Awww, man. You guys are lucky that the MTA enticed him away from Toronto. While our problems don’t sound quite as bad, he was a godsend here. He was actually able to overcome political inertia, and years of neglect, to get things back on track (joke unintended) for our whole transit system.

Andy Byford was doing a good job, until Cuomo stabbed him in the back and climbed over the corpse to screw everything up.

Farebeating is a problem! But sending a reporter to the subway to harass a bunch of teenagers is...not the way to solve it!

So if $215,000,000 would help so much what the hell are they doing with the $5,375,000,000?

Fare beating 100% is not the root cause. 

That extra $215 million doesn’t exist and it never will. The vast majority of people who jump turnstiles or sneak in through emergency exits either won’t or can’t afford to pay either way.

The MTA board can suck it as far as I am concerned, but I trust the opinion of Andy Byford when he says it’s a problem that has exploded. He’s the best MTA chief we have had in a while.

Wow. That woman’s elegance never ceases to amaze me.

Yalitza Aparicio also wore this, which is my favorite.

This is weird. The above looks are not all of the final red carpet ones.

The first indentured servants from Africa landed on our shores in Old Point Comfort what we call now Fort Monroe

Yeah, it’s one of those moments where you run into the limits of interviewing, because the distinction between indentured servitude and chattel slavery as practiced by the South really requires a semester-long history class to fully understand.

But she completely fucked up her opportunity there. Indentured Servitude is not “Also known as slavery’ as Gayle King suggested. Indentured Servitude is completely different than slavery. I wished she had properly called him out and instead she gave him an out by letting him respond to that with a “yeah” AND she gave…

Because schools in the South teach different version of history than the rest of the country. Even the good schools. My husband grew up down there and tells me they teach all sorts of revisionist crap to make themselves feel better about their past. Just like they have for decades tried to change the perception of the…

Because Gayle King. She got a good jab in (“slavery”), but she couldn’t interview out if a wet paper bag. I have never and still don’t know why the let her do more than the weather. That video if him considering doing the moonwalk in that press conference was RIDICULOUS. But Gayle let it digress to the tropes of …

Not to be argumentative but I think the Catholic Church is far from having “root[ed] it out.” I think they still have a lot of guilty parties, active or not, among the ranks. But, yeah, I agree about the record-keeping. Hadn’t even considered that.

His obfuscation of the truth goes much deeper: “The first indentured servants from Africa landed on our shores in Old Point Comfort what we call now Fort Monroe...” they weren’t indentured servants when they landed. They were teachers and healers and merchants and artists... The people kidnapped from Africa weren’t…

In case you missed it, he’s mirroring her reactions when caught saying something shitty.

Obligatory:

“GAYLE KING: Also known as slavery.”