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reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
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New: My dispatch from the hottest club in New York City on Friday — the Luigi Mangione hearing. Truly one of the most fascinating scenes I’ve ever witnessed. With illustrations from inside the courtroom by the great Molly Crabapple www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

really good reporting here.

New: My dispatch from the hottest club in New York City on Friday — the Luigi Mangione hearing. Truly one of the most fascinating scenes I’ve ever witnessed. With illustrations from inside the courtroom by the great Molly Crabapple www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

Someone plastered wanted posters featuring healthcare executives outside the Luigi Mangione court hearing yesterday

Good morning, I’m at the Luigi Mangione hearing today in Manhattan. There’s a truck with a digital billboard outside already. Protest planned for 1pm and hearing for 2:15pm. Will post updates!

Bannon, like Musk, did his shitty Nazi salute like a coward bc he wants to create plausible deniability. He wants it both ways: delusional right wingers insisting he didn’t do what we all just saw & literal Nazis celebrating it. It doesn’t even matter what he “actually” did, the result is the same.

oh but when i show up to CPAC tweaking out after siphoning off $15 billion in federal funds for my companies and ignoring my 900 children i'm a fuck up

lord knows I try

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Couch-fucking censored again… god forbid a man have hobbies

A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.

Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

On this day in 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066 which rounded up and imprisoned 125,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps. As a Japanese American, it has never felt more urgent to protect and share our history — especially as we risk repeating it. densho.org/catalyst/the...

Nice overview from @gabydvj.bsky.social about what all the anti-DEI stuff is really about. It's not only a dogwhistle for anyone who isn't a straight white Christian man — the anti-DEI crowd wants to undo the Civil Rights Movement. They want to codify eugenics. www.theverge.com/politics/613...

I’ve written about a lot of stuff but i’ve noticed people specifically melt down over tariffs and it’s so fascinating to me. Also we added a little icon next to people who made a new Verge account and 100% of the time they’re batshit insane.

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

Can someone tell me if the DEI programs at colleges for rural students from red districts are also ending? Quickly

you will never see me begging for a man to acknowledge me on x dot com i’ll tell you that much

Five people have been charged with second degree murder over the death of Sam Nordquist, 24, who police say was tortured for more than a month in a case that investigators described as “beyond depraved.”

Alamo Drafthouse workers in NYC are on strike! Every annoying person on Letterboxd better show their support. www.instagram.com/p/DGEtProNaZ...

If I had a nickel for every time that I found out I had a new half-sibling online, I'd have a few nickels- which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened SIX SEPARATE TIMES 💀

We need close friends only posts on here

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

Trump says his tariff policies will be a boon to US-based businesses. I spoke with a family-run leather goods company in Oregon that says their costs are already going up because of additional taxes on China — and they aren't optimistic that tariffs will help sales: www.theverge.com/news/613111/...

good morning everyone, it worked

The twin peaks police department hates to see him coming

Tomorrow i will wake up beautiful and stylish and no amount of stupid news can stop me….

The CFPB has returned $21 BILLION to consumers. It’s the reason your overdraft fees aren’t 7x the amount. They go after the shitty customer service you love to complain about online and get you refunds. Killing the agency is taking money out of your pocket.

Read Danielle Sassoon’s letter explaining how Eric Adams’s counsel offered a quid pro quo, Emil Bove told the other DOJ lawyers in the room not to take notes, and then made the deal. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

New from me: Some federal workers say they are moving all but the most innocuous conversations from platforms like Facebook or text messages to Signal, fearing tech companies will turn over their data to the Trump administration. www.theverge.com/news/610951/...

One of the richest families in Wisconsin is apparently lining its pockets by underpaying and endangering Mexican workers — while also railing against immigrant "invasions." The Ulines are Trump mega donors, obviously — nobody should believe these people for a second.

is there data anywhere measuring the number of food recalls over the years? it feels like this has been happening a lot recently 😵‍💫

We are extremely disappointed with SB Nation's decision to layoff staff at its popular YouTube hub Secret Base. Not only is this a blow to a talented team, it undercuts the creator-driven and subscription-driven models of sustainability that Vox Media has been trying to cultivate. We must do better.

The White House is beginning to populate waste.gov, adding a title ("Tracking government waste") and filling it with a generic WordPress theme extolling the virtues of a nonexistent architecture firm called "Études." (h/t @ajvicens.bsky.social)