'The young voters who want Mr. Biden to tell Israel to stop its military actions in Gaza are still voting for him, at about the same rate as younger voters overall.'
- CBS News Poll

Good writing on this from Peter Hamby

puck.news/is-bidens-isra…

The Foxfire books are an America treasure.

Check out the Appalachian cure for a black widow bite >

At dinner last night, my daughter walks in and says 'Dad, Snap+ now lets you have a pet and with AI you can make it look just like our dog. Snap is killing it Dad.'

Snap+ has over 9 million subs, ~8% of Snap's revenue from zero a couple years ago.

$SNAP Evan Spiegel

This was fun! Thanks to Snap Inc., Puck and WME for putting on a great event last night in Washington. Matthew Belloni and I had a blast interviewing Aaron Sorkin about The West Wing, the changing media landscape, the 2024 election, his upcoming movie and more. Let’s run it back…

New Puck Pod: The Glamour and Squalor of WHCD Weekend, with Peter Hamby

open.spotify.com/episode/4PW4s1…

New pod: Aaron Sorkin is writing a Jan 6 movie, he tells me and Peter Hamby. It’s a quasi-sequel to The Social Network that will trace the rise of misinformation-for-profit online… and the deadly consequences. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/0qQr4f…

Campus protests over Gaza have thrust youth politics back into the spotlight in an election year. Despite frustration with Biden’s support for Israel, he’s still in the driver’s seat when it comes to winning Gen Z voters.

Peter Hamby illuminates the data. puck.news/is-bidens-isra…

Great to be at one of the first events of #WHCD weekend — a conversation with Aaron Sorkin hosted by WME and Puck

A corrective to the predictably facile analysis coalescing around the notion that banning TikTok will trigger a Gen Z revolt in the fall.

From Peter Hamby puck.news/teenage-riot/?…

I see this stuff on TikTok all the time — sanctimonious under-informed people whining about their app and saying Biden hasn’t done anything about guns or climate.

Google exists.

Good moment to re-up this!

Georgetown, baby!

NEWS —

Silicon Valley investor David Sacks is working to host a fundraiser for Donald Trump in San Francisco.

As soon as next month. Sacks has been in touch with Mar-a-Lago for the last few weeks.

Tonight's scoop, just posted at Puck:

puck.news/david-sacks-al…

With the TikTok bill passing, there's a lot of interest in how TikTok lost Washington.

In many ways, it can be traced to June 17, 2022 when reporter Emily Baker-White broke the story wide open. She obtained leaked audio exposing that 'Everything is seen in China.'

Whatever…

Lawyers at TV news networks hardest hit nytimes.com/2024/04/23/bus…

The Federal Trade Commission voted to ban noncompete agreements for almost all American workers, ruling that they unfairly block employees from changing jobs and restrict competition.
semafor.com/article/04/23/…

A warm welcome to the newest show in the Puck Audio Universe:

Fashion People, hosted by Lauren Sherman

Check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/4UzVjo… Puck

Gaza is the ~13th~ most important issue to Gen Z voters, according to the new Harvard Youth Poll.

#1 - still the economy

Villanova leads Sixers 2-0