William Lamb
@wlamb76.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, general-assignment and breaking news, The New York Times.
Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent free.
December 2, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent free.
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Vito beat out nearly 2,000 other dogs to become the first pug to win the National Dog Show. The two-year-old pup became a sensation on Thursday, when the competition, which was held earlier this month, was broadcast on NBC after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
November 29, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Vito beat out nearly 2,000 other dogs to become the first pug to win the National Dog Show. The two-year-old pup became a sensation on Thursday, when the competition, which was held earlier this month, was broadcast on NBC after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
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News Analysis: Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency will face a daunting reality. Any effort to slash the U.S. government and its 2.3 million civilian workers will likely face resistance in Congress, lawsuits from activist groups and delays mandated by federal rules.
Musk’s Slashing of the Federal Budget Faces Big Hurdles
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with Elon Musk as co-leader, has advantages that past budget-cutters did not, but laws and court challenges can still make change slow and difficult.
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November 28, 2024 at 1:47 AM
News Analysis: Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency will face a daunting reality. Any effort to slash the U.S. government and its 2.3 million civilian workers will likely face resistance in Congress, lawsuits from activist groups and delays mandated by federal rules.
This is one of the most enchanting, fun places I have ever been. Farewell to a true original.
Harold W. Sims Jr., Whose Museum Honored the House Cat, Dies at 89
He displayed some 10,000 cat-themed artifacts at the American Museum of the House Cat in North Carolina, which welcomed several thousand people a year.
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November 23, 2024 at 7:24 PM
This is one of the most enchanting, fun places I have ever been. Farewell to a true original.
I distinctly ordered the Antarctic blue Super Sports Wagon with the C.B. and optional rally fun pack.
November 20, 2024 at 10:19 PM
I distinctly ordered the Antarctic blue Super Sports Wagon with the C.B. and optional rally fun pack.
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Feels like you can weed out the monsters who would do this by not going to a first-week showing of Wicked www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/m...
‘Wicked’ Fans Singing in Movie Theaters Are Anything but Popular
Some fans who have attended early screenings of the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical have treated it as a singalong. Not everyone is thrilled.
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November 20, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Feels like you can weed out the monsters who would do this by not going to a first-week showing of Wicked www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/m...
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November 15, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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“Upon further scrutiny of the video, the investigation determined the bear was actually a person in a bear costume.”
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Human in Bear Suit Was Used to Defraud Insurance Companies, Officials Say
Footage of a bear rifling through luxury cars was submitted to insurance companies, which paid out $140,000. But something seemed off.
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November 15, 2024 at 12:20 AM
“Upon further scrutiny of the video, the investigation determined the bear was actually a person in a bear costume.”
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November 13, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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Feels like time to reup this.
November 13, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Feels like time to reup this.
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I know people will disagree but I think this is 100% right. Canceling your subscriptions may feel like the right thing to do, but you’re ultimately hurting newsrooms that have nothing to do with decisions made by billionaire owners (who won’t feel any of this). Support newsrooms.
I mean to me the bigger issue is this: the fact that these outlets are not profitable businesses is, itself, the issue (why you need billionaires willing to subsidize) so in this way you're kind of exacerbating the problem.
October 27, 2024 at 12:08 AM
I know people will disagree but I think this is 100% right. Canceling your subscriptions may feel like the right thing to do, but you’re ultimately hurting newsrooms that have nothing to do with decisions made by billionaire owners (who won’t feel any of this). Support newsrooms.
"You’ve been a bad girl, you’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now."
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Tucker Carlson Tells Crowd Trump Will Give Country a ‘Spanking’
The former Fox News host used a bizarre extended metaphor at a rally in Georgia where Donald J. Trump spoke.
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October 25, 2024 at 2:17 AM
"You’ve been a bad girl, you’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now."
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“Officers arriving at the scene found the victim had been bound to a stretcher and pumped full of midazolam, vecuronium bromide, and potassium chloride in what we have determined was an execution-style killing,” said state police spokesperson Raymond Perk.
Man Found Strapped To Gurney, Injected With Poison In Execution-Style Killing
BARTLESVILLE, OK—Expressing horror as they described the brutal nature of the killing, law enforcement officials confirmed Monday that local man Aaron Turney had been found strapped to a gurney and in...
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August 20, 2024 at 9:30 PM
“Officers arriving at the scene found the victim had been bound to a stretcher and pumped full of midazolam, vecuronium bromide, and potassium chloride in what we have determined was an execution-style killing,” said state police spokesperson Raymond Perk.
