Rachaele Raynoff
@thoughtsin2type.bsky.social
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Figure Skating Is a Young Woman’s Sport. She Wants to Change That.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Reposted by Rachaele Raynoff
Some Winter Olympics athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by masking and isolating.
Meanwhile, the media stigmatizes disease prevention while minimizing serious risks of Long COVID.
Read more from @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rHDA6R
Meanwhile, the media stigmatizes disease prevention while minimizing serious risks of Long COVID.
Read more from @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rHDA6R
February 11, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Some Winter Olympics athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by masking and isolating.
Meanwhile, the media stigmatizes disease prevention while minimizing serious risks of Long COVID.
Read more from @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rHDA6R
Meanwhile, the media stigmatizes disease prevention while minimizing serious risks of Long COVID.
Read more from @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rHDA6R
Excellent news. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/05/w...
New York City Joins WHO Network After U.S. Withdrawal
The city is the first municipality to link with a network that aims to rapidly detect and respond to public health threats and emergencies.
www.thecity.nyc
February 6, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Excellent news. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/05/w...
Not again!
Ugh
My latest @npr.org story: The Trump administration is proposing to include a U.S. citizenship question in this year's field test of the #2030Census in Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C., as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps
February 5, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Not again!
So glad this was released on Perchik’s Gotcha Day! It’s a reminder that my cutie needs remedial work to use his talk buttons. Until then, I’ll have to try understanding what his whines mean! www.pbs.org/video/can-do...
NOVA | Can Dogs Talk? | Season 53 | Episode 3
Do speech buttons really allow dogs to talk to us? Scientists investigate.
www.pbs.org
February 4, 2026 at 11:11 PM
So glad this was released on Perchik’s Gotcha Day! It’s a reminder that my cutie needs remedial work to use his talk buttons. Until then, I’ll have to try understanding what his whines mean! www.pbs.org/video/can-do...
Score one for the @mta.info OMNY card in frigid weather. I stuck the OMNY in my big fat mitten and tapped in without having to remove the mitten. My cold hands thank you.
January 27, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Score one for the @mta.info OMNY card in frigid weather. I stuck the OMNY in my big fat mitten and tapped in without having to remove the mitten. My cold hands thank you.
A happy story for a change: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/n...
Carrying for a Cause: Meet the Man Lugging Shelter Dogs Around New York
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
A happy story for a change: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/n...
This is a big fiscal and political challenge for the incoming administration. Important reporting by @clauirizarry.bsky.social for @thecity.nyc on the Comptroller audit of the health fund that shows the piggybank is broken. Curious timing for its release. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/30/l...
Explosive Audit Urges Dissolving Insolvent City Employee Health Fund
The review by Comptroller Brad Lander finds the joint city and municipal union fund owes billions to the city following contract deals that aimed to save money on health care.
www.thecity.nyc
December 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is a big fiscal and political challenge for the incoming administration. Important reporting by @clauirizarry.bsky.social for @thecity.nyc on the Comptroller audit of the health fund that shows the piggybank is broken. Curious timing for its release. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/30/l...
A holiday staple I cherished from co-workers and neighbors has gone mainstream. #coquito
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/n...
Coquito Was Once a Puerto Rican Secret. Now Everybody Knows.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A holiday staple I cherished from co-workers and neighbors has gone mainstream. #coquito
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/n...
Geeking out online at the NYC Time Capsule trivia contest. What better way to spend a rainy night?
December 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Geeking out online at the NYC Time Capsule trivia contest. What better way to spend a rainy night?
Think Train Daddy is secretly pleased about the outcome of the NYC mayoral race?
What should be uncharacteristic good news comes with plot twists: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/n...
Byford, Once New York’s ‘Train Daddy,’ Set to Lead Penn Station Overhaul
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Think Train Daddy is secretly pleased about the outcome of the NYC mayoral race?
Super interesting housing proposals by @aarmlovi.bsky.social to enable the incoming NYC mayor to make good on his promises while doing no harm to existing housing stock. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/a-h...
Vital City | A Housing Roadmap for New York’s Next Mayor
How Mayor-elect Mamdani can rise to the central challenge facing the city
www.vitalcitynyc.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Super interesting housing proposals by @aarmlovi.bsky.social to enable the incoming NYC mayor to make good on his promises while doing no harm to existing housing stock. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/a-h...
Worth a listen: IBO chief discusses the human cost and ripple effects to the city economy of the fed shutdown and other budget cuts. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
How federal funding cuts are affecting New Yorkers
Louisa Chafee, director of the city’s Independent Budget Office, joined “Inside City Hall.”
ny1.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Worth a listen: IBO chief discusses the human cost and ripple effects to the city economy of the fed shutdown and other budget cuts. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Apparently this bona fide New Yorker beat patkiernan.bsky.social. How New York are you? Take The Quiz:
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October 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Apparently this bona fide New Yorker beat patkiernan.bsky.social. How New York are you? Take The Quiz:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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My kid read at 2-1/2 & got multiplication by returning deposit bottles. She hid her talents from playmates who thought it was odd. Only when she entered a gifted public kindergarten was she accepted. Create more gifted classes. Fix the others. Don’t trash what works.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...
Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My kid read at 2-1/2 & got multiplication by returning deposit bottles. She hid her talents from playmates who thought it was odd. Only when she entered a gifted public kindergarten was she accepted. Create more gifted classes. Fix the others. Don’t trash what works.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...
Reposted by Rachaele Raynoff
Use of the pain reliever has surged 9 thousand percent.
Study Links Trump Being President to Increased Use of Tylenol
News from Medicine
www.borowitzreport.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Use of the pain reliever has surged 9 thousand percent.
Gridlock Sam chronicled the pain of NYC commuters and raised traffic analysis to a new level in public awareness. Now his work will continue. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...
‘Gridlock Sam’ Gives Back
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Gridlock Sam chronicled the pain of NYC commuters and raised traffic analysis to a new level in public awareness. Now his work will continue. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...
Good news amid the chaos.
BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.
September 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Good news amid the chaos.
Reposted by Rachaele Raynoff
This doesn’t bode well for Democrats taking back Congress in the midterms. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
5 Takeaways From the Times Analysis of Democratic Decline in Voter Registration
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This doesn’t bode well for Democrats taking back Congress in the midterms. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
Please read this powerful and personal message. Don’t take vaccines and health for granted.
August 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Please read this powerful and personal message. Don’t take vaccines and health for granted.
This is a gnarly problem that will take creativity and compromise to address. Grandstanding is not a cure.
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s pledge is raising alarms as bankers refuse to finance regulated buildings where costs outstrip income.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/07/b...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/07/b...
Rent Freeze Proposal Chills Cash-Starved Owners of Bronx Buildings
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s pledge is raising alarms as bankers refuse to finance regulated buildings where costs outstrip income.
www.thecity.nyc
August 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This is a gnarly problem that will take creativity and compromise to address. Grandstanding is not a cure.
Beat ‘em with humor. A classic must-read!
“The American economy added a million new jobs in May and a billion new jobs in June,” Santos declared.
Trump Taps George Santos to Head Dept. Of Labor Statistics
Beltway insiders are calling it one of the most stunning political comebacks in American history.
www.borowitzreport.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Beat ‘em with humor. A classic must-read!