🚨 Axios PM: "Do you believe this?"

Plus: Backyard AI | Thursday, October 13, 2022

Open in app View in browser   Presented By Meta   Axios PM By Mike Allen · Oct 13, 2022 Happy Thursday: Today's PM — edited by Justin Green — is 496 words, a 2-minute read.     1 big thing: "Do you believe this?" Screenshot: MSNBC Today's Jan. 6 surprise: New footage of congressional leaders in both parties huddling and calling governors and Trump officials to try to calm the violence. "Do you believe this?" Speaker Pelosi asked House Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn after being told members were putting on gas masks. "There has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have that there is some security or some confidence that government can function, and that you can elect the president of the United States," she said. Screenshot: C-SPAN In a made-for-TV spectacle, the committee ended today by unanimously voting to subpoena former President Trump, Axios' Erin Doherty and Jennifer Koons report. "He is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on Jan. 6. So we want to hear from him," said Chair Bennie Thompson. Zoom out: This subpoena is largely symbolic, Axios' Alayna Treene and Andrew Solender report. The committee is showing they sought to hear from Trump himself — with the knowledge that doing so will force a response from his team. Trump wrote today in a post on his Truth Social app: "Why didn't the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago? Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting?" See the video.     📸 2. Traffic jam from space View of cargo trucks waiting in Kerch, Crimea. Photo: Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies The explosion of the Kerch bridge linking Crimea to Russia has caused a significant backup in cargo trucks, Axios' Ivana Saric reports. Cargo trucks are waiting three to four days for ferries, Crimea's Kremlin-installed leader admitted.     A message from Meta Students will be able to explore outer space in the metaverse     With the metaverse, students in a classroom will be able to travel to the depths of our galaxy, helping them get up close to the planets and gain a deeper understanding of how our solar system works. The metaverse may be virtual, but the impact will be real. See how Meta is helping build the metaverse.     3. Catch up quick Photo: Amy Beth Bennett-Pool/Getty Images A jury spared gunman Nikolas Cruz (pictured above) from the death penalty and recommended life in prison for the 2018 Parkland massacre. Go deeper. Trump Org 2.0: The state of New York asked a judge to stop Trump from moving his business assets to a new holding company — "Trump Organization II LLC" — amid a pending civil lawsuit. Go deeper. Inflation fears: The measure that strips out food and energy raced ahead as price pressure remains hot throughout the economy. Go deeper. Global wildlife populations plummeted 69% since the 1970s, according to a new report published by the World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund). Go deeper.     🦜 4. Local postcard: Backyard AI Screenshots of the Haikubox app. "I got a tufted titmouse!" Axios Tampa Bay co-author Ben Montgomery shouted at his 16-year-old daughter a few weeks ago. Ben's backyard has a Haikubox, a first-of-its-kind AI-enabled device that continuously detects and identifies backyard birds with help from a neural net and thousands of bird recordings at Cornell. The big picture: The data being recorded in Ben's yard can help tell a much bigger story — about migration patterns, when species are active and environmental changes. Every Haikubox owner is like a citizen-scientist, contributing information to the largest data set of bird behavior ever assembled. That tufted titmouse is Ben's buddy. He sees it every day. Share this story.     A message from Meta The metaverse will help farmers adapt to unpredictable conditions     In the metaverse, farmers will plan field layouts, adapt to climate needs and monitor the health of their soil with AR technology. The result: abundant yields during harvest. The metaverse may be virtual, but the impact will be real. See how Meta is helping build the metaverse.   Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing today's newsletter. Are you a fan of this email format? It's called Smart Brevity®. Over 300 orgs use it — in a tool called Axios HQ — to drive productivity with clearer workplace communications.   Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. If you're interested in advertising, learn more here. Sponsorship has no influence on editorial content. Axios, 3100 Clarendon B‌lvd, Arlington VA 22201   You received this email because you signed up for newsletters from Axios. Change your preferences or unsubscribe here.   Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up now to get Axios in your inbox.   Follow Axios on social media: