Breaking News: The New York City Council voted to allow thousands of new street vending permits in a push to help vendors sell legally.

Hardee’s is set to close some of its restaurants amid lawsuits

Target left recalled infant formula linked to botulism outbreak on store shelves, FDA says

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice sued the executive director of the Illinois State Board of Elections on Thursday, alleging the board’s refusal to release sensitive information on the state’s roughly 8.3 million registered voters violated federal civil rights law.

While shipping services price changes will take effect January 18, 2026, the price of a stamp will remain unchanged.

S.C. prison officer charged with providing contraband to prisoners, misconduct #chsnews

New York City’s departing mayor is launching a last-ditch effort to thwart Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plan to freeze rents next year.

The deal comes more than a year after Congress passed a law that forced the Chinese company to divest its US operations or face a ban.

Around 70 photographs come from Jeffrey Epstein’s computer and email accounts, and shed more light on his lifestyle and social circles. https://to.pbs.org/4pLhorX

TikTok's chief just told employees that the company has signed its U.S. spin-off deal. Set to close next month, if the Chinese government approves it. New owners will include Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi's MGX, as we reported in September: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Good way to create traffic on toll booths.

Almost eight years after Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opened on Broadway, Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in the films, is now playing him as an adult onstage.

“.. The cost of protecting Oracle debt against default using derivatives has risen to near the highest since the financial crisis.” @bloomberg.com $ORCL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The hypocrisy of the networks carrying this speech but turning down far more substantive speeches from Biden and Obama is off the charts. There was zero news in this speech which merited primetime coverage by broadcasters. Absolutely zero.

Every day.

You’ve done it now you’ve radicalized the most anodyne man in America

Famed weatherman Al Roker is urging the Trump administration not to follow through with its plan to dismantle a climate research facility in Colorado.

Fantastic piece.

Do you remember when the broadcast networks declined to air primetime speeches by Obama and Biden they deemed too overtly political? Because I do apnews.com/20ccd7a90e43... www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...

This is metal

Inflationary:

Those living in Southeast Washington said the president’s crime strategy deepened their distrust of police and made them feel no safer www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

Lufthansa plays catch up with European rivals after bumpy ride reut.rs/4pLXehD

Surge In Respiratory Illness Cases Forces Visiting Restrictions For Midlands Hospital www.midlands103.com/news/midland...

Thank god I don’t have cable.

Why did it take so long for this evidence to come out?

NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

The Supreme Court has strict limits on denaturalization that are deeply rooted in protections guaranteed by the 1st and 14th Amendments. Here's how they got there: bit.ly/4rh6WJT

The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.

What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Arguing that an Article II contingent election is not really an "election," that's the good stuff. Founders really didn't appreciate the bullshit people would try to pull with their language www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

'Kills children after 2 days of use' was the kind of thing that would end a product back in the day

Breaking: Warner Bros. Discovery is officially rejecting Paramount’s buyout offer, calling it “illusory” and arguing that the existing plan to sell most of the media company to Netflix is a better deal for shareholders. Here's my full story: www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/m...

We are dehydrating entire swaths of states for this. Driving up the legit prices for everyone around. It’s just nuts. This isn’t making anything easier, it makes life more difficult and stressful. Stop.

Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’

This is a harrowing account of city under siege www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This week’s podcast guest is Olivier Sylvain, a professor of law at Fordham Law School and a senior policy research fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. He's the author of "Why Trump’s AI EO Will be DOA in Court," a perspective published on Tech Policy Press.

I do a weekly newsletter that's a little about charts and a lot about shit I am thinking about/want to joke about. I plug it a medium-lot, I guess, but I think it's pretty good? Maybe you will, too. Here's last week's: www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...

"No mainstream reporter has the stomach to say, 'By the way, this administration lies all the time and we should assume this is a lie too' after every unsupported statement." They should, because it's true.

Breaking news: President Trump ordered a “total and complete blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela, a dramatic escalation in his months-long pressure campaign against the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

People today have been rereading this?

Is he referring to Miami??

Imports to busiest US seaport tumble 11.5% in November as tariffs bite, port executive says reut.rs/4oXlVpW

This