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Yes, but the British do do snobbery so well.
John Carey, Literary Eminence Who Excoriated Snobbery, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/b...
John Carey, Literary Eminence Who Excoriated Snobbery, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/b...
John Carey, Literary Eminence Who Excoriated Snobbery, Dies at 91
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December 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yes, but the British do do snobbery so well.
John Carey, Literary Eminence Who Excoriated Snobbery, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/b...
John Carey, Literary Eminence Who Excoriated Snobbery, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/b...
Self disclosure: Saarinen's tulip table was my entry drug to the world of design.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...
Can You Reboot a Lamp Like a Superhero Franchise?
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Self disclosure: Saarinen's tulip table was my entry drug to the world of design.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...
Historic Preservation in Texas is at best iffy.
Dallas Considers Moving From ‘Iconic’ City Hall. Could It Be Torn Down? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
Dallas Considers Moving From ‘Iconic’ City Hall. Could It Be Torn Down? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
Dallas Considers Moving From ‘Iconic’ City Hall. Could It Be Torn Down?
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Historic Preservation in Texas is at best iffy.
Dallas Considers Moving From ‘Iconic’ City Hall. Could It Be Torn Down? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
Dallas Considers Moving From ‘Iconic’ City Hall. Could It Be Torn Down? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
Not to mention the cats.
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Why the New York Bodega Is Here to Stay
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December 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Not to mention the cats.
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✅ Yes, an email from an assistant U.S. attorney said Trump had flown on Epstein's jet "many more times than previously reported" and "on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996."
www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
Trump took Epstein's jet 'many more times than previously reported,' according to assistant US attorney
A 2020 email from a federal prosecutor, released by the Department of Justice, said Trump flew on the sex offender's jet "at least" eight times.
www.snopes.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
✅ Yes, an email from an assistant U.S. attorney said Trump had flown on Epstein's jet "many more times than previously reported" and "on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996."
www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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"One Word Describes Trump" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
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I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
www.theatlantic.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"One Word Describes Trump" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
The tintinnabulation of the bells.
The Nazi Plunder of Church Bells Changed the Sound of Europe www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...
The Nazi Plunder of Church Bells Changed the Sound of Europe www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...
The Nazi Plunder of Church Bells Changed the Sound of Europe
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The tintinnabulation of the bells.
The Nazi Plunder of Church Bells Changed the Sound of Europe www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...
The Nazi Plunder of Church Bells Changed the Sound of Europe www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...
Noted by a flaneur in New York. #nyflaneur
December 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Noted by a flaneur in New York. #nyflaneur
Noted by a flaneur in New York. #nyflaneur
December 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Noted by a flaneur in New York. #nyflaneur
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An Afrikaner, excited by the President Trump’s public embrace of white South Africans, traveled to the U.S. expecting a warm welcome. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
Trump Invited White South Africans to America. One Ended Up in Detention.
An Afrikaner flew to the United States expecting protection. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
An Afrikaner, excited by the President Trump’s public embrace of white South Africans, traveled to the U.S. expecting a warm welcome. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
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I guess I overestimated this lame stunt's lifespan when I said a month.
It looks like the White House stopped updating its bias tracker. I can't say I've conducted a comprehensive review, but I don't see anything past early December, and the current "offender of the week" is a report from Dec. 4.
It looks like the White House stopped updating its bias tracker. I can't say I've conducted a comprehensive review, but I don't see anything past early December, and the current "offender of the week" is a report from Dec. 4.
The White House bias tracker is a reprehensible attack on the free press. It’s also so corny and lame that we doubt anyone will be paying attention to it a month from now.
Read our statement.
Read our statement.
White House media bias tracker: Another tired gimmick
Trump has the power to correct the record with documented facts but opts for stunts instead
freedom.press
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I guess I overestimated this lame stunt's lifespan when I said a month.
It looks like the White House stopped updating its bias tracker. I can't say I've conducted a comprehensive review, but I don't see anything past early December, and the current "offender of the week" is a report from Dec. 4.
It looks like the White House stopped updating its bias tracker. I can't say I've conducted a comprehensive review, but I don't see anything past early December, and the current "offender of the week" is a report from Dec. 4.
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The crisis rapidly became a thorny issue for Mayor Adams, as city officials contended with critics on all sides.
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4 defining moments of NYC’s 'migrant crisis' under Mayor Adams
The departing mayor once predicted the issue would "destroy" the city.
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December 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The crisis rapidly became a thorny issue for Mayor Adams, as city officials contended with critics on all sides.
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In case you need a positive reminder:
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
In case you need a positive reminder:
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“At a time when polarization is so amped up, aphorisms can serve as psychological circuit breakers, interrupting our comfortable assumptions and prodding us to open our minds, unclench our fists, and think for ourselves,” James Geary argues:
Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence
It’s not just okay for some things in life to be hard—it’s essential.
bit.ly
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“At a time when polarization is so amped up, aphorisms can serve as psychological circuit breakers, interrupting our comfortable assumptions and prodding us to open our minds, unclench our fists, and think for ourselves,” James Geary argues:
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Some of the wildest rumors we fact-checked this year turned out to be true — sometimes even surprising our reporters. Here are 20 unexpectedly true rumors picked by Snopes journalists. 👇
www.snopes.com/collections/...
www.snopes.com/collections/...
