N.Y.C. Early Voting Ends With 735,000 Ballots Cast, as Younger Voters Surge www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/n...

I am hanging out at mile 18 of the NYC marathon for a while. Such a beautiful day! A bit too balmy for a marathon but great for spectators. The elite runners will be coming by Lots of cheers for the wheelchair participants

Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

At long last, the Chinese version of "When McKinsey Comes to Town" is about to hit the shelves in Taiwan! 当麦肯锡来了。Given the contents of the chapter about McKinsey in China, there was never a prayer that a mainland publisher would take this up. It will be available at Eslite and other bookstores.

The arrangement is legal but “makes it almost impossible for voters or watchdog groups to understand the financial and business connections of someone who could soon have sway over billions of dollars in public contracts, real estate developments and city policy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience." www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over? Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen. www.ft.com/content/4855...

Here is a big scoop from @eliotchen.bsky.social who is the Toronto-based reporter for @thewirechina.bsky.social - if this happens maybe it will knock the North American automakers out of their tariff-induced EV stupor! x.com/pekingmike/s...

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

“Mr. Macklowe bought three units for more than $47 million, including one for his wife, before the two split. (After their separation, Mr. Macklowe posted billboard-sized images of himself and his new partner on the exterior of the 432 Park complex.) “ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/n...

The president, on his Truth Social account, posts an AI video portraying him as 'King Trump' piloting a fighter jet which drops shit on 'No Kings' demonstrators. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

“.. one of the U.S. officials, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters, said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

For this NYC debate, everyone must drink when a candidate says 奶茶，aka NYCHA.

The US wants the world to buy its fossil fuels. China wants to sell the world its clean-energy technologies. There is one clear winner — for now

A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips? Great investigstion by @anaswanson.bsky.social @paulmozur.bsky.social @hvistendahl.bsky.social @trippmickle.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...

47% of U.S. men under 30 now say legal sports betting is a bad thing for society, more than double the share (22%) who said so in 2022. 36% of young men have placed a sports bet in the last year. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

"The first ethics panels, created in response to testing scandals in the 1960s and ’70s, were nonprofits based at universities and hospitals. But in recent years, private-equity investors have increasingly reshaped them as for-profit endeavors." - story of our time...

Hail Balto, delivering vital medicing to Nome, Alaska a century ago.

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information: gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

Apple has removed from its App Store several programs that alert users to sightings of immigration agents amid a furious pushback from the Trump administration over the services.

“What I like is how you’re able to make MAGA look stupid, but you do it in such a nice and polite way.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

General Motors, Hyundai and Ford said they would extend discounts on certain EV models after a $7,500 federal tax credit expired Sept. 30, in a bid to maintain momentum after a surge in third-quarter sales

Trump Administration to Withhold $18 Billion for N.Y.C. Infrastructure The bad news just keeps coming…relentlessly. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...

The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency - today’s must-read by @coraldavenport.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

ICYMI: The University of Chicago is the number one institution in the US for quantum physics, outpacing both MIT and Harvard. A critical component of how we can drive this technology forward together in Illinois.

Jollibee is a fast-food icon in the Philippines. Now, it's hoping its crispy Chickenjoy, sweet spaghetti and purple ube pies can fuel a nationwide expansion in America.

The FBI has fired a group of agents who were photographed kneeling with protesters in Washington during the 2020 racial justice protests that erupted in response to the police killing of George Floyd.

What a grim lineup of headlines.

“What we are seeing is the almost wholesale collapse of the Justice Department as an organization based on the rule of law,” said Alan Z. Rozenshtein, a former department official who now teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Vikas Sagar, the former McKinsey senior partner at the center of the firm’s corruption saga in South Africa, was sentenced in New York today to 3 years probation and a $250,000 fine for his role in a bribery scandal. He cooperated with prosecutors (cont’d) 1/3

China, for First Time, Vows to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Why Obamacare Bills May Double Next Year www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

Quite a headline.

Late Sept in Central Park. Time for the always in the rain concert where partygoers will absolutely trample every blade of grass on Great Lawn into oblivion.

Really enjoyed “Made in Ehiopia” - it really captured the complexity and of China’s experience in Africa from the viewpoint of 3 women - one Chinese and two Ethiopians. www.instagram.com/p/DOoMdAykp_...

Aides and allies present Trump's attack on free speech as an effort to stop misinformation, violence and hate speech. But Trump himself has made clear that it's not about hate speech, it's about speech that he hates, namely speech that is critical of him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

“The target repeatedly brought up Homan, saying he was collecting bribes in exchange for future government contracts, the two sources told Reuters.”

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

I’ve seen that logo before. Hmmm.

Oh please oh please let this Jian Bing really taste like the Jian bing in Tianjin, like the sign says. This is in Flushing across from the library.

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

I cannot stress enough how much this is not going to work.

The only thing to say is, yes, I do care about corruption.

Today we are officially 8 months in to the Trump presidency. Or, looking ar it a different way, we are now 1/6 of the way through it.

Nobel prize winner says US institutions have collapsed much quicker than expected under the Trump administration. Largely because of the Opus Dei court, US democratic institutions have folded in the face of dictatorship more quickly than those in Hungary, Turkey or the Philippines did.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination: