::Cookie Monster Voice:: One of These Things (Is Not Like the Other Things)

EXCLUSIVE! MUST CREDIT CBS: EMPEROR FULLY DRESSED

A perk of living in a city covered by a worker-owned outfit like @hellgatenyc.com is that you benefit from the reporting done by someone doggedly pursuing an arcane but super important story about how certain senior members of the democratic party machine operate.

Uber is astroturfing its "lets hurt victims of our business" proposal so strenuously that a dead man came back from the dead to write an email in support of it. It'd be funny were our Governor not a willing participant in this farce of a policy proposal. empire.streetsblog.org/fake-emails-...

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

A gubernatorial election that offers only "Bruce Blakeman, ICE enthusiast" and Kathy Hochul (see below) is already a failure for NYers. No one is going to be happy with the outcome, not least the incarcerated individuals languishing in unlawful conditions in our state prisons under Kathy's watch.

An interesting (and depressing) dynamic apparently driving some road deaths in the U.S.: Poor folks are being forced from costly cities (where there is non-car infrastructure) to the burbs (where it's assumed you have a car). Another reason for urban YIMBYism.

Film cops. Because if you don't, incidents like this get recorded only as "the perp resisted arrest" (the misidentified random victim of casual NYPD violence was issued a desk appearance ticket). pix11.com/news/local-n...

I'm loving this new attitude from DOT: "Everytime NIMBYs sue to stop a bike lane, the bike lane gets a mile longer."* *Not a direct quote

Or in the estimation of the (hopelessly corrupt) DOJ, "totally fine, no worries."

Nope!

Be like AOC: If you're going to wear headphones on the bike, leave one out.

Many such cases.

Joint and several liability allows victims of traffic violence to collect damages from any party who hurt them, even if (insolvent) others were found to be more at fault. This correctly places the risk of insolvency on the wrongdoers, not the victim. Uber, Hochul, and Lieber want to change that.

"We gave detailed information to our definitely not-employee before they met with the president under our brand name" does kinda highlight how fake the 'contractor' exemptions are for these companies doesn't it?

This is *fantastic* news.

YES, A FAILED IMPEACHMENT MEANS REPUBLICANS APPROVE OF TRUMP'S CONDUCT. THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON TO DO IT

Guys if melania were implicated in an international conspiracy of systematic sexual assault and pedophilia ring I’m pretty sure brett ratner would have mentioned it in the documentary

I've completely lost track of what I'm supposed to be distracted from.

Any number of Americans are willing to make clumsy bad-faith arguments in an effort to unperson and unstate millions of human beings. Some of those Americans are throne-sniffing prominence-chasing law professors. Decent people should treat them with contempt. That’s MY free speech culture.

Don't tell my clients but in addition to believing that cars generally don't belong in dense urban areas, free public parking is an unjustified subsidy, and that bike infrastructure should be dramatically expanded, I am a Car Nerd. Life is complicated.

Yes but can we talk about how the chairman of Toyota (formerly the CEO) Akio Toyoda is actually an avid racecar driver and in fact helped test drive the GR Yaris (IYKYK).

Quick question if you're no longer the AG, who preps the "congressman burn book" in anticipation of your testimony concerning your willing participation in the cover up of your boss' involvement with a serial child rapist? Does she have to write it herself?

Usha Vance Catches Husband Measuring Her Skull Again

And here's what the mayor's walk would've looked like if voters had elected Andrew Cuomo

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

WHAT IS THE DEAL?? WHAT WOULD THE DEAL BE?? I feel like I'm going insane every time I read one of these. WHY WOULD IRAN MAKE A DEAL WITH THE GUYS WHO MURDERED THE LAST PEOPLE WHO NEGOTIATED WITH THEM???

It is the NYPD's position that if they did not personally witness a vehicular crime, they cannot do anything about it. It's a refrain I hear clients repeat to me often. But it begs the question as to how the NYPD solves other crimes they did not personally witness.

Just a reminder that our Governor's primary ally in the effort to cut off benefits to certain victims of traffic violence is a bad corporate citizen who would benefit financially from accomplishing its goal.

Took me a minute to get a gift link to this article, but now that I've read it I have some thoughts on its insane framing. First, the idea that Uber and a trade association are on equal footing is pure fiction. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/n...

Awful. The good news is that the hit and run driver already seems to be on the radar of NYPD Collision Investigation Squad. www.silive.com/news/2026/04...

And I’m going to sound like a bit of a broken record on this as well, but the refusal of Republicans in Congress to act to stop this usurpation of our constitutional order makes them just as responsible for this as Trump.

Sorry, which side is supposed to be religious zealots here, someone remind me.

There isn't a pit deep enough.

Why? Because she either thinks it's free money, or believes that with the help of corporate sponsor Uber, she can at least convince low-information voters that it's free money. But it isn't: The reduced premiums would be funded by the crash victims who no longer receive $$ for their injuries.

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

Elon Musk was a huckster selling an old technology but ineptly, and if you couldn't see through it immediately, like every transit advocate in the nation could, you don't deserve to serve the public. This is a seriously disqualifying answer from Rahm. bsky.app/profile/dave...

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Me, in @bloomberg.com: "To Trump and his congressional allies, DC’s streets are not the lifeblood of a metropolis that’s home to more people than the states of Wyoming or Vermont. They’re either an event staging ground, or a collection of roadways to be traversed, by car, as quickly as possible."

50/50 he interrupts the proceedings. A bored child tends not to sit quietly while adults attempt to conduct business.

She is just completely making this up. No such chair exists.

Over and over the message this administration sends to federal employees is "Break the law, and so long as you're doing it to support our political causes, we'll let it slide." It is a recipe for corruption and impunity. Discipline has to mean something.

The reporting of the @nytimes.com continues to be characterized by nauseating cowardice about calling out overt bigotry, leading to frankly dishonest and misleading coverage of national politics.

As ever, these folks committed the crime of being non white in public.

"The support for Trump’s position ... developed only after he issued his executive order, says Evan Bernick... The 21st century law review articles Sauer cites in his brief are all from 2025. Bernick... called the recent research “entirely unconvincing.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

using graduation of US Marines as an opportunity to harvest some of their relatives for deportation

"J-pilled" is a very specific term that means "pilled on the Jewish Question" and refers exclusively to people who believe in antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish control over world affairs glossing it as "skepticism of Israeli influence" is like calling blood libel "concerns about diet"

if a leftist says he's anti-zionist because of the war crimes of a sovereign nation the times will suggest he is an anti-semite. if a conservative says that he is "j-pilled" the times will say it's about foreign policy.

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

Chuck Schumer likes to imagine how his politics play with an imaginary middle-class middle-aged couple on Long Island, but I don't think he realizes that couple is currently constructing a guillotine in their suburban backyard and stockpiling Molotov cocktails.