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NYC transportation engineer for social, economic, & environmental justice (he/him)
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NYC introduced a protected bike lane on 6th Ave in the ‘80s, but then Koch ripped it out weeks after installation. It pains me to think how advanced our streets could’ve been had innovation not been stymied for 25 years until the JSK era.
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“Vehicular cycling” is a good example of how power works. It doesn’t matter that it was a junk theory. But it was a convenient pretense for governments to serve only automobile interests.
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Remind me of a great line I just read in the Power Broker on the NYT re: “crusading” bsky.app/profile/wjfa...
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Setup on p.966 [NYT reporter said] “the Times is not a crusading paper” Punchline on p.982 The Times did not do another story on Manhattantown and the Title I program, but that might have been expected: the Times was not a paper of inquiry, and inquiry would’ve been necessary for follow-up stories.
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Reading the last section of the Power Broker now, and I love how hard Caro rags on the NY Times. Just a reminder of how long they’ve been a rotten institution.
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I’ve said before that a sack of potatoes as president would be better than Trump, and the Democrats seemed to be determined to deliver us exactly that.
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SCOTUS: the legislature can’t legislate and the executive can’t execute
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The ITE member forum right now:
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Does anyone else feel like they’re being shamed by excel when they tell you “we can’t do that a merged cell”?
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Or is it just the classic Dem strategy of appealing in vain to the average fascist voter?
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Is Hochul attempting the bold strategy of pissing off everyone about masks so we’ll forget we’re pissed off about her cancelling congestion pricing?
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I care about that too, which is why it is a good thing the military can’t reach its recruitment targets. As deadly as they are with fewer soldiers, they will be that much deadlier with more. Scaling back all US military intervention is of course important, but has nothing to do with the draft.
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As destructive and pointless as the US's Mid-East adventurism was, there were an order-of-magnitude fewer soldiers on the ground per year than Vietnam. Maybe the lesson is that the US can now kill "more efficiently" and don't necessarily need the same numbers on the ground.
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Would we have been able to even start that war, let alone remain involved so long, without the draft?
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Thought this one was pretty apt
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Doug Gordon
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More signs from today’s Riders Alliance rally to save congestion pricing.
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Doug Gordon
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It was never a good look that Hochul sold out millions of New Yorkers because a few diner owners complained about congestion pricing, but now it looks like she might have been lying about that. Whatever the truth, she's cooked.
gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...
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Doug Gordon
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If you can make it, Riders Alliance is holding a rally in support of congestion pricing at noon today at Broadway Junction in Brooklyn. Please come!
action.ridersalliance.org/cp-rally-6-9...
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Julia Carrie Wong
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Democratic politicians in the country exist to explain to Americans why we can’t have any of the social goods and services routinely available in other wealthy countries because we have a moral imperative to spend our unmatched wealth committing genocide
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Ordered a “Midori Sour” in honor of the best MTA board member
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Do you think it’s “cancelled”? I think the fight is ongoing and she doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally defy the law.
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Hochul to New Yorkers:
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Mike Rugnetta
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the political system we have here is good, and works, and is great for everyone and allows conditions to continually improve for all. no notes. well functioning society. A+++
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About 5% of the motor vehicles were buses, and they were likely carrying a comparable number of people to the cars.
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I’m reviewing a traffic count from a random block in Midtown Manhattan and in the busiest hour, 85% of people were walking or biking. I think many people simply don’t understand what a minuscule role driving has on the average NYer, except for the massive pain they cause to everyone around them.
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The Resistance Museum (Verzetmuseum) was really good. Also liked Brouwerij, a brewery with a windmill. But really just walking (or better, biking) around is great.
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Pedestrians and cyclists: dress like a traffic cone so drivers can see you Drivers:
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And Israel is committing a genocide; do they get to continue? Or do different rules apply to them?
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Elad Nehorai
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Here is the family. The mother was Amani Al-Derbi. These are her 4 children. They were all killed. Only her husband survived.
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Adams would’ve won with or without ranked choice voting. Ranked choice voting simply made the final tally closer than it would’ve otherwise been.
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Had a great time, thanks for organizing!
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Nathan K. Hensley
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the professor they threw on the ground is a former chair of Jewish studies
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seems really cool that as a Jew I am now an anti-semite if a white nationalist christian fundamentalist says I am
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No fascist Israeli government is going to define antisemtism for me. And no fascist American government is going to define antisemtism for me. Nothing represents the essence of Judaism better than opposing fascism in Israel and the US.
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As one Jew speaking only for myself: opposing genocide, opposing zionism, and opposing Israel are in no way antisemitic. On the other hand, conflating genocide, zionism, and Israel with Judaism absolutely is antisemitic. Hope this helps.
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Evergreen.
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This is essentially the framework that Losurdo describes in “Liberalism: a Counter-History”
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Of course the legislature is setting these protections up to fail. Basing eligibility on non-public information then putting the burden of proof on the tenant is transparently bad faith. A much simpler law would be much fairer and more effective.
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if anything's making jews "feel unsafe" it's having ourselves constantly forced to be synonymous with israel's genocide by the media and press who are pretending to care about us while doing it
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A truly shameful display by Columbia and the NYPD, but certainly not surprising given their fascist sympathies.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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Been thinking a lot about how conservatives and capitalists have been jamming ideas about free markets down our throats forever but can’t understand that academia is a market place of ideas where with study and investigation outmoded and bad ideas are replaced with newer, better ones.
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Why on earth would China care who you are? And even if they did, what would they possibly do with that information? The US has much more incentive and capacity to harm people in the US than any foreign country.
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Disappointed to see that my US Rep voted for this preposterous TikTok ban 🙄. You can check to see how yours voted. clerk.house.gov/Votes/202486
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No one is forcing you to regurgitate US propaganda.
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Should it come as any surprise that when an SUV with the license plate “OUTLAW 16” blows a red light, you will find that they have $2,000 in fines in less than half a year? howsmydrivingny.nyc/rnkpgpf8
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After a long day, at least I get to ride the bendy train
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Anil Dash
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You can build a dozen new libraries just with the funds we pay to people assaulted by NYPD each year.
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