When people are hired, not for their honesty or competency, but for their ability to be snarling trolls on TV for the delight of their immature and unpleasant boss, you get an AG like Pamela Jo Bondi.

Syria’s Religious Minorities Need Stability - And We Can Help

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Staten Island Ferry not in its usual side of Manhattan

Paxton tells Texas schools to follow Ten Commandments law despite court ruling Attorney General Ken Paxton's guidance comes days after U.S. District Judge Fred Biery sided with 16 families who sued their school districts to stop the law from going into effect.

My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery."
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Newsom: "We're doing this in reaction to a president that called the governor of the state of Texas and said 'find me 5 seats' ... we cannot unilaterally disarm ... other blue states need to stand up"

US Attorney Pirro's office admits grand jury refused ICE interference charges — twice Federal prosecutors told a judge they had failed twice to secure an indictment against Sydney Lori Reid for allegedly assaulting an FBI agent during an ICE arrest.

BREAKING: Federal prosecutors said today they went to a grand jury twice to indict a D.C. woman for assaulting an FBI agent during an arrest by ICE — and were twice rejected.

Notably, she faces the same charge as the District's alleged sandwich thrower.
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There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

Some very unofficial rainfall totals from today’s #extremeweather #NYC #storm #thunderstorm @nymetrowx.bsky.social

The NYPD announced that all lanes on Francis Lewis Boulevard and 39th Avenue were blocked due to flooding, as of 4 p.m. Shortly before that, they announced that the Clearview Expressway was closed in both directions at Northern Boulevard. https://qns.com/2025/07/storm-flooding-queens/

Flooding on Clearview Expressway in Queens prompts evacuations Video shows people being rescued from submerged cars on the Clearview Expressway in Queens on Thursday afternoon.

Drivers rescued by police after cars get submerged in flooding on Clearview Expressway in Queens. Ali Bauman has the story.

Opinion | This Is Brad Lander’s New York

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Y'all notice they're rounding up most of these "freeloading" immigrants AT WORK???!!

Doctors at the CDC say children should receive Covid vaccines. A disgraced ex-environmental lawyer who spent 20 years abusing heroin says they shouldn't. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

One of the easiest ways for the public to see the value of NOAA / NASA / USGS data is for broadcast TV, streamers, weather apps, etc, to simply start showing (sourcing) agency logos on graphics.

Repetition and visual association works.

Hurricane season would be a great time to start.

I didn’t realize it until we were outside, but I let my daughter color with markers and now she has MS-13 tattoos all over her legs

Such a wasteful show of force kfor.com/news/local/w...

Musk-owned company says it qualifies for federal contracts reserved for small businesses Not long after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Elon Musk’s $7 billion tunneling company registered as a small business on a government portal for federal contractors.

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Army Corps made veteran in Kansas City scrub agency’s ‘DEI’ content. Then she was fired “I am an ally and a champion for things that I was told to scrub,” former Army Corps of Engineers worker Cynthia Clark said.

Clark and others at the Army Corps were instructed to go through social media posts to scrub DEI: words and ideals “that I have been taught my whole entire career were important and is what the Navy and made our country stronger.”

And then she was fired...
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Marco Rubio’s Policies Might Shut the Door to People Like His Grandfather (Published 2016) Under the stricter screening Senator Marco Rubio now supports, his grandfather would most likely have been deported, depriving him of knowing the man he has called his mentor and closest boyhood frien...

Despite Rubio’s grandfather’s “insistence that he was fleeing oppression, immigration officials raised suspicions that he might harbor communist sympathies…That charge, had they pursued it, could have led to a conclusion that he was a national security threat.”

Oh. The. Irony.

Thank you! A U.S. District Judge has approved requests from anonymous federal employees to proceed under pseudonyms in multiple cases against the Trump administration to protect themselves from potential harassment and threats.

The only immigrant trying to destroy the country.

@nymetrowx.bsky.social what are you thinking about the next 3 precipitation events?

I’ve rarely heard state referred to as a community - county/parish, NTA, census tract, etc. What are the counties with highest birth rates?

i prefer “performance art” rather than “crying in the grocery store”

Trump's sentencing today could have a chilling effect on future presidents' ability to use campaign money to bribe porn stars into keeping quiet about the sex you had with them when your wife was home with a baby.

Hochul free school meals

Major proposal from Gov. Kathy Hochul here: universal free meals in New York schools.

Congestion pricing: NYPD catching dozens of scofflaws, and even wanted criminals, in Manhattan toll enforcement operations | amNewYork In the congestion pricing era, the NYPD is expanding ongoing enforcement operations — stopping vehicles with fake or obscured license plates traveling into

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