Since congestion pricing began one year ago, about 11% of the vehicles that once entered Manhattan’s central business district daily have disappeared. This may not seem like a lot, but it has changed the lives of many. Here’s how. trib.al/xSygqCm

Amazon is hiring a 'water storyteller' for their data centres salary $114 - $188k amazon.jobs/en/jobs/3143...

The Delcy Deal: Will Rodríguez facilitate — or sabotage — Venezuela's return to democracy? www.wlrn.org/americas/202...

Mystery trader garners $400,000-plus windfall on Maduro's capture reut.rs/4soXbtE

"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month

I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of political scientists cried out in bafflement and then suddenly fell into silent sobbing.

There are several videos on social media tonight showing heavy gunfire in Caracas this evening. Working to geolocate. Will share videos here.

Iran's leaders struggle to end protests, US action in Venezuela stokes fears reut.rs/3Ncd86o

It is truly insane to me that our system has the means to end this insanity but the people who can effect it refuse to…even though we are now at a point where in cannot possibly be in their own interest to keep supporting this shitshow

This is a clear warning: there will be an electoral pact on the right

With this administration, that's actually a bonus.

Vasily Nebenzya having to go up there and denounce the attack on Venezuela using language basically copy-pasted from Ukraine in 2022 is really something Live at: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k...

There is a deafening silence in the US re: Grok/CSAM. UK, EU, India, France all urgently looking into it. But here....

Trump threatening EU regulators over their attempts to get rid of all the child porn being created by his new best friend Elon Musk will at least make for some good headlines. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

BREAKING: Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has backed down from previous threats to court-martial retired Navy captain Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, for his role in a video telling service members they "can refuse illegal orders." bit.ly/3LlKGhN

Excellent discussion but I think it fails to capture what’s really happening in this interview. The CEO has just gone off script and promised a slew of features that aren’t part of the product and can’t easily be added. Rubio is the product manager stalling for time to figure out how to undo this.

Does this man understand how politics works

taps the sign www.rand.org/pubs/perspec...

Oil refiners like Citgo are set to cash in after the Venezuela attack. And look who owns Citgo these days. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Look who's trying to salvage his rial savings. en.mehrnews.com/news/240478/

I had to check if this was from @theonion.com

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“In the past years,Cyprus got very close to the US, forming lots of defence relationships with them. That is going to cause tension if we're trying to create an EU that's independent of the US.We have Cyprus leading the EU presidency, and the US is building bases here. This is going to be a tension”

Taps sign.... Anyone surprised by Trump and the Rubio/Miller administration's lunge towards hemispheric imperialism wasn't paying attention

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appoints former Canadian cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland as an economic development adviser, citing her experience in attracting investment. www.cbc.ca/news/world/freelan...

Venezuela’s Interior minister and defense minister—Diosdado Cabello and Vladimir Padrino—are a wild card for Trump after Maduro’s ouster, as they command the police and the military.

Malaysia to push for two-term limit for prime ministers, further reforms reut.rs/4aKw7Pg

Norway might be wishy washy about Venezuela, but we’re unequivocal about Greenland and Denmark. Our prime minister:

All the coverage of the "digital euro" drives me nuts. The idea that we need "an electronic equivalent to cash: a digital currency that works in stores, online and in peer-to-peer transactions" sounds novel until you realise... we already have it! WE HAVE DIGITAL EUROS PEOPLE! THEY EXIST!

“Utmost Sincerity” isn’t the worst name for a missile system, tbh.

The story behind one of World War II’s most famous replies begins with this Christmas Eve letter.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

The 80s are back.

Intervention in Venezuela epitomizes U.S. way of war since 9/11: stunningly effective at the tactical and operational levels, dangerously divorced from the achievement of strategic and political outcomes that actually make U.S. more secure.

UPDATE: Trump again just lied about warning about Bin Laden before 9/11 Fact-check: www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin ... don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another. Our #3 most-read story of 2025:

BREAKING: An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.

As expected, Twitter is chock full of antisemitic conspiracy theories claiming Jews and/or Israel are behind the attack in Venezuela. This is just the new reality. Something we used to see mainly on 4chan is now everywhere. From conspiracy theories to a totalizing ideology.

BREAKING: Interim Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez on Sunday night invited U.S. President Donald Trump “to collaborate” and said she seeks “respectful relations” in a newly conciliatory message.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The most dangerous aspect of this is how erratic the United States looks - Trump threatens so many, so often, with so little apparent thought, other states find it hard to know how seriously to read him. And yet we have real evidence he often delivers what he says on these apparently insane threats.

Unbelievable that this should even need to be said.

GenAI is a window-dressing project. Everyone either oohs and aaaahs at its parlor tricks or its deceptions while healthcare systems, insurance claims, and parole decisions are offloaded to algorithms trained on citizens’ expropriated data.

As uncertainty simmers in Venezuela, interim President Delcy Rodríguez has taken the place of her ally Nicolás Maduro.

This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro. But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.

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During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. (Published Oct. 2024)

"The heavy, sour crude that the country [Venezuela] harbours is precisely the type of which American refineries are chronically short, at a time when America’s relations with Canada, a supplier of the stuff, are strained." www.economist.com/finance-and-...

"Rystad Energy, a consultancy, estimates that $110bn in capital expenditure on exploration and production alone would be required to bring the country’s output back to where it was 15 years ago—twice the amount America’s oil majors combined invested worldwide in 2024."