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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · 13d

Mets, bike chat, de Blasio goofs—this podcast was engineered in a lab just for me. In return, I give you one of my favorite BdB pics.

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · 26d

*dem admins

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · 26d

So glad the past two admins hung such consequential portions of their agendas on him!

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · 26d

🎯

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Aug 27

The city has ceded Foley Sq and its crosswalks, ADA ramps, and hard-won pedestrian refuges and bike lanes to NYPD and its infinite supply of panic gates despite no protest activity in months. Anyone in gov’t care? @nyc.streetsblog.org @kevinduggan.bsky.social @emilylip.bsky.social @dmey.bsky.social

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Aug 21

the fact that of all the rampant corruption over the past 3.5 years, Adams’ Turkey troubles, the DOB commissioner gambling, and Ingrid doing two-bit pay for play are the only indictments is an embarrassment for every prosecutor in this city—from Damian to Tish to all the DAs (except Bragg).

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Aug 20

Katie Honan, famous friend of the Adams administration and their corrupt gang of crooks???

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Aug 20

and this is all still just a drop in the bucket of the flagrant corruption over the past 3.5 years. would love to see someone to ask Tish, Gonzalez, and the other non-Manhattan DAs why their offices have not pursued any state cases against the Adams gang. there's plenty to choose from!

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Aug 20

They got the Argentos too. Hilariously ironic that all the braindead anti-safe streets trolls constantly brayed about “paid activists” and “DOT corruption” when the Atgentos appear to have paid off Ingrid to kill the McGuinness redesign.

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Aug 9

love being reminded that the “personal freedom” consumer product that most Americans have an insane relationship with isn’t a gun, but their car

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Aug 9

And he fought every attempt to “downsize” the Fulton Oculus, retail spaces, and walkway reworking every time the MTA tried. nyassembly.gov/Press/200801...

Silver Sharply Criticizes Downsizing Of Fulton Street Transit Center In Letter To MTA Executive Director

nyassembly.gov

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Aug 9

Insane how this, the death of the commuter tax, and (ultimately) Hudson Yards are all directly attributable to Shelly

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Aug 5

the fact that cuomo and adams have overseen the most hostile admins to anyone but the most sycophantic media outlets and they still get this treatment is equally baffling and revealing

🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jul 29

@nyc.streetsblog.org @dmey.bsky.social @kevinduggan.bsky.social @emilylip.bsky.social not to cosplay as assignment editor, is there a story in the fact that the courthouse district and Foley Sq have been rendered virtually impassible because of all the NYPD panic gates, despite no protests in weeks.

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jul 22

but-for GG, maybe the civil liberties blogger of the W Era with the weirdest denouement

🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jul 22

they’ve raided this spot repeatedly. random NYPD photos ops might not be the solution.

🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jul 22

But Kaz posted a photo op!

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jul 15

you are legitimately awful

🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jul 13

all those people are already employed on the Atlantic masthead

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jun 16

this is a pretty inconclusive stat comparison in any world bc lots of D primary voters were voting absentee or by mail in 2021 so it’s not apples to apples

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jun 15

Even if he ran a BdB redux, having the hapless Kathy Hochul as a foil over vindictive Andy Cuomo at the height of his powers leveraging every state power to crush your initiatives is a meaningful difference.

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jun 15

the more immediate risk is the party brass rallies round cuomo or adams in the general. they did the same when a lefty won the Buffalo Dem primary.

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jun 13

State of the Mayor’s Race update: young woman next to me on the 7 train asked her friend if Brad Lander was the “cool white guy” in the debate last night. They’re ranking him #2.

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jun 7

FL plates for some insurance fraud too

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🚲🤝 @stevebennett.bsky.social · Jun 3

This is embarrassing for @citizensunionny.bsky.social. Laughable to have this be the justification to @hellgatenyc.com for your Cuomo endorsement and expect people to take the organization seriously going forward. hellgatenyc.com/email/960d9f...

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