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Gregg Kilday
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Chow owner, desert dweller, sun worshipper, longtime journalist, Palm Springs resident. Formative influences: Waugh, Proust, Tom Wolfe, Sondheim, Bertolucci, Hitchcock, Altman.
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Nominate the current #HarvardCrimson staff for #PulitzerPrizes. I'm serious. They've already lapped the #NYTimes et al, and the revelations continue to tumble out.

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In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding, Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, went to financier Jeffrey E. Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean during their honeymoon.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Rancher tells cattle to stop mooing in distress as they are herded into crowded holding pen…
The Department of Transportation launched a new campaign to “restore courtesy and class to air travel” as the number of cases involving disruptive passengers remains higher than 2019. The video mentions passenger clothing and thanking flight attendants. https://wapo.st/4pmeglO
Government wants ‘civility’ back on flights, starting with your clothes
A “civility campaign” video starring Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy mentions passenger clothing and thanking flight attendants.
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Find you a man whose bone-sawed his journalistic opposition, and you can have Trump look as pleased as this.
I have never seen Trump looking genuinely delighted before
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
At the end of second episode of The American Revolution, as word of Declaration of Independence reaches London, soundtrack plays Handel’s Sarabande, which after its use in Barry Lyndon, always sounds pessimistically melancholy to me.
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This is a very helpful explainer on the Comey grand jury counts …
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:

“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”

“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”

“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”

“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”

“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Harvard disgraces itself every day it continues to bestow the "University Professor" title on Summers
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I find a lot of the cultural criticism in the NYTimes disappointing these days, but this is an exception — a comprehensive and thoughtful review that makes me eager to see the work in question.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/a...
What ‘The American Revolution’ Says About Our Cultural Battles
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The young journalists at the Harvard Crimson weigh in with the most thorough reporting on the Epstein - Larry Summers connection.
Trigger warning: read on an empty stomach. This will make you want to vomit.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Email Cache Reveals How Former Harvard President Larry Summers Stayed in Jeffrey Epstein’s Orbit | News | The Harvard Crimson
A new cache of emails released by a House committee paints a vivid portrait of the relationship between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein. The ...
www.thecrimson.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics?

Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If The Morning Show and the Marx Brothers occupied two circles in a Venn diagram, the part where they overlapped would be A Night at the Opera after TMS’s latest, totally bonkers episode.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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The White House just announced that President Trump has issued a pardon to everyone connected with "All's Fair"
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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 2:25 AM
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I refuse to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health care crisis.

And make health insurance affordable.

The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.

I'm voting no.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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There is no Dem who thinks that Schumer voting No washes his hands of it. He is the captain of the ship and owns the process and end result. If he can’t run the team, then someone else needs to. Hopefully the other Dem senators understand the mood of the voters. If not, you will.
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.

Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
So Democrats get:

1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays

2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail

3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts

Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Caught up with "Blue Moon," which is so smart and funny. In very first scene, Hart's mother could be a double for one of the grande dames in the famous Weegee photo and then Weegee shows up later at the party...
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Stephen Miller: “Quick, give me the auto-pen!”
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
When awards season rolls around, the makeup team on Death by Lightning deserves special credit for grooming all those beards and mutton chops.
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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…and 15 minutes in, Apple TV appears to be down…again. Another AWS outage?
Haven’t watched PLURIBUS screeners, but have been hearing from critic friends for weeks about how good it is. And with 20+ reviews now tallied, the show is currently at 100% on (the sketchy but semi-useful) Rotten Tomatoes.

First two eps are now on Apple TV…going in now.
a window with the words from the creator of breaking bad
ALT: a window with the words from the creator of breaking bad
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If this happens, we need a full accounting of all the flights that administration members take over the weekend.
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM