'Stop Super Speeders': Preventing The Next Fatal Crash Is Up To You - Streetsblog New York City You — yes, you, the person reading this — could prevent the next deadly crash in New York City.

Every year, hundreds of New Yorkers are killed in traffic crashes by drivers with a habit of speeding. But by making just a couple of phone calls today, you — yes, you! — could change that.

Send Mayor Mamdani Your Sneckdown Photos! ('Snow Problem, Streetsblog!') - Streetsblog New York City "Do you know what a sneckdown is?" "Sneckdown?" "Sneckdown." Therein lies a great story.

If we get a big snowstorm, send Streetsblog your sneckdown photos and we will send them to the mayor nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/23/s...

He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”

One million dollars How you can live a happier life, crush our Substack rivals, and help people in need

We’re trying to raise $1 million for desperately poor people in Rwanda to beat last year’s mark and do more good.

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Horizontal bar chart showing number of deaths from road injuries per 100,000 people in 2021 for 16 high-income countries; deaths include drivers and passengers, motorcyclists, cyclists, and pedestrians. Highest is Saudi Arabia at 45 per 100,000, followed by Oman 36 and United Arab Emirates 20. United States 11, Chile 9.5. Mid-range examples: Australia 4.8, Italy 4.8, Canada 4.4, France 4.4, Spain 3.7, Germany 3.3. Lower end: Japan 2.2, United Kingdom 2, and Norway, Singapore, and Sweden each 1.9. Annotation states that death rates in Middle Eastern high-income countries are 10 to 24 times higher than in those with the safest roads. Data source listed as IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2024); note that the metric is age-standardized for cross-country comparisons; image marked CC BY.

There are huge differences in death rates from road injuries, even across high-income countries

As we have long reported, a city DOT report on daylighting is flawed — and now City Council researchers agree:

Donate to SNAP families missing food benefits | Propel & GiveDirectly Millions are missing SNAP benefits during the shutdown. Donate now to send $50 emergency cash to families fast via the Propel app.

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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

RT @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social :
“Please, please, please take 20 minute to watch this incredibly powerful film about the fatal recklessness of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio’s aid cuts.

Children are dying from these cuts. This is one of the many, many stories - a South Sudanese refugee child in Uganda.”

HEAVY TRAFFIC: Driving Continues to Rise, Undermining Literally Every Effort to Make the City Better - Streetsblog New York City The trend of increased vehicle miles traveled undermines safety initiatives, pollution reduction efforts and the traffic mitigation of congestion pricing, a new report makes clear.

The trend of increased vehicle miles traveled undermines safety initiatives, pollution reduction efforts and the traffic mitigation of congestion pricing, a new report makes clear.

What we die from vs. what we hear in the news.

Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.

Think I'm going to cancel my Post subscription and find some other local news source to support

Rather than this justify yourself nonsense that treats adults like children, the correct question to ask to spur innovation and make people feel like they have a stake in transformation: What do you WANT to make? The onus is on the leaders to inspire and challenge and ask.

A bar chart illustrates the estimated lives saved each year by various American foreign aid programs, totaling approximately 3.3 million lives saved annually. The programs listed from top to bottom include: - HIV/AIDS: 1.6 million lives saved per year - Humanitarian aid: 550,000 lives saved per year - Vaccines: 500,000 lives saved per year - Tuberculosis: 310,000 lives saved per year - Malaria: 290,000 lives saved per year At the bottom, a note indicates that the figures represent central estimates and that actual estimates may range from 2.3 to 5.6 million lives saved. It clarifies that these numbers do not encompass other vital forms of aid such as water and sanitation, nutrition, and family planning. The source of the data is credited to Kenny & Sandefur, 2025. The visual includes a label stating "Our World in Data" and is presented under a creative commons attribution license (CC BY).

✍️ New article: “Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year”

For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.

This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary

“To see an unhoused person and think first of optics and not of the human soul involved is callous. That’s not what nurses do.” - a union nurse on Trump’s DC homeless sweeps.

To the finance people out there: If you thought Trump will successfully take over the Fed and go full Erdogan. - install a lackey who cuts rates whenever he wants him to - what trades would you be making?

'Safety for Sale': How City Hall Corruption Hurt New Yorkers and Slowed Bus Riders - Streetsblog New York City Mayor Eric Adams's interventions into DOT projects at the behest of campaign donors hurt New Yorkers — literally.

More than 150 injuries from traffic crashes could have been avoided.

Nearly a quarter-million bus riders could have had faster commutes.

Instead, Eric Adams’s City Hall stymied several redesigns at the behest of powerful interests. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/28/s...

Scams And Bribery Are Becoming the Foundation of Our Economy It's bad and you should be alarmed.

The extent to which the American economy is being transformed into a machine for scams and outright bribery should be spoken about more directly.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/scams-and-...

As someone who has been writing about comparative democratic decline for a decade, I think we've just seen the two most dangerous signs in the US so far. They are:

1) Successful attacks on media, specifically cowing CBS and defunding NPR

2) The Supreme Court's deference to Trump on executive power

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

A lot of bangers recently on the old bird site

What Zohran’s Victory Means Throughout American History, Movements For Freedom Have Moved from the Streets into the Political System. That’s Happening Now on Gaza.

There was no New York Jewish consensus against Zohran Mamdani. According to polls, he ran 2nd among Jewish voters. He became part of the ongoing--and escalating--American Jewish civil war over Israel peterbeinart.substack.com/p/what-zohra...

Zohran raised a lot less money than you'd expect given his vote share and educated coalition - he barely outraised Lander!

His prioritization of persuasion over fundraising in his public facing communication was extremely unusual and more Democrats should follow his lead!

Opinion | Trump Might Take the U.S. to War. Where Are Schumer and Jeffries?

War with Iran would be the most catastrophic US foreign policy decision since the invasion of Iraq. It would give Trump vast new authoritarian powers. Americans of both parties oppose it overwhelmingly. So why are Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries so silent? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs?

Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.

My piece on the real dangers of AI.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

Israel is preventing the WHO from sending incubators into Gaza.

Think about how savage, how barbaric, how evil, you have to be to defend that and defend the government doing that.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.

Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

Here's transcript of a briefing that Laura Bush (for some reason) gave in 2008 in the wake of the devastating Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, which killed tens of thousands. It's a low bar, but just wild to imagine Melania doing the same now

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