I was thinking about why they're so bad at easy, obvious chances to get everybody feeling good like the 250th and the world cup and the answer is that they fundamentally don't WANT more than half the country to feel good and indeed don't recognize a majority of us as validly part of the country

This is going to create new and incomprehensible forms of horseshoe politics.

“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4!!!”

In a city where every improvement is met with bureaucracy and exorbitant price tags, it's refreshing to see that the Department of Transportation can just *do* things to make life in New York a little better. youtube.com/shorts/sUXO4...

Laws to require speed limiters for the most egregious traffic offenders have been passed in five states. We are, in fact, getting speed limiters.

literally Shakespeare:

the baseball stadium (81 home games) should be downtown. The shared hockey/basketball arena (81 home games) should be downtown. The football stadium (11 home games) should be a big field thats not near anything bsky.app/profile/dail...

Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I think this misses something pretty important, which is that there are two key phase changes in a neighborhood, and both of them matter. Moving from "one car per adult" to "one car per household" matters a lot, absolutely; but if that's as far as you go, many neighborhoods simply couldn't exist.

a perfect sketch. one of the funniest things ever put to film, imo youtu.be/n-Bfkc6lZok?...

More of this, less of Platner in my feed, thanks in advance.

I regularly get depressed thinking about the fact that the war against distracted driving has largely been lost. Police rarely enforce it and there's basically no widespread social stigma against it. Which is why we need to use available technology solutions to limit phone usage while driving.

I saw this lineup last week and it was a fun show! Go out and see it, things like this are why you live in New York

I'd just like to mention that as a genealogist, particularly a Jewish genealogist, the following are all true: --birthright citizenship is important --immigration, ALL immigration, is a net positive for society --the ability to move freely between borders is an essential human right

looking into the mechanics of how human brains operate is not a good look for consciousness either honestly

idk, I also just don't really care about game companies' workflows. I don't work there. If they're effective, great, if they're ineffective, I don't care.

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Forget four digits, the cheapest ticket here is $315 and that's an insane price for that game.

There is a very similar ratio of deadhead miles vs passenger miles for Uber/Lyft as well, FHVs in general seem to have a disproportionate impact on traffic congestion for this and other reasons

I love New York and would visit more often if hotel rooms were not tiny and rapaciously expensive.

Taking stock of where America stands one month after the end of the voting rights era: The country is facing an escalating representation crisis, a spiraling crisis of legitimacy, and an accelerating disintegration into two incompatible Americas. This piece is free to read, no paywall:

people make this kind of argument, but the thing is that no one treats the ultramajority of words written as any sort of property, including most commercially written words still under copyright, because there is no registry of who owns anything and a seven-factor test governing the ownable.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Riding the subway is objectively better than being stuck in traffic, exhibit A

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

The tricky thing is that many police departments are not under full effective civilian control, but one of the ways in which they exercise that undue autonomy is through selective shirking to punish pols they dislike, which is something that the ACAB/prison abolition people have no real answer for

Brand new homes are expensive primarily because building them costs a lot of money and the sale or rental price needs to cover the cost of construction. We have a housing affordability problem because restrictions on new home building have driven up the prices of OLD housing that should be cheaper.

“We document that one factor contributing to youth unemployment is the four-fold rise in remote work since the pandemic. Employers may not want to hire fresh graduates onto distributed teams because it is more difficult to teach them the requisite skills from afar.”

As a political science bachelor's holder, I'd like to point out that this should be done by an act of the city council, and this kind of executive supremacy contributes to the decay of our system of checks and balances.

Hey all, if you're looking for plans for Pride, why not come out and help @opennewyork.org endorsee Ryder Kessler? We'll be doing some canvassing near Stonewall--see where it all began! Sunday, June 14, details here: www.mobilize.us/opennewyork/...

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Can’t build tunnel. Apparently the richest country on earth and cant build tunnel.

having learned that heterosexuality is gay from reactionary streamers, happy pride month to my fellow wife guys (a queer identity)

The thing about this is Jordan doesn't even seem to understand what trips we're trying to serve with bike lanes. The priority is not commuting. It's converting lots of trips that don't show up in commute stats: deliveries, grocery runs, and short social trips, from car to bicycle.

Crazy detail in day 2 of the Minnesota GOP Convention

This comic is 5 years old now. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fsd

Many previous US massacres have always been played off as individual bad soldiers that didn’t reflect the service as a whole. There’s no fig leaf here. This is the top-brass of the United States military stooping to routine international murders without even a whiff of coherent legal justification.

Apropos of I guess this, I was riding over the BK bridge this morning on my way to court and who did I see, riding alone on an e-CitiBike, but Brad Lander heading to BK. It's great to see public officials locomote like normal NYers.

the clear takeaway here is that the administration wants to unlawfully seize the smithsonian and make it a temple for white supremacist “history” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

A good and important summary of why transit struggles to compete with highways. This is why we need more partisanship in transportation; there's no appetite to challenge this paradigm on either side of the aisle. www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/highway-ro...

Zohran just cited Minneapolis, Austin, and Auckland as cities that lowered housing costs via upzoning certified ball knowledge, Auckland is a deep YIMBY cut

I just wish the weekly was cheaper! It's hard to rack up that many trips if you're not a daily commuter who exclusively uses the subway. Even 1-2 WFH days make it very challenging.

A useful frame for this is literacy vs. orality (Joe Wiesenthal has popularized this take lately, with a nod to McLuhan). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Chris Van Hollen says that Biden & other Democrats have enabled Israeli apartheid while pretending to support two states, so he calls for •Recognizing State of Palestine •End all taxpayer funded assistance to Israel •Impose sanctions •Blacklist complicit US officials •Endorse Arab Peace Initiative

The World Cup is not actually being played in New York City. Why is this at all necessary?

This goes beyond "bad idea" and into "an active blockade in an ongoing civil war". Mullin doesn't think of himself as being part of the same country that I'm in and governing for everyone in that country; to him, I'm an enemy to be occupied.

asking people on the pathological-need-to-express-opinions-to-others-even-when-demonstrably-unprofitable app about why people feel bad about their life circumstances *expressed solely in terms of money* is going to have flaws even beyond the influence of depression

What an absolute freak (derogatory)

I think about this all the time when I pass by established apartment complexes and townhome neighborhoods! Once they are in and established, 🗣️ it’s not a big deal! “once it’s done, it seems so utterly normal that you’d never believe what it took to get it. We can learn from that, if we want to.”