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Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

time again for a little huddle-up on what a "right" is

Guess who on guess who: “I warned people in the transition, this guy is unpredictable, immature and a narcissist, and he’d turn on anybody — including the president — when it suited him.” w @joshuagreen.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And this: "Yet even as he prides himself on dispassionate rigor, Musk has proved remarkably uninterested in figuring out how the government that he sought to transform really works."

There’s your empty shelf. US goods imports drop 19.8% in April — largest on record

The story Enrich tells is how wealthy plaintiffs are becoming far more systematic in bringing ruinous lawsuits not to win them, but to inflict costs. For ... powerful interests the goal is not just to kill stories or outlets, but the law that makes the stories possible. prospect.org/culture/book...

I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Musk is out (or so he says). But the DOGE mindset remains, evident in gutted agencies and a demoralized workforce. “Nobody else in the world is doing this kind of thing. And it’s basically going to get shelved.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I take the subway by myself multiple times literally every day and the most memorable things that have happened recently are that a very cute dog in a purple sweater was on my train car a few days ago and today a guy with a cane got on and literally four people immediately sprang up so he could sit

Very funny to act like the victim of a broken social contract in a post where you admit to breaking the social contract. Driver brain is astonishing.

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

Andrew Cuomo’s sideline — nuke startup adviser — just bumped a bit further into the money.

This is a really terrific, deeply thoughtful reckoning with personal and public/political history and the murky gray zone between international law and anything that can satisfyingly be called justice — by @bernstein.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...

“.. Low-information voters may be fooled for a little while, but bond markets won’t.”

this is with no exaggeration a david duke line

Relevant to this: if you are in the business of selling self-driving cars, one competitor you might not want to contend with is low-cost, reliably funded, and plentiful mass transit, which a) already exists and b) already far surpasses all your claims about improving rider safety.

One of the free state of Florida's biggest counties just blocked schoolkids from reading "The Handmaid‘s Tale," "Beloved" and "Anne Frank’s Diary" www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

my sense is that people are still dramatically underrating how much freaking money crypto is pouring into elections

The federal government filed its response arguing why a judge shouldn't issue a restraining order preventing them from retaliating against New York for continuing congestion pricing, and their one narrative argument against the toll is an out of date environmental justice argument

On Friday, Andrew Cuomo's appearance on the Spanish-language radio station Mega 97.9's morning show was looking like one of his uneventful, unremarkable media hits—until he repeatedly asked a host of the show, who was seated next to him, out on a date. hellgatenyc.com/creepy-andre...

Fun news: Today Businessweek launched Everybody’s Business, a new weekly (chatty, fun) podcast about what’s going on with the economy. It’s hosted by @chafkin.bsky.social and @svaneksmith.bsky.social, and I’m on our first episode talking about tariffs and Christmas! www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/ser...

Comparing a transit agency that's required to run a fixed schedule and provide universal access to an entire region to Uber is just so deeply unserious it's hard to know where to begin -- www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

An informal adviser to former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has formed a new outside group that appears to be designed to boost his campaign for mayor of New York City w/ Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/n...

War reporting in West Philly - 40 years ago today www.inquirer.com/news/move-un...

We managed to make the Tulsa race massacre a well-known component of U.S. history. This should be, too.

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A sentence. "Lucrative opportunities are on the way for the entire deportation industry." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hello to the Robert Caro fan writing subheds for the NYT website:

Amtrak began laying off some 20% of its top-level executives this week. Trump's withholding of previously awarded grant has thrown a historic program of infrastructure building into doubt. The company is seeking $100 million in cuts amid the uncertainty. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Not taking sides on the merits of the plan, but as usual it's interesting to see New York state and city politicians startle awake to something that has been discussed publicly, in venues inviting their input, for more than a decade.

Everyone is focusing on tariffs. But there's another force roiling the US economy & driving a slowdown: A new austerity driven by Trump's federal funding cuts. The great @whereisted.bsky.social, @nazmul.bsky.social and I are tracking it for @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

State and local governments are bracing for a recessionary shock, as the Trump administration slashes federal funding that underpins local budgets, nonprofits and infrastructure. You’ll feel it everywhere. w @sdonnan.bsky.social & Nazmul Ahasan www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

As Sean Duffy struggles to keep airplanes in the sky, the MTA had another week where ridership tipped over 4 million rides from Tuesday to Friday and just missed back-back-to-back days of 4.4 million rides

"The most likely scenario today still is that the world’s largest economy will for years to come have a 10% tariff wall around it that didn’t exist a month ago." @sdonnan.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Cuomo updated his disclosures tonight to reflect the missing options -- $3 million worth -- in a nuclear power startup. The company's founder explained why it paid him: "connections." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I can't decide whether the greater tragedy here is the waste of desperately needed land or the waste of desperately needed money.

Remember, the public is not clamoring for robotaxis. Silicon Valley has decided you NEED robotaxis, just like they decided you needed scooters, the Metaverse, AR glasses etc. techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/u...

Percival Everett, the author of “James” and “Erasure,” at the Aspen Words Literary Prize awards ceremony tonight: “Books are scary to fascists, because they can’t see what’s going into you, even if they are looking over your shoulder. And they are.”

A WSJ article on the downward spiral of Florida condo prices. They mention a few issues including higher insurance rates and risks of hurricanes. What they do not mention is climate change. Happy Earth Day!

This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!

US DOT continues its crusade against NYC's extremely successful congestion pricing program, this time with Sec. Duffy writing Gov. Hochul to threaten that the US will not approve any federal transportation projects in NY going forward unless the pricing program stops.

tired: Elon Musk is president wired: Russ Vought is president neither tired nor wired: @chafkin.bsky.social read this story.

NEW Businessweek feature: The US gives permission to pay people with disabilities below minimum wage. Biden tried to end program. Employers urging Trump preserve it say they've gotten private signals he will. Based on 1000s of pages of records & 150 interviews: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Congratulations to @bloomberg.com reporters Eric Fan, Zachary Mider, Denise Lu, Marie Patino, Nic Querolo, Coulter Jones and Kyle Kim for winning the @ire.org Freedom of Information Award for their H1B visa series!