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Effective Transit Alliance @etany.org · 26/06/2026

The @queenslink.org project would turn an abandoned rail line into a busy subway line. Unfortunately, the project is at risk due to a competing project which would block its path. The best plan for New York’s future is QueensLink. Read on our website: www.etany.org/statements/t...

QueensLink is a proposal to open a new subway line connecting Rego Park, Forest Park, Howard Beach, and the Rockaways. Much like the Interborough Express, the project would reactivate an intact, mostly abandoned rail line to provide service to underserved neighborhoods. In the case of QueensLink, this is the former LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch, which was abandoned in 1955 except for its southern part, which was reactivated to bring the A train to the Rockaways in 1956. Put simply, QueensLink would turn currently abandoned tracks into a busy subway line serving tens of thousands of riders a day.
Unfortunately, the proposal is at risk due to a competing proposal called QueensWay. QueenWay seeks to convert the same right-of-way into a linear park with no transit service. QueensLink, in contrast, would include both transit and green space along the majority of the route, wherever there is room, including the same location as QueenLink. Regrettably, on June 30th the New York City Council is set to vote on an Adopted Budget which includes $50 million of city funding to construct the first phase of the QueensWay park, the Metro Hub, directly blocking QueensLink’s path.

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According to estimates from The Transit Costs Project’s A Better Billion proposal, QueensLink would cost $2.8 billion in 2025 prices, and see ridership of 105,000 people every weekday. The high ridership is a combination of all of the following travel markets:
New service from currently unserved areas of Rego Park, Forest Park, and Woodhaven
Trips parallel to Woodhaven Boulevard, which corridor has 30,000 weekday bus riders
New trips between Manhattan and JFK, currently served by the slower A train
Leisure trips between Manhattan or Central Queens and the beaches in the Rockaways
Trips from the Rockaways, Howard Beach, and Ozone Park to Manhattan or Long Island City, currently served by the A via Lower Manhattan
Additional trips from the Queens Boulevard Line to Brooklyn, since the diversion of M trains from Forest Hills allows bringing back the G to the Queens Boulevard local tracks

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In short, by building on an existing right-of-way, QueensLink can serve a huge number of riders for a comparatively affordable cost. If QueensWay is built, however, it will sever this part of the corridor, either meaning the park would have to be demolished in the future (a difficult proposition) or a long and expensive subway would need to be built under Woodhaven Boulevard.
The Rockaway Beach Branch is a unique opportunity for New York: a publicly owned right-of-way in a dense urban corridor with high property value. Corridors like that do not grow on trees, and any city would be foolish not to take advantage. The best plan for New York’s future is QueensLink.

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RQ @iamnotrq.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I wrote to the mayor and City Council asking them to support @queenslink.org & remove funding for QueensWay. QL supports rails AND trails. QW wants a park on an abandoned rail line w/ NO FUTURE RAIL PROVISIONS. It All Goes Away with QueensWay. Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/it-a...

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Let your city and state leaders know YOU WANT QUEENSLINK

QueensLink is a grassroots, community lead organization fighting for better transit, parks, and safe bike lanes along the abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch. Our leaders have heard from us, but now they ...

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

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Drew Webb 🏳️‍🌈 @archeryfan93.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Nixon resigned 15 months after the Knicks won the championship 53 years ago so tick tock MF’er

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Daramola @izdaramola.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Sometimes I’ll just randomly think to myself: the New York Knicks are the current NBA champions

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I think they should visit the Obama Presidential center instead. "The team’s billionaire owner previously said the Knicks had accepted trump’s White House invitation" The Independent

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🌜 Lewis @nuzleaf.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Mew's big wide world 🫧 Tags ; #Pokemon #Mew

Digital illustration of the Pokémon Mew, sitting on top of a large bubble. The Mew has its arms outspread with a large grin on its face. There is text above it that reads, "there's a big wide world that loves Mew, and a big wide world that loves you, too!".

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Thoughts and prayers for something wonderful happening

Even Jeffery epstein hated you holding hands with lots and lots of ketamine

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

wish Conrad were alive to see this. he would be so proud

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 31/01/2026

another week of ✨ Shameless Self Promotion Saturday ✨ where thinking about the ethics of trying to make a living in this moment in history makes us feel like turning our skin inside out hi new people. hi old people. hi creatures who dont identify as people. we love you. please buy art. or dont.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

all paintings should be called Apple Family II

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Jeffrey AKA The Hairless Hippie @mojochefjeff.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Carlos Santana open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... Timeline cleanse from Dan Rather. Santana is one of the most powerful musicians to walk the Earth, and a humble man of peace #Santana #DanRather #BlueCrew

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Paul Myers @pulmyears.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

When I do promotional events for my book, John Candy: A Life In Comedy, people often ask me to identify, out of the hundreds of interviews I did for the book, who were the most significant. Without hesitation, I tell them, Catherine O’Hara.

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TweetLD @tweetld.art · 01/02/2026

What's most amazing about this is the fact that the WSJ needed a “study” to figure it out.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/02/2026

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

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smeders @smeders.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

There is no question this was a lynching and public execution. They didn’t even know Alex had a gun in his HOLSTER until he was on the ground. He never touched it. They beat him then shot him 10x.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Liam goes home… www.instagram.com/reel/DUOW4_E...

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Paul Below @paulbelow.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

BREAKING: Federal judge slams the door on Trump’s voter suppression scheme: “The president gets no say.” “Put simply,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote, “our Constitution does not allow the President to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures.”

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RQ @iamnotrq.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

ok now where's the rest of the files?

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I keep the 50,000 reasons I oppose this guy in a Cava takeout bag. #SayNoMan2Homan 👎

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 27/01/2026

Here it is. For the third time. I'm calling on DHS and DOJ's IGs to heed the public outcry and finally launch a joint task force to investigate the horrific pattern of brutality from Trump's agents, including the public execution of Alex Pretti. We demand accountability. Now.

Duckworth’s third letter to DHS and DOJ Inspectors General calling on the offices to heed the public outcry and finally launch a joint task force to investigate the horrific pattern of brutality from Trump’s DHS, Border Patrol and ICE agents, including the killing of Alex Pretti.

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Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

We had to put up with school shootings because "the 2nd Amendment" But watch ICE eliminate the right to bear arms by executing anyone they find with a gun and to hell with the 2nd Amendment. ICE will soon be killing citizens in their own homes because they're scared there might be a gun inside.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/01/2026

Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.

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Just Jack @jackhealy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Only political cowards “struggle” to respond...

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I will give Suozzi more credit than he gives himself. He knew what the vote was. He just figured the way to "win" was to support the funding because that's more "centrist" and buck the Democratic majority. But morally, he knew what this was about. He ended up wrong morally AND politically.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/01/2026

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Pretty much everyone on IG who has been carefully quiet about politics is speaking out. It’s. Weird. I’m not on there all that much, but I think people have finally been given social permission to say the uncomfortable thing. I think they realize not speaking up will be read as acceptance.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten... #RIP_Alex 💔

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.  ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

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RQ @iamnotrq.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

We all are. We're damn proud to you too, Tim. You have good people. I'm not from MN, but I admire your guys' courage and bravery, standing strong, speaking out despite the inexcusable chaos that's being orchestrated by our own federal government. May Alex Pretti rest in peace and ICE be abolished.

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Gary1955 @gary1955.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Hey NRA, are you good with this? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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MaggieMay @sleeplesscrone.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop. It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities. I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Republican politicians who think that Minneapolis is a political problem are missing the point. It is a moral problem. But they are in so deep that they cannot see just how morally bankrupt they have become. They do not understand that we are as revulsed by their complicity as by Trump's cruelty.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I know not what to say after this day. Please accept some natural beauty. We are but nothing, We return to the great void, Make the best of it. #Photography #Auroraborealis #Haiku

Northern lights of green and pink rain down on the forest of black.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 21/01/2026

listen, you can’t hate america more than americans hate america.

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