The FDNY has passed a grim threshold: More Sept. 11 responders have now died from 9/11-related diseases than were killed on the day of the attack itself. gothamist.com/news/more-fdny…

The New York Post ripping into "the increasingly fascist press office of the NYPD" and its "thin-skinned propagandists who spend their days lashing out at reporters" and things are entirely off the rails. nypost.com/2024/09/06/opi…

Michigan judge loses docket after she's recorded insulting gay people and Black people apnews.com/article/michig…

We hosted a podcast about creative work for four years. Here’s what we learned. slate.trib.al/8e8OfKu

“the biggest mistake democrats made after 2020, was thinking they could uphold democracy in a broken democratic system.If we don’t reform…pass all the well-intentioned policies that you want but it’s going to be swallowed up… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ami… -Ari Berman Dahlia Lithwick

Friends, we're never going to get what we want from polling this year--a definitive answer on who is going to win. 2024 is a highly competitive election, and polling has too many challenges to be a reliable gauge in the close swing states. [Gift article] nytimes.com/2024/09/08/us/…

A while back, I noticed the staggering amount of 9/11 memes and jokes that are suddenly everywhere now. For Rolling Stone, I wrote about black comedy, Gen-Z, and how the internet turned 9/11 into a punchline. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

NEW: Imagine eating a poppy seed salad from Costco the night before giving birth — only to test positive for opiates at the hospital, prompting child protective services to take your newborn away. This happened to one woman in CA. And she's not alone. themarshallproject.org/2024/09/09/dru…

World Trade Center, Manhattan, September 10, 2001, photographed by a Canadian tourist, twenty-three years ago today:

The former president continues to repeat lies about ‘cheating’ allegations ahead of tonight’s debate with Kamala Harris #gapol ajc.com/politics/trump…

The former director of the Project 2025 hard-right policy playbook has slammed the Trump campaign and accused two of Donald Trump’s top advisers of “malpractice.” trib.al/EZPXitx

Vance is referring to Aiden Clark, killed in a traffic accident caused by a Haitian driver. What he did not mention is that following his death Clark’s parents disavowed anti-Hatian sentiment: “We do not want our son’s name to be associated with the hate that’s being spewed. 1/2

"What happens in our public courts belongs to the public." How Keri Blakinger Emily Elena Dugdale identified L.A. sheriff's deputies accused of misconduct that the state wanted kept secret… latimes.com/california/sto… Los Angeles Public Press Los Angeles Times

Doctors give Black women unneeded C-sections to fill operating rooms, study suggests trib.al/vGX62ev

Trump claims immigrants are harming and eating animals in Springfield, Ohio. FACT CHECK: Authorities -- including the Springfield city manager -- say that is not true and that there is no evidence Haitian immigrants in the city are harming animals.

Trump unified Fox's Brit Hume, CNN's Jake Tapper and MSNBC's Chris Hayes -- in saying Trump took the bait repeatedly and Harris appeared composed, focused and forceful

Dick Cheney and Taylor Swift have endorsed the same candidate for president.

The study analyzed more than 200k speeches since the 1880s, and found the way Republicans discuss immigration today is reminiscent of the language used against Chinese immigrants in the late 1800s. 3/4 hai.stanford.edu/news/how-have-…

The #ny21 Congresswoman watched last night's performance by Trump where he assailed police for defending her and the rest of Congress on 1/6 and lied about legal immigrants eating their neighbors' pets and reached this conclusion: