Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing:
- Complaints about car-honking are down 70%
- The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48%
- 6 million fewer cars
- Half as many traffic-related injuries
- 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

I don’t think people grasp the dream land that Democratic leaders and consultants live in. I’ve been there, heard them speak. It’s as disconnected from reality as the worst MAGA true believer.

REPEAT AFTER ME:

NOBODY VOTED FOR ELON MUSK

PASS IT ON.

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

1/ Autocrats combine tools to stay in power, but most research looks at them in isolation. We map 6 strategies—repression of rights & physical integrity, co-optation through institutions & resource distribution, and indoctrination via education & media—for a full picture.

The emptiness of our culture allows MAGA to fill the void for too many Americans. We need to build a better one to beat back this phenomenon.

New by me:
michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

At this point, I’m finding it more and more amazing that the good guys actually won World War 2.

Gosh, I love reading news on the internet.

This is absolutely unacceptable. Some of the most basic duties of government are to protect and communicate - and neither appears to be happening here.

the struggle (sunday dread) is real