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Infrastructure finance professional wondering why Anglosphere costs are so high
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Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license

submitted 8 hours ago • 278 comments

Ben was a YIMBY way before it was cool, and if you live here, you should vote for him in June!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A good catch by @colleenonthescene.bsky.social: Apparently at least some of the emergency wire repairs/replacements now underway on the Northeast Corridor after last summer's transit disaster will upgrade some of the catenary to constant tensioning -- www.northjersey.com/story/news/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

1760: 🇫🇷25 million people 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿5.5 million 2025 🇫🇷68 million 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿56 million If France’s population growth had kept pace with England’s, there would be 250 million Frenchmen and another 320 million abroad. What happened? 🧵 www.worksinprogress.news/p/570-millio...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I obviously don't fly business, but this is where I understand the "climate change is important but I don't want to pay for it" crowd - I'm not going to avoid seeing my family despite knowing the climate impact. It sucks, and I wish carbon offsets were real.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

They're not fascists, they just think we're in a state of exception due to the pollution of the polity and citizen body by undesirable racial elements whose removal is of such paramount importance that it transcends the dictates of the law, justified by their embodiment of the Will of the People.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case. Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

A little late, but incredible scenes from NJT's midday frequencies. 5 trains per hour from Penn ACROSS ALL LINES in the middle of the day.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Stealing from X for clout, but someone bought a staggering 25% of the *entire* open interest of a semiconductor ETF (which is 20% NVDA) in a single OTM put option yesterday and today. $3.7 billion of underlying stock, 8ish delta, $23 mil of premium, so levered 15:1 betting on the NVDA embargo news.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family. I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

submitted 1 day ago • 1571 comments

He was driving city fire trucks with a suspended license for *months*?!?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

submitted 1 day ago • 597 comments

France needed to sanction and invade the US to protect Iraqi sovereignty is certainly a take from the VP…

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

Summer 2024 was a miserable time for Amtrak & NJ TRANSIT. The two entities look to avoid a 2025 repeat with a slew of improvements, because there's no time like now to start doing what you should have always been doing. My favorite part? Literally just Amtrak letting NJT in the Penn control room.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The Roads Both Taken xkcd.com/3076

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

Australia actually started it, but yes

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

NYMAG: A Warner Bros. rep “recently reached out to the Trump orbit seeking advice about how the company might advantageously interact with the White House.. The reported message was .. Don Jr. might like a hunting and fishing show on the Discovery Channel ..” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

Katie Porter's new piece on housing is the best I've seen from a California gubernatorial candidate! ✅ Making construction faster & cheaper ✅ Creating certainty in the building process ✅ Streamlining permitting "The only way out of our housing crisis is to build a whole lot more housing.” 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

“A one-armed man wrote my housing policy!” “You find this man!” “My housing policy, oh GOD,”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It is pretty wild to think of Barack Obama sitting with someone from Central America and going “well uhhhh I think it would be a good idea to uhhhh send American citizens to your secret prisons” and the media just being like oh ok that’s dope man anyways how about TARIFFS

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

*BUKELE: DEPORTED MARYLAND MAN WILL NOT RETURN TO US

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

I don't think this is correct. If you believe Europe needs to redirect resources from consumer spending to defence, you agree with the essentials of the statement below (even if you don't agree with the tiresome aesthetics of the language)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment