Debra Scherer

I’m a Voyager stan, but season 4 is very intense to watch right now #startrek #voyager

South Bronx Family Album — The Culture Crush Photographs by Ricky Flores

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Was waiting for this discourse to begin. Adams is now the mayor, just like how Guliani brought NYC back after 9/11 even though Bloomberg was the mayor 🤔

I worry for the future in this new Paramount environment

Why Does Renovating the Fed Cost $2.5 Billion? Asbestos, Height Limits, Lead The yearslong project to overhaul the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, D.C., has run into multiple hurdles.

Now I see where this is going...either he fires Powell or makes asbestos great again #maga www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

This Epstein thing is becoming the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, no?

Upper East Site headline writer for the win!

almost nobody pays for the bus ;)

Cultural Political Shift No One Saw Coming A Cultural Political Shift Has Been Revealed...

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US giving hard Kings Landing vibes right now

Why do tomorrow what you can put off until never?

Valentino faces uncertainty as CEO takes sick leave amid profit slowdown Italian luxury brand Valentino said on Monday its Chief Executive Jacopo Venturini was currently on sick leave, responding to media reports of his imminent departure.

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I'm imagining the conversations on the tennis courts of Southampton this weekend

great point. the centrists could have united around somebody other than Cuomo a year ago, but they didn't bother until Mamdami looked likely to win www.eschatonblog.com/2025/06/inco...

Joe Biden, master oil trader The president has turned volatility into profit

meanwhile www.economist.com/finance-and-...

....one of those "the air is like inhaling bus exhaust fumes" days in my beloved NYC

Culture Crush, My Laboratory of Ideas When I started dreaming up the Culture Crush in 2017, all the “new media” startups were drunk on funding and obviously sketchy audience metrics that were the fee

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The concept of sexual harassment has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for Mayor.

Never forget

I think he might be everyone’s #2, could be a surprise on both sides

very tropical today

The Subway Is Not Scary Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?

there are so many things I could dream up to point AI at, (being a liberal arts nerd) the platforms, as you pointed out, are a good example of the inherent problem of "who is the architect?"

it's the imprecise nature to keep an eye on, just thinking it could turn out to be quite an own goal

the "AI will take all the jobs" scare mongering from the valley is funny, as the jobs it would be replacing the most are the ones that involve coding

Gristedes isn't really a supermarket anymore it's a real estate grab and if you knew anything about Catsimatidis you'd know that.

Those waterfront apartments in Coney that look like they belong in Miami are his because he doesn't accept the science of climate change

Upper East Siders Deserve Better Than Andrew Cuomo [Opinion] 🆓 Before you vote, you should know that Andrew Cuomo caused many of the problems that he now says need fixing in New York City.

even on the ues www.uppereastsite.com/andrew-cuomo...

and nobody mentions how little power the NYC mayor actually has

These people aren’t afraid Mamdani would be a bad mayor. We have a ridiculous, corrupt, incompetent mayor right now and the city is hanging in OK. They’re declaring all-out war because they’re afraid Mamdani (or Lander) might be a good mayor.

If we want this to stop, “Don’t rank Cuomo.”