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sam alito in tuxedo gets recorded incognito

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When roads are dangerous for cyclists, only people willing to engage in risky behavior will ride on them. That sets norms for more risky behavior. When roads are safer for cyclists, they attract safer, more cautious cyclists, setting those norms. Safer roads lead to safer behavior.

Today a truck hit and killed a biker on 50th & 11th Ave. I don’t spend a lot of time fearing traffic. I love riding my bike. But this is why congestion pricing is personal to me. It will save lives. The more we let cars rule NYC, the higher the chance is that I don’t make it home one day.

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oh my god these fucking cowards www.curbed.com/article/cong...

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huh

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Just to emphasize how immensely stupid and potentially wasteful this last minute decision was from Hochul, all of the congestion pricing infrastructure is in place. You can see it around midtown. This is work that was *already done & ready to go* that she’s trying to back out on.

"If congestion pricing is canceled as the governor plans, the [$507m] contract will need to be rescinded, cementing the MTA’s reputation as a nightmare client that nobody should want to work with unless they get paid in advance and with a risk premium." pedestrianobservations.com/2024/06/05/h...

Hochul Suspends Congestion Pricingpedestrianobservations.com New York Governor Kathy Hochul just announced that she's putting congestion pricing on pause. The plan had gone through years of political and regulatory hell and finally passed the state legislature ...

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I was living in London when congestion pricing came in and literally everyone loved it: Bus riders got faster rides, drivers spent less time in traffic, everyone else got more funding for transit. Wild that this unanimously popular policy is still 'controversial.'

In all the congestion pricing fury, I’m also just sad! NYC had the opportunity to be a leader and show what US cities could be if we didn’t bend everything to please drivers. I want cleaner air! I want reliable, accessible trains and busses! I want to not get hit on my bike in FiDi!

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Hochul standing up for the struggling public middle school teacher who drives her BMW SUV from Darien to the Financial District every day and can't afford to pay a $15 congestion charge.

Prepping for a quick episode on the latest congestion pricing news and this bit from Governor Hochul's announcement is enraging. 99% of the people Hochul is talking about here — "teachers, first responders, small business workers, bodega owners — DO NOT DRIVE INTO MANHATTAN.

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The next time your train is late, your bus is trapped in traffic, or your subway station is still missing an elevator, you know who to blame: Governor Kathy Hochul.

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Legendary cowardice. The most NY Democratic Party move ever.

Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York halted a congestion pricing plan, which would charge motorists to enter Manhattan, just weeks before it was to go into effect.

Hochul Halts Congestion Pricing in a Stunning 11th-Hour Shiftwww.nytimes.com Weeks before New York was to charge motorists to enter Manhattan’s business district, Gov. Kathy Hochul postponed the program citing economic concerns.

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call your state senator and assemblymember and demand that they protect congestion pricing. Hochul needs legislation to change the law that enacts the program. Albany will decide its fate. look up your reps and make your calls immediately www.nysenate.gov/find-my-sena... nyassembly.gov/mem/search/

We've gone from "congestion pricing will screw businesses and is just another tax on New Yorkers" to "Why don't we just tax businesses and screw New Yorkers instead?" It gives the game away: the controversy around congestion pricing has only ever been about opposition from suburban drivers.

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If your Jonathan be Chait, They are full of anti-trans hate. If your Jonathan be Haidt, They are full of anti-trans hate.

Honestly, I can never keep Haidt and Chait straight, but they’re both anti-trans so I guess I couldn’t get it wrong here.

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I know it's an obvious point, but I feel like it still needs to be said on record. THIS IS INSANE

NYPD officers in the middle of Broadway outside Columbia

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Don’t really know what anyone in government is thinking right now by creating the conditions that will merge an anti-genocide and anti-police violence movements into one larger movement. Seems like they’re not thinking through what happens next.

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I’m listening to WKCR as student journalists at Columbia are calmly describing the situation. They are amazing and also it is *such a balm* to simply hear neutral calm descriptions. www.radio.net/s/wkcr

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We can't help but hit the mic when the beat is [all together] NASTY Insurance should cover your vagino- [all together]PLASTY

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BREAKING: the Department of Justice (citing Streetsblog reporting!) threatens to sue NYC over illegal parking by NYPD cops and other city workers: nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/04/19/j...

Justice Dept., Citing Streetsblog Reporting, Threatens to Sue NYPD Over Cops' Sidewalk Parking - Streetsblog New York Citynyc.streetsblog.org The city is now facing a major civil rights suit from the Biden Administration if it doesn't eliminate illegal parking by cops and other city workers.

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Greatest city in the world

After the day in court, Trump headed to Harlem to do some campaigning. Per NYT reporter Michael Gold, as the pack of journalists, campaign staffers, and NYPD stood waiting for Trump, a woman passed by and shouted, "What are all these unseasoned french fries doing in my neighborhood??"

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The joke would be to say that this administration's transportation policies are being dictated by a car, but in reality they're being dictated by Ingrid Lewis-Martin, someone who has admitted to never taking the subway. So basically it's a distinction without a difference.

Memo to NYC DOT: Open streets ARE for all people, including drivers. Check out the agency's explanation for cutting the hours of the Willoughby Ave. open street in half: nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/04/11/d...

DOT Trims Willoughby Ave. Open Street Hours Because 'Streets Are For All New Yorkers' - Streetsblog New York Citynyc.streetsblog.org It's a big hit on the same open street that key mayor adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin tried to remove less than two months into Mayor Adams's tenure.

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find myself reminded daily that very few things on the internet are aging better than this banger and I don’t even live in new york

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“The school didn’t call an ambulance.” Some sentences enter the mind and will never leave. I read that in an article today and it will be with me for the rest of my days.

The story of Nex Benedict, the non-binary Native teen in Oklahoma who got murdered at school, is just so heartbreaking. The way the school reacted (they were going to suspend the teen): shocking. If your reactionary ideology turns you into an inhumane monster, re-evaluate the ideology.

Why even go to work when I can make my entire salary during a single commute? 🚲💸

Lookout, scofflaws: Council Member Lincoln Restler is going to reintroduce his "citizen reporting" bill to get drivers out of bike and bus lanes (and pay the reporter 25% of the resulting fine): nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/02/08/p...

Prophet Motive: Restler Bill Would Restore 25% Bounty for Blocked Bike and Bus Lane Tickets - Street...nyc.streetsblog.org "If the kickback gets more people reporting, we’re all for it," said one high-profile advocate.

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god forbid women do anything

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