A judge temporarily lifted the Trump administration’s order to halt construction of a massive offshore wind energy project that would power hundreds of thousands of homes — the first major setback for Trump’s campaign against the renewable energy.

Copy/paste to basically every rescission fight, which are overwhelmingly targeting projects or programs in blue cities and states. Or any green energy project that's already gone through approvals and is under construction. Or, etc. A change in administration has meant getting hung out to dry.

should i start a blog reviewing progresso soup flavors, day four of the soft foods only order

Kimmel is back on Tuesday: DISNEY: "We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."

Incredible, no notes

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The tell here is defining street capacity as a how many vehicles they can fit instead of the number of *people* they can move. Cars are the least efficient way to move people.

A pretty clear example of something the court would have had no patience for if a Democratic administration had attempted it.

Our story: usa.streetsblog.org/2025/09/22/h...

In order to enforce the newest delivery worker minimum pay laws, DCWP needs more funding. The agency's low budget, less than 1% of city total, has left it struggling to respond to worker abuse complaints.

There’s a very dark joke about outsourcing public corruption cases to AECOM in here somewhere

Sub-3hr marathon is whew

BTW, the Pentagon emailed this new policy to reporters on Friday afternoon, perhaps attempting a Friday night news dump. So I led with it in this morning's Reliable Sources – because the restrictions should not get buried. Here's the newsletter link >>> cnn.it/4pxzNsA

“Elon Musk has a history of making promises to rapidly deliver technological breakthroughs, only for them to end up taking longer than predicted or to fail to materialize.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

In which parents(!) compare kids(!) getting measles(!) to an unavoidable(!) car crash — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

“With New Plan, Hochul Fast-Tracks Housing Supply: A new program will put manufactured homes at the center of a statewide effort to make housing more affordable.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

I think @justinbrannan.bsky.social just killed the Coney Island casino bid. www.brooklynpaper.com/op-ed-coney-...

The Toronto Star’s City Report Card survey suggests six in 10 Torontonians believe that the city’s best days are in the past. Given the challenges Toronto faces right now, it’s an understandable position, but it’s wrong. My column on teenage Toronto. The future is bright if we….(pls read n share).

Ford v Ferrari is a great sick day movie

Day 3: Cheek is half chipmunk sized

"The transit funding crises now unfolding in PA, OR and IL are happening because in these states, too much taxing power is in the state instead of in the cities. The same problem bedevils the politics of urban regions, whose suburbs will never support transit the way the inner city does."

Sir, you’re not supposed to keep the money in the bag

Not to toot the book, but: Chapter 12.2 is entirely about high-level platforms (48") and freight interactions. US DOT studied this in 2010 as part of ADA work and found no conflicts. The chapter: transitcosts.com/momentum/#_12 The feds paper: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

Everyone's got rolling stock problems

Oh my god

Honestly, fewer hyperactive graphics = much more watchable!

"Corruption is sometimes described as a victimless crime, just skimming from a bottomless pool of government cash. The story of the [NYPD] under Mr. Adams should put that idea to rest" Great column on how SCOTUS's gutting of public corruption laws helped get us here www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

ugh mets

This is an incredible column, to which I can only offer an addendum: There is value in using and improving the existing urban transit infrastructure to improve suburban service and generate exurban and next-city-over ridership. Commuter railroads are where these synergies are most evidence, IMO.

"The federal government has long helped states with 80% of the cost of highway construction but only 50% of the cost of transit projects, so it’s not surprising which investments local governments choose." -- www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Kirkorov tried to work within the system, avoid commenting on the war and steer clear of politics. But in a country run by strongmen, politics has a way of finding you." -- www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/a...

“Urban areas need far more transit than rural areas do, so fighting over transit has always been a thinly coded way to fight over whether cities, and higher-density living in general, are a good thing.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Jon Miller is calling the Giants/Dodgers game, which is a treat

New Superman movie: Smartly dispenses with doing yet another Clark Kent origin story, has a good sense of humor, a journalism plot line in which they actually get documents before printing, and lets Nicholas Hoult go full ham. But it gets bogged down with trying to work in way too many characters.

Another attack on the press, and an absolutely absurd one at that.

“When asked if he would fire Mr. Siebert, Mr. Trump responded, “Yeah, I want him out.” Ms. James, he told reporters, was “very guilty of something.’”

Bone graft + implant means I’m not talking for a couple of days. I’m told many people are calling that The Brendan Carr™️. Journalism and comedy exist to make powerful people mad, by exposing outrages (journalism) and mocking excesses (comedy). Different methods, same ethos. Neither bats 1.0000

It’s liability avoidance as much as anything else. Time is money and time is risk. And Brendan Carr’s got a leverage point with affiliates via ownership rules.

“Should We Let Public Transit Die? Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For everyone posting about how the audience isn’t on Bsky as a reason to stay on Twitter, is the audience still on Twitter?

Conan O’Brien speaks out about the Jimmy Kimmel suspension:

New York tabloids do door knocks every day and the City of New York employs ~400,000 people.

A high-stakes vote on the proposed transformation of one of Brooklyn’s last remaining industrial waterfronts will take place Monday, after five previous postponements.

Dumb headline on this NYT piece but seriously good reporting in the piece. Makes the case that outrage over Jimmy Kimmel's comments - like social media outrage in general - was stoked by a small number of influential accounts and hardly organic at all www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/t...

We don't need to pile on since we've already reported so many measures of how badly the mayor is at building bike lanes, how slowly he's building bus lanes, how he decides on safety measures based on vibes, and how corruptly he is overseeing the process of making the city safer. buff.ly/UcA2IKU

I doubt this actually happens, either scenario.

Cesar, a green card holder and student at Washington, DC's Georgetown University, never used to think he needed to carry proof that he was allowed to be in the United States. But that changed last week. https://cnn.it/46rSLIf

“Trump poised to fire US attorney for resisting effort to charge NY AG Letitia James: Sources Trump officials had pushed Erik Siebert to bring criminal charges against James.” abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...