A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

This is the best iPhone 17 Pro review www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTBM...

E-bike maker Cowboy in talks to be acquired

Glass effect in iOS is just ok. Leaning towards not great.

Historian Thomas Zimmer has left academia, Substack, and the US; now he’s launching his new career as an indie writer with a newsletter about “the ongoing struggle over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America”. Recommended! [steady.page]

Kimmel is up on YouTube

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

He was nostalgic for retro video stores. So he built one in his Silver Lake kitchen

Trump: "Look, young people don't die. They just don't die."

Again, 24 years later, we are still seeing never-before-seen videos of 9/11. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zYC...

Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning director and star of films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid has died at the age of 89.

24 years later and we are STILL seeing brand-new never-before-seen video from 9/11. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY5N...

The end of an era for independent animation: Vimeo’s $1.38B sale to Bending Spoons closes an ugly chapter at a platform that once made careers. Can a return to private ownership resurrect the once-great option for indie distribution? www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/vimeo...

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that former President Joe Biden shouldn’t have run for president in 2024. bit.ly/466aXsj

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

For parents, part of MAHA’s appeal is the promise that it’ll make food healthier for their children. Instead, its nutrition advice may be piling on labor, more costs, and confusion, @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social reports.

First time seeing this video from Ground Zero of the debris field and clean-up.

This is one of the most incredible photos ever created.

His final photo '10:28:24 AM' seconds before the 2nd tower came down is just astonishing #September11

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife has been sentenced to 4½ years in prison for selling the powerful New Jersey politician’s influence in exchange for bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car.

Just in: The FBI has released images of the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter, asking people for help ID'ing

BREAKING: A person taken into custody after Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah is not believed to be the shooting suspect, an AP source says.

Coming to terms with the fact that this is my politics now @paperbackparadise.bsky.social

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

There may not be a giant snowman on Canal Street this winter, but there might just be two-ingredient fruit slushies next spring.

A perfect afternoon in Astoria.

Ohio, with an economy the size of Switzerland, runs just 48 trains a week. Switzerland runs 77,000. Over the next four years, Ohio will spend $2.45 million on trains, against $6.7 billion for roads and highways. Meanwhile, here’s what became of Dayton’s train station: Dayton Daily News Archive

Breaking News: Kraft Heinz said that it planned to split into two separate companies, a decade after merging and creating a global food giant.

So this software sends the raw image back to your camera for rendering, instead of like, just doing it in software on your computer???? www.fujifilm-x.com/global/produ...

Why more and more people are tuning the news out: ‘Now I don’t have that anxiety’

Fatality.

We are a failed country if we need this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAJK...

I would buy a Hasselblad in a second if it worked with Capture One.

A grand jury has rejected federal prosecutors' attempts to indict Sean Dunn, the man accused of throwing a Subway sandwich at a CBP officer. This comes after three OTHER failed attempts to indict another person accused of assaulting a federal agent. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

“We cannot achieve safety without public trust in the criminal justice system.”– D.A. Bragg. Learn more about the conviction of an NYPD officer for macing a man who was laying handcuffed on the ground: www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/26/c...

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Cracker Barrel said late Tuesday it’s returning to its old logo after critics — including President Donald Trump — protested the company’s plan to modernize.

Japan Post has ceased all mail delivery to the US for packages valued over $100. To get around this, a Japanese denim company tells me they'll ship components to US customers one-by-one — fabric, buttons, rivets, a sewing needle, and thread. You then assemble the jeans at home like IKEA furniture.

Does anyone know what happened between May and August this year?

Postal operators in several countries have announced they will suspend certain deliveries to the United States, ahead of an end to a long-standing tariff exemption for packages worth $800 or less. https://wapo.st/465XKPS

Indicted former Mayor Adams advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin had nothing to say about McGuinness Blvd. when I asked her as she left court this morning.

Not them removing the cracker and barrel

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

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