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And he totally screwed up NY redistricting, costing Dems House seats. Clyburn, of all people, should know this.

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These should be allowed by right in every residential zone

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

why do corporations, livery, rideshare, coffee grabbers feel that it is bad to block car traffic but okay to block bike traffic? maybe if drivers started to be inconvenienced by other drivers there might be a demand for better loading zones and transit priority

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Amazon will survive tariffs. Your beloved neighborhood toy shop won't. www.oregonlive.com/retail/2025/...

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A real tell that someone doesn't understand NYC history is they think the 70s and 80s economic collapse was the product of high crime, not that high crime was the product of the city's economic collapse. The economy collapsed b/c of federal policies, not the city's or state's.

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

I understand that all that people think they need moderates in elected office to make Democrats more popular, but the "literally any moderate even a disgraced sex pest who is an irredeemably bad administrator" line feels poorly thought through

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

Andrew Cuomo doesn't live in NYC and hasn't for 30 years. He's not interested in being the mayor or creating a better city. He's going to be one of the worst mayors in this city's history. A bunch of people who should have retired from public life a decade ago are doing all they can to torture us.

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

The fear of the subway — or the performance of fear, because I think many of the people who claim to be afraid of it aren't actually — is one of the more bizarre elements of our current political discourse

submitted 20 hours ago • 18 comments

This Juneteenth, it's hard not to look at the state of our nation and feel like we're headed backwards. My social media feed reminds me, however, that the people in my circle continue to value and fight for justice. Acknowledging the progress today, continuing the work tomorrow.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Funny that he says this on the one federal holiday that exists to celebrate the end of slavery and not any of the other ones, isnt it

submitted 23 hours ago • 13 comments

Leftists complaining about USAID because “it made the global poor dependent”: you do realize you sound exactly like those MAGAs who firmly believe social support makes poor Americans into lazy bums dependent on the government?

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

A Special F You to all the smug selfish ideological a**holes who led us directly into this horrendous - much worse than anyone could’ve ever imagined except we knew exactly what would happen - outcome, which will destroy the world for everyone everywhere, including Palestine.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars. I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars. drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

interesting how the news media has a consistent habit of being ineffective at reporting anything that might suggest the regime is preparing to hurt them

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 2 days ago • 259 comments

#miraculous #miraculousladybug #mlb #ladybug #catnoir #chatnoir #renarouge

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just so everyone knows, literally at the exact same time JD Vance started trolling on here the NSC was having a meeting on Iran he's angry that he got sidelined to the kiddy table and decided to lash out genuinely pathetic stuff

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

wish we could get people to discuss @chittimarco.bsky.social’s work on bus prioritization with the same fervor as fare policy. marcochitti.substack.com/p/down-with-...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Free transit is appealing because it is easier to explain than better transit service. That's all there is to it, as far as I can tell. But better service is what really expands access to opportunity.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

No, the Iraq war was nothing like this. There was a case made in public over many months, coordination with allies, a military buildup, and strategic goals. It was not one demented lunatic arguing with himself on TV over 5 days.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

not sure I buy bruenig's argument that user fees and tax revenue are basically fungible but I would agree that fundamentally the idea transit advocates have is to get more revenue for MTA, not the same amount from different sources. an extra $700 million - $1 billion per year for MTA is massive

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 2 days ago • 440 comments

we're sleepwalking through damage that will stretch decades into the future, presided over by a clique of scheming degenerates and an aging wannabe dictator

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

One thing that's psychologically fascinating about Bluesky is in the absence of an algorithm you're quite sincerely thrown into a wild west marketplace of ideas and have to survive on, uh... merit. A lot of journalists are finding their ideas aren't popular. Rather, they are just well paid.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

I used to think public transit should be free. But price isn’t the problem, bad service is. 🚫 Infrequent 🚫 Unsafe 🚫 Inaccessible Free rides don’t fix broken systems. ✅ Make transit actually usable ✅ Make life affordable with UBI + lower housing, food, & healthcare costs

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve had a thesis for a while that the sudden increase in the cost of debt is one of the main drivers behind people believing the economy sucks, and my God:

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

I think a requirement to be in politics should believe in something, anything, but your own status and yet here we are

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I know we all know this but it’s always so important to remember that transphobes who claim to fight for women’s equality generally proceed from the belief that women are inferior to men across the board they wouldn’t treat trans women like they had cheat codes if they respected cis women’s skills!

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Unironically, I think the attention economy plus a failed education system makes voters think a functioning civilization is the government doing nothing and screeching and shitting all over the place is the government being productive. Donald is better at presidenting because he’s on TV more.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Yes, this is the cardinal sin of US urban planning: we've all but given up on even the idea of a public realm. The world outside your door is just the void you travel through. Your car as spaceship. I've gotten so many blank stares at the idea that a street should be a place in its own right.

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Another communications miss: the fiscal cliff for FY2026 is $771m, but there will still be some COVID money in next year’s budget. Without action the RTA says the budget gap will swell to $1.2B in FY2027. There are two Doomsdays: whatever ‘26 looks like, we’ll need to cut another $500m for ‘27.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Fight the urge to make a Guy inside the LLM. There's no Guy in there.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 3 days ago • 739 comments

Real Estate: Ah Fuck, They Painted The Brick

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

Notice how nobody talks about 'Christian' grooming gangs when discussing the long history of child sexual abuse in care homes and sports clubs. Funny that.

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

For those outside NYC, Brad Lander isn’t just a mayor candidate, he’s also the NYC Comptroller—the chief financial officer and auditor of the biggest city in the country.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Imagine if the headline were, "Trump refuses to show most basic decency" or "Trump continues to ratchet up tensions in wake of assassination" rather than "we hang on Trump's every word."

submitted 3 days ago • 117 comments

Our 2025 foreign policy situation is basically a toddler with a gun.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

"Analyses have also found that some 60% of Google searches are now 'zero-click,' ending without the user visiting a single link."

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

I wrote about this back in April: Places like NYC becoming unaffordable is a huge problem for Democrats nationally. If Cuomo wins the mayoral race, it's much likelier the electoral college becomes nearly unwinnable for Democrats in 2032. amandalitman.substack.com/i/160446970/...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Facts matter.

submitted 4 days ago • 673 comments

i, like many in the transit sphere, am skeptical of free bus fares and i think you should still vote for zohran mamdami

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

And that’s Christian privilege in a nutshell

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment