Mike Cherepko

Anti-corruption has so clear a lane right now that it's hard not to assume anybody who isn't eager to jump into it isn't just corrupt themselves.

we should extradite any member of the Trump administration to any country which makes a claim, however implausible, that they have committed a crime in that jurisdiction notwithstanding that country's human rights record.

Sorry to add to the ~transplant discourse~ but this is all ultimately about the housing shortage

Young, well-educated, mostly well-off people are aware they’re beating somebody at Housing Musical Chairs and feel bad. But we could just build enough housing that it’s not zero-sum!

Some gold detailing above the Oval Office entrance.

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

the lack of crispness in the detailing of this is so funny to me. truly Temu level shit

Pic 1: Oval Office
Pics 2, 3, and 4: Hôtel de la Marine

no perfect approach but "set a minimum SAT score and have all - yes *all* - admissions be a lottery" would be the easiest way to avoid all bullshit

We had a different type of job market in 2021 and 2022 but not enough people fought for it and it was smothered by interest rate hikes, austerity imposed by a GOP House and eventually Trump bsky.app/profile/wh38...

The GHF-run food distributions in Gaza, Palestine, have become sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”, not humanitarian aid. A new MSF report documents the horrors witnessed by MSF staff at two clinics that regularly received mass influxes of casualties following violence at sites run by the GHF. MSF calls for the immediate dismantling of the GHF scheme and the restoration of the UN-coordinated aid delivery mechanism.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF):

GHF-run ‘aid’ sites are sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation.”

“In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.”

www.msf.org/ghf-run-food...

Ultraprocessed Food Still Makes Up More Than Half of Americans’ Diets

"Sandwiches, including burgers, contributed the most calories..."

Sandwiches and burgers are not ultra-processed! I am losing my mind.

People don't want to say it but the reason the FBI might be used to round up Texas Democrats when it wasn't used on Oregon Republicans is that the Oregon Republican party, like all Western state Republican parties, has a de fact alliance with white rural terrorists who might shoot cops.

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Alligator Alcatraz ICE Prisoner Reveals Beatings & Groping of Prisoners "They're going to kill us here," prisoner tells girlfriend about guards violently assaulting prisoners. "They touch us all: our groins, our asses...they treat us like beasts."

"They’re going to kill us here little by little, no one pays attention to us. I’ve been here for 30 days seeing injustice and mistreatment, it doesn’t stop. They abuse us in every way—with the food, in the bathroom, everything, everything." Important reporting from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

DOT to lower speed limit, add safety measures at Chinatown intersection after fatal July crash Some of the safety measures DOT will add at Canal Street and Bowery in Chinatown include a reduced speed limit and barriers.

DOT tells amNY it will "fast-track a public outreach process for a Canal Street redesign that will start this summer, several months ahead of schedule."

The agency has been studying Canal since at least 2023 and already launched public outreach in June of that year. www.amny.com/news/dot-saf...

As a fully occupied, 400,000-sq. ft. office building, it would’ve likely had over 2,000 people working there. I don’t feel good about these conversions, I think they are part of a process that is sapping vitality from cities.

New York Governor Stands With Quorum-Breaking Texas Democrats, Pledges to Fight GOP ‘Fire with Fire’ Read more here.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) stood with quorum-breaking Texas Democrats and announced plans to redraw the state’s congressional map:

“If Republicans are willing to rewrite these rules to give themselves an advantage, then... we must do the same.”

Your New York-ness isn't based on how long you've lived here, it's based on how little you drive. Like, I officially became a New Yorker after living here for 2 years when I brought a new air conditioner home on the subway.

per usual from Alon, this is a racist, right-wing nationalist lie.

I'm a 5th or 6th generation native New Yorker since my ancestors came over from the Pale of Settlement at or before the start of the 20th century and find "who is a true New Yorker" to be some of the most insufferable gatekeeping largely from people who think the city should be frozen in amber.

Hear me out here - by killing the open street on Vanderbilt, it became less of a destination and the neighborhood can't support restaurants like that if it's not a destination

Its the cars. Where can they go that they don't have to interact with drivers? I biked for pleasure for most of my life and gave it up when my kids could start because city biking in Houston is insanely dangerous and I don't want them to do it. Everything they want to go to is way too far to walk

Top Shelf Sycophancy The spirits industry is in an abusive relationship with the Trump administration. It’s time to break up.

Spirits industry, we have to talk. You’re in an abusive relationship. It’s time to break it off.

it's crazy that i wake up every day and think "i can't possibly have anything else to say on twitter" and then the US Department of Defense will be like "Our Secretary of Defense has great jeans ☺️"

The MTA's weekly capital construction newsletter just noted that the IBX stations will be the first new rail stations added in Brooklyn since the G was built in the 1930s.

I know this is true, but it's so glaring to see it in print like that. The G has been in full service for 88 years.

U.S. may require visa applicants to post bond up to $15,000 to enter country The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.

If you're from a country with a weaker economy or difficult entry requirements into the US: do not spend money on GDC. Do not book a ticket. Do not book a hotel. Do not pay for a visa. Skip that cynical for-profit extortion, or the US will take your money & spit you out.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

From the Bushwick community on Reddit: Citibike thief at Knickerbocker/Dekalb Explore this post and more from the Bushwick community

I do not understand people who leave their Citibike lying around outside while they run errands. There's a station two blocks from here. Dock your bike, idiot!

you'll love this Berlin transit researcher's bluesky if you like urbanism and also how Israel has done nothing wrong and the backlash to its genocide is a global conspiracy to deny the Holocaust

But this is also the longest I’ve ever had them. They faded and came back.

I’ve had hiccups for the last hour, so I’m glad I have my hiccup approach of loving them. You can’t get them when you don’t have them, so welcome them when they visit you.

This is actually hilarious 😆

Excellent piece, including this quote from the head of Greece's statistical agency about why fights over data are also fights about whether a country can see itself clearly:

The flag of suburban America “town” if they followed Eastern European Vexillology formulas

The upper right dish is my zesty macaroni salad that uses giardiniera. It’s one of my top food inventions.