Michael Gold
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politics reporter at @nytimes. i'm the rhoda. 🏳️🌈.
New York, NY
Joined April 2008
“I vow to the LGBTQ community that this would never happen in the NYPD in 2019”. — the police commissioner, apologizing for Stonewall last year.
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as opposed to the NYC we have now, which smells like potpourri and is full of emotionally stable geniuses
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UPDATE: George Santos's appeal was denied. The names of the people who guaranteed his $500,000 bail bond will be unsealed on Thursday at noon, per judge's order.
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The measles outbreak is so bad that a New York county stopped unvaccinated kids from going to school. Parents sued to get their kids back in class. A judge denied the request.
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we’re all mocking Dolly Parton’s commercial but where do you think the money for your Moderna vaccine comes from.
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you are stuck at home, America. now is the perfect time to fall in love with @LittleMix, get on it.
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The NYPD cop who fought 5 men in that viral video:.- had no idea the video went viral.- never thought about using his gun.- is an Army vet who said that helped him.- was detained at JFK in the early days of the Trump administration.
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Nancy Marks just pleaded guilty. Among things prosecutors are saying is that $500,000 loan Santos gave his own campaign was false. They say Santos (unnamed) and Marks agreed to make the loan up so they could meet fundraising benchmarks for a national political party’s program.
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cannabis has been legal in New York for a week.
Breaking News: Evidence is mounting that a tiny subatomic particle is being influenced by forms of matter and energy that are not yet known to science but which may nevertheless affect the nature and evolution of the universe.
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accidental stepped on a cicada . imagine surviving 17 years to see your life ended by a millennial guzzling iced coffee.
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The MTA's acting CEO on that NYPD subway video:. “Frankly, we’re trying to bring riders back to the system. I don’t want to see them being pushed out … by people who are not complying with the rules.” .
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SO THEN WHEN HE WAS BUILDING THE VAN WYCK EXPRESSWAY HE COULD HAVE PUT A SUBWAY LINE IN THE CENTER MEDIAN BUT HE DIDN’T AND THAT’S WHY YOU CAN’T TAKE THE TRAIN TO LAGUARDIA, BUT YOU REALLY HAVE TO READ THE WHOLE BOOK TO UNDERSTAND IT
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Trump is kicking off Monday morning with a rally at an arena in Raleigh. It’s far from a full house, and no line outside.
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shoutout to doctors and nurses. who are watching the rest of us freak out about not going to bars or broadway. while they go to work to help fight coronavirus every day.
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Man, in misguided flirting attempt: "Are those books?". Woman, obviously carrying 4 books: "No.". Then she stared him down, and I died.
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this mannequin trying to sell rock climbing gear is also how Brooklyn gays dress at parties
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“what do you do with a BA in English?”. be LGBTQ and tweet, apparently.
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can safely say I did not think we would be here when our first story published a month ago
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i wrote about hundreds of people dying every day for 3 months straight. and today i got a vaccine shot and it’s really hard not to be emotional about that???.
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NEW: New York will allow anyone over the age of 60 to get the Covid-19 vaccine starting tomorrow, Gov. Cuomo says. Current age rule is 65+.
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Ever applied for a job and panicked trying to remember the last time you smoked weed? . If you live in NYC, I've got some good news:
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The man Eric Adams put in charge of NYC's jails fired the department's top internal investigator. The investigator says he asked her to "get rid of" 2,000 discipline cases against corrections officers, and she resisted.
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Update: Here's a statement from Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers on the medical examiner's autopsy results.
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Tired: HOLLA🎄D TONNEL. Wired: HOLL🎄ND TUNNEL. The people have spoken. The tree is moving, and the second wreath has got to go.
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ok, but what's your LEAST FAVORITE subway station. i have a top 5.
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that paywall is how our photographers get paid to take these "stunning photos" but go on.
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HOLLA🎄D TONNEL?.HOLL🎄ND TONNEL?.HOLL🎄ND TUNNEL?.HOLL🎄ND🎄TONNEL?. You decide!.
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can’t wait for White Lotus to reveal that Belinda was the mastermind behind framing Tanya McQuoid.
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A New York teacher was fired for after a student found her topless selfie. She plans to sue, raising the same gender discrimination issues as the #FreeTheNipple campaign.
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Trump, at the Black Conservative Federation gala: “The lights are so bright in my eyes and I can't see too many people out there. But I can only see the Black ones, I can't see any white ones. That’s how far I’ve come.”.
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NEW: George Santos admitted on Monday that he did not graduate from college, and that he never worked for Citigroup or Goldman Sachs. Santos gave interviews to @nypost and @77WABCradio. He has not responded to repeated questions from The Times.
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Colton coming out reveals the way The Bachelor furiously reinforces heteronormativity and traditional gender roles. but now I would like to hear from Cassie about that restraining order.
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NEWS: Starting tomorrow, New York will open vaccines to people who are 50+, Gov. Cuomo says.
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i mean, i got into my university the old-fashioned way: centuries of white privilege making it way easier for me to do everything i needed to get into college.
