Straight from the Hut
Jake LahutA home for Jake Lahut's freelance feature reporting, scooplets, analysis, and other notebook items (no paywalls, but pay to support).
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Ticketmaster's monopoly hits a snag in state legislatures, but its influence endures
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Ticketmaster and Live Nation have been executing a lobbying blitz across the country to push for nearly identical bills, which would set price caps on the secondary seller market. It’s a st...
A guide to Late Stage Trump
Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The Charles J. Kirk Ballroom. The Shield of the Americas. The Arc de Trump. And a US sovereign wealth fund, maybe.
These are but a few of President Donald Trump’s favorite things.
There’s been p...
Are some of my sources doing insider trading?
Welcome back. I published a scooplet earlier today in Sherwood News, where I’ve been doing some contracting work, about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and how the White House has told her they want her gone by the midterms....
Some personal news: a reporter, or a bottler?
Some of you reading this are either aspiring journalists or professional ones who, in this day and age, all await similar fates.
The literal grim reaper comes for all of us at some point in life, regardless of profession or craft. Yet over...
The story behind the Nvidia story
In case you missed it earlier, I had a story go up on the tensions brewing behind the scenes in Trumpworld around the president’s close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
The truth might end up being somewhere in between, but this...
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Reporter covering the Trump White House, the tech right & the 2026 midterms. Scoops in NY mag, WIRED, CJR & local dailies.
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