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social strategy @wsj.com. @latimes.com alum. Capital Gazette forever. I want you to read the news — not picky about the medium.

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How Larry Summers’s Power Delayed the Reckoning Over His Epstein Ties The former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president’s enormous network and clout kept him immune from past Jeffrey Epstein revelations. But this time was just too much.

“I’m fucked,” Larry Summers told Jeffrey Epstein in a 2018 email.

www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...

21.11.2025 02:37 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?

Harrowing read, stunning narrative

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...

28.10.2025 12:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction Treasury’s headquarters is located next door to the East Wing, giving employees there a front-row seat to the construction of President Trump’s $250 million ballroom.

Treasury’s headquarters is located next door to the East Wing, giving employees there a front-row seat to the construction of President Trump’s $250 million ballroom.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

21.10.2025 11:46 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Customers Ditched Disney+, Hulu After Kimmel Suspension Cancellation rates for both streaming services doubled in September from a month earlier.

Cancellations doubled for Disney+ and Hulu during the Kimmel suspension

www.wsj.com/business/med...

20.10.2025 14:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Interstate 5 closes through Camp Pendleton, traffic backs up in Southern California as military set to fire artillery California will close part of Interstate 5 today after military officials confirmed Saturday that live-fire artillery rounds will be shot over the freeway during a Marine Corps event.

This back and forth between whether it’s okay to fire live ammunition over an operating highway???
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

18.10.2025 18:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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I grew up in the “It Gets Better” era where we urged kids who felt different to find communities online. I’m horrified by predators that seek out children to take advantage of that premise

16.10.2025 12:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘It broke me’: Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die The suicide of a 13-year-old from Washington state set off a years-long global investigation to find an elusive online user called “White Tiger.”

Beyond this story being the kind of horrifying that will keep me up for many times contemplating how to protect my own children, I’m shocked by the cruelty to target children deemed “weak”

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

16.10.2025 12:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Buying Blind-Box Toys Is All the Rage. Our Simulation Shows How Addictive It Is. Getting hold of Labubus and other blind-box toys is a game of odds; the thrill of the surprise keeps young consumers coming back for more.

this build is so freaking fun

www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

03.10.2025 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ready to declare Hayley Williams best album of the year

03.10.2025 11:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inside the White House Struggle to Tame the Epstein Crisis Finger-pointing, disorganization and unforced errors by Trump advisers made the problem worse. “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” the president said.

“Trump was used to having absolute control over his base. The Epstein issue was an anomaly: a negative story on which many of his supporters didn’t seem inclined to follow his lead.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

25.09.2025 13:06 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inside the White House Struggle to Tame the Epstein Crisis Finger-pointing, disorganization and unforced errors by Trump advisers made the problem worse. “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” the president said.

“Trump was used to having absolute control over his base. The Epstein issue was an anomaly: a negative story on which many of his supporters didn’t seem inclined to follow his lead.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

25.09.2025 13:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Page One.

@wsj.com

19.09.2025 10:49 👍 923 🔁 303 💬 42 📌 12

As always, read Garbage Day for incredibly good takes.

www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

12.09.2025 23:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive | Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book.

Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the birthday book put together for the financier’s 50th birthday, which includes a letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

08.09.2025 18:49 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 5
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Won’t Someone Think of the Men? We already know women hate dating them. Turns out they’re miserable too.

What a read
www.thecut.com/article/what...

08.09.2025 16:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Axl Rose Stole My Coat Zosia Mamet on her wayward years as a New York club kid.

Love reads like this

www.thecut.com/article/zosi...

07.09.2025 12:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What We Know About America’s Billionaires: 1,135 and Counting An exclusive, up-close look at the richest people in the U.S. from celebrities like Taylor Swift and Elon Musk to the founder of a roofing supplier in Wisconsin.

“About a quarter of the billionaires in the list have known donations of less than $1 million in the past decade.”

