#  @PeterMoskos Peter Moskos Peter Moskos posts on X about hamas, murder, nyc, central park the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::412429578/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +199% - [--] Month [---------] +292% - [--] Months [---------] +20% - [--] Year [---------] +3.40% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::412429578/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +16% - [--] Month [---] +73% - [--] Months [---] +125% - [--] Year [-----] +15% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::412429578/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.25% - [--] Month [------] +1.60% - [--] Months [------] +4.20% - [--] Year [------] +8% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::412429578/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) 7.49% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 5.88% [finance](/list/finance) 3.74% [stocks](/list/stocks) 1.07% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) 1.07% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 0.53% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 0.53% **Social topic influence** [hamas](/topic/hamas) 5.35%, [murder](/topic/murder) 4.81%, [nyc](/topic/nyc) 2.67%, [central park](/topic/central-park) #192, [new york](/topic/new-york) #3597, [in the](/topic/in-the) 2.14%, [the world](/topic/the-world) #4692, [law enforcement](/topic/law-enforcement) 2.14%, [israel](/topic/israel) 1.6%, [new york city](/topic/new-york-city) 1.6% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@waywardrabbler](/creator/undefined) [@chrisarnade](/creator/undefined) [@bearthafuckdown](/creator/undefined) [@roccitybuilt](/creator/undefined) [@arikaokrent](/creator/undefined) [@razibkhan](/creator/undefined) [@barstoollaw](/creator/undefined) [@gpadraic](/creator/undefined) [@billyez2](/creator/undefined) [@asfleischman](/creator/undefined) [@nicolegelinas](/creator/undefined) [@catedunlap](/creator/undefined) [@tpsmyth01](/creator/undefined) [@mattyglesias](/creator/undefined) [@megankmcg](/creator/undefined) [@rafa_mangual](/creator/undefined) [@allseeingm249](/creator/undefined) [@abbynormalsf](/creator/undefined) [@nickyfrank30](/creator/undefined) [@caralhophilly](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [IBM (IBM)](/topic/ibm) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Assata Shakur is a worse human being than Charlie Kirk" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972122974837940367) 2025-09-28T02:15Z 16.4K followers, 24.3K engagements "Just for the record. snow doesn't naturally turn gray. That's _entirely_ due to exhaust fumes from cars and trucks. (Normally it just settles or we just filter it with our lungs.)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2017460840308343238) 2026-01-31T04:52Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "We need changes in law and a serious focused plan to help these people in desperate need of help. Despite $$ resources a home and a caring family he will hurt others and die on the street. I understand there's a housing crisis; this isn't about housing. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/family-mental-health-homeless-schizophrenia.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/family-mental-health-homeless-schizophrenia.html" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2018027350101840364) 2026-02-01T18:23Z 16.3K followers, 15.6K engagements "People will say "well most homeless people do not have sever mentally illness." Yes and So what It's not moral to push this under the rug for a more "imaginative" greater vision. FWIW over the years I've had many students come to me with this problem. What can I tell them" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2018027904953626919) 2026-02-01T18:25Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "Saying "most homeless people do not have sever mentally illness" is part of the problem. Because it comes from a framework that the problem to be addressed is housing. That is a problem true. It's not THE problem for a visible number of mentally ill people roaming the streets" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2018028639527358675) 2026-02-01T18:28Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "Police abolitionists are like the Energizer bunny. They're not going to stop. They want to end policing. Believe them. And they'll do it one bite at a time. 🚨NYC Council Renews Call To Abolish the NYPDs Gang Database : NYC Council Members @A_StevensD16 @CabanD22 @CMKevinCRiley @dr_yusefsalaam and Public Advocate @JumaaneWilliams have renewed their call to Abolish the NYPDs Gang Database (Criminal Group Database) and prohibit the https://t.co/ryvV2IDPkV 🚨NYC Council Renews Call To Abolish the NYPDs Gang Database : NYC Council Members @A_StevensD16 @CabanD22 @CMKevinCRiley @dr_yusefsalaam and" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2018429900546244909) 2026-02-02T21:02Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "The irony is that such service-resistant street homeless people just want a safe place to sleep under the watchful eyes of a cop. It boggles my mind that we won't provide this basic level of safety in shelters. (Even if shelters aren't _as_ dangerous as some think.) The scene at LaGuardia this morning. Were just letting homeless people camp out at airport security now Zohrans NYC keeps getting better and better @NYCMayor https://t.co/jzhHJdHDJk The scene at LaGuardia this morning. Were just letting homeless people camp out at airport security now Zohrans NYC keeps getting better and better" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2018742008932876291) 2026-02-03T17:42Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "This should not be done "in the middle of workday" needless to say. Mamdani NYC health dept. staffers launch 'working group' accusing Israel of genocide https://t.co/xveldIXmKj https://t.co/BR1GRRSayI Mamdani NYC health dept. staffers launch 'working group' accusing Israel of genocide https://t.co/xveldIXmKj https://t.co/BR1GRRSayI" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2019526969558462520) 2026-02-05T21:42Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "Baltimore used to have a problem of people stealing street lights. Like the whole damn thing. Pole and all. Scrapped for pennies on the dollar. Then eventually the busted the people doing it. Poor people. And the problem stopped. Copper wire theft went from [--] incidents in [----] to [----] in [----]. A rational society wouldnt accept this. Literally just arrest and prosecute these people already Make an example out of them and youll never have this problem again. Copper wire theft went from [--] incidents in [----] to [----] in [----]. A rational society wouldnt accept this. Literally just arrest and" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2019646524322701484) 2026-02-06T05:37Z 16.4K followers, 43.4K engagements "I get that sometimes emotion can get the best of you. And I get the urge to stop a criminal on a motor bike. I also don't believe the cop wanted to kill the guy. But yeah. No. You can't throw a cooler at the guy. https://nypost.com/2026/02/06/us-news/nypd-sergeant-convicted-in-fatal-cooler-throw-becoming-first-cop-found-guilty-of-killing-someone-in-nyc-in-a-decade/ https://nypost.com/2026/02/06/us-news/nypd-sergeant-convicted-in-fatal-cooler-throw-becoming-first-cop-found-guilty-of-killing-someone-in-nyc-in-a-decade/" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2019905557151244319) 2026-02-06T22:46Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "@somsai @BobaCyclist Yes. (Even in Oregon Seemingly the one() state which _requires_ you to stop on yellow if safely possible)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020174395264925893) 2026-02-07T16:34Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements "@Penny_J_Thomas Back on regular scheduled pick up for me" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020175239490187279) 2026-02-07T16:38Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements "I would like elected officials & the MTA to talk specifically about what to do with this man. How will they help _this_ man How will they get _him_ off the subway Not homelessness or mental illness or housing in general. Not somebody else. This specific man in this condition. Bronx: East 174th Street & Jerome Avenue a homeless man set a foam takeout tray on fire inside an @MTA [--] train at the Jerome Avenue subway station around 11:45 p.m. Flames on the @NYCTSubway floor while riders sat nearby forced to inhale whatever contaminated junk was https://t.co/4bUwpXWuIR Bronx: East 174th Street &" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020220454363877726) 2026-02-07T19:37Z 16.3K followers, 63.6K engagements "They're not "in crisis." That's a more temporary state of somebody with a mental illness having a particular bad day. These people to use a non-clinical term are totally fucked up. So fucked up they'll just lie down and literally freezing to death. Being homeless shouldnt be a death sentence said the Queens borough president Donovan Richards a Democrat who supported Mamdani last year. You cant let the people stay out there. These are people in crisis. https://t.co/sZpKhTbgxf Being homeless shouldnt be a death sentence said the Queens borough president Donovan Richards a Democrat who supported" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020368898160558528) 2026-02-08T05:27Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "Outreach As long as we continue to think of the problems of the [---] most troubled people living on the streets and subways of New York City is a basic lack of knowledge that warm shelters exist they're going to die. On the plus side my subway ride home was homeless free" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020382692903202869) 2026-02-08T06:22Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "Nicole @nicolegelinas makes this point in her fabulous book I just finished. He wasn't a total power broker. Moses had power but he was also just doing the bidding of politicians who shared his vision. Once the political vision shifted he wasn't able to get things done. This is why I hate the meme of The Power Broker Robert Moses wasn't special. He was just one of an anonymous army of [----] Robert Moses clones across the US And he actually *did less demolition* than the less-famous planners who more fully destroyed the other prewar cores This is why I hate the meme of The Power Broker Robert" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020385461336994025) 2026-02-08T06:33Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "Last night at a birthday party I met the son of Bill Raymond who played "The Greek" in The Wire" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020516378302710256) 2026-02-08T15:13Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements "Once it gets warmer advocates (to their shame) will fight for their right to "choose" to live like this. But it's no more a "choice" when when warmer than it is now. The lethal cold highlights their mental incapacity but the need for forced care isn't seasonal. Help them This is exactly why we need stricter enforcement of code blue and I appreciate that our city workers are speaking out about just how ridiculous these light -touch policies really are. This is absolutely going to be something brought up during Tuesday's public safety meeting This is exactly why we need stricter enforcement of" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020606625665728866) 2026-02-08T21:12Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "Are there other places (outside America) in the world where temps routinely vary [---] degrees (f) between summer and winter" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020746250224652480) 2026-02-09T06:27Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Eg Mamdani when asked about his less popular positions would say "I'm not running on that." And people had no problem with that. His supporters would repeat it to me as if saying the quiet part out loud he's not running on that" should alay all my policy concerns. Im fascinated by the (widespread among Smart People) quasilegalistic idea that a candidate whose views are clearly XYZ can run as ABC and voters are somehow required to swallow the latter. But you cant call Kamala a lefty She didnt Run As that No fair. As if theres Im fascinated by the (widespread among Smart People) quasilegalistic" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020905160331890726) 2026-02-09T16:58Z 16.3K followers, 18.5K engagements "@Chris_arnade @razibkhan It is vastly overrated" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020943271740981406) 2026-02-09T19:29Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements "@anti_minotaur @Chris_arnade @razibkhan I lived in Amsterdam where it is rated very high. (and I've been to Indonesia)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020949644314915156) 2026-02-09T19:55Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements "@Chris_arnade @razibkhan And in the N.L. it's still worse than thai food. And yes when I went to Indonesia I was like *now* I'll finally have really good Indonesian food. And indeed what I had was worse than Amsterdam Indonesian food (which is not at all gross and even good. but still overrated)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020950061325377908) 2026-02-09T19:56Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements "@anti_minotaur @Chris_arnade @razibkhan Plus I live in Queens where there are many (over)rated Indonesian restaurants" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2020950348639371349) 2026-02-09T19:58Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements "@YooperDuper Mondami's opponents were horrible. But then so was Harris's" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021041607466942615) 2026-02-10T02:00Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements "@hoedeman @Chris_arnade @razibkhan Who doesn't (Just a bit overrated)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021041908857045222) 2026-02-10T02:01Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements "So will the NYC Dept of Homeless Services hold. I don't know A press conference This is an agency with a $4 BILLION budget. By comparison the NYPD budget is just over $6 billion. Yes we spend comparable on "homeless services" as we do on policing. And for what [--] men found dead on separate subway trains https://t.co/LQfY3uNE94 https://t.co/gTxfami1x6 [--] men found dead on separate subway trains https://t.co/LQfY3uNE94 https://t.co/gTxfami1x6" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021060654325694883) 2026-02-10T03:16Z 16.4K followers, 20.2K engagements "@nycpix @NYCSanitation Well not really. I was just trying to answer your question as to why private carters can collect during a snowstorm and NYC Sanitation cannot. It is because NYC Sanitation but plows on their garbage trucks and plows snow. Private haulers do not and still haul trash" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021062617562026451) 2026-02-10T03:24Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements "This is why I find the #defund movement so absurd. Does anybody really think if homeless services had another few million taken from the NYPD they'd suddenly be holding press conferences and we wouldn't have homeless people on the subway Is $36K per homeless person not enough So will the NYC Dept of Homeless Services hold. I don't know A press conference This is an agency with a $4 BILLION budget. By comparison the NYPD budget is just over $6 billion. Yes we spend comparable on "homeless services" as we do on policing. And for what So will the NYC Dept of Homeless Services hold. I don't know" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021064415161073689) 2026-02-10T03:31Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "NYC spends 10X on "homeless services" as it does on libraries. $4 billion on homeless services versus $400 million on libraries. Might I propose that if NYC spend all $4.4 billion on just libraries we would provide better service for both homeless and libraries I'm not joking. @PeterMoskos Ahead of last year's super bowl people were angry that NOLA swept homeless from new orleans saying that we just needed more money to fix it New Orleans spends more money on homeless services than it does libraries @PeterMoskos Ahead of last year's super bowl people were angry that NOLA swept homeless from" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021066027786961100) 2026-02-10T03:37Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "@RTFireflyEsq @Sir_Geechie Very much so. Under Hoxha the only connection to the outside world was Italian TV. My grandfather (a Greek from what is now southern Albania) came to America on an Italian passport" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021069891311444032) 2026-02-10T03:53Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements "Crossfire was good. I watched it as kid and learned a lot about real issues. And it was entertaining. There's no equivalent today. Thus people are stupider. Good day Stewart was wrong about Crossfire. To be clear of course Crossfire was a silly show where people yelled at each other. But Crossfire was also a venue where liberals and conservatives talked to each other. And we have lost something when we lost those venues. Stewart was wrong about Crossfire. To be clear of course Crossfire was a silly show where people yelled at each other. But Crossfire was also a venue where liberals and" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021096900162728386) 2026-02-10T05:40Z 16.3K followers, 15.7K engagements "@daveweigel Is the country better without it" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021246528652792236) 2026-02-10T15:35Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements "@WineVigilante1 @shortmagsmle It wasn't under Giuliani. The fare evasion crack down happened when Dinkins was mayor (not that he had anything to do with it). It happened under Bratton and Jack Maple and the Transit Police (under MTA/state control) in [----]. It was a done deal by the time Giuliani was elected" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021282844182552999) 2026-02-10T17:59Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements "It's almost as if "Broken Windows" has some validity to it. wait this graph is crazy BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small group of people wait this graph is crazy BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small group of" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021283066115653901) 2026-02-10T18:00Z 16.4K followers, 16.6K engagements "@upzonenj Good point. It's not like all $4 billion spent in NYC is going to waste. Lots of people live in the shelter system and go to school and work and get their lives together. But it's still inexcusable with $4B that we have homeless people fouling and dying in the streets and subway" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021283763301310517) 2026-02-10T18:02Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements "@WineVigilante1 @shortmagsmle I wrote a book about this FWIW. It's a good book. "Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop" https://amzn.to/46GYXwW https://amzn.to/46GYXwW" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021294125883003192) 2026-02-10T18:44Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements "Today I learned on the youtubes that the phrase "Don't Mess with Texas" began not with Sam Houston or the Alamo but as a 1980s anti-littering campaign" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021656840158032204) 2026-02-11T18:45Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "I spend a lot of time complaining about the left glorifying certain criminals. But at least the left pretends to believe in restorative justice. What I'll never understand is how this is like water off a duck's back to the right. "He was pardoned." Yes and then you hired him Neguse: That man works for you now right The man allegedly yelling kill them at police officers Bondi: He does work for us. Neguse: This is who you choose to hire. Bondi: He was pardoned by President Trump. https://t.co/2DPvCfeTy4 Neguse: That man works for you now right The man allegedly yelling kill them at police" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021660762968928608) 2026-02-11T19:01Z 16.4K followers, 14.9K engagements "Er why are we going to pay so rich tourists don't have to pay to ride the bus If anything we should raise the fare during the World Cup. New: Mayor Mamdani is pushing for a free bus pilot program to be conducted during this years FIFA World Cup. The mayors pitch to the governor is to run all city buses for free across NYC for the 5-week soccer tournament in June and July. https://t.co/8yWdsIEvZg New: Mayor Mamdani is pushing for a free bus pilot program to be conducted during this years FIFA World Cup. The mayors pitch to the governor is to run all city buses for free across NYC for the" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021666843304562827) 2026-02-11T19:25Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "Worth pointing out that the white people pushing this argument often have no black friends. So it's also kind of a self serving justification of their own racist segregation. Deeming their "allyship" as more significant than other people's actual real world lived experience. Leftists really hit us with: Just because you dated Black girls have Black friends or even have a Black kid doesnt mean youre not racist. Yes it does retards. Full stop. Actual racists the ones who genuinely believe Black people are inferior and despise them dont choose Leftists really hit us with: Just because you dated" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021720529716019637) 2026-02-11T22:58Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Actual fare enforcement on the subway could pay for this with cash to spare. Mayor estimates cost of free buses at $600-700m a year says he has put out various tax proposals to pay for it. Mayor estimates cost of free buses at $600-700m a year says he has put out various tax proposals to pay for it" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021721008420356236) 2026-02-11T23:00Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@WaywardRabbler The bluegrass scene (except to people with the "wrong" instruments) is very open and welcoming even if most people happily ignore it. But then I suppose so are most niche interests / hobbies" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021723353497973056) 2026-02-11T23:09Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements ""over a quarter of the people who died outdoors had permanent housing" It's a hard argument to win I know but for the few the most hardcore the most problematic and most publicly disruptive "homeless" it's not actually about housing. It's not about "homeless." My colleagues and I continue reporting on the lives of the New Yorkers found dead during the recent cold stretch We've so far found over a quarter of the people who died outdoors had permanent housing w/ @BKriegstein and @karen_yi https://t.co/GtUJdyPepP https://t.co/qWv8kGsmoq My colleagues and I continue reporting on the lives of the" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021826937774125414) 2026-02-12T06:01Z 16.4K followers, 43.2K engagements "I actually think the mayor believes this. I live in that district. And yes all my reps are socialist. I also have visited East Germany Russia Cuba and Albania under communism. It's very insensitive to compare Astoria to Albania under Enver Hoxha. Communism was evil. Suggesting living in Queens today is the same thing as living under socialism is easily one of the dumbest things Zohran has ever said. Millions have starved to death in all of the countries that were dumb enough to try socialism. It failed every time. Suggesting living in Queens today is the same thing as living under socialism" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021830379574063447) 2026-02-12T06:15Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@ExistentialEnso "Dash"" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2021830754909467028) 2026-02-12T06:16Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "@WaywardRabbler @phillipharr1s Bluegrass is kind of unique in being defined by permissible acoustic instruments. (Though I guess so is classical music). Probably a result of being invented and popularized by one man (Bill Monroe) who made the rules and had the vision" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022010279853535597) 2026-02-12T18:09Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "Uh I don't think this be allowed. Mamdanis NyC. Theyre Selling Drugs Out of Tents in the Sidewalk https://t.co/2JZKnosoqt Mamdanis NyC. Theyre Selling Drugs Out of Tents in the Sidewalk https://t.co/2JZKnosoqt" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022046688161280333) 2026-02-12T20:34Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@WaywardRabbler I have my father's IBM selectric typewriter but it keeps breaking and is a pain to get it fixed. Manual typewriters are much more reliable. And given how little I actually need to use it it might be the smarter thing" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022065137868583176) 2026-02-12T21:47Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements "Once We Were Kings. I definitely grew up with an overblown sense of Chicago pride. In a good way. Having the world's tallest building was definitely part of that. World's busiest airport didn't hurt. At the time I just took the world's best hot dogs for granted. Live and learn. sometimes i think about what it mustve been like to live in chicago from 1969-1973 and see [--] of the top [--] tallest buildings in the world at the time completed in a [--] year span right next to each other https://t.co/2z3Zi0UHQd sometimes i think about what it mustve been like to live in chicago from 1969-1973 and see [--] of" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022101608499482659) 2026-02-13T00:12Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Pigeon Pic of the Day. This bird is one of my O.G.'s from [----]. Distinctive because of "muffs" the feathers on the ankles. Hot or not I'd say looks: [--]. Personality: 4" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022107567074492870) 2026-02-13T00:36Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "Here is that bird in [----]. 2nd from the right. Just when I started getting into pigeons (thanks Covid). Landing is my favorite bird Penelope. Still with us. I saw her today. She's a princess" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022109690763866192) 2026-02-13T00:44Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "@herr_naphta I always thought Debra Freeman was more likely to have led the party to victory" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022110716720034070) 2026-02-13T00:48Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "@Bearthafuckdown It's fascinating to me how [--] cities (the 2nd and the 1st) remember their two "make no little plans" men very differently. Was Burnham's plan really that great The Columbian Exposition is gone (except for museum of you know what). And some grass on blvds" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022113188037505485) 2026-02-13T00:58Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "@Bearthafuckdown Maybe Moses would have been better -- great even -- if he came of age before expressways and gigantic bridges were possible" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022113705052561808) 2026-02-13T01:00Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "Wow. Not only is this cool. The functionality/design is FAR better than the current subway map. https://t.co/6hkvNQhe1W https://t.co/6hkvNQhe1W" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022114299200839836) 2026-02-13T01:03Z 16.4K followers, 12.8K engagements "Very true. Biden (or his people after he was demented) pushed so far left only to prove that you can't push far left enough to appease the far left (who are sometimes right and sometimes wrong). You win no votes: "Don't appease genocide" And you lose the masses in the middle. Biden sacrificed his reputation as a center left politician by letting Lina Khan go after Big Tech and trying to forgive student loans and it didn't appease you at all. Biden sacrificed his reputation as a center left politician by letting Lina Khan go after Big Tech and trying to forgive student loans and it didn't" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022118302118748571) 2026-02-13T01:19Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@Bearthafuckdown I will say as many other have Chicago had no reason to be a great city. There really wasn't a great commercial commercial connection between the great lakes and New Orleans. The 2nd City could have been St Louis or almost anywhere. It was Chicago. Because leaders thunk big" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022118984599081053) 2026-02-13T01:21Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "@dirtyuncleleo I love that. But I don't know what you mean by x-wing. Is that the generic/classic blue/grey pigeon with [--] bands If so yeah unless you got white toes or (ahem) feathers on your muff they do all look the same" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022119523823104275) 2026-02-13T01:23Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "@Bearthafuckdown And oh yeah reversing the flow of the Chicago River to send our shit to other people so _we_ wouldn't have to drink it That's a ballser move. Hard core respect. (Though arguably OK to hate the player AND the game.)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022119874756255967) 2026-02-13T01:25Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "@barstoollaw Huge. Yes. And the southern version I've never had but it sounds delicious. Better even. The Greek version is just overcooked in salted water and then with olive oil salt and pepper and lemon" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022128735408075071) 2026-02-13T02:00Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements ""Police abolition" is such a good litmus test. Yes it's only 0.5% of Americans who want it but I'm represented by police abolitionists. I would vote for literally anybody else but nobody else is running. I just want a normal Democrat Theres another possibility: Leftists hurt Democrats by attacking them and not voting for them but if a Democrat ran as a leftist they would lose even harder by alienating normal people *I* would vote for Donald Trump over a candidate that supported police abolition Theres another possibility: Leftists hurt Democrats by attacking them and not voting for them but" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022146718729687322) 2026-02-13T03:12Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "I saw a lot of movies at Old Orchard. My first job at [--] was at the Evanston Movie Theatre sic. M&R owned both. So I could go to both for free. Old Orchard had these great rocking seats that were really hard to maintain. By the late 1980s so many broken seats were roped off. MEAN GIRLS was set in the Chicago suburbs but not filmed there so when Lindsay Lohan specifically referenced Old Orchard Mall and then cut to an indoor mall that was obviously not that mall it earned a huge laugh at the Old Orchard mall movie theater. memorable moment MEAN GIRLS was set in the Chicago suburbs but not" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022148357842686394) 2026-02-13T03:18Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "Old Orchard was the suburban alternative to downtown Evanston. When I was growing up there was a lot of fear that Evanston was on the verge of becoming a white-flight ghetto. Laughable now as rich progressive whites have displaced most of Black Evanston. So reparations" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022149523263590588) 2026-02-13T03:23Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "@BrettRedacted Wow. What year I started there before Platoon came out. Which I guess means fall of [----]. I worked there till spring of [----]. Do you remember Ted or Carol the projectionists That was union. They stuck around" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022150638281666729) 2026-02-13T03:27Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "@BrettRedacted Was the Korean restaurant run by Mr Lee still next door to theaters 2-5 Mr Lee hit on me pretty hard when I was [--]. It was a shame because I really I really did like the bibimbap" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022152348446208477) 2026-02-13T03:34Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "@OS_infinite @AllseeingM249 @CCGordon33 If you live in neighborhood with low crime the subway line will have low crime. And welcome to New York It's a fabulous city and I'd like to live nowhere else on earth" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022168470633529593) 2026-02-13T04:38Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "@OS_infinite @AllseeingM249 @CCGordon33 (But the colors by themselves mean nothing)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022168794723131665) 2026-02-13T04:39Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "Progressive Counterpoint: don't defund the police because police are essential to public safety disproportionately benefiting poor black and brown New Yorkers and the NYPD budget is but 5% of the city budget and doesn't have a lot of fat. Instead of defund the police lets call it police budget austerity. Ok @NYCMayor You can fairly and truthfully blame it on Hochul. The governor refuses to raise taxes on the wealthy so I have no choice but to find places like the police budget to make cuts. Instead of defund the police lets call it police budget austerity. Ok @NYCMayor You can fairly and" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022187796216349106) 2026-02-13T05:55Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "I was stuck in Cairo once because of a sandstorm. It was surreal. You need to touch grass I literally live in the desert. https://t.co/ZPsxOTSIFu You need to touch grass I literally live in the desert. https://t.co/ZPsxOTSIFu" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022487257060360220) 2026-02-14T01:45Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "I kind of imagine a black kid from Mississippi or Chicago would have been like WTF Can you imagine being a kid in the early 60s and listening to The Rolling Stones for the first time https://t.co/zjgsrViKUH Can you imagine being a kid in the early 60s and listening to The Rolling Stones for the first time https://t.co/zjgsrViKUH" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022525562422727082) 2026-02-14T04:17Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "I'm not even going to write anything clever. It's just maddening that legal weed rollout went so wrong. In part because its main focus was reparations & equity. And it failed even at that. In part because they were afraid of policing. And illegal stores have 85% of the business" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1895147574710993336) 2025-02-27T16:22Z 16.4K followers, 324.6K engagements "Who needs to support a free press when the administration haa a Dept of Community Engagement to tell them what they want to hear. Most modern NYC Mayors remarkably transparent. Koch Dinkins Giuliani often Bloomberg: They had daily press conferences open to all comers. De Blasio began to trim that Eric Adams too but this from Mamdani is the worst yet with "invited press" Most modern NYC Mayors remarkably transparent. Koch Dinkins Giuliani often Bloomberg: They had daily press conferences open to all comers. De Blasio began to trim that Eric Adams too but this from Mamdani is the worst yet with" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022482408273252857) 2026-02-14T01:25Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@catedunlap Cookers and bakers are two different breeds. And I respect the bakers. But what do you make of this Yesterday I learned my basic T measure is 20% off (10 Tablespoons pictured)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022831503462301992) 2026-02-15T00:33Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "I've said this before but rule of law is vitaly important. It is not liberal or conservative. For [----] years rule of law has been the North Star of civilization. Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it." https://t.co/mFvq5kZieI Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2014550543927005434) 2026-01-23T04:07Z 16.4K followers, 16.2K engagements "I love America because it's the only country in the world where people "driven to crimes of poverty and desperation" such as assault and robbery drive away in a fancy car. Fulton Market (West Loop) today. Broad daylight This area needs more police presence https://t.co/LQWla1J3hJ Fulton Market (West Loop) today. Broad daylight This area needs more police presence https://t.co/LQWla1J3hJ" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022121209480253782) 2026-02-13T01:30Z 16.4K followers, 607.3K engagements "As a Chicago-born New Yorker I find Chicago robbery fascinating cause it often is people in cars driving around looking for victims walking to the bus stop. In NYC if I get mugged it's probably from guys running away or making their getaway on a citibike" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022122321570578488) 2026-02-13T01:35Z 16.4K followers, 20.8K engagements "Moreso especially from the more privileges savior mentality defense attorney's think their clients criminals represent "the community." Ironically it's the same problem cops have just reaching a different conclusion. Meanwhile my students from the Bronx just hate crooks. Most public defenders simply like crime and criminals Most public defenders simply like crime and criminals" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022486144537997682) 2026-02-14T01:40Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements ""arbitrary arrest of patients." So can we now say Israel's war after Oct [--] however initially justified failed. All that bombing and killing and nothing changed (Granted the hostages have been released which is something) Finally after over two years Doctors Without Borders acknowledges that Hamas has been using Nasser Hospital as a terror base. But shame on them for not admitting this during the preceding two years when we were all documenting the proof in real time https://t.co/nxUhqgjN3a Finally after over two years Doctors Without Borders acknowledges that Hamas has been using Nasser" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022489548924887050) 2026-02-14T01:54Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@nicolegelinas Not clearing homeless camps could be real disaster. The funny thing it they don't really mean it. I guarentee homeless camps in Central Park or in front of the mayor's residence will be removed. They'll only permit it in "other people's" neighborhoods. Makes them feel good" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022515112830181827) 2026-02-14T03:35Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "@AbbyNormalSF It really is weird how NYC thinks it is so unique we can't learn from literally every other city that did this" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022517568330960983) 2026-02-14T03:45Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "@nicolegelinas If we decide to permit illegal homeless encampments by all means let the encampments be in Central Park. RVs can camp on the road. Individuals who "choose" to not to go to available shelters have a whole beautiful natural landscape away from NIMBYs. There are public bathrooms" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022519301765280092) 2026-02-14T03:52Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements "Well maybe. IDK. But never in a better color In the last [--] years has America made a worse car than the Ford Pinto https://t.co/CWlcZwkjrK In the last [--] years has America made a worse car than the Ford Pinto https://t.co/CWlcZwkjrK" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022520312865178025) 2026-02-14T03:56Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "The problem at the fringe of homelessness is that some people _want_ to