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Campaign 2024 enterprise editor @usatoday Brooklyn townie. Come for the coverage of democracy, stay for the tweets about pizza

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Ben Adler

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Congestion pricing in NYC was first proposed in 1952, and it was unsuccessfully recommended by the city government multiple times in the 1970s and 80s. I bring you the long road to congestion pricing in @WorksInProgMag

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New York’s long road to congestion pricing - Works in Progress

It has taken almost 60 years to bring traffic congestion pricing to New York. This is the story of how politicians and advocates built the coalition it needed to finally happen.

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Ben Adler

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Myocarditis is a more common side effect of covid itself than of the vaccine

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Ryan Mac 🙃

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The Bronny James news has been out for 30 minutes but here's some vaccine speculation from the owner of Twitter

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Thanks to its density, NYC has the lowest per capita carbon footprint of any major city in the US, and NY is the lowest of any state. So I’m not sure what the point of this post is

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End Wokeness

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Reminder that the people lecturing you about Earth Day today live here:

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Matt Gaetz represents a state with a higher murder rate than NYC.

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Gaetz just oozes with legitimate concern for the people of NYC, doesn't he?

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Does anyone find it in the slightest bit pathetic that NJ is obsessed with stopping congestion pricing? Like, you want to come to NYC so badly that you can’t just not come if you don’t want to pay the toll. I don’t need to go to NJ, so I wouldn’t care if it charged for going

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Governor Phil Murphy

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Announcing a Lawsuit to Block New York’s Proposed Congestion Tolling Program

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Wait, didn’t they already have free reign to prosecute ex-presidents who they had evidence to show committed crimes in their jurisdiction? Isn’t that the essence of equality under the law?

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In Opinion "Every local prosecutor in the country will now feel that he or she has free rein to criminally investigate and prosecute presidents after they leave office," Ankush Khardori, a former federal prosecutor, writes about Donald Trump's indictment.

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Charles Barkley is the rare public figure who gets better with age

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Charles Barkley, everybody!

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College educated professional who lives in a $2500/month tenement that housed working-class people for 100 years tweeting that housing for working class and upper middle-class people are two different physical objects, which cannot be substituted for each other.

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@OrrellAEI @mikepolkjr @JonahDispatch Do you think people who believe passionately in racial equality have framed Confederate currency? I’m not sure it makes you a neo-Confederate, but it’s a strange thing for someone deeply committed to opposing slavery and the discredited cause to frame and display

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Ben Adler

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I was laid off from Yahoo News today. If you're paying people for writing or editing about politics, policy, climate change, energy, housing, transportation, architecture, NYC, pizza, or anything else that can pay my mortgage, I'm at benadler1 @gmail .com.

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@vanillatary European waiters won’t bring you the check. I don’t just mean that you have to ask for it. They seemingly try to avoid you and may not bring it even when you do ask.

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13-year-old Jose Vasquez works 12-hour shifts, six days a week, at a commercial egg farm in Michigan and lives with his teenage sister. “I’d like to go to school, but then how would I pay rent?” he said.

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Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. (Published 2023)

Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.

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@OrrellAEI @mikepolkjr @JonahDispatch Usually, people frame things they like, rather than things they don’t like. For example, as a Yankees fan I have Yankee memorabilia, not memorabilia from the Red Sox

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@JabariBrisport Would you say that the brownstones in your district are "luxury housing" that cannot be substituted for affordable housing and vice-versa? If so, how do you explain the fact that brownstones have been sometimes occupied by rich people, sometimes by poor people and sometimes both?

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@MattZeitlin Don’t worry, they’ll bring you another tiny bottle of water in 10 minutes if you ask them for it twice

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It is straight up false to claim NYC ‘refuses to build parking lots.’ It’s legal to build lots in NYC, it’s just that the market doesn’t produce many because NYC land is valuable and more profitable to develop for other uses

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Ben Adler

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I once broke a bone in Aspen. My ER visit with insurance was $1200 because of my deductible. I once broke a bone in Italy. My ER visit without insurance was 45 Euros

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We don’t have to pretend like Europeans know about anything except luxury marketing and I guess viticulture

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just wait until the state senator finds out that his own district is full of brownstones built as luxury housing , later occupied by the working class for 70 years, now once again housing rich people. It's gonna blow his mind wide open.

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Producing more caviar would technically increase "egg supply" but wouldn't lower egg prices for you at the store. Any proposal to increase "housing supply" should specify what kind.

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@EWErickson @Reuters I don’t understand. The headline is accurate, so why would it make the outlet untrustworthy?

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@baseballcrank Did you have to work as a young child to earn breakfast and lunch? If so, what jobs did you hold and at what age?

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@JabariBrisport Are brownstones eggs or are they caviar? Do brownstones no longer *physically* work as low-income housing because gentrification turns eggs into caviar? Or--crazy as this may sound--are brownstones just housing that anyone can use as such, with price set by supply and demand?

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@gringostani @OrrellAEI @mikepolkjr @JonahDispatch It certainly sounds like you don’t have many visitors who are the descendants of enslaved Americans—and that if you do, you aren’t respecting how offensive they would find your pro-slavery collectibles

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@bendreyfuss Do you not know that most passengers on any rail system ride between stops that are much closer together than the two endpoints?

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The Post’s mischaracterization of the pending regulation was repeated by outlets including the Daily Beast, the Daily Mail, the Blaze, National Review, and the Washington Examiner. On Tuesday, Fox News aired 52 minutes of coverage of the Post's pizza story

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The New York City pizza stove controversy, explained

The New York Post ignited a controversy Sunday when it published a story titled “NYC rules crack down on coal-, wood-fired pizzerias — must cut carbon emissions up to 75%," but the regulation...

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@shipscode @SukritGanesh @sweatystartup @nikitabier You should delete this tweet as it’s demonstrably false. It’s perfectly legal to build parking lots in NYC. Developers don’t unless they have to because it’s less profitable than other land uses. And the city actually requires new parking to accompany new buildings

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@lhfang Yeah it couldn’t possibly be because Carlson promotes white nationalism and makes crazy false claims about Jan 6th not really happening.

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Ben Adler

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Today I am starting at @USATODAY as enterprise editor for election coverage. I will be focused on election integrity, voting rights, and threats to American democracy. I will also edit coverage of Trump’s trials. It’s an important beat, and I am excited to work on it.

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@CMAriKagan47 How does it target working-class drivers? He wants the penalties to be based on income. Isn’t that the opposite of targeting the working-class? It’s targeting the rich.

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amazing how many people are demanding a source for this or saying they don't trust me, personally, when googling "myocarditis covid" immediately gives you the American Heart Association saying the same thing

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COVID-19 infection poses higher risk for myocarditis than vaccines

The overall risk of myocarditis was higher immediately after being infected with COVID-19 than in the weeks after vaccination for the coronavirus, new research shows.

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@mtaibbi So you think presidents should be immune to prosecution and that’s not a recipe for autocracy?

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@ryanlcooper This idiot seems to think Tucson is red and the rest of AZ blue?

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@JonahDispatch What would you say if George Soros had statues of genocidal dictators, collectibles from Nazi Germany and USSR, and took Justice Sotomayor on extravagant annual vacations?

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“We've called off the fire department while the house is still burning, because the neighbors want it to be over,”

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The COVID public health emergency expires Thursday. Here’s what that means for you.

On Thursday the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will allow the federal public health emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic to expire, but not everyone sees it as a cause for celebr...

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This is some next-level galaxy brain stuff. Lower-income people are less likely to own cars, not more, because cars cost lots of money to buy, maintain and fuel up. This is an empirical fact and not a debatable proposition

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Sarah Jones

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There's a big Smartest Boy Urbanist™ vibe in the "parking hurts affordable housing" position. Yes it does - and also, low income people need cars more than high income people. That's because our land use and transportation systems have been built by and for rich people.

