Two months and one apparent mayoral briefing later (www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/n...) the Queensboro is finally getting its pedestrian path: www.nyc.gov/office-of-th...

ICYMI: using the budget, NY Democrats tweaked the public campaign finance system after it was used for the first time in 2024. @reinventalbany.bsky.social says the changes devised in secret undermine small donors and create an "incumbency protection program.” www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Today, we re-issued a memo of opposition to S533 which would repeal the successful congestion pricing program. We ask Senators to vote NO. A vote of “Aye Without Recommendation” is unacceptable; it would be an embarrassment for this bill to move. buff.ly/0FGi6aF

Woke up to an email from a European reporter who wants to interview me about what it's like to be a journalist living and working under an autocratic regime... rude!

Also notice the new carveout for "a person responsible for a child 7 years of age or older who is married and resides with an individual who complies with the SNAP work requirement." They're exempting married stay at home moms, fitting with their drive to get more women to make babies and stay home.

SNAP work requirements take benefits away from people without increasing employment www.nber.org/papers/w32441

Damn straight! Albany, NY has TOO MUCH car parking. @timesunion.com's Chris Churchill latest opinion piece BRINGS IT, using @parkingreform.org's data. www.timesunion.com/churchill/ar...

“The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...

Let’s correct the record on Andrew Cuomo and his history of using Jewish fear & suffering as a political tool.

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What's interesting is that the Times itself has a higher standard for its own journalists. If I bought Eric Lipton a fancy dinner, he wouldn't be allowed to take it, even if I didn't say anything to him at the dinner about how he needed to quit defending the indefensible.

preliminary cbo analysis is out. the republican plan would cut more than $700 billion from health coverage and kick more than 8 million people off their insurance

finally for medicaid, they're MANDATING cost sharing (copays, etc.) for adults above 100% of the poverty line. maximum of $35 per service, and max of 5% of your income. so if you make 20k, a state might slap $1k of fees onto your medicaid. true sicko shit!!!!

they're going after people who are not parents or caregivers and who do not have disabilities. this is the people who they think "should be" working. they have this apply to folks ages 19-64. you can collect social security at 62, but no medicaid for you if you do, even if you're in bad health.

onto work requirements. important to note that work requirements are actually all about *reporting* on your work. states that have implemented work requirements have led to disaster with huge numbers of people who are working still being kicked off their medicaid. this would be a federal mandate.

My hot tip for anyone who wants to build community but doesn't know how: Plant raspberry bushes near the sidewalk/street.

Legality aside, how pathetic for the American head of state to fly around in the plane he got as a valentine from the Emir of Qatar. A kept little man.

wapo.st/3YFsNyd I'm in the Post talking about the plane.

Energy & Commerce text is out. Will go through it in this thread. tl;dr: this'd be the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance, leading to tens of thousands of additional deaths each year LOTS of bad stuff in this (but the very worst policy did not make it in)

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

TRUMP: Accepts bribe worth millions of dollars NYT: It's an ethical issue

Today I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.

"No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State." Nothing in there says there has to be an obvious quid pro quo. Utter bullshit.

Trump continues to crash through standards of conduct once inconceivable for a POTUS. He also violates by orders of magnitude ethical standards he voiced for Biden and Clinton. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

Another Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in months wapo.st/4dlyTda

Fucking fascists, Gestapo in Massachusetts edition...

serious question: who the fuck are these people like, are these pardoned insurrectionists? are they even government employees? what agency do they work for?

Holy shit this is amazing

In one email to Veterans Affairs HQ, doctors in PA said a hiring freeze was causing “severe and immediate impacts” and that more than 1,000 veterans would lose access to treatment for cancer, kidney disease and traumatic brain injuries. By @ericumansky.bsky.social & @vernalcoleman.bsky.social

I wholeheartedly endorse @normanoder.bsky.social’s proposal for funding journalism and his important insights about where the well-intentioned public financing of campaigns has led at a moment of financial struggle for outspent journalists. Please read.

I actually would not recommend Indianapolis Bike Party for the average kid, but if your child is already a bike commuter and knows what it means to ride both predictably and responsively, it can be a fun experience to ride with a big group, at least before people get too inebriated. 🧵

Tired of sky-high infrastructure costs? Shrink the asphalt, add greenery, and give people more ways to move. It’s cheaper, safer, and your city looks like it cares about people instead of just cars.

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

I think about this comic at least once a week

Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.

Putin: [Who is this doddering old fool?] Stooge 1: [Some Crypto dude] Putin: [Jesus, these people. Tell him I said hi or something.] Interpreter: President Putin offers his warmest greetings and thanks for your visit /1

Fucking brown shirt fascists...

Oh look, it's 1991 again in Yascha Mounk's world

The FBI got clearance to use a Stingray cell-tower simulator to locate Eric Adams' phones, so uncertain they were of which ones he was using when and after they searched him — at least seven in the course of the corruption investigation, according to newly released search warrants.

First reporter to say “You’re the fucking President” gets a book deal minimum

I was today years old when @williamhazen.bsky.social taught me there’s a better map app! Transit has a friendly user interface and lots of inclusive options! You can specify your biking and walking speeds so e-bike users can see if bus or pedelec is faster. And they know where new infrastructure is!

"I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty. I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.

As we take in news abt ICE activities (to put it charitably) under the current regime keep this in mind - right now Cong. Republicans are trying to ram a budget bill that will increase ICE's detention budget by 365%. 365 Percent. @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social immigrationimpact.com/2025/05/05/h...

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Good report on one of the most pointless, destructive pursuits contemporary capitalism has devised—powered in this case by the Texas electrical grid (in a state not known for a plenitude of water).

"I've trained 1000s of soldiers..." Trans man says, stunned, at being let go in the military. Nick, a transgender man on Tiktok, is going viral today after his video shows the impact of the trans military ban on his 18 year career. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Measles outbreak surpasses 1,000 cases. www.fightinfectiousdisease.org/post/partner...