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"New Yorkers are permitted to smoke cannabis in public wherever smoking tobacco is allowed"
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as we waited for Trump in Harlem, a woman passed by the pack of journalists, campaign staffers and law enforcement and shouted “what are all these unseasoned French fries doing in my neighborhood”. honestly she cleared.
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“He was gay when he married a woman and founded what would become one of the nation’s most expansive conversion therapy ministries. He was gay when thousands of people just like him sought his organization’s counsel.”.
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happy Pride to gays who see their nemesis within minutes of arriving at the function.
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news stories about gays from the 60s do not usually hold up. but this paragraph sure as hell does
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@DaveHolmes and it was only 17 years before that when the court upheld a sodomy law in Bowers.
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A reminder that this debate is being held near a college campus. This is near where the media was told to have rideshare drop them off
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for those asking why NYC needs its own vaccine pass, here's one reason. you cannot get the Excelsior Pass if you were vaccinated outside New York State.
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George Santos said his home was vandalized in January 2021, after he and his husband returned from a New Year’s Eve gala at Mar-a-Lago. His landlord in Whitestone, who was in the basement apartment at the time, said she couldn’t recall anything like that.
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"Ain't about how fast I get there,.ain't about what's waiting on the other side,.it's the climb". — This raccoon, probably.
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sometimes you're googling OJ Simpson and you come across a truly terrible lede in the NYT. it's really really awful
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The FBI had an outspoken gay Jewish writer deported, in part over her book about lesbians. She eventually ended up at Auschwitz, where she died.
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people who fled NYC are now returning and texting me story ideas that we all wrote months ago. if you wondered what stage of the pandemic we're in.
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me, trying to convince my editors to send me to Trinidad so i can find Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend
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Two swastikas and an anti-Semitic slur were spray-painted at a Jewish professor's office at Columbia. It's not the first time it has happened to her.
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Trump often brags about his ability to give long rally speechs without teleprompters. But the teleprompter in Las Vegas seems to be down — he's complained about it a few times — and he has largely retreated to familiar riffs and stories.
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In George Santos’s campaign filings, The Times found $365,399 in unexplained spending, with no record of where it went or why. That’s nearly 12% of the Santos campaign’s expenses, far exceeding the norm. @gr_ashford, @AlexandraBerzon, @kenbensinger report.
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so. the Hallmark Hanukkah movie:. - involves secret Jewish ancestry.- Christina is the least Jewish name.- and it premieres after Hanukkah ends
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well, Uber just sent me an email urging me to speak out against congestion pricing, saying "riders like you, coming in from 'transit deserts' with few public transit options, will have to pay increased fees". I definitely do not live in a transit desert.
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Donald Trump, on Fox Radio says:. -Vance's beard is not a problem ("He looks like a young Abraham Lincoln").-Burgum signing strict abortion ban a a"little bit of an issue".-Rubio "great" at rally, but both of them living in FL "makes it more complicated" but is "easily fixed".
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Prosecutors said that Santos and Marks agreed to file a list of false donors and reported the $500,000 loan in order to meet fundraising benchmarks set by a national political party. Prosecutors said they did this to get financial and logistical support for Santos's campaign.
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New York City will now pay people $100 when they get their first dose of a Covid vaccine at a city-run vaccine site, de Blasio says.
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Trump just called into his North Carolina rally to cancel as thunderstorms appear to be moving through the area. He promises a rain check.
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New York's lawmakers just voted to eliminate the "gay panic" and "transgender panic" defense:
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my least fav subway stations:. 1. the Union Square 4/5/6 (my nightmare).2. Lexington Avenue–53rd Street (traumatic).3. the 6th Av stop on the L (why?).
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Maya Wiley said she was offered the chance to campaign with Yang and Garcia but “couldn’t do it” after Yang’s comments on the mentally ill at the debate.
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good morning to the Queer Youth of America, who set me on fire this morning
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the thing to remember as the reactions roll in to this press conference is that this press conference did not just fall out of a coconut tree, it exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it.
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She wanted to be the first to get the vaccine to "inspire people who look like me, who are skeptical in general about taking vaccines.”
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lolol 10 years ago today i got my first job in journalism, as a web producer on the sports desk for making basically minimum wage . and i just had an article above-the-fold on the front page of the New York Times. and honestly I’m gonna own that shit.
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a little news:. i’m hitting the campaign trail and covering the 2024 race as a campaign correspondent.
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today i learned the NYPD's Hate Crimes Dashboard has a hate crimes word cloud
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Kate Smith got pulled from Yankees games over racist song lyrics. The Flyers yanked her statue. But a Jersey Shore town says it won't stop playing her "God Bless America" every day.
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NEWS: New York will vaccinate people 30+ starting tomorrow. New York will vaccinate all adults starting April 6.
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This was by far the wildest Trump speech I've ever covered. Normally, he has more command of the room. But there are warring factions in the crowd, and many of his usual applause and laugh lines are really falling flat as we go through cycles of cheers, boos and various chants.
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i want an entire feature on Succession’s art department having to make the perfectly ambiguous underline/strikeout combo . like how many versions of that black line did they go through.
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