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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

OK. @jamellebouie.net has a great takedown of our pundit class. Exhibit 1 is David Brooks. Guess what? Yale just hired him to teach undergrads. 1/ youtu.be/46tpqFxfomI?...

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The pundits have completely lost the plot

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I dream of living in a world where the media just reports “Trump writes memo falsely claiming he has the power to…” instead of “Trump issues executive order that…” Accepring the framing that the President is a king issuing edicts is such a disservice to readers, and democracy.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Unless they publish all of Mitch McConnell’s trading history showing all the insider trading he has been doing the past 3 months with Senate info, I’m not going to believe he’s actually still actually alive.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

We have reached the level of NYC blizzard where people have broken out cross country skis in Tribeca to travel.

Somebody in full ski gear on cross country skis in front of the Citigroup building in Tribeca. She was making pretty good time.

Zoomed out view of our cross country skier in front of Citigroup in Tribeca.

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/01/2026

As dangerously cold temperatures move through New York, we have opened 10 warming centers across all five boroughs to provide safe, heated indoor spaces for New Yorkers in need. Centers will be open through at least Monday evening at the following locations —>

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Really interesting watching the Republican Party embrace the argument that federal agents can kick down your door without a warrant, and also that if you happen to own a gun they can just kill you for that. I thought their whole brand was spreading fear Dems were going to do that.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Can at least ONE reporter who interviews police chiefs PLEASE ask if their officers will arrest ICE agents when they witness them violating laws or violating civil and constitutional rights? “Are you fine with just standing by if the criminals have badges and guns?” Protect and serve, or quit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/01/2026

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

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Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Somehow destroying the independence of the DOJ and regularly violating the law didn’t even make the sub-heading of this piece.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

On days like this I feel bad for joking with my friend Eric that his work for the UN specializing in “rules of the sea” were not really that interesting.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I hate to make predictions like this, but after Mamdani is in office Trump is going to send ICE to hassle Nannies in NYC around preschool drop off and pickup. It would be like targeting a Home Depots elsewhere as it’s where a lot of immigrants are. And it would create tons of pain for NYC liberals.

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Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Well, how about that? Seems just a little inconsistent with the position (and sworn testimony) DOJ presented to Judge Xinis.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

So NVDA, the poster child for the AI boom beats and has strong guidance and investors use it to sell. Not really a great market sign for the “it’s not a bubble and has a long way to run” crowd. If we start to see more data center financings run into trouble, this could get really ugly, fast.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14/11/2025

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Can the press PLEASE stop writing articles about things like “President to review cutting federal spending to NyC after Mamdani elected” without ONCE noting that federal spending is set by CONGRESS and not the President. This BS doesn’t work unless you keep failing to inform the public.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Okay, the world may be crazy, but Pebbles here is just hanging out while I’m working remotely today. Thanks dude for just being you.

Pebbles the dog. A too cute Cavapoo that hangs out right here when I work from home.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Just remembering a friend who used to throw a “day after Halloween” brunch. You were required to wear whatever remained of your costume and bring anyone you may have “slept over” with shall we say. Ah to be young.

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Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

These motions are going to be part of the playbook for more cases to come. And they are exceptionally well done.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Lots of paranoia about a mayoral candidate who wants to increase taxes on people’s SECOND million dollars of annual income. I mean sure, nobody wants to pay an extra $20,000 in taxes, but if you make $2mm and it’s maintenance it so other people can live in the city it’s a good investment. Grow up

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’d be more suspicious of someone who just referred to a relative as their “second cousin, twice-removed” or such. Real Americans wouldn’t talk like that unless they were genealogist nerds. I will die on the hill that using subjunctive mood is ok though, since mom was an English teacher.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Then president is publicly talking about picking winners and losers in the economy- from Ranchers to Chip manufacturers— and the national media is concerned about a NYC mayoral candidate being anti-capitalist because he wants some free busses and city operated grocery stores in food deserts.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I wonder how long it will take people to realize that the President is so out of it that Miller and Vought gave him a construction project to keep him busy. It’s the same way you give a toddler legos to play with so the adults can have a conversation. He likes building big things- not governing.

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Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"Having struck out with Uganda, Eswatini and Ghana, ICE now seeks to deport [Mr. Abrego] to Liberia -- a country with which he has no connection, thousands of miles from his family and home in Maryland… Costa Rica has agreed to accept him as a refugee, and remains a viable and lawful option."

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DHS, pressing to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, says Liberia has agreed to accept him

DHS says the West African nation of Liberia has agreed to accept wrongly deported Salvador native Kilmar Abrego Garcia as the agency continues to seek his removal.

