🥶 Axios PM: Frozen Halloween

Plus: America's favorite candy | Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Open in app View in browser   Presented By Citi   Axios PM By Mike Allen · Oct 31, 2023 🎃 Happy Halloween! Today's PM — edited by Noah Bressner — is 485 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Carolyn DiPaolo for the copy edit. Have feedback? Drop us a note: pm@axois.com. 🚨 Situational awareness: Jack Lew, President Biden's pick to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Israel, was confirmed by the Senate. Keep reading.     1 big thing: Frozen Halloween Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios   Halloween trick-or-treaters across the country are facing some of the coldest air so far this season, Axios' Sareen Habeshian and Rebecca Falconer write. Why it matters: Trick-or-treaters are already expected to see a downgrade in candy quality. Now some will have to contend with snow and "blustery cold winds," according to the National Weather Service. What's happening: Forecasts are calling for a frightfully chilly night in the Midwest and Great Plains. Snow squalls threatening Minneapolis, Chicago and Milwaukee could make trick-or-treating and travel hazardous. "It may be a good idea to figure out how to incorporate a jacket into that costume ... across much of the lower 48," the National Weather Service wrote on X. 🧛 By the numbers: Some 40 million people were under freeze warnings in the U.S. after a "potent cold front" swept in from Canada yesterday, the NWS reports. Low temperatures could break records overnight from the Southern Plains to the Midwest. Image: National Weather Service 🥶 Zoom in: Halloween night temperatures are expected to stay in the 30s across large parts of the middle of the country. The Northeast will see temperatures in the 30s and 40s. Denver will have a white Halloween after a snowstorm passed through over the weekend. Temperatures there will be in the low 40s. Share this story.     2. 📊 Pro-Palestine posts take over TikTok Data: TikTok. Chart: Axios Visuals TikTok posts using the hashtag #StandwithPalestine have gotten over four times as many views as posts using #StandwithIsrael in the past two weeks, Axios Media Trends author Sara Fischer writes. Why it matters: The data from TikTok's creator center shows how the conversation around the war between Israel and Hamas is playing out on one of the world's most popular platforms for young people. Between the lines: 87% of the audience for #StandwithPalestine posts is under 35. That's 66% for #StandwithIsrael posts. Explore the data.     A message from Citi Asia adopts new tech an estimated 8-12 years before the West     Early adoption of mobile tech has enabled Asia to develop new forms of digital commerce before other regions. Why it's important: In doing so, Asia provides a glimpse of what the future could look like elsewhere. Learn more in this Citi GPS Report.     3. 🍬 Candy corn divides America Wanda King and her husband, Danny King, with their candy corn collection and a candy corn-inspired lamp at their home near Wiggins, Miss. Photo: Elijah Baylis/The New York Times Candy corn regularly tops the list of most divisive foods in America, Derrick Bryson Taylor writes for the N.Y. Times. The tricolored treat, originally called chicken feed, was invented as a cheap candy in the late 1880s and marketed toward working-class children. It's developed near-fanatical devotion and disgust: Wanda King, of Wiggins, Mississippi, keeps her candy corn collection with nearly 40 varieties stored in mason jars. Flavors range from sea salt chocolate to blackberry cobbler. Opponents complain of a mealy consistency that makes them shudder. Gift link to article (no paywall).     4. 🍫 Periodic table of candy Illustrations: Lindsey Bailey, Allie Carl, Brendan Lynch, Annelise Capossela, Aïda Amer, Natalie Peeples, Shoshana Gordon/Axios. Data: Instacart and U.S. Department of Agriculture Chocolate dominates the list of America's favorite candy, Axios' Lindsey Bailey writes from Instacart data: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Peanut M&Ms came in first and second place. Classic M&Ms took third, followed by Tootsie Pops and Twizzlers. Share this story.     A message from Citi The metaverse: the internet's next generation?     The adoption of the metaverse could have broad impact across sectors. Money in the metaverse could exist in different forms, such as in-game tokens and cryptocurrencies. Learn about the potential impact in the Citi GPS Report, Metaverse and Money.   Are you a fan of this email format? Your essential communications — to staff, clients and other stakeholders — can have the same style. Axios HQ, a powerful platform, will help you do it.   Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. 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. To stop receiving this newsletter, unsubscribe or manage your email preferences.   Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up now to get Axios in your inbox.   Follow Axios on social media: