Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

Incredibly important statement from my colleague Sara Qudah given the recent misinformation directed around CPJ.

X is serving as key opinion infrastructure for the organizers of anti-immigrant marches in South Africa right now, and big US handles are starting to get in on the action.

American courts have defined corruption out of legal existence, but perhaps not political salience. Amazing work from the Times.

MTA got the South Africa memo this morning

New from me: There is no alternative universe in which Trump’s disastrous war could have gone differently. open.substack.com/pub/bobbygho...

appreciate @stephanienolen.bsky.social and @carlzimmer.com ending the article with this important history on ebola drug access

NY1 is gonna make me CRY Cheryl Wills in Knicks orange and DEAN MEMINGER — son of a Knick!!!!!! — are on set. LONG LIVE LOCAL NEWS

An Indian energy powerhouse was being battered by Donald Trump's tariffs; a Texas refinery startup was struggling. All that changed when the scions of two dynasties danced in Jamnagar. Stunning @propublica.org reporting

80 something blocks from the secure perimeter, New York is having this night for itself, regardless.

Never been happier to be a transit reporter emeritus

Crowds spilling out of every bar into the warm air, fireworks greeting the buzzer. Just electric.

Apropos of nothing specific: In South Africa we were pretty depressed before the 2010 World Cup. The Great Recession had hit us hard, we had a corrupt, demagogic new President, and billions needed for other stuff had been spent on stadiums. FIFA was doing FIFA things. In the end, it was awesome.

So why can I buy droëwors from a man in a two-tone shirt on Instagram?

A thing people need to understand is that in corrupt, personalist systems, intelligence functions and personnel penetrate all of government. There is no place outside the wilderness of mirrors.

The Global Engagement Center is dead, long live whatever this is.

So many congratulations to everyone at the outlet previously known as @thecity.nyc. Same amazing reporters, crisp new name that won't them confused with a building inspector.

In 2016, at the dawn of our current era Georgian ultranationalists attacked a Vegan bar with sausages and a large helping of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. Texas pols and Fox News are really just continuing to recycle memes. www.codastory.com/polarization...

My colleagues @rosalindadams.bsky.social @haidee.bsky.social and I at @thecity.nyc spent the past several months tracking hundreds of ICE street arrests across the region through federal court records..🧵🧵 projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a....

Local strawberries are here, and the next gardening plants delivery is Wednesday, from Glover Perennials & Fresh Meadow Farm foodcoop.com/produce

Exhaustive, geologically layered account of why we can't have nice things.

If you like the cut of @codastory.com’s jib and wit of @thecontinent.org’s jibes, please consider adding their new team-up crossover newspaporial extravaganza to your diet. The Atlas is a vibe. And newspaporial is totally a legit word, thank you very much.

Snapshots from the pilot edition of the Atlas, a new newspaper from the makers of @codastory.com and @thecontinent.org. View the whole gorgeous thing, and sign up for delivery via Signal or WhatsApp www.theatlasnewspaper.org

If the open web is just the backend of a giant headless CMS with Gemini on the front, the incentives for putting stuff there are going to look very different, to the extent they survive at all.

Trump doesn't understand what power is, and Iran has exposed his core weakness. My latest, with assists from Thucydides and Arendt. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...

The Salt Lake Tribune dropped its paywall today, after converting to a nonprofit, patiently rebuilding its business. and fostering a collaborative network of Utah outlets. youtu.be/IPO8T6YXMQc?...

An extraordinary thing from @ellenbarry.bsky.social; memoir and inquiry, the neuroscience of this century and the history of the last, a quiet facing of things, hope. Give thanks that there are still spaces for work like this. (Gift link)

For the second year in a row, a nonprofit has won the local news Pulitzer. Amazing work from @ctmirror.org and @propublica.org. ctmirror.org/2026/05/04/c...

Many levels of great here

read the cornell’s sun original story which is fucking CRAZY

Streets are the real runtime of e-commerce, the public infrastructure at the base of the stack.

kudos to @rightscon.org for standing firm and not sacrificing principles or vulnerable participants. Zambian officials, evidently pressed by Beijing, caved and behaved like amateurs. it’s an example of how china seeks not only geopolitical power but wants to crush critical civil society.

"Fear ... can paralyze you, or it can point you to exactly what needs to be protected. Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit. But what we should all be afraid of is silence"

Not, disappointingly, a deep ayahuasca sesh. openai.com/index/where-...

Days before it was due to kick off, the Zambian government has cancelled RightsCon, the worlds largest gathering on tech and human rights. Astonishing self-injury. techpolicy.press/rightscon-ca...

Worth careful look at roster of editors signing Foreign Press Assoc letter, for opening Gaza to reporters. (Sample shown below.) US signers incl NYT WaPo AP NPR Bloomberg ABC MSNow CNN etc. Full list and letter here: foreignpressassociation.online/30-4-2026/ Some striking absences.

For @codastory.com, Isobel Cockerell typed two words into the search function of the Epstein files. What she found was a tangled skein of sex and eugenics stretching across tech and academia. As dark as it all has been, this is a new shade of bleak.

THE CITY exists to help neighbors & today we are here to help 2 particularly feckless New Yorkers, Colin Jost and Pete Davidson, get off a sinking ship. By sinking their ship. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/27/c...

In which three real estate agents, an economist who works for a London agency, and the president of REBNY are empaneled to provide impartial analysis on the potential impact of a pied-a-terre tax in New York. With supporting material from another London agency and the COO of Citadel.

The ski industry has invested billions in adapting to warmer winters through snowmaking, terrain expansion, regional diversification, but nothing can buffer the change this season signaled. Vail Resorts just announced ytd skier visits down 14.9% compared to 24/25, with revenue hits across the board

Hey White House press corps! Here’s someone you should invite to sit at your table Saturday night! A real journalist!

Today in "Polymarket is price discovery on the wisdom of crowds"

There is perhaps no format in popular entertainment less suited to a "celebration" of the press, or more apt to the political psychology of our moment than the manipulations and parlor tricks of mentalism. Expect heroic levels of abjection from the WHCA this weekend, and look away.

Today in "prediction markers capture the wisdom of crowds"

Today in Kabuki

That new tax on 2nd homes worth over $5m? Valuations could get complicated: "A condo at supertall 432 Park Ave. that sold for $26 million in 2021 has an “assessed value” of just $785,477 [its] “market value,” as calculated by the DOF, is just under $1.9 million".

In the guise of an AI powered truth tribunal, Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan are backing a new platform to supercharge attacks on the press and promote "justice" without judges or juries. Don't buy it: www.codastory.com/polarization...

When Peter Thiel helped kill Gawker, he said he wasn't going after journalism in general. Now, he's backing a company that aims to do just that. I wrote about his new plan to route around the 1st amendment with the help of ex-spies and an AI "tribunal".

This is the thread. And if you are government official contemplating baking Palantir software into your systems, consider, too, what the set of allegiances declared here might mean for your sovereignty, and the basic security of your data.