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@Matt_Pinner Yes.

When people get in their 50s and 60s and up, do you start thinking about how many years you have left? I’m curious

@Camp4 @Messinadress1 Parents can be the best teachers but also the worst. Depends on the parent. It’s a broad bell curve.

@Messinadress1 Credentialism is a sign of low IQ. There’s no better teacher than a parent.

As someone who comes from a family of teachers , 90% of you aren’t smart enough to homeschool your kids and are doing them a serious disservice

@NYCMayor Why single out a private citizen? Sure, go ahead and levy your tax but why foment division? This behavior is just terrible leadership. By the way, the guy has given away $100’s millions to NYC institutions.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

@dieworkwear Sounds plausible.

mamdani’s team got in touch with me this morning to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with an extra 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

@moseskagan And many progressives seriously believe that with more citizen tax dollars they can lead those that misbehave to redemption.

One reason I am so impatient with progressives in local government is that they can't or won't acknowledge that a material portion of the population will misbehave, absent very strong disincentives. I wish it weren't true, but it is true, and there is no way you can govern a city effectively if you deny that truth.

Buying and operating sub-institutional real estate exposes you to some pretty uncomfortable truths about human nature.

@DavidAn1611 @RichardHanania You dude are not decent society.

The libertarian thing doesn't work. Adultery should be illegal. Crossdressing should be illegal. Perverse behavior, when identified, should result in not being allowed to be around children, and open shaming should happen so decent society knows to beware these perverts. Good, strong rules would be better for every single person involved in this story.

The Kristi Noem story keeps getting more incredible The Daily Mail has obtained audio and messages of Bryon insulting his wife and worshipping a 5 foot tall, buxom dominatrix named Shy Sotomayor, while discussing his desire to transition into a woman. He told the dominatrix he wanted to be called "Crystal." Bryon Noem: "I need to be your trans bimbo slut." Sotomayor was shocked he wanted a name so close to "Kristi." From the Daily Mail article: 'F*** your family,' Sotomayor texted Bryon in November, later calling the whole Noem clan 'gross.' 'Love that,' he responded. 'Besides the fact of who your wife is, no one is prettier than me. No one is as powerful,' she continued. 'F***ing true. Do you want me to be a woman?' he wrote. 'Do you want to be a woman for me,' she asked. 'I think I do,' he replied. In a recording of a phone conversation they had weeks later, Bryon can be heard telling Sotomayor that he loved her. 'So much better than your wife, aren't I?' she asked. 'You're so much better,' he said. The Mail reports that this relationship with the dominatrix started in 2016 and first ended in 2020. Then, Bryon Noem reached back out in October 2025, and was more needy. Sotomayor found out who he was, and then started to shame him over what was happening with ICE in Minnesota. Daily Mail: "she ultimately felt she could no longer remain silent, even while role-playing." Now, she would tell him that his wife was a horrible person, and Bryon would change the subject or say not to believe everything she saw in the news. Two weeks later, on January 31, he was back chatting again, this time defending his marriage. 'I do like my wife and I know you don't,' he wrote. 'To be honest. She's not [very] likable,' Sotomayor responded. 'There's no female compared to me. Especially your wife,' she later added. 'True!!!' he texted. 'And f*** your wife. Don't you think, after everything she's done, she deserves this?' she wrote in another thread that same day. 'Deserves what?' he asked. 'You actually worshipping a woman who deserves it, instead of staying loyal to her,' Sotomayor wrote in reference to the thousands of dollars he was paying her. 'I don't know what to say to that. She's a good person. You are amazing though,' he wrote. I actually have more sympathy for Kristi Noem now. She was married to a complete weirdo, no wonder she went looking for something elsewhere. Regardless, Kristi Noem is in fact a horrible person, and we shouldn't forget that. But we can have more sympathy by understanding how she got like this, even though this doesn't excuse sadistically seeking to harm people of color as a way of coping.

@PaulMarcoe Nuclear War

4 things I think most GenX was afraid of. Acid Rain Quick sand Bermuda Triangle Amnesia What else?

@JoanneMason11 Godspeed Mr. Mason.

Friends I just got a call from one of Mr. Mason's friends and my Mr. Mason has been taken to the hospital with chest pains Please, PLEASE pray for him, I'm leaving now please, friends please pray. PLEASE

@AsadFromNYC And the vast majority don’t live in NY.

“Mamdani has almost 15 million followers, and his base remains deeply devoted. They’re ready for a fight. What happens when the messaging apparatus that helped unravel Cuomo is aimed at someone else? Hochul and Menin may find out sooner rather than later.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

@allenanalysis People who don’t pay their taxes are grifting from all of us.

🚨BREAKING: NYC Speaker Julie Menin wants to close the city’s $5.4 billion budget gap by “collecting” delinquent property taxes instead of taxing the ultra-wealthy. What that actually means: Selling the debts of Black and Latino homeowners to Wall Street investors — who charge fees, add penalties, and push families into foreclosure. For 30 years this tax lien sale stripped generational wealth from Brooklyn and Queens. Mayor Mamdani canceled it. Menin wants it back. The same Menin with a $22 million Hamptons mansion, an $8 million apartment, and access to private jets — much of it hidden through a spousal disclosure loophole. She wants working-class homeowners to pay the gap. Not the ultra-wealthy. Not herself. Them.

@JoanneMason11 I am truly grateful for my peeps - both in human form and in marshmallow form.

One key to happiness is gratitude; knowing that while all is not perfect, most is fine, and some, absolutely magnificent. On this evening before Easter, let's share blessings for which we're grateful. I'll start: my loving family and our Savior's sacrifice are my life and my joy.

@sun_girlxo Ugh, Soho has been crowded on the weekends since the 90’s.

I spend 95% of my free time in brooklyn but I just went to soho and the west village for the first time in a very, very long time to meet up with friends. What the fuck did I just experience. That was horrible. Insanely crowded, no one knows how to walk, and more lines than I’ve ever seen in my entire life for the most basic shit. The coffee shop I wanted to try had a 35+ minute line so I didn’t even bother. I don’t remember it being this way pre-pandemic?! Am I wrong? Either that, or my tolerance for overstimulation has decreased significantly, but either way I cannot do that again. I’m drawing a hard line the way one does with Times Square

@dieworkwear But Weejun is an awesome name.

Seeing a lot of people talk about summer penny loafers and recommending GH Bass. Although iconic, most Bass Weejuns are poorly made. You can see the difference in the two photos below. On the left, we have an old pair of GH Bass Weejuns. On the right, we have a similarly old pair of Aldens. The Weejuns are made from a type of material known as corrected grain leather, which is a lower-quality hide that arrives at the tannery with scars and marks that naturally developed over the animal's lifetime. Since you need an even surface for shoes, tanneries will sand the surface to remove blemishes, then apply a chemical coating. The problem is that the coating will age poorly over time. In the photo here, they've developed cloudy creases. In some cases, the coating can flake off. On the other hand, Alden uses full-grain leather, which means the leather retains its natural surface. They are also careful in how they place the pattern pieces onto the hide and subsequently cut the various pieces to produce a shoe. This way, the creases are finer and less pronounced. Of course, Alden is about 7x more expensive than Weejun, but they are not the only company that uses full-grain leather. A basic Bass Weejun will run you about $175. Meermin's full-grain leather loafers are $230 — just $55 more Why spend this extra money? Because after a year or two, you will grow dissatisfied with how your Weejuns look. Then you will throw them away and buy something new, only to repeat the process. On the other hand, if you buy loafers made from higher-quality materials, you will grow fond of the patina that they've developed. Thus, you will splurge on a resole, allowing you to grow ever fonder of your shoes, repairing them as needed, and keeping the same pair of shoes for many decades. IMO, it's always better to buy less, but buy better. Consider what you really need and then figure out how things are made. Use this information to identify reliable brands and retailers. This is a much better way to shop than to say "The Row is popular right now, so I should buy that" (using the "The Row" here as just a stand-in for whatever seems to be hot at the moment — no shade to them).

@TukiFromKL So he’s only worth $234b? But the market cap of Amazon is like 10x’s that. Does that mean he only owns 10% and literally made $2 trillion for other people?

🚨 Bernie Sanders just said what everyone's thinking but nobody with money will say.. Jeff Bezos is worth $234 billion.. plans to replace 600,000 Amazon workers with robots.. and is raising $100 billion to buy factories and automate them.. he's not building jobs.. he's buying companies to delete them.. the same man whose workers pee in bottles because they can't take bathroom breaks is now spending $100 billion to make sure they don't need bathrooms at all.. and here's the question nobody's answering.. when 600,000 people lose their income.. who's buying from Amazon.. you can automate the workforce.. you can't automate the customer.

@FromWhiteCastle @BarryRoland19 Up until this recent ruling, a LL in NYS was compelled to participate.

@BarryRoland19 Thanks. Makes much more sense once you’re past the living space. I have never known all the intricate details of Sec8; hearing just a few of them was enough to convince me not to participate.

👀 NY appellate court just struck down a state law that requires owners to accept Section 8 tenants, on the basis that it violates owners’ 4A rights (ie govt access to the owners units to do inspections and other warrantless searches is unconstitutional). Expected to go to highest court.

@Matt_Pinner Mildred

Vintage old lady name for this DOG please

@harlemedic @gary_weiss The rules changed though.

@gary_weiss on the other hand, the landlords bought/invested in these properties knowing the rules and projected risks. Now if NYC, etc., implements *new* rules on already built/sold housing, that’s a different track…

If Mamdani rams through a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments, tenants will have no reason to rejoice. Most older buildings are heated by No. 2 heating oil, and oil prices are going through the roof. Forcing landlords to operate at a loss will tee up a SCOTUS decision ending rent controls in NYC and everywhere. That is what happens when you elect a 34-year-old Marxist who has less work experience than most baristas.

Okay my fellow olds, who remembers playing outside in the summertime with your friends, in the middle of a very serious game of kickball and you hear the most beautiful sound in the world: The Ice Cream Truck Bells.

@_FlipMan Green

Current color is the first pic. The next three are ChatGPT suggestions. What do we like?

@jayparsons @matthewstoller He won’t. He just wants to stand on a soapbox and scream at people.

@matthewstoller You are welcome to make your points on the merits of the bill.

Jay Parsons was the chief economist for a software company who worked with large landlords to engage in rent-fixing across dozens of large cities. The 'good faith' critiques here are anything but.