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Gabriel Snyder

@gabrielsnyder.com
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Executive Editor, Enterprise at Newsweek Previously: Publisher & EIC of The Fine Print, EIC of The New Republic, Editor of The Atlantic Wire, EIC of Gawker, Reporter at Variety, Reporter at The New York Observer, etc.

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 11/09/2026
Harry 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."
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 14/08/2026
Gardening 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.
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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...
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 04/08/2026
One 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.
screenshot of a WSJ column opening: 
By now most people have discovered the joy of asking Al highly specific logistical questions. What's the best route to drive from Detroit to New York this weekend dodging thunderstorms and without losing cell service? Or, as Debby Soo, CEO of OpenTable, recently suggested of a typical ChatGPT restaurant search: "I'm looking for a seafood restaurant that's celiac- friendly, but has been nominated for a James Beard, in Boston, this Friday at seven."
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 04/08/2026
Here’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.
Amazon email receipt:

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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 31/07/2026
When 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.)
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 08/07/2026
It’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.
screenshot of Common and Kanye West performing “The Food” on the Chappelle Show on March 3, 2004
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 18/07/2026
Weird 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.
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 10/07/2026
I 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.
Google search results screenshot showing:

LinkedIn • Jeffrey Toobin
11K+ followers
Jeffrey Toobin - Contributing Opinion
Writer, The New York Times
Contributing Opinion Writer, The New York Times; author,
"The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy." • Experience: The New York Times • Education: ...


The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com
DO I
The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin
Jun 10, 2021 - Jeffrey Toobin's fateful appointment with Zoom. Mr. Toobin, 60, committed the act that would make him subject, not observer, of scandal, ...
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 08/07/2026
I'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...
"To encourage my Democratic friends, I would remind them of this fact: The Democratic Party became great not while pushing against the right. It became great while pushing against the left. Democrats can argue against Republicans in their sleep. They have a comfortable set of moves they can go to: trickle-down economics, tax
cuts for the rich."
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 08/07/2026
It’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.
screenshot of Common and Kanye West performing “The Food” on the Chappelle Show on March 3, 2004
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 08/07/2026
Listening 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.
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 06/07/2026
I 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.
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 05/07/2026
Remember 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?
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 03/07/2026
Stunned 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.
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 30/06/2026
Defining “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.com
Opinion | Can You Really Be a Working-Class Party if There Are Very Few Workers in Your Party?
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 30/06/2026
A 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.
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 22/06/2026
I 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"
Reader survey screenshot from the Washington Post
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Steve Mancuso @spmancuso.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I 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.
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 22/06/2026
In 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…
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 19/06/2026
Very sad to lose this old church in Bushwick www.brooklynpaper.com/fire-reforme...
brooklynpaper.com
Fire tears through historic Reformed Church of South Bushwick • Brooklyn Paper
A 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
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 09/06/2026
I 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.
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 05/06/2026
“the same Music you have listened to for years” is a threat not a promise
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 26/05/2026
My 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.
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 15/05/2026
just noticed that "Epstein" is one of the Miami Herald's top-level section categories
the nav bar for the Miami Herald showing:
83°F
NEWS
SPORTS
EPSTEIN
POLITICS
OPINION
GAMES
OBITUARIES
CAREERS
BANKING
GUIDES
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 10/05/2026
Remember when we were young, everybody used to have these arguments about who’s better: M.I.A. or Santigold? Santigold won!
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 02/05/2026
This is sort of like the broken windows theory applied to consumer protection regulation
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 02/05/2026
One 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.
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 26/04/2026
When did the NYT reverse its policy of not allowing its journalists to attend the WHCD?
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 21/04/2026
still a Stush stan music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
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Stush Bangers by Gabriel Snyder on Apple Music
Playlist · 8 Songs
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 20/04/2026
Remember way back to 2025 when the cable news conventional wisdom on the best way to win a NYC Democratic primary was pro-Israel?
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 03/04/2026
seems kinda DEI www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Underlined portion of a screenshot: optics were a concern; officials worried that getting rid of Bondi would be viewed as jettisoning only the nost "attractive" women, while keeping the men.)
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 03/04/2026
The Good Place’s Janet pretty much nailed AI in 2016
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 30/03/2026
Read this right now if you (like me 10 mins ago) hadn’t read this before
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 27/03/2026
I 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.
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 20/03/2026
I just heard the first Mr Softee of spring!
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 17/03/2026
I 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.com
Wired’s New Editor Doesn’t Care if the Tech Bros Are Mad
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 17/03/2026
Meta'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
Meta cutting deep? 
Reuters claims that Meta is looking at cutting 20% of headcount. This would be partly for cashflow to invest in AI infrastructure (it plans to spend over 50% of revenue on capex this year and has already been out raising capital), but probably also a reset versus previous hiring (and perhaps more pruning of the Reality Labs stuff). This has already been really messy, though: Meta ended 2019 with 45k employees, hired 27k across 2021 and 2022, did an 11k layoff in 2023 but still ended the year up by net 15k, cut another 20k in 2023, added 12k back by the end of 2025 bringing it to 79k, and if it now cuts 20% (~16k) that would bring it back to mid-2020 numbers. It would also mean that Meta had laid off more people since 2019 than the company actually employed then. Everyone over-hired in the pandemic, but this seems careless. LINK
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 16/03/2026
A 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.
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 16/03/2026
I 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.
An Apple Stock Home Screen widget showing:

BZ=F
Brent Crude O...
99.96
+1.05
DOW
Dow Jones I...
46,558
-119.43
NVDA
NVIDIA Corpor...
180.25
-2.91
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 16/03/2026
This 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.
Few of the lightning-speed exclusive interviews reporters have scored with the president this way have generated significant news, but many tell me it's hard to resist calling. "I feel like Frodo with the ring," one Washington journalist who has spoken with Trump over the years said. "I know it's dangerous, but it keeps beckoning me."
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 06/03/2026
random 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...
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 04/03/2026
It'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.com
Justice Dept., Under Pressure From Trump, Fails to Build Autopen Case Against Biden
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 04/03/2026
Trump’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?
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 28/02/2026
Deadwood re-watch report: Swearengen-Farnum scenes feel very AI chatbot to me, including (and I am paraphrasing) ‘stop repeating what I just said’ frustrations
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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."
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 25/02/2026
I will never buy a cat toy that interests my cats more than the packaging and box it comes in, will I?
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 25/02/2026
seeing someone who reads Axios via the Bloomberg terminal is wild
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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.”
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