Emily Flitter

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

Everyone I see reacting to this is seriously listing Arab scientists who have won prizes as if this racism will go away with some kind of rational response, but I just keep thinking about the time my ex-boyfriend yelled at some guy: “I’m from Egypt, we gave you MATH!”

You’ve got to show kindness. How can I love God without loving you? Mahalia Jackson Born October 26, 1911

Under Lula, deforestation dropped to lowest level on records Lula’s Win Rules Out U-Turn by Brazil on Climate, Deforestation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In Brazil, it appears that voters who opted for eliminated first-round candidates roughly broke even in the runoff (even if the candidates leaned right). But the big difference was: Millions of voters who cast 'null' or 'blank' ballots in the first round then voted for Lula.

Love this from @andrewvandam.bsky.social

I’m gonna finish two separate big stories by noon tomorrow!

Hey Siri, where is the cat and who else is with it? When will we be together and will we have a good time then? Will we have a good time then?

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

"Alexander says he didn’t come back to Ingram to help deport his neighbors... he just ended up making it part of his job. Alexander and Ingram’s other patrol officer had delivered at least 70 people to immigration agents. Within a year, they would hand over the equivalent of 10% of Ingram to ICE."

Louisville Public Media reports on Indiana State Police helping ICE detain commercial truckers:

This Rangers game is torture

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández credited our reporting as the catalyst for the Justice for Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Act. We revealed that 500+ U.S. citizens have been detained in warrantless arrests since Trump returned to office.

When gov’t workers arrived to test Ms. Hawk’s grandfather’s yard, they walked in circles around the pool with a Geiger counter. They huddled quietly…then…suggested she avoid it. “I was like, ‘What do you mean?…I went in that pool all the time when I was pregnant’” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/n...

Why the author of “Just and Unjust Wars” came to see the war in Gaza as “a criminal effort.” www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

Ukraine says this is not true, but it’s still on the NYT homepage. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Gift link below. This was a fun one to report. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/b...

Hi i need you to know this person existed and I’m sad he’s gone. Adults called him a real-life Indiana Jones; as an 8yo, i viewed him as heroic for smuggling squirt guns into our house & once slipping me a forbidden cookie by sliding it to me under his socked foot www.elkinfh.com/obituary/Jam...

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

A scoop from me: CBS-owned local stations' election coverage will be sponsored by DraftKings, a deal that has stirred concern inside the company. www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

JUST IN: Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy reut.rs/4emaeGU

Fixing climate overshoot needs “rapid and sustained” cuts to emissions to limit warming and eventually return to 1.5C

“I’ve checked out.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

NEW: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

This is such a heartbreaking story

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

Wishing I were in Little Rock

“Officers were responding to a shoplifting call alleging that Wiley’s mother…had stolen a pack of diapers…Vellesiya Wiley lifted her son up to show the officers that a child was in the car. One officer fired into the vehicle, killing the baby.” www.mississippifreepress.org/police-shoot...

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

A Savannah police officer let her ICE agent husband "run hundreds of license plate searches" on Flock using her log in.

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“What happens when daily existential trauma becomes less daily…acquires the patina of history, when the grief & terror & rage & despair that so many generations had endured becomes, for new generations, simply…a thing that happened to other people a long time ago?” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/t...

A journalist who was present during the Israeli settler attack on a photographer discusses what he witnessed: “Somebody in a press vest on the ground with five or six settlers on top of them, just beating them over and over with clubs. It was truly barbaric.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8epNVS

"Once the money comes to the company here, I will arrange the donation to Kennedy Centre, and you'll be joining the VIP events and get close with the administration, even with POTUS…” www.axios.com/2026/10/19/k...

What this piece says—and then derangedly refuses to hear itself saying!!—is that seniors spend less money because the American work force got its stable, guaranteed pensions taken away and replaced with personal investment savings. And then it wonders why they're risk-averse with the money!

Public schools in Utah banned a best-selling Jodi Picoult novel and ordered all copies destroyed. So ... Picoult arrived at a Salt Lake City high school this weekend with 600 copies of the book. And she gave them all away, for free. "Applause and cheers erupted." www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

Screenshot everything before you fly, folks. 🛫 The Advocate: Air Canada blamed "dynamic pricing" for this couple's $274 overcharge. Now, the airline says it was a "technical glitch." Here's the latest from Diana Zlomislic:

81% of the 2400 stocks in the MSCI's global stock index are already suffering losses due to extreme heat, costing $3.9 trillion every year. There are no safe havens from climate change, not even in a stock portfolio Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...