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Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm sure this dramatically understates the numbers giving the brutality and cluelessness of the ICE efforts. Lawyers should be raising their hands to bring some of these cases so the stories are told.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I do wonder what fun has been happening at every private credit firm that has grown a giant trade credit financing book post First Brands. Like, how many guys that were patting themselves on the back for putting hundreds of millions to work are now wondering if they do any real diligence.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Perry asks, what if the president is relying on "completely invalid evidence?" "What if DHS folks are not tethered to reality in their assessment of events. Does that matter?" Hamilton: "A couple points …"

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Has any member of the press asked for copies of the warrants DHS used to raid the private homes of every person in a Chicago apartment building? Unless there were a ton of warrants signed by a judge, detailing the places to be searched and the people to be arrested this was all illegal.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Soldering up a #adafruit propmaker feather for some Halloween lightsaber fun.

My daughter working the soldering iron to attach some wires to an adafruit propmaker feather

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

If Colbert and Fallon don’t book Kimmel as a guest on their shows asap it’s a huge miss.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I do wonder how much of an invasion of the 4th Amendment Kavanaugh would see if federal agents were detaining and searching all white men, in suits, near business centers, speaking English with East Coast accents —because that is correlated with perpetrators of white-collar crime.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Odds Tuesday the old man declares a national emergency and martial law to distract from everything else? Too high.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Now just hear me out for a second. If that guy was a “sandwich artist” can his tossing of the sub not just be protected first amendment activity?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe. From the Chief Economist at Moody's.

The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue.

Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked.

It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy.

Any notion that the economic data misrepresents the reality of how the economy is performing is way off base. There are revisions to the data, even big revisions, but they universally say the economy is doing worse. That’s because it is.

BTW, the DOGE cuts are a key factor in the revisions—not because BLS has cut staff, although that can’t help, but because the government often reports payrolls to BLS late. It didn’t matter when government employment was stable, but now that it’s declining, the cuts are picked up in the revisions.

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David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I actually found this expansion pack the other day lol:

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The kids finished the claw machine project with #circuitpython and some feather boards from #adafruit. I’m super proud of all they did to make this work and it was a huge hit with all the kids around here. #maker. A good mix of CAD/3D printing, woodworking, soldering and coding.

The final claw machine up and working. A big hit

Posing with the claw machine before the plexiglass went in.

Cutting holes for the windows and the control box.

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Peter Butler @1717pete.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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A 17-year-old high school student in Dayton, Ohio, has been fined and placed under house arrest after authorities discovered he had hacked into the city’s outdated traffic control system and quietly fixed the timing of several major intersections.
Kameron Price, a self-taught coder and robotics club member, reportedly used a Raspberry Pi and a decommissioned school-issued Chromebook to gain access to the municipal traffic grid. Over the course of several weeks, he rewrote the timing logic for at least five major lights along West 3rd Street—drastically reducing backups during rush hour and syncing green lights to reduce stop-and-go congestion.
“He didn’t disable anything or cause danger,” said a traffic engineer speaking on condition of anonymity. “Honestly, his code was more efficient than what we were using.”
But city officials said the changes violated multiple laws, including unauthorized access to a government system and interference with public infrastructure. Kameron was cited under a local ordinance pertaining to unauthorized modification of municipal services—a misdemeanor typically reserved for utility tampering.
According to Kameron’s parents, he initially took it on as a side project after watching his bus get stuck at the same broken intersection every morning for weeks. “It would take longer to go three blocks than it did to get across town,” his mom explained. “He got tired of watching everyone waste gas and time just sitting there.”
Public reaction has been overwhelmingly in Kameron’s favor. A video of the intersection running smoother than it has in years has gone viral, and a local radio host dubbed him the Subway Surfer of traffic flow. Online petitions calling for the fine to be dropped have already surpassed 50,000 signatures.
“Honestly, give the kid a job,” one commenter wrote. “He’s doing more for this city than whoever programmed those lights in 1998.”

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Andrew Schmelyun @aschmelyun.com · 27/06/2025

Llama model on a Raspberry Pi repeats token generation about its disconnected state until it runs out of memory, crashes, and starts back over again. I love projects like this, and it's only his second video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNY...

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I trapped an AI model inside an art installation

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

So I guess Congress is just going to give up all its power and our democracy in about six months’ time.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

A productive weekend. She mounted the gantry and the controls, now we just need to mount the last (y axis) stepper motor and belts and we can start moving the RP2040 feather, motorwings and lighting related electronics inside to start testing the kids’ code. #maker #adafruit

She’s built and assembled the control panel on the claw machine and mounted the gantry. It actually is starting to look like an arcade machine now.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Kids finally wore me down so they have a new baby brother. #cavapoo.

An 8 week old cavapoo looking at the camera.

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

So anybody know why soho is swarmed with plainclothes cops/ feds like crazy right now? Don’t see anything on the news…

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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Kids claw machine project getting back on track, as my son gets to play with all the bigger tools to build up the box.

Using the Brad nailer on the plywood that will become the box

The impact driver for the side that won’t be nailed and glued (just a few screws) so we can do maintenance down the road

The cabinet nailed and glued along with the gantry made out of some motion control bearing blocks and some 3d printed parts to allow stepper motor motion control for x,y and a spool for x axis. Next step painting.

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