For my last Buying Power of the year, I wrote about one way to think about the divergence in consumer sentiment (bad) and behavior (free-spending) this year: It’s the YOLO economy, typified by the expanding popularity of services like Klarna and Affirm. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In a brief post shared with her 3.7 million Instagram followers, Malala Yousafzai looked back fondly on her travels to Egypt, Greece, Tanzania, and Ireland. She also wore an Eagles T-shirt in one of her photos. Go Birds. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/eagles-...

SCOOP: City Comptroller Brad Lander is for the first time auditing a troubled health fund that pays for city workers’ health benefits, @thecity.nyc has learned www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/22/c...

pete with that O's hat... abominable

the industrial revolution and its consequences www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Starbucks Agrees to Pay Workers $38 Million to Settle Scheduling Law Probe www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/01/s...

The UAW is known locally for its left-leaning politics and justice-oriented members in academia and legal services. Now two of its rank-and-file members are mounting Democratic campaigns to the party’s left. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/24/a...

There's another left-leaning organization with a three-letter acronym whose rank and file members are eager to primary House incumbents and build on recent electoral successes by the left -- and it's not the DSA. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/24/a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.

Exclusive footage of today's meeting in the Oval Office: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ8D...

The funny thing about this meeting is that Mamdani didn't back down on a single policy point or anything he's said about Trump.

NEWS: The Trump administration is allegedly holding up files elsewhere too. Mahmoud Khalil is suing the Trump admin as it refuses to release files related to its coordination & communications with pro-Israel, anti-speech groups like Canary Mission in the lead up to his arrest last March.

New in THE CITY’s merch store: our very own chip clip. Not recommended to hold dollar bills. www.teerico.com/products/the...

She grew award-winning strains and was poised for a legal cannabis license. Instead, a massive police and FDNY raid — triggered by her vindictive ex-DEA uncle — left “the Godmother” facing felony charges. @rosalindadams.bsky.social deep dive into the family saga. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/20/g...

While state officials were courting a talented cannabis grower to join the legal market, her uncle was a former top DEA official who threatened her for growing plants at home. Then police and firefighters swarmed her house in a raid that would shatter her family. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/20/g...

The 'Godmother' of Weed vs Her Uncle, the DEA Agent www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/20/g...

"Never before has a government shutdown lasted long enough to unsalvageably ruin parts of the employment report, and this will be the first time in the survey’s 77-year history that the Labor Department will not publish an unemployment rate." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...

politics ain’t beanbag www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

VIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/19/q...

While in Israel, Mayor Eric Adams released the key autumn budget modification with no warning, and no fanfare.

Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting. As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.

With the vote to release the Epstein files underway, let's revisit @annamerlan.bsky.social's piece breaking down just how the Trump administration ensured that the conspiracy theories surrounding the president's relationship with the convicted sex offender won't really end.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

"If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot… teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else." - @warren.senate.gov www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...

ICE vs the clergy

girl who is going to be ok

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Articles like this one are why I make regular donations to @thecity.nyc and if you can afford it, I hope you make one too: www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/05/z...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...

if you can't handle journalists asking clarifying follow up questions you have no business managing reporters. go run a dick's sporting goods

Election over, back to our regularly scheduled programming

"A Manhattan Supreme Court judge on Thursday rejected a petition from a mysterious advocacy group to toss the city’s new self-funded health plan for municipal workers, administered by EmblemHealth and UnitedHealthcare." — via @clauirizarry.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/e...

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

30ish minutes till polls close in NYC. Wine, beer and light snacks (popcorn and pretzels) are on the house at Cuomo HQ. The wifi password contains the year 2026 — because that’s the year the next mayor will be sworn in, I’m told

A new proposal would require judges who hand down sentences or make detention decisions to conduct meaningful prison visits annually. The proposed change would be the first of its kind in the nation and mandate hundreds of in-depth judicial visits to state prisons. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/b...

Just in: Zohran Mamdani says he's voting yes on ballot questions 1-5 and no on 6.

In Washington Heights, handyman Juan Carlos Montoya was electrocuted trying to deploy a pump in the building’s flooded boiler room. Friends remembered the father of 5 as gregarious and generous, and loved treating neighborhood kids to candy. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/31/f... @smaldo.bsky.social

Council Spent $1.5 Million on Anti-Ballot Measure Mailers Despite Electioneering Ban www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/31/a...

Safe Streets for All: Vision Zero in an Era of Immigration Crackdowns We were thrilled to welcome @nyccomptroller.bsky.social Brad Lander, Max Markham of Policing Project, and Ligia Guallpa and Antonio Solis of @workersjusticep.bsky.social for a panel moderated by @clauirizarry.bsky.social!

According to Naveed, “Mr. Adams said Muslims were experiencing hate because they had failed to adequately condemn Hamas.” “‘I don’t know the difference between a Palestinian, Pakestinian, Arab, Muslim, I have no idea,’ the suit also quotes the mayor as saying.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/n...

“I’m poor. You got to think more about what and when and how you’re going to eat than you normally would.” NEW from @lauren-hartley.bsky.social + @thecity.nyc:

The worker who fell to his death at the Gateway tunnel site last week recently worked a 35-hour shift, as construction managers race against the clock to finish the project on time, @gothamist.com reports gothamist.com/news/worker-...

Mamdani’s Forest Hills Stadium event marked the first time Ron, 55, ever attended a political rally: “This guy excites me… Getting more money from the rich and kind of funneling down – I think it’s a good thing. It’s going to be very hard, but why wouldn’t we try it?”