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Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, talks about the ballot initiatives that good-government groups disagree on, plus other information on voting.

Photo: Voters fill out their ballots at a polling station in New York City on Election Day, November 5, 2024. (Photo by LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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Mike Hayes, WNYC/Gothamist New Jersey politics reporter and the author of The Secret Files: Bill De Blasio, The NYPD, and the Broken Promises of Police Reform (Kingston Imperial, 2023), recaps Michael Hill's conversation with New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

Photo: New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate, U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), casts her vote on November 4, 2025 in Montclair, New Jersey. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

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Dahlia Scheindlin, Haaretz senior analyst and columnist, political scientist and the author of The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled (De Gruyter, 2023), talks about the results so far in Israel's election, the first since the October 7, 2023 attacks and the years of war that followed.

Photo: A voter casts a ballot at a polling station in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, during the general elections on October 27, 2026. (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Caroline Haskins, staff writer for the business desk at WIRED, where she covers Silicon Valley, surveillance, and labor, reports on a new Airbnb rule change that bars hosts from requiring certain household chores at checkout, and listeners weigh in.

Photo: Linda Merlo, an airbnb host from the Bronx, speaks at a rally on the steps of New York City Hall. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

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Scores of adjunct professors at the City University of New York aren’t getting paid on time, CUNY officials acknowledged, in an ongoing problem that has frustrated the university’s part-time teaching workforce for several years.  Some CUNY adjuncts are owed sums north of $10,000.  “First paychecks don’t come through for a lot of people, and they’ve […]

The post Past Due: Why CUNY Adjuncts Can’t Get Paid On Time appeared first on The City Reporter.

About linkblog entries..

1. There has to be a way to edit the link, there are some sites that let you substitute a link that goes through their paywall. for that i need to be able to edit the link. wordland has this feature. look in its context menu.

2. Depending on the title to be linked to the thing the linkblog points to is not good. We don't know that it will have a title, titles are optional. So the right way to do it is to put it at the end of the text, skip a line, take the domain name, and have it link to the place the linkblog points to. Not sure if there are problems with this, but I do this in FL and it seems to work ok.

Knicks coach Mike Brown called out Karl-Anthony Towns.

This server and demo.rss.chat are now running the new version of the software that theoretically supports linkblogging. I have yet to test that, but that's next.

At the 2017 SXSW, I had thirty minutes to find a plain T-shirt before recording a video with the head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Dieter Zetsche.

GitHub has debuted GitHub Copilot Fusion, a new system that handles model selection and orchestration for coding tasks so developers

The post GitHub debuts Copilot Fusion, a new model selection & orchestration system that beats Claude Code for half the API cost appeared first on The New Stack.

GitHub is seeing unprecedented demand and is updating its core infrastructure to keep pace. In August, GitHub said it was

The post GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU cores and 160 PB of storage to keep up appeared first on The New Stack.

Today, President Donald J. Trump returns to the Buckeye State to showcase a record of results that puts Ohio workers, families, seniors, farmers, and communities first. Under the leadership of President Trump and Republicans, Ohioans are benefiting from historic tax relief, falling crime, surging private investment, stronger rural healthcare, and new resources for the state’s […]

The post President Trump Returns to Ohio With a Record of Results appeared first on The White House.

FRONTLINE follows the changing views and experiences of Americans from the 2020 election season to today.

President Obama awards Dolores Huerta the Presidential Medal of Freedom

I still miss Pulse. I blogged about it a few times, like this short post. Scheduled daily reports in ChatGPT are not as good because they are a wall of text. Harder to scroll, no visual structure.

We’ve posted about the Rockbridge Network before. Here’s a development worth watching. A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered federal police to investigate whether the

One of The Marshall Project’s readers has spent more than 40 years incarcerated in a Washington state facility. In that time, he has thought a lot about what he’d say to the elected officials who make some of the decisions that directly affect his life.  We should reconsider life without parole, he wrote to The […]

The post How Politics Affect Prison Life appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

In Alaska, California, and as-yet-unknown locales, the Trump administration is seeking to undermine the midterm elections. It seems like a...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) — who has repeatedly questioned the polls showing Democrats flipping the House of Representatives —...

The Retribution: Election Interference Edition The Trump DOJ’s unprecedented moves to stop ballot-counting and election certification are its most direct...