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newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
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submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

i question the use of "gimmick" and "unlikely." how about "miracle" and "obvious" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/d...

submitted 10 minutes ago • 0 comments

oh wow, they invented the perfect pair of sunglasses for people to wear while crashing their cybertrucks and blasting morgan wallen

submitted 15 minutes ago • 16 comments

Few publications seem to believe in pipelines at all. Which is strange. Used to be, you could pick up young reporters on the cheap and turn them into great reporters. That seems like a great deal!

submitted 17 minutes ago • 6 comments

the exterior looks like one of those gimmick shoulder bags that’s supposed to look two dimensional

submitted 36 minutes ago • 1 comment

Just for context on that yield, it was an African sovereign debt record this year when Gabon, an oil producer with a recent history of a coup d’etat, did a private bond placement at 12.7%.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

One reason I did the "turn all my decision making over to AI" story last year is that I was curious what's it going to do to us as we turn more of our day-to-day thinking over to gen AI chatbots. This study is small but doesn't bode well: time.com/7295195/ai-c...

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

Please take a moment & read this piece by @alistairkitchen.bsky.social describing his ideological exclusion/expulsion from the US for his expressions/views.⬇️ In "Threat of Dissent," I wrote about the long history of ideological exclusions/deportations in the US & about all the challenges to them. 🗃️

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

“Students and employees from coast to coast are poised to feel the squeeze. Although the exact consequences will vary by school, administrators are warning that many students may have to pay more, professors may lose their jobs, programs could vanish and support services could shrink.”

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

don’t have a rooting interest but ultimately settled on the pacers because they basically don’t have any stars

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

🧑‍🍳💋🤌

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

[faints]

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

this is one of my peak pop music insights

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

NEW: The Ninth Circuit reverses Judge Breyer's order, finding that President Trump "likely ... lawfully exercised his statutory authority" when he federalized the California National Guard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 10 hours ago • 72 comments

The fear of the subway — or the performance of fear, because I think many of the people who claim to be afraid of it aren't actually — is one of the more bizarre elements of our current political discourse

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

the skeleton key is that Maya Sulkin's father is an extremely rich and prominent attorney (and Republican donor) in Seattle

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

the thunder have five guys in digits

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

heck yes

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

super 70s sports guy keeping the flame alive by having every bad hair choice from the decade

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

just realized the interviewer is the Super 70s Sports guy lmao

submitted 11 hours ago • 16 comments

Cuomo Super PAC now running ads quoting the NY Times non-endorsement to attack Mamdani.

submitted 11 hours ago • 83 comments

This drop in circulation is astonishing.

submitted 12 hours ago • 110 comments

Call in! 702-941-1181 open.substack.com/live-stream/...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

well those were two very different ways of destroying an entire team from siakam

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

holmgren botching the alley oop followed by the dagger three

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

“it’s always the second guy who gets caught” is life wisdom

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

was in a bar monday night w friends that had wheel of fortune on the TV and I counted 12 anti-Zohran ads in about an hour. was basically the only ad running.

submitted 15 hours ago • 134 comments

The funny thing about this apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 13 hours ago • 51 comments

OK i’ve seen almost no media outlet pick up on the fact the Supreme Court ruling endorsed conversion therapy and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care (1/x)

submitted 14 hours ago • 45 comments