“They are focused most intensely on Covid-19 shots, but are also looking at vaccines more broadly. Prasad wants to make it more difficult for vaccine makers to tell doctors they can offer their shots together, something providers have done for decades to more efficiently protect people from disease”

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration. www.wunc.org/education/20...

“Travelers and anyone else who was at the airport’s terminals A and B between 8:50 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease, according to a news release from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health”

Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

Los Alamos and U of Michigan want to build a data center in the small town of Ypsilanti. The city's people don't want to help make weapons of mass destruction. The fight is only just starting

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narrator: It was in fact super negotiable

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

This is really great, about the NY Times, but about the media in general.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

Admitting that you don’t know enough about a landscape of references to use them in your work is about one one-thousandth as humbling as doing this. You do not have to be conversant in everything. You do have to understand the scope of your own knowledge and experience better than anyone.

BREAKING: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issues an administrative stay in the SNAP benefits case, for the First Circuit to issue its ruling on the stay request (“with dispatch”). Her administrative stay ends 48 hours after that ruling is issued (or upon further order).

BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

ffs, @nytimes.com

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As it turns out, people did not understand what mass deportations would look like.

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

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To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

At a Wednesday evening rally, 47th Ward Ald Matt Martin said parents from the school arranged legal rep for Ms. Diana, though they were unsure where she had been taken. “There cannot be a reformist mindset for this agency... We need to call for the abolition of ICE," said State Sen. Mike Simmons.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

To a larger extent that people realize, ai-assisted search is partially an answer to the question how do you search the web when nobody links to anyone anymore.

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

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i’m at damen/belle plaine in chicago’s north center neighborhood for an emergency anti-ice rally. around 7 a.m. this morning, masked federal agents chased a preschool teacher *into* nearby rayito del sol and abducted her—in front of traumatized children, parents, and coworkers.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

It’s even more striking from today’s presser

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

For those who don’t know, Lina Khan gave tech bros hell AND her ass to kiss when she was FTC chair. She was busting monopolies left and right. Gave Amazon and Meta the finger too. This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.

Pope Leo XIV called for “deep reflection” in the United States about the treatment of migrants held in detention, saying that “many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now.” https://to.pbs.org/3Ln2cSB

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if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

If you missed Zohran’s speech live, this is the link to the whole thing from PBS Newshour on YT: www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL... #zohranmamdani #nyc

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

JUST IN: California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.

this is genuinely wild

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Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.