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“Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.” — Francis Bacon
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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
The Emergency Is Here.
With @asharangappa.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
The Emergency Is Here.
With @asharangappa.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Opinion | The Emergency Is Here (Gift Article)
Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
The Emergency Is Here.
With @asharangappa.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
The Emergency Is Here.
With @asharangappa.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
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If any journalists who have been laid off today from the WSJ (or those elsewhere wanting a change of scenery) are looking to work at a stable media company where (beyond the pretty good benefits) you get to go narrow and deep within IT or corp finance, apply and hit me up.
jobs.lever.co/morningbrew
jobs.lever.co/morningbrew
Morning Brew Inc. jobs
Job openings at Morning Brew Inc.
jobs.lever.co
March 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
If any journalists who have been laid off today from the WSJ (or those elsewhere wanting a change of scenery) are looking to work at a stable media company where (beyond the pretty good benefits) you get to go narrow and deep within IT or corp finance, apply and hit me up.
jobs.lever.co/morningbrew
jobs.lever.co/morningbrew
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Action items with measles cases growing:
If you’re unvaccinated, get vaccinated. It won’t provide instant protection.
• takes about 2 weeks to develop memory immunity after vaccination.
• measles virus has a long incubation period.
measles cases today were infected several weeks ago.
1/
If you’re unvaccinated, get vaccinated. It won’t provide instant protection.
• takes about 2 weeks to develop memory immunity after vaccination.
• measles virus has a long incubation period.
measles cases today were infected several weeks ago.
1/
March 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Action items with measles cases growing:
If you’re unvaccinated, get vaccinated. It won’t provide instant protection.
• takes about 2 weeks to develop memory immunity after vaccination.
• measles virus has a long incubation period.
measles cases today were infected several weeks ago.
1/
If you’re unvaccinated, get vaccinated. It won’t provide instant protection.
• takes about 2 weeks to develop memory immunity after vaccination.
• measles virus has a long incubation period.
measles cases today were infected several weeks ago.
1/
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Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position.
You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.
You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.
February 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position.
You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.
You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.
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One of my tools as a critic had been a Twitter list called, "Top Journalism Linkers." Designed so that I could survey the space. It was the first thing I read in the morning. When I left it had 6.8K users.
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
February 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
One of my tools as a critic had been a Twitter list called, "Top Journalism Linkers." Designed so that I could survey the space. It was the first thing I read in the morning. When I left it had 6.8K users.
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
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The great David Johansen of the NY DOLLS has been battling stage 4 cancer for the past few years, unable to work. This being America, he is having a hard times paying for medical care. A fundraiser has been set up through Sweet Relief; more info below. www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohanse...
Sweet Relief
Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-rela...
www.sweetrelief.org
February 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The great David Johansen of the NY DOLLS has been battling stage 4 cancer for the past few years, unable to work. This being America, he is having a hard times paying for medical care. A fundraiser has been set up through Sweet Relief; more info below. www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohanse...
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Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports
February 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports
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Ya know. He’s not wrong. Why have we just accepted that a lot of our apps suck and nobody’s really talking about it. And while we’re at it, why do these companies get to collect our data and keep it forever to use however they want? Their data collection is helping the coup rn
February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Ya know. He’s not wrong. Why have we just accepted that a lot of our apps suck and nobody’s really talking about it. And while we’re at it, why do these companies get to collect our data and keep it forever to use however they want? Their data collection is helping the coup rn
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This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.
February 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.
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Read PayPal’s new privacy policy. Did y’all know they keep your biometrics on file for 3 years, even if you delete your account? What’s up with that? Made delete my acct
February 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Read PayPal’s new privacy policy. Did y’all know they keep your biometrics on file for 3 years, even if you delete your account? What’s up with that? Made delete my acct
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Retropolis thrived on weekends, and a big part of that was the willingness of weekend editor Tim Curran to put history stories on the homepage and in the Sunday paper. He was the perfect leader, equal parts welcoming & chill, sardonic & bold. I will miss him. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Timothy Curran, Washington Post editor, dies at 57
He was top editor at Roll Call, a Capitol Hill publication, before holding high-level editing jobs at The Post.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Retropolis thrived on weekends, and a big part of that was the willingness of weekend editor Tim Curran to put history stories on the homepage and in the Sunday paper. He was the perfect leader, equal parts welcoming & chill, sardonic & bold. I will miss him. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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This was always the most obvious answer! I even called the “Patel Purge” when it started: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-red-aler...
