Dan Miller
@meelar.bsky.social
Queens volunteer chapter leader for @opennewyork.org. YIMBY, pro-transit, pro-biking, anti-borders-and-cars. He/him
Reposted by Dan Miller
Six byline Politico story confirms Punchbowl scoop from last night: "[T]he president would release federal funds for a massive rail tunnel project connecting New York and New Jersey on the condition that two major travel hubs be renamed in his honor" -- www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing rail tunnel funds
Funding for the Gateway Project has been held up since October.
www.politico.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Six byline Politico story confirms Punchbowl scoop from last night: "[T]he president would release federal funds for a massive rail tunnel project connecting New York and New Jersey on the condition that two major travel hubs be renamed in his honor" -- www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Reposted by Dan Miller
NYC used to consistently build 5-10 new subway stations every single year.
Since 1990 we have built 4. Not 4 per year, 4 total over 36 years.
We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like:
Since 1990 we have built 4. Not 4 per year, 4 total over 36 years.
We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like:
February 6, 2026 at 3:14 AM
NYC used to consistently build 5-10 new subway stations every single year.
Since 1990 we have built 4. Not 4 per year, 4 total over 36 years.
We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like:
Since 1990 we have built 4. Not 4 per year, 4 total over 36 years.
We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like:
NYC desperately needs 23rd Street to turn into a busway like 14th has. @mayor.nyc.gov Save me please!
Sent from an extremely slow M23
Sent from an extremely slow M23
February 5, 2026 at 10:48 PM
NYC desperately needs 23rd Street to turn into a busway like 14th has. @mayor.nyc.gov Save me please!
Sent from an extremely slow M23
Sent from an extremely slow M23
Reposted by Dan Miller
Reading this in a public place and couldn't stop myself from making a dramatic 😬😬😬 face
'this is how men behave' these people always telling on themselves
'this is how men behave' these people always telling on themselves
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.
Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
February 5, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Reading this in a public place and couldn't stop myself from making a dramatic 😬😬😬 face
'this is how men behave' these people always telling on themselves
'this is how men behave' these people always telling on themselves
Reposted by Dan Miller
I may be the only one but I've never really liked food delivery. If I'm going to pay restaurant prices, I want the food *and* the sociality of the restaurant experience. Being out of my house & with others is part of the point of restaurants. I don't need to pay extra to *not* get that part.
mainly, I want to help more people learn to cook simple meals because it makes me *real* mad to see parasites like DoorDash and Uber Eats making big bucks off price-gouging both small restaurant businesses and stressed out normal people.
February 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I may be the only one but I've never really liked food delivery. If I'm going to pay restaurant prices, I want the food *and* the sociality of the restaurant experience. Being out of my house & with others is part of the point of restaurants. I don't need to pay extra to *not* get that part.
Reposted by Dan Miller
Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.
Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"
February 5, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.
Reposted by Dan Miller
i feel like american political elites are completely unprepared to tackle with tangibel threats to their democracy beyond "shaming random people for being too to win wisconsin" because they don't actually think democracy itself could disappear. in brazil and south korea they do believe it.
A story relevant to ICE election threats.
On Election Day 2022 in Brazil, the Bolsonaro government had Federal Highway Police place roadblocks in his opponent Lula's northeastern strongholds.
But courts intervened; Lula won. The highway police chief is now serving a 24 years prison sentence.
On Election Day 2022 in Brazil, the Bolsonaro government had Federal Highway Police place roadblocks in his opponent Lula's northeastern strongholds.
But courts intervened; Lula won. The highway police chief is now serving a 24 years prison sentence.
February 5, 2026 at 2:02 PM
i feel like american political elites are completely unprepared to tackle with tangibel threats to their democracy beyond "shaming random people for being too to win wisconsin" because they don't actually think democracy itself could disappear. in brazil and south korea they do believe it.
Reposted by Dan Miller
surprise! Tesla is doing shady stuff with self-driving!
February 5, 2026 at 1:38 AM
surprise! Tesla is doing shady stuff with self-driving!
A parking space is much larger than a stadium seat, so I don't know why the Times is so baffled that it costs more.
"A FIFA spokesperson, when asked to justify the prices, told The Athletic that 'parking prices are determined based on local market conditions'..."
Good answer. I wish reporters would ask cities to justify below-cost prices that lead to overcrowded curbs & drivers circling in search of free parking
Good answer. I wish reporters would ask cities to justify below-cost prices that lead to overcrowded curbs & drivers circling in search of free parking
World Cup parking for $300? FIFA selling spots at L.A. games for more than tickets
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:39 AM
A parking space is much larger than a stadium seat, so I don't know why the Times is so baffled that it costs more.
Reposted by Dan Miller
This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
February 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
Reposted by Dan Miller
Once Trump's regime is removed from power, we need a constitutional refounding to finally create a fully egalitarian democracy.
Reconstruction did not go far enough, and we can't repeat the failures of that era by keeping the flawed political institutions that helped bring us to our present crisis
Reconstruction did not go far enough, and we can't repeat the failures of that era by keeping the flawed political institutions that helped bring us to our present crisis
February 3, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Once Trump's regime is removed from power, we need a constitutional refounding to finally create a fully egalitarian democracy.
