It’s so weird which broken norms cause hand-wringing at the LA Times and which ones don’t.

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This is a good time to note that many of the Macy's parades from the '80s onwards have been uploaded to YT (often with the ad breaks!) and if you're looking for chill out/doing chores viewing you could do a lot worse.

Illinois was a leader in getting rid of these protections.

Or is Cook County’s role in all this getting forgotten?

Thinking back on the reporter who threw a shoe at George W….

I mean, pundits other than Colber, Kimmel, Seth Meyers….

The more I think about it, the more “under-thought” his position seems to be.

I’m not sure it was all that convincing. In fact it was pretty persuasive that for many of us (immigrants, trans people) fascism is already here.

It’s wild that people can be inconvenienced by even the slightest change.

I mean, Scripps seems like the place to start.

I think there’s a combo of things. But one is that so many potential reviewers completely ignore all requests that if you’re a known good reviewer, desperate editors turn to you more.

But I suspect there’s also a surfeit of spammy AI-generated submissions.

This wasn’t a thing when I was born and now it’s the new normal

If people can choose between being miserable and broke vs slightly less miserable and broke….

He’s also a geologist? What can’t he do?