Vincent Caruso
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@vin_jc
Logan Square resident. Marketing geek. Common sense advocate. Morrissey apologist.
White people should not be allowed to sit on stoops in Bed-Stuy!! @arooj_aftab
NYC DSA-backed Assembly candidate supports keeping child molesters, murderers out of prison trib.al/kZsxpTo
Miller Lite is a bad beer but an incredible beverage, @Tyler_A_Harper argues: “It is neither complicated nor offensive, and it derives its magic from this bland alchemy, this delicate equipoise of fizzy nothingness.” theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…
JLG winning white people 45 and younger (some of my best friends are…) while McDuffie wins older Black voters. Real story is education polarization everywhere. dc.citycast.fm/dc-politics/dc…
Jeff Bezos paid $500M for his super-yacht and $75M for his super-yacht’s mini-yacht — both of which he’s allowed to write-off on his taxes. That alone would cover $180 in classroom supplies for every public school teacher in the U.S.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul join the toddler rope ahead of childcare announcement this morning. As Times reported, demand for childcare was flat this year despite Mamdani admin outreach surge: 99k offers extended for pre-K and 3k
Are Jeff Bezos and other billionaires really *evil* just because they're wealthy? reason.com/2026/05/15/the…
The scandal hiding in plain sight is the collapse of American education. And no 2028 candidates -- aside from Rahm Emanuel -- are talking about it.
A Gallup poll found that seven out of 10 Americans said they would oppose a data center being built near them. Opposition is so intense, the poll found, that more Americans would rather live near a nuclear power plant than a data center. wapo.st/48ZtSpE
Unusually explicit connection from the rejection of children to the death drive at the end of this reader roundup in the NYT. Begins with the usual “Who would want to bring children into a world…” and ends, well…
Reading scores, 3rd graders to 8th graders, 2015 to 2025. This is a national tragedy.
For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was the most expensive college town in America. Shortly thereafter, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, nominal rents are below 2018 rates—remarkable progress on affordability.
