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Public sector can't build anything right now. Someone should figure out why costs are up so much in the past 10 years!
January 8, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Public sector can't build anything right now. Someone should figure out why costs are up so much in the past 10 years!
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The EWR AirTrain isn’t serving NJT/Amtrak for 10 hours every weekday starting next week. Of course, it’s not during overnight hours when people aren’t trying to catch a flight. The daily shutdown starts precisely at the time of the first airport departure of the day. Disband the Port Authority.
January 7, 2026 at 9:57 PM
The EWR AirTrain isn’t serving NJT/Amtrak for 10 hours every weekday starting next week. Of course, it’s not during overnight hours when people aren’t trying to catch a flight. The daily shutdown starts precisely at the time of the first airport departure of the day. Disband the Port Authority.
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Detroit would have been a big city with or without the automobile. It was a big city before any of them. They could only start manufacturing something so complicated & capital intensive in a place with established banking, investors, engineers, the works!
January 8, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Detroit would have been a big city with or without the automobile. It was a big city before any of them. They could only start manufacturing something so complicated & capital intensive in a place with established banking, investors, engineers, the works!
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One of my hills to die about the great lakes cities is that they were really big cities before the automobile.
Milwaukee's peak national relevance/proportional population was in 1910. 3 years before ford began mass manufacturing any cars.
Milwaukee's peak national relevance/proportional population was in 1910. 3 years before ford began mass manufacturing any cars.
January 8, 2026 at 3:39 AM
One of my hills to die about the great lakes cities is that they were really big cities before the automobile.
Milwaukee's peak national relevance/proportional population was in 1910. 3 years before ford began mass manufacturing any cars.
Milwaukee's peak national relevance/proportional population was in 1910. 3 years before ford began mass manufacturing any cars.
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There funding stack relies on a lot of discretionary USDoT grants. Literally the worst source for funding for a project that will take forever.
January 8, 2026 at 3:46 AM
There funding stack relies on a lot of discretionary USDoT grants. Literally the worst source for funding for a project that will take forever.
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Big macro thing here. This estimate is Year of expenditure dollars (YoE), which becomes a really big deal when your project timeline is 2025-2045. Over a 2 year timeline at 2% inflation prices rise 50%. At 3.5% they double. That this can have cataclysmic effects on top line price should be obvious.
January 8, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Big macro thing here. This estimate is Year of expenditure dollars (YoE), which becomes a really big deal when your project timeline is 2025-2045. Over a 2 year timeline at 2% inflation prices rise 50%. At 3.5% they double. That this can have cataclysmic effects on top line price should be obvious.
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Based farebox recovery kingpin:
January 8, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Based farebox recovery kingpin:
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CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…
January 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…
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I know one day most of us will be looking at this time in the rearview mirror, but right now I’m looking down the barrel of three years that each promise to be worse than the last, after the shit-ass year we’ve just had, and I just have a hard time even understanding what that looks like.
January 8, 2026 at 1:40 AM
I know one day most of us will be looking at this time in the rearview mirror, but right now I’m looking down the barrel of three years that each promise to be worse than the last, after the shit-ass year we’ve just had, and I just have a hard time even understanding what that looks like.
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Part of what I want to do with "Abolish ICE" is to specifically fire all of the current agency employees and re-hire *different people*.
I particularly would like to disrupt the leadership structure.
I particularly would like to disrupt the leadership structure.
January 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Part of what I want to do with "Abolish ICE" is to specifically fire all of the current agency employees and re-hire *different people*.
I particularly would like to disrupt the leadership structure.
I particularly would like to disrupt the leadership structure.
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I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
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DHS in general was a bad re-org.
Give TSA and the air marshals to DOT, customs and civil immigration to state, criminal immigration enforcement to justice, the natsec shit to Justice/DoD, etc.
Only border patrol is the one that doesn’t neatly fit into any already existing cabinet portfolio.
Give TSA and the air marshals to DOT, customs and civil immigration to state, criminal immigration enforcement to justice, the natsec shit to Justice/DoD, etc.
Only border patrol is the one that doesn’t neatly fit into any already existing cabinet portfolio.
January 8, 2026 at 12:24 AM
DHS in general was a bad re-org.
Give TSA and the air marshals to DOT, customs and civil immigration to state, criminal immigration enforcement to justice, the natsec shit to Justice/DoD, etc.
Only border patrol is the one that doesn’t neatly fit into any already existing cabinet portfolio.
Give TSA and the air marshals to DOT, customs and civil immigration to state, criminal immigration enforcement to justice, the natsec shit to Justice/DoD, etc.
Only border patrol is the one that doesn’t neatly fit into any already existing cabinet portfolio.
Timeline cleanse
here's how they suck all the trash out of buffalo bayou in houston
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Timeline cleanse
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honestly such a shame that the DNC is mostly an hollow institution to move money around between PACs because Ken Martin does know ball and has built a good comms team
ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
January 8, 2026 at 1:21 AM
honestly such a shame that the DNC is mostly an hollow institution to move money around between PACs because Ken Martin does know ball and has built a good comms team
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A key problem with left-maximalist demands is that if the argument *against ICE* is “Borders shouldn’t exist,” then the public will choose ICE.
Abolishing ICE in its current form is part of a practical immigration policy. Open borders is not.
Abolishing ICE in its current form is part of a practical immigration policy. Open borders is not.
cropped sc because tensions are running high so no need to start unnecessary beef, but this is something literally no country on earth has, and it’s fucking annoying when people act superior to you because you’re grappling with this shit as it actually exists rather than airly imaging utopias.
January 8, 2026 at 1:42 AM
A key problem with left-maximalist demands is that if the argument *against ICE* is “Borders shouldn’t exist,” then the public will choose ICE.
Abolishing ICE in its current form is part of a practical immigration policy. Open borders is not.
Abolishing ICE in its current form is part of a practical immigration policy. Open borders is not.
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"your solution of expanding courts and legal rights pales in comparison to mine, abolishing the entire state as it currently exists" like ok you do you, but I'm not going to regard you as my moral superior because you're writing higher-concept fiction.
"oh no country on earth does this" don't give a shit. either you believe human beings are human beings or you don't.
cropped sc because tensions are running high so no need to start unnecessary beef, but this is something literally no country on earth has, and it’s fucking annoying when people act superior to you because you’re grappling with this shit as it actually exists rather than airly imaging utopias.
January 8, 2026 at 2:13 AM
"your solution of expanding courts and legal rights pales in comparison to mine, abolishing the entire state as it currently exists" like ok you do you, but I'm not going to regard you as my moral superior because you're writing higher-concept fiction.
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The protest leaders are screaming denunciations at… Tim Walz
January 7, 2026 at 11:44 PM
The protest leaders are screaming denunciations at… Tim Walz
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The Nobel Peace Prize Committee should announce they are suspending the award until 2029.
January 8, 2026 at 2:02 AM
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee should announce they are suspending the award until 2029.
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It’s the iron law of protests: the protests are good, most leaders are bad. Tonight’s leaders spent considerably more time denouncing Frey and Walz than Republicans, although to their credit, several of the speakers were laser focused on Trump, ICE, this admin, etc. That itself is significant.
The protest leaders are screaming denunciations at… Tim Walz
January 8, 2026 at 1:23 AM
It’s the iron law of protests: the protests are good, most leaders are bad. Tonight’s leaders spent considerably more time denouncing Frey and Walz than Republicans, although to their credit, several of the speakers were laser focused on Trump, ICE, this admin, etc. That itself is significant.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Immigration enforcement *is going to exist*. Police and the military *are going to exist*. Someone is going to enforce the state’s monopoly on violence. It is going to happen. It is worth thinking about what that would look like in the least bad version.
January 8, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Immigration enforcement *is going to exist*. Police and the military *are going to exist*. Someone is going to enforce the state’s monopoly on violence. It is going to happen. It is worth thinking about what that would look like in the least bad version.
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cropped sc because tensions are running high so no need to start unnecessary beef, but this is something literally no country on earth has, and it’s fucking annoying when people act superior to you because you’re grappling with this shit as it actually exists rather than airly imaging utopias.
January 8, 2026 at 1:23 AM
cropped sc because tensions are running high so no need to start unnecessary beef, but this is something literally no country on earth has, and it’s fucking annoying when people act superior to you because you’re grappling with this shit as it actually exists rather than airly imaging utopias.
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I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:32 AM
I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.