Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns. From NYT Health: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...

Not since the tobacco giants has a public company knowingly done so much harm: Meta reportedly projected 10% of 2024 sales came from scam, fraud ads www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/m...

The unemployment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds is 9.2%, its highest level since 2016. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

The stuff that fuels revolution.

Americans are still experiencing sticker-shock when it comes to housing, with mortgage payments about double pre-covid levels. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

CNBC - US job cuts last month surged 183% from September and went up 175% from than the same month a year ago. This is now the worst year for layoffs since 2009. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-c...

X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers: Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.” Read CJ Robinson. www.cjr.org/analysis/x-t...

Seeing deranged takes using Jared Golden's retirement to blame progressives or whatever. Ignore them and read what Golden actually wrote. He is burned out and afraid for his family. This isn't some intraparty Dem strategy fight, it's a bleak reflection of our society getting worse.

Heritage leader eats crow on Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes defense. freebeacon.com/politics/i-m...

New! Show! From @cwarzel.bsky.social! Go get it:

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris 60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…

So Andrew Cuomo posts this tweet saying that Curtis Sliwa was campaigning for Mamdani in March. That’s a lie. All mayoral candidates, except for Cuomo, gathered at a memorial for Covid deaths and to denounce Cuomo’s nursing home deaths.

As I predicted in @thehill on Friday, the Project Esther coalition is crumbling. This morning a prominent Jewish lawfare advocate resigned from Heritage Foundation’s ‘fighting antisemitism’ task force in the wake of the Kevin Roberts/Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes fiasco

Scoop: Venezuela's president has made multiple requests to Moscow this month, including "overhauls of defensive radars, military aircraft repairs and potentially missiles," according to U.S. government documents obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.

The Comandante Bovino play-acting was a performance piece. But who was the performance intended for? I see four audiences... www.thebulwark.com/p/this-man-i...

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

If you care who becomes president in 2028, make time to read @ashleyrparker.bsky.social 's wild ride profile of Rahm Emanuel, the "pile-driver" candidate in waiting. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Maybe the craziest pop song I’ve ever heard. m.youtube.com/watch?v=htQB...

NEW: Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over military homes that until recently housed senior officers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Since the start of the summer, “Gulf of America” has been losing what little popularity it had as the "Gulf of Mexico" is still in use almost everywhere. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine... via @niemanlab.org

The Netanyahu closer.

Here's another shot I took last week on my final Milky Way trip of the season. I still have tons of MW stuff to edit and/or re-edit from my 14 trips to the desert this year but I'm already looking forward to next season! #photography

This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)

Americans gambled $150 billion through online sportsbooks last year. Far too many lost nearly everything. Rolling Stone investigates how FanDuel and DraftKings have helped fuel the country's gambling addiction ↓

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

Trump: "There are very few boats traveling in the water right now. Actually, that includes fishing boats, that includes any other kind of boat. So now they'll come in by land to a lesser extent and they will be hit on land also."

Trump says he'd "like to do" land strikes on drug dealers

A senate candidate whose nipples you never have to see at all

Barbara Starr, who covered the Pentagon for decades, says the announcement is "beyond odd" and that the preexisting press corps "still is working every day no matter how afraid of it you all seem to be"

Premiums for employer-provided health insurance spiked by more than double the rate of inflation this year, driving the cost of a family plan to almost $27,000. Prescription drugs and chronic diseases are contributing to the higher price. www.statnews.com/2025/10/22/h...

NEW: In an administration that frequently invokes Christian ideas in government work, Pete Hegseth has gone further than anyone else. Missy Ryan reports on Hegseth’s swerve from Pentagon precedent when it comes to faith and duty. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Column: With new revelations and allegations, Britney Spears’s ex-husband Kevin Federline’s new book finds the former dancer feeling as though he’s finally worked up the nerve to tell his side of the story.

Lindsey Halligan says I’m not a journalist. But if you think I am, and you value our our non-profit legal news and analysis, you can support our work here: givebutter.com/journalism/a... You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

By 57% to 22%, voters disapprove of Trump's bail out of Argentina, per the new Economist/YouGov poll. Trump voters disapprove by 40% to 35%, even with Trump's name attached to it.

If 84 percent of spouses get up when their spouse goes to sleep, wouldn’t 34 percent of spouses lay in bed indefinitely waiting for their spouse to fall asleep so they could get up?

New: Following the death of America 250 commissioner Tom Walker last month, the Senate Majority Leader had nominated his former advisor Kellyanne Conway to help plan the semiquincentennial celebration. A win for the White House which had been trying to change the commission.

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I love my $599 AI poop camera (requiring a subscription of $6.99 a month). It gives me valuable health insights like "potential presence of blood in toilet bowl" www.kohlerhealth.com/deeper-insig...

NEW: John Bolton has plenty of evidence to argue he is being singled out for prosecution because he is a major Trump critic. But that doesn’t make the charges against him baseless, www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

From the beginning, President Donald Trump has framed his Chicago operation as a military conquest, @NickMiroff writes. As the crackdown intensifies, activists and ICE officials told him they are all worried about where this is headed. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations? JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

Read this: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story. "The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Cory Mills, boy I dunno www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/14/j...