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America is a Latin American country now, so let me explain politics:
We elect communists to kill the rich. But communism brings poverty & crime. So we elect fascists to kill the communists. But the fascists hand the economy to oligarchs. So we elect communists to kill the rich.
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⚠️‼️🇺🇦 Ukrajina se už dávno proměnila v jednu velkou mučírnu pro své vlastní občany.
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NYS taxes are coming in $8B faster than forecast. The "need" for new or higher taxes just isn't there.
It’s strange that neither Russia nor Ukraine really used media space to shape the conflict with the same veracity and effectiveness of Gaza.
Granted, there was already a sympathetic audience built in and primed for Gaza, the footage I’ve seen from Russia/Ukraine as it relates to forced conscription, mass graves, torture, and the gamified and depersonalized impact of drone warfare have been equally disturbing and gut-wrenching.
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"Mamdani is making housing more expensive to own, harder to finance, and less attractive to build."
washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
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Ten months in on socialism. Here goes.
New York City is spending a fortune on services for individuals in need of housing and this is the result of the hands off policies of this administration and the refusal to hold the NGO’s accountable.
I realize we are shouting into the wind in NYC today. But we are going to keep shouting . It’s our right and our duty.
In this environment it takes courage for anyone in office to call out anything so thank you @vmmaloney .
@OneCityRisingNY
I walked by 23rd and the FDR drive yesterday to this.
My office has repeatedly reported issues at this intersection. DSS has offered temporary fixes, but the problem persists.
This is unacceptable. We need an encampment tracking plan that translates into immediate, coordinated action btn city agencies. New Yorkers deserve safe public spaces, and those living on our streets deserve meaningful assistance.
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Suspend disbelief for a second.
Pretend my deceased ancestors come back. And I was able to *explain face-to-face to my WWII and Korean Conflict veteran grandfathers, my Vietnam veteran father, and my great (x3) grandfather who fought for the Union at Gettysburg in 1863 with the NYS Militia, that an elected congresswoman in New York City authored a post smirking about wiping her dirtied hand on the American flag, was elected to Congress in 2026, and on election night, wrapped herself in a “keffiyah” (not the flag of her own country), and this was somehow “normal” and barely newsworthy …
People somehow voted for her.
This is our America now. 😢😢😢
Thoughts and prayers and cheap eats from doordash.
Our city is in mourning. Earlier today, a devastating fire in Sunset Park claimed six New Yorkers.
My heart is with the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives, and I am praying for the full recovery of those who were injured, including 3 heroic firefighters.
This is a heartbreaking tragedy, and I am deeply grateful to the first responders who rushed to the scene to put their own lives at risk to save others.
Investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire. The presence of lithium-ion batteries at the scene is a serious concern, and more must be done to encourage and mandate safe storage practices. Enough is enough.
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The NYC ballot propositions, the creation of Transportation Alternatives now running DOT received the support of one million voters, many didn't know the full remifications of "fast tracking". But, there are 5.3 million registered voters in NYC. 20% registered voters support this
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A lot of people seem to read this as saying we shouldn’t have bike lanes.
That’s not the point (and I like cycling by the way). Rather, it’s that a transportation network should be assessed on its capacity for people and goods to move from point A to point B.
Bikes are good at this in some respects, taking up less space and moving relatively fast. Bike lanes (and a network of lanes) therefore make sense in some parts of the city.
But they’re of limited use in winter and are slower than automobiles (and trams, etc). Plus they can’t carry heavy loads.
The point is that cars aren’t all bad and transit economists should be neutral as to the mode adopted, whilst nevertheless internalizing the externalities.
New Yorkers just approved a ballot measure to facilitate the installation of new bike lanes.
My suggestion would be this: for every bike lane, install sensors for a year that will count the number of cyclists using the bike lane in a given 24-hour period.
If the bike lane traffic is within at least a 10% range of what the lane carries in automobile traffic, keep it. If not, then restore it to car traffic. (A proper test would compare annual traffic-flow to account for lower use during winter months).
This will make sure that limited street space is actually used to transport as many people as possible and boost mobility.
