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For The American Prospect, I wrote about how new kinds of worker surveillance are being rationalized deter shoplifting—and being augmented by finicky AI. prospect.org/labor/2025-06-…

My long and combative dispatch from the American gulag archipelago, featuring the KKK, Hurricane Katrina, Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Ice Cube, and a very angry newspaper editor, where everyone knew to say nothing. slate.com/business/2025/…

Stick a fork in it. Zohran Mamdani will win the first round of the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. Zero path forward for Cuomo to make up that ground in RCV. A Muslim immigrant democratic socialist is the frontrunner to become the mayor of the largest city in the U.S.

I loudly disagreed with nearly every policy position the Mamdani campaign took, called his supporters out of touch, and boosted candidates who ended up winning less than 1% as attractive alternatives. Here’s why Zohran’s victory confirms every one of my priors 🧵 1/

You gotta be patient with national Democrats, it takes more than a few days to run focus groups, and how are they supposed to know what they believe in before they know how it tests

In April, I went to Los Angeles to talk to Corbin (corbin) about his new album, and what its like to be one of the most influential but lesser known artists of the last decade, for Rolling Stone rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

banger profile of one of the most quirked up white boys in the biz, corbin aka spooky black, the prince of minnesota

Corbin interview one day, Lizzo the next. It’s 2015 Minneapolis in Rolling Stone this week

Breaking: Minnesota Timberwolves Naz Reid intends to sign a new five-year, $125M contract to stay with the franchise, including a player option, sources tell Shams Charania.

Making Jamal Murray do Z drill full court until he had a meltdown in game 2 is one of my favorite sports moments ever. goodnight my sweet prince

When I met Nickeil Alexander-Walker, he was reading a book at his locker in Memphis. That started one of my favorite player-reporter relationships I've had in 15 years as a sportswriter. Always appreciated his honesty and how generous he was w/ his time. I wrote this recently:

Let’s add to this: Adams won by 7,200 votes and Nancy Pelosi promptly invited him as a featured guest to brief congressional Democrats on messaging strategy. Zohran won by 116,000 votes and Hakeem Jeffries is basically insisting he’s never heard of him.

quite a thought-provoking thread on post-2020 police politics

RIP China of Cam & China. A generationally great bar-for-bar rapper. The West Coast heir to the throne of Rage & Yo-Yo. A virtuosic Category 5 force w/ inimitable confidence, swagger & mic command. But who also had hooks, gorgeous melodies & who obliterated every beat every time.

JUST IN: ICE agents in San Francisco just now drove through protesters, used pepper spray, & brandished rifles at those who had gathered to try to stop an immigration arrest. A woman, holding onto the hood of an ICE SUV, was thrown off. youtu.be/GQ_YGzfaQLM