Fellow New Yorkers (and all those who are New York-curious), recommended follow:

...What? Are the horse carriage drivers unionized? #NYC

Bahaha @cityandstateny.bsky.social

Among the alleged defamatory lies: claiming that an office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower was in less than “excellent” condition when producers visited it… in 2003.

I’ve noticed similar tools cropping up in ProQuest and JSTOR lately - I promise if I’m determined enough to track down vintage theses from the 70s and 80s, I also have sufficient motivation to also read and interpret them myself!

Fun spot from @thenewsham.bsky.social while he was deep into looking thru Tesla's filings: In the proxy filing laying out Elon's trillion dollar comp, Tesla said xAI's name stood for "eXploratory Artificial Intelligence" which uhh, nobody has ever said before www.businessinsider.com/tesla-xai-ex...

SCOOP: A few years ago, Merrick Garland invited a group of judges to DOJ where they got a warning: Sealed court filings were vulnerable to hackers. But the courts were slow to harden their systems. Then, this summer, they were hacked again. Free gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

New from us:

A Klarna SEC filing reveals over $16 million paid to nonprofits started by the CEO's wife, as the firm plans IPO next week.

Imagine being an adult who can read, clicking a button that says "help me read"

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one. One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."

This is why there's never been a popular show called Law & Order: Appeals Unit.

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

Tian Li was indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg along with six others for their alleged roles in an alleged wide-ranging bribery scandal involving Adams’ decades-old top lieutenant, Ingrid Lewis-Martin. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/22/t...

Is the severance for ex-Messenger folks still in hoc while Jimmy Finkelstein’s throwing fundraisers in Southampton? www.politico.com/newsletters/...

“The Bronx is learning” took me a second

Great interview in the Wall Street Journal with @alonlevy.bsky.social about their plan to build high-speed rail on the Northeast Corridor at one-tenth of Amtrak’s cost. Very clear explanation of the major concepts. Free gift link here: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

There was a teleconference hearing this morning in the suit against DHS regarding conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, but the press and public were shut out due to “audio issues,” and we have no idea what happened. The courts have had at least 5 years to figure out remote hearings and have not.

Sheriff allegedly committed a federal crime to get access to a hot cannabis company's stock before it went public... and then *lost money* on the investment!

NEW: tech billionaire Palmer Luckey's "political network" and a cofounder's "unique connectivity to banking regulators" were pitched to investors in his new bank, Erebor, as reasons why they'd get a banking license in just 6 months www.businessinsider.com/palmer-lucke...

Easily among the most fascinating political stories in transportation in the USA. Indiana seems to have manufactured an enormous bipartisan support for road tolling

We noticed something grim/funny: there have been so many cases of people spiraling into severe mental health issues after prolonged ChatGPT use that OpenAI is now just copy-pasting the exact same statement every time there's a new report: futurism.com/openai-respo...

Donald Trump threatened to sue over a Wall Street Journal story that linked him to Jeffrey Epstein. A docket appears, but something's off.

We are in new territory with Trump’s latest trade letter, threatening a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil starting Aug. 1 —The US runs a rare trade surplus with Brazil, so there’s no deficit to fix —Trump says these duties are explicitly over political concerns, not economic ones

"Booming food scene" lmao @sfchronicle.com

NEW: Workers at Snopes.com are unionizing because fact-checkers deserve transparency, too! Follow @snopesguild.bsky.social and read their full press release here: newsguild.org/snopes-worke...

nyc mayoral election in a nutshell

I have been a little mystified as to why NYC mayoral candidates are being asked about closing Rikers and plans for boro-based jails as though they have significant room to maneuver. The Brooklyn jail isn’t just a hole in the ground any more.

A German heiress and a Maryland attorney are locked in a messy legal battle over a $10 million gift, @thenewsham.bsky.social reports for @businessinsider.com. (I helped get court records for this story, and I can do the same for you!) www.businessinsider.com/pharma-heir-...

This genuinely sounds like an Am Law 200 law firm

THE CITY visited Andrew Cuomo’s apartment to inquire on the whereabouts of the former governor's dog, Captain, and asked neighbors if they’d ever seen him. Of the dozen people who stopped to chat, nobody had.

Long line for #Diddy tickets today

Israel used an AI tool to echo-locate a Hamas official based on the background sounds of bombs and booms in his intercepted phone calls, per this NYT story It wasn't very accurate so they bombed several buildings, killing him and at least 125 other people www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/t...

We read -- and write -- a lot about the law firms that did deals with the Trump administration. This week, hundreds of lawyers met to talk about what they should -- and could -- do about the president's posture. @litaliano.bsky.social and @thenewsham.bsky.social report for @businessinsider.com.

This is first-rate NYC journalism

"Sovereign Citizens?" What a terrible backronym!

Susman sues, man storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Colossal didn't make a dire wolf. This is not a dire wolf! Stop saying it is!! I feel like I'm going mad!!!

Approximately fifty thousand media outlets hits the direwolf clones story and not a single one used the headline "Jurassic Bark." We used to be a proper country.

You may not like Kid Rock's bawitdabaw, but you've got to dangdidangdiggity it to him if he actually up jumps the boogie through concert ticket reseller/pricing reform. Frankly, you've got to get in the pit and try to love someone www.businessinsider.com/trump-kid-ro...

Minority drivers speed as much as white drivers, according to Lyft data, but they get pulled over more often and hit with bigger tickets. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

BREAKING: Charlie Javice guilty on all counts. So is codefendant Olivier Amar. www.businessinsider.com/charlie-javi...

People are stealing lemons from Whole Foods as a form of political protest: "If a billionaire can steal from me, I can scrape a little off the top, too," a source told @emilystewart.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/stealing-ama...

We are beyond excited to announce that Virginia has just made history by passing HB2096, the #StopSuperSpeeders bill—the first of its kind in the nation at the state level! 🎉

👊🏻🇺🇸🙏 www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Here we go. Today, The Intercept sued DOGE for flouting FOIA theintercept.com/2025/03/24/i...

Me: Here are the 30 steps I take to speak to my sources securely and don’t do anything to endanger their safety. Nat Sec leaders: New signal group 👋🏽👋🏽

Are extremely large American marshmallows that are designed to make good smores a “confectionary” (taxed) or a food (not taxed)? The UK court of appeal remands for further analysis.