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"Of the 121 pedestrians killed in traffic last year, 120 were struck by a car while one person died after being hit by an electric bike" - New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/n... ). It does not make any sense for cyclists to face harsher consequences than more dangerous drivers!

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Geduldig wss such a terrible decision that congress got its act together to pass the pregnancy discrimination act which explicitly says that pregnancy discrimination counts as sex discrimination.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

this decision is horrible both morally AND on cohesive legal argument grounds. it's shitty outcome based reasoning that simply ignores reality.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

the biggest worry, that congestion would increase outside of the zone, does not appear to have happened. People are simply not driving 3/4 of the way into the city to only then have to find parking and then take transit. they'll just take transit the whole way.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

in all of the nonsense challenging congestion pricing, this may be the funniest bit (by @davecolon.bsky.social ) nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/18/d...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

this headline is complete fucking horseshit btw, this is what he actually said

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

Every time it gets really bad I am reminded that there is an option buried in the settings to mute suggested content for 30 days, and the clock has run out on the last time I triggered it. But the thing where it shows me week old posts is new and I HATE it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

One more thing about this. “The law doesn’t exist anymore so why are you bothering to explain it” is doomerism. It buys entirely into the framework that the trump regime cannot be constrained by the law and the courts, and I refuse to accept that premise.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Lander is on the hustle so hard he canvassed the ICE agents who arrested him

submitted 22 hours ago • 26 comments

There’s nothing quite like attempting to explain the current state of the law to bring out the guys who can’t be bothered to burn down a Walmart.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Based New York Governor Kathy Hochul

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just made a donation to @thecity.nyc to thank them for their coverage.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This one goes out to all the people asking me what I have against Andrew Cuomo. This has been his M.O. for literally 48 years, except that in the 1977 (losing) mayoral campaign for his father, it was homosexuality, not antisemitism, that was the target of his last-ditch demonization campaign.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

With no charges against Brad Lander, and therefore no case, I guess we will never learn more about the identities of the men who grabbed him.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 1 day ago • 521 comments

Don’t rank Cuomo!!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

hoping against hope I end up on a blocklist of "insufferable" people because I tried to explain federalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment