The vision laid out by @caseyberk.bsky.social and @kynakwado.bsky.social in the wake of Amazon HQ2’s collapse is finally being realized nearly 7 years later! www.nydailynews.com/2019/02/17/a...

A mournful day for the Upper West Side (and the UWS disapora)

My neighbor told me his National Assembly keeps rejecting his prime ministers so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the cabinet and gets a new PM so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding PMs to the National Assembly and then his daughter started crying.

Eric Adams drops out of NYC mayoral race amid increasing pressure: ‘I know I cannot continue my campaign’

We maybe need anti vaping PSAs in the subways

Someone into AI (I barely know what it is) needs to make an AI that can Chotiner Chotiner himself.

Dropping this bad boy in the conversation

This should remind you of when Thabo Mbeki said vegetables could cure AIDS.

D, ይቅርታ

Seriously though, fuck Sergey Lavrov.

The only way we are going to deal with people driving a bedsit around our cities is to charge them for the privilege with a big ole Pigouvian tax.

Take it from some who teaches about drone strikes, “I shed no tear for that guy” and “this is bad, it shouldn’t have happened” can be normal reactions to have simultaneously. Opposition to political violence isn’t about personal sympathy for an individual target per se, it’s about society.

ok time to reset the timeline 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 BIG BOAT STUCK 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

My immediate reaction on hearing about this was fear and dismay. As a nation, I feel like we are on the edge of a great violence that could sweep us all away.

Just gonna put out there for the record that assassinating people is bad no matter how much you disagree with them

Everyone in the Cuomo donor class with PTSD over how bad "Gov. Cuomo" was when he had power were still afraid of him when he was out of office, and they failed to realize how deeply unpopular he is. Big whiff. These folks really need to get to know the New York Politics Knowers a bit more.

I do not enjoy the feeling that we are kicking off our own Years of Lead.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Presuming this is a cold medicine hallucination and man, that shit is good

No number of sick burns or clap backs can erase the fact that Cassidy voted to confirm RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary and so is directly responsible for the havoc he has wrought.

There's hardly a scenario that would manage to sully Adams and "famed Trump-resister" Cuomo (and I suppose Sliwa) with as much shame as this.

This is one of the most unamerican things I’ve heard of

I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that Schlossberg (or anyone else) could meme and post his way to victory with a sub-20% share of the vote in an ultra-crowded field (c.f., 1977 mayoral primary). Also not as if he's any less "experienced" than, say, AOC was when elected.

Nearly all I know about her is that, aside from being Louis Malle's daughter, she met her husband at an Ethiopian New Year's party.

What is going on???

Woooooooooooooooow — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...

Curtis Sliwa calls for feral cat ‘colonies’ to claw back at NYC rat problem: ‘Caped crusaders at night’

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Connections Puzzle #811 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Display of beautiful New York Review books at NYRB offices at East 32nd Street & Second Avenue

...he can't be, can he? This is just silly season, right?

Ultra-rare Chris Marte W

I put together an Egypt HSR system and I got 1.75 billion riders (obviously the Egyptian public cannot afford first world HSR fares but hot damn)

Okay but actually this one is an issue admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/u...

Say what you will about JD Vance, but I have to salute his commitment to Posting.

When the MTA got kicked off of this, I heard a rumor that it was for a productive, pro-through-running reason. Hmm…

Today in absurd scaffolding @stephenjacobsmith.com

I wrote about how Trump is crushing the Netanyahu myth. Bibi has long cultivated the perception that he is a master statesman, but he and his allies bet everything on Trump, and Trump has begun playing them for suckers, sidelining them in Iran negotiations and regional decisionmaking. Gift link:

it’s so funny that The City’s “Meet Your Mayor” quiz probably did more to boost Whitney Tilson’s campaign than anything the Tilson campaign actually did

Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you

100%. Messaging needs to be clear and forceful. This is bad and it will not help workers.

I try to "stay in my lane" on current events, and I know people say this about nearly news event, but: deporting a lawful permanent resident married to a (eight-months pregnant) American for constitutionally-protected speech feels like a major escalation into a step into a very dark new place.

This is also one of my most conservative views. The reason to get a liberal classical education is not to make you into a person who is better at a job but because becoming more intellectually well rounded with an understanding of the ideas of your progenitors promotes for intellectual growth

"The bad thing isn't happening" changing to "We're doing it on purpose and it's Good, Actually" pretty much sums up the trajectory of the Republican Party over the past quarter century.