A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

The average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline, according to AAA, is $3.084.

Last month saw the most October layoffs in 20 years. Plus: unsold new homes, flight reductions, and robot upskilling. Today on Marketplace.

Private investment funds and credit firms are inching their way into the mainstream, but how are they different from public firms? They’re not exactly “the Wild West,” but they are regulated quite a bit less.

Founder and CEO Kyle Clark, his family and other company officials stood on the balcony that overlooks the trading floor and rang the exchange’s iconic opening bell at 9:30 a.m.

The Dems who voted to confirm Brooke Rollins: Baldwin (WI) Bennet (CO) Booker (NJ) Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gallego (AZ) Hassan (NH) Heinrich (NM) Hickenlooper (CO) Klobuchar (MN) Ossoff (GA) Peters (MI) Rosen (NV) Schiff (CA) Shaheen (NH) Slotkin (MI) Warnock (GA) Welch (VT)

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the worst elder millennials you know are going to experience the worst hangovers of their lives this holiday season. and i think that's beautiful

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...

New: The Trump administration might limit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s oversight of auto lenders. Potentially, that could mean the CFPB would no longer supervise any lenders that cater to subprime borrowers. My latest for @marketplace.org www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

New: The Trump administration might limit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s oversight of auto lenders. Potentially, that could mean the CFPB would no longer supervise any lenders that cater to subprime borrowers. My latest for @marketplace.org www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

As the government shutdown drags on, some states are running low on money to help low-income residents heat and cool their homes. Typically, many families find out how much their benefit will be around November 1st. But for many, that won't happen this year. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

More than 5 million households depended on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to pay their heating bills in the 2024 fiscal year. As the government shutdown drags on, funding for the program is up in the air.

Where’s the beef? The amount of cattle in the U.S. has declined by 6 million over the past five years, but demand hasn’t shrunk with supply.

As the government shutdown drags on, some states are running low on money to help low-income residents heat and cool their homes. Typically, many families find out how much their benefit will be around November 1st. But for many, that won't happen this year. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

The fun thing about being a journalist is sometimes the old photo your phone decides to feature is of your spouse or dog or a landscape... and sometimes its Bernie Sanders in a KN95 on election night 2022.

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One of them is a state senator in Vermont. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

One Battle AF indeed

GDP growth right now is basically: 1. Lower imports (after pull-forward early this year) 2. AI data center investment 3. Upper income consumer spending, fueled by strong stock market (see 2) “It doesn't feel sustainable to me” - Shannon Grein, economist at Wells Fargo.

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Your annual reminder that Yankees Suck

NEW: A company that bills itself as meme-SaaS wants to be the go-to platform for culture warriors and gov agencies like DHS. (Its founder has also been calling me the R word over on X dot com. Great people!) www.inc.com/sam-blum/mee...

"The department’s outsize presence in Vermont is attributable to one man: former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. For nearly half a century, Leahy steered a tsunami of federal funding to the state..." Great on-the-ground reporting from Paul Heintz. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/m...

Even though layoffs have been slowing, it's been an especially tough year for government workers and for staff at nonprofits that rely on federal funds.

Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt https://theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-down-street-with-cup-of-coffee-1819574012/

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The Vermont-based electric aviation company hopes to trade under the symbol “BETA,” according to the filing.

As consumers rush to buy EVs before the tax credit ends on September 30, business is booming for dealerships. But reimbursement delays and procedural changes have meant some sellers are paying out of pocket, hopefully temporarily.

Electric aircraft developer Beta Technologies prepares for IPO theaircurrent.com/aircraft-dev... (via @elanhead.com & @jonostrower.com) #staycurrent

NEW: with just days left before EV tax credits expire, car dealers say they’re facing new hurdles from the IRS — implemented without warning or explanation. My latest for @marketplace.org www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

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(Bloomberg) - US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that .. Trump has been using to try to oust .. Lisa Cook. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

As both an occasional saxophone player and a person with close friends, I endorse this.

I do not know how to fix it, but I cannot say enough how much we in the news need to figure out how to handle the “flood the zone with shit” strategy.

I try not to do media criticism because we all make mistakes and there but for the grace of god go I. But it was really irresponsible for mainstream outlets to run with the "trans slogans engraved on the bullet" narrative, which seemed implausible from the jump.

NEW: Bitcoin ATMs are facilitating scams across the country. In Idaho, where there are no laws regulating the machines, I spoke to store clerks who have been stopping scams as a last line of defense. www.inc.com/sam-blum/cry...

I know a lot is happening, but— Trump Media announced ETFs explicitly tied to his politics yesterday. Trump owns 115M DJT shares and, as president, wields huge influence over the sectors these ETFs will target.

It’s the 2002 Minnesota Twins

So I just opened @nytimes.com and it showed me the homepage from Feb. 26, 2020. Very weird glitch. Also, these headlines feel so ancient.

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

“From the vantage of 2025, a lot of it sounds surprisingly like the mocktail-lounge rock of Khruangbin.” 💀 defector.com/the-tragedy-...

You know your team’s gone to shit when mlb.com starts spinning up headlines like this

On February 21st, 2017, President Trump took a tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. This is from CBS News’ coverage of the visit:

Not breaking in the NYT — broken earlier by @thecity.nyc and although the Times acknowledges that fact, this article passes itself off otherwise as a reported piece, when it is from start to finish a largely verbatim (quote by quote) but uncredited cut and paste summary of The City’s report.

There's a federal program that's subsidized flights to small airports ever since airline deregulation in the late 70s. But if the Trump administration gets its way, funding could be throttle back significantly. My latest for @marketplace.org: www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

Fed minutes (before employment report): "A majority of participants judged the upside risk to inflation as the greater of these two risks, while several participants viewed the two risks as roughly balanced, and a couple of participants considered downside risk to employment the more salient risk."