Just so everyone is clear, if you're riding your bike safely minding your business and die after getting dragged under an SUV, the Speaker will consider that an "ebike crash", blame you for your own death, then write legislation designed address *your* "dangerous" vehicle.
@dreamfornyc@nicolegelinas yeah we'd be in the black for at least 2-3 additional years if the price stayed at the original $15 instead of $9. that single decision cost the MTA roughly $350 million per year!
@alanthefisher@urbenschneider like where lol? literal easiest spot to get to and from in the city, necessary for crowds of tens of thousands. theres large enough vacant parcels in manhattan with good transit access
As I listen to Americans explain why they voted for Trump or refused to vote for Harris, it strikes me that they just made things up in their heads that were not true, and the media did nothing to dissuade them.
Trump never said anything about the education system other than attacking it. But this voter thinks he did, because the traditional media and social media was myopically concerned with whether Haitians were eating pets, and if Biden was old. There was no discussion of either party's platform, or the candidates' legacies. That was old news, and uninteresting.
How can we blame this on the candidates themselves? They don't control the media, and have little if any power to direct it or correct the record once something goes viral. Voters themselves bear some responsibility to verify that their impressions are correct, but they have abdicated all civic responsibility, not that we ever had much to begin with.
Truly, however, trying to explain the results of 2016, 2020, or 2024 without giving the media itself the majority of the blame is ridiculous. Trump lost in 2020 because the media never strongly attacked Biden, and Trump's poor handling of the early pandemic was widely reported. Trump won in 2016 and 2024 because the media was relentlessly negative about Clinton and Harris, giving Trump endless amounts of free press without scrutinizing his record or platform.
@MTANewsroom for the love of god put the barriers at the actual EDGE of the platform (highlighted in blue), otherwise theyre just a useless obstacle to movement up and down the platform
The elimination of the Republican Party is both necessary and the morally correct path. This isn’t even an extreme position anymore. They are an existential threat to humanity and world stability.
People (including myself) often point out that institutional investors only own <1% of single-family homes in the US.
But the antitrust populists have a good point when they say that local housing markets are more important than national housing markets (because that's the relevant market for most homebuyers).
So let's look at the data for local housing markets...
1. Atlanta: 4.2%
2. Memphis: 3.8%
3. Jacksonville: 3.6%
4. Charlotte: 3.4%
5. Las Vegas: 2.7%
Blaming large investors for the housing crisis is certainly popular, but it won't do anything to actually increase housing supply because it's a fake problem.
RFK Jr has:
- Cut off a raccoon dick
- Eaten a dog
- Chainsawed off a whale head and strapped it to his minivan
- Put a dead bear cub in his station wagon and dropped it in Central Park
This is what we know about. Imagine what we don't know.