NEWS👀👀: After many years in the wilds of freelancing, I start TODAY as a full-time staff reporter for @theintercept.com My beat: -The FBI! -Trump's purges and reshuffling of federal law enforcement and courts! -The invasion of American cities by ICE/CBP/National Guard! -ETC!

Top Mamdani-leaning neighborhoods, top Cuomo-leaning neighborhoods, and results from the highest-turnout areas: www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... And the map: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I became a US citizen 25 days ago and let me tell you, I am ready to vote!!!

"FOR THREE YEARS, NOTHING WILL BE PASSED, AND REPUBLICANS WILL BE BLAMED" Trump seems genuinely panicked about losing the midterms.

Also pictured: a graph of who wants those Halloween-only "I voted" stickers.

Fellow Bluesky users: I admit that have still not 'got into' this website, in the same way that I was into Twitter. What am I overlooking in terms of getting the most value, and fun, out of it?

NYC mayor election: with the 9 day early voting period over, the demographic that cast the most votes were between 25-35 years old! This reverses the previous trend from days 1 - 5 only, and in theory, heavily favors Mamdani.

Though it's true there's a 'Boomer bump' in early voters for the NYC mayoral election as reported by Gothamist etc., there's another large but less well-reported peak for voters in their late 20's and early 30's, as the data I got from the Board of Elections shows:

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Louvre theft. Putting together what we do at BBC Verify with what the Visual Journalism can do to make a picture-first story work. (The industry term is a “scrolly”.) Really pleased I could contribute toward this: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Trump suggested just yesterday that he could relocate World Cup matches from cities deemed "unsafe" (i.e. Democrat-run), but a contract solicitation posted today by DHS shows the agency is still looking for hotel rooms in the 11 original host cities: sam.gov/workspace/co...

Where we stand, in long arc of history: -Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people. -Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites. I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

New: Records obtained by the @aclum.bsky.social show police across the state are conducting dragnet surveillance of motorists and sharing their location information with cops in states that have banned abortion and gender affirming care, and those that work w/ICE data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...

Due to the government shutdown, CBP claims not to have enough money to update its website, though it *does* have the money to keep hiring more border officers.

Today I learned there's an XML feed that just tells you if the US government is "Open" or "Closed" www.opm.gov/xml/operatin...

I think a lot of people who are distant from immigrant communities really don't realize the things that have been amazing and positive about America that drew so many people here. It's probably worth articulating that this is one of the things we're defending.

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"Noem’s actions in Naples suggest the injection of political favoritism into an agency tasked with saving lives and rebuilding communities wiped out by disaster." | @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/kris...

A Paris court has ruled that X must share the data with @afp.com, allowing the news agency to calculate how much it is owed for the use of its content.

"This used to be the best job I’ve ever had, the best environment I’ve ever had, the best culture I’ve ever had—and they fucking ruined it. I will never ever forget how much they ruined it."

First the Pentagon bans reporters from reporting on anything they don’t sign off on. And now Hegseth orders brass from all over the world to attend an in person meetings with no details about why: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Here it is: The @wired.com Politics Issue is now live, with more stories rolling out all week. We're so proud of this one. Behold this cover; truly a work of art. And we're treating it that way: Starting today, you can find it on murals, billboards, and posters across in five U.S. cities.

A startup is using AI to churn out more than 3,000 podcasts a week, needing only 20 listeners per podcast to be profitable. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

United States vetoes another draft ceasefire resolution in the United Nations Security Council. Vote count of UNSC members: For 14, against 1.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

"Trump – a convicted felon who has pardoned around 1,500 people involved in the 2021 US Capitol riot in Washington – complained that police and prosecutors aren't tough enough." www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Here's the relevant section of law under which Trump is taking over DC's Metropolitan Police. It appears as though it will require an act of Congress (a joint resolution) for the takeover to extend beyond 30 days. dccouncil.gov/wp-content/u...

Welcome to the boring dystopia

"The uncanny thing about these models isn’t just their speed but the way they imitate human interiority without embodying any of its values. That may be, from the humanist’s perspective, the most pernicious thing about A.I." nytimes.com/2025/07/18/opinion/ai-chatgpt-school.html

"Ever since Trump retook office in January, in fact, rapid enshittification has become the organizing principle of US statecraft." www.wired.com/story/enshit...

Just a normal headline from a healthy society

I mostly took a break from posting on social media for the first year of my son's life, and I have no regrets!

@osviz-jarrett.bsky.social 👋

I'm glad police are getting the tools they need to solve the most serious crimes

Trump’s vow to shrink the federal government appears to rely, at least in part, on top officials doing multiple -- sometimes completely unrelated -- jobs simultaneously. By @azipaybarah.bsky.social @kevinschaul.bsky.social and @alvarovalino.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I … worked on this story for a year and she just … said it from the bench

Always inspiring to message a French colleague in mid-July and get an out-of-office stating they'll be back at the end of August

"As Texas rescue crews raced to save lives, FEMA officials realized they needed Noem’s approval before sending those additional assets. Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began" www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...

I want to be charitable and not insult anyone's intelligence, but I have questions about how it's possible that half of Americans are still unaware of OBBB. Are people really so tuned out, so totally detached from political decisions that shape their lives?

the new york times got rid of its public editor some time ago, so I took the position out for a spin www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

Data from Flightradar24 shows inbound planes to Dubai being diverted as UAE airspace is closed

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

Reading about the Marine Corps "warfighting philosophy", wondering whether these are the kind of people you send to de-escalate a protest

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Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

TIL that the LAPD lists the number of active duty officers in MALE, FEMALE and NONBINARY categories

UPDATE The organisers of a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid ship carrying activists including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg say Israeli forces have boarded the vessel. "Connection has been lost on the 'Madleen'. Israeli army have boarded the vessel," the Freedom Flotilla Coalition posted on Telegram