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In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team

At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries.

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For @nysfocus.com, I wrote about the sharp rise in New York City’s most serious housing code violations over the past decade, and how the city has failed to enforce its own laws, according to city's own data and interviews with tenants and housing advocates.

New York Focus@nysfocus.com · last mo.

The number of health-threatening housing code violations in New York City has sharply increased in recent years, and a significant number of them are going unrepaired, according to a New York Focus analysis of city inspection data. Here's what we found.

For @nysfocus.com us.com, I wrote about the sharp rise in New York City’s most serious housing code violations over the past decade, and how the city has failed to enforce its own laws, according to city's own data and interviews with tenants and housing advocates.

New York Focus@nysfocus.com · last mo.

The number of health-threatening housing code violations in New York City has sharply increased in recent years, and a significant number of them are going unrepaired, according to a New York Focus analysis of city inspection data. Here's what we found.

As airbag thefts surged this year, the Chicago Police Department spent less time investigating them and solved almost no cases. My latest for @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org , with Zoe Singer and @sophiesherry.bsky.social.

1,200 crimes, 1 arrest: Chicago police fail to address boom in air bag thefts

A former high-ranking Chicago cop says the surge in thefts likely means criminals have noticed that police aren’t doing much to address the problem. An alderperson has now proposed a crackdown on the ...

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Late to this incredible @bostonglobe.com story. Using court records and mapping shuttle routes against census data, this investigation shows how New England casinos target Asian communities and engage in predatory pratices. apps.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/metr...

How casinos like Mohegan Sun, Foxwoods target Asian communities

More than 80 percent of those sued by Encore for gambling debts are people of Asian descent.

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If you see a photo online and you're not sure if it's real or not, here is a free website that lets you scan through fake images that were debunked, and it's updated daily! imagewhisperer.org/factcheck-db/

A year ago, I wrote about NYC's parking corruption using publicly available data and evidence. @nydailynews.com today reports an Adams admin official giving out NYPD placards like candy. No wonder parking agents, civilians employed by NYPD, rarely ticket these bogus permits. tinyurl.com/3mc9cpt3

Fascinating new research paper asks: why did Biden receive so little political credit for his enormous investments in manufacturing? Turns out people give all the credit to governors (ironically, in this case, mostly red-state governors who were hostile to the policy!).

Why Biden-era clean energy investment policies had limited political returns | PNAS

The Biden Administration enacted the largest federal policy framework to incentivize clean energy and decarbonization in U.S. history. We examine w...

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Here's a video about my recent investigation into more than two dozen accounts using AI-generated doctors and health professionals to push dubious advice and sell products on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube: indicator.media/p/ai-generat...

This investigation was a collaboration with @motherjones.com, @nashvillebanner.bsky.social, News Channel 5, Nashville Noticias, and the Institute for Public Service Reporting - Memphis You can find links to stories here + our methodology write-up: www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...

How We Unpacked Tennessee’s Cooperation with ICE

Combining bodycam footage, police reports, and more than a million ICE records, this is how we investigated Tennessee Highway Patrol's collaboration with ICE

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"Crying girls will make you rich." That's the actual pitch from a marketer selling packages of emotional videos that brands use to flood TikTok with undisclosed ads. I just published an investigation into industrial UGC campaigns. What I found is troubling. 🧵 indicator.media/p/crying-gir...

“Crying girls will make you rich”: How marketers trick users with mass-produced "organic" content

Indicator analyzed UGC campaigns that generated over 2 billion TikTok views and found rampant violations of disclosure rules.

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Since PlowNYC is currently offline, I decided to take matters into my own hands and built a map to track snow removal efforts by DSNY using the department’s extensive GPS data from its fleet of snow removal vehicles. You can find the tracker at kcinbk.github.io/SnowDay_NYC/

Clean energy went through a lot this year, but it still managed to dominate new power deployment in the U.S.

Chart: Clean energy remains dominant in the US — despite Trump

Trump spent much of 2025 boosting fossil fuels and blocking renewables, but 92% of new power additions through November were solar, wind, or batteries.

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For @nysfocus.bsky.social and @thecity.nyc , I took a deep-dive into NYC’s Department of Social Services. OT spending has soared while frontline positions processing SNAP and Cash Assistance applicants remain unfilled, impacting the city’s most vulnerable residents (with @reuvenblau.bsky.social)

The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · 8mo ago

With nearly 1,500 unfilled jobs and demand for public assistance at record highs, New York City’s Department of Social Services is leaning on mandatory overtime to keep up — and that’s before onerous new federal rules kick in. W/ NYSFocus.com www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/11/e...

You can actually see the changes—the removal of human causes of climate change—side-by-side on the Internet Archive. web.archive.org/web/diff/202...

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 8mo ago

EPA is wiping mentions of human-caused climate change from its website www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I was sent some screenshots of HTML sites around the 1994 election cycle, one of the really rare to find examples of websites playing a part in politics so early. I'll get them on the archive but now you get them too.

Refugees feeding refugees: Sudanese families fleeing violence find little aid at Chad border reut.rs/3M7Wvs9

Refugees feeding refugees: Sudanese families fleeing violence find little aid at Chad border

At a transit camp here on the Chad-Sudan border, Najwa Isa Adam, 32, hands out bowls of pasta and meat to orphaned Sudanese children from al-Fashir, the site of a recent violent takeover by paramilitary forces in Sudan.

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Made a precinct-level map on the results of the NYC six ballot measures. - A majority of voters in almost every single precinct on Staten Island voted against all of these proposals. - Affordable housing–related measures proved popular even in some affluent neighborhoods and also outer borough.

Not all misinformation requires sophisticated tech or AI. For @craigsilverman.bsky.social's @indicator.media, I deep-dived into these accounts generated millions of views—and potentially handsome profits—with a little clever editing and an understanding of how strong emotions drive clicks.

Craig Silverman@craigsilverman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We published an investigation from @kcinbk.bsky.social into YouTube vids that falsely claim to show police racially profiling and arresting a person that turns out to to be an FBI agent. They've earned over 300 million views. In response, YouTube banned 13 channels: indicator.media/p/youtube-co...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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I wrote about how foreign apparel sellers rushed to cash in on Charlie Kirk’s death. Within hours, these astroturf accounts started flooding Facebook and Instagram with merch ads. Some of these paid posts even claimed “100% of the profits” would go to his orgs and family. tinyurl.com/4x253yn7

Merch sellers cash in on Kirk’s killing with flood of social media ads

Foreign brands not linked to Kirk’s Turning Point USA sell patriotic gear with unclear promises to donate profits

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Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are walking and driving south to escape Israel's Gaza City offensive. https://wapo.st/4pwffkf

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

Israel’s minister of culture announced plans to cancel the funding for the country’s top film award ceremony after a 90-minute drama about a Palestinian boy won best feature on Tuesday night. nyti.ms/4mla5oe

Israel Says It Will Defund Film Awards After Palestinian Win

A drama about a Palestinian boy who sneaks into Israel won the top prize at Israel’s version of the Oscars. The country’s culture minister called the ceremony “shameful.”

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Conservative voices are now coalescing around the idea of “online radicalization,” claiming Kirk’s suspected shooter, a white, Christian male, was groomed into a violent leftist. Quite a surprising turn, given their past hostility to the concept rigorously researched by academics and journalists.

If the federal show of force in Washington has had a deterrent effect on crime, it appears to have deterred entirely normal aspects of city life, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

An AP investigation finds that Silicon Valley companies sold surveillance technology to Chinese police and security contractors, ignoring warnings that the tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities.

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

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When I reported for a leading Chinese-language newspaper in NYC years ago, I often had to explain: “No, I can’t take your red envelopes.” Even now, seeing them still give me anxiety. I wrote about my personal experience on my SubStack. kcinbk.substack.com/p/a-former-i...

A former insider on NYC's “Red Envelope Gate”

I had anxiety whenever I saw these "red envelopes."

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I started my Substack because… why not? For my first post, I wrote about how the NYC FARE Act — which bans mandatory broker fees for new tenants — has yet to trigger any significant rent hikes. tinyurl.com/4tfnbyfr

New York City's broker fee ban, explained in three charts.

It’s still very early, but only a small fraction of rental listings appear to have increased asking rent since the FARE Act went into effect.

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