Chris Casciano

I witnesses & photographed the towers falling from the NJ side of the Hudson River on the morning of 9/11. I also took this photo a month later at a makeshift memorial on the Hoboken waterfront. I think about it more than any of the actual events. I hope that over the years a connection was made.

big goal by Lafreniere in Ottawa

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

First bike lane removal truck blocked.

Looks like the $3 million + that James Dolan raised for pro-surveillance gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman wasn't enough. Dolan is holding a $10K/head fundraiser for him at MSG, per the @nypost.com. At a Knicks pre-season game.

Let's talk a little more about Margaret Hamilton because she deserves it In 1961, Margaret Hamilton was tackling massive systems, having previously wrangled room-sized computers that blared like a foghorn whenever they crashed.

An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.

off the fucking rails. a rogue government.

I saw this being shared online and wondered that I had never seen that photo of Hitler before. I tried to find it online and could not. At some point in my searches, I broke my rule against dealing with AI and asked Google if it was real.

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

Legal experts say Christa Pike is the first person in the United States to survive one dose — let alone two — of lethal injection drugs. “There is nothing in the execution process that states are incapable of getting wrong,” said one death penalty expert.

Dart& Judge& Igor& Knicks In Five

Just two days before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, President Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX, a major federal contractor run by Elon Musk, according to ethics filings made public on Thursday. https://cnn.it/4rRrZU0

Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson - ICE get the fuck out

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.

THREE DAYS INTO THE SEASON AND WE ALREADY HAVE A GOALIE GOAL!!

The Tennessean: Christa Pike still alive after administered drugs, attorneys say www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

Hockey Night in Canada is back as the PWHL and CBC have announced the historic entity will return to broadcast women's hockey games beginning December 5 with the Montreal Victoire hosting Hamilton. More: thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/...

Well done, CBC.

the DAZN feed for the NYR - NYI game tonight has been total crap. hope this isn't the way all season :/

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

Video of the end of this incident as agents drove off near Dodge and Howard, posted on Facebook:

At the end of the day, beyond the hatefulness, he's really just a spectacularly dumb guy. Like I'm not sure he's achieved object permanence yet. He has to be reminded which hole the food goes in. His internal monologue is the sound of one hand clapping. He calls electrical sockets "finger zappers."

BREAKING: We won! And we get discovery into this crazy demolition threat to boot. Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social and to my colleagues at DDF and WLG. Formal statement to follow.

New Jersey power broker George Norcross files defamation suit against The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trump looks at a placard that reads "Kennedy Center DEMOLITION" as he lands at Joint Base Andrews tonight (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty)

MAGA Mike Lawler sped 20 mph over the speed limit and recklessly wove through traffic while driving with his blood alcohol level at twice the legal limit. https://nypost.com/2026/09/15/us-news/new-details-emerge-in-us-rep-mike-lawlers-2012-dwi-bust-records/

A New York State Supreme Court judge ruled against Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn on Monday, declaring that outgoing executive committee members had “no authority” to vote on sweeping rule changes at a recent August meeting.

don't worry you weren't shot by a cop - their bullet just came into contact with you "Police had initially told Gothamist Thursday no one was struck in the incident, before issuing a statement Friday saying the fragment “came into contact” with the two people."

A woman whose husband was killed on 9/11 spoke at Friday's ceremony, calling for Saudi Arabia to be held accountable for its alleged role in the attacks. She directed her message to Vice President JD Vance, asking him to relay it to President Donald Trump.

Cheat to the polls!

Oh wait, someone has thought of this before!

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

The White House removes a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website this week after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement.

Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Fifteen years ago I wrote about my work on the algorithm that helped to place the names on the 9/11 memorial. "In the days and months that I worked on the arrangement algorithm and the placement tool, I found myself frequently speaking these names out loud." blprnt.medium.com/all-the-name...

“Everyone considers it fucking nuts.” Inside Apple, I'm told "not a soul" supports Donald Trump's Lake Ontario rebrand to "Lake America," but the company is also resigned to making such concessions to avoid the White House's rage. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/apple-maps...

"This carnage has to stop, and we need a master plan, a vision from a visionary mayor who wants our streets to be the envy of the world. Nobody is envying us today, Zohran," Mary Beth Kelly, a founder of Families for Safe Streets, said at Wednesday's die-in protest. buff.ly/Ww5NZXH

If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.

Dispatch from Mill Basin this evening, where the Brooklyn Democratic Party is voting to enact sweeping changes to the party's bylaws, reformers say will help Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn stay in control of the party: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/25/r...

Report from Brooklyn Democratic Party exec committee meeting is that Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's anti-democratic power grab has passed by 21-19 vote (1 abstention, 1 no-show) *All 8 District Leaders who lost in June voted yes*