Tim Walz joins TikTok (where Kamala Harris has 4.5 million followers, Donald Trump has 10.1 million and JD Vance has just under 250K)

The Star Tribune is renaming itself “The Minnesota Star Tribune” as it expands statewide and adds more reporters, a rare bright spot in local news nytimes.com/2024/08/18/bus…

NEW: I've confirmed 5 social media influencers will speak at the DNC this week: @cespina1998 Nabela Noor Deja Foxx Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ & John Russell It's the 1st time the DNC has given podium time to creators who will share time w/ elites like the Obamas nytimes.com/2024/08/18/us/…

quite frankly this push alert is an act of aggression on a Sunday night

"How can a brand join the conversation while making sure it doesn’t get too deep?" Sapna Maheshwari nytimes.com/2024/08/12/bus…

I have a book coming out in September with Russ Buettner. It’s called Lucky Loser. Only a small group of people have read it, so it’s humbling to see the judges for the Financial Times and Schroders long listed it for their Business Book of the Year Award. 🙏 #BBYA24 ft.com/content/7e5c29…

Mentions of demure were up +3631% last week, with almost 1 million posts on X using the term in the past 7 days. Very mindful.

I'm sorry but there is literally no way -- NO WAY -- that it's true that 30% of second graders have an X account. This survey comes from a company that sells parental control software, they have a vested interest in fear mongering techcrunch.com/2024/08/19/a-s…

my daughter in 14 years: "mom i read this in a history book today, what does it mean?"

TikTok creator @cespina1998 will speak at the 2024 Democratic National Convention tonight, which is major. read my profile of Carlos from last month to understand how this 25 yr old with 10 million+ followers ended up here: nytimes.com/2024/07/18/bus…

one of the hot tracks on TikTok this summer is a 22-second Petey Pablo song remixed with a years-old audio clip of JD Vance saying he's a "never Trump guy." here's a look at how TikTok sounds are giving rise to a new genre of memes during this election: nytimes.com/2024/08/22/bus…

A TikTok remix of JD Vance has gone viral, one of a new kind of political memes. His spox says in a statement to Sapna Maheshwari: "Cringe." nytimes.com/2024/08/22/bus…

. Lauren Sherman reports in (her excellent newsletter) Puck that Monse Maison by Thur morning had more than 800 pre-orders for the jacket Michelle Obama wore at her DNC speech, at $1,690 a pop. Huge for a label like Monse- but Michelle has always been fashion’s fairy godmother

Folks, no joke: I have some incredible New York Times colleagues who did some incredible coverage from Chicago this week. Here is just a sampling of those stories in case you missed them...

Fun ⁦Ken Bensinger⁩ piece, including details on how donors are footing some bills for content being produced by influencers. Keep that in mind when you watch their stuff! nytimes.com/2024/08/23/us/…

A fly-on-the-wall account of Twitter’s transformation by kate conger Ryan Mac 🙃 from their upcoming book Character Limit nytimes.com/2024/08/24/tec…

a penny for your thoughts nytimes.com/2024/09/01/mag…

Timely piece on how Telegram has become a favorite platform for accelerationist radicals to plan for violent anti-government acts by James Bandler A.C. Thompson and Karina Meier propublica.org/article/telegr…