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“Exonerated of a 1996 double murder, he received a record wrongful-conviction payout from New York City, and he’s finding that money can’t buy back those years. What now?”
— apple.news/Ax6VnAWf8T2a...
— apple.news/Ax6VnAWf8T2a...
George Bell Served 24 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit. Now He’s Learning to Live Again. — Esquire
Exonerated of a 1996 double murder, he received a record wrongful-conviction payout from New York City, and he’s finding that money can’t buy back those years. What now?
apple.news
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
“Exonerated of a 1996 double murder, he received a record wrongful-conviction payout from New York City, and he’s finding that money can’t buy back those years. What now?”
— apple.news/Ax6VnAWf8T2a...
— apple.news/Ax6VnAWf8T2a...
Gothamist/WNYC: “Why the internet fell for a Chinatown passport photographer” — gothamist.com/news/why-the...
Why the internet fell for a Chinatown passport photographer
A film shop has become an unlikely destination for perfect portraits — and a reminder of what hasn’t changed.
gothamist.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Gothamist/WNYC: “Why the internet fell for a Chinatown passport photographer” — gothamist.com/news/why-the...
From NPR’s stringer in Johannesburg: “Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa”
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and po...
www.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
From NPR’s stringer in Johannesburg: “Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa”
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
“[B]ut starting this year the so-called ‘media traffic apocalypse’ caused by Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Prior to that, Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview.”
70%?! Jeeeeeeeeez.
70%?! Jeeeeeeeeez.
For years, advertising has been how Stereogum made money to pay its writers. While we made progress moving away from that model, Google AI search has decimated the business almost overnight. Today we relaunch with a greater focus on subscription. We’d love your support: stereogum.com/2478838/ster...
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
“[B]ut starting this year the so-called ‘media traffic apocalypse’ caused by Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Prior to that, Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview.”
70%?! Jeeeeeeeeez.
70%?! Jeeeeeeeeez.
“Frustrated by a proposed change that would keep high-speed rail running through Shafter at ground-level, the town’s leaders voted to reject the new plan with the mayor saying he’d rather see the train just “go around the city,’” www.fresnobee.com/news/local/h...
Fed up with CA High-Speed Rail, Central Valley city says train can just ‘go around’
The proposal marks the second time in recent months that the rail authority has caused an uproar by pitching changes to plans made years ago.
www.fresnobee.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“Frustrated by a proposed change that would keep high-speed rail running through Shafter at ground-level, the town’s leaders voted to reject the new plan with the mayor saying he’d rather see the train just “go around the city,’” www.fresnobee.com/news/local/h...
The ‘State of the World’ from NPR’s Middle East team on Israel’s growing occupation of the West Bank — one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5604...
🔊 Listen Now: State of the World from NPR-11.10.2025
State Of The World From NPR on NPR One | 8:32
one.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The ‘State of the World’ from NPR’s Middle East team on Israel’s growing occupation of the West Bank — one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5604...
More layoffs?!
Scoop: Bari Weiss is after yet another network journalist locked in a contract, leading to questions about her recruiting tactics.
Meanwhile, another round of layoffs are expected to hit the newsroom, though timing remains unclear.
More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
Meanwhile, another round of layoffs are expected to hit the newsroom, though timing remains unclear.
More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
Weiss’ Anchor Wishlist
Bari Weiss’ interest in high-profile journalists under contract at rival networks has struck insiders as naïve, and raised questions about her recruiting tactics. Meanwhile, CBS News staffers are bra...
www.status.news
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
More layoffs?!
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NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
“No other countries have followed the United States in withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, but the Trump administration is using a mix of lobbying and economic threats to thwart emissions-cutting and environmental initiatives around the world.” — apple.news/AVqou9Os1T_S...
U.S. skips COP30 climate conference, lobbies to sink new global deals — The Washington Post
The Trump administration is using lobbying and economic threats to thwart emissions-cutting and environmental initiatives around the world.
apple.news
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“No other countries have followed the United States in withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, but the Trump administration is using a mix of lobbying and economic threats to thwart emissions-cutting and environmental initiatives around the world.” — apple.news/AVqou9Os1T_S...
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If you’re seeing this viral claim that Trump is working on 15-year car loans, it’s fake.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If you’re seeing this viral claim that Trump is working on 15-year car loans, it’s fake.
Anyone got a seat map of the new Avelias?
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Anyone got a seat map of the new Avelias?
Need a superhero origin story that’s as anodyne as casual chance encounter with an abnormal molecule of subway station drip
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Need a superhero origin story that’s as anodyne as casual chance encounter with an abnormal molecule of subway station drip
Goodall's willingness to go into detail about how the members of the BBC board who hired the author of the leaked Telegraph were also involved in launching an unfounded inquiry that led him to exit the BBC (and led to Newsnight's gutting) is whew -- goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Goodall's willingness to go into detail about how the members of the BBC board who hired the author of the leaked Telegraph were also involved in launching an unfounded inquiry that led him to exit the BBC (and led to Newsnight's gutting) is whew -- goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
"We have the ridiculous carnival of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, of all people, admonishing the BBC for its lack of integrity. And they can get away with it, ... yet we expect everything from the people and places who actually give a damn."
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"We have the ridiculous carnival of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, of all people, admonishing the BBC for its lack of integrity. And they can get away with it, ... yet we expect everything from the people and places who actually give a damn."
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
The patented fleet sales pump that killed GM resales during the Era of the Rodgers and Ricks
Quick someone reward this CEO with a trillion dollars.
Tesla can’t sell its cars anymore so it is renting them now
Tesla is launching a new car rental program out of its stores in the US, as sales are crashing due...
electrek.co
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The patented fleet sales pump that killed GM resales during the Era of the Rodgers and Ricks
FWIW: A huge weakness in American rolling stock design and procurement is that after insisting on doing everything bespoke, there’s no real way to “mule” these train cars before full production.
In Detroit, cars are cladded up and then handed out to employees who are told to break them in.
In Detroit, cars are cladded up and then handed out to employees who are told to break them in.
Table seating in business class is TIGHT. Luckily no one is sitting across from me, but my seat mates had to verbally negotiate how to place their legs to fit.
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FWIW: A huge weakness in American rolling stock design and procurement is that after insisting on doing everything bespoke, there’s no real way to “mule” these train cars before full production.
In Detroit, cars are cladded up and then handed out to employees who are told to break them in.
In Detroit, cars are cladded up and then handed out to employees who are told to break them in.
Weather is drunk, go home
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Weather is drunk, go home
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
The junction between the politics of affordable housing and the production of affordable housing is a car crash.
In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.
Cuando se ha aprobó esta medida dije repetidamente que iba a ser un fracaso y que no construirían nada de vivienda asequible. Se ha probado en mil sitios y no funciona.
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The junction between the politics of affordable housing and the production of affordable housing is a car crash.
👀👀👀👀👀
A draft of the first-of-its-kind Texas Department of Transportation plan released in October outlines the need for boosted public transportation in rural and smaller urban areas as well as a greater array of travel options, including rail, between the state’s major urban centers.
TxDOT: Car-dominant Texas needs more public transit
As the state’s population grows, more travel options are needed in rural and smaller urban areas and between major cities, according to a draft of the first-of-its-kind plan.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
👀👀👀👀👀
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The economy helped get Donald Trump elected to a second term. Now it's his Achilles’ heel.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
by @mniquette.bsky.social and @laurendezenski.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
by @mniquette.bsky.social and @laurendezenski.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The economy helped get Donald Trump elected to a second term. Now it's his Achilles’ heel.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
by @mniquette.bsky.social and @laurendezenski.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
by @mniquette.bsky.social and @laurendezenski.bsky.social
Apparently this is basically to protect Barilla's business -- www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Tariffs on pasta from Italy could soon soar to more than 100%
A routine Commerce Department probe into alleged “dumping” resulted in crushing 100% tariffs on Italian pasta that leave exporters shouting “Basta!”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Apparently this is basically to protect Barilla's business -- www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Oh good grief
Trump threatening the United Kingdom’s state broadcaster, the BBC, with a personal $1 billion payday.
Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Oh good grief
Was de Blasio's OMB for the first term and knows Albany (albeit a very different Albany)
New: Zohran Mamdani's expected to later this morning announce he plans to appoint Dean Fuleihan as his first deputy mayor, per sources.
Fuleihan served in the same role under Bill de Blasio.
Fuleihan served in the same role under Bill de Blasio.
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Was de Blasio's OMB for the first term and knows Albany (albeit a very different Albany)