Here is a list of the 40 airports that will reduce flights during the government shutdown.

Hey New Yorkers! Make sure you get your ideas in for the participatory budgeting cycle. rnd.council.nyc.gov/ideamap/map/

If you were on your third day of fever in bed and had finished all of season 3 of Blue Lights, what would you watch next?

Important NEW story: What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard, by @robwdavis.bsky.social and @stevesuo.bsky.social

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

It’s official: Zohran Mamdani has been elected the next mayor of New York City, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

With more than 1.7 million voters for the 2025 general election as of 6 p.m., NYC has a shot of breaking the 1.8 million vote count of 1993, when Rudy Giuliani beat incumbent David Dinkins. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/r...

New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

good, smart, and long overdue look at Common Crawl: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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...

NEW: Trump now says he will not pay food stamps in November, even though his admin told a court yesterday it would make partial payments. The benefits are once again in jeopardy, as officials are back at court, seeking to force the release of full aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

“We are witnessing nothing less than a clown show at #FDA right now.” People who worked at or rely on the US drug regulator see dysfunctional leadership & soap opera-ish behavior at a key federal agency, @matthewherper.bsky.social & @lizzylawrence.bsky.social report. www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/f...

this is the piece I have wanted to read for ages about the 'inflammation' boogeyman www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'" apnews.com/article/chic...

MOTHER EXCUSE ME IT IS PAST TIME

Says a lot about how damaged and myopically focused the Mamdani opposition is that this hasn’t become an issue =>

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Superintelligence as conspiracy theory or how Silicon Valley got AGI-pilled www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

Nothing makes me feel more like a functional adult than a slow cooker meal. Dinner? I started it at noon, motherfuckers.

I loved this piece. Frankly what women need are boundaries all over, not just from work. The ability (and societal permission) to say no to one more load of laundry, one more meal plan, one more complex piece of logistics. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

All the president’s crypto pardons. With @alexkirshner.com slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Don't make me push this idea too hard, but the Halloween-Marathon Day weekend double whammy, especially when we get to wake up on Sunday with the sun over the horizon, really does feel like the High Holy Days or the Carnival of NYC's civic religion. I love it so much.

NYC, it’s the last day of early voting. Be sure to flip that ballot and vote on the six measures. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b...

Still thinking about the maybe 8 year old child I saw dressed (in great detail) as a plague doctor last night

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

Saw it in person. Can confirm excellent.

Extremely park slope: a couple in inflatable costumes - she a frog, he a frog skeleton. They were Halloween Portland.

A Coop

Glad that my child has inherited his mother’s penchant for an incredibly specific costume that most will misidentify, requiring lengthy explanation.

Overton window costume but it’s just someone sprinting away

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Larry Bushart, 61, spent over a month in jail over a liberal meme he posted on Facebook. He celebrated his freedom by eating wings, drinking margaritas — and posting a bunch more liberal memes on Facebook. Heart of a true boomer poster. Gift link: wapo.st/4qwXqSJ w/ @benbrasch.bsky.social

The Washington Post with a story about how remaking an institution to appeal to the pro-Trump right doesn't help the bottom line.

Please listen to @mathonan.com be smart and charming

Sometimes we nail the headline. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Personally, I’ve been doing journalism for 25 years so that I could talk about a bunch of dudes edging on discord and then explain it to my mother. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Obviously we had to talk about gooners with @danielkolitz.bsky.social Don’t, uh, listen with kids. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

I was cutting onions while listening to this and also ... cutting onions. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Epstein document dump coming later today. A federal judge has granted @nytimes.com and @wsj.com requests to unseal records from litigation involving Jeffrey Epstein and JPMorgan. We have no idea what the documents will show, but we expect to receive them this evening. Stay tuned! 🍿

Tom Clare -- the libel lawyer who has threatened media outlets on behalf of clients including the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, the Sackler family, Project Veritas & others -- is now representing the Trump family's crypto company World Liberty Financial.

What does our health care system look like? What does our social safety net look like? It looks like Marcus. At 61, he spends most nights riding the Chicago Red Line or looking for a park bench or bus stop, trying to find sleep. He recently finished radiation treatment for prostate cancer.

Me: I am exhausted, overburdened, everything is difficult Petfinder: How about this one-eyed chihuahua? www.petfinder.com/dog/tyler-ja...

And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases. Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Come on

The EPA is picking and choosing who gets to work during the shutdown: "virtually everyone who is working to undo marquee Biden-era regulations for air pollution, climate change and water quality is still on the job." This is, to put it mildly, not normal. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

New: Progressive congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh has been indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility after videos of confrontations with federal agents have fueled right-wing calls for her arrest. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...