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Cuomo and De Blasio are making the rounds of local television this morning to defend last night’s decision to close down the city. Via Gothamist: Mayor de Blasio lifted the city-wide travel ban this morning after that devastating blizzard turned out to be just a bunch of stupid snow. There’s about 7.8 inches in Central Park this morning—not the 24 …

Bill De Blasio’s super-emotive sign language interpreter stole the show at yesterday’s conference on the blizzard, spawning a mini-meme on Twitter. Mayor de Blasio took the impending blizzard seriously Monday — and so did his expressive sign language interpreter. Interpreter Jonathan Lamberton’s animated gestures and facial expressions got rave reviews on social media. “The sign language interpreter is incredibly animated …

DeLaria and her Orange Is The New Black castmates won Outstanding Ensemble Performance at this weekend’s Screen Actors Guild Awards. Such a touching photo.

Via Politico: Hillary Clinton is in the final stages of planning a presidential campaign that will most likely be launched in early April and has made decisions on most top posts, according to numerous Democrats in close contact with the Clintons and their aides. Campaign advisers say the likelihood of a campaign, long at 98 percent (she never really hesitated, …

“Turns out there’s an actual reason why babies cry on airplanes. And it’s because they’re upset that gay people are getting married.”

Barber’s sales pitch for the above is accompanied by a pitch for a t-shirt that reads: “I’m a God fearin’, gun packin’, Bible believin’, America lovin’ conservative.” Both are $16.99.

600K views for this BMW ad in just a few hours.

This includes subways, buses, ferries, PATH, Metro-North, Long Island Railroad, and (perhaps obviously) AirTrain. New Jersey Transit will suspend all rail service until Thursday at 8PM tonight. No re-start time for the MTA has yet been announced. Wherever you are at 11PM, you’ll likely be there for 36-48 hours. UPDATE: Gov. Cuomo has also declared a ban on all non-emergency …

Via the Economist: Greece’s new prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, made history within hours of his victory by informing the Archbishop of Athens, very politely, that clerical services would not be required for his swearing-in ceremony. An avowed atheist who has nonetheless made a point of dealing courteously with senior clergy, Mr Tsipras lost no time in making known that his …

“I will not stand by and allow legislators to talk about ‘family values’ when they have affairs, and I know of many who are and have. I will call our elected officials who want to hide in the closet out. It is pretty well known that we have people in Montgomery who are or have had affairs. I just want …