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Journalist, now happily retired. Past life: WSJ, NYT, KFF Health News.
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Carl Quintanilla
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Real personal consumption began slowing well before the war. (via
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Aaron Rupar
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Marco Rubio on why Trump's son in law, Michael Boulos, who has no government role, was in his official meetings in Kuwait: "He was just here because his brother lives here and I'm a good friend of Michael's, so we had a chance to catch up"
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huck mason
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Jeremy Diamond βοΈ
5 days ago
With my apologies to my DC friends: please god let this happen it would be so fucking funny
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Kateration
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Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. βItβs swampier than ever.β The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. πππ
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Christopher Webb
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Credit where credit is due. We see the work of activist Vijay Bombs all over Los Angeles. Glad to see they took their brilliant work to DC. ππ½ ππ½ ππ½
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4 days ago
BREAKING: New footage emerged of VANDALS driving their SUVs on the newly finished pond sealant, effectively ruining it. Drop a follow if you too have found the vandal tribe
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Knits With Cats
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Andrew Lawrence
6 days ago
stay frosty fellas
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Very well-reported article. What would be as fascinating is the ideology and politics of those getting promoted and those passed over.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...
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Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegsethβs War on Diversity
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/politics/hegseth-navy-blocked-promotions-diversity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Gillian Brockell
6 days ago
Today Iβm remembering the very last people in America to be freed from chattel slavery, who were not the Texans who learned of the Emancipation Proclamation on this day in 1865, but thousands of people in Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey, who were freed by the 13th six months later.
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The Monarch Diaries
7 days ago
The scum pond is delaminating well ahead of schedule. This is a good hypothesis for why. They're dumping peroxide in at the edges, where the polyurea attachment will be patchy thanks to shrinkage during curing. O2 will be produced at the concrete surface, mechanically lifting the membrane.
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The Monarch Diaries
about 1 month ago
This shit shrinks 1-3% when curing, which in a pipe is exactly what you want. On a big slab, uh, no it will pull towards the center and delaminate from the substrate at the edges. Plus, applying directly to concrete is a problem. Long story short: Swiss cheese pinhole effect. Already flagged.
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Barry Ritholtz
7 days ago
This guy warned a month ago about what was about to happen in the reflecting pool. Ignoring professionals and steering no bid contracts to donors is not how we are supposed to do things in this country...
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Luke O'Neil
7 days ago
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It sure is. Itβs Trumpβs unconditional surrender
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Hemry, Local Bartender
7 days ago
Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint
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WSJ says βthe candy maker is trying to re-create M&Mβs without artificial colors, but blueβs natural algae substitute is complex and costly.β Wonder if there might be a new source of algae in a certain pool in Washington.
www.wsj.com/business/mar...
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Exclusive | Mars Is Spending Millions to Give M&Mβs a MAHA Makeover
The candy maker is trying to re-create M&Mβs without artificial colors, but blueβs natural algae substitute is complex and costly.
https://www.wsj.com/business/mars-is-spending-millions-to-give-m-ms-a-maha-makeover-2fa1bb88?st=CH4KTa&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Tim Marchman
7 days ago
NEW: We obtained an advance copy of the new Haberman/Swan book, which has some wild details about Trump mocking Zuckerberg and Bezos by mockingly showing their obsequious textsβincluding a photo of a letter from one of Zuck's kidsβto his cronies.
@hugolowell.bsky.social
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Trump Mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by Showing Off Fawning Texts
βYou would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,β NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan quote Donald Trump as telling associates in an upcoming book.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-mocked-mark-zuckerberg-and-jeff-bezos-by-showing-off-fawning-texts/
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
8 days ago
RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is βdangerous and defectiveβ. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.
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Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001β24: an analysis of population-based mortality data
Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational, that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical cancer deaths. This is sh...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00918-9/fulltext
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David Sanger at the NYT is doing great work. And the headlines are on point in a way other hedlines emanating from White House reporters fail.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...
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Trump Demanded Iranβs βUnconditional Surrender.β He Got a Surprise Instead.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/politics/trump-iran-deal-nuclear-program-strait.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Jacob T. Levy
8 days ago
I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if thousands of US security policy professionals and foreign policy analysts and military planners slammed their heads against their desks at the same time and then suddenly fell silent.
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Ken Vogel
10 days ago
SCOOP from
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& me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.
