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10 months

Re-upping my job search. I’m a front end dev with a very long JS background & 2y React/Next.js dev. Talk to me in the DMs

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@brianvan

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@byMattBerger @JakeAnbinder Microsoft Word is now $70 per year, no option to buy media upfront and no option to split it from the rest of Office 365 Yeah, why don't the kids use it casually, I wonder why

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@fuckeduppizzas awful. She can't be giving that content away for free. People charge a lot for that

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6 years

Ah, that's how we caught Ted Bundy... he had entries for "MURDER WOMEN" written on his calendar at home

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2 years

He got that Crab Rangoon in him

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"The teen was riding an ebike on a sidewalk along Highway 20 in Bend last June when a van turned right, striking and killing him" so now no one under 16 can ride a pedal assist bicycle in Oregon anymore. But everyone over 16 sure can buy a van and kill a bystander

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Ebiker is killed by a van driver so they restrict ebikes instead of restricting vans fubar

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@brianvan

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Oh look, it’s “We Can’t Find The Money For Libraries” o’Clock at Union Square.

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@brianvan

24 days

A Manhattan plumber is making $250k a year and the truck costs $70k

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@travis_robert

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🤣🤣🤣

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5 years

@desusnice "You might love your grandma's cooking but don't leave your grandma cookin"

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@brianvan

11 months

It’s not stolen, they just fake residency to avoid NY car insurance. Car has a ticket history here. Consistently dangerous driver now finally causes harm after little enforcement. And some people’s lives are ended or irrevocably changed. Because we’re soft on bad drivers.

Arthur Chi'en

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Driver mows down multiple pedestrians outside Grand Central Station. Serious injuries here at the scene. @fox5ny car with Illinois tags may have been stolen. Suspect fled westbound on 42nd street

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@ginnyhogan_ that's ridiculous. For starters, there's four of them

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3 years

@hamsun1381 @byMattBerger @JakeAnbinder What about middle school students? Because by the time I hit college I'd already been using a purchased version of Word for 4-5 years, and WordPerfect before that. I was very lucky btw

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@brianvan

7 months

This is the funniest possible thing you can do to distract people from an impending indictment for campaign financing fraud: introduce new snow plowing technology in a city that hasn't had an inch of snow in nearly 700 days

Mayor Eric Adams

@NYCMayor

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The snowstorms of the future have to be met with the technology of the future. Introducing Bladerunner 2.0:

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@brianvan

2 years

There's a multi-part dissection of how this story is straight disinformation, well beyond calling the news channel bozos, so I'm going to make a thread out of it...

NBC Bay Area

@nbcbayarea

2 years

A cyclist carrying multiple children in her front basket was spotted on a freeway on-ramp in the South Bay.

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@brianvan

2 years

Christ do these people even live here? Here’s the rule about taking things on the subway: If you live within walking distance of the subway, you take things on the subway

Christina Santucci

@CSantucciPhoto

2 years

Informal poll - is it ok to take your Xmas tree on the subway? Does it matter if it’s rush hour or packed weekend train ?

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@brianvan

7 years

One surly union-breaking owner just took most of 15 years of digital local coverage for our largest US cities offline in one tantrum

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@brianvan

2 years

If Zeldin would have won, he’d have taken retaliation on city voters who weren’t part of his base, and political reporters would have said that’s just how politics works. Hochul should solve NYC’s housing emergency tomorrow all along the new Third Track main line. No delay.

Travis R. Eby

@travis_robert

2 years

If NY Dems had 1% the killer instinct Republicans have, they’d be finalizing plans this week to upzone the shit out of Long Island. Four years of new towers on every LIRR surface lot. Less begging MAGA chuds in Nassau to vote for Dems, more flooding Nassau with new Dem voters. 😊

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@brianvan

3 years

Maaan people really looked like they were 25 years older back then, huh

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@BeschlossDC

3 years

FDR at age 28 campaigns for New York State Senate, 1910: #FDRL

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I mean, where is Eric Adams today when Albany is about to impose an exclusive payroll tax on his city to pay for stuff Albany refuses to fund (including 20 years of accumulated debt that’s their fault)? Does he care about “economic recovery” or only about getting around for free

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@brianvan

3 months

Damn unregistered pedal-assist bikes

Curb Jumping NYC

@CurbJumpingNYC

3 months

Tesla driver jumps curb, crashes into storefront at Avenue U and Gerritsen Ave, Brooklyn

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@brianvan

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Hochul has truly lost her mind. I feel like all of this is a test on New York State voters to see if they really love this arrangement of idiot Long Island Democrats puppeting a Western New York woman as the sole executive power and strategic direction of government

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@brianvan

2 years

Note: NYC sidewalks are too narrow because we gave too much ROW to roadbeds and parking. Extend sidewalks citywide and then we can talk about whether there is space on sidewalks for Open Restaurants. Because right now there's plenty of space in the parking lane.

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@brianvan

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@rajandelman Lmao “fearmonger” If you smoke one 30 times a day for three days it doesn’t kill you so I don’t see what the big fuss is about! Just go all-in on it for 40 years and see what happens

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10 months

I’m just imagining Patti LuPone reacting to seeing a handjob in the audience

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@brianvan

4 months

via @StreetsblogNYC ... this is just comical... if you have to query like this, it's not a trend

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@brianvan

2 years

But you know who was trying to kill a few people? The driver who was recording this On his mobile phone while driving the full speed limit Near these kids (without stopping to help the stopped cyclist in the shoulder) With his head fully swiveled around for half the video

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@brianvan

6 months

Remember: they're all terrified to come here to Sodom. But also, it's unfair for them to pay $15 to drive here daily as they wish to.

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@bkabak

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It’s insane really the way people who live just outside of the city think of the city. Pathological fear of nothing.

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@brianvan

4 months

The thing about applying car standards to bicycles is that bicycles don't need to be insured because they rarely damage anything, and they don't need to be inspected like cars, and they have no use for license plates. And everyone knows the rules of the road, license or not

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@brianvan

1 year

Our Amtrak 68 Adirondack took nearly 3 hours to get a little over 35 miles. If you want to know why the estimate is for 4hr 9m, those are bicycle directions for the same trip

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@brianvan

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Nobody wants to hear this, but every city could benefit from clearing congestion & more inviting public space, and no one knows a politically good way to do it. London and Stockholm figured it out with this. But in New York, Hochul is demonstrating the American refusal to try

Asad أسد 🗽🍎

@AsadFromNYC

23 days

Congestion pricing is not just a “New York issue.” It is a climate, transit, and safety issue where New York is the urban lab to test for scalability in every other major US metro. Governor Hochul is setting back the entire country on our climate goals. This must be the angle.

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@brianvan

3 years

This is one of the outdoor seating areas in my neighborhood. Gotta be next-level demented to say these are all “ruining the city” since this was three parked automobiles before this

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@brianvan

9 months

@BrandyLJensen ROFL

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@justbrizigs I still can't get over the kids asking him if he was hurt because people go to rehab when they're hurt, and he responds with "oh yeah. I hurt my nose!"

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Should be the biggest story in NYC for days and yet it’s already over, good luck getting any TV outlet to run more than 10 seconds on it

Driver plows into at least 7 pedestrians at NYC crosswalk in bloody...

A vehicle plowed through seven pedestrians at a Midtown Manhattan crosswalk late Sunday night, leaving at least one critically injured, according to police and law enforcement sources.

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I’m sorry but: why is this only happening in New York when there are other cities paying people to buy e-bikes? Are we making the e-bikes out of explosives? Maybe this isn’t an e-bike problem but a slumlord problem or a contraband goods problem.

