America does not have plot armor. It is not protected by god. When you spend 40 years neglecting safety and industry and union regulations to earn shareholders more money, this is exactly what happens.

The water fountains in East Palestine high school from the town hall last night. Norfolk Southern executives cancelled last minute because they felt “unsafe”. Tell that to the people living here. Video credit jessica roi.

It seems like ways to help haven’t been going super viral, at least from what I can see, so here’s a thread of ways to help folks in East Palestine

“Arbitration would be costly” ok I got an idea

bestie they are dead.

This is more valuable to us than whatever the paparazzi's been up to for a century. I don't care about Britney Spears playing Candy Crush in a diner. I want TMZ to tell us what US healthcare oligarchs are doing while half a million people go into medical bankruptcy every year.

People often ask why we allow cars this large in cities and the question is treated rhetorically, but I want to ask it non-rhetorically. Is there any regulation? Who makes the decisions? Why do we tolerate this, when the benefits are zero and the risks are so obvious?

Gutted

“Canceling student debt would create an unacceptable moral hazard,” said the self-described libertarian Silicon Valley VC who put $200 million into a savings account, did no risk management at all and then got a bailout

"I figured that if Americans would accept the Iraq War, then there was nothing they wouldn’t accept. It seems clear, 20 years later, that I’ve been proven right." — Dick Cheney bit.ly/3FFXWb2

yeak, OK

Reminder that something like 12 *hours* worth of the NYPD budget would fund the libraries fully for the year.

i know half the dems in congress are afraid of their own shadows but c’mon, an unpopular institution issuing unpopular rulings taking rights from people is also wildly corrupt? that’s an easy layup

[Coughing up smog and the ash of a dying planet] "There are two genders"

Three years ago, I got some footage that I couldn’t get out of my mind. It showed the first police killing captured on body-worn cameras in NY. The NYPD didn’t want anyone to see it. It eventually launched me on the biggest story I’ve ever done, w/ NYT Magazine [THREAD]