Charlie Gans

Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”

Ambulance carrying a crash victim crashes in L.A., drawing a crash investigator — who also crashes A Fire Department ambulance transporting a crash victim was struck by a vehicle. When another LAFD vehicle arrived to investigate, it too was involved in a crash.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️

"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Second this

I’ve always loved that statue. It’s tucked away. Feel like a lot of people don’t know about it.

Image of train with a banner that says "Future Home of the IBX"

Rendering of Interborough Express

Today, @governor.ny.gov announced that the engineering and design phase of the Interborough Express (IBX) has begun! This is a major step forward for the project, which will connect historically underserved communities in Brooklyn and Queens to the subway, bus, and @mtalirr.bsky.social.

Take a Ride on the Interborough Express, New York City’s Future Train Line The Interborough Express, a new rail line that would link Brooklyn and Queens, could change the face of the city.

Fantastic piece in the @nytimes.com about the future Interborough Express route, feat. RPA's Tom Wright!

See the proposed route + hear from Tom about the history of the project:

Take a Ride on the Interborough Express, New York City’s Future Train Line The Interborough Express, a new rail line that would link Brooklyn and Queens, could change the face of the city.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wow. That’s incredibly bad. Almost hard to believe it’s true. I guess that’s high interest rates for you.

As a longtime user of those stairs, I love this idea

Wow. Never seen that before. I feel like the architects gave up fighting the VE and just went with it.

Ditto

ICYMI: We just reopened the Rockaway Line! Here’s a look at the critical upgrades we made over the last 5 months to ensure Rockaway residents and visitors will have reliable service for many years to come.

See you at the beach! ☀️

Biggest city getting bigger (again) as new census estimate has New York City netting 87,000 new residents in the past year.

Interborough Express Open House Join our upcoming open houses to learn more about what's next for the Interborough Express

Join us on Thursday, May 8 from 6-8 pm for an open house at The Renaissance Charter School in Jackson Heights all about the Interborough Express!

RSVP encouraged, but not required: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIhlKyVuOHpDhutyyM6xbGuqU4NDersC5GZ0B-Y9bkGovNow/viewform

Second this. Had multiple conversations with friends and family this past weekend about visiting us in Brooklyn. And the question of where they would stay was the biggest stumbling block.

Could also be some flooring or tiling work around the entrance.

Can’t say for certain. But elevator contractors don’t like leaving the shaft or room. So if power or comms lines need to be homerun back to a panel in another area, a separate contractor will need to do it.

NY is even projected to lose 3 congressional seats in 2030 due to population decline. This weakens our voice in national politics, and makes it harder for Democrats to win national elections.

Albany has the power to stem this loss—if it chooses to act.

U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.

This makes me irate www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs.

He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’ The declaration by the vice president came as court orders have temporarily blocked parts of the Trump administration’s agenda.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

So it begins

This

Amidst the chaos and the law-breaking the most important thing to remember/focus on is that they are doing these things illegally because they know they don't have the votes to do it by passing laws, even in a GOP controlled Congress.

The shortest summary of what we’re witnessing is that the right lost a decades-long ideological battle over the proper size of government, and then, instead of moving on, decided to impose their will criminally.

You say: they shutdown USAID.

You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.

Speechless www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.

When you plan to do illegal things within an agency, this is what you do in advance:

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."

Doc Brown is on that train. You can’t convince we otherwise.