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@EliLake @ManhattanDA What norm was broken?

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a decentralized nationwide movement that has seen more than 100 local governments — including four towns in New Jersey and Washington, D.C. — enact at least partial bans on gas-powered leaf blower use in recent years.

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States and towns consider banning gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers

A decentralized nationwide movement has seen more than 100 local governments enact at least partial bans on gas-powered leaf blower use in recent years.

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@ggreenwald @sunny How does instacart ‘force’ anyone to do anything? It isn’t forced labor, even though you’re implying that it is. Instacart and its customers give the employees money, and they choose to work in exchange for that money.

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@rev_avocado Same is true of Nazis in post-war Germany.

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Fact check: false. Criticizing everything is definitely the character of New Yorkers

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Mayor Eric Adams again defends the new "We ♥️ NYC" logo: "I thought it was brilliant. Those who want to highlight the numerical minority that sits in the corner of their home somewhere in their pajamas saying, 'Let me criticize everything,' that is not the spirit of New Yorkers."

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Biden proposes 30% climate change tax on cryptocurrency mining Biden proposes 30% climate change tax on cryptocurrency mining

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Biden proposes 30% climate change tax on cryptocurrency mining

The White House is trying to persuade Congress to pass a 30% tax on the electricity used in cryptocurrency mining in the next federal budget in order to minimize the nascent industry’s impact on...

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@redwood_ryan_a @dieworkwear @niklafdahc @MRossG199 @SliceOrtho @SaintBrendan If legalizing greater density in LA or SF leads to private-sector development and the new homes get filled, then isn’t that proof people in those cities do want new density? It can’t be pushed down anyone’s throat, because no one is forced to live there

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COVID-19 infection poses higher risk for myocarditis than vaccines

The overall risk of myocarditis was higher immediately after being infected with COVID-19 than in the weeks after vaccination for the coronavirus, new research shows.

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“When you say ‘change your lifestyle,’ people feel, ‘Oh, you’re challenging me to have a lower quality of life,” John Kerry said in a Friday interview in Yahoo News’ New York City offices. “No, we don’t have to have a lower quality of life.”

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Kerry: Americans don't need to have 'lower quality of life' to fight climate change

Americans do not have to compromise on their quality of life in order to help prevent catastrophic climate change, special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry told Yahoo News.

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He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’

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He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’ (Published 2023)

Researchers like Carlos Moreno, the professor behind a popular urban planning concept, are struggling with conspiracy theories and death threats.

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Ben Adler

11 months

How would Republicans react if Chuck Schumer made a video like this urging conservatives to ‘think twice’ before coming to NY?

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Rick Scott

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I’m warning socialists and communists not to travel to Florida. They are not welcome in the Sunshine State.

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@bkabak @JohnSurico Funny how he quotes Wendell Cox and Joel Kotkin, who have been incorrectly predicting the death of legacy cities for decades, and no one who rightly predicted the urban boom of the 21st Century.

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It’s not hyperbole to say that the conduct of this prosecution will greatly influence whether the U.S. remains a thriving democracy after 2024. via @rickhasen

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U.S. v. Trump Will Be the Most Important Case in Our Nation’s History

It is perhaps the most important indictment ever handed down to safeguard American democracy and the rule of law in any U.S. court against anyone.

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In fact, NYC requires the development of parking lots or garages in most zoning districts—a market distortion that subsidizes cars through higher housing construction costs for everyone, including the majority of NYC households that do not own cars

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@infinity62Lib @Acyn Imagine how Jesse Waters would react if someone said Jewish people benefited by learning how to make bullets while working in concentration camps

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This line “To abolish single-family zoning is a violation of the contract between a municipality and its single-family homeowners,” would mean no zoning anywhere can be changed at all because it violates an imaginary contract.

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reason

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California was recently the first state to enact legislation that invalidates single-family zoning, as an effort to increase housing supply. Other alternatives would be wiser.

