As expected, the annual benchmark revisions sharply lowered estimates of job growth in earlier months. BLS now says we added just 181,000 jobs in 2025, down from the earlier estimate of 584,000. #NumbersDay

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight

In praise of the tuna melt, the ultimate NYC sandwich https://gothamist.com/food/in-praise-of-the-tuna-melt-the-ultimate-nyc-sandwich

Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.

The latest Department of Homeland Security AI use case inventory, released last week, details over 200 applications across DHS component agencies, including CBP and ICE. DHS is rapidly deploying these tools in US cities, while engaging in violence and defying court orders.

This cold stretch is no match for New Yorkers.

Two girls on Sheep, Cornwall, England — John Drysdale, 1969

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Useful background from @ramshajahangir.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social for anyone prepping for a potential announcement of an EU enforcement action against Elon Musk's X: www.techpolicy.press/understandin...

As a journalist and emerging public historian, I spent much of the past week reading through transcripts of oral histories made and collected by residents of Kerr County, Texas – where flash floods killed more than 100 people this month.

There’s one recording that stood out to me. 🧵

I was just informed that Denali National Park has a sled dog puppy cam and you might also need this information

www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

“The value of school as a place, especially in the K-12 space, was really apparent after COVID”. Fantastic panel NYU Connect with Jessica Millstone, Dennis Morgan and Nate Pettit

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #5,269,734!