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"cyclists have learned to wait at least five seconds after they receive a green light because, without fail, the driver of a 3,000-plus-pound machine will be blowing through the red light "
“the city we live in: Pointless enforcement of bikes, no enforcement of cars, and weak design of the bike network” @nyc.streetsblog.org nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/11/d...
Drivers Run Red Light, But Cops Ticket Cyclists at Dangerous Delancey Intersection - Streetsblog New York City
Drivers are zooming onto and off the Williamsburg Bridge in Lower Manhattan by running red lights. But cops are targeting cyclists instead.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"cyclists have learned to wait at least five seconds after they receive a green light because, without fail, the driver of a 3,000-plus-pound machine will be blowing through the red light "
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I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.
Probably the key part of this piece. It comes down to the following: "What does prioritizing millionaire homeowners’ aversion to change over the needs of the poor and unhoused do to our souls?"
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.
peekaboo!
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
peekaboo!
Why the fuck are people betting on individual pitches? Why the fuck are people betting $200 on individual pitches? Why the fuck are people betting more than $200 on individual pitches?
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Why the fuck are people betting on individual pitches? Why the fuck are people betting $200 on individual pitches? Why the fuck are people betting more than $200 on individual pitches?
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This was not a surprise to anyone who followed me and other actual reporters who know Supreme Court procedure.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This was not a surprise to anyone who followed me and other actual reporters who know Supreme Court procedure.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
What if we brought back cigarette smell in public places but made it tutti frutti?
humbly proposing that vape pens are quietly one of the most evil inventions in the past 25 years and that everyone involved should be tried at the hague
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What if we brought back cigarette smell in public places but made it tutti frutti?
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i don’t think the axios reporting is entirely off base if you have house members out here soft launching an abolish-the-senate position lmfao
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
i don’t think the axios reporting is entirely off base if you have house members out here soft launching an abolish-the-senate position lmfao
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The Senate exists for the same reason that the ACA doesn't have a public option: it was negotiated to placate the necessary votes. Slave states were nervous about being beholden to public will so we massively over-elevated state representation. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...
The Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
www.law.cornell.edu
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Senate exists for the same reason that the ACA doesn't have a public option: it was negotiated to placate the necessary votes. Slave states were nervous about being beholden to public will so we massively over-elevated state representation. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...
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This is Schumer’s real crime.
I remember in the spring when they didn't shut down the government so they could get a better deal in the fall.
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is Schumer’s real crime.
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Pitch framing in a federal indictment www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...
Two Current Major League Baseball Players Charged in Sports Betting and Money Laundering Conspiracy
Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, an indictment was unsealed charging two defendants, Emmanuel Clase de la Cruz and Luis Leandro Ortiz Ribera, with wire fraud conspiracy, honest se...
www.justice.gov
November 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Pitch framing in a federal indictment www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...
NY Post story by Wednesday about how she says “I am le tired” aloofly whenever Zohran does the dishes
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
NY Post story by Wednesday about how she says “I am le tired” aloofly whenever Zohran does the dishes
Clase's 2025 salary was $4.9M, and he threw 746 pitches on the year before his July 28 suspension, which means he earned $6,568 per pitch, just for pitching normally.
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Clase's 2025 salary was $4.9M, and he threw 746 pitches on the year before his July 28 suspension, which means he earned $6,568 per pitch, just for pitching normally.
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I don’t understand how someone who follows politics *for a living* can still be regurgitating middle school social studies talking points about the purpose of the Senate instead of, you know, looking at how the Senate actually operates in real life.
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I don’t understand how someone who follows politics *for a living* can still be regurgitating middle school social studies talking points about the purpose of the Senate instead of, you know, looking at how the Senate actually operates in real life.
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Underrated aspect of killing the filibuster is making pundit hacks at Cook Political p-p-p-piss their pants
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Underrated aspect of killing the filibuster is making pundit hacks at Cook Political p-p-p-piss their pants
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Forgot to thank @bradlander.bsky.social for showing up for @law360union.bsky.social while we were on strike last year, but hey, no time like the present!
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Forgot to thank @bradlander.bsky.social for showing up for @law360union.bsky.social while we were on strike last year, but hey, no time like the present!
Neither of these guys should really be in Congress, but it would be so goddamn funny to see Andrew Cuomo get rinsed by JFK’s weird zoomer grandson
(Rod Serling) Submitted for your ranked choice the case of one Andrew M. Cuomo, smarting scion of suburbia dethroned over workplace boundaries, unwilling to relax his wandering grip on power, and doomed to repeat humiliating attempts at return upon that most brittle boundary of all—the twilight zone
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Neither of these guys should really be in Congress, but it would be so goddamn funny to see Andrew Cuomo get rinsed by JFK’s weird zoomer grandson
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i truly believe teaching kids to swear properly and express their feelings through carefully crafted verbiage is healthy, especially compared to the alternatives puritan culture encourages
plus they’ll be the envy of the schoolyard. it’s a guaranteed cool kid pass through at least 6th grade
plus they’ll be the envy of the schoolyard. it’s a guaranteed cool kid pass through at least 6th grade
took my 8yo to see my show tonight and on the drive up he says, out of nowhere, "okay. I'm going to rank the swears. From least bad to worst. Nothing worse than fuck."
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
i truly believe teaching kids to swear properly and express their feelings through carefully crafted verbiage is healthy, especially compared to the alternatives puritan culture encourages
plus they’ll be the envy of the schoolyard. it’s a guaranteed cool kid pass through at least 6th grade
plus they’ll be the envy of the schoolyard. it’s a guaranteed cool kid pass through at least 6th grade
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It’s worse than you think. This is his lawyer Rita Glavin who has been paid tens of millions of dollars to smear me and the other women who came forward. She has led his taxpayer funded litigation abuse of us all.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It’s worse than you think. This is his lawyer Rita Glavin who has been paid tens of millions of dollars to smear me and the other women who came forward. She has led his taxpayer funded litigation abuse of us all.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
And here she is at the loser party with him.
A shark can’t change its spots
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A shark can’t change its spots
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
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This is what Schumer allows to fester. Nadler doesn't have the same gravitas but if Schumer merely took Nadler's position on Zohran, I don't think Suozzi and Gillen feel so comfortable to lay those Islamaphobia broadsides. Though perhaps HJ is more guilty here since they're in his caucus.
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is what Schumer allows to fester. Nadler doesn't have the same gravitas but if Schumer merely took Nadler's position on Zohran, I don't think Suozzi and Gillen feel so comfortable to lay those Islamaphobia broadsides. Though perhaps HJ is more guilty here since they're in his caucus.
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ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
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people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up