‘A question for luxury brands and their shareholders now is whether handbags are more like expensive property or pineapples.’ Perhaps they’re just accessories. wsj.com/business/retail/is-t…

‘Mr. Sanders’s rise is connected to Mr. Trump’s. Their power rises and falls together.’ So true wsj.com/opinion/free-express…

A run on the Bank of Platner fromaharrop.substack.com/p/p…

This NYT line is ridiculous. Yes, Weiss was an opinion writer. But she also was founder & editor of a media corp that had over 1M subscribers, a non-trivial portion of which are paid, that published plenty of investigative work. NYT deliberately used the least salient descriptor.

World Cup price gouging is whose problem? open.substack.com/pub/fromah…

This is hysterical. Listen to Bernie Sanders' answer in 2019 when asked on Vermont Public Radio why voters should choose him (a white man, 77 years old at the time) as opposed to choosing a diverse candidate such as a person of color. DEI for thee but not for me. 🤣

The Platners are in therapy. They really need it. And so do the Democrats who didn't vet them. open.substack.com/pub/fromah…

Sonny Rollins knew not to die young fromaharrop.substack.com/pub…

Who is electing our child mayors? Child voters fromaharrop.substack.com/p/c…

Nick Kristof's Israel abuse claims spark civil war at New York Times: 'I'm sick of being embarrassed' trib.al/yegEVU1

Allahu Akbar, one and all. It’s been a big night for Green and independent candidates standing in the Gaza – sorry, British – local elections. While Reform has much to celebrate in gaining ground across the country, so too, it seems, do the people of Palestine, who now find themselves represented in town hall decision-making about bin collections and potholes nationwide. As if they hadn’t suffered enough, eh? Successful pro-Palestine candidates have wasted no time taking to social media to express their pride at winning swathes of British voters. ✍️ Steerpike Article | spectator.com/article/watch-…

So much for the far left. Starmer is facing a crushing set of election results, after Labour suffered heavy losses in English local council polls and devolved ballots in Scotland and Wales.

Trump's ballroom would be bigger than the Gallery of Battles at Versailles.

BIg Tech's ugly data centers finally meet the opposition. fromaharrop.substack.com/p/b…

Big Tech's ugly data centers finally meet the opposition open.substack.com/pub/fromah…

News Flash for Mamdani: Bernie Sanders hasn't been a New Yorker for six decades. creators.com/read/froma-harr…

Does social media really addict us? open.substack.com/pub/fromah…

I can't believe the number of errors in a single essay. 1. Boston does not have city-wide free buses. It has three lines for which service has deteriorated. It was only possible because of Covid stimulus funding which will run out next month. 2. Kansas City's free busing program ended last year. It had become a homeless shelter and crime on passengers & vandalism went up. Neither are a good comp for the 440 million daily bus riders of NYC. 3. NYC's pilot program - limited to five bus lines, none in central Manhattan - saw ZERO increase in new ridership despite Almanza's claim that it incentivized car-owners to take the bus. According to the MTA, the program cost $16.5 million and "service performance had mixed results." 4. Almanza cites Washington State from 1994 to prove that free busing "will cost nothing." That limited program - which was only recommended for small transit areas - ended in 2012 after losing an annual $2.2 million. Mamdani's free bus plan will cost upwards of $700 million. 5. There is obvious conflation between turnstile hopping and bus fare evasion. Almanza says that prosecutors spend too much on fare evasions and therefore, making buses free will free up their time in effect. But fare evasion on buses is inconsistent and mostly enforced with a civil fine. 6. She says "precious resources had been spent arresting... all for a few dollars." Yes, one fare evader is a few dollars, many fare evaders lost the city $1 billion in 2024. 7. Almanza cites a case from Sept. 2024 where "officers drew their guns to shoot a fare beater." She fails to mention that the officers were actually pursuing a man with a knife and the cops asked him to drop the knife 30 times before he was shot. 8. Almanza cites the incorrect statistic that assaults on drivers decreased by 39% on free buses. First, in Kansas City they while assaults were down on drivers they were up on everyone else riding the bus. But two, that percentage comes from the extremely limited NYC pilot program and does not differentiate between verbal and physical assault. Moreover, according to the cross-tab data of the five lines, driver assaults did go up on the Q4 line, making any assertion of a definitive trend at least somewhat suspect. The increases and decreases are single digits of non-differentiated data in a limited and short experiment - nothing even remotely plausible to make a citywide claim based on. @nytimes @nytopinion