Benedict Stone

@GovKathyHochul Who needs data centers when you have two bus lanes? All we are missing is one extra lane for each bicycle wheel.

It's not enough to be the first. I'm making sure that New York is the first to get it right.

@GadSaad When the Founding Fathers came to America, they too must have left behind a lot of stuff in the Old World. But the American Spirit that they brought with them was far more important and precious.

It is extraordinary the amount of stuff that we hoard in our lives. As we prepare our move to the US, we must have gotten rid of at least one ton of stuff! Now I'm trying to work through my emails, which I've hoarded for decades!

Could you clarify whether these are meant as rhetorical statements or literal factual claims? Asking because separating facts from opinions or values usually makes for a better conversation & helps people engage with what you're actually saying instead of getting caught up in the wording.

It's not radical to believe everybody in the richest, most powerful country in the world should have healthcare. It's not radical to believe we shouldn't send our money abroad to bomb people when we need money for our schools here. It's not radical to believe corporations shouldn't be able to buy politicians.

@NYCMayor You present advocacy, not neutral analysis, asserting predictions without evidence, emphasizing harms while omitting tradeoffs, appealing to emotion and local identity, and treating uncertain outcomes as likely consequences.

Proud that New York is one of 12 states suing to stop Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. This is not a merger that serves the public. It would hand one company nearly a third of the movies and cable channels Americans watch, raise prices for streaming and cable, endanger the livelihoods of thousands of New York artists and entertainment workers, and threaten to shutter theaters across our city. New York's workers helped build this industry. They should not be sacrificed for the sake of further corporate consolidation.

@MarkRuffalo If concentrated wealth concerns you, would you consider sharing more of your success directly with struggling extras and supporting actors? It would be a tangible way to advance the principles you advocate.

💥 Fighting for the people against the oligarchs.

@cenkuygur Are you providing an update as to the fruits of your labor?

Country is now divided into people who still believe that people in power - media and politicians - are representing a real view of the world and people who think they're lying to preserve their own power. Both sides think the other side is nuts. But it's no longer left vs right.

It is good to listen to family childcare providers, but it is also good to listen to parents themselves and their concerns, such as safety in the streets, safety in the subway, and cleanliness of the city. Those may seem unrelated, but in a city where people feel safe, business thrives and wages grow.

While Wall Street executives rake in nearly $1,800 an hour, home-based child care providers earn a median wage of just $6. That isn't a reflection of the value of their work. It's a reflection of an economy that has never valued care the way it values wealth. It was an honor to visit Xiomara Family Day Care in the Bronx and sit down with extraordinary home-based educators as part of our administration's listening tour with family child care providers. Together, we will build a universal child care system that works — for families and educators alike.

America doesn't need a revolution. America is the revolution. In so many places around the world families suffer at the hands of tyranny in various forms. In America, the family is the central anchor of a prosperous nation. Young people should focus their amazing energy and desire for a better world on building families.

It's Been Ten Years. It's Time To Admit Bernie Sanders Was Wrong. The experiment has been run, and the results are in. You can’t conduct a socialist revolution using a party whose primary function is to suppress socialist revolution. This has been conclusively established. Reading by Tim Foley.

@AbdulElSayed It's not hard at all. The main anchor of any community and any nation, despite any issues, is not having one big government, but having a family. In America, that would be families and communities with deep American roots, that support every generation in liberty and happiness.

In the richest country in the world, it just shouldn't be this hard.

@nypost Left out by the left. The map was solemn. No inclusivity in ahistorical theft of stories stolen.

Mayor Mamdani's map of NYC immigrant neighborhoods sparks outrage for ignoring Little Italy: 'Terrible mistake' trib.al/EEDtYW8

@RealCandaceO Did you go to Russia with no expectations at all?

I’m not sure what I was expecting but I wasn’t expecting this. Moscow is an unbelievably beautiful city.

@GavinNewsom Can you explain how this message inspires hope and confidence, rather than increasing fear and distrust?

We must take back the House or we will lose this republic.

@InnaVernikov An inclusive map would simply say: Big Apple, USA. Something like, "Together we make one Big Apple." Instead, when leaders choose which communities to highlight and which to omit, unity gives way to division.

A win for TOLERANCE & EQUITY! Each time, Mamdani gets more & more creative on how to shun certain groups. This time, he has figuratively wiped out Italians, Jews & the Irish aka “the privileged white colonialist oppressors” politically opposed to him. What a great mayor for ALL New Yorkers!

@SenSanders Yes, it is the year 2026. It's also summertime right now in the Northern Hemisphere.

