Turn this all the way UP.

To the random conspiracy theorist ranting to no one against Mamdani and "free" grocery stores before bolting to the back door of a M101 bus to get on for free: congrats on making endorsements of free buses bipartisan.

For no particular Time Magazine-related reasons, here's that time a Chinese state news outlet took @theonion.com calling Kim Jong-un the Sexiest Man Alive seriously. www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".

I appreciate NBC knowing the majority of parade viewers under 30 were gone the moment Kpop Demon Hunters ended and timing their drug ads to match.

The one small hope I have here is the moment, the literal moment, she tries to stonewall popular parts of Mamdani's agenda she is going to hear it from angry NYers to an extent the council simply isn't used to. The election woke a lot of NYers up and it'd be foolish to think they'd sit this out.

I think it's shameful that during a second Trump administration, and after NYC voters rejected a return to moderate, conciliatory governance, that a Democrat would tout the entirety of the Council's Republican caucus as her supporters.

And this is why I fucking hate my liberal electeds indulging the BS that Zohran (a fucking humanist!) is an anti-Semite. Because if you have the full GOP caucus supporting you, then you have the support of anti-semites, racists, transphobes and people who flat out hate the city and everyone here.

Menin is “claiming“ victory- none of this is official until January. She has the support of gutter racist Vickie Paladino, who has called for Mamdani’s deportation.

When you look at this map, it's hard to justify the subway not going into Jersey City, Hoboken etc. Hudson County is closer to midtown than most of NYC, and yet trips there require 1-2 *separate* fares and often riding a commuter bus. A prerequisite for regional housing plan.

Can confirm being on a W train at full speed under the East River will teach you the meaning of life itself.

Only a couple of major news outlets (CNN, USA) are covering this at all. You would think if the goal was clicks and views, this would be all over the media. If clicks are not the goal, it makes you think about: what is?

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Do you want to learn more about through-running, and why it's the clear solution to improve service at Penn Station? There are few better places to start than with this short documentary from the @jointtransit.bsky.social, featuring two of ETA's own! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0xR...

everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result

Man I resent the idea that New York needs to be unpleasant to live in to be authentic so much, it’s pervasive and it holds the city back in so many ways

Report: 94% of World’s Transit Lines Operated by One Person Hochul Should Veto Bill Requiring Two See our statement on the new, important report out from NYU Marron's Transit Costs Project buff.ly/Umk9Dc0

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“I don’t even know anyone in my neighborhood who would want to go to Brooklyn."

idk which possibility is more damning for Schumer either A) he helped orchestrate the fold OR B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding

We are being led by absolute cowards

this “deal” is embarrassingly bad and every Dem who supports it deserves to be primaried Trump is reeling right now, his popularity is crumbling, and he keeps flailing and making stupid decisions. bailing him out now is fucking insane

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

And I mean both resign as minority leader AND resign from the Senate. You're done, pal. Let someone else do the work.

If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately. He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go. Literally resign tonight.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

This is literally where I am. I can understand the ACA decision, but the core goal of this shutdown was to try and assert some manner of "the executive branch will follow the goddamn law" We didn't get that, at all.

The Democrats who voted for surrender should be hounded out of office asap. But the responsibility for this disaster runs much deeper than that. Any Democrat who does not vote for new leadership to prevent this endless replay of failure does not deserve your support.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Congrats to Schumer and the centrist Dems who, after tonight, will be known mainly as cowardly pariahs willing to sell out the health and well being of their constituents for the sake of absolutely nothing. You are about to be some of the most hated people in America and you fucking deserve it.

I know quite a few comrades on the ACA exchange. I used to be on the exchange for years. A doubling or tripling of premium costs will be a death sentence for people who NEED HEALTH INSURANCE to survive. PERIOD. We've heard Democrats say as much for WEEKS. So what the hell??????

just to clarify (and kevin knows this so don’t @ him) call no matter who your senators are. the caucus will pay attention to backlash

Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy

More of this messaging. A billion times more of it.

"And when Clase needed a ball the most, it vanished"

If these 8 democrats do this, I hope they experience the most miserable primary campaigns in history www.politico.com/live-updates...

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

Would like to congratulate Chuck Schumer for winning the coveted "most effective useful idiot" award.

Yes and the Democrats are about to cave on the shutdown maybe tell your boss

"Catsmatidis walks back threat of good time"

Welcome to the 2025-2026 offseason everyone

These are crimes against humanity. None of us is capable of truly internalizing suffering at this scale. Elon Musk and many other members of the Trump Administration should be put on trial at The Hague.

As far as we were aware doing research for @etany.org, the only two metro-style systems in the world with two person operation are Line 2 in Toronto and, well, the NYC subway. www.etany.org/statements/i...

One thing the mayor-elect could do between now and January 1 is to call on Kathy Hochul to veto the bill on her desk that would ban one-person train operations in the NYC subway. Mamdani was absent the day of the vote, and banning OPTO is incompatible with lower cost (or free) transit.

Hot take: W4 is a bad station that does nothing well and would benefit from a probably impossible gut renovation

Coverage of well-designed transit opening in most of the world: a good day for this city as the x line to x opened for passenger service. Coverage of well-designed transit opening in the US (and Canada to an extent): Wait, really? OMG YES THEY DID IT! THEY DID IT!

if you can't handle journalists asking clarifying follow up questions you have no business managing reporters. go run a dick's sporting goods

It looks like New Yorkers just passed all three pro-housing charter amendments on the ballot. The mandate is clear: it's time to build more housing.