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We're using City-owned land to build the affordable homes New Yorkers need.

😳 “A law to sell [parts of] Argentina to the ultra-rich of the world *** On Aug 6, the Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill, the Private Property Inviolability Law. If approved, tech tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy & climate of Patagonia” By F. Gomez, 7/31/26… 1/

Performative bullshit. Fauci is a hero. Besides, they’re trying to ban an 85-year-old retiree from a job he already left.

JB PRITZKER Said These Words Yesterday, July 31 2026.......👏🏻

OMFG!! This is ENORMOUS! SPECTACULAR! UNMISSABLE! (Background: Permanent Pillock, Nigel Farage, who spearheads Britains most fascist party, pushed Brexit, and took £5 million crypto bribe, is running in a by-election opposed by Permanent Joke Candidate, Count Binface.) Bin (throw out) Farage!

Local pediatricians across multiple states bypass recent CDC vaccine schedules to offer independent guidance to patients. After the agency removed several universal childhood vaccines, regional health departments formed alternative coalitions to maintain evidence-based immunization standards.

Pediatricians and health officials are sidestepping Trump's CDC on vaccine advicePediatrician John Snyder gives vaccine information to Tenzin Dekey, who had brought her 1-year-old son to Amherst Pediatrics for an annual exam. She accepted the vaccines that Snyder recommended. Karen Brown/New England Public Mediawww.npr.org

Saudi Aramco has temporarily shut its 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan refinery following Houthi attacks which left the facility heavily damaged.

What if identifying ICE agents was as easy as swiping through potential matches on Tinder. Now it can be. https://crustnews.com/we-borrowed-from-dating-apps-to-help-you-identify-masked-ice-agents/

A U.S. owned floating LNG storage facility has been struck by a drone at the Damietta Port in Egypt. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack at this time. https://crustnews.com/drone-hits-u-s-owned-lng-storage-unit-at-egypts-damietta-port/

NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.www.ms.now

The U.S. has imposed new 10% and 12.5% tariffs on imports from 60 trading partners, including the EU, Canada, Japan, India, and China.

On the same day, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to end Donald Trump's war on Iran, and the U.S. military launched a 13th consecutive day of attacks against Iran. The disconnect between the U.S. President and the citizens of the USA was very well represented in yesterday's contradictory ac…

For 217 days, the U.S. government has failed to fulfill a legal demand to release the remaining Epstein files.

how's those Epstein files coming along???

The new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved the use of some UK bases for US attacks on Iran. The approved attacks are labeled as "defensive", despite this being Donald Trump's offensive war of choice.

The trick is NOT expecting better behavior. Expect continued bad behavior. The workaround is building systems that don’t collapse when people act exactly how you expect them to. #civics

Urban people (such as this humble narrator) know that at night you get the real version of cities: tired people, honest conversations, and a kind of resilience that doesn’t need branding. #strongertogether

He was impeached for being corrupt. His own office of lawyers resigned en masse because they thought he was a criminal. He was under federal indictment until Trump dropped the case. Did he think he could run for Senate and just…. Not have to talk about that stuff?

What could go wrong?