Cold Take Ep. 10: Forbidden Bus Ads, Fifty Buffalo and One Man's $150,000 Statue

Urgent Matter: Cold Take · Jul 27, 2026 · 57m

Adam Schrader and Colton Crews open at the MTA's June board meeting in lower Manhattan, where Orthodox Jewish leaders and a transit union officer asked the authority to pull Museum of Sex ads off the fronts of city buses. Chair and chief executive Janno Lieber told them the agency has First Amendment obligations that prevent it from becoming the censor of all the ads. Adam pulls the ads up on screen — most are the museum's name in block type — and revisits his own 2024 reporting on artist Julia Sinelnikova, who sued the museum over a photograph used in an earlier campaign. The two work…