Tramell Thompson

Is The NYC Public Advocate Doing Enough? Conversation With Jumaane Williams, Norman Seabrook & Tony Lindsay! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

They keep telling you “tax the rich”… but won’t tell you who funds the campaigns. 🤔 Super PACs raise UNLIMITED money — and it’s not coming from regular people. It’s coming from CEOs, real estate developers, and hedge fund money. Meanwhile… over $60 MILLION raised, plus MILLIONS more from outside groups backing the same politicians. And here’s the part they don’t say out loud: a big chunk of that money comes from the SAME industries that get hit by tax policy. So ask yourself — how aggressive you think those taxes really gonna be? Regular people vote. The wealthy fund the system. Follow the money… everything else starts making sense. 🎯 #nyc #ny #mta #fyp

You don’t get access to rooms like this by being loud… you get here by being trusted. Just discipline, position… and decisions being made. Everybody wanna be seen— but the real ones move in silence. You either at the table… or on the menu.

When its on its on! As long as we are UNITED we can’t be defeated! #mta #nyc #ny #fyp

I’ll never forget the first time I saw Rachel Maniscalco @donotcomplynyc (On Instagram) with her newborn baby, on the steps of Staten Island’s Boro hall just days away from being fired as a NYC Public School Teacher for refusing to comply with NYC’s COVID vaccine mandate. At the time I was still employed by the NYPD as the mandate had not came for us yet. I remember listening to her speak at that rally that was attended by 100’s of SI patriots and feeling so ashamed that a young mother like her and millions of women in careers they loved in both teaching and medicine were being forced to put something in their body they did not want or need in order to remain employed or stay in school. Rachel was later fired from the DOE like many other teachers by @ericadamsfornyc. The corrupt NY Court system ruled against Rachel and stated that NYC could mandate any current employee to do anything even if it was completely unreasonable, unnecessary and even if it was unattainable. For example the judge said that NYC could on a whim require all its employees to get a phd within 7 days or be terminated even though it wasn’t originally a condition of employment. As I got more involved in fighting back against the tyranny of NY Democrats and the cowardice of many NY Republicans I got the blessing of getting to know Rachel. She is a warrior and even though she went through very hard times, she never complained, in fact if you know her or follow her account she is constantly advocating for and helping others looking for work on helping those who fell on hard times. Another friend just informed me that Rachel’s sister had just started this fundraiser as she had a large house fire and is currently living in a hotel with her family. Please help Rachel and her family during this difficult time with whatever you could do, whether, it’s a donation, a prayer or just spreading the word about her fundraiser. I’ve known Rachel since 2021 and she is always helping everyone, it’s time for us to help her. Link to GiveGoSend: givesendgo.com/tolve-family-f…

@TMZ He got sleep apnea. Nothing to see here.

😅 Kamala Harris delivers a speech as a Saxophonist sleeps onstage at awards dinner. tmz.me/zh4T79W

10% for city workers. That’s not priority… that’s optics. Meanwhile salaries not keeping up, and people working full-time STILL can’t afford to live in the city. So what they do? Move out of state… then commute back to keep NYC running. And the majority of housing? Goes to whoever can qualify. That’s not a system built for workers… that’s a system built around them. #ny #nyc #mta #fyp

@NYMag I dont think he can overcome this set back. He’s fresh off a historic win with a movement that had tons of momentum. This was his opportunity to be viewed as a king maker. He not and he doesn’t have as much influence as I thought!

It was a strange Tuesday for Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Before nightfall, he could claim at least one notable victory: an agreement with the City Council Speaker, Julie Menin, to extend a crucial deadline to present his executive budget. And then, at 9 p.m., it became clear Mamdani would suffer a pure political defeat for the first time as mayor. In a special election for an open City Council seat in Manhattan, Mamdani’s candidate, Lindsey Boylan, went down decisively, losing to a candidate who was backed by many Democrats, including Menin. The outcome wasn’t much of a surprise, writes political columnist Ross Barkan. The apparent winner, Carl Wilson, who finished first in ranked-choice voting and will likely be certified the victor once all votes are tabulated, had the endorsements of almost every local Manhattan Democrat of note. “Mamdani endorsed Boylan because he admired her courage and wanted another ally on the City Council,” writes Barkan. “But it was also a risk the mayor would probably have been better off avoiding. Losing is a setback he can overcome, but it stings a bit more since the fight wasn’t all that necessary; he could have easily remained neutral and let Wilson and Boylan and the other candidates duke it out.” Read Barkan’s full column: nymag.visitlink.me/14EvOn

So we just not doing FREE TRANSFERS no more?? 🤨 Because with the MetroCard… it told you straight up: “FREE TRANSFER.” Now with OMNY… You tap… and just HOPE for the best 💳 One ride supposed to be ONE fare… So why my account looking like I took TWO trips?? “Oh don’t worry, it’ll adjust later…” LATER?? My money gone NOW. And if you using a debit card?? Now you risking overdraft fees just to get to work?? That ain’t an upgrade… That’s a gamble. 🎯 If I gotta guess whether I got a transfer or not… that’s a problem. Anybody else getting charged twice or missing transfers?? Sound off ⬇️ #nyc #mta #ny #fyp

He said THIS is why people don’t trust politicians… He was right — just not how he meant it. You called Kathy Hochul harmful to Black & brown communities. You accused her of something as serious as genocide. Not policy… MORALS. Now you endorsing her? So what changed? Because her record didn’t suddenly flip overnight. That’s the problem. They’ll go all the way there when it’s time to attack… Then act like none of it mattered when it’s time to align. That’s a contradiction. And THAT is why people don’t trust politicians. 🎯

New York City sends billions more to Albany than we get back. That must change. In our April 1st budget response, the Council identified billions in savings, protected services, and put forward proposals to generate revenue from the highest earners. We have continually made it clear that we need our fair share from Albany. Today, the @NYCCouncil and @NYCMayor are making that case together for our city.

I don’t have anything personally against Mamdani because I don’t know him on that level— but when he promoted free buses during his campaign trail knowing he couldn’t deliver, thats when I knew he was fraudulent. He also said he wasn’t right the wrong of what Adams did with the fired workers— then I knew he wasn’t for workers.

@MalarkeyControl Wait until you see the hochul hypocrisy

@progressiveact The word you are looking for is hypocrisy

Mamdani says he’s against genocide and people who support genocide. He claimed that Kathy Hochul was “justifying genocide”—but he endorsed Hochul this year for Governor 🥴 Politics is a strange place lol

They told y’all the DSA was a joke… meanwhile they’re building a pipeline. Not just voters. Not just volunteers. Candidates. Organizers. Replacements. While the old guard been sitting in power for DECADES… same names, same seats, same playbook. That ain’t leadership. That’s a closed club. 🎯 And here’s the part nobody wanna say out loud— young people ain’t being developed… they being USED. Knock doors. Pass flyers. Push the agenda… then go sit down. DSA flipped that whole model. They don’t send young people home… they put them on the BALLOT. History already showed you how this works. Movements don’t come from people comfortable in power… they come from people trying to TAKE it. You can disagree with them all you want… But understand this clearly— they not building volunteers. They building your REPLACEMENT. 👀

OMNY really got y’all tapping and HOPING for the best 😭 How we went from a MetroCard telling you your balance EVERY swipe… to a “modern” system that tells you NOTHING? No balance. No warning. Just vibes and embarrassment at the turnstile. And don’t say “check the app”… this is NYC—ain’t nobody got time to be scrolling their phone in rush hour just to see if they got $2.90 left. This what I mean when I say the MTA upgrades systems… but downgrades the EXPERIENCE. 🎯 Spent all that money on OMNY… and couldn’t add a simple balance display?? Make it make sense. #nyc #mta #ny #fyp

@djvlad Queen Latifah & Lauryn Hill.

Which female rapper is the best role model for young girls?

Facts!!!

I tried to tell y’all… When Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul rolled out that “tax the rich” plan — I said it straight: That wasn’t gonna fix NOTHING. It was a headline. A campaign promise. A political soundbite. Now even the same groups pushing it are admitting… It still doesn’t close the gap. New York is STILL sitting on a $5.4 BILLION deficit. So what exactly was the win? Because from where I’m standing… That “tax the rich” play was just the setup. You hit the rich for optics… Then you quietly come for the middle class and working people to make up the difference. That’s the part they don’t say out loud. Y’all got sold a solution that was never designed to solve the problem. And now the numbers proving it. So let me ask you: If the policy doesn’t fix the budget… Was it ever really about helping the people? Or just about saying it on camera? 🎯 #ny #nyc #mta #fyp

Gun violence don’t stay in the streets… it travels 🚆 Most of these people ain’t driving — they’re riding the train and public transit in general. So when something pops off… guess who’s there first? Not politicians. Not policymakers. Transit workers. Unarmed. Told to investigate “unruly passengers”… with no idea who’s carrying what. Y’all keep talking about fixing the streets… But ignore the system that moves everything through the city. What happens above ground… Ends up underground. 🎯 #nyc #mta #ny #fyp