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The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Breaking News: President Trump’s deployment of thousands of Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles was illegal, a federal judge ruled.
I’m sure you could find some spots where they’d try to use it to nuke the nightlife
And post-bike path attack, but again, we’re not closing down every bike path because of terrorism.
I’m sorry, who’s bombing the elevator with 3 people on it and not the train with 300 people on it 30 seconds down the time path? By this rationale, we should shut down the J too.
Which looks like it got nicked by it :/
Downtown NIMBYs used this idea to try and jam up some elevator projects on Broad St www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/n...
Very proud of the interns' work this summer, as their fairy godmother.
Reupping for Monday =>
Come for the solid take from RJ, stay for the best artwork we've run all year
As seen time and again with IC cars, too! Civics outsold Cobalts despite costing more; Hyundai doesn’t really make inroads despite being thousands less until the cars get better, etc
New story w/ @hilaryburns.bsky.social: A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Pilot lighter material for the boilers for the next 100 years
Truly
A Daily News campaign for the ages that unfortunately went nowhere -- www.nydailynews.com/2015/09/22/g...
I believe we call this play the Robert Johnson
Brooklyn guy running for a seat above 59th street? no way
What's gonna make this primary even more wild is that the paper of record on the Upper West Side, The New York Times, probably will not endorse which means there's going to be no way to clear the field.
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Like Koch Cuomo 1977 level shenanigans, Jonathan Malher’s gonna get a whole book out of it I can feel it
This is gonna be a primary for the ages
Woooooooooooooooow — www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Nous escrivons les skeets (no i'm not looking up the accent for a skeet)
Tariff exemptions you say?
The trains run via Lansdale on the north, and uh... that's gonna get gutted
Me: This sounds a lot like a Curtis Mayfield song! The credits: Curtis Mayfield produced it
Great work here by Newsday's summer interns who built out the most existential of projects: Reporting out why they probably won't be able to come back and live Long Island -- www.newsday.com/app/business...
EHHHHH looks like you bullied it into working!
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Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Well, it imported just fine locally into Apple Music, but I'm stuck waiting for The Cloud^tm (iTunes Match, I guess) to do its thing...
hmmm ok time to run an experiment
How does Apple Music handle your Bandcamp stuff?
In the Apple Music/Spotify world: What's the best way to save/store/play music locally these days?
like, if this is your media diet... whew boy
literally half my 'for you' feed is Elon hating Muslims and videos of whatever the hell this shit is
good healthy normal stuff going on over ~~there~~
Unregulated ADUs but you can’t actually improve them to make them proper ADUs FTW
Feel like today’s a day to do a little pasta sauce improv and see what happens
The Trump administration has suspended visa approvals for nearly all Palestinian passport holders, the latest in a series of steps to bar Palestinians from entering the U.S.
consumer spending slows and inflation ticks up this must mean the housing crisis has been solved because now fewer people are even looking for a house
Yes, though I don't believe it contributes to the cost of the other side of the network, the Lansdale piece
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Which is just craziness. The state Senate GOP won’t okay funding; a state judge has barred fare hikes and service cuts. I can’t imagine how frustrating this is for everyone at SEPTA right now.
“SEPTA tells riders to hold off on buying weekly and monthly passes after judge blocks fare hike A Philly judge ordered SEPTA to halt planned fare increases and service cuts, saying, "everything must stop.’” www.inquirer.com/transportati...
“Delaware commuters hope for SEPTA resolution SEPTA rail service to and from Delaware is scheduled to end in January and commuters told NBC10’s Tim Furlong that they are getting nervous if lawmakers can’t resolve the funding issues.” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/video/news/l...
“Delaware commuters hope for SEPTA resolution SEPTA rail service to and from Delaware is scheduled to end in January and commuters told NBC10’s Tim Furlong that they are getting nervous if lawmakers can’t resolve the funding issues.” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/video/news/l...
If memory serves, an early version pre-EIS included the bypass, leading to Blumenthal’s “tie me to the tracks” quote, leading to it being ‘mysteriously’ punted to a future study
I’ve heard from Democrats + public health people who interpret Trump’s post today as bad for RFK Jr People in Trump’s orbit and in admin tell me nothing has changed: RFK Jr retains full support. (Per our article, which ran online yesterday and on front page of WaPo this morning)
Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield, Mo.; Birmingham, Ala.; Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Tulsa, Okla.; Memphis and Nashville; Houston; Little Rock, Ark.; Salt Lake City; and Shreveport, La., all have crime rates comparable to Washington’s, according to F.B.I. statistics.
Little known provision of the Connecticut State Constitution is that every child gets a stream, river or other body of water upon birth
absolute god-tier weather this weekend
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The Supreme Court has flirted with a flurry of Trump administration matters in recent months, but the battle over the president’s sweeping global tariffs will put the justices directly on the spot www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ
My subway take would be more subways ama
Democratic governors are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s plans to halt offshore wind developments
Not in the New York... Oeuvre
“What Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has done to the C.D.C. and to our nation’s public health system over the past several months — … — is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Up there with Andrew Cuomo running around talking about how as mayor he'd want to run the subways — after spending his decade as governor, where running the subways was a chief responsibility trying to claim it wasn't his responsibility.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Need someone to make a Bsky bot: "RFK Jr. is dismantling the CDC and here's why it's The New York Times fault."
That British politics is still so frozen over Brexit that no one is willing to hit Farage, Mr. Brexit, over Brexit is such a truly stunning and farcical state of affairs. Iannucci has been RIF'd by current events -- www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Idk I think Flushing at the BQE has it beat
Pound for pound, Flushing Ave might be the worst designed street in the city
"The arts season is about to begin. Will cuts to SEPTA mean a loss of audiences? Audiences, performers, students, arts and culture workers all take public transit to get to arts venues. SEPTA's cuts pose a 'critical setback' to the city's arts and culture sector." www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
“A City Reinvented: Paris Is Now Greater Paris” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
“Trump’s Plan to Pack the Fed With Loyalists: Overhauling the central bank’s Board of Governors would grant the president greater sway over an institution that is supposed to be independent from the White House.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
“In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit: President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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Brighton 🫡
Relationship is probably even stronger against express subway stops
The super cynic in me thinks the local NIMBYs are lining up a way to try and kill it
Scope creep bb!
The cross-party effort to drive a stake in Johnson's heart is really something.
"How SEPTA service cuts impact real Philadelphians, in their own words SEPTA riders are grappling with how their commutes — and their lives — will change if funding doesn't forestall cuts to buses, trains, and trolleys." www.inquirer.com/transportati...
When you only order trains every 30 years and then those trains get tied up for 10 years... Le sigh
I feel like the airlines have experimented with this fixed-back/fixed/shell setup, too, to very mixed results
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Was not great
Yes but this ruins the fun that comes with making shit up
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HAVE MORE FAITH
HAVE FAITH
A terrific journalist and even better human being. RIP
METS TIE IT 8-8
METS!!!!!
I just did and looked what happened!
Hello! Might need to borrow some arms over there for the bullpen
Marlins have two fielding errors and we’re down by 6, which… yikes
It’s not great Elon it’s not great
Pitching change in the 3rd is brutal 😔
YES
CMON METS
Need Rob Manfred to require teams sell scorecards on card stock and separately from these dumb magazine things. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Idk how much of this is habit, but I’ve seen a bunch of parents carrying strollers up and down the passage and stairs between the 4/5/6 and the 7 at Grand Central even though there’s a working elevator
TEXAS FIGHT COOPER
