I live in what is basically a retirement village, and they're having a gathering at the hall for the coronation today where people are asked to dress as if they were attending the actual ceremony. I have instead dressed as if I was selling DVDs in the car park. It's been noticed.
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Oh Buddy. You’ve done more than make them think about it. You’ve bonded them forever in a group text where one of them will share a wedding photo or promotion news and one of the others will say “i don’t know, SMELLS LIKE FAILURE.” And then they’ll all die laughing.
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I mean, can anyone else say they have a friendship like the one Clarence Thomas has with Harlan Crow? A friend you met when he gave you a ride on his private jet, who's also your mom's landlord but doesn't charge her rent and pays for a family member's tuition?
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Jordan Neely was a New Yorker.
He was a person.
When he began to suffer from mental illness the city’s social safety net failed him, as it had failed countless others.
When he exhibited signs of his mental illness in public he was murdered on the F train.
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The Shield put FX on the map. Mad Men put AMC on the map. House of Cards put Netflix on the map. Writers did that. Not some CEO.
Know what you get when you put CEOs in creative lanes? You get Quibi.
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Hyped for 's GAME OF EDGES (avail June 6). A "spiritual sequel" to Moneyball (says PW), GAME OF EDGES dives into the business revolution in pro sports, and explains why Charles Barkley is suddenly selling parlays at halftime. wwnorton.com/books/97803935
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1) Something (very stupid) you’re going to see over the next weeks are people arguing that screenwriters are being unreasonable. “Times have changed”. No. Times WERE changed. By SOMEBODY. By PEOPLE, making CHOICES.
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Really cool financial system we got where rising wages is bad actually
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Hey - yes John and I used to be married. We are now friends and share a wonderful son together. In this context I am not an “ex wife,” I am a veteran journalist with decades of experience who worked hard for this role. Do better please.
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News: Disney has filed a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis, alleging a "targeted campaign of government retaliation" over "protected speech" that "threatens Disney's business operations" and "violates its constitutional rights."
"Disney regrets that it has come to this."
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The funniest, most accurate explanation of why a blue checkmark is Elon's mark of death.
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Congratulations to the 2023 Media nominees for the James Beard Awards presented by ! The Media Awards cover outstanding achievements in Book, Broadcast Media, and Journalism. Learn more about this year's #jbfa nominees: bit.ly/41U3yqM
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the NYPD is on pace to blow past its allotted overtime budget for FY2023 by ~$366 million which is 16X what it would cost to keep public libraries open on the weekends. Keep in mind, $366 million isn’t their OT budget, it’s what the NYPD went OVER their allotted OT budget ($374M)
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NYC public libraries could close on weekends due to possible Adams administration budget cuts abc7ny.com/new-york-publi
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A truly great soul. A live lived in struggle, beauty, and brilliant anger. “It’s not so much where your anger comes from,” he told me, “as what you do with it.”
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for a terrifying hour tonight millions of Americans will have to guess on their own whom to hate
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I'm really surprised that no one is actively talking about what an America run by the GOP looks like. We can see it in deep red states right now, and it's horrifying. 1/n
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I'd like to personally apologize to the ESL folks on behalf of all native English speakers
But much like Japan's three alphabets, this must be memorized to truly achieve total fluency
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Derrick White says the "W.A.S.H.E.D." on his sweatshirt stands for "We Are Super Heroes Every Day" and is dedicated to all the dads out there.
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I have not yet read this book, but my extremely precocious 11 year old *tore* through it in about a day, laughing wildly the entire time.
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My friend @petridishes just put out a new book, and it’s so funny because she’s so funny!!! It was such a joy to be a part of her launch event in New York!!! Order the book, everyone!
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Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵
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A nation in which fundamental rights depend on where you live is no longer a nation in the same sense of the word. Borders between states are no longer just easy to miss highway signs. Conservatives who claim to love America fail to understand they may have fractured it fatally.
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It's past time to say "fascism." Not as a baggy charge but as the correct term for a movement built on personality cult, violence as pleasure, "transgression," white supremacy, & fetishized "innocence." Glad I was able to do so on PBS .
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NOW: discusses her new historical satire book, "US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)." Listeners, think you can tell the difference between the real and the fictional? Give us a call at 212-433-9692
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NEW: NPR is “turning away from Twitter”
Statement from our CEO John Lansing:
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TONIGHT! Presents ' U.S. History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)!
Join Alexandra and for a night of historical gossip, PowerPoints, and more, with special guest !
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Help us donate books! We’re donating 100,000 books to mark our 100 years.
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can’t believe AP’s USH hits shelves in just four days!!! but so excited that when it does, will have some very elaborately signed copies
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Some reporters will argue that it's not their place to describe something as fascist. That they can simply describe the actions. This, to me, is like trying to talk about the history of segregation without talking about race. It's bad history. Inadequate reporting. 6/
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For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show.
The extent and frequency of these apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in modern SCOTUS history... 🧵👇
![Left: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in October 2022. He is seated with his fellow SCOTUS justices {not pictured]. Right: Harlan Crow in October 2015. He is photographed seated in what appears to be a room in his home.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtBoPzhWYAQsxA4?format=jpg&name=medium)
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Today we're announcing Substack Notes.
Notes lets writers publish short-form posts and recommend almost anything: quotes, links, images, and comments.
It's coming soon and will look like this
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Our family’s statement on something that happened to us this weekend. Love each other.
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A current Republican State Representative was arrested for fraud, theft and bribery, and the House took no action.
Three Democrats raised their voices on the floor about gun violence, and they are being expelled.
Bone chilling.
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We're hiring! Our trade department is looking for a Marketing Assistant! For more information, please click here: atsod.com/j/s.cfm/14TT
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The real scandal in the awful Marjorie Taylor Greene interview is that Lesley Stahl didn't seem to grasp that "pedophile" is a longtime anti-LGBTQ hate trope. She called it "name-calling." This sanitizes an ugly bigoted smear that goes back many years:
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As a journalist w/ 20 years on the far right beat, I'm going to close-read ' MTG segment. To start: "MTG is as famous as they get." That's their justification: fame. AKA popularity. AKA the fundamental currency of fascism. 1/
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"this person is either the real Taylor Swift or someone who has $8 there's no way to be certain"
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1) As someone who was (briefly) in charge of the Twitter Media team - the group tasked with getting high profile people onto Twitter, and verification - AND as one of the few ever to voluntarily give up the blue check, I want to try to articulate how risky this policy change is.
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will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the 5. 
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NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
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