The level of service we get from the largest, most expensive police force in the US:

.Shekar Krishnan -- Parks chair whose district is close to Willets Point -- votes against the new soccer stadium deal.

“This is a bad deal for New York City. And this is a terrible precedent for land use,' he says in statement.

Parents: Measles cases are rising due to a decline in vaccination rates around the world. If you will be traveling this spring or summer, especially to other countries, make sure your child has had both doses of the measles vaccine.

NEW: Samantha Power, the director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, told Congress on Wednesday that famine has begun in northern Gaza, which has been devastated by six months of Israeli military operations including a near-total blockade.

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Four years ago, we had a very bad president. We also had a broadly unanimous global agreement that Covid was bad and we should try to stop it. I could count on most of the people in my life to take precautions and care about not getting me sick.
It is significantly harder now.

“I know I’m gonna finish school. I think I’m gonna get better. And with all the research that’s gonna come out, hopefully something will help me more than anything else.”

“We have a lot of hope,” he said. #LongCovid people.com/boy-12-struggl…

STAT News: '$10 billion long Covid ‘moonshot’ is being floated by Bernie Sanders'

'Sanders’ proposal echoes what patient-advocates have been calling for since the beginning of the pandemic, a demand that has only become more forceful with time..'

statnews.com/2024/04/11/san…

The Willoughby Avenue open street is facing a cut that will halve the car-free hours. Organizers are outraged and have started a petition: nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/04/11/dot…

Democrats keep posing this question and getting inundated by replies from people saying no, they are not better off than April 2020 and “More than a million Americans can’t answer this question because they are dead and 80+% of them died under Biden”

Sure, I appreciate that the person in charge isn't telling me to drink bleach. But back in 2020 there was actually hope that the world would work together to end the pandemic, rather than giving up prematurely and ignoring millions of people who continue to suffer from COVID.

It's bananas that Apple has us buying a new thousand dollar phone every few years. I got my old phone in September 2021. I was trying to hold onto it until I paid it off but it became unusable. Literally would not charge. I went into the AT&T store and they looked at me like I…

'more than half of older adults still spend more time at home and less time socializing in public spaces than they did pre-pandemic, according to new...research. Participants cited fear of infection and 'more uncomfortable and hostile' social dynamics...'

news-medical.net/news/20240410/…

In 1880, the avg married couple combined for ~68 hours of paid labor each week.

By 1965, after massive tech and social changes, the avg married couple workweek was ... 67 hours.

In 2003? 67 hours.

In 2020? 67 hours.

My essay on wtf is going on —>

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DC is much like NYC in that almost every competitive election is decided in the Democratic primary. Regardless of your partisan preferences, you register as a Democrat if you want to have a say.

Drive-thrus obviously aren't single-handedly responsible for car dependence, but they are its logical culmination. They amplify the suck. As Charles Marohn put it in one of my favorite quotes ever, “the drive-through just kicks you in the nuts'

vox.com/the-highlight/…

COVID-19 shatters decades of global health progress, slashing life expectancy news-medical.net/news/20240407/…

COVID deaths: more than 10 million children lost a parent or carer nature.com/articles/d4158…

Bird flu has been detected in some birds found in New York City parks and green spaces.

Health officials are growing more concerned about the disease and warn New Yorkers to keep their distance from wildlife. cbsnews.com/newyork/news/b…

A mysterious condition known as POTS tends to strike suddenly, leaving previously healthy people unable to function, with no clear cause. Recent studies suggest 2 to 14 percent of people infected with the coronavirus may go on to develop POTS. wapo.st/3TVnNlO

NYC's new right-to-shelter settlement limits stays for migrants -- as some immigration advocates have criticized.

But it also required all migrant shelters to meet certain minimum standards by Mon, like having beds.

And the city has failed to meet that deadline.