i swear to god i do not want to have to consider it possible that jeffrey epstein personally caused the 2008 financial crisis

NYC is barely a democracy

The city would be doing people a huge financial favor by charging for parking and encouraging them to get rid of their cars. If people can leave them sitting in a row like this covered in show for over a week, they don’t need them and are wasting their money and should get rid of them.

Open the Torch on the Statue of Liberty next. 🗽

Be Amazon driver. Jam out to your favorite tunes while working your route like literally anyone else who drives for a living. Get all your deliveries done on time. Next day you get fired because the AI says you acted too human. We're all going to hell.

Great overview of how it's going: $ for transit Manhattan economy thriving Less pollution Some 🚛 traffic pushed to nights Fewer injuries

I mean, this is pretty much the real answer. The veneer is becoming more and more transparent as each year goes by. Not that the MTA is going to do anything about it.

A group of Peruvian shamans gathered on a beach in southern Lima to perform their annual New Year ritual, delivering predictions for 2026 that included the fall of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and a serious illness for US President Donald Trump

Blakeman is certain to lose. The question is whether he can sling enough mud against Hochul to hurt the Democrats on down-ballot races in the legislature, Congress, and local races in the suburbs.

Maybe some day the US will be as wealthy as Iran and we will be able to afford to install elevators in three-story apartment buildings www.archdaily.com/1037070/resi...

Bruh

Bluesky is a nursing home for people who know what firewire is

ok this is cool. dubai has 248 buildings >100m tall so a drone that can apply water at 200m is a pretty good idea. sorry about the burj khalifa tho

They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Alternative subtitle: "Bill Nye has fallen, Billions will Die."

Amtrak is the only railroad in existence that thinks it's an airline, complete with it's own co-branded credit card and frequent rider program. I'm not opposed to them having it if it brings extra revenue, but unless your employer is not paying for your NE Corridor travel who exactly is this for?

Not very often you see a new product that feels like major religions should issue edicts specifically forbidding it

I saw this and immediately had the instinct to ask @stephenjacobsmith.com what I’m looking at. What are these cranes? This is in Iceland btw.

please don't cut flights out of new york how are those 1 million losers supposed to leave here

I see stories like this all the time. You can blame Hamas or whoever. But if I was an Israeli citizen living just across the wall with Gaza, sipping wine and eating a hearty meal of the kosher beef of my choice while this is going on next door. I honestly don't think I could live with myself.

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

There's gonna be daily fake AI videos of subway violence running on Fox News. I'm willing to bet they'll do a segment on NYC crime at least 3 nights a week after January 1 when they swear in Zohran.

The buses are not the subways! The mayor controls the streets. He has a lot of tools at his disposal to make the buses faster. He can't do a single thing to make the subways go faster.

This is uninformed nonsense from The Times' Editorial Board. Are they prohibited from picking up the phone and calling one of their Metro desk colleagues who could explain how things work? Dana, Emma and Stefanos could all answer the question "who is in charge of the subways?"

“I am a Democratic socialist…I refuse to apologize…” - Zohran Mamdani in his victory speech

I hope Elon OD's on Ketamine

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Anyway there’s a million waiting to replace them. A tale as old as time.

A good way to weed out people from your life is whether or not they take this article seriously.

This is the new reality, why bother convincing Congress to repeal century old statutes you don't like when your friends in the Supreme Court can just magically make them disappear?

State governments love gambling and the lottery because of the tax revenue it brings in, but they don't like to draw attention to the fact that the revenue is lost due to the social consequences of gambling. Not just the addiction itself, but the desperation and bankruptcies that follow.

They're demonizing SNAP and other recipients of federal aid on right wing media. Of 21 million federal aid beneficiaries, ~70% work full-time and 39% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. Critics need to ask Amazon and Walmart why they won't pay enough for their employees to survive w/o food stamps.

The amount of effort going into the character assassination of Mandami is unreal. Seriously, would we be having this kind of conversation if he was Christian or Hindu?

NYC Mayoral Debate MAMDANI: I want to make NYC a better place to live CUOMO: I want Mandala over here to admit he can't do anything, because I can't do anything SLIWA: I would drink a $27 Moscow mule from Andrew Cuomo's skull

I can confidently say, for all of its flaws, the fact that the US doesn't use Metric/SI is incredibly stupid. I'm not just talking about national pride or American exceptionalism, but for all practical purposes. It's just objectively better! This is so stupid.

ChatGPT is not doing the subway system too well.

Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0

Never knew that disarming paramilitary groups on another continent was one of the Mayor of New York's powers, makes you wonder why Giuliani didn't do it before 9/11.

Israel is bombing southern Lebanon again This is what the Israelis call ceasefire: you cease, we fire

Zohran Mamdani hops on a Citi Bike and a woman heckles him, shouting “communist!” He responds, “That’s cyclist”

Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamid al-Thani. A compromise candidate.

It is scandalous that every big NYPD chief happens to be "disabled" when they retire. "Tax free 3/4 of his salery life time benefits... because of an ankle injury he received on Randall's Island while on duty last year." Bullshit. This is corruption. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/06/t...

So upsetting to know that Democrats probably won’t roll this back if they ever win back the presidency

The Supreme Court should not have the power to wave their magic gavel and straight up repeal the 14th Amendment. Or any part of the Constitution. That is explicitly the job of Congress alone.

Imagine if you, the humble tourist, could get a virtual OMNY card on your iPhone without downloading an app. DC, SF and LA have figured it out.