Tim Balk

I want to report a suspicious man in the park.

NEWS w/ @DevlinBarrett: F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/…

New York Survived Its 1975 Crisis. Will Trump Push It Back to the Brink? nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyr… via @TimBalk

Mamdani Reflects on 9/11 as He Vies to Be New York’s First Muslim Mayor: nytimes.com/2025/09/10/nyr…

Nearly $10 million in contraceptives were stranded in a Belgium warehouse when USAID shut down. Rather than donate or sell, the U.S. made plans to burn them. But now, nobody can even tell us where they are. w/@snolen @aurelienbrd nytimes.com/2025/08/07/wor…

Line to get into the Iowa State Capitol. There is a public hearing on the bill to remove gender identity as a protected class from the Iowa Civil Rights Act at 9:30, and floor debate is expected later today. Info on the bill from earlier this week: iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/02/25/bil…

Trump's aid freeze has closed two-thirds of the soup kitchens that feed 800,000 people in Sudan's war-torn capital. Story with @suilee and @farnazfassihi nytimes.com/2025/01/31/wor…

It wasn’t just that the place was in flames. It was that it seemed to be in flames everywhere at once. nytimes.com/2025/01/08/us/…

My report from Port Sudan focuses on what could be the worst famine the world has seen in many decades: economist.com/briefing/2024/…

My NYT obit for Silvano 🙏 For four decades, Da Silvano was one of New York’s reigning glitzy downtown canteens. And Silvano Marchetto, a hard-living Tuscan who parked his Ferrari ornamentally outside his establishment, was its rustic host and mascot. nytimes.com/2024/06/22/obi…

Judge Denies Alec Baldwin’s Bid to Dismiss Manslaughter Indictment nytimes.com/2024/05/24/art…

Louis Gossett Jr., Brooklyn-born Oscar-winner, dies at 87 nydailynews.com/2024/03/29/lou… by @TimBalk

Rural district leaders from across New York worry that if the governor's budget plan is approved, it could mean they will be forced to cut staff members, after-school programming, course offerings and fine arts programs. @nytimes nytimes.com/2024/03/01/nyr…

Navalny's final months, in his own words. A story based on some of his letters from prison, shared with The Times. “If they’re told to feed you caviar tomorrow, they’ll feed you caviar. If they’re told to strangle you in your cell, they’ll strangle you.” nytimes.com/2024/02/19/wor…

Suozzi said he loves the snow. “It is snowing on Democrats and Republicans. And I’m very bipartisan.”

Suozzi also suggested he plans to run in November even if he loses to Mazi Pilip in today’s ultracompetitive special election. “I’m running,” he said. Regardless of what happens today? “It looks that way,” he told me.

It’s snowy and slushy in Long Island, and Democrats believe that is helping Tom Suozzi. He said turnout has been low, and that Republicans tend to vote in the morning. “Now, we need the Democrats to show up in the afternoon.”

⁩The American Museum of Natural History is closing 2 halls dedicated to Native American cultures as museums grapple with the new federal regulations requiring consent from tribes to exhibit or perform research on Indigenous holdings. W/ @ZacharyHSmall nytimes.com/2024/01/26/art…

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