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daddyshark.bsky.social
Formerly @dotahype on Twitter. Love my 2 girls! Enjoyer of urbanism, welfare liberalism🧦, econ, generative AI, nature and shitposts. BA for life insurance living in Brooklyn 🇺🇸
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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 17 days ago • 46 comments

Great clarity on the left ballot question in the US here. Everyone left of the Democratic consensus has struggled with how to approach electoral success and this essay from Michael Kinnucan of the NYC DSA really lays it out starkly: jwmason.org/slackwire/po...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

NYU-Langone is cancelling appointments for gender-affirming care for young trans people, parents say. The cancellations come after Trump's order directing institutions that receive federal funding to end gender-affirming care for patients under 19. hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...

submitted 22 days ago • 34 comments

the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin

submitted 24 days ago • 193 comments

okay let's do this. 1 like = 1 book on my bookshelf and what it means to me

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

It is the job of every journalist right now to dig up stories of sympathetic victims fucked over by the public health freezes. The VA's part of it so find some war heroes getting shafted and put that shit up prominently

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

submitted 33 days ago • 505 comments

Latest from me, on this, the first day of the next four years. We have to resist, now more than ever. @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, Mounk, and Hamid are all completely wrong in their reading of history and their prescription for the present and near future. The stakes are too high to listen to them.

submitted 33 days ago • 14 comments

Really wanted to repost this article because it's some of the most practical posting possible here. Coastal liberals (I'm one) are everywhere here, and we're everywhere failing locally to get things built. Tell your coworkers and your counselors-- too much feedback, not enough action.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

we as democrats have failed to deliver. americans are voting with their feet against blue states. the numbers are simple: on balance, people prefer the total governance package of texas to that of california. until we fix that, we're going to keep losing. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...

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