live on the street. (Others are in no mental state to make that decision.) It's not many as a % of homeless but it's not zero. The question of "should we let them" is purely political. And no we shouldn't" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022521897162850362) 2026-02-14T04:02Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@jeepmonkeyredux Central Park is just overloaded with mice and rats" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022826016914252218) 2026-02-15T00:11Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "There are [--] million stories in New York City. [---] million households. And the median household income is $80483. That means [-------] households in NYC make less than $80483. They live. They love. They celebrate. They raise good kids. They pinch pennies. They abide. @nicolegelinas 👑 https://t.co/b7i46NSbQY @nicolegelinas 👑 https://t.co/b7i46NSbQY" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2022833443646644483) 2026-02-15T00:40Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements "@Langerhans_isle I'd take it into account through. Especially if the conviction is for nothing more than attempted assault" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/2023093318910185695) 2026-02-15T17:53Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements "@VitalCityNYC But always double check official press releases. I mean with two months more data aggravated assaults are down 4%. Better down than up. But not the 17% they tout. I wonder if it was true when they claimed it I will check" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1971992064264216648) 2025-09-27T17:35Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@VitalCityNYC [----] aggravated assaults in first [--] months [----]. [----] first [--] months [----]. So er I don't want to say they're "lying" but I don't know where they're getting "down 18%." I'm getting these numbers from them: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/portlandpolicebureau/viz/MonthlyReportedCrimeStatistics/MonthlyStatistics https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/portlandpolicebureau/viz/MonthlyReportedCrimeStatistics/MonthlyStatistics" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1971994047113056537) 2025-09-27T17:43Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@grok @ouhbick That's hilarious. Keep trying" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972077792927109606) 2025-09-27T23:15Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@G_Padraic @billyez2 @ASFleischman There is no question cops were murdered. There's no doubt she was there at the murder scene (which is what she was convicted of). The question if whether she was the first to shoot Who knows for sure but her I wasn't there. I suspect she did shoot. She sure was not a peacenik" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972362425786851429) 2025-09-28T18:07Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@G_Padraic @billyez2 @ASFleischman She was convicted of being "in concert". So while the details are interesting they're irrelevant to her legal conviction. She doing wrong with a group when cops were murdered. There might be more. But that's the guilt" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972364298166153611) 2025-09-28T18:14Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@G_Padraic @billyez2 @ASFleischman I do believe she personally shot at and killed the cops. But I also know I have no way of knowing that as I wasn't there. And I know that isn't needed then or now for such a conviction" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972369220144185434) 2025-09-28T18:34Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@Chris_arnade A few years back (it has gotten better since them) Blacks Portlanders had the highest murder rate in the nation. https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2021/08/11/black-portlanders-are-more-likely-to-be-murdered-than-their-peers-in-cities-better-known-for-crime/ https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2021/08/11/black-portlanders-are-more-likely-to-be-murdered-than-their-peers-in-cities-better-known-for-crime/" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972382947694231786) 2025-09-28T19:28Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@G_Padraic @uther_bendragon @billyez2 @ASFleischman It wouldn't have mattered. Stay focused: She was present with the bad guys during a murder. "Acting in concert." Then and now that includes murder in New Jersey. Thus she was guilty. N.J.S.A. 2C:2-6 You generally get a lighter sentence than if you pulled the trigger" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972385229471150218) 2025-09-28T19:37Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@G_Padraic @uther_bendragon @billyez2 @ASFleischman Not under New Jersey law it's not" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972388418094284905) 2025-09-28T19:50Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "He could have said all this after saying the words: "Hamas is bad." He could have distinguished between Hamas and Palestinian people. He could have then gone on about about universality and Netanyahu. Remember DSA response to Oct [--] on Oct [--] was "Free Palestine ask Zohran how." If you can't condemn Hamas you ARE Hamas. Reporter asked him a simple question. Took him two minutes to say anything and everything except the simple words "I condemn Hamas." It was so easy. But he can't. Ask yourself why. https://t.co/Cqp3jOydvu If you can't condemn Hamas you ARE Hamas. Reporter asked him a simple" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972678566807536063) 2025-09-29T15:03Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@RocCityBuilt It did get better" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972687333586538929) 2025-09-29T15:38Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@RocCityBuilt But indeed so much of the change was about "boring" behind-the-scenes stuff. Like how to improve arrest processing. It was actually a bit of challenge for me as writer / editor to try and make that interesting. But it's important. And collaboration with other agencies was key" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972688614413742130) 2025-09-29T15:43Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "7 weeks of data on each side of National Guard deployment on Aug [--] [----]. Reported violent gun crime in DC is down 44%. Homicides are down [--] to [--]. (Last year [----] same time periods there were [--] and [--] homicides and many more gun crimes.)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972774238085058985) 2025-09-29T21:23Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@glastris Now [--] weeks of data on reported "violent crime with a gun." Guess which week the National Guard was announced Like it really is that easy to cut violent crime 40%. We could cut it more (and cheaper) if we did it constitutionally and smartly with police. But we choose not to" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1972830872362684748) 2025-09-30T01:08Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "Big indeed. Finally. In the year of our Lord 2025: "For the first time the FBI is telling agencies to note whether a crime victim received a gunshot wound during the crime." This is big news and a very welcome development. Kudos Jeff and Jacob for pointing it out. https://t.co/yP5mRAe5IG This is big news and a very welcome development. Kudos Jeff and Jacob for pointing it out. https://t.co/yP5mRAe5IG" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973041861616165000) 2025-09-30T15:06Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@Tpsmyth01 @Jasm53865 @NickyFrank30 That's the issue. We won't do that here" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973066759578992647) 2025-09-30T16:45Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@RocCityBuilt Did you Jack Maple "Maples" on purpose Because that is a slight running joke in the book that city cops always called him "Maples."" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973081443623424052) 2025-09-30T17:44Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@RocCityBuilt Actually I guess I cut that from the book. And changed any Maples to Maple for consistency. But it was a small running theme at one point Somebody observed that Transit Cops called him Maple and City Cops said Maples. But I wasn't consistent. Or often" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973086877067440313) 2025-09-30T18:05Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@Tpsmyth01 @corrientecanta I don't know the UK system. I'll defend the Dutch system. Works well for all involved" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973087427406262322) 2025-09-30T18:07Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@StefanoBloch Meth remains the only drug I have had almost no experience with at _any_ level. I don't mind that at all" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973136984983085491) 2025-09-30T21:24Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "The CCRB is not designed to be even handed or fair to police. Police experience prohibits one from serving. It is grand jury and prosecutor together but with no legal standard. It is supposed to have a check on its decisions. Just like the courts require a defense attorney. Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to strip the NYPD commissioners power to discipline cops giving the final say to the citys civilian police oversight board. https://t.co/cpOmxBBdRm Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to strip the NYPD commissioners power to discipline cops giving the final say to the citys" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973420528527614195) 2025-10-01T16:11Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@jeff_soloway It's like having a medical review board and prohibiting doctors. Now maybe that's OK if doctors get the final say. But why not have a system with qualified people from the start And then give them "tooth."" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973432252546920813) 2025-10-01T16:58Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@jeff_soloway Right now the CCRB has too much power in bringing cases (ie: without a civilian complaint) and no actual power to punish. So nobody likes it. But if the CCRB were to have real final authority then it needs to be redone with qualified people and due process protection" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973432660317159533) 2025-10-01T16:59Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@bfurnas I think about my running water a lot. And when I do I sing a silent song of praise to civilization and the foresight of great New Yorkers of yore" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973442406528831871) 2025-10-01T17:38Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "Why _does_ the left so casually celebrate cop killers Does this not normalize political violence I mean the BLA cop killers were _overtly_ politically violent. And cop killing should more defining than acupuncturist. A deep dive by The Moynihan Report: https://www.youtube.com/live/4_VFzl2SRbwsi=LWz8j29BEvgZvMEx&t=257 https://www.youtube.com/live/4_VFzl2SRbwsi=LWz8j29BEvgZvMEx&t=257" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973458020509294765) 2025-10-01T18:40Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@moultano With excellent landscaping" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973463741586088319) 2025-10-01T19:03Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "I'll admit I was wrong. Clearly it failed. (Though I don't know if it would have made any difference politically.) I'm just thinking about all those people who in [----] said it was essential to impeach Trump even if he didn't get convicted to show "future presidents" that lawless behavior will not be tolerated. And six years later here we are. Have any of them ever admitted they were wrong I'm just thinking about all those people who in [----] said it was essential to impeach Trump even if he didn't get convicted to show "future presidents" that lawless behavior will not be tolerated. And six" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973502479666160077) 2025-10-01T21:37Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "While I'm at it I was also wrong about my support for Biden's border policies. (I'd still argue the point in the abstract on a moral level. but) clearly it failed. A political disaster on every level. For immigrants and for who is in the White House" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973503960012169323) 2025-10-01T21:43Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@JeffreyCamp @RocCityBuilt Excellent. Thank you. Let me know what you think. Dan I own you $1" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973869966308036863) 2025-10-02T21:57Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@CaralhoPhilly Cubs. So I raised by my grandfather. I even worked a long hot summer as a poorly paid usher in Wrigley Field. And then I generally kind of root for the Orioles Red Sox and Mets in that order" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973907109159870726) 2025-10-03T00:25Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@mindyisser I don't think he is a terrible person. He certainly cares about the people of this city tremendously. I just think he is very mistaken about many of his beliefs. And since I disagree with him on those beliefs I won't vote for him. But he's a not a terrible person" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973953703905530337) 2025-10-03T03:30Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@bikesalsa @HistoryBoomer same" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973955176290791662) 2025-10-03T03:36Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@wil_da_beast630 Arguable "Thou Shall Not Kill" would qualify as a moral argument. But I am not a practicing Christian" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973981381610164243) 2025-10-03T05:20Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@atlanticesque Did Cuomo ever claim the Central Park [--] were innocent" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973982883762352475) 2025-10-03T05:26Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@RabbiRabbz @wil_da_beast630 Does the original Hebrew not define execution as murder" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973983493790314692) 2025-10-03T05:28Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@Langerhans_isle @atlanticesque I doubt he ever claimed it. But I don't know. Nobody except fools claims they were "innocent" of criminal conduct. Their convictions were "vacated" because of well an "unconstitutional plea" https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-moves-to-vacate-steven-lopezs-conviction-in-central-park-jogger-case/ https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-moves-to-vacate-steven-lopezs-conviction-in-central-park-jogger-case/" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973984356151800212) 2025-10-03T05:32Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@IndieGameLawyer Every man has to have a code" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1973993031549206628) 2025-10-03T06:06Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@RocCityBuilt @JeffreyCamp Artie Storch live and in the flesh (Virtually) https://youtu.be/OGWzQAgqS6Isi=wNquS7RfYyLlYBXM https://youtu.be/OGWzQAgqS6Isi=wNquS7RfYyLlYBXM" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1974165049368588644) 2025-10-03T17:30Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@Chris_arnade P.J. O'Rourke called Korea / Koreans: "The Irish of the Orient"" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1974283480381948008) 2025-10-04T01:20Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "This is a fabulously powerful (and kinda no-brainer) order written by a Trump appointed judge. 1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland. https://t.co/3Hn5Kz3fCH 1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland. https://t.co/3Hn5Kz3fCH" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1974690136723267759) 2025-10-05T04:16Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "Why I only really trust stats on shootings and murders. Everything else is fungible. That said. as long as the reclassification is constant over time the data can still be statistically valid. But that's a big if. @AlexThomp @tedfrank This isnt just DC. Every precinct either does it or wants to. In urban areas Its not rare its routine. Politics seep into everything and when you mix that with human nature you get law enforcement brass cooking the books. You cant just trust the stats. You want the @AlexThomp @tedfrank This isnt just DC. Every precinct either does it or wants to. In urban areas" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1974896428196737299) 2025-10-05T17:56Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@AbbyNormalSF @soblackandblue Electing Chesa Boudin to be a criminal prosecutor because might be the must predictably bad and hence stupid thing San Francisco voters have ever done. NYC voters can't recall the mayor" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1974959452597186726) 2025-10-05T22:06Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "A non-criminal administrative warrant (presumably). Masked anonymous agents. Poor yactics. Unclear due process. Habeas Corpus issues. I don't see how this can end in anything but disaster" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1974964616511037851) 2025-10-05T22:27Z 15.8K followers, 42.7K engagements "@mattyglesias Sidestepping your question (because IDK) it's worth repeating they are federal law enforcement officers. They are not police. Any "police powers" they have is granted by and at the discretion of each state. I think this is an important distinction to maintain in these times" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1974968747053203947) 2025-10-05T22:43Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@jws201812 @mattyglesias People murder cops too. Police still wear uniforms" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1974969363146088602) 2025-10-05T22:46Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@CaralhoPhilly @johnwcbragg @mattyglesias No. But they are sworn law enforcement. It's partly a semantic distinction. But it's one rooted in the Constitution (10th Amendment). And it matters. Feds have enforcement powers. They do not have police power. (Unless states grant them.)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1974997959600472514) 2025-10-06T00:39Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@CaralhoPhilly @johnwcbragg @mattyglesias No. Federal supremacy. But they don't have to actively cooperate. Many states would need to redefine their cooperation with federal law enforcement (which I assume falls to the state's legislature.)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1974999882365833426) 2025-10-06T00:47Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@Chz_Burger That's the moment I literally LOLd" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975313562731237691) 2025-10-06T21:33Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements ""the movement got trump elected and demobilized". No not 100% true. But also not 100% false. Even I was shocked at the level of outrage in Europe. And the U.S. left was pretty silent. Without Biden they have nothing to rally around to oppose. The entire left identity has been opposition to democrats Even I was shocked at the level of outrage in Europe. And the U.S. left was pretty silent. Without Biden they have nothing to rally around to oppose. The entire left identity has been opposition to democrats" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975328318904816052) 2025-10-06T22:32Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@ChaimKatz7 My most recent block on Bluesky was a dude who insulted me when I said that as a Democrat I don't feel obliged to vote for Mamdani. I called DSA a political party (instead of a "membership organization") usurping the Democrat party line in NYC. Meanwhile the actual DSA:" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975334186308542474) 2025-10-06T22:55Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@ChaimKatz7 I'm not certain but I don't think so. W. F. P. has a party line on the ballot and (some) Democrats run on that line. It gets some progressive anti-dem votes. DSA wins Democratic elections in low turnout primaries" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975356650702970928) 2025-10-07T00:25Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "I read tweet like this and I tune out. I assume it's a misinterpretation of the truth. The NYC City council is not MAGA obviously. Who are these dumbfucks And why are the so unable to want to win potential allies like me" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975361550941827287) 2025-10-07T00:44Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "Just your occasional reminder that the DSA people who supported Hamas on Oct 7th [----] shouldn't be rewarded with your vote. https://t.co/oJl5Snvnzp "Sarah Silverman Rule #1 for Judging Ones Political Associates. An organization that cant take a stand condemning a right-wing terrorist group that set out to murder as many Jewish civilians including children and infants as it can lay its hands on." https://t.co/Pj8iMYjvx6 https://t.co/oJl5Snvnzp "Sarah Silverman Rule #1 for Judging Ones Political Associates. An organization that cant take a stand condemning a right-wing terrorist group that set" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975417031580393801) 2025-10-07T04:24Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "I've taken enough moon pictures to know they never really work but the moon was rising over Central Park and it was really beautiful you'll just have to trust me" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975422618473013559) 2025-10-07T04:47Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "Their never-ending energy actually _is_ impressive" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975669465590472913) 2025-10-07T21:08Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@bowelsinspector Imagine if they said "we're going to take today off to join our Jewish allies in mourning the victims of Oct [--]. We'll be back tomorrow" That they do not makes me think they really do support terrorists (Hamas) and terrorism" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975682151682072785) 2025-10-07T21:58Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@bowelsinspector The ANC had Nelson Mendela. I can support a cause that _also_ has bad followers. But not when the bad followers are the cause" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975684277690888262) 2025-10-07T22:06Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@dilanesper I don't know. I'll go out of my to experience Grand Central Terminal. Even if Penn Station is more functional. I mean our trains suck. A nice station makes up for a bit" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975953025648017438) 2025-10-08T15:54Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@acher_2 I do not know" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1975965691074445495) 2025-10-08T16:45Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "I thought this was a joke. I refuse to believe Trump is permitting any country much less Qatar to build a facility at a U.S. military base. And yet. Meanwhile in days gone past Obama wore a tan suit and was accused a giving a "terrorist fist bump." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-qatar-air-force-facility-us-base-idaho/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-qatar-air-force-facility-us-base-idaho/" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1976704409251037376) 2025-10-10T17:40Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@EdHerdman DSA does not want police on transit. Unless we have a cop on every bus we need the driver as some sort of front line to protect riders" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1977075830418555194) 2025-10-11T18:16Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "Yes. But. But if i could hop on and off the bus or subway without a financial penalty (you know like people can do in a car on the way home from work) I would indeed stop and spend more money along the way. It is in nobody's interest for me not to do this. The funniest part of this article is the suggestion that folks who struggled to pay a $2.90 bus fee are now meaningfully contributing to the economy of the most expensive city in the world. https://t.co/KDVsblm3zY The funniest part of this article is the suggestion that folks who struggled to pay a $2.90 bus fee are now meaningfully" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1977179782988325125) 2025-10-12T01:09Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "If you hang Warhol's Mao print by your piano does that mean you are a Warhol fan or a Mao fan Or is it just ironic. IDK. But I bet they're voting for Mamdani" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1977209260296880201) 2025-10-12T03:06Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "If you missed the Cubs vs Brewers game tonight this is all you need to know. Here are all the details:" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1977221725340242120) 2025-10-12T03:56Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@cryptodavidw @ms_bob_dobalina @taylorgrayson Who can know Why should I care Tons of reasons both valid and not. We don't need to answer that to control their violent behavior. And we can't change the past" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1977386535440859322) 2025-10-12T14:51Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@austinahlman How does safety increase" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1977444474964885803) 2025-10-12T18:41Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@austinahlman [--] on [--] bus operators in Kansas City thought things deterierated after free fares were introduced" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1977446529641463827) 2025-10-12T18:49Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "Crabs My only point is "OMG THIS WAS NOT FUCKING BALTIMORE." Yet another Dine and dash at a Crab Restaurant. This time at Bag O' Crab in Portland Oregon. 🦀 Why do Most Dine & dashes happen at Crab establishments 🤷♀ https://t.co/9SYf3aJFa6 Yet another Dine and dash at a Crab Restaurant. This time at Bag O' Crab in Portland Oregon. 🦀 Why do Most Dine & dashes happen at Crab establishments 🤷♀ https://t.co/9SYf3aJFa6" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1977588843793809467) 2025-10-13T04:14Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "So can we say the war and killing that was to destroy Hamas failed" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1977772119141371972) 2025-10-13T16:23Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@MeganKMcG That's crazy I did not. I would write 8-6-2-2 the last part being my way of recording a put out. Like I write grounders to first as 3-3 which is not standard. And I'd draw lines with x to the bases of the runners. I might write 8-6-2-2(3b) to indicate the base Crazy. Thx" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1977960683661590714) 2025-10-14T04:52Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@MeganKMcG (Had Contreras thrown to third it would be the first time I'd have scored an 8-6-2-5 double play) A flaw in my scoring is 8-6-2-2(3b) doesn't make clear if the ball was caught. (Though the line-x for base runners would.) I don't do FO8 because it's (almost) always redundant" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1977963030265647407) 2025-10-14T05:01Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@Tpsmyth01 @NickyFrank30 @nolesfan2011 @MattBoxer94 @charmcitycop @avrilbradley23 I an not certain what my role in this discussion is supposed to be I am certainly not on Team Trump" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978228599262961769) 2025-10-14T22:37Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@Tpsmyth01 @NickyFrank30 @nolesfan2011 @MattBoxer94 @charmcitycop @avrilbradley23 Ironically "Murder is up" in Boston. But last year was record low (and a bit lucky too). Boston may have problems but high crime (by US standards) isn't one of them" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978232949494456491) 2025-10-14T22:54Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@enforcelawsNYC Diagonal streets cause traffic jams because the stop lights at intersections are only green 1/3 of the time at 6-way intersections instead of 1/2 of the time at 4-way intersections. You know this right If not I'm happy to explain more" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978259623518912632) 2025-10-15T00:40Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "Defending Letitia James in [----] is like defending Marion Barry in [----]. Yes the "goddamn bitch" did "set Barry up" Of course the prosecution is political. Of course they're both guilty as charged. I prefer politicians who aren't crooks. When the media calls the Letitia James indictment "weak" they're hoping you won't look at the actual documents. Here's what Letitia James swore to four different entities about the SAME Norfolk Virginia property: 📋 SECOND HOME RIDER (Aug [--] 2020): "Borrower will occupy and https://t.co/Urem87kC4p When the media calls the Letitia James indictment "weak"" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978264910065758677) 2025-10-15T01:01Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "You know. I write things in chats I do not want public. I make many jokes that are not in good taste. But I'm usually insulting the person I'm chatting with. None of my chats involve a dozen people. These guys are not ribbing each other. These aren't "just" jokes. A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A total fucking coward and a useless piece of shit One of the people in here he attended his wedding with me and still sold him over to the devil All over some useless YR beef And then the GOP condemned them Fuck A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978278915182391436) 2025-10-15T01:57Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@WaywardRabbler @SwannMarcus89 I have never walked the streets of Bakersfield. That said murders are down (26 last year down from [--] in [----] [--] in 2014) Kern County may be a better example. IDK. I assume the city is more blue. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=A0PNW4DXwJ0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=A0PNW4DXwJ0" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978280800975036826) 2025-10-15T02:04Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@HistoryBoomer @staffcommenter Carl do I fill your life with cheer and glee" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978281039626735725) 2025-10-15T02:05Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@WaywardRabbler @SwannMarcus89 some murder numbers" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978282250446807178) 2025-10-15T02:10Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@wittmer0313 Might be a murder / homicide difference. Or more likely chat gpt is wrong" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978284303776657719) 2025-10-15T02:18Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "What does it accomplish Maybe increase voter turnout That would be good. I'm not opposed to this but there's something solipsistic about anti trump people matching in anti trump towns. All that matters is elections. Win elections. The last time we organized #NoKings protests in June we turned out over [--] million people in over [----] locations across the country This time we have OVER [----] locations and are expecting EVEN BIGGER crowds Make a plan to JOIN US this Saturday October 18th #NoKingsOct18 https://t.co/FMj0zeNZdR The last time we organized #NoKings protests in June we turned out over 5" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978298836389896467) 2025-10-15T03:16Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "Good https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/mamdani-apology-nypd-00610378 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/mamdani-apology-nypd-00610378" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978682340877443098) 2025-10-16T04:40Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "Personally I'd feel better if the mayor of NYC could unequivocally condemn Hamas. Doesn't seem too much to ask for. Especially in a city with one million Jewish residents. (Either that or refrain from stating any and all foreign policy positions entirely.) @LincolnRestler Lincoln you can knock on a million doors it doesnt change the fact that Zoharan refuses to condemn Hamas. Thats not a position thats siding with terrorists. New Yorkers deserve leaders who stand with victims not with killers. @LincolnRestler Lincoln you can knock on a million doors it doesnt change the fact that Zoharan" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1978879489498112121) 2025-10-16T17:43Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "@ZaidJilani No. He didn't. He won't say "I unequivocally condemn Hamas." Why would he I don't think he does. Surely you understand "it didn't start with Oct 7." He recently said said the Oct [--] attack was a "horrific war crime." OK so he doesn't agree with _everything_ Hamas has done" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1979018668303392976) 2025-10-17T02:56Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@MeganKMcG I do not. Was it bad base running or just bad luck I mean that was a hell of throw. And who would expect it go to to 3B. It is awkward to score. I would 1B and then put (9-5) in parens in the batters to indicate the out was made on the play but not to the batter" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1979019448372662556) 2025-10-17T02:59Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@ZaidJilani Surely you too know Hamas apologists in the Free-Free-Palestine crowd. I do. (It's not exactly a radical position in that milieu. A righteous cause even if you disagree with some of the tactics. I mean it's genocide they're fighting right" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1979021510162436527) 2025-10-17T03:07Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@ZaidJilani He could lie and say he unequivocally condemns Hamas. But he doesn't. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And he doesn't want to piss off his base. So he's "not running on that." He knows there's only one good political answer to the Israel Palestine question: "affordability"" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1979022877144821864) 2025-10-17T03:13Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@bigseb31213 @sp6runderrated I'd guess close to [--] in [--] voters" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1979036089743487280) 2025-10-17T04:05Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "I would like to announce my write-in candidacy for mayor of New York City. I am: Pro policing Pro school choice Pro immigrant Pro housing Pro transit Anti Trump Quiet on foreign affairs. I will not campaign but if elected I will serve. I will not be taking questions" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1979038803361735092) 2025-10-17T04:16Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@acher_2 You and I have different interpretations of unequivocal condemnation. "Oct [--] was horrible and so is Israel" is not an unequivocal condemnation of Hamas. At least in the debate yesterday he _finally_ said Hamas should put down their arns (AKA abide by Cease Fire)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1979209494795104667) 2025-10-17T15:34Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "@acher_2 I would throw all those back at you and say you have proven my point. Hamas is so much more than their Oct [--] attack" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/1979214576789909885) 2025-10-17T15:55Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "How can we shift-control-delete the alt-right" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/798220418121396224) 2016-11-14T17:45Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements "@arikaokrent I always wanted to go to Jewel on Greenbay Rd for that reason For some reason my mom preferred Dominick's sigh" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/804164246707798016) 2016-12-01T03:24Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements ""The way Trump acts That's no way to treat a lady" say none of my decent conservative chivalrous Trump loving friends. https://x.com/zora/status/823527286939025408 Ugh we've all been there. https://t.co/Rqh26zJLe9 https://x.com/zora/status/823527286939025408 Ugh we've all been there. https://t.co/Rqh26zJLe9" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/823806692043456512) 2017-01-24T08:16Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements "@AyeRishPirate My father liked Le Peep. So I called it Le Puke just to be witty. Is Katy another the ever glamorous @arikaokrent clan" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/838467582927720448) 2017-03-05T19:13Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements "Ceasefire is nice. It is even good. I hope it continues and wish them well. But it is not a violence prevention strategy. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-ceasefire-success-20180205-story.html http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-ceasefire-success-20180205-story.html" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/960568882854494209) 2018-02-05T17:40Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements "@arikaokrent Sure. Proactive policing that (legally it must be said given what went down in Baltimore) focuses on active criminals. We know who they are. Call it focused deterrence or whatever. But you need to make life less fun and more difficult for those involved in the violence" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/960577971483480064) 2018-02-05T18:16Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements "@arikaokrent And so people continue to get killed because it is politically a hard sell. That is where strong leadership needs to come into play" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/960579822840926208) 2018-02-05T18:24Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements "@arikaokrent Start by measure only violent crime (reduction thereof) as a measure of success. Don't be distracted by or worse reward quantity of arrests or guns and drugs seized" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/960583846306746368) 2018-02-05T18:40Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements "@arikaokrent That's on the PD. The political part is to defuse the next video of a messy scene when cops are doing the right thing ugly though it may be. And also to address issues of racial disparity (distinguished from racial bias)" [X Link](https://x.com/PeterMoskos/status/960585024960712704) 2018-02-05T18:44Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@PeterMoskos Peter MoskosPeter Moskos posts on X about hamas, murder, nyc, central park the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Social category influence countries 7.49% travel destinations 5.88% finance 3.74% stocks 1.07% automotive brands 1.07% technology brands 0.53% celebrities 0.53%
Social topic influence hamas 5.35%, murder 4.81%, nyc 2.67%, central park #192, new york #3597, in the 2.14%, the world #4692, law enforcement 2.14%, israel 1.6%, new york city 1.6%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @waywardrabbler @chrisarnade @bearthafuckdown @roccitybuilt @arikaokrent @razibkhan @barstoollaw @gpadraic @billyez2 @asfleischman @nicolegelinas @catedunlap @tpsmyth01 @mattyglesias @megankmcg @rafa_mangual @allseeingm249 @abbynormalsf @nickyfrank30 @caralhophilly
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Assata Shakur is a worse human being than Charlie Kirk"
X Link 2025-09-28T02:15Z 16.4K followers, 24.3K engagements
"Just for the record. snow doesn't naturally turn gray. That's entirely due to exhaust fumes from cars and trucks. (Normally it just settles or we just filter it with our lungs.)"
