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NYC City Hall reporter for @J_Insider. Awards for investigative journalism from @SABEW and @TheNJSPJ. Try me: will(a)jewishinsider(.)com/(347) 820-2908
Jul 12, 2025 4 tweets 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: the DSA activist spearheading 'Jews for Zohran' is the niece of Shanghai-based Maoist mogul Neville Roy Singham—and daughter of an exec from the tech firm that built Singham's fortune, which he's used to push pro-China, pro-Iran, pro-Russia narratives across the globe Image Her mom holds a chair at state-run East China Normal University, and has promoted the work of the country's propaganda-spreading 'Confucius Institutes' in Africa.
Read it all here:
nypost.com/2025/07/12/us-…
Nov 6, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
When Andrew Cuomo decided to make infrastructure his brand, he’d do 5-10 news hits announcing the same project. Any funding allocation, any physical or bureaucratic progress, was an occasion for a press conference, w/construction workers and contractors and local pols It was maddening to cover as a reporter, b/c much of the time there was no actual news. It was just another opportunity for the governor to get on a dais at a worksite w/a bunch of guys in hardhats and Day-Glo vests and talk about how great the project was
crainsnewyork.com/article/201708…
Dec 28, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Politics is rife with mythologizing, misdirection, and all-around bullshit—and we should call it out whenever we see it.
But there’s a difference of scale between the typical self-serving distortions, evasions, and exaggerations and the whole-cloth fabrications Santos dealt in. Not all lies are equal. There’s a difference, for instance, between calling in sick from work on a nice day and submitting a fraudulent insurance claim.
Dec 29, 2021 11 tweets 6 min read
Since everybody else is doing it—some 2021 stories I'm especially proud of:
How ex-Sen. @KLoeffler's husband, owner of the @NYSE, leases a hangar to the federal gov't that the @USMarshalsHQ are almost certainly using for a domestic surveillance program
thedailybeast.com/loefflers-husb… How @AndrewCuomo helped an obscure Soviet-born fertilizer billionaire go from cutting deals with Putin cronies to becoming a New York healthcare magnate—and the people who had to live, and die, by those decisions in the worst days of the pandemic.
thedailybeast.com/this-fertilize…