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Anybody familiar with this? It seems really awful, this is the first I’ve seen about it. https://twitter.com/LeavittAlone/status/946461135318016001
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GalacticAcid posted:Anybody familiar with this? It seems really awful, this is the first I’ve seen about it. Is there a reason this isn't something either the State Assembly or State Senate can do something about? I would ask on twitter, but I deleted my account so I'm not tempted to cyberbully nazi apologists.
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I’m guessing it’s executive prerogative. I’m sure if an assemblyperson wanted to they could put some unwanted pressure on DOCCS but this is really not an area of expertise for me at all. And good re~ deleting twitter. That site is poison. Poison I can’t stop ingesting
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GalacticAcid posted:Anybody familiar with this? It seems really awful, this is the first I’ve seen about it. Why are politicians such trash? (it's bribes, but ugh)
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drive a truck into twitter's servers, tia
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:If dems are running on fiscal responsibility how is that any better ? It's not fiscal responsibility, it's that people who thought themselves the upper crust are just another part of the population having their wealth transferred upwards. If you're a democratic canidate in the red parts of NY, you can literally say "those fuckers raised your taxes for real" and it'll be true, to not bring that up is insanity.
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republicans for decades have run on "the other guy will raise your taxes" regardless of whether it was true or not. now that these very people have actually done that, it would be idiotic (but predictable) to not use that against guys like collins running on fiscal responsibility would be using this as a way of saying "this is going to raise the deficit" like the average person gives a hot poo poo
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Aaayyy im postin hea
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hey all looking to get a few more signatures to petition NY Judge DiFiore to block ICE from arresting immigrants at courthouses: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/demand-an-end-to-ices-courthouse-arrests-in-new-york  thanks in advance~
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ah yes the online petition, that has a long and fruitful history of doing things and not frequently ignored by people at all pardon my cynicism, but there's nothing saying this judge has to give a poo poo
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get that OUT of my face posted:ah yes the online petition, that has a long and fruitful history of doing things and not frequently ignored by people at all they don't, at all, but signing is something that takes little of your time and at least has the possibility of highlighting to the judge that NYC's sanctuary city status is being undermined by policies within their purview that said, this is hardly the only thing that's being done - there's also a march being planned for Jan 15 where the ICE out of the courts campaign will be featured; will share details on that as they firm up
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Crusader posted:there's also a march being planned for Jan 15 where the ICE out of the courts campaign will be featured; will share details on that as they firm up
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Cuomo didn't call special elections again. I fuckin' hate that guy so muych
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i want somebody to lead him to an open flame so that his hair combusts
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I've posted this in two other threads, but this New York Times Magazine piece is excellent: The Case for the Subway.
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cuomo started out the State of the State by positioning himself as a great ally for women. he must think that we're pretty stupid considering how he vetoed a bill strengthening minority and women owned businesses just yesterday and called a woman calling him out for lack of progress on gender issues as "a disgrace to women" and ffs say trump's name if you're going to attack republican policies. he shares the same wafer-thin skin and vengeful attitude, so he admires trump in some ways, but ya know, maybe he shouldn't the good stuff in the address will probably be bargained away or weakened in budget negotiations, so i'll only laud them if they actually make it out intact
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Cuomo is also loving home care workers as detailed in this post: https://aintiawomancampaign.wordpress.com/2017/12/28/cuomo-stop-government-sponsored-sweatshops/ In summary, home care attendants (not live-in) funded through Medicaid are being coerced into working 24 hour shifts, but only getting paid for 12 hours. There have been court rulings in favor of the home care attendants, but Cuomo and the administration have fought back and rewrote regulation such that the victory has been short-lived.
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GalacticAcid posted:Anybody familiar with this? It seems really awful, this is the first I’ve seen about it. This got picked up by the relatively mainstream ThinkProgress — link here.
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Grondoth posted:It's not fiscal responsibility, it's that people who thought themselves the upper crust are just another part of the population having their wealth transferred upwards. If you're a democratic canidate in the red parts of NY, you can literally say "those fuckers raised your taxes for real" and it'll be true, to not bring that up is insanity. what if the donors don't want you to say that though
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it's looking like Jumaane Williams is moving closer to declaring some role in the gubernatorial primary this year. he wrote a response to the State of the State that was mostly a callout to Cuomo's constant lying and ended with "this was a good speech but i'll believe it when i see it." he also made his own political committee last month called "Jumaane 4 New York" i'm gonna predict that he and Terry Gipson (a one-term state senator from the Hudson Valley who fell victim to Cuomo's favoritism towards senate republicans) will run on a ticket, but i'm not sure which one will be on the top, though i'd prefer Jumaane up there. Steph Miner's the odd one out because she's probably gonna run for congress instead
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Upstate NY Politics report: Nothing is loving happening, it's Upstate NY. Oh, the town of Brighton has already used up its year's budget for road salt, but that's about all the big news I can report.
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nyc pension funds are being divested form fossil fuels, and the city is suing corporations for causing climate change. i guess that's some good news in our perpetual dumpster fire times
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flanagan not only refuses to back congestion pricing or a payroll tax, but his big fiscal idea is a round of tax cuts. considering that republicans here and elsewhere are running like chickens with their heads cut off, now's as good a time as any to get this dipshit out of power oh btw Pam Harris got indicted for corruption so now there's a good chance of there being 12 vacant seats in the legislature, representing over a million people altogether, with no vote scheduled Korthal posted:Upstate NY Politics report:
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Jeff Klein is a sex creep: https://twitter.com/NYNOW_PBS/status/951222881438044160
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Badger of Basra posted:Jeff Klein is a sex creep: STRAP IN!!!!! Love the victim blaming right out the gate from Scavino.
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when i read that he forcibly kissed someone, i thought of Bugs Bunny
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A new contender to try and overthrow Faso: https://twitter.com/DelgadoforNY19/status/946071229651410946
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i think that dems will take the house in 2018 but the contribution from east coast blue states will be minimal. in NY, at least, there's a clown car's worth of candidates in most GOP-held districts, which will ensure that the crap will rise to the top of the primaries and lose to the likes of Faso, Donovan, and Collins in the general i still haven't heard about any candidates who have declared against King and Zedlin, though. they voted against the tax hike but that doesn't mean they're not vulnerable by party association. Zedlin in particular is in trouble because Paul Ryan pulled his re-election funding
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Korthal posted:Upstate NY Politics report: http://buffalonews.com/2018/01/14/i-dont-know-is-frequent-answer-as-sheriff-testifies-in-inmate-death-lawsuit/ quote:Hudson asked whether mental health topics are covered during certain training programs. Just won election
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update on the 2018 primaries: jumaane williams will probably run for lieutenant governor. presumably terry gipson will run for governor
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Absurd Alhazred posted:A new contender to try and overthrow Faso: please save us teachout was loving cool also i should make it clear that NY19 has a disproportionate number of new age hippie types (Woodstock, New Paltz etc)
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I used to live in 19, a lot of the hippies there are honestly kinda lovely anti-science white people and they're surrounded by a sea of libertarians hard to say how that'll go down
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Attorney General States' Rights has done absolutely nothing to dampen the legalize and tax marijuana movement, as the presumptive GOP candidate for governor said he supports it in NYmajormonotone posted:I used to live in 19, a lot of the hippies there are honestly kinda lovely anti-science white people and they're surrounded by a sea of libertarians
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Cuomo to Albany: drop dead https://twitter.com/SPECNewsAlbany/status/953835438980165632
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Cuomo to Albany: drop dead how this sleazy dipshit has a 60+% approval rating is beyond me. by this time in his second term christie's approval ratings were in the toilet and were only buoyed by Sandy in the first place, but i guess New York is a stupider state. i wanna move to a state with an enlightened electorate. at least their wall street stooge governor isn't a compromiser for compromise's sake get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 02:36 on Jan 19, 2018 |
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the people's republic of Vermont is right there and is a kickass state. I miss Burlington a lot.
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Matt Zerella posted:the people's republic of Vermont is right there and is a kickass state. I miss Burlington a lot.
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get that OUT of my face posted:same to NYC. he's forcing us to pay half of the funding to the MTA even though we'll still get no say in how it's spent, so he'll just waste it on Not Subway Repairs. this whole budget crisis is like a political wet dream for Cuomo: he gets to talk about sticking it to Trump while being the same fiscal rightist that he's always been, only this time he's gonna be handwringing about "tough choices" leading to poo poo like this instead of being the wonky on-time, no-frills budget man that he's been up to this point. if it paid off for him to be like Scott Walker, he'd be playing from that playbook I can finally vote in the Dem primary this time, and I'm voting against him, for what it's worth. Matt Zerella posted:the people's republic of Vermont is right there and is a kickass state. I miss Burlington a lot. I don't know, they're also extremely granola. I've got a friend over the border, and I've had some... interesting arguments with some of their friends.
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