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Trump Administration Live Updates: House Plans to End Session Early Over Epstein Pressure as Philippine Leader Visits U.S.

Like Kevin McCarthy before him, Trump's little johnson puts the vile in servile. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Speed Governor: Leadfoot Cuomo Appears to Run Red Light After Midtown Confab - Streetsblog New York City Cuomo, who already has two speeding tickets on his record, was caught on camera driving through a red light on Wednesday.

Motorhead: Cuomo's behavior is more suited to a 23-year-old suburban punk than a 67-year-old politician living on Sutton Place.
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Don't wait too long. Learn Argentine tango now.

Take the Quiz: Meet Your Mayor 2025 Candidates for NYC mayor told us where they stand on issues. Which is the top match for you? Find out before heading to the polls.

#NYC People: I'm not willing to accept that #AndrewCuomo is the best we can do in a mayor. Let's think for ourselves and please take this quiz. projects.thecity.nyc/meet-your-ma...

Me on the radio: We're fighting NYC Parks Dept's plan to cut down up to 78 trees. I went on WBAI-FM's "Living for the City." Fighting City Hall incurs legal fees, so if you believe in what we're doing please donate at www.friendsoffortgreenepark.org

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Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure *everyone* has the basic dignity of health care.

So basically, Trump is sacrificing his safety so that he can have a palace in the sky instead of the White House in the sky.

I don’t care, do you?

a woman with green hair and a necklace says i mean every word of it ALT: a woman with green hair and a necklace says i mean every word of it

And I stand by my assessment after years of coverage that Mark is indeed a shriveled soul.

Meta’s beef with the press flares at its antitrust trial One prominent tech journalist called Mark Zuckerberg a “small little creature with a shriveled soul.”

Boy, is Meta desperate or what? Om Malik is a pioneer in tech media entrepreneurship and I wrote some freelance pieces for Vanity Fair a decade ago. You’d think their high priced lawyers were smarter. www.theverge.com/politics/666...

Andrew Cuomo Is Going to Hate His Next Job He campaigns like he’s barely interested in being mayor.

This piece makes clear why Cuomo is likely to be another terrible NYC mayor. I still don't get why this famous control freak would want such a relatively powerless job. He could wait another 6 months, go after Kathy Hochul, and maybe even win. nymag.com/intelligence...

Given that Bin Laden is very dead...

Kristi Noem’s Bag, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is Stolen The homeland security secretary was dining at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. She also lost her passport and keys.

More news from the gang that can't shoot straight.

It irks me that J.D. Vance was Pope Francis' last official visitor.

Nothing can echo back what you're feeling better than an emotional support parrot.
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Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump. It Has Yet to Pay Off. With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies sought favor with the president in an attempt to steer regulation and tariffs, to little avail.

Heads I win, tails you lose. These supposed geniuses thought they could outwit Don, Don, King of the Con? The only thing that keeps them from being as foolish as the rest of us is their wealth.

It all makes sense once you accept that he's working for Russia.

Judge Ends Eric Adams Case, but Says U.S. Cannot Use Charges as Leverage The judge, Dale E. Ho, refused to let the government leave open the prospect of reinstating corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams. But his decision recognized the president’s power to determine ...

Judge Ho's ruling was the only step he could take and it means little. The marketplace is deciding the political fate of Mayor Eric Adams. I'd say he's now akin to fish bait on a hook, with piranhas in the water.

Brooklyn residents fight plan to chop down 78 healthy trees in Fort Greene Park, saying it’ll create a ‘summer frying pan’ Plant-loving locals are looking to block the city from chopping down 78 trees in Fort Greene Park – a move they say would turn the greenspace into a “summer frying pan.”

Very pleased that Nicole Rosenthal of the NY Post did a good job explaining why NYC Parks Department's plan to cut down 78 healthy trees in Fort Greene Park is rightfully under legal attack.

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Trump Live Updates: Tariffs, Federal Layoffs and Greenland Backlash

Arrogant, mean braggarts, just as Trump likes 'em.

This is a pretty extraordinary admission, made by people who know there will be no consequences.

Well, at least they look the part of competent leaders.

I've survived 5 recessions. He won't break me on this one.

Is Eric Adams Running for Re-election? Signs Point to No. Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has taken few concrete steps to launch a serious re-election campaign, even as he faces a growing field of prominent challengers.

Here in NYC we want to stop Eric Adams' turgid mayoralty. We may not have to worry about that. But returning to the Machiavellian machinations of @andrewcuomo.bsky.social would probably be our Fresh New Hell. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/n...

50 years ago in March 1975, a 33rpm LP vinyl record album cost $3.99 plus tax. In today's money, that's $23.60.

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway.

Trump appointees heard and ignored what US Agency for International Development warned them about people dying. They ignored it, because the cruelty is the point.

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Cleveland on the Ukraine invasion anniversary

27 hours until Buy Nothing Friday

Europe: Is the Force Awakening? A potential superpower realizes that it can’t rely on America

"But the Musk/Trump betrayal of America’s international principles is having an unintended result: Europe’s democracies, which as a group remain one of the world’s economic superpowers, are rousing themselves to fill the vacuum."

Since I have defended and supported the WaPo in the months since the election and the infamous pulled endorsement, I feel obliged to say: this is very, very bad. A dear friend at a Post vet says it's the worst thing to happen to the Post in its long history, and I can't argue.

The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired.

The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin
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No evidence for Peto’s paradox in terrestrial vertebrates | PNAS Larger, longer-lived species are expected to have a higher cancer prevalence compared to smaller, shorter-lived species owing to the greater number...

Peto's Paradox—that cancer does not increase with body size of mammals—was wrong.
A new, comprehensive study of 263 species documents higher cancer prevalence with increasing body mass. Some large animals (e.g. elephants) have some built-in genetic adaptations
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A wave curls and crashes from left to right as it swells toward the shoreline in Monterey Bay. the water is blue and the foaming wave front is white.

Protecting the ocean has always been a bipartisan effort, in Congress and across multiple White House administrations. In the face of ill-conceived attacks on @noaa.gov, it's time to raise our voices. My thoughts in defense of NOAA and #OceanScience: mbayaq.co/4k8vEsx