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Trump’s worst judge will hear a $1.8 billion attack on Planned Parenthood via @imillhiser

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Trump’s worst judge will hear a $1.8 billion attack on Planned Parenthood

Remember Matthew Kacsmaryk? The Trump appointee who tried to ban the abortion pill mifepristone is back.

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What I've never understood about CNN is why they insist on mimicking the pundits-talking-about-politics model of their competitors, instead of doing the thing that they are best at, which is original reporting about news (not just politics).

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@ggreenwald Wait, you’re asserting the Times wouldn’t cover something based on reader comments about a Times story on that very thing? And you can’t see the flaw in that logic? Last I checked, Times commenters weren’t Times editors

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This is like a subplot on Veep

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Manu Raju

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GOP leaders debated how high of a debt limit increase they should seek. Some had floated odd numbers because it sounded more intentional. One member suggested $1.69 trillion, but that was rejected because of the innuendos associated with such a figure. $1.5T was the outcome

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@comradesanchez Your points are legit but if you compare it to the five other transit-rich cities—NYC, DC, Philly, Chi, SF — it’s the least appealing: Shitty weather, not very friendly, fewer culinary and cultural offerings. More expensive than all but NY and SF

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Houston just covered part of its highway with a massive park

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Houston covered its Memorial Drive highway with a park

Houston's Memorial Park was just extended over its Memorial Drive highway.

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@Bencjacobs Makes you wonder what shameful occupation of his parents’ is he hiding

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@samstein Fight the Power in Do The Right Thing, the Layla outro in Goodfellas, that Dropkick Murphys song in The Departed, The Proclaimers in Shrek, and Gangsters Paradise in Dangerous Minds

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This analogy doesn't track. If caviar is oversupplied and prices drop, you can't substitute caviar for chicken eggs. But if luxury housing is oversupplied and prices drop to the level that lower-income people can afford, they can substitute it for less fancy housing

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Producing more caviar would technically increase "egg supply" but wouldn't lower egg prices for you at the store. Any proposal to increase "housing supply" should specify what kind.

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FBI informant indicted for lying about Joe and Hunter Biden alleged business dealings

Alexander Smirnov, 43, was charged with making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record for information he fed the FBI.

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@bernhtp @mtracey You’re blaming the Times for its readers comments (stupid, nonsensical) and asserting that this proves the Times isn’t covering something (I’m not sure what), notwithstanding that the comments are complaining that the Times does, in fact, cover unflattering to the govt stories

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@thomaschattwill What specifically did you see, when and where? I genuinely have no idea what you’re referring to. (lifelong NYer—it was much more dangerous in my childhood—and I have covered NYC for years)

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Windsor Terrace might not have the best ‘nightlife’ or ‘restaurants’ or ‘architecture’ or ‘transit access,’ but it’s old man car game is on-point

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@_lanabelle And you’re being called that by a hipster transplant

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every answer to this question is revolting

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Does Borrough Market in London (U.K.) have any must-try breakfast items? Super important question.

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a cadre of trans politicians who could make this election cycle a breakthrough for trans candidates.

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This 24-year-old wants to be the 1st transgender legislator in N.Y., joining elected officials in...

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The people defending the FL curriculum in this manner are making a morally baffling and horrifying argument. Even if what they say about skills acquisition were true, who cares? Why bring it up? It’s like saying enslaved ppl were housed. What an asinine, offensive distraction.

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@RezaC1 @thecitywanderer What do you propose to do about Manhattan traffic so sluggish it’s often literally faster to walk during business hours?

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I agree with @dceiver : "Burn After Reading" is a great political film. It's badly underrated IMO

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TNR Staffers on 15 Great Political Films Missing From the Critics’ List

Our—incomplete—guide to the list’s oversights, travesties, and glaring omissions

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@NoahPollak You really should have google imaged the fare gates in the Paris Metro and London Underground before saying this is some sort of “Democratic cities” phenomenon.

