Reading about the resistance is good. But so is reading about how Socialist Democratic Mayor Mamdani is looking out for the people of his city.
From the New York Daily News:
"Mayor Mamdani is implementing additional measures across the city to shelter vulnerable New Yorkers amid the brutally cold temperatures this weekend.
The mercury in New York City dove to nearly zero degrees Saturday night. A wind advisory warning of winds of 20 mph to 25 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph, producing dangerously cold wind chills was in place until midnight Saturday.
Mamdani’s emergency action plan includes the opening of 64 new hotel shelter units in Queens, on top of 48 new Safe Haven “drop-in”-style beds that were opened in the Bronx on Friday for homeless people resistant to traditional-style shelters.
Sixty-five warming spaces — located at hospitals, houses of worship and schools — are active around town throughout the weekend, with warming buses also parked outside many of the hospitals and also transit hubs. The sites are listed on the city’s NYC311 site.
Two additional warming centers have been added in Far Rockaway and Washington Heights, in addition to the 10 at schools announced Friday.
“The temperature tonight will be the coldest we have seen all winter,” Mamdani said Saturday. “If you are still outside, please come inside. Being outdoors for even a brief period of time can be lethal. City government is doing everything in its power to keep vulnerable New Yorkers safe and warm during this winter weather crisis.”
“The cold is persistent, but so is this city,” Mamdani added.
Around 150 additional outreach workers are on duty to contact and help connect vulnerable New Yorkers with shelter. More than 50 school nurses have also been deployed, Mamdani said.
In the last three weeks, outreach teams have placed more than 1,300 people into shelters and involuntarily transported 29 New Yorkers to shelter.
The number of units has been increased to 33, expanding the NYC Health + Hospitals‘ mobile warming outreach initiative. The pilot “peer outreach” initiative through the city’s Department of Homeless Services is deploying former homeless New Yorkers to reach out to and build trust with other vulnerable or homeless New Yorkers who are still outside.
“Extreme Cold” warnings went into effect for New York City beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday and were expected to continue to 1 p.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather Service."
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You won't read about the Mayor's accomplishments iin The Washington Post. Their opinion page just complains that he is a socialist and other Democrats don't like him.
I suspect he doesn't care what WaPo or Democrats think. He's too busy caring for the citizens who elected him.
The photo of peaceful protestors being arrested is the perfect illustration that ICE is out of control. When there is a protest, the police should be there for two reasons, one, in case someone is injured, and two, in case the peaceful protestors get infiltrated with people who aren’t. When we had the marches in New York to protest the death of that man in Minneapolis who was choked to death by an overzealous police officer, a couple of people broke ranks from the marchers, walked over to a café nearby and smashed the plate glass windows. This is why the police must be there, not harassing peaceful protestors, but looking for infiltrators.
The patches on the line of cops in the photo identifies them as Minneapolis PD. The balaclavas are probably just protection form what was no doubt a brutal sub-zero day.
Yeah, I saw your video from the Mpls airport and remember thinking "when even a *Chicagoan* thinks it's too cold...". I spent the winter of 1983-84 in Missouri, Indiana and Illinois and do not care to ever experience a -40ºF wind chill again. I don't understand how the human body can acclimate to those conditions, but I'm told the climate is one of the factors that make Minnesotans band together like we're seeing now.
I LOVE the new photo, Qasim. So beautiful, so much character.
As time goes on and new crap rains down on us like grenades, it's disgusting to realize that the reason for ALL of this, all of it, is--that a group of people in this World are so obscenely rich that they constantly need new, more ghastly, more hideous, more arousing, more powerful games to play to make their lives worth living.
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Reading about the resistance is good. But so is reading about how Socialist Democratic Mayor Mamdani is looking out for the people of his city.
From the New York Daily News:
"Mayor Mamdani is implementing additional measures across the city to shelter vulnerable New Yorkers amid the brutally cold temperatures this weekend.
The mercury in New York City dove to nearly zero degrees Saturday night. A wind advisory warning of winds of 20 mph to 25 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph, producing dangerously cold wind chills was in place until midnight Saturday.
Mamdani’s emergency action plan includes the opening of 64 new hotel shelter units in Queens, on top of 48 new Safe Haven “drop-in”-style beds that were opened in the Bronx on Friday for homeless people resistant to traditional-style shelters.
Sixty-five warming spaces — located at hospitals, houses of worship and schools — are active around town throughout the weekend, with warming buses also parked outside many of the hospitals and also transit hubs. The sites are listed on the city’s NYC311 site.
Two additional warming centers have been added in Far Rockaway and Washington Heights, in addition to the 10 at schools announced Friday.
“The temperature tonight will be the coldest we have seen all winter,” Mamdani said Saturday. “If you are still outside, please come inside. Being outdoors for even a brief period of time can be lethal. City government is doing everything in its power to keep vulnerable New Yorkers safe and warm during this winter weather crisis.”
“The cold is persistent, but so is this city,” Mamdani added.
Around 150 additional outreach workers are on duty to contact and help connect vulnerable New Yorkers with shelter. More than 50 school nurses have also been deployed, Mamdani said.
In the last three weeks, outreach teams have placed more than 1,300 people into shelters and involuntarily transported 29 New Yorkers to shelter.
The number of units has been increased to 33, expanding the NYC Health + Hospitals‘ mobile warming outreach initiative. The pilot “peer outreach” initiative through the city’s Department of Homeless Services is deploying former homeless New Yorkers to reach out to and build trust with other vulnerable or homeless New Yorkers who are still outside.
“Extreme Cold” warnings went into effect for New York City beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday and were expected to continue to 1 p.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather Service."
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You won't read about the Mayor's accomplishments iin The Washington Post. Their opinion page just complains that he is a socialist and other Democrats don't like him.
I suspect he doesn't care what WaPo or Democrats think. He's too busy caring for the citizens who elected him.
The photo of peaceful protestors being arrested is the perfect illustration that ICE is out of control. When there is a protest, the police should be there for two reasons, one, in case someone is injured, and two, in case the peaceful protestors get infiltrated with people who aren’t. When we had the marches in New York to protest the death of that man in Minneapolis who was choked to death by an overzealous police officer, a couple of people broke ranks from the marchers, walked over to a café nearby and smashed the plate glass windows. This is why the police must be there, not harassing peaceful protestors, but looking for infiltrators.
The patches on the line of cops in the photo identifies them as Minneapolis PD. The balaclavas are probably just protection form what was no doubt a brutal sub-zero day.
It was incredibly cold. In more ways than one.
Yeah, I saw your video from the Mpls airport and remember thinking "when even a *Chicagoan* thinks it's too cold...". I spent the winter of 1983-84 in Missouri, Indiana and Illinois and do not care to ever experience a -40ºF wind chill again. I don't understand how the human body can acclimate to those conditions, but I'm told the climate is one of the factors that make Minnesotans band together like we're seeing now.
You’re exactly right. The solitary of Minnesotans is truly inspiring to see.
They're teaching us all how it's done.
I LOVE the new photo, Qasim. So beautiful, so much character.
As time goes on and new crap rains down on us like grenades, it's disgusting to realize that the reason for ALL of this, all of it, is--that a group of people in this World are so obscenely rich that they constantly need new, more ghastly, more hideous, more arousing, more powerful games to play to make their lives worth living.
Thank you! ❤️✊🏽
OK, we may need to perform an intervention, groan 😂.
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