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Lmao this rocks

Major transport infra projects Trump admin has paused funding for, killed, or refused to let open:
—Howe Bridge (MI/CAN): 2/9/26
—Red Line Ext. (IL): 10/3/25
—Gateway Tunnel (NJ/NY): 10/1/25 & 10/18/25
—Second Ave Subway (NY): 10/1/25
—High-speed rail (CA): 7/16/25
—High-speed rail (TX): 4/14/25

TBH as a closeted homophobe at the time, it’s hard to overstate the impact “Born this Way” had on my sense of what “everyone” believed about being gay.

Not trying to dunk on the quoted post, but the normalization of ideas and identities by big pop culture figures does actually work.

Chappell Roan has left the Wasserman talent agency over founder Casey Wasserman’s emails to Ghislaine Maxwell were revealed in the latest Epstein files drop.

“Some say?” Surya Bonaly actually did it, in competition. Twenty-eight years ago. And people *excoriated her* for it!

Sounds like “some” only disagree on whether first glory can be claimed by a black woman.

Sherrill wins first battle with Hochul over Port Authority post - New Jersey Globe Mikie Sherrill has been the governor of New Jersey for less than three weeks, and she’s already won a significant skirmish with her counterpart across the

"New York’s decision to leak the spat to the New York Times – and a Daily News editorial that backfired — simply expanded Sherrill’s resolve"
"The Port Authority succeeds when New York and New Jersey work together with focus and purpose,” said Sherrill." newjerseyglobe.com/governor/she...

This is just a gigantic dead space in that neighborhood where almost everything else is retail. And you've got people using it as a long-term parking garage (and ONLY that). Come on.

Biden Grateful He’s Not Alive To See What Trump Doing To Country WILMINGTON, DE—Expressing relief about his obliviousness to America’s unraveling, former President Joe Biden told reporters Thursday that he was grateful not to be alive to see what Trump was doing to...

“I devoted my entire life to safeguarding the ideals of democratic freedom and promoting liberty across this great land, and I cannot emphasize enough how lucky I am to have left this world before I had to see what Donald Trump has done to our country’s most sacred values.” said Joseph Biden

Libertarians: we told you so

It's Time For America To Admit That It Has A Marijuana Problem

These ran on the same day in the same paper

This is part of a pattern that is impeachable: Trump cuts previously appropriated Congressional funds, but only to states led by Democrats (California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota).

Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.

The New York Times wants you to quit caffeine, quit weed, and quit eating (but also quit GLP-1s), however it is not quite the time for you to quit Ross Douthat

shut the fuck up

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I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.

Accurate

NYC Nurses' Strike Nears End as Tentative Deal is Reached With Two Out of Three Hospitals - Documented As the largest and longest nurses' strike in NYC history comes to an end, nurses are coping with very real costs of holding the line.

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Nurses’ Strike Nears End as Tentative Deal is Reached With 2 Out of 3 Hospitals

As the largest and longest nurses' strike in NYC history comes to an end, nurses are coping with the very real costs of holding the line

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JUST IN: DOJ is trying to help Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Motion has no career prosecutor on it, just signed by US Attorney Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Like, this is what this is ultimately all about, there are people infinitely spun up about having kids in their school system who are not Noo-Joisey Eye-Tal-I-An

I think it's corrosive to life in America to have everything imposed on increasingly furious neighbors.

Yet it's also corrosive that no one is even remotely enticed to rally around "the greater good" and that no one in politics seems to want to speak to anti-racism or anti-fascism!!!

Which is where Mount Laurel and builder's remedy come in, but in general, I think if there's a proposal that would "make the town better" and the people don't want the proposal - you should have a really good reason (e.g. regional housing emergency) to override it. That part isn't wrong.

Where, as much as I hate losing good ideas to bad plebiscites, I'd be totally fine if the math on this was "we put it to a town vote in the annual election, 51% of participants voted nay, it's not happening"

But then it comes back to the issue of, "once you see someone deploying these techniques, why are you giving them any more time"? They are not present in good faith.

The culture of letting that go-on is about the decisions being rigged by way of the process being rigged for certain sensibilities

Also, I am going to be at some bars for three hours, and I'd be fine with consuming much less alcohol in those timespans, I constantly feel I'm served beverages that are too big (I order half-pours where available, and even those are big).

Bars pouring 16oz of a boozy IPA by default/minimum is bad

JFC. Also, I don't like where I am on this chart. And I don't like the Seventh decile - 2 drinks a week? You drink but you... don't? WTF

I have to emphasize that I am the worst nightmare of both the marketing and content creation/film and TV production industries & they want nothing to do with people like me except to occasionally validate slop with critics who didn't hate it THAT much

I would not watch any of the other celeb ads again and I forgot most of them. I do remember the one where you look at your pee (Liquid I.V. - and good for them, but also I am already on a subscription to their products)

I'm really sorry to hear that. And this is the canonical example of "shut up, weed haters"

Between the incorrect assumption that spread all over the internet that Liam Conejo Ramos was in Bad Bunny's halftime performance and a whole discourse I'm seeing on how "gift link" or "gift article" = paid ad (???), not feeling too hot about the state of media literacy.

Counterpoint: I want to see Ben Affleck making an absolute clown of himself for donut coffee. I would watch another 9-0 half of football to see more.