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@empathyhaver @big_gay92 What policies are you referring to? From my reporting, the main policies to blame are those that incentivize sprawl over rehabbing inner-city housing, like home mortgage interest tax deduction. Support for these policies is bipartisan and not ‘progressive’ philosophically

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@drvolts People who want Trumpy without Trump. Such people do exist, but I suspect there are more of them in the imagination of conservative elites than there are in real life

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I eagerly await all the pieces covering how SF’s new prosecutor is to blame, just like Chesa Boudin was.

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Robert Greenwald

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In 2022, police unions, right-wing orgs and big tech joined forces to recall San Francisco’s district attorney Chesa Boudin. A year since he was replaced with someone who was "tough on crime," here are SF's crime stats: Vehicle Theft: ⬆️ 10.5% Homicide: ⬆️ 23% Robbery: ⬆️ 13%

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“My grandparents lived in Brooklyn” is the most cliched gentrifier line. By this standard most Long Islanders who move here wouldn’t count gentrifiers

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Paperboy Prince for U.S. President

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@EmilyAssembly Emily - u are from Rochester super conservative small town part. My family quite literally helped to build Brooklyn. You don’t know who my Grandfather or Grandmother is ?

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When I was growing up under Presidents Reagan and Bush I, the murder rate in my city was 6 times what it is today. I got mugged, my family’s house was burglarized and our car was broken into.

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Nikki Haley

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Do you remember when you were growing up, do you remember how simple life was, how easy it felt? It was about faith, family, and country. We can have that again, but to do that, we must vote Joe Biden out. #RTM2023

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The proposed tax on mining cryptocurrency would generate an estimated $3.5 billion over 10 years. But revenue isn’t the point.

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Biden proposes 30% climate change tax on cryptocurrency mining

The White House is trying to persuade Congress to pass a 30% tax on the electricity used in cryptocurrency mining in the next federal budget in order to minimize the nascent industry’s impact on...

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Y’all laughed at me for buying air purifiers for every room to wash out the ‘rona. Well, who’s laughing now?

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@ggreenwald what views of his do you refer to? His views on abortion, LGBTQ rights, taxes, social spending, environmental regulation and the Iraq War are shared by Republicans and opposed by Democrats

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@MrChristianDiaz Let’s stipulate that developers are overwhelmingly greedy and dishonest. I wrote a story about that you’d enjoy. Sharing below. But how do you produce enough housing to meet the need without upzoning? High-density social housing needs high-density zoning.

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Why Lying Is So Easy for Trump

For New York developers, blatant deception isn't just good for business—it's completely legal.

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COVID-19 infection poses higher risk for myocarditis than vaccines

The overall risk of myocarditis was higher immediately after being infected with COVID-19 than in the weeks after vaccination for the coronavirus, new research shows.

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Not just restaurants and cafes. Supermarkets and chain drug stores blast insipid pop or — even worse and more inexplicably — at the Walgreen’s in my neighborhood, insipid pop country music

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M. Nolan Gray

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Something that I didn't fully appreciate until I spent a month living in Japan is the sheer amount of noise pollution that Americans tolerate. Honking cars, often modified to be noisier; thumping, high-hat laden music that's 50% too loud in every restaurant or cafe, etc.

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When plastic is incinerated — the U.S. burns 12.5% of its waste — it releases greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming and it releases toxic chemicals such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.

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Ohio train derailment spotlights debate over health risks from plastics

After the Feb. 3 derailment of train cars carrying the toxic chemical vinyl chloride in East Palestine, Ohio, there has been increased focus on rail safety and whether the release of dangerous...

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My house

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If you could work in any office building in the world, which would it be?

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It’s a good thing expensive cities don’t need nurses, firefighters, janitors, teachers, bus drivers, cab drivers, store clerks, waiters, EMTs, nannies, housekeepers, or social workers. Otherwise, there might be a problem with this argument

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Nick Huber

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One of the most surprising things to me is how entitled people feel to live in a certain city. If you can't afford a city, move. My moving costs out of Boston MA in 2018 were significantly less than the cash I would have needed to sign on a new place there.

