A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Immigration makes america great

Directing President Trump’s “Storytime” interview with Usha Vance.

Thoughts and prayers for the afflicted

This is huge! No more minimum parking requirements in North Carolina.

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”Weeks away” *check calendar* ah, what?

Everybody who tries ebikes loves them—example #1451 www.theverge.com/transportati...

Oh come on. Except for 2016, every wide-open Democratic primary has been a free-for-all, and no one had much of a clue who would be the nominee. 2008? Obama came out of nowhere. 2004 was wide open. 1992 Clinton came out of nowhere. This is dumb.

The Biden administration made a massive investment into the basic science and technological research needed to advance America’s innovation, and the Trump administration cancelled it all.

In April, I sat down with Dusty May and wrote a story about it. There were also things we talked about that I didn't write about then that I can share with you now.

Permissive left turns across multilane intersections kill. We need smaller intersections, but exclusive turn or ped phasing is needed as a standard for these in cities, and can generally be done in weeks.

It is time once again to discuss the Most Dad Things we have done in the past year. A couple of reminders: - gender is a social construct, anyone can do Dad Things - you need not be a parent to do a Dad Thing - the definition of a Dad Thing is entirely subjective and maybe made up I’ll go first:

Welcome to the United States yes we declared war on drugs yes the drugs won

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

Cities!

Is my landlord spying on me or am I dying from carbon monoxide poisoning?

Reflecting pool is looking great today and no doubt whatever they're doing over there is going to clean it right up!

Tired: “We won Korea. Vietnam was a tie." Wired: “We won Vietnam. Iran was a tie.”

my kid has autism and has a very well-paying job, loves baseball (sadly he has my hand-eye coordination), hangs out with friends every weekend, so go fuck yourself RFK. (Pro tip bobby: Autism is a spectrum.)

A sign of how the region has changed in 20 years: The parade after the 2006 cup was in the stadium parking lot. The parade after the 2026 cup will take place in downtown Raleigh.

Whether it's China developing an electric car that can charge in 5 minutes or Donald Trump keeping Washington's reflecting pool algae-free for nearly 48 hours, both countries have pushed the limits of their technological capabilities.

Evidently a driver in #DurhamNC crossed the centerline, intentionally hit two people on bicycles, and drove off this weekend. www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/c...

Cities, man. Cities!

Congrats to the Knicks and Knick fans! The celebrations on the streets of New York are so wonderfully joyous!

Thanks to the late World Cup game tonight, the MBTA will effectively be running a 24-hour service for the first time in our lives! We’re going to be riding the T ALL NIGHT tonight - from 7 PM to 7 AM!

Mariska doing a matinee and a 7 pm performance of her one-woman Broadway show and then watching the greatest comeback in Finals history actually looks like the Jordan flu game

Oh, of course, I hadn’t updated my Bluesky app yet which is why I haven’t yet seen all those group chats I’ve been invited to.

My mayor Muslim. My bagel Jewish. My DHS Secretary's the dumbest man alive. Knicks in fiiiiiiive.

The most controversial item is the debate around relocating the university’s legendary basketball arena.

Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.

I’m dying!

Headline should read "Bluesky legend @wademinter.com"

Spot-on response to this dystopian feature

@gregdoucette.bsky.social say the thing, Greg!

What is a presidential library anyway?

I saw there was a Toy Story 5 and thought do we really need it, and then I saw the trailer, and now I’m fully invested

I can't wait for Woody and Buzz to kill that fucking iPad.

He’s just focused on the game

she just saw a rapist and pedophile on the jumbotron!

This is excellent, and really captures how arbitrary, small-time, and stupid the broader vibe surrounding the WC feels right now.

Excited for the first meeting of the UNC Carolina North Stakeholder Advisory Committee but also praying that the meeting # reflects that this is the first meeting of the year, and not the total number of meetings.

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

Owen Hull’s walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth helped the Diamond Heels overcome a 3-2 deficit entering the inning and win 4-3, punching a thrilling ticket to the Men’s College World Series in Omaha next weekend.

@brmcc.bsky.social I heard from someone in the courtyard that the rams corner restaurant is not permanently closed, they were just repainting.

I’m running a summer sale until June 13th! 20% off an annual or monthly sub! Come join our community ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/mollykni...

Good lord that's a lot of drinking

I have seen a lot of wild stuff for sale on Facebook Marketplace over the years. As soon as I saw this thing, I immediately called the guy who was trying to sell it (or trade it for a broken chainsaw) www.ncrabbithole.com/p/a-conversa...

OWASA's water supply is currently at 80% capacity. No restrictions have been issued at this time, but... 💧70% capacity = water shortage advisory 💧60% capacity = water use restrictions imposed Conserve and use water wisely. Visit www.owasa.org/2026drought/ for more helpful info.

Chatham County Commissioner David Delaney officially stepped down from the board late last month, and his final board meetings turned out to be extremely contentious. Listen to the full story here 🎧: