Carrie Kingsley

Please permit me to remind you that just as the First Amendment protects Nazis, who would suppress our speech, it also protects the New York Times, which has sold out every American right and value for the mess of Park Slope potage that is false equivalency, false neutrality, and access.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE AUGUST 29, 2025 Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season

THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”

Cities:

The bad faith actors will dishonestly draw a through line connecting trans people to mass shootings but will skip right to over the fact that many of these mass shooters are racists, antisemites and misogynists because they harbor some of the same sentiments as the shooters.

I was a dedicated Citymapper user for years just for this feature.

There is nothing remarkable about this opinion. “I’m a conservative, and I only favor programs that benefit me“ is the oldest story in history.

One of my all-time favorite books. A good reminder to do a re-read!

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Transformative work of the day, someone out there NEEDS this edition:

I'm glad we can go back to hating on Adrienne Adams after having to pretend she wasn't bad. The city council torpedoing outdoor dining over a handful of loud complaints from car owners was such a damning mistake.

And I am begging restaurateurs to find someone better than Andrew Rigie to lobby.

"New York, a dramatically safe big city, is still attached to the rest of the United States" seems to be the real story here.

He drove from Las Vegas to New York with an AR-15, which cannot be purchased in New York.

This isn’t about New York.

This is about Republicans persistently blocking common sense gun safety reform, including an assault weapons ban, that a super majority of Americans support.

Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.

New York City’s Subway Is Actually Safer Than Your Car Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has a point about assaults underground, but his policies aren’t improving anything.

"...the risk of being murdered underground is... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the US. Cars are deadly, and any transportation policy that encourages their use over public transportation is pretty much by definition anti-safety."

Chart showing risk of being murdered in the subway if you rode 500 times last year (0.4 in 100,000) versus other risks such as that of dying in a traffic accident in the US last year (12.1 in 100,000)

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"I don't like NYC enough to even live there if I can't be the mayor" is quite a stance from someone asking the people to make him the mayor.

Something not limited to Sean Duffy is how people will get into their cars and think nothing of the risk they face of death or injury, which is several orders of magnitude greater than your risk of being hurt on public transit. Driving a car is the most dangerous thing most people do each day.

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“Slappin’ fannies and killin’ grannies” is a superb line re Cuomo. Also, it is amazing that Curtis Sliwa is real and not a TV character

This grok stuff is so bad it’s impossible to tell fake from real, whcih may be intentional.

Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%

So yes this program is a SUCCESS.

SAME

I'm starting to believe that this result will be determined by turnout, and I give you my blood oath that the Cuomo-rankers in my UWS neighborhood who "liked his father" and have voted in every primary since 1948 will show up to vote. So young(er) people, PLEASE: Do your thing and nullify them!

In case you haven’t read the report, here are the headings of the report’s conclusions into Andrew Cuomo’s behavior.

Next interview should just be basic New York City questions for Andrew Cuomo.

Tell me how to get from Union Square to Yankee Stadium.
Name 5 neighborhoods in the Bronx.
Point to Prospect Park on a blank map.
Where and what are the Cloisters?
Name on restaurant in Chinatown

The more I think about this answer, the more revealing it is that Andrew Cuomo thinks taking the subway every other week is "fairly often."

It betrays a complete lack of understanding regarding how so many in New York City use the subway.

Co-sign!!

Things come and go, and I don't begrudge romantasy its moment in the sun, not in the least because when people come into the bookstore for that romantasy book, they sometimes leave with additional books in tow. Any book that brings people into the store is a good one for the rest of them.