Congestion pricing is in effect in New York City, and no one in the city is more upset about it than the New York City media industrial complex led by the lead shit-stirrer, the New York Post.
In this episode, I discuss the media’s long history of fighting progressive transit policies and my role as a foot soldier of the press in biased fights against policies like bus lanes on Woodhaven Boulevard in Queens.
I explain why progressives need to be ready for the hurdles ahead if they hope to keep the policy from being repealed by a future Republican governor and why I doubt progressives understand what they’re up against.
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My former colleague Ross Barkan, on the power of The New York Post, echoed similar points that I made last spring. He expands on it, diving deeper into how other media outlets allowed the Post to become the dominant voice in town.
My good friend Dhaaruni Sreenivas joined the Brogressive Podcast with Max Levin and Ben Bartlett to discuss her role as a delegate in the DNC chair race. She made some interesting points about gender politics and how men who feel isolated from women due to #MeToo can, well, get over it.
Matt Yglesias hosts Cartoons Hate Her, who offers a reality check to Gen Z about a heralded time before they were born and asks something I’ve been asking myself recently as I have developed some nostalgia for my childhood. Were the 1990s really that great?
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