The Aquinas model, however, has to fight two foes — the will to power and the loss of memory.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...

Lots of planning, too little action www.wamc.org/commentary-o...

🔊 Liisten to @blairhorner.bsky.social on @wamcradio.bsky.social: Raising revenues while saving lives "New York policy fails in a key area of the fight to combat nicotine addiction: tax policy. And it is this area that budget makers may be looking at." 🚭💰 www.wamc.org/commentary-o...

Bravo! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/n...

She vetoed legislation that would have protected utility ratepayers www.governor.ny.gov/news/keeping...

Honored to meet mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social yesterday (along w/ @keithpowersnyc.bsky.social). Even more honored that NYC's stellar press corps appreciates our @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social mapping work so much: x.com/katie_honan/.... Video clip & kudos via @katiehonan.bsky.social. Thx!

Should be named “Taxpayers Stadium” after all we paid a lot archive.ph/2025.11.28-1...

📰 @nypirg.bsky.social in the news: "The M42 Crosstown was just crowned the slowest bus in the Big Apple... The MTA shuttle earned the first 'un-coveted Pokey award' from [NYPIRG] in three years after clocking in at an exhausting 5.25 miles per hour on average." 🐌🚌 nypost.com/2025/11/12/u...

Top notch choice www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

🚌 On 11/10, @nypirg.bsky.social and PCAC released the 18th Pokey and Schleppie Awards for poor bus service. The M42 wins for slowest bus, and the Q8 wins for least reliable. We also announced a new award, the Mazel, for most improved route, won by the M79+ and SIM32. www.nypirg.org/pubs/202511/...

Remember this when you hearing the whining that we can’t meet climate goals…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/climate/cop30-belem-climate-energy-technology-china.html

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w... “I have never seen a law enforcement or intelligence organization like the bureau be directed to go after people purely on political, vindictive reasons. In a Western democracy, that’s unheard of. It’s every day in Russia and China.”

Do you need help with consumer problems and complaints? New York's Small Claims Courts — the original "People's Court" — could be the place to seek justice. ⚖️ @nypirg.bsky.social offers FREE assistance with our Small Claims Court Action Centers located across the state: nypirg.org/sccac

Will the waste be stored in the community forever? archive.ph/2025.11.06-1...

Useful www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...

The projections still fall short of the 60% reduction in emissions needed to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

🔊 Listen to @nypirg.bsky.social's @blairhorner.bsky.social on @wamcradio.bsky.social Voting has begun "If you haven't registered to vote, you still have time. This Saturday, October 25th is also the voter registration deadline." www.wamc.org/commentary-o...

This week in @blairhorner.bsky.social's Capitol Perspective blog: Voting Has Begun "Instead of only being able to vote on the first Tuesday in November, New Yorkers can vote during an early voting period and can cast their choices through the mail." www.nypirg.org/capitolpersp...

Ouch! “It is a truth generally acknowledged that Pete Hegseth is a muttonhead. But I come not to bury the self-proclaimed “secretary of war,” rather to praise him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

Listen to @blairhorner.bsky.social on @wamcradio.bsky.social: NY's ethics laws get a hearing "Among their proposals was one that surely got the interest of the state's political establishment – greater oversight of the involvement of lobbyists in campaign fundraising." www.wamc.org/commentary-o...

“make the defence of freedom something more than a shopping opportunity. Make it heroic again.” www.ft.com/content/650a...

The United States of America in 2025 www.amny.com/immigration/...

And climate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

NY’s redistricting commission is not independent but is controlled, equally, by the two major parties. www.lohud.com/story/news/p...

📢 Next Tuesday, 9/16 is #NationalVoterRegistrationDay. Get #VoteReady for the 11/4/25 General Election! ✅ Check your NY voter registration status: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov ✅ Register to vote... For NYC: e-register.vote.nyc For the rest of NY: nyovr.elections.ny.gov

What could go wrong? www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-di...

⭐️ Thanks to all our volunteers last week! ⭐️

August volunteer day ⭐️ See you there! Sign up 🔗 bit.ly/swc-aug22

📽 The work of a NYC canner. Video by Charles Pfeiffer

🚨 Congress and the federal administration are undermining our environmental protections. NY's Congressmembers must protect NY's air and water by defending the National Environmental Policy Act! 🌍 Sign-on letter: www.nypirg.org/pubs/202508/... 📰 News release: www.nypirg.org/pubs/202508/...

“The motto of the United States has changed from ‘In God we trust’ to ‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

💥 NEW: Colorado is the 1st state to mandate air quality warnings on gas stoves. 🧪 Lots of good science backs this law. Gas stoves emit many air pollutants, including benzene, linked to heart disease, asthma, and leukemia. Burning fossil fuels inside your house is dumb. www.cpr.org/2025/08/07/h...

Kicking the tires on CO2 capture and storage plans in Canada: “The Pathways CCS project is a very expensive commitment of capital to large-scale, high-risk technology that has not been commercially viable anywhere without generous government subsidies.” financialpost.com/opinion/carb...

Reformers want redistricting fixed not ruined…https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/08/hochul-open-disbanding-independent-redistricting-commission/407196/?oref=csny_albanyagenda_nl