Costco is co-locating housing above a new store in South LA, 800 units. Unbelievable that we've been building malls & big box stores for, what, sixty years, and never figured this out www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...

Minnesota law enforcement have video from multiple angles of an unjustified deadly shooting in Minneapolis. Therefore, they should arrest and prosecute the shooter for murder. The fact that the killer is a federal agent should not alter that basic logic. If anything, charging is even more important.

If agents of the state can murder citizens who are doing the most basic civic task, the country is not only not a democracy, it is not even a law-governed constitutional state—not a free country in the most fundamental sense.

Illegal impoundment. Again. Without even attempting to justify or provide evidence of the claims driving the impoundment. If we still have a Constitution and the rule of law, this administration needs to be held to account. www.axios.com/2026/01/07/t...

This is fascism. If we still have a Constitution and the rule of law, this administration must be removed from office and new elections held. People need to be in jail over this.

Just came across this, on the final narration of the Twilight Zone episode The Obsolete Man (in which Burgess Meredith plays a librarian on trial in an authoritarian state), and Rod Sterling’s final narration definitively hits hard right now.

As a society, we seem to have lost the instinct in product and service development to ask, "if used in the most irresponsible way possible at scale, what would this do to our daily life and culture in this sphere of human activity?" and that's probably one of the most important questions to ask, imo

Troy City Council had its first meeting with its new members and the all democratic city council. Thursday January 8th, 7pm will be a meeting totally devoted to public comment. Come share your visions for Troy.

No. God, please, no. We are rebuilding. We have an exciting young core. Let them develop and grow.

fantastic article with data showing how congestion pricing is one of the most effective transportation policies ever. as a day 1 congestion pricing supporter it has been so satisfying to see the program be so successful www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What an unhinged way to frame bombing a country, killing 40 people for no reason, and kidnapping a leader of another country.

The ease with which people are revealing the hatred in their hearts publicly is genuinely a little shocking. Just saw this locally - people harassing workers based on their surname with ICE report threats.

Albany might be the last city so suburb-centric that the suburban gyms are all open but the city branch is closed. If you can't provide gym service on *New Year's Day*, what are we really doing here?

I hope these were bearer bonds.

NPR played Puff the Magic Dragon and, for the first time in my life, I actually paid attention to the lyrics and...GOOD LORD! Did you guys know this song is soul-crushingly dark this whole time??

Professors stuffing their syllabi with assignments they have to grade.

2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House. I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure. Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently. Here are a few others 🧵

I'm not even being thanked for my attention to this matter. He's slipping.

They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have

And wealth inequality is such that the family involved is offering $40 billion of their *personal* wealth to facilitate the financing to acquire another giant media company.

Was...was his 10 year old being forced to color for health insurance access or something?

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

Newly released evidence from Portugal shows that taking exams on a computer reduces kids' scores A LOT. Old fashioned paper and pencil exams FTW!

Ready for me to ruin your day? We will spend our retirement years having to ignore all the bullshit "renaming X federal building after Trump" some Congressional majority of Republicans does as cheap red meat, culture war nonsense. Like the last cohort did with Reagan.

My two cents here is that in an industry where personnel decisions are sticky, diversifying would actually need substantial investment and TT expansion rather than putting all the weight on the 1 search per 5 years. Something like cluster hires. But we get 1 line back for every 2 or 3 we lose.

Because I happened to rewatch this tonight, it's basically the arc of these two characters.

Hot take: In 2025, notaries have become sludge deployed as barriers to accessing corporate return policies or service guarantees.

Don't worry. Generative AI is doing this to multiple cohorts already and at scale in nearly every domain, from "socializing with others" to "job interviews" to "taking tests."

Caught the matinee of Murder for Two at Capital Repertory Theater yesterday. Stage was amazing. The show was a perfect two-man show that served as a fun love letter to vaudevillian comedies. If you find yourself in Albany during its run, check it out.

The NBA needs to change challenges so that a player that knocks a ball out of bounds in a steal attempt can't challenge and have it overturned because of a technicality only apparent in frame-by-frame replay.

What the admin is trying to do to Mark Kelly does seem to exploit a separation of powers issue for veterans serving in Congress. Kind of makes the "what if we just find veterans? Will that make you love us?" strategy that Democrats have adopted in purplish areas seem not without risk.

I've said it before, but the thing that's most broken in higher education is the incentives facing Presidents and Provosts. Functionally, they see every job as 2-3 years to build some fiefdoms and do something big enough to land the next job before they have to deal with the fallout.

Honestly, I think states exist primarily for people to debate what boundaries constitute the informal regions of that state.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Perfect time to be flying to Seattle through Detroit for a conference, I'm learning.

Cuomo's entire tenure as governor faced credible accusations of being a quiet Republican and enabling Republican governance under himself. The close of his career is Cuomo-world not beating the charges at all.

Thank you @teenvogue.com politics section for letting me explain to teens why the Great Recession is the key to understanding why politics sucks now

I wrote in the New York Times about how I think companies saying women are leaving because of "return to office" is a cop out. Nursing, a fundamentally in person job, is almost 90% female. So what do women really want? Boundaries. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

Republicans are literally starving millions of Americans while covering for a president engaged in the most corrupt monetization of presidential authority we've seen in generations.

Type of guy who spends $20,000 to invite a spy device into his home.

We really are under attack, huh?

I hope there's a paper trail for the next administration.

The sense that I get from this is that, in a sense, common sense has failed to set off his sense of how to construct a sentence that makes sense while evoking the sensations that trigger our various senses through the act of description with sensible words choice. Does that make sense?

What an awesome opening night game for the NBA tonight.

Assistant Professor to Full Professor ass facial expressions here.

Worth noting that the Right has won not because they tacked to the center but that they spent decades explicitly not doing that and searching out means of minoritarian obstinance and institutional capture sufficient to enact their beliefs the moment they had power again.

Finally catching up on Strange New Worlds and got to season 3 episode 2 and I HAVE SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT DR. KORBY.

We've reached the "brave, kind strangers hiding children from masked federal agents" part of all this.