WmFerguson
@WmFerguson
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Editor, Metropolitan section at The New York Times; former indie-rock extra; grew up in Pittsburgh.
Gowanus, Brooklyn
Joined August 2008
Speaker at Trump's MSG rally chokes up recalling how Trump's father paid to send him to private school in the 70s because Black children were being bused to integrate NYC public schools. This man is the same age as Kamala Harris, who was a Black child bused to school in Berkeley.
Ok, everyone wants to know about David Rem, billed for tonight's Trump MSG rally as "his childhood friend." Don't say I don't do anything for you guys. Here is Rem being interviewed by David Zere in May about how he went to Trump's school 17 years after Trump, and how after his
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After a bunch of online "experts" popped up to accuse the NYT of faking CT scans showing Gazan children shot in the head, the Times confirms that it has photo evidence corroborating the scans that is too horrific to make public. Hope all the people who boosted this lie are proud.
A statement from the editor of New York Times Opinion in response to criticism of a recent guest essay. https://t.co/fs3X3ivadq
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Elon, the Threadnought, anime trolls, the meaning of “shit”: It’s all in John Leland’s glorious Great Read today. A gift link: https://t.co/GMpPOp5LJO
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A litigation team built from the sharpest, funniest tweeters is suing Elon Musk.
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Fwiw, I have spoken to AG over the past year about this topic & this caricature is unrecognizable. I never usually comment on media stories but this irritated me bc it's such a bs mischaracterization of his views about the importance of serious longform presidential interviews.
"In Sulzberger’s view, according to two people familiar with his private comments on the subject, only an interview with a paper like the Times can verify that the 81-year-old Biden is still fit to hold the presidency."
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Now blocking around 500 Russian troll farm accounts/day. It's insane. And we're not even close to the November election yet.
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This just happened: A New York State judge has ordered Donald Trump to pay The New York Times $392,638.69 for legal fees connected to a frivolous lawsuit he brought against the paper, two of my colleagues and me.👍 https://t.co/17TJesOEn5
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New York Times lawyer David McCraw responds to a Cotton tale:
@SenTomCotton Deputy General Counsel for The New York Times David McCraw responded to Senator Cotton this morning.
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How is that not a red card for Badji? Elbow to the neck—eh, that’s a yellow. Exchanging shoves? No call probably or offsetting yellows. But throwing a straight punch? Wow. #RBNY
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Or are they
People on here really like it when there's two things that are different.
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Dozens and dozens. Almost all with (roughly) 16 followers and 22 following. Most joined in November 2022.
Anyone else seeing retweets and likes on old tweets, some going back years, from accounts you’ve never heard of? No common thread, no comments, just a lot of burbling activity.
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not saying it was a conscious strategy but perhaps apropos of the mayor taking lots of heat on his air quality emergency response - now there’s a lot of talk about the mayor-comptroller beef
Apropos of almost nothing, New York City Mayor Eric Adams mocked city Comptroller Brad Lander as “the loudest person in the city,” escalating tensions between the city’s top officials by claiming Lander isn’t fighting for federal funds for the city.
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I actually welcome the Wes Andersonification of the Metro Desk.
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#rbny Janssen should have been sent off for a red card at the end of the first half.
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NEW: Several unhoused men at a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter say they were recruited to portray vets displaced by migrants this week — and were coached on what to say by the CEO of the nonprofit behind the scheme. https://t.co/kr5yAtImj1
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Multiple men staying at a Poughkeepsie shelter said they were among a group of 15 recruited to portray homeless veterans displaced from hotels by migrants.
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A judge has tossed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against me, my colleagues and The New York Times AND Trump has been ordered to pay our legal fees. 💯 https://t.co/2FOErBWtRg via @thedailybeast
thedailybeast.com
Trump sued the paper, along with his niece Mary, alleging an “insidious plot” to grab his tax records and publish them in a Pulitzer-winning report.
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This is just how AI draws hands.
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