Mark D. Levine

@MarkLevineNYC

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Horrific tragedy overnight. 4 killed and 2 critically injured in fire at e-bike store at 80 Madison in LES. Already 76+ fires in NYC this year caused by lithium ion batteries. We have to accelerate our efforts to protect against this threat.

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@brianvan

2 years

For this act of illegal recklessness, he was rewarded with an on-air segment with this news station, simply because he produced video for them to run on the news.

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20 days

USDOT's response to the Congestion Pricing situation is actually better than I thought it would be. No miracles there, but I was under the impression that Biden would instruct the department to pause based on a collective understanding. They're hanging her out to dry instead

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@brianvan

10 months

I’m starting to believe this is some sort of car industry dark PR effort in the same vein as “jaywalking”. People are repeating this insane idea that people can be drivers AND be too old to be expected to use a local transit service. Because cars are medical limos

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@brianvan

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Current theory: * Hochul directed CP shut down * No one else has to go along with it * Taking any action is a liability for each legislator * Hochul will look bad if they pass a replacement -or- if they force her to run it * In any case Hochul looks bad and takes the fall

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@brianvan

2 years

She had followed a local road onto another local road, but it was a wrong turn. The 2nd local road, the one that she was filmed on, just happens to be one of those local roads that has three lanes of one-way traffic because traffic engineers are insane.

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@brianvan

7 months

@solomonmissouri when she hugs you like that... you can start telling her stuff

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@brianvan

20 days

Hochul doesn't actually run Congestion Pricing or have any administrative power over it. And no one ever intended for her to have that power. Instead, she is directing various appointees to violate the law and withhold certifying signatures. Roughly what Trump did to CP.

Second Ave. Sagas

@2AvSagas

20 days

Because of the mechanism Hochul is using - withholding state DOT authorization of the VPPP - this is the legally correct interpretation of the MTA Board's role here, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be a thorn in the governor's side.

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1 year

Treat Williams was killed on his motorcycle when a driver turned in front of him to get into a parking lot in the countryside. I think a lot of people do not understand how bad the problems are with drivers and driver skill.

Treat Williams went 'flying through the air,' was alert after fatal...

"He was totally alert, answering questions," Matt Rapphahn, the owner of Long Trail Auto in Vermont, recalled in a new interview.

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@brianvan

2 years

And it serves another agenda: Bikes don't belong on roads This is a poorly designed local road, regardless of whatever road conditions were leading into the turn onto the road (I can guess this is a local street that suddenly turns into this, I see it a lot). Bike's fault, tho

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@brianvan

3 years

@kellywise94 @erinmdurkin @ShaneGoldmacher @AndrewYang He ran away clean. On-camera. Yeah, let’s give them a billion in overtime again.

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@megsokay so angry about bad CGI de-ageing that we forgot the nepo baby debate

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2 years

Let's talk about this situation once again: * Old church, totally falling apart * Congregation is down to 12 members * In order to continue the church's mission, they want to sell/redevelop * Hostile NIMBYs have intervened by getting site landmarked

The Fight Over Tearing Down a Landmark Red Church (Published 2022)

West Park Presbyterian Church has been on the Upper West Side for almost 150 years. Now its congregation consists of 12 people.

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@brianvan

2 months

You mean substances long known to make users have aggravated, violent reactions irrationally in odd situations? Can’t imagine why you would restrict someone with a free government gun on that

Chris Sommerfeldt *on vacation*

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New: NYC's largest cop union is suing Police Commissioner Ed Caban and Mayor Adams for implementing a new “zero tolerance” policy on NYPD officers using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.

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@brianvan

9 months

I don’t know a single cyclist that wouldn’t want their crash politicized. “This is not the time for that” is a coward’s move.

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@brianvan

5 years

*slaps roof of UK* this baby can fit so many bad Brexit attempts

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@brianvan

7 months

Unless you choose not to take a private car all the way into midtown Manhattan every day? You know people who do this look INSANE. Anyone who has ever been to Midtown thinks you must be a lunatic to choose to drive here at all.