Looking back on 2025: Unexpectedly true rumors we fact-checked
Even our reporters were surprised by the truth behind some of this year's wildest rumors.
www.snopes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Some of the wildest rumors we fact-checked this year turned out to be true — sometimes even surprising our reporters. Here are 20 unexpectedly true rumors picked by Snopes journalists. 👇
www.snopes.com/collections/...
www.snopes.com/collections/...
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So much has happened since President Trump took office again that it can be hard to keep track of it all. New York Times reporters reflected on Trump’s most consequential actions in his first year back in the White House.
The Biggest Moments of Trump’s 2025: Mass Deportations, Tariffs and More
Here are some of the most consequential, illuminating or just plain remarkable moments from Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
So much has happened since President Trump took office again that it can be hard to keep track of it all. New York Times reporters reflected on Trump’s most consequential actions in his first year back in the White House.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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For CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue, Amos Barshad examines the companies promising to save humanity from our conspiratorial online disinformation hell. Do they have any hope of success?
Bias Busters: Cataloguing news in the hope of saving humanity from our conspiratorial online disinformation hell.
The busy work of cataloguing news in the hope of saving humanity from our conspiratorial online disinformation hell.
www.cjr.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
For CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue, Amos Barshad examines the companies promising to save humanity from our conspiratorial online disinformation hell. Do they have any hope of success?
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Dispatches from NYC's bustling Chinatown on Christmas Day https://gothamist.com/news/ditpatches-from-nycs-bustling-chinatown-on-christmas-day
Dispatches from NYC's bustling Chinatown on Christmas Day
While the rest of the country takes a break on Christmas Day, Manhattan's Chinatown gets busier than ever.
It's a tradition like no other. While much of the country closes up for Christmas Day, business booms in Manhattan's Chinatown on the holiday. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Dispatches from NYC's bustling Chinatown on Christmas Day https://gothamist.com/news/ditpatches-from-nycs-bustling-chinatown-on-christmas-day
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2025 was one of the most difficult years for press freedom in the U.S. Journalists faced escalating harassment, censorship, legal threats, and violence — and FPF was there to support them.
Check out a snapshot of what we accomplished in 2025:
Check out a snapshot of what we accomplished in 2025:
2025 by the numbers
2025 was one of the most difficult years for press freedom in the U.S. Journalists faced escalating harassment, censorship, legal threats, and violence.
freedom.press
December 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
2025 was one of the most difficult years for press freedom in the U.S. Journalists faced escalating harassment, censorship, legal threats, and violence — and FPF was there to support them.
Check out a snapshot of what we accomplished in 2025:
Check out a snapshot of what we accomplished in 2025:
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Kamal Hassan, one of Assad's most notorious war criminals, has hired a Washington lobby firm to undermine the new Syrian government under the guise of protecting minorities. In the Middle East, all the players understand that for the right sum, you can buy anything from Trump and his team.
Ousted and in Exile, Generals Secretly Plot Insurgency in Syria
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Kamal Hassan, one of Assad's most notorious war criminals, has hired a Washington lobby firm to undermine the new Syrian government under the guise of protecting minorities. In the Middle East, all the players understand that for the right sum, you can buy anything from Trump and his team.
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Expressing thanks for Trump's sanction measures against their critics in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, representatives of Germany's Nazi party, the AfD, are traveling to Washington for meetings with senior Republicans and Republican donors, Tagesschau reports. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
AfD-Abgeordnete reisen zu Republikaner-Treffen nach Washington
Die neue US-Sicherheitsstrategie sucht die Nähe zu rechten Kräften in Europa. Nun reisen mehrere AfD-Abgeordnete zu einem wichtigen Netzwerk-Treffen der Republikaner.
www.tagesschau.de
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Expressing thanks for Trump's sanction measures against their critics in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, representatives of Germany's Nazi party, the AfD, are traveling to Washington for meetings with senior Republicans and Republican donors, Tagesschau reports. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
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Two months since the ceasefire, Israel is still blocking foreign journalists from entering Gaza, depriving us of this important perspective on Palestinian suffering. ipi.media/gaza-ipi-rep...
Gaza: IPI repeats calls on Israel to immediately drop ban on access by international press to Gaza
Months since the ceasefire, foreign journalists remain blocked from entering Gaza
ipi.media
December 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Two months since the ceasefire, Israel is still blocking foreign journalists from entering Gaza, depriving us of this important perspective on Palestinian suffering. ipi.media/gaza-ipi-rep...
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Decorating fir trees for Christmas can be traced back to the 1800s in both the US and UK. But exactly when and where did the tradition began? Here's a brief history of what we know: www.snopes.com/articles/472...
A brief history of the Christmas tree
Three different theories trace the Christmas tree back to the 1400s or 1500s. Two others go even further back.
www.snopes.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Decorating fir trees for Christmas can be traced back to the 1800s in both the US and UK. But exactly when and where did the tradition began? Here's a brief history of what we know: www.snopes.com/articles/472...
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The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers.
Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.
With @highcountrynews.org
Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.
With @highcountrynews.org
Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...
www.propublica.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers.
Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.
With @highcountrynews.org
Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.
With @highcountrynews.org