Nolan Hicks

Nolan Hicks

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Examining how we make passenger rail better (electric/modern) for NYU-Marron. Prev: NY Mag, NY Post-Metro, NYDN. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️‍🌈. Tips? bynolanhicks@gmail.com; Signal/WhatsApp.

15,585 Followers 948 Following 28,779 Posts Joined Jun 2023
21 minutes ago

Portal Bridge doing the “you can’t fire me, I quit!” bit

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25 minutes ago
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Live updates: Over 100 children in Lebanon killed by Israeli strikes as Iran war intensifies The US military is sending roughly 2,500 Marines and at least one extra warship to the Middle East, according to an AP source who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Yea, how dare CNN report that not everything is going to plan <<gets handed a sheet of paper>> "US military sends 2,500 Marines and at least 1 more ship to the Middle East, official says"

apnews.com/live/iran-wa...

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29 minutes ago

The willingness of some Democratic lead cities/states to just let transit hit the cliff is deeply, deeply frustrating.

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30 minutes ago

Always exceptions to the rule but

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31 minutes ago

Historically, it's been to mock an opponent or an outgroup or of that vintage. Not supporters and not to try to buttress any 'I'm just like you' authenticity, because he runs the opposite play book: 'I'm the gazillionaire and the reason you're not is stupid politicians.'

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41 minutes ago
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Paramount, NFL Negotiating Price Increase for Games, CNBC Says Paramount Skydance Corp. is renegotiating its broadcast agreement with the National Football League, a move that could set a precedent for other networks, according to CNBC.

David Ellison is about to have to go find yet another $1 billion a year from somewhere.

"The league is pushing for an increase of about 50% over the $2.1 billion Paramount currently pays, or $3 billion annually, CNBC reported Friday." -- www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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44 minutes ago
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Why can't the U.S. just take over the Strait of Hormuz? | About That YouTube video by CBC News

Great explainer about just how screwed Gulf oil is now that the unthinkable has happened... www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Ql...

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44 minutes ago

Skunkworks Precision Flavor Targeting program: $1.7 billion

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45 minutes ago
Cecily Strong, playing blotto Jeanine Pirro, going head over heals as she falls out of a chair on Weekend Update

A more innocent time

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49 minutes ago

Choosing to believe that's Cecily Strong, doing the bit.

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55 minutes ago

*might be occasional crayoning where strong comparables can be found and existing ROW is maxed out or entirely unavailable, but we're trying really hard to not do it

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56 minutes ago

Too bad there's a 'no crayoning*' rule for Momentum

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57 minutes ago

👀

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1 hour ago
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Hegseth ignored military officials when he slashed offices that limit risk to civilians The Defense secretary’s decision to cut offices that mitigate civilian harm faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike that killed hundreds of Iranian children.

EXCLUSIVE: Military leaders warned Hegseth not to gut the offices that limit risk to civilians. He ignored them.

The decision faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed hundreds of children.

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2 hours ago

only if they feel compelled to ask if your a princeton man because there's orange trim on your gym bag

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2 hours ago

Because when you're having to look at parcel maps, you need some jams

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2 hours ago

if you can integrate your financial fraud into your lunch order and squash game, wouldn't that make you A Harvard Man material?

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2 hours ago

where else will i find A Yale Man^tm?!

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2 hours ago

I don't have an accel curve for those engines, but at 65-70mph average must mean they were pushing 110mph in the straightaways

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2 hours ago

oh ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, all the tumblers just clicked into place

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2 hours ago

famously worked out with the teamsters pension rescue!

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2 hours ago

well, doesn't until we blow up our status as the preferred global reserve currency

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2 hours ago

Correspondingly, the old C&NW 400s running CHI-MKE-MSP via Eau Claire?

Looks like they were doing it in 6h15m to St Paul in 1952 with another 30m to Minneapolis

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2 hours ago

Last week has been a real 'tell on yourself' moment about who is serious on policy and has actually had to write a budget and who hasn't. Yes, this is a subtweet of all the increasing sugar-rush tax proposals.

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2 hours ago

whomst?

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2 hours ago

Looks like the C&NW 400 was averaging 65mph between Milwaukee and Eau Claire with 4 stops, which is... not bad at all

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2 hours ago
Mr Blue, Mr Green, Mr Grey, Mr Brown

sometimes all the systems are entirely disabled by hijackers seeking $1m from a bankrupt city

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3 hours ago

You'd say a 1948 timetable would capture that?

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3 hours ago

poking around at this now, any idea where they stuck those timetables?

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3 hours ago
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Live updates: Over 100 children in Lebanon killed by Israeli strikes as Iran war intensifies Over 100 children have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon after 10 days of fighting the Hezbollah militant group, the Lebanese Health Ministry said Friday.

Back-to-back headlines from the AP's Friday liveblog of the war:

"Trump dismisses Ukraine’s effort to help US defend against Iranian drones" -- apnews.com/live/iran-wa...

"Trump says Iran war will be over ‘when I feel it in my bones’" -- apnews.com/live/iran-wa...

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