Now I get it. “America first” means we’re the only one left when all the other countries are obliterated. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

On our dear leader's prediction of "Four to Five Weeks or More" in Iran - anyone remember when Rumsfeld predicted the Iraq War would last "six days, six weeks. I doubt six months"?

Scouting America is discontinuing the Citizenship in Society merit badge for Eagle Scouts, because Hegseth thinks citizenship is for sissies and scouting should be about fealty to Dear Leader and White supremacy. Got it. www.scouting.org/program-upda...

How many cabinet members and billionaire media monopolists can you spot? “Merchants of Death,” 1935 litho by Mabel Dwight at the Whitney.

“Sadly there will likely be more…that’s the way it is.” The most graceless, cruel, unfeeling words ever spoken by a Commander in Chief on the deaths of US service members. There truly is no bottom to this man’s moral emptiness.

“The bombing will continue until we have peace throughout the world.” Can’t decide if it’s straight up Orwellian or just creepily reminiscent of the classic coaching motto, “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

Haven’t found a single mention of Congress in the coverage of our war of aggression in Iran this morning.

Beautiful afternoon in Albany. I ❤️ NY!

Small victories: after last night’s budget town hall in rural Cayuga County, a couple came up to say they are staunch conservatives but totally agree with me that Lee Zeldin’s EPA is dead wrong on abandoning clean water/air/climate protection. “He’s such a disappointment.”

I guess the white nationalist bros don't even trust the trad wives in their own families to support their policies.

This is good news. I love riding Amtrak, but we've had delays this winter b/c all the doors were iced shut, which is frankly a little scary, when you think about it. I just hope they stop designing the cars so half the passengers are facing backwards. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Winter blues

Rollbacks in federal consumer protections cost US consumers $19billion in 2025. When DJT says it's the "best economy ever," he means for corporate fraudsters and monopolies, not for consumers or honest local businesses.

They do realize this will hurt trad wives, right? Why aren't evangelicals livid about this?

Thank you for your work on this. It’s astounding to see a federal government turn so hard against consumers.

NY State Senate Republicans postured for 90 min today about protecting kids from pot shops located 500’ from schools. Meanwhile THIS is the kind of danger parents are really worried about.

Just passed a bill in committee by @michellehinchey.bsky.social to allow NY doctors to use immunization recs from orgs other than ACIP, which was totally purged by RFKjr. An R colleague said WE were moving goalposts for partisan reasons. He asked, If we trusted CDC during COVID, why not now? Hm. 🤔

Hey, Gov. Hochul: signing my Freedom to Read Act is good politics! “Wambsganss built her..career advocating for strict censorship in schools and libraries;… her loss signals that, even in this very conservative district, people are getting sick of the far-right telling them what they cannot read.”

This is basically the subplot of “The Master and Margarita,” Mikhail Bulgakov’s great novel about Moscow under Stalin.

Calling ICE escalation in ME “Operation Catch of the Day” is just straight up owning their role as cartoon villains, laughing and twirling their mustaches over the joy of causing misery and mayhem.

If you’re house-rich because no new housing being built, you’ll eventually have to spend all your house wealth on a small retirement apartment, and your kids will be completely out of luck. Housing abundance helps multiple generations.

Hey, Greg Bovino, here's your chance to retire to what you called "the best possible place!" That would be the South TX detention center where you sent 5-yr-old Liam Ramos.

I've known this sweet family for years. This is heartbreaking. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/01...

Good for him. And we also need a wealth tax.

On the one hand - Duh. On the other - this is very well written and should help free us all to tell it like it is. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I put out the word at 7 Eastern that Minnesotans were calling a vigil at 8/7 Central time and 20 of my neighbors came out in the bitter cold to hold candles on the corner in solidarity. I love my neighborhood- and our country, if we can keep it.

Every elected official must speak out against what ICE is doing in our streets. Executions in full daylight; deliberate, disproportionate use of force vs civilians. Imagine if the Capitol police had killed J6 rioters with such casual brutality - and they actually had reason to fear for their lives.

Yesterday one of my constituents was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his heroic work establishing reliable transatlantic communications in WWII. It was a beautiful moment of true French-American respect and amity in the midst of the general breakdown of former alliances.

Clearly the Russian elites believe Trumpushka has handed them everything they always wanted with his full-scale assault on our long-time allies.

If ICE officers take an oath to protect the Constitution, do they add, “except the first and fourth amendments”? Or do they just not bother with the whole oath thing?

Exactly a year ago the J6 criminals who brutalized Fed law enforcement officers got their pardons. Now they wear masks, carry weapons, and brutalize anyone who displeases them. A year ago we had rule of law, now we have pure thuggery.

Yet another downside to the history of sprawl and NIMBY oppo to dense communities in the US: it is so much harder for us to do mass demonstrations of public anger on short notice. Even if everyone pours out of their houses, most are still looking at each other across an acre of lawn.

I'm sure this is good for Duchess County, but (a) we haven't passed a budget so no one can or should be announcing this kind of thing now, and (b) there's going to be some serious pushback if only $60m (1.3%) of $4.5b is being allocated to increase access to childcare upstate.

Thanks, Joe Biden!

🧵Saw first-hand the GOP deflection machine on Monday. In debate on a NY Senate bill about protecting the identities of poll workers, one of my D colleagues said the only reason we need this is because DJT targeted poll workers in 2020. The Rs instantly started hurling deflection bombs, like...

“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?” 1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore. 2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions. 3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.

It's always exciting to see the Governor make my proposed legislation a priority in her budget. Waiting to see the details: our bill has a lot of protections, incl enhanced green building/energy efficiency, focus on affordability & access to pub trans, but it's a win to get this on the agenda!

On the eve of 1000+ rapid response "Ice Out for Good" protests, here's our generation's phil ochs/bob dylan/john prine/you get the idea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0C...

NYT leads today with their 2-hour interview with Trump. As if that’s the news. Him being transparent. Them being serious journalists. We readers benefitting from their access. The way they dance around the shooting of Renee Good speaks volumes about how their lawyers are editing their copy.

Good news from the snowy north: As of 1/1, Syracuse has its 1st Black mayor, Sharon Owens, and 1st Dem-led County Legislature in half a century, with a real mandate to give a damn about the city, for a change. With their leadership, maybe we can say goodbye to leading the nation in child poverty.

Every screen on the house is covered in snow. It was so dark this morning I couldn’t believe the sun was up. This is classic Syracuse. I kinda missed it in recent years.

First thing the city should do? Support Rain Ready NY (S4071 May/A7467 Rozic) to allow state water/sewer authorities like NYC's to regulate storm water. It's a crucial tool for incentivizing green infrastructure and discouraging projects that make flooding worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Let’s pass the New York Health Act! -Imagine your kid died from suicide because he missed a $20 insurance premium and lost a month’s coverage for his meds. -Imagine an employer who has to hire 2 people/6 weeks/year just to negotiate health plans for his employees. True stories from a NYHA hearing.

Gotta keep those reindeer at a safe speed!

We're at the point where our government is more scared of wind turbines and human trafficking victims than neo-Nazi terrorists (screenshot from the Guardian)

Here's some evidence that good policy can work. Speeding in school zones is way down since the speed cameras started operating. Proud we're taking action to save children's lives. www.syracuse.com/crime/2025/1...

Governor Hochul vetoed the Freedom to Read Act yesterday. Here’s a thread on why I believe the veto is misguided and deeply frustrating. www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...

This is an important step forward for New Yorkers who long for dignity and some measure of control when it comes to end-of-life decisions. www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

I keep flashing back to high school parties where we would play Limbo and everyone would chant, "How low can you go?" It should be the refrain for Trump cabinet meetings.