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Small victories: after last night’s budget town hall in rural Cayuga County, a couple came up to say they are staunch conservatives but totally agree with me that Lee Zeldin’s EPA is dead wrong on abandoning clean water/air/climate protection. “He’s such a disappointment.”

I guess the white nationalist bros don't even trust the trad wives in their own families to support their policies.

This is good news. I love riding Amtrak, but we've had delays this winter b/c all the doors were iced shut, which is frankly a little scary, when you think about it. I just hope they stop designing the cars so half the passengers are facing backwards. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Amtrak Is Revamping Its Run-Down Fleet. Check Out the New Trains.www.nytimes.com

Winter blues

Rollbacks in federal consumer protections cost US consumers $19billion in 2025. When DJT says it's the "best economy ever," he means for corporate fraudsters and monopolies, not for consumers or honest local businesses.

They do realize this will hurt trad wives, right? Why aren't evangelicals livid about this?

Thank you for your work on this. It’s astounding to see a federal government turn so hard against consumers.

NY State Senate Republicans postured for 90 min today about protecting kids from pot shops located 500’ from schools. Meanwhile THIS is the kind of danger parents are really worried about.

Just passed a bill in committee by @michellehinchey.bsky.social to allow NY doctors to use immunization recs from orgs other than ACIP, which was totally purged by RFKjr. An R colleague said WE were moving goalposts for partisan reasons. He asked, If we trusted CDC during COVID, why not now? Hm. 🤔

Hey, Gov. Hochul: signing my Freedom to Read Act is good politics! “Wambsganss built her..career advocating for strict censorship in schools and libraries;… her loss signals that, even in this very conservative district, people are getting sick of the far-right telling them what they cannot read.”

This is basically the subplot of “The Master and Margarita,” Mikhail Bulgakov’s great novel about Moscow under Stalin.

Calling ICE escalation in ME “Operation Catch of the Day” is just straight up owning their role as cartoon villains, laughing and twirling their mustaches over the joy of causing misery and mayhem.

If you’re house-rich because no new housing being built, you’ll eventually have to spend all your house wealth on a small retirement apartment, and your kids will be completely out of luck. Housing abundance helps multiple generations.

Hey, Greg Bovino, here's your chance to retire to what you called "the best possible place!" That would be the South TX detention center where you sent 5-yr-old Liam Ramos.

I've known this sweet family for years. This is heartbreaking. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/01...

ICE grabs 2 men, and a suffering Syracuse congregation mobilizes: ‘This needs to stop’The federal assault strikes at the heart of All Saints Church: "This is happening all across this nation, and it’s evil."www.syracuse.com

Good for him. And we also need a wealth tax.

On the one hand - Duh. On the other - this is very well written and should help free us all to tell it like it is. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Yes, It’s FascismUntil recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.www.theatlantic.com

I put out the word at 7 Eastern that Minnesotans were calling a vigil at 8/7 Central time and 20 of my neighbors came out in the bitter cold to hold candles on the corner in solidarity. I love my neighborhood- and our country, if we can keep it.

Every elected official must speak out against what ICE is doing in our streets. Executions in full daylight; deliberate, disproportionate use of force vs civilians. Imagine if the Capitol police had killed J6 rioters with such casual brutality - and they actually had reason to fear for their lives.

Yesterday one of my constituents was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his heroic work establishing reliable transatlantic communications in WWII. It was a beautiful moment of true French-American respect and amity in the midst of the general breakdown of former alliances.