https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZshXMAX0AkMiq1?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
hahaha
― voodoo chili, Friday, 5 June 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
At a joint press conference on Friday afternoon, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Brooklyn City Councilmember Brad Lander attempted to explain what they saw last night after they joined a protest in Fort Greene. After 10 p.m., the NYPD had kettled hundreds of protesters onto Washington Avenue, and mass arrests and violence seemed imminent, until Williams and Lander intervened, and police released demonstrators 20 at a time.
"The night before and the night before that, I saw things I can't explain," Williams said. "The mayor is delusional," Williams added. "I don't know what else to say."
Councilmember Lander said that the mayor's curfew "makes the enforcement arbitrary and capricious and random and escalates the violence," and he called it counterproductive and unconstitutional.
Asked about Mayor de Blasio refusal to acknowledge that peaceful protesters are being beaten night after night on the streets of New York City, despite the numerous accounts from protesters and journalists, Lander replied, "The mayor is gaslighting the people of New York City right now. And it really is dangerous."
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
Lander and Williams are my NY pols of choice
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
the great dream is for De Blasio to resign, which would make Williams the mayor. sigh.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 5 June 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
apparently in December Williams said that he wouldn't be running for mayor in 2021?
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
i guess the city really is dead
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZw51OgXkAIrT0N?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
lady i've never heard of doesn't want to live here is okay by me
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WhoppingNaturalGardensnake-max-1mb.gif
― voodoo chili, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
she's a federalist person who once wrote We Need To Start Befriending Neo Nazis
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
a beckyexodus would kill nyc
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
bexodus
― voodoo chili, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
bexit, obvsit would kill sephora at least
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
she also got "grandma killer" trending on twitter
― Dan S, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
β82 vibes around the city
― calstars, Friday, 5 June 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
BdB a drowning man
https://gothamist.com/news/heres-full-transcript-mayor-de-blasio-brian-lehrer-show
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
not sure what it's going to take. maybe a walkout by his entire staff? seems possible
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
he'll only resign if cuomo tells him not to
― voodoo chili, Friday, 5 June 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
on repeat, a balm for the soul
βNew York City is Trump country now! Get me outta here and you win a prize!βSomeone won the prize. pic.twitter.com/GmeRZlfZK3— Damon Young (@damonayoung) June 5, 2020
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 June 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
haha brainless fuck
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
Lol I expected that to be way more violentThis curfew blows
― badg, Friday, 5 June 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
that dude looks like dril
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 6 June 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
You know what the title of that book should be? "Yes, I Can If Andrew Cuomo Says It's OK". 'Cause Andrew calls the shots for all of those guys. Did you get to the part yet where uh...Bill is coming out of the Copa... it's about 3 o'clock in the morning and, uh, he sees Andrew? Andrew's walking down Broadway by himself...
― calstars, Saturday, 6 June 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
<puts up dividing window>
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 6 June 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
The curfew is creepy as fuck
― treeship., Saturday, 6 June 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
Purge alarm on my phone every night at 7:30. Hate this year.
how many years in a row have we said fuck this year. is it 4, or more
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Saturday, 6 June 2020 02:59 (three years ago) link
I've been saying it since 2014, for various personal reasons. the last year I'd consider "good" for me was 2012. Not saying that as a 'joek' either.
kinda explains why my alcohol intake increased around that same time.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 June 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
We live in an endless 2016
― treeship., Saturday, 6 June 2020 03:05 (three years ago) link
kinda feels like it sometimes. weirdly enough in October of 2016, I was finally starting to feel better than I had in a long time, only for November to permanently ruin that
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 June 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
come on guys let's flatten the curve we can do this before 2037 https://t.co/aPRYVAJNui pic.twitter.com/zWgG2stpu1— justin jacoby smith (@hoosteen) June 5, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 June 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
Blas lifts tonight's curfew
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 June 2020 12:07 (three years ago) link
Timothy "STEEN" Levitch in The HOOS
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Sunday, 7 June 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
No transportation plan, no bus lanes, no bike lanes, but you donβt have to move the car you never use. What a failure. https://t.co/iW7XHF9mXC— Doug Gordon (@BrooklynSpoke) June 7, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 June 2020 12:01 (three years ago) link
TBF, hasn't DeBlasio created a bunch of bike and bus lanes?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
lmao
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 8 June 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
I mean I hate the fucker too, but I know he added bike lanes running the length of queens blvd for example
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
sorry man alive, your question was sincere and deserves a real answer. basically he has dropped the ball completely on bike lanes, compared to any city of the same size and resources and even compared to the bloomberg administration. look at what the mayor of Paris has been doing for example - a massive, comprehensive, and infrastructurally useful bike network being very rapidly rolled out as part of an actual vision for what they want urban life to be like. in NYC, admittedly there's been some progress on bus lanes, but it's largely not coming from the mayor, who wishes and washes publicly anytime it comes up. in practice he has been a huge obstacle by constantly falling back on "we'll have to look closely at that" and letting community boards block needed improvements on a slow, slow case-by-case basis, instead of saying "my department of transportation has been instructed to put out a master plan."
and both bus lanes and bike lanes depend on enforcement to be effective, so that they are not constantly full of parked cars and/or parked cop cars. but because traffic enforcement was merged with the NYPD in the 90s, enforcement would require the mayor giving orders to the police department, the mere thought of which will lead BDB to weeks of waking up in cold sweats, after which he emerges as if from a fever dream with no memory of the terribly traumatic thought that prompted it all. meanwhile of course such efforts would also require seeing the city as something that people get around with without the use of private automobiles, which is utterly foreign to the mayor's lived experience. note how that tweet describes a less onerous car-ownership status quo as one that "make(s) life a little easier for all of us." all? this is a city in which only 45% of households own cars and only 27% of workers use a car, truck or van for their daily commute. the only way suspending alternate side parking benefits "all" of us is less car noise and exhaust, at the expense of garbage accumulating in the streets and blocking the storm drains because the street sweepers aren't running. he's a driver and identifies with drivers. in terms of transportation policy, he might as well have just run for Mayor of Staten Island.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 8 June 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
if you want more invective along these lines, follow @StreetsBlogNYC, @2AvSagas, and/or @BrooklynSpoke on Twitter - pretty much a daily stream of ways the mayor is failing us on transportation issues, and what he could be doing instead.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 8 June 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
booming post doc
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
^
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
cosign!! go off DC!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
in general fuck cars
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
lol SAY IT DOCTOR.
There's literally a whole ig account of just cop cars parked in bike lanes, that's how stupid it all is.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 8 June 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
this is a city in which only 45% of households own cars
this is startlingly high tbh!
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 8 June 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
https://edc.nyc/sites/default/files/filemanager/CarOwnership.jpg
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
https://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/legacy/2012/05/16/20120516-map-nyc.jpg
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
Ta!
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
It's not that striking when you see how many areas have poor or no subway access.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
Also when you look at the difficulty of commutes that are not __ to central parts of manhattan (brooklyn-queens, queens-bronx, etc.)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link