This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

IMO WaPo is no longer "the media" insofar as it has declared itself devoted to a specific vision of America (that happens to coincide with the interests of its owner), but here is an example of the phenomenon.

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This is a very basic point, but many people miss it

Democrats being the adults in the room - and therefore the floor of our democracy - is the default assumption in the media. The right can burn down every institution that maintains US supremacy and the worry will be whether dems are erring by belatedly trying to fight back.

It is objectively bad for democracy that both blue and red states are doing extreme gerrymanders.

But the only feasible solution — a national ban on partisan gerrymandering — has only been endorsed by one party. And it's not the one complaining about Virginia right now.

Same shock that coursed through the White House when Iran did the wholly anticipated One Cool Trick for Shutting Down Global Oil Trade. They're incapable of understanding that adversaries can respond.

The simple truth is: The shots work, and a bunch of contrarian quacks used social media to prey on fears of well-meaning parents and create a “but I’m just asking questions” movement that’s done real harm.

Wait I thought this was DJT's poll numbers.

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

At some point we'll have to reckon with the reality that one form of transportation - the one that doesn't pollute, costs little, and dramatically increases throughput - is one where participants are simply expected to risk their life for reasons never quite articulated.

Same with dooring. Most doorers - usually Uber riders - seem to view having doored a cyclist in the bike lane as an "oopsie" meriting MAYBE an apology but certainly nothing more. But getting doored breaks a collar bone in good cases; leads to double-strike deaths (doored into traffic) in bad ones.

The thing that gets me is the dumbfounded look drivers give when you explain to them that their casually negligent act could have killed you. They don't understand the anger because it doesn't seem to occur to them that jumping a light or making an unsignaled u-turn could end someone's life.

NYPD union sues police watchdog for allegedly publishing unproven 'inflammatory' claims The union representing rank-and-file officers says the Civilian Complaint Review Board has damaged officers' reputation with allegations of sexual misconduct, bias and dishonesty.

One might accurately describe most NYPD press statements as "unproven inflammatory claims" about the subjects of arrest. And "falsehoods in service of protecting the police" when a NYer gets shot by a cop.

The cop union wants a monopoly on smears.

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Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

Concentration camps. If objective is to close camps, voters must view them as vile & without any merit. Many voters believe "detention facilities" are necessary for law/safety. Plus they fit legal definition of concentration camps (which is NOT same as extermination camps.)

Fun fact: New York State’s justification for rescuing the LIRR in the 1960s was that replacing the peak direction capacity in from Jamaica to Manhattan would have required building 26 lanes worth of tunnels under the East River. Twenty six.

Strive for a world in which law enforcement understands the laws they enforce better than the average cyclist.

This follows on work we did last year, in which both the City and the State confirmed - for the first time - that the 2019 law permitting cyclists to "go with the WALK" was in fact the law in NYC.

No one had apparently informed the rank of file.

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/25/y...

The most important thing IMO? Start on grass with a gradual (GRADUAL) decline. Learning to coast is easier than pedaling, and learning to coast when the ground is grass reduces anxiety. Then pedaling, then hard surfaces, then just refining technique.

I have taught a few adults how to ride a bike (it's immensely gratifying for teacher and student), and feel like there would be some demand for a judgment-free environment to learn the basics and get some advice on Citibike usage/safe urban riding.

This something that exists? Should we offer it?

I didn't know that the Atlantic had reported that Kash Patel might have a drinking problem until Kash Patel sued the Atlantic for publishing an article that suggested Kash Patel might have a drinking problem.

Seriously though alcohol addiction can be horrific. Hope he gets help (after resigning).

It was pretty underhanded of Iran to respond with a strategy that the Administration was not aware of because none of them read their prepared packets about possible strategies.

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This is also DOJ policy.

Sesame Street - Cookie Monster - One of These Things Is Not Like The Other YouTube video by ICULOOKNATMEQT

In case you weren't raised by Sesame Street.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAIf...

::Cookie Monster Voice::

One of These Things (Is Not Like the Other Things)

EXCLUSIVE! MUST CREDIT CBS: EMPEROR FULLY DRESSED

I'm sure that Uber views the corporate distinction between itself and the astroturfing organization it funds ("CAR") as somehow significant, but of course that's how you astroturf. You fund a facially neutral org to do what you cannot - owing to your reputation - do yourself.

A perk of living in a city covered by a worker-owned outfit like @hellgatenyc.com is that you benefit from the reporting done by someone doggedly pursuing an arcane but super important story about how certain senior members of the democratic party machine operate.

Talk About Insurance Fraud! Big Tech Floods Pols' In-Boxes With Fake Emails In Support Of Hochul's Car Premium Ploy - Streetsblog Empire State Politicians are noticing something fishy, rather than phishy, about their constituents' emails.

Uber is astroturfing its "lets hurt victims of our business" proposal so strenuously that a dead man came back from the dead to write an email in support of it.

It'd be funny were our Governor not a willing participant in this farce of a policy proposal.

empire.streetsblog.org/fake-emails-...