Thirteen million dollars is less than what the NYPD gets every 12 hours.

Owning your own newspaper must be amazing.

Crazy how when we expand the House, we are able to keep communities together and give them better representation

Google funded a lawsuit (now dropped) to prevent journalists from finding out that the company uses 29% of an Oregon city's water to cool its data centers oregonlive.com/silicon-forest…

🚨🚨🚨 After nine long years, our national nightmare is over: a $25 million budget increase for the National Labor Relations Board has been included in the omnibus bill. If passed by both chambers, the funding Armageddon we warned of has been avoided—for at least this year.

So… Unionize everyone. Sounds great. ✊🏼

Wells Fargo also rejected over half of Black applicants seeking to refinance their homes in 2020, while approving 72% of white applicants.

Embarrassing: Mayor Adams had the NYPD compile a list of people with repeat arrests to smear bail reform. Not only were none of the people's cases impacted by bail reform, but also the Mayor & NYPD broke the law by leaking dismissed & sealed arrests. gothamist.com/news/legal-fil…

Just emerging from a random rabbit hole… damn, still can’t get over how much that 2000 Penn State recruiting class really screwed things up.

Growing up in Alabama gives you a choice — believe what you’ve been told or question everything. 🧵al.com/news/2022/12/a…

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Sauce time. 🤌🏼

The unions are going to HATE this nomination. LaSalle signed on to an opinion that made it easier for employers to sue union leaders in certain circumstances. casetext.com/case/cablevisi…

Managers at UPS Jeff Street threatened to fire several drivers today - at the same time that we face a -20 degree windchill and record wind gusts. We get called essential workers. Our labor is needed, for sure. But I know the bosses are not.

If someone steals food & deodorant from CVS to survive, the media decries their release & attacks bail reform. But it’s perfectly fine for someone accused of far more harm to sit comfortably at home & await trial. This is how crime is socially constructed. Bail punishes poverty.

If Hudson Yards had to follow Jacksonville's parking requirements, the surface parking lot would take 180 city blocks or 11.5 Disneylands. It would displace 150,000 residents and 206,000 jobs and would take 52 minutes to walk across from end to end.

First tweet in about 2 years to say that I'm deleting this account after almost 17 years. Heading over here: bsky.app/profile/mvpett… So follow me there sooner than later, because this will be gone sooner than that.