Handel

This guy gets it.

Snow-frosted FLUSHING letters on top of that booth at the corner of Main St x Kissena

Snow-frosted trees, park benches, chess table

A shot of the sky above Roosevelt Ave swirling with blizzard

Snow-frosted subway entrance on Main St

❄️ This evening in downtown Flushing

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

Can we get to 4500 letters to NY City Council by tomorrow? It only takes 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - Also if you've already signed, can you please get 4 others to do the same?

Increasingly the stories sound like the stories about tourists picked up in Iran or Russia, for trivial or inexplicable reasons. How long before we start to read them and say, like Russia and Iran, "well, they really should have understood the risks of visiting the United States."

Similar hoss ass display at the Tangram mall, pinker, more furry

Flushing, NY (!)

Black and white photo of man napping on a bench on the LIRR Port Washington-bound platform (seen from the Manhattan-bound platform on the other side)

Bayside

Screenshot of political ad: Chuck Park (for NY-6) holds potted plant above his head and the words NO OTHER CHOICE is superimposed on the video

I still haven’t seen the movie but I love this 🏆 www.instagram.com/reel/DUYe-ey...

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.

My story:

@meng.house.gov good morning from your constituent in Flushing 🙋🏻‍♂️

“Leave Greenland alone!”

Heckler interrupts Star-Spangled Banner at NBA game in London, wins cheers from crowd. (Video via Reddit)

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"

"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

Let Your Buyers Become Your Criers When You Pull The Rug Out From Beneath The Table Of Success | Defector I have some unsurprising news: Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched a memecoin to combat antisemitism, and someone connected to the coin’s launch appears to have executed a clean rug pull wi...

a perfect @redford.bsky.social headline & blog
defector.com/let-your-buy...

“CBS News. The place to see BS news.” — Nikki Glaser in her opening monologue at the Golden Globes airing on CBS.

Protesters with signs marching past St Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue

St Patrick’s Cathedral

A Prada awning above a sea of protesters. Some signs include: NO WAR FOR OIL, Queer Moms Against Fascism, IF YOU WANT A PICTURE OF THE FUTURE IMAGINE A BOOT STAMPING ON A HUMAN FACE FOREVER -1984 GEORGE ORWELL

Prada on Fifth Avenue #nyc

Begging Democrats to stop making statements that imply that annexing Greenland would be okay if they had cheap eggs there

Approves 3 casinos for NYC, vetoes freedom to read. HOCHUL

Reupping this one for New Yorkers who likely didn't see this news when it dropped right before the holidays...

She was referring to the pope but it is still kind of awkward

He equates "white" with "racist"

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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(gravelly voice from offscreen) Face the corner, idiot

I'd more readily believe that Raymond Shaw is the bravest warmest most wonderful human being they've ever known in their lives

Absolutely disgusted by Kathy Hochul, John Liu, the "gaming" (GAMBLING) commission and the long list of sellouts who rigged the process and rubber stamped approvals for the casinos

(that would be a NO)

“Everybody” apparently did not include faith leaders or their congregations in Queens

‘We don’t want this’: Metropolitan Park casino protesters rally one last time ahead of gaming commission vote – QNS Casino protesters on Dec. 14 rallied one last time in Corona ahead of Monday’s NYS Gaming Commission Board vote, which will determine whether they will grant

Full article here: qns.com/2025/12/metr...

From qns.com article: highlighted quote by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards: “They literally went to every corner of this earth to make sure that they spoke to everybody,” Richards said

Counterpoint: this is the biggest lie told in the history of all time