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I sent this email to @bariweiss four years ago, when I was 19 years old. It was the best decision I've ever made. I have never been more proud or grateful to be part of @TheFP.
Maya Sulkin
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Maya Sulkin
@SulkinMaya
- It's not just people in the dark corners of the internet justifying LePatner’s murder: it’s people like Thomas Gebremedhin, a high-ranking editor at @penguinrandom who reposted a story on Instagram which reads “Rest in piss."
- Gen-Z New Yorkers I’ve spoken to at bars wearing $500 jeans, sipping G&Ts—enjoying all the fruits capitalism has to bear—simply do not comprehend what their vote for Mamdani means and what his leadership will do to the places average NYers depend on. Ultimate privilege.
- Mohsen Mahdawi has been featured in New York Mag, 60 Minutes, NPR, CBS Morning and even penned an op-ed in The New York Times. But somehow, these reports missed some rather crucial details. Read my latest for @TheFP:
- Many were shocked to see university presidents fail to condemn calls for genocide. I was not. I left college early to work @TheFP bc I saw what was happening on campus—suppression of ideas, antisemitism, hypocrisy— so I decided to put my energy elsewhere. I’m so glad I did.Safety first on campus. Except for Jews. The Free Press's @SulkinMaya on the hypocrisy of the college presidents.
00:00 - “I’m a Jew and I’ve learned that that is enough to make me no longer worthy of their friendship or even basic kindness at school.” I read Harvards 322 page Antisemitism report so you don’t have to. Here’s what I learned:
- Scoop for @TheFP State Department employees told to review social media accounts of student visa applicants and search for signs that they “bear hostile attitudes toward our citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles.”
- “I don’t know this woman, so I have to view her as a symbol,” one told me to justify the murder of the Blackstone CEO. Wesley LePatner is not a symbol. No one is. Wesley LePatner was the best of us, and we’re all poorer for losing her. thefp.pub/4l73k98
- Three years ago, I wrote @bariweiss a cold email from my college library, pleading her to let me do anything for what was then Common Sense. I ended up managing our tips inbox and fell in love with our subscribers. They wrote intelligent and thoughtful notes—especially whenToday there are 630,591 Free Pressers. Next stop: one million. If you believe in independent, honest journalism help us get there: thefp.com/p/were-number-…
- A protester yelled at Alex Karp that “Palantir kills Palestinians with their AI.” When Karp said Palestinians were dying because of Hamas, she shouted back that he was getting wealthy from the killing. Karp, unblinking, responded: “Mostly terrorists, that’s true.”
- My latest for @TheFP, in which @LHSummers asks why it's taken Harvard "half as long as it took America to win World War II," to release it's long overdue Antisemitism report. Read the full story here:
- It’s hard to explain something that can put chicken nuggets in Walmart and kill Osama bin Laden. Palantir can do both. My latest in @TheFP:
- One plaintiff who was taken hostage on October 7 said his captors “bragged about having Hamas operatives on American university campuses” and “showed him Al-Jazeera stories and photographs of protests at Columbia University” organized by the various defendants. Read my latestComplaint alleges student organizations are providing ‘material support’ to terror groups. thefp.com/p/lawsuit-targ…
