Sam Wolfson
@samwolfson.bsky.social
features editor at The Guardian US, hiiii
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
an alternative headline @joolia.bsky.social suggested was I ram what I ram
I interviewed the farmer with a flock of gay sheep, found out why there are no current plans for a flock of lesbian sheep, and felt conflicted about biological essentialism.
Just not that into ewes: ‘gay sheep’ escape slaughter and take over a New York catwalk
Designer Michael Schmidt’s 36-piece collection was made from the wool of rams who have shown same-sex attraction
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December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
an alternative headline @joolia.bsky.social suggested was I ram what I ram
think about this every day www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKuA...
Robbie Williams - Chaise Longue (Wet Leg cover) in the Radio 1 Anthems Live Lounge
YouTube video by BBCRadio1VEVO
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November 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
think about this every day www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKuA...
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I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
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November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
mr goering some people say your behaviour is unbecoming but we’ve only seen you in clips
this is beyond a media rehab, it's the structural terraforming of a noxious sinkhole
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
mr goering some people say your behaviour is unbecoming but we’ve only seen you in clips
I really have to pay attention in meetings to know if we're talking about shawn fain, sinn fein or shon faye
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I really have to pay attention in meetings to know if we're talking about shawn fain, sinn fein or shon faye
Thank god for the wonderful @jonathanliew.bsky.social and this reasoned riposte to some of the cretinous, fact-free, violence baiting, far-right embracing discourse that has emerged on this issue in the last few days including in Parliament www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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October 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Thank god for the wonderful @jonathanliew.bsky.social and this reasoned riposte to some of the cretinous, fact-free, violence baiting, far-right embracing discourse that has emerged on this issue in the last few days including in Parliament www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
took a screengrab to show people just in case i ever make it into one of the better timelines
October 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
took a screengrab to show people just in case i ever make it into one of the better timelines
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I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.
"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.
Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."
"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.
Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."
‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity
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October 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.
"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.
Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."
"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.
Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."
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After the Turning Point USA CEO’s killing, Candace Owens and other far-right stars are trying to persuade listeners of unfounded theories about Israel and federal involvement.
Rightwing podcasters run rampant with Charlie Kirk conspiracies: ‘It’s craven opportunism’
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September 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
After the Turning Point USA CEO’s killing, Candace Owens and other far-right stars are trying to persuade listeners of unfounded theories about Israel and federal involvement.
listened to Candace Owens for a week and it wasn't fun
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Rightwing podcasters run rampant with Charlie Kirk conspiracies: ‘It’s craven opportunism’
After the Turning Point USA CEO’s killing, Candace Owens and other far-right stars are trying to persuade listeners of unfounded theories about Israel and federal involvement
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
listened to Candace Owens for a week and it wasn't fun
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"Who I am has been skewed so much..." incredible interview with Mahmoud Khalil www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’
His grandparents survived the Nakba and he fled Assad’s Syria. Khalil is no stranger to political persecution, but not even Trump’s crackdown can silence him
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September 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"Who I am has been skewed so much..." incredible interview with Mahmoud Khalil www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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This is a smart essay about the ways supposedly liberal media outlets mindlessly reify rightwing gender norms through bargain bin cultural commentary and people are getting mad because.... they didn't read it
Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal
Americans are fretting over a type of man who drinks matcha and expresses alternative masculinity – but the ‘latte liberal’ stereotype has existed for decades
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September 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is a smart essay about the ways supposedly liberal media outlets mindlessly reify rightwing gender norms through bargain bin cultural commentary and people are getting mad because.... they didn't read it
just filling in some forms with United Healthcare
July 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
just filling in some forms with United Healthcare
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It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
July 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
my spam botfarm texts know me better than some of my closest friends
July 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
my spam botfarm texts know me better than some of my closest friends
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So so weird. "Chart analysts say that 2025 has produced the fewest new hit songs in US history...of the top 10 most listened to songs so far this year in the US, only one was released in 2025: Ordinary by Alex Warren. All the others are tracks from 2024 and 2023"
The song of the summer is … nothing? Why 2025’s charts are so stale
Experts say this year has produced the fewest new hit songs in US history – and it might signal the end of a singular seasonal smash
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July 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
So so weird. "Chart analysts say that 2025 has produced the fewest new hit songs in US history...of the top 10 most listened to songs so far this year in the US, only one was released in 2025: Ordinary by Alex Warren. All the others are tracks from 2024 and 2023"
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Here we go again, night of the long huggers www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
Cuomo Enlists Bill Clinton as Part of Late-Stage Bid to Fend Off Mamdani
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June 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Here we go again, night of the long huggers www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
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The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.
June 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.
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Luring starving people out into the open with the promise of food and then gunning them down in cold blood. We have a word for this and we should start using it. The word is "evil".
Every day. Deliberate massacres of unarmed, starving civilians. The world does nothing. A shame on all of us.
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Dozens killed by Israeli fire near Gaza aid sites, Hamas-run ministry says
The UN human rights chief said Israel's
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June 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Luring starving people out into the open with the promise of food and then gunning them down in cold blood. We have a word for this and we should start using it. The word is "evil".
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I said it before and I’ll say it again. We are in a fight for the integrity of our constitution and protection of our democracy.
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‘History will judge us as cowards or heroes’: Ras Baraka, the mayor arrested by Ice, won’t be intimidated | New Jersey | The Guardian
The politician, who’s been labeled ‘too progressive, too Black’ in the race for New Jersey governor, reflects on Trump, immigration and the power of poetry
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June 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I said it before and I’ll say it again. We are in a fight for the integrity of our constitution and protection of our democracy.
theguardian.com/us-n...
theguardian.com/us-n...
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What Hadley means here is that she is aware the genocide is making her previous wingnut enthusiasm for it look very bad, and she’d like it to wind down now while she can still retain 99% of her crankery archive.ph/E1vxH
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June 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
What Hadley means here is that she is aware the genocide is making her previous wingnut enthusiasm for it look very bad, and she’d like it to wind down now while she can still retain 99% of her crankery archive.ph/E1vxH