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Also, if you are a United States Senator and you are not publicly willing to criticize Trump even though you'll do so in private, you are not a good person. In fact, many might correctly call you a piece of shit.

The biggest problem in Democratic Party politics today is that we have to many people who just want to be a Senator and too few people who want to do the things that only a Senator can do.

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In a world where many democrats have embraced pie-in-the-sky middle class tax cuts, leave it to a democratic socialist like Mamdani to seriously engage with budgeting tradeoffs and embrace an efficient broad based property tax increase

Great book. Snap up Henry Grabar's Paved Paradise too, and get ready for a course in Shoupistas 101.

A question you have to ask yourself if you’re going to approach politics as a responsible adult is whether your goal is to improve material conditions and achieve changes that reduce human suffering, or whether it is to look really cool in front of your friends online.These are not compatible aims.

THE OFFSHORE WIND FARM JUST GOT 10 FEET HIGHER

Suddenly more timely than ever 🙂

I don't know who decides when ebooks are discounted but all platforms seem to be in sync. So also available for £1.99 in the UK on Kobo

Okay, this is cool.

"A major story that probably doesn’t get talked about enough is the reality that the president of the United States is, well, out of his mind."

Cheaper than paid parking!

1/ Identifying and quoting the folks you're arguing against isn't a panacea--you can still strawperson someone while quoting them--but it is a very good start. For one thing, it lets your readers judge how prominent your foil is--are you arguing against actual policymakers or just One Internet Guy.

At this price, I just bought it again so I have it readily available on my phone when I need a quote or data point.

An excellent overview and “easy read” of how cars affect our lives. It’s been an experiment of a bit over 100 years with cars, and the evidence shows that the losses to our wealth, health, and quality of life are mounting. This book helps with rethinking the role of cars in our lives and society.

The e-book edition of LIFE AFTER CARS is available for just $1.99 on @bookshop.org for a limited time! bookshop.org/a/9252/97805...

I think this might be the first time I've ever found myself saying, "I hope everyone listens to the Catholic Church more about the Jews." forward.com/news/814600/...

"In addition to Manhattan CB2, slow zone requests have been approved by Manhattan, CB4 and CB5, Brooklyn CB1, CB6 and CB7 and Queens CB1 and CB2. Meanwhile, the transportation committees of Manhattan CB3 and Queens CB6 have also passed resolutions."

Krugman does a recap on the insider trading yesterday open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Last year the air you breathe got worse

This should be the lowest of low-hanging fruit for DOT. No need to remove parking, no business owners or residents to consult... let's get it done!

Premiums are soaring and dangerous coverage gaps are widening as the planet keeps getting hotter and more chaotic. Our traditional private insurance model isn't keeping up. It's time for a public option. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

You don’t see factories that make solar panels suddenly exploding and sending plumes of smoke into the atmosphere.

Spoke at Life After Cars with @kelseabondatl.bsky.social Walkability is not new. It is the Marietta we already have. Ask people if they want that. The answer is almost always yes. The real question is whether our kids will be able to afford to stay here. Thanks @letspropelatl.bsky.social !

Most seniors in Hong Kong do not own or drive a car, because they can get anywhere they want to with the city's robust public transport system at a taxpayer-subsidized cost of $0.26 per trip. My parents just take random day trips for fun. That is true freedom that American seniors will never have.

En route to ASEH Kansas City via plane-train combo. The transition in Chicago allowed me to advertise upcoming Life After Cars shows! @aseh.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social

I just read Life After Cars and I learned so much and feel so inspired to fight car dependency.

It won't happen, but every headline tomorrow should emphasize that Trump is the one blocking a solution to the airport crisis. He owns the shutdown now.

Several ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer rescue organization were set on fire outside a synagogue in a neighborhood home to London's largest Jewish community, in what police are treating as an antisemitic attack. https://cnn.it/4bomIwM

As a retired airline Captain I flew into LGA and NY airspace hundreds of times. It is some of the world’s busiest airspace. To have only one ATC in the tower at LGA is criminal negligance. Not only is the airspace crowded and chaotic, so are the ground operations. Sean Duffy’s FAA owns this 100%

I wasn’t kidding when I said… bsky.app/profile/broo...

If this had happened under the Biden administration, Republicans wouldn't have waited for the smoke to clear before calling for Secretary Pete Buttigieg to resign or be fired. Among other demands, Democrats need to make it clear that Sean Duffy has got to go.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

10 months ago Tucker Carleson went on Megyn Kelly’s how to complain that Trump hadn’t deported a million people in his first hundred days. How the fuck are some people rallying behind this supporter of American concentration camps, just because he gives Good Clip m.youtube.com/watch?v=iAwb...

The first 14 days of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran assault released over 5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. This is more than the annual emissions of mid-sized economies like Iceland or Kuwait, and roughly the same as dozens of the lowest emitters together.

Congrats to FIFA, by the way. If people weren't already worried about flying here for the World Cup, surely videos of armed agents of the state harassing people based on their accents or the color of their skin is going to be the nail in the coffin of people's travel plans.

What NYPD wasting taxpayer dollars by standing around playing Candy Crush is to fighting crime in the subways, ICE wasting taxpayer dollars by standing around in airports is to helping with TSA lines.

The consensus that matters is whether the voters elected you with a mandate. There will always be a constituency that is unhappy, there is no such thing as a change that is perfectly good for everyone.

In addition to abject cruelty of this, with everything happening with TSA lines now it seems bad to create a situation where some number of baggage handlers, ground crews, sanitation workers, food vendors and anyone else who might not want to interact with ICE have a reason to stay home from work.

"Consensus" only ever works in one direction, and that direction favors cars and parking.

pure “consensus” is impossible, someone is always going to be mad at you the question as a Mayor is who you’d rather have be mad at you: -a motorist mad that they have to pay slightly more for parking -a grieving parent whose kid was killed by a motorist weird that Michelle Wu chose the latter

Hochul's rationale is VERY similar to her rationale for "postponing" congestion pricing: selling out future generations by hiding behind affordability concerns to cover for the fact that she's afraid of electoral consequences and is listening to wealthy donors who have a direct line to her office.

They agreed to under Obama - but Trump tore it up and when they offered to agree to with him this year he bombed anyone he could make a deal with as well as any credibility he could ever again have negotiating with them and now he just lies & lies & the press reformats the lies as headlines.

Excellent point. Trees also act as natural traffic calming, visually narrowing roads for drivers, and ought to be up against the car lane, not between cyclists and pedestrians.

Rather than take the parking lane and turning it into a wide protected bike lane, they're taking part of the green space, narrowing the sidewalk, and installing a narrow two-way lane. NYC is not building bike infrastructure for the future. This lane will be quickly be functionally obsolete.

I often say that I have arranged my life to reduce my "exposure to driving," a lot like someone might say that they are trying to reduce their exposure to secondhand smoke.

Truly excellent.

As Paris elected a new mayor today who literally biked to his victory speech on the city’s bike infrastructure network, it’s hard not to feel like things are going in the opposite direction in the US capital