Today marks the 18th straight of “code blue” conditions in NYC—which means it’s life-threatening to spend much time on the streets. Temps have not topped freezing in all this time. If you see someone who looks like they’ve been outside too long, ask if you can call 311 & find them a warming center.

While I do believe that people value authenticity, I find the people now saying “people value authenticity” to be seriously inauthentic.

Ruin "Primary Care" by changing one word.

Hey, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, can we get another "F*ck Trump" for this?

As I always say, and will keep saying until everyone knows it by heart: The unloved son of an unrepentant klansman.

The Hudson River tunnel is really important, so I look forward to pulling in to the newly renamed “Incontinent Rapist Station.”

As I sit, the only person in a respirator, in a crowded hospital waiting room, in a city that has seen its highest number of flu deaths in years, in the middle of another Covid wave, I cannot think of a fate dark enough for those that spread this rent-seeking, science-free BS.

“None of this changes unless we demand change & make it change—the way that the funding for ICE has been allocated, it can spend this money straight through 2029. Congress is going to have to act to turn that funding & hiring spigot off—otherwise, this continues on autopilot for the next 4 years.”

Which meat packer or beef industry trade association is paying this grifting loon? (Because I promise you at least one of them is.)

NYC media handicappers were all handing it to Gill, the NJ machine/establishment centrist, all day. Polls close & he’s insta-toast. Now, can Sanders-AOC-endorsed Mejia hang on to beat a candidate tied to the national Dem establishment? You love to see it.

Now seems like a good time for everyone to remind Trump that America hates him almost as much as his dad did.

If you can today, save a prayer for the “tainted” globalists and burdens faced by those who are forced to replace them.

Reality bites, but still here for the fights. (Smart 🧵)

Only 96 years till the public domain lets this happen.

Homan: The beatings will continue until morale improves…. And even it does, we’ll probably continue the beatings.

Jeff Bezos is just trying to make the Washington Post look more like America—in that, before 2025, both were deeply flawed but broadly powerful institutions that are today being gutted, devolving into cruel, hollow facades to appease the whims of greedy, boorish billionaires.

New START, the last existing US-RU nuke treaty, expires today. Georgia Cole of Chatham House: “This would mark a significant break in more than five decades of bilateral nuclear arms control. It would also signal a move away from nuclear restraint, making the world a more dangerous place.”

What, do you get a discount for repurposing your completely ineffectual language on gun control? Democrats—a supermajority of them—do not want “commonsense reform for ICE” because reforming ICE lacks all common sense. Democrats want ICE defunded and DHS disassembled. #SchumerDoesNotSpeakForMe

NewYork-Presbyterian and Mount Sinai board member Brad Karp, a billionaire power broker, appears hundreds of times in the Epstein files, with records of years of social ties. Can board members like this be trusted to protect healthcare for New Yorkers? www.NYChospitalgreed.com

Buy your Beaujolais now—Trump will probably threaten 300% tariffs by the end of the week.

Alas, NYC—& the whole US—still has an orphan-making machine that’s been running for 6 years. It’s called the Covid pandemic, and as high as I am on my new mayor, I have not seen @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social show much interest in elevating the need for clean indoor air, Covid mitigation & vaccination.

At least NYT hed reads “Noem says,” but taking her statement as actual change is news-washing continued violence. 1st, some MN goons already wear body cams—are they turned on? Will we ever see tape? 2nd, Noem said this will happen “as funding is available.” $$ was already allocated in the BBB—so🤷‍♂️

@toddzwillich.bsky.social The News Movement? Srsly? Did anyone at 1A even do a basic google? Your guest is asked about the financials yet never mentions the Qatari backing that also has sunk $50 mil into Newsmax. (Also, the William Lewis connection.) + www.icij.org/inside-icij/...

It’s Groundhog Day & Staten Island Chuck just emerged from his burrow to predict six more weeks of posturing.

In December of 2024, I pitched multiple outlets on the potential infectious disease disaster that could come with the then-promised immigration sweeps. Not just among detainees, but everyone on staff & the communities around them. Measles, Covid, RSV, pertussis & flu. No one was interested.

So, Grammy producers were like, no one in our audience knows what “Epstein files” even means….

