"In 2025, many [travelers] opted for destinations other than the United States. U.S. international visitor numbers declined by 5.5% compared to 2024." That's a huge hit for the U.S. economy. www.cndenglish.com/tourism/us-t...
Posts by Mark A Thompson, MRNY
#Caturday sun legwork
Work, work, work— on #Caturday
🇱🇺Luxembourg has enshrined abortion rights in its constitution, the second country, after France, to do so.
No Kings 3 (but YES to Queens…) — it’s always an honor to marshal with Rise & Resist; you meet so many people along the march and you realize how most of us are decent and kind. @riseandresist.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @indivisible.org
"...in the middle of the Prairieland trial, Pittman held a private meeting with former Attorney General William Barr, who in 2020 threatened to take “all action necessary” against “far left extremist groups and anarchic groups using antifa-like tactics.”
You may kiss the paw; it's #Caturday.
#Caturday sun. Can you bring me my coffee?
Wait, what? Did I miss #Caturday?
For the first time in New York, Gainsborough’s portraiture has its own exhibition at the Frick with more than two dozen paintings from collections around the world.
@frickcollection.bsky.social #TheFrickCollection #Gainsborough @nytravelwriters.bsky.social
www.mrnystyleandtravel.com?p=27453
#Caturday manicure
"Previous estimates showed the US economy generated 584,000 jobs in 2025, the first year of Trump’s second term, which was deeply discouraging.
Now, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy actually added only 181,000 jobs..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
"Levi's on #Caturday? Sound purr-fect to me."
What do you expect, it's #Caturday.
Dinah Washington + Max Richter + Christopher Wheeldon + NYCB = Beauty Amidst the Darkness
@maxrichtermusic.bsky.social #MaxRichter #ThisBitterEarth #DinahWashington #ChristopherWheeldon #NYCB
www.nycballet.com/discover/bal...
“The Republican Party, animated by fantasies of crushing liberals and minorities once and for all, is fundamentally devoted to achieving one-party rule.” —an interview with @josephoneill.bsky.social
"With a blizzard like this on #Caturday, I'm gonna need another bottle."
"Sometimes a zen state is the only recourse on a #Caturday."
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
“Get up, get down; New York is a freaky town. Get up, get down; New York is a freaky town.” — and we love ALL of us. @riseandresist.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @indivisible.org
"After a week like this, #Caturday can't come fast enough."
The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.
"He did what? This #Caturday cat is not amused."
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
"Dictation? Not on #Caturday."
Happy #Cat Christmas—whether you're naughty or nice.