#£2.90

[hozion]

[nando161mando]

Fuck your 2.90$

Free and accessible public transit for all.

[thoughtlessarse]

Last Sunday, an officer of the New York Police Department (NYPD) opened fire inside the Sutter Avenue subway station in Brooklyn over a $2.90 fare evasion. He shot and injured four people, including an NYPD officer. New York City Mayor and former cop Eric Adams promptly lauded the officers for their “bravery” in a post on X, proudly supporting the criminalization of impoverished communities of color in the city. At no point did Adams acknowledge that the injured NYPD officer in question was shot by his own colleague, deliberately implying that it was the passenger who was the culprit. Police have accused Derrell Mickles, 37, of evading the fare and wielding a pocket knife after they tased him. However, the police later admitted that they confiscated a knife belonging to another passenger and have no evidence that Mickles was holding a knife. In a further display of contempt, Mickles’s mother has revealed that she was not informed that her son was in critical condition, with the NYPD only dropping a business card at her doorstep. The police department has killed 23 people in New York in 2024 alone, 10 of whom are Black. Nationwide, 229 Black lives have been lost to police brutality this year. Black lives continue to be treated as expendable in this racist and capitalist system, but are simultaneously portrayed as disruptors of public safety. Two dollars and ninety cents is all it took for the NYPD to open fire inside a subway station, endangering the lives of commuters. We condemn this heinous attack on poverty by the NYPD and stand in solidarity with Derrell Mickles and the two civilians injured last Sunday. The categorization of subway fare non-payment as a crime is nothing more than a symptom of the decades-long defunding of public services and the over-funding of police in New York City. The NYPD has spent over $600 million in overtime pay and over $500 million in misconduct settlements as of January 2024. On the other hand, the city’s public higher education system, City University of New York (CUNY), continues to operate with millions of dollars in debt. This has led to austerity measures and rising tuition costs for a largely low-income Black and Brown student body. Meanwhile, supposedly liberal commentators claim that it’s “obvious” that the subway needs even more police.

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[gigginox]

i love public transportation its my friend (eye twitching red w anger gripping my leg hard enough it starts to bleed)

[patronsaint-prometheus]

If frots are the side I need tribbing as the main dish amen hallelujah.

[maelwife]

The good news is if I can’t afford to repay my student loans there Is always laying down on the train tracks and that would only cost $2.75

[hozion]

[aiiaiiiyo]

[dedibelyegei]

Irány Észak! Finnország a következő állomás, egy '91-es kéttagú sorozattal, melynek Európai Világűr volt a fantázianeve, és a közös európai űrprogramokra hivatott felhívni a figyelmet. Egy Tarja Salonen nevű finn hölgy tervezte őket, ez nagyobb értékű, a másik 2,10 finn márkás. Abból kétszer annyi készült, mint ebb��l itt a képen, a design hasonló, Európa térkép csak zöldben, a műholdak, és parabolák helyett, pedig RÖNTGENEMBEREK és űrhajósok vannak rajta, meg minden olyan vörös, szerintem amúgy ez a fenti jobban néz ki összességében.

A kisebb értékből hatmillót, a nagyobból hárommilliót nyomtak, előbbit már 50-100 forintért be lehet szerezni, ez ami nekem van olyan 200 forint körül megy használtan, de ez postatiszta 400-500-at is tudhat.

[aydascomprehendsubtext]

Fuck the mta fuck the rent guidelines board and fuck this city that doesn't want me to live here. Gonna live here harder now just out of spite you motherfuckers

[kingofbr00klyn]

The British urge to rant about how good M&S luxury gold tea bags are

[curiously-questing]

this but 2 dollars instead (i'm unemployed)

spending 20 dollars is easy but once you do it 5 times uh oh

[ohello0]

ERIC ADAMS INDICTED

[rocknrolllstarrx]

I don't mean to ignore the tragedies of this world. It's just everyday there is something so horrifying and I don't know how to react anymore.

[erikahenningsen]

We simply must stop the fare evasion to purge pipeline

Spending $150 MILLION to chase down $104K is a wicked level of class warfare.

Just letting fare jumpers go would save hundreds of millions. #ACAB