Glad to see Howie Klein got his moment during the Grammy’s memorial segment; sad that his moment came this soon.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen with WOMEN lead singers: X The Go-Go’s The Patti Smith Group Siouxsie and the Banshees The Raincoats The Bangles Oops. That’s six.

So, a 302 made it through?

Original Capitol pressing. I still have it.

It’s not often I’ll recommend a legacy electronic media interview with an elected, but listening to MN Gov Tim Walz give straightforward, honest and sometimes emotional answers without a lot of focus group-tested pol-speak is so refreshing, you should take minute and savor it.

Long, long ago, I worked in film production, and my first job was “After Hours.” Filmmaking (shocker) is not always stocked with the nicest people, but on this job, I was blessed to work with two of the best folks I’d meet in years of work: Teri Garr & Catherine O’Hara. Sadly, both are now gone. RIP

Yes, we want to Abolish DHS—& should keep saying that—but what else? Time to make a list of OUR demands in this battle—ones that start helping those already harmed rather than just making potential future harms a little less apparent or outrageous. I’ll 🧵 what comes to my mind; feel free to join in

Again urging a change in vocabulary to reorient the debate. There’s no “security” here. They’re not enforcing laws. They’re not protecting the border. They’re an enlarged, militarized, unaccountable secret police, loyal only to Trump. In more historically resonant parlance: Praetorian Guard.

Abolish ICE is where the voters are TODAY. With a little leadership, I bet “Dismantle DHS” would poll like this in a fortnight. “We made Republicans negotiate with us” is not really the bumper sticker that motivates folks to contribute, canvas & vote.

] As the Trumps walked the carpet, a reporter asked Trump if he planned to start "pulling back" in Minneapolis. Trump shook his head and said, "No, not at all," and walked away. [ So what are Democrats hoping to negotiate, exactly? And with whom?

Public health officials have neglected their obligation to the public—so what are you, part of the public, going to do to protect your parents, your kids, your friends & neighbors, the nameless folks that help you get through the day & yourself from getting Covid & Long Covid—and from passing it on.

Democrats: the beatings (and killings) will continue until we can blame our own base for losing the next election. (gift link)

Homan said they’d consider drawing down “IF”—in other words, there’s been no “de-escalation” yet. If any media or elected tries to argue “mission accomplished,” they’re BS-ing you. "We are not surrendering our mission at all. We're just doing it smarter," Homan said. “Smarter” by his standards.

“The American food industry depends on safety, trust, & dignity. When workers fear being targeted, racially profiled, surveilled, detained, or killed by the federal govt, the entire system suffers. No industry built on human labor can function under terror.” Many restos will close 1/30 in support.

“A man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a Brooklyn jail with a barbecue fork and pizza cutter and tried to free Luigi Mangione Wednesday night.” I’m sorry, but this sounds like performance art.

Look at the deltas between “Strongly Support” & “Strongly Oppose”—not only do Dems overwhelmingly strongly support abolishing ice, and Dem support outpaces GOP opposition, but more independents strongly support abolishing ice than strongly oppose. #AbolishIce is where the motivated voters live.

With many thanks and all due respect, this is Desolation Row.

Chuck Schumer in the marketplace: Chuck: I’ll give you $5 for that. Vendor: I won’t take less than $10. Chuck: OK, then—I’ll give you $12. Do we have a deal? … aaand scene.

Trump administration says hear our message clearly: be it with armed agents, radical gerrymanders or corrupted voter rolls, we will suppress your vote.

Trump doesn’t know shit about nuclear power—and that’s just how the nuclear industry likes it. @npr.org uncovers rule changes that “take a wrecking ball” to already lax power plant regs. “New” (not really new) gen plants will get to contaminate ground water & expose workers to much more radiation.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been!” & by “might have been,” I mean what we might have now if ppl in charge between “warp speed” & the current anti-science regime had funded Covid vax research at 2020 levels instead of pretending the pandemic was over.

“Deescalate a little” is the new “in two weeks.” You’d think the legacy media would have picked up on this by now.

Welcome to the United States, where we might be about to lose elimination status for measles, but we have a chance to gain elimination status for Republicans.

WH scrambling to change the narrative, but clearly have no interest in changing policy. There was a two-hour meeting last night that did not include Miller—they seem to have come out of it with the feeling it was necessary for Miller to “soften his tone”—this was the most they could get out of him.