Ken Scher

A flock of ducks confined to a small thawed area in the Pool in Central Park, New York City

The Pool in Central Park

How Zohran Mamdani Can Revolutionize Public Safety Mamdani’s Department of Community Safety has an opportunity not just to build better crisis-response systems but to redefine safety itself—and prevent perpetual crises as a result.

How Zohran Mamdani Can Revolutionize Public Safety newrepublic.com/article/2053... via @newrepublic.com

Just fuck CNN.

Abigail Spanberger’s First Move as Virginia Gov. Was a Masterstroke Even moderate Democrats can be boldly anti-MAGA. Other centrist Democrats should follow her example.

"The next Democratic president must follow Spanberger’s and Jones’s examples and fire unqualified hacks that Trump has put into critical nonpartisan positions ..."

As Microsoft Stuffs Windows With AI, New Update Prevents Users From Turning Off Their PCs A Microsoft update prevented some Windows PCs from shutting down, adding to the perception that it's forgetting the basics in favor of AI.

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This person.

I also saved a quote of hers - I forget wherefrom - that seems pretty apt:

The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this.

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

I think I have subscribed to some of these.

A Quote Tweet from NYC Councilmember Vickie Paladino @VickieForNYC stating: “We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it. “We need to take every seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from western nations, or at the very least the severe sanction of them within western borders. “The administration needs to begin developing a formal legal framework for the denaturalization process and get it over with before we end up with another 9/11 or worse. Enough is enough.” The quoted tweet from @DrewPavlu stating: “AUSTRALIAN HERO TOOK GUN OFF SHOOTER “TERROR ATTACK SYDNEY AT LEAST 10 DEAD “AUSTRALIAN HERO TOOK DOWN GUNMAN”

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.

This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

Israel weaponises Bondi Beach massacre The correct response to violence in fact to consistently oppose violence, not the opposite

Israel has weaponised the Bondi Beach antisemitic massacre.

Here's an idea: don't use violence to justify even greater violence.

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-wea...

Thanks for circling that peepee stain. Helpful!

Immigrants Say They Have Been Scared Away From US by Kristi Noem’s Face DHS touted Noem’s face as the nation's number one weapon against immigration.

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New York Times editor Joe Kahn misunderstands what the readers want They want the Times to be more honest, not more partisan

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Saturday alter-kaker rant

Went to buy tix to Hamnet at the local AMC. A pair of seniors, purchased on Fandango would have netted $45.00.

*Abort*

We'll wait for it to go on one of the 8 streamers (that I can think of) that we or kin subscribe to.

I think this is because she worked for what we still call a journalistic enterprise and he ... well, you know who he works for.

FIFA Kisses Up to Trump With a “Peace Prize” With the world’s soccer fans watching, Gianni Infantino, the great toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed a made-up award to the increasingly violent US president.

🤮

Just cause, you know ... I checked whether any Congressional Repubnicans joined the 6 or expressed any sympathy with the message. Guess!

Pete Hegseth's Latest Little Punk-Ass Move The incompetence will continue until morale improves.

Pete Hegseth's Latest Little Punk-Ass Move
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EXCLUSIVE: Zohran Mamdani and Mehdi Discuss His Mayoral Transition, Party Politics, and Even Bollywood Watch now (37 mins) | At his soon-to-be vacated campaign headquarters, New York City's mayor-elect opens up in his first major, wide-ranging interview since winning his election.

EXCLUSIVE: Zohran Mamdani and Mehdi Discuss His Mayoral Transition, Party Politics, and Even Bollywood
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Bow Bridge, Central Park, NYC

Interrupted Central Park lap this afternoon when a brief rain blew away and some high-grade sunshine lit up the Bow Bridge. Lookit all them tourists!

National Register of Historic Places plaque at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Rode by on my bike and stopped to pay homage.

When describing the behavior of our abhorrent regime, you risk running out of bad enough terms in which to describe it. This morning, I read the word #unhinged, describing some something one of these uber-apparatchiks said, and it had almost no effect. Need to start using terms from other languages.

'Without a name change, without a flag change, we won't continue' - Israel-Premier Tech bike sponsor Factor pushes team owner to disassociate with Israel A new name and financial arrangement are yet to be worked out, Factor's Rob Gitelis tells Cyclingnews

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A picture, taken through a shop window, of a lawn sign reading "Don't Kvetch, Vote." credited to an organization called Jewish Voters Unite. Also in the picture, looking out attentively from behind the window, is a black and white dog.

What's going on here?

Someone in New York City likes Modi enough to wish him happy birthday on 4000 screens all the livelong day.

Someone in New York City likes Modi enough to wish him happy birthday on 4000 screens all the livelong day. I find this puzzling.

Pie chart showing CATO Institute's statistics on politically motivated murders since 1975. Proportions heavily skew toward right-wing motivation.

Lifted from Owen Jones - you can't say it enough.

Modern Freedom Beats Feudal Serfdom Make the Middle Ages Great Again?

Who could've guessed?

Modern Freedom Beats Feudal Serfdom
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Trump Gives Mindblowing Defense for Far-Right Radicals newrepublic.com/post/200390/... via @newrepublic.com

Verified.

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better

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