Froma Harrop

@mwolfers Same here

@FromaHarrop ...or like a male basketball player complete with severe short fade haircut and tattoos. When I'm watching a talk show I examine the footwear of entering female guests and imagine how happy podiatrists are to see future patients. 2/2

There are a lot of lonely women.

I can't believe the number of errors in a single essay. 1. Boston does not have city-wide free buses. It has three lines for which service has deteriorated. It was only possible because of Covid stimulus funding which will run out next month. 2. Kansas City's free busing program ended last year. It had become a homeless shelter and crime on passengers & vandalism went up. Neither are a good comp for the 440 million daily bus riders of NYC. 3. NYC's pilot program - limited to five bus lines, none in central Manhattan - saw ZERO increase in new ridership despite Almanza's claim that it incentivized car-owners to take the bus. According to the MTA, the program cost $16.5 million and "service performance had mixed results." 4. Almanza cites Washington State from 1994 to prove that free busing "will cost nothing." That limited program - which was only recommended for small transit areas - ended in 2012 after losing an annual $2.2 million. Mamdani's free bus plan will cost upwards of $700 million. 5. There is obvious conflation between turnstile hopping and bus fare evasion. Almanza says that prosecutors spend too much on fare evasions and therefore, making buses free will free up their time in effect. But fare evasion on buses is inconsistent and mostly enforced with a civil fine. 6. She says "precious resources had been spent arresting... all for a few dollars." Yes, one fare evader is a few dollars, many fare evaders lost the city $1 billion in 2024. 7. Almanza cites a case from Sept. 2024 where "officers drew their guns to shoot a fare beater." She fails to mention that the officers were actually pursuing a man with a knife and the cops asked him to drop the knife 30 times before he was shot. 8. Almanza cites the incorrect statistic that assaults on drivers decreased by 39% on free buses. First, in Kansas City they while assaults were down on drivers they were up on everyone else riding the bus. But two, that percentage comes from the extremely limited NYC pilot program and does not differentiate between verbal and physical assault. Moreover, according to the cross-tab data of the five lines, driver assaults did go up on the Q4 line, making any assertion of a definitive trend at least somewhat suspect. The increases and decreases are single digits of non-differentiated data in a limited and short experiment - nothing even remotely plausible to make a citywide claim based on. @nytimes @nytopinion

So the extent of Sam Harris's "connection" with Epstein is that Epstein invited him to dinner with Chomsky (& Woody Allen) and Harris blew him off. The dishonesty is off the charts.

Pay attention to the distractions. Greenland. Immigration theater. Gruesome headlines designed to dominate the cycle. None of it is random. The real gravity is elsewhere — the Epstein files — and the procedural games keeping them buried. Politics today isn’t just policy; it’s misdirection. Keep the outrage machine humming, and the uncomfortable questions stay off the front page. If you’re wondering why the noise never stops, that is the strategy.

NEW: @RitchieTorres just posted this on Instagram. Thank you, Rep. Torres.

Mamdani is a disaster in the making, but lay off Rama’s $630 boots. They’re superb.

‘Margaret Chase Smith taking to her feet in the U.S. Senate and telling the truth, knowing the price she’d pay, while the he-men in the chamber ran in terror from Joe McCarthy.’ Same goes for Liz Cheney. wsj.com/opinion/we-cou…

Chris Cuomo: "AOC is the crystallization of this: She's kind of the poster boy of handling this the wrong way. Everything is personal: 'Musk is dumb, Trump is an assh*le'. Like you're talking about someone at a fraternity party."

Trump pushed his 'product' in Christmas movies creators.com/read/froma-har…

‘I’ve tested dozens of towels for Wirecutter, and though many will do a good job of drying you off, none of them have inspired as much love and devotion .. .’ Who says love is dead

Guess the Son of Sam was not available

@realDonaldTrump leads America boldly into decline cedarrapidsgazette-ia.newsmemory.com/?publink=2964d… by @FromaHarrop via @GazetteInsights

Gotta say - Dan Goldman led impeachment hearings on Trump - he's definitely not a folder.

Why this epidemic of creepy Washington smiles? eks.creators.com/read/froma-har…

I don’t believe it is. The flowers will be gone by next week

Exactly!

From a man who’s done almost nothing.

This is exactly right. When Democrats run left-wing candidates in bright red districts, they are counting entirely on anger at Trump to carry them over the finish line. How about running someone who has their own, independent appeal to center-right and center-left voters?