Sustainability, NYC politics, cool maps, linguistics, socialism, books, esoteric puns, and 40+ years without a driver's license.
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The whole "parking tickets are unjust oppression" narrative is a bad take. There's nothing glorious about scofflaws polluting our cities and endangering our children so they can store their valuable personal property in public resources for free or maybe, MAYBE, a pittance of its societal cost
Don't tantalize him like that!
I don't think it's required by those who eat meat to need gelatin, but it's a cheap stabilizer so if they're not trying to get the veg market why not use the cheapest industrial dip that most customers would want?
I am once again asking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to come on The War on Cars podcast to talk about his transportation, public space, and climate policies.
Not all people who eat vegetables are vegetation or vegan. This is close to "so you hate waffles?" reasoning
Not very effective...
I'll take this Jimmy all day every day out of the Jimmy options
Isn't he a decades-long friend with the National Enquirer guy? They love big babies
While I'd love to see Kimmel roast ABC and the administration, if he did a solid hour about how "Trump was best friends with this pedophile he's now protecting" it would be incredible payback that wouldn't give them any chance to complain.
Honor Charlie Kirk? Sure! Endorse Zohran Mamdani? Whoa! We'll need to think about that and assess the timing.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social this your guy?
The team is still going to use the Gotham name but play in Bludhaven or Crest Hill, resentful fans will try to support the team but unreliable public transit coming to and from the "home" games is gonna create a new themed Rogue.
He's both trying to rationalize the unthinkable and keep up the op, CIA line followed by real thought. Dutch et al don't speak Spanish so Dillon wants to keep them on mission, get the rebels or whomever they're there to get, but he's also afraid and believes her and literally it doesn't make sense
No, the lemonade guy
am i hurt that i didn’t get this scoop? of course. am i amused that tom homan could be bought for $50k? absolutely. is he a bitch? always.
On the heels of her also voting "nay" on the Charlie Kirk Day resolution, unlike Jeferies, Nadler, and Meeks' "yay" and more vociferous than Meng and Goldman's "present". Surprising yesterday and happy to see it carrying over today
There have been occasional proposals to extend service that somehow become more complicated than 'extend the RR', for galaxy brained reasons usually. But the simple answer is the right one. The railways/ROWs already exist. Let put down some power poles, put in some signals and put them to work.
Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.
A listener to my show said the House Democrats should introduce impeachment articles for FCC Chair Brendan Carr for violating the First Amendment by pressuring ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel. I 100% agree. Let's get the GOP on the record voting against free speech!!
Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
@wyden.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @hirono.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social very disappointing from all of you. Kirk was a Christo-fascist racist piece of crap no one kind will miss him
This should be the easiest ask. Moreover, Democrats should use the opportunity to say that Charlie Kirk had bad values and did bad things, and deserves no honor. Why is that hard? It’s the simple truth.
Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
For instance:
History accidentally swapped the reactions to Trump 1 and Trump 2.
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
Boo! This is what happens when I try for purple first. I immediately saw the actual purple category but thought it too obvious. So I looked for a more obscure one to give a shot and what you know it's the one that literally 49/50 people don't pick first but that's green. #nytgames #nytconnections
It was a trap and now we know you can read. Counter countered.
Ha! So it's NOT am allusion to National Treasure (2007)? Checkmate, liberal
my baseline for an "acceptable" amount of crime is i put 3 pies on a window sill. If a man in a bandit mask floats by & takes one? ok. If he takes two & leaves a note "sorry mac, dems da breaks!" that is also ok. If takes all 3 & says "Boss sez all pies go tru HIM foist" uh oh
A penny paved is a penny you can't pick up off the street
They had kids, too.
JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein
Right winger gets murdered: he was the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived Right winger ends up being the murderer: he was also the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived
Anything set in the Bahamas with a speech impeded character has gotta be the only safe bet. Which, I know, describes dozens of shows
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino were rushed to salt lake medical center in serious but stable condition after bending down to reach for the same banana peel simultaneously and bonking their heads together and it made a sound like when Gallagher hit a watermelon
No-hit 'em for 7.1 innings, just not in the usual way
Susan Collins was the deciding vote today to block the Senate release of the Epstein files. Graham Platner is people funded, rejects AIPAC, condemns Israel’s genocide in Palestine by name, & doesn’t protect pedophiles. Join me in throwing a few bucks his way: secure.actblue.com/donate/gpbgi...
Backed Chris Christie, gave to Donald Trump (first inauguration, not necessarily campaign donor), but as Democrats: Andrew Yang, Eric Adams. So, they suck. But he's a billionaire so not the worst? (I feel gross)
The subway had its safest summer in 15 years, according to police data, a vastly different picture than the one painted by the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...
I put my hand upon the groove When I move you move we move You put your hand upon the groove When you move I move we move
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
A true man of the people
When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.
C'mon now, he's still alive. In movies even recently.