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How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trumpβs Cabinet
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/politics/kratom-trump-administration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qVA.VP2_.nEtUcug_LDZf&smid=url-share
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Emily Badger
10 days ago
I just loved working on this, and learning new things about D.C. as a resident:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Washington Has Been Carefully Planned for Two Centuries. Now Trump Has His Own Designs. (Gift Article)
The city is unlike any in America for its accumulation of intricate details, a whole that is a work of civic art.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/15/upshot/trump-lenfant-dc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qlA.tHof.XhSlis0xOxFz&smid=url-share
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Brian Tyler Cohen
10 days ago
New records reveal Trumpβs ballroom is far more expensive than originally promised, jumping from $400M to $600M. Half of it will be paid for by taxpayers, despite Trump saying it would be fully privately funded.
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The Untold Story of Jeffrey Epsteinβs Death and His Final Days in Jail
New evidence, new interviews and the fullest investigation yet into the question of whether he killed himself.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/16/magazine/jeffrey-epstein-death-final-days.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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PodKATT
10 days ago
"Two Dudes With A Pool Vacuum On A Stick LLC" charging the gov a 30% markup over retail for a job that's going to need enough bottles of HP to fill a gasoline tanker. The smartest business men on the planet right now.
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But of course Trump lied.
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Records reveal $600M estimate for Trumpβs ballroom project, with half from taxpayers
An internal cost estimate in March by the projectβs contractor ran $200 million more than Trump has said publicly and counters his claims that no taxpayer money will be spent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/06/16/records-reveal-600m-estimate-trumps-ballroom-project-with-half-taxpayers/
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James Fallows
11 days ago
Previously on this topic: -21+ yrs ago, I did "war-game" story on why attack on Iran would end the way this one seems to:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
-Two months ago, 3-part series on why this would end badly.(Have removed paywall.) Part 1:
fallows.substack.com/p/what-we-do...
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What We Donβt Know, Can Kill Us.
The battle of memories behind the US war on Iran. Part 1.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/what-we-dont-know-can-kill-us
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Emo Philips
12 days ago
THANK you, KTLA
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Dave Jorgenson
14 days ago
I'm sometimes critical of cable news TV but this is programming I can get behind
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm...
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emptywheel
13 days ago
Swedish man on way to carry out contract killing in Limerick instead kills himself bc he fucks up driving on the left. π€£
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Drew Harwell
14 days ago
New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests
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Remember, with Trump, every accusation is a confession.
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Ron Filipkowski
14 days ago
Here we go again.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD
15 days ago
At least 12 pregnant women have had measles in Utah, but I don't know further details. In West Texas, 2 pregnant women hospitalized with measles, delivered infants with measles. One of those infants had brain swelling and was hospitalized for several weeks after birth.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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Brendan Nyhan
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Brendan Nyhan
18 days ago
For those old enough to remember
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Violet Miller
18 days ago
Riley OβNeil β who helped redesign roads to make them safer for pedestrians and cyclists in CDOTβs Complete Streets program β was killed on a part of Halsted lacking proper bike infrastructure, friends, advocates and a witness say. "Painted bike lanes don't stop anything" w/
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Cyclist killed in Bridgeport crash was a champion for Chicago biking, worked on cityβs safe streets program
Riley OβNeil, 35, was riding his bike Friday afternoon when he was hit with a car door and sent into traffic where an oncoming semitruck hit him. He is at least the third cyclist killed by a driver th...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2026/06/07/cyclist-death-bridgeport-crash-chicagos-safe-streets-program
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Bill Grueskin
19 days ago
Go ahead, White House Correspondents Association. Invite this guy to your dinner next month. The one honoring the press and the First Amendment. See how far that gets you.
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BeijingPalmer
18 days ago
listen, obviously Trump is the asshole here, but really, "all the way to Wisconsin?" It's not like you tracked Pol Pot down in the Cambodian jungle, it's just the midwest.
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Jordan van der Hagen
20 days ago
Evening on Main Street. Dubuque, Iowa
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M Meerkat
20 days ago
Because Trump Eliminated The Restitution Requirement, The Defrauded Investors Lost Their Avenue To Collect The $Millions She Owed ! Trump's A Freakin CROOK, AND A PEDOPHILE.......
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David Corn
20 days ago
Elephant, camel, duck.
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Aaron Rupar
20 days ago
Trump: "They came in and they said, 'affordability.' They made up the word."
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Timothy McBride
21 days ago
What Trumpβs 250-Foot Triumphal Arch in D.C. Would Look Like - The New York Times
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MeidasTouch
21 days ago
NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.
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Opinion | Trump says his uncle was a βsuper genius.β D-Day proves his point.
John Trump, an engineer and MIT professor, changed the course of history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/04/john-trump-mit-engineer-who-altered-history-d-day/
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