They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda
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They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda
Want to know more about birding in the city, and get to try it out?
Come join me to discuss @ryangoldberg.bsky.social's great new book Bird City on March 21 in Washington Heights!
More details and tickets on the bookshop's website: fountainbookshop.com/event/2026-0...
Come for the bird chat, stay for the complimentary sundae.
Next Saturday, on the first full day of spring, I'll be discussing my book Bird City with @kevinduggan.bsky.social at The Fountain Bookshop in upper Manhattan, followed by a bird walk in nearby Fort Tryon Park. Come join us!
Why does this read so very much like a particularly deranged brand of AI-speak
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
The new mayor said he wants "streets that are the envy of the world" — yet his Department of Transportation continues its predecessor's flawed policy on daylighting. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/03/n...
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
The lesson of the Great Snowball Freakout of 2026 is that Mamdani's efforts to appease and engage the power centers inclined to hammer him on public safety are doomed, because they're going to hammer him anyway, even for something as goofy as a snowball fight.
hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...
i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
Funny how hard these guys are for Return To Office, but when it’s time for the mass firings we have to be absolutely sure there are no possible gatherings
Common sense is to destroy it and salt the earth so nothing like it can ever grow again.
This is phenomenal from my friend @robinks.com.
It’s so heavy when you are going to get groceries and you find a car sitting with its windows broken out and it’s empty but still running and someone’s stuffed animals or pictures or papers are just laying all over the road. I have personally seen at least five of these in the last three days alone
I talked to Jack Shalom of WBAI's "Arts Express" about Bird City; the first of a two-part interview aired last night. Next week's show will have the second part. Jack ended on a cliffhanger when I admitted to being a curmudgeon about NYC's celebrity birds!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
thanks so much Bryan!
First in @nygroove.nyc: Montero is on the verge of being sold nygroove.nyc/breaking-leg...
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
Just flat-out declaring that everything Adams did as mayor after the indictment—in the final fifteen months and five days of his term of office—was presumptively corrupt, and undoing everything that's in his immediate power to undo with a single stroke of the pen.
This is the way.
I will. The Brooklyn Bird Club calendar will also have them. Here is the Bronx trip: brooklynbirdclub.org/event/boogie...
I'm glad you're enjoying it. I will be leading a field trip on Jan. 24 for the Brooklyn Bird Club to Orchard Beach in the Bronx. Some time after that I'll be leading walks in the spring every week in Prospect Park, starting mid-April.
This is in one hour! I'll be giving NYC Bird Alliance's first talk of its winter lecture series. Come join if you wanna hear about the colorful characters of NYC birding, human and feathered. Register for the link.
nycbirdalliance.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/n...
"more children should die" is a cornerstone tenet of American conservatism
I had a grand old time talking about the culture of birding with @annehelen.bsky.social.
To be clear (since NPR isn't), the "joke" is premised on the fact that Trump is kidnapping people w/o due process and shipping them to offshore concentration slave camps in defiance of court orders, human rights accordances, the U.S. constitution, all tenets of common decency, and international law.