Ex-Israeli spokesman: "You represent sharia. You represent the hatred of Western society." Me: "I am Western, you racist piece of shit... I thought I was coming on to debate John Spencer not this ridiculous war criminal." Full debate between me & an Israeli racist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
Longtime Teamsters write open letter against endorsing Sean O'Brien to continue as President of the Teamsters, who they say is a "union leader that has allied himself to a want-to-be dictator proving to be the most anti-worker president in history." www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/05/o...
This would be an outrageous abuse of the Board of Elections role in order to override the democratic process.
Trump wants Cuomo Trump wants Cuomo This should be enough to be fully entirely disqualifying
How can we get them addicted to Civilization or Crusader Kings
I hate to give either them a W, but this is... this is so bad I'm gonna say Hochul is a better governor and a better person than Gavin Newsom and I already feel unclean
"left leaning Republicans" Just a total free-for-all in the meanings of words now, huh?
Oh, definitely!
Ever seen a bear?
Sunday 1pm after all the panel shows are over. What're they gonna do, sit on it for a week? Anything can happen by the next Sunday, might never even crack the cycle
Hold on there, champ, it's a *tidal* estuary. You want that fill ebbing and flowing all day?
i'm living rent free in your shed
cloaca-la?
Fuck your mwahahahaha shit, that's a watered down bwahahahaha that had its own rich history and originators before you mwahahahahaers culturally appropriated it
*opens up your fridge and sees you have 2% milk* hey bro you need to charge your milk
A substantial portion of that Persian population are also Jewish and likely a non-zero number of the Middle Eastern population are Israeli. Can't just take a whole swath of demographics and extrapolate without the bigger picture.
Because Roman Candle Natural Philosopher wasn't as catchy
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
It's spelt "spelt" and it's also what goes in mills
it's really telling that the pitch for Newsom is a whole lot of talking about how he's the guy to beat Trump, whereas the pitch for Pritzker is him actually beating back some of the effects of Trump's government using his power as governor
I prefer imagining book-length conversations my old professor may have had.
Right, they'd rather stay in a North Jersey as a rump state, but prefer a Greater NYC offer. But if NYC took only the truly urban 4/5 NE counties but didn't want to take the whole northern half, maybe Lenapehoking can get Mercer. It's what everyone dreams of: being Trenton's 3rd choice
I like it, but no way Mercer goes in a way further from NYC than status quo. I mean Burlington and Ocean are less and less South Jersey each year with the vanishing middle.
This happens when people forget to just say "played out". A lot of "worst songs" are objectively terrific, like say Piano Man. I don't ever need to hear it again but saying it belongs on worst ever lists is just dumb.
Jaywalkers just keep on winning
Means testing bribes like the speeding tickets in Finland
Yes, but her not interacting with the press often could have led to this whole thing. "Winnie, we got denied matching funds again. Look out for someone from the city at this event and try to pay them off"
Every office building area should be full of ground floor bars and restaurants. Almost no overlap in peak usage, complementary even, easy transportation infrastructure already in place but under-utilized at that hour. Much of Lower Manhattan, e.g., is completely dead at 6pm. With 13 subway lines!
It took me a minute to think to myself whether Adams had also done this before I commented, but wrong candidate.
Among Black voters under 50, Mamdani got 70%+ of the vote. 🔥 That shows the power of organizing, trusted messengers, and bold solutions to meet the cost-of-living crisis. 4/5
Cuomo still won most majority-Black precincts—largely because of name recognition & low turnout. Nearly half of Black voters hadn’t even heard of Mamdani before the primary. But those who did? 79% rated him favorably. 3/5
Actual still from security footage of this guy's work
Heh
Flamingstop, Jerry
At (another) Hampton’s fundraiser with Republican donors on Saturday, Andrew Cuomo said it plainly: he’s expecting Trump’s help to defeat us in November. “I feel good about that,” Cuomo said. New Yorkers won’t.
Andrew Cuomo is trying to create pretexts for Donald Trump to send in troops to occupy NYC.
I think he (and other shots so long they're jokes) always overperforms in polls because some people think choosing the "undecided" options makes them look dumb and even anonymously they want to appear to have an opinion.
Maine character energy
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
There's a lot of numbers between 7 and 20 that buses could travel at
But that bullying was done not by a bully but by a bigger nerd, and that's the nerd due bullied-nerd experience so they wouldn't nerd-bully GRRM.
Today I'm so honored to earn the endorsement of @drichardsqns.bsky.social, who fights for the world's borough every day. We recently rode the Q4 in Jamaica, one of the five bus lines made free in our fare free bus pilot. Ridership jumped 30%, and everyone's commute got a little bit easier.
Color is just a societal construct
There's the Hulk. And the other Hulk, too. Any Hulk, really
If you don’t know the difference between rent-stabilized and Section 8, you’re unfit to be mayor of NYC.
DYK? Traffic is down and business is up.
