Ben Adler

Me on Mamdani: “As he rides an affordability-focused platform to national super-stardom, the overnight sensation reminds some political observers of another telegenic young politician, this one an Illinois state senator who skyrocketed to fame 20 years ago.”

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Oh my god Bari Weiss said her favorite Woody Allen movie is “Vicky Christina Barcelona” and that has to be her all-time worst take ever

High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost ...200 Million Building a Skyscraper [Adler, Jerry] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost ...200 Million Building a Skyscraper

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I’m also 6’3” and 239 lbs

Sign of the day…

The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.

This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Giving Us the Goldfinger "We're going to open up the doors. I'm going to see we have gold there. We want to find out, did anybody steal the gold in Fort Knox?" - Donald Trump, last week.

“The Deep State must have picked the locks

To buy transgender athletes jocks.

Subsidizing Chinese Commies,

Printing ‘Heather Has Two Mommies,’

Sending terrorists salamis

And condoms for their cocks.”

-The one and only @aboynamedjew.bsky.social jerryadler.substack.com/p/giving-us-...

Tesla replaced laid off US workers with foreign workers using H-1B visas that Musk want to increase Tesla has replaced some of its US employees who were let go as part of a big wave of layoffs...

Elon laid off 15,000 US Tesla employees in April 2024. Most are being replaced by foreign workers with H-1B visas. Now he has a cheaper workforce, can hold a visa over their heads and demand they work harder and longer hours than the original workers gave.
#ElonMusk
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Read my dad’s light verse on the news: jerryadler.substack.com

Literal oligarchy https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/us/politics/trump-elon-musk-silicon-valley.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

People don't get that Trump's DOJ can harass critics without indicting them. Launching a mere investigation would drain them of resources.

One model is how House GOP investigations have already been used against MAGA enemies. My exchange with Michael Sozen on that:

newrepublic.com/article/1889...

Partisan Differences in the Sharing of Low-Quality News Sources by U.S Political Elites How often do political elites in the U.S. share low-quality news sources? Are there differences between the parties? While past work has investigated individuals sharing low-quality news sources, t...

members of Congress share more links to low-quality news sites than the public on Facebook; Republican members share considerably more than Democrats & this gap is increasing. only Republican members get increased engagement when sharing low-quality sites
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is extremely well put. If you want a visual of what the "equal size news holes" approach does to public opinion, you can see it in these open-ended responses, collected during the 2016 election by the team behind Words that Matter (www.amazon.com/Words-that-M...)

Where is the outrage over Trump and pathetic Elise Stefanik calling the J6 criminals "hostages" when there are genuine hostages, including Americans, being held in Gaza? Serious question, not trolling.

Opinion | If you thought the stakes for 2024 were already terrifying, we have bad news A Republican in the White House would ensure that the world blows past the threshold of calamity.

With the window for combating climate change potentially closing next year, the Biden administration needs to accelerate its executive actions this year. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | If you thought the stakes for 2024 were already terrifying, we have bad news A Republican in the White House would ensure that the world blows past the threshold of calamity.

A Republican in the White House would ensure that the world blows past the threshold of climate calamity. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Football games are too long

UW has an amazing passing game

Commentary: New York is to blame for Donald Trump Both the city and state, governed largely by Democrats, set the stage so that a rich, white man could be rewarded for shamelessness, dishonesty and criminality.

one group of people who are among the most responsible for unleashing Trump on the American public have almost entirely escaped recrimination: New Yorkers. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2023...

Analysis | Trump’s deal with LIV Golf is awkward for his impeachment-happy allies Former president Donald Trump announced a deal with Saudi-backed LIV Golf that, were they to be consistent, should make his Republican friends very upset.

Analysis by Philip Bump: Former president Donald Trump announced a deal with Saudi-backed LIV Golf that, were they to be consistent, should make his Republican friends very upset.

Opinion | Why the historic COP28 climate deal comes up short Symbolic statements declaring war on fossil fuels can't be the main focus of climate activism.

The IPCC calculates that to stay below 1.5℃ of warming, global greenhouse gas emissions must drop 43% by 2030, 60% by 2035 and reach net-zero by 2050. We’re nowhere near that trajectory — and COP28 didn’t bring us all that much closer to it. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Paris is getting a whole new Metro network. And it’s huge | CNN The Grand Paris Express will add four lines, 68 stations and 200 kilometers of track to the French capital’s 120-year-old Metro system, providing vital suburban links – just not quite in time for ...

wouldn't it be cool if American cities had this kind of ambition? www.cnn.com/travel/paris...

Unemployment Seekers Can't Reach Agents as Labor Prioritizes Tech A Rochester man lost his job while his daughter went through cancer treatment. He’s struggled to communicate with the DOL for months.

"A recent federal report estimated that one in eight New York claimants who were denied unemployment insurance were actually eligible for benefits" nysfocus.com/2023/12/05/u...

I was laid off from Yahoo News today. If you're paying people for writing or editing about politics, policy, climate change, energy, housing, transportation, architecture, NYC, pizza, or anything else that can pay my mortgage, I'm at benadler1@gmail.com.

A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners A commutation for a drug smuggler named Jonathan Braun had broader implications than previously known. It puts new focus on how Donald Trump would use his clemency powers in a second term.

great read www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/u...

Land value tax would help here, no? www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

The Supreme Court’s Self-Excusing Ethics Code Under the Court’s new rules, the Justices appear not to have made any mistakes.

"The code of conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court will not prevent the kinds of ethical problems that led to its adoption, because its purpose appears to be to show that the Justices have been perfectly ethical." www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

Fight against strip club set Speaker Mike Johnson on his moral crusade The failed effort to block the “sexually oriented business” made Johnson out as a martyr and marked his decisive move into the culture wars.

interesting read on how Mike Johnson got into politics www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term Advisers have also discussed deploying the military to quell potential unrest on Inauguration Day. Critics have called the ideas under consideration dangerous and unconstitutional.

Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute.

People Are Worrying About the Wrong Downtowns Outside the “superstar” coastal markets, many central business districts were in danger even before the pandemic.

I have been saying this www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

'Slap On the Wrist': Cop Loses 15 Vacation Days, $500 For Harassing 311 Complainant - Streetsblog Ne... NYPD Officer John Madera must pay $500 and forfeit 15 days vacation for threatening a man who reported illegal parking outside his precinct.

Confirming months of Streetsblog reporting, the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board punishes (lightly!) a cop from a Downtown Brooklyn NYPD precinct who misused confidential information to harass a resident who reported illegally parked cars to 311: nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/10/24/s...