Alex with a K
@alexwithak.bsky.social
Husband, public school dad, city dweller. Love transportation, cycling, photography, tech. Brooklyn 'til I die, if I can help it.
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Alex with a K
@alexwithak.bsky.social
· Apr 2
Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️
Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
I am unreasonably excited about this.
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Forget the bike lanes, drivers need to get serious about the driver-on-driver crime in their own community – box-blocking in Midtown is out of control! And DOT/NYPD has no strategy beyond spending tons of money to hire poorly paid Bangladeshi immigrants to physically place their bodies in the way?
December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Forget the bike lanes, drivers need to get serious about the driver-on-driver crime in their own community – box-blocking in Midtown is out of control! And DOT/NYPD has no strategy beyond spending tons of money to hire poorly paid Bangladeshi immigrants to physically place their bodies in the way?
I mean, yes, for sure. But the shuttering of schools for a year or longer is still by far the biggest factor and the one we most needed to grapple with because it was a (very bad) choice. The trauma was real and awful but it obviously was not the result of policy or human choices.
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I mean, yes, for sure. But the shuttering of schools for a year or longer is still by far the biggest factor and the one we most needed to grapple with because it was a (very bad) choice. The trauma was real and awful but it obviously was not the result of policy or human choices.
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Meanwhile the obvious solutions Trump could adopt mostly involve reversing his own agenda. www.thebulwark.com/p/affordabil...
Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap That Ensnared Biden
Republicans learned nothing from how badly Dems bungled inflation.
www.thebulwark.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Meanwhile the obvious solutions Trump could adopt mostly involve reversing his own agenda. www.thebulwark.com/p/affordabil...
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for some reason, i don’t believe them
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
for some reason, i don’t believe them
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"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"
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Need a 1000% tariff on Mayors race commentary from people who don’t actually live in New York City
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Need a 1000% tariff on Mayors race commentary from people who don’t actually live in New York City
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in hindsight wondering if california voters would show up in droves to tell texas politicians and donald trump to go fuck themselves seems kinda naive
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
in hindsight wondering if california voters would show up in droves to tell texas politicians and donald trump to go fuck themselves seems kinda naive
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i probably sound like an asshole tonight but man i am fucking tired of pretending that democratic voters and urban people with all of the implications republicans have very much stopped pretending to dogwhistle about are not the heart of this country. it's us. it's always been us
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
i probably sound like an asshole tonight but man i am fucking tired of pretending that democratic voters and urban people with all of the implications republicans have very much stopped pretending to dogwhistle about are not the heart of this country. it's us. it's always been us
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SNAP benefits expire in one week.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
SNAP benefits expire in one week.
I happened to be out on Long Island today, so I attended a rally in Riverhead. It did not disappoint. A peaceful, patriotic display of dissent. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
October 19, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I happened to be out on Long Island today, so I attended a rally in Riverhead. It did not disappoint. A peaceful, patriotic display of dissent. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Keep fighting, Chicago.
October 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Keep fighting, Chicago.
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Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
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That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January
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Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”
👉👉 nokings.org
👉👉 nokings.org
October 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”
👉👉 nokings.org
👉👉 nokings.org
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give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you
The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you
Two full days (with an undefined end time) seems like an unnecessarily lengthy upgrade outage given Metrocard machines are nearly extinct. Most companies complete this kind of work overnight.
October 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Two full days (with an undefined end time) seems like an unnecessarily lengthy upgrade outage given Metrocard machines are nearly extinct. Most companies complete this kind of work overnight.
Paris has its problems but OMG the frequency of the Métro blows us out of the water. We were there Saturday through Wednesday and waited 2 minutes on average. Longest wait was 4.
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Paris has its problems but OMG the frequency of the Métro blows us out of the water. We were there Saturday through Wednesday and waited 2 minutes on average. Longest wait was 4.
In terms of direct threat to human life, I'm coming around more and more to this view. Other appointees pose a lot of danger, but RFK Jr has by far the highest potential for directly causing death. It's very grim.
RFK Jr. is the most dangerous Trump appointee. An utterly dangerous, unqualified, reckless conspiracy theorist who will kill children and elders with his anti vaccine conspiracies. The fact he's the head of Health and Human Services just shows how little Trump cares about any of us.
September 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In terms of direct threat to human life, I'm coming around more and more to this view. Other appointees pose a lot of danger, but RFK Jr has by far the highest potential for directly causing death. It's very grim.
Will car culture's biggest flaw save America?
September 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Will car culture's biggest flaw save America?
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One thing we really need Mayor Mamdani to do is to reform the alphabet soup of agencies needed to build basic infrastructure. Between DOT and DDC alone there's a whole lot of process that means it can take forever to build stuff.
I know painting sidewalks and bike lanes get them done quickly and cheaply. But at some point I'd like to see the city actually rebuild the streets with real sidewalks and protected bike lanes made of concrete and asphalt.
NYC sidewalks used to be wider. We cut them back for cars.
NYC sidewalks used to be wider. We cut them back for cars.
The DOT is planning to install "Super Sidewalks" along the busiest parts of the Canal Street corridor east of Broadway, along with a new westbound bike lane to join the existing eastbound lane on Grand Street.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
One thing we really need Mayor Mamdani to do is to reform the alphabet soup of agencies needed to build basic infrastructure. Between DOT and DDC alone there's a whole lot of process that means it can take forever to build stuff.
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Shooting Charlie Kirk isn't going to help anyone except the people already trying to destroy the country.
September 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Shooting Charlie Kirk isn't going to help anyone except the people already trying to destroy the country.
Well stated. Denouncing political violence is, on its face, the right/only thing to do. But it's even more imperative to reject political violence in all forms at this specific moment because the fascists will much more willingly weaponize it.
It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.
September 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Well stated. Denouncing political violence is, on its face, the right/only thing to do. But it's even more imperative to reject political violence in all forms at this specific moment because the fascists will much more willingly weaponize it.
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For decades everyone on the list argued they only knew Epstein in a professional capacity while all the notes to him are "I sure love being pedophiles together with you, my friend Jeffrey Epstein"
September 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
For decades everyone on the list argued they only knew Epstein in a professional capacity while all the notes to him are "I sure love being pedophiles together with you, my friend Jeffrey Epstein"
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Maybe unpopular take but I think "during COVID" is fine!
Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
September 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Maybe unpopular take but I think "during COVID" is fine!
Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense