I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago. Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑

Which came first? The octopus or the nationalization of #Holyoke's election this year? Yes, it's all part of the story of the Paper City's results last month. #mapoli wmasspi.com/2025/12/nati...

anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!

My God, they've reinvented the Deadly Joke. And somehow possibly developed immunity to it. We're all doomed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_o...

This. Greenblatt and the travesty he's made of the ADL shouldn't be allowed to claim they're the one true arbiter of "Jewish concerns." They're not; they don't speak for anything like all of us; and they don't get to claim to do so over our objections.

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

This whole thread. Please. A grateful nation will thank you. DON'T RANK CUOMO.

Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.

I don’t see this mentioned at all about Andrew Cuomo. He’s on Netanyahu’s legal defence team for his ICC claims. nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...

I'm trying "Brad Lander is a Jewish Zionist, and he knows both Mamdani and Cuomo better than most of us do, and he's ranking Mamdani #2 and not ranking Cuomo. I think we can probably trust his judgment on this one." It has the merit of all being true. We'll see whether it works.

Why I will never give another penny to the @nytimes.com , number approximately three hundred thousand. I know excellent journalists still try to make it a good paper. I only wish they could quit en masse and create the paper they deserve to work for, free of their clueless management.

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

Another moment where I wish a vid or podcast had been an article. I recently tried to watch Exodus, which I'd heard was hugely influential when it came out. It's a shockingly awful movie, for itself and not just its politics, and I bet this is really interesting - if you can do video/audio.

Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic." Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual] 18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Bondi DOJ has a problem. On left: DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas On right: DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"

This doesn’t even include one of his most egregious decisions: Teaming up with RFK Jr. to shut down the Indian point nuclear reactor, which was replaced with fossil fuels, driving up electricity bills

I never thought I would say I FUCKING LOVE THIS CAMPAIGN AD

every single paragraph more disqualifying than the last.

But seriously: What is the use case? I'm trying to imagine the buyer who wants this thing, and I hate admitting to failure; but I'm coming up mostly blank. (An assistive device for early-onset Alzheimer's, maybe? But other than that . . .)

My hypothesis: the AI has hallucinated that Omelas exists, the child's name is Dorian, and that instead of aging like the Portrait, he instead receives all the injuries that customers would otherwise suffer. Dorian enables a perfect, harm-free society, so long as we don't have to insure Dorian.

Your regular reminder that if it weren't for Cuomo and NY redistricting, which Cuomo and his allies designed to create extra Republican districts, the House would not have been able to pass this bill. Don't rank Cuomo. Just don't.

It would be so much more persuasive if they even tried to give any reason why it's a bad comparison, besides "it makes us feel bad in our tummies."

“well, my neighbor got thrown in a gulag, my kid has measles and the ps6 costs as much as a ford bronco, but i just can’t get past dems refusing to say joe biden was old in 2025” - a voter who definitely exists

In what might be the logical endpoint of American Zionism, the Heritage Foundation has declared that pro-Palestinian activism is not just antisemitic, but is in fact a shadowy global conspiracy … led by Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

The person you're taking it away from is anyone who uses or might use a community hospital, since those rely on medicaid reimbursements. Including rich people, surprise!!! Inter alia. You'd think no matter how stupid he is, he'd have someone on his staff who could tell him.

Beside the important points, but this is an illustration of why Trump never got the old-money-NYC approval he craved. Fly around on an old plane, humiliating?? Please. It flies; your predecessors used it; you wouldn't even think of replacing it with some tacky flashy new thing unless you had to.

This! It’s profoundly anti-Palestinian AND anti-Jewish, antisemitism is living large at NYU.

So that's why pictures of Giraffe were so surprisingly accurate: Florence had a live model! (I love the Countdown threads so much. And am looking forward to my own copy of the book so much, too.)

The federal government is attempting a radical, massive expansion of what constitutes "wiretapping" that threatens everyone working in media/as a journalist today and I hope you'll read this and share it with everyone you know. I'm not just fighting this for me. I'm fighting it for everyone.

It’s very strange that this article on the staffing issues at Newark Airport doesn’t mention the fact that DOGE fired 400 FAA employees a few months ago, and union officials warned about exactly these kinds of shortages.

"The Campaign Finance Board just confirmed what we've known all along: Andrew Cuomo is for sale ... While Donald Trump works to dismantle democracy on the national stage, Cuomo and his billionaire backers are trying to buy City Hall."

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Yeah, I’m not a New Yorker but his massive personal faults are only matched by his staggering professional incompetence so I’m not really seeing the appeal? “We need an asshole to fight Trump”? Yeah, I visit NYC often and I think you have more than one option there.

Oh, this is glorious.

The corruption here isn’t even my biggest concern. The security risk!?! The security risk is astronomical and totally unfixable. Listening devices? Tracking devices!? Software backdoors!? Intentional AND unintentional!? Unmeasurable risk.

As Democrats slowly mount a resistance against Trump’s second administration, there is no worse person to elevate than a shameless self-promoter with an inflated sense of his political gifts and accomplishments. newrepublic.com/article/1949...

“One former aide to Cuomo told me that the two seem to understand each other. ‘When he talks to Trump, he calls him ‘boss,’ the former Cuomo aide said. ‘I’ve never heard him call anyone else ‘boss..I think he and Trump get along very well—he kind of admires him.”

A zillion-alarm fire and something that must be stopped, obviously; we're in deeper trouble than ever if it isn't. But also, an answer to all the people wailing that the courts are powerless against the Trump regime now. If that were true, the regime's supporters wouldn't need to try this.

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

This happened a lot less before our Secretary of Defense and his pals might have made it possible for foreign adversaries to hack the Pentagon. I'm sure it's just a coincidence, and not any malware or anything like that.

When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

Have I said, "Don't rank Cuomo" recently? Well, don't. Here's a new reason not to: as certain people used to say, He's not even really a Democrat.

Tomorrow, a new tool to create mixed income affordable housing called “green social housing” is going before Council. It’s not going too far, I think, to say this is one of the most consequential things Council could do to support affordable housing—all over the city.

I remember the days when reporters didn't need to add that parenthesis telling you who appointed a given Federal judge. It was a better world then. Not that I don't appreciate them doing it now, when we do need to know.