Ari Epstein
@atepstein.bsky.social
Beautiful wintry morning today in Schenectady
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Beautiful wintry morning today in Schenectady
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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!
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December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
You know my drill. 50 posts would mean a lot. I just need 1% of my community here and a few new friends!
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
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.
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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
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.
Good day for hiking.
June 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Good day for hiking.
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
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.
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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
Via Sam Stein on twitter
June 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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
Via Sam Stein on twitter
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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
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...
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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."
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...
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
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."
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."
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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
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
Whoever successfully eliminates daylight savings time will earn the enduring gratitude of a generation of parents.
March 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Whoever successfully eliminates daylight savings time will earn the enduring gratitude of a generation of parents.
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Now hosted at 18F.org, the archive of guides and resources!
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De-risking procurement, design methods, accessibility, agile, and more…
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De-risking procurement, design methods, accessibility, agile, and more…
March 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Now hosted at 18F.org, the archive of guides and resources!
18f.org/guides/
De-risking procurement, design methods, accessibility, agile, and more…
18f.org/guides/
De-risking procurement, design methods, accessibility, agile, and more…
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
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...
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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
NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
Many Jan. 6 Rioters Pardoned by Trump Attacked Police, Videos Show www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
Many Jan. 6 Rioters Pardoned by Trump Attacked Police, Videos Show
President Trump pardoned men who violently attacked police officers on Jan. 6 along with nearly 1,600 other people who had been charged in connection with the riot. But his grant of clemency did not e...
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Many Jan. 6 Rioters Pardoned by Trump Attacked Police, Videos Show www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
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It’s sad really. Some families of these insurrectionists are worried.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
Why a potential Trump win, Jan. 6 pardons have one family fearing for their lives
When Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes went to prison after Jan. 6, his ex-wife thought her family was safe. Then Donald Trump talked of pardons.
www.usatoday.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It’s sad really. Some families of these insurrectionists are worried.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...
I grew up in Binghamton. I've worked for NYS for 10 years. Today is my first time in Binghamton's state office building.
January 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I grew up in Binghamton. I've worked for NYS for 10 years. Today is my first time in Binghamton's state office building.
Credit to my child for teaching our whole family about the existence of a screaming frog youtube.com/shorts/uhYrX...
Screaming frog
YouTube video by Spaceymusic1234
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January 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Credit to my child for teaching our whole family about the existence of a screaming frog youtube.com/shorts/uhYrX...
It's fascinating to me that 120 years ago, there was more cycling infrastructure around Albany than there is today. alloveralbany.com/archive/2015...
When bikes weren't just something on the side
That recent post about the "great popularity of cycling" in Saratoga Springs around the early 1900s and the all the discussion of late about building protected bike lanes in Albany got us looking into...
alloveralbany.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:43 PM
It's fascinating to me that 120 years ago, there was more cycling infrastructure around Albany than there is today. alloveralbany.com/archive/2015...
Good morning beautiful world.
November 20, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Good morning beautiful world.