On Kash Patel's newest uncovered excursions and trips on government planes, including a quick jaunt to Philly for a George Strait concert and snorkeling at Pearl Harbor. From Elizabeth Williamson and Adam Goldman, + a small flight tracking assist from me (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

On Cole Allen's apparent Bluesky account, from Amy Qin and myself. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

How the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran have left its schools and hospitals in ruins Free gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Looking around for this with @aric.bsky.social and @gbrumfiel.bsky.social, geolocated at 30.835153, 50.589567 north of Dehdasht (~30 miles north of Behbahan). Rough annotation with matching terrain + building area in the foreground. CC: @geoconfirmed.org Map link: www.google.com/maps/place/3...

New investigation from @trbrtc.bsky.social and @johnismay.bsky.social on an American PrSM (missile) being used against an Iranian sports hall and school. These missiles were filmed being fired from a HIMARS in Bahrain weeks ago. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

I just read Neuromancer for the first time, and while the actual plot and most of the writing was not really as remarkable as I was expecting (it was fine, but y'know), the thing that struck me was how well written the Flatline AI was. It really reflects the hollow creepiness of actual modern AI.

A US-made HIMARS launcher was filmed firing missiles at Iran from Bahrain. Most other Gulf states have denied that the US has launched attacks from its soil against Iran. Bahrain has remained silent on this question. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

Great Reddit post of a new Playstation owner's impressions in 1995 (spoiler: he preferred the 3DO) www.reddit.com/r/psx/commen...

"An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings." Gift link, free article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

The Heat intentionally missing a FT up 26pts with 1:30 left was the funniest thing to happen in an NBA game since Manu killed that bat

U.S. Tomahawk hit naval base beside Iranian school, video shows From @malachy.bsky.social and @johnismay.bsky.social Free gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

You and Alasdair got a shout-out in the Guardian yesterday. 🙂 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

New from the @nytimes.com Visual Investigations team: Detailed, second-by-second video analysis of all of the video footage of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

I love r/shortguys, half of the posts are "a tall man did a crime and yet women still love him" and the other half are going through post histories of women married to short guys or short guys who say they're married to "prove" that the wife is definitely cheating.

Just saw a farm truck with a decal of an American flag that said "You cannot cancel all of us" in a rural Kansas town of 187 people.

Crypto casinos have become wildly popular with young people. Here's how the sites built an exploitative online marketing machine using celebrities like Drake and an army of livestreamers: w/ @aric.bsky.social Jenny Vrentas, Leo Dominguez and @iamrumz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

There's a whole longform piece you could do on just this phenomenon that we didn't have space to go into. There's a huge industry of people going into villages in India, Kenya, Philippines, etc. and gathering up tons of IDs and having guys hold up papers with casino names on them for verification.

Great to see the New York Times picking up on my investigation from a couple of years ago at Sky news.sky.com/story/from-d... but how frustrating to see so little has changed in the time that's passed since my report.... A brilliant read from @aric.bsky.social and the NYT team also

An entire thesis about the consequences of the digital attention economy could be written based on this post alone

Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours. New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Three years ago, @michaelsheldon.bsky.social and I identified Ochur-Suge Mongush as the Russian soldier who castrated and murdered a Ukrainian POW in Pryvillia. Mongush was apparently given a medal (the "Order of Courage") and is fighting in Ukraine again. www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/08...

Alasdair kept digging and identified most of the photographs at the ending that are shown in montage before the ballroom photo is zoomed in on. Turns out that Ronald Regan is in multiple photos. www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKub...

Was thinking about movies with 100% penetration/familiarity with my generation, but probably four people under the age of 18 have watched (and likely under duress). Joe Dirt is the best one I could think of.

Watching an old Unsolved Mysteries episode and man it really fell off in the late Robert Stack seasons. There's a segment on now about a haunted toilet (it flushes on its own, and a lady heard 'conversations' emanating out of the bowl)

For some reason I've joined like 20 subreddits for retail store employees and r/DollarGeneralWorkers is definitely the best

Is Shazam/song recognition the actual most useful, universally loved use of AI? (I know that early Shazam didn't technically use AI, but you get the point)

We're still gathering applications for this job, if you haven't seen it and are interested. Our VI team does a very wide range of work -- it's not all just conflict reporting (though we do plenty of that). A handful of recent stories for an idea of our range of coverage:

Our New York Times Visual Investigations team is hiring a reporter. It's the same job I have -- use visual investigation/OSINT/etc. skills to report on the world. You'll need to be based in/near NYC. Pay range is ~110-130k. www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

For years when people on 4chan/elsewhere referred to mods by calling them "jannies", I thought it was short for Janissaries, from some ancient in-joke. Janitors is way more boring.

Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @aric.bsky.social (@nytimes.com) showed Friday the extent of Israel's razing operations in Gaza City. Using satellite analysis, they document the rapidly progressing destruction of Zeitoun and surrounding neighborhoods in Gaza's north.

The Utah shooter joked on Discord with his friends that his doppelganger killed Charlie Kirk when they asked him about it From Nick Bogel-Burroughs, and contribution from me. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

On the Utah shooter's meme bullet casings, and how the extremely-online shooter is now commonplace. From @sheeraf.bsky.social, Richard Fausset, and me. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

On the manhunt @robinsteinnyt.bsky.social has been monitoring police scanner chatter, and it's - as usual with these events - insane. It included chatter about police searching for a man with a prosthetic arm in a hospital (This was also a plot thread in Twin Peaks) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

New contribution to this piece from @malachy.bsky.social and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago. nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u... The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6). Compare with a 1997 photo here:

New contribution to this piece from @malachybrowne and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago. nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u... The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6). Compare with a 1997 photo here:

New video piece on the Israeli double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital that killed six journalists. From @ckoettl.bsky.social, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, and Natalie Reneau www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

The diaries of the Minnesota school shooter go for over 250 pages. I've spent the last few days reading them. The writing is full of self-hatred, detailed planning, and obsessions with inflicting pain & suffering. From Julie Bosman, me, and Jeff Ernst: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...

In one of the videos on the suspected Minnesota school shooter's YouTube account, he wrote "I'm a bassoon" in Russian (If you know Russian, you know what he was actually trying to say)

Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there. The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream. From me and others (see byline/contribs) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...

Happy 21st birthday to my Gmail account, it can now buy a beer (and legally sports gamble)

A very simple executive order Trump could do to gain +20 with 18-35 men is to force Sony and Nintendo to ban slop on their game stores. It's insane looking through the catalogues, with hentai games on Switch (?!) and "Recycling Center Simulator" and "Life in [Airpot] Terminal Simulator" in PS store

Did a podcast on the online pedo hunter piece that @neilbedi.bsky.social and I wrote a few months ago pod.link/1780210954/e...

"A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up" — short write-up on this image and video from Ibrahim Alsallout by @aric.bsky.social at the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

A massive crowd of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks is visible in July 26 SkySat imagery from @planet.com near the so-called Morag Corridor at 31.3104, 34.2822 in southern Gaza. July 26 video from Ibrahim Alsallout on Instagram showed the crowd from the ground: www.instagram.com/p/DMkmVvNo6n...

Alasdair found a new photograph of the venue in the Illustrated London News (21 November 1925)