a graph of employment at newspapers, which continually goes down

It's remarkable how low this number can get and still keep going down

The United States needs military access to Greenland, which it already has, to defend the Arctic, which it already does, from Russian and Chinese ships, which aren’t actually there, and this is so important we should destroy the Western alliance to get it, do I have that right?

I think a lot of Americans have (understandably) assumed that this kind of brutal randomized street-level "papers please" enforcement has been how ICE has always done business.

It very much was not, until the past year.

Fellow reporters, everyone really, make sure you do a good review of your digital security. End-to-end encryption wherever you can, if you have Apple gear it's pretty easy and robust.

Trump calls Jan 6 a “day of love.” This bodycam footage shows otherwise. YouTube video by NPR

Watch this when you can.

Chart from The Economist showing the annual income in 1798 of various professions and of Jane Austen characters

Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
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At least 2 dead, 8 injured after shooting at Brown University, Providence mayor says. Follow live updates. - The Boston Globe Mayor Brett Smiley said in an evening press conference that officials do not have a shooter in custody.

At least two people are dead and eight are in “critical status, though stable” at Rhode Island Hospital after a shooting at Brown University, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said. No suspects are in custody. Follow live updates.

Breaking: Comptroller Brad Lander is headed to trial — by choice — on federal misdemeanor charges for trying to inspect conditions at 26 Federal Plaza.

The other pols arrested alongside him in Sept got ACDs following mediation talks this morning.

Ten months in, congestion pricing in NYC is working, MTA says Congestion pricing has been in effect in Manhattan for 11 months and counting. The MTA says traffic is down — and revenue is up. But President Trump is still threatening to terminate the plan. NBC 4 N...

Say it louder for the people in the back!

Or don’t – with less honking and quieter streets, you don’t really have to.

www.nbcnewyork.com/video/on-air...

Explore How Different New Yorkers Voted for Mayor See how voters turned out for Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in every neighborhood in the city — and by income, housing and transit preference.

you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:

just in: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is on track to win easily.

With roughly a quarter of the vote reporting, he leads Pat Dugan 81% to 19%.

Krasner already beat Dugan in the Dem primary... and Dugan kept running as the GOP nominee. (My write-up: boltsmag.org/2025-prosecu...)

Added bonus for everyone who votes in NYC tomorrow: special edition “I voted” sticker

The New York City Subway is 121 years old today -- the IRT first opened on this day in 1904.

In the past, Gov. Hochul has called raising most taxes, even on the wealthy, a hard "no." She softened the stance today. "I have a lot of calculations to do," Hochul says. "There's a lot of popular phrases out there... But I am open to trying to help people who are struggling"

Daily News coverage of Canal St vendors in 1985: “Lower Manhattan merchants who display their wares on sidewalks … contend that their sales methods are as much a part of New York's history and culture as carriage rides in Central Park”

How powerful is your passport? Americans’ travel documents aren’t as muscular as they used to be

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Cuomo’s Last-Minute Push Takes Him Into MAGA Territory The former governor courts Trump fans, finding common ground in dire warnings about a future under Mayor Mamdani.

Some of the most fervent volunteers for Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign are Republicans who voted for and still embrace Trump.

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

If someone says "why don't they just get in line," send them this.

Women’s pro-ballers want more cash The popularity of the WNBA is soaring

With about a month to go until a salary renegotiation deadline on October 31st, I looked at why America's women basketball players are scandalously underpaid, for @economist.com
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NYC's rat czar "quietly scurried away" 🤣
I love rat puns

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

This is horrific and cruel

Who’s afraid of the Democratic Socialists? They may prove to be the left’s populist alternative to Trumpism

They may prove to be the left’s populist alternative to Trumpism

Worth watching

South Koreans Are Among Hundreds Detained in Immigration Raid at Hyundai E.V. Plant

Even the South Korean executives were detained during an immigration raid at a Hyundai EV plant in GA yesterday. Terrible for those detained and truly not a great way to encourage manufacturing and investing in America www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Opinion | New Tech Can Change a City. New York Learned That the Hard Way With Uber.

Great piece by Nicole Gelinas on Waymo possibly upsetting the delicate balance on NYC's streets www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...

The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.

The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.

Jay McInerney is probably the most famous former New Yorker fact checker. He will admit he was not a great one; he got fired when his claim that he could speak French was disproved by a litany of errors he let through in a piece reported from France.