On This Day in NYC History, January 7th, 1861: A Motion for Manhattan to Secede from the Union - Untapped New York Mayor Fernando Wood motioned to have Manhattan secede from the union and become a free and independent city.

Did y'all know that NYC was such a slave city that Mayor Fernando Wood proposed that NYC secede from the Union? www.untappedcities.com/on-this-day-...

How many New Yorkers do we think know this today?

Excited

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

the nazis established *44,000* concentration camps throughout europe and *six* death camps, which are the only ones anyone ever hears about.

WOW WOW WOW Mayor Mamdani names Stanley Richards as the new head of Dept of Corrections. Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails.

Richards is currently the president/CEO of the Fortune Society, a leading nonprofit that assists incarcerated/ formerly incarcerated

"At the end of the day, it's bigger than me. The things that are going through makes people uncomfortable, imagine how (Palestinians) feel?" he said. "That's the biggest thing. I have no affiliation, no connection, to these people - other than the fact that I am a human being. If you have a heart and you're a human being, and you see what's going on in this world, you check yourself real quick. "I'm sitting here crying about football when there's people dying every single day." Al-Shaair is the Texans' 2025 Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee.

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game

www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero

1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!

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There is no nuance to genocide.

matthew did a thread on why, when you call your representatives & senators, you can make life easier for yourself

your message does NOT have to be elaborate or detailed or polished

We all exist in relation to everyone and everything else. Or as Robin Wall Kimmerer says, “All flourishing is mutual.” Let’s all flourish together in 2026 and do our best to harvest gifts from nature with honor.

Thread: I’m not really sure where to put this so I’m going to put it here and text links to my friends . We have all been having discourse about the NPSM-7 lists. Concurrently, Google has launched an AI-mode assisted search tool. Please share widely

Complaint – #1 in Emily Lyons, Administrator c.t.a. and Personal Representative of the Estate of Stein-Erik Soelberg v. OpenAi Foundation f/k/a OpenAi Inc. (N.D. Cal., 3:25-cv-11037) – CourtListener.c... COMPLAINT against Samuel Altman, OpenAi Foundation f/k/a OpenAi Inc., OpenAi Group PBC, OpenAi Holdings LLC, OpenAi Inc., OpenAi OpCo LLC ( Filing fee $ 405, receipt number ACANDC-21492305.). Filed by...

Sam Altman is going to be in the history books, but not in the way he’d like.

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Trump vetoes Miccosukee flood protection, citing tribe’s opposition to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ The Miccosukee Tribe’s lawsuit contesting an immigration detention facility in the Everglades cost them federally funded flood protection, at least if President Donald Trump gets his way.

In his veto letter, President Trump blamed the Miccosukee Tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”

via @floridaphoenix.com

mashable.com/article/hack...

NPR reported today that the overwhelming majority of the aid Israel is allowing into Gaza is *commercial.*

In other words, Israel is banning free food and shelter aid and only allowing in goods that Palestinians have to buy.

With money they don't have.

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie The Democratic Party's McClellan Problem

a little more on one of my favored analogies youtu.be/Msz2daPeTyg

if you follow military procurement at all you recognize that even getting main battle tank procurement autarky is very difficult. trying to get fighter jet autarky is next to impossible and in the modern context ~2 countries have managed it

There's a bunch of great Perun videos about procurement and supply chain stuff but one of the best ones was where he was going over about a dozen different warship classes built in shipyards across the world and every single one of them used a German diesel-electric engine

Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.

A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
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Just read that apparently a huge reason why people used to more commonly think that you grew out of ADHD was ADHD men offloading their executive function onto their wives and secretaries.

Makes sense. Also, holy shit, wow wow wow.

Yup.
I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡

Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money.

Actions:
Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly.

Words:
Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

White folks on here…

What are you doing with all the extra time you have now that you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.

Workers begin laying tracks for Egypt’s high-speed rail megaproject Described by transportation minister as the 'new Suez Canal on rails,' country's first high-speed train will link Red Sea with Mediterranean, is set to be completed in 2026

in the latest edition of "america is the new global south," egypt is getting high-speed rail

Holy fucking shit.

' Henry discovered another detail cementing the link between the two unsolved cases: the Zodiac code was generated by the key word “Elizabeth.” '

tell me again how jews have all the money