Chaim Simon

make gambling seedy again. no more draft kings promotions, no more commercials about making prop bets on your phone. there needs to be friction.

bet with your friends. fly to vegas. go to the horse track. lots of fun ways to do it. but get this treatler parlay bullshit out of my face.

the refs really said we can’t let tb lose this bad here

an image with the head of a sphynx who is crying as elongated hands reach for it. the text surrounding the sphynx says "for you were strangers in the land of Egypt" the outlines are black and the sphynx is a golden color with accents

NEWS from inside the Senate Dem meeting tonight:
1-Schumer has the votes to block the DHS funding bill
2-They're going to ask for real investigations into the murders (including an end to impeding the state/local investigations), an end to masks and arrest quotas.
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Welcome to the AFC Championship Game in Denver.

Alex Pretti and Renee Good should be alive today. 5-year-old Liam Ramos should not be in a detention center today. And our government should never, on any day, use children as bait.

Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."

One time recently a guy told me that me having guy best friends was a red flag, so I told him still viewing the world through the lens of a sixteen year old was a bigger red flag

Just Home is back.

At a presser this afternoon, Mamdani announced that the affordable housing project was going forward after the Adams administration had tried to stop it this fall.

83 homes for ppl leaving jail had hung in the balance in the mayors race.

Bungalow

Row of townhouses

South Bend's pre-approved housing catalog has expanded! Bungalow and townhouse plans are now available.

Scoop: Over 50 House Democrats sign onto Kristi Noem articles of impeachment The list of cosponsors includes several Democrats in swing districts.

I signed on. Kristi Noem needs to go and ICE's brutal activity against our communities needs to end.

I voted no last year on Republicans' Big Ugly Bill that gave $75 billion to ICE with no guardrails.

I will vote no on any budget that fails to rein in ICE's lawlessness.

take a second to really wrap your head around this.

It's always exciting to see the Governor make my proposed legislation a priority in her budget. Waiting to see the details: our bill has a lot of protections, incl enhanced green building/energy efficiency, focus on affordability & access to pub trans, but it's a win to get this on the agenda!

BOOM

Governor Hochul will be advancing “Stop Super Speeders” through the budget - a major step forward for this common sense life-saving safety measure.

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🚨 NEW: New York State is modernizing its environmental review process to ensure that infill housing, clean energy, and climate resiliency infrastructure doesn’t get blocked by endless lawsuits and delays.

YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Gary Sheffield Made Pedro Martinez Wait.

Pedro Sent a Message.

All-Utility Underground Map Coming for New York City Instead of having utility representatives mark each site, 3D Underground would let project planners work more independently.

Did you see that they’re going to try a new underground digital map? I didn’t see much press on it besides for an email from Adams www.enr.com/articles/620...

Intersections with the red light cameras have reduced T-bone crashes by 65% and rear-end collisions by 49%.

The Shire Man

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Great news on the selection of automated metro for LA’s Sepulveda Corridor! The capacity via super low frequency might deliver the region’s highest-per mile ridership.
With NYC’s IBX shift to automated light metro + Honolulu SlyLine, are we seeing a limited trend emerging…?

🚨BREAKING: A car just ran over a protester in Minneapolis as protesters march in the rain against ICE after an ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good.

Hochul unveiling free childcare plan for 2-year-olds in NYC, though funding unclear As part of his affordability agenda, Mamdani campaigned on a promise of free child care for all kids from 6 weeks to 5 years old, regardless of household income.

New: Hochul and Mamdani are announcing a plan to this year launch free childcare for 2 year olds in NYC.

But lots of details are unclear, including how much that'll cost and how it'll be funded. Hochul's team does say it won't require tax hikes in 2026. www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/08/h...

This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.

Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s first act as mayor? Announcing the city as an interested party in my slumlord landlord Pinnacle’s bankruptcy auction. (And a slew of executive orders addressing housing!)