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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  A packed St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery hosted a memorial service Saturday afternoon for longtime Lower East Side activist Carlos “Chino” Garcia.  Before the service, Mayor Zohran Mamdani met privately with Garcia's family, th...

886 closed last night (Aug. 31) after eight years at 26 St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue. 

NASA's cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn't include the helicopters.

"We could really be facing the great filter."

“Money is starting to trickle out of President Donald Trump’s super PAC. But as September begins, GOP donors and other Republicans say it should be gushing,” Politico reports. “The concern comes even as Republicans maintain a large financial advantage over Democrats. But with the president’s poll numbers near record lows and Democratic voters appearing more […]

“Six years before becoming Texas Democrats’ U.S. Senate nominee, James Talarico described capitalism as an ‘oppressive system’ during a Sierra Club event, grouping it with White supremacy and climate change and saying ending the ways all three worked together was necessary to begin the process of ‘dismantling them,'” CNN reports.

“Senator Ed Markey has seen his lead steadily increase in recent polls of the Democratic primary for Senate in Massachusetts, with a large number of undecided voters appearing to swing toward him in the lead-up to Tuesday’s election,” the New York Times reports. “In his attempt to secure a third full term in the Senate, […]

A scam that is both vile and deeply stupid

I can’t stand that editor, journalists will tell each other over coffee or beers or while chatting in newsroom corridors. They never responded to my email asking about their newsroom. […]

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A tale of two covers.

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Anthropic's bulk torrenting of pirated books from shadow libraries LibGen and Pirate Library Mirror continues to generate new lawsuits. A group of major publishers, including Sony Music and Warner Chappell, have sued the AI company and its co-founders, alleging that torrenting activity that resulted in a $1.5 billion settlement, also infringed on their musical works. Meanwhile, the music companies appear to be confused about the history of shadow libraries.

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It's been a long time coming, but a restaurant that has been in the works for nearly seven years is finally serving customers in the Village of Wappingers Falls. Continue reading…

NASA's cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn't include the helicopters.

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Coauthored with Claude Midway through each month, I think “The next Trends is going to be small. Not much is happening.” This is the first time that I’ve been right. Was everyone on vacation in August? Am I becoming jaded? There were many model releases, though few of them seemed significant. Then again, it may […]

“Republicans are counting on President Donald Trump’s cavalry to carry Ken Paxton to victory — but it hasn’t come yet,” Semafor reports. “Ultimately, the GOP expects MAGA Inc. to help its Texas Senate nominee win with a significant spend this fall, according to multiple Republican sources, although even presidential super PAC donors aren’t clued in […]

“Kalshi is conducting ongoing investigations into other political figures who may have conducted insider trading after suspending four yesterday,” Semafor reports.

Wall Street Journal: “Nationally, Republicans face familiar midterm headwinds, from inflation to the war with Iran. Georgia’s GOP is contending with a problem notable to the Peach State: a $140-million Ponzi-scheme scandal that has ruptured the party’s ultraconservative wing.”

Jacob Weinberg: “He lovingly paints immigrants, praises free trade and diplomacy, and rues the coarsening of American politics. Why won’t he talk about Donald Trump?”

“A U.S. Postal Service official has alleged that the agency is moving forward with a ‘secretive, rushed’ effort to implement President Trump’s order exerting federal control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking those plans,” the New York Times reports. CBS News: Whistleblower warns Postal Service’s mail ballot portal is “rushed,” “untested.”