Steven Jack

Yikes

Yikes.

I think we have to do both. We don't stand much chance of rebuilding those institutions if we don't win elections to stanch the wound, start to clean up the mess, and gain some political power.

Please take on Broadway next!

I LOVE the 1962 remake.

The culture editor in her memo, referring to Jesse Green's “incisive, witty reviews”? Um, it's not 1950, you can say the word "gay."

It is a bribe and the shame of this will outlive them. I’m not naive, but these people are not fit to own or run a media company. They’re so poor, all they have is money.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

Why does it stop in the middle??

YouTube video by The Dead Media Group Pace Picante "New York City!!" Commercial from 1993

I think about this commercial a lot, especially at times like this, when outsider takes on NYC are cresting. The discourse is never any more sophisticated than this.

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I have a hard time taking anyone seriously with this argument if they're not mentioning Buttigieg.

I feel like it was about the same.

Yes it's disproportionate and incomplete. But it's frustrating that the increased stress on pedestrians the last several years is seldom mentioned in these conversations. I support bikes, but part of making the city bike-friendly has to be addressing the lawlessness of bike culture.

What's the best way for a pedestrian to dodge a bike flying through a red light at 18-22 mph?

he's really incredibly appealing in these videos.

idk that it's going to be enough to win, but the anti cuomo wing has found a very personable and engaging candidate with a comms team that does actually seem to know what it's doing.

The Venn Diagram of folks calling Zohran an exteme radical and folks shrugging their shoulders about Cuomo being a monstrous piece of shit but deciding they’re gonna vote for him anyways is the clearest Circle in the race.

"Yes, Cuomo is awful, but I have some policy differences with the progressives, so this is hard."

This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.

Patti Lupone fixes the sound bleed from a musical next door to her play (common issue with pop musicals next door to plays), an actor in the musical publicly (and absurdly) accuses her of racism, another Bway actor publicly agrees with the charge, Lupone gets angry. And people are mad at Lupone?

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

Fascinating (i.e. terrifying) to watch "religious liberty" come to mean heresy policing. But this is America.

I don't know who you're arguing with, but you don't seem to want to engage with anything I've said. Cities work better when people make an effort to be considerate. It's baffling to me that you would argue so forcefully against such a simple self-evident idea.

Yes to safer infrastructure, yes to fewer cars on the streets. yes to making it safer to get around, for everyone, including bike riders. But bikers: follow the damn traffic laws, be respectful and yield to pedestrians. Be a considerate person. Pretend it's a city. Make it easier to be on your side.

I've lived here since 1981. It was never so stressful to walk in New York as it is now. Talk to anyone who walks regularly and you'll hear the same stories. Bikers treating pedestrians with condescension when they complain about it just alienates people who should be, who want to be, your allies.

As I said, this policy is wrong. I am FOR more bikes, fewer cars. But we need to address a bike culture that excuses lawless behavior that makes our streets increasingly stressful for pedestrians and turns them against pro-bike policy.

To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.

This policy is all kinds of wrong BUT it will be popular. NYers are sick of having to dodge bicyclers flying through stop lights at every intersection, riding against traffic, not signaling, no lights at night, jumping curbs. Make the city bike friendly, but don't make it pedestrians UNfriendly.

Anyway this is how a polite reactionary bigot gives a boost to a fully committed fascist in a framework that won't scare off readers who like to think they're liberals www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

Begging someone to tell me what the difference is between what Sean Duffy and Andrew Cuomo have been saying.

To conservatives, "freedom" means "I get to do whatever I want and someone else has to pay for it."

I Think Neil Gorsuch Is Lying About a “Religious Freedom” Case Again Why did Gorsuch claim that ‘Pride Puppy’, an alphabet book about a lost dog, introduces kids to bondage and sex workers? Let’s find out!

Neil Gorsuch told some of the most obvious, farcical, easily debunked lies I can remember a justice telling. I promise you could spend an hour trying to guess what he says is a picture of a “sex worker” in a children’s book, and not get anywhere close. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/pride...