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Believer in the idea of America. Immigration is our superpower. Cities built for people are safe, beautiful and prosperous. Not official record.
Banning Airbnb had much less impact than literally banning new hotels, which happened in 2021.
One of the most predictable disasters in recent memory. NYC effectively banned short-term rentals like Airbnb—and now working-class people need to take out a second mortgage just to spend a weekend there. All in the name of ~helping.~ Total economic illiteracy.
Many Americans aren’t familiar with Canadian serial killer & rapist Paul Bernardo, nicknamed the “schoolgirl killer” He & wife Karla Homolka raped and killed women together before being arrested in 1993. The prosecution made a deal with Homolka, the “deal with the devil” 🧵
Delivering since 1775. Join us in celebrating our 250th anniversary, a milestone honoring centuries of service, progress and impact. We're proud to serve the American public, now and for the next 250 years. 🇺🇸
I can’t stress enough how much lawlessness undermines basic progressive goals. When it’s safe, everyone benefits but the most vulnerable benefit most. I ran a few times at night here on dark paths and women are there running. Kids use public bathrooms alone.
This is what Tolkien called “dragon sickness”
Elon Musk is now officially worth $405.6 billion, projected to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027.
Fox News took Jeanine Pirro off air because "she's crazy" and "nuts." Their words, not mine. Now we're going to trust her with the lives and liberty of the people of DC? This is just absurd.
Trump's immigration policy is inhumane. But it's also deeply corrupt. Trump's super rich donors and friends are building and running these detention camps - and making massive profits off treating immigrants like animals.
White voters for Kamala Harris increased 1.2 million from 2020. Trump netted 600k more white votes, but she hit the 42% rate she needed to win. What was devastating was that Black and Hispanic turnout for her dropped 3.6 and 2.2 million, respectively, from 2020.
I wish people understood this. The Dem multi-racial coalition shrunk in 2024. 3M+ Black and 2M+ Latinos didn’t even bother to vote. I have tried to explain this numerous times using Cornell Belcher’s presentation from back in December.
Two of the greatest Jewish intellectuals of the last century, Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein, would be judged antisemitic under Columbia University’s new policy adopting IHRA propaganda that falsely equates criticism of either Zionism or Israel with antisemitism.
At least half of right wing Twitter is this
AI controlled Bot Farm.
As a physician, I’m just not so sure our brains were made to stream this much grief and tragedy day in, day out, while not being able to do anything to stop the hurt/suffering.
Two amazing things. 1. Trump has had an economically illiterate fixation on trade deficits and tariffs for 50 years and never bothered to learn a thing about the subject. 2. One of the world's greatest political parties has just fallen in line and embraced his ignorance.
Dear @CNN, Polite reminder: We used to have a most favored nation trade status with the EU where we charged each other about 1% tariffs on most goods. We will now be paying 15% more for European products. That’s Trump’s amazing trade deal in a nutshell -@cturnbull1968
The US condemns the Hong Kong government’s latest round of arrest warrants on activists for exercising freedom of expression, including US-based persons. This Administration will always stand up for fundamental freedoms & will not tolerate transnational repression on US soil.
The US condemns the Hong Kong government’s latest round of arrest warrants on activists for exercising freedom of expression, including US-based persons. This Administration will always stand up for fundamental freedoms & will not tolerate transnational repression on US soil.
More than a century ago, Santa Barbara decided that it wanted to be a Spanish Revival city, building with intention & concentrating those efforts in the core. Now, it's one of the most beautiful places in America, building wonderful projects like this every year, all by choice!
You shouldn’t be charged more or paid less because of your ZIP code or search history. I just introduced a bill to ban “surveillance pricing” — when corporations use your data to hike up prices or cut your wages. It’s invasive. It’s exploitative. And it needs to end.
Pittsburgh (L) has a population of about 300,000, half of what it was in 1950 before it went all in for office towers and auto-oriented land use Prague (R) is a low-rise, mixed-use city of 1.4M
A spectacular view of #Pittsburgh from nearly 3,000 ft over the city!
This way of thinking is poison. The reality on the ground is that a 15% drop in your rent can mean the difference between affording groceries that month or not.
I love the scale on that graph. Really accurately conveys "you could save as much as 15%!"
If Eisenhower were alive today, MAGA would call him a woke liberal.
The WH is a mafia operation. They got in contact w/ Maxwell & now Trump is publicly dangling a pardon for her, IF she lies to try to save Trump. If you're facing life in prison, what would you do? We need ALL records of ALL contact with her and transcripts of ALL meetings.