Tom Watson

You Can't Beat The Traffic On The Hutch

TEAM - need your support. Our band Retro-North just released our first single, You Can't Beat The Traffic On The Hutch - a Zevonesque lament that I wrote about gridlock on NY area highways. Please listen, follow and share! I promise you'll dig it.
open.spotify.com/track/6kh6b7...

You Can't Beat The Traffic On The Hutch

TEAM - need your support. Our band Retro-North just released our first single, You Can't Beat The Traffic On The Hutch - a Zevonesque lament that I wrote about gridlock on NY area highways. Please listen, follow and share! I promise you'll dig it.
open.spotify.com/track/6kh6b7...

Looking forward to a Mayor taking actual institutional (and legal) control of all city agencies, including the police department. There's been no rudder for too long.

That's very cool! So enjoyable to see. What a time. We got written out. Not sure Cyndi Stivers "gets it," as we used to say in the 90s. It wasn't a TED talk!

That's very cool! So enjoyable to see. What a time. We got written out. Not sure Cyndi Stivers "gets it," as we used to say in the 90s. It wasn't a TED talk!

This Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and honor our trans siblings who’ve lost their lives to anti-trans violence.
Let’s recommit to fighting systemic oppression, while we also recommit to cultivating our resilience.
#RestInPride #trans #TDOR #TransDayOfRemembrance

Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.

Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:

*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats

On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...

The tax lien sale's 2025 return put vulnerable New Yorkers at risk of homelessness, sometimes over a bill that amounted to a few thousand dollars. Outreach work saved many homes but demonstrated the need for policy reform. Read more from Rachel Geballe's City Limits: citylimits.org/opinion-new-...

It’s cool how much of the internet is consistently able to be disrupted by outages at services like Cloudflare, AWS. I see no possible downsides to this.

Two signs the crash must be nigh on recent months:
1. Tech companies have been actively working to spread around the exposure to AI debt
2. People have increasingly been talking about that (which of course ‘strengthens’ the case for bailouts when it comes)

This definitely seems like a good use of taxpayer money

Oh holy night.

Every day, trump becomes more and more unhinged, displaying his unfitness for the job of President. Berating a female reporter doing her job is MORE PROOF that he doesn't respect women.

"Quiet! Quiet Piggy!"

I totally believe he's guilty of vile acts in the Epstein files.

A Staten Island concentration camp.

🤢

Cheers to @joshtpm.bsky.social for keeping the faith! Well done.

Can King Charles please take away his title now?

Chuck Schumer acting like some rando vulnerable first term swing district Rep rather than a Democratic lion of the Senate. Fig leaf "no" vote. As if he's not the leader of the damned caucus! Lyndon Johnson wept.

A perfect analogy.

It was at this moment that Ali's corner man Chuck Schumer threw in the towel.

New York Is Quietly Preparing Against Trump’s Takeover of the City Gov. Kathy Hochul has built a virtual war room to prepare for Trump’s next move

This is one of the most important Democratic initiatives in the country right now - kudos to @governor.ny.gov for taking the lead and committing to fighting back. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Happy #ProBonoWeek and a big THANK YOU to our pro bono partners who help make New York a little more just. Our partners dedicate countless hours to help thousands of low-income New Yorkers access services they could not otherwise afford.

It’s the saddest day of the year: the day that the wait for a new Slow Horses season begins.

The Bull Connor of our time

Given the cruelty of Republican SNAP cuts in this MAGA government shutdown, those NYC-subsidized grocery markets for hungry people in each borough's food deserts are looking pretty darned good. Mayor Adams should jump-start this pilot program today. (He won't, but Mamdani is right about this).

Pray for Jamaica 🙏🏾

Lol that last laugh! 😂

Maybe we should call it No Czars.

If you want some insight into the frankly toxic masculinity that's permeated a lotta left side pod bro culture, just contrast the reaction to KJP's book with the Platner SS tattoo and reddits. Just the most obvious thing in the world. These guys never outgrew the frat house.

I agree. ICE is losing.