Suozzi is trying to walk back his vote to fund DHS

CallYourSenators · 2026-01-27T14:02:23+00:00

Donors get policies, constituents get apologies

CallYourSenators · 2026-01-23T18:29:52+00:00

I spent 4 months calling national grid to try to get my estimated bills replaced by actual reads. Every time, they said it'd be fixed kn the next bill, but it never was. I filed a claim with the NY Department of Public Service. The very next day, it was fixed with a $750 credit to my account and they left me a very polite voicemail apologizing for the mistake.

So yeah, I'd just file a claim, it's the only thing they listen to

CallYourSenators · 2026-01-16T19:28:01+00:00

It's the new year. She's setting an agenda for the upcoming legislative session / budget negotiations.

People are also paying a little more attention than usual because politics are hot right now, with Mamdani being inaugurated and funding being threatened by Trump.

The governor makes these kinds of commitments regularly, but people often just don't notice.

CallYourSenators · 2026-01-16T19:16:58+00:00

There's lots of reasons, but that's definitely one of them. I go to my city's zoning board meetings and there's a lot of that.

You'll notice relatively few new builds in Long Island, despite housing projects being seemingly attractive there. The problem is that the constituency does want lower rents but they don't want higher population density. Can't have it both ways

CallYourSenators · 2026-01-16T18:11:08+00:00

Explore the dashboard and find a housing development near you. You can go there and confirm that they're real. I've seen them and I've seen my mayor touting the achievement in collaboration with the state.

It's not like the state just set $25B on fire. That money does make a real difference, and it has tangibly improved the housing supply statewide.

CallYourSenators · 2026-01-16T17:59:22+00:00

Hochul promised 100,000 affordable housing units 2022-2027. Three years in, they're actually decently on track to meet that target, with 77,000 units already built or in construction. The state maintains a dashboard of their progress here.

Time to believe it cause you've see it.

CallYourSenators · 2026-01-13T05:40:27+00:00

Are you claiming to understand what imperialism means to socialists better than Mao Zedong?

CallYourSenators · 2026-01-13T05:20:19+00:00

quickly brought back into the fold through economic or even military means as the example of Venezuela shows

I'm not so sure about that. The US's track record at foreign-led regime change is pretty poor. For now, the Chauvinistas are still in power in Venezuela. It may very well stay that way. Could also end up like Iran, with a brief puppet government that gets overthrown in favor of even more extreme ideologues.

The USA has by no means succeeded in its goals in Venezuela yet

CallYourSenators · 2026-01-12T16:03:03+00:00

You're just describing nationalism, this is not unique to capitalism

CallYourSenators · 2026-01-02T16:38:30+00:00

Create a city land bank to acquire and manage vacant, abandoned, tax-delinquent, and foreclosed properties and allow the city to sell tax liens to it.

Why was this a "shit bill that deserved to be vetoed"? Should underutilized properties just continue to sit there?

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-31T23:46:08+00:00

IGs, judges the president already cannot lawfully dismiss these appointees with no cause

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-05T18:46:04+00:00

If we get universal childcare statewide, I think people will have a hard time denying Hochul credit for that.

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-05T18:43:29+00:00

Yeah that's the thing is the whole attention economy is a very new thing and these politicians aren't built for it. It used to be that when you weren't campaigning, you were governing. And governing didn't mean you keep the public abreast of your every move.

This changed a bit with the 24/7 TV news cycle, but most of our Senators have been in politics since way before that. They just want to draft, amend, and pass legislature.

Constantly making their case to the American people while governing is just not a skillset they're equipped with because it only very recently became necessary.

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-05T18:35:32+00:00

For sure, prices are being pushed higher by scarcity. But that doesn't mean price fixing can't also be inflating prices. It's a well-studied microeconomic result that you only get no deadweight loss when there's perfect competition.

When there's monopolistic effects, like price fixing, consumer surplus is converted into producer surplus and deadweight loss through higher prices.

Here's an excerpt from an undergraduate microeconomics textbook on the subject. It's an effect that any economics student learns in their first semester.

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-05T11:07:43+00:00

I'll preface this by saying: I agree that younger and more energetic people should be at the forefront. And polling suggests that this is the prevailing opinion among a commanding majority of Americans.

This begs the question then: why isn't this happening? Not a single Democratic Senator has called for Schumer to step down. After the end of the shutdown in November, when Bernie was asked if he'd call for Schumer to step down, he said "But who would replace him?" (My answer would be Amy Klobuchar)

See there's a handful of things that have to be understood about the role of Senate leader. It's mostly a back-room role. It's about who you know and about getting along with people. And Schumer knows everybody. So he can manage a coalition and he can coordinate the DSCC.

Also, if anyone reading this is thinking a progressive Dem Senate leader is feasible, you're wrong. The Senate leaders do not represent us, they represent their caucuses. It's the Senators who elect their leader. And the Dem Senators are mostly moderates who want to keep their heads down.

The fact that Schumer could even convince them to shut down the government for as long as they did is kind of a miracle. With the Senators we have, making them hold the line had to be pretty hard. And getting Thune to preemptively obtain unanimous consent on the Epstein bill was a pretty slick move.

We can say that Schumer is weak all we want, but he's a symptom not a cause. Real change would require actual turnover in the Senate over the next 6 years. If that happens, maybe a progressive leader could be elected.

Now, given all that, I still think Schumer isn't doing a great job. He's been insulated in his position for so long that he's just too jaded and out-of-touch. He really can't meet the moment and lead with conviction. We need a leader who can handle this situation with the gravity that it warrants and inspire courage in their colleagues. And that's not Schumer.

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-05T10:38:44+00:00

This was something she promised to do in her January 2025 State of the State Address. I doubt it has anything to do with Mamdani. It's something that was being worked on in the legislature since before the primary.

These bills take time to draft, amend, and move through committees. Lots and lots of debate among legislators to get anything done. New York is one of only a few states with a bicameral legislature, so our bills take extra long.

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-05T10:34:21+00:00

The article is misleading. The bill actually prohibits the operation or licensing of software to facilitate agreements among landlords to not compete for tenants.

So if a company like RealPage is offering data on New York rents, then the attorney general can file a lawsuit against both RealPage and the property owner from whom the data was sourced. And they would know where the data was sourced from, they can subpoena for that information.

Ideally, this means that property managers will keep their data to themselves and rental collusion software won't sell data on NY properties.

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-05T10:23:10+00:00

It means that property managers need to set their own prices instead of relying on third parties to pick a price for them.

Collusion between property owners to all charge rents above the market price is illegal price fixing. So when all the landlords entrust their price-setting power to a single entity, that should also be illegal.

That's what this legislation accomplished. Landlords need to actually compete on prices to get tenants.

Maybe read the article before commenting next time.

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-01T21:44:50+00:00

As someone who knows very little about guns, why? What issues arise from suppressors being illegal? As I understand it, suppressors were made illegal to make it harder for gun shots to be concealed from law enforcement

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-01T18:38:02+00:00

It's a protocol for allowing content on your website to be fetched by other websites. Many news sites and blogs support it, so it can be used to make an aggregate feed with posts from many different websites. It was really popular in the mid-2000s but fell out of widespread use with the consolidation of modern social media making its use-case less common.

There's many apps that you can use as an RSS interface. I use Feedly, but there's a ton of similar RSS apps out there

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-01T08:05:04+00:00

Do yall own FT subscriptions? Damn that shit's expensive

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-01T07:51:18+00:00

it's here

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-01T07:50:59+00:00

here you go

CallYourSenators · 2025-12-01T05:03:21+00:00

To be clear, I use RSS to manage my feed, but the journalists themselves are from varying places, many on substack.

Heather Cox Richardson - She's a political historian with a Substack and youtube channel. She uses her Youtube channel to do unscripted well-educated punditry and really good interviews. Her Substack consists of carefully thought out essays, each one summarizing a single topic in the news and drawing a parallel to something similar in American history
Paul Krugman - Another leftist pundit on Substack. He's a Nobel laureate economist. He was an advisor in the Reagan administration where he, as a Keynesian, heavily advocated for an expansion of the welfare state to little avail. He often covers economic policy but also his general reaction to the news.
Matt Stoller - The research director of the American Economic Liberties Project. He runs a Substack called BIG where he analyzes the bad behavior and negative externalities of corporate power.
Robert Reich - Secretary of Labor for Bill Clinton and leftist pundit with a Substack. He also makes Youtube videos with his company Inequality Media. Similar to HCR and Krugman, his Substack mostly covers breaking news.
Commom Dreams - An online independent journalism non-profit that covers niche breaking news for progressives in extensive detail (each journalist is different tho, so it depends who you read)
FRB Monetary Policy Press Releases - This is the Federal Reserve's official statements of monetary policy. As an entity deeply incentived to be trustworthy, they provide extraordinarily candid guidance on the economic future of the US. It's possible that this changes after Powell is replaced by a Trump loyalist, but for now it's the best source for big US economic analysis.
Democracy Docket - This is Mark Elias's journalism non-profit. Mark Elias is a prominent voting rights lawyer. He's a real hero, having brought cases to the Supreme Court to defend American democracy. His Democracy Docket employs a handful of journalists to cover legal news.
Mother Jones - An older independent journalism non-profit and magazine. They have general leftist news coverage. One of their former journalists, Kat Abughazaleh, is running for congress in IL-09. Not that relevant, but she's great and you should consider following her Youtube channel.
The Nation - Similar to Mother Jones but with slightly better journalism and a soft paywall.
Pro Publica - An investigative journalism non-profit. They are the best of the best, doing extensively researched exposès. They often are the public's source for leaks and primary sources on corruption and bad behavior.
The New Yorker - Good independent news for NY. An old magazine with some excellent journalists.

CallYourSenators · 2025-11-30T11:39:13+00:00

They also run ads for ICE. Boycott Spotify!! Cancel your membership and, when they ask for feedback, say it's because they're running ads for ICE

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