This is just me spitballing w a fever, but I think people underrate how fun IRL interactions are on film and how tired they are of candidates on Zooms.

The latest twist in the Atlantic Yards saga: New York's Empire State Development won't be collecting millions in monthly penalties when the owner misses an upcoming affordable housing deadline set in 2014 For Gothamist WNYC 🎙 gothamist.com/news/ny-lets-b…

Ah, I was wondering why it was so easy to find parking today

I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING PIGEONS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING PLANE

They promised us 90 deals in 90 days. It’s been 47 days and there are still 0 actual deals.

Jared Bernhardt - the 2021 Tewaarton Trophy winner at Maryland who went on to make the Falcons roster as a WR in 2022 - is pursuing a move to the Premier Lacrosse League league. He’ll be meeting with several teams over the next week and is expected to make his professional lacrosse

here’s a mind-blowing statistic: more people work for the MTA (~70K employees) than are coal miners in the entire country (~42K)

I thought we were supposed to contact Tom DeLonge for this

Say what you want about New Yorkers, but a woman had a medical episode on my subway car and everyone sprang into action to help her while multiple people called the authorities and another communicated with the train conductor. We do take care of our own.

4/ This is one of the greatest russian defeats in modern history — and the Ukrainian operation will be remembered in military textbooks. This is how you stop a war: by crippling russia’s ability to wage it. Slava Ukraini.

More on Kyle Pitts, per Jeremy Fowler : “If there is a good enough offer, this will probably get done.” Fowler also stated that Pitts isn’t demanding a trade but he’s open to the idea as he’ll likely be the 3rd or 4th option during a contract year.

Pizza will give me energy to exercise. Eating pizza is the best thing I can do to lose weight.

The biggest advantage that the right wing has with respect to political communication is that the right wing in aggregate wants their side to win elections. There is a significant portion of the left wing ecosystem that does not have winning elections as their priority

CBO's final verdict: House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill adds $2.4 trillion to the deficit despite enormous cuts to Medicaid and SNAP because the tax cuts are so large.

Scoop: Since launching his bid for governor - Tommy Tuberville has raised increasing alarm to GOP leaders over a controversial SNAP provision in the megabill It would hammer deep red states like Alabama and stick him as guv w/ billions in food aid costs politico.com/live-updates/2…

As we're right at the edge of the demographic cliff, where the number of college-age Americans will dwindle very quickly (as births plunged in 2008 and after)

DOGE employee says "I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was," fraud was minimal, and abuse was "relatively nonexistent" npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-…

ZOHRAN: We are the champions of the working class, solidarity forever. Down with fancy elites!!! COLLEGE VOTERS: yes daddy Zohran punish me with taxes I’ve been so bad CUOMO: the dirty poors are ravaging our subways NON-COLLEGE VOTERS: all hail king cuomo, send me to prison

Left wing rhetoric is aimed at working class voters but the people favoring those policies are almost exclusively college educated whites. Mamdami's best borough will be Manhattan while Cuomo romps in the Bronx, home to working class Black and Hispanic populations.

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