A good thread on how The Groups have subsumed many party responsibilities. And, very relatedly, The Groups now look out for themselves and not The Party (or the system).
Relatedly, New York politics, New York unions, work rules and the pattern.
Thank you Mr President. I will buy so much stock that the Dow reaches 60,000 just on this post alone!
Is this 4-day vs 5-day thing a red herring?
Most shift work people I know prefer longer shifts on fewer days (e.g. inpatient nursing is all 12-hour shifts over 3 days and every nurse I know loves it).
Is the actual dispute about something else?
This is the rational way to do it. And the usual way it's done.
But the problem with getting used to impunity is that it tends to make ppl reckless and arrogant. Bob Menendez, for example, didn't have to be so brazen in selling out to the Egyptians!
So yes, I expect this happened at least once.
This reads like a parody, but nope it's a real LinkedIn post
Hero 🫡
from the AP Lit FB group, this kind of thing happens across states—
This sounds like something Trump would try to do.
Growing up in Douglas County, I remember well the shock & devastation our community felt 27 years ago today, when 13 Coloradans were murdered at Columbine High School.
Today, we remember and honor the innocent lives lost, and hold their families in our hearts — always.
Oh no, bureaucratic work to avoid inflicting pain on millions of people every single day.
The cost is real of course but it seems overwhelmingly worth it?
Makes you wonder: is the biggest solution to getting things like this done just the mayor—or whatever policymaker in charge—putting their foot down and deciding?
Is that why Trump seems to get so much of what he wants? He just resists the decisionmaking paralysis of leaders like Biden?
US construction paralysis (and solution ?), in action:
Shelter for delivery workers gets $1 m in federal funding in 2021
Policymakers spend 3 years disagreeing, coming to no agreement about where, how, what, etc
Mamdani enters office, declares it will be done in <100 days, and it just… happens?
The unfortunate thing about highway robbery is that it usually makes sense to just pay off the robber.
"Are we really expecting sound transit to solve the country’s cost disease?"
Honestly? Yes. Blue cities and blue states need to not just accept poor governance. If we don't bring these costs down, we are never getting beyond ST3. And ST3 itself will take decades more to complete. It's unacceptable.
"Revenue growth in recent months is nudging the company into positive cash flow on an adjusted basis, Miller said."
A Brightline record in March, the first time ridership has passed the 300K mark! 🎉
March '26: 337,874, up 21% y/y
Feb: 274,100
Jan: 288,450
Dec: 292,092
Nov: 280,136
Oct: 260,370
Sept. '25: 227,851
Aug: 252,425
July: 255,472
June: 254,627
May: 256,633
April: 243,285
March: 280,003
Oo we’ve named this period?
This isn't really a comment on if Mamdani is doing a good or bad job as Mayor, just to say lots of people act like he's wildly popular and copying him is a key to victory, he has a 48% approval
Postmodern fascism is managing to run out of hack lawyers, reactionary general officers, and amoral bureaucratic functionaries.
They're stuck with barely literate gutter scum for nearly every position of importance and they're performing about as well as you'd expect.
genuinely stupid, middle management is a hard hard job, and the glue of companies. Any exec (or IC) who thinks this is a bullshit job is, charitably, not paying attention to how companies actually operate
how is this literally happening in real life
God, the modern world is so bad. Back in the day, everyone was roughly 2x taller than me, someone would always make my meals, and way more time was spent watching cartoons. The modern world is so much worse somehow despite technological progress
1 usually, 2 if especially competitive.
the Pyongyang "Arch of Triumph" is also notable in that it commemorates a fictitious victory -- Kim Il-sung's guerilla band did not, in fact, come down from the mountains to liberate Korea. Perhaps there's something to be said about spurious monumental arches from first principles ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Notably, this is also taller than the "Arch of Triumph" in Pyongyang, which is merely 10 metres (33 feet) taller than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Every elected official in California: Democrats, Republicans, MAGA people, moderate conservatives, centrists, liberals, progressives, and “socialists” alike are lockstep on this one issue:
“Insurance markets are not facing systemic climate risk, insurance companies are simply too greedy”
people were already being paid considerably less than they could make in the private sector, but were doing it out of a mixture of a desire to make firm connections and/or genuine public spiritedness. Slashing their pay is just leaving the mediocre behind.
Yeah, exactly. Smithsonian's America on the Move exhibit at the American History Museum feels like a place to start small and update a highly visited exhibit - APTA was a minor sponsor...
A certain kind of progressive getting piss-drunk angry whenever someone tries to explain concepts like 'budgeting' or 'inflation' to them is a big part of why I am not a progressive.
It is, in fact, possible for a country to waste its vast resources and have to endure austerity for a time.
Seriously... It makes it feel like transport is a thing that exists in the past and fails to be an instrument to teach about the technologies of today
Even this exhibit at NASM teaches about general aviation TODAY, not as it was in the past. I've yet to see a transit museum that does that at all