Charlie Hobbs

Lawyer by training, currently in development.

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@Wirakoscha @MedievalScholar @EduardHabsburg VAR gonna call that offsides

[Ryder Kessler @ryderkessler]

I am once again reposting E.B. White

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@flowrmeadow Lol someone tweets this every year chill

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@notchrisvolpe Nah it’s because federal law/regulation won’t allow them to use $$ from the airport fees for the rail capex unless it primarily serves airport — which I believe right now means it can’t have more than like one external stop. It’s incredibly dumb but not about the ticket revenue.

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@aarmlovi Chatti also a great option on the same street — with vegetarian options too

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@BarbarianCap It’s a result of some odd feature of federal law that allows airport fees to pay for intraairport transit with exactly (1) external stop. So NYC could basically do this for free with Port Authority money. But it couldn’t extend the subway with the same $. So we have this

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@austinahlman I personally subscribe to the woke agenda, but I actually think this is a pretty sophisticated argument that meaningfully engages with the topic from morally sound premises and I love that

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@ModeledBehavior @ss492 (B) we already know there IS a market failure because the city spends $80M annually subsidising private grocery stores to operate in under served parts of the city!

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@ModeledBehavior @ss492 (A) there is! Government run groceries are used all over the world to enable access to necessities at fair prices where there is a market failure (see eg Curitiba; belo Horizonte for two cities doing that); and

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@ModeledBehavior I mean isn’t the limiting principle “basic human necessities”? Like I think it’s pretty easy to distinguish grocery stores from like a Yankee Candle store.

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@AsadFromNYC One of his campaign posters at least (now at the Museum of the City of New York) had a few more than even that!

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@CaitCamelia Exactly there are so many examples of this working really well !!! It’s actually a good evidence based policy!!

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@_night_brain__ Because there are tons of examples of it working really well to expand access to nutritional foods! See, eg, ABC stalls in Belo Horizonte and Sacalao da Familia in Curitiba. It’s actually maybe his best idea!

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@PEWilliams_ Perhaps depending on how it’s written. Or they should really just try to get the agency to agree to change (eg surrender some screen time in a swap for hey we get the bottom 12 inches all the time). Bc right now it’s incredibly frustrating

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@PEWilliams_ @MTA @NYCTSubway I believe I read the advertising agency actually installed/owns/operates the software and hardware, and in return for the platform space MTA gets to put up its info for a % of display time. But not having times on bottom 100% is probably just bad contracting.

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@ArnabDatta321 This feels right

[Stephanie Lockett @sglockett]

This photo.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

A question I'd ask the American political elite is how many students and professors are you willing to beat into a pulp in order to shield Israel from perfectly legitimate criticism based on widely shared principles?

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

This is what the violence we're seeing on campuses is designed to defend.

[Charlie Hobbs @ChobbsIV]

@akritigaur Sounds like a very moderate session