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200 people spent millions on Trump’s memecoin and were rewarded with this dinner

www.wired.com/story/a-heli...

How Many Cybertrucks Are In Your Neighborhood? | Created with Datawrapper Following it's release in 2023, you may have noticed a giant metal tank on your street—especially if you live in residential neighborhoods like Pelham Bay in the Bronx, Mill Basin in Brooklyn, or almo...

Oops! I made a map of the number of cybertrucks per zip code in nyc

www.datawrapper.de/_/TNImo/?v=2

Trying my hand at a weekly newsletter of ledes that I like... lmk what you think!

open.substack.com/pub/pgoh/p/m...

AI Scams Are the Point Propaganda and deceit are a feature of AI, not its downfall.

For the December issue of The New Republic, I reviewed AI SNAKE OIL. For those learning about AI, it offers a lot: exegesis of technical details, a taxonomy to sift through different algorithmic systems, and a depoliticized history that taints the book’s analysis. newrepublic.com/article/1883...

How Trump plans to silence dissent Building off a bipartisan push to punish pro-Palestine protesters, Trump has a broad crackdown ready to implement—including deportations.

The “nonprofit killer” bill is coming back is likely to pass unless many of the 52 Democrats who support it flip. Read @hurwitz.bsky.social on how “material support” aimed at Palestinian protestors could gut all news/NGOs www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

watching LOTR for the first time and these guys are really how to blow up a pipeline vibes

there’s this weird gasp of wins: ending brokers fees in nyc, nlrb ending captive audience meetings, and that terrifying nonprofit bill failing being that can (and should!) be celebrated

🚨 US State Department says it has *not* made an assessment that Israel is in violation of US law, in reference to the 30-day US deadline for Israel to improve conditions in Gaza.

Says there is no policy change to announce.

Here in Nebraska, Independents, Abortion Activists, and Even Former Felons May Determine the Result With the presidential election thisclose, Omaha’s CD-2 could be decisive. Given the state’s long heritage of nonpartisan politics, that makes the race even harder to call

for @thenation.com i wrote about the exciting and terrifying possibly of my hometown deciding the election

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

it was gonna be such a shame if this fella just missed out on learning about the “Atlanta Institute for Social Justice and Public Safety Training"

just got the chance to inform The Guy who wrote The Ultimate Book on 'architectural simulacra and urban warfare' about cop city in Atlanta :)

How Urban Alchemy Turns Homelessness Into Gold Cities are pouring money into the nonprofit to manage encampments and patrol the streets where unhoused residents congregate. Not everyone is happy about it.

cross-posting here for posterity!

read my longest feature yet, out now in print for @thenation.com

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/homelessness-urban-alchemy/