Holy crap, Mamdani is finally doing something to bring down sidewalk sheds that will actually sort of work! Sheds will no longer be required more than 40 ft. away from buildings, which will be a help to NYCHA and other towers-in-a-park complexes www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
you: you pulled that out of your ass
me, an intellectual: i invented it from first principles
the thing with hegseth and trump both is they're all like "why didn't anyone do it like this before" and it's because it's just all war crimes
No! I am not excited! Let me have one unspoiled thing!
Hard to argue with that...
Kristi Noem’s firing is long overdue. She oversaw vile crimes against humanity and we’ll never forget it.
But until ICE is abolished and expelled from our communities, we keep fighting.
Lawless federal agents kidnapping and killing people on our streets can never be normalized.
"Homeland Security." "ICE." Now "Shield of the Americas." Comic book ass names.
Map of the armies’ positions around Boston
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March 5, 1776 (Morning): British Gen. William Howe awakes to learn the American Army has overnight occupied Dorchester Heights above Boston and fortified it with cannon. “The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in months,” he is reported to say in astonishment. 1/7
they double bombed an elementary school for girls
i don't want to make excuses for trump but we shouldn't just let those sons of bitches james polk and winfield scott totally off the hook
Well, you could. One branch of the gov't loans money to another branch (happens a lot). Your earlier point is the issue for me, tho: either the cheap infrastructure is being paid for with fees on depositors, or the low-fee accounts are being cross-subsidized by the interest on loans. Can't be both.
George Washington parked there before winning the Battle of the Alamo. It's historic.
Its one thing to read the histories and realize that fascism is an ideology by and for weird losers who suck at everything, and another to live through it
These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.
I am 100% convinced that a big political drama about that specific historical period (the lead up to and aftermath of the Mexican-American War) would be a massive hit today. We're in a bizarrely similar era.
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War is not a morality play.
The relevant question isn’t: Are the targets bad people who have done bad things?
The relevant question is: Will going to war make things better, achieving something that’s worth the death and suffering it causes?
first President who can execute a reaver drop, let’s go
We seem to have collectively decided, gradually and mostly out of apathy, that presidents can launch flagrantly unconstitutional wars of choice without congressional approval and there just won’t be any consequences. Would be nice if this is where we start reversing the trend.
Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.
This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible
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Trump with Mayor Mamdani in the Oval Office, beaming. Mamdani is smiling and wearing a suit.
Trump at a rally with Elon Musk. Elon is wearing a t-shirt with "Occupy Mars" written on it, jumping up and waving his arms like an idiot, and Trump is looking at him with a look of utter disdain.
The man lives in a Sartrean Hell of his own creation, condemned to only ever speak to the kind of person who would want to be around him- and, once every few weeks, Zohran Mamdani.
Like, I think it's the upshot of "nobody hates Trump supporters more than Trump" - he seems to genuinely like his opposition!
He spends his whole day talking to freaks like Stephen Miller, Elon Musk, and JD Vance that he obviously looks down upon and enjoys periodically spending time with a charming and friendly young man from NYC.
ICE agents entered a Columbia University dorm this morning, apparently under false pretenses and without a judicial warrant, and detained a student.
It is an important reminder to all of us — and particularly our institutions — about the need for collective vigilance against ICE.
There will be a time when this period of immigration law/politics is talked about like the Salem Witch Trials.
The jobs report that determines the value of everyone's retirement accounts was missing two weeks of data and measles is back...
Everyone in NYC is talking about property taxes!
Hardly anyone understands the system, but there's widespread agreement the outcomes are inequitable.
We've got a guide to help you make sense of it all, and learn why you should care, even if you don't own property.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/25/p...
Most of the contributors to “Against Trump” did not, contrary to what mainstream coverage at the time suggested, take a principled stand against the forces of rightwing extremism, they weren’t concerned with policing the fringes of the Right.
They just didn’t trust Trump to be a proper rightwinger.
