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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
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roses are red
big laughs are hearty
big laughs are hearty
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
roses are red
big laughs are hearty
big laughs are hearty
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It worked. We’re not talking about the Epstein files.
September 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
It worked. We’re not talking about the Epstein files.
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I believe government action improves lives. Also, though, "invisible" services like buses on time and accurate weather prediction are easy to take for granted. We Americans are in for quite a shock as Reagan-era anti-government frames reach their logical conclusion.
Texas found $11 billion for troops and razor wire at the border and migrant buses, even with oil-billionaire tax cuts. But its coffers went dry for warning sirens to confront a climate crisis it claims is made up
How Texas flood exposed warped priorities. My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
How Texas flood exposed warped priorities. My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Texas flood exposed America’s warped priorities | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, the CIA is caught lying about the JFK assassination.
www.inquirer.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I believe government action improves lives. Also, though, "invisible" services like buses on time and accurate weather prediction are easy to take for granted. We Americans are in for quite a shock as Reagan-era anti-government frames reach their logical conclusion.
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Man Feared to Be Cognitively Slipping After Writing Book About Wrong President
May 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Man Feared to Be Cognitively Slipping After Writing Book About Wrong President
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Trump could roast and eat a baby on live TV and NYT editors would carefully type out "Trump's Unorthodox Diet Raises Ire"
May 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Trump could roast and eat a baby on live TV and NYT editors would carefully type out "Trump's Unorthodox Diet Raises Ire"
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"People won't shop at Pike Place Market if they have to walk more than a block from their car." Dude, the whole market fits in the footprint of Costco.
January 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
"People won't shop at Pike Place Market if they have to walk more than a block from their car." Dude, the whole market fits in the footprint of Costco.
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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AP - November 29, 2025 - The death toll has risen to 190,000 after Butterball (NYSE: SEB +23.7%) debuted the all-AI version of its venerable Turkey Helpline that instructed callers to "leave the plastic on so it cooks faster and doesn't dry out."
November 28, 2024 at 4:23 PM
AP - November 29, 2025 - The death toll has risen to 190,000 after Butterball (NYSE: SEB +23.7%) debuted the all-AI version of its venerable Turkey Helpline that instructed callers to "leave the plastic on so it cooks faster and doesn't dry out."
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🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )
November 24, 2024 at 11:08 PM
🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )
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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
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If Democrats aren’t out there screaming about “the Gaetz report” like it’s Hunter Biden’s laptop times 100, then they should just fucking say they give up.
November 15, 2024 at 7:09 PM
If Democrats aren’t out there screaming about “the Gaetz report” like it’s Hunter Biden’s laptop times 100, then they should just fucking say they give up.
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Dark Brandon got these people to call themselves garbage over and over for a week including yelling it into a microphone, he's a master at work whether we accept it or not
November 3, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Dark Brandon got these people to call themselves garbage over and over for a week including yelling it into a microphone, he's a master at work whether we accept it or not
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Yes I said yes I will yes get you in this 2022 GMC Sierra today
November 2, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Yes I said yes I will yes get you in this 2022 GMC Sierra today
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My son says he wants to be a writer. To prepare him, I’ve made him redo his homework 9 times, then told him ‘I’m sorry but I can’t work out how to market this’ and thrown it out the window.
October 29, 2024 at 7:37 AM
My son says he wants to be a writer. To prepare him, I’ve made him redo his homework 9 times, then told him ‘I’m sorry but I can’t work out how to market this’ and thrown it out the window.
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When the moon hits your eye and it's... not unlike pie,
that's litotes
that's litotes
October 17, 2024 at 11:16 PM
When the moon hits your eye and it's... not unlike pie,
that's litotes
that's litotes
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Nothing is more overdetermined than the press demanding more policy detail from Harris and then complaining that it's too boring to cover when the detail is provided.
IF ANYTHING SHE'S OVERPREPARED
IF ANYTHING SHE'S OVERPREPARED
The NYT wants details!
No, no, that’s too many details.
No, no, that’s too many details.
September 27, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Nothing is more overdetermined than the press demanding more policy detail from Harris and then complaining that it's too boring to cover when the detail is provided.
IF ANYTHING SHE'S OVERPREPARED
IF ANYTHING SHE'S OVERPREPARED
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I legitimately hate every single person who has ever coddled this psychotic asshole and allowed him to thrive in any way at all
September 11, 2024 at 1:16 AM
I legitimately hate every single person who has ever coddled this psychotic asshole and allowed him to thrive in any way at all
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Kind of crazy given Trump’s age and general health profile that I’ve seen so little on Vance’s qualifications to take the big job.
September 4, 2024 at 4:06 AM
Kind of crazy given Trump’s age and general health profile that I’ve seen so little on Vance’s qualifications to take the big job.
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The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.
Academic writing thought:
That it was hard for YOU to figure something out does not mean you should make it hard for the READER to get it
Explain as simply & clearly as you can
You do not need to take the reader through your lengthy journey to clarity
Work that took months may end up a footnote
That it was hard for YOU to figure something out does not mean you should make it hard for the READER to get it
Explain as simply & clearly as you can
You do not need to take the reader through your lengthy journey to clarity
Work that took months may end up a footnote
September 3, 2024 at 2:45 PM
The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.