🚨 SCOOP from me in @WIRED —
With the left attempting to regain ground with young men, a prominent Democratic Party operative is brokering five figure contracts with fitness influencers to create online content that espouses “leftist values.”
Link below 👇🏻
Arguing about what makes you a New Yorker is fine imo but you’re a fool if you think it’s a moral distinction. I love this city so much but it has produced some of the most wretched souls to ever walk the earth, including the president of the United States
increasingly believe that in the next few years, a huge chasm will open between writers who are familiar with their own work can explain the intent and process of construction for what it says and why — and those that clearly cannot.
New: I chatted with Nick Bilton about taking over 60 Minutes. I asked him if he was intimidated by becoming executive producer of the show despite having no broadcasting news experience.
"It's not the slightest bit intimidating," he told me.
For the June issue of @RollingStone, I interviewed Dana White -- Donald Trump's only real friend, and perhaps the most politically influential person in sports. https://t.co/LkPn30qEec
Presenting The Rolling Stone Interview with Dana White: ‘Legacy Doesn’t Mean Shit to Me’
The head of the UFC has the ear of the president and the attention of the nation, and he’s just getting started.
Read: https://t.co/MlGuX0E9dL
If you wanna know what’s going on here, the SuperHuman podcast (produced by the wonderful @sam_eagan) is a great place to start and get ongoing coverage
Q: Are you attending your son's wedding this weekend?
TRUMP: Uhhhh. He'd like me to go. I'm gonna try and make it. I said, 'This is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things.'
There’s some interesting stuff in the interview but overall it’s very disappointing from NPR (not that I expected more.) Like almost all mainstream media, they don’t seem to know the subject well enough to go beyond the cursory questions.
People have been saying this since the 2000’s. For the most part pure MMA trained fighters have not panned out, everyone has a base in at least one art
What a pleasure speaking with renowned journalist @sam_eagan on the 47th Presidency of Donald Trump & the Ultimate Fighting Championship in our last thematic class of Sports & Politics at the City College of New York.
A Utah ranch saw something Friday that’s never happened before in the nearly 155 years its been raising cattle — the birth of a two-headed calf. It brings back memories for Wyoming ranchers who once had a cow give birth to a similar ultra-rare calf.
https://t.co/K8B1A6IQpw
Today we celebrate World Press Freedom Day, sponsored by UNESCO. Unfortunately, this right is often violated, sometimes flagrantly, sometimes in hidden ways. Let us remember the many journalists and reporters who are victims of war and violence.