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Gov. Pritzker: Republicans know that they can't win on the merits of their unpopular policies, so they're working to rig the 2026 election. It's a disgraceful attack.

Photos and interview by Stacie Joy East Village resident Irene Mok has spent years photographing the people and places around her — often without realizing she was creating an archive of growing up in New York City.  Those images, paired with personal essays and Mok's...

Photos by Stacie Joy  The community fridge outside the Sixth Street Community Center between Avenue B and Avenue C has been removed.  According to a source familiar with the situation, the Department of Sanitation issued a violation related to the fridge, prompting NYCHA to remove it last week. There are already calls for its return... The One Love Community Fridge arrived here in November 2024 after the longstanding fridge outside Trinity Lower East Side on Ninth Street and Avenue B was dismantled.  Community fridges provide food around the clock, though keeping them clean and regularly monitored has been an ongoing challenge at the neighborhood locations EVG has covered.  With this removal, no community fridges are currently operating in the East Village.

I might just have to make a weekly news roundup part of the regular rotation here, as once again the noteworthy stories crowding my inbox are so numerous this morning I feel compelled to comment on each of them in turn. If you hate roundups, skip this post – but here are the top stories … Continue reading "AI Data Dustups, Bond Market Tremors, and Whatever Muse Is"

“CIA director John Ratcliffe is preparing to take a bigger role in U.S. negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, U.S. officials have told their European counterparts, in a bid to jump-start moribund diplomatic efforts to end the four-and-a-half-year-long war,” the Financial Times reports. “The move comes as the White House is considering paring back the involvement […]

“Everybody wants to be there, but we’re really asking only those Candidates that are in tight Races, a little up, a little down, or even, to speak. We want to save the ‘stage’ for them.” — President Trump, quoted by the Washington Post, on the Republican midterm convention.

New photos show the rubble of an Iranian girls' school bombed by Trump and Pete Hegseth.

Dozens of children died in the blast.

A version of a federal rule proposing to exclude certain noncitizens from being counted in the 10-year Census was published...

Preparing for the Unthinkable President Trump’s concerted assault on free and fair elections is happening on so many fronts that...

“Right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer warned Vice President JD Vance that he’ll live to regret it if he is photographed shaking the hand of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) at an upcoming 9/11 ceremony,” Mediaite reports.

“A nonpartisan entity charged with reviewing misconduct allegations has cleared Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of wrongdoing in connection with documents she submitted to Congress that dramatically overstated her wealth,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The Office of Congressional Conduct, which reviews allegations concerning House members and staff, made the determination after opening an investigation into […]

Critics say the new agenda could weaken science-based rules and marine protections.

Anyone who cares about finding reliable, accurate information online should be deeply concerned about Meta’s announcement that it is testing its community notes program in 16 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. […]

The post Statement from the International Fact-Checking Network on Meta’s expansion of Community Notes to Latin America appeared first on Poynter.

Let’s talk about Taxonomies vs Custom Fields. Or rather, how to model data you need to query in modern WordPress. Prompted by a comment someone made in The Guild on my recent article about modern WordPress query performance, an old question was raised: When creating custom post types, is it still more performant to use […]

The post How to Model Data You Need to Query in Modern WordPress appeared first on Remkus de Vries.

You may see film crews around Raccoon Saloon on Route 9W in Marlboro this week. Looks like a Netflix show is filming in the area! Continue reading…

This song is arriving at exactly the right time. Continue reading…

The copyright lawsuit targeting PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, HDBits, and three other major private trackers has taken a bizarre turn. After a Canadian filmmaker filed a sworn declaration confirming he has nothing to do with the case, the plaintiff argues there are simply two filmmakers with the same name, who coincidentally created movies with the exact same titles.

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