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reporter @business, co-author of a book about mistakes. here we are. tmann55@bloomberg.net // whereisted.01 on signal https://www.harpercollins.com/products/lights-out-thomas-grytated-mann?variant=39934376575010
Stop literally everything.
Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.
fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
at what point do mixed metaphors become fatal
Misquoting Orwell is the perfect end to her tenure
The Trump administration is moving to gut the seniority protections that have provided job security to federal workers for decades. "Another step in the administration’s effort to dismantle the nonpartisan civil service.” via @gregorykorte.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
rich guy describe a free society challenge
Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.
holy shit
Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.
50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.
ooh blocked
You can just say things.
“This man is dying. Like and subscribe!”
Liverkeeper
Mark Oppenheimer’s story of how he had to retake his author photo because of his dog’s dick delights me on some fundamental level I cannot entirely comprehend.
open.substack.com/pub/markoppe...
If you freeze buildings from changing, rich people just take up more space.
An extreme version of what is happening across wealthy cities
A reminder that America supplied Iran with its civil nuclear programme with no regard for who might come after the Shah. If there's an emblem of consistent US foreign policy blunder over the last 60 years it is Iran. Alas, it will continue to be Iran.
In the olden days, news websites manufactured really uncomfortable love seats
Center City represent.
(This is very fun.)
www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...
Would someone, please, for the love of God, rescue The Daily News from this strip mining hedge fund. Please.
fair, although the bar for success in that job was not purchasing any chandeliers...
her work has been great
there's literally zero news value in granting anonymity for a football player to say that Puerto Ricans aren't American.
My favorite Catherine O'Hara nugget is that both she and John Heard appear in the Martin Scorcese movie, After Hours. I like to pretend that that's where Mr. and Mrs. McAllister met.
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
The right move. And an excellent, forceful statement: "We have asked the court to order the immediate return of all seized materials and prevent their use. Anything less would license future newsroom raids and normalize censorship by search warrant.”
wapo.st/4jUxQEe
the weirdest part is the extremely loud insistence that grok, etc are bringing alien super intelligence or whatever when they're actually doing basically lowest common denominator content farming www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.
The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:
thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
"pre-Hague photo shoot"
