If doomscrolling does not enable action or bring you joy, go touch grass so you can fight another day. Drink some water, tell a friend you love them. We’re gonna need each other.
You can tell I’m partnered with a therapist bc I just scolded the cat for getting in the closet and told her, “it’s not your fault, but it is your responsibility.”
Recap: fearing backlash from voters outside NYC, Hochul opts to destroy highly paid engineering jobs and blue collar construction/manufacturing jobs alike throughout the tristate area, incl small towns that rely on those factories to survive
Big “masterful gambit, sir” energy
I don’t know what’s funnier, the range of topics that seem to inspire thirsty automated responses or the single attempt at translating the harassment into German before completely rejecting the concept of consent.
I wish this headline weren’t so evergreen
TL;DR: our city’s Cop in Chief is preventing City Council oversight by vetting all ballot initiatives before they reach voters, and yet the NYT’s framing depicts the Speaker of the Council as the one making a “power play”
POWER PLAY: Just as City Council speaker Adrienne Adams was quietly preparing legislation to curb NYC mayor Eric Adams’s power, the mayor has announced the formation of a commission that could block it.
Eric Adams has imposed round after round of budget cuts on essential city services but has no problem spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on NYPD overtime to violently mass arrest student protesters theintercept.com/2024/05/07/c...
Does this count? Somehow she has zero interest in cardboard boxes but loves Feliway so much that her carrier is her favorite place to nap. It’s kind of a soft-sided box…
😻🥹 I’m so proud
(She’s doing great! It was a lot less serious than expected and the vet even gave us a goodie bag with a kitty toothbrush and a dime bag of catnip. When we got home she was wobbly but purring incredibly loudly. Turns out she’s a happy drunk!)