Aylin Zafar

writer. bay area native. formerly @BuzzFeed, @TIME, @TheAtlantic. send fun stuff to [email protected].

[Emily Galvin-Almanza @GalvinAlmanza]

In case you're wondering who stands to benefit (among many other things)

[Ziggy_Sobotka @Ziggys_Duck]

The Hawaii Supreme Court just quoted Slim Charles in its decision. Seriously. #TheWire

[Aylin Zafar @azafar]

My brilliant friend Inci Atrek’s debut novel came out this week and it’s a gorgeous and nostalgic exploration of identity, place, and mother-daughter relationships, set in the beautiful setting of the Aegean in Turkey 🌊🧿 order link below 👇🏽

[Flatiron Books @Flatironbooks]

Happy publication day to İnci Atrek's HOLIDAY COUNTRY! We're so excited to share this transportive story that is an Indie Next Pick for this month and a Goodreads and https://t.co/s6ciG4GCOy Most Anticipated Read of 2024!
Pick up a copy at https://t.co/tbnDfOkGSi

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

In case you missed it. The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000.

$150 million could buy free fares (at going rate) for 95,000 poor New Yorkers per year. https://t.co/9dEQ1gk0Q8

[joyce eng @joyceeng61]

If this isn’t James Marsden’s Jury Duty Emmy clip what are we even doing here

[Jeff Chang @zentronix]

It was never about discrimination against Asians. We — who, in the American racial hierarchy, have always been placed between complicity and justice — were there for display, to be asiansplained to the Court.

#diversitystillmatters #racismisnotover

https://t.co/7GmeL2JNWf

[Peter Calloway @petercalloway]

Uncritically framing this “new approach”—tried and failed for decades—as “tough love” is not journalism. It’s propaganda.

[aaron from queens 🇵🇸 @aaronnarraph]

This January, I served as a grand jury foreman in Queens.

When I spoke up about blatantly illegal behavior by court officers. they removed me from the room & tried to intimidate me into shutting up.

I filed an affidavit to dismiss one of our indictments. @haideechu has more 🧵

[Peter Calloway @petercalloway]

I wonder how this guy’s antipathy for unhoused people informed his coverage on nightly news for decades. Maybe it even shaped the way viewers think about these issues.

[Jeff Weiss @Passionweiss]

Between the massive media layoffs, the looming bankruptcy of Vice, the studios forcing the writers into a strike & the rise of A.I. there's been a grotesque devaluation of imagination & creativity – during a time where it feels like people are more desperate for it than ever.

[Jordan Zakarin @jordanzakarin]

WGA writers: While you're on strike, we want to help tell your stories and report on this uprising.

Do you keep your Emmy next to a pile of unpaid bills?

Do your residuals not even pay for a movie ticket?

Got tips or thoughts on negotiations?

Email me!: [email protected]

[HDizz @hdizz___]

In case you missed it: SF officials & the media manufactured panic about retail theft, Walgreens hired an armed guard now charged w murdering a young unhoused Black trans organizer, then local/national media misgendered/deadnamed him while misrepresenting the event (thread ⬇️⬇️)

[Aylin Zafar @azafar]

@AriannaRebolini So fucking sad

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

With no disrespect to any other place I’ve worked the past 20 years, nothing was as fun or exhilarating as being part of BuzzFeed News in its infancy. There was so much talent and energy and a real sense of mission. That it was all ruined within a decade is really depressing

[Aylin Zafar @azafar]

The people I worked with at BuzzFeed in the 2013-2014 era were some of the most brilliant people I’ve ever encountered, and I’m so proud of the work we all did there. @rachelysanders captures that era best:

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

My friends at BuzzFeed News have deserved better for a long time. This is pathetic.

[Aylin Zafar @azafar]

Wow. Have no one words, honestly. this is so absolutely devastating, sad, and infuriating.

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

BuzzFeed News, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting in 2019, is shutting down. https://t.co/RXOMKcqBm3

[Emily Galvin-Almanza @GalvinAlmanza]

Hot take: the problem with Law & Order isn't that it's unrealistic, it's that it frequently depicts *realistic* police and prosecutorial misconduct, and then works to get the audience to root for the misconduct as a justified means to an end.