Ryan Teague Beckwith
@ryanbeckwith.bsky.social
Newsletter editor at MS NOW. Part-time journalism teacher at
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
Trump take egg + semolina
Italy’s biggest pasta exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in the U.S. too costly.
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
on.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Trump take egg + semolina
When the people behind Zwarte Piet call you racist, you need to rethink some choices www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Dutch officials rebuke Trump admin over removal of Black WWII vet memorials
Officials in the Netherlands are demanding answers from a U.S. commission after panels honoring Black vets at a World War II cemetery were taken down.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
When the people behind Zwarte Piet call you racist, you need to rethink some choices www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
I'm not dead. Why am I paying for this life insurance?
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I'm not dead. Why am I paying for this life insurance?
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
"Always take the meeting! If you see a job that sounds even slightly interesting—or if someone reaches out to you with a possible opportunity that doesn’t necessarily sound like something you want—always make the time to talk to the company." yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...
My First Byline: Joanna Saltz
Editorial Director, Delish and House Beautiful
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November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"Always take the meeting! If you see a job that sounds even slightly interesting—or if someone reaches out to you with a possible opportunity that doesn’t necessarily sound like something you want—always make the time to talk to the company." yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Pretty hard for Republicans to argue that Democrats are to blame for no food stamps when they are doing stuff like this www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Pretty hard for Republicans to argue that Democrats are to blame for no food stamps when they are doing stuff like this www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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Not an energy post, but FT has a very funny "page not found" message: answers to why the page wasn't found based on economic concepts. And you don't need a subscription to read it.
www.ft.com/content/1095...
www.ft.com/content/1095...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Not an energy post, but FT has a very funny "page not found" message: answers to why the page wasn't found based on economic concepts. And you don't need a subscription to read it.
www.ft.com/content/1095...
www.ft.com/content/1095...
Good morning to everyone who wrote a "Trump had an epiphany about affordability after Democratic wins on Tuesday and will surely act like a reasonable adult now" take www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Trump administration asks for emergency pause on judge's order to fully fund SNAP
The administration has said it cannot draw from money set aside for child nutrition programs, known as Section 32 funding, to pay for SNAP during the government shutdown.
www.nbcnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Good morning to everyone who wrote a "Trump had an epiphany about affordability after Democratic wins on Tuesday and will surely act like a reasonable adult now" take www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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OPINION by @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social:
“The only ones feeling the sting will be first-term back-bench representatives who’re still paying off their college loans.”
READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
“The only ones feeling the sting will be first-term back-bench representatives who’re still paying off their college loans.”
READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
A Republican senator has a new idea to end the shutdown. It’s bad.
John Kennedy’s proposal to withhold lawmaker pay might violate the Constitution.
www.msnbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
OPINION by @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social:
“The only ones feeling the sting will be first-term back-bench representatives who’re still paying off their college loans.”
READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
“The only ones feeling the sting will be first-term back-bench representatives who’re still paying off their college loans.”
READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Terminator reboot but Kyle Reese is a lovebot
“on Reddit, r/MyBoyfriendisAI has more than 85,000 members championing human-A.I. connections, with many sharing giddy recollections of the day their chatbot proposed marriage.”
Hard not to see this as a symptom of an extremely sick society.
Hard not to see this as a symptom of an extremely sick society.
Inside Three Longterm Relationships With A.I. Chatbots (Gift Article)
Three people on the joys and anxieties of A.I. romances.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Terminator reboot but Kyle Reese is a lovebot
Watched "Die Hard" with my son. Did the math and it is basically the same as when I watched "The African Queen" with my mom at his age.
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Watched "Die Hard" with my son. Did the math and it is basically the same as when I watched "The African Queen" with my mom at his age.
Honestly at this point I’m not sure how that’s even a short. I know nothing and I can see they are overvalued.
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Honestly at this point I’m not sure how that’s even a short. I know nothing and I can see they are overvalued.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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Backed by a state grant "to help seed grocery stores in food deserts in urban and rural parts of the state"
A new $5M grocery store is coming to Venice, Illinois next year.
The Venice Grocery Market will anchor broader revitalization efforts and help end the city’s food desert.
The Venice Grocery Market will anchor broader revitalization efforts and help end the city’s food desert.
Venice grocery store, backed by state grant, will soon begin construction
The developer hopes construction can start before the end of the year and be complete by next August. The new store will eliminate a food desert in the Metro East community.
www.stlpr.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Backed by a state grant "to help seed grocery stores in food deserts in urban and rural parts of the state"
I used to work in an office which had two women on staff. One day they were both off at the same time and honestly it was terrible. The whole tone of the place was a few notches worse.
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I used to work in an office which had two women on staff. One day they were both off at the same time and honestly it was terrible. The whole tone of the place was a few notches worse.
Did Brenda in Accounting Ruin the Workplace?
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Did Brenda in Accounting Ruin the Workplace?
The teams have already shaken hands, hit the locker room, given the coach a gift, gotten pizza, gone home, taken showers, gone to bed, woken up and gone to school and you are still in the stands, muttering about the last play
Citadel CEO Griffin says the people of NYC deserve better than Mamdani's talking points reut.rs/4p0JaA9
Citadel CEO Griffin says the people of NYC deserve better than Mamdani's talking points
Ken Griffin, the CEO of Citadel, said on Wednesday he prays the policies that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani uses to lead New York City are different from his talking points.
reut.rs
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The teams have already shaken hands, hit the locker room, given the coach a gift, gotten pizza, gone home, taken showers, gone to bed, woken up and gone to school and you are still in the stands, muttering about the last play
sandwich jury is apparently hung up on a side debate over whether a hot dog is a sandwich
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
sandwich jury is apparently hung up on a side debate over whether a hot dog is a sandwich
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She spent the majority of her ad budget lying about trans people, in fact. Total failure: plus.flux.community/p/flailing-v...
Flailing Virginia governor candidate spends most of her money fearmongering about trans people
Religious extremist Winsome Earle-Sears has spent more than half of her advertising lying about less than 50 children
plus.flux.community
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
She spent the majority of her ad budget lying about trans people, in fact. Total failure: plus.flux.community/p/flailing-v...
Advisers say Trump, who said again today that you need to show ID to buy groceries, will be "laser-focused" on pocketbook issues in next year's midterms.
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Advisers say Trump, who said again today that you need to show ID to buy groceries, will be "laser-focused" on pocketbook issues in next year's midterms.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.