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Oh When Toussaint Goes Marching In
Transit union leader Roger Toussaint reports to the Tombs this afternoon to being serving his 10-day sentence for leading the three-day strike against the MTA in December in violation of the state's Taylor Law. The News prints an exclusive! interview with Toussaint today, conducted on the eve of his incarceration, in which he talks about what a challenge this will be, especially for his family. More » -
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And Their Fate Is Still Unlearned
Yeah, the strike was messy and inconvenient and unpleasant, but it least it finally made a deal happen on all those employment issues. What? Oh, right. More »
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By JesseComment by Chris Mohney: Could this be the first ever Kingston Trio reference on Gawker? more » | Other threads
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BREAKING: TWU Union Still Considering Making Your Life Hell
This piece of original photojournalism conveys the intensity of the situation, no?
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Spikes To You, Mr. Toussaint
How much did that transit strike suck? More than I would know but let's pop open any remaining sores you may have on your feet and sand them over with some Morton's saltpaper. Turns out the Transport Workers Union Local 100 fared very well in the final settlement and no amount of bitchin' or fist-shakin' or Craigslist postin' can change it now. When it pains, it roars. More » -
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MTA Contract: All Over But the Votin'
The strike is long done, of course. And now there's even a contract, too. The transit union's executive board approved it last night by a huge margin; the membership is expected to do likewise. More » -
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But By the Content of Their Thuggery
So Bloomberg's been getting crap for saying during the transit strike that union leaders were behaving "thuggishly." But perhaps no more. Reports today's Newsday: More »
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By JesseComment by Valerie Flame: hi, can we please get back on topic? And that topic is RACISM. more » | Other threads
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Remainders: During the Strike, Styles Section Fails Us All
• We're glad the strike is over for myriad reasons, not the least of which is sparing us from thoughtless, insipid articles about how poorly we dressed just to stay warm. We're sure it was easy to pen crap like that from the comfort of your town car — did Daddy get you that job at the Styles desk? [NYT] More » -
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By JesseComment by Worker #3116: Man, what happened to Forest Whitaker? Did he drink a glass of Scott Speedman anti-career potion? more » | Other threads
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Media Bubble: Whither 'amNew York'?
• The strike's overlooked victims: Those freebie papers you don't really want to read but grab anyway when the dude shoves them at on your way into the subway station. [NYP] More » -
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Transit Strike Paves Way for Lunchtime Sumo
Yesterday we pointed out a bizarrely stupid request from some lunatic proposing that people meet him on the corner of 42nd and 7th today at 12:30 for some good, clean sumo wrestling. We should've known that in a town where there's more fuckwits that there are cockroaches, someone would take this guy up on his offer.
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MTA Strike: Blackface Jesus to the Rescue
Can't understand how the transit workers and the MTA could finally break through their impasse and come to a deal on a new contract? Someone on Craigslist has the answer, naturally: More » -
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Hallelujah! A Christmas Miracle!
It's the most beautiful NYTimes.com headline we've ever seen.
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Gossip Roundup: Roger Toussaint Needs to Eat, Y'know
• While you were limping up and down Broadway and losing digits to hypothermia, rest assured union leader Roger Toussaint was enjoying a leisurely two-hour meal with six cronies at a nice restaurant. Would you be any less livid if we noted the restaurant was in Harlem? Yeah, didn't think so. [Page Six] More »
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By JessicaComment by the earl grey: jessica don't 'tone it down' in the new year, your naughty mouth adds oodles to your already not-inconsiderable charm. xo more » | Other threads
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MTA Strike: OK, Now They're Fucking With Us
Never before had a Times headline made us quite so happy.
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Strike Sex Gets Charitable
It's day three of the world's most goddamned annoying strike on earth, and everyone's beyond exhausted. Not content to let the Red Cross be the sole purveyor of goodwill, the fine folks at Craigslist (your Official Source for Fucked-Up Transit Strike Information©) are doing their part: More »
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By JessicaComment by The Assimilated Negro: if one person has AIDS, we all have AIDS. more » | Other threads
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MTA Strike: Never Mind the Union; Does the 'Times' Have the Resources?