Nylifer

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@RachaelFauss $15 a day is $75 a week and $300 per month. A pretty hefty sum to working folks.

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@brianvan

2 years

Meanwhile, because the news station had this content, they ran a bunch of alarmist stuff about the death cyclist with "kids in a basket" (if you google any of this, you find that a Dutch bike is designed to hold kids in the wagon) "on the freeway" (not true)...

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@brianvan

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... and they still ran it even though they had all the corrective information they needed, which they ran at the end of the story (thus it's a non-story turned into a sensational lie + clarification), which could still get this woman fired, while letting the driver off the hook

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@brianvan

10 months

Vickie, you want a city employee fired for saying Robert Moses sucks Why are you a child

Councilwoman Vickie Paladino

@VickieforNYC

10 months

Seriously, who runs this account? This is a city agency, not an activist nonprofit. We require answers and accountability here.

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But, it's not a freeway. I could point out one hundred things about that to tell you it's not a freeway/expressway. They look SO different in detail. Just because it has more than one lane doesn't make it a freeway. She was not trying to kill these kids on a freeway.

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@brianvan

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TV news operations love to run stories about how a bicyclist was out where they didn't belong, and they consistently decline to run stories about how traffic networks in local neighborhoods contain poor provisions (if any at all) for cyclists while encouraging racing car traffic

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@brianvan

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@mattzollerseitz Shaun Of The Dead. It was July in NYC, I needed to kill three hours near Times Square, had to pick among a bunch of screenings, never heard of that one, took a chance. I think I was one of the first people I know to see it. Amazing.

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@PettyClegg @danimop

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The Metamorphasis, but he’s a Times columnist and he sucks

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@brianvan

2 years

And this video serves their purposes The cyclist is a potential child killer for doing something routine, following local roads The driver is a Good Samaritan for taking his eyes off the road and illegally using a handheld device in a fast-moving car Up is down and vice versa

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@brianvan

9 months

Couldn't express the depths of depression I have over this being a thing we have a very large set of city departments to handle such things & they're underfunded because the mayor bought Marvin The Paranoid NYPD Android

Erik Bottcher

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9 months

Friendly reminder, New Yorkers! Clearing storm drains is vital to prevent flooding and keep our streets clean. If there's a break in the rain, lend a hand and clean out your nearest drain. Let's protect our city together!

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@brianvan

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I'm sorry, but a billionaire built this, and gets to say exactly how/when/where/why it is used, and thus it's a park where you can't use or lock up a bicycle safely, and you can't do hardly any park things except wander some paths. Where's the joy in that?

Coby

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Our cities are at their best when we unlock creativity to do bold, and sometimes crazy things. This can result in remarkable places that exist for no reason other than to inspire joy and wonder. We should be encouraging this as much as we can!

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@brianvan

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No one other than New Jersey has a seat at the table for the tolls on the Turnpike or the Parkway. You can't reconcile that with what you just said. It's humiliating that we could all think of that in a second and you still argued this anyway

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New York's Congestion pricing plan is a slap in the face to the fundamental idea of democracy in our two states. If New York wanted to be fair and just, it would have provided New Jersey a seat at the table for this plan. My legislation will do just that.

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@brianvan

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Every half hour there is some revelation like "Hochul told an animal shelter in April that she was committed to congestion pricing" OR "Eric Adams dropped a hardware store receipt for rope, quicklime and blowtorches"

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@brianvan

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I finally got a new job!!! I have to sit inside the NYPD robot (sorry to say, it's hollow in there) and shuffle the thing around and make "beep beep" noises when tourists walk by $175k/yr

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@brianvan

3 years

@suhaunah @vv1lder deeply awful. She just joined!

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@brianvan

2 years

One, and I want to note this upfront before anything else: This video shows the woman STOPPED in the shoulder no more than 50ft past a turn, on a local road (we'll get to that later), attempting to turn around. The woman, later identified, said as much to reporters.

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The reason for this is... they don't think you actually belong out there on a bike, at all. Since the invention of cars, the class of car owners has always believed this

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@brianvan

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The anti-CP arguments come down to “nothing costs nothing except for the toll I don’t want to pay, which costs my entire life”

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@brianvan

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Hochul is back out there with word salad today. Key points: * She has -NEVER- proposed an alternate plan for reducing congestion & she watched Eric Adams do nothing for 2+ years to prioritize transit and reduce traffic * She has only tried to replace CP funding. Permanently.

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@brianvan

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@GaryGrumbach @PeteWilliamsNBC That's a Ginsburn

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@brianvan

9 months

I hope Jacob Priley pulls through and ends up ok. I hope every politician passing the hat & expressing condolences/grief right now understands that advocates have, repeatedly and consistently, asked for specific reasonable protections for cyclists that would have avoided this.

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@brianvan

1 year

Truly the spirit of America that the cops unilaterally called off the hot dog contest because it rained a little, and the fast-food people said “fuck you” and had the contest anyway. Let Nathan’s run the police department

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@brianvan

1 year

There is a cost to repeating the idea, on the evening news and in mainstream newspapers, that all homeless people are terrorists

BNO News

@BNONews

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BREAKING: SUV intentionally runs over people outside homeless shelter in Brownsville, Texas, killing at least 7 people, police say

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@brianvan

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NYC: “We have to close the libraries on weekends” Also NYC: “NYPD is sending an entire bus load of paid cops to the site of a car crash in another country solely on the basis that it was rumored to be a terrorist on social media”

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@brianvan

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The thing about NJ Gov Murphy is that he campaigned on fixing NJ Transit, and that’s an issue that resonates with voters and is repeatedly a top issue in polls, and he has *sprinted in the opposite direction* his whole time in office. There’s no dealt-a-bad-hand here. He’s a jerk

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@brianvan

5 years

@emmaroller I honestly cannot get enough of this tweet on my timeline. People really need to understand how class, more than anything else, creates thought bubbles & why one class shouldn't have all the power in our society just because "ha ha ha look at them dance on TV"

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@brianvan

1 year

It sounds like the entire political establishment is deciding that this is a winning issue for them to play stupid on behalf of a really awful constituency: the less than 200k NJ residents who commute with any regularity to Manhattan by car.

The New York Times

@nytimes

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New Jersey’s U.S. senators have joined the fight against New York City’s plan to charge drivers on Manhattan’s busiest streets, arguing that the tolls would unfairly burden suburbanites who must travel into the city for work.

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@brianvan

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The LI suburbs for you in a nutshell: these people are so hateful that they wouldn't let the neighboring town have 40 paid pool memberships while their pool is being renovated

Floral Park residents fight pool memberships for NHP neighbors

Floral Park residents are unhappy that they’ll have to share their village swimming pool with some people from New Hyde Park this summer. Village officials agreed to let residents of the Clinton G....

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@brianvan

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$15 is too much for what, exactly? How many of your constituents need to drive a car all the way into Midtown or Downtown Manhattan all the time? The for-hire vehicles cap absolutely should stay in place; that is a mayoral goof. Congestion pricing is a state issue.

Diana Ayala

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Congestion pricing: $15 is too much when cost of living is still at an all time high and wages at an all time low... How will @mta ensure my district does not become a parking lot... Lifting cap on for-hire vehicles contradicts all plans to reduce vehicular traffic down down.

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@brianvan

7 years

It's a move to cover up crimes and you should go to jail with them

Lindsey Graham

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7 years

Given the recent controversies surrounding the Director, I believe a fresh start will serve the FBI and the nation well.

