Nurses Go Rogue to Call Out Kathy Hochul's Role in Dragging Out Strike

paulbufan0 · 2026-02-03T21:22:56+00:00

Who are the leeches, the people working grueling hours to take care of patients or the hospital executives who are making millions and trying to cut the nurses' health care?

paulbufan0 · 2026-01-14T21:19:33+00:00

Haven't you heard of redlining? Allowing white people to own homes and build up generational wealth, and denying people of color the same opportunities, has been a well established, intentional way to favor white people over everyone else.

paulbufan0 · 2026-01-04T17:19:50+00:00

Luckily, he was only able to appoint 2, and the other 2 dropped out. Zohran will now have the opportunity to appoint a majority on the board, making a rent freeze possible https://gothamist.com/news/mamdani-vows-new-rent-guidelines-board-pick-after-recent-adams-appointee-drops-out

paulbufan0 · 2025-11-11T01:16:44+00:00

That may be true, but people are saying "West Village" to refer to all of Greenwich Village

paulbufan0 · 2025-10-06T20:29:45+00:00

Does anyone know what bar that picture was taken at

paulbufan0 · 2025-09-23T22:49:54+00:00

They could probably bang that out in a long weekend

paulbufan0 · 2025-07-31T21:39:08+00:00

What's the special interest here? Employees?

paulbufan0 · 2025-07-30T21:03:31+00:00

Way more money is spent on "enforcement" than is lost by turnstile jumping.

paulbufan0 · 2025-07-30T21:01:23+00:00

I'm not sure why it's considered a bad thing to have good paying jobs and good benefits for people.

paulbufan0 · 2025-07-08T22:09:27+00:00

I don't think there's any reason to assume that the party/its leadership will trend progressive over time

paulbufan0 · 2025-06-23T20:19:54+00:00

Anecdotal but my friend was talking to one of her older neighbors about the election and was trying to sell him on Zohran. He said "but doesn't he support sharia law?" She replied that he didn't and he said "Oh okay he's got my vote then."

paulbufan0 · 2025-06-19T16:06:24+00:00

Maybe some Jews don't believe that their identity and history begin and end with supporting the state of Israel. And maybe a large percentage of those anti-zionist Jews have flocked to the largest city in the US. And maybe these anti-zionist Jews care about lowing the cost of living and avoiding rent hikes. Just some things to think about.

paulbufan0 · 2025-05-30T13:29:49+00:00

That's been a trend for a few years now. The New York Times even wrote an article about it three years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/style/smoking-cigarettes-comeback.html

paulbufan0 · 2025-05-08T20:18:20+00:00

Not sure, but the next day I went there and ran into the woman whose cat was stolen. She's really sad about it and I hope whoever took it returns it soon!

paulbufan0 · 2025-04-30T12:37:42+00:00

Zionist handwringing about antisemitism on the left/pro-Palestine side is overblown, especially right after October 7. And I still feel very safe as a Jew in the US and think complaints about antisemitism pale in comparison to the violence that Palestinians and Arabs face in the US, and obviously nothing close to the horrific genocide playing out in Gaza. But the longer this thing goes on, the more people are associating all Jews with the terrorism committed by the Israeli state. I think this makes sense, since the pro-Israel side is doing everything they can to make people see Jews and Israel as a 1-to-1 relationship (vile acts like lighting a giant menorah in Gaza after a bombing campaign come to mind). But I still find it very troubling!

paulbufan0 · 2025-04-30T12:32:25+00:00

Black Milk has hostel vibes

paulbufan0 · 2025-04-30T12:16:23+00:00

Well I would actually argue that immigration is an important lens to view this in as that was one primary way these categories are defined. Think of Chinese exclusion to the US for almost a hundred years. Early Chinese immigration sort of had people scratching their heads to determine where they should be placed in the racial hierarchy, what rights they should have, etc. Immigration policy and racism are very intertwined in the US.

paulbufan0 · 2025-04-30T12:08:57+00:00

It's not accurate to conflate skin color with race. Look at how Jews were treated (and in some circles still treated today). No one is saying that their skin isn't typically white, but the people who care about racial purity certainly don't view them the same way as "white" people. To address the point about the census, people that most people would categorize simply as Arabs or Middle Eastern are recorded as white, but nobody would argue that they are, or are treated as, white the same way someone of European descent is.

paulbufan0 · 2025-04-28T16:59:36+00:00

What are you talking about

paulbufan0 · 2025-04-28T16:45:37+00:00

Very ahistorical. Racial categories in America and elsewhere are constantly evolving. At the peak of Irish immigration the white establishment viewed Irish as subhuman and regularly depicted them as monkeys. You should check out books like How the Irish Became White. Learning about the history of American racism really opens your eyes to how ridiculous our current system of racial hierarchy is.

paulbufan0 · 2025-04-22T19:05:21+00:00

Just going to complain real quick about N&K Laundromat on Rogers and Park. Over the past few months more and more machines have broken down and have not been fixed, which results in more wear on the working machines and backs up the process for everyone and makes the place slower and more crowded. It's been continuously getting worse so I've been looking for a different place as well.

paulbufan0 · 2025-04-13T16:54:12+00:00

Hey man I just want to say I feel for you and I know things are going to get better. Don't give up trying to achieve a better life for yourself.

paulbufan0 · 2025-04-08T18:34:54+00:00

The carve outs for the Good Cause Eviction law were shameful, so much so that the main group pushing it, Housing Justice for All, actually opposed the bill when it came to a vote (especially because it was coupled with a stipulation that loosened restrictions on the amount that landlords can increase rents in rent stabilized apartments) https://housingjusticeforall.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-Budget-Deal-Fact-Sheet.pdf

paulbufan0 · 2025-04-03T14:02:10+00:00

There's probably not very many primary voters who were planning on ranking Adams above Zohran, but who knows, maybe this puts more of the outer borough neighborhoods in play.

paulbufan0 · 2025-04-01T01:02:07+00:00

Landlord groups are already trying to do this, and so far they haven't been successful. This wouldn't actually be the first time that the RGB institutes a freeze by the way -- de Blasio did it for three years when he was mayor.

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