Who has a great deal of confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public? 2% of Republicans 9% of Democrats https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/11/majority-of-americans-express-low-confidence-in-journalists-to-act-in-publics-best-interests/

Rents are declining nationwide because the United States is building more housing. www.apartmentlist.com/research/nat...

DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn echoes his boss on the question of possibly upgrading Fordham to a busway: “Let me be very clear. 
We'll closely monitor the results of these projects and will not hesitate to make additional upgrades as needed.”

This has huge consequences for thousands of low-income Americans: In 2021, Congress allotted $5B to fund 70K 'Emergency Housing Vouchers' NYC got 7,500+, the most in the country Last March, the Trump admin alerted housing agencies that the money was about to expire — 5y earlier than expected...

I would pay money just to get someone to walk me through how retirement plans for freelancers work, when to open them, and how much they can actually lower your tax burden. It's incredibly confusing

With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.

Feel like I need a handy chart/diagram to remind me of the links between U.S. central bank reserves - repo market/SOFR - rate policy - Treasury general account

CBP is increasingly just another military branch in terms of equipment and technology, but crucially one that can easily be and routinely is deployed on U.S. soil against civilians, with a far looser oversight structure

New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

Sometimes I miss our whimsical family iMac desktop computer

Your Honor we move to dismiss the indictment against my client on account of the Dow is over 50,000

We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began. However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/

No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

News in the heritage brand world: faux-Scandi brand Dansk just got re-sold for $250,000 (?!?) in the Food52 breakup businessofhome.com/articles/foo... I wrote about Dansk here, so many designs that look absolutely contemporary www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

#207: Hans Schilling, Peace of Christ, Bonn-Heiderhof (1978)

another reason for the trump admin to send that 'don't panic' email: the Fed reports that mortgage delinquencies and household debt are both on the rise

Don’t think it’s gonna fit. Not sure why people try to bring these big trucks to these 18th century streets in the financial district

If you like me were wondering where the jobs data was - it’s not coming out until tomorrow

ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today: www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

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oh my god how bad are these jobs numbers going to be lol

🚨Tentative agreements at Mount Sinai and Montefiore 🚨 The deal is pending ratification by the members, who will return to work Feb. 14 at the earliest. Still no deal at NYP. Details here ---> www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/m...

FROZEN SOLID DC -- to a degree we seldom see. CWG photographer Kevin Ambrose (@dcstormchaser.bsky.social) visited and photographed the National Mall on Sunday morning -- after two weeks straight of mostly freezing weather. Here are four of his photos.

🤔🤔🤔

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

happy Super Bowl Sunday! for all you commercials sickos, I make the case that this game's ad blitz will be to A.I. what 2022's was to crypto and 2000's was to the dot-com boom—with all attendant implications for our broader economy and the celebrity-promotion complex: slate.com/technology/2...

talking about the weather is generally the lowest form of discourse but i can’t hold it in anymore: this weather is bullshit

getting a lot of responses from people in places other than the New York City metropolitan area. please understand this is not about you, it’s about us. everything is about us.

Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal. @passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...

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If you're not watching NJ-11, you should be An AIPAC super PAC spent ~2 million on anti-Malinowski ads bc, while generally pro-Israel, he expressed openness to conditions on aid. But they didn't openly attack on Israel; they attacked from left on other issues. Now Mejia, a progressive Dem, may win

Imagine wanting your name on Dulles airport

Punchbowl reports Trump will release Gateway funds if Schumer agrees to rename Dulles and Penn Station for Trump. punchbowl.news/article/whit...

I spoke to market makers about CME moving its matching engine for trades to the cloud. Basically prop traders are very anxious about this transition because CME has given out very little info on how the matching engine will work, where it will be located, etc www.risk.net/markets/7963...

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Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

The Post did a flashy reimagining of its book section, hiring awesome new staffers and returning it to a standalone section, in FALL 2022. It's hard to describe how quickly Bezos has turned against his own paper

Murray says the Post will be closing the sports department “in its current form.” The paper plans to retain several reporters to join features and cover sports as a “cultural and societal phenomenon,” and will have a few employees on its print sports section.

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

WaPo's Matt Murray told staff the paper is shuttering sports, moving remaining staff to features, shrinking foreign coverage, restructuring metro, closing books coverage, suspending Post Reports podcast “Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said More in tonight’s Status

Also in Playbook: Council Speaker Julie Menin will announce at today's ABNY breakfast that the Council will make the Big Apple's outdoor dining program year-round again. Menin's team says the most likely path is passing @cmrestler.bsky.social's 2025 bill. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Did a double take

The IRS is only supposed to work through Feb. 7! Seems bad, to me www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

For Bustle, I interviewed five women about the cost of their mental healthcare, which included exposure therapy, ketamine therapy, acupuncture, somatic therapy and more. It turns out it's pretty expensive to take care of your brain! www.bustle.com/wellness/cos...

Thank you to everyone who made this happen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpGR...

The Pitt got greenlit for a season 3, out next February, and the announcement has very funny comment from HBO chairman Casey Bloys that’s like “yeah, turns out if you just make a TV show like how we used to make TV shows you can have a 15+ episode season every year 🤷‍♂️”

some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...

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