Jimmy Carter watched over 480 movies in the White House movie theater during his presidency, a lot of them all time bangers (List here gizmodo.com/every-single...)

(AP) — The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/wome...

Mike Johnson: "The irony was that they called it the No Kings Rally, but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open. If President Trump was a king, he would've closed the nationals parks and the National Mall so they couldn't of had the rally out here."

This has been updated with strange new details. I spoke to one person who was arrested but then released, who described being taken to a subterranean parking garage and questioned by agents who said they were with ICE and told them they were looking for Venezuelans.. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/17/r...

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

The FHWA (the highway administration, a part of US DOT) is instructing NYC to "cease and desist" all investment in the 34th St Busway, claiming that there isn't enough "coordination" between state & local entities. {This letter's threatening language may have little legal power.}

United States of Whatever

The Ducks are giving out goalie masks 🫡 (via Anaheim Ducks)

Hey remember when Lawler and his flunkie Republican trolls tried to weaponize anti-semitism against actual Jewish people like me? Yeah, fuck off forever.

"The comments shared in the group chat that have been reported are extremely troubling and disappointing," Reilly tells the Staten Island Advance. "They do not align with my values. As a result, Mr. Giunta’s assignment in my office has ended."

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News! www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Greta: "I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.” Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

“Mr. Trump was first told of the cuts by Ms. Hochul during a phone call on Sunday evening, according to three people with knowledge of the conversation.”

ADL *AGAIN* bends over backwards for Nazis, erasing a resource and database to appease antisemitic scum:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trumpiest Trump that Trump ever Trumped

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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

An airplane flying around Soldier Field ahead of the Chicago Bears home opener, is dragging a banner that reads “HEY ICE MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS”

The stadium Trump is in is named after Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend. What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...

NEW EPISODE OF THE HELL GATE PODCAST!!!! With breaking coverage from Mayor Adams's weird/defiant/ funny?? press conference this evening. YOU KNOW YOU GOTTA LISTEN!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Here are the rules for mail in voting in Alabama: www.sos.alabama.gov/alabama-vote...

welcome to America, where reporting on shitty publicly funded transit is behind corporate media paywalls

MY FIRST OG STARTER PACK on cities, urbanism and better city-building! Some excellent folks have joined since I first filled this one up, but everyone here is still worth following & have been part of growing the community here on @bsky.app! Please check it out & share with your audiences. Thanks!

If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.

the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It

New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

These Billionaires Have Already Spent $19 Million in a Bid to Defeat Zohran Mamdani Billionaires and the companies they own (think AirBnb and Doordash) are spending big on the NYC mayoral race. My latest is a collaboration with LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social check it out!

The Trump administration is making buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas far more complicated, slow, and expensive. 🔗 www.404media.co/trump-tariff...

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

To highlight the same shit we’ve been saying for at least a month now, here are bullet points from Dr Stryker’s speech below to explain exactly why trans people will not be accepting Newsom. Dems, I’m begging y’all to elevate someone who meets the moment.

Up next: SpaceX and subsidized farms

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"FBI Raids Bolton's 'Stache" is a first ballot hall of fame headline

This is very Michael Scott-coded

Game on.

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.

make DC and PR states, codify "norms" in congress and DC that have been trampled, expand SCOTUS - as a start

INBOX: Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Adams' longtime confidante, is being charged in FOUR new indictments alleging she took $75,000 in bribes to steer migrant shelter contracts to preferred vendors, attempt to block the McGuinness Boulevard redesign and other conspiracies.

The council got rid of the benches at the foot of Leith walk and the locals have responded appropriately...

Attention chumps: If you, despite all our dire warnings, decided to put your newsletter on Substack, the untrustworthy asses who run the company just did what we all knew they would, and made it impossible to take your subscribers with you if you want to leave. support.substack.com/hc/en-us/art...

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.