But the scary part is that the unsheltered population is going to keep growing for many reasons. One factor: aging baby boomers who max out their life savings and can no longer afford to live on their own or in care. This anecdote I found chilling: (5/5)
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New NYPD SCOOP:
Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man. Now We Know Police Investigators Never Even Asked About the Footage.
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Klippenstein got a lot of shit for posting about Feinstein’s staff, but here’s a POLITICO story about one of her staffers who concluded that Feinstein is senile and her CoS is acting as a shadow senator and quit by taking a selfie of himself smoking a joint in her office.
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she once ranked Syrian refugees by hotness for a white nationalist's website
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Props to @kaitlancollins who was in an impossible position but did a heroic job of fact-checking Trump throughout the town hall. No easy task given how many factually untrue things he said in such a short time. Collins was a true pro and showed what a stellar journalist she is.
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First, we are happy to introduce the Oonee Power, a comprehensive charging solution designed to make e-micromobility safer and more convenient for riders and property owners.
You can see the full blog post 👇🏾
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Generative AI doesn't need to get that good in order to do enormous damage.
and I spoke with , Ted Chiang, and about its flaws and its future:
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On the latest episode The Politics of Everything, and talk with , science fiction author Ted Chiang, and with linguist about the limits, ramifications, and potential of artificial intelligence.
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They ended asylum. Even Trump couldn’t do that.
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Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas just held big meeting to train on what post-Title 42, new “asylum ban” rule looks like, per a USCIS employee 1/
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i think a lot of people who get their iDevices stolen wonder if, just what if, they used the Find My app to actually try and track down the thief. Reader, I lived that dream
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If the governor is so concerned about a lack of revenue for NJ transit & the lack of a proper environmental review for congestion pricing, why is he spending $4.7 billion to widen an 8-mile stretch of highway, instead of investing in transit that would help the environment?
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Today’s decision by @USDOT to allow New York’s congestion pricing plan to move forward is unfair and ill-advised.
I support congestion pricing conceptually, but it must be fair to all sides. Placing an unjustified financial burden on hardworking New Jersey commuters is wrong.
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In 2019, L.A. police helicopters flew over Black residents twice as many hours as white residents, data provided to showed
They also flew at lower altitudes over Black census tracts, often under the FAA's 1,000-foot threshold
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The subway killing in New York, horrible as it is, was not an isolated incident. From what data I can find, it looks like murders of unhoused people are on the rise all over the country. thenation.com/homeless-homic
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love to live in a society where there are "consequences" (abandonment and murder) for "behavior" by people at the bottom and not even the possibility of shame let alone accountability, ever, for the behavior of the people at the top
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During the fight over the tech antitrust bills last summer, Schumer went to Seattle and met with Microsoft President Brad Smith. Now his top policy guy, months later, went to be a Microsoft lobbyist.
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Gerry Petrella is now the general manager of public policy at Microsoft, per Politico… awesome twitter.com/mikedebonis/st…
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#NYC's mass-transit system is ending its real-time service alerts on after Musk asked to pay $50,000 a month. W/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via
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Fantastic episode of 's Politics of Everything pod on the "prisoner's dilemma" imposed by the car on everyone in the US. It's extremely hard to opt out, and once you decide to buy a car, it's basically go big or (literally) stay home.
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On the latest episode of The Politics of Everything, and talk about cars and our devotion to them, even when they make our lives worse.
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On the latest episode of The Politics of Everything, hosts and talk with authors and about the obstacles that prevent us from constraining car culture—and, perhaps, a solution.
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NYC really is about to build a climate change center on a car-free island with...200 parking spaces.
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Congratulations to on his 50th argument before the Supreme Court, where he'll be representing [checks notes] a, uh, county that seized a 94-year-old woman's home, sold it, and then [squints] kept the profit for itself??? law.com/nationallawjou
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When the Ann Street parking garage collapsed in NYC this week I couldn’t help but notice nearly every car on the roof was an SUV.
Now it turns out the weight of newer cars stacked in a century-old structure is being considered by the city as a factor
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NEW: The correction officer who body-slammed Kalief Browder in a viral video in 2012 has been promoted twice and now has been named to run controversial DOC Emergency Services Unit criticized by monitor as too violent.
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frauds, fakes, and the online scourge of Fake Eastwoos. for wrote about the befuddling state of Clint Eastwood's social media presence, and what it says about the End of Twitter.
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I didn't call it self-indulgent; but it is! And that's a good thing! It's the best reason to make movies; who else should a director indulge? When critics, instead of saying what's wrong with a film, blame the filmmaker for being self-indulgent, it means they don't like artists.
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we really have to stop taking these "labor shortage" arguments at face value. The number of unemployed persons per job opening in Iowa is unchanged since prior to covid. These laws are designed to
1) combat increase union activity
2) make legal child labor they're ALREADY doing
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At 4am, Republicans in the Iowa Senate passed a bill allowing 14-year-olds to work nightshifts, 15-year-olds to work assembly lines, and 16-year-olds to serve alcohol.
They’re trying to use child labor to fix their labor shortage.
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Fact #11: The site will include 4 small buildings to simulate real-world training for @atlanta_police and @atlfirerescue personnel. The buildings will include a simulated nightclub, house, gas station & motel/apartment building.
ATLTrainingCenter.com
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Very sad to see the passing of colleague and Production Designer Legend John-Iacovelli. Many Trek fans would know him as the Designer of Babylon 5. A kind and warm guy.
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New Mexico police officers shot an armed homeowner this month at what turned out to be the wrong address. Before they shot and killed they even questioned if they might be at the wrong house. Still shot. And killed.
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Reminder that Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis paid the Boring Company $375,000 last year for a study to dig a car tunnel from downtown to the beach
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Just shot this drone video of downtown Fort Lauderdale still flooded right now with countless cars trapped in the high water.
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On the latest episode of The Politics of Everything, hosts and talk to and about the effect that small-scale climate migration is having on one “climate-proof” city.
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Black employment to population ratio now above the white employment to population ratio for the first time in the series history.
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uh did y'all know that one of the 10 largest cities in the US is having a mayoral election next month and there's only one person running in it
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NEW: Meet the unlicensed/uninsured drivers who use fraudulent temporary license plates to mask their identity on the road. They find the tags in a thriving black market operating in plain sight online.
The 3rd/final story in our series on temp tag fraud.
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Spent my whole fucking life voting defensively, having to choke down some lame suit-and-tie asshole in the general to avoid a worse asshole. Absolutely thrilled to have voted for Brandon Johnson. He wants all the things I want and he's going to be the fucking mayor.
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