With no fewer than 10 reporters on just one strike story today, the mind can't even fathom how many will be necessary for tomorrow's coverage. If only for the sake of the Metro desk, please, Roger Toussaint, end this madness now. More » -
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Remainders: News Corp's Plushy, Pervy Christmas
• Those News Corp kids sure do know how to throw an incredibly odd Christmas party. Weirdness aside, things were moments of normalcy: after the picture at right was taken, she ended up in the broom closet with dude dressed like a giant beaver-like thing. More »
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By JessicaComment by Coco Schwab: He also went after Jon Stewart on the same episode he went after the New Yorker...using Daily Show clips from... more » | Other threads
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That's what you get for fucking with Grand Central's traffic flow. Pershing Square [NYM]
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The Dulcet Sounds of Racial Harmony
On Craigslist, the transit strike has done wonders to showcase the tolerant, progressive side of both TWU supporters... More » -
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And They Said the Buses Weren't Running
As wandering friend-to-the-bloggers Bucky Turco points out, some mass transit is still thriving: More »
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By JessicaComment by the earl grey: i saw one of those buses wednesday late afternoon on second ave with 'public service' as its destination banner more » | Other threads
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Transit Strike Great for Your Nasty Internet Gambling Habit
New York City businesses forced to deal with another morning of transit strike-stranded staffers will be thrilled to know that yesterday, most of their employees "working from home" were making the most out of their time away from the office (and Websense). According to a sweet little press release we've received: More » -
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In Times of Crisis, You Must Draw a Line
In April of 2003, when techie PR man Peter Shankman bought his Segway, he was an incredible, inscrutable freak. More »
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By JessicaComment by charlie.earp: eat my dust!! ...cue segway getaway music... more » | Other threads
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Remainders: MTA Minutae w/ a Dash of Braunstein
• Peter Braunstein and Robert Downey, Jr: Separated at birth? [A Big Fat Waste of Time] More »
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By JessicaComment by ThisIsNotMyRealName: If David Gest and Peter B ever get together, that might be a sign of the apocalypse. more » | Other threads
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Is Roger Toussaint the Grinch Who Stole Media Christmas?
A horrible thought just occurred to us: What happens to today's Media Christmas parties?! More » -
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The Real Cost of the MTA Strike
As we work from home, we felt that it wasn't right to bitch about the strike beyond our cursory aggregation of rants. But hearts genuinely go out to each and every person who exposed their adorable face to the incredible, blistering cold and dutifuly showed up at the office sporting snot-cicles. You're the strong ones, and we're spoiled pussies. Thus we believed we had no business truly complaining. More » -
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Strikes, and Balls
A blogebrity too shy to publish this on his own site passes along a strike-specific advertising message from a website of which he's apparently a member. (Long ago, he assures us. Accidentally! Just to see! Really!) More » -
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MTA Strike: Investigative Reporting, Craigslist Style
Oddly enough, not everyone on Craigslist today is using it to search for strike sex. Some are using it, instead, to make political points. Like in this terse message, posted late this morning: More »
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By JesseComment by Valerie Flame: I am extremely disappointed in the improper use of homophones on this comments page. and Amen, enrevanche. more » | Other threads
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MTA Strike: Here Come the Souvenirs
The strike started a little after 3 o'clock this morning, and, frankly, we're a little disappointed it took nearly eight hours for the first email to arrive flacked some oh-so-clever transit-strike memorabilia. Here's the first t-shirt you might be interested in:
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Gawker Poll: Life in the Strike Zone
We know today is a sucky one for everybody, but, truth is, it doesn't really affect us at all. (We never leave our houses during the workday, anyway.) But what about you? How's your strike day shaping up? More » -
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TWU Members Give Up on Mastering PA, Turn to Blogging
We've been meaning all morning to take a good look at the TWU's strikeblog — and, more interestingly, the 300-odd kvetchy comments that have been posted so far this morning — but we haven't been able to motivate to sit and read 300-odd kvetchy comments. (Mostly because poking ourselves repeatedly in the eye with a dull pencil sounds more fun.) Yet one more reason to love the Observer's Ben Smith, however, is that he did it for us. Some comments highlights from The Transit Worker, as excepted by The Politicker: More » -
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Shared Cab Rides Not Necessarily Violent
Because non-blogging blog publishers are free to dick around with "real life" all day, Jossip publisher David Hauslaib hit 9th Avenue at 8am to try and hail a cab: More » -
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Scenes From an Intersection: Broadway and 116th
The view down Broadway from 116th Street. More » -
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Iran Permits No Transit Strikes, or Peaceful, Easy Feelings
Days like today remind you of the advantages of living under a totalitarian regime. When no one has the right to free speech, or to assembly, or to association, or to control his own labor, at least the trains always run more or less on time. (In Soviet Moscow, the subways arrived every 90 seconds! Or something like that.) More » -
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Everyman Speaks Out on the MTA Strike
We know you're annoyed at the transit strike, but what, we wonder, do the common, late-night Craigslist trolls think of the situation? More »
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By JessicaComment by CHFDigital: Aidan, you live where the Statue of Liberty is? Cool! ;) more » | Other threads
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When All Else Fails, at Least There's Free Coffee
While it's hard to think of any silver linings today, at there's this. Apparently it's much easier than usual today for Brooklynites to get a free cup of coffee. Two emails we received this morning report amenities for both Heights bobos and 'Burg hipsters: More » -
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Welcome to the Suck: MTA Strike Is On
At about 3 AM last night, the Transportation Workers Union officially began their strike against the MTA, shutting down the city's subways and bus lines and transforming New York from a functioning metropolis to a dripping shitbag of inconvenience. Or, for those of you who don't have to trek into the office: SNOWDAY!
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By JessicaComment by slurred speech: Hey, I survived Strike 2005! I left at 6 a.m. and schleped from the LES to WTC to catch the PATH... more » | Other threads
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