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

03.09.2025 12:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s a beautiful September day — not too hot, not too cold, not a cloud in the sky. So naturally the 7:33 NJTransit train has been cancelled for mechanical issues and the train after has been delayed for mechanical issues as well

02.09.2025 11:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich “Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.

“Psychosis thrives when reality stops pushing back, and AI can really just soften that wall.”

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

29.08.2025 14:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Truly insane story

www.wsj.com/us-news/los-...

06.08.2025 12:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Condo Market Is Floundering: Four Charts That Explain the Downturn More condos are on the market, and units are taking longer to sell.

I suspect first time home buyers are willing to keep waiting rather than buy a condo at present moment

www.wsj.com/economy/hous...

31.07.2025 13:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI summaries cause ‘devastating’ drop in audiences, online news media told Exclusive: Study claims sites previously ranked first can lose 79% of traffic if results appear below Google Overview

A new study claims AI summaries can cause up to 80% fewer clickthroughs for publishers that would have otherwise been in the top search results.

It comes after the Pew report showing users only clicked a link in an AI summary once every 100 times www.theguardian.com/...

25.07.2025 12:54 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2

“May every day be another wonderful secret.”

18.07.2025 02:17 👍 9265 🔁 1447 💬 482 📌 101
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One consequence of the lightening of federal staffing

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

06.07.2025 16:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On June 6, 2025, the federal government initiated immigration raids across the City of Los Angeles. Protests swiftly followed, and some individuals involved in those protests were unruly and even violent. State and local law enforcement responded. The following day, President Trump ordered that members of the California National Guard be federalized, and thereupon assumed control of those forces.
At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not.
His actions were illegal-both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.

On June 6, 2025, the federal government initiated immigration raids across the City of Los Angeles. Protests swiftly followed, and some individuals involved in those protests were unruly and even violent. State and local law enforcement responded. The following day, President Trump ordered that members of the California National Guard be federalized, and thereupon assumed control of those forces. At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not. His actions were illegal-both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.

JUST IN: Judge Charles Breyer finds that President Trump exceeded the scope of his authority and violated the 10th Amendment by federalizing the California National Guard and orders him to return control to Governor Newsom. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

13.06.2025 01:02 👍 5727 🔁 1609 💬 42 📌 165

Breaking:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he has formally requested the Trump admin rescind their "unlawful deployment" of troops in Los Angeles and "return them to my command."

08.06.2025 22:55 👍 2685 🔁 638 💬 69 📌 38
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Exclusive | This Air-Traffic Controller Just Averted a Midair Collision. Now He’s Speaking Out. Jonathan Stewart was badly shaken by a recent close call in airspace around Newark, N.J. “I don’t want to be responsible for killing 400 people,” he said in an interview.

Was the $400 savings per ticket worth it to fly out of Newark instead of Philly next month? Will follow up in Final Destination: Flight 🫠

www.wsj.com/business/air...

16.05.2025 14:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive | This Air-Traffic Controller Just Averted a Midair Collision. Now He’s Speaking Out. Jonathan Stewart was badly shaken by a recent close call in airspace around Newark, N.J. “I don’t want to be responsible for killing 400 people,” he said in an interview.

He asks: Who do you want guiding the plane with your family on board: A well-paid, well-rested controller, or someone is is tired, overworked, and can't pay bills.

www.wsj.com/business/air...

16.05.2025 14:25 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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How an American Cardinal Beat the Odds to Become Pope Cardinal Prevost overtook the favorite, Italian Cardinal Parolin, during a historic conclave.

Great read

www.wsj.com/world/europe...

10.05.2025 17:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tomatoes Become One of the First Everyday Casualties of Trade War New fees will hit fresh tomatoes imported from Mexico starting in July unless a new bilateral agreement is reached.

70% of the tomatoes sold in the US are imported from Mexico

www.wsj.com/economy/toma...

19.04.2025 13:37 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0