Ajay in Europe
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I ordered a tarte tatin at dinner and when it came it looked good but I took a bite and something was off so I look underneath and the crust is raw. I say something, they take it away, they come back and say - we are making it again.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I ordered a tarte tatin at dinner and when it came it looked good but I took a bite and something was off so I look underneath and the crust is raw. I say something, they take it away, they come back and say - we are making it again.
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This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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Dems calling for Schumer to be replaced:
- Ro Khanna
- Mike Levin
- Seth Moulton
- Marc Pocan
- Delia Ramirez
- Rashida Tlaib
- Ro Khanna
- Mike Levin
- Seth Moulton
- Marc Pocan
- Delia Ramirez
- Rashida Tlaib
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Dems calling for Schumer to be replaced:
- Ro Khanna
- Mike Levin
- Seth Moulton
- Marc Pocan
- Delia Ramirez
- Rashida Tlaib
- Ro Khanna
- Mike Levin
- Seth Moulton
- Marc Pocan
- Delia Ramirez
- Rashida Tlaib
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Fine, I'll do it: Rep. Ro Khanna, a member of the Medicare for All and Congressional Progressive Caucuses who represents Silicon Valley, is the first sitting Democratic congressperson to demand the resignation of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
This tracker will be updated in real time: 🧵
This tracker will be updated in real time: 🧵
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Fine, I'll do it: Rep. Ro Khanna, a member of the Medicare for All and Congressional Progressive Caucuses who represents Silicon Valley, is the first sitting Democratic congressperson to demand the resignation of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
This tracker will be updated in real time: 🧵
This tracker will be updated in real time: 🧵
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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"We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%." #Brexit
Nobody could have predicted this. www.nber.org/papers/w34459
Nobody could have predicted this. www.nber.org/papers/w34459
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%." #Brexit
Nobody could have predicted this. www.nber.org/papers/w34459
Nobody could have predicted this. www.nber.org/papers/w34459
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Why does the House, the larger of the two legislative bodies, not simply eat the Senate
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Why does the House, the larger of the two legislative bodies, not simply eat the Senate
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one more day to do my dumbest, favorite bit: pretending my dog is one of Eric Adams most committed supporters
November 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
one more day to do my dumbest, favorite bit: pretending my dog is one of Eric Adams most committed supporters
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This is a Pixar movie. The little moon (Sabrina Carpenter) comes in to work-shadow the veteran actual moon (Meryl Streep). Streep is grumpy about it for the film’s first thirty mins. But by the end they’re inseparable and when 2083 comes we cry. While also learning about the need to let someone go.
October 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is a Pixar movie. The little moon (Sabrina Carpenter) comes in to work-shadow the veteran actual moon (Meryl Streep). Streep is grumpy about it for the film’s first thirty mins. But by the end they’re inseparable and when 2083 comes we cry. While also learning about the need to let someone go.
One thing I’ll say for Dubai - it’s filled with good chai
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
One thing I’ll say for Dubai - it’s filled with good chai
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CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
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"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
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so Trump demolished the White House, demanded the DOJ pay him $230M to cover his previous legal bills, his pseudo soldiers are abducting people off the streets, the government is shutdown and the GOP is not swearing in a Dem representative because they don't want her vote—did I get that all right?
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
so Trump demolished the White House, demanded the DOJ pay him $230M to cover his previous legal bills, his pseudo soldiers are abducting people off the streets, the government is shutdown and the GOP is not swearing in a Dem representative because they don't want her vote—did I get that all right?
Saw a man with lizard level tattoos biking along with 2 babies in his basket
October 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Saw a man with lizard level tattoos biking along with 2 babies in his basket
Berlin bodegas don’t sell chapstick. Where does one get chapstick on a Sunday
October 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Berlin bodegas don’t sell chapstick. Where does one get chapstick on a Sunday
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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The Honeycrisp apple’s iconic crunch transformed the industry, but for the people who grow the finicky fruit, she’s "an absolute diva."
🍎 on.wsj.com/3LeazQc
🍎 on.wsj.com/3LeazQc
October 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The Honeycrisp apple’s iconic crunch transformed the industry, but for the people who grow the finicky fruit, she’s "an absolute diva."
🍎 on.wsj.com/3LeazQc
🍎 on.wsj.com/3LeazQc
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Inside Funkhaus Berlin— a 1950s GDR broadcasting house, still in operation, with a foyer floor made from marble stolen from Hitler’s Chancellery; walls of rare Russian wood that’s stuffed with horse hair for additional soundproofing; and incredible acoustic design throughout. Plus top-notch pizza 😃
October 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Inside Funkhaus Berlin— a 1950s GDR broadcasting house, still in operation, with a foyer floor made from marble stolen from Hitler’s Chancellery; walls of rare Russian wood that’s stuffed with horse hair for additional soundproofing; and incredible acoustic design throughout. Plus top-notch pizza 😃
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No amount of money or power can stop your last words from being "check this shit out"
Doug Lebda, the chief executive and chairman of LendingTree, an online loans marketplace, died on Sunday following an all-terrain vehicle accident on his family’s North Carolina farm, according to a company spokeswoman. He was 55.
Doug Lebda, LendingTree C.E.O. and Founder, Dies in ATV Accident
LendingTree named its chief operating officer, Scott Peyree, as its new chief executive.
nyti.ms
October 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
No amount of money or power can stop your last words from being "check this shit out"
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"Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy?"
bigthink.com/strange-maps...
bigthink.com/strange-maps...
October 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy?"
bigthink.com/strange-maps...
bigthink.com/strange-maps...
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Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.