The White House has not provided more details on the legality of Trump's threats, nor has it responded to questions as to how firing people who are not getting paid would cut down on waste.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that President Donald Trump has not abandoned his campaign promise to mandate insurance companies to cover #IVF services. When asked for an update, the press secretary could not give one.

The Frinkiac is also one of the few good websites. It does its one thing. It’s built on sharing but doesn’t build any stupid log-in infrastructure required to share. It isn’t cultivating a community within its walls. The web was once a lot of that. It can never grow at all and still be useful.

He called the shutdown an "unprecedented opportunity" to make cuts after earlier saying he could save billions by clearing out "dead wood."

Firstly, the MTA has won every court battle over congestion pricing, which means that it's legal by definition. Secondly, because a member of the NY delegation has declared a need to 'audit' the MTA, I'm forced to re-up my column about why that's a smoke screen: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/why...

Kid A came out 25 years ago today. It was one of the most important albums of my life. Five years ago, I wrote this retrospective: www.stereogum.com/2094039/radi...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the pope's comments. "I would reject there is inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the United States under this administration," she said before pivoting to immigration policy failures of the last administration.

LMAO the rule being used to block funding for the Hudson and Second Avenue projects appears to have only been drafted and posted as of last night. www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

“The experience [of AI] actually mirrored society.”

"Collins was aware of Adams' relationship with Ray," per a City Hall spokesperson, is as close as we've gotten to confirmation of the mayor's nonmonogamy and I'll take it.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on Adams dropping out "“Donald Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo’s actions but they will not dictate the results of this election.(1)

Steve Witkoff, Frank Carone, Vito Pitta... a look at all the threads connecting Adams, Trump, and a casino bid in the Bronx: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Today marks exactly one year since Eric Adams became the first sitting NYC mayor in modern history to be indicted on criminal charges.

oooo boy.

The shooter -- who appeared "to be a sniper from an elevated position" firing from "a couple hundred yards" away -- died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Lyons said. Dallas police said it appears the shooter fired from an adjacent building.

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The spokesperson said the company reviewed timestamped in-store video footage and found the note was not written by a Starbucks employee. The note appears “to have been added after the beverage was handed off, likely by someone else,” the spokesperson said.

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee on Friday voted to abandon its recommendation for the COVID-19 vaccine, with the committee unanimously voting to recommend that Americans get the shot "based on individual-based decision-making," meaning it's a personal choice.

wow, per our reporter Lauren Hartley who is at the hearing now, the Avenir proposal (for the Hudson Yards area) was also just voted down. two major Manhattan casino plans scraped off the board. story to come ...

#OnThisDay September 17, 1995, "Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part Two)" (S07E01) first aired on the Fox network. Guest starring Tito Puente as himself. Dir: Wes Archer. Wr: @thatbilloakley.com & Josh Weinstein. EP: @davidmirkin.bsky.social. #TheSimpsons

Worth noting that none of these are overtly about transgender ideology. The second one with the arrows might've been mistaken that way, but it's a clear "Helldivers 2" reference. That's the code you input to drop an Eagle 500kg Bomb

A Manhattan judge rejects Jim Walden's request to remove his name from November's mayoral election ballot, saying the court doesn't have the power to do so under the law. This all but certainly means Eric Adams' name will stay on the ballot, too, even if he drops out.

Trump's comments didn't recognize several acts of violence that affected Democratic individuals within the last year, such as the shootings of MN state reps and their spouses in June and the alleged arson attack targeting Gov. Josh Shapiro in April.

Every 9/11, I read @tomjunod.bsky.social’s The Falling Man. You should too. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

New Quinnipiac poll on the mayoral race out @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social leads the poll in a 4 way race and in a hypothetical 3 way race among him, Cuomo and Sliwa. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

“Sweet Child o’ Mine” hits #1 — 37 yrs ago today “.. it was just a cool, neat riff that I’d come up with,” Slash said, “but I don’t think I would have presented it to the band and said, ‘Hey, I’ve got this idea!’ because I just happened to come up with it while we were all hanging around together.”

Mamdani's response to the Adams presser

Adams says he's not dropping out, refuses to answer questions as reports of job offers from the Trump Administration grow.

inbox: Mayor Eric Adams to Make Important Campaign Announcement WHAT: Mayor Adams will make an important announcement regarding the future of his campaign. WHEN: Today, Friday, September 5, 2025 – 4:30 PM

Sources tell ABC News the talks are fluid and could fail, but point to a recent in-person meeting between Trump adviser Steve Witkoff and Adams in Florida as a clear push to get this done.

Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Meeting in Florida, w/ the NYT team: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/n...

New York’s strict ballot laws are no joke. Even if they do get jobs as an inducement to suddenly leave the state, Adams and Sliwa will likely have to fight to get their names off. And I don’t see Sliwa ending his New York story like this.

The talks have also involved finding a possible place in the administration for the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa. The goal, the people said, would be to give former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo a better chance of defeating Mr. Mamdani in November’s general election.

The first sentence is just blatantly wrong (the MTA’s budget is balanced for this year and the subsequent outyears) and the second is inscrutable.

X/Grok/Twitter summary says Trump’s Oval Office address re: Space Command relocation has already happened. It’s not until 2 pm EDT. If this is the future of news, it needs an editor.

had to double check that @jillianjorgensen.bsky.social didn't write this post.

abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-... via @wsteaks.bsky.social

With each school shooting, the number of people affected by school shootings grows, as do the conversations parents and caregivers must have with kids about the reality of gun violence in the U.S. Read on to see six tips from experts on how to discuss school shootings with kids.

As the Trump administration touts the number of arrests stemming from its takeover of Washington, D.C., some of the cases are falling apart in court.

A top NYPD official in charge of transportation is under investigation for an alleged hit and run of a parked car — and then trying to cover it up. “He’s in a lot of trouble,” a senior NYPD source said. “It’s a serious case.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/27/n...

I feel bad for anyone who was planning on proposing to their signficant other later today.

Mental health experts told me people with suicidal thoughts should talk to trained humans, not chatbots and that rather than just giving a helpline, chatbots should push people to call it or make it very easy to connect, what they called a "warm handoff." Text or call 988 if you need it yourself.

Former Congressman Peter King, a Republican from Long Island, New York, and one of the earliest champions of the Zadroga Act, told ABC News that despite the HHS claims, there is effectively a communications pause in place during which no new illnesses can be certified under the WTC Health Program.

Classic post-Citizens United playbook: political spending as corporate risk management. It's less about getting new people elected than owning the ones who have risen to power.