E.J. Kalafarski

Cell reception (on T-Mobile, at least) used to be less than one bar in Moynihan Train Hall, and now I’m getting 5 bars! Someone upgraded something.

Pump this into my veins.

Right, cutting Maglev is fine, that wasn’t going anywhere. But I haven’t heard them articulate positive support for anything yet. And I have a hunch the political pressure will be to avoid anything that Biden ever said a kind word about. They’re going to end up throwing money at Hyperloop.

He still hasn’t told us what projects he’s actually for.

Penn Station needs to be reconstructed, yes, but won’t get anyone anywhere faster. What high speed rail is he saying that we actually should spend money on?

Yikes. It's not often you get 3 months of bad jobs numbers in a single month. I wonder if any major changes to global trade policy happened exactly 3 months ago?

Walsh is on the correct side of trying to contain Trumpism, but this kind of post does MAGA’s job for them. The original article was clickbait that quoted four random TikTok commenters. Walsh is the only one turning it into a “Democratic party thing.”

Hey DOGE I found $85 million being spent on something useless.

Yarvin is the final boss of right wing fascism. He’s been laying the nativist seeds of it for 30 years. His anti-democracy, anti-America, anti-Enlightenment philosophy is going to have to be the final part of it taken down to defeat it, like de-Nazification after WW2.

There should be a German word for saying to yourself, “I can’t decide if this is exactly what’s happening to us or if we’re doing better than this.”

My history obsession led me to build a time travel app for your iPhone. In recent episodes of The Gilded Age, Larry Russell didn't actually go to Delmonico's, but if he had, it would have been its then-current location on Madison Square Park. Time travel there by getting the app at dejavutheapp.com

'Star Trek: Year One' series with Paul Wesley's Kirk is '100 percent' dream plan (exclusive) A 'Star Trek: Year One' series, about the first year of Paul Wesley's Kirk as captain, is '100 percent' the dream plan. 'Nothing would make us happier,' showrunners say.

What if—and I'm just spitballing here—what if we tried something new? ew.com/star-trek-ye...

I like to run up to strangers frantic and ask “what year is it”

YouTube video by Star Trek First Look Teaser | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

I desperately want to love any new Star Treks. But 1) "Starfleet Academy" is a lazy premise that showrunners have been trying since 1982; 2) placing any new show 1,000 years in the future instead of Trek's present day continues to feel like a detour, not hope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrGv...

Do we even have a word yet for government that is outsourced to A.I.? Besides “Skynet?”

Yes, it's insane that Bongino tweeted this as a U.S. official. But it's more insane that a purported news organization fell for it and made it their top story.

Insanely, this is the top headline on Fox News right now. It says nothing. It contains no facts. It contains no news. It's just a conspiracy headline placeholder. www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-deput...

It’s unnerving to hear Trump refrain from commenting on an ongoing investigation the way Presidents are supposed to, for the first time ever. Of course, it’s only because the investigation is an embarrassment to himself.

He might not have been aware of Devine’s record, but he certainly should have been aware of Hawley’s record.

Trying to distract from the Epstein files isn’t working.

Attorney General Told Trump His Name Appeared in Epstein Files

So the distractions are working great, then? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...

Tuesday's Weather Rating: 10/10

THE ELUSIVE JULY PERFECTION!!! High temperatures reach the low 80s with sunny skies, very comfortable dew points and a manageable, pleasant breeze. That's the secret formula, man. The vibes are immaculate out there today!!!

Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files.

Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:

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The hard decline has happened to me. I went 15 rounds with customer service and no one at MTA was able to fix it. The only solution was to report my card as stolen to my card issuer and get a new card with a new number. www.reddit.com/r/OMNY/s/hXa...

My history obsession led me to build a "time travel" app for your iPhone. This week The Gilded Age visited the Haymarket, the house of ill-repute in Manhattan's Tenderloin District in the 1880s. Travel there in the app by getting it at dejavutheapp.com

YouTube video by Design Lovers Apple Design: why we keep coming back to this?

This is a great dissection of why UI design has always loved glass as a metaphor, but more specifically why Liquid Glass is happening now. youtu.be/A_h4A8caCTM?...

The press conference thing is fair. But if you’re watching Batman, the one suspension of disbelief that it demands you accept is that Bruce Wayne has some psychological hangups.

God help me, when I see the HBO logo, my brain still expects the Entourage theme. I’ll grow out of this someday, right?

Ronald Acuña Jr. made one of the sickest throws you will ever see

YES

We need Part III with Vernita Green’s daughter grown up! It’s time!