Jim Cronin

People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!

If your savings account can’t buy you a yacht, maybe stop voting like it can.

George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

What to Know About Getting a COVID Vaccine in New York This Fall The confusion around guidelines is making things tough for pharmacists and patients alike.

We’re headed into cold and flu season and you want your shots, including an updated COVID booster. Where can a New Yorker go to get the jab?

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Opinion: Why we resigned from our jobs as journalists after an Alaska elected official made threats over coverage The duty of a community newspaper is to provide coverage of local elected officials and government. The ability of journalists at the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion to do this was undermined by our ...

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$20 Dinner Map Affordable eats, premium reviews. Hell Gate's interactive map of $20 dinners.

Back in March, we took New York City's best affordable restaurants, as determined by our amazing $20 Dinner dining critic Scott Lynch, and put them in a snazzy interactive map. Subscribers love the map! hellgatenyc.com/20-dinner-map/

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Under Donald Trump’s economy:

Coffee is up 26%
Beef is up 14%
Oranges are up 17%
Bananas are up 6%
Chicken is up 6%
Chocolate Chip Cookies are up 5%
Potato Chips are up 4%
Milk is up 4%
But average worker pay is only up 2%

Trumpflation is eating up your paycheck.

An apartment complex. A headline reads: "Did Switzerland Solve The Housing Crisis?"

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

I see they got my letters

Can’t wait till every single device in my life sells my data and pushes ads in my face while also charging me a subscription for something I technically own

#BookSky

Really roundabout way to say he’s definitely on the Epstein list.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"

Moving scene - tears, hugs, and cheers - inside the State Dept HQ last night, as diplomats gathered in the lobby to clap out their laid off colleagues, some of which have served for decades 👇🏻

Employees carried out belongings after over 1300 fired at the State Dept

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Amazing stat: According to this piece, If you put solar panels on just half of the land used to grow corn for ethanol in the United States, you could generate enough solar power to eliminate the need to generate any electricity from fossil fuels.

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1/2 You could write a book about one atrocious headline in print NYT today

(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)

What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."

Really bad.

a fake NYT headline that says "Zohran Mamdani Tripped on the Sidewalk and Thought Nobody Saw It. But We Did"

ok lmao which one of you did this mamdanitimes.com

Fake NYT headline: "Zohran Mamdani is Popular on TikTok. Can These GOP Donors Fix It?"

Fake NYT headline: "Mamdani Accepted iTunes Terms and Conditions Without Reading"

Fake NYT headline: "In Mamdani, Some Democrats Recoil at Sight of Popularity"

Fake NYT headline: "Mamdani's Economic Message Failed to Move These Trump Voters in Rural Tenneessee Diner"

Lol. Someone made a website that churns out fake NYT headlines about Zohran Mamdani mamdanitimes.com

I had some thoughts about the @nytimes.com nonsense attempted justification for running a non story filtered through a racist about Mamdani

My god @nytimes.com what are you doing?

One piece missing; a vision never quite complete. This is why one should never buy used jugsaw puzzles, of course, yet it also somehow feels like Edward Gorey would approve