I always wished I was a better photographer; so when I capture something I like, I’m keen to share it. This is a view of Harlem, as seen from the MTA platform on East 125th St.

Tonight’s weather in upper Manhattan: One of those perfectly crisp, yet cozy, late winter nights that makes it all but certain that at least 6 loud dudes scattered throughout the neighborhood are thinking about and/or in the process of asking (shouting), “Why should we wait til fucking March 17?!?”

Can anyone explain how this is not a quid-pro-quo bribe? Especially since US law demanded the transfer of TikTok’s US operations as the one way to avoid a ban. Big donors to the president got the company as the govt forced the sale, and he gets $10 billion. If not a bribe, why so bribe-shaped?

If I ever get to produce a film during my lifetime for some reason, I’m going to hire Alex Zhang Hungtai (fka Dirty Beaches) to score it. Dude is a mood master.

As a millennial between permanent opportunities (for the love of Gd if you have any leads in the journalism, library, archive or anything world, let me know), it was nice hearing this from Ted Danson and his soothing voice.

Pete Hegseth, the dumbass who leaked Signal chats about a military operation against a different radical Shia military to a reporter, is now spending his time posturing for friendly media & bragging about committing war crimes (prob because he heard that one Led Zep song). It doesn’t get stupider.

Billy Ocean and Danny DeVito in a band. Amazing. bsky.app/profile/vhsv...

“We did old-fashioned shoe-leather-type stuff that I haven’t seen done in many a year,” Marilyn Thompson told MS NOW. So proud of Marilyn, who is breaking huge stories from her home state’s local paper. substack.com/app-link/pos...

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

Trump has always been a eugenicist, obsessed with "good" and "bad" genes, but the media largely ignores or sanewashes it.

Some rare good news:

Sincere thanks to Adam!: over the last year I am leaning a bit more from original writing to sharing the research of people who have invested years in understanding the underlying mechanisms of specific parts of government. This is a great example. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

This is the pentagon press corp now: hand picked propagandists

A criminally underheard solo track by Zack de la Rocha, produced by El-P. Just so fucking raw and as good as any Rage song

This catholic priest was murdered by a Tank Lebanon - trying to aid people injured in a house under attack - they saw him go in to tend to the wounded and murdered then all in cold blood - www.ncronline.org/news/lebanes...

Shame on Senator Tuberville: Keep New York City out of your bigoted mouth. This Jewish New Yorker is proud that we elected our first Muslim mayor. (2/2)

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

An active shooter at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. "Early information from people in the area is that a driver pulled onto the sidewalk and crashed into the building, at Entrance 5." www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio...

I’ll also never get over the fact that these rightwing shitheels somehow managed to steal the word “based”—essentially coined by Lil B to mean being unapologetically positive and yourself—and make it some ghoulish online conformist shit. Look at how great this video is; MAGA was never “based.”

Just brought my guitar to Brothers Guitar Shop for a setup; if you’re near the Upper East Side/Yorkville and play an instrument (or just like music stores), I’d recommend stopping in. The dudes that run it are super great, and they have a shitload of cool guitars and gear—and this EVH bench.

Also, ‘Primal’ might be the best show on television right now. I know not everybody will be into an anachronistic prehistoric fantasy epic with no dialog, but it’s just so well done.

Will never not astound me that the U.S. bought the entirety of Alaska for $137 million in 2026 USD and it was known as “Seward’s Folly.” Like how is that not the best deal in history, arguably?

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

I wrote this a decade ago after traveling to Bahrain while investigating the U.S. Navy's aging minesweeping systems, which had fallen into disrepair: "One potential nightmare scenario: A few mines in the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East could shut down the key shipping channel for days or weeks"

This Girl Scout troop set up shop close by to me, two doors down from the lone dispensary. These girls have fantastic business acumen.

The area right outside of Gracie Mansion on the walkway is rarely closed off, especially on what is essentially a spring evening. Goes to show how much those schmucks with the IEDs have rattled this neighborhood.

🎁 link THIS, times 1000 👇 “Keeping Israel at war with Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah enables Netanyahu to drag out his corruption trial and avoid a commission of inquiry for his failure to prevent Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion. (If you think that is too cynical, you don’t know Netanyahu.)”

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

Thought I would have gotten used to it by now, but I’m still grappling with the realization of just how stupid the men running this country are.

Anybody else miss when voice actors weren’t just celebrities and were masters of their craft? Nobody wants to hear Benny Safdie voice Bowser Jr.

It’s a gorgeous day in the city

every single Democrat should be willing to run of this and if they aren't they should not be a Democrat bsky.app/profile/bill...

The redacted artists are in the Epstein Files, I assume

As I was covering a news item involving a bomb squad shutting down parts of East End Ave. this weekend, I was of course listening to some of the songs produced by the legendary producers, The Bomb Squad. Here are a few choice tracks (🧵):

Good headline, interesting (and maddening) article. The fact that rightwing Israeli politicians fan the flames of apocalyptic Christian nutjobs infuriates me as an American Jew. Merchants of death egging on a death cult.

whatever the impact of the Iran War is on the safety of Jews is Israel, it is pretty clearly at least short-term bad news for the safety of diaspora Jewry

Too many conservative politicians and pundits have never been punched in the face, and it shows.

Hopefully, there will be more articles written as follow-ups to when CEOs lie about laying off workers by claiming AI is replacing them. The news media needs to stop doing stenography and free PR work for tech CEOs.

They are murdering civilians on the high seas. They are murdering civilians in 🇮🇷. They are murdering civilians in concentration camps. They are murdering civilians on the streets of 🇺🇸 cities. These are not problems that can be fixed with new laws or more court orders. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I miss Charles Blow, he had some bangers. “Magic underwear” will always be a favorite.

boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

I will always appreciate Stavros calling ‘Uncut Gems’ “Jewish ‘Training Day.’” Fantastic goyish observation.

Just ask them to define who “white people” are and what their “white culture” is, and watch chaos and infighting erupt. Don’t even give these dumb racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic fucks any oxygen