Wait I thought the deal was that if Hochul let the gas pipeline go through, Trump would let them build Empire Wind.

Oh yeah Global TV (in Canada or by VPN) has the full uncut 60 Minutes story on its 60 Minutes rebroadcast. CBS must have sent them the original tape.

Every previous US DoD — not to mention other countries’ militaries — has determined that wind farms pose no radar interference problems, but of course we now have uniquely competent leadership in the military who have uncovered the truth…

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

This is blasphemous.

This, too, is outrageous -- firing an immigration judge because he granted asylum to six people. Trump's folks have made clear they want "deportation judges." Just rejecting any semblance of due process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This happened to my husband when we lived in the first floor in Brooklyn.

Twelve years ago one of my teachers said “it ain’t enough to be right, a lot of people are *dead* right,” and it stuck with me ever since.

“Does America need god” is such a tired capitulation to secularism. The real question is, naturally, “what does God’s rule in history mean for America.”

Christ this is like a forum debate c. 2008. Does Weiss have any ideas beyond the most basic slop?

When Vance says that criticizing Israel is not antisemitism, we should all be clear that he's talking about Nick Fuentes and not, say, immigrant grad students protesting genocide.

I'd prefer that DHS didn't regularly post sacrilegious Christmas-themed social media posts. I think a reasonable person could interpret this as openly mocking the Christian religion and one of its most significant holidays.

my man is getting allergy shots because his wife loves cats and now that they are moving into Gracie Mansion, they can get one. they have simply never made a bigger wife guy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDNO...

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

the thing about commentators who self-brand as fearless truth-tellers is that their ideals of "free debate" always take the dullest, most predictable tacks possible www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

In what world do new gas pipelines and LNG terminals “promote more rapid electrification.” Just an astonishing claim for which a Times fact checker/editor should have required sourcing.

It is deeply deranging to me, personally, whose political beginnings were in opposing the Iraq war, that the time they are explicitly saying “this war is about oil” is the time when it is patently untrue.

US House of Reps has passed a bill to criminalize trans healthcare for people under 18. This bill can be still stopped in the Senate, call/write your senators & ask them to oppose. Californians: @schiff.senate.gov www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/ @padilla.senate.gov www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/

I have a friend here who is an American with an Iranian spouse met overseas and two children. They aren’t religious. he just lost his job so they will lose their visa if they do not find work in the next five months. And then where would they go?

Teamsters Local 705 just confirmed that Bovino went with armed CBP agents to a Mauser picket line in Chicago this morning and "interrogated and laughed at our members while they were on the picket line." These workers went on strike to demand protections for immigrant workers, among other things.

In the wake of climate-fueled flooding here in the Northwest, the US Dept of Energy is giving us coal for Christmas by ordering the aging, uneconomic, and polluting TransAlta plant to stay open in violation of state law and a consent decree 1/

Your based Christian nationalist administration, sir:

A couple excerpts from Thomas Childers’s The Third Reich, which I was reading last year at this time. The second two are concurrent pages.

BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.” The manual is now in effect, despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. (Washington Post)

I have a friend here who is an American with an Iranian spouse met overseas and two children. They aren’t religious. he just lost his job so they will lose their visa if they do not find work in the next five months. And then where would they go?

Between Gillen’s vote here and Bruce Blakeman’s fixation on the bodies of teenage athletes, have we considered that Nassau County is just a depraved constituency?

Peak subway station design

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

Damn this video of a observer/protester climbing a ladder to hand blanket to the construction worker who was surrounded by ICE.

This is a project that was backed by the Sierra Club, many local environmental groups, the Long Island chamber of commerce, the building and construction trades… and opposed by a bunch of Hamptons nimbys who raised a literal million dollars in their opposition (including from Ron Lauder).

As Christianity has declined in the U.S., we see the substitution of cultural signifiers for religious virtues. “Get married & have lots of kids” instead of “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires & greed, which is idolatry…”

I think that living in New York City for 13 years made me especially contemptuous of this sort of thing: we have a working model for people openly practicing religion in a pluralistic society, with all of the friction and revelation that means.

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

a key reason that the vibes of European Christmas markets rule is that you can just happen upon them while walking/cycling around. you cannot approximate the vibe with a destination that you specifically get in the car to reach.

remarkable detail here: the college-aged Kirk fan who attended because he disbelieves that Robinson did it as he is from "a good family"

Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one. Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

People are dunking on this rightfully, but to try to shed more light than heat— Here in Germany the PCP/specialist dichotomy is not so strong. You can have a PCP who is a specialist in a field relevant to your chronic conditions! Also, PCPs are less rushed and strained - it feels much more humane.

if you are concluding that Trump does not have the juice, it is *more* important to get in federal level Dems who have that dawg in them. Much must be clawed back, unbuilt, rebuilt. And there is a lot of reactionary power that must be dismantled.

I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.” And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.

the experience of getting my six-year-old an ADHD diagnosis here in Germany was so profoundly easy compared to a) our experience in NYC and b) everything I had assumed. just truly remarkable social services.

I thought the new US national security strategy was a white nationalist document opposing Europe and the Western democratic alliance, but the NYT challenged my assumptions, explaining that the NSS is a white nationalist document opposing Europe and the Western democratic alliance and that’s good.

the only thing that doesn’t appear to be illegal race discrimination to the conservative legal movement is actual racist discrimination

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership. What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

This “Once unlikely” partnership was evident for many years at the local and state level, where nuclear advocates spent most of their time bashing wind and solar. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...