A new subway diagram has arrived! MTA leadership (including MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber and Chief Customer Officer Shanifah Rieara) unveiled a reimagined subway map, its first new design in half a century.

Check out the new map on digital screens in stations, and as it rolls out on train cars 🚇

@aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov's rallies have been so successful that it's "worrying some moderate Democrats who fear Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez could tug the party to the left."

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

I really appreciated the Rugrats Passover episode - it was my first introduction to a Jewish way of life outside of school. I’d not met any Jewish families or children as there are fewer here. It showed Judaism in the context of an ordinary family who looked like anyone else’s.

had a thought that if apple were to release a traditional ipod it would sell like hotcakes

I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.