One of the big takeaways from the Kamala Brat stuff is that if you’re a teen/college student who is even the slightest bit savvy at memes and competent at video editing you can in fact inform and sway the national discourse led by people who don’t understand pop culture anymore

Just over a year after George Joseph & I published the 1st story in a series on how predatory investors target heirs of property in gentrifying NYC neighborhoods, the state made changes to the law to better protect those homeowners. It's now in effect! thecity.nyc/2024/07/23/hei…

don't be sad bc it's over, be happy that it happened at all

they worked it out on the remix

me and it’s steffi are doing a digital etiquette advice column with Fast Company this summer and here's the first edition! fastcompany.com/91160770/follo…

Before reposting a heavily edited & manipulated Harris campaign ad, Elon Musk removed the word "parody" and, in apparent violation of X's own rules, added no note or context. The video, which appears to use deepfake technology, mimics Kamala's voice. nytimes.com/2024/07/27/us/…

For the best part of a year, Feliz Solomon and I have collaborated on a The Wall Street Journal investigation that sought to answer a question: who is sending us scam texts like this one?

With gold medal lede from ⁦Kalhan⁩ nbcnews.com/sports/gymnast…

This isn’t just embarrassing it’s shameful but tracks with an opaque administration that Mayor Eric Adams promised would be the most transparent.

A Faulkner A Hemingway sentence sentence

The The Wall Street Journal’s piece about the secret negotiations to free Evan Gershkovich ends with an incredible anecdote:

FOIA Files EXCLUSIVE: It took 11 yrs & 3 separate #FOIA requests but I finally obtained docs from DOJ about the agency's legal analysis of the trillion-dollar platinum coin, which #MintTheCoin advocates view as a way to circumvent the cycle of debt crises 🧵

“I’ve gone through the cold, the heat, I’ve gotten so sick. I would love to have shelter, on Randall’s Island on a little cot, wherever it is.” Booted from the city's shelters under increasingly strict 30-day limits, migrants are setting up camp nearby. thecity.nyc/2024/08/07/ran…

running a whole bathtub fish fighting operation in hs is crazy

This had been rumored about for a while now, but will represent a sea-change in not just how NY politics is covered but in how it functions

Some New York Times Editorial Board endorsements in New York races, over the last 35 years. Far from exhaustive - which big ones are missing?

"The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack." theverge.com/2024/8/12/2421…

New: A state judge has ruled that New York City violated state law in padlocking a convenience store accused of selling cannabis without a license, dealing a setback to the Adams administration's effort to wipe out unlicensed retailers under "Operation Padlock to Protect."