Wellington International Entry 2568 Alouna Z Entry: 2568 Horse: Alouna Z Riders: Laura Chapot, Layla Law-Gisiko Owner: Layla Law-Gisiko Trainer: Mary Chapot Classes Number: 1002 $8000 1:45 open jumper (sponsored by Douglas Elliman)

What percentage of "DSA comrades" do you think own dressage horses sponsored by Douglas Elliman Realty?
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for six seasons justified struggled valiantly, torn between reminding you its protagonist was a vain angry dummy and that they cast the coolest white boy alive to play him

I think the most important thing is making sure they understand they are not a super-legislature, and if they consistently pretend the law says something it doesn't, they will lose their position. I don't have strong feelings about what the court looks like after the message has been sent.

That was the (totally self-serving) justification they gave last time they packed a (lawless and out of control) court. I support it.

Should pack it either way. Need to send a message that they've crossed the line in a more than just partisan way.

Exactly one year ago today:

"If "populism" is policy that is popular but costly and "slopulism" is policy that is popular but so costly it's unworkable, what do you call policy that is popular but so costly that it's unworkable but that's a good thing because it'll mean fewer big ugly parking lots?

You don’t know what you got till it’s gone

Harry Siegel You co-sponsored a bill a decade ago urging the federal government not to renew the licenses for the Indian Point nuclear nuclear plant. That didn't pass. But you know, the plant shut down in 2021. Brad Lander That was a mistake. I co-sponsored that resolution? Harry Siegel Yeah. So that's what I was going to ask. Have your views on nuclear changed at all? And more broadly, how would you approach energy policy, which is obviously front and center, given America's war in Iran, and Israel's, as congressman?

Brad Lander Well, I mean, first and foremost, I still think we need the core tenets and outlines of the Green New Deal. We need to invest in renewable and clean energy and have a transition away from fossil fuels to renewables, as far as we can. I still want to do the Public Solar NYC, this public option for rooftop solar. I was in Copenhagen and I saw their offshore wind. I mean, that is what we need to be doing. And our politics at the moment are very far from it. But I do think there is a role for nuclear energy within our transition away from fossil fuels.

And I had not remembered that I had signed on to that resolution, but I'll view that as a mistake I made, and something I've changed my opinion on, I think like a lot of progressives on energy policy, who came out of a time when there were, for understandable reasons, a lot of anxieties about nuclear power plants. But I think we have realized that if we are going to transition away from fossil fuels fast enough to prevent catastrophic climate damage, that safe nuclear energy has a role to play.

Brad Lander voted in favor of the resolution to shut down Indian Point.

Now?

“I think we have realized that if we are going to transition away from fossil fuels fast enough to prevent catastrophic climate damage, that safe nuclear energy has a role to play.”

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i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Dispatching three Long Island finance guys who look like they should have ponytails but don't, two 67yo Florida real estate developers named Steven and Stephen, and a nephew I don't think very highly of to negotiate an advantageous peace in the war I started.

description from Huntington library: "A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave." https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033

to all who celebrate...

It's Part R of this year's executive budget introduced by Gov Hochul. If you call your AM and Senator and say you support the governor's SEQRA reform proposal they'll know what you mean

Op-Ed | It’s time to modernize SEQRA to ensure responsible development It’s time that New York modernizes SEQR and meets the mission to build new housing, reduce delays, and deliver world-class projects.

.@keithpowersnyc.bsky.social is right: We can protect the environment and build the homes New Yorkers need, but not if projects are stuck in years of review and litigation.

Modernizing SEQRA is essential to tackling the housing shortage and building a greener future.
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On consideration, I think if the deal stands along the lines that have been reported, with Iran continuing to extract its tolls and without making any other concessions, I'd say this is probably the worst the United States has ever lost a war.

Truly a shocking outcome, if it holds.

Mayor Mamdani tours the new Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at Bellevue Hospital with DOC Commissioner Stanley Richards and SVP of Correctional Health Patsy Yang.

Promises won't close Rikers Island. Action will.

We're announcing the opening of NYC’s first Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at Bellevue Hospital for people in custody with complex medical needs, including critically vulnerable Rikers Island detainees.

The journey to close Rikers has begun.

And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.

Staten Island

April 7, 1776: The Americans get the better of the British in a skirmish at Staten Island, N.Y. The encounter happens when a landing party from the Royal Navy sloop Savage and its tender come to the island’s north shore to fetch water at a spot called the Watering Place. 1/4

Noem accused these two men of attempted murder. She also cited the incident to accuse Tim Walz and Jacob Frey of criminal conduct for inciting violence against federal officers. It was all a lie. A federal officer had blindly fired his gun into the front door of a house with two young kids inside.

Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account

Remember when DHS agents had no choice but to shoot two Venezuelan men because the men had attacked them with a snow shovel and a broomstick?

New video shows they were lying about that one, too.

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In fairness, Congress functionally abolished Congress. That’s why he’s still the president.

We have whole sports leagues that are ~politically partisan, so it's easier for the major ones to remain neutral. I think if we had a single dominant sport (like soccer/football in most of the world) it would be more political.

Gamergate was by far the most important social phenomenon where 90+% of the population would stare at you blankly if you tried to explain it to them. Like how in the Byzantine Empire they had military coups over arguments about chariot racing.

East Pole on 65th.

They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?

I grew up 2 blocks from the new child care site, lived in the neighborhood most of my life, and had never heard of this restaurant until the NYT helpfully informed me that its $34 burgers are a staple part of the diet of preschool-age parents in the neighborhood.
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ACB now brings up "foundlings"

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This is the way.

[sorry, literally couldn't help myself.]

Also, everytime I hear "Jus sanguinis" (which is the idea that citizenship follows the blood of the parent not the soil that the child is born on), I think... "Man, beating Lillith in Diablo 4 was really hard man. She probably believe in Jus sanguinis too."

I think we just have to accept at this point that in popular understanding "inflation" means "stuff is more expensive than I remember it being a few years ago, right" and not the actual year over year change in the price level.