Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

This is fantastic news, a triumph of medicine! And the overall cervical cancer rate in Oz is dropping, too, almost certainly due to HPV vaccinations. And exactly the sort of progress RFK Jr. is trying to kill. Along with killing our citizens.

90-yr-old Jane Jenkins’ legs wouldn’t allow her to march to Homan’s house, but she arranged to watch the action from the front of a friend’s home. Jenkins “literally clung to a lamppost.” “I needed to be here,” she said. “I wanted to be here. We needed to be here.” www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

"While the biggest and most influential [U.S.] news orgs are doing great reporting ... their politics and gov't coverage often feels like biz as usual. "Journalism should be communicating the still-raging five-alarm fire that’s burning up our nation’s purpose and history." -- @sulliview.bsky.social

By this standard which nobody actually adheres to Jews would be precluded from identifying as Zionist because of what Zionism means to every Palestinian on the planet. Is this standard reciprocal or do are there competing claims on the basis of standpoint which need to be independently interrogated?

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Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow chicagoshovels.org

Shameful.

4 GOP members actually thought this was bad enough to vote no which would have tanked the bill, except 3 Democrats, including Pelosi's buddy Henry Cuellar voted for it, allowing it to pass

Is the MTA making merch with the F M Swap icon cause they should be

It's very important we all go back to Twitter, a website as popular with young people as chlamydia.

online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

YUP: “Whether intentionally or ignorantly, ADL is providing cover to people who intend great harm to our nation."

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Do not do this.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

WaPo Page One: @washingtonpost.com

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

We have a law like this in Colorado and it makes no difference.

1) This post is sad as shit 2) The entire point is she has to do it every time because I'd bet money if she didn't, he'd let them pile up but in his mind the clock resets every time the sink is clean and he washes all prior instances away 3) Is Wayne Yglesias's alt because he says this shit too lol

See for example a few months ago when the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee said that he does not believe in recognizing the State of Palestine, but that he is still for two states. What exactly will the second state be?

Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

Woot, Brad Lander running for Dan Goldman's seat. It'll be amazing to have him in Congress. www.bradlanderforcongress.com Best of luck @bradlander.bsky.social , we got your back

CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami. She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

What if I could join America, Rand? What if we had a Costco for the entire country?

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

This is how they dismantle Medicare without saying they’re dismantling Medicare.

OH THAT IS INTERESTING

I pled “not guilty” in federal court yesterday. Someone did “unreasonably obstruct the usual use” of the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza. But it wasn’t me. Here’s why: open.substack.com/pub/bradland...

All of this is fascism. And not early stage either. This is the embedding of the Right Wing Daily Mail press consensus as the absolutely unshakable common sense of the UK state. Made possible because the "left wing" party has abdicated any kind of moral position on it.

@bencollins.bsky.social Mr Onion, why is the onion not giving a peace prize to this man?

You know it’s a dystopia when Netflix can acquire Warner Bros, likely doing massive harm to cinema as an art form, and your first reaction is “shit at least David Ellison didn’t get his oddly damp hands on Bugs Bunny”

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies. This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week. This is almost everything the government is doing.

NEW: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Thursday he will not continue sweeps of homeless encampments — which city data shows have not yielded any permanent or supportive-housing referrals in more than a year. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/04/m...

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

Toilet complaint

This is disgusting, cowardly garbage. Let trans women play tennis. Everyone who entertained 'just asking questions about men in women's sports' should understand that this was never, and is is not, about sports, but pretending it was sure did pave the way to erasing trans people from public life.

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business