Chris Almeida
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Chris Almeida
@chrisalmeida.bsky.social
· Aug 31
The End of the Late-Night Band
Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer.
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Wrote a story for @newyorker.com on house bands and why live music is cool
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i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
I will not apologize for putting band stories on espn dot com
On Friday, Mick Fleetwood surprised fans by playing “Tusk” with the Trojan Marching Band. But Dr. Bartner, the 85-year-old band director who helped bring it to life and earned USC two platinum, albums also surprised Mick. Inside the very L.A. story of the iconic “Tusk.”
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'It's our tune': How Fleetwood Mac worked with the USC Marching Band to create 'Tusk'
The idea initially sounded so far-fetched band directors thought it was a prank. But the collaboration became a sensation.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I will not apologize for putting band stories on espn dot com
The buzzer went off again
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The buzzer went off again
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I am so grateful for every week I get to work in this terrible profession and I also feel constant heartburn about what a mess it is. Strong statement from the News Guild on the absurd firings at Conde: www.nyguild.org/post/stateme...
Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands
Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging …
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November 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I am so grateful for every week I get to work in this terrible profession and I also feel constant heartburn about what a mess it is. Strong statement from the News Guild on the absurd firings at Conde: www.nyguild.org/post/stateme...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Wrote a little cricket essay for the next issue of @thebeliever.net. Sub so you don't miss it!
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Condé Nast's actions are in direct violation of our contracts and of labor law. Solidarity with our unjustly fired colleagues across the company. This is not over.
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Condé Nast's actions are in direct violation of our contracts and of labor law. Solidarity with our unjustly fired colleagues across the company. This is not over.
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I was one of the four people who got canned.
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I was one of the four people who got canned.
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
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Literally quoting Mario Cuomo
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Literally quoting Mario Cuomo
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I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.
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The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
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need 50 of these
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
need 50 of these
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Son of an old-school East Texas ball coach who was raised the Lobo Way, the tall tales of Haynes King explain his rise to being the toughest sumbitch out there. Story with the great @adavidhalejoint.bsky.social
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'Toughest player I've ever seen': The Legend of Haynes King
Stories about how the quarterback became one of the quirkiest, toughest and most insatiable players in college football.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Son of an old-school East Texas ball coach who was raised the Lobo Way, the tall tales of Haynes King explain his rise to being the toughest sumbitch out there. Story with the great @adavidhalejoint.bsky.social
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Even by the standards of a Chotiner'ing, this was brutal to read.
October 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Even by the standards of a Chotiner'ing, this was brutal to read.
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this would piss me off so much if I was the brain surgeon www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery
Denise Bacon, 65, underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) as Parkinson's Disease has affected her ability to walk, swim, dance and play her instrument.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
this would piss me off so much if I was the brain surgeon www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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The problem of tech people not understanding why normal people do things is longstanding, but in this case: people who read long business stories do it *because* they want the stuff the company might not want to tell you. The audience for anything else is just the subject’s friends and employees
October 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The problem of tech people not understanding why normal people do things is longstanding, but in this case: people who read long business stories do it *because* they want the stuff the company might not want to tell you. The audience for anything else is just the subject’s friends and employees
October 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The contrarian got the job by convincing the third-richest man in the world, a key supporter of the sitting president, that she shared his worldview
CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr
CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press
CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The contrarian got the job by convincing the third-richest man in the world, a key supporter of the sitting president, that she shared his worldview
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This is simply not true and has never been true! People—pretty understandably—hate being told they’re wrong, or full of shit, or being harmed or ostracized for their words and actions. There’s nothing new or partisan or principled about this, it’s just contested social mores.
October 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is simply not true and has never been true! People—pretty understandably—hate being told they’re wrong, or full of shit, or being harmed or ostracized for their words and actions. There’s nothing new or partisan or principled about this, it’s just contested social mores.
The Park Slope Dad Band has been playing for at least three hours at the block party on my street. I dig it but it is a little on the nose that they've now played "Creep" twice.
September 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The Park Slope Dad Band has been playing for at least three hours at the block party on my street. I dig it but it is a little on the nose that they've now played "Creep" twice.
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I am aware that a lot of super rich people have a majority of their cash in assets that aren’t liquid, but in terms of a super rich guy with cash in your pocket and in the bank that u can just use, I just don’t understand what you do if you make more than, say, five million dollars a year
September 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I am aware that a lot of super rich people have a majority of their cash in assets that aren’t liquid, but in terms of a super rich guy with cash in your pocket and in the bank that u can just use, I just don’t understand what you do if you make more than, say, five million dollars a year
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An ode to the last Iron Skillet, which gave us real spite, a Game of the Century, Dan Jenkins, suffered through lean years and was just getting good! (And whose trophy secretly broke and was replaced by a Lodge skillet from a hardware store right before the 2018 game.)
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'Bragging rights for all eternity': An ode to the Iron Skillet rivalry
Looking back at the history of the SMU-TCU grudge match before its 104th, and potentially final, edition.
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September 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
An ode to the last Iron Skillet, which gave us real spite, a Game of the Century, Dan Jenkins, suffered through lean years and was just getting good! (And whose trophy secretly broke and was replaced by a Lodge skillet from a hardware store right before the 2018 game.)
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Oh, you know the ones.
September 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Oh, you know the ones.
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people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...