Ken Schwencke

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Senior editor of @propublica.org's data journalism teams. Super gay. Sometimes printmaker.

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Steven Roth, the chief executive of Vornado Realty Trust, used an earnings call on Tuesday to castigate Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York for his "tax-the-rich" rhetoric, which he likened to a racial slur or a pro-Palestinian rallying cry. "I must say that I consider the phrase 'tax the rich' - quote, tax the rich - when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs and even the phrase, 'from the river to the sea, !?" Mr. Roth said, referring to the pro-Palestinian phrase that some Jews believe amounts to a call for ethnic cleansing.
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More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits since July — the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin — as an underfunded state agency administered changes called for in President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The drop represents nearly 47% of the state's participants in the program better known as food stamps and includes about 180,000 children, according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security, which administers the program.
NYT screenshot: "Just outside the hall, 20-somethings in rumpled suits were gathered in clusters, debating the merits of a ground invasion in Iran, the conservative backlash against those who were “J-pilled” (far-right slang for skepticism of Israeli influence), the backbreaking costs of American life, and what they saw as the slow demise of the Trump era."
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A weekly chart of Habeas cases, showing a steep and consistent rise.
A line chart going from Jan 2009 to Jan 2026 showing very few cases until Trump’s second term, where the line takes off nearly vertically, showing more than 6,600 cases in Jan 2026 alone.
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Screenshot: “Over the same period that Norton's decline became readily apparent, she started loaning significant amounts of money to her campaign for the first time in her political career. Between October 2023 and June 2025, according to a review of documents filed with the Federal Election Commission, shes given her campaign $110,000. The campaign is essentially out of donors and cash on hand and is regularly paying only two people: Pelt and a man named Jeremiah Pope, an adviser for the campaign since 2015. (He did not respond to multiple requests for comment.) Pelt has apparently assumed some degree of oversight regarding Norton's private affairs. When Norton was scammed at her home in October, the ensuing police report described a "caretaker/power of attorney" — Pelt, according to NBC4 Washington — as the person who headed to the residence and alerted police after discovering the scammers by remotely accessing a security camera.”
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After four months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza's few remaining hospitals now have wards for the growing number of malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Doctors are famished to the point that they have dizzy spells as they make their rounds, medics say, and the journalists documenting their caseloads are often too weak to even walk to the clinics.
Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. Users who encountered an AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link in 8% of all visits. Those who did not encounter an AI summary clicked on a search result nearly twice as often (15% of visits).
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“In March, one of the company's tent complexes in El Paso, Texas, was handed over to ICE, CBP and ICE spokespeople said. In an unusual move, the Trump administration tapped funds from the Department of Defense to pay Deployed for the facility, citing the president's declaration of an emergency at the southern border, a DOD spokesperson said. The nearly $140 million contract wasn't posted publicly and was given to Deployed as the "incumbent contractor," the spokesperson said, without further explaining why ICE would use military funds. ICE said it started transferring detainees to the site - which currently has the capacity to house 1,000 adults - on March 10.”
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