halbfinger.bsky.social
@halbfinger.bsky.social
Politics editor at The New York Times.
Reposted
“This can’t happen again”

I wrote about a previously unreported effort to keep what is effectively the central nervous system of the Democratic Party afloat last year — and fears about the future of a data system owned by private equity.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
The Democratic Party Reconsiders a Huge, Vulnerable Database of Voter Information
The party’s storehouse of everything it knows about American voters required an extraordinary intervention to keep it running, people involved said. A meltdown could have crippled its campaigns nation...
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Great piece about people coming together in the face of trauma and tragedy.

@kenbensinger.bsky.social
@rmac.bsky.social
For the last week, @kenbensinger.bsky.social and I have been in Altadena, to report on the devastation. But we kept coming back to an Arco gas station, which a group of locals have turned into a beacon of hope with tacos, clothes and community. This is their story: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...
Tacos, Water and ‘Homies’: A Gas Station Becomes a Uniquely L.A. Relief Site
Out of desperation and a need for social bonding, volunteers have banded together to help Altadena residents.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
DNC chair race gets more interesting... Scooplet from shanegoldmacher.bsky.social and Reid Epstein
January 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM