alex sammon
@alex_sammon
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On July 22 at @mcnallyjackson, on the ten year anniversary of Barbarian Days, the legend Bill Finnegan and I are gonna talk surfing, adventure/travel writing, and some other stuff. Should be cool—no kooks allowed. Link for tickets below. Come!
the inimitable @dankois with an all-timer today in @slate, about environmental radicalism and so much more. slate.com/news-and-polit…
Tonight!
On July 22 at @mcnallyjackson, on the ten year anniversary of Barbarian Days, the legend Bill Finnegan and I are gonna talk surfing, adventure/travel writing, and some other stuff. Should be cool—no kooks allowed. Link for tickets below. Come!
"It was not ICE, or Adams, or conservative media outrage that got the migrants kicked out of the Roosevelt in the end. It was an expiring lease, the developer class, and the world’s foremost international financial organization." 💔
What really happened inside 45 E 45th st? The real story—of how alt conservative media, a corruption administration, Trump, and global financial firms conspired against the city's public servants and the poorest people in America—will fill you with rage. slate.com/news-and-polit…
Another banger from @alex_sammon. Got me thinking about how the Overton window on immigration has shifted so far right that the left feels like it has to apologize for projects that prove local governments can treat large influxes of migrants with dignity
What really happened inside 45 E 45th st? The real story—of how alt conservative media, a corruption administration, Trump, and global financial firms conspired against the city's public servants and the poorest people in America—will fill you with rage. slate.com/news-and-polit…
check out my review of 'death takes me' by Cristina Rivera Garza, one of the most important living writers today imo thenation.com/article/cultur…
As we were covering this story, my team & I were attacked by Israeli settlers. The back window of our vehicle was smashed, but we managed to escape unharmed. This is just a sliver of the reality many Palestinians face in the West Bank amid rising settler violence.
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein hired private investigators to intimidate the FBI agents investigating him
Happy pub day to the one and only @aymanndotcom—read this excerpt today in @slate, buy the book, be dazzled by his charms tonight at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. slate.com/life/2025/07/p…
James Elder, @UNICEF spokesperson, on what he saw in Gaza
In April, I went to Los Angeles to talk to Corbin (@spookyblack) about his new album, and what its like to be one of the most influential but lesser known artists of the last decade, for @RollingStone rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
The Roosevelt Hotel closed last week to new arrivals. But many people, often with young children, continue to arrive each day seeking shelter. “They look lost. They all got the same scared look,” a hotel worker told me on Wednesday. thecity.nyc/2025/07/02/roo… via @THECITYNY
It, on average, takes 25 years to fix a bad bill. This bill destroys higher education and will for generations. Our public health and healthcare infrastructure are GONE. Generations will feel the burden of this. The entire country has changed.
This is game over. Across multiple issue areas. Just a complete loss across the board. A loss for America, a loss for almost every American, egregious policies set in stone that will take decades to reverse if they can ever be reversed at all.
This was really good
I came back with a long piece about failure, a giant landfill, American empire, ecoterrorism, the military, Biden, George W Bush, George W Trump, civilian casualties, and the killing fields of the American roadway. And cool solid guy named Joe. slate.com/business/2025/…
This passed by one vote and excluding the vacant seats the one absence was Latimer; safe to say Bowman wouldn’t have missed this vote🤷🏼♂️
LOGGED NEW HOUSE VOTE (186) H RES 566 clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.a…
Reading this was excruciatingly nauseating. The author has a talent for gut punching. I don't say this derisively.