Reposted by Mike CherepkoJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 22hIf you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 23939631027
Reposted by Mike Cherepkolatinometrics @latinometrics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026MEXICO | Aeroméxico suspends flights to Tulum starting Thursday, citing low demand as local hotel occupancy hits 15%, the lowest in history. (Mexico News Daily) 002
Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My favorite thing about the metro in Mexico City is how the map telling you the list of stops will reflect which way you’re facing. So if you are headed “right” it shows that order but if you turn around it reflects that. 100
Reposted by Mike CherepkoChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It is, strangely, an anti-patriarchy. No elders would ever choose these men to succeed them. They are a postmodern accident in ill-fitting suits 954756
Reposted by Mike CherepkoWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A lot of this shit, like every query draining a lake, is akin to a religious belief at this point and they’re not gonna be reasoned out of position they weren’t reasoned into. We have two flavors of AI psychosis now basically. 1460054
Reposted by Mike CherepkoJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules. 273295769
Reposted by Mike CherepkoStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 27/09/2026Janno Lieber likes to blame Mamdani’s free bus campaign and Covid for muddying the waters and worsening bus fare evasion. Meanwhile, Lieber’s own buses are confusing riders in multiple ways (this bus is not going to Court Sq!) by flashing a “FARE REQUIRED” message on a free subway replacement bus 4767
Reposted by Mike CherepkoSam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026republicans: the party of severe and permanent brain damage 1046934
Reposted by Mike CherepkoAdrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Writing a report about exclusionary zoning in Mexico City; so I made this cute map of the existing stock vs. the permitted. No surprise this city barely builds anything. 1477
Reposted by Mike CherepkoStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 25/09/2026I actually don’t want random institutions to pay ex-FBI officers to do this every time there’s a semi-high-profile speaker? Americans – notably including Charlie Kirk – decided that we should all be a trigger-pull away from death every time we step into public, and so we are. So what’s the issue? 1685
Reposted by Mike CherepkoMichael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My colleague @trufahey.bsky.social sent me this on Instagram a few months ago. Nice visual illustration of this "trap" of aging...but the creator missed the crucial fact that if you actually want local amenities, stair-free homes can't be one-story homes. They've gotta be a few homes stacked. 4895
Reposted by Mike CherepkoKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026For some reason I’m getting a bunch of videos from people who are talking about “the war on drivers” and talking about how “real New Yorkers drive”. They’re angrily filming Atlantic terminal out their car windows while they sit in traffic on Flatbush. It rocks 1223010
Reposted by Mike Cherepkosurathing.bsky.social @surathing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There is no fun allowed on "Real New Yorker" TikTok. Having brunch with your friends? Must be a transplant! Sunbathing in the park? Go back to Ohio! 172
Reposted by Mike CherepkoJosh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“He needs to be eating worms” is maybe the funniest quote the Times has ever published. 35785119
Reposted by Mike Cherepkoryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/09/2026yeah. relatedly I’ve heard people on here several times rate masking as more important than vaccines, which is tantamount to soft vaccine denial. masks are fallible and most people are not ultra strict with how they wear them! 1036822
Reposted by Mike CherepkoSchrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty. 25768272248
Reposted by Mike CherepkoLiz Denys @liz.nyc · 21/09/2026Yet another round of the eternal transplant discourse and I'm thinking about how I'm alive because I live in a place where I could easily get treatment for my life-threatening ectopic pregnancy and how most places with abortion access have exclusionary housing policies, leaving people to die. 082
Reposted by Mike CherepkoCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Seriously I'm seeing people be all "haha he's a 12 year old boy" when he mentioned the Arch with the Snipers but for some reason no one seems to do the math this way. Whether or not he builds the arch, he's telling you he's not leaving and he's gonna ask the military to protect him in the WH 26875199
Reposted by Mike Cherepkorev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/09/2026anyway i put a FOIA request for all emails related to the DHS slop poster that provoked the Wyoming stabbing of a Sikh driver, mostly to get the name of the little Nazi responsible 52949
Reposted by Mike CherepkoAdrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 19/09/202672 apartments, no parking, in Colonia Escandon downsized to 23 units, 25 parking spaces. The city government and Mexican urban academia love talking about land value capture mechanisms, but hate apartment buildings more. 2264
Reposted by Mike Cherepkojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026remembering when a certain pundit challenged my “the administration is ideologically opposed to clean energy for gender reasons” with “i think they just want cheap energy” 583462464
Reposted by Mike CherepkoTim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Private carting and construction trucks are a giant safety risk to pedestrians and bikers and should be limited to driving no more than 5 mph in New York City. These are “when” not “if” crashes www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/n...nytimes.com15-Year-Old Girl Killed After Being Hit by Truck in Manhattan (Gift Article)Two girls were on the bicycle when it was struck by a large truck attempting to turn on 1st Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan. The other girl, 13, was in stable condition. 14911
Reposted by Mike CherepkoAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 19/09/2026i don't bike, i walk, but it is similarly a pleasant part of my day 3532
Reposted by Mike Cherepkorev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026the thing about international humanitarian law is that it is expressly ex post facto law developed to murder the morally guilty in the face of a positive law which would have exculpated every Nazi 31195
