The line between kindergartener and police union boss is a lot thinner than it may seem.

Last saved celebrity pic is your therapist

Anyone else cooped up with a newborn at the hospital during a historic blizzard? Anyone? @mayor.nyc.gov can baby Ava get an official escort? She’s a Knicks fan.

Gonna drive our newborn baby girl home from the hospital after it dumps eighteen inches of snow. Sorry to my fans but I will not be live-skeeting through the event.

Straight to jail.

Was there ever such a clear signal of societal decay when the Roman Empire collapsed?

Prediction market traders are “seeking alpha” by buying TV antennas for a millisecond of speed, timing the Super Bowl national anthem rehearsal in person and uncovering not-yet-public press releases hiding in the HTML of websites. Anything for an edge! www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...

Baby's first baby arrives this week so I am officially on parental leave. See you in two months—after Dad mode is fully engaged.

Get ready for an influx of MIT and Yale grads attempting to stunt in Bugattis

Re-upping the last story I published before parental leave! A new prediction market seeks to make millionaires by letting users bet on online trends like stocks. The monetization of everything is underway—and VCs are lapping it up. www.inc.com/sam-blum/pre...

My barber keeps telling me I need to take a trip to Turkey. I feel like Rodney Dangerfield.

Clavicular Mogs The New York Times Magazine is a real email I received this afternoon

NEW: Your average prediction market user can soon bet on the popularity of trends, brands, concepts and ideas. Everything is becoming increasingly monetized and financialized. VCs are eating it up. www.inc.com/sam-blum/pre...

NEW: Your average prediction market user can soon bet on the popularity of trends, brands, concepts and ideas. Everything is becoming increasingly monetized and financialized. VCs are eating it up. www.inc.com/sam-blum/pre...

A federal government MAHA website, advertised during the superbowl, is directing users to Grok to "get real answers about real food"? (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social) www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

You ever email someone with the exact same name as a high-ranking White House official thinking you have a scoop and then it turns out they're a different person? It sucks I wouldn't recommend it.

Martin you're writing an op-ed in a major newspaper how in the hell are you cancelled, mate?

Coinbase’s commercial was just the karaoke screen to a Backstreet Boys song i don’t even know what we’re doing here anymore

A lot of people say peak masculinity is Andrew Tate but it’s actually this guy doing exactly this

Someone tell Pat that everything is fake and everyone is an actor so he never comes back

Jeff Bezos is more responsible than anyone—even Will Lewis—for the job cuts at the Washington Post. The billionaire’s decisions led the paper to its current predicament (one he could pay for in perpetuity for a fraction of his wealth).

Giannis Antetokounmpo is joining Kalshi as an investor, mere months after former NBA head coach Chauncey Billups was charged with rigging illegal poker games by the DOJ.

Glad to see more reporting back up our story from this week. www.inc.com/sam-blum/mas...

Glad to see more reporting back up our story from this week. www.inc.com/sam-blum/mas...

Laying off the tech reporter who was our smartest chronicler of internet culture and is brilliant on TikTok herself is one of the many, many decisions taken by Washington Post leadership this week that I will never understand. Follow Tatum on both TikTok and now Substack, she is the best!

NEW: Day One Ventures founder Masha Bucher managed to amass a formidable portfolio despite widely known past ties to the Russian government. She introduced founders to Epstein in 2017 & 18. Just last week week she announced an investment in Sam Altman's Merge Labs www.inc.com/sam-blum/mas...

I get some weird pitches

Counterpoint: No we are not

I talked with the owner of Modern Times, one of my favorite spots in Minneapolis, about making the entire menu free for everyone (except ICE) until ICE leaves the city.

New reporting from Forbes confirms Bucher's role as a matchmaker between Jeffrey Epstein and tech founders. Their report says at least nine startup founders were connected to Epstein through Bucher. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

Zohran's reaction to Polymarket's "free NYC grocery store" marketing stunt.

Unbelievable

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis, "who has already earned a reputation for showing up late to work when he showed up at all, did not join the Zoom" about the staggering cuts.

NEW: Day One Ventures founder Masha Bucher managed to amass a formidable portfolio despite widely known past ties to the Russian government. She introduced founders to Epstein in 2017 & 18. Just last week week she announced an investment in Sam Altman's Merge Labs www.inc.com/sam-blum/mas...

Anyone who says "go independent" doesn't understand that it won't work for 99.9 percent of journalists.

never been a better time to check out r/AskHistorians: 2006 just dropped!

NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge futurism.com/future-socie...

Yep, it's real, the funniest woman alive, Catherine O'Hara, passed away today. www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...

Not fun: Shoveling ice to liberate your car from the arctic chill so you can take your pregnant wife to the hospital when she goes into labor at any moment.

New video up on @inc.com about my investigation into fraudulent LLCs and how one woman behind so many of them reveals much about the state of business scams in the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrYa...

Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

New video up on @inc.com about my investigation into fraudulent LLCs and how one woman behind so many of them reveals much about the state of business scams in the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrYa...

Grindcore is the new hustle culture

I'd like to talk to people on the financing side of the data center buildout, esp people at sov wealth and PE funds and anyone dealing with new esoteric instruments or forms of financing. I want to learn what all this looks like from your end. Glad to talk on background. Signal: jacobsilverman.99

NEW: I wrote about the popularity of testosterone, from the manosphere hucksters and influencers who peddle it online, to its real health applications as telehealth giants begin to offer it to patients this year. Gift link: www.inc.com/sam-blum/tes...

Understand that there are more important things afoot but the podcast bros have gender affirming care now, and I wrote about it: www.inc.com/sam-blum/tes...

#Journorequest: I'm looking to speak to women who use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for health questions and guidance. If you're open to chatting, please send me a message or email. Thank you! [email protected] 🧪🧠💬

Bari Weiss' idea of a humble startup that came from nothing got millions of VC funding from Marc Andreessen and Howard Shultz.