(Reuters) - 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, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Chanos:

(Bloomberg) - US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates .. @bloomberg.com #Challenger www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The person who runs this site also runs CBS News.

Arguably, the most notable shift here is how Manhattan districts voted: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

For all the critiques of Mamdani as an inexperienced pol, his campaign has been a relentless machine of clever, viral messaging and door-to-door canvassing. I’ve never seen such discipline in the 30 plus years I’ve been voting in NYC.

I mean, the Post *is* known for its headlines

$150 million might seem like a lot of money to pay for a niche subscription website, but the Ellisons knew that the ROI would be tremendous, and Donald Trump ratified that for them tonight.

New York Marathon photo thread incoming! ❤️🏃💪

Pirate ship versus monster Halloween 2025 Park Slope

The kid in the window makes it art. Halloween 2025 Park Slope

Bill engages in the dying art of media criticism, exposing a gaping journalistic hole in a 60 Minutes segment by digging a bit deeper

This is what happens when you let people graduate from college without taking history classes. The German military apparatus was the first demonstration of mass manufacture motorization of warfare. That's literally why they called it The Blitz. We eventually beat them at that game at huge cost.

You know what's cool? OpenAI preparing for $1 trillion IPO www.reuters.com/business/ope...

“Ketchup”

his wife grew up in a household that spoke a different language than he does. a normal person who has this level of bigotry in his heart would either change or realize that his entire life is worthless. I hope he recognizes the latter.

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

Andrew Cuomo, who has repeatedly criticized his rival in the race for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, for living in a rent-stabilized apartment, occupied a rent-stabilized unit himself when he was a young professional living in Queens in the 1980s.

Donald Trump: Best in Show

The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.

The NYC ballot measures are wreaking havoc on voters. No one knows how to vote on them. If ever there were a moment for an independent assessment this would be it.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

In 2020 a crowded field of dem presidential candidates moved left on immigration, many calling to decriminalize unauthorized border entry, calling to end 3- and 10- year bars. And then the party won that election.

This is an important conversation but I am struck that nowhere does the power of conservative media come up; indeed media is described as “progressive.” No mention of Rush Limbaugh and talk radio, Fox News, Twitter, or right-wing influencers with huge audiences. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

Looking for something to read this weekend? Try this... (And if you get to the end there’s a related video.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

If he were right, the import price index (which measures pre-tariff prices) would have fallen by enough to offset the sharp tariff hike. It didn't.

Islamophobia is front and center in the last days of the NYC mayor's race NEW from @yoavgonen.bsky.social + @clauirizarry.bsky.social:

Park Slope gettin ready for Halloween, we don’t mess around

An agricultural industry trade group is pushing the Trump administration to designate the Labor Department's role processing H-2A workers essential during the shutdown. If the shutdown drags out "the season will be a total loss” for many US farmers, they warned in a letter this week.

NEW: Some prominent Trump advisers and supporters are criticizing the administration's expanding military actions against Venezuela. They ask whether Rubio aims to do "regime change." Steve Bannon, Laura Loomer and Curt Mills are speaking up. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.” Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

The 2018 Supreme Court ruled a federal ban on sports betting was unconstitutional, left it up to the states. Sports gambling proliferated. Ads for betting services boomed, helping ESPN, bcast nets and sports sites at a time when traditional media was dying. Now: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

On the uptown B with a clutch of high schoolers almost an even split between Black, white, Asian, and Latino students all gabbing taking selfies playing games … a sight to see. I love New York

SP500 has gained 10% since Trump took office but is up 14% in the last 12 months and 75% since Jan 2021. Unemployment has risen slightly and consumer buying has softened. Bubble?

🤔 Interaction between HuffPost and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

"Nothing will be torn down." Karoline Leavitt, July 2025

“The key precedent that the Supreme Court must grapple with in deciding whether President Trump may deploy National Guard troops in Illinois is two centuries old and arose from the seizure of a “gray mare.’” — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

Stellar reporting by Karen Weise: Amazon plans to replace 500k human jobs with robots, A.I. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

GOOGL just lost $136 billion in market value after OpenAI announced their new browser

Ellison could still end up owning Warner Bros Discovery ... in which case, one of the main questions will be if he appoints Bari Weiss to also manage @cnn.com

Comcast has expressed interest in buying all or parts of Warner Bros Discovery Time Inc/ Time Warner/ WarnerMedia/ Warner Bros Discovery has been in some form of m&a for more than 3 decades www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/b...

I know Rupert is a print reader but most people aren’t … the AWS outage has definitely hurt news orgs:

The peace deal that … www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

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