Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 11/09/2026Harry Truman’s favorite thing to tell Medal of Honor at ceremonies was, "I would much rather have that Medal around my neck than to be President of the United States." 010
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 14/08/2026Gardening question for anyone in the NYC metro area: Are you having a tough year for tomatoes? I've had zero come in so far, just a few non-ripening green ones on the plants. Could it be a wildfire smoke thing? I remember hearing that the reduction in sunlight can really mess up growth. 200
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 08/08/2026"the problem with my political opponents who keep winning elections is that they are deeply unpopular" is pretty much the definition of copium thedispatch.com/article/demo... 040
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 04/08/2026One of the things that perplexes me about the AI business discourse is that people regularly claim that AI can do things that anyone who uses AI know it cannot do — and the CEO of OpenTable should be the first to know that ChatGPT cannot tell you whether a restaurant has open reservations. 150
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 04/08/2026Here’s a new form of enshittification I’ve noticed: Amazon no longer tells me what I’ve ordered in its email receipts. I have to tap to the app for that info now. 010
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 31/07/2026When I last rewatched The Wire, I remember thinking it felt like such a cultural artifact of the 90s even though it aired in the 2000s. (And not just because it’s ghetto gangster page tech was way out of date by the time it aired.) 110
Reposted by Gabriel SnyderGabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 08/07/2026It’s March 3, 2004. One will become one of the most polarizing figures on earth. The other’s acting career peaks as an Apple TV sci-fi show villain after a long line of Cadillac ads. Yes, Apple makes TV now. It’s sort of the new HBO. Oh, right… they go further than Oz and Sex and the City then die. 011
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 18/07/2026Weird thing I recently learned: I had not seen all of “Breaking Bad.” I remembering watching the pilot and being uninterested. Heard later, I think mid-second season that it got really good and started watching, religiously. But, as I’ve learned, I never went back and caught up. 300
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 10/07/2026I saw Jeffrey Toobin quoted in a story as a “contributing New York Times opinion writer.” Having missed that announcement, I googled to learn more about his new role and these are the top two results I got. 240
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 08/07/2026I've never seen Beltway pundit elite belief stated so nakedly, even if it's long been the operative view: as David Brooks wrote today, the primary purpose of the Democratic Party ought to be fighting the left and stymying its agenda. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 000
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 08/07/2026It’s March 3, 2004. One will become one of the most polarizing figures on earth. The other’s acting career peaks as an Apple TV sci-fi show villain after a long line of Cadillac ads. Yes, Apple makes TV now. It’s sort of the new HBO. Oh, right… they go further than Oz and Sex and the City then die. 011
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 08/07/2026Listening to Andrew Giuliani defend Trump’s intervention to get FIFA overturn the red card the day after Belgium won and… this is not the prediction I would have made when I first learned of him. … also, boy, does this make me feel old. 010
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 06/07/2026I visited Mexico City last summer for the first time and I can’t tell you how badly the altitude kicked my ass. It all looks flat but it’s all higher than 7,000 feet. It’s insane. To put it perspective, the Azteca is more than 2.000 feet higher than Denver’s fearsome Mile High Stadium. 0133
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 05/07/2026Remember when, way back in 2025, one of the savvy takes making the Beltway rounds was that Democratic chances for retaking the House would dissipate in a wave of pro-Trump patriotism inspired by America 250? 161
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 03/07/2026Stunned to learn that the PK against Croatia was Ronaldo’s first ever goal in a WC knockout stage game. Heard the Fox announcer mention it casually and had to look it up to see it was true. 020
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 30/06/2026Defining “working class” by education is a choice here, one that’s divorced from the realities of a largely post-industrial economy, and reads mostly as a lazy way to sneer at people the author simply does not like www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Can You Really Be a Working-Class Party if There Are Very Few Workers in Your Party? 020
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 30/06/2026A very brief history of the United States: In 1776, Americans attested that "all men are created equal" and have been arguing about who that broad statement *shouldn't* apply to ever since. 081
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 22/06/2026I always like checking what questions media outlets put in their subscriber surveys. Today, the Washington Post is asking if I'm less likely to renew my subscription because "The writers/journalists I am most interested in have left The Washington Post" 915127
Reposted by Gabriel SnyderSteve Mancuso @spmancuso.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I grew up 15 minutes from Middletown and later lived near there for another 15 years. To be sure, the Appalachian migration in our area was significant, but Southern accents are rare. 021
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 22/06/2026In Hillbilly Elegy (haven’t cracked Communion yet) JD Vance recounts over and over the indignities he faced for speaking with a southern accent. Except, he didn’t grow up in the south, he grew up outside Cincinnati… 1122
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 19/06/2026Very sad to lose this old church in Bushwick www.brooklynpaper.com/fire-reforme...brooklynpaper.comFire tears through historic Reformed Church of South Bushwick • Brooklyn PaperA fire destroyed much of the historic Reformed Church of South Bushwick Friday afternoon. The steeple is gone, as is most or all of the roof, and the top half 010
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 09/06/2026I have a feeling that a lot of people shocked that Spencer Pratt won’t be the next LA mayor also thought Andrew Cuomo could win as NYC Mayor as the pro-Israel, Trump-friendly candidate. Cluelessness and out-of-touchness in the national political discourse continues to skyrocket. 030
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 05/06/2026“the same Music you have listened to for years” is a threat not a promise 010
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 26/05/2026My CitiBike membership is about to renew and I think it might be the year to cut the cord. After lowering the e-bike speed and raising per minute prices, a trip even with membership is touching $10, which is ridiculous to me. If I really miss e-biking, I think it might time to invest in one. 021
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 15/05/2026just noticed that "Epstein" is one of the Miami Herald's top-level section categories 010
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 10/05/2026Remember when we were young, everybody used to have these arguments about who’s better: M.I.A. or Santigold? Santigold won! 011
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 02/05/2026This is sort of like the broken windows theory applied to consumer protection regulation 030
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 02/05/2026One of my few, waning 20th century joys: calling the local pizza place to get a pie for delivery. As long as I don’t get put on hold forever, it’s quick and pleasant and efficient and human and far better than punching in an order on app. 020
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 26/04/2026When did the NYT reverse its policy of not allowing its journalists to attend the WHCD? 000
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 21/04/2026still a Stush stan music.apple.com/us/playlist/...music.apple.comStush Bangers by Gabriel Snyder on Apple MusicPlaylist · 8 Songs 000
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 20/04/2026Remember way back to 2025 when the cable news conventional wisdom on the best way to win a NYC Democratic primary was pro-Israel? 040
Reposted by Gabriel SnyderStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 12/04/2026:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute :: 263349510
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 03/04/2026seems kinda DEI www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... 020
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 03/04/2026The Good Place’s Janet pretty much nailed AI in 2016 160
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 30/03/2026Read this right now if you (like me 10 mins ago) hadn’t read this before 000
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 27/03/2026I used to cringe whenever I noticed the typos that typically litter my sent emails. But there's been a subtle shift lately, as I think, well, at least they know it was an email from *me* and not AI. 140
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 17/03/2026I remember scratching my head a lot when @katie-drummond.bsky.social posted a bunch of politics jobs after she was named Wired EIC in 2023. Today, I can't think of a recent editorial bet that's paid off more. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...nytimes.comWired’s New Editor Doesn’t Care if the Tech Bros Are Mad 070
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 17/03/2026Meta's hiring and layoff whiplash numbers are crazy: per Benedict Evans, Meta has laid off 49k people in the last six years which is more than the 45k employees it had in 2019 011
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 16/03/2026A confession: I don’t listen to podcasts. I’ve never been able to find the right time in my day to listen to an hour or so of people talking. I do realize that in the year 2026, this makes me odd. 701623
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 16/03/2026I added a widget with the price of oil to my home screen because I realized that is the best way to do a “has anything completely insane happened?” check when I pick up my phone. 020
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 16/03/2026This bit in Semafro tonight reminded me that one of Peter Kaplan’s wisest decisions at The New York Observer was to ban Donald Trump quotes. A frequent job for a young writer there was to get as many famous(ish) names to engage on whatever that week’s m cover story social trend. 122
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 06/03/2026random search: the time Jeffrey Epstein told Peter Thiel, on an email thread setting up a lunch, that sifting through the Panama Papers leak was "keeping me busy" jmail.world/thread/vol00... 010
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 04/03/2026It's pretty remarkable that this sentence doesn't come until the end of the 14th graf of the story: "Investigators were never quite clear what crime, if any, had been committed by the Biden administration’s use of the autopen." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...nytimes.comJustice Dept., Under Pressure From Trump, Fails to Build Autopen Case Against Biden 041
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 04/03/2026Trump’s non-endorsement in the Texas GOP Senate Primary has led to one of the bloodiest intramural GOP fights of the midterm season and a kind of natural experiment: What happens to Republican politics when Trump exits the political stage? 000
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 28/02/2026Deadwood re-watch report: Swearengen-Farnum scenes feel very AI chatbot to me, including (and I am paraphrasing) ‘stop repeating what I just said’ frustrations 030
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 28/02/2026"I see as much misery outta them movin’ to justify their selves as them that set out to do harm." 000
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 25/02/2026I will never buy a cat toy that interests my cats more than the packaging and box it comes in, will I? 4161
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 25/02/2026seeing someone who reads Axios via the Bloomberg terminal is wild 110
Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 24/02/2026“I am learning that being an American means that I have to be worried for the people I love.” 020