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Deputy Editor, Projects and Collaborations, NYTimes. Queens, NYC, cocktail and rye enthusiast. Ruthless cosmopolitan.
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I have a feeling we’re not going to be seeing a lot of town halls in the near future

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Once upon a time, these were actions by a private company. Now they are actions being undertaken by a high-ranking government official, in connection with his public activities. This raises 1A issues that didn’t exist before.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

major news.

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“Only two kinds of people wear sunglasses indoors: blind people and assholes.” — Larry David

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Interesting defection. (It seems he never straight up called out Trump, but someone this popular saying what he did say is notable.) www.mediaite.com/news/mark-le...

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Nancy Reagan would like a word

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“Mulls” JC, Forbes

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@lollardfish.bsky.social these were consecutive in my feed just now

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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“Bulldozers that were cleaning up contamination at a former American air base in southern Vietnam — which both countries might eventually want to use — have gone silent. Around 1,000 mine-removal workers in central Vietnam have been sent home.”

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Countries where leaders’ birthdays are national holidays (outside of actual monarchs): Belarus Kazakhstan North Korea Turkmenistan Uganda Formerly: Cuba

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It’s 2025 and this is borderline dancing baby meme-level animation. Also, “come complain about your love life in a high school gym” is the message they’re going for?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

from David Letterman's Book of Top Ten Lists Top 10 Words Used in New York Post Headlines 10. Co-Ed 9. Tot 8. Horror 7. Straphangers 6. Mom 5. Weirdos 4. Hizzoner 3. Torso 2. Herr Steinbrenner 1. Slayfest/Lotto (tie)

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like we don’t talk enough about how amazing Wikipedia is, and how people (ahem) despise it says a lot about them

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You’ve never heard the term off-roading? Oh, it means doing slow circles on a flat field. (Don’t look it up.)

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

So I guess this is gonna go how we thought it was gonna go

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

If you live in a Southern state prone to natural disasters (which are the largest recipients of FEMA relief), you should be watching this space.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

If you're looking for a concrete action to take today--and you're a Visa cardholder--take 2 min and send an email to them today. 👇

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Super unpopular opinion: football isn’t going anywhere (Americans will spend over a billion dollars *today* on related food, merch, etc), but a survey of nearly 2,000 former NFL players found that about one-third of them believe they have CTE. Here are some confirmed thru autopsies.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Fwiw, I only order books from bookshop dot org (unless I need a textbook within for 48 hours for my daughter, which is, in itself, f’ed up)

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Starting to see a schism in priorities between normal Republicans and the people they’ve empowered to destroy the nation’s institutions

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Sad. Posting in all caps makes you look like a crazy person.

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Jennings: According to this 2018 @ mattytalks banger, long-term Twitter usage leads to either being a politics-obsessed scold or only being able to laugh at things like this arachnoid-genital’d character Contestant: who is “tarantula dick”? Jennings: “tarantula dick” is correct, the board is yours

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Today is my birthday, AND the galleys for my book came. I am told that Barnes and Noble is having a sale and A Physical Education is 25% off thru tomorrow with code PREORDER25. Here we are sharing a tender moment www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-physical...

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