February 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This was always the most obvious answer! I even called the “Patel Purge” when it started: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-red-aler...
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BREAKING
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
popular.info
February 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
BREAKING
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
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If you work for the city I would love to talk to you about anything!
My email and confidential Signal messaging contact in bio 📞🤳🏼📳
My email and confidential Signal messaging contact in bio 📞🤳🏼📳
February 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
If you work for the city I would love to talk to you about anything!
My email and confidential Signal messaging contact in bio 📞🤳🏼📳
My email and confidential Signal messaging contact in bio 📞🤳🏼📳
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This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!
“You are directed … to dismiss the pending charges in United States v. Adams, No. 24 Cr. 556 (SDNY)…. The Justice Department has reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based”
![Memorandum from the Acting Deputy Attorney General
Dismissal Without Prejudice of Prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams
Page 2
Of The Federal Government. These actions and the underlying case have also improperly interfered with Mayor Adams' campaign in the 2025 mayoral election. See Justice Manual § 9-
85.500, entitled Actions that May Have an Impact on an Election.
Second, the pending prosecution has unduly restricted Mayor Adams' ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior Administration. We are particularly concerned about the impact of the prosecution on Mayor Adams' ability to support critical, ongoing federal efforts "to protect the American people from the disastrous effects of unlawful mass migration and resettlement," as described in Executive Order 14165.' Accomplishing the immigration objectives established by President Trump and the Attorney General is every bit as important—if not more so as the objectives that the prior Administration pursued by releasing violent criminals such as Viktor Bout, the "Merchant of Death."? Accordingly, based on these additional concerns that are distinct from the weaponization problems, dismissal without prejudice is also necessary at this time.
' Your Office correctly noted in a February 3, 2025 memorandum, *as Mr. Bove clearly stated to defense counsel during our meeting [on January 31, 2025], the Government is not offering to exchange dismissal of a criminal case for Adams's assistance on immigration enforcement."
2 According to an October 2024 Wall Street Journal article, Bout has already started to participate in arms deals again, including negotiations with representatives of Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis. https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putins-merchant-of-death-is-back-in-](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreidtbdebawe7yluohx6ktbosdjqfdcf7ukryaemdjtgcpygzklaefe@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!
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February 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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thinking about roads not taken a lot
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.
www.wired.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
thinking about roads not taken a lot
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The NIH move to cut funding for “indirects” landed a few hours ago and my phone hasn’t stopped buzzing with messages from researchers, scientific leaders and others warning of dire consequences for academia and the biomedical enterprise.
Here’s a txt from someone who personally funds some research:
Here’s a txt from someone who personally funds some research:
February 8, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The NIH move to cut funding for “indirects” landed a few hours ago and my phone hasn’t stopped buzzing with messages from researchers, scientific leaders and others warning of dire consequences for academia and the biomedical enterprise.
Here’s a txt from someone who personally funds some research:
Here’s a txt from someone who personally funds some research:
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A federal judge issued an emergency order early Saturday prohibiting Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal and financial data on millions of Americans kept at the Treasury Department, noting the possibility for irreparable harm.
Federal judge blocks Musk’s DOGE from access to Treasury Department material
The judge also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department’s records and systems, if any.”
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A federal judge issued an emergency order early Saturday prohibiting Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal and financial data on millions of Americans kept at the Treasury Department, noting the possibility for irreparable harm.
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🚨BREAKING: In a trio of rulings, North Carolina state court REJECTS Republican effort to overturn the results of the 2024 state Supreme Court election by throwing out 60,000 lawful ballots.
A big victory for voting rights and democracy!
www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
A big victory for voting rights and democracy!
www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
🚨 Griffin v. North Carolina State Board of Elections (II)
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a trio of rulings, North Carolina state court REJECTS Republican effort to overturn the results of the 2024 state Supreme Court election by throwing out 60,000 lawful ballots.
A big victory for voting rights and democracy!
www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
A big victory for voting rights and democracy!
www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...