Tina Kress

A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds The $160 million Davis Center, with upgrades to six bucolic acres and a lake, writes a new chapter for the Harlem end of the park.

A profound project attempting to undo so many mistakes of the past: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...

Is it a peace process? (short video) Five quick tests for the US in a two-minute video

Useful description of whether or not it's a peace process by @timothysnyder.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

"If we have a president who considers himself an aspiring dictator among real dictators, the United States is weak where it might have been strong... we find ourselves in a submissive position that no one ever actually wanted – no one, except for Trump, Putin, and Xi."

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Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

Same

Timothy Snyder: Of Course It’s a Coup. It used to be “the center of power was a physical place”, but in an era when “power is more digital than physical”, coups look quite different. We still need to recognize it for what it is. [kottke.org]

VA patient died by suicide at top of hospital’s garage in Syracuse The veteran, a VA mental health patient, was wearing a transgender flag, a witness said.

A trans veteran unalived themselves at the Syracuse VA medical center garage while wrapped in a trans flag.

The way this administration is creating the exact conditions for this to happen is soul crushing.

www.syracuse.com/news/2025/01...

I can’t remember who said it, but “if you can’t find the time to meditate once a day, you should do it twice a day.”

If you can’t afford a break from all the news in normal times, doubly important to do it now.

Control of the entire federal purse is being stolen in the middle of the night by a Nazi. There has never been anything like this.

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

Do something @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov.

Please! We implore you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

It’s not legal it’s an ongoing active coup

The insurrectionists have seized power. They are purging their enemies.

Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?

Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence.

He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials.

It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.

When he heard a Black Hawk was involved, he probably just associated “black” with “DEI” because he’s that fucking evil and stupid.

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

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Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."