fwiw Americans are very bad at understanding that the 2 things you're not supposed to discuss - politics and religion - infuse literally everything that the country has done, is doing, and will do it's the water we swim in, which is why we don't see it

I love the steady pace of "your government at work" type videos coming out of Mamdani's office—perhaps the kind of thing that could have wider-reaching positive impacts for civic engagement and trust in institutions. www.reddit.com/r/nyc/commen...

If you can’t run against the fucking Gestapo, then get out of the way for those who can.

Quite the email strategy from @theinformation.com: enter your email to read an article and they send you 10 emails in 24 hours, and there's no single unsubscribe button, you have to manually uncheck each "list". 🤬

Blades "air mobility activation" for the Ryder Cup was a goddamn plague. A nonstop stream of extremely loud helicopters flying between Manhattan's heliports and the golf course in Farmingdale, focused over a few routes in Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau. Here's a @flightradar24.com timelapse.

Over the past 2 years we've averaged 25 low (<1000ft) helicopters/day over my part of Brooklyn. Yesterday we had 107, and 108 so far today. The previous one-day record was 73 in 2024. Convenience for a few and noise pollution for everyone else. Data from noisy.today @stopthechopnynj.bsky.social

Research has found that, though open offices often foster a symbolic sense of organizational mission, they are damaging to workers’ attention spans, productivity, and creative thinking. So why does the open-office plan persist? nyer.cm/voWmBqs

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This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker. The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.

The US traffic fatality rate is 12.7 per 100k. Canada is 5.3. If we were as good as Canada (not the best in the world), we would save about 24k lives annually. Maybe the Sec. of Transportation could focus on that. Total US homicides are 23k.

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

I mean, come on folks

Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Today there will be *spins small wheel* 200% tariffs on *spins large wheel* sending emails to Americans I am the President

In 2021, Biden admin awarded Kerr County TX $10m in American Rescue Plan Act funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue warning system. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...

As countries across the world turn to renewable energy, there is a chance for a deep reordering of the earth’s power systems, in every sense of the word “power,” offering a plausible check to not only the climate crisis but to autocracy.

I grew up in NYC when crime was much worse, and I never knew anyone who had been hurt on the subway. Then I moved to Maine & became car-dependent. After just 8 years there, I needed both hands to count the number of people I knew who had been badly injured or had lost family members in car crashes.

I guess AI safety work isn’t just woke censorship.

The New York Times has now hired Grok to cover the Mamdani campaign.

The modal pedestrian killed in Montgomery County is an older person (often an immigrant), crossing a state road, in the evening, on their way to or from a bus stop.

Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in: * 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily * Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65% * Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025 * $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements * B’way attendance +12% * Subway ridership +7% So yes this program is a SUCCESS.

The glossy edgy-stylized-photoshoot NYT interview with this guy earlier this year really drove me nuts because he obviously just completely sucks, while it's fully possible to simply report that mainstream republicans are listening to his unhinged ideas *without* lending him coolness or credibility.

the thing about the NYT is is you look like mamdani you have to be accountable forever for everything including a form you filled as a teenager and didn't do anything wrong with but if you look like Trump laws you have sworn a public oath to uphold do not apply to you at any point in your life

"Sometimes sources have their own motives" Yes like Ahmed Chalabi.

And, tonight, the eugenicist/racist is promoting bets about the mayor's race on Polymarket. x.com/cremieuxrecu...

so let me get this straight—the NYT accepted hacked information given to them by a substack white supremacist to be used against a mayoral candidate?

I first encountered Cremieux a while back and could not believe how many mainstream followers he had for how thinly veiled the "race science" was, and how few people were talking about. Now that the NYT is using him as a source for horseshit hit pieces I’m at least glad to see it being called out.

Wow -- The Guardian has already reported this guy's name. "the account is apparently run by Jordan Lasker, a long-time proponent of eugenics... boosted or engaged with dozens of times by Elon Musk, often on the topic of falling birthrates." bsky.app/profile/eyes...

man i wonder how eugenicist and white supremacist Jordan Lasker (aka Cremieux) managed to get his story into the New York Times. i'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Benjamin Ryan, who is bylined on that story, is a reader of his work? such an interesting coincidence!

The New York Times will collaborate with Nazi criminals who break into universities in an attempt to undermine democratic candidates, destabilize elections, fuel Islamophobia, and continue the attacks on higher education. They don’t *cover* the crime, they PARTICIPATE in it.

Weird, I was told that congestion pricing would obliterate the economy of Lower Manhattan.

The amount of news coverage of this wedding is driving me nuts. These people are not even likeable or attractive or interesting at all. Why is what they're doing or wearing front page news in ostensibly serious publications!?

I saw this video when it was first posted and immediately opened a new tab and donated to his campaign—I am so sick of mealy-mouthed politicians who filter their thoughts through 27 layers of public opinion polling, consultant advice, platitudes, and weasel words.

A sitting Member of Congress calling for an American citizen to be stripped of his citizenship & deported, all because of that American citizen’s political views. This is fascism.👇

Sitting in Prospect Park listening to planes landing at LGA passing over every 90 seconds and thinking about how nice it’d be to have some subway or bus lines with headways remotely close to that.

This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

Huge turnout here in NYC, despite the rain. Took an hour just to walk from 6th Ave to 5th Ave across 42nd Street.

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What an incredible loss—to take a country with such a reputation for opportunity and innovation that the smartest people in the world would take great personal risks to move here, and to squander it entirely for the most pathetic nonsense reasons.

The only time I really feel like "we're cooked" is when I drive around and see every third driver literally watching or scrolling their phones while driving. Not at a red light. While navigating traffic. The addiction is total.

All else aside, this whole thing where federal agent are just hiding their identities with masks now is extremely fucking unsettling.

Congestion pricing in New York is following the same public opinion polling trajectory it followed in London and Stockholm. Sometimes, just getting something done is the way to make it popular.

I had very unpleasant multi-day side effects from both the Pfizer and Moderna shots, and was looking forward to an alternative that seemingly has less being available this year. So stupid.

🦆 En Suisse, un canard flashé à plus de 50 km/h par un radar

I’m old enough to remember stuff like this

Good ideas in this episode about reframing anti-car messaging to, e.g. "pro-children’s autonomy," unfortunately I think there’s likely a degree of motonormativity/tipping point percentage of kids who walk/bike to school, below which the the whole concept of children’s autonomy becomes a fringe idea.