The success of @pablo.show and @minakimes.bsky.social are the two of brightest spots in broadcast media for me right now. Just extraordinary talents, fantastic people who’ve been true to themselves and carved a path. Media is laughably far from a meritocracy so it’s great to see deserved success.

Nyc.gov/summer is a map of free and affordable things to do this summer that we made just for you. Because public programs mean nothing if you don't know how to access them.

As of a couple of weeks ago, no US Senator had lost reelection in a primary since 2012. Now GOP voters have ousted two senators over 10 days: Cassidy in Louisiana, and Cornyn in Texas.

Fantastic conference later this week in honor of Andrew Gelman @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social gelman60.com/schedule

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Joe Dator and Kevin Maher.

WEMBY FROM THE LOGO TO END THE HALF!!!!!

Colbert unrestricted is going to be amazing

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Here is Jason’s essay about being the first active player in one of the four major men’s U.S. sports to come out as gay. What an absolute hero who will never be forgotten: www.si.com/more-sports/...

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

some really, really exciting news. we're hiring a two-year reporting fellow to cover higher ed in NYC but especially CUNY!! come work with me and dive into an amazing, complicated and under-covered beat

The Great Crime Decline: Homicides just hit their lowest level since 1900. The decline over the past 3 years is the fastest 3-year decline since records began. The federal stimulus during Covid may help explain why. open.substack.com/pub/briefing...

As venues are struggling to sell tickets, I bet they appreciate the "hope no one gets blown up in the parking lot" message.

Pope Leo XIV gifted Marco Rubio a plant of peace. In return, Marco Rubio gave the pope a crystal football. The pope’s response? “Wow. Okay.”

Carlos Correa's season is over - www.nytimes.com/athletic/725...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Coming to a screen near you this Monday... #NBA

For too long, City government has stood idly by while homeowners fall victim to criminal deed theft. Those days are over. We're creating the City's first Office of Deed Theft Prevention. If you think you or someone you know may be a victim of deed theft, visit nyc.gov/deedfraud. @chiosse.bsky.social

I write about people who became famous for saying and doing horrible things so I routinely get asked this question. "Did they really believe it?" Look, I get the curiosity, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what's in their hearts. They put evil into the world.

Wemby: “I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions.” This is amazing.

For today's @nygroove.nyc, I wrote about the long and ever-changing history of Park Avenue, and how you can get involved actually bringing the "park" back nygroove.nyc/park-avenue-...

This was, in all seriousness, the point of the Harper’s Letter

A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

The four kinds of NYC mayor.

Mike Miles was moonlighting: earning $190,000 over the past three years as a consultant for Third Future Schools (TFS), the Colorado-based charter school network he founded and previously led. This likely violated state law.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

For people who like airline food but don't want to fly?

Epistemological crisis is a lot to take before 6am.

The Hitchcock Center for the Environment and the National Yiddish Book Center are also independent and are expected to remain open. www.masslive.com/education/20...

This is on a chart

This is FANTASTIC news. A street redesign that connects Grand Army Plaza to Prospect Park will be a huge win for a safer & a more livable Brooklyn. (1/2)

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

"If you can't solve the smallest task in someone's life, why would they ever trust you to solve the biggest one?" Mamdani's revival of early 20th century "sewer socialism" here is the inverse of Guiliani's "broken windows" approach. Starting small to do big things, but this time, they're good.

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

4 years ago, New Yorkers voted for NYC to take seriously the racial inequity that’s too pervasive. But they were forced to wait. Until now. In the first 100 days, @mayor.nyc.gov Mamdani’s administration released the first ever citywide Preliminary Racial Equity Plan & the True Cost of Living Measure

New Yorkers, you have 30 days from the release to tell us what we can do better. Give us ideas. Hold us accountable. We are all in this together.

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

On this day in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson authorized overt racial segregation in federal employment. Federal endorsement of Jim Crow policies was a significant blow to Black civil rights.

We couldn't have done it without her.💐

Gasoline prices rose 21% in March from the prior month. That was the single largest monthly increase in gasoline prices since the series began in 1967

Truly wild research on the change in bike mode share in NYC, London, Paris and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2023, Paris went from 1 out of every 100 trips being on a bike to *one out of 9!* Many people, including credible researchers, would have told you that that *could not* happen.

If only there was a website with all the info parents need to find child care in New York City, including a map with every licensed provider in each neighborhood… Oh wait! Now there is: nyc.gov/childcare

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

One of the coolest baseball pics

All THREE of Jo Adell's home run robberies from tonight ... Yes, you read that right 😮