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Here’s an idea, just spitballing: how about we don’t pretend that doing pushups has anything to do with being president?

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CNN

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There's nothing junior about presidential candidate RFK Jr.'s pecs after his shirtless workout went viral.

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This is exactly what Goldberg and other conservatives would say if George Soros collected Nazi memorabilia and gave huge undisclosed gifts to Justice Sotomayor, right?

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@daylinleach That’s fine. But “the Nazi stuff” is literally .00001 of his collection. He also has Lincoln’s desk from the Illinois legislature and the Declaration of Independence.

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@mattyglesias That’s one difference, another is that IRS agents don’t detain, beat up, belittle, arrest, and even murder law abiding citizens — much less do so on the basis of their race

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@musharbash_b You’re creating a false dichotomy, based on the inaccurate premise that Matt doesn’t support safer street design and complete streets. Of course he does. He’s an urbanist. There’s no reason you can’t have better design and enforcement

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@TheyLive2018 It's not me, it's the American Heart Association. If you had heart trouble, would you see a cardiologist? Because that's who composes the AHA

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This is the dumbest gotcha that ever gotchaed. Risk is exposure over time. If you wear a mask for 290 minutes of a 300-minute flight, your risk is significantly reduced for 290 minutes, and your total risk is reduced by 29/30 as much as if you didn’t remove your mask at all

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Steve Kirsch

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And I pointed out that when she removed the mask for eating and drinking, she could be infected with one breath. So she had full disclosure.

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COVID-19 infection poses higher risk for myocarditis than vaccines

The overall risk of myocarditis was higher immediately after being infected with COVID-19 than in the weeks after vaccination for the coronavirus, new research shows.

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Being able to walk without falling isn't in any way germane to being president. FDR couldn't do it, and neither could Greg Abbott. Biden could just use a wheelchair and it wouldn't reflect on his ability to serve as president.

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@ryanpphotovideo @JabariBrisport so brownstones were luxury housing in the 1880s, but were they still luxury housing when they were cheap and inhabited by working-class people in the 1940s?

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COVID-19 infection poses higher risk for myocarditis than vaccines

The overall risk of myocarditis was higher immediately after being infected with COVID-19 than in the weeks after vaccination for the coronavirus, new research shows.

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This is true but also a weird tweet from a conservative. Doesn’t it illustrate a market failure? In theory, in a market economy, health care providers would raise nursing wages and induce more people to enter the field. But that hasn’t happened over decades of a growing shortage

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Erick Erickson

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Big crisis in the country that could probably use more coverage: massive nursing shortages everywhere. They’re burned out. There aren’t enough of them. More than a few younger nurses are bombing drug tests in some states. It’s a critical problem everywhere.

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@MrChristianDiaz If you oppose density, how do you propose to build more housing in high-demand cities? Was it wrong for cities to replace short wood-frame houses with taller row houses and apartment buildings a century ago? If so, why?

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@Warrennyc Where would you move them to? Anywhere less centrally located would be harder to reach on mass transit for the majority of NYC residents who don’t own cars. “You need a car to get here” is a much steeper cost than a congestion fee

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Ben Adler

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Well, at least he was punished for being absurdly wrong by (checks notes) getting an op-ed column in the New York Times with lifetime tenure

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Justin Vogt

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David Brooks in The Weekly Standard, April 28, 2003 (h/t @schwarz )

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@espiers Masks do protect the wearer, especially high-quality masks

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Does My Mask Protect Me if Nobody Else Is Wearing One?

Masks work best when everyone in the room has one on, but you’ll still benefit from masking up even when those around you aren’t.

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Ben Adler

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it just dawned on me that "The Office" wouldn't make any sense today because paper sales reps could work from home now.

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Ben Adler

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Before opining on trains, it would be helpful if you understood that most rides are between relatively close cities, not between the furthest endpoints in the rail network.

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Ben Dreyfuss

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Five people in the United States actually want to take a train across the country and four of them are on terrorist watchlists

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