@tonymelone.bsky.social
Reposted
I'm no expert, but an unregulated betting market based on events people can know about ahead of time seems like a bad idea!
January 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I'm no expert, but an unregulated betting market based on events people can know about ahead of time seems like a bad idea!
Reposted
When I tell people who are somewhat new to Brooklyn that Prospect Park used to have cars coursing through it at rush hours they look at me like I have two heads. There's a lesson there about change, getting things done, and sticking with them.
Today, Prospect Park has been car-free for eight years! A fitting location for this afternoon’s mayoral press conference.
Giving the park entirely to people was one of the longest campaigns TA has fought, and one of our biggest wins.
Giving the park entirely to people was one of the longest campaigns TA has fought, and one of our biggest wins.
January 2, 2026 at 11:33 PM
When I tell people who are somewhat new to Brooklyn that Prospect Park used to have cars coursing through it at rush hours they look at me like I have two heads. There's a lesson there about change, getting things done, and sticking with them.
Reposted
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.
bloom.bg
January 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
Reposted
Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
Reposted
Eric Adams is no longer the mayor of New York City.
But like the action-movie hero who blows up the headquarters as he walks away without turning around, Adams spent his final days in office doing his very best to ratfuck his successor, Zohran Mamdani.
But like the action-movie hero who blows up the headquarters as he walks away without turning around, Adams spent his final days in office doing his very best to ratfuck his successor, Zohran Mamdani.
The Last-Minute Booby Traps Mayor Adams Laid for Mayor Mamdani
From swagger to sabotage.
hellgatenyc.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Eric Adams is no longer the mayor of New York City.
But like the action-movie hero who blows up the headquarters as he walks away without turning around, Adams spent his final days in office doing his very best to ratfuck his successor, Zohran Mamdani.
But like the action-movie hero who blows up the headquarters as he walks away without turning around, Adams spent his final days in office doing his very best to ratfuck his successor, Zohran Mamdani.
Reposted
it's a real symptom of widespread anti-progressive media bias that an explicitly progressive candidate is expected to feel a need to be apologetic about being progressive.
It's so weird to say a politician "doubled down" on.....the very explicit promises he made during the campaign?
Isn't that what promises are?
Isn't that what promises are?
January 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
it's a real symptom of widespread anti-progressive media bias that an explicitly progressive candidate is expected to feel a need to be apologetic about being progressive.
Reposted
One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
January 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
Reposted
In news that should surprise no one…
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles
E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.
arstechnica.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:10 PM
In news that should surprise no one…
Reposted
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
Reposted
get in loser we're doing day one permitting reform
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
get in loser we're doing day one permitting reform
Reposted
It's a new day for NYC. Happy new year, friends and comrades. Let's tax the rich, win childcare for everyone, and build even more organization and governing power for the Left in 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 5:22 AM
It's a new day for NYC. Happy new year, friends and comrades. Let's tax the rich, win childcare for everyone, and build even more organization and governing power for the Left in 2026.
Democratic District Leader Frank Seddio, folks! Join @newkingsdems.bsky.social — in 2026 we can elect local party leaders who are not a total disgrace!
This morning, in federal court, Frank Seddio professed outrage at any suggestion he's conspired to help steal $2 million.
“I find it offensive, the kind of allegations that have been made by plaintiffs’ counsel in this matter," he told judge. "I thought I was reading a James Clancy novel!”
“I find it offensive, the kind of allegations that have been made by plaintiffs’ counsel in this matter," he told judge. "I thought I was reading a James Clancy novel!”
The craziest case in the Brooklyn courts, involving power broker Frank Seddio and $2 million in missing escrow money, keeps getting crazier.
Yesterday, two more judges recused themselves, bringing the total judges who have been assigned the case to FIVE.
Yesterday, two more judges recused themselves, bringing the total judges who have been assigned the case to FIVE.
December 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Democratic District Leader Frank Seddio, folks! Join @newkingsdems.bsky.social — in 2026 we can elect local party leaders who are not a total disgrace!
Reposted
NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:
Trump says US bombed alleged drug facility in Venezuela. No one knows if it’s true.
It could be a lie from social media, or a conflation of other stories. Either way, Americans need to know.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:
Reposted
"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
Reposted
Love this! I have exactly the same feeling riding over bridges in this city. Each time I do it I take in the view and think about how lucky I am to live here. It's a feeling that's hard to experience any other way other than on the seat of a bicycle.
Rama Duwaji, New York City's next First Lady, on the joys of riding a Citi Bike:
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Love this! I have exactly the same feeling riding over bridges in this city. Each time I do it I take in the view and think about how lucky I am to live here. It's a feeling that's hard to experience any other way other than on the seat of a bicycle.
