I OPRA’d Bayonne’s labor contracts once & they gave them to me in tiff format. if you’ve ever tried to read a 90-page document in tiff, you’ll gather why I asked if I could have it in a normal format. they said no because they couldn’t figure out how to reformat their scanner.

Suburban backlash threatens country’s biggest transit systems politi.co/3WsKtwF via POLITICO Ry Rivard

A great piece on a NY fixture! nytimes.com/2024/05/08/nyr…

Seems especially relevant to the discourse today -- nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

Our special report today on BIDEN'S BILLIONS 💰

He has FDR-scale ambitions and untold sums to spend on a monumental domestic agenda

But time is running out before an election that could blow it all up

Is the money working? Is it moving fast enough?

politico.com/interactives/2…

NEW with Jeff Mays: Zellnor Myrie opens an exploratory committee to run against Mayor Eric Adams in the Democratic primary next June.
He says the mayor has shown a “failure of competence” and people are tired of his “showmanship.” nytimes.com/2024/05/08/nyr…

Not even inviting the reporter who broke the story says a lot.

loooooooooool

(also stay on the express until BK Bridge/City Hall and then walk up Centre instead of down)

On day we’ll fix the Rodgers Junction, but today is not that day.

(5 trains randomly running to Utica instead of Flatbush for ~~reasons~~, probably that the switch is stuck. Again.)

New: Harvey Weinstein is being housed in a private Bellevue Hospital ICU room. He currently has his own phone, bathroom, and television — a perk few, if any, other city detainees are afforded in a different location in the hospital.
thecity.nyc/2024/05/06/har…

🎉🎉🎉 ProPublica Wins Pulitzer Prize for Supreme Court Coverage propublica.org/article/pulitz…

Just the former chief of staff and current WhatsApp pal separately booking the same trip to Rome to attend the same event, as one does

I once asked a perturbed George Lucas about the Oakland port crane myth.

He denied it.

I was skeptical.

So a few years ago I tracked down the artists who created the “Empire Strikes Back” snow walker scene. The full story is 💯💯💯

Happy #MayThe4th

sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…