Markerosenthal

Governor Hochul Wants to Jam Through a Mask Ban. Why? Because apparently we don't have more important issues to deal with, and other links to start your Tuesday.

As state lawmakers head into the final days of budget negotiations, New York is facing crises on multiple fronts.

But what's really important to Governor Kathy Hochul as we approach the April 1 budget deadline? A statewide mask ban.

Why? What the hell?

hellgatenyc.com/mask-ban-why/

this is fascinating: the iphone's gorilla glass screen becomes eco-friendly window glass

This is the wildest story I have literally ever read. In any normal circumstances, a half-dozen senior officials would be forced to resign over this—starting with the National Security Advisor. And I doubt anyone will face any accountability at all.

Up TO the job.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

Detainees died due to starvation or dehydration. ICE murdered them.

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

Let it not escape us: They greenlighted murdering people while scheming on how to get paid for it.

Zero harm and ample upside in Democrats calling for impeachments and a special prosecutor. The VP, the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, the DNI, and the NSC were all involved in the grossly negligent disclosure of specifics on combat operations.

He's giving us a preview of the game to attack our HBCUs.

He can take his S. African immigrant ass back over there.

You are calling for the Trump admin to investigate itself?

No, they should do what you should do: resign

My only very slight errata here is to amplify what's contained in "discovery". It's not just FOIA. It's what happens when that intelligence officer reviews the discussions and realizes, "They just treasoned. I think I have to report this." Trump already had that happen.

"The response to authoritarianism isn't acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing and one thing only: a punch in the face." - @govpritzker.illinois.gov

I like how he implies that previously people only liked Tesla because they were programmed to

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.

My family issued the following after Medgar Evers was partially removed from the Arlington National Cemetery website under the direction of the Department of the Army.

“It is a spit in the face to all who have served, honored, and fought for this country,” said Myrlie Evers.

Full statement below:

‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook (Gift Article) The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.

Compared to Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, Poland, Trump is moving MUCH faster, more aggressively, and with broader claim to power. We're not in danger of becoming those autocracies--we're very quickly surpassing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

Moving a detainee around to evade judicial review is classic authoritarian behavior.

Again, non-Jews have given themselves the right to define who is a Jew. This is still antisemitism.

The dominant form of pro-Israel politics in the US today is Christian Zionism, and it is antisemitic to the core.

And to be Palestinian here is to be the untermensch. We are seen as subhuman.

JIMINY GLICK: Now you, you, you, you—your cars, they tend to run over pedestrians. Or else BURST into flames. ha HA isn't that wonderful!
ELON MUSK: *the least convincing laugh of all time*
GLICK: *tucking his legs under himself* You bought a website where no one likes you. Why?

Why should the school not close its doors at this point?

The image is a screenshot of an X post from The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln ). The post features a manipulated photo of two individuals inside a red car. The person on the left, wearing sunglasses and a black outfit, is depicted as driving and smiling, while the person on the right, dressed in a suit with a red tie, appears to be a passenger. Superimposed text over the image reads, "Get in, we're gonna crash the economy."

And straight into a tariff wall at that.

Maximum Wage Now

I am fully serious in every way, 100% tax rate after a certain point

Rank Mamdani 1. Don’t rank Adams or Cuomo. Save NYC

"People are looking for leadership from the Dems and what they find is #collaboration. That is unacceptable."

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

Really pleased to see this excerpt from Disposable in Teen Vogue today!

Like I said, I think this statement isn't on the level. I think - break my heart as it does - that this is Kabuki. If they do get to No, my position would be this. We'll vote on clean CR. And we'll even give you your DOGE stuff! On one condition. Put the cut plan for each dept on paper. And pass ...

“All New Yorkers, except Palestinian New Yorkers …”