This is the year 2026. One might have hoped that, after thousands of years of war, humanity could have come up with a better way to resolve conflicts than killing and mass destruction. Unfortunately, that is not the case.  There is now more war and bloodshed raging across the world than at almost any point in decades. In February 2022, Vladimir Putin, without provocation, invaded Ukraine. The result: hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians killed, millions displaced and a war that grinds on with no end in sight. In October 2023, Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 innocent people and taking 251 hostages. In response, Netanyahu and the Israeli military did not simply wage war against Hamas — they waged war against the entire population of Gaza. At least 73,000 Palestinians have been killed, the real toll almost certainly far higher, most of them women, children and the elderly. Virtually the entire physical infrastructure of Gaza has been destroyed. I agree with the major human rights organizations around the world who call this a genocide. Four months ago, in collusion with Netanyahu, Trump took a page from Putin's playbook: he started a war with Iran without provocation. The result of this war (and the ensuing Israeli war against Lebanon): 13 U.S. service members dead, thousands of Iranian and Lebanese civilians killed and more than $100 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars spent. And in the midst of all of this — Ukraine, Gaza, Iran — there is another horrific war happening now that is getting relatively little attention: the civil war and genocide in Sudan. Sudan's two rival military factions, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), the country's national army, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group, have been at war since 2023. The RSF descends from the Janjaweed militias that carried out Sudan's first genocide in Darfur two decades ago, killing as many as 400,000 non-Arab civilians. Today, the RSF is trying to finish what it started. The State Department has formally determined that the RSF is committing genocide, again, murdering men and boys and systematically raping women and girls because of their ethnicity. Last October, the RSF laid siege to the city of El-Fasher; in just the first three days after it fell, an estimated 6,000 people were killed. Right now, the same horror is unfolding in the city of El-Obeid, where nearly half a million people are trapped. Let’s be clear. Trump’s good friend and staunch U.S. ally, the United Arab Emirates dictatorship, run by one of the wealthiest families in the world — has financed and enabled this genocide for years. And why is this happening? Billions of dollars of looted gold from Sudan is flowing straight into the pockets of Emirati oligarchs – making a multibillionaire family even richer. This has been documented by the United Nations, independent journalists, and international human rights organizations. Here is the scale of what this war has caused: at least 59,000 people confirmed killed since 2023, with credible estimates running as high as 150,000. Fourteen million people driven from their homes. Thirty million people, two–thirds of Sudan's population, in need of emergency humanitarian assistance just to survive. U.S. foreign policy must be based on a respect for democracy and human rights. We cannot be complicit in the face of genocide, no matter where it is happening. Congress must demand that the UAE cease its military support for the RSF and work with the international community and the Sudanese people to bring an end to this horrific conflict and provide the humanitarian aid that is desperately needed there.

@ArynneWexler The most inclusive map is Big Apple, USA. Once elected leaders start choosing which ethnic groups deserve recognition, they inevitably tell others they do not. Selective representation is not equality.

I was born in NYC, lived there for extensive periods of my life, and I have never ONCE heard someone mention 'Little Guayana', which has multiple mentions How can I put this in terms so the Ugandan mayor understands? Little Italy is the Medina of NYC, and he erased it

When elected officials organize representation around ethnic groups, they risk choosing which identities to elevate and which to overlook. Leaders should represent all Americans equally. The Constitution created something rare, a system where people from every origin can stand as equal citizens. That is worth cherishing.

The Mayor of New York City is a Muslim man who was born in Uganda and embraces Communism as his political philosophy. Today he released a map of New York that includes all the ethnic neighborhoods in the city. He seems to have forgotten Little Italy in list which is interesting considering it is the oldest and most famous “ethnic” neighborhood in the entire city and the cradle of much of New York City’s culture. He remembered to include the neighborhoods of Little Africa, Little Albania, Little Bangladesh, Little Bhod-Tibet, Little Caribbean, Little Colombia, Little Dominican, Little Ecuador, Little Egypt, Little Guyana, Little Haiti, Little India, Little Manila, Little Mexico, Little Odessa, Little Palestine (yes, really), Little Pakistan, Little Senegal, Little Ukraine and Little Yemen. But Little Italy didn’t make the cut. Mamdani hates Italians because they’re white. Communism has made a pact with anti-white elements to create some radical and twisted ideology that embraces not only the great replacement, but also a complete erasure of anyone who isn’t somewhat brown. I’m half Cuban so I guess I’m safe, until they realize I won’t vote for the Leftists. In all seriousness, this is an insult to anyone of Italian descent and Zohran Mamdani should be totally ashamed of himself. I won’t be going back to NYC anytime soon, clearly I’m not welcome as an Italian!

@Polymarket People with very different ideologies can still agree there is something special about building and creating. Expanding opportunities, providing goods and services, earning trust, and investing in the future, that’s the side of capitalism people sometimes forget.

JUST IN: NYC Mayor Mamdani breaks ground on 2 World Trade Center, a 1,226-foot skyscraper set for completion in 2031.

@DemzDeliver Before you know it, people will register to vote and file their mayoral paperwork on the same day, just so their first ballot can be for themselves. Student government energy.

🚨 At just 25 years old, Frank Vélez III has become the mayor of Belleville, New Jersey. This makes him one of the youngest mayors in the U.S.

@IrisTaoTV Great question. Important discussion with the President.

Watch: I asked President Trump what he'd say to Americans who don't realize that communism is knocking on their doorstep. He gives a dire warning, saying the U.S. is now "in more danger than it was during World War I, World War II...9/11, Pearl Harbor." "When you go communist, you never come back...You die in squalor. You die a horrible death. You die in squalor. And it gets very evil and very nasty." "And you're right. [Communism] has become international, but it's never worked, and it's not going to work. What is working is the United States." 🇺🇸🔥 Watch our full conversation at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey: