The former FTC head and antitrust watchdog was named alongside three others as transition co-chair today, following Mamdani’s victory last night. Khan praised Mamdani’s support for small businesses in a September New York Times editorial, describing their struggles in “a marketplace increasingly dominated by corporate giants and gatekeepers that use coercive and abusive tactics to squeeze them out.”
A good piece at The Barbed Wire on Ya’akub Vijandre, one of multiple non-citizen journalists punished by the Trump administration in its war on the press:
It’s becoming clearer to me that the government is attempting to lay a foundation for dissenting political beliefs as grounds for terrorism.
And people like Ya’akub — non-white, non-Christian — have been made its primary examples.
He was credited for being popular on TikTok, but New York’s new mayor spent his time on the city’s streets.
Alongside retweeting a post calling Wisconsin’s voter rolls “crooked,” Musk purports to believe New York’s long-running fusion voting system (which boosts visibility of minor political parties) is a “scam” disfavoring independent candidate Andrew Cuomo. Musk endorsed Cuomo over Democratic frontrunner Zohran Mamdani — whose name Musk also purports not to know.
A few years ago I wrote about a project to revive the early 3D virtual community Cybertown, and yesterday, I got an alert that Cybertown is “back and fully restored” as of this month. There’s a bit more detail on the Facebook page, including info about its mayoral race.
Today’s 2500-plus scheduled anti-Trump protest events — a followup to the ones that drew an estimated 4 to 6 million participants earlier this year — are underway, and if you’re looking for somewhere besides social media to follow along, States Newsroom has a liveblog of photos, crowd vibe-checks, and interviews from across the country.
[News From The States]
It’s an expected consequence of the ongoing shutdown, which was already impacting the legal system. Federal judges are still going to serve and online case files will remain functional, but workers are being furloughed and some — though not all — civil cases involving the government are being delayed.
[United States Courts]
SB 2420 takes effect next year, but with app stores already complying, the First Amendment challenges are cropping up: one by trade group CCIA, another by a student advocacy group. California recently got its own app store verification law, so a legal showdown seems inevitable in America’s two most populous states.