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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

Something I wish more people would realize.

Please have exact change ready; no betting allowed. Both signs now seem as quaint as the ticket prices (and the tickets). The Polo Grounds, West 155th Street and Eighth Avenue; downward entrance at Coogan's Bluff.

We are SO THRILLED that New York City has passed the Romanch's Law banning horse-drawn carriage rides! These horses were living in deplorable conditions and made to work hours upon hours a day, and had very little vet care. We are so excited to finally see them be free!

"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

Painfully accurate

Go vote today if you can

Most TV is just this now.

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.

Kathryn Anne Edwards @kedseconomist.com

A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...

Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

This is the backdrop to tomorrow's Fed meeting. Global 10-year yields have been rising sharply. Markets are in a state of agitation. They want central banks to be unambiguously hawkish and hike a lot. There's no way Warsh can live up to that. Dangerous... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-global...

The big debate is whether the rise in global yields is benign and about growth or whether it's about countries running out of fiscal space and thus more worrying. I'm in the latter camp and in my view signs are plentiful we're seeing a fiscal debt shock... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-global...

If you're wondering if the global bond market sell-off is about growth or fiscal space, just look at how markets are trading. High-debt countries are getting hit much harder than low debt ones. We're in a global debt shock. Not a global growth shock... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-global...

🤔 Trump's 9/11 lies are getting more outlandish 🤔 Trump has told a number of whoppers about his response to 9/11 in recent days, including today claiming he was basically pulled out of the rubble while his employees were at Ground Zero helping Here are clips of Trump's new fan fiction:

48% actually. I keep this graph on my phone

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

Nope. www.theomnicosm.com/why-you-wont...

FML this is the second time I’ve had to prove that a lying white woman was faking bone cancer, though admittedly last time it wasn’t the President’s side piece rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/is-natalie...

When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House. (Published May)

What do you do if you’re making over $1B/year from short-term trading but want to avoid taxes? If you're the head of one of the most profitable firms on Wall Street, you find creative ways to transform the "wrong" sort of income into the right kind. From the ProPublica archives:

💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.

standard. SCOTUS allows Trump to continue to create literal facts on the ground while they 'consider' his his meritless challenge. nothing is more important than reforming the court and ending its corruption.

sure is weird how beef prices are apparently scheduled to go up again a week after the midterms 🤔

perfect example of cascading climate risks...

Today was a good day. 🍻

You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century

I love finding wikipedia pages like these, rabbit hole central. Danger, you may find yourself lost hopping from subject to subject for quite some time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

FDA approved the Moderna mRNA flu vaccine, which is great news for everyone! In clinical trials it outperformed existing flu vaccine technology so well that not even Vinay Prasad could cancel it. I talked to Scott Tong at @npr.org @hereandnow.bsky.social about it www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Look how cool! A person I'm acquainted with on Instagram does photography with antique equipment and he did a portrait of his cat using a camera made in 1926. www.instagram.com/glass_negati...

The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:

FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

she should say, ”You mean when President Trump was managing the pandemic? Fauci was an advisor and I’d note that Trump gave him a presidential commendation for his advice, and for his work on the vaccine, which the president has claimed as one of the biggest accomplishments of his first term.”

We're near the ten-year anniversary of this interview, which was viewed as wildly controversial at the time. It led to hit pieces on me from liberal outlets like The New Republic as well as death threats. Now it's seen as conventional wisdom -- but it always was!

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

Farmer Socialism

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.