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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump tells Mamdani he’s been hosted by “great mayors and not so great mayors. And hopefully you're going to be a great one, I'll be able to say you're going to be a great one. And you're off to a start."

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump said he owned a building in Sunnyside. He could be referencing the “Trumpdome” he scouted in Sunnyside in the 80s when he owned the New Jersey Generals, but there doesn’t seem a record of him owning property in Sunnyside

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Girls watch one HBO show once and now they’re experts on the Showtime Lakers. Watch my @fortune.com Daily Show appearance here! m.youtube.com/watch?v=ArKT...

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In the last 24 hours, a judge put a temporary restraining order on the city’s pied-a-terre tax rollout, the city filed an intention to appeal and stayed the order, Mamdani had words on Randy Mastro, and Trump is looking to federally block the tax fortune.com/2026/08/11/f...

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Former deputy mayor and Mamdani nemesis sued to block the city's pied-à-terre tax. The city froze the judge's pause within hours | Fortune

Randy Mastro has sued the Mamdani administration five times already since leaving office under Mamdani's predecessor Eric Adams.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The New York Governor’s Office is looking into potential tax fraud of people who live here and are filing their taxes elsewhere, including their car registration and insurance, all thanks to the pied-a-terre tax rollout. @fortune.com fortune.com/2026/08/06/a...

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Are you committing tax fraud? New York Governor Kathy Hochul's about to find out, all thanks to the pied-à-terre tax rollout | Fortune

The governor's office says it will pursue New Yorkers who dodge income taxes by claiming to live outside the city—or register their cars out of state.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you lay your head in the five boroughs, it should be easy to prove the pied-a-terre tax doesn’t apply to you. You wouldn’t defraud the DOF and your insurance company by registering your car in another state, right? For @fortune.com: fortune.com/2026/08/04/z...

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How Zohran Mamdani's pied-a-terre tax exposed an epidemic of 'ghost cars' instead | Fortune

Those out-of-town plates you see might belong to residents of the city you’re in, but they may be drivers slick enough to pull insurance fraud.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

For those of you new here I ran for city council in Astoria in 2021 on the slogan of “Public Space for the Public Good.” I didn’t win (bike lanes are unusually political) but that doesn’t mean I don’t love waxing poetic about the decline of our public spaces @fortune.com fortune.com/2026/08/02/b...

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America is running out of places to hang out as movie theaters, bars, diners and bowling alleys drop to all-time low | Fortune

Chronic isolation has the same health impact as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Mamdani pied a terre list is mundane 0.8% tax policy and using nearly 200-year-old public record. For comparison, Cuomo instituted both an UHNW income tax and mansion tax and that’s why NYS is sitting on $15mil in reserve fortune.com/2026/07/30/m...

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Mamdani's pied-à-terre ‘hit list’ is as unsexy as it sounds | Fortune

The supposed socialist takeover of New York City is similar in scope to Andrew Cuomo's tax policy — and not unlike a law on the books in Singapore.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Tyler Kolek and Mikal Bridges at today’s Knicks parade

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Before his election, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani criticized FIFA for encouraging a secondary market. On Friday, the World Cup-inspired jersey drop fell into the same resale trap where people waited on line for affordable $50 kits that sold at a 2000% markup on eBay fortune.com/2026/06/12/n...

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'Buy a ticket for 60 bucks and resell it for $6,000': NYC Mayor Mamdani criticized FIFA's resale market, but his jersey drop created the same thing | Fortune

The New York City mayor has been very vocal about FIFA's resale market and how ordinary, working class New Yorkers were priced out of a limited supply.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The line for the Zohran World Cup jerseys stretches from the CityStore at the Dinkins building to 1PP back around to the courthouse

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Going around the bar asking people who they’re rooting for

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The whole Ditmars platform jumped when Tom Hanks as Woody started blasting at 75db as part of the new MTA audio ads piloting this week

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Wrote about two things very important to me: The Sopranos and urban infrastructure. Unfortunately I had to cut plenty of the sopranos references but if you followed my 2021 city council campaign run, the urban infrastructure points are pretty good fortune.com/2026/05/25/f...

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The U.S. campaigned to host the World Cup. Now soccer fans will trade their countries' train system for the U.S.'s 'D' rated infrastructure | Fortune

Welcome to the World Cup, where the bus is a school bus, the train costs $98, and there's no sidewalk to the stadium.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Poured through 100s of pages of filings to follow the power lines in the Lake Tahoe region, sitting in geographical and jurisdictional ambiguity. Now the 49k residents are in between California electricity rates and Nevada power sources. fortune.com/2026/05/12/l...

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'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Went through hundreds of pages of documents to find exactly where the power flows through Lake Tahoe. It turns out it’s a big jurisdictional and geographical mess and no one wants to take responsibility

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Last night’s Met Gala saw a record $42 million raised for The Met’s Costume Institute, but it came from an unusual source for the typically fashion- and celeb-driven event: Silicon Valley. Jeff Bezos was the lead sponsor, forcing some celebs to skip it. fortune.com/2026/05/05/m...

