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May 24, 2024 8 tweets 3 min read
NEW: We tracked down the source of the “unified Reich” phrase in the now deleted Trump video. All signs point to it's inclusion being an oversight, not a fascist dog whistle.

It comes from a 30 year-old Turkish graphic designer who in 2023 randomly copy and pasted it as placeholder text for a vintage video template he put up for sale.

cnn.com/2024/05/24/med…Image Enes Şimşek lives outside Istanbul, has never been to America, and told me he doesn’t follow either American or Turkish politics.

He makes money selling motion graphics templates online. The one that ended up in the Trump video sells for $21. He told me he’s sold 16 of them. Image
Feb 2, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
The bottom is falling out Diamond hands
Feb 1, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
Reporting on this story, it is clear that the 2008 financial crisis — no one going to jail for breaking the global economy, the rich getting richer — has been the defining event in shaping young people's cynicism about the financial world The tone on WSB has dramatically evolved over the last week.

It was always about making money (which is still true) but now there is this sense of moral righteousness, that holding on to GME is revenge for 2008 Image
Jan 29, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
I spent months talking with people on Wallstreetbets. Then this week happened This week has made a lot of WSBers rich, but the site didn’t start this week, and many people have gotten wrecked trying to chase the crazy gains that make it to r/all
Jun 21, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
I spent this Father’s Day weekend with LoLisa, Roz and Vallorie Miller. The daughters of Arthur Miller.

Arthur Miller was killed by the NYPD in a chokehold in 1978 on Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights

cnn.com/2020/06/21/us/… Arthur was a fascinating man.

He owned a construction business, played the Congas, launched a neighborhood association, won a grant to pay for a neighborhood watch.

“This was a guy who had never should have been attacked by the police,” said one Crown Heights resident.