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2022 Diplomat of the Year 📍 Manhattan
If Stevens won they would not print that moderates didn’t get the big election night they wanted, they would print that moderates have struck back and reasserted their place leading the party
Politico@politico.com · 10h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
i just can't w these people www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate
Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.
nytimes.com
This video includes a non-e-bike and was almost entirely by the shared path behind City Hall that cyclists are legally allowed to ride.
Speaker Julie Menin@speakermenin.bsky.social · yesterdayEvery New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely, regardless of how they get around. That’s why the NYC Council is launching a comprehensive review of where existing laws can be stronger enforced, and what additional solutions are needed to keep New Yorkers safe.
Car and truck drivers speeding, red-light/stop-sign running, and illegal parking—often in a vehicle with illegal tint, illegal/expired registration/tags, illegal exhaust mods, and often while distracted—are incalculably greater threats to our health and our economy than close calls with bicycles
Speaker Julie Menin@speakermenin.bsky.social · yesterdayEvery New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely, regardless of how they get around. That’s why the NYC Council is launching a comprehensive review of where existing laws can be stronger enforced, and what additional solutions are needed to keep New Yorkers safe.
44,000 deaths per year from car violence, but yeah, let's put human-scaled mobility under the microscope. If you have a "problem" with bikes, it's because you're forcing them into the margins with pedestrians instead of reallocating space away from cars.
Speaker Julie Menin@speakermenin.bsky.social · yesterdayEvery New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely, regardless of how they get around. That’s why the NYC Council is launching a comprehensive review of where existing laws can be stronger enforced, and what additional solutions are needed to keep New Yorkers safe.
A small disgusting detail here is one of the mix of headlines tossed on the screen as evidence of e-bike danger is about a bike rider being killed by a driver. Another is the photo of cop cars parked on the sidewalk being used as a generic illustration of "responsible agencies". Nasty work.
Speaker Julie Menin@speakermenin.bsky.social · yesterdayEvery New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely, regardless of how they get around. That’s why the NYC Council is launching a comprehensive review of where existing laws can be stronger enforced, and what additional solutions are needed to keep New Yorkers safe.
Imagine saying “every New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely” and then going on a screed about e-bikes, not cars.
Speaker Julie Menin@speakermenin.bsky.social · yesterdayEvery New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely, regardless of how they get around. That’s why the NYC Council is launching a comprehensive review of where existing laws can be stronger enforced, and what additional solutions are needed to keep New Yorkers safe.
Council Speaker Julie Menin wants Albany to pass its own version of New Jersey’s flawed, one-size-fits-all e-bike registration law. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/08/04/c...
City Council Leaders Call on State to Emulate New Jersey's Flawed E-Bike Law - Streetsblog New York City
City Council Speaker Julie Menin wants Albany to pass its own version of the Garden State's flawed, one-size-fits-all e-bike registration law.
nyc.streetsblog.org
One of the stupidest categories of helicopter usage is that when it's the first nice day in a bit a news station will send out a helicopter to run laps around Central Park at low altitude and ruin everyone's enjoyment of the nice day.
The Democrats' midterm ad practically writes itself.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
This account should stop making new posts of this and just hit the repost button because this is from April, right?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 24h agoIRAN HAS SIGNALED IT IS WILLING TO REOPEN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ BUT IS DEMANDING THE RIGHT TO COLLECT TRANSIT FEES, SECURITY GUARANTEES AGAINST FUTURE ATTACKS, AN END TO THE U.S. NAVAL BLOCKADE AND RELIEF FROM U.S. OIL SANCTIONS. - WSJ
the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
this is a weird line to draw since the liberal position (correct) is that it's not reasonable to summarily execute people in international waters even if they're involved in drug trafficking and the conservative position is that you must do that even if you kill a bunch of innocent people too
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
“Where existing laws can be stronger enforced” Have you even thought of kicking personal cars of city employees off the sidewalk? Have the oversight committee wake up.
Speaker Julie Menin@speakermenin.bsky.social · yesterdayEvery New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely, regardless of how they get around. That’s why the NYC Council is launching a comprehensive review of where existing laws can be stronger enforced, and what additional solutions are needed to keep New Yorkers safe.
I’m sorry but She filmed this *on a path shared between bicycles and pedestrians* “You should never be startled while doomscrolling around a bike path” is an idiotic policy talking, point and it is how they want to ram through stuff like compulsory registration/insurance that scares off cyclists
Speaker Julie Menin@speakermenin.bsky.social · yesterdayEvery New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely, regardless of how they get around. That’s why the NYC Council is launching a comprehensive review of where existing laws can be stronger enforced, and what additional solutions are needed to keep New Yorkers safe.
two days ago a bunch of cars just ignored a red light by nagle avenue and dyckman street can we maybe do something about that behavior
Speaker Julie Menin@speakermenin.bsky.social · yesterdayEvery New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely, regardless of how they get around. That’s why the NYC Council is launching a comprehensive review of where existing laws can be stronger enforced, and what additional solutions are needed to keep New Yorkers safe.
Last week, while walking my daughter home from camp in her stroller, a car with Virginia plates and $8000 in NY traffic fines blew threw a red light and honked at us to get out of the way while we crossed the street. Maybe start there instead of some dramatized Citi Bike nonsense.
Speaker Julie Menin@speakermenin.bsky.social · yesterdayEvery New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely, regardless of how they get around. That’s why the NYC Council is launching a comprehensive review of where existing laws can be stronger enforced, and what additional solutions are needed to keep New Yorkers safe.
"We have no alternative but take his word"?!?!?! * stares into the abyss *
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃
Funny how she filmed this on one of the legal places to ride an e-bike on the sidewalk. Of course they’d be traveling perpendicular to the sidewalk, not parallel.
Speaker Julie Menin@speakermenin.bsky.social · yesterdayEvery New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely, regardless of how they get around. That’s why the NYC Council is launching a comprehensive review of where existing laws can be stronger enforced, and what additional solutions are needed to keep New Yorkers safe.
happy final day we have to hear about Haley Stevens to those who celebrate
He's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."
New Yorkers had to subsidize the $117 million that the NYPD paid out for misconduct lawsuits in 2025 alone, even though most of them were never personally abused by a cop. Where's your worried op-ed on that one?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Was reminded about how wild it is that we live in a country where everything is a fucking scam that the Port Authority just lets all the scam taxi drivers hang out and accost you on your way to the legal taxi line at LaGuardia.
Every single time. Don't worry about us.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d agoSeems like an important detail
Congrats again to the White House Correspondents Association!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop
It’s so easy to forget, in retrospect, what public opinion looked like contemporaneously in 2020–21, especially when the frothing right-wingers were and are so loud bsky.app/profile/saba...
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · last yr.Public opinion moved a lot during 2021 in a way that ppl really forget Polls taken in Feb.-Mar. 2021 asking whether in-person school should resume faster was emphatically ‘no’, except we allow Republicans to set the national discourse agenda so their opinion becomes remembered as “public opinion”
