Sunrise Movement
How the Left Organized the Delaney Hall Siege
The Newark detention center protests weren't spontaneous. They were orchestrated by a national apparatus controlled by institutions and megadonors. Here's how it works.
Gene Goodwin
Breaking News You Can Use
NYC
🏀Let's Hope We Don't Burn the City Down Tonight
Twenty thousand cops. Fifty thousand people. One parade route. A city government afraid of what happens when New York feels good about something for the first time in years.
SpaceX
The Welders Got Rich. The Senators Got Loud.
SpaceX turned cafeteria workers and welders into millionaires on Friday. Within hours, the people who never built anything demanded a cut. Juan Hernandez learned to weld for the paycheck. In 2015 a friend mentioned a contractor job at a rocket company he had never heard of, paying $28 an hour.
NYC Politics
The Shabbat That Wasn't
"A $5,000-a-head dinner organized by Climate Defiance brought together Linda Sarsour, Brad Lander, Tiffany Cabán, and Abby Stein. Jewish community voices say it was institutional capture dressed in religious language.
Anthropic
What Was on Page 13?
Anthropic built a frontier model that quietly weakened its own answers for the people it suspected of competing with it. The instruction was disclosed. It was just disclosed where no one would look.
DSA
How to Win an Election Five Days After You Lost It
The DSA published its ballot collection playbook in May 2022. Last week in Los Angeles, it flipped a mayoral primary exactly as designed. New York is next on the roadmap.
Undocumented Minors
The kids were here the whole time
DHS says it has located 146,000 of the 450,000 migrant children who vanished from federal view under the Biden administration. The largest concentrations are turning up in sanctuary cities, New York among them. The paper trail was sitting in an Inspector General report the whole time.
NYC-DSA
The Vanguard Throws a Party
At NYC-DSA's "A City to Win" rally, Hasan Piker told the room they were the vanguard of a national struggle and that the moment to seize power was now. Eleven days before the June 23 primary, with nine races on the ballot in deep-blue districts, nobody there was treating it as a metaphor.
OME
DSA in New York Built a $53 Million Propaganda Shop with Your Money.
Mamdani put his DSA field operation on the city payroll, gave it the official channels to every community's press and clergy, and aimed it at June 23. The receipts are public.
NYC-DSA
The DSA Built a Security Force. It Was Born in New York.
The Red Rabbits Security Commission trains cadres for a "national uprising against federal agents." The model was incubated in NYC-DSA, the same chapter that now co-governs the city. And the whole operation runs on the tax code.
Nate Friedman
The Man Who Stopped the Interview
At a Palestine rally in Manhattan, a protester shut down a street interview. Nate Friedman's new investigation says he's a salaried node in Neville Roy Singham's media and protest machine, operating out of the same building as the People's Forum.
DSA
The Power of the Purse: Mamdani's Budget Chief Reports to the DSA
NYC's budget director briefed dues-paying DSA members behind closed doors on how he closed a $12B gap. The briefing isn't the scandal. The co-governance system it reveals is.