Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Also, this is great, dogged metro reporting. Do it like this. 1423
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The numbers are appalling, but the NYPD's attitude -- at the individual and organizational level -- will not surprise anyone who has ever covered transportation in New York. 58222
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Get in, loser, we're running a gas-and-go on an entire oil field. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... 101
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 06/01/2026"there's a long history that perhaps she [sic] doesn't know" 000
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Such an important point. Politicians tend to get seduced by the deus ex machina -- vaporware nonsense like "hyperloops" and flying cars -- while neglecting the systems that actually exist in the real world, can be improved, and which are already their actual responsibility to maintain and improve. 2239
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Cornered badgers! The Low Road! Someone at the Times-Union editorial board (which eviscerates Cuomo in this piece) reveals an apt familiarity with Hunter Thompson's obit for Richard Nixon. "Badgers don't fight fair, bubba. That's why God made dachshunds." 293
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 21/10/2025even Mr. EatsPants says the rent* is too damn high *mortgage (via @joshuagreen.bsky.social & Eliyahu Kamisher) 000
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Great look at what Gavin Newsom is up to -- tequila therapy, wearing his hat backward, Fortnite with someone called ConnorEatsPants (yes) -- but man, in the year of our lord 2025, if my favorite bottle of wine cost $15,000 I would probably just not tell you that. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... 132
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 02/10/2025I think this is intended to come off as intimidating backroom toughassedness but it reminds me more of Ben Affleck singing "re-tain-er" in the interview scene in Good Will Hunting. 030
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 27/05/2025The saddest part of the trash bag on the sidewalk revanchists is that they are also declaring their ignorance of the most righteous beatdown in 70s cinema. 040
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Andrew Cuomo’s sideline — nuke startup adviser — just bumped a bit further into the money. 010
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 31/03/2025standing up a political committee to call for the secretary of defense to not get fired... 000
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Mitt Romney would agree. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... 030
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 20/01/2025“It’s sort of like, ‘OK, which time were you lying?’” Davos reconvenes and recalibrates principles, preparing for another dance with Trump. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... 072
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 17/01/2025"Yep, that's me." Bezos, ring-kissing, and the eminent flexibility of capital. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... 021
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Rahm Emanuel, teasing the left for not appreciating the Clinton years, doesn't have a lot to say about the evisceration of the industrial midwest and southeast, for some reason. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/o... 000
Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 13/06/2023[squinting hard] Don’t let your fat dog smoke with skaters 010