X Link 2026-01-31T04:52Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"We need changes in law and a serious focused plan to help these people in desperate need of help. Despite $$ resources a home and a caring family he will hurt others and die on the street. I understand there's a housing crisis; this isn't about housing. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/family-mental-health-homeless-schizophrenia.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/family-mental-health-homeless-schizophrenia.html"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:23Z 16.3K followers, 15.6K engagements
"People will say "well most homeless people do not have sever mentally illness." Yes and So what It's not moral to push this under the rug for a more "imaginative" greater vision. FWIW over the years I've had many students come to me with this problem. What can I tell them"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:25Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Saying "most homeless people do not have sever mentally illness" is part of the problem. Because it comes from a framework that the problem to be addressed is housing. That is a problem true. It's not THE problem for a visible number of mentally ill people roaming the streets"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:28Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Police abolitionists are like the Energizer bunny. They're not going to stop. They want to end policing. Believe them. And they'll do it one bite at a time. 🚨NYC Council Renews Call To Abolish the NYPDs Gang Database : NYC Council Members @A_StevensD16 @CabanD22 @CMKevinCRiley @dr_yusefsalaam and Public Advocate @JumaaneWilliams have renewed their call to Abolish the NYPDs Gang Database (Criminal Group Database) and prohibit the https://t.co/ryvV2IDPkV 🚨NYC Council Renews Call To Abolish the NYPDs Gang Database : NYC Council Members @A_StevensD16 @CabanD22 @CMKevinCRiley @dr_yusefsalaam and"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:02Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The irony is that such service-resistant street homeless people just want a safe place to sleep under the watchful eyes of a cop. It boggles my mind that we won't provide this basic level of safety in shelters. (Even if shelters aren't as dangerous as some think.) The scene at LaGuardia this morning. Were just letting homeless people camp out at airport security now Zohrans NYC keeps getting better and better @NYCMayor https://t.co/jzhHJdHDJk The scene at LaGuardia this morning. Were just letting homeless people camp out at airport security now Zohrans NYC keeps getting better and better"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:42Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"This should not be done "in the middle of workday" needless to say. Mamdani NYC health dept. staffers launch 'working group' accusing Israel of genocide https://t.co/xveldIXmKj https://t.co/BR1GRRSayI Mamdani NYC health dept. staffers launch 'working group' accusing Israel of genocide https://t.co/xveldIXmKj https://t.co/BR1GRRSayI"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:42Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Baltimore used to have a problem of people stealing street lights. Like the whole damn thing. Pole and all. Scrapped for pennies on the dollar. Then eventually the busted the people doing it. Poor people. And the problem stopped. Copper wire theft went from [--] incidents in [----] to [----] in [----]. A rational society wouldnt accept this. Literally just arrest and prosecute these people already Make an example out of them and youll never have this problem again. Copper wire theft went from [--] incidents in [----] to [----] in [----]. A rational society wouldnt accept this. Literally just arrest and"
X Link 2026-02-06T05:37Z 16.4K followers, 43.4K engagements
"I get that sometimes emotion can get the best of you. And I get the urge to stop a criminal on a motor bike. I also don't believe the cop wanted to kill the guy. But yeah. No. You can't throw a cooler at the guy. https://nypost.com/2026/02/06/us-news/nypd-sergeant-convicted-in-fatal-cooler-throw-becoming-first-cop-found-guilty-of-killing-someone-in-nyc-in-a-decade/ https://nypost.com/2026/02/06/us-news/nypd-sergeant-convicted-in-fatal-cooler-throw-becoming-first-cop-found-guilty-of-killing-someone-in-nyc-in-a-decade/"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:46Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@somsai @BobaCyclist Yes. (Even in Oregon Seemingly the one() state which requires you to stop on yellow if safely possible)"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:34Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@Penny_J_Thomas Back on regular scheduled pick up for me"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:38Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements
"I would like elected officials & the MTA to talk specifically about what to do with this man. How will they help this man How will they get him off the subway Not homelessness or mental illness or housing in general. Not somebody else. This specific man in this condition. Bronx: East 174th Street & Jerome Avenue a homeless man set a foam takeout tray on fire inside an @MTA [--] train at the Jerome Avenue subway station around 11:45 p.m. Flames on the @NYCTSubway floor while riders sat nearby forced to inhale whatever contaminated junk was https://t.co/4bUwpXWuIR Bronx: East 174th Street &"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:37Z 16.3K followers, 63.6K engagements
"They're not "in crisis." That's a more temporary state of somebody with a mental illness having a particular bad day. These people to use a non-clinical term are totally fucked up. So fucked up they'll just lie down and literally freezing to death. Being homeless shouldnt be a death sentence said the Queens borough president Donovan Richards a Democrat who supported Mamdani last year. You cant let the people stay out there. These are people in crisis. https://t.co/sZpKhTbgxf Being homeless shouldnt be a death sentence said the Queens borough president Donovan Richards a Democrat who supported"
X Link 2026-02-08T05:27Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Outreach As long as we continue to think of the problems of the [---] most troubled people living on the streets and subways of New York City is a basic lack of knowledge that warm shelters exist they're going to die. On the plus side my subway ride home was homeless free"
X Link 2026-02-08T06:22Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Nicole @nicolegelinas makes this point in her fabulous book I just finished. He wasn't a total power broker. Moses had power but he was also just doing the bidding of politicians who shared his vision. Once the political vision shifted he wasn't able to get things done. This is why I hate the meme of The Power Broker Robert Moses wasn't special. He was just one of an anonymous army of [----] Robert Moses clones across the US And he actually did less demolition than the less-famous planners who more fully destroyed the other prewar cores This is why I hate the meme of The Power Broker Robert"
X Link 2026-02-08T06:33Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Last night at a birthday party I met the son of Bill Raymond who played "The Greek" in The Wire"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:13Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Once it gets warmer advocates (to their shame) will fight for their right to "choose" to live like this. But it's no more a "choice" when when warmer than it is now. The lethal cold highlights their mental incapacity but the need for forced care isn't seasonal. Help them This is exactly why we need stricter enforcement of code blue and I appreciate that our city workers are speaking out about just how ridiculous these light -touch policies really are. This is absolutely going to be something brought up during Tuesday's public safety meeting This is exactly why we need stricter enforcement of"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:12Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Are there other places (outside America) in the world where temps routinely vary [---] degrees (f) between summer and winter"
X Link 2026-02-09T06:27Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Eg Mamdani when asked about his less popular positions would say "I'm not running on that." And people had no problem with that. His supporters would repeat it to me as if saying the quiet part out loud he's not running on that" should alay all my policy concerns. Im fascinated by the (widespread among Smart People) quasilegalistic idea that a candidate whose views are clearly XYZ can run as ABC and voters are somehow required to swallow the latter. But you cant call Kamala a lefty She didnt Run As that No fair. As if theres Im fascinated by the (widespread among Smart People) quasilegalistic"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:58Z 16.3K followers, 18.5K engagements
"@Chris_arnade @razibkhan It is vastly overrated"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:29Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@anti_minotaur @Chris_arnade @razibkhan I lived in Amsterdam where it is rated very high. (and I've been to Indonesia)"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:55Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@Chris_arnade @razibkhan And in the N.L. it's still worse than thai food. And yes when I went to Indonesia I was like now I'll finally have really good Indonesian food. And indeed what I had was worse than Amsterdam Indonesian food (which is not at all gross and even good. but still overrated)"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:56Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@anti_minotaur @Chris_arnade @razibkhan Plus I live in Queens where there are many (over)rated Indonesian restaurants"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:58Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@YooperDuper Mondami's opponents were horrible. But then so was Harris's"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:00Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@hoedeman @Chris_arnade @razibkhan Who doesn't (Just a bit overrated)"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:01Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements
"So will the NYC Dept of Homeless Services hold. I don't know A press conference This is an agency with a $4 BILLION budget. By comparison the NYPD budget is just over $6 billion. Yes we spend comparable on "homeless services" as we do on policing. And for what [--] men found dead on separate subway trains https://t.co/LQfY3uNE94 https://t.co/gTxfami1x6 [--] men found dead on separate subway trains https://t.co/LQfY3uNE94 https://t.co/gTxfami1x6"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:16Z 16.4K followers, 20.2K engagements
"@nycpix @NYCSanitation Well not really. I was just trying to answer your question as to why private carters can collect during a snowstorm and NYC Sanitation cannot. It is because NYC Sanitation but plows on their garbage trucks and plows snow. Private haulers do not and still haul trash"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:24Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements
"This is why I find the #defund movement so absurd. Does anybody really think if homeless services had another few million taken from the NYPD they'd suddenly be holding press conferences and we wouldn't have homeless people on the subway Is $36K per homeless person not enough So will the NYC Dept of Homeless Services hold. I don't know A press conference This is an agency with a $4 BILLION budget. By comparison the NYPD budget is just over $6 billion. Yes we spend comparable on "homeless services" as we do on policing. And for what So will the NYC Dept of Homeless Services hold. I don't know"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:31Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"NYC spends 10X on "homeless services" as it does on libraries. $4 billion on homeless services versus $400 million on libraries. Might I propose that if NYC spend all $4.4 billion on just libraries we would provide better service for both homeless and libraries I'm not joking. @PeterMoskos Ahead of last year's super bowl people were angry that NOLA swept homeless from new orleans saying that we just needed more money to fix it New Orleans spends more money on homeless services than it does libraries @PeterMoskos Ahead of last year's super bowl people were angry that NOLA swept homeless from"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:37Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@RTFireflyEsq @Sir_Geechie Very much so. Under Hoxha the only connection to the outside world was Italian TV. My grandfather (a Greek from what is now southern Albania) came to America on an Italian passport"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:53Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Crossfire was good. I watched it as kid and learned a lot about real issues. And it was entertaining. There's no equivalent today. Thus people are stupider. Good day Stewart was wrong about Crossfire. To be clear of course Crossfire was a silly show where people yelled at each other. But Crossfire was also a venue where liberals and conservatives talked to each other. And we have lost something when we lost those venues. Stewart was wrong about Crossfire. To be clear of course Crossfire was a silly show where people yelled at each other. But Crossfire was also a venue where liberals and"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:40Z 16.3K followers, 15.7K engagements
"@daveweigel Is the country better without it"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:35Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@WineVigilante1 @shortmagsmle It wasn't under Giuliani. The fare evasion crack down happened when Dinkins was mayor (not that he had anything to do with it). It happened under Bratton and Jack Maple and the Transit Police (under MTA/state control) in [----]. It was a done deal by the time Giuliani was elected"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:59Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements
"It's almost as if "Broken Windows" has some validity to it. wait this graph is crazy BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small group of people wait this graph is crazy BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small group of"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:00Z 16.4K followers, 16.6K engagements
"@upzonenj Good point. It's not like all $4 billion spent in NYC is going to waste. Lots of people live in the shelter system and go to school and work and get their lives together. But it's still inexcusable with $4B that we have homeless people fouling and dying in the streets and subway"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:02Z 16.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@WineVigilante1 @shortmagsmle I wrote a book about this FWIW. It's a good book. "Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop" https://amzn.to/46GYXwW https://amzn.to/46GYXwW"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:44Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Today I learned on the youtubes that the phrase "Don't Mess with Texas" began not with Sam Houston or the Alamo but as a 1980s anti-littering campaign"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:45Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I spend a lot of time complaining about the left glorifying certain criminals. But at least the left pretends to believe in restorative justice. What I'll never understand is how this is like water off a duck's back to the right. "He was pardoned." Yes and then you hired him Neguse: That man works for you now right The man allegedly yelling kill them at police officers Bondi: He does work for us. Neguse: This is who you choose to hire. Bondi: He was pardoned by President Trump. https://t.co/2DPvCfeTy4 Neguse: That man works for you now right The man allegedly yelling kill them at police"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:01Z 16.4K followers, 14.9K engagements
