This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

"Legalize sports betting to get it out of the hands of criminals" did not require allowing phone apps to advertise about a dozen lopsided mid-game bets you were able to make.

The research is clear: Cities have many reliable ways to curtail speeding. Lower the posted limit. Deploy traffic cameras. Insert speed humps. Install road diets. They all work – and most residents support them.But implementation often feels like pulling teeth. In Bloomberg, I explored why.

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

God, I love Queens. The full spectrum of our city's kaleidoscopic diversity--Nepalese, Yemeni, Guatemalan, Ghanian, Italian--sharing the same subway car. And somehow, in the universal language of brotherhood, they're ALL FUCKING MANSPREADING. #thefutureleftliberalswant #kindasorta

It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.

What I want to know is: what would happen if I was swapped in for one of the seats (or, realistically, two of the seats) in a four-man bobsled crew? Would the run be OK, just slower than normal? Or would I be required to lean at the proper time and doom us to crashing?

in a sane world we would be doing everything possible to make e/bikes a default mode of travel for short distance journeys.

The problems with ebikes are mostly an etiquette problem that people try to inflate into a safety problem (because our political/social system has almost no good mechanisms for solving etiquette problems outside of a safety framework)

I was just old enough to be commuting in the pre-smartphone days when there were a ton of different options that you could get for reading on the Metro. The Post, but also Washington City Paper, the Washington Blade, the various Hill papers--I think it was probably good to be forced to read widely.

Something to keep in mind the next time the city tries to repurpose parking and drivers complain that every last car is necessary at all times. The storm was two weeks ago.

They’re rounding up and imprisoning even legal workers:

Pretty interesting data on ideological self-ID and how it affects partisanship. A substantial number of people who don't identify as Dems feel that the party isn't left enough. www.nationaljournal.com/s/730861/our...

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

this idea that the Ds haven’t articulated a positive vision of masculinity is just … it’s not totally devoid of merit, but it’s mostly a narrative concocted to avoid offending a bad-faith norm in media that the customer/voter is always right. iow: this is not a supply problem; it’s a demand problem

Fuck, the AIs are writing jokes now...and honestly this one works?

What the actual fuck. 10mph is slower than I can maintain on an acoustic Citibike, and I am not a particularly athletic man.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

They know the US market is saturated, and they still face the same growth imperative as any business. This is why they're doing all those games in Europe and South America.

There are only 2 real responses to housing scarcity. You can either build enough homes to accommodate everyone or start drawing up a list of “undesirable demographics” to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

Anyone know where she falls on the YIMBY-NIMBY spectrum?

As I understand it, members of Congress are legally allowed to inspect this facility without warning. I'm not sure if that's in practice on the ground, though.

Cancun Ted over here argued that “partisanship is inherent and permissible in the districting process” in an amicus brief he filed with the Supreme Court in the Texas redistricting case last September. www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

The big difference between YIMBYs and others on the left is that when we see a great city, we don’t think “keep people out.” We think “build enough so everyone who wants to live here can.” The scarcity mindset sucks!

Yeaaaah! Some massive good news! The new rail tunnels that NJ and NY are trying to dig under the Hudson River may be saved! Trump had unlawfully sequestered the funds that had already been awarded for the project, but a judge has released them for now, so construction goes on!! 😀👍⛏️🚅

Six byline Politico story confirms Punchbowl scoop from last night: "[T]he president would release federal funds for a massive rail tunnel project connecting New York and New Jersey on the condition that two major travel hubs be renamed in his honor" -- www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

NYC used to consistently build 5-10 new subway stations every single year. Since 1990 we have built 4. Not 4 per year, 4 total over 36 years. We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like:

NYC desperately needs 23rd Street to turn into a busway like 14th has. @mayor.nyc.gov Save me please! Sent from an extremely slow M23

Reading this in a public place and couldn't stop myself from making a dramatic 😬😬😬 face 'this is how men behave' these people always telling on themselves

I may be the only one but I've never really liked food delivery. If I'm going to pay restaurant prices, I want the food *and* the sociality of the restaurant experience. Being out of my house & with others is part of the point of restaurants. I don't need to pay extra to *not* get that part.

Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.

i feel like american political elites are completely unprepared to tackle with tangibel threats to their democracy beyond "shaming random people for being too to win wisconsin" because they don't actually think democracy itself could disappear. in brazil and south korea they do believe it.

The two genders

surprise! Tesla is doing shady stuff with self-driving!

A parking space is much larger than a stadium seat, so I don't know why the Times is so baffled that it costs more.

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

Once Trump's regime is removed from power, we need a constitutional refounding to finally create a fully egalitarian democracy. Reconstruction did not go far enough, and we can't repeat the failures of that era by keeping the flawed political institutions that helped bring us to our present crisis

The whole "Trump can't rig the elections" thing strikes me somewhat the same way as "climate change isn't going to drive human beings extinct" thing. Like ... sure. OK. But there's a whole lot of bad shit that stops well short of that!

Julie, you can just quit. Be free!

This was a remarkably crazy response by Mike Johnson's standards. He's going full "stop the steal" and clearly would line up behind any effort Trump makes to rig the midterms and 2028 elections

Many affordable housing proponents support mandates on the premise that they produce more affordable housing than voluntary incentives, even if they kill housing supply overall. A recent paper by Lebret et al shows this premise is false. (thread)

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

The weirdest thing about losing a friend or family member to traffic violence in the US is just how little anyone cares. If you're lucky, there will be a reprint of the policy statement in a local paper. But there will be no reporting. There will be no investigation. There will be no conviction.

It's unsettling how traffic violence is reported in the US. If the driver was going this street's speed limit of 25mph, there's a 90% chance this woman would be alive. But that's unmentioned. The driver was "cooperative." There will be no follow up. There will be no convictions. A life is lost.

The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...

i was not aware until now that crockett has been mealy-mouthed on the filibuster. this strikes me as a much more substantive point in talarico's favor than probable-but-not-provable electability judgments