Formerly @latimes, now writing a book on defense tech and editing @buffetmagazine
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Sam Dean 🦅 retweeted
One of the biggest signs of a vibe shift? Donations from ZIP code 22101, home to the CIA headquarters in Langley and defense contractors in McLean, were overwhelmingly Democratic in 2024.
They had a massive Republican shift this year.
reason.com/2026/11/05/langle…
Sam Dean 🦅 retweeted
You may remember Gary Michelson as the billionaire who (reportedly) complained to Patrick Soon-Shiong about an LA Times article about his dog, leading to a huge fight with executive editor Kevin Merida and then his resignation
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When you look under the hood, you see how *specific* the red-state Senate Dem energy proposals are. They all want to revive the solar and wind tax credits. They all want to make data centers pay full freight. Annie Andrews even endorses permitting reform at length:
Wow, TIL that Adam Hamilton had as a core part of his energy campaign platform... requiring competitive bidding for transmission projects rather than allowing allowing incumbent utilities to monopolize them(!?!?!) h/t @robinsonmeyer and @heatmap_news newsletter.
Sam Dean 🦅 retweeted
Would never have predicted that Catholics would swing hard against the party that spent the last year saying "the Pope should eat shit and die"
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In the wake of our investigation that spurred a bipartisan Senate letter to Google demanding answers about its AI tools at school, Google announced some new changes today to allow administrators more control over turning off AI for students. wsj.com/tech/ai/google-curbs…
My latest investigation: Inside Google's AI Push Into American Schools "It Slowed My Thinking Down." Students are becoming academically and emotionally dependent on AI, in large part thanks to Google's push in schools. Gift link: wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-ge…
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Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that opt out of A.I. for kids.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
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Some background on David Flippo's Air Force record for those not following:
-Falsely claimed to have served "in the desert" in 1991 but was actually in school
-Campaign falsely claimed he earned a Bronze Star with valor
-Was relieved of command in 2008
motherjones.com/politics/202…
Sam Dean 🦅 retweeted
Fun waking up today to learn that I'm the latest independent journalist whose reporting the New York Times has largely copied with no credit and no link.
NYT story on Disneyland's plans to convert Autopia to electric vehicles: nytimes.com/2026/11/02/clima… 🧵
Sam Dean 🦅 retweeted
INSIDE THE BILLIONAIRE BUNKER.
The inside story of how Silicon Valley raised $333 million to try and beat the California wealth tax.
Sergey Brin, John Doerr and Patrick Collison turned a billionaire club into political ad machine.
Featuring confidential memos and internal docs. With @eringriffith.
Sam Dean 🦅 retweeted
Believe it or not, I am aware of the fact that most people won't read a 16,000 word article about an actual blood-and-bullets war over water in the Rio Grande.
So we made a 30-minute film. The filmmakers at TM Studios did an incredible job:
youtube.com/watch?v=PBaMGnxt…
Sam Dean 🦅 retweeted
A few months ago, TikTok started showing me videos (which I'd always watch) of people taking apart old appliances, or stripping wires, & collecting copper to sell
I wrote about the big players in this world, how much they earn online + off, & why their videos resonate. See reply
Sam Dean 🦅 retweeted
I'd like to know a lot more about what happened here. publishersweekly.com/pw/by-t…
Sam Dean 🦅 retweeted
NEW —
The extraordinary story of how Mark Zuckerberg wheeled and dealed to get Meta’s board of directors to protect him from California’s wealth tax.
With @elitanjourno
nytimes.com/2026/10/21/techn…
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NEW — Top White House adviser and Airbnb cofounder @jgebbia just donated $8 million in support of California's voter ID ballot measure, per new filing.
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William T. Vollmann reacting the way all authors should when their editor tells them their work needs some pruning. sacbee.com/news/local/articl…
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Scenes from a month of reporting on celery. Proud to be semi viral as an indie journo w a story on Japanese celery growing wild in Venice Beach in the end times of the attention economy. descendants of original families and wild celery spottings in the comments
