This was totally worth going to Staten Island in a blizzard. Round one!

Bathhouse emailing me to let me know they’re open. 🤗

There are only two options here 1- people who live in built up areas subsidizing people in high wildfire risk areas (which to be fair is a combo of rich people and low income rural areas) 2- insurance fund goes bankrupt regularly and has to be bailed out by state general fund

100%. One of the secrets of European and Japanese transit and public space is that they're nice and people wouldn't be humblebragging/proud if they weren't

Some of the weirdest gatekeeping I’ve ever seen

Mamdani’s New York

Get me off this island

Waiting to get on the Staten Island ferry in a blizzard to pick up XC skis, and a woman at the terminal is telling us all about Jesus coming back.

TACO

thanks again, Supreme Court

Working in tech just doesn’t seem worth the money, honestly.

The first test of NYC's new expedited review process for 100% affordable housing projects is now underway at a city-owned lot in Mott Haven Voters approved the new process in a November ballot question For @wnyc.org @gothamist.com gothamist.com/news/how-a-d...

I will give $1000 to anyone in that room who will yell out "what the fuck are you rambling about, old man?"

"Housing shortages are regressive, hurting low-income tenants most, while areas that have added the most homes have not just seen improved affordability, but when rents have fallen, low-income tenants have reaped the largest rent declines." www.metroabundance.org/adding-more-...

Supreme Court doing Friday news dumps now

Happy liberation day to all who celebrate

Congrats to every country that decided it had to pre-emptively roll over for Trumps bullshit and agree to a nonsense "trade deal" despite knowing better. You can join the Fell For It Again line with the law firms and universities that did the same.

LOL

The Jersey Ave redevelopment plan in New Brunswick, which became controversial over the potential inclusion of a data center, will bring 660 new homes to the area. Nice. www.tapinto.net/towns/new-br...

If you squint just right, you can begin to see a pattern.

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

I could rant about this (and the general condition of NYCHA properties) for hours, but instead I’ll share this @errollouis.bsky.social piece from 2023 on the importance of this project: nymag.com/intelligence...

2026 basically

One Battle After Another, Brooklyn edition

Would have been a lot better for cities if they'd done this five years ago, still pissed about it. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

we do love our woke cia girlboss

Yeah I feel like the story of sentiment was: pandemic! Oh no! Vaccine is coming! Yay! Delta variant! This never really ends! Omicron! Nooo. And now everything's expensive and crime is up booo!

We don't have cultural language outside of economics for our shared feelings about what we're living through in the U.S. I think a lot of the "vibecession" is lingering unhappiness with the (non-economic) impacts of the pandemic.

what is this world where you can do big things

The book Poverty by America lives rent free in my head, with its thesis that middle class prosperity in the U.S. is built on the economic immiseration of the poor.

You can't make me learn what Dubai Chocolate is

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

This is so spot on

I hate every voter

NIMBYism for good

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

This would bankrupt several cities in the bay area alone, and probably most towns in Marin and Sonoma counties as well

they said it couldn't be done, folks, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they came up to me and said "no president could completely wreck an entire united states economy twice", they said "no one's ever put more people out of work than you"

The Biden admin brought a plastic butter knife to a gun fight, huh.

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

Bubble indicator

This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.

Well, I least Ive been consistent for a decade + if a bit hoarse and tired

All of these people belong in The Hague

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

I was just reading someone arguing that there's no AI bubble because no one's trying to pass the bag to retail investor suckers thru IPOs: www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

it's probably fine

y'all thought this was a joke