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Reporter at New York Times.
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Not on the beat anymore, but there's a real Burkean lament to be written about Notre Dame foregoing a bowl after missing the playoffs. "Notre Dame" is basically a creation of the Rose Bowl, as so much in the imagined community of college football is.
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Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new
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8 days ago
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claudia irizarry aponte
12 days ago
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
@thecity.nyc
@gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The sonâs location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/ice-arrested-separated-chinese-father-6-year-old-son/
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Not sure I'm gonna rewatch Anthology but this short thing from George has lived in my mind ever since I saw it, which, believe it or not, was on TV when it was airing
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George Harrison on what is was like to be a Beatle. #georgeharrison #thebeatles #beatles #beatlestok #fyp
TikTok video by George Harrison clips
https://www.tiktok.com/@georgeharrisonclips/video/7266012837493968161
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Kelsey Atherton
23 days ago
TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable
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How we're treating our children
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The future is not inevitable but it seems to me we're on a glide path toward right-wing institutions' winnowed down to rumps at least tolerant of antisemitism, which then capture the party, which in our 2-party presidential system could lead to a President from that cohort
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27 days ago
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It is incredibly difficult for people (myself and everyone reading this included) to appreciate how wealthy the small handful of very wealthiest Americans are, not just compared to us, but compared to *other unimaginably wealthy people*
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about 1 month ago
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Michael Socolow
about 1 month ago
Nice to see the launch of "Replay Booth" a new sport history podcast by
@joshuablevin.bsky.social
(formerly of
@slate.com
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www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...
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Replay Booth, Episode 1: Wilbur Huckle for President
Two mysterious Mets-related buttons kick off a 60-year journey, with stops at the Republican Convention, a tiny town in rural Texas, and the courtroom where Donald Trump got fined $355 million.
https://www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-booth-episode-1-wilbur-huckle
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Bobby Big Wheel
about 2 months ago
That's cute, the Prince gets to sit in front of a king
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Razzball
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"Ruin the Friendship" as a rewrite of "Lycidas"
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Not that long ago, I feel, Kansas's two Republican U.S. Senators would have spoken out against this
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
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After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/arts/design/trump-eisenhower-king-charles-sword.html
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Last year I wrote a High Holy Day amplifier playlist. Hope it still hits a year later!
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/a...
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Is It Too Late Now to Say Sorry? 8 Songs for the High Holy Days.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/arts/music/amplifier-newsletter-high-holy-days-playlist.html
2 months ago
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It's indeed happening in Broadview
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3 months ago
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www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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TIL the chairman of the Democratic Party of the country's third-largest blue state has a completely different full-time job than doing that (he runs day camps)
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3 months ago
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But has Mort Rifkin weighed in on whom he's voting for in November?
3 months ago
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Need an onion article about the guy who puts his bag down at a table in the coffee shop before getting in line for a coffee
3 months ago
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Still laughing at the Christgau line (the Marcus line surely the most famous sentence in the history of rock criticism)
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3 months ago
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Decoder Ring is so good
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www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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âThis Is a Really Big Dealâ: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP
Growing population in Americaâs highly educated enclaves has led to huge gains for the Democratic Party. And Republicans are scrambling for answers.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/21/gop-college-towns-00106974
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Cruz Criticizes Hochul for Wearing Head Scarf at Slain Officerâs Funeral
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/nyregion/cruz-hochul-head-scarf-officer-funeral.html
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I know there are anti-SLAPP laws and of course the First Amendment, but it seems like the greatest hurdle to this tactic turns out always to have been unenforceable prosocial norms, perhaps with the stick of shaming, as well as nobody's being quite this wealthy
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5 months ago
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Ben Mullin
5 months ago
New: I teamed up with
@elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
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Where Congressâs Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR
The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/18/business/media/house-rescission-vote-pbs-npr.html
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Cooper Lund
5 months ago
The largest question facing America is âwho was President when?â
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Daniel Schlozman
5 months ago
Second-order consequences of party hollowness all ricocheting against each other even as Mamdani is actually doing the contemporary left version of old-time street-level politics.
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"Five Votes Down" (1999)
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I wish only I could have made room for Father John Misty's "I'm Writing a Novel." But I wrote about novels.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...
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The Death and Life of the Straight White Manâs Novel
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/arts/straight-white-male-novelists.html
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Latest
@zacmccrary.bsky.social
podcast episode with Mamdani cm Morris Katz a delight
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Morris Katz on the Pro Politics Podcast
The lead media strategist for Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral campaign on the candidates, strategies, tactics, media & more that led to the monumental primary upset of Mamdani over Cuomo
https://propolitics.substack.com/p/morris-katz-on-the-pro-politics-podcast?utm_source=substack&publication_id=324809&post_id=167231183&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=2l6mw&triedRedirect=true
6 months ago
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Rainy for a week in the middle of June in New York should be illegal
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Can only be Widows đ«Ł
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/a...
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Not every year that I write about a Tony winner ...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/t...
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How a Meeting About Vaccines Devolves, Hilariously, on Broadway
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/theater/eureka-day-broadway-vaccines.html
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In New Yorker piece that probably closed 10 days ago,
@zhelfand.bsky.social
asked numerous NYC luminaries who would win the Eastern Conference Finals. Only one correctly predicted Pacers in six: George Santos
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Knicks in Six? Ask Fran Lebowitz, Alison Roman, and Spike Lee
Before Game One against the Pacers, predictions rolled in from some under-the-radar fans: Peter Gelb, George Santos, Julian Casablancas, and a clarinettist at the New York Philharmonic.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/knicks-in-six-ask-fran-lebowitz-alison-roman-and-spike-lee
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Emily Tamkin
7 months ago
Great and chilling piece by
@jherrerx.bsky.social
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Could You Prove Youâre a Citizen?
For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-ice-detained-citizenship-proof.html
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NYT article on NYT's A.I. deal with Amazon
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/b...
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The Times and Amazon Announce A.I. Licensing Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/media/new-york-times-amazon-ai-licensing.html
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If you asked specifically me, someone who covered college basketball as a national beat from 2014 to 2019, to assemble an NBA roster this year, it would basically be the Knicks roster
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Really good piece
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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White House officials wanted to put federal workers âin trauma.â Itâs working.
Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. âWhy doesnât anyone care?â
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/05/20/federal-workers-trump-mental-health/
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Nikki McCann RamĂrez
7 months ago
The Bukele regime has arrested Ruth Lopez, an internationally renowned human rights and anti-corruption attorney who has been publicly critical of the Salvadoran government's abuses. I had the honor of interviewing Ruth earlier this year, she must be freed.
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Wrote about Ms. Rachel (IYKYK)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/a...
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Why Tot Celebrity Ms. Rachel Waded Into the Gaza Debate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/arts/television/ms-rachel-gaza-israel.html
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The Observer (London) on SECOND LIFE
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SECOND LIFE by
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Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
Having a Child in the Digital Age
https://bookshop.org/p/books/second-life-having-a-child-in-the-digital-age-amanda-hess/21713723
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On the Pulitzer front, I profiled the team behind "In The Dark" several years ago
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/b...
and wrote about "The Ally" last year
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/t...
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A Hit Podcast Finds âTrue Crimeâ in the Justice System (Published 2019)
Facts brought to light by âIn the Dark,â led by the reporter Madeleine Baran and the producer Samara Freemark, made their way to the Supreme Court.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/business/media/in-the-dark-podcast.html
7 months ago
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Feel bad for LeBron / trying to figure out who the Ant Edwards in my life is
8 months ago
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TIL Haim is really Chaim
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