like NYPD refusing to answer who cared for the 20-month-old baby they separated from his father for hours
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A week after Election Day and NOW this guy learns how to phonebank?
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[me buying ice cream] well it’s expensive but i deserve the best
[me in the pharmacy] this cheaper store brand one says “similar to pencillin” that’s probably fine
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“And these ‘congressional maps’… are they in the room with us right now?”
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“Coronavirus restrictions” haven’t closed the subway.
@NYGovCuomo
closed the subway.
Homeless people in New York City have faced a particularly brutal winter as coronavirus restrictions have kept the subway and other indoor public spaces closed.
“I’ve tried everything, everything, but there is nowhere else to go," one man said.
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@FSingh_NYC
I’m so sorry. It turned my stomach to hear
@NYCMayor
asked about this crisis only to respond “someone should do something.”
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@rhinosoros
At least the newly passed city budget includes an unprecedented commitment to climate mitiahahaha jk it’s record NYPD funding and a $30 mil ad campaign
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Seen some bad opinions about the NYC subway lately from the green part
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just remembered earlier in Greenpoint’s gentrification when The NY Times ran two articles about people moving next door to a 90-year-old slaughterhouse as a bit and then learning that slaughter happens there
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⬇️ The CEO of
@ThreesBrewing
. Very disappointing. I go there regularly and was just about to plan an event there. Not happening anytime soon
Vaccine mandates are a crime against humanity.
If you are not speaking out against them, you are a conspirator.
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Adams has been the frontrunner for a while now and I still couldn’t name three things he’s done as Borough President besides park cars on the sidewalk and insult housing for LGBTQ seniors
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Lived in NY my whole life and just learning now that 1) there’s an upstate region called the Thousand Islands and 2) these things are there
A happy state senator got a new gift from the minority leader of home district landmark
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Was walking around Gowanus last night and a guy I didn’t know let my friend and I walk around his garage full of shiny classic Saabs.
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@malegazegraves
1/3 of the replies are commiserating, 1/3 are communists, and 1/3 are “have you considered asking nicely or being a better tenant who adds value to the investment?”
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Ms. Pizza-Dennis is one of the West Villagers who hired a civil rights lawyer to sue the city over outdoor dining, arguing it violated state law by not considering the program’s environmental impact. She "said she spends up to an hour looking for parking in her neighborhood." 🤔
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WOW. Eric Adams interviewed his new police chief by making her rehearse for a white police officer shooting “an apparently unarmed black man”
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Went to the pizzeria and there were only two types of slices available, because a preschool class was there on a field trip, had made their own pies, and were being awarded pizza maker diplomas
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Hey
@BrianLehrer
, my Park Slope neighbors keep seeing
@NYCMayor
around the neighborhood during business hours. Is he still working remotely while forcing all city workers back to their offices?
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love to hear Andrew Yang, who has never voted for Mayor, attended a Community Board meeting, or done anything of note for the people of New York, praise Community Boards for their "high level of civic engagement" 😊
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1) de Blasio did a number of good things as mayor
2) He could’ve done them better
3) He especially could’ve communicated them better
4) He racked up unneeded losses and often governed out of fear, inertia, and defensiveness
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It finally happened. Wore my knockoff NYC government shirt and someone who works for the mayor was like “and who are you”
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Can we PLEASE talk honestly about how right-wing forces are pouring money into NYC elections, the grassroots left is less engaged than we’ve been in years, political machines are threatening progressive incumbents citywide, and the Council largely refuses to confront the Mayor?
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