"Er why are we going to pay so rich tourists don't have to pay to ride the bus If anything we should raise the fare during the World Cup. New: Mayor Mamdani is pushing for a free bus pilot program to be conducted during this years FIFA World Cup. The mayors pitch to the governor is to run all city buses for free across NYC for the 5-week soccer tournament in June and July. https://t.co/8yWdsIEvZg New: Mayor Mamdani is pushing for a free bus pilot program to be conducted during this years FIFA World Cup. The mayors pitch to the governor is to run all city buses for free across NYC for the"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:25Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Worth pointing out that the white people pushing this argument often have no black friends. So it's also kind of a self serving justification of their own racist segregation. Deeming their "allyship" as more significant than other people's actual real world lived experience. Leftists really hit us with: Just because you dated Black girls have Black friends or even have a Black kid doesnt mean youre not racist. Yes it does retards. Full stop. Actual racists the ones who genuinely believe Black people are inferior and despise them dont choose Leftists really hit us with: Just because you dated"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:58Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Actual fare enforcement on the subway could pay for this with cash to spare. Mayor estimates cost of free buses at $600-700m a year says he has put out various tax proposals to pay for it. Mayor estimates cost of free buses at $600-700m a year says he has put out various tax proposals to pay for it"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:00Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@WaywardRabbler The bluegrass scene (except to people with the "wrong" instruments) is very open and welcoming even if most people happily ignore it. But then I suppose so are most niche interests / hobbies"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:09Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements
""over a quarter of the people who died outdoors had permanent housing" It's a hard argument to win I know but for the few the most hardcore the most problematic and most publicly disruptive "homeless" it's not actually about housing. It's not about "homeless." My colleagues and I continue reporting on the lives of the New Yorkers found dead during the recent cold stretch We've so far found over a quarter of the people who died outdoors had permanent housing w/ @BKriegstein and @karen_yi https://t.co/GtUJdyPepP https://t.co/qWv8kGsmoq My colleagues and I continue reporting on the lives of the"
X Link 2026-02-12T06:01Z 16.4K followers, 43.2K engagements
"I actually think the mayor believes this. I live in that district. And yes all my reps are socialist. I also have visited East Germany Russia Cuba and Albania under communism. It's very insensitive to compare Astoria to Albania under Enver Hoxha. Communism was evil. Suggesting living in Queens today is the same thing as living under socialism is easily one of the dumbest things Zohran has ever said. Millions have starved to death in all of the countries that were dumb enough to try socialism. It failed every time. Suggesting living in Queens today is the same thing as living under socialism"
X Link 2026-02-12T06:15Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@ExistentialEnso "Dash""
X Link 2026-02-12T06:16Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@WaywardRabbler @phillipharr1s Bluegrass is kind of unique in being defined by permissible acoustic instruments. (Though I guess so is classical music). Probably a result of being invented and popularized by one man (Bill Monroe) who made the rules and had the vision"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:09Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Uh I don't think this be allowed. Mamdanis NyC. Theyre Selling Drugs Out of Tents in the Sidewalk https://t.co/2JZKnosoqt Mamdanis NyC. Theyre Selling Drugs Out of Tents in the Sidewalk https://t.co/2JZKnosoqt"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:34Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@WaywardRabbler I have my father's IBM selectric typewriter but it keeps breaking and is a pain to get it fixed. Manual typewriters are much more reliable. And given how little I actually need to use it it might be the smarter thing"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:47Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Once We Were Kings. I definitely grew up with an overblown sense of Chicago pride. In a good way. Having the world's tallest building was definitely part of that. World's busiest airport didn't hurt. At the time I just took the world's best hot dogs for granted. Live and learn. sometimes i think about what it mustve been like to live in chicago from 1969-1973 and see [--] of the top [--] tallest buildings in the world at the time completed in a [--] year span right next to each other https://t.co/2z3Zi0UHQd sometimes i think about what it mustve been like to live in chicago from 1969-1973 and see [--] of"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:12Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Pigeon Pic of the Day. This bird is one of my O.G.'s from [----]. Distinctive because of "muffs" the feathers on the ankles. Hot or not I'd say looks: [--]. Personality: 4"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:36Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Here is that bird in [----]. 2nd from the right. Just when I started getting into pigeons (thanks Covid). Landing is my favorite bird Penelope. Still with us. I saw her today. She's a princess"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:44Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@herr_naphta I always thought Debra Freeman was more likely to have led the party to victory"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:48Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@Bearthafuckdown It's fascinating to me how [--] cities (the 2nd and the 1st) remember their two "make no little plans" men very differently. Was Burnham's plan really that great The Columbian Exposition is gone (except for museum of you know what). And some grass on blvds"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:58Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@Bearthafuckdown Maybe Moses would have been better -- great even -- if he came of age before expressways and gigantic bridges were possible"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:00Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Wow. Not only is this cool. The functionality/design is FAR better than the current subway map. https://t.co/6hkvNQhe1W https://t.co/6hkvNQhe1W"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:03Z 16.4K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Very true. Biden (or his people after he was demented) pushed so far left only to prove that you can't push far left enough to appease the far left (who are sometimes right and sometimes wrong). You win no votes: "Don't appease genocide" And you lose the masses in the middle. Biden sacrificed his reputation as a center left politician by letting Lina Khan go after Big Tech and trying to forgive student loans and it didn't appease you at all. Biden sacrificed his reputation as a center left politician by letting Lina Khan go after Big Tech and trying to forgive student loans and it didn't"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:19Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@Bearthafuckdown I will say as many other have Chicago had no reason to be a great city. There really wasn't a great commercial commercial connection between the great lakes and New Orleans. The 2nd City could have been St Louis or almost anywhere. It was Chicago. Because leaders thunk big"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:21Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@dirtyuncleleo I love that. But I don't know what you mean by x-wing. Is that the generic/classic blue/grey pigeon with [--] bands If so yeah unless you got white toes or (ahem) feathers on your muff they do all look the same"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:23Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@Bearthafuckdown And oh yeah reversing the flow of the Chicago River to send our shit to other people so we wouldn't have to drink it That's a ballser move. Hard core respect. (Though arguably OK to hate the player AND the game.)"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:25Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@barstoollaw Huge. Yes. And the southern version I've never had but it sounds delicious. Better even. The Greek version is just overcooked in salted water and then with olive oil salt and pepper and lemon"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:00Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
""Police abolition" is such a good litmus test. Yes it's only 0.5% of Americans who want it but I'm represented by police abolitionists. I would vote for literally anybody else but nobody else is running. I just want a normal Democrat Theres another possibility: Leftists hurt Democrats by attacking them and not voting for them but if a Democrat ran as a leftist they would lose even harder by alienating normal people I would vote for Donald Trump over a candidate that supported police abolition Theres another possibility: Leftists hurt Democrats by attacking them and not voting for them but"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:12Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I saw a lot of movies at Old Orchard. My first job at [--] was at the Evanston Movie Theatre sic. M&R owned both. So I could go to both for free. Old Orchard had these great rocking seats that were really hard to maintain. By the late 1980s so many broken seats were roped off. MEAN GIRLS was set in the Chicago suburbs but not filmed there so when Lindsay Lohan specifically referenced Old Orchard Mall and then cut to an indoor mall that was obviously not that mall it earned a huge laugh at the Old Orchard mall movie theater. memorable moment MEAN GIRLS was set in the Chicago suburbs but not"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:18Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Old Orchard was the suburban alternative to downtown Evanston. When I was growing up there was a lot of fear that Evanston was on the verge of becoming a white-flight ghetto. Laughable now as rich progressive whites have displaced most of Black Evanston. So reparations"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:23Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@BrettRedacted Wow. What year I started there before Platoon came out. Which I guess means fall of [----]. I worked there till spring of [----]. Do you remember Ted or Carol the projectionists That was union. They stuck around"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:27Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@BrettRedacted Was the Korean restaurant run by Mr Lee still next door to theaters 2-5 Mr Lee hit on me pretty hard when I was [--]. It was a shame because I really I really did like the bibimbap"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:34Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@OS_infinite @AllseeingM249 @CCGordon33 If you live in neighborhood with low crime the subway line will have low crime. And welcome to New York It's a fabulous city and I'd like to live nowhere else on earth"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:38Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@OS_infinite @AllseeingM249 @CCGordon33 (But the colors by themselves mean nothing)"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:39Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Progressive Counterpoint: don't defund the police because police are essential to public safety disproportionately benefiting poor black and brown New Yorkers and the NYPD budget is but 5% of the city budget and doesn't have a lot of fat. Instead of defund the police lets call it police budget austerity. Ok @NYCMayor You can fairly and truthfully blame it on Hochul. The governor refuses to raise taxes on the wealthy so I have no choice but to find places like the police budget to make cuts. Instead of defund the police lets call it police budget austerity. Ok @NYCMayor You can fairly and"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:55Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I was stuck in Cairo once because of a sandstorm. It was surreal. You need to touch grass I literally live in the desert. https://t.co/ZPsxOTSIFu You need to touch grass I literally live in the desert. https://t.co/ZPsxOTSIFu"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:45Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I kind of imagine a black kid from Mississippi or Chicago would have been like WTF Can you imagine being a kid in the early 60s and listening to The Rolling Stones for the first time https://t.co/zjgsrViKUH Can you imagine being a kid in the early 60s and listening to The Rolling Stones for the first time https://t.co/zjgsrViKUH"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:17Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm not even going to write anything clever. It's just maddening that legal weed rollout went so wrong. In part because its main focus was reparations & equity. And it failed even at that. In part because they were afraid of policing. And illegal stores have 85% of the business"
X Link 2025-02-27T16:22Z 16.4K followers, 324.6K engagements
"Who needs to support a free press when the administration haa a Dept of Community Engagement to tell them what they want to hear. Most modern NYC Mayors remarkably transparent. Koch Dinkins Giuliani often Bloomberg: They had daily press conferences open to all comers. De Blasio began to trim that Eric Adams too but this from Mamdani is the worst yet with "invited press" Most modern NYC Mayors remarkably transparent. Koch Dinkins Giuliani often Bloomberg: They had daily press conferences open to all comers. De Blasio began to trim that Eric Adams too but this from Mamdani is the worst yet with"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:25Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@catedunlap Cookers and bakers are two different breeds. And I respect the bakers. But what do you make of this Yesterday I learned my basic T measure is 20% off (10 Tablespoons pictured)"
X Link 2026-02-15T00:33Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"I've said this before but rule of law is vitaly important. It is not liberal or conservative. For [----] years rule of law has been the North Star of civilization. Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it." https://t.co/mFvq5kZieI Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not"
X Link 2026-01-23T04:07Z 16.4K followers, 16.2K engagements
"I love America because it's the only country in the world where people "driven to crimes of poverty and desperation" such as assault and robbery drive away in a fancy car. Fulton Market (West Loop) today. Broad daylight This area needs more police presence https://t.co/LQWla1J3hJ Fulton Market (West Loop) today. Broad daylight This area needs more police presence https://t.co/LQWla1J3hJ"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:30Z 16.4K followers, 607.3K engagements
"As a Chicago-born New Yorker I find Chicago robbery fascinating cause it often is people in cars driving around looking for victims walking to the bus stop. In NYC if I get mugged it's probably from guys running away or making their getaway on a citibike"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:35Z 16.4K followers, 20.8K engagements
"Moreso especially from the more privileges savior mentality defense attorney's think their clients criminals represent "the community." Ironically it's the same problem cops have just reaching a different conclusion. Meanwhile my students from the Bronx just hate crooks. Most public defenders simply like crime and criminals Most public defenders simply like crime and criminals"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:40Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
