Anyone with any integrity at CBS would leave, now.

Not just disappointed. Very disappointed.

This post gets at the single most annoying thing about Bluesky: it includes a group of knee-jerk Dem suck ups who chastise anyone pointing out the many ways in which current Democratic leadership is useless.

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

I will never forgive the GOP politicians who aided and abetted this, or who were too cowardly to stand against it. Nor will I forgive the "centrist" Democratic politicians who were so shitty and weak that it seemed sensible to many otherwise decent people to return the man responsible to power.

I went to a New York Focus event on affordable housing construction and why it's so difficult in NY. It was incredibly informative and also fun! Recommended.

Data collected in first year of NYC congestion pricing shows program is a huge success. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Yea, we are the baddies www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/w...

“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”

It may be ultimately that we view the Supreme Court's insane presidential immunity opinion in Trump v. United States as having done as much damage to our country as its decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which contributed mightily to the nation's descent into civil war.

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

Pelosi isn't in leadership any longer, but her reaction is representative. The centrists running the Democratic Party have no energy, no courage, and above all, no imagination.

Fucking vultures.

This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.

It's true: more and more people do see the law this way. And they aren't wrong. On balance, law is a tool for the rich and strong, employed at the expense of the poor and weak. Which makes teaching at a law school more than a bit morally confusing.

democrats need to introduce a resolution disapproving trump's aggression and directing him to withdraw US forces. here's a draft. it's not rocket science.

Our right-wing Supreme Court's decision to grant Trump nearly-complete criminal immunity is looking better and better.

lol Schumer's response is literally to say this is a distraction from grocery prices. Beyond parody man.

"As recently as Oct., [the Israeli gov't] described [Zohran Mamdani] as someone who 'excuses terror and normalizes antisemitism' and said he 'stands with Jews only when they are dead.'" It's time for New Yorkers to recognize the Israeli gov't for what it is: a joke. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/n...

CBS is basically state media. What an embarrassment for all involved.

Ninth Circuit upholds jury verdict in favor of tattoo artist Kat von D, rejecting copyright claim by owner of photograph of Miles Davis von D used as source for a tattoo. 1/ drive.google.com/file/d/1cgi6...

Mayor Zohran Mandami’s crime reduction strategy notches early win.

Jumaane Williams gave a moving and important speech yesterday at Zohran Mamdani's inauguration. (From 2:25). Key for me was his clear statement that the left's #1 job is to make government work. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Qa...

There is virtually nothing the Netanyahu gov't could do to lower its near-zero credibility, but this is annoying nonetheless. Mamdani was right to scrap the IHRA definition, which, due mostly to some of its accompanying examples, is a threat to free speech. 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

I missed this from the Manhattan Institute survey on December 1 of the "current GOP." 37% are Holocaust deniers, which, to my surprise, is greater than the percentage (33%) that believes vaccines cause autism.

I think the words he's looking for are "outdated" and "indifferent to human needs."

society must relearn the lost art of crushing weird fashy nerds

My resolutions this year are to show love and care to my family and friends, and to write something (good, bad, indifferent) every day. And also to continue not to burn my mouth.

"To live in NY, to love NY, is to know that we are the stewards of something without equal in our world. Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of san cocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block?"

I'd go further. I'm with Dante. The best human existence is possible only in cities.

YES YES YES.

Chuck Schumer made sure enough Democrats voted for this to pass it.

The NY Post is a cancer.

1/1/26; 25 degrees F in NYC. I'm ill with what my spouse, a physician, insists is a "rhinovirus." Never even heard of it before and it sounds bad. Thanks, Mamdani.

2026: very good so far.

This from a current Harvard sophomore is worth reading. The new speech orthodoxy at many universities basically forbids the expression of anti-Zionist ideas. Which, paradoxically, is bound to increase the appeal of anti-Zionist ideas. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

This is the loser to whom UVA's Board of Visitors capitulated. To their enduring collective shame.

Quite a few ultra-rich people appear not to have read Lord of the Rings very closely.

The NY Post is a cancer.

I won't link to the article, but this is the NY Post's reaction to Rama Duwaji expressing some sadness at leaving Astoria, the great Queens neighborhood in which she has lived happily for years. The NY Post is a cancer on NYC.

Tennis pro Bill Ackman has spoken.

I feel this way about both "NY" football teams, for committing the continuing sin of playing in NJ.

Just remembered that nyc is going to have a decent human being as our mayor in 4 days and honestly got choked up, things have been so bad and so stupid for so long and I still can’t believe something good is happening

This kind of joy has been snuffed out of the world. I miss it.

I am a strong believer in reversion to the mean. And that principle suggests that 2026 may be awesome.

About a dozen or more years ago, a few Manhattans into it at a bar on NYE with a friend, I made a modest and achievable New Year‘s resolution: to stop burning my mouth. So far, so good.

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

I find the emergence of this “Interim Docket” verbiage to be a bit boot-licky given justices’ complaints, even if the intent is to make the term more clinical.

Merry Christmas to all, except the suburban politicians, the NY Post, and everyone else who whined like spoiled little babies about congestion pricing, which is a huge success.