Reconstruction did not go far enough, and we can't repeat the failures of that era by keeping the flawed political institutions that helped bring us to our present crisis
Reconstruction did not go far enough, and we can't repeat the failures of that era by keeping the flawed political institutions that helped bring us to our present crisis
Reposted by Dan Miller
The whole "Trump can't rig the elections" thing strikes me somewhat the same way as "climate change isn't going to drive human beings extinct" thing.
Like ... sure. OK. But there's a whole lot of bad shit that stops well short of that!
Like ... sure. OK. But there's a whole lot of bad shit that stops well short of that!
February 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
The whole "Trump can't rig the elections" thing strikes me somewhat the same way as "climate change isn't going to drive human beings extinct" thing.
Like ... sure. OK. But there's a whole lot of bad shit that stops well short of that!
Like ... sure. OK. But there's a whole lot of bad shit that stops well short of that!
Julie, you can just quit. Be free!
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Julie, you can just quit. Be free!
Reposted by Dan Miller
This was a remarkably crazy response by Mike Johnson's standards. He's going full "stop the steal" and clearly would line up behind any effort Trump makes to rig the midterms and 2028 elections
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"
February 3, 2026 at 7:39 PM
This was a remarkably crazy response by Mike Johnson's standards. He's going full "stop the steal" and clearly would line up behind any effort Trump makes to rig the midterms and 2028 elections
Reposted by Dan Miller
Many affordable housing proponents support mandates on the premise that they produce more affordable housing than voluntary incentives, even if they kill housing supply overall. A recent paper by Lebret et al shows this premise is false. (thread)
February 3, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Many affordable housing proponents support mandates on the premise that they produce more affordable housing than voluntary incentives, even if they kill housing supply overall. A recent paper by Lebret et al shows this premise is false. (thread)
Reposted by Dan Miller
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
Reposted by Dan Miller
The weirdest thing about losing a friend or family member to traffic violence in the US is just how little anyone cares. If you're lucky, there will be a reprint of the policy statement in a local paper. But there will be no reporting. There will be no investigation. There will be no conviction.
February 3, 2026 at 12:23 AM
The weirdest thing about losing a friend or family member to traffic violence in the US is just how little anyone cares. If you're lucky, there will be a reprint of the policy statement in a local paper. But there will be no reporting. There will be no investigation. There will be no conviction.
Reposted by Dan Miller
It's unsettling how traffic violence is reported in the US. If the driver was going this street's speed limit of 25mph, there's a 90% chance this woman would be alive. But that's unmentioned. The driver was "cooperative." There will be no follow up. There will be no convictions. A life is lost.
February 3, 2026 at 12:21 AM
It's unsettling how traffic violence is reported in the US. If the driver was going this street's speed limit of 25mph, there's a 90% chance this woman would be alive. But that's unmentioned. The driver was "cooperative." There will be no follow up. There will be no convictions. A life is lost.
Reposted by Dan Miller
The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...
The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence
Both the calendar and the events in Minneapolis have brought the midterm...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:35 PM
The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...
Reposted by Dan Miller
i was not aware until now that crockett has been mealy-mouthed on the filibuster. this strikes me as a much more substantive point in talarico's favor than probable-but-not-provable electability judgments
February 1, 2026 at 8:05 PM
i was not aware until now that crockett has been mealy-mouthed on the filibuster. this strikes me as a much more substantive point in talarico's favor than probable-but-not-provable electability judgments
Reposted by Dan Miller
These kinds of human scale, mixed-use Midwest dive bars are illegal to open and operate in most American neighborhoods.
February 1, 2026 at 3:54 PM
These kinds of human scale, mixed-use Midwest dive bars are illegal to open and operate in most American neighborhoods.
Reposted by Dan Miller
In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility
DPS troopers stand guard in front of the Dilley detention center during a protest last weekend. After a week of public outcry over the Dilley, Texas South
www.sacurrent.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:29 AM
In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
NY state made the threshold for license suspension slightly stricter--now your license gets suspended after 10 points in 18 months, rather than 11 in 24 months. The Post worries that this will make driving less safe (??) by leading to more unlicensed drivers. It's absurd.
LI drivers battling some of nation�s most dangerous roads warn about state�s new license �point� system
LI drivers battling some of nation�s most dangerous roads warn about state�s new license �point� system
Long Island drivers already navigating some of the nation�s most dangerous roads warn Albany�s stricter new traffic laws will only likely dump more unlicensed motorists on the streets.
nypost.com
February 1, 2026 at 10:37 PM
NY state made the threshold for license suspension slightly stricter--now your license gets suspended after 10 points in 18 months, rather than 11 in 24 months. The Post worries that this will make driving less safe (??) by leading to more unlicensed drivers. It's absurd.
Reposted by Dan Miller
Josh Shapiro can go fuck himself. So goddamn tired of this self-absorbed empty suit.
January 31, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Josh Shapiro can go fuck himself. So goddamn tired of this self-absorbed empty suit.