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@brianvan

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@ChappellTracker CRACKLE punching way above its weight here

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@brianvan

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Once again, Congestion Pricing has a coalition that is shocking for what one would have expected with so many fake Democrats and brain-dead right-wing media politicking in the city, and it’s proof that Hochul made this decision in a small bubble without asking any constituents

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@brianvan

2 years

According to an email circulating this morning, it seems the Gramercy Park Block Association intends to contest the placement of a CitiBike dock at the park. The group (well, Arlene) cites it is “inappropriate” even though cars are allowed to be parked all around Gramercy Park.

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@brianvan

1 year

I keep typing and untyping tweets about Eric Adams. What a bleak situation. His fate really ought to mimic what happened to Lori Lightfoot

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@brianvan

2 years

@mcspacface @davidgura You don’t get to throw the story off when we uncover official misconduct by Florida state electeds. The law was broken and in a pretty severe way, just on the finances alone. Not to mention the fraud/quasi-kidnapping.

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@brianvan

24 days

I want to point out: there have been no rallies AGAINST congestion pricing recently, and the one time last year they tried, they got a handful of Upper East Siders (an area with fantastic transit access and few motorists) to turn out and get outnumbered by supporters

Doug Gordon

@BrooklynSpoke

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18-year-old climate activist reminds us it’s been just one year since the city’s skies turned orange from wildfire smoke. Congestion pricing = climate policy. Calls Hochul’s decision a “weak political stunt.”

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@brianvan

1 year

The thing about Target retreating from Pride merchandise is that I don't know of a single major retailer who hasn't run to the cops or the media to defeat shoplifting. Not interested in cops or reporters when patrons are literally assaulting your associates?

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@brianvan

7 years

@kgw "Cool Dog At The Orgy" is the worst children's book ever

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@brianvan

3 months

@rajandelman I think the TikTok "SNL never casts any hot women" user was in charge of Fox back then

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@brianvan

1 year

Considering how Transportation Alternatives put their whole transpussy into getting that McGuinness Blvd transformation done & the city still backed off on it anyway, there's your new prime example of how the entire concept of "bike mafia in City Hall" is a paranoid delusion

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@brianvan

8 months

Amazing that this keeps happening and that there is zero visible response from the city. They only respond to snarling outer borough Republicans claiming cyclists are out-of-control. “Gotta do something” well maybe you should do anything about this?

Eyewitness News

@ABC7NY

8 months

#BreakingNews Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run that claimed the life of a 72-year-old woman Thursday night.

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@brianvan

4 years

@NYPDShea @ZackFinkNews maybe you could catch a few of these guys with your seven billion dollar budget, deadass

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@brianvan

2 months

The city grew too fast? Okay so I don't want to obsess about Hochul being terrible at governance (kind of a settled matter) but NYC had a subway and a very dense population comparable to today before the age of the automobile & before the outer boroughs were developed entirely,

Bernadette Hogan

@bern_hogan

2 months

@GovKathyHochul @nypost "It's happening in June," Hochul says of congestion pricing. Adds that the city "grew too fast" and the city is so congested that ambulances can't reach injured people in a timely fashion. Says she's monitoring litigation.

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@brianvan

6 years

The thing about the @taffyakner GP profile is that, you are never going to see a celebrity profile where the author puts her whole body on the line for the profile like Taffy does. She barely gets out with her mind, lungs, and feet intact

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@brianvan

2 years

@BudrykZack if you're going to die on that hill, you're the only person to rate that first over Isabella Rossellini pining for Arby's, basically the most famous scene of the series for most people

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@brianvan

2 years

And have you ever noticed one of the main segments of all local TV news operations is "traffic reports?" Even in cities that have extensive transit networks (which they don't report on)? News affiliates are full of dummies who think bikes shouldn't be in their way.

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@brianvan

1 year

I’m glad the NYP/MTR train is back but this state of affairs - sharing single track with freight, 10mph speed limits, no progress on customs preclearance in Gare Centrale - is not evidence of challenges, but total continental unseriousness for travel other than cars and planes.

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