Mamdani: "While only action can change minds, I promise you this: If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor. Regardless of whether we agree I will protect you, celebrate with you, mourn along side you, and not for a second hide from you."

Next reading: Hofstadter on the Paranoid Style in American Politics.

Cognitive test: Repeat back 5 words: Man, woman, birth, death, infinity.

Next reading: Hofstadter on the Paranoid Style in American Politics.

Quite an endorsement.

One underrated thing Mamdani has going for him is that he has always known he is ineligible for the presidency The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have

Taking over 3 public golf courses bad enough but not Life or Death. Stopping work on huge Wind Energy construction is EXISTENTIAL. WE NEED Clean electricity. Eliminate burning coal and oil, especially dirty shale oil. Reduce burning natural gas to backup use. Put most powerlines underground.

Normalization of violent evil was the topic of a Kafka short-short or parable: The big cats invaded the temple and attacked people. When it happened a couple more times, the people came to expect it, and INCORPORATED IT INTO THE RITUAL.

Please post a link.

In 2 days the ACA subsidies expire. Millions of people will be forced to make a choice of whether they can afford healthcare coverage or go without. Congress votes on Jan 6th to extend the ACA subsidies or let it crash and burn — potentially gutting our protections. Call — Tell them to Vote Yes!

This is not only devastating to everyone about to lose the ability to afford insurance, it will devastate hospitals as uncompensated care explodes, ERs will be the default and costs will be pushed back onto everyone else. This is how you break a health care system on purpose while screaming fraud.

See the record by The Melodians. Sound track of The Harder They Come.

💯n the hours following Caroline Kennedy's daughter Tatiana Schlossberg death, Felon Trump took to social media to mock the famous political family I expect nothing less from this anomaly of nature. This Felon would be in jail but for the GOPra Nostra weaponizing him for distraction & as a shield.

Clarence Thomas to Kash Patel ... a series of DEI hires...!

Immigration has always been a big win for the U.S. It funds our social programs, providing labor and markets that fuel our economy. It shields us from the demographic 'time bombs' that are hitting the rest of the industrialized world. No economic model can thrive while the population is in decline.

Pretty sure this is the best reporting I've seen explaining this youtube.com/shorts/f_l9X...

Makes me think of ICE! You?

Astoria the Wild Turkey perched on a planter by the Staten Island Ferry terminal Monday during her Financial District adventure. Her friends helped her across the street and safely back to The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

Pizza Face

“Out of touch” isn’t it. A president who gilds the Oval Office in gold, slaps his own name on a cultural institution, tears down the East Wing for his own vanity project, and then tells us the affordability crisis is all in our heads. It’s not out of touch; it’s contempt for the people he governs.

I feel reassured

“The vaccination has stuff we don’t trust,” said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died of measles. In March, Tom Bartlett wrote about his visit with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy. Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/yADSKik3?lin...

Why did Trump’s DOJ track the top reporter covering Jeffrey Epstein weeks before his death?

Yes we do. I was happy to hear dozens of people gathered on the bridge to Mar-a-Lago to show support for Zelenskyy and Ukraine 🇺🇦 No U.S. officials were there to greet him. No red carpets, no flyovers, no slobbering Trump to meet him. Trump plays his nasty head games. Zelenskyy always rises above.

We Definitely knew it......

P. D. Rast

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Liz Phair

Maybe Joan Osborne Relish

Maybe ALANIS MORISSETTE

Oops 80s

Pretenders Learning to Crawl

ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE! #USDemocracy #MomSky

Trump restriction of birth citizenship is transparently FALSE. Note that "temporary" residents (such as non-immigrant visa), asylum applicants, or even "illegal aliens" without status are still UNDER THE JURISDICTION of the U.S. government.

Banning offshore Wind turbines is the "last straw."

Time to replace “winner take all” government with proportional representation. open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Often felt that way about anti-Semite Peter Stuyvesant, buried in the churchyard of St. Mark's in the Bowery, NYC. Flat stone marker.

Sounds bad!

No excuse for idiot president stopping OFFSHORE wind farms. Speciousl "national security" cited, but no one ever said that for years of offshore oil rigs, that are far more vulnerable and if toppled are far more damaging.

2 wrongs don't make a right. I have seen pix of solar array floating on part of a lake. HUGE wind farms in non-arable almost desert locations in Texas, etc. Personal wind and solar on family properties OFF THE GRID, with propane burner as backup, e.g. in Alaska.

ICE pretend to be police. But they are bounty hunters and kidnappers. Show me the warrant????

Wrong. Wind turbines are set up on desert land and bodies of water -- NOT farm land -- unless the farmer wants personal clean energy, solar & wind.

No matter how many court orders Trump gets, he'll ignore them. This is how he will be until the end of his term. His destruction of our entire society will continue, and we'll let him do it.

TRump loves Fossil Fuels He Saya, Clean coal. But it's $$$. He hates Biden and hippies.

Token Reactionary. The way Fox might have a token liberal.

So does the big West Point grad.

Oil, coal, fossil fuels -- big money.

Characteristic sh*t-eater grin.