Let’s go! Mamdani announces new policies to make it faster, easier, and cheaper for small businesses to start and run in NYC. Can we all agree these are positive steps for the city? 1) Cut fines and fees for small businesses by 50% 2) Appoint mom and pop czar with a goal of making it easier to run a small businesses 3) Accelerate permits and applications 4) 500% increase in funding for small business support programs 5) $20m for Business Express Service Teams offering a dedicated city case manager for businesses to help connect them with the information and resources to get off the ground

In 2006, two academics, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, wrote a paper called “The Israel Lobby,” which argued that a loose group of Israel supporters used their connections and financial resources to tilt US foreign policy in Israel’s direction. One of them, Stephen Walt, was academic dean of The Harvard Kennedy School, which put him at the pinnacle of his profession. The savage response to the paper was like nothing academia had ever seen. We can now report that Jeffrey Epstein helped coordinate the counterattack with Alan Dershowitz, while Larry Summers was Harvard president. And Les Wexner was one of the largest donors to the Kennedy School, if not the largest. Epstein controlled Wexner’s money. In other words, a loose group of powerful supporters of Israel used their financial resources and connections behind the scenes to destroy the reputations of two academics who wrote a paper arguing that a loose group of Israel supporters was using their connections and financial resources to shape American foreign policy. Story here dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-e…

A U.S. colonel was at the scene of Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder within hours and was able to conclude quickly the shooting had obviously been intentional. His boss then covered it up so as not to “displease” the Israelis, the Times reports.

RT @TheNotoriousLEX: For years I’ve heard people who don’t live here tell about Chicago being a war zone. This is the only time, in 19 year…

Trying to deport a permanent resident on political grounds is shocking.

Hey European Entrepreneurs! You have one more day to leave feedback on the Single Market Strategy for 2025. Please take a few minutes and leave some. Don't let the incumbents like notaries dominate this. We need a truly single market for innovation to take place here and not abroad. We need to create a place for founders to thrive. Is this proposal perfect? It's not, far from it, but it's probably the best shot we have right now. And while you're at it, follow @euacchq and @andreasklinger. They do a better job than I could ever do about what this is all about.

😅 about those German notaries .... @andreasklinger explained this strange German cultural practice recently at DLD Munich

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht after eleven years in prison. An incredible twist in the never-ending Silk Road saga. wired.com/story/trump-frees-…

⚠️ Developers, please be careful when installing Homebrew. Google is serving sponsored links to a Homebrew site clone that has a cURL command to malware. The URL for this site is one letter different than the official site.

Last week, it emerged that health insurance leaders pressured the DOJ to bring federal charges against Luigi Mangione. This week, I discovered the top 3 officials at DOJ all collected paychecks from healthcare companies before serving in government: shorturl.at/lgLIU

No timestamp anymore? No marker to indicate a tweet has been edited? Sounds like a misinformation engine firing up to the next level.

Kazuhiro Ikeda / 池田和弘, better known as Bow, an illustrator who specialized in sports cars, passed away on November 17 at the age of 78. He was responsible for the cover illustrations for Sega Rally 2. More of his work can be found here: bybow.jp I got in touch with his assistant a while ago, as he was open to drawing the Over Jump Rally covers, one with the Delta and one with the Celica, in the same style and angle as the Stratos. R. I. P.

New from 404 Media: we've confirmed that Apple quietly introduced code that automatically reboots an iPhone if it hasn't been unlocked after a period of time. This is why cops are being mysteriously locked out of iPhones they're trying to search. 404media.co/apple-quietly-in…

Reminder: police oversight is primarily local. So is housing. Even a lot of migrant/refugee decisionmaking is local. If you live in a purple/blue area --- esp. a suburb --- you are going to have a lot of room to maneuver next year.