Interrupted Central Park lap this afternoon when a brief rain blew away and some high-grade sunshine lit up the Bow Bridge. Lookit all them tourists!

Rode by on my bike and stopped to pay homage.

When describing the behavior of our abhorrent regime, you risk running out of bad enough terms in which to describe it. This morning, I read the word #unhinged, describing some something one of these uber-apparatchiks said, and it had almost no effect. Need to start using terms from other languages.

What's going on here?

Someone in New York City likes Modi enough to wish him happy birthday on 4000 screens all the livelong day. I find this puzzling.

Lifted from Owen Jones - you can't say it enough.

Who could've guessed? Modern Freedom Beats Feudal Serfdom newsletter.humanprogress.org/p/modern-fre...

Trump Gives Mindblowing Defense for Far-Right Radicals newrepublic.com/post/200390/... via @newrepublic.com

Verified.

Governor #Hochul appears on board with this. Write to her.

Dept. Of Dry Humor

Department of amusing typos

NoMad Jazz Festival at Madison Square. The Roy Hargrove Big Band

Richest town in one of the richest counties in America. No local newspaper. #flocksafety #surveillance

Some days it's fun checking your spam. Kudos to the bots. #spam

Today's idiot ad in my email. Gothamist.com It's public radio, so whatever they gotta do to generate revenue is OK by me, but goddam. PS did not click #wnyc #dumbshit

Happy Amadou Bamba day. A splendid thing to watch!

Justice Brandeis supposedly referred to the states as "laboratories of democracy". What happens when it becomes a crime to call out genocide by its proper name. New Jersey

Banality of evil

How about a tag-team match say, Jesus, Muhammad, Moses, and Ašur (if not limited to monotheism). I'd buy pay-per-view.

Somebody please show this to Senator #gillibrand and other Dem pols? Quit being a #useful_idiot for #stephen_miller? Also, somebody please show this to Member #mamdani? I mean, what matters? shibboleth ping-pong, or progressives taking and retaining power? Talking about #NYC, not Tel Aviv.

A long, deep read this. I read it as the idk-what-kind trees outside my window shed their leaves in late June from what I take to be the stress of an amazingly hot last week.

Oh yeah. #mamdani is only 33 years old. Quick: guess how old Thomas #jefferson was in 1776.

Shamelessly browsing my own earlier reposts and will shamelessly re-repost.

What does "intifada" mean? It's Arabic. I don't speak Arabic. But I can google. Consider all the groups claiming to own the word, from Dem Natl Cmte to MAGA to Yisrael Beitenu. *** Deep breath *** Now check some other MAGA-beshitted words, like "resist" and "woke". #mamdani

What's all this I keep hearing about Trump bombing Bordeaux? Oh wait, it was Fordow? Never mind.

Ain't heard much from ol' Bill lately. You might think he'd have a thing or two to say about the current and would-be forever occupant of the Whitehouse; but no, he's got the time and chutzpah to shill for Cuomo. Not a surprise, but yecchh.

I don't often agree with Yglesias, but in this case - barring point 14, where he finds a way to blame Iran and Palestinians for Gaza genocide, yeah.

A bit of historical context

Unless I'm wrong, article I of the US Constitution says that only Congress can declare war. What do I know?

MAGA's best and brightest

Trump’s Useful Idiots open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

Some quotes are too good to cut on.ft.com/4jkssZ0

A Spaniard in the Works

I woke to this and my blood, as they say, ran cold.

Truer than you might think: Church and State are discussing a merger and the FTC is 2 thumbs up; that is, if anybody still works there.

Team Penske Penalty in Indy500 Qualifying: My conversation with Duck-ai/gpt-40 mini #Penske #indycar #indy500

Walking mugshot

Common Raven on Morningside Ave. #birds