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NYT, Texas Monthly. Teaching: Duke, Vanderbilt, Princeton. Author: Dixie Rising. Scout's Honor. Winner Intl Bad Hemingway Award.

 Chappaqua, NY
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Michael Luo@michaelluo29 Aug 2024
A living legend.
Dan Barry@DanBarryNYT29 Aug 2024
Huge news at The New York Times: After 63 years as the go-to rewrite man, lede-all maestro, and poetic obituary writer, the peerless Robert McFadden is retiring. Many times I have witnessed his artistry; the man is a legend. Great honor is due.
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes8 Nov 2023
The political experience of the Biden era for Democrats is: extended periods of intense anxiety about terrible polling, occasionally punctuated by strangely positive election nights. And then the cycle repeats.
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A Vast Lake Has Captivated California Where Farms Stood a Year Ago nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/ca…

A Vast Lake Has Captivated California Where Farms Stood a Year Ago (Published 2023)

Tulare Lake re-emerged after intense storms battered the state this winter, and will likely remain in the Central Valley for months — and maybe years — to come.

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Eric Lipton
@EricLiptonNYT20 Jun 2023
THREAD: As a NYT reporter, I've been investigating Trump family international deals since 2016. India, Indonesia, Philippines, Turkey, Panama. I have never seen anything like the Oman deal, re the potential for a conflict of interest. Let's take a look nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/po…

Trump Real Estate Deal in Oman Underscores Ethics Concerns (Published 2023)

Details of the former president’s agreement to work with a Saudi firm to develop a hotel and golf complex overlooking the Gulf of Oman highlight the ways his business and political roles intersect.

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“A No Labels candidate would likely throw the election to Trump” electionlawblog.org/?p=13685…

"A No Labels candidate would likely throw the election to Trump" #ELB

Al From and Craig Fuller in a Washington Post column present a forceful (and bipartisan) argument against a third-party effort: “To save the American republic, former president Donald Trump must be...

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Daniel Dale
@ddale89 Jun 2023
No, Trump didn’t follow the Presidential Records Act. No, Obama and the Bushes didn’t take millions of papers. No, the feds couldn’t have just asked nicely. No, 1,850 Biden boxes haven’t vanished. Fact check on Trump’s blizzard of documents dishonesty: cnn.com/2023/06/08/politics/…

Fact check: Seven of Trump’s false or unsupported claims on the documents investigation | CNN...

Former President Donald Trump has made numerous false and unsupported claims about the federal investigation into his handling of government documents, a probe he announced Thursday has resulted in...

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Clarence Thomas Is as Free as Ever to Treat His Seat Like a Winning Lottery Ticket nytimes.com/2023/04/11/opini…

Opinion | Clarence Thomas Is as Free as Ever to Treat His Seat Like a Winning Lottery Ticket...

This is not how a republic should work.

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Understood.
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Steve Rattner
@SteveRattner28 Mar 2023
It's the guns.
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Peter Frampton@peterframpton27 Mar 2023
I have posted this before but .. 26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK govt responded by enacting tight gun control legislation. In the 9400+ days since, there have been a total of O school shootings in the UK.
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Sending good vibrations, Sari.
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A Terrifying Piece One Year After Putin's Invasion of Ukraine: Putin Is Crafting the Russia He Craves nytimes.com/2023/02/19/world…

One Year Into War, Putin Is Crafting the Russia He Craves (Published 2023)

In Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion has met setback after setback. But its effect at home has been very different.

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Mike Scully@scullymike9 Feb 2023
Eight-year-old me watching with family. Dad: "Jesus Christ, get a load of these fucking assholes"
The Beatles Earth
@BeatlesEarth9 Feb 2023
Today in 1964, The Beatles played "The Ed Sullivan Show". A record-shattering 73 million people tuned-in live to see what all the excitement was about and watch the Beatles for the first time. It was the largest TV audience ever & is still considered a milestone in pop culture.
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