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Features Editor @nymag.com, jacob.rosenberg@nymag.com || former Mother Jones, Arkansas Times || "As for the scoffers, He scoffs at them"

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Post presidency Obama loves to tell press through aides he's offering himself privately as a "sounding board"
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 03/10/2026
The former owner and sporting director of Chelsea, the guys who built Qatar's World Cup stadiums, the brother of the owner of City Football Group, the brother of the guy who tried to buy the World Cup and the FIFA Peace Prize recipient plan to end the war in Ukraine by doing an oil deal with Putin
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Emirati officials have warned the UK government that the severity of the ruling could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale UK commitments, according to people familiar with the matter." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Manchester City Verdict Strains UK-UAE Diplomatic Relations
A historic legal ruling against Manchester City Football Club has placed diplomatic ties between the UK and the United Arab Emirates under significant strain, with billions of pounds in projected fore...
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"'I saw him laying there,' she remembers. 'I saw him all bloodied.' 'What am I going to tell my daughter?' she asked aloud, in a haze." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/m...
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An ICE agent shot and killed her partner in Maine. Now, she wants justice. - The Boston Globe
In her first sit-down interview with a newspaper, Martha Karolina Rojas Alvarez called for justice to be carried out for the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, her partner and father of their ...
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 23/09/2026
Integration efforts of the 1950s were part of a movement. Today, Black parents are left with an unequal system and an uncoordinated push to change it.
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No One Can Fix School Segregation Alone
Integration efforts of the 1950s were part of a movement. Today, Black parents are left with an unequal system and an uncoordinated push to change it.
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Max Read @maxread.info · 15/09/2026
i don't like that i feel like we're all getting dragged against our will into an all-media all-the-time LessWrong thread, an insanely annoying and disorienting experience that most people do not have sufficient experience or mental preparations to deal with
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 15/09/2026
Nick Shirley’s videos on fraud helped push Trump to target Minneapolis. They were just the start of a ‘beautiful synergy.’
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How Nick Shirley Became Republicans’ Favorite Poster
Nick Shirley’s videos on fraud helped push Trump to target Minneapolis. They were just the start of a ‘beautiful synergy.’
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
they just gave $70 billion in new funding to ICE, an agency *invented* after 9/11, but for people being slowly killed by 9/11 they had to pull out a street map to get anything nymag.com/intelligence...

"Many have argued that the boundaries that were set made little sense. The dust did not suddenly stop at Canal or Houston Street. “When we drafted the bill, we had to make arbitrary decisions,” Nadler admits. “We could have said 14th Street. And what about the people in Brooklyn? The cloud didn’t stop there. So we arbitrarily chose Canal Street.” He said the decision was purely a financial calculation. “The Congressional Budget Office would tell us, ‘If you make the boundary 14th Street, it’s going to cost $10 billion. If you make it Tenth Street, it’s going to cost $5 billion. It’s too many people,” he said. “Charlie Rangel, the head of the Ways and Means Committee, said, ‘You get $4.3 billion; that’s all you’re going to get. Make it work.’”
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 09/09/2026
Colleges are testing new ways to catch AI use. It largely isn’t helping. Instead of doing their work, many students are spending their time getting better at fooling AI detectors or degrading the tech’s output enough to make it look like a student’s.
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The College Students Finding New Ways to Cheat With AI
Colleges are testing new ways to catch AI use. It largely isn’t helping. Instead of doing their work, many students are spending their time getting better at fooling AI detectors or degrading the tech’s output enough to make it look like a student’s.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 05/09/2026
The collapse of the towers is still sickening people. nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Other Victims of 9/11
Twenty-five years after the attack, tens of thousands of people have gotten sick. I am one of them.
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is a wild story of how Oklahoma prisons have incarcerated people doing push-polling for PACs www.governing.com/workforce/wh...
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When Your Call Center Is Inside a Prison
Oklahoma allowed private companies to employ incarcerated workers for outside calling campaigns, including work that ultimately reached a presidential campaign.
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Lukas I. Alpert @lalpert1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and remember all those who were lost, this is something I wrote for New York magazine looking at the tens of thousands of people who have since gotten sick. I am one of them. Here is the story of the ongoing tragedy of that day.
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The Other Victims of 9/11
Twenty-five years after the attack, tens of thousands of people have gotten sick. I am one of them.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 03/09/2026
The picture most people have of a 9/11 victim does not include a growing group: the people who lived or worked near the World Trade Center — pushed to return to normal after the attack — who have since been diagnosed with serious illness.
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The Other Victims of 9/11
The picture most people have of a 9/11 victim does not include a growing group: the people who lived or worked near the World Trade Center — pushed to return to normal after the attack — who have since been diagnosed with serious illness.
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 01/09/2026
Belatedly: From "The Heart of Rock & Soul." Among the best 800 words of pop music criticism ever written.
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SOLDIER BOY, The Shirelles
Produced by Luther Dixon; Written by Luther Dixon and
Florence Green
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Billboard: #1 (3 weeks)
Down at the bus stop you'd see them every morning, books clutched to their car coats, high-rise bouffants frosted in the early chill, wearing too much makeup and already, at fifteen or sixteen, a few too many pounds. I did not know their names and you can be certain they didn'tknow mine. These weren't girls who paid attention to guys their own age; they'd given up on scoring with the jocks or any of the inside crowd and the rest of us were, well, not worth so much as a glance.
Not because they were snobs; because they teared the names that
"smart kids" would call them, which began and ended in the catchall designation, "slut."
So I'll never know for certain if the scraps of conversation you'd pick up from sitting near them told the whole story, or whether i's really fair to fill in many details. But if you watched and listened, you heard stories that implied an experience no guy of my acquaintance could have boasted, a matter-of-fact knowingness about sex and men and the world at large that the college-bound among us didn't yet suspect. These girls might as well already have been women, because their lives were already laid out for them around a narrow set of alternatives: hasty postgraduation marriage and too many pregnancies too soon or else a job at Kroger's or wherever else they needed a checkout clerk, some job you might be able to get without even a diploma.
Or getting knocked up and having the guy ditch her. Or getting knocked up and deciding to have a still-illegal abortion with the risk of being ruined or killedLiving in those mid-America tank towns back then, you knew all sorts of stories like those, just like you knew the stories of their boy-friends, including the one summed up in that line that goes zipping by in "Born in the U.S.A.": "Got in a little hometown jam, so they put a rifle in my hand." Off they went, and after a while, you began to notice that not all of them came back. But mostly they did, and while it would be obscene to argue that that was worse, it would be unfair to exaggerate how much.
By the time they were juniors, maybe a little earlier, certainly before they graduated, a lot of those bouffant girls at the bus stop would have boyfriends serving somewhere overseas, most likely in Germany or a quiescent Korea, where bullets did not fly but nights were long and temptations many. Because the barriers between us were huge, Im guessing again, but maybe they were just devoted pen pals, not doing so well in the high school social scene and so transferring their need to be needed to more distant objects. A lot of these same girls were the first to catch on to the Beatles, and the first to go really mad for one or another of the guys, the ultimate sexual unobtainables. Some of them had already figured that game out before the British Invasion, and they were the most loyal fans of local rock groups, often better ones than the style-setters at school listened to.
But sometimes, I suspect, those girls had real relationships with guys "in the service," not just paper ones, and their lonely nights musthave been especially bereft because it was hard enough to land a guy, let alone worry about his existence a continent and an ocean away.
Reputations are easy to come by and hard to get rid of, especially in your own mind. And so (I'm guessing again) they fretted.
I mention all this because everything I've ever read about "Soldier Boy" treats its enormous popularity as a mystery. Written on the spot in the studio and recorded in the final few minutes of a session, it strikes other critics and historians as perfunctory and tossed off, its unison harmonies and the unison instrumental break shared by organ and guitar insufficiently elaborated.
But whenever I've heard "Soldier Boy," it's made me think of those girls and their boyfriends, each of them lost and confused in a world that they not only didn't understand very well but which manifestly did not like them. And so they found each other, and so they were dragged apart, and so they wondered and pledged and pleaded: "In this whole world, you can love but one girl / Let me be that one girl / For I'll be true to you."
Somehow, in a barracks or a bedroom, those sweetly voiced lines must have helped a few million heads lay more comfortably upon their pillows. And so there's no mystery at all, really, except how so many people can stand right before our eyes and not be seen. Or heard.
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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He Died in His NYC Taxi in a Heat Wave. Cabbies Are Returning His Body to Ivory Coast.
The city's taxi union and Ivorian New Yorkers raised money to return Richard Coulibaly back home, where he will be buried in his family’s village.
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Intelligencer @intelligencer.com · 28/08/2026
For Trump, noncitizen voting is the death of America. For liberals, past efforts to expand it in local elections are ‘Woke 1’ excess. How did the idea of some form of noncitizen voting become so terrifying?
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The Fear of Noncitizen Voting
For Trump, noncitizen voting is the death of America. For liberals, past efforts to expand it in local elections are ‘Woke 1’ excess. How did the idea of some form of noncitizen voting become so terrifying?
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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i rang charley crockett last week to try and cut through the noise and figure out what went left with jack white and twin temple www.vulture.com/article/char...
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Charley Crockett Thinks Jack White Missed the Point
The country singer says the established rocker and liberal fans maligned him over a misunderstanding of his politics.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Rebecca Katz’s Risky Formula for Winning Elections
The political consultant has an uncanny gift for finding charismatic progressives. Why do so many of them implode?
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I hope this gets a wider release. This series of films is really wonderful. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
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The Bend in the River Is a Poignant, Profound Look at a Changing World
Director Robb Moss chronicles his friends’ lives from the glories of youth to the consolations of old age.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 24/08/2026
Private travel leagues have made youth sports expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming for families. At least investors are making a killing.
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The Pay-to-Play Childhood
Private travel leagues have made youth sports expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming for families. At least investors are making a killing.
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Against the wind: despite Trump’s attacks, unions are fighting for good US clean energy jobs: Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, a growing labor movement has addressed the climate crisis and economic inequality Ryan McElroen had spent years repairing the New York City subway underground when ...
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Against the wind: despite Trump’s attacks, unions are fighting for good US clean energy jobs
Against the wind: despite Trump’s attacks, unions are fighting for good US clean energy jobs: Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, a growing labor movement has addressed the climate crisis and economic inequality Ryan McElroen had spent years repairing the New York City subway underground when ...
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Feel like this nicely encapsulates my least favorite way of thinking about "politics"
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hadn't thought about that to be honest www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/m...
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A unique report from southern Lebanon. Mary Turfah—a resident surgeon with family who has been wounded in the country—visits both her family, who have been bombed, and the paramedics trying to save those attacked. It's a dispatch a bit unlike anything I've read before: nymag.com/intelligence...
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‘If I Leave, Who Is Going to Rescue People?’
In Lebanon, Israel’s bombs have wounded thousands, including my family. I visited the paramedics risking their lives to save them.
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A unique report from southern Lebanon. Mary Turfah—a resident surgeon with family who has been wounded in the country—visits both her family, who have been bombed, and the paramedics trying to save those attacked. It's a dispatch a bit unlike anything I've read before: nymag.com/intelligence...
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‘If I Leave, Who Is Going to Rescue People?’
In Lebanon, Israel’s bombs have wounded thousands, including my family. I visited the paramedics risking their lives to save them.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
ICE is offering police departments financial incentives to cooperate, which leads to more traffic stops, which leads to deportations, which led to the horrific murder of Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz and Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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She followed ICE’s advice to self-deport. Five weeks later, she was dead.
A St. Louis mother took her three daughters to reunite with her deported husband in Guatemala. Neighbors found the couple bound and shot in a sugarcane field.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This seems like a big deal: Walmart signs its first ever union contract, at a distribution center in Toronto. Good discussion at Phenomenal World's new labor vertical. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wal...
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 28/07/2026
How a community of porn addicts tried to rescue the teenage camgirls they worshipped from the clutches of a violent Andrew Tate acolyte.
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Revenge of the Simps
How a community of porn addicts tried to rescue the teenage camgirls they worshipped from the clutches of a violent Andrew Tate acolyte.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 06/08/2026
“The paramedics Israel is targeting in Lebanon are volunteers — jeopardizing their lives not to earn a living, but to help in their spare time,” writes Mary Turfah. The risks they’re taking are clear. And they are offered the option to leave. Very few of them do.
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‘If I Leave, Who Is Going to Rescue People?’
In Lebanon, Israel’s bombs have wounded thousands, including my family. I visited the paramedics risking their lives to save them.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Savanna Batten went to an anti-ICE protest. Now she’s serving 50 years in federal prison.
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How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 16/07/2026
How a suburban mom working at a seafood restaurant became a fugitive in Mexico and accidental cartel queen.
