“Starting Sunday, Amtrak will begin work to transfer or “cut over” rail traffic from one track that crosses the 115-year-old Portal Bridge over the Hackensack River, to a track that crosses over the newly constructed Portal North Bridge... gothamist.com/news/nj-tran...

“Shuliak’s immigration story — & the stories of several other women revealed in a cache of files released by the DoJ — show how Epstein used student visas, ESL courses & sham marriages to make sure the women in his orbit stayed right where he wanted them.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

1/3“Employees of the Department of Justice, working on our dime, spent hours prepping Bondi on exactly how to insult each and every Democratic member of the committee… newrepublic.com/post/206565/...

“The gov’t is constitutionally required to keep ppl safe once they are in custody. “…the DoJ also stipulate that officers are not allowed to ignore serious medical conditions… “…in Pretti’s case, agents appeared to ignore both of those tenets.” newrepublic.com/post/206589/...

“It was important enough for them to clear areas for walking people, but it wasn’t important for them to clear it enough for people…in wheelchairs,…All that work & all that $, but no time was spent thinking about disabled people who want to go outside.” wapo.st/3ZBR0Wg

“Throughout her tenure as secretary of DHS,…Noem has attempted to burnish her personal stardom at every turn. With Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, at her side, she has staged a headline grabbing immigration crackdown while sidelining rivals & dissenters.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“According to Italian newspaper La Stampa, this year’s Village ran out of 10,000 free condoms in a record-breaking 3 days. With just under 3,000 athletes competing in Cortina, that translates to about three condoms per person during a three-day stretch.” www.thecut.com/article/olym...

“[The use of]more than a dozen apartments in 301 East 66th Street, a 200-unit postwar condo building,…was yet another of the many favors [Jeffrey]Epstein bestowed to gain leverage over people and keep them in his debt.” www.curbed.com/article/jeff...

“Documents analyzed by Reuters reveal the OMB is directing that $15M of USAID’s remaining operating expenses pay for…[OMB director Russell]…Vought’s security detail.” Even as The Lancet predicts 9.4M deaths worldwide by 2030 due to USAID funding cuts. nymag.com/intelligence...

“.. small-business owners .. have even formed a coalition called ‘We Pay the Tariffs.’ These good folks would jump at the chance to go to the White House .. if, that is, they had enough lobbying clout to get through the front door.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.wsj.com/opinion/who-...

“I think the American people would agree that no one like Narciso Barranco, who raised three U.S. citizen Marines and has no criminal record, deserved the treatment he received” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

“In unsparing detail, the documents lay bare the once-furtive activities of an unaccountable elite,… “The pages tell a story of a heinous criminal given a free ride by the ruling class in which he dwelled, all because he had things to offer them…” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

“If we don’t take a step back and learn how these doors, you know, work best — I felt like I was a guinea pig,”-customer injured by new fare gate door “We’re still learning and we’re still making adjustments,”-Janno Lieber, warning future guinea pigs ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

I wonder what Mayor Mamdani said that prompted THAT look from TWU Int’l President John Samuelson? nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/13/f...

MTA CEO Janno Lieber would like his customer guinea pigs to stop complaining about being used as guinea pigs while the agency tries to figure out how not to let other guinea pigs evade hundreds of millions of $ in fares every year www.amny.com/news/mta-mod...

“Over the past several months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services…has been sending experts to its offices around the country…to focus on whether some citizens processed through those offices could now be denaturalized” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

”While[fmr Goldman Sacks Chief Counsel Kathy]Ruemmler has called Epstein a “monster” in recent statements, she had a much different relationship…before he was arrested a 2nd time…Ruemmler called Epstein “Uncle Jeffrey” in emails & said she adored him.” finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman...

“​Sargeant is now in position to be the latest of[Trump]’s allies to reap a windfall based on his 2nd-term policies... He is also deeply unpopular w/the Venezuelan political opposition, much of which considers him an apologist for the oppressive regime.” www.wsj.com/world/americ...

“It’s hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time as Vinay Prasad. In his latest drive-by shooting, the leader of the FDA’s vaccine div rejected Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine without even a cursory review.” www.wsj.com/opinion/vina...