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The Met Gala raised a record $42 million as Silicon Valley picked up the tab—and as celebs protested Jeff Bezos' sponsoring of the event | Fortune

The Met Gala raised a record $42 million this year, powered by Silicon Valley sponsors. Other usual regulars decided to skip because of their presence.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We’re at the final step before King Croesus “destroys a great empire” after going to war with Persia Diogenes with “deface the currency”: Yuan vies the petrodollar Croesus dismissed the army: Hegseth fires the generals

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Fortune @fortune.com · 27/03/2026

Individual tax returns cost American taxpayers a combined $146 billion in time and out-of-pocket expenses this year—roughly $576 per person in labor hours alone, according to a new analysis from Postal. bit.ly/47XcqBx

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Americans spend $146 billion and 11.6 billion hours doing their taxes, and most of it is just filling out paperwork | Fortune

There are more than 10,000 forms you have to sort through to file your taxes, and the fear of going to jail over a mistake has never been higher.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 27/03/2026

“He basically laid down a credit card right then and there, and said, ‘ Book the flight, book a medical flight,” said Alexandria McMahon, mother of Stella McMahon. bit.ly/4sBT9hp

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A toddler needed a life-saving flight, and the insurer said no. Then Mark Cuban called | Fortune

Stella McMahon, 16 months old and fighting T-cell leukemia, needed a medical plane to Cincinnati for a federally funded study. Her insurer said no.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Got taxes? You’re paying for more than just the tax return. Americans are spending billions of dollars and hours on filing their taxes, and a compliance expert I spoke to said there’s a simple fix: digitize it all. Read on @fortune.com fortune.com/2026/03/24/t...

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Americans spend $146 billion and 11.6 billion hours doing their taxes, and most of it is just filling out paperwork | Fortune

There are more than 10,000 forms you have to sort through to file your taxes, and the fear of going to jail over a mistake has never been higher.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I interviewed the researcher behind the first study quantifying just how dangerous “AI psychosis” is, and how sycophantic chatbot models validate a user’s thoughts, worsening symptoms of delusions and mania fortune.com/2026/03/07/c...

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Chatbots are 'constantly validating everything' even when you're suicidal. New research measures how dangerous AI psychosis really is | Fortune

It's free, easy to use, doesn't have a stigma around it, and makes you feel better. Researchers and experts warn that's the problem with chatbots.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The cover letter: written by AI, read by AI, and universally hated by all. For @fortune.com, I spoke with @upenn.edu Professor Judd Kessler on what the future holds in store for the cover letter—and it looks grim (but you might be happy about that): fortune.com/2026/03/23/i...

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'AI killed the cover letter.' This Wharton economist says the hiring ritual's days are numbered | Fortune

Let's be honest: You didn't spend hours researching and writing your cover letter. You used AI, and that's fine, because AI is going to read it anyway.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I interviewed @columbiasipa.bsky.social professor and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz about his book, The Road to Freedom, and what he thinks inequality means in the age of AI. The verdict: it’s not looking good

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

A new feature that’s rolling out next month on Teams will allow your admin (and coworkers) to pinpoint exactly what desk you’re sitting at in the office

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Some truly original reporting here: I was scrolling through the US Mint’s site for unrelated reasons and noticed something’s off with the new dime design

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

You’ve heard it: “if I could go back, I’d invest everything I owned in ____.” Well, this week, Microsoft’s IPO turned 40. To say you’d be a millionaire is an understatement

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Washington has not changed its tax code in almost a century— an every effort to do so until now has ended in defeat. Now, after a 25 hour filibuster complete with 81 amendments, the state has an income tax

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Outside of Hurricane Sandy, many of us have never experienced gas shortages or even-odd gas days. The chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz might mean a comeback for those gas lines

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Your Instagram DMs will no longer be End-End Encrypted. Meanwhile, TikTok quietly confirmed it never offered E2EE in the first place

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Joe Kent may be the first high profile name to stand up against US involvement in the war with Iran. He also has personal reasons for doing so

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

KOSA, the KIDS Act, App Store Accountability Act, COPPA 2.0: Congress just pushed more regulation in the last two weeks than it has in almost a decade. That’s sending the internet scrambling to protect kids online (and choosing between privacy and safety)

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Played Pokemon Go? Your photos are now being used by delivery robots in the most detailed VPS system ever made

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Fortune @fortune.com · 20/03/2026

Chuck Norris, legendary martial arts master and actor, died on Friday, after years of being the epitome of toughness and dodging death with jokes that snowballed with higher stakes of physical and mental fortitude. bit.ly/47VDb9m

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Chuck Norris never lost a fight, including the one against CBS for $30 million over Walker, Texas Ranger | Fortune

The action legend, who died at 86, built a $70 million fortune from $10,000-a-film beginnings, fought CBS in court over Walker, Texas Ranger profits, and won.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It’s been a month of fast-paced news, but I’m ecstatic to say I’m a news editor at @fortune.com! Reach out regarding anything privacy, security, tech, AI, the market and personal finance!

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Looking for an End to End Encryption expert for a story! DM or email me at Catherina.gioino@fortune.com

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

White smoke has begun flowing over 100 Centre St

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

I’d like to be the first to thank jurors for getting the verdict in before the print deadline

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

THERE IS A VERDICT (to be shared in 20 mins)

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

You can really tell the Trump trial journos are gluttons for punishment because even though we’ve been offered a room with cushioned seats and the ability to make phone calls/talk to each other, the majority of us are quietly sitting in the courtroom in hardwood pews

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