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You must be mistaken. It's been explained to me - very emphatically - that nobody goes to the zoo or Balboa park now due to the parking fees.

​jamelle @jamellebouie.net the consolidation of major media institutions by the president's oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but... ​jamelle @jamellebouie.net ...the united states is neither a small central european country with a relatively closed media ecosystem nor is it a formerly authoritarian state with a starkly underdeveloped civil society. even during the heyday of hegemonic mass media... ​jamelle @jamellebouie.net ...the united states had a vibrant ecosystem of local, regional and alternative press sources. in a real sense — and this has been true since the start — the US is a nation of newspapers and newspapermen, with both of those categories broadly defined...

This is straight up not true irt professional journalism.

There were more black journalists 100 years ago than now.

Not per capita, total.

The same is true of white journalists.

Most alt regional media is just social media and Trump has most of that controled by his buddies.

"As an avid driver, I support banning right turns on red."

Gaby Del Valle is a great journalist with righteous politics, and the way this website is treating her for her completely fair reporting on Minneapolis is the reason why it's constantly hemorrhaging users, will never be relevant, and is seen as a joke across progressive media and activist circles.

The IEEE has announced that their "Year of the Linux Desktop" clock is at 40 seconds to midnight.

We'll you better learn to since whoever is elected next will still be governing under those rules and nobody is putting forth a plan to change that.

His platform was "nothing will fundamentally change" and I guess he succeeded at that.

I guess there's nothing left to do.

The ACA was passed in the first year of an 8 year presidency which culminated in Donald Trump getting elected.

Even ignoring the flaws int he ACA, I don't see how that explains the rest of it.

Same with Biden.

Which fascist do you have on the books after AOC since I guess that's how it works?

Ok. I guess I don't disagree with that, but it's tangential to the topic here.

Those legal guardrails are gone. Will the democrats take advantage of that? I don't think so.

Time to heal. I gotcha.

I suppose that's technically true, but look at what's happened in the past with Obama and Biden and look at who is on deck for the next generation of dem leadership.

It's easy to come to less than optimistic conclusions about what they will do.

The reason conservative courts feel free to rule that way is that they know that no democrat will ever in a million years use those rulings to their own advantage.

It will be "time to heal" and everyone knows it.

The developers are all Danelaw revanchists.

When I was a kid in the 90s, my edgelord architecture opinion was that building designs were driven more by the limits of whichever CAD program the firm had than anything the architect had to do with them.

I still kinda think I was right.

shes right, it was my idea to have kamala enlist The Cheney Clan to go on a human entrail spreading spree

I think the core problem is that you have a million times more faith in NY becoming Madrid than the average voter.

It's good to have long term plans, but if you can't deliver in the short term as well then you don't stay in power for long.

Mamdani knows that.

You don't get Madrid from curious people and optimists.

You get Madrid from a bureaucracy and regulatory system that has been designed to make construction planning and execution fast and efficient. It's hard nose politics and planning. Not hopes and dreams.

The MTA can do whatever it wants and I've never said otherwise. You're the one who boiled it down to a binary choice between the fast and free bus plan and the subway.

Have you told them about Madrid yet? Maybe that will get things going.

With intense distrust. We've all seen these projects last decades, balloon in costs, and get mired in politics.

People have faith that that the MTA can turn off fair boxes, they do not have faith that it can double the subway system any time soon.

If you want to prove yourself right, get Second Ave built in our lifetimes or Queenslink. Maybe then people will be less skeptical.

And I'm saying that if you sit next to someone on a bus stuck in traffic and start talking about Madrid and shoving spreadsheets in their face, you will get told where to shove it.

We need to do things that make people believe that the city works today.

But you're saying in addition. You're saying instead and that's not a great plan for an administration trying to improve people's lives with tangible results in a reasonable amount of time.

The gamble is reforming the transit development process. New York is in the US and has no special qualities that make it easier to reform than the average US city.

If you said that we should encourage Chinese or EU style development in addition to short term projects, I'd back it 100%.

Adding an assumption that the US will magically reform its transit construction process isn't making me like the idea more.

If the game here is choosing between an immediate benefit for a huge number of people vs an expensive gamble that historically has never payed off, I know my pick.

Making buses free and expanding bus lanes will make people's lives better and encourage people to use transit today.

Dumping that money into studies and plans for projects with 40 year timelines and which will likely get canned by the next admin (if they get to the approval stage at all) won't.

They feel entitled to do that to *cars* these days.

I recently witnessed a person crossing the street nearly getting killed when I stopped - at a stop sign - to let them finish crossing the road and the car behind me gunned it into the parking lane to get around me.

Read it less as telling the dems not to talk about kitchen table issues and more as telling them to read the room before they speak.