Tim Bowman-Jecmen
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It is... not common that you get to see a policy that is such a goddamn slam dunk on all counts but here it is: toll your goddamn CBDs, people.
Imagine if Hochul hadn't been a weirdo and had stuck to the original tolling price.
Imagine if Hochul hadn't been a weirdo and had stuck to the original tolling price.
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It is... not common that you get to see a policy that is such a goddamn slam dunk on all counts but here it is: toll your goddamn CBDs, people.
Imagine if Hochul hadn't been a weirdo and had stuck to the original tolling price.
Imagine if Hochul hadn't been a weirdo and had stuck to the original tolling price.
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The actual war on Christmas
Here’s the birth of Christ being defiled by masked federal thugs who think terrorizing marginalized people is funny.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
December 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The actual war on Christmas
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I don’t talk about this that much but when I was young I had severe OCD that went unaddressed much longer than it should have. For a while, it wrecked (among other things) my gpa; for instance, I’d keep rewriting over and over my name at the top of my math homework (b/c the brain tells u it is…
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I don’t talk about this that much but when I was young I had severe OCD that went unaddressed much longer than it should have. For a while, it wrecked (among other things) my gpa; for instance, I’d keep rewriting over and over my name at the top of my math homework (b/c the brain tells u it is…
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Every one of Louisville’s losses over the last 2 seasons have not only been incredibly close, they’ve been incredibly dumb.
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Every one of Louisville’s losses over the last 2 seasons have not only been incredibly close, they’ve been incredibly dumb.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.
October 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.
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Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚
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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.
www.dailytarheel.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚
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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
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My neighborhood today.
October 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My neighborhood today.
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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“.. I fear it will turn the military from being an apolitical institution to being a political one.”
@politico.com
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@politico.com
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September 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“.. I fear it will turn the military from being an apolitical institution to being a political one.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Really good stuff here.
for Bills Week I decided to read the new 1000 page Buckley biography
William F. Buckley's Bill Never Came Due | Defector
Perhaps the highest praise I can offer a book that took 27 years to complete and runs over 1,000 pages is that I can see why, and that it doesn’t feel like it. Sam Tanenhaus’s extremely long and anxio...
defector.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Really good stuff here.
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One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.
July 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.
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Taylor Flint is here to stay 🤩
We’re excited to announce that the star midfielder has signed a new contract with #RacingLou through 2028!
✍️ tinyurl.com/3cdrdyuu
We’re excited to announce that the star midfielder has signed a new contract with #RacingLou through 2028!
✍️ tinyurl.com/3cdrdyuu
July 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Taylor Flint is here to stay 🤩
We’re excited to announce that the star midfielder has signed a new contract with #RacingLou through 2028!
✍️ tinyurl.com/3cdrdyuu
We’re excited to announce that the star midfielder has signed a new contract with #RacingLou through 2028!
✍️ tinyurl.com/3cdrdyuu
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Paul Noth. in the New Yorker.
July 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Paul Noth. in the New Yorker.
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Rural southwest Nebraska clinic closes, blaming expected Medicaid cuts www.klkntv.com/rural-southw...
Rural southwest Nebraska clinic closes, blaming expected Medicaid cuts
McCook-based Community Hospital said it is shutting down its clinic in Curtis, a town of about 900 people.
www.klkntv.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Rural southwest Nebraska clinic closes, blaming expected Medicaid cuts www.klkntv.com/rural-southw...
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In May, KY Rep. Brett Guthrie defended OBBB by citing Kentucky Hospital Association saying it "preserves" Medicaid.
With Senate changes, KHA now says it would "devastate" KY, causing hospitals to close & 20K job losses. Guthrie just said it "protects health care for the most vulnerable Americans"
With Senate changes, KHA now says it would "devastate" KY, causing hospitals to close & 20K job losses. Guthrie just said it "protects health care for the most vulnerable Americans"
July 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In May, KY Rep. Brett Guthrie defended OBBB by citing Kentucky Hospital Association saying it "preserves" Medicaid.
With Senate changes, KHA now says it would "devastate" KY, causing hospitals to close & 20K job losses. Guthrie just said it "protects health care for the most vulnerable Americans"
With Senate changes, KHA now says it would "devastate" KY, causing hospitals to close & 20K job losses. Guthrie just said it "protects health care for the most vulnerable Americans"
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KY Gov. Beshear on TV this morning: "200K of my people are going to lose their health care coverage. 20K health care workers are going to lose their job. This is the GOP majority firing Americans that right now have a good job & 35 rural hospitals may close, which will impact every single community"
July 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
KY Gov. Beshear on TV this morning: "200K of my people are going to lose their health care coverage. 20K health care workers are going to lose their job. This is the GOP majority firing Americans that right now have a good job & 35 rural hospitals may close, which will impact every single community"
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I grew up in rural South Carolina with a single mom who worked multiple jobs. At times, we relied on Medicaid and SNAP—like so many others. My heart breaks for those now wondering if that help will still be there.
Imagine having all that power and choosing to make people’s lives worse.
Shameful.
Imagine having all that power and choosing to make people’s lives worse.
Shameful.
July 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I grew up in rural South Carolina with a single mom who worked multiple jobs. At times, we relied on Medicaid and SNAP—like so many others. My heart breaks for those now wondering if that help will still be there.
Imagine having all that power and choosing to make people’s lives worse.
Shameful.
Imagine having all that power and choosing to make people’s lives worse.
Shameful.
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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
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This ain't right, and we're going to keep raising our voice and standing up for our Kentucky families, who deserve better. 2/2
July 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This ain't right, and we're going to keep raising our voice and standing up for our Kentucky families, who deserve better. 2/2
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With the passage of the "big, ugly bill,” the U.S. Senate said it was okay to fire 20,000 Kentucky health-care workers, close 35 rural hospitals in our state and throw over 200,000 of our people off insurance. 1/2
July 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
With the passage of the "big, ugly bill,” the U.S. Senate said it was okay to fire 20,000 Kentucky health-care workers, close 35 rural hospitals in our state and throw over 200,000 of our people off insurance. 1/2
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"The minutiae of the Medicaid policy" - 16-17 million people will lose health insurance in a country where health care costs are ruinous. Many of these are exactly the people Vance claims to represent. But erecting a police state to deport foreigners is more important, I guess.
I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing
July 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"The minutiae of the Medicaid policy" - 16-17 million people will lose health insurance in a country where health care costs are ruinous. Many of these are exactly the people Vance claims to represent. But erecting a police state to deport foreigners is more important, I guess.