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85% of CEOs are white men.

All but one US President has been a white man.

65% of all elected offices are held by white men.

Roughly 30% of the population is white men.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???

Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...

In the first six months of congestion pricing, air pollution within Manhattan's toll zone dropped 25%.

Pollution fell across the five boroughs and in the suburbs, too. A clean air win all around.

The more we learn about Zohran Mamdani's upbringing, the clearer it becomes that he owes everything to his connected, well-to-do parents.

by A.G. Sulzberger, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, and Donald Trump, Jr.

THIS IS SO GOOD

US detains British commentator Hamdi in middle of national speaking tour U.S. immigration authorities detained British commentator Sami Hamdi, revoked his visa and said he would be deported rather than allowed to complete his speaking tour in the United States, a Homeland Security official said on Sunday.

US detains British commentator Hamdi in middle of national speaking tour reut.rs/4hwjEQv

Opinion | Can Economic Populism Save the Democratic Party?

There's a lot to unpack, digest and consider here, though some of the solutions they suggest seem unworkable.

But it's striking to me that they dismiss @aoc.bsky.social as "AOC at the Met gala," when she is actually an example of a working-class candidate with great communication skills who wins.

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Supreme Court lets Noem end legal status for many Venezuelans in the U.S. The majority gave virtually no reasoning. The Democratic appointees objected, but only Justice Jackson wrote: "[Y]et another grave misuse of our emergency docket."

“In all, then, the Supreme Court’s majority has — in a total of five paragraphs over two orders — allowed Noem’s effort to proceed in opposition to seven rulings from seven judges, amounting to 227 pages of opinions.” www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

Important to read this article about ICE raid on the south side of Chicago.

Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

“Why won’t Zohran Mamdani denounce a dangerous slogan?” asks a headline in the Atlantic.

Meanwhile, Andrew Cuomo isn’t asked to denounce a dangerous war criminal whose legal team he joined.

This is the correct order too. Vote like this please.

In a dramatic incident captured on video, U.S. Department of Homeland Security police Wednesday handcuffed one of Rep. Jerry Nadler aides in the congressmember's Manhattan office, which is in the same federal office building as an immigration courthouse. In the video, which was shared with Gothamist and filmed by a person who was monitoring activity in immigration court, DHS officers entered Nadler’s district office and accused staff members of “harboring rioters.” A Nadler staffer is seen crying and being handcuffed. Another officer is at a door trying to enter a private area of the office while a staffer asks for a warrant. DHS later said in a statement that “one individual” — the woman seen being handcuffed — had blocked police from performing a security check they intended to do based on information there were protesters in the lawmaker’s office. Later that day, protesters gathered outside of the federal building, demonstrating against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

Three Questions Prompted by Rubio’s Threatened Visa Restrictions on ‘Foreign Nationals Who Censor Americans’ | TechPolicy.Press Justin Hendrix and Dean Jackson consider the implications of a threat issued by the US Secretary of State.

On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a “Visa Restriction Policy Targeting Foreign Nationals Who Censor Americans.” @justinhendrix.bsky.social and @dwj88.bsky.social consider the possible implications:

Nation Can't Believe It On Harvard's Side

it is actually very newsworthy that the president of the united states appears to be receiving an IV drip of stormfront forum posts bsky.app/profile/greg...

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Donald Trump’s gargantuan self-dealing Federal ethics rules now seem little more than decoration

“The distinction between public & private has no meaning to the House of Saud. Their country is literally named after them. At least in theory, US ethics laws put Washington on the other end of the spectrum. In reality, federal ethics rules are now decorative.” My column. www.ft.com/content/f1cf...

Jamie Raskin on Trump's Qatar plane grift: "We’re talking about corruption at just an epic scale."

This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other:

newrepublic.com/article/1951...

This expands a similar purge recently at the Naval Academy library, in Maryland. Last month, civilian Navy officials, following orders originating from Mr. Hegseth, pulled from shelves books including one that critiqued “The Bell Curve,” a 1994 text that argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people. But the academy kept “The Bell Curve” itself on its shelves.

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

YouTube video by Congressman Greg Casar Congressman Greg Casar: Why Would Republicans Cut Funding to Fight Antisemitism?

Antisemitism is an assault on all of our values.

So why would Republicans cut funding to address hate crimes or protect synagogues?

Republicans are not trying to keep Jewish students safe. They're trying to keep the Israeli government safe from any form of criticism.

Casar: "The party of 'very fine people on both sides' or 'Jewish space lasers' does not give a damn about stopping antisemitism. If my Republican colleagues want to stop the spread of antisemitism, maybe they should stop apologizing for and promoting antisemites."

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State (Gift Article) DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

Elon Musk may or may not fulfill his promise to step back from DOGE.

But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States.

My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm (Gift Article) World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.

Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history. PLEASE READ AND SHARE>>>https://nyti.ms/44KUVn8

ICE did not have arrest warrant for Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, at time of arrest, court documents reveal <i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>

BREAKING: ICE didn't even have an arrest warrant at the time they "arrested" Mahmoud Khalil. They literally just kidnapped him, then moved him around to evade judicial accountability.

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...

Fascinating piece on what’s behind Penn Station’s stubborn resistance to improvement.

72% of American Jews disapprove of Donald Trump's performance so far, poll finds - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The survey also said most American Jews dislike how Trump is handling antisemitism in the United States.

For the next time a Jewish Leader Speaking for the Jews says this is all most wanted actually: "Nearly three quarters of American Jews disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president and most dislike how he is handling antisemitism in the United States"
www.jta.org/2025/04/24/p...