Reposted by Mike CherepkoScout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026More adults have made youth sports their entire personality in the last 10 years than any child in history. Why don't you go break up a game of hide and seek while you're at it, you fuckin' losers. 322538460
Reposted by Mike CherepkoMark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Private fliers pollute 14x more than commercial Only the world's richest 0.003% flies private, and half of those flights are for fun. Private flight is 16% of FAA operations, but contributes less than 0.6% of the taxes financing the FAA. New report from @ips-dc.org ips-dc.org/report-high-...ips-dc.orgHigh Flyers 2026: The High Cost of Private Jet Excess - Institute for Policy StudiesHigh Flyers 2026: The High Cost of Private Jet Excess 23616
Reposted by Mike CherepkoUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I think it’s telling that the most powerful remnants of Woke 1 or whatever is the one that happens to let drivers of all backgrounds off the hook for reckless driving. Decarceration/ depolicing etc as policy had staying power essentially nowhere else lol 3807
Reposted by Mike CherepkoJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them. 401998531
Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Of all of Mexico’s brilliant ideas, I think celebrating Independence Day mostly the night before like NYE may be the best. I was out so late last night but today was calm recovery. 020
Reposted by Mike CherepkoMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:thehandbasket.coRepublicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problemA spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same. 10282582701
Reposted by Mike CherepkoSam @samd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026the fact that the NTSB is conducting a federal safety investigation of the helicopter crash, but nobody is going to do anything about the original deadly car crash, really shows just how few fucks our country gives about every day traffic violence that kills 40k people every year 1142770
Reposted by Mike Cherepkoryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026yeah I very much not handing it to him, just noting that a fairly influential movement conservative guy is saying straight up that the right has been captured by Satan bsky.app/profile/acco... 5402
Reposted by Mike CherepkoSteve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 16/09/2026The real feng-shui problem: these trees have to be planted in front of front doors because Bensonhurst is full of ILLEGAL CURB CUTS and FAKE DRIVEWAYS. it's always the cars. 2395
Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just saw a Mr Brightside/Tú Y Yo Somos Un Mismo mashup live at a free concert in Mexico City for Independence Day 🇲🇽😁🇲🇽 010
Reposted by Mike CherepkoDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Correct me if I'm wrong, but letting a building go to seed and then swooping in to "save" it with a rebuild is sort of an old developer trick, isn't it? 834960
Reposted by Mike CherepkoMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026How fast does government run? That’s up to you. This November, there will be 5 questions on your ballot aimed at making government work more efficiently for New Yorkers. Make sure your voice is heard. Register to vote by October 24th. Learn more about the ballot props by heading to nyc.gov/fast. 17280711936
Reposted by Mike Cherepkomtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026if you ever wonder how Americans became the richest major country on the planet but most of us still feel so poor, looking at what we spend on cars — not just directly but in tax money for infrastructure and space in the built environment — is the answer. 644491
Reposted by Mike Cherepkolatinometrics @latinometrics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026MEXICO | US Secretary of State Rubio warns the US may take unilateral action against cartels, claiming they control vast territories. (Mexico News Daily) 001
Reposted by Mike CherepkoGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...prospect.orgImmigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American ProspectAhmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons. 718091132
Reposted by Mike CherepkoLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 11/09/2026As someone who lived in NYC on 9/11 I just have to say this idea of a "post-9/11 unity" is insane to me. It did not feel like a country that had *always* despised its largest city was "uniting" with us in our trauma. It felt like a nation of vultures descending on a carcass. 323047
Reposted by Mike Cherepkomtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026All I ask is for political journalists to get merely as angry about this as they did when Obama tried to move Fox News's seat to the second row in the WH briefing room. 2877144
Reposted by Mike CherepkoDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Empty seats on both sides of me as I hear the president insist that the American Airlines Center is full and there are thousands of people outside. Nothing new to say, just... wow, 11 years of this, huh 311470221
Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Agnes and I went to Staten Island to celebrate 25 years of our friendship and they made this nice view on our way home. 041
Reposted by Mike CherepkoJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 09/09/2026BREAKING (AP) — President Trump is banning dairy products, most alcoholic beverages, and motorcycles from Canada as it escalates its trade war. It comes as Canada’s tariffs on $20 billion in US imports take effect in response to Trump’s previous round of tariffs. 182
Reposted by Mike CherepkoBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The post-9/11 lionization of Giuliani rings hollow for many of us who lived and worked in lower Manhattan that day. He and his staff (along with Bush's EPA) frequently reassured us that the air quality was fine. It wasn't, as was apparent to anyone who was there on 9/11 and the weeks thereafter. 1/ 531466324
Mike Cherepko @mikecherepko.bsky.social · 07/09/2026My teeth seem to move so much. Maybe I should get braces again. I would look so youthful with braces 😬 000
Reposted by Mike Cherepkolatinometrics @latinometrics.bsky.social · 05/09/2026MEXICO | Mexico ranks fourth globally in tourism GDP with $149.4B in 2025, the only Latin American nation in the top 10. (Mexico News Daily) 011
