The Trump administration has yet to sign a contract for a single new transit project www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...
Even so, Congress designated 21 transit projects for funding in a recent spending bill.
I did a little more investigation to understand the status of some of these projects 🧵
This is the Post and the sources in it are identified as Trumpworld people which in my opinion suggests the whole gang is reaaaaaally sick of these two
This shoe thing…a rich text
I am always curious about what it is like for the subset of political appointees with genuine ideological beliefs to see their most significant work dismantled by goons, and I got to ask Julie Su that question.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/julie-sus-...
Want to know if your senator or representative was watching football from a university president's luxury box ... while debating just what rights student-athletes should have?
FOIAball has all the receipts from the 2025 season
www.foiaball.com/p/congress-c...
between "spider-man and spongebob are the only US heroes" and "get ready for $200 a barrel" i am drawing the conclusion iran at least rhetorically really has us figured out
This is a good framework. The impact is a pretty simple function, something like y = -x^(1+t/n) where x and n are constants and t is days Hormuz is closed.
In my mind, to flex on someone suggests more intentionality to show up a specific person or group. Mog is broader; you can mog just by being in proximity
Okay but I did ask no one to get mad at me
I think you’re imputing some sentiment not in evidence in those posts lol
Mug is! That’s a fun one too but very different
Back in the day I was working a food booth at a musical festival and a guy dropped a five dollar bill in the tip jar and I thanked him profusely because I knew exactly how many McDoubles that represented and precisely how many more cents I needed for an additional McDouble
Maybe I am
lol great perfect
I’ll give em that one
If I can say something without everybody getting mad at me: most of zoomer YouTubespeak is a dud but I find “mogged” to be a surprisingly useful concept
The biggest “big if true” of all time perhaps
Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
This is what most fascinates me about fully internet-churn-colonized kids who live in a cultural blank - they're not automatons, but operatically miserable psychotics who lack any and all psychological insight - they're not just mind-blind to others, but to themselves, which is what makes them prey
Everyone seems to have voiced their opinion on the Hawks' Magic City Night. Nobody bothered to invite the women in the industry into the discussion.
Here's my Q&A with NatsHoney, the president of Strippers United, who shared a much-needed perspective:
www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/atlan...
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The essence of friendship tbh
America no longer innovates in the tech world but we are always breaking new ground when it comes to heckling
the greatest example of this was Michael Lewis and others watching Sam Bankman-Fried playing a shitty autobattler badly during meetings and concluding he must be a genius
Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.
My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
I thought Anastasia Dipbrow blindness was a problem solved by the pandemic
This newsletter simplifies it in a way that everybody can really understand, so it takes out the intimidation factor of the markets. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
"A researcher at a far-right think tank helped Justice Department prosecutors craft their indictment for terror charges against an alleged 'north Texas antifa cell,' the researcher testified Monday."
gotta be another way to do this
