In 2021, the VP’s team discussed whether she should salute the military. Aides explained protocol didn’t require her to & it could make her look like she was inflating her role. When she didn’t salute, conservatives pounced. She saluted after that, even practicing in private.

Trump and Harris are duking it out on social media. Some bits from our story: -Harris is using the same team Biden did -The staffers who run Kamala HQ on TikTok are all 25 and under -Trump’s team said they raised $1m from X event Latest w/ Alexa Corse wsj.com/politics/elect…

Among the details in this story: Brilyn Hollyhand , an 18-year-old high-school senior and political influencer, said he told Trump last year that he should engage more on other platforms beyond Truth Social. Since then, he has been happy to see the former president posting more

The online debate over who is running Kamala Harris’s TikTok account (millennials or Gen-Z?) is settled. “She has a team of strategists—all 25 and under—running her TikTok account, Kamala HQ.” Meghan Bobrowsky Alexa Corse wsj.com/politics/elect…

New: Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is now the worst buyout for banks since the financial crisis. Story from alexander saeedy Dana Mattioli wsj.com/tech/elon-musk…

This is an amazing statistic. "Costco sells about 200 million hot dogs a year, more than all of the Major League Baseball stadiums combined." From this good NYT story on the cult of Costco: nytimes.com/2024/08/20/din…

New for The Wall Street Journal: Russian trolls are ramping up their efforts ahead of another U.S. presidential election, and they seem desperate for influencers to notice them. We got new data about what Russian bots have been up to on X: wsj.com/politics/natio… via The Wall Street Journal Dustin Volz

Excited to share that Eric Bellman and I are co-teaching business journalism at UC Berkeley this fall Never thought that going back to school would be so much fun! journalism.berkeley.edu/person/preetik…

In which Russell Berman finds a 20 year old DNC delegate who has never heard of Monica Lewinsky

honored to be nominated with a bunch of incredibly talented colleagues for by the Gerald Loeb Awards for our coverage of last year's banking crisis. looking forward to din!

Is the DNC the new Vidcon? Good story on how influencers were given access and perks at the convention this week as Kamala Harris and Tim Walz try to court young voters nytimes.com/2024/08/23/us/…

New: An analysis of nearly 42,000 of Musk’s exchanges on X/Twitter since 2019. Something cool about this analysis is that it covers not just Musk's words *but also* the posts he replied to wsj.com/tech/elon-musk…… Andrea Fuller John West Kara Dapena

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The new Boichik bagels spot in the financial district is blasting The Pussycat Dolls at 10am. Is San Francisco back?

Russia barred more than a dozen The Wall Street Journal journalists from entering the country, as well as journalists from NYT and WaPo “The Putin regime is farcically consistent in its all-out assault on free press and truth. This laughable list of targets is no exception,” a WSJ spox said

Oscar parties with Julia Roberts. Secret Service agents stationed outside of the Goop store. And a second gentleman who hates to miss his SoulCycle class. My latest story, on Kamala Harris's life in Los Angeles: wsj.com/politics/elect…

Journalists:

Sometimes you just have to pack 3 laptops, 2 tablets and 5 smartphones and test the Wi-Fi at 30,000 feet.

Listen 🎧: Images of Mickey Mouse smoking and SpongeBob in Nazi garb are generating debate about safeguards for AI image generators. Meghan Bobrowsky tells Zoe Thomas how companies are approaching this thorny issue. link.chtbl.com/WSJTechNewsBri…

New: Tesla and xAI have discussed a deal where xAI would get some Tesla revenue in exchange for providing the car company with access to its technology and resources. Saturday night scoop from Berber Jin Becky Peterson wsj.com/tech/tesla-xai…