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Worked at the MTA for 30 years. Fan of the Mets since 1965. I think I've suffered enough.
The ‘soft launch’ of Etihad Park will bump up against the hard reality of the Willets Point subway/commuter rail stations:an area with 3 sports venues + 2 apartment buildings is not even remotely accessible qns.com/2026/08/nycf...
NYCFC plans to ‘soft launch’ Etihad Park with series of test events starting in April – QNS
New York City FC (NYCFC) plans to "soft launch" its new stadium in Willets Point with a series of test events starting next April, according to the club's CEO
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“These things are jumping out of sandboxes because that’s their job—to jump out of sandboxes.” @karaswisher.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com discuss why AI companies shouldn't be surprised when their models hack, and behave exactly as they were trained to.
“While Trump officials have repeatedly asserted the National Guard was necessary to help address a crime emergency in the city,…crime rates were near a six-year low wapo.st/3UbneI5
Trump’s National Guard deployment in D.C. set to cost additional $1.4 billion
The estimate, provided to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, covers the period from Oct. 1, 2026, through the end of the president’s term.
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“We’re seeing the weaponization of privacy in ways that privilege the powerful, and in particular, law enforcement,… “Law enforcement who are serving the public,…If they had their names on badges and they weren’t wearing masks, you might see less of this activity.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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“Baseball has a bleak history of wealthy owners unwilling to open up their wallets when it matters most—why howl about a team that unabashedly does? Is this really hatred—or is it envy? "Why not create a boogeyman & blame them for making a mockery of competitive balance? www.wsj.com/sports/baseb...
Should We Hate the Los Angeles Dodgers?
The profligate defending back-to-back champs always seem two steps ahead of the rest of baseball—but their “villainy” remains within the rules .
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I served in the USMC as a young man, Believing I owed my country a debt, For the freedoms we all are born with, Today there's no freedom left, It's humiliating to see an idiot, Occupy our highest post, Wreaking havoc upon the world, And being the punchline of every joke.
A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.
Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now
The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.
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“When Steve Cohen first bought this team, we were told as fans there would be accountability, and winning would be put above everything. “Since David Stern took over the reigns of this ball club, they have done nothing but fail at the highest levels.” www.msn.com/en-us/sports...
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Daily reminder that we don’t have a president. We have a mob boss masquerading as one.
‘…officials familiar w/Boeing’s Air Force One replacement program expressed skepticism that a month would allow for adding…safety or defensive features. “I’m sure there’s some things that can be done…Maxed out is a pretty broad categorization,…,”’ www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
How Does the Qatar-Donated Air Force One Compare With Other Presidential Jets?
From laser weapons to color schemes, transporting the president around the world is a study in details.
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Oh, those evil Dodgers. They’re so rich, ambitious, and successful the MLB commissioner and other owners are willing to shut down the sport(and chase away fans) in order to stop them www.wsj.com/sports/baseb...
The Dodgers Don’t Need Tarik Skubal. They Traded for Him Anyway.
By adding the two-time reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, the Dodgers are poised to enter October in pursuit of a three-peat with one of the best pitching rotations in MLB history.
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“…the GOP’s effort to smear Democrats as communists is based on a deliberate rewriting of history and also takes the American people for ignorant suckers. It’s a measure of how panicked Republicans are about the midterms that they are resorting to this dumb tactic.” nymag.com/intelligence...
The GOP’s Big Red Scare Is Really Stupid
No, Democrats aren’t communist, and the relatively small progressive surge in primaries isn’t a Bolshevik revolution.
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Other owners are mad because the Dodgers are trying too hard to win, and make the other owners look bad in the process www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
“Mr. Bourdain came to Cape Cod that summer with no job and few ambitions other than hanging out and getting high. By the end of the season he had found, possibly for the first time, something he wanted to aspire to.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/d...
Anthony Bourdain’s Wild Summers Still Echo in Provincetown (Gift Article)
As a new film evokes his coming-of-age in this bohemian Cape Cod town, Pete Wells goes looking for the people and restaurants that shaped him.
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“The latest weapon in the battle over Victory Boulevard’s bus lanes wasn’t a lawsuit or a petition. It was a tape measure. “…the newly painted bus lanes,…are only 8 feet wide "The standard size of an MTA bus is 8.5 feet wide.” SI pols predict traffic apocalypse. www.silive.com/news/2026/07...
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“The black cab business has been good to the Gouldings. It hasn’t made them rich, but it provides a very comfortable living… "But the trade faces perhaps its greatest disruption yet: competition from vehicles with no driver at all… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A London Taxi Family Confronts the Driverless Future
With more than a century of combined experience behind the wheel, the Gouldings now face their greatest challenge yet: Waymo, Wayve and Baidu.
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“At a time when the president of the US said the country was in the midst of a manufacturing renaissance, the 150 people who still worked at the plant were losing their jobs, and seeing many of them offshored to China.” The owner of the factory? Hedge fund owner John Paulson… wapo.st/4yR8j5X
The last day of a factory in Trump country, as its work moves to China
For generations, this Ohio factory was a way of life. Then came the final shift.
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“Fatima came to the US on a Fulbright scholarship & is a researcher at Johns Hopkins. She had previously filed for [TPS] & currently has a pending asylum case. But ICE has detained her… She is not the ‘worst of the worst’ & deporting her is not making us safer.” wapo.st/4yWmuqw
Johns Hopkins health researcher released after airport ICE detention
The arrest of Fatima Ameaka came as the Trump administration has begun targeting alleged visa violations by foreign passengers as a way to increase deportations.
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“The government’s approach was ready, fire, aim,…The administration owes Mr. Hearn an apology.” Don’t hold your breath waiting, as the Orange Madman insists that one of the most heavily visited, guarded, and surveilled sites in D.C. was breached and damaged by “vandals.” Insane. wapo.st/4wvzbXz
Trump insists vandals damaged Reflecting Pool, blasts DOJ for dropped charge
The president said he disagreed "100%" with U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who reversed course by dropping her felony charge against Olympic canoeist David Hearn.
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“MTA Chair Janno Lieber will enter an exclusive club on Friday when he completes his 5th yr in one of NYC’s toughest, most scrutinized jobs. ”The MTA chair is appointed by the gov. And when things inevitably go wrong …, it’s often the chair who falls on the sword.” gothamist.com/news/running...
Running the MTA is a tough job. Janno Lieber is just the 4th person to last 5 years.
Lieber helped drag the nation's largest transit system out of the COVID-19 pandemic and implemented congestion pricing, but collected his fair share of scars along the way.
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“We have heard Tom Homan’s threats.Thursday seemed to be the day that the ICE abductions really began to increase …They have been pepper-spraying neighbors who have borne witness to their kidnappings,…they will only continue to be more violent unless they are stopped.” www.amny.com/immigration/...
Has ICE’s New York surge begun? Masked agents caught on camera across city stopping people, attacking protesters with pepper spray | amNewYork
Has the ICE enforcement surge, that Trump's border czar Tom Homan threatened, started? Some New York immigration activists fear it has.
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