""arbitrary arrest of patients." So can we now say Israel's war after Oct [--] however initially justified failed. All that bombing and killing and nothing changed (Granted the hostages have been released which is something) Finally after over two years Doctors Without Borders acknowledges that Hamas has been using Nasser Hospital as a terror base. But shame on them for not admitting this during the preceding two years when we were all documenting the proof in real time https://t.co/nxUhqgjN3a Finally after over two years Doctors Without Borders acknowledges that Hamas has been using Nasser"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:54Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@nicolegelinas Not clearing homeless camps could be real disaster. The funny thing it they don't really mean it. I guarentee homeless camps in Central Park or in front of the mayor's residence will be removed. They'll only permit it in "other people's" neighborhoods. Makes them feel good"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:35Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@AbbyNormalSF It really is weird how NYC thinks it is so unique we can't learn from literally every other city that did this"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:45Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@nicolegelinas If we decide to permit illegal homeless encampments by all means let the encampments be in Central Park. RVs can camp on the road. Individuals who "choose" to not to go to available shelters have a whole beautiful natural landscape away from NIMBYs. There are public bathrooms"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:52Z 16.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Well maybe. IDK. But never in a better color In the last [--] years has America made a worse car than the Ford Pinto https://t.co/CWlcZwkjrK In the last [--] years has America made a worse car than the Ford Pinto https://t.co/CWlcZwkjrK"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:56Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The problem at the fringe of homelessness is that some people want to live on the street. (Others are in no mental state to make that decision.) It's not many as a % of homeless but it's not zero. The question of "should we let them" is purely political. And no we shouldn't"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:02Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@jeepmonkeyredux Central Park is just overloaded with mice and rats"
X Link 2026-02-15T00:11Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"There are [--] million stories in New York City. [---] million households. And the median household income is $80483. That means [-------] households in NYC make less than $80483. They live. They love. They celebrate. They raise good kids. They pinch pennies. They abide. @nicolegelinas 👑 https://t.co/b7i46NSbQY @nicolegelinas 👑 https://t.co/b7i46NSbQY"
X Link 2026-02-15T00:40Z 16.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@Langerhans_isle I'd take it into account through. Especially if the conviction is for nothing more than attempted assault"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:53Z 16.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@VitalCityNYC But always double check official press releases. I mean with two months more data aggravated assaults are down 4%. Better down than up. But not the 17% they tout. I wonder if it was true when they claimed it I will check"
X Link 2025-09-27T17:35Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@VitalCityNYC [----] aggravated assaults in first [--] months [----]. [----] first [--] months [----]. So er I don't want to say they're "lying" but I don't know where they're getting "down 18%." I'm getting these numbers from them: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/portlandpolicebureau/viz/MonthlyReportedCrimeStatistics/MonthlyStatistics https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/portlandpolicebureau/viz/MonthlyReportedCrimeStatistics/MonthlyStatistics"
X Link 2025-09-27T17:43Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@grok @ouhbick That's hilarious. Keep trying"
X Link 2025-09-27T23:15Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@G_Padraic @billyez2 @ASFleischman There is no question cops were murdered. There's no doubt she was there at the murder scene (which is what she was convicted of). The question if whether she was the first to shoot Who knows for sure but her I wasn't there. I suspect she did shoot. She sure was not a peacenik"
X Link 2025-09-28T18:07Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@G_Padraic @billyez2 @ASFleischman She was convicted of being "in concert". So while the details are interesting they're irrelevant to her legal conviction. She doing wrong with a group when cops were murdered. There might be more. But that's the guilt"
X Link 2025-09-28T18:14Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@G_Padraic @billyez2 @ASFleischman I do believe she personally shot at and killed the cops. But I also know I have no way of knowing that as I wasn't there. And I know that isn't needed then or now for such a conviction"
X Link 2025-09-28T18:34Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@Chris_arnade A few years back (it has gotten better since them) Blacks Portlanders had the highest murder rate in the nation. https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2021/08/11/black-portlanders-are-more-likely-to-be-murdered-than-their-peers-in-cities-better-known-for-crime/ https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2021/08/11/black-portlanders-are-more-likely-to-be-murdered-than-their-peers-in-cities-better-known-for-crime/"
X Link 2025-09-28T19:28Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@G_Padraic @uther_bendragon @billyez2 @ASFleischman It wouldn't have mattered. Stay focused: She was present with the bad guys during a murder. "Acting in concert." Then and now that includes murder in New Jersey. Thus she was guilty. N.J.S.A. 2C:2-6 You generally get a lighter sentence than if you pulled the trigger"
X Link 2025-09-28T19:37Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@G_Padraic @uther_bendragon @billyez2 @ASFleischman Not under New Jersey law it's not"
X Link 2025-09-28T19:50Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"He could have said all this after saying the words: "Hamas is bad." He could have distinguished between Hamas and Palestinian people. He could have then gone on about about universality and Netanyahu. Remember DSA response to Oct [--] on Oct [--] was "Free Palestine ask Zohran how." If you can't condemn Hamas you ARE Hamas. Reporter asked him a simple question. Took him two minutes to say anything and everything except the simple words "I condemn Hamas." It was so easy. But he can't. Ask yourself why. https://t.co/Cqp3jOydvu If you can't condemn Hamas you ARE Hamas. Reporter asked him a simple"
X Link 2025-09-29T15:03Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@RocCityBuilt It did get better"
X Link 2025-09-29T15:38Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@RocCityBuilt But indeed so much of the change was about "boring" behind-the-scenes stuff. Like how to improve arrest processing. It was actually a bit of challenge for me as writer / editor to try and make that interesting. But it's important. And collaboration with other agencies was key"
X Link 2025-09-29T15:43Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"7 weeks of data on each side of National Guard deployment on Aug [--] [----]. Reported violent gun crime in DC is down 44%. Homicides are down [--] to [--]. (Last year [----] same time periods there were [--] and [--] homicides and many more gun crimes.)"
X Link 2025-09-29T21:23Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@glastris Now [--] weeks of data on reported "violent crime with a gun." Guess which week the National Guard was announced Like it really is that easy to cut violent crime 40%. We could cut it more (and cheaper) if we did it constitutionally and smartly with police. But we choose not to"
X Link 2025-09-30T01:08Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Big indeed. Finally. In the year of our Lord 2025: "For the first time the FBI is telling agencies to note whether a crime victim received a gunshot wound during the crime." This is big news and a very welcome development. Kudos Jeff and Jacob for pointing it out. https://t.co/yP5mRAe5IG This is big news and a very welcome development. Kudos Jeff and Jacob for pointing it out. https://t.co/yP5mRAe5IG"
X Link 2025-09-30T15:06Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@Tpsmyth01 @Jasm53865 @NickyFrank30 That's the issue. We won't do that here"
X Link 2025-09-30T16:45Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@RocCityBuilt Did you Jack Maple "Maples" on purpose Because that is a slight running joke in the book that city cops always called him "Maples.""
X Link 2025-09-30T17:44Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@RocCityBuilt Actually I guess I cut that from the book. And changed any Maples to Maple for consistency. But it was a small running theme at one point Somebody observed that Transit Cops called him Maple and City Cops said Maples. But I wasn't consistent. Or often"
X Link 2025-09-30T18:05Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@Tpsmyth01 @corrientecanta I don't know the UK system. I'll defend the Dutch system. Works well for all involved"
X Link 2025-09-30T18:07Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@StefanoBloch Meth remains the only drug I have had almost no experience with at any level. I don't mind that at all"
X Link 2025-09-30T21:24Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"The CCRB is not designed to be even handed or fair to police. Police experience prohibits one from serving. It is grand jury and prosecutor together but with no legal standard. It is supposed to have a check on its decisions. Just like the courts require a defense attorney. Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to strip the NYPD commissioners power to discipline cops giving the final say to the citys civilian police oversight board. https://t.co/cpOmxBBdRm Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to strip the NYPD commissioners power to discipline cops giving the final say to the citys"
X Link 2025-10-01T16:11Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@jeff_soloway It's like having a medical review board and prohibiting doctors. Now maybe that's OK if doctors get the final say. But why not have a system with qualified people from the start And then give them "tooth.""
X Link 2025-10-01T16:58Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@jeff_soloway Right now the CCRB has too much power in bringing cases (ie: without a civilian complaint) and no actual power to punish. So nobody likes it. But if the CCRB were to have real final authority then it needs to be redone with qualified people and due process protection"
X Link 2025-10-01T16:59Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@bfurnas I think about my running water a lot. And when I do I sing a silent song of praise to civilization and the foresight of great New Yorkers of yore"
X Link 2025-10-01T17:38Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Why does the left so casually celebrate cop killers Does this not normalize political violence I mean the BLA cop killers were overtly politically violent. And cop killing should more defining than acupuncturist. A deep dive by The Moynihan Report: https://www.youtube.com/live/4_VFzl2SRbwsi=LWz8j29BEvgZvMEx&t=257 https://www.youtube.com/live/4_VFzl2SRbwsi=LWz8j29BEvgZvMEx&t=257"
X Link 2025-10-01T18:40Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@moultano With excellent landscaping"
X Link 2025-10-01T19:03Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"I'll admit I was wrong. Clearly it failed. (Though I don't know if it would have made any difference politically.) I'm just thinking about all those people who in [----] said it was essential to impeach Trump even if he didn't get convicted to show "future presidents" that lawless behavior will not be tolerated. And six years later here we are. Have any of them ever admitted they were wrong I'm just thinking about all those people who in [----] said it was essential to impeach Trump even if he didn't get convicted to show "future presidents" that lawless behavior will not be tolerated. And six"
X Link 2025-10-01T21:37Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"While I'm at it I was also wrong about my support for Biden's border policies. (I'd still argue the point in the abstract on a moral level. but) clearly it failed. A political disaster on every level. For immigrants and for who is in the White House"
X Link 2025-10-01T21:43Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@JeffreyCamp @RocCityBuilt Excellent. Thank you. Let me know what you think. Dan I own you $1"
X Link 2025-10-02T21:57Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@CaralhoPhilly Cubs. So I raised by my grandfather. I even worked a long hot summer as a poorly paid usher in Wrigley Field. And then I generally kind of root for the Orioles Red Sox and Mets in that order"
X Link 2025-10-03T00:25Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@mindyisser I don't think he is a terrible person. He certainly cares about the people of this city tremendously. I just think he is very mistaken about many of his beliefs. And since I disagree with him on those beliefs I won't vote for him. But he's a not a terrible person"
X Link 2025-10-03T03:30Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@bikesalsa @HistoryBoomer same"
X Link 2025-10-03T03:36Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@wil_da_beast630 Arguable "Thou Shall Not Kill" would qualify as a moral argument. But I am not a practicing Christian"
X Link 2025-10-03T05:20Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@atlanticesque Did Cuomo ever claim the Central Park [--] were innocent"
X Link 2025-10-03T05:26Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@RabbiRabbz @wil_da_beast630 Does the original Hebrew not define execution as murder"
X Link 2025-10-03T05:28Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@Langerhans_isle @atlanticesque I doubt he ever claimed it. But I don't know. Nobody except fools claims they were "innocent" of criminal conduct. Their convictions were "vacated" because of well an "unconstitutional plea" https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-moves-to-vacate-steven-lopezs-conviction-in-central-park-jogger-case/ https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-moves-to-vacate-steven-lopezs-conviction-in-central-park-jogger-case/"
X Link 2025-10-03T05:32Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@IndieGameLawyer Every man has to have a code"
X Link 2025-10-03T06:06Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@RocCityBuilt @JeffreyCamp Artie Storch live and in the flesh (Virtually) https://youtu.be/OGWzQAgqS6Isi=wNquS7RfYyLlYBXM https://youtu.be/OGWzQAgqS6Isi=wNquS7RfYyLlYBXM"
X Link 2025-10-03T17:30Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@Chris_arnade P.J. O'Rourke called Korea / Koreans: "The Irish of the Orient""
X Link 2025-10-04T01:20Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"This is a fabulously powerful (and kinda no-brainer) order written by a Trump appointed judge. 1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland. https://t.co/3Hn5Kz3fCH 1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland. https://t.co/3Hn5Kz3fCH"
X Link 2025-10-05T04:16Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Why I only really trust stats on shootings and murders. Everything else is fungible. That said. as long as the reclassification is constant over time the data can still be statistically valid. But that's a big if. @AlexThomp @tedfrank This isnt just DC. Every precinct either does it or wants to. In urban areas Its not rare its routine. Politics seep into everything and when you mix that with human nature you get law enforcement brass cooking the books. You cant just trust the stats. You want the @AlexThomp @tedfrank This isnt just DC. Every precinct either does it or wants to. In urban areas"
X Link 2025-10-05T17:56Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@AbbyNormalSF @soblackandblue Electing Chesa Boudin to be a criminal prosecutor because might be the must predictably bad and hence stupid thing San Francisco voters have ever done. NYC voters can't recall the mayor"
X Link 2025-10-05T22:06Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"A non-criminal administrative warrant (presumably). Masked anonymous agents. Poor yactics. Unclear due process. Habeas Corpus issues. I don't see how this can end in anything but disaster"
X Link 2025-10-05T22:27Z 15.8K followers, 42.7K engagements
"@mattyglesias Sidestepping your question (because IDK) it's worth repeating they are federal law enforcement officers. They are not police. Any "police powers" they have is granted by and at the discretion of each state. I think this is an important distinction to maintain in these times"
X Link 2025-10-05T22:43Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@jws201812 @mattyglesias People murder cops too. Police still wear uniforms"
X Link 2025-10-05T22:46Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@CaralhoPhilly @johnwcbragg @mattyglesias No. But they are sworn law enforcement. It's partly a semantic distinction. But it's one rooted in the Constitution (10th Amendment). And it matters. Feds have enforcement powers. They do not have police power. (Unless states grant them.)"