The rich are different than you or me. The finances of Leon Black show how different:”…the disclosures offer an exceptionally granular look at the strategies used by many of the ultrarich to build wealth and minimize their tax bills.” www.wsj.com/finance/insi...

Janno’s not leaving the door open. The MTA and NYCT will never restore G train service to Continental Ave. unless forced to by the ultimate boss(Gov Hochul). The agency’ll whine about tk restrictions, additional costs-anything to thwart the transit advocates. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

“…a new report shows more than 10k workers w/doctorates in STEM…have left fed svce since 2017. The ppl who do this kind of work are rapidly dwindling. & the problems that will cause stretch far beyond a space probe at the very edge of the solar system.” www.newsday.com/opinion/comm...

“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.” Works for me.

@deadder.bsky.social has so many great cartoons:

An update: "Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada: A Detroit billionaire met with Howard Lutnick, ..., hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

Lutnick had said, "I decided [in 2005] I will never be in a room with that disgusting person ever again. So I was never in the room with him socially, for business, or even philanthropy. If that guy was there, I wasn't going." He just admitted visiting Epstein's island in 2012:

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

“The Gordie Howe Int’l Bridge is set to absorb traffic from the nearby Ambassador Bridge…, which is owned by Detroit’s Moroun family & responsible for about 1/4 of all trade betw the U.S. & Canada. The owners have appealed to Trump to stop construction of the new bridge…” wapo.st/4att5gD

ONLY 364 MORE DAYS UNTIL THE DALLAS COWBOYS AREN’T IN THE SUPER BOWL AGAIN

They're not even trying to hide it at this point.

For context:

The Grammys. The Olympics. The Super Bowl. The message is that the world loves diversity. Don’t let the billionaires tell you otherwise.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

“Being a convicted sex offender did not make Mr. Epstein an outcast, not when he seemed to have something to offer. His transactional amorality actually seemed to add to his appeal to people who were convinced that the rules didn’t apply to them.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

“The bureaucracy does harbor pockets of waste & paper-pushing positions that could easily be culled. But the administration showed little interest in understanding the organizations it was eviscerating... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

“…the pardoning by Trump of his cop-beating foot soldiers represents the lowest moment of this presidency so far,… By pardoning these criminals, he exposed a foundational lie of MAGA ideology: that it stands with the police and as a guarantor of law and order.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

“It is testimony to the marketing genius of Donald Trump that he never sold himself to Christians as one of them… Instead, he sold himself as their protector… www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

🧵“The most relevant figure to Super Bowl LX is absent from it. The game will be played in his former home stadium, in the place where his protest made him a national lightning rod and a global symbol. Colin Kaepernick might as well be a ghost. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

“Three U.S. Olympic bodies — U.S. Figure Skating, USA Hockey and U.S. Speedskating — changed the name of their shared hospitality space from “Ice House” to “Winter House,” aiming to eliminate a potential distraction… wapo.st/46eFns3

Ukraine:Relentlessly and mercilessly bombed by the Russians, relentlessly and mercilessly sold out at the negotiating table by Trump/Witkoff/Kushner wapo.st/4aok0pr

“Iran’s state media depicts the Supreme Leader & his family… as living an austere & pious life. “…the hidden fortune of the younger Khamenei conflicts w/that image…, esp. in the wake of rising poverty & widespread unrest & protests against the Islamic Republic..." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

“In an unmistakable sign of Europe’s rapidly dimming view on America, the U.S. delegation entered the San Siro stadium here on Friday night to a chorus of boos and disapproving whistles from the international crowd of more than 65,000…1/3  www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...

“Restoring weekend G service to Forest Hills represents an opportunity to fundamentally change New York City’s transportation landscape by prioritizing the direct connections that outer borough residents desperately need.”-transit advocates 1/3 www.amny.com/news/g-train...

”It seems like blackmail to me,…If you want to appeal to a narcissist sure, go ahead … it's a stupid thing to have to do to get funding that's already been appropriated by Congress… gothamist.com/news/is-nyc-...

True statement.

Trump has posted on Truth Social about 65 times in the last 90 minutes, including a video he posted at 8:44 PM PT describing election fraud lies that shows racist AI images of Michelle and Barack Obama as monkeys at the end. I’ve confirmed this is real and watched it myself. 25th Amendment now.