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Excited! Thrilled! Verklempt, even!

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

darkly funny that it was the ascendant right wing (not the degrowth left) that is launching the trade policies that threaten to Take Banana

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Shot: foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/23/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

When I had a kid I was able to use NYPFL to space out my leave and supplement the truly pathetic amount I got from my company (6 weeks!) but the NYS program is so haphazardly administered and you get taxed on it twice. No one with a new kid wants to do more paperwork.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

We love touching the stove don’t we folks? Sleepy Joe never touched the stove but America is back and we’re going to be touching it very strongly

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I have fantastic news for all the zoomers romanticizing early 10s millennial lifestyles. tho you won't get the cheap Ubers or the rest of the ZIRP goodies, that ship has sailed.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Not the main point, but: Why are you, a grown adult man with a prominent position in government, going by the name “Miki.” What is that doing for you

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Andrew Cuomo, in addition to being a serial sexual harasser, knowingly sent people with Covid into old folks homes, leading to a massive rate of infection and death for the elderly. Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

Also, Cuomo almost single-handedly cost Dems the House. He let the GOP gerrymander NY’s Senate to thwart progressives, pushed through an amendment to try to block future Dem maps, & chose conservative judges who blocked Dems from gerrymandering after 2020 while the GOP ruthlessly drew TX, FL, etc.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

Now this is some unambiguously funny stove touching

submitted 8 days ago • 115 comments

'americans have oppositional defiant disorder' is both the country's curse and its potential salvation

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

One reason I felt OK leaving media almost a decade ago is I saw where this was going — opinions undergo almost no scrutiny and people will accept very little money to share theirs, which makes it attractive for bosses to publish more pontificating and less reporting.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Update for those following along at home: This kicked off a vigorous discussion in the group chat about whether Cambridge, Santa Monica, and Berkeley are properly considered suburbs

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

All suburbs are bad and yadda yadda, but Silver Spring is probably a top 5 suburb of a major metro in the U.S.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Oh for fuck’s sake

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Something I fear is that “These people choose to make less $ than in private sector bc they care about what they do and want to serve the public” is not persuasive to most Americans, and that the modal response is “Yeah, we know, you guys are suckers and losers for doing that, go get a real job”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

M forced out as part of the newly elected Labour govt’s “Back to Basics, Getting Things Done” austerity program, Control revived as a zombie to run the agency again, Bond nearly comes to blows with his new direct supervisor George Smiley over whether it’s his job to follow a basic paper trail

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Ironically I missed the congestion pricing tsuris because I was driving all day

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Straightforward from here: 1. Self-proclaimed King Trump declares war on congestion pricing 2. Sends red-hats into NYC to impose his will 3. Surprisingly robust urbanist militias resist, the "15-minute-city men"

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

We can't promise we'll fix all of your problems But we promise not to become one of them Follow @waterways-project.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

He just told two and a half million people they can’t work from home any more

submitted 24 days ago • 290 comments

The giant schnauzer who just won Best in Show at Westminster, like all schnauzers, is Jewish

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

The way Politico and others have been reporting on these negotiations, built on the false premise that Trump obviously has the power to rescind FHWA approval and kill the plan by fiat, makes it very clear they are on Trump’s side

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

The first rule of water club is: Don’t talk about water club (because people who have never worked in the public sector refuse to believe it)

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

“There’s 1:47 left on the clock and you can just sit around and do nothing and no one can stop you” what kind of Mickey Mouse sport

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

While many of you are likely yelling "GO CHIEFS" or "GO EAGLES!" I'm yelling "GO TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT and affordable low-VMT neighborhoods!"

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

Reflecting all AM on Shoup Dogg — one of my favorite memories was when he assigned a blog written by a friend from my journalism days about finding HCOFP in the Occupy Wall Street library. Most academics see their job as training future academics, Shoup saw his as training future practitioners.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Shoup was a guest on the third ever episode of Adam Ruins Everything, “Adam Ruins Cars.” He was so generous with his time and so game to do a silly scene with us. RIP to a wonderful man and advocate youtu.be/skm6hp99-5A?...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments