The Fantasy of a Super Jail As Trump flails, he has returned to his favorite myth of control.

Amid fallout on all fronts, Trump wants to seem in control, and so he brings back the great myth of insecure leaders: A big, scary jail for "them"
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Meet the City’s Most In-Demand Mohel Few rabbis perform brises full-time. He has ten a week.

“Every mohel is inclined to narcissism. I’m careful about ... having as much humility as I can, alongside the fact that I’m eight years into my practice and major synagogues in New York have me at the top of their list.”
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Someone else living my dream (a wedding with a drone gun, no Ron DeSantis, and David Blaine doing magic table to table) www.thecut.com/article/broo...

good piece on "The Retreat of the Political Black Athlete"
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look at the anti-AI voter coalition (based on gut instinct): SZA to Dale Earnhardt Jr's son Kerry — it's all of America in here, annoyed

2026 (planned) Data centers vs. megaprojects Inflation-adjusted costs, billions USD SIT- 2025₽ Data center capex =$930B in 6 years $750B- Interstate Highway System ® S620B, 37yr US Railroads $550B, 71yr $500B- F-35 Program $400B, 25yr (to date) $250B - $O Apollo Program $257B, 14yr Marshall Plan $170B, 4yr Manhattan-Project -$36B,Syr- 10 20 International Space Station $150B, 27yr- 30 40 Years from start of program 50 60 70 Sources: Company reports, Epoch AI • FHWA • NASA • CRS • GAO • Brookings Al capex = estimated data-centre share of global reported capex at the big-5 US hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle; Epoch AI+ Platformonomics). Assuming DC share scales from +55% in 2020 to =80% by 2026. Excludes Chinese hyperscalers. All costs in 2024 dollars.

Absolutely insane numbers on data center buildout. I haven’t vetted these by they’re about right based on memory/back of the envelope.

Nothing But Respect Sports Podcast · Updated Weekly · The last uncompromised podcast hosted by Patrick Redford and Harry Krinsky.

The NBR playoff mega-preview is out now, starring @seankuhn.bsky.social @highkin.bsky.social @kylietcheung.bsky.social @ichotiner.bsky.social @eamonwhalen.bsky.social @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social @islemcelroy.bsky.social @maitreyiaa.bsky.social @toley.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

The Winners This Tax Season? Private-Jet Owners. How Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act led to a “spike” in jet sales.

Happy tax season: Here's how Trump's tax cuts helped private-jet — and thoroughbread racehorse — owners this year
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Nice try to bid for lower taxes though!

Mamdani's Tax the Rich Agenda Isn't Spooking Wall Street Record jobs and fat real estate leases make finance the No. 1 industry again.

Looks like they didn't leave www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/14/w...

Ok! www.ft.com/content/0b01...

The Winners This Tax Season? Private-Jet Owners. How Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act led to a “spike” in jet sales.

Happy tax season: Here's how Trump's tax cuts helped private-jet — and thoroughbread racehorse — owners this year
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Can This Chaotic Brooklyn Plaza Be Car-Free? Mamdani Says Yes.

This is great news. I was hit and run by a moped that blew a red light going 30+ mph here — it sucked. And everyone I told about it was like "Oh right near the library you got hit? Makes sense."
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Here’s the latest.

"As Mr. Vance was detailing the impasse in negotiations, President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were at a sports arena in Miami for UFC 327, watching a video montage of past fights."

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If Orbán falls, Israel could lose its EU firewall Hungary has repeatedly used its EU veto to block sanctions on Israel; if opposition leader Péter Magyar wins and aligns with Brussels to unlock billions in funding, Jerusalem could lose its last line of defense in the bloc

Israeli media is concerned that if Orban loses the election tomorrow in Hungary, the EU could finally pass Union-wide sanctions on illegal settlements, settlers, and companies involved in settlement construction.

Kennedy Center nixes top lawyer’s cover band from venue Elliot Berke’s cover band the DePlorables was rejected.

Hey, is it cool if my cover band plays the Kennedy Center? We do a sick version of Yes' "Roundabout"

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We spoke to @nymag.com about Muskism

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What Broke the Beckhams? After his marriage to Nicola Peltz, the wayward Brooklyn Beckham disavowed his superstar family for his billionaire in-laws. He may never go back.

This is perhaps not the ideal time to announce I am the Bob Woodward of the Beckham wedding drama but here we are:

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smart point about how Musk shows the public's attitude toward the world: green capitalism (first Teslas) v. militarism amid breakdown (cybertruck)

What do you mean the rules of society don't apply because it's a dog!? www.curbed.com/article/dogs...

American Idol: Trump’s Vision of His Place In History How the president turns everything into idol worship.

"Exposing the ties between Jim Crow and Nazism shows us that the process of architecting an atrocity owes as much to incremental bureaucratic measures — tiny legal and procedural papercuts — as it does to unbridled hate." nymag.com/intelligence...

Everybody hates Cory Sex workers, bankruptcy, stolen valor, a restraining order, and Trump's “Complete and Total” endorsement for Congress.

It was nice to leave on a piece I'm proud of
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I'm sad to leave @motherjones.com. Smart editors shaped me. And I was lucky to get to edit a few reporters closely — @nlanard.bsky.social, @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social, @inaeoh.bsky.social, @hurwitz.bsky.social, @eamonwhalen.bsky.social — who made the job fun.

Hey, I'm a Features Editor at New York Mag now.

I'll be working on a mix of stuff, with a focus on news and politics. (You can pitch me, or belittle me, at the email in my bio.)

Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment for US defence secretary

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The People Getting Falsely Accused of Using AI to Write As AI-generated text floods the internet, people are getting falsely accused of using LLMs to write. Clean and precise prose has become a liability, and non-native English speakers and autistic writers are often paying the price.

As AI-generated text floods the internet, people are getting falsely accused of using LLMs to write. Clean and precise prose has become a liability, and non-native English speakers and autistic writers are often paying the price.

It had not occurred to the parents who lost their 27 daughters at Camp Mystic that a session in 2026 would be open to debate. But the camp is open this year, with almost 900 girls signed up. Kerry Howley reports on the July 4th tragedy — and the battle over the camp’s future: tinyurl.com/n5pyfzah

Joe Kent's forever war The retired Green Beret turned GOP congressional candidate believes he's fighting the most important battle of his life. America is the conflict zone.

Worth a read, from 2022 — from @nlanard.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...