Ryder Kessler
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Ryder Kessler
@ryderkessler
Democrat for Assembly District 66. I love New York more than anything—and that means fighting for its future • 🏳️🌈
New York, NY Katılım Şubat 2009
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the rumor i'm hearing is that hanya yanigahara is starring as bobby darrin on the just in time tour
Max Tani@maxwelltani
Per a note to NYT staff this afternoon, T magazine EIC Hanya Yanagihara will be stepping down “to pursue opportunities in theater.”
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Want New York to have legislators fighting for more homes and lower rents? Donate to my campaign for Assembly 🫰 secure.actblue.com/donate/r4ny/
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The surest path to lower rents for everyone?
Building enough homes so landlords have to compete for tenants—rather than the other way around.
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Bold climate action is existentially important, *and* it's economically beneficial.
As @EmilyAssembly and @Gonzalez4NY argue in @CityAndStateNY, let's reject the false choice between CLCPA implementation and cost savings.
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In @CityLimitsNews, I urge @GovKathyHochul to join the State Legislature in expanding the Housing Access Voucher Program (HAVP) pilot, a state-funded housing voucher program, to $250 million in the forthcoming state budget. 🔗 ⬇️
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This story is HORRIFIC. This DACA recipient was brought here by his parents in 1999 when he was 8 years old. He is a laboratory scientist who's had DACA since 2012.
Now he's languishing in an ICE detention center because the Trump admin failed to process his renewal in time!
Carol Leonnig@CarolLeonnig
ICE seizes DACA recipient on way to visit premature baby in NICU. Trump admin is not renewing "Dreamers" who were given legal status as children to stay in U.S. -- says they can now be detained and deported. @lbarronlopez ms.now/news/ice-detai…
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🚨STATEMENT: Immigrant Advocates Applaud the End of Criminization of Bicycle and E-Bike Offenses
"Nearly every New Yorker relies on bicycle deliveries, yet the people making those deliveries are too often criminalized for minor traffic violations." @HeyItsMurad
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“Pedestrians struck by vehicles traveling at 25 mph are more than three times as likely to be seriously injured than those hit at 15 mph, officials and advocates said.”
nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-…
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I am thrilled to receive the endorsement of @citizenactionny—we both run on grassroots support and want to see New Yorkers thrive.
Let's keep fighting together for affordable housing and healthcare, bold climate action, an end to mass incarceration, and a stronger democracy 💪
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The most basic scrutiny disproves their lies.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Q: Can you give one example of fraud in a previous election that the SAVE America Act would stop? MIKE JOHNSON: Look, we're not gonna litigate all that
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Stunning that Jack somehow codes lefty but consistently takes the most status-quo oriented positions. (See too: NIMBYism.)
Annie McDonough@Annie_McDonough
And a little more from tonight's forum here cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/…
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Just for reference, if the average apartment was rented for 2 years, and was then vacant for a month before the next lease began, that would be a 4% vacancy rate.
2% vacancy is insane.
Tahra Hoops@TahraHoops
The supply side of this is terrible. Inventory is down 26% in Manhattan with vacancy below 2% for over a year. Every workaround, caps, STR bans, ignores the obvious: there aren't enough units. Build more housing.
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Simply wild — and troubling story — from @WillOremus.
"A journalist reported a missile strike. Then came the death threats."
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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My *too long for Twitter* thoughts 👇
➡️ Often we throw money at problems without caring about outcomes. That's dumb—but that's not this.
➡️ Bigger investments in low-threshold shelter are helping.
➡️ To actually end homelessness we must build a ton of housing to lower rents.
Mike Bird@Birdyword
Absolutely astounding figures from the NY state comptroller: spending on services for the NYC street homeless population ran to $81,705 per person last year, up from $28,428 pp 6yrs ago. Figures do not include all kinds of other spending, supportive housing, policing costs etc.
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Our demand for common-sense guardrails against the administration using AI to design classes or teach is a fight for academic freedom, and for our students' right to learn. nyucontractfacultyunion.org/2025/05/13/ai-…
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Imagine we lived in a city where the vacancy rate wasn't 1.5%. People could just move!
Instead NYers are stuck in crappy apts and living situations because all the high-quality units are already occupied
David Brand@DavidFBrand
'Crappy luxury': Inside NYC's brand new apartment buildings that are falling apart @Gothamist @WNYC gothamist.com/news/crappy-lu…
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Monday that the city would lower the speed limit to 15 miles per hour outside more than 800 schools this year and that his administration would do the same at all eligible schools by the end of his first term.
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New monthly report: Median rents in Manhattan have hit $5k/month for first time ever. +6% over past year.
Median rents in Brooklyn have also reached an all-time high $4,296, +7.5%.
The report cites "the tightest inventory seen in nearly four years" as cause for rapid rise in rents. Translation: We desperately need to build more housing, including affordable housing.
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