Extra Extra: Should the Calico Critters corporation be suing the Sylvanian Drama creator, or thanking her?
Aug. 4, 2025, 2:31 p.m.
Because I wouldn't really know what these little dolls are if it weren't for the crude videos, here are your afternoon links: City of dogs, city of restaurants, tanlines are dangerous and more.

Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where Brooklyn Mirage isn't reopening any time soon.
Here's what else is happening:
- Update: We still don't know what really happened with the Summer Youth Employment Program payment card ATM scam.
- City & State wrote up everything you'd want to know about how dogs — their safety, their park space, their owners, their poop — play into the city's politics.
- "The voters have spoken." The Staten Island Democrats, who endorsed Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, are now backing Zohran Mamdani.
- Joby, an electric air taxi company that doesn't yet have FAA approval for its own aircraft, bought Blade helicopters' passenger business.
- Tourism in New York City may be down, but that isn't stopping people from renting any space they can get to open a restaurant.
- The Japanese parent company of Calico Critters is going to war against the Irish woman who makes those cute-but-crude Sylvanian Drama videos.
- Congrats to Pauline Ferrand-Prévot on becoming the first French woman to ever win the Tour de France Femmes.
- Be careful trying to get those cool tan lines!
- And finally, no consent:
NO KISSY pic.twitter.com/UXrmFbA97K
— cats being weird little guys 👅 (@weirdlilguys) August 4, 2025