Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:

OK, I'm months late to this, but "Christmas Adventurers' Club" is the the funniest goddamn thing I've seen on a screen in years. Bravo.

This honestly seems fine. Society has progressed past the need for analog clocks, they should be phased out of institutional settings and relegated to a novelty item for hobbyists. gothamist.com/news/nyc-pho...

parking is a nuisance use because it inherently attracts car traffic, which everyone hates

Uder Kellogg's Cereal & Milk Bars 1999-2006 George Longley created Kellogg's crime-fighting bovine super soldier, who shot milk out of his udders through a milk launcher to transform Kellogg's cereal boxes into Cereal & Milk Bars – and sounded like Arnold Schwarzenegger if he was a cow. "Milk it!"

WANTED TO STAY UP AND SEE SANTA! WANTED TO SEE AND I SAW! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK, DAD! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK!

Paid parking has its place in the city's transportation ecosystem, but it's far better to just get rid of as much on-street parking as possible. This is what the best cities in the world are doing and there's no reason New York City shouldn't follow suit.

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

Some Christmas Eve idealism from @liberalcurrents.com. I endorse this message. www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

there's been an instinct among elected liberals for the past ten years of "we can't risk escalation" and all it's done is allow Republicans to escalate to the point of armed insurrection *and beyond* without consequence

"But can't we talk about the people this policy harms?" is a good way to never enact policy that helps a whole lotta people. It's not that you ignore the possible harms of well meaning policy, but you have to be careful about how much weight you give them.

Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco. With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.

I'm ahead of the FT by a full month, you love to see it. www.ft.com/content/1ac0...

It just remains that the champion of anti-establishment republicanism is a guy who lived in a gilded palace in the sky who doesn't believe that elites should be held liable for their actions and that all corruption is good

Da city that never sleeps, baybee! Mayor sworn in at midnight! Noo Yawk is back!

New housing stops landlords from raising rents—take it from the CEO of AvalonBay, one of NYC's largest landlords: "We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

I've never felt any need to apologize for being white, but JD Vance is doing his best to change that

And the air is noticeably cleaner! Literally we can all breathe better thanks to the law!

Essential reading

Why are Melinda Katz and Jessica Tisch soft on crime? hellgatenyc.com/melinda-katz...

The NY TWU turned opposed congestion pricing as well. Really seems like they're laser-focused on extracting the rents they can from a static or declining system rather than participating in a positive-sum program to expand transit service to more New Yorkers

Table For One Please.

From a family member who works in the Postal Service

I’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato

basically a confession that "I don't know or care how biodiversity and natural ecosystems work and thus can't be bothered to understand how their optimal functioning *also* contributes to human prosperity, health, and well-being"

It is actually insane that this is probably going to go up for another vote. Perfect example of why it's so hard to get anything done in San Francisco. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

Kathy Hochul does the right thing for transit riders.

We need to drive less and eat less meat. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

the rise of robotic drivers is forcing us to come to terms with the ugly reality of our human driving culture... if anything I'd argue that AVs get a lot more scrutiny for doing stuff that humans regularly do without raising an eyebrow

The small, mean world our leaders are building isn’t inevitable. It’s a choice to see immigration as a source of threat rather than possibility. That was part of the story of the lottery that I love, that the admin is trying now to kill. uncpress.org/978146967304...

It’s normal for the head of CBS news to weigh in on internal squabbles inside the conservative movement, right?

This is why even a small number of YIMBYs going to public hearings is helpful. Someone needs to be in the room pointing out that Charlie Brown doesn't have hoes.

Guns don’t only rob the freedom of their immediate victims - their ripple effects damage the lives of hundreds, even thousands of people Ban guns

I also developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt of this, using the investigative methods of "reading the words that the president regularly spoke and wrote in public forums."

I deeply resent the way that he's turned me into someone who's concerned about the dignity of the office.

It's crazy how drivers think "I didn't see you" is exculpatory when they almost run you over. Yeah dude I don't think much of you but I'm pretty sure you don't drive around trying to crush pedestrians for fun. You not seeing me is the problem

This seems more like a "people are dumb" story than an "AI is dumb" story. Paying for useless but momentarily diverting stuff didn't start in 2023.

Encountered my first instance of this in the wild yesterday and had to accept how cloistered my view has been, that I mainly interwcy with people who like writing on the text-based sites and do it as a profession all hate ChatGPT, and not the millions for the machine solves stating at a blank page.

The world's biggest earth science conference is happening right now, and there are literally hundreds of presentations involving NCAR people. It's impossible to understate how central the lab is to the climate and weather science enterprise

I'm very tired of repeating myself about this, but, as someone who works professionally on housing affordability, this is a disgusting lie.

i think its highly underappreciated the massive extent to which text-based platforms select for people who can consistently post in large volumes short form video selects for conventionally attractive, microblogging selects for people who can post 50+ times per day

The problem with complaints like this is that they're largely made on the basis of low trust, which makes the complainers impossible to satisfy. mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/15/w...

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.

When I had surgery, I woke up in a recovery room, deeply out of it and confused. ME: Uhhh...my stomach hurts MEDICAL PERSON: Yup, you haven't gotten your pain meds yet. (To tech) Can we push the fentanyl please? ME (sounding like a panicked Scooby Doo): Fentanyl?! (passes out instantly)

Hochul is being pressed hard on free childcare. Let’s get ahead of the most common compromise forced on progressive policy: means testing.

This is the Waldorf-Astoria. A gem of Renaissance Revival architecture that in its day hosted many historic moments serving New York's elite. If it existed today, preservationists would surely howl if anyone proposed removal. In 1929 it was torn down and replaced by the Empire State Building.

Imagine a government responding with actual policy changes instead of just "thoughts and prayers." www.huffpost.com/entry/austra...

This is also why you can't just run an election on healthcare costs and hope they don't bring up immigration. You have to fight them on immigration because they inject this Nazi shit into everything.

i don't understand the arguments against more regulations on car speed and driver safety. seems selfish. if 40,000 people were dying from air conditioners falling on them, i'd say, "damn, they should make it harder to drop air conditioners out of your window."