Ted Mann

did the Cuomo campaign write this?

The metadata

For everyone stuck writing about today’s cancellations, here’s the metadata from the “rule” that Vought claims both New York and Chicago are somehow in violation of. The PDF to post it wasn’t even created until 5:47pm, was last modified at 5:55pm. And the government shut down six hours later at 12am

I think this is intended to come off as intimidating backroom toughassedness but it reminds me more of Ben Affleck singing "re-tain-er" in the interview scene in Good Will Hunting.

The housing hustle igniting a foreclosure crisis in Baltimore The foreclosures could send neighborhoods spiraling and make Baltimore America’s next great housing crisis.

Remarkable story about a wave of foreclosures in Baltimore triggered by incomprehensible DSCR loan activity from New York investors. This @thebaltimorebanner.com story reads like the sixth season of "The Wire": www.thebanner.com/community/ho...

Back when I did this kind of thing, the pitch for why more NYC newsrooms should have dedicated MTA reporters—not even "transportation" generally, just MTA—was that the MTA's annual budget was larger than that of 10 states.

You see this particularly in the crime discussion nationally, but folks outside of New York City (and often times in New York City) do not grasp the scale and scope of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

No-flush urinals rile Philly plumbers Philadelphia's hoped-for bragging rights as home of America’s tallest environmentally friendly building could be sunk. The plumbers union has raised a stink about plans to put waterless urinals in the...

see also: the Philly plumbers union versus the urinals

www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12083...

[scribbling out their homework as the bus pulls up to school]

putting the "pre" in pretext

I know that quelling the doomposting about this is gonna be like pissing in the wind, but still, PSA: Both projects are already fully funded, obligated, and under construction. Cancelling them is for all intents and purposes impossible.

A Gunmaker’s Lobbying Shows How Trump’s Tariffs Changed the Game Firms close to the administration have seen a surge in revenue as they advise businesses on how to avoid the import duties and play ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ in Trump's Washington

Trump’s tariffs - and companies’ push for relief from them - has set off a lobbying boom with more than $900 million spent in the first half of this year.

The big winners: A small group of lobbying firms with close ties to the Trump administration.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Also, Voight going after the Hudson River tunnels, which are primarily for New Jersey Transit(!), a month before the gubernatorial election in New Jersey is a big gift to Mikie Sherrill

w/ @sdonnan.bsky.social @nazmul.bsky.social Michael Smith & Jessica Brice

A Gunmaker’s Lobbying Shows How Trump’s Tariffs Changed the Game Firms close to the administration have seen a surge in revenue as they advise businesses on how to avoid the import duties and play ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ in Trump's Washington

Trump's 50% tariff on Brazil was a crisis for Taurus, which sells most of its low-cost guns in the US. So Taurus called Brian Ballard.

Trump's trade wars are fueling a historic boom on K Street -- especially for lobbyists closest to the president's inner circle.

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Retailers Seek Law Rounding to Nearest Nickel as Pennies Go Away US retailers are appealing to Congress for a new law allowing them to round purchases to the nearest nickel as new supplies of pennies dry up, according to a letter seen by Bloomberg.

New from me: PENNY SHORTAGE! Retailers are lobbying Congress for a law to let them round to the nearest nickel ASAP as pennies go away.
“Businesses simply cannot provide exact change any longer because they cannot get pennies,” they wrote. Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

The amazing thing about the hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on AI development is it doesn't even include all the externalized costs like higher electricity prices for hundreds of millions of people.

Last night I watched ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and was fairly blown away by how prescient it feels in capturing the encroaching dystopia of this moment in American history.
Today I woke up to this clip which feels on about 5 different levels like it could be an outtake from the movie.

One thing to know about the "Eric Adams Is The Future of the Democratic Party" takes from 2021 is not only were they obviously wrong at the time, not only are they embarrassing to the authors now, but they are objectively among the most wrong takes in the history of political punditry.

it's giving Pulaski/"Lincoln Tunnel access road"

incredible

Our story: usa.streetsblog.org/2025/09/22/h...

and on and on...

Amid a global movement of street redesign, and after a dramatic spike in US traffic deaths, the Duffy DOT is all in on cars.

Trump❤️🚗🚜🚙

"your project proposes to reprioritize the street layout to focus on walking, biking and transit, as opposed to the current auto-centric configuration"

"several elements that impede vehicle capacity and speed"

"counter to DOT's priority of focusing... on projects that promote vehicular travel"

Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones.

The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

time again for a little huddle-up on what a "right" is

and before that the vignette about his grandmother in the campaign speech on race...

Trump-Musk Alliance Unravels in Split Over ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ From the moment Donald Trump and Elon Musk joined forces, betting in Washington held that the president’s bond with the First Buddy who bankrolled his comeback election win wouldn’t last.

Guess who on guess who: “I warned people in the transition, this guy is unpredictable, immature and a narcissist, and he’d turn on anybody — including the president — when it suited him.”

w @joshuagreen.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And this: "Yet even as he prides himself on dispassionate rigor, Musk has proved remarkably uninterested in figuring out how the government that he sought to transform really works."

There’s your empty shelf.

US goods imports drop 19.8% in April — largest on record