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Joshua J. Friedman
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Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
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A source said the schools chancellor selection process has left some on the Mamdani transition disillusioned after lots of behind-the-scenes jockeying for the various different candidates. "That could have been done better," source said. w/ @caylabam.bsky.social
www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/30/m...
Mamdani to pick Manhattan superintendent Kamar Samuels as public school chancellor
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is expected to elevate Kamar Samuels, a local uptown Manhattan superintendent, to chancellor of the New York City public schools on Wednesday, sources confirmed to the Da…
www.nydailynews.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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A visual paean to the end of NYC's iconic #Metrocard, in honor of @rachelholliday.bsky.social and with all due apologies to Vincent van Gogh
December 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Man and Dog, Lower East Side — Jamel Shabazz, 1980
December 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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do you really want to miss out on gems like this last supper bed frame?
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Hello. I've never done a *sale* for my newsletter to the general public because I am bad at business. Anyway, I'm now offering 25% off an annual subscription to The Long Game so you can see what our community of kind-hearted baseball sickos is all about: <3 mollyknight.substack.com/p/flash-sale...
Flash Sale: Only $37.50 for an annual sub!
Never done an offer like this to the general public before.
mollyknight.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Great Blue Heron, out for a spin in the midday sun ✈️🌞🌿

Thibodaux, Louisiana, December 2025
#birds #birdsinflight #birdphotography
December 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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This poem in the Paris Review really spoke to me on this very "winter is forever" kind of day
December 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Happy Bluesky story: Paul Giambarba wrote and illustrated beautiful books about Cape Cod's natural and maritime history that have lived in my head since I was young. I just got a reply from @andygiam.bsky.social—Paul's son—who offered to send me these long-lost treasures. Thanks, Andy!
I think we had a few of his books from the era of these cover designs, which I really like
December 30, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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I remain in awe of the collection of Lego dogs on display at the front desk at Ryan Veterinary. The texture on the poodle 🐩 = 🤌
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Chester Station on a December night along the Old Valley Road.
December 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Food52 has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections. America's Test Kitchen announced as the proposed stalking horse bidder for its assets. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
America's Test Kitchen Under Contract for Food52, Inc. Assets
/PRNewswire/ -- America's Test Kitchen (ATK), the leading, multi-platform, culinary media brand, today entered into an agreement for the acquisition of certain...
www.prnewswire.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Palate cleanser
December 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Brazilian New Year's tradition! Lentils rather than black-eyed peas
The brown ones! It can be prepared as a stew (cooked in water, seasoned with salt, pepper, tomatoes, garlic and sometimes bacon, some parsley as garnish) or as a salad, cooked, cooled and served with olive oil, onions, tomatoes and parsley or cilantro (if you like it) first pic is stew, 2nd a salad
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Hello from Magazine Street 🌸🎨

New Orleans, December 2025
December 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Jan Anton van der Baren. Still Life with Squashes, 1657 (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
May 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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koru recharging through the power of megaliths
December 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Afternoon
December 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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So what's everyone's favorite black-eyed peas recipe?
December 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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From the get-go, budget watchdogs questioned City Hall's health savings deal with labor unions that relied largely on moving money around. A decade later, Comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social delivers an autopsy. The City of NY is owed billions of dollars. What will @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social do?
Explosive Audit Urges Dissolving Insolvent City Employee Health Fund
The review by Comptroller Brad Lander finds the joint city and municipal union fund owes billions to the city following contract deals that aimed to save money on health care.
www.thecity.nyc
December 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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“With this complaint, @thelap.bsky.social challenges both congressional intransigence and judicial branch inaction,” said LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman.

Our full statement about our complaint against Judge Sarah Merriam: www.legalaccountabilityproject.org/press-releas...
The Legal Accountability Project Files Judicial Misconduct Complaint Against Second Circuit Judge Sarah Merriam — The Legal Accountability Project
LAP took a significant step toward real judicial accountability this month by filing our first judicial misconduct complaint against Second Circuit Judge Sarah Merriam.
www.legalaccountabilityproject.org
December 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Still marveling at what Angela Simmons's filter did to Eric Adams this weekend (via @katiehonan.bsky.social)
December 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
So what's everyone's favorite black-eyed peas recipe?
December 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Friend in Westchester NY is trying to place a very friendly cat that hangs out in their yard. The cat is good with other cats. Please spread the word. They’ll have to go to aspca if it gets much colder (yes they built a temp shelter plz read the screenshot). #adoptdontshop #Westchester #PeekskillNY
December 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM