Ivan Pereira

We also have 1 more ep left (and based on the final shot of Keith) not done with Earth X and its characters.

Trump uses shutdown to troll Democrats with deepfake memes, threatening targeted cuts President Donald Trump continued to taunt Democrats with AI-generated videos as he threatened targeted cuts

The White House has not provided more details on the legality of Trump's threats, nor has it responded to questions as to how firing people who are not getting paid would cut down on waste.

Leavitt provides no update on Trump's IVF campaign promise

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that President Donald Trump has not abandoned his campaign promise to mandate insurance companies to cover #IVF services.

When asked for an update, the press secretary could not give one.

The Frinkiac is also one of the few good websites. It does its one thing. It’s built on sharing but doesn’t build any stupid log-in infrastructure required to share. It isn’t cultivating a community within its walls. The web was once a lot of that. It can never grow at all and still be useful.

Trump openly threatens to use shutdown to target Democrats for cuts The White House also said the prospect of mass firings of federal workers was "very real."

He called the shutdown an "unprecedented opportunity" to make cuts after earlier saying he could save billions by clearing out "dead wood."

Is Wishbone a sitcom?

"GOP NY Rep Malliotakis on Fox Business on money suspended for NY infrastructure project: With regards to the Second Avenue subway, let's be clear -- they're operating congestion pricing illegally in violation of federal law. I believe that they should hold the Second Avenue Subway funds until Kathy Hochul stops congestion pricing and they do a full and complete audit of the MTA that just voted to increase fares again on New Yorkers."

Firstly, the MTA has won every court battle over congestion pricing, which means that it's legal by definition.

Secondly, because a member of the NY delegation has declared a need to 'audit' the MTA, I'm forced to re-up my column about why that's a smoke screen: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/why...

Radiohead's Kid A album cover

Kid A came out 25 years ago today. It was one of the most important albums of my life. Five years ago, I wrote this retrospective: www.stereogum.com/2094039/radi...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Leavitt rejects Pope's comments over immigration

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the pope's comments.
"I would reject there is inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the United States under this administration," she said before pivoting to immigration policy failures of the last administration.

LMAO the rule being used to block funding for the Hudson and Second Avenue projects appears to have only been drafted and posted as of last night. www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias. India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.

“The experience [of AI] actually mirrored society.”

Mayor Adams dated writer of new tell-all before appointing her to $160K NYC job Mayor Adams’ office confirmed Tuesday that about a decade ago he dated Jasmine Ray, a woman he would later appoint the newly-created role of “sports czar” and who is poised to rel…

"Collins was aware of Adams' relationship with Ray," per a City Hall spokesperson, is as close as we've gotten to confirmation of the mayor's nonmonogamy and I'll take it.

New York deserves better than trading in one disgraced, corrupt politician for another. On November 4th, we are going to turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas and deliver a government every New Yorker can be proud of.” (2)

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on Adams dropping out "“Donald Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo’s actions but they will not dictate the results of this election.(1)

Adams’ allies push Trump ambassadorship — and a New York City casino bid tied to his veto Middlemen orchestrating a deal for Adams to join the Trump administration have ties to a Bronx casino project the mayor recently rescued.

Steve Witkoff, Frank Carone, Vito Pitta... a look at all the threads connecting Adams, Trump, and a casino bid in the Bronx:
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Today marks exactly one year since Eric Adams became the first sitting NYC mayor in modern history to be indicted on criminal charges.

cc @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social @mikemcmahan.bsky.social kinda hope they have the Lower Decks solution as an option.

oooo boy.

3 detainees shot, some fatally, at Dallas ICE facility: Sources At least three people were shot at the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office on Wednesday morning.

The shooter -- who appeared "to be a sniper from an elevated position" firing from "a couple hundred yards" away -- died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Lyons said. Dallas police said it appears the shooter fired from an adjacent building.

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Trump appears to criticize Bondi over investigations of political opponents

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Chicago Starbucks Worker Did Not Write 'Loser' On Order Honoring Charlie Kirk, Company Says A Starbucks spokesperson said time-stamped surveillance footage shows an employee did not write the note, which had prompted online outrage and the store's temporary closure this week.

The spokesperson said the company reviewed timestamped in-store video footage and found the note was not written by a Starbucks employee.

The note appears “to have been added after the beverage was handed off, likely by someone else,” the spokesperson said.

CDC panel abandons COVID vaccine recommendation, saying it's a personal choice The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, called ACIP, was expected on Friday to vote on the at-birth hepatitis B vaccine and on COVID-19.

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee on Friday voted to abandon its recommendation for the COVID-19 vaccine, with the committee unanimously voting to recommend that Americans get the shot "based on individual-based decision-making," meaning it's a personal choice.

Merryday, who was appointed by President Geroge H. W. Bush, said the complaint contains eighty pages of repetitive claims and praise for President Trump, but fails to establish the two counts of defamation alleged.

Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against New York Times, Penguin Random House A judge has tossed President Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and Penguin Random House, and gave Trump's lawyers 28 days to refile.

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wow, per our reporter Lauren Hartley who is at the hearing now, the Avenir proposal (for the Hudson Yards area) was also just voted down.

two major Manhattan casino plans scraped off the board. story to come ...