For the 600K people who pass through every day, Penn Station is indispensable. It remains the busiest transit hub in the U.S. It is also widely abhorred. More broadly, it is a stagnant symbol of something deeper in America, a condition that afflicts so many attempts to get big things done: inertia.

Another front in the state assault on free speech www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

We're talking margin of error differences, but this is the worst net approval of the 2nd term. apnews.com/article/trum...

If your answer is singular, do more.

Should I get a set of white wall tires?

Miami scene: supercars and sax in front of the Gucci outlet at the mall across the street from the home of 2x defending Stanley Cup champs

brb in 28 days

Takeaways for researchers: • LLMs are worse stand-ins for humans than they may appear. • Don’t rely on human judges. • Measure detectability and meaning. • Expect a style–meaning trade-off. • Use examples + context, not personas. • Affect is still the biggest giveaway.

Mitch McConnell went scorched earth from day one, which is less of an option for Schumer due to the composition of his caucus and the GOP's. 1/3

New York's aggressively Democratic congressional map got tossed by a Cuomo-appointed judge after Cuomo wrote an op-ed opposing it.

Savage stuff from @theonion.com

The company that manages our 401(k) has helpful recommendations for improving my post-retirement financial situation such as "consider working after retirement" and "raise your retirement age"

NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

Just listened to @npr.org on Musk's pay package and it is *so* much crazier to hear him talk about a "robot army" than to read the quote.

Although GOPs did better in Nassau than in 2021, their candidates for County Exec and DA are now incumbents. And while Mamdani was toxic out there + featured prominently in GOP paid comms, that model will be hard to export outside the NYC suburbs.

Gotta go back and listen to Revolutionary Vol. 2, it's been years. "Makes me wonder if the word of God is lost to man / This is for the children of Iraq lost in the sand" m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlc-...

Vote no on 6 to preserve the odd year revenue of political consultants like me!* *actually you should vote yes

The richest guy on earth has the politics of P.W. Botha

Biblically, in the case of his research assistant

This is a good read. Though like most pieces on taking the Zohran movement nationwide, it elides NYC's public financing system. ZM ran lots of TV and was able to position himself as the foil to a very unpopular Cuomo because of an 8:1 taxpayer-funded match that's not available elsewhere. 1/

Nouvelle Vague was gorgeous to look at, and quite drôle.

One of the most obvious things we should be doing is requiring labeling of AI content, similar to how we handle food.

I'm not running this morning, but good luck to all who are!

Ohtani, Snell, Yamamoto in the same game. Dodgers Extended Universe.

NEW: The WH did not disclose several donors to the ballroom who have business before Trump: ▶️Jeff Yass, investor in TikTok parent company: $2.5m+ to ballroom ▶️BlackRock, trying to buy Panama Canal ports: $2.5m+ ▶️Extremity Care, Medicare reimbursement issues: $2.5m ▶️Vantive, Medicare reimbursement

Vlad shows up to game seven in a Marie-Philip Poulin sweater. Absolute king. (via Dan Richard)

This bathroom bullshit is a good reminder that Trump appeals to a lot of Americans because he is how they imagine themselves being if they were super rich.

Doing Politics is complicated, actually. [diagnosis of problem] > [solution of problem] > [so we can xyz] matters, but is downstream from who the candidate is, ie how they talk about their values / the qualitative impression they make. Everything has to jibe, AND create a contrast. 1/

I just realized that Zombie Cuomo will live forever as a "Dems are too far left" talking head, and I want to crawl back into bed.

Happy Halloween! Enjoy your "chocolatey" treats! Love, Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/c...

Getting rid of Marner was all the Jays needed to go from worst to first

Wait, what?

Clip this article! It will be helpful when you watch A Muppet Christmas Carol and your kids ask what a "poorhouse" is.

Grokipedia is a pretty good illustration of one of AI's central challenges. It can build an almost-as-good Wikipedia if Wikipedia already exists, but a grokipedia trained on grokipedias will suck.

Excellent @jamellebouie.net on our "sclerotic" Congress (gift link). Just after the 2010 midterms I was on a panel about how we would address long-term challenges. The moderator was Gabby Giffords, just two weeks before she was shot 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Farewell Jack DeJohnette, a genius who was burning it down until the very end. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg4m...

Excellent read from @kellyweill.bsky.social and worth noting that the "internet was implicitly understood to exist in reaction to real life, not to control it" newsroom fallacy very much prevailed within campaigns as well 1/2

Borough-specific "I Voted" stickers!!! via @rachelholliday.bsky.social @thecity.nyc

Tribute to Alyssa Naeher at halftime of the WNT game

For context, $75MM would be equivalent to *months* of advertising from Budweiser or Coke.

Peak

There's a whole host of other stuff with which the GOP is going to eviscerate Platner. Calling rural white people racist and stupid, saying lobstermen are "drug addicted maniacs" and "pieces of shit," calling himself a communist, ACAB...

John 18:37–38

Smokin' Al is the last guy still standing who was on DC sports TV when I was a kid. Wish Glen Brenner was still here; Trump would've set a new record for Weenie of the Week wins.

There are some legitimate challenges for Democrats in Mamdani's popularity rating, but they're entirely concentrated in NYS, eg high unfavorables + high name ID in suburban NY House battlegrounds . 1/

NYT thankfully reserves the worst hed for the sports page today. The claim she mistakenly took her maid's medication is "not credible" and evidence on her phone suggests she was trying to fool doping tests.

Amazing Pokemon moral panic "headline from history" meanwhile NBA gambling is A1 today

Good, clear heds

I know this bit is played out but Obama couldn't wear a tan suit (made in America by a Holocaust survivor) because it degraded the Presidency while Trump has literally demolished the East Wing of the White House.

There’s no room for hate and bigotry in our politics or in our country, and that includes naked Islamophobia suggesting a Muslim candidate for Mayor would cheer for a terrorist attack against the city he’s running to lead. This is what Trump and the GOP want, we must reject it.