Jake Blumgart
Reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer inquirer.com/author/blumgart_jake/
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- He had one job www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/b...
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- JUST POSTED: Trump-Kushner Hotel Project in Serbia Hits a Snag: Alleged Forgery Serbian authorities say an official admitted to forging a document allowing a protected site in Belgrade to be demolished and replaced with a Trump hotel. Fate of project is now up in the air. nyti.ms/3YLwORG
- What's in Trump and Republicans' massive tax and immigration bill? Here's a breakdown for you. I'm the econ policy geek in Congress for @washingtonpost.com. I read the whole bill (really, I did) so you don't have to. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... Let's thread it out.... 🧵
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- Again, I don't mind the "echo chamber" here - I have been blocked by the most obnoxious people and can usually just log off if people are misrepresenting me/my takes. (People have learned that I can be baited if you lie about me in some ultra-personal way but I've learned to ignore that.)
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- Reporting on what really happened in the showdown at the Library of Congress today. (A widely circulated post here on Bluesky, which I commented on before deleting, said it was a showdown between Library people and DOGE people—turns out the latter were DOJ people.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
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- This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...
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- I am a huge proponent of "local" vacations in any economy. They're fun, relaxing, stress-light, and it's fulfilling to get more familiar with your more immediate surroundings. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- ICE agents (and other federal officers) covering their faces is in part a reflection of the impunity they understand Trump has afforded them. Gift link: wapo.st/438r062
- TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
- I am doing a fair amount of soul searching on why this policy Yonah rightly calls a "miracle" remains generally controversial/unpopular.
- NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- "We used to have journalists whose beat was the life of their community, who took their bikes around the city to report on what was happening and wore out the soles of their shoes chasing stories. And if we had that once, we can have it again." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-late-g...
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- Me, telling you to subscribe to your local newspaper.
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- By calling a genocide a genocide, Andor just made its most political point yet
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- New: a man 'disappeared' by ICE was not included on a government list of people deported to El Salvador's mega prison. But we found his name in a hacked flight manifest to the country. Raises questions about how much the government knows about who it is deporting www.404media.co/man-disappea...
- The fallout from a MAGA party that's been compared to the "Fyre Festival" is roiling Washington, resulting in police reports and costing a Daily Caller reporter his job. There was also a breakdancing puppet. My latest newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-world...
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- The new pope is younger than 13 members of the Senate Democratic caucus
- *Eight* byline Chicago Tribune story profiling the new pope’s childhood on Chicago’s South Side — www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/r...
- Who do I need to call about getting a Criterion Collection edition of Barton Fink? I feel drawn to rewatch it with enough frequency that it's a film I should own, but I'm not putting this cheap bargain bin print on my shelf. (I have class.)
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- New: Small-time Trump meme coin buyers have seen their investments collapse. Nearly 67,000 crypto novices have pulled out their debit cards to bet on $TRUMP, our analysis found. So far it’s been a monumental bust. Gift link: wapo.st/3ZacyZY w/ @jeremybmerrill.com
- unquestionably correct www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
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- "Simon would see the cat and walk as fast as he could to her end of the room. Detective would sometimes run away, but not always." defector.com/oh-no-its-an...
- The latest episodes of #Andor show how authoritarianism becomes ordinary — how people get crushed by systems pretending to keep order. We break it down in our article on the show as a metaphor for American fascism: www.wired.com/story/star-w...
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- I like Journalism to win the conclave.
- If Cuomo does win the race it will be in part because the last few administrations (espesh deBlasio’s!) failed to find a better way to care for mentally distressed men than letting them occupy the subway. This is much worse than any time over past 30 yrs, even as NY murder rates reach record lows
- Still a brutal job market out there for the tech industry, employment is at least increasing again but at nowhere near the pace of the 2022 boom or even pre-pandemic
