Frank Bajak
@fbajak.bsky.social
Journalist with tech focus. Ex-Associated Press foreign correspondent. First AP tech editor, Andes chief. frankbajak.com fbajak(at)proton(dot)me - DM for Signal#
Remember when next the stock market crashes: The average annual salary, including bonuses, in NYC’s securities industry rose 7.3% to $505,630 in 2024, and the bonus pool grew to a record $47.5 billion for an average bonus of $244,700 per employee. -NYS comptroller @adamtooze.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Remember when next the stock market crashes: The average annual salary, including bonuses, in NYC’s securities industry rose 7.3% to $505,630 in 2024, and the bonus pool grew to a record $47.5 billion for an average bonus of $244,700 per employee. -NYS comptroller @adamtooze.bsky.social
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Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
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AP's Regina Garcia Cano has identified and compiled portraits of some of the low-level Venezuelan cocaine smugglers slain at sea on Trump's orders. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss ..."
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Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
AP's Regina Garcia Cano has identified and compiled portraits of some of the low-level Venezuelan cocaine smugglers slain at sea on Trump's orders. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss ..."
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The unemployment rate is low and the economy is still growing, but those out of work face the slowest pace of hiring in more than a decade.
'No hire' job market leaves unemployed in limbo as threats to economy multiply
The unemployment rate is low and the economy is still growing, but those out of work face the slowest pace of hiring in more than a decade.
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The unemployment rate is low and the economy is still growing, but those out of work face the slowest pace of hiring in more than a decade.
AP's Regina Garcia Cano has identified and compiled portraits of some of the low-level Venezuelan cocaine smugglers slain at sea on Trump's orders. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss ..."
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
AP's Regina Garcia Cano has identified and compiled portraits of some of the low-level Venezuelan cocaine smugglers slain at sea on Trump's orders. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss ..."
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...
Government Shutdown Delays US Jobs Data for Second Month
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...
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The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
Trump’s DOJ fails to obtain a misdemeanor assault conviction against the “shame”-shouting sandwich thrower. Don’t forget. It initially tried to indict him on felony charges.
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Man who threw sandwich at federal agent in Washington is found not guilty of assault charge
A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington has been found not guilty of assault.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Trump’s DOJ fails to obtain a misdemeanor assault conviction against the “shame”-shouting sandwich thrower. Don’t forget. It initially tried to indict him on felony charges.
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"Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads."
This is why Europe passed a Digital Services Act. Time to enforce it. Zuck’s flagrant refusak to crack down on scammers, on top of dropping fact-checking, amounts to criminal negligence. All for profits! apnews.com/article/meta...
This is why Europe passed a Digital Services Act. Time to enforce it. Zuck’s flagrant refusak to crack down on scammers, on top of dropping fact-checking, amounts to criminal negligence. All for profits! apnews.com/article/meta...
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads."
This is why Europe passed a Digital Services Act. Time to enforce it. Zuck’s flagrant refusak to crack down on scammers, on top of dropping fact-checking, amounts to criminal negligence. All for profits! apnews.com/article/meta...
This is why Europe passed a Digital Services Act. Time to enforce it. Zuck’s flagrant refusak to crack down on scammers, on top of dropping fact-checking, amounts to criminal negligence. All for profits! apnews.com/article/meta...
The toll of alleged drug smugglers murdered on the high seas by the Trump regime is now at 67. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The toll of alleged drug smugglers murdered on the high seas by the Trump regime is now at 67. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The best kind of message: The public has had enough of your wanton, anti-democratic predations and there will be consequences.
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The best kind of message: The public has had enough of your wanton, anti-democratic predations and there will be consequences.
No, you sillies. It’s a taco (or shawarma) stand on every corner.
"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands."
hold up. tell me more about that
hold up. tell me more about that
This guy
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
No, you sillies. It’s a taco (or shawarma) stand on every corner.
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We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app
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DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants
The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
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This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy"
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How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
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November 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy"
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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“You campaign in poetry,” Mario
Cuomo said after he was first elected governor of New York. “You govern in prose.” Forty years on, Andrew Cuomo has campaigned for mayor in leaden, lazy, ugly prose his father would surely hate. While @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social campaigned in inspiring poetry.
Cuomo said after he was first elected governor of New York. “You govern in prose.” Forty years on, Andrew Cuomo has campaigned for mayor in leaden, lazy, ugly prose his father would surely hate. While @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social campaigned in inspiring poetry.
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“You campaign in poetry,” Mario
Cuomo said after he was first elected governor of New York. “You govern in prose.” Forty years on, Andrew Cuomo has campaigned for mayor in leaden, lazy, ugly prose his father would surely hate. While @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social campaigned in inspiring poetry.
Cuomo said after he was first elected governor of New York. “You govern in prose.” Forty years on, Andrew Cuomo has campaigned for mayor in leaden, lazy, ugly prose his father would surely hate. While @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social campaigned in inspiring poetry.
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magnificent
Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
magnificent
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BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
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Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
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Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
ICE agents are apparently being told they can use the massively intrusive “Mobile Fortify” facial recognition app to scan ANYONE’s face, and documentation claims it is more reliable than a birth certificate. Citizens may want to carry a laminated wallet-sized scan of their U.S. passport photo page.
Update to this story here: obtained another internal DHS document, showing app may be used on people irrespective of citizenship or immigration status bsky.app/profile/did:...
New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets
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November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
ICE agents are apparently being told they can use the massively intrusive “Mobile Fortify” facial recognition app to scan ANYONE’s face, and documentation claims it is more reliable than a birth certificate. Citizens may want to carry a laminated wallet-sized scan of their U.S. passport photo page.
A lesson for Americans from Israel: How to live under a regime that commits crimes in your name, and with your tax dollars, without abandoning your values or integrity, by M. Gessen. Gift link:
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Opinion | How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country
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November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A lesson for Americans from Israel: How to live under a regime that commits crimes in your name, and with your tax dollars, without abandoning your values or integrity, by M. Gessen. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
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A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.
As SNAP funds froze, mayors and governors have pledged to supplement the missing federal assistance, while federal judges ruled Friday that the Trump administration should use contingency funds to keep food aid running despite the government shutdown.
Uncertainty hits after vulnerable Americans woke up to a SNAP freeze
Amid a benefits pause, nonprofit groups plan to work extra hours to get food out to vulnerable residents, and local community members are also stepping up.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.
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International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
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October 31, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
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