Energy geek & urban gardener fighting the climate war of position. President, Lambda Independent Democrats. She/Her
Brooklyn, NY
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When your rent goes up $200 bucks, and your salary goes up $0 bucks, what difference does it make that your landlord is a big or small landlord?
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Landlords fucking hate @ZohranKMamdani. Vote for Zohran Mamdani
NEW: The biggest single donor in the mayoral race is now the New York Apartment Association, which wants to make sure Cuomo defeats Mamdani.
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Hey @ericadamsfornyc! You wanted us to flag police officers on their phones. I spot three here at Metropolitan Lorimer
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I completely blame @GovKathyHochul for this insane headtimes in the middle of a weekday. She is actively sabotaging our transit system to appease folks who don’t even use it. This is unacceptable. Call her and demand she institute congestion pricing NOW.
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Today as of 2am, I have officially been sober for 90 days. It might not sound like much, but it’s the longest have had in 17 years. I’m looking forward to building a life I can be happy in and proud of!
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Goodbye system expansion. Goodbye signal upgrades. Goodbye accessibility updates. All up in smoke because Hochul made single-handed decision against years of work and preparation.
Hochul considering congestion pricing delay amid concerns from Democratic leaders ow.ly/qnTW105vB4E
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“Mamdani is too inexperienced to govern, and to demonstrate that, I am going to state an incorrect statement about the powers of the NYC mayor, showing just how relevant my opinion is here” - Former Governor David Patterson
Asked what Mamdani policy he finds most objectionable, Paterson says freezing rents — “there’s no way he could do that.” (He most likely can, through the rent guidelines board)
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The only surprising thing about NYC mayor Adams getting indicted is that he’s the first NYC mayor to be indicted
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The Mayfield candle factory erased by the tornado paid most of its workers $8 an hour. 7 of the workers in the factory that night were convicts on loan from the County jail. OSHA found several serious safety violations at the factory in 2019. None of the $16350 fine has been paid
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NYC friends: today we are expected to hit a peak of 12,300+ MWs of electricity use. This is MASSIVE and higher than the peaks that caused the 2019 outages. Charge your phones, check in with your neighbors, and be on high alert that a blackout is possible.
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The issue isnt that they “chose” to tell regular folks to reduce demand over commercial customers. Rather its that those folks live in areas where the utility has chosen not to adequately invest in, update & maintain the grid. Those areas are also majority working class POC nabes
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“It’s a shame you’re running on this new party with no record of seriousness. You should have run on a very old party with a more well documented history of unseriousness.”
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My favorite part of the NYC marathon is the tail end, after the race is over, where we briefly have 26 extra miles of open streets. Walking up Bedford Ave was strait up pleasant!
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It’s notable that every socialist elected in NY are doing rallies, visibility, and GOTV to ensure Lee Zeldin and other right wingers don’t gain seats in New York, while Richie is apparently on vacation.
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As of today, it’s been 327 days since we’ve last had measurable snow in NYC. This is the longest we’ve gone without snow ever. The average first snow day since 1970 is Dec 14. In the 30 years before that the average was Dec 7. This is a trend & it will likely get worse
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This lady is trying to be a right ring AOC, and it just isn’t working. AOC actually comes prepared and also is better at understanding and predicting people.
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He claims it’s because “expenses have gone way up”, but he’s not done anything to improve the house, we fix most things in our own, we have made the back yard nice, and we pay the gas and electric bills. I call BS.
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Hair is a humid mess, but I did the thing! Rank @bradlander and @ZohranKMamdani at the top of your ballot in your preferred order! Use all five slots. DO NOT rank Cuomo!
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Embarrassing that this is the single most trans-affirming thing this mayor will ever do
.@NYCMayor is playing catch to raise awareness about prostate cancer. He asked the gentleman from this initiative, 30 Catches in 30 Days, if prostate cancer affects women as much as men
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TW: sexual abuse
Kim says she experienced sexual abuse at the hands of Scott Stringer, who has claimed the relationship between him & Kim was consensual. I am all too familiar with this thinking. My former boss likely believes our relationship was consensual, too. It was not.1/x
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Wait wait wait, how do they NOT tell you what this pizza is? Is it like a “surprise me” pizza?
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I know for a fact that Zohran visited my friend’s synagogue. Has Cuomo visited a mosque yet?
ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt suggests Zohran Mamdani “believes” in the ‘Globalize the Intifada’ slogan because he won’t condemn it and questions why Mamdani hasn’t visited a single synagogue + “hasn’t been to any mainstream Jewish institution.”
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One year sober this week. One year ago, I woke up unable to walk due to a badly sprained ankle. I wasn’t entirely sure what I had done the night before, but I knew I embarrassed myself in front of people, I clearly fell down some stairs and got into a fight with my girlfriend 1/x
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Legislators in NY are rejecting to-go alcohol sales to “protect against alcohol abuse”. I’d like to say as a recovering alcoholic that the legal status of to-go alcohol never stopped me from drinking, but criminalizing alcohol in public has been used to overpolice PoC communities
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What does throwing water at it with a hose do that will stop a fire so insane it burns through the ocean?
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Its not an indigenous liberation movement. I dont need any liberation as a white male in the western world. There is nothing to liberate Jewish folks like myself from. Zionism is just declaring a land my family havnt lived in for millennia is mine at the expense of folk who have.
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Lol, this is pretty funny, but it is important to note that our local grid is subdivided into interconnected local area networks. Some of those got overloaded yesterday, but not all of them. Reducing demand in non-effected networks sadly does not reduce strain on other networks.
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I love how the anti-congestion pricing people in my comments are all like “don’t complain, my subway ride is worse!!!” Like that doesn’t further prove my point.
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It’s a good time to call your state representatives and demand they cosponsor and demand to pass #goodcause this session. Follow @housing4allNY for continuing updates on that, and to get involved before this happens to you!
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“We can’t have renewables because unlike fossil fuels, we can’t rely on them to always be running”
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For those who say our DSA candidates don’t talk about socialism enough, it’s 30 seconds into @Gonzalez4NY’s inauguration speech, and she’s said “socialist” 5 times.
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“Workers should not stand up for themselves if they like pride flags” is a pretty wild take, bro.
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It was a conservative appointed by Cuomo that got redistricting thrown out & now Hochul wants to replace them with ANOTHER conservative! In a post-Roe world, we cannot be elevating conservative justices, especially in a blue state! Call your state senator & demand they vote “no”!
new: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has nominated Hector D. LaSalle, the presiding justice of the state supreme court’s second department, as chief judge of the state court of appeals, NY’s highest court. if appointed, LaSalle would be the first Latino chief judge on the court, says Hochul
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I played sports in Nassau County growing up. This is just 20 miles east of NYC City Hall. Transphobic hate laws aren’t just happening in the Deep South, it’s in our back yard. Talk to your queer friends, it’s a horrifying time for us.
Nassau County will protect women and girls right to compete in sporting events in female leagues WITHOUT biological males bullying their way onto those teams.
nypost.com/2024/02/22/us-new…
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Let me get this strait: Yang folks are upset on twitter today that NYC progressives have consolidated behind Maya Wiley (a progressive) rather than Yang (a pseudo libertarian wish-washy tech bro who’s getting police endorsements)? I guess masks are off!
Rank @mayawiley #1.
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Right now, a @lyft from Manhattan to Brooklyn costs more than $125. Remember when they said the apps would save us money? What fools we were!
Anyway, everyone should get @TheDriversCoop
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I’m proud to be supporting a homegrown progressive who’s already running in this race, @Gonzalez4NY! Nomiki jumping in this late will only make the path for a progressive harder against the more right wing candidates running.
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Great first step! Next step is that the filings should be automatically sent to us like they are in other countries. It’s silly that we have the do them at all!
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(Genuinely asking because while it looks counterintuitive, I am not a fire fighting professional and this might have a rational explanation because the world is often counterintuitive)
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…we have an international “war on terror” going strong for over 20 years supported by both parties, waged at home and abroad, and the US providing assistance to an ally facing illegal invasion is the conflict that concerns you here?
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And, of course, remember that every year ConEd works to raise your rates while giving record dividend payments to its investors. What if we spent that money right here on infrastructure instead of paying off investors? Check out @publicpowerny to learn more and get involved.
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By recognizing their humanity, and understanding that people make mistakes, especially when they are young.
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Very disappointing you would help run against the candidate literally the whole local grassroots progressive movement has coalesced around just to help your friend’s vanity project.
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Carbon offsets don’t work. They are literally an accounting trick. They are worse than useless because they give the illusion of doing something. If you see a plan that involves offsets, question it immensely
"It seems too ridiculous to be true.
Instead of cutting our own emissions, the Govt says it will pay ten billion dollars over a decade to buy carbon ‘offsets’ from overseas companies. Many of these offsets are worthless.
But it is true." - @RusselNorman
greenpeace.org/aotearoa/stor…
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In case anybody in DSA is worried that our candidates aren’t explicitly socialist enough, I’m at a normie Reform Democrat meeting where @Gonzalez4NY is speaking, and she’s talking about how her Democratic Socialist perspective informs her views on how government should work.
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Proof that Paperboy has never been involved with NBK politics or local environmental fights outside of their own pet vanity projects is that they admit they have never run into @EmilyAssembly, who’s basically been omnipresent in the area for over a decade.
* I got a scholarship to go to U of Maryland: College Park where i studied policy, infrastructure and how the Government works. You are from Rochester NY. I love Rochester! I do know that you are a career politician I’ve never seen around BK
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There has been zero improvements/construction done on the house since I’ve moved in, and we have had a mild winter.
Agreed that there should be a cap. It should not surpass local wage growth.
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This is a very good point. If the numbers are even slightly close, we should give an edge to Dr. Oz
Great news but I want to warn everyone that i think the actual numbers are closer. We've seen in recent elections that GOP voters tend to under report their support for candidates in polls, because they get teased/shamed. So this guy needs to fight OZ hard until the end.
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Every state legislator that voted in favor of letting Hochul pick a new Lt. Gov has had a hand in potentially handing this congressional seat over to the republicans on the eve of reversal of Roe v Wade. This pick is fundamentally an irresponsible & reckless attempt to hold power
Congressman Antonio Delgado has been picked to be New York’s next Lieutenant Governor, a source tells NY1.
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As an advertisement for Good Cause Eviction. Sorry if that’s inconvenient for you, but it would help tenants like the majority of NYC residents a lot.
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You clearly meant it in a negative way. Don’t be a coward and backtrack. Either own it or apologize
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Fuck these people. Hamas sucks and we need not idolize Islamic extremists in order to stand with the people of Palestine. What’s happening in Gaza is a crime against humanity being committed by Netanyahu and the Isreali government, but our enemy’s enemy isn’t necessarily a friend
Until this point, DSA has been hesitant to declare solidarity with the Palestinian resistance. It's past time for that to change.
redstarcaucus.org/we-do-not-…
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We had an outdoor cat we looked out for growing up named “Nothing”, because my dad asked my toddler sister what she wanted to call her. Similar vibes.
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Looks like India Walton, the Democratic Party nominee for Mayor of Buffalo, has lost. For this, I blame the Democratic Party “leaders” who refused to support the Dem nominee. Every one of you are enemies of the party. I will work against you on any election you run in next.
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…he’s literally opposed to the values you hold. He’s got an anti-union and anti-choice record!
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Anti-Semitic, anti-African, sexist, and homophobic, among other things. Fringe religious extremists who preach conspiracy theories.
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Turn your wailers into failures at the Western Wall of Success.
.@NYCMayor visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
ALT Mayor Adams places his hand on the Western Wall.
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Why is it that whenever I criticize Andrew Yang, most of the folks coming to support him live in entirely different parts of the country?
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Very true, Mr Yang. I don’t want Eric Adams to be mayor. Coincidentally, I also do not want you to be mayor
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This morning I tested + for COVID. I’ve been on hold for over 40 minutes with the test & trace corps. No way most people are waiting this long to just report their results. Official count must be insanely low-balled. What’s the deal @NYCMayor?
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Gay isn’t a “culture”, and wearing a rainbow doesn’t force anything in anybody, but banning him from the stadium for wearing it sure is forcing bigotry on somebody
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Two years sober.
Today I am grateful for many things, but first of all of them, I am grateful that two years ago I woke up in bed with a sprained ankle unable to walk, an angry soon to be ex-partner, & a lot of people whom I vaguely remember embarrassing myself in front of 🧵/x
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Good question! The issue isn’t an abundance of power that can simply be directed elsewhere, it’s that areas had very high demand & the area network was too weak to handle it all at once. You can’t re-direct demand, you can only encourage folks to conserve, or cut what’s delivered
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No, no it is not standard. 3-4 minutes is more like it, and I have no idea how long people were waiting before I got there. The trains were very clearly backed up
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In this time that trans people are being politically attacked, Im proud to be a trans woman running for (very tiny) office!
Im excited to be running for County Committee and JD with a whole slate of socialists and progressive reformers. Come sign my petition if you live in AD50!
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The mass politics wing of the DSA: “it’s probably a bad idea to pass this questionable purge reso, so we all vote now”
The purity wing of the dsa: ::actual death threats:: -
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I live in Lincoln’s district. I used to have a car here. I did the math and found that I could keep my car parked illegally and never move it for a whole month, not get towed, and as long as I paid my tickets, it was cheaper than any parking spot in the area. We need this law!
🔁🔁🔁 I reintroduced our bill to strengthen penalties for Alternate Side Parking violations. It would increase fines over a 12 month period:
1st violation ➡️ $65 fee
2nd & 3rd ➡️ $100 fee
4th ➡️ vehicle towed
I chatted about it last year with @RogerClark41 ⬇️
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A massive tower that will piss off the folks who don’t like height differences, and less apartments to piss off the “build more” folks. This is the kind of redevelopment we can all agree should be banned by law
New: a developer's planning a 535-foot-tall tower on the UES, possibly becoming the tallest building above 72nd St.
But it'll cause a net loss of housing — the new tower will have just 55 apartments, fewer than the low-rise walkups that once stood there:
patch.com/new-york/upper-eas…
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While he is qualified, so were other candidates on your short list, and those candidates didn’t have the serious red flags that come with your nominee. We could have had the first black woman in the seat, and labor & progressive groups would have celebrated you! #NoOnLasalle
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So with the EPA ruling, will we now need to have congress set the amount of lead legally permissible in drinking water? Will they be required to explicitly name how many rat hairs are permissible in peanut butter? How much cadmium can be in cosmetics?
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As of today there’s nearly 1000 known cases of Monkeypox in NYC. The WHO declared this an international emergency. How has @NYCMayor not called the Test & Trace corps back? Early tracing is vital in containing an outbreak in early stages. @ericadamsfornyc is dropping the ball!
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Living in NYC as a trans woman is great until you get randomly assaulted by some transphobic dude for the second time in a month & nobody does anything to help. We aren’t even close to being fully accepted for who we are, even in one of the most trans-friendly cities in the world
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Good cause resources here:
And for folks who want to help join the fight for #GoodCause and other legislation that helps tenants afford the rent and build tenant power, use our write your rep tool! hj4a.org/TakeAction
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