Sean

and Columbia Missouri

And yes, the administration put itself in a position where it had to include a project it proposed and had support for (the busway) in exchange for a project everyone had already been pretty supportive of (the rezoning)

if it holds in November, Minneapolis and Seattle both voting to fire their mayors out of nowhere *should* convince Hill Dems they have a bigger problem on their hands than just Cuomo and Adams. will it? lol idk man

it's crazy that games are still 60 dollars for 20 years

Sept 2032 and start digging in 2026

Because the MTA agreed to place a tunnel under Metropolitan Ave, rather than have it operate at-grade (nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/10/30/m...), the line's benefits will improve spectacularly. The change:
—Reduces route run times from 39 to 32 min
—Increases ridership from 110,000/day to 160,000/day

For what I think is the first time since I started covering the MTA, the agency has a pretty good financial picture for the foreseeable future, with projected deficits in 2027, 2028 and 2029 coming in under $500 million each year

When asked whether he would still try to appeal to young supporters, Cuomo said he wanted to make sure they understood the complexity of government. He suggested they had fallen captive to Mamdani’s social media prowess and his digestible proposals, which he says are complicated to execute and risk leaving a generation of young people disappointed by a government he believes is likely to fail. “People get turned off because somebody runs for office and says, you know, ‘I have a magic wand,’” Cuomo said. “‘I’m going to make everything more affordable. I’m going to make buses run fast. I’m going to wave a wand and all of that is going to happen,’ and then nothing happens.”

Tweet from InternetHippo: Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting "Better things aren't possible"

Principal Skinner meme Panel 1: Am I out of touch? Panel 2: No, it's the children who are wrong

What an inspiring message from the Cuomo campaign!

Port Authority should hand the PATH and the toll subsidy for its operation and upgrade to the MTA. The PA clearly has zero interest in running a subway and moving PATH to an agency that does care would help immensely.

Can you have a post going over the NYC city council winners now that the results are finalized?

The idea that rural areas of PA are subsidizing Philly is just a mind-boggling inversion of reality; unfortunately, it's a sentiment that pervades politics in basically every state with a big city

2025 Platform Socialist Majority is proud to stand behind the following platform for the 2025 DSA National Convention.

We're continuing to introduce each member of our NPC slate! Last week you met Jeremy Cohan, Leslie Chang, Clayton Ryles, Katie Sims, and Seth Woody. Each of these candidates helped co-author our platform resolutions, which you can read on our site.

www.socialistmajority.com/2025-platform

i think that if a bunch of young people who think they're the next zohran mamdani just start running for congress all at once, at least one of them has to actually be good

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

Brownie 2025: FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Curtis Sliwa holding his red beret in his hand, a very visible hat tan around his balding head

the real mindfuck is seeing him without it

STARMER'S POLITICAL MYOPIA IS TYPICAL of politicians and commentators I would characterize as reactionary centrists-those who, in addition to having moderate policy preferences, share a view of the far right as having unaccountably low agency, and figuring them as simply reacting to the actions (and alleged excesses) of leftists, progressives, and advocates of social justice. 1 Reactionary centrists rarely imagine solutions to political problems that do not involve a policy move to the right, especially on social issues. Won an election? You'll need to give ground to govern. Lost an election? You'll need to give ground to win next time. That this is obviously unfalsifiable doesn't bother them in the slightest.

reactionary centrists have a totally incoherent theory of politics whose primary upshot is that they validate and legitimize the far right

All of the Largest US Urban Areas Except Dallas Offered Fewer Transit Services in 2024 Than in 2019: Change in vehicle revenue miles, by urban area. Source: Yonah Freemark, using data from the National Transit Database. Notes: Includes data for 25 most-populous US urban areas

One big problem that I highlight is that US transit agencies simply aren't providing the level of service they did pre-pandemic!

Almost all US urban areas had less transit service provided in 2024 than in 2019. The Denver urban area is particularly bad. That's hitting ridership.

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

this is the best piece I've read on what went wrong in Kerr County

-the NWS forecast was as good as could reasonably be expected
-warnings were published in time
-lack of staff to coordinate with local officials to act on warnings was the major cause of the failure
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

Trump and Republicans in Congress are trying to pull off one of the biggest heists in U.S. history.

The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is robbery, plain and simple.

And it’s being committed by the billionaire class and the politicians they put into office.

Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally
• He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic
• He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’
• He’s not a communist

Someone running on the WFP line can definitely win this district

"The core of NYC-DSA's campaigns is a deep belief, put into practice, that anybody interested in the campaign is able to doing almost anything for that campaign" — Grace Mausser

🙏🙏🙏

Here’s how Zohran Mamdani’s 50K-strong volunteer army pulled it off An interview with Tascha Van Auken, field director for Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign.

Zohran field director and founding SMC member Tascha Van Auken talked to @petersterne.com about how NYC-DSA built a mass movement of organizers and volunteers that won a commanding victory last Tuesday.

www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

Given how reluctant some Dem leaders are to endorse Zohran despite him absolutely dominating the Democratic primary, imagine how much worse it would be if he had just squeaked out a 2% victory over Cuomo after RCV.

anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!

Voters who supported Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso in their most recent general elections = 440,734

NYC voters who ranked Zohran #1 in the *primary* = 432,305

Perfect distillation of how unrepresentative the Senate is

The subtext here seems to be that Murkowski said to get her that medicaid boost for Alaska or she's out.

Eric Adams is running for reelection on the platform "actually the rent is too low."

the Manhattan-Brooklyn-Queens multiracial PMC and the citywide immigrant working class united for Zohran to outvote homeowners and wealthy capitalists for Cuomo, this is extremely clear from the map