Cannot recall one time over the past five years when the escalators at Court Square worked consistently 🫠

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 ago

Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."

Street work in NYC is so unbelievably chaotic man, crews have been out demolishing and rebuilding a corner near me for weeks — finished it a few days ago — and today I STG there’s an even bigger backhoe out there tearing it all up again 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 What the helllllllll

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

My favorite iPhone feature is how you have exactly a half second to enjoy the photo you just took before Apple’s post-processing makes it look drastically worse

Kind of blown away, I just booked a RT NextGen Acela to DC for September that was ~$50 biz class one way and ~$70 biz class the other. I guess the extremely inflated prices of a few months ago have calmed down?

If you thought the greasy AI-slop bodega sandwich boards were bad, now the bodegas in my neighborhood are putting up greasy AI-slop marquees 💀

He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

Yep, this is the right framing:

Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · 4d ago

What the Iranian attack confirms is that Trump is no longer capable of operating in the real world when it dissents from the Trump as God Emperor narrative. He can't process information that dissents from the narrative. Thus he cannot lead or protect us; and we are in danger bsky.app/profile/did:...

What the Iranian attack confirms is that Trump is no longer capable of operating in the real world when it dissents from the Trump as God Emperor narrative. He can't process information that dissents from the narrative. Thus he cannot lead or protect us; and we are in danger bsky.app/profile/did:...

Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · 4d ago

Where is our government? Trump? DHS Secretary Mullin? Is the American homeland under attack? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

whatever you think of harris's chances of regaining the nomination man this is a deeply welcome early stake to see claimed in the 2028 primary positioning

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d ago

"“We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district courts,” Harris said at the National Urban League’s annual conference...also calling for a review of the Electoral College and statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC." www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...

Every time I watch a giant rat crawl into the undercarriage of a car I think: reason 10,863,689 not to own a car in NYC

It's glorious how literally just being forced to play by the rules is driving NYC's ultra-rich to insanity

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 4d ago

i'm gonna be honest i'm a little confused by this whole freakout over the pied-a-terre tax because property titles have literally always been public? "who owns this house" is a thing you have been able to look up since before America existed, ownership records have always been public

Now this is the kind of trash talk we can get behind. We’re containerizing neighborhoods by taking trash off our sidewalks and allowing mid-size buildings to trade in their wheelie bins for a bigger, better, cleaner alternative: Empire Bins. It’s time to put a lid on it, New York.

Massive Ukrainian drone attack on Russia now underway. #explodey

I did some writing for @archpaper.com early in my NYC life and they should be embarrassed for even thinking about running this slop

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

So many cute new cafés going in on Atlantic and yet Atlantic remains the final boss awful car sewer 😵‍💫 City needs to just rip the bandaid off and rebuild it all FFS

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

It’s so funny when dog owners are all in a hurry to cut you off on the sidewalk, like sir have you noticed how many things your dog needs to sniff on this walk?

I wholeheartedly love all the bike lane and sidewalk widenings the Mamdani admin is doing at a dizzying pace, but good lord I hope work is being done behind the scenes to enable this city to move a curb for once in our lifetimes!

The Trump admin had a real theory of war: Put on a show of toughness, tell people how manly you are, disdain law, do war crimes, and you win. Earlier losses came from leaders too "weak" to do that. It was a very stupid theory. But they espoused it a lot, really seem to believe it, and acted on it.

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 6d ago

President Toddler

I will confess that I did not believe he would get below 35%. I thought that was his floor. Color me intrigued.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

CNN: "The president's overall approval rating now stands at just 34%. That matches his career low following the January 6 insurrection."

again think about the choices that are made in the media to cover Mamdani's call for Netanyahu's arrest as if it is extremist hate speech or an incitement to violence in context of both the domestic popularity and international elite consensus around the issue.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last wk.

New poll: Americans believe the U.S. should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by a +22 margin Total: 49-27 Black: 53-13 Hispanic: 52-15 Ages 18-29: 58-17 Harris voters: 74-10 Independents: 55-20 23% of Trump voters agree as well Economist/YouGov:

Fun new game: which NYC neighborhoods are going to catastrophically flood this time from today’s catastrophic storm? Maybe mine!

so much for billionaires fleeing because of zohran

Currently reading The Snow Leopard (1978, excellent so far) and having one of those moments where you look at your cat like ‘how the hell does this creature live in my apartment’

The senile president is having the slop machine show him a fantasy version of the Iran war where we’re winning.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump on Iran 🤦‍♂️

Pisses me off to NO END that the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel — which must be one of the highest concentrations of buses on a highway anywhere in the world? — doesn’t have a dedicated bus lane Just millions of hours wasted & no incentive to do the right thing here (not bring your private cage)

The mayor's Commission on Government Efficiency says its ballot proposal will streamline street safety projects.

Mamdani's Charter Panel Wants to Speed Up Bike and Bus Lane Projects by 33% - Streetsblog New York City

The mayor's Commission on Government Efficiency says its ballot proposal will streamline street safety projects.

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