(i don’t use twitter anymore.) finance reporter & satire writer. work in @newyorker @salon @nerdwallet @theonion @marketwatch @mcsweeneys @reductress + more.

Brooklyn, NY
Joined November 2011
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it’s all renaissance paintings tonight
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BEHOLD: the cover for EVERYBODY’S FAVORITE, my disgusting debut essay collection from @deystreet! it’s packed with Y2K humiliation 💋 in fact, if you pre-order it *right now* + post your receipt, i will assign you one (1) humiliating Y2K moment harpercollins.com/products/e…
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at Home Depot is 455:1. neverleave.substack.com/p/75…
Home Depot co-founder says 'socialism' killed motivation to work: 'Nobody gives a damn' trib.al/UC8XAcE
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
HOUSTON: The arctic blast arriving Thursday will be different than what hit in February 2021. It will present its own unique set of challenges including the possibility of a “flash freeze.” NOW is the time to prepare, and here are some thing you can do. A 🧵 1/
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
In lieu of racking up women & money like equally material possessions, @brckhmptn opted to explore their psyches as outcasts, addicts, mourners, and tough guys who didn’t always like their impulse to be tough guys | bit.ly/3V5nW4v 📷 by @lapommedeterre & @thisisminnow
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
Some of my fellow commerce team members were laid off today, by email, without warning, right before the holidays (but right *after* Black Friday, of course). And dozens of others across the company. This industry is fucking hell and my heart breaks for everyone affected
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
mRNA vaccines are cool but also the modern era gave us Kelly Clarkson being able to sing whatever/whenever on television 4 days a week
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
No Joe, you’re supposed to help the railroad workers… you got it backwards. A handful of sick days c’mon! Workers of the world unite! – at Los Angeles, CA
Joseph, while you’re fixing things with the railroad…get them to pass The Equality Act affording civil rights to the LGBTQ community. And extend the child tax credit. How bout the 35$ cap on insulin … all’s I’m saying, a few things already passed in the house. C’mon buddy
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
banks in 1929: well look at how many people want to visit our banks right now
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
Any time there’s any nepotism discourse, I do unfortunately feel the need to revisit Brooklyn Beckham’s photography book
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I've been as critical of Lori Lightfoot as anybody, but loaning her suit to Fetterman for his orientation was a class move.
Pennsylvania Senator-Elect John Fetterman has arrived at the Capitol for new member orientation wearing a suit and tie.
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
Apparently it only matters when *they* need *your* help
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
My sister was transferred to a prison work farm in VA, where she'll serve out her sentence. It's one of the nicer prisons in the state. Still, she'll be required to labor 8 hrs/day for $0.45/hr. "I can't believe it, Kristine. It's 2022 and I'm really a slave on a plantation."
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
Slate
@Slate16 Oct 2022
On Hit Parade: James got on The One, Curtis was Super Fly, George was The Bomb, and EWF were Shining Stars. slate.trib.al/EyRHV2i
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
Weird how all these “free, independent thinkers” always land at the same old anti blackness and anti semitism.
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
i wrote a book about hot dogs they somehow let me call it RAW DOG i think the executives don’t know what that means it comes out 5/9/2023 and pre orders are absurdly helpful will u accept this rose 🌭💋 read.macmillan.com/lp/raw-do…
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
The precedent being set, that you're only a "real" survivor of abuse if you're 100% without sin, is functionally how the criminal justice and social work system treats abuse survivors every day
Angelina Jolie Is Already Getting the Amber Heard Treatment After Accusing Brad Pitt of Abuse dlvr.it/SZcf9Z
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
Thanks, Harry!
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Cara Michelle Smith retweeted
this is the most Marnie From Girls ive ever seen a person be including Marnie From Girls
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