FEDWATCH: “.. The chaos is escalating, with 3,800 flight cancellations since Thursday, and some states reporting a 40- to 60% increase in visits to food banks. Some of the disruption is evident in private sector weekly economic indicators .. and even the price of electricity.”

NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

Really relishing every headline that bears out our analysis in this @bloomberg.com story www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

279.5%??????

The incredible shrinking attack on U.S. universities continues. Cornell has signed an agreement—but unlike the UVA agreement, instead of pledging to follow the gov't's highly questionable July "guidance" on discrimination, Cornell simply agrees to hand it out to faculty as a "training resource"!

Tulsi Gabbard is trying to take control over counterintelligence from the FBI. It's not going great. A scoop with @shaneharris.bsky.social

The Trump administration asked an appeals court to pause a judge’s order requiring the US to fully fund November food-aid benefits to 42 million eligible Americans by Friday.

SCOOP: Inside the Miami US attorney’s office readying grand jury probes into DOJ officials/special counsel’s offices who investigated Trump: - recruiting lawyers - election conspiracist’s possible return - MAGA influencer-fueled reorg news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Interesting split screen: This is the news story that NYT published within minutes of Tesla shareholders approving Musk’s pay package. And this is @bloomberg.com’s

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

One of the purest pleasures in journalism? Getting to write a lede like this: “Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department's case against "sandwich guy," the DC resident who chucked a Subway sandwich at the chest of a federal officer, finding him not guilty” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

The old joke is that you might not believe in climate change but your insurance company does. Time to update that joke to include the stock market Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Baltimore just legalized single-stair buildings up to 6 stories and duplexes and even quads in single-family zoned neighborhoods. Abundance, hon www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Via @bloomberg.com’s @shiringhaffary.bsky.social, who I bet had a lot of fun writing this top

Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Bonjour! Remember how last week we at @bloomberg.com used data & interviews to poke holes in the idea that rich people would flee NYC if Mamdani were elected mayor? Looks like some of the folks in that cohort are already singing a different tune this morning www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

a text i sent over 3 years ago to @emilyflitter.bsky.social, the only person who i knew would understand

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Trump is going after his enemies w/help from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, whose leader Bill Pulte has provided info he claims shows ppl like Lisa Cook & Letitia James committed fraud. Now the FHFA IG, whose info may have undermined the cases, is getting fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

".. Toward the end of the interview, Trump responds .. telling Norah O'Donnell, '.. I'd rather not have you ask the question.' ".. That exchange was included in the full transcript but was omitted from the extended video on YouTube." @axios.com $PSKY www.axios.com/2025/11/03/t...

There's a persistent reflex to assume that projects like this are liberally coded, only popular in progressive enclaves. But the actual evidence goes the other way. Liberals aren't the only ones who like to cross the street safely. Conservatives also ride bikes and like to do so without dying.

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds. Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.

RIP Adam Greenberg He was the superb cinematographer who shot Near Dark (watch it!), Terminator 2: Judgment Day and, of course, The Terminator, which means he’s responsible for one of my favourite shots in cinema that also coined a new genre for its film:

Chicago’s citizens fight back against assault from Trump immigration forces: “We are not a violent city. This is not a war zone, and I think these guys are terrorizing us and trying to incite us.” Via Reuters

Hipsters unite

My thoughts have been mingled with Marcel’s for close to two years and I don’t know what I’m going to do when I finish this final volume, but it’s going to resemble mourning

Two federal judges ruled the Trump administration’s decision to suspend food-aid benefits for tens of millions of Americans during the government shutdown is likely unlawful and that officials must use contingency funding.

A key EEOC lawyer offers a glimpse at what equal-opportunity employment might look like under Trump.

This was a fun one: Ben Steverman & I took a close look at the class of wealthy New Yorkers threatening to leave if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor and found that they are actually stuck here www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

National Guard troops were at Portland ICE building despite court ban, feds admit Portland police Cmdr. Franz Schoening testifies he was ‘startled’ by federal officers’ indiscriminate use of force against passive protesters outside ICE facility. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Soybean traders were underwhelmed by news of China’s first purchases of US cargoes this season, as they await details from a highly anticipated agreement between Beijing and Washington.

Jonathan Karl breaks news in "Retribution" — reprinting the calendar page where Mike Pence kept notes from the heated conversation he had with Trump on the morning of Jan. 6. Trump to Pence: "You'll go down as a wimp ... I made a big mistake 5 years ago." tinyurl.com/bdub2m7u

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS

Was curious about the relationship between congressional district politics and SNAP recipients. While there are more households receiving SNAP in Harris-voting districts, there are more vulnerable people (kids, disabled and elderly) receiving them in Trump-voting ones. www.pbump.net/o/breaking-d...

Zhao is the latest prominent crypto businessman to receive a pardon in Trump’s second term. Here's what to know

A Republican incumbent for Georgia’s energy commission, up next week, is calling his opponent, a Black Democrat, a “DEI candidate” as he seeks to hold her off: www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

And now a 5th person has died while running from ICE. abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs...

CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.

Bird Joy! Pass it on #birds

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Everything is terrible, but here is Proust on newspapers

It’s remarkable when the industry protests that a regulatory rollback is going too far, but this has happened before under Donald Trump. During his first term, bank leaders wrote open letters begging him not to demolish a particular protection against housing and lending discrimination

"EPA says its proposal to stop greenhouse gas reporting for big polluters could save oil and gas companies up to $256 million a year. Some of them are countering that it could hurt their business instead." 🎁🔗 @zhirji.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...