Peter Banks

Director of @HuffPost's front page

[john @johnsemley3000]

Steven Spielberg: the cosmic heft of 2001: A Space Odyssey made me feel as insignificant as a speck of sand on the beach.

Bill Simmons: there’s like two types of guys. you’re either a beach guy, or a pool guy. I think I’m a pool guy?

[do you feel like you’re a part of it? @NONBlNARY]

me: you need to listen to the decemberists i promise its not like all the stereotypes about them. they’re a really incredible band
the decemberists:

[FranceNews24 @FranceNews24]

📹 VIDÉO - #Insolite : Pendant la coupe des griffes, une marmotte semble avoir déjà accepté son destin… tandis que l’autre panique à chaque coup de coupe. Une scène aussi drôle que totalement théâtrale.

[Peter Banks @PLFino]

One Oscar after another!
Best Picture hits it out of the park yet again:

2026: One Battle After Another
2025: Anora
2024: Oppenheimer
2023: Everything Everywhere All At Once
2022: CODA
2021: Nomadland
2020: Parasite
2019: Gotti
2018: The Shape of Water
2017: Moonlight

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

VATICAN BANK LAUNCHES CATHOLIC-BASED STOCK INDEXES

The Vatican Bank has launched two equity indexes — one for the US and one for the Eurozone — selecting stocks based on Catholic principles. Each index holds 50 mid- and large-cap companies, including major tech and financial firms.

The move comes as ESG funds face outflows, but Catholic-focused investing already has competition, including a $1B ETF tracking the S&P 500 Catholic Values Index.

Top holdings include Meta and Amazon in the US index, and ASML and Deutsche Telekom in Europe.

[Alanna Vagianos @AlannaVagianos]

Tremane Wood was set to be executed this morning for a killing his brother admitted to. At the last minute, he was granted clemency.

Huge kudos to @jessicaschulb who has been relentlessly reporting on his story for years. https://t.co/L3h2ItgJDG

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

basically all of "internet culture" — podcasting, blogging, riffing on twitter — is downstream of this moment

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Eddington very correct in how much a major part of the online experience is sloppily channeling a grudge against like one specific person into a broader ideology regardless of whether it makes sense beyond this specific grudge

[HuffPost @HuffPost]

Now leading HuffPost: https://t.co/m3O2bGyv1b

[Akbar Shahid Ahmed @AkbarSAhmed]

@HuffPost Today's above all about our incredible readers.

Thank you for powering this ever-evolving beast. For us on the inside, it's also about friendships, support, opportunities & the perfect shade of HuffPost green.

One small taste of our remarkable history:
https://t.co/tOCv2BG3eP

[Amanda Terkel @aterkel]

An oral history of the iconic @HuffPost splash https://t.co/3AcKT5M57M

[Peter Banks @PLFino]

@achorowitz @HuffPost @realaxelfoley @ajgoldberg @quasimado @whitneysnyder ❤️

[Peter Banks @PLFino]

first byline in a decade nearly killed me
https://t.co/EDJkS240ag

[Peter Banks @PLFino]

now more than ever

[Peter Banks @PLFino]

TIRED: May the Fourth be with you.

WIRED: Fourth Mayjeure

[Peter Banks @PLFino]

@coopercooperco have been trying to find those threads for actual years

[willy 🌜💧 @willystaley]

It’s pretty funny that the most reliable source of profit for hedge funds is a super leveraged arbitrage trade that has the capacity to blow up the whole system any time there’s a shock.

[Peter Banks @PLFino]

walter bloomberg

[Peter Banks @PLFino]

(complimentary)

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

the markets are so bad they turned the WSJ front page into the Huffington Post homepage

[Peter Banks @PLFino]

Oscar did it again!

A look back at the past 10 amazing Best Picture winners:

2016: Spotlight
2017: Moonlight
2018: The Shape of Water
2019: Gotti
2020: Parasite
2021: Nomadland
2022: CODA
2023: Everything Everywhere All At Once
2024: Oppenheimer
2025: Anora

[Peter Banks @PLFino]

1930s industrialist vibes

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

"'With hindsight we did not appreciate the nature of what the administration was going to be like,' the banker says."