I don’t bike but I love walking and I’m a big fan of shared-use trails, and got this pic of a cyclist crossing one of the oldest covered bridges in the US, at Glimmerglass State Park near Cooperstown, NY.

One of life’s persistent questions: WHY does the US insist on paying Ralph Lauren to design boring-ass aristocratic outfits for Team USA in the Olympics?? In a country full of embarrassments, this is a big one! I hate it.

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A+ work from the Albany Times Union.

Surely someone has done a thesis on this but...I remember People Magazine--which is very mainstream and in most grocery stores in the US--writing about and normalizing gay marriage long before it became popular and...this is what they're reporting on now: the harm of post-Roe abortion bans.

I have sicced my parents and their fellow retired NY public schoolteachers on their pension fund to tell them to divest from Tesla. #TeslaTakedown

Finally realized who Tom Homan reminds me of.

Barbara Boxer did a similarly legendary interview with the Post in 2023 and made life after the senate seem like paradise.

The bad news is my governor is Kathy Hochul. But she's a follower, so I hope at least she chooses to follow better governors like Pritzker, Walz, Healey, and Kelly in acknowledging what we're facing and then doing something about it.

It's not subtle.

Thought a lot about my favorite line from 30 Rock this week.