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I don’t want to go poll by poll. You know where to find them. But we have new and pretty...

What’s the largest tweetable number? You’ve got 280 characters. So: “9999…” or “one centillion” or “googol!!!!!!…” or an image of a number? Turns out it’s complicated!

We’ve got a jam-packed Thursday edition of Green Deals, led by EcoFlow’s final Halloween 48-hour flash sale with offers like the DELTA 3 Ultra 3,072Wh Power Station down at $1,299, and more from $959. There’s also the Anker SOLIX refurbished F3800 3,840Wh Power Station or i...

Jared Bernstein, economist and former United States chairman of Council of Economic Advisers under President Biden, talks about the rising national debt and why candidates are -- or aren't -- discussing it on the campaign trail ahead of election day.

Photo: A view of a bus shelter at 18th and K St's NW where a poster and electronic billboard displays the current U.S. National debt per person and as a nation at 40 Trillion dollars on August 30, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation)

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An ex-cop allegedly shot and killed a driver on the George Washington Bridge in an apparent road rage incident. Samantha Max, reporter covering public safety for WNYC/Gothamist, reports on what prosecutors say happened on the bridge and what is happening in the courts, as the charges have changed a couple times from murder, to manslaughter and back to murder.

Photo: A 46-year-old man was fatally shot while driving on the George Washington Bridge on October 20, 2026. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Anna Louie Sussman, New York Times contributing opinion writer and author of Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty, talks about her new book that explores, through analysis and personal stories, the reasons for the falling birthrate.

Photo: Inside a lab at a clinic in Tbilisi, Georgia, Doctor Jordan from Spain, is doing an artificial insemination into an egg that later will be planted into a Georgian surrogate mother. The country of Georgia has become a hub for the international surrogate industry, driven by the poverty of domestic surrogate mothers and the desire of foreign customers to have a child. (Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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The New York City marathon is this Sunday, and it's the 50th anniversary of the five-borough version of the race. Rob Simmelkjaer, New York Road Runners CEO, talks about how the race has changed over the past half century, and what to know for this year if you are running or cheering.

Photo: Runners cross the Verrazano Bridge as they compete in the New York Marathon in New York on November 2, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images)

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Kudos to “Tom” for doing whatever he did to get on camera with the Fox News correspondent covering Donald Trump’s South Carolina rally Thursday. “We’ve got Tom right here, kind enough to answer a few questions,” Fox’s Lucas Tomlinson said. It suggested that Tom had been pre...

As you may know, The Streisand Effect was originally coined right here on Techdirt in 2005, though it referred back to an event from 2003 when Barbra Streisand sued Ken Adelman, because his project to map how erosion impacted the California coastline incidentally included a photo of Streisand’s Malibu mansion. Streisand demanded $50 million in […]

This Interactive Self-Rotating Cat Toy Ball is a USB-rechargeable toy featuring 360-degree rolling movements, obstacle avoidance, and changing LED lights to help keep cats entertained. It’s built out of scratch-resistant and bite-resistant materials, the ball is tough enough to withstand rough play from high-energy kittens and adult cats alike. It’s on sale for $20. Note: […]

New York health officials are sounding the alarm regarding the flu, which is already at "widespread" levels. Continue reading…

Trump is protested once again in South Carolina

Trump: If you're Black or Jewish and you vote for Abdul, you're crazy

Trump's rally crowd in South Carolina 5 days before Election Day appears to fill just half a gymnasium

Trump: Nobody wants to talk about all the great things I did. It's not fair!

Leaked audio of Flock's CEO, why Marisa Mayer can't keep pretending, and a CashApp nightmare.

Overlooking Sankofa Square in downtown Toronto, a group of journalists and hackers gathered on October 5th to share ideas and techniques to navigate our new online world of AI chatbot mediation and fragmented social media. Being in Canada, this third edition of Protocols for Publishers had a different flavour to

As Election Day approaches, political mudslinging has taken an ugly, slanderous, and, in some ways, literal turn. It seems my opponent has decided to ramp up his personal insults by claiming I am not an authentic, down-to-earth politician who only wants to improve his commun...

Underground Artists is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald (Hungover Bear & Friends) that follows woodland creatures as they create art and search out whimsy in a bleak forest.

Do Kalshi’s odds favor the establishment?