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Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones. President of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast.
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OK, folks, this was one of the most depressing things I've heard in my years of interviewing TV stars. Jean Smart gave an amazing performance as a crime boss in Season 2 of Fargo. I asked how it changed her career. It did not. She told me she didn't get one offer. See below.
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What happened for Jean Smart after Fargo? “I was very proud of it. But afterwards? Not a job offer! Not a one. For over a year. I figure it is because of how I have looked, that I have aged. I thought you know what, if I was a guy, I would have had some job offers.”
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TVG—France’s high speed rail (like actual high speed, not 🐢Acela), which first opened in 1981, had cut France’s emissions by a LOT
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Want better flowers this summer? 🌺 🌺 Then you need to give your plants the Chelsea chop – it'll help stop plants becoming leggy and you'll get better flowers later in the year, and this is your last chance to do it! Find out how spr.ly/6018OLVOi
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The Ramones perform during the "Summer in the City" concert series at the San Francisco Civic Center.
#punkrockhistory
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The transit apps also let you know how much carbon your trip emits—and by inference, how much is saved instead of driving or flying.
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Meanwhile, because Americans only hear about Parisian garbage when it piles up due to a strike…
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One year later…we still only have a few new cans. In my neighborhood, the Mission, there are FEWER garbage cans than a year ago and they are old and often broken twitter.com/clarajeffery/s…
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I just ran into my former foster dog in the street and it was like that guy who sees his lion friend for the first time in ten years
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One year later…we still only have a few new cans. In my neighborhood, the Mission, there are FEWER garbage cans than a year ago and they are old and often broken
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7/ Instead of San Francisco’s insane 3-year multi million dollar search for trashcan design, which we STILL don’t have and which might cost $5k each… Paris had these: @MattHaneySF
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And transit apps have taken so much of the hassle and anxiety out of even complicated trips. Just got pinged as to which platform our train departs from…
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Also, look how clean Notre Dame will be when they finish restoration (Macron says 2024 in time for Olympics. Architect says more like 2025.)
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Metro is incroyable, but busses give you an incredible free tour of the sights of Paris, and also it’s army of street cleaners, out in force all day, but esp at 6 am
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Below is a much longer thread on the incredible public transit/bike infrastructure/street cleaning in Paris.
This year: currently on a bus that came right in front of our hotel, straight shot to high speed train we will take to the Loire.
We can have this too, America.
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1/ Now flying through France at approx 200 mph. Total cost for me and kid to get from Paris to Rome, 177 €.
America, we are doing it all wrong. 
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Ellsberg was always so generous with his time to anyone reporting on or studying the issues that made him inadvertently famous. Rest in righteousness.
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But Brexiters said that Brits just needed to fill out a form to work in the EU! Could it possibly be that they don't have a fucking clue about immigration law?
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Brexit has quantifiably destroyed the opportunity for many UK workers to work in EU holiday jobs.
This news came out on Partygate Day, so presumably most will have missed it.
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A happy #Bloomsday to all! Hear Joyce reading from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake in two rare recordings from the 1920s: publicdomainreview.org/collection/jam #Bloomsday2023
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And honestly, even if you don’t: how is a major telecom only able to offer real support M-F, 8-5 pm on ET? That’s just insane.
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The fact that puts you in truly terrible chat bot hell, that the UX of their support pages suck, that their customer service desk is only open on US east coast bankers hours, that their ticket elevation system is a joke…
Plan to travel abroad a lot? Switch.
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Lost a day of travel—and trip to Versailles—to ’s horrible European service. And while a few nice women with them battled for hours to figure out how to fix, a trip to Apple Store in Paris did so immediately. When asked what US provider, the eye rolls were pretty epic.
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The aim of NYC's congestion pricing plan is to reduce traffic and pollution while raising $15 billion for subways, buses and commuter rails
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The Supreme Court just handed Native families a huge victory
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Dear : you do not exist. It is impossible to contact you from abroad. Appalling device from a global communications company. Even airlines are better.
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Isn’t it kinda everyone’s dream to be interviewed about their worst ex for a national audience the way Lillian McEwen was for this ep of Slow Burn? Just getting to drop in stuff on how he was raggedy and a weird dancer and they knew him at the adult video store? I'm happy for her
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To understand who Clarence Thomas was in the '80s, you need to hear from the women who knew him best. On the latest Slow Burn, @byjoelanderson speaks with Thomas' ex-girlfriend, Lillian McEwen, who shares insights into who Thomas was, and who he became: link.chtbl.com/ndpncijN
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For the past 5 years NIMBYs have been saying that development at North Berkeley BART ought to be 100% affordable even if it takes longer 😉 but now it looks like they might be starting to panic over a building full of formerly unhoused people 😱
shot: chaser:
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They felt equally as shallow when NYT was perpetuating tech hype. Please go deeper! We need that outside reporting and all the Time *could* bring to the current issues at hand. But it’s a quarter inch deep and so disappointing, sorry.
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The has a lot of very good reporters in Bay Area. But it’s stories *about* Bay Area have always felt like your aunt from the Midwest passing along her impressions as gleaned by Fox
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Downtown SF’s problems are real but it is fucking ridiculous that this piece doesn’t note that Westfield previously announce it was pulling back from ALL US malls, and similar collapse or retail nationwide is only glancingly referenced.
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San Francisco’s downtown has seen a mass exodus of retailers in recent months, and this week a mall owner has decided to walk away from a prominent property. Market analysts say the city still has a ways to go before the hemorrhaging stops. nyti.ms/3qIbXjW
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This is good
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Voting rights expert Dale Ho wins Senate confirmation to SDNY federal judgeship - per ACLU “only the second ACLU lawyer to go directly onto the federal bench as an Article III judge. The first was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”
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Idk, a non fascist CEO?
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If you have over 5,000 followers on Twitch, I am curious what it would take to get you to switch over to live streaming all your content for the next year on Twitter?
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Grateful for our Forest Rangers currently hard at work in Quebec assisting with wildfire suppression efforts.
Their dedication and bravery exemplify the very best of New York. 🗽
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The playlist in French bars and stores seems to be ~70% American 70s music. Disco, soul, yatch rock…
Heard “Not Enough” several times in last few days
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LA jails just posted another death, which means now that there were THREE deaths in LASD jail custody yesterday!!
Now up to 22 deaths this year.
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“TN BOTTOM 10 IN FUNDING PER STUDENT” 👇🏽😳
While & the claim we fully fund our schools as they steer taxpayer dollars to private school vouchers and privately run charters. And the TCAP retention. scheme is the latest attack.
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New census data ranks TN in the bottom 10 states for education funding per student. TN spends $10,507 per student, while the national average is $14,347 @FOXNashville
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If you think the anti-trans moral panic is only going to affect trans people, you are out of your mind.
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SCOOP: No Labels, which claims to be bipartisan and says it opposes extremism of the right and left, is helping a firm that raises money for MAGA Republicans and far-right extremists. Please read this and share widely.
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The wonk level is amped up to 11 on this one but it's an important story about how existing authority can help engage the nation in a wartime mobilization in the fight against climate change and the furtherance of industrial policy.
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No Labels isn’t “centrists,” or at least non delusional ones.
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