Michael Luo

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executive editor @newyorker; author of “Strangers in the Land,” from @doubledaybooks; formerly @nytimes investigations.

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1	Nov 20, '23	David Remnick sent a note to staff this morning abt the worrisome news on Mosab Abu Toa, the Palestinian poet and essayist from Gaza, whose work we have been publishing. We had los	273×	2M	2.7k	1.1k	586
2	Nov 5, '25	Next week’s @NewYorker cover	147×	1.1M	88k	5.7k	2.6k
3	Feb 23, '23	NEWS from @newyorker. Welcome @NifMuhammad!	131×	957k	1.1k	56	15
4	May 30, '24	Next week's @newyorker cover.	118×	864k	3.3k	890	131
5	Jan 14, '23	At middle school basketball game at the Barclays center, the girls behind us are cheering for the opposing team. One bursts out: “If we lose, I’m going to smack one of those Chines	109×	799k	3.8k	384	76
6	Aug 21, '23	It’s here. @RonanFarrow on @elonmusk. Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule	45.2×	331k	661	207	168
7	Nov 21, '23	Some promising news: Just spoke to editor David Remnick, who told me that, according to two Israeli military officials, the poet Mosab Abu Toha, who lives with his family in Gaza,	32.3×	236k	1.1k	271	38
8	Jan 22, '23	Monterey Park is a suburb of LA. I can't help but think about the Chinese massacre of 150 years ago, when 18 were killed. A lot has changed, of course. But much hasn't. We're still	24.8×	181k	1k	352	99
9	Jan 14, '23	They’re kids. Where is this coming from? Just shows how people who seem foreign, alien, different…are perceived in America. It’s embedded in our history.	15.2×	111k	1.5k	60	2
10	Jan 14, '23	Not unusual, of course, but talking to two other Asian American parents nearby…we talked about the heart-pounding. The fear.	15×	110k	1.3k	43	2
11	Oct 1, '18	New from ⁦@JaneMayerNYer⁩ ⁦@RonanFarrow⁩: several people who believe they have useful information for FBI have had trouble reaching agents.	14.5×	0	5.8k	4.3k	55
12	Sep 27, '20	A neutral observation: arguably, no other news org in the world could invest as much time/resources into Trump tax investigations as @nytimes has. Maybe @washingtonpost @propublica	14.3×	0	12k	1.7k	38
13	Jan 14, '23	It’s why I got up early this morning, as I have for the last year-plus, working on this book—the story of the first Asian Americans, Chinese immigrants who came to “gold mountain”	13.7×	100k	1.3k	36	5
14	Jan 14, '23	Aiming to finish the manuscript late this year, so hopefully out in 2024 from @doubledaybooks.	13.2×	96k	896	27	10
15	Jan 14, '23	One final, ironic note: I actually had the latest draft of my book in my lap when this happened! I suppose I could have handed the folder over to the mother and asked that she read	10.6×	77k	1.2k	30	2
16	Jul 18, '20	Remnick from December: As Obama left his swearing in, Lewis approached him with a sheet of paper and asked the new President, the first black President, to sign it. And he did. He	9.0×	0	6.1k	1.6k	121
17	Dec 10, '20	.@JaneMayerNYer "they say her short-term memory has grown so poor that she often forgets she has been briefed on a topic, accusing her staff of failing to do so just after they hav	9.0×	0	4.7k	935	233
18	Oct 1, '20	NEW from @JaneMayerNYer: Kimberly Guilfoyl's assistant said that she was frequently required to work at her apartment while the Fox News host displayed herself naked, and showed he	7.7×	0	2.9k	1.6k	158
19	May 18, '20	1/ THREAD: In his column on @ronanfarrow, @benyt, whom I have respect for, does the same thing he accuses Ronan of––sanding the inconvenient edges off of facts in order to suit the	7.6×	0	5k	1.1k	273
20	Jul 6, '18	“In hundreds of cases, Customs agents deleted the initial records in which parents and children were listed together as a family with a “family identification number,” according to	6.7×	0	1.7k	2.1k	53
21	Oct 11, '18	Horrifying story by @stillsarita. A 5-year-old girl, separated from her family, signed away her right to a hearing that would have hastened her release and reunification.	6.6×	0	1.7k	2k	59
22	Oct 9, '16	Well dressed woman on Upper East Side, annoyed by our stroller, yells: "Go back to China...go back to your f---ing country." #thisis2016	5.6×	0	1.5k	1.5k	6
23	May 7, '18	.@JaneMayerNYer @RonanFarrow with a bombshell story: four women accuse NY AG Eric Schneiderman of physical abuse. Devastating, excruciating read.	5.4×	0	1.8k	1.2k	35
24	Jan 17, '21	NEW: Luke Mogelson’s remarkable video footage of the Capitol invasion, from breaching the first barricades to rummaging through desks on the Senate floor. Stunning, frightening, re	5.0×	0	2.3k	998	307
25	Nov 9, '18	No words. Really.	5.0×	0	2.5k	1.3k	11
26	Oct 10, '16	I wrote an open letter to the woman who told my family to go back to china today.	4.6×	0	1.6k	1.2k	1
27	Dec 25, '20	The Washington Post has been inundated with messages and phone calls from people on the verge of losing their homes and cars and going hungry this holiday who are stunned that Pres	4.5×	0	2.1k	851	31
28	Jan 9, '21	NEW from ⁦@RonanFarrow⁩: on Larry Rendall Brock, Jr., a former Air Force lieutenant colonel and Air Force Academy graduate who was one of the invaders walking around inside the Cap	4.4×	0	1.9k	997	106
29	Jun 14, '20	NEW: @kadirnelson has produced one of the most powerful covers in @newyorker's history. It'll be on newsstands tomorrow, but here it is in interactive form online. Scroll down and	4.2×	0	2k	1k	82
30	May 18, '20	16/ We are proud of @ronanfarrow’s reporting, and we stand by it.	4.1×	0	3.7k	289	6
31	Oct 4, '20	NEW from ⁦@praddenkeefe⁩: While opioid deaths have surged during the pandemic, the Sackler family has been quietly staging an end game in which it will keep most of its fortune—and	3.9×	0	1.3k	1.1k	129
32	Nov 13, '17	In early 80s, Roy Moore was a frequent and troubling presence at Gadsden mall, where teens hung out. @charlesbethea interviewed more than dozen people who said he was banned for hi	3.6×	0	1.3k	1k	0
33	May 24, '22	I wrote this on the anniversary of Columbine. Something has shifted. “At the time of the incident, Columbine ranked as the fifth-deadliest mass shooting in the United States since	3.5×	0	2.2k	608	147
34	Jan 15, '21	NEW from next week’s issue of @newyorker: Luke Mogelson, who has been reporting on MAGA protesters for months, provides a firsthand account of the Capitol invasion.	3.3×	0	1.3k	603	341
35	Jun 6, '20	Dexter Filkins: In a meeting in the Oval Office, Trump expressed a desire to quell the protests by sending forces...into American cities. Milley resisted. “They got into a shouting	3.2×	0	1.4k	786	68
36	Apr 15, '19	.⁦@laurenzcollins⁩ was on the roof of Notre Dame just a few weeks ago, reporting on the renovation. This quote from one of the workers tonight is devastating: “In wanting to give h	3.2×	0	1.9k	645	82
37	Oct 4, '18	The full affidavit from Georgetown Prep classmate is worth reading.	3.1×	0	1.2k	825	36
38	May 7, '18	.@RonanFarrow is up w/ new @NewYorker story on Black Cube operatives, the same ones who worked for Harvey Weinstein, targeting former Obama Administration officials who supported I	3.0×	0	1.5k	786	26
39	Nov 6, '17	Stunning new @RonanFarrow: Weinstein hired private security agencies to investigate his accusers and journalists.	3.0×	0	1.2k	833	1
