I will never get over the fact that the Republican Party chose as its standard-bearer, and this country elected as its President, quite possibly the worst human being on the planet.

It's inevitable, you simply must adapt to it and use it, you have no choice, but also please use it more or it's going to die

this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke

Fun fact: if the Bears win tonight it would create a situation where whoever wins the Super Bowl plays in an open stadium in a city borderline uninhabitable in winter. In other words, it would be the most spiritually pure football conference finals in a while.

thread about X’s new TOS. tldr is musk can now sue users for any reason in a TX court he basically owns, so he’ll almost certainly win. and this is a platform politicians and journalists largely refuse to leave.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

Keep track of the Democratic lawmakers who are clearly pandering today and will no doubt pretend they did otherwise when this thing falls apart. Remember their names.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

We have to impeach him.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

The thing that gets me about this is the MTA could eliminate this problem overnight by putting open-gangway trains into service like the rest of the world. The MTA looking into barriers in-between cars shows they know how subway surfing starts yet they still refuse to order closed walkthrough trains

A leaked DoJ memo calls for prosecutors to charge people who film ICE with “domestic terrorism” They don’t want their atrocities documented. They don’t want a historical record. They don’t want the world to know. That’s why we have to keep filming. Keep speaking out.

The Mamdani administration is already off to a great start as Eric Adams gets to deal with this snowstorm and the criticism if the plows fuck up, not Mamdani.

Blows my mind it hasn't even been a full year of congestion pricing in NYC yet. Years of cranks whining about it and then you just DO IT and everything is instantly better and everyone gets used to it and moves on. We should do good things more often! PS - T-minus 12 days to Streets Mayor Mamdani!

Official confirmation now from the NY State Senate website that the mandatory 2PTO bill has been vetoed. www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...

Please make the man who blocked me on Twitter because he thought his union members should be allowed to run over pedestrians without consequence irrelevant for the rest of time.

a sequel: cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”

Thank goodness

Great news: Gov Hochul has reportedly decided to veto a bill requiring two-person train operation. This poorly-considered bill would've mmediately impacted services that are currently run with one person, and would've make it impossible to fully automate new lines like the IBX.

Honestly great news, but shame on the Senate + Assembly for letting it get this far.

Between this and the OMNY shitshow with Bee Line, NYC transit authorities saw TTC firmly encroach on their territory as the most publicly incompetent transit bureaucracy and apparently felt compelled to act.

TikTok is going to be controlled by a group of right-wing billionaires. Great job, Joe Biden and congressional democrats, who joined (and stoked) the moral panic that initiated and then fed the process that has ended up here.

Oh, and a hack if you get the "Due to unusually large call volumes..." message: Hang up and immediately re-dial if you get it. It may take a few attempts but you will eventually get through.

The bill on Hochul's desk mandating 2PTO on the MTA, Assembly Bill A4873, still hasn't been vetoed. If it's not by the end of the day it will automatically be law and worsen service on small shuttle trains and off-peak services as a result Call her office at (518) 474-8390 and demand she veto this

In some good news, this has, in fact, been vetoed. www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...

impossible to come to any conclusion other than that everyone involved in this needs to end up in prison

Three D's defected to vote for this disgusting bill. If they hadn't, it wouldn't have moved forward. *Don't come into my mentions to "explain" to me that "this will fail in the Senate." Spend that time calling your reps, donating to causes, and doing literally anything for trans folks.

Queens, a borough of 2.4 million people, permitted just 3,240 homes last year, a bit over 1 boatload. Austin, a city of less than a million people, permitted that same number every month last year. The results? Queens rents: ⬆️ 4.6% Austin rents: ⬇️ 3.1%

With the opening of this, Rome has managed to dig a massive transfer station right next to the most vaunted and celebrated ancient building in western civilization. When NIMBYs argue a subway shouldn't be somewhere due to "historic preservation" concerns, this should be the automatic response.

If Paladino had said that Jews amounted to a fifth column and should be removed from the country, Menin would be one of many in elected office calling for her to be expelled from the Council. That it was about Muslims is just as heinous, yet all we get is this lukewarm response.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Seeing Dunkirk at the Lincoln Square IMAX, entirely from the screen being so spectacularly large you felt like you were in a flight sim during the dogfight sequences. It was exhilarating.

Everything the experts and people knowledgeable about congestion pricing said would happen has happened, and nothing the ignorant doomers whined about for years on X and in community meetings has happened. bsky.app/profile/fund...

Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.

Jesus Christ just leave the congregants be at this point. If they feel this strongly about saving this just pony up the cash yourselves.

while KOSA passed the subcommittee, there is still the full committee meeting it needs to go through before being voted on by the Senate/House support is more split on it than you'd think, we just need to pull away enough votes to block it. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES! www.badinternetbills.com

Disney really looked at McDonald's and Coca-Cola getting clowned and mocked for their AI slop-fests and said "oh we gotta have some of that!"

If we only replaced every single-story commercial tax-payer building next to a subway station with housing, we could actually solve a lot of the demand without having to kick people out of their homes.

Part of the issue with this "debate" is that the phrase "luxury housing" simply means new housing stock. The construction of new housing stock does not, on its own, cause gentrification and displacement.

this man autographed israeli bombs

Two of Speaker Adams's last major acts as council speaker will be refusing to pass a bill meant to stop drivers from killing NYers and illegally using council resources to run a mailer campaign against pro-affordable housing ballot proposals that thankfully won anyway. What a way to tarnish a legacy

If anyone in Albany cared about actual MTA oversight, they'd put a firm stop to this inane practice immediately. Every competitive international metro system is moving to open gangways - including the tiny Piccadilly Line cars - and it's actively bad management for the MTA to continue to resist.

There is simply no excuse for the MTA to not be ordering walk-through open gangway trains anymore, and the fact that they are so reticent is baffling. Always great to talk to @davecolon.bsky.social

The thing about the average New Yorker’s objection to open gangway cars - that they’ll make the subway less safe because “bad people” can move between the cars - is that people already go between the cars all the time anyway. I’m tired of being held hostage in the city by people who are afraid of it

She's gotta veto this nonsense.

Hochul or her team have to know signing this would not only create massive blowback from transit advocates but also immediately signal to outside transit and planning talent they shouldn't bother coming to NYC if they want to work on 21st Century transit networks. That would be just incalculably bad

Increasing the congestion pricing fee on Gridlock Alert Days is both permissible by law and a no-brainer, but here we are.

Zohran points to City of Yes as an initiative to build on 👏