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👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally ripping up post office parking lots to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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It's so hot I could fall asleep in the Australian wilderness only to wake up and find my schoolmates and teacher have disappeared in unusual circumstances

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This was the Rivoli in NYC. 50 years ago this AM I was in a car with the nervous director of “Jaws” and Albert Brooks heading over there. The director wondered whether there’d be a line. There was. It went around the corner and far beyond. He really hadn’t known this could happen. What a day!

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www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

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why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later

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1936: During the shooting for 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈, Paramount Pictures, Ida Lupino signals director Alexander Hall, that she can do the previous scene better, and would like another take.

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Some of the amazing public land in Washington to be sold to fund disastrous tax cuts.

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Suprematist Design for a Façade, by Vera Ermolaeva, 1920, 📸 by @kelcgrant

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How many reporters are currently working on tell-all exposés about their own organization, detailing all the acts of cowardice of their editors and publishers? I won’t ever buy your book about Sleepy Joe Biden, but I’d absolutely devour a book about the internal collapse of the NYT or CNN.

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an all-timer

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what a paragraph

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"The Right has theater. The left has critique." That's Avgi Saketopoulou, a radical psychoanalyst, scholar, & I think it concisely expresses so much of how we got here. The Right presents spectacle; the "left"--shorthand for a range--prides itself on seeing through it. 1/

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Thread on the White Supremacy-->White House pipeline. (It's a very short pipeline.)

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Favorite film from every decade: 20s One Week 30s The Rules of the Game 40s Notorious 50s Some Like It Hot 60s The Manchurian Candidate 70s All the President's Men 80s Raising Arizona 90s Topsy-Turvy 00s Man on Wire 10s the trailer for Inherent Vice 20s Summer of Soul #FilmSky

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It's been really demoralizng how much the press mindlessly repeats the lie that the National Guard was sent to quell violence. It was sent to start violence. People know this, so just say it.

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He's riffing on a specific poem with a very ugly history related to European colonialism in Africa. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_g...

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you don't see husbands realizing they forgot their anniversary and searching for a gift and seeing the necklace their wife wanted in a window for $50 and pulling out an empty wallet and moths flying out and then seeing a poster that says "BOXING MATCH FIRST PRIZE $50" and saying "hmmm" much anymore

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Oh hell yes, they got a longtime private equity guy to review my book! He hated it! Do you want to be cool and preorder BAD COMPANY, or do you want to be like GARY??

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At this point, Collins saying "concerned" is like when Kakutani would use "limn" in a review, yet again. Sheer trolling.

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this is excellent. watch his gestures

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This is a hell of a thing to read.

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1/ I visited San Quentin prison and had a chance to talk to dozens of incarcerated men. This was truly one of the most memorable speaking events of my entire life. It was my honor and my privilege to be there.

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The three Aud Torvingen novels will be reissued on Tuesday 4 June in lovely matching editions. But you can get them a day before anyone else...

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5 B&W Since 1960: The Manchurian Candidate Down by Law A Hard Day's Night High and Low the first half of Psycho

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In "Peanuts," Snoopy first adopted his insouciant, sunglasses-sporting Joe Cool persona on May 27, 1971.

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a lot of the things that we used to do quick google searches to find are going to be poisoned for AI. if you want to throw a picture into a powerpoint at the last minute, you have to worry that image search is going to give you something fake. increasingly that will be true of basic facts as well.

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Muriel Spark and Janet Frame lived in Camberwell at the same time. I imagine them catching each other's eye on Denmark Hill on a Thursday morning, Janet on her way to the Maudsley, Muriel late for work. Oh hello.

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Mine starts, "I bought an ant farm..."

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"I don't know what this book is about. I know that as I wrote it I was angry because the bad guys always win. Maybe all books are written simply because in every game the bad guys have the advantage and that is too much to bear." —Álvaro Enrigue, "Sudden Death"

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Just when you think it’s never worth it to scroll down past the first few replies

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Senators coming for my job now.

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I have been working on stablecoin policy for five years. Every word Sen Warren says here is spot on. With this bill advancing, I feel like I’m watching a car crash in slow motion and there’s nothing I can do to stop it. It’s devastating

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I've said it before, and I'll repeat it: The expulsion of expertise from government and academia during Mao's Cultural Revolution devastated China for decades, particularly in science and technology. That profound harm led the country to take education as seriously as it does today. wapo.st/3YTivKW

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excuse me???

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Elizabeth Jane Howard on a cat. The fire engine line is a show stopper. (on the next page she describes a pair of black shoes as “as sleek and polished as a pair of police cars” and it changes the scale of the story; suddenly the floor is eye level, people are skyscrapers, and the house is a city)

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