X Link 2025-10-06T00:39Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@CaralhoPhilly @johnwcbragg @mattyglesias No. Federal supremacy. But they don't have to actively cooperate. Many states would need to redefine their cooperation with federal law enforcement (which I assume falls to the state's legislature.)"
X Link 2025-10-06T00:47Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@Chz_Burger That's the moment I literally LOLd"
X Link 2025-10-06T21:33Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
""the movement got trump elected and demobilized". No not 100% true. But also not 100% false. Even I was shocked at the level of outrage in Europe. And the U.S. left was pretty silent. Without Biden they have nothing to rally around to oppose. The entire left identity has been opposition to democrats Even I was shocked at the level of outrage in Europe. And the U.S. left was pretty silent. Without Biden they have nothing to rally around to oppose. The entire left identity has been opposition to democrats"
X Link 2025-10-06T22:32Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@ChaimKatz7 My most recent block on Bluesky was a dude who insulted me when I said that as a Democrat I don't feel obliged to vote for Mamdani. I called DSA a political party (instead of a "membership organization") usurping the Democrat party line in NYC. Meanwhile the actual DSA:"
X Link 2025-10-06T22:55Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@ChaimKatz7 I'm not certain but I don't think so. W. F. P. has a party line on the ballot and (some) Democrats run on that line. It gets some progressive anti-dem votes. DSA wins Democratic elections in low turnout primaries"
X Link 2025-10-07T00:25Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"I read tweet like this and I tune out. I assume it's a misinterpretation of the truth. The NYC City council is not MAGA obviously. Who are these dumbfucks And why are the so unable to want to win potential allies like me"
X Link 2025-10-07T00:44Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Just your occasional reminder that the DSA people who supported Hamas on Oct 7th [----] shouldn't be rewarded with your vote. https://t.co/oJl5Snvnzp "Sarah Silverman Rule #1 for Judging Ones Political Associates. An organization that cant take a stand condemning a right-wing terrorist group that set out to murder as many Jewish civilians including children and infants as it can lay its hands on." https://t.co/Pj8iMYjvx6 https://t.co/oJl5Snvnzp "Sarah Silverman Rule #1 for Judging Ones Political Associates. An organization that cant take a stand condemning a right-wing terrorist group that set"
X Link 2025-10-07T04:24Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I've taken enough moon pictures to know they never really work but the moon was rising over Central Park and it was really beautiful you'll just have to trust me"
X Link 2025-10-07T04:47Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Their never-ending energy actually is impressive"
X Link 2025-10-07T21:08Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@bowelsinspector Imagine if they said "we're going to take today off to join our Jewish allies in mourning the victims of Oct [--]. We'll be back tomorrow" That they do not makes me think they really do support terrorists (Hamas) and terrorism"
X Link 2025-10-07T21:58Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@bowelsinspector The ANC had Nelson Mendela. I can support a cause that also has bad followers. But not when the bad followers are the cause"
X Link 2025-10-07T22:06Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@dilanesper I don't know. I'll go out of my to experience Grand Central Terminal. Even if Penn Station is more functional. I mean our trains suck. A nice station makes up for a bit"
X Link 2025-10-08T15:54Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@acher_2 I do not know"
X Link 2025-10-08T16:45Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I thought this was a joke. I refuse to believe Trump is permitting any country much less Qatar to build a facility at a U.S. military base. And yet. Meanwhile in days gone past Obama wore a tan suit and was accused a giving a "terrorist fist bump." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-qatar-air-force-facility-us-base-idaho/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-qatar-air-force-facility-us-base-idaho/"
X Link 2025-10-10T17:40Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@EdHerdman DSA does not want police on transit. Unless we have a cop on every bus we need the driver as some sort of front line to protect riders"
X Link 2025-10-11T18:16Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Yes. But. But if i could hop on and off the bus or subway without a financial penalty (you know like people can do in a car on the way home from work) I would indeed stop and spend more money along the way. It is in nobody's interest for me not to do this. The funniest part of this article is the suggestion that folks who struggled to pay a $2.90 bus fee are now meaningfully contributing to the economy of the most expensive city in the world. https://t.co/KDVsblm3zY The funniest part of this article is the suggestion that folks who struggled to pay a $2.90 bus fee are now meaningfully"
X Link 2025-10-12T01:09Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"If you hang Warhol's Mao print by your piano does that mean you are a Warhol fan or a Mao fan Or is it just ironic. IDK. But I bet they're voting for Mamdani"
X Link 2025-10-12T03:06Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"If you missed the Cubs vs Brewers game tonight this is all you need to know. Here are all the details:"
X Link 2025-10-12T03:56Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@cryptodavidw @ms_bob_dobalina @taylorgrayson Who can know Why should I care Tons of reasons both valid and not. We don't need to answer that to control their violent behavior. And we can't change the past"
X Link 2025-10-12T14:51Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@austinahlman How does safety increase"
X Link 2025-10-12T18:41Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@austinahlman [--] on [--] bus operators in Kansas City thought things deterierated after free fares were introduced"
X Link 2025-10-12T18:49Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Crabs My only point is "OMG THIS WAS NOT FUCKING BALTIMORE." Yet another Dine and dash at a Crab Restaurant. This time at Bag O' Crab in Portland Oregon. 🦀 Why do Most Dine & dashes happen at Crab establishments 🤷♀ https://t.co/9SYf3aJFa6 Yet another Dine and dash at a Crab Restaurant. This time at Bag O' Crab in Portland Oregon. 🦀 Why do Most Dine & dashes happen at Crab establishments 🤷♀ https://t.co/9SYf3aJFa6"
X Link 2025-10-13T04:14Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"So can we say the war and killing that was to destroy Hamas failed"
X Link 2025-10-13T16:23Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@MeganKMcG That's crazy I did not. I would write 8-6-2-2 the last part being my way of recording a put out. Like I write grounders to first as 3-3 which is not standard. And I'd draw lines with x to the bases of the runners. I might write 8-6-2-2(3b) to indicate the base Crazy. Thx"
X Link 2025-10-14T04:52Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@MeganKMcG (Had Contreras thrown to third it would be the first time I'd have scored an 8-6-2-5 double play) A flaw in my scoring is 8-6-2-2(3b) doesn't make clear if the ball was caught. (Though the line-x for base runners would.) I don't do FO8 because it's (almost) always redundant"
X Link 2025-10-14T05:01Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@Tpsmyth01 @NickyFrank30 @nolesfan2011 @MattBoxer94 @charmcitycop @avrilbradley23 I an not certain what my role in this discussion is supposed to be I am certainly not on Team Trump"
X Link 2025-10-14T22:37Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@Tpsmyth01 @NickyFrank30 @nolesfan2011 @MattBoxer94 @charmcitycop @avrilbradley23 Ironically "Murder is up" in Boston. But last year was record low (and a bit lucky too). Boston may have problems but high crime (by US standards) isn't one of them"
X Link 2025-10-14T22:54Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@enforcelawsNYC Diagonal streets cause traffic jams because the stop lights at intersections are only green 1/3 of the time at 6-way intersections instead of 1/2 of the time at 4-way intersections. You know this right If not I'm happy to explain more"
X Link 2025-10-15T00:40Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Defending Letitia James in [----] is like defending Marion Barry in [----]. Yes the "goddamn bitch" did "set Barry up" Of course the prosecution is political. Of course they're both guilty as charged. I prefer politicians who aren't crooks. When the media calls the Letitia James indictment "weak" they're hoping you won't look at the actual documents. Here's what Letitia James swore to four different entities about the SAME Norfolk Virginia property: 📋 SECOND HOME RIDER (Aug [--] 2020): "Borrower will occupy and https://t.co/Urem87kC4p When the media calls the Letitia James indictment "weak""
X Link 2025-10-15T01:01Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"You know. I write things in chats I do not want public. I make many jokes that are not in good taste. But I'm usually insulting the person I'm chatting with. None of my chats involve a dozen people. These guys are not ribbing each other. These aren't "just" jokes. A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A total fucking coward and a useless piece of shit One of the people in here he attended his wedding with me and still sold him over to the devil All over some useless YR beef And then the GOP condemned them Fuck A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A"
X Link 2025-10-15T01:57Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@WaywardRabbler @SwannMarcus89 I have never walked the streets of Bakersfield. That said murders are down (26 last year down from [--] in [----] [--] in 2014) Kern County may be a better example. IDK. I assume the city is more blue. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=A0PNW4DXwJ0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=A0PNW4DXwJ0"
X Link 2025-10-15T02:04Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@HistoryBoomer @staffcommenter Carl do I fill your life with cheer and glee"
X Link 2025-10-15T02:05Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@WaywardRabbler @SwannMarcus89 some murder numbers"
X Link 2025-10-15T02:10Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@wittmer0313 Might be a murder / homicide difference. Or more likely chat gpt is wrong"
X Link 2025-10-15T02:18Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"What does it accomplish Maybe increase voter turnout That would be good. I'm not opposed to this but there's something solipsistic about anti trump people matching in anti trump towns. All that matters is elections. Win elections. The last time we organized #NoKings protests in June we turned out over [--] million people in over [----] locations across the country This time we have OVER [----] locations and are expecting EVEN BIGGER crowds Make a plan to JOIN US this Saturday October 18th #NoKingsOct18 https://t.co/FMj0zeNZdR The last time we organized #NoKings protests in June we turned out over 5"
X Link 2025-10-15T03:16Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Good https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/mamdani-apology-nypd-00610378 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/mamdani-apology-nypd-00610378"
X Link 2025-10-16T04:40Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Personally I'd feel better if the mayor of NYC could unequivocally condemn Hamas. Doesn't seem too much to ask for. Especially in a city with one million Jewish residents. (Either that or refrain from stating any and all foreign policy positions entirely.) @LincolnRestler Lincoln you can knock on a million doors it doesnt change the fact that Zoharan refuses to condemn Hamas. Thats not a position thats siding with terrorists. New Yorkers deserve leaders who stand with victims not with killers. @LincolnRestler Lincoln you can knock on a million doors it doesnt change the fact that Zoharan"
X Link 2025-10-16T17:43Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@ZaidJilani No. He didn't. He won't say "I unequivocally condemn Hamas." Why would he I don't think he does. Surely you understand "it didn't start with Oct 7." He recently said said the Oct [--] attack was a "horrific war crime." OK so he doesn't agree with everything Hamas has done"
X Link 2025-10-17T02:56Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@MeganKMcG I do not. Was it bad base running or just bad luck I mean that was a hell of throw. And who would expect it go to to 3B. It is awkward to score. I would 1B and then put (9-5) in parens in the batters to indicate the out was made on the play but not to the batter"
X Link 2025-10-17T02:59Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@ZaidJilani Surely you too know Hamas apologists in the Free-Free-Palestine crowd. I do. (It's not exactly a radical position in that milieu. A righteous cause even if you disagree with some of the tactics. I mean it's genocide they're fighting right"
X Link 2025-10-17T03:07Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@ZaidJilani He could lie and say he unequivocally condemns Hamas. But he doesn't. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And he doesn't want to piss off his base. So he's "not running on that." He knows there's only one good political answer to the Israel Palestine question: "affordability""
X Link 2025-10-17T03:13Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@bigseb31213 @sp6runderrated I'd guess close to [--] in [--] voters"
X Link 2025-10-17T04:05Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"I would like to announce my write-in candidacy for mayor of New York City. I am: Pro policing Pro school choice Pro immigrant Pro housing Pro transit Anti Trump Quiet on foreign affairs. I will not campaign but if elected I will serve. I will not be taking questions"
X Link 2025-10-17T04:16Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@acher_2 You and I have different interpretations of unequivocal condemnation. "Oct [--] was horrible and so is Israel" is not an unequivocal condemnation of Hamas. At least in the debate yesterday he finally said Hamas should put down their arns (AKA abide by Cease Fire)"
X Link 2025-10-17T15:34Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@acher_2 I would throw all those back at you and say you have proven my point. Hamas is so much more than their Oct [--] attack"
X Link 2025-10-17T15:55Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"How can we shift-control-delete the alt-right"
X Link 2016-11-14T17:45Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@arikaokrent I always wanted to go to Jewel on Greenbay Rd for that reason For some reason my mom preferred Dominick's sigh"
X Link 2016-12-01T03:24Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements
""The way Trump acts That's no way to treat a lady" say none of my decent conservative chivalrous Trump loving friends. https://x.com/zora/status/823527286939025408 Ugh we've all been there. https://t.co/Rqh26zJLe9 https://x.com/zora/status/823527286939025408 Ugh we've all been there. https://t.co/Rqh26zJLe9"
X Link 2017-01-24T08:16Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@AyeRishPirate My father liked Le Peep. So I called it Le Puke just to be witty. Is Katy another the ever glamorous @arikaokrent clan"
X Link 2017-03-05T19:13Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Ceasefire is nice. It is even good. I hope it continues and wish them well. But it is not a violence prevention strategy. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-ceasefire-success-20180205-story.html http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-ceasefire-success-20180205-story.html"
X Link 2018-02-05T17:40Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@arikaokrent Sure. Proactive policing that (legally it must be said given what went down in Baltimore) focuses on active criminals. We know who they are. Call it focused deterrence or whatever. But you need to make life less fun and more difficult for those involved in the violence"
X Link 2018-02-05T18:16Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@arikaokrent And so people continue to get killed because it is politically a hard sell. That is where strong leadership needs to come into play"
X Link 2018-02-05T18:24Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@arikaokrent Start by measure only violent crime (reduction thereof) as a measure of success. Don't be distracted by or worse reward quantity of arrests or guns and drugs seized"
X Link 2018-02-05T18:40Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@arikaokrent That's on the PD. The political part is to defuse the next video of a messy scene when cops are doing the right thing ugly though it may be. And also to address issues of racial disparity (distinguished from racial bias)"
X Link 2018-02-05T18:44Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements
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