Just so folks know: Giant is a literal giant--serving as the OEM manufacturer for a multitude of brands, besides being a major brand on its own. If you thought the retail bike industry was in dog days before, it's really impossible to explain just how huge the impact of this will be:

Wild. CBP is detaining any Giant manufactured bikes, frames, parts or accessories from Taiwan www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nat...

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

The 2nd Circuit upholds several New York gun restrictions, including a ban on public carry, gun-free "sensitive places" (including Times Square and the subway), and a special permit for city carrying. It holds that none violate the Second Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Breaking News: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow the president to remove Lisa Cook as a Federal Reserve governor, setting up a key test of presidential power with potentially huge economic consequences.

More: "When we're finished with that, we will have had no headcount growth in a decade" <-- wild stat

Mayor Adams is set to announce the expansion of containerized garbage collection to Brooklyn Community Board 2, which includes areas like Fort Greene, Cobble Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, and Boerum Hill

Late to this but wild... someone has just launched a new open-outcry trading floor... in Miami! Miami International Holdings Inc. started its physical trading floor for options with some of the largest market-making firms www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Covering the bond market is crazy rn bc Trump put a de-dollarization guy on the Fed, is pushing us into more deficit spending and treasury issuance, and investors continue to struggle with conflicting economic data on the labor market and inflation. Also we might have to refund the tariffs!

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober) - When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over - Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Weird sidebar on the NYC mayoral race: Trump just said Curtis Sliwa "is not exactly primetime," and his desire to keep cats in Gracie Mansion should disqualify him

This is extremely upsetting. I’m on Healthfirst Medicaid and was just treated at the Methodist ER over the summer when I came off my bike. Now that might no longer be an option for me. I also got in network care from Weill Cornell specialists afterwards www.crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse...

There’s a website where you can see who blocked you and what blocklists you’re on on bsky and honestly it’s very funny

Whoa. www.ft.com/content/9af0...

brigantine castle pier, brigantine, new jersey, 1978

adams called cuomo "a snake and a liar" lmao

New: CBS News has changed its interview format in reaction to complaints from DHS. According to a statement from a network spokesperson, Face The Nation will now only broadcast live or live to tape interviews

BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.

Unfortunate that Ross is now doing bad takes on the Fed, an institution I actually cover now lol

To be clear, this means he will still be a member of the CEA, i.e. the White House, while also serving on the FOMC. No questions there about monetary policy independence! *MIRAN: I WILL BE TAKING UNPAID LEAVE FROM CEA WHILE AT THE FED

Yes, separate suit.

Danish wind developer Orsted has filed a suit in DC district court challenging the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management stop work order on a litany of grounds including improper authorization under cited statutes and violation of the APA. george-sharing.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/RevolutionWi...

Driest summer for NYC in more than two decades ! Who's team sun ? This was the driest summer for NYC since 1999. 30th driest(out of 156) overall. Summer in the climate world is June, July and August. Not to worry, reservoirs are near average. Over 80% of our weekend days were dry

Saw Caught Stealing over the weekend - insane movie set in 90s NYC and you can tell Darren Aronofsky is from here. There’s a redbird and an old bus in there, and they do a chase scene around the unisphere in Flushing Meadows.

Oh hey it’s @felipedlh.bsky.social on yesterday’s Brian Lehrer!!

Generally this was a good report for the doves, with durable goods prices falling in a surprise swing and continued rent disinflation. That said! Services PCE ex Energy/Housing (proxy for trend inflation ex tariffs) is firming. Stripping out imputed categories, it keeps running above 2%.

Spotted Bill de Blasio on the F in Brooklyn for the first time in a while. Exciting to see him back lol. He was wearing an interesting orange top and a Pittsburgh pirates hat, for some reason

"The grand jury’s rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

When you fire up a show that’s supposed to be set in Philly and every single shot in the pilot is clearly Brooklyn

With Lisa Cook suing to challenge Trump's firing of her, experts in mortgage law tell me her lawyer can now use discovery to dig into the role Trump loyalist William Pulte played in singling out mortgages of her, Schiff and Letitia James for scrutiny: newrepublic.com/article/1996...

The haboob that blew through Tempe yesterday.

In its alleged fight against antisemitism, the Trump administration has relied on two groups with murky funders—one of which is in Israel. Here's my deep dive @thebaffler.com into Canary Mission and Betar, two extreme Zionist groups at the heart of Trump's crackdown. thebaffler.com/latest/for-b...

BREAKING: Fed governor Lisa Cook will sue over Trump firing

seems like we're doing great

If Trump fires enough of the Fed board dissenters, I wonder if we will get to a point where he can continue to drive inflation upward without triggering a rate increase.

Fed legal expert Peter Conti-Brown: “So the idea that you can then reach back, turn the clock backward and say, you know, all these things that have happened before now constitute fireable offenses from your official position is to me incongruous with the entire concept of 'for cause' removal.”

Trump fires Lisa Cook in an unprecedented move, and immediately the US dollar sinks against the Yen (in red), the Euro (teal), and the British Pound (purple). Stocks are also sorting it out, but down around a quarter point. Point is: Markets don't think this is move helps American business.

i've decided to run for mayor of new york city. i hate this city, i hate being in it, i think everyone in it is stupid except for me, when people have fun here it makes me mad, i don't know why i'm running, i don't want to be mayor, and i have $4. see you at the polls

Breaking Herr Silence: "Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see its chips mentioned in the press. 'While we can’t speak to the details of the story, we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.'” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...

It’s important to pay for local journalism but not like this. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

We're seeing this effect in the rates market too. Economic uncertainty created by chaotic policy making is a big problem www.wsj.com/economy/amer...

The plan? Make vegetables substantially more expensive and give candy and soda makers low-impact PR wins

Again, i know folks who’ve been on calls with the admin about this, and their entire plan is get massive gas plants running within 6-12mo. They genuinely cannot understand why that doesn’t work, or why shutting down wind (which the eagles thing basically will) is a problem

Air Canada flight attendants are striking this weekend but luckily it seems like our flight to Montreal won’t be affected www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/w...

The New York City Council on Thursday passed a plan to allow the development of some 9,500 additional homes in Manhattan. The plan would open a new swath of Midtown, including the garment district, to residential development.

I continue to think the labor supply story is *far* more important and has far greater impacts on wages/inflation than is currently internalized by the market. There was no way we were going to create jobs at a solid pace in Q2 with this many people being forced out of work.

what finance people should i be following on here besides the obvious picks? or are they all still on twitter

babe not in front of the shareholders