Reposted
The thing that is specifically resonant about the 60 MINUTES incident is how many online versions of the report were recorded on cell phones etc, similar to how Soviet samizdat were often printed on illicit homemade or obsolete presses, lending them a characteristic janky print quality.
I kept seeing people use the word samizdat to refer to the Canadian sourcing of the 60 Minutes report on CECOT pulled by Bari Weiss. Here's the definition from Merriam-Webster:
December 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The thing that is specifically resonant about the 60 MINUTES incident is how many online versions of the report were recorded on cell phones etc, similar to how Soviet samizdat were often printed on illicit homemade or obsolete presses, lending them a characteristic janky print quality.
Reposted
Remember when I said Weiss was stupid and incompetent? Stuff like this. An actual television producer would understand this stuff - if not the exact schedule and procedures for how the episode was distributed, at least who they could ask who would know.
It’s actually not technically a leak. CBS News only operates in the US. A non-PSKY owned network Global TV has Canadian rights for 60 Minutes and aired it unedited since the call to pull the episode was made so late in the day. That broadcast was recorded and then shared across the internet.
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Remember when I said Weiss was stupid and incompetent? Stuff like this. An actual television producer would understand this stuff - if not the exact schedule and procedures for how the episode was distributed, at least who they could ask who would know.
Reposted
This is President Donald ‘Stop Work’ Trump trying to keep affordable, clean energy off the grid, without a care about how many working people have to lose their jobs to keep his fossil fuel billionaires happy.
Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is President Donald ‘Stop Work’ Trump trying to keep affordable, clean energy off the grid, without a care about how many working people have to lose their jobs to keep his fossil fuel billionaires happy.
Reposted
Yet another reason why we always say "crash" instead of "accident" — there's a huge disparity in life-altering injuries from traffic crashes.
This is not an accident.
This is not an accident.
December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Yet another reason why we always say "crash" instead of "accident" — there's a huge disparity in life-altering injuries from traffic crashes.
This is not an accident.
This is not an accident.
Reposted
Burgum is not dumb. He's lying and selling out our future to prop up his buddies in the fossil fuel industry.
Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Burgum is not dumb. He's lying and selling out our future to prop up his buddies in the fossil fuel industry.
Reposted
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
Reposted
“What these bills represent is a multi-pronged approach to addressing the real life consequences of not doing more in our city to build out real street safety measures," says NY State Senator Kristen Gonzalez.
State Pol's ‘Manhattan Safety Plan’ Emphasizes Daylighting and Protecting Bike Lanes - Streetsblog New York City
A new safety plan from State Sen. Kristen Gonzalez puts the streets front and center.
buff.ly
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“What these bills represent is a multi-pronged approach to addressing the real life consequences of not doing more in our city to build out real street safety measures," says NY State Senator Kristen Gonzalez.
Reposted
“The only reason that he’s able to continue to harass me is because New Yorkers are paying for it,” Boylan said in an interview with THE CITY. “It never ends.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...
Taxpayers Forked Out Another $1.3 Million for Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Defense
As his failed mayoral campaign played out, the former governor’s lawyers ran up the bill contesting the claims of a former state trooper on his security detail.
www.thecity.nyc
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“The only reason that he’s able to continue to harass me is because New Yorkers are paying for it,” Boylan said in an interview with THE CITY. “It never ends.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...
Reposted
"If you’re in the abstract in a church basement, they’re gonna say, 'I like the way it is. When you talk to people in reality about, 'Do you think it could be better?' Of course they say yes."
100%. If we're going to have a public process, we need to get the process out to the real public.
100%. If we're going to have a public process, we need to get the process out to the real public.
Delay By Design: 'Major Transportation' Law Still Gums Up Street Safety Projects - Streetsblog New York City
A law from the 2000s bikelash still makes it harder to make streets safer.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"If you’re in the abstract in a church basement, they’re gonna say, 'I like the way it is. When you talk to people in reality about, 'Do you think it could be better?' Of course they say yes."
100%. If we're going to have a public process, we need to get the process out to the real public.
100%. If we're going to have a public process, we need to get the process out to the real public.
Reposted
“Speaker Adams Is Ignoring the Most Prominent Street Safety Bill of Her Four-year Term”:
Joint Statement from Transportation Alternatives and Open Plans on Speaker Adams Removing Daylighting Bill from Final City Council Meeting Vote List
Joint Statement from Transportation Alternatives and Open Plans on Speaker Adams Removing Daylighting Bill from Final City Council Meeting Vote List
December 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“Speaker Adams Is Ignoring the Most Prominent Street Safety Bill of Her Four-year Term”:
Joint Statement from Transportation Alternatives and Open Plans on Speaker Adams Removing Daylighting Bill from Final City Council Meeting Vote List
Joint Statement from Transportation Alternatives and Open Plans on Speaker Adams Removing Daylighting Bill from Final City Council Meeting Vote List