Some Good News

A good example of unchecked lawyer-brain.

It's truly past time to cancel all of our NYT subs. Including Games and Cooking. We cannot prop up this publication anymore.

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

They got the names mixed up. Robert Prevost should be the name of a journeyman three-point specialist and Donte DiVincenzo should be the name of the pope

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article) A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

Where Does NYC’s Recycling Go and How Much Really Gets Reused, Anyway? Sorting out answers at Staten Island’s giant paper pulp vat and the massive sifter in Brooklyn — including why seeing metal thrown in the trash makes one waste expert “weak in the knees.”

How much of the recycling material that New Yorkers put into recycling bins actually gets recycled?

It’s probably more than you think:

Image of an all-electric bus charging at a bus depot

Earlier this month, we announced the purchase of 265 new zero-emission buses that will operate on routes across the five boroughs. This purchase is made possible by congestion relief funding!

Chart du jour: In the EU, solar provided more electricity than coal for the first time in 2024.

Great article with two great graphs from the @rockymtninst.bsky.social

Fossil Fuel demand has peaked and we continue to underestimate the rate of change for clean technologies!!

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access Conservatives amended state constitutions to affirm broad rights for people to choose their health care. Now abortion rights proponents are taking them at their word.

BIG NEWS: A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans.

And get this: The judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.

We explained this lawsuit here:

🚨DEMS HAVE FLIPPED THE ALASKA HOUSE🚨 With the Bush Caucus rejoining Democrats, a majority coalition has been formed with 14 Democrats, 5 Nonpartisans, and 2 Republicans, totaling 21 seats. We have just one more uncalled race in the AK House.

underrated news: Dems have flipped the Alaska House

Prosecutors ask for sentence barring Marine Le Pen from running for president in embezzlement trial The three-time presidential candidate is accused of having embezzled EU funds, charges she denies.

🚨 BREAKING: Prosecutors asked that far-right French lawmaker Marine Le Pen be found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison — a judgment that threatens to torpedo her expected presidential bid.

Full story:

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

Bill Shifting Broker Fees From Renters to Landlords Is Expected to Pass The City Council is expected to approve a bill on Wednesday that would curb a loathed New York City real estate practice: broker fees paid by renters.

The New York City Council is expected to approve a bill on Wednesday to shift the cost of broker fees to landlords in most cases. Moving into an apartment in the city can easily cost more than $10,000 in upfront costs.

Two cyclists ride side by side on a newly installed, extra wide bike lane along Queens Boulevard. The sixth and final phase of the boulevard’s redesign runs from Skillman to Roosevelt avenues.

Today NYC DOT is celebrating the completion of the redesign of Queens Boulevard. This Vision Zero project is a powerful example of the effectiveness of engineering our streets for safety. Traffic deaths have declined by 68%; injuries by 35%; and pedestrian injuries by 45%.

New City Trash Bin Rules Begin Tuesday - Streetsblog New York City New Yorkers who live in buildings with nine of fewer units must put their trash out in bins on the sidewalk starting Tuesday.

New trash rules activate! nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/11/08/n...

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

You know how Kentuckians last week rejected measure to allow public funds to be used for private schools?

I had missed that the measure lost *in all 120 counties*. (nytimes.com/interactive/...)

Lovely day: Minneapolis man looks to change narrative around Minneapolis with cheerful tweets, photos Mike Norton, one of social media’s most prolific defenders of Minneapolis, says it’s up to the people who live here to push back at negative portrayals of the city.

i sat down with social media’s own @nortonmpls.bsky.social on "a lovely day" in Minneapolis to learn about how he came to defend the city with such passion. He says it's up to us to push back at negative portrayals of the city. www.startribune.com/lovely-day-m...

Dean Preston appears to have conceded the San Francisco District 5 Supervisor’s race.

Bilal Mahmood’s election is a significant win for YIMBYs.

BREAKING: The Pennsylvania House majority has been defended! Congratulations to the majority headed back to Harrisburg to continue their work to improve the lives of all Pennsylvanians.

Sarah McBride Makes History As The First Openly Trans Member Of Congress The 34-year-old Delaware state senator has said that her victory could be "a lifesaving message" for trans youth.

Sarah McBride is projected to make history as the first openly trans person to be elected to Congress

President Biden’s Science Policies Are...Good, Actually. And That's Worth Celebrating. As an interdisciplinary conservation scientist, I spent a lot of time thinking about the proper role of science in advising and informing government decisionmaking. While scientists don’t know…

After Biden beat Trump in 2020, the union of concerned scientists asked me to make a science policy wishlist. I was shocked to learn that the Biden administration had already done everything I hoped they’d do in 4 years.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/science-blogger/president-bidens-science-policies-ar…

a graph of indexed US battery production, which holds at roughly y = 100 for several years before skyrocketing to 160 in the two years after the inflation reduction act

Data released today shows US battery production continues to rise rapidly in the wake of the Inflation Reduction Act and is up roughly 25% over the last year

Big fiscal baby. Totally vindicated