Fair points by @pahlkadot: Federal bureaucracy wasn't great. Goal should be an "effective administrative state.... Mr. Musk’s recklessness will not get us there, but neither will the excessive caution and addiction to procedure that Democrats exhibited..."

RT @RepGraceMeng: In Congress, I am continuing the fight by pushing legislation I’ve authored to make Lunar New Year a federal holiday so t…

RT @THECITYNY: If you want to weigh in on who gets the major-party nomination for mayor or city council, you’ll need to vote in the June pr…

RT @alykatzz: Not your imagination: fewer food vendor carts are on the streets because vendors are staying home to avoid receiving NYPD tic…

RT @lnachman32: After pausing foreign aid to Taiwan, Trump is now also going to place tariffs on Taiwan’s semiconductor chips: https://t.…

Donald Trump is the president you get when political decisions are largely informed by social media. For the left and right, I bet the candidate most likely to get clicks and views, to trigger an emotional reaction (whether “heck yeah” or revulsion), was Trump.

NYC voters, here’s your cheat sheet on the ballot measures

RT @bethfertig: And yet... They keep popping up. Kind of like —what's the word — "weeds." More than 750 NYC stores selling weed without lic…

The best detail is a decal at John Waters’ favorite bookstore that reads "Baltimore: Actually, I Like It."

RT @Reuters: Hundreds of people in Taiwan and Hong Kong attended candlelight vigils to mark the 35th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown at…

RT @SpeakerPelosi: 35 years ago in Tiananmen Square, the world witnessed one of the most courageous acts of dissent – and one of the most v…

With sets like the Notre Dame, Lego is trying to reframe playing with its toys as “a legitimate leisure-time activity” for adults. Fun read by @jggross

NYC has both skyscrapers and horseshoe crabs. Every year this prehistoric and vulnerable species comes to the city to lay its eggs. There's even a festival to celebrate it. H/t @THECITYNY

😱 “They have a very high number of genes, so they have a high, high potential for adaptation,” Dr. Bornberg-Bauer said. “To rapidly evolve into anything further.”

RT @Rainmaker1973: You may not know that Jules Verne wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, miss…

RT @MujMash: Strangers in Their Own Land: Being Muslim in Modi’s India With @HariNYT @saumyaphotos — on anguish & isolation of being const…

Sometimes kid and adult apologies are indistinguishable.

The Bronx clubhouse, which was the site for a famous gang treaty that allowed for the birth of hip-hop, is closing in August. Via @THECITYNY

RT @C_Sommerfeldt: Mayor Adams and his advisers confirm the executive budget doesn't reverse any of the $58.3 million in library cuts. Li…

Love this essay by Ed Yong: “When I step out my door in the morning, I take an aural census of the neighborhood, tuning in to the chatter of creatures that were always there and that I might previously have overlooked.”