Attorney in NYC. Co-Chair, Transportation Committee on Manhattan Community Board 4. He/him 🏳️🌈. Views/opinions my own. Insta @morejgreens
New York, NY
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IMHO this graph is a vindication of the (somehow controversial) idea that Dems can and should try to get conservatives to vote for them. Massive triumph for the “persuasion” theory of change
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A missive for New York on Early Vote Eve.
From Buffalo to Baldwin, we have to turn out - and VOTE EARLY.
>> Our abysmal turnout in 2022 (43%) was one of the lowest in the country. We lost 5 House seats and Gov. Hochul barely squeaked by. Bruce Blakeman is a literal fascist. Do not take anything for granted.
>> For several cycles now, the road to the House has been paved through New York. Districts 3, 4, and 17 are must-wins for us.
>> While no specific threats are currently being tracked in NYS/C, the Trump Admin has been throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks to mess with this election across the country. Nothing’s worked — yet.
With every door that’s shut on them, they attempt to force open a window. This means:
1. Voting like your life depends on it (tbh in this election, it really does). The best way to fight their intimidation tactics is to not be intimidated.
2. Voting EARLY — this figure needs to be too big to rig.
3. Staying vigilant — and prepared. This year, voting might not end when you drop your ballot in the mail or walk out of your poll site. You might need to take to the streets if shit goes down (no matter where it goes down).
In NYC, follow Hands Off NYC on Instagram for real-time, fact-based updates.
Our democracy is only as strong as those of us who come together to fight for it. So, fight for it.
Jesse G retweeted
Just last fall, one of the leaders of this slate was rallying with Zohran’s Republican challenger and Vickie Paladino, who has called for Zohran to be deported, the “expulsion of Muslims" and posts about throwing leftists out of helicopters. Disappointing!
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They don’t care if you’re American.
They don’t care if you’re Jewish.
They don’t care if you’re a journalist.
Jewish settlers are empowered by the American and Israeli governments to attack who they want to attack and kill who they want to kill.
The U.S. embassy has covered up reports on Americans killed by Israelis in the occupied West Bank.
Imagine what the Palestinians and their children have to go through every day of their lives.
“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah.
Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.
Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.
"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.
Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.
Jesse G retweeted
Amazing. Blakeman brags about building the lowest number of homes in the nation and raising the price of housing by over *41%* in 4 years, while Hochul is (rightly) proud of taking on hard fights to build more and actually work to bring down housing costs for NYers.
Jesse G retweeted
The socialist mayor of the largest city in America has driven homicides and shootings to historic record lows. It's an enormous success that has improved quality of life and enabled Mamdani to advance his bold agenda. Leftists should be touting it — not complaining to @politico.
From defund to defer: Allies are losing patience with Mamdani’s light NYPD touch politi.co/4jsc5O3
Jesse G retweeted
Telling Zohran Mamdani that "we charge you with genocide" is a good way to render the designation meaningless (and signal that you are a fucking moron)
This is awesome in every way.
Never been to the opera before?
Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
Jesse G retweeted
Never been to the opera before?
Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
Jesse G retweeted
🚨 At the U20 Mayors Summit, Mamdani Says the Left Has Ceded “Quality of Life,” “Efficiency,” and “Fraud and Waste” to the Right
This was one of the more interesting arguments Zohran Mamdani made today at the U20 Mayors Summit, and a reminder that he can be genuinely sharp when he drops the “central casting” routine.
“In New York City, there are certain words that have taken on ideological associations.”
“Quality of life has come to be seen as somehow a right-wing concern. Efficiency… has been taken on as a right-wing concern, rooting out fraud and waste, a right-wing concern.”
Mamdani’s argument is that refusing to engage those issues actually helps the Right.
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’”
The harder question is how much of the broader Left is actually prepared to follow the advice.
Jesse G retweeted
At what point do we acknowledge what’s happening here? Or do we just stand by like good Germans?
A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of missing insulin shots and meals to manage his diabetes is the third detainee to die in less than six months at an ICE facility in Louisiana. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cos…
Jesse G retweeted
If you read anything today, read this.
And remember, the problem he articulates - AI companies in a blind race to build a death machine first - can easily be solved.
Through a regulatory system that allows the research to continue, but in a way that doesn't destroy us.
Jesse G retweeted
Zohran Mamdani is the Mayor of New York City and should absolutely be at the memorial on Friday.
He's also a Muslim New Yorker—part of a vibrant community that's essential to this city, a community that lost many of its own on 9/11 and then endured terrible discrimination in its aftermath.
9/11 should be a day for mourning those we lost, honoring the heroes who served, and bringing our city together. This rhetoric from Vickie and others does the opposite. It is disgusting and needs to stop.
Jesse G retweeted
My dad and his family were driven from their home by violent, lawless mobs during the pogroms.
Jews can't look the other way when violent, lawless mobs are driving innocent Palestinians from their homes on the West Bank.
nytimes.com/2026/08/31/world…
I’ve been using Crown Alley as my go-to first date spot since 2022: superb staff, cheap drinks, cozy vibes. I 100% stand by that decision. Although it’s nice to know the reason I’m still single.
Matchmaking client in NYC, 32, finance, Jewish, medium handsome but funny, all-around good dude.
I think I’ve found his dream match: she’s 26, amazing family, sexy + refined vibe, Jewish obviously, and down to meet him.
I make the introduction, then… he texts me saying she bailed.
I check in with her. She says he asked her to dinner at Crown Alley, and based on that alone, she knows he’s not a fit.
Obviously I feel bad for RJ, and yeah it’s lame to be judgy about first date plans, but…
I actually agree with her on this one.
The problem has nothing to do with wanting a more expensive first date. This woman just knows her vibe, and giant pretzels don’t exactly give “sexy” or “refined.”
RJ either needs to adjust his go-to first date plan, or go after the type of woman who wants to meet over a ham and cheese toasty 🤣
Jesse G retweeted
John Mangin taught my Land Use Law class at NYU Wagner. Maybe the most inspiring professor I’ve ever had. He challenged us not to play dumb about how we got this housing crisis. Guess it’s that results-driven, clear-eyed approach to our urban future that has NIMBYs worried.
Mamdani nominated John Mangin, a highly qualified housing expert and bona fide market YIMBY to be head of the Board of Zoning Appeals, which is great. But now NIMBYs, including Speaker @JulieMenin—a moderate—are trying to block his nomination.
That’s bad and they should stop!
Jesse G retweeted
Fuck the Post for this bad faith shaming of Brian, a first gen Latino, for being like the bulk of us - someone struggling to get by
The lived experiences of our elected representatives should reflect those of our communities, which @Brianr4NY’s situation humbly highlights.
Socialist NY Assembly candidate shoo-in publicly begging for money on GoFundMe to pay rent trib.al/bEyfNnV
