Exciting job news! I'm hella stoked to be part of what the @sfstandard is building, to help strengthen the local news ecosystem, and to have a broader remit to cover this baffling era of Silicon Valley!
I've got a new profile of Alex Bores—running for Congress in Manhattan and the prime target of the AI-industry-backed Super PAC Leading the Future—out today for @POLITICOMagazine.
Some reporting nuggets…
Politico convened a roundtable of some of the best SCOTUS reporters in the game-- @joshgerstein, @jodikantor, @jamesromoser, @NinaTotenberg -- to talk about how they infiltrate the most secretive branch of government: https://t.co/1LNhV4UbW5
Wrote about some behind-the-scenes administration drama and its implications for the New Right as a movement that aspires to actually govern:
https://t.co/8dOPoamWH2
“The reason why resistance to the White House’s AI policy has been so strong is because the figures and the voices and the ideas that have reacted to it were formed, emboldened or unleashed by Trump himself.” @calder_mchugh on AI and the GOP: https://t.co/w1CN3JhypW
The odds seem stacked against Kevin Warsh, but the carefully crafted career path he has traveled up to this point suggests he is perhaps uniquely situated to pull off being Trump’s Fed chair
A portrait of him, by me & the very talented @ianwardreports
https://t.co/LIbWPTCktQ
“X is a post-apocalyptic cesspool of bots, pedophilia and political illiteracy,” says @RaheemKassam. “I deleted it from my phone because it was making me dumber.” https://t.co/s8Uuonu8Dz
Charlie Kirk's bizarre online afterlife, and how it is a window into where we all might be headed as AI and social media collide, by @calder_mchugh: https://t.co/BotXO5DBYc
People said the University of Austin was a right-wing project from the start. The truth is way more complicated...and interesting...
https://t.co/Ivt3cTmu6m