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DOT Testimony: Removing Bedford Ave. Bike Lane Will 'Reduce Safety' - Streetsblog New York City "Removing the protected bike lane won’t remove cyclists — it will only make the street less safe," the DOT said. "The city risks legal liability for knowingly reducing safety on a Vision Zero…

"Removing the protected bike lane won’t remove cyclists — it will only make the street less safe," the Department of Transportation said in new testimony.

"The city risks legal liability for knowingly reducing safety on a Vision Zero priority corridor."
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We've got new distributional data on the Senate's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" from @natasharsarin.bsky.social and team at @budgetlab.bsky.social.

The results are **stark.**

Top 0.1% _GAINS_ $97,000, or 1% of household resources.
Bottom 20% _LOSES_ $600, or 3% of household resources.

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

@thetolerantweft.bsky.social feels right up your alley

2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility Representatives Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velázquez were turned away when seeking to inspect a migrant detention area inside a Manhattan federal building.

Federal officials prevented two members of Congress on Sunday from entering an immigration detention facility in Manhattan where the representatives were seeking to investigate reports of overcrowding, stifling heat and migrants sleeping on bathroom floors.

ICE Turns Required Check-Ins Into Arrest Dragnet in Lower Manhattan Reporters for THE CITY witnessed vehicles hauling away 16 people in handcuffs from an office where immigrants in deportation cases were summoned to sudden appointments.

On Monday immigrants started getting urgent messages to show up at the basement office of BI Inc, a subsidiary of the prison contractor Geo Group. Once there, many were arrested by agents who refused to identify themselves to @gwynnefitz.bsky.social.

Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to take the rare step of renaming a ship, one that bears the name of a gay rights icon, documents and sources show.

Milk was a Navy veteran.

www.military.com/daily-news/2...

NYC Mayor’s Race: Speaker Adams unlocks $2.4M in matching funds, as Cuomo gets another $675K withheld | amNewYork The city Campaign Finance Board voted to award City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams' mayoral campaign with $2 million in public matching funds.

The Campaign Finance Board voted today to award Speaker Adrienne Adams’ mayoral campaign with $2.4M in public matching funds — money that will give her bid the ability to air TV ads in the final weeks before the primary. They also withheld another $675K from Cuomo.
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The DOE gets asked about this so often that they have an FAQ about it on their website featuring the iconic line “rockets carrying nuclear waste could explode during the launch”

Which about sums up the problem with that approach

Your Home Without China We analyzed import data to show where Americans may see product shortages, fewer choices and price increases.

It’s hard to imagine an American home without Chinese products. Many essentials are imported almost entirely from China — and with new tariffs, they’re likely to become more expensive. We analyzed import data to show where Americans may see product shortages, fewer choices and price increases.

Any major issue with the Akademik Lomonosov would likely be detectable outside of Russia, the same way Chernobyl was, but if you don’t trust the Russians then would you settle for the American MH-1A which operated without incident for 8 years?

We don’t have to speculate, these kinds of floating nuclear power plants already exist, are already in use, and have had no major incidents. Let’s ask what could go right: rapidly built, carbon free, high capacity mobile power that can go wherever you need it and plug right into the grid! #NukeSky

Finland Could Be the First Country in the World to Bury Nuclear Waste Permanently In March, Finland successfully completed the first test of its encapsulation plant, which, if finished, will become the world’s first permanent underground storage facility for radioactive waste.

In March, Finland successfully completed the first test of its encapsulation plant, which, if finished, will become the world’s first permanent underground storage facility for radioactive waste. www.wired.com/story/finlan...

ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Apartment. Now He's in El Salvador's Mega-Prison. Merwil Gutiérrez had no criminal record when ICE agents detained the 19-year-old outside his home. Now his father, Wilmer, is still searching for answers.

On March 15, ICE detained 19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez despite not having a criminal record nor any tattoos — one of the features that the U.S. police used to link him to the Tren de Aragua gang.

Now, his father is looking for answers. Via @documentedny.bsky.social

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Will the SAVE Act make it harder for married women to vote? We ask legal experts Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.

Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.

No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.

Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT for His Housing Plan The Democratic mayoral frontrunner's "Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.

“Does [Cuomo] believe that rent control is merely symbolic? Or that it's "extreme" to keep affordable housing units on the market? A paragraph on page 29 also cites a fact to a 2024 Gothamist article, and includes the site where the source was generated: ChatGPT.”

hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT For His Housing Plan "Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.

Andrew Cuomo's policy paper on affordable housing, released this weekend, was written with the help of ChatGPT and was released rife with typos, in some parts devolving into unintelligible gibberish. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

Many of which got downzoned by Bloomberg, which not only kneecapped overall production, it also forced basically everything that did get built into LIC, Williamsburg, the High Line and a couple of other spots.

🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties.

Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory.
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Happy Monday. Lmao.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has employed political appointees to make cookies and serve meals, and has used a U.S. Park Police helicopter for his personal transportation, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social report.

Read more: https://theatln.tc/XWOZ2iT4

Kremlin panics as Russian Urals crude oil price nears crucial $50 mark Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov attributed the price decline to "the US decision to introduce tariffs for most countries in the world."

⚡️ Kremlin panics as Russian Urals crude oil price nears crucial $50 mark.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov attributed the price decline to "the US decision to introduce tariffs for most countries in the world."

They Pushed for Cuomo to Resign. Now They’re Clearing His Comeback Path. (Gift Article) Many political, business and union leaders who castigated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and pressed him to resign have done an about-face and support his run for mayor.

Good @nytimes.com article on the hypocrisy and cowardice of the politicians, labor leaders and business elites who called on Cuomo to resign in 2021 but are now backing his run for NYC mayor: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/n...

The Resistance Rumbles The “Hands Off” protest in Washington, D.C., drew thousands of people with a lot of feelings—but as-yet-inchoate anger at the Trump administration.

Until now, citizen frustration with the Trump administration “has registered nationally as little more than a distant rumble,” @elainegodfrey.bsky.social writes. The “Hands Off” protest in Washington, D.C., was an attempt to raise the volume:

People take part in a nationwide "Hands Off!" anti-Trump protest in New York City on April 5, 2025. | Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday: cnn.it/4hYKFL3

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

US Weather Forecasts in Spanish to Vanish as Translations Expire The US National Weather Service has allowed a contract with a foreign-language translation service to expire, creating a potential gap in local-language forecasting just as spring brings a higher risk...

The National Weather Service will stop issuing forecasts + storm warnings in Spanish after a translation software contract lapsed at midnight Tuesday. Unclear when/if service will return.

Scoop with @weathersullivan.bsky.social (free link):
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Journalists wont pick up on this, because the story for them is the secretive nature of this.

But the administrations incompetence allowed unabashed slagging on allies to become public and harms America's capacity to act in the international arena.

The Kremlin stated that it will not implement the agreed ceasefire in the Black Sea until the United States lifts sanctions on Russian state-owned agricultural bank Rosselkhozbank and other unspecified financial organizations involved in international food and fertilizer trade.⬇️(1/2)