What I can’t wrap my mind around right now is why so many of the people I interact with on a daily basis are carrying on as though nothing is happening.

Everyone benefited by congestion pricing should be screaming from the rooftops. The problem of course is all of the other more pressing things to scream from the rooftops about. We’ll lose our voices before Spring. That’s the point isn’t it.

Congestion pricing is one of the many governing success stories that this administration is dismantling.

Trump moves to stop congestion pricing tolls in New York City The tolling program launched on Jan. 5 after years of delays.

A small injustice in the context of other Trump administration moves, but this is such a huge mistake. Since congestion pricing went into effect, my commute has been 20-30 minutes shorter in each direction. This means more time to be with my kids. More time to work.
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Opinion | The Barrage of Trump’s Awful Ideas Is Doing Exactly What It’s Supposed To Amid an onslaught of bad ideas, Democrats need to muster a better vision for the future.

This is like parenting. You cant just tell your kids over and over that screens are bad. You have to offer them something else that’s better. Time to change the conversation. Imagine if we just all collectively stopped talking about Trump at all? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

Kayaker swallowed by whale recalls feeling 'slimy texture' in its mouth Adrián Simancas, 23, was kayaking off Chilean Patagonia when he found himself inside a whale.

Maybe we are all Adrián Simancas, and Donald Trump is the humpback whale. Spit us out now please. www.bbc.com/news/article...

3) the author of this letter is not some lefty hack. She is a member of the Federalist Society and a former Scalia clerk. She has the balls to stand up and say no even if it means losing her job. I wish more members of Congress were like her.

2) the quid pro quo it describes is truly vile. In exchange for his own freedom, Adams is willing to condemn potentially tens of thousands of people to deportation, family separation, detention at Guantanamo Bay, and worse.

1) it reveals in stark terms exactly what is currently at stake in the Trump administration’s attack on DOJ. A must read for anyone who wasn’t that worried about the ongoing purges of DOJ rank and file.

Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated

This is a remarkable letter for so many reasons www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

An important reminder from @elienyc.bsky.social: “The problem is that the court has no enforcement mechanism. It has no army, no police force, no power to impose its will. Instead, the executive—in this case the president—is supposed to enforce the court’s orders. But what if Trump doesn’t?”

Enthusiasm for the death penalty combined with 1) complete utter disregard for due process and rule of law, 2) ongoing plans to build deportation camps, and 3) marginalization and illegalization of entire categories of people = terrifying. These are the building blocks of death camps.

Trump’s Gaza Plan Has Many Pitfalls, Hamas Among the Biggest President Trump’s proposal to “own” Gaza and transfer its population elsewhere has stirred condemnation and sarcasm, but it is an opening bid and could disrupt a tired diplomatic paradigm.

What’s shocking about this is how seriously @nytimes.com is taking it as a policy proposal. This isnt a policy proposal to be debated. It’s a declaration of war and a threat of annihilation for the purposes of expanding real estate development opportunities. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/w...

“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump More than 300 career employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA ...

I hope those who can decide to stay. While there are other ongoing horrors whose effects are more immediate, gutting the EPA will have long term devastating consequences for all of us.

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@rachelmayny.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social

New York’s fight over whether to aid ICE heats up in Albany While federal officials lambast the state’s immigration protections, some legislators call to bolster them.

This is when New York decides: is it Denmark or Poland? gothamist.com/news/immigra...

@sengels.bsky.social

Crisis at DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division - Legal Planet Dismantling ENRD will be disastrous for future administrations, the American people, and even for the Trump Administration.

Not to be lost in the onslaught against freedom and democracy, behind the scenes dismantling of federal agency capacity to do the important and laudable work of public service. legal-planet.org/2025/02/04/c...

@justinpidot.bsky.social @andrewmergen.bsky.social

It is only getting harder to listen.