40	Oct 10, '16	A woman yelled at my family to go back to China today. Is the political climate to blame? I wrote her a letter.	2.9×	0	1.1k	808	0
41	Aug 2, '21	SIREN @JaneMayerNYer⁩: a well-funded national movement has been exploiting Trump’s claims of fraud in order to promote alterations to the way that ballots are cast and counted in 4	2.8×	0	1.1k	736	83
42	Nov 11, '16	NYT Phoenix bureau chief @fernandaNYT today.	2.6×	0	656	963	0
43	Jun 19, '18	Utterly harrowing, devastating @jonathanblitzer story for @newyorker on a Honduran woman in ICE detention who has not seen her 5-year-old son in 6 weeks.	2.4×	0	845	794	12
44	Mar 17, '21	.@huahsu wrote one of the most thoughtful pieces on the recent anti-Asian attacks. "It’s difficult to describe anti-Asian racism when society lacks a coherent, historical account o	2.3×	0	1.2k	492	137
45	May 28, '22	.@rachmonroe writes about @UvaldeNews, who had to cover their own tragedy. Reporter Kimberly Rubio lost her daughter, Lexi. She texted her boss, asking if she could write her obitu	2.2×	0	1.1k	516	79
46	Jan 14, '21	.@sbg1: "America is now a country that has to build a wall around its Capitol to defend its Congress, not from some foreign threat but from fellow-Americans. Which, whatever the ou	2.1×	0	1.3k	405	41
47	Feb 27, '17	As a child, Viola Davis went to sleep every night w/ rags around her neck to fend off rats.	2.1×	0	948	609	0
48	May 4, '22	Jill Lepore: “Women are indeed missing from the Constitution. That’s a problem to remedy, not a precedent to honor.”	2.0×	0	1.2k	365	51
49	Mar 17, '21	Horrific.	2.0×	0	1.1k	373	17
50	Feb 10, '19	“In all, since 1998, roughly 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct, the newspapers found.”	2.0×	0	762	475	32
51	Oct 2, '16	The biggest miracle of NYT's Trump tax scoop? @susannecraig actually checks her Times mailbox!! Imagine if she didn't check it until Nov. 9.	1.9×	0	1.3k	357	0
52	Apr 10, '19	I wrote a long piece about the profusion of news in the digital age, what’s driving it, and whether we’re really any better informed from it. The current system is broken. Journali	1.9×	0	1k	338	114
53	Apr 29, '25	Now on sale! “This is not just the story of the Chinese in America; it’s the story of any number of immigrant groups who have been treated as strangers. It’s the story of our diver	1.9×	14k	74	7	12
54	Oct 4, '18	Former Georgetown Prep classmate submitted statement to the F.B.I. that challenged, among other aspects, Kavanaugh's testimony on "Renate Alumnius."	1.9×	0	872	505	10
55	Aug 5, '18	Forty-four years to the day of the release of the smoking gun tape that ended Nixon presidency, @realDonaldTrump makes a startling admission in a tweet. @adamdavidson provides some	1.9×	0	1k	430	18
56	Oct 9, '16	Now my 7 year old, distressed by what happened, keeps asking, "Why did she say, 'Go back to China?' We're not from China."	1.9×	0	707	509	0
57	Sep 20, '17	The legendary Lillian Ross, who started @NewYorker in 1945, has died.	1.8×	0	781	534	0
58	Jan 15, '21	On the man @RonanFarrow helped to identify. “He means to take hostages. He means to kidnap, restrain, perhaps try, perhaps execute members of the U.S. government.”	1.8×	0	1k	380	22
59	Jun 8, '18	Such tragic news. Read Anthony Bourdain’s piece in @NewYorker that later became Kitchen Confidential.	1.8×	0	858	424	69
60	Mar 4, '19	Lots of news in latest from ⁦@JaneMayerNYer⁩: the killing of the Stormy Daniels story before the election; ordering Gary Cohn to pressure DOJ to file lawsuit to block AT&T-Time	1.8×	0	886	455	16
61	Jul 25, '21	"When I think about USA Gymnastics, I think it’s just, like, rotten from the inside out," @Aly_Raisman tells @erenorbey. "The United States Olympic Committee is a disaster, too."	1.7×	0	1.3k	173	75
62	Mar 8, '22	The terror on the boy's face. The cartoon lion on his hat. His snowsuit. Utterly crushing. Photograph from Irpin by @jeromesessini for @NewYorker.	1.6×	0	882	322	41
63	Jul 3, '21	NEW @ronanfarrow @jiatolentino investigation on the conservatorship that stripped Britney Spears of her rights, and the pop star’s fight to regain control of her life.	1.6×	0	894	255	101
64	Jul 27, '22	This story will outrage you. “Betty Ann had borrowed twenty-nine thousand dollars in federal loans. Today, she owes $329,309.69 in student debt. She is ninety-one years old.”	1.6×	0	739	345	61
65	Nov 5, '18	Moving piece by @newyorker's Roger Angell, 98 years young and legally blind, exhorting people to get out and vote. "What I said I would die for I now want to live for."	1.6×	0	852	369	15
66	Oct 29, '20	“This is so monumental,” a Democratic state rep told ⁦@elizagriswold.⁩ “I don’t understand why people aren’t paying more attention.”	1.6×	0	701	323	47
67	Aug 25, '20	He keeps calling it the "China virus." Purposefully. We can't normalize this. We can't skip over it.	1.5×	0	1.2k	222	3
68	Dec 26, '18	“The Times began looking into Mr. Trump’s draft record anew when an anonymous tipster suggested that a podiatrist who was a commercial tenant of Fred Trump’s had provided the medic	1.5×	0	831	300	8
69	Jan 8, '18	.@newyorker now has a food department! @hels joining as roving food correspondent; @hannahgoldfield becoming our food critic. Welcome to both. Stand by for plenty of delicious writ	1.5×	0	996	161	0
70	Feb 15, '18	I share this every mass shooting. This @nytimes investigative series I did with @mmcintire after Newtown illustrated so starkly the influence of gun lobby.	1.5×	0	635	473	0
71	May 18, '20	2/ We provided detailed responses to Ben that contradict the narrative he wants to tell. They didn’t make it into the column, so I’ll outline some of them here.	1.5×	0	1.3k	130	8
72	Dec 11, '18	.@clairecmc tells @sbg1 for @newyorkerradio what Republican members think about Trump: "...he should hear the way these guys talk about him behind his back."	1.5×	0	837	277	32
73	Oct 6, '18	.@sbg1 spoke w/ Sally Quinn, who recounted in her memoir an attempted rape by Sen John Tower. Years later, she refused to talk to FBI years when he was nominated for Defense Secret	1.4×	0	628	394	25
74	May 18, '20	15/ We take corrections seriously and would be happy to correct something if it were shown to be wrong. But Ben has not done that here.	1.4×	0	1.3k	112	2
75	Jan 6, '21	Good to re-read ⁦@jelani9⁩’s profile of ⁦@staceyabrams⁩.	1.4×	0	934	209	85
76	Oct 2, '20	.@sbg1: “There is no one left to tell us the truth, at just the time when we need it the most.”	1.4×	0	1k	220	16
77	Sep 24, '17	.@jelani9 is the voice I've been waiting for on this. He writes about ungrateful as the new uppity.	1.4×	0	664	368	0
78	Dec 27, '18	“Most of us knew he was a fake,” Braun told me. “He had just gone through I don’t know how many bankruptcies. But we made him out to be the most important person in the world. It w	1.4×	0	586	383	8
79	May 16, '21	Heather Ann Thompson, of "Blood in the Water" fame, is writing a new book on the MOVE bombing. She has a powerful, news-making essay about recent revelations that remains from the	1.3×	0	679	212	136
80	Sep 18, '20	“Born the year Eleanor Roosevelt became First Lady, Ginsburg bore witness to, argued for, and helped to constitutionalize the most hard-fought and least-appreciated revolution in m	1.3×	0	802	267	35
