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Like, you could slide Beautiful Stranger in here without batting an eye

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And not just the sample

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Troye Sivan's new album feels very Music-era Madonna (complementary)

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Siri has somehow gotten worse?

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The best defense is a good offense but the offense isn't good, a conundrum

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Ronan's unfinished autobiography

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[[Dulles Airport logs into the chat]]

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The budget for the construction of the Empire State Complex in Albany circa 1969. Was already a $600m (again, in 1969 dollars) project.

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The edits by felt pen on the transparency used for the M1 intro brochure that got handed out.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17h

The Confessions II era revival of “clearance”

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Ronan's recitation on rescuing the railroads, creating the MTA and battling Robert Moses runs about ~600 pages

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17h

Bill Ronan walked in the Albany cold, the morning after New Year's Eve, in the moments after early morning coffee and the moments before Nelson Rockefeller's inauguration. Rocky was to be governor. And Bill Ronan had a hangover only cured by the knifing wind up Washington Ave in January.

Ronan's unpublished and unfinished autobiography

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17h

That's about one hour per 25 pages of book.

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Yea, the lack of electrification accounts for a big chunk of that. The clearances aren't a big issue either, fwiw. Anything with about 16" between top of train and bottom of structure works. Tho, it feels like the usual suspects have come up with a new FUD for not putting in catenary.

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m~o~m~e~n~t~u~m he whispered quietly as if in a dream

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[[the crowd chants]] Mon-o-rail, mon-o-rail

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Gotta savior life, and the best way to do that is at 79 and with diesel fumes

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IMO another reason to slow down, who needs to go fast in old age

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Our national commitment to remembering nothing is truly incredible

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 09/10/2026

Michael Milken, to the white courtesy phone

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Reposted by Nolan Hicks

The typical project currently awaiting federal transit capital funding faces: —15 months (or more!) in delays to actually getting a signed agreement from the federal government —an 18% increase in cost as the delays mount Track all transit projects nationwide seeking federal funding:

thetransportpolitic.com

US Federal Project Tracker | Open Lines | The Transport Politic

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Aaron C. Davis @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think the Marist figures on Trump’s approval among suburban men squares this circle

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George Kollitides, the behind-the scenes Pentagon powerbroker close to deputy defense secretary Steve Feinberg left Alvarez & Marsal Capital last week after ProPublica started looking into the deals. Read my first story for ProPublica! www.propublica.org/article/geor...

propublica.org

The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official

The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...

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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Hardy Boys and The Mystery of the Fixed Plant Costs

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Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...

nytimes.com

Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money

A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.

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Reposted by Nolan Hicks

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/10/2026

A trio of debates in key Senate races on Thursday night underscored how fraught the midterms have become, as candidates in Maine, Michigan and Georgia traded personal and heated attacks.

nyti.ms

Fiery Senate Debates in Maine, Michigan and Georgia: Five Takeaways

Candidates in three of the races that could determine control of the Senate engaged in bitter and personal attacks.

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You’d also never say in Manhattan, you’d just give the nabe

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In Marble Hill, in Manhattan, on a directionally relevant piece of Manhattan, in a Manhattan neighborhood that doesn’t have a directionally relevant name. [on the west side, in battery city, in Manhattan; in Brooklyn, on Long Island]

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