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The Accidental Cartel Queen
How a suburban mom working at a seafood restaurant became a fugitive in Mexico and accidental cartel queen.
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Schuyler Mitchell @schuylermitchell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
SCOOP: I obtained documents revealing the FBI used Cellebrite to extract data from at least 13 protesters' phones after a mass arrest at an anti-ICE protest in Spokane last summer. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Public records show FBI secretly extracted data from ICE protesters' phones
Previously unreported documents reveal “extractions” from at least 13 devices after a Washington state protest last June.
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Defector @defector.com · 22/06/2026
Alan Greenspan, influential economic policymaker whom I once terrified at a party, is dead: defector.com/alan-greensp...
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Alan Greenspan, Influential Economic Policymaker Whom I Once Terrified At A Party, Is Dead | Defector
Alan Greenspan died today. The longtime fed chairman was once hailed as the most powerful man in the world. Greenspan was 100 years old. Back to me: A couple of cool, smart, and nice D.C. friends of…
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Helen Shaw @helenshaw.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The Clubbed Thumb people just added a Fri matinee for Derangements, which is the first show to reduce me to helpless gasping laughter this year. When I say playwright Nadja Leonhard-Hooper has EXACTLY matched Danny Wolohan’s freak, I know some of you understand what’s at stake. Get on the waitlist
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Intelligencer @intelligencer.com · 12/06/2026
How a Long Island grandma and a crew of volunteer firefighters helped facilitate a ballot hijacking that changed New York elections forever.
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The Full Story of New York’s Biggest Voting Scandal
How a Long Island grandma and a crew of volunteer firefighters helped facilitate a ballot hijacking that changed New York elections forever.
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A really interesting and important (and less covered story): How the *other* Amazon unionization effort — for all the drivers that are subcontractors — has been slowed www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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What Trump Delivered for Amazon
The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Good example of what this piece was talking about! nymag.com/intelligence...
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Can Democrats Seize the Anti-Interventionist Vote?
The party has a chance to win back disaffected voters. But realignment is “messy.”
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Last night, Hamaway — somewhat surprisingly — won. Here's what he said a few weeks ago on the failures of the Democratic party so far to find a way to be clearly, boldly anit-war
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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How Gianni Infantino, and FIFA, Won Trump’s Heart
Inside the geopolitical tug of war behind the 2026 World Cup.
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A Biden official on why FIFA and Infantino get favor in the Trump era but not theirs
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Aww friends!
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“I was struck with a taser, beaten with punches and kicks, insulted and humiliated. ... You entered through one door and a group of six or seven people would beat you mercilessly until you emerged from the other side.” apnews.com/article/gaza...
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Flotilla activists describe beatings, tasers and mistreatment by Israeli forces
Activists detained after their flotilla tried to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza have reported mistreatment by Israeli soldiers.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is wild. nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Man Who Explains Israel to John Fetterman
How a little-known writer became one of the senator’s closest confidants.
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
To understand Fetterman's position on Israel, it helps — according to a dozen staffers — to understand the increasingly influence of an unpaid, little-known adviser. A big story from @alexshultz.bsky.social
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
not the plot here but "How should it cost? Free?” will stick with me nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Man Who Explains Israel to John Fetterman
How a little-known writer became one of the senator’s closest confidants.
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
good lord
By early this year, many on Fetterman’s staff were incredulous and exhausted. In private, their boss was acting like a Republican, they say. In January 2026, Fetterman sent to a group chat with staffers a screenshot of an article headline about how the average working family spends nearly $4,000 annually on health care. “How should it cost? Free?” he complained in the text, which I obtained. “I don’t understand what affordability it is.”

The same month, after the Epstein files were released, Fetterman texted a staffer, “Epstein was a nothing burger. Worst pics I’ve seen were from Clinton lol.” When Alex Pretti was killed by ICE in Minneapolis, Fetterman was consumed with grievances about how Democrats were hypocrites for defending Pretti’s right to legally carry a firearm: “Kyle Rittenhouse brought a gun to a protest. He was roundly condemned for that. Why are now democrats defending the nurse it was legal to carry. Both legal weapons. Square that,” he texted
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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
To understand Fetterman's position on Israel, it helps — according to a dozen staffers — to understand the increasingly influence of an unpaid, little-known adviser. A big story from @alexshultz.bsky.social
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