Dan Mauler 🎃

I don't know if alcoholic bubbles are viable, but how does this not exist at Coney Island already?

Reporters covering election confidence and threats to the integrity of the election - our pre-election Bright Line Watch report comes out tomorrow with new expert and public survey data and forecasts of the probability of disruptive events. Email or DM me if you'd like an embargoed copy!

TWU be like “Hochul is MAGA because she doesn’t support our MAGA union” in reality, they’re just mad at Hochul because she refused to expand the union’s expensive handouts and make-work jobs funded with taxpayer $$

I’m like 50-50 on this also being ai

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the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.

It would be a really good idea to require all new data center construction to connect to the grid. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/off-grid-d...

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Trump's anti-intellectual racism is so wild to watch in practice. No elaborate theories about hierarchy or ideology, no deep lore, he's just a simple man who doesn't like people with dark skin.

genuinely embarrassing that TNR would publish this NIMBY propaganda full of factual errors

Does improv mean something different inthe UK?

I'm so jealous that DC gets to use ranked-choice voting in the general. Up here it's a primary-only thing.

boy do i have the charts for you source (me): cameroncorduroy.substack.com/p/fixing-the...

Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

Got a bit of free time on Monday evening? Come out and phone bank for some candidates endorsed by @opennewyork.org! In-person at the office if you want to come out, or dial from home. www.mobilize.us/opennewyork/...

Big yes, and thanks to @nydailynews.com for highlighting this basic home rule issue! NYC shouldn't need Albany's permission to expand red-light cameras. Red-light running has dropped 80% where cameras are installed. Albany must lift the 600-intersection cap. buff.ly/FlzxACU

Biking in New York (and DC) has gotten substantially better since I first moved to the East Coast. There's a whole network of protected lanes now (more are always welcome) and the rise of ebikes has made medium-distance utility cycling (e.g. commuting) much more appealing.

Tolls would fix this in days

Been thinking a lot about the recent papers arguing that demographic trends in criminal behavior mean that we are likely entering a period of sustained prison pop declines. I think we may be heading for that too. But I think it is vital to note the role of politics here as well.

it's cool that you can send "STOP" to instantly block an automated political fundraising text message so they have to text you from a different number five minutes later

Carrying a surveillance device in one’s pocket at all times: I sleep A city-owned camera takes a picture of your license plate and sends you a ticket if you run a rear light: “This is a hecking jorjorwell 1984”

America's abusive cop culture has real costs--here, it's preventing us from doing basic things like enforcing the bus fare in a sane and normal manner. gothamist.com/news/mta-sus...

What is AOC's stance on the thought-killing properties of human-crafted short form video?

(For context, this is a comment in an interesting conversation about Airbnbs, and I endorse it 100%. NYC in particular is substantially under-hoteled thanks to special permit shenanigans, and the hotels that exist are concentrated in a very few neighborhoods) therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

The Trump administration wants to rewrite Census regulations so that only US citizens would count for purposes of Congressional apportionment, which would absolutely fuck over NYC and other cities. Public comments against it might help slow it down; leave one here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Fusion voting: not a panacea nysfocus.com/2026/10/22/n...

Fun fact: state law imposes a cap on the number of red light cameras with no justification as far as I can tell besides drivers just wanting to run red lights without consequences. Hopefully Zohran can push Albany to do something about this, because it's infuriating.

It’s so embarrassing. This is the base of the Brooklyn bridge and right next to city hall The light is set for a “pedestrian scramble”. Meaning only pedestrians can pass (bikes can go but must yield). And it’s just full of SUVs! Oh, did my bike touch your giant SUV. They just don’t enforce it!

Under current zoning, this proposal isn’t allowed and therefore requires full city council approval. What a waste of admin time and taxpayer money. It’s a 5-story building next to the train in the city that invented the skyscraper. Just build it already!

The reason we can't stop traffic violence is the same reason we can't stop gun violence. We don't want to.

These people have embraced nothing but sheer degeneracy at this point. Every single one of them lacks even the most basic moral characteristics required for participation in public life. A movement filled with nothing but the most gutter cretins.

The MTA needs to make the right decision and announce that IBX will be automated. If not, it's a bad sign for the ability of everybody involved – Kathy Hochul, Janno Lieber, Jamie Torres-Springer, the NYS legislature, the TWU – to make any decision in transit's interest www.etany.org/reports/ibx-...

This, right here, is YIMBYism.

Every year around this time, I turn into Walter White, but for chili

We must do better. Vote accordingly

It's weird how seeing the news happen in non-news contexts makes it feel so much more worrying (the official wiki for a video game I play is offline until PHP security gets updated, one of the two insane cybersecurity catastrophes that hit yesterday).

YIMBYism is working, it’s just obscured in the topline numbers by the single-family collapse. The California Building Industry Association went all-in on sprawl and insurers had to step in as the adults in the room and say no more wildfire risk, leaving YIMBYs to fix things with no help from CBIA.

Incredible reporting on a deeply depressing story of corruption in Congress Anticorruption politics is what brings down authoritarians around the world, but it's hard to do that when you're corrupt too (even if less corrupt) www.propublica.org/article/nava...