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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Beautiful wintry morning today in Schenectady
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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You know my drill. 50 posts would mean a lot. I just need 1% of my community here and a few new friends!
I’m thrilled to share that Recipes from the American South is featured in @phaidonpress’s holiday edit.

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December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
While we are remodeling our kitchen, this Coleman stove from family camping trips of my childhood has served us well. But I am looking forward to being able to cook indoors again.
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If the issue is with your ny.gov id (the single sign-in service for NYS), you could try Fixit@its.ny.gov or 844-891-1786. www.ny.gov/services/get....
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Check out our brand new website!

adirondackwilderness.org/wild-thought...
Adirondack Wilderness Advocates' New Website — Adirondack Wilderness Advocates
We have a new website!
adirondackwilderness.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Had this whole valley in the Adirondack Forest Preserve to ourselves the whole holiday weekend. No user fees, no reservations, including a lean-to and resident (and only slightly leaky) canoe.
July 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Good day for hiking.
June 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
We also had the opportunity to see the alpine meadows in bloom. I believe these are Lapland Rosebay and Labrador Tea. These plants are abundant 1,000 or so miles north, but have been chased up the summits in New York and only found on about 80 acres of the tallest peaks in the state.
June 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Had a lovely time in the High Peaks with my eldest child last weekend. Mount Marcy is in the distance. If you squint, you can see there was still a snowfield below the summit. Perhaps the heat wave did it in.
June 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A Muslim friend was explaining this to me the other day. It gets really interesting for rituals that depend on time of day when you live at high latitude. Jewish calendar and rituals have much in common, and interesting to learn some similar strategies apply to resolve the address the complications.
June 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Via Sam Stein on twitter
June 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
פסח שמח מנו יורק
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I love that it's a stink bug.
March 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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March 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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It's easy to do this. I just did. My first one, too.

Here, you can even put this "Medical care for transgender people is essential and should not be banned from ACA plans. This question shouldn't even be asked."
The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.

Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
March 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
March 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Whoever successfully eliminates daylight savings time will earn the enduring gratitude of a generation of parents.
March 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I'd like to hear her ideas about how to prepare for artificial general intelligence.
March 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Now hosted at 18F.org, the archive of guides and resources!
18f.org/guides/

De-risking procurement, design methods, accessibility, agile, and more…
March 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Remind me again what he was impeached for the first time? Trump’s Ukraine Mineral Deal Is Seen as ‘Protection Racket’ Diplomacy www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...
Trump’s Ukraine Mineral Deal Is Seen as ‘Protection Racket’ Diplomacy
The United States wants to be paid in exchange for helping the country fend off an invader.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Is there a website for this app?In NY (and most other states I would hope), you need a license that requires training, background checks, etc. to do this work.
February 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.
www.huffpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Reform or Orthodox?
January 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM