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Amanda Hess
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nytimes.com/by/amanda-hessJoined September 2008

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this is tonight!
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i’m reading TOMORROW at @KGBBarRedRm at 7 pm! NONFICTION NIGHT with @JeffSharlet @craigunger and Cynthia Carr, hosted by @NoreenMalone and Mark Jacobson. FREE / LOW BAR TO ENTER / JUST COME AND YOU’RE IN
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Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 11, at 7:00 pm, I'll be reading at the KGB bar, 85 East 4th Street, NYC, from American Kompromat, my most recent book. Appropriately enough, I'll be talking about how the KGB cultivated Trump as an intelligence asset.
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It's a very bad look for New York Times management that its CEO has received a 73% pay increase over the past two years while the Times is offering a wage increase far below inflation to the 1,000+ journalists who make the Times the great news organization that it is
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The @nytimes recently disclosed the latest compensation packages for our top executives. Among the highlights: Our C.E.O., @meredith_levien, was paid $7.6 million in 2022, up from $4.4 million in 2020. That’s a 73% increase.
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Lady Gaga’s highly personal song she wrote for Top Gun: Maverick sounds like a fake song you sing to a toddler while crossing the street
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it’s Hollywood’s biggest night … Women Talking vote to banish Lydia Tár … she must conduct the Na’vi youth orchestra with … hot dogs for fingers … until a rescue plane swoops in piloted by MAVERICK … and that boy grew up to be STEVEN SPIELBERG
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If the Oscars opening monologue doesn’t end with Jimmy Kimmel getting tackled by Billy Crystal dressed as Lydia Tár, I swear to fucking god …..
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But watching corporate leadership lie, mislead, stonewall and more, often brazenly, just to wring a few more bucks from workers who haven't had a raise in years at a time when the company sits on vast cash reserves... it can't help but shake your trust.
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some people claim that there's a woman to blame, but I know that’s sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act — the director of operations for Margaritaville
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the future is hybrid
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god tier
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is this a serious problem? really? speaking for "real women" no one particularly wants to be naked in a locker room or anywhere with strangers or possibly with anyone anywhere at any time naked or not. cannot believe this is an issue in good faith. twitter.com/LadyLib42069/s…
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Today we took our testimonials to a place where they couldn't be ignored: the walls of the office. They were swiftly removed (within about an hour). Actions speak loud, and it says a lot that a news organization views our words as something they need to take down.
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