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nilo.bsky.social
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I thought we were trying to pivot form elderly leaders?

submitted 18 minutes ago • 1 comment

So the American prime minister has in the last 12 hours endorsed a party on the wrong side of the cordon sanitaire in aajoe ally and ordered a coercive and massively illegal personal action against the entire federal workforce (again.)

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Movie you've watched more than 6 times, gifs only

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Great graph from Brendan

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Phil Murphy is even getting cooked on Instagram for this embarrassing post. the most pathetic part is that he’s term limited and NJ’s senators are both young—Phil Murphy isn’t cynically pandering to win an election, worse, he sincerely appreciates Trump for trying to bring gridlock back to NYC

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

Down 29.6% over the past 60 days

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

I've been baffled that E Street Cinema was still open, but I'm v sad about it closing. It was the thing getting me to go downtown and spend money there!!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

We need to bankrupt these motherfuckers

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

If the Power Broker is twice as long as necessary, The Master of the Senate (which I just finished reading, nearly 20 years after PB) is perhaps 25% overwritten. Summaries. PB: Power corrupts. MoS: Huh power doesn’t always corrupt. Power, even when unscrupulously obtained, reveals the true self.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

men who dressed like this from 2008 - 2012 had preppy menswear blogs

submitted 1 day ago • 494 comments

That timeline is one when Sheldon silver goes to prison 10 years earlier for mesothelioma litigation fraud

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Nothing convinces you that with a little bit of effort and a fondness for gabbing that you too could be a successful college football coach than every word Tommy Tuberville utters.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Buddy we were told to cut every probationary employee, there was no flexibility to the order. It’s not the bureaucrats fault that it was decided to illegally fire the youngest, most motivated federal employees.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Trump: "If Putin wants, he can easily get the entire nation of Ukraine without any negotiations." The realities on the front say otherwise.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

New blog in which I try to sort out the good and the bad from the "15 min cities" and the Paris approach to urbanism. In short: cycle lanes and traffic calming are good, NIMBYism is bad. Note the professor who Paris credits as co-inventor of the concept says it's an alternative to "faster metros".

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & @wnober.bsky.social) When gov't engineers retire, projects take longer & costs (& cost overruns) go up. It’s harder to manage projects well w/ reduced staffing. Important to remember as DOGE cuts: reduced staffing can actually hurt efficiency. Paper: tinyurl.com/yvy2jt93

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

In fairness this is also the thought process of the marginal and quite possibly the media trump voter.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments