Charlie

As long as people think posting is really doing something, nothing much real will happen.

Even when they're in the majority, they bow to the minority.

So you think bombing the people of Iran is a good idea, just as you think the war crimes in Palestine are a good idea, and retraining I.C.E. thugs is another good idea. You're just full of good ideas that kill people, aren't you?

Town of Newburgh to use ranked-choice voting after lawsuit The ranked-choice system will give voters in the town of Newburgh the option to rank their preferred candidates for town board on the ballot.

The ranked-choice system will give voters in the town of Newburgh the option to rank their preferred candidates for town board on the ballot.

Reading Robert Kelly 2

The Gulag History Museum Is Gone. But Its Lessons Remain. - The Moscow Times Opinion | News of the liquidation of the Gulag History Museum in Moscow was long-awaited and sad.

www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/23/t...

Reforms painted with water colors that get washed off in the first rain? You can train those thugs for a year, but when the regime tells them what to do, they will disregard all the training. That's what thugs do. No we need ICE abolished, and many should be prosecuted. We don't need secret police.

Regional Foodbank Distributions upstate NY for March, 2026
(regionalfoodbank.net/food-distrib...)

Here in the gray frozen upstate, all the days look the same. At least when I see the 'flop' I know it's Friday!

New York City police investigating after officers were hit with snowballs during a snowball fight New York City police are investigating after officers were pelted with snowballs while responding to a massive snowball fight at Washington Square Park in Manhattan.

“removed by EMS in stable condition” to a nearby hospital, but did not disclose additional information on their injuries.
- wait... don't snowflakes just melt?

apnews.com/article/snow...

The older we get, the threat of life in prison means less and less.

As a member of the mono-linguistically impaired, I highly appreciate the efforts of translators.

verse 1 - Second Threepenny Finale, from the Threepenny Opera - Bertolt Brecht
John Willett, translator

ICE won't be at polling places this year, a Trump DHS official promises In a call with top state voting officials, a Department of Homeland Security official stated unequivocally that immigration agents would not be patrolling polling places during this year's midterms.

Everyone believes people who work for DHS, don't they?
www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...

from Simmering Pot by Moris Tepper

Nothing can appear more contradictory than the principles on which the old governments began, and the condition to which society, civilisation and commerce are capable of carrying mankind. Government, on the old system, is an assumption of power, for the aggrandisement of itself;
- Thomas Paine

"By continuing this absurdity, man is perpetually in contradiction with himself; he accepts, for a king, or a chief magistrate, or a legislator, a person whom he would not elect for a constable."
- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man

Albany residents report mail delays An Albany resident says he received mail on Saturday. But before then, he hadn’t gotten a delivery in about a week. The resident is one of a number of locals reporting delivery issues.

As a former letter carrier, it is sad to see the USPS gutted and abandoned by Congress and the Executive Branch, apparently all in an effort to ruin vote-by-mail.
Here in the NY Capital Region:
www.wamc.org/news/2026-02...

Albany residents report mail delays An Albany resident says he received mail on Saturday. But before then, he hadn’t gotten a delivery in about a week. The resident is one of a number of locals reporting delivery issues.

Here in the New York Capital District, it seems all mail gets re-routed to Connecticut, and it can take weeks before a piece arrives at its destination, so I think vote-by-mail might already be unreliable.
www.wamc.org/news/2026-02...

Albany residents report mail delays An Albany resident says he received mail on Saturday. But before then, he hadn’t gotten a delivery in about a week. The resident is one of a number of locals reporting delivery issues.

Nice of you to speak up. Congress has never supported the USPS very well, and the current regime is working hard to ruin mail in ballots.
www.wamc.org/news/2026-02...

I worked for the USPS for close to 30 years, and it's a real shame to see that the government has just about ruined service. www.wamc.org/news/2026-02...

Do you ever do Town Hall meetings Mr. Schumer? As one of your constituents, I am disappopinted that we never get to meet you.

Your free speech rights end where billionaires’ feelings begin.

So, there's 2 of us anyway.

So, let me get this straight. You all say you hate the guy and his regime, but you'll all be watching him on tv?

Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist Thirteen books make this year’s longlist for translated fiction, which awards a first prize of £50,000

So many thanks to the judges of the International Booker Prize for longlisting my translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social in the UK and New Directions
in the US. 🙏

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Are you going to protect her if I.C.E. comes to get her while she's there with you?