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New York's congestion pricing toll has reduced traffic and sped up commutes. Now it's also hitting its revenue goals: $48 million raised in its first month. President Trump still wants to kill it. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/n...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

The smug confidence of people telling the world how much the Democrats suck in the face of actual fascism is getting on my damn nerves.

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

Silicon Valley looks like the suburban sprawl ringing every American city, except the crappy 70 year old tract houses all cost $2,500,000. It’s just a profound failure of governance and planning.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

The thing that’s so toxic about stuff like this is people “from the left” deciding to accept that Trump’s abuses in the present are just “how the system works” and then projecting that into the past to blame Obama and Biden for not doing the same but for good.

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

if your main reaction to USAID being destroyed is not one of or both of: It means the constitutional order is gone, and/or it will kill a shitload of people, you are either a stupid person or a evil person and people should stop pretending this is not the case

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

As we all know, we can easily make up something like hundreds of millions of dollars in funding withheld from medical research thru ~mutual aid~

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

This is literally just a more guilt-ridden version of kindness.

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

to put it in really dorky terms a lot of arguments online appear to really boil down to "resolved; everything is pointless and doomed forever" and the aff side is represented by a person who has untreated clinical depression but a shitload of red bull

submitted 407 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 407 days ago • 3 comments

White leftists stop acting like Black Americans have the same relationship with America and Americana as they do challenge.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

The halftime show was a declarative signal that whatever these goons steal, they’ll never have American culture, which is both the most potent expression of American power and the single thing conservatives are desperate for the most. I know they’re frothing at the mouth.

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

important to support public transit

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck the Chiefs

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

We are dancing on the septa.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

They're dancing on the septa

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

submitted 18 days ago • 254 comments

It is 2011. LGBT rights are not secure. I believe in the power of activism to change the politics of this country. I am very into Lady Gaga It is 2025. LGBT rights are not secure. I believe in the power of activism to change the politics of this country. I am very into Lady Gaga

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

The other, related version of this that I see all the time is "If you ignore the base (us lefties) you'll lose the election (because we won't vote for you)" vs "We lefties cannot have cost her the election, there are only like 100 of us total"

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

I'm really happy that even after winning power these people will stay miserable in a hell of their own making.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

An answer to the question circulating this week about whether to use US flags at protests

submitted 18 days ago • 35 comments

If you’re in line to sack Patrick Mahomes, STAY IN LINE

submitted 18 days ago • 69 comments

Checking in to say Go Birds, America's Football Team and yours has prevailed

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits. Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13% Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends) Transit Crime: 🔻36% Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44% Trip Times: 🔻10-30%

submitted 23 days ago • 46 comments

Green: I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done.

submitted 23 days ago • 379 comments

A million people a year globally, minimum, are going to die without USAID. I exist because of my parents and the the US government. That’s the reason you exist too. Fuck off with your pathetic mutual aid fantasies. You aren’t going to help anyone out there.

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments