"I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me. I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew," she said.

After John Oliver highlighted a small southern Colorado public radio station and joked about the appearance of its volunteer DJ on the season finale of "Last Week Tonight," thousands of dollars in donations poured into KRZA from around the country: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-i...

When a reporter asked Mamdani if he still considers Trump a fascist, the president stepped in with a joke before taking another question. "That's OK, you can just say, 'Yes,'" Trump said as he patted Mamdani on the back with a laugh. "It's easier. It's easier than explaining it."

Addendum: Anyone know who asked the PD headcount question without bothering to look up what the PD headcount is?

well played @thecity.nyc

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

“After devoting so much energy and so much time to help elect young leaders, I feel at ease,” she added, pointing to Mr. Mamdani’s election.

They did not identify themselves, according to the family, or show Jennifer a warrant, though it’s not clear if they had one.

In the 48 days between Oct. 6, when he landed in Albania, and Sunday, when he is scheduled to return to NYC, Adams will have spent roughly 27 percent of his time thousands of miles away from the city he governs." via @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/n...

NEW: An NYPD sergeant, Atickul Islam, faces federal charges he impersonated an ICE field office director and demanded a victim report with their family to an ICE location. Indictment is only one-paragraph, so details are still developing on this one. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/18/n...

"We are fighting for the children," said survivor Haley Robson, as she held up a photograph of herself as a young girl.

Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

"On the eve of Zohran Mamdani’s election, an assistant commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs joined a wave of commenters smearing the young Muslim candidate as a terror sympathizer." — @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/12/i...

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

All politics is local: "Students sounded a cynical note about politicians, in City Hall and their student council. “Someone running ... promised to add dividers to all the urinals and this has not come to fruition,” said Baby Doumbouya, a 16-year-old senior." gothamist.com/news/bronx-s...

A story about setting millions of dollars on fire: www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...

valve should just stealth drop Half Live 3 in May.

Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, according to internal documents reported by Reuters:

great analysis by Andy Newman. feat @jomoko.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

"If it was safety, President Trump would be threatening to deploy the National Guard to the top 10 states of crime, eight out of which are all Republican-led," Mamdani added. "But because of that party he won't actually be doing it.”

‘I did better than Mario in 1977’ is the most id moment from Andrew M. Cuomo that you’ll ever see.

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so all of the NYC mayoral historical marks following @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's win 1) 1st Muslim mayor in the city's history 2) 1st mayor of south Asian descent 3) 1st mayor born in Africa 4) 1st mayor in 100 years to be under 35 (2nd youngest mayor) (continued)

in other news Maine voters rejected a ballot proposal that would have mandated voter ID. They also approved a ballot measure apnews.com/projects/ele...

been holding onto the factoid mentioned in the final 2 graphs for 12 years.

Tallies are still coming in but @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has crossed over 1M votes.

And that the Board of Elections has handled twice the usual turnout without a catastrophe is a credit to one of the most mocked and usually dysfunctional arms of municipal governance (not part of state gov, not part of city gov, a distinct third thing — party hackery!)

2 million NYC votes with 15 min to go at the polls. xcancel.com/BOENYC/statu...

Highest turnout since 1977 was David Dinkins vs. Rudy Giuliani, which hit 1.9m in both 1989 and 1993.

NYC, are you among the 1.7 million who cast their ballot? If not, remember that polls don't close until 9 p.m. tonight. You can find our explainers on the ballot measures, where to find your poll site, and much more here: www.thecity.nyc/general-elec...

BOE with mail in ballots info 102,066 have been scanned so far. xcancel.com/BOENYC/statu...

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Elon Musk just posted and pinned this on X and pushing his followers (I guess the ones that are registered to vote in NYC) to vote for Cuomo xcancel.com/elonmusk/sta...

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.” “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

latest NYC early voting numbers in vote.nyc/page/early-v...

"She is not a Christian and has no plans to convert, but like many people in an interfaith marriage -- or any interfaith relationship -- I hope she may one day see things as I do."

A video that shows a fake Zohran Mamdani dancing while New York burns is one of many deepfakes surfacing in the New York mayoral race and beyond.

Oct 31st - Best. Bike ride. Ever. 📽️📅 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Dev Brar, a senior from Bronx Science, said he’s voting for Mamdani because of his promise to increase the minimum wage to $30 dollars an hour by 2030. He also doesn’t come across Cuomo’s advertisements. “Cuomo’s campaigns are on TV, and I don’t really watch that,” Dev said of the former governor.

“Kissing someone on the cheek, putting your hand on someone’s waist, posing for a photograph, is not sexual harassment,” DeRosa said. “And I know, because I wrote the sexual harassment laws in New York State. My blood, sweat and tears, not yours.”

Fix the City, the largest pro-Cuomo super PAC, is displaying anti-Mamdani/Sliwa ads on LinkNYC kiosks now (photo from last night snapped by a source). The LinkNYC system is a public-private partnership between the city government and Intersection, a media tech company.

"Federal law requires comprehensive asbestos inspection, notification, and abatement before any demolition," wrote the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) last week. "No publicly available information demonstrates that these statutory obligations have been fulfilled."

Happy 50th anniversary to this banger of a headline

“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.