🇨🇺🇺🇸 Strategic comms / media relations. Foreign policy nerd + sci-fi geek. Spending a lot of time on AI / tech accountability these days. Signal: parrav.43
A DC Circuit judge asked DOJ today if any court could stop the White House ballroom project, even if the govt is legally wrong:
"So complete lawlessness by the government couldn’t be stopped?"
"I think that’s right."
New from today's argument: https://t.co/slA4mffSJq
NEW: @Polymarket is spending big money to quietly pay some of the biggest stars on this platform, like @nickshirleyy, @Riley_Gaines_, @dom_lucre, @alx and its coming out of an exec's personal PayPal account.
POLITICO obtained payment records that show @MatthewModabber sent out over $2.5 million to over 800 people in 14 months, and we verified the identities of about two dozen content creators who received money. Most never disclosed the payments. W/ @mayakauf, @Jtblaeser and @declanharty
UPDATE: I'm starting a new job Monday as a Florida correspondent for The New York Times. Excited to work with so many talented journalists. Story ideas? Reach me at [email protected] or on Signal: davido.38 https://t.co/lR6beHvr2I
(Podcast) Bloomberg Economics Africa Economist Yvonne Mhango joins Jennifer Zabasajja to discuss the possible economic impact of Ebola on Congo
https://t.co/CvZSdKQPCM
Dear Scott Pelley: pull the entire 60 Minutes team together and go to MSNow and offer a package deal to recreate the show for Sunday night and call it The Hour
If you want proof that our health systems overlook women, just look at menopause.
In The New York Times @nytimes today, I share why I’m directing new funding to improve the standard of care for menopause and perimenopause. https://t.co/8BPLMDwxdI
On Saturday, while covering a protest at Delaney Hall for the AP, Angelina Katsanis' camera bag went missing.
Inside was $10K worth of gear, her biz cards and an Airtag -- which soon began to ping from home of a NJ sergeant. He's now facing charges.
https://t.co/fCHmWnJETI
Drizzy mention by Mayor Mamdani at Borough of Manhattan Community College grad 😬:
"I know a thing or two about a nontraditional path... I am a Drake fan, and I can still recognize that 'Not Like Us' is a banger. We exist. Representation matters."
An investigation by The City Reporter, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented population.
Full story: https://t.co/M8Yq5FnL5c
DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*
If you’re curious how this is playing in Texas, it’s on all the local news and my hygienist and dentist spent 15 mins talking about it during my root canal. Everyone’s worried about beef prices.
Scientists found yeast growing inside the guts of a frozen mummy for thousands of years.
They used it to create a “very, very good” sourdough bread. https://t.co/WmLfBroRIz
From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.