81	May 18, '20	4/This is just not true. I’d encourage ppl to read thru the court file on Pacer. It doesn’t contradict Ronan’s piece. Our story accurately reflects what was known at the time. And,	1.3×	0	1.2k	107	3
82	May 20, '22	Almost too painful to read.	1.3×	0	686	220	71
83	Feb 13, '21	That sound is the tap-tap-tap of the delete key as today’s pre-writes get revised.	1.2×	0	1.1k	85	2
84	Oct 11, '19	.@sbg1: "Sooner or later, the vote on Capitol Hill will be called, and every single member of Congress will have to say once and for all whether they stand with Trump or against hi	1.2×	0	946	147	0
85	May 18, '20	6/ It was not “minimized.” We say in the 4th graf the reports might be restricted, not deleted or removed. We describe the views of 7 former gov officials/experts we interviewed on	1.1×	0	1k	79	1
86	Oct 9, '16	Whoa. Thank you Mr. Mayor.	1.1×	0	734	218	0
87	Aug 22, '18	.@adamdavidson: “The day had a feeling, on one level, of history ... At the same time, the day felt small and shabby, as we learned more details about the crude crimes of those who	1.1×	0	667	201	10
88	Sep 27, '19	.@SpeakerPelosi tells Remnick: “People say you changed your mind. I didn’t change my mind. The facts changed the situation."	1.0×	0	620	176	17
89	May 18, '20	12/ Read our story here:	1.0×	0	786	126	17
90	Aug 21, '20	"For love is more powerful than hate; hope is more powerful than fear; and light is more powerful than dark. This is our moment." -@JoeBiden	1.0×	0	740	154	4
91	May 18, '20	3/ Ben relies on a 2018 @newyorker piece on an IRS analyst John Fry to frame his case against Ronan, arguing “two years after publication, little of Mr. Farrow’s article holds up,	0.9×	0	806	75	3
92	Feb 6, '17	Personal news: I'm moving over to become editor of , overseeing all things digital @newyorker. Big change...excited.	0.9×	0	740	54	0
93	May 18, '20	14/ We disclosed that the friend could not confirm specifics, except that she had witnessed the meeting between Weinstein and Evans. That the friend later said something different	0.8×	0	735	64	0
94	May 18, '20	7/ In Fry's sentencing hearing, his lawyer even said that “Mr. Fry learned that those SARs may have been walled off when the New Yorker wrote the article by Ronan Farrow who had ta	0.8×	0	699	61	0
95	May 18, '20	5/ Ben writes: the records never went “missing...the records were simply put on restricted access...a possibility Mr. Farrow briefly allows for in his story, but minimizes. And Mr.	0.7×	0	686	60	2
96	May 18, '20	8/ Ben seems to suggest that Fry lied about his motivations for leaking the SARs. But that’s not established in the court record. The judge came to no conclusion about Fry’s motiva	0.7×	0	682	60	0
97	Dec 10, '20	One aide to another senator described what he called a “Kabuki” meeting in which Feinstein’s staff tried to steer her through a proposed piece of legislation that she protested was	0.7×	0	648	34	5
98	May 18, '20	13/ Re: Lucia Evans and Harvey Weinstein, Ben acknowledges that her friend did not say anything to us that contradicted Evans’ account, that Weinstein had raped her, and generally	0.7×	0	631	60	0
99	May 18, '20	10/ This is a bit in the weeds, but the weeds are important here. The complaint establishes Fry searched for restricted SAR 8133 prior to showing any of the docs to Avenatti and ca	0.7×	0	625	58	0
100	May 18, '20	9/ The timeline that can be constructed from the court docs support what Fry told us: he realized that a SAR wasn’t in the database where, in his experience, it should have been, b	0.7×	0	605	55	1

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