Neighbor Charlotte Kullen started complaining in 2015: “Oh God, I wake up still with nightmares of them screaming in my head."
Woman who faced eviction over 3 emotional support parrots wins $165,000 in federal case
A woman who faced eviction from her Manhattan apartment over her three emotional support parrots will be paid $165,000 in damages plus $585,000 for her apartment under a consent decree announced by fe...
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August 20, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Neighbor Charlotte Kullen started complaining in 2015: “Oh God, I wake up still with nightmares of them screaming in my head."
Don't miss the kicker.
Herbert Hoelter, Prison Consultant to the Rich and Infamous, Dies at 73
He helped Martha Stewart, Leona Helmsley, Michael Milken and other white-collar criminals win lighter sentences, and prepared them for life in prison.
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July 17, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Don't miss the kicker.
Are you feeling mad? Are you feeling kinda sad?
‘She Is the Icon of All That Is Joyful in the World’
A little green puppet from an old children’s TV show is healing hearts for a new generation of viewers.
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May 27, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Are you feeling mad? Are you feeling kinda sad?
Accountability journalism: The move comes after The New York Times detailed the chain’s plan to phase out animatronic performers at all but two of the more than 400 Chuck E. Cheese locations in the United States by the end of the year.
After Outcry, Chuck E. Cheese Says It Will Keep More Animatronic Bands
Plans to phase out most of Chuck E. Cheese’s animatronic bands prompted fans to plead for their survival. The bands will now play on at three additional locations.
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May 24, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Accountability journalism: The move comes after The New York Times detailed the chain’s plan to phase out animatronic performers at all but two of the more than 400 Chuck E. Cheese locations in the United States by the end of the year.
I can’t know how to hear any more about tables.
Kim Kardashian Is Sued for Saying Her Tables Are Authentic Donald Judds
In a promotional video, the reality star said her office furniture was designed by Judd, the minimalist artist. His foundation says otherwise in a new lawsuit.
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March 28, 2024 at 1:21 AM
I can’t know how to hear any more about tables.
RIP Eric Carmen. He gave us "Hungry Eyes," yes, but also this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Dt...
Cyrus Erie - "Get the Message" (1969, ft. Eric Carmen)
A precursor of power-pop icons the Raspberries, Cleveland rock'n'roll band Cyrus Erie was originally formed in 1967 by singer/guitarist Tim Manning, bassist ...
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March 12, 2024 at 2:42 AM
RIP Eric Carmen. He gave us "Hungry Eyes," yes, but also this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Dt...
A five-time Iditarod winner faces a two-hour penalty in the world’s biggest sled dog race for not gutting a moose well enough.
Dog Sledder Penalized for Poor Moose Gutting
While mushing across Alaska in the Iditarod sled dog race, Dallas Seavey shot a moose, and then got a penalty for not gutting it well enough.
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March 7, 2024 at 11:26 PM
A five-time Iditarod winner faces a two-hour penalty in the world’s biggest sled dog race for not gutting a moose well enough.
I gasped. Terrible news.
Flaco, Escaped Central Park Zoo Owl and Defier of Doubts, Is Dead
Let loose by an act of vandalism, the Eurasian eagle-owl died after apparently striking an Upper West Side building, according to the zoo.
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February 24, 2024 at 3:57 AM
I gasped. Terrible news.
"Imagine a telephone that is plugged into the wall. The calls you make on this device would be sent through wires attached to tall wooden poles. Science fiction? Incredibly, this technology exists today!"
AT&T Is Down. How Do I Make a Call?
Step 1: Connect to Wi-Fi.
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February 22, 2024 at 7:50 PM
"Imagine a telephone that is plugged into the wall. The calls you make on this device would be sent through wires attached to tall wooden poles. Science fiction? Incredibly, this technology exists today!"
Elmo I get, but, I'm sorry, Grover is too busy to write his own tweets?
"Social media accounts for Elmo, Big Bird, Grover and other 'Sesame Street' characters are run by a four-person team at Sesame Workshop."
"Social media accounts for Elmo, Big Bird, Grover and other 'Sesame Street' characters are run by a four-person team at Sesame Workshop."
Elmo Asked an Innocuous Question
Elmo was not expecting it to open a yawning chasm of despair.
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January 31, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Elmo I get, but, I'm sorry, Grover is too busy to write his own tweets?
"Social media accounts for Elmo, Big Bird, Grover and other 'Sesame Street' characters are run by a four-person team at Sesame Workshop."
"Social media accounts for Elmo, Big Bird, Grover and other 'Sesame Street' characters are run by a four-person team at Sesame Workshop."