Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

We’re not going back!

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

I really should read my own blog.

A consequence of cucumbers

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.

“They not like us!” (that’s for sure!)

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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As you might have heard, it rained in NYC recently. I had the day off, so I decide to go film in Times Square and Central Park, you know, as one does during a flood.

On 5th Ave., at Rockefeller Center, and in Times Square there wasn’t anything interesting. Just some rain and some puddles. Central Park, on the other hand, was harder to navigate because the downpour had caused both the Pond and the Lake to overflow their banks. Interestingly, the ducks, geese and, even sea lion Sally, had taken over the “people areas.” There were a few locals and tourists walking in the park, but the animals were clearly out and about. How did they know about the flooding?

Bottom line, should all the people in the city disappear overnight, I think the wildlife will be just fine.

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5th Avenue, New York Public Library (Fortitude)
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Rockefeller Center
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Times Square
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Central Park, the Pond and ducks
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Central Park, the Pond and geese
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Central Park, the Pond
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Central Park, the Pond from Gapstow Bridge
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Bethesda Fountain
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The Lake and Bethesda Fountain
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Bow Bridge

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    JPL

    Great photos!   Grand imp got to see the Christmas lights last year, and he still talks about his time in New York City!

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    Central Planning

    Somebody’s front page post is causing issues with Safari on my iPhone (17.0.3). The page automatically refreshes 2 or 3 times and then gives up saying: “A problem repeatedly occurred on https://balloon-juice.com”

    Firefox appears to work fine.

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    NotMax

    Further confirmed something I noticed when there in August.

    That is, the New Year’s ball is not only on display year round, it sits at half-staff. I thought maybe I’d caught it shortly after some luminary had died and it had been lowered akin to a flag, but your picture suggests no, half-staff is the default position.

    Bonus pic of ye olde Times Square.

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    Yutsano

    QUACK!!!

    I wonder how confused the waterfowl were when all that nice water went away. Also for the lack of bread.

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    arrieve

    Love these pictures–thank you! We had no flooding where I am (West 40’s in Manhattan) but some of my students sent me pictures of their streets in Brooklyn. It looked like New Orleans after a hurricane.

    One of the things I love about Central Park is that even though there’s a real effort to keep parts of it, like the Ramble, fairly unmanicured, the wildlife mostly behaves like savvy New Yorkers. I’ve had finches and titmice land on my arms looking for a handout.

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